List

ORCHIDEOUS PLANTS

INDIGENOUS TO ASSAM, AND THE NEIGHBOURING

HILLS OF KHASYA, BOOTAN, ere.

No. NAMES. Size and Colour of Flower. Habit

i” Microstylis Wallichii? Small, par green Ter.

2 Oberonia indifolia _ | Minute, yellowish . Epi.

3* |——— sp. : ‘ : Ditto

4 Liparis sp. | Smail, yellow. Ditto

5 sp. ‘ Ditto

o7* sp. : Largish, green yellow . Ter.

7* nS. . | Small, deep purple . Epi.

8 Otochilus fuseus » yellowish brown ‘ Ditto

9 ——— albus. as fe and white . Ditto

10 Pholidota imbricata a Ce ee Ditto

11 undulata . a ae Ditto

12 * articulata . is OG ce ee eee cs Ditto

13 * a, * » and yellow . Ditto

14* |———__sp. .. S ie Ditto

15 Ceelogyne dlavida : ; yellow . | Ditto

16 —— undulata . ; Langa, white ; . | Ditto

17 * fimbriata? . me », and brown Ditto

18 * * uniflora. . pe ,, and lateritious Ditto

19 barbata . i whee a Ae Ditto

20 * preecox P : = A Ce eee oe Ter.

21* |—+—— maculata . . | Large, white, yellow, and rose . .| Ditto

22 * * | —____ Walllichiana » androse . Ditto

23 * * ocellata »» pale yellow and deep orange Ditto

24, * Gardneriana », white and yellow . Epi.

25 stein CISTERN F »» Streaked with bright yd Ter.

26 innit - : -| Small, brown and yellow . | Epi.

Q7 # *| —___— flava? . | Large, yellow and brown Ditto

28 ——— 6p. . | Small, brown and yellow . Ditto

29* |——— sp. » White and brown . . | Ditto

30 sp. »» pale yellow . Ditto

a ** F. : » white (pretty) Ter.

32 * * | _____ .| Largish, pale cinnamon . Epi.

33 * * Bolbophyllum leopardinum Large, yellow spotted with h purple Ditto

34 ——————— umbellatum . | Largish, dull allow ; Ditto

35 * * Khasyanum .| Small, greenish . . Ditto

36 * sp. 4 Largish, bright yellow . | Ditto

37 * sp. . . | Small, white, fragrant . Ditto

38 * ape. » dull purple : . | Ditto

39 sp. . s * eg . | Ditto

41 * *| Cirrhopetalum sp. . . | Small, greenish, fragrant Ditto

42 —_—_—_—_—— 5p. . : Sat ull purple : Ditto

43 * sp. . ; Large, brown and yellow . Ditto”

44 * * sp. . . | Largish, dull purple Ditto —

List of Orchideous Plants Indigenous to Assam, etc.—continued.

No. NAMES. Size and Colour of Flower. Habit.

45 * * |.Cirrhopetalum sp. . .| Largish, dull purple . . . . «| Epi.

ria flava . | Largish, yellow rown i

48 —sp... . | Largish, white streaked with brown | Ditto

49 —— densiflora . e » tinged with yellow . | Ditto

50 —— ferruginea . oi PUNO a ee

51 os eae paniculata : cat ie with purple . ee

52 —— sp. . ‘ ish, White ees a EO

53 * |——sp. . : - » anddull purple. . ee

wae! . ” ” ” Bick tto

——=sp. . . | Minute, rosy . | Ditto

Aporum anceps .| Small, white . . | Ditto

cuspidatum rae pa . Dae

ee ‘ i. pp ign te Puget gS tay alee itto

ag Hen ee . | Largish, white, yellow, and brown | Ditto

Dendrobium Pierardi . .| Large, pink and yellow . he

—————— heterocarpum . a ellow and brown, fragrant | Ditto

chrysanthum .| ,, lively yellow and brown Ditto

Fe. ch ty > > . | Ditto

. like ditto . » orange and brown... .| Ditto

ormosum . .| Very lange, white and yell., fragrant | Ditto

longicornu. .| Large, white and orange. . . .| Ditto

calceolus . | Very dark yellow, rose, and purple | Ditto

sulcatum . | Large, ual and purple. . | Ditto

Jenkinsii » lively yellow ; Ditto

cerulescens »» deep lively purple Ditto

nobile +» White rosy purple Ditto

Gibsonii ; », yellow and brown Ditto

stuposum =. ..| Small, while... ,. 0..." Ditto

Cambridgeanum} Large, ary yellow and brown Ditto

—transparens .| ,, deeplively purple. Ditto

like do., various} —_,, Y rose and purple Ditto

Devonianum . sg lerose and yellow Ditto

Dalhousianum | ,, rose, white, and purple ._ . | Ditto

multicaule » White and purple . Ditto

Griffithii . = ale yellow and orange . Ditto

Farmerii . » Mvely..,, bs Ditto

densiflor. pallid », White and orange . Ditto

ditto roseum) ,, pale rose and orange. . Ditto

intermedium _ yellow and brown . Ditto

eee » lively orange , eee

ee 5 » yellow and brown Ditto

sp. » yellow, Pink, and brown Ditto

raapmerapes,) 1 on » pinkandyellow . . Ditto

pater str ng ish, A Neste and purple . . .| Ter.

Arun: ambusifo : e, pale rose and livel le . | Ditto

Pharus — » White, brown, and purels . | Ditto

allichii 2 ra ‘i si . | Ditto

—— — es » rosy scented . Ditto

: ae Sad : a ” ” . . Ditto

resort penne : al rose and green . . | Ditto

tifol WEE ge cay tea . | Ditto

Eulophia vire . | Large, owe and white ... Ditto

To : ” ull yellow and brown . Ditto

Iast of Orchideous Plants Indigenous to Assam, etc.—continued.

No. NAMES. Size and Colour of Flower. Habit.

99 * *| Eulophia sp. Large, deep purple . ‘ Ter.

100 * *| ——_——— sp. », green and yellow . Ditto

101 * *| ——_—_—- sp. : » purplish green . Ditto

102 Vanda teres . | Very large, rosy purple, yellow, and brown Epi.

103 * * cristata . Largish, greenish, white, and ge i

104 * *} ——— multiflora . » white and rose Ditto

105 * * cerulea Very large, deep blue . . | Ditto

106 * * sp. Largish, dull purple - oS ae

107 * * sp. a and green . .| Ditto

108 * * 8 eos a yellow and brown . | Ditto

109 * *| Camarotis purpurea Small, yellow and purple . Ditto

110 | Micropera pallida. . . » pale yellow . . | Ditto

LAL Saccolabium micranth 1» _TOSY . | Ditto

112) | ——————- retusum Largish, lively spotted. rr

113. se iHosum Small, pale yellow and purple . Ditto

114 ** ceolare . . » yellow and brown . . .| Ditto

115 ** iy. like ditto . » pale ditto and rose Ditto

116 caroifolium ney : Ditto

117 ** dasypogon. .| ,, green and purple ‘ Ditto

118 * appendiculatum| ,, yellow. Ditto

119* | —————— sp. a a and d deep purple Ditto |

120 * *| Sarcanthus sp. . . | Ditto

121 * *| — p.. Small, rosy ; : . | Ditto”

122 * * opi. » White and ‘yellow ‘ . | Ditto

123 * * ee ‘ re en . | Ditto

124 * * “. es ss . . | Ditto

125 * *| Giceoclades sp. ‘ 5 ey ee co . | Ditto |

126 =| Orides affine . | Large, rosy purple a ee se ae

127 odoratum . : x sweet scented . | Ditto

128) | ——— = leaves linear-lan. Ditto

129 * * Latge, like affine, and = sweet scented | Ditto

130 Agrostophyllum Kiasyanum Small, white . . Ditto —

131* | Xiphosium acuminatum. . Large : . | Ditto

132 | Acanthophippium sp. . a dull purple as ee

sein ae sp. » White exipamegr See Ditto

Cymbidium giganteum . | Very large, yellow and brown . .| Ditto

135 | ————— pendulum aes, dull Che and purple . Ditto

136 aloifolium : is ~ . Dita

137 * #| — eburneum : Very ae white .| Ditto

138 inconspicaum . | Small, brown . Ditto

139 longipetalum Largish, green and purple Ditto

140 * cyperifolium Ditto

141 ** Ss Large, fragrant, yellow, and white Epi.

142 ** sp. . ; » brownish purple . . . | Ditto

143 * * wpe . | Very large, white os Ditto

144 * * sp. . . | Large, w. ite and brown . Ditto

145 * *|—____——- sp... . : » green and dull Ter.

146 * *| ? Phalsenopsis, sp. . » yellow and reddi “ieee Ti -| Epi.

147 —_| Euproboscis - yemen . .| Minute, yellow . . . | Ditto

148 | Geodorum dilatatum . Large, white, purple, and ‘yellow . | Ditto

149* | ————_— e ed rosy purple and white | Ditto

150 * * Pistantlwets 5 sp. . - . «| Ditto

151 * *| Peristylus sp. ay white, sweet scented . Ditto |

152 ‘| Habenaria hamigera? Small, green . ae . .| Ditto

List of Orchideous Plants Indigenous to Assam, etc.—continued.

No. NAMES. Size and Colour of Flower. Habit.

iasp. . . . . .| Small, yellow =f ee

14 —— o i ry hd Treaiieh We Ditto

ee eg We ee Ditto

Re ne BD sss LAO) While. 6. gg se, Ditto

157 **| Pogonia Joana . . . .|Small,rosy white . . . . . .| Ditto

158 * * om tt. 4 ee CS Ditto

159 * * Ws ee eee a Ditto

160 **| Cyrtosiasp.. . . . . .|Largish, goldenyellow . . . . Ditto

161 °* Spiranthes sp. . . . . .|Small,white. ...... Ditto

162 * * Botan MOA ee ke eee athe

163 * *| Ancectochilus Roxburghii . » Posy WHO ee as Ditto

ee nnn Be gl gy NE ae, Ditto

165 * *| Cypripedium venustum . .| Large, green and purple. . . . Ditto

166 * #| —_——-——-- insigne. . . » redandyellow . . . . Ditto

167 **| Calanthe densiflora . . .| ,, livelyyelow ..... Ditto

| ———— Bp. -.... +. «| Stall, brown aid Yolow Ditto

ap. Sage WH Gan pen Ditto

170% *| ——-———- sp, 5... so] 5 » andyellow. . . .| Ditto

a et yy ee Ditto

ies Oodyarh ah... sie, Wh es Ditto

173 ——_—— sp. ..... Et me ge Oe fs

174 —— BY. kw tk ke - i i er Ditto

£75°% Ophrys sp. . . ... +. .| Largish, rosy purple . << Ditto

176 * *| Wee » greenand purple . . . Ditto

177 **| Anthogonium sp. . . . . i TORR ee Ditto

orp Onaee aD. . . .. . y| Smal green 1°) ee. SO. ST Ditto

Aischynanthus (3 to 4 sp.); Hoya (5 or 6 sp.); Arum (several); Lilium

(1 sp.); Nepenthes (1 sp.); Ferns and Lycopodiums (150 to 200 sp.); Palms

(Livistona, Loree NG Caryota, Calamus, etc.) are also indigenous, and can be

sent if required.

Plants not marked are common.

Ditto marked with an asterisk are considered rare.

Ditto marked with two asterisks are considered very rare.

The charges for a box of 4 eubie feet measurement, containing an equal se-

on of the three kinds, will be £5, or 50 Rupees, deliverable at ris male When

Plants which are rare or very rare are required, the charges will be according to

the kind taken; for the rare, 1R. 8a. ‘< Pants for the very rare, 2 Rupees a

sree When very large Plants are directed to be sent, no extra charge will be

When new Plants, not included in the list, are sent, a separate charge will

be omg When two boxes or more are taken, a discount of 10 per cent. will be

allowed.

Plants can also be sent in glass cases, on the Wardian lan, measuring 2 feet

6 inches in length, 2 feet breadth, and 2 feet 7 inches in height, for which an

extra charge of 20 Rupees will be made. Glass covers can also be supplied for

the other boxes at an extra charge of 10 Rupees.

Application to be made to

Messrs. CHARLES CANTOR & CO., in Calcutta.

Assam, August, 1852. °

INDEX,

In which the Latin Names of the Plants contained in the Ninth —

Volume of the Tuirp Series (or Seventy-nnth Volume

of they Work) are alphabetically arranged.

| RAR AAA A AAD AA nr

. .

Plate.

#640. Abies bracteata.

4794 Abelia uniflora.

4698 Allosorus cordatus.

4693 Aquilegia Kanaoriensis.

4728 Azalea ameena.

4726 crispiflora.

4746 Begonia biserrata.

4689 rubro-venia.

4692 Thwaitesii.

4744 Berberis concinna.

4756 Billbergia thyrsoidea.

_ 4734 Brassavola lineata.

_ 4741 Bravoa geminifiora.

4717 Brillantaisia Owariensis.

4714 Calanthe gracilis.

4748 Campanula Vidalii.

4729 Cantua bicolor.

4700 Cattleya elegans.

4707 Cereus MacDonaldiz.

4753 Cirrhopetalum cornutum.

4712 Cecelia macrostachya.

4691 Ccelogyne maculata.

4754 Coleus Blumei.

4690 Macraei.

4710 Crossandra flava.

4755 Dendrobium cymbidioides.

4708 ——-———- heterocarpum.

4711 — teretifolium.

4733 Dichorisandra leucophthalmos.

4750 Dictyanthus Pavonii.

4757 Didymocarpus Humboldtiana.

_ 4702 Dipladenia flava.

4720 Episcia melittifolia.

_ 4703 Eriogonum compositum.

_ 4742 Erythrochiton Brasiliense.

| 4719 Skimmia Japonica.

| 4732 Vaccinium ovatum.

4731 Fritillaria oxypetala. :

4701 Galeandra Baueri; var. floribus

luteis.

4697 Gaultheria ferruginea.

4735 Gilia (Leptosiphon) lutea.

4706 Gymnostachyum Ceylanicum.

4745 Heemanthus insignis.

4704 Impatiens Hookeriana.

4739 ————— Jerdoniz.

4725 Lilium roseum.

4723 Littonia modesta.

4724 Lopezia macrophylla.

4747 Metternichia Principis.

4695 Neptunia plena.

4699 Notholena sinuata.

4736 Pandanus pygmeus.

4749 Papaver pilosum.

4752 Passiflora Medusza.

4738 Philesia buxifolia.

4709 Pitcairnia echinata.

4705 ———— macrocalyx.

4751 Plumieria Jamesoni.

4715 Puya Chiliensis.

4696 sulphurea.

4718 Rhododendron Dalhousie.

4721 —— glaucum.

4730 niveum.

4737 Rhynchospermum jasminoides. :

4716 Sandersonia aurantiaca. .

4743 Scheeria Mexicana.

4727 Semeiandra grandiflora.

4713 Syphocampylus Orbignianus.

4722 Xanthorrhaa Hastile.

INDEX,

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

Volume of the Turrp Series (or Seventy-ninth Volume

of the Work) are alphabetically arranged.

Plate.

4694 Abelia, large-flowered.

4698 Allosorus, heart-leaved.

4728 Azalea, bright-flowered.

A726 crisped-flowered.

4704 Balsam, Hooker’s.

4739 Mrs. Jerdon’s.

4746 Begonia, doubly-serrated.

4689 — red-veined.

4692 — Mr. Thwaites’s.

4748 Bell-flower, Vidal’s.

4744 Berberry, neat. —

4756 Billbergia, dense-flowered.

4734 Brassavola, line-leaved.

_ 4741 Bravoa, twin-flowered.

_ 4717 Brillantaisia, Owarian.

_ 4714 Calanthe, slender.

4729 Cantua, two-coloured.

4701 Casquewort, Bauer’s ; yellow-

a flowered variety.

4700 Cattleya, elegant.

_ 4707 Cereus, Mrs. M‘Donald’s great

night-flowering.

4753 Cirrhopetalum, horn-bearing.

4712 Ceelia, long-spiked.

4691 Ccelogyne, spotted-flowered.

4690 Coleus, Mr. Macrae’s.

4754 Blumé’s.

4693 Columbine, Kanaor,

4710 Crossandra, yellow-flowered,

4755 Dendrobium, Cymbidium-like,

4711 round-headed.

4708 various-fruited. —

4733 Dichorisandra, white-eyed,

4750 Dictyanthus, Payon’s.

4757 Didymocarpus, Humboldtian.

---- 4702 Dipladenia, yellow-flowered,

4695 Water-Sensitive, the double yel-

Plate.

4720 Episcia, Melittis-leaved.

4703 Eriogonum, twice-umbelled.

4742 Erythrochiton, Brazilian.

4731 Fritillary, sharp-petaled.

4697 Gaultheria, rusty.

4706 Gymnostachyum, Ceylon.

4745 Hemanthus, showy.

4735 Leptosiphon, or Yellow Gilia.

4725 Lily, rose-coloured.

4723 Littonia, unassuming.

4724 Lopezia, large-leaved.

4747 Metternichia, princely.

4699 Notholena, sinuated.

4752 Passion-flower, Medusean.

4738 Philesia, box-leaved.

4709 Piteairnia, echinated-flowered.

4705 — large-calyxed.

4751 Plumieria, Jameson’s.

4749 Poppy, large hairy.

4715 Puya, Chilian.

4696 sulphur-flowered.

4721 Rhododendron, glaucous-leaved.

4718 Lady Dalhousie’s

4730 snowy-leaved.

4737 Rhynchospermum, jasmine-flow-

ered,

4716 Sandersonia, golden-flowered.

4743 Scheeria, Mexican.

4736 Screw-pine, dwarf.

4727 Semeiandra, large-flowered.

4719 Skimmia, Japan.

4713 Syphocampylus, D’Orbigny’s.

low.

4732 Whortleberry, ovate-leaved.

4722 Yellow-gum, spear.

Tas. 4689.

BEGONIA Rvusro-ventia.

feed-veined Begonia.

Nat. Ord. BEGonracE&.—Monecia PoLyanpRia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tan. 4172.)

Braonra rudyo-venia ; glaberrima, caule brevi paucifloro, foliis longe petiolatis

oblique ovatis valde acuminatis ineequaliter dentato-serratis supra albo-macu-

lutis subtus purpureis, stipulis magnis e lata basi subulatis, pedunculis axilla-

ribus petiolum superantibus, floribus corymbosis, petalis 4, 2 ext. majoribus

venis rubris pictis, capsule rubro-striate alis duabus brevibus rotundatis

tertia horizontaliter elongata elliptica obtusa.

From the stove of Thomas Nuttall, Esq., Rainhill, near Preston,

Lancashire, having been detected and brought home from Bootan

by his nephew, Mr. Booth, along with the equally remarkable

Begonia wanthina, figured at Tab. 4683 of the present work. It

evidently belongs to the same group or tribe of the extensive

genus of Begonza as that plant, but is widely different in specific

character.

Duscr. Root a short thick caudex or rhizoma, sending down

numerous fibres from beneath. Stem short, scarcely branched,

and bearing few leaves ; terete, fleshy, red. Zeaves two or three

springing from the root, the rest alternate, rather large, on long,

grooved, red petioles, from two to four or five inches long: the

blade of the leaf measures about six inches in length, is obliquely

(or inequilaterally) ovate, subcordate at the base, much and gra-

dually acuminated into a long point; the margins unequally

dentato-serrated, glabrous (as is the whole plant), the upper side

dark satiny-green, glossy, marked and dashed with white blotches ;

the underside of a full but rather dull purple colour, and the veins —

are prominent. Stipules, a pair of opposite ones at the base of

the petioles, large, membranous, from a broad base tapering into

a subulate point, yellowish-green with a red central line. Pedun-

cles axillary, solitary, red, terete, longer than the petiole and

much slenderer, erect, bearing a corymé of eight to ten or more

JANUARY Ist, 1853.

drooping flowers. Male and female flowers each with four

spreading white sepa/s, the male the largest; in both, the two

outer and larger, cordato-rotundate, slightly concave ones are the

largest, and beautifully and longitudinally vemed with red; the

inner and smaller sepals are nearly elliptical and pure white.

Anthers yellow, in a compact capitulum. . rat three-winged,

beautifully striated transversely with red ; two of the wings short

~ rounded ; the third very much elongated transversely and

obtuse.

Fig. 1. Fruit :—magnified.

Tas. 4690.

COLEUS MacraegEt.

Myr. Macrae’s Coleus.

Nat. Ord. Lasrata2.—DipynaMi1a ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx ovato-campanulatus, fructifer declinatus v. reflexus, rarius

suberectus, favce intus nuda vel hispida, 5-dentatus v. bilabiatus, dente supremo

ovato membranaceo marginibus rarius decurrentibus, inferioribus angustioribus,

omnibus acutis v. lateralibus ovato-truncatis, 2 infimis seepe inter se connatis.

Corolla tubo exserto declinato, decurvo v. seepius defracto, fauce inflata v. equali,

limbo bilabiato, labio superiore abbreviato obtuso 3-4-fido, inferiore integro

elongato concavo, seepius cymbiformi, genitalia involvente. Stamina 4. Fila-

menta edentula, basi in tubum stylum vaginantem connexa. Stylus apice subu-

latus, equaliter bifidus. Nucule subrotundato-compresse, leves.—Herbe an-

nue v. basi perennantes, rarius frutices. Verticillastri seaflori v. sepius multiflori,

nunc densissimi, nunc laxi, cymeformes, pedunculo communi wtriusque cyme rariusve

utringue binis plus minusve elongatis. Folia floralia dracteeformia, ante anthesin

ad apicem racemorum plus minusve comosa, per anthesin decidua v. rarius subpersis-

tentia, reflexa.—Species plereque Asiatice, perpauce Africane. Benth.

Co.Evs Macraei ; pubescens, foliis longe petiolatis ovatis acuminatis (discoloribus)

basi rotundatis vel cuneatis, floralibus deciduis, racemis paniculato-ramosis,

verticillastris quadrifariam cymosis, pedunculo communi utrinque subnullo,

ramis valde elongatis, pedicellis brevissimis, calycibus fructiferis nutantibus

glabris basi subinflatis, intus fauce nuda, dente supremo ovato acutiusculo,

marginibus revolutis, inferioribus lanceolatis acutis, 2 lateralibus ultra me-

dium invicem connatis, corolla tubo exserto fauce amplissima, labio infe-

riore elongato porrecto. Benth.

Coteus Macraei. Benth. Gen. et Sp. Labiat. p. 58; et in De Cand. Prodr. v. 12.

p. 17. Walp. Repert. Bot. v. 3. p. 519.

Raised from seeds sent to the Royal Gardens of Kew from

Ceylon by Mr. Thwaites. The plants flowered in the stove

during the summer and autumn of 1852, and made a really

handsome appearance from their copious ample foliage, of a rich

purple colour beneath, and from their large panicles of flowers,

variegated with white and dark purple. ‘The structure of the

corolla is very curious in the sudden geniculation near the

JANUARY Ist, 1853.

middle of the tube, in the ample and compressed faux, and

especially in the large boat-shaped lower lip. ‘The style, too,

is bent at an angle in conformity with the tube of the corolla.

The species seems to be confined to the island of Ceylon. Mr.

Bentham notices its affinity with C. Malabaricus, “a quo differt

foliis multo minoribus angustioribus et inflorescentia.”

Descr. Nearly glabrous in every part. Stems two to three

feet high, quadrangular, dark purple, branched, with opposite

branches. Leaves varying much in size, the lower ones six

inches long, with petioles four to five inches long; upper ones

gradually smaller and on shorter petioles; all of them ovate,

acuminate, serrated, submembranaceous, somewhat glossy, dark-

green above, beneath deeply purple, as are the petioles ; the veins

pinnated, with the lateral ones united by cross veinlets. Panicle

large, terminal ; dranches opposite, bracteated at the setting on

of the branches and under the whorls; dracts greenish-purple,

broad ovate, mucronated. Pedicels very short. Calya small,

cup-shaped: upper lip of one large cordate acuminated tooth ;

lower hp quadridentate, spreading. Corolla large, white: the

tube long, slender, below gibbous on one side at the base, sud-

denly geniculated or bent at an angle near the middle; the faua

very large, compressed: upper dip erect, broad, truncated, two-

lobed, with a large purple blotch, each lobe emarginated ; lower

lip very large, boat-shaped, acute. Stamens lodged in the lower

lip, and not protruded beyond it. Anthers short, oblong, apicu-

late. Ovary with a very large fleshy gland, twice the size of the

ovary. Style filiform, bent at an angle where the geniculation of

the corolla takes place, dilated upwards: Stigma bifid.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil :—magnified.

F. Reeve, imp

rai, GOL

Tas. 4691.

COELOGYNE macutata.

Spotted-flowered Celogyne.

Nat. Ord. Orncuipes.—GynaNnDRIA MoNANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4440.)

C@LOGYNE maculata; pseudobulbis depresso-rotundatis basi tuberculatis, foliis

(serotinis) “ lanceolatis plicatis,” floribus radicalibus, pedunculo brevi vagi-

nato, labelli lobis lateralibus abbreviatis integris, intermedio ovato retuso

undulato lineis 5 rectis denticulatis albis interstitiis purpureis.

C@LOGYNE maculata. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 43; et in Wall. Plant.

Asiat. Rarior. v. 1. p. 45. t. 58.

PLEIONE maculata. Lindl. et Paxt. Flower Gard. v. 2. t. 39.

GompuostyLis candida. ‘ Wallich Ic. Pict. in Museo Anglico-Indico, n. 651.”

Lindl.)

A scarcely less beautiful species of Cclogyne than that we

figured at Tab. 4446 of this work (C. Wallichit) ; and it inhabits

the same country, growing on rocks in Khasya (Wallich, J. D.

Hooker, and Thomson) and in Assam, from which latter country

it was sent by Mr. Simons to the Royal Gardens of Kew. With

us it flowered in October. The leaves are unfortunately not pro-

duced at the same time with the flowers; and the pseudo-bulbs,

though richly coloured with brown and green, and thus contrast-

ing with the white sepals of the flowers, are strangely misshapen,

and below, especially, tuberculated almost like a J/ammillaria.

It belongs to Dr. Lindley’s section of this now very numerous

genus, Gomphostylis (Wall. MS. Pleione*, Don): “ Folia sero-

* In the ‘ Flower Garden’ Dr. Lindley has adopted Don’s genus Pleione for this plant, but

he speaks cautiously of the necessity of so doing; “The habit of the plants (of the genus Pleione)

is so peculiar that it seems desirable to separate them from Celogyne, if any character can be

found; and we think the membranous bracts and strongly saccate lip, with fringed veins of

Pleione, may be taken to offer a sufficient distinction from Celogyne, with its horny or carti-

laginous deciduous bracts, and lip merely concave at the base, with two or three continuous crests

rising up from the veins.” The species thus referred to Pleione are, besides our maculata, P.

lagenaria, P. Wallichiana, P. precox, P. humilis, and P. diphylla.

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tina. Pseudo-bulbi vaginis reticulatis tecti, cute tenera nec

cornea, lucida. Flores solitarii, radicales, pedunculo vaginato.

Labellum fimbriatum, basi saccatum. Columna apice petaloidea,

cucullata. Pollinia materie granulosa coheerentia.”

Descr. Our plant has at present exhibited no eaves: these

are described by Dr. Lindley as lanceolate and plicate. The

pseudo-bulbs are moderately large, subrotund, singularly depressed

at the top, so as to form a kind of ring around a short thick beak,

whence the leaves have fallen; dark green, glossy, the base tu-

berculated, and partially clothed with brown, imbricating scales.

Flowers, one or two from the sides of each pseudo-bulb, and

springing from near the fibrous roots. Peduncle short, sheathed

below with ventricose green scales ; above bearing a large mem-

branous spathaceous dract. Flower moderately large. Sepals

spreading, white, narrow, lanceolate, sometimes with a streak of

purple towards the apex. Lup oblong, white, three-lobed ; the

lateral lobes short, incurved, marked with oblique purple lines ;

middle lobe broad, ovate, retuse, waved, spotted with purple, the

disc for its whole length bearing five elevated fringed /amelle,

with a purple line between them. Column slender, semiterete,

white, with two red streaks in front, the apex dilated into a peta-

Joid white hood, with a tooth on each side. Anther-case white,

sunk in the cucullate apex of the column.

Fig.1. Lip. 2. Column :—magnified.

Reeve, iaxp

;

Tas. 4692.

BEGONIA THWAITESII.

Mr. Thwaites's Begonia.

Nat. Ord. Brgon1acem.—Mona@cia PotyanpRia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4172.)

Breonta Thowaitesii ; acaulis, foliis vix inzequilateralibus longiuscule petiolatis

cordatis acutis vel acuminatis obscure lobatis crenato-serratis intense viridi-

purpureis albo-maculatis superne subtusve pilis copiosis purpureis velu-

tinis marginibus nudis, stipulis ovatis acuminatis, scapis plurimis petiolis

brevioribus, floribus subumbellatis tetrasepalis, capsule angulis tribus brevi-

bus rotundatis subsqualibus duplicato-ciliatis.

Among the many handsome new species of this most extensive

genus, I scarcely know one with more richly-coloured foliage

than the present, nor one that better deserves to bear the name

of its discoverer, Mr. Thwaites, the present able superinten-

dent of the Botanic Garden at Peradenia, Ceylon. We are in-

debted to that gentleman for living plants of it, which flowered

in a warm stove in June of the present year, 1852. ‘The flowers

are moderately large, white, tinged with pink ; but they are quite

thrown in the background by the comparatively large highly-

coloured coppery leaves, clothed on both surfaces with the deep

red-purple velvety hairs, the edge being free from-hairs. By

‘these leaves, and by the nearly equal and short wings of the fruit,

bearing a double row of hairs, the species is readily distinguished.

Drscr. Leaves altogether radical, springing several from one

point on longish petioles, which are stipulated at the base : their

form is broad, cordate, scarcely unequally sided; the simus deep,

the /obes rounded, the apex acute or acuminated, the margin (not

hairy) slightly lobed (especially the larger ones), and crenato-

dentate: the colour is rich coppery, a mixture of green and red-

purple, redder beneath, the upper surface frequently blotched

With white; a still greater richness of colour is given to both

surfaces by the copious deep purple velvety hairs, which do not

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aa. 0 a eae tar ench

however extend to the edge. Scapes shorter than the petioles.

Flowers subumbellate. Flowers moderately large, and nearly the

same size in the male as in the female. Sepals four, white,

tinged with pink, especially the two outer ones, which are large,

more rotundate than the mner ones. Capsule subrhomboid in

outline, triquetrous, marked with transverse veins; the angles

furnished with wings nearly equal in size, small, rounded, and

ciliated with a double row of hairs.

Fig. 1. Capsule :—magnified.

ieee iti

4643,

F. Reeve, imp.

Fitch, delet lith.

Tas. 4693.

AQUILEGIA Kawnaoriensts.

Kanaor Columbine.

Nat. Ord. RanuncuLace#.—PoLyYANDRIA PENTAGYNIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx 5-sepalus, deciduus, colorato-petaloideus ; petala 5, superne

hiantia, bilabiata, labio superiore magno plano, interiore minimo, deorsum pro-

ducto in calcaria totidem cava apice callosa inter sepala exserta. Ovaria 5.

Capsule totidem, erecte; polysperme, stylis acuminate. De Cand.

Aquiteera Kanaoriensis ; caule petiolis pedunculisque glanduloso-puberulis, cal-

caribus rectis foliola calycina eequantibus, limbo petalorum obovato, stami-

nibus stylisque petalis brevioribus, fructibus pilosiusculis. Cambess.

Aguiteeia Kanaoriensis. Jacquem. MS. Cambess. in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. p. 7.

t.5. Walp. Repert. Bot. v. 1. p. 51.

In the present species of Columbine, sent from Western

Himalaya to the Royal Gardens of Kew by Dr. Thos. Thomson,

we cannot boast of flowers to be compared with the American

Aquilegia leptoceras, which we figured at our Tab. 4407; but

we have here a plant in all respects much more nearly resem-

bling our 4. vulgaris, yet distinguished from it in all the speci-

mens we have seen, both wild and cultivated, by the erect, not

incurved, spurs of the petals, and the glandularly pubescent pe-

duncles and flowers (externally). I am aware that Dr. Thomson,

who has seen the plant abundantly in its native locality, and

Dr. Hooker, who is at this moment engaged with him in a

careful investigation of all the Indian Ranunculaceae, are of

opinion that this can only be considered a form of our J. vul-

gris, and that they have seen what they consider intermediate

states. Assuredly in our Garden the two have a very different

appearance and tangible characters. M. Jacquemont found it at

Kanaor, and between Cashmere and Tibet, at elevations of from —

3450 to 3500 metres; Dr. Thomson in the upper part of the

the Piti valley, and in all the drier parts of North-west Himalaya,

from Cashmere to Kamaon, at elevations varying from 10,000 to

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15,000 feet. With us it flowers in the open border in May and

June.

Descr. Our plants have not attained to more than twelve or

fourteen inches in height, and are entirely of a very glaucous hue.

Radical leaves on long footstalks, bi-tri-ternate : all the leaflets

petiolate, cuneate, three-lobed: ¢erminal lobes generally trifid,

and more or less incised ; /ateral Jobes often and again cut into

two or three large teeth: cauline leaves remote, on shorter and

less divided or less compound petioles ; the uppermost leaf of all

often reduced to a lanceolate dractea. ‘The stem is divided into

two or three branches, each branch terminating in a rather elon-

gated peduncle, bearing a single drooping flower of a purplish-

blue colour, the petals white at the apices: in general shape re-

sembling our common A. vulgaris ; but all the spurs are straight

(not incurved), capitate at the apex.

