CURTIS’S

BOTANICAL MAGAZINE

em COMPRISING THE

Plants of the Roval Gardens of Heo,

OF OTHER BOTANICAL ESTABLISHMENTS IN GREAT BRITAIN,

WITH SUITABLE DESCRIPTIONS:

SIR JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER, M.D., CB. EGBis

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D.C.L. OXON,, LL.D. CANTAB., CORRESPONDENT OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE.

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SECRETARY OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.

My Dzar Hoae,

Pray accept the dedication of the hundred

and fourth volume of the Boranican Macazig, in token

of the high appreciation entertained of your long and dis-

interested labours in the promotion of practical horticulture,

and of the value of your many contributions to the litera-

ture of that important branch of botanical science.

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instructive visits you and I have together paid to horti-

cultural meetings at home, near home, and in far distant

countries.

Very sincerely yours,

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Roya Garpens, Kew,

Dee. 1st, 1878.

Tas. 6337.

LILIUM cOnbivoniv.

Native of Japan.

Nat. Ord. Liniackz.—Tribe Tuten.

Genus Litium, Linn. (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xiv. Pp. 226).

Liztum (Cardiocrinum) cordifolium ; bulbo ovoideo squamis paucis crassis ad-

pressis, caule elato stricto basi nudo, foliis multis petiolatis sparsis cordatis

ovatis vel subrotundis inferioribus confertis, racemo laxo 6—12-floro, pedicellis

crassis brevibus, bracteis magnis lanceolatis caducis, perianthii diu infundi-

bularis magni albidi segmentis oblanceolatis obtusis supra medium flore

expanso falcatis, interioribus facie deorsum purpurascentibus haud papillosis,

staminibus parallelis leviter declinatis perianthio paulo brevioribus, stylo

staminibus longiore, capsulis magnis oblongis apice umbilicatis.

L. cordifolium, Thunb. in Trans. Linn. Soe. vol. ii. p. 332; Schultes fil. in Roem.

et Schultes Syst. Veg. vol. vii. p. 420; Sieb. et Zuce. Fl. Jap. vol. i. p. 33,

tabs. 13, fig. 2, and 14; Kunth, Enum. vol. iv. p. 268; Flore des Serres, tab.

216; Miquel in Ann. Mus. Lug-Bat. vol. iii. p.157; Baker in Journ. Linn,

Soe. vol. xiv. p. 227; Franch. et Savat. Enum. Jap. vol. ii. p- 72; Gard.

Chron. 1877, part ii. p. 305, fig. 61.

Hemerocatiis cordata, Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 143; Gaertn. Fruct. vol. ii. tab. 179.

fig. 5.

Snre, Banks Icon. Select. Kemp., tab. 46.

Usa-suri and Gawa-suri, So mokou Zoussetz, vol. v. tab. 81.

The two giant Lilies, L. giganteum, of the Himalayas, and

L. cordifolium of Japan, differ extremely from all the other

species in habit and leaf, and resemble one another very

closely. For an account of the former we refer our readers

to tab. 4673. The present plant has been known to European

botanists for a century and a half, but has been found very

difficult to establish in cultivation. So far as I am aware,

the specimen from which the present plate was drawn, which

flowered in the open air in Kew Gardens in July of this

JANUARY Ist, 1878.

present year, is the second that has been flowered in England,

the first being with Mr. Noble at Bagshot many years ago.

Of our continental correspondents, Max Leichtlin, Esq., of

Baden-Baden, from whom this plant was received, and H. H.

Krelage and Son, of Haarlem, have both cultivated it success-

fully. It is said to be widely dispersed through the Japanese

islands, growing in shady mountain woods, but not to be

anywhere plentiful, and it has been found also in the Kurile

group. I cannot look upon LZ. Glehnii, F. Schmidt, as more

than a slight variety of cordifolium, differing from the type

by its more numerous smaller flowers. We have specimens

of it in the Kew herbarium from the neighbourhood of

Hakodadi, gathered by Dr. Albrecht and the late Mr. C.

Wilford.

Descr. Bulb ovoid, two to three inches in diameter ; scales

few, thick, whitish, ovate, adpressed. Stem stiffly erect,

three or four feet high, an inch thick at the base, naked to

a height of about a foot, the lower leaves crowded and very

large, the upper ones laxer, diminishing gradually in size to

the bottom of the inflorescence. Leaves all furnished with a

broad flat petiole ; blade sometimes nearly a foot long, pro-

minently cordate, roundish or broad ovate, the veining as

thoroughly reticulated as in an ordinary broad-leaved

Exogen. faceme in the typical form as figured about half

a foot long, four- to six-flowered; pedicels very short and

stout; bracts large, lanceolate, falling before the flowers

fully expand. Perianth permanently funnel-shaped, five or

six inches long, milk-white on the outside, tinged with green

towards the base, the oblanceolate obtuse segments spreading

falcately in the expanded flower in the upper half, narrowed

gradually from three-quarters of the way up to the base;

the three inner ones purple on the face in the lower half,

entirely destitute of any papille or distinct bordered groove.

Stamens parallel, slightly declinate, a little shorter than the

perianth. Ovary clavate, above an inch long ; style parallel

with the stamens, and just overtopping them; stigma capi-

tate, obtusely three-lobed. Capsule oblong, two inches long,

umbilicate at the apex; seeds packed very tightly in the

cells; edge of the three valves very fibrillose—J. G. Baker.

Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Imp.

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KOELLESTEINIA GRAMINEA.

Native of British Guiana.

Nat. Ord. OncnmEes.—Tribe VANDER.

Genus Korttensternia, Reichb. f. (Walp. Ann. vol. vi. p. 551.)

KoELLENSTEINIA graminea; cespitosa, acaulis, pseudobulbis 0, foliis }-} poll.

latis gramineis acuminatis, racemo interdum basi composito 6-8-floro,

perianthio campanulato stramineo brunneo fasciato, sepalis oblongis ob-

tusis, lateralibus paullo majoribus basi breviter connatis, petalis consimilibus,

labello unguiculato 3-lobo, lobis lateralibus erectis dimidiato-oblongis

obtusis, terminali latiore quam longo truncato, tuberculo disci carnoso trun-

cato postice bilobo.

K. graminea, Rehb. f. in Bonpland. Oct. 15, 1856; Walp. Ann. vi. p. 552.

Maxitraria graminea, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. xxi (1836) sub. tab. 1802.

A very elegant Guiana orchid collected by Schomburgk,

and described by Lindley in 1836 under Mazillaria, from

specimens procured by Messrs. Loddiges. Since that period

the genus Koel/ensteinia has been established upon various

species of Mavillaria by Reichenbach in ‘ Bonplandia.’ All

of them are South American, and natives of the mountain

regions of Guiana, Venezuela and New Grenada. Another

Demerara species, K. tricolor, Lindley, is very closely allied

to this, differing in the greenish sepals and petals which have

no transverse band. ae

K. graminea is a well-known plant in cultivation, and the

specimen from which the accompanying drawing was made

flowered in the Royal Gardens in January of the present

ear.

‘ Drscr. Stems densely very short, tufted; pseudobulbs

none; roots stout. Leaves grass-like, four to six inches

long, by a quarter to one third inch broad, gradually attenu-

ated at both ends, acuminate, slightly keeled, nerves very

sanuary Ist, 1878.

faint. Racemes equalling or exceeding the leaves, some-

times branched at the base; peduncle and rachis very

slender ; bracts sheathing, floral short ovate acute, those on

the peduncle longer, appressed. Flowers campanulate, six

to eight, remote, one half to three fourths of an inch in

diameter ; ovary and pedicel one quarter of an inch long.

Sepals and petals nearly equal and similar, the two lateral

sepals slightly connate at the base, all pale straw-coloured

with transverse bands of red-brown below the middle. Lip

of the same colour as the sepals and petals, rather shorter

than the sepals, clawed, 3-lobed ; lateral lobes suberect,

dimidiate-oblong, obtuse; terminal lobe transversely oblong,

almost reniform; disk transversely streaked with red, and

bearing a prominent 2-lobed callus. Column short, longi-

tudinally streaked with red. —¥J.D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower; 2, lateral view of lip and column :—bdoth enlarged,

Tas. 6339.

ANTHURIUM TRIFIDUM,

Of uncertain origin.

Nat. Ord. ARromDEX—Tribe ORONTIER,

Genus AnrHurium, Schott (Prodr. Syst. Aroid, p. 436).

ANTHURIUM (Semaophyllum) trifidum ; caudice brevi, petiolo foliorum fere

teretiusculo stricto 10-18 poll. longo, geniculo longiusculo, lamina profunde

trifida basi lata truncata vel medio in geniculum late cuneatim angus-

tata, lobo centrali 9-13 poll. longo oblongo- v. ovato-lanceolato acuminato,

lobis lateralibus brevioribus falciformibus oblongo- vel ovato-ellipticis oblique

obtusatis, costa media subtus prominente nervis utrinque circiter 9-12,

pedunculo petiolis breviore gracili, spatha rubescente reflexa oblongo-

lanceolata spadice breviter stipitato juliforme gracili breviore,

Paitopenpron Holtonianum, M. 7. M. in Gard. Chron. 1876, ii. p. 867 (non

Schott, Prodr. Aroid. 287).

Anruuriu trilobum, Linden, Cat. 1877 ? (sine deser.).

Of the origin of this interesting Aroid, I am unable to

speak with any certainty. It is alleged to have been intro-

duced through the “ Challenger” Expedition from the Eastern

Indian Archipelago ; but no Anthurium is known from that

region, nor have I seen a specimen corresponding to our plant

in the dried collections made by the naturalist of that expe-

dition. Dr. Masters, figuring it in the ‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle’

(1876, ii. p. 365), having only a leafy specimen to judge from,

thought it might prove to be identical with Philodendron

Holtonianum, Schott, of New Granada. Now, however, that

we have had an opportunity of examining flowering spe-

cimens, there can be no doubt that the plant is a genuine

Anthurium, referable, I think, to the «Grex ” Semceophyllum

of Schott, a division of the genus including, according

to him, but four species, of none of which do we happen

to have authenticated specimens at Kew. As I cannot securely

identify it with the description of any of these, I let it go as

a probable novelty. The nearest ally of which I have seen

specimens is a plant which my colleague, Mr. N. E. Brown,

JANUARY Isr, 1878.

who has specially occupied himself with the study of living

Aroids, identifies with 4. ochranthum, C. Koch, introduced

from Costa Rica. In this species the leaf is by no means so

deeply trifid nor the lateral lobes elongate and falciform as

in our plant.

Descr. Sfem'in our specimen very short, concealed by

withered scales. efioles elongate, slender, nearly terete,

very faintly flattened upon the inner face, of warm reddish-

brown colour, ten to eighteen inches in length; Leaf-blade

ten to fifteen inches long, broadly deeply trifid, base broadly

rounded sub-truncate, or with a broadly cuneate exit into

the geniculus, which is half to three-quarters of an inch long ;

median lobe oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, from the base of

the leaf to its apex ten to sixteen inches, three and a half

to four and a half inches broad ; lateral lobes obliquely oblong-

ovate, obtuse, somewhat falciform, shorter than the median

lobe, from the geniculus to their apex eight to ten inches,

all deep shining green above, paler beneath; three principal

nerves divergent from the apex of the petiole, prominent

_ beneath, of the lateral lobes giving off the secondary nerve at

from three-quarters of an inch to two inches, and another at

two to three and a half inches from the base; principal

lateral veins from median neryure about nine to twelve on

each side. Peduncle slender, erect, rather shorter than

the petioles, red or reddish-brown in colour, as is the more

or less spreading or reflexed oblong-lanceolate acuminate

spathe, which is slightly shorter than the slender terete,

shortly stipitate spadix, Perianth-segments four, broadly

rotundate or obovate-quadrate, concave, thickened above,

overarching the four stamens; filaments much flattened,

obovate; anther-cells extrorse divergent below. Stigma obtusely

four-angled.—D., Oliver.

Fig. 1, Reduced figure of entire plant; 2, Leaf-base and eniculus ;

, 1 3 2, culus ; and 3, Upper

part of peduncle and inflorescence, both natural size ; 4, Pair of flowers; 5 dl 6,

same, singly, seen from side and above —magnified.

Tas. 6340,

OREOPANAX THIBAUTII.

Native of Chiapas in Mewico.

Nat. Ord. AratiacrEx.—Series HepEerrz:.

Genus Orropanax, Dene. and Planch. (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p- 949).

Orxroranax Thibautii; glaberrima, foliis longe petiolatis pedatim 5-7-foliolatis,

foliolis petiolulatis anguste elliptico-lanceolatis v. oblanceolatis basi et apice

longe angustatis integerrimis glaberrimis, stipulis 0, capitulis } unc. diam.

breviter pedunculatis in racemum terminalem strictum minute stellato-

puberulum demum glabratum dispositis, bracteis minutis triangularibus acutis,

bracteolis floribus immixtis elongato-obcuneatis apice villosis, petalis 5.

Aratia Thibautii, Hort,

The genus Oreopanaz, though so unlike our Ivy, is so

closely allied to it, that except by habit and locality I do

not see how the two are to be kept distinct. This remark

further applies to a host of genera of Araliacea, which,

when reduced to their technical characters of flower and

fruit, would be merged into one. As defined in the Genera

Plantarum, Hedera is confined to the English Ivy, which,

under various forms, extends all over the north temperate

regions of the old world, together with an Australian

representative with pinnate leaves; the species of Oreopanax

on the other hand are very numerous, and are all natives

of the mountainous tropical regions of the new world,

extending from Mexico to Peru. 0. Thibautii is a native

of Pine forests in Chiapas, a province of Mexico, whence

I have seen specimens from Linden (No. 1651), and.

Ghiesbrecht (No. 147). It is very closely allied to, and

perhaps only a variety of, D. Xalapensis, which has however

much larger flower-heads, with shorter stouter peduncles, and

rather broader leaflets. A third closely allied Mexican form

from Orizaba, has heads only a quarter of an inch in

diameter, on slender peduncles an inch long; and a fourth,

JANUARY Ist, 1878,

collected by Seeman in Boquitte, has fewer flowers in the

heads, distinct recurved styles, and much broader leaflets.

O. Thibautii was received under this name from Ver-

schaffelt in 1862, and flowered at Kew in 1869 and

subsequently, in the month of November.

Descr. A small tree, glabrous except for a minute stellate

pubescence on the youngest parts. Branches as thick as the

little finger. Leaves at the ends of the branches, digitately

5-7-foliolate ; leaflets three to six inches long, elliptic-

lanceolate or ob-lanceolate, gradually narrowed at both ends,

quite entire, coriaceous, smooth, glossy above, nerves

spreading ; petiole cylindric, 4-8 inches long; petiolules one

quarter to half an inch long. lowers (male?) in dense

globose heads, one third of an inch in diameter, collected in a

straight terminal raceme a foot long; peduncles stout, half

an inch long; bracts and outer bracteoles minute, triangular,

acute ; bracteoles amongst the flowers elongate wedge-shaped,

with rounded villous apices. Ca/yx-limb obscurely 5-toothed.

Petals 5, triangular-oblong, glabrous. Stamens with fila-

ments twice as long as the petals. Ovary ( age

with a hemispheric vertex, and short columnar style.—J.D.H.

Fig. 1, Head of flowers with peduncle and bract; 2, bud and bracteole; 3,

flower laid open; 4, ovary :—all enlarged.

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BESLERIA Imray.

Native of Dominica.

Nat. Ord. Gesnrernacex.—Tribe CyrTANDRER.

Genus Brsteria, Linn. (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1015.)

Besieria Imray; glaberrima, caule quadrangulari erecto, foliis sessilibus v.

brevissime petiolatis obovato-oblongis v. oblanceolatis acuminatis serratis

basi angustata obtusa membranaceis nervis utrinque 10-12, floribus axillari-

bus solitariis v. fasciculatis, pedunculis calyce eequilongis v. longioribus.

calycis tubo ventricoso puberulo, lobis tubo brevioribus ovatis acutis dorso

infra apicem corniculatis, corolla aurea calyce duplo longiore, tubo inferiore

subeylindraceo superne antice ventricoso fauce contracta, lobis parvis

rotundatis patentibus intus puberulis, staminibus inclusis, disco pateri-

forme, ovario glaberrimo.

B. Imray, Hook. in herb.

Besleria, as established by Linneus, contained three

species, of which one alone, the original Besleria of Plumjer

is retained in the genus, the rest being referred to other

genera of Gesneracee. As remodelled by Bentham, the modern

genus, retaining as its type the Linnean B. lutea, has besides

this about 50 species, several of which had been made the

types of genera by Cirsted and by Bentham himself. The only

one of these species that has hitherto figured in this Maga-

zine is B. Leucostema (Hypocyrta leucostema, Hook., tab.

nost. 4310). The geographical range of the genus is from

Mexico and the West Indies to Brazil and Peru, and many

of the species are undescribed.

B. Imray is a native of the Island of Dominica, where it

was discovered by our excellent correspondent of nearly

half a century’s standing, Dr. Imray, and to whom we are

indebted for both living and dried specimens, the former of

which first flowered at Kew in 1862. As a Species it is

most nearly allied to the common West Indian B. Jutea re

JANUARY Ist, 1878.

which is also found in Dominica, as well as in Jamaica, St.

Vincent and St. Lucia and Martinique, and which has

_ petioled leaves.

Descr. A glabrous erect herb, with smooth obtusely 4-

angled stems. Leaves opposite, four to seven inches long by

one and a half to three broad, sessile, or very shortly

petioled, glabrous on both surfaces, obovate-oblong or ob-

lanceolate, acuminate, serrate, base rounded or subcordate ;

nerves 10-12 on each side of the midrib, ascending and

arched. Flowers solitary or fascicled on the axils of the

leaves; peduncles half to one inch long, minutely puberu-

lous. Calyx one third inch long, puberulous; tube inflated,

tapering to the base; lobes about equalling the tube, ovate,

acute, with a mucro at the back of the tip. Corolla yellow,

twice as long as the calyx; tube cylindric below, gradually

becoming ventricose in front close to the contracted

meuth ; lobes small, rounded, horizontal, with a few hairs

on the upper surface, glabrous within the tube. Sfamens

included, rudiment of the fifth strap-shaped. Disk pateri

form. Ovary globose, tapering into a stout style; stigma

eapitate.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower; 2, corolla laid open ; 3, disk and ovary :—all enlarged.

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BILLBERGTIA PALLESCENS.

Native of Brazil.

Nat, Ord. Bromentacem.—Tribe ANANASSER.

Genus Biiinerera, Thunb. et Holm. (Schultes fil. in Roem. et Schultes Syst. Veg.

vol. vii. p. 1254.)

Bitieerera pallescens ; acaulis, foliis productis 9-12 suberectis loratis coriaceis

1-2-pedalibus utrinque viridibus tenuissime albido-lepidotis albo-punctatis

haud fasciatis, aculeis marginalibus minutissimis, scapo pallido glabro sub-

pedali sursum bracteis 3-4 magnis lanceolatis splendide rubris prcedito,

floribus 10-20 in spicam laxam cernuam dispositis, omnibus solitariis vel

inferioribus interdum 2-3-nis breviter pedicellatis, ovario viridi glabro

oblongo crebre sulcato, sepalis lineari-oblongis glabris viridibus apice

violaceis ovario longioribus, petalis longe exsertis lingulatis viridibus apice

violaceis basi squamatis, staminibus petalis equilongis, antheris oblongis

aurantiacis, stigmatibus exsertis.

B. pallescens, K. Koch et Bouché App. Ind. Semin. Hort. Berol. anno 1856 ;

Walp. Ann, vol. vi. p. 76; H. Morren in Belg. Hort. vol. xv. (1865) p. 65,

tab. 5-6.

B, pallida and Wiotiana, Hort.

This is a little known, very distinct Billbergia, similar

in habit to B. wittata and Moreliana, marked by its

many-grooved ovary and large green flowers. It was

introduced more than twenty years ago from Central Brazil

by M. Libon. Our drawing was made from a specimen that

flowered in the Kew collection last November. Our plant

differed from that figured in the ‘Belgique Horticole’ by

having a drooping instead of an erect inflorescence and by

having all the flowers solitary and none of them subtended

by the bright red bracts which add so much to the decorative

value of these plants, the highest of these bracts in our

Specimen being placed below the base of the inflorescence.

In spite of these differences we believe the two plants are

mere forms of the same species.

FEBRUARY Ist, 1878,

Descr. Acaulescent. Produced /eaves nine to twelve to a

tuft, sub-erect, lorate, rigidly coriaceous in texture, the

largest reaching a length of one and a half or two feet,

one and a half or two inches broad at the middle, dilated to

three inches at the clasping base, thinly white lepidote over

both surfaces, the face dark green, the back paler and more

distinctly striated, decorated with small scattered round

white dots, but without any distinct transverse bars, the tip

deltoid-cuspidate, the marginal prickles very miuute. Scape

about a foot long, whitish, glabrous, furnished at the top with

three or four large erecto-patent, bright red lanceolate bracts,

and below these, in the part hidden by the imbricating

leaves, a few others which are adpressed to it and paler in

colour. Spike lax, pendulous, three or four inches long,

composed of ten to eighteen subsessile flowers. Ovary

oblong, glabrous, bright green, half an inch long, with

numerous narrow parallel vertical ribs and grooves. Sepals

linear-oblong, horny, three quarters of an inch long, naked,

pale green, tipped with violet. Petals above an inch

longer than the sepals, lingulate, green, tipped with

violet, distinctly scaled at the base. Stamens as long as the —

petals ; anthers oblong, orange-yellow, a sixth of an inch

long. Stigmas exserted, a sixth of an inch long, much

twisted.—J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, A single petal and stamen; fig. 2, sulcate ovary, style and stigmas :—

natural size,

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IRIS CRETENSIS.

Native of Greece, Asia Minor, ete.

Nat. Ord. Intpackz.—Tribe Evrripes.

Genus Iris, Tourn. (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. xvi. p. 136).

Tris (Pogoniris) cretensis ; acaulis, breviter rhizomatosa, foliis pluribus anguste

linearibus 6-9-pollicaribus acutis subcoriaceis crebre striatis, spathe unifloris

valvis magnis lanceolatis, ovario oblongo sessili, perianthii tubo viridulo 3-

4-pollicari, limbi lilacino-purpurei 2}-3-pollicaris segmentis oblanceolatis

zquilongis omnibus longe unguiculatis, exterioribus lamina falcata deorsum

pallida luteo carinata lineis obliquis lilacino-purpureis decorata, interioribus

paullo angustioribus erectis concoloribus, stigmatorum cristis lanceolatis

extro'sum serrulatis, antheris albidis filamento brevioribus.

I. cretensis, Janka in Oecster. Botan. Zeitschrift 1868, p. 382; Baker in Gard.

Chron. 1876, part ii. p. 143; Journ, Linn. Soe. vol. xvi. p. 138.

I. cretica, Herbert in Herb. Kew., inedit.

L. stylosa, var. angustifolia, Boiss. Diagn. part xiii. p. 15; Techihat. Asia Minor

Bot. vol, ii. p. 516.

I. humilis, Sieber, Crete, asic. non M. B.

This pretty little Js has a wide distribution round the

eastern shores of the Mediterranean, as it occurs in Greece,

Asia Minor, Crete (where it ascends the hills to 5000 feet

above sea-level), and the Ionian Islands. It has been con-

founded with the South Russian and Transylvanian humilis

and the Algerian unguicularis, but is quite distinct from, both,

and the three inhabit different geographical areas. This fact

was recognised long ago by Dean Herbert, and he gave it, in

the Hookerian herbarium, the manuscript name of /ris eretica

but this was never published, so far as I have been able to

ascertain. It belongs to the small group of acaulescent

beardless Irises, of which the two species just named, and a

third (Jris Rossii, Baker in Gard. Chron. 1877, part u. p.

809), recently discovered in the extreme north of China, are

the only remaining known members. It has been introduced

FEBRUARY IsT, 1878.

into cultivation by Mr. Elwes. It flowered with him at

Cirencester last November, but its proper season is April

and May, and it is perfectly hardy. Both in this and

unguicularis I have seen the filaments sometimes decidedly

cohering in the lower half, as is typical in Morea.

Descr. Rhizome short-creeping, a quarter or a third of an

inch in diameter. Tufts crowded, consisting of many leaves

and a single central flower. Leaves linear, erect, firm in

texture, acute, finely striated, not more than a twelfth or an

eighth of an inch in breadth, the most developed reaching a

length of six or nine inches. Spathe of two lanceolate acuminate

pale green valves, sometimes as long as or longer than the tube.

Ovary oblong, subsessile within the spathe. Perianth-tube

green, cylindrical, three or four inches long; limb bright

lilac-purple, two and a half’ or three inches long, the seg-

ments nearly equal in length and all furnished with long

claws, the blade of the three outer ones reflexing from its

base, veined in the lower half with bright yellow, and fur-

nished with many oblique lines of lilac-purple on a. white

ground ; the blade of the three inner ones rather narrower,

concolorous, and permanently erect. Blade of the Stigmas

an inch and a half long; crests linear, serrulate on the outer

borders. Anthers white, above half an inch long, shorter

than the flattened filaments.—J. G. Baker.

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ION E EPG

Native of Upper Assam.

Nat. Ord. OrncuipEa.—Tribe VANDEZ.

Genus Ionr, Lindl. (Lindl. Fol. Orchid. Lone).

lone paleacea ; rhizomate repente, pseudobulbis ovoideis levibus viridibus, folio

6-8-pollicari lineari obtuso carinato enervi basi angustata canaliculata,

scapo gracili folio longiore, spica elongata substricta multiflora, bracteis

pollicaribus erectis Janceolatis acuminatis concavis, floribus nutantibus

pollicaribus, sepalo postico lanceolato fornicato pallide viridi purpureo-venoso,

lateralibus in laminam squilongam apice 2-dentatam labello suppositam

connatis, petalis parvulis ovato-rotundatis erosis pallide viridibus, labello

brevissime unguiculato trulliformi marginibus erosis disco basi bicarinato,

carinis secus laminam productis et in apicem labelli tumescentem oblongam

obtusam desinentibus, columna apice bi-aristata.

I, paleacea, Lindl. Fol. Orchid. Ione, p. 2.; Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann, vi. 636.

Divopium, Griffith. Posth. Papers ; Notule, part iii. p. 405; le. Plant. Asiat.

t. 827. f. 1.

There is some uncertainty as to the native country of this

plant, of which the only authentic specimen known to me

is Griffith’s, preserved in the Dr. Lindley’s Herbarium to which

the latter botanist has put a ticket with “‘Darjecling, Wm.

Griffith, 1844,” upon it. But Dr. Lindley has attached to this

specimen the note, “ Dipodium, Griffith Notule, t. cecxxvii.

fig. 1.’ Now Griffith never was at Darjeeling, though

he employed collectors there, and on referring to his Notule,

I find that he gives as the habitat “from trees on

Thumathaya in the Mishmi Mountains;” and these are in

Upper Assam. Considering further, that Griffith’s drawing

was made from a living plant, and that no other botanist has

found the plant at Darjeeling or elsewhere in Sikkim, I think,

there can be no doubt that the Mishmi Mountains are its native

country. With regard to the description in Griffith’s

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‘Notule’ it is so disfigured by misprints that no

dependence can be placed upon it; the sepals and petals

are described as light fuscous, veimed with purple, and the

labellum as fuscous green, with purplish margins. In Griffith’s

dried specimen the lip evidently retains the brown colour

of our figure, and the sepals are pale with purple streaks;

however the discrepancies are to be explained; our plant

is unquestionably identical with Griffith’s specimen, and

is the Jone paleacea of Lindley. There are two other Mishmi

species of Jone described by Griffith and Lindley, and there

is also a Sikkim one (L. cirrhata, Lindl.) found by myself,

which has oblong leaves, and very differently formed

sepals resembling the rude drawing of Griffith more than

that of I. paleacea. Ou plant was received from Dr. King,

of the Calcutta Botanic Gardens, and flowered in October

of last year at Kew.

