0°

A. B. FREEMAN-MITFORD, ESQ., C.B., F.L.S.

Late Secretary H.M. Office of Works, &c.

My pear Mirtrorp,

Duty and pleasure alike prompt me to offer you

the dedication of Vol. CXXIII. of the Boranican

Macazinz, giving me, as it does, the opportunity of

recalling the years of our cordial official co-operation, when

the Royal Gardens profited so greatly in every department

through your energy, foresight, and love of plants.

To this claim I must surely add the service you have

rendered to horticulture and botany by your labours in

introducing, cultivating, and studying the hardy Bamboos,

of which your charming work, “The Bamboo Garden,” is

the first-fruits. Nor can I omit an allusion to your own

garden, unrivalled as it is amongst the private collections

of hardy plants in Europe for extent, scientific interest,

and beauty.

Believe me, my dear Mitford,

Affectionately yours,

J. D. HOOKER.

Tur Camp, SUNNINGDALE.

Dee. 1st, 1897.

| Chie: Series,

No. m7 is

oom PRISIN @

THE PLANTS oF THE ROYAL GARDENS OF KEW,

ND or OrER BOTANICAL ESTABLISHMENTS: IN G

Late Birecior of the aval Boxani Garens of Bem,

‘

| iT at | Sma

Now veady, price 2s. 6d.

INSULAR FLORAS.

R, C.B., before the British Association

A Lecture delivered by Sie J. D. HOOKE

: Nottingham, August 27, 1866.

for the advancement of Science at

BRITISH FERNS:

~ Goloured Figures and Descriptions of the Ferns of Great Britain aad Ireland.) .: a

By Bir W. J. Hooker, F.R.S. Royal 8vo. 66 Coloured Plates, £2 2s. Sta

GARDEN FERNS:

“Coloured Figures and Descriptions of a Selection of Exotic Ferns, adapted for

Cultivation in the Garden, Hothouse, and Conservatory.

ie | By si W. J. Hooxer, F.R.8. Royal 8vo. 64, Coloured Plates, £2 Qs,

FILICES EXOTICA:

Coloured Figures and Descriptions of Exotic Ferns.

‘By Sir W. J. Hooker, FR. S. Royal 4to. 100 Coloured Bala, £6 Ils,

2 geo Nous ready, Second: Edition pay

H ANDBOOK OF BRITISH MOSSES, iy

ear Containing all that are known to be natives. of the British Isles. :

: » the Bi M. ES BERKELEY, ™M. A, F LS. ee Colauted Plates, Als. ee

w 7 ready. couplete in 1 val. royal Sto, maatione a cloth case, £6 6s, net; in half mOroceay ae

moe neb, .

oir ‘Finches in Captivity. :

By ARTHUR G. BUTLER, ‘Ph. D., Fr. 1. 8, x. 28; FEB

“the meee ine ® large ~ handsome volume of between 300-and 400

é Sine beaabifelly coloured by hand oem with. 60 Pistes, Ae

A Describtion of the Posarine Plants and herne indiana

eS 100F Naturaliged in the British Isles.

“Br. GEORGE BENTHAM, ¥. RS. 2

~ TLLUSTRATIONS | . THE ‘BRITISH Tua

ts Series of Wood Ba Sia ‘with Dissections, as British P.

ard 1 Ean, wih 1315 Wood Beri,

i pe

M.S.del, JN Fitch lith

sondon,

L Reeve & C?]

Tas. 7512.

ARISTOLOCHIA crypgata.

Native of New Grenada.

Nat. Ord. ARISTOLOCHIACER.

Genus AristoLocuta, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f..Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 123.)

AnrisToLocHia (Gymnolobus) c/ypeata ; caule crasso, cortice profunde 6-suleato,

foliis longe petiolatis orbiculari-ovatis cuspidatis basi truncatis v. leviter

cordatis palmatim 5-nerviis, floribus racemis brevissimis caulinis dispo-

sitis uno solam sapissime evoluto, perianthii utriculo clavato gibboso

multicostato intus glaberrimo, ore annulo processuum intus spectantium

instructo, collo refracto intus laxe piloso in laminam amplam orbicularem

concavam antice bifidam maculis substellee-formibus rubro-purpureis dense

aspersam ampliato, lamin ore postice fascia lata villorum instructo,

columna oblonga sessili cylindracea, antheris 6 lineari-oblongis approxi-

matis, styli lobis 6 inequilongis lineari-elongatis erectis antheras

. superantibus, marginibus stigmatosis crassis basi confluentibus.

A. clypeata, André in Illustr. Hortic. vol, xvii. (1870) p. 223, t. 40. Gard.

Chron. (1892) vol. i. p. 448. Gartenfl. (1893) p. 566, fig. 117. Watson in

Gard. & Forest, vol. viii. (1895) p. 444.

A. clypeaia is another of the ever-increasing host of

tropical American Aristolochias. Its nearest ally is A.

Duchartrei, André (tab. 5889) a native of the Upper

Amazons, a much smaller-flowered species, with terete

branches, many-flowered racemes, and _ broad, short,

triangular stigmatic lobes. In the size of the flower it

approaches -A. gigantea, Mart. (Tab. 4221) and A. Gigas,

Lindl., species with long-tailed perianths. _

It was discovered in the botanically rich, but notoriously

unhealthy Cauca Province of New Grenada, by the in--

defatigable botanical collector, Mr. E. G. Wallis, and

introduced by him into Mr. Linden’s establishment in

_ 1868, where it flowered in 1869. In 1892 plants of it

were obtained from Messrs. F. Sander & Co., of St.

Alban’s, for the Royal Gardens, Kew, which flowered in

a stove in October, 1895. The flower-buds are developed

very numerously from the old stems, but fall off in fog

weather, one only usually developing. It has been

distributed in England as A. gigantea.

Descr.—A tall climber, with a woody stem, covered with —

January Ist, 1897.

a thick grey layer of cork, that is deeply cleft into about

six ribs that are triangular in section. Leaves three or

four inches broad, long-petioled, broadly deltoidly or

orbicularly ovate, or ovate-cordate, acuminate, palmately

5-nerved from the base, bright green above, pale blue-

green beneath, and there strongly reticulate between the

main-nerves; petiole two to three inches long, terete.

Racemes an inch long, from the axils of cauline leaves, or

from close beneath the scars left by the fallen leaves, short,

horizontal, green, with usually only one perfect flower,

and several arrested buds; bracts an eighth of an inch

long, lanceolate, green. lowers pendulous; peduncle with

ovary nearly three inches long. Ultricle of perianth three

inches long, clavate, gibbous, about ten-ribbed, glabrous

and smooth within, except at the constricted mouth, which

has a fringe of minute processes pointing downwards ;

tube of perianth short, infundibular, dark purple and

hairy within, rapidly dilating into a concave, nearly

circular limb six to ten inches in diameter, bifid anteriorly

to nearly half way down, with a narrow sinus, many-nerved

and coarsely reticulate externally, internally quite smooth,

pale yellowish, closely studded with dark red-purple,

irregularly shaped spots; mouth with an anticous semi-

circular belt of white, fleshy filaments. Column sessile;

anthers six, linear, close together; stigma six-cleft, the

lobes unequal, narrow, erect, with much thickened

stigmatose margins that are confluent below.—J. D. H.

_Fig. 1, Vertical section of the utricle and perianth-tube, of the natural

size; 2, column, enlarged,

Vincent Brooks, Day & Son linp

N Fitch hth.

L Reeve & C°London

Tas. 7513.

CYNOGLOSSUM nervosom.

Native of the Western Himalaya.

Nat. Ord. Boracinrm—Tyvibe Boracez,

Genus Cynociossum, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 848.)

Crnoctossum nervosum; elatum, ramosum, strigilloso-hirsutulum, foliis

radicalibus et inferioribus elongatis petiolatis anguste oblanceolatis

subacutis utrinque hirsutulis, nervis subtus validis, superioribus oblongis

lanceolatisve sessilibus acuminatis, racemis demum elongatis 3-6-polli-

caribus laxifloris, pedicellis calycem floriferum subsequantibus fructiferis

longioribus, calycis segmentis oblongis obtusis corolla tubum subcampa-

nulatum equantibus vy. paullo brevioribus, corolle# limbo fere }-poll. lato

intense coeruleo, lobis oblongo-rotundatis, faucis squamis emarginatis

purpureis basi setulosis, antheris inclusis, nuculis late ovatis marginatis

glochidiatis.

C. nervosum, Benth. ex Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. iv. p. 158.

The largest flowered Himalayan Cynoglossum, and a

very handsome plant, native of the temperate and sub-

alpine regions between Kulu and Kumaon, at elevations of

10,000 to 13,000 ft.

It was first found by Edgeworth, in the Jalauri Pass in

Kulu, and has been in cultivation in England for some

time, as there are specimens in the Kew Herbarium from

Mr. Wilson’s garden at Weybridge, dated 1888, Mr.

Duthie has collected it at Kumaon and Garwhal, and Dr.

Watt at Pangiin Kumaon. The Kew plant from which

the accompanying drawing was made, was raised from

seed received from Mr. Duthie in 1894; it flowered in the

open ground of the Royal Gardens in May, 1896, and

fruited in the following June.

Deser.—A tall, erect, branching herb, attaining three

feet in height, more or less shortly strigillosely pubescent all

over, the hairs being more or less spreading on the stem,

and appressed on the foliage ; those of the upper surface of

the larger leaves arise from small tubercles. Radical and

lower leaves six to ten inches long, narrowly oblanceolate,

acute, narrowed into a petiole two or three inches long,

upper surface pale green, lower paler, with six or more

pairs of strong scabrid nerves that form a very acute angle

January Ist, 1897,

with the midrib, and after running parallel to the margins in

their upper parts, anastomose with the nerves above them.

Racemes many, axillary and terminal, three to six inches

long, loosely many-flowered; pedicels as long as or longer

than the calyx, erect in flower, decurved in fruit. Calyz

about one-sixth of an inch long; lobes oblong, obtuse,

dull purplish. Covolla-tube rather longer than the calyx,

campanulate ; limb nearly half an inch across, very deep

cobalt blue; lobes broadly oblong, almost rounded; scales

in the throat short, two-lobed, thin, pale purplish blue,

tips exserted, their margins below ciliate. Stamens in-

cluded, connective of anther emarginate. Ovary of four

globose lobes; style stout, one-third of an inch long,

base narrowly pyramidal. Nutlets of fruit broadly

ovate, obtuse, suberect, margins thickened and surface

glochidiate.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Calyx; 2, corolla laid o

ig. pen; 3, anther; 4, scale of mouth of corolla ;

5, pistil ; 6, fruit :-—A// enlarged,

Vincent Brooks Day & Son inp

L Reeve & C° London

Tas, 7514.

BERKHEYA Aptamt.

Native of the Transvaal.

Nat. Ord. Comrosita.—Tribe ARCTOTIDE &,

Genus Berxueya, Hhrh.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 460.)

BrrxuHeys Adlami; caule elato alato, alis angustis. undulatis-spinulosis, foliis

inferioribus subsessilibus sesquipedalibus obovato-oblongis obtusis

sinuato-lobatis supra scabridis late viridibus brunneo maculatis subtus lana

appressa niveis, nervis utrinque 20-30 setosis reticulatis, foliis superiori-

bus linearibus pinnatifido-lobatis, lobis rotundatis setoso-spinulosis

sinubus recurvis, capitulis subcorymbosis 3} poll. diam. aureis, involucri

bracteis lanceolatis patenti-recuryis marginibus apiceque spinuloso-

ciliatis, receptaculo profunde alveolato, fl. radii sub-biseriatis linearibus

3-denticulatis sterilibus, fl. disci numerosissimis, corolle tubo angusto

puberulo, antheris basi sagittatis, stigmatis ramis linearibus revolutis,

acheniis cuneiformibus, pappi squamis brevibus oblongis ciliatis.

B. Adlami, Hook.f. —

This is by far the largest species of Berkheya of

which I have any knowledge. The genus contains about

thirty species, natives of tropical and chiefly southern

Africa. They vary in size from small plants about the

size of a Daisy, to the tall and stout species here repre-

sented, from glabrous to cottony, and from unarmed to

spinulose. The flowers of both disk and ray are yellow

in all. Berkheya belongs to the tribe of Arctotidee of

Composite, which is almost exclusively South and tropical

African, and is the representative of the Thistles (especially

the Carlinas) of Europe and North Africa. The best

known representative of the tribe in gardens is Arctotis ;

but three species of Berkheya are figured in the early

volumes of this magazine, when the culture of Cape plants

‘was in vogue. These are B. (Stobxa) pinnata, Less. t.

1788; B. grandiflora, Willd., t. 1844, and B. uniflora,

Willd, t. 2094,

B. Adlami was raised from seeds sent to the Royal

Gardens, Kew, in 1895, by R. W. Adlam, Esq., of Johan-

nesberg, plants raised from which flowered, some in a

greenhouse, and others in the open air in June, 1896.

As stated under t. 2094, the genus was named by

JaNvuaRyY Ist, 1897,

Ehrhart in recognition of Johann Francq Van Berkhey,

the learned author of a treatise on the structure of the

flowers of ‘‘ Composite Plants,” published in 1760.

Deser.—Stem attaining six feet in height, simple or

sparingly branched, herbaceous, narrowly spinulosely

winged by the decurrent leaf-bases. adical leaves very

large, eighteen inches long by seven broad, obovate-oblong,

tip rounded, sinuate-lobed, margins undulate and spinu-

losely toothed, base narrowed into a winged petiole, scabrid

and green above, beneath snow-white with appressed —

cottony pubescence; upper leaves three to six inches

long, linear or oblanceolate, sinuate-pinnatifid, spinulosely

toothed, margins of sinus often recurved, above dark

green and scabrid, with brown blotches and spots beneath,

as are the cauline. Heads subcorymbose, three and a half

inches in diameter; peduncles suberect, terete, green,

scabrid. Jnvolucre broadly campanulate; bracts half as

long as the ray-flowers, squarrosely spreading, lanceolate,

yreen, tips red-brown and spinescent, margins ciliate.

Receptacle flat. Ray-flowers very many, an inch long,

primrose-yellow, spreading and recurved, neuter, tube

slender, quite glabrous, tip of ligule 3-crenulate. Disk

flowers excessively numerous, forming a convex golden-

yellow mass, nearly two inches in diameter ; corolla tubular,

5-cleft. Achenes short, obconic, ten-ribbed, top thickened ;

pappus of oblong ciliate or serrulate scales shorter than

the achene.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Portion of the receptacle with a ray-flower, and two achenos sunk

in the alveoli; 2, disk-flowers; 3 scale of pappus; 4, stamens; 5, style-arms;

6, achene :— All enlarged. : :

cago

Vincent Brooks Day &S

M:S.del JN Fitch ith

L Reeve & C° London.

Tas. 7515,

CROTON ELUTERIA.

Native of the Bahama Islds.

Nat. Ord. Eurnorsracex.—Tribe Croronez.

Genus Croton, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p- 293.)

Croton (Eluteria) Hluteria; frutex v. arbuscula lepidota, ramis gracilibus,

foliis longiuscule petiolatis ovato-cordatis obtuse acuminatis utrinque

subtus precipue argenteo-lepidotis penninerviis marginibus subcrenatis,

petiolo gracili eglanduloso, stipulis obsoletis : ff. masc. calycis laciniis 5

patulis ovato-oblongis obtusis, petalis calyce duplo longioribus sub-

spathulatis obtusis utrinque pubescentibus, staminibus 10-12 petalis

longioribus, fl. foem.: calycis tubo hemispherico, lobis 5 late ovatis

obtusis erectis ciliolatis, petalis maris, disci glandulis 10 minutis,

staminodiis paucis, ovario globoso glanduloso, stigmatibus 3 sessilibus

multifidis. :

C. Eluteria, Benn. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. vol. iv. (1860) p. 29. Daniell in

Journ. Pharm. Soc. Ser, 2, vol. iv. p. 145, cwm Ie. Miill. Arg. in DO.

Prodr. vol. xv. pars. IT. p. 516. Bentl. & Trim. Med. Pl. t. 238. Griseb.

Fil. Brit. W. Ind. p. 39 (partim).

C. homolepidus, Muell. Arg. l. ce. 518. P

C. cascarilloides, Griseb. Cat. Pl. Cub. 17 (Herb. Wright. n. 1971)? (non

Geisel.).

Clutia Eluteria, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1042 (excl, Syn.).

C. Eluteria s. Cascarilla, Woodv. Med. Bot. p. 633, t. 228, fig. 2.

Elutheria, Linn. Hort. Cliff. p. 486.

Elutheria Providentiz, folio cordato, &c., Petiv. Coll. (1747) 4, n. 276.

This interesting plant, the ‘‘Sweet-wood” of the

Bahamas, yields the ‘Cascarilla Bark” of commerce,

which has been from a very early period imported into

Europe from Nassau, New Providence; though it was

not till comparatively recently (1860) that it was distin-

guished from several congeners with which it had been

confounded. It seems to have been in cultivation in

Europe upwards of a century and a half ago, for it is

enumerated by Linnzus in his ‘Hortus Cliffortianus,”

published in 1787, and according to Dr. Daniell it was

introduced into England (probably from Holland) by

Phillip Miller, though I do not find any mention of it in

that author’s “ Dictionary of Gardening.” Its identification

as the Linnean Hlutheria Providentie by the late Mr.

JANUARY Ist, 1897,

Bennett, of the British Museum, is due to the specimen

of the Hortus Cliffortianus being in that institution.

CO. Eluteria is a native of all, or almost all, the islets

of the Bahamas Archipelago ; and probably also of Cuba,

for the Croton homolepidus of the latter island is hardly,

if at all, distinguishable from it (by dried specimens), The

bark is exported in the form of quills, and having an

agreeable aromatic odour when burned, is an ingredient

in the. manufacture of incense and pastilles, and is also

used to flavour tobaccos. Its taste, on the other hand, is

warm and nauseously bitter, which is against its employ-

ment as a drug, for which it is recommended in cases of

chronic diarrhoea, dysentery, and some forms of dyspepsia.

The annual export of the bark, which has been during the

last twenty years, on an average, 100,000 lbs., is now

decreasing, and this has led the Governor of the island,

Sir W. F. Haynes Smith, K.C.M.G., in a dispatch dated

May 6th, 1896, to address a request to the Secretary of

State for the Colonies, “that the authorities of Kew

would assist him in framing regulations for the gatherin

the ‘Cascarilla Bark’ on the Crown lands of the Colony.”

In this dispatch Sir W. Haynes Smith points out “ that

the sources of supply have been improperly drawn upon,

to the destruction of the plant and the quality of the

bark,” and that the latter ‘might be improved, and its

use in commerce largely increased. He adds, that ‘‘ the

best quality is gathered at Atwood’s Cay, containing about

6500 acres, which is altogether Crown property, where

licenses to gather have hitherto been granted, but where

there are no regulations on the subject of gathering,

or revenues derived from it, while the supply is de-

teriorating.”’ :

In accordance with this request, in the following June,

Dr. Morris, the Assistant Director of Kew, who had

visited the Bahamas, drew up a Report, indicating the

proper measures to be taken for increasing both the

quantity and quality of the bark in future, and other

matters for consideration in connection with the subject.

It is only of late years, and after a prolonged corre-

spondence, that living plants of this Croton have been re-

introduced into Europe. This was in May, 1887, when a

case containing three was received at the Royal Gardens

Satay

from F. E. Taylor, Esq., son of the Colonial Secretary of

the Bahamas. ‘The plants grew very slowly, and did not

flower till 1896, when male flowers matured in March, and

were followed by females in May. The plant has proved

to be very difficult of propagation. The name is that of

one of the Bahama Islets (Hleuthera).

Mr. Morris describes the odour of the flowers as

deliciously sweet.

Descr.—A shrub, rarely small tree, attaining twenty

feet in height, with a trunk eight inches in diameter ;

branches few, suberect, wiry ; bark fissured ; twigs, petioles,

leaves beneath, and inflorescence densely covered with

minute peltate, orbicular, lepidote scales with fimbriate —

margins. Leaves one and a half to two inches long, de-

flexed, alternate, petioled, stipulate, ovate-lanceolate,

narrowed to the obtuse apex, subdenticulate, penninerved,

base rounded or cordate, upper surface dull pale or dark

green, under surface dull silvery, the scales obscuring

the nerves. lowers moncecious, in erect, short, simple

or branched axillary and terminal racemes, very small,

globose ; bracts shorter than the pedicels.—Male fl. calyx

hemispheric, lobes broadly ovate, obtuse. Petals very

small, longer than the calyx-lobes, obovate-spathulate,

obtuse, pubescent, white. Stamens 10-15, filaments

glabrous, anthers oblong. Pistillodes 0.—Fem. jl. at the

base of the inflorescence. Petals hardly longer than the

calyx-lobes. Stamens few, very short, imperfect. Ovary

subelobose, styles multifid. Capsule about a quarter of an

inch in diameter, subglobose ; valves crustaceous, silvery-

lepidote. Seeds orange-brown, shining, dorsally flattened,

laterally compressed, raphe keeled.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Male flower ; 2, the same spread open ; 3, lepidote scales from do.;

. 4, petal; 5, stamen; 6, female flower; 7, ovary and staminodes of the same;

8, ovary bisected vertically, showing the ovules :—A// enlarged.

75 16.

Vincent Brocks,Day & Son Imp

.JN.Fitchilith.

M-S. del

L Reeve & (1° London.

TAB. 2010.

BIGNONTA pBucornatoria.

Native of Central Mewico,

Nat. Ord. Bignonracrka#.—Tribe BIGNONIEA.

Genus Bienonta, Linn, ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1033.)

Bienonta buccinatoria; alte scandens, ramis teretibus v. subangulatis, foliis

2-foliolatis, petiolo apice nudo vy. cirrhifero, foliolis petiolulatis ovato-

oblongis ellipticisve obtusis v. cuspidatis basi cuneatis rotundatis

cordatisve pellucido-punctatis glabris v. subtus secus nervos_pilosis,

petiolulis 4-} poll. longis, racemis axillaribus terminalibusque

rachi pedicellis crassis calyceque subfurfuraceo-tomentosis, floribus

pendulis, calyce poculeforme ore truncato 5-dentato basi rotundato,

coroll 4-pollicaris tomentellz tubo brevi flavido in faucem bucciniformem

sanguineam lente curvam sensim attenuato, lobis 5 amplis rotundatis

bifidis, filamentis glabris, antheris vix exsertis loculis e basi divaricatis

linearibus incurvis, connectivo dorso mucronato, disco crasso, ovario

pubescente.

B. buccinatoria, Mairet, ex DC. Prodr. vol. ix. p. 195. Helms. Biol. Centr.

Amer. Bot. vol. ii. p. 490.

B. Cherere, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1801, excl. Syn. (non B. Kerere Aublet.)

B. Kerere, Hort.

Pithecoctenium buccinatorium, DC. l.c. D’Ancona, in Bull. Soc. Tose. Ort.

vol. xiii. (1888) p. 272, t. xi.

Pheedranthus buccinatorius, cinerascens, exsertus & Lindleyanus, Miers. in

Proc. R. Hort. Soc, vol. iii. (1863) p. 182, 183.

B. buecinatoria was introduced into the Gardens of Drop-

more upwards of sixty years ago, by the Earl of Granville,

by whom specimens were forwarded to Dr. Lindley, who

figured it in the Botanical Register as B. Cherere, supposing

it to be the B. Kerere, Aubl., of Surinam, a species with

much smaller and yellow flowers. It is a native of

- elevations of 6000-8000 ft. in Central Mexico, and must

have been discovered in the last century, for there is a

specimen from Payon in Bentham’s Herbarium now at

Kew. In later years it has been collected by various

botanists in the same country, and by one, Bilimek, at

Puebla in South Mexico.

There are several South American species of Begonia

closely allied to B. buccinatoria, including the above

Januaky Ist, 1897.

mentioned B. Kerere of Aubl.; but the whole genus is in

a state of confusion, many of tbe species in herbaria being

undescribed ; and few of these being known in a fruiting

state, the important characters of the capsule and seeds

are unascertained.

The specimen of B. buccinatoria here figured was sent by

Thomas Hanbury, Esq., F.L.8., from his magnificent

botanical garden at Palazzo Orengo, La Mortola, near

Ventimiglia, in July. The flowers are of a far deeper

blood-red colour than they are represented to be in the

other figure of the plant.

Descr.—A_ tall, woody climber, with more or less

obtusely angled branches. Leaves bifoliolate, petiole usually

ending in a branched tendril; leaflets two to three inches

long, elliptic or ovate-oblong, cuspidate or obtuse, thinly

coriaceous, dotted with pellucid glands, glabrous above

and beneath, or with scattered hairs on the nerves beneath,

base rounded cuneate or subcordate; petiole short,

petiolule one-fourth to three-fourths of an inch long, ~

terete, and rachis of raceme scurfily tomentose; nerves

about six pairs, arching; a pair of very small elliptic

leaflets is often present at the very base of the petiole, —

and on the joints of the rachis of the raceme. flowers

pendulous in terminal racemes; rachis of raceme erect,

stout, thickened and sometimes leafing at the nodes, few-

flowered; pedicels one half to three-quarters of an inch

long, decurved, stout, green. Calyx half an inch long,

and nearly as broad, green, cup-shaped, terete; mouth

truncate, irregularly 5-toothed; base rounded. Corolla

four inches long, finely tomentose, with a short pale

yellow tube, gradually dilating into the long dark blood-

red clavate or trumpet-shaped throat and lobes, slightly

curved ; lobes half an inch long and broad, bifid, spreading.

Filaments slender ; anthers hardly exserted, of two narrow

sausage-shaped divaricate cells, the very small connective

produced into a short dorsal spur. Disk annular, thick,

raised. Ovary ovoid, tomentose ; style slender, puberulous ;

lobes of stigma narrowly ellipsoid. J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Calyx halved, showing the disk and ovary; 2 and 3, anthers:—A/I

enlarged,

| BRITISH, : COLONIAL, “AND “FOREIGN “FLORAS.

_ RANDBOOK of the BRITISH. FLORA ; a Description of the

Os wering Plants and Ferns indigenous: to, or naturalized in the British

Tain For ‘the. use of Beginners and” Amateurs. By Groner Bentaam,

¥F. RS. 6th Edition, revised by Sir J.D. Hooker. Crown Syo, 10s. 6d.

LUSTRATION S of the BRITISH FLORA ; a Series of Wood

= i areenvinss, with Dissections, of British ,Plan ts, rate Drawings by W. H.

- Frreu, F.L.S:;and W. G. Smirn,F.L.S., forming an Illustrated Companion

“to Bentham’s ‘“ Handbook,” and other British Floras. 1315 Wood En- .

gravings, 3rd Edition, revised and enlarged, crown 8y0, 10s, 6d. ~ el

OUTLINES of ELEMENTARY BOTANY, as Introductory to

Local Floras, By Grorck Benteau, F.RS., President of the Linngan

Society., New Edition, ls.

FLORA of HAMPSHIRE, including ‘the Isle of Wieht, with

localities. of the Jess common species. By -F. Townsenp, M-A., tt

With Coloured Map and two Plates, 16s,

HANDBOOK’ of BRITISH MOSSES, containing all that are. +)

known to.be natives of the British Isles. By the Rev. Mi J. ‘Bewkener,. _ WE -

M.A.,¥.L:8.. 24 Coloured Plates, 21s. 4

SYNOPSIS of BRITISH MOSSES, containing Descriptions of

' all-the Genera and Species (with Tdcalities of the rarer ones) found in Great

_ Britain ‘and | ite asl . By Ca ARLES. BP, Hops, F.L.S., &e.; fe, y Rew, Se

iad abies” ’ 6d. each, to X ‘

“Part XX., 7s. 6d.’ Parts XXIs ana XXL, 9s, eaoh. ‘Vols. I. to TVs, B28. ae

each, Vol. ¥., 38s. Vol. Vin, ane / a z Jae

FLORA AUSTRALIENSIS: a Description of the Plants of the

Australian Territory. By G. Benruay, F,R.S., F.L.S., assisted by FL

Murtier, F.R.8..Vols. I, to VI., 20s. each. Vol. Vil., 24s. “Published

under the auspices of the several! Governments of Australia.

FLORA of MAURITIUS and the SEYCHELLES: a Deserip-

tion of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of those Islands. «By J. G. BakER

F.L.8. ‘Complete in.1 vol, 24s. Published under the authority of the

Galignial Government of Magritins:

Ac ag LORA CAPENSIS: a Systematic Description of the Plants of

ey : aes othe Cape Colony, Caffraria, and Port Natal. By Witntam H, Harvey,M_D.,

2 — ) ERS., and Orto Wirnerw Sonper, Ph.D. Vols. 1-—II,, 183s, each.

ee VEL aie “Parts I, and IT.; 7s. 6d. Sach. ‘

“FLORA of TROPICAL AF RICA. By Danrex Oxier, FR, $.

pe RES. Vols. Ito TELS each 20s." Published under. the authority of the

pot First ‘Commissioner of Her Maiesty’s Works.

al. BOOK of the NEW ZEALAND FLORA: a Systematic

ription Native Planis of New Yealand, and the Chatham,

Aucki “wage stele ‘and. Macquarrie’s Islands: By

r Me. ‘esas of the. Sapeeninda re

BAN TS ; a 1 Flowering” a

s of the Islan : By Georee Benryam, |

as L. ie With’ = Map of. the island and Snp lement by Dr. Hanemy 2ie:

Published under the: authority of Her Majesty’ 8 ‘Begietary of state for the.

Colonies. ‘The Supplement, separately, 2s, 64, -

ON the FLORA> of AUSTRALIA; its Origin, Affinities, and.*

Distribution. By Sir J. D. Hooker, F.R.8.° AO ey

CONTRIBUTIONS 4o THE FLORA) of » MENTONES: cand

to a Winter Flora of. the. Riviera, ineluding the coast from Marseilles to Oo.

Genoa. By J. TRAHERNE Moasnitas, DEON: Bye, poe in

99 crac Plates 63s. oe

| 7512 _—ARISTOLOGHIA CLYPRATA.

Saget Ta. —=CYNOGLOSSUM NERVOSUM,

-» 7314—BERKHEYA ADLAME-

jn 4518.—CROTON ELUTERIA

a 7516 \. -BIGNONIA_ . BUCCENATE )

i L ee & 60, é ‘Wonristtas Street, ‘Covent Garden.

“Now Ready, Vol. MI, Parts and ah 7s, 6d. each.

FLORA CAPENSIS:

A systematic Description of the Plants of the Cape titiay. Caffraria,

: and Port Natal. .

Edited by W. T. THISELTON- DYER, ©.M.G., F.R.S.,

©. Director of the Royal: Gardens, IC ew.

Purlished ander the authority of the Governments of the Cape of ahi Hope: ¢

and Natal. Se

Vols. I. to IX. 18s. each. ae

By WITKAM HL HARVEY; M.D; F.RS., Professor of Botar

age . Dee of. x Sue

a iaptalio g. the weak

HE BRITISH. ISLAND

Br cH ARLES G.: BARRETT, FBS.

Vol: EF: 12s. 5 large paper, with 40. Coloured Plates, pee :

ee a Vol. IT, 12s. ; large paper, with 46 Coloured Plates, 63s,

Nt. Vol: TH. 123.; large paper, with 60 Coloured Plates, 633,

Prospectus may be had on application to the Nidlishers,: ss

Now ready, Part XXVL., with 8 Coloured pee

Third Series.

No. 626.

Price 3s, 6d. colowred, 22, 6d. rain |

“Est oR No, 13g O or THE ENTIRE WORK. eee

CURTIS'S eo.

BOTANICAL MAG Ai

COMPRISING

1897.

[Au sits reserved.]

Now ready, price Qs, 6d.

INSULAR FLORAS.

“A Lecture delivered by Sir J. D. HOOKER, O.B., before the British Association

for the advancement of Science at Nottingham, August 27, 1866.

BRITISH FERNS:

Coloured Figures and Descriptions of the Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland.

_ By Bir W. J. . Hooxen, F.R.S8. coy 8vo. 66 Siew Plates, £2 2s.

GARDEN FERNS:

- E celaued Figures and Descriptions of a Selection of Exotic Feras, adapted for

peter Cultivation in the Garden, Hothouse, and Conservatory.

fe ‘By Sir w.J. Hooxer, F.R.8. Royal 8yo. 64 Coloured Plates, £2 2s.

FILICES EXOTICA:

Coloured Figures and Descriptions of Exotic Ferns,

By Sir W. J. Hooxer, F.R.S. Royal 4to. 100 Coloured ee £6 11s, 5

a. eK aad oe Eee

Now ready, Second Edition — ‘t. <

: oe OF BRITISH

Smet all that are known to - natives: c

5 = tie ore —s ae. : ‘caso, £6 6s. not in halt 1 morocco,

net.

Fo reign Finches in ‘Captivity.

: By ARTHUR G. ‘BUTLER, ‘Ph.D., FLS., ¥.Z.8;, FES.

‘The whale forms a ances < bandsome volume of between 300 and 400 ith

Wy W. FROWHAWK, beantifully oaioareh by hand. pages, with 60 Plates, by

"HANDBOOK OF THE BRITISH FLORA:

A Description of the Flowering Plants and Ferns Indigenous

to or Naturalized in the British Isles.

By GEORGE BENTHAM, FERS. ‘

6th Edition, Revised by Sir J. D. Hoozun,C.B, K.C.S8.1,, F.RS, &e, ae: =

ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BRITISH FLORA:

: : z Series of Wood Engravings, with Dissections, of British Plan :

3 _ Drawn sy W. H. FITCH, F.LS., 4xp W. G. ‘SMIT.

. “Forming an mer Companion to Bentham’s “g Handbook,” and oti

_Srd nc, with 1315. Wood En

nr aie

Vincent Broaks Day,

LJ-N Fitch hith

M.S.del

Tabs 7617:

MYRMECODIA Anvornit.

Native of Torres Straits.

Nat. Ord. Rusracez.—Tribe PsycHoTRIER.

Genus Myrmecopia, Jack.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vot. u. p. 132.)

Myrmecopia Anfoinii; tubere subgloboso ecostato sublacunoso spinulis

brevibus simplicibus pungentibus aspero, caule robusto simplici v.

ramoso tetragono regulariter clypeolato, clypeolis 4 poll. diam. seriebus

4 superpositis imbricatis orbiculatis bidentatis ambitu dense pectinatim ©

spinulosis, foliis elliptico-ovatis oblongis v. obovatis acutis in petiolum

lamina ter quaterve breviorem angustato, floribus 4 poll. longis rimis inter-

cly peolaribus sessilibus albis, calycis tubo tereti, limbo truncato obscure

4-dentato, corolle tubo calyce ter longiore intus 4-costato et infra

medium annulo pilorum instructo, lobis 4 oblongis, staminibus ore corolla

insertis, filamentis brevibus crassis, antheris ovatis, stylo gracili, stigmate

infundibulari truncato crenulato.

M." Antoinii, Beecari, Malesia, vol. ii. p. 116, t. xix. figs. 2-4,

M. echinata, Antoine in Bot. Zeitschr. vol. xxxii. (1882) p. 347, cum Te.

F. Muell. Fragment. Fl. Austral. vol. vii. p. 45; Syst. Census of Austrat.

Pl. vol. i. p. 75? non Gaud.

Under M. Beccarii, figured at t. 68838 of this work,

mention is made of two other species, natives of Torres

Straits, one of which is the subject of the accompanying

plate. It is a much more remarkable plant than M.

Beccarii, on account of the size of the tuber, the stoutness

of the stem, and the linear arrangement in four ranks of

the very remarkable scutelliform spinulose persistent

stipular organs, which almost conceal the stem. It was

at first described as M. echinata, Gaudichaud, of the

Islands of Rawak and Wagiou; but that species has

ribbed tubers, and Jarger leaves with much longer

petioles.

The first specimen of this singular plant imported into

Europe was obtained from Thursday Island, Torres

Straits, by Dr. Moskovicz of Batavia, who gave it to the late

Ferd. Ritter von Hochstetter. The latter gentleman sent

it to Vienna, where it was described by Antoine as cited

above. The magnificent specimen here figured was pre-

Fesrvary Ist, 1897.

sented in 1893 to the Royal Gardens, Kew, by Prof. Stewart,

F.RB.S. (late President of the Linnzan Society), Conservator

of the Museum, and Hunterian Professor of the Royal

College of Surgeons. It flowered in a stove in January,

1896, and ripened its seeds in the following spring.

Descr.— Tuber (of the Kew plant) nineteen and a half

inches in circumference, of a dull iron grey colour, and

with a shallowly lacunose surface, loosely covered with

small acicular spines rising from scattered tubercles.

Stem eight and a half inches long by four and a quarter in

circumference, inclined and flexuous, deeply four grooved,

the ribs between the grooves closely covered with a series

of imbricating orbicular woody shields (indurated stipules)

which are half an inch in diameter, depressed in the middle

and bifid at the top with diverging short lobes, and studded

with short spinules round their margins. Leaves at the

top of the stem, four to five inches long, elliptic-ovate

oblong or obovate, acute, bright green on both surfaces,

narrowed at the base into a stout, terete petiole; nerves

four to six pairs, arched. Flowers half an inch long,

white, sessile, inserted on the ribs below the stipular

shields, which conceal the calyx and lower part of the

corolla-tube. Calyx broadly oblong, terete, truncate ;

limb very short, obscurely 4-toothed. Corolla clavate,

-four-lobed in the upper fourth; tube terete, four-ribbed

within, and with a ring of hairs below the middle; lobes

oblong, tips obtuse, thickened, incurved. Stamens inserted

below the meeting of the lobes ; filaments short, stout, in-

cluded ; anthers broadly ovate, exserted. Disk tumid.

Ovary four-celled. Style stout, dilated into an infundibular

truncate stigma.— J. D. H. ;

Fig. 1, Portion of upper leafing stem and leaves; and 2 of lower flowering,

both of the natural size; 3, stipular shields; 4, flower; 5, corolla laid open;

6, ovary, style and stigma:—All enlarged; 7, seedling of the natural size;

8, view of whole plant greatly reduced,

Tas. 7518,

MAXILLARIA SANDERIANA.

Native of Ecuador.

Nat. Ord. Orcutprz.—Tribe VanpEs.

Genus Maxitiaria, Ruiz & Pav. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 555.)

Maxiutarta (Acaules) Sanderiana; psendobulbis brevibus fere orbicularibus

compressis, vaginis lanceolatis acuminatis rigidis brunneis caducis, foliis

oblanceolatis cuspidatis in petiolum validam angustatis coriaceis supra

saturate viridibus subtus pallidis, costa valida, nervis paucis obscuris,

scapo robusto rubro-purpureo vaginis oblongis obtusis brunneis fere

velato, flore maximo, sepalis petalisque albis basin versus sanguineo-

purpureis, sepalo dorsali 2-21-pollicari oblongo obtuso, lateralibus

triangulari-ovatis obtusis basi in mentum latum rotundatum conniventibus,

petalis sepalis multoties minoribus late ovatis acuminatis, labelli tubo

atro-sanguineo intus a fates. clavato applanato instructo, lobis

lateralibus parvis, terminali rotundato flavo marginibus crispatis, columna

alba sanguineo-purpureo maculata, anthera aurea.

M. Sanderiana, Reichb. f. in Sander, Reichendachia, vol. i. (1888) ze. 57, t. 25.

Journ. Hortic. Ser, IIL. vol, 26, t. 495, tig. 89. Rev. Hortic. (1894) p. 326,

cum Ie. Warner, Orchid Album, vol. x. t. 463.

This, which is rightly regarded by M. André as the finest

known species of the genus, was discovered by Mr. Edward

Klaboch in the Andes of Peru, according to whom it

inhabited an elevation of 4000 ft.; but according to

M. André, it is more probably a native of Ecuador; and

having regard to the fact that it flourishes in a cool

Orchid House, it may be expected to inhabit a much

higher elevation than that assigned to it.

The nearest ally of M. Sanderiana is M. grandiflora,

Lindl., which has much narrower sessile leaves, a more

slender green scape with green bracts, and a pure white

flower, except the lip, which is streaked with purple.

M. venusta, Lindl. (Tab. 5296) is another allied species,

remarkable for the long, narrow, pure white, acuminate

sepals and petals, the lip of which has a purple spot on

each side of the tube, and a yellow midrib.

M. Sanderiana was first flowered by Baron Schroder

(in 1885). The specimen here figured is from the cool

Fesruary Ist, 1897.

Orchid House of the Royal Gardens, Kew, where it flowers

annually.

Descr.—Pseudobulbs clustered, sessile on a very short,

rarely elongated rootstock, one to one and a half inches

long, from orbicular to broadly oblong, rounded at top and

base, compressed, smooth, pale green ; sheaths few, up to

three inches long, lanceolate, acuminate, striate, dark

brown, rigid, caducous. Leaves few, six to ten inches

long, oblanceolate, cuspidate, narrowed into a_ stout

petiole, coriaceous, dark green, smooth and _ shining

above, pale beneath with araised green midrib, and three

or more pairs of very faint nerves. Scapes two to three

inches long, ascending from the base of the pseudobulb,

very stout, red-brown, clothed with oblong obtuse brown

sheaths, of which the median are an inch long, the lower

shorter, and the uppermost longer. Flowers four inches

broad across the lateral sepals, which and the petals are

pure white, except towards the base, where they are of a

purplish-red colour, broken upwards into blotches. Dorsal

sepal oblong, obtuse, concave, arched ; lateral triangular-

ovate, obtuse, conniving at the base into a broad rounded —

mentum. Petals much smaller than the sepals, broader

below, and narrowed into acute triangular tips. Lip with

a very dark purple tube, on the disk of which within is a

flattened club-shaped adnate smooth appendage; lateral

lobes hardly any; terminal rounded, bright yellow, with a

crisped border, which is faintly streaked with purple.

Column white, spotted and streaked with red-purple.

Anther orange-yellow.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Base of lip with adnate appendage; 2, column; 3, pollinia :;—AJl

enlarged.

75HAI

s Day &San Imp

incent Brooks

Tas. 7519.

LIGUSTRUM CORIACEUM.

Native of Japan.

Nat. Ord. OLrEacrzx.—Tribe OLEINES.

Genus Licustrum, Tourn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 679.)

LicgustruM coriaceum; frutex glaberrimus, subtortuosus, ramulis robustis,

foliis confertis breviter petiolatis crasse coriaceis ovato-rotundatis orbi-

cularibusve supra convexis saturate viridibus lucidis marginibus anguste

rubro-purpureis, paniculis breviter pedunculatis, pedunculo rachi ramisque

validis, floribus in capitula dense congestis brevissime pedicellatis sessili-

busve, bracteolis minutis subulatis, calycis cupularis limbo truncato, coroll~

tubo lobis ovatis obtusis zquilongo, filamentis brevibus, antheris oblongo-

rotundatis, baccis pisiformibus. Z

L. coriaceum, Carriere in Rev. Hortic. (1874) p. 418, fig. 56, and (1888) p. 439,

fig. 101. Fl. & Pomol. (1876) t. 65. Forbes & Hemsl. in Journ. Linn.

Soe. vol. xxvi. (1889) p. 90. Dippel Handb. Laubholz vol. i, p. 130.

L, lucidum, var.a coriaceum, Decne in Fl. des Serres, vol. xxii. (Ser. II. vol.

xii.) (1877) p. 8.

L. japonice forma difformis, Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. vol. i. p. 313, in -

nota.

PL. coriaceum, Nois. Hortul. “ Species ignota,” DO. Prodr. vol. viii. p. 294.

Iigustrum coriaceum is one of the most distinct-looking

of the puzzling genus to which it belongs, and though

reduced by Decaisne to a variety of L. lucidwim (t. 2565) it

is so different in habit and foliage from that plant, that

until connecting links between them are found, it may

well be kept as specifically distinct. Blume with less

reason regarded it as a deformed condition of L. japonicum,

a species with spreading pedicels and obovoid berry.

There are some doubts as to the native country of

L. coriaceum. It was introduced into England about 1860,

by Fortune, who, according to Standish (then the recipient

of Fortune’s plant), sent it from Japan. Probably it was

procured, like so many other plants sent home by Fortune,

from a Japanese garden, for there are no indigenous speci-

mens of it in the Kew Herbarium, except a mere scrap,

collected by Oldham, and ticketed “ Japan, Korean Archi-

pelago,”’ and it is not enumerated in Franchet and Savatier’s

Ferrvary lst, 1897.

enumeration of Japan plants, or in Miquel’s ‘‘ Prolusio

Flore Japonice.”