Aaa i:

Tas. 4694.

ABELIA unNIFLORA.

Large-flowered Abelia.

Nat. Ord. CAPRIFOLIACEZ.—PENTANDRIA MonoGyNiA.

Gen. Char. Calyx tubo cum ovario connato, lineari-oblongo, compressiusculo,

hine uninervi inde quinquenervi, apice in collum subangustato, limbi superi quin-

quepartiti laciniis foliaceis, spathulato-oblongis, persistentibus. Corol/a supera

infundibuliformis, limbi quinquefidi patentis laciniis ovatis obtusis subeequalibus.

Stamina 4, corolle tubo inserta, subdidynama, inclusa v. breviter exserta. Ovarium

inferum, triloculare, loculis duobus pluriovulatis abortientibus, tertio uniovulato

fertili. Ovula anguli centrali loculorum inserta, sterilium uniseriata, inferiora

pendula, supremum adscendens, loculi fertilis pendulum, anatropum. Stylus sul

exsertus. Stigma depresso-capitatum, indivisum. Bacca coriacea, exsucca, Ca- —

lycis limbo coronata, trilocularis, loculis duobus sterilibus minoribus, tertio fertili

monospermo. Semen inversum, subeylindricum. Embryo in axi albuminis car-

nosi brevis, orthotropus, cotyledonibus obtusis, radicula umbilico proxima, su-

pera.—Frutices Chinenses et Indici, decumbentes v. erecti, debiles, glabri; foliis

oppositis, petiolatis, dentato-crenatis, pedunculis modo axillaribus trichotomis v. tri-

fidis, modo terminalibus indivisis, involucro uni-bi-multifloro, foliolis sex v. pluri-

bus. Endl.

ABELIA uniflora; foliis oppositis ternisque ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis subcoria-

ceis acute serratis, pedunculis 1—3-floris, bracteolis ad basin ovaril tribus,

sepalis 2-4 oblongo-subspathulatis corollis duplo brevioribus, staminibus

vix exsertis.

Apetia uniflora. Br. in Wallich, Plant. Asiat. Rar. v. 1. under Tab. 15. De

Cand. Prod. v. 1. p. 339. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1846, under Tab. 8; and Pact.

Fl. Gard. v. 2. p. 145, with woodcut. Walp. Repert. Bot. v. 6. p. 3.

ABELIA serrata. Siebold et Zuccar. Fl. Japon. v. 1. t. 31.

Introduced by Mr. Fortune, from the north of China, to the

nursery of Messrs. Standish and Noble, where it has survived

the winter, in the open air, without any protection, and promises

to be not only a hardy but a ornamental shrub. With us, ina

cool greenhouse, it has flowered in June. It is considered by

Dr. Lindley to be the Adelia uniflora of Mr. Brown, in Wallich’s

‘ Plante Asiaticee Rariores’ (without character), on the ground of

its being a plant of Mr. Reeves’, known to be the same as the

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present. ‘The name however is unhappily chosen, for our living

plants bear frequently three flowers from a peduncle. Dr.

Lindley justly observes that Siebold and Zuccarini’s 4. serrata

of Japan is very near our present plant; and a small authentic

specimen I have in my possession would tend to confirm that

opinion. The pubescence is a variable character, and so as-

suredly is the degree of serrature on the leaves, so likewise the

size of the flowers and the number of sepals. In our specimens

the latter vary from two to four: in the 4. serrata they are de-

scribed as five. |

Drscr. A spreading, somewhat decumbent, small shrub, with

slender dranches, and usually opposite, but sometimes ternate,

broad, lanceolate, shortly petiolate, acuminated, subcoriaceous,

dark green, perennial eaves, pale beneath. Peduneles axillary,

short, scarcely longer than the petioles, bearing one to three

flowers. Calyw-tube oblong-cylindrical, furrowed, slightly hairy,

subtended by an involucre of three small bracteoles: the limb

- generally of two, but varying to three and four, oblong-spathu-

_ fate, nerved, red-brown, spreading sepals, longer than the tube,

but less than half the length of the corolla. Corolla white,

tinged with blush; the tude infundibuliform, narrow, dilated at

the base into an obtuse spur; the limb obscurely two-lipped ;

upper lip two, lower one three-lobed, the lobes obtuse, spread-

mg; the throat wide, hairy on the lower surface, and streaked

with yellow. Stamens four, included, didynamous ; style rather

longer than the stamens, Slender ; stigma capitate.

Fig. 1. Calyx and pistil, with the involucre at the base

of the ovary :—mag-

nified. 2. Ovary cut through transversely :—more magnified. enced

4645,

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Nets Wise! \

itch. del et kth i =

F. Reeve, mp

Tas. 4695.

NEPTUNIA puena.

The Double Yellow Water-Sensitive.

Nat. Ord. LeaumMinos®.—DEcANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Gen. Char. Flores superiores, v. rarius omnes, hermaphroditi, sessiles. Calyx

campanulatus. Pefala 5, ad medium coheerentia v. rarius libera, Stamina 10,

rarius 5, libera, exserta. Anthere ovate, glandula stipitata superate. Flores

inferiores nunc neutri filamentis filiformibus anantheris, nunc masculi. Legumen

oblongum, a stipite deflexum, planum, continuum, valvulis 2 membranaceis de-

hiscens, intus inter semina incomplete septatum, epulposum. Semina transversa,

funiculo filiformi appensa.—Herbe suffruticesve inermes, prostrate vel natantes.

Folia bipinnata, foliolis parvis. Glandula inter v. infra pinnas jugi infimi v. sepius

nulla, Stipule membranacee, oblique cordate, acuminate. Pedunculi axillares,

solitarii, bracteis 1-2 stipuleformibus onusti. Capitulum ad apicem pedunculi

ovato-globosum. Benth.

Neprunta plena ; prostrata v. adscendens, glabra v. hine inde minute puberula,

ramis compressis triquetrisve, pinnis 3—5-jugis glandulis inter pinnas in-

fimas, foliolis 12—40-jugis, capitulis ovoideis, floribus neutris numerosis,

staminibus 10, legumine breviter stipitato 5-20-spermo. Benth.

Nerrunta plena. Benth. in Hook. Journ. of Bot. 0. 4..p. 35. Lindl. Bot. Keg.

1846. ¢. 3.

Neprounta polyphylla. Benth. 1. c. v. 2. p. 129.

Dzsmantuus plenus. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 4. p.1045. De Cand. Prodr. v. 2. p. 444.

DesMaNrTHUs punctatus. Willd. 1. c. p. 1047. De Cand. Prodr. v. 2. p. 444.

Drsmantuvs polyphyllus. De Cand. Prodr. v. 2. p. 444.

Mimosa plena. Linn. Sp. Pl. 1502. Mill. Ie. t. 182. f. 2.

Mimosa punctata. Linn. Sp. Pl. 1502.

Mimosa adenanthera. Roxb, Fl. Ind. v. 2. p. 554.

The above are the synonyms adduced by Mr. Bentham as all

belonging to this very curious, and, in respect of cultivation, rare

aquatic. It is a native of the tropics, both of the Old World

(the East Indies) and of the New World (West Indies and the

mainland of South America). Mr. Purdie introduced it to our

Aquaria at Syon and at Kew from Jamaica; but we fear it has

now disappeared at both establishments. The white spongy

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lower portion of the stems, full of air-cells, enabling it to float,

are very remarkable. From the more slender and deeply striated

and furrowed portions the leaves and flower-stalks appear: the

former are as irritable in the petioles and leaflets as are those of

the common Humble-plant, and of an extremely delicate yellow-

green colour. ‘The flowers are minute, but they are collected

into a large ovoid head, the lower half of which is quite yellow

from the numerous dilated and subpetaloid antherless stamens.

True stamens are only found in the upper flowers, and we have

not in our specimens seen any pistils. It flowered in the sum-

mer months with us.

Dxscr. Plant floating. Stems prostrate, branched, downy, .

deeply furrowed on the lower portion, or that bearing the nu-

merous, plumose, calyptrate fibres, very thick, swollen, white

and spongy. Leaves alternate, remote, set on as it were by

an articulated, purple, swollen base, pari-bipinnate, highly sensi-

tive; pinne three to five pairs, distant, nearly sessile, linear-

oblong ; /eaflets numerous, crowded, linear, obtuse. Stipules ob-

liquely ovate, much acuminate, dimidiate, membranaceous, co-

loured. Just below the setting on of the lower pinnee is a con-

Spicuous gland. Peduncle axillary, nearly as long as the leaf,

with one or two bracteas, like the stipules of the leaves. Flowers

small, collected into a head an inch and a half or more long,

ovoid, and remarkable for the upper part bearing perfect stamens

(no pistils in our specimens) : in the lower numerous flowers the

stamens are all petaloid and yellow, linear-lanceolate, tapering at

both extremities. The petals of the antheriferous flowers small

and lanceolate. The anthers orange-brown.

Fig. 1. Flower from the lower part of a capitulam. 2. Flower from the apex

of a capitulum :—magnified.

Tan. 4696.

PUYA suLPHuUREA.

Sulphur-flowered Puya.

Nat. Ord. BRomELIAcER.—HExANnpRIA Monoaynta.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4309.)

Puya sulphurea ; acaulis, foliis inermibus lineari-lanceolatis tenui-acuminatis ob-

scure nervosis basi angustatis canaliculatis, spica solitaria pedunculata (una

cum pedunculo folia subsuperantibus) strobiliformi apice acuminata, bracteis

inferioribus foliaceis, superioribus (floriferis) ovatis anguste acuminatis erec-

tis concavis dense imbricatis purpureo-rufis apice viridibus, floribus sessili-

bus sulphureis longe exsertis, petalis squama bifida prope basin, staminibus

subinclusis.

Pura sulphurea. Hort. Hernhauss.

Although this is far inferior in point of beauty and of sizé

to the splendid Puya Altensteinii, var. gigantea, figured at our

Tab. 4309, it is nevertheless a handsome-looking plant, and has

the merit of flowering in the winter months (with us in Decem-

ber). We received it from the Royal Garden of Hernhaussen,

under the name we have retained ; but who is the author of the

name, or whether or not anywhere published, and even regarding

the native country, we are ignorant. The genus (of Molina) is

the same as Pourretia of Ruiz and Pavon, Pitcairnia of other

authors, from which latter genus it is, according to Schultes, dis-

tnguished, “ praeter habitum, in calyce perfecte infero, plus minus

subspiraliter convoluto, in antheris linearibus, incumbentibus, in

capsule valvulis septiferis, et in seminibus compressis membrana

brevi cinctis.” We are not in a condition to verify the majority

of these characters; but we are satisfied that the whole of the

Bromeliaceous family requires a careful revision, which is unfor-

tunately difficult from such dried specimens as exist in our

Herbarium ; and besides comparatively few species are found in

cultivation, by no means so many as deserve to be. Of the pre-

sent genus, only five species are taken up in Schultes, and the

present is certainly not among them.

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Dzscr. The principal eaves of our plant spring directly from

the root; they are two to three feet long (the longest of them

nearly three inches wide in the broadest part), and they gradually

taper to a long point upwards, while below they lengthen into a

narrow channelled base; glabrous, as is every part of the plant,

full dark green, slightly waved at the edge, and furrowed above

in the centre and keeled at the back, quite entire. From the

centre of the plant the peduncle arises, two feet or more long,

leafy below, the leaves like those from the root, but smaller,

passing gradually into dracteas, which latter form an imbricated

long cone-like spzke, a span to a foot and more long, tapering to a

point; these bracteas are erect, concave, purple-red, tapering into a

slender, rather pungent, subulate, green point. The moderately

large, pale, sulphur-coloured flowers are protruded much beyond

the bracteas, and are sessile. Calycine leaves \ess than half the

length of three unequal slightly-twisted petals, each of which has

a bifid scale within at the base. Stamens about equal in length

with the petals. Anthers yellow.. Ovary free, pyramidal. Style

slender, filiform, rather longer than the stamens. Stigmas three,

spiral, twisted.

Fig. 1. Flower :—natural size. 2. Pistil:—rmagnified. 3. Petal seen from

within :—magnified.

ico 9h aaa

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Fitch, del et. lith.

eg ee ee ee ee

Tas. 4697.

GAULTHERIA rerruaGinea.

Rusty ‘Gaultheria.

Nat. Ord. Ertcackm.—Drcanpria MONOGYNIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx 5-lobus, demum ampliatus, plus minus baccatus et capsu-

lam ambiens aut fovens. Corolla ovata, ore seepe contracta, 5-dentata. Stamina

10, inclusa; filamentis seepe villosis; antheris 4-aristatis nempe apice bifidis,

loculis 2-aristatis rarissime muticis. Stylus filiformis. Stigma obtusum. Squame

hypogynz 10 distinctee aut concrete. Capsula depresso-globosa, 5-locularis,

5-sulcafa, 5-valvis, valvis septiferis, loculicido-dehiscentibus. Placente axi ad-

nate. Semina.numeroga, parva, testa subreticulata—Frutices aut rarius arbus-

cule, ex America, rarius ex India, orti. Folia alterna, sempervirentia, dentata aut

integerrima. Pedicelli nunc avillares uniflori, nune in racemum terminalem dis-

positi, bibracteolati. Corolle albe, rosee, aut coccinee. De Cand.

GAULTHERIA ferruginea ; ramulis rachibus pedicellisque ferrugineo-hirsutis glan-

dulosoque pilosis, foliis breviter petiolatis ovatis mucrone calloso acutis supra

levibus subtus reticulatis parce pilosis serratis superioribus ciliatis, racemis

terminalibus multibracteatis, bracteis coloratis dorso hirsutis demum glabra-

tis, ealycibus corollisque urceolatis hirsutis roseo-coccineis.

GavuLrHeErta ferruginea. Cham. et Schlecht. in Linnea, v. 1. p. 524.

Prodr. v. 7. p. 595.

GAULTHERTIA tomentosa. Spreng. Syst. Veget. Cur. post. p. 159, non Kunth.

ANDROMEDA hirsuta. Arrab. Fl. Flum. v. 4. p. 1. t. 99.

Raised at the Comely Bank Nursery, Edinburgh, from seeds

sent by the late Mr. Gardner from the Organ Mountains, Brazil.

It appears also in the sets of that zealous botanist’s distributed

collections. It is certainly variable in the shape of the leaves,

and in the degree of hairiness, and in the deciduous nature of

the hairs, in the presence or absence of glandular hairs, and

variable in the length and direction of the racemes, and in the

size of the bracteas. We have every reason to believe that Cha-

misso and Schlechtendal’s and De Candolle’s G@. ferruginea 1s

identical with this; but we fear a considerable number of the

species from tropical America, given in De Candolle’s third divi-

sion of Gaultheria, “floribus racemosis, bracteis amplis sicco-

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membranaceis, bracteolis in medio aut basi pedicelh,”’ those num-

bered from 22 to 37 inclusive, will be found too closely allied to

our plant. G. dracteata, figured at our Tab. 4461, a native of

New Grenada and even Mexico, has many points in common

with it; nor should we be surprised if it prove the same as to

species, less hairy in the flowers and pedicels, and having much

broader, and indeed truly cordate leaves. Our flowering speci-

mens were in perfection in June. It is a truly handsome plant,

but will probably be found difficult to keep in cultivation, as are

so many lofty Andine plants.

Drscr. A small branching shrub, the younger dranches, and

even the young leaves, the rachises of the racemes, and the

pedicels, clothed generally with copious spreading rufous hairs,

more or less mixed with glandular hairs. Leaves on very short

petioles, almost sessile, ovate or oblong (as in our figure), but

sometimes more tapering at the base, at other times almost cor-

date there, serrated at the margin, the apex tipped with a callous

point, the old ones generally quite glabrous, the less mature ones

ciliated ; some are more or less hairy beneath, penninerved, sub-

reticulated, most so beneath. Racemes terminal, and from the

axils of the upper leaves, varying in length and in direction, usu-

ally spreading, the pedicels secund, all pointing downwards, ra-

ther long, the young ones covered with red imbricated bracteas,

which are more distant as the raceme becomes more fully deve-

_loped, and more or less clothed with deciduous hairs. Calyw

ample, deeply cut into five moderately spreading hairy lobes.

Corolla large for the size of the plant, urceolate ; the mouth con-

tracted, five-toothed. Stamens ten. Filaments subulate, clothed

with spreading hairs. Anthers opening by pores at the apex,

each cell bearing two erect awns, nearly as long as themselves.

a depresso-globose, five-lobed, free. Svyle included. Stigma

obtuse.

- Fig. 1. Pedicel with its two bracteoles t —

$: Pel weaned, near the base and flower. 2. Stamen.

en ene

i BIR eEP CRI S see

Tas. 4698.

ALLOSORUS corpatus.

Heart-leaved Allosorus.

Nat. Ord. Fitices.—CryptTg@amia FILiczs.

Gen. Char. Sori marginales, primum subrotundi discreti, citissime confluentes

et tum lineares continui, margine frondis crenato-plicato revoluto et indusio ob-

tecti. Jndusium marginarium, lineare, continuum, membranaceo-scariosum, pla-

num aut plicatum. Capsule sessiles v. subsessiles—Rhizoma subglobosum aut

repens. Frondes fasciculate aut sparse, coriacee aut herbacee, pinnatim compo-

site et supradecomposite, fertiles pinnulis laciniisque multo angustioribus. Ven

pinnate, creberrime, interna, tenuissine, uni-bi-tri-quadrifurcate, venulis parallelis

apice clavulato libero terminatis. Species plurime intratropice, pauciores extra-

tropice. Presl.

AtLosorus cordatus; caudice repente pallide paleaceo, fronde ovato-oblonga

coriacea bipinnata rarius inferne tripinnata, pinnulis brevissime petiolulatis

cordato-ovatis obtusis distincte venosis glanduloso-pubescentibus, stipite

paleaceo rachibusque strictiusculis stramineis rachi communi valida.

AuLosorus cordatus. Pres, Tent. Pterid. p. 153. Kunze, in Linnea, v. 13.

p. 135.

Preris cordata. Cavan. Pral. 1801. 2. 662. Sw. Syn. Fil. p.106. Willd. Sp.

Pl. 0.5. p.392. Presl, Relig. Hank. v.1. p.57. H, B.K. Nov. Gen. Am.

v. 1. p. 15.

PLATYLOMA cordata. J. Sm. in Bot. Mag. Comp. p. 21.

Prtuea, Me (but not his P. cordata, which is a Cape plant of Sieber).

With the figures and descriptions we propose from time to

time to give of the Ferns, which are now such general favourites

with cultivators, and so beautiful in their form and structure, it

is not our interttion to discuss the merits or otherwise of the se-

veral opinions that prevail respecting the limits of genera. Almost

every writer on Ferns entertains his own peculiar views on this

subject, and there is, with the more recent writers at least, a ten-

dency ‘to multiply genera on the ground of the slightest dif-

ferences in the fructification or venation. Our object here will —

rather be to take a middle course ; and our opinion has long been _ ;

recorded that Presl’s system, as given in his ‘'Tentamen Pterido-

graphia,’ is the best yet given, and that which is most generally

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approved. His characters will therefore generally be adopted,

with perhaps some slight modifications. We follow him in

placing the plant in the genus d//osorus, though it is difficult to

express in words how it differs from Péeris; and with him it

includes plants differing much in habit.

Allosorus cordatus is a native of Mexico and New Grenada:

nearly allied to Allosorus fleeuosus (Kaulf., Pteris, Zink, et Hook.

Ic. Pl. Rar. t. 119, but that is a climbing plant), and still more

so to A. sagittatus, Presl, in Schkuhr, Fil. Suppl. t. xxiv. ; nor

are we sure that the last is specifically distinct. Our figure

is taken from fertile plants in a cool greenhouse of the Royal

Garden, December, 1852, where they were reared from seed

in 1842.

Descr. Rhizoma short, creeping, almost as thick as one’s little

finger, if we include the closely imbricated subulate scales with

‘ which it is densely clothed. Stipites aggregated, stout, from six

inches to nearly a foot long, straw-coloured, clothed for a good

part of the way from the base with numerous pale-coloured,

scattered, subulate, chaffy scales. Main rachis straight, stout,

and, as well as the slightly flexuose, slender partial rachises, of

the same colour as the stipes. Frond almost a foot long when

fully developed, oblong-ovate in circumscription, bipinnate, more

rarely below tripinnate. Pinaules coriaceous, downy or more

or less hairy, those on the upper side, towards the margin, glan-

dular, ovato-cordate, the base unequal, nearly sessile, obtuse, ge-

nerally all fertile, penniveined, the veins compact, two or three or

more times forked. ‘The margins much reflexed, and somewhat

membranous at the edge, and thus constituting the continuous

involucre covering the sori.

Fig. 1. Pinnule:—magnified. 2. Portion of the same —more magnified.

Reeve,imp-

Tas. 4699,

NOTHOLAENA sinvata.

Sinuated Notholena.

Nat. Ord. Fiticrs.—CryptoGamia FILicgs.

Gen. Char. Sorus marginalis, linearis, continuus (nudus). Jndusium nullum.

Capsule breviter pedicellate. Vene pinnate, creberrime, interne, tenuissime,

uni-bi-trifurcate,, venulisque apice acuto desinentibus parallelee—Rhizoma repens.

Frondes sparse, coriacee, pinnate aut bipinnate, subtus aut paleis densissime imbri-

catis aut farina aut tomento obtecte. Venz tenuissime in fronde bene macerate

tantum conspicue. Species intra- et extratropice, in hemisphera australi et boreali

degentes. Presi.

NorHoLana sinuata ; rhizomate repente squamoso, stipite brevi rachique ap-

presse squamoso-pilosis, fronde lineari-pinnata, pinnis brevi-petiolatis ob-

longo-ovatis cordatisve obtusis sinuatis supra albo-lanatis demum nudius-

culis subtus dense appresse piloso-squamosis sericeis.

Nornocu.ana sinuata, Kaulf. Enum. Fil. p. 135. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 4.

p. 43. Kunze, in Schkuhr, Fil. Suppl. v. 1. p. 95. t. 45.

Acrosticuum sinuatum. Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 14. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 5. p. 120.

GYMNoGRAMMA sinuata. Presi, Tent. Pterid. p. 219.

Var. levis ; pinnules nearly entire.

Nornocuiana levis. Mertens et Galeotti, Fil. Mew. p. 46.

This beautiful Fern is a native of Mexico and New Grenada,

at elevations in the mountains of from 3000 to 6500 feet, and it

is found to bear with the temperature of a cool greenhouse with

a north aspect. It has also been recently found in an expedition

from Western Texas to El Paso, in New Mexico, by Mr. Charles

Wright, nos. 814 and 815 of his collection. Like so many other

Ferns, it is liable to great variations in the form and size of the

pinnules, generally broad-oblong and deeply sinuated, but not

unfrequently cordate or even subhastate at the base, and some-

times with the margin continuous, not, or scarcely at all, sinuated: _

it then becomes the WV. /evis of Mertens and Galeotti, and under —

that name has been received at Kew. The colour is a good deal

tinged with rusty brown, the under side whiter and silky. The

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species resembles some of the states of the West Indian WV.

rufa; but there the pinnules are quite woolly beneath, not

scaly. Our var. /evis was received from M. Galeotti himself, but

is only one of the many variations seen in the pinnules sometimes

on different specimens, sometimes on one and the same: less

sinuated at the margin, and more free from hairs above.

Drscr. Caudex, or rhizoma, creeping, thicker than a swan’s

quill, and densely clothed with imbricating subulate scales. Sii-

pites clustered, short, two to three inches long, stout, and,

as well as the moderately stout, straight, rigid rachis, clothed

with erect chaffy hairs. Fronds from a span to a foot long,

linear-oblong, pinnated. Pinne alternate, the lower ones sub.

opposite, shortly petiolate, often nearly an inch long, horizontally

patent, thick, coriaceous, oblong or ovate or subcordate, rarely

approaching to hastate, sometimes almost rhomboid, deeply sinu-

ated and almost pinnatifid, the lobes rounded and obtuse, occa-

sionally acute, sometimes the pinnules are quite entire or slightly

sinuated, when it becomes the WV. devis of Galeotti: above clothed

with nearly white deciduous short wool, which in the older speci-

mens 1s sometimes entirely wanting: beneath very densely clothed

with imbricated, glossy, appressed, subulate, membranaceous

scales, generally white and silvery, as in no. 815 of Mr. C.

Wright, sometimes rufous, as in no. 814 of the same excellent

collector. Sori marginal, continuous, at first forming a dark

narrow line or border among the scales, afterwards appearing

to be intermixed with the scales over nearly the whole of the

under side.

—._.

Fig. 1. Underside of a fertile pinnule :—magnified. Our right-hand figure

represents a young plant of the more ordinary form ; our left-hand one a speci-

men with more entire pinnules,

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Tas. 4700.

CATTLEYA ELEGaNs.

Elegant Cattleya.

Nat. Ord. OrcutpEm.—GyNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Sepala membranacea vel carnosa, patentia, sequalia. Petala seepius

majora. Labellum cucullatum, columnam involvens, trilobum vel indivisum. Co-

lumna clavata, elongata, semiteres, marginata, cum labello articulata. Anthera

carnosa, 4-locularis, septorum marginibus membranaceis. Pollinia 4, caudiculis

totidem replicatis—Herbee epiphyte (Americana) pseudobulbose. Folia solitaria

vel bina, coriacea. Flores terminales speciosissimi, sepe e spatha magna erumpentes.

Lindl.

CaTtieya elegans ; pseudobulbis teretibus cauliformibus elongatis, folio solitario

lineari-oblongo coriaceo, sepalis oblongis acutis petalis lato-lanceolatis acutis,

. labelli trilobi lobis lateralibus elongatis obtusis columnam involventibus in-

termedio apice latissimo transverso subunguiculato vix emarginato undulato-

crispata, basi leviusculo (* venis callisque deficientibus”).

CattTLeya elegans. “ Morren, Annales de Gand, p. 185.”

Received from Messrs. Backhouse, York Nursery, as a new

species of Cattleya, from St. Catharine’s, Brazil. It appears

however to have been published by Professor Morren, at Ghent,

under the name of C. elegans, which name we therefore here

adopt, but without subscribing to the opinion that it is a truly.

distinct species. From various specimens we have received, both

living and dried, from Mr. Spruce, of Cattleya superba (figured at

our ‘Tab. 4083), from the Amazon, it is very evident that that

species varies extremely in the relative length and breadth of the

leaves, as well as of the pseudo-bulbs ; some of the leaves being

elliptical, rotundate, while others were long and narrow, like the

present. The colour in all such flowers we know to be exceed- |

ingly variable: here the side-lobes of the labellum are nearly

white, with a deep purple tinge at the apices, while, on the other

hand, the central lobe is a very deep and rich purple to the very

We are thus reduced to the absence of the elevated lines,

and of the two callosities at the very base of the middle lobe, as

described in Mr. Backhouse’s letter to us—for we regret that we

FEBRUARY Ist, 1853.

did not ourselves observe this in the living specimen—for a spe-

cific distinction, if such it prove to be.

In the October number of Lindley and Paxton’s ‘ Flower Gar-

den,’ Plate 96 (1852), is another plant, sent by Messrs. Back-

house, under the name of “a new Cattleya,” also from the |

island of St. Catharine’s, Brazil, Lelia purpurata of Dr. Lindley,

which, though much resembling a Cattleya, must not be con-

founded with the present species. =

Descr. With the exception of the differences pointed out

above, our description at ‘Tab. 4083 will answer to the present _

plant.

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Tas. 4701.

GALEANDRA Bauvenrt; var. floribus luteis.

Bauer's Casquewort ; yellow-flowered variety.

Nat. Ord. OrcHIDEH.—GyYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4610.)

GaLEANDRA Baueri; caule simplici, foliis lanceolatis trinerviis, corymbo termi-

nali pedunculato nutante foliis breviore, pedunculo squamis lineari-lanceo-

latis membranaceis vaginato, sepalis petalisque lineari-oblongis acutiusculis,

labello maximo antico emarginato apiculato crenulato, calcare ovario equali.

Lindl.

GaLEanpra Baueri. Lindl. Gen. et Spec. Orchid. p.186. Bateman, Orchid. Mex.

et Guatem. t.19. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1840, tad. 49.

Var. floribus luteis, labello sanguineo-lineatim-maculato. (Tan. Nos. 4701.)

The rarer and much larger-flowered Galeandra Devoniana,

with a short blunt curved spur to the lip, is figured at our Tab.

4610. Of the present species we have figures in Mr. Bateman’s

splendid ‘ Orchidaceze of Mexico and Guatemala,’ and in the ‘ Bo-

tanical Register’ as above quoted. Our plant, however, drawn

from a fine specimen at Syon Gardens, differs from those, remark-

ably, in the colour of its flowers, which there have sepals and

petals green, and the lip dull purple ; here the flower is of a deep

yellow, lip as well as the sepals and petals, the former marked

with blood-coloured dotted lines. In other respects there is no

difference worth noticing. According to Dr. Lindley this species

has a widely extended locality in South America. It was origi-

nally discovered in French Guiana by the French collector Martin,

and upon his specimens the genus was founded by Dr. Lindley.

Subsequently it was found in Mexico by Mr. Ross, a collector

for Mr. Barker, near Melacatapee ; thus these two countries are

considered to be its northern and southern limits. Hartweg

appears also to have sent it to the Horticultural Society, probably

from New Grenada, and in his plants the colour of the flowers

was said to be much duller than those which had been received

from Mexico.

MARCH Ist, 1853.

Duscr. Epiphytal. Psewdo-bulbs elongated, narrow, almost

cylindrical, clustered, throwing out a few aerial whitish voots, and

clothed with the inferior squamiform leaves : above they lengthen

into a cylindrical stem, bearing several lanceolate, submembrana-

ceous, sharply-acuminated, almost erect /eaves, with three prin-

cipal and some lesser nerves, dark green above, paler and slightly

glaucous beneath. From the apex of the elongated stem-like

pseudo-bulb the short peduncle appears, with its very drooping

raceme of full yellow flowers, ten to fourteen upon the rachis.

Bracteas among the flowers, small, subulato-membranaceous,

larger on the peduncle ; sepals and petals very patent, at length

reflexed, lanceolate, nearly equal in size and shape. Lip wfun-

dibuliform (not unlike the large spurred sepal of Jmpatzens), very

deep ‘yellow at the base, paler at the extremity, and there marked

with dotted blood-coloured lines; the side-lobes involute, and

lapping one over the other, the middle lobe obtuse: or retuse,

much waved at the margin, mucronate at the point: the base of

the lip runs out into a long nearly straight spur or tail, longer

than the ovary. Column quite concealed within the lip, elongated, ~

semiterete. Anther helmet-shaped, with a recurved point.

Fig. 1. Lip. 2. Column and anther :—magnified.

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Tas. 4702.

DIPLADENIA Fuava.

Yellow-flowered Dipladenia.

Nat. Ord. APocyNE®.—PENTANDRIA MoNoGYNIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx quinquepartitus, lobis basi interne utrinque 1—2-glandulosis ;

glandulis nunc ligulatis vel squamosis. Corolla hypocraterimorpha vel tubo basi

cylindrico et superne infundibuliformi, circa originem staminum hispida; fauce

exappendiculata ; lobis eestivatione sinistrorsum convolutis. Anthere subsessiles,

in superiore parte tubi vel medio aut sub media parte ubi tubus latior sit inserte,

sagittata, medio stigmati adherentes, apice acuminate vel membrana acuta termi-

nate. Glandule nectarii 2, cum ovariis alternantes, quinta glandula in Echite uno

€x ovariis opposita deficiente. Ovaria 2, nectario sepius longiora. Stylus 1. Stigma

globulosum, inferne membrana reflexa umbraculiformi (an semper?) stipatum.

Follicula et semine ut in Echite—Frutices scandentes, vel sepius suffrutices, aut

herbe basi suffrutescentes, erecte, Americe meridionalis incole ; foliis oppositis, in-

legris, sepe angustis, utrinque basi satis glandulisve pluribus loco stipularum stipatis,

pedicellis azillaribus nunc racemum terminalem approximatis, floratione centripeta ;

Bie sepius purpureis.—Nomen ex dumdos, duplex; et adny, glandula. <A/ph.

. De Cand.

DrpuavEnta flava; caule volubili terete juniore piloso, foliis ovatis ovalibusve

brevi-petiolatis utrinque acutis submembranaceis junioribus pilosis, cyma

terminali pedunculis bracteis pedicellis floribusque extus sericeo-pilosis,

calycis lobis subulatis erectis, corolle (flavee) tubo inferne angusto cylin-

draceo demum ampliato.

I regret that at the time the drawing of this really handsome

Apocyneous plant was made from specimens in the Royal Gar-

dens, the glandular structure of the receptacle and of the in-

side of the calyx was neglected to be examined, and I am at a

loss whether to refer the species to Hehites or to Dipladenia.

The general form of the flower seems to justify its being placed

in the latter genus; if indeed the two be really distinct. ‘The

plant seems undoubtedly new, and was sent from Santa Martha,

New Grenada, by Mr. Purdie, in 1845. It requires the heat of

a stove for its successful cultivation. The flowers are nearly

equal in size, and the same in colour, as our yellow-flowered

Species of A//amanda. Its blossoms with us are produced in May.

MARCH lst, 1853,

Descr. A climbing plant. Stem shrubby in the older por-

tions, herbaceous and slender in the younger branches, and there

clothed with rather long, very slender, spreading, silky hairs.