Descr. ootstock short, creeping. Pseudobulbs one to

one and a half inches long, ovoid, smooth, green. Leaf six to

eight inches long, and one broad, linear, obtuse, narrowed

into a deeply channelled base, but hardly petioled, keeled,

dark green. Scape stiff, slender, erect, longer than the leaf;

its sheaths closely appressed. Spike four to five inches long,

many-flowered; bracts one inch long, lanceolate, long-

acuminate, erect, concave. Flowers drooping, an inch long.

Sepals pale green, with red stripes; posticous lanceolate,

arched, lateral confluent into a 2-toothed concave body

placed under the lip. Petals small, rounded, erose, pale

yellow-green, spreading. Jip as long as the sepals, tom

shaped, red-brown, margins erose, claw very short; disk

with two elevated keels at the base, which sink towards the

disk, and are carried along the mesial line to the tip of the

lip, where they end in an oblong thick calluss. Column short,

with 2-spurs from the anther-cells, in which the caudicles of

the pollen masses are lodged.—J. D. H.

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PLEROMA GAYANUM,

Native of Peru,

Nat. Ord. Mrenastomacez.—Tribe OsBreckIE”.

Genus Pieroma, Don. (Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 743).

Preroma Gayanum ; fruticosum, caule ramisque gracilibus tenuiter strigillosis,

foliis petiolatis elliptico-ovatis basi acutis obtusis v. subcordatis 5-nervils

acutis v. acuminatis serrulatis utrinque appresse hirtis, paniculis ad apices

ramulorum trichotome corymbosis, calycis villosi lobis subulato-lanceolatis

tubum campanulatum xquantibus, petalis late obovatis albis basin versus

stramineis, calyce fructifero globoso setuloso.

P. Gayanum, 7'riana in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xxviii. p. 46.

MicrantHELLa Gayana, Triana in Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 3, vol. xiii. p. 350.

Pleroma is one of the very large genera of the great order

Melastomacee, to which some of the most brilliant stove

plants hitherto introduced, and yet to be introduced, belong ;

of the former, Medinilla magnifica (tab. 4533) and Pleroma

macrantha (tab, 5721) are examples, whilst of the latter,

Blakea trinervia and B. lancifolia, both West Indian plants,

and one of them common, are conspicuous instances. With

regard to Blakea trinervia especially, it is difficult to under-

stand why a plant so common and so well known in some of

the West Indian islands for its extraordinary beauty should

never have become common in our stoves. It has been

received at Kew from Dr. Imray, of Dominica, but always

in a dying condition. Some of the most eminent nurserymen

of the continent have been equally baffled in their attempts

to introduce it. Like many tropical hard-wooded plants, it

is not easy of cultivation, or rather, perhaps, impatient of

confinement during the voyage. :

Of Pleroma upwards of a hundred species, all American, are

enumerated in Triana’s valuable monograph of the Melasto-

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mace, published in the Linnean Transactions ; of these about

ten have been introduced into cultivation, seven of which are

figured in this work ; one (tab. 3766) as a Lasiandra, two as

species of Melastoma (tabs. 2337 and 2630), and the re-

mainder under their proper generic names.

Pleroma Gayanum is one of the least conspicuous of the

genus, it is a native of Cuzco, in Peru, where it was dis-

covered by the French Botanist and traveller, Claude Gay,

and has been since collected by Lechler. The plant here

figured was imported by Messrs. Veitch, through their col-

lector, Mr. Davies, and flowered with them in October, 1874.

Drscr. A slender branching herbaceous plant, shrubby at

the base; branches tetragonous, covered with appressed

minute rigid hairs. Leaves three to four inches long, ovate

elliptic-ovate or oblong, acute or acuminate, base acute

obtuse or subcordate, both surfaces nearly equally covered

with appressed rather silky hairs, d-nerved, with an intra-

marginal shorter nerve; petiole one third to one half inch

long. Flowers one inch diameter, on slender pedicels, collected

in small corymbs that are arranged in trichotomously branched

terminal panicles. Calyzx-tube campanulate, hispid, as long

as the subulate-lanceolate lobes. Petals white, suffused with

_Straw-colour towards the base, broadly obovate; anthers

yellow. Capsule bristly at the tip, enclosed in the hispid

calyx-tube.—J. D, H. ,

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CROSSANDRA GUINEENSIS.

Native of Western Tropical ' Africa.

Nat. Ord. AcanrHacea:.—Tribe Justicizm.

Genus Crossanpra, Salish. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1094.)

CrossanpkRa guineensis ; herbacea, humilis, caule brevi petiolisque furfuraceo-

pubescentibus, foliis breviter petiolatis ellipticis v. oblongo-obovatis obtusis

basi angustata obtusa v. cordata superne saturate viridibus nervis nervu-

lesque aureis, subtus rufescentibus costa nervisque pubescentibus, spica sessili

simplici stricta gracili, bracteis erectis appressis oblongo-lanceolatis mucro-

nato-aristatis integerrimis v. apices versus ciliato-serratis, sepalis lanceolatis

acuminatis, corolla pallide lilacina tubo gracilicurvo, lobis ovatis acuminatis

2-posticis minoribus.

©: guineensis, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 281.

This charming plant was described by Nees von Esenbeck,

forty years ago, from dried specimens in the Hookerian Her-

arium received from the coast of Guinea, but from which

the beauty of its foliage could not be inferred. Since then it

has been collected by that most successful of all travellers on

the Guinea coast, Gustav Mann, who found it in the moun-

tainous region of the island of Fernando Po, at an elevation of

ree ft., and in the Sierra del Crystal range, in lat. 1° N., in

The genus Crossandra, though a small one, containing

only six or eight species, has long been known in cultivation ;

two species have been figured in this magazine, namely,

¢. undulefolia (tab. 2186), of India, with vermilion flowers,

introduced by Roxburgh in the beginning of the century,

and @, flava, with golden flowers, tab. 4710, from Sierra

Leone. Most of the species are Tropical African.

C. guineensis was introduced by Messrs. Veitch, who sent

Specimens for determination and figuring in October of last

year,

FERRUARY Ist, 1878,

Descr. A low herb, with a woody root. Stem two to six

inches high, erect, rather stout, rarely branched, light red,

cylindric, covered, as well as the petioles, with a furfuraceous

pubescence. Leaves, two to four pairs, horizontal, shortly

petioled, three to five inches long, elliptic, sometimes obo-

vate or oblong, obtuse, base contracted obtuse or cordate,

membranous, deep green above, with golden reticulated

nerves, beneath reddish, with pubescent midrib and nerves ;

petiole a quarter to half an inch, stout, reddish. Spike soli-

tary, sessile, three to five inches high, strict, apex pungent,

many-flowered ; bracts, many pairs, half to three-quarters of

an inch long, imbricating, appressed, hard and coriaceous,

lanceolate, acuminate, with a setaceous pungent point, green

glabrous, closely striate, quite entire or ciliate-serrate towards

the tip. Flowers pale lilac. Sepals lanceolate, acuminate,

quite entire. Corolla tube exserted, very slender, incurved,

glabrous ; limb five-lobed, lobes acuminate, posterior small-

est ovate, lateral larger more broadly elliptic-ovate, anterior

largest obovate apiculate. Stamens towards the mouth of the

corolla, filaments very short; anthers oblong, acute, margins

of Bie ciliate. Ovary glabrous; style hairy, stigma small.

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PANDANUS ouneuirer.

Native of Northern Bengal.

Nat. Ord. Panpanez.

Genus Panpanus, Linn. (Endlicher, Gen. Plant. p. 242).

Panpanus unguifer ; humilis, caule gracili prostrato, foliis subdistichis 2-3 pedal-

ibus 1}-2-poll. latis lineari-loratis junioribus abrupte senioribus sensim

caudato-acuminatis marginibus et costa subtus spinoso-dentatis, syncarpio

sessili suberecto ovoideo diametro pugilli, drupis obovoideo-cuneatis mono-

spermis lateribus angulatis vertice hemispherico levissimo medio ungue parvo

duro nitido acuto v. emarginato v. 2-dentato v. bicorni abrupte terminatis.

I have failed to identify this dwarf Pandanus with any

described species, and yet it cannot be an uncommon Bengal

plant. It is not included in Kurz’s Revision of the Indian Screw-

Pines in Seemann’s Journal of Botany (v. 5, p. 93). The

obvious comparison was with Roxburgh’s P. fatidus, which is

the common dwarf species of Bengal and Assam, and which

forms, like this, a bush on the ground in the forest, but that

plant has a drooping head with very different, longer, nar-

rower drupes, each with a hexagonal crown that ends in a

simple spine, sometimes nearly half an inch long ; the drupes

too, are far more numerous and smaller, I have gathered P.

fetidus in Sikkim, Silhet, Cachar and Chittagong, and found

it very constant in its character, and totally different from P.

unguifer, whose fruit more resembles that of the arboreous

P. furcatus. Of this latter, indeed, I have thought that P.

unguifer might be either the young or a dwarf state; but

Kurz describes the drupes of the Indian form of P. furcatus

as very concave at the top, and the typical state as flat or

convex at the top; the very broad barren and more distant

Spines on the margins and midrib of the leaves of P. ungucfer

are also quite unlike those of P. furcatus. I regret not hav-

ing seen male flowers.

Dr. Thomson and I found this species in Sikkim, from

FEBRUARY Ist, 1878.

the Terai up towards Kursiong to about 3000 ft.; and

in the Khasia Mountains at Joowye about 4000 ft.;

and at Nowgong, and I have ‘seen it plentifully elsewhere in

those regions. The drawing here given was made from Sikkim

plants sent to Kew by the late Dr. Anderson when superin-

tendent of the Calcutta Botanic Gardens, and which first

fruited in July, 1873.

Descr. Stem stout, one to three feet long, prostrate, as

thick as the thumb. Leaves subdistichous, one and a half

to two feet long, by one to two broad, curved, keeled, apex

in the young plants suddenly, in the older more gradually

drawn out into a sharply spinulose tip often two to three

inches long; marginal spines distant. Fruit as large as

the fist; shortly peduncled, suberect ; of about one hundred

and fifty drupes. Drupes two-thirds of an inch long, sides

angular, top hemispherical, with an abrupt median nail-like

claw a quarter of an inch long, which is acute, 2-toothed or

forked at the apex, and is very hard, horny and shining;

the drupes are 1-celled and 1-seeded.—J. D. H.

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HOODIA Barnt.

Native of South Africa.

Nat. Ord. Ascieprapacex.—Tribe Srapetine.

Genus Hoopia, Sweet; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 783; Dyer in Bot.

Mag. sub tab. 6228 et in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xv. p. 251.)

Hoopta Bainii,; cespitosa, caulibus cactiformibus erectis cinereis tuberculis

transversim compressis in spinis fuscis desinentibus et in costas longitudi-

naliter dispositis crebre tectis, floribus 1-3 summis ramis aggregatis pedun-

culis pollicaribus, sepalis lanceolato-subulatis, corolla cyathiformi diametro

tri-pollicari pallide purpurascente-flavida venosa glabra margine dentibus

quinque recurvis, corona exteriore punicea lobis late oblongis obscure bifidis.

This very interesting addition to the Cape Flora was

originally brought by Mr. Thomas Bain from Uitkyk,

on the road through the Karroo to Beaufort West, in the

autumn of 1876, and given to Sir Henry Barkly with flowers

preserved in spirit (from one of which the corona in the plate

has been drawn). Subsequently Mr. M‘Gibbon, the Curator

of the Cape Botanic Garden, obtained specimens of the same

plant from Mr. Lycett of Worcester, South Africa; and one of

these was brought by the former to this country on his recent

visit, and presented to the Royal Gardens, where it flowered

in July of last year. From this the drawing for the accom-

panying plate has been made.

Hoodia Bainii is, as Sir Henry Barkly has pointed out to

me, undoubtedly closely allied to H. Barklyi, from which,

however, it seems to differ in its more robust habit, larger

flowers, and scarcely bifid corona. I may take this \oppor-

tunity of putting on record the fact that the plant which

afforded the materials for my diagnosis of the latter plant

(Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xv. p. 252), was also brought from the

Karroo in 1873 by Mr. Lycett, and after flowering in the

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Cape Botanic Gardens, damped off as these plants are un-

happily too apt to do in cultivation; it has apparently not

since been found. |

Sir H. Barkly informs me that Hoodia Bainii is known

locally as Wolves’ n’ Guaap, the name n’ Guaap being also

given to Stapelia pilifera, Thunb.

Descr. Stems numerous from the crown, ashy-green in

colour, erect, cylindric, leafless, younger portions with

closely-set spirally-arranged laterally-compressed tubercles,

ultimately confluent into more or less marked prominent

longitudinal ridges; tubercles tapering into a stout sometimes

deflexed brown prickle. lowers produced near the apex of

the branches, 1-3 together ; buds acutely pentagonal ; pedicels

about an inch long. Calyx short, five-partite ; segments acumi-

nate. Corolla about three inches in diameter, pale buff-yellow

becoming purplish in decay, cup-shaped, margin with five

recurved teeth the apices of the obsolete lobes. Corona

double ; exterior spreading, adnate to the staminal tube by

five vertical septa, five-lobed, lobes broadly oblong, concave,

obscurely bifid; interior of five narrowly oblong incumbent

scales adnate to the septa and the base of the anthers.

Anthers short, oblong, inappendiculate, incumbent on the

stigma, and half immersed init. Stigma flattened at the apex.

Pollen-masses erect.—W. T. Thiselton Dyer.

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JASMINUM pipymum.

Native of tropical Australia and the Pacific Islands.

Nat. Ord. Orzacea.—Tribe JASMINE.

Genus Jasminum, Linn. (Benth. et Hook. fi Gen. Plant. vol. it. p. 674.)

Jasminum didymum ; frutex alte scandens, glaberrima v. inflorescentia pube-

rula, foliis 3-foliolatis, foliolis petiolulatis late ovatis oblongis v. orbicu-

latis obtusis rarius ovato-lanceolatis acutis penninerviis v. basi 3-nerviis,

cymis in paniculas elongatas axillares et terminales 3-chotome ramosas

dispositis, floribus_albis breviter pedicellatis, calyce minuto limbo truncato

vy. obscure denticulato, corolle tubo gracili, limbi iobis 4-6 brevibus, carpellis

maturis solitariis v. didymis ellipsoideo-rotundatis purpureis.

J. didymum, Forst. Prodr. p. 3; DG. Prodr. vol. viii. p. 311; Benth, Flor.

Austral. vol. iv. p. 295.

J. divaricatum, Br. Prodr. p. 521; DG. l.e.; Labill. Sert. Austr. Caled. t. 27.

J. parviflorum, Dene. Herb. Timor, 77; DC. 1. ¢. p. 310.

This very pretty jasmine is @ native of tropical and sub-

tropical Australia, and extends into the Pacific, inhabiting

Lord Howe’s Island, New Caledonia, the Fijis, and Timor ;

in all these countries frequenting sandy ridges and cliffs, etc.,

near the sea. It forms a very elegant hothouse climber,

with bright green glossy leaves, and pendulous festoons of

white flowers, which appear in mid-winter. I have no exact

indication of the source from which J. didymum was introduced

into cultivation, but rather think it was sent to Kew by Mr.

Milne, the collector in Captain Denham’s surveying voyage

to the Pacific about 20 years ago, since which time it has

been known in the Palm House at Kew as an old inhabitant.

Descr. A tall woody climber, usually glabrous and shining,

but sometimes more or less pubescent, especially on the

infloresence ; branches slender, smooth. Leaves 3-foliolate,

very variable in size and form, with slender petiole and

petiolules; leaflets one and a half to three and a half inches

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long, oblong or ovate or orbicular, rarely ovate-lanceolate and

acute or acuminate, coriaceous and shining, acute or rounded at

the base, usually feather-nerved and also 3-nerved at the base ;

nerves faint ; petiole one quarter to one inch long ; petiolules half

that length or shorter, Cymes scattered along slender panicles

which usually much exceed the leaves, and are axillary or

terminal on short branches ; primary branches long and slender,

or short ; pedicels very short. Flowers half to three-quarters

of an inch long, pure white ; bracts minute. Calyz- tube short,

small; limb obscurely toothed or quite entire. Corolla-tube

slender, slightly dilated upwards; lobes four to six, small,

broadly-ovate, obtuse. Anthers included, linear-oblong,

Style narrowly clavate. Ripe carpels one or two, shortly

stipitate, two-thirds of an inch long, ellipsoid. or sub-globose,

purple, smooth. 3

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RONDELETIA oporata, var. BREVIFLORA.

Native of the West Indies 2

Nat. Ord. Rusiucez.—Tribe RonDELETIEz.

Genus Ronpetzria, Linn, (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 48.)

Ronvevetia odorata var. breviflora ; ramis tomentosis, foliis breviter petiolatis late

ovato-oblongis oblongo-rotundatisve obtusis v. subacutis supra scaberulis

bullatis opacis, subtus ad costam nervosque puberulis, stipulis late triangu-

laribus cuspidatis, corolle tubo calycis laciniis linearibus vix duplo longiore,

disco tumido tomentoso, glandulis inter lobos calycis minutis v. 0.

The subject of the present plate has been long cultivated

at Kew, under the name of Rondeletia speciosa, a plant first

published in Loddiges’ ‘ Botanical Cabinet,’ with a wretched

figure, and no botanical description, and which is said closely

to resemble Jacquin’s violet-scented R. odorata, but to differ

im not having the slightest scent. Now the plant here

figured is scentless, and has much smaller flowers, with a far

shorter corolla-tube than either the native Herbarium speci-

men or the published figure of R. odorata and speciosa, and

must hence be either a new species, or a variety of one or the

other of these. After a careful comparison of the published

figures of R. odorata by Jacquin (Hist. Stirp. Americ, t. 61),

and by Lindley in the ‘ Botanical Register’ (tab. 1905), and

that by Fitch in the ‘ Botanical Magazine ’ (tab. 3953), with

those of R. speciosa in Loddiges (Bot. Cab. t. 1893), and

in Paxton’s Magazine (v. ii. t. 242, and v. xvi. t. 354),

T cannot doubt these two being the same species, as has

indeed been indicated by Lindley. And a further compari-

Son of the Kew plant with all those plates and with Her-

barium specimens of 2. odorata, seems to me to indicate it as

only a shorter corollad variety of that same plant. In the

* Botanical Magazine’ plate specimens, there appear to have

MARCH Isr, 1878,

been large glands on the disk between the bases of the calyx-

lobes; these glands I find only occasionally in the Kew plant,

and always very minute. The disk itself is densely villous in

the Kew plant and pulvinate, as also in all the wild specimens

in the Herbarium. The corona of the corolla varies extremely

in development and margin, the latter being either quite even

and entire, or obscurely and sometimes irregularly notched.

The position of the stamens and length of the style all vary

much and not quite according to any plan, and I find three

stigmas in one flower with a two-celled ovary. It remains

to add that the original R. odorata of Jacquin is described

by him asa native of maritime rocks at Havana (whence

Loddiges’ R. speciosa was obtained), where it forms an inele-

gant bush, six feet high, with the flowers “ smelling most

sweetly ” of violets, and a usually six-cleft calyx and corolla,

though the stamens are invariably five. |

Drscr. An erect branching rather slender shrub, the branches

and petioles clothed with rather spreading soft pubescence.

Leaves two to two and a half inches long, very shortly

petioled, elliptic-ovate or oblong or rounded, obtuse or sub-

acute, rarely acuminate, above scabrid deep green and raised

between the nerves, beneath glabrous except the raised slen-

der nerves and midrib, which are pubescent ; petiole one-sixth

of an inch long; stipules broadly triangular, with long cus-

pidate points. Oorymbs one to two inches in diameter,

branched, with rounded or flattened top, branches and short

pedicels almost tomentose, bracts linear. Flowers vermilion

or bright orange-red, with a more yellow eye. Calya-tube

obovoid ; lobes linear, obtuse, more than half the length of

the corolla-tube; erect, spreading after flowering. Corolla-

tube a quarter of an inch long, slightly dilated upwards,

velvety externally; limb nearly half an inch in diameter;

crown at the mouth raised or not entire or crenate or obscurely

notched. Stamens midway in the tube in one form of flower,

much higher up and even exerted in others. Dise tumid,

tomentose. Style stout, hairy towards the base, very

variable in length, stigma two-lobed.—J. D. H.

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PTEROSTYLIS BaprtistTit.

Native of New South Wales.

Nat. Ord. Orcu1pEx.—Tribe NEorttIEz.

Genus Prerostyiis, Br..(Benth. Flor. Austral. vol. vi. p. 352.)

Prerostyiis Baptistii ; foliis radicalibus subrosulatis lanceolatis acuminatis

supra nitidis infimis petiolatis, caulinis in vaginas spathaceas caudato-

acuminatas sensim desinentibus, scapo unifloro, flore magno erecto, galea

oblonga lente curva virescente apicibus foliolorum acuminatis fusco-purpura-

scentibus, sepalis lateralibus basi in laminam late cuneatam erectam convexam

connatis, lobis late ovatis in caudas elongatas filiformes galeam amplectentes

attenuatis, labello lineari medio carinato apice repente angustato appendice

basilari penicillato.

P. Baptistii, Fitzgerald, Austral. Orchid. part 1, with a plate.

The terrestrial Orchids of Australia, though celebrated both

for their beauty and singularity, have rarely been flowered in

this country, and more rarely kept after flowering. Amongst

those who have achieved success in the culture of one kind

at least is Mr. Williams, of the Victoria and Paradise

Nurseries, who, in January last, flowered a large stock of the

very remarkable species here described. It is the sixth of

the genus that has been figured in this work, the others

being, P. nutans, tab. 3085, P. curta, tab, 3086, P. Banksit,

tab. 3172, P. concinna, tab. 3400, and P. acuminata, tab. 3401.

These all flowered at Kew, but none were kept long in culti-

vation, though to have kept them ought not to have been

difficult, for I have myself seen a pan full of one of them at

Herrenhausen, which Mr. Wendland told me he had had for

years, and that when simply let alone they flowered annually.

Cultivators may take a hint from the notes on the genus in

Mr. Fitzgerald’s splendid folio work on Australian Orchids,

where, under the genus, he states that these Orchids are

usually found in groups; ‘‘the grouping being accounted for

by their forming frequently bulbs on the leading roots, in

addition to the annual bulb formed near the plant to replace

the bulb of the year. In proportion as this habit 1s frequent

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in a species, that species will be found common or the reverse.

The production of extra bulbs is favoured by the plant being

situated, as often is the case, in light leaf mould on the top

of a rock. In this position the waxy filamentous roots extend

a long distance on the surface of the stone beneath the loose

dead leaves and sticks, and protruding here and there into

the light, form new bulbs. From such situations the bulbs

are often swept by heavy rains, as they are also, by the

upcasting of ants, exposed to removal from the fine sandy

soil in which they grow, and by the burrowing of bandicoots.

Bulbs thus transported vegetate again, though frequently left

on the surface uncovered, and a species may in consequence

often be traced for a long distance through ‘ tea-tree’ slopes

and down gullies.”

The sensitiveness of the lip in this genus is a phenomenon

I have often watched in Tasmania, when I had no idea of

its significance, which has been inferred from Mr. Darwin’s

observations on other Orchids, and tested by Mr. Fitzgerald.

Tn repose the lip hangs forward against the cleft between the

united lateral sepals, but on being irritated at its base, it

Springs up and becomes embraced, as it were, by the project-

Ing wings of the column, and is thus brought almost in

contact with the anther. An insect entering or falling into

the base of the flower irritates the lip, which catches it between

its face and the column, and in its struggle to escape the

insect passes upwards over the stigma, and sweeps away the

pollen masses. ‘These it may take to other flowers, when the

same process results in a portion of the pollen being retained

on the stigma. Mr. Fitzgerald, who observed the process on

a many-flowered species of the genus, remarks that notwith-

standing the complexity of the arrangement, very few flowers

comparatively seemed to be fertilized.

P. Baptistii is a native of the neighbourhood of Sydney,

where it was found in a “tea-tree ” swamp by Mr. Baptist,

and transferred by him to his Nursery Gardens.

Duscr. Stem one to two feet high, strict, slender, 1-flowered.

fadical leaves three to six inches long, somewhat rosulate,

petioled, lanceolate, acuminate, shining above, the lowest

shorter and more ovate and acute or obtuse, the upper

passing into sheathing spathaceous bracts with long points.

Flowers erect, two inches long, green, with the tips of the

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XIPHION PLANIFOLIUM.

Native of Algiers and South Europe.

Nat. Ord. Inmpacez.—Tribe Trinez.

Genus Xr1euton, Tournef. (Baker in Journ, Linn. Soe, vol. xvi. p, 122.)

Xrpaion (Juno) planifolium ; bulbo magno ovoideo, tunicis brunneis membrana-

ceis, foliis productis 5-6 lanceolatis suberectis .acuminatis, spathe sessilis

sepissime unifloris valvis magnis lanceolatis, perianthii lilacini tubo 2-4-

pollicari, limbi segmentis exterioribus oblongo-cuneatis obtusis 2-3 poll. longis

supra medium falcatis infra medium aurantiaco-carinatis, segmentis interi-

oribus multo minoribus patulis oblanceolatis unguiculatis, stigmatibus

magnis perianthii segmentis exterioribus subzequilongis, capsula oblonga in

centro foliorum sessili, seminibus globosis testa brunnea.

X. planifolium, Miller in Gard. Dict. edit. vi.; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. xvi.

p. 123,

Iris alata, Poiret, Voy. Barb. vol. ii. p. 86; Bot. Reg. t. 1876.

I. scorpioides, Desf. Fl. Atlant. vol. i. p. 40, t. 6; Red. Lil. t. 211.

I. transtagana, Brotero, Fl. Lusit. vol. i. p. 52.

I. trialata, Brotero, Phyt. Lusit. vol. ii. p. 44, t. 95.

I. microptera, Vahl, Enum. vol. ii. p. 142.

This is a most peculiar and unique Irid. It has very

large generally single delicate lilac flowers, that rise without

any stem from the centre of a number of leaves, the showy

part of the flower being made up of the large stigmas and

large outer segments of the perianth, the three inner segments

being very small and spreading from the top of the long

perianth-tube. It is widely spread through the south of

Kurope, extending from Portugal to Sicily, and reappearing

across the Mediterranean. As it flowers from September

to January, it can only be satisfactorily grown in England

under cover, and lately it has been imported and sold in

considerable quantity to be grown in coloured glasses on

mantelpieces and in windows, like hyacinths. It has been

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known to botanists for the last two hundred years, and there

is perhaps hardly any other bulbous plant that has received

so many different names, as it has had six different specific

names, and the small group of bulbous Irises to which it

belongs has been characterised as a genus five times by as

many different authorities. The specimen drawn was

flowered at Kew at the end of last December, and was

received from Mr. T. S. Ware, of Tottenham.

