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CURTIS'S

BOTANICAL MAGAZINE,

COMPRISING THE

Plants of the Ropal Gardens of Kew,

AND

OF OTHER BOTANICAL ESTABLISHMENTS IN GREAT BRITAIN;

: WITH SUITABLE DESCRIPTIONS ;

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

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

AND

OBSERVATIONS ON THE CULTURE OF EACH SPECIES;

By Mr. JOHN SMITH, A.L.S.,

Curator of the Royal Gardens.

VOL. V. ©

OF THE THIRD SERIES;

(Or Vol. LXXV. of the Whole Work.)

PADARLIARAARAAMAARAAAS

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“The man : :

Whom nature’s works can charm, with God himself

Holds converse.”’

LONDON

REEVE, BENHAM, AND

KING WILLIAM STREET, STAND.

1849.

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WHOSE BEAUTIFUL GARDENS ON THE BANKS OF THE HOOGLY

STAND UNRIVALLED

AMONG THE PRIVATE ONES OF INDIA;

AND WHOSE HOSPITALITY THERE IS PROVERBIAL;

THE PRESENT VOLUME

IS DEDICATED, :

WITH SENTIMENTS OF THE SINCEREST REGARD AND ESTEEM,

BY HIS FAITHFUL AND OBEDIENT SERVANT,

W. J. HOOKER.

Royal Gardens, Kew,

"Dee. 1, 1849.

INDEX,

In which the Latin Names of the Plants contained in the Fifth

Volume of the Tuirp Serius (or Seventy-fifth Volume of

the Work) are alphabetically arranged. |

Plate. is

4427 Aerides crispum.

4452 Alloplectus capitatus.

4453 Ambherstia nobilis.

4467 Aristolochia macradenia.

4449 Asystasia scandens.

4483 Begonia cinnabarina.

4433 Bejaria coarctata.

4481 Brachysema aphyllum.

4474 Brassavola Digbyana.

4417 Cereus Leeanus.

44.43 reductus.

4422 Cirrhopetalum Macraei.

4418 ——-—————- nutans.

4485 Clerodendron Bethuneanum.

4440 Ccelogyne fuliginosa.

4470 Cupania Cunninghami.

4435 Curcuma cordata.

4479 Cychnoches barbatum.

4468 Cyrtanthera aurantiaca,

4444 ——_—_——— catalpzfolia.

4454 Cyrtochilum citrinum.

4450 Dendrobium Cambridgeanum.

4429 ——__——. Devonianum.

4477 tortile.

4458 Dielytra spectabilis.

4456 Epimedium pinnatum.

4437 Eriopsis rutidobulbon.

4439 Eriostemon intermedium.

4473 Escallonia macrantha.

4480 Espeletia argentea.

. 4423 Exacum Zeylanicum.

4461 Gaultheria bracteata.

4431 Gesneria picta.

4430 Gloxinia fimbriata.

4472 Gonolobus Martianus.

4475 Heliconia angustifolia.

Plate.

4421 Heterotrichum macrodon.

4482 Ixora laxiflora.

4459 Lacepedea insignis.

4447 Lapageria rosea.

4424 Lisianthus pulcher.

4428 Loasa picta.

4445 Lycaste Skinneri.

4426 Macleania punctata.

4434 Maxillaria leptosepala.

4471 Metrosideros florida.

4425 Miltonia spectabilis; var. pur-

pureo-violacea.

4419 Mirbelia Meisneri.

4462 Mitraria coccinea.

4455 Mormodes lentiginosa.

4460 Nematanthus ionema.

4469 Nympheea ampla.

4436 Pachystigma pteleoides.

4464 Pentstemon cyananthus.

4442 Pesomeria tetragona.

4478 Rhododendron Clivianum.

4457 ——————— formosum.

4466 Roupellia grata.

4465 Sauromatium guttatum.

4476 Schomburgkia tibicinus; var.

grandiflora.

4420 Scutellaria macrantha.

4463 Sida (Abutilon) venosa.

4446 Sobralia macrantha.

4448 Stemonacanthus macrophyllus.

4438 Stifftia chrysantha.

4484 Tabernemontana longiflora.

4441 Thyrsacanthus bracteolatus.

4432 Vanda tricolor.

4451 Zieria macrophylla.

INDEX,

In which the English Names of the Plants contained in the Fifth

Volume of the Turrp Serres (or Seventy-fifth Volume of

the Work) are alphabetically arranged.

Plate.

4427 Air-Plant, Sir Richard Brooke’s.

4452 Alloplectus, capitate.

4453 Amherstia, splendid.

4449 Asystasia, climbing.

4483 Begonia, Cinnabar-flowered.

4433 Bejaria, close-flowered.

4467 Birthwort, large glanduled.

4481 Brachysema, leafless.

4474 Brassavola, Mr. Digby’s.

4443 Cereus, dingy.

4417 Mr. Lee’s.

4418 Cirrhopetalum, drooping-flow-

ered.

44.22 Mr. M‘Rae’s.

4485 Clerodendron, Capt. Bethune’s.

4440 Coelogyne, dark-flowered.

4466 Cream-fruit.

4470 Cupania, Mr. Cunningham’s.

4435 Curcuma, heart-leaved.

4479 Cychnoches, bearded.

4444 Cyrtanthera, Catalpa-leaved.

4468 orange-flowered.

4454 Cyrtochilum, lemon-coloured.

4450 Dendrobium, Duke of Cam-—

bridge’s.

4429 Duke of Devon-

shire’s.

4477 twisted-petaled.

4458 Dielytra, Moutan.

4456 Epimedium, pinnate-leaved.

4437 Eriopsis, rough-stalked.

4439 Eriostemon, intermediate.

4473 Hscallonia, large red-flowered.

4480. Espeletia, silvery.

4423 Exacum, Ceylon.

4461 Gaultheria, bracteated.

4431 Gesneria, painted.

4430 Gloxinia, fimbriated.

PPP PLL LILLIAN.

Plate. ee

4473 Gonolobus, Dr. von Martius’.

4475 Heliconia, narrow-leaved.

4421 Heterotrichum, long-toothed.

4460 Ionema, dark blood-coloured.

4482 Ixora, lax-flowered.

4459 Lacepedea, fragrant.

4447 Lapageria, rose-coloured.

4424 Lisianthus, beautiful. -

4428 Loasa, painted-flowered.

4445 Lycaste, Mr. Skinner’s.

4426 Macleania, dotted-leaved.

4434 Maxillaria, narrow-sepaled.

4471 Metrosideros, copious-flowering.

4425 Miltonia, showy; purple-violet

var.

4419 Mirbelia, Meisner’s.

4462 Mitraria, scarlet.

4455 Mormodes, freckled. .

4436 Pachystigma,. Ptelea-leaved.

4464 Pentstemon, azure-flowered.

4442 Pesomeria, square-stalked.

4457 Rhododendron, beautiful.

4478 Duchess of Nor-

thumberland’s.

4465 Sauromatium, spotted.

4476 Schomburgkia, trumpet; large-

flowered var.

4463 Sida, veiny-petaled.

4420 Skull-cap, large-flowered.

4446 Sobralia, large-flowered.

4448 Stemonacanthus, large-flowered.

4438 Stifftia, golden-flowered.

4484 Tabernemontana, long-flowered.

4441 Thyrsacanthus, bracteolated.

4432 Vanda, three-coloured.

4469 Water-Lily, broad-leaved,

4451 Zieria, large-leaved.

Tas. 4417,

CEREUS Lestanus.

Mr. Lee’s Cereus.

Nat. Ord. Cactr®.—IcosanDRIA Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. Sepala numerosissima imbricata, basi ovario adnata, in tubum

elongatum concreta, exteriora breviora calycinalia, media longiora colorata,

intima petaliformia. Stamina numerosissima cum tubo concreta. Stylus fili-

formis, apice multifidus. Bacea areolata, sepalorum reliquiis squamata aut tuber-

culosa. Cotyledones acuminates.—Frutices carnosi, subglobosi, v. elongati, strieti,

articulati v. repentes, axi ligneo interne medullifero donati, angulis verticalibus,

spinarum fasciculos gerentibus vel inermibus, regulariter sulcati. Anguli seu

alee nunc plurime, nunc paucissine, rarius due tantum, et tune rami compresso-

alati, inermes. Flores ampli, e spinarum fasciculis lateralibus trunci aué ramorum

vetustiorum, aut crenis angulorum orti. Fructus oviformes, plerumque anno

sequente maturescentes, edules. Pfeiff.

CrrEus Leeanus ; erectus subpedalis conico-cylindraceus, subacute 12—14-cos-

_tatus, areolis approximatis pulvinato-tomentosis sub-12-spinosis, spinis v.

aculeis acicularibus valde ineequalibus strictis fuscis, exterioribus 2-3 lineas

longis, centrali unciali, floribus subterminalibus speciosis lateritio-sanguineis,

squamis calycinis apice viridibus setosis, petalis obovato-oblongis acutis,

Presented to the Royal Gardens by Mr. Lee of the Hammer-

smith Nursery, who received it from France, ‘as an unknown

Species, native of Mexico. If published, it would be no easy

matter to recognise it from description alone. It is only by

good figures, taken from perfect flowering specimens of the living

plants that we can hope to make known the distinguishing

feature of the individuals of this singular family. The present

Species is among the most beautiful, a free bloomer, and its

blossoms are large and showy.

. Descr. Our plant is nearly a foot in height, about four inches

broad, tapering upwards, from a nearly cylindrical base, hence

“Somewhat conical, the summit being the narrowest part: it is

furrowed throughout its length rather deeply and acutely,

forming elevated, rather sharp ridges or angles, which are. studded

at short intervals by small, dense, cushion-like tufts of wool,

bearing the cluster (about twelve in a cluster) of sharp needle-

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shaped aculei, straight, very irregular in length, the outer

coitts being the sfortent, and gradually lengthening, till the

central, longer and shorter than the rest, is about an inch long.

At and near the summit, four or five large, handsome, brick-red

(inclining to blood-coloured) flowers are produced. The tube

(constituting the calyx) is green at the base, then yellowish

orange, clothed with oblong fleshy scales (sepals), acute, tipped

with green, and bearing at the point a tuft of aciculi or bristles.

These scales pass rather suddenly into petals of an oblong-

obovate-acute form, spreading and imbricated. Stamens nume-

rous, rather longer than the tube. Style columnar. Stigma

green, of many erect or connivent rays. W. J. H. :

Cur. The general practice with cultivators of Cacte@ is to

grow them in poor soil, composed of light loam, mixed with

siftings of lime-rubbish, and some sharp sand, giving them but

little water, and keeping them in a moderately warm and dry

atmosphere; during the winter, this treatment bemg in imitation of

the natural climates of the plants, may be considered in a general

view to be correct; but other elements peculiar to climate are

wanting, before we can be said to place the Cacte@, or any other

exotics, under the same influences by which they are supported

in their native localities. It is quite true that we are able to

produce an artificial climate, so far as temperature and the

hygrometric state of the atmosphere are concerned ; but there are

influences derived from the proximity of the sea, of certain

geological formations, and of the greater or less elevation of

extensive plains in connection with particular latitudes, which,

with all our contrivance and appliances, we are unable to obtain

to any extent. As Cactee inhabit many climates, growing in the

hottest and most exposed arid places within the tropics, and

ranging within 40 to 50 degrees of latitude on either side of the

equator, it is impossible to lay down any other rule for their

cultivation in our gardens than an approximate one.

The modifications of this rule relate principally to temperature.

The Cereus Leeanus, being a native of the north of Mexico, needs

only to be protected during the winter from severe frosts: it has

been known to bear several degrees of frost without injury. As

spring advances it should receive some artificial heat and moisture,

in order to get it into early growth, by which to ensure its

flowering. Towards autumn it will be benefited by full exposure to

the sun with plenty of free air, gradually decreasing the supply

of water as the winter approaches.

In respect to the soil, we have found, other circumstances being

favourable, that Cactee are not very particular, provided it is a

soil not retentive of moisture. J. 8.

Tap 4418

CIRRHOPETALUM nutans.

Drooping-flowered Cirrhopetalum.

Nat. Ord. OrcHIDEm.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4237.)

CIRRHOPETALUM xetans; pseudo-bulbis ovato-subrotundis rugosis, foliis ovato-

oblongis obtusis crassis, scapo erecto elongato, umbella multiflora nutante,

sepalis lateralibus longissimis linearibus ligulatis acutis supremo abbreviato

acuminato, petalis ovatis acutissimis inferne ciliatis, labello linguiformi

recurvo (bicristato, Zindl.), columne angulis obsolete bidentatis.

CIRRHOPETALUM nutans. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1839, Miscell. n. 18.

We have already given figures of two species of this remark-

able genus, C. Thouarsii (Tan. 4237) and C. fimbriatum, (Vas.

4391), and we have here the pleasure of exhibiting a third,

possessing, however, more singularity than beauty. : The la-

bellum being loosely articulated moves when the plant is shaken

in the slightest degree, or with the action of the wind or the

breath. The Royal Gardens of Kew owe the possession of it to

Messrs. Loddiges, by whom, it was imported from Manilla,

through the instrumentality of Mr.Cuming. It flowered in

the stove with us in July, 1848. Dr. Lindley compares it to

C.Wallichii from Nepal, a species with which we are not

acquainted. .

Duscr. Caudex creeping, jointed, striated, rooting, about as

thick as a raven’s quill. Pseudo-bulbs subglobose, sheathed with

large, brown, striated scales. Leaf solitary, articulated on the

pseudo-bulb, subpetiolate, broadly or ovato-lanceolate, obtuse,

very thick and fleshy, subcoriaceous, dark green, paler beneath.

Scapes generally: two, springing from the caudex at the base of

each pseudo-bulb, long, slender, curved, articulated and partially

sheathed with brown scales or bracteas. Umbel of several spread-

ing, pale yellowish fowers. Sepals porrected, almost closed, upper

one small, lanceolate, acuminate, lateral ones very long, linear

or strap-shaped, acute, or mucronate, striated. Petals broadly

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ovate, mucronate, shorter than the upper sepal, ciliated in the

lower half. Zip jointed unto the decurrent base of the short

column, \mgulate, with thickened edges, recurved, bicristate

according to Dr. Lindley, a character which escaped my notice,

as did also the obsoletely bidentate angles of the column. Anther

hemispherical, small. W. J. H. eo

Curr. Being a native of a tropical climate and epiphytal ‘on

trees, this orchidaceous plant requires to be kept ina hothouse in

which a warm and moist atmosphere can be easily maintained ;

a medium temperature of 75° in summer, and 65° in winter, will

suit it. During the latter season the temperature may be allowed

to fall during the night to 60°, or even a few degrees lower,

especially in severely cold weather. It is common with plants of |

this nature, to imitate their natural mode of growth by attaching

them to blocks of wood suspended from the roof of the house ;

but there are many reasons against the use of wood for this

purpose; neatly cut sods of compressed sphagnum moss are

preferable, and fixing the plant to the sod with small pegs, which

are soon superseded by the roots of the plants attaching them-

selves to the moss: the sod should be suspended near the glass, —

but great care must be taken not to allow the direct rays of the —

sun to fall upon it during the summer months; some kind of |

shade is therefore necessary. ‘The sod should be kept moderately —

moist by syringing, but during the winter months water requires —

to be sparingly used, for then the minimum degree of vapour —

necessary to maintain a healthy atmosphere, will keep the sod —

sufficiently moist. J. 8.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Column, lip, and one petal :—magnified.

Tas. 4419.

MIRBELIA Metsnert.

Meisner’s Mirbelia.

Nat. Ord. Leaguminos%.—Dercanpria Monoeynta.

Gen. Char. Calyx 5-fidus bilabiatus. Legumen dispermum, longitudinaliter

biloculare, sutura utraque superiore presertim introflexa.—Suffrutices Austra-

lasici, fructu ad Astragalum, staminibus et habitu ad Sophoreas accedentes. Folia

ternatim verticillata. Flores purpurei. De Cand.

Mrrpeita Meisneri ; foliis (parvis) flabelliformibus in petiolum brevem angus-

tatis apice inciso-multifidis segmentis spinosis.

Mirsexta dilatata. Meisn. in Plant. Preiss. p.6. (not Br.)

From the collection of Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., who

raised it from Swan River seeds sent by Mr. Drummond, and in

whose collection it blossomed profusely in May, 1848. It is a

very different species from J. dilatata, Br., being smaller in all

its parts, more compact, bushy, with denser flowers and denser

foliage, and the leaves are , broadly flabellate, multifid, with

spinous segments. It is a most lovely greenhouse plant, and

ought to be in every ornamental collection.

Descr. The plant, as hitherto seen with us, constitutes a low

bushy shrub, much branched and copiously leafy. Branches many-

angled. Leaves generally ternately whorled, scarcely an inch

long, cuneately flabellate, harsh, rigid, dark green, much waved

and, as it were, crisped, tapering below into a short petiole, the apex

in reality three-cleft, and pretty regularly so, but from the undu-

lation this is not at first apparent; the middle lobe is small and’

simple, the lateral ones multifid, every segment tipped with a

spine, directed forwards or backwards according to the undulation.

Flowers copious, in leafy racemes. Pedicels with two opposite,

small dracteoles. Calyx campanulate, downy, two-lipped, upper

lip trifid, lower bifid. Corolla red-purple, deeper in the lower

half of each petal. Carina obcordate, with a yellow eye near

the base. Keel obtuse, about as long as the blunt wings which

JANUARY Ist, 1849.

conceal it. Stamens ten, free. Anthers oblong, yellow. Ovary

stipitate, oblong, tapermg gradually into the subulate style.

Stigma minute, capitate. W. J. H.

Curr. This belongs to a tribe of Australian plants, many of

which are favourites with the amateur and cultivator on account

of the lively appearance which they give to our greenhouses

during the spring months. In their native country they present a

rather harsh and scrubby appearance, but gay and enlivening the

landscape when in flower, the colours being generally blue or

yellow. These plants are found chiefly growing on poor soils,

~ but our cultivation would not be very successful if we imitated

their native soils too closely ; at the same time it must be allowed

that the earth which suits them best for pot cultivation, is but

poor, though in its use many points of management have to be

attended to. Rough peat or heath mould, containing a sharp

gritty sand, is suitable for this plant, draining the pot well with

sherds, so that no superabundant water remains for any length of

time after the necessary waterings, which should be done in the

evenings, or mornings in summer, before the sun gains power.

Care must be taken to sce that at no time the mould becomes

quite dry ; and during hot weather the pot should be so placed

that the sun’s rays do not fall upon it. The roots being fibrous

and of a dry nature, are very susceptible of any sudden or great

changes of temperature. While young, this species should be

kept in a cool pit or frame, and as it is naturally inclined togrow

up slender and naked, it is requisite to shortern the forward or

leading shoots, so as to induce it to throw out side-shoots, in order

to forma bushy plant. After a time, however, this must be

done sparingly, as the flowers are produced on and towards the

extremities of the branches,

The plant is propagated by cuttings placed under a bell-glass,

and kept in a cool place for a short time, and afterwards the pot

should be plunged in a gentle bottom-heat, J. S.

Fig. 1. Flower, with the petals removed.

8 O * f t i os a gy ‘

3. The keel. 4, Pistil -—magnified. ness She wings of the coral,

He ed ss a cat i a ee

Tas. 4420.

SCUTELLARIA macranrua.

Large-flowered Skull-cap.

Nat. Ord. LaBiatz.—D1ipyNaMIA GYMNOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4268.)

ScureLLARIA macrantha; caule basi procumbente adscendente glabriusculo,

foliis sessilibus lanceolatis obtusis integerrimis basi rotundatis subglabris

ciliatis, floralibus calyce longioribus, racemis simplicibus, floribus oppositis

secundis, calycibus pilosis, corollis amplis extus pubescentibus, tubo superne

dilatato. Benth.

ScureLLaRIA macrantha. Fisch. in Reichenb. Plant. Critic. 0.5. p.52. t.488.

‘Benth. Lab. p.436. Walp, Repert. Bot. v. 3. p. 156.

Scurenarta grandiflora. Adams. sec. Bunge (non Sims).

ScurennaRia fc. Gmel, Fl, Sibir. v. 3. p. 228. 2. 50.

Native of Eastern Asia ; extending from Dahuria (Dr. Fischer,

Bunge) probably all the way to the great wall of China, where

it was detected by Sir George Staunton. Seeds were sent to us

from the Petersburg Imperial Garden by Dr. von Fischer; and

our plants, raised from them, blossomed in the open border

during the summer of 1848, in the Royal Gardens of Kew. It isa

truly handsome and perfectly hardy plant, and we would strongly

recommend its cultivation en masse, on account of its highly

ornamental character, and because it continues long in blossom.

Descr. Annual? Stems decumbent at the base, then erect,

branched upwards; éranches four-angled, glabrous. Leaves

spreading, opposite, lanceolate, a little inclining to ovate at the

base, obtuse, glabrous, the margins a little downy or ciliated,

the upper ones narrower and smaller, the upper floral ones

shorter than the flowers, but much longer than the calyx.

Flowers in large terminal spikes or racemes. Calye downy, as

in the genus. Corolla large, rich purple, geniculated in the

lower part of the tube, downy, “md two-lipped ; upper ip con-

vex; three-lobed, lower ip broader, nearly plane. Stamens in-

JANUARY Ist, 1849.

cluded. Ovary four-lobed, glabrous, substipitate and arising

from a large gland. Style included, filiform, a little thickened

upwards ; stigma acuminate. W./. H. i :

Cunt. A neat growing, hardy, herbaceous plant, which will

grow in any good garden soil It is well adapted for cultivation

amongst pot-collections of alpine plants, and is propagated by

division of the root and by seeds. J. S.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Gland and pistil :—magnified.

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Tas. 4421.

HETEROTRICHUM macropon.

Long-toothed Heterotrichum.

Nat. Ord. Menastomace®.—Decanpria Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. Calyx tubus ovato-globosus, limbus 5—8-fidus lobis persistentibus

basi late dilatatis apice subulatis elongatis. Petala 5-8 ovalia. Stamina 10-16

equalia, filamentis glabris, antheris oblongis basi vix gibbis apice 1-porosis.

Ovarium glabrum apice umbilicatum. Stylus cylindraceus. Stigma punctum

pruinosum. Capsula baccata 5-8-locularis globosa calyce coronata,—Frutices

America tropice. Rami teretes petioli panicule ef calyces setis vel pilis hispidi

et pube stellato-tomentosa inter setas intermixta velutini. Folia petiolata superne

setosa subtus in nervis hispida, inter nervos velutina. Cyma terminalis trichotoma

umbellata. Flores albi aut purpurei. De Cand.

Hereroreicuum macrodon ; octomerum, ramulis petiolis cymisque pilis longis

fulvis copiose vestitis, foliis oppositis ineequalibus cordato-ovatis acuminatis

serratis 7-nerviis, cymis plurifloris, staminibus 16, petalis obovato-cuneatis.

Hererotricuum macrodon. Planch. in Hook. Herb.

Octomerts macrodon. Naudin in Ann. des Sc. Nat. Ser. 8. p. 53.

A remarkable and very handsome Melastomaceous plant, the

leaves beautiful from their velvety clothing, and the large white

flowers in terminal corymbs, which are produced in succession

for many weeks together. M. Funck’s original specimen from

Caraccas is in my Herbarium, and Mr. William Lobb sent seeds

of the same species from New Grenada to Messrs. Veitch and

Sons of Exeter, to whom we are indebted for the possession of

it at Kew. The genus Octomeris, established by Naudin, seems

in no way different from Heterotrichum, DC. The species

flowers in the autumn in the stove. ;

Descr. A shrub, seven to nine feet high, but flowering

readily when scarcely one-fourth of that size. Branches terete ;

younger ones herbaceous, everywhere, as well as the long petioles,

peduncles, pedicels, and calyx, clothed with spreading, long,

tawny, or rufous hairs. eaves opposite, ample, but very un-

equal (one large and one small in each pair), cordato-ovate,

acuminate, regularly dentato-serrated, seven-nerved, the veins

united by transverse ones, and these again by transverse veinlcts ;

JANUARY Ist, 1849.

above rich velvety green, below paler, with stellate down, and

the veins prominent, villous. Cymes terminal, of ten to twelve

flowers of the size and colouring of those of the Horse-Chestnut.

Calyz-tube campanulate, pale green, tinged with deep red above,

the limb expanding, membranaceous, eight-toothed ; teeth long,

linear, hispid. Petals eight, obovate, imbricated, pure white,

red at the base. Stamens sixteen. Ovary conical, ovate, the

base adherent with the base of the calyx, eight-celled. Style

thick, columnar, inclined, shorter than the stamens. Stigma

orbicular, obscurely lobed. W. J. H.

Curr. Within our recollection it was customary to grow all

Melastomacee in light peat soil, the same as was then used for

Heaths; but as it is now ascertained that the family is very

numerous and widely spread, the great mass of species inhabiting

tropical America, having very various habits and places of growth,

it could not be expected that cultivators would in all cases be

successful by using only one kind of soil. As it is known that

some species grow naturally in very hard clayey soil, this want of

attention to the nature of the plants may in a measure account for

the paucity of species at this time in our gardens. The present

one thrives well in good light loam; it should receive plenty of

pot-room ; the shoots require to be occasionally stopped in order

to keep the plant from becoming naked below, but in houses

where there is little space, it will be best not to encourage it too .

much ; and as it is readily propagated by cuttings, it is advisable

to have a succession of young plants ready to replace the old ones

as they become naked, which they will do after a time. J. S’

Fig. 1. Calyx and pistil. 2. Section of ditto. 3. Transverse section of

ovary. 4. Stamens :—magnijied.

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Tas. 4422.

CIRRHOPETALUM Macraet.

Mr. M‘Rae’s Cirrhopetalum.

Nat. Ord. OrncHIDEZ.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4237.)

CrrrnorrtaLum Macraei; pseudo-bulbis ovatis levibus, foliis solitariis oblougis

acutis in petiolum attenuatis, scapis folio longioribus, racemis Vix umbellatis

laxifloris, sepalis lanceolatis acuminatis lateralibus longissimis supremo

apice acuminatissimis incurvo, petalis ovatis acuminatis, columna utrinque

alata apice longe bidentato, labello ovato-acuminato carnoso recurvo.

C1rRHOPETALUM Macraei. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 59.

Detected in Ceylon by Mr. M‘Rae, growing upon trees in

woods, and since sent from the same country by our worthy

friend Mr. Gardner, the able Director of the Botanic Garden of

Peradenia, to the Royal Gardens of Kew. It flourishes on lumps

of turf suspended from the roof of the Orchideous House, and

blossoms in July. This is a much prettier species of the genus

than the C. nutans, figured at Tas. 441 8, the flowers being of a

deeper yellow, mixed with purplish-brown.

Descr. Pseudo-bulbs ovate, smooth, scarcely so large as nut-

megs, the younger ones sheathed with brown fibrous scales :

each is terminated by a solitary and rather large, oblong, fleshy,

acute deaf, tapering into a rather long footstalk, which is articu-

lated upon the bulb. Scape, a span long, slender, longer than

the leaf, bracteated. Raceme (scarcely at all umbellate) of about

six pedicellated flowers, whose ground-colour 1s yellow. Upper

sepal small, broad-lanceolate, with a long, very narrow, almost

setaceous, incurved. point, externally brown except at the margin ;

lateral sepals very long, linear-lanceolate, gradually acuminated,

streaked or dashed with red brown. Peta/s ovate, entire, acu-

minate, purple brown. Column short, with two wings, and

terminating upwards in two subfalcate segments or long teeth,

JANUARY Ist, 1849.

slightly dentate at the margin; the base of the column is de-

current, and bears, articulated upon it, a recurved, ovate, acumi-

nate, thick, fleshy lip. Axther-case small, hemispherical. W.J_/.

Cutt. The habit and nature of this plant being in every

respect analogous to the species of the same genus figured at

Tas. 4418, the remarks there given in regard to its cultivation

ere equally applicable to this species. J. S.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Column and lip :~-magnijied.

Tas. 4423

EXACUM Zryuantcum.

Ceylon Exacum.

Nat. Ord. GentIANE®.—PEnTANDRIA Monoeynta.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4340.)

Exacum Zeylanicum; caule tetragono subsimplici, foliis sessilibus elliptico-

oblongis 3-nerviis margine levibus, calycis 5-partiti alis semicordato-ovatis,

corollee ceerulez lobis obovatis obtusis, filamentis exsertis. Griseb.

Exacum Zeylanicum. Roxb. Fl. Ind. 1. p. 398. ed. Wall. 1. p. 414, Griseb. in

De Cand. Prod. 9. p. 45.

Curronta trinervis. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 272.

Listanruus Zeylanicus. Spreng. Syst. Veget. 1. p. 586.

Lf¥stmacuta folio sinuato acuminato trinervio, flore cxruleo, calyce carinato

alato. Burm, Zeyl. p. 145.

A beautiful annual, raised from Ceylon seeds by Mr. Moore

of the Glasnevin Botanic Garden, Dublin, where it flowered in

September, 1848. It is really a striking plant, and by no

means ill-figured in Burmann above quoted ; especially when we

consider the period at which that plate was published (1737).

_ The species is now, for the first time, introduced into Europe,

- we trust so desirable a plant will continue to be propagated

y seeds, :

Dzscr. Annual. Stem erect, four-sided, glabrous, as is every

part of the plant, corymbosely branched above and there only.

Leaves opposite, sessile, (for they can scarcely be said to taper

into a foot-stalk,) elliptical-oblong or lanceolate, acuminate,

distinctly three-nerved, paler and with the nerves prominent

beneath, the edge or margin smooth to the touch. Corymds

terminal, leafy. Branches (or in other words peduncles and

pedicels) four-sided, rather slender; ultimate pedicels three

together. Calyx deeply five-cleft, membranaceous, green, the

lobes tapering into subulate points, their back, down to the

base of the calyx, having a broad membranaceous wing. Corolla

rotate, large, handsome, rich purplish-blue; the /ue short,

_ FEBRUARY Ist, 1849.

slightly fringed at the mouth, where the stamens are inserted ;

the dimb large, spreading, five-lobed; odes oval or obovato-

obtuse, pale on the underside. Stamens five, erect, much

protruded. Filaments short, white; anthers erect, oblong,

orange-coloured, two-celled, two-lobed at the base, tapering above

and opening at the point by two pores. Ovary oval, glabrous.

_ Style long, decurved, the apex curved upwards. Stigma trans-

versely furrowed. W. J. H.

Cutt. This pretty Indian annual, like its British representa-

tives (Chlora perfoliata, and Chironia Centarium, &c.,) is not very

subservient to garden cultivation. The seeds should be sown

early in the spring in pots filled with sandy peat soil, and as they

are very small, they require no covering of earth, but merely that

the mould should be geritly pressed down. The pot should be

placed near the glass in a damp corner of the stove, or a pan of

water should be set under them, as it is very necessary that the

mould in the pot should be kept in a moist state without having

occasion to sprinkle water over the surface, for if that is

done the small germinating seeds are disturbed. When the

young plants are sufficiently strong, they should be pricked out

singly into the smallest sized pots; as they advance in growth,

they require to be shifted into five-inch pots, or four or five

plants may be put into a wide shallow pot or pan, which will

give the plants a fuller appearance. Loose turfy soil should be

used, the pot being well drained, so that water may be freely given

without the risk of the mould becoming stagnant; for as the

stem is soft and herbaceous, the plant is apt to drop off suddenly,

if kept too long wet about the root. This species of Exacum

is allied to Hxacum tetragonum figured at Tas. 4340; and, as

we have observed the latter to flower readily, when allowed

to grow as a weed on the damp mossy surfaces of pots in the

Orchidaceous house, the same method may be adopted with the

present species, by sowing the seeds on suitable surfaces near

the glass, Unless seeds are obtained, it is very apt to be lost.

In its natural habitat it appears to be truly annual, but in culti-

vation this species, as also Z. tetragonum, may sometimes, after

flowering, throw out short side branches close to the ground,

which with care may be preserved through the winter. ./. 8.

Fig. 1. Base of the corolla laid open, showing the fringe and the stamens.

2. Pistil :—magnified.

RE& RU

Fitch del et Jitl

Tas. 4424

LISIANTHUS putcurr.

Beautiful Lisianthus.

Nat, Ord. GenTIANE®.—PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4324.)

Listanruus pulcher; elatus erectus caule ramisque obtuse tetragonis, foliis

petiolatis elliptico-lanceolatis acuminatis, nervis lateralibus paribus duobus,

panicula terminali trichotoma, floribus pendulis, calyce brevi ovato brevi-

5-lobo lobis obtusis, corolla (coccinese) infundibuliformis tubo basi angus-

tato, limbo parum obliquo 5-lobo lobis ovatis obtusis patentibus, staminibus

styloque exsertis, antheris apiculatis.

Beautiful as are all the species of the genus Lisianthus, as

that genus is now restricted by the learned Grisebach, the present,

together with another scarlet-flowered one, Z. splendens, Hook.

(Lond. Journ. Bot. vol. iv. p. 264. tab. 8) are, perhaps, the most

beautiful ; and both these new species are among the discoveries

of Mr. Purdie, during his botanical expedition to New Grenada. —

L. pulcher was found in the Monte del Moro in October, 1845.

It has flowered in the stove at the Royal Gardens of Kew, and

more perfectly in the collection of Messrs, Lucombe andPince,

Exeter Nursery, from whose fine plant our drawing was made

mm September, 1848.

Descr. A tall shrub, according to Mr. Purdie, five to seven

feet high in its native country, with aap obtusely fou -

angular dranches and leaves, which are also opposite, petiolate,

ovato-lanceolate, four to five inches long, acuminate, obtuse at

the base, penninerved ; nerves in two pairs from the costa, and

Tunning almost parallel with the margin, the lowest pair

springing from near the base of the costa, the other pair from

below the middle; these nerves and costa are rominent and

downy beneath, the rest glabrous. Panicle terminal, trichotomous,

Scarcely leafy, but bracteated with small scales at the setting on

of the pedicels, and there is also a small pair of bracts near the

middle ‘of the pedicels. Flowers gracefully drooping. Calyw

small, ovate, shortly 5-lohed, Joes small obtuse, erect. Corolla

FEBRUARY lst, 1849. Cs

one inch and a half and more long, rich scarlet, funnel-sha ped ;

the ¢ube a little curved upwards, narrow at the base, inflated

above the middle; the /imd rather oblique, of five spreading, ovate,

obtuse lobes, the mouth streaked with dark yellow. Stamens

and style exserted. Authers short, apiculate. Ovary seated on

a large fleshy disk. Stigma bifid. WV. J. H.

Cutt. Ever since Mr. Purdie sent us the seeds and description

of this beautiful plant, we have been very desirous to see it

brought into cultivation ; and in order to give it the chance of

different modes of treatment, seeds were distributed ; but the

raising of them has not been attended with the success we

could have wished, only a few plants having been obtained. In

its young state it appears to be rather delicate; but from our

little experience we have yet to learn what kind of treatment

it should receive. A knowledge of the nature of its primitive

habitat may in some degree assist us: we learn from Mr. Purdie

that it is a suffruticose shrub, forming a bush five to seven fect

high and two to three feet in diameter, growing at an elevation

of between 7000 to 8000 feet on shelly limestone rocks,

which are covered with a thin stratum of peaty soil of a dry

nature. The climate he states to be moist and temperate,

the heat never being excessive, sometimes the thermometer

falling to 40°, when ice is formed, the sensation of cold

18 very great, and the vapour in suspension in the atmosphere

gives to the light of the sun a peculiar and rather unpleasant

glare. Such being the circumstances under which it grows, we

therefore infer that it should be kept in a close greenhouse,

potting it in loose peat soil, well drained, and it may possibly

derive benefit by mixing with the mould thin pieces of

limestone, which may also be employed for drainage. The

beauty of this plant, as described by Mr. Purdie, renders any

experiment for its cultivation worthy of trial, but it must be

borne in mind that one drawback will always attend our experi-

ments :—we cannot place it in an atmosphere of the tenuity and

lightness which it enjoys at an elevation of 7000 to 8000 feet,

and in our opinion the difference of weight of the atmosphere at

different heights is the cause of the ill success attending the

cultivation of many mountain plants. J. 8,

Fig. 1. Pistil —magnified.

R. imp.

RB. &

Pitch, del. et Hth.

Tas. 4425.

MILTONIA SPECTABILIS; var. PURPUREO-VIOLACEA.

Showy Miltonia ; purple-violet variety.

Nat. Ord. OrncutpEa.—GyYNAaNDRIA MoNANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4204.)

| MILTONIA spectabilis ; pseudo-bulbis ovalibus ancipitibus levibus, foliis ligu-

latis patentissimis, pedunculis unifloris squamis magnis fuscis_striatis

| imbricatis carinatis dense imbricatis, sepalis ovalibus planis, petalis con-

formibus revolutis, labello maximo cuneato-rotundato basi trilamellato,

columne alis angustis acutissimis, Lindl.

7 Minronta spectabilis. Lind?. Bot. Reg.t.1992. Hook. Bot. Mag. t: 4204.

8. floribus unicoloribus purpureo-violaceis. (Tas. wostR. 4425.)

For the full description of this species, we must refer our

readers to the plate above quoted; for, striking as this plant is

from the intense purple-violet colour of the entire flower, yet in

3 shape and every essential particular, it is identical with J/i-

fonva spectabilis. Those parts which are palest in the original

: M. spectabilis (the petals and sepals for example, there, almost

pure white) are here of the deepest purple ; and the lip, which | in

our T'as. 4204, is the most coloured, is here the least so, being

of a paler purple than the sepals and petals. a os

_ _Dr. Lindley having since the publication of his original species

added others, some at the expence of the genus Cyriochilum, it

Comes necessary to give a specific character to this, which we

are glad to do from Dr. Lindley’s 31st volume of the Botanical

._ __ Curr. The several species of Miltonia being natives of the

1 warm parts of Brazil, this plant requires to be kept in_ the

Warmest division of the orchideous house. It is sometimes

8rown on a block of suspended wood, but we prefer shallow pots,

well drained, and fixing it in rough peat’ soil, mixed with chopped

Sphagnum, moss, and broken potsherds. During summer it must

be shaded from the sun’s mid-day rays. It is observed that the

Species of this genus have generally a yellow unhealthy appearance,

Which to a certain degree seems natural to them. J. 8.

FEBRUARY lst, 1849.

RB. & Rimp.

“ei et hth

Liter

prt

Tas. 4426.

MACLEANIA punctatTa.

Dotted-leaved Macleania.

Nat. Ord. Vacctnrn#2.—Dercanpria Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. Calyx truncatus obsolete 5-dentatus inferne ovario adherens. Corolla

cylindracea, limbo 5-fido. Stamina 10, basi corolle inserta, filamentis per

totam longitudinem in urceolum connatis. Anthere basi affixe dorso

mutice, apice in tubum simplicem attenuate et rimula singula introrsum

dehiscentes. Ovarium 5-loculare, multiovulatum. . Fructus; Bacca?—

Frutex habitu Thibaudiz vel Ceratostemmatis. Flores numerosi, axillares,

secundt. Folia subsecunda, nunc punctata. Rami cortice deciduo. De Cand.

Mac.eanta punctata; foliis sessilibus cordatis obtusis punctatis coriaceis pen-

ninerviis, pedunculis glomeratis axillaribus terminalibus, corollis conico-

urceolatis 5-gonis, ore dilatato, lobis patentibus.

This is very distinct from the three species of this beautiful

Vacciniaceous genus already described, from my original

M. floribunda, (Hook. Ic. Pl. 2. tab. 109,) which has very acute

or acuminated leaves and a differently shaped corolla, from

M. angulata, (Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 83779,) which has petiolated

leaves &c., calyx narrower than the corolla, with its mouth con-

tracted, and from MW. longifiora, (Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1844, Tab. 25,)

which has oval-oblong leaves, and a much longer, whole-coloured

corolla, also contracted at the mouth; and it differs from all in

its distinctly dotted foliage. It is sent from the Andes of El

Equador by Mr. William Lobb, and it flowered in the greenhouse

of Messrs. Veitch and Son of Exeter in Nov. 1848. It exists

in Professor Jameson’s collection from the same country.

Duscr. A low shrué, with slightly angular branches. Leaves

alternate, but inclined to be secund, sessile or with a most indis-

tinct petiole, cordate, the upper ones approaching to oval, obtuse,

entire, coriaceous, convex, the margin secund, glossy, dotted,

delicately penninerved. V/owers pedunculate, crowded in the

axils of the superior leaves, and in a terminal cluster, secund.

