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ERYTHRINA PoULCHERRIMA.

South America?

Lecuminosak. Tribe PHASEOLEAE.

Eryturina, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 581.

Erythrina pulcherrima, Tod. Nuovi Gen. e Sp. p. 70, et in Ann, Sc. Nat.

sér. iv. vol. xx. p. 307, et in Hort. Bot. Panorm, t. xi.; ab E. Crista-galli,

Linn., cui affinis, foliolis plus minusve ellipticis vel oblongis apice breviter

obtuse acuminatis facile distinguenda.

Arbor parva. Ramuli teretes, glabri, virides, interdum rubro-brunneo-lineolati,

lenticellis parum conspicuis hic illic instructi, aculeis sparsis. Folia

pinnatim trifoliolata, petiolo 5°5-11 em. longo hasi incrassato terete vel

superne canaliculato viridi aculeis validiusculis hic illic instructo suffulta.

Foliola lateralia oblongo-ovata vel oblongo-elliptica, parum inaequilatera,

apice breviter obtuse acuminata, basi late cuneata vel cuneato-rotundata,

6-9°5 cm. longa, 3°4-5°5 em. lata, pagina utraque glabra, subtus pallidiora,

costa subtus basin versus aculeo solitario saepe instructa, terminalia a

lateralibus 2°7-3°5 em. distantia, ex elliptica ad fere obovata, apice

breviter obtuse acuminata, basi rotundata vel late cuneato-rotundata,

7-11 em. longa, 4°5-7°3 cm, lata, pagina utraque glabra, inferiore aculeis

0-2 costa basin versus instructa; nervi laterales utrinsecus 7-8, supra

conspicui, subtus prominuli, nervulis uti reticulatione conspicuis ; petioluli

0°5-1 em. longi, subglabri, supra leviter canaliculati; stipellae parvae,

erectae. Inflorescentia axillaris, triflora; pedicelli 2°7 cm. longi, subglabri;

bracteae bracteolaeque fugaces. Calycis carnosiusculi tubus 11 mm.

diametro et longus, lobi breves, marcescentes. Corol/ae vexillum elliptico-

obovatum, basi cuneatum, 5°2 cm. longum, 3°4 cm. latum; alae 2-1 em.

longae, medio 2°5 mm. latae; carina 4°4 cm, longa, medio 8°5 mm. lata,

Antherae circiter 2 mm. longae. Ovarium albo-arachnoideum, stipiti

subaequilongum, circiter 2 cm. longum, stylo breviusculo.—W. G. Crars.

This beautiful Erythrina, like several other similar species

which have from time to time been introduced into Italian

gardens, and have thence found their way into northern

European collections, has an obscure history. Its original

habitat was unknown to Professor Todaro when he first

described it, nor has the doubt been yet cleared up, though

it is probable that it is a native of Argentina and perhaps

of the northern provinces of that state. The nearest ally of

E. puleherrima is E. Cristi-galli, Linn., a native of Brazil,

ficured at t. 2161 of this work, but our plant can be readily

distinguished from the older species by the different shape

of its leaflets. The material for our illustration has been

JANUARY, 1914.

provided by a plant which has long been under cultivation in

the Palm House at Kew, where it flowered for the first time

in 1910. The Kew plant, which was obtained, by ip ecm

on the Continent, is about thirty feet in height, and judging

from its behaviour here its cultural requirements are tropical.

It does not flower at all freely at Kew, and in this respect

it ig in accord with the other arborescent species of

Lérythrina in the collection.

Descriprion.— Tree up to 30 ft. high; branches terete,

green, sometimes streaked with reddish-brown, here and

there rather conspicuously lenticelled, sparingly prickly.

Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate, petiole 2}—-4}:in, long, thickened

at the base and there cylindric, upwards channelled, green,

sparingly beset with stoutish prickles; lateral leaflets

oblong-ovate or oblong-elliptic, somewhat unequal-sided,

shortly obtusely acuminate, base wide-cuneate or somewhat

rounded, 2$-3% in. long, 11-24 in. wide, glabrous on both

sides, rather paler beneath, the midrib underneath often

with a single prickle near the base; terminal leaflet 1-—]1 in,

remote from the lateral, elliptic to obovate, shortly obtusely

acuminate, base rounded or subacute, 23-43 in. long,

13-2% in., glabrous on both sides, but with usually 1-2

prickles on the midrib beneath near the base; lateral

nerves 7-8 on each side, conspicuous above, somewhat

raised beneath, secondary venation and fine reticulation

conspicuons ; petiolules }-} in. long, nearly glabrous, slightly

channelled on the upper side ; stipels minute, erect, Injlores-

cence axillary, 3-flowered ; pedicels over 1 in. long, nearly

glabrous; bracts and bracteoles fugacious. Calyx some-

what fleshy ; tube nearly $ in. long and almost as wide;

lobes short, mareescent. Standard elli ptic-obovate, cuneate

at the base, over 2 in. long, 14 in. wide. Wing-petals over

t in. long, y'5 in. wide in the middle. Keel 1 in. long,

ly in. long.

3. in. wide in the middle. Anrhers about

Ovary white-arachnoid, with a large glabrous stipe, about

2 in. long; style rather short.

Fig. 1, flower-bnd; 2, win -petal ; 3, kel- ‘ami ;

anthers ; 6, pistil :—ul/ aleraad. en ‘

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GALTONIA princrps.

South Africa.

Liniackak. Tribe ScILLEAE.

Gauronta, Decne; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 899.

Galtonia princeps, Decne in Flore des Serres, vol. xxiii. (1880) p. 33; Baker in

Dyer, Fil. Cap. vol, vi. p. 451; species G. candicanti, Decne, affinis,

perianthii segmentis tubo brevioribus et staminibus prope basin tubi

perianthii affixis differt.

Herba. Bulbus globosus, tunicatus, Folia 4-6, anguste lanceolata, acuminata,

_ basi vaginantia, 4 dm. longa, 4 cm. lata, marginibus minutissine puberulis

exceptis glabra. Scapus foliis longior, teres, glaber ; icelli erecto-

patentes, 3 cm. longi, fructiferi erecti, ad 7 cm. longi; bracteae ovatae,

acuminatae, membranaceae, 3 cm. longae, 8 mm. latae; flores nutantes,

distantes. Perianthit tubus oblongus, 12 mm. longus, 9 mm. diametro,

extra viridis; lobi subpatentes, ovati, obtusi, 2 cm. longi, 1 cm. lati,

candidi, Stamina paullo supra basin perianthii inserta; filamenta e basi

dilatata subulata, 15 mm. longa; antherae oblongae, obtusae, basi profunde

cordatae, 6 mm. longae. OUvarium oblongum, 7 mm. longum, viride;

stylus cylindricus, 10 mm. longus; stigma minute trilobum.—Hyacinthus

princeps, Baker in Saund. Ref. But. t. 175, et in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xi.

p. 426.—C. H. Wricut.

The genus Galtonia was established by Professor Decaisne

in 1880 to accommodate two species which Mr. Baker had

already described and referred to MHyacinthus, Linn., as

H, candicans and H. princeps; it is the second of these

which forms the subject of our illustration, Decaisne

proposed his new genus because the two species in question

have more numerous seeds than any true Hyacinthus,

because these seeds are angular and not turgid, and because

the stature of the scape in a Galtonia is much higher than

in a Hyacinthus. The view expressed by Decaisne was

fully accepted by Baker who subsequently described a third

species which differs. from the others in having perianth-

segments only half the length of the tube. That species,

G. clavata, Baker, has been figured at t. 6885 of this work.

The species now figured, G. princeps, has long been in

cultivation at Kew, where it flowers every year under the

cultural conditions which are suitable for the more popular

and better known G. candicans. The home of G. princeps

JANuARY, 1914,

is the Eastern Region of South Africa, where on the Bazeia

mountain and near Pietermaritzburg it attains altitudes of

nearly 3,000 feet above sea-level. ‘The original description

was based upon a plant which flowered at Kew in 1870;

since then it has been met with in various localities between

the Transkei and Zululand. The specimen which supplied

the material for our figure is one which was collected in

Tembuland by Canon G. E. Mason, Principal of St. Bede’s

College at Umtata, and by his sister, Miss M. H. Mason,

_ and was given by them to the Cambridge Botanic Garden,

where it has flowered as freely as the species does at Kew.

The most nearly allied species, the well-known G. candicans,

occurs in Natal, the Orange River Colony and Aliwal

North ; it is readily distinguished from our plant by the

characters already enumerated, and by its larger racemes

with more numerous flowers,

Descriprion.—Herb; bulb globose, tunicate. Leaves

4-6, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, sheathing at the base,

1} ft. long, 14 in. wide, glabrous except for the very

minutely puberulous margins, Scape longer than the leaves,

cylindric, glabrous; pedicels somewhat spreading, 14 in.

long, when in fruit erect, up to 3 in. long; bracts ovate,

acuminate, membranous, 1} in. long, } in. wide; flowers

nodding, rather remote. Perianth subcampanuliform ; tube

oblong, $ in. long, over 1 in, wide, green outside; lobes

somewhat spreading, ovate, obtuse, 2 in. long, } in. wide,

whitish. Stamens inserted some way above the perianth-

base ; filaments subulate from a dilated base, nearly 2 in,

long ; anthers oblong, obtuse, deep-cordate at the base, 4 in,

long. Ovary oblong, over + in. long, green; style

cylindric, 2 in, long ; stigma minute, 3-lobed,

Figs. 1 and 2, anthers; 3, stigma :—all enlarged,

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CARPINUS Japonica.

Central and Southern Japan.

CuprunirerRAE. Tribe CoRYLEAE.

Carpincs, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. iii. p. 405.

Carpinus (§ Distegocarpus) japonica, Blume in Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. vol. i.

p- 803; Elwes & Henry in Trees of Gt. Brit. and Irel. p. 528; species

C. cordatae, Blume, quam maxime affinis sed foliis minoribus loboque

brac!eze basali duplo minore apte distinguenda,

Arbor decidua, sylvestris 15-metralis, caudice 4 dm. diametro, coma patente,

cortice squamoso suleatoyue; ramuli hornotini pubescentes. Folia ovato-

lanceolata vel ovato-oblonga, acuta vel acuminata, basi inaequilateraliter

cordata, margine serrata vel nonnunquam dentibus minoribus interjectis,

5-12 cm. longa, 2-4°5 cm. lata; nervi paralleli, utrinsecus 16-24, subtus

elevati, supra impressi; supra viridia secus costam pubescentia ceterum

glabra, subtus. pallidiora secus costam et in axillis nervorum pilosa;

petiolus 6-12 mm. longus; stipulae paleaceae, lineares, 8-12 mm. longae,

ciliatae. Flores monoici; masculi in amenta gracilia pendula pube-

scentia 5 cm. longa, feminei in amenta breviora terminalia aggregati;

bracteac maris anguste ovatae, pilosae, singulae stamina numerosa sub-

tendentes, feminei valde imbricatae, ovatae, grosse dentatae, basi indupli-

catae, accrescentes’ demum membranuceae, 2°5 cm. longae. Filamenta

perbrevia; antherae purpurascentes, apice setulosae. Ovariwm oblongum ;

styli 2, erecto-patentes. Nucwla lobulo bracteae involuta ; lobulus bracteae

basi tantum adnatus, 4 mm. longus.—Distegocarpus Carpinus, Sieb. et Zuce.

in Fl. Jap. Nat. Fam. vol. ii. p. 103. Curpinus Carpinus, Sargent in Gard.

& For. vol. vi. p. 864; C. K. Schneider in Handb,. der Laubholz. vol. i.

p- 187.—W. J. Bran.

The handsome Hornbeam now figured is interesting as

belonging to a well marked section of the genus Carpinus

which some authors have separated under the name

Distegocarpus. The distinctive characters that separate

Disteyocarpus from Eu-carpinus, which includes all the true

Hornbeams, are the more numerous parallel nerves, the

closely imbricated fruiting bracts and the existence of a lobe’

or intolded base to each bract which completely covers the

nutlet. The only other species in the section Distegocarpus

is C. cordata, Blume, which is well distinguished by its

larger and broader leaves with fifteen to twenty pairs of veins,

and by the basal lobe of the bract being twice as large as

in C. japonica, and being attached by its side as well as by

its base. C. japonica appears to have first been introduced

Januaky, 1914,

to Great Britain by the late Mr. Charles Maries in 1879,

but most, if not all the examples now in cultivation came in

1895. In that year Kew received plants from the Arnold

Arboretum and from a nursery at Tokyo. It was from a

tree of Professor Sargent’s sending, now 16 ft. high, that our

figure was prepared, the fruit-clusters in June, 1912, the

flowers in 1913. The tree is perfectly hardy, thriving well

in stiff loam. In shape very graceful, for the spreading

branches are pendulous at the ends, this is one of the most

striking of Hornbeams in its many-ribbed leaves, and is an

admirable tree for small gardens.

Description.— Tyee, in Japan making a height of 50 ft.,

with a spreading head of branches and a trunk 5 ft. in

girth; bark scaly and furrowed; branchlets hairy the first

season. Leaves ovate-lanceolate to ovate-oblong, acute to

acuminate, subcordate and unequal at the base, unequally

often doubly serrate, 2-43 in. long, 3-13 in. wide; dark

dull green and pubescent only on the midrib above, beneath

rather paler, hairy on the midrib and in the nerve-axils;

ribs parallel, in 16-24 pairs, very prominent beneath,

impressed above; petiole 4-3} in. long; stipules chaffy,

linear, 4-3 in. long, ciliate. Flowers monoecious. Male:

Catkins slender, pendulous, pubescent, 2 in. long ;_ bracts

narrowly ovate, hairy, subtending numerous stamens with

short filaments; anthers purplish, hairy at the apex.

Female: Catkins shorter than in male, terminal ; bracts

much imbricated, enlarging and becoming membranous in

the fruiting stage, ovate coarsely toothed, 1 in. long, the

base infolding; ovary oblong; styles 2, suberect. Nutlet

covered by a lobe of the bract, 1 in, long, which is attached

to the bract by its base only.

Fig. 1, male catkins; 2, male flowers; 2, an anther: 4, a female catkin:

5, female flowers; 6, vertical section of a female flower; 7, base of female bi act

with its basal lobe; 8, basal lobe of female bract with nutlet :—all enlaryed.

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PRIMULA Pourpomi.

West Kansu.

PrimvLAcEAE. Tribe PRIMULEAE.

Primcta, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 631.

Primula Purdomii, Veitch ex Gard. Mag. vol. lvi. p. 201 (icon. sine descr.) ;

Gard. Chron. 1918, vol. liii. p. 192 (anglice); ibid. 1913, vol. liii. p. 200

oot) species P. nivali, Pall., peraffinis. sed corollae lobis magis rotun-

atis apice integris, stigmate grandi recedit.

Herba subacaulis. /vlia oblanceolata, lanceolata vel oblongo-oblanceolata, basi

in petiolum alatum attenuata vel interdum petiolo vix alato ad fere 3 cm.

longo snffulta, apice obtusa vel acutiuscula, ad 11 em. longa et 2°2 em.

lata. albo-furinosa, nervis vix conspicuis, margine revoluto subintegra vel .

denticulata. Scapus 12 cm. longus, superne praecipue summo apice

farinosus, umbellam circiter 8-floram gerens; bracteae involucrales vix

lem. longae; pedicelli plerumque decurvi, ad 6 mm. longi, albo-farinosi.

Calyx 1 cm. longus; lobi oblongo-lanceolati, acutiusculi, tubo subaequi-

longi, 2-2°5 mm. lati. Corol/ae tubus calycem 3 mm. superans, 4°5 mm.

diametro; limbus patens, 2°3 cm. diametro, lobis ellipticis vel obovato-

ellipticis apice rotundatis 8 mm. latis supra pilis paucis brevibus glan-

duloso-capitatis instructis. Antherae2 mm. longae, fere sessiles. Ovarium

3 mm. altum, 2:5 mm. diametro, stylo 5 mm. longo, stigmate 1 mm. longo.

Capsula exserta, ambitu oblonga, circiter 1°5 cm. longa, straminea, pluri-

suleata; semina parva, tuberculata.—W. G. Crate.

The Primula which forms the subject of our illustration

is one which was raised by Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons from

seeds collected on their behalf by Mr. W. Purdom, at Tao-

chow in Western Kansu, where it grows at an elevation of

10-11,000 feet above the level of the sea. In consequence

of the not inconsiderable number of Primulas at present

finding their way into cultivation for the first time, the task

of the fcrmal descriptive botanist is not a very simple one.

In that task he has of late been accorded the assistance of

cultural authorities who now call for the use of a name for

purposes of citation in connection with the issue of certain

horticultural certificates. Instead of diminishing, this

practice rather increases the difficulty of the descriptive

botanist even when, as in the present instance, the naked-

ness of a particular name is partially concealed by the

reproduction of photographs and the provision of a brief

vernacular descriptive account by horticultural journals.

JaNraRy, 1914.

That P. Purdomii, the plant in question, is a very pleasing

addition to our garden Primulas is undoubted, but whether

it is one which deserves recognition as a species apart from

the rather variable North Temperate P. nivalis, Pall., figured

at t. 1161 of this work, depends very largely upon the

value as a distinctive character of the relatively much

larger stigma met with in P. Purdomii. In any case there

is no doubt that the latter is merely the geographical repre-

sentative in Kansu of its Siberian and North American

congener. Our plate has been prepared from a plant

presented to the Kew collection by Messrs. Veitch which

was grown in a cold frame and flowered freely, but failed

to set seed, so that the fruit and seed shown in our illus-

tration had to be added from material kindly supplied by

that firm. Like most members of the “ Nivalis ” group of

Primulas, P. Purdomii died after flowering. It is a plant

of dese growth and robust habit which prefers a loamy

soil,

Descrietion.— Herb, acaulescent. Leaves oblanceolate,

lanceolate or oblong-oblanceolate, narrowed at the base into

a winged or wingless petiole over 1 in. long, obtuse or

somewhat acute, up to 44 in. long, nearly 1 in. wide, white-

mealy, nerves hardly visible, margin revolute, entire or

- denticulate. Scape nearly 5 in. long, mealy towards the

top, hearing an 8-flowered umbel; involucral bracts about

% in. long; pedicels usually decurved, up to + in. long,

white-mealy. Calyx 2 in. long; lobes oblong-lanceolate,

somewhat acute, about as long as the tube, 4!,—y, in. wide.

Corolla lavender, becoming at length rosy-lilac ; tube rather

larger than the calyx, & in. wide; limb spreading, nearly

1 in, across, lobes elliptic or obovate-elliptic, rounded, 4 in.

across, with a few short gland-tipped hairs above. Anthers

rz in. long, subsessile. Ovary 4 in. long, ‘fy In. wide;

style § in. long; stigma gy in. long. Capsule exserted,

oblone, about 2 in, long, straw-coloured, grooved ; seeds

small, tuberculate.

Fig. 1, calyx and pistil; 2, corolla, cut verti isti i

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LONICERA DEFLEXICALYX.

China and Tibet.

CAPRIFOLIACEAE. Tribe LONIGEREAE.

Lontcera, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Plant, vol. ii. p. 5; Rehder in Missouré

Bot. Gard. Report, 1903, p. 27.

Lonicera deflexicalyx, Batalin in Act. Hort. Petrop. vol. xii. p. 178 ; Wolf in:

Gartenfl. vol. xlii. p. 8332; Rehder, 1.c. p. 142; affinis L. ovalis, Batalin, sed

foliis lanceolatis acuminatis bracteolis ovariis brevioribus facile distin-

guitur.

Frutex; ramuli patentes, graciles, glanduloso-puberuli. Folia lanceolata vel

oblongo-lanceolata, basi rotundata vel subcordata, apice acuminata, mu-

cronata, 4-7 em. longa, 1°5-2°3 em. lata, integra, tenuiter chartacea, supra

parce pilosa, infra praesertim ad nervos pilosa; nervi laterales utrinsecus

9-10, angulo 45° a costa abeuntes, leviter arcuati, supra immersi, infra

prominentes ; petioli 2-5-4 mm. longi, pubescentes. Pedunculi axillares, —

solitarii, biflori, flore 2-3-plo breviores, glanduloso-puberuli ; bracteae

lineares, subobtusae, 2-8 mm. longae, fere glabrae; bracteolae ovario

duplo breviores vel subaequilongae, basi_connatae, truncatae vel obscure

dentatae, ciliatae. Receptacula inter se libera,2 mm. alta, glabra. Calyx

fere ad basin fissus, segmentis membranaceis 2-3-dentatis parce pilosis.

Corolla flava; tubus circiter 0°5 cm. longus, intra longe extra breyiter

pilosus et inferne glandulosus ; labium inferum integrum, oblongum, apice

rotundatum, tubo longius, superum 4-lobum, lobis ovatis apice rotundatis

3-4 mm. longis. Stamina exserta; filamenta circiter 0°5 cm. longa, basi

pilosa; antherae 4-5 mm. longae, pallide virides. Stylus staminibus sub-

aequilongus, pilosus, stigmate bilobo. Baccae (ex Batalin) luteo-auran-

tiacae, globosae, polyspermae ; semina compressa, elliptica.—J. Hurcninsow.

The Honeysuckle here figured belongs to a small group

of species which is separated from the other members of

Lonicera, subsection Ochranthae, Zabel, as amended by

Rehder, chiefly by the form of the calyx which is usually

more or less truncate. It is a species which occurs in

Yunnan, Szechuan and Eastern Tibet, and is most nearly

allied to L. ovalis, Batalin, which in turn is hardly by its

description distinguishable from LZ. trichosantha, Bur. &

Franch., a native of the same region. L. deflexicalyx,

however, is readily distinguished by its narrower leaves.

‘The plant from which the material for our figure has been

derived was purchased when quite small from Mr, Spath of

Berlin in 1908, and is now a bush 7 ft. in height and 15 ft,

JaNuARY, 1914.

across, with gracefully arching branches, L. deflexicalyx

is undoubtedly one of the most ornamental of the bush

Honeysuckles in this country, where, owing to the prevalence

of late spring frosts, many members of this group of shrubs

are as a rule more or less injured ; sometimes their crop of

flowers is entirely destroyed. Owing to its being later

than the others of this group in breaking into growth,

L. deflexicalyx usually escapes. The flowers, which are a

rich yellow and are very plentiful, are all on the upperside

of the twigs and show to great advantage. Like other

species of the genus this one prefers a good loamy soil,

abundant moisture and full sunshine. This species is easily

increased by late summer cuttings.

Description.— Shrub; twigs spreading, slender, glan-

dular-puberulous. Leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate,

acuminate, mucronate, rounded or subeordate at the base,

13-3 in. long, 3-1 in. wide, entire, thinly papery, sparingly

bis above, pilose more particularly on the nerves beneath ;

ateral nerves 9-10 on each side of the midrib with which

they make angles of 45°, slightly arched, sunk above and

raised beneath ; petiole 1-14 in. long, pubescent. Peduncles

axillary, solitary, 2-flowered, much shorter than the flowers,

glandular-puberulous ; bracts linear, somewhat obtuse, 75-4

in. long, nearly glabrous; bracteoles sometimes nearly as

long as the ovary, usually considerably shorter, connate at

the base, truncate or obscurely toothed, ciliate. Receptacles

not united to each other, yy in. long, glabrous. Caly«

divided nearly to the base, segments membranous, 2-3-

toothed, sparingly psig Corolla yellow ; tube about } in.

long, pilose with long hairs within, shortly pilose outside

and glandular near the base; lower lip entire, oblong,

rounded at the tip, longer than the tube; upper lip 4-lobed,

lobes ovate, rounded at the tip, 4-1 in. long. Stamens

exserted ; filaments about } in. long, hairy at the base ;

anthers 4-1 in. long, pale green. Style nearly as long as

the stamens, pilose ; stigma 2-lobed. Berries orange-yellow

globose, many-seeded ; seeds compressed, elliptic. :

Fig. 1, a pair of flowers; 2, cal i

, ; 2, calyx and receptacle; ;

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AMPELOPSIS MEGALOPHYLLA.

China.

AMPELIDACEAE,

Amprtopsis, Michx; Planch. in DC. Monogr. vol. v. p. 453; Gilg in Engl. &

Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. vol. iii. pars 5, p. 449.

Ampelopsis megalophylla, Diels & Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. vol. xxix. p. 466;

Gagnepatn in Sargent, P/. Wilson, vol. 1. p. 101; species A. leevidi, Planch.,

affinis sed f liis inferioribus bi-tripinnatis foliolis magis serratis nervis

mayis conspicuis differt.

Fruiex scandens, glaber, cirrhifer cirrhis oppositifoliis ramosis. Folia super ora

simpliciter pinnata, inferiora bipinnata vel subtripinnata; petiolus

rhachisque purpurei; foliola plus minusve _petiol \Jata, terminale longe

petiolulatum, ovata vel lanceolata, usjue ad 13 em. longa, 7 cm. lata, a'i e

acute acuminata, basi inaequilateralia margine inferiore rotundato, infima

basi subcordata, gro-se serrata, supra viridia subtus glauca, axillis

nervorum venularumque majorum minute pilosis. Cymae oppositifoliae,

multiflorae; rhachis minute pilosa. Flores virides. C/yx amplus,

membranacens, lobis rotundatis. /’etala patula, triangulari-ovata, acuta,

marginibus papillosis. S‘amina oppositipetala ; antherae cordatae, apice

leviter retusae. Discus intrastaminalis, e’evatus, quinquelobatus lobis

staminibus altcrnantibus, Ovarivm biloculare; ovula pro loculo 2, erecta ;

stylus consp cuus, apice truncatns, stigmate. terminali concavo. Baceue

primum rubro-purpureae, demum nigrescentes, at 1 em..diametro.— Vitis

megaphylla, Hort. ex Gard. Chron, 1908. vol. xxxiv. p. 150; J. H. Veitch in

Journ. Roy. Hort. Soc. vol. xxviii. pp. 60, 395, ft. 16, 97.—T. A. SPRAGUE.

The handsome Vine here figured was first cultivated in

the garden of Mr. M. L. de Vilmorin at Les Barres, where

it was raised from seed received by him from China in 1894,

and where it flowered three years later. From Les Barres

it was sent to Kew in 1907 under the name A. cantoniensis,

Planch., a name which belongs, however, to another species

which is not hardy in England. A. megalophylla is a native

of Hupeh and Szechuan, and according to Dr. Schneider it

also extends to Shensi. In 1901 it was introduced to

European gardens a second time by Mr. E. H. Wilson on

behalf of Messrs. Veitch & Sons. In some respects this

is the most remarkable of all hardy vines, for though there

are other species with pinnate and bipinnate leaves, recalling

those of the genus Leea, there are none whose leaves are so

Fesroary, 1914.

large as in A, megalophylla. The leaves of greatest

dimensions so far produced have approached three feet

in length, and growths eight to ten feet long have been

made during a single summer. In the south of England it

succeeds well on a wall, but if grown in the open ground

it needs a well-sheltered position in a sunny spot with a

good loamy soil. The material for our figure we owe to

the courtesy of Mr. L. Harcourt, in whose garden at Nuneham

it thrives exceptionally well.

Descriprioy.—Shrub, climbing by means of glabrous,

leaf-opposed, branching tendrils. Leaves compound, the

upper simply, the lower 2-3-pinnate; petiole and rhaehis

purple; leaflets more or less petiolulate, the terminal

eo elongated, ovate or lanceolate, acutely acuminate,

ase unequal, the lower side rounded the upper cuneate, at

point of union with the petiolules slightly subcordate,

margin coarsely toothed, 5 in. long, 24-3 in. wide, green

above, glaucous beneath, minutely hairy in the angles of

the main-nerves and larger veins. Cymes leaf-opposed,

many-flowered, the rhachis finely pilose. Flowers green.

Calyx large, membranous, lobes rounded. Petals spreading,

triangular-ovate, acute, their margins papillose, Stamens

opposite the petals; anthers cordate, slightly retuse at

the tip. Disk intrastaminal, raised, 5-lobed; lobes alter-

nate with the stamens. Ovary 2-celled; ovules 2 to each

cell, erect ; style conspicuous, truncate at the tip; stigma

terminal, concave. Fruit at first red-purple, at length

blackish, about 4 in. across, |

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ACTINIDIA cuHINENSIS.

China.

TERNSTROEMIACEAE. Tribe SAURAUJEAE.

Aotinipia, Lindl.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 184.

Actinidia chinensis, Planch. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot, vol. vi. p. 303; Oliver

in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1593; Dunn in Journ. Livn. Soc., Bot, vol. xxxix. p. 408;

foliis suborbicularibus vel late ovatis basi cordatis vel rotundatis subtus

tomentosis distincta.

Frutex scandens. Rami juniores hispi:li, seniores glabrescentes. Folia longi-

petiolata, dimorpha; folia ramulorum sterilinm majuscula, late ovata vel

elliptica, breviter acuminata vel cuspidata; folia ramulorum floriferoruam

suborbicularia, apice breviter cuspidata rotundata vel retusa, basi plus

minusve cordata, 6-12 cm. diametro, venulis productis denticulata, supra

puberula nervis densius induta, subtus dense molliter pubescentia nervis

prominentibus ; petioli 3-5-6 cm. loagi, dense hirsuti. Cymae in axillis

foliornm delapsorum ortae, pauciflorae; pedicelli circiter 1-5 mm. longi,

hirsuti. lores unisexuales, aurantiaci, 4-5 cm. diametro. Flores ¢ :

Sepala ovato-oblonga, extra brunneo-tomentosa. Petala latissime obovata,

breviter unguiculata. Stamina numerosa; filamenta filiformia; antherae

sagittatae. Ovarii rudimentum dense lanatum, multiloculatum loculis

20-25 minutis; styli totidem, lineares. Flores Q (alabastra tantum

cognita): Sfaminodia numerosa. Ovarium subglobosum, tomentosum,

usque ad 30-loculatum ; styli in alabastro recurvati. Baccae ellipsoideae,

tomentosae, circiter 4 cm. longae, calyce persistente reflexo. Semina

oblongo-ellipsoidea, 2-2°5 mm. longa, reticulato-foveolata.—T. A. SPRAGUE.

The genus Actinidia, to which the subject of our illustra-

tion belongs, is one as to the position of which there has

been some debate. .In the Genera Plantarum it was

referred by Bentham and Hooker to the natural family

-Ternstroemiaceae, but in the Natiirlichen Pflanzenfamilien it

was transferred by Gilg to the Dilleniaceae. Dunn, who

has recently monographed the genus Actinidia and re-

investigated its affinities, has once more included it in the

Ternstroemiaceae, relying largely in so doing upon its

versatile anthers, numerous seeds unprovided with an aril,

and moderately large embryo. The species of Actinidia

are said to be polygamous or dioecious; according to

Schneider A. chinensis is dioecious, and this statement is

apparently correct, for the plant figured at t. 1593 of the

Icones Plantarum bears young flowers which appear to be

functionally female, whereas the plaut which has supplied

Fesruary, 1914.

the material for our plate bears functionally male flowers,

This latter plant was obtained in 1905° from Messrs.

J. Veitch & Sons, and now grows as a climber in the

Himalayan house, the stems being some twenty feet long.

Under the conditions thus provided it thrives luxuriantly

and makes strong yearly shoots some six feet in length.

These shoots are cut back to spurs on which flowers subse-

quently develop in May. There being but one plant in the

collection it has not yet been possible to test its hardiness,

The leaves: are larger and more decorative than in any

other cultivated Actinidia. According to Wilson, by whom

it was introduced on behalf of Messrs. Veitch, A. chinensis

bears an edible fruit with green, subacid, palatable pulp, in

flavour resembling the gooseberry. ‘The fruits vary both

in size and in hairiness,

Descripriox.—Shrub, climbing; young twigs hispid,

adult twigs glabrescent. Leaves long-petioled, dimorphic ;

those of the sterile twigs rather large, wide ovate or

elliptic, shortly acuminate or cuspidate ; those of the floral

twigs suborbicular, shortly cuspidate and rounded or retuse,

more or less cordate at the base, 2}-5 in. long, margin

finely toothed, each tooth with an excurrent veinlet ;

pst above, especially on the nerves; softly pubescent

neath with raised nerves; petiole 14-24 in. long, densely

hirsute. Cymes springing from the axils of fallen leaves,

tew-flowered ; pedicels about 2 in. long. hirsute. Flowers

1-sexual, orange-yellow, 13-2 in. wide. Male: Sepals ovate-

oblong, brown-tomentose externally. Petals very wide

obovate, shortly clawed. Stamens very numerous; fila-

ments filiform; anthers sagittate. udimentary ovary

densely woolly, many-celled, cells 20-25, minute, styles as

many as the cells, linear. Fvmale (only seen in bud):

Staminodes very numerous. Ovary subglobose, tomentose,

up to 30-celled; styles reeurved in bud, . Fruit ellipsoid,

tomentose, about 13 in, long, persistent calyx reflexed.

Seeds oblong-ellipsoid, t'z-1'p in. long, foveolate-reticulate.

_ Fig. 1, calyx and barren pistil; 2 and 3, anthers; 4, section of barren’

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SMILACINA PanNIcuLATA.

Guatemala and Southern Mexico.

Lin1aceaz. Tribe PoLyGoNATEAE.

Smiuacina, Des/.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 770.

Smilacina paniculata, Mar‘. et Gal. in Bull. Acad, Brux. vol. ix. p.2; Kunth,

Enum. Plant. vol. vy. p. 151; Hems/. in Biol. Centr.-Amer. vol. iii. p. 358 ;

species 8. thyrsoideae, Hemsl., affinis, inflorescentiae ramis_ brevioribus,

floribus paucioribus e pedicellis longioribus suberectis orientibus distin-

guitur.

Herba glabra. Caulis erectus, cylindricus, virescens. Folia ovato-lanceolata,

longe acuminata, 13 ci. longa, prope basin 4 cm. lata, ima basi constricta ;

nervi primarii 5-7, nervulis pluribus tenuibus counexi. Panicula termi-

nalis, racemosim ramosa, 6 cm. longa lataque, omnino nivea; bracteolae

minutae, deltvideae; pedicelli circiter 1 cm. longi; flores 1 cm. diametro.

Perianthii segmenta elliptica, apice rotundata, patentia. Filamenta aequi-

longa, quam perianthii segmenta paullo breviora. Ovariwm ovoideum ;

stylus columnaris, staminibus aeqnilongus; stigma punctiforme.— Tovaria

paniculata, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot., vol. xiv. p. 568.—C. H. Wricut.

~ The genus Smilacina, which includes some twenty species,

extends from the north temperate and subarctic regions of

Japan, Siberia and North America as far south as to Arabia

in the Old World and Guatemala in the New. One of the

species, S. bifulia, Desf., is a rare British plant. Three

members of the genus have already been figured in this

work, but all of them under different generic names. At

t. 899 will be found S. Fourskaliana, Schultes f., a native of

Arabia, under the name Convallaria racemosa, Forsk. ; this

resembles the subject of our illustration, but differs in having

very short pedicels. At t. 1043, under the name Conval-

laria stellata, Linn., a figure was given of S. stellata, Desf.,

the Star-flowered Lily of the Valley, from North America,

which was introduced into English gardens in 1633, At

t. 6313, under the name Jovaria oleracea, Baker, is given a

portrait of the Himalayan S. oleracea, Hook. f. & Thoms., a

species with short hairy pedicels. The generic name which

was used by Mr. Baker was proposed by Necker in 1790,

and is older by seventeen years than the name Smilacina,

now accepted, which was introduced by Desfuntaines in

Fesruany, 1914.

1807, but it is in turn antedated by the name Vagnera,

employed in 1763 by Adanson. The species now figured,

S. paniculata, which is a native of Guatemala and the

extreme south of Mexico, is most closely allied to the

Mexican S, thyrsoidea, Hemsl., but is readily distinguished

by the much shorter branches of the inflorescence and the

comparatively fewer flowers borne on much longer pedicels.

In S. thyrsoidea too the pedicels are subpatent, a circum-

stance which imparts a distinctive facies to the plant. The

specimen from which the material for our plate has been

obtained is one introduced and grown by Messrs, Sander

& Sons, St. Albans, with whom it flowered in March,

1913. From the snowy whiteness of all parts of the

inflorescence, which affords a pleasant contrast to the

green foliage, the species is likely to be a distinct acces-

sion to collections under glass, but it cannot take a place

alongside its more hardy congeners, like S. racemosa,

S. stellata, S. trifolia and others which are grown at

Kew in the open border along with the common Solomon’s

Seal, Polygonatum multiflorum, All.,a member of a genus

closely allied to Smilacina. |

Derscription.—Herb, glabrous; stem erect, cylindric,

greenish. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, long acuminate, 5-6 in.

long, above the base 14 in. wide, at the very base much

narrowed; main-nerves 5-7, with numerous slender in-

tervening nervules. Panicle terminal, racemosely branched,

2} in. long, and as much across; all parts snowy white;

bracteoles minute, deltoid ; pedicels about + in. long; flowers

about 4 in. across, Perianth-segments elliptic, rounded at

the tip, spreading. Filaments subequal, rather shorter than

the perianth-segments. Ovary ovoid; style columnar, as

long as the stamens; stigma minute.