Descr. Bulb ovoid, one or two inches in diameter, with

brown membranous tunics and a tuft of four or five fleshy

cylindrical white root-fibres. Produced Jeaves five or six, con-

temporary with the flowers, lanceolate, acuminate, suberect,

about half a foot long, narrowed from near the base gradually

to the point, moderately firm in texture. Stem none above

the soil, so that the usually one-flowered spathe is sessile in

the centre of the rosette of leaves. Spathe valves lanceolate,

membranous, two to four inches long. Perianth delicate

lilac with darker blotches; tube cylindrical, three to six

inches long; outer segments of the limb obovate-cuneate,

two or three inches long, reflexing considerably above the

middle, keeled with bright yellow, not bearded; inner seg-

ments of the limb about an inch long, oblanceolate unguicu-

late, spreading from the top of the tube. Stigmas with their

large dimidiate-oblong toothed crests nearly as long as the

outer segments of the perianth. Anthers yellowish, about

as long as the free filaments. Czpsule oblong, sessile like

that of Colchicum on the surface of the soil in the centre of

the leaves. Seeds brown, as large as a pea.—J. G. Baker.

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DENDROSERIS MACROPHYLLA,

Native of Juan Fernandez.

Nat. Ord. Composirm.—Tribe C iCHUORIACL.E,

Genus Drnprosrnis, Don ,; (Benth. et Hook, f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 504.)

DrnpRosenis macrophylla, arbor humilis, glaberrima, trunco nudo apice monc-

cephalo, foliis amplis petiolatis oblongis oblongo-rotundatisve obtusis y,

subacutis sinuato-lobatis basi cordatis rotundatisve, summis auriculato-

amplexicaulibus integerrimis, panicula laxa nutante, pedunculis bracteatis,

capitulis 3 poll. diametr. involucri urceolato-campanulati bracteis herbace‘s

exterioribus ovatis acutis interioribus linearibus acuminatis.

D. macrophylla, Don in Phil, Mag. 1832, p. 388; Hook. et Arn. in Comp.

Bot. Magy. vol. i. p. 32.

Rea macrantha; Bertero ex Dene. in Guill. Archiv. de Bot. vol. i. p. 514, t. ix.

f. a. et tx; DC. Prod. vol. vii. p. 243,

The island of Juan Fernandez is famous for its tree Com.

posite, of which there are about a dozen species, belonging

to the genera Dendyoseris and Robinsonia, the latter one of

the tribe Senecionide. In this predominance of tree Com-

posite it resembles the Galapago Islands, lying much further

north, and under the equator, as also New Zealand, on the

other side of the Pacific, and St. Helena, in the Atlantic

Ocean. In the Indian Ocean, on the other hand, in the

Mauritius and Seychelles, there are no arborescent Composite,

nor are there in the Oceanic Islands of the northern hemi-

sphere.

The genus Dendroseris is confined to Juan Fernandez group

of Islands, and the present species inhabits both the principal

island and Masafuera, where it was discovered by Bertero in

1830, growing on the mountains, and flowering in May.

The D. macrophylla was imported by Messrs. Veitch, through

their collector Mr. Downton, the discoverer of the beautiful

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Wahlenbergia tuberosa, figured at tab. 6155 of this volume,

and it flowered at their nursery in August, 1877.

Descr. A small tree, ten to thirteen feet high, with an

erect slender simple or forked weak cylindrical naked scarred

trunk, usually terminated by a single tuft of leaves, and

panicle of flowers. Leaves often a foot long, long-peticled,

oblong or rounded, obtusely sinuate-toothed or lobed, rounded

or cordate and auricled at the base, nerves spreading ; petiole

stout, three to six inches long, semiamplexicaul ; uppermost

leaves smaller, sessile, deeply cordate and amplexicaul, with

broad auricles. Panicle leafy below, loose, open, decurved,

six to eight inches long; peduncles stout, spreading, and

pedicels bracteate throughout their length; the bracts small,

ovate, acute. Heads very large, two and a half inches in

diameter, bright orange-yellow. nvolucre one and a half

inches long, between urceolate and campanulate, truncate at

the base; bracts very numerous, herbaceous, outer ovate,

acute, inner linear, acuminate. //orets excessively numerous,

quite glabrous; ligule narrow, minutely 5-toothed at the tip ;

stamens slender, style and its arms very slender. <Achene

(immature) obovoid, quite glabrous; pappus short, rufous,

rigid.— J. D. H.

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SPATHOGLOTTIS Perrr,

Native of the Pacific Islands.

Nat. Ord. Oxcaipez.—Tribe EXPIDENDREE.

Genus Sparuoctorris, Blume ; (Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann. vol. vi. p. 455.)

Sparnocrorris Petri; pseudobulbis 14-poll-diam., foliis pedalibus anguste

lanceolatis longe acuminatis, scapo gracili superne pubescente, vaginis appres-

sis, bracteis rhombeo-ovatis acutis caducis, pedicellis gracilibus ovarioque

pubescentibus, floribus lete pallide lilacinis 2-poll diametr., sepalis ovato-

oblongis acutis, petalis equilongis sed latioribus fere rotundatis obtusis v.

apiculatis, labello parvo, lobis lateralibus oblongis, terminali transverse

oblongo apiculato medio costato, disco callo late cordato pubescente ochroleuco

instructo.

S. Petri, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1877, pars. 2, p. 392.

I assume that this fine plant, which was received from

Messrs. Veitch about the time of the publication of S. Petr:

by Reichenbach, to be the plant of that learned orchidologist,

though it differs from his description in the lax and few-

flowered raceme. It is a native of the South Sea Islands,

from where it was introduced by Mr. Peter Veitch. Though

there are several Pacific Island species of the genus in the

Herbarium, I find that none agrees with this in the very marked

character of the deciduous bracts; these organs in the New

Caledonian, Fijian, Malayan Archipelago, and Indian species

being remarkably persistent, even long after the ripening of

the fruit. :

The genus Spathoglottis is a very beautiful one, but the

species are not kept long in cultivation, doubtless from being

over stimulated by heat and moisture throughout the year.

The §. Khasiana, which I have seen wild in India, grows

amongst moss in a thin layer of soil on rocks, and its

pseudobulbs get well ripened during the drier cool season of

the year. I imagine that the species would do well if treated

more like Pleiones. There are superb species still to be intro-

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duced from the Malayan peninsula, which is now being opened

up to travellers, and is still one of the richest, as it is the

most accessible, field for tropical horticultural novelties.

Descr. Pseudobulbs as large as and of the shape of a small

onion. Leaves tufted, a foot long, narrowly lanceolate,

gradually finely acuminate, plaited with about twelve nerves.

Scape slender, rather exceeding the leaves, glabrous below,

pubescent above ; sheaths appressed. Raceme subcorymbose ;

bracts deciduous, rhombic-ovate, acute; pedicels and ovary

pubescent, together one inch long and upwards, red. Flowers

one and a half inch in diameter, pale lilac, or rose-lilac.

Sepals oblong-ovate, subacute. Petals broader than the

sepals, almost orbicular, obtuse and apiculate. Lip about

half the size of the petals; lateral lobes oblong, obtuse,

incurved, darker purple within ; terminal lobe transversely

oblong, apiculate, pale blue, like the petals ; disk with one

obtuse ridge down the centre, and between the lateral lobes

is a heart-shaped villous yellow callus. Column slender,

purple.—J, D. H.

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ISCHARUM ancusratuM.

Native of Syria.

Nat. Ord. ArorpEZ.—Tribe DracuncuLEz.

Genus Iscrarnum, Blume, (Schott, Prodr. Syst. Aroid. p. 65).

Iscuarvm angustatum ; foliis longe crasse petiolatis oblongo-lanceolatis subacutis,

spathe tubo oblongo modice inflato in laminam anguste lineari-oblongam v.

loriformem acuminatam saturate purpuream vix angustato, spadicis parte

feeminea brevi, organis neutris subulatis sparsis, antherarum spica pollicari,

appendice gracillimo atro-purpureo spatha breviore, ovariis confertis, stylo

brevi adscendente apice recurvo.

The various groups of Aroidee are pretty well restricted

in geographical distribution, and of these the subtribe of

Dracunculew, to which Ischarwm belongs, is all but confined

to the Mediterranean region, where it increases in numbers

to the eastward. In Syria and Palestine the species are very

common, growing in the dry open ground, where they flower

in the autumn rains, and leaf in the following early spring.

The species here figured was found by myself in Syria in 1860,

but I cannot tell exactly where, for the tubers were collected in

September without flowers, and put in a bag with many

other roots that I dug up as I journeyed along, and to whose

generic name even I had then no clue. It flowered at the

Royal Garden first in December, 1861, and formed its leaves

in the following January in a cool frame. I fail to identify

it with any described species, and I find nothing like it in

the Herbarium. Another species of the genus, which I had

also brought from Syria, is figured at t. 5324, under the

name of J. Pyrami, Schott, which is, however, a doubtful

identification.

Descr. Tuber the size of a small potato, a depressed

sphere. Sheaths embracing the base and middle of the spathe

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one to two inches long, oblong, subacute, white, membranous,

tips slightly recurved. Spathe six inches long; sheathing part

oblong, slightly tumid, about 1 inch long, pale, nearly white,

quite closed, gradually expanding into a narrowly linear-

oblong, subacute, or almost strap-shaped erect blade, which

is two-thirds of an inch broad, glossy and deep almost black-

purple, concave below, and almost flat above, pale on the back.

Spadiz very slender; female portion very short ; neutral

part one half inch long, white, with horizontal scattered

curved subulate neutral organs. Male part one inch long;

appendix four inches long, erect, very slender, black-purple,

eradually narrowed from the base to a fine point. Stamens

crowded, filament very short ; anthers obtuse, with vertical

transverse dehiscence. Ovaries densely crowded, purple, with a

short erect sigmoid style which is decurved and stigmatiferous

at the tip ; ovule one, basal, orthotropous.——J. D. H.

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anthers ; 5, ovary ; 6, the same cut opened longitudinally, showing the ovule :—

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FEVILLEA Moorzt.

Native of Guiana ?

Nat. Ord. Cucursirace.x.—Tribe FEvitLex.

Genus Frviiiea, Linn. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 840).

Fryi1ea-Moorei; glaberrima, foliis ovatis longe acuminatis basi rotundatis tri-

nerviig membranaceis reticulatis lucidis, cirrhis 2-fidis, racemis multifloris,

bracteolis parvulis, floribus masculis amplis lateritiis, calycis laciniis oblongis

obtusis, corollze lobis rotundatis, staminodiis staminibus oppositis corolle

adnatis oblongis obtusis basi connatis, staminibus brevibus recurvis, antheris

subglobosis 1-locularibus, connectivo crasso.

I received this plant in 1871 from Dr. Moore, of Glasnevin,

who had obtained it from Mr. T'yreman, of the Liverpool

Botanic Garden, some years previously, under the name of

“ Strychnos Curari,? and as being a reputed native of the

Gambia, in Western Africa. Now, in so far as is known,

all the species of Fevillea are indigenous only in the West

Indies and South America; and the name ascribed to this of

Strychna Curari (which I find in no botanical work) points

to this having been supposed to be the plant producing the

famous Curari Wourari or Woorali poison, namely Strychnis

foxifera, Benth., a native of Guiana and the Amazon river,

and which hence render it probable that America is the

native country of the present plant. On the other hand,

various genera otherwise confined to tropical Eastern

America, have solitary species in Western Africa ; so that

this may be an old world representative of a new world

genus. ;

_ Fevillea Moorei differ from the other species known to me,

in its being quite glabrous, having entire 8-nerved leaves,

and very large flowers with short staminodes ; the leaves are

obscurely biglandular at the base on the margin close to the

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petiole, The male flowers alone are known, which are very

deciduous, the pedicel being jointed in the middle. I have

named after my friend Dr. Moore, F.L.S., whose eminence as

a scientific horticulturist is as well known as his garden is ap-

preciated for botanical interest and beauty.

Descr. <A slender, quite glabrous climber. Leaves alter-

nate, membranous, three to five inches long, shining, broadly

ovate, long acuminate, rounded at the base, where are two

marginal glands, soft, 3-nerved from the base, much reticu-

lated; petiole one inch long. Tendrils very slender, forked.

Racemes copious, four to fiveinches long, many flowered; bracte-

oles minute. Flowers (males only known) one inch in diameter,

pale brick red ; pedicel slender, jointed in the middle. Calyx

divisions oblong, obtuse, green. Corolla-lobes orbicular, or

broader towards the rounded apex, margins undulate. Sta-

minodes short, linear oblong, obtuse, opposite the stamens,

adnate to the corolla and connate at the base into a bright

golden yellow disk, on which the stamens are placed.

Stamens with stout recurved filaments, a very thick connec-

tive, and small adnate 1-celled, 2-valved anthers.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower with the corolla removed ; 2, stamen :—both enlarged.

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ARDISIA Ottvert.

Native of Costa Rica.

Nat. Ord. Myrsinez.—tTribe Eumyrsinex.

Genus Myrsinz, Swartz; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 645).

Myrsing Oliveri ; fruticosa, glaberrima, foliis decurvis breviter petiolatis oblan-

ceolatis acuminatis in petiolum longe angustatis obscure dentatis glandulis

immersis transverse oblongis creberrime notatis, corymbis in_capitulum

amplum terminalem densiflorum subglobosum aggregatis, floribus roseis

pedicellatis 4 poll. diametr., bracteis oblongis, calycis lobis ovatis obtusis v.

erosis, corolle lobis ovato-rotundatis subacutis, filamentis brevissimis hirtellis,

antheris ovato-lanceolatis apice 2—porosis.

Arpista Oliveri, Masters in Gard. Chron. 1877, pars 2, p. 680.

By far the handsomest species of the genus hitherto culti-

vated in England, introduced by M. Endress into Messrs.

Veitch’s nursery, where it flowered for the first time in July,

1876. Dr. Masters, who has fully described it in the

‘Gardeners’ Chronicle,’ considers its anthers as opening by one

pore, but I find an evident septum at the orifice ; he further

states that the species is not referable to any of the sections

of the genus which I have established in the Genera_Plan-

tarum, a remark which is founded on a misconception, as I have

established no sections of the genus, though I diligently

attempted to do so. In fact, Ardisia is one of the few very

large genera (it contains about 200 species) which is common

to all three continents, and in which I have in vain sought

for sectional characters.

Descr. A robust green shrub, everywhere quite glabrous,

with bright green branches and foliage. Leaves shortly stoutly

petioled, reflexed, five to seven inches long, oblanceolate,

acuminate, narrowed into the petiole, obscurely toothed, many-

nerved, rather membranous. Midrib thick; glands exces-

sively numerous, linear-oblong, brown disposed transversely.

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Inflorescence of numerous peduncled corymbs, disposed in a

large terminal dense head four to five inches in diameter ;

peduncles and pedicels of a fine red-purple colour; bracts

oblong, caducous. Flowers over half an inch in diameter;

of a fine rose purple colour with a white eye and golden yellow

anthers. Calyx campanulate; lobes ovate, obtuse or erose

at the apex, marked with linear glands. Corolla-lobes orbicular-

ovate, subacute, also marked with linear glands. Stamens

declinate, filament very short, pubescent at the base; anthers

curved, ovate-lanceolate, opening by two pores at the summit.

Ovary glabrous ; style rather short, subulate-—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower ; 2, calyx ; 3, stamen; 4, ovary :—all enlarged.

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LOXOCOCCUS RUPICOLA.

Native of Ceylon.

Nat. Ord. Patmex.—Tribe ARECINEZ.

Genus Loxococcus, (Wendl. et Drude in Linnea, vol. xxxix. p. 185.)

Loxococcus rupicola ; Wendl. and Drude, Le.

PrycHosPeRMA rupicola, Thwaites Enum. Pl. Zeyl. p. 328.

Caryora mitis, Willd. ? Moon, Cat. Pl. Ceylon, p. 65.

This elegant palm is a native of rocky places in forests of

the southern and central parts of Ceylon, from whence seeds

were sent to Kew by our excellent friend Dr. Thwaites,

F.R.S., Director of the beautiful Botanical Gardens of the

Island. Dr. Thwaites describes it as attaining the height ot

thirty to forty feet, and adds that the seeds are chewed by

the Cinghalese with their betel as a substitute for those of

Areca Catechu. Tt flowered for the first time in the Victoria

House at Kew in February of this year, and from its graceful

ct and its coral-like inflorescence, it was a most attractive

object.

Whilst adopting for the present the genus Loxococeus, I am

far from thinking that it will stand the test of a revision of

the tribe Arecine under a very different view of the value of

generic characters from that adopted by its authors, which

tends to raise so many closely allied species to individually

generic rank. As, however, such generic names will for a

time be current amongst cultivators, and I have not the time

to revise them, with a view to forming a definite opinion of

their relative value, I think it best, in this instance, to adopt

Loxococeus. oe :

Duscr. Trunk, in our specimen, about eight fect_ high,

conical, and swollen at the base, where it is four inches in

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diameter, rather stout, two inches in diameter above, ringed,

otherwise smooth, dull green. Leaves about ten, spreading,

five to six feet long, and three to four broad, pinnate ; petiole

one to one and a half feet long, stout, with a green smooth

shortly amplexicaul base; pinnules twelve to twenty pair,

rather distant, spreading and somewhat recurved, two feet

long by two and a half inches broad, sessile, linear, very

obliquely truncate and notched at the tip, one-nerved,

bright green, glaucous beneath, with scattered furfuraceous

scales, young connate. Spathe a foot long, narrowly

cymbiform, very coriaceous, pale yellow brown when dry,

dotted with furfuraceous peltate rufous scales, Spadiz lateral

from the trunk below the leaves, dark blood-red, a foot long,

triangular in circumscription of the panicled branches, which

are erecto-patent, quite smooth and glabrous ; peduncle short,

stout, annulate ; branches like pieces of red coral. Flowers

sessile, blood-red, spirally arranged around the branches of

the spadix; males about half an inch in diameter, in pairs

towards the upper part of the branches; females solitary

between two males in the lower part; bracteoles very. short,

broad, adnate to the branch; outer perianth segments

rounded ; inner ovate, acute, paler within. Stamens about

twelve, filaments stout, subacute, equalling the linear anthers;

rudimentary ovary minute, with three distant stigmas. FEMALE

FLOWER ovoid, with appressed perianth segments. Ovary

obliquely shortly ovoid; stigmas three, minute; ovule soli-

tary, obliquely pendulous. Drupe size of a large nut, almost

globose, narrowed suddenly into a straight rather long point,

fibrous within. Seed globose, albumen ruminated, with red

markings; embryo small, lateral towards the base of the

seed.— J, D, H.

Fig. 1, Male, and 2, female flowers; 3, vertical, and 4, transverse section of

ovary ; 5, drupe; 6, seed ; 7, vertical section of ditto :—all but 6 and 7 enlarged.

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ACOKANTHERA SPECTABILIS.

Native of South Africa.

Nat. Ord. Arocynex.—Tribe CarissEZ.

Genus Acoxantuera, Don; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 696.)

Acoxantuera spectabilis ; foliis breviter petiolatis oblongo-v. elliptico-lanceolatis

acutis v. acuminatis integerrimis coriaceis nervis indistinctis, racemis

axillaribus et subterminalibus multifloris, calycis lobis ovato-lanceolatis

subacutis pilosulis, corolle tubo 3-pollicari, lobis ovato-lanceolatis subacutis.

A. spectabilis, Benth. in Gen, Plant, vol. ii. p. 696.

Toxicoruiaa spectabilis, Sonder in Linnea, vol. xxiii. p. 79; Walp. Ann. vol.

iii. p. 32; Masters in Gard. Chron. 1872, p. 363 cum Ic. Xylog. f. 122.

The genus Acokanthera was founded by G. Don in the

‘Gardeners’ Dictionary’ (vol. iv. p. 485) on Thunberg’s

Cestrum venenatum (and other South African plants having no

relation thereto), a native of Western South Africa. Sub-

sequently, Harvey, overlooking Don’s genus, established

Toxicophlwa on the same Cestrum venenatum, and his name is

taken up by A. De Candolle in the Prodromus, and has conse-

quently been current for that plant ever since ; subsequently,

a congener was found in Abyssinia, the Carissa Schimpert,

A.D.C. (C. Mepte, Hochst., and Strychnos abyssinica, Hochst.),

and finally, the present plant was sent from South East

Africa, and first published as Toxicophia spectabilis by Sonder.

The three known species are probably all of them very

poisonous. A. venenata ( Towicophiwa Thunbergii), Harvey,

is the “ Gift-boom,” or poison-tree of the Dutch and English

colonists, According to Thunberg, a decoction of the bark

reduced to a jelly was used by the Aborigines for poisoning

their arrows; and of the 4. spectabilis, Mrs. Barber writes that.

the seeds are intensely bitter, and the whole plant considered

by the natives to be a deadly poisonous one. The genus 1s,

as Mr. Dyer has remarked (Gard. Chron. l.c.), too closely

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allied to Carissa, differing chiefly, if not solely, in the want

of thorns.

A, spectabilis isa native of the Western districts of South

Africa, from Albany to Port Natal, where it forms a large

shrub, with masses of white very fragrant flowers, on woody

sand-hills near the sea. It was introduced by Mr. B. S.

Williams, and exhibited by him in 1872. Our specimen

flowered at Kew in February of the present year.

Descr. A large shrub, quite glabrous, except the inflores-

cence, which is slightly hairy or almost glabrous; branches

stout, green, obscurely angled. eaves three to five inches

long, narrowed into a very short thick petiole, coriaceous,

elliptic- or oblong-lanceolate, acute, acuminate, or apiculate,

shining above with very obscure spreading nerves, paler and

opaque beneath. lowers in dense fascicled axillary branched

short cymes, sometimes forming a globose head towards the

top of the branch, pure white, very sweet-scented ; peduncles

and pedicels very short ; bracts minute, broadly ovate. Calyz-

lobes ovate-lanceolate, green, subacute, hairy. Corolla-tube

three-quarters of an inch long, slender, slightly enlarged

upwards, sparsely hairy in the throat ; lobes spreading, ovate-

oblong, acute. Stamens included, inserted near the mouth of

the corolla, filaments very short ; anthers broadly ovate, with a

pubescent terminal claw. Stigma conical, hairy, emarginate.

Ovules attached towards the base of the septum.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower ; 2, calyx ; 3, vertical, and 4, transverse section of ovary; 5,

top of style and stigma; 6, stamens :—all enlarged.

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AMBROSINIA Bassi.

Native of Southern Italy and Algiers.

Nat. Ord. AroiwEm.—Tribe ALLELUCHIE.

Genus AmsrosiniA, Bassi, (Schott, Prodr. Syst. Aroid. p. 19).

Amprosinia Bassii, Linn. Syst. Veg, p. 689. Blume, Rumphi, vol. i. p. 81, t. 36.

Cesati in Linnea, vol. xi. p. 281, t.5. Kunth Enum, Pl. vol. iii. p. 10,

Bivoni, Stirp. Rar. Sie. Manip. vol. iii, p. 9. Gussoni, Syn. Flor. Sie. vol. ii.

Le 2, p. 594. Bertol. Fl. Ital. vol. x. p. 252. Parlat. Fl, Ital. vol. ii.

p. 231.

For the opportunity of figuring this singular and interesting

little Aroid, I am indebted to Mrs. Grant Duff, who accom-

panied her husband, Mr. E. Grant Duff, M.P., F.L.S., of

York House, Twickenham, to Algeria, in the winter of this

year, and brought living plants, which she presented to

the Royal Gardens, and which being in bud, flowered in

February. It is one of the most curious of European plants,

presenting with something of the habit of Asarum, a floral

economy in many respects resembling that of some of the

terrestrial orchids. Thus the tail of the spathe resembles

that of the sepals of a Masdevallia, and the tongue-shaped

spadix as seen in the section of the inflorescence (fig. 2), with

its pappillose upper surface next the ovary, and its anthers on

the under surface behind its recurved tip, in its position towards

the ovary recalls the lip of many genera of Orchids, notably of

Pierostylis. This arrangement, which precludes the possibility

of the pollen reaching the stigma without aid, is no doubt

intended to facilitate cross-fertilization by insects, a process

which, in so far as I am aware, has never been enquired

into in this genus. The geographical range of Ambrosinia

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Bassii, is very limited; Parlatore gives Sicily and Calabria

on grassy hills, Sardinia, the Isles of Lampedusa and

Linosa, to which is added Algeria, where it is probably

not uncommon, as we have seen dried specimens from

various sources.

Descr. Roots of stout fibres from an oblong tuberous

subterranean rhizome the size of a nut, which is white and

floury within. Leaves two to three from the rhizome,

long-petioled, two to three inches long, membranous,

oblong, rounded at both ends, emarginate, pale-grecn,

with a midrib, and few very oblique almost longitudinal

nerves, connected by reticulate venation; base sometimes

cordate; margin quite entire and even or beautifully

crisped; petiole one to two inches long. Spathe three

quarters of an inch long, on a short decurved peduncle,

broadly ovoid, convolute and closed except for an ovoid

opening towards the top, suddenly contracted into a stout

filiform recurved brown tail as long as the bud, green

mottled with lurid purple within and without. Spadiw

entirely included, adnate to the posterior inner surface of

the spathe, and one third shorter than it, flattened trans-

versely and stretching across the cavity of the spathe, thus

dividing the latter two-thirds of its (the cavity) length into

an upper and lower chamber; tip of spadix truncate, with

a recurved median purple subulate appendage, that points

downwards in the lower chamber; upper surface studded

with elongate papille, lower antheriferous. Ovary

solitary in the base of the spathe at the insertion of the

spadix, globose or flagon-shaped, one-cellled; style short,

stout, decurved, stigma peltate; ovules numerous on a free

central tumid placenta, straight, narrow, orthotropous, with

thick erect funicles; apex truncate. Anthers eight to ten, in

two rows along the mesial line of the spadix, 2-celled, (or

sixteen to twenty, and one-celled) yellow, sessile ; cells

divaricating.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Plant of nat. size; 2, longitudinal section of spathe and spadix; 3,

dorsal view of spathe cut open, so as to show the antheriferous under surface of

the spadix; 4, vertical section of ovary, base of spathe, and tip of peduncle ; 5,

ovule :—all enlarged.

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GREVILLEA ERICcIFOLIA.

Native of East and South Australia,

Nat. Ord. ProtEacrEx.—Tribe GREVILLEEX.

Genus GrevitiEea, Br. (Benth, Flor. Austral. vol. iv. p. 417).

GrevitEa (Ptychocarpa) ericifolia; frutex gracilis ramosus diffusus v. suberectus,

ramulis foliisque pilosis v. pubescentibus, foliis sessilibus patulis linearibus

acuminatis rigidis v. flaccidis longe acuminatis marginibus recurvis, racemis

terminalibus brevibus paucifloris pedunculatis decurvis v. pendulis, pedicellis

gracilibus, perianthii glabri intus barbati tubo } poll. longo brevi late gibbo

infra limbum revolutum obliquum constricto, toro erecto, glandula lata semicir-

culari, ovario sessile dense villoso, stylo crasso elongato, stigmate laterali.

G. ericifolia, Br. Prot. Nov. Holl. p. 20. Meissn. in DC. Prodr, vol. xiv. p. 365.

Benth. Fl. Austral. vol. v. p. 444.

