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FOR WHICH HE WAS AWARDED

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ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, MARCH 21sr, 1865.

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angles. The skin, on the shaded side, is of a deep golden-yellow, and on that next the sun of a

_ deep clear shining crimson. The whole surface is dotted over with large russet specks, like the

: Golden Reinette. The eye is somewhat closed, and set ina pretty deep basin, whieh is uneven, —

_ im consequence of the angles which terminate there. Stalk half an inch to three-quarters long,

_ frequently a mere knob. Flesh yellowish, very tender, leaving but little mark in the mouth, very

juicy, sweet, and with a fine pine flavour and rich aroma. This delicious Apple is now in perfec-

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Cox’s Orange Pippin. It was awarded a first-class certificate.”

In the ‘Gardeners’ Chronicle’ of the 25th of March, 1865:—‘A valuable hardy-looking

seedling Apple, named Lord Burghley, from Mr. House, of Peterborough, to which a certificate

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THE FOLLOWING TESTIMONIALS HAVE ALSO BEEN RECEIVED BY MR. HOUSE:—

Messrs. Rivers and Co., Sawbridgeworth, March 13th, 1865.

Messrs. Lee and Co., Hammersmith, March 22nd, 1865.

Sir,—The Apple you exhibited yesterday was very sound and good flavoured.

Mr. J. R. Pearson, Chilwell, March 17th, 1865.

‘Sir,—Your Apple is the best I know of.

Pe Mr. Matheson, Gardener at Burghicy Hall, Stamford, March 24th, 1865.

-Sir,—Your dessert Apple is the best I have ever seen.

ae Mr. Davie, Gardener at Orton Hall, April Tth, 1865.

-Sir,—Your Apple is remarkably sound, handsome, and excellent in flavour.

_ After the Testimonials from such eminent Fruit Growers as those enumerated, nothing 1

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CATTLEYA DowIANna.

Captain Dow's Cattleya.

Nat. Ord. Oncuinrx.—GyYNANDRIA MONANDRIA..,

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Taz. 4700).

Cartirya Dowiana; pseudobulbis validis clavatis suleatis monophyllis,

foliis lato-oblongis obtusis, spathi obtusi pedunculo 2-6-floro sub-

eequali, floribus speciosissimis, sepalis lanceolatis acutis sessilibus

planis, petalis plus quam duplo latioribus margine contortis obtusius-

culis labello subsqualibus, labello maximo obscure trilobo oblongo

emarginato crispo disco levi amplissimo velutino atro-purpureo venis

aureis pulcherrime ornato, columna subarcuata labello feré obtecta

et labello 3-plo breviore.

Cattteya Dowiana. Bateman in Gard. Chron., Oct. 1866.

This superb Cattleya was originally discovered by Warsze-

wicz in Costa Rica, and by him plants were forwarded to

this country; but arriving in bad condition they eventually

died. The dried specimens moreover that accompanied the

living plants seem to have been mislaid or destroyed, so that

during the last ten years doubts had come to be entertained

as to the existence of a really distinct species of such unex-

ampled beauty as that which the letters of the veteran tra-

veller described. And in the mean time his name was given

to another supposed species respecting which the greatest

confusion now prevails, and which, whether or not it be a

mere variety of C. Mossie (labiata),is at all events perfectly

different from the glorious thing to which even the double

plate on the opposite page fails to do adequate justice.

Fortunately for the lovers of fine Orchids the plant, such

-as Warszewicz originally described it, was rediscovered in

1864 by M. Arce, a zealous naturalist who was and is still

busily engaged in collecting birds, insects, and plants, for

-Mr. Salvin and Mr. Skinner, throughout some of the richest

portions of Costa Rica. The plants which Arce sent home

JANUARY Ist, 1867.

were purchased by Messrs. Veitch and Son, in whose esta-

blishment at Chelsea one of them flowered for the first time

in the autumn of 1865. To their liberality I am myself in-

debted for a specimen that subsequently flowered at Kny-

persley and which was (in the autumn of 1866) exhibited

at one of the Tuesday meetings of the Royal Horticultural

Society at South Kensington. From this Mr. Fitch’s draw-

ing was made. Beautiful as the latter is, it probably gives

but a poor idea of what the plant will ultimately become,

for the native specimens in Messrs. Veitch’s possession have

some of them borne as many as five or six flowers ona scape.

Utterly unlike as are the nankeen and purple colours of

our plant to those of every other Cattleya, still as colour

alone is scarcely considered a sufficient botanical distinction,

and as in the mere form of its flowers C. Dowiana comes

very near to some of the many varieties of C. Mossi, there

was for a while some doubt on my mind as to whether it might

not eventually have itself to be ranked among the number,

especially as C. pallida, which has been shown (see Tab. 5504)

to be undistinguishable from other forms of C. labiata, has

been found by Hartweg as far north as Oaxaca. I have

lately however seen a letter from Messrs. Low’s Costa Rica

collector, who, after announcing his discovery of what he

then supposed to be a new Cattleya, goes on to describe the

colours, which are precisely those of C€. Dowiana, thus

proving at all events that the latter is not given to sport or

change, and I am therefore now fully disposed to believe

that it is essentially distinct from all other members of the

genus. Be this as it may, it is a worthy plant to bear the

name of a gallant officer in the American Packet service,

the well-known Captain J. M. Dow, to whom I have great

pleasure in dedicating it, as some slight acknowledgment

of the many kindnesses shown and the frequent assistance

rendered to English naturalists and men of science who have

been so fortunate as to come in his way in their passage

along the coasts of the Pacific.

C. Dowiana is very easily grown, but the warmest end of

the Cattleya house seems to suit it best.

Descr. Pseudobulbs eight inches to a foot high, slender af

the base but very much swollen in their upper portion,

furrowed. Leaves one on each psendobulb, oblong, thick,

and rather broad for the genus, from a span to a foot long.

Peduncle two- to six-flewered, exceedingly stout, about six

inches long, proceeding from a spathe somewhat shorter than

itself. Flowers very large and beautiful, nankeen-coloured.

with the exception of the lip, their total expansion nearly —

seven inches. Sepals lanceolate, acute, sessile, smooth at

the edges. Petals more than twice as broad as the sepals,

about the same length as the lip, somewhat obtuse, very

much waved at the margin. Jip oblong, crisp, very large

and prominent, of a substance resembling dark purple velvet

beautifully and uniformly streaked with golden threads

radiating from its centre, where they meet three other

golden lines passing longitudinally. It is obscurely three-

lobed, the lateral lobes being gathered round so as almost

to conceal the column; the central lobe emarginate, very

large, with its edges exceedingly curled. Column not more

than one third the length of the lip.—J. B.

eas

Vincent Brooks, Imp.

W. Fitch, del.et lith.

Tas. 5619,

BOWIEA voxvsriis.

Twining Bowiea.

Nat. Ord. Lintacea#.—HeExanpria Monooynia.

Gen. Char. Flores abortu monoici. Perianthiwm 6-partitum, herbaceum,

laciniis patenti-reflexis lineari-subulatis apicibus incurvis glandulosis. S¢a-

mina hypogyna, in fl. 9 imperfecta, minuta, in fl. ¢ filamentis lineari-

subulatis ; anthere oblonge, 2-loculares. Ovarium conico-hemisphericum,

lata basi sessile, 3-loculare ; stylus breviusculus, rectus, stigmate capitato

3-lobo; ovula in loculis ad 6. Capsula oblongo-conica, obtusa, 3-gona,

membranacea, loculicide 3-valvis, polysperma. Semina irregulariter ob-

longa, compressa; testa laxa membranacea, atra, splendila—Herba aphylla.

Tuber globosum, carnosum, apice nudum v. squamis paucis parvis triangu-

lari-subulatis circa basin pedunculi tmbricatis coronatum. Pedunculus

floriferus volubilis, viridis, carnosulus, ramosissimus, ramis inferioribus

ramulosis, ramulis dichotomis divaricatis teretibus corniculatis non flori-

feris, superioribus in pedicellis élongatis eurvis desinentibus. Flores inter

ginores, virides.

Bowrea volubilis. Harv. mss.

Though possessing little beauty, this is certainly one of

the most curious plants ever introduced into Europe, and

is further perfectly new to science; for though in botanical

characters allied to Drimia and Scilla, in habit and general

appearance it is like no other plant whatever. It consists of

little more than a globose, fleshy, almost tuberous, green

bulb, from the apex of which ascends yearly a very slender,

twining, green flower-stem, six to eight feet high, that throws

off an abundance of compound, curving, flowerless branches

below, and above bears numerous small, green flowers. For se-

veral years a specimen of this plant, sent to the Royal Gardens

by Henry Hutton, Esq., of Grahamstown, was an object of

great curiosity at Kew; the twining, branched flower-stem

ascended, like a Cape Asparagus, the rafters of the succulent-

house for four or five feet, and as this bore no flowers, was

_ presumed to be a branched, leafless stem proper. This died

JANUARY Ist, 1867.

down the same year, and no one guessed the family of plants

to which it belonged. In the following year a similar twi-

ning stem produced a few minute flower-buds, which were

sent to my friend the late Dr. Harvey, who identified them

with a plant of which he had dried specimens, collected on

the eastern frontier of the Cape district by Mrs. Barber, and

to which he had attached the manuscript name of Bowiea,

in honour of the late Mr. Bowie, formerly collector for the

Royal Gardens, Kew, and latterly superintendent of the late

Baron Ludwig's Garden at Cape Town, the old genus Bowiea

having been reduced to Aloe. Other living specimens have

since been received from Mrs. Barber and from Mr. Wilson

Saunders, F.R.S., collected by Cooper, and it is from one of

the latter that the accompanying drawing has been made.

Descr. Wholly green, rather fleshy. Bulb as large as an

orange, green, the coats few, very thick, fleshy, with yellow

margins. Leaves 0, except a few scales at the apex of the

bulb. lowering-stem or scape solitary, very slender, two to

four feet long, twining, excessively branched, the branches

intertwisted, repeatedly dichotomously divided, the branch-

lets curved, divaricating, terete, without flowers. Flowering

peduncles at the upper part of the scape, on its axis or

branches, one to two inches long, slender, divaricating.

Flowers half to two-thirds of an inch in diameter. Perianth

six-cleft to the base; segments linear or lanceolate-subulate,

with incurved tips. Stamens inserted at the base of the

ovary; filaments slender, subulate; anthers oblong. Ovary

three-celled, with several ovules in each cell; style short ;

stigma capitate, three-lobed. Capsule membranous, oblong,

three-valved. Seeds several, flattened, with a loose, black,

brilliant testa.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Stamen.: 3. Ovary. 4. Transverse section of ditto :—

all magnified.

Vincent “Brooks, Imp-

W. Bitch, del. et lith.

Tas. 5620.

CURCUMA Avsrranastca.

Australian Wild Turmeric. *

Nat. Ord. Zinerpnracvs2.—Monanpria Monoaynta.

Gen. Char. Calyx tubulosus, 3-dentatus. Oorolle tubus sursum dilata-

tus, limbi lacinie exteriores interioribus lateralibus conformes ; labellum

majus, patens. Filamentum petaloideo-dilatatum, carinatum, apice 2-

lobum, lobo intermedio anthera 2-calearata terminato. Ovarium _infe-

rum, 3-loculare ; stylus filiformis, stigmate capitato; ovula in loculorum

angulo centrali plurima, horizontalia, anatropa. Capsula 3-locularis, locu-

licide 3-valvis. Semina plurima, arillata—Herbx in India orientali tro-

pica indigene, acaules, radicibus palmato-tuberosis. Folia petiolata, her-

bacea, petiolis vaginantibus. Scapus simplex, lateralis v. centralis. Spica

‘erecta, earnosa, inferne bracteis saccatis subimbricata. Flores flavescentes,

intra quamvis bracteam 3-5-ni, approxvmati, bracteolati.

Curcuma Australasica ; foliis petiolatis oblongo v. ovato-lanceolatis acu-

minatis glaberrimis, seapo terminali, spica multiflora, bracteis inferi-

oribus obtusis recurvis flore brevioribus viridibus, supremis oblongis

oblongo-lanceolatisve acutis acuminatisve roseis, calycis tubo corolle

dimidio breviore, lobis brevibus rotundatis, corolle laciniis oblongis

obtusis, labello orbiculato recurvo retuso v. emarginato marginibus

undulatis, anthera oblonga calcaribus conniventibus, filamento lato

cucullato.

Of the extensive and beautiful Indian genus Curcuma, no

species had been known to inhabit Australia previous to the

visit of Mr. John Veitch to that continent, who was the dis-

coverer and means of introducing the present species from

its north-eastern corner (Cape York) into England. The

plant here figured flowered in Messrs. Veitch’s establishment

in August of the last year, and the same specimen, presented

by them to the Royal Gardens, continued in flower through-

out the following month and beginning of October, forming

a very striking ornament in one of the tropical stoves, where

it lifted its beautiful crown of transparent, rose-coloured

bracts above the surrounding green foliage. As a species,

it approaches extremely near to two Indian ones, described

by Dr. Roxburgh, viz. the common C. longa (Turmeric), and

C. montana, differing from both in the cucullate bracts, with

JANUARY Ist, 1867.

recurved tips, and in the broader base of the leaf. The root

is white, and has but a slight aroma.

Descr. Root of bundles of cylindric, white tubers, con-

stricted here and there. Leaves a foot to a foot and a half

long, narrow-lanceolate or lanceolate, with a rounded base,

acuminate. Séape terminal, at first short, then lengthening

considerably. Spike five to seven inches long, cylindric,

many-flowered. Sracts, lower cucullate, close set, and con-

nate by their bases, obtuse, recurved, green ;.upper spread-

ing, oblong, acute, rose-red, one inch long. Jowers pale-

yellow. Ovary globose. Calyx-tube half as long as the co-

rolla-tube; lobes three, obtuse. Corolla-lobes oblong, obtuse.

I’p orbicular. Anther oblong, with conniving spurs. Sta-

minodes terete-—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Front, and 2. Side view of flower. 8. Stamen and stigma. 4.

Side view of do. 5. Side view of ovary and staminodia. 6. Front view of

staminodes :—all magnified.

£62/.

Se eee ee ae

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W. Fitch, del. et ith Vincent BrooksJmp.

‘Tas. 5621.

HELIANTHEMUM ocyrmorpss.

Basil-like Rock-rose.

Nat. Ord. Cistrnem.—Potyanpria Monoe@ynta.

Gen. Char. Petala, in floribus perfectis,5. Stamina numerosa. Ovarii

placente v. semisepta 3; ovula in quavis placenta 00; stylus cum ovario

articulatus, filiformis v. subclavatus, nune abbreviatus; stigma capitatum

v. cristato-3-lobum. Embryo uncinatus, 2-plicatus v. circumflexus.—Herbe

suffruticesve, basi sepius decumbenti-ramose. Flores sepius in racemos

terminales, simplices v. 2-fidos dispositi v. inferiores avillares. Petala lata.

HELIANTHEMUM ocymoides ; caule suffruticoso erecto ramoso gracili, ramis

incanis hie illic pilosis, foliis oppositis lineari- vy. spathulato-oblongis

acutis obtusisve apice recurvis utrinque incanis, pedunculis elongatis

superne subcorymbosim ramosis gracilibus laxe patentim pilosis, sepalis

3 ovatis longe acuminatis pubescentibus vy. tomentosis, petalis late

obcordatis basi purpureis, stylo brevi, stigmate magno capitato.

HELIANTHEMUM ocymoides. Persoon, Ench. v. 11.76. DOC. Prodr. v. 1.

p. 267. Sweet Cistin. t. 13. :

Cistus ocymoides. Lam. Dict. v. 11. p. 18.

Cistus sampsucifolius. Cavan. p. 65. t. 96, non Milleri.

A most beautiful hardy Rock- or Sun-rose, native of Spain

and Portugal, where, like its congeners, it inhabits dry,

rocky hills. It was for some years cultivated in the Royal

Gardens, Kew, and flowered in July in an open border,

though apt to be cut by the frost. The beautiful genus to

which this belongs was once a favourite in cultivation, but

has of late given way before the rage for “ bedding-out

plants,” which now monopolize the once varied borders of

English gardens. No less than seventy species of Helianthe-

mum, besides varieties, are figured in Sweet’s valuable work

on the cultivated plants of the Order, published in 1830, and

of these a great number are now no longer to be found in

England. It is to be hoped that the time will yet come

when the taste for really beautiful and interesting plants will

- JaNvaRY 1s7, 1867.

reign again, and replace the present passion for a blaze of

gaudy colours along our garden walks.

Descr. A shrub two to three feet high, slender, twiggy,

with erect, rather flexuous branches, everywhere covered on

the leaves and branches with a hoary pubescence. Leaves

opposite, half to one and a half inch long, those on the

main stems and branches linear-oblong acute, those on the

branchlets more spathulate, with recurved tips, all equally

hoary on both surfaces. Peduncles very slender, six to nine

inches long, many-flowered. Pedicels corymbose, branched

towards the tip of the peduncle, opposite below, half to one

inch long, erect, as well as the peduncles covered with loose

soft, very spreading hairs. Flowers an inch and a quarter to

an inch and a half broad, bright yellow with a purple eye.

Sepals ovate, long acuminate, subtended by two linear nar-

row bracts, tomentose on the back. Petals broadly and

shallowly obcordate, with an apiculus between the lobes.

Stamens unequal, very numerous; filaments short; anthers

purple, with yellow pollen. Ovary globose, villous; style

very short; stigma large, capitate, three-lobed.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Calyx and ovary.

Vincent Brooks Imp.

W. Fitch, del.et lith.

Tas. 5622.

GRIAS cavLiriora.

Anchovy Pear.

Nat. Ord. Myrracem.—MOonapDELPHIA POLYANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Oalycis tubus turbinatus, supra ovarium haud produetus,

limbus cupulatus, demum in lobos 2-4 irregulariter ruptus. Petala 4,

rarius 5, patentia. Stamina oo, disco crasso subcupulato o0-seriatim in-

serta, interiora minora, filamentis crassis in globum conniventibus invo-

lutis; anthere parve, loculis distinctis longitudinaliter dehiscentibus.

Ovarium inferum, 4-loculare; stylus 0 y. breviter conicus, stigmatibus 4

cruciatim radiantibus ; ovula in loculis 2-4, pendula. Fructus carnosus,

ovoideus, calycis limbo coronatus. Semen sepius 1, pendulum, testa crassa.

—Arbores excelse Americane. Folia alterna, ad apices ramulorum con-

Serta, sepe longissima, penninervia, integerrima v. obscure sinuato-dentata,

. epunctata. Flores in trunco ramisque breviter pedicellati et subsessiles,

tasciculati.

Gris cauliflora ; foliis lanceolatis acuminatis recurvis glaberrimis, pedun-

om brevibus crassis multifloris, floribus pallide flavis, petalis oblongis

obtusis.

Grras cauliflora. Linn. Sp. Pl. 732. DO. Prodr. v. 8. p. 296. Griseb. Fl.

Brit. W. Ind. p. 243.

Anchovy Pear. Sloane Hist. Jam. v. 2, p-122. ¢.217. £:1,2. Browse, Jam.

p. 245. Lunan, Hort. Jam. v. 1. p. 19.

This is a plant of considerable interest, in a horticultural

and perhaps also in an economic point of view. In the first

place, it is one of the most striking and easily managed of all

those stately, palm-like tropical dicotyledonous trees that are

so greatly admired, and are essential for the decoration of

every stove; and in the next place, as the “ Anchovy Pear,”

it has long been, according to some authorities, in esteem as

a West Indian fruit. The latter is a large, brown, fleshy

drupe, like that of the Mammee-apple, which was, according

to Sloane, pickled and eaten by the Spaniards in lieu of

mangoes, and was sent as a great rarity to Spain. Browne,

in his ‘ Natural History of Jamaica,’ says nothing of the value

of the fruit, but M‘Fadyen, who represents the English taste

JANUARY Ist, 1867.

in such matters, says in his second volume (unpublished), “ 1

cannot learn that the fruit is ever collected for use, or

brought to the market.”

The Grias cauliflora is found throughout the Spanish

Main, growing in clumps or thickets, and its flowers are

deliciously sweet-scented. It has flowered several times at

Kew, and lately in September of last year.

Descr. A tree twenty to fifty feet high, trunk undivided

or with a few simple branches. Leaves crowded at the ends

of the branches, spreading and drooping, three to four feet

long, ten inches broad, obovate-lanceolate, acuminate, cuneate

at the base and continuous with the short petiole, quite

entire or obscurely waved and crenulate, dark green, quite

glabrous, shining. lowers on short stout branching pedun-

cles, produced on the trunk far below the leaves, two inches

broad, pale yellow, very fragrant. Calya limb irregularly

four-cleft. Petals four, fleshy, oblong, obtuse, nerveless.

Stamens crowded, incurved. Apex of ovary square and red.

Fruit ovate, eight-grooved, containing an oblong, one-seeded

nut.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Whole plant, reduced. 2. Branch and flower, nat. size. 3.

Ovary and calyx. 4. Transverse section of ditto. 5. Vertical section of

stamen. 6. Stamen:—all magnified.

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TAPEINOTES Carorra.

Empress Charlotte's Tapeinotes.

Nat. Ord. Gusnertace®.—DIpYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. Calyz liber, inequalis, 5-partitus. Corolla infundibuliformi-

subringens, basi postice gibba, tubo antice interdum grosse ventricoso,

fauce contracto, limbi erecti, labio superiore 2- inferiore 3-lobo. Stamina

4, didynama, et quinti rudimentum ; anthere coherentes. Discus in glan-

dulam posticam tumens. Capsula ovata, coriacea, 1-locularis, 2-valvis,

placentis 2 parietalibus 2-lamellatis, Semina oo, oblonga.—Herbe Brasi-

lienses, subcarnose, caule basi tuberoso. Folia opposita v. subopposita, pe-

tiolata, subdentata. Pedicelli 1-2-azillares, 1-2-flori.

TaPetnotes Caroline ; suffruticosa, foliis confertis oblongis oblongo-

lanceolatisve acuminatis basi acutis crenato-serratis supra nitidis lu-

ride virescentibus subtus hirtis rubro-purpureis, pedicellis angulatis

1-floris infra calycem 5-alatis, sepalis foliaceis deltoideo-cordatis acutis

marginibus recurvis undulatis, corolla alba calyce duplo longiore, tubo

inflato hirsuto, lobis parvis suborbiculatis glabris, ovario hirsuto.

Tarernores Caroline. Wawra, Gistr. Bot. Zeitschrift, 1862, p. 273, cum

twe.; Bot. Ergebn. Reise Mazimil. p- 72. t. 9.

A beautiful stove plant, introduced into this country by

Mr. Bull, of Chelsea, from whose plant the accompanying

drawing was made, in November, 1866. It was discovered

during the Brazilian travels of his present Majesty the Em-

peror of Mexico (Maximilian I.) in 1859-60, and was intro- —

duced into the Imperial Garden of Schénbrunn (Vienna) and

published by Dr. Henrich Wawra, who accompanied the ex-

pedition as surgeon and naturalist. It bears the name of the

Empress of Mexico (Charlotte).

The other species of Tapeinotes, of which there are several,

are all natives of Brazil and well worthy of cultivation, as

indeed are most of the plants of the beautiful Order to

which it belongs.

Descr. A small undershrub. Stem and branches terete,

red-brown, rather succulent. Leaves crowded towards the

FEBRUARY Ist, 1867.

ends of the branches, opposite, four to six inches long, shortly

petioled, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, obtusely serrate, dark

bluish-green and shining above, with sunk veins and scat-

tered short hairs, bright red-purple and hairy below. Pe--

duncles axillary, solitary, one-third as long as the leaves, an-

gular, one-flowered, with two subulate bracts at the base.

Calyx of five, large, leafy, triangular, cordate, acute, green

sepals, with undulate, recurved margins. Corolla an inch

and a half long, white; fuse curved upwards, inflated and

gibbous below, villous with long hairs ; mouth contracted ;

lobes short, broad, rounded, glabrous. Stamens included ; an-

thers cohering. Ovary villous. —J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Base of calyx and ovary :—magnified.

W. Fitch, del et lth.

Tas. 5624.

ANGRAICUM CITRATUM.

Citron-yellow Angraecum.

Nat. Ord. Orcnipe®.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

_ Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5589.)

An@racum citratum; subaaculis, foliis confertis oblongo-lanceolatis acu-

minatis convexiusculis, scapo gracili pendulo, bracteis appressis ob-

tusis nigris, floribus inter minores racemosis breviter pedicellatis

pallide stramineo-albis, pedicellis teretiusculis, sepalis lateralibus obo-

vato-spathulatis obtusis, dorsali multo minore arcuato porrecto, petalis

sepalis majoribus breviter unguiculatis obovato-rotundatis, labello late

unguiculato, lamina orbiculari emarginato-2-lobo, caleare labello duplo

longiore flexuoso.

ANGRECUM citratum. Pet. Thouars, Hist. Partie. Plant. Orchid. recueillies

sur les trois iles d Afrique, t. 61.

A very curious and pretty little species, of which I find

no record subsequent to the publication of Du Petit Thouars’

work, cited above, and which was published in 1822, for,

strange to say, it is omitted in Lindley’s celebrated ‘ Genera

and Species of Orchidaceous Plants.’ The structure of the

flower seems peculiar, owing to the small size of the dorsal

sepal, as shown both in Thouars’ and Mr. Fitch’s drawings.

I regret not having seen the living specimen, to confirm this

character. The name is given in reference to the pale yellow

(citron-coloured) flowers, which are scentless. The plant is

a native of Madagascar, and was flowered by Messrs. Veitch,

of the Royal Exotic Nurseries, Chelsea, in March, 1865. _

Descr. Stem very short, half an inch long, sending out

abundance of slender flattened aerial roots. Leaves few,

close-set, three to four inches long, oblong-lanceolate, acumi-

nate, contracted at the base, smooth, convex, and bright

green above, paler below; midrib deeply sunk. Scape

radical, with the flowering portion twice as long as the leaves,

pendulous, very slender, with numerous short, sheathing,

FEBRUARY Isr, 1867.

appressed, obtuse, black bracts. Raceme three to five inches

long, slender, many-flowered. Flowers rather close-set, shortly

pedicelled, three-quarters of an inch diameter, flat, pale straw-

colour. Lateral sepals obovate-spathulate, obtuse, rather re-

flexed; dorsal very much smaller, arched over the column.

Petals alittle larger and much broader than the lateral sepals,

orbicular, obovate, with short claws. zp with an orbicular,

emarginate, or two-lobed flat blade, and short broad claw.

Spur about twice as long as the lip, flexuous, rather slender.

—J. D. H.

Fig.1. Portion of raceme and flower. 2. Column, lip and spur. 3.

Pollen-masses, spur and gland :—all magnified. ;

W. Fitch, del. et lith.

Vincent Brooks, imp

ne ea

Tas. 5625.

IMPATIENS tatrrortza.

Broad-leaved Cingalese Balsam.

Nat. Ord. Batsamrnee.—Penranpria Monocynta.

Gen. Char, Flores irregulares, Sepala 3, rarissime 5, imbricata, 2 late-

ralia parva, sepius viridia; posticum maximum, in calear productum. Pe-

tala 3, anticum exterius concavum, lateralia 2-lida (e 2 coalitis composita) ;

lobo superiore exteriore. Stamina 5, filamentis brevibus complanatis ;

anthere circa stylum conniventes y. coherentes, loculis introrsum dehis-

centibus. Ovarium oblongum, 5-loculare; stigma sessile, 5-dentatuin, y.

stigmata 5, parva; ovula in loculis oo, superposita, l-seriata. Capsula

2-5-locularis, loculicide dehiscens ; valvis 5, elastice desilientibus. Semina

exalbuminosa.—Herbe nune frutescentes, sepius glabra. Folia opposita

alterna v. verticillata, exstipulata. Pedunculi axillares, rarius radicales,

l-oo-flort. Flores sepe speciost.

Impatiens latifolia; erecta, glaberrima, foliis alternis rarius oppositis

verticillatisve ovato-lanceolatis attenuato-acuminatis basi acutis argute

serratis dentibus inferioribus setiferis, petiolo longe setoso, setis glan-

duliferis, pedicellis axillaribus solitariis 1-floris ebracteolatis, floribus

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leolatis viridibus, labelli limbo concayo viridi, caleare gracili curvo,

.vexillo obcordato-2-lobo dorso cornuto, alis 2-partitis horizontaliter

patentibus.