Leaves opposite, on short footstalks, two to four lines long, ovate

or oval, nearly elliptical, but rather acute at both ends, penni-

nerved, glabrous in age, but the younger leaves are laxly silky.

Peduncle terminal, hairy, bearing a lax eyme of four to six flowers ;

the pedicels, subulato-lanceolate bracts, calyx, and corolline tube

almost silky with long soft copious hairs. Pedicels short. Calyx

cut to the base into five, subulate, erect lobes, equal in length

with the narrow base of the tube of the corolla. Corolla large,

full yellow. The ¢vde very hairy externally ; the base contracted,

cylindrical; above that the tube becomes suddenly enlarged.

Limb ample, of five spreading, rounded, imbricating lobes.

Mouth naked. Stamens included. Anthers yellow, narrow-

subulate.

Tas. 4703.

ERIOGONUM composirum.

Twice-umbelled Eriogonum.

Nat. Ord. Potyconr”%: Tribe Er1oGonE#.—ENNEANDRIA Monocynt.

Gen. Char. Involucrum tubulosum, campanulatum vel cyathiforme, vix angu-

latum, subaqualiter 6-dentatum, multiflorum. Receptaculum bracteolis intra

pedicellos instructum. Perianthia exserta, profundep 6-fida. Benth.

Ertoconum (§ Umbellatum) compositum ; foliis ad basin caulis approximatis

longe petiolatis ovatis basi rotundatis cordatisve supra demum glabratis

subtus dense albo-lanatis, pedunculo longissimo nudo apice breviter bium-

bellato, involucris breviter pedicellatis campanulatis multifloris. Benth.

ERIOGONUM compositum. Dougl. MSS. Benth. in Bot. Reg. t. 1774, and in

Linn. Trans. v. 17. p. 410. t. 17. f. 10. (flowers and fruit only). Hook.

Fl, Bor. Am. v. 2. p. 135.

This is a plant which may be considered of botanical interest,

rather than as possessing any beauty to recommend it to culti-

vation. With the habit of an Umbelliferous plant, especially of

some of the Cape species of Hermas, the individual flowers and

fruit will be found to resemble a good deal those of Polygonee, to

which natural family it belongs, but to a group or tribe chiefly

distinguished by one or more flowers being included within a

common monophyllous involucre, not much unlike that of £w-

Phorbia. The genus, now found to be very numerous, is, with

its allies (Hriogonee), confined to the extra-tropical regions of

Western America, mainly California and the Oregon territory :

some are found in Chili. The present species, one of the largest

of the kind, was’ first detected by Douglas and Drummond on

the Columbia or Oregon River and in New Albion. Our plants

were raised from seeds sent from the Upper Pelouse River, be-

tween Spokan and Kooskooskie,. by Mr. Burke, in the Royal

Gardens of Kew, where they prove quite hardy, flowering in

July, and requiring no particular care in the culture but a well-

drained soil. Its large cordato-ovate leaves, dark above, white

and woolly beneath, have rather a striking appearance, and

MARCH lst, 1853.

resemble a good deal those of Hriogonum latifolium, but the in-

florescence is very different.

Descr. Root perennial, fusiform, rather thick. Stems, or

rather Scapes, in our more luxuriant specimens, a foot and a half

to two feet high, erect, nearly as thick as one’s little-finger in

the lower portion, terete, woolly. Leaves all radical, on long

footstalks, sheathing at the base, ovate, cordate at the base,

more or less woolly when young, but eventually becoming gla-

brous above and dark green, and white, as well as woolly, be-

neath. Umbel terminal, large, compound ; general and partial

umbels of many erecto-patent rays, the latter bearing crowded

almost spherical umbellules of yellowish-white flowers: all of

them bracteated. Bracteas numerous, linear-acuminate, resem-

bling the involucres of an Umbelliferous plant. The true in-

volucres here are narrow campanulate, six-toothed, hairy at the

base and apex, three- to five-flowered. H/owers pedicellate, arti-

culated below the six-sepaled perianth. Stamens nine. Ovary

elongated, hairy, triquetrous. Styles three. Stigmas capitate.

Fig. 1. Involucre with its flowers. 2. Pistil :—magnified.

Tas. 4704.

IMPATIENS HooxkeEriAna.

_ Hooker's Balsam.

Nat. Ord. BALSAMINE®.—PENTANDRIA MonoGyNia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas: 4615.)

Impatiens Hookeriana ; erecta elata glabra, foliis longe petiolatis ovatis acumi-

natis serratis basi acutis, petiolis infra apicem biglandulosis, pedunculis axilla-

ribus subterminalibusque flores superantibus pedicellos curvatos 3-6 umbel-

latim gerentibus, sepalis lateralibus oblongo-lanceolatis anteriore infundi-

buliformi in calcar subulatum valde elongatum curvatum flore amplissimo

longius, petalorum lobis lato-obovatis undulatis.

Impatrens Hookeriana. Arn. in Comp. to Bot. Mag. v. 1. p. 324. Walpers,

Repert. Bot. Syst. v. 1. p. 471.

Impatiens biglandulosa. Moon, Cat. Ceyl. Pl. p. 18?

Plants of this very lovely Balsam were raised from seeds sent

under the present name from Ceylon by Mr. Thwaites, blossom-

ing in the summer of 1852. ‘They precisely accord with speci-

mens sent many years before from about Rambodde and Matu-

ratee, in the same island, by Mrs. General Walker, and which

are the authority for the J. Hookeriana of Dr. Arnott in the work

above quoted. That excellent botanist alludes to its affinity

with the 7. grandis of Heyne, and I must confess that an authen- —

tic specimen of that plant from the India Company (No. 4759 of

Wallich’s Cat.) exhibits no difference, as far as can be judged

from the dried plant, except in the long spur becoming more

suddenly slender and filiform, so that the upper or superior half

is infundibuliform or dilated, the lower filiform. The doubt

might be solved probably could I have access to the volume of

the ‘Madras Journal,’ where, according to Walpers, at. vol. ix.

t. 4, the Z. grandis is figured. The present has, I think, the

largest flowers of any known species, pure white, with deep blood-

coloured veins. :

Drscr. Our plants, flowering in the stove, were from two to —

MARCH Ist, 1853.

three feet high, erect, succulent, branched. The /eaves large,

almost exactly ovate, acuminate, serrated, penniveined, glabrous ;

petioles from one to four inches long, furnished with two oblong

glands, at or near the apex. Peduncle axillary or subterminal,

varying in length, generally longer than the leaves, bearing an

umbel of four to six large white flowers, the lower portion richly

marked with deep blood-coloured veins.’ The spur is large in

proportion to the flower, longer than it, and very gradually

tapering into its almost filiform extremity.

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Tas. 4705.

PITCAIRNIA macrocatyx.

Large-calyzed Pitcairnia.

Nat. Ord. BROMELIACE®.—HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4241.)

PITCAIRNIA macrocalyz ; foliis radicalibus longissimis lanceolatis acuminatis-

simis inferne longe attenuatis vaginantibus glaberrimis submembranaceis

costatis inermibus caulinis sensim minoribus, caule elongato subfurfuraceo-

lanato tereti, racemo laxiusculo, floribus (albis) patentibus demum reflexis,

bracteis ovatis concavis acuminatis calycem longitudine equantibus, pedi-

cellis brevissimis, calycis (flavi) ampli sepalis ovatis acuminatis appresso-

conniventibus, petalis oblongo-lineari-spathulatis subtortis basi esquamosis,

ovario supero. :

The present is one of the many South American novelties we

are accustomed to receive from the Belgian Gardens, without

name or particular locality*. In no work can we find the present

species described: but its nearest ally is unquestionably Pit-

cairnia suaveolens of Lindley in the ‘ Botanical Register,’ tab.

1069. That has the same large, white, somewhat twisted pe-

tals, and the same-coloured calyx; but is very different in the

exceedingly lax raceme, the comparatively small and narrow

segments to the calyx, inferior ovary, glabrous stem, and very

narrow leaves. ‘The present has the largest calyx of any species

known to us, and it is altogether a fine-looking plant. With us

it flowered in a warm stove in December, 1852.

Descr. Root-leaves very numerous, crowded, two to three feet

long, elongato-lanceolate, tapering gradually to an exceedingly

fine point, and below attenuated into a long convolute base ; the

texture submembranaceous, colour bright green, the margin quite

entire, the surface glabrous and free from every kind of villous

covering. Stem shorter than the leaves, terete, at the base

* The same plant, indeed, we have received from Mr. Linden under the name

ol “ Puya maidifolia,’ from Mexico; but the character of that, as given in Wal-

pers’ ‘ Annales,’ is much at variance with ours.

MARCH IstT, 1853.

as thick as one’s finger, between furfuraceous and woolly, leafy,

the leaves remote, gradually smaller upwards till they pass into

the bracteas of the inflorescence. Raceme a span long, of many

large, spreading, at length reflexed flowers, rather lax, or mo-

derately compact, bracteated. Bracteas membranaceous, ovate,

much and finely acuminated, very concave, as long as the calyx

and pedicel. Pedicels very short. Calyz large, almost an inch

long, formed of three connivent yellow ovate-lanceolate sepals.

Petals large, white, thrice as long as the calyx, slightly twisted

and imbricated, linear-oblong, spathulate, the apex often re-

flexed, the sides more or less involute, the base within‘ destitute

of scale. Stamens six, as long as or a little longer than the

petals. Anthers linear-oblong, yellow. Ovary almost entirely,

if not quite superior, oblong-ovate with three furrows, tapering

into the filiform white s¢y/e, which equals the stamens in length.

Stigmas three, green, spirally twisted.

Fig. 1. Petal. 2. Pistil:—magnified.

we 4706.

ig GYMNOSTACHYUM Ceytanicum.

Ceylon Gymnostachyum.

Nat. Ord. ACANTHACEA.—DIANDRIA MoNoGYNIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx quinquepartitus, lacinia superiori subinde breviori. Corolla

bilabiata, labio superiori angustiori bidentato, inferiori trifido. Stamina duo, tubo

infra medium inserta, inclusa; sterilium rudimentum nullum. <Axthere bilocu-

lares, loculis sequalibus parallele contiguis altero aut utroque basi mucronatis,

ubi wnimucronatis ibi subinde anther uniloculares. Stigma bifidum, laciniis

compressis. Capsula tetragona, a basi ad apicem bilocellata et seminigera,

12-sperma.—Herbee Indie orientalis, Habitus Hranthemi. Caulis humilis.

Racemus spiceformis, gracilis, subsecundus, simplex vel bi-trifidus, e Jfloribus distan-

tibus brevissime pedicellatis, Bracter exigue, subulate, subopposite, altera sterili

paulo inferisri. Bracteole nulla, in altera racemus similis e Jloribus fasciculato-

ternis, lateralibus bibracteolatis. Nees.

GymnostacuyuM Ceylanicum ; floribus in racemo fasciculatis, fasciculis distanti-

bus, pedicellis lateralibus bibracteolatis, foliis oblongo-ovalibus obtusis basi

in petiolum sensim attenuatis subtus tenuissime pubescentibus supra secus

nervos albo-variegatis, antheris ovalibus basi unicalearatis, caule calycibus

corollisque glanduloso-pubescentibus.

Gymnostacnyum Ceylanicum. Arn. et Nees in De Cand. Prodr. v. 11. p. 93.

The genus Gymnostachyum was established by Nees von Esen-—

beck in Wallich’s «Plant Asiatic Rariores,’ upon _a plant of ©

Tavoy, G. leptostachyum, to which he added, in the ‘ Prodromus’ —

of De Candolle, four other species, including G. Ceylanicum.

Through Dr. Wight two other species are made known to us n

the fourth volume of the ‘Icones Plantarum Indie Orientalis,’

G. polyanthum, t. 1494, and @. alatum, t. 1525, both from Coorg.

G. febrifugum of Bentham, in Hohenacker, ‘Plants of Canara,’

n. 374, seems identical with the latter. The habit of the genus,

Nees observes, is that of Hranthemum: to us it appears more —

allied to Cryptophragmium, next to which he has placed it ; and |

so it would appear to have been considered by Mr. Thwaites,

who sent the seeds of our plant from Ceylon to the Royal Gar-

dens with the manuscript name of Cryptophragmium acaule.

MARCH Ist, 1853.

dven in the dried state, though not noticed by Nees, the leaves

of this plant exhibit the pretty variegated character, which alone

would recommend it to the cultivator, of milk-white stains upon

a dark green ground. Here the variegated portion follows the

lines of the midrib and lateral veins. The flowers, though small,

are pretty. The calyx is reddish ; the corolla white, tipped with

green and yellow. It flowers readily with us during the winter

months. Our earliest knowledge of this plant was through Mrs.

General Walker.

Duscr. Root slender, creeping and throwing out fibres. Stem

very short, downy, bearing four to six pairs of opposite /eaves,

which spread horizontally and are oval or obovate, obtuse, ob-

scurely serrated, tapering into a rather long winged fvotstalh, dark

green above, glabrous, penninerved ; following the course of the

midrib and primary lateral nerves is a broad whitish line, giving

a prettily varied character to the leaf; beneath pale-coloured and

downy. ‘The apex of the short stem terminates in one to four,

erect, unbranched (or branched only at the base), scapiform pe-

duncles, together with the raceme from six inches to a foot long,

terete, downy. Flowers in pseudo-verticils, on very short pubes-

centi-glandulose pedicels, bracteated at their base. Calyz of five,

lanceolato-subulate, appressed, glandular, red, pubescent sepa/s.

Corolla white, tipped with green and yellow. whe elongated,

glandularly pubescent, nearly cylindrical, bent down suddenly or

geniculated below the middle, and dilated upwards. Limé un-

equally two-lipped ; upper lip small, erect, two-lobed ; lower lip

more than twice as large, three-lobed; all the lobes ovate,

acute. Anthers a little protruded beyond the mouth, acute,

ovate. Ovary oblong, seated on a large fleshy disc, glandular.

Style as long as the stamens. Stigma slightly bifid.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil :—magnified.

Fitch del et lith.. FE Reeve ,im p-

Tas. 4707.

CEREUS MacDona.p1.

Mrs. MacDonald’s Great Night-flowering Cereus.

Nat. Ord. Cactacrm.—Icosanpria Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4417.)

Cereus MacDonaldie ; ramis elongatissimis repentibus teretibus vel obscuris-

sime angulatis subtuberculatis, tuberculis sparsis irregularibus parvis ple-

rumque spina brevi fusca solitaria, floribus speciosissimis, calycis tubo

elongato striato parce squamoso, squamis parvis villosis, sepalis numerosis

reflexo-patentibus lineari-acuminatis aurantiaceis, petalis albis lanceolatis

erecto-patentibus acuminatis, stylo staminibus longiore.

When our readers are informed that the flowering portion of

the specimen here represented exhibits only half the natural di-

mensions, they may form some idea of the vast size. of the

flowers of this Night-blowing Cereus, for such it is, like its near

relative the well-known Cereus grandiflorus : and certainly of the

many floral spectacles that have gratified lovers of horticulture

at the Royal Gardens of Kew, of late years, few have been more

striking than this, to those who were privileged to see the blos-

soms in bud and fully expanded. The plant was received from

Honduras through the favour of Mrs. General MacDonald, and

planted at the back of the Cactus-house and trailed against the

wall ; it first showed symptoms of blossoming in July 1851. A

casual observer might have passed the plant in this state, as

an unusually large-flowered “ Night-blowing Cereus ;” but the

slightest inspection of the stems and branches, and the dif-

ferent nature of the flower-bud, the patent petals, and. above

all the great size of the flowers, fourteen inches in diameter

from tip to tip of the calyx-sepals, and fourteen inches long from

the base of the calyx to the tip of the stigma, all indicate a most

distinct species, and one which I have in vain endeavoured to

find described in the Prince de Salm-Dyck or other authors on

the Cactus-family.

Dxscr. So rapid is the growth of this plant that the cutting

APRIL Ist, 1853,

sent from Honduras soon covered the back wall of a rather lofty

greenhouse, with its repent and climbing and straggling branches.

These vary somewhat in size in different parts of the plant, but

are generally not thicker than the little-finger, dark green, terete,

or with here and there very obtuse and not continuous angles.

The surface is irregularly tuberculated, and in the areole of the

tubercle is a short solitary (or sometimes two) inconspicuous

black or dark brown spine. The duds and flowers are so large

and so showy, that they would seem as if they could not belong

to such meagre, half-starved, leafless branches. The dud mea-

sures fourteen inches long! Its base is swollen, bulbiform, clothed

with densely imbricated hairy scales of a triangular form. ‘The

tube is long, cylindrical, dark glaucous-green, tinged with brown,

striated, partially scaly, with small appressed scales fringed with

brown hairs: the compacted imbricated calyx-sepals (including

the petals) form an ovate acuminate-oblong head to the bud,

orange, streaked with red. At night the flower expands, and

fades before the evening, to a diameter of fourteen inches ! yet

the bursting extends no further down the flower than to the top

of the long calycine tube. The calye consists of numerous sepals,

spreading and soon becoming flaccid and reflexed ; they are linear,

acute, the outer red, the inner orange; they form a distinct por-

tion from the petals, a saucer-like exterior, if we may so say, not

passing into the petals, quite differing in shape and colour. These

latter form a crown within the highly coloured calyx, but not

so regularly a cup-shaped one as in C. grandiforus ; the petals,

‘lanceolate or spathulate in form, are not so compact as in that

species, and their apices are more spreading. Stamens longer

than the tube, forming a circle around the style; but the sta-

mens are In Numerous series below the style ; only in one series

above the style. Style thick, columnar, longer than the stamens.

Stigma of many long, papillose, yellow rays,

Our original drawing of Cereus MacDon,

space is fully occupied b i

front view of a flower, and a fully formed bud. Had we confined our figure to a

single flower in quarto, natural size, it could have been seen only from one point

of view: but we regret to find that by reducing the scale one-half, it quite takes

away from all idea of the magnificence of the original ; and the assurance that

the plant is éwice that size does not convey the correct idea to the mind’s eye.

4708.

F. Reeve, imp.

Hitch del et Lith.

Tas. 4708.

DENDROBIUM HETEROCARPUM.:

Various-fruited Dendrobium.

Nat. Ord. Oncnipace#.—Gynanpria MonoGynia.

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

DENDROBIUM heterocarpum ; caulibus teretibus pendulis, foliis oblongis acutis —

planis, floribus geminatis ternatisque odoratis racemum spurium formanti-

bus, sepalis lineari-oblongis acutis, petalis ovatis acutis sepalo supremo ma-

joribus, labello unguiculato, limbo subpanduriformi holosericeo medio elon-

gato acuminato plano. Lindl.

Denprosium heterocarpum. Wail. Cat. n. 20. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid.

p. 78. Bot. Mise. 1844. p. 49. 2. 11. ;

DENDROBIUM aureum, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 18; and Var. pallidum,

Lindl. Bot. Mise. 1889. t. 20. :

This handsome and fragrant Dendrobium was received at the

Royal Gardens at Kew from Assam, through Mr. Simons, in

1852, and it flowered in our Orchideous Stove in January, 1858 ;

the stems at that time, as is usual in the flowering season, being

without leaves. Dr. Wallich detected it in Nepal; and we have.

the authority of Dr. Lindley for considering the D. awreum of ©

that author (Gen. et Sp. Orchid., from Ceylon) a deep-flowered —

variety of this, and the D. awreum, var. pallidum, Lindl. Bot.

Miscell. 1839, t. 20, as a more than usually pale-flowered variety

of the same. Thus it is a native of woods in Ceylon, at the

southern extremity of the Madras peninsula, as well as of the

northern and eastern boundaries of Bengal. Much new light 32

will be thrown upon the limits of species of Orchideous plants eee

Dr. Lindley’s most laborious new work, the ‘ Folia Orchidacea,’ —

and so important a task cannot be entrusted to better hands. —

Drscr. Epiphytal. From several horizontal, fleshy, cylindri-

cal, wavy roofs, spring a cluster of tereti-clavate, ribbed, jointed —

stems. Leaves oblong, acute, plane, subcoriaceous, deciduous

when the stem has attained its full development and is ready to

APRIL Ist, 1853.

bear flowers. Peduncles very short, almost none, lateral, from

the apex of a joint, solitary or two or three, and bearing each

one, sometimes two flowers, of a good size, and very fragrant.

Sepals very patent, cream-colour, oblong, two lateral ones de-

current into a rather long, obtuse spur. Petals also patent,

_ broader and more ovate than the sepals, otherwise resembling

them, and of the same colour. Zip pendent, somewhat ungui-

culate and articulated on the prolonged base of the labellum,

very obscurely three-lobed, lateral lobes obsolete, middle lobe

very large, ovate or subpanduriform, and acuminated, the acumen

much reflexed. The disc is cushioned and beautifully velvety ;

the colour, externally cream-colour, but within deep, almost

golden yellow, streaked and veined with sanguineous lines. Ovary

slender, clavate, greenish-white.

Fig. 1. Labellum. 2. Column, with its prolonged base. 3. Pollen-masses :

—magnified.

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Hitch del et ith.

Tas. 4709.

PITCAIRNIA gecuinata.

Echinated-lowered Pitcairnia.

Nat. Ord. BroMEL1aceE®.—HEXANDRIA Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4241.)

PrrcarrNta echinata ; foliis radicalibus elongatis lanceolatis acutissimis striatis

subtus parce fariniosis spinuloso-serratis inferne attenuatis semicylindraceis

(magis spinosis), caule parce folioso longissimo pulverulento-tomentoso apice

laxe racemoso-paniculato multifloro, sepalis setis mollibus flavo-virescentibus

apice uncinato-glandulosis echinatis, petalis (albis) calycem fere duplo supe-

rantibus, staminibus styloque inclusis.

A well-marked species of Pitcairnia, received from Mr. Lin- —

den, under the name of “Powrretia,’ probably from Mexico, —

but of the locality we can only conjecture. In no work can I _

find any such plant described, either under Powrretia or Pit-—

cairnia, or any allied genera, the limits of which we must con-

fess are at present very ill-defined. I see no reason however for

considering this other than a true Pitcairnia, as the genus 1s

usually considered. It threw up its fine flowering-stems m

January 1853, and continued a long time in blossom. 7

Descr. In a flowerless state this p/ant may be considered stein

less ; the /eaves being all radical, as in the common Pine-apple, —

very long, two to three feet, elongato-lanceolate, very acuminate,

carinate, striated, rather full green and glabrous above, beneath —

pale-coloured and floccoso-farinose, the margin is serrato-spinu-— 3

lose, but not very strongly so, except towards the much-attenu-—

ated, conduplicate and almost sheathing, yellow-brown base,

where the spines are much longer, very numerous, and crowded, __

and curved upwards. As the flowering-season approaches, a_

stem is thrown up from the centre, which elongates, bearing few

and gradually smaller leaves, till it forms the almost leafless base

of the slightly compressed, terminal raceme, when the leaves in-

sensibly become dracteas. The scape is everywhere pubescenti-

APRIL Ist, 1853.

furfuraceous, terete. Pedice/s about an inch long, supported by

an ovate, acuminate, concave, membranaceous éractea, ciliated

at the edge, and about equal to the pedicel in length. Mowers

pendent, large. Calya of three, long, slightly twisted, linear-

oblong, attenuated, deeply canaliculate sepals, broader and red

at the base, the rest full yellow, and everywhere clothed (except

at the membranous overlapping edges) with soft, copious, spine-

like, horizontal processes, uncinate at the apex: the shortest and

least uncinate are at the base of the sepals, those at the extremity

are tipped with a pencil of hairs. Petals white or cream-colour,

more than half as long again as the sepals, slightly twisted,

linéar-subspathulate, slightly concave below the point, with no

internal scale at the base. Stamens included, a little shorter

_ than the petals. Ovary pyramidal, three-furrowed. Style as

large as the stamens. Stigmas three, spirally twisted. :

Fig. 1. Sepal. 2. Petals. 3. Pistil :—slightly magnified.

Fitch del et hth

F170.

F. Reeve, amp.

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Tas. 4710.

CROSSANDRA Fuava.

Yellowlowered Crossandra.

Nat. Ord. AcANTHACE®.—DipYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char, Calyx quinquepartitus, laciniis latis, interioribus brevioribus. Co-

rolla tubo longo, limbo plano quinquefido superne ad tubum usque diviso. Sta-

mina quatuor, didynama, in tubo latentia. Anthere uniloculares, hirtee, margine

ciliatze. Capsula compressa, bivalvis, a basi tetrasperma. Dissepimentum adna-

tum.—Frutices Indie orientalis ( Africeque occidentalis tropica), foliis subintegerri-

mis speciosis rubris ( flavisve). Spica terminalis tetragona, bracteis oppositis latis

herbaceis, propriis angustis membranaceis. Nees.

CrossanpRa flava; caule brevi glaberrimo, foliis glabris obovato-lanceolatis un-

dulatis sinuato-pinnatifidis yersus apicem integerrimis obtusiusculis, inferi-

oribus petiolatis, spica terminali exacte tetragona strobiliformi, bracteis ex-

terioribus amplis rotundatis acute carinatis hirsutissimis venosis margine

spinuloso-dentatis, corollis flavis.

A more intimate acquaintance with this plant than we at pre-

sent possess, may bring to light characters, especially in the fruit,

at variance with the genus to which we have referred it, Crossan-

dra ; a genus, we believe, hitherto supposed to be peculiarly of

East Indian origin, and in no instance having, as here, yellow

flowers.

Our plant is a native of tropical Western Africa, having been

gathered in the fissures of rocks upon the Sugar-loaf Mountain,

Sierra Leone, and sent to the Botanic Garden in Regent’s Park,

by Mr. Whitfield, on his late return from Africa. Mr. Marnock

was so obliging as to forward the flowering specimen to us In

January 1853.

_ Drscr. The plant is shrubby, but it does not rise more than

six to eight inches above the surface of the ground, and is un-

branched. The stem terete, dark green, glabrous. Leaves ap-

proximate, spreading, large for the size of the plant, a span or

more long, obovato-lanceolate, glabrous, dark green above, paler

APRIL Ist, 18538.

beneath, undulated, rather obtuse, the lower half, or more than

that, sinuato-pinnatifid ; about the middle the lobes and sinuses

are broad and shallow, towards the base of the leaf they are

gradually smaller and deeper (profunde pinnatifida), with lobes

rounded and entire. The superior leaves are sessile or nearly

so, while the lower ones taper into a sta/&é nearly an inch long.

Spike on a short, rounded, hairy, terete, erect, terminal peduncle,

formed into a sharply four-sided kind of strobilus, by the nu-

merous, large, opposite, submembranaceous, pale yellow-green,

rounded, very hairy, veined, acutely keeled dracteas, the margin

strongly dentato-spinulose. Bracteoles linear-lanceolate. Calyx

green, hairy at the extremity, membranaceous, quite concealed

by the bracteas. Corollas bright yellow, glabrous. Zuée much

exserted, slender, geniculated where the included s/amens are in-

serted. Limé plane, of five segments ; above the fissure reaches

to the tube. Ovary oblong. Style glandularly hairy. Stigma

dimidiate, fringed.

Fig. 1. Calyx and pistil. 2. Ovary :—magnijied.

F.Reeve imp:

Sith.

itch, del et

™:

a ee ean tin

Tas. 4711.

DENDROBIUM Teretirouium.

Round-leaved Dendrobium.

Nat. Ord. Orncu1prEm™.—GyYNANDRIA MoNoGYNIA.

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

DENDROBIUM feretifolium ; caulibus repentibus, foliis filiformibus teretibus, pe-

rianthiis foliolis elongato-linearibus apice angustatis, labello tricarinato lobo

intermedio lineari-lanceolato acuminato crispato. Br.

Denprosivm teretifolium. Br. Prodr. Nov. Holl. p. 333. Lindl. Gen. et Sp.

Orchid. p. 91.

Although defined and published by Mr. Brown since 1810,

this singular and well-marked species of Dendrobium does not

appear to be anywhere figured, nor indeed anywhere recorded as

being cultivated in England, except in the miscellaneous portion

of Dr. Lindley’s ‘ Botanical Register,’ the volume for 1839, du-

ring which year it flowered with Messrs. Loddiges. It is a native

of the vicinity of Port Jackson, New South Wales, and was lately

sent to the Royal Gardens of Kew by Mr. Moore, of the Sydney

Botanic Garden. Its leaves are long and terete, and the flowers,

from the long, straggling, slender petals, and curved labellum,

have almost as much the appearance of an insect as of a flower.

Six other species of Dendrobium are recorded by Mr. Brown as

natives of New Holland, and Mr. Allan Cunningham added seven

others in an enumeration given in the ‘ Botanical Register,’ above:

quoted, but of which three are marked doubtful as to genus, the

flowers not having been seen, and one it is suggested may be a

Polystachya. Cultivated on a piece of wood suspended from the

beam of a cool stove, the present species flowered vigorously with

us in December, 1852.

Descr. Stems, for they can hardly be considered pseudo-

bulbs, clustered (creeping, according to Mr. Brown), sinuated,

branched, brown, throwing out large fleshy-white sinuous fibres :

the dranches terminate in long, pendent, curved, terete, tapermg,

APRIL Ist, 1853.

hard, fleshy /eaves, about the thickness of a goose-quill. Paniele

lateral, from a branch of the stem, dichotomous, a span or more

long, the ultimate branches very slender, filiform. Mowers

white. Sepals linear-subulate, nearly uniform, at length reflexed,

united below, and elongated into blunt spur, spotted with brown.

Petals exceedingly long, projecting forward, linear-filiform, nearly

straight, spotted near their base with minute dark-brown dots.

Lip \anceolate, much acuminated, spirally reflexed, dotted with

blood-colour ; the side lobes very short, the middle lobe large and

elongated, much crisped, the disc bearing three waved /amelle.

Column short, white, dotted with blood-colour. Anther-case he-

mispherical. Pollen-masses oval, cereaceous.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Labellum. 38. Pollen-masses. 4. Column and spur :—

magnified.

F. Reeve sp:

Fitch del et Lith

Tas. 4712.

CQELIA mMacROSTACHYA.

Long-spiked Celia.

Nat. Ord. Orcno1pE#.—GyYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Sepala distincta, conniventia, subeequalia: lateralibus basi obliquis.

Petala subzequalia. Labellum cum columna subparallelum, apice patulum, basi

excavatum, indivisum. Colwmna nana, erecta, semiteres, basi paulo producta ;

stigmate rotundato, rostello inflexo. Anthera ovata, bilocularis. Pollinia 8,

quaternatim materie pulverea in 2 paribus coherentia. Ovarium 9-alatum.—

Herbee epiphyte pseudo-bulbose, basi squamate ; foliis gramineis subplicatis, scapo

radicali squamato, bracteis longissimis. Lindl.

Ce@LIA macrostachya ; pseudo-bulbis ovatis (vel subrotundis), foliis ensiformibus

plicatis, racemo longissimo multifloro, bracteis lineari-lanceolatis acumina-

tissimis squamosis, sepalis rubris extus corrugatis, labello lanceolato basi

bisaccato. Lindl.

Canta macrostachya. Lindl. in Benth. Plante Hdbtwegiane, p. 92; Bot. Reg.

1842, sub Tab. 36.

Native of the Hacienda de la Llaguna, Mexico, and thence

introduced to the Horticultural Society’s Gardens through Mr.

Hartweg. It is really a handsome plant, and well worthy a

place in every Orchideous collection, flowering in August, when

our fine spike was sent from the Belfast Garden by Mr. Fergu-

son, the able Curator. The pseudo-bulb and foliage, the latter

in perfection at a more advanced period, were drawn from our

own plant at Kew. The only other known species is the Celia

Bauerana, a much smaller species, with white flowers, on which

the genus was founded.. :

Descr. Pseudo-bulb large, almost globose, or only slightly

compressed, glabrous, pale green, partially surrounded at the

base with coarse, brown scales. Leaves a foot and more long,

about three from the top of the pseudo-bulb, lanceolate, acu-

minate, membranaceous, striated and plicate, sheathing below.

Scape arising from the base of the bulb, nearly a span high,

MAY Isr, 1853. 4

clothed with sheathing, large, ovate, involute, acute scales, almost

concealing the scape. Spike or raceme itself nearly a span

long, crowded with the very copious flowers and bracteas, and

of a red rose colour. Bracteas as long as or longer than the

flowers, membranaceous, narrow-lanceolate, much acuminated,

withering. Pedicels short, twisted, two-edged. Ovary more

or less winged at the angles. Sepals oblong, rather acute,

concave, somewhat thick and firm, deep reddish flesh-colour,

corrugated externally, the two anterior or inferior ones extending

downward into a broad two-lobed spur. Petals as long as the

sepals, nearly white, smooth, oblongo-obovate. Ladellum of the

same texture as the sepals, white, oblong, acute, reflexed at the

apex, terminating below in a two-lobed or didymous very blunt

spur. Column semiterete, decurrent below its attachment to the

ovary, semiterete. Anther sunk into the clinandrium. Pollen-

masses eight, attached to a rather small gland.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Flower with the sepals removed. 3. Pollen-masses.

4778.

F. Reeve,

mae. et tr

Tas. 4713.

| SYPHOCAMPYLUS Onrsienranus.

E D Orbigny’'s Syphocampylus.

Nat. Ord. LoBeLiace®.—PENTANDRIA MOoNOGYNIA.

Gen. Ohar, (Vide supra, Tas. 4178.)

¥ SYPHOCAMPYLUS Orbignianus ; ramis (erectis ?) teretibus herbaceis, foliis terna-

2 tis ovato-acuminatis breviter petiolatis ineequaliter acuteque dentatis superne

glabriusculis subtus puberulis, pedicellis folio dimidio brevioribus, calyce

corollaque velutinis, tubo calycis hemispheerico, lobis lineari-subulatis tubo

triplo longioribus, corolla calyce multo longiore lobis linearibus, antheris 2

inferioribus barbatis. DC.

