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STANHOPEA Hasgroviana,

eS Native of Peru.

Nat. Ord. Orcnutpex.—Tribe VANDER.

Genus Stannorsa, Frost; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 549.)

StannoreaA Haseloviana; pseudobulbis ampullewformibus, foliis petiolatis

oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis sub 7-nerviis, racemis 3-5-floris, pedunculo

bracteis scaphaformibus sepalisque dorso nigro punctulatis, floribus

maximis, sepalis elliptico-rotundatis petalisque intus pallidis maculis

magnis rubris ambitu irregulariter crenatis conspersis, lateralibus reflexis,

dorsali angustiore arcuato, petalis erectis v. reflexis obovato-oblongis

acuminatis pallide roseis, labello elongato sigmoideo-flexuoso vix unguicu-

lato purpureo maculato, hypochilio lato carnoso basi saccato sacco intus

fimbriato, epichilio 3-partito, segmentis lateralibus corniformibus, inter-

medio late unguiculato ovato-rotundato obtnuso cuspidato, columna

purpureo maculata supra medium anguste alata apice bifida lobis acutis.

S. Haseloviana, Reichb. f. Xen. Orchid. vol. i. p. 123, 196, t. 72, ef in Ott &

Dietr, Algem. Gartenz. 1855, p. 322 (errore Haseloftiana).

The flowers of certain Orchids are amongst the largest

in the vegetable kingdom. Referring to Mr. Rolfe on

this subject he has given me the following as the most

gigantic of Orchid flowers in his experience, namely,

Sobralia manantha, Lindl. (t. 4446), and Coryanthes

Fieldingit, Lindl., both nine inches in diameter; Cat-

tleya Warscewiczti, Reichb. f., eight inches; Stanhopea

tigrina, Batem. (t. 4097) seven inches; and he has found

the petals of Selenipedium caudatum, Reichb. f., to measure

thirty-five. Of the seven species of Stanhopea figured in

this magazine S. Haseloviana is most nearly allied to

S. oculata, Lindl. (Tab. 5300), which has similar annular

spots with crenulate margins on the petals and sepals, but

which besides its much smaller size, differs in the long

acuminate bracts, very long ovaries, narrow pale yellow

sepals and petals, and in the lip, which has not the double

flexure of S. Haseloviana. The form of the epichile is the

same in several other species of the genus. 5m

S. Haseloviana is a native of Northern Peru, where it

January Ist, 1896. :

was discovered by the indefatigable collector, Warscewicz, ©

half a century ago.

The specimen figured was obtained from the celebrated

establishment of M. Linden at Brussels, ‘* L’ Horticulture

Internationale” in 1893. It flowered in the Royal

Gardens, Kew, in July, 1894, and perfected its leaves in

March, 1895.

Descr.—Pseudobulbs two to two and a half inches long,

flagon-shaped. Leaves ten inches long by four broad,

oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, about 7-nerved, margins

undulate ; petiole two to three inches long. Raceme three

to five-flowered ; peduncle, bracts, ovary and back of the

sepals covered with minute black dots ; bracts on the green

peduncle and at the base of the ovary one to two inches

long, boat-shaped, obtuse, dirty yellow; ovary two inches

long, grey. lowers six inches long from the tips of the

reflexed sepals to that of the lip. Sepals three inches long,

lateral nearly orbicular, obtuselycuspidate, pale grey dorsally,

ventrally dull yellowish, and covered with scattered annular

pale rose-colrd. spots one-eighth of an inch in diameter, with

dark red irregular crenulate borders; dorsal sepal rather

narrower, arched over the column, margins recurved.

Petals nearly as long as the sepals, obovate-oblong, obtusely

cuspidate, spotted like the sepals. Lip as long as the

sepals, pendulous, fleshy, curved with a double flexure,

pale neutral-tint with dark purple spots; hypochile sub-

quadrate, saccate at the base, and with three smooth

ridges in front; sac fimbriate within; epichile as long as

the hypochile, tripartite; lateral segments curved like

horns ; terminal broadly orbicular-ovate, suddenly narrowed

into an obtuse cusp. Column as long as the lip, spotted

with purple, narrowly winged from the middle upwards, —

top bicuspidate. Anthers shortly obtusely beaked. Pol-

linia narrowly pyriform, about as long as the strap; gland

ovate-oblong.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Top of column; 2

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. DENDROBIUM Hitpesranptt.