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RONDELETIA corpatTa.

Guatemala.

RusiackagE. Tribe CONDAMINEEAE.

Ronpgvetta, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 48.

Rondeletia cordata, Benth. Pl. Hartweg. p. 85; Hemsl. Biolog. Centr.-Amer.

vol. ii. p. 18; affinis 2. amoenae, Hemsl., foliis parce pilosis vel glabrescent-

ibus, inflorescentiis minopere pubescentibus, calycis lobis minoribus differt.

Frutex 1-2°5 m. altus; rami 2-3-fureati, juniores appresse setoso-pilosi. Fo/ia

ovata vel elliptico-ovata, subacute acuminata, basi leviter cordata vel

rotundata, 6-17 em. longa, 3-9 em, lata, integra, chartacea, juniora pras-

sertim ad nervos parce pilosa, demum fere glabra, ciliata; nervii laterales

utiinseeus circiter 8, arcuati, utrinque distincti, infra prominentes,

marginem versus minime conspicui; petioli circiter 3 mm. longi, setnloso-

pnberuli; stipnlae persistentes, mox reflexae, ovato-lanceolatae, obtuxae

vel subacutae, 1°3-1°7 cm. longae, basi 0-7-1 cm. latae, coriaceae, ped

pubescentes. Cymae terminales, corymbosae, multiflorae, usque ad 12 ecm,

diametro; bracteae ovato-lanceolatae, obtusae vel subacutae, ad 1°2 cm.

longae et 0°5 cm. latae, coriaceae, extra dense appresse pilosac; bracteolae

parvae. Flvres tubis corollae purpureo-rubris limbis roseis. Receptuculum

campanulatum, 1°5 mm. altum, albo-puberulum. Ca/yris dent«s ovati,

obtusi, 0°5 mm. longi, extra puberuli. Coro//ae tubus cylindricus, circiter

1 em. longus, extra setuloso-puberulus, intus pilosus, farce flavo-villoso;

limbns 1°3-1°5 em. expansus; lobi 5 vel 6, oblongi, apice rotundati, 2°5 mm.

longi, 1°75 wm. lati. Antherve fauce vel medio tubi insertae, 2 mm. longae ;

filamcnta 1°5 mm. longa, glabra. Discus annularis. glaber. Stylus quam

tubus duplo brevior vel longior et _exsertus, bilobus, glaber. Capsula

subglobosa, leviter biloba, 0°5 cm. diametro, setuloso-puberula. Semina

minuta.—Jogie a cordat1, Planch. in Fl. des Serres, vol. v. sub, t. 442;

Henfrey in Moore & Ayres Gard. Mag. Bot. 1851, p. 89, cum ic. R. thyrsiflora,

Hort. ex Henfrey, l.c.—J. HuTcHINsON.

The Rubiaceous genus Rondeletia includes some seventy

species, confined to Tropical America and the West Indies,

and most numerous in Central America and Colombia. The

one now figured, a native of Guatemala, is an old garden

plant, first introduced into cultivation in this country in

1844, and raised from a seedling which appeared in the

soil adhering to some imported orchids grown by Mr. J.

Anderson, of Holme, Regent’s Park. It was long known

in collections as Rogiera cordata, the fact that it is really a

Rondeletia being obscured because Bentham in his original

account described the flowers as tetramerous. The mis-

understanding was adjusted by Planchon. Actually both

pentamerous and hexamerous flowers occur in the same

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inflorescence, and, as Hemsley has pointed out, they are

dimorphic as regards the relative length of the style and

the position of the stamens; all the flowers of one

inflorescence have the style exserted and the stamens

included in the tube; in another inflorescence these con-

ditions are reversed. The plant from which the material

for our figure has been obtained is one which has been grown

ina border in a greenhouse at Kew. Here it thrives well and

grows into a shapely bush some six feet high which flowers

freely every spring. It bears pruning well and the shoots

root readily if set in a propagating frame in autumn.

Description.—Shrub 4-6 ft. high; branches 2—3-fureate,

when young adpressed-setose. Leaves ovate or elliptic-ovate,

sharply acuminate, base slightly cordate or rounded, 23-7 in.

long, 14-34 in. wide, entire, papery, when young sparingly

hairy especially on the nerves, soon nearly glabrous, ciliate ;

lateral nerves about 8 on each side, arched, distinct above,

more prominent beneath, towards the margin somewhat

indistinct; petioles about 14 lin. long, setulose-puberulous ;

stipules persistent, soon reflexed, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse

or subacute, 3-2 in. long, at the base 1-2 in. wide,

coriaceous, adpressed-pubescent. Cymes terminal, corym-

bose, many-flowered, up to 44 in. wide; bracts ovate-

lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, up to 4 in. long and } in.

wide, coriaceous, densely adpressed hairy outside; bracteoles

small. lowers with reddish-purple corolla-tube and rose-

coloured corolla-lobes. Receptacle campanulate, under a

line deep, white-puberulous. Calyx with very short ovate-

obtuse lobes puberulous outside. Corolla with a cylindric

tube about } in. long, setulose-puberulous outside, pilose

within; throat yellow-villous; limb 3-2 in. across, lobes

5-6, oblong with rounded tips, over 1 lin. jong, under

1 lin. wide. Anthers attached in the throat or about the

middle of the corolla-tube, 1 lin. long; filaments under

1 lin. long, glabrous, Disk annular, glabrous. Style half

as long as the tube in one state or longer than the tube

and exserted in another, 2-lobed, glabrous. Capsule sub-

globose, slightly 2-lobed, } in. across, setulose-puberulous.

Seeds minute.

Fig. 1, calyx and pistil ; 2, section of calyx, showing disk; 3, corolla laid

open ; 4, hairs from inside of corolla; 5 and 6, stamens :—all enlarged,

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VIOLA GRACILIS.

Asia Minor and Balkan Peninsula.

Viotackak. Tribe VIOLEAE.

Viowa, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 117,

Viola gracilis, Sibth. et Sm. Fl. Graec. Prodr. vol. i. p. 146; Becker in Beth. Bot.

Centralbl. vol. xviii. pars 2, p. 869; et lc. xxvi. pars 2, pp. 330; affinis

V. calcaratae, Linn., a qua petalis Jateralibus prorsum: inelinatis statin

distinguitur.

Herba caulibus suberectis 2-4 cm. altis glabris. Folia. alterna, stipulata,

longiuscule petiolata, supra leviter concava, inferiora elliptico-ovata,

apice rotundata, 1 cm. longa, 5-8 mm. lata, crenata, superiora ovato-

oblonga vel oblonga, apice obtusa vel vix apiculata, basi in petiolum

cuneatim angustata, 1-5-2 cm. longa, 5-6 mm. lata; stipulae magnae,

_ pinnatifido-laciniatae lobo terminali magno obtuso laciniis satis an-

gustis acutis. Pedunculi solitarii, ex. axillis superioribus. orti, 7-9 cm.

longi, superne bibracteolati bracteolis hyalinis inferne laceratis. Sepala

basi in appendicem producta, in toto circiter 1 em. longa, duo anteriora

lanceolata, acuta, trinervia appendice quadrato subtruncato 3mm. longo,

duo lateralia conformia appendice dentato, posterius ovato-lanceolatum,

appendice triangulari. Corolla violacea limbo circiter 3 cm. longo, 2°5 cm.

lato; petala superiora suboblique inserta, leviter reversa, obovata, vix

2 em. Jonga,1°5 em. lata; petala intermedia oblique prorsum inclinata,

limbo cymbiformi 1°3 em. longo, ungue 4 mm. longo crista fimbriata ;

petalum inferius breviter unguiculatum, basi calcaratum, lute obdeltoideum,

in basin cristatam cuneatum, 1°4 cm. longum, 1-7. em. latum, ungue

circiter 8 mm. longo supra utrinque villoso, calcare gracile 1 em. longo.

Antherae sessiles, conniventes, introrsae, connectivis superne in appendicem

late ovatum rotundatum membranaceum aurantiacum productis, duo

jnferiorum basi in appendicem filiformem 4 mm. longum intra

productis. Ovarium ovvideum; stylus basi geniculatus, abhine ad apicem

subglobosum sensim ampliatus; stigma cupulare labio antico valde

papillato.—T. A. SPRAGUE.

The Violet which forms the subject of our illustration

is one which was originally discovered on Mount Olympus

in Bithynia, but which, as Becker has shown, occurs also

in Macedonia and, according to the same authority, may

ibly also occur in Montenegro. It was for a long

time believed by authorities so competent as Boissier and

Halacsy to be a native also of Greece, but Becker has given

good reasons for the treatment of the Greek specimens

named V. gracilis by Boissier as the basis of a distinet

variety of the somewhat different species V. heterophylla,

Bertol. The species now figured, V. gracilis, is a hardy

Fesrvary, 1914.

perennial which may be grown in the ordinary herba-

ceous border in light rich soil and can be increased by

seeds, cuttings or divisions. It also proves a useful

denizen of a half-shady patch in the Rock Garden, where

it may be expected to flower freely during the months of

spring and early summer. The material for our plate was

obtained from a plant so grown which had been obtained

for the Kew collection by purchase in 1907,

Descriprion.—Herb, stems suberect, 3-11 in. high,

glabrous. Leaves alternate, stipulate, rather ong-stalked,

slightly concave above, the basal ones elliptic-ovate, rounded

at the tip, in. long, 1-1 in. wide, crenate, the upper

ovate-oblong or oblong, obtuse or barely apiculate at

the tip, cuneately narrowed into the petiole, 2-3 in. long,

3-4 In. wide; stipules large, pinnatifid-laciniate, with a

large blunt terminal lobe and rather narrow acute seg-

ments. Peduneles solitary in the axils of the upper leaves,

3-33 in. long, 2-bracteolate above, bracteoles hyaline,

lacerate below, Sepals produced at the base in a spur, in

all about 2 in. long, the two anterior lanceolate, acute,

3-nerved, with a quadrate somewhat truncate appendage

1} lin. long, the two lateral similar but with a dentate

appendage, the posterior oyate-lanceolate with a triangular

appendage. Corolla violet, limb about 14 in. long, 1 in.

wide; upper petals somewhat obliquely inserted, slightly

reversed, obovate, under # in. long, 2 in, wide; intermediate

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clawed, spurred at the base, broadly obdeltoid, cuneately

narrowed into the crested base, over § in. long, nearly

= In. wide, claw about x In. long, villous upwards on both

faces, spur slender, 2 in. long. Anthers sessile, connivent,

introrse, the connectives produced upwards as a wide, ovate-

rounded, membranous, orange-yellow appendage, two of

the lower being also produced within the spur as a filiform

appendage } in, long, Ovary ovoid ; style geniculate at the

base, thence gradually widened upwards to the subglobose

tip; stigma cup-shaped, its anterior lobe strongly papillose.

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ARISTOLOCHIA GIGANTEA,

Brazil.

ARISTOLOCHIACEAE-

AntstoLocuta, Linn.; Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Plant: vol. iii. p. 123.

Aristolochia gigantea, Mart., Nov. Gen. et Sp. vol. i, p. 75, t. 48; Duchartre in

DC. Prodr, vol. xv. pars i. p 474; M. 7. Masters in Mart, Flor. Bras, vol. iv.

pars ii. p. 89; Lngl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. vol. iii. pars i. p. 265,

fig. 169; species A. cordiflorae, Mutis, affinis, foliis non acuminatis,

perianthiique fauce omnino lutescente differt.

Frutex scandens, Caulis volubilis, lignosus, leviter sulcatus, glaber. Folia

late ovato-cordata, subacuta, membranacea, glabra, pedatim 3~7-nervia,

8-10 cm. longa, 4-9°5 cm. lata; petioli tenues, usque ad 7 em. longi;

stipulae reniformes, 2 cm. latae, integrae, glabrae. Flores solitarii, magni,

axillares. Perianthium basi inflatum, 6 em. longum, viride vel violaceo-

tinctum; pars media constricta, curvata, 4 cm. vel ultra longa, fauce

intus lutescens, velutiva; limbus ellipticus, profunde cordatus, patens,

ecaudatus, 22 cm. longus, 16 cm. latus, brunneo-purpureus, pallide flavo-

reticulatus. Colwmna 12 mm.longa. Stamina 6; antherae obtusae, lute-

scentes, lobis basi discretis. Ovariwm tortum, costatum, glabrum; stigma

6-partitum, laciniis lineari-lanceolatis, ‘subobtusis.— Howardia gigantea,

ie ge ss Monatsber. Acad. Berl. 1859, p. 610, ref. Bot. Mag. t. 4221 excl.

—C. H. Wriext.

The Aristolochia which forms the subject of our plate was

first collected by von Martius in the course of his travels in

the Brazilian provinces of Bahia and Minas Geraes between

1817 and 1820, and was described by its discoverer. The

original description is accompanied by a figure by Zuccarini

in which the cream-coloured reticulations on the perianth

are not shown. ‘The species from Pernambuco which

was figured at t. 4221 of this work as A. gigantea is

quite distinct from the original A. gigantea, and was sub-

sequently described as A. grandiflora, var. Hookeri, by

Duchartre; it is readily distinguished from our present

plant by the apex of the perianth limb being long-caudate

and not obtuse. The plant from which the material for

our illustration has been derived is one that was presented

to the collection at Kew in 1910 by Sir Frank Crisp; at

the time of its receipt it was believed to be A. clypeata,

Linden & André, a closely allied species from New Grenada,

Marcu, 1914, : ;

figured at t. 7512 of this work. A. gigantea grows

vigorously in the Palm House at Kew, where, trained

against the roof, its annual shoots, which spread from a

woody stem with corky bark, extend to a length of 15 feet

or more. In Brazil the flowering season of this species is in

March, but at Kew the flowers develop in August. The

flowers are fragrant. This is the only species of Aristolochia

in cultivation of which the same can be said; most of

them have a disagreeable odour. : :

Description.— Shrub; stem twining, woody, somewhat

channelled, smooth. Leaves wide ovate-cordate, subacute,

membranous, glabrous, pedately 3—7-nerved, 3-4 in. long,

13-33 in. wide; petioles slender, up to 23 in. long; stipules

reniform, 2 in, wide, entire, glabrous. lowers solitary,

large, axillary. Perianth inflated at the base, 2 in. long,

green or tinged with violet, middle portion constricted,

curved, 14 in. long, throat yellowish within, velvety ; limb

elliptic, deeply cordate, spreading, without a tail, 9 in. long,

6-64 in. wide, brownish-purple with pale yellow reticula-

tions. Column 4 in. long. Stamens 6; anthers obtuse,

yellowish, lobes distinct below. Ovary contorted, ribbed,

tas ga stigma 6-partite, lobes linear-lanceolate, somewhat

unt.

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RIBES LavuRIFOLiuM.

West China.

SAXIFRAGACEAE. ‘Tribe RIBESIEAE.

Rises, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 654.

Ribes laurifolium, Janczewski in Bull. Acad. Cracovie, sér. B, 1910, p. 97,

fic. 6; species R. Henryi, Franch., affinis, ramul's etiam junioribus oe

foliis magis coriaceis distincte serrato-crenatis eciliatis subtus eglan ulosis,

petiolo multo longiore, racemis fructigeris baceas ad 7 gerentibus, rbachi

pedicellis fructuque tenuiter tomentellis distinguenda.

Frutex sesquimetralis ramis crassiusculis inermibus etiam juvenilibus glabris,

maturis cortice castaneo lucidulo tectis. Gemmae majusculae, ovoideae,

1 cm. longae; perulae scariosae, rotundato-ovatae, obtusae, minute

apiculatae, praeter margines minutissime ciliolatos glabrae, brunneae.

Folia breviter petiolata, secundum ramos disposita, lamina ovata vel ovato-

oblonga, basi rotundata, apice acuta, raeter trientem vel quadrantem

inferiorem serrato-crenata crenis glanduloso-apiculatis, 6-10 cm. longa,

3-5 cm. lata, coriacea, glaberrima, 3-5-plinervia nervis lateralibus superiori-

bus paucis valde obliquis; petiolus crassus, 5-15 mm. longus, magis

minusve setosus setis interdum glanduligeris. Hacemi mars penduli,

graciles, 2°5-4 em. longi, ad 12-flori, pedunculo circiter 1 cm. longo

suffulti, bracteati; pedicelli ad 7 mm. longi; bracteae submembranaceae,

oblongae, acutae, virescentes, sparse glanduloso-ciliolatae, ad 12mm. longae.

Flores virescentes, 10-12 mm. diametro, praeter receptaculum sub-

patelliforme minute pubescens glabri. Sepala late oblonga vel subrotun-

data, obtusa, 4 mm. longa. Petala_ spathulata, 2 mm. longa. Stamina

petala subaequantia; filamenta 1°5 mm. longa, antherae rotundatae.

Stylus apice 2-fidus. Racemi feminet primo erecti, sub fructu penduli,

graciles, circiter 2 cm. longi, ad 12-flori, penduneulo sub anthesi brev!

suffulti, indumento maris induti; pedicelli sub anthesi 3 mm. longi, sub

fructu ad 7 mm. longi; bracteae maris, deciduae. Flores virescentes, 6-8

mm. diametro, praeter receptaculum lageniforme vel ambitu oblongum, basi

attenuatum, griseo-tomentellum glabri. Q

formia sed minora. Stamina ad corpuscula minuta rubra redacta. ¢

vix 2 mm. longus ; stigmata 2, brevia, subglobosa. Fructus late ellipsoideus,

calyce paulo accrescente coronatus, 15 mm. et:

tenuissime tomentellus, rubescens.—O. STAPF.

The Ribes here figured is one which has been raised from

seed collected in 1908 at an altitude of about 5,000 ft. at

Wa-Shen in Western Szechuan by Mr. E. H. Wilson, and

presented by Professor Sargent of the Arnold Arboretum to

the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew and Glasnevin and to

Mr. Vicary Gibbs; the material on which our illustration

has been based has come in part from all three sources. At

Marcu, 1914.

Glasnevin some of the young plants were put out in the

open, others were retained in pots, and in 1912 one of the

latter, a female, flowered for the first time. In 1913 this

plant flowered again; so did another female and, later on, a

male in the open. Fertilisation was now possible, but from

the female in the open the flowers dropped just as the ovary

began to swell; on the pot plant fruit set readily. At Kew,

where the only plants were in the open, the experience was

as at Glasnevin, and it is probable that this Ribes will not

bear regular crops of fruit in the average climate of the

British Isles owing to the very early date, February, at

which the flowers expand. It is, however, in this early

flowering habit that one of the chief merits of this flowering

currant will reside ; later in the season their greenish colour

and modest charms would make a less potent appeal.

Fortunately the flowers of both sexes are able to withstand

rough cold weather. This species, 2. laurifolium, was first

described from fruiting specimens and placed by Professor

Janczewski in his section Davidia of the subgenus Berisia,

apparently largely owing to the circumstance that Wilson’s

original specimens had but a few terminal leaves. Though

it is now found that in this regard R. laurifolium does not

resemble R. Davidii, Franch. and R. Henryi, Franch.,.the

other members of the section Davidia, it is clearly a com-

ponent of the same natural group. A slow grower in all

three gardens which have contributed to our plate, the

largest plants being only a foot and a half high, it is quite _

hardy, thriving well in a good loamy soil, and is readily —

propagated by cuttings. The colour of the fruit when ripe

is not yet fully known. Sir F. Moore, to whom we are

indebted for much information regarding the species,

informs us that immediately after fertilisation the fruits of

his greenhouse plant commenced to swell, the persistent

calyx also increasing in size, so that in April it was fully

half as long as the fruit. Thereafter the calyx ceased to

enlarge and began to change colour. The fruits themselves

continued to enlarge until the middle of June, remaining,

however, green and unattractive, in shape like a long

gooseberry, with the calyx now only one-fifth the length

of the fruit. In July patches of dark purple appeared on

the fruits, and as signs of shrivelling manifested themselves

the specimen was cut and sent to us for incorporation in

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our plate. The female flowers, drawn earlier, were from a

Kew specimen; the male from one kindly supplied from his

collection at Aldenham by Mr. Vicary Gibbs.

Descriprion.—Shrub 5-6 ft. high, with rather stout

unarmed branches, glabrous even when young, when

mature clothed with chestnut-brown somewhat shining

bark. Buds rather large, ovoid, } in. long, their scales

scarious, rounded-ovate, obtuse, finely apiculate, brown and

glabrous except along the finely ciliolate edges. Leaves

short petioled, scattered, ovate or ovate-oblong, acute, base

rounded, margin serrate-crenate with gland-tipped teeth

except for the entire basal fourth to third, 24-4 in. long,

1_2 in. wide, coriaceous, quite glabrous, 3-5-nerved at the

base with a few very oblique nerves leaving the midrib above

the base ; petiole stout, 1-2 in. long, more or less beset with

setae which are at times glandular. Male: Racemes

pendulous, slender, 1-13 in. long, up to 12-flowered;

peduncles bracteate, about 4 in. Jong; pedicels about 4 in.

long ; bracts somewhat membranous, oblong, acute, greenish,

sparingly glandular-ciliate, up to $ in. long. lowers

greenish, 1} in. across, glabrous except for the minutely

pubescent, somewhat cup-shaped receptacle. Sepals wide-

oblong or rather rounded, obtuse, 4 in. long. Petals

spathulate, 35 in. long. Stamens about as long as the

petals; filaments under 1 lin. long; anthers rounded.

Style 2-fid. Female: Racemes at first erect but in fruit

pendulous, slender, about 3 in. long, up to 12-flowered,

when in flower shortly peduncled; pedicels in flower 4 in.

long, in fruit } in. long; bracts as in the male, deciduous.

Flowers greenish, 1} in. across; glabrous except for the

finely grey-tomentose flask-shaped or oblong receptacle.

Sepals and petals as in the male flowers but smaller.

Stamens reduced to small red staminodes. Style under

jz in. long; stigmata 2, short, subglobose. Fruit wide-

elliptic, tipped by the slightly enlarged calyx, about 3 in.

long, over 1 in. wide, minutely tomentose, reddish.

Fig. 1, male flower ; 2, female flower; 3, fruit in transverse section ; 4, seed :—

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SALVIA cLictinosa.

Eastern South America.

LABIATAE. Tribe MoNnARBDEAE.

Satvi1A, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1194.

Salvia uliginosa, Benth., Labiat. p. 251 et in DC. Prodr., vol. xii, p. 305; S. laevi,

Benth., affinis sed caulibus conspicue sulcatis, foliis pagina inferiore glandu-

losis, intlorescentiis compositis distinguitur.

Herba; caules usque ad 2°5 m. alti, ramosi, obtuse tetragoni, sulcati, glandulosi,

adpresse pubescentes. Folia oblongo-lanceolata, apice acuta, basi longe

cuneata, superne gradatim minora, usque ad 9 cm. longa et 2 cm. lata,

profunde serrata, viridia, membranacea, supra glabra, infra nervis adpresse

pubescentia glandulisque nigris crebris punctata, nervis lateralibus utrinque

circiter 7 cum costa pagina superiore leviter impressis, inferiore promi-

nentibus, suprema sessilia, intermedia infimaque petiolo usque ad 2 cm.

longo suffulta. Injflorescentia terminalis, composita; racgmi spiciformes,

compacti, terminales usque ad 11 cm. longi, laterales usqué ad 6 cm, longi,

longe pedunculati. Verticillastri 7-20-flori ; bracteae ovatae, longe acumi-

-natae, cum acumine 2 longo 6 mm. longae, ciliatae, mox deciduae.

Calyx campanulatus, pubeseens glandulosus, lobis ovato-triangularibus

posteriore leviter bi- vel tri-dentato, lateralibus apice acuminatis. Corolla

coerulea; tubus 7 mm. longus, basi 1*5 mm. diametro, fauce 4 mm. diametro,

labio antico trilobo 8 mm. longo 7 mm. lato, postico leviter bilobo

5°5 mm. longo 3°5 mm. lato. Antherae 2 mm. longae; filamenta 2 mm.

longa, connectivis postice deflexis 4 mm. longis sub insertione callosis infra

medium longitudinaliter connatis. Ovarium 1°5 mm. altum, 1 mm.

diametro; stylus (cum ramis) 11 mm. longus, glaber, bilabiatus labio

postico recurvato 3 mm. longo, antico recto 1:25 mm. longo.—W. B. TURRILL.

The Salvia here represented is a native of South America

which is represented in the herbarium at Kew by a number

of specimens collected in Brazil and Uruguay and by a

single example from Buenos Ayres. The plant from which

the material for our illustration has been derived is one

which was presented to Kew in 1912 by Mr. P. L. de

Vilmorin, Verritres. The conspicuously sulcate quadrangu-

lar stem is a very marked feature of S. wliginosa. The

toothing of the leaves is another, for although in other

respects there is considerable variability, the type of serra-

tion always remains the same. The leaves vary a good deal

as regards the presence or absence of pubescence, but the

glands on the lower surface remain a constant and dis-

tinguishing feature. At Kew S. wliginosa has proved

Mancz, 1914,

hardy, and during the summer of 1913 formed a somewhat

loose plant about 6 feet high with erect shoots and with

inflorescences which are nearly always compound, many-

flowered and compact, in full blossom from the opening of

September to the middle of November. Judging from the

experience at Kew, S. wliginosa is likely to be a serviceable

plant for the herbaceous border.

Derscriprion.—Herb; stems up to 8 ft. high, branched,

bluntly 4-angled, sulcate, glandular, adpressed-pubescent.

Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acute, base long-cuneate, gradually

diminishing in size upwards, up to 34 in. long, 3 in. wide, deep-

serrate, green, membranous, glabrous above, adpressed pubes-

cent on the nerves and dotted with numerous black glands

beneath ; Jateral nerves about 7 on each side of the midrib,

and like the latter slightly impressed above, raised beneath,

the uppermost leaves sessile, those below with petioles

up to ¢ in. long. Inflorescence terminal, compound ; racemes

spiciform, compact, the terminal up to 4} in. long, lateral

24 in. long, long-peduncled, Verticillasters 7-20-flowered ;

bracts ovate, long-acuminate, ciliate, soon deciduous, } in.

Jong including the tip. Calye campanulate, pubescent,

glandular; lobes ovate-triangular, the posterior slightly

2-3-toothed, lateral with acuminate tips. Corolla blue,

tube under } in. long, very narrow at the base, anterior li

3-lobed, 4 in. long, nearly as wide, posterior lip 2-lobed,

about } in. long, } in. wide. Anthers 1 lin. long, filaments

as long with the connective bent backwards, 2 lin. long.

Ovary under 1 lin. long; style, including the style-arms,

nearly 3 in. long, glabrous, 2-lobed, the upper lobe recurved,

in. long, twice as long as the straight anterior lobe,

Fig. 1, section of stem; 2, portion of undersurface of leaf ; 3, calyx, laid open

and showing pistil; 4, corolla-tube, laid open; 5, anther; 6, upper portion of

style, with stigma :—all enlarged.

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KNIPHOFIA carrata. :

South Africa, :

LILIAcEAE. Tribe HEMEROCALLEAE.

‘Kyrrnorta, Moench; Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 775; A. Berger in

Lingl. Pflanzenreich, Lil.--Asphod.-Aloin. p. 81.

+ ileal

Kniphofia carinata, C. H. Wright; species K. comosae, Hochst., affinis, fila-

mentis luteis, perianthio vix duplo longioribus differt.

Herba perennis. Folia 7+5 dm. longa, e basi 2°5 em. lata ad apicem acuminatum

gradatim attenuata, supra profunde canaliculata, subtus acute carinata,

tenuia, glabra, marginibus levibus anguste albo-cartilagineis instructa.

Scapus cylindricus; bracteae lanceolatae, longe acuminatae, scariosae,

8 mm. longae, 2 mm. latae; racemus 15 cm. longus, densiflorus; pedicelli

breves ; flores nutantes. Perianthiwm claro-luteum ; tubus anguste urceo-

latus, supra ovarium leviter constrictus, 18 mm. longus, prope apicem

5 mm. diametro ; lobi erecto-patentes, obtusi, 8 mm. longi, 3-5 mm. lati,

Filamenta circiter 30 mm. longa, perianthio concolora; antherae oblongae,

3mm. longae. Ovariwm ovoideum, 4 mm. longum, trilobum, leve ; stylus

subulatus, staminibus paullo longior. Ovula plura.—C. H. Wriaat.

The Kniphofia which we depict is a South African species

for the introduction of which horticulture is indebted to Miss

Ayliff of Rose Cottage, Grahamstown, South Africa, by

whom seeds were presented to Kew in 1892. The plants

raised from these seeds have been grown in ~ in a cool

frame, where, however, they throve indifferent y until 1912,

when they suddenly began to make vigorous growth and

flowered for the first time in September of that year.

They flowered again in September, 1913, when the oppor-

tunity was taken of preparing the present illustration.

During the twenty years that this species has been in

cultivation without flowering at Kew it has also been tried

in the open border with other species of Kniphojia, but has

never in that situation proved a success owing to its

being manifestly less hardy than the majority of the species

under cultivation, The species when in flower was seen by

Mr. Berger, who at once recognised it as one not enumerated

in his recent scholarly monograph of the genus. It is

apparently most closely allied to the Abyssinian A. comosa,

Marcu, 1914,

Hochst., figured at t. 6569 of this work, which has also a

clear-yellow perianth similar in shape to that of K. carinata,

but is readily distinguished by its much longer bright red

filaments. Both species have leaves of thin texture which

are acutely keeled upwards from a short distance above the

base. The Transvaal species K. ensifolia, Baker, is easily

_ recognised by its scabrous leaf-margins, while the Abyssinian

species K. Leichtlini, Baker, figured at t. 6716 of this

magazine, which is a member of the same section, differs in

having a reddish perianth, stamens that are but slightly

exserted, and a less pronounced more obtuse keel to the

leaf. ee

Descriprion.—Herb, perennial. Leaves 24 ft. long,

1 in. wide at the base, thence gradually tapering to an

acuminate tip, deeply channelled above, sharply keeled

beneath, thin, glabrous, margins smooth, narrowly hyaline.

Scape cylindric; bracts lanceolate, long-acuminate, scarious,

3 in. long, 7'5 in. wide ; raceme 6 in. long, dense-flowered ;

pedicels short; flowers nodding. Perianth clear-yellow ;

tube narrow-urceolate, slightly constricted above the ovary,

% in. long, } in. across near the tip; lobes erecto-patent,

obtuse, } in. long, +in. wide. Filaments about 1} in. long,

coloured like the perianth; anthers oblong, } in. long.

Ovary ovoid, } in. long, 3-lobed, smooth; style subulate,

rather longer than the stamens. Ovules numerous.

Fig. 1, a flower; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, pistil:—all enlarged.

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COTONEASTER rursinatra.

China.

RosacEAE. Tribe Pomear.

CotonzastTeR, Medik. ex Lindl.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. i. p 627.

Cotoneaster turbinata, Craib; a C. pannosa, Franch., eiusque affinioribns

fructu turbinato facile distinguenda; a C. coriacea, Franch., foliis apice

plerumque acutis nec emarginatis, fructu minore turbinato recedit.

' Frutex 2-metralis, _Ramuli juventute sericei, mox tomentosi, demum glabri vel

hic illic puberuli, cortice brunneo vel fusco-brunneo subnitido striato vel

reticulato-striato obtecti. Folia oblanceolata ad ovato-lanceolata, apice

acuta, obtusa vel rarius rotundata, mucronulata, basi parum inaequilateralia,

cuneata, 1°5-4°5 em. longa, 0-7-2 cm. lata, papyracea vel tenuiter coriacea,

pagina superiore nisi costa pilis paucis albis instructa glabra, inferiore

molliter sericeo-arachnoidea, costa supra immersa subtus tka

nervis lateralibus utrinque circiter 8 supra leviter impressis vel conspicuis

subtus prominulis, nervulis cum reticulatione gracili supra conspicuis vel

fere subprominulis, petiolo ad 7 mm. longo supra canaliculato indumento

ramulorum suffulto; stipulae lineares, acutae, ad 5 mm. longae, diutius

persistentes. Inflorescentia compacta, multiflora, corymbiformis vel

pyramidato-corymbiformis ; pedunculi partiales ad 1 cm. longi; pedicelli

ad 3 mm. longi, indumento ut pedunculi ramulique; bracteae angustae,

acutae, ad 2°75 mm. longae, dorso pilosae. got Meme 1-5 mm. altum.

Sepala deltoidea, acuta, 1:5 mm. longa et lata, indumento extra ut pedicelli.

Petala subrotundata, 2 mm. (ungui incluso) longa, 1°75 mm. lata. Fila-

menta 2 mm. longa, glabra,antheris parvis. Carpel/a2 parva, pilosa, ovulis

binis erectis, stylis 2 circiter 2mm. longis. Fructus turbinatus, circiter

4 mm. altus, tenuiter arachnoideus.—W. G. Cras.

The Cotoneaster which forms the subject of our illustration

was received at Kew from the collection of Mr. M. L.

de Vilmorin at Les Barres in 1910 under the two numbers

4484 and 4547. The seed from which the first of these

was raised was received, Mr. de Vilmorin informs us, in

June, 1897, from the Abbé Farges, who had collected them

during the previous year to the north of Ichang in Eastern

Szechuan. The original plant in Mr. de Vilmorin’s garden

fruited in 1903. The seed from which the second was raised

was received in November, 1905, from Mr. C. Sprenger

of Naples, who informed Mr. de Vilmorin that it had come

from Hupeh. This latter, Mr. de Vilmorin states, suffered

trom frost during the winter of 1908-9, but soon recovered.

The species has grown very well at Kew since its intro-

duction, and by 1913 the tallest plant had reached six feet

in height. It is evidently very hardy and vigorous and

Marca, 1914,

thrives in any soil of moderate quality. From the other

species of Cotuneaster in cultivation C. turbinata is very

readily distinguished by its flowering so late as in July,

when the flowering season of trees and shrubs in general

is decidedly on the wane. This habit of flowering six to

eight weeks later than any other Cotoneaster imparts to

our plant a special horticultural value, and assures it a

warm welcome owing to the addition it makes at

this particular season to the attractions of the garden.

Its nearest botanical affinity appears to be with

C’. coriacea, Franch., a species known at Kew from fruiting

material only. In C. coriacea the leaves are usually obovate:

and are uniformly rounded at the tip and then generally

emarginate and apiculate; in C. turbinata the leaves are

usually lanceolate with the apex acute. The fruit of

C. turbinata matures in. October. The species is readily

increased by cuttings of the shoots of the current season

made in August.

Descriprion.—Shrub, up to 6 ft. high; twigs silky when

young, soon tomentose, then glabrous or casually puberulous ;

bark brown or tawny, rather polished, striate or reticulate.

Leaves oblanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute obtuse or

rarely rounded, mucronulate, slightly unequal and cuneate

at the base, 2-13 in. long, 1-3 in. wide, chartaceous or

thinly coriaceous, glabrous above except for a few white

hairs along the midrib, softly silky-arachnoid beneath, |

midrib impressed above, raised beneath, lateral nerves

about 8 along each side, slightly impressed above, raised

beneath, fine reticulation rather distinct above; petiole

nearly 3 in. long, channelled above, silky ; stipules linear, —

acute, up to $ in. long, rather long persistent. Inflorescence

compact, many-flowered, corymbose or somewhat pyramidal ;

partial peduncles 4 in. long and pedicels 2 in. long, silky ;

bracts narrow, acute, about } in. long, pilose on the back.

Receptacle under 1 lin. high. Sepals deltoid, acute, stall,

silky outside. Petals nearly round, 1 lin, long, nearly as

wide. Filaments 1 lin. long, glabrous; anthers small.

Carpels 2, small, pilose; ovules in pairs, erect ; styles 2,

about 1 lin. long. Fruit turbinate, about 2 lin. high;

thinly silky. ,

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petals removed; 4 and 5, anthers ; 6, fruit:—adl enlarged. :

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HIBISCUS Warmear.

Hawaiian Islands.

Matvacear. Tribe Hretscear.

Hrstscus, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 207; Hochreutiner

in Ann. Conserv. et Jard. Bot. Genéve, vol. iv. p. 23.

Hibiscus Waimeae, A. A. Heller in Minnes. Bot. Studies, vol. i. p. 8513

Hochreutiner in Ann. Conserv. et Jard. Bot. Genéve, vol. iv. p. 182; affinis

H. Kokio, Hillebr., a quo bracteis parvis reflexis, corolla alba, tubo

staminali longissimo distinguitur.