SypHocampytus Orbignianus. De Cand. Prodr. v. 7. p. 405. Van Houtte,

“ Flore des Serres, p. 544.” |

Our plant from which the accompanying figure was taken was

‘derived from Mr. Van Houtte, and was received under the name

here adopted. We find the S. Orbignianus of De Candolle to

correspond well with this, except where the branches are de-

_ scribed as erect. But as that author only appears to have known

the plant from dried specimens in the Paris Museum, he might

very well be deceived. Our fine plant, three feet and more long, has

a peculiarly lax habit, so that the stem has to be supported by a

stick, and the branches are quite pendent ; and this does not ap-

pear to be the consequence of a weakened state of the plant. It

is a native of Bolivia, where it was detected by D’Orbigny, after

whom the species is named. It is treated as a stove-plant, and

has handsome foliage and good-sized flowers, but by no means

so highly coloured as many species of this extensive genus. It

blossoms in the autumn and continues a long time in flower.

Descr. Stem three to four feet long, herbaceous, terete, hoary,

weak, scarcely able to support itself. Branches lax, pendulous

in our plant. Leaves rarely, and chiefly below, opposite, the rest

ternate, rather shortly petiolate (petioles ‘half to three-quarters |

of an inch long, thick in proportion to their length), ovate, =

acuminate, submembranaceous, flaccid, glabrous, greyish-green

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above, beneath pubescent and hoary, the margin unequally and

coarsely toothed, penniveined, veinlets often reticulated. The

lower leaves are the largest and sometimes six inches long. Pe-

duncles twice or thrice the length of the petioles, solitary in the

axils of the leaves, single-flowered ; but as they spring from the

younger, clustered, terminal leaves, the collected flowers consti-

tute almost a leafy corymb. Flower erect or nearly so, large.

Calye-tube downy, short, hemispherical ; /imé of six spreading

or reflexed subulate teeth, much longer than the tube. Corolla

two inches and a half long, yellowish, tinged on the back or su-

perior side with red, glabrous: ube contracted above the dilated

base, very long, gradually broader upwards, laterally compressed,

slightly puberulous ; /imé of five, nearly oblong, more or less

spreading segments, the two uppermost very obtuse, the three

others acuminate, the mouth very oblique. Style quite concealed

by the staminal tube. Anthers lead-coloured, combined, curved ;

the two lowermost ones bearded at the apex.

4744.

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Fitch aa et ith.

Tas. 4714.

CALANTHE Graci.is.

Slender Calanthe.

Nat. Ord. OncHIDEH.—GYNANDRIA Monoe@ynia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4541.)

CaLANTHE gracilis ; scapis gracilibus multifloris basi alte vaginatis, labello basi

saccato trilobo bilamellato, lobis lateralibus acutis abbreviatis intermedio

subrotundo crispo indiviso. Lindl.

Catantue gracilis. Lindl. in Wall. Cat. n. 7341. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 251.

A very little kyown Orchideous plant, hitherto only charac-

terized by Dr. Lindley, from specimens gathered in Silhet by

Dr. Wallich. Recently it has been sent by Drs. Hooker and

Thomson, from Khasya, td the Royal Gardens of Kew, where it

flowered in a warm stove in September, 1852. Our specimens

were submitted to Dr. Lindley, who observes that this will pro-

bably merge into the genus Limatodes of Blume; but he is un-

certain whether the total absence of a spur in it is of any, at

present unsuspected, importance. He further observes of this

plant, as of other species of Calanthe, that when the flowers are

wounded they become indigo-blue.

Duscr. Terrestrial. Stems clustered, including the leaves, a

foot and rather more long, lower part bare of leaves, thicker than

a swan’s quill, jointed, partially clothed with sheathing scales :

joints short. Zeaves confined to the upper portion of the stem,

with rather long sheathing bases, lanceolate, the lowest ones

broadly so, acuminate, tapering below, membranaceous, plicate

and striated, mostly curved downwards. Scape or peduncle

lateral, arising from a joint of the stem below the leaves, erect,

more or less clothed with long, sheathing, brown scales or bracts.

(The rest of our description is obligingly drawn up by Dr. Lind-

ley from our recent flowering specimen.) “ Flowers greenish-

yellow. Sepals and petals equal, distinct, ovate, oblong, acute,

somewhat recurved, the petals and dorsal sepa’ being directed

MAY Ist, 1853.

upwards, while the lateral sepals are directed downwards, so as

to give the perianth a somewhat two-lipped appearance. Lip a

pure, unspotted, pale, yellow-ochre colour, united to the column

at the base in a very slight degree, narrowly oblong, convolute,

three-lobed ; the lateral lobes narrow, recurved, somewhat falcate,

blunt, very much smaller than the middle lobe, which is broader

than long, two-lobed, and excessively undulated or crisp; from

the base of the lip towards the end run two raised lines, curving

slightly away from each other, then approaching, and disappear-

ing on the sides of a small cavity at the base of the middle lobe.

Jointed airs clothe the lower part of the hollow of the lip; sim-

ple, fragile, slightly stalked, free cells, sparkle upon the upper

part between and about the.lobes. The column is white, about

half as long as the dorsal sepal, truncate, half-terete, channelled

im the middle, and densely covered with a glittering deciduous

wool, composed of jointed hairs in all respects like those of the

lip. Stigma a transverse cleft in the anterior upper angle of

the column. Anther vertical, membranous, eight-celled. Pollen-

masses eight, adhering in two parcels to a common circular

reddish-brown gland.” ind.

Fig. 1. Flower from which the sepals and petals are removed. 2. Pollen-

masses :-—maguified. }

Tas. 4715.

PUYA CuiILensts,

Chihan Puya.

Nat. Ord. BroMELIACErR.—HEXANDRIA Monoeynta.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4309.)

Puya Chilensis; caule elato erecto crasso cicatricato parce ramoso, ramis cras-

sis tortuoso-defiexis, foliis 3-4-pedalibus e basi dilatata elongato-enisformi-

bus rigidis glaucescentibus subtus minute albo-furfuraceis canaliculatis sen-

sim acuminatissimis grosse spinosis spinis subulatis uncinatis, pedunculo

terminali elongato columnari bracteato, spica ampla composita multibracteata

multiflora, bracteis pubescenti-hirsutis, floribus plerisque sessilibus, sepalis

tribus lanceolatis, petalis flavis calyee quadruplo majoribus oblongo-ovatis

acutis erecto-patentibus, staminibus pistilloque corolla brevioribus.

Pura Chilensis. Molina, Hist. Chil. p. 170. Schultes, Syst. Veget. v. 7. p. 1235.

Puya suberosa. Molina, 1. c. p. 153. :

Pourrerra coarctata. Ruiz et Pav. Fl. Per, v. 8. p. 4. Syst. v. 1. p. 81.

PrrcarRNta coarctata. Pers, Syn. Pl. v. 1. p. 344.

ReNEALMIA ramosa lutea. Feuill. v. 3. p. 59. t. 89.

_ This is one of the most striking of our Bromeliaceous plants,

cultivated in a cool stove of the Royal Gardens of Kew. It was

presented to us, a young plant, by the late A. B. Lambert, Esgq.,

who had received it direct from North Chili, brought home by

_ Mrs. Maria Graham, afterwards Lady Calcott. The stem, or cau-

_ dex, has now attained a height of four feet, independent of the

_ leaves, which are from three to four feet in length, spreading in all

_ directions ; the lower ones being reflexed. ‘These leaves would

tender the plant admirably suited to the formation of fences, in

the nature of the spinous margins; for the upper half of the

leaf has all the spines directed forward towards the apex, pre-

senting a great obstacle: to intrusion of man or beast in that

direction; whilst those lower down the leaf (longer and stronger

too) have their curvature downwards, so that if man or animal

is so bold as to make his way partially through, the decurved

spines would prevent his retracing his steps with impunity. —

MAY Ist, 1853. :

The compound spike of flowers upon the column-like perfectly

straight peduncle is remarkable for its size; the large full yellow

(but inclining to green) flowers and the copious bracteas turning

brown or black in age. We can only represent a small portion

of the flowering head in our Plate of the natural size. This plant

is called Cardon and Puya in Chili, where the soft substance of

the stem is used for corks and bungs: the flowers yield a remedy

for hernia, and the Indians use the spines of the leaves for fish-

hooks.

Descr. Stem, or caudex, four feet high, flexuose, twelve inches in

circumference, and nearly of the same size throughout: our plant

bears two nearly opposite branches ; these are nearly of the same

size as the stem, horizontal or deflexed, and flexuose or rather

tortuose, and the whole stem and branches are cicatrized with

the scars of the fallen leaves, or scaly with the bases that yet

remain of the leaves. eaves in tufts at the apex of the main

stem and branches, two to three, rarely four feet long, spreading

in all directions; the lower ones recurved; all of them from a

broad sheathing base, sword-shaped or linear-subulate, gradually

tapering into a long narrow point, canaliculate, glaucous, minutely

and compactly furfuraceous beneath, and almost white, the mar-

gins rather distantly beset with strong curved or uncinate subu-

Jate spines; those in the superior half of the leaf invariably

pointing upwards: those in the lower half pointing downwards,

except at the very base near the point of attachment, where they

are irregular. From the apex of the main stem a column-like

peduncle arises, quite straight, four feet and a half long, four

inches in circumference, hoary with furfuraceous down, and beset

with many deflexed, rather large, ovate, hoary, long-pointed

bracts, eventually turning black, leafy below. Spike terminal,

compound or subpaniculate, throwing out side branches, whose

lower flowers are more or less pedicellate, many-flowered, copi-

ously bracteated ; 4racteas ovate, acuminate, pale green, downy,

black in age, at first imbricated over the flower-buds, then

spreading. Flowers large, mostly sessile. Sepals three, erecto-

appressed, lanceolate, more or less acuminate, greenish, downy

externally. Petals slightly twisted, obovato-oblong, four times

larger than the sepals, deep greenish or sulphur-yellow, with a

depression, but no scale, at the base within. Stamens six, erect,

shorter than the petals. Anthers oblong-sagittate, yellow. Ovary

oblong-ovate, three-furrowed, free. Sfyle rather thick, as long

as the stamens. Stigma trifid, slightly twisted.

Fig. 1. Petal :—wnat. size.

Tas. 4716.

SANDERSONIA avranrTiaca.

Golden-flowered Sandersonia.

Nat. Ord. Lintacr#.—HeExanpria Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. Perianthium corollinum tubuloso-campanulatum, subglobosum,

ore breviter sexfido; basi nectarifera et in cornubus vel calcaribus 6 brevibus

incurvis extensa. Stamina 6, hypogyna, perianthio omnino inclusa. Filamenta

subulato-filiformia. Anthere oblonge, filamentorum longitudinem zquantes, ob-

longo-obtusze, dorso paulo infra medium inserte, versatiles, inverse, biloculares.

Ovarium liberum, oblongo-ovale, longitudine trisulcatum, trigonum, triloculare ;

loculis pluriovulatis ; ovudis obovatis biseriatim angulo interiori seu axili longitu-

dinaliter insertis. Fructus . . .—Herba Natalensis Africe australis, erecta, sim-

plex ; radice tuberosa ; caule tereti. Folia erecta, alterna, sessilia, lanceolata, an-

guste acuminata, striata, subdisticha, vel superiora subsecunda. Pedicelli axillares

in foliis superioribus, solitarii, graciles, curvati, uniflori. Flores nutantes, auran-

tiact, pedunculis subbreviores.

SANDERSONIA aurantiaca.

During a very interesting journey, extending into the in-

terior of South Africa, from Port Natal to Magalisberg, under-

taken by John Sanderson, Esq., in 1851, that gentleman, who

is the honorary secretary of the Horticultural Society of Natal,

did not fail to make not only a very considerable Hortus Siccus

of the plants he met with, but he made faithful drawings on

the spot, of such species as were of peculiar interest, and col-

lected roots and seeds. The latter were placed at the disposal

of the Society’s Garden at Natal, and a portion of them was

liberally shared by Mr. M‘Ken, who has charge of that garden,

with us at Kew; while the specimens and drawings were

obligingly presented to me by Mr. Sanderson. Among other

novelties, which we hope by-and-by to notice elsewhere, was

the remarkable plant here figured, of which indeed we possess

tubers, already germinating, but of which the specimens and the

drawing amply suffice for a faithful representation. It was dis-

covered on “ Field’s Hill, near D’Urban, and on the Swartkop

MAY Ist, 1853.

Hill, near Pietermaritzborg, Natal, flowering 15th November,

1851.” I must leave others to decide whether this plant should

be placed among the Liliacee or Smilacee, or whether the two

families are really distinct. It seems in habit almost to unite

the Fritillary group, which it most resembles in general appear-

ance, with the Convallaria-section in Smilacee, with which it

agrees in the union of the sepals into one piece. The genus is

named in compliment to its discoverer.

Dzscr. Zubers small, somewhat globose, but two-lobed, and

somewhat half-moon-shaped, throwing out a few fibres from below.

Stem erect, a foot to a foot and a half high, simple, terete, herba-

ceous, not much thicker than a crow’s-quill, leafy nearly from the

base : lower Jeaves rather distant, upper ones approximate and al-

most crowded, all of them sessile, scarcely sheathing, but rather

amplexicaul, lanceolate, much and narrowly acuminate, erect, sub-

distichous, upper ones almost secund, striated with parallel veins.

From the axils of the superior leaves the flowers appear. Peduncle

solitary, single-flowered, slender, almost capillary, about two

inches long, curved downwards. ower orange-coloured, large

for the size of the plant, shorter than the peduncle, drooping,

subgloboso-campanulate, with six shallow furrows, so as to be

obtusely six-angled ; the mouth somewhat contracted, six-toothed ;

the base has six nectariferous cavities, constituting externally so

many short, but distinct, incurved spurs. Stamens included, six,

perigynous. i/aments rather longer than the ovary, filiformi-

subulate. Anthers broad, oblong, inserted near the middle of

back, introrse, two-celled, cells opening by longitudinal fissures.

Ovary oblong-oval, obtusely trigonous, having three deep longi-

tudinal furrows. Sfyle as long as the stamens. Stigmas three,

nearly as long as the style.

Fig. 1. Stamens and pistil. 2. Ovary cut through transversely :—magnified.

OUTE,

imp.

F. Reeve,

Rech a

Fitch, del et lith,

Tas. 4717.

BRILLANTAISIA Owanrtensits.

Owartan Brillantaisia.

Nat. Ord. AcANTHACEH.—DrIanpRIA MONOGYNIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus, laciniis linearibus, superiore longiore. Corolla

ringens, tubo brevi crasso sequali; Jabium superius fornicato-faleatum, apice bifi-

dum ; inferius amplum, patentissimum, breviter trifidum, disco plicato-suleatum.

Stamina tubi apice inserta, fertilia duo longitudine labii superioris ; axthere line-

ares, longs, biloculares, loculis parallelis muticis continuis. ilamenta sterilia

duo fertilibus breviora, apice appendiculato, appendice transversa subulata basi

obtuse calcarata. Ovarium oblongum, hirsutum, basi annulo cinctum. Stylus

corollam equans. Stigma insequaliter bifidum. Capsu/a linearis, stricta, tetra-

gona, bilocularis, Semina in quovis loculo 6-8 retinaculo sustenta.—Herba

Guineensis, ramis decumbentibus dein erectis sulcatis ; foliis ovatis cordatisque den-

tatis in petiolum alte alatum decurrentibus. Panicula terminalis, ramulis triforis.

Bractee parve, lineares. Flores speciosi, purpurei, Salvize habitu.

BRILLANTAISIA Owariensis. Pal. de Beauv. Fl. d Ow. et de Ben. v. 2. p. 68.

t. 100. f.2. Lindl. in Journ. of Hort. Soc. Lond. v. 8. p, 129.

BELANTHERIA Lamium. Benth. in Niger Fl. p. 477.

BELANTHERIA Belvisiana. Nees in De Cand. Prodr. v. 11. p. 97.

BELANTHERIA Vogeliana. Benth. in Niger Fl. p. 477.

Leucograpuis Lamium. Nees in De Cand. Prodr, v. 11. p. 97.

Leucocrapuis Vogeliana. Nees in De Cand. Prodr. v.11. p. 97.

ovens

By a strange oversight Professor Nees von Esenbeck over-

looked the Brillantaisia Owariensis of Palisot de Beauvois ; but

finding an unnamed specimen of this plant in the Berlin Herba-

rium from M. de Beauvois’s African collection, he described it

in De Candolle’s ‘ Prodromus’ under the name of Belantheria

Belvisiana. "The Acanthacee of Dr. Vogel, gathered in the

Niger Expedition, being submitted to Nees’s examination, he

there found two closely allied plants differing in the stamens

(these having staminodia, while Belantheria was supposed to

want them); to which he gave the names Leucographis Lamium

and LZ. Vogeliana, which in the ‘Niger Flora’ Mr. Bentham

rightly referred to Brillantaisia. hese two differ chiefly in

JUNE lst, 1853. eo

the form of the leaves in the original specimens; but as our

growing plant is furnished with the two kinds of leaves on the

same individual, there can be no question that these are all one

and the same plant. Mr. Moore supplied us with the beautiful

specimen here figured, from the Chelsea Garden, where it was

introduced from Sierra Leone by Mr. Whitfield. Its large sage-

like flowers are in perfection in the stove in March.

Descr. A soft-stemmed, more or less hairy, wnder-shrud,

“growing from three to four feet high. Stems quadrangular,

with the sides furrowed, and the angles marked with an inter-

rupted, longitudinal, pallid line; throwing out strong ascending

branches near the base, and coarse roots from the lower stems.”

(Mr. Moore.)—Leaves of a large and coarse habit, variable in

shape from broadly cordate to ovate or almost rhomboid : in the

former case suddenly decurrent into a long winged petiole ; in

the two latter cases (and these are generally on the weaker

shoots) gradually passing into it: the margin of the leaf, and

often of the wing and petiole, coarsely and doubly serrated.

Panicles terminal on the branches, large, showy, generally tri-

chotomously divided. Calya naked, deeply five-parted ; the seg-

ments long, narrow-linear, spreading. Corol/a dark full purple.

Tube shorter than the calyx. Limb large, deeply two-lipped.

Upper lip arching over the stamens, bifid at the apex: lower lip

deflexed, nearly ovate, three-toothed at the apex, the disc with

three longitudinal plaits. Stamens: two perfect, with large ob-

long-sagittate anthers: two others (staminodia) imperfect, ham-

mer-shaped, slightly hairy. Ovary oblong, with a fleshy annular

disc at the base, and very hairy. Style as long as the corolla;

stigma unequally bifid. Capsule linear, an inch and a half long.

Fig. 1. Anthers. 2. Pistil:—magnified. 3. Capsule :—nat. size.

F. Reeve imp

Fitch del et ith

Tas. 4718,

RHODODENDRON Da tuovusta.

Lady Dalhousie’s Rhododendron.

Nat. Ord. Extcea.—Dercanpria Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4336.)

RHoDODENDRON Dalhousie ; fruticosum (subsexpedale) plerumque epiphytum,

foliis ellipticis rigidis subundulatis mucronato-acutis (junioribus hirsutis)

supra glabris venis impressis subtus glaucescentibus sparse lepidotis, pe-

tiolis brevibus, floribus 3-5 terminalibus subumbellatis, calycis profunde

5-fidi lobis oblongis obtusis ciliatis, corolle (albe) ample subcampanulate

limbo patente 5-lobo, lobis rotundatis, stam. 10, capsula oblonga 5-loculari.

RuopopENDRON Dalhousie. Hook. fil. Sik. Rhod. t.1, 2. Journ. of Hort. Soc.

Lond. 0. 7. pp. 17 and 93. ol a

Of all the Sikkim-Himalayan Rhododendrons, the present is

perhaps the one which has excited the greatest interest, partly

from the great size and beauty of the fragrant flowers, “ almost

resembling those of the Bourbon Lily (Lilium candidum),” and

partly from the peculiar place of growth, generally in its native

localities, like tropical Orchidee, among moss, with Ferns and

Aroidee, upon the limbs of large trees. Hence doubts have

been expressed, as used to be the case with other epiphytes, how

far it would be possible to succeed in the cultivation of this shrub.

The seeds have germinated in England as freely as any, and our

young plants have made rapid progress in a cool moist house.

No one, however, expected to see its blossoms (belonging to a

straggling shrub which on its native hills attains a height of six

or eight feet) produced in cultivation in so short a space of time

as three years from the period of the importation of the sced.

The. earliest arrival of this seed was in the spring of 1850. Mr.

John Laing, gardener at Dysart House (the Earl of Rosslyn’s),

Kirkaldy, North Britain, has the honour of having been the

first to flower this noble plant, and in March, 1853, he com- —

municated a specimen and drawing to me, together with the i

JUNE Ist, 1853.

following interesting particulars of his mode of treating the

lant :-—

“In January, 1852, I selected from our woods a vigorous

plant of Rhododendron Ponticum, with a clean straight stem,

about six feet high, removing all the lateral branches, and

potting in an eight-inch pot. About the end of January it

was placed in the stove, where it was soon after inarched with

hk. Dalhousie. As the young shoot of the latter began to

harden, it was gradually cut through till separated, and the

plant was removed to a cool greenhouse to rest. It very soon

showed symptoms of making another growth, when it was trans-

ferred to the stove, to ripen its wood preparatory to its being

again put into a cool house as the shoot ripened. Here it did

not remain long before it made further progress, and again re-

quired the heat of the stove to ripen its third growth. About

the end of October a flower-bud was formed, when water was

gradually withheld until it was moderately dry at the roots, and

the plant was removed to a cool greenhouse for the entire winter.

About the third week in February, 1853, it was placed in the

stove, and began to show colour on the 16th of this month.

When the flowers first appeared they were of a greenish colour,

which gradually changed into a yellow, which also has died

away, until it is of the colour of the flower sent, and I have no

doubt but ere the flower drop it will be nearly white (as repre-

sented in our plate). I may also state, that the plant has never

been exposed out of doors: had it been so, the rusty colour on

the upper surface of the leaf would very likely have been re-

moved. ‘The bark on the first shoot or growth is of a brown

colour; but the other two growths are yet green, as shown in

the sketch.”

Rk. Dalhousie is a native of East Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhotan

(Griffith Herb.), at elevations of from 6000 to 9000 feet, in

humid forests.

Drscr. ‘A straggling shrub, six to eight feet high ; the stems

clothed with a reddish, papery dark; the branches straggling, in

distant whorls, each branch bearing its leaves and flowers only

at the extremity.” Hook. fil. Young branches stout, greenish.

Leaves four to five inches long, spreading, rather rigid, subco- ©

riaceous, elliptical or nearly so, obtuse with a sudden point or

mucro, a little waved, hairy when young, according to Dr.

Hooker; in our plant pubescent, with rusty deciduous down ;

fully-formed leaves glabrous, dark-green, and naked above; —

deeply impressed with the pinnated veins, beneath glaucescent,

and dotted with minute rusty-coloured scales. Pedéoles short,

rather thin. Bracteas very deciduous. Flowers terminal, three

to five, subumbellate, very large, fragrant. Peduncles one and a

half to two inches long. Calya deeply five-parted, the /odes ob- ©

long, obtuse. Corolla four and a half inches long, and as much

in diameter across the mouth, subcampanulate, narrowed at the

base, the md spreading, of five large rounded obtuse Jobes : the ;

colour is changeable, perhaps pure white in the normal state ;

but the flower-bud is described as greenish; the flower, when

open, yellow, gradually deepening to pale orange, which latter

colour fades, leaving the corolla almost a pure white. In its

native country it is often tinged with rose. Stamens much

shorter than the corolla. Anthers when perfect large, brown

(in our cultivated plant imperfect). ZZaments slender. Ovary

ovate. Style as long as the corolla. Stigma large, capitate,

obscurely five-lobed. moe

Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Calyx and pistil. 3. Section of ovary :—maynified.

4. Capsule :—zat. size. .

Tas. 4719.

SKIMMIA Japonica.

Japan Skimmia.

Nat. Ord. AURANTIACEX.—TETRANDRIA MoNOGYNIA.

Gen. Char. Polygama. Calyx hypogynus, persistens, quadrifidus. Corolla

tetrapetala, decidua, petalis exunguiculatis. FL. HERMAPHR. Stamina 4 vel 5,

hypogyna, calycis laciniis opposita, antheris dorso affixis anticis. Discus quadri-

lobus, carnosus, ovarium cingens. Ovariwm superum, quadriloculare, ovulo soli-

tario pendulo anatropo in quovis loculo. Sty/us simplex, cylindricus, stigmate

erasso quadrilobo. FL. Masc. Omnia ut in hermaphroditis excepto ovario,

cujus rudimentum parvum conicum. FL. rem. Stamina abortiva. Drupa su-

pera, primum carnosa, demum sicca, tetrapyrena ; pyrenis cartilagineis, pendulis,

monospermis. Semen pendulum, albuminosum ; festa membranacea tenui, e-

bryone axili erecto, cotyledonibus crassis planis sibi impositis, radicula brevi cy-

lindrica hilum spectante.—Frutices, ramis adscendentibus, cortice fusco @que ac

relique plante partes oleo ethereo scatente, foliis simplicibus alternis petiolatis in-

tegerrimis coriaceis pellucide punctatis per triennium persistentibus exstipulatis,

floribus post folia provenientibus polygamis in paniculas terminales thyrsoideas et

subdichotomas dispositis albis v. ochroleucis fragrantibus, drupa supera carnosa te-

trapyrena. Zuce.

Sxrum1a Japonica ; foliis alternis breviter petiolatis obovato-oblongis oblongisve

utrinque attenuatis acutis integerrimis coriaceis pellucide glanduloso-punc-

tatis glabris, paniculis terminalibus thyrsoideis multifloris, drupis globosis.

Sxrumia Japonica. Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 62. De Cand. Prodr. v. 2. p. 18. Sieb.

et Zuce. Fl. Jap. v. 1. p. 125. t. 68.

Iex Skimmia. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 495.

Sin San vulgo Mijami Skimmi. Kempf. Amen. Exot. p.179. Banks, Ic. Kempf.

t. 5. me

Native of Japan, on mountains about Nang:

Kampfer erroneously describes it as a large tree ;

the Chinese as well as Japanese, on account of »

scent of the flowers, compared to that of Daphne

duced by Mr. Fortune to Messrs. Standish and

where it proves easy of cultivation, having b

abroad unharmed, and having been flowered

house. From that nursery our flowering spe

JUNE lst, 1853. pe

in March, 1853, but with the observation that some of the

panicles were twice the size of that here given. It begins to

flower while the plant is very small. “The evergreen and

shining leaves,’ observes Siebold, “the clusters of numerous

-and graceful flowers, which all the summits of the branches

produce from the beginning of spring, their perfume, and at

the close of autumn the beautiful scarlet fruits, justify the rank

which this maintains as a decorative plant.” The natural af-

finities of it are somewhat doubtful. De Candolle placed it in

Celastrinee, and observes, “An J/ici, an Euonymo, an forsan

Rhamno affine.” Sprengel refers it to Ter. Zuccarini says,

“ Proprius nobis Aurantiaceis connexum videtur, Rutaceis simul

preesertim endocarpio cartilagineo in fructu maturo a sarcocarpio

soluto, et cocci modo semen includente affine, etsi seminibus al-

buminosis ab utraque familia recedens.” Dr. Wallich’s Limonia

Laureola is considered a second species of the genus (if it be not

really the same).

Duscr. A shrub, rarely, according to Siebold, exceeding the

height of three or four feet, everywhere glabrous, and everywhere

aromatic when bruised. Branches erecto-patent, terete, more or

less warted. Zeaves alternate, but here and there crowded so as to

appear subverticillate ; in our plant all oblong, acuminate, cori-

aceous, entire, tapering below into a short footstalk, penninerved,

pellucido-punctate when held between the eye and the light, and

_ minutely dotted beneath. Panicle terminal, thyrsoid, peduncled,

broad-oblong, many-flowered. Flowers small, a good deal re-

sembling those of some Hollies, and about the same size, with us

mostly hermaphrodite. Pedicels with small, opposite, subulate

bracts. Calya with four or five rounded lobes. Petals five,

oblong, spreading. Stamens about as long as the petals, with

large anthers. Ovary subglobose. Sfyle short, thick, four-

lobed. Berries globose, bright scarlet.

Fig. 1. Portion of a leaf. 2. Flower. 3. Calyx and pistil. 4. Transverse

section of an ovary :—magnified. 5 and 6. Berries i—anat. size.

Tas. 4720.

EPISCIA meuirrtiro.ia.

Melittis-leaved Episcia.

Nat. Ord. GrsnertacnE®.—DipyNamta GYMNOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char, Calyx liber, pentaphyllus seu quinquepartitus. Corolla infundi-

buliformis, tudo rectiusculo basi postice gibbo, limbo 5-lobo. Stamina A, didy-

nama, cum quinti postici rudimento e basi tubi. .dunulus hypogynus in glandu-

lam posticam tumens, Stigma bilamellatum. Capsula subglobosa, membranacea,

bivalvis, placentis 2 parietalibus bilamellatis. Semina plurima, oblonga.—Herbze

Americane moilles, decumbentes, radicantes. Folia opposita, petiolata, venis anasto-

mosantibus percursa. Flores azillares, solitarii vel cymosuli et bracteati. De Cand.

Eptscra melittifolia ; erecta, caule obtuse tetragono cano-pubescente, foliis ovato-

ellipticis acutis pubescenti-hirsutulis grosse duplicato-crenatis reticulatim .

rugosis nitidis subtus pallidis, pedunculis axillaribus subpaniculatis pauci-

floris folio brevioribus, sepalis corollee tubum subaquantibus longe lanceo-

latis acuminatis subserratis, corollz lobis integerrimis.

Eptscta melittifolia. Mart. Nov. Gen. et Sp. Braz. v. 8. p.42. De Cand. Prodr.

v. 7. p. 547.

BrsLerra melittefolia. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 862. “ Schrank, Hort. Monac. t. 44.”

Besturra Melisse Tragi folio. Plum. Gen. Am. p. 29. t. 5.

"A really handsome Gesneriaceous plant, now, we believe, first

cultivated in any European stove; sent by our friend Dr. Imray

from Dominica, and flowering with us in March and April, 1853.

It is probably not uncommon in the West Indian Islands; for

De Candolle gives the Caribbean Islands, Martinique, Guade-

loupe, and even French Guiana, as stations for it, and we pos-

sess dried specimens from St. Vincent. Plumier’s outline figure

18 very characteristic ; but, like so many of his representations, of

his Ferns especially, on an exaggerated scale. The leaves are

Coarse and nettle-like, while the flowers exhibit a very rich co-

louring. ~

Descr. Our plant is about a foot high, branched only at the

the base ; stem stout, dark purple, obtusely quadrangular, clothed

with delicate canescent down, especially upwards. Zeaves upon

NE Ist, 1853.

long petioles, large, nearly elliptical, obtuse at the base, acute

at the apex, obscurely pubescenti-hirsute, the margin coarsely

doubly crenate, dark-green, glossy, and wrinkled above with the

sunk reticulated veins, pale beneath, the veins prominent. Pe-

tioles fleshy, thick, channelled above, the opposite pairs connate

at the base of the petioles. From the axils of the upper leaves

the peduncles are produced, somewhat panicled, few- rarely

single-flowered. Pedicels one to two inches long. Calyx inclined

upwards, as it were, from the tube of the corolla, and gibbous on

the upper side at the base, purple-green, lax, deeply five-partite ;

lobes lanceolate, straight, subserrated. Corolla crimson. The

tube longer than the calyx, curved downwards, with an obtuse

spur at the base above; the Jimd of five, nearly equal, rounded,

spreading Jobés. Stamens four, didynamous, included. Anthers

roundish oval, two-celled. Ovary ovate, silky, with a large bifid

erect gland on one side, and a smaller one on the other. Style

included. Stigma two-lobed.

Fig. 1. Stamens. 2. Pistil, 3. Section of ovary :—magnified.

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RHODODENDRON euavcum.

Glaucous-leaved Rhododendron.

Nat. Ord. Ericra.—DrEcanprIA Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4336.)

RHODODENDRON glaucum ; fruticulus erectus, ramis foliisque lepidotis, foliis

brevi-petiolatis oblongo-ellipticis mucronato-acutis coriaceis subtus albo-

glaucescentibus, umbellis plurifloris bracteatis, floribus mediocribus, calycis

ampli 5-partiti lobis ovatis acutis subfoliaceis, corollze extus glanduloso-

punctate rose tubo campanulato intus filamentisque basi pubescente, limbi

lobis patentibus rotundatis, stamina 10, ovario dense squamuloso basi nudo,

ects subglobosa calycem persistentem equante squamulosa glauca 5-

oculari.

RuopopEnpRon glaucum. Hook. fil. Sik. Rhod. t.17; and in Journ. of Hort.

Soc. of Lond. v. 1. pp. 18 and 102.