Iupatrens latifolia. Linn. Sp. Pl. 1238. Hook.f. and Thoms. in Journ,

Linn. Soe. iv. p. 124,

Impatiens cuspidata. Wight and Arn. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. v. 1. p.

321. Wight, Ic. t. 741. Thwaites, Enum. Pl. Ceylon, p. 65.

Ipatrens bipartita. drn.in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. lc. p. 322.

Impatiens floribunda. Wight in Madr. Journ. Se. v. 5. p. 7.

Of the vast horde of Indian perennial Balsams, only two

or three are actually in cultivation, whilst nearly a hundred,

most of them highly ornamental, are yet to be introduced,

and especially from the subtropical jungles of Ceylon, the

western Ghauts, and the Himalaya. Amongst those of the

first-named locality the present is a conspicuous instance,

which we owe to our indefatigable correspondent G. H. K.

Thwaites, F.R.S., who sent seeds from the Royal Gardens,

FEBRUARY lst, 1867.

Peradenia, in the winter of 1865, plants from which flowered,

in moderate heat, at Kew, in September, 1866. It belongs

to a most puzzling group of this genus, in which the leaves

are sometimes opposite or whorled, but more often alternate,

and is most closely allied to, if not identical with, the

flaccida of this work, Tab. 5276, differing chieily in the

broader leaves. Thwaites, indeed, refers J. flaccida to the

Linnean J. latifolia, but describes it as a decumbent plant,

which does not accord with the habit of the original specimen

in the Linnean herbarium. Unfortunately the locality of

the Linnean specimen is unknown; it is marked as from

the Cape of Good Hope, obviously erroneously, and has the

spur bifid at the apex (an abnormal feature). Lastly, J. flac-

cida, according to Thwaites, is a lowland plant, ascending to

an elevation of 3000 feet ; whereas the present is a mountain

species, occurring between 4000 and 7000 feet. It is also a

native of the ghauts of Western India.

Descr. A shrub, two to four feet high, much branched,

quite glabrous. Stems terete, rather swollen at the joints.

Leaves usually alternate, sometimes, especially in peninsular

Indian specimens, opposite or whorled, petioled, very variable

in size and shape, two to four inches long, ovate or ovate-

lanceolate, acuminate, sharply serrate, lower serratures seti-

gerous, as is the petiole. lowers in solitary, one-flowered,

axillary peduncles, one to two inches long, flat, an inch to

an inch and three-quarters in diameter, pale purple. Lateral

sepals small, green, oblong-lanceolate. ip concave, green,

with a long, slender spur. Upper petal deeply two-lobed,

with a green horned keel at the back. Wings spreading,

upper lobe largest, emarginate, all obtuse.—.J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Upper limb of ovary :—magnified.

5626.

sept ameter ee meena ren re

Vincent Brooks. Imp

W. Fitch, del.et lith

Tas. 5626.

CLAVIS A FULGENS.

Brilliant-flowered Clavija.

Nat. Ord. Myrstnew.—Pentanoria Monoaynra.

Gen. Char. Calyx profunde 5-fidus, laciniis obtusis imbricatis.- Corolle

tubus brevis; lobi 5, fauce in appendices 5 carnosas cum lobis alternantes

tumente. Stamina 5, filamentis brevissimis liberis v. connatis ; anthere

extrorsum dehiscentes, sepe in capitulum conniventes. Ovarium 1-loculare ;

stylus brevissimus, stigmate brevi 2-lobo ; ovula pauca placente parve basi-

lari inserta. Bacca globosa, oligosperma. Semina placentw globose affixa,

umbilico ventrali, festa mucilaginosa, albumine corneo; embryo excentri-

cus, cotyledonibus ovatis planis, radicula infera—Frutices Americe tropice ;

caule simplici, apice folioso. Folia alterna, coriacea. Racemi aziliares.

Flores inter minores, abortu unisexuales, albi flavi v. aurantiact.

Cravisa fulgens; foliis breviter petiolatis, elongato-obovato-lanceolatis

obtusis v. subacutis supra medium remote dentatis, costa valida, nervis

inconspicuis, racemis erectis robustis multi-densifloris, floribus majus-

culis erecto-patentibus rubro-aurantiacis, pedicellis brevibus crassis,

calycis lobis ciliolatis, corolla lobis orbiculatis, giandulis subrotundis,

filamentis liberis, antheris subquadratis flavis, connectivo crasso.

The beautiful plant here figured, and which flowered in

the Royal Gardens in September of last year, is stated to

have been received about eighteen years ago, but I can find

no record of either its native country or donor, except that

it may possibly have been raised from seeds sent from Lima,

in Peru, by the late Mr. M‘Lean, an old correspondent of the

Gardens. Its congeners, of which a dozen or so are well

described, are all South American, extending from Brazil to

Panama, and down the Andes on the west coast to Peru, but

amongst them all I find none, either in our herbarium or

books, that equals this for the size and colour of its flowers.

As a stove plant it is easily managed, flowers freely, and

having the habit of the genus in foliage, etc., it forms a very

strikingly ornamental plant.

Descr. Trunk erect, in our plant about four feet high, very

FEBRUARY Ist. 1567.

stout, three-quarters of an inch in diameter, with scattered

subulate scales towards the top. Leaves ten to fourteen inches

long, three to five inches broad, very narrowly obcuneate-

spathulate, obtuse or subacute, narrowed into the very short

stout petiole, remotely toothed towards the apex, dark-green,

very coriaceous ; nerves obscure ; midrid very stout. Racemes

erect, four to five inches long, an inch and a half in diameter,

rachis entirely hidden by the densely crowded flowers. Pedi-

cels very short, stout, glabrous. Base of calyx turbinate ; lobes

orbicular, minutely ciliated. Corolla half an inch to two-

thirds of an inch in diameter, deep orange-red, yellow in the

disk ; /obes rounded, with very tumid subhemispherical glands.

Stamens small, sunk between the glands of the petals; fila-

ments short, stout, free ; anthers subquadrate ; cells recurved

at the base on the very thick, subquadrate, swollen connec-

tive. Ovary with a short conic style and capitate stigma.—

J.D. H.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx and ovary. 38 and 4. Stamens :—all magnified.

Tas. 5627.

MESOSPINIDIUM SANGUINEUM.

Rosy Mesospinidium.

Nat. Ord. Orcurpex.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Gen. Ohar. Perigonium subcarnosum, clausum. Sepalwm summum lanceo-

latum ; sepala lateralia connata, apice bifida, lacinié utréque lancea, basi

subsaccato labello supposita ; petala triangulo-lanceolata, acuta, sepalis basi

vix imbricantibus. Labellum cuneatum, obcordatum, limbo revoluto, carine

du, unguem marginantes, eboracew, nunc antice lobate canalem veluti-

num inter se linquentes, lamella biloba depressd anteposita, subimmobile.

Columna semiteres,anticé profunde exeavatum. Androclinit limbus utrinque

dependens ; rostellum ascendens, acuto-triangulum, bicuspidatum. Anthera

unilocularis, anticé retusa, medio cuspidata. Pollinia globosa, posticé

minuté perforata. Caudicula linearis, haat latior; glandula lancea. Cha-

racter ex Iechb. Walp. Annales, v. p. 6.

MESOSPINIDIUM sanguinewm ; pseudobulbis ovalibus compressis nebulosis

diphyllis, foliis cuneato-ligulatis acutis, racemis secundis, ramosis foliis

longioribus, bracteis squameformibus minutis, sepalis oblongis acutis,

lateralibus medium versus bifidis, sepalis cuneato-ovato-acutis, labello

lingulato acuto, lateribus erectis, carina lineari per disci basin superi-

ee: — sc. medio labello divergenti bicruri, androclinio minute

obulato.

MESOSPINIDIUM sanguineum. Rehb. fil. Walp. Annales, 1. c.

A very pretty plant, with nodding racemes in the way of

those of Rodriquesia secunda, but larger and handsomer.

Unlike the latter species, which is found abundantly at the

embouchure of the Amazon river, and which therefore luxu-

riates in a great degree of heat and moisture—this Meso-

spinidium is met with at a great elevation, and consequently

in a cool climate, among the Peruvian and Quitensian Andes,

whence descend some of the largest tributaries of that most

magnificent of all streams. Although discovered by Jameson

more than twenty years ago, and subsequently met with by

. Warscewicz, it does not appear to have ever reached this

country alive before the year 1866, when plants of it were

received in excellent condition from Ecuador, by the Messrs.

FEBRUARY Ist, 1867.

Backhouse, of York, who exhibited a flowering specimen

of it—from which the Plate was derived—at one of the

Tuesday meetings at South Kensington in November last.

It appears quite at home in what may conveniently be termed

the “ Peruvian house,” as meant to include the coolest and

dampest section of temperate Orchids, while the “ Mexican

house ” would indicate a climate somewhat warmer and drier

than the last, but still cool.

As a genus, Mesospinidiwm comes near to Odontoglossum,

from which a superficial observer might fail to distinguish it.

Professor Reichenbach—the founder of the genus—would

also make it embrace the genera ‘Ada’ and ‘Abola’ of

Lindley, a view in which I find myself at present unable to

concur.

Descr. An epiphyte, with compressed, prettily-mottled oval

two-leaved pseudobulbs. Leaves ligulate, sharp-pointed,

shorter than the many-flowered drooping slightly-branched

flower-stem. Bracts minute, scale-like. Sepals oblong, acute,

the side ones joined at the base—for more than half their

length. Petals cuneate, ovate, acute, of a firm waxy sub-

stance, and (like the sepals) of a uniform warm rosy tint.

Lip \ingulate, sharp-pointed, its sides erect, its middle lobe

recurved, with a two-limbed diverging process at the base.

The lip at its point is of the same rosy tint as the sepals and

petals, but fades into white in its lower portion. Column

white, slightly lobed —J. Bateman.

Fig. 1. Side view of lip and column. 2. Front view of lip. 3. Ditto

ofcolumn. 4. Pollen-masses :—magnified.

Tas. 5628.

BARLERIA Grssont.

Dr. Gibson's Barleria.

Nat. Ord. Acantuacrm.—Dianpria Monoaynta.

Gen. Char. Calyx 4-partitus, laciniis cruciatim oppositis, supera et in-

fera plerumque majoribus. Corolla regulariter infundibuliformis v. hypo-

craterimorpha, 5-loba, ore dilatato, laciniis imbricatis, superiore plerumque

breviore. Stamina 2, cum staminodiis 2 3 v. 4, didynama, cirea basin tubi

inserta. Anthere oblonge v. lineares, 2-loculares, loculis parallelis muticis.

Stigma vy. infundibuliforme, compressum, truncatum, limbo integro, v. an-

gustum, oblique 2-fidum. Capsula cirea basin fere 2-locularis, septo integro

adnato, basi 2-4-sperma. Semina retinaculo suffulta—Herbe v. frutices,

ramosé. Inflorescentia spicata axillaris v. solitaria. Calyx 2-bracteolatus.

Barteria Gibsoni ; fruticosa, glaberrima, foliis ovato- v. oblongo-lanceolatis

acuminatis in petiolum brevem angustatis, margine minute ciliolatis,

floribus subterminalibus paucis vix spicatis, bracteis parvis anguste

ovatis, calycis foliolis exterioribus anguste subulatis interioribus

elliptico-oblongis obtusis subacutisve viridibus, exterioribus duplo

longioribus multotiesque majoribus, corolle pallide purpures tubo

infundibuliformi calycem equante, limbi lobis subequaliter rotundatis

2 inferioribus medio macula saturatiore notatis, ore pallido, staminibus

2 cum staminodiis 3 parvis subulatis.

Barteria Gibsoni. Dalzel in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. v. 2. p. 339.

It has already been remarked in this work, that the hitherto

much neglected Order Acanthacee abounds in beautiful

garden plants, which, from their habit of flowering in winter,

are especially desirable for stove cultivation in this climate.

Such is the subject of the present Plate, a native of the

Ghauts of Central India, for seeds of which the Royal Gar-

~ dens are indebted to Dr. Anderson, of the Royal Gardens,

Calcutta, which flowered at Kew in December, 1866. Hand-

some as it is, it falls very far short indeed of some of its

congeners, also natives of the Western Indian Ghauts, and of

which one, B. grandiflora, Dalzel, has leaves a span long,

and spikes of flowers, whose corollas are four to four and a

FEBRUARY Ist, 1867.

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are twelve to eighteen inches high, but will probably attain

three or four feet. Stems branched, shrubby, terete. Leaves

two to four inches long, shortly petioled, lanceolate or oblong

or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, rather rough at the margin,

coriaceous, glaucous below; nerves distinct, running very

obliquely. Flowers in very short terminal spikes, or axillary

in the uppermost leaves. Calyx one and a half inch long;

outer sepals very narrow subulate, not half the length of the

inner, which are oblong, obtuse, convex, nerved. Corolla

large, pale purple; tude as long as the calyx, funnel-shaped,

paler; /obes spreading, orbicular, each one-third of an inch

in diameter, inner rather smaller, two upper with a dark pur-

ple blotch in the centre. Stamens two, with three stami-

nodes ; filaments glabrous ; anthers oblong, purple. Stigma

narrow, very obliquely bifid.— J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Calyx,—nat. size. 2. Base of corolla and stamens. 3. Germen :—

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_may be successfully grown in them; indeed they may be made an interesting source of recreatien

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‘Tas. 5629.

PLEROMA sarMentosa.

Sarmentose Pleroma.

Nat. Ord. Menastomacres.—Decanpria Monoeynta.

Gen. Ohar. Calycis tubus paleaceus hirsutus v. strigosus, ovoideus cam-

panulatus v. elongatus; lobi 5, subulati lanceolati v. oblongi, decidui.

Petala 5, obovata, sepe inzequilatera et retusa. Stamina 10, equalia vy.

subzequalia, filamentis glabris pilosis v. glandulosis; anthere consimiles,

lineari-subulate, arcuate, connectivo basi breviter v. longius producto an-

tice 2-tuberculato inappendiculato. Ovariwm liberum vy. basi costis 5

calyci adherens, vertice hispidum y. setosum, 5-loculare ; stylus filiformis,

curvus, glaber yv. pilosus, stigmate punctiformi. Capsula 5-valvis, calyce

Inclusa. Semina cochleata.—Frutices et suffrutices, rarius herbe, Americe

australis tropice et subtropice incole, interdum scandentes, sepius hispida v.

strigoso-hirsute. Folia petiolata, ovata v. oblonga, integerrima. Flores

sepissine paniculati, purpurei v. violacei.

LasIanpRa sarmentosa ; fruticulus patentim villosus, ramis ramulisque sar-

mentosis, foliis breviter petiolatis ovatis ovato-oblongisve acutis basi

rotundatis cordatisve 7-nerviis utrinque pilosis, paniculis 3-chotomis

terminalibus paucifloris, pedicellis brevibus, calycis tubo obovoideo v.

subgloboso dense tomentoso, lobis subulato-lanceolatis recurvis tubo

longioribus, petalis late cuneato-obovatis violaceis, filamentis glabris,

antheris majoribus connectivo basi producto basi 2-tuberculato, mino-

ribus connectivo breviore 2-tuberculato, ovarium ad medium calyci

costis 5 adherente.

Lastanpra sarmentosa. Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. v. 13. p. 130.

CumToGastRa sarmentosa. DO. Prodr. v. 3. p. 134.

Ruexia sarmentosa. Bonpl. Rhez. t.10.

A very beautiful plant, discovered by Humboldt and Bon-

pland in the cool valleys of Peru, near Cuenca, and since

collected by Dr. Jameson at the same spot, alt. 8000 feet,

and elsewhere; by Spruce, at the base of Chimborazo ; and

by Dr. Seemann, at Loxa and Cuenca, etc., who observes

that it is very common and called “ Flore de Gallinaso.”

The specimen here figured was flowered in December, 1866,

by our zealous correspondent Isaac Anderson Henry, F.L.S.,

. of Edinburgh, from seeds sent by Dr. Jameson. As this

MARCH Ist, 1867.

plant is as well adapted for greenhouse cultivation as Mono-

chetum, and is far more beautiful, it is one of the most

valuable acquisitions to our houses of late years.

Descr. A small, rather slender, straggling subscandent

undershrub, covered with spreading, villous hairs. Leaves

on petioles halfaninch long; blade an inch and a half to

two inches long, ovate, acute, quite entire, rounded or cor-

date at the base, five- to seven-nerved, hairy on both surfaces,

bright green above, paler below. lowers two to two and a

half inches in diameter, deep violet and very handsome, in

small, few-flowered panicles at the ends of the branchlets;

peduncles and pedicels short, villous. Calyx-tube broadly

ovoid; lobes longer than the tube, spreading, subulate-lan-

ceolate. Petals broadly obovate-cuneate, retuse. Anthers

dark purple, with green connectives filaments and tubercles ;

the longer with the connective produced at the base, where

it bears two tubercles; smaller anthers with the connective

tubercled, but not produced.—J. D. H.

Fig.1. Large, and 2, small stamens. 3. Calyx, ovary, and style. 4.

Transverse section of ovary. 5. Capsule :—all magnified.

630.

W. Fitch, del.et lith.

ooks < Imp

Vincent B

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Tas. 5630.

SARCANTHUS ERINACEUS,

Hairy-stemmed Sarcanthus.

Nat. Ord. OrcHipE®.—Gynanvria Monanprta.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tan. 4639.)

SaRoanTuvs erinaceus ; pedunculo muriculato echinato racemoso, bracteis

triangulis abbreviatis echinulatis, ovariis pedicellatis que echinulatis,

sepalis oblongis acutis wque echinatis, petalis ligulatis obtusis, labello

excavato tridentato, utrinque sub columna plicato, dentibus lateralibus

bidentatis, dente medio producto triangulo, calcare retrorso conico-

cylindraceo vacuo, gibbere pandurato sub column, columna gracili

elongata, rostello deflexo subulato elongato apice bidentato, caudicula

ab ovato basi lineari, polliniis in stipite bifido centrice caudicule in-

serto reflexis. Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 1866.

AERIDES dasypogon. ‘Hort., non Lindl.

SarcanTuvs Stowellianus. Batem., mss.

The first plant that I ever saw of this pretty Sarcanthus

was bought, under the name of derides rubrum, about ten

years ago, at one of Stevens’s sales. After several years’ culti-

vation, it flowered at Knypersley, and as I first noticed the

open blossoms as I was passing through the Orchid houses

in company with my lamented friend Hugh Stowell, I called

it provisionally after him. I did not, however, describe or

collate it at that time, and as I shortly afterwards met with it

in Messrs. Low’s collection under the name of Aerides dasypo-

gon, I too hastily concluded that such was probably its

real name, and made no further inquiries into the matter.

In the autumn of last year, however, I met with the plant

again—and this time under the name of Sarcanthus erinaceus

—in the Royal Gardens at Kew, where it had been seen by

Professor Reichenbach, and named as above by him. This

name, which well describes the peculiarly shaggy or hedge-

hog-like appearance of the flower-stems, must therefore

MARCH IsT, 1867.

stand. It is a rare plant and, always excepting Saccolabium

giganteum, the slowest grower of its tribe. My plant, which

is about four inches high, has at length begun to branch,

and, as the branches all flower freely, my specimen has

already become an attractive object ;—in our grandchildren’s

days it will be quite charming! It flowers freely during the

summer months in the East India house. Its introducer,

both to Kew and to Clapton, was the Rev. Mr. Parish, who

no doubt met with it in Moulmeyne.—J. Bateman.

Fig. 1. Front view of flower. .2. Side view of ditto :—magnified.

ial

ai 63 7 . ‘

nainniasinciegshisiall Pcie

Vincent Brooks, Imp:

W. Fitch, del.et lith.

Tas. 5631.

STIPHOCAMPYLUS HUMBOLDTIANUS.

Humboldt’s Siphocampylus.

Nat. Ord. Lopetiacem.—PEntTANDRIA MonocGynta.

Gen. Char. Calycis tubus turbinatus v. hemisphericus; lobi 5. Corolle

tubus sepissime elongatus, incurvus et superne yentricosus, integer,

rarissime et basi tantum fissus; limbi 2-labiati lobi 5, tubo breviores,

superiores reflexi. Stamina connata; anthere hirsute v. 2 inferiores bar-

bate.—Frutices suffrutices v. herbe American, erecte v. scandentes.

Folia alterna v. verticillata. Pedicelli avxillares. Flores albi v. rubri.

Corolla sepius pubescens.

Srpsocampytus Hwmboldtianus ; suffruticosus, ramulis patentim subvil-

losis, foliis alternis petiolatis subcoriaceis ovato-lanceolatis ovatisve

acuminatis calloso-denticulatis superne glaberrimis subtus sparse pi-

losis, venis inconspicuis, pedicellis petiolo equilongis, calycis glabri

tubo turbinato, dentibus brevibus triangularibus, corolla fere 2-pollicari

longe tubuloso integro, tubo e basi subinflato breviter subcylindraceo,

deinde pro maxima parte latiore compresso lente incurvo, lobis brevibus

triangulari-lanceolatis patentibus.

SrpHocampnHytvs Humboldtianus. DOC. Prod. v. 7. p. 398.

SrppocampPytvs fulgens. Floral Magazine, t. 313.

Losetia Humboldtiana. Presl, Prod. Lob. 35.

This elegant plant was sent for figuring by Mr. Bull, of

Chelsea, with whom it flowered in November, 1866, and to

whom the Royal Gardens are further indebted for a living

plant that has also flowered. The plant is no doubt a native

of Peru, whence most of its congeners have been brought,

and it is evidently (if any dependence is to be placed on

descriptions) the 8. Humboldtianus, DC., of which, however,

I have seen no authentic specimens; it also approaches 8.

Peruvianus, but is larger in all its parts, has broader leaves

and pubescent stems, and different calyx-lobes. The genus

Siphocampylus is very nearly allied to Lobelia, and like it,

abounds in showy flowered plants. Upwards of fifty species

have been described, of which scarce a dozen have been in-

troduced into our gardens. Some are climbers, and, coming

MARCH Ist, 1867.

from the cooler regions of the Andes, may be expected to

grow ina temperate house. ‘The present is a very choice

plant, and succeeds well in a warm greenhouse, when it is

very attractive.

Descr. A small bush, three feet high, branching from the

base. Stem and branches pubescent with spreading leaves,

purplish-brown, slender, flexuous, but apparently not scan-

dent. Leaves alternate, on slender petioles three-quarters of

an inch long, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, acute or

rounded at the base, irregularly minutely toothed or serrate,

dark green and glabrous above, paler and pilose beneath, ra-

ther coriaceous ; nerves very faint. Pedicels axillary, solitary,

slender, as long as the petioles. Flowers drooping, decurved,

bright scarlet. Calyx glabrous, small; tube turbinate or

subcampanulate, angled; teeth very small. Corolla almost

two inches long, scarce half an inch broad at the broadest

part, laterally compressed, ribbed, lower quarter narrower,

subcylindric, with an inflated base, remaining three-quarters

gently swelling, arched; lobes one-third of an inch long,

triangular-lanceolate, recurved. Anthers exserted, violet-

purple, nearly glabrous. Style very slender, stigma small.

Fig. 1. Calyx, ovary, and style :—magnified.

Tas. 5632.

ONCIDIUM SERRATUM.

Serrated Oncidium.

Nat. Ord. Orncuipex.—Gynanpria Monanpria.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4148.)

OncIDIUM serratum ; pseudobulbis ovalibus elatis diphyllis, foliis erectis

rigidis acutis basi angustatis canaliculatis, panicula paucifloré brevio-

ribus, sepalis serrato-crispatis, dorsali reniformi, lateralibus multo

longioribus obovatis patentissimis, petalis ovatis acutis serrato-crispatis

conniventibus, labello multo minore hastato, laciniis acutis intermedia

lineari obtus4 medio constricta lateralibus acuminatis triplo minoribus

(cristé depress4 crenulata), column alis subulatis ascendentibus.

OnorpiuM serratum. Lindl. Sert., Rehb. in Walpers Ann. vi.

Oncrp1um diadema. Hort.

I was much struck with this very remarkable Oncidium,

which I had the good fortune to see in flower in the Bishop

of Winchester’s collection at Farnham Castle, in December

last. It has the colour and somewhat the appearance of 0.

crispum, but the flowers are tossed about after a strange and

fantastic fashion, which will no doubt become still more

noncée as the plant gathers its full strength and sends forth

twining scapes nine or ten feet long. It belongs to a pecu-

liar group, that was at one time regarded as a distinct genus,

7.e. Cyrtochilum, but which is now more properly considered

a subgenus of Oncidium. Some of them—the Cyrtochilum

volubile of Pceppig, for example—have stems twenty feet

high. Mr. Linden was the introducer of the present plant,

which he sold under the unwarranted name of O. diadema

in Stevens’s rooms. It is a native of Peru, and must be re-

garded as a moderately “ cool”’ orchid.

Descr. Pseudobulbs tall and oval, bearing one or two

long, rigid, erect, acute leaves, which are narrowed at the

base and canaliculate. Panicle lax, many-flowered, much

MarcH Ist, 1867.

longer than the leaves (in wild’ specimens nine or ten feet

long). Sepals with crisp and serrate margins, the upper one

kidney-shaped, the lateral ones very much longer, obovate

and spread open, of a brown chocolate colour, tipped and

margined with yellow. Petals same colour as the sepals,

than which they are much shorter, ovate, acute, connivent.

Lip very small, hastate, the side portions being acuminate

and three times less than the central, which is linear, obtuse,

and narrowed in the centre, with a depressed, serrate, or

crenulate crest; the colour is similar to that of the sepals

and petals, with more yellow about the crest. Column with

awl-shaped, ascending wings.—J. Bateman.

Fig. 1. Front view of lip and column :—magnified.

prep Bo Soe

ent Brooks,Imp.

vine

TT:

W. Fitch del. et hth.

Tas. 56338.

SYNADENIUM Grayrm.

Captain’s Grant's Milkbush.

Nat. Ord. Evrpnorpracrz.—Mone@cra Monanpreta.

Gen. Char. Involucrum campanulato-hemisphericum, regulare, 5-lobum,

5-glandulosum, glandulis in cupulam horizontalem plano-concavam margine

lobulatam integram vy. lobos involucri includentem coalitis. Flores masculi

25-30, in fasciculos’5 lobis involucri oppositos dispositi, ecalyculati. Brac-

teole aliw inter fasciculos lineares distincte apice fimbriate, aliw cirea

florem femineum ultra medium in tubum membranaceum apice fimbriatum

coalite. Flos femineus centralis, obsolete calyculatus. Styli ad medium

connati. Semen carunculatum.—Frutices v. arbuscule Africani, ramis te-

retibus carnosis. Folia sparsa, integra. Cyme terminales, corymbosa, laxe,

2-3-chotome. Involucra alia in dichotomiis sessilia, alia terminalia, basi

Soliis floralibus 2-nis oppositis suffulta. Boiss.

SynaDENIUM Grantii; frutex erectus, ramosus, glaberrimus, ramis crassis

teretibus, foliis obovato-spathulatis obtusis in petiolum brevem attenu-

atis, floralibus parvis appressis tomentosis involucro equilongis apice

rotundatis, involucri pulvinati annularis integerrimi tomentosi lobis

margine interiori pulvini insertis erectis late oblongis gibbis apice den-

tatis, calyculis masculis sub-5-lobis, lobis angustis ciliatis.

During Captains Speke and Grant’s adventurous journey

to the lake-feeders of the Nile, the latter of the distinguished

explorers made an excellent collection of dried plants, which

has thrown great light on the botany of Central Africa ;

together with some seeds, which vegetated in the Royal

Gardens, including the beautiful Mussenda luteola (Plate

5573). The dried plants were examined by Dr. Thomson,

and are enumerated in the Appendix to Captain Speke’s

work; amongst them was a fragment of a succulent Euphor-

biaceous plant, which, having retained its vitality, was taken

by Dr. Thomson to the propagating pits, and being planted,

has now developed into a striking green Euphorbiaceous

bush, seven feet high,—the subject of this Plate. It be-

longs to a very curious genus, Synadenium, closely allied to

Euphorbia itself, established by M. Boissier in his excellent

marcH lst, 1867.

monograph of Euphorbia and its allies, published in the

fifteenth volume of De Candolle’s ‘ Prodromus.’ The genus

as there constituted consists of two species, a Natal and Mada-

gascar one; these being described from dried specimens are

~ necessarily difficult of recognition, and S. Grantii is evidently

closely allied to the Natal S. arborescens, but according to

Boissier’s careful description that must be a much smaller

plant in all its parts, with longer petioles; and the involucre

in our species differs from it, and indeed from the generic

character, in being entire.