Native of Burma.

Nat. Ord. OrcHipem.—Tribe EriIpDENDREZ.

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

Denprosium (Eudendrobium) Hildebrandii ; caule elongato robusto compres-

so sulcato fexuoso basi folioso, foliis lineari-oblongis inzqualiter obtuse

2-lobulatis coriaceis deciduis, vaginis persistentibus papyraceis, racemis

pluribus axillaribus 3-4-floris decurvis, pedunculis brevibus, bracteis

brevibus tubulosis pedicello appressis, pedicellis cum ovariis 14-pollicari-

bus, floribus 33 poll. diam., sepalis petalisque patulis lineari-oblongis

subtortis obtusis v. apiculatis, labello late tubaeformi incurvo longiore

quam lato primulino tubo dorso gibbo pubescente, limbo explanato

cordato marginibus erosulis, disco velutino, mento brevi conico obtuso,

anthera pubescente margine fimbriata.

D, Hildebrandii, Rolfe in Kew Bulletin (1894), p. 182, and in Orchid.

ie vol. iii. (1895), p. 49, cewm. Ic. Gard. Chron. (1895), vol. ii. p. 93,

zgi bo 8

A native of the mountainous Shan States in Hast

Burma, where it was discovered at an elevation of 1500

ft. by H. H. Hildebrand, Esq., in 1893, who sent living

specimens to Messrs. Hugh Low & Co. of Clapton.

It is said to grow in huge masses, upon one of

which its discoverer counted one thousand five hundred

blossoms. Mr. Rolfe considers it to be most nearly allied

to D. signatum, Reichb. f., a native of the neighbouring

country, Siam, and which belongs to the type of the genus

most familiar to Indian botanists. In colour the flowers

of D. Hildebrandit vary considerably, and Mr. Watson in-

forms me that the one here figured is the palest that he

has seen. Mr. Hildebrand collected specimens with three

varieties of colour; one with sepals and petals pale green,

and lip sulphur-yellow; another with sepals and petals

creamy pink, and the lip yellow, and a third like the last,

but with two dark chocolate blotches in the throat.

The specimen figured was obtained from Messrs. Low.

It flowered in the Royal Gardens in May of the present

year. |

_ Descr.—Stem twelve to eighteen inches long by upwards.

of half an inch broad, compressed, flexuous, deeply groved,

_ January Ist, 1896. .

yellow green; internodes about an inch long, clothed for

half their length with the white papery sheaths of the old

leaves, which are edged with brown. Leaves on young

stems four to six inches long, linear-oblong, tip obliquely

obtusely 2-lobulate. Macemes many, axillary, decurved,

three to four-fid.; peduncle very short, green, half im-

mersed in the sheaths; bracts tubular, closely appressed to

the pedicels, obliquely truncate, white; pedicel with ovary

one and a half to two inches long, slender, curved, white

or pale pink. J'lowers three and a half inches across the

petals. Sepals and petals subsimilar, linear-oblong, obtuse

or apiculate, and more or less twisted. Lip shortly

trumpet-shaped, incurved, sulphur or primrose-yellow,

fading to white round the margins ; tube pubescent exter-

nally, gibbous dorsally ; limb cordate in outline, with re-

curved erose margins, disk velvety; mentum short,

broadly conical, obtuse. Anther hemispheric, pubescent,

with a fringed anterior margin.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Side and front view of column; 3, anther; 4, pollinia :—A/l

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ALBERTA MAGNA.

Native of Natal.

Nat. Ord. Rusiacex.—Tribe ALBERTE.

Genus Auperta, LE. Mey.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 109.)

ALBERTA magna; frutex v. arbor fere glaberrima, ramulis teretibus, foliis

obovato-oblongis obtusis integerrimis coriaceis lucidis in petiolum brevem

crassum angustatis, costa valida, nervis utrinque 8-10 gracilibus, stipulis

interpetiolaribus triangularibus acutis diu persistentibus, paniculis

amplis terminalibus puberulis ramis oppositis inferioribus deflexis,

bracteis minutis persistentibus, floribus erectis, calycis parvi lobis ovatis

2 ceteris majoribus demum accrescentibus, corollz pollicaris coccines tubo

superne paullo inflato lobis parvis triangularibus, antheris sessilibus dorso

eras, calycis fructiferi lobis 2 foliaceo-dilatatis obovato-spathulatis

reticulatis.