In the month of March, 1853, our first plant of Rhododendron

glaucum, about a foot high, showed flower-buds, and in the fol-

lowing month the blossoms were in perfection, as here repre-

sented. It is an extremely distinct species, reared from seeds

sent home from the Sikkim Himalaya by Dr. Hooker in the

autumn of 1850. It inhabits rocky depressed ridges of Sikkim

and Bhotan, at elevations of from 10,000 to 12,000 feet above

the level of the sea. Our flowering plant had the protection

of a cool greenhouse; others in the open border thrive well,

but have not yet blossomed. In its native country the flower-

ing season is May. ‘The leaves have often a scurfy character

from copious small scales, less abundant in the oldest leaves,

and fewer on the underside of the leaf than on the upper

and darker. Similar peltate and orbicular scales exist on the

branches, pedicels, and on the very large calyx. The corollas,

rose-coloured and really handsome, are rather glandular than

scaly. Dr. Hooker’s figure is very beautiful and correct in

~ the — above quoted. The whole plant has a strongly resinous

smell.

JUNE Ist, 1853.

Descr. A small shrub, not exceeding two feet in height, on

its native hills, erect. Branches reddish-brown, scurfy or scaly.

Leaves three to four inches long, oblong-elliptical, rarely ap-

proaching to lanceolate, acute, almost mucronate, subcoriaceous,

the margin recurved, upper surface dark opake-green, more or

less dotted with white scales, the younger ones especially very

glaucous, and almost white beneath, lepidote with rather few

scattered dark-coloured scales; petioles about four lines long.

Umbel terminal, five- to eight-flowered, with numerous pale-

green, concave, broad, ovate bracteas, which before the opening

of the flowers form a sort of involucre, and usually fall away

when the expansion is perfect. Pedicels scarcely so long as the

flower, scaly. Calyx spreading, campanulate, pale-green, large,

foliaceous, cut into five, deep, ovate, acute, veined /obes, exter-

nally lepidote. Corolla in bud deep red, afterwards full rose-

colour, externally glanduloso-punctate ; ¢ube campanulate, downy

or woolly at the base within; /imd spreading, about one and a

half inch across; the Jodes broad, obtuse. Ovary very scaly,

naked at the base. Stamens ten ; filaments as long as the corolla,

downy below. Anthers oval, opening by two pores above. Style

a little longer than the stamens, thickened upwards. Stigma

large, depressed, capitate, with five points.

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XANTHORRHQGA Hastine.

Spear Yellow-Gum.

Nat. Ord. AspHopELes.—HEXxaNnpRIA Monoeynrta.

Gen. Char. Perianthium 6-partitum, subzquale, persistens: foliola iateriora

concava, basi conniventia. * Sfamina 6, imo calyci inserta. Filamenta linearia,

glabra, exserta. _Anthere versatiles. Ovariun loculis polyspermis. Stylus ey-

lindraceus, trisulcus. Stigma simplex. Capsula ovata, lignea, 3-locularis, 3-valvis,

valvis medio septiferis. Semina 1-2, compressa, umbilico basilari nudo. Em-

éryo transversus.—Plante habity proprio et ubi abundantes characterem regioni pe-

culiarem imponentes. Caudex sepe resiniferus, nunc elevatus et sepe divisus,

crassus, nunc brevissimus v. subnullus. Folia longissima, angusta, graminea, li-

nearia, subtriquetra v. ancipitia, confertissima, undique patula, apicibus recurvis,

basibus dilatatis semivaginantibus. Scapus terminalis, simplicissimus, teres, sepe

longissimus. Spica terminalis, cylindracea, amentiformis, scapum quandoque equans,

Flores sessiles, confertissimi, albi, parvi, multibracteati. Bractex numero indeter-

minate, imbricata, unguiculate, interiores sensim minores. Capsule exsertae, obtuse

triquetre, nitide, cartilagineo-lignee. Semina atra, albumine carnoso, molli. Br.

XANTHORRHE@A Hastile; candice brevissimo, foliis lineari-subulatis longissimis

compresso-triquetris subancipitibus supra planis linea media elevata, margine

seaberulis, scapo longissimo amentum cylindraceum pedale vel sesquipedale

aliquoties superante, bracteis foliolisque exterioribus perianthii apice tomen-

tosis.

XANTHORRHE@A Hastile. Brown, Prodr. Fi. Nov. Holl. p. 288. Ait. Hort.

Kew. ed. v. 2, Pp. 271. Smith in Rees’ Cycl. n. 3. Kunth, Enum, Plant.

v. 4. p. 649.

XANTHORRH@A resinosa. Pers. Syn. Plant. v. 1. p. 370.

Yellow Resin-tree. White, Voy. N.S. Wales, p. 235. tab. at p. 249.

The Gum-trees, or Grass Gum-trees as they are sometimes

called, of Australia, are among the most remarkable vegetable

features of the colony. An excellent group of them is repre-

sented in Mr. Backhouse’s ‘ Narrative of a Missionary Journey in

New South Wales,’ tab. at p. 171. That peculiar species how-

ever is considered to be the X. arborea, having an arborescent

and branched stem. The perennial trunks are very liable to be

blackened by the fires of the natives in burning the adjacent

grass of the plains, and all the species probably yield a resinous

gum, which, when strewed on hot coals, emits a fragrant smoke,

“smelling like a mixture of balsam of Tolu and benzoin;” and

JULY lst, 1853

now used, we are told, as incense in the Roman Catholic

churches of the colony. The “ Yellow Resin” is the product of

X. Hastile, to which we refer our plant. This species is said to

have been introduced in 1803, by Philip Gidley King, Esq., to

the Royal Gardens, where it probably soon died. Other speci-

mens and other species seem to have been imported, and shared

the same fate. At length we received a healthy plant from Port

Jackson, in 1845, through Mr. Kidd, then placed in temporary

charge of the Botanic Garden of Sydney. This blossomed with

us in the spring of 1853, while still, we apprehend, compara-

tively a small plant, the whole height, including the scape and

spike, being barely six feet. The scape alone in its native country

attains a height of eighteen or twenty feet, and is used by the

natives for making spears (whence the specific name Lastile)

and fish-gigs, being pointed with the teeth of fish or other

animals.

Duscr. Caudex short, with us about six inches in height and

eight in diameter, simple, clothed with the remains of fallen

leaves, and bearing at the top a crown of dense, rather glaucous,

grassy, crowded foliage. These Jeaves are three feet or more

in length, very thickly inserted, and, from a very broad almost

membranous base, become suddenly linear-subulate, recurved,

harsh, and rigid, tapering to a very fine acuminated point ; they

are longitudinally subtriangular, but thin and flat at the sides,

so as to be somewhat ancipitate, the upper or inner face flat,

and having an elevated longitudinal line: the edges are diapha-

nous and scaberulous. Scape terminal, solitary, eighteen to

twenty feet high (with us only five and a half), terete, firm,

quite erect, bearing at the apex a dark-brown downy spike (very

much resembling the head of the greater Reed-mace), from nine

inches to a foot and a foot and a half long, cylindrical, obtuse,

many times shorter than the scape. This spike consists of a

vast quantity of scaly. dracts, linear, dilated at the apex, and

there clothed with fuscous down, which give the colour to the

spike. ‘The flowers are copious amongst these bracts, but ar-

ranged spirally around the axis, sessile, small. Perianth in two

series: outer of three erect sepals exactly resembling the bracts,

and equally downy at the apex ; the inner of three oblong, emar-

ginate and obscurely serrated, erect, white,.membranaceous ones.

Stamens six, much exserted. Filaments long, subulate, spread-

ing above the sepals, and forming white stars upon the dark-

brown spike. Anthers oblong-globose, nearly white. Ovary

obovate. Style cylindrical. Stigma obtuse.

4. Hats oo accompanied by two bracteas. 2. Inner sepal. 3. Stamen.

, a 7 3 3

[all waguihed — section of the ovary. 6. Small portion of the leaf:

Tas. 4723.

LITTONIA mopesva.

Unassuming Lattonia.

Nat. Ord. UvuLarizr#.—Hexanpria Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. Perianthium subcampanulatum, hexsepalum, sepalis oblongo-acu-

minatis subearinatis concavis erecto-patentibus intus basi poro nectarifero utrin-

que squamula parva marginata. Stamina 6, hypogyna, libera, perianthio breviora.

Filamenta subulata, glabra. Anthere oblongo-sagittate, obtuse, basifixee, bilo-

culares, /oculis lateraliter rima longitudinali dehiscentes. Connectivum amplum.

Ovarium ovale, longitudinaliter trisuleatum, lobis linea media longitudinali de-

pressa notatis, 3-loculare, pluriovulatum, ovulis biseriatim angulo interiori loculi

affixis. Stylus longitudine fere ovarii, erectus, strictus, apice profunde trifidus,

lobis reflexis; stigmata obtusa, pubescentia. Fructus . . . —Herba scandens

Natalensis. Radix tuberosa, tubere inferne bilobo, lobo unico tuber novellum pro-

deunte. Caulis scandens, simplex, teres, herbaceus, foliosus. Folia inferiora ter-

natim verticillata, superiora opposita, omnia lanceolata, longe tenuissime acuminata,

glabra, parallelim venosa, striata, apice cirrhifera. Pedunculi breves, axillares, so-

litarii, uniflori. Flores nutantes, aurantiaci.

LITToNnra modesta.

Two numbers back (Tab. 4716) we had the pleasure of

figuring’ a new Liliaceous plant from Natal, and naming it after

its discoverer, John Sanderson, Hsq., of that colony. ‘The same

gentleman detected in that colony our present plant, of which

tubers were sent to the Natal Garden, and thence by Mr. M‘Ken

to us, as a new species of Methonica* (Gloriosa, Linn.). True

* We readily concur in Dr. Wight’s views, expressed in the last volume of his ad-

mirable ‘ Icones Plantarum Indi Orientalis,’ vol. vi. p. 25, inreferring Methonica

and its allies, including Sandersonia, at Tab. 4716, to Voulariee, rather than to

Liliacee. We wish we could say as much in favour of his views respecting the

preference given to Gloriosa, Linn., over Methonica, Herm. But here it 1s only

Justice to Dr. Wallich to copy a memorandum, with which he has just gone oe

us, on the subject. “In my humble judgment,” he writes, “ our friend \ ight

is quite wrong in regard to Methonica and Gloriosa (sce his long description mn

Icones Plant. Ind. Orient. vol. vi. p. 23). He says, ‘ Turning now to Hermann —

for his definition of the genus, on which only he is entitled to claim the paternity

of the name, all we find is ‘ Methonica Malabarorum’—Methonica of the Malabars.

JULY lst, 1853.

the stem and foliage are altogether those of that genus (a native

of South Africa) ; but the flowers are extremely different, and we

have little hesitation in considering the plant to form a new genus,

Littonia,—a tribute to the memory of the late Dr. Samuel Litton,

for twenty-one years Professor of Botany in the Royal Dublin

Society, a deeply learned and amiable man, and a popular lecturer.

The modest appearance of this plant, in contrast with its very near

ally the “‘ Gloriosa superba,” Linn., may further serve to indicate

his unassuming and retiring disposition, which, as has been re-

corded by the Council of the Royal Dublin Society, “ prevented

his taking that rank in general society to which his acquirements

entitled him.” The shape of the sepals, their direction, the scaly

nectary, the stamens, the style, and stigmas, all tend to keep

this genus distinct from Methonica. It flowered in the stove of

the Royal Gardens in April, 1853, within three months after the

tubers were planted.

Duscr. The tubers are exceedingly curious. An old fully-

formed one is larger than a Spanish Chestnut, and somewhat

of the same shape, but having two projecting lobes or horns

pointing downwards, with a few capillary fibres in the centre

beneath. When this is planted, a new white obconical tuber is

formed from the apex of one of these lobes, and which, if [ may

so say, is inverted, the broad upper side bemg downwards,

giving rise to the stem, while the narrow apex throws out @

There is no definition ; the citation therefore, in a controversial discussion, is, to

say the least, inappropriate, being without weight or argument.’ Now, so far

from Hermann giving no definition, there is a very good description of his Metho-

nica Malabarorum in his Hort. Academ. Lugd. Batav. p. 688, and a very good

figure (tab. or rather page 689) annexed, which is similarly inscribed, ‘ Me¢honica

Malabarorum.’ More than that, the peculiar shape of the root of the plant is well

figured, and also described in these words: ‘ formi accionem*, seu literam T, ex

duobus quasi brachiis cohzrentem, referente, etc.’ Now so remarkable is this

shape of the root, that the Sanskrita and the Bengali names of the* plant are

derived from it: ‘Langulisha,’ Sanskr.; ‘Ishor-Langula,’ Beng.; meaning the

handle or governor of a plough. In fact, the root resembles quite that perfec-

tion of primitive simplicity, a native plough, Finally, Hermann quotes as @

synonym, ‘ Lilium zeylanicum superbum, vulgo.’ Now, was ever authority for

a name more perfect or incontrovertible? Methonica ought to be adopted, and

not that barbarissimum nomen, Gloriosa; and the specific name ought to be

Malabarorum, and not superba. (1 should not be surprised that the Malabar de-

rivation of Hermann will be verified: I will make inquiries.) Is not the same

author's Adhatoda in the identical work, and only a few pages previously, p- 642.

f. 643, adopted as a specific name—now a generic one? ‘Tournefort, in Mé-

moires de Acad. Royale des Sciences (called ‘A. G.,’ é. e. Acta Gallica) pour

1707, p. 86. tab. 7. fig. (5) excellent (the curious root again separately re-

presented),—Ray, Hist. vol. ii. p. 1915,—Boerh. Index alter, vol. ii. p. 134:

all the above have Methonica Malabarorum for the name of our plant. Finally,

Linneus in Hortus Cliffort. p. 121, quotes Methonica Malabarorum, Herm.,

Tournef., Boerhaave, Dill. gen., Commelyn Fl. et Plukenet.””

* : j i

: T cannot make out what “accio” means; none of my Latin or Greek dic*

tionaries give me any clue.

quantity of long capillary fibres. Eventually, when the old

tuber is thrown off, the new one assumes its proper direction in

the earth, and takes the place of the old tuber. Stem terete,

glabrous, herbaceous, simple, two to three feet long, climbing.

Leaves broad-lanceolate, glabrous, spreading or reflexed, sessile,

striated with parallel nerves, much and very narrowly attenuated

into a filiform ¢endril, which it uses for support; lower leaves

ternately verticillate, upper ones smaller and alternate. Pedun-

cles rather short, axillary, solitary, bearing a single, drooping,

orange-coloured flower. Sepals six, lanceolate, erecto-patent (so

that the perianth is subcampanulate), oblong, shortly but sharply

acuminate, moderately concave, keeled at the back ; within at

the base having a small oblong nectariferous cavity, partially

closed by a little ciliated scale on each side. Stamens six, free,

erect, hypogynous, as long as the pistil, much shorter than the

sepals. Fi/ament subulate. Anther oblong, subsagittate, fixed

by its base to the filament. Connectivum large, separating the

cells, which are quite marginal, and open laterally by a longi-

tudinal fissure. Ovary oval, with three furrows and three ob-

tuse lobes, with a depressed line down each lobe, three-celled,

cells many-seeded : the seeds attached, in two longitudinal rows,

to the inner angle of the cell. Style about as long as the ovary,

divided above into three rather long recurved segments or

branches, each tipped with an obtuse downy séigma.

Fig. 1. Old and new tuber :—wnaé. size. 2. Sepal and nectary. 3. One

of the scales from the nectary. 4. Stamen. 5. Pistil. 6. Ovary cut through

transversely :—magnified.

Hitch del et lith.

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Tas. 4724.

LOPEZIA mMaAcrRopuyLLa.

Large-leaved Lopesia.

Nat. Ord. ONAGRARIEZ.—MONANDRIA Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. Calycis limbus 4-partitus, deciduus. Petala 4, irregularia. Stamina 2,

uno fertili antherifero, altero opposito sterili petaliformi a petalis veris sepius

discolore. Stigma capitatum. Capsula nuda, subglobosa, 4-locularis, apice tan-

tum loculicide quadrivalvis ; valvis placentze centrali dissepimentis adnatis. Se-

mina plurima, minima.—Herbee erecte aut suffrutices. Folia dentata, alterna,

rarius opposita. Racemi caulem ramosque terminantes, Flores pedicellati, pur-

pure. DC.

Loprzia macrophylla; fruticosa, glabriuscula, foliis petiolatis ellipticis oblon-

gisve acuminatis denticulatis basi angustatis, sepalis erecto-patentibus lan-

ceolatis (rubris) corollam squantibus, petalis duobus breviter unguiculatis.

Benth.

Loprzt1a macrophylla. Benth. in Plant. Hartweg. p. 83. n. 577. Lindl. in

Journ. of Hort. Soc. v. 7. p. 278. Planch. in “ Flore des Serres, v. 7. t. 33.

p- 177." Pat. et Lindl, Flower Garden, v. 3. p. 145 cum Ic. xylogr.

n. 302. (apparently copied from the ‘ Flore des Serres.’)

Lopxrzia grandiflora. Flora od. Bot. Zeit. 1832, Beitr. p. 101.

Jenxia fuchsioides. Hort. Germ.

Received from Mr. Van Houtte under the name of Jehlia

Suchsioides ; and this-is given by Dr. Lindley and Mr. Paxton

as. a synonym of Lopezia macrophylla of Planchon; “ but it

seems impossible,” they say, “that it can be the plant which

Mr. Bentham first described as Lopezia macrophylla wm the

‘ Plante Hedwigiane,’ a shrub with downy leaves and terminal

panicles of flowers. Our plant however is certainly the same

species as Mr. Bentham’s ; only Hartweg’s plant is rather more

hairy ; and assuredly our plant is identical with the woodcut in

the ‘ Flower Garden,’ copied, we presume, from Planchon’s re-

presentation. In regard to the inflorescence, which Mr. Bentham

describes as being racemose (not in ‘ terminal panicles’), I think

that appearance arises in Hartweg’s specimens from the leaves

JULY Ist, 1853.

having fallen away. In our plants the peduncles are single-

flowered and axillary—It is more than probable that our

plant is the same with the Z. grandiflora of Zuccarini, briefly

characterized in the ‘Flora’ above quoted; but we have no

means of determining the question. Our plant is a native of

Mexico and Guatemala, and flowers in the greenhouse with us

in March.” :

Descr. A small half-shrubby plant: the root is said to be

tuberous and fleshy, like some Fuchsias. Branches green and

succulent. Leaves opposite, on long petioles, ovate, acuminate,

coarsely serrated, slightly hairy (variable, I believe, in this re-

spect), and ciliated; strongly penninerved, the lateral nerves or

veins channelled above, prominent beneath. Peduncles axillary,

solitary, much longer than the petioles, slender, erecto-patent,

single-flowered. Flowers large, bright red; the small, globose,

inferior ovary only being green. Calye segments erecto-patent,

lanceolate, broader at the base. Petals, two narrower and

longer than the calyx, geniculated at the base: two broader and

shorter than the calyx. Perfect stamen one; filament as long as

the style; anther large, oblong, terminal, purple : the other, or

second stamen, is abortive, petaloid, oblong-spathulate, wavy at

the margin, geniculated near the base, dilated at the point of in-

sertion. Style about as long as the petals, hairy near the base.

Stigma depresso-capitate.

Fig. 1. Flower from which the calyx-segments and two of the petals have been

removed. 2. Ovary cut through transversely :—magnified.

4726,

Fitch, del wy lath.

FE. Reeve mmp-

Tas. 4725.

~ LILIUM roseum.

Rose-coloured Lily.

Nat. Ord. Lintacka.—Hexanpria Monocynia. ©

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas, 4561.)

Li1uM (§ Notholirion, Wall.) roseum ; foliis alternis flaccidis lineari-acuminatis ca-

rinatis superioribus remotis multoties brevioribus, floribus racemosis cernuis

subinfundibuliformibus, sepalis uniformibus spathulatis apicibus reflexis ad

basin usque distinctis basin versus maculatis, staminibus declinatis sepalorum

longitudine, stigmate trilobo, “ capsulis turbinatis obtuse hexagonis.”

Litium roseum: Wall. Cat. n. 5077, et var. B.

Fririttarta Thomsoniana. Royle, Illustr. p. 388. t. 92. Kunth, Enum. v. 4.

p. 672. :

Litium Thomsonianum. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1845, ¢. 1. Walpers, Annal. Bot.

v. 1. p. 852.

We quite agree with Dr. Lindley that this is a Lilium, as it

has been named by its discoverer, rather than a Fritillaria, as

Dr. Royle and the late Professor Kunth have considered it, and

assuredly it has no real nectary on asdjnear depression to the sepals.

The habit however is peculiar, and the leaves in form rather re-

semble some Hemerocallis than a Lily or Fritillary. Dr. Wallich

indeed has, in his MS. with which he has favoured us, named it

Notholirion roseum, observing, “ Lilio affine, sed differt stigmate

bilobo.” Lilium roseum is a native of Gossain Than and Kamaon

(Wallich), and of Mussooree (Royle), and Almora (elev. 8000

feet), where it was found by Messrs. Thomson and Strachey.

Seeds were sent by the latter gentleman to Kew Gardens, and

the plants flowered in a cool frame in April, 1853. A slight

variety or form of this (the Gossain ‘Than plant of Dr. Wallich)

is given as a new species by Dr. Royle, different from L. roseum

(Frit. Thomsoniana, Royle); but Dr. Wallich’s notes on both |

plants, made on the spot, prove that they are one and the same.

JULY Ist, 1853.

Neither can we agree to the union of Lilium roseum with L. ma-

crophyllum of Don, which is described as having yel/ow flowers.

Descr. Bulb, according to Dr. Wallich, “an inch long, ob-

long-ovate, tunicated, the scales oblong-lanceolate, shining, the

exterior ones chestnut-brown.”’ Stem, including the flowers, a

foot and a half high, erect, terete, glabrous, as is every part of

the plant. Leaves crowded at the base of the stem, but alter-

nate, sessile, linear-acuminate, grassy, the lowermost very long,

a foot or a foot and a half, gradually smaller and more distant

upwards, broader at the base, and passing into bracteas, all of

them carinated. The stem terminates in a raceme of eight or

ten rather large, handsome, drooping, lilac flowers. Pedicels

nearly an inch long, shorter than the lanceolato-subulate bractea.

Perianth between infundibuliform and campanulate. Sepals free

to their base, almost exactly spathulate, the apices reflexed, the

base within destitute of a real nectary, but furrowed, white, with

a dark purple streak. Stamens six, hypogynous, as long as, or

_ rather longer than the pistil, slightly declined. Filament filiformi-

subulate, white. Anthers oblong, deep purple. Pollen deep

orange-red. Ovary oblong, obtuse, with three deep furrows,

and three lesser intermediate ones, three-celled, many-ovuled.

Ovules in two rows, attached to the inner angle of the cell.

Style as long as the stamens, and declined with them, filiform ;

the stigma curved upwards, three-lobed. Capsule, according to

Dr. Royle, “ turbinate, obtusely six-angled. Seeds wingless.”

Fig. 1. Sepal. 2. Pistil. 3. Transverse section of an ovary :—magnified.

Tas. 4726.

AZALEA CRISPIFLORA.

Crisped-flowered Azalea.

Nat. Ord. Ericea.—Perentanpria Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla infundibuliformis, irregularis, 5-loba.

Stamina 5, cum corolla non concreta. Anthere apice biporose. Stylus elongatus,

cum staminibus exsertus, apice non sensim incrassatus.—Omnia ideo Rhododendri,

sed flores constanter et regulariter pentandri et folia decidua. De Cand.

AZALEA crispiflora ; foliis obovato-lanceolatis acutis brevissime petiolatis utrin-

que margineque villosulis, floribus terminalibus solitariis pedunculatis, pe-

dunculis brevibus bracteatis, calycis foliolis oblongis obtusis villosis, corollz

(pulcherrime rosez) tubo infundibuliformi-campanulato, lobis amplis rotun-

datis patentibus undulato-crispatis, staminibus vix exsertis, ovario hispidis-

simo.

One of the many fine and showy plants introduced by Mr.

Fortune from China. I am quite aware of the difficulty of de-

termining whether a Chinese garden-plant, long in cultivation

with the natives, ought to be considered new, however different

from any known kind, or only a variety, or, still more probably,

a hybrid. On this point I must leave others to decide, only ob-

serving that to me it appears to have, in its large and very crisped

flowers, in the nature of the calyx, in the coloured bracts sur-

rounding the base of the solitary flower-stalk, and the hispid

ovary, sufficient characters to warrant its being considered a new

and distinct species. Certain it is that the size and beauty of the

flowers render it worthy of a place in every collection. It re-

quires to be treated as a greenhouse plant ; and with Messrs.

Standish and Noble (Bagshot Nursery), to whom we are indebted

for the specimen, its flowering season is April.

Drscr. A moderate-sized shrub, rather copiously branched, the

branches often subverticillate, woody, dark-brown, clothed with

appressed chaffy hairs, most abundant on the young branches.

Leaves alternate, about an inch and a half long, submembra-

naceous, patent, obovato-oblong or sublanceolate, acute, entire,

JULY Ist, 1853,

penninerved, villous both above and beneath with soft appressed

hairs. Peduncles solitary, terminal upon almost every branch,

short, half an inch, or little more, long, and almost wholly con-

cealed by an involucre of three to five ovate, concave, membra-

naceous, erect, coloured (red) dracteas. Calya cut almost to the

__ base into three oblong, obtuse, villous lobes. Corodlas large, deep

—rose-colour: tube between infundibuliform and campanulate,

obtusely five-angled and gradually widening into the large,

spreading, five-lobed /imd ; the /obes rotundate, remarkably waved

and crisped at the margin. Stamens five, unequal, deflexed and

ascending. laments red, downy below. Anthers deep purple,

apparently abortive. Ovary small, ovate, five-lobed, very hispid.

Style nearly as long as the stamens, glabrous. Stigma with five

_ obtuse points.

: Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Cal: d pistil. 3. Ovary. 4. Transverse section of

- ditto :— magnified. les a see:

4727.

¥. Reeve imp.

Fitch del et lith .

Tas. 4727.

SEMEIANDRA GRANDIFLORA.

Large-flowered Semeiandra.

Nat. Ord. ONAGRARIEZ,—DrIanpria Monoayntia.

Gen. Char. Calyx ovario cohzrens, ultra ovarium longe productus, coloratus,

ineequaliter infundibuliformis, ad medium in lacinias 4 longe lineares elongatas,

quorum tres demum reflexas quartam erectam, fissus. Pefala 4, parva, angus-

tissime linearia, cum laciniis calycinis alterna. Séamina duo, unacum stylo in

columnam subcarnosam longe exsertam tubo calycis toto secus sepalum posterius

adnatam connata, superne,libera: unum (posterius) in ligulam petaloideam apice

‘ expansum ; alterum (anterius) antheriferum. 4nthera dorso medio affixa, bilocu-

laris, loculis parallelis. Ovarium 4-loculare, multiovulatum. Stylus filiformis,

tubo calycis triplo longiore. Stigma depresso-capitatum. Capsula globosa, 4-

locularis, loculicide 4-valvis, polysperma: dissepimentis placente centrali ad-

natis persistentibus. Semina ovoidea, minuta, muriculata.—Suffrutex pubescens

Mezxicanus, Folia pleraque opposita, oblonga v. ovata, basi in petiolum attenuata, ser-

rata, Flores axillares, solitarii (vel, si mavis, Racemi terminales foliosi) ; pedicelli

graciles, fructiferi deflexi, sub fructu incurvi. Flores coccinei, satis magni.

SEMETANDRA grandiflora.

SEMEIANDRA grandiflora. Hook. e¢ Arn, Bot. of Beech. Voy. p. 291. ¢. 59.

A remarkable genus, allied to Fuchsia, with singularly-formed

flowers of a bright scarlet colour; the coloured calyx constituting the

principal portion of the flower. Native of Mexico, first detected

about epic, by the Naturalists of Captain Beechey’s Voyage in

H.M.S. Blossom, and described in the Botany of that Expedition.

It was again found in the Sierra Madre, on the road from Maza-

tlan to Durango by Mr. B. Seemann, who transmitted to the Royal

Gardens the seeds from which the plant represented in our Plate

have been raised. “The Semeiandra grandiflora,” says Mr. See-

mann, “ grows in the temperate regions of North-western Mexico,

at an elevation from 4000 to 5000 feet above the ocean, among

Galphimias, Tupas, Cupheas, and Lobelias. It is a slender shrub,

about six feet high, and its bright scarlet blossoms render it a

desirable acquisition to every garden. When I met with it towar

JULY 1st, 1853. ee ae

~~ the end of 1850, it was both in flower and fruit, making it pro-

bable that it flowers more or less throughout the year.’”’—With

us (in Kew) it began to show its blossoms in March, 1853.

Descr. An erect, branched, suffruticose, downy plant, herba-

ceous above ; dranches terete. Leaves opposite, petiolate, ovate

or ovato-lanceolate, tapering below, acuminate at the apex, penni-

veined. Flowers from the axils of all the superior leaves, so that

they may be said to form a leafy raceme. Peduncle slender, one

to two inches long (longer in fruit), single-flowered. Flower

large, handsome, every part except the ovary bright red, even the

style and filaments of the stamens. Ovary globose, small, green.

Calyx petaloid ; the ¢wée infundibuliform ; the Zimé cut into four

linear, acuminate, very long segments, of which three are quite

reflexed, while the fourth is erect. Petals four, linear subulate.

Stamens two. Filaments very long, combined in the lower half

with the inside of the calyx: free above. Anther oblong. Style

a little longer than the stamens. Sfigma capitate and umbilicate.

Capsule about the size of a pea, on the elongated very patent or

even reflexed peduncles, which latter curve upwards just below

the fruit.

Fig. 1. Tube of the calyx (laid open), petals, pistil, and stamens. 2. Trans-

verse section of the ovary. 3. Capsule :—wnat. size.

4728.

‘Bitch. del et lith

Tas. 4728.

AZALEA AM@NA.

Bright-flowered Azalea.

Nat. Ord. ERickE#.—PENTANDRIA Monoeynta.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TAB. 4726.)

AZALEA amena ; humilis, ramis foliisque obovato-ellipticis integerrimis supra

precipue margineque appresse setosis, floribus terminalibus subcorymbosis,

calyce colorato amplo corollam subsequante profunde 5-fido lobis incisis ci-

liatis, staminibus 5 exsertis.

AZALEA amena. Paxton et Lindi. Flower Garden, v. 3. t. 89.

This lovely Azalea was introduced to Messrs. Standish and

Noble’s extensive nursery, Bagshot, by Mr. Fortune, from

Shanghae, where it was cultivated, and to which place it had

been brought from the far-famed city of Soo-chow-foo. It is

Supposed by Mr. Fortune to be “from a country further north

than any of its race in China have been known to inhabit, or at

all events from a higher elevation on the mountains.” Certain

it is, that at Bagshot a plant has stood out the whole winter,

unharmed, without protection, and it is expected to be perfectly

hardy. Our plant was received from Messrs. Standish and

Noble ; and the little bush, in April, 1853, was covered with its

eautiful richly-coloured blossoms in a cool greenhouse, where

other Indian Azaleas are protected. Mr. Fortune pronounces it

to be a very distinct species ; and assuredly, difficult as it may

often be to pronounce on the specific value of Azaleas cultivated

by the Chinese, we see no reason to doubt the correctness of

r. Fortune’s opinion in the present imstance. We cannot but

©xpress surprise that the flowers in the ‘ Flower Garden,’ above

quoted, are described as having that kind of double corolla which

18 called * hose in hose :” and further, “ no calyx is discoverable ;

but whether that organ is absent, or is converted into the external

Corolla, is uncertain.” This error has apparently arisen from the

“arge size of the calyx (nearly as large as the corolla), and its

Ing coloured like the corolla ; but that this organ is /he true

AUGUST IsT, 1853.

calyx is as clear as the calyx upon any other Azalea, and is most

apparent in the state of the advanced bud (see our figure). It

is moreover fringed or ciliated like the leaves, while the corolla

is not.

Dzscr. Our plant forms a small dush, a foot high, with nu-

merous wiry Jranches, dividing almost from the base, often

fasciculate, everywhere clothed with appressed chaffy brown

bristles, most copious on the younger branches. Leaves sparse

or wanting in the lower part of the branches, rather crowded

towards the extremity, elliptical-obovate, tipped with a short

mucro, subcoriaceous, nearly sessile, patent, entire, dark green

above, and rather thickly setose, as is the margin, pale and

somewhat glaucous beneath, setose on the costa; the veins are

pinnated, and they combine so as to form an almost continuous

line distant from the margin: all the seta are close-pressed and

chaffy, and brown, except on the very young shoots, where they

are quite white. Peduncles red, single-flowered, axillary, solitary,

but as they are confined to the uppermost leaves they form a

kind of leafy corymb. Calye remarkably large, and as richly

coloured as the corolla, campanulate, membranaceous, deeply

and rather irregularly five-lobed, the lobes often laciniated and

fringed with white hairs. Corolla rich crimson-purple, campa-

nulate, the Jimd spreading, deeply five-lobed, quite glabrous.

Stamens five, ascending. Filaments crimson. Anthers dark-

purple, ovate, opening by two pores. Ovary ovate, setose, five-

celled. Style decurved, then ascending, much longer than the

stamens. Stigma with five small points.

_Fig. 1. Calyx and pistil. 2. Stamen. 3. Pistil. 4. Transverse section of

pistil :—magnified.

4729,

Fitch del et lifh .

F, Reeve, imp.

Tas. 4729.

CANTUA sico.tor.

Two-coloured Cantua.

Nat. Ord. PoLEMonIAcEm.—PENTANDRIA MoNnoGyNIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tan. 4386.)

Cantua Jicolor ; foliis obovatis apiculatis integerrimis junioribus ramulisque

hirsutis, floribus in ramos terminalibus solitariis, calyce glabriusculo mem-

branaceo, corolla tubo flavo dimidio breviore, staminibus styloque exsertis.