Arbor parva, usque ad 7°5 m. alta. Ramuli annotini circiter 4 mm. diametro,

cortice saepius cinereo, cicatricibus folioram delapsorum prominentibus, -

hornotini ut petioli pedicellique sordide purpurei, patule pilosi. Folia

late elliptico-ovata vel suborbicularia, basi rotundata vel plus minusve

cordata, apice obtusa vel subapiculata, 9-20 em. longa, 7-17 cm. lata,

crenata vel crenato-serrata, supra glabriuscula, subtus puberula, nervis

purpureis subtus prominentibus; petioli 4-10°5 em. longi; stipulae

subulatae, caducae. Flores in axillis superioribus solitarii; pedicelli

3-5 cm. longi, superne in basin calycis incrassati. Bracteae involucri

6-8, reflexae, lineari-subulatae, circiter 1 cm. longae. Calyx tubulosus,

sursum leviter ampliatus, ultra medium unilateraliter fissus, in toto

3-3°7 cm. longus, extra breviter pubescens; lobi triangulares, acuminati,

circiter 1 cm. longi. Corolla alba, limbo patulo; segmenta 11-12 cm,

longa. Tubus staminalis usque ad 16 cm. longus, superne ut filamentella

papillatus, ruber; filamentella irregulariter verticillatim disposita, 2-2°5

em. longa. Ovariwm oblongum, breviter pubescens. Styli rami 5,

leviter divergentes, stigmatibus capitatis—H. Arnottianus, H. Mann in

Proc. Amer. Acad. vol. vii. p. 157; Sinclair, Fl. Hawaiian Isl. t. 8.—

T. A. Spracug,

The beautiful Hibiscus which forms the subject of our

illustration is a native of the Hawaiian Archipelago,

where it has been collected on the islands of Kauai, Oahu

and Hawaii. It belongs to a small group of species

which includes 4. Losa-sinensis, Linn. and its allies,

for which Hochreutiner has proposed the sectional

name Lilihiscus. All of these are shrubs or trees with

large and showy flowers, and are natives of Africa, the

-Mascarene Islands and Polynesia. The plant from which

the material for our figure has been obtained was

purchased as H. Arnottianus for the Kew collection from

_ a Californian nursery company in 191]. In a sunny

Apri, 1914,

position in the Mexican section of the Temperate House it

has grown into a strong bush 8 ft. in height, and flowered

for the first time in September 1913. As regards soil and

temperature its requirements appear to be those of the

familiar H. Rosa-sinensis, the Juva or ‘ Shoe-flower’’ of

Indian gardens. The name /. Arnottianus, under which

our plant was received from California, is that by which

the species is usually known in collections. But that

name unfortunately has from time to time been applied

to three distinct plants, and when an effort is made to

restrict its incidence to one of the three we find that it is

not to the present species, but to a nearly allied one

with red flowers that it must be limited. The most

satisfactory solution of the difficulty, as Mr. Sprague has

elsewhere pointed out, would be to abandon altogether the

employment of the name /7/. Arnottianus.

Description.—7ree up to 25 ft. high; twigs of the

preceding season about } in. thick, bark usually grey,

marked with very pronounced leaf-scars; young twigs

dull purple and hairy, as are the petioles and pedicels.

Leaves wide elliptic-ovate or suborbicular, obtuse or

apiculate, base rounded or somewhat cordate, margin

crenate or crenate-serrate, 34-8 in. long, 3-7 in. wide,

almost glabrous above, puberulous beneath, veins purplish,

raised beneath; petiole 13-4 in. long; stipules subulate,

caducous. lowers solitary in the upper axils; pedicels

14-2 in. long, slightly thickened upwards just under the

calyx; involucral bracts 6-8, reflexed, linear-subulate,

about 4 in. long. Calyx tubular, slightly enlarged

upwards, split on one side above the middle, 14-14 in.

long, shortly pubescent externally; lobes triangular,

acuminate, about 4 in. long. Corolla white; limb

spreading; segments about 44 in. long. Staminal tube

over 6 in. long, papillate and towards the upper part red

like the free filaments, which are irregularly whorled and

are #-l in. in length. Ovary oblong, shortly pubescent.

Style-arms 5, slightly diverging ; stigmas capitate.

Fig. 1, calyx split open, showing ovary : 2, stellate hairs on pedicel ; 3, apex

of staminal tube, with style-arms; 4, anther :—all enlarged.

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GLADIOLUS Masonrorvum.

Tembuland.

Iripackak, Tribe Ixrear.

Guaproxus, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 709.

Gladiolus Masoniorum, C. H. Wright in Kew Bulletin, 1913, p. 305 ; species

_ G. sulphureo, de Graaf, affinis, lobis perianthii brevioribus spathisque

acuminatis differt.

Herba. Folia 5:3 dm. longa, 1 cm. lata, basi-apiceque attenuata, utrinque

hirsuta, costa crassa, nervis marginalibus validis instructa. Racemus

30 cm. longus, laxus, glaber ; spathae virides, herbaceae, glabrae; exterior

lanceolata, acuminata, 3°5 cm. longa, 1°2 cm. lata, interior minor, 3 cm.

longa. Perianthiwm cremeum, ad faucem pallide luteum, intra tubum

viride; tubus 2 cm. longus, anguste infundibuliformis, curvatus; lobi 5

superiores subaequales, 3 cm. longi, 2 cm. lati, obtusi, undulati; lobus

inferior 1°5 cm. latus. Antherae cremeae. Stigmatis lobi spatulati,

3 mm. longi, laciniati.—C. H. Wricur.

The Gladiolus now figured was discovered in Tembu-

land in December 1910 by Canon G. E. Mason of Umtata,

and his sister Miss M. H. Mason, in compliment to both

of whom it has been named. A year and a half later

material was sent to the Cambridge Botanic Garden,

where under the care of Mr. Lynch the plant came into

flower not quite twelve months after the receipt of the

corms, in the end of May 1913. From material sent by

Mr. Lynch the present plate has been prepared. The

perianth is of a soft creamy tint with green inside the

lower part of the tube; the anthers are of much the

same colour as the perianth. The section to which G.

Masoniorum belongs is one whose species are difficult to

discriminate. Its leading member is the widely spread

G. Quartinianus, A. Rich., which includes many forms

with variously coloured flowers, all of them with some-

what hooded upper perianth-segments. The nearest

ally within this section to G. Masoniorum is G. sulphureus,

de Graaf, figured at t. 7791, which, however, is different

from G. sulphureus, Jacq., now Babiana stricta, var.

Aprit, 1914.

sulphurea, Bak., and from G. sulphureus, Bak., for which

- Wright now proposes the name G. deiodes. When

first received at Cambridge in June 1912, the corms, Mr.

Lynch informs us, were potted in good sandy loam with

some leaf mould, and kept in a frame until they began

to grow in early September. They were then transferred

to the Intermediate House and kept until early April,

when they went to the Succulent House, where they

flowered in May. In spring 1913 a growing corm was

planted out-of-doors on the west border of the Palm

House, near the wall. This flowered in July last. The

plant after having withstood eleven degrees of frost, its

leaves remaining quite green, survived the winter of

1913-14; the position it occupies is, however, a very

sheltered one. Treatment in a pot, comparatively dry,

is likely to keep the corms dormant until early spring ;

for although growth took place the first year early in

September, in the second year the corms have remained

dormant until spring. The retention of green leaves in

the open indicates a tendency to prolong the natural

time of growth.

Descrrprion.—Herb. Leaves 13-13 ft. long, over } in.

wide, narrowed towards tip and base, hirsute on both

surfaces ; midrib stout, marginal nerves strong. Raceme

1 ft. long, lax, glabrous ; spathes green, herbaceous,

glabrous, the outer one lanceolate, acuminate, about

shaped, curved ; five upper lobes subequal, 1} in. long,

long, laciniate.

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BERBERIS Prartrtt.

Western China.

BERBERIDACEAE. Tribe BERBERIDEAE.

Berseris, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 43.

Berberis Prattii, C. K. Schneider in Sargent, Plantae Wilsonianae, vol. i.

p. 876; affinis B. polyanthae, Hemsl., et B. brevipaniculatae, C. K.

Schneider ; ab illa rete venularum foliorum laxiore, paniculis angustioribus,

ab hae foliis magis serratis subtus non glaucis differt.

angustae, circiter 4-5 cm. longae, glabrae; bracteae ovatae, caudato-

acuminatae, circiter 8 mm. longae; pedicelli 8-5 mm. longi, apice

bibracteolati, bracteolis triangularibus obtusis rubris vix 2 mm. longis.

Flores circiter 5 mm. diametro. Sepala 6, late elliptico-obovata, valde

concava, trinervia nervis lateralibus demum furcatis, 8 exteriora circiter

3 mm. longa, 8 interiora circiter 4 mm. longa. Petala 6, sepalis o posita,

obovata, 3-3-5 mm. longa, 2 mm. lata, emarginata, trinervia, glandulis

duabis oblongis 1°38 mm. longis nervis lateralibus 0°7 mm. supra basin

insidentibus. Stamina 6, petalis opposita, 2 mm. longa. Ovarium leviter

stipitatum, ovoideum, stylo brevi; ovula 2, erecta. Baccae ellipsoideae,

salmoneo-rubrae, 6-7 mm. longae, stylo 0°6 mm. longo. Semina 1-2,

oblongo-obovoidea, 3°7 mm. longa, rubella.—B. polyantha, Hemsl. in

Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. vol. xxix. p. 302, partim.—T. A, Spracur,

This Western Szechuan shrub was first collected by Mr.

A. E. Pratt in the neighbourhood of Tachien-lu. It was

subsequently met with there and at Mupine by Mr. E. H.

Wilson, when collecting for Messrs. J. Veitch and Sons,

Originally included by Hemsley in B. polyantha, this Ber-

beris has been kept apart by Schneider on account of its

less closely reticulated leaves and narrower inflorescences,

But while perhaps most closely related to B. polyantha,

Hemsl., B. Prattii most resembles B. brevipaniculata, C. K.

Schneid., with which it has been confused in collections,

though it is readily distinguished by the pale green but

not glaucous lower surface of the leaves. Like B. brevi-

paniculata our plant is a shrub of dense growth, forming

ApriL, 1914.

a mass of twiggy branches out of which are thrust

each year a number of long whip-like shoots. More

beautiful when in flower than most Chinese species

of the genus, it is still more effective when laden in

September with its branches of salmon-red fruits. The

material for our figure was gathered from a_ plant

in the Arboretum Nursery at Kew, which had been

purchased from Messrs. Veitch in 1909. The shrub

grows very freely and is apparently quite hardy; the

freedom with which it fruits promises to make its pro-

pagation easy. Like other species of Berberis this one

enjoys a well-drained loamy soil.

Description.—Sirub, 6-10 ft. high; young twigs

finely pilose, tawny, grooved; internodes 2-1 in. long;

old twigs ash-grey. Spines undivided or more often

3-partite, slender, 4-2 in. long, grooved underneath.

Leaves in fascicles of 4-5 (according to Schneider a

fascicle may include as many as 10) obovate-oblong or

obovate, rounded or blunt and mucronulate at the tip,

narrowed gradually below into a short or very short

petiole, }-11 in. long, 1-2 in. wide, entire or more

particularly on the lower part of the twigs spinulose

serrate beyond the middle, green above, paler beneath,

in drying very markedly reticulate on both surfaces.

Panicles narrow, 13-2 in. long, glabrous; bracts ovate,

caudate-acuminate, about 1 in. long; pedicels 1-1 in.

long, bibracteolate at the tip, bracteoles triangular,

obtuse, red, under +5 in. long. Flowers about + in.

across. Sepals 6, wide elliptic-obovate, very concave,

3-nerved, lateral nerves at length divided; three outer

about 4 in. long, three inner about 1 in. long. Petals 6,

opposite the sepals, obovate, 1-1 in. long, 4 in. wide,

emarginate, 3-nerved with two rather large oblong glands

on the lateral nerves a little above the base. Stamens 6,

opposite the petals, yin. long. Ovary shortly stipitate,

ovoid; style short; ovules 2, erect. Berry ellipsoid, salmon-

red, { in. long, crowned by the short persistent style. Seeds

1-2, oblong-obovoid, about 7 in. long, reddish.

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OLEARIA sEMIDENTATA. _

Chatham Islands.

ComposiTagE. Tribe ASTEROIDEAR.

OxeariA, Moench.; Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 276.

Olearia semidentata, Dene ex Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. vol. i. 115; Hook. f.

Handb. New Zeal. Fl. p. 124; Buch. in Trans. New Zeal. Inst. vol. vii.

: , t. xiv.; Kirk, Students’ Fl. p. 264; Cheeseman, Man. New Zeal.

Plora, p. 280; Dorrien Smith in Kew Bull. 1910, pp. 120-126, cum icon. ;

affinis O. chathamicac, T. Kirk, foliis lineari-oblanceolatis latioribus

Frutex parvus, parce ramosus, usque ad 1 m. altus; rami graciles, errabundi,

pilis albidis appresse lanati. Folia numerosa, conferta, subpatula, lineari-

oblanceolata, acuta, basi gradatim angustata, 4-7 cm. longa, 0°5-1 em.

lata, superne serrulata, inferne integra vel subintegra, juniora supra glabra

vel leviter lanata, subtus floccoso-lanata, nervis ascendentibus. Capitula

pedunculata, terminalia, solitaria vel ramorum apices versus pauca, 5-6 cm.

diametro ; pedunculus bracteis foliaceis parvis instructus, 3~5 em. longus.

Involucri bracteae numerosae, lineares, subacutae, 1-1°2 cm. longae, dense

lanato-tomentosae, apice glabrescentes. Flores radit usque ad 50, purpurei.

Corollae tubus cylindricus, 4 mm. longus, minute puberulus; limbus

lineari-oblanceolatus, apice tridentatus, ad 2 cm. longus, superne minute

puberulus. Flores disci fusco-purpurei. Corollae tubus inferne cylindri-

cus, puberulus, superne subcampanulatus, glaber, 4°5 mm. longus; lobi

lanceolati, subacuti, 1:5 mm. longi. Antherae 2°5 mm. longae. Stylus

glaber; rami subacuti. Achaenia linearia, 0°5 cm. longa, sulcata, minute

glanduloso-pubescentia. Pappus setosus, 6 mm. longus, barbellatus.—

Eurybia semidentata, F. Muell. Veg. Chath. Is. p. 21.—J. Hurcuinson.

The material for the figure now given of Olearia

semidentata, Dene, was supplied for the purpose from the

gardens of Mr. T. A. Dorrien Smith at Tresco Abbey,

Isles of Scilly, where a plant flowered in July 1913. The

specimens were sent at the request of Captain A. A.

Dorrien Smith, by whom it had been brought from the

Chatham Islands to those of Scilly. The most nearly

allied species is O. chathamica, T. Kirk, already figured at

t. 8420 of this work. The two species grow in association

in boggy places in the Chatham Islands. Captain

_Dorrien Smith records the existence in its native habitat

of two colour varieties of the present species, one with

Aprin, 1914,

pure white, the other with beautiful pink flowers. Dr. L,

Cockayne, in an account of the plants of the Chatham

Islands, has observed considerable variation in the size,

the marginal indentation, and the degree of indumentum

on the under surfaces of the leaves. The latter observer

noted particularly three plants growing side by side,

which so far as their general appearance was concerned

might well pass for three distinct species. It is not

impossible that, as they grow intermixed, hybridization

may take place between this species and QO. chathamica. .

The two species, besides being botanically very closely

related, bear a considerable general resemblance to each

other, and require the same cultural treatment. A

specimen at Kew, presented by Captain Dorrien Smith

some years ago, has not yet flowered.

_ Description.—Shrub up to 3-4 ft. high, sparingly

branched; branches slender, straggling, adpressed woolly.

Leaves many, close set, somewhat spreading, linear-

oblanceolate, acute, gradually narrowed to the base,

1}-27 in. long, }-3 in. wide, serrulate upwards, entire or

nearly so towards the base, when young glabrous or

sparingly woolly above, floccosely woolly beneath; nerves

ascending. Heads peduncled, terminal, solitary, or very

few towards the tips of the branches, 2-24 in. across ;

peduncle beset with small leafy bracts, 14-2 in. long.

Involueral bracts many, linear, rather acute, 4} in. long,

densely woolly tomentose, glabrescent at the apex.

fay-florets up to 50 in number, purple. Corolla with

finely puberulous, cylindric tube, } in. long; limb linear-

lanceolate, 3-toothed at the apex, finely puberulous |

upwards, ¢ in. long. Disk-florets purple. Corolla with

tube puberulous and cylindric below, somewhat campanu-

late and glabrous upwards, 4 in. long; lobes lanceo-

late, rather acute, very short. Anthers ya in. long.

Style glabrous, its arms subacute. Achenes linear, very

short, sulcate, finely glandular-pubescent. Pappus setose,

t in. long, barbellate.

Fig. 1, leaf-edge, showing leaf-teeth; 2, floret of the ray; 3, floret of the

disk ; 4, a pappus-hair; 5, anthers; 6, style-arms :—all enlarged.

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EPIDENDRUM prRorvsvumM.

Mexico.

ORCHIDACEAE. Tribe EPIDENDREAE,

Errenprum, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 528.

Epidendrum (§ Encyclium) profusum, Rolfe; species ab EH. ambiguo,

Lindl., panicula densiore, floribus minoribus, sepalis et petalis latioribus,

et labelli lobis minute crenulatis nec crispulo-undulatis differt.

Herba epiphytica. Pseudobulbi ovoidei, apice subattenuati, sulcati, 3-7 cm.

‘ Jongi, 2°5-4 em. lati, 2-3-phylli. Folia ligulata, subobtusa, coriacea,

18-35 cm. longa, 1°5-2°5 cm. lata, Scapi terminales, 4°5-5-5 cm. longi ;

panicula subcompacta, multiflora, rami subflexuosi, 10-15 cm. longi.

Bracteae ovatae, subobtusae, 2 mm. longae. Pedicelli graciles, circiter

2 cm. longi. Flores mediocres, speciosi, circiter 4°5 em, diametro,

Sepala et petala patentia, pallide flavo-viridia, sepala oblongo-lanceolata,

subobtusa, 2°3 cm. longa ; petala spathulato-lanceolata, subobtusa, 2°3 em.

longa. Labellwm trilobum, 1°8 cm. longum, album, prope apicem purpureo-

lineatum ; lobi laterales oblongi, obtusi, basi columnam involventes, apice

subrecurvi, minute crenulati; lobus intermedius ellipticus vel suborbicu-

laris, obtusus, minute crenulatus, circiter 1 cm. latus; venis radiatis

minus elevatis et verruculosis. Colwmna oblonga, 8 mm. longa.—

Epidendrum ambiguum, Rolfe in Orch. Rev. 1913, p. 215, nee Lindl.—

R. A. Roure.

The attractive Epidendrum here figured was obtained

for the Kew Collection in 1911 by purchase from Messrs.

Sander and Sons, St: Albans, In the house devoted to

tropical orchids it has thriven well under the conditions

suitable for other species of the same genus, and in June

1913 it flowered for the first time. It had been received

under the name FE. Candollei, Lindl., a species figured at

t. 3765 of this work under the name L. cepiforme, Hook.,

but on flowering it showed itself to be very distinct from

that plant and to be more closely allied to E. aromaticum,

Batem., and more especially to F. ambiguum, Lindl. At

first, indeed, it occurred to Mr. Rolfe that it might

actually be a form of the last-mentioned species, which

is somewhat imperfectly known. Further study, how-

ever, showed that our plant differs from E£. ambiguum in

having a denser panicle, with shorter and broader sepals

Aprin, 1914,

and petals, and in being without a strongly crispate

margin to the lip. The flowers are very fragrant. The

purple veining on the lip is of a more decidedly magenta

tint than it has been possible for the lithographer to

reproduce. The locality Mexico is somewhat inferential,

and is suggested owing to the circumstance that /.

Candollei, Lindl., the plant for which this was mistaken

when it was first introduced, is a Mexican species.

Derscription.—llerb, epiphytic; pseudobulbs ovoid,

somewhat narrowed upwards, channelled, 14-3 in. long,

1-14 in. wide, 2-3-phyllous. Leaves ligulate, rather

blunt, coriaceous, 7-14 in. long, 2-1 in. wide. Scapes

terminal, 14-13 ft. long; panicle rather compact, many-

flowered, with rather flexuous branches 4—6 in. long;

bracts ovate, rather blunt, y's in. long; pedicels slender,

about 2 in. long. lowers medium-sized but showy,

about 1% in. across. Sepals and petals spreading, pale

yellowish-green; sepals oblong-lanceolate, rather blunt,

nearly 1 in. long; petals spathulate-lanceolate, rather

blunt, nearly 1 in. long. Lip 3-lobed, 2 in. long, white,

streaked with purple near the tip; lateral lobes oblong,

blunt, enclosing the base of the column, recurved at the __

tip, finely crenulate; mid-lobe elliptic or suborbicular,

blunt, finely crenulate, about | in. wide, nerves radiating,

slightly raised and finely verrucose. Columns oblong, 1 in.

ong.

Fig. 1, a portion of the lip; 2, column; 3, pollen-masses; 4, sketch of an

entire plant :—all enlarged except 4, which is much reduced. _

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TAB. 8552.

ABIES MAGNIFICA.

North- Western United States.

ConIFERAE. Tribe ABIETINEAE,

AsiEs, Juss. (ex parte) ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 441.; Eichl.

in Engl. ¢ Prantl, Natiirl. Pflanzenfam. vol. ii. pars i. p. 81.

Abies magnifica, A. Murray in Proc. Roy. Hort. Soc. vol. iii, (1868) p. 318,

figs. 25-383; Masters in Gard. Chron. 1885, vol. xxiv. p. 652, fig. 148;

Sargent, Silv. N. Am. vol. xii. p. 187, tt. 618, 619; Elwes é Henry,

Trees of Gr. Brit. ¢ Irel. vol. iv. p. 792; Clinton Baker, Ill. Conéf. vol. ii.

p. 17, cum tt. 2; ab A. nobili, Lindl., affini differt foliis minus congestis

tetragonis supra haud sulcatis apice obtusis acutisve haud emarginatis,

carpellis ovatis vel obovato-ellipticis in ya typica quam squamulae

ovuligerae brevioribus in cono maturo haud exsertis.

Arbor ad 75 m. alta, coma apice rotundata, trunco ad 8 m. diametro ad medium

fere ramis destituto, cortice arborum diu laevi argenteo-albido deinde

profunde fisso 10-15 cm. crasso squamis nigro-rufescentibus; rami pro

rata _breves, inferiores subpenduli, rigide remote ramulosi, superiores

subadscendentes; ramuli robusti, primo anno virescentes, puberuli deinde

brunnescentes et glabrati. Gemmae ovatae, acutae, 6-8 mm. longae,

perulis castaneis exterioribus denticulatis apiculatis. Folia per decem

annos persistentia, ramorum inferiorum lanceolato-linearia, subplana,

obtusa, 1°8-3°8 cm. longa, 1°5 mm. lata, lateralia e basi subhorizontali

adscendentia, facialia suberecta vel prorsus curvata; folia ramorum

superiorum et ramulorum fertilium crassiora, linearia, sectione trans-

versa subrhombica, apice calloso-acuta vel subacuta, 0°8-3 cm. longa,

e basi breviter curvata erecta, dense congesta ; folia ramorum terminalium

1°8 cm. longa, acute acuminata, arcuata, apicibus ramo adpressis ; omnia

glauca vel glauco-viridia, utrinque stomatorum ordinibus instructa.

Strobili masculi oblongo-eylindrici, 1°2-1°8 cm. longi, rubro-purpurei.

Strobilt feminet oblongi, circiter 8°75 em. longi, fere 2°5 cm. crassi.

Carpella sub anthesi elliptica vel obovato-elliptica, denticulata, costa in

apiculum vel mucronem producta. Squamae ovuliferae sub anthesi quam

carpella multo breviores, late ovatae. Cont oblongo-cylindrici, apice

truncati vel rotundati, 15-23 cm. longi, 6-8-5 cm. diametro, ex purpureo

fuscescentes vel nigrescentes, squamae maturae late cuneatae quam

carpella vix aucta majores eoque occultantes, circiter 8°5 cm. latae.

Semina oblique oblonga, 1°5-1°8 em. longa, ala oblique obovata paulo

longiora, pallide purpureo-fuscescentia vel subrosea.—A. nobilis, var.

magnifica, Kellog, Trees of Calif. p. 29. Picea magnifica, Gord., Pin.

ed. ii. p. 219. Pinus amabilis, Parl. in DC. Prod. vol. xvi. pars ii. p. 246

(ex parte). P. magnifica, M‘Nab in Proc. R. Irish Acad. ser. 2, vol. ii.

p. 700, t. 49, figs. 830, 80a.—O. Starr.

The Fir here figured is the principal tree in the forest

belt of the Sierra Nevada between 6000 and 9000 feet

above sea level, extending northwards into the Cascade

May, 1914.

Mountains in Oregon. At the southern limit of its

distribution it reaches an altitude of 10,000 feet. It was

discovered by Fremont in 1845, probably in the Sierra

Nevada, and was first introduced into England by

J. Jefirey in 1851. In this country, however, it has not

proved so general a success in gardens as some other

Western American species ; still, fine specimens are to be

found, especially in Scotland. The material for our

figure has been made from material kindly furnished by

Mr. H. Clinton Baker from his fine pinetum at Bayford-

bury. There the tree is over sixty feet in height with a

trunk about six feet in girth. This species has been

much confused with A. nobilis, Lindl., but is readily dis-

tinguished, even in the absence of cones, by the leaf

being keeled on both surfaces and thus quadrangular in

transverse section, whereas the leaf of A. nobilis is grooved

on the upper surface. As seen in Scotland and other

places where it succeeds, A. magnifica is a tree of great

beauty and distinction, well marked by its slender conical

shape. Itenjoys a deep, moist, loamy soil and a generous

rainfall. At Kew, where both these requirements are

lacking, and where it has besides to contend against

adverse atmospheric conditions, it is a failure. The light

red-brown wood is comparatively durable; its main use, —

however, is for fuel. There is a variety which occurs on =

Mt. Shasta, and has been termed shastensis by Lemmon,

which is characterised by its mature cones having bracts

that are longer than the seed-bearing scales; they are

golden-yellow and their exserted tips are more or less

reflexed.

Description.— Tree up to 250 ft. high, crown round-

topped, trunk up to 10 ft. thick, almost devoid of

branches to the middle ; bark of adult trees long remaining

silvery white and smooth, but in time deeply cracking, 4-6

in. thick, with the segments blackish-red ; branches short

for the height of the tree, the lower ones almost pen-

dulous, stiff and distantly twiggy, the upper ones some-

what ascending ; twigs stout, greenish and puberulous the

first season, then becoming brownish and nearly glabrous.

Leaf-buds ovate, acute, 1-1 in, long, the outer scales

chestnut-brown, denticulate and apiculate. Leaves per-

sisting for ten seasons; those of the lower branches

lanceolate-linear, nearly flat, obtuse, 3-14 in. long, under

as in. wide, the lateral ones ascending from a nearly

horizontal base, the facial ones erect or curved through-

out their length ; those of the upper branches and of the

fertile twigs stouter, linear, somewhat rhomboid or

tetragonal in cross-section, callous and acute or subacute

at the tip, 1-1} in. long, at the base shortly curved, then

erect, densely clustered ; those of the terminal branches

3 in. long, acutely acuminate, curved till their tips touch

the branch; all glaucous or glaucous-green, beset with

rows of stomata on both sides. Male cones oblong-

cylindric, 3-$ in. long, reddish-purple. Female cones

oblong, about 14 in. long, nearly 1 in. thick. Carpels

when flowering elliptic or obovate-elliptic, denticulate,

the midrib produced in a mucro; ovule-bearing scales

wide ovate, in flower much shorter than the carpels.

Mature cones oblong-cylindric, truncate or rounded at the

apex, 6-9 in. long, 23-34 in. wide, from tawny-purple

to blackish; ripe scales wide cuneate, larger than and

hiding the very slightly altered carpels, about 1} in. wide.

Seed obliquely oblong, 2-3 in. long, wing oblique-obovate,

rather longer than the body of the seed, pale tawny-

purple or almost rose-coloured.

Fig. 1, a leaf; 2, transverse section of a leaf; 3, scale and bract; 4, scale;

5 and 6, seeds :—all enlarged except 8, which is of natural size,

8553

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LReeve &C° London

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ZEPHYRANTHES carDINALIs.

America.

AMARYLLIDACEAE, Tribe AMARYLLEAE.

ZEPHYRANTHES, Herb.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 728.

Zephyranthes cardinalis, C. H. Wright; species Z. concolori, Benth. et

Hook. f., affinis, pedicello breviore, spatha breviore anguste tubulari

perianthioque cardinali differt.

Herba. Folia ligulata, acuminata, 14 cm. longa, 7 mm. lata, supra nitide

viridia, leviter canaliculata, subtus carinata. Scapus cylindricus, 11 cm.

altus, 8 mm. diametro, inferne roseus, superne viridis; spatha rosea,

tubus subinflatus, 15 mm. longus, apex 11 mm. longus, acutus; flos

inclinatus; pedicellus 2 cm. longus. Perianthiwm cardinale; tubus

infundibuliformis, 2°5 em. longus, infra viridi-tinctus; segmenta late

oblongo-oblanceolata, subobtusa, apice incrassata, erecto-patentia.

Stamina ad medium perianthii segmentorum attingentia; antherae

oblongae, lilacinae. Ovariwm breviter ellipticum; stigma trilobum.—

C. H. Wrieut.

The handsome Amaryllid which is here described has

all the facies of a species of Hippeastrum referable to the

section Habranthus. Yet the nature of the spathe, which

is monophyllous and tubular at the base, excludes it from

LTippeastrum, a genus in which the spathe is bilobed to

the very base, and shows that it is really a Zephyranthes.

Within Zephyranthes it may best be placed in the section

Zephyrites where the flower is inclined and the style is

somewhat declinate. The plant from which our figure

has been prepared is one which flowered at Kew in June,

1913. The bulb was presented by Mr. E. S. Miller of

Wading River, New York, to his friend Mr. J. G. Baker

in January, 1913, and by Mr. Baker was made over to

Kew. Mr. Miller informs us that the plant has reached

him from the Bahama Islands where it is grown in

gardens, but that he has failed to learn of any locality in

which the species is indigenous. At Kew the species

thrives well under the cultural treatment suitable for

Z. carinata, Herb. which is figured at t. 2594 of this

work. Its leaves appear in October, but so far it has

not produced seeds at Kew.

May, 1914,

Descrretion.— Herb. Leaves ligulate, acuminate, 54

in. long, }-1 in. wide, shining green and slightly channelled

above, keeled beneath. Scape cylindric, 45 in. long,

1 in. thick, rose-pink near the base, green upwards ;

spathejrose-pink, its tube somewhat inflated, 2 in. long,

its tip acute, nearly } in. long; flower bent to one side,

its pedicel 3 in. long. Perianth bright-red ; tube funnel-

shaped, 1 in. long, greenish near the base; segments

broadly oblong-oblanceolate, somewhat blunt, thickened

at the tip, very slightly spreading. Stamens reaching the

middle of the perianth-lobes; anthers oblong, lilac.

Ovary shortly elliptic ; stigma 3-lobed.

Figs. 1 and 2, anthers ; 3, stigma :—all enlarged,

.§ del. J.NFitchlith,

TAB. 8554.

MAZUS 1 REPTANS.

[imalaya.

ScROPHULARIACEAE. ‘Tribe GRATIOLEAE.

Mazus, Lour.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 947.

Mazus reptans, N. LE. Brown; species nova affinis M. surculoso, Don, sed

glabrior, internodiis brevioribus, foliis minoribus angustioribus et acutiori-

bus oppositis nec rosulatis et corollae tubo calyce longiore differt.

Herba perennis caespitosa, ad 3-5 cm. alta. Caules repentes radicantes, 1 mm.

crassi internodiis 5-25 mm. longis, glabri. Folia opposita, cum petiolo

1-5-2°5 cm. longa, 4-9 mm. lata, lanceolata oblanceolata vel subelliptica,

acuta, utrinque 2-3-dentata, infra medium in petiolum angustius alatum

attenuata, glabra, subtus secus costam glandulis minutissimis conspersa.

Racemi 2-5-flori, erecti, 4-5 cm. longi, e basi florentes. Pedicelli 0°8-2

em. longi, erecti, graciles, unifariam pubescentes, minute unibracteati.

Calyx 5-6 mm. longus, ad medium vel infra 5-lobus, sparse glanduloso-

puberulus; lobi patuli, lanceolati vel elongato-deltoideo-ovati, acuti.

Corolla inaequaliter bilabiata, purpureo-coerulea, labio inferiore albo

luteo et rubro-purpureo variegato; tubus 7-8 mm, longus, minutissime

glandulosus ; labia porrecta; labium superius levissime recurvum, 8-10

mm. longum, basi 8°5 mm. latum, apice bifidum; labium inferius

1-1°3 em. longum, 1 em. latum, subplanum, 3-lobum, disco _bicalloso

callis albo-pilosis; lobi anguste oblongi, obtusi. Stamina 4, didynama,

2 inferioribus breviter exsertis; filamenta glabra. Stylus filiformis,

glaber, albus; stigma incrassatum, 2-lobum.—M. rugosus, Gard. Chron.

1913, vol. liii. pp. 158, 190, 210 cum icon. ; nec Lour. Mazus sp., Colchester

in Gard. Chron, l.c. p. 240.—N. E. Brown. ;

The very interesting little Scropulariad here figured is

one for whose introduction to English gardens we are

indebted to Mr. B. Crisp, of the Wargrave Plant Farm,

Limited, by whom it was shown at a meeting of the

Royal Horticultural Society on March 4, 1913, where it

was accepted by those responsible as Mazus rugosus,

Lour. It is a member of the genus Mazus, but it is singu-

larly unlike Jf rugosus, though, according to Mr. Crisp,

like M. rugosus it is a native of the Himalaya. There

is not, however, in any of the collections we have

examined, a Himalayan specimen which in habit is at all

like the species now figured, though a form with the same

general facies but with different foliage occurs in the

Khasia Hills to the east of the Himalaya. . For the

May, 1914.

plant from which the figure now given was prepared,

Kew is indebted to the kindness of Mr. Crisp; usually

in habit it is more compactly matted than the individual

shown in our plate. MV. reptans is an extremely pleasing

little plant, rather resembling in general appearance

some of the smaller Lobelias. It grows freely and

flowers almost continuously from early spring to late

autumn in any sheltered nook in the rock garden or in

a shallow pot in a cold frame.

Description.—ferb, perennial, tufted, 1-2 in. high;

stems prostrate, rooting at the nodes, very slender,

internodes 1-1 in. long, glabrous. Leaves opposite, in-

cluding the petiole 2-1 in. long, 1—1 in. wide, lanceolate,

oblanceolate or almost elliptic, 2-3-toothed along each

side, narrowed from the middle downwards in a rather

narrow winged petiole, glabrous but very minutely

glandular along the midrib beneath. Racemes 2-5-

flowered, erect, 12-2 in. long, flowering from the very

base; pedicels }-$ in. long, erect, slender, 1-fariously

pubescent, minutely I-bracteate. Calyx 1-1 in. long,

5-lobed to the middle or deeper, sparingly glandular

puberulous; lobes spreading, lanceolate, rather long

deltoid-ovate, acute. Corolla unequally 2-lipped, pur-

plish blue, the lower lip blotched with white, yellow and

red-purple; tube 14-1 in. long, very finely glandular ;

lips outspread, the upper slightly recurved, 4—? in. long,

1 in. wide at the base, 2-fid at the tip, the lower ?—} in.

long, 2 in. wide, almost flat, with the disk 2-callose, the

ridges white-pilose, the lobes narrow-oblong, obtuse.

Stamens 4, didynamous, the lower pair shortly exserted ;

filaments glabrous. Style filiform, glabrous, white;

stigma large, 2-lobed.

Fig. 1, calyx and pistil; 2, corolla laid open, showing stamens ; 3, hairs on

the corolla; 4 and 5, anthers; 6, pistil, with portion of calyx:—all enlarged.

8555

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LONICERA LepEpovrii.

California.

CAPRIFOLIACEAE. Tribe LoNICEREAE.

Lonicera, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 5.

Lonicera Ledebourii, Hschscholiz in Mém. Acad. Sci. St. Pétersb. vol. x.

p- 284; DC. Prodr. vol. iv. p. 336; Hook. et Arnott Bot. Beechey Voy.

p. 143; Newmann in Rev. Hort. ser. 2, vol. ii. p. 378, cum icon. ; Regel,

Gartenfl. vol. ii. p. 289, t. 64; K. Koch. Dendr. vol. ii. p. 85; Dippel,

Handb, Laubholzk. vol. i. p. 258, t. 171; Koehne, Deutsch, Dendr. p. 544 ;

Rehder in Rep. Missourr Bot. Gard. vol. xiv. p. 100; Schneider, Ill.

Handb, Laubholzk. vol. ii. p. 705, t. 448, figs. e-f; affinis L. involucratae,

Banks, sed ramis longioribus foliis infra pubescentibus basi interdum

rotundatis corollae tubo extra rubro-luteo, lobis patulis antheris vix

exsertis differt.