A. magna, FE. Mey. in Linnea, vol. xii. (1838) p. 258. Harv. & Sond. F'.

Cap. vol. iii, p. 15. Harv. Thes. Gap. t. 45.

Alberta is a small South African and Madagascar genus,

founded by Meyer in 1838 on the species here represented.

It was named in honour of Father Albertus Grotus, a

Dominican Friar, afterwards Bishop of Cologne. He was

born in Swabia about the year 1200, and being reputed a

prodigy of learning and genius, the epithet Magnus

was conferred on -him by his contemporaries. Alberta

belongs to a group of fubiacee containing seven genera,

all African, and chiefly tropical. A. magna forms a shrub

or small tree in the rocky mountains of Natal, at eleva-

tions of 38-5000 ft., where it forms a conspicuous and

beautiful object from the glossiness of its evergreen leaves,

and the beauty of its flowers. There are specimens in the

Herbarium of Kew from Inanda (Gerrard), from precipices

of the Great Noodsberg Mt. (Wood) ; and from the Kak-

loot Falls (Scott). It was discovered by Drege in 1832,

** between Omsancaba and the great waterfall.”

A. magna was raised in the Royal Gardens, Kew, from

seeds sent in 1889 by Mr. Medley Wood, A.L.S., Curator

of the Botanical Gardens, Natal. Mr. Watson informs

me that it flowered for the first time in February, 1895,

January Ist, 1896,

and that this was in the Temperate House, where it grows

freely, and promises to form a large laurel-like shrub.

_ Descr.—An evergreen shrub, or small tree, attaining

thirty feet in height; branches terete, bark pale. Leaves

four to five inches long, obovate-oblong, obtuse, quite

entire, narrowed into a short stout petiole, coriaceous,

bright green and glossy above, paler beneath ; midrib

stout, lateral nerves slender ; stipules triangular, acuminate,

brown. Panicle terminal, strict erect, subpyramidal, six

inches high, and nearly as broad at the base ; rachis stout,

and spreading or decurved opposite branches puberulous ;

bracts very small, ovate, persistent ; pedicels one-sixth to

one-fourth of an inch long, erect or ascending. Flowers

erect. Caiyx small, pubescent; lobes erect, ovate, sub-

acute, two longer than the others. Corolla an inch long,

bright red; tube terete, slightly ventricose in the upper

half, hairy below the middle within; lobes five, very

small, triangular, recurved. Anthers sessile, inserted below

the throat of the corolla, dorsally hirsute, bases bearded,

connective apiculate. Disk small, tumid. Ovary 2-celled ;

style long, slender, exserted, tip contracted acutely bifid.

Fruit a smal 12-celled ovoid deeply grooved drupe, about

a quarter of an inch long, with persistent calyx-lobes, of

which two are produced into spathulately obovate coriaceous

veined wings about an inch long.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Calyx and style; 2, Section of corolla laid open ; 3 and 4, stamens;

5, vertical section of ovary :—all enlarged ; 6, fruit of the natural size.

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GAZANIA prema.

Native of South East Africa.

Nat. Ord. Composira.—Tribe ArcToTIDER,

Genus Gazania, Gerin,; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 459.)

GazANIa pyymexa; perennis, foliis anguste lineari-oblanceolatis obtusis in-

tegerrimis v. remote denticulatis rarius subpinnatifidis supra viridibus

margines versus scaberulis, subtus tomento appresso niveis, scapis

‘sepius aphyllis, capitulis amplis, involucri campanulati basi plus-

minusve intrusi bracteis linearibus liberis v. in tubum connatis apicibus

liberis, floribus radii albis dorso medio purpureovel violaceo fasciatis,

disci aureis, acheniis filis elongatis flexuosis crinitis, pappi setis subulatis

denticulatis.

G. pygmea, Sonder in Linnza, vol. xxiii. (1850) p. 69. Harvey in Harv. &

Sond. Fl. Cap. vol. iii. p. 478. WN. £. Br. in“ The Garden,” April 27th,

1895, cum Ie. pict.