8. Grantii was found by Captain Grant near villages in

lat. 3°15’ N., in February, 1862, and there only. The Kew

plant flowered in November, 1866.

Descr. An erect bush, six to ten feet high, with a stout,

terete, green stem, few very thick, erect branches, and co-

lumnar branchlets thicker than the thumb. Leaves scattered,

three to four inches long, obovate-spathulate, obtuse, not

very succulent, quite entire, dark green above, paler below.

Cymes axillary, corymbosely branched, six to eight inches

long, sparingly dichotomously, green. Pedicels purplish.

Floral leaves or bracts appressed, obtuse, tomentose, green.

Tnvolucre a quarter of an inch in diameter, consisting of an an-

nular, tomentose, red-purple cushion, on the inner margin of

which are five broadly-oblong, pubescent, toothed, erect scales.

Stamens on separate cymes from the pistils, twenty to thirty,

with purple anthers and fimbriate calycules at the base of

their pedicels. Styles green, with bifid recurved stigmas.—

a: DD. H.

Fig. 1. Female and, 2, male involucres. 3. Scale of ditto. 4. Male

_ flower and calyculus. 5. Pistil:—all magnified.

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Tas. 5634.

PEPEROMIA anrrozta; var. argyreia.

Arum-leaved Peperomia; silver-striped var.

Nat. Ord. Prrrrace®.—Dianpreia Monoeynta.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 5568.)

Perrromta arifolia; acaulis, glaberrima, foliis alternis longe petiolatis ovato-

v. cordato-rotundatis acutis integerrimis supra basin peltatis 7-9-ner-

viis subsucculentis junioribus concavis, superne lete viridibus opacis,

subtus pallidis, petiolis rubris, anento longe pedunculato terminali v.

laterali gracili elongato, pedunculo petiolis equilongo, floribus con-

fertis, bracteis peltatis breviter stipitatis, filamentis brevibus crassis,

ovario obovoideo, stigmate sessili globoso pubescente.

Perrromra arifolia. Miguel, Syst. Piperac. p.72. Martius, Fl. Bras. Pi-

perac. p. 9. t. 2. f. 9.

Piper arifolia. Hort. Petrop.

Var. argyreia; foliis inter nervos albo-fasciatis.

Under Plate 5668 there was figured a beautiful Peperomia

from the collection of our friend Mr. Wilson Sanders, F.R.S.,

that had been cultivated in his and several other establish-

ments under the name of P. arifolia, but which was there

shown to be quite a distinct species; the present Plate con-

firms this opinion, and at the same time affords the opportu-

nity of figuring an equally beautiful species. The true P.

arifolia, as here shown, has no stem, alternate leaves that

are peltate, very broad, less concave, and not two-lobed at

the base; whereas the P. marmorata had erect stems, oppo-

site, narrow and very thick leaves, two-lobed at the base where

the petiole is inserted. Both are natives of South Brazil, and

were collected by Mr. Weir, Collector for the Horticultural

Society. The specimen here figured flowered in the esta-

blishment of Mr. Bull, of Chelsea, in November, 1866 ; it is

a very beautiful plant, and like so many of its congeners, is

well adapted for placing along the edge of a shelf ina

marcH Ist, 1867.

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Descr. Rhizome very short, rooting, as thick as the little

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petioles dark red, four to eight. inches long, terete; blade

three to five inches long, orbicular-ovate or -cordate, acute,

rounded retuse or two-lobed at the base, quite entire, rather

succulent, concave, bright green but not shining above with

broad white belts between the nerves, pale below. Peduncles

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to four inches long, slender, pale green. Flowers close set,

but not densely packed, very minute. Bract peltate, orbi-

cular, with a short, stout stalk. Filaments very short; anthers

oblong. Ovary obovoid, with a globular, sessile stigma.—

J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Portion of catkin. 2. and 3. Side and front views of bract,

stamen, and pistil :—all magnified.

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SACCOLABIUM ei1eanreum.

Gigantic Saccolabium.

Nat. Ord. Orncuipr#.—Gynanpria Monanpia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5433.)

SaccoLaBium giganteum ; foliis latissimis coriaceis crassis apice inequali

obtuse bilobis racemo densifloro subsecundo subequalibus, sepalis

cuneato-ovatis obtuse acutis, petalis angustioribus, labelli lamina cum

columna subparallela ob calcaris limbos laterales preruptos liberos

cuneato-flabellata apice trifida, laciniis lateralibus semirhombeis, la-

cinid media ligulaté crass retusé baud producta, lineis barbellatis

geminis in basi utrinque in latus calcaris compressi cylindracei conici

transcendentibus ibi sphincterem efficientibus, columna brevi recli-

naté, anthera breve rostrata, polliniis sphericis breve stipitatis. Rehb.

SaccoLaBiuM giganteum. Wall.; Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. 221.

Vanpva densiflora. Lindl. Paxt. Fl. G. t. 42. Folia Orch. Vanda, n. 22.

Gard. Chron. 1866, 1194.

The honour of introducing this beautiful plant, as well as

of having been the first to flower it, belongs to the Bishop _

of Winchester, in whose collection at. Farnham Castle it

made its appearance several years ago. Unfortunately the

Bishop’s plants were small, and the spikes produced—though

sufficient to enable Dr. Lindley to recognize the species—

gave but an imperfect idea of the noble aspect that it would

eventually assume. ‘The plant moreover is so exceedingly

slow in its movements, that notwithstanding the generous

anxiety of the Bishop to distribute it, a century might have

elapsed before all the orchidians amongst her Majesty’s sub-

jects could have been supplied, had no further addition been

made to the number of imported specimens. Happily how-

ever about a year ago a fresh supply of fine plants were re-

ceived by Messrs. Veitch from Rangoon, having been sent to

them by the gallant Colonel whose name will be worthily

perpetuated in the Vanda (V. Bensonz), lately figured in this

APRIL 1st, 1867.

work. One of these flowered in the highest perfection in

November last, when it was exhibited at one of the Tuesday

Meetings of the Horticultural Society, exciting—as well it

might—universal admiration. The flowers, which were more

agreeably perfumed than those of S. violaceum, continued in

beauty for nearly a quarter of a year. As to cultivation,

patience rather than skill is required, —the main object

being to obtain as large specimens as possible, for the ra-

cemes of flowers will be large in proportion.

No doubt-S. giganteum is very nearly related to 8. viola-

ceum ; still it is unquestionably distinct from, and vastly su-

perior to that species. ‘The chief difference,” as Professor

Reichenbach observes in an able notice of the plant in the

Gard. Chron., “is-to be found in the shape, and, in conse-

quence, in the nervation of the lip. The lip of Saccolabium

violaceum is panduriform, retuse at the apex, with a tooth in

the end. All the nerves run nearly parallel. Here the lip

is tapering to the base, much dilated at the apex, where it

is trifid, but not truncate, with a projecting tooth. Both

species have a projecting callosity beneath the lip. Let us

add, that the colours of Saccolabium violaceum have a more

bluish hue, and that that species, bearing more blotches both

on the sepals and petals, has a totally different appearance.

S. Harrisonianum we regard as a splendid white variety of

the last.”

Descr. Leaves very broad and fleshy, streaked and chat-

nelled, irregularly bidentate or eroded at their extremity,

from six inches to a foot long, about equal to the dense,

many-flowered, nodding, subsecund racemes, that issue from

the point of their junction with the stem. Sepals whitish,

cuneate-ovate, obtusely acute, not so wide as the petals,

which are of the same colour, with the addition of a few

lilac spots. The lamella (or plate) of the lip is nearly pa

rallel with the column, wedge-shaped, divided at its apex

into three portions, of which those at the sides are seml-

rhomboidal, while that in the middle is short and slightly

retused, all these three portions being of the most lovely

violet hue, while the remainder of the lip is the same tint as

the sepals and petals ; there are two hairy lines at the base

of the lip, which, descending into the short spur, form a sort

of sphincter for the round pedicellate pollen-masses. Colum

slightly bent backwards, with a short beak on the anther.—

J. Bateman.

Fig. 1. Column and lip, seen sideways. 2. Front of lip :—magnified.

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CORDYLINE avsrranis.

New Zealand Ti-tree.

Nat. Ord. Litntacem.—Hexanpria Monoeynta.

Gen. Char. Flores hermaphroditi. Perianthium campanulatum ; foliola

6, persistentia, qualia, patentia, basi breviter v. longius connata. Sta-

mina 6, basi foliolorum perigonii inserta, filamentis subulato-filiformibus

glabris; anthere veréatilee, oblonge. Ovariwm ovoideum vy. obovoideum,

obtuse 3-gonum, 38-loculare; stylus rectus, columnaris, stigmate 3-lobo ;

ovula in loculis pauca y. numerosa. Racca subglobosa, 3-locularis, oligo-

v. polysperma. Semina angulata, testa atra nitida. Arbores, rarius

herbe, sepe elate. Folia apices versus trunci v. ramorum congesta, pa-

tentia, ensiformia, coriacea, nervis parallelis, costa obscura v. distincta.

Panicule ample, exerte v. nutantes, ramosissime, multiflore. Flores albi

v. carulei, 3-bracteati, bractea intermedia 2-nervi, ceteris 1-nerviis.

CorDYLINE australis ; caudice elato arboreo, demum ramoso, foliis ensifor-

mibus, 2-3 ped. longis, 1}-2 poll. latis, supra basin paulo angustatis,

-nervis uniformibus numerosissimis striolatis, costa obscura, panicula

’ erecta ramosissima, floribus albis confertis.

CorpDYLINE australis. Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zeal. v. 1. t. 257. Gard. Chron. 1860.

p. 792. Handbook of New Zeal. Flora, 281 (non. Endi.).

Drace#na australis. Forst. Prodr. 151.

The history of the New Zealand and Australian Cordylines

was long in a,state of great confusion, which I attempted to

clear up in the ‘Gardeners’ Chronicle’ in 1860. I then

showed that the Dracaena australis of Forster, which was

undeterminable from that author’s description, was, accord

ing to the figure in the Banksian Herbarium, not the plant so

cited in this Magazine (‘T'ab. 2835). I also showed that the

Magazine plant, which was sent from the Sydney Botanical

Garden, was most probably procured from Norfolk Island,

whence I have dried specimens collected by A. Cunningham,

so long the Superintendent of the Sydney Gardens.

I have now the pleasure of figuring what I believe to be

the true Dracena australis of New Zealand, the commonest

APRIL lst, 1867.

of four or six species that inhabit that group of islands, and

a plant which could not well have escaped Forster’s notice.

It is a very handsome small tree, almost hardy in the west

of England, quite so in the Scilly Islands, where Mr. Augus-

tus Smith has flowered fine specimens in the open air. It

often passed for C. indivisa in the nurseries, but that, as is

now well known, is a totally different plant, with a much

broader, yellow-green, strongly-veined leaf, and a drooping

panicle of much larger flowers. The plant from which the

accompanying drawing was made, flowered in the temperate

house at Kew, in June, 1866.

Descr. Trunk slender, twelve to twenty feet high, branch-

ing at the top when old. Leaves two to three feet long, en-

siform, an inch and a quarter to two inches broad, slightly

contracted above the base, with numerous fine, parallel,

striated veins, and no obvious midrib, dark green. Panicle

very large, erect, copiously branched. Flowers most abun-

dant, crowded, white. Perianth-tube very short, limb spread-

ing, one-third of an inch in diameter, inner segments

toothed irregularly in the margin. Berry as large as a small

pea, white, with black shining seeds.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Reduced figure of whole plant. 2 and 8. Base and apex of leaf.

4. Branch of panicle. 5. Bud. 6. Flowers. 7. Ovary. 8. Transverse

section of do. Fig. 5-8, magnified.

5637.

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TINNEA THIOPICA.

Violet-scented Tinnea.

Nat. Ord. Lantatra.—Dipynamia GYMNOSPERMIA,

Gen. Char. Calycis 2-labiati tubus subenervis, ventricosus, verticaliter

depressus, labiis planis subsequalibus integerrimis semi-orbicularibus.

Corolle tubus brevis, rectus, latiusculus, cylindricus, limbi verticaliter

depressi 2-labiati labio superiore abbreviato 2-lobo, inferiore porrecto 3-

lobo, lobis lateralibus parvis rotundatis intermedio multo majore subor-

biculari emarginato. Stamina 4, filamentis basi barbellatis ; anthere in-

cluse, parve, remiformes, filamento oblique adnate. Stylus gracilis, stig-

mate inequaliter 2-fido. Fructus. . .—TFrutex erectus, ramosus, ramis tere-

tibus cano-pubescentibus. Folia parva, petiolata, ovato- v. ovoideo-lanceolata,

acuta v. subobtusa, integerrima. Vertictllastra axillaria, pauciflora, peduneu-

lata. Flores odori, majusculi, pedicellati, calyce viridi, corolla fusco-pur:

purea.

TinneEa exthiopica. Kotschy in ‘ Plante Tinneane, ined. cum tabula.

Amongst the more important scientific results of the late

gallant explorations of Central Africa, has been.a great

accession to our knowledge of its previously little known

flora; and for this we are indebted almost exclusively to

three individuals—Dr. Kirk, during Livingstone’s explora-

tion of the Zambesi and Shire rivers and Lakes Shirwa and

Nyassa; Captain Grant, during Captain Speke’s and his own

adventurous journey to the upper waters of the Nile; and

Mdlle. Tinne and Herr Heuglin, during their disastrous

Nile voyage. Singularly enough, the beautiful plant here

figured was found by all three expeditions, and I do not know

to whom the merit of being its first discoverer belongs, though

we owe to Mdlle. Tinne the introduction of the plant, and

the specimen here figured. Dr. Kirk gathered it on the

Manganga hills, in October, 1862; and Captain Grant, in the

Umyoso forest, in August of the same year; but where Malle.

Tinne’s party, who collected it in 1863, found it, I do not

know, their collections being at Vienna; and my late friend

APRIL 1sT, 1867.

Dr. Kotschy, the author of the hitherto unpublished work

in which this plant is figured, is recently deceased.

Tinnea is a stove plant, of which seeds were sent home by

Mdlle. 'Tinne’s party, and were raised at Liverpool, by Mr.

Sandbach, in 1865; and it is no less remarkable for the

maroon-purple colour of its flowers, than for their delicious

perfume of violets. It flowered copiously at Mr. Williams’s

Nursery at Holloway, and at Kew, last winter. The genus

belongs to the division Stachydew, of the Order Labiate.

_ Descr. A hoary bush, four to six feet high. Stems and

branches erect, terete, ribbed, twiggy. Leaves on short slen-

der pedicels, ovate, subacute or acute, quite entire, narrowed

at the base; nerves faint. lowers copiously produced in

all the upper axils; in native specimens, arranged in terminal

elongate spikes. Peduncles two- to three-flowered, bracteate.

Calyx bright green, ventricose, depressed, two-lipped; the

lips broad, transversely flattened, quite entire. Corolla dark

maroon-purple, tube broad, little longer than the calyx;

limb compressed horizontally, two-lipped, upper lip short,

almost truncate, two-lobed, lower advanced, flattish, three-

lobed, lateral lobes small rounded, middle large, orbicular,

emarginate. Stamens four, with parallel filaments, bearded

at the very base ; anthers small, concealed under the upper

lip, attached laterally to the filament, reniform, two-celled.

Style slender.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Corolla laid open. 2. Ovary, style and stigma and disk :—Joth

magnified,

WFiteh delet lith.

Vincert Brooks rrp

Pt or ae comment etki! all ot

Tas. 5688.

DICTYOPSIS Tuvunsercu. ~

= +,

Thunberg’s Dictyopsis. — »)

; t

Nat. Ord. Smrnacrm.—HEXANDRIA Monoeynta.

Gen. Char. Flores hermaphroditi. Perianthium deciduum, tubuloso-

campanulatum, limbo brevi 6-lobo, lobis recurvis 3-nerviis. Stamina 6, basi

perianthii tubi inserta, filamentis inferne tubo adnatis, inclusis ; anthers

oblonge. Ovarium ovoideum, basi attenuatum, apice cum stylo columnari

continuum, 3-loculare, stigmate capitato 3-lobo; ovula in loculis 2-4, 2-

seriata. Bacca globosa, 3-locularis, oligosperma. Semina_plano-convexa,

testa coriacea, albumine copioso.—Herba glaberrima, scandens, Soliosa,

ramis gracillimis teretibus. Folia sessilia, ovata, acuminata, inteyerrima,

basi rotundata v. cordata, costa tenui distincta, nervis lateralibus numerosis

tenuibus, nervulis transversis pulcherrime reticulatis. Pedunculi simplices

v. 3-chotome ramost, axillares et terminales, pedicellis gracilibus sub calyce

articulatis. Flores parvi, nutantes, albo-virescentes.

;

ere:

Dicrrorsis Thunbergit. Harv. Gen. Cap. Pl. Ed. 2, ined.

Ruscvs reticulatus. Thunb. Prodr. Fl. Cap.13. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 4. p. 876.

Kunth, Enum. Pl. v, 5, p. 276.

At Plate 5584 of the last volume of the Magazine, was

figured a Cape climbing Liliaceous plant, of singular grace

and beauty, so much resembling this in habit and general _

appearance, that it must strike every one as surprising

that these plants have nothing whatever to do with one

another; that they do not belong to the same natural family

even; and that the apparently precisely similar leaves of the

two are in the one case (that of the Myrsiphyllum) not leaves

at all (as noticed under its description). The Myrsiphyllum

is a Liliaceous plant, with six leaflets to the perianth, seeds

with a black covering, and the apparent leaves are flattened

leaf-like branches, growing from the axils of small scale-like

true leaves. The Dictyopsis is a Smilaceous plant, with

an entire tube to the perianth, seeds with a coriaceous

pale testa, and true leaves without scales at their bases.

APRIL Ist, 1867.

Dictyopsis reticulata is a most beautiful tender greenhouse

climber, as graceful and as fitted for all decorative and orna-

mental purposes as Myrsiphyllum. It is a native of the

eastern districts of South Africa, from Albany and Somerset

(Mrs. Barber and Mr. Hutton) to British Kaffraria (Cooper) |

and the coast land of Natal (Dr. Sutherland). ‘

Descr. A slender, graceful, glabrous leafy climber. Stems

and branches cylindric. Leaves sessile, ovate, acuminate,

rounded or cordate at the base, with many parallel nerves, the

central forming a distinct midrib, all finely reticulated with

cross-nerves. Peduncles axillary and terminal, three- or more-

flowered, sometimes paniculately branched. Flowers drooping,

pedicelled; pedicels articulate. Perianth tubular-campanu-

late, green below, white above, limb of six reflexed lobes.

Stamens six, filaments adherent to the sides of the base of

the perianth-tube ; anthers oblong. Ovary narrowed above

and below; style columnar; stigma capitate, three-lobed ;

ovules two to four in each cell. Berry subglobose, half

an inch in diameter. Seeds with a coriaceous coloured testa

and copious albumen.—.J. D. H.

ete, Payers

Fig.1. Flower. 2. The same laid open :—both magnified.

S639

+ rine

YIrucert

Tas, 5639.

DOMBEYA Masrerst.

Dr. Masters’s Dombeya.

Nat. Ord. Srercuntace®.—MonapDELPHIA PENTANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5487.)

Domsera Mastersii ; ramulis gracilibus foliis utrinque et inflorescentia

pilis laxis molliter villosis, foliis gracile petiolatis late ovato-cor-

datis acuminatis angulatim sub-3-lobis serrato-dentatis 7—9-nerviis,

pilis subtus ad nervos stellatis, stipulis lanceolatis P, corymbis gracile

pedicellatis subsimplicibus multifloris ebracteatis, pedicellis filiformibus

calycibusque patentim pilosis, bracteis lanceolatis sepalis reflexis con-

similibus, petalis obovato-cuneatis valde obliquis uno latere producto

acuto albis, staminibus 15, stylo gracili, stigmatibus filiformibus re-

curvis.

Dompera angulata. Masters in Gard. Chron. January, 1867, p. 14, non Cav.

The beautiful plant here figured flowered in the Palm

house at Kew in January of the present year, and was the

subject of an interesting communication to the ‘ Gardeners’

Chronicle’ by Dr. Masters, who, besides deservedly eulogizing

it for the elegance of its perfumed trusses of pure white

flowers, adds some valuable observations on the morphology

of the flowers, and a curious account of the action of the sta-

minodes in the process of fertilization. The staminodes, he

observes in the opening flower to curve downwards and out-

wards, so as to come into contact with the stamens, whose

anthers open outwardly, and allow their pollen to adhere to

them. Being thus provided with a freight of pollen, the

staminodes uncoil, and bring their points to a level with the

stigmata, which curl round them, and thus receive the pollen.

Should this interesting observation be verified, it will prove

a remarkable discovery, and proof of an arrangement for self-

fertilization, as curious as any that Mr. Darwin has dis-

covered for the contrary effect.

With regard to the correct nomenclature of this species

APRIL lst, 1867.

(of the introducer of which I find no record in the Gardens),

it is certainly not D. angulata, which is well figured at Tab,

2905 of this work, and which has very broad bracts, pink

flowers, and much less oblique petals; nor do I think it

agrees with any Mauritian species; but it is identical with a

tropical African one, of which there are specimens in the

Hookerian Herbarium, collected in Abyssinia by Dr. Roth, and

by Captain Grant on the banks of the Nile north of Chopeh,

in November, 1862.. It is further very nearly allied to, if

not identical with D. Schimperiana, A. Rich., of Abyssinia,

but that is a larger plant, with broader, more obtuse petals,

and a longer staminal tube.

Descr. Our plant is a small bush, from four to five feet

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brous; branchlets tomentose, with soft, spreading hairs.

Leaves four to seven inches long, deeply cordate-ovate, acu-

minate, obscurely angularly lobed, rather sharply toothed,

five- to nine-nerved, bright-pale-green, villous, with long

hairs, on both surfaces, those on the nerves beneath stellate.

Peduncles axillary, slender, about as long as the petioles,

bearing a simple or rarely subcompound corymb. Bracts

none at the base of the pedicels. Pedicels numerous, slender,

one inch long, pilose, with soft, spreading hairs. Flowers

pearly-white, one inch in diameter; bracts beneath the

flowers lanceolate, as long as and similar to the sepals.

Sepals narrow-lanceolate, one-third of an inch long. Petals

very obliquely obovate-cuneate, produced at one side into an

obtuse or acute point, white. Sfamens fifteen, with pinkish

filaments and a short tube; staminodes strap-shaped. Style

slender, pilose at the base; stigmas filiform. Ovary very

woolly.—J/. D. H.

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DOWNIE, LAIRD, ann LAING most respectfully announce that they will send out the

following splendid varieties, which have been so much admired, and have received the highest

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The following extract is from the ‘ Journal of Horticulture,’ July 17, 1866 :—‘‘ There are so many

good Nosegays, and so much alike, that it requires something quite new in colour to surpass them,

or, in many eases, to equal them. The large bold truss of Stella and Le Grand, or the KING OF

THE NOSEGAYS, must be the models of perfection in this class of flowers.” ;

KING OF THE NOSEGAYS.—Bright orange-scarlet. Very large truss, dwarf habit. Very

free and most effective variety. 7s. 6d. each. :

MRS. LAING (Nosraay).—Glowing carmine-scarlet. Very dwarf, free, and most effective as a

bedder. A beautiful and distinct variety. 5s. each.

MRS. MENZIES.—Bright rosy-salmon. Flowers perfect, good habit, free, and very fine. 5s. each.

SAMBO.—Very dark glossy scarlet, of great substance. Flowers of the finest form. Very large,

compact, globular truss ; quite distinct from all others. 7s. 6d. each.

Ready second week in May.

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NEW ZONAL PELARGONIUMS.

SALTMARSH anp SON, Nurserymen, Seedsmen, and Florists, Chelmsford, have great pleasure _

in introducing the following SEEDLINGS of their own raising, feeling confident they will give

equal satisfaction with the two now well-known varieties, Luna and Little Treasure, sent out by _

them in 1865. They will be ready for distribution in May next, Larly orders are solicited, as the

stock is limited.

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REINE D'ITALIE (Saltmarsh and Son).—A seedling from the highly esteemed variety Roi d’Italie, me

the good properties of its parent in compactness of habit, profusion, form, and size of flowers, ech ‘bibeea

measuring 1{ of an inch in diameter ; colour, pale salmon-flesh, shading off to flesh-white at the edges, with pale?

white eye, altogether forming a most attractive specimen for pot culture. Price 7s. 6d. each. s

CRITERION (Saltmarsh and Son).—Also a seedling from Roi d’Italie, with darker zone, producing an abundance of

flowers, of the large size of its parent, of the most perfect form, and borne on stout footstalks ; habit compact

and vigorous ; colour bright orange-vermilion, with small white eye. Price 7s. 6d. each. fe

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METEOR (Saltmarsh and Son).—Foliage large and flat, almost circular, having a green disc about 1} inch ks

diameter, surrounded by a very broad and well-defined zone of deep sienna maroon and bright red in about ;

proportions, leaving a clear margin of about a quarter of an inch of bright chrome-yellow ; flowers bright scar] 4

with white eye ; habit compact and vigorous. Figured in ‘Floral Magazine’ for January, 1867.

The above splendid variety will prove a valuable addition to the Golden Tricolor section of variegated P =

niums. It is quite distinct from any variety hitherto introduced, and was awarded a First-class Certificate at

‘the Royal Horticultural Society’s meeting in September, 1864. Price 21s. each.

ELECTRIC (Saltmarsh and Son).—Foliage greenish-yellow, changing with exposure to sun and air to a rich golden

yellow, with a very broad zone of dark chocolate, in the way of Luna, but more heavily zoned, and of more _

- robust habit, producing fine trusses of scarlet flowers, with white eye. Price 10s, 6d. each. e

_ VENUS (Saltmarsh and Son).—Foliage greenish-yellow, changing to golden-yellow, with slight bronze zone; habit _

compact and spreading, producing neat trusses of well-formed flowers on short footstalks of a soft and pleasi &

shade of rosy-cerise, altogether forming a most attractive variety by the harmonious blending of its cinieeaall =

its remarkably close habit of growth. Price 10s. 6d. each. :

SNOWSTORM (Saltmarsh and Son).—Foliage green, with a very deep edge of pure white. This variety will be

found to display a greater proportion of white variegation than any other yet produced. The leaves areless

i to curl than most varieties of this class; in addition to which, the habit is exceedingly close, yet robust

and bushy; flowers rosy-scarlet, with white eye. Price 10s. 6d. each. eo

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DUCHESS or SUTHERLAND and LADY CONSTANCE GROSVENOR, which have been

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from upwards of Three Hundred Seedlings, sent from almost every county in the United

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FUCHSIAS. |

KING OF THE DOUBLES.—This is the finest exhibition Double Fuchsia ever sent out. Habit

perfect ; the corolla beautifully striped. 7s. 6d. each. >

MRS. GLADSTONE.—Great advance on all the white corolla kinds, and reflex equal to the well-knowa

Guiding Star. 7s. 6d. each. pa all

BLAND’S FLORIBUNDA.—This Fuchsia will introduce a new race, being perfectly distinct from :

others ever sent out, and H. C. believes it will become equal to the well-known Tom Thumb Gat

nium, and will shortly be planted in every garden and on every window. It has a scarlet tube tise

sepals, pure white corolla; very short, stiff growth, requiring no stakes. A bed of this looks at a dis

tance to have the appearance of being covered with thousands of stars. For bedding and small pots

this really has no equal, and is a decided acquisition. 5s. each. th o

THE PERFECT CURE.—Scarlet tube, and sepals perfectly reflexed; good habit and grower, Ww} ‘al

most extraordinary-shaped corolla, which make it one of the most pleasing and curious novelties pe

the Fuchsia ever seen. ‘Che corolla is formed on the ends of each stamen, and measures from My be

tip three to four inches over, and is a very attractive and amusing variety. 5s. each, the set of to

for £1. 1s. Ready to send out on the Ist of May. mf

MONSTER.—This is the largest ever sent out, the corolla measuring from two to two and a half ing j

over, and is as large as a Rose; scarlet tube and sepals, very rich violet-purple corolla, very SHO»

stiff habit. On account of its immense blooms and good growth, and being an abundant bloomer,

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out before the Ist of July. t

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LUTEUM IMPROVED.—Immense improvement upon the one sent out last season. Beautiful brig

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THE MOOR.—In every way equal to the above; colour, deep-dark maroon-crimson, a grand new ool

__ for bedding; has long been required for geometric gardens. 1s. 6d. each. . ming,

SCARLET GEM.—For its beautiful colour and dwarf compact habit, and continual massive blooming,

no Scarlet Geranium is equal to this. 2s. 6d each. First

Mears ott examined when growing in the garden by the Committee, and all were awarded a #7"

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NOVELTY.—In every way equal to the above ; with a beautiful peculiar mixed bronze and yellow colouts |

_ fine for fancy beds, being Pag a novel attractive colour. 2s. each. dding

These were raised by Mr. J. George, who is well known for introducing this new race of be thea

plants ; and they are equally valuable for pots, having been in bloom ever since Christmas. All 4

are acknowledged to be decided acquisitions. The following is an .