Frutex erectus ; rami elongati, interdum usque ad 5 m. longi; ramuli angulati,

juniores parce puberuli. Folia lanceolata vel ovato-lanceolata, subacuta

vel breviter mucronata, basi obtusa vel rotundata, 4-8 cm. longa, 1*5-2°5 cm.

lata, integra, tenuiter chartacea, supra nervis puberula, infra molliter

pubescentia, reticulata, nervis lateralibus utrinque 5-6 ascendentibus

arcuatis; petioli 0°5 em. longi, parce puberuli. Flores geminati, intra

involucrum longe pedunculatum e bracteis duabus sessiles; pedunculi

2-2°5 em. longi, glabri. Bracteae oppositae, distinctae, ovatae vel ovato-

ellipticae, apice obtusae, sub anthesin circiter 1 cm. longae et 0°8 cm.

latae, extra reticulatae, parce pilosae, intra et marginibus stipitato-

glandulosae, primum rubro-virides, in fructu purpureae et accrescentes ;

bracteolae parvae. Calyx obsoletus. Corolla infundibuliformis, basi

saccata, extra rubro-lutea, intra lutea; tubus 1-1°5 cm. longus, circiter

0*5 cm. diametro, extra parce pilosus; limbus 5-lobus, lobis patulis late

ovato-rotundatis 3 mm. latis. Stamina 5, supra medium tubi inserta;

antherae vix exsertae, mucronatae. Ovariwm glabrum; stylus crassus ;

stigma capitatum, breviter exsertum. Bacca nigra. — Chamaecerasus

Ledebourii, Billiard, L’Hort. Frang. 1861, p. 256. Lonicera intermedia,

Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. vol. i. p. 154, fig. 47. Caprifoliwm Ledebourtt,

Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 274. Distegia Ledebourit, Greene, Man.

Bot. San Francisco Bay, p. 164. Xylostewm Lebebourii, Howell, Fl.

N.W. Am, vol. i. p. 282.—J. Hurcuinson.

The Lonicera described above is a shrub of sturdy

erect habit, ultimately attaining a height of six to nine

feet and being as much across. Its deep orange-yellow

flowers, tinged with red, appear in late May and June,

and make the shrub very handsome then. It is very

easily cultivated, thriving in a deep loamy soil and in a

sunny position. Introduced in 1838 from California, it

May, 1914,

seems to be widely spread in gardens, if one may judge

by the number of specimens submitted for identification

in each succeeding year. It can be increased by cuttings

in early autumn. The only species in gardens with which

it is likely to be confused is the well-known L. involucrata,

Banks, which has similarly striking involucres. The

latter is, however, easily distinguished by its thinner,

glabrous or nearly glabrous leaves, and its longer stamens,

and it is as arule in herbaria not in gardens that any

serious difficulty is experienced in separating the two.

The material for our plate was supplied by a plant which

has long been in cultivation at Kew.

DESCRIPTION.—Shrub, erect; branches long, at times

up to 15 ft. long, twigs angular, when young sparingly

puberulous. Leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, rather

acute or shortly mucronate, base rounded or truncate,

13-33 in. long, 3-1 in. wide, entire, thinly papery,

puberulous on the nerves above, softly pubescent

underneath, reticulately veined, the lateral nerves

curved, ascending, 5-6 on each side; petioles 4 in. long,

sparingly puberulous. Flowers geminate, sessile between

two bracts in a long-peduncled involucre; peduncles

#1 in. long, glabrous. Bracts opposite, distinct, ovate

or ovate-elliptic, blunt-tipped, in flower about 2 in. long

and } in. across, reticulate outside and sparingly pilose,

beset with stalked glands within and on the margin, at

first reddish-green, in fruit purple and _ accrescent;

bracteoles small. Calyx obsolete. Corolla funnel-

shaped, saccate at the base, reddish-yellow outside,

yellow within; tube 4-2 in. long, about + in. wide,

sparingly hairy outside; limb 5-lobed, lobes spreading,

widely ovate-rounded, } in. across. Stamens 5, inserted

above the middle of the tube; anthers hardly exserted,

mucronate. Ovary glabrous; style stout; stigma capi-

tate, shortly exserted. Berry black.

Fig. 1, bract and two flowers; 2, ovaries ; 8, section of corolla; 4 and 5,

anthers ; 6, style and stigma :—all enlarged.

TAB. 8556.

PITHECOCTENIUM cynancHorDEs.

Brazil to the Argentine.

BIGNONIACEAE. ‘Tribe BIGNONIEAE.

PitHEcocTEenIuM, Mart.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1038.

Pithecoctenium cynanchoides, DC. in DC. Prodr. vol. ix. p. 195; Bur. ¢

K. Schum. in Mart. Fl. Bras. vol. viii. pars 2, p. 166 ; foliis parvis caudato-

acuminatis distinctum.

Frutex scandens. Ramuli graciles, quadrangulares, 6-costati, novelli minute

puberuli, mox glabrati. Folia opposita, petiolata, trifoliolata, foliolo

terminali saepe in cirrhum apice trifurcatum commutato; petioli 2-3 cm.

longi, pilosuli; petioluli similes, saepe longiores ; foliola late ovata, acute

caudato-acuminata, basi late cordata, 4-5 cm. longa, 3°5-4°5 cm. lata,

minute ciliolata, supra sparse minute subtus densius lepidota, lepidibus

oculo armato tantum visis. Racemus terminalis, pauciflorus; pedicelli

circiter 1:5 cm. longi, medio bibracteolati. Calyx cupularis, truncatus,

nervis productis 5-dentatus, circiter 8 mm. longus dentibus exclusis, extra

molliter pilosus, minute densiuscule lepidotus, superne circa mervos minute

impresso-glandulosus. Corolla alba, intus lutea, tubulari-infundibularis,

4-5 cm. longa, prorsum curvata, limbo patulo. Stamina 4, didynama,

anteriora longiora, ut staminodium posticum circiter 7 mm. supra basin

corollae inserta; filamenta basi incrassata, pilis moniliformibus villosis-

sima; antherae loculis discretis late divergentibus oblongis vix 3 mm.

longis. Ovariwm compresso-ellipsoideum, breviter tomentellum, biloculare,

disco magno pulvinari insidens; placentae pro loculo 2, multiovulatae,

ovulis pluriseriatis; stylus supra ovarium valde contractus deinde incras-

satus; stigmatis lobi plani, foliacei. Capsula oblonga utrinque angustata,

7-8 cm. longa, appendice septi capitato terminata, valvis more limae

muriculatis. Semina transverse inserta, plana, hyalino-alata, corpore

ambitu pyriformi.—P. clematidewm, Griseb. Symb. Fl. Argent. p. 257.

Anemopaegma clematideum, Griseb. Pl. Lorentz. p. 174.—T. A. SPRAGUE.

The Bignoniad here figured has been in cultivation at

Kew since 1884, when its seeds were presented by

Dr. Dormer, who collected them to the west of the

Argentine Republic. It flowered for the first time in

1895, and has frequently flowered in summer since. The

genus Pithecoctenium to which it belongs 1s one of the

best characterised in the natural family Bignoniaceae ; 1t

may be recognised at once by the capsule, which is

variously muricate or tuberculate outside and is ter-

minated by a capitate appendage of the septum; the

young branches always have about six prominent ribs

which are subsequently thrown off. Our species,

May, 1914.

P. cynanchoides, has a fairly wide distribution, for it is

known from the neighbourhood of Rio in Brazil, from

Paraguay, Uruguay and the north-west of the Argentine

Republic. As in many other Bignoniads the terminal

leaflet of the 3-foliolate leaves is replaced, in actively

growing parts of the stem, by a 3-furcate tendril. The

species thrives well in a temperate house under the con-

ditions suitable for some of the species of Bignonia.

Drscription.—Shrub, climbing; twigs slender, 4-angled

and 6-ribbed; young shoots finely puberulous, soon

glabrous. Leaves opposite, petioled, 3-foliolate, the end

leaflet often replaced by a tendril with a 3-furcate tip ;

petiole $-} in. long, finely pilose; petiolules similar and

often longer; leaflets wide-ovate, acutely caudate-

acuminate, base wide-cordate, 13-2 in. long, 14-13 in.

wide, finely ciliolate, under a lens closely minutely

lepidote beneath, very sparingly so above. Raceme

terminal, few-flowered; pedicels about 2 in. long,

2-bracteolate in the middle. Calyx cupular, truncate,

minutely 5-toothed owing to the nerves being produced,

excluding the teeth about 1 in. long, softly hairy outside,

minutely closely lepidote, in the upper part finely sunk-

glandular about the nerves. Corolla white, yellow within, __

tubular funnel-shaped, 13-2 in. long, curved throughout.

limb spreading. Stamens 4, didynamous, the anterior the

longer, all inserted, as is the staminode, about 1 in. above

the base of the corolla; filaments thickened at the base,

quite villous with moniliform hairs; anther-cells discrete,

wide diverging, oblong, hardly 1 in. long. Ovary com-

pressed-ellipsoid, shortly tomentellous, 2-locular, resting

on a large cushion-like disk ; placentae 2 to a cell, many-

ovuled, ovules many-seriate; style much contracted

above the ovary, then thickened higher up; stigmatic

lobes flat, leafy. Capsule oblong, narrowed to both ends,

about 4 in. long, crowned with a 7-headed appendix,

valves muriculate resembling a file. Seeds inserted

transversely, flat, with a hyaline wing; body of the seed

pyriform in outline.

Fig. 1, calyx; 2, stamens and their insertion ; 3, hair from base of filament

4, anther; 5, pistil and disk :—all enlarged,

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HYPERICUM Ascyron.

North America and Eastern Asia.

HiypericacEar. Tribe HypERIcEAE.

Hypericum, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 165.

Hypericum Ascyron, Linn. Sp. Pl. vol. ii. p. 783; Masxim. in Mél. Biol.

vol. xi. p. 162; Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. vol. xxiii. p. 72; J. M.

Coulter in A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Am. vol. i. pars 1, p. 284; floribus

maximis, petalis obliquis, stylis 5, stigmatibus capitatis distinctum.

Planta erecta, circiter 1 m. alta, superne ramosa. Caulis quadrangularis,

circiter 6 mm. crassus, angulis leviter alatis ; ramuli stricti, ascendentes,

superiores apice flores solitarios vel cymas trifloras gerentes. Folia sessilia,

patula, semiamplexicaulia, ovato-oblonga, acuta, 8°5-5°5 cm. longa, 1-

2°5 cm. lata, versus apicem leviter recurva, subcoriacea, glabra, nervis

supra impressis subtus prominentibus. Pedunculi 1°5-3'5 cm. longi,

superne bibracteati, rarius unibracteati. Sepala ovato-oblonga, 1*3-1°4 cm.

longa, 7-9 mm. lata, acute apiculata, crispata. Petala leviter deflexa,

oblique obovata, 4-5 cm. longa, 2°5-3 cm. lata. Stamvina numerosissima,

inconspicue quinquephalangiata, 1:5-2°7 cm. longa; _antherae breviter

oblongae, curvatae, versatiles, glandula apicali. Ovariwm ovoideum, 1°2

em. longum, quinquesulcatum, inferne quinqueloculare, superne unilo-

culare, placentis valde intrusis bifidis multiovulatis; styli 5, liberi, 1°2cm.

longi, stigmatibus capitatis. Capsula ovoideo-conica, circiter 2 cm. longa.

Semina teretia, raphe leviter alata.—H. pyramidatum, Ait. Hort. Kew.

vol. iii. p. 108. H. ascyroides, Willd. Sp. Pl. vol. iii. p. 1448. H. macro-

carpum, Michx Fl. Bor.—Am. vol. ii. p. 82.—T. A. SPRAGUE.

The very striking St. John’s Wort here described has

two widely separated areas of distribution. It occurs in

north-eastern North America, where it is met with on.

the banks of rivers from Quebec and New Jersey in the

east to Manitoba and Kansas in the west. It occurs

again in Central and Eastern Asia, where, according to

Komarov, it extends from the Altai region to Kamschatka,

Manchuria, Korea, China, Japan and Formosa. The plant

figured, which was presented to the Kew collection by

Mr. M. L. de Vilmorin, was raised from seeds obtained

in Korea, and represents a rather distinct form with

unusually large flowers, which is from a cultural stand-

point superior to the ordinary plant in which the flowers

are from two to two and a half inches across. At Kew //.

Ascyron, in all its forms, is only partially woody. Itsends

June, 1914.

up erect stems, three to four feet in height, each of which

produces in July and August a very large and striking ~

terminal corymb of flowers. After the fading of its

flowers the plant becomes somewhat unkempt and during

the winter the stems die back to ground level; after a

few years it is rather apt to die out entirely. It is,

however, readily propagated by seeds. The plant thrives

best in a loamy soil.

Derscription.—flerb, half-woody, 3-4 ft. high. Stem

erect, 4-angled, 1 in. thick, angles faintly winged; twigs

strict, ascending, the upper bearing at the tips either

solitary flowers or 3-flowered cymes. Leaves sessile,

spreading, partially stem-clasping, ovate-oblong, acute,

14-2} in. long, 2-1 in. wide, slightly recurved near the

tip, somewhat coriaceous, glabrous, the nerves sunk

above and raised beneath. Peduncles 2-1} in. long,

2-bracteate above, rarely only 1-bracteate. Sepals ovate-

oblong, over 4 in. long, about } in. wide, sharply apiculate, —

crispate. Petals slightly deflexed, obliquely obovate,

13-2 in. long, 1-1} in. across. Stamens very many,

indistinctly arranged in five groups, 2-1 in. long; anthers

shortly oblong, curved, versatile, with a glandular tip.

Ovary ovoid, 3} in. long, 5-grooved, in the lower part

5-chambered, in the upper portion only 1-chambered but

with the many-ovuled 2-fid placentas deeply intruded ;

styles 5, free, 4 in. long; stigmata capitate. Capsule

ovoid-conic, about 3 in. long. Seeds terete; raphe

slightly winged.

Fig. 1, flower-bud; 2,8 and 4, anthers; 5, pistil; 6, transverse section of

the ovary :—all enlarged.

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VITIS THUNBERGII.

China and Japan.

AMPELIDACEAE. Tribe VITOIDEAE.

Vitis, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 387, partim ; Planch. in

DC. Monogr, vol. v. pars 2, p. 821, emend.

Vitis Thunbergii, Sich. & Zucc. Fl. Jap. Fam. Nat. sect. 1, p. 90; Planch.

in DC. Monogr. vol. v. pars 2, p. 833; affinis V. Labruscae, Linn., a qua

nodis tertiis cirrhis (vel inflorescentiis) carentibus, necnon fructibus

minoribus recedit.

Frutex scandens. Rami subangulati, exsiccando costati. Folia alterna, duo

sequentia cirrho (vel inflorescentia) se opponentia, tertium ramulum axil-

larem suffulciens, ultra medium palmatifida, 10-15 cm. diametro, supra

glabra nervis et venulis impressis, subtus tomentosa vel pubescentia,

nervis prominentibus lobis 3-5 basi angustatis grosse serratis, terminali

rhomboideo-elliptico ; petioli 3-5 cm. longi. Thyrst oppositifolii,

ramo infimo in cirrhum mutato. Flores in apicibus ramulorum rhachis

subfasciculati, parvi, virides. Calyx breviter cupularis, repando-dentatus.

Corolla in alabastro depresso-truncata; petala 5, valvata, in calyptram

deciduam cohaerentia. Stamina 5, petalis opposita ; antherae introrsae.

Glandulae interstaminales 5, parva, hypogyna. Ovarvwm subglobosum,

biloculare ; stylus brevis, stigmate leviter bifido ; ovula pro loculo 2, erecta.

Baccae ovoideae vel ellipsoideae, circiter 1 em. longae, purpure )-nigrae.

Semina 1-8.—Vitis Labrusca, Franch. et Savat. Enum. Pl. Jap. vol. i.

p. 83: Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. vol. xxiii. p. 184; non Linn.—

T. A. Spracug.

- The Vine which is the subject of our notice is a native

of Eastern Asia, extending from Corea and China to

Japan and Formosa. In this area it is the species which

represents the North American Vitis Labrusca, Linn.,

to which it is very closely allied, and in which it has

actually been included by a botanist so distinguished as the

late Mr. Franchet. In the Asiatic V. Tiunbergu, however,

the fruits are so much smaller that it can hardly be con-

fused with its American congener, while the observant

owing to the circumstance that in the American. Fox-

Grape a tendril, or in the absence of a tendril, its homo-

logue, an inflorescence, is to be met with opposite each

leaf, whereas in the Japanese plant, while there 1s a

tendril or an inflorescence opposite two successive leaves,

none will be found opposite the third leaf. As a climber

whose foliage dies off at the close of the season im rich

JUNE, 1914.

red shades, V. Thunbergii is particularly suitable for

gardens in the western parts of the British Islands, and

in that of Canon Ellacombe, at Bitton, near Bristol, to

whose kindness we are indebted for the material for our

plate, this species is a very pleasing object. At Kew it

is hardy but is not of very vigorous growth, and never

forms stems more than eight feet long. The present

figure, it is hoped, may assist in the removal of an

almost inexplicable confusion which has crept into

English collections as regards the incidence of the name

V. Thunhergii, which at present is rather persistently,

but quite improperly, applied to a very fine form of

V. Cvignetiae, Pulliat, originally introduced from the

Kast into Mr. A. Waterer’s nursery. This latter plant, so

often grown as V. Thunbergii, is remarkable for the size

and the wonderfully rich autumnal colouring of its leaves.

The true V. Thunbergii, now figured, is very distinct in

its much smaller, deeply lobed leaves. It grows well in

rich loam and can be increased by “eyes” in the manner

usual for vines.

DeEscription.—Shrub, climbing; branches somewhat

angular, ribbed when dry. Leaves alternate, two in

Succession opposite a tendril or an inflorescence, the

third subtending an axillary branch, palmatifid to

beyond the middle, 4-6 in. across, glabrous above with

the nerves sunk, tomentose or pubescent with the nerves

raised beneath; lobes 3-5, narrowed to the base, their

margins coarsely toothed, the end-lobe rhomboid-elliptic ;

petioles 1}-2 in. long. Inflorescences leaf-opposed, the

lowest branch modified as a tendril. Flumers small,

green, fascicled at the tips of the twigs of the rhachis.

Calyx shortly cup-shaped, repand-toothed. = Corolla

depressed-truncate in bud; petals 5, valvate, united in

a deciduous calyptra. Stamens 5, opposite the petals;

anthers introrse; interstaminal glands 5, small, hypo-

gynous, Ovary subglobose, 2-celled ; style short; stigma

slightly 2-fid; ovules 2 to each cell, erect. Berry ovoid

or ellipsoid, over 1 in. long, purplish-black. Seeds 1-3.

Fig. 1, flower-bud; 2, the same, corolla removed ; 3, pistil and interstaminal

glands; 4 and 5, anthers i—all enlarged,

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DEUTZIA mottis.

China.

SAXIFRAGACEAE. Tribe HypRaNnGEAk.

Devrzia, Thunb.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 642.

Deutzia mollis, Duthie in Gard. Chron. 1906, vol. xl. p. 288; Rehder in

Sargent, Pl. Wilson. vol. i. p. 18; C. Schneider, Laubholzk. vol ii. p- 930;

inter species sectionis Mesodeutziae indumento molli in folioram pagina

inferiore e pilis stellatis quorum radius centralis elongatus patulus con-

stituto et filamentis edentatis distincta.

Frutex ad 0°6-1°5 m. altus, ramis teretibus novellis pilosis citissime glabratis

cortice tenui rubro-brunneo vel demum fuseo mox soluto tectis ; gemmae

ovatae, acutae, perulis ovato-lanceolatis acutis numerosis castaneis diu

ad innovationum bases persistentibus. Folia ovata vel late lanceolata,

acuta, basi rotundata, glanduloso-serrata, 5*5-7°5 em. longa, 2°5-5°5 em.

lata, supra pilis stellatis adpressis plerumque 4-5-radiatis conspersa, infra

indumento molli é pilis stellatis constituto quorum radius centralis valde

elongatus patet; petiolus hirsutus, 0°5-1 cm. longus. Inflorescentia

multiflora, corymbosa, corymbo densiusculo vel denso convexo ad

12 cm. diametro, ramis ramulisque stellato-hirsutis, pedicellis 8-4 mm.

longis pilis stellatis adpressis canescentibus. Receptaculum turbinatum,

2 mm. altum, indumento stellato adpresso incanum. Sepala late ovata,

subacuta, superne glabrescentia, 1 mm. longa. Petala patentia, late

elliptica, obtusa, 6 mm. longa, alba vel roseo-suffusa, extra stellato-

pubescentia. Filamenta e basi latiore sensim filiformiter attenuata,

edentata petalis paulo longiora. Discus pruinoso-papillosus, in centro

pilis minutis stellatis obtectus. Styli 3, quam filamenta breviores.

Capsula subglobosa, incano-pubescens, sepalis persistentibus coronata,

3°5 mm. diametro.—O. Srapr.

The very distinct and striking Deutzia now described.

is one of the additions to European collections for which

horticulture is indebted to Messrs. J. Veitch and Sons, for

whom it was discovered by Mr. E. H. Wilson, growing on

cliffs near Paokang, in Hupeh, in Central China, in 1901.

The material for our plate has been obtained from one

of the plants in the nursery of Messrs. Veitch at Coombe

Wood, raised from seed originally received from Mr.

Wilson. Like most of the species of the genus which

will grow at Kew, D. mollis is somewhat liable to injury

by late frosts in May, but in other respects is quite

hardy. It is remarkably distinct from any other species

in cultivation in the soft felt-like covering, especially on

Junz, 1914,

the undersurface of the leaves. It thrives in a good

loamy soil, and like its congeners is easily increased by

cuttings taken in late summer.

DrscripTion.—Shrub, 2-5 ft. high; branches terete ;

young shoots hairy but soon becoming glabrous; bark

thin, reddish-brown or at length tawny, soon flaking;

buds ovate-acute, their scales ovate-lanceolate, acute,

rather numerous, chestnut-brown, persisting for a con-

siderable time at the bases of the shoots. Leaves ovate

or wide lanceolate, acute, rounded at the base, the

margin glandular-serrate, 21-3 in. long, 1-2} in. wide,

sparingly adpressed hairy with usually 4—5-rayed stellate

hairs above, densely clothed beneath with a soft felted

tomentum of stellate hairs each of which has a very long

central ray; petiole hirsute, }-1 in. long. Inflorescence

many-flowered, corymbose, the corymb more or less

dense, convex, 44 in. across, its main and secondary

branches stellate-hairy ; pedicels 1—} in. long, hoary with

adpressed stellate hairs. Receptacle turbinate, +z in. long,

hoary with adpressed stellate hairs. Sepals wide obovate,

somewhat acute, glabrescent above, very short. Petals

spreading, wide elliptic, blunt, } in. long, white or flushed

with pink, stellate-pubescent outside. J ilaments gradu-

ally narrowed upwards from a rather broad base, not

toothed ; in length somewhat exceeding the petals. Disk

pruinosely papillose, covered in the middle with minute

stellate hairs. Styles 3, shorter than the filaments.

Capsule nearly globose, hoary-pubescent, crowned by the

persisting sepals, } in. in diameter.

Fig. 1, stellate hairs from upperside of leaf; 2, stellate hairs from under-side

of leaf; 3, flower-bud; 4,an expanded flower; 5 and 6, stamens :—all enlarged.

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TRICYRTIS stToLonrirera.

Formosa.

Lintiaceark. Tribe Uvunarrear.

Tricyrt1s, Wall.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 831,

Tricyrtis stolonifera, Matsumura in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, vol. xi. p. 78; species

T. formosanae, Bak., proxima, caulibus longe stoloniferis differt.

Herba 6 dm. alta, basi stolonifera. Caulis teres, basi rubro-purpureus, 6 mm.

diametro, dimidio superiore viridis, 2 mm. diametro, primum pubescens,

demum glaber. Folia elliptico-lanceolata, acuminata, basin vaginatam

versus attenuata, 20 em. longa, 4°5 cm. lata, margine ciliata, supra glabra,

nigro-maculata, nervis impressis; nervi laterales utrinque circiter 8, subtus

prominentes, primum pubescentes. Injlorescentiae pedunculus 12 em.

longus; rami tenues, primum pubescentes. Perianthiwm purpureum,

maculis obscuris notatum, basi intus cremeum annulo luteo marginatum ;

segmenta exteriora elliptica, acuta, 2°5 cm. longa, 1 cm. lata, extra pilosa,

basi bilobatim saccata ; segmenta interiora lanceolata, obtusa, 2 cm. longa,

38 mm. lata, intus levia, costa extra atropurpurea, utrinque canaliculo

pallido instructa. Stamina perianthio paullo breviora; filamenta rubro-

brunnea, parte superiore maculis luteis notata. Ovarium _oblongum,

glabrum ; styli brachia rubro-purpurea luteo-maculata, glandulis stipitatis

instructa.—C. H. Wricut.

The liliaceous genus Ticyrtis includes some ten species,

and extends from Japan and Formosa to the Central and

Eastern Himalaya. Three of these species have already

been figured in this work :—T7. pilosa, Wall., at t. 4955;

T. hirta, Hook., at t. 5355; and T. macropoda, Miq.,. at

t. 6544. All three have wide cordate or stem-clasping

leaf-bases, and thus differ very markedly from the

subject of the present illustration, in which the leaves

are narrowed gradually to the sheathing base. The

Species now figured, 7. stolonifera, is more brightly

coloured than any of the other species as yet introduced

to gardens, though it is not certain that in this respect

it differs at all markedly from its nearest ally, 7. formo-

sana, Bak., described from specimens collected in Formosa

by Mr. R. Oldham. Professor Matsumura, in describing

1. stolonifera, has distinguished between it and 7. formo-

sana, by the stoloniferous habit and the spotted perianth

of the former. In his field-note, however, Mr. Oldham

States that the perianth of 7. formosana is crimson and

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spotted, while the absence of stolons from his specimens

does not necessarily justify the conclusion that the

species to which these specimens belong never is stoloni-

ferous. The material for our figure has been obtained

from a plant raised at Kew from seeds collected in

Formosa by Mr. H. J. Elwes and Mr. W. R. Price, and

presented by Mr. Elwes. Mr. Price informs us that the

plant grows at altitudes of 7000 feet above sea-level or

rather lower, but always in forests. The maximum

height of wild plants is about a foot, and the seeds were

taken from quite dwarf plants at Karaping. The plants

raised from them at Kew have been more luxuriant,

reaching a height of two feet. Grown in pots in a cool

house, they flowered in September, 1913, but do not

promise to be hardy out of doors at Kew, though the

species is. worthy of a trial in the open in the south-

western parts of the United Kingdom.

Dezscription.— Herb, 2 ft. high, with stoloniferous base.

Stem cylindric, below reddish-purple and } in. thick, in

the upper half greenish, ;', in. thick, at first hairy, at

length glabrous. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate,

narrowed to the sheathing base, 8 in. long, 1? in. wide,

their margin ciliate, above glabrous with dark blotches

and sunk nerves; lateral nerves about three along each

side, raised and at first pubescent beneath. Jn/lorescence

lax; peduncle 5 in. long; branches slender, at first

pubescent. Perianth purple, indistinctly blotched, base

cream-coloured within, with a clear yellow marginal

ring; outer segments elliptic, acute, 1 in. long, 2 in.

wide, pilose outside and 2-lobately saccate at the base;

inner segments lanceolate, obtuse, 3 in. long, 4 in. wide,

smooth inside, the midrib dark purple outside, with a

pale groove along each side. Stamens rather shorter

than the perianth; filaments reddish-brown, marked

with yellow spots in the upper portion. Ovary oblong,

glabrous; style-arms red-purple blotched with yellow,

and beset with stalked glands.

Fig. 1, pistil showing portion of the base of the flower; 2, outer perianth

segment, showing inside of the base; 8 and 4, anthers; 5, sketch of an entire

plant :—all enlarged except 5, which is much reduced.

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STAPELIA LEENDERTZIAE.

Transvaal.

ASCLEPIADACEAE. ‘Tribe STAPELIEAE.

Stape.ia, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 784.

Stapelia Leendertziae, N. H. Br. in Ann. Transvaal Museum, vol. ii. p. 168;

affinis S. nobilis, N.E., Br., sed floribus minoribus sordide purpureis corollae

tubo multo longiore differt.

Herba succulenta, aphylla. Caules erecti, basi decumbentes, 7*5-12 cm. longi,

1-1°3 cm. crassi, 4-angulares, velutino-puberuli, prope medium florentes,

angulis subcompressis dentatis, dentibus erectis, Flores solitarii vel bini.

Pedicelli 2-2°3 cm. longi, 4-4°5 mm. crassi, velutini. Sepala 8-9 mm.

longa, ‘lanceolata vel ovato-lanceolata, acuta, velutina. Corolla magna,

campanulata lobis leviter patentibus, extra puberula, intus profunde trans-

versim rugosa et usque ad medium tubi pilis longis purpureis ornata,

omnino sordide purpurea; tubus 5-6°5 cm. longus, 4°5-6 cm. diametro;

lobi 4-5°5 cm. longi, basi 2°5-4 cm. lati, attenuato-deltoidei, acuti, pilis

purpureis ciliati. Coronae lobi exteriores 4 mm. longi, suberecti, profunde

bifidi, atropurpurei, segmentibus divergentibus subulatis acutis; lobi

interiores 4 mm. longi inaequaliter bipartiti, atropurpurei, segmentis

exterioribus aliformibus oblongis 6 mm, longis 4 mm. latis apice denti-

culatis, segmentis interioribus subulatis. Folliculi 11-14 cm. longi, erecti,

paralleli, fusiformi, velutino-puberuli, virides, fusco-purpureo striati.—

N. E. Brown.

. The Stapelia here figured is one of the most striking

Species in the genus, and is also one of the most dis-

tinct by reason of the great length of the tube of the

corolla. In another species, S. nobilis, N. E. Br., which

has been figured at t. 7771 of this work, there is also a

distinct tube to the corolla, but although the flowers are

larger in that species than in the ones here described,

the tube is considerably shorter, while the lobes are

more spreading and the coloration is different. Save in

S. nobilis and in S. Leendertziae, the subject of our plate,

the corolla in all the members of the genus is flat or

saucer-shaped. This latter plant was first met with in

1909 by Miss R. Leendertz, now Mrs. R. Pott, of the

Transvaal Museum, growing among rocks near Heidel-

berg in the Transvaal. Here it occurs in sunny spots

on rocks, where it forms large patches and flowers freely

for a long period at the beginning of the year. The

Junr, 1914,

corollas are of a uniform dull, dark, fuscous-purple colour,

and have a very disagreeable odour. The plant from

which the figure now given was prepared is one sent, in

1910, by Mr. G. Thorncroft, of Barberton, Transvaal, to

Mr. W. E. Ledger, of Wimbledon, in whose collection it

flowered in August, 1912. Another plant sent by Miss

Leendertz flowered subsequently at Kew. Mr. Ledger

informs us that he has found the sunny upper shelf of

a warm greenhouse the ideal situation for this Stapelia; a

well-drained soil with an admixture of lime rubbish suits

it excellently.

. Description.—Herb, leafless, succulent. Stems erect,

decumbent at the base, 3-5 in. long, 1-} in. thick,

4-angled, velvety-puberulous, bearing flowers about the

middle; the angles slightly compressed, toothed, the teeth

erect. Flowers solitary or in pairs, their pedicels 3-1 in.

long, } in. thick, velvety. Sepals } in. long, lanceolate

or ovate-lanceolate, acute, velvety. Corolla large, cam-

panulate, with the lobes only slightly spreading, puberu-

lous outside, deeply transversely rugose, and beset as far

as the middle of the tube with long purple hairs within,

dull fuscous-purple throughout; tube 2-25 in. long,

13-24 in. across; lobes 14-2} in. long, 1-1} in. wide at

the base, narrow deltoid, acute, ciliate with purple hairs.

Corona with outer lobes 1 in. long, suberect, deeply 2-fid,

dark purple, the segments diverging, subulate, acute;

inner lobes 4 in. long, unevenly 2-partite, dark purple;

the outer segments wing-like, oblong, } in. long, } in.

wide, denticulate at the tip, the inner segments subulate.

follicles 44-54 in. long, erect, parallel, fusiform, velvety

puberulous, green, streaked with dark purple.

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GONGORA arossa.

Ecuador.

ORCHIDACEAE. Tribe VANDEAE.

Gonaora, Ruiz et Pav.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p, 549.

Gongora grossa, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1877, vol. vii. p. 781; affinis

G. atropurpureae, Hook., sed floribus maculatis et labelli cornubus

obtusioribus differt.

Herba epiphytica. Pseudobulbi aggregati, ovoidei, acute 8-angulati, 5-7 em.

longi, basi vaginis ovatis membranaceis 2-3 cm. longis obtecti, apice

diphylli. Folia elliptica vel obovato-elliptica, breviter acuminata, plicata,

20-30 cm. longa, 6°5-9 cm. lata. Scapi arcuati et penduli, 45-60 cm.

longi, basi vaginis paucis lanceolatis obtecti; racemi laxi, multiflori.

Sepalum posticum oblongo-lanceolatum, acutum, basi columnae adnatum,

apice recurvum, circiter 2°5 cm. longum, marginibus revolutis; sepala

lateralia reflexa, oblongo-lanceolata, acuta, 2 cm. longa, marginibus

revolutis. Petala falcato-incurva, ad margines columnae adnata, circiter

1 cm. longa, apice aristato-acuminata etrecurva. Labellwm unguiculatum ;

imbus angustus, carnosus, compressus, 5-lobus; lobus intermedius tri-

angularis, breviter acuminatus, conduplicato-concavus, 6 mm. longus;

lobi laterales longe subulato-aristati, 8 mm. longi; lobi inferi falcato-

incurvi, lineari-oblongi, obtusi, 4 mm. longi; discus facie obtuse tricallosi.

Colwmna incurva, 1°5 cm. longa, basi angusta, apice clavata, alis falcato-

a Pollinia 2, clavato-oblonga; stipes linearis; glandula parvula.

—R. A. Roxre,

The remarkable Gongora which we here figure was

originally described by the late Professor Reichenbach

from a plant, which had been received from Ecuador,

that flowered in the collection of the late Sir Charles

Strickland, at Hildenley, Malton, nearly forty years ago.

That plant appears to have been lost shortly afterwards,

and there is no subsequent record of any other example

having reached Europe, or of the species as existing in

any collection, until in May 1913 a plant flowered at

Kew. This plant, which has supplied the material for

our plate, is one that was presented to the Kew collection

by Mr. Walter Fox, late of Singapore, an old and tried

friend of this institution. The plant had been met with by

Mr. Fox growing on a Cocoa tree at Tenqual in Ecuador,

when he was on a visit to that country in 1911.

According to Reichenbach G. grossa is the only near ally

Juny, 1914.

of G. atropurpurea, Hook., a Guiana species figured at

t. 3220 of this work, which has uniformly purple flowers, —

and shows certain marked structural differences in the —

lip. At Kew G. grossa has thriven well, and has flowered —

in a teak basket suspended from the roof of the tropical —

orchid-house. The long elegant racemes are most attrac- —

tive, and the plant is striking on account of the large —

size of its leaves and pseudobulbs. :

Description.—Herb; epiphytic; pseudobulbs clustered,

ovoid, acutely 8-angled, 2-23 in. long, their bases clothed

with ovate, membranous sheaths, with 2 apical leaves.

Leaves elliptic or obovate-elliptic, shortly acuminate,

plicate, 8-12 in. long, 24-34 in. wide. Scapes curved and

pendent, 14-2 ft. long, clothed at the base with a few

lanceolate sheaths; racemes open, many-flowered. Sepals:

posterior oblong-lanceolate, acute, adnate to the base of —

the column, recurved at the tip and with revolute margins,

about 1 in. long; lateral reflexed, oblong-lanceolate, —

acute, 2 in. long, margins revolute. Petals falcately |

incurved, adnate to the edges of the column, about 4 in.

long, aristate-acuminate at the tip and recurved. Lip —

clawed; limb narrow, fleshy, compressed, 5-lobed ; inter-

mediate lobe triangular, shortly acuminate, conduplicate-

concave, } in. long; lateral lobes long subulate-aristate,

1 in. long; lower lobes falcate-incurved, linear-oblong,

blunt, 4 in. long; disk bluntly 3-callose on the face.

Column incurved, } in. long, base narrowed, tip clavate,

wings faleate-subulate. Pollinia 2, clavate-oblong ; stipe

linear; gland small.

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KOLKWITZIA AMABILis.

China.

CAPRIFOLIACEAE. Tribe CAPRIFOLIFAE.

Korxwitzia, Graebn. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. vol. xxix. p. 593; Engl. & Prantl,

Nat. Pflanzenfam. vol. iv. pars 4, Nachér. iii. pp. 330, 331.

Kolkwitzia amabilis, Gracbn. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb, vol. xxix. p. 593; Hemsl.

in Gard. Chron. 1903, vol. xxxiii. p. 81; Stapf in Hook, Ic. Plant. t. 2987 ;

species unica.