G. canescens, Harv. J. c.

G. nivea, Leichtl. in Wien. Illustr. Gartenz. (1894) 81, f. 21.

G. bracteata, N. EH. Br. in Gard. Chron, (1894) vol. i. p. 620.

In a revision of some of the species of Gazania by Mr.

N. HE. Brown, contributed to ‘‘ The Garden,” that botanist

observes of the genus, that ‘it is one of the most perplex-

ing that a botanist has to deal with.” It includes between

twenty and thirty species, and is exclusively African in

so far as at present known, and chiefly South Eastern

African, though outlying species have been found as far

north as Abyssinia. The chief difficulties that are en-

countered in the study of the species are owing to the

great variability of the foliage of many, from quite entire

and very narrow to pinnatifid and bipinnatifid, and in the

case of G. pygmexa to the extraordinary diversity in the

amount of confluence of the involucral bracts, from being

nearly free, to forming a campanulate cup.

Gazania pygmea has a very wide range of distribution

in South Africa. It was discovered by the eminent South

African traveller, Dr. Burchell, the earliest explorer of

the regions it inhabits, who collected it in various localities

in Bechuana and Griqua Lands, between the years 1811 and

January Ist, 1896.

1814, and it has since been found by many botanists and

collectors at elevations of 4-5000 ft. in the Transvaal, the

Orange Free State, and as far north as Matabele Land (by

the Rev. W. Elliott). The earliest information I have ob-

tained as to the date of its introduction in Europe is from

specimens in the Kew Herbarium, sent by Mr. Max Leichtlin

of Baden Baden in June, 1893; and in the same year by

Mr. Gumbleton, who raised them from seeds sent him from

Natal by Mr. Adlam. Living specimens sent by the latter

gentleman flowered in the open air at Kew, and from these

and others also sent by Mr. Gumbleton, the accompanying

figures were made.

Descr.—Root fusiform, sometimes as thick as the thumb,

giving off many flowering and leafing crowns. Leaves three

to five inches long, narrowly oblanceolate, obtuse, quite en-

tire or distantly minutely denticulate, bright green above,

white with appressed wool beneath, margins recurved, sides

above and surface more or less scaberulous. Scapes longer

than the leaves, stout, pale brown or pinkish, naked, or

with one reduced leaf. lower heads two inches and upward

in diameter. Jnvolucre campanulate, glabrous, brown, base

rounded or intruded ; bracts linear, obtuse, confluent below

and spreading above, or all confluent with a campanulate

or subcylindric cup with four greenish tips. Ray-fl. very

numerous, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, white with a broad

dorsal violet or purple band. Disk-fls. yellow. Achenes

clothed with long flexuous hairs. Pappus hairs subulate,

rigid, erect, denticulate.—J. D. H.

Fig. A, Plants that flowered at Kew; B and C sent by Mr. Gumbleton :—

fig. 1, fl. of disk; 2, achene and pappus; 3, bristle of pappus; 4, stamens :—

All enlarged.

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ASARUM MAXIMUM.

Native of China.

Nat. Ord. ARISTOLOCHIACEA.

Genus AsaruM, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 122.)

ASARUM maximum ; robustum, glabrum, foliis amplis longe petiolatis late ovatis

acutis basi cordatis lobis incumbentibus divaricatisve supra saturate

viridibus subtus pallidis costa nervisque elevatis, floribus subsessilibus

2% poll. latis, perianthio basi obconico dein annulo crasso cincto, superne

' latissime campanulato 3-lobo, lobis rotundatis intus atropurpureis, singulis

basi disco fungoso flavo lobo conformi instructis, fauce transverse rugosa

purpurea, antheris subsessilibus oblongis obtuse appendiculatis, stylis

. brevibus connatis, stigmatibus oblongis obtuse 2-coronatis.