At Kew it was first obtained, in about 1879, from

the Jardin des Plantes, amongst a collection of species

of Ligustrum sent by M. Decaisne shortly after he

enumerated those known to him, in the “Flore des

Serres.” Though it stood out of doors at Kew for several

years, it suffered from cold winters, and never throve.

In Cornwall, however, it is quite hardy. The figure here

given is of a specimen kindly sent in 1889 to the Royal

Gardens by Mr. Rashleigh of Menabilly, which flowered in

the Temperate House in June of the present year.

Descr.—A rigid, closely branched, evergreen, rigid shrub,

three to six feet high, perfectly glabrous; branches and

branchlets stout, leafy. Leaves two to two and a half

inches long, shortly, stoutly petioled, orbicular or orbi-

cular-ovate, tip rounded, rigid, coriaceous, dark green,

convex and shining above with a very narrow red-purple

border, paler beneath, nerves very slender and faint.

Panicle two to four inches long; peduncle, rachis and

spreading branches stout. Flowers collected in globose, —

terminal and lateral clusters or heads on the panicle, sessil

or very obscurely pedicelled, white; bracteoles minute,

subulate. Calyx cupular, limb truncate, obscurely toothed.

Corolla one-quarter of an inch in diameter, tube about as

long as the ovate spreading and recurved lobes. Siamens

normally two, but three to four occur; filaments very

short. Ovary globose, style stout, stigma 2-lobed. Berry

globose, the size of a small pea, black.—J. D. A.

Fig. 1, Flower and bracteoles; 2, bracteole, calyx and ovary; 3 and 4

stamens :—adl enlarged; 5, fruit of the natural size; 6, calyx and berry, and

7, seed, both enlarged.

‘sa

TIO

L. Reeve & ©? London.

MS. del, JN. Fiteh bth

T a5: 7520;

PARACARYUM HELIOCARPUM.

Native of the Western Himalaya.

Nat: Ord. BoracinEx.—Tribe BoraGea.

Genus Paracaryum, Boiss.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 849.)

ParacaryuMm heliocarpum; elatum, cano-pubescens, foliis radicalibus longe

petiolatis elliptico-lanceolatis acutis triplinerviis, caulinis oblongis

lanceolatisve sessilibus, foribus subpaniculatim cymosis, cymis elongatis

gracilibus demum dissitifloris apicibus decurvis, pedicellis gracilibus,

calycis lobis oblongis obtusis tubo corolle squilongis, corolle tubo

brevi, limbi campanulati lobis brevibus orbiculatis oblatisve azureis,

antheris linearibus, fornicibus, inclusis elongatis ciliolatis apice 3-lobis

quent stamina altius insertis, stylo gracili elongato, nuculis orbiculatis

orso depressis echinulatis marginibus incurvis pectinatim glochidiatis.

P. heliocarpum, Kerner in Rev. Naturw. Vers. Innsbruck, vol, i. (1870) p. 105,

(Nov. Pl. Sp. ii. p.9.) Clarke in Hook, f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. iv. p. 161.

P. anchusoides, Benth. §& Hook. f. ex Aitchis, in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xviii.

(1881) 80.

Cynoglossum anchusoides, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. vol. xxviii. (1842) t.14. DC.

Prodr, vol. x. p. 151.

C. Emodi, Schouw Ind. Sem. Hafn Coll. (1846) 4.

C. Emodun, Schouw. in Linnea xxiv. (1850) 160.

C. macrostylum, Bunge Relig. Lehm. (1847) 236.

Lindolfia anchusoides, Lehm. in Linnea, vol. xxiv. (1851) p. 216.

Echinospermum, No. 1, Herb. Strachey & Winterbottom.

The genus Paracaryum is distinguished from the

typical species of Cynoglossum by the nutlets of the fruit

being more erect on the gynobase, and their bases not

being rounded or subacute, characters of scarcely appre-

ciable value, and which may probably disappear on a

revision of the genera of Boraginex, in which case the —

_ original name of Cynoglossum anchusoides will be restored

_ for this plant.

__ P. heliocarpum was introduced into the Gardens of the

Royal Horticultural Society by seed sent from the North-

Western Himalaya in 1840, but had long since disappeared

from cultivation. It ranges over a wide extent of mountain

country, at elevations of 7000 to 11,000 ft., from Lahul

and Kashmir northwards to Tibet, westward into Affghan-

istan, and as far east as the Tibetan region north of

Fepruaky lst, 1897.

Kumaon, where it was collected by Strachey and Winter-

bottom, at probably 15,000 ft. elevation. It reappears in

Bokhara, having been found near Samarkand by the

traveller, Lehmann. The specimen figured was raised from .

seed sent in 1894 by Mr. Duthie, F..S., Director of the

Botanical Department of Northern India. It flowered in

the herbaceous grounds of the Royal Gardens in May of

the present year, and is perfectly hardy.

Descr.—A hardy perennial, one to three feet high,

clothed with an appressed hoary or subsilvery pubescence.

Stem stout below, slender and sparingly branched above,

the branches bearing slender terminal at length elongate

drooping cymes. Ladical leaves, eight to eighteen inches

long, by one-third of an inch to three inches broad,

elliptic lanceolate, acute, three to five-nerved, and penni-

nerved ; cauline leaves few, linear. Cymes very slender,

long-peduncled, many-fid., ebracteate; flowers remote,

except towards the apex of the cymes, half an inch long,

- nodding or drooping, slender pedicels half to three-

quarters of an inch long. Sepals one-fourth of an inch

long or less, oblong, obtuse, green, pubescent. Corolla

rose-purple, with bright blue limb; tube as long as the

calyx; limb longer, infundibular-campanulate, lobes short,

orbicular, or broader than long. Stamens included, in-

serted below the mouth of the tube, rather lower down

than the scales, which are ciliate, 3-lobed at the tip.

Style half an inch long. Nutlets orbicular, with a de-

pressed echinate or tubercled disk and incurved pectinately

glochidiate coriaceous margins.—J. D. H,

Fig. 1, Calyx and style; part of corolla laid open; 3, scale of corolla;

4, very young nutlets; 5, ripe fruit :—AJ/ enlarged.

N.S.del, JN-Fitadh ith.

L Reeve @ C° London.

Tas. 7521.

HEMIPILIA ameruystina.

Native of Burma.

Nat. Ord. OrncuipEa.—Tribe OPuRYDEX.

Genus Hemrritia, Lindl. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 628.)

HeEmIPILia amethystina; folio sessili terree appresso ovato-cordato sabacuto

apice decurvo pallide flavo-viridi maculis pallide brunneis submarmorato,

scapo gracili vaginis 2 linearibus instructo rachique racemi viridibus

fusco-rubro punctulatis, racemo laxo multifloro, bracteis ovato-lanceolatis

ovariis squilongis brevioribusve, sepalis ovato-oblongis obtusiusculis

viridibus, petalis oblongis apicibus rotundatis amethystinis, labello

obovato apice dilatato breviter 4-lobo marginibus undulatis albis, disco

amethystino basin versus puberulo breviter bicarinato, calcare sepalis

zequilongo corniformi obtuso compresso, columna, brevi, rostello porrecto

trulleformi recurvo, staminodiis glandulaformibus, polliniis dorso infra

medium alatis, : :

H. amethystina, Rolfe in Herb. Kew.

Only three species of Hemipilia have hitherto been

recorded, H. cordifolia, Lindl., of the Western Himalaya,

H. flabellata, Franch. and Sav., H. Henryi, Reichb. f., both

of Western China, and H. calophylla, Parish and Reichb. f.

(see Tab. 6920) a native of Moulmein. From the first

of these H. amethystina differs in the shape of the lateral

sepals and lip, and in the longer spur; and from H. calo-

phylla in the broad, deeply cordate leaf, stouter scape,

many-fid. raceme, and smaller flowers.

Mr. Rolfe informs me that H. amethystina was intro-

duced with Cypripedium Charlesworthii, from the Shan

States of Eastern Burma, by Messrs. W. L. Lewis & Co.,

of Southgate, to whom the Royal Gardens, Kew, are

indebted for the specimen here figured, which flowered in

June of the present year in a stove.

Descr.—Glabrous. Leaf four by two and a half inches,

ovate, subacute, deeply cordate, horizontal, appressed to

the ground, seven-nerved, pale yellow-green, blotched or

almost marbled with pale brown irregular spots, tip de-

curved. Scape with the raceme eight inches long, slender,

dark green speckled and streaked with red-brown ; sheaths

Fesrvuary Ist, 1897.

two or three, linear-lanceolate, appressed to the scape, and

coloured like it. Raceme many- and lax-flowered ; bracts

ovate-lanceolate, as long as the ovaries or longer; ovaries

half an inch long, erecto-patent. Flowers half an inch

across the lateral sepals, and about as long from the base

of the dorsal sepal to the tip of the lip. Lateral sepals

ovate-oblong, obtuse, green, spreading; dorsal smaller,

erect. Petals oblong, erect, white, tip obtuse, amethyst

purple. Lip about half an inch long, cuneately-obovate

from a broad base, side lobes obscure; terminal rather

dilated, shortly 4-lobed, margins white, undulate; disk

amethystine, puberulous towards the base, with two

short obscure ridges; spur laterally flattened, white,

obtuse, brown, about as long as the sepals. Column short,

stout, with prominent sides ; rostellum prominent, trowel-

shaped, upcurved, with deflexed sides; staminodes repre-

sented by two sessile glands; anther suberect, with the

cells incurved below. Pollinia pyriform, pedicel produced

into a dorsal wing along the lower half; glands small.—

J. U, i, :

removed ; 2, side view of the same; 3 and 4, pollinia ;—AJ/ enlarged.

ee : i .

Fig. 1, Front view of flower, with the sepals, petals, and half the lip

HANDBOO: < of the | RITISH FLO RA; a Pie see of the

Plants and Ferns indigenous to, or. ‘pataralised in the British

For the use of Beginners and Amateurs. By Grorck BENTHAM, _

.R.8. 6th Edition, revised by Sir J.D. Hooker. Crown 8yo, 10s. 6d. see

USTRATION S of the BRITISH FLORA ; a Series of Wood

_ Engravings, with Dissections, of British Plants, poke Drawings by W. H.

Fircn, F.L,8., and W. G. Smiru, F.L.8. , forming an Illustrated Companion ©

to Bentham’s “ Handbook,” and other British'Floras. 1315 Wood Ev- aaa

gravings. 8rd Edition, evised and enlarged, crown 8vo, 10s. 6d. ae

OUTLINES of ELEMENTARY BOTANY, as Introductory to

Local Floras. By Grorer BentHAm, F.R.S., President of the Linnwan —

Society. New Edition, 1s.

FLORA of HAMPSHIRE, including the Isle of Wight, with

localities of the less common species. By F. TownsgenpD, M.A., F.L.S8.

With Coloured Map and two Plates, 16s, op

HANDBOOK of BRITISH MOSSES, containing all that are

known to be natives of the British Ielea, By the Rev. M. J. BerkELey, —

M.A., F.L.8. 24 Coloured Plates, 21s. i

SYNOPSIS of BRITISH MOSSES, containing Descriptions of

all the Genera and Species (with Tnealities of the rarer ones) found in Great

bert ege and Ireland. By Cuartes P. Hopxirk, F.L.S., to., &e.-. dB

entirely revised. Crown 8vo, 7s. 6d. Bs

[ MOSS-FLORA. aicoopraphe. od the Families

ih |

“Part XX.,7s. 6d. Parts XXI. and XX ,

each. Vol. V., 38s. Vol. VI., 36s.

FLORA AUSTRALIENSIS: a Description: of the Plants f

Australian Territory. By G. BentHam, F.R.S., F.L.S., assisted —

Muetier, F.R.S. Vols. I. to VI., 20s. each. Vol. VII., 24s. Publ

under the auspices of the several Governments of Australia.

FLORA of MAURITIUS and the SEYCHELLES: a Tener :

tion of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of those Islands. By J. G. Baker,

F.L.8. Complete in 1 vol., 24s. Published under the authority of the

Colonial Government of Mauritius.

FLORA CAPENSIS: a Systematic Description of the Plants of.

the Cape Colony, Caffraria, and Port Natal. By Witiiam H. Harvey,M.D., —

F.B.S., and Orro Wiruriua Sonper, Ph.D. Vols. I.—III., 18s. each,

Vol VI., Parts I. and II., 7s. 6d. each.

FLORA of TROPICAL ‘AFRICA. By Dante Oriver, F.R. 8.,

BLS. Vols. I. to TIL., each 20s. Published under the ante, of the

Supplement, ‘4

ON the NLORA of AUSTRALIA it

Distribution. By Sir J. D. Hooxrr, F.R.8.

CONTRIBUTIONS to THE FLORA. ord MENTONE: pes

to a Winter Flora of the Riviera, including the coast from Marseilles to

Genoa. By J. TkaneRNE MoccGrince. Royal 8yo. Commie in. '

_ 99 Coloured Plates, 63s, —

: L. REEVE & C0. 6, Henrietta Sint, Covent re

BOTANICAL MAGAZINE.

CONTENTS OF No. 626, FEBRUARY, 1897.

Taz. 7517.—MYRMECODIA ANTOINIL.

» 1518—MAXILLARIA’ SANDERIANA.

» 7519.—LIGUSTRUM CORIACEUM.

» 7520.—PARACARYUM HELIOCARPUM.

» 7521.—HEMIPILIA AMETHYSTINA.

L. Reeve & Co., 6, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden.

Now Ready, Vol. VI., Parts I. and II., 7s. 6d. each.

FLORA CAPENSIS;:

4 A ‘Systematic Description of the Plants of the Cape deioiey Caffraria, —

op and Port Natal. 4

Edited by W. T. THISELTON- DYER, C.M.G,, F.R.S.,.

Director of the Royal Gardens, "Kot Bers

Published under the authority of the Governments of the Cape of Gooa Hope se

or and Natal.

» Vols. I. to Ill. 18s. each. st

By igh yume H. HARVEY, M. 4 A ' Dublin Prof sor 0

es sit Part VIIL., faiths 2 Coloured Plates, 5s. ce: the work),

ERA HOMOPTERA OF THE BRITISH ISLANDS.

By JAMES Se hinent F. E. Ss.

Now ready, Part XXXVI aie 4 Golbuted Plates, 5s.

By CHARLES G. BARRETT, F.ES.

Vol, I. 12s.; large paper, with 40 Coloured Plates, t 53s,

Vor Tf. 128.; large paper, with 46 Coloured Plates, 63s.

Vol. IIT. 12s.; 3 large paper, with 50 Coloured Plates, 63s.

Prospectus may be had on application to the Publishers,

Now ready, Part XXVI., with 8 Coloured Plates, 15s.

‘By F. MOORE, FZS.

_ Nol 1 containing 94 lore Pie: Yo: with 98 Coloured Pats ac,

cloth; £9 half morocco,

- Prospectus, with First List of Subseribers, can be had on application to the

pales o L. Reeve & Co, 6, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden,

12D ert GILBERT AND sisarlostiee Dey ST.

eh Sevies, Soe : eer ee

No. 627. ae en Ae

CURTISS a

BOTANICAL MAGAZIN.

SOMPRISING eee

a ae

ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY ARRANGEMENTS, 1897.

- EXHIBITION OF SPRING FLOWERS, Wednesday, March 31st.

- GREAT SUMMER EXHIBITION OF PLANTS AND

2 FLOWERS, Wednesday, May 19th.

- §PECIAL FLORAL FETE AND CHILDREN’ S PARADE.

; Date will be announced.

| RHODODENDRON EXHIBITION daily during June.

IMPERIAL FETE AND FANCY FAIR. To commemorate the

60th year of Her Majesty’s Reign. In aid of the Victoria

: Hospital for Children, Chelsea, June 21st to June 25th.

NATIONAL VIOLA SOCIETY'S EXHIBITION i in June. Date

gs to be announced.

_ EXHIBITION OF CHRYSANTHEMUMS caily i in eventos

ae BOTANICAL LECTORES, Fridays in May and June.

ey MUSICAL PROMENADES in June, July, and August, -

Now ready, price 2s. 6d.

INSULAR FLORAS..

A Lecture delivered by Sin J, D. HOOKER, O.B., before the ‘British ac

. Now ready , Second Edition oe

- HANDBOOK OF. “sein

% Now reaily, complete i in 1 ‘vol. soya 40,40 Juindsome cloth case, £6 6s. net; in half morocco, _

Foreign Finches in Captivity.

By ARTHUR G. BUTLER, Ph.D., F.LS., ¥.Z8., F.E.S8.

The whole forms a large and handsome volume of between 300 and 400 pages, with 60 Plates, Pel

F. W. FROWHAWE, beantifully coloured by hand,

HANDBOOK OF THE BRITISH FLORA: —

A Description of the Flowering Plants and Ferns Indigenous, :

to or Naturalized in the British Isles. et

By GEORGE BENTHAM, F.RS,

6th Edition, Revised by Sir J. D. Hooker, C.B., K.C.S.1,, F.K.S., &e. 10s. 6d.

ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BRITISH FLORA:

A Series of Wood Engravings, with Dissections, of British | Plants.

Drawn sy W. H. FITCH, F.L.S., axp W. G. SMITH, F. L. S.

For ming an Illustrated Companion to Bentham’s “ Handbook,’ ” and hee

4th gras ¥ with 1315 Wood Karavi 10s.

ab REEVE & CO., 6, HENRIETTA SrRuET, o

7522

Sera conocer amcbectis

id naaommeuapanitons

; lis piace

iJ t cetayon ha A

sen) c oe eS

eee Se <

Yincent Brooks Day & Son rip.

MS.del, JN Fitdhiith

L Reeve & C? Landon

Tap. 7022.

WISTARIA CHINENSIS, var. MULTIJUGA.

Introduced from Japan.

Nat. Ord. Lecumtnosa.—Tribe GaLEGEA.

Genus Wistaria, Nutt.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 499.)

Cee chinensis, DO. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 390. Bunge Enum. Pl. Chin. bor.

p. 20.

W. Consequana, Loud. Hort. Brit. p. 315. Part. Mag. Bot. vol. vii. p. 127.

GuycinE sinensis, Sims Bot Mag. t. 2083. Bot. Reg. t. 650. :

Var. multijuga, nob.; foliis longioribus, foliolis ad 8-10 jugis majoribus,

racemis duplo longioribus laxifloris, floribus fere duplo minoribus, legumine

3-7-pollicari. =

W. multijuga, Van Houtte Fl. des Serres, vol. xix. (1869-70) p. 126, t. 2002.

W.? floribunda, DC. J. c. iis:

W. chinensis, Sied. § Zucc. Fl. Japon. vol. i. p. 90, t. 44.

GtycrneE floribunda, Willd. Sp. Pl. vol. iii. p. 1066.

Do.tcuos polystachyos, Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 281 (in part, excl. Syn. Linn).

Too vulgo Fupsi, Kempf. Amen. Acad. fase. v. p. 856.

There are two very different-looking plants known as

Wistaria chinensis; one, that upon which De Candolle

founded the species, is an undoubted native of China.

The other doubtfully referred to the genus, was founded

also by De Candolle on the badly * described Dolichos poly-

stachyos, Thunb., as W, ? floribunda, which has _ hitherto

been known only in Japan, as a cultivated plant reported to

have been introduced from China. To this last is, I think,

clearly referable the W. multijuga, Van Houtte, not only be-

cause of its country, but because Thunberg describes it as

having a very long raceme (racemis longissimis), a term

which can hardly be applied to the raceme of W. chinensis

proper, but which is singularly applicable to var. multijuga.

Siebold and Zuccarini cite W, ? floribunda, as a synonym

* In his diagnosis Thunberg says of the pedicels that they are geminate ;

but in the description following that they are scattered opposite and alternate.

Then as regards the legume, he describes it as either glabrous or pubescent,

probably confounding the pod of W. japonica with that of chinensis.

Marcu lst, 1897.

of W. chinensis. Their figure is an admirable representation

of the variety.

The genus Wistaria, as ‘at present constituted, appears

to me to want reconsideration, for I feel sure that had

Bentham, when describing it, either seen fruits of W.

chinensis, or the figure of that organ in Siebold & Zucca-

rini’s Flora, he would not have retained it in the same

genus with the American W. speciosa without remark, if at

all. Wistaria was founded by Nuttall in 1818 on Glycine

frutescens, Linn., a plant of which the pods are correctly

described in the “‘ Genera Plantarum” as elongate, toru-

lose, with hardly coriaceous convex valves, and reniform

seeds. On the other hand, the pods of W. chinensis

are of a totally different character, being oblanceolate,

flattened, narrowed from the upper third or higher

to the base, with rigid plane, thinly woody valves,

densely velvety without and puberulous within; and

the seeds are orbicular and flattened. On the other

hand, there is what I regard as a true Wistaria of the .

American type in Japan, namely, W. japonica, Sieb. &

Zuce. (|. c. p. 88, t. 43), with cylindric glabrous torulose

thin-valved pods, and small turgid seeds. This plant,

however, A. Gray refers to the neighbouring genus

Millettia (Mem. Amer. Acad. N. S. vol. vi. (1859) p.

_ 886), and Bentham (Gen. Plant. 1. c.) regards it as inter-

mediate between Wistaria and Millettia, the latter a badly

circumscribed genus, to which W. chinensis may possibly

prove referable. Should, however, it prove advisable to

refer W. chinensis to a genus independent of both the

American Wistaria and of Millettia, the choice of names

for each may give rise. to controversy, for Rafinesque’s”

Kraunhia frutescens in Med. Repos. N. York, vol. ¥.

(1808) 852, is ten years earlier than Nuttall’s Wistaria.

In this case I would suggest, as requiring the smallest

change, the resumption of Krauwnhia for Nuttall’s plant,

and adopting Wistaria, DC. non Nutt., for W. chinensis.

W. chinensis true is apparently a common plant in N.

China, whence it was brought to this country in about

1881 by a Captain Welbank, and first figured in this work.

There are many indigenous specimens in the Kew Her-

_ barium; from Bunge collected on mountains N. of Pekin;

from rocks and ruins of the Summer Palace, and from —

throughout the district of Ningpo from W. Hancock, Esq.,

F.L.S.; and from Ichang, Dr. Henry. There are also

cultivated specimens from Hong Kong ; and from Nagasaki

in Japan. Of var. multijuga there are Japanese specimens

from Maximovicz (cult.), and Dr. Albrecht, and from

Nagasaki, Oldham. The specimen here figured was from a

plant obtained in 1874 from M. Van Houtte, which flowered

in the Arboretum of the Royal Gardens in May, 1896.

Deser.—A luxuriant, woody, branched climber, the

branches attaining many yards in length; bark brown.

Leaves eight to twelve inches long, young silkily hairy, old

nearly glabrous ;_ petiole slender, swollen at the base, sub-

terete; leaflets eightto ten pairs, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate,

membranous, pale green; stipules ovate-lanceolate; stipella

subulate. Stacemes two feet long and more, pendulous;

rachis slender, nearly glabrous, lax-flowered; pedicels about

an inch long, slender; bracts obsolete. Flowers when ex-

panded about an inch long from the tip of the standard to

that of the keel. Calyx shortly campanulate, pubescent,

green and purple, five-toothed, dorsal tooth subulate, rather

longer than the triangular lateral, anterior teeth confluent in

a very short two-toothed lip. Standard orbicular, one half

to two-thirds of an inch in diam., very pale violet, yellow

towards the notched base, where there is a bifid tubercle.

Wing-petals about a third shorter than the standard,

obovate-oblong, violet-blue, tip rounded, base excised with

a cusp, claw slender. Keel-petals shorter than the wings,

obovate, almost hatchet-shaped, violet-blue, base narrow

rounded. <Anthers minute. Ovary pubescent. Legume

four to nine inches long, suboblanceolate, flattened,

narrowed from the upper third to the base, top acute or

cuspidate ; valves thinly woody, clothed externally with a

dense brown velvety pubescence, internally with a thin

_ puberulous white corky layer, twisted after dehiscence,

margins not thickened. Seeds one half to three-fourths of

an inch in diameter, orbicular, flattened, dark brown,

smooth.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower with petals removed; 2, base of standard; 3, wing-petal ;

4, keel-petal ; 5, ovary :—All enlarged,

7523

Vincent. Brooks Day & Sanda

M.S.del. JIN Fitch hth

Tap. 7523,

HOLOTHRIX ORTHOCERAS.

Native of South Africa.

Nat. Ord. Orcu1pEz.—Tribe OPpHRYDER,

Genus Honoturix, Rich.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 6238.)

Hororurix orthoceras; foliis 2 sessilibus ovatis orbicularibus cordatisve

patenti-recurvis supra luride viridibus nervis albidis trabeculatis, scapo

ovarioque piloso apice multifloro, floribus subsecundis, bracteis ovato-lan-

ceolatis ovarium subequantibus, sepalis erectis ovato-lanceolatis acumi-

natis glaberrimis, lateralibus basi labello adnatis, petalis erectis quam

sepala ter longioribus lanceolatis caudato-acuminatis puberulis, labelli

ampli puberuli lobis lateralibus parvis obtusis recurvis, terminali sub-

quadrato antice truncato 3-5-dentato, dentibus obtusis intermedio paullo

longiore, calcare limbo # uilongo v. breviore gracili stricto, columna

brevissima, anthera hemispherica.

HH. orthoceras, Reichb. f. Otia Bot. Hamburg. p. 119.

Tryphia orthoceras, Harv. Thes. Cap. vol. ii. p. 14, t. 105.

The genus Holothriz, now for the first time figured in

this magazine, is a large South African one, containing

about thirty known species, a few of which are tropical

African, three having been found as far north as Abyssinia.

Mr. Bolus in his “ Orchids of the Cape Peninsula” (p. 113)

describes six as natives of that region. 4H. orthoceras is

closely allied to H. Lindleyana, Reichb., also a native of

Eastern South Africa, which differs, amongst other

characters, in the involute spur. There is a good sketch

of a clump of H. Lindleyana in the Gardener's Chronicle,

1888, vol. i. fig. 55, 56.

In the above mentioned work Mr. Bolus describes the

petals and lip of Holothriz as always glabrous, but they

are decidedly, though very minutely, puberulous in H.

orthoceras. :

H. orthoceras, though not hitherto found in the Cape

Peninsula, has a wide distribution in South Africa, froin

the South Western districts of Uitenhage and Albany,

northward to Natal and the Transvaal, whence tubers

were presented to the Royal Gardens, Kew, by Mrs. Deglon

of Barberton. These were received in June, 1895, im-

Mazcu Isv, 1897.

bedded in a tuft of Asplenium cuneatum. The leaves were

developed in January of the following year, and the flowers

in March. The lip probably varies in the lobing, for the

middle lobe is figured by Harvey as only trifid.

Descr.—Leaves two, radical, equal, about two inches

long, spreading and recurved, ovate, acute, glabrous, above —

dull green and trabeculate with white nerves, beneath

pale green with a stout costa. Scape four to five inches

high, slender, pale red-brown, and with the ovaries softly

laxly hairy. Spike three inches long, erect; flowers very

many, half an inch long, rather crowded, subsecund, white,

with a few red-purple streaks on the lip. Bracts as long as

the ovary, lanceolate, all green, or tipped with red.

Sepals erect, ovate-lanceolate, long-acuminate, glabrous;

lateral adnate to the base of the lip. Petals half as long

again as the sepals, erect, ovate-lanceolate, caudate-

acuminate, puberulous. Lip twice as long as the sepals,

broad, decurved, puberulous; side-lobes small, linear-

oblong, obtuse, recurved; midlobe quadrate, anterior

margins three to five-toothed, with the mid-tooth longest ;

spur shorter than the ovary, straight, slender. Column

very small, low ; anthers horizontal, incurved.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Front and 2 side view of the flower; 3, column and base of perianth ;

4, pollinium :—Adél ealarged.

So mn

MS. del. J-NFitch lth ae Vincertt Brooks Day & Son tnap

1, Reeve & C? London.

Tas. 7524,

GREVILLEA HILLIANA.

Native of Hastern Australia.

Nat. Ord. Protgeacem.—Tribe GREVILLIEA.

Genus Grevitina, Br.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 180.)

Grevittea (Cycloptera) Hillii; arborea, ramulis tomentellis, foliis petiolatis

supra glabris penninerviis et reticulatis subtus argenteo-sericeis, inferiori-

bus elongatis 2-3-lobis pinnatifidisve lobis 3-5 elongatis obtusis, superiori-

bus integris lineari-oblongis oblanceolatisve, racemis spiciformibus

elongatis cylindraceis multi-densifloris, rachi pedicellisque brevibus

puberulis, floribus parvis albo-virescentibus, perianthii + poll. longi

subsericei tubo breve lobis revolutis, toro recto, glandula semi-annulari,

ovario stipitato glabro, stylo gracili, stigmate sublaterali, capsula polli-

ee ellipsoidea acuta paullo compressa levi, seminibus ambitu anguste

alatis,

G. Hilliana, F. Muell. in Trans. Phil Inst. Victoria, vol. ii. Seg 72.

Benth. Fl. Austral. vol. v. p. 463. Bailey Cat. Queensland Plants,

p. 40; Syn ps. Queensland Flor, p. 487. aiden, Useful Native Pl.

Austral. p. 355,

Grevillea is the largest genus of Australian Proteacex,

and the second largest of Phenogams in that continent,

where it is surpassed in numbers by Acacia alone. which

contains 313. ‘There are 156 species of Grevillea in

Bentham’s “ Flora Australiensis” (1870), and in Mueller’s

last “‘ Census of Australian Plants” (1889) there are 161.

The only extra Australian members known are a few from

New Caledonia, and one from New Guinea. As with so

many large genera, it is difficult of subdivision into well

defined groups, though the species are in the whole remark-

ably constant, and their synonymy is more due to

misnomers and duplication of names than to the erecting

_ of varieties into species. In this respect, as well as in the

limitation of the species by brief diagnoses, Grevillea com-

pares favourably with Eucalyptus, as is evidenced by a

comparison of the spaces required for the diagnoses of the

species of those genera respectively in Bentham’s Flora. In

that work Grevillea, with 156 species, occupies only eight

pages, whilst Eucalyptus with only 124 species occupies

ten and a half.

G. Hilliana is the twentieth species figured in this

Manzcu Ist, 1897,

magazine. Unlike its congeners, which are, as arule, local,

it extends along the Eastern coast of the continent, from

the Clarence River in New South Wales (lat. 292°), to

Rockingham Bay in Queensland (lat. 18° S.) a distance,

following the coast line, of nearly 900 miles. The speci-

men here figured was contributed by T. Hanbury, Esq.,

F.L.S., from his garden at the Palazzo Orengo, Vente- -

miglia, in July of last year. There is a plant of it in the

Temperate House of the Royal Gardens, Kew, eight feet

in height.

In Australia it is known as the Silky Oak, and its

timber is durable, beautifully grained, and useful for

cabinet work. The name, Silky Oak, is (according to the

Official Guide to the Timbers in the Kew Museum, 1893)

also given to G. robusta, Orites eacelsa, and Stenocarpus

salignus.

Descr.—A large tree, attaining seventy feet in height,

branchlets minutely tomentose, pale ‘reddish brown.

Leaves very variable, all petioled, bright green above, and

glabrous, with pinnate nervation, silvery silky beneath,

the lower on the branches up to a foot long, usually

broadly obovate in outline, tapering below the middle

into a narrowly cuneate base, above it 3-lobed, or pinna-

tifid, with about five broadly linear obtuse lobes, three to

five inches long, by half an inch or more broad, of which

the terminal is the largest; uppermost leaves undivided,

four to six inches long, obtuse or subacute. Flowers

small, in a cylindric, spiciform, erect, slightly curved pale

green, very dense-flowered raceme, six to eight inches

long, and one to one and a half inches in diameter ; rachis

and pedicels pubescent. Perianth appressed silky, about

one-fourth of an inch long, with a short tube and revolute

lobes. Anthers small, didymous. Disk semi-annular.

Ovary stipitate, glabrous; style slender, incurved; stigma

discoid, sublateral. Capsule one to one and a quarter

of an inch long, ellipsoid, acute, somewhat compressed

laterally, quite smooth. Seeds orbicular, narrowly winged

all round.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower; 2, two lobes of perianth ; 3, section of. ovary and disk :—A/l

enlarged ; 4, fruit of the natural size (from Herbarium specimen).

M S.del, JNFitch lith.

T, Reeve & C°e Loandan:

hea cen or gu e

Tas. 7525.

DENDROBIUM sarmentosum.

Native of Burma,

Nat. Ord. Orcuiprx.—Tribe ErrpenpDREz.

Genus Drenprosivum, Swartz; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 498.)

Denprosium (Stachyobium) samentosum; caulibus gracilibus elongatis

ramosis pendulis, internodiis 1-14-pollicaribus teretibus cylindraceis

vaginis albidis tectis, nodis non incrassatis, foliis deciduis 2-pollicaribus

elliptico-oblongis obtusis, floribus ad nodos solitariis v. 2-3 pedunculo

brevi confertis 1-poll. latis albis labello basi roseo striato, bracteis ovato-

oblongis, sepalis ovatis apice rotundatis, dorsali angustiore, petalis sepalis

lateralibus consimilibus sed paullo latioribus, mento corniforme recurvo

virescente, labello sepalis aquilongo v. paullo longiore late oblongo

obtuso, lobis lateralibus parvis rotundatis, intermedio disco villoso,

anthera subdidyma marginibus erosis. ;

D. sarmentosum, Rolfe in Orchid. Rev. vol. iv. (1896) p. 72.

D. fragrans, Hortul.

Though differing in many respects from the type of the

section Stachyobium, and especially in the lateral subsessile

few-fld. inflorescence, I am disposed to follow Mr. Rolfe

in placing this species in that group, and near to D. bar-

batulum, Lindl. (see tab. 5918), and D. Fytcheanum (tab.

5444, under the name of barbatum). It differs from both

these species in the long, very slender branched stems, but

agrees in the hairy disk of the flat lip, and the minute

coloured lateral lobes of the latter. The colour of the lip

appears to be variable, for Mr. Rolfe describes its side lobes

as pale green, with light brown radiating nerves.

D. sarmentosum is a native of the Shan States of Upper

Burma, where it was discovered by Mr. R. Moore, when

Officiating Assistant Superintendent of the Upper Shan

States, who alludes to it in a very interesting paper con-

tributed to the Orchid Review (vol. iii. (1895) p. 171) on

the Orchids of those states as one of thirty-five Orchids

(eighteen of them Dendrobia) occurring within a radius of

thirty miles round Lake Inle.

It first flowered in the collection of Messrs. W. L.

Lewis & Co. early in 1895. The specimen here figured

Marcu Ist, 1897.

was received at the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1895, from

_ Mr. Curtis, F.L.S., Superintendent of the Botanic Gardens

and Plantations of Penang, who had received it from

Burma. It flowered in the Orchid House in February,

1896, and the leaves were perfected in the following May.

The flowers were deliciously violet-scented.

Descr.—Stems very slender, eighteen inches long and

upward, by one-tenth to one-eighth of an inch in diameter,

pendulous, branched; branches elongate; internodes one

to one anda half inches long, clothed throughout their

length with the white appressed old leaf-sheaths; nodes

hardly enlarged, often rooting. Jieaves produced before

the flowers, one to two inches long, oblong, obtuse, bright

green, coriaceous, nerves obscure. Flowers from the

upper nodes of the branchlets, solitary, or two or three

together on a very short peduncle, very shortly pedicelled,

about an inch in diameter, white, with the side-lobes and

base of the mid-lobe of the lip golden yellow, the side-

lobes streaked with red; bracts small, ovate. Sepal and

petals spreading, of nearly equal length, ovate-oblong, tips

rounded; dorsal sepal rather the narrowest, and petals

rather broader, and more oblong than the sepals. Lip a

little longer than the sepals, lateral lobes small, rounded,

incurved ; terminal broadly ovate-oblong, tip rounded or

subacute, disk minutely villous; mentum produced into a

recurved spur as long as the lip. Anther two-lobed at the

top, margins erose.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Ovary and lip ; 2, column; 3, anther; 4, pollinia ;—Ai] enlarged,

TOR6

Vancent Brooks,Day &Son imp |

3a > Rae aa

Ae i Oe >

ee a a rT

bhatt an a ay ae a amar kw a a a

JN Fitch ii

M.S.del,

Tas. 7526,

DIDYMOCARPUS Matayana.

Native of Penang ?

Nat. Ord. GesnERACES.—Tribe CyrTANDRER.

Genus Dipymocarrus, Wall.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1022.)

Diprmocarpus (Heterobea) malayana; acaulis, coespitosa, foliis radicalibus

breviter petiolutis ovatis obtusis basi rotundatis cordatisve utrinque

sericeo-pilosis flavo-viridibus subtus-pallidis nervis utrinque costw 6-8

arcuatis, scapis gracilibus laxe patentim pilosis apicem versus 2~-4-floris,

floribus breviter pedicellatis nutantibus, bracteis parvis oblongis obtusis,

calycis 5-partiti laciniis linearibus obtusis pubescentibus, corolle 1}-

pollicaris extus pubescentis tubo subdecurvo in faucem longiorem in-

_ fundibularem gibboso-inflatam producto, limbi subbilabiati lobis rotundatis

subeequalibus patulis aureis, staminibus inclusis filamentis curvis

glaberrimis, antheris scutiformibus cohwrentibus, connectivo dorso

2-corniculat, staminodiis 8 minutis papilleformibus, disco breviter

cylindraceo, ovario angusto styloque toto elongato glanduloso-pubescen-

tibus, stigmate capitato, capsula 14-pollicari anguste lineari fere recta,

valvis ad basin liberis. ;

D. malayana, Hook. f. in Gard. Chron. (1896) vol. ii. p. 123, fig. 24.

A beautiful member of a large Eastern Asiatic genus

which contains, including one doubtful Madagascar plant

seventy-two species, according to Clarke’s Monograph of

the Cyrtandrex (in Alph. DC. Monogr. Phanerog. vol. v.

pt-I.) to which must be added, besides that here figured,

seven Malayan species described by Mr. Ridley in the

- Transactions of the Linnzan Society, Ser. II. vol. 111. (1893)

p- 328, and twelve in the Journal of the same Society,

vol. xxxii. (1896) p. 505. D. malayanas belongs to the

section Heterobea of Bentham (Gen. Plant. 1.c. 1022)

characterized by the five narrow calyx segments, subven-

tricose elongate corolla, two stamens with coherent

anthers, a cupular disk, and few-flowered scapes. It

_ differs, however, from all the previously described plants

of that section in being stemless. Its nearest ally is pro-

bably D. crinita, Jack, (Tab. 4554) also a native of

Penang, with which it agrees in the form of the corolla,

and in the connective of the anthers being provided with

two similar but much shorter projections, In other

Maxcu Ist, 1897.

respects, and especially in habit, the two plants widely

differ, D. erinita being an erect caulescent species, clothed

with shaggy purple hairs, and having oblanceolate,

strongly serrate leaves, purple beneath. The character of

the connective common to these two species is found in a

few others, notably in the Himalayan D. awrantiaca,

Clarke.

The fine specimen of Didymocarpus malayana here figured

was sent to Kew by Messrs. Veitch in June of last year,

with the information that it was received by Mr. Curtis,

F.L.S., Assistant Superintendent of Gardens and Forests

in that island, of which I assume it to be a native, but it

may have come from a neighbouring region.

Descr.—Densely tufted, softly pubescent. Leaves spread-

ing from the root, crowded in unequal pairs, two to three

inches long, shortly stoutly petioled, broadly ovate, tip

rounded, base rounded or subcordate, upper surface pale

yellow-green, lower still paler, both surfaces and margins

villous with appressed silky white hairs; nerves six to

eight pair, arched, raised beneath. Scape two and a half

to three inches high, slender, softly hairy, three- to four-

flowered towards the summit ; pedicels very short ; bracts

as long or longer than the pedicels, oblong, obtuse.

Flowers nodding or drooping, about two inches long.

Sepals one-third to one half an inch long, linear, obtuse,

pubescent. Corolla with a slender terete tube, dilating

into an infundibular-campanulate ventricose throat, pale

straw-coloured and pubescent externally; limb an inch in

diameter, subbilabiate, of five nearly equal orbicular —

golden-yellow spreading lobes. Stamens inserted at the __

top of the corolla-tube, included in the throat ; filaments

sigmoidly curved, quite glabrous; anthers scutelliform,

coherent by their faces, connectives with two divergent

short horns; staminodes three, minute. Disk shortly

cylindric. Ovary narrow and long included straight

style glandular-pubescent, stigma capitellate. Capsule

one and a half inch long, very slender, straight, valves

free to the base.—J. D. H

Fig. 1, Calyx and style; 2, lower half of corolla laid open with stamens and

staminodes ; 4, ovary and disk ; 5, transverse section of ovary :—All enlarged ;

6, capsule of the zat. size.

f D OOK ot tlie’ BRITISH FLORA; a Waleripié of the

Flowering Plants and Ferns indigenous to, or naturalized in the Briti

Isles. For the use of Beginners and Amateurs. By Gxrorck BENTHAM

~ __ _ _F.R.S. 6th Edition, revised by Sir J.D. Hooker. Crown 8yo, 10s. 6d.

" ILLUSTRATION S of the BRITISH FLORA ; a Series of Wood

Engravings, with Dissections, of British Plants, Soni Drawings by W

Fircn, F.L.S., and W. G. Suir, F.L.S., forming an Illustrated Companion

to Bentham’s “ Handbook,” and other British Floras. 1315 Wood En-

gravings. 4th Edition, revised and enlarged, crown 8vo, 10s. 6d, _

OUTLINES of ELEMENTARY BOTANY, as Introductory

Local Floras. By Grorck Bentoam, F.R.S., President of the Linnean

Society. New Edition, 1s. Z

FLORA of HAMPSHIRE, including the Isle of Wight, with

localities of the less common species. By F. TowNnsenp, M.A., F.L.S.

With Coloured Map and two Plates, 16s.

HANDBOOK of BRITISH MOSSES, containing all that are

known to be natives of the British alae. By the Rev. M. J. BERKELEY,

M.A., FLL.S. 2nd Edition, 24 Coloured Plates, 21s.

SYNOPSIS of BRITISH MOSSES, containing Descriptions of

all the Genera and Species (with localities of the rarer ones) see tn in Great

aes be and rely revi a. OmAay Se Ps ied cise wee

TH oh

theirg 50s. Vol. II, "108. 6 7:

F LORA of BRITISH INDIA. By Sir ie OOKER,

and others. Parts I. to XIIT., 10s. 6d. each. Parte XIV. to XIX.

Part XX.,7s. 6d. Parts XXI. and XXII., 9s. each. Vols. I tol)

each. Vol. V., 38s. - Vol. VI., 36s.

FLORA AUSTRALIENSIS: a Description of the Plants of

Australian Territory. By G. BentHAm, F.R.S., F.L.S., assisted by.

MUELLER, F.R.S. Vols. I. to VI., 20s. each. Vol. VII., 24s. P

under the auspices of the several Governments of Australia, ;

FLORA of MAURITIUS and the SEYCHELLES: a ‘Dae

tion of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of those Islands. By J. G. Baker,

F.L.8. Complete in 1 vol., 24s. Published under the authoity of the

Colonial Government of Mauritius.

FLORA CAPENSIS: a Systematic Description of the Plants of

the Cape Colony, Caffraria, and Port Natal. By Wintiam H. Harvey,M. D3

F.R.S., and Orro Winuetm Sonper, Ph.D. Vols. L—ul., ‘18s. each,

Vol VI., Parts I. and II., 7s. 6d. each.