“Official Description from the ‘UNITED HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY,’ Dec. 8, 1866. Bis

: te ter these were considered as great additions as bedding plants, and cannot be too extensively grown

Surpass any other plants in profusion of bloom, and the weather does not affect them to ay

parent extent; no one should be without them. In Scarlet Gem you have a most brilliant and attt ie

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W. Haars, Secretary. , the

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ist of May. > |

FLORAL GUIDE, with fuller description, for Four Stamps.

FUCHSIA NURSERY, WOOLWICH.

Vincent Brooks, Imp

del et. ith

Fite

Tas. 5640.

DALECHAMPTIA ROEZLIANA.

Roezl’s Dalechampia.

Nat. Ord. Eupuorpiacr2.—Mona@cita Ponyanpria.

Gen. Char. Flores monoici, § et ?, involuero compresso 2-phyllo 2-

sexualiinelusi. Oalycis ¢ lacinie 4-5, valvate ; 2 5-12, imbricate. Petala

utriusque sexus 0. Discus fl. g 0; fl. 2 seepius obsoletus. Stamina cen-

tralia, in receptaculo convexo sita; anthere 2-rimosz, loculi longitrorsum

adnati. Ovarii' loculi 1-ovulati. Capsula 3-4-cocca. Semina ecaruncu-

lata ; cotyledones complanate.—Frutices tropici, sepissime volubiles. Folia

alterna, petiolata, penninervia v. palminervia, indivisa lobata v. o-foliolata.

Stipule 2. Flores awillares, pedunculati, bracteis foliaceis albis pallidis v.

coloratis 2-stipulatis inelust. Involucella 3 3-flora, § oc-flora, latere supe-

riore floribus sterilibus carnoso-ceraceis pallidis multicristatis aucta.

DatrcHamria Roezliana; caule erecto, foliis sessilibus v. brevissime pe-

tiolatis obovato-oblongis: lanceolatis spathulatisve longe acuminatis

integerrimis v. supra medium grosse obtuse serratis basi angustatis

cordato-2-lobis, stipulis ovato-triangularibus, ovario sericeo-pubescente,

stylo gracillimo, stigmate obtuso.

Var. a. rosea ; involucri foliolis grosse dentatis serratisve pulchre roseis.

DatecuaMPta Roezliana, var. a. rosea. Mueller Argan, in DC. Prod. v. 15.,

p. 1238.

A truly superb plant, one of the noblest introduced for

many years, comparable only with the Bougainvillee amongst

those of its habit, and exceeding these in the size and clear

rose-colour of its broad membranous veined involucral leaves.

The specimen here figured was flowered in March of the pre-

sent year by Mr. Bull, of Chelsea, who procured it from

Messrs. Van Houtte, of Ghent. It is a native of Vera Cruz,

and, according to its first describer, Dr. Mueller Argan (in

De Candolle’s ‘Prodromus’), living plants were sent from

Mexico to the Botanic Garden of Zurich by its discoverer,

M. Roezl. Mueller further has another variety, 8 viridis,

distinguished by its subentire leaves, and greenish or green-

ish-red involucral leaves, which he states to be cultivated by

may Ist, 1867.

M. Van Houtte, and to have been received by that eminent

nurseryman from M. Ortgies, of Zurich; but I can hardly

fancy this variety being anything more than an imperfectly

developed state of the original plant (a rosea).

The genus Dalechampia contains some fifty tropical plants,

chiefly American; very few of them having any claims to

horticultural notice, though the white bracts and scandent

habit of some may recommendthem.

Descr. An erect shrub, three to four feet high, much

branched and leafy, glabrous, bright-green. eaves six inches

long, subsessile, narrow obovate-oblong or -lanceolate, long

acuminate, entire or coarsely obtusely toothed above the mid-

dle, narrowed and produced towards the base, which is cordate,

dark shining green above, paler below. Stipules large, green,

ovate or triangular-ovate. Peduneles solitary, axillary, strict,

shorter than the leaves. Involucral bracts two to two and a

half inches long, broadly cordate, sessile, toothed, membra-

nous, nerved, of a brilliant rose-red colour, alternating with

two small ovate, acute, green stipule-like outer bracts.

Flowers clustered, male and female together, with many

bracteoles at the base of the clusters. Male flowers on a jointed

pedicel. Sepals five, oblong, spreading and incurved, pube-

rulous. Staminal column cylindric, pubescent; anthers nu-

merous, capitate; pedicelled waxy capitate bodies (imperfect

male flowers) are clustered together at one side of the male

‘flowers. Female flowers subsessile. Calyz-lobes six, erect, lan-

ceolate, irregularly toothed or entire. Ovary pubescent,

three-celled. Style very slender; stigma obtuse.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Cluster of flowers. 2. Ditto of imperfect males. 8. Male flower

and pedicel. 4. Stamen. 5. Cluster of female flowers. 6. Female flower.

7. Ovary. 8. Transverse section of ditto :—all magnified,

W Fitch, del et lith.

Vincent Brooks Imp.

Tas. 5641.

AGAVE SCHIDIGERA.

Splintered-Leaved American Aloe.

Nat. Ord. AMARYLLEIDEm.—Hexanpria Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5333.)

AGAveE schidigera; acaulis, foliis horizontaliter patentibus pedalibus an-

guste ensiformibus spinuloso-acuminatis supra basin dilatatam paulo

angustatis viridibus albo-jineatis marginibus late albo-lanatis in filis

planis elongatis retortis desinentibus, scapo stricto gracili 6-pedali

bracteis elongatis strictiusculis acicularibus dense obsito, spica elon-

gata stricta sublaxiflora, floribus viridibus 2-3-nis, fasciculis subsessili-

bus bractea filiformi subtensis, ovario cylindrico pollicari glaber-

rimo, perianthii tubo subinfundibuliformi ovario squilongo, lobis

lineari-oblongis revolutis acutis tubo equilongis, filamentis subulatis

perianthio zquilongis strictis, antheris lineari-elongatis.

Agave schidigera. Lemaire in Verschaffelt Cat.1861; Compte Rendu Soe.

Roy. d Agric. et Bot. Gand, 1861; Illust. Hortic. v. 8. sub t. 287, et

v. 9. t. 330.

Agave filifera, var. pannosa et var. adornata. Scheidw. in Compte Rendu

Soe. Roy: Agric. et Bot., et in C. Koch, Wochenschr. n. 36. 1861.

The remarkable plant here figured was introduced into

Europe in 1861, from Mexico, by Mr. Verschaffelt, of Ghent,

and its foliage was figured in the ‘ Illustration Horticole’ of

the following year, where it is also described by M. Lemaire,

on whose authority our synonyms and quotations rest. Our

specimen flowered in January in Mr. Williams’s establish-

ment, Paradise Nursery, Holloway, where the drawing was

executed by Mr. Fitch. As a species, M. Lemaire states

that it is so very closely allied to 4. filifera, that he was

at first disposed to regard it as a variety of that plant,

but that it differs in the more linear (less oblong) leaves,

more dilated at the base, their less pungent tips, and the

very much thicker, broader, woolly, torn edges of the leaf,

may lst, 1867.

while, according to the figure of the 4. filifera in the ‘ Revue

Horticole, the corolla-lcbes of that plant are shorter.

Descr. Stem none. Leaves forming a low subhemisphe-

rical mass; lower spreading and recurved; upper suberect,

about one foot long, narrow linear-ensiform, with red sub-

pungent apices, dilated at the base and slightly contracted

above it; with irregular longitudinal broad white bands on

both surfaces, and white edges, from which are given off

woolly recurved flattened broad filaments, one to three

inches long. Scape strict, erect, about six feet high, lower

third covered with numerous erect or recurved subulate red-

brown bracts, two inches long and upwards. Spike rather

slender, very many-flowered, cylindric. Flowers, including —

the stamens, three and a half inches long, green, with yellow

anthers, rather dense, in fascicles of two or three, each fas-

cicle subtended by a filiform red flexuous bract. Pedicels

very short, with very small broad bracteoles. Ovary cylin-

dric, glabrous. Perianth tube as long and broad as the

ovary, lobes as long as the tube, linear, acute, revolute.

Filaments strict, subulate, one inch long; anthers nearly as

long, linear-elongate. Stigma obtusely three-lobed. J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Reduced figure of entire plant. 2. Leaf, nat. size. 3. Flowers,

nat. size.

Tas. 5642.

GOMPHIA HEOPHRASTA.

Theophrasta-like Gomphia.

Nat. Ord. OcnNacrm.—Decanpria Monoeynta.

Gen. Char. Sepala 5, decidua. Petala 5, calyce paulo longiora, obovata,

unguiculata, imbricata. Torus crassus, lobatus, in gynophorum elevatus.

Stamina 10, basi tori inserta, erecta, conniventia ; anthere sessiles, poris

dehiscentes. Ovarium profunde 5-6-partitum ; s¢y/i arcte connati, stigmate

simplici; ovwla in loculis solitaria, a basi adscendentia. Drupe 5 v.

abortu pauciores, toro ampliato sessiles. Semen erectum; testa membra-

nacea; cotyledones carnose, plano-convexe ; radicula brevissima, ad hilum

descendens.—Arbores v. frutices glaberrime. Folia alterna, persistentia,

simplicia, coriacea, nitida, argute serrata, nervis creberrimis. Stipule libere

v. connate. Panicule v. racemi terminales v. terminales et axillares, brac-

teate. Flores lutei, pedicellis basi articulatis.

Gompuia Theophrasta; foliis pedalibus brevissime petiolatis elongato-

ovato-lanceolatis accuminatis serrulatis supra basin obtusum integerri-

mis, paniculis ramosis ramis suberectis basi bracteis 2 subulatis sti-

puleformibus auctis, fasciculis 2—5-floris, floribus 2 un. diam., pedicellis

gracilibus curvis ebracteolatis, sepalis oblongo-lanceolatis subacutis

pallide viridibus, petalis oblongo-ovatis obtusis.

Gompuia Theophrasta. Lind. Hort. Cat. 1859.

Wotkensternta Theophrasta. Regel in Gartenfl. v. 14 (1865). p. 181. ¢.

471.

Of the large and handsome genus Gomphia, containing

upwards of eighty species, almost all of them American, and

distinguished for their glossy foliage, and many for their

beautiful flowers, not half-a-dozen have been introduced into

Europe, and only one, G. oliveformis (Tab. 5262), has

hitherto been figured from living specimens in this country ;

yet no plants can be more suited for stove decoration,

whether for the persistence of their bright, shining, ever-

green foliage, or the golden colour of their inflorescence.

G. Theophrasta was introduced by Mr. Linden’s collectors

from South America, but of its exact native country I have

no information. It is allied to the Brazilian G. castaneefolia,

DC., but differs conspicuously in the very much longer leaves,

may Ist, 1867.

attenuated to an obtuse base, with the margins quite entire

for an inch above the petiole, and in other points.

Descr. A small stove shrub, probably becoming a bush or

small tree in its native country. Leaves crowded at the apex

of the stem, a foot long, three inches broad, spreading and

recurved, on very short thick petioles a quarter of an inch

long, acuminate, acutely serrulate from an inch above the

base to the tip, oblong-lanceolate, almost linear below,

rounded at the very base, not very coriaceous; veins nume-

rous, arching. Panicle a foot long, copiously branched ;

branches stout, ascending, with two subulate stipuliform

bracts at the base. Vowers one-third of an inch in dia-

meter, in clusters of two to five on the branches of the

panicle; pedicels spreading, slender, curved, without bracts.

Sepals linear-oblong, obtuse, pale yellow-green. Petals

golden-yellow, rather longer than the sepals, ovate-oblong,

obtuse. J. D. H.

_ Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Stamen. 3. Pistil. 4. Transverse section of

ovary :—all magnified.

‘Vincent Brocks, imp.

—— Se

Tas. 56438.

EPIDENDRUM EBURNEUM.

Lvory-flowered Epidendrum.

Nat. Ord. Orcn1pE®2.—GyYnanpria DIANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5336.)

Errpenprum (Euepidendrum) eburneum; caulibus erectis fasciculatis

teretibus foliosis, foliis oblongis lineari-oblongisve planiusculis obtusis

coriaceis enerviis, racemo terminali 4—6-floro brevi inclinato, bracteis

parvis viridibus late ovato-triangularibus, sepalis lineari-lanceolatis

acuminatis integerrimis pallide citrinis, petalis angustioribus, labello

ungue column adnato lamina ampla cordato-rotundata acuta inte-

gerrima planiuscula eburnea basi 2-tuberculata, columna crassiuscula

apice truncata sub-5-dentata.

EprpenprvuM eburneum. Reichenb. fil. in Gard. Chron. 1867, p. 404.

A handsome stove Orchid, discovered by Mr. P. Hender-

son, of the Royal Mail Packet Company’s service, by whom

it was sent to T. R. Tuffnell, Esq., of Spring Grove, Isleworth.

It was found within a few miles of Colon, in Panama, grow-

ing in swamps, close by the railway, and flowered with Mr.

Tuffnell in December, 1866. It belongs to the subsection

“ nlanifolia racemosa” of the section Euepidendrum in Lind-

ley’s arrangement of this vast and difficult genus, as given in

his ‘ Folia Orchidacea, but is wholly different from all de-

scribed species, and from any preserved in the Lindleyan or

Hookerian Herbariaat Kew. Though wanting the gorgeous

colours of so many stove Orchids, its good foliage and ivory-

white lip recommend it for cultivation.

Descr. Stems tufted, one to two feet high, terete, leafy, as

thick above as a swan’s quill, more slender below, deep green.

Leaves alternate, spreading, plane, three and a half to four

and a half inches long, and an inch and a quarter broad,

linear-oblong, obtuse, amplexicaul, very coriaceous, with an

impressed costa but no nerves, dark green on both surfaces.

Raceme terminal, without spathes or membranous bracts,

may lst, 1867.

ey ge, ge ee

four- to six-flowered; rachis inclined, stout, green, terete.

Bracts minute, green, broadly triangular-ovate. Ovary gibbous,

pedicelled. Sepals an inch and three-quarters long, spreading,

linear-lanceolate, acuminate, quite entire, and, as well as the

equally long but narrower petals, of a pale citron-green colour.

I’p sessile on the apex of the column, orbicular-cordate, an

inch and a quarterto an inch and a half in diameter, ivory-

white, slightly concave, subacute, quite entire, smooth, with

two small yellow calli at its base. Column stout, truncate

and five-toothed in fruit, white like the lip.—J. D. 1.

Fig. 1. Ovary and column. 2 and 3. Pollinia :—magnified.

IO.

Rabenanbipnabedeaeed: “= - w: *

SE ee ee ee ee ee ee

Tas. 5644,

MYRTUS CHEKEN.

Chequen of Chili.

Nat. Ord. Myrracrs®.—Poryanpria Monoeynta.

Gen. Char. Calycis tubus turbinatus, adnatus, ultra ovarium vix aut

breviter productus; lobi 4—5, imbricati v. aperti. Petala 4-5, patentia.

Stamina co, c-seriata, libera ; antherz basifixe, rimis dehiscentes. Ovariwm

perfecte v. imperfecte liberum, 2-3- rarius 4-loculare ; stylus filiformis,

stigmate parvo v. rarius capitato ; ovula in loculis oo, angulo centrali inor-

dinate oo-seriatim affixa. Bacca ecalycis tubo inelusa, limbo coronata v.

rarius limbo deciduo nuda. Semina perfecta 1-2-0, subreniformia, testa

ossea crustacea v. membranacea ; embryo hippocrepicus v. parum involutus,

radicula longissima tereti, cotyledonibus multo brevioribus nune minimis.—

Frutices, rarius arbores. Folia opposita. Pedunculi avillares, sepius

graciles, 1-8-7- rarius c-flori.

Myrrtus (Luma) Cheken ; fruticosa, dense foliosa, ramulis glabris pube-

rulis tomentosisve obscure 4-gonis foliisque glanduloso-punctatis, foliis

patulis breviter petiolatis elliptico- v. oblongo-ovatis apiculatis basi

obtusis acutisve utrinque glaberrimis nervis paucis indistinctis, pedun-

culis 1-floris foliis longioribus brevioribusve, bracteolis infra calycem

subulatis, floribus 3 unc. diam. albis 4-meris, calycis lobis petalisque

orbiculatis, petalis glabris ciliolatisve.

Myrtus Cheken. Spreng. Syst. Veg. v. 2. p. 85, excl. syn.

Eveenta Cheken. DO. Prodr. v.3. p. 276. Hook. et Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy.

56. 0. Gay, Fl. Chil. v. 2. p. 390.

Luma Cheken. A. Gray, Bot. U. 8. Expl. Exped. v. 1. p. 536. ¢. 66.

’

This is one of those pretty evergreen Chilian plants, so

suitable for walls in all the milder parts of England, and for

greenhouse decoration everywhere, but which is apt to be

cut by a winter’s cold below the average, and burnt by a

long summer’s drought, on the eastern side of the kingdom.

Its nearest affinity is with the Myrtus Luma (Eugenia Luma,

supra, Tab. 5040), which, indeed, is united (perhaps rightly)

with it as a variety by A. Gray, but that plant has more

distinctly apiculate leaves and usually three-flowered pedun-

cles.

MAY lst, 1867.

Myrtus Cheken has been for some years in cultivation, and

was introduced from Chili, I believe, by Messrs. Veitch.

The plant from which the accompanying drawing was made

flowered in Kew in July, 1866. In Chili it is in great re-

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diarrheea, and in other disorders.

Descr. A small, densely-leafy, much branched shrub.

Branchlets obscurely tetragonous, glabrous pubescent or

tomentose, covered with glandular dots. Leaves close-set,

shortly petioled, one-third of an inch long, oblong-ovate or

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nate, with two subulate bracts at the base : limb of four orbi-

cular lobes. Petals orbicular, glabrous or ciliated. Stamens

very numerous.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. The same, with the petals and stamens removed :—

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AMARYLLIS PARDINA. -

Spotted-flowered Amaryllis.

Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDEZ.—HExANDRIA Monocyyia.

Gen. Char. Perianthii tubus brevis v. 0, limbi subringentis lobis sub-

eequalibus recurvis, fauce sepius squamulosa. Stamina 6, fauce perianthii

inserta, filamentis liberis erectis vy. declinatis ; anthere versatiles. Ovarium

3-loculare; stylus elongatus, staminum directione, stigmate simplici v. 3-fido;

ovula plurima. Capsu/a membranacea, oblongo-3-gona v. depressa, 3-locu-

laris, 3-valvis. Semina plurima, globosa, compressa, marginata v. alata, v.

interdum abortu solitaria, carnoso-baccata, loculum v. capsulam implens.—

Herbe tropice et subtropiex, bulbo tunicato. Folia seapo co@tanea v. sero-

tina. Spatha 2-valvis, 1-co-flora.

AMARYLLIS (§ Hippeastrum) pardina; elata, foliis bifariis flore coetaneis

late linearibus obtusis scapo robusto glauco basi rubro maculato bre-

vioribus, spathis 2-floris, perianthii 5-7 poll. diam. subinfundibulifor-

mis tubo brevissimo intus fimbriato, lobis subequalibus ovato-oblongis

acutis pallide stramineis creberrime miniato-punctatis, staminibus de-

clinatis subequalibus, stigmate obscure 3-lobo.

A truly magnificent plant, discovered in Peru by Mr.

Pearce, collector to Messrs. Veitch, of the Royal Exotic

Nurseries, Chelsea, by whom it was flowered in March of the

present year. It is certainly the most striking species of the

genus known to me, and even Mr. Fitch’s skill has failed to

give full effect to the dazzling contrast of the bright vermi-

lion spots on the translucent substance of the perianth. It

is a stove plant of easy cultivation, and a worthy rival of the

more temperate Lilium auratum. one

The genus Hippeastrum, of Herbert, which includes many

American species of Amaryllis, differs from this latter by such

very slight and variable characters, that it cannot be regarded

as of any practical value, and I therefore follow Endlicher in

regarding it, together with its allies Zephyranthes, Nerina,

Vallota, etc., as sections of the great and widely diffused and

very natural genus Amaryllis.

Descr. Bulb clothed with pale brown, membranous scales.

JUNE lst, 1867.

Leaves bifarious, recurved, appearing with the flowers, and

then eight to ten inches long, by an inch and a half broad,

pale green, linear or narrow-linear, oblong, obtuse, not

striated. Scape as thick as the little finger, twelve to eighteen

inches high, contracted at the apex, glaucous-green, speckled

with red at the base. Spathe two-flowered ; leaflets about as

long as the pedicels, one to two inches, linear, membranous.

— Ovary short, green. Perianth five to seven inches in diame-

ter; tubes very short, fimbriate inside; lobes broadly ovate-

oblong, acute, spreading and recurved, nearly equal, pale

straw-coloured, profusely covered with vermilion spots, verdi-

gris-green at the base, with a dark purple band at their in-

sertion. Stamens nearly equal, declinate; anthers green.

Stigma very obscurely three-lobed/—J. D. H. :

Fig. 1. Ovary, base of perianth, and stamen. 2. Transverse section of

ovary :—magnified.

5646.

Witch, delet lith.

Tas. 5646.

BLETIA Snerrarrrana,

Sherratt’s Bletia.

Nat. Ord. Orncu1pre®.—Gynanpria MonanpriA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tan. 8319.)

Buerra Sherrattiana ; pseudobulbis depressis, foliis 3-4-plicatis utrinque

acuminatis, scapis simplicibus apice racemosis subbrevioribus, floribus

intense roseis, bracteis acuminatis ovario brevioribus, sepalis oblongo-

lanceolatis obtuse acutis, petalis duplo latioribus, labelli trifidi lobis

lateralibus apertis rotundatis maximis planis, intermedio multo minore

reniformi medio apiculato, lamellis 3 aureis parallelis totum axim

labelli pereurrentibus. Columna clavata, arcuata, haud conspicue alata,

— Bateman.

This, which is perhaps the prettiest of the true Bletias, is

a native of New Granada, whence the Messrs. Low imported

it about the year 1864. In its habit it is so similar to the

old and well-known B. verecunda that it was quite a surprise

to me when the spikes of bright-rosy flowers showed them-

selves in all their distinctness and beauty. As the plant is

quite new, I have named it after my gardener, Mr. Sherratt,

who almost from a: child has been specially devoted to

Orchids.

As regards culture that, of course, is of the simplest

character. Being terrestrial, it requires a large pot, and

being found at a lower level than most of the N ew Granada

species, it can scarcely be classed among “cool” Orchids.

The Cattleya or intermediate house seems to suit it well. -

Descr. Pseudobulbs flattened, about two inches across.

Leaves three or four, plicated, acuminate at either end,

raised upon an upright, greenish stalk, including which they

are nearly a yard long. Bracts acuminate, shorter than the

ovaries. Flowers of a very delicate texture, a dozen or more

in a somewhat dense terminal mass, bright rose-colour.

Sepals about an inch long, oblong-lanceolate, bluntish. Petals

JUNE 1st, 1867.

twice as broad, rounded. Jip longer than the petals, deeply

three-cleft, the lateral lobes being thrown wide open and

rounded, very much larger than the intermediate one, which

is kidney-shaped, emarginate, and apiculate. Three parallel

golden lamelle traverse the entire length of the axis of the

lip, from whence a network of veins radiates. Column

arched, clavate, much shorter than the lip.—J. B. :

Fig. 1. Lip spread flat. 2. Column. 3. Side view of pollen-masses.

4. Front view of ditto :—magnified.

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BILLBERGIA SPHACELATA.

Chupon of Chili.

Nat. Ord. Bromentacea.—Hexanvria Monoeynta.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5502.)

Briiperata sphacelata; caule brevi robusto, foliis numerosis carnoso-con-

gestis 4-5-pedalibus anguste ensiformi-lanceolatis concavis viridibus

remotiuscule spinulosis, floribus in capitulum axillare sessile dense

congestis, bracteis subulatis spinuloso-serratis medio sphacelatis, sepalis

dimidiato-lanceolatis acuminatis integris v. uno latere 1-dentutis, petalis

erectis obtusis basi intus 2-tuberculatis, filamentis breviusculis com-

pressis, antheris apiculatis, stigmatibus lineari-subulatis vix tortis.

BroMetta sphacelata. Ruiz et Pav. Prodr. v. 3. p. 32. Gay, Fl. Chili,

v. 6. p. 8.

Gretera sphacelata. Regel, Gartenflora, v. 14. p. 187. t. 474.

__. This very handsome Bromeliaceous plant, conspicuous for

its magnificent crown of leaves, each from four to five feet

long, flowered in the Royal Gardens, Kew, in October, 1866,

from specimens sent by Dr. Regel from the Imperial Botanic

Gardens of St. Petersburg. Though not altogether corre-

sponding with the Greigia sphacelata described and figured

by Dr. Regel in the ‘Gartenflora, I can hardly doubt its

being that plant, both from its origin and habitat. The diffe-

rences are that Regel’s plant is represented as having obtuse

anthers, whereas in the Kew plant the anthers are strongly

mucronate. In Ruiz and Pavon’s description the flowers are

said to be purple, which is not the case with our plant.

Billbergia sphacelata is a native of temperate Chili, near

Concepcion, in lat. 37°S., where it is called Chupon, and the

sweet pulpy fruits, which are greedily eaten by children, are

called Chupones.

Drscr. Stem very

crowded, bright green and shining, erect

JUNE lst, 1867.

short. Leaves numerous, densely

o-patent and recurved, -

four to five feet long, dark-green, narrow-lanceolate ensi-

form, one inch broad, concave, not keeled nor striate, with

rather distant spines on the margins, which are recurved,

gradually tapering to the acuminate apex. Head of flowers

axillary, short, very many-flowered, sunk amongst the leaves

near the crown or at the side of the stem, much depressed.

Bracts longer than the flowers, erect subulate-lanceolate,

spinous-ciliate, whitish, with greenish tips, and brown across

the middle. Flowers pale rose-red, an inch and a half long.

Ovary smooth. Sepals dimidiate-lanceolate, with often a deep

tooth on one side. Corolla tube rather shorter than the linear-

oblong, obtuse lobes, which have a thickened two-lobed scale

or two tubercles at the base. i/aments subulate, compressed.

Anthers linear, with a terminal mucro. Stigmas three, linear-

subulate, hardly twisted.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Corolla tube, lobe, and stamens. 3. Germen :—all

slightly magnified. ;

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Tas. 5648.

STEMONACAN THUS Prarcet.

Mr. Pearce’s Stemonacanthus.

Nat. Ord. AcANTHACE®.—DrpYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx profunde 5-fidus, equalis. Corolle tubus elongatus,

curvus, sensim ampliatus; limbus ringens, 2-labiatus, 6-lobus, lobis _pa-

tentibus v. reflexis. Stamina 4, exserta,infra os tubi inserta, filamentis

per paria connatis ; anther oblong, 2-loculares, loculis contiguis. Stigma

2-fidum, lobis angustis. Capsula basi contracta, asperma, superne 4-8-

sperma. Semina planiuscula, retinaculis suffulta—Suffrutices Americani.