~ A. maximum, Hemsl. in Gard. Chron. (1890) vol. i. p. 422, and in Journ, Linn,

Soe. vol. xxvi. (1891) 359, ;

The genus Asarum is remarkable for the very great

differences it exhibits in the form of the perianth, stamens

and styles, whilst preserving a great similarity in the habit

of its species. A. maximum differs from all its allies, not

only in the size of the flowers, which far exceeds (almost

doubles) that of any other hitherto described species, but

in the spongy cushions of the bases of the perianth-lobes,

which cushions together form a three-lobed sort of crown

in the centre of the flower, of a pale primrose colour, in

strikng relief against the dark maroon-purple of the rest

of the lobes. Another notable character is the thickened

ring girdling the tube of the corolla on a level with the

top of the ovary. nae

_ Referring to the four species previously figured in this

work, these illustrate well the great diversities of form in

the perianth of the genus, diversities so great as to suggest

their being of generic nature. Thus in A. canadense

t. 2769) the corolla lobes are triangular and subcaudate,

Amar dor, 1096

‘the tube smooth within, the anthers shorter than their

filaments, with very long caudiform tips, and the styles are

united in a column 4-cleft at the top with short truncate

stigmas. In A. macranthum (t. 7022), the very large flowers

have the perianth-lobes lobulately undulate, its tube pre-

sents an inflexed curtain in the throat, above which

are thickened folds like those of A. maximum, and below

it, around the organs of fecundation, the walls are can-

cellated by square pits; the stamens are very short, the

styles free with large capitate stigmas. In A. caudigerum

(t. 7126) the perianth-lobes are shortly triangular, and

narrowed into long flexuous tails, the surface of the tube

within is quite even and hairy, the filaments long and

anthers short, the styles united below, the stigmas short,

simple and recurved. In A. geophilum (t. 7168) the

mouth of the perianth is nearly closed, its tube even and

setulose within, the stamens much as in A. maximum, and

the very short styles united in pairs with linear stigmatic

surfaces. Lastly, in A. Thunbergii (Heterotropis asaroides,

t. 8746) the perianth and stamens are nearly of the

structure of A. macranthum, but the style and stigmas

more confluent, :

Some of the above characters and others in the habits

of the species have been utilized by Duchartre in his

monograph of the genus (DOC. Prodr. vol. xvi. pt. I.

p-. 422); but now that the genus is known to contain

upwards of twenty species, of which he knew only ten, it

is not surprising that his sections should require both

modifications and additions. Owing, however, to the

texture of the flowers which suffer much in drying, it is to

cultivated specimens rather than to the Herbarium that

recourse is to be had in elucidating the genus.

A, maximum is a native of China, where it was dis-

covered by the indefatigable botanist, A. Henry, Esq.,

F.L.S., in the gorge of the Yang-tse Kiang river,

1000 miles from its mouth. That gentleman says of it :—

‘Occurs in glens about the Ichang gorge, on sides of

cliffs, always some distance up. It is the Ma-ti-hsiang

(i.e. horse-hoof fragrance) of the Chinese, and the root is

used in medicine.”

Living plants were received in 1894 from Mr. Ford,

P.L.8., Superintendent of the Botanical Gardens of Hong

Kong, which flowered in a stove in the Royal Gardens,

KKew, in March of the same year. Mr. Watson informs me

that the flowers remained fresh on the plant for about a

month.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Section of the tube of the perianth ; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, styles

and stigmas :—All enlarged.

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BEGONIA vUmMBRACULIFERA.

Native of Brazil.

. Nat. Ord. BrGONIACER.

Genus Brgonta, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 841.)

Brecontsa wmbraculifera; caulibus elatis robustis indivis, foliis apicem

versus caulis alternis distichis longe petiolatis reniformibus y. orbicu-*

laribus et peltatis denticulatis, stipulis magnis ovatis caducis, cymis

supra-alaribus dichotomo-multifidis, pedunculis valde elongatis basi inter-

nodio confluentibus, floribus polygamo-monoicis; /. masc. sepalis 2 orbicula-

ribus, andraecio compresso, antheris filamentis liberis longioribus; fl. foem.

sepalis 5 ovatis 2 extimis majoribus, ovario 3-loculari, placentis integris,

stylis 3 brevibus liberis, stigmatibus reniformi-2-lobis undique papillosis,

capsula equaliter 3-alata; jl. hermaph. perianthio stylis stigmatibusque

fi. fem., similibus staminibus basi v. superficie ovarii 2-5-locularis sine

ordine insertis.

A very remarkable plant in habit, and the second only ©

(in so far as is known to me) of the vast genus to which

it belongs, in which hermaphrodite flowers have been

observed. The other is B. frigida, A.DC.* (Tab. 5760),

also a native of Brazil, in which the ovary of the fem. fl. is

inferior, and 3—4 quetrous, but that of the hermaphrodite

fl. consists of 3-4 free superior carpels, surrounded by a

few hypogynous stamens.