G. Latrobei, Meissn. in Plant. Preiss. vol. i. p. 589, et in DC. 1. ¢, p. 364.

This and the equally beautiful little Grevillea Thelemanniana,

Endl. (G. Preissii. Meissn. Tab. nostr. 5837), have proved

very attractive ornaments both in the conservatory and

temperate house of Kew for some years past, forming neat

pot plants, flowering in midwinter, and remaining for several

weeks in flower. They are examples of a vast number of

beautiful and interesting greenhouse plants still to be in-_

troduced into cultivation from Australia, whose once prized

relatives have been elbowed out of cultivation by “soft-

wooded” greenhouse plants of greater show but less grace

and interest. Ofthe genus (revillea alone there are upwards

of one hundred and fifty species, amongst which are some

of great beauty. é :

G. ericifolia was raised from seeds sent by our indefati-

gable correspondent Baron Von Mueller, F.R.S., of whom it

is not too much to say that he is the greatest Colonial

Botanist that has ever lived, alike eminent as a traveller, a

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collector, and a describer of the vegetable products of his

adopted continent; it has a wide range in Australia, from the

interior of New South Wales to Melbourne and Port

Phillip. 3

Descr. A small shrub, with a stout woody stock, and

numerous spreading slender leafy branches, all parts more or

less pubescent, hairy, or even tomentose. Leaves scattered,

three-quarters to one and a quarter inch long, sessile, spreading,

linear or linear-subulate, long accuminate, with recurved

margins, strict or rather flexuose, sometimes almost acicular

rigid and pungent, pale green. Racemes terminal and on

short lateral shoots, few flowered, peduncled, recurved or

pendulous ; peduncle one half-inch long, slender; pedicels

one quarter-inch long, spreading. Perianth bright red, half to

three-quarters inch long; tube short, very gibbous, truncate

at the base, suddenly contracted below the strongly recurved

short oblique limb, which has very short segments, within

tomentose below the middle. Torus straight; gland thick,

semicircular. Ovary sessile, villous on one side; style very

long and stout; stigma lateral.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower ; 2, the same with the perianth laid open; 3, vertical, and 4,

transverse section of ovary; 5 and 6, leaves :—all enlarged.

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CROCUS Erruscus.

Native of Italy.

Nat. Ord. Inwaceaz.—Tribe Ixrez.

Genus Crocus, Tournef. (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. xvi. p. 79.)

Crocus etruscus; cormo globoso, tunicis exterioribus fibris crassis reticulatis,

foliis 2-6 synanthiis anguste linearibus albo-vittatis marginibus revolutis,

spatha basali nulla, spatha propria monophylla, perianthii tubo segmentis

duplo longiori, fauce glabro luteo, segmentis oblongis obtusis intus hilacinis,

exterioribus dorso pallidioribus fasciis 5 lilacinis plumosis percursis, interi-

oribus basi solum vittatis, staminibus luteis, stigmatibus aurantiacis

indivisis.

C. etruscus, Parl. Fl. Ital. vol. iii. p. 228; Baker in Gard. Chron. 1876, p. 622;

Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. Xvi. p. 82.

We owe this interesting addition to our stock of culti-

vated Crocuses to the enterprise and energy of Mr. George

Maw. Before 1876, not even a dried specimen had reached

England, and it was known to us only by the description of

Parlatore. Mr. Maw undertook an expedition to Italy:

expressly for the purpose of hunting it out, and after much

trouble, succeeded in accomplishing his object. The locality

where he obtained it was Salita de Filetto, near Massa

Marittima, in the Tuscan Maremma, where he found it in

plenty, in full flower, at the middle of March. It is a well-

marked species, taking a place in the series of vernal Odon-

tostigmas, midway between Siebert and reticulatus (variegatus).

It has the coarse corm-coats of the latter, with a perianth

limb like that of the former on the inside, but approximating

to that of variegatus by having the outer segments distinctly

striped externally from the summit to the base. The present

plate was drawn from specimens presented by Mr. Maw,

which flowered at Kew this present spring.

Descr. Corm subglobose ; outer tunics as in C. reticulatus

and Susianus, composed of coarse reticulated fibres. Leaves

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two to six, contemporary with the flowers in March, narrow

linear, with revolute edges and a distinct white central band.

Top of the flower five or six inches above the top of the

corm. Basal spathe none. Proper spathe monophyllous,

whitish, clasping loosely the tube of the perianth. Perianth-

tube two or three inches long, distinctly striped with lilac

lines. Throat yellow, glabrous. Segments of the limb

oblong, obtuse, an inch or under cultivation an inch and a

half long, all bright lilac-purple inside, the three outer with

five distinct feathered lilac stripes on a pale ground all the

way down the back. The three inner striped at the base

only. Stamens more than half as long as the perianth-

segments, anthers and filaments both bright yellow. Stzgmas

bright orange-yellow, undivided, overtepping the anthers.—

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SENECIO svBscANDENS.

Native of Tropical Africa.

Nat. Ord. Composirm.—Tribe SENECIONIDEA.

Genus Senzcto, Linn. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 446).

Senecio subscandens; herbaceus, alte scandens, glaberimus, ramulis elongatis

pendulis cylindraceis foliosis, foliis ovato-oblongis longe petiolatis pinnati-

partitis 8-8-pollicaribus, petiolo basi auriculato, lobis utrinque 2-5 distan-

tibus orbiculato-ovatis basi lata superne et inferne decurrentibus grosse

sinuato-dentatis, terminali subdeltoideo basi profunde cordato, capitulis

in cymas ramosas rotundatas longe gracile pedunculatas dispositis rotundatis,

capitulis 4-pollicaribus angustis breviter gracile pedicellatis, involucri basi

pauci-braeteolati bracteis 5 lineari-lanceolatis, floribus 10-12 tubulosis flavis,

acheniis costatis setulosis.

S. subscandens, Hochst in Herb. Schimper. Abyss. iii. n. 1926; A. Rich. Flor.

Abyss. vol. i. p. 434; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afric. vol. iii. p. 421.

A very fine hothouse climber, which has been for many

years cultivated in the Palm House of the Royal Gardens, to

which it was presented by the late Dr. Welwitsch. It was first

described from Abyssinian specimens, but it has also been

found by Meller during Livingstone’s Zambesi expedition,

near the Murchison falls. It belongs to a small scandent

section of the genus of which there are several tropical

African and South African species. In the Palm House it

forms a rambling herbaceous climber, trained up one of the

iron girders, and flowering freely in January.

Descr. A tall climber, but not twining ; stem and branches

cylindric, succulent, green, with linear blotches. Leaves

five to nine inches long and two to four inches broad across

the lobes, long-petioled, the petiole rather slender, coloured

like the stem, with two small broad auricles at the base,

which are semi-amplexicaul; lobes two to six pair, and

a terminal one; lateral lobes rounded ovate or trapezoid or

almost orbicular, distant, adnate, with their bases prolonged

both up and down the rachis, very coarsely sinuate-toothed,

the teeth irregular, acute, quite entire, dark green, with

May Ist, 1878.

pink veins; terminal lobe deltoid, deeply cordate at the

base. Cymes axillary and terminal, long-peduncled, much

branched ; the alternate forming subglobose long-peduncled

heads; dark ochreous yellow; bracts at the base of the

peduncles and of the involucre small, subulate. Heads half

of an inch long, on short slender pedicels, cylindric.

Involucral bracts five, broadly linear, subacute, margins

hyaline, green, reddish towards the tips. Flowers about ten,

all tubular and hermaphrodite, exceeding the involucre.

Corolla-tube slender ; lobes short. Anthers entirely exserted.

Style exserted, arms slender, with short terminal cones.

Achene short, ribbed, setulose; pappus snow-white, soft.—

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HEMANTHUS Manwu.

Native of Guinea.

Nat. Ord. Amaryiimacez.—Tribe HamantuEe.

Genus Hamanruvs, Linn. ; (Kunth, Enum. vol. v. p. 586).

Hamantuvs (Nerissa) Mannii; caule foliifero speciali post scapum producto,

foliis 5-6 oblongis acutis breviter petiolatis venulis transversalibus creberrimis,

scapo subpedali maculato, umbellis 30-40-floris, bracteis linearibus reflexis

floribus brevioribus, pedicellis flore 2-3-plo_ brevioribus, perianthii sesqui-

pollicaris tubo segmentis paulo brevioribus, staminibus breviter exsertis.

Of this section Nerissa of the genus Hamanthus, which is

characterised by its narrow reflexing bracts, large thin leaves, ~

lax inflorescenceand spreading perianth-segments, the number

of known species has increased rapidly during the last few

years. Its type is the old well-known #. multiflorus of Sierra -

Leone. At the date of the publication of the fifth volume

of Kunth’s Enumeratio (1850), only three species were

known, and now the number has been increased to ten, all of

them tropical or subtropical. ‘The present plant closely

resembles H. cinnabarinus of Decaisne (Bot. Mag. tab.

5314) in the separate flowers and whole inflorescence,

but in that species the leaves are produced upon long

petioles from the base of the flowering stem, whilst

in our present plant the leaves, as im H. multiflorus,

grow upon a special stem, which is produced after the

scape, and do not arrive at maturity until after the flowers

are faded. It was gathered in April, 1861, by Mann, on the

banks of the Bagroo river, but was not introduced into cul-

tivation until last year, when it was sent to Mr, Bull, from

Liberia, by his collector Mr. Carder. Our plate was drawn

from a specimen presented by Mr. Bull, which flowered at

Kew this present Spring.

Descr. Rootstock a large globose corm, with many fleshy

cylindrical root-fibres. Leaves produced upon a separate

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stem, which is developed later than the scape, five or six in —

number, oblong, acute, bright green, thin in texture, half a

foot or more long, the curved main veins connected by very

fine and close oblique cross bars. Scape about a foot long,

solid, terete, spotted with bright claret blotches on a pale

ground. Umbel of from thirty to forty flowers, centripetal,

four or five inches in diameter when expanded ; bracts linear,

red, membranous, reflexing, an inch anda half long ; pedicels

bright claret-red, half or three quarters of an inch long.

Flowers bright scarlet, fading to crimson, an inch and a half

long ; ovary very small, green, round-oblong ; perianth-tube

cylindrical; segments spreading or reflexing, linear-lanceo-

late, a little longer than the tube. laments the same

colour as the perianth-segments, finally a little exserted ;

anthers very small, oblong, versatile, yellow. Style entire,

scarcely longer than the stamens.—J. G. Baker.

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FRITILLARIA ARMENA.

Native of Armenia.

Nat. Ord. Lintackm.—Tribe Tunipex.

Genus Frrrmuartra, Linn.; (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc, vol. xiv. p. 251).

Farrirarta armena; bulbo parvo globoso, caule semipedali vel pedali unifloro,

foliis 4-5 alternis ascendentibus acutis, inferioribus lanceolatis, superioribus

linearibus, perianthio infundibulari-campanulato livide purpureo subpolli-

cari, segmentis obovato-oblongis extus glaucescentibus intus haud tessellatis,

foveola parva oblonga prope basin proeditis, staminibus perianthio paulo

brevioribus, stylo ovario equilongo apice stigmatoso obscure tricuspidato

interdum exserto.

F. armena, Boiss. Diagn. part vii. p. 106.

This little Fritillary is interesting as forming a connecting

link between the two sections Monocodon and Amblirion,

the first marked by its distinctly trifid and the latter by its

entire style, in both cases in combination with a small globose

bulb, with only two or three thick tunic-scales and a capsule

with rounded lobes with shallow interstices. Of the species

of the latter section it approximates to F. tulipifolia, M. B.

(Bot. Mag. tab. 5969), and F. dasyphylla Baker (Bot. Mag.

t. 6321); and of the former to F. greca, Boiss., resembling

all these three in its comparatively dwarf habit and lurid-

purple flowers, without any distinct tessellation. The typical

plant from Armenia is represented on the left-hand side of

the plate. The drawing was made from a living specimen

received at the end of March from Mr. George Maw, who

procured the bulbs from Jas. Zohrab, Esq., the British

Consul at Erzeroum. We have dried examples in the Kew

herbarium from the same gentleman, and from two other

collectors, Aucher Eloy (from whose specimens Boissier’s

diagnosis was made), and Huet du Pavillon. The latter

localises it on the Tech-dagh, above Erzeroum, at an elevation

JUNE lst, 1878.

above sea-level of from seven thousand to eight thousand

feet. The plant drawn on the right-hand side of the plate

was received from Mr. Maw at the same time. It was pro-

cured by him in the neighbourhood of Smyrna, has a yellow

flower, and may prove when better known, to be distinct

specifically. —

Descr. Bulb globose, about half an inch in diameter, with

two large fleshy brown tunic scales. S/em half a foot ora

foot long, with a single cernuous flower. Leaves four or

five, alternate, erect, all remote from both the flower and

the bulb; the lower ones lanceolate, two or three inches

long, the upper ones linear. Perianth about an inch long,

between funnel-shaped and campanulate; segments obovate-

oblong, dark purple, untessellated, obtuse, minutely ciliated,

glaucescent on the outside, the face paler and faintly ribbed,

the nectary a minute oblong, greenish depression at the base

of the segment. Stamens nearly as long as the perianth ; fila-

ments purple, pilose ; anthers linear-oblong, about a quarter

of an inch long. Style as long as the green clavate ovary,

obscurely tricuspidate at the tip, reaching to the top of

the perianth-segments or sometimes a little exserted.—¥.

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LEUCOPOGON VERTICILLATUS.

Native of South Western Australia.

Nat. Ord. Eracrtpr®.—Tribe SryPHELIEA.

Genus Levcorocon, &. Br.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 614).

Levcorocon verticillatus ; frutex erectus glaberrimus, foliis 5-8-natim verticillatis

sessilibus lanceolatis v. lineari- v. oblongo-lanceolatis acutis v. acuminatis

nervis perplurimis tenuibus lineatis, subtus glaucis, spicis axillaribus foliis

multo brevioribus v. iis equilongis gracilibus densifloris, pedunculo brevi

dense bracteato, bracteis bracteolisque obtusis, floribus minutis glabris,

sepalis ovatis acutis ciliolatis tubo corolle glaberrimo multo brevioribus,

corolle lobis tubo dimidio brevioribus intus basin versus barbatis, antheris

linearibus medio dorso affixis.

L. verticillatus, R. Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. p. 541; D€. Prodr. vol. vii. p. 745 ;

Sonder in Plant. Preiss. vol. i. p. 307; F. Muell. Fragment. vol. iv. p. 122;

Benth. Fl. Austral. vol. iv. p. 184.

L. glaucescens, DC. Prodr. vol. vii. p. 745.

Srypueria verticillata, Spreng. Syst. vol. i. p. 656; F. Muell. Fragm. vol. vi. p. 43.

LissantHE verticillata, Lindl. Swan River Bot. App. p. 25.

_ A very singular form of the great genus Leucopogon, which

numbers nearly one hundred and twenty species in Australia,

and most of which have small heath-like leaves. Some,

however, have flat leaves, of which, besides the present plant,

L. lanceolatus (Plate 3162), and L. Rithet (Plate 3251), are

examples. Again, by far the majority have scattered leaves,

whereas this and a few others have them so closely approxi-

mate as to be practicaliy whorled ; these have usually highly

polished stems and branches, with circular scars, and the

inflorescence being axillary, is also more or less whorled.

The great beauty of L. verticillatus is due to the tender

-rose-colour of the young leaves, which appear in droeping

masses surrounded at the base with rigid sheathing scales.

The flowers are very minute. I am indebted to Tsaac

JUNE Ist, 1878.

Andrew Henry, Fisq., for a living specimen of this remarkable

plant, which flowered in autumn of last year; it was raised

from seed sent from Western Australia, where the species

inhabits the country from King George’s Sound to Swan

River.

Dusor. A tall, smooth, glabrous shrub, several feet high,

with very slender cylindric polished brown branches, marked

with annular scars. Leaves towards the ends of the branches

in whorls of five to eight, one and a half to five inches

long, sessile, spreading and decurved, lanceolate, of

variable breadth, acute or acuminate, usually very finely ;

pale green above, with numerous very slender parallel nerves,

connected by very slender longitudinal nervules ; glaucous

beneath. Spikes axillary, slender, very variable in length,

usually shortly peduncled, very many-flowered ; peduncle

clothed with minute ovate concave bracts; rachis slender.

Flowers very minute, about one-tenth of an inch long, pale

rose-coloured ; bracteoles ovate, obtuse, shorter than the calyx.

Sepals ovate-oblong, acute, ciliolate, not half the length of

the glabrous corolla tube. Corolla lobes narrowly ovate,

bearded below the middle within. Anthers long, linear,

attached by the back at the middle to a short stout filament.

Disk 5-crenate. Ovary usually 5-celled; style short.—J.D.H.

Fig. 1, Flower; 2, ovary and disk; 3, transverse section of ovary; 4, stamen

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GRIFFINIA ORNATA.

Native of South Brazil.

Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDACEZ.—Tribe AMARYLLIDEZ.

Genus Grirrinia, Ker; (Kunth, Enum, vol. v. p. 542).

- Grirrinta ornata,; bulbo ovoideo collo producto, foliis 6-8 synanthiis petiolatis

oblongis acutis subpedalibus venulis transversalibus creberrimis, scapo

laterali compresso pedali vel sesquipedali, umbellis 10-20-floris, bracteis

pallidis oblongo-deltoideis, pedicellis flore subduplo brevioribus, floribus

pallide lilacinis 23-8 poll. longis, tubo brevi, segmentis oblanceolatis acutis,

staminibus inclusis suprema abrupte recurvata, stylo ad apicem stigmatosam

integro.

G. ornata, 7’. Moore in Gard. Chron. 1876, part i. p. 266, fig. 47.

This new Grifinia, for horticultural purposes, surpasses all

the other known species, with the exception of the very rare

Gt. dryades (Bot. Mag. tab. 5786). It is a typical Grifinia,

most like the old well-known @. hyacinthina, but is much more

robust in habit, with more numerous larger leaves with closer

-cross-veining, and larger flowers mounted on long pedicels.

Like all the other species, it is only adapted for stove-cultiva-

tion. It was first imported by Mr. Bull, in 1875, from the

neighbourhood of Rio Janeiro. Our drawing was made from

a plant presented by him to the Kew collection, which

flowered in February, 1878.

Descr. Bulb ovoid, three or four inches in diameter, with

many brown tunics and a produced neck three to six inches

long. Leaves six or eight toa bulb, contemporary with the

flowers, with a deeply channelled petiole much shorter than

the blade, which is oblong, acute, about a foot long, cuneate

at the base, bright green on the upper surface, paler

green beneath, with about fifteen vertical ribs on each side

of the costa, which are connected by very fine close oblique

cross-bars. Scapes lateral, sometimes two to a bulb, a foot or

JUNE Ist, 1878.

a foot and a half long, rather compressed. Umbel centripetal,

10-20-flowered ; bracts pale-green, deltoid, about as long as

the pedicels, which are one and a half or two inches in length

and subtended by linear-subulate bracteoles. Perianth pale

lilac, two and a half or three inches long; ovary oblong-

triquetrous, green; ovules two in each cell, erect; tube very

short ; segments oblanceolate, acute, about a third of an inch

broad. Stamens six, declinate, shorter than the perianth-

segments, the uppermost abruptly recurved; anthers small,

_linear-oblong, pale lilac. Style entire, a little longer than

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MASDEVALLIA POLYSTICTA.

Native of Peru.

Nat. Ord. OncuipEx.—Tribe PLEUROTHALLIDER.

Genus Masprvatuia, Ruizet Pav. ; (Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 192).

Maspevattia (Amaridea) polysticta ; foliis spathulato-oblanceolatis obtusis in

petiolum brevem angustatis apice retusis v. obtusis, scapis gracilibus folia

excedentibus plurifloris superne maculatis, floribus racemosis pallide

lilacinis purpureo-punctatis, bracteis majusculis late ovato-oblongis viridi-

bus, sepalorum tubo perbrevi basi modice gibbo, sepalo dorsali late ovato

cymbiformi lateralibus oblique oblongis omnibus ciliolatis caudas patentes

triplo longiores ochraceas punctatas abrupte angustatis, petalis parvis

spathulatis serratis, labello oblongo longitudinaliter replicato, lobo terminali ©

angustiore oblongo antice cucullato apice rotundata, columna apice serrulata.

M. polysticta, Reichb. f. in Gard, Chron. 1874, vol. i. p. 338; and ii. 290 (non tab.

nost. 6258), 1875, i. 656, fig. 134.

In the 1876 volume of this work I figured a little closely

allied Masdevallia, also from Peru, which was believed to be

Reichenbach’s M. polysticta. This, he-informs me, is not the

case, and that the said figure is of his /. melanopus (Gard.

Chron. 1873, vol. i. p. 338; 1874, vol. il. p. 399), and not-

withstanding the difference in the colour of the three tails,

which he describes as very dark, I, of course, accept his

determination. MV. polysticta was introduced from Northern

Peru by M. Roezl in 1874, along with M. melanopus, and a

hitherto unfigured species, Uf. caloptera, Reichb. f. It has

flowered in Mr. Williams’ nursery and at Kew and elsewhere

in the winter months.

Descr. Densely tufted. Leaves four to five inches

long, oblanceolate or almost spathulate, obtuse, retuse, or

notched at the apex, obscurely 3-nerved, keeled at. the back,

gradually narrowed into a rather stout petiole, pale green.

Scapes numerous, longer than the leaves, bearing a raceme of

four to eight flowers, green below, speckled with purple

above. Bracts rather large, one-third of an inch long. ovate-

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oblong, green, subacute. lowers two and a half inches

across the tips of the sepals, pale lilac, speckled with purple.

Tubular portion of the sepals short, slightly gibbous at the

base; free portion of the dorsal sepal ovate, concave,

of the lateral more oblong and oblique ; all ending suddenly

in filiform tails more than twice their own length, of an

ochreous colour, speckled with purple; margins of the

sepals ciliolate. Petals obovate-spathulate, serrate. Lip

oblong, smooth, sides longitudinally refiexed from the mesial

line, terminated by a short oblong obtuse terminal lobe, which

is hooded in front, and upon the back of which the sides of

the body of the lip are produced. Column serrulate at the

apex.—J. D. H.

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CLEMATIS GREWLEFLORA.

Native of the Himalaya Mountains.

Nat. Ord. Ranuncvtacex.—Tribe CLEMATIDER,

Genus Cremaris, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i, p. 3.)

Crematis grewieflora,; alte scandens, dense fulvo-tomentosa, foliis pinnatisectis,

foliolis 8-5 coriaceis longe petiolulatis late ovatis v. ovato-cordatis lobulatis

y. obtuse dentatis serratisve ceterum integerrimis v. denticulatis grosse

reticulatis nervis subtus crassis, paniculis axillaribus plurifloris ramis

ramulisque robustis divaricatis, alabastris ovoideis, floribus majusculis

campanulatis dense fulvo-tomentosis, sepalis coriaceis lineari v. late-oblongis,

costatis apicibus revolutis acuminatis, filamentis linearibus carpellisque longe

pilosis.

C. grewixflora, DO. Syst. Veg. vol. i. p. 140; Prodr. vol.i.p.4. Don, Prodr. Fl.

Nep. p. 191. Wail. Cat. No. 4678. Hook. f. et Thoms. Flor, Ind. vol. i.

p. 10. Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. i. p. 6.

The Himalaya mountains are the head-quarters of the

genus Clematis in respect of number and variety of forms,

and many of the species are of great beauty. Witness the

C. montana (Plate 4061), ©. graveolens (Plate 4495), C.

smilacifolia (Plate 4259), C. barbellata (Plate 4794), and

others not hitherto introduced, though none of them attain

the size or have the beauty of colour of the Japanese species of

the Florida and Fortunei set. Most of the above are perfectly

hardy ; this is not the case with C. grewiwflora, which requires

a cool greenhouse, when it forms an immense rambling

climber, which at Kew ascended in a few years to the gallery

of the Temperate House, along the rail of which it ran for

many feet, flowering profusely in early spring. The species

is very nearly allied to C. Buchananiana, also a° Himalayan

species, under which name it was received from the Calcutta

Botanic Gardens about twelve years ago. It, however, differs

from that plant in its much more dense clothing of villous

fulvous hairs, as also in the shape of the leaflets. It hasa

very wide Himalayan range, being common towards the base

of the range from Kumaon to Bhotan, ascending to four

JUNE Ist, 1878,

thousand feet elevation. In Sikkim and East Nepal I found

it flowering in November. A variety is found in Kumaon

with almost white pubescence. .

Duscr. A lofty climber, with a stout woody trunk two

inches in diameter at the base; branchlets, leaves, and in-

florescence densely clothed with tawny villous pubescence.

Leaves six to eight inches long, pinnate, with one to two pairs

of leaflets and a terminal one. Leaflets one to three inches

long, petioled, broadly ovate or ovate-cordate, obtuse or acute,

lobulate or waved, or unequally coarsely-toothed, sometimes

also denticulate, strongly reticulated, dull green; petiolule

slender, flexuous. Panicles axillary, broadly pyramidal, four

to eight inches long, with opposite strict horizontal branches,

which are themselves again trichotomously divided ; branches

and pedicels very stout, densely villous; bracts leafy, sessile,

or shortly petioled. Flowers drooping, from three-fourths to

one and a half inches long, broadly campanulate, tawny-

yellow. Sepals very variable in breadth and length, from —

almost linear to broadly oblong, tips acuminate revolute,

thickly coriaceous, strongly ribbed on the back. Stamens —

very numerous, filaments linear, silky; anthers linear. Carpels

very numerous and densely packed, flattened, silky ; when

ripe, with feathery awns one and a half inch long, the whole

forming a head often three inches in diameter.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Stamens; 2, carpels :—enlarged.

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MAGNOLIA sretiata.

Native of Japan.

Nat. Ord. Macnotiacem.—Tribe Macnoriex.

Genus Maenotia, Linn. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 18.)

Maewnoxt stellata ; foliis hysteranthiis deciduis obovato- v. elliptico-oblongis

basi angustatis obtusis acutis v. subacuminatis junioribus subtus pubescen-

tibus, gemmis alabastrisque lanatis, sepalis petalis multo brevioribus elliptico-

oblongis obtusis dorso-lanatis, petalis numerosis lineari-oblongis obtusis

albis patulis demum reflexis, staminibus paucis, antheris appendiculatis,

carpellis ad 50 glabris 2-ovulatis stylis subulatis, maturis paucis corticatis

axi adherentibus bivalvim dehiscentibus, superne cuspidatis.

M. stellata, Mazximov. in Bull. Acad. Petersb.; Mel. Biol. p. 506, t. viii.;

Franch. et Savat. Enum. Plant. Jap. p. 15.

M. Haleiana, 8S. B. Parsons ; Gard. Chron. N. S. vol. ix. p. 878, eum Ic. Xylog.

Tatauma stellata, Miquel, Prolus, Flor. Japon. p. 145; Ann. Mus.-Lugd. Bat.

p. 257.

Buencenrra stellata, Sieb. and Zuce. Flor. Jap. Fam. Nat. p. 78. tab, Ta.

This very interesting addition to the British Arboretum

has been long known to botanists, as the genus Buergeria,

founded on an erroneous observation as to the nature of the

fruit, which its authors had seen only in an imperfect state,

and which, had it been correct would have referred the

plant to the genus Talauma, as subsequently indicated by

Miquel.’ Quite recently it has been named Magnolia

Halleana by Mr. 8. B. Parsons, of Flushing. (U.S.Am.), in

compliment to Mr. G. R. Hall, of Japan, its introducer into

America, as we learn from a notice with a plate in the

‘ Garden’ (vol. xiii. p. 15.)