Frutex copiose ramosus, ramis hornotinis molliter hirsutis, annotinis glabratis,

cortice brunneo. Folia ovata, basi rotundata, apice acuta vel acuminata,

laxe dentata vel subintegra, 3 em. longa, 1-3 cm. lata, superne sparse,

inferne ad nervos et ad margines densius hirto-pilosa vel fere villosa,

nervis utrinque plerumque 3-5 tenuibus prorsus curvatis; petiolus 1-2 mm.

longus. Flores geminati, paribus 3-9 in apice ramulorum brevium folia-

torum quasi in corymbum dispositi; pedunculi filiformes, pilosi, ad 10 mm.

longi; bracteae lineares vel subulatae, ad 3 mm. longae. Receptacula

uniuscuiusque paris opposita vel unum altero altius ortum quasi ei

lateraliter insertum, dense strigilloso-pilosa, superne in stipitem brevem

fere solidum contracta, 83-4 mm. longa. epala linearia, acuta, saepe

flexuosa, 5 mm. longa, hirta. Corolla oblique tubuloso-campanulata,

alba roseo tincta, extra puberula, 1-1°3 cm. longa, tubo basi antice

subgibboso intus antice villosulo, lobo antico quam lateralia paulo longiore.

Stamina 4, antica ad tertiam partem, postica ad medium tubi inserta ;

antherae late oblongae, 1 mm. longae. Stylus filiformis, scaberulus,

8-9 mm. longus; stigma minute trilobum. Ovarii loculi 8, inaequales,

unus saepe cassus; ovula 2-seriata. Fructus per paria connatl, nucu-

mentacei, monospermi, calyce coronati, crasse costati, costis superne

saepe in cornu productis, dense strigosi, inaequales, alter minor vel

subpressus. Semen oblongum, circiter 2 mm. longum.—O. Starr.

The specimens on which the Caprifoliaceous genus

Kolkwitzia, Graebn., was originally based were fruiting

ones collected by the Rev. Pére Giraldi near Gniu-yu, in

the province of Shensi, North China. Its introduction

to English gardens is due to Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons,

who about 1901 received from Mr. E. H. Wilson a supply

of the seeds of the solitary species, K. amabilis. The

shrub was not seen by Mr. Wilson when in flower; his

seeds were gathered near Fang, in the province of Hupeh,

Central China. A plant raised from this supply flowered

in the nursery of Messrs. Veitch at Coombe Wood for the

first time in June 1910; another, from which the material

JuLy, 1914,

for our plate has been obtained, blossomed there in June

1913. The genus is closely allied to Abelia, R. Br., but

differs in having paired and usually united flowers, so

that one receptacle seems to arise from the base of the

other. Specimens of K. amabilis which have not yet

flowered thrive well in loamy soil in the Kew collection,

and are about four feet in height. The species appears

to be quite hardy, and is found easy to propagate from

cuttings made of late summer wood.

Dxscription.—Shrub, freely branching ; twigs of the

first season softly hirsute, glabrous in their second season ;

bark brown. Leaves ovate, base rounded, apex acute or

acuminate, margin toothed or nearly entire, 14-1} in.

long, 3-1} in. wide, sparingly hairy above, more densely

hairy beneath, especially on the nerves and the margin;

nerves usually 3-5 on each side the midrib, slender and

curving upwards; petiole very short. Flowers paired;

arranged in a corymbiform thyrse composed of 3-9 pairs

at the apex of short leafy twigs; peduncle filiform,

pilose, } in. long; bracts linear or subulate, 1 in. long.

feceptacles of each pair of flowers opposite, or one of a

pair situated somewhat above and in appearance lateral

to the other, densely harshly pilose, contracted above

into a short almost solid stipes, 1-1 in. long. Sepals

linear, acute, often flexuous, } in. long, hairy. Corolla

obliquely tubular-campanulate, white flushed’ with rose-

pink, puberulous outside, about } in. long, tube some-

what gibbous at the base in front, the anterior lobe of

the limb rather larger than the lateral ones. Stamens 4,

the anterior pair adnate one-third up the tube, the

posterior at the middle of the tube ; anthers wide-oblong.

Style. filiform, scaberulous, 1 in. long ; stigma minutely

3-lobed. Ovary 3-celled; cells unequal, one usually

empty; ovules 2-seriate.- Fruits connate in pairs, nutlike,

1-seeded, tipped by the calyx, stoutly ribbed, the ribs

often produced above as a horn, densely strigose, unequal,

one smaller or occasionally one quite suppressed. Seed

oblong, about 5}, in. long.

. Fig. 1, a pair of flowers; 2, corolla, laid open, showing staminal insertion ;

, transverse section of ovary; 4, style and stigma :—all enlarged.

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PRIMULA VINCIFLORA.

South-western China.

PRIMULACEAE, Tribe PRIMULEAE,

- Primuza, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 631.

Primula vinciflora, Franch. in Gard. Chron. 1887, vol. i. p. 575, fig. 108;

Paz in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. vol. x. p. 210; Forbes et Hemsl. in Journ, Linn.

Soc. vol. xxvi. p. 43; Pax et Knuth in Engl. Pflanzenr. Prim. p. 108;

Gard. Chron. 1906, vol. xl. p. 230, 1909, vol. xlvi. p. 344, et 1913, vol. liv.

p- 198; Forrest in Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh, vol. iv. t. 80; ab

affini P. Elwesiana, King, corollae lobis emarginatis haud denticulatis

recedit,

Herba perennis, rhizoma abbreviatum, Folia plerumque oblonga, obtusa,

usque ad 9 cm. longa et 8 cm. lata, pagina superiore pilis brevibus erectis

albidis minute glanduloso-capitatis sparse tecta praetereaque aureo-

glandulosa, inferiore pallidiora pilis eis superioris simillimis sed paucioribus

instructa, nervis lateralibus utrinque circiter 6 obliquis intra marginem

anastomosantibus supra conspicuis, margine integra vel interdum obscurius

crenulata. Scapus uniflorus, sub anthesin in speciminibus cultis circiter

8 cm. longus, viridis nisi apice purpurascens, pilis divaricatis albis rubro-

glanduloso-capitatis vel superne pilis etiam rubris tectus. Calyx viridis,

profunde 6-lobus, segmentis lineari-oblongis obtusis 6 mm. longis et fere

2 mm. latis pilis glanduloso-capitatis dorso margineque instructis. _ Corolla

violacea ; tubus fere 2°5 cm. longus, extra pilis glanduloso-capitatis tectus ;

limbus 4°4 em. diametro, fauce intensius violaceus, 6- obatus, lobis

angustius obcordatis ad 1°8 cm. longis et 174 cm. latis dorso sparse

glandulosis. Stamina 6, glabra, apicem versus tubi inserta, tria superiora

erecta, tria inferiora retrorsum directa, antheris omnibus conum post styli

tergum efficientibus. Pistillwm glabrum, stigmate parvo pallido. oe

(fide Franchet) compressa, alata.—Omphalogramma vinciflora, Franch. in

Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. vol. xlv. p. 180.—W. G. Crats.

The Primula here figured is a species which was first

discovered in the province of Yunnan in South-western

China by the Abbé Delavay, from whose specimens it

was described by Mr. Franchet. It is one of a natural

group of species which includes the Himalayan P, Elwesi-

ana, King, and three other Chinese species, P. Delavayi,

Franch., P. Franchetii, Pax, and P. Englert, Knuth. This

group differs from the rest of the genus in being charac-

terised by large solitary flowers borne on robust scapes

rising from a sheath of later developing leaves; by

having the calyx divided to the ‘base into 5-8 segments,

Juty, 1914,

and by possessing flat seeds with a wing aril. These

distinctive features Jed Mr. Franchet to regard the group

as a distinct genus for which, having regard to the seed,

he proposed the name Omphalogramma. In P. vinciflora

there is yet another distinguishing feature which has not

been looked for so far in its consociates. This is to be

found in the disposition of the stamens whereof, as

Professor Bayley Balfour has pointed out, only those on

the posterior side are erect, the anterior ones being bent

across the corolla tube, so that all the anthers are

brought together in a cone at the back of the flower.

For the introduction of this species to cultivation horti-

culture is indebted to Messrs. Bees, Limited, for whom

Mr. G. Forrest obtained its seeds in South-western China

in 1908. The plant figured is one which was presented

to Kew, when in flower, by Professor Balfour, with whom

it blossomed in the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in

October 1913. Being doubtfully hardy it has been

grown at Kew in a cool frame in which it has failed to

ripen seeds, but where it is still alive and flourishing.

At Edinburgh the plant flowered for the first time after

five years; Professor Balfour has found it to thrive best

when kept well flooded with water under ample drainage

conditions. The rootstock in this species is very short,

and appears to be held in the ground only by its large

Toot fibres. In the wild plant the flowers precede the

leaves; under cultivation flowers and leaves appear

almost at the same time.

Description.—Herb, perennial; rootstock abbreviated.

Leaves usually oblong, obtuse, up to 34 in. long by 1} in.

wide, upper surface sparingly clothed with short, erect,

whitish, minutely gland-tipped hairs intermixed with

golden yellow glands ; the lower surface paler, with hairs

like those of the upper surface but less plentiful; lateral

nerves oblique, about 6 on each side the midrib, anasto-

mosing near the margin, visible above ; margin entire or

sometimes obscurely crenulate. Scape 1-flowered, when in

blossom usually about 3 in. long, sometimes longer, green

with a purplish upper end, clothed with spreading hairs ;

whitish below, reddish above, all hairs tipped with red

glands. Calyx green, deeply 6-lobed, segments linear-

oblong, obtuse, } in. long, almost ,, in. wide, outside and

along the margins clothed with gland-tipped hairs. Corolla

violet; tube nearly 1 in. long, clothed outside with gland-

tipped hairs; limb 1} in. across, the throat deep violet,

6-lobed, lobes narrow-obcordate, } in. long, % in. wide,

sparingly glandular behind. Stamens 6, glabrous, inserted

almost at the apex of the tube, the upper 3 erect, the

lower 3 bent backwards so that the whole of the anthers

come together in a cone behind behind the style. Pistil

glabrous ; stigma small, pale. Seeds compressed, winged.

Fig. 1, section of calyx, showing ovary ; 2, corolla-tube laid open, showing

disposition of stamens; 3 and 4, stamens; 5 pistil :—all enlarged.

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TROLLIUS cuHINEnsIs.

North China.

RANUNCULACEAE. Tribe HELLEBOREAR.

Trottivus, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 7.

Trollius chinensis, Bunge in Mém. Sav. Htr. Pétersb. vol. ii. p. 77; species a

Tt oe Reichb., cui maxime affinis, sepalis numerosioribus distin-

guenda,:

Herba perennis. Caulis validus, striatus, glaber, internodiis inferioribus 17 em.

longis. Folia radicalia deficientia, caulina inferiora ambitu reniformia,

superiora orbiculari-reniformia, usque ad 12 cm. longa et 16°5 cm. lata,

palmatim 5-partita, segmentis ambitu late oblanceolatis apice acutis basi

cuneatis usque ad 8 cm. longis et 5 cm. latis lobatis parte inferiore excepta

acute serratis, nervis primariis et secundariis pagina superiore conspicuis

inferiore prominentibus, membranaceo-chartacea, glabra, subtus pallidiora,

petiolo lato ad 1 cm. longo suffulta. Pedwneuli modo caulis striati, :

usque ad 28 cm. longi, paulo supra medium bracteolis duabus alternis

foliosis tripartitis ornati. Sepala 12-13, exteriora late ovata, usque ad

2 cm. longa et 1°6 cm. lata, interiora exterioribus longiora et saepissime

paulo angustiora, omnia apice rotundata, plus minusve conspicue venosa.

Petala 20, linearia, utrinque angustata, apice acuta vel acutiuscula,

2°7 cm. longa, 2°25 mm. lata. Stamina glabra, filamentis usque ad

8 mm. longis, antheris apiculatis ad 3°5 mm. longis. Carpella glabra,

stylo quam ovarium saltem dimidio breviore, ovulis biseriatis circiter 10.

—W. G. Crars.

Among the plants from the northern provinces of China

which have recently been introduced or re-introduced to

European gardens by Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons through

their collector, Mr. W. Purdom, one of the most

interesting is the subject of our plate, to which, although

it has been in cultivation for many years at Kew and

elsewhere, this fresh introduction has directed more

critieal attention. In English gardens this species, which

is a perennial that thrives vigorously and seeds freely in

cultivation when grown in the bog garden or beside

water under the same conditions as the Globe Flower,

Trollius europaeus, Linn., has for many years been

treated as merely a form of J. asiaticus, Linn., a species

figured long ago at t. 235 of this work. While, however,

this has been the custom in most collections, there

has been a feeling among the more observant of our

cultivators that this treatment was not justifiable, and

Suny, 1914,

that the two ought perhaps to be considered sufficiently

distinct, on cultural grounds, to be recognised as separ-

able varieties. This position, as a matter of fact, was

conceded to 7. chinensis by the late Dr. Regel when he

published the short synopsis of the genus 7rollius in

which he reduced Bunge’s species to 7: asiaticus. But

it should be realised that Regel’s treatment, though it has

been generally accepted and even extended by English

botanists—since they have merged 7. chinensis uncon-

ditionally in 7. asiaticus—has not been uniformly adopted.

On the contrary, Mr. Komarov, who is entitled from his

field experience to speak with an authority as great as

that of Regel or of Bunge himself, takes a very different

view. Regel’s primary subdivision of the genus 7rollius

is based upon the number of sepals in the flower. Under

this system he is able to treat 7. chinensis as a variety of

T. asiaticus, while another very similar Globe Flower,

T. Ledebourii, Reichb., falls within another group of

species. Komarov, however, while agreeing with Regel

that T. asiaticus and 7. Ledebourii are distinct, reduces

T. chinensis to the latter, not the former species. Finally,

in the recent revision of the Eastern Asiatic species of

Trollius by Messrs. Finet and Gagnepain, these careful

and distinguished authors, while they reduce 7. Ledebouriz

to Tf. patulus, Salisb., accord specific rank both to

YT. asiaticus and T. chinensis. Such diversity of opinion,

on the part of authorities so competent as those now

quoted, affords intrinsic evidence as to the difficulty

there is in finding within this genus characters that may

be relied upon as crucial in the delimitation of its species,

and, without rendering it necessary to accept the opinion

of Finet and Gagnepain as regards the position of 7. Lede-

hourti, suggests the desirability of adopting their matured

judgment as regards 7. chinensis, a judgment which is in

accord with the instinct of the cultivator. The original

description of 7. chinensis which Bunge has provided is, it

may be remarked in passing, quite insufficient to help us

in so critical a question as the position of his plant with

relation to its nearest allies. Fortunately, however, it is

sufficient to enable us to decide that the plant now

figured is the one he had in view. It was described by

him from dried flowers collected in ‘ Schan-ssi,’ where

these are used medicinally by the inhabitants. For the

material for our figure, taken from Mr. Purdom’s plant,

we are indebted to Messrs. Veitch.

Derscription.—fHerb, perennial; stem stout, striate,

glabrous, the lower internodes up to 7 in. long. Leaves:

radical obsolete ; lower cauline reniform, upper orbicular-

reniform in outline, up to 5 in. long and 7 in. across,

palmately 5-partite, the segments wide-oblanceolate, acute

with cuneate base, up to 3 in. long, 2 in. across, lobed

and except in the lower portion sharply serrate, main

and secondary nerves visible and raised beneath, thinly

papery, glabrous, rather paler beneath; petiole broad

and short, about } in. long. Peduncles striate like the

stem, glabrous, up to a foot in height, with two alternate,

tripartite, leafy bracteoles above the middle. Sepals

12-13, the outer wide-ovate, up to ?in. long and 3 in.

wide, the inner rather longer and usually rather narrower

than the outer, all rounded at the tip, and more or less

distinctly veined. Petals 20, linear, narrowed to both

extremities, more or less acute, over 1 in. long, about

iin. wide. Stamens glabrous; filaments up to 3 in. long;

anthers apiculate, + in. long. Carpels glabrous; style

half as long as the ovary or shorter; ovules about 10,

2-seriate.

Fig. 1, a nectary; 2 and 3, anthers; 4, carpels; 5, a carpel, in vertical section,

showing ovules :—all enlarged.

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ROSA CORYMBULOSA.

China.

RosacgaE. Tribe Roser.

Rosa, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 625.

Rosa (§Cinnamomeae) corymbulosa, Rolfe; species distincta, inter affines

ramulis inermibus vel parce armatis, floribus parvis numerosis et

corymbulosim dispositis distinguenda.

Fruter erectus vel scandens, parce ramosus, 1-2-metralis ; ramuli laeves,

inermes vel interdum parce aculeati, aculeis geminatis rectis patentibus

gracilibus 5-6 mm. longis basi latis, demum brunnei. Folia conferta,

4-9 em. longa, 38-5-foliolata; rhachis puberula et sparse glandulosa,

aculeis gracilibus paucis instructa ; foliola subsessilia, ovato-oblonga,

subacuta, crebre duplicato-serrata, subtus glauca vel cinereo-puberula,

15 cm. longa, 0°4-2 cm. lata; stipulae adnatae, anguste oblongae,

acutae, 8-10 mm. longae, marginibus erebre glandulosis. Flores

corymbulosi, numerosi, versus apices ramorum dispositi, 2-2°5 cm.

diametro; pedunculi circiter 2 cm. longi, glanduloso-setulosi. grt ae

culum ovoideo-oblongum, glanduloso-setulosum, 4 mm. longum. Calycis

lobi ovato-oblongi, caudato-acuminati, puberuli vel subtomentosi, circiter

8 mm. longi, patentes vel reflexi. Petala late obcordata. Filamenta

glabra, 2-8 mm. longa, antheris aureis. Fructus globosus, glandulosus,

circiter 8 mm. longus, sepalis persistentibus coronatus. Achaenia dorso

villosa, 2 mm. longa; styli villosi, in columnam 4 mm. longam

cohaerentes.—R. A. RouFe.

The distinct and striking Rose here described is

perhaps most nearly allied to £&. macrophylla, Lindl., but

differs in being almost spineless when mature, and in

having many small flowers which are borne in corymbs

towards the ends of the branches. It was raised at

Kew from seeds presented by Professor Sargent of the

Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, in the

spring of 1908. These seeds had been collected in

Western China in autumn 1907, under the field-number

630a, by Mr. E. H. Wilson. The plant from which the

material for our plate has been obtained flowered at

Kew for the first time in July 1913. At present this

plant is a bush about six feet in height, and promises to

be a fairly vigorous grower, thriving well in the rather

strong loam that roses as a whole delight in. R. corym-

bulosa had previously been met with in China, for there

Juny, 1914.

are specimens in the herbarium at Kew collected by

Mr. A. Henry near Wushan in the province of Szechuan

and at Hsingshen in the province of Hupeh.

DESCRIPTION.—Shrub, erect or scandent, sparingly

branched, 3-6 ft. high; twigs smooth, when old brown,

unarmed or at times sparingly prickly, prickles geminate,

straight, spreading, slender, 1-1 in. long. Leaves rather

close-set, 15-34 in. long, 3-5-foliolate ; rachis puberulous

and sparingly glandular, with a few slender prickles;

leaflets subsessile, ovate-oblong, subacute, closely dupli- —

cate-serrate, beneath glaucous or grey-puberulous, 2 in.

long, 1-2 in. wide ; stipules adnate, narrow-oblong, acute,

about } in. long, their margin closely glandular. Flowers

numerous, in small corymbs towards the ends of the

branches, 3-1 in. in diameter ; peduncles about ? in. long,

glandular-setulose. Receptacle ovoid-oblong, glandular-

setulose, } in. long. Calyz-lobes ovate-oblong, caudate-

acuminate, puberulous or almost tomentose, about 4 in.

long, spreading or reflexed. Petals wide-obcordate.

Filaments glabrous, ;';—1 in. long, with anthers golden-

yellow. Fruit globose, glandular, about 1 in. long, tipped -

by the persistent sepals. Achenes villous on the back,

He in. long; styles villous, conjoined in a column} in.

ong.

Fig. 1, stipules and a proximal leaflet ; 2, a flower in vertical section, the

removed; 3 and 4, anthers; 5, an achene :—all enlarged.

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CYRTOSPERMA JonnstTont.

Solomon Islands.

AROIDEAE. Tribe ORONTIEAE.

Cyrtosrerma, Griff.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. iii. p. 997.

Cyrtosperma Johnstoni, N. E. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1882, vol. xviii. p. 808;

Engl. Pflanzenr. vol. iv. 280, p. 19; species C. eduli, Schott, affinis sed

petiolis pedunculisque conspicue aculeatis et spatha multo minore apte

distinguenda.

Herba usque ad 1 m. alta, ubique glabra. Foliorwm petioli 0°45-1 m. longi, basi

vaginati, spinis in fasciculos spiraliter dispositos armati, sordide rubro vel

rubro-brunneo et atro-fusco irregulariter zonato-marmorati; laminae

triangulari-sagittatae, supra virides, venis rubris, subtus sordide purpuras-

centes, lobo antico 18-28 cm. longo 18-30 cm. lato ad insertionem petioli,

lobis posticis late divergentibus 23-36 cm. longis medio 8°5-15 cm. latis

suboblique lanceolatis acuminatis, costis posticis in sinu ad 3-5 cm.

denudatis. Pedunculi teretes, aculeati, petiolis similes. Spatha erecta,

15 cm. longa, 2°5 cm. lata, oblonga, longe acuminata, valde concava,

marginibus incurvis, extra nigro-violacea, leviter nitida, intra sordide albo-

virens leviter roseo-tincta, basi purpureo-rosea. Spadix brevissime nigro-

_ stipitatus, 8°5 cm. longus, 12 mm. crassus, cylindricus, obtusus, primum

virescens, demum pallide violaceus. Sepala et stamina 5-6. Ovariwm

oblongum, uniloculare, stigmate sessile coronatum ; ovula 2.—Alocasia

Johnstoni, Bull, Cat. 1878, p. 154.—N. E. Brown.

The very ornamental Aroid here figured is a native of

the Solomon Islands whence it was first introduced to

European collections by the late Mr. William Bull,

Chelsea. It was distributed from his establishment as

Alocasia Johnstoni, this name first appearing in his Cata-

logue for the season 1878. The spiny petioles and.

peduncles, red-veined, arrow-shaped leaves, and blackish-

violet spathes provide a combination of characters not

met with in any other Aroid and impart to the species a

distinction which has rendered it a favourite stove plant.

It grows well in any tropical house, preferring a rich

loamy soil with abundant water, except in winter when

the plant is at rest. The material for our illustration

has been obtained from an unusually vigorous plant,

grown under the moist tropical conditions atiorded in the

Nepenthes House at Kew, which flowered early in

August, 1913. At present Cyrtosperma Johnston: appears

Aveust, 1914,

to be the only species belonging to its genus in culti-

vation.

Description.—Jlerb, over 3 ft. high, glabrous every-

where. eaves triangular-sagittate, their petioles 13-34

ft. long, sheathing at the base, armed throughout with

spirally arranged tufts of spines, irregularly zonately

marked with dull red or reddish-brown, or dark brown

spots; laminae green above with red veins, dull purple

underneath, the anterior lobe 7-11 in. long, 7-12 in.

wide opposite the apex of the petiole, the posterior lobes

widely diverging, 9-14 in. long, 33-6 in. wide in the

middle, somewhat obliquely lanceolate-acuminate, the

lowest pair of lateral nerves running close to the margin

for 14-3 in. at the base of the sinus. Peduneles terete

and aculeate like the petioles. Spathe erect, 6 in. long,

1 in. across, oblong, long-acuminate, very concave, the

margins incurved, outside dark violet and slightly polished,

within dirty whitish-green faintly flushed with rose, at

the base rosy purple. Spadix with a very short dark

stalk, 34 in. long, } in. thick, cylindric, obtuse, at first

greenish, ultimately pale violet. Sepals 5-6. Stamens

ag ear oblong, 1-celled, tipped by the sessile stigma; _

ovules 2.

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MECONOPSIS ruvupis.

Western China.

Meconopsis, Vig.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol..i. p. 52; Prantl é

Kiindig in Engl. € Prantl, Pflanzenfam., vol. iii. pars 2, p. 141.

Meconopsis (§ Eumeconopsis) rudis, Prain in Ann. Bot. vol. xx. p. 347, syn.

M. sinuata var. Prattii excludend.; species e grege Aculeatarum M.

horridulae, Hook. f. et Thoms., proxime accedens, a qua tamen aculeis

coloratis nec stramineis, floribus clare nec intense coeruleis, toro magis

ampliato differt.

Herba monocarpica; caulis simplex scapiformis 3:5-7°5 dm. altus, aculeatus.

Folia radicalia primum rosulata demum evanida; caulina alterna, utrinque

aculeis simplicibus saltem basi sed saepe omnino purpureo tinctis induta,

oblongo-lanceolata, margine subintegra vel parum obtuse dentata, apice

obtusa vel acuta, basi in petiolum latiorem attenuata, supra pallide viridia

subtus glaucescentia; lamina 8-14 cm. longa, 2°5-4 cm. lata; petioli

inferiores 8-4 cm. longi, gradatim breviores. lores in cymas racemiformes

dispositi; pedicelli 2-6 cm. longi, aculeati, saepissime bracteati; bracteae

foliis conformes sed minores sessilesque. Sepala 2, ovata, 1'5 cm, longa,

extra parce aculeata. Petala 6-8, clare. coerulea nonnunquam purpureo

suffusa vel raro pallide purpurea, ovato-oblonga, obtusa, 2°75—4 cm. longa,

9-5-3'25 cm. lata. Stamina indefinita, pluri-seriata; filamenta glabra,

discreta, coerulea; antherae oblongae, luteae. Ovariwm e carpellis 4

compositum, ovoideum vel subglobosum, 6-8 mm. longum, dense

aculeatum; stylus glaber, 3 mm. longus; stigma coloratum, pallide luteum.

Capsula subglobosa vel oblonga, 1°25-1°5 cm. longa, in toro explanato

incrassato 5 mm. lato insidens.—M. racemosa, Franch., Bull. Soo. Fr.

vol. xxxiii. p. 890, et Pl. Delavay. p. 41; nec Maxim. M. horridula, var.

rudis, Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol. Ixiv. pars 2, p. 314.—D. Pram,

The Poppywort here figured is one of the “Blue

Poppies’ which impart to the stony alpine tracts in

South-western China at elevations of 11-16,000 feet

above sea level the curious charm that their near ally

Meconopsis aculeata, Royle, figured at t. 5456 of this work,

imparts to the corresponding regions of the North-

western Himalaya and Kashmir. From that well-known

species the subject of our plate is, however, readily

separated because of its entire or nearly entire leaves

and because the flowers have always more than four

petals. In colour, however, the flowers of the Western

species in question and of J. rudis, the one now figured,

agree very closely; in both species the petals are usually

Auaust, 1914.

sky-blue but in I. rudis, as the figure here given shows,

they sometimes have a purple tinge. It is now over a

quarter of a century since the late Mr. Franchet first

received specimens of this species from the late Abbé

Delavay and treated them as identical with. M/. racemosa,

Maxim., a plant which has, however, now been in culti-

vation in English rock gardens for a number of years

and is readily distinguished from M. rudis by the darker

blue of its petals and the absence of purple from its

spines. The only other species with which J. rudis has

been confounded is M. Prattii, originally treated as a

variety of M. sinuata, but better kept distinct from that

species on account of its having 5-8 petals in place of

4 asin M. sinuata. The petals in M. Prattii are pale

blue as in M. rudis and in M. aculeata, but the foliage

and the torus are as in M. racemosa which is itself only

the usual condition assumed by the Poppywort originally

described as M. horridula, Hook. f. & Thoms. The intro-

duction of M. rudis to European gardens has been due

in almost equal degree to Mr. E. H. Wilson and Mr. G.

Forrest by whom it has been collected in Szechuan and

in Yunnan. The plant figured is one of a large number

raised from seeds collected by the first named traveller for

the Arnold Arboretum and presented to Kew by Professor

C. 8. Sargent. The seeds were sown on a slope in the

rock garden in the spring of 1911, and the plants

flowered in June 1913. The species has proved hardy at

Kew, but, as was anticipated when it was originally

described, it has been uniformly monocarpic; all the

plants that have flowered at Kew died soon after ripening

their seeds.

Description.—Tlerb, monocarpic; stem 14-3 ft. high,

simple, scapose, prickly. Leaves at the base rosulate .

but soon disappearing, those of the stem alternate, armed

on both sides with simple prickles which are usually

purple based, but are often straw-coloured upwards,

oblong-lanceolate in outline, margin almost entire or

sparingly bluntly toothed, apex obtuse or acute, narrowed.

below into a very wide petiole, pale green above,

glaucescent beneath ; leaf blade 3-54 in. long, 1-14 in.

wide ; lower petioles 11-14 in. long, gradually decreasing

upwards. Flowers arranged in raceme-like cymes;

pedicels 3-24 in. long, prickly, usually bracteate ; bracts

like the leaves, but smaller and sessile. Sepals 2, ovate,

2 in. long, sparingly prickly externally. Petals 6-8,

bright blue, sometimes flushed with purple and occasion-

ally pale purple throughout, ovate-oblong, obtuse, 1}-

14 in. long, 1-1} in. wide. Stamens numerous, several-

- geriate; filaments glabrous, free, blue; anthers oblong,

yellow. Ovary made up of 4 carpels, ovoid or subglobose,

11 in, long, densely prickly ; style glabrous, 4 in. long;

stigma pale yellow. Capsule subglobose or oblong, 3-3

in. long, resting on a flattened enlarged torus } in.

across.

Figs. 1 and 2, stamens; 3, pistil; 4, sketch of an entire plant :—all enlarged

except 4, which is much reduced.

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ROSA SETIPODA.

China.

RosacEaE. Tribe RosEaLz,

Rosa, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 625.

Rosa (§ Cinnamomeae) setipoda, Hemsl. et H. H. Wils. in Kew Bulletin, 1906,

p- 158; species inter affines inflorescentia permagna laxa, bracteis foliaceis

et pedicellis setis longis patentissimis capitato-glandulosis instructis

distincta.

Frutec 2-8 m. altus; ramuli subglabri, aculeis geminatis rectis basi late

dilatatis 5-8 mm. longis armati. Folia 6-18 cm. longa, 7-9-foliolata,

rhachis breviter glandulosa et aculeolata, foliola subsessilia, late elliptica,

obtusa vel subacuta, serrata vel duplicato-serrata, supra atroviridia, subtus

glauca, venis prominentibus et puberulis, 8-6 cm. longa, 1-3 cm. lata;

stipulae adnatae, 1:5-2°5 cm. longae, anguste oblongae, acutae, marginibus

crebre ciliato-glandulosis. Flores speciosi, circiter 5 cm. diametro, in

cymas terminales corymbiformes laxas dispositi; pedicelli 3-5 cm. longi,

glanduloso-setulosi. Receptaculwm anguste oblongo-ovoideum, 8-10 mm.

longum, copiose setuloso-glandulosum. Calycis lobi ovato-lanceolati,

caudato-acuminati, intus pubescentes, apice foliacei et acute serrati,

9-2°5 cm. longi, patentes vel reflexi. Petala late obcordata, circiter

2°5 em. lata, pallide rosea, basi albidula. Filamenta glabra, 3-4 mm.

longa; antheris aureis. Carpella copiose villosa; styli 6 mm. longi, ©

villosi. Fructus ovoideus, apice attenuatus, saturate ruber, circiter 2°5

cm. longus, sepalis persistentibus erectis coronatus.—R. A. Roure.

The striking Rose here figured was met with by

Mr. E. H. Wilson in the Fang district in North-western

Hupeh, Central China, at from 7000 to 9000 feet above

sea-level, when collecting on behalf of Messrs. James

Veitch & Sons. It was raised by that firm in 1904, and

flowered for the first time in their nursery at Coombe

Wood in 1909. In the interval the species was described

as R. setipoda from herbarium material collected by

Mr. Wilson, and at a still earlier date by its original

discoverer, Mr. A. Henry. According to both collectors

the species is not uncommon in shrubberies in Hupeh.

Mr. Wilson describes it as a remarkable rose, recalling

by its general facies &. macrophylla, Lindl, with large

corymbs of handsome flowers to which a singular appear-

ance is imparted by reason of the long pedicels clothed

with spreading gland-tipped bristles, and beset with

Avuaust, 1914.

numerous foliaceous bracts. £. setipoda, which appears

to be quite hardy, grows vigorously in the rather stiff

loam that roses as a whole enjoy. It can be propagated

by cuttings made of ripened wood in autumn. The

material from our plate was obtained from a bush in the

Coombe Wood Nursery of Messrs. Veitch which flowered

there in June and July 1913.

Description.—Shrub, 6-10 ft. high; twigs almost

glabrous, armed with straight wide-based geminate

prickles {-} in. long. Leaves 2}-7 in. long, 7-9-foliolate ;

rachis shortly glandular and prickly ; leaflets subsessile,

wide elliptic, obtuse or subacute, serrate or duplicate-

serrate, dark-green above, glaucous beneath, nerves

prominent and puberulous, 11-2} in. long, }—1} in. wide;

stipules adnate, 2-1 in. long, narrowly oblong, acute,

margins closely glandular-ciliate. lowers showy, about

2 in. across, arranged in loose terminal corymb-like cymes ;

pedicels 11-2 in. long, glandular-setulose. Receptacle

narrowly ovoid-oblong, about | in. long or rather longer,

copiously glandular-setulose. Calyz-lobes ovate-lanceo-

late, caudate-acuminate, pubescent within, leafy and

sharply serrate at the tip, 3-1 in. long, spreading or

reflexed. Petals wide obcordate, about 1 in. across, pale

rose with whitish base. Stamens with glabrous filaments

about 4 in. long; anthers golden. Carpels rather

densely villous ; styles + in. long, villous. /ruit ovoid,

narrowed to the apex, deep red, about 1 in. long, tipped

by the erect persistent calyx-lobes.

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ZINGIBER Mroga.

Japan,

ScrramineaE, Tribe ZINGIBEREAE,

ZINGIBER, Adans.; Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 646.

Zingiber Mioga, Roscoe in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. viii. (1807) p. 848; Franch.

et Savat. Enwm. Pl. Japon. vol. ii. (1879) p. 20; Schumann in Engl.

Pflanzenr, vol. iv. 46, p. 188 (1904); Ito, Ic. Pl. Jap. vol. i. No. 1, t. 4;

species Z. atro-rubente, Gagnepain, affinis, sed spica breviore, calyce

longiore, labello obovato distinguitur. ;

Herba perennis. Rhizoma horizontale, circiter 6 mm. diametro. Culmi

erecti, usque ad 8 dm. alti, glabri, foliorum vaginis longitudinaliter

striatis glabris obtecti. Folia lineari-lanceolata, apice attenuato-acuminata,

basi attenuata, usque ad 2°6 dm. longa et 4 em. lata, nervis laterali-

bus plurimis parallelis cum costa pagina utraque subprominentibus,

glabra vel pagina inferiore basin versus sparse pilosa, membranacea, cum

petiolo 1°5 mm. longo instructa; ligula 4-7 mm. longa, 4-6 mm. lata,

conspicue biloba, lobis apice subacutis vel obtusis, glabra, membranacea.

Spica ellipsoidea, circiter 6 cm. longa, 8°5 cm. lata; pedunculus circiter

2 cm. longus, squamis ovato-oblongis vel oblongis acutis obtectus ; bracteae

exteriores ovato-ellipticae, subacutae, 2°5 cm. longae, 1°8 cm. latae,

glabrae. . Calyx tubulosus, spathaceo-fissus, fere truncatus, usque ad 2°8

cm. longus, membranaceus. Corolla flava, tubo anguste infundibuliformi

fere 4 cm. longo basi 2 mm. apice 1 em. diametro, lobis acuminatis, 2

anticis oblongo-lanceolatis 3 cm. longis 0:9 cm. latis, postico ovato-lanceo-

lato 8°2 cm. longo 1°3 em. lato. Labellwm obovatum, integrum, 3 cm.

longum, 2°1 cm. latum, basi lobis binis brevibus instructum, flavum.

Staminodia interiora filiformia, 5*5 mm. longa. © Anthera, appendicula

incurva 1 cm. longa exclusa,1°5 cm. longa. Ovarvwm pubescens, breviter

cylindricum, 6 mm. altum, 2°5 mm. diametro.—Amomum Mioga, Thunb.

Fl. Jap. (1784) p. 14; Banks, Icon. Kaempf. t. 1.—W. B. TURRILL.

The pleasing Gingerwort which forms the subject of

our illustration is one which has been known to European

botanists almost as long as the West has had intercourse

with Japan, and has been grown at intervals in European

conservatories for more than a century. It is said to

occur in a wild state in woods and bamboo-groves in the

warmer parts of Hondo, Shikoku and Kyishi as well as

in the islands of Tsu-shima in Japan. It is, however,

more frequently met with as a cultivated plant in

Japanese gardens. The plant from which the material

for our plate was obtained is one imported from Japan

by Mr. H. J. Elwes and presented by him to the Kew

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collection in 1912. Grown in a warm house under the

conditions suited to various species of Zingiher and

Amomum, Z. Mioga has thriven well; it flowered freely

in September 1913. The specific name ‘Mioga’ is

adapted from the Japanese vernacular name for the

plant, which in its native country is much esteemed for

its aromatic qualities. The young inflorescences, also the

young leafy shoots, are used for flavouring soups and

pickles, and also as a spice.