I have sought in vain amongst the sections of the genus

established by A. De Candolle in the Prodromus, for one

under which this singular plant should be placed; and I

have compared it, also in vain, with all the drawings and

descriptions to which I have access, in search of any

species of similar habit, namely, as having a_ perfectly

simple, stout, erect stem, with few distant distichous reni-

form orbicular peltate fleshy leaves, and very long-

peduncled supra-axillary cymes, the peduncle of which is

confluent at the base with the internode above it. Refer-

ring to the key to De Candolle’s sections of the genus

which I have given in “The Genera Plantarum,” it falls

into the last group of American ones, those with entire

placentas and style-arms papillose all over, and amongst

* For observations on B. frigida see Gard. Chron. 1860, pp. 146 and Ws =

1861, p. 1092, and Masters, Vegetable Teratology, pp. 199, 303.

Fesruary lst, 1896,

these Wageneria is that into which may for the present

be placed, though differing from that section in habit and

foliage, and in having four male perianth-segments. In

habit it approaches nearest to B. dichotoma, J acq. Ie. t. 619.

Mr. Watson informs me that B. umbraculifera was im-

ported amongst some Orchids from Brazil by Messrs. F.

Sander & Co., from whom a plant was obtained in 1893,

and that by far the greater majority of the flowers

throughout the plant are male. It flowered in the « Begonia

House” of the Royal Gardens in March, 1895.

Descr.—Stems six from the root, four feet high, quite

simple, erect, half an inch in diameter, terete, smooth, pale

brown, leafing towards the tip only, marked with narrow

annular scars of fallen stipules. Leaves alternate, fleshy,

four to six inches in diameter, lower reniform, upper peltate,

obliquely orbicular, retuse, one side more or less produced

into a broad, low auricle, bright pale green and glossy above,

pale beneath, with eight to ten radiating nerves; margins

obscurely denticulate. Stipules an inch long, green, cadu-

cous. Cymes large, supra axillary, dichotomously branched ;

peduncle many times longer than the petiole, confluent at

the base with the internode above it, rose-colrd. ; branches

and short slender pedicels rose-red, Flowers crowded in

small corymbs, chiefly male, with a few female and bi-

sexual flowers. Male jl. one inch. diam., ebracteate ;

sepals 2, orbicular, white; stamens about twenty, in a

compressed bundle; anthers oblong, obtuse, longer than

the quite free filaments; (very rarely an imperfect sub=

globose 2-celled inferior ovary is formed in the male fi.)

Fem. fl. half an inch in diameter, bracteate ; bracts subu-

to the sides of a free two- to fi

short, stout Styles, and 2-3

Fig. A, Cyme of male f|

of the nat, size :—Fig. 1

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SCUTELLARIA Formosana.

Native of China.

Nat. Ord. Laprata#.—Tribe Neretex.

Genus Scurettarta, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1201.)

Scurertaria (Vulgares) formosana; fruticulus erectus, ramis tetragonis

_ glaberrimis canisve violaceis, foliis breviter petiolatis ovatis v. ovato-

lanceolatis acuminatis glaberrimis remote subserratis basi cuneatis

subtus glanduloso-punctatis et remote pilosulis, racemo terminali erecto

aphyllo laxifloro, floribus oppositis, bracteis minutis pedicellos breves

subequantibus v. brevioribus, calycis puberuli lobis late ovatis, galea

parva fere orbiculari, corolle erectz glanduloso-pubescentis tubo 3-

- . _ pollicari infra medium gracili viridi intus annulo stellatim pubescente

cincto, supra medium inflato limboque saturate violaceo, limbi labio

superiore integro inferioris lobis lateralibus parvis intermedio tere

orbiculari, filamentis pilosis, antherarum loculis ciliolatis, gynophori

magni gibbi collo glanduloso, nuculis granulatis. ae

S. formosana, V.E. Br. in Gard. Chron. (1894) vol. ii. p 212.

Amongst the tropical Asiatic skull-caps there is one to

which S. formosana is nearly allied, and that is S. javanensis,

Jungh., which differs in the repand-toothed leaves, in both

surfaces of these and the racemes being hispidulous in the

rose-lilac or scarlet: corolla, and in the fruiting calyx being

much longer than that of formosana would (judging from

immature fruit) probably be. Of S. javanensis, a native of

Java at an elevation of about 6000 ft., I have seen only

indifferent specimens. It may prove the same as a

Sumatran plant in Herb. Kew (probably 8. swmatrana,

_Mig.); or, as Mr. Brown has observed in his careful

description of 9. formosana cited above, all the three ‘* may

be local forms of one species; but until more is known

concerning them I deem it best to retain the present.