Cantva bicolor. Lindley et Paxton, Mag. Bot. 1849, cum Ic.

Cantua ovata? Cav. Ic. t. 363.

PERIPHRAGMOs uniflorus? Ruiz et Pav. Fl. Per. t. 2. p. 18. De Cand. Prodr.

v. 9. p. 321. . on

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pyrifola (see our Tab. 4386), and C. duxifolia (our Tab. 4582).

The first, C. dccolor, was introduced by Mr. Low, though we

had also seeds from Mr. William Lobb; but we have never had

any hybrids.” Whether a true species or not may be doubtful,

but its beautiful flowers will recommend it to every cool stove.

Were it not that Cavanilles describes his C. ovata as the

“Corolla ceruleo-rubens,’ and Ruiz and Pavon (their Peri-

phragmos unifforus being the same) as having the “ tube of the

corolla purple, and the limb violet,’ I should confidently have

referred it to that dubious species: the corolla of their plant is

much longer than ours.

Descr. Our plant is a graceful, small, erect-growing shrué,

somewhat virgate in the main dranches, the shorter and younger

ones, as well as the young foliage, hairy. Zeaves about an inch

long, including the short petiole, obovate, tapering or cuneate

below, apiculate at the point, quite entire at the margin, penni-

veined. Peduncles solitary at the extremity of the branches,

single-flowered, curved downwards. Flowers large, drooping.

Calye monophyllous, between campanulate and_ cylindrical,

membranaceous, veined and slightly reticulated, five-toothed ;

teeth triangular, erect. Corolla infundibuliform ; tube yellow,

twice as long as the calyx, obscurely striated ; Zimd scarlet both

within and without, of five obcordate spreading lobes, Stamens

exserted ; filaments yellow, unequal ; anthers nearly black. Ovary

ovate, glabrous, seated on a large glandular disc, three-celled.

Style longer than the stamens, and much exserted. Stigma of

three linear lobes.

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

473

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‘

Tas. 4730.

RHODODENDRON wnivevn.

Snowy-leaved Rhododendron.

Nat. Ord. Er1tck#.—DercanpRtia Monoeynra.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4336.)

RHODODENDRON xiveum ; arbuscula vage ramosa, cortice fusco rugoso, foliis

obovato-lanceolatis petiolatis acutis opacis subtus petioloque tomento ap-

presso niveo (rarius fuscescente) lanatis, capitulis globosis compactis multi-

floris, calyce obsoleto, corolla late campanulate tubo intus basi plicis 5

membranaceis, ovarii annulo hypogyno magno lobato, capsulis ovali-ob-

longis cylindraceis tomentosis obtus 6-locularibus, valvis lignosis.

R#opopENDRON niveum. Hook. Jil. Rhod. Sik. Himal. Conspect. p. 4.

_ Found by Dr. Hooker in Sikkim Himalaya ; rocky valleys and

_ ridges, Lachen, Lachong, and Chola ; elevation 10,000 to 12,000

feet, not unfrequent : but he was not so fortunate as to meet with

flowering specimens of this plant during his sojourn in Sikkim

Himalaya. Yet from the fruiting ones he determined the species

to be new, and he determined rightly. One of our young plants

in the Royal Gardens produced the flowers here represented in

May, 1853, and they afford additional characters to those derived

from the peculiar form of the fruit, and the snow-white, flocculent,

°paque tomentum occupying both surfaces of the very young leaf

_ permanent beneath—as distinguishing it from R. arboreum

and from R. Campbellie. The colour of the flowers is indeed

very different from either, and not unlike that of the European

- ponticum and the North American R. maximum, but showing

cep sanguineous spots at the inner base of the corolla, where,

alternating with them, are five membranaceous decurrent scales

or plice. The calyx is obsolete, reduced to a small oblique

<carcely lobed disc, and there is a very large hypogynous annu-

lar lobed ring, in which the ovary is inserted.

Descr. A small shrub, with rugged bark on the older stems

and branches. Leaves moderately large, spreading, opaque on

AUGUST Ist, 1853.

both sides, obovato-lanceolate, tapermg below into a short /oot-

stalk, the young leaves white-tomentose all over; the younger

ones glabrous above, clothed beneath with white (rarely tawny)

appressed flocculent tomentum. /Vowers rather numerous, mo-

derately large, on short tomentose peduncles. Calyx very small

and inconspicuous, indeed concealed by the narrow base of the

corolla, oblique, obsoletely five-toothed. Corolla externally yel-

lowish-lilac, mternally palish lilac, blotched with deeper lilac, and

at the inner base having five, deep, blood-purple spots ; the form

is broadly campanulate, narrow at the base of the tube but there

five-lobed ; the limb spreading, five-lobed, retuse and slightly

lobed and waved. Stamens ten, shorter than the corolla: jila-

ments glabrous. Ovary oval, very tomentose, seated on a large

fleshy lobed annular disc, generally six-celled. Style declined,

curved upwards towards the apex. Stigma a mere obtuse point.

Capsule oblong or oval-oblong, terete, olive-brown, downy.

Fig. 1. Portion of the base of the corolla, seen from within. 2. Stamen. 3.

Ovary. 4. Ditto, cut through transversely :—magnified. 5. Capsule :—unat. size.

Tas. 4731.

FRITILLARIA oxyPpETALa.

Sharp-petaled Fritillary.

Nat. Ord. Lintacem.—Hexanpria Monoeynta.

Gen. Char. Perigonium corollinum, deciduum, hexaphyllum ; foliola subsequa-

lia, campanulato-conniventia, intus supra basin linea nectarifera. Stamina 6,

perigonii foliolis basi adheerentia. Ovarium triloculare. Ovula in loculis plu-

rima, biseriata, horizontalia. Stylus terminalis, subclavatus : stigma 3-partitum.

Capsula trigona vel hexagona, angulis acutis, trilocularis, loculicido-trivalvis.

Semina in loculis plurima, biseriata, horizontalia, compresso-plana ; testa fusca,

membranaceo-alata, rhaphe hine per marginem decurrente. Embryo minimus,

umbilico proximus.—Herbee in Europa australiore et Asia media indigene, bul-

bose, caulescentes ; foliis alternis v. subverticillatis ; floribus axillaribus, plerumque

maculatis, nutantibus. Endl.

Fritttiaria owypetala ; foliis linearibus seu lineari-lanceolatis alternis radicali

lanceolato basi longe attenuato, caule unifloro, flore nutante, sepalis demum

patentibus oblongo-ovatis acutis basi contractis subunguiculatis, ungue nec-

tarifero extus et intus ad basin laminam pilis fasciculatis barbato, bulbo

squamis elongatis erectis tunicato.

Fritmuarra oxypetala. Royle, Bot. Himal. p. 388.

Found at Pindari, Kumaon, elevation above the sea 12,500

feet, by Messrs. R. Strachey and Winterbottom (n. 4 of their Her-

barium). Roots of this plant, as well as specimens, have been

sent to me by those gentlemen ; the former producing flowermg

plants in June, 1853. If I am correct in referring it to the F.

oaypetala of Dr. Royle, of which he has given a brief character,

it was discovered by him at Taranda, in Kunawar. It has not

the bell-shaped corolla of the legitimate Fritillaries, yet hardly

seems generically distinct. It succeeds well in a cool frame.

Descr. Bulb oblong, coated with many large, lanceolate,

erect, fleshy, greenish-white scales, the outer ones a& long as the

inner. Stem a foot or a foot and a half high, terete, leafy. Radi-

cal leaf generally solitary, long, lanceolate, tapering down into a

slender petiole-like base : cauline leaves distant, linear or liear-

avuaust Ist, 1853.

lanceolate, varying in length, recurved. Flower solitary, terminal,

moderately drooping, at first subcampanulate, at length spreading.

Sepals six, ovate or ovato-oblong, acute, contracted at the base

into a nectariferous claw, bearing a small tuft of hair externally

at the base, and a large dense crest-like tuft within at the base

of the lamina. Colour of the sepals lilac-purple, having a green

keel externally ; within, the lower half, or rather more, is sprinkled

with purple dots. Stamens six, shorter than the sepals ; anthers

oblong, dark purple. Ovary oblong, somewhat six-angled, three-

celled. Style equalling the length of the filaments. Stigma

three-lobed, papillose. ~ Capsule globoso-oblong, with six rather:

sharp angles.

Fig. 1. Root-leaf :—nat. size. 2. Sepal. 3. Pistil. 4. Ovary cut through

transversely :—magnified. 5. Capsule. 6. Bulb :—xat. size.

Fitch del et ith

F. Reeve , imp.

Tas. 4732.

VACCINIUM ovatum.

Ovate-leaved Whortleberry.

Nat. Ord. VacctnrpE®.—OctTanpDrIA Monoeynia..

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4612.)

Vaccinium ovatum ; valde ramosum, ramis patentibus purpureis rigidis junioribus

puberulis, foliis sempervirentibus ovatis coriaceis nitidis acutis subearinatis

brevipetiolatis dentato-serratis, racemis copiosis brevibus axillaribus termi-

nalibusque, corollis globoso-campanulatis, filamentis hirsutis, antheris dorso

muticis, loculis superne longe productis.

Vaccinium ovatum. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept.v.1. p.290. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1354.

Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. v, 2. p. 34. ;

Vaccinium prunifolium. Hortulan.

We received this into the Arboretum of Kew from a nursery,

under the name of Vaccinium prunifolium ; but it is clearly the

very little-known (as a garden plant) /. ovatwm of Pursh, first |

discovered by Menzies in North-west America, and afterwards

traced by Lewis and Scouler and Douglas, extending in the

Oregon territory from the fortieth to the forty-ninth degree of

latitude. It was introduced to the Horticultural Society by

Douglas, and is perfectly hardy and very ornamental ; the leaves

being evergreen and glossy, and the flowers, though much con-

cealed by the foliage when looked on from above, are of a waxy,

yellowish white, delicately tinged with pale pink. 5 Gas

Duscr. A shrub about two to two and a half feet long, m

branched, with rigid, straggling, dark-purple, terete brane:

younger ones puberulous. Leaves rather copious, 0D ve

petioles, ovate, or somewhat carinate, coriaceous, very acute,

dentato-serrate, glossy, penninerved, deep green above, paler and

yellower beneath. Racemes solitary from the axils of the leaves,

but curved down to the underside of the branches, short, four to

Six or more flowered. Calya with the adherent tube turbinate,

AUGUST IsT, 1853.

articulated upon the peduncle ; /imé of five triangular segments,

embracing the base of the corolla. Corol/a campanulate, globose,

waxy white, tipped with deep rose-colour ; Zims of five recurved

triangular segments. Stamens ten, shorter than the corolla.

Filaments broad-subulate, hairy. Anthers oblong, two-celled,

the cells attenuated above into long narrow tubés opening at the

extremity. Style a little longer than the stamens, but included

within the corolla. Stigma obtuse.—The fruit is said by Mr.

Douglas to be black, and agreeable to the taste.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx and pistil. 3. Stamen :—magnified.

ch, de. et hth

F.Reeve, ump.

Tas. 4733.

DICHORISANDRA LEUCOPHTHALMOS.

White-eyed Dichorisandra.

Nat. Ord. ComMELYNE®.—HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Gen. Char. Flores subregulares. Sepala 6, libera; exteriora calycina, navi-

cularia, persistentia: supremum interdum crassius (Endl.) ; interiora majora, pe-

taloidea, subobovata, basi cuneato-angustata: anticum paulo minus. Stamina 6,

interdum sextum sepalo exteriori impari respondens, imperfectum vel plane de-

ficiens, basi sepalorum interiorum inserta, per duas phalanges disposita. Fila-

menta breviuscula, imberbia. Anthere conformes, interdum magnitudine parum

ineequales, elongate, biloculares ; Joculis angustis, parallelis, contiguis, apice poro

communi hiantibus, juvenilibus bilocellatis. Ovarium sessile, triloculare ; ovulis

4—5 in quolibet loculo, subbiseriatis. Stylus filiformis. Stigma subcapitellatum.

Capsula (baccata, Nees, corolla baccante indusiata, Mik.) trilocularis, trivalvis ;

valvis medio septiferis. Semina plura, angulata, arillo (testa) membranaceo sub-

pulposo laxo separabili tecta (Vah/).—Herbee (Brasilienses) subsimplices v. ra-

mose, perennes, rarissime suffrutescentes, sepe? erecta, interdum scandentes. Folia

indivisa. Vaginee integra. Racemi terminales, solitarii, rarius versus basin caulis

lateraliter erumpentes, ramosi, bracteati ; ramis breviusculis, apicem versus pauci-

rarius multifloris. Flores cerulei, nonnulli abortu ovarit mascult. Kth.

Dicnortsanpra Jeucophthalmos ; foliis ellipticis acuminatis utrinque glabrius-

culis, scapis radicalibus vel subradicalibus aphyllis vaginatis paniculati

racemosis glaberrimis, bracteis e lata basi acuminatis sepala exteriora vix-

superantibus, floribus hexandris.

Native of Brazil, introduced to the stoves of the British

Gardens by Messrs. Henderson, St. John’s Wood, to whom we

are indebted for our flowering plant. How near the present

species is to the Dichorisandra radicalis, Nees and Martius, may

be seen by referring to the figure in the eleventh volume of the

Nov. Act. Nat. Cur., tab. 1 A: that species however abundantly

differs in the much smaller size, especially of the flowers, in the

very villous stem and sheaths and peduncles, m the very long,

subulate, hairy bracteas, much longer than the capitate flowers,

and the presence of only five stamens. With us it blossoms in

August lst, 1853.

June, and the panicles lie prostrate on the ground ; the large co-

rollas, blue and white, and the yellow anthers have a very striking

effect. There is another species with radical inflorescence, D.

rhizophora; but that has longer and more attenuated leaves,

capitate flowers, and five stamens. |

Duscr. Stems two or three together, erect, terete, jointed, a

span or more high, nearly as thick as the little finger, glabrous,

the lower portion clothed with two or three cylindrical, striated

sheaths, ciliated at the mouth, above a little leafy ; the upper

portion concealed by the green sheathing bases of the leaves,

which are three to five in number. eaves four to six inches

long, elliptic-lanceolate, sharply acuminated, moderately atten-

uated below till they form the sheath; striated, patent, and

often recurved. From a joint at the base of the stem, or near

the base, the peduncle or scape emerges, and is prostrate, gla-

brous, flexuous, panicled, here and there sheathed with brown

scales. Flowers often three together, each on a branch of the

peduncle, large. Bracteas from a broad base subulate, her-

baceous. Outer sepals or calyx oblong, concave, spreading, be-

tween herbaceous and scariose. Pedals four times as large as

the sepals, broadly obovate, spreading, blue-purple, white in the

lower half. Stamens six, nearly equal. Filaments short. An-

thers bright yellow. Pistil as long as the stamens. Ovary sub-

globose, three-lobed. Style curved. Stigma obtuse.

Fig. 1. Calyx and stamens and pistil. 2. Pistil :—2agnified.

4734,

; FR a rap.

Fitch, del et hth. F Reeve,mmp

Tas. 4734.

BRASSAVOLA .uiNnzEaATA.

Tine-leaved Brassavola.

Nat. Ord. OrncHIDEH.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4474.)

Brassavoua lineata; folio tereti elongato acuminato inferne attenuato antice

sulcato, pedunculo radicali bifloro, floribus magnis pendentibus, sepalis pe-

talisque lineari-lanceolatis conformibus, labelli ungue elongato integro, la-

mina ampla cordato-acuminata longitudinaliter plicato-striata.

From the stove of Messrs. Jackson’s nursery at Kingston ; it

was purchased at one of the sales of Mr. Warsowitz’s South

American Orchidez in London, in 1852, and produced its large

blossoms, here represented, in June, 1853. In the general

shape and size of the flower, it approaches nearest perhaps to the

Brassavola venosa, as represented at our Tab. 4021; but the

great lamina of the lip is striated with longitudinal plicee, the

leaves are long, terete, and, what is remarkable in our plant, and

in which it differs from most of the species known to me, the two-

flowered peduncle springs from the caudex, or, in fact, is radical,

not terminal, as the genus is described to be, or from the apex

of the short stem at the base of the leaf*.

Duscr. Epiphyte. From a short, creeping, jointed, terete

caudex, there arise a few, short, cylindrical stems, clothed with a

greyish sheath, and bearing each, jointed on to the apex, a long,

almost terete, but grooved on one side, dark-green, fleshy, but

rigid, curved Zeaf, tapering at the apex, and attenuated at the

base: these leaves are pendent. From the same caudex also ap-

pears a short, declined, two-flowering, terete peduncle, with large,

nearly white, drooping flowers. Sepals and petals uniform,

moderately spreading, between linear-lanceolate and subulate,

* Since the above was written Dr. Lindley has referred me to Brassavola

llied to but different from

acaulis, Paxton’s Flower Garden, vol. ii. p. 152, as a ?

this, in its short leaves, one-flowered peduncle, and short unguis.

SEPTEMBER lst, 1853,

three to three and a half inches long, of a pale yellowish-green

colour, the sepals slightly tinged with red. zp very large,

white, the base convolute, and forming a tube enclosing and

concealing the column; the /imé cordato-ovate, acuminated, ob-

scurely crenate and waved at the margin, the disc faintly ob-

liquely striated, more distinctly so longitudinally from the pre-

sence of plicee. Columa short, semiterete, terminated by three

horns, which include the anther ; one dorsal, shorter, narrow, and

bifid; and two lateral ones subulate, and much longer than the

anther. Pollen-masses as in the genus.

Fig. 1. Column from which the lip has been removed. 2. Pollen-masses :—

magnified.

47S, es

et. ith.

Fitch:

Tas, 4735.

GILIA (LeprosipHon) LUTE.

Yellow Gilia, or Leptosiphon.

Nat. Ord. PoLEMonraAcEm.—PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Gen. Char. Caly# tubuloso- v. obconico-paniculatus, 5-fidus, laciniis acutis.

Corolla infundibuliformis, nunc tubo longissimo fere hypocraterimorpha, nune

tubo brevissimo subrotata, limbo regulari. Stamina ad faucem y. paulo infra

eequaliter inserta, filamentis basi nudis v. piloso-appendiculatis. Discus cupule-

formis, rarius obscurus. Ovarium ovoideum. Ovula in loculis seepius plurima

(6-10), biseriata, interdum pauca, imo solitaria, nune numerosissima, 3—4-seriata.

Styli lobi seepe papilloso-hispidi. Capsula oblonga v. obovoidea, obtusa. Semina

ovoidea, angulata v. compressa, rarius angustissime alata—Herbx annue v. per-

ennes, glabre v. superne pubescentes v. lanate. Folia alterna v. opposita, subulata

v. linearia, integra vel dissecta, nunc in sect. 1 ad 4 pinnatisecta segmentis integris

dissectisve, nune in sect. 6 ad 11 palmatisecta segmentis integerrimis. Flores nune

capitati, bracteis suffulti v. ebracteati, nunc sepius dissiti, ebracteati. Corolle

elegantes, lilacine, purpurascentes, albide v. rarius flavicantes. Benth.

GILIA (Leptosiphon) Zuéea; caulibus filiformibus molliter patentim villosis de-

bilibus, ramis oppositis gracilibus flexuosis, foliis oppositis sessilibus pal-

matim 5—7-lobis, lobis linearibus subspathulatisve carnosis ciliatis, brac-

teis similibus sed majoribus lobis subulatis, calycis villoso-glandulosi lobis

lanceolato-subulatis, coroll (lutez) tubo glanduloso longissimo filiformi.

Grita lutea. Steud. Nomencl. Benth. in De Cand. Prodr. v. 9. p. 315.

LeprosipHon luteus. Benth. in Bot. Reg. sub tab. 1622.

We follow our very able countryman, Mr. Bentham, in uniting

Leptosiphon with Gilia, from which it seems to differ in scarcely

anything but the length and tenuity of the tube of the corolla.

In our present species this is, indeed, of unusual length and

slenderness, which, in conjunction with the colour of the corolla,

a bright sulphur-yellow, with a dark almost orange-coloured eye,

and the great quantity of flowers produced on the stems and

branches, render this plant a highly ornamental annual, espe-

cially if cultivated in masses, for bedding out, ete. ; and we can-

not doubt it will become a great favourite as soon as it is more

known. Mr. Douglas detected the plant in California ; but it 1s

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1853.

only known in our gardens through Messrs. Veitch, whe received

seeds last year from Mr. William Lobb, and this year (1853)

beautiful tufts of it attracted attention at the Chiswick Horticul-

tural Show.

Desor. A hardy annual, six to eight or ten inches high.

Stems weak, filiform, purple-red, branched, clothed with soft,

spreading hairs. Branches opposite, flexuose. Leaves opposite,

chiefly at the setting on of the branches, spreading, sessile, pal-

mately and deeply five- to seven-cleft, the segments narrow,

fleshy, ciliated, linear or spathulate. FV/owers all terminal, capi-

tate, erect, bracteated ; bracteas opposite, resembling the leaves

in shape, but larger, and with longer and subulate lobes. Calyx

glanduloso-hirsute ; lobes erect, lanceolate, subulate. Corolla

yellow, with the tube an inch and a half to nearly two inches

long, very slender, filiform, slightly curved. Zzmé of five spread-

ing oval lobes, orange-coloured at the mouth. Stamens exserted,

orange. Ovary oval. Style a little longer than the tube.

Stigmas three, large, linear.

Fig. 1. Calyx. 2. Stamen. 3. Pistil. 4. Section of an ovary :—magnified.

4756,

7 ae mee

2t hth.

del «

rit h,

Tas. 4736.

PANDANUS pyemaus.

Dwarf Screw-Pine.

Nat. Ord. PanpDANE#&.—Di1cécia PoLYANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Flores dioici. Masc. Spadix compositus, thyrsoideus. Stamina

plurima, conferta ; filamenta filiformia. -Anthere biloculares. Fam. Spadix sim-

plex. Ovaria plurima, dense conferta, libera vel in phalanges connata, 1-ovu-

lata; ovarium e basi placente parictalis adscendens, anatropum. Stigmata sessi-

lia, distincta. Drupe fibrosee, (seepius, Br.) in phalanges connate, monosperme ;

putamine osseo. Semen e basi placente parietalis erectum ; tesa membranacea,

in pluribus raphidophora (Bennett); raphi filiformi, obsoleta. Embryo in basi

albuminis dense carnosi minimus, orthotropus ; radicula hilum attingens, infera.—

Caudex arborescens, strictus, sepe stolonifer. Folia phyllodinea, trifariam imbri-

cata, elongato-lineari-lanceolata, amplexicaulia, margine sepius spinosa. Spathee

conferte, sepe colorate, ex axilla spadicis excrescentes. Kth. (ex Endl.)

PANDANUS pygmeus; patenti-ramosissimus, undique radicans, foliis subpeda-

libus e lata basi amplexicauli lineari-subulatis acuminatissimis carinatis,

marginibus carinaque albo-serrato-spinulosis, capitulis foemineis ellipticis

racemosis erectis, nucibus (immaturis) obovato-cuneatis monospermis.

Panpanus pygmeus. Thouars, in Desv. Journ. de Bot. v. 1. p. 45. Kunth,

Enum. Plant. v. 3. p. 99.

Our name and our reference to the plant of M. Aubert du_

Petit Thouars must be received with some degree of caution.

«'The trees which constitute the genus Pandanus, Vaquois or

Baquois of the French,” observes M. du Thouars, “are amongst

the most singular of those that grow in countries situated within

the tropics ; on which account they have been remarked by all

travellers in those countries. Rheede and Rumphius have de-

scribed many of the species, but without any details of their fruc-

tification ; and it is on this account that Linnzus had omitted

them in his ‘Systema.’ But having been observed by Forskal,

Bankes, Forster, and Commerson, the younger Linnaeus adopted

the genus (Pandanus) in the ‘ Supplementum ’ which he has

given of his father’s work, indicating however only one species.

M. Lamarck (Dictionnaire Encyclopédique) described four species.

SEPTEMBER lst, 1853.

Willdenow reduced that number to three, to which he added

one of Loureiro. M. Persoon (Synopsis) to the four of M. La-

marck adds a fifth of M. de Beauvois (Flore d’Oware.

During M. du Thouars’ excursions in the Mauritius, Bourbon,

and Madagascar, he discovered “ sixteen distinct species, which

he was unable to refer to any described by authors, and of

which, in the Journal above quoted, he has given specific cha-

racters, and some notice of their habits.” So brief however are

those notes altogether, that they rather serve to perplex than to

enlighten ; and the only specific phrase of the species we take to

be ours is, “ capitulis racemosis erectis, nucibus monospermis

apice pyramidatis.” Our plant was received some twenty years

_ ego, through Mr. Newman, of the Botanic Garden, Mauritius,

and was stated to have come from Madagascar. It flourishes in

stove-heat, and flowered for the first time (female flowers only)

in 1852-3.

Descr. This is with us a low spreading shrub, in the centre

not two feet high, but from the base sending out numerous ho-

rizontal, rooting, annulated (from the scars of old leaves) branches

in all directions; the roofs are often nearly as thick as the

branches, terete, here and there tuberculated, simple or forked,

many of them aerial, others descending and burying themselves

in the soil among moist moss. Leaves confined to the extremities

of the branches, about a foot long, spirally arranged in threes,

from an amplexicaul broad base, linear-subulate, much acumi-

nated, minutely striated, carinated, the margins and keel fringed

with white spinulose serratures. Peduncle short, terminal, buried

among the upper leaves, erect, bearing a bracteated raceme or

spike of from four to six sessile, elliptical heads (spadices) of

closely compacted and conjoined pistils, inversely pyramidate,

somewhat six-angled, one-ovuled: the apex and short style only

of the ovary free, terminated by a two-lobed stigma. Bracteas

or spathas large, ovato-rotundate, concave, membranaceous,

sheathing, pale green, larger than the spadix, the lower ones

acute, the upper ones terminated by a subulate, sharp, serrated

point, resembling the apex of a leaf.

: Fig. 1. Spadix or head of female flowers, with its bract or spatha :—natural

size. 2, Spadix cut through transversely. 3. Two pistils cut through verti-

cally :—magnified,

Tas. 4737.

RHYNCHOSPERMUM. sasmrno1pes.

Jasmine-flowered Rhynchospermum.

Nat. Ord. ApocyNE%.—PENTANDRIA MonoGyNIA.

Gen. Char, Calyx profunde 5-fidus vel sub-5-partitus; tubo campanulato

basi interne multiglanduloso, glandulis truncatis; lobis oblongis, exstivatione

valvari? Corolla 5-fida ; tubo cylindraceo, exappendiculato ; Jobis oblique obova-

tis, estivatione sinistrorsum convolutis et apice inflexis. Stamina 5; filamentis

cum basi corolla manifeste adnatis; antheris hastatis, medio stigmati adheerenti-

bus, lobis inferioribus polline destitutis. Nectarium cupuliforme, 5-fidum, lobis

obtusis. Ovaria 2, nectario longiora. Stylus 1. Stigma oblongum. Folliculi

elongati, compressi, angusti. Semina plurima, inferne obovata, compressa, superne

in collum gracile angustata, in comam sericeam desinentia. Aléumen 0. Em-

éryo rectus; radicula supera, usque ad originem colli extensa; cotyledonibus

oblongis, radicula triplo longioribus, facie adpressis.—Frutices scandentes Asiatici,

foliis oppositis, nervulis reticulatis, integris ; cymis terminalibus et awillaribus, mul-

tifloris. Alph. De Cand.

RuYNcHOSPERMUM jasminoides ; foliis (parvis) ovato-lanceolatis acutis, corym-

bis terminalibus axillaribusque folio pluries longioribus, calycis laciniis lan-

ceolatis ciliatis reflexis, corolle (albex) laciniis obovatis marginibus reflexis

undulatis, glandulis hypogynis distinctis.

RHYNCHOSPERMUM jasminoides, Lindl. in Journ. Hort. Soc. of Lond. v.1.p. 74.

cum Ic. xylogr.

A pretty, white-flowered (consequently making no show on

paper), evergreen shrub, flowering when young, and even before

the scandent character appears, with blossoms somewhat resembling

the common Jasmine, and the scent is equally deliciously fragrant

with that favourite flower. It is a native of Shanghai, where it

was collected by Mr. Fortune, and introduced by him to the

stoves of this country. It differs a good deal in habit from the —

East Indian Rhynchospermum Wallichii, De Cand. (Echites rhyn-

chosperma, Wall.), which has large leaves and large pink flowers :

and Dr. Lindley observes that in habit it is more like an Aganosma,

but its corolla has not the tapering lobes of that genus, nor does

the nectary or stigma correspond with it.

SEPTEMBER lst, 1853.

Drscr. Our plant is about three feet high, erect, but with

an inclination to be a climber; dranches glabrous, or nearly so.

Leaves opposite, on very short petioles, ovato-lanceolate, acute,

evergreen, the younger ones pale yellow-green, all glabrous. Pe-

duncles solitary, axillary or terminal, much longer than the leaves,

bearing a cyme of several, white, very fragrant flowers. Calya

divided almost to the base into five, reflexed, lanceolate, ciliated

segments ; within the calyx are several jagged scales at the base

of the corolla. Corolla white: the tude contracted below the

middle (hairy within at the mouth) ; /imdé of five, oblique, obovato-

spathulate, spreading, waved J/odes, their margins reflexed. An-

thers 5, subulato-sagittate, sessile, collected into a cone which

unites itself with the stigma. At the base of the ovary are five

large glands, two united and three free.

Fig. 1. Calyx and pistil. 2. Receptacle with the tube of the corolla cut

through vertically, so as to show the hypogynous glands ; the pistil and anthers,

ete. 3. Ovarium and glands. 4. Stamen :—magnified.

Tas. 4738.

PHILESIA. suxtro.tia.

Box-leaved Philesia.

Nat. Ord. Smrzacrm.—Hexanpria Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. Flores hermaphroditi. Calyx triphyllus, basi bracteatus, foliolis

oblongis membranaceo-scariosis erectis. Petala 3, calyce 4-plo longiora majora-

que, obovato-oblonga, mucronulata, campanulato-conniventia, ima basi in tubum

connata, intus glandula seu tubercula nectarifera, cereacea, siccitate venosa, subtus

glauca. Stamina 6, longitudine fere petalorum. Filamenta inferne monadelpha et

ima basi petalorum conjuncta. Anther@ erect, oblonge, subsagittate, basifixee.

Ovarium ovale, trigonum, liberum, uniloculare, placentis tribus parietalibus. Ovula

plurima. Sfylus stamina paululum superans. Stigma dilatatum, margine reflexo

subtrilobo. Bacca ovali-globosa, (ut videtur) pulposa, polysperma, mucronata.—

Suffrutex Magellanicus, erectus, ramosus, ramis alternis squamoso-bracteatis apice

precipue foliosis. Folia alterna, lineari-elliptica, coriacea, mucronata, pennivenia,

subtus glauca, margine reflexa ; in petiolis brevibus articulatis. Flores speciosi, nu-

tantes, in ramos terminales solitarii, brevissime pedunculati, pedunculis dracteatis.

PaILesia buzifolia.

Patizsza buxifolia. Lam. Ill. t. 248. Eneycl.v.5. p. 269. Kunth, Enum. Plant.

v. 5. p. 285. Lindl. Veg. Kingd. ed. 2. p. 217 cum Ic. floris. Hook. fil.

Fl, Antarct, v. 2. p. 35.

Discovered in the Straits of Magelhaens by Commerson, and de-

tected by Banks and Solander in Good Success Bay : since found

to extend along the west coast of Antarctic America to Chiloe

and Valdivia by various navigators and naturalists, from most of

whom we possess specimens. In Valdivia Mr. Bridges says it

is called “ Pepino,” and is found at the summut of the Cordillera

there, in marshy places under Alerse trees. It was long a great

desideratum to our gardens, till at length Messrs. Veitch, of

Exeter (and now, happily for all lovers of rare and beautiful

plants, also of the King’s Road Nursery, Chelsea,—late Messrs.

Knight and Perry), introduced it through their collector Mr.

William Lobb, and gratified the numerous visitors of the Chis-

wick Flower-show, on the 12th June, 1853, by the exhibition of

SEPTEMBER lst, 1853.

flowering specimens. Some authors have expressed doubts if

the genus Philesia be truly distinct from its near ally, Lapa-

geria (see our Tab. 447); but however closely may be the resem-

blance in the petals, the truly calycine character of the short

outer perianth, the erect stem and very different foliage (much

resembling Luzuriaga), and the monadelphous stamens, will surely

keep them distinct. The species proves quite hardy with Mr.

Veitch at Exeter: it remains to be ascertained if it will prove so

about London.

Descr. An erect, much branching, fruticose or suffruticose

plant, three to four feet high in its native country. We have

flowering specimens before us varying from four inches to a foot

and a half, much branched; dranches alternate, principal ones

as well as the stem naked below, terete, and scaly with brown

lanceolate scales at the joint; dranchlets angular, green, here and

there scaly. eaves alternate, varying on different. plants from

an inch to an inch and a half long, petioled, linear-oblong, coria-

ceous, evergreen, penninerved, glabrous, mucronate, glaucous

beneath, the margins reflexed. Pefiole articulated at the setting

on of the leaf, and the leaf is often deciduous there, leaving the

persistent short petiole. Peduncles exceedingly short, terminal

on. the branches, bracteated at the base of the flower. PVower

_ Solitary, drooping, large. Calya nearly three-quarters of an inch

long, of three, oblong, rather obtuse, inbricating, appressed sepals,

concave, scariose. Corolla two or two and a quarter inches long,

erecto-campanulate, petals obovato-oblong, mucronulate, bright

rose-red, somewhat waxy, equal, concave, when dry veiny, the base

united ; each having within a hard oblong depressed gland or nec-

tary. Stamens springing from the base of the petals. laments

united into a tube below the middle, then free, erect, equal, a little

shorter than the petals. Anthers erect, subsagittate. Ovary

small, oval-trigonal, one-celled, with three short parietal placenta,

which bear several ovules. Style a little longer than the stamens,

_ rather thick. Stigma depresso-capitate, the recurved margin ob-

soletely three-lobed. Fruit an oval-subglobose, mucronated Jerry,

rough on the surface from the many seeds within.