Like most other introductions of horticultural interest from

Japan, this has been in cultivation by the natives of the Islands,

JULY Ist, 1878.

having been found in gardens at Nagasaki by Oldham in

1862. It is, however, stated by Franchet and Savatier to be

indigenous in woods of Mount Fusi Yama, and in central

Niphon, where it forms a small tree. I am indebted to

' Messrs. Veitch for the specimen here figured which

flowered in their grounds at Coombwood in March of the

present year.

Descr. A small tree, with the habit of M. Yulan, quite

glabrous except for a slight silkiness on the young leaves

beneath, and the silkily hursute sepals and bracts. Leaves

deciduous, appearing after the flowers, two to five inches

long, variable in shape from rather narrowly obovate with

rounded tips to elliptic and acuminate, membranous; _ base

always narrowed; petiole one-quarter to one-third inch

long. Flowers three inches in diameter; white, swect-

scented. Sepals much shorter than the petals, silkily hairy

externally, oblong, obtuse. Petals about 15, narrowly

linear-oblong. obtuse, at first spreading, then reflexed,

white, with a very faint pink central streak externally.

Stamens few, filaments short, dilated ; anthers longer, linear,

clawed at the tip. Carpels very numerous, closely packed

on a sessile fleshy axis; style subulate; ovules 2. Fruit

of few ripening carpels, which are cuspidate at the tip,

coriaceous, with a separable bark, persistent, 2-valved, usually

I-seeded. Seed orbicular, compressed.—/. D. H.

Fig. 1, transverse section of axis and carpels ; 2 and 3, longitudinal and dorsal

section of carpel; 4 and 5, Stamens ;—figures to the right are of a ripe carpel,

a soed, and a seed cut longitudinally showing the embryo :—all enlarged.

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FRITILLARIA SEWERZOWI.

Native of Turkestan.

Nat. Ord. Lintacka.—Tribe TuLiPEx.

Genus Friritania, Linn. (Baker in Journ, Linn, Soe. vol, xiv. p. 251).

Frirmiaria (Korolkowia) Sewerzowi, bulbo subsolido globoso, caule erecto pedali

vel sesquipedali, foliis propriis 5-6 oppositis vel suboppositis sessilibus ob-

longis obtusis, floribus 4-12 cernuis breviter pedicellatis in racemum

laxum dispositis, superioribus minoribus abortivis, bracteis magnis viridibus

foliiformibus, perianthii pollicaris infundibularis luride purpurei segmentis

oblongo-oblanceolatis subacutis dorso carinatis intus deorsum foveola lineari

preeditis, staminibus perianthio vix brevioribus, filamentis filiformibus glabris,

antheris oblongis basifixis, stylo elongato integro, capsulis oblongo-trigonis

obtuse angulatis.

F. Sewerzowi, Regel Enum. Pl. Semenow, part iii. p. 120, No. 1057; Baker in

Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. xiv. p. 267.

Korotxowra Sewerzowi, Regel Animad. (1873), p. 17; Gartenflora, vol, xxii. p. 161,

tab. 760; Fl. Turkest. p. 150.

This is one of the most curious, I would not say beautiful,

of the many new bulbous plants that have rewarded the

recent enterprising and assiduous researches of the Russian

naturalists in Central Asia. I do not see that it has any

character to separate it generically from Fritillaria, but it

presents a most distinct type of habit, the long raceme with

its abortive upper flowers recalling /’ persica, but the flowers

much fewer, quite untessellated and as lurid a purple outside

as in F. greca or F. tulipifolia, and the bracts very largely

developed, the lower ones being quite similar in size and

texture to the upper leaves proper. It inhabits the mountains

of Turkestan, reaching an elevation of six thousand feet above

sea-level, and is quite hardy in England. We received it at

Kew some time ago from Dr. Regel. Mr. Elwes has been

very successful with it, his specimens having attained a far

greater size and luxuriance than ours. The plate was made

JULY Isr, 1878,

from a specimen which he flowered at Cirencester, in March

of this present year. That in the Gartenflora has been

coloured from a plant in which the purple of the outside of

the perianth has not been properly developed.

Descr. Bulb globose, an inch or more in diameter, solid in

the lower part, furnished at the top with a few membranous

scales, that enwrap the base of the stem, emitting from its

base filiform stolons. Stem a foot or more long, glaucous,

terete. Leaves below the inflorescence five or six, all except

the lowest opposite or subopposite, sessile, oblong, obtuse,

four or five inches long, pale green when mature, rather glau-

cous when young. Flowers four to twelve, cernuous on

pedicels a quarter or half an inch long, forming a lax raceme,

which occupies about half of the stem, each bracteated by

a large green leaf, the upper ones smaller and abortive.

Perianth about an inch long, funnel-shaped, lurid-purple with

a glaucous tint outside, greenish-yellow within, not at all

tessellated ; segments subequal, oblanceolate-oblong, subacute,

with a raised keel outside down the lower half which is more

strongly marked in the outer three and a yellow-green linear

nectary at the top of the claw. inside. Stamens nearly as

long as the perianth-segments; filaments filiform, glabrous ;

anthers oblong, basifixed, purplish. Ovary oblong-trigonous ;

style entire, reaching to the top of the anthers; stigma capi-

tate. Capsule obtusely angled.—J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1,A segment of the perianth, seen from the inside, showing its foveole or

nectary ; 2, a single stamen; 3, the pistil,—all magnified.

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MASDEVALLIA SHUTTLEWORTHI.

Native of the United States of Colombia,

Nat. Ord. Orcuotiprx%.—Tribe PLEUROTHALLIDER.

Genus Masprvatua, Ruiz et Pav. (Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 192).

MaspEvani1a Shuttleworthii ; foliis petiolatis elliptico-oblongis subacutis 3-nerviis,

scapis folia subequantibus unifloris viridibus, floribus pro planta amplis,

bracteis acuminatis, perianthii tubo brevissimo basi gibbo, sepalo dorsali

modice cucullato suberecto obovato repente in caudam longissimam angustato

roseo punctis pallide conspurcato et nervis 5-7 roseis instructo, sepalis

lateralibus oblique ovatis in caudas elongatas sensim attenuatis saturate roseis

punctis rubris conspurcatis, petalis lineari-oblongis apice obtuse 2-lobis,

labelli lamina late oblonga apice recurva obtusa disco 2-carinata, columna

brevi.

M. Shuttleworthii; Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1875, pars i. p. 170, et 1876,

pars ii. p. 782.

The rapid increase in number of imported species of Mas-

devallia is certainly the most striking feature in the history of

the Orchid culture of the past ten years. No less than thir

teen have been figured in the Borantcar Macazne within

that period, and only four before it; whilst at least double

that number are in cultivation in individual collections of the

first-class. The geographical limits of the genus seem to be

limited to the northern and western countries of South

America, where they inhabit cool-temperate humid regions.

M. Shuttleworthii was discovered, by the traveller whose name

it bears, in the United States of Colombia, when collecting

for Mr. Bull. Iam indebted to W. H. Punchard, Esq., of

Poulett Lodge, Twickenham, for the loan of the specimen

here figured, which isbelieved to be unique ; it flowered in

March of the present year. :

Descr, Leaves small, two inches long, narrowed into a

JULY Ist, 1878,

rather slender petiole of about the same length; elliptic-

oblong, acute or subacute, pale green, obscurely 3-nerved.

Scapes several, about equalling the leaves, rather stout, 1-

flowered ; bracts appressed, long acuminate, with sometimes

a setaceous point. Mowers large for the size of the plant, cne

inch in diameter exclusive of the tails. Perianth with the

sepals inserted into a very short broad gibbous tube. Dorsal

sepal about one inch long, obovate, concave, suddenly con-

tracted into an erect rather stout curved tail twice or thrice

its own length, pale yellowish-red, obscurely sprinkled with

pale red, and with five to seven distinct red nerves. Lateral

sepals spreading and decurved, broadly ovate, gradually con-

tracted into slender tails twice as long as themselves, rose-

coloured, closely sprinkled with red spots. Lip very small ;

pale, broadly oblong with an obtuse recurved tip, and two

longitudinal mesial ridges. Pedals narrowly linear-oblong,

obtusely 2-lobed at the tip. Column very short.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Front, and 2, side view of column and petals; 3 and 4, front and side view

of lip; 5 and 6, front and back view of the blade of the lip :—all enlarged.

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DEHERAINIA smaracpina.

Native of Tropical Memico.

Nat. Ord. Myrstnem.—Tribe THEOPHRASTE.

(Genus Denerarnta, Decaisne in Ann. Se. Nat. Ser. vi. vol. iii. p. 189).

DEHERAINIA smaragdina; frutex, ramulis patentim hirsutis, foliis apices versus

ramulorum confertis patulis elliptico-ovatis obovatisve acuminatis in petiolum

brevem angustatis integerrimis v. apices versus obtuse serrulatis subtus

precipue ad nervos pilosis, floribus axillaribus solitariis pedicellatis satu-

rate viridibus, pedicello brevissimo ebracteato hirsuto, sepalis coriaceis —

orbiculatis ciliolatis, corolla ampla, lobis patentibus planis obovato-orbicu-

latis carnulosis impresso-punctulatis glabris, tubo brevi intus subpiloso,

appendicibus minutis subulatis.

D. smaragdina, Dene. le. p. 139, t. 12.

Posoqueria macrantha, Taropnrasta smaragdina, Lind., et Jacquinra smarag-

dina, Hort.

A plant with deep green flowers of very considerable size, does

not often occur either amongst monocotyledons or dicotyledons,

though familiar in Zvia viridiflora of the first-class, and occur-

ing amongst Anonacee and a few other orders in the second.

It is singular that almost all the other genera of the tribe

Theophrastee, to which Deherainia belongs, have small and

white or coloured flowers, namely, Theophrasta, Clavija, and

Sacquinia.

The genus Deherainia was established by Decaisne in

1876, on the subject of the present plate, and named by him

in compliment to M. Pierre-Paul Deherain, aide-naturaliste of

the museum of the Jardin de Plants. It was discovered in

Mexico, near Tabasco, one of the oldest towns of the Mexican

Confederation, on the borders of the Chiapes, celebrated as

the scene of one of Cortez’s earliest and greatest victories.

The climate of Tabasco is hot and damp, and, as was to be

expected, Deherainia is a thoroughly tropical plant. M.

Decaisne describes it as flowering in the stoves of the Jardin

de Plantes in May and July. Our plant flowered in the

Juny Ist, 1878.

Palm House of Kew in May, when quite small; it was

received from Mr. Linden, who imported it into Europe.

Derscr. A much branched leafy shrub ; branchlets, petioles,

and pedicels clothed with spreading rusty-coloured hairs.

Leaves crowded towards the ends of the branches, spreading,

two to four inches long, elliptic-oblong obovate or lanceolate,

acute, or acuminate, quite entire or obtusely serrated towards

the apex, narrowed intoa short petiole at the base, membranous,

sparsely hairy on the under-surface and midrib above, deep

green. Flowers solitary, axillary, very shortly pedicelled,

ebracteate, about two inches in diameter, horizontal or

nodding. Calyx hemispherical; tube short, rounded at the

base; lobes orbicular, coriaceous, margins ciliate. Corolla-

tube very short, slightly hairy within; lobes orbicular-

obovate, quite glabrous, flat, coriaceous, with impressed dots

on the upper surface, very dark green, with paler margins;

throat almost black. Stamens 5, at first conniving over the

stigma, then spreading, filaments filiform-subulate. Anthers

nearly quadrate, lobes slightly divaricating upwards, extrorse.

Ovary ovoid, tapering into a straight slender style, stigma

capitate; ovules very numerous, on a globose central

placenta.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Vertical section of corolla ; 2, ditto of calyx and ovary; 3, flower

4 and 5, front and side view of stamens; 6, ovary opened :—all enlarged.

Tas. 6374.

TULIPA SAXATILIS,

Native of Crete.

Nat. Ord. Liniacez.—Tribe TuLires.

Genus Tutipa, Linn. ; (Baker in Journ. Linn, Soe. vol. xiv. p. 275).

Tuxira sazatilis; bulbo globoso, caule pedali viridi glabro sepissime bifloro,

foliis tribus glabris, inferiori lanceolato, superioribus linearibus, floribus

erectis pro genere magnis, perianthii oblongo-infundibularis segmentis

preter basin luteum splendide pallide purpurascentibus basi pilosis apice

deltoideis puberulis, interioribus oblongis, exterioribus obovatis, filamentis

luteis basi barbatis, antheris lineari-oblongis filamento brevioribus, ovario

viridi cylindrico-trigono, stigmatibus parvis.

T. saxatilis, Sieber, Plant. Crete Evusic., ex parte; Spreng. Syst. Veg. vol. ii.

p. 63; Reich. Ic. Crit. tab. 396; Schultes in Roem. et Schultes Syst. Veg.

vol. vii. p. 885; Kunth, Enum. vol. iv. p. 226; Regel, Enum. p.25; Baker

in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. xiv. p. 289.

This is a very rare Tulip, that has been known for a long

time in herbaria as a native of Crete, but has never been

introduced into cultivation till now, when it has been re-

discovered and brought home by Mr. Geo. Maw, who, as well

as Mr. Elwes, has flowered it successfully this present spring.

It is a most distinct and interesting species, both from a

horticultural and botanical point of view. For decorative

purposes we do not get anywhere else in the genus a large

flower of a bright mauve-purple colour, with a bright yellow

eye. The only other large-flowered tulip, with bearded

filaments, is 7 Hageri, lately figured (Bot. Mag. t. 6242).

Its locality in Crete is Cape Maleca, in Raulin’s “ Zone des

collines,” which reaches from five hundred to two thousand

feet above sea-level. Under the same label Sieber distri-

buted the small-flowered 7. eretica of Boissier and Heldreich,

supposing it to be an alpine form of the same species.

Descr. Bulb globose, with brown membranous tunics.

Stem a foot or more long, green, glabrous, usually branched

low down, and bearing a couple of flowers. Leaves usually

three to a stem, glabrous, the lowest lanceolate, reaching

JULY Ist, 1878.

sometimes a foot in length, and an inch and a half in breadth,

narrowed gradually to the point, the two upper ones linear.

Perianth oblong-infundibuliform, two or two and a half inches

long, a light bright mauve-purple inside and out in the upper

two-thirds, bright yellow at the base. Segments pubescent

at the base and puberulent outside at the deltoid tip, the

three outer oblong, under an inch broad at the middle, the

three inner obovate, an inch and a quarter broad above the

middle. S¢amens an inch long, the linear-oblong blackish

anthers shorter than the bright yellow filaments, which are

bearded on the thickened part near the base. Ovary green,

eylindrical-trigonous, a sixth of an inch in diameter ; stigmas

each a line broad.—J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, Tip ofa segment of the perianth ; 2 and 3, single stamens :—both magnified.

6375

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NEB del J

‘Tas. 63705.

PHILODENDRON SERPENS.

Native of New Grenada.

Nat. Ord. AromE#.—Tribe PHILopENDRE.

Genus PutLopenpRon, Schott. (Prodr. Syst. Aroid, p, 219).

PHILODENDRON serpens ; caudice flexuoso scandente ad nodos radicante apicem

versus folioso et squamis fuscis fibrosis persistentibus tecto, foliis amplis

oblongo-panduriformibus acutis v. apiculatis basi cordatis multinerviis,

nervis horizontalibus lente sursum arcuatis tenuibus loborum posticorum

3-4 in unum intramarginalem crassiusculum conjunctis, petiolo viridi

lamin subequilongo tereti paleis crassiusculis subulatis brevibus recurvis

dense obtecto, pedunculis axillaribus solitariis crassis albis, spatha alba cir-

cumscriptione oblonga, dimidio inferiore ovoideo clauso, superiore wquilato

late cymbiformi apiculato aperto, spadice crasso recto spatha paulo breviore

albo subacuto, ovariis depressis 5-6-gonis 5-6-locularibus, stigmate sessili

radiatim 5-6-lobo, lobis rotundatis.

A very handsome species of the immense tropical American

genus Philodendron, imported from New Grenada by Messrs.

Veitch, and well suited for the wall-decoration of a humid

- tropical house. It belongs to Schott’s second section of the

genus, with more or less cordiform leaves, and the nerves

arching upwards; but I am not so certain as to which of

the subordinate groups of that order it should be referred.

It agrees with that called Achyropodium in the character of

the petiole, but the venules are less pinnately disposed.

There is no plant answering to it in the Kew collection,

which has recently been catalogued by Mr. N. E. Brown,

and the list of its contents published in the Official Report

of the Royal Gardens for 1877. : :

Desor. Caudex long, scandent, serpentine, rooting at the

nodes probably against the bark of forest trees ; leafy at the

summit, clothed between the leaves with dense masses of the

fibrous remains of the sheathing scales. Leaves bright green ;

blade a foot to a foot and a half long, between oblong and fiddle-

avausT Isr, 1878,

shaped, that is, slightly contracted above the broad base which

forms rounded lobes on either side of the broad basal sinus,

subacute or apiculate, rather membranous ; nerves numerous,

rather slender, horizontal and arching upwards, the three

or four basal joining into one stout one; venules subhori-

zontal between the nerves, or somewhat pinnately disposed

towards the leaf-base ; petiole stout, terete, about as long as

the blade, clothed with short refiexed thick fleshy ovate-

subulate scales. Peduncles solitary in the axils of the leaves,

stout, white, terete, shorter than the spathe, longitudinally

rugulose at the top, as is the base of the spathe. Spathe five

inches long, thick and fleshy, cylindric-oblong, constricted

in the middle ; lower half closed, tumid, pale flesh-coloured

outside, pale purplish within ; upper half broad, but open, boat-

shaped, apiculate, pale straw-coloured. Spadiz as long as

the spathe, included, stout, cylindric, white, subacute.

Ovaries densely crowded, depressed, five- to six-angled,

five- to six-celled, with a depressed radiating five- to six-

lobed stigma, the lobes orbicular.—J/. D. H.

Fig. 1, Scales of petiole, of the natural size; 2, imperfect ovaries; 3 and 4,

perfect ovaries :—enlarged.

6376.

W.GS.del JN Fitch Lith,

Tas. 6376.

CASTILLEJA. rmprvisa.

Native of Texas.

Nat Ord. ScropHULARIACERH.—Lribe KurHRASIE®.

Genus Castitiesa, Linn. fil. (Benth and Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. iv’ p. 793.)

CastitLEra (Euchroma) indivisa; annua v. biennis, glanduloso-pubescens, foliis

oblongis lineari-oblongisve sessilibus obtusis v. subacutis undulatis irregula-

riter pauci-dentatis, spica densiflora demum interrupta, bracteis late obovatis

sepissime integerrimis demum coccineis, calycis utrinque fissi lobis retusis,

corolla stramines tubo elongato basi curvo, galea brevi truncata marginibus

recurvis, labio inferiore brevissimo viridi 3-lobulato lobulis obcordatis.

C. indivisa, Engelm. MSS.; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vol. x. p. 530; Gray, Synopt. Fi.

of N. Am. vol. ii. p. 295.

_ Some of the species of Castilleja are amongst the most

beautiful of North American plants; we have seen fields of

tall grasses in Utah ornamented with the orange and scarlet

bracts of C. liniariefolia, and the bleak ridges of Sierra

Blanca in Colorado starred with the crimson bracts of C.

parviflora? at an elevation of twelve thousand feet above the

sea. The distribution of the genus is singular; North

America is its head quarters, from the Arctic regions, exclu-

sive of Greenland, to Mexico, between which parallels

twenty-three species have been collected; of which one 1s

widely distributed in northern Asia, and is the only repre-

sentative of the genus in the Old World; one other inhabits

the Andes of 8. America, and one Brazil. None of the few

hitherto imported have continued long under cultivation,

possibly because, like their near allies Huphrasia and Barisia,

they are root-parasites in a young state ; as with these latter,

the Castillejas all turn black in drying.

Castilleja indivisa is one of the most brilliantly coloured

of the genus, its bracts, which are orange-scarlet in a young

state, in age become of an intense carmine red and last a

auGust lst, 1878.

very long time; in the case of the specimen here figured they

were in beauty in the beginning of May, and are so still in

this the last week of July, in the border of the rock-work

of Kew. Mr. Thompson, of Ipswich, who sent the plant to

Kew, observes that it seems easy to raise and to rear, that

it was grown under glass, and that the colour of the bracts

would deepen out of doors (which has been the case). It is a

native of Texas, and described by A. Gray as a winter

annual, flowering in spring without the survival of the

radical leaves.

Descr. An erect nearly simple pubescent and viscid annual or

biennial, six to twelve inches high. Leaves one to two inches

long, suberect, clothing the stem, sessile, oblong or linear-ob-

long, obtuse or subacute, undulate, with a few irregular teeth,

green, the upper with red margins towards the tip. Spike

dense-flowered, at length elongating ; bracts spreading, three

fourths to one inch long, green at the base, then orange with a

rounded spreading scarlet limb which becomes deep carmine

later on, quite entire or rarely toothed or lobed. Flowers

an inch long, sessile. Culyx with a slender curved tube,

dilated above and slit half way down behind and rather

less before ; divisions 2-lobed, lobes truncate retuse. Corolla

not much exserted from the calyx, pale straw-coloured; tube

long, slender, curved at the base; upper lip shortly ovate,

truncate, pubescent above ; lower lip of three minute green

obcordate lobes. Anthers yellow, alittle exserted.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower; 2, mouth of corolla; iongitudinal section of corolla showing the

Stamen and pistil :—all enlarged. hose

Tas. 6377.

ALOE Coorperrt.

Native of Cape Colony and Natal.

Nat. Ord. Littacrx.—~Tribe ALonER.

Genus Ator, Linn. (Kunth, Enum. vol. iv. p. 492).

Atoz Oooperi,; acaulis, foliis rudimentariis 3-4 lanceolatis membranaceis, pro-

ductis 6-8 distichis lineari-subulatis basi dilatatis suberectis chartaceis albo

maculatis margine cartilagineis dentibus minutis corneis preeditis, pedunculo

simplici pedali vel sesquepedali foliis paucis parvis bracteiformibus prosditis,

floribus 12-25 in racemum corymbosum dispositis, bracteis magnis lanceolatis,

pedicellis inferioribus flore equilongis, perianthii cylindrici rubro-lutei tubo

campanulato, segmentis sequalibus lanceolatis superne viridibus, genitalibus

inclusis, capsule valvis lanceolatis.

A. Cooperi, Baker in Gard. Ohron. 1874, p. 628.

By the thin firm texture of their suberect long-tapering

leaves, this species and A. myriacantha differ conspicuously

from all the other Aloes in cultivation. The present plant was

discovered by Burchell in the year 1814 in the neighbour-

hood of Uitenhage, flowering in January and February. It

was refound in 1862 by Mr. Thomas Cooper on grassy plains

in Natal, and brought by him to this country in a living state.

We have had it for some time at Kew, but it has not yet

flowered with us. The drawing was made by Mr. Wilson

Saunders from a plant that flowered at Reigate.

Dezscr. Acaulescent, the rosette surrounded by three or

four lanceolate membranous rudimentary leaves. Produced

leaves six or eight, distichous, suberect, linear-subulate from

a dilated deltoid clasping base, tapering to a long point, a foot

or more long, deeply channeled down the face, acutely keeled

down the back, firm, and hardly at all fleshy in texture, green,

spotted with white, especially in the lower part, furnished

with a narrow pale horny border, and copious spreading

minute linear teeth, which are larger towards the base of the

leaf. Pedunele stout, terete, a foot or a foot and a half long,

auGusT Isr, 1878.

bearing a few small lanceolate-deltoid bract-like leaves in the

upper part. Flowers twelve to twenty-five, arranged in a

dense simple subcorymbose raceme; pedicels ascending, the

lower ones above an inch long; bracts large, persistent, lan-

ceolate, acuminate. Perianth tubular, reddish-yellow, with

a green tip, an inch and a quarter or an inch and a half long;

tube very short, campanulate; segments equal, lanceolate.

Stamens and style included. Capsule about an inch long,

with three acute firm lanceolate valves.—J. G. Baker.

Figs. 1 and 2, portion of a leaf; 3, a single flower with its pedicel and bract; 4,

a flower in a later stage; 5, inner and outer segments of the perianth ; 6, a flower

with the segments of the perianth cut away; 7,a single stamen; 8, style and

stigma :—all life-size.

W.G.S.del INFitch Lith

Vinceuut Brooks Day & Son Lith

Tas. 6378.

GILIA BRANDEGEI.

Native of Colorado.

Nat. Ord. Potemontacem,

Genus Gitta, Ruiz and Pav. (Benth. and Hook, J. Gen. Plant. v., ii. p. 822).

Gia (Lugilia) Brandegei ; glanduloso-pilosa, e basi ramosa, caulibus erectis

simplicibus, foliis alternis radicalibus lineari-elongatis pinnatisectis seg-

mentis elliptico-ovatis subacutis integris v. 2-partitis et quasi 4-natim verti-

cillatis, floribus thyrsoideo-spicatis, bracteis inferioribus foliaceis superioribus

3-fidis v. laciniatis, calycis tubulosi segmentis linearibus, corolle straminem

tubo calyce duplo longiore gracili superne lente dilatato, limbi plani lobis

brevibus rotundatis apiculatis, filamentis brevibus rectis fauce corolle in-

sertis, antheris didymis, stigmate 3-fido.

G. Brandegei, Gray in Proc. Amer. Acad, v. xi. p. 85; Synopt. Fl. N. Amer. v. ii.

p. 149.

This very remarkable plant tends to unite the otherwise

dissimilar genera Gilia and Polemonium, having the straight

glabrous filaments of the former, with the habit of the latter ;

whilst in the colour of the flower, it differs from both. It

it an exceedingly rare plant, discovered by the very intelli-

gent and energetic collector whose name it bears, on perpen-

dicular rocks at the source of the Rio Grande in the Rocky

Mountains of 8.W. Colorado. It was again found by Drs. Gray

and Lamborn, very sparingly, on the Sierra Blanca, in

Southern Colorado, in July, 1877, at an elevation of upwards

of 12,000 feet ; on which occasion I had the pleasure of seeing

the living specimens, though I nowhere found the plant my-

self during the excursion on that mountain which I made

with those gentlemen; they form the var. Lamborni of Gray

(Synopt. Fl. 1. ¢.), distinguished by its lurid yellowish or

greenish flowers. I am indebted to Mr. Thompson, of

Ipswich, for the specimen here figured, which he raised from

Colorado seed and flowered in May of the present year.

Descr. Covered everywhere (corolla externally included)

with glandular pubescence, tufted, erect; stems six to eight

AUGUST Ist, 1878,

inches high. Leaves crowded at the base of the stems, few and

alternate above, four to six inches long, narrow linear in out-

line, pinnatisect ; segments one-sixth to one-fourth of an inch

long, spreading, elliptic, entire or bipartite, when the seg-

ments appear as if whorled in fours, quite entire, subacute ;

stem-leaves with fewer and narrower segments. Flowers one

to one and a quarter inch long, in loose thyrsiform racemes,

sessile or the lower pedicelled, suberect, upper crowded,

lower distant ; lower bracts foliaceous longer than the flowers,

upper reduced and tripartite or trifid. Calyx cylindric ;_ five-

cleft nearly to the base ; segments narrowly linear, acuminate.