plant as if distinct, it being clearly distinguishable from

S. javanensis, and for horticultural purposes worthy of

distinction.” :

8. formosana was, according to a specimen in the Kew

Herbarium, introduced by Messrs. Veitch from Formosa,

The specimen here figured is from a plant sent to the

Feprvary Ist, 1896,

Royal Gardens, Kew, from the Island of Hainan in

Southern China, in 1894, by Mr. C. Ford, F.L.S.,

Superintendent of the Hong Kong Botanical - Gardens.

It flowers freely in a cool greenhouse in early summer.

Descr.—Stem two to three ft. high, sparingly branched,

tetragonous, quite glabrous or hoary with a minute

pubescence, pale violet-blue. Leaves two and a half to

three inches long, shortly petioled, ovate or ovate-lan-

ceolate, acuminate, faintly distantly serrate, quite glabrous,

base cuneate, dark green and shining above, pale green or

violet beneath, covered with minute glandular dots, and a few

very short scattered hairs ; nerves six or eight pairs ; petiole

one-sixth to one quarter of an inch long. Raceme terminal,

lax-fid., flowers subsecund, opposite, very shortly peduncled;

bracts very small, green, about as long as the very short

pedicels ; rachis, bracts, pedicels and calyx puberulous.

Calyx small, lobes short, triangular, obtuse ; galea small,

orbicular. Corolla an inch long, glandular-pubescent, tube

narrow and green below the middle, surrounded above

the base within by a band of stellate hairs, above the

middle ventricose and dark violet-blue ; upper lip hooded

quite entire ; lower 3-partite, lateral lobes small rounded,

mid-lobe orbicular. Filaments sparsely hairy; anthers

didymous, puberulous. Gynophore globose, gibbous, con-

tracted into a short neck which is girt with glands.

Nucules granulate.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Portion of under-surface of leaf; 2, calyx, pedicel and bract;

3 bd hone oe Sa 34 and — of median, and 6, re lateral stamens:

» GSK and ovary ; 6, portion of fruiting raceme; 9, nucule:——A// i

except 8, which is of nat. size, si ee esesg _— oe

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STERNBERGIA maorantaa.

Native of Western Asia.

Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDEZ.—Tribe AMARYLLEA.

Genus Srernpercia, Waldst. et Kit.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii.

p. 721.)

STERNBERGIA macrantha; cormo globoso magno tunicis exterioribus mem-

branaceis brunneis, foliis hysteranthiis vernalibus loratis obtusis sub-

erectis glaucescentibus obscure carinatis, floribus autumnalibus luteis

inodoris, pedunculo brevi occulto, spatha membranacea univalvi inferne

cylindrica apice fissa, perianthii tubo cylindrico elongato, limbi lobis

oblongis subacutis tubo longioribus, staminibus limbo duplo brevioribus,

fructu oblongo, seminibus globosis.

S. macrantha, J. Gay in Balans. Plant. Orient. Ezsicc. 1855, No. 827.

Baker Handb. Amaryll. p. 33.

S. Clusiana, Boiss. Fl. Orient. vol. v. p. 148, non Ker.

S. stipitata, Boiss. et Haussk. Fl. Orient., vol. v. p. 148.

S. grandiflora, Boiss. in Kotschy Plant. Cilic. Exrsicc. No. 344.

S. latifolia, Boiss. et Haussk. Pl. Orient. Exsicc. 1867.

This is much the finest of all the Sternbergias, and

although it is widely distributed in a wild state, extending

from Smyrna eastward to the west of Persia, and southward

to Jerusalem and the Sinaitic peninsula, it has only been

recently introduced into cultivation. From the familiar

S. lutea it differs in its larger flowers, long perianth-tube,

and the leaves being produced in spring, instead of with

the flowers in autumn. At Kew it was received in a living

state for the first time in 1894 from Mr. E. J. Whittall of

Smyrna, to whom the Royal Gardens are indebted for so

many rare and interesting bulbous plants. It has grown

successfully, both in a sheltered border, in the open air,

and in pots in acool conservatory. It is so fine a plant

that no doubt it will become generally popular.