Peduncles clavate, red. Calye articulated upon the peduncle,

turbinate, shortly 5- toothed, with 5 wing-like angles, fleshy, deep

FEBRUARY Ist, 1849.

red. Corolla full an inch long, between cylindrical and urceolate,

swollen in the lower half, contracted below the spreading mouth,

6-angled, rose-red, except the upper part which is white tinged

with yellow, lodes 5, acute, spreading. Stamens and style included.

W. J. HH.

Curr. When required to give instructions for the cultivation

of any particular plant, it is to be presumed that the rules laid

down are the results of experience; but if it be recollected that

most of the plants figured in this work are only of recent intro-

duction to this country, and that it is the wish of the first pos-

sessor to get his new plants into flower as early as possible, a

result often obtained under circumstances not natural to the true

habit of the plant,our directions, in most cases, as to its cultivation,

must be somewhat vague and uncertain, More time and expe-

rience are required, and guided by our knowledge of the natural

climate of the plant, we become acquainted with its habit,

and may then be able to state what is the best mode of treatment

it should receive. One or two species of Macleania have been

known to us for several years ; they have thick fleshy roots, and

with their stiff habit of growth do not appear to be well

adapted for cultivation in a pot; but we are of opinion that if

planted out in a warm greenhouse, they would form handsome

plants. The soil should consist of loam and peat well mixed, but

must not be deep, for it has been observed that the fibres keep

near the surface. It should be well drained, so as to permit

abundance of water to be given during their season of growth,

without the risk of the soil becoming saturated. This may be

propagated freely by cuttings, placed under a bell-gl ith

little bottom heat. Js. a aegis a

Fig. 1. Two of the anthers with a portion of staminal tube. 2, Calyx, pistil

and stamens :—magnified.

SS,

Fitch, del et kth.

RB. & Ramp

See emg

Tas. 4427.

AERIDES crispum.

Sir Richard Brooke's Air-Plant.

Nat. Ord. OncutprE%.—GyNANDRIA MONANDRIA,

Gen, Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4139.)

‘

AERIDES erispum ; foliis planis apice obtusis obliquis bilobis racemis multifloris

nutantibus duplo brevioribus, sepalis petalisque subequalibus obtusis,

labelli maximi lacinia intermedia multo majore ovata retusa serrulata basi

bidentata lateralibus erectis acutis nanis, caleare cornuto incurvo. Lindl.

AERIDEs crispum. Lindl. in Wall. Cat.n. 7319. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 239. Bot.

Reg. 1842. t. 55.

Arrives Brookei. Batem. in Bot. Reg. 1841.

A native of Courtallam, East Indies, whence I possess native

Specimens from its discoverer, Dr. Wallich. Living plants were

received at the Royal Gardens of Kew in 1845, but the

plant had previously (in 1842) flowered in the collection of

Sir Richard Brooke, Bart., of Norton Priory. It is one of the

most lovely of the very favourite genus. Aerides, and still I

believe one of the most rare. Our plant differs slightly from

that represented by Dr. Lindley in the more diffused purple

tinge on the lip, and its more deeply cut edge, rather fimbriated

than serrated. It flowered with us in July.

Duscr. Stem flexuose, sending out large fleshy roots from

below, leafy above. Zeaves articulated upon the sheath, ligulate,

retuse or bifid and oblique at the apex, distichous, a span long,

coriaceous, keeled at the back below. Racemes drooping on a

long peduncle springing from the side of the stem below the leaves,

many-flowered, large, very handsome. Sepals larger than the

petals, otherwise like them in shape and colour, oval or obovate,

white, tinged with rose. ip very large, 3-lobed, lateral lobes

small, erect, ovato-obtuse ; middle one broadly ovate, fringed at

the edge, 2-toothed at the base, there white, the rest deep rose-

purple. Spur horn-like, slightly curved. _ Co/uma short, white.

Pollen-masses two, on a long caudicle. W. J. H. ay

Curr. This plant being a native of the hot and moist climate

FEBRUARY Ist, 1849.

of Southern India, requires to be kept in the warmest division

of the orchideous house. Its natural habitat is on trees, to which

it firmly attaches itself by its long naked roots. To imitate

this, it is the general practice to fix the plant on blocks of wood

which should be 3 to 4 feet long, set upright to allow space

for the roots to descend; but as wood of any kind soon decays

in the orchideous house and then becomes a nidus for fungi

and insects, it is desirable that some other mode should be

adopted. In some portions of the house the several species of

Aerides may be freely suspended without any support; if near

any upright surface (such as the walls of the house) it will be

observed that the free aérial roots will in time direct their

points of growth towards the wall, &., and on reaching it will

become attached, evidently showing that some kind of a basis

of attachment is natural to these plants. Many years ago we

remember seeing Aerides odoratum in fine flower, its roots being

attached to a moist brick wall, and as they adhere in like manner

to the side of garden pots, we have procured several tall cylindrical

pots (something like chimney pots) round the margin of which we

temporarily fix the plants ; but they soon fasten themselves by

their roots gradually creeping over the surfaces of the pot, both

within and without, and by occasionally syringing the outside and

a little water inside, the porous earthenware is kept sufficiently

moist to be congenial to the roots. During the dry season

this plant experiences very great heat, and therefore under our

artificial cultivation it is advisable to lessen the supply of

moisture after it has done flowering in summer. We have

observed that the species of Aerides will bear with impunity a

pretty free exposure to the sun; though much depends upon the

position of the house and the nature of the roof. J. S.

Fig. 1. Column and lip :—magnified.

eset.

Tas. 4428.

LOASA picra.

Painted-flowered Loasa.

Nat. Ord. Loaspx®.—PoLyaDELPHIA POLYANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Calycis tubus ovario adherens, limbus persistens, 5-partitus, equalis.

Petala 5, lobis cal. alterna, breviter unguiculata, concava. Sguame 5, petaloidex,

petalis alterne, bi- aut trilobee, in conum conniventes et basi intus filamentis 2

sterilibus instructee. Stamina numerosa, exteriora 10 sterilia, ceetera in phalangis

15-17-andras petalis oppositas disposita ; axtheris erectis bilocularibus. Stylus

apice trifidus. Capsula turbinato-oblonga, . 1-locularis, apice 3-valvis calyce

Coronata, valvis margine placentiferis, placentis ideo cum vicina continuis.

Semina ovalia creberrima reticulata. D.C.

Loasa picta; erecta debilis dichotoma parce pubescenti-pilosa, caule ramis

petiolis pedunculisque pungenti-setosis, foliis rhombeo-ovatis lanceolatisve

acuminatis acutis lobatis serratis, inferioribus petiolatis superioribus (brac-_

teisve) sessilibus, racemis terminalibus foliosis, pedicellis elongatis, ovario

hispidissimo, petalis sterilibus ovatis acuminatis basi cucullatis apice bifidis,

lobis calycinis petalisque reflexis.

An extremely pretty species of Zoasa, native of Chacapoyas

in the Andes, and which, from the varied colour of the petals

and nectaries (or petaloid scales), we have named picia. It

was detected by Mr. William Lobb, and seeds were raised by

Messrs. Veitch and Sons at their Nursery, Exeter, from whose

plants the accompanying figure was taken in December, 1848 ;

during which season, in a cool frame, the plants are covered

with blossom from top to bottom. There is every reason to

believe that it will prove a hardy annual, well suited for bedding.

out in the summer, when its graceful and lively flowers, yellow

and white, with a red eye, cannot fail to prove attractive. We

possess specimens in the Herbarium of the same species, gathered

precisely in the same locality by the late Mr. Mathews. Its

hearest affinity is with Z. xanthizfolia, Juss., but that has more

cordate leaves, very hairy on both sides, the flowers smaller,

Wholly yellow, and the nectaries, as far as can be judged from

the figure and from the dried specimens, are of a different form.

FEBRUARY Ist, 1849,

Descr. Annual. Stems about a foot high, dichotomously

branched, weak, but nearly erect, clothed as are the leaves, but chiefly

on the nerves, with thin inconspicuous pubescence, mixed with

many pungent sete. Leaves alternate, pale green, membranaceous,

the lower ones two to three inches long, petiolate (petioles setose),

rhombeo-ovate, acuminate, acutely lobed and serrated ; upper or

floral leaves sessile, lanceolate, coarsely serrated, the uppermost

(decidedly 4racteas) almost linear, subulate, entire. Racemes

leafy. Pedicels elongated, drooping, setose. Flowers large (for

the size of the plant), drooping. Ovary cylindrical, very hispid.

Calyx-segments ovate, acuminate, ikea Petals reflexed,

obovate, acute, cucullate, hispid at the back, their colour bright

yellow in-the lower half, the rest white. Nectaries or petaloid

scales ovato-acuminate, bifid at the point, the base cucullate,

white, beautifully mottled with red. W. J. H.

Cut. Little ig i to be said respecting the cultivation of

this plant, as it is, like the rest of the genus, a tender annual.

It should be sown in April in a frame or pit, and by the end of

May it will be safe to turn it out in the flower-borders. We

know too little of it yet, to enable us to speak of its merits; but

it will probably make a pretty bed in the flower garden. J. 8.

Fig. 1 and 2. Outer and inner view of a petaloid scale ;~—magniied.

eet

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Ran wp

My aN ‘ i

Fitch del et ith,

aa. % . Doce Soe

Tas. 4429.

DENDROBIUM Devontanvum.

The Duke of Devonshire’s Dendrobium.

Nat. Ord. OrncurpEx.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4352.)

Denprosium Devonianum ; caulibus elongato-cylindraceis articulatis striatis pro-

liferis junioribus foliiferis, foliis lineari-lanceolatis distichis submembrana-

ceis acuminatis, floribus (5-6) aggregatis, sepalis lanceolatis integerrimis,

petalis ovatis acutis ciliatis apice purpureo-maculatis, labello cucullato amplo

latissime cordato pulcherrime plumoso-fimbriato intus maculis 2 aurantiacis

apice emarginato purpureo, calcare brevissimo.

DenpRosium Devonianum. “ Paaton, Mag. Bot. v.17. p. 169.”

Assuredly one of the most delicate and most lovely of all

Orchideous plants, and worthy to bear the name of that. distin-

guished nobleman, the Duke of Devonshire, who has done so

much to encourage Horticulture and Botany. It isa native of the

Khoseea hills, East Indies, and bears this name in Mr. Paxton’s

Magazine of Botany, vol. vii. I do not find it anywhere fully

described. Our plant, from which the accompanying figure

was made, is from the collection of the late Mr. Clowes. It

flowered with us in September, 1847. The charm of this plant

is confined wholly to its flowers: the stems and foliage possess

no attractions. Except in the colour and markings and pubes-

cence, the flowers have a considerable resemblance to those of

D. fimbriatum. The leaves are widely different.

Duscr. Stems elongated, nearly cylindrical, jointed, pale

whitish-brown, and, as it were, proliferous ; the young shoots

leafy ; Jeaves few, distichous, wide apart, linear-lanceolate, sub-

membranaceous, acuminate. Flowers forming @ rather dense

raceme at the end of leafless shoots, large, handsome ; the ground

colour is white. Seals broad-lanceolate, rather obtuse, entire,

faintly tinged with purple, the two anterior ones uniting at the

base and decurrent into a short obtuse or emarginate spur.

Petals larger than the sepals, very spreading, ovate, acute,

MARCH Ist, 1849.

beautifully ciliated, the apex with a purple spot. Zip remarkably

large, cucullate, very broadly cordate, deeply and most elegantly

fringed, bearing two large orange spots on the pure white

ground, and tipped with purple at the emarginate apex. Column

concealed within the base of the labellum. VW. J. 7.

Cutt. This belongs to the caulescent section of Dendrobium,

and, being of a weak and slender habit, its appearance does not

offer much inducement to the cultivator; but what it wants in

look as a plant, is amply compensated by its lovely flowers,

which render it worthy of a place in every Orchideous collection.

It requires to be kept in the warm Orchideous house ; and as the

stems are weak and naturally pendulous, it should be suspended

from the roof of the house, either attached to a block of mossy

wood, or in an open wire basket containing loose turfy peat

mixed with chopped sphagnum moss; or the block of wood or

wire basket may be dispensed with, by fixing the plant on a

sod of solid sphagnum, which remains firm and sound a long

time, and keeps entirely free from insects and fungi. During its

season of growth it must receive the usual stimulus of heat and

Moisture, and shading from the mid-day sun in summer. After

the stems have attained their growth, they will begin to lose

their leaves: water must then be gradually withheld, and the

plant may be more freely exposed to the sun. The flowers are

produced on the leafless stems during the dry season, a character

common to many of the species in the section of Dendrobium to

which the present one belongs. It increases by lateral shoots,

which emit roots and continue to grow while attached to the

old stems. J. 8.

Note on Exacum Zeyuanicunm.

In our last Number, under Exacum Zeylanicum, Tax. 4423, it should have been

added, that the seed was sent to the Glasnevin Garden by Glanvi

. e Gla: ville Taylor, Esq.

vag" oe fos after _ arrival in Ceylon, was sdreik with the Siinacty ta

t e jungle, and having marked th i

ities tha plac 19 g € place, returned to it when he

Tas. 4430.

~GLOXINIA Frimpriata.

Eimbriated Gloxinia.

Nat. Ord. GrsNERIACEZ.—DipyNaMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4213.)

GLOXINIA jimbriata; erecta simplex subtetragona, foliis brevi-petiolatis ovatis

acutis serratis glabris, pedunculis axillaribus solitariis unifloris, calycis

segmentis ovatis patentibus foliaceis, corollee tubo elongato infundibuliformi- —

cylindraceo, ore obliquo, limbo amplo profunde 5-lobo lobis subeequalibus

rotundatis margine undulatis tenuissime fimbriatis intus pilosulis.

GtioxintA fimbriata. Hortul. Paris.

A very pretty and delicate looking stove-plant, of which we

regret to say that all we know of it is that we received it at the

Kew Gardens from M. Ketelew of Paris, under the name here

given, and that it flowered with us in September, 1848, and |

continued some time in great beauty. It appears extremely

different from any Gloxinia with which we are acquainted, and

1s a valuable addition to the hot-house department.

Descr. Roots elongated and scaly, as in the genus. Stems

erect, herbaceous, simple, a foot or a foot and a half high, rather

obscurely tetragonal, green, tinged with red: the angles often

sending out short white filaments as if rooting. Leaves opposite,

shortly petioled, ovate, acute, serrated, penninerved, glabrous,

| green, paler, and with prominent nerves beneath. Peduncles

axillary, solitary, single-flowered, longer than the petioles, much

shorter than the leaves. Calyw-tube turbinate, angled: segments

spreading, ovate, large, leafy, three-nerved, wavy. Corolla

declined, large, pale purplish-white. Ze between infundibuli-

form and cylindrical, deep yellow inside and beautifully sprinkled

with red dots: the /imé quite white, spreading, and large; the

lobes rounded, nearly equal, lapping over each other, pilose

on the inner or upper surface, the margin waved and most deli-

cately fimbriated. Stamens and style quite included within

the tube. W. J. H.

MARCH lst, 1849. D2

Cur. This, like the rest. of the genus, is an herbaceous plant,

the stem dying to the ground after having flowered and perfected

its singular roots, or rather underground stems. These are

composed of numerous closely-packed scales, surrounding an

elongated axis, each scale when separated being capable of pro-

ducing a distinct plant. In a natural state the roots lie dormant

during the dry season, and start into vigorous growth on the

return of the rains. ‘To imitate this, the roots (having been

kept dry all the winter) require in the spring to be taken out of

the last year’s mould and repotted in soil composed of light.

loam and a portion of leaf-mould or sandy peat, so as to form a

light open compost, not retentive of water. The roots may be

either planted whole, or divided according to the number of

plants required, planting them in wide shallow pots or pans ; and

in order to start them, the pans should be placed in bottom-heat

in a warm pit or frame. Little water must be given at first,

but as they advance in growth they will require it pretty freely.

Care must be taken not to allow them to remain too long in the

bottom-heat, as they are apt to grow weak. As soon as they

have attained sufficient strength, they should be removed to a

more airy part of the stove, shading them from the sun in the

middle part of the day. If many roots have been put in a pan

they will require to be thinned, and those that are to remain

should be carefully supported and trained to the best advantage —

for displaying the flower. When the flower-stems begin to

decay, heat and moisture must be gradually withdrawn, but

even after the stems are quite withered, it is advisable to keep

the mould moderately moist for several weeks longer ; as, if it is

too quickly dried up, the roots are apt to shrivel and decay

during their long season of repose. They may be kept under

the shelves in the stove, or ina shed, or other dry moderately

warm place. J. 8.

fe SANS

: pithnsn’, CAEL ET TLE ET epee

TTT as warmer eat pipetted

WTF

RB.& R-imp.

Tas. 4431.

GESNERIA picra.

Painted Gesneria.

Nat. Ord. GeEsNERIACEH.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4217.)

GusNeERIA picta ; tota velutino-hirsutissima, caule erecto elongato, foliis ovatis

acuminatis crenato-serratis oppositis ternisque discoloribus inferioribus

longe petiolatis lamina basi hine decurrente, racemis elongatis foliosis,

pedicellis aggregato-verticillatis foliis floralibus brevioribus unifloris, calycis

tubo rotundato-hemisphzerico dentibus 5 parvis erectis, corolla cylindracea

subtus parum ventricosa ore contracto limbo parvo 5-lobo zquali maculato,

staminibus styloque inclusis, glandulis hypogynis 5 quorum 3 basi con-

junctis.

8. minus hirsuta, foliis floralibus majoribus, corollis minoribus, foliis subtus

pallidioribus.

Two Gesnerias have been brought to my notice lately from

Columbia ; the one here represented, sent home to the Royal

Gardens by Mr. Seemann, the other introduced by Messrs.

Veitch and Son, through their collector, Mr. William Lobb. I

cannot find that either of them will accord with any described _

species. I have little hesitation then in considering them

new ; but although there are some discrepancies, as above in- ©

dicated, I think the two may, without much violence to nature,

be considered the same species. Both are exceedingly beau-

tiful, not only in the rich colour of the copious flowers, but in

that of the underside of the leaves, and in the fine velvety texture

of the upperside of the foliage. The blossoming continues

through the summer and autumn, and till late in November.

They require the heat of the stove.

Descr. Stem herbaceous, two to three and more feet in-

height, densely clothed with purple-red down, mingled with long

fine spreading hairs. Leaves opposite or ternate, ovate, very

airy, acuminate, crenately serrate, the lower ones on long

petioles which are very hirsute, and which have one side of the

lade decurrent on the petiole. Floral leaves on short petioles

MARCH Ist, 1849.

and small, all rich red-purple beneath. Raceme terminal,

elongated, leafy. Pedicels axillary, in whorls, single-flowered,

shorter than the floral leaves, very hairy. Calyx hemispherical,

with five small erect teeth. Corolla inclined, but not drooping,

scarlet, yellow beneath and at the mouth, very hairy and velvety,

subcylindrical, rather ventricose below: the mouth small: the

limb of five small, rounded, spotted /odes, and hairy, almost

os, hispid. Stamens and style included. Ovary and style hairy.

—

a 3 Glands five, large: three combined at the base. W.J. H

Cuxr. This plant belongs to that section of Gesneria charac-

terized by roots similar to those of Gloxinia, as described

under Tab. 4430; and therefore the treatment recommended for

_ the cultivation of Glowinia fimbriata is applicable to this. It is

of a robust free-growing habit, and continues a long time in

flower ; a succession of flowering plants may be kept up till

late in the season by starting a few roots at intervals of about a

month, beginning with the first early in February, and selecting

the early-flowered roots of the previous year for the first

potting. J. 9.

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

Tas. 4452.

VANDA _ Trico.or.

Three-coloured Vanda.

Nat. Ord. Orcu1pEm.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4304.)

~ Vanna tricolor ; foliis distichis canaliculatis racemo pauci-(multi-)floro longiori- _

bus, sepalis coriaceis unguiculatis obovatis obtusis, labello eequilongo trilobo

per axin 3-lineato, calcare brevi obtuso, laciniis lateralibus rotundatis inter-

medio convexo cuneato emarginato latioribus. Lindl.

_ Vanna tricolor. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1847. p. 59, ad calcem.

One of the many very fine plants recently introduced by

Messrs. Veitch and Son from Java, through Mr. Thomas Lobb.

Dr. Lindley compares it with V. Hindsii, a New Guinea plant,

with which we are unacquainted, and he distinguishes it from

Vanda insignis of Dr. Blame (Rumphia, t. 192. f. 3), most justly.

It is besides a far handsomer species, and indeed one of the

most beautiful of this eminently beautiful genus. Our specimen

was kindly communicated by Messrs. Veitch in December, 1848.

Dzscr. The stem is of moderate length, sending out large

fleshy roots from the base, by which it is supported on trees,

clothed with distichous linear-lorate, canaliculate, bright green

leaves, a foot and more long. The raceme is drooping, of many

large, handsome flowers, upon long clavate ovaries, striated and

resembling thickened flower-stalks. The flowers are among the

largest of the genus. Sepals obovate, attenuated at the base,

Spreading, waved, rich full yellow, with numerous spots and

streaks of a dark blood colour: petals similar in general shape

and colour, but rather narrower. Lip as long as, or rather

longer than, the perianth, thick and fleshy, oblong-cordiform,

or it may almost be called lyrate, being three-lobed, the two

lateral lobes rounded, the middle oblong, a little dilated at the

apex, and there imperfectly two-lobed: the colour of the lip is

generally purple, with elevated lines and streaks, the base and

MARCH Ist, 1849.

the margin of the lateral lobes colourless. Column short, thick,

white. W. J. H.

Cur. This fine tropical epiphyte requires to be grown in

the warm Orchideous house, fixed to a block of wood or some

such surface, as mentioned at t. 4427, on which its aérial roots

may attach themselves. During its season of growth the

atmosphere of the house must be kept warm and moist, and

gradually lessened when the plant indicates a cessation of

growth, which may be known by the points of the roots

ceasing to elongate. In our Orchideous houses it becomes

difficult to regulate the temperature and moisture so as to

give the numerous species, of various habits, which we have

under cultivation, their proper season of growth and repose,

some having by nature a tendency to grow at one particular

season, and some at another. It is the understood rule to

consider our summer months as analogous to the “rainy”

and growing season of the tropics, and this, by the aid of the

artificial means at our command, we can readily imitate ; but

the “dry” season of the tropics presents a great difficulty, for

as it coimcides with our winter months, when the atmosphere

is charged with moisture accompanied with a low tempera-

ture, but which in the tropics is characterized more by a want of

rain than any diminution of heat, and as to maintain a dry —

tropical climate in our hot-houses in winter would require a

greater quantity of artificial heat than would be conducive to

the health of the plants, it is the practice to lower the tempera-

ture and reduce the amount of moisture to the minimum degree

necessary for counteracting the bad effects of the necessary arti-

ficial heat. But even under such treatment, we have observed

that the several species of Vanda, Aérides, Saccolabium, &e., are

always inclined to grow during the winter and spring months ;

we have also observed that in summer, immediately after

flowering, they cease to grow, and will then bear a considerable

degree of exposure to dry heat without bemg injured (the heat

and dryness at this season being natural). In the autumn

months, when the sun begins to lose power, the atmosphere of

the house will naturally become moist, which again stimulates

the plant into growth. From these observations we consider

that the period of rest for these plants, in our climate, under

artificial cultivation, is the latter part of our summer, when they

have done flowering ; and in order to give them their natural

requirements in that respect, it is necessary to have separate

compartments of the Orchideous house. J. 8.

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4433.

BEJARIA coarctTaATa.

Close-flowered Bejaria.

Nat. Ord. Errcacr®.—Potyanpria Monoe@ynia.

Gen. Char. Calyx profunde et acute 7-fidus aut 7-dentatus. Petala 7 patula

oblonga. Stamina petalorum duplo, a petalis libera, filamentis subulatis basi

hirsutis, aw¢h. muticis oscillatoriis apice biporosis. Ovarium subrotundum

7-sulcatum. Stylus elongatus. Stigma depresso-capitatum q-sulcatum. Cap-

sula depresso-globosa calyce persistente cincta stylo terminata 7-locul. 7-valvis,

loculis polyspermis.—Frutices Americani. Folia sparsa sepius conferta integer-

rima coriacea, Flores racemosi aut corymbosi, bracteati, sepissime purpurei. DC.

Besarta coarctata ; ramis junioribus pedicellis calycibus petiolis costaque subtus

fuscescenti-lanosis, foliis elliptico-oblongis acutiusculis planis subtus glaucis,

racemis densis, pedicellis florem styli stamina eequantibus.

t length we have the pleasure of exhibiting what has been

so long a desideratum in European Horticulture, a species of .

Bejaria, which has, for the first time, blossomed in this country.

With the exception of the North American B. racemosa, all the

other species are natives of South America; and the genus seems

to hold the same place in the Andes of Peru, Columbia, and

Mexico, that its affinity, Rhododendron, does in the Himalaya

of the Old World, and to be scarcely less ornamental. The

species now represented is from the collection of Messrs. Lucombe,

Pince, and Co., in whose Exeter Nursery it flowered in a cool

green-house in Jannary, 1849, with no more care than is devoted

to Indian Azaleas. Indeed, seeing that it is a native of very

cold situations in Peru (“in regni Peruviani frigidissimis prope

urbem Cascamarcan”’), according to Humboldt, at an elevation

of from 9,000 to 10,000 feet, it seems more than probable it

will bear the open border with us. A plant one foot high is :

_ covered with blossoms. Other species we know are in cultivation,

though they have not yet blossomed. : i

The genus was named by Mutis in compliment to one Bear,

a Spanish Botanist, and erroneously written Befaria by Linneus.

Descr. A low shrub with more graceful ramification than most

of the species of the genus, flowering copiously when less than a

MARCH Ist, 1849.

foot high, leafy. Leaves evergreen, alternate, patent, elliptical- —

oblong, subacute, entire, of a compact and brittle texture, plane,

obscurely penninerved, glaucous beneath. Petioles very short, —

and, as well as the costa beneath, woolly. Racemes terminal on —

the branches, short, many-flowered, compact. Pedicels with —

small, deciduous éracts, and about equal in length to the flower, _

woolly. Calye woolly, hemispherical, seven-lobed. Petals —

seven, spreading, oblong-lanceolate or subspathulate, pale rose

colour, with darker streaks. Stamens seven, erect, approximate, _

as long as the petals. Filaments subulate, dilated and downy _

at the base. Anther “obovato-oblong, two-celled, opening by a _

terminal pore in each cell. Ovary free, subrotund, seven-lobed,

seven-celled. Style as long as the stamens. Stigma seven-

lobed. W. J. H.

Cuxr. As very few examples of this beautiful plant are in this”

country, we know too little of its nature to speak with any

degree of certainty as to the best method of cultivation. We

learn from Mr. Pince that with him it has thriven and flowered :

well, placed close to the glass in a cool airy green-house, along

with Chinese Azaleas, potted in a mixture of sandy peat, soil,

and a small portion of half-decayed leaf-mould. It is increased

by cuttings, and, as Mr. Pince’s plant is expected to ripen seeds

we may expect ere long to see it in general cultivation. On

account of its exceedingly neat habit and flowering in a dwarf

state, it cannot fail to become a favourite with cultivators

Being a native of the elevated regions of tropical America, in a

climate where the cold is (to our feelings) severe, it is expected

that it will prove tolerably hardy in our climate, and Mr. Pince —

intends planting it in the open ground. It may possibly en-

dure the mild winters of Devonshire, but we have our doubts —

on that point ; for although it may sustain in its native elevated —

region a certain number of degrees of cold below the freezing ©

point, yet we must bear in mind that, on account of elevation, —

the air is lighter and water freezes at a higher temperature —

than it does at our level above the sea. Any specific number —

of degrees of frost at a high elevation are not, therefore, equi- —

valent in intensity to the same number of degrees with us. —

This circumstance, and our humid atmosphere in winter, are

much against our success in the cultivation of plants from ele-

vated regions. J. 8.

Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Pistil :—magnijied.

G4 3h.

nop.

Reeve

eeve, Benham

Tas. 4434.

MAXILLARIA .LeprosEPata.

Narrow-sepaled Mazillaria.

Nat. Ord. Orncu1pE®.—GYNANDRIA MoNANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4228.)

MAXILLARIA Jeptosepala; pseudo-bulbis ovato-rotundatis ancipiti-compressis

unifoliatis, folio lato-lanceolato coriaceo obtuso inferne angustato, scapis

radicalibus folio triplo brevioribus vaginatis, sepalis petalisque (brevioribus) _

patentissimis anguste lanceolatis acuminatis margine revolutis, labello

obovato-oblongo 3-lobo, lobis lateralibus obtusis intermedio maximo revoluto -

obtuso marginibus dentato-fimbriatis disco pulvinato hirsuto.

From New Grenada, whence it was sent by Mr. Purdie in

1846. It bore its large and really handsome flowers in the

Stove of the Royal Gardens in July, 1849.

Drscr. Pseudo-bulbs clustered, about two inches long, ovato-

rotundate, compressed, with acute edges, partially surrounded

by membranous scales, and bearing, articulated upon the summit,

a solitary /ea/, nearly a foot long, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse,

coriaceous, nerveless, tapering at the base into a kind of foot-

stalk. Scapes two or three from the base of the bulb, much |

‘Shorter than the leaf, clothed, almost completely, with pale

yellowish membranaceous sheathing Sracteas, the upper one the

largest and sheathing the ovary. Flowers solitary, large. Sepals

very spreading, two inches and a half long, yellowish-white,

narrow-lanceolate, acuminate, the margins revolute ; petals

resembling these both in form and colour, but rather smaller.

Lip moderately sized, oblong-obovate, three-lobed, with a

cushion-like swelling at the base of the disk: side lobes involute,

white, beautifully veined with purple: middle lobe long, obtuse,

waved, toothed and fringed and crisped at the margin, white ;

the disk yellow, villous. Column rather short. Anther-case large,

Crested. W.J.H. :

Cunt. This epiphyte, being a native of the temperate region

of New Grenada, should be kept in the cool division of the

APRIL Ist, 1849. E

Orchideous house. With us it is attached to a block of wood

suspended from the roof of the house, and shaded from the

mid-day sun in summer. J. &. |

Fig. 1. Ovary and column. 2, Pollen-masses. 3. Lip :—magnified.

sais

‘Tas. 4435.

CURCUMA corpata

Heart-leaved Curcuma.

Nat. Ord. ScrramInr®.—MonanpRIA Monoe@ynta.

Gen. Char. Cal. tubulosus, tridentatus. Corolle tubus sursum dilatatus, limbi

lacinie exteriores interioribus lateralibus conformes; /abellum majus, patens.

Filamentum petaloideo-dilatatum, carinatum, apice trilobum, lobo intermedio

anthera bicalcarata terminato. Ovarium inferum triloculare. Ovula loculorum

angulo centrali plurima, horizontalia, anatropa. Stylus filiformis ; stigma capi-

tatum. Capsula trilocularis, loculicido-trivalvis. _Semina plurima, arillata.—

Herbe: in India orientali tropica indigene, acaules ; radicibus palmato-tuberosis

perennantes ; foliis herbaceis, petiolis vaginantibus, bifariis ; scapo simplici lateral

v. centrali, spica simplici, erecta, comosa, inferne bracteis saccatis subimbricata,

floribus flavescentibus intra quamvis bracteam ternis quinisve approwimatis, brac-

teolatis. Endl. :

Curcuma cordata ; radice digitato-palmata, tuberibus plurimis globosis ex apice

filorum subfusiformium pendulis, foliis ovato-cordatis acuminatis concolo-

ribus utrinque sericeo-villosis petiolis longitudine eequantibus, spica centrali

supra vaginas sessili oblongo-cylindrica, bracteis ovatis obtusissimis villosis

9 amplissimo patentibus, come lucidis violaceis apice purpureo-maculatis.

all.

Curcuma cordata. Wall. Pl. Asiat. Rar. v.1. p. 8. t. 10.

One of the most beautiful of a singularly handsome group of

plants, too much neglected in our stoves, where, whether in

flower or only in leaf, they add greatly to the ornament of the

house. The present is among many discoveries of Dr. Wallich,

who found it in thick Bamboo forests on the hills opposite

Prome, and whose admirable figure and description above

quoted have left nothing for future botanists to add. Plants

were sent to Kew and to Syon House by Dr. Wallich, and

from a flowering specimen at the latter place our figure was

made in July, 1847. ee ee

Dzscr. A handsome herbaceous plant, with little that can be

called a stem, and that little consisting of the sheathing bases of

the leaf-stalks. Zeaves a foot long (and petiole rather more

than that) bifarious, ovate, acuminate, retuse or cordate at the

base, obliquely penninerved, of a uniform full green colour.

APRIL Ist, 1849. a E2

The richly coloured spike arises from the centre of the base of —

the upper petioles, it is cylindrico-oblong, erect. Bracteas ovate,

5-fariously arranged, very obtuse, green, the apex reflexed,

much darker, the upper ones forming a coma (sterile), rich

violet, with a deep purple or blood-coloured spot. The struc-

ture of the flowers will be better understood by a reference to

the figure. W. J. H.

Cur. A herbaceous tropical plant, having tuberous roots

which lie dormant during the dry season, and start into growth

on receiving the stimulus of moisture. It requires to be grown

in a tropical house. In spring, the tubers, having been first

deprived of the last year’s mould, should be repotted in a fresh

mixture composed of light loam and leaf-mould or turfy peat,

the pots being well drained, and placed in a warm pit or frame

in bottom-heat. Water should be given very sparingly till after.

the plant has made some growth ; and as the young roots are of

a soft and succulent nature, we must not allow the mould to con-

tinue long wet during the whole period of growth, for fear the

roots should rot off. After flowering, the leaves soon show symp-

toms of decay; water must then be gradually withdrawn, and

ultimately the pots require to be placed beyond. the reach of

- moisture, while care must be taken that the mould does not

become dust-dry ; for if long kept in such a state, the tubers

will gradually part with their moisture, and become shrivelled

and decayed. The plant is increased by separating the tubers

when repotted in the spring. J. &.

Fig. 1. Flower and bracteole. 2, Stamens and pistil. 3. Stigma :—magnijied.

Sa ae ee Camere tir

Bitch, del .et ith.

RB.& Ramp.

4436.

PACHYSTIGMA pTELEOIDES.

Ptelea-leaved Pachystigma.

Nat. Ord. Rutracr®.—PonLyanpRIA MoONOGYNIA.

_ Gen. Char, Calyx subtriphyllus, sepalis concavis inzequalibus, sestivatione

imbricatis, interiore majore, petalis conformi. Petala 4, libera, subrotunda, con-

cava, alba, impunctata; estivatione imbricativa. Stamina plurima, sub-30,

Libera, gynophoro magno carnoso biseriatim inserta. Filamenta subulata. Anthere

ovales, biloculares, antice longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ovariwm globosum, gyno-

phoro impositum, 7-8-sulcatum, velutinum, 7-8-loculare, loculis biovulatis,

stigmate magno carnoso 7-8-lobato deciduo coronatum. Capsula demum e cocculis

8 (quibusdam abortientibus), stellatim dispositis, basi coalitis, abortu pleramque

monospermis : epicarpio sicco subrugoso, dorso carina lata instructo ; endocarpio

cartilagineo, demum soluto. Semen oblique ovatum.: Podospermum majusculum,

carnosum, album.—Frutex sew Arbor humilis Jamaicensis, valde rAMOsUs ;

ramulis cortice Levi viridi-fusco tectis. Folia alterna, exstipulata, longe petiolata,

trifoliolata ; foliolis ovatis, acutis, integerrimis seu obsolete serratis, copiose pellu-

cido-punctatis, petiolulatis, in petiolum articulatis, penninerviis ; pedunculis awil-

laribus, folio sublongioribus, parce subtrichotome ramosis, pedicellis basi bracteolatis,

bracteolis deciduis. Flores majusculi, fragrantes, albi.

Pacuystiema pteleoides.

Pacuystiema pteleoides. Hook. Ic. Plant. 7. Tab. 698-9.

A native of the mountains of Santa Cruz, Jamaica, where it

was discovered by Mr. Purdie, in 1844, from whose dried

specimens the figure was made for the Icones Plantarum above

quoted. Seeds having been received at the same time, living

plants were raised, which have attained a height of eight or nine

feet in the Royal Gardens, and bore their cream-white very fra-

grant blossoms in the stove, for the first time, in February, 1849.

Descr. The plant, in its native country, becomes a small tree,

- of slender and rather graceful habit, with ternate, petiolate,

evergreen Jeaves of a full dark-green colour, full of pellucid dots.

Peduncles or panicles from the axil of the upper leaves. Flowers

cream-colour. The five-leaved calya gradually passes mto the

concave petals. Stamens shorter than the petals, springing In

- APRIL Ist, 1849.

two series from a large fleshy orange-coloured ¢orus or gynobase.

Stigma particularly large and deeply lobed. W. J. H. .

Curr. A tropical shrub or small tree, requiring the tempera-

ture of the stove. It will grow in any kind of good garden-soil,

if care be taken in watering, that the mould does not become

stagnant. As itis of slender growth and apt to run up, it is

advisable to shorten the branches so as to keep it bushy, and

induce a greater number of flowering branches. It is readily

propagated by cuttings, placed under a bell-glass and plunged in

bottom heat. J. S.

Fig. 1. Pistil and gynobase. 2. Section of the ovary. 3. Stamen :—magnified.

Tas. 4437.

ERIOPSIS rutTipoBULBon.

Rough-stalked Eriopsis.

Nat. Ord. OrncH1pEx.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Caules succulenti (pseudo-bulbosi), apice tantum foliati. Racemus

radicalis multiflorus. Bractee minime. Flores explanati, laciniis subeequalibus

oblongis obtusis, mento brevi obtuso. Labellum anticum, concavum, trilobum,

disco lamellatum e basi producta column articulatum. Columna semiteres,

clavata, aptera. 4uthera oblonga, subunilocularis: pollinia 4 ineequalia, per

paria filis 2 elasticis affixa ; glandula submembranacea, quadrata. Lindl.

Erropsis rutidobulbon ; caule (pseudo-bulbo) oblongo-ovato tereti rugoso, foliis

2 striatis, scapo radicali, racemo multifloro nutante, sepalis petalisque

oblongis, labelli hirsutuli striati lobis lateralibus maximis intermedio

minimo subintegro.

———

From New Grenada, whence it was introduced by Mr. Purdie

to the Royal Gardens of Kew, where it produced its fine raceme

of flowers in August, 1848. _ It evidently belongs to the genus

Friopsis, established by Dr. Lindley on a plant which flowered

in the collection of J. J. Brady, Esq., the origin of , which is un-

known. It cannot, however, be the same species, as will be seen

at once on comparing the two figures.

Duscr. Pseudo-bulbs (rather than “ stems”) ovato-oblong,

terete, of a dark purplish-black colour, singularly rough or

wrinkled upon the surface, bearing two (rarely three) large,

broadly lanceolate, striated, somewhat coriaceous Jeaves at the

extremity ; one, however, a little below the other, so that a

part of the pseudo-bulb is seen between. Scape a foot and a

half long, radical, terete, dark purple, bearing a drooping raceme

of many flowers. Sepals and petals alike, spreading, almost

horizontally, oblong, obtuse, dull orange-yellow, red-purple at 1

the margin. Zip about as long as the sepals, obtusely spurred

at the base behind, broadly ovate, three-lobed, the disk striated,

lamellated, with a dull crest ; the lateral Jobes broad, involute,

the terminal one small, orbicular, obscurely two-lobed, white,

with dark purple spots; the rest of the lip is dull orange-red,

APRIL Ist, 1849.

dotted with dark purple. Column shorter than the lip, greenish,

semiterete, a little enlarged upwards. Anther hemispherical.

W. J. Hl.

Cuur. Found by Mr. Purdie growing on the smooth stem of

a Palm tree, fully exposed to the sun, in the temperate region of

Antioquia in New Grenada, at an elevation of between 4,000

and 5,000 feet, the thermometer falling in the morning to 65°,

and rising during the day to 75°, which, on account of the less

weight and consequent rarity of the atmosphere at that elevation,

may be considered as equivalent to a temperature of 55° and 65°

with us. We have, therefore, kept this plant in the cooler

division of the Orchideous house, where it appears to thrive,

potted in turfy peat, well drained, watering very sparingly in

winter, and shading it from the mid-day sun in summer. ‘This

treatment, it must be confessed, is very different from what we

may presume it to have received when “growing on the smooth

stem of a Palm tree, fully exposed to the sun;’ but we fear that

on account of our very different climate and present adaptations

for cultivation, and the rarity of plants like this, it will be some

time before we venture to try the experiment of placing such

plants where they will be fully exposed to our summer sun.