Folia opposita v. inferiora 3-na. Inflorescentia axillaris v. terminalis, lara

v. densa. Bractew parve v. anguste. Flores coccinei, ebracteolati v. 2-

bracteolati.

STEMONACANTHUS Pearcei ; caule acute 4-gono, foliis breviter petiolatis

lane olatis longe acuminatis obtuse serratis glaberrimis subtus fusco-

purpureis, paniculis axillaribus paucifloris, pedunculis petiolis paulo

longioribus, calycis pilosuli lobis subulatis, eorolla 2-—2}-pollicaris

tubo gracile lobis revolutis, ovario glanduloso. —

Of the beautiful American Acanthaceous genus Stemon-—

acanthus, very few species have hitherto been introduced into

this country, though our herbaria contain several that are

eminently worthy of cultivation. But one, S. macrophyllus,

(Tab. nostr. 4448,) has been figured previously in this Maga-

zine ; it resembles the present in habit and general charac-

ters, but has a much more lax inflorescence.

S. Pearcei is a stove plant, native of Bolivia, where it was

discovered by Messrs. Veitch’s able collector, whose name it

bears, and flowered in the Royal Exotic Nurseries in March _

of the present year. I find no described species near it in

characters, but think it possible that it may be identical with

Arrhostoxylum Henkeanum, Nees (in DC. Prod. v. 11, t. 211),

which, though placed by its author in a genus which differs

from Stemonacanthus chiefly in the obtuse calyx-lobes, is

nevertheless itself described as having subulate calyx-lobes.

Descr. An erect, glabrous undershrub. Branches acutely

quadrangular, stout. Leaves shortly petioled, five to six inches

JUNE Ist, 1867.

long, lanceolate, long-acuminate, obtusely serrate, green

above, brown-purple below, with very prominent veins. Pe-

duneles axillary, patent, few-flowered, rather longer than the

petioles. Bracts linear ; bracteoles none, or one or two subu-

late. Calyx half to three-fotirths of an inch long, divided

below the middle into subulate, erect lobes. Corolla scarlet,

_ two to two and half inches long, erect ; tube slender, slightly

curved, gradually dilated upwards, compressed ; /obes recurved

or revolute. Anthers shortly oblong, two-celled ; cells con-

tiguous, red-purple. Ovary glandular.—J/. D. H.

Fig. 1. Calyx and bracteole. 2. Stamens. 3. Anther, 4. Ovary :—all

— magnified,

————

W Fitch del et lith

Vincent Brooks,Imp:

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Tas. 5649.

DENDROBIUM MACROPHYLLUM ; var. Veitchianum

Large-leaved Dendrobe ; Veiteh’s var.

Nat. Ord. Orcuipex.—GYNaNpDRIA MONANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4755.)

DENDROBIUM macrophyllum ; caulibus basi teretibus superne clavatis pro-

funde sulcatis 2-3-phyllis, foliis sessilibus oblongis apice oblique

2-fidis v. emarginatis, racemo terminali erecto elongato apice nutante

multifloro, bracteis. membranaceis acutiusculis, pedicellis sepalisque

ovato-oblongis extus hirsutis, petalis spathulatis acutis flavidis, labello

magno 38-lobo, lobis lateralibus adscendentibus reniformibus purpureo-

flabellatim striolatis, intermedio transverse dilatato convexo flabella-

tim maculato obscure 3-dentato.

DeENpRoBIvM macrophyllum. A. Rich. Sert. Astrolab. p. 22. t. 6.

Var. Veitchianum ; foliis minoribus. D. Veitchianum. Lindl. Bot. Reg.

1847, sub. ¢. 25.

The true D. macrophyllum of A. Richard, a native of New

Guinea, is one of the finest of Orchids, having leaves up-

wards of a foot long and a spike twice as long: the plant here

introduced differs only in the smaller leaf from. Richard’s

figure and description, and is clearly a variety of that species.

It was named after its introducers, Messrs. Veitch, by Dr.

Lindley, who seems to have overlooked Richard’s plant, or

he would surely otherwise have alluded to it as a close ally

at anyrate. Our specimen of var. Veitchianum was flowered

by Messrs. Backhouse, of York, in February of the present

year, and I am indebted to my friend Dr. Reichenbach for

its identification, as also for the information that D. ferox, of

Hasskarl, is another of its many varieties, which inhabit

the Javan and Sumatran hills. :

The var. Veitchianum is a native of Java, whence it was

sent to England by the late Mr. Thomas Lobb, one of the

- most indefatigable and successful of Messrs. Veitch’s collec-

tors. It inhabits the hottest jungles of the hottest climate in

"JUNE Ist, 1867.

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Descr. Stems tufted, eight to twelve inches high, terete

and as thick as a goose-quill below, expanding upwards into

a club-shaped, deeply grooved pseudobulb, that bears two or

three terminal or subterminal leaves. Leaves four to six

inches long in this variety, sessile, oblong, pale green, nearly

plane, unequally two-lobed at the very tip. Raceme a foot

and upwards high, erect, nodding at the apex, many-flowered.

Bracts \inear-oblong, membranous. Pedicels short, nearly

glabrous. Ovary and back of sepals hirsute. Flowers two

inches in diameter. Sepals ovate-oblong, acute, greenish-

yellow, paler inside. Petals smaller, spathulate, dirty-white.

Lip large, three-lobed ; lateral lobes subreniform, ascending,

yellow-green with radiating purple streaks; middle lobe

transversely oblong, convex, obscurely three-lobed, green,

with a few radiating dotted lines.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Lip. 2. Column. 3, 4. Pollen :—all magnified.

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DRABA VIOLACEA.

Violet-flowered Draba.

Nat. Ord. Crucirer£.—TrETraDIDYNAMIA, SILICULOSA.

Gen. Char. Sepala brevia, equalia. Stamina simplicia. Siligua elliptica

oblonga v. raro linearis, compressa, polysperma, rarius oligosperma, valvis

planiusculis rarissime costatis, septo membranaceo ; stylus brevis v. elonga-

tus, stigmate simplici. Semina 2-seriata, immarginata, funiculis setaceis;

cotyledones accumbentes.—Herbw sepissime parva, cespitose, pube stellata

wncane. Folia integra, radicalia sepe rosulata. Scapi caulesve nudi v.

foliosi, foliis sessilibus. Flores ebracteati v. inferiores foliaceo-bracteati,

sepe parvi, albi v. aurei, rarius rosei v. purpurei.

DraBa violacea; fruticulus suberectus, ramosus, ubique incano-tomentosus,

caulibus basi nudis cicatricatis superne longe foliatis, foliis brevibus

laxe imbricatis obovato-oblongis obtusis subspathulatisve integerrimis

v. obtuse dentatis, floribus subcorymbosis violaceis, pedicellis inferiori-

bus foliaceo-bracteatis elongatis, siliqua oblonga recta y. curva in sty-

lum elongatum acicularem angustata.

DraBa violacea. DC. Prod. v.1. p.171. Hook. Ie. Pl. t. 35.

Draza Bonplandiana. H. B. et K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. v. 5. p. 78.

It is seldom that a species of so obscure a genus as Draba

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the ‘ Botanical Magazine ;’ but such is the case with the pre-

sent plant, which is further very interesting on account of

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lofty Andes as any Pheenogamic plant. It was discovered

by Humboldt and Bonpland near Quito, and has since then

been gathered repeatedly by Professor Jameson, of that city,

who sent seeds to his friend I. Anderson Henry, Esq., F.LS.,

of Hay Lodge, Edinburgh, and from whom living plants in

flower were received at Kew in March of the present year.

Professor Jameson describes it as of rare occurrence, and

growing in loose rocks and walls at elevations of 13—15,000

feet. It was figured by my father as long ago as 1837, in

the ‘Icones Plantarum,’ with the remark, “This would in-

deed be a lovely plant to introduce into our gardens.”

JULY Ist, 1867.

The genus Draba, so abundant in the mountains of North-

ern Europe, is even more characteristic of the Andes of tro-

pical America, where many species, including most of the

finest of the genus, are to be found.

Descr. A densely hoary-tomentose shrubby-stemmed herb,

a foot or so high. Branches naked and scarred below, clothed

above with imbricating obovate or obovate-spathulate leaves.

Leaves about half an inch long, obtuse, equally tomentose on

both surfaces, obtuse, entire or obtusely toothed. Scapes

leafy. Flowers subcorymbose; lower pedicels slender, aris-

ing from the axils of the uppermost leaves. Flowers nearly

half an inch diameter. Sepals suberect, oblong. Petals

obovate-spathulate. Pod about a third of an inch long, ob-

long, acute at both ends, very flat, straight or curved, nar-

rowed into an acicular long style.—J. D. H.

Fig.1. Flower. 2. Stamens. 3. Ovary, style, and stigma :-—all magnified.

Vincent Brooks, imp.

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TPOM(@A Gerrranrpt, : ie

Gerrard's Ipomea. OS

Nat. Ord. Convotyunacem.—PeEnranpria Monoeynta.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tan. 5330.)

Irom@a Gerrardi; caule levi volubili, petiolis pedunculis sepalis foliisque

subtus ad nervos laxe albo-lanatis y. araneosis, foliis rotundato-cordatis

obtusis acuminatisve obscure sinuatis integerrimis supra glabris, pe-

dunculis axillaribus solitariis 1-floris 2-bracteolatis, bracteolis brevibus

obtusis persistentibus, sepalis mediocribus oblongis obtusis concavis,

pate amplis albis suaveolentibus, seminibus dense et copiose fusco-

anatis,

Of this very fine plant the seeds have several times been

sent to Kew from Natal, where it seems to be known as

“wild cotton ;” the first were received in 1857, from our ex-

cellent correspondent Dr. Sutherland, Surveyor-General of

the colony; and froma plant reared from these the drawing

here published was made. It forms a tuberous stock above

the earth as large as the fist, from which annual stems shoot,

attain a length of ten to fifteen feet, and flower copiously.

It succeeds well in the moderate heat of the Palm stove,

flowering about August. The seeds were exhibited as “ wild

cotton” in the Great Exhibition of 1862, and attracted some

attention as a possible substitute for cotton, the cotton famine

at that time raging.

As a species, J. Gerrardi is closely allied to I. albivenia,

Don, of Zanzibar (Convolvulus albivenius, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t.

1116), but that plant is more woolly, the stems are tubercled,

the bracts are long and linear, and tbe inside of the (much

smaller) corolla tube is purple. I have named it after a

most indefatigable collector, Mr. Gerrard, of Natal, who

sent dried specimens to Sir W. Hooker, and who, after ex-

ploring the countries to the northward of Natal, proceeded

with impaired health as a naturalist to Madagascar, where

he soon succumbed to that pestilential climate.

‘JULY lap, (1867.

Desc. Stems numerous, from a stout woody root-stock, ten

to fifteen feet long, twining, not tubercled, cobwebby or

covered with thin white wool, as are the petioles, nerves of

the leaves below, peduncles, and sepals. Leaves on terete

petioles two to four inches long, rounded-cordate, four to five

inches long, obtusely or acutely acuminate, obscurely sinuate.

Peduncles axillary, solitary, one-flowered, shorter than the

petioles, stout, terete. Bracts very small, short, ovate, obtuse,

persistent. Sepals two-thirds of an inch long, concave, obtuse.

Seeds densely four inches in diameter, very sweet-scented.

Corolla white, clothed with brown wool.—/J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Disk and pistil. 2. Seed with its woolly covering. 3. The same

removed :—all but Fig. 1 of the nat. size.

W. Fitch delet lith.

Vincent Brooks, imp

Tas. 5652.

DENDROBIUM BULLERIANUM.

Mr. Wentworth Buller’s Dendrobium.

Nat. Ord. Orncu1pE£.—GyYNAaNDRIA MoNANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Ta. 4755.)

Dernprosium Bullerianum; caulibus suberectis striatis foliosis (floriferis

aphyllis), foliis ovato-lanceolatis acutis, floribus geminatis vel ternatis,

bracteis ovatis acutis pedicellis 5-plo brevioribus, sepalis petalisque

(pauld latioribus) lanceolatis acutis, labello integro laté ovato acuto

macula magna circulari aurea supra discum. Bateman.

DENDROBIUM gratiosissinum. Hort.

A few plants of this pretty Dendrobium were imported |

two or three years ago from Moulmeine by the Messrs. Hugh

Low and Co. of Clapton, to whom they had been sent—like

so many other additions to this beautiful genus—by their

indefatigable correspondent, Mr. Parish. In structure it is

perhaps most nearly allied to D. crepidatum, from whence

the form of the lip abundantly distinguishes it; while in the

size and colouring, and general effect of its flowers, it some-

what resembles the otherwise very different D. Devonianum.

Mr. Wentworth Buller, one of our most zealous Orchidolo-

gists, having been the first to flower this plant in his very

rich collection at Strete Raleigh, Devon, I have great plea-

sure in naming the plant in his honor. He describes it as

of very easy cultivation in the Dendrobium house, where it

flowers in the spring.

Descr. Stems nearly erect, slender at the base, and rising

to upwards of a foot in height, striated, leafless when flower-

ing. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, two or three inches long, sharp-

pointed, falling off before the flowers appear. Bracts ovate,

acute, five times longer than the pedicels. Flowers in twos

and threes, of a creamy white, faintly tipped with rose. Sepals

AuGusT Ist, 1867.

oblong-lanceolate ; petals wider than the sepals, ovate-lanceo-

tate, acute. Lip broadly ovate, acute, its edges entire, and.

its disc decorated with a large, rich, circular yellow yak

which i is streaked with reddish-orange lines.—J. B.

W.Ritch delet kth

5653

bn) 6.

Vincent Brooks,Ep-

Tas. 5653.

RUDGEA MACROPHYLLA.

Large-leaved Rudgea.

Nat. Ord. Rustacem.—Pentanprta Monoeynta.

Gen. Char. Calycis tubus subglobosus; lobi 5, acuti. Corolla subinfun-

dibuliformis; tubus gracilis, fauce nuda ; lobi 5, erecto-patentes v. reflexi,

subconcavi, apice 3-quetro incurvo v. deflexo. Stamina 5, corolle fauce in-

serta, inclusa, filamentis brevibus v. elongatis; anthere oblonge, erect.

Ovariwm 2-loculare; stylus simplex, stigmate 2-cruri; ovula in loculis soli-

taria. Bacea 2-locularis, 2-sperma.—Arbores e¢ frutices Americe tropice,

glabri v. cinereo-pubescentes. Folia breviter v. longe petiolata. Stipule

magne, libere v. connate, sepe fimbriate v. setose. Flores in paniculas v.

capitula terminales v. pseudo-terminales dispositt, albi.

Rupera macrophylla; frutex glaberrimus, ramulis robustis, foliis 1-2-

pedalibus brevissime petiolatis elongato-obovato-oblongis v. lanceo-

latis subacutis inferne angustatis basi acutis obtusis v. cordato-2-lobis,

floribus magnuis in capitulum magnum densiflorum globosum crasse pe-

dunculatum dispositis, stipulis in tubum connatis dorso infra margines

setosis.

shee macrophylla. Besth. in Linn. v. 23. p. 456. Walp. Ann. v. 2. p.

47.

A magnificent plant, and belonging to a genus which,

though containing many species, had never previously, so far

as I am aware, been introduced into European gardens. All

of the species are South American, and the present, which

flowered in Mr. Henderson’s Nursery, of Pine-apple Place,

in March of the present year, is a native of the neighbour-

hood of Rio de Janeiro, where it has been found by various

collectors, and is described (by Gardner) as a shrub six feet

high.

Descr. A glabrous, shining, deep-green shrub, about six

feet high. Branches terete, very stout. Leaves very large,

one to two feet and upwards long, very shortly petioled,

narrow obovate-oblong or obovate-lanceolate, acuminate,

Spreading and recurved, narrowed to the base, which is

acute obtuse or auriculate-two-lobed, very coriaceous, shin-

ing, with a stout broad midrib and numerous veins. Sfipu/es

JULY Ist, 1867.

connate into a cylindric short sheath, with two rows of

thick, erect setiform processes on their sides. Flowers cream-

white, collected into a globose dense head as large as a

small fist. Peduncle very stout, cylindric; each flower one

to one and a half inches long. Ovary globose, pubescent.

Calyx teeth small, acute. Corolla thick in texture, funnel-

shaped ; lobes very thick, tips scarcely inflexed. Filaments

long; anthers included. Style slender; stigmas linear.—J.D.H.

Fig. 1. Stipules, stem and base of leaf. 2. Flowers, both of nat. size.

3. Stamen. 4. Pistil and calyx. 5. Transverse section of ovary. 6. Ovule:

—all magnified.

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EPIDENDRUM CooPpERIANUM.

Mr. Cooper's Epidendrun.

Nat. Ord. Oncuipem.—Gynanpria MOoNnaANpRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5336.)

Eripenprum (§ Spathium) Cooperianum ; caulibus rigidis erectis versus

apicem foliosis, foliis distichis lanceolatis acutis pedunculo denso

nutante multifloro e spath’a herbaced carinaté subduplici orto vix

«quantibus, bracteis minutis setaceis, floribus carnosis, sepalis ovali-

lanceolatis acutis, petalis minoribus lineari-lanceolatis acutis, labello

amplo basi bicalloso trilobo, laciniis lateralibus, maximis subrotundo- :

cuneatis, intermedia transversA reniformi alte emarginata, lined elevata

per discum currente; clinandrio obtuse dentato.— Bateman. :

ErrpEnpruM Cooperianum. Batem., mss.

Cultivators scarcely need to be told that the vast genus

Epidendrum is divided, as respects habit, into two grand

divisions, 7.e. the species that have and the species that have 3

not pseudobulbs. They are also well aware that it is among 4

the latter that the most describable kinds ay generally to

be found. There are, however, a few exceptions, amongst

which must be numbered the plant now represented, which

has a neat, compact, caulescent habit, and will well repay

cultivation. It is named in compliment to Mr. Cooper, of

Alpha House, Old Kent Road, a very zealous collector and

successful grower of Orchids, who had the merit of exhibit-

ing it for the first time at one of the Tuesday meetings of

‘the Horticultural Society in the spring of last year. A

month or two later, it was exhibited at another of these

meetings by Mr. Dawson, of Meadow Bank, near Glasgow.

It is a Brazilian plant—probably from the neighbourhood

of Rio—and grows readily in the Cattleya house, but it

should also be tried in the Mexican house, in which very

many Brazilian Orchids—especially divers Onctdia—would,

conceive, succeed perfectly. The Cattleya house itself

JULY 1st, 1867.

frequently proves too warm and. too moist for many of the

Orchids from the higher portions of the Organ Mountains,

whence not a few of the most popular species have come

to us.

Descr. A caulescent plant with erect rigid stems, two feet

or more high, thickly clothed in their upper portion with

stiff distichous lanceolate sharp-pointed leaves, which are not

quite so long as the dense nodding peduncle, which issues

from what is usually a twofold keeled herbaceous spathe,

the latter not quite so long as the leaves. Raceme many-

flowered. lowers coriaceous, of a dull yellowish-brown,

with the exception of the lip, which is bright rose. Sepals

oval-lanceolate, acute. Petals narrower than the _ sepals,

linear-lanceolate, acute. Lip large, fully as broad as the

column is long, divided into three unequal portions, of which

those at the side are plane, subrotund, and rather wedge-

shaped, while the central one is much smaller, kidney-

Shaped, and deeply emarginate; the disk of the lip is tra-

versed by a raised line, and has at its base two oblong calli.

Column somewhat bluntly toothed.—J. B.

Fig. 1. Column and lip, seen in front. 2. Pollen-masses :—magnified.

Tas. 5655.

GLOXINIA HYPOCYRTIFLORA.

Hypocyrta-flowered Gloxinia.

Nat. Ord. Grsnerracez.—DipynaMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Ohar. Calycis tubus basi ovario connatus, 5-fidus v.5-partitus. Co-

rolla polymorpha, tubo cylindrico v. inflato, limbi lobis patentibus v. conni-

ventibus. Stamina basi corolle inserta, didynama. Discus e glandulis

5 liberis v. annulus crenatus. Ovariwm basi v. altius calycis tubo adherens.

Stylus crassiusculus, stigmate 2-lobo. Fructus capsularis.—Herbe radici-

bus fibrosis, propagulis repentibus. Flores avillares.

Guoxrnta hypocyrtiflora ; herbacea, erecta, tota patentim subhirsuta, radice

fibrosa, propagulis aucta, foliis oppositis breviter petiolatis ovato-rotun-

datis obtusis basi cordatis, sinu angusto, convexis obtuse serratis

reticulatim venosis, areolis bullato-regulosis, costa nervisque pallidis,

pedunculis axillaribus solitariis 2-nisve adscendentibus validis 1-floris,

ealycis parvi tubo ovario connato, limbo ultra ovarium producto sub-

campanulato breviter 5-fido, corolla ventricosa gibba fere globosa

patentim hirsuta, lobis 5 parvis conniventibus faucem claudentibus,

filamentis styloque villosis, antherarum loculis pubescentibus disci

glandulis 5 erectis, ovarii apice libero.

The Gesneriacee are confessedly a very difficult tribe to

classify, and the subject of the present Plate tends to in-

crease the difficulty. In its habit, fibrous roots, and the

presence of propagula (shoots bearing leafy buds), it is a

Gloxinia; in the corolla, a Hypocyrta; in the glands, a

Gesnera ; whilst in the small calyx it differs from the ordi-

nary forms of all these genera. Many botanists would no

doubt found a new genus on it; but this I am unwilling to_

do for a member of an Order whose genera are already so

badly defined. It must also be observed, that though it

differs in the form of the corolla so much from any known

Gloxinia, this organ presents extremely different forms in

the various species both of that genus and of Gesnera.

Gloxinia hypocyrtifiora is a native of the forests of the

Quitenian Andes, whence there are dried specimens (with

propagula) in the Hookerian Herbarium, collected by Pro-

JuLy Isr, 1867.

fessor Jameson. For the specimen here figured J am in-

debted to Messrs. Veitch, who introduced it by means of

their excellent collector, Mr. Pearce. It is a very beautiful

plant, especially in the rich green of its velvety leaves tra-

versed by pale veins.

Descr. A very hirsute and subglandular herb, a foot or so

high. Roots fibrous. Stem erect, terete, soft. Leaves oppo-

site, three to four inches long, on petioles half to three-

quarters of an inch long, broadly ovate-cordate, with a very

narrow sinus at the base, convex, obtuse, obtusely serrate,

costa and nerves yellow, contrasting strongly with the dark

emerald-green closely-reticulated surface of the leaf; the

areolz between the nerves present elevated conical papille.

Peduncles one to two, in the axils of the leaves, ascending,

and when numerous on the plant, forming a sort of corymb,

stout, curved, three to four inches long. Calyx very short,

broadly campanulate; limb produced beyond the ovary,

shortly and obtusely five-lobed. Corolla two-thirds of an

inch long, bright orange-red, nearly globose, but gibbous

below, with five very obscure lobes which close over the

mouth, bright orange-red, yellower on the gibbous portion.

Glands epigynous, five, thick. Stamens four, filaments hir-

sute; anthers cohering, pubescent ; fifth stamen rudimentary.

Ovary sunk in the calyx tube, apex free, hairy. Style stout,

pubescent. Stigma two-lobed.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Corolla laid open. 2. Calyx and ovary. 3. Glands, and base of

calyx. 4. Glands removed :—all magnified.

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EPIDEN DRUM cnemmornorvum.

Sheathed Epidendrum.

Nat. Ord. Orcurprm—Gynanvria MonanpRiA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5336.)

EPIpENDRUM (Spathium) enemidophorum ; spathis plurimis foliaceis equi-

tantibus obtusis, racemo multifloro sessili cernuo simplici vel (rarius)

meres bracteis linearibus, sepalis oblongis obtusis, petalis lineari-

us, columna sigmoided, labelli lobis carnosis integerrimis lobis late-

ralibus rotundatis, intermedio cuneato bilobo rotundato, callis 2 maxi-

mis lineisque tribus elevatis quarum intermedia major. Lindl. Fol.

Orch.

ErIpenpRUM enemidophoruin. Lind. Fol. Orch.

This most remarkable plant was long since discovered by

the late Mr. Skinner, who laboured ineffectually for many

years to introduce it alive into our gardens. At length how-

ever his perseverance was rewarded, and he had the satis-

faction of receiving, early in 1864, a cargo of some twenty

or thirty specimens, all in the most perfect condition, and of

which some were sold at Stevens’s Rooms, while others, with

his wonted generosity, were distributed amongst his friends.

Among the latter Sir Philip Egerton was not forgotten, and

from a particularly fine specimen that flowered at Oulton,

and which was exhibited at South Kensington in April last,

Mr. Fitch’s very characteristic representation was obtained.

Even this however by no means conveys an adequate idea

of the stately appearance presented by the plant, the stems

of which were when exhibited already some five feet high,

ned a dozen still more vigorous growths were preparing to

ollow. 7

In its native country (Guatemala) it is found at an eleva-

tion of at least 7000 feet, and it must consequently be kept

cool, if we would expect it to thrive in our collections. —

At Oulton it receives little more than ordinary greenhouse

AuGusT Isr, 1867. :

treatment, and with me it succeeds perfectly in the Mexican

house. Patience however will have to be exercised, for—

even in Guatemala—it takes nearly seven years to grow a

really fine plant; but this when once obtained will remain

asort of heirloom for generations. The roots being very

large and fleshy, it requires abundant pot-room, the pots

being filled with a mixture of broken potsherds, sphagnum,

and fibrous peat.

Mr. Skinner once showed me a clever model of this plant

executed in coloured paper, and which he obtained from the

nuns of some Guatemala convent, in whose garden it was

cultivated for the sake of its flowers. The white background

of these, contrasted with the rich spotting on the inner side,

does, indeed, produce a very striking effect, and no doubt

attracted the attention of the sisterhood. ‘This model showed

a compound raceme a foot or more long, which I expect will

be at least equalled by those of the plant at Oulton when it

flowers again.

Descr. A robust terrestrial plant, throwing out numerous

fleshy roots, and forming tufts of stout leaty stems, which are

from half an inch to an inch thick, and from four to six feet

high. Leaves from six to ten inches long, glossy, dark green

and sharp-pointed. From the extremity of the stem there

issues forth a nodding, many-flowered (sometimes, though

rarely, compound) raceme, protected by numerous blunt,

sheathing, equitant, pale green spathes. Flowers fleshy, on

white pedicels three times as long as themselves. Sepals

oblong, obtuse, broader than the linear petals, both being

white at the back, and of a pale yellow, mottled with rich

reddish brown inside. Jip divided into three fleshy lobes,

of which those at the sides are rounded and entire, while

that in the centre is wedge-shaped and deeply cleft into two

portions, which are divergent and rounded; its colour 1s

a creamy white, with rosy tints. Colwmn somewhat curved

and club-shaped, about the same length as the lip.—¥J. B.

Fig. 1. Front view of lip and column, slightly magnified. 2. Dimi-

nished outline of the plant. ghily magnifi

ord

Vincent Brooks,”

Tas. 5657,

BEGONIA Bottvrensts.

Bolivian Begonia.

Nat. Ord. Begontacerx.—Monacta PoLyanpRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tax. 4131.)

Brconta (§ Barya) Boliviensis ; herbacea, glabra, ramosa, foliis breviter

petiolatis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis valde inequilateralibus basi

obliquis subcordatis penninerviis irregulariter inciso-serratis, denti-

bus setaceis, stipulis oblongo-lanceolatis serratis, pedunculis axillari-

bus pollicaribus 2-floris fl. J et 2, bracteis amplis cucullatis serratis,

floribus magnis coccineo-cinnabarinis, perianthii foliolis lanceolatis

3 4, 2 5, filamentis in conum elongatum alte connatis, antheris ob-

tusis, stigmatibus 3 ramis fascia papillosa basi continua cinctis, ovario

3-ptero, placentis alte 2-fidis, segmentis utrinque ovuliferis.

Brconta Boliviensis. DC. Prodr. v. 15. pars 1. p. 287.