RA of TROPICAL AFRICA. By Dante. Outten, ER

L e fols. I.to III. each 20s. Published under the authority r

ssioner of Her Maiesty’s Works. —

) FLORA: 2 Systema

i sca pena sane es vhatham

PLS. Vidi s MAS of the tahue core ee ‘Dr. Hi: 2

Published under the authority of Her M: 8 Secretary | of State for

Colonies. The Supplement, separately, ae eae

ON the FLORA of AUSTRALIA: ite’ Origin, Affinities, an

Distribution. By Sir J. D. Hooxer, F.R.S. 10s. oe

CONTRIBUTIONS to THE FLORA of MENTONE. | and

; to a Winter Flora of the Riviera, including the coast from Marseilles to

Genoa. By J. TRAHERNE Mogeriner. aera 8yvo. Caerleon in ly

_ 99 Coloured Plates, 63s,

L. REEVE & | 00. 6, “Honrietta Stet, Covent rd

BOTANICAL MAGAZINE.

CONTENTS OF No. 627, MARCH, 1897.

Taz. 7522.—WISTARIA CHINENSIS, var. MULTIJUGA.

» 7523—HOLOTHRIX ORTHOCERAS.

» 7594.—GREVILLEA HILLIANA.

ee » 7525.—DENDROBIUM SARMENTOSUM.

5 ee ‘ Jet DU MOCAREDS MALAYANA.

L. Reeve & Oo., 6, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden.

Now Ready, Vol. VI., Parts I. and II., 7s. 6d. each.

FLORA CAPENSIS: —

A Systema tic Description of the Plants of the Cape Colony, Caffraria,

and Port Natal.

_ Edited by W. T. THISELTON-DYER, C.M.G., F.R.S.,

Director of the Royal Gar oak. Kew.

Poblished under the authority of the Governments of the Cape of Good Hope

and Natal.

x Vols. I. to III. 18s. each.

WILLIAM H. HARVEY, M.D., F.R.S., Professor of Botany in the

‘University ef Dublin, and

OTTO WILHELM SONDER, Ph.D.

Now ready, Part XXII., 9s.

ORA OF BRITISH INDIA.

ea Sir J, D. HOOKER, E.RS., &e.

Vols. I. to TV., 92s. each. Vol. Vi, 38s. Vol. VI., 36s.

ow jeden Part VoL, with 2 Coloured Plates, Bs. (completing the work). |

meu ERA HOMOPTERA OF TH

Br CHARLES G. BARRETT, FES.

-Wol. I. 12s.; large paper, with 40 Coloured Plates, 63s.

~ Vol. IL. 12s8.; ; large paper, with 46 Coloured Plates, 63s.

Vol. TIT, 12s.; ; large paper, with 50 Coloured Plates, ag

o Prospectus may be had on application to the. Pub ish

Now ready, Part XXVI., with 8 Goloured Plats

CURTIS’ s°

BOTANICAL MA ie Z ae

COMPRISING

ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY ARRANGEMENTS, 1997.

_ EXHIBITION OF SPRING FLOWERS, Wednesday, March 3st.

_ GREAT SUMMER EXHIBITION OF PLANTS AND

ane FLOWERS, Wednesday, May 19th.

| SPECIAL FLORAL FETE AND CHILDREN’ s PARADE, |

5 ‘Wednesday, June 9th.

-RHODODENDRON EXHIBITION daily during June. eae

ee FETE AND FANCY FAIR. To commemorate the

- 60th year of Her Majesty’s Reign. In aid of the age

Hospital for Children, Chelsea. June 21st to June 25th. | Sel

“NATIONAL VIOLA SOCIETY’S EXHIBITION, July. 17th.

EXHIBITION OF CHRYSANTHEMUMS carly in cs

BOTANICAL LECTURES, Fridays in May and June. pe!

: MUSICAL PROMENADES, | WwW ednesda aysi in 1 Sune, July, and Augtate

s ie Ce Tee ab. price 25. 6d.

INSULAR FLORAS.

nie Lecture delivered by Six J, D. HOOKER, ©.B., before the British Association

Sas ERE the enna of Science at Nottingham, August 27, 1866.

aoe ready, Seeond Edition,

HANDBOOK OF BRITISH MOSSES,

Containing all that are known to be natives of the British Isles.

By the Rev. M. Je BEREELEY, M wy EL. S. 24 Coloured Plates, 21 8.

Mie Now reaag, complete in x tol. royal 40,1 in handsome sloth case, £6 6s. net; in half morocco,

: Foreign | Finches" in esuvig

By ARTHUR G. BUTLER, Ph.D., ELS, F.Z8., F.E.S8.

The whole forms a large and handsome volume of between 300 and 400 with

¥. W. FROWHAWK, beautifully coloured hy tes poses 60 P) ates, os

‘HANDBOOK OF THE BRITISH FLORA:

“A Description of the Flowering Plants and Ferns ngiceneue

to or Naturalized in the British Isles.

By GEORGE BENTHAM, F.R:S, |

6th Edition, Revised My Sir J. D. Hooker, €.B. KCS1; BRS, ae 102. 6a,

_,_ TLUUSTRATIONS OF THE BRITISH FLORA:

A Series of Wood Engravings, with Dissections, of British Plants. :

: Drawn sy W. H. FITCH, F.LS., ayp W. G. SMITH, Oe ee

Pree an Illustrated Companion to Bentham’s “ ‘ Handbook,” and other British #

fe ane Poaeaie with 1315 Wong Ree Ox.

7327

Vincent: Brooks, Day & Son Tap

W.S.del, J -N.Fitch lith..

Tap: 7527.

AGAVE HaAse.Lorrit.

Native of Mexico.

Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDE#.—Tribe AGAVER.

Genus Acave, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iu. p. 738.)

Agave (Littwa) Haselofii; acaulis, foliis 30-40 dense rosulatis lanceolatis

viridibus subcarnosis ad basin vix angustatis spind terminali haud

pungente aculeis marginalibus parvis crebris deltoideis apice corneis

nigris, pedunculo valido arcuato bracteis multis adpressis preedito, floribus

_geminis sessilibus, in spicam densam dispositis, bracteis propriis magnis

seariosis linearibus basi deltoideis, ovario oblongo, perianthii tubo brevi

campanulato, lobis oblongis bruaneo-viridibus, staminibus lobis 4—5-plo.

longioribus, antheris linearibus parvis, stylo demum antheras superante.

A. Haseloffii, Jacobi Monogr. Agav. (1864) p. 244; in Hamb. Gartenzeit, vol.

xxii. (1866) p. 220. Baker in Gard. Chron. 1877, p. 683 ; Handb. Amaryllid,

p- 189.

This Agave belongs to the section Aloidex, in which the

leaves are more fleshy, and not rigid in texture asin the

better known Americane and Rigide and the marginal

prickles always numerous and minute. The species of

this group are comparatively rare in cultivation. The

present plant has been grown at Kew for many years, but

flowered for the first time in the summer of 1895. The

species was originally described by Jacobi in 1864, and

was named by him after the gentleman in whose garden

he saw it.

Descr.—Leaves thirty to forty, in a dense sessile rosette,

_ lanceolate, rather soft, and not very thick in texture, a

_ foot and a half or two feet long, three inches broad at the

middle, very little narrowed towards the base, pale bright

green, the end spine not horny nor pungent, the marginal

prickles very close and small, tipped with black. Peduncle

arising from the base of the rosette of the leaves, stout,

arcuate, three feet long, with numerous ascending bract

leaves, the upper scariose and long-pointed. Flowers in

sessile pairs, forming a dense spike, which is five or six

inches in diameter when they are fully expanded; bracts

APRIL Ist, 1897,

large, scariose, linear from a dilated base. Ovary green,

oblong, an inch long. Perianth-tube very short, cam-

panulate; lobes of the limb oblong, greenish-brown, half

an inch long. Stamens above two inches long, inserted at

the throat of the perianth-tube; anthers linear, small.

Style finally overtopping the stamens.—J. G. Baker.

- Fig. 1, Edge of leaf; 2, complete flower, cut open; 3, front view of anther;

4. back view of anther; 5, apex of style, all more or less enlarged ; 6, whole

plant much reduced, :

Vincent Brooks Day & Son imp

M S.del, JN.Fitch ith

L Reeve C?°Lendon

Tas. 7528,

GENTIANA tipetica.

Native of the Eastern Himalaya.

Nat. Ord. Gent1anra.—Tribe Swertiea.

Genus Guntiana, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 815.)

GenTIANa (Pneumonanthe) tibetica; glaberrima, caule sesquipedali robusto

folioso, foliis 6-18.pollicaribus basi in vaginam cylindricam per paria

connatis lanceolatis acuminatis crasse coriaceis supremis confertis quasi

verticillatis marginibus undulatis, sub septemplinerviis supra laete viridibus

subtus pallidis, floribus in axillis supremis confertis subsessilibus polli-

caribus, calycis tenuiter membranacei spathacei tubo brevi ore truncato

5-denticulato, corolle calyce duplo longioris tubo cylindraceo paullo

inflato pallide plumbeo-purpureo, limbi 5-fidi lobis ovatis pallidis fauceque

rubro-punctulatis sinubus plica brevi simplici triangulari instructis,

glandulis nectariferis 0, filamentis inclusis basi puberulis, antheris

parvis, ovario sessili oblongo, stylo brevi, stigmatibus linearibus,

capsula sessili ellipsoidea inclusa, seminibus reticulatis exalatis.

G. tibetica, King in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1441. Hook.f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. iv.

p- 733.

A tall, robust Gentian, placed in the section Chondro-

phyllum in the *Icones Plantarum” where it was first

described, but falling under Pnewmonanthe in Clarke’s

arrangement of the Indian species (in the “Flora of

British India”) where the latter section is distinguished

from the former by the reticulate testa of the seeds. Its

nearest ally is G. robusta, King (l.c. t. 1439) which has

narrower leaves, linear teeth on the margin of the calyx-

tube, and along style. These two differ from all other

Himalayan species (except G. stylophora which attains

six feet) by their size and robustness. They both inhabit

elevations of about 11,000 feet in a remote triangular

corner of the interior Himalaya, bordering Tibet, between

Sikkim and Bhotan, called Chumbi; a region remarkable

for its dry climate, being cut off by lofty ranges from the

southerly rain-bringing winds. Owing to its climate not

a few plants unknown in Sikkim have been found jn

Chumbi ; notably Pinus excelsa, and more may be expected

when it shall be visited by Europeans, who have up to the

Apri Ist, 1897,

present time been jealously excluded by the Tibetan

authorities. Hitherto its botany is known only through

native collectors, who have been sent there from Dar-

jeeling under Dr. King’s authority, and who thus obtained

both seeds and dried specimens. On a ticket attached to

the latter the corolla is said not to be epunctate, but it is

decidedly dotted in the specimen here figured.

G, tibetica has been in cultivation in Europe previous to

1883, at which date flowering specimens were sent to the

Royal Gardens by Herr Max Leichtlin, and are preserved

in the Herbarium. It has been in cultivation in the open

air at Kew for some years, from seeds sent from the

Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta. It flowers in July.

Descr.—Stem very stout, eighteen inches high and up-

wards, fistular P stout, erect, unbranched, leafy to the tip.

Leaves up to eighteen inches long, by four broad, lan-

ceolate, acuminate, very thick and leathery, bases of

opposite pairs connate, margins undulate, channelled

in the upper bright green surface by five to seven pairs of

nearly parallel sunken nerves, midrib beneath very stout.

Flowers crowded in the axils of the crowded upper leaves,

shortly stoutly pedicelled ; bracts small, lanceolate. Calyzx

short, membranous, tubular, splitting to the base on one

side, truncate, the mouth minutely five-toothed. Corolla-

tube nearly an inch long, more than twice as long as the

calyx, slightly inflated ; lobes a quarter of an inch long,

ovate, dull straw-coloured, speckled with black; folds in

the sinus short, acute. Stamens included; anthers linear-

oblong. Ovary subsessile, ovoid-oblong, with short, re-

curved styles. Capsule dehiscing at the tip, Seeds

ellipsoid ; testa reticulated, not winged.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower with the corolla closed; 2, corolla laid open; 3, stamen;

4, ovary :—All enlarged.

7529, a

ai ap al

Ese ag) lp

Wa Wg

\ a wy Y, :

koma te 4,

: ¥

MS. del, JN Fitch hth.

Ta. 7oe9,

TRISTANTA LAURINA.

Native of Eastern Australia.

Nat. Ord. Myrtacez.—Tribe LzprosPeRMEx,

Genus Tristanta, Br.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 708.)

Tristanta (Eutristania) Jauwrina; ramulis foliisque novellis sericeis, foliis

alternis breviter petiolatis lanceolatis obovatis- v. oblongo-lanceolatis

obtusis acutis acuminatisve subcoriaceis penninerviis basi angustatis,

supra laete viridibus, subtus pallidis primum sericeis demum glabris

costa valida, nervis perplurimis, cymis axillaribus breviter valide pedun-

culatis, pedicellis calyce paullo longioribus, bracteis parvis deciduis,

calycis semisuperi campanulati pubescentis lobis triangularibus, petalis

parvis ellipticis aurantiacis, staminum phalangibus brevibus polyandris,

ovarii vertice hemispherico hirsuto, capsula parva subglobosa infra

medium hemispherica, vertice in valvulas 3 obtusas hiantes dehiscente,

seminibus oblongis.

T. laurina, Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew Ed. II. vol. iv. p.417. DO. Prodr. vol. ili.

p- 211. F. Mueil. Fragment. vol.i.p. 81. Benth. Fl. Austral. vol. in.

p. 264. Bailey, Synop. Queensland Flor. p. 182, Maiden, Useful Nat.

Pl. Austral. p. 609.

Melaleuca laurina, Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. iii. (1797) p. 275.

Tristania lawrina is remarkable both for its great

variability in habit, and for its wide range in distribution.

In form it passes from that of a scrubby bush in dry

places, to a stately tree seventy feet high with a trunk one

to two ft. diam. in moist forests; whilst in geographical

distribution it ranges from the temperate regions of Gipps’

Land in latitude 38°8., to the subtropical in Moreton

Bay, lat. 27° S. The wood is described by Maiden 1. c. as

hard, close-grained, dark colrd., and difficult to season,

and is used for tool-handles, cog-wheels, &c. It has

various colonial names, ‘ Bastard Box,” ‘‘ Swamp Maho-

gany,” “ Water Gum,” and “ Beech.”

The genus Tristania is confined to Tenasserim, the

Malayan Peninsula Islands, Eastern Australia, and New

Caledonia. It contains about twenty species, of which

i’, laurina is the most southern. Only one has been pre-

viously figured in this magazine, J’. neriifolia, of New

ApRiL Ist, 1897,

South Wales (Tab. 1058 Melaleuca), which belongs to a

different section of the genus, having opposite leaves.

The specimen here figured of 7’, lawrina was communicated

by Mr. Hanbury from the Mortola Gardens in July, 1896.

A plant of it has been for many years in cultivation in the

Royal Gardens of Kew, and is now in the Temperate

House, where it flowers occasionally.

Descr.—A shrub, or small or large tree, attaining seventy

feet in height; branchlets and young leaves and old leaves

beneath at first, clothed with silky appressed hairs ; branch-

_lets and petioles stout, red-brown. Leaves very variable,

three to four inches long, from lanceolate to oblong-

lanceolate or obovate-oblong, obtuse, acute or acuminate,

dark green above, very pale beneath; midrib stout ; nerves

very numerous and slender; base narrowed into a short

stout petiole. Flowers orange-yellow, in small, shortly

stoutly petioled axillary cymes, about one-third of an inch in

diameter ; pedicels short, stout ; bracts very small, brown,

caducous. Calyx turbinately campanulate, semi-superior,

pubescent; lobes 5, triangular. Petals one-eighth to one-

sixth of an inch long, elliptic, very shortly clawed.

Stamen in five short bundles of about twenty each. Ovary

with ahemispheric hirsute crown. Capsule small, obtusely

three-valved above the middle.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower; 2, calyx lobes, bundle of stamens and petals; 3, anther;

4, base of calyx and ovary ; 5, transverse section of ovary ; 7, immature seed:

—all enlarged; 6, fruiting cymes of the natural size.

7930

Vincent Brocks Day & San imp

MS. del, J -N-Fitch ith.

L Reeve & C° London.

Das; 7530:

GONGORA trtcoror.

Native of Costa Rica.

Nat. Ord. OncHIDEZ.—Tribe VaAnDEs.

Genus Goneora, Ruiz & Pav.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 549.)

Goncora ?ricolor; pseudobulbis ovoideis alte costatis interstitiis concavis,

foliis ovato-oblongis acuminatis 5-costatis, racemi rachi compressa et

angulata fusco-rubra, sepalis lateralibus reflexis ovato-lanceolatis acumi-

natis rubro-purpureis maculisque paucis pallidis variegatis, marginibus ~

recurvis, costa pallida, sepalo dorsali ultra columnam lanceolato, sepalis

lanceolato-subulatis incurvis apicibus setaceis, petalis parvis, labelli

aurei hypochilio cuneiforme saccato a latere compresso basi dorso bitu-

berculato apice truncato, angulis superioribus acutis infra apicem

aristatis, epichilio hypochilio wquilongo infundibulari apice in rostrum

recurvum produco, columna basique elongata sepali dorsalis rubro-

punctatis.

Gongora tricolor, Reichb. f. in Bonplandia, vol. ii. (1854) p. 93; in Walp, Ann.

vol. vi. p. 594.

G. maculata, var. tricolor; Lindl. Bot. Reg. vol. xxx. (1844) Mise. n. 40; et

vol. xxiii. (1847) t. 69.

In systematic botany there is no more difficult task than

that of accurately and intelligibly describing the floral

organs of Orchids, and I think that the maximum of diffi-

culty is reached in the case of Gongora. This arises from

the confluence of the lower half (long claw) of the narrow

dorsal sepal with the lower half of the long column into a

pillar carrying the bases of the small subulate or horn-like

petals adnate to it, almost to its summit; to the reflexion of

the lateral sepals, which are quite unlike the dorsal; and to

the complicated structure of the comparatively small lip,

which is attached by a mere point to the summit of the

ovary, and is directed backwards horizontally from the

rest of the perianth. These characters give a dislocated

appearance to flowers, the forms and relations of whose

organs can hardly be understood without a good drawing.

Add to these difficulties that of defining the shades of

colours of the often parti-coloured floral organs, which in

the case of Orchids is necessary for systematic purposes.

There are several tropical 8. American Gongoras so

closely allied to G. tricolor in every detail of the structure

Aprr'L 1st, 1897.

of the lip, that intermediates between some or all may be

- expected to occur. Of these the type is G. quinquenervis,

Ruiz & Pav., which, according to Reichenbach, is a widely

distributed species from Guatemala to Peru and Guiana,

and for which that author cites (in Walp. Ann.1.c. 595),

G. maculata, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1616; Bot. Mag. t. 3687 ;

G. fulva, Bot. Reg. vol. xxv. (1839) t. 51; G. maculata,

var, alba, Bot. Reg. vol. xxvii. (1841) Mise. n. 101, and

G. bufonia, var. leucochila, Bot. Reg. (1847) t. 17 as

synonyms.

_ The specimen of G. tricolor here figured was received at

the Royal Gardens, Kew, in September, 1894, from Mr.

R. Pfau, of San Jose, Costa Rica. It flowered in the

warm Orchid House in February, 1896.

Descr.—Pseudobulbs ovoid, two to two and a half inches

long, deeply sulcate, with about six obtusely keeled ribs

and rounded interstices. Leaves six inches long, ovate-

oblong, acuminate, deeply five-grooved above, with as

many stout ribs beneath, bright green. aceme pendulous,

long-peduncled, six to ten inches long, lax-flowered ;

peduncle and rachis slender, pale green, speckled; rachis

compressed and angled ; bracts a quarter of an inch long,

lanceolate ; pedicel with ovary one and a half to two inches

long, spreading and decurved, speckled like the rachis.

Flowers about two inches long from the tip of the dorsal

sepal to that of the lip. Sepals very unequal, dorsal

narrow, adnate for half its length to the back of the

column, the free portion as long as the adnate, lanceolate,

margins revolute, tip recurved; lateral sepals reflexed,

ovate-lanceolate, dull red-purple, with revolute margins,

and a stout pale midrib. Petals adnate to the sides of

the column for their lower halves, the free portions

spreading and upcurved, lanceolate, acuminate, speckled.

Tip golden-yellow, projecting horizontally; hypochiliam

cuneiform, saccate, truncate anteriorly, with acute angles

and an awn on each side; base with two dorsal tubercles ;

epichichilium as long as the hypochilium, broadly funnel-

shaped, with a spur-like speckled tip, base dorsally gibbous.

Column slender, speckled.—J. D. H. ag

Fig. 1, Lip; 2, column and petals ; 3, top of column and anther ; 4, pollinia :

—All enlarged.

TAS. TOOk

SENECIO Smiratr.

Native of South Chili and Fuegia.

Nat. Ord. Comrosita.—Tribe SENECIONIDEX.

Genus Senxcio, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p, 446.)

Senecio Smithii; caule simplice herbaceo valde robusto fistuloso folioso foliis-

que amplis araneosis, foliis crassiusculis radicalibus petiolatis ovatis

basi cuneatis cordatis bilobisve, apice obtusis acutisve grosse crenato-

dentatis subtus nervosis costa crassa, petiolo crasso antice concavo basi dila-

tato vaginante, caulinis oblongis, capitulis in corymbos terminales_ basi

foliosos valide pedunculatos dispositis, involucri campanulati calyculati

araneosi bracteis angustis linearibus acutis viridibus, fl. radii ligulis

. numerosis brevibus v. elongatis linearibus 3-dentatis albis, styli ramis

brevibus linearibus obtusis, fl. disci aureis 5-dentatis, styli ramis brevibus

apice dilatatis, acheniis linearibus glaberrimis sulcatis, pappi setis

: achenio paullo longioribus subscaberulis. :

8. Smithii, DC. Prodr. vol. vii. p. 316. Hook.f. Fl. Antarct. vol. ii. p. 316.

C. Gay, Fl. Chil. vol. iv. p. 198. ;

S. verbascifolius, Hombr. & Jacquin. Voy. aw Pole Sud. Bot. Dicot, Phan.

Pers

Cineraria gigantea, Smith, Ewot. Bot. vol. ii. p. ii. t. 65.

C. leucanthema, Banks § Sol. mss. in Herb. Mus. Brit. cum Icone.

Brachypappus? Smithii, Schult. Bih. in Hohen. Pl. Lechler Magell. Exsice.

n. 1238.

This noble Senecio was discovered in January, 1769,

during Cook’s first voyage, by Banks and Solander, when

on their disastrous botanizing excursion in Good Success

Bay in Tierra del Fuego. Since that time it has been

collected by every naturalist who has visited the Straits

of Magellan and western coast of South Chili, along which

it extends as far north as the Island of Chiloe, according

to a specimen so ticketed by Captain King in the Kew

Herbarium. Quite recently it has been found in the

Falkland Islands by Mr. A. Linney of the Government

Gardens, Stanley Harbour, who sent seeds of it to Kew

in 1895, describing it as a,coast plant. It would be in-

teresting to know which of the two Falkland Islands the

plant inhabits, for not only is the flora of the group a

singularly scanty one, but there is a botanical difference

between the Eastern and Western Islands, exemplified by

Aprit Ist, 1897.

the fact that the only true shrub in the flora, Veronica

elliptica, Forst. (see Tab. 242, V. decussata, Ait.) has been

found in the Western Island only (that nearest to Fuegia),

where, as I have been informed, it is local, and confined

to the Southern and Western coasts. It may be mentioned

here that V. elliptica is one of the very few shrubs that is

common to Chili, Fuegia, New Zealand, and the islands

West and South of the latter.

Senecio Smithit varies a good deal in height, robustness,

number of flower-heads, and length of the ray-flowers,

which are sometimes very narrow and short. The speci-

men figured is of a plant raised from seeds sent by Mr.

Linney in 1895, which grew vigorously, and flowered in

an open border in June, 1896, and has attained three feet

in height, with the stem as thick as the thumb.

Descr.—A robust perennial, green, leafy herb, three to

four feet high, more or less clothed with a loose cobwebby

indumentum. Stem as thick as the thumb below, and as

the middle finger about the middle. Lower leaves eight

to ten inches long, ovate or oblong, acute or obtuse,

coarsely crenate-toothed, thickly leathery, pale green;

base cuneate, rounded-cordate, or 2-lobed; midrib very

stout below, with prominent nerves; petiole very stout,

concave in front; upper leaves sessile, oblong. Heads

many, in a leafy, terminal corymb, pedicels long or

short, stout. Jnvolucre one half to two-thirds of an inch

long, campanulate; bracts very narrow, acute, green.

Riay-flowers twenty to thirty, white, very variable, one-

fourth to three-fourths of an inch in length, linear, tip —

three-toothed; style-arms short, linear. Disk-flowers

yellow, 5-toothed ; style-arms short, recurved, tips dilated.

Achene about one-third of an inch long, very narrow,

deeply grooved, glabrous; pappus rather longer than the

achene, white, rather rough.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Ray- flower ; 2, disk-flower ; 3, panpus-hair; 4, stamens; 5, style-arms

of disk-flowers ; 6, achene ; all enlarged ;,7, whole plant greatly reduced,

Ts the use of rey ‘and Amateurs. By GEORGE Benta }

oe “ee 6th Edition, revised by Sir J. D. Hooker. Crown.8vo, 10s. ore %

ILLUSTRATIONS of the BRITISH FLORA ; a Series of Wood

atte Engravings, with Dissections, of British Plants, from ‘Drawings by W. H.

Fircn, F.L.S., and W. G. Sauirn, F.L.8., forming an Illustrated Compani

to Bentham’s ‘“ Handbook,” and other British Floras. 1315 Wood En:

gravings. 4th Edition, revised and enlarged, crown 8yvo, 10s..6d, —

OUTLINES of ELEMENTARY BOTANY, as Introductory.

Local Floras. By Grorer BenruamM, F.R.S., President of the Linnea’

Society. New Edition, Is.

FLORA of HAMPSHIRE, including the Isle of Wight, with

localities of the less common species. By F. Townsenp, M.A., aes,

With Coloured Map and two Plates, 16s, .

HANDBOOK of BRITISH MOSSES, containing all that are

known to be natives of the British tour. By the’ Rev. M. J; BERKELEY,

M.A., F.L.S. _ 2nd Edition, 24 Coloured"Plates, 21s. —« meee

SYNOPSIS of BRITISH MOSSES, containing Descriptions

all the Genera and Species (with localities of the rarer ones) found in|

“Britain and Secrets By Calera ts x Seer ae Pages eA, &e, N

- details of their structure. By R. Brarrawatrs LS

Co ariile ae Plates, 50n ‘Vol, II. 42s, 6d. Part XVIL., 6s. pace

FLORA of BRITISH INDIA. | “By ‘Sir J. D. Hooker,

and others. Parts I. to XIII., 10s. 6d. Saar ‘Parts XIV. to X1X., 9:

Part XX:,7s. 6d. Parts XXI. and XXIL., 9s. each. Vols. I. tolV., :

each. Vol. V., 38s. Vol. VI., 36s. a

FLORA AUSTRALIENSIS: a Description of the Plagte of

Australian Territory. By G. Bentuam, F.R.S,, F.L.S8., assisted by F.

Muetirr, F.R.S. Vols. I. to VI., 20s. each. Vol. VIL., 24s. ‘Published

under the auspices of the several Governments of Australia. f

FLORA of MAURITIUS and the SEYCHELLES: a Descrip-

; tion of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of those Islands. By J. G. Baker,

F.L.8. Complete in 1 vol., 24s. Published under the authority of the

Colonial Government of Mauritius.

FLORA CAPENSIS: a Systematic Description of the Plants of

the Cape Colony, Caffraria, and Port Natal. By Witt1am H. Harvey,M. B+

F.R.S., and Otro WirwErm Sonper, Ph.D. Vols. I.—III., 18s. each,

; - Vol VI., Parts I. and I1., 7s. 6d, each,

ey FLORA of TROPICAL AFRICA. B hd ar Oxtver, F, R. s.

- F.L.S. Vols. I.to IIT, each Rel oo under the cmicg of the

_ First Commissioner of Her Maiesty

Plants: ‘Seas bie hy the Galena OF Hon

_ F.L.S. “With a Map of the Island and tens or . Han

Published under the authority of Her Majesty’s Soarctary of State for the |

Colonies. The Supplement, separately, 2s. 6d.

ON the FLORA of AUSTRALIA; its Origin, Affinities, and

Distribution. By Sir J. D. Hooker, F.R.S. 10s. - oa

CONTRIBUTIONS to THE FLORA of MENTONE. and

to a Winter Flora of the Riviera, including the coast from Marseilles to

Genoa, By J. TRAHERNE Moceniper. mae 8vo. Complete in 1 vol. :

99 Coloured Plates, 63s.

L. ven ah & CO., 6, —— Street, Coven Garden.

BOTANICAL MAGAZINE.

CONTENTS OF No. 628, APRIL, 1897.

Tas. 7527._AGAVE HASELOFFII.

» 7528—GENTIANA TIBETICA.’

» 7529.—TRISTANIA LAURINA.

» 7530.—GONGORA TRICOLOR.

a 7531.—SENECIO, SMITHIL. g

s L. Resve & Co, 6, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden,

Now Ready, Vol. bo Parts i and 1 Ws. 6,, ‘each. |

=PLORA* GAPENSIS;

A Systematic Description of the Plants of the Cape Colony: ne

and Port Natal.

Edited by W. T. THISELTON-DYER, C.M.G,, F.R.S.,

Director of the Royal Gardens, K ew.

Published under the authority of the Governments of the Cape of Good Hope

and Natal.

¢ Vols. I. to Ifl. 18s. each.

By WILLIAM H. HARVEY, M.D., F.R.S., Professor of Botany in the

2 University of Dublin, and

‘OTTO WILHELM SONDER, Ep Dz

Now ready, Part XXIT., 9s.

FLORA OF BRITISH INDIA.

ap a

ni “By JAMES EDWARDS, FES. ae

. with 2 Structural Plates, 12s,; Large Edition, with 28 Coloured Plates, 4

Now ready, Part age Jiao 4 Coloured Plates, 5s.

"LEPIDOPTERA OF THE “BRITISH ISLANDS.

= By CHARLES G. BARRETT, F.ES.

Vol, I. 12s.; large paper, with 40 Coloured Plates, 53s.

Vol. If. 12s.; large paper, with 46 Coloured Plates, 63s.

Vol. IIT. 12s.; large paper, with 50 Coloured Plates, 63s. ;

Prospectus may be had on applieation to the Publishers.

Now ready, Part XXVII., with 8 Coloarse Plates, Lbs.

“LEPIDOPTERA ; “INDICA.

By F. MOORE, F.Z.S.

"Vol Ju containing 94 Coloured Plates ; Wol I, with 96 Coloured Plates, each

& £9 5s., cloth ; £9 15s., half morocco.

Prospectus, with First List of Subseribers, can be had on application t to the Publishers.

: L. Reeve & Co., 6, Henrietta Stret, Covent oe "

: ie PRINTED: BY GILBERT AND BIVINGTON, LD., er. somn’s wou -

6d. plain.

CURTIS’ Ss:

BOTANICAL MAGAZINE,

COMPRISING

THE PLANTS, OF THE ROYAL GARDENS OF KEW,

: d BSTABLISHSPENIS. IN ona ‘BRITAIN, Wire

“gm JOSEPH DALTON “HOOKER, 1 MD, KC sr, C. B, P ES, PLS.

Late Director of the Ropal SBouantt Gardens ar Hew.

ai RL GaN UT ee

And flowers exotic grace our northern time. .

eae:

L. REEVE ano 00., 6, HENRISTTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN,

i897.

Eee

OL BOTANIC ‘S00IETY ARRANGEMENTS, 1897 ,

GREAT SUMMER EXHIBITION | oF PLANTS AND

FLOWERS, Wednesday, May 19th.

ce SPECIAL FLORAL FETE AND ‘CHILDREN'S: PARADE,

.! ‘Wednesday, June 9th: ;

: RHODODENDRON EXHIBITION. daily. desing ite :

ce IMPERIAL FETE AND FANCY FA oak. the.

To «

60th year of Her Majesty’s: Reign. In aid of th as

Hospital for Children, Gheian: June 21st to June: By

NATIONAL VIOLA SOCIETY'S. EXHIBITION, uly ny

ee EXHIBITION OF CHRYSAN THEMUMS early i in Nover

- BOTANICAL LECTURES, Fridays in May and June. -

MUSICAL PROMENADES, ‘Soames in June, July, and August. 2

Now ready, price 2s, 6d.

INSULAR FLORAS.

A Lecture delivered by Sir J. D.. HOOKER, O.B., before the British Association

for the advancement of Science at Nottingham, August 27, 1866.

Now ready » Second Edition.

HANDBOOK OF’ BRITISH MOSSES, aN

. ieigulorctons Pe all that are known to be natives: of oe Isles.

_ By ARTHUR G. BUTLER, Ph.D, F.LS., F.Z8,, F.

ae i ob a la and handsome yolume ¢f between 300 and 400 pages, with 60. —

ae tue © mio : ‘= iv. Ws FROWHAWK, pec gastettd coloured by Hund, 3

“HANDBOOK OF THE BRITISH FLORA:

A Description of the Flowering Plants and Ferns Indigenous «

: . to or Naturaliged in the British Isles. .

Bry, GEORGE BENTHAM, F-RS.

6th Edition, Revised by Sir J. D. Hooxenr, C.B., K.C.S.1., F.R.S., &. 10s. 6d.

ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BRITISH FLORA:

A Series of Wood Engravings, with Dissections, of British Plants, a

Drawn BY W.H, FITCH, F.L.S., anp .W: G. SMITH, F. L. 5.

Porming an lilustrated Companion to Bentham’s “ Handbook,” and other is: ish

. 4th Edition, with 1315. Wood Rugeariags, if. 62.

Floras,.

~L, REEVE & CO,, 6, HENRIETT ie STRERT, dive or ee

7532

”

oe)

Tas. 7582.

AGAVE KEWENSIS.

Native of Mexico.

Nat. Ord. AmaryLLipe”.—Tribe AGavez.

Genus AGave, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 738.)

Acave (Euagave) kewensis; breviter caulescens, foliis 30-40 laxe rosulatis

oblongo-lanceolatis carnoso-coriaceis viridibus, spina terminali debili vix

pungente spinulis marginalibus parvis deltoideis brunneis, pedunculo

valido elongato foliis multis rudimentariis lanceolatis preedito, floribus in

paniculam laxam dispositis, ramis patulis apice multifloris, pedicellis

brevibus, bracteis parvis ovatis scariosis, ovario cylindrico, perianthio

lutescente tubo brevi infundibulari, lobis ovato-lanceolatis, staminibus

lobis 2-3-plo longioribus, stylo staminibus longiore.

A. kewensis, Jacobi Monogr, Agave, p. 242. Baker in Gard. Chron. 1897,

vol. i. p. 68; Handb. Amaryllid. p. 242. ?

The present Agave belongs to the group with com-

paratively fleshy leaves, the species of which are less

hardy and much rarer in cultivation than A. americana,

A. rigida, and their allies. Of this group it is the finest

and largest species which is known. When General

Jacobi visited the Royal Gardens at Kew in 1865 he at

once recognized it as a new and well-marked species, and

shortly afterwards described it in his monograph under

the name of Agave kewensis. It did not flower till 1895,

and then proved to have the americana type of panicle.

The plant did not perfect seed, and died after flowering,

but the peduncle was cut and kept, and fortunately, as it

was the only plant known, developed a number of bulbillx

after the flowers faded. These have been planted, and it

is hoped that a number of young plants raised from them

will shortly be ready for distribution.

_— Deser.—Trunk produced to a length of half a foot

below the leaves. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, thirty or

forty in a rather lax rosette, three or four feet long,

seven or eight inches broad at the middle, narrowed

gradually to four inches above the dilated base, bright

green on both surfaces, concave on the face in the middle ;

end spine weak and scarcely pungent; marginal spinules

May Ist, 1897,

small, deltoid, brown. Peduncle fifteen feet long, acci-

dentally forked in the present specimen, with many ascend-

ing lanceolate reduced leaves. Inflorescence laxly panicled,

rather shorter than the peduncle; branches spreading,

bearing a cluster of many flowers at the apex; pedicels

short; bracts small, ovate, scariose. Ovary cylindrical,

an inch long. Perianth yellowish; tube short, funnel-

shaped ; lobes ovate-lanceolate, ascending, nearly an inch

long. Stamens more than twice as long as the perianth-

lobes; anthers linear. Style overtopping the anthers.—

J. G. Baker. |

Fig. 1, Marginal spinules; 2, front view of anther; 3, back view of anther;

4, apex of style ;—al/ enlarged; 5, whole plant, much reduced.

T3533

- F Brooks, &

M.S. del, JNFitch lith Vance Day

Tap. 5698.

MAXILLARIA Hovrrsana.

Native of Guatemala and Venezuela.

Nat. Ord. OrcuipEx.—Tribe VANDER,

Genus Maxitiaria, Ruiz & Pav.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii.

p. 555.)

Maxittarra (Caulescentes) Houtteana ; rhizomate elongato suberecto vaginis

lanceolatis acuminatis brunneis tecto, vaginis superioribus pseudobulbum

supremum s#quantibus, pseudobulbis lineari-oblongis compressis lavibus —

monopbhyllis, folio sessili sex-pollicari lineari obtuso medio profunde

canaliculato, pedunculo cum ovario 1-1} pollicario suberecto, flores

erecto sub 2-poll. latio, sepalis ovato-lanceolatis acutis aureo-marginatis

intus rubro-purpureis, basin versus aureis, dorsali allo latiore

fornicato, lateralibus patenti-recurvis, petalis erectis sepalis concoloribus

apicibus conniventibus, labello late oblongo apice rotundato pubernlo

aureo ultra medium sanguineo maculato, lobis lateralibus obsoletis, disco

atro-purpureo fasciato callo tumido instructo, columna maculata, anthera

conico-hemispherica papillosa, polliniis obovoideis cohwrentibus, glandula

transverse elongata arcuata.

M. Houtteana, Reichb. f. in Hamb.: Gartenz. vol. xiv. (1858) p. 212. Regel,

Gartenfl. vol. vii. (1858) p. 286.

M. Houtteana is very nearly allied to M. tenuifolia,

Lindl. (Bot. Reg. t. 1986 (in note), and vol. xxv. t. 8) of

Mexico, differing chiefly in the longer narrower pseudo-

bulbs, and broader bright green leaves. The specimen

figured was obtained from the Brussels Botanical Garden

in 1891. It flowers annually in the cool Orchid House

of the Royal Gardens, Kew, in April; the flower lasting

for a month or more.

_ Deser.—Rhizome erect or ascending, stout ; internodes

an inch long or less, clothed with brown, lanceolate sheaths,

the uppermost of which are as long as the young pseudo-

bulbs, lower successively shorter. Pseudobulbs two to two

and a half inches long, sessile, linear-oblong, compressed,

smooth, pale green. Leaf solitary, sessile, six inches long

by half to three-fourths of an inch broad, linear, obtuse, —

somewhat curved, dark green above, with a deep median

channel, beneath paler and keeled. Pedunele with the

ovary, one and a half to two inches long, up-curyed, stout,

May 1st, 1897.

green, clothed at the base with acute brown sheaths.

Flower nearly two inches broad across the lateral sepals,

suberect. Sepals dirty yellow without, within of a rich

red purple, with golden margins, the lateral ovate-

lanceolate, spreading and recurved, and with a yellow area

towards the baseand lower margins streaked with red-brown ;

dorsal sepal oblong, acute, fornicate. Petals rather smaller

than the sepals, coloured like the dorsal, oblong, acute,

incurved, tips connivent. Lip rather shorter than the

sepals, oblong, puberulous, tip rounded, side lobes none ;

disk with a low, broad, ill-defined, tumid callus, golden-

yellow, with red-brown spots in the distal half, and purple

streaks towards the base. Column yellow, spotted red-

brown. Anther .conico-hemispheric, papillose. Pollinia

pyriform, coherent ; gland bow-shaped.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Top of ovary, lip and column; 2, column; 3, anther; 4 and 5,

pollinia :—<Adl enlarged.

TIG4

MS del. JN-Kitch hth. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Imp

L.Reeve &C® London.

Tas. 7534.

SYRINGA amurensis.

Native of North China and Japan.

Nat. Ord. OLeacrea.—Tribe SyRINGER.

Genus Syrinaa, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 676.)

Syrinca (Ligustrina) amurensis; arbuscula erecta, glaberrima, ramosa,

foliosa, cortice rubro-brunnes, foliis breviter petiolatis late ovatis rotun-

datisve obtuse cuspidatis glaberrimis v. sparse pilosis, supra saturate

viridibus lucidis, subtus pallidis, nervis utrinqnue ad 6-8 patentibus,

paniculis magnis subpyramidatis, ramis patulis oppositis, floribus

numerosissimis in capitula globosa terminalia dispositis breviter

edicellatis albo-stramineis, calyce campanulato glaberrimo margine

reviter dentato, corolle tubo brevissimo, lobis ovatis patentibus, fila-

mentis exsertis, capsulis oblongis obtusis pustulatis, seminibus oblongo-

lanceolatis ventre excavatis.

8. (Ligustrina) amurensis, Rupr. in Bull. Phys-Math, Acad. Sc. Petersb.

vol. xv. (1857) p. 871; in Marim. Prim. Fl. Amur. pp. 198, 474. Carr.

in Rev. Hortic. (1877) p. 453 (non 1861, p. 353). Decne in Nouv. Arch.

Mus. Paris, Ser. 2, vol. ii. p. 43. Sargent, Garden § Forest, vol. i. (1888)

p- 222.

§. japonica, Dene. l.c. p. 44, t. 3. Sargent in Gard. Chron. (1886) vol. ii.

p- 560, fig. 123; Gard. & Forest. l.c. & vol. ii. (1889) p. 291, figs. 114,

115.

S. ligustrina, Hort. ea C. Koch Dendrol. vol. ii. p. 272.

S. pekinensis, Rupr.l.c. Decne l.c. p. 431. Sargent in Gard. § Forest. L. c.

PS. rotundifolia, Dene. J. c.

Ligustrina amurensis, Rupr. Beitr. Pfl. Russ. Reich. vol. xi. p. 72; Dee. Pl.

Amur. t.9. Maximov. Mel. Bot. Dec. xix. p. 395, cum var, manchurica,

pekinensi & japonica.

Syringa amurensis is a very remarkable plant, which no

one seeing it in flower would suppose to be a Lilac, or

anything but a Privet; whereas when in fruit it could

not be taken for a Privet, or anything but a Lilac. This

combination of the characters of Lilac and Privet induced

its first describer, Dr. Ruprecht, to propose the sectional

name for it of Ligustrina, which he subsequently raised to

generic rank. It wasintroduced from Japan into America

by Prof. Sargent, who sent plants to the Royal Gardens,

Kew, from the Arnold Arboretum. His account of its

introduction is as follows :—‘ In 1876, Mr. W. 8. Clarke,

President of the Agricultural College at Sapporo, in Japan,

Mary Isr, 1897.

sent me seeds of a tree identified with Syringa japonica,

Dene. The plants raised from these grew with great

rapidity, attaining fifteen to sixteen feet in height in 1886,

with a clear, straight stem, light red, thin, smooth bark,

coriaceous leaves five to six inches long, and bearing in

July immense compound panicles eighteen to twenty-

four inches long by sixteen to eighteen inches broad, of

small white flowers, almost destitute of smell. The tree

continues long in bloom, and the leaves fall early, without

changing colour. It promises to be one of the most

magnificent of all the flowering trees that are hardyin

this climate (Massachusets).”” The only exception I have

to make in this description is that in the Kew plant the |

flowers had a sweet heavy smell, like those of Privet. A

The geographical range of S. amurensis is very wide,

from Manchuria and North China to Corea and Japan,

presenting slight varieties which have been formulated by

Maximovicz, and which depend chiefly on the amount of

or absence of the very sparse hairs on the under-surface

and margins of the leaves; to which in the case of var.

pekinensis may possibly be added a difference of habit, for

of a specimen of that plant he says (writing in 1888) that

it formed a slender, tree-like shrub, ten feet high, with

long, flexuous, graceful branches. The Kew plant of this

variety does not, however, conform to that character, but

resembles a dwarf specimen of S. amurensis. Decaisne

describes, as a fourth species of the section Ligustrina,

S. rotundifolia, of Manchuria, a plant I have not seen, but

which is most probably another variety of S. amurensis.