This appears to be a very rare plant, for although Mr. Purdie

was very diligent in searching, yet he never met with a second

specimen. J. S.

Fig. 1: Lip. 2. Column and anther. 3. Pollen-masses :—magnified.

einen

Tas. 4438.

STIFFTIA cuHrRYSANTHA.

Golden-flowered Stifftia.

Nat. Ord. Compostrm—MotTIsIacE#.—SYNGENESIA PERDICIEA.

Gen. Char. Capitulum homogamum discoideum multi- et equaliflorum. Jn-

volucrum arcte imbricatum, squamis coriaceis siccis multinerviis ovato-rotundis,

int. linearibus. Receptaculum nudum alveolatum. Cor. subcoriacea, glabra,

regularis, 5-fida, 10-nervia, lobis extus circinnato-revolutis. Filam. leevia.

Anthere exserte longe caudate. Stylus cylindricus glaber bifidus, ramis brevi-

bus wqualibus acutis. 4chenium glabrum elongatum brevissime rostratum.

Pappus multiserialis paleaceus longus inequalis, paleis linearibus serratis—

Arbores Brasilienses glabre. Rami teretes. Folia alterne petiolata oblonga acu-

minata penninervia. Capitula terminalia, pedunculis squamigeris. De Cand.

Srirrrra chrysantha ; foliis late lanceolatis acuminatis, capitulis solitariis, flori-

bus capituli indefinitis.

Srivrrra chrysantha. Mikan, Del. Fl. Bras. Fase. 1. cum Ie. De Cand. Prodr.

v.17. p. 26, - ; .

Augusta grandiflora. Leand. Akad. Mink. Phil. v. 7. p. 235. t.14. non Pohl.

Prazta Brasiliensis, Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 503.

Few cultivators have seen native specimens or the fine figure

given by Mikan of this beautiful shrub, without feeling desirous

to possess it in our stoves. It has been longer in our collections

than we were aware of. Many years ago, plants of it were pre-

sented to Kew by Mr. Henderson of the Pine-Apple Nursery ;

and plants have been also communicated to the Edinburgh

Botanic Garden ; yet no one suspected that it was the celebrated

Stifftia till its flowers appeared, nearly at the same time, both in

Edmburgh and Kew. Our drawing was made from the Edin-

burgh specimen, kindly sent in February, 1849, by Professor _

Balfour, with the following notes. V.J.H

“This plant has been flowering for some time m the Edin-

burgh Botanic Garden. It is a native of Brazil, and was derived,

I believe, originally from Kew. It is cultivated im a warm stove.

“Duscr. The plant is at present almost six feet high (ac-

cording to Mikan it attains a height of eight to ten feet) and has six

heads of very showy flowers. The woody stem is four inches and

a half in circumference at the base, and the bark is rough.

The primary dranches come off in a somewhat dichotomous

manner. eaves lanceolate, acuminate, alternate, shortly petio-

APRIL Ist, 1849.

late, entire, smooth and shining, having a single mid-rib, which

. Is slightly penninerved both on the under and on the upper

surface ; venation reticulated, primary veins ending in curved

veins within the margin. Pefiole slightly grooved on its upper

surface, articulated with the stem. Capitula solitary, terminal

on the young branches, homogamous, containing about twenty-

five discoid flowers. Peduncles short, thickened upwards, having

small scales. nvolucre somewhat turbinate, coriaceous, having

thirty to forty imbricated scales arranged in several series,

closely appressed in the young state, spreading after the corolla

falls; scales green in the centre, paler towards the margins

which are fringed with short hairs ; outer scales short, ovate,

obtuse, often tipped with black, intermediate scales longer and

less ovate, innermost oblong-linear, pale greenish, and about one

inch in length. Receptacle having milky juice, nearly flat,

marked with hexagonal spaces, in the centre of each of which

there is a depression or pit for the flower. Corolla smooth,

regular, tubular, about one inch and three-quarters long, of a

pale orange colour below and becoming darker above, its limb

divided into five narrow, revolute circinnate segments, which

when unrolled are about half an inch long. Filaments smooth,

coloured, inserted into the upper part of the corolline tube, alter-

nating with the segments of the limb, arching over the orifice of

the tube to join the anther below the middle; anthers two-

lobed, much exserted, bifid at the apex, ending below in a bi-

partite prolongation ; pollen elliptical, furrowed. Style cylindrical,

exserted nearly one inch beyond the corolla and about a quarter

of an inch beyond the antheric tube, undulated at its lower part,

straight above. Stigma bifid, its segments equal, acute, hairy

on the inner side of its lobes, which close on the application of

the pollen. Ovary green, triangular, three-quarters of an inch

long, with a short yellowish beak at the summit whence the

pappus proceeds. Pappus reaching to near the upper part of

the corolline tube, in several rows, its hairs unequal and beau-

tifully serrated with projecting cellular processes, of a pale orange

colour, spreading much after the corolla falls.” J. H. Balfour.

Corr. This is a shrub of a robust and bushy habit, requiring

the heat of the tropical stove, and growing in any kind of garden

loam not retentive of moisture. Although we have had it in

cultivation for about eight years, it was only recently that it

showed flower ; but we are of opinion that if young plants were

vigorously grown, they would not be so dilatory in producing

their curious inflorescence. It ig propagated readily by cuttings

placed under a bell-glass in bottom-heat. J_§.

Fig. 1. Single flower :—magnified,

Fitch del et Lith.

Tas. 4439

ERIOSTEMON InTERMEDIUM.

Intermediate Eriostemon.

Nat. Ord. Rutacr®.—DrcanprRIA MonoGynta.

Gen. Char. Cal. 5-partitus. Petala 5. Stamina 10; filamentis hispidis

ciliatis aut nudis, antheris terminalibus. Stylus 1, brevissimus. Carpella 5

basi coalita. Semina in loculis 2 aut abortu solitaria. Hmbryo subcurvatus,

radicula longa. — Frutices Arboresve nunc Diosmis, nunc Croweis, nunc Phe-

baliis affinis, foliis alternis simplicibus, floribus azillaribus. De Cand.

Ex1ostemon intermedium ; ramulis pubescentibus, foliis oblongo-obovatis glauces-

centibus mucronatis subtus precipue glanduloso-punctatis, floribus pedun-

culis axillaribus solitariis unifloris folio duplo brevioribus, calycibus petalis-

que glabris, filamentis ciliatis.

ERiostemon intermedium. Hortul.

My first knowledge of this handsome plant was from Robert

Barclay, Esq., of Knott’s Green, Leyton, who obligingly brought

me specimens from the plant he had exhibited at, and for which

a prize was awarded by, the Horticultural Society of London, in

April, 1848; and from it our drawing was made. It bore

the name of “Z. neriifolium:” but that is merely a name of

Sieber’s specimens, which have compound flower-stalks, and are

probably not different from /. myoporoides, DC. (Bot. Mag.

t.3180). Since then, we find the plant is in cultivation under

the garden-name of Z. intermedium, intending probably to imply

that it holds a place between #. myoporoides and L. buxifolium,

which is really the case ; or it may possibly be a hybrid of the

two. Whichever is the case, it is eminently worthy of culti-

vation in every greenhouse, loaded as the shrub is with its lively

blossoms (white tinged with pink in bud) during the latter

winter and early spring months, when such plants are peculiarly

welcome.

Descr. Our plant in the Kew Gardens is between two and

three feet high, much branched. Leaves copious, scattered,

spreading, three-quarters of an inch to an inch or an inch and

a half long, oblong-obovate, entire, one-nerved, the margins a

APRIL Ist, 1849.

little recurved, cuspidate, somewhat glaucous, especially beneath,

and there having copious glandular reservoirs of oil, above

sprinkled with very minute, pale dots, not visible to the naked

eye. Peduncles on all the young branches, axillary, solitary,

single-flowered, not half so long as the leaves, having a pair of

minute éracteas near the base. Flowers rather large, starry.

Calye small, glabrous, five-lobed. Petals lanceolate, white ;

externally, especially in bud, tinged with rose-colour. Stamens

ten, erect, alternately smaller, subulate, ciliated. Azthers ovate,

mucronate. Ovary of five, ovate, acuminated lobes, seated on

a large, flat, fleshy disk. Styles five, combined. Stigma five-

lobed. W. J. H.

Curr. This handsome flowering shrub, being a native of

New South Wales, must be kept in the green-house. It

appears to thrive best in turfy peat-soil, in which is mixed a

portion of sharp white sand. It is necessary to have the pots

well drained with potsherds, and the drainage will be much

assisted by mixing pieces of charcoal with the soil. In order to

obtain a handsome specimen, the plant must be carefully tended,

shifting it at the proper time into a larger pot, and carefully

training it into a neat form. To make it become bushy, the

principal leading shoots should occasionally be shortened. During

summer, it will require attention in watering, and the pot should

be so placed that the sun’s rays do not fall on the sides. It is

propagated by cuttings placed under a bell-glass in bottom-heat,

or by grafting it on stocks of Correa alba. J. 8.

Fig. 1. Portion of leaf, back view. 2. Flower from which the petals are

removed. 3. Stamens. 4. Pistil and fleshy disk magnified.

44-40.

ars urge

R.B.& Ramp.

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Tas. 4440.

CQELOGYNE FuULIGINOSA.

Dark-flowered Calogyne.

Nat. Ord. Orcu1pE®.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA, —

Gen. Char. Sepala conniventia v. patentia, libera, eequalia, petaloidea. Petala

nune sepalis conformia, nunc linearia. Zadel/um cucullatum, sepius trilobum,

lineis disci elevatis v. cristatis, nunc integerrimum ecristatum. Columna erecta

libera margine alata, apice dilatata, nunc cucullata, stigmate bilabiato. Anthera

bilocularis, septo medio non partibili, infra apicem columne inserta. Podlinia

4, libera, incumbentia ; nunc basi materie granulosa coherentia.—Herbee supra

arbores et saxa vigentes, foliorum basibus in pseudo-bulbis dilatatis, rhizomate

nunc crasso squamoso nunc obsoleto. Folia coriacea sepius venis distinctis aqua-

libus, nunc quibusdam crassioribus costata v. plicata. Racemi terminales v. radi-

cales v. squamis (bracteis sterilibus) corneis erumpentes. Flores speciosi sape

odorati. Lindl.

C@&LOGYNE Juliginosa ; caudice repente squamoso, pseudo-bulbis parvis oblongis

compressis lmvibus, foliis binis lato-lanceolatis, racemo terminali bracteato

4—5-floro, sepalis ovato-oblongis, petalis ovalibus duplo minoribus, labelli

spathulati disco bilamellato lamellis crispatis, lobis lateralibus brevibus

convolutis, terminali orbiculato ciliato fimbriato.

CaLoeyne fuliginosa. Lodd. Cat.

From the stove of the Royal Gardens, derived from the collec-

ton of the Rev. Mr. Clowes. A native of India, and imported

in the year 1838: we have since received it direct from Calcutta.

Descr. From an elongated, creeping, scaly caudex, about as

thick as a swan’s quill, arise, at rather distant intervals, the

oblong, somewhat compressed, smooth, green pseudo-bulbs, scaly

at the base, bearing above two broadly lanceolate, waved, very

acute, between membranaceous and coriaceous, faintly striated

leaves. Raceme of from three to five rather large, handsome,

secund flowers, each when young and in bud enclosed in a

Sheathing, narrow, acuminated dractea. Perianth ochre-yellow ;

sepals oval-oblong, rather acute, concave ; petals shorter than

the sepals (and with the upper sepal almost connivent over the

column). Lip large, oblong-spathulate, three-lobed, ochraceous,

the disk dark purple-brown, and furnished with two elevated

crisped lines or Jamelle, three-lobed; side lobes convolute,

MAY Ist, 1849, F

middle lobe orbicular. Column long, winged on each side above.

W.S. HH.

Cuxr. This, being a tropical epiphyte, requires to be kept in the

warm division of the orchideous house. With us it is attached

to a block of wood suspended from the roof, receiving the same

treatment with regard to heat and moisture as Indian epiphytal

Orchidaceze. The chief point to be observed is to keep it more

or less moist according to its season of growth, shading it

from the mid-day sun in summer. J. 8.

Fig. 1. Column. 2. Anther-case. 3 and 4. Front and back view of the

pollen-masses. 5. Front view of the lip magnified.

RB. & Rp

et lth.

Fitch, del

Tas. 4441,

THYRSACANTHUS spracreouartus.

Bracteolated Thyrsacanthus.

Nat. Ord. AcANTHACEH.—DIANDRIA MoNnoGYNIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4878.)

THYRSACANTHUS bracteolatus ; suffruticosus glaber, caule tetragono, foliis lan-

ceolatis acuminatis sessilibus, panicula terminali brevi thyrsoidea, ramis

pseudo-verticillatis bracteatis, corolla elongato-subinfundibuliformi limbi

oblique subregularis jprofwnde divisi, laciniis elongatis lineari-oblongis,

staminibus exsertis sterilibus subulatis brevissimis.

THYRSACANTHUS bracteolatus. Nees, in De Cand. Prodr. v.11. p. 325.

Justrota bracteolata. Jacg. Coll. v.3. p.253. Ie. Rar. v.2. t.205. Vahl,

Enum. v.1. p. 128.

OvonTonEeMA lucidum. Nees, in Linnea, v.16. p. 300. (excl. syn, Andr.)

A plant originally referred by Jacquin to Justicia, but

evidently of the same genus of Acanthacee as that figured

at Tab. 4378, resembling it in many respects. It differs in the

much narrower and truly lanceolate leaves, and still more in

the very different inflorescence, and in the deep and narrow

divisions of the limb of the corolla. It inhabits New Grenada

and the West Indian Islands, and is here figured from plants

reared in the stove of the Royal Gardens from seeds sent by.

Mr. Purdie from Jamaica.

Descr. Stem two to three feet high, four-angled, dark purple-

brown. Leaves opposite, five or six inches long, nearly sessile,

lanceolate, entire, slightly undulate, penninerved, acuminated.

Panicle thyrsoid, terminal, obtuse. Branches pseudo-verticillate,

slender, again divided and bearing several small, opposite, linear-

oval bracteoles. Calyx small, naked, the five subulate segments

equal. Corolla scarlet, in our specimens an inch and a half long;

tube slender, narrow below, bent down as it were at an angle in

the middle, and from that point funnel-shaped ; the limb

unequal, two-lipped, deeply divided into five long, narrow,

_ Spreading segments, sprinkled with glandular dots. Stamens

slightly exserted, except the two sterile ones, which are quite

MAY lst, 1849, F

included. Style also included. Ovary on a large fleshy disk.

Stigma bifid. W. J. H. ,

Curr. An upright suffruticose shrub, requiring tropical heat,

and growing freely in any kind of light soil not retentive of —

water. Its flowers are produced at the apex of the branches ;

and on account of its upright habit of growth, it does not

readily form a bushy plant, even although the leading shoots

are stopped. It is propagated freely by cuttings placed under a

bell-glass. J. 8.

Fig. 1. Corolla laid open. 2. Pistil. 3. Anther :—magnified.

Tan. 4442,

PESOMERIA tTetracona.

Square-stalked Pesomeria.

Nat. Ord. Orncurpacex®.—GYNANDRIA MonaNDRIA.

Gen. Char. Sepala subsequalia libera, sponte decidua. Petala conformia, basi

column adnata, persistentia. Labellwm posticum, cum columna connatum,

basi gibbosum, limbo indiviso convoluto. Columna clavata semiteres, clinandrio

dentato. Pollinia 4 cuneata.—Herba terrestris; caule tetragono, foliis mem-

branaceis plicatis, racemo laterali simplici, bracteis sponte secedentibus ; radicibus ~

crassis simplicibus fibrosis. Lindl. —

PEsoMERIA fetragona.

Prsomerta tetragona. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. Misc. 1838, n. 6.

EpIpENDRUM tetragonum. Thouars, Orchid. Afr. t. 33, 34.

A very remarkable Orchideous plant, native of the Isle of

Bourbon, introduced to our stoves by the Messrs. Loddiges, but

first detected and described, as an Zpidendrum, by M. Aubert

du Petit Thouars. Dr. Lindley has rightly determined it to be a

very distinct genus, to which he has given the name of Pesomeria,

from currw, to fall off, and pepos, a part; in allusion to the

sudden falling off of the convolute bracteas, of the sepals and

petals also, leaving the labellum (which is decurrent with the

base of the column), as shown in the two lower flowers in the

spike of our figure. Dr. Lindley observes that the genus differs

from Bletia in its four, not eight, pollen-masses; but in our

plant each pollen-mass is two-lobed, as if of two combined.

Descr. Stem afoot or more high, erect, jointed, about as

thick as the human finger, sharply four-angled and almost

winged at the angles. Leaves inserted at the articulations,

ovato-lanceolate, striated and somewhat plaited, membranous, -

much acuminated. Peduacle arising from the inner base of a

lateral leaf, a foot high, bracteated. Flowers rather large, eight

to ten ina lax spike. Floral bracteas sheathing, deciduous.

Sepals and petals uniform, spreading, oblong, acute, greenish

_ externally, within red-brown, tinged with green. Lip applied

close to the column, the base decurrent with it, the side lobes

MAY Ist, 1849. :

convolute around it, the middle lobe crisped and terminated by

a large mucro, downy within: the colour yellow, with streaks

of orange-red, and there are three lamella in the centre. Column

winged above and dentate at the apex. Anther-case hairy,

bifid. Pollen-masses four, unequal, all of them bifid. W. J. H.

Cu.t. Before we can cultivate certain plants with success,

we require some knowledge of the climates in which they

grow, so as to adapt the means we have in our power as

far as possible to meet their several peculiarities. This

plant is said to be a native of the Island of Bourbon,

situated within the southern tropic, and distinguished by a moist

climate, caused by the periodical rains, which fall twice a

year; also by the daily land and sea breezes, the former

wafting cold vapours from the high mountains of the interior,

which are said to be covered with snow during several months

of the year; and the latter bringing fogs from the ocean.

Now, although we know this to be the general character of the

climate, we are still unacquainted with the nature of the locality

of this plant, which may be subjected to many local influences ;

and our want of this precise knowledge may to a'certain extent be

the cause of its slow growth with us. It has been kept in the

warm division of the Orchideous house, potted in turfy peat—

the usual precautions being taken to prevent the soil from be-

coming stagnant. J. 8.

Fig. 1. Column and decurrent and gibbous base of the lip. 2. Anther-case.

3. Pollen-masses. 4. Lip :—magnified.

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Tas. 4443.

CEREUS repvuctus.

Dingy Cereus.

Nat. Ord. Cactes.—IcosaANDRIA MoNoGYNIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas, 4417;)

Cerzvs reductus; erectus elongatus cylindraceus lurido-virens longitudinaliter

plurisulcatus, sulcis profundis sub 14, costis tuberculatis, tubereulis seu

mamillis ovalibus obscure hexahaedris convexis compressis conspicue areolatis,

areolis lanatis, spinis sub 11 rectis acicularibus ineequalibus rectis fuscis

apice rigidissimis basi interioribus junioribus fulvis sub-8 elongatis vali-

dioribus reliquis quintuplo minoribus, floribus subaggregatis terminalibus,

calycibus inermibus basi squamosis, petalis (albis roseo-tinctis) oblongo-spa-

thulatis subserratis mucronatis.

Crrevs reductus. Link, Enum. v.2. p.21. Pfeiff. Cact. p. 15.

Cactus nobilis. Haw. Syn. p.174 (not Aiton, Hort. Kew).

An old inhabitant of the Cactus house of the Royal Gardens,

originally received from Mexico. A very dingy looking species

except when in flower, when the pure white corollas, with a

slightly pink tinge, have a very pretty effect.

Desor. Stem sometimes attaining a height of three feet,

erect, terete or cylindrical, four to five inches broad, dingy glau-

cous-green, deeply furrowed longitudinally with about fourteen

or fifteen furrows, the ridges tuberculate or mamillate ; ma-

mille large, in a regular series, very convex, oval or obscurely

six-sided, compressed, the centre having a conspicuous woolly

areola from whence diverge about eleven sharp aciculated spines,

of which the greater number are large, tawny in the young state,

brown when old, always deeper at the base, three or four are

much the smaller of the cluster. Flowers two or three or more

together, from the summit of the plant. Calyx-tube dark green,

glabrous, scaly with remote scales, which upwards gradually

pass into oblong sepals with white margins, and those again

into the spreading petals, white, partially tinged with rose,

the apex slightly serrated and mucronate. Stamens numerous,

MAY Ist, 1849.

very compact. Stigma of many erecto-patent, subulate, downy

rays. W.J.H.

Curr. An old inhabitant of this garden, said to be a native

of Mexico; but we have no knowledge of the particular locality,

never having received it amongst the numerous collections im-

ported of late years from different parts of South America. We

have grown it in a mixture of loam and lime rubbish siftings,

and kept it in a house the temperature of which averages 50° in

winter. During that season we give it little or no water, but

in summer allow it to receive the full power of the sun, and in’

hot dry weather frequently sprinkle it with water over-head,

which should be always done in the morning, before the sun is

powerful, or in the evening. Care must be taken not to allow

the mould in the pot to become excessively wet; for if it

continue in a wet state, the soft roots are apt to be destroyed.

As this species rarely produces off-sets, it is still a rare plant in

this country. /. 8.

Reeve Benham & Reeve mp » d

Fitch del et lith..

Tas. 4444.

CYRTANTHERA caTALPA@FOLIA.

Catalpa-leaved Cyrtanthera.

Nat. Ord. AcANTHACEm.—D1IANnpDRIA MonoeynIa.

Gen, Char. Cal. 5-partitus quinquefidusve, mqualis, laciniis coloratis tenuibus

lanceolatis. Corolla ringens, tubo longo, lobis profunde divisis equalibus, supe-

riore complicato lineari-faleato, inferiore elongato-obconico apice trifido, laciniis

brevibus conniventibus, media plerisque angustiora apice complicato-recurva.

Stamina duo, basi tubi inserta eidemque ultra medium adnata, longitudine labii

superioris, apice recurva. Anthera cernua, brevis, bilocularis, loculis antrorsum

dehiscentibus margine membranaceis in connectivo plerisque semilunari apice

recurvo carinato subsecundis, lateribus plerumque arcte contiguis muticis, altero

paullo demissiore, subinde connectivo protracto omnino distantibus. Stigma

obtuse unilabiatum. Fructus ....—Frutices caule valido, foliis amplis latis

petiolatis, floribus Aphelandree magnis et angustis. Plerisque thyrsus terminalis ©

decompositus, densissimus, multiflorus, speciosus, ramis secundifloris, bracteis brac-

teolisque calyce longioribus plerumque coloratis teneris, illis latioribus. Nees.

‘

CyrTANTHERA catalpafolia ; caule fruticoso erecto tetragono, foliis sublonge

petiolatis late cordatis acuminatis integerrimis basi truncatis, floralibus

ovatis basi in petiolum brevem attenuatis, thyrso amplo ovato compacto,

bracteis sepalisque lineari-subulatis, floribus flavis.

CYCLANTHERA catalpefolia. Nees, in Herb. Hook.

————

This is a truly handsome and new plant, equally striking for

its me foliage and its fine thyrsi of full yellow flowers. It

was obligingly sent to the Royal Gardens of Kew by Mrs.

M‘Donnel (the Lady of the Governor) from Honduras, and it

flowers in the stove in the summer months. It constitutes one

of the same genus of Acanthacee with Justicia (Bot. Mag.

tab. 3383).

Descr. Our plant is five to six feet high, erect, branched ;

the dranches opposite, as well as the Jeaves, which are petiolate,

large, cordate, acuminate, entire, penninerved, truncated at the

base, beneath the inflorescence is a pair of what may be called

foral-leaves, much smaller than the others and tapering below

into a short footstalk. Panicle or thyrsus dense, compact.

Peduncles short, compound. Bracteas ‘small, linear-subulate.

MAY lst, 1849.

Calyz-segments almost equally narrow, but shorter. Corolla

large, yellow, tubular, cut almost half-way down into two gaping

lips ; the wpyper erect, complicate, entire (in which the stamens

are lodged) ; /ower lip reflexed, spathulate, channelled, three-

toothed at the apex. Ovary oblong, smooth, sunk into a cup-

shaped gland. Style very long, slender, filiform: stigma capi-

tate. W.J. H.

Curr. This isa soft-wooded, shrubby, tropical plant, of a

rather weedy, naked habit, producing its handsome head of

flowers on the apex of upright shoots. It will grow freely in

any light kind of soil; but in order to obtain a large head of

flowers a young healthy plant must be selected and potted in a

mixture of good loam and leaf-mould or turfy peat. It should

then be placed in a warm part of the stove, and shifted into a

larger pot as it becomes necessary. During the summer, when

it is in rapid growth, it should be watered freely, observing that

the mould does not become Stagnant, which will sometimes

happen with soils composed of a portion of leaf-mould. Care

should therefore be taken to have the pots properly drained.

It is readily propagated by cuttings, placed under a bell-glass,

or in a frame. J. 8.

Fig. 1. Calyx with bracteas and pistil. 2. Ovary with the glandular cup

at the base :—imagnified. sa :

piece pasate

R.B.& Rm:

Fitch Jith

’

Tas, 4445

LYCASTE Sxk1nnert.

Mr. Skinner's Lycaste.

Nat. Ord. Oxncu1ppa,—Gynanpria MoNANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4193.)

\ iit ee

LycastE Skinneri; bractea herbacea acuta cucullata ovario multo longiore,

sepalis patentibus oblongo-lanceolatis acutis, petalis duplo brevioribus

ovalibus erectis supra columnam convolutis apicibus reflexis, labelli 3-lobi

lobis lateralibus erectis truncatis intermedio longiore ovato-rotundato de-

flexo, appendice carnosa linguzeformi inter lacinias laterales locata, columma

subtus pubescente. Lindl.

Lycaste Skinneri. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1848. Mise. p.15.

MaxiLnarta Skinneri. Bateman in Bot. Reg. 1843, Misc. n.13. Orchid. Mex.

et Guat. tab.35 (not Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1840, Misc. n. 101).

Mr. Bateman, who has done great justice to this plant by his

splendid figure above quoted, says with truth: “This is the

facile princeps of all known Maxillarias ;” and with equal justice

does he dedicate this fine species to its discoverer, J. Ure

Skinner, Esq., to whom the Orchideous stoves of Europe are

indebted for their most brilliant ornaments. ‘It is a native

of Guatemala, and remarkable no less for the large size of the

blossoms, than for their chaste colouring, white spotted and

suffused with rich rose and crimson. It is a ready flowerer,

and the flowers remain a long time in great beauty.

Descr. Pseudo-bulbs oblong-ovate, compressed, bearing at the

top a pair of large, oblong-lanceolate, membranaceous, plaited

leaves. Scape radical, single-flowered, shorter than the leaves, fur-

nished with five or six sheathing bracteas, the upper one sheathing

the ovary. Flower very large, of a thickish and almost waxy

texture. Sepals (five or six inches across from tip to tip) patent,

oval, acute, faintly striated, white tinged with blush. Petals

smaller than the sepals, broadly ovate, very acute, concave, also

faintly striated, white, more tinged with blush than the sepals,

almost conniving so as to form a hood over the column, the

MAY lst, 1849.

apices recurved. Zip white, variously tinged and spotted with

deep rose red, almost crimson blotches, three-lobed, the side

lobes rounded, erect, the middle lobe broadly ovate, reflexed,

the margin waved, the dist furnished with a large fleshy tongue-

shaped callosity. Column semiterete, in front clothed with

rather copious woolly hair. W. 7. H. |

Cur. This beautiful plant is of easy cultivation, and thrives

in the cool division of the Orchideous house. We grow it in

turfy peat or sphagnum, and instead of using common garden-

pots, we prefer shallow pans full of holes ; for it is observed that

plants with the habit of Lycaste require only a few inches of

soil; consequently, if common garden-pots be employed, they

will have to be filled nearly to the margin with potsherds or

other open material, which becomes a harbour for insects.

With the shallow pans this is avoided. In fixing the plants

on the pans we keep them raised above the margin, and

by so domg a greater surface is given to the roots which are

often superficial. This also prevents any evils arising from over

watering, which must be carefully avoided. It is propagated

by divisions of the pseudo-bulbs. /. S. ‘i

Fig. 1. Column :—magnijied.

Tas. 4446.

SOBRALIA MACRANTHA.

Large-flowered Sobraha.

- Nat. Ord. OrcH1DEH.—GYNANDRIA MonNANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Perianthium maximum, petaloideum, subzequale ; sepalis patentibus

(petalis erectis, Lindl.). Labellum cucullatum columnam amplexans, basi angus-

tatum, disco plicato-barbatum, apice bilobum. Columna elongata, marginata,

clavata, apicis trifidi, lobo medio cucullato antherifero. Stigma rcinatum,

basi gibbero gemino nectarifero. Anthera terminalis, stipitata, semiquadrilocu-

laris. Pollinia farinacea 4, compressa, postice coherentia et contortuplicata, ecau-

diculata.—Herbze Americe equinoctialis, terrestres, simplices, sepe triorgyales,

foliosissime ; foliis plicatis ; floribus racemosis terminalibus vel axillaribus geminis

niveis roscis, sanguineis, violaceisve. Lindl.

SoBRALIA macrantha ; elata, foliis patenti-recurvis lato-lanceolatis rigidis tenui-

acuminatis floralibus triplo minoribus, racemo terminali folioso paucifloro,

perianthio amplo’ patentissimo, sepalis oblongis, petalis latioribus margine |

superne undulato-crispato, labelli apice latissimo rotundato-bilobo margine

undulato.

SoBRALIA macrantha. Lindl. in Sertum Orchid. sub. t. 29. Gen. et Sp. Orchid.

p.431. Bot. Reg. 1842, Mise. n. 65.

This belongs to a very fine genus of Orchideous plants, as

Dr. Lindley observes, having reed-like stems and handsome flowers,

natives of tropical America ; and the finest of all the species Is

the one here figured for the first time, from plants growing in

the Royal Gardens, collected by Mr. Skinner in Guatemala.

Our figure is no exaggerated representation of the plant: no

point of colour it falls far short of reality, for it 1s of that deep

purplish-rose colour, which every botanical artist knows is so

difficult to imitate upon paper. .

Descr. Terrestrial; Sfems erect, aggregate, erect, terete, »

glabrous, jointed. Leaves from every joint, patent-reflexed,

broad, lanceolate, rigid, much and very narrowly acuminate,

almost caudate, plaited, the base forming @ brown sheath around —

the stem. Flowers very large, few on each stem, terminal; one —

flower (on each stem) is open at a time, having at its base a large, —

leafy bract, resembling the stem-leaf, but much smaller. Pert

JUNE Ist, 1849. G Sa

anth patent-reflexed, of a rich, deep, purple-rose colour. Sepals

oblong, the edges even; peta/s much broader, otherwise similar,

but the edge in the upper half waved and crisped. yp very

large, the lower half forming a laterally compressed tube around

the column: the apex expanding into a broad rotundate, two-

lobed, crisped /Jamella, with a pale, somewhat heart-shaped _

yellow spot at the base. Co/wmn elongate, clavate, with a lateral

tooth on each side, the anther at the top. W. J. H.

Cur. The plant producing this splendid flower, belongs to a

genus of terrestrial Orchids of a peculiar habit, having slender

reed-like, leafy stems, varying from two to ten or more feet in

height, which spring from a fascicle of thick fleshy roots. The

species now figured is a native of Mexico, and is found to thrive

best when kept in the cool division of the Orchideous house,

the average winter temperature ranging between 55° and 60°.

A light free soil suits it, which should be composed of a mixture

of sandy peat and light loam, with the addition of a little leaf-

mould. On account of its thick fleshy roots it is necessary to

give it move pot-room than its slender habit would seem to

require; and as the roots are not inclined to go deep, wide

shallow pots or pans are to be preferred, taking care to have the

pot properly drained so as to allow free watering and syringing

during summer, without the chance of the mould becoming

saturated. ‘T'ioo much water should not be given in winter,

during which season it is apt to be attacked by ¢hrips. If these

are not checked in time, the plant will soon assume a sickly

appearance, owing to the cuticle of the under-side of the leaves

having been destroyed by this minute but troublesome insect.

Repeated fumigation with tobacco does much to keep them

under, but it is advisable to remove the plant to a convenient

place and apply the syringe to the under-side of the leaves,

taking care that the water is at a proper temperature. It is

increased by separating the roots, which requires to be done

very carefully, so as not to break them; like many other

monocotyledonous plants with thick fleshy roots, when broken

they seldom or never make side-roots, the broken ones continuing

to decay back to their origin. 7. 8.

Fig. 1. Column :—anatural size.

a antenna

¥.

‘intus punctis albis maculata,” without

Tan. 4447,

LAPAGERIA Roszka.

Rose-coloured Lapageria.

Nat. Ord. SmiLace®.—Hauxanpria MonoGynt. :

Gen. Char. Perianthium corollinam hexaphyllum campanulato-connivens :

Joliola exteriora basi concavo-carinata, interiora latiora subunguiculata. Stamina

6, imis perianthii foliolis inserta, alterna paulo majora; jilamenta subulata,

libera, anthere basi fixe. Ovarium uniloculare, placentis parietalibus tribus,

ad suturas longitudinalibus. Ovu/a plurima, muco involuta, orthotropa. Stylus

cylindricus: s¢igma clavatum. Bacca ovato-oblonga, unilocularis, polysperma.

Semina obovata, truncata, cornea, luteo-fulvescentia, in pulpe nidulantia.—

Suffrutex Chilensis, volubilis ; radice fasciculata, caule teretiusculo, foliis alternis,

ovato-lanceolatis, cuspidatis, nervosis, reticulato-venosis, pedunculis axillaribus

solitariis, unifloris, squamoso-bracteatis. Endl.

LAPAGERIA rosea.

LapaGerta rosea. Ruiz. et Pav. Fl. Peruv. v.3. p. 65. t. 297. Spreng. Syst.

Veget. v. 2. p. 99.

No European cultivator of plants could see the figure of Lapa-

geria in Ruiz and Pavon, and read their deseription of the flowers

“penduli, formosissimi: corolla rosea, aliquando roseo-punicea,

an earnest desire to

possess living specimens ; but it was not till the year 1847 that

the Royal Gardens of Kew were first favoured with one from

Concepcion (Chili) through the kindness of Rd. Wheelwright,

Esq., an American gentleman, who has been instrumental in

establishing steam-navigation 1 the Pacific, and who thus en-

joyed superior means for the transport to England. The

following year, Messrs. Veitch and Sons ome a gre

in j rting it, t h their collector, Mr. Thomas Lob) ; —

te Dalat, eo d now six feet high with

but though extremely flourishing and

Messrs. Veitch, it is to be regretted it has not yet blossomed :

and our flowers are taken from dried specimens, aided by coloured

figures made in the native locality. This colour 1s said, by

to rose-crimson, as repre-

Ruiz and Pavon, to vary from rose

sented in our figure. De. Lindley constituted of this and of the

nearly allied, and scarcely less beauti

JUNE Ist, 1849. a2

ful, Philesia, the Order

Philesiee ; but Dr. Hooker, in his Flora Antarctica, vol. ii.

p. 355, considers that, along with Callivene, it naturally ranks

with Smilacee: an opinion which is strengthened by the fact

that, as related by Ruiz and Pavon, the roots are used by the

Chilenos as a substitute for Sarsaparilla (Smilax Sarsaparilla).

The large oblong, pulpy berry, which we have not seen, is

prized as an esculent fruit, having a sweet and most agreeable

flavour. The genus was named in compliment to Joséphine

Lapagerie, wife of Napoleon Bonaparte, who rendered great

services to Botany by the cultivation of exotic plants in the

beautiful gardens of Malmaison, and by the encouragement she

gave to works on Botany.

Descr. Stem many feet in length, climbing, terete, branched,

naked below, here and there scaly. Leaves petiolate, ovato-

lanceolate, coriaceous, glossy, acuminate, five-nerved and reti-

culated. Peduncles axillary and solitary, longer than the pe-

tioles, bearing a single, handsome, lily-like pendulous flower,

of a deep red-rose-colour, internally especially spotted with

white. * Outer sepals spathulate, with a gibbosity at the base,

inner ones resembling them, but broader and more spotted.

Stamen and style shorter than the perianth. W..J. H.

Curr. Our knowledge as regards the culture of this plant is

very limited. It is now rather more than two years since we

received it from Chili, but owing to the circumstance of the

roots having been injured in removing the plant from its native

locality, and also to their monocotyledonous nature, they have

continued to die back, and the plant has not yet shown

symptoms of making a new growth. But judging from analogy

there can be no doubt that this singular and beautiful plant,

when once established, will prove to be of easy cultivation. Its

habit is that of some species of Smilax, or rather more like

fiustrephus and Geitonoplesium, the species of which are well

known to be robust climbing plants in the greenhouse. Lapa-

geria being a native of Chili, it may be expected to prove

tolerably hardy ; but it is safest to keep it in the greenhouse

till its nature is better known, which can only be learned by

experience. J.

Tas. 4448.

STEMONACANTHUS MacropuHyLuus.

Large-flowered Stemonacanthus.

Nat. Ord. ACANTHACE®.—D1pYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx supra basin 5-partitus, equalis. Corolla ex infundibuli-

formi-hypocrateriformis, id est, faucibus elongatis obconicis, limbo patentissimo

reflexove. Stamina 4 longe prominentia, tubi mediocris apici inserta, basi per-

paria connata faucibusque longiore tractu adnata: anthere biloculares connectivo

latiusculo demum sepe complicato et tum loculis arctissime contiguis secundis,

dorso anther carinato, antheram unilocularem fingentibus, loculis margine mem-

branaceis. Stigma bilabiatum labiis. planis acutis crassiusculis, superiore bre-

viore. Capsula ad basin brevi spatio contracta et asperma, hince magis inflato-

ovata vel oblonga et ad basin cavi tetra-octosperma. Semina retinaculis sub-

tensa, plana. Retinacula apice tridentata.—Frutices Americani speciosi, foliis

medii caulis sepe ternis. Tnflorescentia plus minus glandulosa-pilosa, raro glan-

dulosa ; vel panicula terminalis, trichotoma, bifida, floribus scepe alternis brevi- —

pedicellatis vel abbreviatis ramis inflorescentia thyrsoidea ; vel denique flores im

axillis foliorum superioribus solitarti sessiles. Bractew parve, lineares, anguste

obtuse, patentes vel reflece persistentes rariorive exemplo decidue. Bracteole

nulle. Flores coccinei. DC. ve

STEMONACANTHUS macrophyllus ; caule fruticoso erecto, ramis foliisque ovatis

ovatove oblongis apicem versus attenuatis basi acutis repando-crenatis

petiolatis utrinque subtilissime puberulis, pedunculis v. folia eequantibus

bifloris v. umbellatim quadrifidis multifloris folio’ longioribus, bracteis

lanceolatis pedicellos zequantibus, calyvibus ad 4 5-fidis basi bibracteolatis

glabriusculis, corolla tubulosa. Nees. :

SremMonacaNntuus macrophyllus. Nees in De Cand. Prodr. v. 11. p. 205.

Rveir1a macrophylla. Vahl, Symb. v. 2. p. 72. 4.39. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1846,

A handsome-flowered plant, easily increased by cuttings, but

more desirable in a young state (when it readily blooms) than

when it has attained a large size, for then the foliagé predominates

too much. It is an old species of Vahl, but only recently, so far

as we know, introduced to our stoves, by one of the collectors

for the Royal Gardens of Kew, Mr. Purdie, in 1844, from St.

Martha, and apparently other places in New Grenada as well as

JUNE Ist, 1849.

in Mexico and in Jamaica. It flowers throughout the summer

months.

Descr. Plant three to four feet high, shrubby below, the

‘rest herbaceous: dranches terete. Leaves opposite, petiolate,

ovate, acuminate, penninerved, reticulated, the margin sinuated

or indistinctly toothed, puberulous. Panicles long as or longer

than the leaves spreading, di-trichotomous : peduncles and pedicels

slender, bracteated, Jowers large, handsome, subsecund. Calyx

oblong, tubular, with two bracteas at the base, half to three-

quarters of an inch long, green, cut as far as the middle into

five nearly equal, linear-lanceolate, obtuse, ciliated, erect seg-

ments. Corolla between two and three inches long, bright

scarlet: the tude curved, broader upwards, but laterally com-

pressed, somewhat plaited, yellow within : /imé large, cut into

five nearly equal, oblong, obtuse lobes, which soon become re-

flexed, four above and one below. Stamens exserted : anther

oblong, sagittate, two-celled. Ovary on a large fleshy gland.