The very beautiful plant here figured was procured by

Messrs. Veitch from Bolivia, through their collector, Mr.

Pearce, and was exhibited for the first time at the Inter-

national Horticultural Show in Paris in May last, when it

attracted more of the attention both of botanists and horti-

culturists than any other plant then brought to that magnifi-

cent floral exhibition.

Begonia Boliviensis was discovered by Weddell in the Cor-

dillera of Bolivia, and belongs to a very small section of the

genus, to which the (generic) name of Barya was given-by

Klotzsch ; the only other species being the B. monadelpha,

Ruiz and Pav., a native of Peru. In habit the Baryas sin-

gularly resemble the species belonging to the subgenus Cas-

parya, K1., but differ wholly in the structure of their stigmas.

Descr. Glabrous. Root a small tube. Stem herbaceous,

two to three feet high, sparingly branched. Branches cylin-

drical, green, translucent. Leaves on very short petioles, four

to five inches long by one to one and a half inches broad,

AvtGust Ist, 1867.

lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, very unequal at

the base, the larger lobe rounded, acutely doubly serrate and

obscurely lobulate, feather-veined, bright-green above, with

red margins, pale below. Stipules oblong-lanceolate, toothed,

recurved, green. Peduncles axillary, one inch long, two-

flowered, male and female. Bracts green, broadly ovate,

cucullate, toothed. Pedicels one inch long, red. Flowers

drooping, bright cinnabar-scarlet; ¢ two inches long, with

four lanceolate perianth-leaflets two inches long, ? with five

half as long. Stamens united into a long conical column ;

anthers small, oblong, yellow. Ovary three-winged; styles

three ;_ stigmas two-lobed, lobes with a spiral band that is

continuous at their bases. Placentas bifid, with ovules on ~

both surfaces of the segments.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Staminal column. 2 and 3. Stamen. 4. Pistil. 5. Transverse

section of ovary :—all magnified.

Witch, delet ith.

Vincent Brooks,hmp.

Tas. 5658.

PROSTANTHERA nivea.

Snow-white Prostanthera.

Nat. Ord. Lasrarz.—Dipynwamta GYMNOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx campanulatus ; tubus brevis, 13-striatus ; labia indivisa

fructus clausa. Corolla tubo brevi amplo, fauce campanulata, labio supe-

sore erecto subplano, inferiore patente. Stamina 4; anthere 2-loculares,

loculis parallelis, connectivo subtus calcarato. Stylus apice 2-fidus, lobis

subsqualibus.—Frutices glandulosi. Flores avillares v. racemosi sub calyce

bracteis parvis instructi.

PROSTANTHERA nivea; glaberrima, foliis linearibus v. lineari-lanceolatis

margine (sicco) revolutis, racemis laxis, calycibus glabris, labio supe-

riore maximo, inferiore dimidio brevivre ciliato, connectivi caleare

altero brevyi, altero elongato Joculum bis superante. ;

PRrosTanruERa niyea. Ounn. in Benth. Lab. p. 452. Benth. in DC. Prodr.

v. 12. p. 561,

The Prostantheras belong to a class of hard-wooded plants,

the cultivation of which has of late years given place to that

of innumerable varieties of Fuchsias and other more gaudy

but in many respects less interesting things, that now form

the staple of ‘our greenhouse furniture. There are some

twenty-six species described by Bentham, all Australian.

Many of them are pretty and graceful, and they further

flower at a season when little else that is not forced for the

purpose is to be had in the conservatory. fa nived is a

native of rocky hills in New South Wales and Victoria,

where it was discovered by the late Allan Cunningham (for-

merly of Kew). The specimen here figured was raised from

seeds sent to Kew by Dr. Mueller, and flowered in May of the

resent year. i

ie A glabrous bush, three to four feet high. Stems

and branches slender, twiggy, upper four-angled ; branchlets

erecto-patent. eaves one to one and a half inches long,

spreading, linear or linear-lanceolate, acute, quite entire,

pale-green, nearly flat, margins revolute when dry. lowers

Aveust Ist, 1867.

forming loose racemes, being solitary in the axils of the

uppermost leaves, shortly pedicelled, bracteoles linear. Calyx

green; tube hemispherical, grooved; lobes ciliolate, upper

obscurely three-lobed, lower much smaller, obtuse. Corolla

two-thirds of an inch in diameter, white with pale lilac lobes,

and a few yellow-brown spots on the throat at the base of

the lower lip; upper lip short, two-lobed. eaves spreading,

deeply three-lobed, lateral obtuse, middle truncate and emar-

ginate, all pilose and crisped at the margin. Anther with

one flat spur that is erose at the tip, and as long as the cell,

the other adnate with the connective, and much smaller.

Ovary subglandular ; stigma 2-fid—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2and3. Stamens. 4. Calyx. 5. Pistil:—all magnified.

Tas. 5659.

CESTRUM ELEGANS.

Purple Habrothamnus.

Nat. Ord. Sonanacem.—Penranpria Monoeynta.

Gen. Char. Calyx 5-fidus 5-dentatus v. 5-partitus. Corolla infundibuli-

form i-tubulosa, tubo ventricoso, fauce constricta, limbo parvo 5-lobo. Sta-

mina 5, tubo adnata, rarius libera; anthere 2-lobe, longitudinaliter dehis-

centes. Ovarium breviter stipitatum, stipite disco cireumdato, 2-loculare,

septo medio placentifero; stylus simplex, stigmate vario; ovula pauca.

Bacea ovoidea y. globosa, 1—2-locularis, oligosperma. Semina compressa,

albuminosa; cotyledones parve, foliaces.—Frutices v. arbuscula. Folia

solitaria v. gemina, petiolata, penninervia. Flores racemosi.

Cestrum (Habrothamnus) elegans ; fruticosa, ramis herbaceis teretibus

pubescenti-tomentosis, foliis petiolatis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis

basi rotundatis, cymis terminalibus, calyce obconico glabro, corolle

laciniis acutis.

Crstrum elegans. Schlecht. in Linn. v. 19. p. 261. Dunal in DC. Prodr.

v. 13. pars 1. p. 600.

HaBrornamyvs elegans. A. Brong. Herb. Gen. de V Amat. ser, 2. v. 4. et

Hort. Univ. v. 5. p. 293. | :

HaprotHamnus purpureus. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1844, t. 43, et Mise. p. 12.

The figures hitherto published by Van Houtte and Lind-

ley give no idea of the size and beauty of the flower of this

fine plant, and these are succeeded by magnificent grape-

like clusters of deep purple globular berries one-third of an

inch in diameter.

The Habrothamnus section of Cestrum are all natives of

Mexico. Several species are described, evidently very closely,

if not too closely related. The present grows at elevations

of 3-4000 feet, and succeeds well in a temperate house. The

plant fruited was sent by Mr. Henderson, of Wellington

Nursery.

The genus Habrothamnus of Endlicher, established as a sec-

tion by Schlechtendal, has been reduced again to Cestrum by

Dunal in the ‘ Prodromus’ of A. De Candolle, in conformity

with which work we have described the above species.

Aueust lst, 1867.

Descr. A large bush or small tree, with graceful pendu-

lous leafy branches ; branchlets cylindrical, pubescent. Leaves

alternate, shortly petioled, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate,

quite entire, acuminate, three to four inches long, pubescent,

pilose on the nerves beneath, deep-green, membranous,

rounded acute or obscurely cordate at the base. lower in

dense pendulous, thyrsoid, compound racemes, one inch long,

purplish-red, shortly petioled. Calyx short, tube turbinate,

green; lobes broadly triangular-ovate, acuminate, erect.

Corolla tubular, gradually inflated, then contracted below

the mouth, glabrous; limb short, with five spreading trian-

gular acute lobes; mouth and inner surface glabrous. Sta-

mens inserted two-thirds of the way down the tube; filaments

filiform; anthers included, small, yellow. Ovary globose ;

style slender; stigma capitate, truncate, included. Berry

globose, half to three-quarters of an inch in diameter, fleshy,

deep red-purple, two-celled, many-seeded.—J, D. H.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Vertical section of corolla. 38. Pistil. 4. Transverse

section of fruit :—all but Fig. 4, magnified.

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AGAVE xynonacantia.

Woody-thorned Agave.

Nat. Ord. Auarytiipes.—Hexanpreia Monocynta.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 5833.)

AGAVE aylonacantha ; acaulis, foliis subsquarroso-patentibus ensiformibus

acuminatis apice subtrigono pungente glaucis granulatis supra planius-

culis subtus convexis ecarinatis estriatis, margine cartilagineo albo acu-

leis dilatatis simplicibus vy. furcatis instructo, scapo elato bracteis longe

setaceis numerosis instructo, racemo densifloro, pedunculis pedicellis-

que brevibus, bracteolis subulatis, perianthii tubo brevissimo lobis

oblongis obtusis erectis viridibus ovario cylindrico wxquilongis. @.

Koch, Wochenschr. 1861, p. 39.

Agave xylonacantha. Salm-Dyck, in Bonplandia, v.7. p.92. Jacobi in

Otto, Hamburg. Garten- und Blumen-Zeitung, v. 20. p. 547.

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for decorative purposes is becoming yearly more apparent.

The subject of the present Plate is a native of Real del

Monte, Mexico, whence it was sent to the Royal Gardens in

1846, by Mr. Repper, to whom the Gardens are indebted for

many fine plants.

Descr. Stemless. Leaves spreading all round, two to three

feet long, three to five inches broad, thick, rigid, and succu-

lent, rough with minute granulations, but neither keeled,

striated, nor ribbed, plane above, convex beneath, glaucous-

green, ensiform-lanceolate, gradually acuminate to the pun-

gent trigonous apex ; margin broad white, cartilaginous, beset

with flat-lobed, white, vertically compressed, simple or lobed

spinous processes, the lobes irregular, often uncinate. Scape

august lst, 1867.

nine to ten feet high, strict, rather stout, green, beset with

long, strict, subulate bracts, two to eight inches long. Flowers

in a very dense, elongate, strict, erect raceme, three to four

feet long, clustered in twos and threes on short, stout pedun-

cles, that are subtended by a reflexed subulate bract one and

_a half to two inches long; each flower, with the stamens,

three inches long; pedicels very short; bracteoles minute,

subulate. Ovary cylindric, one inch long, glabrous, green.

Perianth tube very short; lobes linear-oblong, obtuse, erect,

about as long as the ovary, green. Stamens as long as the

ovary and perianth, erect. Filaments yellow with a red

tinge, strict. -Anthers yellow, linear, two-thirds of an inch

long. Style slender, shorter than the stamens; stigma small,

capitate.— J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Reduced figure of the whole plant. 2 and 3. Portions of the

leaf. 4. Ditto of the raceme :—both of nat. size.

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Tas. 5661.

COLAX JUGOSUS.

Furrowed-lipped Colax.

Nat. Ord. Orcuipew.—Gynanvria MoNnanpria.

Gen. Char. Perianthiwm vix ringens, in mentum breve productum, sub-

globosum, Sepala et petala subeequalia, oblonga. ZLabellum unguiculatuin,

immobile, inappendiculatum, ungue brevi sublineari in laminam dilatatam

3-lobam dilatato. Colwmna_ semiteres, subelongata. Anthera carnosa,

subimmersa. Pollinia 4, obovoidea, caudicule membranacee elongate

angustate adnata ; glandula obscura. ostellum 5-lobum.—Herbe pseu-

dobutbose, Brasilienses. Folia terminalia et radicalia, plicata. Pedunculi

radicales, erecti, 1-3-flori, vaginati. Flores majusculi.

Coax jugosus ; pedunculo 2-3-floro, sepalis ovato-rotundatis albis, petalis

late obovatis albis fasciis purpureis creberrime notatis, labelli villosi

Jugosi purpureo-fasciati lobis lateralibus parvis, intermedio semiorbi-

culari, columna villosa.

Coax jugosus. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1843; Misc. p. 51. Reichenb. fil. Xen.

Orch, p. 107. #. 41.

Maxinnarta jugosa. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1840; Mise. p. 51.

The genus Colar was established by Lindley upon certain

Mazillarie with less ringent flowers than the majority of

the species of that genus and a peculiar caudicle, though

how far such differences will hold good as generic cannot be

determined, until a revision of this great and most important

Order shall settle the value of the characters now so arbitra-

rily used for the limitation ofits genera. Colax is, however,

upheld by Reichenbach, whose authority on Orchidee is

unquestionably the highest, and who gives a very fair figure

of this species in the valuable work referred to.

Colax jugosus is a native of Brazil, and, according to Lindley,

was introduced by Messrs. Loddiges. The specimen here

figured flowered in Mr. Rucker’s magnificent collection at

Wandsworth in May of the present year. I have followed

Reichenbach in referring it to Lindley’s C. jugosus, from

whose description in the ‘ Botanical Register’ it differs in

SEPTEMBER lst, 1567.

the petals being banded with dark purple, not speckled with

crimson.

Descr. Psendobulbs elongate-ovoid, compressed, smooth

and even, two to three inches long. Leaves from the apex

and base of the pseudobulbs, lanceolate, acuminate, six to

nine inches long, an inch and a half to two inches broad.

Scape radical, clothed with imbricating, rather, turgid, acute

sheaths, an inch to an inch and a half long, two- to .three-

flowered. Flowers subglobose, when fully expanded two

inches in diameter. Sepals broadly oblong, almost rounded,

obtuse, pale cream-colour. Petals obovate-oblong, shortly

unguiculate, obtuse, white, thickly studded with short, trans-

verse, black-purple bands. Jip smaller than the petals,

shortly unguiculate, velvety and covered with fleshy ridges,

three-lobed ; lateral lobes small, banded longitudinally with

dark purple spots; middle lobe semicircular, streaked and

splashed with dark purple. Co/wmn villous in front.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Lip. 2. Column. 3. Pollinia and caudicle :—all magnified.

5662.

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Tas. 5662.

DRACAINA surcutosa ; var, maculata.

Long-shooting Dracena ; spotted-leaved var.

Nat. Ord. Asparagine®.—Hexanprta Monoaysta.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 5248.)

Dracmna surculosa ; fruticosa, surculos strictos erectos squamosos e ra-

dice emittens, caulibus gracilibus dichotome ramosis paucifoliatis

Squamosis, cicatricibus squamarum delapsarum annulatis, foliis bre-

viter petiolatis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis striato-nervosis, nervis

omnibus parallelis, squamis lanceolato-subulatis membranaceis erectis,

pedunculo terminali gracili erecto, bracteis minutis, floribus in co-

rymbum laxum globosum dispositis gracile pedicellatis, pedicello basin

versus articulato, perianthii tubo gracili lobis linearibus reflexis equi-

longo, filamentis filiformibus.

Dracmna surculosa. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1169.

Var. maculata ; foliis fulvo-maculatis.

_ This is another of the spotted-leaved Dracenas that

inhabit, and indeed are almost peculiar to the shores of

western tropical Africa, and, with the D. phrynoides (Tab.

nostr. 5852) and D. bicolor (Tab. 5248), dried specimens were

sent home by Mr. Gustav Mann, whilst collector for Kew on

that dangerous but prolific coast.

D. surculosa was discovered by the late George Don, when

collector for the Horticultural Society of London in 1821,

at Sierra Leone, and from the plants he sent to England the

figure published in the ‘Botanical Register’ was made;

these however wanted the yellow spots so conspicuous in

var. maculata, and the pedicels of its flowers are rather

shorter; in other respects the plants are identical. It is

very near the D. elliptica, var. maculata (Tab. nostr. 4787),

but has very different flowers and inflorescence.

D. sureulosa, var. maculata, was collected by G. Mann in

1863 on the banks of the Old Calabar River, but the speci-

SEPTEMBER IsT, 1867.

mens here figured were communicated by Mr. Clarke, of the

Glasgow Botanic Garden, to whom the Royal Gardens are

indebted for a fine living plant.

Descr. A shrub, six to eight feet high, sparingly dichoto-

mously branched, throwing up copious, stout, erect, rod-like,

scaly surculi from the root. Stems and branches very slender,

annulate where the scales have fallen away, terete, with de-

ciduous subulate membranous scales here and there on the

shoots and at the base of the peduncle. Leaves in scattered,

subopposite pairs, and whorled in threes, spreading, flat, four

to six inches long, one and a half to two inches broad,

shortly petioled, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, finely striated

with parallel nerves, rather membranous in texture. Peduncle

terminal, strict, erect or inclined, three to five inches long,

slender, with scattered sheathing scales, bearing at the top a

globose, lax corymb of greenish-white flowers. Peduncles one

inch long, very slender, with subulate bracts at the insertion,

jointed near the base. Ovary oblong. Perianth-tube above

the ovary nearly half an inch long, slender; lobes linear,

reflexed, obtuse, about as long as the tube, pale-yellowish.

Filament slender, filiform, as long as the perianth lobes;

anthers oblong, yellow. Ovary bluntly trigonous ; style very

slender; stigma capitate, three-lobed. Berry as large as a

pea, one-seeded. Seed subglobose.—./. D. H.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Upper part of stamen. 3. Pistil. 4. Transverse

_ section of ovary. 5. Fruit :—all but Fig. 5 magnified.

5063.

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BEGONIA VEITCHII.

Veitch’s Begonia.

Nat. Ord. Begontacem.—Mona@cta Ponyanpris.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 41381.)

‘

Breonta (§ Huszia) Veitchii; acaulis, laxe pilosa, foliis crasse petiolatis

oblique ovato- y. rotundato-cordatis lobulatis et crenulatis, nervis fla-

bellatis subtus prominulis, secapo robusto 2-floro (fl. ¢ et 9), bracteis

2 oblongis obtusis roseis, floribus amplis miniato-cinnabarinis, peri-

anthii foliolis obovato-rotundatis in ¢ 4, in 2 5, filamentis liberis, an-

theris obtusis, ovario 3-loculari, placentis 2-fidis, lobis lobulatis undi-

que ovuliferis, stylis 3-2-furcatis, cruribus fascia papillosa torta cinctis.

Br@onta Veitchii. Hook. f. in Gard. Chron. 1867, p. 734, cum ic. xylog.

Of all the species of Begonia known, this is, I think, the

finest. With the habit of Savifraga ciliata, immense flowers

of a vivid vermilion-cinnabar red, that no colourist can re-

produce, it adds the novel feature of being hardy, in certain

parts of England at any rate, if not in all. It was discovered

by Messrs. Veitch’s collector, Mr. Pearce, near Cuzco, in

Peru, at an elevation of 12,000-12,500 feet, and the plants

grown in Mr. Veitch’s establishments have already given

proof sufficient of their hardihood, by withstanding a tem-

perature of 25° Fahr. with absolute impunity. Unwilling as

I am to pronounce on the probable or possible adaptation of

exotic plants to an English climate, I cannot but believe

that in the south-western counties and in the south of Ire-

land, the Begonia Veitchii will certainly prove one of the

most ornamental of border plants.

A very nearly allied species to this exists in the Hookerian

Herbarium, collected by Mandon in the Andes of Bolivia,

near Sorata, altitude 9,000-10,000 feet ; it is, however, more

caulescent, and has a glabrous scape, with larger stipules and

bracts. I have mentioned this as the same species as Veitchii,

SEPTEMBER IlsT, 1867.

in the ‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle,’ but from live specimens since

received from Major ‘[revor Clarke, I believe it to be dis-

tinct, having a caulescent habit, many-flowered scapes, and

less brilliantly coloured flowers. It will shortly be figured

in this work as B. Clarkii.

Descr. Root tuberous. Stem almost none. Leaves nearly

radical, on short, stout, pilose petioles, orbicular- or broadly

ovate-cordate, concave, obscurely lobed and crenate, four to

six inches in diameter, thick in texture; nerves radiating

from the centre, very prominent below; upper surface dark-

ereen, under very pale; margins red and ciliate. Stipules

membranous, triangular, ovate, red. Scape erect, stout,

terete, eight to ten inches high, pilose, two-flowered, male

and female. Bracts concave, membranous, oblong, obtuse,

ciliate, rose-red. Peduncles about one inch long. Flowers

one and three-quarters to two and a half inches in diameter,

bright cinnabar-red; male flower largest; perianth segments

four, broadly ovate; stamens very numerous, crowded ona

slightly elevated torus; filaments filiform ; anther broadly

obovate, obtuse ; female flower, perianth segments five, as 1n

the male flower. Ovary green, obcuneate, unequally three-

winged ; style trifid, lobes bifid, with spiral stigmatic bands;

gl bifid and lobed, the lobes ovuliferous all over.—

wv, H.

Fig. 1. Ovary and style and stigmas. 2. Transverse section of ovary-

3. Stamen :—all magnified.

Tas. 5664.

EPIDENDRUM Brassavonz.

Brassavola-like Epidendrum.

Nat. Ord. Orcurpex.—Gynanpria MOoNnANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4107.)

Ertrnprum Brassavole ; pseudobulbis semifusiformibus compressis di-

phyllis, foliis oblongis acutis racemo multifloro 2-3-plo brevioribus,

Sepalis petalisque subequalibus lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis, labello

longé cuneato oblongo acuminato lineis tribus per discum carinato,

androclinii dentibus Jateralibus triangulo-semilunatis extus medio

unidentatis, denti medio spathulato sursum serrulato. Rchb.

Eprpenprum Brassavole. Rehb. in Bot. Zeitung, 1852, p. 738; et in Beitr.

Orchid. Flora Cent. Amer. p. 36. Lindl. Folia. Bateman in Gard.

Chron. (1867), p. 682.

This very distinct Epidendrum was discovered by the late

Mr. Skinner on the mountains of Guatemala, and he it was

who gave me (in 1865) the plant from which the accom-

panying figure was obtained. Professor Reichenbach had pre-

viously examined wild specimens of the same thing, gathered

on the volcano of Chiriqui, and these suggested to him the

very appropriate name of Brassavole, under which he de-

scribed it several years ago in a German periodical. But,

although long known to botanists, I am not aware of the

species having ever flowered in England before the present

summer, when a spike made its appearance in the Mexican

house at Biddulph Grange, in which the quaint form and

singular colour of its blossoms attracted much attention. It

grows freely, and will, no doubt, prove to be a popular

favourite, especially when it has become strong enough to

produce such copious heads of bloom as those that are pre-

served in the herbaria. The flowers continue a long time in

beauty, and, though scentless by day, are agreeably fragrant

by night. It is most nearly allied to £. prismatocarpum, but

is a far handsomer plant; nor does it require so much heat

as that species.

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1867.

Descr. Pseudobulbs compressed, somewhat fusiform, a span

long, bearing two leaves. Leaves oblong, acute, much

shorter than the raceme, which is many-flowered, and some-

times attains the height of from two to three feet. Flowers

nearly four inches across, arranged in a raceme proceeding

from a short pointed spathe. Bracts triangular, much

shorter than the ovaries. Sepals and petals nearly equal,

spread wide open, about two inches long, linear-lanceolate,

acuminate, of a rich yellowish-brown. Lip not quite so long

as the petals, oblong, wedge-shaped at the base, acuminate

at the apex, where it is tipped with a patch of lovely mauve,

the other portions being straw-colour ; along its disk run two

or three carinate lines. Colwmn three-toothed, the side

teeth being triangular and semilunate, while that in front 1s

spathulate and serrulate.—J. B. ;

Fig. 1. Column. 2 and 8. Pollen-masses :—magnified.

5665. —

. Whitch,del. et ith. Vincent Brooks ™

;

Tap. 5665.

ERODIUM MACRADENIUM.

Spotted-flowered Storksbill.

Nat. Ord. Gerantaces.—Monapetruta PENTANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Flores regulares v. vix irregulares. Sepala 5, imbricata.

Petala 5, imbricata. Glandule 5, petalis alterne. Stamina 5, cum stami-

nodiis totidem anantheris alternata et basi cum iis in tubum connata.

Ovarium 5-lobum, 5-loculare, rostratum, rostro in stylum abeunte, ramis

5 longitudinaliter stigmatosis; ovula in loculis 2, superposita. Capsula

5-loba; lobi 1-spermi, ab axi placentifero septifrage dehiscentes, caudis a

basi ad apicem elastice revolutis. Semina exalbuminosa, cotyledonibus

plicatis v. flexuosis.—Herbe, rarius suffrutices, ramis sepe articulato-no-

dosis.. Folia opposita, altero sepe minore, v. alterna, dentata lobata v. dis-

secta. Stipule membranacee. Pedunculi azillares. Flores sepius umbel-

lati, rarius solitarii v. 2-ni.

ERopium macradenium ; acaule, foliis petiolatis ambitu oblongis pinnati-

sectis pubescenti-glandulosis, segmentis pinnatifidis, rachi dentata,

pedunculis umbelliferis, involucri foliolis lanceolatis v. ovatis acumi-

natis, sepalis anguste oblongis longe mucronatis, petalis obovatis, 2

superioribus paulo minoribus plaga lata purpurea notatis, seminibus

estriatis.

Eroprum macradenium. L’hérit. Géran. t.1. Gren. et Godr. Fl. France,

v. 1. p. 3138.

Eropivm graveolens. Lapeyr. Hist. Pl. Pyrén. abrégée, p. 390.

Eropium glandulosum. Willd. Sp. Pl. v.3. p. 628. DO. Prodr. v. 1. p. 645.

Geranium glandulosum. Cav. Diss. v. 5. t. 125. f. 2.

GzrRayium radicatum. Lapeyr. Fl. Pyrén. v. 1. t. 1.

There can be little doubt but this charming hardy peren-

nial plant is the very rare Hrodium macradenium, L’hérit.,

though it does not agree with the author's character in hav-.

ing acute petals, nor with the descriptions of Willdenow and

Lapeyrouse, who describe the two spotted petals as larger

than the others; nor with Willdenow’s observation that

the involucral leaves are linear-lanceolate. Still, the habit

and all other characters, including the colour of the flower,

agree so precisely with those of £. macradenium, that it is im-

SEPTEMBER lst, 1867.

possible to separate it specifically by the slight and probably

variable differences above noted.

E. macradenium is a native of the Pyrenees, where it was

discovered by Lapeyrouse in 1782, who describes it as being

remarkable for the extraordinary length and peculiar form

of the roots, and strong, acrid, penetrating odour of the fo-

liage. The specimens figured were received from Messrs.

Backhouse, to whom we are also indebted for living plants

now flowering in the Royal Gardens.

Derscr. Root very large, stout, long, tortuous amongst

rocks, crowned with the ragged bases of the old leaves. Stem

scarcely any. Leaves crowded near the top of the root,

spreading, on long petioles, hairy and glandular, one and a

half to two inches long, oblong in outline, pinnate, the seg-

ments linear-oblong, pinnatifid ; rachis with a toothed wing.

Peduncles longer than the leaves, ascending. Flowers um-

bellate, three-quarters of an inch in diameter. Jnvolucral

leaves ovate or lanceolate, acuminate. Sepals oblong-linear,

with a long, subterminal mucro. Petals longer than the

sepals, obovate ; two upper purple, with a deep black-purple

horse-shoe spot, and purple veins; three lower pale purple.—

J.D. H.

Fig. 1. Calyx and pistil :—magnified.

‘Vincent. Brodks, rp-

del et hth

W-Fitch.2

Tas. 5666.

GRIFFINIA Bromenavia.

Dr. Blumenau’s Griffinia.

Nat. Ord. AMarytiippm.—Herxanpria Monoeynta.

_ Gen. Char. Perianthium corollinum, superum, tubo brevi cylindrico,

limbo meequali sub-2-labiato 6-partito, lobo inferiore porrecto. Stamina 6,

Summo tubo inserta, filamentis filiformibus, declinatis v. uno assurgente, re-

liquis declinatis ; anthere versatiles. Ovarium inferum, 3-loculare ; stylus

3-sulcus, stigmate indiviso 8-fido v. 8-lobo; ovula in loculis 2, collateralia.

Capsula membranacea, 3-sulca, 3-locularis. Semina in loculis subsolitaria,

obovata, erecta, testa ochroleuca nitida ; embryo axilis—Herbe Brasilienses,

bulbo radicali tunicato. Folia pauca, petiolata, oblonga, costato-nervosa.

Scapus subcylindricus, solidus. Flores umbellati, spatha 2-valvi arida.