Corolla pale primrose or straw-coloured, tube slender, almost

twice as long as the calyx, somewhat dilated upwards ; limb

nearly flat, of five short rounded apiculate lobes. Stamens in-

serted on the throat of the corolla, filaments short, suberect,

glabrous ; anthers small, didymous. Ovary subglobose; style

very slender, straight, glabrous, with three short slender awns

at the tip; ovules few.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Bract and longitudinal section of flower :—enlarged.

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Tas. 6379.

HUERNIA BREVIROSTRIS.

Native of South Africa.

Nat. Ord. AscLEPIADEZ.—Tribe STaPELIEA.

Genus Hurrnra, R. Br. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 784.)

Hvern1 brevirostris, humilis, cespitosa, ramis crassis 4-5-angulatis, angulis

acutis dentatis, floribus cymosis, cymis sessilibus ad mediam ramorum

enatis, floribus 4-6, pedicellis glabris, lobis calycinis lanceolato-subulatis,

corolla pallide sulphurea sanguineo-punctata, eXtus levi intus minute papil-

lata, tubo campanulato, limbo patentissimo diametro 1} poll., lobis deltoideis

acuminatis, corona exteriore 5-loba velutino-atra, lobis rectangulis emargi-

natis, corone interioris lobis apice in cornua brevissime productis.

H. brevirostris, N. Z. Brown in Gardeners’ Chronicle, n. 8. vii. p. 780.

A very pretty species of the interesting genus Huernia, a

genus which for some unaccountable reason has never been

adopted by horticulturists, although it is one of the most

distinct in the tribe Stapeliee, and which may always be re-

cognised by the corolla having a distinct tube and a more

or less spreading limb, with the genitalia seated at the

bottom of the tube, the outer corona being quite sessile and

more or less adnate to the bottom of corolla. Five species of

Huernia have now been figured in the ‘ Botanical Magazine,”

viz., H. lentiginosa (t. 506), H. clavigera (erroneously

figured at t. 1661 as H. campanulata, and at t. 2401 as H.

barbata), H. campanulata (t. 1227), H. Hystrix (t. 5751),

and the present species. Most of these have been figured

under the generic name of Stapelia, with the name Huernia

placed in the synonymy. 4. brevirostris is not closely allied

to any other described species, and is well distinguished from

all known to me by its very thick stems, hairless corolla, and

the very short apices of the lobes of the inner corona; like

auGusT Ist, 1878.

several of its congeners it is almost scentless. It was dis-

covered by Mr. Bolus on the dry, rocky hills of Ryneveld’s

Pass, near Graaff Reinet, in South Africa, at an altitude of

2700 ft., where it is tolerably common, and flowers in April.

Our drawing was made from a plant sent to Kew by Mr.

Bolus, which flowered in August, 1875.

Descr. Plant dwarf and cespitose, glabrous. Stems

two to three inches long, three-quarters to one inch thick,

four- to five-angled ; angles acute, acutely toothed. Flowers in

four- to six-flowered sessile cymes, arising from about the middle

or towards the base of the younger branches. Pedicels four to

six lines long. Calyx five-parted; segments lanceolate-subu-

late acute, two to three lines long. Carolla one and a quarter

inches in diameter, outside smooth, pale green, often tinged

with purplish on the tube, the lobes darker, faintly spotted

with minute purplish spots, and marked with three strong

and two faint nerves or ribs; inside, the tube excepted,

minutely papillate, the papille with a minute purple-red

spot at the apex, some of those in the throat minutely bristle-

pointed, otherwise quite glabrous, pale sulphur-yellow,

covered with small blood-red spots; tube pinkish white, spotted

with blood-red, the bottom entirely blood-red, smooth and

shining; tube three lines deep, slightly constricted at the

mouth, limb very spreading, the lobes deltoid acuminate

recurving. Outer corona velvet-black, 5-lobed, lobes rectan-

gular, emarginate. nner corona of five lobes, purplish,

spotted in the upper part with yellowish, their apices very

shortly produced, not more than half a line long.—W. F.

Brown,

Fig. 1, Corona seen from above; 2, corona, side view; 8, anther and lobe of

inner corona, detached :—all enlarged 7 diameters.

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Tas. 6380.

MARICA bracuypvs.

Native of the West Indies.

Nat. Ord. Inmacrz.—Tribe Evrrmez.

Genus Manica, Ker. ; (Baker in Journ, Linn. Soe. vol. xvi. p. 149).

Manica brachypus ; foliis distichis ensiformibus saturate viridibus sesquipedali-

bus, floribus 5-6 in glomerulum unicum prope basin scapi impositum aggre-

gatis, spathe valvis magnis firmis navicularibus, pedicellis spathe valvis

demum equilongis, perianthii lutei segmentis inferne rubro-brunneo macu-

latis, exterioribus multo majoribus planis oblongis, interioribus panduriform-

ibus convolutis, antheris stigmatibus agglutinatis filamento equilongis,

stigmatibus petaloideis citrinis apice longe tricuspidatis.

M. brachypus, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xvi. p- 150.

CypE.ta brachypus, Baker in Gard. Chron. 1876, p. 188.

This is a new Marica very like the old well-known M.

Northiana (Bot. Mag. t. 654) in general habit, but with

yellow flowers produced low down upon the flattened leaf-

like peduncle. T disagree with Dr. Klatt is using the name

Cypella for this genus. Cypella was founded by Herbert

upon the curious hardy bulbous plant from Buenos Ayres,

Which was originally figured in ‘ Bot. Mag.’ t. 2599 under

the name of Tigridia Herbertiana, now common in gardens,

and afterwards called by Tenore Polia bonariensis. This is

4 good genus, and to transfer the name to these very different

rhizomatous plants with flattened scapes can only create con-

fusion. The present plant was imported by Mr. Wilson

Saunders, from Trinidad, about the year 1871, and presented

by him to the Royal Gardens several years later. With us

it flowers in August, and requires stove-treatment. :

Descr. Rootstock stout, vertical. Leaves six or eight in

a tuft, bright green, ensiform, firm in texture, a foot and a

half long, an inch or an inch and a half broad. Scape

Similar to the leaves, producing a few inches above its base

a single cluster, which contains five or six flowers, which

_ aUausr Isr, 1878.

open in succession. Spathe-valves acutely keeled, firm in

texture, three or four inches long; pedicels finally as long

as the spathe-valves. Flowers fugitive, bright yellow ;

segments of both the inner and outer rows furnished with

horizontal bars of red brown near the base ; outer segments

oblong, flat, an inch and a half long; inner segments about

half as long, panduriform, with an abruptly reflexed tip.

Stamens erect; anthers about as long as the filaments,

adhering to the stigmas. Stigmas bright yellow, petaloid,

cuneate, with three erect linear cusps.—dJ. @. Baker.

Fig. 1, An outer segment of the perianth ; 2, an inner segment of the perianth,

seen from the back ; 3, the same, seen laterally, all three life-size ; 4, the stamens;

style, and stigmas: enlarged.

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CRINUM Macowant.

Native of Cape Colony.

Nat Ord. AmMaryLiipace®.—Tribe Crinum.

Genus Crinum, Linn. (Kunth, Enum. vol. v. p. 547.)

Crixum Macowani: bulbo magno collo elongato, foliis 12-15 patulis flaccidis late

loratis acutis viridibus 3-4-pedalibus margine scabris, scapo valido 3-4-pe-

dali, spathe valvis maximis, umbellis 12-15-floris, pedicellis 2-3-poll. longis,

_ perianthii tubo viridulo curvato 3-4-pollicari, limbi pallide rubri horizontalis

segmentis oblongis acutis tubo wquilongis dorso hand vittatis, genitalibus

declinatis limbo vix brevioribus.

C. Macowani, Baker in Gard. Chron, 1878, p. 298.

This fine new Crinum from the Cape closely resembles

some of the forms of the old Asiatic C. latifolium of Linneeus

with delicate blush-coloured flowers, especially that figured

in the Botanical Register, Tab. 1297, which was regarded

by Roxburgh as the type of the Linnean species. (. lati-

Sfolium and zeylanicum were regarded by Herbert as varicties

of one species, which he called C. ornatum, which is widely

distributed through the tropical and subtropical zones of the

_ Old World. From all the forms of thts, our present plant

may be known by its. long pedicels and very large spathe-

valves. Mr. Macowan gathered it wild many years ago in

No-man’s Land, near the south-western frontier of Natal, and

and from thence brought bulbs into cultivation. We have

had it growing for some time in the Palm-house at Kew, and

the drawing was made from a plant that flowered there this

present spring.

Descr. Bulb reaching a diameter of nine or ten inches,

sheathed with brown tunics and produced into a neck nearly

a foot long below the rosette of leaves. Leaves twelve or

fifteen to a rosette, spreading, lorate, bright green, thin and

rather fleshy in texture, reaching a length of three or four

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1878.

feet, three or four inches broad, narrowed gradually to an

acute point, the edge narrowly cartilaginous and obscurely

denticulate. Scape stout, lateral, green, three or four feet

long, slightly compressed. Outer spathe-valves lanceolate,

reaching a length of five or six inches; bracteoles also very

long, linear-filiform. Umbel ten to fifteen-flowered ; pedicels

reaching a length of two or three inches. Ovary green,

oblong, under an inch long at the flowering time; tube

curved, greenish, three or four inches long; limb horizontal,

permanently funnel-shaped, as long as the tube; segments

oblong, acute, pale pink, without any deeper-coloured dorsal

band. Filaments contiguous, declinate, a little shorter than

the perianth-segments; anthers linear. Style parallel with

the filaments, not exserted.— J. G@. Baker.

Tas. 6382.

RUELLIA acuraneuta.

Native of Brazil.

Nat. Ord. AcanrHacex.—Tribe Rvuretiiee.

Genus Ruettta, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 1077.)

Roetutia (Arrhostoxylum) acutangula; herba elata v. frutex, glabra v. hirsuta,

ramis 4-gonis, foliis elliptico-ovatis acuminatis nervosis basi in petiolum

angustatis, cymis erectis glanduloso-pubescentibus, bracteolis oblongo-lan-

ceolatis, calycis teretiusculi segmentis obtusis coriaceis integerrimis, corolla

aurantiaco-cocciner ore flavo, tubo lente curvo pollicari, limbi 2-poll. diam-

etro lobis oblongis apice rotundatis, staminibus exsertis.

R. acutangula, Nees in Mart. Herb. Fl. Bras. n. 233, in Flora, 1838, vol. ii. p. 61.

ArrHostoxyLum acutangulum, Nees in Mart. Flor. Bras. Acanth, p. 58.

Pepicuanis sceptrum-marianum, Vellozo, Flor. Flum. iii. t. 104.

A native of shady forests in Brazil, in the neighbourhood

of Rio de Janeiro and elsewhere ; from whence it was intro-

duced into cultivation by Mr. Bull, with whom it flowered in

May of the present year. It is one of the handsomest species

hitherto figured of the splendid genus to which it belongs,

and rivals the R. macrophyllaof ourtab.4448 (Stemonacanthus).

The genus 4Arrhostoxylum, to which Nees latterly referred

this and many other allied Acanthacee, has been reduced to

Ruellia by Bentham in the Genera Plantarum; it contains

many Brazilian species. The figure of 2. acutangula, mn

Vellozo’s ‘ Flora Fluminensis,’ is very characteristic, though

rough ; init the lower leaves are represented as ovate and

rounded at the base, the upper are exactly as in our plant.

Nees describes the species as either glabrous or hirsute, and

the capsule as 12-seeded.

Descr. A large herb or undershrub, glabrous or hirsute ;

erect, branched. Branches obtusely four-angled, stout, green,

most hairy in the hollowed faces between the angles. Leaves

SEPTEMBER lst, 1878.

five to eight inches long, elliptic-ovate, acuminate, narrowed

into the rather stout or slender petiole, along whose sides the

blade is decurrent, many-nerved, the nerves sunk in the

surface and connected by cross-nervules, deep green.

Peduncles axillary, four to six inches long, usually more or

less glandular-hairy, four-angled, erect, rigid, dichotomously

branched with a flower in the forks; branches strict, divari-

cating. Flowers sessile ; bracts elliptic-lanceolate, caducous.

Calyz almost cylindric, one half an inch long; segments

linear-oblong, obtuse, glandular-pubescent, green. Corolla-

tube one inch long, slightly curved, subinflated; limb two

inches in diameter, bright orange-scarlet, yellow at the

throat ; lobes subequal, oblong, rounded at the apex. Stamens

exserted, filaments very slender, united in pairs (a short with

a long one) for half their length, pubescent at the very base ;

anthers oblong. Style very slender, bifid at the apex;

anterior lobe linear revolute, posterior short, much broader,

ovate-lanceolate, slightly recurved.—J. D. H.

bs oe ;

Fig. 1, Longitudinal section of flower ; 2, short and long stamens; 3, ovary :—

all enlarged,

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DENDROBIUM Brruerianvm.

Native of Burma.

Nat. Ord. Orcuibex.—Tribe DeNnpRopiem.

Genus Drenprosium, Swartz (Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. p. 74).

Denprosium Brymerianum; caulibus teretiusculis leviter sulcatis supra basin

incrassatis, foliis lanceolatis acuminatis, racemo laterali paucifloro, bracteis

triangulari-ovatis, floribus 3-poll. diam. aureis, sepalis ovato-lanceolatis sub-

acutis, petalis equilongis lineari-oblongis obtusiusculis, labello explanato

circumscriptione late ovato-triangulari v. cordato obtuso disco subpaleaceo-

papilloso, lobis lateralibus brevibus fimbriato-ciliatis ciliis subulatis margine

ciliolatis, lobo-terminali ovato fimbriis ipso longioribus dichotome ramosis

ciliolatis elegantissime circumdato, columna brevi, anthera 3-loba.

D. Brymerianum, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1875, part 2, p, 323, and 1876, p. 366.

This is certainly the most beautiful of the orange-coloured

Dendrobes, and the most singular; nothing can exceed the

elegance of the long-branched fimbriation of the lip, and the

flowers themselves are the largest of the section. Reichen-

bach first described it as a connecting link between the

sections Stachyobium and Dendrocoryne. One of its nearest

figured allies is the well-known D. jfimbriatum (tab. 4160),

from which it widely differs in the narrower longer sepals and

petals, and in the form and enormously long fimbriation of the

lip. Dr. Reichenbach further remarks that all the six flowers

he examined had a strong tendency to become triandrous,

which seems to be the case in our specimen also ; he describes

the bracts as half as long as the pedicel and ovary, which is

not the case in the specimen here figured.

D. Brymerianum was dedicated by its describer to W. E.

Brymer, Esq., M.P., of Islington House, Dorchester, who

first flowered it in 1875, the plant having, it is supposed, been

one of Mr. Lowe’s importations from Burma. It has since

then been flowered in great perfection by Mr. Salt, of Ferni-

church, Shiply, and of Messrs. Veitch, to whom I am indebted

for the opportunity of having it figured.

Descr. Stems a foot high and upwards, terete, faintly

SEPTEMBER lst, 1878.

grooved, swollen for the space of four inches, at some inches

above the base, to double or treble their diameter elsewhere.

Leaves distichous, four to five inches long, lanceolate, acu-

minate, many-nerved, rather stiff. Raceme lateral, toward

the summit of the stem, few-flowered ; bracts one half to three

fourths inches long, triangular-ovate or oblong; pedicel with

ovary two inches long. Flowers three inches in diameter,

golden yellow, the side-lobes of the lip almost orange. Sepals

ovate-lanceolate, subacute, straight. Petals narrower, linear-

oblong, rather obtuse. Jip triangular-cordate in outline;

the short lateral lobes turned up and fimbriated with short

ciliolate flexuose processes; middle lobe ovate, obtuse, its

very broad base gradually dilating into the lateral lobes, its

margins ornamented with dichotomously branched flexuose

pendent ciliolate processes, almost as long as the lip itself;

disk of lip papillose with short subulate processes. Column

very short; anther-cap 3-lobed.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Lip; 2, front; and 3, lateral view of the column :—all enlarged.

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SAXIFRAGA Mawerana.

Native of Morocco.

Nat. Ord, SaxrrracacrE®.—Tribe SaxIFRAGER.

Genus Saxirraca, Linn. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 635).

Saxirraca Maweana; cespitosa, sparse laxe patentim pilosa, surculis floriferis

superne erectis nudis y. paucifoliatis, foliis longe petiolatis reniformi-orbicu-

latis 3-5 lobis, superioribus in axillis gemmas incrassatas stipitatas gerentibus,

lobis obtuse 8-5-lobulatis petiolo lato, caulinis lineari-oblongis, panicula longe

et laxe ramosa sparsiflora glanduloso-pilosa floribus $ poll. diam. pedicellatis,

calycis segmentis ovato-oblongis apice rotundatis tubum subsphericum ex-

cedentibus, petalis albis obovato-spathulatis, stylis erectis apicibus recurvis.

S. Maweana, Baker in Gard. Chron, 1871, p. 1855, (cum Ie. Xylog.; Ball, Spicileg.

Fl. Maroce. 448.

The presence of an Alpine looking Saxifrage of the group of

our English and Scotch &. Aypnoides, and with even larger flowers

than that plant has, was scarcely to be looked for in the

African coasts, for though the said group is essentially West

European, extending from Scotland to the greater Atlas, it is

toa great extent a moisture-loving one. 8S. Maweana was

discovered, in 1827, by the late eminent botanist, P. B. Webb,

of Paris, in its only known habitat, rocks of the Beni

Hosmar range of mountains opposite Tetuan, at about 2000

feet elevation, and by whom it was regarded as a form of S.

globulifera, nor was it found to be an unpublished species

till it was again gathered by Mr. Maw in 1869, and by him

introduced into cultivation. On being referred to Mr. Baker,

it was immediately recognised as very distinct from any of the’

Dactyloides group, and named in honour of its re-discoverer.

Latterly it has been fully described in the Spicilegium Flore

Maroccane, by Mr. Ball, in company with whom and Mr.

Maw, I had the pleasure of gathering it in its original habi-

tat in 1871. The nearest affinity of S. Maweana is, as Mr.

Baker has pointed out, the 8. globulifera, Desf., a species which

extends from the mountains of southern Spain to those of both

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1878.

the Algerian and greater Atlas, but which has not been

met with on Beni Hosmar, and which differs in its much

smaller size, cuneate leaves, short, more ovate calyx-lobes, and

comparatively minute flowers. §&. Maweana has for the last

few years been a well-known and highly-prized rock-plant,

flowering in May and June; our specimen is drawn from a

Kew plant.

Descr. Forming large rather loose tufts, laxly hairy all

over with soft sometimes glandular spreading hairs, especially

on the inflorescence. Leaves with the linear flattened grooved

petiole one to two anda half inches long, lower laxly rosulate,

blade orbicular-reniform 3-cleft to the middle or with the

lateral lobes cleft when they are 5-cleft; lobes obtusely 3-5-

lobulate or toothed, mid-lobe cuneate-obovate; upper radical

leaves cuneate, 3-fid, with pedicelled thickened leaf-buds. in

their axils. Peduncles four to six inches long, erect, loosely

paniculately branched; bracts linear. Flowers three-quar-

ters of an inch in diameter, white, shortly pedicelled. Calyx

glandular ; tube almost spherical; lobes longer than the

tube, oblong, rounded at the tip. Petals obovate-spathu-

late, rounded at the tip, veins white. Stamens with yellow

anthers. Styles erect with recurved stigmatic tips, half as

long as the petals—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower cut longitudinally ; 2, petal; 3, styles :—all enlarged.

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FRITILLARIA Hooxkeri.

Native of Sikkim.

Nat. Ord. Liwiackz.—Tribe Tu irex.

Genus Frititiaria, Linn. (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xiv. p. 251).

Frititrarta (Notsotirton) Hookeri; bulbo ovoideo tunicis brunneis mem-

branaceis, caule 1-2-pedali, foliis 6-10 linearibus sessilibus sparsis alternis,

floribus 3-8 in racemum laxum dispositis, bracteis solitariis linearibus,

pedicellis brevibus cernuis, perianthii infundibularis roseo-lilacini pollicaris

vel sesquipollicaris segmentis obtusis basi obscure foveolatis interioribus ob-

lanceolato-oblongis exterioribus oblanceolatis, staminibus perianthio paulo

brevioribus, filamentis filiformibus, antheris parvis oblongis, stylo apice

stigmatoso tricuspidato, ramis subulatis falcatis, capsulis obovoideo-oblongis

obtuse angulatis apice umbilicatis, seminibus crebris discoideis.

F. (Notholirion) Hookeri, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. xiv. p. 269.

Li1um (Notholirion), Hookeri, Baker in Gard. Chron. 1871, p. 201.

The present specics forms with Fritillaria macrophylla of

D. Don (better known under Wallich’s name of Lihum

roseum, under which it is figured, Bot. Mag. t. 4725, or Lind-

ley’s of Lilium Thomsonianum) a group intermediate between

the Lilies and the Fritillaries, but in my view with the balance

of character leaning decidedly in favour of the latter. It is

a much less robust plant than F. macrophylla, and so far as

at present known is restricted to the Lachong valley in Sik-

kim, where it grows at an elevation of nine thousand or ten

thousand feet above sea-level. It was first gathered by

Sir Joseph Hooker in 1849. . For its introduction into culti-

vation we are indebted to the recent visit of Mr. Elwes, from

one of whose bulbs presented to the Royal Gardens, which

flowered in the summer of the present year, the drawing was

made.

Descr. Bulb ovoid, about an inch in diameter, with a firm

brown membranous tunic and a dense tuft of slender root-

fibres. Stem erect, glabrous, terete, one to two feet in length,

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1878.

including the inflorescence. Leaves six to ten below the in-

florescence, linear, distant, sessile, alternate, the lower five or

six inches long, the upper ones growing gradually smaller.

Flowers three to eight in a lax raceme, which occupies about

a third of the whole stem, on short cernuous pedicels, brac-

teated each by a solitary reduced linear leaf; upper flowers

about an inch, lower an inch and a half long. Perianth

funnel-shaped, pale rose-lilac, the inner segments oblanceo-

late-oblong, three-eighths to half an inch broad above the

middle, the outer three narrower, all furnished at the base

inside with an obscure roundish foveole. Stamens rather de-

clinate, nearly as long as the perianth-segments; filaments

filiform; anthers small, purplish, oblong. Ovary clavate;

style cleft at the tip into three falcate subulate stigmatose

forks. Capsule small, obovoid-oblong, shallowly sulcate

between the cells, umbilicate at the apex. Seeds densely

packed, discoid, bright brown.—J/. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, Inner segment of the perianth :—enlarged.

MS del JNugent Fitch lith : Vincent Brodas Day & Saale ;

Tas. 6386.

HEDYSARUM MACKENZII.

Native of North and Arctic America.

Nat. Ord. Lecuminosa.—Tribe HepysareZ.

Genus Hepysarvum, Linn. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 570).

Hepysarum Mackenzii,; herbacea, gracilis, ramosus, ramis decumbentibus dein

ascendentibus teretibus foliisque pube appressa subgriseis, foliolis 5-7-jugis

cum impari ellipticis v. lineari-oblongis obtusis retusis v. subacutis enerviis, sti-

ase basiconnatis subulatis,racemis longe stricte pedunculatis multifloris, flori-

us remotiusculis breviter pedicellatis, bracteis minutis deciduis, calycis seg--

mentis lanceolato subulatis ccrolla rosea ter brevioribus, vexillo obovato

breviter 2-lobo, alis lineari-oblongis carina truncata brevioribus, legumine 4-7-

articulato, articulis orbicularibus compressis grosse venosis.

H. Mackenzii, Richardson in Appendix to Franklin's Voy. ed. 2, p. 28; Hook Fi.

Bor. Am. vol. i. p. 155; Torr. & Gr. Fl. N. Am. vol. i. p. 357; Porter €

Coulter, Synops. Fl. Colorado, p. 31.

H. canescens, Nutt. ; Torr. € Gr. l. e.

H. dasycarpum, Turez.; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. i. 706.

A very beautiful herb or almost undershrub, conspicuous

for the abundance of its bright rose-coloured flowers disposed

in long racemes. It was discovered by Sir John Richardson

during Franklin’s arduous and perilous journey to the shores

of the American polar ocean in 1823, along the whole shores

of which it stretches, and since that period it has been found

on the Rocky Mountains as far south as the sources of the

Saskatchewan River, in Utah and Colerado, and in East

Siberia at Ajan on the Sea of Ochotsk. Like all other plants

which have a wide distribution in longitude from the Arctic

regions southward, it varies greatly in stature, ramification,

and in the size of the flower; the polar specimens being but

a few inches high, with fewer leaves, fewer pinnules on them,

and flowers half as large again as those of the specimen here

figured. This state of it would be a most desirable acquisi-

tion for the Rock-work Garden.

Very closely allied to H. Mackenzii is the beautiful H.

OCTOBER lst, 1878.

boreale, Nutt., which is also Arctic American, but does not

extend so far to the southward along the Rocky Mountains ;

it extends, however, further to the west, inhabiting the

arctic regions of Asia, as also further east, to Northern

Canada and the Alleghany Mountains. It is very similar to

H. Mackenzii, but has distinctly nerved leaves and shorter

calyx segments; it has been in cultivation at Kew.

H. Mackenzii flowers annually in the Herbaceous Ground

at Kewin July and August.

Duscr. A herb with perennial rootstock, or slender under-

shrub, clothed with appressed minute strict grey hairs with

roughened surfaces ; branches very slender, decumbent, ascend-

ing and straggling. Leaves four to six inches long, petiole

very slender, leaflets five to seven pairs with an odd one,

hardly petiolulate, one half to one inch long, oblong or ob-

ovate- or linear-oblong, rounded or retuse at the tip, nerve-

less ; stipules minute, membranous, subulate-lanceolate, usually

united below. Raceme slender, usually long-peduncled,

strict, many-flowered. Flowers scattered, three-fourths to

one inch long, horizontal or ascending or drooping, rose-

purple, pedicels short; bracts minute, deciduous. Calyx one-

sixth to one-fourth of an inch long, silvery-hoary, tube short,

rounded at the base; segments subulate-lanceolate. Standard

obovate, notched, reflexed beyond the middle ; wings linear-

oblong, obtuse, shorter than the keel, which is obliquely trun-

cate. Pod one to two inches long, of four to seven orbicular

flattened deeply-veined joints with crenate margins.

J. D.

Figs. 1 and 2, Standards; 3,wings and keel; 4, calyx and stamens; 5 and 6,

anthers; 7, calyx and ovary; 8, pod; 9, the same laid open :--all but 8 and 9

enlarged. ;

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ARISTOLOCHIA rrirosata.

Native of the West Indies and Brazil. .

Nat. Ord. ArrstoLocuiacE®.—Tribe ArisToLOcHIE®.

Genus Aristotocuts, Linn. (Duchartre in A. DO. Prodr. vol. xv. pars i. p. 432.

AristotocH1a (Gymnolobus) trilobata ; caulibus gracillimis scandentibus ramosis,

foliis latis trilubis v. ‘tripartitis rarius subintegris basi rotundatis v. cordatis

sinubus rotundatis lobis breviter oblongis omnibus apice rotundatis v. inter-

medio acuto, supra glaberrimis subtus molliter pubescentibus nervis glabris,

petiolo longiusculo, pseudostipulis renifornibus v. ovato-cordatis, perianthii

utriculo basi 6-calcarato amplo ovoideo v. oblongo, tubo paulo longiore

cylindraceo, ore rotundato vix ampliato marginibus patenti-recurvis, fauce.

patentim piloso, labio parvo ovato lateribus reflexis basi non cordato in cau-

dam perianthio toto bis terve longiorem desinente.