Style filiform, longer than the stamens : stigma of two linear,

very unequal lobes. Capsule clavate, many-seeded. W. J. H.

Cuxr. An erect soft-wooded plant, requiring the heat of the

stove, and growing freely in dry good garden-soil. Like many

other allied Acanthacee, its habit is to grow up thin and naked.

To induce lateral flowering branches, it is necessary to stop the

leading shoots. It is readily increased by cuttings. J. 8.

Fig. 1. Pistil:—natural size. 9. Capsule :— magnified.

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Tas, 4449

ASYSTASIA scanpeEns.

Climbing Asystasia.

Nat. Ord. AcANTHACEH.—D1IpYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus, equalis. Corolla subinfundibuliformis, limbo

5-fido, subeequali, lacinia supera concaviuscula. Stamina 4 didynama, inclusa,

per paria basi connata. Anthere biloculares loculis parallelis basi callosis vel

appendiculatis. Stigma capitatum, bilobum vel bidentatum. Capsula basi

compresso-attenuata, asperma, superius depresso-tetragona, bilocularis, tetra-

sperma. Semina retinaculis sustensa, discoidea, basi angulo prominente.—Plante

Indie orientalis, Asie et Africa calidioris et temperate, herbacee vel fruticulose,

lave, diffuse, subsarmentose. Racemus: spiciformis, secundus, axillaris vel. termi-

nalis. Bractea communis et proprie exigue equales. Flores cerulei vel luteo-

ceruleoque varit, sat speciosi. D.C.

Asystasta scandens; scandens, foliis obovatis (ovatisve) acutis brevi-petiolatis

glabris, racemis terminalibus compactis thyrsiformibus, pedicellis basi brae-

teatis, calycis segmentis lineari-lanceolatis ciliatis, corolle tubo superne

ampliato curvato, limbi lobis ovato-rotundatis marginibus crenato-crispatis,

staminibus glandulosis.

Asysrasta scandens, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1847. t. 31. (under Henfreya).

Asystas1a quaterna, Nees, in De Cand. Prodr.v. 11. p. 166. et p. 724.

Henrreya scandens, Lindl. 1. c.

RUELLIA quaterna, Thonn. Schum. in Plant. Guin. Sech. v. 2. p. 58.

A remarkable African climbing Acanthaceous plant. Dr.

Lindley had judged it to be nearly related to Thonning’s Ruellia

quaterna, to which indeed Dr. Nees von Esenbeck has without

doubt referred it, and this again to his genus Asystasia. In this

we follow him, preferring, however, Dr. Lindley’s specific name,

which is expressive, while that of Thonnmg can only tend to

mislead, the number of the flowers being, in cultivation at

least, anything but constant. This is one of the many fine

plants introduced to our stove by Lord Derby, through the

instrumentality of Mr. Whitfield. It flowers readily and remains

a long time in blossom, in the Royal Gardens.

Descr. A climbing shrub, with terete stems and branches,

JUNE lst, 1849.

glabrous. Leaves opposite, on short thick petioles, generally

obovate, sometimes ovate, acute, penninerved, entire, of a dark

rather glossy green, thickish and somewhat fleshy. Racemes

terminal, thyrsoid, of many large yellowish-white or cream-

coloured flowers, having often a tinge of blush. Pedicels op-

posite, subtended by a pair of subulate connate dracteas and a

pair of smaller ones on the pedicel itself. Calyx naked, cut to

the base in five-linear lanceolate ciliated equal segments. Corolla

large, slightly hairy, the ¢w4e curved, the narrow cylindrical

portion as long as the calyx, when it becomes suddenly enlarged

and campanulate, spreading into a five-lobed nearly equal /imdé,

the throat somewhat hairy, the lobes broadly ovate, obtuse,

veined, the margin crenato-crisped. Stamens shorter than the

tube, glandular. Anther dark-purple; cells aristate below.

Ovary on a large gland. Style included. Stigma two-lobed. W.J.H.

Cur. Most of the Acanthacee cultivated in our hot houses

consist of soft-wooded plants, soon becoming unsightly, and re-

quiring to be frequently renewed by bringing forward young

healthy plants. The present species is rather an exception; for

although it is of a straggling somewhat scandent habit, yet it is

worthy of notice not only on account of its pretty flowers but

also for its full and fine dark-green foliage, not subject to insects.

Being a native of Sierra-Leone it requires to be grown in a hot

and moist atmosphere. A mixture of loam and peat with the

addition of a little leaf-mould will suit it, the pot bemg

placed in a position to receive bottom heat. On account of its

scandent habit it requires to be supported, either by stakes or

trained to a neat wire trellis fixed to the pot. Cuttings take

root readily, when placed in pans under a bell-glass and plunged

in bottom heat.

Fig. 1. Pistil. 2. Stamen :—magnified.

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Tas. 4450.

DENDROBIUM CampripGEANuM.

Duke of Cambridge's Dendrobium.

Nat. Ord. OncHIDEM.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4352.)

Denprosium Cambridgeanum ; caulibus pendulis articulatis foliosis, foliis ovato-

lanceolatis acutissimis carnosis striatis basi oblique sessilibus, pedunculis

bifloris, sepalis (basi in cornu elongatis decurrentibus) petalisque conformi-

bus oblongis acutis patentibus, labello cucullato unguiculato latissime sub-

rotundato sinuato margine reflexo supra densissime villoso, anthera punctis

elevatis rugosa.

~ Denprosium Cambridgeanum, Pazton, Mag. of Bot. t.265. Lindl. Bot. Reg.

1841. Mise. n.171.

Drawn from a plant which flowered in the Orchideous house

of the Royal Gardens, April 1849, derived from the collection of

the late Rev. J. Clowes. It is a plant of great beauty, brought

from India to Chatsworth by Mr. Gibson, collector for His Grace

the Duke of Devonshire, in 1837, and honoured by a specific

name after that of His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge.

Dr. Lindley alludes to its affinity with D. Paztont, but that 1s

characterized by “ petalis serrulatis,” and “ labello ovato ......

margine multifido-fimbriato ;” and to D. chrysanthum, which is

described “labello denticulato retuso obsolete trilobo, and no

notice is taken of any villosity. The prolonged spur is remark- :

able. I cannot therefore but record it as a distinct species.

Descr. An Zpiphyte, with jointed, pendulous stems, nearly as

thick as the finger, the joints striated and clothed with sheaths

of the leaves, streaked and spotted with red. Leaves broad,

ovate-lanceolate, sharply acuminate, thick, fleshy, striated, the

base very oblique and semicordate. From below the upper leaves

the peduncle appears, very short, forked into two pedicels about

two inches long and bearing two pendent, large, handsome

flowers of a rich golden-colour. Sepals and petals uniform, much

spreading, oblong, acute, faintly striated. Lip pendent, cucul-

late, from a convolute claw suddenly expanding into a broad,

JUNE Ist, 1849.

rounded obscurely two-lobed /amina, whose upper surface is

densely villous or tomentose, and the margin recurved, sinuated,

or obscurely and irregularly lobed, but by no means multifid :

the throat is distinguished by a large blood-coloured stain ; and

the claw has an oblong callosity for nearly its whole length.

Column exceedingly short. Anther rough, with small raised

points. W. J. H.

Cutr. This beautiful epiphytal Orchid, being a native of India,

requires to be grown in the tropical division of the Orchideous

house. With us it is suspended from the roof growing on a

sod of solid sphagnum peat, and receiving the same kind of

treatment as mentioned at Tas. 4418 and 4432. -In order to

prolong the duration of this beautiful flower it should be re-

moved to a cooler and dryer house, care being taken not to wet

the flowers when syringeing or watering the plants. 7. 8.

Fig. 1. Lip. 2. Pollen-masses. 3. Column and decurrent base forming the

spur :—magnified.

Fitch. del et lith.

R.B.&R.imp.

Tas. 4451.

ZIERIA MacrRopPHyLLa.

Large-leaved Zieria.

Nat. Ord. DiosmME®.—TETRANDRIA MonoGynia.

Gen. Char. Calyx 4-fidus. Petala 4 disco hypogyno inserta. Stamina 4,

eal. lobis opposita; filamentis glabris basi intus uniglandulosis. Stylus 1.

Stigma 4-lobum. Carpella 4, intus connexa in capitulum 4-lobum, 4-locul., lobis

divaricatis. Semina in loculis solitariis compresso-ovata.—Frutices aué arbores.

Folia opposita, petiolata, trifoliata, summa simplicia. Peduneculi axillares sepius

trichotomi. Flores parvi, alli. De Cand.

ZIERIA macrophylla; frutescens, ramulis pubescentibus leevibus, foliolis lanceo-

latis, paniculis trichotomis folia subzequantibus, petalis obovatis punctatis

puberulis.

ZIERIA macrophylla. “ Bonpl. Nav. p. 64.” De Cand. Prodr. v.1. p.7123. De

Less. Ic. v. 3. p. 28. t. 48.

ZIERIA arborescens. All. Cunn. MSS. in Herb. Hook. - Sims, in Bot. Mag. sub

Tab.1395. De Cand. Prodr. v.1. p. 723. Hook. Journ. Bot. v. 1. p. 256.

This is a much handsomer species than the old Z. lanceolata,

Br. (Z. Smithii, Andr. and Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1395). Mr.

Allan Cunningham says it attains in its native country a height

of from fourteen to sixteen feet: and the leaves and the flowers

are the largest of the genus. The panicles are very compound,

and they are generally equal to, or longer than, the leaves, but

sometimes almost as short as the petioles. A still more impor-

tant specific character is to be found in the smooth stems and

branches never warted, which they strikingly are in the Z. /anceo-

lata. Bonpland seems to consider Eastern Australia as the native

country ; but in my own very rich herbarium I find no speci-

mens but from Van Diemen’s Land, to which country I believe

“it to be wholly confined. Mr. Gunn says it is common in shady

ravines and mountain creeks, and that it is known in the colony

by the name of Stink-wood. It flowers in a cool greenhouse in

the spring months. :

Descr. An erect graceful growing shrub, with striated,

smooth dranches, slightly pubescent. Leaves opposite, trifoliate ;

JULY Ist, 1849. u

leaflets \anceolate, more or less acuminate, entire, pellucido-

punctate, paler and often slightly pubescent beneath. Panicles

axillary, copious, generally about as long as the leaves, tricho-

tomous, many-flowered. Pedicels and calyx stellato-pubescent.

Sepals four, ovate. Stamens four. Filaments broad, crested at

the top, with a large fleshy gland at its base within. Ovaries

4, combined. Style short, single. Stigma four-lobed. Petals

twice as long as the calyx, punctate, puberulous. W. J. #.

Curr. An early and neat-flowering greenhouse plant, growing

freely in a mixture of light loam and peat in a well drained pot.

In summer, care must be taken that it at no time suffers for

want of water, which should be given early in the morning, or

in the evening, and it is desirable to have it placed so that the

direct rays of the sun do not strike the sides of the pot, for the

roots, being fibrous, will suffer if long in contact with the heated

material of the pot. The habit of this species is to grow up

long and slender, and the branches being opposite, it is not

much inclined to form a bushy plant, but which in a degree

may be obtained by stopping the leading shoot. It is readily

increased by cuttings in the usual way, or by seeds, which ripen

with us. J. 8. ‘

Fig. 1: Pistil. 2. Stamen and gland. 3. Flower with the petals removed.

4. Flower. 5. Petal :—magnified. ,

Tas. 4452.

ALLOPLECTUS capiratus.

Camitate Alloplectus.

Nat. Ord. GEsNERIACE. —DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4216.)

_ ALLopLectus capitatus ; elatus robustus, caule simplici obtuse tetragono, foliis

amplis ovatis serratis dense ‘velutino-sericeis subtus petiolisque magis mi-

nusve sanguineis, pedunculis axillaribus foliorum supremorum brevibus,

floribus dense umbellato-capitatis, pedicellis simplicibus umbellatisque,

calycis sanguinei sepalis amplis foliaceis cucullatis marginibus reflexis

dentatis, corolla calycem vix duplo superantis sericee flavee tubo supra

medium ventricoso.

“ALLOPLEcTUs speciosus. Hortul. not of Poeppig-

» Presented to the Royal Gardens of Kew by Messrs. Knight

and Perry, of the King’s Road Nursery, Chelsea, who received

it from the continent under the name of Al/oplecius speciosus ;—

but it has assuredly nothing to do with the only species de-

scribed under that name, that of Dr. Poeppig. It 1s m all

probability a native of tropical America, but of what part we

e not learned. It is a very beautiful plant, both in the

age and the flowers :—the former is of a large size, each leaf

- from ten inches to a foot in length, of the richest possible velvety,

or between velvety and silky, hue, the upper side- deep green,

os verging to yellow, the under side purplish, while the stem and

: petioles, peduncles and calyx are of a rich crimson blood-colour :—

- the latter remarkable for its great size and the cucullate sepals

or segments ; and in the centre of this deep red calyx with the

very convex segments is an eye of yellow, formed by the com-

: paratively small corolla. It flowers in the stove in March

| and April, and is really a very striking plant.

@ Desc. Stem in our specimen nearly three feet high, erect, simple,

: stout, rather succulent than woody, bluntly four-angled, marked

with the scars of the fallen leaves, above leafy, and there clothed

oF with short dense blood-coloured velvety down. Leaves opposite,

ae large, patent or drooping, ovate, serrated, acute, strongly veined,

7 JULY Ist, 1849, n2

especially beneath, everywhere clothed with a beautiful velvety

nap or short soft down, glossy and of a rich green above, less

glossy and often tinged with purple beneath. Peduncles stout,

blood-coloured with velvety down. Peduncles about two inches

long, from the axils of the uppermost leaves, about as long as the

petioles, erect, velvety, bearing a dense, globose, bracteated

umbel of flowers ; pedicels simple or again umbellate, thickened —

upwards. Calyx very large, rich blood-colour, of five broad

closely downy segments or sepals, cucullate, the very recurved

_ Margins denticulate. Corolla small compared with the calyx,

yellow, silky with copious erect hairs: the tube ventricose above

the middle, the mouth small, of five minute nearly equal seg-

ments, margined with red. Stamens included. Ovary silky, —

with a large gland on one side. Style included. Stigma bifid.

W. J. HT.

Cuxr. The species of this genus inhabit the primeval forests

of tropical America, and may be considered as epiphytes, growing 5

on trees or decaying vegetable matter in humid places. They

have soft fleshy stems, and are of a trailing subscandent habit,

becoming loosely attached by their soft roots, which, in a moist

atmosphere, are emitted from below the axils of the leaves. The

present species differs in some respects from the others, being of

an upright stiff habit, and as yet our plant has shown no symp-

toms of producing roots from the stem. It has flowered with us

in the warm, moist stove, potted in loose peat soil, taking care,

during the winter, that it is not over-watered. J. S.

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

Tas. 4453

AMHERSTIA Nosi is.

Splendid Amherstia.

Nat. Ord. Leguminosa#. AmuERSTIE®, Benth —DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Sepala 4 basi connata in tubum persistentem apice staminiferum,

suffultum bracteis duabus oppositis, maximis, sstivatione valvatis. Petala 5

inzequalia : duo inferiora minuta, subulato-hamosa ; lateralia cuneiformia, diva-

ricata; supremum maximum patens, obcordatum, unguiculatum. Stamina

10 diadelpha ; filamentis 9 in tubum longum connatis, superne liberis, alternis

nanis ; decimum liberum, basi pedicello ovarii accretum. _dnthere versatiles,

omnes polliniferse, alternz breviores. Ovarium stipitatum, falcatum, 4—6-ovu-

latum, stipite tubo calycino adnato ; stylus filiformis ; stigma convexum, parvum.

Legumen pedicellatum, planum, oblongum, polyspermum.—Arbor (Martabanica),

foliis amplis, pari-pinnatis, 6-8-jugis, floribus speciosis, digestis im racemos masi-

mos, axillares, pedunculatos, flaccide pendulos. Wall.

AMHERSTIA nobilis.

Amuerstta nobilis, Wall. Pl. Asiat. Rar. v.1. p.1. ¢. 152. Walp. Repert.

Bot. v. 1. p. 844.

Ever since the publication of this plant in Dr. Wallich’s noble

work, the Plant Asiatice Rariores, the greatest desire has been —

felt by cultivators in Europe to possess it. Dr. Wallich was not —

backward in procuring plants for the Calcutta Garden, or m

forwarding others to England, for a long time unsuccessfully

His Grace the Duke of Devonshire had the honour of im-

porting the first living plant through the medium of his collector,

Mr. Gibson, who was sent to the Pirman Empire for it; and

this is become a noble and vigorously growing specimen in the

princely stoves of Chatsworth ——but Mrs. Lawrence, by her skill

in horticulture, and the great care and attention she devoted to

a much younger plant in her rich collection, has the still greater

1849. This plant was

honour of bringing it to flower in April, )

presented by Lord Hardinge, then Governor General of the East

Indies in 1847, and when only eleven feet high, produced its

loasonis in the stove of Baling Park: The firet raceme Ws

fitly sent to Her Most Gracious Majesty, Queen Victoria ; the

second was liberally placed at our disposal, and an atlas-folio

JULY Ist, 1849.

drawing has been made from it, a size which can alone do

justice to such a subject. The pages of this magazine are of

course quite inadequate to receive such a figure: and a flower-

bud, and two expanded flowers, together with a small portion

of a leaf, which was nearly three feet long, are all we shall

attempt to portray. These flowers, of the natural size, do so

well represent their nature and structure (the minute inferior

petals, resembling two small curved scales, being the only

part concealed from view), that we shall, rather than enter into

a full description (faithfully given in the work above quoted),

introduce an extract from Dr. Wallich’s history of the discovery

of this Prince of Flowering-Trees : —“ The first notice I had of

the existence of this magnificent tree,” says that enthusiastic

botanist, “was at Rangoon, in August, 1826, when Mr. Craw-

ford favoured me with some dried unopened flowers, and a

leaf of it, with the information that he had gathered it in a

garden, belonging to a monastery, around the hill at Kogun,

on the Saluen river, in the province of Martaban, where they

appeared too beautiful an object to be passed unobserved even

by the uninitiated in botany. Handfulls of the flowers were

found as offerings in the caves before the images of Buddha.”

In March, 1827, Dr. Wallich accompanied the British Envoy

to Ava, and in his Official Report of a Journey on the River

Saluen, in order to examine the site and capabilities of the Teak

forests in that direction, he thus writes: “In about an hour I

came to a decayed Kioum (a sort of monastery), close to the

large hill of Kogun, distant about two miles from the right bank

of the river, and twenty-seven from the town of Martaban. I

had been prepared to find a tree growing here, of which an

account had before been communicated to me by Mr. Crawfurd,

and which I had been fortunate enough to meet with for the

first time a week ago at Martaban; nor was I disappointed.

There were two individuals of this tree here: the largest, about

forty feet high, with a girth, at three feet above the base, of six

feet, stood close to the cave: the other was smaller, and over-

hung an old Square reservoir of water, lined with bricks and

stones. They were profusely ornamented with pendulous racemes

of large vermillion-coloured blossoms, forming superb objects,

unequalled m the Flora of the East Indies, and, I presume, not

surpassed in magnificence and elegance in any part of the world.

The Birman name 18 Zoha. Neither the people here nor at

Martaban could give me any distinct account of its native place

of growth ; but there is little doubt that it belongs to the forests

of this province. The ground was strewed, even at a distance,

with its blossoms, which are carried daily as offerings to the

mages in the adjoining caves. Round the spot were numerous

individuals of Jonesia Asoca in full blossom, inferior in beauty

only to those trees ; and it is not a little remarkable, that the

priests in these parts should have manifested so good a taste as

to select two sorts of trees as ornaments to their objects of

worship, belonging to a small but well-marked and extremely

beautiful group in the extensive family of Leguminous plants.”

This tree, which “ when in full blossom is the most strikingly

superb object that can possibly be imagined,” Dr. Wallich had

the gratification of naming in compliment to the Right Honour-

able Countess Amherst and her daughter, Lady Sarah Amherst,

the zealous friends and constant promoters of Natural History,

especially botany, in India. W.J. H.

Cunt. It is now about ten years since the first and then only

living plant of this splendid flowering tree was brought from

India to the garden at Chatsworth. It was believed it would

have to attain a considerable size and age before its flowers

would be produced ; and although every care and attention have

been paid to it, yet up to this time it has not flowered, thus

confirming.the opinion that age was needed. It was therefore

with no little surprise that a few months ago we heard it an-

nounced that a plant, not more than two years imported, was

in flower at Ealing Park. This has been accomplished by

growing the plant in a very moist atmosphere, with the tempera-

ture ranging between 70° and 80°, and at the same time having

the box in which it is planted surrounded by a bed of hot tan,

with a temperature of 90°, and the whole plant enclosed by

a canvass curtain, which serves as a shade, and assists in keeping

the enclosed air in a state of greater moisture. From what we

observed of the Ealing Park plant, and our knowledge of the

rate of growth of a plant received at this Garden in March of

last year, we consider it to be a fast-growing plant, when

placed under treatment similar to the above; but care 1s

required to keep it in a healthy and vigorous state. A mixture

of good loam and peat soil suits it, and whether the plant

is grown in a pot or box, or in a bed of earth, it is necessary to

have the means of warming the earth, which is to be obtained by

a hot-water tank, or tan, or by the two combined, as at Ealing

Park. During the season of growth the highest degree of

temperature and moisture must be maintained; but in the

winter the thermometer need not be allowed to rise higher

than 70°, with a corresponding diminution of moisture. Shading,

in bright sunshine, must be carefully attended to, for the foliage

being of a thin and dry texture, is very impatient of drought,

Whether arising from a dry atmosphere, or from a want of supply

of sap from the roots; and even with due care the margin and

apex of the leaves are very apt to lose vitality, becoming brown,

which gives the plant an unhealthy appearance; but this is a

circumstance common to several allied plants that have similar

thin dry leaves, and we are informed that this also happens to

plants growing in the Calcutta Garden. It is very necessary

that the soil should be well drained and not of a retentive nature,

for owing to the constant heat and moisture it is apt to

become saturated and sodden, and this is more especially to be

guarded against as regards soil in a large pot or box plunged

in tan. In many respects Amherstia is like Jonesia, Brownea,

&c., and like them can be increased _by cuttings planted under

a bell-glass, and placed in bottom-heat. Dr. Wallich informs

us that all the plants sent to Europe have been obtained in the

Calcutta Garden by layering. /. 8.

4 hoa.

RB&R

Pitch. del eb ith .

Tas. 4454.

CYRTOCHILUM cirrinum.

Lemon-coloured Cyrtochilum.

Nat. Ord. OrcHIpEm.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Perianthium explanatum. Sepala libera, lateralia unguiculata.

Petala paulo minora. Ladellum ecalcaratum indivisum, ungue tuberculato cum

basi column continuo. Columna brevis, alata. -Anthera bilocularis. Pollimia

2, caudicula filiformi, glandula minuta.—Herbee epiphyte, v. terrestres, pseudo-

bulbose. Folia coriacea. Scapi radicales, paniculati. Flores speciosi. Lindl.

Cyrrocu1Lu citrinum ; pseudo-bulbis brevibus ovatis sulcatis apice diphyllis,

foliis lineari-oblongis acutiusculis, scapo radicali foliis multo longioribus,

racemo simplici 8-10-floro, bracteis parvis, sepalis ovato-lanceolatis acumi-

natis labello subduplo brevioribus, petalis ovatis subundulatis sepala sub-

zquantibus, labellum maximum rubrotundo-pandureeformi basi attenuato

bilamellato, columna utrinque unidentata.

This has a good deal the habit of the Cyrtochilum filipes,

Lindl. Bot. Reg., 1841, t. 59 (Oncedium Wraye, Hook. in Bot.

Mag. t. 3854), but the scape is less slender, the flowers larger,

of a uniform pale yellow or lemon-colour, with a different shaped

lip, and a prominent and very conspicuous tooth on each side the

short column. It is from Mrs. Lawrence’s rich collection, where

it flowered in April 1849, and was imported from Central

America.

Descr. Pseudo-bulés clustered, short, ovate, somewhat com-

pressed, furrowed, terminated by a pair of /eaves four or five

inches in length, linear-oblong, rather acute, subcoriaceous,

nerveless. “Scape afoot or more long, from the base of the

pseudo-bulbs, erect, rather stout, thrice as long as the leaves,

jointed and bracteated, bearing a lax raceme of citron-coloured

Be flowers at the apex. Bracteas at the base of the pedunculiform

= ovary, small. Sepa/s spreading, uniform, much shorter than the

oy lip, ovato-lanceolate, slightly tinged with green. Petals rather

shorter than the sepals, ovate, acute, slightly waved. Lip very

large, subrotund-panduriform, somewhat unguiculate at the base

and there bilamellate. Column short, with a projecting, linear

JULY Ist, 1849.

tooth on each side. 4uther-case hemispherical, with a central

ridge. W. J. H.

Cutt. This pretty epiphyte will thrive in the cool division of

the Orchideous house, placed in a basket suspended from the

roof, or in a shallow pan filled with loose turfy peat mixed with

sphagnum moss, shading it from bright sun in summer, and

seeing that it does not receive too much water in winter. J. 8.

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

4438,

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ee BARS a,

R.B.& Ramp:

Hitch. del et ith.

Tan. 4455.

MORMODES LENTIGINOSA.

Freckled Mormodes.

- Nat. Ord. OncHIDE®.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4214.)

Mormoptss lentiginosa ; pseudo-bulbis oblongis, foliis lanceolatis striatis, scapo

radicali racemoso, floribus remotis pendulis punctis rufo-fuscis irroratis,

sepalis arcte reflexis oblongis acutis marginibus revolutis, petalis conformi-

bus, labelli obovati lateribus revolutis, columna oblique torta apice acu-

minato.

A new and very remarkable species of Mormodes, quite un-

like any hitherto figured or described, and equally with the

subject of our last plate (Cyrtochilum citrinum) from the collec-

tion of Mrs. Lawrence, and obtained from the same country.

It flowers in April.

Drscr. The young pseudo-bulbs are almost globose, leafy :

the old ones are oblong, terete, and partially sheathed with the

withered membranous bases of the old leayes. Leaves, in the

plant before us, a span long, lanceolate, membranaceous, striated.

Scape from the base of a pseudo-bulb, a foot or a foot and a

half high, racemose, flexuose where the remote drooping flowers

are inserted. Bracteas small, membranaceous, acuminated.

The general colour of the flower is pale reddish-brown, every-

where sprinkled with dark-coloured dots. Sepals and petals

oblong, acute, with margins singularly recurved, the former

(sepals) refracted, the petals having an opposite direction, the

same as that of the column and lip. Lip rather large, fleshy,

obovate, entire, the sides entirely curved back, revolute, almost

like the flaps of a saddle. Column shorter than the lip, semi-

terete, curved, and having a singularly oblique twist, acuminated.

Anthers taking the same shape as the apex of the column, and

“hence much acuminated too: the colour is a deeper red than the

rest of the flower. W. J. H. ve

Cur. This Orchid may be potted in loose turfy peat. During

JULY lst 1849. —

winter it remains in a state of rest, and must then be kept in

a moderately warm and rather dry stove, giving it little or no

water. In the spring, when it begins to show symptoms of

growth, it should receive the usual temperature and moisture of

the Orchideous house, placing it near the glass on the front

shelves, watering it carefully and shading it from the mid-day

sun. J. 8.

Fig. 1. Column and lip :—magnified.

4h $6.

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Fitch delet: Lith.

4456.

EPIMEDIUM pinnatum.

Pinnate-leaved Hpimedium.

Nat. Ord. BERBERIDEH.—TETRANDRIA MOoNoGYNIA.

Gen. Char. Sepala extus basi bibracteolata. Petala 4 intus appendice dis-

colore aucta. Capsula siliculiformis, polysperma. Semina oblique transversim

sita, unilateralia—Herbe perennes, foliis radicalibus petiolatis, foliolis serrato-

aristatis. De Cand.

EpIMEDIUM pinnatum; hirsutum, foliis ternatis vel biternatis, foliolis longe

petiolulatis adultis glabris cordato-ovatis ciliato-serratis, racemis radicalibus

multifloris, petalis rotundatis, nectariis cucullatis calcaratis, margine erosis.

EPIMEDIUM pinnatum. Fisch. in De Cand. Syst. Veget. v.2. p.29. Prodr. v. 1.

p.110. Repert. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v.1. p.441. Ledeb. Fl. Ross. v. 1. p. 81.

A most lovely little hardy plant, with flowers in form and size

and colour resembling some Helianthemum, but, when they are

inspected, the curious structure of an Hpimediwm may be detected.

We owe our plants in the Royal Gardens, where they flowered

in March, to Mr. Shepherd of the Liverpool Botanic Garden.

It is a native of shady mountain woods in Gilan, a province of

Persia, where it was first detected by Hablitz. It has since

been found in the Caucasian region, on Mount Talusch, between

Lenkoran and Suwant, at an elevation of 2,400 feet above the

level of the sea.

Descr. From a short rhizoma, partially underground, and

more or less clothed with the large stipular scales of the base of

the leaf-stalk, arise several /eaves and flower-scapes, both one

and the other clothed with patent hairs in the young state.

Leaves a span or more long when fully formed, sometimes

ternate, more generally twice ternate, or in other words pinnate

with five leaflets, the two pairs very remote : the /eqflets are ovato-

cordate, with a deep narrow sinus, acute, ciliato-serrate, glabrous,

except on the nerves beneath. Seapes about as long as the

fully developed leaves, but bearing the raceme of flowers while

the leaves are still young. Pedicels short, with minute bracteas.

Calye with two, small, deciduous bracts. Sepals four, ovate,

JULY Ist, 1849.

pale green. Petals four, subrotund, yellow, vemmed. Nectaries.

cucullate, yellow, the edge toothed ; terminating behind in an

orange-coloured blunt spur. Stamens erect. Anthers as long

as the filaments: valves as long as the anthers. Ovary oblong.

Style shorter than the ovary : stigma depressed. W. J. H.

Cunt. Like the other well-known species of Hpimedium, this

is a hardy herbaceous plant, and may be cultivated in the flower-

border, or kept in a pot along with the collection of the smaller

kinds of herbaceous plants, generally termed Alpines. It is

increased by division of the root. J. S.

Fig. 1. Nectary. 2. Stamen. 3. Pistil :—magnified.

4437.

: BR.B.&Rmp

Fitch. del .et kth Ae

Tas. 4457,

RHODODENDRON rormosvuo.

Beautiful Rhododendron.

Nat. Ord. Erxtcace®.—Drcanpria MonoGynta.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4336.)

RHoDODENDRON formosum ; fruticosa gracilis, foliis oblongo-obovatis in petio-

lum brevem attenuatis vix coriaceis junioribus precipue villosis subtus

pallidis, pedicellis unifloris brevibus basi bracteatis, calyce brevissimo obscure

5-lobo, corolle (albz roseo-tinctee) tubo infundibuliformi-campanulato 5-

angulato, limbo amplissimo 5-lobo lobis rotundatis undulatis obtusissimis,

- filamentis (10) glanduloso-pilosis, ovario minute squamuloso.

RHopopENDRON formosum. Wall. Plant. Asiat. Rar. v.38. p.3. #,207. De

Cand. Prodr. v. 7. p. 721.

RuopopENDRON Gibsoni. Hort.

Our drawing of this truly beautiful and rare Rhododendron

was made from a plant which flowered in a greenhouse at Syon

Garden, Her Grace the Duchess of Northumberland’s, April

1849: at the same time a plant which had been presented to

the Royal Gardens by Mr. Low of Clapton, blossomed there also.

Tn both cases the plants were sent as the Rhododendron Gibsom

of Mr. Paxton. Nor is there any reason to doubt the correct-

ness of this appellation. Be that as it may, the ‘species has

been made known to the botanical world by an excellent figure in

the Plants: Asiaticee Rariores of Dr. Wallich, ever since the year

1832. It was discovered by the late Mr. Smith so early as 1815,

on the mountains bordering on Silhet in Eastern Himalaya. The

flowers are very large and highly fragrant, and the habit of

the plant is that of Rhododendron (or Azalea of most authors)

ledifolium: but the leaves and the calyx are totally different.

When brought by cultivation to the same degree of perfection

_ as the plant just mentioned, it will be one of the most valuable

shrubs for early forcing that can be conceived. Mr. Gibson,

collector for His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, brought it from

India some years ago, and it is probably one of the several species

AveusT lst, 1849,

named but not described by Mr. Griffiths and detected by him

in Kastern Himalaya. ‘The flowers are a delicate white, tinged

with yellow and rose, and have five external stripes of red.

Descr. Our plant forms a small slender shrub, with deep-

reddish-brown branches, the younger ones downy. Leaves ob-

longo-obovate, obtuse, often with a small mucro, pale and glaucous

beneath, tapering into a short foot-stalk, the younger ones hairy

and of a very pale green. Peduncles short, m pairs, from the

apex of the branches, soon over-topped with young shoots and

then appearing lateral, bracteated at the base, dracteas ovate or

obovate, brown. Calyx very small, obscurely five-lobed, often

with long cilia. Stamens ten : filaments pilose. Anthers small,

purple. Ovary ovate, five-lobed, five-celled, dotted with copious

minute scales. Style scaly or hairy. Stigma capitate, obscurely

five-lobed. W. J. H. :

Cuxr. This pretty species of Rhododendron is not sufficiently

hardy to bear our winters without protection. It will be best

treated as a greenhousé plant, placing it along with Chinese

Azaleas, &e., potting it in light peat mixed with a small portion

of turfy loam, care being taken to have the pot well drained.

The plant is increased by seed, which should be sown in pans

filled with turfy peat to within an inch of the top, the re-

mainder being made up of finely sifted peat mixed with a fourth

part of sharp white sand. As the seeds are very small, they

require no covering, a gentle pressure on the surface of the

mould being quite sufficient. The pans should be placed in a

warm or moist frame in a shady corner of the stove, and germi-

nation will be hastened by placing a bell-glass over the pan,

having a less diameter than the pan. To avoid the risk of

disturbing the seeds in watering, it is advisable not to take off

the bell-glass ; but by allowing the water to fall between the

margin of the pan and glass, the mould will gradually absorb

the water which will become diffused throughout the mass, and

secure a uniform degree of moisture for the seeds. Shading

during the day must be attended to both previous to and after

germination, gradually admitting air and light as the young

plants obtain strength. No doubt this species will readily

hybridize with its allies and produce varieties, which can be

maintained and increased by graftings on some of the more

common species of the genus. /. S.

Fig. 1 and 3. Varieties of the calyx, ovary, and style. 2. Stamen —magnified.

BB. R.imp oe

Fitch del et ith.

cat

Tas. 4458.

DIELYTRA specTaABILIs.

Moutan Dielytra.

Nat. Ord. FumMARIACEH.—D1IADELPHIA HEXANDRIA.

_ Gen. Char, Petala 4, 2 exteriora basi equaliter calearata aut gibbosa. Siliqua

bivalvis polysperma.—Herbe perennes. Flores racemosi, albi aut purpurascentes.

Drexytra spectabilis ; caulescens, foliis subbipinnatis, pinnis petiolatis plerumque

ternatis segmentis late ovato-cuneatis incisis, racemis elongatis bracteis

subulatis deciduis, petalis ext. basi gibboso-rotundatis, int. oblongis cari-

natis supra medium valde constrictis, filamentis diadelphis, ultra medium

geniculatis liberis.

Dietyrra spectabilis. De Cand. Syst. Veget. v.2. p.110. Prodr. v.1. p. 126.

Fortune, in Journ. Hort. Soc. Lond. v.2. p. 178. t. 3.

Evcapnos spectabilis. Sieb. et Zucc. Abhandl. der Munchen. Akid. (Physick.

Math. Classe) v.8. p. 721. t.1. f. 2. ex Walp. Repert. v. 5. p. 23.

_Corypatis spectabilis. Pers. Syn. v. 2. p. 260.

Fumarta spectabilis. Linn. Ameen. Acad. v. 7. p. 437. t. 7.

Of this truly fine and hardy herbaceous plant, there seems no

reason whatever for constituting a new genus, as Professors

Martius and Zuccarini have done. Both in habit and structural

character it is entirely a Dielytra, DC. The flowers are the

largest of the genus, and the leaves and leaflets the broadest,

and so much resemble those of the Paonia Moutan that, as

Mr. Fortune assures us, the Chinese give the plant the name of

the “ Red-and-white Moutan-flower.” We learn from the same n-

telligent traveller, that it is one of the plants of which the Chinese

Mandarins are so fond, and that they cultivate with so much

pride in all their gardens. He first saw it in the artificial rocks

in the Grotto-garden, Island of Chusan, growing along with the

equally beautiful Weigelia rosea. It appears to have been known

only in northern China or the borders of Tartary and China, and

not to be a denizen of any part of the Russian Empire ; for it is

not included in Ledebour’s Flora Rossica. Nor, indeed, have

we any clear account of its being seen otherwise than in culti-

vation. Linneus, who first published it, does, it Is true, give

in the Species Plantarum, ‘‘ Siberia (Demidof)” as the habitat :

but the late possessor of the Linnean Herbarium does not seem

Satisfied on that point, for he says in Rees’ oo. that “it is a

AUGUST lst, 1849.

native of Siberia or 'Tartary as far as we can discover.* It is

cultivated by the Chinese and sometimes seen among their

drawings of ornamental plants, being extremely handsome. ‘The

original specimen is in the Linnean Herbarium, the only one

we have ever met with in any collection.” Gmelin includes it

in his ‘ Flora Sibirica,’ but expressly says, “stupende pulchri-

tudinis planta, quae e Sinis a chirurgo Henke adportata fuit.?

Drsor. Habit of Dielytra formosa (Bot. Mag. t.1335) except

that it is caulescent : a foot or a foot and a half high. Leaves :

pinnate, with three to five petiolate, pinnated pinnules, which

are ternate or ternately and deeply cut, the segments broad,

ovato-cuneate, incised. Stem, petioles, and peduncles red. Ra-

ceme long. °Pedicels slender, with a subulato-deciduous bractea.

Howers \arge, drooping, deep rose-red, inner petals nearly white. ©

Calyx of two small, narrow-ovate, concave, coloured scales.

Outer petals very large, cucullate, gibbous rather than spurred = ™

at the base: the apex attenuated, reflexed, spathulate. Inner

petals oblong, carinate at the back, remarkably constricted above

the middle ; the upper portion with a broad wing at the back,

the apices cohering. Stamens united in two bundles of three

ange es above the middle, and the filaments are te -

ree. Ovary narrow, cylindrical: style short: sti two-li ;

wT ry y Ly t: stigma ppe

Cunt. This handsome flowering herbaceous plant, has a

fascicle of thick fleshy roots that lie dormant during winter,

and push into growth early in the spring. We have not had it

long enough under cultivation to enable us to say whether it - ‘

will prove hardy in our climate; but as it is from the north of =

China we anticipate it will, especially if covered over with @ = ©

layer of old tan, or some such loose material during: our severe

frosts. Its early habit may probably render it liable to be hurt

by late spring frosts, but as it makes a pretty appearance in a

pot, it will prove a desirable plant for the greenhouse. It thrives

In any good garden-soil, and when it has done flowering it

should be placed out of doors. After the decay of the flowering

stems it may be kept in a frame during winter, giving it only

water sufficient to keep the mould moderately moist. It is pro-

pagated by division of the root or by cuttings. J. 8.

* Alexander de Karamyschew, who appears to be the original authority for

our knowledge of this fine plant in his ‘ Dissertatio’ entitled ‘ Necessitas Historie —

Naturalis Rossie,’ (Ameen. Acad. vy. 7, p- 438) says, after alluding to Botanic

gardens, “ Memini de czetero, me vidisse domi varias plantas omnium pulcher-

nimas, utpote Hypecoum erectum, Fumariam spectabilem aliasque que dignissima

essent, qué insererentur hortis magnatum summorum, ob illarum pulchritu-

dinem,

Fig. 1, 2, and 3. The different parts of the flower separated :—magnified.

Tas. 4459.

LACEPEDEA Insrenis.

Fragrant Lacepedea.