There are indigenous specimens of S. amurensis in the

Kew Herbarium from the Amur River, collected ‘by

Maximovicz; from Peking, Bretschneider; top of Mt.

Conolly, T. L. Bullock; and the Yalu River, Corea,

H. E. M. James, Esq. In the Arboretum of the Royal —

Gardens, Kew, it forms a shrub flowering in June.

Deser.—A shrub or small tree, with red-brown bark,

quite glabrous, or sparsely hairy on the back and margins.

of the leaves. Leaves three to six inches long, shortly —

petioled, broadly ovate, or almost orbicular, obtusely

cuspidate, coriaceous, dark green and shining above, paler

beneath ; nerves six to eight pairs, divergent. Panicles

attaining one to two feet in length, and sixteen to eighteen

inches in breadth, subpyramidal ; branches spreading, and

branchlets terminated by globose heads of very shortly

pedicelled very pale cream-colrd. ebracteate flowers about

one-third of an inch broad. Calyx campanulate, mouth

shortly, obtusely, irregularly toothed. Corolla-tube very

short ; segments ovate-oblong, obtuse, spreading. la-

ments about as long as the corolla-lobes. Ovary glabrous ;

style exserted ; stigma 2-fid. Capsule an inch long, linear-

oblong, obtuse; valves thin, brown, pustulate. Seeds

lanceolate, obtuse at both ends, dorsally convex, ventrally

excayate.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Fascicles of flowers ; 2, anther ; 3, ovary; all enlarged; 4, capsules,

and 9, seeds (from Rupr. Dee. 1. c.) of nat. size,

730 ;

MS.dél. IN Fitchhith.

Vincent Brooks, Day & Son imp

oO:

ee)

Tas. 7535.

DIMORPHOTHECA Ecxtosts.

Native of South Africa.

Nat. Ord. Compositz.—Tribe CALENDULACER.

Genus DimorpryotHeEca, Vaill.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. ii.

p. 453.)

DimorpHoTuEca Ecklonis; suffruticosa, erecta, robusta, ramosa, tenuiter

scaberula v. glabrata, foliis obovato-oblongis oblanceolatis linearibusve

_integerrimis paucidentatis v. inferioribus basi sinuato-lobatis, apice

rotundatis acutis v. mucronulatis, costa crassa, capitulo longe peduncu-

‘lato solitario, involucri bracteis sub 2-seriatis lanceolatis acuminatis

marginibus scariosis, fl. radii tubo brevi pubescente, ligula elongata

alba dorso violaceo-striata, fl. disci azureis, corolle lobis dorso sub apice

incrassatis, acheniis radii oblongo-pyriformibus triquetris lateribus

rugulosis dorso convexis.

D. Ecklonis, DC. Prodr. vol. vi. p. 71. Harv. § Sond. Fl. Cap. vol. iii.

p. 419.

The plant here figured, after a careful examination by

Mr. N. E. Brown, is referred by him, I think correctly,

to the species above-named; though in the absence of

fruit, which has not matured in this country, the absolute

determination is not arrived at. De Candolle places it in

the section Osteospermopsis, characterized by the sterile

disk-flowers, the achenes of the ray-flowers being ovate-

oblong, trigonous, smooth or subtubercled at the top.

All the species of this section he regards as doubtful

Dimorphothece, and perhaps more allied to Osteospermum.

Six species of Dimorphotheca have been figured in the

earlier volumes of this work, namely D. aurantiaca, DC.

(Calendula Tragus, +. 408); D. Tragus, DC. (C. Tragus, t.

1981) ; D. cuneata, DC. {Arctotis glutinosa, Sims, t. 1343) ;

D. chrysanthemifolia, DC. (Calendula, t. 2218) ; D. gramini-

folia, DC. (nudicaulis, DC. t. 5252); and D. Barberix, Harv.

t. 53837. From all these D. Ecklonis differs in its shrubby

stem and branches, in this respect coming nearest to D.

: _ DC., the stem of which is woody, but at the base

only.

The only authentic specimen of D. Ecklonis in the Kew

May Ist, 1897.

Herbarium is a starved one, with very small leaves and

flowers, from the channel of the Zwartkop River in Uiten-

hage. HEcklon’s type of the species was from the Coega

River, near Elandstroom. There are good specimens in

the Herbarium, collected at Port Elizabeth by Mrs.

Holland, with peduncles five to eight inches high. The

specimen here figured was raised from Port Elizabeth seeds

presented to the Royal Gardens, Kew, by Mr. William

Armstong in 1895, It was grown as a summer bedding-

out plant, attaining eighteen inches in height, and flowering

in July.

Descr.—Stem branching, shrubby, with herbaceous,

scaberulous, leafy branchlets, and terminal axillary

peduncles. Leaves three to five inches long, oblanceolate,

subsessile, acute obtuse or apiculate, sparingly serrate or

toothed, nearly glabrous, pale green, midrib beneath very

stout; nerves few, erecto-patent ; uppermost leaves linear-

oblong, obtuse, quite entire, lowermost sinuate-lobed.

Head three inches in diameter. Jnvolucral bracts half an

inch long, appressed, lanceolate, acuminate, green. Ray-

florets about sixteen, tube very short, hispid ; limb one to

one and a quarter inches long, oblanceolate, white above,

violet-blue and striate beneath, with a broad white border ;

style very short. Disk small, florets azure; corolla-tube

setulose; lobes very short, much thickened dorsally.—

dD. i: :

Fig. 1, Base of corolla, immature achene and style of ray-flower; 2, disk-

flower ; 3, corolla-lobe of do. ; 4, stamens; 5, style :—A/l enlarged.

7536.

M.S. del. INFitdulith.

L, Reeve G° Landon

| Tan. 7586,

GOMPHOCARPUS serosvs.

Native of Southern Arabia.

Nat. Ord. AscLEPIADE®.—Tribe CYNANCHEA.

Genus Gomruocarrus, Br.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 753.)

GompPHocaRrPus sefosus; suffruticosus, ramulis incano-tomentellis, foliis

linearibus obtusis acutis apiculatisve glaberrimis in petiolum brevem

angustatis, pedunculis 1-2-pollicaribus 6-8-floris pedicellisque sub-

zequilongis pubescentibus, corolla rotate segmentis elliptico-ovatis

subacutis reflexis stramineis, corone squamis gynostegium #quantibus

poculiformibus trunecatis viridibus, oris angulis posticis paullo arrectis

crenulatis, folliculis ovoideis rostratis setosis.

G. setosus, Br. in Mem. Wern. Soc. vol. i. (1809) p. 38; Roem. §& Sch. Syst.

vol. vi. p. 87; Deene in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. If. vol. ix. (1838) p- 324; et in

DC. Prodr. vol. viii. p. 557. Kew Bullet. 1894, p. 335.

G. fruticosus, Herb. Exsicc. Arab. Schweinf. n. 810.

Asctepias setosa, Forsk. Fl. Aigypt. Arab. p. 51. Vahl, Symb. Bot. p. 23,

t. viii.

The plant here figured is of more interest botanically

than horticulturally. It belongs to a very large genus,

containing upwards of sixty species, closely allied to

Asclepias, differing from that genus only in the want of a

ligulate process within each of the cup-shaped bodies that

form a corona round the column of anthers. The majority

of the species are natives of the hot, dry regions of Arabia,

and of North and especially of South Africa, one extending

to the Mediterranean region. The genus was supposed to

be confined to those countries until Bentham, when re-

organizing the Order Asclepiadee for the “Genera

Plantarum,” found that it was impossible to exclude from

Gomphocarpus most of the species of the American genus

Acerates, Kll., thus adding upwards of a dozen to the

former.

G. setosus is most closely allied to G. fruticosus, Br. of

the Eastern Mediterranean region, and North Africa,

which has white corolla lobes with hairy margins, and two

teeth on each side of the posterior margins of the coronal

cups.

Seeds of G. setosus were collected on hills near Bir

May lst, 1897,

Backban in the Hadramaut, by Mr. Lunt, one of the staff

of the Royal Gardens, who, as botanical collector, accom-

panied Mr. Bent on his interesting excursion into that

country in 1893. The plants raised flowered in a green-

house in April, 1896.

Descr.—A small shrub; branches slender, branchlets,

peduncles and petioles clothed with a hoary pubescence.

Leaves two to three inches long, linear, obtuse acute or

apiculate, quite glabrous, yellow-green above, paler beneath,

base narrowed into a very short petiole. Cymes unbelli-

form, inserted between the petioles, six- to eight-flowered ;

peduncles and pedicels about one anda half inch long,

slender, pubescent, pale red-brown; bracts minute.

Flowers nearly an inch broad. Sepals small, lanceolate.

Petals elliptic, subacute, glabrous, straw-colrd., reflexed.

Scales cup-shaped, green, mouth truncate, margins be-

hind on each side, produced a little upward, with three

crenatures. /ruit an ovoid beaked follicle, three to four

inches long, clothed with scattered, erect bristles.—

oD. H.

Fig. 1, Corona with the base of the corolla below it; 2, @ Suprahaped =

of the corona ; 3, the same, with one side removed; 4, staminal column wit

the coronal cups removed ; 5, pollinia:—A// enlarged.

mae: os

wl, got Sa

oie <

ce a s oe ares

to Bentham’s ‘ Handbook,” and other British Floras. 1315 Wood En-

gravings. 4th Edition, revised and enlarged, crown 8v0, 10s. 6d.” ;

OUTLINES of ELEMENTARY BOTANY, as Introductory to

Local Floras. By Grorce Bunruau, F.R.S., President of the Linnwan

hele structure. By B. Buarmwarry, MD... FLL.

TS" ity AS Plates, Oe” VoL IL dag, bar Por ey ie Bee

FLORA of BRITISH INDIA. By Sir J. D. Hoo

Part XX.,.7s. 6d, Parts XXI. and XXII,, 9s. each. Vols. I, tolV., 32s,

each, Vol. V., 38s. Vol. VI., 36s. Ka

tion of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of those Islands, By J. G. Baker,

F.L.8. Complete in 1 vol., 24s. Published wnder the authority of the

Colonial’ Government of Mauritius.

FLORA CGAPENSIS: a Systematic Description of the Plants of

: ‘the Cape Colony, Caffraria, and Port Natal. By Wintiam H. Harvey,M-D.,

F.R.8., and Orro Witnetm Sonpeg, Ph.D. Vols, I.—III., 18%. each,

Vol VI.. Parts I. and II., 7s. 6d. each, ; é

. FLORA of TROPICAL AFRICA. By Danigt Ouiver, F.R.S,,

~ .* FES. Vols. I.to IIl., each 20s. Published under the authority: of the ~

First. Commissioner of Her Maiesty’s Works. :

BOOK of the NEW ZEALAND FLORA: 2a Systematic

a of the Native Planta of New Zealand, and the Chatham,

Lord Anuckland’s, Campbell’s, and Macquarrie’s Islands, By

2, F.R.S. Published under the auapices of the Government

JORA of thi BRITISH “WEST INDIAN ISLANDS. By

Dr. Grisesacn, P.L.S. 42s. “Published under the auspices of the Seere-

3 _ tary of State forthe Colonies, = = :

“Plants and Ferns of the Island of Hongkong. By Gronce BENTHAM,

F.L.8. With @ Map of the Island and 4 by Dr. Hanon, 21s.

Published under the authority of Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for the

Colonies. The Supplement, separately, 2s. 6d.

ON the FLORA of AUSTRALIA; its Origin, Affinities, and

Distribution. By Sir J. D. Hooxzr, F.R.S8. 10s,

CONTRIBUTIONS to THE FLORA of MENTONE. and

to a Winter Flora of the Riviera, including the coast from Marseilles te

Genoa. By J. TraneRne Mogeriner. Royal 8vo. Complete im 1 yol.,

- .§9 Coloured Plates, 63s, ta

: ce REEVE & CO., 6, Henrietta Strect, Covent Garden.

- FLORA HONGKONGENSIS: a Description of the F lowering

“ sees MAGAZINE.

CONTENTS. OF No, 629, MAY, achat

Taz. 7532, AGAVE KEWENSIS, z

jy 70338. MAXILLARIA- HOUTTEANA,

ix » -7534.SYRINGA AMURENSIS. -

he Tee —DIMORPHOTHECA BOKLONIS,

Ga 2 O88; GSM PHOCAE ECS SETOSUS.

LL. Reeve & ait 6, Henrietta Street, Covent. Gariiem, bre a ee

Now Ready, Vol. VL, Parts I. and Il., 7s. 6d. each.

FLORA GAPENSIS:

ie A etc Description of the Plants of the Cape Colony, Caftaia, |

*% : and Port Natal. if

Edited by W. T. THISELTON-DYER, C.M.G,, F.RS.,

Director of the Royal Gartitess Kew.

‘Published under the authority of the Governments of the Cape of Good Hope

.- and Natal.

Vols. I. to ITI. 18s. each. :

BY “WILLIAM H. HARVEY, M.D., F.RS., Professor of Ba

University of Dublin, and

OTTO WILHELM Sou Z

— ready, Part caeh ae 4 Coteus Plates, 5s.

IDOPTERA oF THE BRITISH —

By CHARLES G, BARRETT, EBS). 3 wy

re 1. 12s.; large paper, with 40 Coloured Plates, 53s.

TI, 12s.; large paper, with 46 Coloured Pla

Fol. bed Bes large paper, Sr 50 Coloures

_ Shire | Series, i ee

No. 630.

‘OL. LUI.—JUNE. /’, Pre 8 tara 0 pt

or No. 1324: OF THE ENTIRE WORK.

| | CURTIS'S — ae

BOTANICAL MAGAZIN-

COMPRISING a

| LONDON: — Miho:

L. REEVE anv ©O., 6, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN, ©

1897,

MOL BOTANIG SOCIETY ARRANGEMENTS, 1897

SPECIAL FLORAL FETE AND CHILDREN’ S PARADE,

Wednesday, June 9th.

‘RHODODENDRON EXHIBITION daily during June.

IMPERIAL FETE AND FANCY FAIR. To commemorate the

60th year of Her Majesty’s Reign. In aid of the Victoria

Hospital for Children, Chelsea. June 2Ist to June 25th:

' NATIONAL VIOLA SOCIETY’S EXHIBITION, July 17th.

_ EXHIBITION OF CHRYSANTHEMUMS early in November.

BOTANICAL LECTURES, Fridays in May and June.

MUSICAL PROMENADES, Wednesdays in June, July, and August.

Now ready, price 2s. 62,

INSULAR FLORAS.

a Risicss delivered by Sir J..D. HOOKER, C.B., before the British Assooiation « es =

for the advancement of Science at Nottingham, oo 27, 1866. 3:

Now ready, Second Edition,

HANDBOOK OF BRITISH

Containing all that are known to be natiy es ‘tish

By. the Rev. M: J. ae ge MA, FL are: ahs.

ere Now ete eonvtalk x vo “ net; in half morocco,

me whole forms: large and Vikedubing volume of between 300 and 400 pages, with 60 Plates, by

FW. FROWHAWE, beantifully coloured by h.nd,

- HANDBOOK OF THE BRITISH FLORA:

A Descripiion of the Flowering Plants and Ferns Indigenous

to or Naturalized in the British Isles.

By. GEORGE BENTHAM, F.RS.

6th Edition, Revised by Sir J, D. Hooxer, C.B., K.CS.1,, PRS, fe, ; 10s. 6a.

ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BRITISH FLORA

~, A Series of Wood Engravings, with Dissections, of British Pade:

"a Drawn By W.H. FITCH, F.L.S.,; ann W. G. SMITH, F.L.S:

eR Forming an Illustrated Companion to Bentham’s. © Handbook, ” and other British Flor

4th Edition, with 1815 Wood ee: 10s. 6:

1937

Viricent Brooks, Day & SonTmp.

saps

Tap. 7537.

RENANTHERA Storizt.

Native of the Philippine Islands.

Nat. Ord. Orncuipr#.—Tribe VaNDE.

Genus Renantuera, Lour.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 577.)

RENANTHERA Storiei; caule robusto elongato ascendente, foliis distichis

oblongis lineari-oblongisve carnosis carinatis apice 2-lobis, pedunculo

pedali folio opposito valido, panicula pendula ampla pedali ramis patulis

multifloris, bracteis parvis triangularibus viridibus, pedicellis cum

ovariis 1-14-pollicaribus roseis, floribus 24-3 poll. longis, sepalo dorsali

erecto lineari subspathulato obtuso rubro-aurantiaco sanguineo irrorato,

lateralibus pendulis basi subconnatis rhombeo-v. spathulato-obovatis

obtusis undulatis pallide coccineis plagis sanguineis ornatis, petalis

sepalo dorsali equilongis concoloribusque erecto-patentibus oblanceolatis

falcatis, labello parvo sessili, lobis lateralibus erectis quadrato-oblongis

_sanguineis basi extus aureis intus aureo striatis, intermedio duplo

minore ovato obtuso sanguineo basin versus 2-calloso, calcare conico

apice rotundato aureo.

R. Storiei, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1880, vol. ii. p. 296. Warner &

Williams, Orchid. Album, t. 513. Williams, Orchid Growers’ Man.

Ed. 7, p. 694.

Vanda Storiei, Storie ex Reichh. f. Le.

This magnificent plant, though in every respect so

much a finer species, differs less botanically from the

well-known R. coccinea, Lour. (Tab. 2997, 2998), than

would at first sight be supposed. The flowers are much

Jarger, of far more vivid colouring, the dorsal sepals and

petals broader, and the lateral sepals more undulate,

with bright, velvety blood-red blotches, the side-lobes

of the lip are larger, and the midlobe obtuse. The column

and the pollinia with their gland and stipes are the same

in both speGies. fe

Renanthera Storiei is a native of the Philippine Islands,

and was first described in 1880 by Reichenbach. The

plate here given is from a magnificent plant which

flowered at Burford Lodge, by Sir. Trevor Lawrence, in

June of last year, and which was kindly lent for the

purpose of being figured, together with a sketch of the

whole plant. There is a good specimen of it in the Royal

Gardens, Kew, which has not flowered as yet.

JUNE Ist, 1897.

Descr.—Stem ten to twelve feet high, as thick as a

swan's quill. Leaves eight to ten inches long, from

oblong to linear-oblong, alternate, distichous, fleshy,

keeled, bright green, tip two-lobed. Peduwnele a foot long,

leaf-opposed, pale reddish brown. Panicle a foot long,

and nearly as broad, pendulous; branches spreading, the

lower many-fid. ; bracts small, triangular, green; pedicels

with the ovary rose-colrd., one and a half inches long.

Flowers two and a half to three inches long from the tips

of the dorsal to those of the lateral sepals. Dorsal sepal

erect, linear, widened towards the obtuse tip, orange-red,

mottled with crimson; lateral sepals pendulous, sub-—

rhomboidly or spathulately obovate, undulate, crimson

with large blood-red blotches. Petals erecto-patent, sub-

spathulately linear, obtuse, falcate, coloured like the

dorsal sepal. Lp very small ; side-lobes quadrately oblong,

erect, blood-red, bases externally golden-yellow, internally

streaked yellow and red ; midlobe rather shorter than the

side-lobes, ovate, obtuse, blood-red, with two oblong calli

at the base ; spur broadly conical, tip rounded.—J. D. Hl. a

Fig. 1, Lip and column; 2, side view of do.; 3, top of column ; 4 and 5,

pollinia with strap and gland:—All enlarged; 6, reduced view of top of

stem and leaves,

7538

aauan an

~<a

QnOrO-8 tee Wee

er 5 NE ay

Vincent Brooks,& Son inp

L Reeve & C2 London.

Tas. 7538,

STROBILANTHES coattosvs.

Native of the East Indies.

Nat. Ord. AcanrHacrx.—Tribe RuELLUER.

Genus Srrositantues, Bl, ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1086.)

Stropitantues (Bracteate) callosus; frutex erectus, caule robusto subpoly-

gono tuberculis seriatis parvis instructo, foliis 6-9-pollicaribus elliptico-

lanceolatis caudato-acuminatis subserrulatis ciliolatis in petiolam

elongatum ad medium alatum angustatis, nervis utrinque cost 8-16,

supra lineolatis et sparse pilosis, subtus glabratis, floribus amplis in

spicas strobiliformes dispositis, bracteis late scaphaformibus obtusis

herbaceis, bracteolis 0, sepalis linearibus obtusis, corolla subsymme-

tricee tubo brevi, fauce inflato calyce duplo longiore intus piloso, limbo fere

2-poll. lato lobis subsqnualibus patentibus orbicularibus undulatis

violaceis, ore pallido, filamentis pilosis, antheris oblongis, ovario glabro,

stylo piloso, capsula } poll. longa 2-sperma, seminibus obovatis acutis —

appresse villosis,

S. callosus, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. vol. iii. p. 85; et in DC. Prodr. vol.

x. p. 185 (pro maz. part.). T. Anders. in Journ Linn. Soe. vol. ix.

(1867) p. 469. Clarke in Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. iv. p. 451. Kirtikar in

Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. vol. vii. (1892) p. 64,t. A. Dalz. & Gibs.

Bomb, Fl. 188 (evel. descr. semin.). Constable in Kew Bullet. 1896,

p. 98.

S. Grahamianus, Wight. Ic. t. 1520. Dalz. & Gibs. l.c. 188. T. Anders. le.

Ruellia callosa, Wall. Cat. n. 2359.

A native of Western India, abundant below the Ghats in

Concan, Canara, and in the Central Provinces ; also extend

ing northward to Mt. Abu in Rajputana, there forming a

shrub six to eight feet high, said to flower in its third year

of growth, from June to September. When fully grown the

stems are cut to the ground, and used with mud in making

the walls of cottages, &c., new stems coming up from the

stools. The leaves are used in native practice as a tonic,

febrifuge, antispasmodic, stimulant and purgative, but

according to Surgeon-Major Kirtikar, when used fresh,

the hairs have an irritating action on the stomach.

Recently dried flower-buds have been sent to the Director

of Kew by Mr. F. C. Constable, with the following infor-

mation: “TI was walking on a steep mountain side (in

JuNE Ist, 1807.

Khandalla) through half a mile or more of these trees,

close together, simply laden with buds. There was in the

air a sweet resinous, pleasant odour from the buds. My

hands were covered with what they exuded, and—this is

the point—though I washed my hands three times, the

pleasant scent remained.” Ths buds sent by Dr. Kirkitar

were transmitted to Messrs. Piesse & Lubin, who reported

that ‘‘ the odour somewhat resembles Patchouli, but is not

so good, and would be likely to be used in the soap-trade.”

— Kew Bulletin 1. c. :

Seeds of S. callosus were received at the Royal Gardens,

Kew, in 1888, from the Botanical Gardens of Saharanpur.

They were collected on Mt. Abu, where Mr. Duthie in-

forms me the shrub is supposed to flower about every

ninth year. The plants raised at Kew flowered in a warm

greenhouse in August, 1896, that is in the eighth year after

the seeds were sown.

Descr.—An erect shrub. Stems erect, strict, simple or

branching, six to eight feet high, as thick as the thumb,

obscurely polygonal, with small tubercles on the angles.

Leaves six to nine inches long, elliptic-lanceolate, acumi-

nate, subserrulate, base narrowed into a long, slender

petiole, which is winged down to the middle, bright green

and lineolate above, margins ciliolate, pale beneath ;

nerves many, puberulous. Flowers sessile, large, pale

violet-blue, in short globose or oblong, catkin-like spikes,

one to two inches long, with broadly boat-shaped or

hemispheric green imbricating bracts. Sepals linear,

‘obtuse. Corolla-tube very short, dilated into a subcam-

-panulate throat twice as long as the calyx, and hairy

within; limb nearly two inches in diameter; lobes orbi-

cular, undulate. Filaments with spreading hairs; anthers

short. Ovary glabrous; style filiform, glandular-hairy.

Capsule oblong, 2-seeded. Seeds obovate, appressedly

villous.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Portion of stem of nat. size; 2, calyx; 3, base of corolla laid open

with stamen; 4 and 5, stamens; 6, ovary and disk :—Ad/ enlarged.

7539

MS.del. JN Fitch lith

LL Reeve & C° London.

Tas. 7039.

VERONICA DIOSMASFOLIA, var. TRISEPALA.

Native of New Zealand. :

Nat. Ord. ScropHULARINES.—Tribe Dicitatex.

Genus Veronica, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. u. p. 964.)

Veronica (Hebe) diosmefolia; fruticulus erectus subcorymbosim ramosus

glaberrimus, ramulis et inflorescentia puberulis, ramis gracilibus cicatri-

catis, cortice fusco-brunneo, foliis subconfertim decussatis patulis coriaceis

4-1 poll. longis lineari-oblongis acutis integerrimis subcarinatis, racemis

brevibus apices versus ramulorum corymbosis breviter pedunculatis,

floribus pedicellatis ad i-poll. latis pallide lilacinis, bracteis parvis

pedicellis multo brevioribus, calycis parvi coroll# tubo brevioris lobis

brevibus latis ovato-oblongis obtusis, corollz tubo brevi infundibulari,

lobis obtusis postico majore late ovato, antico lineari-oblongo, filamentis

elongatis, antheris apiculatis, stylo gracili deflexo, capsulis 3 poll. longis

ovoideis calyce multo longioribus glaberrimis.

V. diosmefolia, R. Gunn. in Bot. Mag. sub +t. 3461 (1836) diosmifolia)

Benth. in DG. Prodr. vol. x. p. 460. A. Cunn. in Ann. Nat. Hist. vol. i.

(1838) p. 459; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. vol.i. p. 193; Handb. N. Zeal. Fl.

p- 209. Kirk in Trans. N. Zeal. Instit. vol. iii. (1870) p. 168; et vol.

XXviii. (1895) p. 525. Armstrong l.c, vol. xxii. (1881) p. 351.

Var. trisepala ; gracilior, foliis ecarinatis, calycis lobis 3 supremo emargi-

nato. V. trisepala, Colenso in Trans. N. Zeald. Instit. vol. xv. (1882)

p. 526. V. diosmefolia, var. trisepala, Kirk 1. c. vol. xxviil. p. 525.

Veronica is now known to be the largest genus by far

of New Zealand flowering plants. Banks and Solander in

1769 procured 3 species. Allan Cunningham in 1838

peeled 10 ; the additions being due to the indefatigable

abours of himself and brother Richard, during their visit

to the Bay of Islands, Allan in 1826, and again in 1838,

and Richard in 1834, collecting in both cases for the

Sydney Botanical Gardens. My “ Flora Nove Zelandiz ”

(1853) contains 24, the principal additions being from the

mountainous interior of the Northern Island, and the

previously unexplored Middle Island. In my “ Handbook

of the New Zealand Flora” (1867) there are 40. Mr.

June Ist, 1897.

Armstrong’s enumeration (in the ‘‘ Transactions of the New

Zealand Institute,” 1.c. 1881) gives 60. And this by no

means exhausts. the list of species known to exist in the

islands, for several have been discovered since the last date,

and I have drawings of others (species or varieties) that

have flowered in the Royal Botanical Gardens of Edinburgh,

from seeds of indigenous plants, which I am unable to

identify with any described ones.

Veronica diosmexfolia was discovered at the Bay of

Islands by Richard Cunningham in 1834, where it occurs

as far south as Tekawaki, and it has since been found at

Nelson by Bidwell, and at Canterbury by Sinclair and

Haast. It was described by its discoverer as having white

flowers, whereas those of the specimen here figured are

pale lilac. Mr. Kirk, F.L.S. (of Wellington, N.Z., now

happily engaged on a Flora of New Zealand), to whom I

submitted the drawing, informs me that he regards it as

“a variety of diosmexfolia with the inflorescence mostly

reduced to short, simple racemes which are further re-

moved from the apex of the branches than usual; with

calyx-segments rather broad, and leaves less acute than

in the type.” It is identical with specimens of V. trisepala,

Colenso, which Mr. Kirk has referred to V. diosmexfolia as

var. trisepala.

The specimen here figured is from the Royal Botanical

Gardens of Edinburgh, where it flowered in June, 1893.

Descr.—A dwarf, erect, much corymbosely branched

evergreen bush; branches covered with very dark brown

bark. Leaves one half to one inch long, in rather crowded

pairs, linear-oblong, acute, quite entire, nerveless, bright

green above, pale and keeled by the midrib beneath ;

petiole very short. lowers towards the end of the

branches, in short subcorymbosely disposed minutel y pube-

rulous peduncled racemes an inch long; bracts mninute,

much shorter than the pedicels. Calyx minutely puberu-

lous, rather shorter than the corolla-tube, deeply 4-lobed;

lobes oblong, obtuse, two sometimes connate (var. trisepala).

Corolla white or pale lavender blue; tube shortly funnel-

shaped ; limb one-fourth to one-third inch across; lobes

unequal, obtuse, posticous largest broadly ovate, lateral

ovate, anticous much smaller, oblong, or linear-oblong.

Filaments as long as the corolla-lobes; anthers pale,

apiculate. Ovary glabrous; style slender, deflexed.

Capsule about one-sixth of an inch long, ovoid, obtuse,

turgid, much longer than the calyx-lobes.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Portion of raceme; 2, pedicel, bract and calyx; 3 and 4, anthers;

5, ovary and disk; 6, portion of fruiting raceme:—All enlarged; 7 and

8, portion of branchlets and leaves, of nat. size.

7540

_—

“Vincent Brooks,Day & Son Ip

MS. del, JN-Fitch ith

L. Reeve & C° London

Tas. 7540.

BEGONIA Bavmannt.

Native of Bolivia.

Nat. Ord. Brcontacea,

Genus Breonta, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 841.)

Beconta (Lemoine) Bawmanni; rhizomate magno globoso, caule robusto

folioso sparse piloso roseo, foliis crasse petiolatis carnosis reniformibus

duplicato crenatis palmatim nervosis utrinque marginibusque sparse

setosis, supra saturate viridibus subtus pallidis roseo-suffusis nervis

validis hispidulis, floribus maximis roseis suaveolentibus in racemum

terminalem nutantem pauciflorem dispositis longe pedicellatis, bracteis

brevissimis incisis, rachi pedicellisque roseis sparse ppilosis, (fl.

masc.: petalis 4 subcuneatim rotundatis, staminibus in globum com-

pactis, filamentis liberis, antheris pyriformibus; jl. fem.: petalis 5

inequalibus cuneato-rotundatis, ovario carnoso triptero sparse piloso

viride, alis crassis unica cuneiforme, capsula 3 loculari, placentis 2-partitis,

segmentis utringue ovuliferis, stigmatibus latis undulatis et convolutis

secus marginem truncatam stigmatosis.

B. Baumanni, Lemoine ex Wittm. in Gartenfl. vol. xl. (1891) p. 47; et 281,

t. 1348, xylog. fig. 62. Neubert in Gart. Mag. (1894) p. 775.

Begonia de Cochabamba, Sace. in Rev. Hortic. vol. lviii. (1886) p. 347.

Begonia Baumanni belongs to the tuberous-rhizomed

group of the genus, which includes B. Veitchii, Hk. f. (Tab.

5663), B. Clarkei, Hk. f. (Tab. 5675) and B. roseflora,

Hk, f. (Tab. 5680), and some of which have proved to be,

as I ventured to predict in publishing B. Vettehit in

1867, amongst the most ornamental of border plants.

They have been referred by myself and others to tho

section Huszia, A.DC., which contains species with

different types of stigmas; those of B. Veitchii, for in-

stance, having the arms elongate, with a spiral line of

stigmatic papilla, whilst those of B. resexflora and

Baumanni have short, broadly truncate stigmas, cleft on

the ventral side, but not 2-lobed, with undulate convolute

margins, and the papillz are confined to the truncate upper

margins. Recently M. Fourier has proposed (* Bull.

Soc. Centr. d’Hortic. de France,” Ser. 3) (1879) a new

grouping of the tuberous Begonias, according to which B.

Baumanni is placed in section Lemoinex, characterized by

JUNE lst, 1897.

the moneecious flowers, males with 4-8 petals, fem. with 5,

stigmas persistent, with horse-shoe shaped arms (hardly

the case in B. Bawmanni) and 2-fid placentas. It includes

the sections Huszia, Hupetalum, and Barya of A. de

Candolle.

B, Baumanni is a native of Cochibamba in the Eastern

Andes of Central Bolivia, the capital of which (of the

same name) is 8396 ft. above the sea. From thence

seeds were sent to Herrn E. N. Baumann of Bolivia, in

honour of whom the plant is named. The drawing here

given was made from a plant which flowered in a cool

greenhouse of the Royal Gardens in September, 1896.

Tt succeeds also in summer in the open air.

Descr.—Rootstock globose, attaining the dimensions of a

middle-sized melon; stem petiole and branches of in-

florescence and pedicels bright rose-red, sparsely hairy.

Stem one to one and a half feet high, stout, leafy.

Leaves stoutly petioled, three to five inches broad, fleshy,

reniform, doubly crenate, palmately nerved, sparsely

hispidulous on both surfaces, and on the margins, andon

the stout flabellate nerves beneath, bright green above,

paler beneath, and often suffused with red; petiole four

to six inches long. Flowers moncecious, very large, rose-

red, in a lax terminal nodding few-fld. raceme, very

sweet-scented; bracts lacerate; pedicels one to three

inches long, stout. Male flowers upward of three inches

in diameter. Petals four, subcuneately orbicular.

Stamens crowded in a globose mass; filaments short,

free; anthers obovoid. Jem. flowers about two and a

half inches in diameter. Petals 5, unequal, cuneately-

obovate or -orbicular. Styles 3, short, broadly cuneate,

truncate, convolute, and undulate, stigmatose along the

upper margins only. Ovary fleshy, green, hairy, with

three thick wings, two of them rounded, the other

cuneiform, three-celled; placentas bipartite, segments

ovuliferous on both faces.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1 and 2, stamens; 3, ovary and styles; 4, transverse section of ovary :

—All enlarged.

MS.del. IN Fitch lth

L Reeve &C°London

Tas. 7541,

LAALIA tonarres.

Native of Brazil,

Nat. Ord. OncHipEa#.—Tribe Epmpenprea.

Genus Lauia, Lindl.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 533.)

Lxuta longipes; pseudobulbis’ 2}-3-pollicaribus lineari-oblongis unifoliatis,

vaginis albis scariosis lineatis tmbricatis pseudobulbo arcte appressis,

folio 3-6-pollicari sessili erecto elliptico-oblongo obtuso carnoso supra

concavo lete viridi subtus pallidiore obtuse carinato, pedunculo erecto

flexuoso paucifloro folio breviore, bracteis minutis triangularibus, pedi-

cello cum ovario 2-3-pollicari areuato v. flexuoso, floribus ad 2 poll.

diam. roseis labello aureo, sepalis (lateralibus paullo latioribus) petalis-

que consimilibus patentibus lineari-oblongis obtusis, labelli parvi lobis

margine crispatis, lobis lateralibus subrotundatis marginibus recurvis,

intermedio subquadrato, columna breviuseula, anthera fere globosa.

L. longipes, Reichd. f. mss. in Herb. Mus. Reg. Berol. ea Xen. Orchid. vol.

ii. p. 29. Cogniaue & Gross, Dict. Icon. Orchid. Lelia, t. II. Gard.

Chron. 1897, vol. i. p. 110.

L. Lucasiana, Rolfe in Orchid. Review, vol. i. (1893) p. 265,

Bletia longipes, Reichb. f. Xen. Orchid.

_ One of the smallest species of the beautiful genus Lelia,

and not remarkable for any redeeming character that

would recommend it to the horticulturist. It is a native

of Brazil, where it was discovered by the traveller Sellow ;

and was first described from his dried specimens by

Reichenbach.

The sepals and petals are represented as nearly white

by Cogniaux and Grossens in their ‘‘ Dictionnaire Icono-

graphique des Orchidées,” the pseudobulb short, and the

ie of a very dark colour. Its nearest ally is L. cris-

pilabia, A. Rich., from which it is distinguished by its

yellow lip. Though not common in cultivation, it

flowered in Sir Trevor. Lawrence’s collection in 1892, and

in that of C. J. Lucas, Esq., of Warnham Court, Horsham.

The specimen here figured was received at Kew from

Messrs. Sander & Co. in 1893, and flowered for the first

time in July, 1896.

Deser.—Pseudvobulbs two and a half to three inches long,

linear-oblong, as thick as the little finger, smooth, green,

clothed with appressed white or pink membranous striated

Junz 1st, 1897.

sheaths. Leaf solitary, sessile, three to six inches long,

by three-quarters to one and a quarter inches broad,

narrowly elliptic-oblong, obtuse, thickly fleshy, concave

above, obtusely keeled beneath, pale green on both surfaces.

Peduncle shorter than the leaves, erect, flexuous, naked,

two- to three-flowered, green; bracts minute, triangular ;

pedicels with the ovary two to threeinches long. Flowers

two inches broad across the petals, sepals and petals spread-

ing, pale, mauve-purple, lip golden-yellow. Sepals linear-

oblong, obtuse. Petals as long, but rather narrower.

Lip rather shorter than the sepals, 3-lobed; side-lobes

broadly oblong, erect, margins recurved crenate and un-

dulate ; midlobe ovate, obtuse, sides involute crisped and

waved, disk sometimes stained with brown towards the

base. Column short, streaked with purple. Anther

hemispheric—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Lip; 2, side, and 3, front view of column; 4, anther; 5, pollinia;

—All enlarged.

owering P. and Fern ri

les. For the use of Beginners. urs. By

.R.S. “6th Edition, revised by Sir J. D. Hooker. Crown 8vo, 10s. 6d.

LUSTRATIONS of the BRITISH FLORA ; a Series of Wood

_ _Engravings, with Dissections, of British Plants, from Drawings by W

Fircn, F.L.S., and W. G. Smirn, F.L.S., forming an Illustrated | ‘Companion

to Bentham’s ‘‘ Handbook,” and other British Floras. 1315 Wood En

gravings. 4th Edition, revised and enlarged, crown 8vo, 10s. 6d.

OUTLINES of ELEMENTARY BOTANY, as Introductory to

Local Floras. By Grorcr BentHam, F.R.S., Prosident of the Linnwan

: Society. New Edition, 1s. ee

FLORA of HAMPSHIRE, including the Isle of Wight, with —

localities of the less common species. By F. Townsenp, M.A., F.L.S.

With Coloured Map and two Plates, 16s.

HANDBOOK of BRITISH MOSSES, containing all that are

known to be natives of the \British Talis. By the Rev. M. J. BerkeLey,

-M.A., F.L.8. 2nd Edition, 24 Coloured Plates, 21s.

SYNOPSIS of BRITISH MOSSES, containing Descriptions of

eS all the Genera and Species (with localities of the rarer ones) found in G

Britain. and d Ireland. By Cuartes P. orga: FL. Be sei

‘ irely revised. C Ts. 6d os :

| FLORA. of. : BITS IND Aire By . HOOKER

. and others, Parts I. to XIII., 10s. 6d. ‘each. Parta XIV. to XIX., 9s. eac

Part XX.,7s.6d. Parts XXI. and XXIL, 9s. each. Vols. I. to TV. 828

each. Vol. V.,38s. Vol. VI., 36s.

FLORA AUSTRALIENSIS: a Description of the Plants of th

Australian Territory. By G. Bentnam, F.R.S., F.L.S., assisted by F.

Muetter, F.R.S. Vols. I. to VI., 20s. each. Vol: VII., 24s. Published

under the auspices of the several Governments of Australia.

PLORA of MAURITIUS and the SEYCHELLES: a Descrip-

_ tion of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of those Islands. By J. G. Baker,

: F.L.S. Complete in 1 vol., 24s. Published under the authority of the

Colonial Government of Mauritius.

FLORA CAPENSIS: a Systematic Description of the Plants of

the Cape Colony, Caffraria, and Port Natal. By ee H. Harvey,M.D

F.R.S., and Orro Wirnetm Sonper, Ph.D. Vols. | I.—III., 18s. each,

Vol VI., Parts I. and II., 7s. 64. each.

FLORA s) TROPICAL AFRICA. By Danzer Ontver, F. 3 Sy

, Vols. I.to ne oh 20s. Published under the authorit, of |

Published under the authority of Her aiajoeur s eictiary of State for v

- Colonies. The Supplement, separstely, 2s. 6d.

ON the FLORA. ot “AUSTRALIA; its Origin, ‘Affinities, ard

Distribution. By Sir J.D. Hooker, F.R.S. 10s

CONTRIBUTIONS to THE FLORA of MENTONE. and

to a Winter Flora of the Riviera, including the coast from Marseilles to

Genoa. By J. TRAHERNE Mocerinex. Royal 8vo. Peg a inl vol.,

99 Coloured Plates, 63s. ee

L REEVE & CO., 6, Henrietta Strect, Covent Garden.”

gear MAGAZINE.

CONTENTS OF = 630, JUNE, 1897.

CPaB. 7537.—RENANTHERA STORIEL.

|, 7538—STROBILANTHES CALLOSUS. :

7539.— VERONICA DIOSMAFOLIA, var. TRISEPALA.

_7540.—BEGONIA BAUMANNI.

TAL. —LALIA LONGIPES.

2; $e

Lhe & Co., ‘. Henrietta Street, Covent Garden.

‘Now Ready, Vol. VI., Parts I. and TK 7s. 6d. each. —

BP vue iia. S: = :

A Sie stnritie Description of the Plants of the Cape Calbnys Fees

and Port Natal.

Edited by W. T. THISELTON-DYER, C.M.G., F.R.S.,

Director of the Royal Baricns, Kew.

Published under the authority of the Governments of the Cape of Good Hops

and Natal.

Vols. I. to III. 18s. each.

By WILLIAM H. HARVEY, M.D., F.R.S., Professor of Botany in thi

University of Dublin, and

OTTO WILHELM SONDER, Ph.D.

Now ready, Part XXLI., 9s.

FLORA OF BRITISH: INDIA.

By Sir J. D. HOOKER, F.R.S., &c.

Vols. I. to IV., 32s. each. Vol. V., 38s. Vol. VI., 36s.

Now ready, Part VIIL., with 2 Coloured Plates, 5s. (completing the work). —

THE ‘HEMIPTERA HOMOPTERA OF THE BRITISH ISLANDS.

. By JAMES EDWARDS, F.E.S.

n plete, with 2 Structural Plates, 12s.; Large Edition, with 28 Coloured Fietense 48: 5

Now ready, Part XL., deal 4 Coloured Plates, 5s.

LEPIDOPTERA OF THE “BRITISH ISLANDS.

By CHARLES G. BARRETT, F.ES.

Vol. I. 12s.; large paper, with 40 Coloured Plates, 53s.

Vol. II. 128.; ; large paper, with 46 Coloured Plates, 63s.

* Wol. Tif. 12s.; large paper, with 50 Coloured Plates, 63s,

coh ras may be had on application to the Publishers. —

Now ready, Part XXVII., with 8 Coloured Plates, 158,

- LEPIDOPTERA INDICA

By F. MOORE, FZS.

Vol. J.. containing 94 Coloured Plates ; Vol. Il, with 96 Coloured Plates, each

£9 5s., cloth; £9 15s., half morocco. — ;

Prospectus with First List of Subseribers, can be had on application to the Publis

iin Beare & Co., 6, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden.

PRINTED BY GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, LD, st. JonN’ 8 HOUSE, CLERKENWEEE, E

Ne © S90 secen ee atig ce Oe a

Ge Be ee

‘you. iAIL-JULY. rigs Be, 6d. coloured 25 0 la

or No. 132 5 OF THE ENTIRE WORK.

CURTIS'S

BOTANICAL MAGAZINE,

‘YHE PLANTS OF THE ROYAL GARDENS OF KEW,

AND. ‘OF OTHER BOTANICAL ESTABLISHMENTS. IN GREAT BES TAIN; wite

4 toned DESCRIPTIONS; oe eck

Siz JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER, M.D, K K.CS.L, CB, PRS, FL

Late Director of the Noval Boranie Garnens of Kew.

Savure and Art to adorn the page combine,

And flowers exotic grace our northern clime.

‘ipa APL LPP DDI LL

LONDON:

L. REEVE anv CO., 6, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN

1897.

ROL — oe ole

a VIOLA SOCIETY’S EXHIBITION, July 17th.

‘EXHIBITION OF CHRYSANTHEMUMS early i in November.