A. trilobata, Zinn.; Plum. Ic. Mise. vol. i, £48, f.2; Jacq. Eelog. vol. i, p- 43,

t. 26; Martius Fl. Bras. t, 90; Duchartre in A. DO. 1. c. 444; Griseb. Fl.

Brit., W. Ind. p. 299; Flor. des Serres, t. 1402.

A. trifida, Zamk. Eneycl. vol. i. p. 251.

‘A. Caracasana, Spreng. Syst. Veg. vol. iii. p. 753.

Howaronza trifida, Klotzsch in Monatsh. Berl. Akad. 1853, p. 617.

H. trolobata, Klotasch, 1. ¢.

_ Two species of Aristolochia from South America, char-

acterised by the wonderful tail at the tip of the perianth,

and curious spurs at its base, have been cultivated in

England, and confounded with a third (4. caudata), which

has not hitherto been introduced. These are, first, the

old A. ¢rilobata of Linneus’s first edition of the Species

Plantarum, taken up from Plumier’s Catalogue which was pub-

lished in the beginning of last century ; of this, our plate is the

first representation from cultivated specimens. Secondly,

A. macroura, Gomez, a Brazilian species, figured under the

name of A. ¢rilobata in the Botanical Register, t. 1399, and

under that of A. caudata, at t. 1453 of the same work, and at

t. 3769 of the Botanical Magazine. The true 4. caudata,

OCTOBER lst, 1878.

Linn., is a small-flowered species with no spurs at the base of

the perianth, and a much shorter tail, it is a native of

Hispaniola, and, as above stated, has never been in cultivation

in so far as I know.

Aristolochia trilobata has an extended distribution, from

Jamaica, and many other West Indian Islands to Guiana,

and to Bahia in Brazil, and as with so many other species of

the genus, is said to be used by the negroes as a cure for

snake bites. The drawing was kindly executed by Miss E.

A. Ormerod, from a plant which flowered at Kew in July.

Drscr. A very slender climber, with glabrous almost

filiform branches, and scattered leaves of a bronze-green

colour. Leaves very variable, very broadly ovate, or reniform-

ovate, or orbicular in outline, two to four inches in diameter,

more or less three-lobed, sometimes more than half way down,

with obtuse, erect or spreading lobes, and rounded sinus be-

tween them, glabrous above, beneath clothed with a very

firm pubescence ; base truncate, rounded or cordate; nerves

spreading from the tip of the petiole finely reticulate ; petiole

slender, about as long as the blade or shorter, often tortuous ;

stipular leaf orbicular, with revolute margins. Flowers pale

dull green, mottled with brown, the terminal lobe and tail

deep brown. Peduncle and very slender ovary together

three to four inches long. Perianth variable in size; basal

part oblong, one to two inches long, inflated, suddenly con-

tracted at the base, and there furnished with six reflexed

obtuse elongated conical spurs; tubular part as long as the

basal or longer, sharply reflexed upon its cylindrical, with

a circular expanded hairy mouth; bristly and spotted within

with dark purple ; lips reflexed ; terminal lobe (like the oper-

culum of a Nepenthes), curved over the mouth of the tube,

broadly ovate with reflected sides, suddenly contracted into a

twisted very slender tail about twice the length of the rest

of the perianth. Anthers six to eight, united with the styles into

a tubular eight-cleft cup with acute lobes. Capsule large, cylin-

dric, two to four inches long.

Pig. 1, Dorsal view of perianth ; 2, spurs at base of perianth: 3, column of

anthers and stigmas ; 4, longitudinal section of ditto :—all but fig. 1 enlarged.

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CC@LOGYNE (Prerone) Hooxnriana.

Native of the Sikkim Himalaya.

Nat Ord. OrcnipE2.—Tribe MaraxipEz.

Genus Caocyne, Lindl, : (Lindl. Fol. Orchid. Calogyne, sect. Pleione.

Catocyng (Pleione) Hookeriana ; pseudobulbis nudis ovoideis levibus, foliis

synanthiis scapum superantibus elliptico-lanceolatis acuminatis plicatis,

vaginis levibus, bractea spathacea ovarium equante, sepalis petalisque

consimilibus, labello convoluto cylindraceo antice explanato apice retuso,

marginibus erosis, disco lamellis 7 crinitis ornato, columna gracili, clinandrio

cuneiformi angulis recurvis.

C. Hookeriana, Lindl. 1. ¢. p. 14.

Dr. Lindley has well remarked in describing this species,

that it differs from all its congeners of the Pleione group in

leafing and flowering at the same time ; I do not, however,

understand his statement to the effect that it further differs

in that “the parts of the flower do not taper to the base,”

for in this respect I see no difference between it and other

Pleiones. There are certainly either two forms of this in the

Sikkim mountains, or the lip affords a_ very variable

character ; of these forms I made drawings in Sikkim from

wild specimens; one of them agrees admirably with

that here given, but in the other the lip is not convolute in-

to a cylinder for three-fourths of its length, and then

expanded into a trumpet-shaped spotted mouth ; but is more

open from the base, like a coal-scuttle or scoop, and is

rhomboid when spread open, and there is further no distine-

tion between the lobes ; and there are no spots. This last

form occurred at a higher elevation (9-10,000 ft.) than the

other, which grows at 7-8000 ft., and I have seen a

specimen of it gathered by Jacquemont, No. 208, (2304

Herb. Paris) in the Western Himalaya. Dr. Lindley has

included both the forms under the same name.

OCTOBER lst, 1878.

Ceelogyne Hookeriana is a spring flowering species, common

in moist-mossy banks in Sikkim at the altitudes cited above.

I am indebted for the accompanying drawing by Miss

P. H. Woolward, to Mr. Elwes, who imported the plant from

Sikkim, and flowered it in May of the present year.

Descr. Whole plant one to five inches high. Pseudobulbs

one half to one inch long, ovoid, smooth, not grooved nor

covered with a net work. Sheaths at the base of the scape

quite smooth, appressed, finely grooved. Leaf solitary,

appearing with the flower, membranous, one to two inches

long, elliptic lanceolate, acuminate, finely plaited, deep bright

green. Scape shorter than the leaf, slender, one-flowered.

Flower two to two and a half inches across the petals, bright

rose colour, except the pale lip, which is blotched at the apex

with pale brown purple. Sepals and petals very variable in

breadth, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, spreading. Lip as long

as the sepals or longer, convolute and cylindric for as far as

the lateral lobes extend, then expanded into a small green

retuse terminal lobe that is almost continuous with the

lateral ; disk with seven slender crested lamellae. Column

quite free, very slender, expanded and cuneate at the tip,

with acute lateral angles that are recurved.—J. D. H.

_ Fig. 1, Front, and 2, lateral view of the tip of the column and anther :—

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STACHYS MAwWEANA.

Native of Marocco.

Nat. Ord. Laprata.—Tribe SracHyDEZz.

Genus Stacuys, Linn. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 1208,.

Sracnys Maweana ; perennis, albo-lanata, caulibus adscendentibus robustis

obtuse 4-gonis foliosis, foliis inter minoribus longe petiolatis ovato-cordatis

‘ subacutis grosse crenato-serratis bullatis, floralibus brevius petiolatis angus-

tioribus basi acutis, verticillastris paucifloris, calycis tubuloso-campanulati

dentibus triangulari-oyatis acutis vix mucronatis, corolle stramines pur-

pureo-maculate tubo calycem excedente, labio superiore brevi concavo

integro, inferiore late obovato-oblongo lobis lateralibus angustis antice rotun-

datis intermedio rotundato, sinubus inter lobos angustis acutis, genitalibus

glaberrimus, antherarum loculis divaricatis. .

S. Maweana, Ball Spicileg Flor. Maroce. (in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. xvi.) p. 626.

A tall branched “ wound wort,” conspicuous for its silvery

hoary character. The genus to which it belongs (Stachys)

contains above two hundred species, of which few are worthy

of cultivation for ornament; and our object in selecting the

present for publication was not so much for its silvery ap-

pearance or flowers as because, though named after an

eminent horticulturist, it has been but imperfectly described

by its author. In his ‘ Flora of Maroceo,’ Mr. Ball says that

he has seen only an imperfect specimen, collected by Mr.

Mawe between Sektana and Frouga in Southern Marocco, and

of which he describes the leaves as cuneate at the base, the

flowers large for the genus, and the corolla he suspects to be

purple. Fortunately, Mr. Mawe considered the plant worthy

of cultivation, and introduced it into his garden at Benthall

Hall, where it flowered in the month of July, and afforded

good specimens, from which the drawing now published was

made. From this it will be seen that the leaves are really

cordate at the base, and the flowers straw-coloured, with

purple blotches on the lip.

OCTOBER Ist, 1878.

Drsor. A perennial rooted branched herb, clothed with

soft spreading silvery white hairs. Branches obtusely four-

angled, rather soft, a foot and more high. Leaves spreading,

blade one inch long, ovate-cordate, subacute, deeply crenate-

toothed, much raised between the impressed nerves, grey-

green above; floral leaves equalling the flowers, narrower,

shortly petioled or sessile, with cuneate bases; petiole of

cauline leaves longer than the blade, stout, horizontal. Flowers

in false whorls, collected into a narrow oblong obtuse leafy

spike, very shortly pedicelled, few in each whorl ; bracteoles

inconspicuous. Cu/yx one fourth of an inch long, narrowly

' campanulate, woolly, with faint nerves ; mouth oblique, with

five triangular ovate acute but hardly mucronate teeth.

Corolla one half an inch long, and as broad across the lips,

softly hairy externally; tube rather longer than the calyx,

with an obscure ring of hairs within half way up, pale straw-

coloured, with purple blotches on the lower lip; upper lip

small, concave, obtuse, arched ; lower much larger, an oblong

square in outline with rounded angles, and the narrow acute

sinus between the lobes about half way between the base and

tip; lateral lobes narrow, with rounded ends that hardly

project laterally ; terminal lobe nearly orbicular, retuse or

emarginate. /aments stout; anthers purple, cells short,

divaricating. Ovary and style glabrous.—J. D. H.

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VERONICA TRAVERSII.

Native of New Zealand.

Nat. Ord. ScropHuLaRiack#.—Tribe DicitTaLe2.

Genus Veroytoa, Linn. (Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. vol. ii, p. 964.)

Veronica (Hebe) Traversii ; frutex parvus, glaber, confertim ramosus, foliis

approximatis uniformibus decussatis patentibus brevissime petiolatis elliptico-

ovatis - lanceolatisve subacutis integerrimis supra canaliculatis subtus

carinatis crasse coriaceis enerviis, racemis subterminalibus breviter peduncu-

latis gracilibus breviusculis densifloris, rachi pedicellisque brevibus uberulis,

bracteis sepalisque oblongis obtusis ciliolatis, corolle nivee tu sepala

plus minusve superante, lobis subequalibus late oblongis obtusis, filamentis

robustis, capsula late ellipsoidea compressa glabra.

V. Traversii, Hook. f. Handbook of New Zealand Flora, p. 208; Masters in

Gard. Chron. 1873, p. 1046.

This little shrub is a member of a group of New Zealand

Veronicas allied to the V. elliptica, Forst. (Tab. 242), which

are exceedingly difficult of discrimination, inhabit the Alps

chiefly of the middle Island of New Zealand, and are singularly

- protean in habit, foliage, and inflorescence. Dr. Mueller in

his work on the Vegetation of the Chatham Plants has indeed

referred some fifteen of these to one species (to which he has

applied the new name of V. Forsteri), an extreme view not

likely to find favour with the New Zealand botanists ;

singularly enough he has not ‘ncluded under this aggregate

species the V. Traversii, which is one of the commonest 0

them, and one of the most difficult to dis sh in all states.

Whatever its specific value, there can be no doubt of its

horticultural interest, for there is not a more beautiful object

of the kind, than a well-grown plant of V. Traversi, which

forms a symmetrical ball ere to four feet in diameter, com-

letely powdered with white flowers in midsummer.

< V. “rradleveii is a native of the Alps of the middle Tsland of

New Zealand, from Nelson to Otago, by margins of streams,

OCTOBER Ist, 1878.

and at elevations of 3,000 to 5,500 feet ; it has stood uninjured

in the open air at Kew for several years, but it cannot be

expected to withstand the occasional severe winters of this

part of England; in the west and in Ireland it grows with

great luxuriance, and is no doubt perfectly hardy. It flowers

in the months of June, July, and August.

Descr. A glabrous bush, forming a round green ball two

feet and upwards in diameter ; branches strict, opposite, erect

or ascending, cylindric, clothed densely with spreading leaves

in four rows. eaves one half to one inch long, decussate,

horizontal, very uniform in size and form on the branches,

petioled, elliptic-ovate or lanceolate, with quite entire carti-

laginous margins, subacute at both ends, channelled above,

keeled beneath, nerveless, rather pale green, hardy shining.

Racemes subterminal, one to three inches long, shortly pe-

duncled, cylindric or ovoid, obtuse, many-flowered ; rachis ~

slender, puberulous; bracts oblong, green, ciliolate, coriaceous,

variable in size ; pedicels very variable in length, sometimes

evanescent. Flowers one third of an inch in diameter, snow-

white. Sepals broadly oblong, erect, green, ciliolate, closely

applied to the capsule, and half its length. Corolla-tube very

variable, equalling or exceeding (rarely by twice their length)

the sepals; lobes subequal, shortly oblong, concave, rounded

at the tip. Stamens with stout exserted filaments, and oblong

purple-brown anthers which are two-lobed at the base. Capsule

one sixth of an inch long, broadly ellipsoid, compressed, twice

as long as the sepals. Seeds pale, angular.—J. D. H.

Figs. 1 and 2, Flowers ; 3, corolla laid open; 4 and 5, anthers; 6 and 7, calyx

and capsule :—all enlarged.

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ANTIRRHINUM. uispanicum.

Native of Spain.

Nat. Ord. ScropHuLaRINEZ.—Tribe ANTIRRHINEZ.

Genus Antirauinem, Linn. (Benth. et Hook, f. Gen. Plant. vol.ii. p. 934).

Antrrruium (Antirrhinastrum) hispanicum; glanduloso-villosum, caule e basi

tortuoso-ramoso, ramulis brevibus adscendentibus, foliis parvis breviter petio-

latis plerumque alternis ovato- v. oblongo-lanceolatis subacutis v. obtusis,

racemo interrupto paucifloro, floribus breviter pedicellatis, calycis segmentis

ovatis v. ovato-oblongis acutis, corolla pollicari pubescente pallide purpurea,

palato stramineo, capsula late ovoidea, seminibus rugosis.

A. hispanicum, Chavanne Monogr. p. 83; Benth. in A. DC. Prod. vol. x. p. 291;

Willk. é Lange, Fl. Hisp. vol. ii. p. 584; Boiss. € Reut. Pugill. 1852, p. 81.

A. glutinosum, Boiss. é Reut. 1. ¢. 82; Willk. é Lange, 1. ¢.

A. glutinosum var. rupestre, Willk. é Lange, l. ¢.

A. rupestre, Boiss. é Reut. 1. c. ; non Bourg. Pl. Esp. 1851.

A. molle, Boiss. partim.

This dwarf species of Snap-dragon forms a small bushy

herb, with copious large flowers of a very delicate colour,

and has continued flowering for at least three months of the

present year, whieh has been singularly favourable to the

herbaeeous plants at Kew. It is a native of many parts of

Spain, from the Pyrenees southwards, and is found on the

walls of the Alhambra. It varies a little in habit, and in the

form of the calyx-lobes, as is the case with other species of

the genus; and I cannot, after a comparison of numerous

specimens, regard 4. glutinosum of Boissier and Reuter as

anything but a form of it, which is quite indistinguishable

ina dry state. Our plant was raised at Kew from seed sent

by Mr. Thompson of Ipswich, as 4. rupesire, Boiss. and

Reuter, a species reduced by Willkomm and Lange in their

‘Flora Hispanica,” to a variety of A. glutmosum. The A.

molle, also a plant of Spain, which has been confounded with

this, is a very different species, having short procumbent

branches, and being copiously clothed with white woolly hairs.

OCTOBER Ist, 1878.

Descr. A small, much and rather tortuously branched herb,

with a woody rootstock, copiously clothed with glandular

hairs; branches ascending, a foot high and less, slender,

flexuous, leafy. Leaves alternate, or sometimes a few oppo-

site ones on the shoots, spreading ‘and recurved, one-third to

two-thirds of an inch long, ovate or ovate- oblong, or lanceo-

late, subacute or obtuse, glandular-pubescent on both sur-

aces, pale green; nerves very inconspicuous. lowers sub-

erect, an inch long, in short terminal flexuous racemes;

pedicels one-sixth to one-fourth of an inch long, slender.

Calyz-segments short, ovate-oblong or lanceolate, acute.

Corolla pale rose-coloured, with a yellow palate, pubescent all

over; upper lip with short obtuse reflexed lobes ; ; lower of

two rounded lobes, with a small intermediate one, which is

reflexed and very variable in shape, being ovate, oblong, or

orbicular. Filaments glabrous. Ovary and style pubescent.

Capsule broadly ovoid. Seeds deeply pitted.—/. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower; 2, calyx; 8, corolla laid open, showing inside of upper lip and

stamens; 4, stamens; 5, ovary and style :—all enlarged.

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: CENTAUREA FENZLII.

Native of Armenia.

Nat. Ord. Composirz.—Tribe CyNAROIDE.

Genus Centaurea, Linn. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 477).

Centaurea (Acrocentron), Fenzlii; erecta, robusta, grisea, subarachnoidea, caule

robusto sulcato folioso, foliis amplis asperulis inferioribus petiolatis ovato- v.

oblongo-cordatis apice rotundatis, superioribus sessilibus v. breviter decurren-

tibus, omnibus integerrimis v. obsolete sinuatis, costa valida, nervis numerosis

horizontaliter divaricatis, nervulis reticulatis, pedunculis elongatis validis

simplicibus v. bifurcatis, ramis nudis sulcatis monocephalis, capitulis sequipolli-

caribus, involucri depresso-globosi bracteis lamina brevi quadrata in ap-

pendices adpressos multo latiores semi-orbiculatos inermes creberrime ciliatos

desinentes, floribus flavis, acheniis brevibus nudis, pappi purpurei setis longiori-

bus achenio duplo longioribus.

C. Fenzlii, Reichardt, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Vindob., 1863, ea. Boiss. Fl. Orient.,

vol. iii., 672. Carriere in Rev. Hortic., 1868, p. 306. Fig. 39.

This is certainly the noblest Centaury hitherto introduced

into cultivation, and is indeed a very stately plant; with

bold spreading foliage, a strict erect stem, and numerous very

long erect or ascending one- to two-headed axillary pe-

duncles, that together form a sort of nude umbel of globose

heads capped with an almost golden ray of florets. Though

a very little known. plant, it has, according to Boissier’s

‘Flora Orientalis,’ been in cultivation for a good many years.

For it is known only from plants raised from seed sent to

Vienna by the late indefatigable Oriental botanical traveller,

Kotschy, who discovered it in Southern Armenia, at the foot

of the Bindoeldagh, near Gumgum, a town north-east of

Lake Van, and which in our maps is placed in Kurdistan,

towards the southern border of Armenia. It belongs to a_

section of the genus containing several species of gigantic

stature, and one of which, C. Kurdica, attains seven feet in

height. Carriere, who described it very imperfectly in

1868 from garden specimens, says it was then new and pro-

bably from Asia, giving it the name of C. Fenzlii without

NOVEMBER Ist, 1878.

any further authority, or any indication of its origin, whence

we are led to suppose that it was cultivated in the Jardin des

Plantes of Paris, under the name originally given to it by

Reichardt. Our specimens were grown by Mr. Ware, of

Hale Farm Nurseries, Tottenham, with whom it flowered in

August of this year.

Descr. A tall stout erect biennial, of a grey green colour,

thinly clothed with cobwebby pubescence. Stems strict,

stout, erect, deeply grooved, unbranched, leafy, as thick as

the thumb at the base. Leaves spreading horizontally, very

large, some a foot and a half long, on long or short petioles,

broadly oblong or ovate, cordate with a rounded tip ; upper

gradually smaller, sessile, or shortly semi-amplexicaul and

decurrent on the stem, all minutely rough on both surfaces,

quite entire or obscurely sinuate, with a stout midrib, and

many horizontally spreading reticulating nerves. Peduncles

very numerous, axillary, solitary, erect, or suberect, two feet

long, stout, grooved, simple or once forked, with a small ob-

tuse leaf at its fork. Heads large. Involucre one and a half

inches in diameter, depressed-spherical, much contracted at

the mouth, hard, pale brown; bracts with a short quadrate

limb, and much broader simi-orbicular strongly ciliate hard

convex faintly nerved appendage, which has no trace of a

spe. lowers in a spreading mass, scarcely equalling the

diameter of the involucre ; bright yellow. Corolla witha long

slender tube, and a tubular oblique limb ; lobes very narrow.

Achenes very short, smooth ; pappus hairs rigid, purplish, about

twice as long as the achene.—J. D. H

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KURYGAN TA ovaATA.

Native of Peru.

Nat. Ord. Ericem.—Tribe TuipavbDIEx.

Genus Euryeanra, Klotzsch ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. P1., vol. ii. p. 568).

Evryeanta ovata, frutex glaberrimus, ramis elongatis eylindraceis crassiusculis

subscandentibus, apicibus pendulis, foliis sparsis breviter petiolatis ovatis v.

ovato-cordatis acuminatis obscure serratis crasse coriaceis supra saturate

subtus pallide viridibus, petiolo rubro, floribus longe pedicellatis in peduncu-

lum brevem pilosulum axillarem subcorymbosis, bracteis ciliolatis minutis,

pedunculis floribusque rubris, calycis tubo campanulato, lobis late triangulari- .

ovatis obtusis, corolla urceolata levi fauce constricto pallido lobis minutis

recurvis, staminibus corolla multo brevioribus, filamentis in tubum brevem

connatis, antheris linearibus dorso muticis, loculis apice liberis rimis elongatis

dehiscentibus basi barbellatis.

A very beautiful plant, belonging to a genus Now for the

first time figured from cultivated specimens ; nearly allied to

Thibaudia, under which it would have ranked before that

unwieldy genus was revised and broken up by Klotzsch.

As now constituted, Euryganta comprises those Thibaudice of

the older authors, in which the stamens are much shorter than

the corolla, with the filaments coherent into a tube, and the

anther-cells, which are not spurred at the back, opening by

long slits towards the tip. Hitherto about twelve species of

the genus have been described or seen in Herbaria, with none

of which have I been able to identify the plant here figured.

It was discovered by Mr. W. Lobb in the Andes of Peru,

when collecting for Messrs. Veitch, who sent flowermg

specimens for figuring in July of the present year. It forms

a rambling shrub, with sarmentose branches ten to twelve feet

long, and leaves and branches of a brilliant glossy green, re-

lieved by the red petioles. .

Descr. An evergreen shrub, with stout stem and long

rather stout rambling branches, which are cylindric, green,

and pendulous at the end. Leaves scattered, one and a half

to two inches long, recurved on the pendulous branches ;

ovate or ovate-cordate, acuminate, obscurely serrate, deep

NOVEMBER Ist, 1878.

glossy green above, with whitish margins, paler beneath ;

petiole short, stout, red. Flowers in very spreading, shortly

peduncled axillary corymbs four to five inches across ; pe-

duncle green, slender, pilose ; pedicels slender, one inch long,

red, with minute ciliate bracts at the base, slightly thickened

upwards, not articulate with the calyx till the flowers are

dried. Calyx campanulate, dark red; lobes very broad,

obtuse. Corolla one half inch long, terete, quite smooth,

bright red, pale or white at the throat and the short

reflexed limb. Stamens one third shorter than the corolla ;

filaments united into a glabrous tube half the length of the

anthers, which are Straight; the cells parallel, slightly di-

verging above, not spurred at the back, opening for one third

way down by slits; bases shortly produced and bearded.—

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CAMPANULA MACROSTYLA.

Native of the Taurus Mountains.

Nat Ord. CampanuLacE&,—Tribe CAMPANULER.

Genus Campanuta, Linn. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 561).

CaMPANULA (medium) macrostyla; setis rigidis patentibus strigosa, caule elato

robusto folioso superne dichotome ramoso paucifloro, foliis sessilibus inferiori-

bus ovatis v. ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis hispido-ciliatis superioribus

ovato-lanceolatis refiexis, floribus amplis, calycis tubo parvo hemispherico,

lobis magnis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis setoso- ciliatis, fructiferis valde

dilatatis, appendicibus late ovatis v. rotundatis deorsum productis tubum

velantibus cucullatis, corolla turbinato-campanulata intus pilosa violaceo-

reticulata ore ampliato, lobis brevibus triangularibus acutis, stylo elon-

gato, stigmate maximo fusiformi acuto cruribus 3 demum solutis patentibus.

C. macrostyla, Boiss. ¢& Heldr. Diagn. ser. i. pars. 2, p. 65; Boiss. Fl. Orient.

vol. ii. p. 928. Godefroy Lebauf. Rev. Hortic, 1877, p. 307; figs. 51, 52.

The most singular species of Campanula hitherto in-

troduced into English gardens. The rigid habit, bristly,

almost prickly, stem and leaves (like Helminthia echioides),

curious calycine appendages, short gaping corolla, and

wonderful stigma, are all marked characters, which

appear developed in greater excess in this species than in

any other.

It is a native of two places in the Taurus mountains in

Southern Asia Minor; having, according to Bossier, been

found in gravelly soilon the shores of Lake Egirdir in Pisidia

(Anatolia), and in stony places at Ermenek in Isauria (Itchlli

of modern maps). The specimen here drawn flowered at Kew

in July of the present year.

Descr. An annual, one to two feet high, branched from

the base, hispid with rigid spreading scattered bristles ;

branches stout. Leaves scattered, small forthe size of the plant,

sessile, hispid on both surfaces and ciliated with bristles ;

NOVEMBER Ist, 1878.

lower ovate-oblong, acute; upper ovate-lanceolate, recurved,

cordate and auricled at the base. Flowers solitary on stout

peduncles, two to two and half inches in diameter. Calyx-

tube small, broader than long, concealed by the deflexed

bladdery appendages of the lobes, which are ovate-lanceolate,

hispid, and much enlarged in fruit. Corolla broadly cam-

panulate and very open; pale dirty purple externally, within

dull purple reticulated with violet, and hairy towards the

base; lobes very broad, short, and acute. Stamens with

almost orbicular ciliate filaments, and long linear anthers.

Style straight, smooth, long-exserted, surmounted by a large

fusiform acute stigma an inch long and more, which separates

into three linear-oblong segments.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Vertical section of Flower; 2, reticulated venation of the corolla;

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ALBUCA JUNCIFOLIA.

Native of the Cape Colony.

Nat. Ord. Litiacka.—Tribe Scttiex,

Genus Arsuca, Linn. (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. xiii. p. 285).