Nat. Ord. HrepocraTacE®.—PENTANDRIA TRIGYNIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus (potius 5-sepalus) inaequalis. Petala 5 brevis-

sime unguiculata (sessilia). Stamina 5, filamentis liberis, antheris bilocularibus

longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. Ovarium 8-loculare, loculis 8-ovulatis. Stylus

3-suleatus, demum tripartibilis. Bacca stylis trieuspidata 6—9-sperma.—Arbor

foliis serrulatis, paniculis terminalibus, floribus albis odoris. DC.

LacEPEDEA insignis.

Lacepepea insignis. .B.K. Nov. Gen. dm. v.5. p. 142. t. 444. De Cand.

Prodr, v.1. p. 572.

Tricerata tinifolia. Willd. Herb.—Roem. et Sch. Syst. Veget. v. 4. p. 803.

Triceros Xalapensis. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 947.

A really handsome shrub, attaining a height of fourteen to

eighteen feet, with ample ever-green foliage and panicles of

hite, deliciously scented flowers ; each blossom the size of, and

in shape not much unlike that of the Barberry. It is a native

of Mexico, requires the heat of a stove when the flowers come to

perfection in May. Introduced to our gardens through the

medium of Mr. Henderson of Pine Apple Place, who kindly

presented it to the Royal Gardens. Messrs. Humboldt _

Bonpland named this in honour of the distinguished naturalist

Count de Lacepede. ‘The species is a solitary one of the genus.

Descr. A small free, which, with us, has attained the height

of ten feet, much branched. Leaves opposite, on long petioles,

ovate or oblongo-ovate, subcoriaceous, penninerved and peo

lated, obscurely serrated, dark green above and glossy, paler

beneath, and with the nerves prominent. Petioles terete, en

two, or three inches long. Panicles terminal. Flowers — ,

white, powerfully fragrant, ovato-globose. Pedicels ger

without bractese. Calya of five, imbricated, oval, ciliate es : €

sepals. Petals not much longer than the sepals, white, vato-

oblong, erect, concave, obscurely crenate at the margin. scree |

erect, longer than the sepals. Filaments rather thick, subulate,

AUGUST Ist, 1849.

white. Anthers large, yellow, exserted just beyond the corolla.

There is a large fleshy deeply-lobed and crenate disk surrounding

the base of the ovary. Ovary ovate, three-lobed, hairy, or rather

setose, tapering upwards into three eventually separated styles. me

Stigmas dilated. W. J. H. :

Cutt. This is a shrub or small tree of free growth, requiring the

temperature of the stove, not particular as to soil, but demanding

the usual precautions as to watering and drainage. It is readily

increased by cuttings, placed in bottom-heat under a bell-glass.

JS.

Fig.1. Petal. 2. Flower. 3. Pistil and hypogynous disk. 4. Section of 3

ovary, 5. Flower from which the calyx and petals are removed :—magnified. ‘1

Tas. 4460.

NEMATANTHUS tonema.

Dark Sibodiocbsired Tonema.

Nat. Ord. GesNERIACE®.—DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx liber obliquus ultra medium 5-fidus seu 5-partitus, lobis

lanceolato-linearibus subequalibus, summo paululum minore. Corolla infundi-

buliformi-campanulato-obliqua basi postice gibba, fauce patula, limbo equaliter

5-lobo. Stamina 4 didynama cum quinto rudimentario aut nullo. <Anthere

coherentes. .dnnulus hypogynus et glandula postica. © Capsula pyramidalis

coriacea 1-locularis 2-valvis, placentis 2 parietalibus bilamellatis. Semina in-

numerosa oblonga.—Frutices Brasilienses simplices aut pauce ramosi supra arbores

scandentes sepe radicantes, epidermide nitida cinereo-testacea. Folia opposita (altero

sepe minore) petiolata crassiuscula oblonga aut ovali-lanceolata utrinque acuminata

subintegerrima, juniora ciliata. Gemmata nuda foliis complicatis. Pedicelli —

axillares 1-flores solitarii ebracteati filiformes penduli. Corolle punicee ample. —

DC.

NeMATANTHUS tonema; foliis lato-lanceolatis utrinque acuminatis, calycibus

violascentibus incano-hirsutis, pedunculis 6- ad 12-uncialibus violaceo-

alboque villosis. Mart.

Nematantuvs ionema. Mart. Nov. Gen. Bras. v.3. p. 47.

Nemaranruvs corticola. Schrad. in Gott. Gel. Anz. v.1. p.719. Max. Prinz.

von New. Reise nach Bras. v. 2. p. 208. et p. 343.

NeMatTantuus Morrelliana. Hortul.

This is the most striking of all the species of Mematanthus,

known in cultivation, remarkable for the great length of the

flower-stalks, the deep blood-colour of the corollas, the rich

purple of the calyx-tube, and the pubescence on these latter.

De Candolle, as observed under our Tab. 4018, JV. longipes,

seems inclined to refer it to that species: but we agree with Dr.

von Martius that it is “ distinctissima.” According to this last-

mentioned author, it grows in primeval woods of Brazil, between

Theos and the town of San Pedro de Alcantara :—there flowering

in September, with us in the spring months, requiring a moist

stove for its successful cultivation. We owe the possession of it

at Kew, to Mr. Henderson of Pine Apple Place, who sent it

under the unpublished name of WV. Morrelliana. oe

Descr. A succulent scandent shrué, with terete branches

AuGuUsT lst, 1849

sending out roots from near the insertion of the leaves. Leaves

opposite, thick, fleshy, broadly lanceolate or slightly obovate,

obscurely serrated, very dark green, acuminated, at the base at-

tenuated into a thick footstalk about an inch long. Peduncles

solitary or two together, from the axils of the leaves, slender,

very long (six to twelve inches) and pendent, dark purple-red,

villous, bearing a single large obliquely pendent flower. Calye

large, woolly rather than villous: ¢wbe turbinate, very dark

purple: /imé of five lanceolate, serrated, almost leafy, spreading

segments. Corolla im shape resembling that of JV. longipes

(Tab. 4018) or of WV. chloronema (Tab. 4080), but of a rich deep

blood-colour and clothed with hoary purplish pubescence. Sta-

mens and style as long as the tube. Ovary hairy with a large

gland on one side. W. J. H.

Curt. A native of the forests of Brazil, and agreeing in every

respect as regards habit with what is said of A//oplectus at

Tab. 4452. It may be either grown in a pot in turfy peat soil,

or in a basket suspended from the roof of the house, in the way

that many Orchids are grown. J. 8.

Fig. 1. Pistil and hypogynous gland.

& BR. mp.

Fitch del et lith RB.&R.mp

. Tas. 4461.

GAULTHERIA sracTeata.

Bracteated Gaultheria.

Nat. Ord. Ertcacr®.—DercanpriA MonoGyni.

rs a

t Gen. Char. Calyx 5-lobus demum amplians plus minus baccatus et capsulam

ambiens aut fovens. Corolla ovata ore seepe contracta 5-dentata. Stamina 10

inclusa, filamentis seepe villosis, antheris 4-aristatis nempe apice bifidis, loculis

& biaristatis rarissime muticis. Stylus filiformis. Stigma obtusum. Sguame

ae hypogynz 10 distinctze aut concrete. Capsula depresso-globosa, 5-locularis,

a 5-sulcata, 5-valvis, valvis ‘septiferis loculicido-dehiscentibus. Placenta axi ad-

: — nata, Semina innumerosa parva, testa subreticulata—Frutices aut rarius arbus-

; cule ex America rarius ex India orti. Folia alterna sempervirentia, dentata

| aut integerrima. Pedicelli nune awillares 1flori nunc in racemum terminalem

_ dispositi, bibracteolati. Corolle alba rosee aut coccinee. DC.

aif

GavLTHERIA bracteata ; prostrata, ramis teretibus hispidis, foliis breviter petio-

latis cordato-ovatis acutis ciliato-serratis acutis supra levibus subtus reti-

culatis sparse piloso-hispidis, racemis terminalibus et axillaribus glanduloso-

pilosis, bracteis ovatis coloratis flores xquantibus, calyee laxo lobis_tri-

an i-acuminatis pilosis, corollis conico-ovatis, limbi lobis patentibus.

Gavuurnerta bracteata. Don, Gard. Dict. v. 3. p.840. De Cand. Prodr. v. 7.

p. 595. i. ae

Anpromepa bracteata. Cav, Ie. v. 6, p.42. 2.562. f:1.

re. Gautruerra odorata. H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 0.3. p.285. De Cand. Prodr. v.7.p.595.

4 Gaunruerta erecta. Vent. Hort. Cels. t.5. De Cand. Prodr. v. 7. p. 596.

Gavruertra cordifolia. H.B.K. Nov. Gen, dm. v. 3. p. 285. t. 261.

Gauuruerta rigida. H.B.K. Nov. Gen. Am. v. 3. p. 287. t. 262.

— :

Me ae

Among the most interesting of mountain plants in the tropics

and in the southern hemisphere, especially of the New World,

are the various species of the present genus Gaultheria. Forty-

three are enumerated by De Candolle ; but many of these

are assuredly varieties ; and it would require much time and a

rich herbarium to elucidate the history of the genus. The

present one, from the Andes of Columbia, sent to the Royal

* Gardens and to Syon by Mr. Purdie, is the Andromeda brac-

io teata figured and described by Cavanilles ; and we are glad

to give a representation from the living plant of what we believe to

auaust Ist, 1849.

be identical with the original plant. In addition to the syno-

nymes above quoted we were almost disposed to add the G.

Pichinchensis, Bentham, and G. rufescens, De Cand.; but the

clothing of the young stems is different, though variable. The

greater or lesser breadth of the leaves, and the permanent or

fugacious hairs of the different parts of the plant, are exceedingly

uncertain characters.

Dzxscr. A low bushy, rigid, handsome, greenhouse shrub with

prostrate dranches as seen in the plants at Kew and at Syon

Gardens (where our drawing was made), these branches more or

less hispid, the setze generally mixed with glandular hairs in the

younger portions of the plant. Zeaves alternate, ovate or oblong

or cordate, with a glandular mucro at the point, minutely serrated,

penniveined and reticulated (more conspicuously beneath), gene-

rally glabrous above, the serratures ciliated or tipped with hairs

which are often deciduous: beneath glabrous or hairy, with sete

about the base and mid-rib. Racemes axillary and terminal,

simple, solitary: the flowers secund, rose-colour, as are the

calyx and large bracteas: all these, as well as the short bi-

bracteolated pedicels, are more or less hairy and more or less

glandular. Calyx lax, cut deeply into five rather patent, acu-

minated, triangular lobes. Corolla thrice as long as the calyx:

conical-ovate, with five rather small ovate spreading segments of

the limb. Stamens: filaments subulate, hairy. Anther-cells

with two short horns. Ovary depressed, downy, five-lobed.

Style columnar : stigma obtuse. W. J. H.

Curr. From the elevated regions of New Grenada, and as it

grows under the same influences as regards climate, and partakes

of the nature of Bejaria coarctata (Tab. 4433), the remarks

there given are applicable to this species. It should be grown

in light peat soil, and kept in a cool airy pit or frame during

winter, and in summer should not be exposed too freely to the

sun in hot weather. As it is also found in the more elevated

region of Quito, it may probably prove more hardy than we at

present anticipate. /. 8.

Fig. 1. Flower, bractea, and bracteoles. 2. Variety of the same. 3. Stamen.

4. Pistil :-—magnified.

4462.

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Fitch del et ith

Tas. 4462

MITRARIA cocciNngEa.

Scarlet Mitraria.

Nat. Ord.GEsNERIACE4—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx inferus bractea biloba mitreeformi calyculatus, 5-partitus

(inaequalis), lobis pallidis lanceolatis fere pergamaceis. Corolla tubulosa sub-

ventricosa, limbo bilabiato, lobo superiore bifido, infero 3-fido. Stamina 4,

didynama exserta, antheris liberis ; quinti postice radimentum elongato-filiforme.

Ovarium disco hypogyno impositum. Stylus subulatus. Stigma _crasstusculum.

Bacca 1-locularis. Semina numerosa oblonga.—Frutex Chiloensis. Folia oppo-

sita. Pedicelli solitarii v. 2-3 awillares nutantes 1flori. Cor. coccinea.

MITRARIA coccinea.

Mirrarta coccinea. Cav. Ic. v.6. p. 67. t.579. De Cand. Prodr. v.71. p. 537.

Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 845.

Among the most attractive features at the June Exhibition

(1849) of the Chiswick Horticultural Society, was this rare and

lovely plant, communicated by Messrs. Veitch of Exeter: being

one of the many choice plants sent by Mr. William Lobb from

Chiloe, the only known station for it. It is a plant that has

long been among the desiderata of the Horticulturist. It is a

greenhouse plant, and may be found capable of bearing the open

air, were it not for the droughts of our country, so different

from the perennial fogs of Chiloe.

Dzscr. A low and somewhat succulent shrub, with obscurely

tetragonous branches. Leaves rather small, but approximate,

of a singularly delicate green colour, opposite, rarely ternate, on

short petioles, ovate, acute, coarsely crenato-serrate, nearly gla-

brous, paler and somewhat glaucous beneath. Peduncles much

longer than the leaves, generally solitary from the axils, droopmg,

tubercled and slightly thickened towards the calyx, single-

flowered. Bractee \arge, two-lobed, nerved, broadly ovate,

downy, closely embracing one side of the calyx. Calyx of five,

unequal, lanceolate sepals or lobes, pale-coloured, downy towards

the point and edges, one large and four smaller. Corolla bright

scarlet: ¢wbe ventricose, curved, constricted at the base, the

AvaeusT lst, 1849.

mouth a little contracted: the limb obscurely two-lipped, with

five, subequal, spreading, obtuse segments. Stamen and style

slightly exserted. Barren filament subulate. Ovary ovate,

placed on a large hypogynous fleshy disk. Cells with two

parietal receptacles. Stigma obtuse. W. J. H.

Curr. This pretty and interesting plant belongs to the same

group of Gesneriacee as Nematanthus (Tab. 4460) and Allo-

plectus (Tab. 4452), partaking of the trailing subscandent habit

of these and other allied tropical genera; but MWitraria, being

a native of the group of islands of which Chiloe is the chief, it

may therefore be viewed as a tolerably hardy plant, especially in

situations near the sea on our south and west coasts, the climate

of Chiloe being characterized as very cold, with great humidity,

for a great part of the year, but with little or no frost. We

learn from Mr. Veitch (who is at present the sole possessor of

this species) that four plants stood the open air of last winter in

his Nursery at Exeter; but in situations not so favoured as the

mild climate of Devonshire, it will be safest to protect it during

winter, either in the greenhouse or in a cold pit or frame. As

it is of a neat habit and a free flowerer, and strikes readily from

cuttings treated in the usual way, we anticipate that it will

become a favourite plant for the greenhouse. /. 8.

Fig.1. Stamens. 2. Bractea, calyx, and pistil. 3. Calyx. 4. Ovary and

hypogynous disk. 5. Transverse section of the ovary :—magnified.

Tas. 4463 coma

SIDA (AxBuTILON) VENosa.

Veiny-petaled Sida,

Nat. Ord. Matvace#®.—MoNnaADELPHIA POLYANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4227.)

Supa (Abutilon) venosa; subarborea, ramis herbaceis glabris, foliis lon

_ tiolatis cordatis 7-palmatis profunde 7-lobatis, lobis lanceolatis ac

-grosse inciso-serratis, stipulis subulato-lanceolatis, pedunculis axillgribus

solitariis unifloris longitudine foliorum sub apicem articulatis, calycis ampli

campanulati tubo globoso 15-lamellato limbo 5-partito laciniis ovato-lan-

ceolatis acuminatis, petalis latissime spathulatis concavis conniventibus

venosis. ; is sa : %

ABUTILON venosum, Hortal.

& he

A large green-house shrub, or

‘oe,

it may almost be called a small

tree, the name of which we have only seen in print in a Catalogue of —

venosum, Hort. Zuric.” It appears to have come to England by

way of Belgium, and we have no information of its native

country; but if we judge from its affinity with Sida Bed-

fordiana (Bot. Mag. t. 3892) and S. picta (t. 3540), we should in-

fer that south Brazil is its native country. Of the two species just

- mentioned, it is most nearly allied to S.picta, on account of its

Imated leaves ; but the segments of the leaves, and the flowers,

especially the structure of the calyx, are very different. It

blooms in the spring and summer, and our earliest knowledge of

it was from a fine specimen brought to us by Robert Barclay, Esq.,

who had flowered it at Nott’s Green, Leytonstone. | The blossoms

are large and exceedingly handsome, from the rich colour and

fine purple veining of their petals. os |

Descr. A small free, with rather straggling branches, the

young ones herbaceous, quite glabrous. Leaves frequently a

span long, broadly cordate, palmately and deeply seven-lobed,

the lobes lanceolate, much acuminated, and coarsely and incisely

serrated : the young ones only with a few stellated hairs, chiefly

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the Plants of the Botanic Garden of Zurich, marked “Abutilon

on the nefves on the underside. Stipules subulato-lanceolate,

entire. Peduncle axillary, solitary, about as long as the leaf,

single-flowered, articulated and generally geniculated an inch or

more below the calyx. lower very large, droopmg. Calywx

large, bell-shaped, slightly downy, with rufous, stellated hairs ;

the ¢ube inflated, subglobose, very obtuse at the base, marked

longitudinally with fifteen elevated striz or lamella, which

become obsolete in the five large ovato-lanceolate segments of

the limb: these segments are clothed with whitish down within.

Corolla twice as long as the calyx. Petals erecto-connivent,

obovato-spathulate, very concave, golden orange colour, richly

veined and reticulated with brown. Stamens numerous. Style

as long as the column of stamens, with nine branches at the

summit. WJ. H.

Cutr. A slender, upright, soft-wooded, shrubby plant of

rapid growth, soon becoming tall and naked below, and there-

fore better adapted for planting out in a greenhouse conserva-

tory, than for cultivating in a pot. In either case it is desirable

to shorten the leading shoots, so as to induce it to branch. It

will thrive well in any good garden-loam, mixed with a little

leaf-mould or sandy peat-soil. During summer it requires to be

freely supplied with water, and may at that season be fully ex-

posed to the open air. It is readily increased by cuttings,

treated in the usual way. J. 8.

Fig. 1, Pistil :—magnified.

Tas. 4464.

PENTSTEMON cyaNnanTHUs.

Azure-flowered Penstemon.

Nat. Ord. ScROPHULARINEA—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4319.)

PENTSTEMON cyananthus; elatus glaucescenti-viridis, foliis integerrimis inferioribus

oblongo-spathulatis petiolatis acuminatis, caulinis sessilibus cordato-ovatis

_ tenui-acuminatis floralibus inferioribus late cordatis acuminatissimis, pedun-

culis axillaribus pseudo-verticillatis multifloris spicam foliosam interruptam

spectabilem formantibus, sepalis angustis lanceolato-subulatis, corolla pul-

cherrime azureee (tubo purpureo) superne ampliato, limbi bilabiati lobis

subsequalibus, antheris filamentoque sterili hirsutis.

A more beautiful Pentstemon even than that we have figured

at Tab. 4319, having equally handsome flowers, and these much

more numerous and more compact, forming a spike (as m a

specimen now before us) more than a foot long, and with much

finer foliage. It is, too, an inhabitant of the same country,

the upper valleys of the Platte River in the Rocky Mountains,

where seeds were collected by Mr. Burke. These seeds were

reared by Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., in whose Exeter

Nursery the plants flowered beautifully, in the open air, in May

1849. The species is doubtless quite hardy, and a great acqui-

sition to our flower-borders. A bed filled with this species

would have a splendid effect. It may rank near P. acuminatum,

Dougl. (in Bot. Reg. t. 1285), but is quite different, and in-

finitely more beautiful. ;

Descr. Perennial. Stems herbaceous, erect, terete, simple in

our specimen. Leaves all entire, inclining to glaucous-green.

Root-leaves petiolate, spathulate, acuminate. Stem-leaves the

broadest and largest of the genus, cordato-ovate, or cordate,

sessile, acuminate: those of the inferior pseudo-whorls broadly

cordate and very acuminate : uppermost ones of all reduced to

subulate bracteas. Peduncles opposite, axillary in all the upper

floral and bracteal leaves, bearing cymes of many flowers, which

form pseudo-whorls around the stem. Calyx of five subulate

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sepals. Corolla rather large, the tube ventricose upwards,

purple: the /imé two-lipped, bright azure blue; the segments

obtuse, nearly equal, those of the upper lip being rather the

smallest. Stamens and pistil included. Filaments much curved.

Anthers and sterile stamen hairy. W. J. H.

Cunt. This fine species of Pentstemon is, like the rest of the

genus, a hardy perennial plant, and will, we think, prove an

ornamental plant for the flower-border. Although the several

species of this genus are considered herbaceous perennials,

some even assuming an evergreen suffruticose habit, yet the

present species belongs to a section of which, after flowering, the

plants often become weakly, and do not flower so fine the fol-

lowing year. It is, therefore, desirable to have a succession of

young plants, which, in those species which do not readily

produce seeds, may be obtained by cuttings, placed under a

hand-glass: this operation should be done as early in the

summer as cuttings can be got, so as to have the young plants

sufficiently strong by the autumn. On account of their ever-

green suffruticose habit, it is desirable to shelter them in a

frame during winter; but taking due care that they do not

suffer through damp. J. 8.

Fig. 1. Root-leaf:—natural size. 2. Stamens :—magnified.

Tas. 4465,

SAUROMATIUM curratum ‘

et 3 7 Spotted Sauromatium.

Nat, Ord. Arnorpem.—Monacta PoLyanpDrRia.

Gen. Char. Spatha basi tubulosa, limbo plano patente. Spadix inferne inter-

rupte androgynus, genitalibus rudimentariis infra stamina sparsis apice sub-

clavato nudus. Anthere distinct, loculis oppositis, rimula brevi subobliqua

dehiscentibus. Ovaria plurima, libera, unilocularia. Ovuda 2, basilaria, e funi-

culis brevibus erecta, orthotropa. Stigma terminale, sessile, depresso-hemi-

sphericum. Bacce monosperme. Semen . . . .—Herbee Indice ; tubere radi-

cali globoso, carnoso, maximo, scapo radicali brevissimo, subsolitaria, basi squamoso,

spatha maculata, folio serotino, pedati-partito, multilobo. Endl.

Savromatium guttatum ; foliis pedati-multipartitis lobis oblongis acuminatis»

spatha ad os tubi irregulariter subulato-repanda.

SAUROMATIUM guttatum. Schott., Meletem. v.1. p.17. Blume, Rumphia, v. 1.

p. 126. Kth. Enum, Plant. v. 3. p. 28.

Arum guttatum. Wall, Pl. Asiat. Rar. v. 2. pl. 10. p. 115.

A very remarkable Aroideous plant, native of the East Indies,

where it is probably not uncommon. Dr. Wallich detected it im

Nepal, Blume in Java. Roots of our plant were sent to us by our

friend Mr. Law, Tanna, Bombay, in 1848, and they flowered in

the stove in the spring of the following year. The flower was

succeeded by the leaf. The said flower has no very agreeable

smell, but Dr. Wallich observes it is far less offensive than many

of the other species. Before expansion, Dr. Wallich found the

heat at the bottom of the spatha to be very considerable.

Descr. From the top of a large almost globose ¢wer, and

surrounded by three or four membranaceous spotted scales or

bracteas, arises the singularly shaped, and no less singularly

marked, sessile spatha, from a foot and a half to two feet long,

almost cylindrical below, but somewhat swollen at the very base ;

at the height of three or four inches from the base the sheath

opens, ‘as it were, and is dilated into a large, lanceolato-subulate,

Beacitied, fleshy spatha, which is reflexed and waved below at

the margin : the colowr, without livid or purplish-green, 1s within s

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greenish-yellow, palest below, and there marked with copious,

small, red-purple spots, the rest with larger blotches, except at

the apex, where it is rather streaked than spotted. Spadix

erect below, and nearly cylindrical; at the base densely clothed

with copious, obovate ovaries, above which are several spathu-

Jate, abortive ovaries, then naked to the apex of the erect

portion, which is equally encased in the numerous sessile, two-

celled anthers; above this commences the almost cylindrical

but slightly attenuated apex, nearly a foot long, and of a livid

purple colour. On the decay of the flower the leaf developes

itself on a spotted stalk, and is pedato-partite, with the segments

oblong, attenuated, entire. WV. /. 7.

Curr. A tuberous-rooted herbaceous plant, native of Bombay

and other parts of India. The tubers lie dormant during the

dry season, coming quickly into flower and leaf on receiving

the stimulus of moisture. With us the roots are dormant in

winter. They should be placed in a dry part of the stove,

beyond the reach of receiving much moisture.. Early in the

spring the tubers should be examined, and (if necessary) re-

potted; using a mixture composed of light loam and_ peat

in about equal proportion, placing the pot in heat, and watering

it sparingly, till the tubers begin to grow. The flower-stem

comes first, and after a time is succeeded by the leaves,

which remain green during summer. It produces offsets freely

from the sides of the tuber, which’ show themselves above —

ground. J. 8.

Fig. 1. Lower fertile portion of the spadix :—natural size. 2. Pistil. 3. An-

ther :—magnified.

Tas. 4466.

ROUPELLIA Grata.

Cream-fruit.

Nat. Ord. APocyNEZ.—PENTANDRIA MonoGynIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus glandulis baseos (circa 12) in annulum dispositis.

Corolle tubus infundibuliformis ; faux coronata ligulis 10 equidistantibus basi in

annulum connatis; limbi lacinie 5, late, estivatione sinistrorsum convolute.

_ Stamina tubo inserta, inclusa, filamenta brevia, anthere sagittate longe acumi-

nate. Stylus filiformis, apice in massam 5-sulcatam antheris cohzrentem dila- —

tatus, ultra dilatationem vix productus et obscure emarginatus. Nectarium 0.

Ovaria ? Fructus (fide R. Br.) Voacange v. Urceole.—Gen. nov. e tribu Plu-

mieriearum et subtribu Tabernemontanearum.—Frutex glaberrimus, habitu Taber-

nemoihtanas Africartas referens. Folia opposita, breviter petiolata, semipedalia,

oblongo-elliptica, breviter acuminata, basi aculeata, crassiuscula, venis primaris a

costa media divergentibus haud crebris subtus prominulis, rete venularum parum

conspicua ; petioli basi parum dilatati, linea transversali conjuncti et intus glan-

dulis parvis acutis stipuleformibus aucti. Cymze terminales, sessiles, dense 6—8-

Jlore, fere umbellaformes. Bracteze ovato-lanceolate acute acuminate dorso cari-

nate, 14-2 lin. longe. Pedicelli bracteis longiores, calyce breviores. Calycis lobi

obovati, 6-8 lin. longi, membranacei, apice colorati. Corolla alba pallide roseo-

tincta, tubus sesguipollicaris, superne ampliatus, intus extusque glaber ; \acinie

late obovate, margine crispe, pollice paullo longiores. Coronze ligule Janceolato-

lineares, erecta, pulchre rosea, 4—5 lin. longa. Stamina ad originem partis am-

pliate ubi inserta. Filamenta brevia, crassa, leviter papulosa. Antherarum

acumen tubum corolle fere superans, auricule baseos breves recta, pars media tantum

perry Ovarium disco crassiusculo haud vero in nectarium producto insidens.—

entham.

RovrELLia grata.

Rovpetta grata. Wallich et Hook. MSS.

Cream-rruit. Afzelius in “ Sierra Leone Report, 1794. p. 113. n. 7.” Brown,

App. to Tuckey’s Narr. p. 449.

It is with no small degree of pleasure that we are enabled to

give a representation of a very handsome and very fragrant plant

of tropical Africa, noticed by Afzelius as the Cream-fruit, so called,

we presume, from the use occasionally made of the cream-like

juice of the fruit, but of which little seems to be known beyond

the bare mention of it under that name by Afzelius and Mr.

Brown. It is a native of Sierra Leone; (introduced to our

stoves, we believe, by Mr. Whitfield,) and, in May 1849, we were

favoured with beautiful flowering specimens by Mr. Pince of the

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Exeter Nursery, from the collection of Mrs. Halford of Newcourt,

near Exeter; a lady ardently devoted to the cultivation of rare

exotics. It was exhibited under the name of Strophanthus

Stanleyanus, at the Devon and Exeter Horticultural Society’s

Spring Exhibition, and gained a prize. The plant possesses

additional interest, in our estimation, as being the one selected

by Dr. Wallich and myself to bear the name of the family of

Roupell, of whom not a few have served the cause of Botany :

viz., Charles Roupell, Esq., of Charlestown, South Carolina,

commemorated in many of the pages of Sir James HE. Smith’s

‘Correspondence of Linnus ;’ Dr. Roupell of Welbeck Street,

London, his grandson ; together with another grandson, Thomas

Boone Roupell, Esq., a gentleman now high in the Civil Service

of the E. I. Company, on the Madras Establishment ; while the

talented lady of the latter is the authoress of a beautiful work

about to issue from the press, illustrated by her own pencil, on

Plants of South Africa. Hence the name is appropriately com-

_ memorated in an African genus of no small beauty and fragrance.

We are indebted to Mr. Bentham, who is now engaged in the

preparation of the plants of the Niger Expedition, for the above

generic character and description, which render any further

botanical remarks on our part needless. If, as we trust, the

plant comes into general cultivation, it cannot fail to be much

prized ; if not for the application of the fruit (which may be

better suited to an African than to an English palate), yet as-

suredly for the size and beauty of colour of its flowers, no less

than for their agreeable odour. W.J. H.

Cur. This handsome, climbing, shrubby plant, being a native

of Sierra Leone, consequently requires to be grown in a warm

and moist hot-house. It is of free growth, and, being a

smooth clean-leaved plant, not subject to insects, is well adapted

for a trellis, or to train up a pillar or rafter ; and it will also

form a bushy plant grown in a pot, if supported with a wire

trellis, or by neat stakes. Good fresh loam, with a little leaf-

mould, will suit it. As it is a fast grower, it requires water

freely during summer; but care must be taken that the soil

does not become stagnant. It is propagated by cuttings, which

strike root readily when placed under a bell-glass, and the pot

plunged in bottom heat. — It appears to be a shy flowerer ; for,

although we have known it in cultivation for several years, we

have not heard of its producing flowers, except in the collection

above-mentioned. J. 8. ,

Fig.1. Calyx and pistil. 9. Stamens. 3. Pistil and perigynous scales.

4. Stamen. 5. Section of the ovary :—magnified.

4h 67.

del et hth.

Fitch

Tas. 4467.

ARISTOLOCHIA MacRADENIA.

Large glanduled Birthwort.

Nat. Ord. ARISTOLOCHIEE.—GYNANDRIA HEXANDRIA.

Gen, Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4361.)

ArtsToLocHta macradenia ; scandens glaberrima, foliis sublonge petiolatis cor-

dato-hastatis, sinu profundo lato lobis rotundatis, pedunculo axillari soli-

tario unifloro petiolo sublongiore, perianthii unilabiati tubo basi inflato

striato, limbo ovato lateribus reflexis supra reticulatis glandulosis, glandulis

magnis globosis stipitatis.

This curious plant flowered, im a warm greenhouse of the

Royal Gardens of Kew, in the spring of 1849, and there our

drawing was made. It had bloomed the year before with John

Taylor, Esq., of Sheffield House, Kensington, to whom we

are indebted for the possession of the plant. That gentleman

imported it from Real del Monte. It is one of the most re-

markable and distinct of the many species of the genus.

Dezscr. Cultivated in a pot, with a balloon trellis, this forms

a suffruticose, climbing plant, with long, slender, terete stems.

Leaves alternate, four to five inches long, petiolate, between

cordate and hastate, tapering to an acute point, glabrous, with

about seven principal nerves and several connecting nervelets,

the sinus deep and broad, the lobes large, rotundate, spreading.

_ Petiole about an inch and a half long. Peduncle longer than

the petiole, axillary, solitary, single-flowered. Flower rather

large, somewhat drooping, including the germen, almost as long

as the leaves. Ovary slightly downy, inferior, club-shaped,

furrowed. ude greenish, striated, the lower half much inflated,

then contracted, at the summit again dilated and extending into

a single declined, large, ovate Jip, the sides always revolute, the

upper surface rich brown, with yellow reticulated veins, and

beset with large stipitate, globose glands, looking almost like the

fructification of some Calicium. The tube inside is slightly hairy,

and there is a scale at the summit of the inflation. Co/wmn oval,

SEPTEMBER lst, 1849.

with six linear anthers on the sides, and a six-cleft stigma at

the top. W. J. H.

Cutt. In all cases of strong-growing creeping plants, where

there are means for planting them out, we always do so,

as few can be cultivated to advantage in pots. This being a

weak and slender-growing species of Aristolochia, it may be

grown in a moderate-sized pot. With us it has flowered freely,

trained to wire trellis fixed to the pot, and kept in a stove, the

temperature of which in winter may average about 50°. A

mixture of light loam and sandy peat-soil suits it. Propagated

by cuttings, treated in the usual way. J. S.

Fig. 1. Section of the base of the perianth :—magnified.

Fitch del et lith..

R.B. & R.imp.

Tas. 4468.

CYRTANTHERA avRAnTIACa.

— Orange-flowered Cyrtanthera.

Nat. Ord. ACANTHACEH.—DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TAB. 4444.)

CYRTANTHERA aurantiaca ; fruticosa erecta, caule acuto tetragono, foliis lato-

seu elliptico-lanceolatis rigidiusculis in petiolum breviusculum crassum

attenuatis, thyrso compacto ovato, floribus erectis flavo-aurantiacis, bracteis

ellipticis, bracteolis sepalisque lanceolatis pubescentibus, corolla labio

superiore recto, ’

CaLcosTyYLis aurantiaca. Makoy’s Cat.

The Acanthaceous plants contain many beautiful species

known at present to us only in our Herbaria, but which are

- eminently worth cultivating, witness the many species of Strobi-

lanthes, Barleria, &c. of the East Indies, especially of Ceylon ;

while the New World, in Dipteracanthus and the genus here

represented of tropical South America, presents individuals of

equal merit in regard to beauty. Already two species of Cyr-

tanthera have appeared in our Magazine, the Justicia carnea

(Tab. 3383), now called Cyrtanthera magnifica by Nees, and our

C. catalpefolia (Tab. 4444). There can be no doubt of the

present beg a congener of those. We received our plant, at

the Royal Gardens, Kew, from our often-mentioned friend

Mr. Henderson, of Pine-Apple Place; and it appears to have

been sent to him from Belgium under a name we can nowhere

find in print, save in Makoy’s Catalogue, but without any

oat of its introduction to Europe, or any mention of native

ocality.

Saks. A shrub with erect stem: dranches rather stout,

herbaceous, acutely tetragonal. Leaves opposite, broadly ellip-

tical, lanceolate, slightly acuminate, rather rigid, penninerved,

tapering below into a rather short thick petiole. Flowers large,

handsome, bright-coloured, copious, erect, forming a dense ter-

minal, bracteated thyrsus. Bracteas (at least the lower ones)

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almost half as long as the flower, elliptical, approaching to ovate,

appressed, leafy. Bracteoles lanceolate, downy, scarcely longer

than the sepals of the calyx, which resemble them, but are

smaller. Corolla full golden-yellow on first expansion ; after-

wards the tube and lower lip become orange-red. Zimdé nearly

as long as the tube, upper lip erect, acuminate, the point bifid :

lower lip oblong, much reflexed, three-fid, the segments linear,

approximate, straight. laments nearly as long as the corolla,

~ lodged in the channelled upper lip. Anther-cells separated by a

connectivum, one higher up than the other, both with a short

spur at the base, glandular at the margin. Ovary immersed in

a large cup-shaped, irregular gland : style pubescent at the base,

as long as the corolla: stigma a little thickened, bifid. W. J. H.

Cur. This species of Cyrtanthera has a much stiffer habit,

and of less luxuriant growth than the species figured at Tab.

4444. The treatment there mentioned will suit it; but, on

account of its weaker habit, care must be taken not to

over-pot it. A succession of young plants should be kept, as it

is apt to become naked and unsightly after flowering ;—a cir-

cumstance common to most of the soft-wooded, suffruticose

Acanthacee. J. 8.

Fig. 1. Anther. 2. Bracteoles, calyx, and pistil. 3. Ovary and cup-shaped

nectary :—magnified.

4469.

Bitch. del et lith .

Tas. 4469.

NYMPHAEA ampta.

Broad-leaved Water-Lily.

Nat. Ord. NympH®AacEa—PoLyaNnpRIA MonoGynia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4257.)

Nympy#a ampla; foliis cordato-rotundatis peltatis grosse dentatis glaberrimis

reticulatis maculatis superne minute tuberculatis subtus coloratis nervis

prominentibus sinu profunde angustissimo, sepalis lineato-maculatis, pe-

talis albis, antheris exappendiculatis exterioribus longissimis, stigmate con-

. cavo sub- 26-radiato.

Nympu@a ampla. De Cand. Syst. 0.2. p. 54. Prodr.v.1.p.115. M‘Fad. dn

Jam. p.19.

CasTaxia ampla. Salisb. Ann. Bot. v. 2. p. 73.

Nympuma Rudgeana. Meyer, Fl. Prim. Esseq. p. 198.

Nympn#a Lotus. Lunan, Jam. p. 271.

Nympna Indica flore candido, &e. Sloane, Jam. v. 1. p. 252.

Nympua foliis amplioribus, &c. Browne, Jam. p. 243.

At p. 3. of the Companion to the Bot. Mag. vol. 74. 1s given

an account of the re-discovery of the long lost Nelumbium

Jamaicense. Together with tubers of that noble plant, those

of the present little known but very handsome species of

Water-Lily were sent to us by our valued friend Dr. M‘Fadyen.

We shared them with Mr. Silvester, of North Hall, Chorley, Lan-

cashire, a most successful cultivator of Nymphaacee, and he had

the good fortune to flower the plant in May 1849. From the

specimen sent by that gentleman our figure is taken. Its nearest

ally is the W. versicolor (Bot. Mag. t. 1189), whose flowers vary

to white; but the leaves in this are more deeply toothed, almost

lobed, the colour on the underside is much deeper, the young

leaves are wholly and deep red, there are copious linear dark

spots on the foliage and sepals, and the tubers are very different.

Descr. Zubers about the size of a chestnut, rounded, but

* We are rejoiced to know that Dr. M‘Fadyen is engaged in continuing his

‘Flora of Jamaica,’

OCTOBER Isr, 1849. _ *

flattened at the top, from which the leaves issue. Leaves large,

ample, floating, nearly orbicular, peltate, glabrous, with a deep

very narrow sinus, reaching nearly to the insertion of the petiole,

deeply and irregularly toothed, or almost sinuato-lobate at the

margin, lobes or teeth very irregular, those at the sinus the

longest and sharpest; the colour is purplish-green above, dark

purplish-red below, on both sides reticulated with nerves, the

nerves prominent and pale beneath, and on both sides marked

with numerous, linear, black dots or short lines, radiating from

the centre, more copious and larger towards the apex of the

lobes. The flowers rise above the water, and are white, larger

than those of our own WV. alba. Sepals four, ovato-lanceolate,

pale yellow-green, sprinkled with brown linear dots, outer petals

subsepaloid, all of them lanceolate, obtuse, the interior a little

smaller. Stamens numerous, yellow. Filaments short, awl-

shaped; outer anthers very long, spreading ; inner ones forming

a cone over the many-rayed stigma. W. J. H.

Curr. A tropical perennial aquatic, furnished with tuberous

roots, that lie dormant in the muddy soil, during the dry season,

and start into growth on being overflowed with water. In cul-

tivating this plant the tubers should, early in the spring, be taken

out of the last year’s soil, and repotted in fresh pure loam,

immersing the pots in water to the depth of about an inch be-

low the surface of the pot. Where there is not the advantage

of a proper tropical aquarium to grow them in, large pans

or shallow tubs may be used, placed in a temperature of 65°

to 75°, fully exposed to the sun. As the leaves increase in

size, sufficient room must be given to allow them to float freely

on the surface of the water ; for if they become overcrowded the

under ones soon decay, which affect the others. Care is also

requisite to keep the leaves free from Conferva ; and to assist in

doing so a portion of the water should be drawn off every day,

and fresh water added. Towards the end of autumn the leaves

begin to decay : the water should then be gradually withdrawn,

allowing only sufficient. to keep the soil in a state of mud during

winter ; at the same time lowering the temperature of the house,

which, on an average, may be kept about 60°. J. S.

Fig. 1. Section of the ovary :—natural size.

44-70.

Pi te sad . ‘ ssc

LEAN Ee Ren we

R.B.& Ramp

Fitch del et ith.

Tas. 4470. |

CUPANIA CuNNINGHAMI.