_ Fig. 1. Leaves. 2. Stamens springing from the base of the corolla, and

pistil. 3. Base of a petal, showing the nectary. 4. Pistil. 5. Transverse sec-

tion of ovary (all more or less magnified). 6. Berry :—magnijied. .

Tas. 4739.

IMPATIENS Jerponti.

Mrs. Jerdon’s Balsam.

Nat. Ord. BALSAMINEH.—PENTANDRIA MonoGyNia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4615.)

Impatiens Jerdonie ; epiphyta, caulibus aggregatis simplicibus brevibus crasso-

carnosis purpureis hic illic radicantibus, foliis sul terminalibus ovatis acutis

serratis, petiolis folio triplo brevioribus ad apicem glandulosis, pedunculis

axillaribus 2—4-floris, pedicellis pedunculo longioribus (rubris), sepalis la-

teralibus lanceolatis anteriore amplo saccato compresso apice calcare brevi

obtuso sursum curvato. “Fane go. x Se

Impatiens Jerdonie. Wight, Ic. Plant. Ind. Or. v. 4. t. 1602.

Rooting, and we might almost call them tuberous, stems of this _

to the Royal Gardens of Kew, in 1852, and the no less singular

blossoms were produced in the greenhouse in June of the follow-

ing year. It proves to be the L. Jerdonia of Dr. Wight, though

his figure represents the spur much longer, and the stem much

slenderer, than in our specimens. A more accurate represen-

tation of this plant, drawn on its native hills by Mrs. Norton

(the accomplished lady of the recently retired Judge-Advocate of

Madras), corresponds in every respect with the plant before us.

The large and strikingly-formed flowers have a mixture of green,

red, and yellow in them. The anterior petal, or nectary of Lin-

neus, is wholly red, and so remarkable in shape, that Dr. Wight

suggests that this, and its ally, Z Walkeri (see Companion to

the Bot. Mag. vol. i. pp. 821, tab. 18), might constitute a na-

tural section of the genus: all of it is a sack, or, as Dr. Wight

observes, there is no limb; in other words, the ‘spur absorbs

the whole of the limb in its formation. Dr. Wight's figure re-

“era the apex of the nectary much longer than it 1s m our

plant.

SEPTEMBER lst, 1853.

Descr. Stems in shape not unlike those of Cacalia articulata,

aggregated, erect or declined, three or four inches to almost a

span long, fleshy, here and there constricted (pseudo-articulate),

dark purple, scarred where leaves have fallen, and at intervals

throwing out fibrous radicles. Leaves not numerous, confined to

the upper part of the gouty stem, where they are alternate, petio-

late, ovate, acute, serrated, spreading; the petiole with two to

four pedicellated purple glands, where the blade is inserted. Pe-

duncles axillary from the uppermost leaves, short, green, bearing

each three to four pedicels, which are red, slender, much longer

than the peduncle, and single-flowered. Sepals green ; lateral

ones large, bifid, yellow; anterior petal very large, a curved,

compressed, red sack, the extremity forming a short spwr, curved

upwards. Stamens and pistil included within the petals.

ot.

__ Fig. 1. Flower from which the anterior saceate sepal (or nectary) is removed.

2. Lateral petal. 3. Anterior sepal or nectary :—magnified.

ae x

Tas. 4740.

ABIES sractsara.

Bracteated Stlver-Fir.

Nat. Ord. Contrer#.—Mona@cia MonapELpHia.

Gen. Char. Flores monoici, masculi et foeminei amentacei. Masc. Amenta

axillaria, versus apicem ramorum aggregata, subsessilia, simplicia, ¢ staminibus

nudis numerosis. Anthere biloculares, apice cristate, rima transversa dehis- —

centes. Pollen trilobum. Fam. Amenta oblonga, per ramos sparsa, rarius

terminalia, subsessilia, e squamis bractealibus et ovariis levibus basi biovulatis

composita. Fructus: Strobilus oblongus, e llis imbricatis, basi, ubi se-

mina fovent, planis (non excavatis) maturitate ab axi solutis et deciduis for-

matus. Semina ale basi supra et subtus inflexura marginis laxe cinguntur et

cum persistente decidunt. esta coriacea. Embryo polycotyledoneus, in albu-

mine carnoso-oleoso centralis; radicula infera.—Arbores excelse, in iisdem uti

congeneres zonis montosis utriusque hemispherie vitam degentes et foliis solitariis

sempervirentibus plerumque distichis insignes. Nees.

ABIES bracteata ; foliis subdistichis linearibus planis mucronatis subtus argen-

teis, strobili ovati erecti bracteis exsertis cuneato-linearibus bilobis, lobis

erosis, nervo in cuspidem linearem squama multoties longiorem producto,

squamis e basi cuneata reniformi-orbicularibus.

Pinus bracteata. Don in Linn. Trans. v.17. p. 443. Lambert Pin. III. t. 91.

ABtEs bracteata. Hook. et Arn. Bot. of Beech. Voy. p. 394. :

The present is among the most remarkable of all the true

Pines, particularly in the nature of its ‘cones, and has long been

a desideratum to our Pineta. The Messrs. Veitch, of Exeter, and

King’s-road, Chelsea, have a plentiful supply of young plants,

and we are indebted to them for the opportunity of giving the

accompanying figure, they kindly furnishing well-prepared native

Specimens with a perfect cone ; all other well-ripened cones have

fallen to pieces almost before reaching England. It is a Cali-

fornian species. Dr. Coulter first discovered it in the Andes of

St. Lucia, a mountainous range, running parallely ith the coast.

Douglas met with it at 6000 feet of elevation on the Californian

Mountains, in latitude 36° north. These botanists both failed to

OcToBER Ist, 1853, a

bring home perfect seeds: it was left for Mr. William Lobb,

Messrs. Veitch’s indefatigable American collector, to succeed in

this; and numerous living plants, and the noble specimen here

figured, are part of the results of his mission.

Mr. Lobb must speak for himself respecting all perhaps that

is known of this noble tree on its native mountains. “ This beau-

tiful and singular tree forms here” (he writes from the Californian

forests) “the most conspicuous ornament of the arborescent vege-

tation. On the western slopes, towards the sea, it occupies the

deep ravines, and attains the height of 120 to 150 feet, and from

one to two feet in diameter: the trunk is,as straight as an arrow;

the lower branches decumbent ; the branches above are numerous,

short, and thickly set, forming a long tapering pyramid or spire,

which gives to the tree that peculiar appearance, which is not

seen in any other kinds of the Pinus tribe. When standing far

apart, and clear from the surrounding trees, the lower branches

frequently reach the ground, and not a portion of the trunk ts

seen from the base to the top.

“ Along the summit of the central ridges and about the highest

peaks, in the most exposed and coldest places imaginable, where

no other Pine makes its appearance, it stands the severity of the

climate without the slightest perceptible injury, growing in slaty

rubbish, which to all appearance is incapable of supporting vege-

tation. In such situations it becomes stunted and bushy; but

even there the foliage maintains the same beautiful dark-green

colour, and when seen at a distance it appears more like a hand-

somely-grown Cedar than a Pine. No doubt it is one of the

hardiest trees of the Californian vegetation, and is equally well

adapted for clothing the mountain-tops as the sheltered valley.

“The cones, too, are quite as singular as the growth of the

tree is beautiful; when fully developed, the scales, as well as the

long leaf-like bracts, are covered with globules of thin transparent

resin, presenting to the eye a curious and striking object. Douglas

was mistaken in saying that this Fir does not occur below 6000

feet of elevation ; on the contrary, it is found as low as 3000

feet, where it meets Zawodium sempervirens*.”—Perhaps the 1n-

troduction of no Conifera, not even that of the Deodar, has ex-

cited a more lively interest in horticulture and arboriculture

than that of the present species, with its porcupine-like fruits.

Descr. The general habit of the full-grown tree has been al-

ready noticed. Branches spreading or decumbent. Leaves in-

serted indeed on all sides, but more or less spreading in a disti-

chous manner, about two inches long, rigid, linear, acute, sessile,

often curved, dark green and with a depressed line above, white

and silvery beneath : young leaf-buds are ovate, and clothed with

* Extracted from ‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle,’ July 9, 1853, p. 4865027 |

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imbricated scales. Cones solitary, on a very short, lateral branch,

but rising erect; our specimen is more than three inches long,

exclusive of the spines, four and a half inches to the tip of the

uppermost spines, broad, ovate, formed of copious, imbricated,

somewhat unguiculate, entire, obtuse scales, having an obcordate

appendage or bractea on the back, from the apex or sinus of

which a long, rigid, linear, subulate, leaf-like (but narrower than

the leaf) spine arises, slightly curved inwards, two inches long,

including the base. Within the scale, and lying pressed against

the inside of it, are two somewhat oval seeds, each with a broad,

cuneate, and somewhat oblique wing.

Fig. 1. Outside of a scale, with its appendage and spine. 2. Inside of ditto,

showing the seeds. 3. A seed :—wat. size.

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Tas. 4741.

BRAVOA GEMINIFLORA.

Twin-flowered Bravoa.

Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDACE®.—HeEXxaANnDRIA MonoeyYnNIa.

Gen. Char. Perigonium superum, corollaceum, e tubo tenui curvato subinfun-

dibuliformi-tubulosum, Jimbo sexpartitum, subregulare, persistens : laciniis ab-

breviato-ovatis, sepalinis vix latioribus. Stamina 6, supra basin perigonii di-

versa altitudine libera, inclusa vel vix exserta. ilamenta filiformia. Anthere

lineares, acuto-subapicate, basi emarginate, dorso medio affixe, mobiles, interne

secundum longitudinem dehiscentes. Ovarium inferum, oblongum, triquetrum,

triloculare ; ovula in loculis complura, biseriata, horizontalia, anatropa. Columna

stylina filiformis, vix exserta. Stigma abbreviatum, triquetro-infundibuliforme,

subtrilobum, fimbriato-villosulum. Capsula ovato-oblonga, trisulcata, pergameno-

coriacea, trilocularis, superne loculicido-trivalvis. Semina crebra, compressa,

horizontalia: ¢esta membranacea, albumini adherens, nigra, nitida—Radix sub-

fasciculato-tuberosa, apice bulbifera. Bulbi a centro cauligeri, ovati, tunicatt.

Folia radicalia nonnulla, e basi vagingnte linearia, carinata ; caulina sparsa, re-

mota, gradatim breviora, superiora bracteeformia. Caulis erectus, simples, teres,

apice remote racemoso-pluriflorus. Flores pedunculati, gemini, secundi, cernut,

extus punicei, intus lutescentes ; pedunculis cum flore haud articulatis, gemunts ;

bractea communi majore, singulis bracteola minore stipatis. Kth.

Bravoa geminiflora. La Llave et Lex. Descr. 1. p. 6. Herb. Amaryll. t. 12.

J. 5, 6. (nec 8, 9.)

Cerocapnta geminiflora. Link et Otto, Pl. Rar. Berol. p. 35. t. 18.

A native, according to La Llave and Lexarca, of the moun-

tains of Valladolid and Miciciacan, in Mexico ; and it has been

sent to Sir Charles Leman from the Real del Monte Mines,

whence the roots of our plants were sent by Mr. Repper. It is

easily cultivated in a warm greenhouse, and is an infinitely more

beautiful plant than Messrs. Link and Otto’s figure, above quoted,

represents it to be. The flowers, usually geminate in the upper

part of the raceme, are graceful, always drooping, and richly

coloured. With us it blossoms in July. 3 :

Descr. Root a somewhat elongated descending ‘der, tunicated

OCTOBER Ist, 1853.

in our wild specimens, sending down several large, thick, fleshy

radicles. Leaves mainly from the root, from a broad, sheathing

base, linear-subulate, carinate, spreading, outer ones the longest.

Stem (or leafy scape) about a foot high, bearing distant, small,

lanceolate, erect and appressed leaves, gradually becoming bracteas,

among the flowers. Raceme terminal ; bracteas three at the base

of each flower or pair of flowers, one longer than the pedicel, the

other shorter. Pedicels single-flowered, solitary below, geminate

in the upper part of the inflorescence. /owers rich orange-red,

quite drooping. Perianth about an inch and a quarter long,

much curved downwards, between tubular and infundibuliform,

a little swelling at the base, where it is adherent with the ovary,

the limb very short, spreading, of six rounded, acute lobes. Sta-

mens six, included, inserted near the base of the perianth. Anthers

linear. Ovary oval. Style longer than the perianth, a good

deal protruded. Stigma three-lobed.

Fig. 1. Flower laid open. 2. Transverse section of an ovary :—magnified.

Tas. 4742.

ERYTHROCHITON Brasitiense.

Brazilian Erythrochiton.

Nat. Ord. Ruracem.—PENTANDRIA MonoGynia.

Gen. Char. Calyx magnus, coloratus, tubulosus, ¢wo compresso, quinquecos-

tato, limbi bilabiati Jodis eequalibus, integris vel superiore trifido. Corolla hypo-

gyna, gamopetala, subhypocraterimorpha, ¢ubo calycem eequante, dimbi quinque-

partiti laciniis cequalibus, patentibus. Stamina 5, omnia fertilia, tubo corolle

breviora et eidem adglutinata, limbi lobis alterna ; filamenta complanata, subu-

lato-triangularia, basi in tubum brevissimum coalita ; anthere introrsee, bilocu-

lares, lanceolate, erectee, mutice, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ovaria 5, disco

urceolato glanduloso cincta et superata, unilocularia. Ovula gemina, suture

ventrali superposite inserta, superius adscendens, inferius pendulum. Capsula

pentacocea, coccis bivalvibus, endocarpio cartilagineo, soluto, elastice bilobo, basi

membranacea cwm seminibus secedente, dispermo vel abortu monospermo. Se-

mina reniformia, sinu umbilicata, testa coriacea tuberculato-muricata.—Arbus-

cula Brasiliensis ; foliis alternis, simplicibus, petiolatis, lanceolatis, longissimis, in-

tegerrimis, glabris ; rarmulis avillaribus, subaphyllis, floriferis pedunculos longissi-

mos mentientibus ; floribus in axilla folii bracteaformis duobus vel pluribus fascicu-

latis, breviter pedunculatis; pedunculo basi articulato, bibracteolato ; calycibus

rubris; corollis albis. Endl.

ERyYTHROCHITON Brasiliense.

Eryrnrocutron Brasiliense. Nees et Mart. in Nov. Act. Acad. Cas. Nat. Cur.

v. 11. p. 150 ef 166. ¢. 18¢ e¢ 22. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1843, ¢. 47.

A Brazilian Erythrochiton, with a Palm-like habit ; the stem

being erect and naked, in its native country said to be ten feet

high, unbranched, and bearing a tuft of very long leathery leaves

at the extremity, together with the long peduncles, which End-

licher and others consider axillary, aphyllous, floriferous branches.

The flowers are large and particularly handsome, the calyx being

red, the corolla white. It is a great ornament to our stoves, and

blossoms frequently and almost throughout the whole year.

Descr. Our plant is about three feet high, including the

ample terminal foliage, unbranched. Leaves large, two feet and

more long, broadly lanceolate, subcoriaceous, entire, dark glossy

green, tapering below into a terete petiole, with a swollen jomt

OCTOBER Ist, 1853.

two inches from the base. Peduncles often two or three from the

same plant, a foot and a half or more long, axillary, solitary,

angled, thick, erect, bearing from eight to ten flowers opening

in succession. Pedicels short, thick. Calyx large, somewhat

inflated, red, an inch and a half and more long, two-lipped, one

lip often again divided: Zips entire. Corolla large, white, fleshy,

salver-shaped : tube scarcely longer than the calyx: /imé of five

spreading, obovate segments. Stamens exserted, attached to the

mouth of the corolla. Ovary five-lobed, surrounded by a deep

fleshy cup: Jobes two-seeded. Style as long as the tube of the

corolla. Stigma a depressed, obscurely five-lobed head. Young

fruit consists of five, ovate, somewhat triangular, acute nucules.

_ Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Pistil and hypogynous cup. 3. Cup cut through ver-

tically. 4. Ovary cut through transversely :—magnijfied.

Pitti.

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Tas. 4743.

SCHEERIA Mexicana, Seem.

Mexican Scheerva.

Nat. Ord. GEsNERIACEXZ.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx tubo cum ovario connato, limbo 5-partito quali. Corolla

perigyna, infundibuliformis, ¢wbo supra ad basin gibbo, fauce ampliata, limbo 5-

partito. Stamina corolle tubo inserta, 4, didynama, inclusa, cum rudimento

quinti; anthere biloculares, sub anthesin cohzerentes. Ovarium basi calyci

cohzrens, disco annulari cinctum, uniloculare, pluriovulatum. Stylus simplex ;

stigma infundibuliforme. Capsula unilocularis, bivalvis, valvis medio placentiferis.

—Herba Mericana, stolonibus perennantibus squamosis, caule erecto foliis calyci-

busque hirsutis, foliis oppositis petiolatis ovatis acuminatis serratis, floribus axillari-

bus solitariis, corollis amplis, extus pubescenti-hirsutis, intus puberulis, purpureis vel

ul oscentibus. Seem. in Bot. Herald, ined.

Scneeria Mewicana. Seem. l. c.

Acuimenns Scheerii. Hort. Germ. Variat :—

a. purpurea, Seem. l. c.; caule nervisque foliorum plus minusve purpurascenti-

bus; floribus purpureis. Tab. nostr. 4743.

B. caerulescens Seem+1.c.; caule foliisque viridibus, floribus ceerulescentibus.

The roots of both varieties here enumerated were presented to

the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew by Frederick Scheer, Esq.,

who received them in 1850, through J. Potts, Esq., from Chi-_

huahua, one of the northern states of Mexico. They began to

flower with us towards the autumn of 1852, but although they

attracted considerable attention at that time, we were not aware

until now that these plants were really so ornamental as they are,

and that they could be so much improved by cultivation, especially

as Mr. Potts in his original memorandum terms the blossoms

“little bell-shaped flowers.” Having now well-grown specimens

before us, we have no hesitation in predicting that Scheeria Mew-

icana will become a universal favourite, and that in a few years

it will be found in every garden.

The genus Scheeria is named in compliment to Frederick

Scheer, Esq., to whom our gardens are indebted for the intro-

OCTOBER Ist, 1853.

duction of several other ornamental plants, and to whose successful

study of Cactacee science owes many interesting additions. The

genus is closely allied to Gloxinia (§ Salisia, Regel) and Achi-

menes ; from the former, considering as its type the Gloxinia

maculata, 1’ Hérit. (Martynia perennis, Linn.), upon which the

genus was founded. It differs in having the spur (gidéa) on the

upper side of the corolla more developed and no inflation on the

under side; while from the latter (Achimenes) it is easily dis-

tinguished by its truly infundibuliform, not bilobed, stigma. In

habit it resembles the genus Locheria, Reg., which includes the

Achimenes hirsuta, A. pedunculata, and A. multiflora of botanists.

Seem.

Fig. 1. Stamens and base of the corolla. 2. Pistil :—magnified.

Tas. 4744.

BERBERIS concrinna, Look. fil.

Neat Berberry.

Nat. Ord. BERBERIDACE®.—HEXANDRIA MonoGynIa.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra Tas. 4308.)

BERBERIS concinna; fruticulus demissus, cespitosus, ramosissimus, spinis gra-

cilibus tripartitis, foliis parvis obovatis aristatis grosse spinuloso-dentatis

coriaceis margine incrassatis superne leete viridibus subtus albo-glaucis, pe-

dicellis solitariis (rarius binis) unifloris (rarius bifloris), sepalis exterioribus

interioribus dimidio minoribus, baccis magnis oblongis, stigmate sessili,

seminibus 5-8. J.D.H.

A very beautiful and distinct little species, allied to the B.

Sibirica, also a single-flowered plant, but readily distinguished

by the long tripartite spines, slender pedicels, and glaucous

leaves; the latter, however constant a character in both our wild

and cultivated specimens, is not a constant one In other species

of the genus, and hence may prove variable in this. The seeds

were gathered from small bushes growing ™ the Lachen valley

of the Sikkim-Himalaya, at an elevation of 12,000 to 13,000 feet ;

it there formed a small low bush, one to three feet high, with

spreading almost prostrate branches, thickly covered with small

nowy-white and

leaves of a deep-green hue, and polished above, s

glaucous below; these colours, the large oblong scarlet berries,

and red branchlets giving the shrub a singularly neat and pretty

appearance when in fruit. The specimens 10 the Royal Gardens

at Kew have come up perfectly resembling wild ones, and flourish

luxuriantly in an open border. : ;

Dzscr. Branches spreading, slender, deeply furrowed, covered —

with red or grey bark.’ Spies slender, tripartite, spreading.

Leaves an inch long and less, obovate, rounded at the tip and

aristate, surrounded by spinulose teeth, margm thickened, upper

surface bright glossy-green, under glaucous : pee —

OCTOBER Ist, 1853.

articulate with the lamina. Pedicels longer than the leaves,

slender, solitary (rarely two together), one- (rarely two-) flowered.

Flower yellow, pendent, globose, deep-yellow ; outer sepals larger

than usual in the genus, more than half as long as the inner.

Berries red, on dried specimens oblong, fleshy, very large, half

to two-thirds of an inch long, with several (five to eight) small

seeds.

Fig. 1 and 2. Flowers. 3. Petal and stamen. 4, Ovary. 5. Berry :—all

but fig. 5 magnified.

Tas. 4745.

HASMANTHUS mysienis.

Showy Hamanthus.

Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDACEm,—HEXANDRIA MonoGynia.

Gen. Char. Perigonium superum, corollaceum, Jimbo 6-partito, regulari, de-

ciduo; tudo recto; laciniis angustis, 1—3-nerviis, eequalibus, erectis vel stel-

lato-patentibus. Stamina 6, summo tubo inserta, erecta, exserta; alterna (peta-

lina?) longiora. Filamenta filiformia. Anthere oblong, utrinque bifide, dorso

supra basin affixee. Ovarium inferum, triloculare; ovula in loculis solitaria vel

gemina, collateralia, pendula (pauca e loculorum angulo centrali adscendentia vel

pendula, Endl.), anatropa. Colwmna stylina filiformis, recta. Stigma simplex,

obsolete trilobum vel trifidum. Bacca globosa vel oblonga, abortu 1-3-locularis.

Semina in loculis solitaria, loculum replentia ; festa membranacea, adnata ; raphe

immersa ; hilum basilare chalaze apicali discolori jungens. Hmdryo minimus, in

basi albuminis dense carnosi ; extremitate radiculari hilum attingente.—Herbe,

paucis Africanis tropicis exceptis, Capenses, bulbifere, scapigera, glabra vel

pubescentes ; bulbo tunicato, sepius bifariam squamoso ; folia pauca, sepius bina,

coriacea, crassiuscula, plerumque plana, orbiculata, erecta vel humistrata, rarius

angusta, elongata, canaliculata, rarissime petiolata, oblonga, petiolis vaginantibus,

Scapus drevis, solidus, plerumque compressus, basi sepius bracteis duabus radi-

calibus interdum coloratis stipatus, multiflorus. Flores crebri, pedicellati, umbel-

lati, erecti, bracteis angustis ramentaceis interstincti. Spatha ut plurimum poly-

phylla, foliolis erectis, coloratis, umbella longioribus, rarius diphylla vel reflexa.

Kth. ex Endl.

Ha&MANTHUS insignis ; elata subcaulescens, foliis pluribus oblongis submembra-

naceis inferne longe cylindraceo-vaginatis, vaginis inferne punctato-maculatis,

scapo caulis foliiferi prope basin orto inferne tereti maculato superne com-

. presso-angulato, involucri polyphylli bracteis amplis foliaceis exterioribus

umbella longioribus, floribus numerosissimis, perianthii laciniis erectis.

A truly fine and handsome plant. Bulbs were sent to us from

Natal, through the kindness of the Rev. Mr. Rouper, of Wichhall,

near Brighton. The near ally of this is H. puniceus, most un-

satisfactorily figured in Bot. Mag. t. 1315, much worse in Re- |

douté’s Liliacées, tab. 320, and very faithfully in Trew, Ehret. t.

44, and to H. magnificus, if we may judge by Mr. Herbert having a

formerly called it H. puniceus, var. magnifica ; that is, it belongs

OCTOBER Ist, 1853.

to the group or section having “ folia cylindraceo-vaginantia undu-

lata, limbus erectus.” Our species is at once known by its large

size, and the great length of the very foliaceous involucre. It

flowered with us in August, 1853, in a cool frame.

Descr. From a large Sulé arises a stout spotted cylindrical

stem, formed by the sheathing elongated base of several large,

oblong, rather acute, waved, membranaceous /eaves, in perfection

along with the flowers. From near the base of the stem, in the

axil of some imperfectly developed leaves, the stout peduncle ap-

pears, spotted and cylindrical at the base, compressed and angled

above. Umbel of very numerous, erect, orange-coloured, shortly

pedicelled flowers, very compact, and surrounded by a many-

leaved involucre ; outer leaves, or dracteas, resembling true leaves,

much longer than the umbel, inner bracteas smaller. Bracteoles

at the base of the pedicels small, subulate. Perianth infundibu-

liform, cut more than half (nearly two-thirds) of the way down,

into six, linear lacinie, slightly unguiculate at the point. Sta-

mens six ; filaments longer than the perianth, subulate. Anthers

oblong, subsagittate. Ovary trigonal, adnate with the base of

the perianth. Style a little longer than the stamens. Stigma of

three very small lobes.

Fig. 1. Flower and bracteole. 2. Pistil :—magnified.

Tas. 4746.

BEGONIA BISsERRATA.

Doubly-serrated Begonia.

Nat. Ord. BecontacE®.—Monecria POLYANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4172.)

Brconta biserrata; erecta laxa, tota villis albis mollibus sparsis pilosa, foliis

sublonge petiolatis oblique late palmato-lobatis subcordatis lobis 4-5 inze-

qualibus inciso-serratis ciliatis, paniculis dichotomis axillaribus termina-

libusque, floribus nutantibus masculis tetrasepalis femineis 5—6-sepalis

interioribus triplo minoribus, sepalis omnibus cordatis inciso- tolliter

ciliato-serratis, fructu 3-alato grosse pilis albis echinato, alis brevibus ob-

tusis grosse ciliatis unica vix duplo majore.

Brconra biserrata. Lindl. Journ. of Hort. Soc. v. 2. p. 313. Walp. Ann. Bot.

Syst. v. 3. p. 892.

Among an interesting collection of Begonias lately presented

to us by William Wilson Saunders, Esq., is the present very

well-marked species, said to have been discovered in Guatemala,

by G. U. Skinner, Esq. Like all other Begonias, 1t requires to

be frequently increased by cuttings, and then we are more sure

of good flowering specimens. It blossoms with us, in the stove,

in the summer months, and makes a very handsome appearance.

Dzscr. Two to nearly three feet high, lax, yet capable of sup-

porting itself. Stem terete, villous, as is every part of the plant,

except the inside of the flowers, with soft white scattered hairs.

Leaves alternate, on rather long petioles, broadly but obliquely

cordate, palmato-lobate, lobes about five, but unequal, and

subinciso-serrate, ciliated ; lower ones sometimes almost a span

broad, the upper ones gradually smaller: all submembranaceous,

soft pale yellowish-green. Panicles cymose, I :

leaves, axillary and terminal, dichotomously divided, bracteate

with small ovato-lanceolate dracts at the setting on of the

branches. Male flowers large, rose-coloured and white. Sepals

NOVEMBER lst, 1853.

onger than the |

four, spreading ; two outer ovato-cordate, incised and ciliato-

serrate ; two inner small and more ovate. Female of five or six

sepals, less spreading; three outer cordate, the two or three

inner small, inciso-serrate, and ciliated. Immature fruit clothed

with stout, soft, subulate, long, white hairs, three-winged, two of

the wings short and rounded, the third scarcely twice as large,

and with an obtuse angle above.

Fig. 1. Female flower. 2. Pistil, from which the sepals are removed :—

magnified.

The followmg memorandum has been communicated by our

excellent friend Dr. Wallich, in connection with his remarks on

the genus Methonica, under Tab. 4723 (note) of the present

volume :—

“As you have adopted my view of the MJethonica question, |

beg to forward the following corroborative matter. 3

“The name is of Sanscrita origin. Prof. H. H. Wilson tells

me that ‘ Mettoni or Mentoni, according to the Rev. Mr. Bailey's

Malayalim Dictionary, is a poisonous plant, Leea hirta, of which

one root is supposed to be poison, the other the antidote ;’ and

he thinks it probable that those names may be derived from the

Sanscrita Mithuna, a pair, a brace. Hermann’s name is therefore

identical with those in the Malayalim, which language is almost

entirely of Sanscrita descent. Rheede’s Mendoni (Hort. Mal. vii.

p. 107. t. 57) has the same origin. As to Leea hirta, this in-

nocent shrub may be considered as having nothing whatever to

do with the matter; and the extravagant fancy about the poison

and antidote in one root, points at the geminate root of Metho-

nica Malabarorum, and its supposed poisonous property.”

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Tas. 4747.

METTERNICHIA Parrnoipis.

Princely Metternichia.

Nat. Ord. SoLANACEA.—PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx campanulatus, inzequaliter 4—5-6-fidus, persistens, laciniis

subzequalibus vy. ineequalibus, 2-3 seepe duplo majoribus foliiformibus. Corolla

infundibuliformis ; ¢uéo imo contracto et intus pubeseente, superne amplo ; Zimbo

expanso, estivatione profunde plicato ; Jaciniis 5, brevibus, eequalibus, crenulato-

undulatis. Stamina 5, corolle contractione inserta, inclusa, 2 breviora ; jilamenta

filiformia, basi dilatato-incrassata, imo pubescentia, superne glabra; anthere

ovales, 2-loculares, basifixee, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Pistil/um staminibus

paulo brevius. Ovarium sessile, biloculare; ovulis in loculis utrinque 8, in

septi facie juxta basin ad nervos 2 parallelos 2—3-seriatim dispositis, ascenden-

tibus, imbricatis, inferioribus exterioribus. Stylus simplex. Stigma bilamella-

tum, lamellis crassiusculis, margine revolutis. . Capsula coriacea, lignosa, ovato-

cylindracea, 2-locularis, apice septifrago-2-valvis, dissepimento libero, valvis de-

mum semibifidis. Semina plurima (2-4, Miers) in quoque loculo, e dissepimenti

basi adscendentia, longe linearia, utrinque acuminato-attenuata, margine ala

membranacea cincta, ventre convexa, dorso carinata; filo prope basin introrsum

laterali ; ¢es¢a chartacea, ad endopleuram spongiosam adnata, Hmbryo in axi albu-

minis carnosi, tenuis, rectus ; cotyledonibus linearibus, carnosis, radiculam inferam

wquantibus.—Arbores Brasilienses, frondose ; folia alterna, breviter petiolata, co-

riacea aut subcoriacea, elliptica, penninervia, reticulata, integerrima, nitida 3 flores

terminales, subsolitarii v. plurimt, subracemosi, fasciculati, ebracteati, speciost, albi.

Dunal, in DC.

METTERNIcHIA Principis ; caule arboreo, foliis lanceolato-ellipticis subtus palli-

dioribus, pedunculis brevibus petiolorum longitudine terminalibus subrace-

mosis, calycis laciniis ovato-oblongis obtusiusculis uninervils reticulatis. Dun.

Merrernicuta Principis. Mikan, Delect. Fl. et Faun. Bras. (no No. or page)

cum Ie. Mart. Fl. Brasil. Fasc. v. 6. p. 227. Dunal, in De Cand. Prodr.

v. 13. p. 594.

Merrernicuta Princeps. Miers, in Hook. Lond. Journ. of Bot. v. 5. p. 145.

Listantuvs ophiorrhiza. Vell. Fl. Flum. v. 2. t. 78.

A Brazilian genus, named in compliment to the distinguished

Austrian Prince Metternich-Winneburg, of Ochsenhausen, etc. Its

author and discoverer, Mikan, describes the flowers as inodorous,

whereas with us they are powerfully and deliciously fragrant,

NOVEMBER lst, 1853.

the greatest charm perhaps the plant possesses ; for though the

flowers are large, they are not showy, not more so than Port-

landia, or other white corollas whose tubes have a tinge of green.

Mikan referred the genus to Convolvulacea, Meisner to Bignont-

acee, Lindley and Miers (with more propriety) to Solanacee, and

the latter to a separate group, which he calls “ Metternichiee,”’

along with Sessea and Cestrum. There is probably but one

species. Dunal takes up, indeed, W/. affinis of Presl, but as

something more than doubtful; and he has a “Metternichia ?

megalandra,’—querying the genus,—a Colombian plant of Mo-

ritz (n. 827). J. Principis flowers with us, in the stove, in

August.