Description.—Herb, perennial; rootstock horizontal,

about { in. thick; leafy stems erect up to 24 ft. in

height, glabrous, covered with longitudinally striate

leaf-sheaths. Leaves linear-lanceolate, narrowly acu-

minate at the tip, narrowed to the base, up to 10 in.

long, about 14 in. wide, with many parallel lateral nerves

which are distinct on both faces as is the midrib,

membranous, glabrous on both sides or with the under

surface sparingly hairy near the base ; petiole very short ;

ligule 4-4 in. long, nearly as wide, distinctly 2-lobed,

lobes subacute or rounded, membranous, glabrous.

Spike ellipsoid, about 2! in. long, 1} in. across; peduncle

about $ in. long, clothed with ovate-oblong or oblong

acute scales; outer bracts ovate-elliptic, subacute, 1 in.

long, 3 in. wide, glabrous. Calyz tubular, spatha-

ceously split, almost truncate, over 1 in. long, mem-

branous. Corolla yellow, tube narrowly funnel-shaped,

about 1} in. long, +, in. wide at the base, } in. wide at

the top, lobes acuminate, the two anterior oblong-lanceo-

late, 1} in. long, } in. wide, the posterior ovate-lanceolate,

Fin long, } in. wide. Lip obovate, entire, 1} in. long,

= In. wide, with two short basal lobes, yellow. Staminodes

filiform, under } in. long. Anther nearly 2 in. long, with

a long incurved appendage over 4 in. long. Ovary

pubescent, shortly cylindric, ¢ in. long, +1, in. wide.

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COTONEASTER FRANCHETII.

Western China.

RosaceazE. Tribe Pomear.

CoTonEASTER,-Medik; Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 627.

Cotoneaster Franchetii, Bois in Rev. Hort. 1902, p. 879, figs. 159, 160, 161,

164; 1907, ,p. 256 cum icon. fig. 1 et p. 257, fig. 90; Vilmorin et Bois,

Frut. Vilmorin. p.117 cum icon.; Rehder et Wils. in Sargent, Pl. Wilson.

p. 165; species C. pannosae, Franch., affinis foliis paulo majoribus petalis

erectis roseo-tinctis fructibus oblongis aurantiaco-rubris differt.

Frutex 1-3-metralis, ramis albo-pannosis, deinde glabrescentibus cortice atro-

fusco tectis. Folia ovata vel ovato-elliptica, basi acuta vel subacuta,

apice acuta vel breviter acuminata, mucronulata, 2-3 cm. longa, 1-1°6 cm.

lata, supra saturate viridia pilisque tenuissimis longis conspersa, subtus

albo-pannosa, nervis lateralibus obliquis utrinque circiter 4 supra impressis

infra prominentibus; petiolus 8 mm. longus, tomentosus; stipulae subu-

latae, ad 8 mm. longae, rubescentes, pilosae. Injflorescentiae corymbosae,

ramulos foliatos 15-4 cm. longos interdum ramulo subcorymbo orto pro-

longatos terminantes, 15-25-florae, 1°5-2 cm. latae, densiusculae, griseo-

tomentosae; bracteae filiformes; pedicelli brevissimi vel ad 8 mm. longi.

Receptaculum sub anthesi turbinatum, laxe griseo-tomentosum, 2°5 mm.

diametro. Calycis dentes triangulari-ovati, apiculati, eodem indumento

ac receptaculum induti. Petala rotundata, 83 mm. diametro, amoene

roseo-tincta, sub anthesi erecta. Stamina circiter 20. Styli 2-3; carpella

2-8 in vertice villosa. Fructus aurantiaco-rubri, oblongo-ellipsoidei vel

turbinato-oblongi, circiter 1 cm. longi, 6-7 mm. diametro.—O. Starr.

The striking Cotoneaster which is here figured first

became known in European collections through plants

raised by Mr. M. L. de Vilmorin in his garden at Les

Barres from seeds communicated to him by his corre-

spondent the Abbé Souli¢é. Where the Abbé collected

these seeds is not exactly known, but the plant has since

been met with by Mr. E. H. Wilson in various localities

in Western Szechuan at altitudes of from 6500-9500 feet

above sea-level. According to Mr. Bois the species also

extends into Yunnan in which province 1t was collected

by the Abbé Delavay at Hee-chan-men at an altitude of

8500 feet. C. Franchetii is a very graceful shrub which

reaches a height of eight to ten feet, its branches arching

and elegant. The plant from which the material for our

plate has been obtained is one which was presented to

Kew by Mr. M. L. de Vilmorin in 1901. It bears fruit

August, 1914.

freely every year, and is very handsome in autumn, but

its flowers, which appear in June, are. too fugacious to

add much to the attractiveness of the species. It is

very hardy, grows freely in soil of even moderate quality,

and is easily increased by cuttings made of firm twigs

about the end of July.

DescrrPrion.—Shrub, 3-10 ft. high, branches white

felted at length glabrescent, bark dark brown. Leaves

ovate or ovate-elliptic, base acute or subacute, apex

acute or shortly acuminate, mucronulate, 3-11 in. long,

1_2 in, wide, dark green and sparingly beset with long

slender hairs above, white felted beneath, lateral nerves

oblique, about 4 on each side of the midrib, sunk above,

raised beneath; petiole 4 in. long, tomentose ; stipules

subulate, reddish, pilose, up to } in. long. njlorescences

corymbose, terminal on leafy twigs 2-1; in. long which

are at times continued by a twig springing from below

the inflorescence; corymbs 15-25-flowered, 3— in. across,

rather compact, grey-tomentose ; bracts filiform ; pedicels

very short, or occasionally up to % in. long. Receptacle

turbinate when in flower, loosely grey-tomentose, 1'5_ in.

across. Calyz-teeth triangular-ovate, apiculate, clothed

with the same tomentum as the receptacle. Petals

rounded, } in. across, tinged with rose, in flower erect.

Stamens about 20. Styles 2-3, the carpels villous at the

top. Fruit orange-red, oblong-ellipsoid or turbinate

oblong, over } in. long, about 4 in. across.

Fig. 1, apical portion of a leaf; 2,a flower; 3, vertical section of a flower,

the petals removed; 4 and 5, anthers; 6, a pyrene :—all enlarged.

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ECHINOPANAX HORRIDUS.

Japan and North America.

ARALIACEAE. Tribe SCHEFFLEREAE.

Ecutnopanax, Dene et Planch. ; Harms in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanaenfam.

vol, iii. pars 8, p. 34.

Echinopanax horridus, Dene et Planch. ea Macown Cat. Canad. Pl. vol. i.

p. 189; Harms in Engl. é Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. vol. iii. pars 8, p. 34;

Nakai in Journ, Coll. Sci. Tokyo, vol. xxvi. p. 276; species unica.

Frutex 1-8-metralis. Caulis aculeis plurimis armatus, basi repens, apice

foliatus. Folia petiolata, palmatifido-palmata, 5-9-loba, 15-25 cm.

diametro, lobulis pinnatifidis et irregulariter dentatis, venis aculeatis ;

petioli 8-20 cm. longi, aculeati. Flores umbellati; umbellae globosae,

in racemos vel paniculas compactas dispositae, rhachi aculeata et dense

villosa; bracteae suborbiculares, fimbriatae, deciduae. Flores breviter

pedicellati, pallide virides. Calycis lobi 2 spinescentibus exceptis.

brevissimi. Petala 5-6, valvata, ovata vel ovato-oblonga, 3 mm. longa,

apice acuta et incurva. Filamenta glabra, 3-4 mm. longa; antherae

longae, 1°5 mm. longae. Styli 2, distincti, 1°5 mm. longi, apice

divergentes. Fructus obovoideus, sulcatus, subcompressus, 5-6 mao.

longus, coccineus, stylis persistentibus coronatus ; pedicelli 7-8 mm.

longii—Echinopanax sp., Dene et Planch. in Rev. Hort. 1854, p. 105.

Pana horrida, Smith in Rees Cyclop. vol. xxvi. n. 10; DC. Prodr. vol. iv.

p. 252; Hook. Fl. Bor. Amer. vol. i. p. 273, t. 985 Bongard Veg. Sitka,

p. 25; Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Amer. vol. i, p, 648. Aralia erinacea, Hook.

in Edinb. Journ. Sci. vol. vi. p. 64; DC. Prodr. vol. iv. p. 259. Oplopanax

horridus, Miq. Ann. Mus, Lugd.-Bat. vol. i. p. 16; Franch, et Sav. Enum.

Pl. Jap. vol. i. p. 194. Fatsia sp., Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i.

p. 989. F. horrida, 8. Watson, Bot. Calif. vol. i. p. 273; Macoun Cat.

Canad. Pl. vol. i, p. 189; Coult. Man. Bot. Rocky Mt. Reg. p. 122.— -

R. A. Rone.

The striking Araliad which is here figured is a plant as

to whose classification there has been no little difference

of opinion. Originally described by Smith as Panax

horrida, it was soon afterwards described again by the

elder Hooker as Aralia erinacea. In their Flora Torrey

and Grey recognised the identity of Hooker’s species

with that of Smith, whom they followed in treating it as

a Panax, but as the type within that genus of a distinct

section Oplopanax, which Miquel subsequently treated as

a distinct genus. In this conclusion, however, Miquel

had been anticipated by Decaisne and Planchon, who

proposed for the genus the name Eehinepanax. The

Sepremper, 1914.

elder Hooker included in the genus Aralia the Rice-

paper Plant of Japan, figured at t. 4897 of this work

as A. papyrifera, Hook., and in the Genera Plantarum

Bentham and Hooker have followed the elder Hooker in

treating these two as congenecric, admitting, however,

that they cannot be treated as species of Ara/ia. In

1859, however, C. Koch had come to the conclusion that

Avalia papyrifera is also entitled to be considered a distinct

genus to which he gave the name Tetrapanar. The

genus to which Bentham and Hooker have referred the

species whereon the genera Lehinopanar and Tetrapanax

-were based is Futsia. But, in his careful revision of the

Araliaceae, Dr. Harms has advanced reasons for con-

sidering that both Tetrapanar and Echinopanax are quite

distinct from J uatsia, a conclusion with which, after

further study of the group, Mr. Rolfe finds himself in

accord. Lehinopanax horri'us is a native of the coast

and islands of North-west America, from Sitka and the

Charlotte Sound to the Oregon, the borders of California

and the Rocky Mountains. The species occurs again in

Japan, where it is known as Ari Bouki. A figure is

given in the thirtieth volume of the standard Japanese

work, Phonzo Zoufou, at folio 12, recto. Nakai has

recently announced the existence of an Echinopanax in

Corea, which he has described as £. elatus, and as

differing from £. horridus in having umbellate in place

of racemose umbellules. Although Z. horridus is very

hardy, in so far as being capable of enduring severe cold

is concerned, it has never been a success in the open

ground at Kew owing to its habit of starting early into

growth in spring under the stimulus of what, to it, is

unseasonable warmth. This early growth is almost

always destroyed by subsequent frost. The plant from

which our plate was prepared was purchased from the

nursery of the Messrs. Lemoine in 1909. Since then it

has been planted in the open ground, but covered by @

glass frame through the early spring months. Under.

this treatment, which affords sufficient protection to its

young leaves, it has made a healthy plant, striking for

its fine foliage and formidable armature. In the coast

forests of North-west America the entangled prickly

stems are described as a serious impediment to. travel

In the hemlock spruce forests of Japan it has been found

by Professor Sargent growing freely in dense shade, a

circumstance which suggests that the species might make

a pleasing feature in damp shady spots in localities where

the difficulty in regard to spring frosts need not be

dreaded.

Description.—Shrub, 3-10 ft. high. Stem closely armed

with prickles, creeping below, leafy at the top. Leaves

petioled, palmately 5—9-lobed, 6-10 in. across, lobules

pinnatifid and irregularly toothed, nerves prickly ; petiole

3-8 in. long, prickly. lowers umbellate ; umbels globose,

arranged in dense racemes or panicles; rachis prickly

and densely hairy ; bracts suborbicular, fimbriate, de-

ciduous. Flowers shortly pedicelled, pale green. Calyx

small, 2 lobes spinescent, the others very short. Petals

5-6, valvate, ovate or ovate-oblong, 4 in. long, acute and

- ineurved at the tip. Filaments glabrous, 4—} in. long ;

anthers oblong, 7; in. long. Styles 2, free, diverging,

js in. long. Fruit obovoid, sulcate, somewhat com-

pressed, }—} in. long, pink, tipped by the persisting styles ;

fruiting pedicels } in. long.

Fig. 1, a bract; 2, portion of a bract; 8, flowers; 4, calyx; 5 and 6, stamens ;

7, sketch of an entire plant :—all enlarged except 7, which is much reduced.

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HAMAMELIS veErnaA tis.

South-eastern United States.

HAMAMELIDACEAE.

Hamametis, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 667,

Hamamelis vernalis, Sargent in Trees & Shrubs, vol. ii. p. 137, t. 156;

species H. virginianae, Linn., proxima sed praecox et stolonifera.

Frutex deciduus, 1°5-2-metralis, stolonifer; ramuli brunnei primum indu-

mento stellato induti, demum glabrati. Folia obovata vel elliptica,

irregulariter grosse crenata, apice obtusa vel acuta, basi cuneata vel

oblique truncata, supra glabra vel secus nervos stellato-tomentosa, subtus

saepissime subglaucescentia et densius secus nervos tomentosa ; 5-10 cm.

longa, 2°5-7°5 cm. lata; petiolus stellato-pilosus, 1-1°5 cm. longus.

Flores in glomerulos axillares aggregati; glomeruli 3~4-flori, pedunculis

6 mm. longis fusco-tomentosis suffulti, Calyx 4-lobus ; lobi 3 mm, longi,

rotundato-ovati, ciliati, intus rubri, extra pubescentes. Petala 4, lutea,

1-2 cm. longa, margine sinuata. Capsula 2-valvis, 1-2 cm. longa; valvae

lignosae. Semina fusca vel fere atra.—W. J. Bran.

The Witch-hazel here described and figured is of great

interest in that, although it is a native of North America,

it resembles the Japanese species, Hamamelis japonica,

Sieb. & Zucc., in flowering from midwinter to spring.

Its nearest ally is, however, the North American J/.

virginiana, Linn., which differs in coming into flower in

autumn whilst still in full leaf. There are several other

points which distinguish /. vernalis, now figured, from

H. virginiana; H. vernalis has the calyx-lobes red on the

inner face, has a more abundant and more persistent

pubescence on the foliage and twigs, and has dull in place

of glossy leaves, which are rather glaucous beneath. A

still more striking difference is the habit of spreading by

stolons, which causes a single plant of H. vernalis to

become in time the centre of a thicket. H. vernilis was

introduced to Kew from the Arnold Arboretum in 1909,

two years before its claim to be considered a distinct

species was established by Professor Sargent. It was,

however, first discovered by Engelmann, on the banks of

the Upper Maramea River in Missouri in 1845, and has

since then been met with in Arkansas and Louisiana,

SEPTEMBER, 1914,

It has perhaps been scarcely long enough in cultivation

for its full value as a garden shrub to be shown, but as

yet it has hardly established a claim to equal in beauty

the Japanese and Chinese species which form so charming

a feature during the opening months of the year, for it

has not flowered so abundantly as they habitually do,

nor are the petals in the American plant of so bright a

yellow. It thrives vigorously in loamy soil, and up to

the present has been propagated by grafting on BP

virginiana.

DescripTion.—Shrub, up to 6 ft. high, deciduous,

spreading by means of stolons; twigs brown, clothed at

first with a brown stellate pubescence which partially

persists over the winter. Leaves obovate to elliptic,

irregularly coarsely crenate, apex blunt or acute, base

cuneate to obliquely truncate; glabrous above or with

stellate hairs on the nerves; beneath usually slightly

glaucous, the nerves more closely stellate hairy, especially

when young; 2-4 in, long, 1-3 in. wide; petiole stellate-

hairy, &-¢ in. long. Flowers in axillary clusters of 3-4,

opening during December and January, on stout curved

peduncles 1 in. long, which are clothed with a reddish-

brown pubescence. Calyx 4-lobed; lobes roundish or

. ovate, } in. long, dark-red within, margin ciliate, outside

pubescent. Petals 4, yellow, } in. long, bent and wavy.

Fruit a woody, 2-valved capsule, } in. long. Seeds dark-

brown or almost black.

Fig. 1, a leaf-bud; 2, a flower; 3, the same ;

i, 3 2, : 8, petals removed ; 4 and 5, anthers ;

6, staminodes ; 7, vertical section of an ovary :—all enlarged.

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PIMELEA FerRvuernea.

West Australia.

THYMELAEFACEAE, Tribe EuTHYMELAERAE.

Pimevea, Banks; Benth. et Hook. Ff. Gen, Plant. vol, iii. p, 189.

Pimelea ferruginea, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. vol. i. p. 10, t. 5; Benth. Fl.

Austral. vol. vi. p. 10; species P. roseae, RB. Br., affinis sed foliis latioribus

brevioribus apice subobtusis vel leviter mucronatis recedit.

Frutex erectus, ramosus, usque ad 4-6 dm. altus, ramis glabris. Folia opposita

et decussata, obovato- vel elliptico-oblonga vel oblongo-oblanceolata, apice

subobtusa vel leviter mucronata, basi leviter angustata, circiter 1:1 cm.

longa et 4 mm. lata, sessilia, margine plus minusve recurva, costa pagina

superiore obscura inferiore subprominente, nervis lateralibus pagina utraque

obscuris. Capitula terminalia, globularia, multiflora; involucri bracteae 4,

suborbiculares, apice acutae, 1 cm. longae, 7 mm. latae, membranaceae,

coloratae, glabrae. Perianthii tubus cylindricus, 1-1 cm. longus, 1°25 mm.

diametro, superne leviter dilatatus, extra pilis numerosis inferne longis

patentibus superne brevioribus adpressis obtectus, intus glaber; lobi 4,

oblongi, apice rotundati, 3°5 mm. longi, 2°25 mm. lati, extra longe et

adpresse pubescentes, intus glabri. Stamina 2, filamentis 4 mm. longis,

antheris 1 mm. longis. Diseus hypogynus, e lobis 4 minutissimis per

paria connatis vel approximatis paribus perianthii lobis duobus interioribus

Oppositis constitutus. Ovariwm oblongo-cylindricum, apice rotundatum,

1°5 mm. altum, 0°75 mm. diametro, glabrum; stylus lateralis, 1*2 cm.

longus, glaber.—P. decussata, R. Br. Prod. p- 360; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss.

vol. i. p. 602, vol. ii. p. 270, et in DC. Prod. vol. xiv. p. 502; Sweet, Fl.

Austral. t. 8; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1283; Maund, Botanist, f. 186. P. diosmi-

folia, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t.1708. Heterolaena decussata, C. A. Mey. in Bull.

Acad. Petrop. vol. iv. p. 73.—W. B. Turrit.

The Pimelea which forms the subject of our plate is an

old garden plant more familiar in coliections in the days

When cultivators were emulous in the successful treatment

of hard-wooded species than it appears to be now. It is

@ native of West Australia, in the southern parts of which

colony it is widely distributed. Like many other widely

Spread species, /?. ferruginea varies somewhat in the

colour of its flowers. In the plant which was the basis of

(our figure these are bright pink, but from the various

_ Coloured figures of the species which have been published

we learn that the flowers may vary from a pale pink to

a fairly deep red. The bracts subtending the heads of

flowers are of a greenish-pink hue. The spreading white

September, 1914.

hairs on the lower part of the perianth-tube impart. a

very distinctive appearance to the inflorescence. In the

flowers of the genus Pimelea it has been said that there

are no hypogynous scales such as occur in other Thyme-

laeaceous genera like Daphne and Lasiadenia. This

statement does not, however, hold universally, for in the

species now described the scales, though very small, are

nevertheless present in connate or approximate pairs at

the base of the ovary and opposite the inner perianth

segments. The cultural conditions most suitable for

P. ferruginea are those required by Cape Heaths. At

Kew it thrives well in a cool sunny greenhouse, where

it flowers freely in spring.

Descriprion.—Siru); stems erect, branched, 13-2 ft. |

high; branches glabrous. Leaves opposite, decussate,

obovate-oblong or elliptic-oblong, or oblong-oblanceolate,

somewhat blunt at the tip or slightly mucronate, rather

narrowed towards the base, under } in. long, about } in.

wide, sessile, margin more or less recurved, midrib hardly

visible above, somewhat raised beneath, lateral nerves

hardly visible on either face. leads terminal, globose,

many-flowered ; involucral bracts 4, suborbicular, acute,

4 in. long, x in. wide, membranous, glabrous, greenish-

pink. Perianth hypocrateriform; tube cylindric, under

z in. long, 54 in. wide, slightly dilated upwards, densely

clothed outside with white hairs long and spreading below,

shorter and adpressed above, glabrous within; lobes 4,

oblong, rounded at the tip, + in. long, ,, in. wide, ad-

pressed pubescent outside, glabrous within. Stamens 23

filaments } in. long; anthers very short. Disk hypo-

gynous, composed of 4 minute lobes, connate or approxi-

mate in pairs, opposite the two inner perianth lobes.

Ovary oblong-cylindric, rounded at the tip, glabrous ;

style lateral, + in. long, glabrous.

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ACONITUM RotTuNDIFOLIUM.

Western Central Asia.

RanuncuLacEAE. Tribe HELLEBOREAE.

Aconitum, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. iii. p. 9.

Aconitum rotundifolium, Kar. et Kir. in Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mose, vol. xv.

_ (1842), p. 139; Led. Fl. Ross. vol. i. p. 740. Regel in Pl. Radd. vol. i.

p. 115, t. iii. fig. w, et in Gartenflora, vol. xxx. (1881), p. 357, t. 1063,

fig. 2; Stapf in Ann, Roy. Bot. Gard. Calcutta, vol. x. pars ii. p. 149, t. 99 ;

inter species sectionis Napelli tuberum cambio discontinuo in cylindra

tenuia plerumque 4 sparsa dissoluto distinctum, colore florum mire

variegato et nectarii cuculla antice admodum decurva insigne.

Herba 15-40 cm. alta. Tubera geminata; annotinum obeonicum vel subcylin-

dricum, 1-2°5 cm. longum, 6-8 mm. diametro, fibris longis munitum, in

sectione transversa niveum, cortice tenui albido-fusca, cambio in cylindra

tenuia 4-5 sparsa dissoluto; hornotinum nigrescens. Caulis erectus vel

ascendens, teres, crispo-pubescens vel pilis subpatulis superne villosulus,

inferne glabrescens. Folia nonnulla basalia in rosellam disposita, longius-

cule petiolata, in speciminibus spontaneis cum floribus coetanea, in cultis

a me visis sub anthesi emarcida, nonnulla in caule aequaliter sparsa, petiolis

sursum cito decrescentibus; lamina ambitu orbiculari-cordata vel sub-

reniformis, sinu angusto, e sinu ad apicem 1-3°5 cm, alta, 2-6 cm. lata,

ad # 5-T-palmati-partita, divisionibus late obovato-cuneatis, 3- vel

exterioribus 2-lobis, lobis parce crenatis vel inciso-crenatis, crenis sub-

obtusis vel interdum breviter acutis, foliorum superiorum minus divisa,

lobis crenisque angustioribus, omnium glabra vel saepius magis minusve

crispule pubescens. Injlorescentia ubique pubescens vel villosula e racemis

in soit pe, angustam collectis composita vel saepius racemum solitarium

referens, racemi pauciflori; bracteae inferiores 5-3-partitae, segmentis

angustis, superiores indivisae ; bracteolae 2, lineari-lanceolatae vel lineares

vel obsoletae; pedicelli ad 2 cm. longi, suberecti. Sepala ex albido et

viridi variegata, violaceo-venosa et saepe hinc inde purpureo- vel violaceo-

suffusa, summum naviculare, magis minusve rostratum apice subacutum,

circiter 18 mm. altum, pubescens; lateralia late oblique obovata vel

rotundata, cireiter 15 mm. longa; inferiora late oblonga, obtusa, 6-8 mm.

longa, Nectaria ungue glabro vel raro inferne piloso 15-16 mm. longo, cuculla

antice admodum decurva vel horizontali apice inflata, labio bifido cucullam

aequante vel paulo longiore. Filamenta basi latiuscula, superne tenuiter

attenuata, dentata vel edentata, glabra, raro pilosa. Carpelia 5, sub

anthesi arcte conniventia, oblonga, abrupte in stylum contracta, albo-

pilosa, plerumque pilis patulis niveis conspicuis, raro subglabra, Folliculi

oblongi, truncati, contigui, 9-13 mm. longi, plerumque pilosi. Semina

obpyramidata, 3-angularia, 2 5-3 mm. longa, angulis inaequaliter alatis.—

A. thianschanicum, Rupr. Sert. Thiansch. p. 38. A, oliganthemum, A,

Kern. in Ber. Naturw. Ver. Innsbruck, vol. i, (1870), p. 119. A. Napellus

var. rotundifolium, Hook. f. et Thoms. in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. i.

p. 29.—O. Srapr,

The Aconite which is here figured is one of the most

characteristic of those met with in Western Central Asia,

SEPTEMBER, 1914,

whence it extends into Northern Afghanistan, Baltistan

and Northern Bashahr. The tubers are very small as

compared with most of its congeners and are of indifferent

taste; they produce none of the tingling sensation which

distinguishes the poisonous Aconites. It has a consider-

able altitudinal range, and on the Pensi-la it has been

met with growing at 17,000 feet above sea-level; at these

high altitudes, however, it becomes much dwarfed. The

plant from which the material for this plate of Aconitiin

rotundifolium has been obtained was purchased in 1912

from Messrs. Regel & Kesselring of St. Petersburg, by

whom it was issued as A. albo-violucewm, which is, however,

a member of the section Lycoctonum. Grown in an open

border at Kew the plant flowered in July under the

conditions most suited for other members of the genus ;

it did not, however, survive the winter. The specimen

figured was not quite typical, the ultimate leaf-segments

being more acute than usual, the filaments and claws of

the nectaries being slightly hairy and the ovaries being

nearly glabrous. Similar variations, however, may

occasionally be observed in herbarium collections.

Description.— Herb, 6-16 in. high; tubers geminai‘e ;

that of the new season obconic or subcylindric, }—1 in.

long, {~-} in. across, beset with long fibrils, in cross-

section white, cortex thin pale tawny, the cambium

broken up into 4-5 thin scattered cylinders ; old tuber

blackish ; stems erect or ascending, terete, crisply hairy

or villous upwards with somewhat spreading hairs,

glabrescent below. Leuvex, some basal arranged in a

rosette, with rather long petioles, in wild specimens

appearing with the flowers, in cultivated plants already

withering before the flowers open, others regularly dis-

_ posed along the stem, the petioles rapidly shortening

_ upwards ; lamina in outline orbicular-cordate or somewhat

reniform with a narrow sinus, }~1} in. long from sinus to

tip, 7-2} in. wide, palmately 5-7 -partite to 4#ths the

Jength of leaf-blade, the segments wide obovate-cuneate,

3-lobed, or the outermost 2-lobed, lobes sparingly crenate

or incised-crenate, the crenations rather blunt or some-

times shortly acute; segments of the upper leaves less

divided, with narrower lobes and crenations, all glabrous

or often more or less crispately pubescent. n/lorescence

pubescent or somewhat villous throughout, made up of a

few racemes aggregated in a narrow panicle or often

reduced to a single raceme ; racemes few-flowered ; lower

bracts 3-5-partite with narrow segments, upper bracts

undivided; bracteoles 2, linear-lanceolate or linear or

obsolete ; pedicels up to # in. long, suberect. Sepals

greenish-white with violet veins and somewhat flushed

with purple or violet, the uppermost hooded, more or less

beaked, somewhat acute-tipped, about .? in. long, pubes-

cent ; lateral widely obliquely obovate or rounded, about

2 in. long; the lower wide-oblong, blunt, }-} in. long.

Nectaries with a claw about 1 in. long, glabrous or occasion-

ally pilose below, hood somewhat decurved in front or

horizontal and inflated at the tip, lip 2-fid as long as or

rather longer than the hood. Filaments rather wide-

based, becoming much narrowed upwards, toothed or

not, glabrous or occasionally hairy. Carpels 5, closely

connivent in flower, oblong, suddenly narrowed into the

style, white pilose, usually the white spreading hairs

conspicuous, occasionally very few. Follicles oblong,

truncate, closely set, 1} in. long, usually pilose. Seeds

obpyramidal, 3-angled, ;';—} in. long, the angles unequally

winged.

Fig. 1, a flower with two sepals removed; 2, nectary; 8, stamen; 4, pistil :-—

all enlarged.

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TILLANDSIA BENTHAMIANA, var. ANDRIEUXII.

Central America.

BromMEniackak. Tribe TILLANDSIEAE.

Trntanpsta, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 669; Baker,’

Handb. Bromel. p. 157; Mez in DC. Monogr. Phan. vol. ix. p, 633.

Tillandsia Benthamiana, Klotzsch ex Beer, Bromel, p. 263, ex Baker, Journ,

Bot. 1888, p. 15 et Handb. Bromel. p. 199, et ex Mez in DC. Monogr.

Phan. vol. ix. p. 735: var. Andrieuxii, Mez l.c. p. 736; varietas a

T. Benthamiana typica floribus minoribus, petalis purpureis, scapi vagina

breviter acuta, bracteisque superioribus apice rotundatis apte distinguenda.

Herba succulenta, subacaulis, epiphytica. Folia dense subrosulata, numerosa,

e basi ovato-lanceolata sensim attenuata superne ensiformi-acuminata,

15 cm. longa, basi 1°2 cm., supra basin 6 mm. lata, crassiora, subrigida,

margine subincurva, superiora erecta vel adscendentia, inferiora recurva,

utrinque papillis patentibus vesiculosis dense vestita. Scapus 7-15 cm.

longus, foliis saepius brevior, raro folia subaequans; bracteae foliaceae

congestae. Injlorescentia spicata; spica oblonga, 7 em. longa, 3°75 em.

lata; bracteae florales ovatae, apice rotundatae, roseae, albo-lepidotae,

2 cm. longae. Sepala ovata, acuta, 1 cm. longa. Petala oblanceolata,

8 cm. longa, intense violacea, apice breviter recurva. Stamina minopere

exserta; filamenta filiformia; antherae 3 mm. longae, luteae. Ovariwm

conicum, glabrum; stylus staminibus aequilongus; stigmata brevia, laxe

contorta.—C. H. Wricut.

The Tillandsia here depicted was received at Kew in

1912 from Mr. C. H. Lankester, Cachi, Costa Rica, along

with a number of orchids collected in that country. It

has been cultivated in a tropical] house, where it flowered

in June, 1913, and admitted of the preparation of our

plate. It thrives well under the treatment given to

other small epiphytic species of the genus. The species

of which our plant is a marked variety appears to be

rather widely spread in Mexico and is described as having

white sepals and greenish petals. The variety now

figured was first met with by Mr: G. Andrieux at Chalco

in Mexico, where it was epiphytic on a Quercus. T. Ben-

thamiana is most nearly allied to 7. dianthoidea, Rossi, a

species which is not uncommon in stove collections ; one

form of the species has been figured at t. 5246 of this

work as 7. recurvifolia, Hook. The two varieties of 7.

SzeprempBer, 1914.

Benthamiana are, however, easily distinguished from the

various forms of 7. dianthoidea by the much longer corolla

and the character of the indumentum on the leaves. In

T. Benthamiana the adpressed scales met with on the

leaves of many Bromeliads are replaced by thick vesicular

hairs, and it is to the presence of these that the typical

plant and the variety here described owe their shaggy

_ aspect. j

Derscription.—Herb, succulent, almost stemless, epi-

phytic. Leaves densely clustered, numerous, gradually

ensiform-acuminate upwards from an ovate-lanceolate

base, 6 in. long, 3 in. wide at the base, 1 in. wide above,

rather thick and firm, margin slightly incurved, the

uppermost leaves erect or ascending, the lowest recurved,

all densely clothed on both faces with spreading vesicular

papillae. Scape 3-6 in. long, usually shorter than the

leaves; leafy bracts congested. Jnjlorescence spicate,

oblong, 3 in. long, 14 in. across ; flowering bracts ovate

with rounded tips, rosy pink, white-lepidote, 2 in. long.

Sepals ovate, acute, } in. long. Petals oblanceolate, 1+

in. long, deep violet, slightly recurved at the tip.

Stamens little exserted ; filaments filiform ; anthers } in.

long, yellow. Ovary conic, glabrous; style as long as

the stamens ; stigmas short, loosely twisted.

Fig. 1, portion of a leaf; 2, vesicular hairs, or modified scales, from leaf;

3, calyx; 4, corolla; 5 and 6, anthers; 7, pistil :—all enlarged.

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IXORA UMBELLATA.

Java.

Rusiaceak. Tribe [xoreag.

Ixora, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p, 118.

Ixora umbellata, Valet. ex Koord. ¢ Valet. in Meded.’s Lands Plantent.

vol. lix. (1902), p. 162; Valet. in Ic. Bogor. vol. ii. t. clxxxiii.; affinis

I. congestae, Roxb., sed foliis latioribus floribus albis calycis lobis multo

majoribus imbricatis differt.

Frutex ramosus; rami teretes, circiter 5 mm. crassi, glabri. Folia elliptica

vel oblongo-elliptica, apice breviter et obtuse acuminata, basi rotundata,

15-25 cm. longa, 7-11 cm. lata, integra, membranaceo-chartacea, glabra ;

costa media supra plana, infra prominens, ad apicem laminae gradatim

attenuata; nervi laterales utrinsecus 15-17, arcuati, graciles, intra

marginem valde ramosi, utrinque distincti, infra prominuli; venae

laxissimae; petioli 1-1°5 cm. longi; stipulae in tubum 0°5 cm. longum

connatae, intra glandis linearibus 1:5 mm. longis instructae. Flores

albi, in corymbos terminales circiter 15 cm. expansos dispositi; bracteolae

obovato-oblongae, obtusae, circiter 2°5 mm. longae, breviter ciliatae.

Receptaculwm obconicum, 1 -25 mm. altum, glabrum. Calyx alte lobatus ;

lobi valde imbricati, late ovati, 1:75 mm. longi, ciliati. Corollae tubus

gracilis, ad apicem paullulum latior, 3 cm. longus, extra glaber, fauce

tenuiter villosus; limbus 2 cm. expansus, demum reflexus; lobi 4, ob-

lanceolato-oblongi, apice rotundati, 7-8 mm. longi, 4 mm. lati, glabri.

Antherae exsertae, 4 mm. longae, acute acuminatae. Discus lobatus.

Stylus exsertus, glaber, ramis 1°75 mm. longis.—J. HuTCHINSON.

The Zrora here figured has been in cultivation at Kew

since 1889, in which year it was presented to the collec-

tion by the late Dr. Treub, the distinguished Director of

the Botanic Garden at Buitenzorg in Java, of which

island it is a native, though it appears now to be very

rare there in a wild state. The most recent record of its

occurrence as a wild species is one by Dr. Hallier, by

whom it was met with in a wood near Dépok, south of

Batavia. Its nearest ally in the genus appears to be

TI. congesta, Roxb., a native of Burma and Malaya, figured

at t. 4325 of this work as J. Grifithii, Hook., which,

however, differs from /. umbellata in having red flowers.

In a tropical house at Kew J. umbellata forms a large

branching shrub which flowers freely in May and June.

OcToBER, 1914.

DEscRIPTION.—Shrub, much branched; twigs terete

about } in. thick, glabrous. Leaves elliptic or oblong-

elliptic, apex shortly and bluntly acuminate, base

rounded, margin entire, thinly papery, glabrous, 6-10 in.

long, 3-44 in. wide; midrib smooth above, raised

beneath, gradually narrowed to the tip of the leaf;

lateral nerves 15-17 on each side the midrib, curved,

slender, much branched within the margin, visible on

both sides and raised on the underside; veins very lax;

petiole 1-2 in. long; stipules connate in a tube } in. long,

beset within with long linear glands. lowers white,

arranged in terminal corymbs about 6 in. across;

bracteoles obovate-oblong, obtuse, about +); in. long,

shortly ciliate. Receptacle obconic, short, glabrous.

Calyx deeply lobed; lobes much imbricate, wide-ovate,

ciliate. Corolla tube slender, slightly widened at the

mouth, 1} in. long, glabrous outside, throat slightly

villous; limb 3? in. wide, at length reflexed ; lobes 4,

oblanceolate-oblong, rounded at the tip, } in. long, ¢ in.

wide, glabrous. Anthers exserted, } in. long, acutely

acuminate. Disk lobed. Style exserted, glabrous,

branches under 4}, in. long.