Mr. Cunningham's Cupania.

Nat. Ord. SapinpacE#®.—Ocranpria MonoGynta.

Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus equalis. Corolle petala 5, receptaculo inserta,

calycis laciniis alterna, qualia, supra unguam squamula aucta, interdum nulla.

Discus calycis fundum occupans regularis, integerrimus v. crenulatus. Stamina

8, v.10, disco intus inserta; filamenta filiformia, libera, anthere introrse, bi-

loculares, dorso inserts, mobiles, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ovarium centrale,

sessile, triloculare. Ovula in loculis solitaria, angulo centrali paullo supra basim

inserta, adscendentia. Stylus simplex, apice trifidus, lobis intus stigmatosis.

Capsula coriacea v. sublignosa, pyriformis, 2-3-gona, 2-3-locularis, loculicide

2—3-valvis, valvis medio septiferis. | Semina in loculis solitaria, subglobosa,

erecta, arillo cupuleeformi carnoso inclusa, ¢esta crustacea. Hinbryonis exalbuminosi,

plus minus curvati, cofyledones crassissime, incumbentes, radicula brevis, umbilico

proxima, infera.—Arbores v. Frutices erecti, inter tropicos totius orbis crescentes ;

foliis alternis petiolatis, exstipulatis, abrupte pinnatis, foliolis oppositis v. alternis

integerrimis v. serratis, interdum pellucido-punctatis, floribus polygamis in racemos

axillares dispositis. Endl.

Cupanta Canninghami ; ramis petiolis foliisque subtus paniculis calycibus fruc-

tusque pubescenti-ferrugineis, foliis pari-pinnatis foliolis 8-10 oblongis bre-

vissime petiolulatis, petalis 4 rotundatis unguiculatis pilosulis intus bi-

squamosis, squamis hirtis spathulatis dorso glanduloso-cristatis.

STADTMANNIA australis. 4J/. Cunn. MSS.

The attention of most visitors to the great stove of the Royal

Gardens is attracted to a lofty growing shrub or tree among the

Palms, exceeding many of them in height, with large pinnated

leaves, with the young branches especially clothed with fer-

ruginous down, and labelled Stadfmannia australis of Allan

Cunningham: it flowers in the spring, and is succeeded by

large clusters of orange-coloured downy fruit, which split open

while yet attached to the plant, and exhibit the bright orange

pulpy arillus containing the seed. This is the plant of which we

here represent as much as our ordinary-sized plate will allow.

Tt is a native of New Holland, on the north-east coast near the

tropics, and was discovered by Allan Cunningham, who speaks

of it in his notes before me as “a tree 30-40 feet high, found

in dark woods at Five Islands district, and on the banks of

Hastings River, at Port Macquarrie and Brisbane in Moreton

_ Bay.” I have specimens likewise, gathered at West Macquarrie

by Mr. James Backhouse. Stad¢mannia of Lamarck has now

merged into Cupania ; and other species being found in Australia

I have named the species after its lamented discoverer. _ It is a

noble plant with handsome foliage and fruit, but rather insigni- |

ficant flowers, and of too lofty growth for ordinary cultivation. —

Descr. A small ¢ree, chiefly branched at the top, branchlets

_ OCTOBER Ist, 1849. L 2

and all the younger parts, the petioles, leaves beneath, panicles,

calyx, and fruit clothed with rusty down. Leaves one to two

feet long, pinnated with four or five pairs of opposite, elliptical

leaftets, smooth and glossy above, penninerved, the nerves very pro-

minent and conspicuous beneath. Panicles terminal, often very

compound, furnished with small deciduous red bracteas. Calyx

obtuse or truncated at the base, cup-shaped, cut into five equal,

hairy, ferruginous, ovato-triangular, erect segments. Pefa/s four,

white, suborbiculate, erose, slightly hairy, erect or a little in-

curved, shorter than the calyx, clawed : within are two, large, spa-

thulate, inflexed, hairy scales or appendages, the back near the apex

of each bearing a glandular yellow stipitate crest. Stamens eight,

erect, longer than the calyx and corolla, equal. i/aments

subulate. Anthers oblong, two-celled, erect, pale yellow. Ovary

subrotund, three-lobed, seated on one side of and upon a large

bright orange-coloured fleshy g/and or disk, densely clothed with

ferruginous down and hairs: sfy/e longer than the stamens, with

spreading sete: stigma minute, three-fid. /rwit a three-lobed,

depressed capsule, each lobe opening in the centre by a vertical

fissure, and containing a solitary brown seed, enveloped by a pulpy

arillus. Embryo green. W.J. H.

Cunt. A large tree of robust growth, in its native forests

conspicuous above the other trees, the bark having an iron-like

appearance. It is a native of the east coast of New Holland,

about 31° south latitude, and therefore not adapted for out-door

cultivation in this country. The plant from which the drawing

was made was introduced in 1825, and for a number of years

was kept in the green-house, and shifted as it increased m

size into a larger pot, and ultimately into a plant-tub, in

which it out-grew our green-house accommodation ; this caused

it to be removed into the tropical Palm-house, where the

stimulus of a warmer atmosphere induced it to flower for the

first time during the present summer, and having perfected

its seeds it has enabled us to obtain a stock of young plants; for

on account of its little tendency to throw out lateral branches

we have not had the opportunity of increasing it by cuttings.

It has therefore been considered a rare plant in this country,

and being best adapted for growing in lofty houses, it can

only be valued by a few; but as it is of remarkable and

striking habit, and on that account worthy of being admired, it

may be kept in a small state for a number of years; like a

second plant in this garden of the same age, which is not half

the size of the first. J. 8.

Fig.1. Flower. 2. Petal with its appendages. 38. Stamen. 4. Pistil and

hypogynous gland :—magnified, 5. Capsule. 6. Pulpy arillus, containing the

ane 7. Arillus laid open, showing the seed. 8, Seed. 9. Embryo :-—

ural size. .

Hitch del etlith .

R.B.& R. imp.

Tas. 4471.

METROSIDEROS ruoripa.

| Copious-flowering Metrosideros.

Nat. Ord. Myrtace®.—IcosaNDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Gen. Char. Calycis tubus ovario adherens non angulatus, limbus 5-fidus.

Stam. 20-30 longissima exserta. Stylus filiformis. Stigma simplex. Capsula

2- seepius 3-locularis, loculis polyspermis. Semina aptera.—Arbores aut frutices.

Folia opposita aut alterna. Flores pedicellati nec ullo modo ut in Melaleuca

et Callistemone ramo adnati.

_ Merrosrperos florida ; foliis oppositis oblongo-ovatis glabris parallelim dis-

tincte venosis subcoriaceis glabris, corymbo composito terminali, calycibus

- turbinatis, petalis staminibusque coccineis, fructibus urceolatis 5-costatis.

Merrostperos florida. Sm. in Linn. Trans. v. 3. p. 268. De Cand. Prodr. v. 3.

p.224, Ach. Rich. Fl. Nov. Zeal. p.333. All. Cunn. Bot. N. Zeal. in Ann.

Nat. Hist. v. 3. p. 113.

Metaevca florida. Forst. Prodr. n. 114.

LeprospEeRMuM scandens. Forst. Gen. ¢. 36. n. 1.

A native of dense forests in New Zealand, introduced to our

green-houses by Mr. Allen Cunningham, but although long

admired for the beauty of its foliage, it blossomed for the first

time in May 1849, when the bright red corymbs of flowers

added in no small degree to the charm of the shrub.

Duscr. A shrub with us, about five feet high, everywhere

glabrous, forming indeed a compact mass, but every now and

then sending out spreading branches, which indicate that under

favourable circumstances the plant would be scandent. Branches

rounded, or but indistinctly angular, reddish-brown. Leaves

opposite, an inch or an inch and a half long, subcoriaceous, on

short petioles, elliptical-ovate, even, slightly glossy, distinctly and

closely nerved on both sides, the nerves uniting with an extra

marginal nerve; dark green above, pale beneath, where also

the dotting is more distinct than on the upper side, but not

visible to the naked eye. Corymbs terminal, almost: sessile.

Peduncle red, compound. Calyx turbinate, attenuated’ below ;

OCTOBER Ist, 1849.

the /imb five-lobed ; lobes rounded, green. Petals orbicular,

concave, red, deciduous, longer than the calycine lobes. Stamens

numerous, at first involute, then spreading, four times as long as

the petals ; filaments and anthers red. Style about as long as

the filaments. Stigma a little dilated. W. J. H.

Curr. This is a fine glossy-leaved evergreen shrub, forming

under our cultivation a handsome bush, having much resemblance

to the Myrtle. Although a native of New Zealand, the climate

of which is said to be similar to that of Great Britain, yet we

find it not sufficiently hardy to bear the open air in this country,

during the low temperature of some of our winters, especially

such as are sometimes experienced in the eastern and midland

districts ; but we have every reason to believe that the climate

of the coasts of Devon and Cornwall, and the south and west of

Ireland, would be suitable for growing the plant in the open air,

and that it would there flourish unprotected, and prove a highly

ornamental shrub. Its habit shows it to love moisture, and

although with us it grows freely, treated as a green-house plant

in a pot or tub in loam, yet in its own country it assumes a very

different habit, being epiphytal, climbing up and extending itself

on trees to a great height, becoming fixed by its its aerial roots

and branches, which interlace with the trees on which it grows,

forming dense leafy masses similar to Ivy in this country, but of

a much gayer appearance when in flower. We find it disposed

to throw out roots on the main branches: it therefore readily

increases by cuttings treated in the usual way. JS.

Fig. 1. Flower :—magnified.

‘2

Tas. 4472.

GONOLOBUS Martianus.

Dr. von Martius’ Gonolobus.

Nat. Ord. AscLEPIADE#.—PENTANDRIA D1GYNIA.

Gen. Char. Calya 5-partitus, sepalis patulis. Corolla subrotata, 5-partita,

estivatione contorta, laciniis sepissime patulis sed interdum patenti-reflexis v.

erectiusculis. Corone stamina carnosula, parva, ad faucem corolle apposita,

annuliformis, undulato-lobata, lobis integris prominentibus. Gynostegium breve.

Anthere transversim dehiscentes, membrana terminate. Masse pollinis extre-

mitate exteriori, loculi respectu, affixe, apice hine pellucide, stigmate tecte.

Stigma planiusculo-depressum, pentagonum, sepe margine angusto cinctum.

Foiliculi ventricosi, subcostati, spinis imocuis plus minusve echinati. Semina

comosa.—Frutices Americani volubiles. Folia opposita cordata, ad limbi ortum

glandulifera, sepissime hirta, pedunculi interpetiolares, racemi v. corymbiformes ;

flores virentes, fusci v. atropurpurei, haud raro reticulato-venosi v. submarmorati. DC.

GonoLosus Martianus: ramis petiolis pedunculisque pilis longis (siccitate

ferrugineis) patentibus hirsutis, foliis pubescenti hirtis oblongo-ovatis cuspi-

dato-acuminatis basi cordatis sinu clauso, pedunculis demum folio longiori-

bus, umbellis plurifloris, sepalis (rubris) lanceolato-acuminatis patenti-re-.

flexis hirtis corollam (albam basi viridem) sequantibus, corollse lobis ovato-

rotundatis medio sulcato-plicatis, coronze stamines lobis rotundatis carnosis.

FIscHERIA martiana. Desne., in De Cand. Prodr. v. 8. p. 601.

An Asclepiadeous plant, very closely indeed allied to Gonolobus

velutinus, Schltdl. from Mexico (differing chiefly in the longer leaves

and longer peduncles and approximate lobes to the base of the

leaves),—and of which Decaisne says, “ Habitu necnon inflores-

centia Fischeria :” and on referring to Fischeria it will be seen to

accord admirably with F. Vartiana, described as a native of the

island of St. Sebastian, Brazil : the spot where our fine dried speci-

mens were gathered by the late Mr. Fox, when he was our Minister

at the Court of Brazil. If, as I believe, I am correct in this re-

ference, the plant is surely not distinct from Gonolobus, of which

another nearly allied but not distinct species 1s the Gonolobus

setosus, Benth. (Pl. Hartweg, n. 1193.) In the stove of the

Botanic Garden of Kew the plant proves to be a large climber,

OCTOBER Ist, 1849.

loaded with pretty clusters of flowers in May and June, and

covering to a great extent the gallery of the Palm House.

Dezscr. Scandent, much branched; dranches densely clothed

with patent hairs, which become reddish in drying. Leaves on

shortish hairy foot-stalks, oblong-ovate, hairy on both sides,

almost velutinous, mucronato-acuminate at the point, cordate at

the base, with a deep but closed sinus. Peduncles axillary,

solitary, at first flowering shorter than the leaves, afterwards

elongated, hairy, bearing a many-flowered umbel with hairy

pedicels. Calyx red, hairy : sepals narrow, lanceolate-acuminate,

as long as the corolla. Corolla white, with a deep green radiating

ring at the base: /odes spreading, ovato-rotundate, obtuse,

longitudinally plaited in the middle. odes of the staminal

crown rounded, fleshy. W. J. H.

Curr. A tropical soft-wooded twining plant, of rapid and

extensive growth, well adapted to cover trellis-work, pillars, &c.,

and recommending itself by its numerous bunches of flowers,

and in not being subject to insects. Where it is required to

cover a great space it should be planted in a mixture of loam

and peat, about eighteen inches in depth, and well drained.

It may also be grown in a pot, and trained up the rafters of the

house, or on a wire trellis fixed to the pot; and by occasionally

stopping the leading shoots it may be made to flower abundantly.

It-1s readily increased by cuttings, placed in bottom heat under

a bell glass. J. 8. :

Fig. 1. Staminal crown :—magnified.

Tas. 4473. "

ESCALLONIA macranrTua.

Large red-flowered Escallonia.

Nat. Ord. SAXIFRAGEZ.—PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4274.)

Escattonra (Sect. Stereorylon, Presl) macrantha; ramulis glanduloso-pubes-

centibus, foliis obovato-ellipticis obtusiusculis reticulatis serratis basi cunea-

tis glabris subtus resinoso-punctatis, egg terminali, bracteolis deciduis,

calycis glanduloso-pilosi laciniis subulatis.

EscaLLONIa macrantha. Hook. et Arn. in Bot. Mise. v. 3. p. 341.

Our first knowledge of this fine Hscallonia was from Mr.

Cuming, who collected specimens in Chiloe (n. 26 of his Her-

barium) ; but it was Messrs. Veitch who imported living plants

to Exeter, from the same country, through their collector Mr.

W. Lobb. As might be expected from its native locality, it

proves hardy, and is assuredly the handsomest of all the

species of Hscallonia known to us. It flowers in June, and

continues in blossom for a long period. :

Descr. A handsome shrub, two to three feet or more high,

branched. Branches terete, the younger ones clothed with

glandular pubescence. eaves alternate, obovato-elliptical, rather

_ obtuse, cuneate at the base, strongly and doubly serrated at the

margin, reticulated on the surface, glabrous, dark and shining

above, beneath paler and dotted with resinous points. Panicle

terminal : pedicels bracteolated, the bracteoles deciduous. Flowers

large, red. Calye turbinate, clothed with stipitate viscid glands ;

the lower portion of the tube adherent with the ovary, the upper

half free, campanulate, cut half-way down into five, erect or

slightly spreading, subulate ¢eeth. Corolla of five, spathulate

petals, the claws erect and forming a tube, the /amine spreading

horizontally. Stamens as long as the tube. Ovary two-celled.

Style columnar, surrounded at the base by a large, furrowed

Gland. Stigma thick, dilated, obscurely two-lobed. Fruit tur-

binato-cylindrical, surmounted by the spreading persistent limb

of the calyx and the style. W. J. H.

OCTOBER lst, 1849.

Cutt. We have not had sufficient experience in culti-

vating this new species of Hscallonia to know what degree of

cold it will bear; coming from South Chili we expect it

will prove as hardy as the several species of the genus already

known in this country. Although none of them will bear the

very low temperature to which this climate is occasionally sub-

ject, yet, if placed against a wall, in a warm sheltered place,

with the precaution to protect them with a mat, and a layer of

dry leaves or fern over the roots during frost, they may be

preserved through our ordinary winters ; but to be safe against

loss, it is recommended to keep a duplicate plant in the green-

house. The present species is a free-growing shrub, and _pro-

pagates readily from cuttings, placed under a hand-glass in a

frame. J. 8. |

Fig. 1. Calyx and pistil. 2. Pistil. 3. Section of the ovary :—magnified.

4. Fruit :—wnatural size.

R.B.& Ramp.

Kitch del et Lith.

Tas. 4474.

BRASSAVOLA Diaesyana.

Mr. Digby's Brassavola.

Nat. Ord. OncHIDEZ.—GYNANDRIA MoNnaNDBIA.

Gen. Char. Sepala et petala subzequalia, libera, acuminata. Labellum cuculla-

tum, integrum, columnam involvens. Columna marginata, clavata, stigmate

infundibuliformi, clinandrio postice tridentato. Pollinia 8, subsequalia, quibus-

dam aliis parvis interjectis. Anthera 4-locularis, septis marginatis, loculis semi-

bipartitis—Herbee caulescentes, epiphyte, apice folium unicum alterumve semi-

cylindraceum, (raro planum) carnosum, supra sulcatum apice subulatum gerentes.

Flores terminales, magni, speciosi. Lindl.

BrassavoLa Digbyana; foliis ellipticis carnosis planis carinatis glaucis, flore

solitario, labello sessili cucullato-cordato marginibus longe fimbriato-erinitis,

clinandrio dente postico subulato incumbente.

Brassavota Digbyana. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1846, ¢. 53.

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The most remarkable of all the Brassavolas (of which genus

Dr. Lindley enumerates fifteen described species), and among the

most singular of Orchideous plants, a native of Honduras, whence

it was introduced by Mrs. M‘Donnell, the lady of the late

Governor. It flowered in the Orchideous house of the Royal

Gardens in June, and is deliciously fragrant. -

Duscr. Pseudo-bulbs elongated, stem-like, compressed, jointed,

the joint sheathed, terminated by a solitary elliptical, glaucous,

thick, fleshy, but flattened though carinated Jeaf. From the base

of the leaf arises the peduncle, compressed and sheathed, termi-

nated by a solitary, very large, fragrant flower. Sepals and

petals nearly similar, oblong, spreading, pale-purplish_ green,

faintly striated, the petals paler and rather broader. Lip very

large, cucullate, cordate, white or cream-coloured, surrounding

entirely the column, faintly striated or nerved, the margin nearly

all round cut into a broad hair-like fringe; the disk furnished

with a large green tubercle. Column semiterete, winged. Stigma

with three furrows. From the back of the clinandrium mses &

OCTOBER Ist, 1349.

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4478.

R.B.& R.imp:

Fitch,del etlith..

Tas. 4475.

HELICONIA ancustiFro.tia.

Narrow-leaved Heliconia.

Nat. Ord. Musacem.—PrEntTANDRIA MoNoGYNIA.

Gen. Char. Perigonii epigyni foliola exteriora equalia, basi inter se coneres-

centia, interiora lateralia subconformia, approximata, genitalia amplectentia,

posticum nanum. Stamina 5, sexto postico abortiente, basi perigonii adnata.

Ovarium inferum, triloculare. Ovuda in loculis solitaria, e basi axeos adscendentia,

anatropa. Stylus filiformis ; stigma depressiusculum, obsolete sexlobum. Cap-

sula subdrupacea, tricocea ; coccis osseis, indehiscentibus. Semina in coccis soli-

taria, obovato-subglobosa, basifixa, testa ab endocarpio vix solubili. Embryo

orthotropus, linearis, in axi albuminis farinaceo-carnosi, extremitate radiculari

umbilicum attingente, infera——Herbee Americane tropice ; foliis longe petiolatis,

petiolis basi vaginantibus, scapum radicalem sepe velantibus, spathis pluribus dis-

lichis, in axilla floriferis. Endl.

HEticonta angustifolia; foliis lingulato-oblongis angustis utrinque acuminatis,

costa subtus vaginis petiolisque valde elongatis pulverulento-pubescentibus,

rachi flexuosa, spathis (6-7) multifloris ‘lanceolatis acuminatis complicatis,

spathellis lanceolatis, sepalis (albis) lineari-oblongis acutis erectis, sepalo

nano trulliformi.

A very handsome and rather dwarf species of Heliconia, in-

troduced by Mr. Henry Shepherd, to the Liverpool Botanical

Gardens, from Brazil. It flowered in January 1846, when its

beautiful bright red spathas, deep orange-coloured ovaries and

white sepals tipped with green had a very handsome effect.

No described species corresponds with it, and, thanks to Dr.

Walpers, all the recently published ones are included in his

“ Annales Botanices Systematice.”’

Descr. I have not seen the entire growing plant. The gga

stem sent to me was sheathed by the bases of the long petioles, an

the principal /eaf was a foot and a half long and about ae

inches wide, ligulato-oblong, with a stout costa and se

oblique zerves, acuminated at both ends, glabrous, except t ns

the costa beneath, as well as the very long, terete eiage ie

cylindrical sheaths (at least in their upper part), were “ e

with a scattered pulverulent or scurfy down. pot eaf is

NOVEMBER lst, 1849.

rather small, above a span long, the petiole reduced to a spatha-

ceous sheath, red at the base: from within this sheath the

flexuose rachis appears, a span and more long, deep red, bearing,

at. distances of an inch or more, each arising from a nodus, six

or seven lanceolate, acuminate, bright red, conduplicate spathas,

the lowest one six inches long, the rest gradually shorter and

less acuminated. Flowers eight to ten in the axil of the sheath,

mixed with a few yellow-white, small, lanceolate spathelle. Pe-

dicels about an inch long, orange-colour. Ovary inferior, tur-

binate, subtriangular, a little wrinkled, deep orange. Sepals

white, tipped with yellow-green, three inches long, linear-oblong,

acute, erect: three outer the longest, the sixth (upper one)

very dwarf, a trowel-shaped scale. Stamens five, unequal.

Anthers linear. Style a little shorter than the stamens. WV. J. H.

Cun. This belongs to a genus of tropical plants inhabiting

moist places, conspicuous by their fine broad leaves and showy

flowers, which are borne on a kind of stem formed by the

sheathing petioles, in some species attaining the height of eight to

ten feet, and, slowly dying after having flowered; forming, with

Thalia and other allied genera, dense thickets in their native

localities. The present may be considered a dwarf species of the

genus, as it does not attain more than between three and four

feet in height. It requires to be kept in the stove, and grown

in a large pot, planting it in light loam and supplying it freely

with water durmg summer. Its creeping rhizoma-like roots soon

fill the pot and produce a crowd of leafy stems; but in order to

obtain a vigorous growth, it is necessary occasionally to divide

- the roots, repotting them in fresh soil, which operation should be

done in the autumn or early in the spring. J. 8.

Fig. 1, Flowers with five larger sepals removed.

Tas. 4476.

SCHOMBURGKIA tTistcinis; var. GRANDIFLORA.

Trumpet Schomburghia ; large-flowered vay.

Nat. Ord. OrcutpE#.—GyYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Sepala et petala conformia, patentia, omnino libera, basi equalia.

Labellum difforme, membranaceum, trilobum, semicucullatum, basi cum margine

columne connatum, supra basin tumidum (intrusum): venis lamellatis. Colwmna

alata. Pollinia octo.—Rhizoma: repens, nudum, annulatum, pseudo-bulbigerum.

Pseudo-bulbi magni, elongati, 2-3-phylli. Folia coriacea. Scapi terminales vagi-

nati. Bracte magne, sicce, spathacee. Flores speciosi, racemosi, congestt. Lindl.

ScHomBurGKIa tidicinis ; pseudo-bulbis conicis corniformibus annulatis sulcatis

3-phyllis, foliis oblongis coriaceis patentibus, scapo longissimo tereti dis-

tanter squamato apice paniculato, panicula pyramidali laxiflora, sepalis

petalisque undulatis crispis, labello oblongo cucullato venis per medium 5

elevatis approximatis, laciniis lateralibus apice rotundatis intermedia sub-

rhombea emarginata, anthera emarginata. Lind.

ScuompBurckKIa tibicinis. Batem. Orchid. Mex. et Guat. t. 30.

Var. 8. grandiflora ; floribus duplo majoribus labello extus pallido intus lobo medio

luteo albo v. violaceo-limbato. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1845. ¢.30. (Lan. Nosrr.)

~ Dr. Lindley considers this a variety of the S. tibicinis of

Mr. Bateman’s splendid work on the “ Orchideae of Mexico and

Guatemala:” but it would perhaps be more correct to consider

it the perfect state of the plant, such as it assumes in its

native woods (Honduras) and such as good cultivated specimens

exhibit in our stoves. The natives use the hollow stems or

pseudo-bulbs as a horn or trumpet. These stems harbour

insects, too, in great numbers. Mr. Bateman tells us that

“Mr. Skinner, its original discoverer, was not permitted to ob-

tain quiet possession of the first flowering specimens he saw ;

for swarms of fiery ants issued forth in thousands from their

snug retreat, to repel the spoiler, and inflicted pangs which none

but the most ardent naturalist would have braved.” It blossoms

with us at Kew in June.

Drscr. Our flowering plant is a noble specimen, which we

NOVEMBER Ist, 1849. : M 2

received from Mrs. Macdonnell, in 1843. The pseudo-bulbs

grow in dense clusters a foot and a half long, swollen and annu-

lated, terete, tapering upwards, terminated by two, rarely three,

oblong, spreading, coriaceous Jeaves. Peduncle terminal, very

long, bearing a panicle (of which our figure represents but a

branch) of large showy bright-coloured flowers. Sepals and

petals equal, spreading, oblong, waved, obtuse; palish purple

without, deeper and redder purple within, streaked with darker

lines, tipped with green. vp large: two side-lobes much the

largest, pale without, streaked towards the edge with purple;

within orange (except a pale line down the centre), streaked and

reticulated with dark purple: middle lobe white stained with

yellow, having a broad purple border. Column thick, about

half the length of the lip. Azther-case notched. W. J. H.

Curr. This is a rather slow-growing epiphyte, requiring the

temperature of the warm Orchideous house. It may be either

grown on a block of wood suspended from the roof, or in a

shallow pot or basket, filled with a thin layer of turfy peat mixed

with potsherds in sufficient quantity to keep the peat open and

from becoming retentive of moisture. Shading during summer

requires to be attended to; and in winter, care must be taken

that the plant does not suffer from any excess of atmospheric

moisture. J. 8.

Fig. 1. Column. 2. Pollen-masses :—imagnified.

Tas. 4477.

DENDROBIUM Tortie.

Twisted-petaled Dendrobium.

Nat. Ord. OncHIDEm.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4352.)

Denprosivm fortile; caulibus clavatis articulatis sulcatis vaginatis, foliis lineari-

bus retusis subcoriaceis, pedunculo bifloro, sepalis oblongis acutiusculis un-

dulatis tortilibus (petalis conformibus) 2 lateralibus in calcar retusum decur-

rentibus, labello magno pubescenti-villoso obovato-cochleariformi basi intus ~

pulvinato.

DEnprostum tortile. Lindl. in Gardener's Chron.* 1847. p. 197. cum. Ic, not

All. Cunn.

A native of Moulmain, imported by Messrs. Veitch through

their collector Mr. Thomas Lobb, exhibited at the Horticultural

Society’s rooms in May 1847, and presented to the Royal

Gardens of Kew in April 1849. It produced its handsome and

long-lived flowers in May. We adopt the name by which we

have received it, for it is an expressive one, and the D. tortile

of Allan Cunningham mentioned by Dr. Lindley in Bot. Reg.

1839, Suppl. n. 31, is considered by the latter to be probably a

Polystachya, and is, as far as I know, nowhere described.

Descr. Our present plant exhibits no beauty in its stems or

foliage. The former (on psewdo-bulbs) are about a span long, and

club-shaped, jointed, sulcated, and for the greater part sheathed

with pale brown, striated scales. The eaves are wholly confined

to the yet unformed pseudo-bulbs, two or three in number, linear,

channelled, retuse, subcoriaceous, obscurely striated. From near

the apex of the old leafless pseudo-bulbs the peduncle appears,

short, two-flowered. Ovary long, pedicelliform, purple. Flowers

large, handsome. Sepals and petals uniform, oblong, spreading,

* It is only since this page was in type that Mr. Veitch has referred me to the

‘Gardener’s Chronicle’ for the name and figure; from which it will be seen that

our representation is a very unfavourable one, for that six flowers are produced

at one time on the pseudo-bulb.

NOVEMBER lst, 1849.

white, delicately tinged with purplish rose, waved and spirally

twisted (whence the name): the two lateral ones decurrent into

a distinct emarginate blunt spur. The ip is large, projecting

forward, ‘conchiform, or rhomboido-obovate, concave, membra-

nous, slightly unguiculate, pubescent, faintly veined above and

below, the margin entire, the sides near the base obscurely

lobed: the co/owr lemon-yellow, with a slight tinge of purple:

the base streaked with dark purple. The c/aw is occupied by

a downy ¢wbercle or callus. Column very short, green, decurrent

to the base of the lip and forming the spur. Anther-case

purple. W.J. Z.

Curr. This fine species of Dendrobium belongs to a group

of the genus characterized by short, somewhat tumid pseudo-

bulbs. Judging from our plant it appears to be of a rather weakly

habit; but its beautiful flowers render it interesting in every

collection of Orchids. Like the greater number of the genus

it is epiphytal on trees, and, being a native of the hot and moist

climate of Java, it requires to be grown in the warm Orchideous

house. An average temperature of 75° in summer and 65° in

winter will be congenial to it; taking care, during the winter

months, that it does not suffer from moisture, and shading, or

placing it in such a position that it does not receive the direct

rays of the mid-day sun, in summer. ‘'o imitate its epiphytal

manner of growth, it should be attached to a block of wood sus-

pended in a nearly horizontal position, or on a sod of compressed

sphagnum moss. The latter we prefer, on account of its being

free from the evils arising from the use of wood: the hot and

moist atmosphere of the Orchideous house soon brings the wood

into a state of decay, forming a harbour for insects and con-

genial to the development of Fungi; the mycelium of some

_ Species of the latter overrunning the surface of the block,

bringing it into a state ungenial to the roots of the Orchid. Pro-

bably the best preventative to the growth of fungi is to pre-

viously char the blocks of wood ; but in time the charring loses

its virtue ; and another objection to the use of charred blocks is

their unpleasant appearance to the eye. J. &.

Fig. 1. Column. 2. Lip. 3. Pollen-masses :—magnified.

4478.

Fitch del et lith . Reeve Benham & Reeve imp

Tas. 4478.

RHODODENDRON Curvianuom.

Duchess of Northumberland’s Rhododendron.

This is one of a very remarkable set of hybrid Rhododendrons

produced by the care and skill of Mr. Iveson, head gardener at

Syon, and it was named by Dr. Lindley at the exhibition-rooms

of the Horticultural Society, in compliment to Her Grace the

Dowager Duchess *f Northumberland, who feels equal pride

with her late noble and lamented husband in the floral treasures

of Syon Gardens, and especially in the rare exotic fruits which

have there been reared with such eminent success.

We figure this as an example of what we are disposed to

~ consider the most delicate and beautiful kind of Rhododendron

yet in cultivation.

Cuxr. This fine plant is a hybrid, believed to be produced

between Rhododendron Catawbiense and the white variety of

Rhododendron arboreum. It is a strong growing variety, well

adapted for forming standards. It is perfectly hardy, but unfor-

tunately, like the other known hybrids from _ Rhododendron

arboreum, it flowers too early for this climate, being apt to have

its flowers destroyed by late spring frosts ; but, as it makes a fine

appearance, it is well worthy of protection while in flower. So long

as the plants are of a moderate size, they may be taken up before

coming into flower and planted in suitable sized pots, placing them

in the green-house, where they will make a fine appearance ;

again planting them out after having done flowering. J. 8.

NOVEMBER Ist, 1849.

Tas. 4479,

tee

CYCHNOCHES parsatum.

Bearded Cychnoches.

Nat. Ord. OrcHIDE#.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4215.)

Cycunocuss darbatum ; pseudo-bulbo ovato compresso demum nudo apice fo-

lioso, folio solitario elliptico-oblongo utrinque attenuato plicato, racemo

radicali longe pedunculato, pedunculo ovariisque pilosis, sepalis petalisque

conformibus lanceolatis patentissimis, labelli facie superiore barbato, hypo-

chilio alte alato, epichilio cordato-ovato obscure trilobo subreflexo.

CycunocieEs barbatum. Lindl. MSS.

From Mrs. Lawrence’s rich collection at Ealing Park, recently

imported from Costa Rica.—A singular and handsome plant,

referred to Cychnoches by Dr. Lindley, but which appears to me

almost to connect Gongora with that very sportive genus :—

indeed, but for the free column (not bearing the upper sepal), I

should have had little hesitation in referring it to the latter genus.

_Duscr. A young plant scarcely exhibits a pseudo-bulb at all,

only several, imbricating, leafy scales, terminated by an oblong-

oval, acuminated, plaited Zeaf. When the leaf is fully developed

the almost naked pseudo-bulb appears, ovate, compressed, green,

- smooth, with the withered scales at the base. Scape from the

_ sase of the pseudo-bulb, a foot long, dark purple, pubescent or

aairy, jointed, sheathed with scales at the Joints: this is a5

nated by a drooping many-flowered raceme, a foot long, of : lic

the rachis and pedicel-like ovaries are dark-purple and is

_ Flowers moderately large, at first sight a good deal eee ing

those of Gongora maculata, but larger. Sepals and petals : e,

_ very spreading, almost reflexed in the opposite pee or

_ the column, narrow-lanceolate, acute, dull y ellow, spoyed wi

purple. Zip pendent (almost at right angles with the —-

formed into two portions as it were, and very ge ar 7

on the upper surface, white, tinged with yellow, an : gan ly

spotted with deep blood-colour: the lower or hypochilium 1s

NOVEMBER lst, 1849. us

unguiculate, with two large wings at the upper extremity, and,

if seen beneath, a small tooth between the wings is observed ;

and here on the upper surface the epichilium is jomted upon

the Aypochilium: the former is cordato-ovate, obscurely three-

lobed, a little reflexed. Column very long, slender, arched, semi-

terete, enlarged upwards and cucullate just below the helmet-

shaped anther-case. Pollen-masses two, club-shaped, with a

long spathulate caudicle. W. J. H.

Curr. Our knowledge of this singular plant is yet too limited

to enable us to state the best mode of cultivating it, but judging

of it by its affinity with Gongora, Mormodes, &c., it may be

grown in turfy peat in pots well drained and kept in the cool

division of the Orchideous house, especially during winter when

the plant is in a state of rest; at which time it should receive

little or no water, but when it begins to show symptoms of com-

mencing to grow it should then receive the stimulus of heat and

moisture, placing it near the glass and shading it from the mid-

day sun in summer. J. 8.

Fig. 1. Flower deprived of the sepals and petals.

2. Column, front view.

3. Pollen-masses :—magnified,

4480.

gf es Tn as

Fitch. del ethth.

Tas. 4480,

ESPELETIA arcenteEa.

Silvery Espeletia.

Nat. Ord. Compositm.—SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA.

Gen. Char. Capitulum multifloram monoicum, fl. radii numerosissimis, disci

tubulosis 5-dentatis bisexualibus, abortu masculis. Znvol. campanulatum im-

bricatum polyphyllum. Recepé. planiusculum paleaceum, paleis membranaceis

obtusis. Anthere exserte. Stylus radii bifidus gracilis, disci simplex. Ache-

mia obovata subangulata calva, disci verosim. abortiva——Herbe cguinoct.

Americane dense lanato-tomentose resinose perennes. Folia opposita integra.

Capitula ramos terminantia corymbosa lutea. De Cand.

Esprietta argentea; dense pulcherrime sericeo-tomentosa, caule brevi crasso

foliaceo demum florifero elongato nudiusculo paniculato corymboso bracteato,

foliis elongato-lanceolatis nervis obliquis, capituli radiis vix involucrum su-

perantibus.

EspEterta argentea, Humb. et Bonpl. Pl. Aiquinoct. v. 2. p.15.t. 71. De Cand.

Prodr. v. 5. p. 516.

Cultivated in the greenhouses both of the Royal Gardens of

Kew, and at Syon, at which latter place it flowered in the

summer of 1848. ‘The seeds were sent in 1845 from the Para-

mo of Siejo, New Granada, by Mr. Purdie, who says it 1s there

called “ Frailejon.’ ‘the whole plant has a peculiar and cer-

tainly somewhat terebinthine odour, and yields, like the genus

Silphium (to which Espeletia is allied mm essential characters) a

copious gum-resin, used in the preparation of ink and for tee

purposes. M. Bonpland seems to have omitted the rays of the

capitula in his figure, though he expressly says in the description

“ fleurs radiées.” In other respects the figure and description

. : 4

Me ee ae oe ul and remarkable plant, and

Duscr. 'Lhis is really a beautiful ?

a stately one when i Bower, attaining then the height of five

or six féet. Before flowering, however, the appearance is very

unk six or

different. A plant of three or four years old has a trun

eight inches high and as thick as one’s wrist, _ bare below,

DECEMBER Ist, 1849.

but the rest forming a crown of dense spreading /eaves a foot

and more long, spreading all round like those of an Aloe. Zeaves

narrow-lanceolate, densely silky and strigose on both sides. At

the flowering season the apex of the trunk lengthens out into an

upright densely silky, nearly leafless, corymboso-paniculate stem.

There are a few leaves at the base, but these gradually pass into

linear dracteas, and those again seem insensibly to merge into

the involucral leaves. Capitula moderately large, yellow, the

disk mclining to brown. Morets all subtended by a ligulate

membranaceous scale : those of the ray ligulate, very numerous,

compact, three-toothed, rather short in proportion to the disk.

Ovary oblong, triangular, naked (no pappus). Séy/e thrice as

long as the tubular portion of the corolla, branches linear-subu-

late. Florets of the disk male (in all as far as I could see) five.

toothed. Stamens a little protruded beyond the mouth of the

corolla. W. J. H.

Curr. This singular-looking plant is a native of the mountains

of New Granada, and was observed by Mr. Purdie to ascend

nearly to the limit of perpetual snow, at an altitude where, on

- account of the diminished weight of the atmosphere, he found

the cold very piercing, much more intense to the feelings than was

Indicated by the thermometer. He describes the old specimens

as bearing a resemblance to posts about three feet high, covered

with wool, and having a tuft of leaves on the top. Growing under

such circumstances, the plant may be expected to prove tolerably

hardy in this climate, but on account of its soft woolly nature it

is lable to suffer from wet and damp. We therefore consider it

best to keep it in a dry and airy part of the greenhouse, and,

durmg damp weather in winter, to give it just sufficient water

to keep the soil in a moderately moist. state, wetting the woolly

leaves as little as possible. ‘A light sandy peat soil suits it;

the pot being well-drained in the usual way, and in summer

being placed in a position so that the sun’s rays do not fall on

the side of the pot. It will continue to be a scarce plant, as the

only specimen that has flowered in this country has not ripened

seeds, and the plant does not readily produce side-shoots. /.S.

Fig. 1. Floret of the ray with its scale. 2. Floret of the disk and scale :—

magnified,

44.81.

RB. & R.mmp-

“itch. delet Lith. .

Tan. 4481.

BRACHYSEMA apuHuytuuvum.

Leaftess Brachysema.

wks

Nat. Ord. LegumInos®.—DrEcaNnpDRIA MonoGyNIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx 5-fidus inequalis tubo ventricoso. Cor, vexillo_petalis

ceteris breviore, alis carinee compress equalibus. Ovarium pedicello basi

- vaginulo fisso. Stylus filiformis elongatus. Legumen ventricosum polysper-

¥ mum. De Cand.