M reeceaas ERQMENAD SS, Seacak ind ny. and Angust:

ae = Nemes Sa

" S:

BE aap igs FLORAS. ‘

- Eecinre delivered by Sir J. D. HOOKER, C.B., before the British Astoeiation Se

for the advancement of Science at Nottingham, August 27, 1866.

Now ready, Seeond Edition.

“HANDBOOK OF BRITISH MOSSES, ,;

Containing all that are known to be natives of the British Isles.

By the Rev. M. J, BERKELEY, M.A, F.L:S. 24 Coloured Plates, 21s,

Now ready, complete i in} vol., royal 4to, in handsome cloth case, £6 6s. agit

_ Foreign Finches in ‘Captivity.

By ARTHUR G. BUTLER, Ph.D., Rise ¥.Z.8., F.0.8.

ss a, hole to a larg = pa handsome volume of between 300 and 400 a with 60 Plates, by

bs a3 ae ¥.W. FROWHAWK, beautifully coloured by han

HAN DBOOK OF THE BRITISH FLORA:

A Description of the Flowering Plants and Ferns /adigenous

to or Naturaliged in the British Isles.

By GEORGE BENTHAM, ERS

6th Edition, Revised by Sir J. D. Hooxen, C.B., K.C.S.1., F.R.S,, &e. 10s. 6d,

~ ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BRITISH FLORA

A Series of Wood. Engravings, with Dissections, of British Plants.

Draws By W.H. FITCH, FY L.S., an> W. G. SMITH, F.L.S. -

~ Forming on Illustrated Companion to Bentham’ s “ Handbook,” and other British Floras, :

4th Parner with 1315. Wood Engravings, 10s. 64.

L. REEVE & CO., 6, HENRIETTA STRERT, COVENT GARDEN.

754 2.

MCS. del, JNEitch bith

oks, Day & Son Imp

WG Bro

Vincent Broo

10} ¢

Uo dl

L Reeve &

Tas. 7542,

ZAMIA osiiqua.

Native of New Grenada.

Nat. Ord. Crcaprm.—Tribe EucEPHALARTER.

Genus Zamia, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 447.)

Zamia (Euzamia) obliqua; trunco gracili levi, prophyllis triangularibus

longe acuminatis fuscis infra comam imbricatis, foliis longe petiolatis,

petiolo gracili lana fusca detergibili primum operto, rachi nudo v. raris-

sime hic illic aculeolato, foliolis sub 6-jugis 4—6-pollicaribus ovatis ovato-

oblongis lanceolatisve acuminatis candiculatisve basi in petiolulum

crassum angustatis crasse chartaceis ultra medium spinuloso-serrulatis,

nervis gracillimis creberrime lineolatis, strobilo foomineo 6-poll. longo

23 poll. diam. breviter crasse pedunculato, pedunculo prophyllis lineari-

lanceolatis fuscis dense vaginato cylindraceo vertice conico apice pungente,

peltis 6-seriatis transverse hexagonis fusco-tomentosis vertice planis v.

leviter depressis.

Z. obliqua, A. Braun in Monatsh. Akad. Berlin, 1875, p. 376. Regel, Cycad.

Revis. 1875, p. 42; in Illustr. Hortic. vol. xxiy. (1877) p- 140, t. 289.

Dyer in Gard. Chron, 1882, vol. i, p. 461, fig. 72.

Z. obliqua is a very distinct species of a genus, which,

when founded by Linnzus, in 1763, contained but one

representative (Z. pumila, of the West Indies), but of

which nearly forty are now enumerated; though of these

probably only thirty or so are really well characterized.

All are tropical or subtropical American. Seven

are now figured in this magazine, of which two are

nearly related to Z. obliqua, namely, Z. furfuracea, Ait.

(t. 1969) of Mexico, and Z. Skinneri, Warz. of the Isthmus

of Panama (t. 5242). Z. obliqua was discovered by Dr.

Seemann, in 1847, when he was botanist to H.M.S. Herald,

a ship commissioned by the Admiralty under Captain

Kellett, R.N., to search for Sir John Franklin’s Expedi-

tion along the Western polar shores of the American

continent. On their way North in the Pacific Ocean, Dr.

Seemann had an opportunity of collecting in New Grenada,

where he found Z. obliqua on Cape Corrientes. Unfor-

tunately he did not distinguish it from Z. Skinneri, and

in the Botany of the Herald’s Voyage, p. 202, amongst

the habitats given for the latter plant is Cape Corrientes;

JuLy Ist, 1897,

a blunder consequently perpetuated under the description

of Z. Skinneri in this magazine (Tab. 5242). Z, obliqua

was subsequently (in 1875) collected in the same locality

by Gustav Wallis, by whom living specimens were sent to

Messrs. Veitch. It was first described by Prof. A. Braun,

from flowerless specimens cultivated in the Berlin

Botanical Gardens. The fine plant here figured was

procured by the Royal Gardens, Kew, from Mr. Bull in

1880. It flowered for the first time in 1896.

Descr.—Trunk slender, attaining eight feet in height,

crowned beneath and amongst the leaves with imbricating

subulate-lanceolate tomentose entire prophylla an inch to

an inch and a half long. Leaves two to three feet long;

rachis and petiole unarmed, or with very few scattered

spinules, when quite young clothed with a light brown

wool. Leaflets about six pairs, four to six inches long,

petiolulate, ovate, ovate-oblong, or -lanceolate, usually

caudate-acuminate, sbarply subspinulosely toothed from

the middle to the tip, thickly chartaceous, bright green on

both surfaces, striate with close-set nerves ; petiolule half

an inch long or less, base swollen. Female cone shortly

peduncled, about six inches long, by two and a half in

diameter, cylindric, terminated by a broad conical crown

with a small apical mucro, clothed all over with a thin

pale brown tomentum. Scales in six series of about ten

each, transversely oblong, about an inch in transverse

breadth, and one-third of an inch in thickness, hexagonal,

with a truncate flat or slightly concave top; peduncle

stout, an inch long, clothed with prophylla like those on

the trunk, longer than itself.—J. D. H. |

Fig. 1, Scale; 2, ovule; both exlarged.,

7543

Vincent Brooks,Day & Son imp

Tas. 7543.

CATTLEYA ELONGATA.

Native of Brazil.

Nat. Ord. Orcuiprx.—Tribe VANDER.

Genus Cartreya, Lindl. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 531.)

CattLEya elongata; caulibus 1-2-pedalibus e basi decumbente ascendentibus

strictisve simplicibus cylindraceis sulcatis, internodiis 1-2-pollicaribus

non incrassatis, foliis apices versus caulorum paucis oblongis obtusis

crasse coriaceis rigidis dorso carinatis saturate viridibus, racemo longe

pedunculato erecto 6-10-flore, rachi valida viridi, vagina ad basin

ee lineari-oblonga carinata, bracteis parvis, pedicellis cum ovario

-pollicaribus viridibus, floribus erectis 4-poll. expans., sepalis petalisque

obtusis undulatis rufo-aurantiacis, sepalo dorsali lineari, lateralibus

lineari-oblongis, petalis sepalo dorsali consimilibus sed crispato-undulatis,

labelli rosei lobis lateralibus dimidiato-ovatis, intermedio flabelliforme

2-lobo, columna clavata. _

C. elongata, Rodrig. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. Nov. vol. i. (1877) p. 72. Rolfe in

Orchid. Rev. vol. vii. p. 206. :

C. Alexandre, L. Linden § Rolfe in Gard. Chron. 1892, vol. i. p. 522; in

Lindenia, vol. viii. t. 357, 358.

A remarkable and very beautiful species, distinguished

for its very long peduncle, and the peculiar colour of

the sepals and petals. Its nearest ally, as pointed out by

Mr. Rolfe, is with C. Leopoldi. In the specimen described

in the Gardener’s Chronicle, there were ten racemes, with

peduncles fifteen to eighteen inches long, each bearing six

to ten flowers. It was flowered by Messrs. Linden & Co.,

of Brussels, in 1892. The specimen here figured was

_ purchased for the Royal Gardens, Kew, at an auction sale

in 1893. It flowered in the Orchid House in October,

1893, and proves to be a finer variety than has hitherto

en known. :

_ Deser.—Stems erect, or ascending from a decumbent

rooting base, one to two feet high, as thick as the little

finger, terete, sulcate, pale; internodes one to two inches

Jong, naked, not swollen; nodes marked by a transverse

brown line. Leaves few at the top of the stem, sessile,

about six inches long by one and a half broad, oblong,

obtuse, thickly and rigidly coriaceous, dorsally keeled,

dark green above. Peduncles many, up to eighteen inches

Juty 1st, 1897.

long, stout, erect, green; basal sheath three inches long,

Iinear-oblong, keeled. Raceme rather short, six- to ten-

fld., erect ; bracts small, triangular; pedicel with ovary

about three inches long, strict, erect, green. Flowers

about four inches in diameter ; sepals and petals undulate,

obtuse, ochraceous- or rufous-orange. Dorsal sepal two

and a half inches long, linear, lateral linear-

Petals like the dorsal sepal, but sides more crispedly

waved. Lip rose-colrd.; side lobes dimidiate-ovate, pro-

jecting forward, tips obtuse ; midlobe much larger, flabelli-

form, 2-lobed or very broadly deeply obcordate, lobes

rounded. Column clavate. Pollinia 4, cohering in pairs

by their straps, and the straps cohering at the base by a

lobulate viscus—J. D. H.

oblong.

Fig. 1, Column; 2, anther-cap ; 3, pollinia; 4, one pair of pollinia :—AJZ

enlarged,

7544

A ONG

MS.delLINFthhth Vincent Brooks,Day& Sonhinp

L Reeve & C° London

Tas, 7544,

POLYGONUM Batpscuvanicum.

Native of Bokhara.

Nat. Ord. Potyeonacea.—Tribe Eupotygonem.

Genus Potyconum, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 97.)

Potyeonum (Tiniaria) baldschuanicum; fratex volubilis, foliis inferioribus

oppositis longe petiolatis ovato-hastatis cordatisve acutis obtusis acumi-

natisve obsolete crenulatis marginibus scaberulis, ochreis brevissimis cito

evanidis, foliis supremis minoribus angustioribus, paniculis axillaribus et

terminalibus folia superantibus laxe ramosis, rachi angulata, bracteis

minutis, floribus roseis subsolitariis fasciculatisve, pedicellis gracilibus

supra basin articulatis, sepalis hyalinis 3 exterioribus ovatis, petalis dorso

_ alatis, alis in pedicellum apicem versus trialatum decurrentibus, 2 interio-

ribus subobovatis suberectis exalatis, staminibus 8, filamentis liberis basi

pilosis, glandulis perigynis 0, stigmate sessile magno capitato 3-lobo,

calyce fructifero paullo ancto late 3-alato, alis subundulatis, achznio

triquetro nigro nitido, cotyledonibus accumbentibus.

P. baldschuanicum, Regel in Act. Hort. Petrop. vol. viii. (1884) p. 684, t. 10,

et Descr. Plant. Nov. Reg. Turkest. fase. ix. p. 44, t. 10. H. Zabel in

Garten-flora, vol. xxxvi. (1888) p. 409, t. 1278. LZ. Henry in Le Jardin,

vol. ix. (1895) p. 231, cum ic.

A very beautiful hardy climber, belonging to the same

section of Polygonum as the notorious pest of cultivated

grounds, P. Convolvulus, L., but differmg from it in the

perennial stem, colour of the flowers, and broadly winged

fruiting perianth. It is much more nearly allied to the

Chineseand Japanese P. multiflorum, Thunb., which ischiefly

distinguished by its tuberous rootstock, armed stems, and

much smaller flowers. P. baldschuanicum is one of the

many discoveries of Albert Regel, who found it in 1883

on the banks of the River Wachsch, at the Eastern foot of

Mt. Sevistan in Bokhara at an elevation of 1200-1700 ft.

The specimen figured is from a plant six feet high, raised

in the Royal Gardens, Kew, from seeds sent from the

Imperial Botanical Garden of St. Petersburgh, which

flowered in September, 1896. :

Deser.—Stem very slender, woody, branched, scandent,

up to twenty feet high, half an inch in diameter at the

base ; bark pale, lenticellate. Leaves long-petioled, ovate-

Juty Ist, 1897.

or hastate-cordate, acute obtuse or acuminate, pale green,

margins scaberulous. Panicles axillary and _ terminal,

effuse, branches slender, angular; flowers in small fascicles,

rose-colrd., nearly half an inch broad; bracts minute ;

pedicels slender, one-eighth to one-fourth of an inch long,

trigonous above, jointed above the base. Sepals hyaline ;

three outer ovate, spreading, dorsally winged, wing de-

current on the angles of the pedicel; three inner more

obovate, suberect, not winged. Stamens 8; filaments

about as long as the sepals, hairy towards the base.

Ovary small, triquetrous ; style 0; stigma large, capitate,

3-lobed. Fruiting calyx broadly 3-winged, wings rather

waved. <Achene triquetrous, black, shining.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Portion of panicle with bracts and flowers; 2, stamens; 3, ovary :—

All enlarged.

AOS

“ia SSS SERS

‘

Vincent Brooks Day eSon lap.

M.S. del JN Fitch hth

L Reeve & C° London ;

Tap. 7545.

HELIANTHUS tvssrosvs.

Native of North America.

Nat. Ord. Comrosira.—Tribe HeLIANTHOIDES.

Genus Hetrantuvs, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 376.)

Heiantuus tuberosus; radicibus tuberiferis, caule elato superne ramoso

pubescente v. hirsuto, foliis inferioribus oppositis ovato-cordatis v.-

lanceolatis attenuato-acnminatis grosse v. minute dentatis in petiolum

elongatum alatum angustatis supra scaberulis subtus puberulis, superiori-

bus alternis oblongis sessilibus, involucri bracteis laxe imbricat’s lanceolatis

attenuato-acuminatis glabris hirsutulis v. pubescentibus, receptaculi con-

vexi squamis dorso hirsutis, radii ligulis 12-20 elongatis, disci corollis

flavis, acheniis apice marginibusque puberulis.

H. tuberosus; Linn. Sp. Pl. Ed.i. p. 905 (excl. habitat.) Ait. Hort. Kew.

Ed, 2, vol. v. p. 127; DC. Prodr. vol. v. p. 590. Jacq. Hort. Vindob.

vol. ii. p. 75, t. 161. Schkuhr Handb, vol. iii. - 250, t. 258. A. Gray

Synopt. Fl. N. Am. Gamopet. p 280. Trumbu 1 § Gray in Am. Journ.

Sc. Ser. 3, vol. xiii. (1877) p. 374. Decne in Fl. des Serres, vol. xxiii.

(1881) p. 112. Turpin in Mem. Mus. Paris, vol. xix. (1830) p 12, t. 41.

G. Meyer, in Bericht. Deutsch. Bot. Geselsch. vol. xiv. (1882) p. 347.

H. doronicoides; Torr. & Gr. Fl. N. Am. vol. ii. p. 327 (in part). A. Gray,

Man. Bot. N. Un. St. p. 257 (non Lamek.).

Flos Solis Farnesianus ; Uolonna, Ecphrasis, vol, ii. p. 33, t. 13 (1616).

Chrysanthemum latifolium Brasil ; Bauh. Prodr. p. 70 (1620).

Flos tuberosus Solis seu Flos Farnes. Fab. Column; Aldinus, Cesenat. Deser.

Rar. Pl. p. 91 (1625).

Battatas de Canada, or Artichoke of Jerusalem; Parkins. Parad. p. 517, fig. 4,

518 (1629); Theatr. Bot. p. 1383 (1640).

Adenes Canadenses; P. Laurent. Apparat. Plantar. (1632).

Flos Solis pyramidalis ; Johnson in Gerard Herball, p. 763 (1633).

Pernanus Solis Flos ex Indiis tuberosus, Hernand. Pl. Mex. Hist. (Recchi)

p. 878, 881 (1651). F

Canada, Artischoki sub terra ; Vallot, Hort. Reg. Paris (ex Bauhin).

Heleniam indicum tuberosum ; Bauh. Pinazx, p. 277 (1671).

8 - Chrysanthemum canadense, F. Schuyl, Cat. Pl. Hort. Lugd. Bat. (1672).

©. perenne majus, Moris. Plant. Hist. vol. iii. p. 23, t. 6 (1699).

Helenium Canadense; P. Amman, Char. Pl. Nat. p. 280 (Ed. 1685).

Helianthemum radice tuberosa ; Linn. Hort. Cliff. p. 419 (1787). Mill Gard.

Dist. Ed. 4, Vol. ii. :

Specimens of the Jerusalem Artichoke, raised from un-

doubtedly indigenous tubers, which have been kindly

forwarded by the Rev. C, Wolley Dod, from his rich garden

of herbaceous plants, afford me the opportunity of giving in

Juxy lst, 1897.

the Botanical Magazine a sketch of the early history of

this valuable esculent. For the means of doing this I am

much indebted to ‘ Notes on the History of Helianthus

tuberosus,” by J. Hammond Trumbull and Asa Gray, con-

tributed to the American Academy of Sciences in 1877.

The said History may, like that of mankind, be regarded

under three divisions, a traditional, an early botanical, and

a medizeval and modern. Of these the traditional resolves

itself into the fact of its having been cultivated as an

article of food by the Indians of North America before the

settlement in that country of Huropeans. The earliest

evidence of this cited by Mr. Trumbull, is that derived

from Champlain, who in 1605-6, observed that the Almon-

chiquois Indians (of New England) had “ force des racines

qu’els cultivent, lesquelles ont le goat d’Artichaut.” ‘To

this Mr. Trumbull adds, that it is to these roots that

Lescardot alludes (‘‘ Hist. de la Nouv. France” (1612)

when, speaking of the same Indians and their country, he

says that the latter contains a kind of roots ‘“ grosses

comme naveaux, tres excellent 4 manger, ayans un gotit

retirant aux cardes, mais plus agréable, lesquelles plantées

multiplient en telle facon que c’est merveille.” Following

these is Sagard Theodat, who, in his “Histoire des

Canada ” (1636) mentions the roots which we, the French,

call “‘ Canadiennes, or Pommes de Canada.”

Proceeding now to the medizval history, or that of the

cultivation of this plant in Europe, it seems to have been

introduced into England very shortly a'ter, if not before

it had attracted the attention of travellers as being pro-

pagated by the Indians in America as a food product, for

in the year 1617 Mr. John Goodyer of Maple Durham,

Hampshire, received two small roots of it from Mr. ~

Franquevill of London, which being planted, enabled him

before 1621 “to store Hampshire.” In October of the

same year Mr, Goodyer wrote an account of it for T.

Johnson, who printed it in his edition of Gerard’s “ Her-

ball,’ which appeared in 1636, where it is called

‘Jerusalem Artichoke.” Previous to which, in 1629, it

had been figured and described under that name by

Parkinson in his “ Paradisus” and “ Theatrum.”

From the last given date to the present time the Jeru-

salem Artichoke has been extensively cultivated in Hurope,

but rather as a garden vegetable than a field crop, and

~ has extended into India, where it is making its way

amongst the Natives under Hindoo, Bengali, and other

native names. In Kathiawar, according to Watt (* Dict.

of Economic Products of India ”’) it is boiled in milk, and

considered by the natives to be a strengthening vegetable.

Aitchison states that it is grown in gardens of Herat and

Meshed under the Persian name of Seb-i-zamini-angrez.

(Notes and Products of W. Affghan. and N.H. Persia in

‘*Trans, Bot. Soc. Edinb.” vol. xviii.)

It is very curious that the native country of a plant

so well known in gardens and in a wild state throughout’

the length of the Central United States and in Canada,

should have for upwards of 250 years been considered

doubtful. This was owing mainly to the vague indica-

tions of its origin given by the early authors, Brasil

(following Bauhin) by Linnzeus in the *‘ Species Plantarum,”

Canada by Parkinson, and by Linnaeus in his “ Hortus

Cliffortianus,’ and Peru according to Hernandes. In

De Candolle’s “ Geographie Botanique” (vol. ii. p. 983)

it is referred to the list of *‘ Hspeces inconnues a l'état

sauvage,’ and subsequently (p. 988) as ‘“ probably

North America.’’ Even in the body of the third edition

of his admirable ‘“ Origine des Plantes Cultivées ” (p. 34),

published in 1886, he regards the question as unsettled;

and in the additions and corrections cites Gray’s erroneous

opinion that it is the Helianthus doronicoides, Torr. & Gr.

And yet, though there have been no lack of indigenous

specimens in European Herbaria, identical with the

cultivated, no one seems to have thought of going to the

Herbarium to solve the difficulty.

In 1855 Asa Gray’s attention was drawn to the subject

from having received some long narrow tubers, which he

considered to be Helianthus doronicoides, Lamk., with the

statement that it had been found to be good food for hogs.

These were planted in the Cambridge (U.S.) Botanical

Gardens, and were found to produce, after two or three

years, thicker and shorter tubers, which, when cooked,

resembled Jerusalem Artichokes in flavour, though coarser.

This led Dr. Gray to conclude that H. doronicoides was

most probably the original of H. tuberosus, an opinion which

was strengthened by subsequent observations published in

the second edition of his ‘ Manual of the Botany of the

N. Un. Sts. (1856).”’ Matters, however, did not end here,

for it was discovered that the H. doronicoides, Lamk., as

described by American botanists, included two species,

that so called, and the true H. tuberosus, Linn., and it was

not till the publication in 1884 of the Order Composite in

Gray’s ‘‘ Synoptical Flora of N. America ” that H. tuberosus,

Linn., was definitely restored to its rank as a substantive

Species, and the origin of the Jerusalem Artichoke. I

may add that H. doronicoides differs from tuberosus in the

leaves being all, or nearly all, opposite, sessile, elliptic,

never cordate, obscurely crenate, the rays much

broader, and the ovary and achene glabrous. It is figured

in this work, t. 2778, under the erroneous name of H.

pubescens, Vahl.

It remains to add that H. tuberosus is indigenous in the

Lake region of Canada, as far west as the Saskatchewan,

and from thence southward to Arkansas and the middle

parts of Georgia, Another near ally is H. giganteus, Linn.,

of which a figure has been prepared for this work, which |

will shortly appear. ae

_ Descr.—Helianthus tuberosus is distinguished from all

its congeners, by the sum of the following characters: roots

tuberous ; stem tall, pubescent, branched above; leaves

petioled, ovate, acuminate, serrate, scabrous above, puberu-

lous beneath, the upper alternate; heads large; invol.

bracts, lanceolate, acuminate ; receptacle convex with

dorsally hirsute scales; disk and ray-flowers both yellow,

the latter 12-20 in number; achenes with pubescent tips

and margins,—J, D. H.

Fig. 1, Involucral bracts ; 2, achene pappus and base of ray-flower; 3, scale

of receptacle and disk- flower; 5, stamens; 6, style of disk-flower; 7, ripe

achene; all but 1 enlarged ; 8, root-tubers half of the natural size.

Vincent Brooks Day &Son ey

MS. del, JN Fitch lith

T, Reeve CONT ae ae

Tas. 7546.

LISSOCHILUS MILANJIANUS.

Native of Central Africa.

Nat. Ord. OrcHipExZ.—Tribe VaNnDEz.

Genus Lissocuitus, Br.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 536.)

Lissocutzvus malanjianus; pseudobulbis catenatim dispositis amorphis

ovoideis oblongisve, foliis hysteranthiis linearibus elongatis acuminatis

3-nerviis coriaceis’ supra canaliculatis, racemo multifloro, scapo rachique

robustis viridibus, bracteis lanceolatis ovarium sub-zquantibus, floribus

1}-poll. expans., sepalis subequalibus oblongis apiculatis intus rubris,

lateralibus basi labelli insertis, petalis amplis orbiculatis cuspidatis

nervosis extus aureis intus sanguineis, labelli sessilis lobis lateralibus

parvis rotundatis extus pallidis intus sanguineis, terminale ovato infra

medium 5-cristato cristis aureis, dein ad apicem sanguineo, calcare late

- infundibulari obtuso.

L. milanjianus, Rendle in Trans, Linn. Soc. Ser. 2, vol. iv. (1894) p. 46.

Eulophia bella, W.-H. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1889, vol. ii. p. 210.

Lissochilus milanjianus was discovered in 1861, by the

late C. J. Meller, Esq., F.L.S., when accompanying Dr.

Livingstone in his second expedition to the Zambesi ; the

habitat given is Manganja Hills, which I take to be a

range on the Western side of Lake Nyassa, in about lat.

12° S. It was next found (in 1890) in Uganda, under the

line, in British Central Africa, by the late Mr. Buchanan,

C.M.G., who sent plants to the Royal Gardens, Kew, that

flowered in September, 1892. More recently it has been

found by Mr. Whyte in the Milanji Hills, not far from

Blantyre, south of Lake Shirwa, in lat. 16°S.; and much

further south, near Umtala, in Mashona Land, lat. 18° S.,

long. 323° East, by a hospital nurse, who gave the tubers

from which the flowering specimen here figured was

raised, to P. F. Garnet, Esq., of South Bank, Grassen-

dale, Liverpool. The plant has been twice independently

described in 1889, by Mr. N. E, Brown as a Hulophia, and

in 1894 by Mr. Rendle under the name here adopted. Mr,

Garnett’s plant flowered in March, 1896; Mr. Buchanan’s,

as above stated, in September, 1892. The tubers and

leaves here represented are those of Mr, Buchanan’s plant,

Jury 1st, 1897,

Mr. Brown’s description was taken from a specimen

flowered by Mr. Gumbleton, who received it from Mr.

O’Brien of Harrow.

Deser.—Pseudobulbs forming subterranean chains, broadly

ovoid, oblong, or amorphous, one to two and a half inches

in diameter or more, emitting very stout worm-like roots.

Stem short, base sheathed. Leaves few, produced after

flowering, a foot or more long, by three-quarters of an |

inch broad, rather thick, linear, acuminate, bright green

and deeply channelled in the middle above, pale and

strongly three-nerved beneath. Scape one to two and a

half inches high, stout, all green, or mottled with purple;

sheaths acute, lower crowded, upper distant. Raceme

erect, ten- or more-fid.; rachis stout, strict; bracts lan-

ceolate, green, about an inch long, that is as long as the

pedicel and ovary. Flowers one and a half inches across

the spreading petals. Sepals about half an inch long,

subequal, oblong, apiculate, green without, dull red within.

Petals orbicular, three-quarters of an inch in diameter,

apiculate, strongly veined, golden-yellow without, carmine

with darker nerves within. Lip sessile at the foot of the

column, including the spur funnel-shaped; spur pale,

slightly incurved, obtuse ; side-lobes rounded, pale without,

carmine within; mid-lobe short, ovate or broadly tongue-

shaped, decurved, basal half golden-yellow with five

smooth keels, tip blood-red. Colwmn short, stout. Anther

obtusely beaked. Pollinia globose, on the top of a short,

ros ee which is attached to a broad disciform gland.

Fig. 1, Column; 2, anther ; 3 and 4, pollinia :—All enlarged.

: ring Pla in Ferni digenous 8 to, Or Shera in the British

Tae per: the ed Se i te ih qe Paice beg Pgh ace

ooker. wn 8yo, .

ILLUSTRATIONS « 8 of t ire ° BRITISH ‘FLORA ; ; a Series of Wood

Engravings, with Dissections, of British Plants, from Drawings by W. H.

- Frrcu, F.L.8., and W. G. Smit, F.L.S., forming an Illustrated Compani

to Bentham’s “ Handbook,” and other British Floras. 1315 Wood E

gravings. 4th Edition, revised and enlarged, crown 8vo, 10s. 6d.

OUTLINES of ELEMENTARY BOTANY, as Introductory to-

Local Floras.- By Grores Bentuam, F.R.S., President of the Linnean

Society. New Edition, 1s,

FLORA of HAMPSHIRE, including the Isle of Wight, with

localities of the less common species. By F. TOWNSEND, M.A, PLS.)

With Coloured Map and two Plates, 16s.

HANDBOOK of BRITISH MOSSES, containing all that are -

known to ‘be natives of the British Tale By the Rev. M. u. BERKELEY,

M.A., F.L.8. 2nd Edition, 24 Coloured Plates, 21s.

SYNOPSIS of BRITISH MOSSES, ceaitetning Deseripti 1

all the Genera and as fat localities of the rarer ones) found

Britain and Ireland. By Caart -Hopxiek, FL.

CE,

FLORA, of Hate INDYA. By ‘Sir J. D Path Ff.

and others. Parts I. to XTII., 10s. 6d. Lae Parts XIV. to X1X., 9s. pears

Part XX.,7s. 6d, Parts XXI, and XXIT., 9s. éach. Vols. I. tol¥., B28;

each, Vol. V. , 38s. Vol. VI., 36s.

FLORA AUSTRALIENSIS: a Description of the Plants of the

Australian Territory. By G, Brenruam, F.RS., F.L.8., assiated. by. PF.

MuELLer, F.R.S.-. Vols. I. to V1., 20s. each.” Vol. VII., 24s. Published

under the auspices of the several Governmenta of Australia.

-FLORA of MAURITIUS and the SEYCHELLES: a Descrip-

tion of the Flowering Plants and Ferns, of those Islands. By J. G. BaxEr,

: -F.L.8.. Complete in’1 vol., 24s. Published. under the anthority of the

4s Colonial Government of Mauritius.

FLORA CAPENSIS: a Systematic Description of the Plants of

the Cape Colony, Caffraria, and Port Natal. By Moola H. Harvey,M.D.,

F.BR.S., and Orto WILHELM SONDER, Pb.D. Vols. 1.—IIL., 18s, each,

Vol VI., 24s. net.

FLORA of TROPICAL AFRICA. By — Oxvtves, FBS.

Vols. I.to HI, each 20s. Published under the authority: of the: a

nniiasioner of Her Maies y's Work 8. Res

ALAND FLORA: a Syiteniatio

a ge eg ioe gta

T INDIAN SLANDS. By |

ARs, Published: under the auspices of the Ree ‘

LORA HONGKONGENSIS: a Deséription ‘of the Flowering .

i Plants and Ferns of the Island of Hongkong. By Groraz Benryam,

¥.L.S. With a Map of the Island and Supplement by Dr. Hance, 21s.

Published under the authority of Her ae Secretary of State for the

Colonies. The Supplement, separately, 2s

ON the FLORA of AUSTRALIA; 4 ‘Origin, Affinities, and

Distribution. By Sir J, D. Hooker, F.R.S. 10s.

CONTRIBUTIONS to THE FLORA of MENTONE. and

ns to a Winter Flora of the Riviera, including the coast from Marseilles to

Genoa. By J. Taanegne Moceriper. Royal 8vo. 5a in 1 vol.,

99 Coloured Plates, 633,

‘L. REEVE & CO, saechiste Street, Covent indents :

Thies ear chs Ea Gah

BOTANICAL MAGAZINE.

CONTENTS: OF No. 631, JULY, 1897.

AP AR: 7542. _-Z.AMIA ‘OBLIQUA.

~~ » 7343.—CATTLEYA ELONGATA. -

“» 7544.—POLYGONUM. BALDSCHUANICUM,

St 045. —HELIANTHUS. ‘TUBEROSUS,

yy 7546. —LISSOCHILUS ues LA ae J

ae oe REEVE & Cou 6, Henkiotta Street, Covent § Gaston: =

Now. pondy, Vol. Vi, ’ Parts LIL, 1s. 6d. each. Vol. ¥I., Cloth, ‘24s. Tet. “a

FLORA CAPENSIS;

SG Systentatie Description of the Plants of the Cape Colony. Caffraria,

mes and Port Natal.

Edited by W. T. THISELTON-DYER, C.M.G., F.R.S.,

Director of the Royal Ga Scien Kew,

aor se gee under the authority of the Ctovernments of the Cape of Good Hope

and Natal.

Vols. I. to IKI. 18s. each. ze :

.. By WILLIAM H. HARVEY, M.D., F.R.S.,; Professor of Botany in the Petes

| University of Dublin, and 2

OTTO WILHELM SONDER, PhDo

“Now Feady, Part XXII., 9s, ©

“FLORA OF BRITISH II

By Sit J. D. HOOKER, F.B.S,, &.

Vols. I. to IV., 32s. each. Vol. Wag 38s. Vol. VI, 36s.

Now rendy, Part VIIL., wit 2 Coloured Plates, 5s. eanpleting the work). ;

ie HEMIPTERA HOMOPTERA OF THE BRITISH ISLANDS.

By JAMES EDWARDS, F. E. Be

Seams with 2 Structural Finten; aoe, 5 ; | Borge Edition, with 28 Colonfed Plates, 43s.

Now ready, Part ee bi 4 Coloured Plates, 5s.

LEPIDOPTERA oF THE “BRITISH ISLANDS. SS:

By CHARLES G. BARRETT, F.ES. :

Vol. I. 12s.; large paper, with 40 Coloured Plates, 53s.

Vol. II. 12s.; large paper, with 46 Coloured Plates, 63s.

Vol. Tif. 12s.; large paper, with 50 Coloured Plates, .63s.

Prospectus may be had on application to the Publishers.

Now ready, Part XXVII., with 8 Coloured Plates, 15s.

LE Pib OPLTERA IN DICA.

By F. MOORE, F.Z.S. i

Vol. L., containing 94 Coloured Plates ; Vol. IL, with 96 Oclourei Plates,

. 29 5s., cloth; 29° 158., half moroceo.

“ Prospectus, with First List of Subseriders, can be had on application to the * ub

L. Reeve & Go,, 6, denrietta Street, Covent iardie.

- PRINTED BY GILBERT AND nese. ae sr. JOHN'S i AAS: CLERKENWELL, |

<i eevee

a ee Nahe

VOL. LIII.—AUGUST. | eae ke &, 6a, coloured, 26, 8 plain

ox No. 1326 or cue untine WORK.

CURTIS'S: a

BOTANICAL 1

THE PLANTS ee THE ROYAL BaSOHNG OF KEW,

"SUITABLE ‘DESCRIPTION os

Ste JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER, M. D., K.CS. L, C.B.,’F. Le bs FL, 5

- Late Director of the NRopal Botanic Gardens of Kew.

ie on ae

F- a

Antes

- 2 eae 4

il RRB} YHA ere are e geod es

at ie He Natare and Art to adorn the page combine,

oS And flowers exotic grace our northern clime,

SSOP SNP LR LOL IRL ANA DL DN I A

LONDON:

L. REEVE AND > 6O., 6, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN,

: 1897.

-—ROTAL, BOTAN sOouET ee 1897

: EXHIBITION OF CHRYSANTHEMUMS aii in November.

MUSICAL PROMEN ADES, eet in at See

a ee

ES yy ae

ao vised by Siz J, D. HOOKER, C.B., before the British MeacSiavion Si. ;

es “tor: the advancement of Science at Nottingham, August 27,1866. .

Sal

‘Now ready, Second Edition.

HANDBOOK OF BRITISH MOSSES,

Containing all that are known to be natives of the British Isles. ery

By the Rev. M. J. BERKELEY, M.A, F.L.S. 24 Coloured Plates, 21s. ee

Now ready, poeple in 1 vol., royal Ato, qintesiebihe cloth case, £6

i t

2 ‘Foreign Finches in se ivity.

ee By ARTHUR G. BUTLER, Ph.D. F.LS., F-2S., FES.

Th whole forms @ large and handsome volume of. between 800 and 400 pages, with 60 Plates, by

pe : i 7.) baie ots Smash aes ee aoe by ‘band.

tes ‘OF THE BRITISH FLORA.

A Description of the Flowering Plants and Ferns Indigenous. «

to or Naturaliged in the British Isles.

By GEORGE BENTHAM, FR.

6th Edition, Revised by Sir J. D. Hooxer, C.B., K.C.S.L,F.RBS., &e. 105.64.

ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BRITISH FLORA

A Series of Wood Engravings, with Dissections, of British Plants. —

Drawn sy W.H. FITCH, F.LS., anp W. G. SMITH, F.LS: —

*\ Forming am Illustrated Companion to Bentham’s “ Handbook,” and other Erie Floras ;

4th ree with 1315 Wood Engravings, 10s. 62.

_L, REBVE & CO., 6, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

7547

Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Imp

MS.del, IN Fitdlith

L Reeve & C?

Tap. 7547.

LYCORIS squamicera.

Native of Japan and China.

Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDE%.—Tribe AMARYLLER.

Genus Lycoris, Herb.; (Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 627.)

Lycoris syuamigera; bulbo globoso magno tunicis membranaceis brunneis,

foliis vernalibus loratis obtusis viridibus flaccidis glabris, floribus umbel-

latis post folia productis, scapo elongato robusto solido tereti, umbellis

4-8-floris, pedicellis brevibus, spathe valvis parvis ovato-lanceolatis

Scariosis, perianthii rosei tubo subeylindrico squamis 6 truncatis ad

faucem preedito, lobis oblanceolato-oblongis tubo 2-3-plo longioribus, |

_ staminibus declinatis lobis paulo brevioribus, stylo exserto. |

L. squamigera, Maxim. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. vol. vi. (1835), p. 79. Baker

Handb. Amaryllid. p, 40. S. Wats. in Garden & Forest, vol. iii, (1890)

p. 176, fig. 832. Gard. Chron. 1897, vol. i. p. 137, fig. 38,

Amaryllis Hallii, Hort. Hovey.

The genus Lycoris is nearly allied to Hippeastrum, and

differs from Amaryllis mainly in its seeds, which have an

opaque black testa, and are more or less compressd. All

the species inhabit Japan and China, whilst Amaryllis is

confined to the Cape, and Hippeastrum to tropical America.

The present plant in habit and the colour of its flowers

much resembles Amaryllis Belladona. We have in the

Kew Herbarium a cultivated specimen collected by

Maximovicez near Yokohama in 1862. It is figured in the

Somokou-Zusetsu, a series of coloured figures of Japanese

plants in many volumes by the Japanese artist Yokoussai,

under the name of Jagatara-Suisen. In consequence,

_ however, of there being an English numbering of the

figures, and a Japanese numbering of the folios of that

work, Maximovicz cites the Japanese name of J. aurea,

Vol. v. fol. 61, for his species (fol. 63). There is also a

good figure of this species in the Hongo Zufu, vol. vii.

fol. 34, recto.

L. squamigera was introduced in a living state from

China by Dr. G. Hall of Bristol, Rhode Island, and

was sent out widely by Messrs. Hovey of Boston,

Avaust Ist, 1897,

under the name of Amaryllis Hallii. Dr. Hall had it

in his garden at Shanghai before 1860, and states that

it 1s often used by the Chinese to decorate their ceme-

teries. Our drawing was made from plants that

flowered in the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1897. It was

first received from Mr. Max Leichtlin in 1885. In

1895 a large supply of bulbs was purchased from a

Japanese nurseryman, and these were planted in an open

border against the south wall of a stove, where they have

flourished and flowered freely.

Descr.—Bulb globose, two inches in diameter; outer

tunics brown, membranous. Leaves fully developed in

April, lorate, obtuse, bright green, glabrous, rather fleshy,

a foot and a half long, dying down at the end of summer.

Peduncle developed in July, stout, solid, terete. Flowers

four to eight in an umbel; pedicels short; spathe-valves

two, small, ovate-lanceolate. Perianth bright pink, three

or four inches long; tube subcylindrical, with six small

truncate scales at its throat, just above the insertion of

the stamens ; lobes oblanceolate-oblong, obtuse, spreading

from above the middle. Stamens declinate, rather shorter

than the perianth-limb. Ovary globose; style declinate,

simple, protruded beyond the anthers.—J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, perianth-segment, with stamen, natural size; 2, front view of

anther; 3, back view of anther; 4, apex of style; 5, horizontal section of

ovary : all enlarged.

Vinoant Brooks Day&.Son imp

L Reeve & C° London.

MS.del, JN Bitch beh

TAB. TOT. peer

GASTERIA FUSCO-PUNCTATA.

Native of Cape Colony.

Nat. Ord. Littace#.—Tribe ALOINES.

Genus GastertA, Duval; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 775.)

Gasterta fusco-punctata; breviter caulescens, foliis 20-80 dense rosulatis

lanceolatis strictis brevibus viridibus maculis copiosis fuscis decoratis

latere dextero duplicato-marginatis, racemis multis laxis in paniculam

amplam dispositis, pedicellis brevibus cernuis, bracteis lanceolatis

minutis, perianthii tubo oblongo ventricoso rubello, limbi lobis linearibus

viridi tinctis, staminibus inclusis, ovario cylindrico, stylo ovario longiore.

G. fusco-punctata, Baker in Jonrn. Linn. Soc. vol. xvi. p. 195; Fl. Cap. vol.

vi. p. 390.

This is one of the finest of all the Gasterias. In its

multifarious rosette of long leaves and ample panicle it

resembles G. Croucheri (Aloe Croucheri, Hook. f. in Bot.

Mag. tab. 5812), but the flowers are much smaller, and

the leaves conspicuously spotted with brown. It was

not known to Salm-Dyck and Haworth, and it is here

figured for the first time. It was discovered by Mr. Thomas

Cooper about 1860, but the precise locality is not known.

Our drawing was made from a plant flowered at Kew last

July, which has a more compound panicle than the one

which I first saw in the collection of the late Mr. Wilson

Saunders at Reigate about the year 1870. In cultivation

it needs the same treatment as the other members of the

genus, which contains about fifty species, and is entirely

restricted to the Cape. )

Descr.—Stem shortly produced below the rosette of

leaves. Leaves twenty or thirty, forming a dense multi-

farious rosette, lanceolate, a foot or more long, three or

four inches broad low down, tapering gradually to the

deltoid-cuspidate apex, very smooth, dull green, with

copious irregularly scattered superficial brown spots,

furnished with a conspicuous double border on the right

hand side, looking upwards from the base. Peduncle with

panicle three or four feet long. Racemes lax, cylindrical ;

pedicels short, cernuous; bracts lanceolate, minute.

Avcust Ist, 18!7.

Perianth an inch long, bright pink; tube oblong, ventri-

cose; lobes of the limb linear, more or less tinged with

green. Stamens shorter than the perianth ; anthers oblong,

small. Ovary cylindrical, trigonous; style longer than

the ovary. Capsule cylindrical, nearly as long as the

perianth.—J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, A flower; 2, back view of anther; 3, front view of anther;

_ 4, pistil: all enlarged ; 5, whole plant, much reduced.

Bugs

Aes anes

MS del, IN Fitch lith Vincent Brooks Day &Sonimp —

L Reeve & C° London.

Tas. 7548. FSP

DENDROBIUM penupans.

Native of the Himalaya,

Nat. Ord. Orncnu1pDE#.—Tribe EPIDENDREX.

Genus Denprosium, Sw. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol, iii. p, 498.)

DenprosiuM (Stachyobium) denudans; dense cosspitosum, caulibns elongatis

internodiis subpseudobulbosis foliosis, foliis deciduis lineari-oblongis-

lanceolatisve apice acutis v. 2-dentatis, racemis axillaribus terminalibusque

elongatis gracilibus nutantibus multifloris, sepalis e basi ovata lanceolatis

acuminatis v. caudato-acuminatis, petalis angustioribus oblanceolatis,

mento incurvo obtuso, labello sepalis dimidio breviore, lobis lateralibus

incisis, intermedio ovato marginibus incurvis crispato-undulatis et crenato-

dentatis, disco 2-lamellato.

D. denndans, D. Don Prodr. Fl. Nep. p. 24. Wall. Cat. n. 2014 (partim).

Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid 84; in Bot. Reg. 1838, Misc. p, 84, and 1844,

p. 61; in Journ, Linn, Soe. vol. iii. p. 19. Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. v.

p. 715; in Ann, Roy. Bot. Gard. Calcutt. vol. v. p. 4, t. 6.

Dendrobium denudans is one of three very closely allied

species, natives of the temperate regions of the Himalaya,

which indicate the westernmost limit of the vast Asiatic

genus to which they belong. Judging from dried

specimens and drawings all three, namely, D. alpestre,

Royle, D. erixflorum, Griff., and the plant here figured,

are very variable in size, in the length of the raceme, and

number of flowers, and in the size and coloration of the

latter, from pure white, with a little purple on the lip, to

a decided green.