GRIFFINTA Blumenavia ; foliis subgraciliter petiolatis oblongo-lanceolatis,

floribus 3 une. diam., perianthii foliolis oblongo-lanceolatis obtusis

albis, 5 superioribus roseo-venosis, superiore latiore, inferiore angus-

tiore, stigmate 3-fido, lobis acutiusculis recurvis.

Grirvinta Blumenavia. Koch et Bouché ex Carriere, in Rev. Horticole,

1867, p. 82, cum icone pessima.

A very charming tropical bulbous plant, discovered by Dr.

Blumenau at St. Catherine’s, Brazil, and sent by him to the

Berlin Botanic Gardens. It is advertised by Messrs. Haage

and Schmidt in their catalogue for 1867, and the Royal

Gardens, Kew, are indebted to Messrs. E. G. Henderson and

Son for specimens which flowered in April of the present year.

The figure in the ‘Revue Horticole’ is so bad, that it would

have been impossible to have recognized the species by it, and

as it is, 1 am indebted to Messrs. Haage and Schmidt for the

verification of the plant.

The genus Griffinia seems to be very closely allied to

Amaryllis, differing conspicuously in the persistent leaves.

Endlicher describes it as having a stamen ascending, which

we do not observe in this plant. Herbert, again (on ‘ Bul-

bous Plants,’ p. 228), implies that all are declinate. End-

licher says the stigma is undivided or obsoletely three-lobed,

whereas in G. Blumenavia it is three-cleft. — .

SEPTEMBER Lst, 1867.

Descr. Bulb as large as a wild hyacinth, covered with

brown scales. Leaves numerous, four to five inches long, on

rather slender petioles, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, ob-

scurely nerved in a young state, as figured, ribbed and

marked with transverse veins when old. Scape erect, six to

eight inches long, terete, solid. Umbel six- to eight-flowered ;

spathes membranous. Peduncles one inch long. Perianth

white, three inches in diameter ; segments oblong-lanceolate,

obtuse, all but the lowest traversed with fine, broad, pale

rose-coloured veins; uppermost broadest, lowermost narrow-

est and pointed. Filaments slender, all declinate ; anthers

yellow. Stigma trifid, lobes acute.—J. D. H.

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

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LALIA masanis.

May-flowering Lelia.

Nat. Ord. Orcuipea.—GynanpriA MoNnaNDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tax. 158.)

LaLa majalis ; pseudobulbis ovatis vel subrotundis, foliis solitariis coria-

ceis oblongis, spicis 1- vel rarissime 2-floris subsqualibus, bracteis mem-

branaceis ovatis, sepalis lanceolatis petalis oblongo-lanceolatis duplo

latioribus, labelli lobo medio rotundato emarginato plano, lateralibus

parvis obtusis. Lindl.

Lx. majalis. Bateman, Orchid. Mew. et Guat. t. 28. Bot. Reg. v. 80. t.

30. Paxton, Mag. v. Le, Prt.

Buetra speciosa. Hb. Bonpl. et Kunth, Nov. Gen. et Spec. v. 1. p. 842.

Rehb. in Walpers’ Ann. v. 6.

Buerra grandiflora. La Llave.

This magnificent Mexican Orchid has long been known to

botanists. Hernandez was the first to notice it, and he gives

it a place by the side of the glorious Ligridia pavonia and a

Stanhopea (probably 8. Martiana) in the singular frontis-

piece that he prefixed to his work on the natural history of

New Spain, published about two hundred years ago. Karly

in the present century it caught the eye of Humboldt him-

self, by whom, or rather by his collaborateur Kunth, it was

described under the name of Bletia speciosa. Lexarza, the

companion of La Llave, subsequently found it growing over

the whole province of Mechoacan, but failing to identify it

with Humboldt’s plant, published it under the designation

of B. grandiflora, Later still, when it flowered in Mr.

Llewelyn’s collection at Penllargare, Dr. Lindley, supposing

it to be a new Lelia, gave it the name of L. majalis, which

is merely a Latin rendering of the vernacular name, “ Flor

de Mayo,” by which the species is known over nearly the

whole of Mexico, and which of course indicates the usual

period of its blossoming; and although the latter name has,

as regards priority, no right to stand, still, as it has been ace

cepted over all Europe, it would scarcely be desirable, even if

it were possible to disturb it.

‘ocToOBER Ist, 1867.

This Leelia is no stranger, having been introduced for thirty

years at least, and I well remember being present at the un-

packing of a quantity of it that had been brought over on spe-

culation in 1837 by a M. Deschamps, who was much surprised

to discover that because a few plants of the species had been

sold for several guineas a-piece, a cargo of many hundreds

could not find purchasers at the same rate. But however

numerous the specimens, none of them survived for more

than a few years, as was the case with a subsequent importa-

tion of the same thing by the Horticultural Society. In

two or three instances, indeed, flowers were produced, but

they gave a very inadequate notion of the beauty of the

plant which was not likely to succeed permanently under

other than cool treatment. It was reserved for Mr. Ander-

son, gardener to Mr. Dawson of Meadow Bank near Glas-

gow, to produce flowering specimens fully equal to those

that the plant sends forth in such rich profusion in its native

haunts, and which, exhibited at South Kensington in the be-

ginning of June last, excited much astonishment and admi-

ration. One of these is represented on the opposite side,

and its beauty is not in the slightest degree exaggerated in

Mr. Fitch’s drawing, excepting that two flowers are shown

on a spike as sometimes, though rarely, occurs in the wild

specimens; in cultivation it has hitherto produced only so-

litary flowers, but these were more than a span across.

Mr. Anderson’s plants are accustomed to a rather close

and warm temperature during the day in summer, but at

night are kept as cocl as possible, while in winter they are

allowed a decided rest. I apprehend, however, that a cool

airy and rather dry temperature,—an imitation, in short, of

the Mexican climate,—will be found at least equally effica-

cious; at all events, in such a climate my own plants are

thriving beautifully, being suspended near the glass on

branch orchid-pots.

Descr. Pseudobulbs ovate or subrotund, two inches high,

and bearing solitary, leathery, oblong leaves, which are

about the length of the flowers, 7. e. fully a span across. Bracts

membranaceous, ovate. Spikes short, issuing from apex of

the bulb. one- or (very rarely) two-flowered. Sepals lanceo-

late. Petals oblong-lanceolate, twice the width of the

sepals, and like them of a beautiful rosy-lilac. Zip three-

lobed, the middle lobe emarginate, rounded, its edges lilac,

and its centre white with lilac streaks, the side lobes small,

white inside, with lilac streaks.— J. Bateman.

Fig 1. Column. 2. Lip :—xnatural size.

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Tap. 5668.

JCHMEA GLOMERATA.

Crowded-flowered Aichmea.

Nat. Ord. Bromenracem.—Herxanpria Monoeynta.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tax’ 5447.)

Ecumea glomerata; foliis e basi amplexantibus sensim dilatatis late li-

neari- v. oblongo-ligulatis cuspidatis 3-4 poll. latis viridibus, margine

spiuulis remotiusculis brevibus nigris inferioribus crebrioribus re-

curvis ornato, scapo erecto folio longiore ramoso viridi-roseo picto,

ramis brevibus undique floriferis, floribus bracteatis dense glomeratis,

bracteis basi ovatis dein subulatis sepalisque erectis imbricatis san-

gulneis pungentibus, petalis violaceis acuminatis, ungue apice 2-squa-

mato, filamentis filiformibus.

Prvonnxava glomerata. Gand. Voy. Bonite, t. 63.

Horroprytum augustum, partim. Beer, Die Familie der Bromeliaceen, p.

136.

A native of the province of Bahia, in Brazil, from whence

living specimens were sent in 1863 by C. Williams, Esq., of

that city, which flowered in the Palm House of the Royal

Gardens in March of the present year. It is a most beau-

tiful plant, easy of cultivation, and is very effective at a

Season when the tropical houses are rather deficient in con-

Spicuous plants,

his species is exceedingly well figured in the ‘Botany of

the Voyage of the French F rigate Bonite,’ a work which is

unfortunately unaccompanied by descriptive matter ; 1 wi 2

ears the generic name of Pivonneava, which is seni!

chmeas with rigid spinescent foliage, branched porno

fence, an ovoid ovary crowned with the subulate calyx-teeth,

an almost closed perianth, and erect petals. oe

Beer, in the above-quoted work, confounds this with the

“ Gugustum (Tillandsia augusta, Arrab. FI. Flum. t. 155), a

Plant with woolly inflorescence, and much smaller flowers,

according to the figure.

OCTOBER Isr, 1867, >

be.’

Descr. Quite glabrous. Stem simple, or branched at the

base only. Leaves spreading on all sides, one to two and

a half feet long, four to six inches broad, linear oblong,

rounded at the apex, with a cuspidate point; beset along the

margin with short, rather distant, black spines, those on the

lower part recurved and closer-set, dull green, not glaucous

nor shining, nerveless, concave below, not thick in texture.

Scape stout, erect, six to eight inches high, bearing a bril-

liantly coloured blood-red branched panicle, of large bracts

studded with small violet flowers; rachis green, tinged with

red; floriferous branches short, thick, forming with the

dense bracts broadly ovoid masses. Bracts rather longer

than the flowers, subsquarrose, ovate, with long subulate

pungent apices. Calyx-lobes ovate, acuminate, pungent.

Petals twice as long, violet; blade linear-oblong, with re-

curved acuminate apex, the claw with two scales at the

— junction with the blade. Filaments filiform ; anthers linear.

Stigma subclavate, with a twisted apex.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Petal and stamens. 3. Ovary, style, and stigma :—

all magnified.

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RON DELETIA Pourptet.

Mr. Purdie’s Rondeletia.

Nat. Ord. Ruptacem.—PenranpriA Monoaynta.

Gen. Char. Calycis tubus subglobosus; limbus 4—5-partitus, lobis ob-

longis linearibusve acutis persistentibus. Corolle tubus cylindricus, limbo

patenti 4-5-fido, lobis subrotundatis. Stamina 4-5 ; anthere fauce calycis

insertze, sessiles, incluse. Discus tumidus. Ovarinm 2-loculare ; stylus

filiformis, stigmate 2-fido; ovula numerosa, placentis septo adnatis affixa.

Capsula globosa, calycis limbo coronata, 2-locularis, ab apice ad basin loculi-

cide v. septicide in’ valvas 2 apice fissis dehiscens, polysperma. Semina

minima, angulata, 2 v. plura perfecta.—Frutices v. arbuscule Americ tro-

Pie incole. Folia sessilia v. petiolata. Stipule interpetiolares, deltoidee

v. lineari-lanceolate. Flores inter minores, in pedunculos axillares 3-cho-

tomos paniculasve sepe multifloras terminales disposili.

Ronpererra Purdiei ; ramulis et inflorescentia subsericeo-puberulis, foliis

ovato-oblongis obtusiusculis in petiolum brevem angustatis v. basi

contracta cordata utrinque glaberrimis v. subtus ad nervos puberulis,

nervis plurimis, stipulis deltoideis, floribus in corymbos terminales

densifloros 3-chotome ramosos dispositis 4—5-meris flavis, calycis lobis

subulato-lanceolatis tubo subsxquilongis, corolle flave lobis glabris,

fauce annulo tumido 5-lobo aucto.

A very charming and fragrant hothouse shrub, a native of

various parts of Venezuela and New Granada, and intro-

duced into the Royal Gardens, upwards of twenty years ago,

by Mr. Purdie, an eminent collector for the establishment,

who was afterwards Curator of the Botanic Garden at Tri-

nidad. Mr. Purdie sent it from the province of St. Martha,

where it has been also collected by Goudot and by Schlim

(n. 17 and 926), and the same plant has been found in

Venezuela by Fendler (n. 586). ;

As a species it is well marked by the obtuse leaves, which

are suddenly contracted to a narrow base, their numerous

oblique veins, and the large corymbs of yellow flowers ; the

mouth of whose corolla is surrounded by a thickened ring.

It is a free flowerer, and very fragrant.

OCTOBER Ist, 1867.

Descr. A slender shrub, with almost silky pubescent

branchlets and inflorescence. Leaves three to eight inches. -

long, ovate-oblong or almost oblong-lanceolate but obtuse,

narrowed at the base into the very short petiole, or suddenly

(in the larger lower leaves) terminating in a small cordate

base, glabrous and deep green above, with a red midrib ; pale

and usually glabrous below, with many (sometimes ten to

fourteen) oblique nerves on each side the costa. Stipules

triangular, silky-pubescent. Flowers small, half an inch

long, crowded in terminal and axillary rounded corymbs, pale

yellow, fragrant. Calyx-lobes as long as the tube, subulate-

ae Corolla with a thickened ring at the throat.—

Fig. 1. Flower :—magnified.

WFitch del. et ith

Vincent. Brooks, Imp

: Tas. 5670.

THAPSIA pecrrrens.

Madeiran Thapsia.

Nat. Ord. Umbetiirers.-—Pentanpria DIGYNIA.

Gen. Char. Calycis dentes inconspicui. Petala cuneato-obovata, apice in-

exa, integra v. ob costam impressam 2-fida. Discus depressus v. explanatus,

stylopodiis variis. Frwetus oblongus, a dorso compressus, carpellis dorso

leviter convexis 2-alatis ; juga primaria filiformia, «qualia, obtusa, lateralia

inter alas juxta commissuram sita, secundaria dorsalia primariis conformia,

lateralia in alas latas cum plaga commissurali continuas expansa ; vitt@ sub

jugis secundariis v. omnibus solitarie. Carpophorum 2-partitum. Semen

complanatum.—Herbe Mediterranez ef Madeirenses, perennes v, biennes,

sepius elate, caudice nunc valde elongato frutescentes. Folia pinnatim de-

composita, segmentis inciso-pinnatifidis. Umbellx composite, multiradiate.

Involucrum sepius 0; involucellorum bractee pauce parve v. 0. Flores

Aavicantes, sordide albi vy. purpurascentes.

Tuapsta decipiens; caule nudo erecto gracili simplici annulato apice fo-

lioso, fohis 2-8-pinnatisectis, segmentis ovatis ovato-lanceolatisve in-

ciso-serratis nune Jobulatis, petiolis rachi costaque subtus tomentosis,

umbellis in paniculas elatas ramosas dispositis pubescentibus, involu-

cri foliolis 10-12 oblongis inciso-serratis v. pinnatisectis, carpellorum

alis serratis,

SELINUM decipiens. Schrad. et Wendl. Sert. Ham. v. 3. p. 23. t. 13.

MELANOSELINUM decipiens. Hoffm. Umb. ed. 2.v. 1. p. 156, ex DO. Prodr.

v. 4. p. 208. Lowe, Manual of Flora of Madeira, p. 362.

This is one of the most remarkable Umbelliferous plants

in cultivation, and though of little beauty as regards inflo-

rescence, is in habit and foliage an extremely elegant and

graceful plant. Unlike its congener, it has a slender, erect,

annulate, palm-like stem, two to four or even six feet high,

and half to one inch in diameter, bearing at the top a splen-

did waving crown, three to four feet across, of two to three

pinnatisect leaves. It is a native of rocky gorges in the

island of Madeira, where it was first brought to light, in

1829, by the Rev. R. T. Lowe, M.A., the distinguished in-

vestigator of the natural history of the Madeira, Canarian,

OCTOBER Ist, 1867.

and Cape de Verde Islands. Curiously enough, however, it

had been for many years previously in cultivation under the

name of Bubon Galbanum (a totally different and Persian

plant), owing to which mistake De Candolle gave it the spe-

cific name of decipiens. :

The Rev. Mr. Lowe describes the 7. decipiens as a magni-

ficent, palm-like Umbellifer, exuding, when cut or bruised,

a copious, fragrant gum or resin, smelling of spirits of tur-

pentine and carrots, and having fragrant flowers also. He

adds that it is usually biennial, dying altogether after flower-

ing; but sometimes the paniculate inflorescence alone dies,

and the plant becomes branched.

The specimen here figured flowered in the succulent house

of the Royal Gardens in April of the present year. It has

perfected seeds since the drawing was made.—J, D. H.

Fig. 1. Reduced figure of the entire plant. 2. Portion of flowering

panicle. 3. Ditto of leaf. 4. Flower. 5. Imperfect ditto at base of

-umbel. 6. Fruit. 7. Ditto. 8. Transverse section of unripe ditto :—all

magnified, except 2, 3, and 6, which are of nat. size.

5671.

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Tas. 5671.

EPIMEDIUM anerum; var. rubrum.

Red-flowered Barren-wort.

Nat. Ord. Berzpertwoem.—Terranpr1a Monoeynta.

Gen. Char. Sepala 8, petaloidea, plana, exterioribus minoribus minusque

coloratis, et petala 4 nectariformia cucullata v. calearata 4-fariam super-

posita. Stamina 4, libera; anthers valvulis 2 sursum dehiscentes. Ozr-

- pellum 1, stigmate parum dilatato; ovula , juxta suturam ventralem 2-

serialia. Capsula siliqueformis, 2-valvis, valva Corsali minore decidua, ma-

jorem placentiferam nudante. Semina pauca, raphe arilleformi ; embryo

leviter incurvus.—Herbee Europe et Asi temperate incole, rhizomate re-

pente. Folia pinnatim semel bisve 3-secta, foliolis denticulatis, caulina 1-2.

vote: simplices v. subramosi, terminales v. oppositifolit. Flores varie

colorati.

Errmevivm alpinum ; sparse glanduloso-pilosum, foliis radicalibus v. cau-

linis 2-ternatis, foliolis ovato-cordatis acuminatis ciliolato-serratis, se-

palis concavis obtusis, petalis interioribus cucullatis in calear horizon-

tale petalum exterius subequans productis, antheris linearibus apicu-

latis filamentis brevibus.

Var. rubrum ; foliis rubro-marginatis, petalis exterioribus rubris.

Ertmeptum rubrum. Morren in Journ. d’ Hort. 1844. Regel in Ind. Sem.

Hort. Petrop. 1856, p. 33. Gartenflora, 1857, p. 21.

A very elegant, hardy, herbaceous plant, equally suited

for the shady border or rockwork, and for early greenhouse

decoration. Originally introduced into the St. Petersburg

Gardens, from J apan, in 1844, and since cultivated in various

establishments. ‘The specimen here figured has flowered in

the Royal Gardens in April and May for several years past.

I find no character whatever, except the rather larger size and

the red colour of the flowers, by which it may be distin-

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OCTOBER Ist, 1867.

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licate grace of the panicle of nodding flowers. There are

several other species of Epimedium equally deserving of cul-

ture, as EL. macranthum, E. Musschianum (Tab. nostr. 5745),

E. pinnatum (Tab. 4456), E. violaceum (Tab. 3791), and £.

diphyllum (Tab. 3448). All are hardy, all suited for deco-

ration, and a collection of half-a-dozen of the spring-flower-

ing species, brought forward into flower at the same time by

a skilful gardener, would deservedly command a high award

at any horticultural exhibition.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Inner petal. 2. Ovary. 8. Stamen:—all magnified.

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ARISTOLOCHIA Gotprmana.

The Rev. H. Goldie’s Aristolochia.

Nat. Ord. Antstorocnre®.—GYNANDRIA HEXANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tax. 5295.)

Axtstorocuta Goldicana; glaberrima, foliis ovato- v. triangulari-cordatis

acuminatis, basi profunde exsculptis, floribus maximis, perianthii re-

fracti utriculo elongato subclavato, limbo infundibuliformi-campanu-

lato, ore ampliato truncato obtuse 3-lobo, lobis caudato-acuminatis,

Staminibus ad 24, columne lobis ad 12 2-cruribus.

Artstotocu1a Goldieana. Nod. in Trans. Linn. Soe. v. 25. p. 185. ¢. xiv.

South America has hitherto been considered the head-

quarters of the gigantic flowers Aristolochias, so well known

m the stoves of the gardens of the curious for the fine

colouring of their perianth and their atrocious odour. Of

these, Humboldt, upwards of half a century ago, published

an account of one (A. grandiflora, Tab. nostr. 4368-9) whose

flowers were worn on the head by the Indian children, and

which has often been quoted as (excepting perhaps the Rafflesia

Arnoldii) the largest flowered plant hitherto known. How-

ever this may be, the American Aristolochias are eclipsed by

the discovery of the present plant, of which specimens, pre-

Served in alcohol, were communicated to me, in 1864, by the

Rev. W. C. Thomson, from the mouth of the Old Calabar

river, and which I described and figured in the ‘ Linnean

Transactions’ above quoted, and named, in accordance with

Mr. Thomson’s wish, after his fellow-labourer, the Rev. Hugh

Goldie, of the United Presbyterian Missionary Society.

The merit of flowering A. Goldieana is due to Mr. Clarke,

the zealous and intelligent Curator of the Glasgow Botanic

Gardens, who received living specimens from his active cor-

respondent Mr. Thomson, and flowered a plant of it in July

of the present year, and the blossom of which he kindly

transmitted to the Magazine for figuring.

NOVEMBER Ist, 1867.

Aristolochia Goldieana differs from all its numerous con-

geners, except two others, also West African species, in the

number of stamens, which are about twenty-four, six being

the normal number in the genus; also, in the three-lobed

perianth, and in the twelve bifid stigmatic lobes of the

column. It has also been gathered in forests near Elugu, by

the Bishop of Sierra Leone, who, in 1859, gave specimens to

the late Mr. Barter, the Botanist to Baikie’s Niger Expedi-

tion, and which are preserved in the Hookerian Herbarium.

It was also found at Sierra Leone by G. Mann. Its odour of

putrid meat is as offensive as that of the Brazilian species.—

wD. H. .

I greatly regret having to reduce the figure to one-half its natural size

to make it available for the Magazine,—the flower drawn having measured

26 by 11 inches.

_ Fig. 1. Portion of stem and leaf :—natural size. 2. Vertical section of

side of perianth, showing the colour of stamens and stigmas :—magnified.

Vincent Brooks. Imp.

core a ®

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Tas, 5678.

LILIUM Letcrrirmwn.

Max Leichtlin’s Lily.

Nat. Ord. Lintacem.—Hexanpria Monogynta.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5838.) .

Lin Leichtlinii ; caule 2-3-pedali gracili glaberrimo 1-floro, foliis alternis

sparsis lineari-lanceolatis 3-4 poll. longis } poll. latis acutis sessilibus

subenerviis ima basi ad insertionem utrinque pilosulis y. villosulis,

flore nutante 4 poll. diametro, perianthii foliolis e basi oblonga lanceo-

latis obtusis revolutis, exterioribus angustioribus, interioribus basin ver-

sus 2-cristatis 2-carinatisve cristis carinisve pubescentibus, omnibus

aureis purpureo-maculatis, filamentis stramineis, antheris brunneis.

Bulbs of this charming Lily were received by Messrs. Veitch

and Sons from J apan, along with those of Z. awratum, and com-

municated to me for determination in July of the present

year. ‘Though resembling in some respects Z. tigrinum in

the form of the flower, it differs from that plant, not only in

colour, but in the graceful habit, scattered leaves, and crested

inner segments of the perianth. From the prince of the

genus, L. auratum, which in some respects it approaches, it

differs both in the colour and form of the perianth-leaves,

fe in wanting the long processes on these which L. auratum

ears.

[have named this plant after a zealous cultivator of the

genus, to whom the Royal Gardens are indebted for various

rare species, M. Max Leichtlin, of Carlsruhe, a gentleman

who is especially devoting himself to the elucidation, by

culture, of the numerous species and races of this noble

genus of bulbous plants. ;

Descr. Stem tall, slender, two to three feet high, te-

rete, glabrous, except where the leaf joins the stem at each

side, where a few long hairs appear. Leaves alternate, ses-

_ Ssile, rather remote, linear-lanceolate, acute, spreading and

recurved, three to four inches long by a quarter of an inch

NOVEMBER Ist, 1867.

broad, pale bright green; nerves obscure. lowers solitary _

in our specimens, nodding, four inches in diameter, pale —

golden-yellow, spotted with small oblong blotches of clear

red-purple, or maroon-brown. Perianth segments revolute,

outer narrower, with two keeled pubescent ridges from below

the middle to the base; inner segments broader, one inch

across, the ridges dilating into irregularly-toothed crests on

the disk below the middle. _ Filaments straw-coloured, long,

curved ; anthers yellow brown or purplish, half an inch long.

Style and stigma yellow.—J. D. H.

5674.

——_—

W. Fitch, del et lith.

Tas. 5674.

CHLOGYNE HUMILIS.

Dwarf Pleione.

Nat. Ord. Orncutpes.—Gynanprta Monanpria.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5462.)

C@LoGYNE (Pleione) humilis ; pseudobulbis lageneeformibus, bractea ob-

longo-lanceolata petaloidea ovario longiore demum retracta, pedunculo

denudato, sepalis petalisque lineari-lanceolatis patentibus planis, la-

bello ciliato emarginato, lineis 6 fimbriatis distantibus venis totidem

coloratis interjectis. Zindl.

Petrone humilis. Don, Fl. Nep. p. 37. Paxt. Fl. Gard. t. 51. Lemaire,

Jard. Fl. p. 158.

_ This pretty Pletone, although long since introduced and

figured, had been lost to the country for many years; no

doubt through inattention to its habits and constitution. —

Fortunately a fresh supply of plants was recently obtained

(through Dr. Anderson, of the Calcutta Botanic Gardens)

from Sikkim by the Royal Gardens at Kew, and it was here

that the one represented in the Plate flowered last winter.

It is quite a mountain plant, having been found on the Indian

Alps, in Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhotan, at an elevation of seven ,

to eight thousand feet, growing among moss in shady places,

and even on the trunks of trees. Dr. Hooker met with se-

veral varieties during his travels in the Himalaya, where this

and other species take the place of our autumn Crocuses,

throwing up masses of gay flowers after the leaves have dis-

appeared. Excepting Celogyne maculata, which is found two

thousand feet lower, all the Pletone section of Calogyne are

easily cultivated in the shadiest part of the coolest house;

and they form a most interesting group, to which other fine

species, not yet introduced, will, I trust, ere long be added.

They require to be grown in a pot. ;

Descr. Pseudobulbs in the form of bottle-flasks, from one to

. NOVEMBER Ist, 1867.

two inches long, of a dark purplish-green, crowned with soli-

tary, narrow, and rather long acuminate dark green leaves.

Peduncle one-flowered, at first enclosed in a pale violet dract,

which afterwards shrivels up and leaves the peduncle naked.

Sepals and petals open, linear-lanceolate, smooth and even at

edges, white faintly tinted with rose. Jip fringed in its

upper portion, emarginate, of the same colour as the petals,

except where it is traversed by six parallel veins (that are

also fringed), and between each of which rich crimson streaks

are interposed. Column clavate, distinctly adnate to the

base of the lip, of which it is not much more than half the

length.—J. B.

_ Fig. 1. Lip spread out. 2. Side view of column and ovary. 3. Front

view of ditto. 4,5. Pollen masses :—all more or less magnified.

State

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Vincent Brooks, |

Tas. 5675.

BEGONIA Crarxer.

Major Trevor Clarke's Begonia.

Nat. Ord. Br@ontaces.—Monacrta PoLyanDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tax. 4131.)

Breonta (§ Huszia) Clarkei; caulescens, caule erecto robusto puberulo

colorato parce ramoso, foliis oblique rotundato-cordatis obtusis lobu-

latis et crenatis nervis radiantibus ciliolatis, superne pallide viridibus,

nervis subtus prominulis, stipulis late triangularibus, pedunculis ro-

bustis axillaribus 2-bracteatis 2-floris, pedicellis 2-bracteolatis, bracteis

bracteolisque late oblongis obtusis, floribus amplis late roseis, 2 5-

petalis.

Breonta Clarkei. Nob. supra, sub Tab. 5663.

I have already stated with regard to this lovely Begonia,

under the description of B. Veitchii, that I had, from imper-

fect specimens, regarded it as a form of the latter plant. A

fine-flowering specimen, sent by Major Clarke to the Royal

Gardens, shows a considerable difference between them, and

enables me to give a figure of it here. From a comparison of

this with Tab. 5663 (B. Veitchit), it will be seen that the pre-

sent differs in being a caulescent, branched, pubescent but

not pilose plant, with purple stem and branches, large opaque

foliage, axillary peduncles, and larger, deep rose-coloured

flowers.