Fig. 1, flowers; 2, longitudinal section of calyx and ovary; 8, section of

upper portion of corolla; 4, stigma :—all enlarged.

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-CYTISUS PALLIDUS.

Canary Islands.

LecuminosaE. Tribe GENISTEAE.

Cytisus, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 484,

Cytisus pallidus, Poir. Encycl. Meth. Suppl. vol. ii. p. 442; species a

C; linifolio, Linn., cui valde affinis, foliolis latioribus facile distinguenda.

Frutex 1-2-metralis. Ramuli juventute sericei, mox laxius adpresse argenteo-

pubescentes, cortice viridi obtecti, luri-suleati. Folia trifoliolata, petiolo

1-3 mm. longo simul ac ramulis pu nte suffulta; stipulae plus minusve

persistentes, angustae, usque ad 5 mm. longae, sericeae ; foliola oblanceolata, |

vel angustius oblanceolata, apice breviter acute acuminata, basi in petio-

lulum breve attenuata, 1-8—4°5 cm. longa, 3-7 mm. lata, chartacea, pagina

superiore laxius adpresse pubescentia, viridia, inferiore sericea, costa supra

leviter immersa subtus prominula, nervis lateralibus haud conspicuis,

margine saepe parum recurvo. Flores in racemum terminalem laxe

capituliformem plerumque circiter 10-florum dispositi; bracteae deciduae ;

edicelli vix 5 mm. longi, sericei; bracteolae angustae, circiter 8 mm.

ongae. Calycis extra sericei tubus 2 mm. longus; lobi duo supremi

55 mm. longi, 2 mm. lati, tres infimi in unum tridentatum connati.

Vewillum elliptico-ovatum, apice emarginatum, 14°5 mm. longum, 10 mm.

latum, extra ad nervos adpresse albo-pubescens, ungui 2°5 mm. longo ;

alae vix 12 mm. longae, 4°5 mm. latae, ungui 2°5 mm. longo; carina

11°5 mm. longa, 8°5 mm. lata, extra sericea, ungui 2°5 mm. longo,

auricula 1°25 mm. longa. Antherae difformes, longiores 1°5 mm.,

breviores 1 mm. longae. Ovariwm 4 mm. altum, sericeum, stylo superne

glabro stigmate minuto.—C. linifolius, Lamk., var. pallidus, Briquet

Cytises Alpes Marit., p. 140. Teline linifolia, Webb et Berth., var.

latifolia, Webb et Berth. Phyt. Canar. vol. ii. p. 42. Genista splendens,

Webb et Berth. l.c. p. 42, t. 43.—W. G. Crats.

The shrub here figured is one that has been raised

from seed presented to Kew in 1912 by Dr. G. V. Perez

of Puerto Orotava, Teneriffe, under the name Genista

splendens, which is that given to it by Messrs. Webb and

Berthelot on the plate on which it is depicted in their

work on the Canaries. In the text of their work, how-

ever, it is referred by these authors to the genus Teline

and treated as a variety of what is now once more

regarded as Cytisus linifolius, Lamk. More recently

Professor Briquet has returned to the same view and

there is no question that C. linifolius is the nearest ally

of C. pallidus, while there is little doubt that Mr. Craib is

OctosER, 1914.

fully justified in treating the latter as a distinct species.

In the Temperate House at Kew C. pallidus has formed

a freely branching shrub four feet high, pleasing on

account of the silvery pubescence of its leaves and for

its terminal clusters of slightly fragrant yellow flowers,

which appear in April. Under suitable conditions it is

likely to reach twice to thrice the height mentioned, so

that it can only be conveniently grown in a large

greenhouse.

DEscrIPtion.—Shrub 4-10 ft. high; twigs silky when

young, soon loosely adpressed silvery-pubescent; bark

green, striate. aves 3-foliolate; petiole 1—1} in. long,

pubescent like the twigs; stipules more or less persistent,

narrow, ; in. long, silky; leaflets oblanceolate or narrow-

oblanceolate, shortly sharply acuminate, narrowed at the

base into a short petiolule, 2-14 in. long, 1-1 in. wide,

papery, rather loosely adpressed-pubescent on the upper

surface, green silky on the under surface, midrib slightly

impressed above and raised beneath, lateral nerves not

prominent, margin often slightly recurved. Flowers

arranged in loosely clustered terminal 10-flowered

racemes ; bracts deciduous; pedicels about 1 in. long,

silky like the calyx; bracteoles narrow, about } in. long.

Calyez somewhat 2-labiate; tube ys in. long; the two

upper lobes 4 in. long, j!; in. wide, the three lower

connate in a 3-toothed lip. Standard elliptic-ovate,

emarginate at the tip, over 3 in. long, over 4 in. wide,

outside white-pubescent with adpressed hairs along the

nerves; claw y'5 in. long. Wéings under } in. long, + in.

wide ; claw y'5 in. long. Keel distinctly auriculate, under

2 in. long, + in. wide, silky outside; claw '; in. long.

Anthers long and short. Ovary 1 in, long, silky; style

: ot 2 y3 M4

glabrous upwards ; stigma minute.

Fig. 1, portion of a leaflet ; 2, flower, the petals removed, showing the three

bracteoles; 8, wing-petal: 4. kee]. ; arr ny as : f

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TRICHOCAULON prcrum.

Luttle Namaqualand.

ASCLEPIADACEAE. ‘Tribe STAPELIEAE,

Tricuocauton, N, E. Br. in Journ. Linn, Soc. vol. xvii. p. 164,

Trichocaulon pictum, N. EH. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1909, p. 807; affinis

T. cactiformi, N. E. Br., sed corona in tubum distinctum haud inclusa et

coronae interioris lobis supra antheras productis differt.

Herba ; caulis subglobosus vel cylindrico-oblongus, obtusissimus, simplex vel

_ basi tantum parce ramosus, 4~7 cm. longus, 4-5 em. crassus, irregulariter

tessellato-tuberculatus, glaber, tuberculis 6-10 mm. diametro obtusissimis

primum minute apiculatis. Flores fasciculati, erecti, fasciculis 2—4-floris.

Pediceili 2 mm. longi, glabri. Sepala 1-1-5 mm. longa, late ovata, acuta,

glabra. Corolla 9 mm. diametro, extra levis, intra minute rugulosa, glabra,

albida punctis et lineis brevibus numerosis purpureis notata; tubus late

atelliformis vel subplanus; lobi patentissimi, 2°5 mm. longi, 8 mm. lati,

Tate deltoideo-ovati, acuti. Corona exterior 5-loba; lobi 1°5 mm. longi,

trifidi vel bifidi cum denticulo intermedio interjecti, fere ad sinum corollae

attingentes, pallide lutescentes, purpureo-maculati. Coronae interioris

lobi 1-5 mm. longi, lineares, acuti, antheras excedentes apicibus conni-

venti-erectis, lutescentes, purpureo-marginati.—N. E. Brown.

The remarkable plant which is here depicted is one of

a small group of species of Trichocaulon which, as regards

their stems, resemble one another so closely that when

out of flower they might pardonably be mistaken for

forms of the same species. Yet they are so distinct as

regards the colour and the structure of their flowers that

they cannot with propriety be treated as conspecific.

The extent of the difference between one such form and

another may be best realised if the figure now given of

T. pictum be compared with that of 7: cactiforme, N. E. Br.,

figured, as Stapelia cactiformis, at t. 4127 of this magazine.

T. pictum was originally discovered in Little Namaqua-

land by Dr. R. Marloth. It was met with again by

Professor H. H. W. Pearson in the same country, during

the course of the Percy Sladen expedition, on the north-

western slopes of quartzite hills south-west of Chubiessis,

and the plant from which our drawing has been made is

one of those included in a magnificent. collection of

OcrosER, 1914.

succulent plants received from Professor Pearson as part

of the fruits of his journey. It has thriven well in the

Tropical Succulent House at Kew and flowered here for

the first time in June, 1912.

Description.—ferb; stem subglobose or cylindric-

oblong, very blunt, simple or sparingly branched at the

very base, 13-3 in. long, 1}-2 in. thick, irregularly

tessellately tubercled, glabrous ; tubercles 1-1 in. wide,

very blunt, at first minutely apiculate. //vwers fascicled,

erect ; fascicles 2-4-flowered. Pedicels 5 in. long, glab-

rous. Sepals small, wide-ovate, acute, glabrous. Corolla

4 in. across, smooth externally, minutely rugulose within,

glabrous, whitish but marked with many close-set purple

dots and short streaks; tube wide-patelliform or almost

flat ; lobes spreading, '; in. long, over +}, in. wide, broadly

deltoid-ovate, acute. Outer corona 5-lobed ; lobes short,

trifid or bifid with a short intermediate tooth, almost

reaching the sinuses between the corolla lobes, pale

yellowish blotched with purple. Inner corona with short,

linear, acute lobes rather larger than the anthers, their

tips erect-connivent, yellowish with purple margins.

Fig. 1, calyx from which the corolla has fallen; 2, a flower; 3, corona;

4, pollen-masses :—all enlarged,

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INDIGOFERA Kietown.

N. China.

LeGuminosak. Tribe GALEGRAE,

InpicorErA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 494.

Indigofera Kirilowii, Maxim. ex Palibin in Act. Hort. Petrop. vol. xvii.

p- 62, t, 4 (speciebus nonnullis citatis exclusis); Craib in Notes Roy. Bot.

Gard. Edin. n. xxxvi. p. 66; ab affini I. elliptica, Roxb., pedunculo

communi petiolo longiore facile distinguenda.

Frutex; ramulis juventute pilis perpaucis albis brevibus medifixis instructi,

cito omnino glabri, parum angulati, cortice mox tenuiter striato obtecti.

Folia 7-9-foliolata, ad 12 cm. (petiolo excluso) longa, petiolo 1°2-8°2 em.

longo simul ac rhachi supra canaliculato et nisi juventute glabro suffulta ;

stipulae circiter 7 mm. longae, angustae, acutae, diutius persistentes ;

foliola saepissime opposita, elliptica vel rotundato-elliptica, apice obtusa

vel rotundata, mucronata, basi cuneata ad rotundato-cuneata, usque ad

8 cm. longa et 2°5 em. lata, chartacea vel tenuiter chartacea, pagina

utraque pilis albis medifixis adpressis sparse instructa, nervis lateralibus

utrinsecus circiter 6 pagina utraque conspicuis, nervis transversis

praesertim subtus uti reticulatione conspicuis, petiolulo 2-3°5 mm.

longo suffulta; stipellae petiolulo dimidio breviores. Racemi ex axillis

bene infra apicem ramulorum orti, folia superantes, pedunculo communi

tiolo circiter duplo longiore suffulti; bracteae deciduae ; pedicelli 3-4 mm.

ongi, ut rhachi glabri; corolla in alabastro nisi summo apice et ad vexilli

margines glabra. Calyx glaber; tubus 2 mm. longus, lobo longissimo

aequilongus. Vewillwm oblongo-ellipticum, 1-7 cm. longum, 1 cm. latum,

ciliatum; alae 2°75 mm. latae, vexillo parum breviores, ciliatae; carina

acuminata, vexillo aequialta, ciliata. Antherae insigniter apiculata, apice

basique ciliis paucis instructae. Ovariwm compressum, glabrum, circiter

8-ovulatum, stylo glabro stigmate capitato.—I. macrostachga, Bunge,

Enum. Pl. Chin. Bor. p. 16; Franch. Pl. David. p. 82; Foubes et Hemsl.

in Journ. Linn, Soc. vol. xxiii. p. 157 partim ; vix Vent.—W. G. Crar.

The Indigofera here figured is a species represented in

the Kew collection by examples received from two distinct

sources. In one case the collection owes the plant to

the kindness of Mr. M. L. de Vilmorin, who has con-

tributed it from his garden at Les Barres. In the other

it is indebted for the plant to the kindness of Professor

Sargent of the Arnold Arboretum. The material for

our illustration has been taken from the latter plant.

The native habit of J. Kirilowii includes Chihli, Shenking

and Shantung in Northern China; it also extends into

Korea. Bunge, who first had to deal with this plant,

referred it doubtfully to 7. macrostachya, Vent., which has,

however, more numerous leaflets, much smaller flowers

and a short common peduncle. The fact that /. Kirilowii

OcroBEeR, 1914.

differs from J. macrostachya was first observed by Maximo-

wicz, though this observation was not published until

after Maximowicz’ death. ‘The species is very attrac-

tive on account of its delicately coloured flowers which

continue to develop in succession from the leaf-axils

during June and July as the shoots lengthen. These

shoots die back almost to the ground-level during the

winter, but the plant can be propagated by making

cuttings of them in thelate summer. /. Kirilowii prefers

a warm loamy soil and a sunny position.

DesoripTion.—Shrub ; twigs usually dying back, when

young bearing a few short white hairs attached by their

centres, soon quite glabrous, slightly angular, bark soon

striate. Leaves 7-9-foliolate, up to 5 in. long not

including the leaf-stalk which is 3-1} in. long, is

channelled above like the rhachis, and is glabrous save

when young; stipules about } in. long, narrow, acute,

rather long-persisting ; leaflets usually opposite, elliptic

or rounded-elliptic, obtuse or rounded at the tip, mu-

cronate, cuneate or rounded-cuneate at the base, up to

1{ in. long and 1 in. wide, papery or thinly papery, both

surfaces sparingly beset with short white centrally

attached hairs, lateral nerves about 6 on each side the

midrib, visible both above and below, tranverse nerves

visible like the reticulation especially beneath ; petiolules

2-7 in. long; stipels a half shorter than the petiolules.

facemes in the axils of leaves well down the twigs, larger

than the leaves, with a common peduncle about twice as

long as the petiole; bracts deciduous; pedicels }-} in.

Jong, glabrous like the rhachis; corolla glabrous in

bud except at the very tip and on the margin of the

standard. Calyx glabrous; tube +}, in. long, as long as

the longest tooth. Standard oblong-elliptic, 2 in. long,

3 in. wide, ciliate; wings 4, in. wide, rather shorter than

the standard, ciliate; keel acuminate, as long as the

standard, ciliate. Anthers very apiculate, with a few

ciliae at the apex and at the base. Ovary compressed,

oe about 8-ovuled ; style glabrous; stigma capi-

Fig. 1, flower with petals removed: 2. standard: 8, wings: 4, keel; 5 and 6

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AGAVE BRACTEOSA.

Northern Mexico.

AMABYLLIDACEAE. Tribe AGAVEAE.

Aaave, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 738; Baker, Handb,

Amaryll. p. 163.

Agave bracteosa, S. Wats. ex Engelm. in Gard, Chron., 1882, vol. xviii.

p. 776, fig. 158-189; S. Wats. in Proc. Amer, Aead. vol. xviii. p. 162

(1883); Baked. Handb. Amaryll. p. 192; Hemsl. im Biol. Centr.-Amer.

vol. iii. p. 340; species A. pruinosae, Lemaire, affinis, sed planta acaul-

escente foliisque e basi dilatata ad apicem gradatim attenuatis differt.

Frutex ; acaulescens. Folia circiter 50 rosulatim disposita, e basi 6 em. lata

et 1:5 cm. crassa ad apicem longe acuminatum gradatim attenuata,

60 cm. longa, supra basin 3°5 cm. lata, primum sursum curvata, demum

valide decurva, plano-convexa, marginibus tenuibus minute denseque

albo-dentatis, subscabrida. Pedunculus 12 dm. altus; bracteae plures,

subulatae, recurvatae, ad 15 em. longae; spica 60 cm. longa, densiflora.

Perianthium viride, segmentis albo-marginatis; tubus brevissimus;

segmenta ovato-oblonga, obtusa, patentia, 12 mm. longa, 7 mm. lata.

Filamenta filiformia, alba, 6 em. longa; antherae oblongae, luteae, 8 mm.

longae. Ovarium fusiforme, viride, 15 mm. longae, 5 mm. diametro ;

stylus albus, stamina demum paulo superans; stigma punctiforme.

Capsula oblonga, obtusa, 2 cm. longa.—C. H. Wricur.

The Agave which forms the subject of our illustration

is a very distinct species belong to the section Littaea,

which differs from A. pruinosa, Lemaire, where the leaves

are also finely dentate, in having the leaves gradually

tapered upwards from a short thickened base, whereas

in A. pruinosa the leaves are oblong-oblanceolate, and

are four inches broad or broader above the middle, but

contract to two and a half inches or less just above the

base. When first described A. bracteosa was believed to

have about fifteen leaves in its rosette, but under culti-

vation the plants have developed many more. A. bracteosa

was discovered by Dr. E. Palmer about fifteen miles

from Monterey in the province of Nuevo Leon in Northern

Mexico, and was introduced by him to the Harvard

Botanic Garden, where it flowered for the first time in

1881. It was met with again by Mr. Pringle in the same

district in June 1889, growing on ‘dry calcareous moun-

tain walls.’ The plant from which the material for our

OctoseEr, 1914.

figure has been obtained was received at Kew in 1888

from the Botanic Garden at Washington. It flowered

here for the first time in the Succulent House in July

1910, and a second plant of the same batch has flowered

in the same month in 1914. Before perishing the 1910

' plant matured seeds from which a supply of seedlings

have been raised. The facies of this species renders it

very distinct among the Agaves; the younger leaves

show a strong sigmoid upward curve; afterwards they

become strongly decurved. Another Agave with a some-

what similar appearance is A. yuccaefolia, DC., figured at

t. 5213 of this work. This species differs, however, from

A. bracteosa in having a short stem, Its yellow filaments,

flushed with red, are much shorter in proportion to the

size of the perianth than is the case in A. bracteosa,

DeEscription.—Shruh; almost stemless. Leaves about

50 in a basal rosette, 24 in. wide and 2 in. thick at the

base, just above the base abruptly narrowed to 1} in.,

thence gradually tapering to a long acuminate tip, at first

curved upwards, at length strongly decurved, plano-con-

vex, the thin margins closely and finely white-denticulate,

rather scabrid. Pole 6 it. high, the peduncle 4 ft., the

spike 2 ft. long; bracts numerous, subulate, up to 6 in.

long, recurved ; spike dense-flowered. Perianth green,

segments white-margined, ovate-oblong, obtuse, spread-

ing, $ in. long, } in. wide; tube very short. /ilaments

filiform, white, 24 in. long; anthers oblong, yellow, + in.

long. Ovary fusiform, green, % in. long, } in wide; style

white, ultimately rather longer than the stamens; stigma

minute. Capsule oblong, obtuse, 3 in. long. x

Fig. 1, portion of leaf-edge; 2 and 3, anthers: 4, stigma ;- 6, sketch of an

entire plant :—all enlarged except 5, which is much reduced.

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COELOGYNE BRACHYPTERA.

Burma.

ORCHIDACEAE, Tribe EPIDENDREAE.: |

CorLocynz, Lindl.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 518.

Coelogyne brachyptera, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1881, vol. xvi. p. 6;

Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. v. p. 842; Pfitz. in Engl. Pflanzenr.—Orch..-

Coelog. p. 78; species C. Parishit, Hook. f. quam maxime affinis, sed labelli

disco aurantiaco nee dense papilloso differt.

Herba epiphytica, Pseudobulbi elongati, subtetragoni, basi paullo incrassati,

9-15 cm. longi, basi vaginis ovato-spathaceis tecti, apice diphylli. Folia

elliptico-lanceolata, subacuta, plicata, 12-15 cm. longa. Scapi terminales,

erecti, basi vaginis lanceolatis imbricatis obtecti, 15-18 cm. longi; racemi

circiter 7-flori. Bracteae lanceolatae, acutae, concavae, 2°5-3 cm. longae,

Pedicelli 2-2°5 cm. longi, persistentes. Flores speciosi, flavo-virides,

labelli disco aurantiaco. Sepala patentia; posticum ovato-lanceolatum,

subacutum, 3-3°5 cm. longum; lateralia oblongo-lanceolata, acuta, 3-3-5

em. longa. Petala oblongo-lanceolata, acuta, 2°5-3 cm. longa. Labellum

— trilobum, circiter 2°5 cm. longum ; lobi laterales suborbiculares, undulati ;

lobus intermedius orbicularis, undulatus, 1°5 cm. latus; discus graciliter

tricarinatus, carinis flexuosis et prope apicem paullo verrucosis. Colwmna

clavata, incurva, alata, 1°5 cm. longa.—C. Parishit var. brachyptera,

Pfitz. in Engl. Pflanzenr.—Orch.-Coelog. p. 78.—R. A. Ronre,

The orchid here figured has long been a source of

perplexity to students of its natural’family. It was

described as long ago as 1881 from material sent to the

late Professor Reichenbach by Messrs. Hugh Low and

Company, taken from a plant which the firm had

imported from Burma. The author of the species

C. brachyptera expressed the opinion that it was allied to

C’. lentiginosa, Lindl., to which he might have referred it

but for the elongated, tetragonal pseudobulbs. From

1881 onwards the species was lost sight of. It was

enumerated by Sir J. D. Hooker among the orchids of

India, but only as a doubtful species, with the remark

that it might possibly be the same thing as C. Parishii,

Hook. ; perhaps this suggestion may have been based on

the very distinctive habit of these two plants. Professor

Pfitzer has also found some difficulty in dealing with the _

species which he has enumerated in one place as a dis-

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tinct one, in another as only a variety of C. Parishi.

In 1910 a small collection of orchids from Tenasserim

was presented to Kew by Mr. H. Tilly, of Moulmein.

One of these was the Coelogyne which forms the subject

of our illustration. _ It was, when it arrived, rather a

small plant, but it has grown well in the Tropical Orchid

House under the treatment suitable for C. lentiginosa,

Lindl., for which C. brachyptera was taken until it flowered,

which it did for the first time in May, 1914. Although

no type specimen of C. brachyptera is available for com-

parison, the orange disk of the lip and the absence of

the numerous elongated processes justify at once the

separation of this plant from C. Parishii and its reference

to the long lost species.

_ Dezscriprion.—Jlerb, epiphytic ; pseudobulbs elon-

gated, somewhat 4-angled, slightly thickened at the base, —

33-6 in. long, clothed at the base with ovate spathaceous

sheaths, 2-foliate at the apex. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate,

subacute, plicate, 5-6 in. long. Scapes terminal, erect,

clothed at the base with lanceolate, imbricate sheaths

6-74 in. long ; racemes about 7-flowered ; pedicels 3—1 in.

long, persistent. Flowers showy, greenish-yellow, lip with

an orange-coloured disk. Sepals spreading; posterior

ovate-lanceolate, subacute, 1}-1} in. long; lateral oblong-

lanceolate, acute, 11-1} in. long. Petals oblong-lanceo-

late, acute, 1-1} in. long. Lip 3-lobed, about 1 in. long;

~ lateral lobes suborbicular, undulate; mid-lobe orbicular,

undulate, 2 in. wide; disk with three slender ridges

which are flexuous and slightly verrucose near the tip.

Column clavate, incurved, winged, 2 in. long.

Fig. 1, column ; 2, lip; 3, anther-cap ; 4, pollen-masses :—all enlarged.

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ECHINOCACTUS MINUSCULUS.

Argentina.

CactacEAE. Tribe ECHINOCACTEAE,

Ecurocactus, Link et Otto; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 848.

Echinocactus minusculus, Weber in Bois, Dict. d’Horticulture, vol. i.

p. 471; K. Schum., Gesamtb. Kakt. p. 396, et in Bliih, Kakt. vol. i. t. 31;

La Tribune Hort. 1909, t. 140; affinis H. Fiebrigii, Guerke, sed tuberculis

minoribus, spinis brevioribus et ovario glabro differt.

Herba succulenta, globosa, vertice dépressa, simplex vel prolifera, 2°5-6 cm.

diametro; tubercula convexa, spiaglited disposita, 1-2 mm. alta, laete

viridia, Aculet 25-30, centralibus et radialibus similibus, 2-3°5 mm.

longi. Flores e basi plantae enati, erecti, elongato-infundibuliformes,

2-5-8 em. longi et diametro, glabri; tubus gracilis, basi curvatus, pulchre

kermesinus cum squamis ovatis acuminatis fusco-rubris conspersus ; petala

circiter 12, ad 1°5 cm. longa, 4 mm. lata, lineari-oblonga, acuta, apice

minute denticulata, pulchre cinnabarina. Stamina 15-30, albida.

“Stigma 4-5-lobum, albidum.—Rebutia minuscula, K, Schum. in Monatschr.

fiir Kakt. vol. v. p. 102, cum icon. Echinopsis minuscula, Weber in Bois,

Dict. d’Horticulture, vol. i. p. 471.—N. E. Brown.

The Echinocactus now figured is a native of the province +

of Tucuman in Argentina, which was first introduced to

European collections of succulent plants in 1894 or 1895

by Mr. Felder of Lichterfelde, who had received it from

Mr. Rebat of Chazay d’Azergues, in Argentina. It is

one of the most pleasing and at the same time one of

as. the easiest to grow of the small Cactaceae, thriving well

in an open mixture of turfy loam, sand and mortar-

rubbish in an airy sunny greenhouse. Under these

conditions it is extremely floriferous and produces seeds

in abundance. Each flower, however, lasts only for a

day or two. Propagation is readily effected by seeds,

and seedlings reach the flowering stage when three to

four years old. The plant from which the material for

our plate has been obtained was purchased for the Kew

olléction in 1913 from Messrs. Cragg, Harrison and

‘Cragg, Nurserymen, Heston. £. minusculus and L. Fie-

brigit, Guerke, agree with each other, and are remarkable

in the genus Lehinocactus for producing their flowers

from the base instead of the upper part of the plant, a

November, 1914.

feature which readily distinguishes them from the other

species.

Description.—/erb, succulent, globose with a de-

pressed apex, simple or proliferous, 1-2} in. across;

tubercles convex, spirally arranged, under 1 lin. high,

bright green; spines in tufts of 25-30, the central and

radial similar, 1-1} lin. Jong. Flowers rising from the

base of the plant, erect, long-infundibuliform, 1—1} in.

long and as much across, glabrous; tube slender, curved

at the base, bright crimson, dotted with ovate, acuminate,

reddish tawny scales; petals about 12, up to 2 in. long,

+ in. wide, linear-oblong, acute, minutely denticulate at

the tip, bright vermilion. Stamens 15-30, whitish.

Stigma 4-5-lobed, whitish.

Fig. 1, a tuft of spines; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, style and stigmas :—all enlarged.

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NOTHOFAGUS CUNNINGHAMIL.

Australia, Tasmania.

' Fagacear. Tribe FaGEag.

Nornoracus, Bl. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. vol. i. p. 307; Engl. € Prantl, Nat.

Pflanzenfam, vol. iii. pars i. p. 52.—Fagus § Nothofagus, Benth. et

Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 410.

Nothofagus Cunninghamii, Oerst. in Vidensk. Selsk. Skr., ser. 5, vol. ix.

(1873), p. 355; Henry in Elwes ¢ Henry, Trees of Gt. Brit. and Irel.,

vol. iii. p. 550; species N. Menziesti, Oerst., proxima, sed foliis grossius

crenatis, staminibus multo magis numerosis, involucri valvis latioribus,

perianthii lobis multo magis inaequalibus diversa.

_ Arbor in Tasmania ad 60 m. alta et trunco ad 12 m. ambitu metiente, vel in

alpinis frutex compactus, humilis, ramulis diu pubescentibus, ramis

cortice fusco vel griseo-fusco tectis. _Gemmae conico-ovoideae, 3-4 mm.

longae, glabrae, perulis ovatis vel ovato-oblongis acutis vel subacutis

brunneis nitidis. Folia sempervirentia, magis minusve deltoideo-ovata

vel rhomboidea, acuta, basi late rotundata vel perlate cuneata, crenata,

plerumque 1-2 cm. longa et 7-10 mm. lata, sed interdum multo minora vel

majora, coriacea, glabra, nervis tenuibus saepe inconspicuis, utrinque 4-5 ;

stipulae lineares, 3 mm. longae, caducae; petioli ad 2 mm. longi, minutis-

sime puberuli. Flores maris axillares, solitarii, subsessiles vel pedicello

ad 2 mm. longo suffulti. Perianthiwm subcampanulatum, 3 mm. longum,

glabrum, lobis 6 ovatis acutis. Stamina circiter8. Flores foeminet terni,

laterales 8-meri, centralis 2-mierus involucro communi cincti, ex axillis

superioribus orti. Involucrum breviter pedunculatum, 4-valvatum, valvis

in dorso glandulosa-apiculatis maturis lineari-oblongis circiter 5 mm.

longis appendicibus magis minusve recurvis squarrosis demum deciduis.

Receptaculum 8-gonum vel centrale anceps angulis alatis. Perianthiwm

6-4-lobum, lobis interangularibus minoribus. Ovariwm stigmatibus

brevibus 8 vel 2 divergentibus. Fructus 3- vel 2-alati, 3-3°5 mm. longi,

alis ad 1 mm. latii—Fagus Cunninghamii, Hook. f. in Journ. Bot, vol. ii.

_p. 152, t, 7; Benth. Fl. Austral. vol. vi. p. 210.—O. Srapr.

The Southern Beech which forms the subject of our

illustration is that which in Tasmania is spoken of as

the “‘ Myrtle-tree.”” In Tasmania it forms much of the

evergreen forest, and occurs on the mountains up to an

elevation of 4,000 feet, but towards their summits becomes

much dwarfed. It is also met with in various localities

in south-eastern Australia. Though not hardy at Kew,

and though rarely cultivated at ali, N. Cunninghamiu

makes an elegant small tree in the milder parts of the

British Isles. There are fine specimens in Ireland at Fota,

Novemser, 1914,

near Queenstown, and at Kilmacurragh, while there is a

well-known example in the Royal demesne at Osborne,

Isle of Wight. It has also lived out of doors in parts of

Surrey and Sussex. The date of its first introduction

to Europe is uncertain, but the tree at Fota, which is

now nearly fifty feet in height, is believed to have been

planted half-a-century ago. The figure now given has

been prepared from a small tree in cultivation in the

Temperate House at Kew, which forms part of. the

munificent bequest made to the Royal Gardens by

the late Mr. George Joad of Wimbledon in 1881. The

relationship of Nothofagus to Faugus—of the Southern to

the Northern Beech—has already been discussed in this

work at t. 8314. Among the Southern Beeches the

present one is clearly closely allied to NV. Menziesii, Oerst.,

from New Zealand. Among the South American species

the ones which come nearest to the Australian, if the

structure of the female inflorescenee be taken as our

guide, are those which differ from the rest in having

deciduous leaves. Like most Southern Beeches this one

may be propagated by layering when seeds are not

available.

Description.— Tee, on the lower mountain slopes in

Tasmania sometimes attaining a height of 200 ft. and a

girth of 40 ft., but towards the mountain-tops forming a

dense dwarf shrub; branches clothed with a tawny or

pale-tawny bark; twigs long pubescent. Buds ovoid-

conical, }—j in. long, glabrous ; their scales ovate or ovate-

oblong, acute or subacute, brown, polished. Leaves ever-

green, more or less deltoid-ovate or rhomboid, acute, the

base wide-rounded or very wide-cuneate, crenate, usually

3-4 in. long and about 1 in. wide, but sometimes much

smaller or much larger, coriaceous, glabrous; nerves

slender and often hardly visible, 4-5 along each side;

stipules linear, } in. long, caducous ; petioles ;, in. long

or less, very finely puberulous. Male flowers axillary,

solitary, subsessile or with pedicels ;'; in. long or less.

Perianth subcampanulate, 4 in, long, glabrous; lobes 6,

ovate, acute. Stamens about 8. Female flowers in threes —

Surrounded by a common involucre, the lateral flowers

of each cluster 3-merous, the central one 2-merous, the

clusters situated in the uppermost leaf-axils. Jnvolucre

shortly peduncled, 4-valved ; the valves glandular-apicu-

late on the back, when ripe linear-oblong, about + in.

long, the appendices more or less recurved, squarrose,

ultimately deciduous. Receptacle 3-gonous or (the central)

2-gonous, the angles winged. Perianth 6—4-lobed, the

lobes between the angles smaller than the others. Ovary

with 3 or 2 short divergent stigmas. /ruit 3—-2-winged,

+++ in. long, wings very narrow..

Fig. 1, end of a twig, with male flowers; 2, twig with a male flower, also

with fruit; 3, a male flower; 4 and.5, anthers; 6, a lateral female flower; 7, a

central female flower :—all enlarged.

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LONICERA FRAGRANTISSIMA.

China.

CAPRIFOLIACEAE, Tribe LoNICEREAE.

Lonicera, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 5; Rehder in

Missouri Bot. Gard. Rep., 1903, pp. 27-232.

Lonicera (§ Isika) fragrantissima, Lindl. et Paxt. in Part. Fl. Gard.

vol. iii, p. 75, fig. 268 (1852); Carriére in Fl. des Serr, sér. ii. vol. iii,

(1858), p. 63, et Rev. Hort. 1873, p. 169, fig. 17; K. Koch, Dendr, vol. ii.

(1872), p. 21; Maxim. Bull. Acad. Sci, St. Pétersb. vol. xxiv. (1877), p. 42;

Gard, Chron. 1878, vol. ix. p. 107, fig. 19; Dippel, Gartenjl. vol. xxxv.

(1886), p. 680, fig. 87, e6 Handb. der Laubhoizk. vol. i. (1889), p. 226,

fig. 144; Rehder in Missouri Bot. Gard. Rep. 1903, p. 82; Schneider, Til.

Handb, Laubholzk. vol. ii. (1911), p. 698, fig. 444 f; affinis ZL. Standishiz,

Carr., sed ramis glabris, foliis ellipticis vel obovato-ellipticis, corollis extra

glabris differt.

Frutex ramosus, ramuli elongati, leviter sulcati vel angulati, glabri; internodii

usque ad 6 cm. longi. Folia elliptica vel obovato-elliptica, basi inaequaliter

rotundata, apice acute et abrupte mucronata, 4°5-7 cm. longa, 3~4 em.

lata, integra, chartacea, margine parce setaceo-ciliata, utrinque glabra,

-subtus glauco-viridia, nervis lateralibus utrinque 5-6 adscendentibus promi-

nentibus marginem versus ramosis ; petioli 3-5 mm. longi, primum parce

setoso-pilosi, demum glabri. Flores albi, axillares, geminati, pedunculati ;

pedunculi 1-1°5 cm. longi, acute angulati vel subalati, glabri; bracteae

geminatae, oppositae, anguste lanceolatae, acutae, 0°5-1 cm, longae,

foliaceae, glabrae. Receptacula basi breviter connata, ellipsoideo-globosa,

1 mm. longa. Calyx cupularis, integer vel margine leviter undulatus,

0°5 mm. altus, viridis. Corolla bilabiata ; tubus vix 0°5 cm. longus, basi

- gaccatus, extra costatus, glaber, intra pilosus ; labium superum 4-lobum,

lobis rotundatis 0°5 cm. latis striatis margine minute crenulatis; labium

inferum integrum, oblongo-ellipticum, apice rotundatum, 1 am. longum,

0°5 cm. latum, striatum. Stamina exserta; filamenta inaequalia ;

antherae 8 mm. longae. Stylus exsertus, glaber, apice incrassatus,

bilobulatus.—L. caprifolioides, K. Koch, Ind. Sem. Berol. 1871, app. 3;

et Dendr, vol. ii. p. 19. L. Niaguarilli, Hort., ex Koch, lc. L. odoratis-

sima et L. Magnevillae, Hort. ex Dippel Handb. der Laubholzk. vol. i.

(1889), p. 226. Caprifolium fragrantissimum, Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. vol. i.

(1891), p. 274. L. Volgarensis et Chamaecerasus Niaguariili, Hort., ex

Hand-list Arb. Kew, 1896, p. 15.—J. Hurcuinson.

The Honeysuckle here figured is a plant which has

been in cultivation in England since 1845, when it was

introduced from China by the late Mr, Fortune on behalf

of the Royal Horticultural Society. It was met with by

Fortune in Chinese gardens only, and so far it has never

yet been discovered in a wild state. L. fragrantissima

and the well-known L. Standishii, Carr., figured at t. 5709

of this work, for which this species is sometimes mistaken,

Novemsper, 1914.

are favourite sweet-scented winter-blooming species. L.

Standishii may, however, be readily distinguished from

the present plant by its more precocious habit of flower-

ing, its hairy branches and leaves—the latter being

narrower and more pointed—and by its externally pilose

corolla-tube. JL. fragrantissima is easily cultivated and

is perfectly hardy, thriving well in rich loamy soil, and

being readily propagated by cuttings placed in gentle

heat, or even in a close unheated frame, during August.

With the object of inducing its fragrant flowers to open

sooner, and in order to preserve these from inclement

weather, this shrub is sometimes grown against a wall.

The plant from which the material for our figure has

been prepared is an old denizen of the collection at Kew.

It is a rounded bush about six feet high and over six

feet in width which flowers every year from December

to March.