Bracnysema aphyllum; ramis ancipiti-compressis alte alatis aphyllis, loco

foliorum bracteis ovato-subulatis coloratis, floribus solitariis brevi-peduncu-

latis, calyce profunde subsequaliter 5-lobo, lobis linearibus carinam 3 eequan-

tibus.,

We depart here from our ordinary course, in representing a

plant not yet actually in cultivation, and figured from dried

specimens aided by a coloured drawing made from the recent

plant at the Swan River settlement, in the imterior of which

colony it is a native ; and whence seeds as well as dried speci-

mens have been sent by Mr. Drummond. We do not under-

stand that any have yet germinated: but we are desirous to

make known so interesting a plant, which we cannot doubt will

ere long adorn our greenhouses with its beautiful winter or early

spring flowers. We were, at first, disposed to consider it a

new genus, but we adopt Mr. Bentham’s views of its forming

a group of Brachysema, of which another species, B. premor-

sum, Meisn., from the same country, has an exactly similar calyx

and corolla. Cryplosema of Meisner (Jansonia, Kippist) is a

nearly allied plant, but with the two superior lobes of the calyx

_ extremely short. :

_ Drscr. Apparently a small shrub, quite destitute of leaves,

with the dranches singularly compressed and winged with broad

wings margined with red on the two opposite sides, dark green,

the wings here and there with alternate teeth, upon which is a

stipule, but no leaf: or this stipule becomes a bractea, when

from the same point within a short single-flowered peduncle

DECEMBER Isr, 1849. Ae

appears. Flower (always) reversed. Calya large, obscurely

two-lipped, with five nearly equal, linear, erect segments. Corolla

at first orange sprinkled with red, afterwards deep red or blood-

coloured. Vewillum very small, ovate, reflexed : wings shorter

than the carina; the latter being very large and (as seen in-

verted) covering nearly the whole length of the stamens. Sfa-

mens ten: filaments long, free, equal: anthers oblong. Ovary

linear-oblong, downy, gradually tapering into a long style. Fruit

oblong, acuminate, downy, two-valved: in our specimens the

seeds have fallen out. W. J. H.

Cutt. As this plant is not yet known to us in a living state in

this country, we can only infer from its relationship the kind of

treatment that may be suitable for its successful cultivation.

Being a native of the Swan River Colony in Western Australia,

it will require the protection of the greenhouse in winter. It

belongs to a tribe of Leguminose, which in that country gene-

rally inhabit poor dry soils ; and on account of their appearance

in the aggregate they compose a great part of what is termed

bush or scrub, but which, nevertheless, comprehends many of our

most beautiful greenhouse plants. This species may be expected

to thrive if grown in rough peat soil, mixed with a portion of

sharp sand, the pot being well drained so as to prevent the

chance of the soil becoming stagnant ; care being taken during

hot weather in summer that it is placed in a shady place, espe-

cially in such a manner as not to allow the sun to heat the sides

of the pot, since direct heat from the sun transmitted through

the substance of the pot proves injurious to the fine fibrous

roots in immediate contact with it. It is to be observed that

these precautions are only necessary to plants cultivated in pots ;

for New Holland plants, when planted in the open ground,

thrive during our summer without shade; and if the season is so

far favourable as not to have early frosts, they will continue to

flourish till Christmas, or later, provided (as in some seasons)

the thermometer does not fall any night more than two or three

degrees below the freezing point; for we have observed that

many New Holland plants (extra-tropical) do not suffer from

cold so long as there is no actual frost. They appear to luxuriate

during the cool and most autumnal months of this climate,

many becoming handsome bushes, much to be regretted when

at last destroyed by frost. J. 8.

_ Fig. 1. Vexillum. 2. One of the wings. 3. Carina, 4, Stamens and

pistil. 5. Pistil :—magnified, .

R.B.& R.imp-

Fitch del.et lith . 3

Tas. 4482.

IXORA LAXIFLORA.

Laz-flowered Tzora.

Nat. Ord. RuspracEm.—TETRANDRIA MoNoGYNIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4325.)

Txora laviflora ; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis basi in petiolum perbrevem

attenuatis, stipulis ovatis acuminatis ramo angustioribus, panicula corym-

bosa ampla laxissima foliis longiore, ovario globoso (rubro), calycis limbo 4-

dentato erecto appresso, corolle tubo gracillimo lobis convexis obovatis

patentibus in disco barbatis triplo brevioribus, antheris linearibus patentis-

simis corolle lobos eequantibus, stylo exserto, stigmate bifido.

Txora longiflora. Sim. in Rees Cycl. v.19.n.8. De Cand. Prodr. v. 4. p. 489.

Benth. in Niger Flora, p. 414.

Txora brachyloba. De Cand. Prodr.v. 4. p.488.? Benth. .c. p. 413 ?

A native of Sierra Leone, first described by Sir Jas. E. Smith,

recently introduced by Mr. Whitfield to our stoves. Our speci-

men of this delicate and very sweet-scented plant was commu-

nicated by Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., of the Exeter.

Nursery, and it is well worthy of general cultivation, for it has

handsome foliage and flowers, while small, which are great

recommendations as well as the fragrance.

Duscr. Shrub three to four feet high. Leaves, the largest, a

Span in length, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, penninerved, at-

tenuated at the base into a very short petiole. Stipules ovate,

acuminate, appressed, narrower than the branch which bears

them. Panicle terminal, large, and singularly trichotomous,

subcorymbose. Flowers very fragrant. Calye deep red ; the

tube (or ovary) globose, red: the free portion or limb is very

small, and cleft into four erect, appressed teeth. Corolla white

tinged with pink: the ¢wde an inch and a half long, slender :

the limb cut to the base into four spreading obovate segments,

hairy in the disk. Filaments very short : Anthers quite exserted,

- linear, as long as the lobes of the corolla and equally spreading

With them. S/yle exserted. Stigma clavate, bifid. W.S. HL.

Curr. A native of the hot and moist climate of Java, there-

DECEMBER Ist, 1849.

fore requiring to be grown in a warm hothouse. A mixture of

light loam and leaf-mould will suit it, and in order to induce it

to grow freely it should be placed in bottom heat, and in a

moist atmosphere. As it is a slender upright-growing species,

it is advisable to stop the leading shoot, in order to encourage

the plant to produce a greater number of lateral flowering

branches. It strikes readily from cuttings planted under a bell-

glass, and placed so as to receive bottom heat. J. 8.

Fig. 1. Flower :—magnijfied.

Tas. 4483.

BEGONIA cINNABARINA.

Cinnabar-flowered Elephant’s Ear.

Nat. Ord. BeGontace®,—Mone@cta PoLyanpRria.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4172.)

BEGoNIA cinnabarina ; puberula, caule elongato tereti folioso, foliis breviusculo-

et crasso-petiolatis amplis oblique ovatis sinuato-lobatis duplicato-serratis,

pedunculis elongatis rubris, floribus inter majores totis pedicellisque cinna- —

barinis, masc. 4- foem. 5-sepalis obovatis, capsulis subgloboso-triquetris, alis

2 subobsoletis tertia longiuscule producta.

For this extremely handsome species of Begonia we are in-

debted to Messrs. Henderson of Pine Apple Place, who raised

it from seeds sent by Mr. Bridges from Bolivia. The contrast

between the green stem and darker green leaves, with the

deep bright red of the long and stout peduncles and stipules,

together with the red or rather deep large cinnabar-coloured

flowers, is very striking, and renders this, I think I may say, the

most desirable of all the species for cultivation : add to which,

it blooms very freely in an ordinary stove (I suspect it would do

so in a greenhouse) and continues long in flower. :

Descr. Stem erect, but zigzag, stout, terete, succulent, pale

green, slightly downy, as are the leaves and petioles. Leaves

on rather short, stout, terete, green petioles, from four to six

or seven inches long, obliquely ovate, subplicate (the young ones

very plicate and edged with red) sinuate or lobed at the margin

and doubly serrated, the minute teeth red. Stipules ovate,

‘membranaceous, acuminate, red. Peduncles a span and more

long, rather stout, terete, deep and bright red, bearing a panicle

(in our specimen) of six large handsome flowers, which, as well

as the ovaries and pedicels and ovate racts, are rather pale-red

or deep cinnamon colour. The ultimate pedice/s are ternate,

— drooping, of which the central flower is male, the lateral ones

female. MJale fl. Petals four, broadly obovate, spreading. Séa-

DECEMBER lst, 1849.

mens very numerous, dense, orange-coloured. Female fl. Petals

five, rather smaller than those of the male. Ovary and capsule

subglobose, with three longitudinal angles, two of the angles

with small wings, the third with a somewhat triangular pro-

jecting wing: wings red. WV. J. H.

Cur. The genus Begonia contains upwards of 140 described

species, natives chiefly of the tropical regions of Asia and

America, none, it is said, being found in Africa. They are

characterized by a succulent texture, and many of them are of

an epiphytal nature. Some have upright or climbing suffru-

ticose stems ; others have creeping stems analogous to a rhizoma ;

a few have tuberous roots, and a few are annuals. Many of

them bear handsome flowers, which, with their peculiar and

various-shaped foliage, and the ease with which the plants are

cultivated, have caused them to become favourites in our hot-

houses. The present very beautiful species belongs to the divi-

sion with tuberous ‘roots ; and as these lie in a dormant state

during winter, they require to be placed so as not to receive

more moisture than will keep the mould from becoming abso-

lutely dry. For spring they should be repotted, using a mixture

of light loam and sandy peat soil, and set in a warm pit or

hothouse, placing the pot near the glass, and care being taken

_ hot to give much water till the plant has made some progress in

growth. J. 8.

Fig. 1. Ovary or young fruit :—imagnijied.

Fitch del. et lith..

Tas. 4484.

TABERNAEMONTANA LonGIFLora.

Long-flowered Tabernemontana.

Nat. Ord. Apocynra#.—PENTANDRIA MoNoGyYNIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus (in 7. coronaria 5-fidus) ; lobis eestivatione quin-

cunciali, 2 exterioribus, glandulis linearibus, 4-7, basi cujusque lobi vel paulo

supra basim adfixis, verticillatis. Corolla hypocraterimorpha, ¢ubo inferne,

medio vel superne inflato seepius medio angustiore, exappendiculato, fauce nuda,

raro glandulosi; lodis obtusis, wstivatione marginibus dextrorsum conyolutis

apiceque replicatis. Stamina parte inflata tubi corolle inserta; filamentis bre-

vissimis aut nullis, antheris seepius sagittatis longe acuminatis, rarius linearibus,

plerumque inclusis, Nectarium nullum. Ovaria 2, adpressa, glabra. Stylus

unicus, basi interdum prope ovaria duplex, glaber. Stigma antheris proximum,

basi plerumque annulatum, medio cylindraceum vel tuberculis auctum, apice

bilobum (an raro simplex?) Fructus 2, vel abortu solitarii, lineari-oblongi, ob-

longi vel subglobosi, plus minus carnosi, pulposi, divaricati, nervis longitudinali-

bus paucis. Ovula «©, amphitropa. Semixa pauca vel plurima, intra pulpam

cellulosam nidulantia, quasi arillo colorato tecta?, obovoidea, pressione mutua

angulata; ilo depresso sulcato longitudinali; ¢esfa longitudinaliter striata ;

albumine carnoso ; cotyledonibus foliaceis apice curvatis, radiculam rectam eequan-

tibus, hilo parallelis, radicula supera, cylindrica.—Arbores ve? frutices intertro-

picales: ramis sepius dichotomis; foliis oppositis, altero sepe minore, integris,

plerumque glabris, petiolis brevibus in stipulas falsas intrapetiolares basi expansis

vel connatis, glandulis preterea axillaribus et nunc lateralibus; cymis axillaribus,

plerumque geminis apice ramulorum ; floribus albis vel luteis. Alph. DC.

Tawernamontana longiflora; glabra, foliis oblongo-ellipticis abrupte acuminatis

basi acutis, petiolis basi dilatatis, pedunculis laxe, subtrifloris, calycis lobis

ovali-oblongis, corollee tubo longissimo paullo infra medium ventricoso con-

torto et staminifero. Benth.

TaBeRN&MONTANA longiflora. Benth. in Niger Flora, p. 447.

A new and valuable acquisition to our stoves, recently im-

ported by Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., Exeter Nursery,

from Sierra Leone, through Mr. Whitfield. The shrub has

close-placed, ample, dark green foliage, | and remarkably large

white or pale cream-coloured flowers, diffusing a delicious aromatic

fragrance, resembling that of cloves. Dr. Vogel, who also found

the plant at Sierra Leone (as did Heudelot at Senegambia),

speaks of this shrub as very handsome, with the aspect of a

DECEMBER Ist, 1849.

Citrus, and yielding a milky juice. Mr. Bentham observes that

it will, along with his 7. crassa (Niger Fl.), 7. Africana, Hook.,

and 7 ventricosa, Hochst., constitute a natural group of the

genus, nearly allied to Voacanga, P. Th.

Descr. An erect branching shrv/: the young dranches green,

terete. Leaves elliptical, large, with a short acumen, and a

short but dilated petiole; the nerves diverging almost horizon-

tally from the midrib. Peduncles erect, stout, each bearing

about three large white flowers. Calyzx-lobes broadly oval,

obtuse: at their base is a circle of minute glandular scales.

Corolla with the tube twisted, four inches in length, swollen

below the middle: /imé of five waved or reflexed ligulate lobes.

Stamens and style as in the genus and included. WV. J. H.

Cut. A tropical shrub, requiring a warm stove. It will

thrive in a mixture of loam and peat soil, if placed so as to

have the benefit of bottom heat, and watered and syringed freely

during the summer ; but care should be taken that at no time

(especially during its season of rest) the mould becomes satu-

rated ; for the soft and slightly succulent roots are apt to

suffer if kept in too wet a state while the plant indicates a

cessation of growth; and during that periodit should be re-

moved to a drier atmosphere. It will strike from cuttings placed

under a bell-glass, and treated in the usual way for the propa-

gation of tropical woody plants. J. 8.

Fig. 1. Pistil. 2. Calyx-lobe with-scales at the base. 3. Stamen. 4. Por-

tion of the tube of the corolla, laid open to show the stamens, style, and stigma:

—magnified.

eaneencenitt ems

Witch ae) iit UR ete ee ee sstinassinielidelacthatelaepeamateeee : st ea ete

fitch del et litt Peas shee

Tas. 4485.

CLERODENDRON Beruuneanum.

Captain Bethune’s Clerodendron.

Nat. Onp. Verspenace®.—D1pDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tan. 4255.)

CLERODENDRON Bethuneanum; elatum fruticosum, ramis 4-sulcatis, foliis am-

plissimis cordatis acuminulatis obscure serratis glabris basi profunde bilobis

subtus sparse lepidotis, paniculis terminalibus maximis thyrsoideo-pyrami-

datis bracteatis, bracteis lineari-spathulatis coloratis, calycibus magnis

conicis acute 5-angulatis, limbo erecto 5-lobo, cordlle (coccinere) tubo

calycem vix superante, limbo 5-lobo ineequali obliquo lobis oblongis obtusis

reflexis superiore longiore basi albo, staminibus longissimis.

CLERODENDRON Bethuneanum. Lowe in Hist. of Borneo, and in Hook. Bot. Mag. -

Comp, (1848) v. 74. p. 30. .

Whoever had the gratification of seeing the superb panicle of

flowers of this Clerodendron in the stove of Messrs. Lucombe,

Pince, and Co., of Exeter Nursery, in the month of September

of this year, with the equally large and striking foliage, could

form some idea of the treasures yet to be expected from the

researches of Mr. Lowe, jun., m Borneo. Nor is the charm of

this plant confined to the general aspect alone. ach flower is

exceedingly beautiful in itself: peduncles, pedicels, bracts, calyx,

corolla, the very long and graceful stamens, all are of the deepest

crimson, while the two side-lobes of the corolla have a purple

spot near the base (not easily represented in the figure) and the

upper lobe has a much larger white spot. “ Four species of

Clerodendron,” Mr. Lowe, jun., says, in the work above quoted,

“ adorn the banks of the Sarawak river: two of them, which are

fragrant, bear white flowers, another is scarlet, and another

crimson. ‘The latter is the handsomest: it forms a shrub ten

feet high, each branch terminated by a large lax panicle three

feet long, of rich crimson blossoms, forming, with the equally

crimson bracts and branches, a magnificent pyramid of bloom,

every flower relieved by its white centre and protruding stamens ;

the foliage is likewise ornamental, being large, dense, and heart-

shaped.” “This Clerodendron,” Mr. Lowe continues, “ which

now grows well in England, has been named after Capt. Bethune,

R.N., who brought it and several other fine plants from Borneo.*

When its flowering season is past, the C. Bethuneanum does not

lose all its charms; for the crimson bracts and calyces persist,

. Amongst them the noble Nepenthes Rafflesiana, figured in our Bot. Mag.

4285.

DECEMBER Ist, 1849.

and the latter contain, each, a four-seeded berry of the richest

blue colour.”’ =

We are indebted to Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., for the

splendid specimen, of which but a very small portion can be

introduced into our plate. :

Descr. Although in its native country attaiming a height of

ten feet, it is one of those plants that flower readily when but of

small size and confined in a pot. The whole is glabrous. The

branches green, streaked with purple, marked with four furrows,

hence four-angular, with the angles very obtuse. Leaves, the

lower ones, on long petioles, very large, twelve to fourteen inches

each way (in length and breadth), exactly cordate, acuminulate,

with a deep sinus at the base, the margin obscurely toothed or

serrated, the texture rather soft, the underside studded with

minute scattered scale-like dots (lepidota). The upper leaves

become gradually smaller and pass into dracts. Panicles large,

_ lax, terminal, forming a pyramidal thyrsis two to three feet long ;

peduncles and pedicels, as well as the entire ground-work of the

flowers, crimson ; bracts \anceolato-spathulate, crimson (the lower

ones broader). Calya large, inflated, conical, with sharp angles,

almost winged at the angles ; the /imé of five, sharp, erect teeth.

Tube of the corolla but little longer than the calyx : Himd oblique,

of five spreading, soon recurved, oblong Jodes, of which the ©

lateral ones have an intense purple spot at the-base, and the

upper and rather longer and larger lobe a pure white spot occu-

_ pying the lower half of the lobe, and partially divided by a red

line. Ovary four-lobed : style long, filiform: stigma bifid. Fila-

ments of the stamens nearly four inches long, inclined down, but

' slightly curving upwards: anthers small, dark greenish-grey.

Cunt. Clerodendron is an extensive genus of soft-wooded

tropical plants of various habits, a few of the species recom-

mending themselves to our notice on account of their hand-

some flowers; the species figured is one of these. In order

to produce a handsome head of flowers it is advisable to select a

young healthy plant early in the season, and encourage it to

rapid growth by giving it the usual stimulants of heat and mois-

ture, and growing it in a tolerably rich soil. ‘This may consist.

of light loam, mixed with a portion of leaf-mould or other vege-

table manure; the pot being well drained, so as to allow of

_ Watering freely without the risk of the soil becoming saturated,

_ which a rich soil is apt to do if carelessly watered, especially after

shifting the plant into a larger pot, before the roots penetrate

into the fresh soil. Shading in summer for a few hours in the

middle of the day will be necessary, especially if the roof of the

house has a south aspect and is of a light construction. It

may be propagated by cuttings planted under a bell-glass, and

placed in any warm part of the stove. J. 8. -

LATIN

GENERAL INDEX,

THE PLANTS CONTAINED IN THE LAST SEVEN VOLUMES OF THE

NEW SERIES,

(Or from Vol. LXIV. to LXX. inclusive, of the whole Work, )

OF THE

BOTANICAL MAGAZINE.

Vol| No. Vol, No.

69 | 4032 | Acacta dentifera. 66 | 3769 | Aristolochia caudata.

68'| 3939 | —— diptera; 8. erioptera. 66 | 3756 ciliata.

68 | 3933 platyptera. 70 | 4120 ornithocephala.

69 | 4041 rotundifolia. 65 | 3640 | —— saccata.

69 | 4012 | Achimenes grandiflora. 70 | 4128 | Armeria cephalotes.

69 | 3980 longiflora. 65 | 3678 | Arthrostemma versicolor.

69} 3993 | —— multiflora. 70 | 4106 | Asclepias vestita.

4077 pedunculata. 68 | 3962 | Aspasia epidendroides.

| 4126 icta. 65 | 3679 variegata.

8852 | Aconitum Chinense. 70 | 4094 | Barkeria spectabilis.

3994 | Acronychia Cunninghami. 70 | 4118 | Barleria flava.

66 | 3788 | Barnardia scilloides.

67 | 3831 | Barringtonia racemosa.

65 | 3649 | Bartonia aurea.

67 | 8818 | Batemannia Colleyi.

3741 | Bauhinia forficata.

3563 | Acropera Loddigesii.

4050 | Acrophyllum verticillatum.

4049 | Aerides affine.

3848 | Aeschynanthus grandiflorus.

3654 | Agave Americana, var. foliis || 66

69 | 4025 | Begonia acuminata.

variegatis. c

3958 | Alstroemeria nemorosa. 69 | 3990 | —— coccinea.

3944 psittacina; v. Erembouldti || 69 | 3968 | —— hydrocotylifolia.

(hybrid). 69 | 4046 | —— nitida.

4008 | Amicia Zygomeris. 70 | 4100 | —— Meyeri.

3858 | Anchusa petiolata. 64 | 3564 | —— monoptera.

4005 | Androsace lanuginosa. 64 | 3559 octopetala.

3848 | Angelonia cornigera. 66 | 3720 | —— parvifolia.

3754 | —— Gardneri. 64 | 3591 | —— platanifolia.

70 | 4131 | —— rubricaulis.

66 | 3731 | —— sinuata.

68 | 3949 | Berberis nervosa.

3875 | Anigozanthus Manglesii.

4123 | Ancectochilus setaceus.

3610 | Anthericum glaucum. ¢ J :

3608 | Aporum anceps. 64 | 3597 | Bifrenaria aurantiaca.

3919 | Aquilegia Skinneri. 68 | 3888 | Bignonia speciosa.

3904 | Arctostaphylos nitida. 66 | 3736 | Bletia Parkinsoni. —

3927 | —— pungens. 64 | 3599 | Blumenbachia multifida.

Bolbophyllum Calamaria.

Bomarea acutifolia; var. punc-

tata.

simplex.

+ Boronia Fraseri.

Bossizea virgata.

Bouvardia splendens.

Boussingaultia baselloides.

Brachycome iberidifolia.

Boronia crenulata.

Bossizea tenuicaulis.

Brassavola cordata.

cuspidata.

glauca.

—— Perrinii.

venosa.

Brassia Lanceana.

—— Lanceana; var. viridiflora.

—— Wraye.

Bromheadia palustris.

Brownea coccinea.

Burrielia gracilis.

Caladium petiolatum.

Calectasia cyanea.

Callichroa platyglossa.

Calliprora lutea.

Callithauma viridiflorum, et an-

gustifolium. -

Callistachys linearis.

Callistemon pinifolium.

Caltha sagittata. —

Canavalia ensiformis.

Carica citriformis.

Cattleya citrina.

—— crispa.

—— guttata, 8B. Russelliana.

intermedia, var. angusti-

folia.

—— intermedia; variegata.

— labiata. re

—— Mossie.

—— pumila.

superba.

Catasetum abruptum.

— globiflorum.

integerrimum.

luridum.

—— Russellianum.

— viridi-flayum.

Wailesii.

Centaurea depressa.

Cephaelis Ipecacuanha

Cereus Ackermanni.

—— ceruleséens.

Cereus extensus.

latifrons.

Martianus.

multiplex.

pentalophus, 8. subarticu-

latus.

Pitajaya.

speciosissimus, hybridus.

Ceropegia oculata.

serpentinus.

stapeliiformis.

vinceefolia.

Cestum viridiflorum.

Chabreea runcinata.

Chenopodium Quinoa.

Chorizema Henchmanni.

—— spectabile.

Chrysocoma squamata.

Chrysostemma tripteris.

Chysis aurea. ©

Cirrhzea fusco-lutea.

Clarkia elegans. ok.

Clematis cerulea; f. grandi-

flora. 2

montana ; var. grandiflora.

Clethra tomentosa.

Clianthus puniceus.

Cobzea macrostema.

Coburgia coccinea.

trichroma.

Ceelogyne ocellata.

Colletia horrida.

Collinsia heterophylla.

Colocasia odorata.

Columnea Schiedeana.

Convolvulus ocellatus.

Cooperia pedunculata.

Coreopsis longipes.

Correea pulchella.

Coryanthes maculata, var. Par-

Ker, ;

Crocus anhulatus, Adamicus.

—— lagenzflorus; var. lacteus

lutescens. ;

—— speciosus.

suaveolens,

Cycnoches ventricosum; var.

Egertonianum. ;

pig fF ; var. leucochi-

lum.

Cymbidium triste.

Cyrtochilum maculatum.

——maculatum; va7.ecornutum.

Cystanthe sprengelioides.

.| No.

3878

3593

3643

4013

3970

8837

3553

3838

8925

4067

3988

3655

4059

4091

4073

3622

3619

3624

3716

4035

4102

4089

8570

3974

4115

3906

3561

3558

4124

3569

3963

3627

3997

3976

3735

3835

3873

3658

3775

3898

3765

3557

3595

3543

3791

3565

3637

3885

3631

3778

| 3800

3951

3638

3751

Dahlia glabrata.

Delphinum viminewn.

Dendrobium aggregatum.

—— crumenatum.

macranthum.

moschatum.

Desmodium Canadense.

Deutzia seabra.

Digitalis lutea, 8. fucata.

Dinema polybulbon.

Diospyros, Sapota.

Diplacus puniceus.

Diplolena Dampier.

Disa cornuta.

——- grandiflora.

Dodecatheon integrifolium. ©

Dombeya cannabina.

Dracophyllum capitatum.

Dracopis amplexicaulis.

Dryandra arctotidis.

—— formosa.

Drymonia punctata.

Echeveria racemosa.

Echinocactus centeterius.

concinnus.

—— corynodes.

— Mackizanus.

—— mammillaroides.

—— Pentlandi.

—-— sessiliflorus.

tenuispinus.

tubiflorus.

Echites hirsuta.

splendens.

Edwardsia Macnabiana.

Eleeodendron Capense.

Elisena longipetala.

Epacris microphylla.

obtusifolia.

Epidendrum calocheilum.

cepiforme.

leroleucum.

coriaceum.

crassifolium.

—— densiflorum.

—— diffusum.

— floribundum.

—— 8 .

nna osum.

—— Hick taodeiancl

patens.

—— Skinneri.

—— tessellatum.

—— violaceum.

—— viridi-purpureum.

—— vitellinum.

Epimedium Musschianum.

Epiphyllum Russellianum.

Eranthemum montanum.

Eria stellata.

Erica florida, var. campanulata.

Irbyana.

jasminiflora.

Shannoniana.

Eriostemon buxifolium.

Erysimum Perofskianum.

Eucalyptus splachnicarpon.

Eucharidium concinnum.

Euphorbia Jacquiniflora.

Eutoca divaricata.

Euterpe montana.

Meuziesii.

Eutoca viscosa.

Fuchsia alpestris.

—— corymbiflora.

Sieboldiana.

Franciscea latifolia.

Francoa ramosa.

Funckia albo-marginata.

splendens.

Gaillardia bicolor, var. Drum-

mondii integerrima.

Galactodendron utile.

Ibid.

Gardenia Sherbournie.

Gardoquia betonicoides.

—— multiflora.

Gastrochilus longiflora.

pulcherrima.

Gastrolobium acutum.

Gelasine azurea.

Geranium cristatum.

Gesneria bulbosa. —

cochlearis.

— Douglasii, 8. verticillata.

—— elongata, var.

fascialis.

—— Gardneri.

—— Lindleyi.

— Marchii.

mollis.

/—— polyantha.

Sceptrum, y. ignea.

— stricta.

—— tuberosa.

—— zebrina.

3842

4037

4118

3652

3905

3552

3957

INDEX

Vol.

Gladiolus Mortonius. 67

Gloxinia speciosa; var. macro-| 67

phylla, variegata. 67

speciosa; var. Menziesii. | 70

—— tubiflora. © 70

Goldfussia glomerata. 68

Gomphrena pulchella.

Gongora maculata. 70

Gonolobus hispidus. 66

Govenia Gardneri. 68

Grabowskia duplicata. 69

Greenovia aurea, 69

Grevillea dubia. 69

Grindelia inuloides. 65

Habranthus Andersoni; var. e.| 70

Texanus. 66

pratensis ; va. quadriflora.| 66

Heemanthus tenuiflorus; var.) 64

Mozambicensis. 66

Hakea dactyloides.

Helianthus mollis. 65

Helichrysum niveum. 67

Herbertia pulchella, et ceerulea. || 66

Heterotropa asaroides.

Hoteia barbata. 64

Hibiscus Cameroni. 64

Hippeastrum ambiguum, var. 1.) 69

Jongiflora. 66

breviflorum. 65

—— solandriflorum. 65

Hologymne glabrata. 70

Houlletia Brocklehurstiana. 65

Hymenoxys Californica. 64

Hypocalyptus obcordatus. 64.

Hypocyrta strigillosa. 66

Hypoxys stellipilis. 64

Tlex platyphylla. 69

Paraguayensis.

Illicium religiosum. 64

Impatiens glanduligera. 69

scapigora. 70

tricornis. 65

Ipomeea Bonariensis. 68

crassipes. 70

Platensis. 64

Tweediei. 69

Ismene Macleana. 67

Tsomeris arborea. 64

Isopogon scaber. 65

Juanulloa parasitica. 67

Kennedya nigricans. 67

Kreysigia multiflora, 65

Lachenalia glaucina. 65

Lelia albida. 65

Lelia anceps.

autumnalis.

furfuracea.

peduncularis.

superbiens.

Lantana Selloviana; 8. lanceo-

lata.

Laplacea semiserrata.

Lasiandra petiolata.

Lasiopetalum macrophyllum.

Lathyrus nervosus.

pubescens.

Leianthus nigrescens.

Leonotis nepetzefolia.

Lepanthes sanguinea.

Lepismium commune.

Myosurus.

Leptosiphon densiflorus.

Leptotes bicolor, var. glauco-

phylla.

Leycesteria formosa.

Liatris propinqua. :

Lilium speciosum, var. albiflo-

Tum, —

Limnanthes Douglasii.

Linum monogynum.

Liparia parva.

Liparis Walkerie.

Lisianthus Russellianus.

Loasa lateritia.

Pentlandii.

Lobelia Bridgesii.

Cavanillesii.

erinoides.

heterophylla.

polyphylla.

splendens, . var, B. ati0-

sanguinea.

syphilitica, hybrida.

Lomatia ilicifolia.

tinctoria.

Lophospermum scandens.

Luculia gratissima.

Luxemburgia ciliosa.

Lychnis Bungeana.

Macleania angulata.

Macropodium nivale.

Madia elegans.

Malva Creeana.

lateritia.

4018

3774

4096

3955

4104

3764

INDEX.

Fol.

Mammillaria pyenacantha. 64

tenuis.

tetracantha. 64

—— turbinata. 66

Mandevilla suaveolens. 65

Marianthus ceruleo-punctatus. |) 67

Marica gracilis. 64

humilis ; var. 2, lutea. 67

Marshallia ceespitosa. 68

Maxillaria acutipetala. 68

aureo-fulva. 67

ciliata. 66

cucullata. 68

decolor. 64

Henchmanni. 66

—— pumila. 70

stapelioides. 67

Steelii. 68

Megaclinium maximum. 68

Melocactus depressus. 68

Merendera Caucasica. 67

Microstylis histionantha. 66

Miltonia candida; var. flaves-|| 69

cens. 69

Clowesii. 69

Mimulus Cardinalis. 68

roseus; (hybridus) var. || 66

Maclainianus. 68

Monacanthus discolor, 8. viridi-|| 68

florus. 68

Monachanthus Bushnani. 64

fimbriatus. 69

longifolius. 65

roseo-albus. 66

Monolopia major. 65

Morina longifolia. 67

Mormodes pardina. 65

Mormodes pardina; var. uni-|| 64

color. 65

Musa superba. 70

Ibid. 68

Myanthus deltoideus. 65

spinosus. 65

Myosotis Azorica. 65

Nelumbium luteum. 67

speciosum. 68

Tbid. 70

Nematanthus chloronema. 64

longipes. 65

Nemophila atomaria. 69

Nephelium Longan. 70

Odontoglossum grande. 68

—— pulchellum. o

(Enothera bifrons.

3931

3847

3790

4026

3921

3748

3896

3932

3697

3773

3635

3636

3580

3692

4086

3889

4053

3703

3991

4078

3928

(Enothera fruticosa, var. am-

bigua.

Oncidium Cebolleta.

? concolor.

Forbesii.

Huntianum.

— luridum.

—— macrantherum.

monoceras,

ornithorhynchum.

pachyphyllum.

Papilio, var, limbatum.

—— pubes; var, flavescens.

—— pumilum.

—— raniferum, var. major.

—_—.. tricolor.

Wraye.

Opuntia decumbens.

monacantha.

Oreodaphne bullata.

Orthosiphon incurvus.

Osbeckia canescens.

Chinensis.

Othonna frutescens.

tuberosa.

Otochilus fusca.

Oxalis Barreliert.

lasiandra.

lasiopetala.

Martiana.

Papaver Gariepinum.

Passiflora Actinia.

—— incarnata.

—— Mooreana.

—— nigelliflora.

onychina.

Tucamanensis.

Pavetta Caffra.

Pavonia Schrankii.

Pentas carnea.

Pentstemon campanulatus.

diffusus.

— glandulosus.

—— gentianoides.

—— heterophyllus.

Pernettia angustifolia.

Petalidium barlerioides.

Petunia violacea, hybrida.

Phacelia tenacetifolia.

Phajus albus.

bicolor.

—— maculatus.

Phalocallis plumbea.

Pharbitis Learii.

INDEX

Fol.

Pharbitis Tyrianthina. 67

Phaseolus lobatus. 69

Philibertia grandiflora. 69

Philodendron erassinervium. 70

Phlogacanthus curviflorus. 64

Physianthus auricomus. 68

Pimelea Hendersoni. 65

nana. 67

— spectabilis. 65

Platystemon Californicum. 65

leiocarpum. 65

Platysaigma linearis. 65

Pleroma Benthamianum. 67

Pleurothallis Grobyi. 70

picta. 66

Plumieria acuminata. 65

Podotheca gnaphalioides. 70

Poinciana Gilliesii. 70

Polygala myrtifolia, var. grandi-| 69

flora. 64

Polystachia grandiflora. 64

Polyspora axillaris. 67

Potentilla glabra. 70

Prepusa Hookeriana, 66

Primula denticulata. 67

Pterodiscus speciosus. 69

Pyrus arbutifolia. 68

Rehmannia Chinensis. 68

Rhipsalis brachiata. 68

Rhododendron albiflorum. 67

anthopogon. 68

—— arboreum ; Cinnamomeum,| 68

floribus roseis. 67

campanulatum. 69

—— Caucasicum ; hybridum. || 70

—— nudiflorum; var. scintil-|| 64

lans (hybridum). 70

Rondeletia longiflora. 70

—— odorata. 68

Rosa Brunonii. 67

Ruellia ciliatiflora. 64

Rytidophyllum auriculatum, 69

Saceolabium guttatum. 65

Salvia confertiflora ; var. B. 69

patens. 67

Sarcanthus teretifolius, 70

Saurauja spectabilis, 67

Seaphyglottis violacea. 69

Schomburgkia marginata; var,| 64

petalis sepali ueimmarginatis,|| 64

Senecio calamifolius, 68

Heritieri ; var. cyanoph- || 65

thalmus. ee 70

Sida (Abutilon) Bedfordiana. 70

3840

4015

4105

3954

3672

3795

3684

3677

3709

3681

3872

4127

3776

3701

4125

4055

3975

3606

3615

3803

4058

3792

3856

4014

3902

3918

3883

3816

3913

4062

3830

4004

4070

3611

4111

4119

3901

3859

3546

3969

3702

3985

3851

4097

3844

4042

3547

3555

3887

3630

4098

4114

2 yeas

Sida picta.

Siphocampylos betulzfolius.

longepedunculatus.:

lantanifolius.

Sisyrinchium speciosum. |

Solanum Balbisii; var. bipinnata. sq

campanulatum. 2

crispum.

fragrans.

Sophronitis cernua. o

grandiflora. ee

Spathodea pentandra. a

Sprekelia Cybister. ”

Stapelia cactiformis. 4

Statice arborea. @

puberula. |

macrophylla. a

rhytidophylla. |

Stelis atropurpurea. =

Stenactis speciosa. |

Stenomesson croceum. =

latifolium.

Stephanotis floribunda.

Stevia breviaristata.

trachelioides.

Stigmaphyllum heterophyllum.

Strobilanthes sessilis.

Stuartia pentagyna.

Stilidium ciliatum.

fasciculatum.

recurvum.

Tacsonia pinnatistipula.

Tagetes corymbosa.

Tecoma jasminoides,

Tetranema Mexicanum.

Thermopsis fabracea.

Thomasia stipulacea.

Thunbergia chrysops.

Tithonia ovata.

Tofieldia pubens.

Tradescantia caricifolia.

Trichocentrum fuscum.

Trifolium hybridum.

Tropzolum azureum.

brachyceras.

Lobbianum.

Moritzianum.

—— polyphyllum.

Tulbaghia Ludwigiana.

violacea.

Tulipa tricolor.

Tweedia versicolor.

Umbilicus malacophyllus.

Vanda teres.

Pol.| No Vol.| No

CS ee ene

3799 | Verbascum Tauricum. 64 | 3582 | Xanthozia rotundifolia.

Verbena incisa. 68 | 3956 | Zichya glabrata.

teucrioides. 67 | 3812 | Zygopetalum Africanum.

Veronica prostrata ; y. satureiae-|| 64 | 3585 | —— cochleare.

folia. 65 | 3686 | Zygopetalon maxillare.

speciosa. | 65 | 3674 | —— Murrayanum.

Viscaria oculata.

THE PLANTS CONTAINED IN THE LAST SEVEN VOLUMES OF THE

ENGLISH

"GENERAL INDEX,

‘NEW SERIES,

(Or from Vol. LXIV. to LXX. inclusive, of the whole Work, ) el

OF THE

BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. ee

Acacta, broad-winged.

round-leaved.

—— two-winged ; downy var.

tooth-bearing.

Achimenes, large-flowered.

long-stalked.

— long-flowered.

many-flowered.

pointed.

Acronychia, Mr. Allen Cunning-

ham’s,

Acropera, Mr. Loddiges’.

Acrophyllum, whorl-leaved.

Aerides, rose-coloured ; or Air-

plant.

Aeschinanthus, large-flowered.

African Ragwort; or tuberous

Othonna.

Alkanet, petiolated-leaved.

Aloe, great American, with varie-

gated leaves.

Alstremeria, Mr. Erembouldt’s

hybrid, var.

— woodland.

Amancaes, Mr. M‘Lean’s.

Amicia, yoke-leaved.

Androsace, shaggy-leaved.

Angelonia, Mr. Gardner’s.

horn-bearing.

Anigozanthus, Mr. Mangle’s.

Aniseed, Tree, sacred.

Ancectochilus, fringed.

Antheridum, glaucous-leaved.

Aporum, two-edged. :

Arctostaphylos, sharp-pointed ;

or Bear Berry.

—— shining.

Aristolochia, fringe-flowered. _

Aroma, Arbutus-leaved.

Arthrostemma, changeable-flow-

ered.

Asclepias, hairy-stemmed.

Aspasia, Epidendrum-like.

variegated.

Asphodel, American downy-—

stalked.

Balsam, glandular; or Touch

me-not.

stemless.

three-horned.

Barberry, strong-nerved.

Barkeria, showy.

Barleria, yellow.

Barnardia, Chinese.

Barren-wort, purple.

—— white-flowered.

Barringtonia, raceme-flowered.

Bartonia, golden.

Batemannia, Mr. Colley’s.

Bauhinia, forcipated.

Bean of India, sacred; deep

rose-coloured, var.

INDEX

Vol,

Bean of India. 64

Begonia, eight-petaled. 68

Mr. Meyer’s; or Elephant’s 69

ear. 67

Penny-wort leaved.

plane-leaved. 64

point-leaved; or Elephant’s|| 68

ear. 67

red-scaped ; or Elephant’s|| 68

ear. 64

scarlet-flowered ; or Ele-|| 68

. phant’s ear. 66

shining-flowered ; or Ele-|| 69

phant’s ear. 69

small-leaved; or Elephant’s| 68

ear. ¢ 65

single-leaved. 70

sinnated; or Elephant’s

ee 65

Bifrenaria, orange-coloured, 66

Bignonia, showy-flowered.

Bind-weed, purple-eyed. 65

Birth-wort, Bird’s head.

—— livid-flowered. 70

pouch-flowered. 66

Blumenbachia, multifid-leaved. || 65

Bletia, Mr. Parkinson’s. 64

Boat-lip, violet. 68

Bolbophyllum, quill-stemmed. || 67

Bomarea, simple. 65

sharp-leaved ; speckled,

var. 70

Boronia, crenulated.