Descr. Our flowering specimens constitute a shrub three to

four feet high; in its native climate it attains a height of

twenty-five feet: much branched, dranches terete, and, as is

every part of the plant, glabrous. Peduncles terminal and in the

axils of the terminal leaves, short; or the inflorescence may be

called a leafy, somewhat panicled raceme. Calyx campanulate,

irregularly five-cleft, segments erect. Corolla white, broad-

infundibuliform ; the ¢wbe greenish, angled; Jimd spreading,

large, plicate, as in Solanum or Convolvulus, cream-white, the

five broad lobes bifid, and waved or plaited. Stamens five, ex-

serted; filaments filiform, unequal. Anthers oblong. Ovary

oval. Style longer than the stamens. Stigma two-lobed. _ Cap-

sue an inch and a half or sometimes two inches long, cylindrical,

tapering, five-valved, the base enclosed in the persistent calyx.

Fig. 1. Pistil. 2. Section of ovary :—magnified. 3. Capsule :—aat. size.

474 8.

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Tas. 4748.

CAMPANULA Viupa.it.

Vidal's Bellflower.

Nat. Ord. CAMPANULACEH.—PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4555.)

Campanuta Vidalii; inferne fruticulosa, ramosa, viscida, ramis sulcatis, foliis

(seepe rosulatis) oblongo-spathulatis grosse serratis superioribus parvis brac-

haat gr P ee

tezeformibus, floribus racemosis cernuis, pedicellis bracteolatis, lobis calycinis

brevibus triangularibus, corolla urceolato-campanulata (alba), staminibus re-

motis, disco hypogyno amplo ambitu crasso aurantiaco.

CaMPANULA Vidalii. H. C. Wats. in Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 684. Walp. Repert.

Bot. v. 6. p. 387.

CAMPANULA Vidaliana. H. C. Wats. “ Plants collected in the Azores, in 1842,

S113."

We gave a faithful representation from a dried specimen of

this remarkable Campanula in our ‘Icones Plantarum ;’ but our

cultivated plant has a very different and really striking appear-

ance. It has not (from want of age perhaps) become so ligneous

nor so gouty; it has fewer rosulate leaves, and. they are less

crowded: but the flowers are larger and more numerous. ‘The

hypogynous disc of the flower is singularly broad, and surround-

ed by a thick, bright, orange-coloured annulus, on the outside of

which the stamens are placed, distant from each other, and they

never seem to incline over the disc, as is so common m other

Bell-flowers. There seem to be no tangible characters for dis-

tinguishing it as a genus from Campanula. It has however a

very peculiar habit: is a native of the Azores, and was detected

on an insulated rock off the east coast of Flores, between Santa

Cruz and Porta Delgada, by Captain Vidal, R.N. We are m-

debted for our living plants to H. C. Watson, Esq. They are

quite hardy, and flower in August.

Descr. Everywhere glabrous and viscid. Root perennial.

NOVEMBER Ist, 1858.

Stem one to two feet high, branching from the base ; the old

stems gouty and tortuous and subligneous below. Some of a

the dranches are short and sterile, bearing only rosules of more

or less distant leaves; others are tall, and bear flowers and dis-

tant foliage: all are sulcated, somewhat clammy and _ glossy.

Leaves three to four inches long, oblong-spathulate, thick and

fleshy, firm, viscid, coarsely serrated, penniveined, the costa and

veins prominent beneath: upper leaves passing into bracteas.

Flowers large, more or less numerous, racemose, terminating the

branches, drooping. Pedicels bracteated (with small leaves) at

the base, and bearing about two dracteoles near the middle.

Calyz-tube broad, turbinate, five-angled, and depressed between

the angles; /obes spreading, triangular, acute, thick. Corolla

white, between urceolate and campanulate, obscurely five-angled,

the lobes triangular, moderately spreading. Stamens distant, in-

serted on the outside of a large orange-coloured aznulus or mar-

gin to the broad hypogynous disc. //aments dilated at the base.

Anthers oblong. Ovary three-celled. Placentas two-lobed. Style

remarkably thickened upwards, downy, short. S¢igmas short, at

first erect.

Fig. 1. Flower from which the corolla is removed. 2. Transverse section of

an ovary. 3. Stamen :—magnified.

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PAPAVER piLosuM.

Large Hairy Poppy.

Nat, Ord. PAPAVERACE®.—POLYANDRIA MoNnoGYNIA.

Gen. Char. Sepala 2, convexa, decidua. Petala 4. Stamina numerosa. Stylus

nullus. Stigmata 4-20, radiantia, sessilia super discum ovarium coronantem.

Capsula obovata, 1-locularis, e carpellis 4-20. in thalami productione membrana-

cea inclusis constans, sub stigmatum corona valvulis brevibus dehiscens. Pla-

cente intervalvulares, intus in dissepimenta incompleta productse.—Herbe per-

ennes, succo albo fete ; pedunculi ante florescentiam apice inflexi. De Cand.

Papaver pilosum; elatum ramosum undique hispido-pilosum pilis patentibus,

foliis radicalibus oblongis in petiolum longiusculum attenuatis pinnatifidis

serratis, caulinis lato-oblongis inciso-serratis basi subcordatis amplexicauli-

bus sessilibus, petalis amplis miniatis basi albo-maculatis, capsulis (imma-

turis) oblongo-obovatis glabris.

Papaver pilosum. Sm. Prodr. Fl. Gree. v. 1. p. 350. Fl. Grae, Sibth. ov. 5. p.

75. ¢. 402. De Cand. Prodr. p. 119.

Papaver Olympicum. Sith. MSS.

A hardy herbaceous Poppy, we believe with perennial roots

and large handsome brick-red flowers, having a pale spot at the

base of each of the petals. When or by whom introduced into

this country, or from what source our garden derived it, we have

no record ; but it is assuredly the P. pilosum of Smith and Sib-

thorpe, whose figure above quoted is very characteristic (Flora

Greeca, tab. 192). The plate immediately before that, in the

Flora Graeca, is P. somniferum, and we wonder that no notice 1s

taken of the similarity of the two, for (in the absence of ripe cap-

sules of our plant) they are very much alike : best distinguished

by the absence of glaucous hue, greater breadth of foliage, copi-

ous hairiness (by no means always glabrous in P. somniferum),

and brick-red petals of P. pelosum. :

Dezscr. Root perennial? Stem two to three feet high, branched,

terete, clothed with copious patent hairs (as are the leaves). oo/-

leaves elongated, oblong, tapering into a decided and rather long

petiole, deeply sinuated and coarsely inciso-serrated ; s¢em-leaves

NOVEMBER Ist, 1853.

broad-oblong, almost elliptical, sessile, cordate and amplexicaul

at the base, the margin cut and serrated, uppermost one smaller

and less cordate at the base. Peduncles single-flowered, droop-

ing in bud. Calyz of two, elliptical, concave sepals, very hairy.

Corolla of four, large, spreading, broadly rotundato-cuneate, brick-

red petals, having a pale, nearly white spot at the base. Stamens

very numerous, as long as the pistil. Ovary oblong-obovate,

obscurely five-angled, glabrous. Stigma depressed, radiate.

Fig. 1. Immature capsule :—nat. size.

Kitch, del et hth

4750.

Tas. 4750.

DICTYANTHUS Pavontt.

Pavon’s Dictyanthus.

Nat. Ord. ASCLEPIADE®.—PENTANDRIA DIGyNia.

Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla speciosa, campanulata, 5-fida, laciniis

ovatis obtusiusculis sursum reflexis eleganter reticulato-venosis, rete exili fusces-

cente. Corona staminea tubo adnata, corpusculis 5 sinubus oppositis spathulatis

carnosulis subglandulosis reducta. Gynostegium parvum, tubo corollz amplo in-

clusum. Anthere membrana terminate, transversim et oblique dehiscentes,

parvee. Masse pollinis clavate, subcompresse, apice pellucido. Stigma carnosum,

pentagonum, angulis prominentibus.—Suffrutex volubilis Peruvianus ; folia cor-

data, membranacea, longe petiolata ; peduneuli petiolo breviores, 1-2-flori ; co-

rolle speciose, bipollicares, reticulato-venose, Huerniam campanulatam mentientes.

Dene.

Dicryantuus Pavonii.

Dicryantuus Pavonii. Decaisne, in De Cand. Prodr. v. 8.p. 605.

This is one among the remarkable forms of Asclepiadeous

plants, a native of New Spain, where it was first detected by

Pavon (whose name it bears). It has the habit of Gonolobus or

some other climbing member of the family, with flowers so much

resembling a Stapelia, or rather a Huernia, that it is said to

bear the name of Stapelia campanulata i Pavon’s MSS. We

received our plants from Messrs. Henderson, of St. John’s Wood

Nursery, and also from Messrs. Rollisons, of Tooting. It re-

quires the heat of the stove, and flowers copiously in September. —

Duscr. Stems climbing, long, branching, filiform, terete,

slightly downy (as is the whole plant, except the flowers), tinged

with purple. eaves opposite, on moderately long, slender

petioles, cordate or cordato-ovate, acuminate, membranaceous,

entire, veined and reticulated, having a deep and obtuse sinus at

the base. Peduncles axillary, solitary, longer than the petioles,

but shorter than the leaves, generally three-flowered. Calyx cut

to the base into five, erecto-patent, lanceolate segments, with their —

margins reflexed. Corolla large, rotate, with the éwbe large, thick

NOVEMBER Ist, 1853.

and fleshy, semiglobose, pale green, longitudinally striated and

having five furrows, so that between the furrows the outer surface

is very convex, corresponding with five depressions or cavities,

within, which are more distinctly striated with longitudinal fine

brown lines than the external surface: the /imé is broad, cut

half-way down into five spreading ovate /obes, whose margins are

recurved: the whole disc is pale green, beautifully striated con-

centrically, with fine brown lines which meet and hence become

reticulated. The staminal crown is adnate with the tube and has

five spreading lobes or horns. Gynostegium small, conical.

Fig. 1. Vertical section of the tube, showing the cavities within and the sta-

minal crown in the centre :—magnified.

4761.

F Reeve, ump:

Fitch, del et ith.

Tas. 4751.

PLUMIERIA Jamesont.

Jameson's Plumieria.

Nat. Ord. APocyNAcE#.—PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx apice 5-lobus, lobis rotundatis, zestivatione 5-unciali, v. in-

teger. Corolla tubo tenui, cylindraceo, recto v. incurvo; fauce exappendiculata,

lobis 5, obovato-oblongis, estivatione dextrorsum convoluto-imbricatis, tubo ple

rumque subzequalibus. Stamina 5, basi corolle inserta; filamentis brevissimis ;

antheris oblongis, basi dilatatis, apice obtusiusculis. Ovaria 2, ovoidea, toro seu

disco tori continuatione immersa, cum eo dorso adheerentia, juniora fere infera,

inter se tamen distincta, serius supera. Ovuda plurima, suture ventrali adfixa.

Stylus 1. Stigma oblongum, apice bifidum. odliculi 2, oblongi linearesve, nunc

ventricosi, plerumque deflexi, polyspermi, suture ventrali dehiscentes, externe

carnosuli. Semina oblonga, compressa, hine (verisim. superne) membranaceo-

alata. Hilus ad + longitudinis seminis ab extrem. super. ad alam, ovatus. dla

laciniata, semine brevior. .4/bumen 0. Cotyledones ample, ovales, cordate, facie

adpresse, foliacer. Radicula cylindrica, brevissima, extremitatem nudam spec-

tans.—Arbusculee Americane v. rarius Asiatice, tropice ; ramis crassis, folorum

cicatricibus amplis notatis ; foliis alternis, magnis, obtusis vel acumine acuto, inte-

gris, nervis lateralibus centrali fere perpendicularibus, in neroum prope peripheriam

conjunctis ; cymis terminalibus, corymbosis; floribus amplis, speciosis, sepe fra-

grantibus, geminatim intra bracteas amplas (an semper?) caducas dispositis, altero

magis centrali ante alium florente. Alph. De Cand.

PLumrerta Jamesoni; foliis amplis lato-oblongis utrinque attenuatis subtus pal-

lidioribus reticulatis, pedunculis elongatis pedicellisque rubris, cymis multi-

floris, calycis lobis parvis brevibus erectis, corolle lute (extus rubro-pictis)

lobis ovato-ellipticis acutis.

A handsome stove-plant, received from Professor Jameson, who

detected it in the vicinity of Guayaquil. It belongs to M. Alphonse

De Candolle’s first section of the genus “Lobi calycis breves,

obtusissimi,” and to the second section of the species “ Flores

albi, Zvtei vel ex luteo variegati.”. Yet in that group there is

no species the description of which satisfactorily accords with

this. Its great beauty consists in the fine red of the peduncles

and pedicels and outside of the flower, and the rich yellow of the

upper or inner side of the corolla, and which, together with the

NOVEMBER Ist, 1853.

great breadth of the lobes of the corolla and their acute apices,

constitute the chief specific distinction. In those particulars I

can find none to accord with it. It flowers in July in our stoves.

Descr. Our plant is not more than four feet high, branched

above, the stem and éranches woody. Leaves mostly confined to

the apex of the branches, large, broad-oblong, on rather long

nearly terete petioles (furrowed on the upper side), attenuated at

the base, acuminated at the extremity, penninerved, the zerves

parallel and approximate, dark green above, paler beneath and

reticulated between the nerves. Peduncle terminal, a span and

more long, erect, firm, stout, terete, bearing at the extremity a

cyme of many compact flowers. Pedicels articulated, red (some-

times partly green). Calyx small, of five short, rounded, erect

lobes, ved, tipped with green. Corolla large, hypocrateriform.

Tube \ong, narrow, yellow, deeply tinged with red. Limd of

five, large, spreading and moderately oblique, rich yellow (slightly

tinged with red), acute segments. Mouth of the corolla red.

Stamens inserted at the base of the tube of the corolla. Axthers

sagittate, nearly sessile. Ovaries two, united in the style. Stg-

mas two small points.

Fig. 1. Pistil and stamens. 2. Single stamen :—magnijied.

Fitch delet ith.

F. Reeve, mp.

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SaRERE RUIN Tiecizemarayte sie:

Tas. 4752.

PASSIFLORA Mepusaa.

Medusean Passion-—flower.

Nat. Ord. Pass1FLOREZ.—GYNANDRIA PENTANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4406.)

PasstrLora Medusea ; foliis semiovatis 3-nerviis subtus glandulosis basi acutis

apice bilobis erecto-patentibus acutis sinu mucronato, petiolis eglandulosis,

pedunculis binis bracteolatis unifloris, petalis lineari-lanceolatis minunis,

corone filamentose serie externa patentissima sepalis paulo breviore, inte-

riore erecta brevi.

Passtrtora Medusa. Lemaire in Van Houtte, Fl. des Serres, v. 4. p. 375 6,

and 5, tab. 528. Pact. and Lindl. Fl. Gard. v. 1. p. 89. f. 59.

A supposed Mexican plant, having some affinity with P. d7-

flora, but the filamentous crown is very different, and the petals

and sepals are nearly uniform, and to P. Mewvicana, Juss., but

there the leaves are different, the flowers are much smaller, and

there are no petals. At first sight it would seem to belong to

the section “Cicca,” of De Candolle, where the perianth has only

five lobes, or, in other words, where the petals are wanting ; but

petals do exist here, although they are so small and so covered

by the exterior ray of copious filaments, that they are not easily

seen. It flowers in the stove in November, trained against the

rafters of the house.

Descr. A graceful climber, with slender, attenuated branches.

Leaves \unate, that is, they are half-

by a broad sinus above into two broad, acute, erecto-patent lobes, _

with a mucro in the sinus. ‘There are three primary Nerves,

reaching, two of them to the apex of the lobes, and the central

one terminating in the mucro of the sinus ; between the central

and lateral nerves is a row of conspicuous, orbicular, pellucid

glands, most apparent on the underside. Petioles much shorter

DECEMBER Ist, 1853.

ovate, acute at the base, cut : a

than the leaf, eglandulose. Cirrfi simply slender, spirally

twisted. Peduncles two, from the axils of the leaves, nearly as

long as the leaf, bearing a few, small, subulate dracteoles, and a

solitary flower. . Flowers rather small. Calyx pale yellow-green,

cut to the base into five spreading, oblong, obtuse sepals. Sepals

very minute, white. /i/amentous crown in two series, ochraceous-

red: outer series of numerous long, slender, wavy, spreading

filaments, nearly as long as the calyx; inner of numerous com-

pact, erect, or slightly incurved ones. Co/wmn as long as the

calyx, red, bearing five red recurved filaments, each with a

green, linear-oblong anther. Ovary globose, with three reflexo-

patent styles, tipped with a clubbed stigma.

Fig. 1. Portion of a flower :—magnified.

Tas. 4753.

CIRRHOPETALUM cornutvum.

Horn-bearing Cirrhopetalum.

Nat. Ord. OrcHrpAcE#.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Sepala ringentia: lateralibus acuminatis, valde obliquis, basi pro-

ductz columne adnatis, supremo multo longioribus. Peta/a nana, apiculata.

Labellum integrum, cum basi columne articulatum. Colwmna minima, basi longe

producta, apice cornubus duobus petaloideis. Anthera bilocularis. Podlinia 4,

quorum 2 interiora multo minora, lamelliformia.— Herb epiphyte, rhizomate

repente, pseudobulbos monophylios gerente. Folia coriacea, avenia. Flores dense

racemosi, nunc radiati, in apice scapi radicalis. Lindl.

CIRRHOPETALUM cornutum; pseudobulbis oblongo-ovatis levibus vaginatis,

folio solitario oblongo-ligulato in petiolum attenuato, scapis radicalibus

vaginatis gracilibus folio brevioribus, floribus terminalibus eleganter radiatim

umbellatis, sepalo superiore ovato concavo ciliato, sepalis lateralibus maximis

linearibus elongatis in cornu connatis purpureo-sanguineis, petalis parvis

ovatis concavis ciliatis, labello ovato-acuminato carnoso recuryo, columna

bicuspidata.

CIRRHOPETALUM cornutum. Lindl. in Bot. Mag. 1838. Mise. n. 138; and

1843, sub. £. 49. 2. 4.

This charming Cirrhopetalum was received through Mr. Simons,

from the Khasya hills, in eastern Bengal, and blossomed in our

Orchideous stove in September, 1853. Its flowers, very curious

in structure, are arranged in a whorled or radiating umbel ; but

their odour is far from agreeable, resembling that of bad glue.

In the general structure of the flower, not in the inflorescence,

the species approaches the C. Macraei of Ceylon (see our Tab.

4422), but the sepals and petals, as well as the colour, are con-

siderably different. The lateral sepals are so united as to re-

semble a large spur or horn of the flower.

Descr. Pseudo-bulbs, several arising from a creeping caudex, —

oblong-ovate, green, smooth, more or less sheathed with large —

membranaceous scales, and terminated by a rather large, oblong,

coriaceous, obtuse leaf, more than a span in length, and tapering

below into an imperfect petiole, by which it 1s set on the top

DECEMBER Ist, 1853.

of the bulb. Scapes one or two from the same pseudo-bulb,

and arising from its very base, shorter than the leaf, slender, wiry,

erect, jomted in the lower half, and there sheathed with mem-

branaceous brown scales, bearing at the top a radiating wmdéel of

dark purple and white flowers. Ovary small, tapermg mto a

short peduncle. Sepals extremely unequal: upper one small,

ovate, very concave, greenish-white, sprinkled with purple, acute,

the margin ciliated; lateral ones more than two inches long,

pendent, the two meeting at the edges, so as to appear one,

broad linear, dark purple-blood-colour, green at the tip, nearly

white and spotted at the base. Peda/s in shape and colour re-

sembling the upper sepal, but smaller and more ciliated, stand-

ing forward, and, with the upper sepal, protecting the organs of

fructification. Labellum articulated, as it were, on the prolonged

base of the column, bent up against the front of the column, and

itself ovate, fleshy, recurved, white, spotted. Column short, bi-

cuspidate. Anther-case sunk between the two points, hemisphe-

rical. Pollen-masses of four lobes, two small and two large.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Column, anther, and labellum. 3. Pollen-masses :—al/

magnified,

Tar. 4754.

COLEUS Buvumet.

Bilume’s Coleus.

Nat. Ord. Laprata2.—DipynamMia GYMNOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx ovato-campanulatas, fractifer, declinatus vel reflexus, rarius

suberectus, fauce intus nuda vel hispida, quinquedentatus vel bilabiatus, dente

supremo ovato membranaceo marginibus rarius decurrentibus, inferioribus angus-

tioribus, omnibus acutis vel lateralibus ovato-truncatis, 2 infimis seepe inter se

connatis. Corolla tubo exserto declinato, decurvo vel sepius defracto, fauce in-

- flata vel eequali ; limbo bilabiato, labio superiore abbreviato obtuse 3—4-fido, infe-

riore integro elongato concavo, seepius cymbiformi, genitalia involvente. Stamina

4. Filamenta edentula, basi in tubum stylum vaginantem connexa. Stylus apice

subulatus, aqualiter bifidus. Nucwle subrotundo-compresse, leves.—Herbee

annue vel basi perennantes, rarius frutices. Verticillastri seaflori vel sepius mul-

tiflori, nune densissimi, nunc lawt, cymbiformes; pedunculo communi utriusque cyme

ramisve utringue binis, plus minusve elongatis. Folia floralia bracteeformia, ante

anthesin ad apicem racemorum plus minusve comosa, per anthesin decidua vel rarius

subpersistentia, reflexa. Species plerumque Asiaticr, perpauce African. Benth.

Blumei ; foliis ovatis acuminatis grosse obtuse serratis basi acutis et

integerrimis utrinque puberulis (superne maculis atro-purpureis pictis), ver-

ticillastris distinctis, pedicellis racemosis secundis, calycis hirsuti labio infe-

riore trifido, lacinia intermedia longiore semibifida. Benth.

Cornus Blumei. Benth. Lab. p. 56. in De Cand. Prodr. v. 12. p. 75.

-PLECTRANTHUS scutellarioides. Blume, Bijdr. p. 837. (non Br.)

Cou

ted for our first knowledge of this plant in a a

Clapton Nursery, who received the —

ive of Java; but even there, Blume

e. Nothing is more easily cultivated, and no stove should

_ be without it, for it flowers through the summ

~ setting in of the winter. i

Duscr. The plants in our possession vary from a foot to a foot

DECEMBER Ist, 1853. aig

and a half high, throughout nearly herbaceous or suffruticose

only at the base ; stems and éranches square, the angles rather

obtuse, a little hairy at the joints. eaves rhomboidal ovate,

membranaceous, deeply and coarsely inciso-serrate at the margin,

the apex acuminate, entire as well as the base, which is gradually

attenuated into a more or less elongated petiole, hairy at the

sides : the colour of the leaf is yellowish-green, the whole disc dark

purple or sanguineous, breaking into spots near the margin ; the

principal nerves are obliquely erect, running almost parallel to

the midrib. Inflorescence a terminal elongated whorled spike or

raceme. Whorls of about six flowers or more. Pedicels very

short. Calya small, hairy. Tube short, subglobose: /imé five-

lobed; upper lobe much the largest, oblong, not decurrent at

the base, two lateral lobes short, two inferior ones linear, ap-

proximate. Corolla purple and white, moderately large, resupi-

nate, hairy on the back: ¢w4e funnel-shaped, suddenly refracted :

limb of two large lips; lower one ovate acute, cymbiform, the

upper shorter, broad, oval reflexed, spreading, three-lobed, the

middle lobe bifid. Stamens and style included in the hollow of

the inferior lip.

Fig. 1. Front; and 2, Side view of a flower :—magnified.

Tas. 4755.

DENDROBIUM cymBIDIOoIDEs.

Cymbidium-like Dendrobium.

Nat. Ord. ORcHIDACE®.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Sepala membranacea, erecta vel patentia, lateralibus majoribus

obliquis cum basi producta column connatis. Petala sepalo supremo seepius

majora, nunc minora, semper membranacea. Ladellum cum pede columnz arti-

culatum vel connatum, semper sessile, indivisum vel trilobum, seepius membra-

naceum, nunc appendiculatum, Colwmna semiteres, basi longe producta. An- —

thera bipollicaris. Pollinia 4, per paria collateralia.—Herbee epiphyte, nunc caules-

centes, nunc rhizomate repente pseudobulbifero. Folia plana, seepius venosa. Flores

solitarii fasciculati v. racemosi, speciosi. Lindl.

Denprosium cymbidioides ; pseudobulbis oblongo-ovatis 4-5-gonis, foliis binis

oblongis retusis pseudobulbos vix excedentibus, scapo terminali 5-7-floro,

sepalis petalis lineari-oblongis obtusis equalibus patentibus ochraceis, la-~ _

belli disco basi abrupte calloso-lineato, lobo medio ovato tumido. ;

Denprosium cymbidioides. Lindl. Gen. et Spec. Orchid. p. 17.

Desmorricnum cymbidiodes. Blume, Bijdr. p. 355.

A plant very little known either in our gardens or herbaria, of

which we received living specimens from Messrs. Rollison, of the

Tooting Nursery, without any name. It proves to be the Des-

motrichum ecymbidioides of Blume, native of the lofty wooded

mountains of Gede and Salak in Java, a genus of that author,

of which all the species have, we think with propriety, by Dr.

Lindley, been incorporated with or restored to Dendrobium. Dr.

Lindley had indeed seen no specimens ; but drawings of this were

sent to him by Professor Reinwardt, and of a closely allied species,

Desmotrichum triflorum, “scarcely differing from this, but in its

uniformly tetragonal pseudo-bulbs, and cream-coloured flowers

always appearing in threes.”

Duscr. Pseudo-bulbs ovate or oblong-ovate, angled, with four

or five angles, and clustered upon a short creeping caudex, gene-

rally more or less sheathed with long membranaceous scales,

bearing at the summit two erecto-patent, oblong, obtuse or rather

DECEMBER Ist, 1853.

retuse, coriaceous /eaves, not twice so long as the pseudo-bulbs.

Scape terminal, arising from the top of the pseudo-bulb, between

the two leaves, erect, terete, scarcely scaly, bearing from five to

seven moderately large flowers. Ovaries pedunculiform, nearly

three inches long, erecto-patent, clavate. Sepals and petals uniform,

lmear-oblong, spreading, ochraceous. Ladellum much shorter

than the sepals, oblong-cordate, white, sprmkled near the base

within with dark-purple linear blotches, three-lobed, bearmg on

the disc tubercles arranged in two or three lines or series ;

the side lobes are short, obtuse, incurved; the terminal lobe

ovate obtuse, tumid or convex. Column short, semiterete, de-

current, spotted with purple on the plane surface. Anther sunk

in a three-toothed clinandrium, hemispherical. Pol/en-masses

four, in two parallel series.

Fig. 1. Labellum. 2, Column and anther. 3. Pollen-masses :—magnified.

iin cued sncemememe

Wa.

Tap. 4756. 3

BILLBERGIA THYRSOIDEA.

Dense-flowered Billbergia.

Nat. Ord. BROMELIACEZ.—HEXANDRIA MonoGyNIa.

Gen. Char. Perigonii superi sexpartiti lacinie exteriores calycine, aequales, |

ecarinatz, erecta vel spiraliter convolute, aristatee vel mutice, apice hine oblique

dilatatee ; interiores petaloidex, exterioribus multo longiores, apice patentes v. — :

erectee, intus basi squamos® v. bicristatee, rarius nude. Stamina 6, epigyna ;

filamenta filiformia, tria plerumque perigonii laciniis interioribus adnata; anthere

ovate, dorso affixe, incumbentes v. suberectee. Ovarium inferum, triloculare. — =

Ovula plurima, e loculorum angulo centrali pendula, anatropa. Stylus filiformis;

stigmata 3, petaloidea, convoluta, v. linearia, crispa. Bacca subglobosa, trilo-

- eularis. Semina plurima, nuda vel umbilicum filo gracili appendiculata—Herbee

Americana tropice, sepius super arborum truncis pseudoparasitice, exscape@ v. 8ca- — i

pigere ; foliis ligulalis, linearibus v. ensiformibus, ut plurimum spinuloso-serrulatis ; :

floribus spicatis, paniculatis ; spathis floralibus nunc nullis, nunc parvis, v. amplis, —

coloratis. Endl. i

Bruuserata thyrsoidea ; foliis erectis lato-ligulatis obtusis cum acumine eequa- e

liter concavis spinoso-serratis scapo paulo longioribus, spathis ovato-lanceo-

latis acuminatis, spica thyrsoidea, floribus densis subebracteatis, germinibus

calycibusque albo-farinosis, petalis obtusis calyce multo longioribus.

Bripereta thyrsoidea. Martius, in Fl. Brasil. ined. Schultz, Syst. Veget. v. 7.

p. 1260.

———_—_————

Rohs chen sb orice eS ceeaene ane

A. richly-coloured and very handsome Bromeliaceous plat

native of Brazil, presented to our garden by Messrs. Henderson.

of the Nursery, St. John’s Wood, under the name here retained

and which quite accords with the species so called by Martius,

which he found growing in rocky places about Rio Janeiro. [i

is quite different from Billbergia pyramidalis, and every other

with which we are acquainted. Our readers will observe, that,

though the leaves grow erect, or nearly so, on the living plant,

our figure of the leaf represents it bent back, to enable us te

bring an entire one into the plate. It requires the heat of the

stove, and flowered with us in November of the present year,

1863. a

--Drscr. Leaves one to two feet long, erect or erecto-patent

| DECEMBER 1ST, 1853.

having a slightly reflected curvature, broadly ligulate, of a rather

full green on the upper side, paler beneath, when seen under a

microscope slightly filamentose or flocculose on the surface, the

margin spinuloso-serrate; the base is very convex, somewhat

utriculose ; the rest convex, or rather canaliculate, plane to-

wards the apex, which latter is obtuse, with a spinulose acumen.

Peduncle central, shorter than the leaves, terete, imbricated with

large, lax, oblong, or lanceolate and acuminated, involute, red

éracteas, and terminated by a dense thyrsoid spite of many red

flowers. Flowers sessile or nearly so. Ovary inferior, oblong,

and, as well as the three short, erect lobes of the calyx, clothed

with a white powder. Pefals three, elongated, four times as

long as the calyx, subspathulate ; the apex reflexed, oblique, and

ciliated ; the margin below involute, with two teeth near the base,

and one higher up on each side. At the base of each petal are

also two fimbriated scales. Stamens shorter than the petals.

Anthers yellow. Style longer than the stamens, terminated by

__ the three dark-green, spirally twisted lobes of the stigma.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Petal and stamen. 3. Pistil :—more or less magnified.

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DIDYMOCARPUS Humsototia N PEG : >

Humboldtian Didymocarpus.

Nat. Ord. Cyrrranprace#®.—D1anpria Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. Calyx quinguefidus vel quinquepartitus. Corolla infundibulifor-

mis, limbo 5-lobo subirregulari rarius bilabiato. Stamina 4, quorum 2 (rarius 4)

antherifera. Anthere reniformes. Ovarium elongatum. Stylus brevis. Stigma

orbiculatum, indivisum. Capsula siliquiformis, bivalvis, valvis introflexis falso-

4-locularibus. . Semina nuda, levia, pendula.—Suffrutices aut herbe Indice

caulescentes aut acaules. Folia radicalia aut caulina, alterna aut sepi 18 opposii

inequalia, Pedunculi axillares racemosi aut dichotomo-cymosi. Flot

aut albi. De Cand. : em

-Drpymocarpus Humboldtiana ; tomentosa, acaulis, foliis* radicalibus

. ovato-ellipticis basi obtusis vel subcordatis apice obtusissimis et

supra piloso-tomentosis subtus lanuginoso-tomentosis, scapis folio

gioribus trichotomis,. bracteis oblongis obtusis tomentosis, lobis cal

Villosis Iinearibus obtusis persistentibus, capsulis pollicaribus siliquosis

-_ attenuatis. : Se : a See

Dipymocarpus Humboldtiana. Gardn.. Contrib. towards a Fl. of Ceylon,

M®Clell. Calc. Journ. of Nat. Hist. v. 6. p. 477. Walpers, Ann. Bot.

: General Walker first communicated copious

this pretty plant from the elevated mountains in Ceylon

Mr. Gurda afterwards detected the same in moist shad

above Rambodde, at an elevation of from 4000 to 5000

_ above the sea, in the same country, and published it, along

some other new plants of the same natural family, in the

above quoted, under the name we have adopted, dedicate

‘Mr. Gardner says, to the “ Prince of scientific travellers.’

may admit of doubt how far the D. primulafolia, of the

author, is distinct from this. We have recei ds 0

present plant from Mr. Thwaites, from which re Ti

‘and which flower in a warm greenhouse 1n

‘of this is so like that of Chirita Sinensis (see our tat

that one cannot but doubt whether they should not be

one and the same genus. The flowers are much s

From a perennial, cere Bhioas cnudee

spreading cluster of /eaves, which are nearly

, very obtuse, rather long, petiolate, obtuse or a little

at the base, crenate, penniveined and much reticulated,

o-tomentose above, lanuginously tomentose and paler be-

1. - Seapes several from the same root, twice or thrice longer

the leaves, naked, two or three times di-trichomotously di-

so as to form a lax panicle in the inflorescence ; ramifica-

s slender, furnished with small, oblong, villous, opposite

teas. Flowers drooping. Calyx small, persistent, deeply five-

, the lobes linear, erect, villous. Corolla pale lilac, cam-

> rather than infundibuliform ; Zimé spreading, five load, |

arly equal. Stamens inciaded : two are fertile, two

an ‘there i is the rudiment of a fifth stamen ‘in the shape

filament. — Anthers subreniform, large, one-celled,

vary oblong, glanduloso-pubescent, tapering into

a and terminated by an obscurely bilamellate s¢ig-

scarcely mature, siliquose, terete, elongated, slightly

to the seca subulate aye. :