Descriprion.—Shru), with many branches ; twigs long,

slightly grooved or angled, glabrous; internodes up to

25 in. long. Leaves elliptic or obovate-elliptic, unequally

rounded at the base, apex sharply and abruptly mucro-

nate, 13-3 in. long, 14-1} in. wide, entire, chartaceous,

the margin sparingly setaceous-ciliate, glabrous on both

surfaces, glaucous-green underneath, lateral nerves 5-6

along each side, ascending, raised, branching towards

the margin; petiole 1—} in. long, at first sparingly setose-

hairy, ultimately glabrous. lowers white, axillary,

geminate, peduncled; peduncles 1-2 in. long, acutely

angled or almost winged, glabrous; bracts geminate,

opposite, narrow lanceolate, acute, 1—! in. long, leaty,

glabrous. Receptacles shortly connate at the base, ellip-

soid-globose, very short. Calyx cupular, entire or with

slightly undulate margin, very short, green. Corolla

2-labiate; tube about + in. long, saccate at the base,

ribbed and glabrous outside, hairy within; upper lip —

4-lobed, the lobes rounded, } in. wide, striate and with —

finely crenulate margin; lower lip entire, oblong-elliptic,

rounded at the tip, # in. long, } in. wide, striate. Stamens

exserted ; filaments unequal; anthers 1 in. long. Style

exserted, glabrous, thickened at the tip, 2-lobulate.

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PRIMULA vITTATA.

Szechuan.

PRIMULACEAE. Tribe PRIMULEAE.

Priuvta, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 681.

Primula vittata, Bur. et Franch. in Journ. de Bot. vol. v. p.96; Pax et Knuth

in Engl. Pflanzenr.-Prim. p. 118; Gard. Chron. 1905, vol. xxxvii. p. 390,

fig. 165 et 1906, vol. xl. p. 209, fig. 87; Jardin, 1908, p. 184, fig. 100; Balf.

f. in Journ. Roy. Hort. Soc, vol. xxxix. p. 159, fig. 63: species P. secundi-

jflorae, Franch., peraffinis, foliis angustioribus longioribus distinguenda.

Herba perennis. Folia oblanceolata vel latius oblanceolata. basi in petiolum

attenuata, apice acuta vel obtusiuscula, usque ad 15 cm. longa et 3 cm.

lata, pagina utraque glabra, farinae sulphureae granulis inferiore sparse

superiore parcissime instructa, utrinque viridia, nervis lateralibus utrinsecus

‘circiter 12 supra conspicuis subtus prominentibus, margine irregulariter

argutius dentata, petiolo valido usque ad 4°5 cm. longo supra plano vel

late canaliculato saepius rubro-suffuso suffulta. Scapus validus, 18-21 cm.

altus, ad 5 mm. diametro, superne albo-farinosus, umbellam 6-16-floram

gerens; involucri bracteae ad 7 mm. longae, anguste lanceolatae, virides

nisi inferne purpureo-suffusae; pedicelli sub anthesin cernui, ad 3 cm.

longi, sparse albo-farinosi. Calyx 7-8 mm. longus, tubo 4 mm. longo,

-Jobis lanceolatis vel late lanceolatis acutiusculis, longitudinaliter 10-vittatus,

vittis 5 glabris fusco-purpureis in medios lobos productis, 5 albo-farinosis

apice bifurcis et cum loborum marginibus anguste farinosis continuis,

intus praesertim in lobis albo-farinosus. Corollae purpureae tubus 12 mm.

longus, apice 8 mm. diametro, limbus campanulatus, 5-lobus, lobis saepe

inter se parum inaequalibus, obovato-oblongis apice rotundatis vel non-

nonquam retusiusculis ad 5°5 mm. longis et 6 mm. latis. Filamenta

0-25 mm. longa, antheris circiter 1:5 mm. longis. Ovarium subglobosum,

2mm. altum; stigma grande, capitatum, viride.—W. G. Crar.

The Chinese Primula here figured was first met with

by Prince Henry of Orleans and Mr. Bonvalot during

their Chino-Tibetan journey, and was described from

specimens collected in Szechuan. It is a hardy perennial,

agreeing in habit with the well-known Himalayan P.

sikkimensis, Hook. £., figured at t. 4597 of this work,

which is the best known member of a section or group

of seven species, all of which are yellow-flowered except

the present species, P. vittata, and another very closely

allied one, P. secundiflora, Franch., in which the flowers

are purple. According to Professor Bayley Balfour, who

has made a close study of this group of species, P. vittata

a and P. secundiflora are so like each other that they may

easily be confused. As a rule they admit of ready

separation because in P. vittata the leaves are erect and

elongated, whereas in P. secundiflora they are horizontal

Novemser, 1914. ;

and are oblong-elliptic. The first introduction of P. vitiata

to this country took place in 1905 when it was raised

by Messrs. J. Veitch and Sons from seed obtained on

behalf of the firm by Mr. E. H. Wilson. It has since

then been found again by Mr. G. Forrest on the Likiang

range. Plants raised from seeds sent by Mr. Forrest to

Messrs. Bees, Limited, were exhibited at Chelsea in

May, 1914; from one of these, purchased for the Royal

Gardens, Kew, the material for our plate has been

derived. Like most other Chinese Primulas, P. vittata

prefers moist, shady conditions, It can be propagated

by seeds which ripen early and germinate freely in and

after August.

Description.—Herb, perennial. Leaves oblanceolate

or broadly oblanceolate, narrowed at the base into the

petiole, apex acute or rather blunt, up to 6 in. long,

1; in. wide, glabrous on both sides, distinctly beset

below but very sparingly beset above with granules of a

yellow powder, green on both surfaces, lateral nerves

about 12 along each side, conspicuous above and raised

beneath, margin irregularly rather sharply toothed ;

petiole stout, 13 in. long, flat or wide-channelled above,

often flushed with red. Scape stout, 7-8 in. high, + in.

thick, white-floury above, supporting a 6—16-flowered

umbel; bracts of the involucre over } in. long, narrow

lanceolate, green and flushed with purple except at the

base ; pedicels nodding in flower, over 1 in. long,

sparingly white-floury. Calyx about 1 in. long, tube

« mm. long, lobes lanceolate or wide-lanceolate, some-

what acute, longitudinally 10-vittate; five of the vittae

glabrous, tawny-purple, continued into the centre of the

lobes, the other five white-floury 2-furcate at the tip

and continued along the margins of the lobes, within

white-floury, especially on the lobes. Corolla purple ;

tube } in. long, | in. wide at the top; limb campanulate,

5-lobed, lobes often slightly unequal, obovate-oblong

with rounded or occasionally slightly retuse tips, about

+ in. wide and nearly as long. Filaments very short ;

anthers short. Ovary subglobose, yz in. high; stigma

large, capitate, green.

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CLEMATIS ARrMANDI.

China.

RANUNCULACEAE. Tribe CLEMATIDEAE.

Cuematis, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 3.

Clematis Armandi, Franch. in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, sér. 2,

vol. viii. p. 184, t. 2; Finet & Gagnep. Contrib. Fl. As. Or. vol. i. p. 11;

J. H. Veitch in Journ. Roy. Hort. Soc. vol. xxviii. p. 58, fig. 14; Gard.

Chron. 1905, vol. xxxviii. p. 30; Rehder & Wilson in Sargent, Pl. Wilson.

vol. i. p. 826; affinis C. Meyenianae, Walp., a qua inflorescentiis basi

perulatis distinguitur.

Frutex alte scandens. Rami teretes, costulati, glabri. Folia trifoliolata,

petiolata; petioli 6-8 cm. longi; petioluli laterales 1°5-2 cm. longi,

terminale circiter 8 em. longum; foliola ovato-lanceolata, basi leviter

cordata vel rotundata, apice subacuta, plerumque breviter acuminata,

9-11 cm. longa, 3°5-4°5 em. lata, integra, 5-nervia, nervis intermediis

censpicuis ad apicem currentibus, exterioribus inconspicuis cum nervis

transversis anastomosantibus, reticulata, glabra. Cymae axillares,

bracteatae, pluriflorae, basi perulatae, e basi ramosae, puberulae; perulae

magnae, ovatae; bracteae inferiores perulis similes, superiores oblongae,

saepe trifidae ; pedicelli floribus longiores. Flores albi, odorati. Sepala

5-7, obovato-oblonga, 2-2°5 cm. longa, patentia. Filamenta applanata,

glabra, exteriora antheris longiora, interiora antheris breviora; antherae

anguste oblongae, 3-3°5 mm. longae. Styli parte superiore excepta

sericeo-plumosi. Achaenia elliptica, compressa, hirsuta, stylo patenter

plumoso.—C. hedysarifolia, var. Armandi, Kuntze in Verh. Bot. Ver.

Brandenburg, vol. xxvi. p. 152.—T. A. SPRAGUE.

The fine Clematis which forms the subject of our illus-

tration is a very distinct and beautiful addition to that

scarce group in our gardens, the hardy evergreen climbers.

It is equal in beauty to C. indivisa, Willd., a form of

which was figured at t. 4398 of this work, and has the

advantage of being rather hardier than that New Zea-

land. plant, which can only be grown out of doors in the

south-west of England and Ireland. C. Armandi is a

tall climber which occurs in thickets and on trees and

bushes at various altitudes up to 5,500 feet above sea-

level, from Hupeh in Central China to Szechuan and

Yunnan. It was introduced to European cultivation

by Mr. E. H. Wilson and is one of the finest species of

Clematis obtained by that traveller. It is met with in

gardens in two forms; one with sepals only half the

DrcEMBER, 1914,

width of those here figured, the other the much finer

form now depicted, for material of which we are indebted

to the kindness of Sir W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, on the walls

of whose residence, The Ferns, Witcombe, it made a very

beautiful display in April, 1914. The species appears to

call for wall treatment in this country, and should not

be pruned too severely, but allowed to form a rather

loose tangle, the leading and supporting shoots alone

being nailed. It requires a good loamy soil, and can be

increased by cuttings in late summer. C. Armandi bears

a considerable resemblance to C. Meyeniana, Walp., but

may at once be distinguished from that species by the

inflorescences, which are perulate at the base.

Description.—Shrub, far-climbing; branches terete,

slightly ribbed, glabrous. Leaves trifoliolate, petioled ;

petiole 24-31 in. long; lateral petiolules 2-} in. long,

end petiolule 14 in. long; leaflets ovate-lanceolate, base

slightly cordate or rounded, subacute at the apex and

usually shortly acuminate, 33-44 in. long, 11-1} in. wide,

entire, 5-nerved, intermediate nerves running to the tip,

the outermost indistinct with transverse anastomosing

nerves, reticulate, glabrous. Cymes axillary, bracted,

several-flowered, perulate at the base, branching from

the base, puberulous ; perulae large, ovate ; lower bracts

like the scales, upper bracts oblong, often trifid; pedicels

longer than the flowers. Flowers white, scented. Sepals

5-7, obovate-oblong, 3—1 in. long, spreading. Filaments

flattened, glabrous, the outer longer the inner shorter

than the anthers; anthers narrow-oblong, under 2 lin.

long. Styles silky-plumose except in the upper portion.

Achenes elliptic, compressed, hairy; style plumose with

spreading hairs.

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PLEIONE PpoGonrIoIpEs.

China.

ORCHIDACEAE. Tribe EPIDENDREAE.

PLEIONE, D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. p. 36; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant.

vol. iii. p. 518, swb Coelogyne.

Pleione pogonioides, Rolfe in Orch. Rev. 1903, p. 291; 1914, p. 108; affinis

P. bulbocodioidet, Rolfe, sed sepalis petalisque subaequalibus et labelli

carinis valde crenatis differt.

Herba terrestris, 10-18 em. alta; pseudobulbi ovoidei, apice attenuati, 1°2-1°5

em. longi, monophylli. Folia elliptico-lanceolata, subobtusa, plicata,

5-17 cm. longa, 2-3°5 cm. lata. Flos terminalis, speciosus, roseus,

labelli disco albidulo, pedunculo basi vaginis membranaceis obtecto.

Bractea lanceolata, acuta, concava, 1°5-3 em. longa. Sepala et petala

subconniventia, oblongo-lanceolata, acuta vel apiculata, subaequalia,

3°5-4 em. longa. Labellum circa columnam convolutum, amplum,

3°5-4 em. longum, apice fimbriatum ? late ellipticum vel suborbiculare,

discus 4—5-lamellatus, lamellis valde et irregulariter crenatis. Colwmna

clavata, ineurva, circiter 3 em. longa, alis triangularibus es membranaceis.

Capsula ellipsoideo-oblonga, 2°5-3 cm. longa.—Pogonia sp., Hance in

Journ. Bot. 1885, p. 247. Coelogyne. (Pleione) pogonioides, Rolfe in Kew

Bulletin, 1896, p. 196, et in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxxvi. p. 23.—C.

(Pleione) Henryz, Rolfe in Kew Bulletin, 1896, p. 195, et in Journ. Linn,

Soe. vol. xxxvi. p. 22.—R. A. RonF...

Though there are several Chinese species of Pleione,

only one of these has until now become established in

cultivation; that species, P. yunnanensis, Rolfe, was

figured at t. 8106 of this work. The one now figured,

P. pogonioides, Rolfe, though it has been known longer

than P. yunnanensis, for it was originally discovered in

1881, is the second to be introduced from China to

orchid collections. Bulbs were received from there in

1912 by Messrs. Charlesworth and Company, in whose

houses at Haywards Heath it flowered for the first time

in February, 1914, and our figure has been prepared

from material supplied by Messrs. Charlesworth for

identification. The original specimens were gathered by

Mr. T. Bullock on wet rocks at Wu Hu in the province

of Am Hwei, at an elevation of 3,000 feet above sea-

level, and were referred by the late Dr. Hance to the

genus Pogonia. It was met with again by Mr. A. Henry

DECEMBER, 1914.

on mountains near Patung, and from his material was

described by Mr. Rolfe as Coelogyne pogonioides, in

accordance with the idea long entertained, but now

abandoned, that Pleione is no more than a section of

Coelogyne. It was subsequently collected in various

localities by Mr. Henry and by Mr. E. H. Wilson, who

supplied living plants to Messrs. James Veitch & Sons,

which, however, do not appear to have flowered. Mr. -

Rolfe finds that the plant described at the same time

as C. Henryi is only an unusually well-developed form of

P. pogonioides. The cultural requirements for P. pogoni-

oides are the same as for 2. praccox and the other species

usually met with in collections.

Drscription.—/Her)h, terrestrial, 3-4 in. high; pseudo-

bulbs ovoid, narrowed to the tip, }—2 in. long, 1-foliate.

Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, rather blunt, plicate, 2-6} in.

long, 3-1} in. wide. Flower terminal, showy, rosy red

with a whitish disk; ‘peduncle clothed below with

membranous sheaths. ract lanceolate, acute, concave,

3—1; in. long. Sepals and petals somewhat connivent,

oblong-lanceolate, acute or apiculate, subequal, 11-1} in.

long. Lip convolute around the column, large, 11—1} in.

long, fimbriate at the apex, wide-elliptic or suborbicular,

disk with 4-5 lamellae which are strongly but irregu-

larly crenate. Column clavate, incurved, about 1} in.

long; wings triangular, membranous. Capsule ellipsoid-

oblong, 1-1} in. long.

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CRATAEGUS puBEscEeNs, forma STIPULACEA.

Mexico.

Rosaceak. Tribe PoMEAE.

Cratarcus, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 626.

Crataegus pubescens, Steud., forma stipulacea, Stapf; a C. pubescente,

H. B. K. ut primo descripto et depicto differt foliis majoribus pro rata

latioribus (praesertim in parte superiore), stipulis magis foliaceis et

diutius persistentibus, indumento parciore.

Arbor parva, ad 10 m. alta, interdum spinis angulo recto patentibus ad 4 cm.

longis armata, novellis albo-villosis mox glabrescentibus, ramulis adultis

cortice fusco vel brunneo- vel griseo-fusco tectis, gemmis subglobosis

obtusis glabris. Folia laxiuscule disposita, rarius in ramulis abbreviatis

aggregata; laminae e subelliptico vel obovato ad oblanceolatum vergentes,

plerumque acutae, basin versus cuneatim attenuatae, simpliciter vel

subduplo serrato-crenatae, e medio basin versus integrae, interdum

(praesertim in turionibus) grosse dentatae vel sublobatae, rarius trilobae,

4-8 cm. longae, 2-4 cm. latae, virides, demum subcoriaceae, autumno

rubescentes vel aurantiacae, supra primo pilosulae, mox calvescentes,

infra praeter nervos villosos laxe vel perlaxe villosulae, nervis lateralibus

utrinque 5-7 obliquis leviter curvatis in crenas vel dentes excurrentibus

supra impressis subtus prominulis; petioli 0°5-1:5 cm. longi, longiores

saepe ob laminam decurrentem anguste alati, indumento laminae; stipulae

plerumque foliaceae, saepe falcato-lineares vel lanceolatae et diutius

persistentes, interdum lineares tenuiores caducae, integrae vel subintegrae,

ad margines glandulosae vel eglandulosae ad plus quam 1 cm. longae.

Corymbi 6-15-flori, magis minusve albo- vel incano-villosi, rarius fere

calvescentes; bracteae stipulis conformes; pedicelli ad 2 cm. longi.

Receptaculum turbinatum, villosulum, 3-4 mm, altum, disco rubicundo

ad 4 mm. diametro. Sepala lineari-lanceolata vel linearia, integra vel

apice paucidentata, plerumque eglandulosa, pilosa, 5-6 mm. longa,

persistentia, in fructu plerumque suberecta. Petala alba, obovato-

rotundata, circiter 8 mm. longa. Stamina 15-20; antherae demum

pubescentes. Styli plerumque .2 vel 3, interdum 4 vel 5, basi pilis cincti.

Fructus breviter pyriformis vel globosus, ad 25 cm. diametro, flavidus

vel viridi-flavidus vel ad rufo-aurantiacum vergentes, lenticellis parce

aspersi, calyce basi indurato coronati. Pyrenae plerumque 2, ambitu

rotundato-ellipticae, facie superiore styli basi indurata conspicua, 7-8 mm.

diametro, in dorso late carinatae, pariete crassissima,—C. stipulacea, Lodd.

Cat. 1826, p. 40 (nomen tantum); Loudon, Gard. Mag. vol. ix. (1833),

p. 630. C. mexicana, D. Don in Sweet, Fl. Gard. Qnd ser. t. 8300; Lindley

in Bot. Reg. t. 1910; Loudon, Arb. Brit. p. 843; non DC. C. Lam-

bertiana, Hort. ex Steud. Nom. ed. 2, p. 432. C. hypolasia, Koch in

Vers. d. Ver. z. Beférd. Gartenb. vol. i. p. 229. OC. pubescens,

Eggleston in Bull. Torr. Bot. Club. vol. xxxv. (1999) . 505; non H.B.K.

DecemBrr, 1914.

Mespilus Loddigesiana, Spach, Hist. Nat. Veg. vol. ii. (1834), p. o4.

M. stipulacea, Desf. ex Spach lc. M. mexicana, Koch, Dendrol. vol. i.

(1869) p. 182, ex parte.—O. Srapr.

The Thorn here figured is one of the forms of the

Mexican Hawthorn or Tejocote, the earliest account

of which we owe to Hernandez, who was resident in

Mexico between 1571 and 1577, and has described it as

the Texocotl or Rock Apple. The Tejocote is one of the

few members of the genus Crataegus which inhabit the

Mexican tableland, where it is appreciated, more especially

by the Indian inhabitants, on account of its fruits, which

are used as the basis.of a national conserve. From a

drawing of the Tejocote made in the field by the

travellers Sessé and Mociiio about the end of the

XVIIIth Century, the species was described by De Can-

dolle in 1825 as Crataegus mexicana. In the meantime,

however, the travellers Humboldt and Bonpland, who

had also met with the Tejocote near the mines of Moran

in what is now the State of Hidalgo, in the beginning of

the XIXth Century, had published a description in 1823

under the name Mespilus pubescens. From the synonyms

cited by Dr. Stapf it will be seen that the generic

position postulated for this tree by these distinguished

travellers has not found general favour, and there is no

room for doubt that the view of De Candolle is the pre-

ferable one. An almost more serious difficulty has

arisen, however, as to its specific limitation. This has

been caused by the excessive degree of variation dis-

played not merely in different individual trees but even,

at times, in the same individual. It is to this circum-

stance that the number of trivial epithets used as specific

names, which are enumerated in the synonymy, must be

attributed. The whole question has recently been very

fully dealt with by Dr. Stapf in the Kew Bulletin for

the present year, and here it is sufficient to repeat that

the plant from which the material for our plate has been

derived is only a form, though a rather distinct and

striking one, of the Tejocote. The Species appears to

have been introduced to cultivation in England by the

eighth Lord Napier, through his friend Mr. A. B. Lambert,

about 1824. The example at Kew, which is a small tree

about fifteen feet high, and is perfectly hardy, was

received from the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, in 1891. It

is one of the handsomest of Thorns both in its flowers

and in its yellow fruits, which are valuable from the

cultural standpoint for the length of time that they

remain upon the branches; often they do not fall until

February. |

DrscripTion.—7ree, 15-35 ft. high, sometimes armed

with spines up to 13 in. long spreading at right angles

from the twigs; young shoots white-villous, soon be-

coming glabrous; old shoots tawny or brown- or grey-

tawny; buds subglobose, obtuse, glabrous. Leaves rather

scattered, rarely close together on abbreviated shoots ;

from subelliptic or obovate to oblanceolate, usually acute,

cuneately narrowed to the base, once to twice serrate-

crenate, at least beyond the middle, sometimes from

the middle to the base entire, occasionally—and more

particularly on suckers—the leaves coarsely toothed or

almost lobed, very rarely distinctly 3-lobed, 1}—3} in.

long, 3-1} in. wide, green, when adult subcoriaceous,

becoming red or orange-coloured in autumn, at first

finely pilose above, soon becoming smooth, beneath

villous on the nerves, elsewhere loosely or very loosely

pubescent, lateral nerves 5-7 on each side the midrib,

oblique, slightly curved, running out into the teeth,

sunk above and raised beneath; petioles {—% in. long,

often slightly winged by the decurrent leaf-blade,

pubescence as on the leaf; stipules usually foliaceous,

often falcate-linear or lanceolate and rather distinctly

persistent, sometimes linear and thinner and caducous,

entire or nearly so, the margins glandular or not.

Corymbs 6-15-flowered, more or less white- or hoary-

villous, rarely almost glabrous; bracts like the stipules ;

pedicels up to ? in. long. Receptacle turbinate, some-

what villous, }-% in. deep, disk reddish, } in. across.

Sepals linear-lanceolate or linear, entire or sparingly

toothed at the tip, usually eglandular, pilose, }—} in.

long, persistent, in fruit usually suberect. Petals white,

obovate-rounded, about } in. long. Stamens 15-20;

anthers pubescent. Styles usually 2 or 3, sometimes

4 or 5, pilose at the base. uit short-pyriform or

globose, up to 1 in. across, yellow or greenish-yellow

shading into reddish-orange, sparsely lenticelled, tipped

with the calyx which is hardened at the base. Pyrenes

usually 2, rounded-elliptic in outline, with the con-

spicuous hardened base of the style on the upperside,

1 in. across, wide-keeled on the back.

Fig. 1, flower-bud ; Q, vertical section of flower; 8 and 4, anthers; 5, a

pyrene; 6, the same in section :—all enlarged.

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SALVIA LonaIsty3a.

Mexico.

Lapiatar. Tribe MonarDEAg.

Satvia, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1194.

Salvia longistyla, Benth. Lab. p. 295; affinis S. coccineae, Linn., sed foliis

floribusque majoribus et calyce bilobo lobis longe acuminatis distinguenda.

Herba elata, ad 4-4°5 m. alta. Caulis tetragonus, patule glanduloso-pubescens.

Foliorum petioli 4-9 cm. longi, patule glanduloso-pubescentes; laminae

7~14 cm. longae, 5°5~11 cm. latae, cordato-ovatae, acutae, serrato-dentatae,

supra glabrae, subtus ad nervos pubescentes. Racemi saepe 3°5 dm.,

nonnunguam 6 dm. longi, glanduloso-pubescentes; verticillastri 2°5-

4°5 cm, distantes, 8-16-flori. Pedicelli 8-15 mm. longi. Calyzx in-

aequaliter bilabiatus, compressus, 9-nervis, fusco-viridis ; tubus 1-1°3 cm.

longus; labia 7-11 mm. longa, subulato-acuminata vel aristata, labium

inferus apice breviter bifidum. Corolla e calyce longe exserta, rubro-

coccinea, pubescens; tubus 1°8 cm. longus, apice 4 mm. diametro,

levissime curvatus, compressus; labium superus 7-8 mm. longum,

rectum vel apice recurvum, anguste oblongum, apice emarginatum}

labium inferus parvum, breviter 3-lobum, lobo medio 2°5 mm. longo,

3°5 mm. lato, transverse elliptico obtuso incurvo-erecto. Stamina

exserta, quam corolla 7 mm. longiora, recta, rubra. Stylus staminibus

multo longior, inaequaliter bifidus lobo inferiore minimo, ruber.—S, recti-

flora, Vis. Sem. Hort. Patav. 1889, in Linnaea, vol. xiv. Litt.-Ber.

p. 188. 8S. aristulata, Mart. & Gal. in Bull. Acad. Brux. vol. xi. pars 2,

p. 67 (1844).—N. E. Brown.

The Mexican Salvia here figured was first discovered

near Zinepecuaro in 1830 by Mr. G. J. Graham, and three

years later was described by the late Mr. Bentham.

It seems probable that seeds were sent to Europe by

Graham, because the plant appeared in cultivation

almost simultaneously with its original description.

Whether its redescription by Professor Visiani indicates

a second introduction is on the whole doubtful; more

probably it only indicates the first appearance of the

plant in the Padua Botanic Garden. Its description a

third time at Brussels, however, suggests independent

introduction from Mexico. In its foliage and its far-

exserted stamens and style the species bears some

resemblance to S. coccinea, Linn., but in its calyx it is

remarkably distinct from that and all the other allied

species; the tube and lobes are longer, while the latter

terminate in fine awn-like points; the two lobes of the

lower lip are, besides, united for the greater part of their

length, and their distinction is only indicated by the.

DECEMBER, 1914.

awn being shortly divided at its tip. The material for

our plate has been derived from a plant raised at Kew

from a cutting presented in 1912 by Dr. Robertson-

Proschowsky, Nice. The plant is easy of culture and

rapid in growth, reaching in from nine to ten months a

height of fourteen or fifteen feet, with a freely branching

crown. The branches end in long loose panicles of rosy-

red flowers, some of the panicles being a couple of feet

in length. It has at Kew been grown in a sunny position

in a slightly heated greenhouse and liberally manured.

The exceptional height and vigour of growth precludes

its use save under exceptional circumstances as a green-

house plant in the British Islands, but in countries where

there is little or no risk from frost, as in the Mediterra-

nean region, S. longistyla ought to form a striking and

desirable denizen in an open-air border. The flowers are

produced during the winter months.

Descrietion.—//erb, up to 15 ft. in height. Stem

4-angled, glandular-pubescent with spreading hairs.

_ Leaves petioled, cordate-ovate, acute, serrate-dentate,

glabrous above, pubescent on the nerves beneath, 3-53

in. long, 2-45 in. wide; petiole 15-33 in. long, glandular-

pubescent with spreading hairs. /tacemes often 15 in.,

occasionally up to 25 in. long, glandular-pubescent ;

verticillasters 8-16-flowered, 1-13 in. apart; pedicels

4-3 in. long. Caly« unequally 2-lipped, compressed,

9-nerved, tawny-green; tube }~—} in. long; lips rather

shorter than the tube, subulate-acuminate or aristate,

the arista of the lower lip slightly 2-fid at the tip.

Corolla far-exserted, red-pink, pubescent; tube 2 in.

long, } in. across at the mouth, slightly curved, com-

pressed ; upper lip about 4 in. long, narrow-oblong,

straight or recurved at the emarginate tip; lower lip

small, shortly 3-lobed, mid-lobe +!5 in. long, } in. wide,

transversely elliptic, obtuse, incurved-erect. Stamens

exserted nearly 4 in. beyond the top of the corolla,

straight, red. Style much longer than the stamens,

unequally 2-fid, with the anterior lobe very small, red.

Fig. 1, calyx, laid open, showing ovary and style; 2, corolla, laid open,

showing stamens and staminodes; 3, an anther; 4, ovary, surrounded by

glands :—all enlarged,

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CERATOSTIGMA WiLLmorrranum,

China. 7

PLUMBAGINACEAE, ‘Tribe PLUMBAGEAE.

CERATOSTIGMA, Bunge; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 628; Prain in

Journ, Bot. vol. xliv. (1906), p. 4.

Ceratostigma Willmottianum, Stapf; species nova C. plumbaginoidi, Bunge

et C. asperrimo, Stapf ex Prain, similis, a priore imprimis foliis minoribus

utrinque pilosis, corolla pallidiore, antherarum apicalibus tantum brevissime

e tubo exsertis, stigmatibus antheras longe superantibus et habitu, ab

altero forma textura et indumento tenuiore foliorum, ab ambobus perulis

coriaceis lanceolatis distinctum.

Frutex multiramosa, 1-1°5 m. alta, caulibus angulatis strigilloso-hirtulis saepe

purpurascentibus. Innovationes basi perulis lanceolatis vel lanceo!ato-

subulatis indutae. Folia sessilia, oblanceolata vel elliptico-oblanceolata,

acuta vel subacuta, setoso-mucronata, basin versus cuneatim attenuata,

3-5 em. longa, 1°3-2 cm. lata, viridia, supra sparse, infra copiosius et

asperius hirtella, in margine rigide ciliata, sparse et minutissime glandu-

loso-furfuracea. Capitula terminalia, saepe minoribus nonnullis ex

foliorum summorum axillis ortis additis; bracteae lanceolatae, acuminatae,

carinatae, mucronatae, rigide ciliatae, exteriores 14-10 mm. longae.

Calyx tubulosus, 5-dentatus, tubo circiter 11 mm. longo viridi albo-5-

striato, dentibus subulatis purpurascentibus 3 mm. longis. Corollae tubo

roseo circiter 18 mm. longo, limbo amoene coeruleo, lobis truncato-

obovatis mucronulatis 8 mm. longis superne 7 mm. latis. Antherac

purpurascentes, vix 2 mm. longae, apicibus e tubo brevissime exsertis.

Styli albidi, 2 mm. longi, toti exserti.—O. Srapr.

The singular distribution of the species of the Plumba-

ginaceous genus Ceratostigma has been the subject of

comment for more than sixty years. The genus was

based originally on a species from Northern China de-

scribed by Bunge in 1834 which has long been a favourite

plant in English conservatories and, with some litile

proteciion during severe weather in winter, also in col-

lections out of doors. An excellent figure of that species,

C. plumbaginoides, Bunge, which is often known in gardens

by the name Plumbayo Larpentae, Lindl., bestowed on the

plant in 1847 when it was first introduced to England,

has been provided at t. 4487 of this work. The only

other species of the genus which was known when that

figure was published is an Abyssinian one, treated by

DecemBeER, 1914.

Hochstetter in 1840 as the type of his genus Valoradia.

Hochstetter’s plant had, however, been collected by

Salt a generation earlier, and had been treated in 1814

by R. Brown as a Plumbago, P. eglandulosa. The first

observer to recognize the identity of Ceratostigma and

Valoradia was Boissier, who, for reasons no longer con-

sidered adequate, in 1848 employed Hochstetter’s name

in preference to the older one used by Bunge. The

discovery, since Boissier wrote, of a number of other

species of Ceratostigma in Central and South-western

China, in Indo-China, in Tibet and in Bhutan, has

reduced considerably the extent of the gap between the

localities occupied by the genus on which stress has so

often been laid. The eight species now known include

two, from Abyssinia and Somaliland, that are best dis-

tinguished from their six Asiatic congeners by their sessile

stigmatic glands. The six Asiatic species include two

that are best distinguished from the other four because

their leaf-buds and shoot-bases are not perulate. The

familiar C. plumbaginoides, already alluded to, is one

of the species with naked buds; it forms as a cultivated

plant large tufts, rarely more than a foot in height, with

striking dark-green leaves that take on a handsome

brownish-red autumnal tint, and make an admirable

and effective contrast with the gentian-blue flowers.

Except for its larger size and looser habit the species

now figured, C. Willmottianum, Stapf, as grown at Kew,

resembles C. plumbaginoides so closely that it might

pardonably be taken for a form of that species with

rather smaller leaves of a paler green which do not display

the autumnal bronzing. Closer attention to the plant

now figured, for the material of which we are indebted

to Miss E. A. Willmott, in whose garden at Warley Place

two plants were raised from seed received by her from

the Arnold Arboretum, and obtained by Mr. E. H. Wilson

during his last journey in Western China, shows, how-

ever, other marked differences. The flowers are of a

rather paler blue than in C. plumbaginoides ; the anthers

are hardly exserted; the leaves are hispidly hairy on

both surfaces, as well as hispidly ciliate on the margin,

whereas in C. plumbaginoides only the margin is hispid ;

finally, the buds are protected by coriaceous scales, so

that, in spite of its close general resemblance to

C. plumbaginoides, the affinity of C. Willmottianum is

really with C. minus, Stapf, and C. Griffithu, C. B. Clarke,

which are shrubs. Miss Willmott informs us that of the

two plants raised by her one has been grown at Warley

in Essex, the other at Spetchley in Worcestershire, and

that both are now shrubs five feet high. In both places,

as at Kew, the treatment most suitable for C. plumbagi-

noides is that best adapted for C. Willmottianum, which

has proved equally hardy and equally easy to propagate.

The two flower at the same time and in equal profusion,

during the months of July to December.

Description.—Shrub, freely branching; stems angular, —

strigillose, often purplish; young shoots perulate, the

scales firm, lanceolate or subulate-lanceolate. Leaves

sessile, oblanceolate or elliptic-oblanceolate, acute or

subacute, setose-mucronate, cuneately narrowed to the

base, 14-2 in. long, }-# in. wide, green, sparingly harshly

hairy above, more plentifully beneath, stiffly ciliate on

the margin, sparingly and finely glandular-scurfy. //eads

terminal, with often a few smaller in the uppermost

axils; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, keeled, mucronate,

rigidly ciliate, the outer 4} in. long. Calyx tubular,

5-toothed, tube under 3} in. long, green with 5 white

bands, teeth subulate, purplish. Corolla hypocrateri-

form; tube rosy-red, ? in. long; limb bright-blue ; lobes

truncate-obovate, mucronulate, + in. long, over 4 in. wide.

Anthers purplish, under +/; in. long, tips shortly exserted.

Styles whitish, ;!; in. long, quite exserted.

Fig. 1, leaf and leaf-bud; 2, bud-seales; 3, flowers and bracts; 4 and 5,

anthers ; 6, pistil :—all enlarged.

INDEX

To: Vol. X. of the Fourrn Series, or Vol. CXL.

of the whole Work.

8552 Abies magnifica.

8575 Aconitum rotundifolium.

8538 Actinidia chinensis.

8581 Agave bracteosa.

8537 Ampelopsis megalophylla.

8542 Aristolochia gigantea.

8549 Berberis Prattii.

8534 Carpinus japonica.

8591 Ceratostigma Willmotti-

anum.

8587 Clematis Armandii.

8582 Coelogyne brachyptera

8571 Cotoneaster Franchetii.

8546 _ turbinata.

8589 Crataegus pubescens, forma

stipulacea.

8567 Cyrtosperma Johnstoni.

8578 Cytisus pallidus.

_ 8559 Deutzia mollis.

8583 Echinocactus minusculus.

8572 Echinopanax horridus.

8551 Epidendrum profusum.

8532 Erythrina pulcherrima.

8533 Galtonia princeps.

8548 Gladiolus Masoniorum,

8562 Gongora grossa.

8573 Hamamelis vernalis,

8547 Hibiscus Waimeae.

8557 Hypericum Ascyron.

8580 Indigofera Kirilowii.

8577 Ixora umbellata.

8545 Kniphofia carinata.

8563 Kolkwitzia amabilis.

8536 Lonicera deflexicalyx.

8585 a fragrantissima.

8555 = Ledebourii.

8554 Mazus reptans.

8568 Meconopsis rudis.

8584 Nothofagus Cunninghamii.

8550 Olearia semidentata,

8574 Pimelea ferruginea.

8556 Pithecoctenium cynan-

choides.

8588 Pleione pogonioides.

8535 Primula Purdomii.

8564 » vinciflora.

8586 » Vittata.

8540 Rondeletia cordata.

8566 Rosa corymbulosa.

8569 ,, setipoda.

8590 Salvia longistyla.

8544 ~=,,_—sulliginosa.

8539 Smilacina paniculata.

8561 Stapelia Leendertziae.

8576 Tillandsia Benthamiana, var.

Andrieuxii.

8579 Trichocaulon pictum.

8560 Trieyrtis stolonifera.

8565 Trollius chinensis.

8541 Viola gracilis.

8558 Vitis Thunbergii.

8553 Zephyranthes cardinalis.

8570 Zingiber Mioga.

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