B. Clarkei is probably a native of a warmer region than

B. Veitchii, and, as Major Clarke assures me, requires the

temperature of a warm greenhouse. This gentleman had

possessed the specimens here figured for several years before

flowering it, and received it from Messrs. Henderson as a

native of Peru. This is apparently the same as a plant gath-

ered by Mandon, near Sorata, in the Bolivian Andes, at an

elevation of eight to nine thousand feet, of which specimens,

without name, are preserved in the Hookerian Herbarium.

Whether this and B. Veitchii, together with another allied te

NOVEMBER Ist, 1867.

it from the same country, and hitherto unpublished, will

eventually prove wholly distinct, is, 1 think, doubtful; they

will probably be extensively hybridized, and thus blended for

all but horticultural purposes.

Descr. A tall succulent herb, two feet high. Rhizome

stout. Stem pubescent, as thick as the little finger, purplish.

Leaves six to eight inches in diameter, obliquely orbicular-

cordate, obtuse, lobulate and crenate, pubescent, dull green

above, nerves radiating; petioles stout, three to five inches

long. Peduncles axillary, stout, longer than the petioles,

bibracteate at the middle, two-flowered; pedicels slender ;

bracts and bracteoles one-third to two-thirds of an inch long,

pale, oblong, obtuse, ciliate. Flowers two to two and a half

inches in diameter. Female perianth five-peltated, bright

rose-red ; petals obovate retuse or emarginate. Styles three,

bifid, the arms twisted and surrounded with a spiral, papillose

band. Ovary three-lobed, with two short wings, and the third

produced into a wedge-shaped form. Placenta bifid, the seg-

ments lobed and covered everywhere with ovules—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Transverse section of ovary,—magnified.

rooxs imp

Vincent B

Tas. 5676.

CYMBIDIUM Hurront.

Mr. Hutton’s Cymbidium.

Nat. Ord. Orncurpr#2.—GrnanpriA Monanppeia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5457.)

Crmerpium Huttoni; pseudobulbis aggregatis ampullaceo-ovoideis com-

pressis sulcatis basi vaginatis, foliis 2-nis anguste oblongis obtusis

crasse coriaceis enerviis lete viridibus, scapo radicali brevi, squamis

paucis brevibus late triangularibus, racemo ad 10-flore, sepalis late

obovato-oblongis recurvis acuminatis intus labellique lobo intermedio

fasciis brevibus brunneis creberrime transverse notatis, petalis minori-

bus recurvis intus brunneis, labelli lobis lateralibus erectis obtusis

longitudinaliter fasciatis intermedio breviter oblongo, columna elon-

gata semiterete.

At first sight this remarkable plant does not much resemble

a Cymbidium, but after a careful consideration and comparison

with the hitherto published species of this genus I see no

reason to separate it: the structure and form of the pollinia

and their gland is the same, as are the essential characters of

the column and perianth ; the very coriaceous nerveless leaves

are to be found in C. tigrinum (Tab. nostr. 5457), but the

: very broad perianth-segments and their colour are unique in

i the genus in so far as I know it. Pee

H - Huttoni is a native of Java, and is named after its dis-

coverer, Mr. Henry Hutton (at the request of Messrs. Veitch),

i commemoration of his zealous services and early death.

- Hutton, a most ardent student and promising collector

(son of the Mr. H. Hutton, head gardener to the Right Ho-

nourable Lord Houghton), was sent to the East by the Messrs.

Veitch, and after twelve months’ residence in Java, when, as

was hoped, he had become inured to the climate, he fell a

victim to his enthusiasm. ‘The plant which commemorates

his services flowered with Messrs. Veitch in June of the pre-

sent year.

NOVEMBER lst, 1867.

Descr. Pseudobulbs three to five inches long, elongate

ovoid, with straight sides, compressed, grooved, green,

sheathed to above the middle. Leaves in pairs, six to eight

inches long, two to two and a half inches broad, narrow ob-

long, obtuse, very coriaceous, nerveless, dark green. Scape

from the base of the pseudobulbs, stout, curved with a few

distant, short, triangular, appressed scales. aceme about

ten-flowered, pendulous, six to eight inches long. Flowers

shortly pedicelled, an inch and a half in diameter. Bracts

small. Perianth ringent. Sepals recurved, obovate, acumi-

nate, pale brown externally, internally studded with trans-

verse, small, short, chocolate streaks or blotches. Petals

smaller, but similar in form and direction, dark chocolate in-

side. Lip subsessile, lateral lobes erect, obtuse, greenish,

striped with chocolate ; middle lobe oblong, acute, banded on

each side of the median line, like the sepals, but darker.

Column long, semiterete. Pollen-gland bicuspidate.—J. D. H.

Fig.1. Lip. 2. Column. 3, 4. Pollen :—all magnified.

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CALCEOLARIA pisacomensts.

Orange-red Calceolaria.

Nat. Ord. Scropuutartinen.—DIANDRIA Monoeyrnta.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tan. 4929.)

CaLcronarta pisacomensis; caule robusto stricto erecto superne ramis

et inflorescentia pubescentibus v. furfuraceo-tomentellis, foliis breviter

petiolatis ovatis obtusis, marginibus recurvis grosse irregulariter

crenatis supra rugosis minute scaberulis, subtus glanduloso-pubescen-

tibus, cymis in axillis superioribus suberectis umbellatim multifloris,

floribus erectis gracile pedicellatis, calycis lobis late ovatis subacutis,

corolle rubro-aurantiace labio superiore parvo margine reflexo,

inferiore magno adscendente calceiformi, antice sublobulato.

LCEOLARIA pisacomensis. Meyen, Reise wm die Erde, v.1. p. 469. Walp.

tn Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. xix. Suppl. v. 1. p. 396. Rep. v. 111. p. 162.

_ This is certainly the handsomest Calceolaria that has been

Mtroduced for many years; and though, owing to its size,

probably unsuited for bedding-out in masses, its robust habit,

copious flowers, and beautiful colouring cannot fail to recom-

mend it as one of the choicest recent contributions to the

flower-garden. It was imported from Peru by Messrs. Veitch

and Sons, through their indefatigable and successful collector,

tr. Pearce, and was originally discovered by the distin-

‘$uished traveller Meyen, near Arequipa, in Peru. The

_ Specimen here figured flowered in Messrs. Veitch’s Nursery in

\ugust of the present year. :

It is very much to be desired that the accession of such

fine plants as this would induce cultivators to turn their

ittention to the extensive genera to which they belong, with

iow nit only of procuring new species, but of recover-

ng some of their many beautiful once-cultivated con-

eners. No less than twenty-three handsome species of Cal-

ceolaria are figured in this Magazine, all from specimens once

living in England; probably not half-a-dozen of these now

xist in any one collection. Kew ought to possess all, and

DECEMBER IsT, 1867. _ .

will, I hope, recover some; but it is obviously impossible for

any single establishment to afford time, space, and labour to

cultivate everything worth keeping, greatly as it is to be

desired ; it is to local institutions and private establishments

that we must look for special collections; and if more of the

latter would, instead of aiming at all the novelties of the

day, strive to form complete collections of certain classes of

ornamental plants, the number of these would be greatly

increased, and science as well as horticulture be benefited

accordingly. 3

Descr. A tall, stout, erect perennial. Stems glabrous

below, pubescent or subtomentose above, obtusely quadran-

gular. Leaves one to two inches long, subsessile, ovate-cor-

date, obtuse ; margins recurved, coarsely irregularly crenate,

minutely scabrous above, glandular-pilose below. Cymes very

numerous in all the upper axils, suberect, umbellate, many-

flowered. Flowers on slender pedicels, of a rich orange-

yellow, passing into bright orange-red. Calyx lobes broadly

ovate. Upper lip of corolla small, reflexed; lower large,

ascending, slipper-shaped, obscurely lobed in front.—J. D. Hl.

Fig. 1. Stem and branch. 2. Flower :—magnified.

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Tas. 5678.

NYCTOCALOS Tuomsont.

Assamese Nyctocalos.

Nat. Ord. Branontace%.—DipyNaMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx parvulus, subeampanulatus, extus infra os eequaliter

5-dentatus. Corolla elongato-infundibuliformis, tubo tereti leviter

arcuato; lobi 5, subequales v. inferiore majore, lati, imbricati. Stamina

4, cum rudimento subulato quinti, fauce tubi corolle inserta, didynama,

inclusa, filamentis filiformi-subulatis ; anthere loculis divaricatis ab apice

connectivi apiculati pendulis. Diéscug annularis. Ovarium breviter

stipitatum, 2-loculare ; stylus elongatus, filiformis, stigmate 2-lamellato ;

ovula numerosa, placentis secus margines septi affixis sub-2-seriatim inserta.

Capsula lanceolata, plana, septifraga, valvis medio carinatis crasse coriaceis.

Semina . . . .—Frutices alte scandentes, glabri. Folia opposita, 3-foliolata,

Soliolis integerrimis. Flores speciosi, in cymas longe peduneulatas dispositi.

Nycrocatos Thomsoni ; foliolis ovato- v. oblongo-lanceolatis longe acumi-

natis, pedunculis terminalibus, floribus 7-pollicaribus albis.

‘

We have long had in the Herbarium specimens of this

very handsome Bignoniaceous plant, which differs wholly in

habit from any Asiatic genus hitherto described, and were

gathered on the Miku hills, near Gowahatty, in Assam, by

Mr. Simons. It was not, however, till about six years ago

that living plants were received from Dr. Thomson, F.R.S.,

then Superintendent of the Calcutta Botanic Garden, and these

have flowered during the present year in the Victoria House,

at Kew. Though differing in having four stamens instead of

five, and these didynamous, it is no doubt a species of the

Javanese genus Nyctocalos, of Teijsman and Binnendyk, first.

published in Miquel’s ‘ Journal de Botanique’ (vol. 1. p. 366),

and figured in 1863 by the same author in his great folio

work, ‘ Choix des Plantes: Rares ou Nouvelles Cultivées et

_ Dessinées dans le Jardin Botanique de Buitenzorg.’ The

Assam species resembles the Javanese entirely in foliage,

but has much larger and terminal white flowers, those of

N. brunsfelsiaflorus being only three inches long, of a

pale pinkish-purple, and disposed in axillary cymes. The

DECEMBER Ist, 1867. |

regular corolla and five equal stamens attributed to the

Javanese plant are characters which we should like to see

confirmed. : a

Descr. A tall, glabrous climber; branches slender, terete |

Leaflets four to six inches long, petiolulate, ovate- or oblong-

lanceolate, long-acuminate, membranous. slowers erect, in

short, four- to five-flowered cymes, which are borne on_

slender, terminal, pendulous peduncles as long as the flowers

themselves. Pedicels short, thick, with minute acute

bracteoles. Calyx green, with five red-brown teeth on the

outside below the margin. Corolla seven inches long, pure

white, expanding at night and dropping next morning ; lobes

five, very broad and obtuse or retuse, two upper smaller,

approximate, lower largest and two-lobed. Anthers yellow.

Pod six inches long and two inches broad, quite flat—J. D. H.

’ Fig. 1. Portion of corolla and stamens. 2. Calyx, cut open and showing

the ovary. 3. Transverse section of ovary. 4. Pod:—all but Lig. 4

magnified. :

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5679.

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DENDROBIUM Beysonta.

Mrs. Benson’s Dendrobe.

Nat. Ord. Oncutppm.—Gywanpria Monanppia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tan. 4755.)

Denprozium Bensonie ; caulibus suberectis striatis (floriferis aphyllis)

teretiusculis, nodis non tumidis, foliis linearibus acutis emarginatisve,

floribus ad nodos solitariis v. in pedunculis 2-3-floris dispositis,

bracteis minutis acutis, sepalis oblongo-lanceolatis obtusis albis,

petalis late oblongo-rotundatis albis, labello orbiculato concavo intezro

albo, disco tomentoso lete aureo maculis 2 purpureis basin versus

notato, marginibus denticulatis.

This beautiful plant belongs to a puzzling set of Den-

drobes, natives of the Malayan peninsula, Burma, and Assam,

of which D. Pierardi (Tab. 2584) is the oldest known

member, and D. crepidatum (Tab. 4993 et 5011), D. nodatum

(Tab. 5470), and D. Bullerianum (Tab. 5652), more recently

discovered members. To the D. nodatum the present is, indeed,

most closely allied, but differs in the much larger flowers,

broader petals, and orbicular labellum, which is rounded at

the apex. That intermediate forms, connecting some of these

together and with others, will be found, cannot be doubted ;

meanwhile, as objects of cultivation they differ materially,

and it is most important that they should be well figured

for ulterior botanical purposes.

D. Bensonie is a native of Moulmein, and was sent to

‘Messrs. Veitch by an indefatigable collector and_horti-

culturist, Colonel Benson, after whose lady it is named at

his own request. Along with it Colonel Benson has sent, as

- asmaller form, a plant with more acute petals and sepals,

and a tendency to have a pointed lip; this is probably refer-

able to D. nodatum.

- Descr. Stems tufted, one to three feet long, suberect and

pendulous, terete, nodes not tumid, internodes one inch long,

_ DECEMBER Ist, 1867.

concealed by the membranous sheath. Leaves few, on sepa-_

rate stems from the flower, linear, acute or emarginate, two

to three inches long, one-third of an inch broad, keeled.

Flower produced at the joints, usually two or three on a

common peduncle, rarely solitary; bracts and bracteoles very

small, acute, pale green, as are the peduncles and pedicels.

Flowers two inches in diameter, snow-white, except the lip,

which has a broad, deep golden-yellow disk, and two purple

spots near the base. Sepals oblong, obtuse. Petals much

broader, almost orbicular. J#p orbicular, contracted to a

short, convolute neck; edges denticulate, surface concave,

finely tomentose. Colwmn very short.—J. D. H.

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

Vincent Brooks , Imp.

W. Fitch, del.et lith.

Tas. 5680,

BEGONTA ROSHELORA.

Rose-flowered Begonia.

Nat. Ord. Beagontacem.—Mownaora Ponranpera.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4131.)

Bueonta (§ Huszia) roseflora; acaulis, foliis omnibus radicalibus crasse

petiolatis orbiculari-reniformibus basi profunde 2-lobis concavis, mar-

ginibus recurvis lobulatis dentatis ciliolatis rubro-marginatis, supra

nervis radiantibus impressis bullatis, subtus pallidis, nervis robustis

pilosis, stipulis membranaceis, scapis erectis robustis laxe villosis

rubris sub-3-floris, bracteis bractevlisque late oblongis obtusis, floribus

amplis breviuscule pedicellatis 5-petalis, petalis late roseis orbicu-

latis emarginatis, tilamentis liberis, antheris brevibus latis obtusis,

ovario 3-loculari piloso, placentis 2-fidis et lobulatis undique ovuliferis,

stylis 3 2-furcatis, cruribus fascia papillosa torta cinctis.

This lovely plant is the second species of Begonia allied

to B. Veitchit (Tab. 5663), which I alluded to under 4.

Clarkei (Tab. 5675), and about the specific distinctness of

which I expressed my doubts. In all respects it is much

more closely allied to B. Veitchii than to B. Clarkei, being

_ stemless, with similarly concave leaves and few-flowered

scapes ; it differs, however very conspicuously, in the stouter

red petioles and scapes, in the broader rounder leaves, with

very deeply impressed veins (and hence bullate upper surface),

in the broad obtuse stipules and bracts, in the villous scape,

in the blunt bracteoles close under each flower, in the more

numerous flowers, which are of a pale red, like those of the

_ Briar Rose (not the vivid cinnabar-red of B. Veitchii), and in

the acute wing of the hairy ovary. So many and such con-

-spicuous characters would amongst less variable plants than

Begonias abundantly establish these species as distinct, and

whether they prove permanent or no, if appears particularly

desirable to publish good figures of all these forms on their

arrival, and before they fall ito the hands of the hybridizers,

- DEcEMBER Ist, 1867.

by whom the specific characters, of such beautiful and popu-

lar plants, will doubtless soon be blended.

B. roseflora was imported by Messrs. Veitch and Sons.

from Peru, where it inhabits elevations on the Andes of

twelve thousand feet. It flowered in July of the present

year.

Descr. A stout stemless herb. Petioles, scapes, bracts, and

stipules pale or bright red. Leaves pale green, two to four

inches across, on stout, hairy petioles two to six inches long,

orbicular-reniform, very concave, with deeply sunk radiating

nerves; margins recurved, lobulate, edged with red, toothed

and ciliolate, veins below prominent, hairy, Stipules broad,

blunt. Scapes stout, villous, three-flowered. Bracts and

_bracteoles broadly ovate, obtuse, Flowers two inches in dia-

meter, bright rose-red. Petals five, orbicular, emarginate.

Stamens very numerous; filaments short, free; anthers orbi-

cular. Ovary hairy, with one short acute wing. Styles and

placenta as in B. Veitchii.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Ovary. 2. Transverse section of ditto. 3 and 4. Stamens :—all

magnified.

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Tas. 5681.

SACCOLABIUM Hourronr.

Mr. Hutton’s Saccolabium.

Nat. Ord. OrcHipEm.—GYNANDRIA MOoNANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tan. 5326.)

Saccozazium Huttoni; caule breviusculo, foliis crasse coriaceis imbri-

catis breviter loratis carinatis apice 2-lobis, racemis elongatis multi-

subdensifloris pendulis, floribus secundis erectis, pedunculis floribus-

que lete roseo-purpureis, sepalis petalisque patentibus subequalibus

late oblongis apice rotundatis, labelli 3-lobi lobis parvis erectis calcar

obtuse infundibuliforme incurvum rubro-purpureum coronantibus, late-

ralibus subquadratis, intermedio angusto.

AxEriIpgEs Huttoni. Hort.

It is difficult to suppose that this lovely plant should have

escaped the many zealous Dutch botanical explorers of its

native country, Java, or the collectors attached to the mag-

nificent gardens of Buitenzorg, where more tropical plants

are cultivated than in any other garden in the world, and

named with scientific accuracy. But neither in books nor

catalogues do we find any notice of this plant, which was

discovered by Mr. Hutton, whose early, lamented death was

alluded to under another of his discoveries (Cymbidium Hut-

toni, Tab. 5676) only last month. It flowered in the collec-

tion of its importers, Messrs. Veitch and Sons, in September

last, and from its vivid colours ranks as the most beautiful

species of the genus hitherto in cultivation.

I have referred this plant to Saccolabium rather than to

- Aerides, not doubting but that it is congeneric with S. ampul-

laceum, Lindl. (Tab. nostr. 5595), and S. miniatum, Lindi. gee

(Tab. 5326); but I must add, that I know of no valid cha-

acters by which these genera are to be distinguished, if I _

am to follow Lindley’s collocation of species under each. :

Descr. Stem stout, rigid, suberect, closely beset with dis-

tichous imbricating foliage. Leaves six inches long, loriform,

DECEMBER Ist, 1867.

rigidly coriaceous, keeled, three-quarters of an inch broad,

unequally two-lobed at the apex, deep green. Raceme from

the axils of the lower leaves, a foot long, pendulous, rather

slender, very many-flowered. Bracts minute. Flowers erect,

an inch long from base of spur to tip of upper sepal, bright

rose-purple, the lip much deeper-coloured ; pedicels paler.

Sepals and petals nearly equal, broadly oblong, rounded at

the apex, spreading. Lip formed chiefly of the stout funnel-

shaped, somewhat incurved, obtuse spur, the mouth of which

is formed by the three small erect lobes of the lip; of these

the lateral are quadrate; the middle is broadly linear and

_obtuse.—-J. D. H. .

Fig. 1. Flower,—magnified.

Tas. 5682.

VITIS uureropuyiia, Thunb. ; var. HUMULIFOLIA.

Hop-leaved Vine.

Nat. Ord. AmprttpEm—PeEntanpriIa Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. Calyx brevis, integer v. 4—5-dentatus v. lobatus. Petala

4-5, libera v. apice calyptratim coherentia. Discus varius v. obsoletus.

Stamina 4-5, infra marginem disci inserta, filamentis subulatis; anthere

libere. Ovarium ovoideam y. subquadratum, 2- rarissime 3-4-loculare ;

stylus brevis v. 0; ovula in loculis 2. Bacea ovoidea vy. globosa, 1-2-locu-

laris, 1-2-sperma.—Frratices cirrhi, sarmentosi, sepe alte scandentes. Folia

simplicia v. composita. Flores parvi, in cymas thyrsosve racemosos panicu-

latos spicatos v. umbellatos dispositi, non raro polygamo-monoici.

Visits heterophylla, Thunb.; var. hwmulifolia; caule tereti gracili glabro

v. piloso, foliis profunde 3-5-lobis late cordatis sinu aperto, lobis

basi constrictis ovato-rhombeis acutis v. acuminatis serratis, cirrhis

2-fidis, petiolo nervisque pubescentibus, cymis longe pedunculatis di-

chotome ramosis rarius gracilibus divaricatis, floribus minutis, calyce |

breviter 5-lobo, petalis liberis, disco membranaceo truncato, baccis

sphericis pallide cyaneis. :

Virts heterophylla. Thunb. var. B, Siebold et Zuccarini, Abhandl. Baier.

Akad. Wissenschaft, iv. v. 2. p. 197.

AmPeEtopsts humulifolia. Bunge, Mem, Sav. Etr. St. Petersb. v. 2. p. 86.

ex Walp. Rep. v. 1. p. 441.

Japan contains many species of Vine, of which several are

how growing freely in the open-air at Kew against the

walls of plant-houses. Amongst these that figured here

was conspicuous this autumn for the peculiar colour of its

lovely pale blue berries, its bright red stems, and hop-like

foliage, which latter character suggested to Dr. Bunge, its

discoverer in North China, the very appropriate name of

humulifolia. Ut has since been found in Corea, whence dried

specimens and seeds have been received from Mr. C. Wilford,

collector for the Royal Gardens, and in Japan, where it was

found by the celebrated Japanese traveller Siebold.

The V. humulifolia was reduced, by Siebold and Zuccarini,

to a variety of the old V. heterophylla of Thunberg, a plant —

DECEMBER Ist, 1867.

that we have growing close by this variety at Kew, and which

differs both in appearance and in the scarcely-lobed leaves.

By these authors V. heterophylla comprises an entire-leaved

variety (a) and a cut-leaved variety (8), to the former of which

Bunge’s humulifolia is referred by them ; our own specimens,

however, of Bunge’s plant, received from himself, have

deeply lobed leaves, exactly asin our figure. Bunge, indeed,

describes his humulifolia as having the lower leaves lobed

and the upper entire, but in our live plant the lobed foliage

is pretty constant throughout, whilst the leaves of our living

Japanese specimens of /. heterophylla are uniformly entire,

or only obscurely lobed throughout. vee

Descr. A nearly glabrous, climbing, slender vine. Stems

two to five feet long; branches glabrous or pilose, red, nearly

terete. Leaves on slender red petioles, three- to five-lobed,

_ with a broad open sinus at the base; lobes acutely serrate,

middle lobe contracted at the base, dark green and rather

_ rugose above, pale beneath, with pubescent veins. Tendyils

_ bifid. Cymes on slender peduncles, sparingly divided ; branch-

lets divaricate. Flowers subumbellate, minute, green. Petals

five, free. Stamens on the margin of a rather membranous

annular disk surrounding the ovary. Berries globular, of a

fine pale china-blue colour, dotted with black.—/. D. /.

Fig. 1. Bud. 2. Expanded flower :—magnified.

INDEX,

In which the Latin Names of the Plants contained in the

Twenty-third Volume of the Txrrp Serres (or Ninety-

third Volume of the Work) are alphabetically arranged.

Plate.

5668 Aichmea glomerata.

5641 Agave schidigera.

5660 — xylonacantha.

5645 Amaryllis pardina.

5624 Angreecum citratum.

5672 Aristolochia Goldieana.

5628 Barleria Gibsoni.

5657 Begonia Boliviensis,

5675 — Clarkei.

5680 — roszflora.

5663 Veitchii.

5647 Billbergia sphacelata.

5646 Bletia Sherrattiana.

5619 Bowiea volubilis.

5677 Calceolaria pisacomensis,

5618 Cattleya Dowiana. ;

5659 Cestrum elegans.

5626 Clavija fulgens.

5674 Ccelogyne humilis.

5661 Colax jugosus.

5636 Cordyline australis.

6620 Curcuma Australasica.

5676. Cymbidium Huttoni.

5640 Dalechampia Roezliana.

5679 Dendrobium Bensoniw.

5652 Bulleriannm.

5649 — macropbhyllum; var.

Feitchianuin.

5638 Dictyopsis Thunbergil.

5639 Dombeya Mastersii.

5650 Draba violacea.

5662 Draczena surculosa; var. macu/ata.

_ 5664 Epidendrum Brassavole.

5654 —— Cooperianum.

Plate.

5656 Epidendrnm cnemidophorum,

5643 — eburneum.

5671 Epimedium alpinum; var. ru-

drum.

5665 Erodinm macradenium,

5655 Gloxinia hypocyrtiflora.

5642 Gomphia Theophrasta.

5622 Grias cauliflora.

5666 Griffinia Blumenavia.

5621 Helianthemum ocymoides,

5625 Impatiens latifolia.

5651 Ipomeea Gerrardi.

5667 Lelia majalis.

5673 Lilium Leichtlinii,

5627 Mesospinidium sanguineum,

5644 Myrtus Cheken.

5678 Nyctocalos Thomsoni.

: 5632 Oncidium serratum.

5634 Peperomia arifolia; var. argyreia.

5629 Pleroma sarmentosa.

5658 Prostanthera nivea.

5669 Rondeletia Purdiei.

5653 Rudgea macrophylla.

5635 Saccolabium giganteum.

5681 — Huttoni.

5630 Sarcanthus erinaceus.

5631 Siphocampylus Humboldtianus.

5648 Stemonacanthus Pearcei.

5633 Synadenium Grantii.

5623 Tapeinotes Caroline.

5670 Thapsia decipiens.

5637 Tinnea Athiopica.

5682 Vitis heterophylla, Thunderg ;

var. humulifolia.

INDEX,

In which the English Names of the Plants contained in the

Twenty-third Volume of the Turrp Series (or Ninety-

third Volume of the Work) are alphabetically arranged.

Achmea, crowded-flowered.

Agave, woody-thorned.

Aloe, splintered-leaved American.

Amaryllis, spotted-flowered.

Angrecum, citron-yellow.

Aristolochia, The Rev. H. Gol-

. die’s.

Balsam, broad-leaved Cingalese.

Barleria, Dr. Gibson’s.

Barren-wort, red-flowered.

Begonia, Bolivian.

; 5675 Major Trevor Clarke’s.

5680 ———— rose-flowered.

Veitch’s.

Bletia, Sherratt’s.

5619 Bowiea, twining.

5677 Calceolaria, orange-red.

618 Cattleya, Captain Dow’ 8.

5644 Chequen of Chili.

-Chupon of Chili.

: Ssh! brilliant-flowered.

5678

5648

| 5665

| 5670 Thapsia, Madeiran.

wre eee

Plate.

5654

5643

5656

5655

5642

5666

5659

5651

5667

5673

5627

5633

Epidendrum, Mr. Cooper’s.

— ivory-flowered.

— sheathed.

Gloxinia, Hypocyrta-flowered.

Gomphia, Theophrasta-like.

Griffinia, Dr. Blumenau’s.

Habrothamnus, purple.

Tpomea, Gerrard’s.

Lelia, May-flowering.

Lily, Max Leichtlin’s.

Mesospinidium, Rosy.

Milkbush, Captain Grant’s.

Nyctocalos, Assamese.

Oncidium, serrated.

Pear, Anchovy.

Peperomia, Arum-leaved ; stver-

striped var.

Pleione, dwarf.

Pleroma, sarmentose.

Prostanthera, snow-whiie.

Rockrose, Basil-like.

Rondeletia, Mr. Purdie’s.

Rudgea, large-leaved.

Saccolabium, gigantic.

Mr. Hutton’s.

Sarcanthus, hairy-stemmed.

Siphocampylus, Humboldt’s.

Stemonacanthus, Mr. Pearee’s. 8.

Storksbill, spotted-flowered.

‘Tapeinotes, Empress Charlotte's.

5632

5622

5634

5674

5629

5658

5621

5669

5653

5635

5681

5630

5631

5623

i Ti innea, Sree ee.

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