Axsuca juncifolia: bulbo ovoideo collo haud setoso, foliis 20-80 viridibus sub-

teretibus pedalibus dorso rotundatis facie deorsum canaliculatis primum

obscure puberulis cito calvatis, floribus 10-15 in racemum deltoideum

dispositis, bracteis parvis lanceolatis scariosis, pedicellis apice cernuis in-

ferioribus erecto-patentibus flore subduplo longioribus. floribus luteo-viridibus

inodoris, staminibus exterioribus castratis, stylo prismatico-triquetro ovario

equilongo,

A. juncifolia, Baker in Gard. Chron. 1876, vol, i. p. 534.

This is a well-marked new species of <Albuca, discovered

by Mr. Hutton in the south-eastern portion of Cape Colony,

and sent by him to the Kew collection, where it flowered for

the first time in the summer of 1876. Of the old species it

comes nearest 4. viridifora, Jacq. (Bot. Mag. Tab. 1656), a

plant always very rare and now apparently entirely lost to

cultivation. From this and every other species it may be

recognised at a glance by its numerous bright green rush-

like leaves, which are obscurely downy only in a very early

stage and soon become glabrous. Since the publication of

my monograph of the genus in 1873, no less than eleven new

species have been added to the sixteen previously known, a

striking evidence of the activity with which of late years this

department of botany has been worked. The plate was drawn

from a plant that flowered at Kew in August of this present

ear.

: Descr. Bulb ovoid, about an inch in diameter; the outer

tunies not at all produced beyond its neck in the form of

bristles. Zeaves twenty or thirty to a bulb, cotemporary with

the flowers; subterete, reaching a length of a foot and a

diameter of an eighth or a sixth of an inch, obscurely downy

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only in an early stage, soon becoming glabrous, and bright

green, rounded on the back, tapering to a point, channelled

down the lower half ofthe face. Scape terete, glaucous, eight

to twelve inches long. F/owers inodorous, cernuous, greenish-

yellow, ten to fifteen forming a deltoid panicle four or five

inches long and broad; bracts small, lanceolate, scariose ;

lower pedicels erecto-patent, one and a half or two inches

long. Perianth an inch long, the outer segments oblong,

rather spreading; the three inner permanently connivent,

with conspicuously deflexed papillose tip. ‘Three outer stamens

with flattened filaments and no anthers; three inner shorter,

anther-bearing, with filiform filaments dilated at the base.

Ovary oblong, with the ovules very numerous and tightly

packed in the cells. Style prismatic, about as long as the

ovary.—dJ. G@. Baker. |

Fig. 1, Portion of a leaf; 2, flower cut down the middle; 8, anther-less stamen

of the outer whorl of three; 4, anther-bearing stamen of the inner whorl of three

—all enlarged.

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ERYTHRAA VENUSTA.

Native of California.

Nat. Ord. Gentiantx.—Tribe CurRoniex.

Genus Eryrurma, Linn. (Benth. et Hook, f. Gen, Plant. vol. ii. p. 809).

Eryrur#a venusia,; gracilis, glaberrima, caule spathameo simplici v. parce

dichotome ramoso paucifloro, foliis oblongis ovato-oblongisve basi et apice

rotundatis v. basi subcordatis, pedunculis calyci «equilongis v. brevioribus,

ealycis profunde fissi segmentis lineari-subulatis angustissimis, corolla

poll. diametr. rose, tubo calycem superante, lobis elliptico-oblongis basi

flavis tubo paullo brevioribus, filamentis gracilibus antheris longioribus,

stigmatis lobis ellipsoideis.

E. venusta, Gray, MSS.,; Watson, Bot. of California, vol. i. p. 479.

E. chironioides, Torr. in Mex. Bound. Rep. 156, t. 42 Hael. Syn.

KE. tricantha, Durrand in Pacif. R. R. Rep. vol. v. p. 11, t. 9 non Griseb.

This is the largest flowered of the North American Ery-

threas, which are numerous, especially in the Western

States, from Mexico to Oregon, and in the Rocky Mountains,

forming small annual herbs with pretty star-like usually pink

or rosy flowers. Watson states that #. venusta is common in

California, through all the Southern part of the State, and

along the Sierra Nevada to Sierra county, ascending to 4000

feet elevation. The position of the stigma in the expanded

flower is very curious, the exserted portion of the slender

style, which much exceeds the stamens in length, being turned

down at right angles, so as to assume a horizontal position,

and to be removed entirely away from the anthers.

The spevimen here figured flowered at Kew in August last,

and was raised from seeds collected by Dr. Gray and myself

in California in 1877.

Descr. A slender erect glabrous annual, six to ten inches

high. Stem 4-angled, simple or cymosely branched above,

few-flowered. Leaves in scattered pairs, sessile, half to one

NOVEMBER Ist, 1878.

inch long, oblong or ovate-oblong, rounded at the apex, base

rounded or cordate, upper and floral leaves narrower and

acute or acuminate. Peduneles as long as the calyx or shorter,

Calyz one half inch long, divided nearly to the base into very

slender erect segments which are about one-third shorter

than the corolla-tube. Corolla one inch in diameter, tube

slender ; lobes of the limb elliptic, obtuse, deep rose-coloured,

with yellow at the base; about as long as the tube. Stamens

exserted ; filament very slender, longer than the anthers.

Style very slender, upper half exserted and bent to one side ;

stigmatic lobes ellipsoid.— J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Vertical section of flower; 2, stamen; 3, top of style and stigmatic

lobes :—all enlarged,

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ISMENE TENUIFOLIA.

Native of Ecuador.

Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDACEZ.—Tribe PAaNoRATIE2.

Genus Ismenz, Salish. ; (Kunth, EZnum., vol. v. p. 681).

IsMENE tenuifolia; bulbo globoso tunicis brunneis membranaceis, foliis circiter 6

synanthiis linearibus acutis patulis pedalibus, scapo semipedali unifloro,

bracteis 2 subulatis caducis, ovario sessili oblongo-trigono, perianthii albi

erecti 7—-8-pollicaris tubo viridulo, segmentis linearibus flore expanso falcatis

tubo xquilongis, corone infundibularis tubo fundo luteo striis 6 viridibus

_percurso, margine inter filamentos producto patulo emarginato extus argute

dentato, filamentorum parte libera inflexa semipollicari, antheris parvis line-

aribus luteis, stylo preeter coronam exserto sursum leviter declinato.

This is one of the finest additions that have been made for

a long time to our stock of cultivated Amaryllidaceee. The

plant has been known for nearly a century, for there is a speci-

men from Payon at the British Museum, and it is very singular

that so striking a species should never have been named or

described, We have fine specimens in the Kew herbarium,

gathered by Jamicson and Spruce, in both cases in the neigh-

bourhood of Guyaquil. It grows at a low level, and is only

adapted for stove cultivation. In its native country the time

of flowering seems to extend from December to March. It

has been imported by Messrs. E. G. Henderson and Son, and

the drawing was made from a specimen that flowered with

them last June. :

Descr. Bulb globose, one and a half or two inches im

diameter, with brown membranous tunics. Leaves about

half-a-dozen to a bulb, cotemporary with the flowers, spread-

ing, linear, bright green, about a foot long. Scape six or

eight inches long, one-flowered, ancipitous. Bracts two,

subulate, membranous, deciduous. Ovary sessile, oblong-

trigonous, green, half an inch long. Perianth white, erect,

DECEMBER Isr, 1878.

slightly scented, seven or eight inches long; tube cylindrical,

greenish; segments linear, as long as the tube, spreading from

the top of the corona in the expanded flower. Corona a

broad white funnel, with a tube about two inches deep,

tinted with yellow inside downwards, and marked with six

green longitudinal stripes bordered with yellow, the margin

furnished with a spreading quadrate process between each of

the filaments, which is bifid and sharply toothed along the

outer border; free portion of the filaments inflexed, subu-

late, half an inch long; anthers small, linear, bright yellow.

Style protruded beyond the corona, the exserted part green

and slightly declinate ; stigma capitate.—J. G. Baker.

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PAVONIA MULTIFLORA.

Native of South Brazil.

Nat. Ord. Matvacrz.—Tribe Urexez,

Gents Pavowia, Cav. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 205).

Pavonta multiflora ; stellato-pubescens, caule subsimplici, foliis deflexis gracile

petiolatis anguste obovato-v. oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis basi acutis v.

cordatis serratis, stipulis lineari-subulatis deciduis, floribus foliis supremis

axillaribus solitariis et ad apicem caulis subcorymbosis cum pedicellis elongatis

stipulaceo-bracteatis, bracteolis floralibus perplurimis erectis verticillatis

corollam sequantibus anguste linearibus acuminatis pilosis rubris, sepalis

bracteolis brevioribus lineari-lanceolatis purpureis, petalis arcte convolutis

obovato-oblongis purpureis, tubo stamineo elongato longe exserto decurvo

per totam fere longitudinem antherifero, styli ramis gracilibus pilosis, stig-

matibus capitellatis.

P. multiflora, St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Merid. vol. i. p. 239, t. 47; Walp. Rep. vol. i. p. 801,

P. Wioti, Morren, Belgig. Hortic. vol. xxv. Pp. 113, cum Te.

A native of primeval forests in the province of Espirito-Santo,

in Brazil (on the Atlantic coast, north of Rio), where it was dis-

covered by St. Hilaire ; and lately introduced into cultivation

by Makoy, of Liege, through one of his collectors. Morren,

who describes it under the name of P. Wioti, endeavours to

distinguish it from St. Hilaire’s plant by the more strongly

serrate leaves, geminate flowers, colour of the corolla, ciliolate

bracteoles, inclined staminal column, and robust habit. But

the first character is variable ; the flowers are not geminate

in Morren’s figure, and the other characters are trifling, and

no doubt due in great part to St. Hilaire’s plant being: figured

and described from an herbarium specimen. There is a fine

specimen of it in the Herbarium of Kew from Sellow, which

accords well with the cultivated plant, except in the very

much longer petioles and less toothed leaves. The plant

here figured flowered in a stove at Kew in September, and

remained a long time in flower.

DECEMBER Ist, 1875,

Descr. A robust probably shrubby plant, with a usually

simple stout erect strict terete stem, which and the leaves and

peduncles are pubescent with stellate hairs. Leaves alternate,

six to ten inches long, by one and a half to two inches broad,

narrowly oblong- or obovate-lanceolate, long-acuminate, ser-

rulate or denticulate, base acute rounded or subcordate

nerves arched at the base, and then very oblique, basal pair

strong, opposite, and very oblique ; petiole one and a half to

three inches long, usually horizontal whilst the blade hangs

down; stipules linear-subulate. Flowers solitary in the

upper axils, and forming a short terminal corymb, in which

case they are bracteate by leafless stipules at the base of the

pedicel, which is one to two inches long, strict, green, slender.

Bracteoles numerous below the flower, whorled, narrow linear,

acuminate, red, hairy, curving outwards from the base of the

calyx, then erect, and equalling the corolla. Calyx-segments

much shorter and rather broader than the bracteoles, linear-

lanceolate, purplish, erect and appressed to the corolla. Petals

one to one and a half inches long, rolled together, narrowly

obovate-oblong, dull purple. Staminal column two and a half

meches long, slender, long-exserted, slightly decurved,

antheriferous almost throughout its length; free portions of

the filaments hairy ; anthers bright violet-blue. Style with

ten slender hairy arms and capitate stigmas.—J. D, H.

be ae aa seamen anger EE

Fig. 1, Longitudinal section of flower; 2, transverse section of ovary; 3, portion

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APONOGETON sparuaceum, var. JUNCEUM,

Native of South Africa.

Nat. Ord. AroNoGETONER.

Genus Aronoceton, Thunb. (Planch. in Ann. Se. Nat. Ser. 3, vol. i. p. 107).

APONOGETON spathaceums andro-dioicum, spadicibus aliis foemineis aliis herma-

phroditis, foliis angustissimis v. elongato-subulatis obtuse trigonis v. in

laminam tenuem elongato-lineari-lanceolatam dilatatis, spadicibus 2-fureatis,

ramis brevibus densifloris, bracteolis floralibus 2 obovato-oblongis obtusis

sub-3-nerviis pallide lilacinis, staminibus 6-8, carpellis 3-8.

A. spathaceum, . Meyer in Herb. Drege; Linnea, vol. xx. p. 215.

Var. junceum, foliis (lamina dilatata nulla) elongato-subulatis obtuse 3-gonis v.

3-teretibus angulis rotundatis; A. spathaceum, var., H. Meyer in Herb.

Drége; A. junceum, Herb. Zeyher; ? A. junceum, Lehm. (in Steud.

Nomenclator.)

This curious little water plant, though long known in

Herbaria under the unpublished names cited above, has never,

as far as I can ascertain, been described. There are two

forms (possibly species), one with a very narrow bladeless

leaf, as figured, the other with a narrow flat leaf-blade ;

between them I find no other difference. Dr. Reichenbach

has presented to Kew, from the Herbarium of Zeyher, a

specimen named A. junceum, Eckl. and Zeyher, whence it is

probably the A. junceum, Lehm, quoted in Steudel’s Nomen-

clator, but which I can nowhere find published.

The genus Aponogeton has been made by Planchon the type

of a Natural Order, including itself and Ouvirandra, the

lattice leaf (Tabs. 4894 and 5076); which latter genus should be

suppressed, having no other distinguishing character than the

well-known and beautiful one of the absence of tissue between

the nervules of the leaf. Whether the order Aponogetonee

may not eventually merge into Naiadew or Potamew, must

depend on a more comprehensive examination of the whole

group of exalbuminous allied water-plants than they have

yet received under a systematic point of view. There are a

DECEMBER Ist, 1878.

good many species of the genus, all natives of the Old World ;

and about six are South African. These latter include the deli-

ciously sweet-scented A. distachyon (Tab. 1293), which is not

nearly so much cultivated as it should be, being equally

available for a glass bowl on the drawing-room table, ora

tank in the garden. A. angustifolium (Tab. 1268) is another

Cape species, which has, however, long disappeared from culti-

vation, A. spathaceum is found in shallow lakes in Somerset

Fast, in the Transvaal, British Kaffraria, and Natal; the var.

junceum is scribed by the Rev. R. Baur, who sends specimens

from the Upper Transkei territory, as growing in wet places

amongst grass. The specimens here figured flowered in the

open air in a tank at Kew in autumn of the present year;

its tubers were communicated by Commandant Bowker, F.G.S.,

from Basuta Land.

Duscr. Tuber hemispheric, with the rounded end down-

wards, about the size of a hazel nut. Leaves erect, flexuous,

six to ten inches long, elongate-subulate, subacute, obtusely

3-gonous or half terete with rounded angles. Scapes usually

shorter than the leaves, cylindric, caducous. Spadix forked,

the arms each one to two inches long. lowers crowded on

the spadix, those of some plants all female, of others herma-

phrodite, rarely all male from their ovaries being, though

present, imperfect. Floral bracts two, imbricating, ovate or

oblong, obtuse, obscurely 3-nerved. Stamens usually six to

eight. Carpels from three to eight ; ovules about four in each

earpel. Fruit trigonous, tumid.—/J/. D. H. :

Fig. 1, Transverse section of leaf; 2, hermaphrodite flower ; 3, female flower ;

4, carpel cut open; 5, ripe carpel ; 6, embryo :—all enlarged.

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WATSONIA DENSIFLORA.

Native of Natal and Cape Colony.

Nat. Ord. Jripacem.—Tribe GLADIOLEZR.

Genus Warsonta, Miller ; (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xvi. p. 157).

WaATSONIA densiflora: bulbo globoso tunicis fibrosis collo setoso, foliis linearibus

rigidis erectis crebre valide nervatis margine stramineo incrassato, caule 11—2-

pedali foliis pluribus reductis adpressis predito, floribus pluribus in spicam

disticham pedalem vel semipedalem dispositis, bracteis chartaceis brunneis

striatis arcte imbricatis, exterioribus ovatis vel ovato-lanceolatis, interioribus

lanceolatis, perianthii rosei 2-3-pollicaris tubo curvato deorsum cylindrico

sursum infundibulari, segmentis oblongis acutis tubo duplo brevioribus,

genitalibus perianthio brevioribus.

W. densiflora, Baker in Trimen Journ. 1876, p. 336; in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. xvi,

p. 158.

This is a well-marked new species of Watsonia, closely re-

sembling the old W. Meriana in its single individual flowers,

but with very numerous flowers packed in a distichous spike

so closely that the bracts are much imbricated. This dense-

flowered habit separates it at a glance from all the other

true Watsonias, and gives it a distinct individuality of its own

from a horticultural point of view. It was discovered long

ago by Drége in Kaffraria, in dales between Omlatu and

Unsambuco, at an elevation of between 1000 and 2000 feet

above sea-level. It has since been gathered in Natal, where

it ascends mountains up to 4000 feet, by Miss Armstrong and

Messrs. Plant and Cooper, and also by the latter in the

Orange Free State. It was found by Mr. Christopher Mudd,

on his recent tour through Natal, and sent alive to Messrs.

Veitch, with whom it flowered in the month of August of this

present year. :

Drsck. Bulb globose, with coarsely fibrous tunics and a

bristly neck. Leaves erect, linear, rigidly coriaceous, reach-

ing a length of one and a half or two feet, and a breadth of half

an inch, narrowed to the point, with many close strongly-

DECEMBER Ist, 1878.

marked ribs and a much thickened straw-coloured border,

Stem one and a half or two feet long, concealed by the many

reduced adpressed leaves. Flower-spike dense, distichous, cen-

tripetal, reaching sometimes a foot in length, the flowers

packed so tightly that the spathes of adjoining flowers wrap

over each other ; spathe-valves chartaceous in texture, brown,

closely striated, the outer one ovate or ovate-lanceolate, about

an inch long, the inner one rather shorter, lanceolate-navi-

cular. Pertanth rose-red, not scented; ovary sessile; tube

curved, about an inch and a half long, cylindrical in the lower

half, funnel-shaped in the upper half, half an inch in diameter

at the throat ; segments oblong, acute, half as long as the tube,

spreading when the flower is fully expanded. Stamens ex-

serted from the tube, falling short of the top of the perianth-

segments; anthers linear, whitish. Style-arms deeply bifid,

with reflexed forks.—J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, Bracts of the spathe, natural size; 2, a flower complete ; fig. 3, top of

the style:—both magnified. .

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GRAMMANTHES CHLOREFLORA, vai’. CASIA.

Native of South Africa.

Nat. Ord. CrassvLacez.

Genus Grammantues, DC. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. p. 658).

GRAMMANTHES chloreflora ; glaberrima, glauca, diffuse dichotome ramosa,

foliis sessilibus ovatis acutis concavis carnosulis, floribus axillaribus et

terminalibus pedicellatis, calyce campanulato, tubo angulato, lobis brevibus

ovato-rotundatis obtusis, corolle tubo limbo squilongo, lobis ovatis,

Squamulis minimis linearibus, filamentis brevibus, antheris exsertis.

_ G. chloreflora ; DC. Prodr. vol. iii. p. 392; Harv. et. Sond. Fl. Cap. vol. ii.

p. 381; Bot. Mag. t 4607; Moore in Garden. Mag. vol. ii. p. 9, eum Te.

G. cesia, et, G. flava, H. Meyer Pl. Drege.

G. gentianoides, DC. Prodr.1. c. 393; Planchon in Fl. des Serres, ser. 1. v. t. 518 ;

Morren Belgiqg. Hortic. i. p. 447, cum Le.

G. Sebeoides et G. depressa, Hekl. et. Zeyh. Pl. Afric. Austr.

Crassuta gentianoides, Lam. Dict. vol. ii. p. 175.

C. retroflexa, Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 282; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, vol. ii. p. 194.

GC. dichotoma, Linn. Amen. Acad. vol. vi. p. 86; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed, i. vol. i. p.

392.

Vavantues chloreflora, Haw. Revis. Succul. p. 19.

Judging from the number of names which have been given

to this little plant by collectors in its native country, it ought

to be very variable ; though I doubt whether it is more so than

other annual Crassulacee. It has already (in 1851) been

figured and described in the Macazinz (as quoted above), but

this figure has been overlooked by every succeeding author,

and the form there depicted differs from this in nothing but

its less glaucous leaves, larger flower, and (erroneously) in

the omission of the hypogynous scales, which, usually though

so conspicuous in the order, are so minute (according to Harvey

even obsolete) in this genus, as to be hardly distinguishable

in the dried specimens, whence Haworth in his description

of the genus (Vauanthes) and De Candolle (in that of Gram-

manthes) describe them as absent. Harvey, in the ‘ Flora

Capensis’ describes five varieties, distinguished by the form

DECEMBER 1sT, 1878.

of the leaves, of the calyx-lobes, and of the petals, all of

which vary much in length and breadth ; that here figured

agrees best with his var. vera, which is E. Meyer’s

(. eesia. Lamarck indeed (following Plukenet) describes a

species (G. gentianoides) as blue flowered; but this, as

already pointed out in this work, is no doubt an error.

Grammanthes chloreflora was introduced into England in

1788 by Masson (a collector sent from Kew), but was known

long before to botanists, being described by Plukenet in his

‘Almagesti Botanici,’ in 1700, as identified by Lamarck,

though the rude figure (t. 415 f. 6,) is hardly recognizable as

belonging to this plant, and the flower is described as blue.

The specimen here figured flowered at Kew in J uly of the

present year.

Descr. A low glaucous annual herb, four to five inches

high, usually dichotomously branched. Leaves sessile, ovate,

acute, one-fourth to one-half an inch long, succulent, con-

cave. Flowers axillary and terminal, peduncled, one-third to

two-thirds of an inch in diameter, at first orange-yellow with

a deep v-shaped mark at the base of each corolla lobe,

finally more red. Calyx campanulate; tube obscurely

angled; lobes usually broadly ovate, obtuse, but sometimes

produced and lanceolate. Corolla-tube equalling the calyx

or longer; lobes ovate or lanceolate, acute. Stamens with

the filaments much shorter than the corolla-lobes, anthers

exserted. Hypogynous glands minute, linear. Carpels 5,

with slender straight subulate styles.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Vertical section of flower; 2,

calyx ; 3, portions of corolla and stamen:

—ali enlarged.

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ARGEMONE uaispipa.

Native of Colorado and California.

Nat. Ord. Paraveracem.—Tribe EupaApaVERACE2.

Genus ArcemonE Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl., vol. i. p. 52).

AncEmone hispida ; erecta, hispido-setosa, glabra v. pubescens, glauca, radice

perenni, caule robusto, foliis pinnatifidis caulinis semiamplexicaulibus,

ga Frese petiolatis, floribus amplis albis, capsula oblonga 1}-pollicari

aculeata.

A. hispida, A. Gray, Plant. Fendl. p.5; Walp. Ann, vol. ii. p. 25; Watson.

Bot. Calif. vol. i. p. 21.

A. munita, Dur. and Hilg. in Journ. Acad. Philad.. vol. ii. part. 3, p. 37; Walp.

Ann. vol. iv. p. 170, and vol. vii. p. 85.

A. mexicana, Engelm.in Wisliz. Rep. p. 3; Porter et Coulter, Flor. Colorado, p.6.

A. mexicana, var. hispida, Torrey, Mexic. Bound. Survey. p. 31.

This fine plant is, during its flowering season, the greatest

ornament of the vegetation of Colorado, where it occurs in

open grassy and stony places in great profusion, flowering

for three months of the year. It also extends into New

Mexico to the south, and westward into Utah, Nevada, and

Central California. Asa species it will, I fear, prove difficult

to distinguish from the widely-diffused golden-flowered

A. mexicana, that is, if the 4. albiflora be really referable to

a form of that plant, for all the Argemone species or forms

are excessively sportive in habit, in hispidity, in the form of

the leaves, size of the flowers, and size and hispidity of the

capsule. ‘The specimen of A. hispida, from which our drawing

was taken, was nearly glabrous, but New Mexican ones pre-

served in the Herbarium (Fendler, No. 16) are very pubescent;

it is, indeed, described as having a perennial root, but that of

A. mexicana, I believe, is at times more than annual, and its

var. albiflora has been described as perennial.

DECEMBER 1s7, 1878.

Argemone hispida flowered at Kew in autumn of the present

year, from plants raised from seed brought by myself from Colo-

rado in 1877. The synonyms for the species are taken from

Watson’s invaluable Bibliographical Index of North American

Botany, where numerous references to American works in

which this species is described will be found. The reference

‘of 4. mexicana of Porter’s Colorado flora to this species will,

however, not be found in that work.

Descr. A stout, erect, branched biennial, or perhaps

perennial-rooted annual, beset with stiff prickly bristles,

glabrous or pubescent with short soft curled hairs. Leaves

linear-obovate or oblong, two to four inches long, upper

sessile and semiamplexicaul, lower narrowed into a petiole,

all pinnatifid or deeply sinuate with prickly margins and

nerves beneath, not clouded with white (as usual in A. mea-

cana). Flowers three to five inches in diameter, pure white,

with golden anthers ; buds one to one and a half inches long.

Sepals three, each produced below the tip at the back into an

acute horn, sparsely prickly. * Petals four to six, very variable

in breadth, longitudinally crumpled. Anthers twisted back-

wards after discharging the pollen. Stigmas usually four,

small, lunate. Capsule narrow-oblong, one and a half to two

inches long, very prickly. dD. Hh

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6377

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6391

6399

6357

6402

6387

6341

6342

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6376

6392

6369

6388

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6362

6346

6373

6383

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6393

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INDEX

To Vol. XXXIV of the Turrp Serres, or Vol. CIV. of

the Work.

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Acokanthera spectabilis.

Albuca juncifolia.

Aloe Cooperi.

Ambrosinia Bassii.

Anthurium trifidum.

Antirrhinum hispanicum.

Aponogeton spathaceum,

var. junceum.

Ardisia Oliveri.

Argemone Hispida.

Aristolochia trilobata.

Besleria Imray.

Billbergia pallescens.

Campanula macrostyla.

Castilleja indivisa.

Centaurea Fenzlii.

Clematis grewizflora.

Coelogyne (Pleione)

Hookeriana,

Crinum Macowani.

Crocus etruscus.

Crossandra guineensis.

Deherainia smaragdina.

Dendrobium Brymerianum.

Dendroseris macrophylla.

Erythrea venusta.

Eurygania ovata.

Fevillea Moorei.

Fritillaria armena.

Fritillaria Hookeri.

Fritillaria Sewerzowi.

Gilia Brandegei.

Grammanthes chloreflora,

var. ceesia.

Grevillea ericifolia.

6367

6364

6386

6348

6379

6344

6343

6355

6397

6349

6338

6366

6337

6358

6370

6380

6368

6372

6340

6347

6398

6375

6345

6351

6350

6382

6384

6363

6354

6389

6374

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Griffinia ornata.

Hemanthus Mannii.

Hedysarum Mackenzii.

Hoodia Bainii.

Huernia brevirostris.

Tone paleacea,

Tris cretensis.

Ischarum angustatum.

Ismene tenuifolia.

Jasminum didymum.

Koellesteinia graminea.

Leucopogon verticillatus.

Lilium cordifolium.

Loxococcus rupicola.

Magnolia stellata.

Marica brachypus.

Masdevallia polysticta.

Masdevallia Shuttleworthii.

Oreopanax Thibautii.

Pandanus unguifer.

Pavonia multiflora.

Philodendron serpens.

Pleroma gayanum.

Pterostylis baptistii.

Rondeletia odorata, var.

breviflora.

Ruellia acutangula.

Saxifraga Maweana.

Senecio subscandens.

Spathoglottis Petri.

Stachys Maweana.

Tulipa saxatilis.

Veronica Traversii.

Watsonia densiflora.

Xiphion planifolium.