D. denudans was discovered by Dr. Wallich in Nepal in

1821. It was introduced, probably from the Khasia Hills,

into the Duke of Devonshire’s garden at Chatsworth by

Mr. Gibson, when collecting in India for the Duke. It

flowered there in 1838, and was described by Lindley

as bearing a profusion of green and white nodding

racemes. In 1844 Lindley again describes it, as a species

most variable in size, but always to be distinguished by

the loose membranous sheaths which persist on the stem

after the leaves fall off; the sepals and petals elongate,

pale, yellow-white, or greenish-white, lip green, whole-

coloured.

Avetst lst, 1897.

The same sheaths may, however, be observed in D.

alpestre and erixflorum, the former of which is distinguished

by its small size and erect few-fid. peduncles; and

D. erizflorum, which abounds in the Khasia Mts., and is

common in Sikkim, by the short scapes, and much shorter,

broader, green sepals and petals.

There are copious specimens of D. denudans in the Kew

Herbarium from various localities, extending from Kumaon

to Sikkim at elevations of 4000-5500 ft. The specimen

here figured was collected on oak trees near Mussoorie in

Garwhal at 5—-6000 ft. elevation, and sent to the Royal

Gardens by Mr. Duthie, Director of the Bot. Dept.,

N. India. It flowered in September, 1896.

Descr.—Stems densely tufted, four to sixteen inches

long, leafy, clothed with membranous sheaths ; internodes

more or less pseudobulbous. Leaves two to three inches

long, linear-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute, or tip

2-toothed, pale green, membranous, deciduous, paler be-

neath, and keeled by the midrib. Flowers in terminal and

axillary very slender nodding many-fid. racemes three

to six inches long; bracts lanceolate, shorter than the

pedicels. Sepals spreading, lanceolate from an ovate

base, subfalcate, finely acuminate, white or pale green.

Petals shorter, and much narrower than the sepals,

oblanceolate, white. Mentum short, incurved, tip rounded.

Lip about one-third shorter than the sepals; side-lobes

short, inciso-serrate, white or greenish, streaked with

red; midlobe ovate, strongly recurved, sides incurved

undulate, crisped and crenate, white or pale green, with —

purple margins. Column entire. Anther with the margim

minutely erose in front.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Column and lip ; 2, column ; 3, anther; 4, pollinia :—AU/ enlarged.

Vincent BrooksDay & Son hmp. _

L Reeve & O°F,

bsgiosnnsninnge tennis

Lith

MS. del J.NFitch

Tap. 7550,

FICUS erecta, var. SIEBOLDII.

Native of Japan.

Nat. Ord. Urnticez.—Tribe ARTOCARPE.

Genus Ficus, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 367.)

Ficus erecta var. Sieboldii; frutex v. arbuscula, ramulis glabris puberulisve,

foliis lineari-oblongis-lanceolatisve acuminatis integris v. hic illic lobula-

tis basi rotundatis truncatis cordatisve supra glabris subtus puberulis v.

asperulis, stipulis ovatis acuminatis, receptaculis solitariis geminisve

longe pedunculatis globoso-pyriformibus coloratis in stipitem elongatum

basi contractis, bracteis ad basin stipitis 3 minutis triangulari-ovatis, fl.

mase. in eodem receptaculo cum galliparis subsessilibus 1-3-andris, sepalis

3 lanceolatis acuminatis, fi. fertil. subsessilibus, sepalis 4, stylo crassiusculo,

stigmate 2-lobo.

F. erecta, Thunb. Diss. Ficus, p. 9; in Trans. Linn. Soe. vol. ii. p. 327,

King, Annals Bot. Gard. Caleutt. vol. i. p. 141, t. 178.

Var. Sieboldii, King, J. c. p. 142, t. 178, f. B. :

F. Sieboldii, Miguel, Ann. Mus. Bot. Iugd. Bat. vol. ii. p. 199, et iii, p. 295-

Maxim. in Bull, Acad. Petersb. vol. xi. p. 327.

According to Dr. King’s account of Ficus erecta in his

invaluable monograph of the Eastern Asiatic Figs, it is an

extraordinarily variable plant, and but for the evidence he

adduces it would be difficult to believe that the forms he

fizures belong to one and the same species. In habit

F. erecta varies from a shrub to a small tree, with nearly

glabrous, pubescent, or almost strigose branchlets, leaves

and receptacles. The leaves vary from broadly ovate,

obovate, elliptic, or subrhomboid, to the narrow form of

those of var. Sieboldii, and are quite entire, or here and

there lobulate, or rather coarsely toothed above the

middle. The receptacles are solitary, or in pairs, glabrous

or hispidulous, peduncled or subsessile on the branchilets,

either globose and not stalked, or pyriform and narrowed

into a long stalk.

Of F’. erecta Dr. King makes 2 varieties, namely—

Var. Beecheyana, King (I. Beecheyana, Hook. et Arn.

Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 271), a native of Japan, Formosa,

Aveust Ist, 1897,

and Hong Kong, of which specimens in Kew Herbarium

from the Loo Choo Islands have leaves ten inches long by

two and a half inches broad, and fruits two-thirds of an

inch in diameter.

Var. Sieboldii, King, of which there are two subvarieties : |

a Japanese, that here figured ; and one (which I have not

seen) from the Sikkim Himalaya, and Khasia Hills in

Bengal, with the leaves hispidly hairy beneath.

The specimens of var. Sieboldii here figured are from a

large bush in the Temperate House of the Royal Gardens,

received in 1878 from the late Dr. Schomburg, Director

of the Adelaide Botanical Gardens, and which fruits in the

summer months.

Deser. of var. Sieboldit,—A bush or small tree, glabrous,

‘or with the branchlets and leaves slightly hairy. Leaves

six to eight inches long, linear- or oblong-lanceolate,

acuminate, thin, smooth or slightly scabrid, dark green

above, entire, or rarely with a lobe on one or both margins ;

base rounded, cuneate, or cordate, and three to five-nerved.

Fruit solitary or binate, long-peduncled, half an inch in

diameter, globosely pyriform, narrowed into a peduncle as

long as itself, yellow and red. Peduncle one and a half

inches long, green, with 3 minute bracts at the top.—

pipes 6

Fig. 1, Vertical section of fruit ; 2, female f.; 3, ovary :—All enlarged,

L Reeve & C° London.

N Fitch hth

Tas. 7551,

CYNORCHIS purrurascens.

Native of the Mascarene Islands.

Nat. Ord. Orcuipraz.—Tribe OrpurYpDExX.

Genus Cynorcuts, Thou.; (Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 628.)

CYNoRCHIS purpurascens; tuberibus cylindraceis, folio solitario (v. 2,

unico parvo) sessili lanceolato v. lineari-oblongo acuminato 7-© nervi

basi convoluto vagina brunnea truncata appressa instructo, nervulis

trabeculatis, scapo 2-10-floro medio vaginato, bracteis lanceolatis setaceo-

acuminatis haud inflatis, ovario gracili 2-pollicari sparse glanduloso-

piloso, sepalis concavis, dersali hemispherico roseo, lateralibus duplo

majoribus oblongis apice rotundatis viridibus, petalis erectis oblongo-

lanceolatis obtusis inzequilateralibus roseis, labelli ampli rosei ungue lato

lobis lateralibus dimidiato-ovatis, intermedio obovato lateralibus paullo

longiore ad medium bifido, calcare labio squilongo apice fusiforme,

clinandrio reclinato, rostello decurvo, anthers tubulis rostello longioribus,

loculis dorso ad basin column affixis, polliniarum candiculis filiformibus.

asag purpurascens, Lindl. Gen. § Sp. Orchid. 331, Baker Fl. Maurit.

p. 337. ;

C. Lowiana, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1888, vol. i. p. 424.

CYNosoRCHIs purpurascens, Thou. Orch. Ins. Afric. Ic, t. 15; tab. 8, p. 1

purpurea),

Gymnadenia purpurascens, 4. Rich. in Mem. Hist. Nat. Par. vol. iv. (1828)

p. 27, t. 6, f. 1. (anal. erron.) Bojer, Hort. Maurit, p. 311.

The genus Cynorchis is so closely allied to Habenaria

that it appears to me to be doubtful how far it may prove

to be distinguishable when the latter genus shall be either

dismembered or divided into stable groups. The character

chiefly depended on for Cynorchis is the large complicate

midlobe (so called) of the 3-lobed rostellum, which organ,

in the species here figured, does not well answer to this

description, for what I take to be the side-lobes of the

rostellum I should refer to the sides of the column,

the true rostellum being a triangular, decurved and

concave, but not plicate body. A more important dis-

tinction from Habenaria may prove to be the reclinate

clinandrium, with the pollen-cells placed at the very base

of the back of the column. ‘To understand, however, the

complicate nature of the latter organ in (. purpurascens,

it is necessary to refer to the analyses here given, which

Avaust Ist, 1897.

are explained in the reference ‘to ‘the plate at the end of |

the description. ‘he apex of the column (e in figs. 3 —

and 4) varies greatly in length, in one specimen I found ©

it produced into a spur-at the back of the column. — re

‘C. purpurascens isa native of Madagascar, Bourbon, and

formerly of the Mauritius, where it is probably now ex-

tinct. It varies greatly in stature, robustness, breadth of

leaf, and number of flowers, from two to ten; and inthe.

size of these, to somewhat larger, or a third smaller than

are those here represented. ‘The specimen figured was

procured by the Royal Gardens, Kew, from Messrs. Hugh —

Low & Co. in 1894. It flowered in a stove in November,

1896. It was described as C. Lowtana eight years pre- —

viously by Reichenbach, but Mr. Rolfe has pomted out its

identity with the plant of Thouars, figured in 1822.

Deser.—Leaf solitary (or with a reduced second), six

to eight inches long, by one to three broad, lanceolate or

oblong-lanceolate, finely acuminate, seven to many-nerved ;

base convolute, and wrapped in a cylindric, red-brown,

truncate sheath. Peduncle stout or slender, six to ten

inches long, with a lanceolate sheath, red-brown, two to

ten-flowered ; bracts about an inch long, erect, lanceolate,

tip setaceous. Ovary with the very short pedicel two

inches long, slender, curved, sparsely glandular-hairy.

Sepals membranous ; dorsal about a quarter of an inch

long, galeate, hemispheric, green and red; lateral half an

inch long, oblong, concave, obtuse, pale green. Petals as

long as the dorsal sepal, and connivimg with it, ovate-

lanceolate, obtuse, unequal sided, rose-colrd. Lip one and

a quarter inch long or less, obovate from a broad claw,

bright rose-red, three cleft; side-lobes dimidiate-ovate,

obtuse; mid-lobe obovate, cleft to the middle; spur a8

long as the lip, slender, green, tip clavate. Colwmn short,

rose-pink.—J. D. H. |

Fig. 1, Lateral sepal; 2, petal; 3, front, 4, side, and 5, dorsal view of —

column; a. rostellum, 4. side-lobes of column (or of rostellum), c. glands

caudicle of pollinia, d. stigmatic lobes, e. apex of column, f. glands represent-

ing staminodes, g. mouth of spur :—A// enlarged. :

NDBOOK of the BRITISH FLORA; a

Flowering Plants and Ferns indigenons to, or nati

Isles. For the use of Beginners and Amateurs.

_- F.R.S. 6th Edition, revised by Sir J. D. Hooker. Crown 8vo,10s.6d.

ILLUSTRATIONS of the BRITISH FLORA ; a Series of Wood

Engravings, with Dissections, of British Plants, fous Drawings by W. H.

Fitcu, F,L.S., and W. G. Surrx, F.L.S., forming an Illustrated Companio

to. Benthaii'a! ™ Handbook,” and othér British Floras. 1816 Wood En- ©

, gravings. 4th Edition, seta and enlarged, crown 8vo, 10s. 6d. ” Sed

OUTLINES of ELEMENTARY BOTANY, as Introductory to. .

Local Floras.. By Grorcr BentHam, F.R.S., President of the Linnean :

Society. New Edition, 1s, mi

FLORA of HAMPSHIRE, including the Isle of Wight, with

localities of the less common species, By F. Townsenp, M.A., F.L.S.-

With Coloured Map and two Plates, 16s.

HANDBOOK of BRITISH MOSSES, containing all that: are

known to be natives: of the British Isles, -By the Rev. M. J. BerkELey, s

M.A., F.L:8.. 2nd Euition, 24 Coloured Plates, 21s.

SYNOPSIS of BRITISH MOSSES, containing Deseriptions of

all the Genera and Species (with ER of the rarer ones) ee in Great

ritain and Ireland. By Caartes P. Hopxrek, FL. 8., ke, &e, “Ne

tion, entirely revised. Crown 8vo, 7s. 6d. os. ‘.

SH MOSS-FLORA. Monographs. of aM Fa

= Groner Bentaas

of BRITISH INDIA. By Sir J.D. Hooxer, F.R.S

-and others. Parts 1. to XIII., 10s. 6d. each. Pics XIV. to X1X., 9s. eac’

Part XX.,7s 6d. Parts Xx1. and XXII., 9s. each. Vols. I. toIV., 32s

® each. Vol. V.,38s.- Vol. VI., 368. “.

FLORA AUSTRALIENSIS: a Description of the Plants of the

Australian Territory. By G, BentHAM, F.R.S., F.LS., assisted by F. ete

Murtzier, F.R.8. Vols, I. to VI., 20s. each. Vol. VII., 248. Published

under the auspices of the several Governments of Australia. Bes

‘FLORA of MAURITIUS and the SEYCHELLES: a Descrip-

tion of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of those Islands. By J.G. Baker, —

F.L.8.. Complete in 1 vol., 24s. Published under the anthority of the a

‘Colonial Government of Mauritius.

FLORA CAPENSIS: a Systematic Description of the Plants of

the Cape Colony, Caffraria, and Port Natal. By Wi1iaM H, Hanvey,M.D.,

F.R.S., and. Orvo Wirnetm Sonper, Ph.D. Vols. I.—IIL., 18s. each, |; ~

Vol VL, 24s, net. ee

FLORA of TROPICAL AFRICA. By Daniet Oxrver, FR

E .L.8. Vols. 1.to U1., each 20s. Dipticeed under the authority of the

sioner of Her Maiesty’s Works.

he NEW: ieee 2 FLO

33S "Peer a tien of the’ seria” a

¢ s of the Island of geek: By Grorce Brytwam,

‘Map of the Island and Supplement by Dr. Hance, 21s.

cater the anthority of Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the

8 .e Supplement, separately, 2s. 6d.

'LORA of AUSTRALIA; its Origin, Adinitios. and

Distribution. By Sir J. D. Hooker, F.R.S. 10s.

CONTRIBUTIONS to THE FLORA of MENTONE. and

* » to a Winter Flora of the Riviera, including the coast from Marseilles to

Genoa. By J. Tssnernzx Moccriper. Royal 8vo. Complete in 1 vol.,

99 Cilieced Plates, 63s.

-L. REEVE & CO., 6, Henrietta Strect, Covent Garden. ae

BOTANICAL MAGAZINE.

CONTENTS OF No. 632, AUGUST, 1897.

Taz. 7547.—_LYCORIS SQUAMIGERA.

Jpg » 7548-—DENDROBIUM DENUDANS.,

e._,,'.7549.—GASTERIA FUSCO- PUNCEATAS: the

er * 75 60,-—-FICUSSEREO LA eae S wee

TBA. —CYNORGHIS PURPURASCENS. | oe

2 eae 3 ay ae of ~ ae

L. Reeve & Co,, 6, “Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. Ae

Now Ready, Vol. VI, Parts 1.—IIL., 7s. 6d, each. Vol. VI., Clot!

FLORA CAPENSIS;

: A Aystenitio Description of the Plants of the Cape Colony, Caffr:

and Port Natal.

Edited by W. T. THISELTON-DYER, ©.M.G,, F.RS.,

Dérector of the Royal Gar dike. Kew.

. Published under the authority of the Governments of the Cane of Good Hope

and Natal.

Vols. I. to ELL. 18s. each.

us laceuime H. HARVEY, M.D., F.R‘S., Professor of Bote any. in the

University of Dublin, and.

OTTO WILHELM SONDER, Ph.D. 7

Now ready, Part. XX11., 9s..

LORA OF BRITISH INDIA,

By Sir qd. D. HOOKER, FR.S., Ke.

mn ‘Vols oe to Ty » 32s. each. Vol. V., 38s. Vol. VL, 368.

with ® Dalphead Plates, ae i chinglotini the waht.

TERA "HOMOPTERA OF THE BRITISH ISLANI ‘

Peers - By JAMES. EDWARDS, F.ES. ;

te, with 2 Structural Plates, 12s. ; * Large Edition, with 28 Coloured Plate, <

Now ready, Part aR . 4 Coloured Plates, 5s.

"LEPIDOPTERA OF THE “BRITISH ISLANDS

By CHARLES G. BARRETT, F.ES,

Vol. I. 12s.; large paper, with 40 Coloured Plates, 53s.

Vol. IL 12s.; large paper, with 46 Coloured Plates, 63s. —

Vol. II. 12s.; large paper, with 50 Coloured Plates, 63s. °

Prospectus may be had on application. to the Publishers, 7

Now ready, Part XXVIL, with 8 Coloured Plates, 153, ig

“LE PIDOPTERA INDIC

By F. MOORE, BZS. “i

- Vol. containing 94 Coloured Plates; Vol. AL, with 96 Griouned Plates, es

29 5s., cloth; £9" "488,, half moroceo.

- | Proeesns with First List of Subsersbers, can be had on application

L. Reeve & Co, 8, Henrietea’ Street, Covent ra

VOL. LII—SEPTEMBER, == Price 8, 6d: cot ured, 2s, 6. pla

ae “on No. 1327 or vue enrine wonx.

Ae CURTIS'S. scan

BOTANICAL MAGAZINE,

TONEREE? ;

THE PLANTS OF THE io GARDENS Or KEW,

joes ae grape out northern eek

RAR il a hl RPSL LET EOI “Yi a

oe ELON DORs

abs REEVE 4 AND ©0., 6, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

1897.

: {4 rights reserved. }

"PREPARING FOR IMMEDIATS PUBLICATION.

THE POTAMOGETONS ©

(POND WEEDS)

OF THE

BRETIS ISLES.

“e. Waisth DESCRIPTIONS OF ALL THE SPECIES, Varrerins, AND ‘Hyerivs,

By ALFRED FRYER. ‘Illustrated by ROBERT MORGAN, F-.L.S.

“The object of this work is to supply a iong-needed set of good and reliable Illus: -

- trations of British Potamogetons. Both Descriptions and ‘Illustrations will include |

the varying forms, and states as well as the generally reco ized species. The

_ Synonymy, though noi aiming at absolate completeness, wi 1 be ample for all

aoa purposes. An attempt will be made towards a natural arrangement of the

species fonnded on the changes of form in their progressive stages of gr owth rather

than on the comparatively limited distinctions afforded by the pies iT ustrations of

oe ‘which will form a special feature. :

nUatons work will be issued in 15 monthly parts : prospectus on application, :

ee Si Gi ee ~~ Now ready, price 2s. 6d.

-INSS LAR FLORAS.

A Lecture deliverra by Sm J. D, HOOKER, C.B., before the British Association

ss a the SATE RAO ORE of Seience at Nottingham, August 27, 1866.

S New oe » Second Edition.

_BANDBOOK OF BRITISH MOSSES,

= Containing all that are known:to be natives of the British Isles. :

Pas the Rev, M.. a: BUSERERY, feichs s beck a4 Coloured Plates, 2Es, ”

: Now realy, complete a roy Ato, oe ne chen a in half moroced,

; ‘forms a ica: sia aiotn volume of heiwenail 300 and. 400 prow 60 Plate

i F. W. FROW BAWK, ype 24 any coloured by _ ;

"HANDBOOK OF THE BRITISH FLORA:

A Describtion of the Flowering Plants and Ferns Indigenous: ;

to or Naturalized in the British /sles.

Br GEORGE BENTHAM, F.RS:

6th Edition, Revised by Sir J. D. Hooxgr, 0.B., K.C.S.L, F. BS, he 10s. 6d.

ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BRITISH FLORA,

A Series of Wood Engravings, with Dissections, of British Pl at.

DEawn By W.H. FITCH, E.L, oa AND Ww. G. bee PL :

L, REEVE & OB 6, pert pee

TITK

.ttip,

Vincent Brocks,Day & Sor

MS.del, JIN-Fitch hth.

Sii/) Uy

yale

| TENN

= ZN

— G k WR ai

EU fiz SS

) b \\fioN S

9 1 be

[Za typ, \ Uh

g Y/ \ S

op me fd (77 [ISS fiz

'\ :

: \}

\ \

fp It

Paae =

ati if i KN

— a

- y i Wie

{} y y, fi i

ome Vip cS el. i Whe

i oe f Y, | } ne

z Vy Ty. NA

: SA/, Bin HA le

= PF PVA /

— — 2S fF we

\VSer man

— Fre EHH 12 '

> = Of

‘te > y

*, AS iN I LA AB

AX ' I,

- t hs

t) x " if yy J

<4 Aj q hy y

f p NS 5 VY 4 J

\/ AN NS? //j }

¥ } Py \a NY ¢

\ a ev //1)

z \ 2

a R

As 1¥ i

\ ee f

i >, . x‘

é * rf

\ ct :

1 it

Bade

¥ ‘ } WA

4 Yi Ve Ws s

ae ge

a SF pS

3 <

M.S. del. JN Fitch lith. VincentBrooks Day & Son Imp

Tass. 7552, 7558.

SCHEELEA KEWENSIS.

Native of tropical America.

Nat. Ord. PatME&.—Tribe CocoInEa.

tenus ScHeEEa, Karst.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. iii. p. 947.)

ScHEELEA kewensis; trunco robusto obscure annulato infra folia basibus

petiolorum vetustoram onusto, foliis 25-pedalibus breviter petiolatis

patenti-recurvis pinnatisectis, segmentis decurvis 2}—3-pedalibus 1-13 poll.

latis ad basin versus rachi subsolitariis medio subternis apicem versus

subquaternis longe acuminatis basi incrassatis supra carinatis laete

viridibus subtus pallidioribus, nervis obscuris, rachi valida pentagona

dorso rotundata appresse purpuracea, floribus in spathis diversis

monoici, spathis 2} pedalibus breviter crasse pedunculatis erectis

cymbiformibus rostratis fuscis lignosis, spadicibus simpliciter ramosis,

masc. Yamis densissime fasciculatis 4—6-pollicaribus strictis deflexis,

rachibus flavis ad basin floriferis, floribus confertis, sepalis minutis

ovatis, petalis elongato-cylindraceis apice rotundatis fere 3 poll. longis

purpnreis, staminibus 6, filamentis equilongis anthera lineari brevioribus ;

fl. fem. quam masc. multo majoribus subsessilibus ovoideis, bracteola

lanceolata paucidentata suffultis, sepalis ovatis obtusis crassis, petalis

paullo latioribus, disco cupulari, stylo crasso, stigmatibus brevibus

recurvis, fructu 3 poll. longo, ovoideo breviter crasse rostrato basi disco

sepalis petalisque valde auctis vaginato abortu 1-spermo.

The larger Palms so rarely produce flower, and still more

rarely fruit in our tropical Palm Houses, that it appears

to me expedient to figure such as fulfil these con-

ditions in the Royal Gardens, Kew, even when, as in this

case, I am unable to identify them specifically. That the

Palm here figured belongs to the genus Scheelea, which

was founded by Karsten on the species of Mawimiliana,

‘Mart., with long narrow petals, is obvious. A _ near

congener is S. Princeps, Karst., in Linngwa, vol. xxviii.

p- 269 (Attalea Princeps, Mart., Palmet., Orbign., p. 118,

t. 31), in which, besides other differences, the fruit is not

beaked. It has flowered but once, when it produced two

spathes, the lower male (of which the pollen was kept) in

August, 1895, and the upper female (to which the pollen

was applied) in the following October. The fruit did not

completely ripen. |

SzrremBeR Ist, 1897,

As regards the history of this fine Palm, which has been

for many years growing in the Palm House of Kew, I can

throw no further light than that it has always borne the

erroneous name of Mawimiliana regia, and is hence, no

doubt, one of three plants so called in J. Smith’s “ Records

of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew,” for which he gives

as their origin, ‘“‘ex Hort. Belg. Van Houtte, 1847;

Demerara, Schomburg and Boughton, 1847; Para, Yates,

1847, The only other remark on this subject is at p. 111

of the same work, where (writing in (1880) the author says,

under M. regia, “similar in habit and mode of growth

to Atialea amygdalina, plants with leaves ten feet in

length.”

Descr.—W hole plant twenty-five ft. high from the ground

to the level of the coma; trunk from the ground about

eight ft. to the lower leaves, three ft. in girth, dark

brown, or nearly black, clothed with the bases of old

petioles. Leaves very many, spreading and decurved,

twenty-five feet long, very shortly petioled; leaflets s

crowded, in three ranks, Spreading and decurved, with

pendulous tips, solitary towards the base of the rachis, in

threes to fives towards the middle, and solitary near the

top, about three feet long, by one to one and a half in.

broad, finely acuminate, base thickened, bright green,

convex and keeled above, pale beneath ; rachis stout, five-

angled, about an inch broad in the middle part, dorsally

rounded and clothed with a fine closely appressed grey-

purple scurf, sides flat green, upper surface concave

bright green, with acute edges and a median low ridge.

Spathes two, unisexual, (? always), in the axils of the

leaves, an upper fem. and lower male, shortly stoutly

peduncled, two and a half feet long, cymbiform,

shortly Stoutly beaked, woody, yellow-brown. Male

spadi eighteen inches long, erect, densely clothed with

strict, deflexed fascicled branches, the rachis and racheole

of which are bright yellow, the flowers a bright vinous

purple; male fl. crowded on the branches of the spadix

sessile, nearly half an inch long. Sepals minute, ovate.

Petals many times longer, cylindric, rugulose, tip rounded.

Stamens three, anthers about half the length of the petals, |

and twice as long as their filaments. Fem. fl. much

larger than the male, very shortly stoutly pedicelled,

ovoid, yellow, each with a lanceolate, more or less serrate

bract as long as itself. Sepals broadly ovate, obtuse,

fleshy. Petals shorter, broader. Disk fleshy. Style very

stout, stigmas short, recurved. Fruit three in. long,

elongate-ovoid, beaked, 1-seeded, surrounded at the base

by the greatly enlarged sepals, petals, and disk.—J. D. H.

Tab. 7552, Portion of rachis of leaf and leaflet of nat. size ; 2, male spathe

and spadix one-third nat. size; 3, branch of do. nat. size; 4, male fl;

5, stamens; 6 and 7, front and back view of single stamen :—AJ/ enlarged.

Tab. 7553, Reduced fig. of whole plant; fig. 1, fem. fl. and bract; 2, the

same, side view; 3, fem. petals style and stigma; 4, disk with ovary; al/

enlarged.—5, two fruits; 6, transverse, and 7, longitudinal section of fruit ;

8, seed ; 9, embryo :—A/l of nat. size.

MSdel JN Fitchith

TL.Reeve & C° Landon.

Tas. 7554.

CIRRHOPETALUM Cortisu.

Native of the Straits of Malacca.

Nat. Ord. OncHIpEHZ.—Tribe EPIDENDRES.

Genus CrrrHopetaLum, Lindl. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 504.)

CIRRHOPETALUM (Umbellate) Curtisii ; rhizomate elongato repente, pseudo-

bulbis parvis ovoideis vaginis brunneis tectis, folio lineari-oblongo apice

subacuto recurvo utrinque pallide viridi dorso vix carinato, scapo a basi

pseudobulbi erecto gracili infra medium vaginis. paucis parvis instructo,

floribus vix 3 ie longis confertim umbellatis deflexis roseis, bracteis

setaceis, pedicellis foribus brevioribus, sepalo dorsali fere orbiculari ciliato

apice longe aristato, arista ciliata, lateralibus lineari-oblongis obtusis

ultra basin in laminam late oblongam recurvam convexam coherentibus,

petalis sepalum dorsale equantibus longe ciliatis, labello ovato-oblongo

obtuso aurantiaco, columna apice truncata sublobata.

Cirrhopetalum Curtisit belongs to a very distinct section

of the umbellate flowered species of the genus, charac-

terized by the ciliate and awned dorsal sepal and _ petals.

The only species of this section previously figured in this

work is 0. Oumingii, Lindl. (Tab. 4996) of the Philippine

Islds., a much larger plant, with long, narrow, acuminate

lateral sepals. There are, however, three described Indian

species much more closely allied to C. Curtisti, namely, C.

Rowxburghii, Lindl. (Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1057 A), C. gamosepalum,

Griff. (Ann. Bot. Gard. Calcutt. vol. v. p. 17, t. 26), and

0. concinnum, Hk. f. (Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 2060 B), all which

differ in the colour of the flowers, and except in the case

of the last named species, in their much larger size. To

these must be added an unpublished species, C. pulchellum

Ridley mss. in Herb. Kew, from Singapur, with smaller,

broadly ovoid pseudobulbs, fewer differently coloured

flowers in the umbel, and longer lateral sepals than has

O. Curtisir.

QO. Curtisti. was sent to the Royal Gardens i

1895, by Mr. Curtis, F.L.S., Superintendent of eaten

and Forest Department, Penang, bearing the ticket

“ OCirrhopetalum, Sp. Panga” (perhaps the Island of

SEPTEMBER lst, 1897.

Panyang on the coast of Malacca). It flowered in a stove

of the Royal Gardens in December, 1896.

Descr.—Rhizome flexuous, about one-eighth of an inch

in diameter, clothed with appressed brown scales. Pseudo-

bulbs about an inch apart, two-thirds of an inch long,

ovoid, green, clothed with brown sheaths. Leaf four to

four and a half inches long, by nearly an inch broad,

linear-oblong, tip subacute recurved, very coriaceous,

yellowish green on both surfaces, midrib sunk above,

hardly keeled beneath, Scapes solitary from the base of

the pseudobulbs, three to four inches long, very slender,

decurved, pale green, with a few small scattered sheaths

tipped with brown below the middle. Flowers numerous,

in a crowded umbel, hardly half an inch long, dorsal sepal

and petals bright rose-colrd., lateral sepals paler, fading

into white beyond the middle; lip bright yellow. Dorsal

sepals and petals very small, of nearly equal size, sub-

orbicular, long-ciliate, tip of dorsal sepal long-awned, awn

ciliate, about one-third of an inch long. Lateral sepals

linear-oblong, obtuse, coherent from beyond the base into

a very convex, broadly oblong, recurved blade, notched at

the rounded tip. Lip ovate-oblong, recurved, grooved

down the centre. Column truncate, tip obscurely

lobed.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower seen in front ; 2, the same from the side; 3, petal; 4, column

and lip; 5, anther ; 6, pollinia :—AJI enlarged.

7535

MS del, J NFitch lth

Vincent Brooks Day &Sonimp

L Reeve & C2 Landon

Tas. 7555.

HELIANTHUS GIGANTEUS.

Native of North America.

Nat. Ord. Composira.—Tribe HELIANTHOIDER,

Genus Hetiantuvs, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 376.)

Hewiantaus giganteus ; 6-10-pedalis, asperulus, superne ramosus, rhizomate

repente radicibus incrassatis, foliis alternis sessilibus v. breviter petiolatis

lanceolatis oblongo-lanceolatisve acuminatis basi angustatis serratis

subserratisve penninerviis, capitulis 23-33 poll. latis subcorymbosis,

involucri bracteis subzqualibus lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis laxe

appressis hispidis, receptaculi squamis dorso pubescentibus, radii ligulis

15-20, 1-13 pollicaribus, fl. disci aureis glaberrimis.

H. giganteus, Linn. Sp. Pl. 905. Ait. Hort. Kew, vol. ii. p. 409. DC. Prodr.

vol, v. p. 589. Torr. & Gray Fl. N. Amer. vol. ii. p. 325 (excl. var. B).

Hook. Fl. Bor. Am, vol. i. p. 312. A. Gray, Bot. N. Un. St. Ed. 5, p. 256;

Synopt. Fl. N. Am.; Gamopet. p. 276.

H. altissimus, Linn. Sp. Pl. Ed. 2, vol. ii. p. 1278. Jacq. Hort. Vind. t. 162.

H. gigas, Michw. Fl. Bor. Am. vol. ii. p. 141.

H. fol. lanceolat. sessil., Gronov. Fl. Virgin. p. 104.

Chrysanthemum virginicum elatius, &c. Pluk. Phytog. pars. iii. t. 159, f. 5,

et Almagest. p. 99, t. 159, f. 5.

C. virginicum altiss., &. Morison Plant. Hist. vol. iii. p. 24, t. 7, f. 66, 67.

Helianthus giganteus is a very old inhabitant of such

English gardens as were devoted to the cultivation of

exotic plants. The earliest mention of it that I have found

is in Plukenett’s ‘‘ Phytographia,” published in 1692;

and it is included by Morison in his “ Plantarum Historia

Universalis Oxoniensis,” published in 1699, but who does

not state whether it was then cultivated in England.

_ Gronovius, in his account of the plants collected by J. Clay-

ton, who went to Virginia in 1705, gives a terse diagnosis

of it; and its introduction was possibly due to Clayton, for

Aiton states that it was cultivated in 1714 by the Duchess

of Beaufort. In North America it has a very wide range,

from the St. Lawrence to Louisiana, and in the West from

the Red River and Saskatchewan southward. It so

strongly resembles H. tuberosus (Tab. 7545), having

similar roots, that a low northern form, the “ Indian

Potato of the Asiniboine tribe”’ has been confounded with

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1897.

that plant, which differs in the broader leaves, the lower

opposite, the longer petioles, and the loose invol. bracts.

H. giganteus has been cultivated in the Royal Gardens

probably from their first establishment, but the specimen

here figured was from the rich Herbaceous collection of

A. B. Freeman Mitford, C.B., of Batsford Park, Moreton-

in-Marsh, Worcestershire. It flowers in September.

Descr.—Rootstock creeping, with fusiform cylindric roots.

Stem three to ten feet high, strict, erect, red-brown, sub-

corymbosely branched, and more or less hispidly hairy above,

more glabrous beneath. Leaves three to five inches long,

alternate, subsessile, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acumi-

nate, serrate or nearly entire, penni-nerved, base cuneate,

pale green, sparsely hispidulous above, more so beneath.

Heads two and a half to three and a half inches broad.

Involueral bracts linear-lanceolate, finely acuminate, loosely

imbricate, dark green, hispid. Bracteoles of receptacle

with entire acute pubescent tips. Flowers of the ray fifteen

to twenty ; ligule about an inch long, elliptic-lanceolate,

rather pale yellow, tips acute, entire. Disk flowers narrow,

puberulous, rather darker yellow than the ray.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Involucral bracts; 2, achene and base of ray-flower; 3, scale of

receptacle; 4, flower of disk; 5, stamens; 6, arms of style :—all enlarged;

7, reduced view of whole plant.

7356

LR,

; a Ter : :

S.del, JN Fitch. Vincent Brooks,Day& Sonimp. ie

L. Reeve C? Londan

Tas. 7556.

VERONICA Batrouriana.

Native of New Zealand.

Nat. Ord. ScropHULARINE#.—Tribe DiGITaLE”,

Genus Veronica, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 964.)

Veronica (Hebe) Balfouriana; frutex erectus, ramosus, flexuosus, fere

glaberrimus ramulis, fusco-purpureis, foliis laxe approximatis uniformi-

bas ad $ poll. longis subsessilibus patentibus et decurvis elliptico-ovatis

integerrimis obtusiusculis acut. coriaceis late viridibus rubro-fusco mar-

inatis, racemis axillaribus pedunculatis multi-densi-floris, bracteis

pedicellos subzquantibus oblongis obtusis calycibusque puberulis, sepalis

oblongo-lanceolatis acutis tubum corolle subequantibus, corolla 3 poll.

diam. violaceze tubo brevi, lobis rotundatis antico minore, filamentis lobos

corolle subsequantibus, antheris fusco-ruabris loculis basi rotundatis, cap-

sula parva late ellipsoidea sepalis longiore.

Under Veronica diosmefolia (Tab. 7444) I have alluded

to having drawings of at least six species or varieties of |

Veronicas raised from New Zealand seeds at the Royal

Botanical Gardens of Edinburgh, which I was unable to

identify with described congeners. ‘These and other

drawings I sent to my friend, Mr. Thomas Kirk, F.L.S.,

Wellington, N.Z., who is engaged upon a Flora of New

Zealand, in the hopes that he might aid me in determining

them. This he did in the case of some, but for others,

including that here figured, he could give me no name.

Of it he says, ‘“‘ Apparently new, the acuminate calyx-

segments, and the large corolla, with equal broad seg-

- ments, are striking characters. Although showing affinity

with V. Traversii, it can hardly be a form of that species.”

Comparing specimens of V. Balfouriana and Traversit

as they grew alongside one another in my garden near

Sunningdale, I find that Balfouriana differs in habit, not

tending to form a rounded bush, in the smaller, paler

green leaves, with red-brown margins, the longer racemes

with very much larger violet (not white) flowers, in the

long acuminate sepals, which are nearly as long as the

short corolla tube and as the capsule, and in the obtuse

bases of the cells of the shorter broader red-brown anthers.

I regret to add that V. Traversii is much the hardier of

SepreMBER Isr, 1897.

the two, it having (with some damage, however) resisted

the effects of the coldest winters, to one of which JV.

Balfouriana succumbed. The figure is from a plant that

flowered on a rockery in my garden in June, 1895. It

was received in the previous year from the Royal Botanic

Garden of Edinburgh. In the Royal Gardens, Kew, it has

proved quite hardy. .

Descr.—An erect, glabrous shrub, three feet high, with

dark brown bark and suberect flexuous purpli brown or

reddish branches. eaves subsessile, one half to three-

fourths of an inch long, in loosely approximate pairs, —

spreading and decurved, elliptic-ovate, obtuse or subacute,

quite entire, coriaceous, bright pale green and shining

above, with narrow brown margins. ftacemes opposite,

axillary from the base of the last year’s shoots, two to three

inches long, erecto-patent, very many-fid., peduncle stout ;

flowers crowded; pedicels about as long as the calyx,

puberulous; bracts ovate, acute or obtuse, about as long

as the pedicel. Sepals about one-sixth of an inch long,

obtuse or acute, ciliolate. Corolla pale violet-blue, half an

inch in diameter, tube as long as the sepals; lobes

rounded, three upper subequal, the lower narrower.

Stamens as long as the corolla lobes or shorter ; anthers

red-brown, bases of cells rounded. Capsule ellipsoid,

about one-third longer than the sepals or less.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower, pedicel and bract; 2, pedicel, bract, calyx and style ; )

3 and 4, anthers ; 5, ovary and disk :—A/l enlarged,

Oo a *. 2 ee eee “LE Raa sat ae eae ee

BRITISH, COLONIAL, AND FOREIGN FLORAS.

HANDBOOK of the BRITISH FLORA ; a Description of the

Flowering Plants and Ferns indigenous to, or naturalized in the Britiah

-.. Isles, “For the use of Beginners and Amateurs. By Gxoror BrytaaM,

soa Se F.R.S. 6th Edition, revised by Sir J. D. Hooker. - Crown'8yo, 10s. 6d.

ILLUSTRATIONS of the BRITISH FLORA ;.a Series of Wood

, Engravings, with Dissections, of British Plants, from Drawings by W. H. -

Firen, F.L.8.,and W. G. Suirn, F.L.S., forming an Illnstrated Companion

to Bentham’s ‘‘ Handbook,” and other British Floras. ~1315 Wood En-

\ gravings, 4th Edition, revised and enlarged; crown 8vo, 10s, 6d, :

OUTLINES of ELEMENTARY BOTANY, as Introductory to —

Local Floras, By~Grorce BentHaM, F.R.S., President of the Linnean”

. Society. New Edition, Is, ees nS

FLORA of HAMPSHIRE, including the Isle of Wight, with

localities of the less common species. By F. Townsunp, M.A., F.E.S,

With Coloured Map and two Plates, 16s.

HANDBOOK of BRITISH MOSSES, containing all that are

known to be natives of the British Isles,, By the Rev. M. J. Bexxetey,

: M.A., F.L.S. 2nd Euition, 24 Coloured Plates, 21+.

_ SYNOPSIS of BRITISH MOSSES, containing Descriptions of

_ Britain and Ireland. By Cuantes P. Hoskirk, F.L.S.,; &c., &c,. New :

_.. Edition, entirely revised. Crown 8vo,7s.6d, tage ee Ne ee

E BRITISH MOSS-FLORA, Monographs of the Families of |

British Mosses, illustrated by Plates of all the species, with Microsco car. *

~ details. of their structure. By R. Brarenwaite, M.D., F.L.S,° Vol. 1, ~~

“_ 2 with 45 Plates, 50s, Vol. I1.,; 42s. 60. Part XVII, 6s. te

FLORA of BRITISH INDIA. By Sir J. D. Hooxer, F.R.S.,

Part XX.,7s. 6d, Parts XXI. and XXII., 9s. each. Vols. 1. tolV., 32s;

= >. each, “Vol. Vy, 88s. Volk ViI., 86. °° re

FLORA AUSTRALIENSIS: a Description of the Plants of the

‘Australian Territory. By G, BentuaM, F.R.S., F.L.S., assisted by FP.

MUELLER, F.R.S. Vols. I. to VI., 20s. each. Vol. VII., 24s... Published

et under the auspices of the several Governments of Australia. : ie

FLORA of MAURITIUS and the SEYCHELLES: a Deserip-

tion of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of those Islands. By J. G. BakER,

¥.L.8. Complete in 1 vol., 24s. Published under the authority of the

Colonial Government of Mauritius,

FLORA CAPENSIS: a Systematic Description of the Plants: of

the. Cape Colony, Caffraria, and Port Natal. _By Wittiam H. Hanvey,M.D.,

F.R.S.; and Orro Wirueitm Sonprer, Ph.D. Vols. I,—JII.,’ 18s. each.

Vol VI., 24s. net. ;

FLORA of TROPICAL AFRICA, by Danter. Outver, F.R.Si,

- + >F.L.8.° Vols. I. to IIL, each 20s. Published under the authority of the

First Commissioner of Her Maiesty’s Works.

~ HANDBOOK of the NEW ZEALAND FLORA: a Systematic

_ Description of ~the Native Plants of New Zealand, and the Chatham,

Kermadec’s, Lord Auckland’s, Campbell’s, and Macquarrie’s Islands, By

Sir J. D. Hooker, F.R.S, .. Published under the auspices of the Government

Of that Colony. Complete, 42s, Nahe

ORA of the BRITISH WEST INDIAN ISLANDS, By

Dr. Guisevacu, F.L,8. 425. Published under the auspices of the Séecré-

Meee _» tary of State forthe Colonies. —_- a ie

~~ FLORA HONGKONGENSIS: a Description of the F lowering

~~ Plants and Ferns of the Island of Hongkong. By Groner: BentHaM,

-F.L.8.° With a Map of the Island and Supplement by Dr. Hancox, 21s,

: Published under the authority of Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for the

‘ Colonies. The Supplement, separately, 2s. 6d.

ON the FLORA of AUSTRALIA; its Origin, Affinities, and

Zu Distribution. By Sir J. D. Hooxer, F.B.S: 10s.

CONTRIBUTIONS to THE FLORA of MENTONE. and

to a Winter Flora of the Riviera, including the coast from Marseilles to

Genoa, By J. TRaHERNE Moceginer. Royal 8vo. Complete in 1 vol,,

99 Coloured Plates, 63s. bi

L, REEVE & GO., 6, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden,

BOTANICAL MAGAZUIE, -

CONTENTS OF No. 633, SEPTEMBER, at

Tas, 7552. “SCHEELEA KEWENSIS.

» t000 — ” ”

» 7554,—CIRRHOPETALUM CURTISIL,

'» 1555,—HELIANTHUS GIGANTEUS, = |

4 7556.—VERONICA BALFOURIANA. is sy gee

‘FLORA CAPE NSIS:

A ‘Systematic Description of the Plants of the Cape pole : Caltraria, :

and Port Natal.

Edited by W. T. THISELTON-DYER, C.M.G,, F.R.S.,

Durector of the Royal Giirdens: Kew.

lished under the authority of the Governments of the Caps of Good Hove

and Natal.

Vols. I. to Ii. 18s. each.

WILLIAM H. HARVEY, M.D., F.R.S.; Professor of Botany. in the

Lai versity of Dublin, and

-OTTO- WILHELM SONDER, Ph.D.