My. Fraser’s. 86

Bossisea, slender-stemmed. 64

twiggy. 67

Boussingaultia, Basella-like. 70

Bouvardia, splendid. 66

Brachycome, Candytuft-leaved. || 70

Brassavola, glaucous. 66

heart-lipped. 64

Perrin’s. 69

spear-lipped. 70

vein-lipped. 64

Brassia, Mr, Lance’s green-flow-| 68

ered, var. 64

Mr. Lance’s. 64

—— Mrs. Wray’s. 66

Bromheadia, Marsh. 64

Brownea, scarlet-flowered. 66

Burrielia, slender. 65

Caladium, long-stalked.

Calectasia, bright blue. 66

Callichroa, golden. 67

No.

3588

3882

3989

3866

3594

3929

3823

3942

3590

3937

38777

4017

3998

3910

3656

4085

3669

3711

3693

4083

3742

3662

3598

3922

3813

3651

4066

3789

3566

3822

4084

3768

4093

3740

3567

4022

4116

3607

3903

3583

3617

3726

3592

3743

3702

3780

3865

Calliprora, yellow.

Callistachys, red-flowered.

Callistemon, fine-leaved.

Callithauma, green-flowered, and

narrow-leaved.

Campion, Dr. Bunge’s scarlet.

Catasetum, blunt-lipped.

entire-lipped.

globe-flowered.

lurid.

—— Mr. Wailes’.

—— the Duke of Bedford’s.

yellow-green.

Cattleya, crimson-lipped.

crisp-flowered.

—— dwarf.

intermediate, variegated-

lipped.

— Mrs. Moss’s superb.

—— narrow-leaved, intermedi-

ate.

spotted, Lord Edward Rus-

sell’s, var.

superb.

yellow-flowered.

Centaury, prostrate.

Cereus, Ackermann’s Mexican,

blue-stemmed.

broad-stemmed.

five-winged, somewhat-

jointed, var.

—— long-stemmed, or Torch

Thistle.

proliferous.

—— serpent-like.

splendid ; hybrid, var.

—— variable; or Pitajaya.

Von Martius.

Ceropegia, ocellated.

periwinkle-leaved.

Stapelia-like.

Cestrum, green-flowered.

Chabreea, changeable-flowered,

Chorizema, Mr. Henchmann’s.

showy.

Chrysostemma, three-leaved.

Chysis, golden-flowered.

Cirrhea, yellow-brown.

Clarkia, Californian.

Clethra, downy,

Clover, Mule white Trefoil, or

tall Dutch.

Cobeea, long-stemmed.

Coburgia, scarlet.

| No.

3867

3767

3644

3695

3919

4045

3727

3586

4029

3747

3622

3959

3723

3732

3868

3869

3861

3864

4054

3648

3880

3836

3826

3878

3988

3643

3970

3837

4013

3553

3838

4067

3655

4059

4091

4073

3619

3624

3716

4035

4102

4089

3570

3906

3561

3558

4115

4124

3569

INDEX

Vol

Coburgia, three-coloured. 68

Celogyne, eyeletted. 69

Colletia, bristling. 69

Collinsia, variable-leaved. 69

Columbine, Mr. Skinner’s. 66

Columnea, Mr. Schiede’s. 67

Cooperia, pedunculated. 67

Coreopsis, long-stalked. 66

Correea, pretty. 65

Coryanthes, spotted-lipped, Mr.|| 68

Parker’s, var. 65

Cowslip, American entire-leaved.|| 66

purple Nepal. 64

Cow Tree, or Palo de Vaca. 68

Crane’s bill, crested-seeded. 64

Crocus annulatus, Mons. Adam’s|| 65

var. 66

—— pale yellow, gourd-shaped.|| 68

showy. 66

sweet-scented. 1 66

Cycnoches, ventricose-lipped ; or!) 64

Swan-neck, Sir Francis Eger-| 67

ton’s, var. 64

Cymbidium, lurid-flowered. 64

Cyrtochilum, spotted. 70

—— spotted; hornless, var. || 66

Cystanthe, Sprengelia-like.

Dahlia, smooth, dwarf. 69

Date-plum, Sapota. 64

Dendrobium, close-flowered. 70

large-flowered. 69

—— musk-smelling.

sweet-smelling, clubbed-|| 64

stemmed. 65

Desmodium, Canadian.

Deutzia, rough-leaved. 67

Dinema, many-bulbed. 65

Diplacus, scarlet-flowered. 66

Diplolena, Dampier’s. 64

Disa, horned-flowered. 66

large-flowered. 64

Dombeya, Hemp. 70

Dracophyllum, round-headed. || 64

Dracopis, stem-clasping leaved.| 67

Dryandra, Arctotis-like, 68

splendid. 68

Drymonia, spotted-flowered.

Echeveria, racemed. 68

Echinocactus, many-flowered. || 67

—— Mr. Mackie’s. 69

—— Mammillaria-like. 68

—— neat. 69

red-flowered. 70

—— sessile-flowered. 67

| Wo

3963

3974

3997

3976

3735

3835

3873

3775

3658

3898

3638

3791

3595

3885

355%

3634

3778

3951

3765

3666

3565

3800

3543

3631

4107

3717

4031

3605

4101

4036

3589

3673

3874

3706

3762

3572

3764

3545

4056

3574

3802

3923

3925

3907

3824

4000

3948

3999

4082

3801

Kchinocactus, slender-spined.

variegated-flowered.

Echites, hairy-flowered.

splendid-flowered.

Edwardsia, Mr. Macnab’s.

Elzodendron, Cape.

Elisena, long-limbed.

Epacris, blunt-leaved.

small-leaved.

Epidendrum, beautiful-lipped.

chequer-flowered.

cluster-flowered.

coriaceous-leaved.

Dr. Graham’s.

—— green and white-flowered.

—— many-flowered.

—— Mr. Parkinson’s,

—— Skinner’s.

—— onion-rooted.

‘—— purplish-green.

spreading.

spreading-flowered.

thick-leaved.

—— warty-fruited.

yolk-of-egg.

Epiphyllum, the Duke of Bed-

ford’s.

Eranthemum, Mountain.

Eria, star-flowered.

Eriostemon, box-leaved.

Eucalyptus, or Gum Tree, Splach-

num-fruited.

Eucharidium, pretty. ig

Euphorbia, or Spurge, Jacquinia-

flowered.

Euterpe, mountain.

Eutoca, clammy.

straggling.

Mr. Menzies.

Evening Primrose, heart-leaved.

shrubby, var.

Fig Marigold, arrow-leaved.

Flax, monogynous.

Fly-wort, spine-bearing.

-—— triangular-lipped.

Fox-glove, small, yellow; pur-

ple-flowered, var.

Franciscea, broad-leaved.

Francoa, white-flowered.

Fuchsia, cluster-flowered.

entire-leaved.

Mountain.

—— splendid.

—— the glowing.

INDEX

Fol,

Funckia, Dr. Siebold’s. 66

variegated. 65

Gaillardia two-coloured, Drum-

mond’s entire-leaved var. 70

Gardenia, Mrs. Sherbourne’s. 70

Gardoquia, Betony-like, 69

many-flowered. 67

Gastrochilus, handsome-flowered.| 67

long-flowered. 66

Gastrolobium, shagp-leaved. 68

Gaybine, Mr. Lear’s. 66

Tyrian purple.

Gelasine, azure. 70

Gesneria, bulbous-rooted.’ 66

elongated var. 69

—— gaping-flowered.

Dr. Lindley’s. 67

—— many-flowered. 70

mottled-leaved 67

—— Mr. Douglas’s whorled var.|| 68

—— Mr. Gardner’s 69

—— Mr. March’s. 65

sceptre-flowered, pale-flow-|| 69

ered var. 66

soft-leaved. 67

spoon-leaved. 69

-—— tuberous-rooted. 67

upright. 70

Gladiolus, Mr. Morton’s. 65

Globe Amaranth, large-flowered.|| 69

Glory Pea, crimson 65

Gloxinia, rough; large varie-|| 70

gated-leaved var.

rough-leaved; Mr. Menzie’s) 69

var. 67

tube-flowered, 70

Goldfussia, clustered. 68

Goldylocks, scaly-stalked. 65

Gongora, spotted. 70

Gonolobus, hispid. 64

Govenia, Mr. Gardner’s Brazil- || _

ian. 64

Grabowskia, toothed. 68

Greenovia, golden. 64

Grevillea, dubious. 67

Grindelia, flea-bane-like. 67

Groundsel, Heritier’s ; blue-eyed! 68

eyed var. 70

quill-leaved, Cape. 70

Habranthus, Anderson’s Texas || 67

var. 68

meadow ; four-flowered var.

Heemanthus, narrow-flowered, || 66

Mozambiec var. 64

| No.

3760

3639

4074

4069

4016

3857

3862

3746

3936

3771

4079

3730

4027

3821

4072

3828

3894

4047

3696

3985

3714

3844

4042

3851

4063

3665

3978

3685

4068

4037

3842

4118

3935

3652

4076

3542

3549

3905

3552

3817

3804

3957

4090

4099

3810

3941

4129

3593

Hakea, finger-leaved.

Heath, drooping, round-headed,

bell-flowered var.

flask-flowered.

Lady Shannon’s.

Mr. Irby’s.

Helichrysum, snowy-flowered.

Herbertia, pretty and blue.

Heterotropa, Asarabacea-like.

Hibiscus, Mr. Cameron’s.

Hippeastrum, Solandra-flow-

ered.

Holly, Canarian broad-leaved.

Hologymne, glabrous.

Horsebean, Jamaica; or Over-

look.

Hoteia, bearded.

Houlletia, Mr. Brocklehurst’s.

Hymenoxys, Californian.

Hypocalyptus, obcordate.

Hypocyrta, rough-leaved.

Hypoxis, starry-haired.

Indian Cress, blue-flowered.

large-rooted.

—— Mr. Moritz’s.

—— many-leaved.

short-spurred.

Tpecacuanha. —

Ipomea, Buenos Ayres.

Mr. Tweedie’s.

the Plata.

thick flower-stalked or

Bindweed.

Isopogon, rough-leaved.

Isomeris, tree-like.

Juannulloa, parasitic.

Kale, Indian, fragrant.

Kennedya, dingy-flowered.

Kidney Bean, lobe-leaved.

Knight’s Star Lily, ambiguous,

var. 1 long-flowered.

short-flowered.

Kreysigia, many-flowered.

Lachenalia, glaucous-flowered.

Leelia, autumnal.

—— two-edged.

——- white-flowered.

an POTZOOUS.

—— pedunculated.

-stalked.

Lantana, Mr. Sellow’s; long-

leaved var.

Laplacea, semiserrated-leaved.

Larkspur, slender, upright.

»| No.

3766

3908

3987

3996

4043

3700

4112

3763

3755

3734

3578

3699

3829

3785

3554

4034

3770

3622

4095

3632

3604

3600

3609

3550

3671

4002

3784

4110

4023

4096

3650

3946

4048

3979

3805

3548

3846

3814

3698

3647

3642

3972

4060

3634

3646

3984

3797

3893

INDEX

Fol.

Lasiandra, petiolated. 67

Lasiopetalum, large-leaved. 66

Lathyrus, nerve-leaved; or || 65

Everlasting Pea. 67

South American downy ;| 69

or Everlasting Pea. 64

Leianthus, black-flowered. 70

Leonotis, Cat-mint leaved. 65

Lepanthes, blood-coloured. 68

Lepismium, common. 64

mouse-tail. 64

Leptotes, two-coloured; glau-|| 69

cous-leaved var. 69

Leptosiphon, thickly-flowering. | 67

Leycesteria, handsome. 69

Liatris, sharp-seale spiked. 65

Lily, crimson Japan ; white-| 65

| flowered var. 65

Limnanthes, Mr. Douglas’. 70

Liparia, small. 64

Mr. Col. Malker’s.

Lisianthus, Duke of Bedford’s. || 70

Loasa, Mr. Pentland’s. 66

red-flowered. 64

Lobelia, hybrid var. of the blue

American. 65

Cavanille’s. 67

—— Erinus-like. 67

—— many-leaved. 67

Mr. Bridges’, 64

——-shining; dark purple- | 68

leaved var.

various-leaved., 67

Lomatia, dyeing. 67

Holly-leaved. 70

pe 67

op. rmum, climbing,

Lenidie Apa = 68

Luxembergia, fringe-leaved. 68

Macleania, angle-flowered. 70

Macropodium, Siberian.

Madia, elegant. 67

Mallow, pale red-flowered. 70

purple.

showy red-flowered. 66

Mammillaria, copious-flowering. || 69

—— dark green.

—— densely-spined. - 70

—— four-spined. 66

—— Lehmann’s. 68

iin TROT:

top-shaped. 65

Mandevitla, eanbicilis 70

Marianthus, blue-spotted. 68

Marica, humble ; yellow var.

slender-stemmed.

Marshallia, tufted.

Marygold, corymb-flowered.

Mate, or Paraguay Tea.

Maxillaria, dwarf.

fringe-lipped.

—— golden-tufted.

hooded.

~e— Mr. Henchmann’s.

Mr. Steele’s.

— pale yellow.

sharp-petaled.

Stapelia-like.

Megaclinium, largest.

Melindres, cut-leaved.

Melocactus, depressed.

Merendera, Caucasian.

Microstylis, sail-flowered.

Milk-wort, Myrtle-leaved, large-

flowered var.

Miltonia, Mr. Clowes’.

white-lipped yellow var.

-| Monk-flower, dingy, green-

flowered var.

fimbriated.

—— Mr. Bushman’s.

long-leaved.

white and rose-coloured.

Monkey-flower, Cardinal.

Mr. Maclain’s hybrid var.

of the rose-coloured.

Monk’s hood, Chinese.

Monolopia, larger.

Morina, long-leaved.

Mormodes, Leopard-spotted ;

white-coloured var.

Leopard-spotted.

Mountain Laurel, blistered.

Mouse-ear Azorean ; or Forget-

me-not.

Mullein, Taurican, —

Nasturtium; or Mr. Lobb’s

Indian Cress.

Nelumbium, yellow.

Nematanthus, long flower-

stalked.

shorter flower-stalked.

Nemophila, spotted-flowered.

Nightshade, Balbi’s ; bipinnate-

leaved var.

fragrant South American.

Odontoglossum, elegant.

great.

3807

4130

3914

3911

3847

4026

3790

3967

4038

3921

4027

3723

3724

3633

3636

3820

3773

3635

4009

3697

3580

3692

4086

3884

3688

3661

3645

3853

3889

4053

3556

3703

3960

4078

3991

3710

INDEX

Pol

Oncidium, bird’s beak. 64

butterfly ; broad-bordered|| 65

ar. 66

dingy-flowered. 68

downy columned ; yellow-|| 67

flowered var. 66

frog ; larger var. 68

large-anthered. 67

Mr. Forbes’. 67

=~ Mr, Herbert’s, dwarf. 64

—— Mr. Hunt’s. 66

—— Mrs. Wray’s. 64

one-coloured. 69

one-horned. 68

—— rounded-leaved. 65

thick-leaved. 68

three-coloured. 68

Opuntia, decumbent ; or Prickly} 69

Fig. 69

——one-spined; or Prickly Fig. | 65

Orthosiphon, incurved. 64

Osbeckia, Chinese. 65

hoary-leaved. 68

Othonna, shrubby.

tuberous-rooted ; or Afri-|| 70

can Ragwort. 65

Otochilus, brownish-flowered. 65

Overlook; or Jamaica Horse bean.|| 69

Palo de Vaca; or Cow Tree of] 68

the Caraccas. 66

Palo de Vaca. 67

Papaw, small citron-fruited. 65

Passion-flower, large-stipuled. || 67

Lieut. Sulivan’s.

—— Mr. Moore’s. 65

—— Nigella-flowered. 69

Sea Anemone. 68

yellow-fruited Virginian. } 69

Pavetta, South African. 66

Pavonia, Schrank’s. 64

Pentas, flesh-coloured. _ 70

Penstemon, bell-flowered. 67

- Gentian-like. 68

glandular. 69

spreading. 64

various-leaved. 69

Pernettia, narrow-leaved. 66

Petalidium, Barleria-like. 70

Petunia, purple, hybrid, var. 63

Phacelia, Tansy-leaved. 67

Phajus, spotted-leaved. 69

two-coloured. 70

—— white. 79

Phalocallis, lead-coloured. 64

.| No

3618

3621

3783

389]

3833

3721

3950

3849

3850

3579

3750

3575

4007

3897

3682

3952

3920

4006

4019

3707

3623

3676

3909

4117

3641

3653

4039

3947

3759

3811

3667

3825

3670

3977

3953

4030

3718

3562

4108

3808

3899

3988

3571

3982

3729

4055

3892

3840

3973

4105

4015

3544

Philibertia, large-flowered.

Philodendron, thick-ribbed.

Phlogacanthus, curved-flowered.

Physianthus, golden-haired.

Pimelia, dwarf.

Mr. Henderson’s,

showy.

Plantain tree, superb.

Ibid.

Platystemon, Californian.

smooth-fruited.

Platystigma, linear-leaved.

Pleroma, Mr. Bentham’s.

Pleurothallis, painted.

the Groby.

Plumieria, sharp-leaved.

Podotheca, cudweed.

Poinciana, Dr. Gillies’.

Polyspora, axillary.

Polystachia, large-flowered.

Poppy, South African.

Potentilla, glabrous.

Prepusa, scarlet and white-flow-

ered.

Pterodiscus, showy.

Quinoa, useful.

Rehmannia, Chinese.

Rhipsalis, opposite-branched.

Rhododendron, bearded.

—— bell-flowered.

—— Caucasian hybrid, var.

——— sparkling. :

—— tree, Cinnamon-leaved var.

with rose-coloured flowers.

white-flowered.

Rondeletia, blue-flowered.

sweet-scented.

Rose, Mr. Brown’s.

Ruellia, fringe-flowered.

Rytidophyllum, auriculated.

Saccolabium, spotted.

Sage, spreading.

thick-flowered.

Sapota, or Date-plum.

Sarcanthus, round-leaved.

Saurauja, showy.

Schomburgkia, margined, var.

Sea Lavender, rasp-leaved.

Sida, Duke of Bedford’s.

painted-flowered.

Siphocampylos, Birch-leaved.

—— Lantana-leaved.

long flower-stalked.

Sisyrinchium, showy.

INDEX

Fol.

Solanum, bell-flowered. 65

wavy. 66

Sophronitis, drooping-flowered. || 70

large-flowered. 70

Spathodea, five-stemmed. 68

Speedwell, prostrate, Savory-|| 66

leaved, var. 66

showy-flowered. 69

Spider-wort, sedge-leaved.

Spine Cactus, tube-flowered. 66

Sprekelia, the Tumbler.

Stapelia, Cactus-like. 65

Statice, large-leaved ; or Thrift.

Stelis, dark-flowered. 69

Stenactis, showy. 66

Stenomesson, orange-flowered. || 64

wide-leaved. 64

Stephanotis, copious- wering. || 68

Stevia, short-awned. 65

trachelium-leaved. 70

Stigmaphyllum, various-leaved. || 65

Strobilanthes, sessile-flowered. || 70

Stuartia, five-styled.

Stylidium, ciliated-leaved. 70

—— fascicled-leaved. 66

—— recurved. 67

Sun-flower, soft-leaved. 68

Swanwort, Mr. Loddiges’; white-|| 68

lipped var. 70

Tacsonia, Mrs. Marryatt’s ; or] 64

Passion flower. 68

Tecoma, Jasmine-leaved. 65

Tetranema, Mexican. 65

Thermopsis, bean-leaved. 67.

Thomasia, large-stipuled. 64

3983

3757

3702

3969

3739

3547

3555

3887

3630

4114

3694

4061

4075

3748

3896

3938

3932

4098

3582

3956

3674

3686

3812

3585

Thrift, downy-leaved Canary.

—— gigantic Canary.

large-headed

Thunbergia, purple, golden-eyed.

Tithonia, ovate-leaved.

Torenia, heart-leaved.

Tourretia, burr-fruited. —

Traveller’s Joy, Violet-blue ;

large-flowered var.

Treacle Mustard, deep orange-

flowered.

Trefcil, Mule white ;

Dutch Clover.

Trichocentrum, brown-flowered.

Trichopilia, twisted-petaled.

Tulbaghia, Ludwig’s.

Violet-flowered.

Tulip, three-coloured.

Tweedia, changeable-flowered.

Vanda, quill-leaved.

Verbain, Germander-leaved.

Virgin’s Bower; mountain

large-flowered var.

Viscaria, dark-eyed.

Wood-Sorrel, Barrelier’s shrubb.

downy-stamened.

Dr. Martius’.

hairy-petaled.

Umbilicus, soft-leaved.

Xanthozia, round-leaved.

Zichya, smooth-leaved.

Zygopetalon, Mr. Murray’s.

Tree Fern.

Zygopetalum, African.

—— shell-lipped.

or tall

a”

EATIN

GENERAL INDEX,

THE PLANTS CONTAINED IN THE FOUR VOLUMES OF THE

THIRD SERIES,

(Or from Vol. LXXI. to LXXIP. inclusive, of the whole Work, )

OF THE

BOTANICAL MAGAZINE.

Abelia floribunda.

Acacia argyrophylla.

celastrifolia.

leptoneura.

oncinophylla.

Achimenes argyrostigma.

cupreata.

— hirsuta.

ocellata.

Adenocalymna comosum.

Aerides odoratum.

/®chmea discolor.

Mgiphila grandiflora.

JEschinanthus Lobbianus.

pulcher.

purpurascens.

Aischynanthus longiflorus.

— speciosus.

Allamanda Aubletii.

Schottii.

Alloplectus concolor.

dichrous.

repens.

Anastatica hierochuntica.

Anemone Japonica.

Angrecum apiculatum.

caudatum.

distichum.

—— funale.

Anguloa Clowesii, var.

Anigozanthos fuligimosa.

pulcherrimus.

Anona palustris.

Anopterus glandulosus.

Anthocercis ilicifolia.

Aotus gracillima.

Aphelandra aurantiaca.

Aquilegia leptoceras.

Ariopsis peltata.

Ariseema Murrayi.

Aristolochia anguicida.

— gigantea.

grandiflora.

Arnebia echioides.

Asclepias Douglasii.

Asystasia Coromandeliana.

Backhousia myrtifolia.

Barbacenia squamata.

Barnadesia rosea.

Begonia albo-coccinea.

fuchsoides.

Berberis ilicifolia. :

Bolbophyllum Careyanum.

umbellatum.

Bouvardia longiflora.

Browallia speciosa.

Brunfelsia nitida; §? Jamai-

censis.

Burtonia pulchella.

villosa.

Calceolaria amplexicaulis.

—— alba.

— floribunda.

Calliandra Harrisii.

INDEX

Vol

Calliandra Tweediei. 72

Cantua pyrifolia. 72

Castasetum callosum ; var. gran- || 73

diflorum. 71

Cattleya Skinneri. 73

.Ceropegia Cumingiana. 73

Cheenestes lanceolata. 71

Chirita Moonii. 72

Sinensis. 71

—— Walkerie. 72

Zeylanica. 72

Cirrhopetalum fimbriatum. 72

Thouarsii. 71

Clematis indivisa; var. lobata. || 74

smilacifolia. 72

‘tubulosa. 72

Clerodendron capitatum. 73

scandens. 73

sinuatum. 73

Collania Andinamarcana. 71

Columnea aureo-nitens. 71

crassifolia. 72

Cordyline Rumphii. 72

Corynocarpus levigata. 72

Gry paleo <tifioen, 74

Cuphea cordata. 74

silenoides. 71

Cycnoches Loddigesii. 73

Cymbidium ochroleucum. 71

Cypripedium barbatum. 74

Datura cornigera. 74

Daviesia physodes. 71

Dendrobium fimbriatum; var. || 72

oculatum. 71

—— moniliforme.

—— secundum. 71

Diastema ochroleuca, 71

Dipladenia urophylla. 71

Disemma aurantia. 71

Dryandra carduacea; var. an-| 72

gustifolia. 14

Kchinocactus chlorophthalmus. || 73

cinnabarinus. 71

hexeedrophorus. 74

—— Leeanus. 74

—— multiflorus. 74

—— myriostigma. 72

—— oxygonus. .

—— pectiniferus. 74

—— Williamsii. 13

Epidendrum longicolle. 74

Episcia bicolor. ‘ 14

Eranthemum albiflorum. 73

Eria Dillwynii.- 73

.| No

4274

4266

4333

4202

4340

4280

4186

4205

4189

4209

4246

4233

4174

4375

4261

4218

4322

4307

43.43

4185

4195

4240

4242

4217

4380

4348

4152

4342

4213

4395

4363

4171

4258

4179

4151

4201

4183

4192

4207

4401

4329

4135

44.02

4347

4397

4253

4346

4310

44.08

44.04

4301

4305

Escallonia Organensis.

Eucalyptus Preissiana.

macrocarpa.

Evolvulus purpuro-cceruleus.

Exacum tetragonum ; £. bicolor.

Exogonium Purga.

Exostemma longiflorum.

Fagrzea obovata.

Franciscea acuminata.

hydrangezformis.

Friesia peduncularis.

Fuchsia macrantha.

serratifolia.

spectabilis.

Fugosia hakezefolia.

heterophylla.

Gardenia longistyla.

— malleifera.

—— nitida.

Stanleyana.

Genista (Teline) Spachiana.

Gesneria bulbosa; var. lateritia.

elliptica ; var. lutea.

Hondensis.

—— Libanensis.

pardina.

Schiedeana.

triflora.

Gloxinia pallidiflora.

Gmelina Rheedii.

Goldfussia isophylla.

Gompholobium barbigerum.

venustum.’ +

versicolor ; var. caulibus

purpureis.

Govenia utriculata,

Habrothamnus corymbosus.

fasciculatus.

Hebecladus biflorus.

Heinsia jasminiflora.

Hibiscus ferox.

—— grossularifolius.

Hindsia violacea.

Hoya bella.

cinnamomifolia.

—— imperialis.

Hydrangea Japonica; var. caeru-

lea.

Hypocyrta glabra.

leucostoma,

Impatiens repens,

Tpomzea muricata.

—— pulchella.

INDEX.

Fol

[pomea simplex. 71

Isopogon attenuatus. 71

spheerocephalus. 71

Ixora Griffithii. 74

lanceolaria. 73

odorata. 71

Jatropha podagrica. 73

Kopsia fruticosa. 74

Leelia cinnabarina. 71

Leianthus longifolius. 71

umbellatus. 73

Leschenaultia arcuata. 71

- splendens. 73

Leuchtenbergia Principis. 71

Leucothoe pulchra. 73

Liebigia speciosa. 712

Lisianthus acutangulus. 12

Lithospermum canescens. 74

Lobelia thapsoidea. 71

Lopimia malacophylla. 72

Luculia Pinciana. 71

Lycaste fulvescens. 72

Lycium fuchsioides. 71

Lyonia Jamaicensis. 73

Malachadenia clavata. 74

| Mamillaria clava. 73

Marsdenia maculata. 71

Martynia i 74

Masdevallia fenestrata, 73

Maxillaria acicularis. 74

—— macrobulbon. 71

Warreana. 74

| Medinilla speciosa. 72

Miltonia spectabilis. 71

Mormodes Cartoni. 72

Napoleona imperialis. 71

Nepenthes Rafflesiana. 71

Niphza albo-lineata. 74

Nymphea dentata. 74

Odontoglossum hastilabium. 71

Oncidium bicallosum. 72

Orothamnus Zeyheri. 74

Oxypetalum solanoides. 72

Passiflora amabilis. 73

Pentstemon Gordoni.

Peristeria Barkeri. 18

Humboldtii ; var. fulva. || 74

Phaleenopsis amabilis. 73

Pharbitis cathartica. 72

Phyllarthron Bojerianum. 72

Pinguicula orchidioides. 73

Piteairnia undulatifolia. 72

Pleroma elegans. 74

Pleroma Kunthianum. 73

Pleurothallis bicarinata.

Polystachya bracteosa.

Porphyrocoma lanceolata.

Primula Stuartii.

Puya Altensteinii ; var. gigantea.

Reevesia thyrsoidea.

Rhododendron Javanicum.

Nilagiricum.

Rhynchoglossum Zeylanicum.

Ruellia lilacina.

Purdieana.

Salpixantha coccinea.

Salvia leueantha.

Sceevola attenuata.

Scutellaria cordifolia.

incarnata.

Ventenatii.

Sida (Abutilon) integerrima.

—— peonieflora.

— vitifolia.

—— graveolens.

| Sinningia velutina.

| Siphocampylos coccineus.

glandulosa.

—— manattizflorus.

—— microstoma.

Smeathmannia levigata.

—— pubescens.

Smithia purpurea.

Solandra levis.

Solanum macranthum

Sonerila stricta.

Stachytarpheta aristata.

Stanhopea tigrina.

Stenocarpus Cunninghami.

Strelitzia augusta.

Strobilanthes lactatus.

Swainsona Greyana.

Tacsonia mollissima.

Talauma Candollii.

Tetrazygia eleeagnoides.

Theophrastus Jussizi.

Thibaudia Pinchinchensis, 8.

glabra.

—— pulcherrima,

Thyrsacanthus strictus.

Tillandsia bulbosa ; var. picta.

| Torenia Asiatica.

edentula.

Tritonia aurea.

Tropzolum crenatiflorum.

Smithii.

—— speciosum,

ENGLISH

GENERAL INDEX,

THE PLANTS CONTAINED IN THE FIRST FOUR VOLUMES

OF THE THIRD SERIES,

(Or from Vol. LXXI. to LXXIV. inclusive, of the whole Work,)

OF THE

BOTANICAL MAGAZINE.

Abelia, copious-flowering.

Acacia, Celastrus-leaved.

hook-leaved.

silver-leaved.

slender-leaved.

Achimenes, copper-leaved.

airy.

silvery-spotted.

Achimenia, eyeletted.

AXchmea, two-coloured, or

Crab’s Eye.

Adenocalymna, Hop-flowered.

Agiphila, large yellow-flowered.

AXschinanthus, beautiful.

long-flowered.

—— Mr. Lobb’s.

—— purplish-green.

showy.

Air-plant, fragrant.

Allamanda Aublet’s.

—— large-flowered, erect.

Alligator Apple-tree, or Water.

Alloplectus, creeping.

two coloured.

whole-coloured.

Anemone, Japan.

Angreecum, apiculated,

—— cord-like.

—— two rowed.

long-tailed.

Anguloa, Mr. Clowes’ var.

Anigozanthus, beautiful yellow.

sooty.

Anopterus, glandular-leaved.

Anthocercis, holly-leaved.

Aotus, slender.

Aphelandra, orange.

Ariopsis, peltate.

Ariseema, Dr. Murray’s.

Aristolochia, snake.

Arnebia, Echium-like.

Asclepias, Douglas’s.

Asyotasia, Coromandel.

Backhousia, Myrtle-leaved.

Balsam, creeping.

Barbacenia, scaly-stalked.

Barnadesia, rose-coloured.

Begonia, or Elephant’s Ear,

searlet and white-flowered.

Fuchsia-like, or Elephant’s

Ear.

Berberry, holly-leaved.

Birthwort.

—— gigantic-flowered.

Bolbophyllum, Dr. Careif’s.

umbelled. :

Bouvardia, long-flowered.

Browallia, showy-flowered.

Brunfelsia, shining leaved ;

Jamaica var.

Burtonia, beautiful.

—— villous.

No.

4297

4231

4300

4157

4238

4188

4386

4219

4270

4349

4182

4284

44.05

4327

4338

4391

4237

4269

4259

4398

4355

4354

4255

4247

4407

| 4294

4330

4279

4379

4362

4208

4143

4141

4252

4244

4160

4153

4352

4254

4414

4140

4203

4156

4317

4326

4373

4311

INDEX

Fol

Butterfly-plant, Indian. 71

Butterwort, Orchis-like. 71

Calceolaria, or Slipper-wort, 71

clasping-leaved. 73

white-flowered. 71

Calliandria, Mr. Harris’s. 71

Mr. Tweedie’s. 71

Cantua, pear-leaved.

Catasetum, tumour-lipped, large-|| 73

flowered var. 71

Cattleya, Mr. Skinner’s. 74

Ceropegia, Mr. Cuming’s 72

Chirita, Ceylon. 71

—— Chinese. 72

Mr. Moon’s, 72

Mrs. Walker’s. 73

Cheenestes, lanceolate-leaved. va}

Cirrhopetalum, fimbriated. 73

— Thouars’.

Clematis, tubular-flowered. Fi

or Virgin’s Bower, smilax-|| 72

leaved. 71

undivided-leaved ; lobed || 72

variety. 72

Clerodendron, capitate. 72

imbing. :

sinuate-leaved. 71

Collania, Andinamarcana. 74

Columbine, slender-spurred. 72

Columnea, golden. 72

thick-leaved, 73

Cordyline, Rumphius. 73

Corynocarpus, smooth-leaved. | 73

Cuphea, catch-fly. 71

large red-flowered. 71

Cryptadenia, solitary-flowered. || 72

Cymbidium, pale yellow.

Datura, horn-bearing. 72

Daviesia, hatchet-leaved., 74

Dendrobium, fringe-lipped, var. || 74

with sanguincous eye. 71

necklace-stemmed. 73

one-sided, 72

Diastema, pale yellow.

Dipladenia, taper-pointed. 72

Disemma, New Caledonia. 74

Dove-flower, or Peristeria; Mr. 74

Barker’s, 71

Humboldt’s; tawny-fl. var.

Dryandra, Thistle-like ; narrow-|| 71

leaved var. 72

Echinocactus, cinnabar-flowered.|| 71

green-eyed, 74

—— hexeedron. 73

| Gromwell, hoary.

Echinocactus, many-flowered.

many-spotted.

—— Mr. Lee’s.

—— Mr. William’s.

pectinated.

sharp-angled.

Elephant’s Ear, or Begonia ;

scarlet and white flowered.

Fuchsia-like.

Epidendrum, long-necked.

Episcia, two-coloured.

Eranthemum, white-flowered.

Eria, Dilwyn Llewelyn’s.

Eseallonia, Organ-Mountain’s.

Eucalyptus, Dr. Preiss’s.

large-fruited, or Gum tree.

Evolvulus, purple-blue flowered.

Exacum, square-stalked ; two-

coloured var.

Exostemma, long-flowered.

Fagreea, obovate-leaved.

Franciscea, acuminated.

Hydrangea-like.

Friesia, jointed-pedicelled.

Fuchsia, large-flowered, apeta

lous.

serrated-leaved.

showy.

Fugosia, Hakea-leaved.

various-leaved.

Gardenia, clapper-bearing.

glossy-leaved.

-—— long-styled.

Lord Derby’s.

Genista, Mr. Spach’s.

Gesneria, elliptic-leaved ; yellow

var.

Honda.

—— leopard-spotted.

—— many-flowered.

Schiede’s.

three-flowered.

tuberous rooted ;_brick-

coloured var.

Gloxinia, pale-flowered.

Gmelina, Rheede’s

Goldfussia, equal-leaved.

Gompholobium, changeable

purple stemmed var.

—— fringe-keeled.

ceful

graceful.

Govenia, bladdery.

Gum-Tree, large-fruited.

| No

4183

4201

4192

4207

4329

4401

4135

4368

44.02

4347

4397

4253

| 4346

4310

4245

4323

4337

4301

4305

4206

4372

4332

4191

4399

4325

4376

44.00

4220

4234

4302

4169

4243

4393

4314

4265

4256

4315

4324

4150

| 4257

4132

4193

4149

4273

4334

4365

4358

4408

4299

4292

4164

4228

4235

INDEX.

{Pol

Habrothamnus, cluster-flowered.|| 74

corymb-flowered. 73

Hebecladius, twin-flowered. 72

Heinsia, Jessamine-flowered. 72

Hibiscus, Gooseberry-leaved. 74

stinging. 74

Hindsia, large-flowered. 71

Hogmeat, poison. 73

Hoya, beautiful. 71

cinnamon-leaved. 72

—— imperial. 74

Hydrangea. Japan; blue flow-|| 74

ered var. 74

Hypocyrta, shining-leaved. 74

white-mouthed. 73

Indian Cress, notch-petaled. 71

showy.

—— umbellate. 73

Tpomeea, fine-leaved. 71

—— handsome. 72

simple-stalked. 74

Isopogon, attenuated-leaved. 71

round-headed. 72

Ixora, fragrant. 73

lance-leaved.

—— Mrs. Griffiths’. 71

Jatropha, gouty-stalked. 71

Jericho, rose of. 74

Kopsia, shrubby. 73

Lady’s Slipper, bearded. 73

Leelia, cinnabar-coloured. 71

Leianthus, long-leaved. 73

umbellate. 74

Leuchtenbergia, noble. 71

Leucothoe, elegant. 74

Leschenaultia, drooping. 71

splendid scarlet flowered. || 73

Liebigia, showy. 73

Lisianthus, sharp-angled. 71

Lobelia, Mullein-like. 74

Lotus, tooth-leaved. 71

Luculia, Mr. Pince’s. 71

Lycaste, tawny-flowered, 72

Lycium, Fuchsia-flowered. 72

Lyonia, Jamaica. 14

Malachadenia, club-stalked.

Malacophylla, soft-leaved. 72

Mamillaria, club-shaped. 71

Maple-Apple. 73

Marsdenia, spotted-leaved. 72

Martynia, fragrant. 73

Masdevallia, windowed. 72

Maxillaria, large splendid. aL

Mr. Warre’s. 74

Maxillaria, needle-leaved.

Medinilla, showy.

Miltonia, showy.

Mormodes, Carton’s.

Napoleona, imperial.

Nasturtium, Sir James Smith’s.

Nightshade, large-flowered.

Niphea, white-lined.

Oncidium, two-warted.

Odontoglossum, halberd-leaved.

Orothamnus, Mr. Zeyher’s.

Oxypetalum, Solanum-like.

Passion-flower, white-crowned.

Pelican-flower.

Peristemon, Mr. Gordon’s.

Peristeria, or Dove-flower ; Hum-

boldt’s ; tawny-flowered var.

Pharbitis, purging.

Phyllarthron, Mr. Bojer’s.

Pleroma, elegant.

| —— Prof. Kunth’s.

Pleurothallis, double-keeled.

Pitcairnia, broad-waved-leaved.

Pitcher Plant, Sir Stamford

Raffles’.

Polystachya, bracteated. -

Porphyrocoma, lance-leaved.

Primrose, Stuart’s.

Purga, or True Jalap.

Puya, Attenstein’s gigantic var.

Reevesia; thyrse-flowered.

Rhododendron, Javanese.

—— Neelgherry.

Rhynchoglossum, Ceylon.

Rose of Jericho.

Ruellia, lilac-flowered.

Mr. Purdie’s.

Sage, white-flowered.

Sceevola, attenuated-leaved.

Sida, entire-leaved.

heavy-scented.

—— Peony-flowered.

vine-leaved.

Sinningia, velvety.

Siphocampylos, manettia-

flowered.

—— glandular.

showy scarlet-flowered.

small-mouthed.

Skull-Cap, flesh-coloured.

—— heart-leaved.

—— Ventenat’s.

Slipper-wort, copious-flowering.

Smeathmannia, downy.

.| No

4194

4283

4345

4394

4197

4263

4167

4168

4366

4416

4215

4187:

4251

4383

4239 |

4303

4344

INDEX

Fol.| No.

Smeathmannia, smooth-stalked. || 74 | 4378

Smithia, purple-flowered. 73 | 4288

Solandra, smooth-leaved. 72 | 4249

Sonerila, upright. 72 | 4229

Stanhopea, tiger-spotted. 73 | 4335

Stenocarpus, Mr. Cunningham’s.| 71 | 4158

es ; 71 | 4137

| strelitzia, great white, felons

Strobilanthes, milky-leaved. 72 | 4211

Swainsona, Grey’s. 72 | 4269

Swanwort, Mr. Loddige’s.

Tacsonia, downy-leaved. 74 | 4415

Talauma, De Candolle’s. 74 | 4882

Tetrazygia, Eleeagnus-like. 73 | 4275

Theophrasta, Jussieu’s. 73 | 4278

Thibaudia, beautiful. 74 | 4396

TL | 4155

—— Pichincha; glabrous var.

Thyrse-flower, upright.

Tillandsia, bulbous; coloured var.

Torenia, large-flowered.

purple-blotched.

Tritonia, golden.

Trumpet-Flower, scarlet. °

Turnera, Elm-leaved.

Vanda, crested.

Vervain, Bastard, aristate.

Virgin’s Bower, or Clematis,

tubular-flowered.

Vriesia, glaucous-leaved.

showy.

} Water-Lily, great Victoria.

Weigela, rose-coloured.

Whitfieldia, brick-coloured.