Laie Now ready, Part XXAIT,, Se

Pa: OF BRITISH INDIA,

te: By. Sir J. D. HOOKER, F.RS., &e.

a - ‘Vols. i. to TY., 82s, each, Vol. Ni 38s. Aol, VL. 36s.

ine estoy. Part Vill. wits Colpnsad’ Plates, 5s. (completing the v ork).

THE HRMEETERA HOMOPTERA OF THE BRITISH ‘cio

By JAMES EDWARDS, FES. Bs

N ow heer: Part ees es Mis 4 Coloured Plates, Bs.

By CHARLES G. BARRETT, F.ES.

Vol. ¥. 12s.; large paper, with 40 Coloured Plates; 5362.

Vol. If. 12s. ; ; large paper, with 46 Coloured Plates, 63.

Voi, I 41.,123.; er 38 paper, wih 50 Baty st)

By F. ‘MooRE. PLS.

Mol. Bos can Coloured Plates; Yol. II. a

és ee ee Meigs. 294 45s., half mo morocco,

PRINTED BY am, t ane aL

: - Chiew Srviee.

| No. 634.

VOL. LII.—OoTOBER.. : Price 3e. 6a. coloured, 2s, 4. v

— or No. 1328 OF THE ENTIRE work.

CURTIS'S

BOTANICAL MAGAZINE,

THE PLANTS ‘OF THE | ROYAL GARDENS OF KEW,

warn

Siz RCsure DALTON: HOOKER, ML. D., K.C.S.L, C.B., FRSA, Ea

Late Director af the Ropal Satine Grarvens of Kem.

-Navore and Art to adorn the page combine, —

And flowers exotie grace our northern clime,

PRA NLS NI NIRA DP ISLS PEN Oy,

LO N DON:

L. REEVE anp CO., 6, HENRIETTA STREET, COVEN VT GARDEN.

~ 1897. ;

PREPARING FOR IMMEDIATE PUBLICATION.

THE. POTAMOGETONS

(POND WEEDS)

OF THE

BRIFISH ISLES:

rE Wr ITH DESCRIPTIONS OF ALL THE SPECIES, VARIETIES, “AND liv sive.

aby ‘ALFRED. FRYER. Tlustrated . by ROBERT ‘MORGAN, a: LS.

The object of this work \ isto” snpply e. long-nectied. get of good snd eliable Illus. ;

»: trations of British Potamogetons. — Both Descriptions and. iba nea ined ii elude :

_ the varying forms and states as. well as the generally reeogr p S :

‘Synonymy, though not aiming at absolute completeness,

_working purposes, ‘An attempt will be made towards a natural

“species founded on the changes of form in their progressive sta

than on the comparatively: limited distinctions afforded ayhe fruit, i

‘which will form a special feature.

‘The work will he issued i in 15 tobthiy ae: ecieetta on spptionaaae

| Now ready, price 23, 6d,

INSULAR FLORAS.

A ‘Lecture delivered by Siz J. D. HOOKER, €:B., before the British Association

for the advancement of Stience ai Nottingham, August 27, 1866,

Now ready, Second Edition.

N DBOOK ‘OF BRITISH MOSSES,

Containing all that are known to be natives of the British Isles.

i Winches” in Noein

By ARTHUR G. BUTLER, PhD., F.LS., F.28,, FES,

“The. whole forms a large and handsome volume of between 300 and 400 98, With 60 +

FLW. FPROWRAWK, oe coloared oy hand, ;

“HANDBOOK OF THE BRITISH ‘FLORA:

4 Description of the Flowering Plants and Ferns Indigenous

to or Naturalised in the British Isles, ae -

By. GEORGE BENTHAM, FRS.

6th Sey Revised by Sir J. D. steers B., K.CS. a F. RS. he

7587,

Vincent Brocks,Day & Son Imp.

M S.del, JN Fitdulith.

TAB. 7557.

CIRRHOPETALUM roststum,

Native of New Guinea.

Nat. Ord. OrcuipEs#.—Tribe EriIpENDRES.

Genus CrrrHopeTatum, Lindl.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iti.

p. 504.)

CrrrHoPrTatuMm (Racemose) vobustwm; grande, pseudobulbis ccespitosis

3-pollicaribus ovoideis alte costatis, folio 8-10-pollicari oblanceolato crasse

carnoso, pedunculo pseudobulbo breviore crasso ascendente, racemo breve

dense-multi-floro, bracteis 3-poll longis oblongis acuminatis reflexis

pallide viridibus, pedicellis robustis, floribus 3 poll. longis, sepalis flavo-

viridibus basin versus pallide rufescentibus dorsali pollicari_ oblongo

cuspidato, lateralibus 2-pollicaribus lineari-oblongis obtusis ad apicem

fere coherentibus, petalis oblongis cuspidatis, labello sanguineo glaber-

rimo, columna aurea 2-cornuta.

C. robustum, Rolfe in Orchid, Rev. vol. i. (1893), p. 175. Masters in Gard.

Chron. 1895, vol. i. p. 771. :

C. graveolens, Bailey, Contrib. Queensl. Flor. Bullet. xiii. (1896) p. 33.

Orchid. Rev. vol. iv. (1896) p. 308. Kew Bullet. 1896, App. ii. p. 48.

Cirrhopetalum robustum, though by far the largest, and

a truly massive species, departs in no respects from the

genus in any character. It belongs to the group in

which the inflorescence is truly racemose, and its nearest

ally known to me is the comparatively dwarf C. refractum,

Zoll., figured in King’s “Annals of the Calcutta Bot.

Gardens,” vol. v. t. 28, and vol. viii. t. 119, a native of

the Himalaya, Tenasserim Mts., and Java. Besides the

enormous difference in size, C. refractum is distinguished,

amongst other characters, by the membranous leaves,

lanceolate and ciliate dorsal sepal and petals, and the

long, slender, decurved spurs of the column.

C. robustum was discovered in British New Guinea by

Sir W. Macgregor, K.C.M.G., the Governor and inde-

fatigable explorer of that great island; and plants from

thence were brought to the late Colonel Trevor Clarke, of

Walton Place, Daventry, by his nephew, Captain Clarke.

These flowered in March, 1893, and were described by

Mr. Rolfe under the name of C. robustum. In 1896 the

same plant was described by Mr. Bailey, Government

October Ist, 1897,

Botanist of Queensland, as C. graveolens, also from Sir W.

MacGregor’s specimens. Mr. Bailey observed that flies are

attracted by the strong, heavy scent of the flowers, and,

being entrapped between the lip and column, perish

there. The specimen here represented was presented to

the Royal Gardens, Kew, by Col. Clarke, in 1893. It

flowered in a tropical house in March, 1897, producing

five racemes. :

Descr.—Rootstock stout, woody. Pseudobulbs clustered,

two to three inches long, ovoid, compressed, green, with

two keels and four strong, dorsally rounded ribs, quite

smooth. Leaf solitary, eight to twelve inches long, by

three to three and a half broad, oblanceolate, acuminate,

narrowed into a very short, stout, cylindric petiole, thickly

coriaceous, bright green and nerveless above; beneath

paler, mottled with minute darker spots, bearing a stout,

rounded midrib, and several pairs of slender nerves.

Peduncele ascending from the base of the pseudobulb, three

inches long, as thick as a goose-quill. green, with one or

_ two short ribbed green sheaths. acemes an inch long,

many-fid.; rachis stout; bracts one half to three-fourths

of an inch long, oblong, acute, membranous, spreading and -

reflexed ; pedicels stout, with the ovary one to one and

a half inch long. Flowers three inches long from the ~

tip of the suberect dorsal sepal to those of the lateral.

wards the base; dorsal oblong, cuspidate, concave, seven-

nerved ; lateral two inches long, linear-oblong, coherent

beyond their divergent bases, tips free, rounded. Petals

oblong, cuspidate, yellow, suffused with pale rose. Inp

nearly half an inch long, ovate-oblong, obtuse, fleshy,

recurved, blood-red, smooth, with a central furrow, and

two keels towards the pubescent base. Column short,

stout, yellow, with short, stout, recurved arms.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Petal; 2, lip and column; 3, anther; 4, pollinia -—AU/ enlarged.

ro)

Von)

Vincent Brooks Day& San Imp:

M S.del. IN Fitch lith

1, Ramet. 70 TS

Tas.o7pos.

AGAVE Bovucuett.

Native of Mewico,

Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDEZ.—Tribe AGAVE.

Genus Acaveg, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 738.)

Agave (Litteea) Bouchet; candice brevi cylindrico polycarpico, foliis 30-40

dense rosulatis oblongo-lanceolatis facie concavis adultis utrinque viridi-

bus junioribus leviter glaucescentibus spina brevi vix pungente terminatis,

-spinnlis marginalibus crebris minutis deltoideis castaneis, pedunculo

valido brevi, Horibus geminis in spicam densam aggregatis, bracteis

linearibus elongatis, bracteolis parvis deltoideis, ovario oblongo, perianthii

tubo brevi late infundibulari, lobis oblongis, filamentis lobis quadruplo

longioribus, antheris linearibus, fructu parvo oblongo.

A. Bouchei, Jacobi, Monogr. Agave, p. 120. ‘Baker in Gard. Chron. 1877,

p- 717; Handb. Amaryllid. p. 191.

This Agave is one of the few species that have a firm,

woody trunk, and do not die after flowering. It belongs

to the group called Carnoso-coriacex, in which the leaves

are less rigid and more fleshy than in the best-known

species of the genus, such as A. americana and rigida, and

which are much less frequent in cultivation. The present

plant was introduced into the Berlin Botanic Garden in

1861, and after it had flowered in 1864 was named by

General Jacobi in compliment to Inspector Bouché. It

has been in the Royal Garden at Kew for at least twenty

years, but has never flowered till the summer of 1896.

_ Descr.—Peduncle stout, woody, polycarpic, nearly as

ong as the leaves, bearing in the Kew plant, two rosettes _

leaves crowded at its apex. Leaves thirty or forty ina

dense rosette, oblong-lanceolate, rather fleshy in texture,

a foot and a half or two feet long, three or four inches

broad at the middle, concave all down the face, a sixth of

an inch thick in the centre, green on both surfaces when

mature, slightly glaucous when young; end spine short

and weak; marginal teeth very small, crowded, deltoid,

red-brown. Peduncle short and stout. Spike dense, two

feet long in the Kew plant ; flowers in pairs, subtended by

a long bract, and a pair of small bracteoles. Perianth

OcroBeR Ist, 1897.

greenish-yellow, an inch and a half long, including the

ovary; tube short ; lobes of the limb oblong. Stamens

inserted at the throat of the perianth-tube, two inches

long; anthers linear, half an inch long. Style finally

overtopping the anthers. Capsule small, oblong.—J. G. —

Baker.

Fig. 1, Back view of anther ; 2, front view of anther; 3, apex of style, |

all enlarged ; 4, whole plant, much reduced, ;

ict cainitieieaaaas

T559.

Vincent Brocks Day & Son imp,

L. Reeve & C? Landan.

a alias me masa

Jith

M 3.del.J.NFi

Dap. 7639.

PRIMULA singnsts.

Native of China,

Nat. Ord. PrimuLacem.—Tribe PRIMULE.

Genus Primvna, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 631.)

Primvta sinensis, Sabine ex Lindl. Coll. Bot. t. 7. Hook, Erot. Flora, t.

105. Bot. Mag. t. 2564. Hance in Journ. Bot. N. 8. vol. ix. (1889)

p- 262. Gard. Chron. 1889, vol. i. p. 115, fig. 16; 1890, vol. ii. p. 564,

fig. 119 ; 1891, vol. i. p. 209; 1892, vol. i. p. 13, fig. 2. Hemsl. § Forbes in

Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxvi. (1889) p. 42. Sutton in Journ. Hort. Soc.

vol, xiii. (1891) p. 99.

P. prenitens, Ker-Gawl. in Bot, Reg. t. 539 (1821).

P. setulosa, Kickx f..in Mem. Soc. Linn. Par. vol. iv. (1826) p. 31, t. 3.

P. semperflorens, Loisel ew Steud. Nomencl. Ed. 2, vol. ii p. 296.

P. mandarina, Hoffm. in Otto § Dietr. Allg. Gartenz. vol. iii. (1835) p. 194,

Oscaria chinensis, Lilja, in Linddl. Bot. Notiser. 1839, p. 39, ex Linnea,

vol. xxii. (1849) p. 259.

The recent flowering of specimens of Primula sinensis

raised from freshly imported seeds taken from indigenous

plants, and the receipt of herbarium specimens, affords

the opportunity of recalling the history of this familiar and

beautiful green-house ornament, which, though so long

known under cultivation, has only within comparatively

few years been collected in a native state. This has been

effected first, according to Mr. Sutton, in 1879, by a Mr.

Walters, and more recently by two travellers who have,

whilst working independently, done more towards making

known the botanical riches of China than have all previous

collectors put together; they are the French missionary

Abbé Delavay, and H.B.M. Consul Henry, both of whom

found Primula sinensis in limestone rocks fully exposed

to the sun, at Ichang on the River Yangtze Kiang, a

thousand miles above its mouth. There Mr. Henry describes

it as growing in extremely dry rocks, where there is

practically neither soil nor moisture, flowering in December

and January, and known as the Rock or Winter Prim-

rose. Mr. Walters, on the other hand, describes it as

OcropeR Ist, 1897.

growing in shade. All the specimens collected by the Abbé

Delavay and Mr. Henry are small, some quite dwarf, with

short, woody rootstocks; all have glandular (slightly

sweet-scented) leaves, peduncles, and calyces, and very

small flowers, with simply obcordate corolla-lobes. ;

According to a statement in the Gardening World,

December 17th, 1887, quoted by Mr. Sutton in his paper,

the Chinese Primrose was first made known by a drawing

sent in 1819 to the Horticultural Society of London by

John Reeves, Esq., F.R.S., when Inspector of Teas for the

Honourable East India Company at Macao. This led to

the Society’s requesting Mr. Reeves to procure living

plants or seeds, which he did. Seeds of two varieties

were sent, both from Chinese gardens, one of which pro-

duced small flowers, and simply obeordate corolla-lobes ;

in the other these were wavy and crenate. At about the

same time a living plant was brought home by a Captain

Rawes, who gave it to Thomas Palmer, Ksq., of Bromley,

Kent. This flowered in 1821, and was figured as Primula

prenitens by Mr. Ker-Gawler, in the Botanical Register of

that year; it has crenate corolla-lobes. In the same year

Lindley published a figure of the same plant in _ his

** Collectanea Botanica” as P. sinensis, Sabine. The form,

with entire obcordate corolla-lobes, was first figured in

1823, in Hooker’s “ Exotic Flora,” from a specimen that

flowered in the Edinburgh Botanical Gardens, obtained

from the Horticultural Society of London. The same form

was again figured in 1825, in this Magazine, with the

observation that it was introduced by ‘I’. C. Palmer, Esq. tin

Turning now to the specimen here figured, I am indebted

for its history to Dr. Masters, who informs me that it is

one of some seedlings which he saw in 1891, at Lady Hutt’s,

Appleby Towers, Ryde, and which he at once recognized

as being of the wild Primula sinensis. On inquiry he

was told that the seedlings were raised from seed sent,

it was believed, from Ichang. Having been given some of

the seedlings, he passed them on to his friend Mr. Edmund

Hyde, of Haling, who was in 1892 the first to flower the

wild plant. In the Gardener’s Chronicle for that year Dr.

Masters has given an excellent figure of this as “The wild

form of Primula sinensis after one year’s cultivation.”

Being a first year’s plant, no stem is represented ; this,

however, is conspicuous in the specimen here figured, which

‘was kindly sent to the Royal Gardens by Mr. Hyde in

December, 1896, and is hence a plant of five years’ growth.

The most remarkable feature of both figures is the startling

change from the miserable starved condition of the wild

state, as shown by Mr. Henry’s specimens, to the great

size and robust habit of the “firstborn offspring ; that is

supposing that the plants raised at Lady Hutt’s were from

the seeds of such dwarfs, for it must not be forgotten

that Mr. Walters describes the wild Chinese Primrose as

he found it to be growing in shade, and hence probably

differing much in size from Mr. Henry’s, which grew on

sun-scorched rocks.

Comparing the figures in the Gardener’s Chronicle and

that given here with any of the numerous ones of Primula

sinensis that have appeared since 1822, the difference

between them is very manifest, in robustness of habit of

the former, compactness of inflorescence, and other

characters difficult of putting into words, but all suggestive

of a feral form.

For information upon the garden varieties of this plant,

their cultivation and propagation, together with other in-

teresting matter, I must refer to Mr. Sutton’s valuable

paper in the journal of the Horticultural Society cited

above.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Calyx; 2, bisected corolla-tube laid open, with stamens and ovary ;

3, stamen :— All enlarged,

Vincent Brooks Day& Son Imp. |

MS.del, JNFitch hth

L Reeve &C° London.

Tas. 7560.

CALATHEA RvFIBARBA.

Native of Brazil ?

Nat. Ord. ScitaMINE#.—Tribe MaRANTEA.

Genns Canatuga, G. F. W. Mey.; (Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii.

p. 653.)

CataTura (Eucalathea) rufibarba; acaulis, tota floribus exceptis pilis longis

flaccidis pallide brunneis induta, foliis distichis longe petiolatis lineari-,

lanceolatis acuminatis marginibus undulatis supra laete viridibus subtus

pallidioribus violaceo tinctis, scapo brevi robusto petiolo multo breviore

et robustiore, spica breviter oblonga, floribus congestis longe exsertis

aureis, bracteis spica brevioribus ovatis acutis spiraliter convolutis hirsutis,

sepalis angustis acuminatis pilosis, corolla tubo sepalis longiore fere

unciali cylindraceo piloso, lobis subzquilongis lineari-oblongis obtusis

dorsali ovato-oblongo, labello lobo dorsali subsimili apice 2-lobulato

concavo lateribus incurvis, staminodio galeato, galea basi calcare subulato-

lanceolato horizontali instructa, ovario glabro.

C. rufibarba, Fenzl in Gartenfil. vol. xxviii. (1879) p. 294, Petersen in Mart.

Fl, Bras. vol. iii. pars IT p. 91. oe,

A very well marked member of a large tropical genus,

containing nearly seventy known species, all, except a few

African ones, natives of America, especially of Brazil. Of

those figured in this work that which is most nearly allied

to C. rufibarba is C. villosa, Lindl. (t. 4973), which differs

a good deal in habit, having very large oblong leaves, a

long scape, and flowers nearly two inches in diameter, but

in which the hooded staminode bears a similar spur.

C. rufibarba was established on specimens cultivated in

the Imperial Garden of Vienna, by Professor Fenzl, and

is supposed to be a native of Brazil. Specimens of it

flowered by Messrs. Sander & Co. in 1894, are preserved

in the Kew Herbarium, of which the leaves were purple

beneath. The Royal Gardens, Kew, are indebted to the

Imperial Gardens of St. Petersburg for the plant here

figured, which was received in 1891. It forms tufts of

leaves as grown in a pan in a stove, and flowers freely

every few months.

Descr.—Stemless, clothed everywhere but on the flowers,

OctopeR Ist, 1897.

with long, lax, spreading rufous-brown hairs. Leaves

distichous, long-petioled, five to seven inches long, linear-

oblong, or -lanceolate, acuminate, margin strongly waved,

base rounded or cuneate, thin, bright green above, beneath

pale blueish green with a violet blush, and a stout

midrib ; petiole nearly as long as the blade, red-brown,

strict, erect. Scape two inches long, very stout. Spike

two to three inches long, and nearly as broad, dense fid. ;

bracts (the lowest one inch long), hirsute, ovate, spirally

convolute, much shorter than the inflorescence. Flowers

golden-yellow, exserted far beyond the bracts. Sepals

three, very slender, acuminate, pilose, shorter than the

corolla-tube, which is terete, hairy. Corolla nearly an inch

across the limb; lobes linear-oblong, obtuse. Lobes of the

androecium much broader than the petals, upper and

lower (or lip) subequal, the latter concave, 2-fid at the

tip, with involute margins ; appendage of the staminode

helmet-shaped, with a horizontal subulate spur at its base.

—J.D, H.

Fig. 1, Flower; 2, tip of sepal seen from within; 3 and 4, staminode;

5, androecium :—A// enlarged.

756)

cal

aa]

JN Fitchlith

Bi.

M5.d

eeve & C° London.

‘Tas. 7561.

PTERISANTHES po.ita.

Native of the Malayan Peninsula and Islands.

Nat. Ord. AMPELIDE.

Genus PrerisantuEs, Blume. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 387.)

Prerisantues polita; frutex scandens, gracillimus, fere glaberrimus, foliis

late ovatis ovato-cordatis v. elliptico-oblongis acutis basi subcordatis

remote dentatis cbhartaceis nitidis, cirrhis bifidis crure altera simplice

altera florifera, receptaculo 4-5-pollicari longe stipitato lineari-

oblongo plano basi. apiceque inzquilaterali apice caudato sublanu-

ginoso luride fusco-rubro utrinque florifero, costa valida, floribus aliis

disco receptaculi immersis perfectis, aliis marginalibus longe pedicellatis

foemineis v. sterilibus, calycis brevissimi obscure 4-lobi tubo bracteis

rudimentariis annulato, baccis pisiformibus 2-3-locularibus, pericarpio

tenui, loculis 1-2 spermis “ albuminue fissuris 2 subtrilobato.”

P. polita, M. Lawson in Fl. Brit. Ind, vol. i. p. 663. Planch. in A. DC.

Monogr. Phanerog. vol. v. p. 416.

Vitis polita, Mig. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. vol. i. p. 95.

Pterisanthes is one of the most singular of plants in

respect of its inflorescence, which consists of the trans-

formation of a branch of a tendril into an elongated broad

or narrow disk, bearing the flowers sessile on one of its

faces, and with sometimes others pedicelled on its margins.

Extreme as is this modification of the inflorescence of Vitis,

there are species of the latter genus with spicate flowers,

and the flowers sunk in the rachis of the spike, that show

a marked transition to Pterisanthes, and perhaps justify

Miquel in considering the two genera as one. Four

species of Pterisanthes have been described, all Malayan

(of which one, the present, is also Burmese), most of

which have compound leaves.

On making an anatomical study of the flower of

Pterisanthes polita, Dr. Stapf recognized the presence of

rudimentary bracts on the calyx, to which Griffith, in

describing another species, P. cissoides (Hmbamma caudi-

gerum, Notul. iv. 694; Ic. Pl. Asiat. t. 695), alludes as

‘¢a roundish brownish cicatrix ” of the nature of which he

is uncertain. As bracts or bracteoles are present in species

OcroseR 1st, 18f7.

of Vitis, Dr. Stapf’s explanation is no doubt the correct

one.

Pterisanthes polita is a native of the Malayan Peninsula

from Moulmein, in Burma, where it was found by Lobb,

to Singapore; and also of Sumatra and Borneo. The

Royal Gardens, Kew, received plants of it from those of

Singapore in 1894, which flowered in a stove in November,

1896.

Descr.—A tall, slender climber, glabrous, except in the

sparsely woolly surface of the receptacle. Leaves simple,

four to six inches long, broadly ovate, or ovate-cordate,

acuminate, shortly, distantly toothed, chartaceous, bright-—

green and shining above, pale beneath; nerves six to

eight pairs, arching ; basal sinus closed ; petiole one to two

_ inches long. Receptacle occupying the middle of one

branch of a bifid tendril, four to five inches long, by one

to one and a half broad, dark red-brown, very unequal-

sided at both ends, tip with a capillary tail; rarely the

receptacle is lobed or interrupted on one side; midrib

stout; peduncle (naked portion of cirrhus) three to four

inches long. Flowers about an eighth of an inch in diam.,

some bisexual, sessile, scattered over and sunk in both

surfaces of the receptacle; others female or neuter, mar-

ginal, on stout pedicels about half an inch long. Calyz

tube very short, limb obscurely four-lobed. Petals four,

rounded. Disk broad, fleshy. Stamens 4. Style very

short, conical. Berry pisiform—J.D.H

Fig. 1, Portion of receptacle with sessile and pedicelled flowers; 2, pedicelled —

female flower; 3, vertical section of the same, showing the bracts, calyx, and

petals; 4, larger marginal female Hower with the calyx and petals removed;

5, vertical section of the same; 6 and 7, stamens from sessile flowers; 8, ver-

tical section of ovary of sessile flower :—AJ/ enlarged.

Isles. For the use of Beginners and Aipwistieas: By A

P F.R.S. 6th Edition, revised by Sir J. D. Hooker. — ‘Crown 8vo Os. 6d.

- JLLUSTRATIONS of the BRITISH FLORA ; a Series 0

ee Engravings, with Dissections, of British Plants, from Drawings by

Fitcu, F.L.S., and W. G. Sirsa, F.L.S., forming an Illustrated Compa

to Bentham’s “« Handbook,” and other British Floras. 1815 Wood En-

‘gravings. 4th Edition, revised and enlarged, crown 8vo, 10s. 6d.

OUTLINES of ELEMENTARY BOTANY, as Introducto1

Local Floras. By Grorcr BentHam, F.R.S., President of the - Jin

Society. New Edition, 1s.

FLORA of HAMPSHIRE, including the Isle of Wight, with

localities of the less common species. By F. Townsenp, M.A., ELS 8.

With Coloured Map and two Plates, 16s, _

HANDBOOK of BRITISH MOSSES, containing all that” are

known to be natives of the British dies. By the Rev. M. J. Berkerey

M.A., F.L.8. 2nd Haition, 24 Coloured Plates, 21s.

SYNOPSIS of BRITISH MOSSES, containing Descriptions

all the Genera and Species (with Jooalities of the rarer ones) found in Great

Britain and Ireland. By Cuarzes P. Hoskirk BLS 4 ke., ke. _ New

Kd , enti a eee. Crown 8vo, 7s. 6d. — ae

| : S-FLORA. “Monographs of the Families o:

‘Britieh Selsey Dstrated.. by Plates of all the species, with Microscopical

details of their structure. By R. Bralrawaire, M.D., F.L.S. Vol. L.,

with 45 Plates, 50s. Vol. II., "42s, 64. Part XVII, ieee

FLORA of BRITISH INDIA. By Sir J. D. Hooxer, FR. Si

Part XX.,7s.6d. Parts XXI. and XXII., 9s. each. Vols. I. tolV., 82a."

each, -Vol. V., 38s... Vol. VI., 36s. ‘A

F LORA AUSTRALIENSIS: a Description of the Plants of the

: Australian Territory. By G. Brntuam, F.R.S., F.L.S., assisted by

Muetter, F.R.S. Vols. I. to VI., 20s. each. Vol. VII., 24s. Published

3 under the auspices of the several Governments of Australia.

FLORA of MAURITIUS and the SEYCHELLES: a Descrip-

tion of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of those Islands. By J.G. BakER, ~

F.L.8. Complete in 1 vol., 24s. Published under the authority of the

Colonial Government of Mauritius.

FLORA CAPENSIS: a Systematic Description of the Plants of

the Cape Colony, Caffraria, and Port Natal. By WimuiamM H. Harvey,M.D., —

F.R.S., and Orro Witnetm Sonper, Ph.D. Vols. T.—III.,. 18s; each, eae

as Vol VI., 24s. net. ‘

FLORA of TROPICAL AFRICA. By Dante1. Oriver, F.R. a

F.L.S. Vols. I. to IIL, each 20s. Published under the authority of the

; Commissioner of Her Maiesty’s Works. ;

VEW | AND FLORA: a Systematic

‘ative Plants of New Zealand, and the ( n

uckland@’s, Campbell’s, and Macquarrie’s. Islands.

is] under the auspices of the jovern:

: INDIAN ISLANDS.

under the auspices of the Becre

, at

of State for the Colo: a

FLORA HONGKONGENS SIS: a Siescription of the Flowering

‘Plants and Ferns of the Island of Hongkong. By Grorcs BEntHam,

-F.L.8. With a Map of the Island and Supplement by Dr. Hance, 21s,

Published under the authority of Her ee Secretary of State for the

Colonies. The Supplement, separately, 2s. 6d.

: ON” the FLORA of AUSTRALIA; its Origin, Affinities, and

'_. Distribution. By Sir J. D. Hooker, F.R.S. 10s. ° es

CONTRIBUTIONS to THE FLORA of MENTONE. and

to a Winter Flora of the Riviera, including the coast from Marseilles to

- Genoa. By J. TranHeRNE Moceripcr. Royal 8vo. Sone in 1 vol.

99 Coloured Plates, 63s,

L. REEVE & CO., 6, Henriette Strect, Covent Gaston 7 2

BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. |

CONTENTS OF No. 634, OCTOBER, 1897.

Tan, 7557.—CIRRHOPETALUM ROBUSTUM.

|, 7558.—AGAVE BOUCHEI.

tf » 7559.—PRIMULA SINENSIS.

a » 7560.—CALATHEA RUFIBARBA.

» 7561.—PTERISANTHES POLITA.

L. Reeve & Co., 6, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden.

_ Now Ready, Vol. VI., Parts I.—IITI., 7s. 6d. each. Vol. VI., Cloth, 24s, net.

FLORA CAPENSIS;

. A Systematic Description of the Plants of the Cape Gslsuy. Caffraria,

Se and Port Natal.

_ Edited by W. T. THISELTON-DYER, C.M.G,, F.R.S.,

Director of the Royal Gardens. Kew.

‘Published under the authority of the Governments of the Cape of Good Hope :

i and Natal.

By WILLIAM H. HARVEY, M.D.,_¥F.RS., Pentiniog of bahamas in oe

= University of Dublin, and

OTTO WILHELM SON DER, Ph.D.

Now ready, Part XXII., 9s.

FLORA OF BRITISH IN DIA. 4

| _ By Sir J, D. HOOKER, F.R.S., &.

Vols. I, to TV., 32s. each. | Vol. V. “38s.

HE BRITISH

c. wee ready, Part VIEI., with # Coloured Pla

By JAMES EDWARDS, is.

Tae HEMIPTERA HOMOPTERA OF THE

Complete, with 2 Structural Pilates, 128, 5 Large Edition, with 28 Coloured Plates, 43s,

Now ready, Part ae ; vin 4 Goleasba Plates, 5s.

_ LEPIDOPTERA OF THE = BRITISH ISLANDS.

By CHARLES G. BARRETT, F.ES.

Vol. I. 12s.; large paper, with 40 Coloured Plates, 53s.

Vol. If. 12s.; large paper, with 46 Coloured Plates, 63s.

Vol. III. 12s.; large paper, with 50 Coloured Plates, 63s.

Prospectus may be had on application to the Publishers.

Now ready, Part XXVIII., with 8 Coloured Plates, 15s.

“LEPIDOPTERA INDICA.

By F. MOORE, F.Z.S.

“Vol. 1., containing 94 Coloured Plates ; Vol. oe with 96 Coloured Plates, each

29 5s., cloth; £9 15s., half morocco,

cae ae Prospectus, with First List of Subsertbers, can be had on application to the Publishers

: L. Reeve & Co., 6, denrietta Street, Covent Garden. :

es "PRINTED BY GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, LD., ST. JOHN’s HOUSE, CLERKENWELL, B.C.

o Chey Series. |

No. 635. =

VOL. LIII.—NOVEMBER. "Price 31, 6d. colored, 2s 6a. lain.

‘

oR No, 133 9 OF THE. ENTIRE wore.

CURTIS'S ee

BOTANICAL MAGAZI

CoM PRISING

THE ELAN S S OF THE Be AL GARDENS OF KEW,

Sm JOSEPTL DALTON HOOKER, MD, KOSL, 1. OB, FRS, PLS.

‘Kate Director of ‘the Repal MBatanic Garuens “i ew.

L 0 N D 0 N:

: AND. 00., 6, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN a

: 1897. : 3 |

co rights reserved. ]

PREPAP: Ne FOR IMMEDIATE PUBLICATION.

THE. POTAMOGETONS.

‘(POND WEEDS).

OF THE

BRITISH ISLES.

Worn Disoniprions OF ALL THE Spores, Varieties, ann Hysrrps.

B ALFRED FRYER. Illustrated | by ROBERT MORGAN, ¥.L.S.

_ she object of this work.isto supply a long-needed set of good and reliable Illus-

rations of British Potamogetons.. Both Descriptions and Illustrations will include

_. , the varying forms and states as well as the. generally recognized species, The

; _¢ Synonymy, though not aiming at absolute completeness, will’ be ample for ail

i: working purposes. An attempt will be made towards a natural. arrangement of the

» Species founded on the changes of form in their progressive stages of growth rather

. than on the comparatively limited distinctions afforded by the fruit, ilnstrations of.

‘ agit will form a special feature.

abe bit aie will be issued in 15 ‘aohthiy parts : Prospectus on application,

Now ready, price 2s, 6d.

INSULAR FLORAS.

- hiss delivered by Sin-J. D, HOOKER, C.B., before the British Association ~-

ars tor the SRSA HIEBE, of Science at t Nottingbam, Angnst 27,1866. ;

pe Loe ce ng ‘Mong voces Bagios dito: ee jae

HANDBOOK OF BRITISH | MOSSES,

4 letehiing sil anak an known to be natives of the British iniste :

the whole. forbs $ & large ani Lasauhus volume of ‘eiGrecdt $00. mat "a0 ee wit th ¢ 60 Fiatea:

F, W. FROWHAWEK, beantifally coloured’ by hand,

HANDBOOK OF THE BRITISH FLORA:

-A Description of the Flowering Plants and Ferns Indigenous

to or Naturalised in the British Isles.

By GEORGE BENTHAM, “ERS.

6th Edition, Revised by Sir J. D. Hooker, C.B., K.C.8.L, F.R.S., &. 108. 6d.

ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BRITISH FLORA.

A Series of Wood Engravings, with Dissections, of British Plants. :

Drawn by W. H. FITCH, F.LS., any W. G. SMITH, EL. S.-3

Forming an Illustrated Companion to Benthain’s “ Handbook,” and other British Flor

~ mee ite 1315 Wood Ruainenen 10s. 64.

: i As . itn

SAN) )

peanekl\ys bay dll

Ec ha AMM

rl 35 th

1 O.0e1. JT

Tas. 7562.

MAMMEA americana.

Native of the West Indies.

Nat. Ord. GurTrrERz.—Tribe CALOPHYLLEZ.

Genus Mammega, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f, Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 176.)

MamMEA americana; arbor dumosa, ramosissma, foliis crasse petiolatis ovatis

obovatis v. obovato-oblongis obtusis basi rotundatis cuneatisve tenuiter

coriaceis saturate viridibus, nervis numerosis patentibus nervulis reti-

culatis prominulis, floribus solitariis 2-3-nisve breviter pedicellatis

12 poll. diam. 4-6-meris suaviter odoratis, sepalis obovato-oblongis con-

cavis pallide viridibus, petalis paullo longioribus late obovatis demum

recurvis albis, staminibus perplurimis, filamentis filiformibus, antheris

linearibus connectivo apiculatis, ovario lagenwformi in stylum breve

crassum angustato, stigmate bilabiato, labiis’ crassis rotundatis recurvis,

loculis minutis, drupa magna globosa 1-4-sperma cortice fusco tenui,

carne fibrosa flavida, seminibus magnis compressis, testa crassa fibrosa,

cotyledonibus magnis agglutinatis.

M. americana, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 512. Jacq. Stirp. Am. Hist. p. 268, t. 181,

fig. 82; Select. Stirp. Ic. Pict. vol. i. t. 248. Vahl, Eelog. vol. ii. p. 40,

Willd. Sp. Pl. vol. ii. pars. II. p. 1157. Ait. Hort. Kew, Ed. 2, vol. iii.

p. 297. Lamk. Encycl. Suppl. vol. ti. p. 582; Ill. t. 458. Lunan, Hort.

Jamaie. vol. i. p. 431. Descourl. Fl. Med. Antill. vol. i. p. 561. DC.

Prodr. vol. i. p. 561. Tussac, Fl. Antill. vol. iti. t. 7. Maycock, Fl.

Barbad. p. 227. Macfad. Fl. Jamaie. vol. i. p. 135. Planch. & Trian.

Mem. Guttif. pp. 12, 212. Trian. & Planch. Fi. Nov. Granad. p. 288.

Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. p. 108. Engler in Mart. Fl. Bras. vol. xii.

pars. I. p. 895, t. 79. A.DC. Origine Pl. Cult. p. 150.

Mamay, Dalechamps, Hist. Gen. Pi. 1536.

Arb. Ind. Mamei dict., Bauh. Pinaz, p. 417.

Mam. Laest. Hist. Nouv. Monde, p. 356.

Mamay arb. &c., Bawh. Hist. Pl. Univ. vol. i. p. 172.

_ Malus persica maxima, é&c., Sloane, Hist. Jamaie. vol. ii. p. 123, t. 217, p. 3.

Mammei, magn. fruct., &c., Plum. Nov. Pl. Gen. p. 44; Icon. t. 170.

The Mammee tree, Hughes, Hist. Barbad. p. 133.

Mamme fol. oval, &c., P. Browne, Hist. Jamaic. p. 249,

Abricoteiro de Brasil, Apricotier d’ Amérique.

The Mammee, a tree cultivated for its edible fruit in the

tropics of America, is undoubtedly indigenous in Cuba,

Jamaica, and other of the West Indian Islands ; in Jamaica

indeed it is said to be one of the commonest trees. I find

no evidence of its being a native of the continent of South

Novemser Ist, 1897,

America, and Ernst. (in Seeman’s Journ. Bot. 1867, p.

273) says that it is not indigenous in Oaraccas. It has

been introduced into Western Africa, and I have eaten

the fruit in the Cape de Verd Islands; but curiously

enough I can find no record of its having been ever

cultivated in India, into which country the Portuguese

must have endeavoured to introduce so conspicuous a

plant, and one so easily grown from seed; nor is it in-

cluded in Watt’s “* Dictionary of the Economic Products

of India.”

The Mammee apple varies in size from that of a small

orange to almost a child’s head. There is an excellent

painting of its foliage and fruit in the North Gallery at

Kew (n. 64). A rough, leathery, bitter rhind, and a

thinner interior one enclose a firm, somewhat spongy

white pulp, soon turning yellowish, of a hard, fibrous con-

sistence, sweetish taste, and slightly aromatic flavour.

This surrounds one to four large brown, oblong, rather

compressed, rugose nuts, with a hard, fibrous coat, and

oily, fleshy cotyledons. The seeds vary greatly in size.

Opinions as to the gratefulness of the flesh of the Mammee

apple differ much. Sloane writes of it, as “one of the

most pleasant and grateful to be met with in Jamaica,”

adding, that swine get extremely fat on it. No other

_ verdict on it that I have met with is so flattering, and the

fact that it is not admitted amongst the table fruits of the

tropics is proof of disfavour. My own opinion of that

which I ate was, that it was comparable to a good turnip,

flavoured as above, i.e. sweetish, and faintly aromatic.

By the Portuguese and earlier British residents in the

West Indies, the fruit was cut in slices, and eaten with

wine and sugar, and also candied. A liqueur is obtained

by distillation from the flowers infused in spirits of wine,

called Hau de Creole, and Créme des Creoles. The bark

yields an acrid, resinous gum, of great value for the extir-

pation of chigoes. The cotyledons yield a hair oil. The

wood is poor; but the tree, with its brilliant green leaves

and deliciously scented flower, is so handsome an object

that de Tussac eulogizes it as “la Siréne végétale.”

The earliest notice I find of the Mammee apple is in

Dalechamp’s “ Historia generum Plantarum,” published

in 1586 ; but in this, as in other old authors, it is perhaps

confounded with the Marmalade plum of the West Indies,

Lucuma mammosa, Gertn. The first good account of it

is in Sloane’s “ History of Jamaica.” It was introduced,

according to Aiton’s ‘‘ Hortus Kewensis,” into England

before 1737, and it has long been in cultivation at the

Royal Gardens, Kew, where there is, in the Economic

House, a tree of it ten feet high. This flowered (but did

not form fruit) in August, 1896, and from it the accom-

panying figure of the foliage and flower is taken; that of

the fruit is from a specimen preserved in fluid in the

Economic Museum (No. 2) of the Royal Gardens, presented

by C. D. Sturge, Esq., of Montserrat. The seed figured

is an abnormally large one, such as occur when one only

is developed in the fruit.

Descr.—A large, umbrageous tree, sixty to seventy feet

high, with a stout trunk, and dense coma; branchlets

stout, covered with a dark brown bark. Leaves ter-

minating the stout branchlets, three to five inches long,

oblong, obovate, or obovate-oblong, obtuse, variable in

breadth, thinly coriaceous, bright green and shining

above, paler beneath; base rounded or cuneate; nerves

_ very numerous, spreading, with close set cross nervules ;

petiole about half an inch long, stout, channelled above.

Flowers solitary, or 2—4-nate on the wood of the branches

at the axils of fallen leaves, about one and a half inches in

diameter, sweet-smelling; pedicels about half an inch long,

stout, green, ebracteate. Sepals four to six, orbicular-

obovate, obtuse, concave, very pale green, and obscurely

spotted. Petals a fourth or less longer than the sepals,

broadly obovate, recurved, white. Stamens very numerous,

in many series; filaments filiform ; anthers linear, apiculate.

_ Ovary broadly flaggon-shaped, narrowed into a very stout

style, with two orbicular, spreading, recurved, fleshy

stigmas. Fruit from the size of an orange to a child’s

head, spherical, or nearly so; rhind thick, flesh yellow,

pulpy, stringy around the large seeds.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1 and 2, Stamens; 3, ovary; 4, longit. section of do.; 5, transverse

section of fruit; 6, seed; 7, ditto, with testa removed; 8, transverse section

of embryo :—All but figs. 5, 6, and 7 enlarged.

M.S.del, JN Fitch lith

Vincent Brooks,Day & Son imp

L Reeve & C° London

Tas. 7563.

TAINIA PENANGIANA.

Native of Penang.

Nat. Ord. Orncuipra.—'ribe EpIpENDREA.

Genus Taina, Blume; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. iii. p. 515.)

TaINIa penangiana; pseudobulbis crassis ovoideis vaginatis, vagina in tubum

elongatum petiolum amplectente producta, folio lanceolato longe

petiolato, scapo e basi pseudobulbi erecto petiolum longe superante

gracili basi vaginis brevibus late ovatis imbricatis tecto, racemo

laxifloro, bracteis lanceolatis pedicellis equilongis, floribus 2 poll. expans.,

sepalis petalisque consimilibus lanceolatis acuminatis flavidis rubro

striatis, labelli albi lobis lateralibus obtusis columnam amplectantibus,

intermedio parvo orbiculari v. rhombeo cuspidato, disco lamellis 3 ornato,

calcare sacciforme lobulato, columna alata.

T. penangiana, Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. v. p. 820; in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 2089. -

The genus Tainia was founded by Blume on a Malayan

plant, 7. speciosa, which was for many years the only

recognized species. To this three, also Malayan, were

added by Reichenbach, and one by Teijsmann and Beinnen-

dyke. These five are all that were known at the date of

publication of the Index Kewensis; since which upwards

of a dozen species have been recognized, chiefly British

Indian, and it may be confidently anticipated that there

are not a few yet to be discovered. One only has hitherto

been published in this magazine, namely 1. viridifusea,

Benth. (Calanthe viridifusca, Hook., t. 4669.)

T. penangiana was first described in the ‘Flora of

British India’’ from very imperfect herbarium specimens,

in which no pseudobulb was present at the base of the

petiole, and the midlobe of the lip had crisped margins, no

doubt from contraction in drying. The plant figured was

received at the Royal Gardens, Kew, from Penang, where

it was discovered growing on damp rocks by Mr. C. Curtis,

F.L.S., Assistant Superintendent, Gardens and Forest

Department. It flowers annually in March, in a warm

house. -

Descr.—Pseudobulbs clustered, two inches long, ovoidly

flagon-shaped, clothed with brown, scarious sheaths, the

NovEMBER Ist, 1897.

inner of which is prolonged into a long tube sheathing the

petiole ; old pseudobulbs one and a half inches in diameter,

red brown, furrowed. Leaf a foot long, elliptic-lanceolate,

acuminate, plicate, many-nerved, narrowed into a slender,

green petiole, as long as the blade, or shorter. Peduncle

nearly twice as long as the petiole, arising from the base

of the pseudobulb, green, clothed at the base with closely

imbricating, ovate, acute, brown sheaths, half an inch long,

and bearing upwards a few distant appressed, brown,

obtuse sheaths. Raceme erect, few- and lax-fid.; bracts

lanceolate, brown, about equalling the pedicel, which, with

the ovary, is about half an inch long. Perianth about two

inches broad across the sepals. Sepals and petals spreading,

subequal, lanceolate, acuminate, pale yellow, with five to

seven slender, red nerves. Lip nearly white; side lobes

elongate, obtuse, embracing the column; midlobe small,

rhomboidly orbicular, abruptly acuminate; disk with three

lamelle that are prolonged on to the midlobe, and there

become much deeper; spur a lobulate sac. Column white,

winged. Anther subquadrate, tip truncate ; pollinia eight,

in two superposed pairs of four each.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Lip; 2, column, spur and lip of ovary; 3, anther; 4, pollinia :—Al/

enlarged, ae

7364

Pe an ae Slab? NSARM aE ian ils wseseciatal a:

Vincent Brooks Day&SonImp

L Reeve & C°London oe

MS. del, JNFitch ith

Tas. 7564,

CYNORCHIS GRANDIFLORA.

_ Native of Madagascar.

Nat. Ord. OrncuipEa.—Tribe OpHrypEx.

Genus Cynorcuis, Thou. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. iii. p. 628.)

CyYNoRCHIs grandiflorus; caule sesquipedali valido 2-pluri-floro, foliis radi-

calibus paucis pedalibus elongato lineari-lanceolatis a medio ad apicem

sensim angustatis supra glauco-viridibus subtus pallidioribus carinatis

utrinque sed subtus precipue hic illic sanguineo striatis, bracteis 3-polli-

caribus cylindraceis subinflatis acuminatis striolatis, ovario cum

pedicello 4-pollicari rufo maculato, floribus fere 2 poll. expans., sepalis

oblongis obtusis dorso viridibus sanguineo maculatis, petalis sepalis

paullo minoribus faleato-oblongis obtusis albis, labelli ampli purpurei

marginibus basi column adnatis, lobis lateralibus late cuneiformibus

basi unidentatis, intermedio longiore in segmenta 2 linearia obtusa

divaricata fisso, sinu acute, caleare crasso recto labello duplo longiore

infra medium paullo inflato, antherarum tubulis rectis, columna dorso

rostelloque retuso puberulis.

Cynosorchis grandiflora, Ridley in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. xx. (1884) p. 332,

et vol. xxi. p. 514 (Cynorchis).

Though no doubt a congener of Cynorchis purpurascens,

recently figured in this work (t. 7551), C. grandiflora

differs from that plant remarkably, not only in habit, but

in the margins of the base of the lip being connate with the

column, and forming with it a tube leading into the spur.

Until the other species of the genus (of which there are a

dozen described, and some undescribed in the Kew Her-

barium) are critically examined, it is impossible to say

what value should be given to this latter character.

Cynorchis grandiflora was first described by Mr. Ridley,

F.L.S., from specimens in the Britsh Museum, collected

in Madagascar, at Ankafana, by Mr. Deans Cowan. It

has since been found on damp rocks in various places in

the central part of the island, by Dr. J. T. Fox, the Rev.

R. Baron and Mr. Scott Elliott. Mr. Ridley describes

two varieties as follows:—Var. a, purpwrea, inodorous,

lip purple, spotted at the base; 8, albata, odoriferous, lip

white, base purple. ‘I'he nearest ally is C. wniflora, Lindl.

(which often bears several flowers) the bract of which is

very much smaller. The plant here figured was obtained

NovVeMBER lst, 1897,

by the Royal Gardens, Kew, from Messrs. Lewis & Co.,

Southgate, in 1893. It flowers annually in the Orchid

House in July, where it is treated with tropical Ha-

benarias.,

Descr.—Stem up to two feet, attaining a thickness of

a swan’s quill, and as well as all green parts streaked

with blood-red in broken lines. Leaves a foot long and

more, about half an inch broad, linear, or narrowly linear-

lanceolate, finely acuminate, narrowed from the middle to

the base and apex, dorsally keeled. Pedunele stout, erect,

two or more-fid. Bracts two to three inches long, tubular,

with a lanceolate, acuminate tip. Ovary with pedicel three

to four inches long, strict, erect, puberulous. Flower one

and a half to one and three-quarters in. broad. Sepals

oblong, obtuse, green without and blotched with red.

Petals erect, forming a hood with the dorsal sepal. Petals

linear-oblong, obtuse, subfaleate, gibbous on one side,’

white. ip longer than the sepals, bright purple, base

connate with the sides of the column ; lateral lobes large,

broadly cuneate ; midlobe cleft to the base into two linear,

obtuse, divaricating sezments; spur one and a half to one

and three-quarter inch long, stout, strict, pale, lower half

somewhat inflated, tip 2-lobed. Column with a bifid,

puberulous rostellum.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Petal; 2, column with base of lip and Lip of s —F 3, column

in front; 4, pollinium :—AJ/ enlarged. “i 2 : aieoee

“Vincent Brooks Day & Son.

L Reeve & C2 London

Tap. 7565.

DRIMIA Corsa.

Native of Somali-land,.

Nat. Ord. Lit1acex.—Tribe Scitiza.

Genus Drimra, Jacg.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. iii. p. 808.)

Daria Colex ; bulbo magno globoso, tunicis membranaceis brunneis, foliis

synanthiis sessilibus oblongis acutis subcarnosis glabris facie pallide

viridibus maculis saturatioribus decoratis dorso concoloribus pallide viri-

dibus, pedunculo foliis breviori, racemo cylindrico laxo, pedicellis

brevibus, bracteis minutis, perianthio viridi, tubo brevi campanulato,

lobis linearibus recurvatis, staminibus perianthio brevioribus, antheris

parvis oblongis, filamentis saturate purpureis, ovario disciformi, stylo

elongato.

This very distinct new species of Drimia was brought

home from the Golis range in Somali-land two years ago

by Miss Edith Cole, and flowered by her last October.

The expedition on which it was obtained was made in the

winter and spring of 1894-5, under the leadership of Mr. E.

Lort-Phillips. The two ladies who took part in it, Mrs. E.

Lort-Phillips and Miss Cole, both occupied their leisure in

making botanical collections, and on their return presented

them to Kew, where they were worked out. The two col-

lections contained together 350 species, of which between

sixty and seventy proved to benew. ‘These were described

in the Kew Bulletin for 1895, pages 211 to 230. There

are no specimens of the present plant in the dried collection.

_ Six other species of the same genus are known in Tropical

Africa, and between twenty and thirty at the Cape, but

many of the plants called Drimia in gardens really belong

to the section Ledebouria of the genus Scilla.

Descr.— Bulb globose, two inches in diameter; outer

tunics membranous, brown. Leaves contemporary with

the flowers, sessile, oblong, acute, half a foot long, by

nearly half as broad, rather fleshy, pale, glaucous green on

the upper surface, spotted with darker green, concolorous,

and pale green beneath. Pedunele erect, shorter than the

leaves, pale green, spotted with claret-brown. Raceme

NoveMBER Ist, 1897.

lax, cylindrical, five or six inches long; pedicels short ;

bracts minute. Perianth green, half an inch long; tube

short, campanulate ; lobes linear, reflexing. Stamens rather

shorter than the perianth; filaments subulate, bright

mauve-purple ; anthers small, oblong. Ovary disciform,

very broad, and short; style subulate, overtopping the

anthers ; stigma small, capitate.—J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, A flower, with bract and pedicel ; 2, an entire flower, fully expanded ;

3, segment of perianth, with stamen; 4, pistil; 5, transverse section of ovary,

all more or less enlarged. : :

7566

VincentBrooksDay&Son Emp

MS del INFitchlith

L Reeve & C° London

gure 7566.

SCOLIOPUS Bicetovit.

Native of California.

Nat. Ord. Lintacza.—Tribe MepEoLes.

Genus Scouiorus, Turcz.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 832.)

Scotiorus Bigelovit; herba nana, fere acaulis, glaberrima, caule brevissimo

basi radicibus fasciculatis crassis onusto, et vestigiis vaginarum stipato,

foliis binis sessilibus late elliptico-ovatis basi vaginantibus post anthesin

valde accrescentibus supra saturate viridibus nigro maculatis, subtus

allidis striato-nervosis, pedunculis 3-12 unifloris erectis pallidis rubro

irroratis post anthesin valde elongatis decurvis et tortis, floribus erectis,

sepalis patente-recurvis ovato-lanceolatis purpureo striatis, petalis sepalis

requilongis linearibus obtusis erectis purpureis, filamentis brevibus

erectis, antheris oblongis extrorsum dehiscentibus, ovario sessili trigono

in stylum brevem fructu persistentem attenuato, stigmatibus 3 elongatis

patentibus apice glandulosis, capsula ellipsoidea triquetra membranacea

irregulariter rapta polysperma, seminibus oblongis, testa granulosa, raphe

alata.

S. Bigelovii, Torr. in Pacif. Rail. Rep. (Whipple Exped.) vol. iv. p. 145, t. 22.

S. Wats. in Proc. Amer. Acad. vol. xiv. p. 272; Bot. Calif. vol. ii. p. 180.

Regel Gartenfl. vol. xxiv. (1875) p. 227, t. 834. Gard. Chron. 1894, vol. i.

p. 267, fig. 8.

Of the singular genus Scoliopus, only two species are

known, that here figured, which is a native of the coast

ranges of California, from Humboldt County to Marin, and

the imperfectly known S. Hallii, 8S. Wats. of Oregon. It

clearly belongs to the tribe Medeolex of Liliacee, as deter-

mined by Bentham, but is not very closely allied to any

congener in that group, though the linear, erect petals

recall those of Paris. The different aspects of the plant

in its flowering and fruiting stages are, as shown in the

plate, very striking, the leaves in the latter attaining

fifteen inches in length, and the strict flowering peduncles

lengthening to six inches, and becoming decurved and

twisted (whence the generic name). The flowers emit a

curious scent, like that of decaying seaweed. In the

Gartenflora the leaves are represented as unspotted.

Scoliopus Bigelovit was introduced into Europe by Messrs.

Haage & Schmidt, of Erfurt, in 1879, The specimen here

NovemsBeER Ist, 1897.

figured was purchased for the Royal Gardens from F. H.

Horsford, Nurseryman, of Charlotte, Vermont. It flowered

in a cold frame in February, 1896.

Descr.—A glabrous, dwarf herb. Stem very short,

stout, clothed with brown, torn sheaths, and emitting from

a short rhizome fascicles of stout, simple root-fibres.

Leaves two, one and a half to two inches long in the

flowering state, greatly enlarged thereafter, attaining eight

inches, sessile, base sheathing, ovate, obtuse, or apiculate,

very dark green above, with black blotches, paler beneath,

and striate. Peduncles few or many, fascicled at the top

of the stem amongst the leaves; flowering two inches long,

erect, strict, white, mottled with red; fruiting greatly

elongating up to six inches, decurved and twisted. lowers

an inch and more in diameter, erect; perianth deciduous.

Sepals spreading and recurved, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate,

white, closely striped with red-brown. Petals as long as

the sepals, erect, linear, obtuse, red-brown. Stamens

short, filaments subulate; anthers small, oblong, opening

extrorsely. Ovary trigonous, three-celled, narrowed into a

short style, with three linear, spreading stigmas. Capsule

two-thirds of an inch long, ellipsoid, terminated by the

persistent style; pericarp thin, bursting irregularly.

eae ca oblong, rough, with a narrowly winged raphe.

Fig. 1, Sepal; 2, flower with sepals removed; 3, anthers; 4, ee ae 5 : ae

—All enlarged; 6, leaf and fruiting pedicels of the natural size. , seed:

ee &

BRITISH, COLONIAL, AND FOREIGN FLORAS. —

HANDBOOK of the BRITISH FLORA ; a Description of the

Flowering Plants and Ferns indigenous to, or naturalized in the British

Isles. For the use of Beginners and Amateurs. By Grorck BrenTHaM, a

. F.R.S. 6th Edition, revised by Sir J. D. Hooker. Crown 8vo, 10s, 6d.

Engravings, with Dissections, of British Plants, from Drawings by W. H.

Firca, F.L.8S., and W, G. Suirn, F.L.S., forming an Illustrated Companion —

gravings, 4th Edition, revised and enlarged, crown 8vo, 10s. 6d.

OUTLINES of ELEMENTARY BOTANY, as Introductory to — ih

Local Floras. By Grorcr BentHam, F.R.S., President of the Linnean

Society. New Edition, Ls. Rey

FLORA of HAMPSHIRE, including the Isle of Wight, with

localities of the less common species. By F. Townsenp, M.A., F.L.S. —

With Coloured Map and two Plates, 16s. y ees

HANDBOOK of BRITISH MOSSES, containing all that are

known to be natives of the British Isles. By the Rev. M. J. Bexketer,

-. M.A., F.L.8. 2nd Euition, 24 Coloured Plates, 21s.

SYNOPSIS of BRITISH MOSSES, containing Descriptions of

AEs all the Genera and Species (with localities of the rarer ones) found in Great —

- Britain and Ireland. By CHaries P. Hopkren, F.L.S., &e., dc. New

: _ Edition, entirely revised. Crown 8vo, 7s. 6d. :

THE BRITISH MOSS-FLORA. Monographs of the Families of _

British Mosses, illustrated by Plates of all the species, with Microscopical

details of their structure. By R. Brairnwaire, M.D., F.L.S. Vol. L.,

with 45 Plates, 50s. Vol. II., 42s.6d. Part XVII., 6s.

FLORA of BRITISH INDIA. By Sir J. D. Hooxer, F.R.S.,

and others. Parts I. to XIII.,10s. 6d. each. Parts XIV. to X1X., 9s, each.

Part XX.,7s. 6d. Parts XXI. and XXII.,9s. each. Vols.I. tolV., 32s.

each, Vol. V.,38s. Vol. VI., 368.

FLORA AUSTRALIENSIS: a Description of the Plants of the

- Australian Territory. By G. BentuamM, F.R.S., F.L.S., assisted by B.

Murtirr, F.R.S. Vols. I. to VI., 20s.each. Vol. VII., 24s. Published

under the auspices of the several Governments of Australia. ao

FLORA of MAURITIUS and the SEYCHELLES: a Deserip-

tion of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of those Islands. By J. G. Baker,

F.L.S. Complete in 1 vol., 24s. Published under the authority of the

Colonial Government of Mauritius. oe

FLORA CAPENSIS: a Systematic Description of the Plants of

the Cape Colony, Caffraria, and Port Natal. By WILLIAM H. Harvey,M,D.,

F.R.S., and Orro WitHELm SonpEr, Ph.D. Vols. I.—II1., 18s. each,

Vol VI., 24s. net.

FLORA of TROPICAL AFRICA. By Danter Ortver, F.B.S.,

*'B LS. Vols. I. to IIL, each 20s. Published under the authority of the—

_.. First Commissioner of Her Maiesty’s Works. :

HANDBOOK of the NEW ZEALAND FLORA: a Systematic

-. Kermadec’s, Lord Auckland’s, Campbell’s, and Macquarrie’s Islands. By

eee Sir J. D. Hooker, F.R.S. Published under the auspices of the Government

: ee of that Colony. Complete, 42s.

FLORA of the BRITISH WEST INDIAN ISLANDS. By

Dr. Grisepach, F.L.S. 42s. Published under the auspices of the Secre-

tary of State for the Colonies. : ;

FLORA HONGKONGENSIS: a Description of the Flowering

Plants and Ferns of the Island of Hongkong. By Grorce Benrnam,

F.L.S. With a Map of the Island and Supplement by Dr. Hance, 21s.

Published under the authority of Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for the

Colonies. The Supplement, separately, 2s. 6d. : ee

ON the FLORA of AUSTRALIA; its Origin, Affinities, and

Distribution. By Sir J. D. Hooker, F.R.S. 10s.

CONTRIBUTIONS to THE FLORA of MENTONE. and

to a Winter Flora of the Riviera, including the coast from Marseilles to

Genoa. By J. TsaneRnE Moceripcr. Royal vo. Complete in 1 yol.,

99 Coloured Plates, 63s,

L. REEVE & CO., 6, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden.

OTANICAL MAGAZINE,

z ‘CONTENTS OF No. 635, NOVEMBER, 1897.

Tas. 7562.—_MAMMEA AMERICANA.

| -7563—TAINIA PENANGIANA.

,, 7564.—CYNORCHIS GRANDIFLORA.

-,, 7565.—DRIMIA COLE. :

7566 —SCOLIOPUS BIGELOVIL.

L. Reeve & Co., 6, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden.

w Ready, Vol. VI., Parts I.—IIL, 7s. 62. each. Vol. VI., Cloth, —

FLORA CAPENSIS;

tie ‘Description of the Plants of the Cape Gilby, Caffraria,

“ and Port Natal.

Edited by W. T. THISELTON-DYER, C.M.G., F.R.S.,

Director of the’ Royal Casiiens, ew.

a eer the authority of the Governments of the Cape of Good ten hee

; and Natal.

Vols. I. to Ill. 18s. each.

M ape HARVEY, M.D., F.R.S., Professor of Botany in the

: University of Dublin, and —

OTTO WILHELM SONDER, PRD.

Now ready, Part XXI1., ee

ORA ae BRITISH

INDIA.

Now baa, Part ae ls 4 Coloured Plates, 5s.

=PIDOPTERA oF THE BRITISH ISLANDS.

By CHARLES G. BARRETT, F.ES.

Vol, I. 12s.; large paper, with 40 Coloured Plates, 53s.

~-Vol. IE. 128.; ; large paper, with 46 Coloured Plates, 63s.

- Vol. IIT. 12s.; large paper, with 50 Coloured Plates, 63s.

| a a rolpectes may be had on application to the Publishers.

Rok ready, Part XXVIII., with 8 Coloured Plates, 15s, es

PIDOPTERA. ENDICA.

By F. MOORE, F.Z.S. —

containing of Coloured Plates: WoL IL, with 06 Colonred Plates, each’

a £9 5s., cloth; £9 15s., half morocco.

h First List of Subseribers, can be had on application. to the Publishers, :

hip Revs & Co., 6, denrietta Street, tivent Garden.

Pence: Son‘ RIVINGTON, ead BT, Dyanna HOUSE, CLEREEN WH ne.

Thi Series.

Ie No, ies a

VOL. LII—DECEMBER. ("/ >

or No, 1330 OF nee ENTIRE WORK.

CURTIS'S

OTANICAL MAGAZ

Righty ue

1897.

[4 u rights reserved.)

(POND WEEDS)

OF THE

BRITISH ISLES.

object of this work is to supply a long-needed set of good and soliable Illus: €

of British Potamogetons. Both Descriptions and Illustrations will include £

ig forms and states as well as the generally recognized spe

ymy, though not aiming at absolute completeness, will be ample for

king purposes, An attempt will be made towards a natural arrangement of t

s founded on the changes of form in their progressive stages of growth rathe

nm the comparatively limited distinctions afforded by the fruit, illustrations of

es form a ee feature.

j - Now ready, price 2s. 6d.

re elivered. by aa Pe Di, HOOKER, C.B., before the British Association

for the edvsacement of Bragrae, at N ees tears ae 1866.

N ow pide: 2 Second Bastion.

By ARTHUR G, BUTLER, Ph.D., PLS,

The whole forms a large og! handsome volume of between 300 and 400 pages, with 60 Plates,

W. FROWHAWEK, beautifully coloured by hand,

Se an00r OF THE BRITISH FLORA:

A Description of the Flowering Plants and Ferns Indigenous

. to or Naturaliged in the British Isles.

Br GEORGE BENTHAM, FRS

oh a Revised by Sir J. D. Hooker, C. B.. GCS, L, F.R.S., &. 10s. 6d.

ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BRITISH FLORA.

A Series of Wood Engravings, with Dissections, of British Plants,

awn by W. H. FITCH, F.LS., asp W.G. SMITH, F.LS.

llustrated Companion to Bentham’s “ Handbook,” ana other British Flor

ae Ath Edition, with: 1315 Wood Ve elias bis OS. tas

VE & CO,, 6, ee ie cea

7567

Vincent Brooks, Day & Son up

TABe 7567.

AGAVE Scuortt.

Native of Arizona.

Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDEZ.—Tribe AGAVE.

Genus Agave, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 738.)

Aaave (Littea) Schottii; acaulis, foliis dense rosulatis e basi ovata linearibus

rigidis apice pungentibus facie canaliculatis dorso carinatis margine

filiferis, scapo elongato gracili, floribus in paniculam laxam subspicatam

subsecundam dispositis, bracteis parvis ovatis cuspidatis, pedunculis

pedicellisque brevibus clavatis, perianthio citrino tubo elongato infundibu-

lari, lobis oblongis tubo brevioribus, staminibus vix exsertis supra

medium tubi insertis, antheris magnis linearibus, fructu duro parvo

oblongo.

A. Schottii, Engelm. Notes on Agave, p.17. Collected Works, p. 315. Baker

Handb. Amaryllid. p. 307. Miss Mulford in Report Missouri Gard.

vol. vii. (1896) p. 72, t. 29.

A. geminiflora var. ? Sonore, Torrey in Bot. Mex. Bound. p. 214.

This very distinct Agave resembles A. jilifera and

A. schidigera in having leaves the edges of which break

away into fibres, but differs from them widely in its lax

subsecund inflorescence, bright yellow flowers and short

stamens. It is very abundant on the mountains of

Southern Arizona, at an elevation of about five thousand

feet above sea-level. Professor Toumey reports that it

so thickly covers large areas, miles in extent, on the

southern slopes of the mountains of Santa Catalina that

it is almost impossible to travel through it. It is called

_ Amole in its native country, and the rootstock is sold as

affording a substitute for soap. It was first collected by

the late Dr. Arthur Schott in 1855. The Kew plant was

purchased at the sale of the collection of Mr. J. T.

Peacock in 1889, but did not flower till March, 1897.

There is a dwarf variety with serrulate leaves which

extends further south than the type.

Descr.—Rootstock two inches in diameter, thickly clothed

with the fibrous relics of old leaves. Leaves forming a

dense sessile rosette, linear from an ovate base, a foot

long, pungent at the apex, channelled down the face,

DecemsBes Ist, 1897,

acutely keeled on the back, with edges breaking up into

fine fibres. Scape slender, four or five feet long. In-

florescence a lax, subspicate, subsecund panicle a foot long ;

bracts ovate, ctispidate, very small; peduncles and pedicels

very short and stout. Perianth bright yellow, two inches

long; tube funnel-shaped, longer than the oblong lobes.

Stamens scarcely exserted beyond the perianth-lobes, in-

serted above the middle of the tube. Capsule oblong,

coriaceous, half an inch long.—J. G. Baker.

1, Portion of raceme and flower with perianth laid open; 2, anther;

3, top of style and stigma :—all enlarged ; 4, whole plant greatly reduced.

7568

MS.ael. JNFitch hth, Vincent Brooks Day &SonImp

L Reeve &C°Landon.

Tas. 7568,

QUILLAJA Saronarta.

Native of Chili,

Nat. Ord. Rosacra.—Tribe Quitiasiez.

Genus Quinussa, Molina; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 614.)

QUILLAJA saponaria; arbor mediocris, glaberrima, sempervirens, cortice

saponaceo, ramulis gracilibus, foliis sparsis breviter petiolatis ellipticis

oblongisve obtusis integerrimis v. marginibus sinuatis coriaceis ner-

vosis stipulis parvis, floribus polygamo-dioicis in paniculas paucifloras

terminales et axillares dispositis, lateralibus masculis, terminali fertili,

pedicellis 2-bracteolatis, calycis inferi coriacei tomentosi tubo brevi, lobis

5 ovatis valvatis, petalis 5 parvis spathulatis, disco crasso tubum calycis

vestiente et in lobos 5 crassos lobis calycinis adnatos emarginatos dilatato,

staminibus 10, 5 fundo disci insertis hice oppositis, 5 alternis apicibus

loborum disci msertis, filamentis subnulatis, antheris brevibus, carpellis

5 fundo calycis sessilibus axi cohzrentibus tomentosis multi-ovulatis,

stylis 5 stigmatibus dilatatis depressis, ovulis complanatis biseriatim

imbricatis, folliculis 5 basi cohewrentibus calyce persistente suffultis

oblongis coriaceis, stylis subventralibus stellatim patentibus, seminibus

imbricatis compressis superne longe et late alatis exalbuminosis, testa

membranaca, cotyledonibus convolutis, radicula infera.

Q. Saponaria, Molina, Sagg. Stor. Nat. Chili, vol. ii. p. 175, 354 (1782); ed.

Angl. vol. i. p. 291. H.B.K. Nov. Gen. § Sp. vol. vi. p. 236 in nota.

DD. Don in Edinb. New Phil. Journ. vol. xi. (1830-1) p. 230. Lamk. Ili.

t. 774. Poir. Excycl. vol. vi. p. 33; Suppl. vol. iv. p. 638. OC. Gay, Fl.

Chil. vol. ii. p. 273. Kéhler, Mediz. Pflanz. vol. ii. p. 189, ewm. ic. pict.

Carriére in Rev. Hortic. 1873, p. 254, fig. 27.

Q.? Moline, DC. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 547.

Q. Poeppigii, Walp. Rep. vol. ii. p. 52.

Q. Smegmadermos, St. Laz. in Ann. Soc. Bot. Lyon, vol. vii. (1880) p. 133.

Smegmaria Saponaria, Wid/d. Sp. Pl. vol. iv. p. 1123.

Smegmadermos emarginatns, Rwiz § Pav. Fl, Per. et Chil. Prodr. p. 144,

t. 31; Syn. Veg. Fl. Per. § Chil. p. 288.

Cullay, Molina ex Steud. Nom. Ed. II. vol. i. p. 452.

Quillay, Frezier, Voy. South Sea, p. 118 (1717.)

Quillaja Saponaria is a common tree in the hills and

valleys of Chili, between the parallels of 31° and 38°8.,

ascending to 6500 ft. above the sea, and flowering from

December to February. Its wood, though not procurable

of any great size, is valued for its hardness, and is chiefly

used for props in mines, and for making stirrups. Of

greater account is its bark, which, when pulverized in

water, foams like soap, and is used as an efficacious sub-

DecemBesr lst, 1897,

stitute for that article, as also for dressing the hair.

Both Chilans and Araucanian Indians attribute the

luxuriance of this ornament of their persons to its

use. There is a considerable import of the bark into

England; and it appears annually in the trade lists, the

wholesale price being 6d. per pound, and pulverized 1s.

A detergent hair-wash is prepared from it, and it has been

extensively used to produce a head on stale beer.

There is but one other species of the genus, Q. brasiliensis,

Mart., of South Brazil.

The figure here given was made from a specimen kindly

sent by Thomas Hanbury, Esq., F.L.S., which flowered in

his celebrated garden of La Mortola, Ventigmiglia, in

February of this year.

Descr.—A small tree, thirty to forty feet high, sparingly

branched, with ashy bark; branchlets slender, glabrous.

Leaves one and a quarter to two inches long, very shortly

petioled, elliptic or oblong, tip obtuse or rounded, margin

entire or undulate; stipules two, small. Flowers about

two-thirds of an inch broad, few together in a small

panicle, greenish yellow, shortly pedicelled, the terminal

in the panicle fertile, the lateral male. Calyz-tube short;

lobes five, ovate, valvate. Petals five, small, spathulate.

Disk fleshy, occupying the base of the calyx, and pro-

jecting five lobes which are adnate to the surfaces of the

calyx-lobes. Stamens 10, five opposite the petals inserted

in the bottom of the disk, and five on the lobes of the

disk; filaments subulate, anthers small. Carpels five,

cohering by their bases, tomentose, many-ovuled ; styles

short, stigmas dilated. Fruit of five obovoid, coriaceous,

tomentose, stellately spreading follicles, seated on the

persistent withered calyx.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, pistil; 5, ripe fruit; 6, seed -—AIZl

enlarged. i

M.S.del, IN-Fitch lith

L Reeve & C° London

Tas. 7569.

ODONTOGLOSSUM rerusum. :

Native of Peru.

Nat. Ord. OxcoipE2.—Tribe VaNDEs.

Genus Opontoctossum, H.B.K.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii.

p- 561.)

OpontocLtossum (Myanthum) refuswm; pseudobulbis ovoideis compressis

levibus nudis, foliis anguste lineari-lanceolatis obtusis, scapo gracili

elongato vaginis subulatis instructo, panicule elongatz anguste rachi

ramisque remotis paucifloris gracilibus brunneis, bracteis ovatis acutis

membranaceis pallidis, pedicellis cam ovariis 3-2 poll. longis coccineis,

sepalis petalisque aurantiaco-coccineis oblanceolatis acuminatis, sepalo

dorsali 2 poll. longo porrecto, lateralibus longioribus subparallelis

deflexis et paullo recurvis, petalis sepalo dorsali subaquilongis elliptico-

lanceolatis acuminatis, labello sessili fere quadrato aureo undulato

apice truncato cuspidate, lobis lateralibus basilaribus parvis rotundatis,

disco basi ruguloso et callis geminis magnis subglobosis instructo,

columna crassa late 2-alata, alis porrectis.

O. retusum, Lindl. in Benth. Pl. Hartweg. p. 152; Fol. Orchid., Odontoglossum,

p-13. Walp. Ann. vol. vi. p. 837.

The section Myanthum was established by Lindley (Fol.

Orchid., p. 11), for the reception of a few species of

Odontoglossum, in which the lateral sepals, instead of being

widely spreading, are more nearly parallel and deflexed

more or less under the lip, and the lip is sessile, or nearly

so; the lateral sepals should further be manifestly clawed,

but this is not the case in the plant here figured.

O. retusum was discovered by Hartweg in 1841, on

rocks in the mountains of Saraguru, near Loxa, in Ecuador

(not Peru, as stated by Lindley) in no doubt a temperate

climate, the Loxa valley being 6-8000 ft. above the sea.

It was imported into this country upwards of fifteen years

ago, as there are specimens in the Kew Herbarium received

from Messrs. Veitch in 1884. There are also others re-

ceived from Messrs. Sander & Co. in 1891, and in the

same year from Mr. Linden’s establishment (L’Hortic.

Internationale) in Brussels. The specimen figured was

communicated by E. H. Woodall, Esq., of St. Nicholas

House, Scarborough, in April, 1897.

DeceMBER Ist, 1897.

Deser.—Pseudobulbs one to nearly two inches long,

ovoid, compressed, pale green, quite smooth, with two or

three lanceolate, brown, basal loose scales. Leaves soli-

tary on the old pseudobulb, and two to three together in

the new flowerless shoots; those from the pseudobulbs

six to eight inches long, narrowly linear-lanceolate,

obtuse, dark green and channelled down the middle above,

paler with a distinct midrib beneath. Scape tall, slender,

pale brown, enclosed below by the long narrow sheath of

a linear leaf. Panicle a foot long or more, narrow;

rachis slender, pale brown; branches one to two inches

long, distant, spreading and recurved, three- to five-

flowered; bracts ovate, acuminate, pale, membranous ;

pedicels with ovary one half to two-thirds of an inch

long, scarlet. Flowers about an inch broad when spread

open. Sepals and petals orange-scarlet, with paler margins,

oblanceolate, acuminate ; dorsal sepal arched, two-thirds

of an inch long, lateral longer, deflexed and recurved;

petals about equalling the dorsal sepal. Lip shorter than

the sepals, golden yellow, broadly trulliform, undulate,

basal lobes short, rounded; apex truncate or retuse, cus-

pidate; disk rugulose towards the base, where are two

large globose, prominent calli. Column short, stout, with

two broad, prominent wings.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Lip and column; 2, pollinia :— Both enlarged.

RC ee es a

MS del, IN-Fitchiith,

TAS. Zod,

KNIPHOFIA srevirtora.

Native of Natal and Orange Free State.

Nat. Ord. Lrtrataa:—Tribe HEMEROCALLIDEA.

Genus Kniruorta, Mench,; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 775.)

KnIpHorFIa breviflora; foliis linearibus longe acuminatis integris sordide

viridibus dorso acute carinatis, pedunculo stricto erecto foliis xquilongo,

racemo oblongo-cylindrico supra basin denso, pedicellis brevibus, in-

ferioribus cernuis, bracteis lanceolatis, perianthio parvo subcylindrico

pallide luteo lobis ovatis, staminibus demum leviter exsertis, stylo

staminibus longiore, fructu parvo globoso.

Ke pata Harv.; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc, vol. xi. 361; Fl. Cap. vol. vi.

Pp: .

There are now thirty-five species of this genus known

at the Cape, and thirteen species in Tropical Africa, only

one of which is common to both areas. The present is

one of the smallest known species, being nearly allied to

“K. modesta, Baker (Bot. Mag. tab. 7293), but with the

flowers bright yellow, instead of white. It was first

gathered in 1862 by Mr. Thomas Cooper in the Orange

Free State, and was named in manuscript by Professor

Harvey shortly before his death. It was again collected in

Natal in 1895 by Mr. J. Medley Wood, and by him intro-

duced into cultivation through Mr. Max Leichtlin of

Baden Baden. Our drawing was made from a plant that

flowered at Kew in October, 1896. As it was found in

Natal at an elevation of between five thousand and six

thousand feet above sea-level, no doubt it will be perfectly

hardy. The Natal plant is rather more robust, and the

flowers are a little larger than in that from the Orange

Free State, but I think they can only be regarded as

forms of a single species.

Descr.—Leaves narrowly linear, one foot and a half or

two feet long, tapering gradually to a long point, dull

green, acutely keeled on the back, entire on the margin.

Peduncle stiffly erect, as long as the leaves. Raceme

December Ist, 1897.

dense above the base, oblong-cylindrical, three or four -

inches long; upper flowers ascending, lower drooping ;

pedicels very short; bracts scariose, lanceolate. Perianth

bright, pale yellow, subcylindrical, a quarter or a third of °

an inch long; lobes short, ovate. Stamens finally just

exserted. Style finally overtopping the anthers. Fruit

small, globose—J. G. Baker. :

Fig. 1, Cross section of leaf; 2, bract ; 3, an entire flower; 4, front view

of anther; 5, back view of anther :—AJZ more or less enlarged.

MS. del. JN. Fitch hth

Vincent Brooks, Day &Sonimp : :

L Reeve & C2 London

Tas. 7571.

HABENARIA rnopocuetta.

Native of Southern China, é

Nat. Ord. OrncuiprEx.—Tribe OrpHRyDEA.

Genus Hasenaria, Willd.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii, p. 624.)

Hapenaria (Platyglossa) rhodocheila; tuberibus carnosis, caule folioso,

foliis lineari-oblongis acuminatis undulatis, basi amplexi-caulibus, racemo

laxo multi-floro, bracteis lanceolatis infimis ovario gracili curvo sequi-

longis, sepalis viridibus, dorsali hemispherico, lateralibus deflexis oblongis

obtusis apicibus tortis, petalis lineari-spathulatis viridibus erectis, labello

sepalis 2-3-plo longiore unguiculato rubro-aurantiaco lobis lateralibus

oblongis obtusis patenti-decurvis, intermedio minore breviter unguiculato

bipartito segmentis dimidiato-ovatis obtusis, caleare valido labello duplo

longiore incurvo flavido infra medium subinflato apice acuto, ore lamella

ungue labelli orta clauso, anther tnbulis suberectis, rostello brevi

triangulari, stigmatis processubus crassis decurvis.

H. rhodocheila, Hance in Aun, Se. Nat. ser. v. vol. v. (1866) p. 243,

Habenaria rhodocheila was made known by the late

Dr. Hance, F.L.S., when resident at Whampoa, and de-

scribed by him from specimens collected by Dr. Sampson

-in 1864 on rocks near the Buddhist monastery of Fi-loi-

tsz, on the banks of the North River, above Canton. It

belongs to a section of the genus of which there are

many Asiatic species, characterized by the deflexed lateral

sepals, erect petals forming a hood with the dorsal sepal,

the long, tubular anther-cells and prominent stigmatic

processes. Dr. Hance regarded it as most closely allied

to H. crinifera, Lind]. (Wight Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 926), but

that species differs much in habit, being scapigerous, with

the leaves nearly all radical, and has crenate and caudate

lobes of the lip. It is much more nearly and indeed very

closely allied to H. militaris, Reichb. f., of Cambogia.

Tubers of H. rhodocheila were received at the Royal

Gardens, Kew, from Mr. Chas. Ford, Superintendent of

the Gardens, &c., of Hong Kong, in January, 1895,

which flowered in a warm house in June, 1897. The

species varies greatly in the colour of the lip; Hance

describes it as deep rose-colrd., in the Kew plants it

varied from orange-red to madder yellow.

Decremser Ist, 1897,

Descr.—Tubers cylindric, fleshy. Stem including the

raceme, a foot high and upwards, leafy throughout,

terete, green. Leaves, lower spreading, four to six inches

long, by nearly one broad, linear-oblong, acuminate, undu-

late, base amplexicaul; upper much smaller, suberect,

lanceolate. Haceme three to five inches long, rather lax-

fid.; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, green, of the lower

flowers as long as the ovary, of the upper shorter. Ovary

an inch long, slender, curved, subrostrate. Sepals green,

less than half an inch long, dorsal hemispheric; lateral

oblong, obtuse, tips deflexed. Petals linear-spathulate,

green, erect, margining the dorsal sepal. Lip twice as

long as the sepals or more, shortly clawed, from rose-red

to deep orange-red, side-lobes shorter than the mid-lobe,

pointing forward, oblong, obtuse, mid-lobe smaller, clawed,

deeply 2-lobed ; spur nearly twice as long as the lip, stout,

incurved, dirty yellow. Anther-tubes ascending, tips

coloured. Rostellwm small, triangular. Stigmatic processes

stout, sausage-shaped, decurved, of the colour of the lip.

—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Side view of sepals, petals, and column; 2, front view of column

and base of lip :—Both enlarged.

BRITISH, COLONIAL, AND FOREIGN, 1 FLORAS. a

HANDBOOK of the BRITISH FLORA: a eseion of eg at

Flowering Plants and’ Ferns indigenous: to, or naturalized in the Britiah

Isles. For the use of Beginuers and Amatenrs, By Gnorex Burra,

F.B-S. 6th Kdition, revised by. Sir J. D. Hooker. Crown 8yo,10s. 6a.

ILLUSTRATIONS ofthe BRITISH FLORA ; a Series of Wood O

Engravings, with Dissections, of British Plants, al Drawings by W. H.

- Kiron, F.L.8., and W..G. Surrn, F.L.8., forming an Illustrated Companion

to Bentham’ J he Handbook; if ‘agit: other British Floras.. .1316 Wood En-

gravings. 4th Edition, revised and enlarged, crown 8vo, 10s. 6d, «>

OUTLINES of. ELEMENTARY BOTANY; as Introductory to

- <= Loeal Floras,, By Grorer BentHaM, F, RS., i Prabident of the’ Linowan

ae Society.. New Edition, le. —~ f

“= ~ FLORA: of HAMPSHIRE, including the Tsle of Wight, with:

oe localities. of the “less: common: species. By F-. TOWNSEND, M. A., F.L.8. Ke

a With Coloured Map and two Plates, 16s. ~

i HAN DBOOK of BRITISH MOSSES, containing all that are

Ss tia is be natives of the British Talia. By: the Rev. M. J: Bekweer,

MAF ae _ 2nd Huition, 24 Coloured Plates, 21s. 2

; SYNOPSIS of BR ITISH “MOSSES, containing Deseriptions of

all the Genera and Species (with locaittiew of the rarer ones) found in Gre:

Britain ‘and ‘Ireland. By Cianves P. Hosur, PLS., &c., oe, Ne

___ Edition, entirely revised. ‘Crown 8v0, 7s. 6d. 7

: ae E BRITISH MOSS-F. LORA. “Monographs of the Families °

British Moses, illustrated by Plates of all the species, with Microscopical

sere | details. of their,structure. By R. Barairuwaite, M.D., PLS. Vol.

with 45 Plates, 50s. Vol. II., 42s, 6d, Part XVIL., fis. 3

é Beatie of BRITISH INDIA. By Sir J. D. ‘Hooxer, F. R.S.

a nd others. Complete in 7 Vols, £121 nebe ;

_ FLOR. . AUSTRALIENSIS; a Description of, the Plats of the

Australian | ‘Territory. ‘By G. Bentnam, FOR:S,, P.LS., assisted “by F.

ener, F.R.S. ‘Vols. I. to VI, 20s. each. Vol. VIL; (248. Publish

nder the auspices of the several Governments of pe eae

FLORA of MAURITIUS and the SEYCHELLES: a Deserip-

a tion of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of those Islands, By J. G. BakBR, =

F.L.S.: Complete in 1 vol., 24s. Published under the’ anthority of thes,”

Colonial Government of Mauritius,

FLORA CAPENSIS:. a Systematic ge of the Plants

the Cape Colony, Caffraria, and Port eaang ILLIAM B Harvey

F.R.S., and Otro Wither is BR, Ph.

_ Vol VI., 248. net. up a Le aa

ae tof tint aa

BOTAN [CAL MAGAZINE.

‘CONTEN''S OF No. 636, DECEMBER, 1897.

: Tan “2867. AGAVE: ‘SCHOTTH.

. ea6es .—ODOWEFOGLOSSUM RELUSUM.

=; 7570—KNIFHOFIA BREVIELORA.

e 1ST: HABE NARIA RHODOCHEILA.

_ Complete, with 2 Structural Plates, 12s, . Targe Hdition, with 28 ‘Coleen oe ;

SAGEESE TS Sheteeeh nese oe ae

Now redy, Part XLVL, with 4 spine stan. BS. (completing Vol. pee

Br CH ARLES G: BARRETT, BE

Vol. 1. 12s.;. large. paper, with 40 Coloured: Pie SSs5-

Vol. IL, 128: large paper, with 46 Colonred Plates, 63s.

Vol. Ii. 128; large paper, with 50 Ras Plates, 6:

_ Val: TY ABs. $ eek paper tt as sr 63:

INDEX

To Vol. LIII. of the Tatrp Serizs, or Vol. CXXIII. of

the whole Work.

7558 Agave Bouchei.

7527 ,, Haseloffii.

7532 ,, kewensis.

7567 ,, Schottii.

7512 Aristolochia clypeata.

7540 Begonia Baumanni.

7514 Berkheya Adlami.

7516 Bignonia buccinatoria.

7560 Calathea rufibarba.

7543 Cattleya elongata.

7554 Cirrhopetalum Curtisii.

7557 . robustum.

7515 Croton Eluteria.

7513 Cynoglossum nervosum.

7564 Cynorchis grandiflora.

7551 ‘i purpurascens,

7548 Dendrobium denudans.

7525 sarmentosum.

7526 Didymocarpus malayana.

7535 Dimorphotheca Hcklonis.

7565 Drimia Cole.

7550 Ficus erecta, var. Sieboldii.

7549 Gasteria fusco-punctata.

- 7528 Gentiana tibetica.

7536 Gomphocarpus setosus.

7530 Gongora tricolor.

7524 Grevillea Hilliana.

7571 Habenaria rhodocheila.

7555 Helianthus giganteus.

7545 tuberosus.

”?

7521 Hemipilia amethystina.

7523 Holothrix orthoeeras.

7570 Kniphofia breviflora.

7541 Lelia longipes.

7519 Ligustrum eoriaceum,

7546 Lissochilus milanjianus.

7547 Lycoris squamigera.

7562 Mammea americana,

7533 Maxillaria Houtteana.

7518 re Sanderiana.

7517 Myrmecodia Antoinii.

7569 Odontoglossum retusum.

7520 Paracaryum heliocarpum.

7544 Polygonum baldschuanicum.

7559 Primula sinensis,

7561 Pterisanthes polita.

7568 Quillaja saponaria.

7537 Renanthera Storiei.

7552 Scheelea kewensis.

7553 yy %»

7566 Scoliopus Bigelovii.

7531 Senecio Smithii.

7538 Strobilanthes callosus.

7534 Syringa amurensis.

7563 Tainia penangiana. —

7529 Tristania laurina.

7556 Veronica Balfouriana.

7539 = diosmefolia, var.

trisepala.

7522 Wistaria chinensis, var. multi-

juga.

7542 Zamia obliqua.