Descr.—Corm large, globose ; outer tunics membranous,

brown, extending three or four inches above its neck.

Leaves about eight in a rosette, produced in spring,

lorate, obtuse, suberect, finally a foot long, and

nearly an inch broad. Peduncle short, hidden inside the

Fesrvary Ist, 1896. oe :

produced outer corm-tunics, always one-flowered. Spathe

white, membranous, three or four inches long, cylindrical

in the lower half. Flowers bright yellow, inodorous, pro-

duced in autumn, Perianth-tube slender, about two inches

long; limb three inches long; lobes oblong, subacute.

Stamens inserted at the throat of the perianth-tube, half

as long as the lobes; anthers linear, dorsifixed. Style

reaching to the tip of the anthers. Capsule oblong, an

inch and a half long. Seeds subglobose.—J. G. Baker.

’ Fig. 1, Front view of anther; 2, back view of anther; 8, apex of style :—

All enlarged,

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HECHTIA arcentea.

Native of Mexico.

’ Nat. Ord. Brometracea#.—Tribe Pitcatrniex.

~ Genus Hecutia, Klotzsch ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 667.)

Hecut1a argentea; acaulis, foliis perpluribus dense rosulatis ensiformibus

_Tigide coriaceis recurvatis utrinque dense persistenter argenteo-lepidotis

~e basi ad apicem acuminatum sensim attenuatis aculeis marginalibus

magnis corneis pallidis, pedunculo elongato, foliis bracteiformibus multos

_ ovato-lanceolatis integris scariosis adpressis, floribus in glomerulos multis _

racteis floriferis ovatis brunneis scariosis flori subzquilongis, sepalis

: Biakioves sessilos aggregatis, bracteis primariis parvis ovatis scariosis,

- ovatis acutis, petalis oblongis obtusis albis calyce vix longioribus, floribus

_ femineis ovario ovoideo, stigmatibus tribus sessilibus falcatis, staminibus

Ss rudimentariis. f es

H. argentea, Hort. Beaucarne; K. Koch Wochenschrift, 1864, p. 176. Baker

tn Bot, Mag. sab t. 6554; Handb. Bromel. p. 139. ,

Hechtia is distinguished from all the other genera of

Bromeliacee by its small white subunisexual flowers. .

About ten species are now known, all of which inhabit — .

Mexico and the Southern United States, and can be easily

grown in a cool conservatory. The present plant, with its

dense tufts of persistent silvery leaves, is the most striking

of all of them, and often attracts the attention of the

visitors to the’ Cactus House at Kew, where this same

plant has lived for at least a quarter ofa century. It grows

slowly, and flowers but rarely. - It flowered first in 1870,

and the present drawing was partly made then, and was

finished in 1895. The first notice I can find of the plant

is of its being exhibited by M. Beaucarne at the Inter-

national Horticultural Exhibition at Brussels in 1864,

There are no wild specimens in the Kew Herbarium.

Descr.— Leaves very numerous, forming a dense sessile

rosette, recurved, ensiform, acuminate, rigidly coriaceous,

narrowed gradually from the base to a long point, per-

sistently silvery on both surfaces, reaching a length of two

or three feet, armed with copious pungent, pale, horny,

Fesrvary Ist, 1896,

marginal prickles. Peduncle three feet long, furnished

_ with many adpressed entire scariose ovate-lanceolate bract-

leaves. lowers subunisexual, aggregate in many globose

sessile clusters ; branch-bracts ovate, not longer than the

clusters ; flower bracts ovate, brownish, about as long as

the flowers. Sepals ovate, one-sixth of an inch long.

Petals white, oblong, obtuse, spreading, little longer than

the calyx. Ovary large in the female flowers, with three

spreading stigmas,. and at its base six rudimentary etamons.

—J. G. Baker. 7

Fig. 1, 2, A complete flower; 2, corolla cut open, to show the ovary and

rudimentary stamens; 3, horizontal section of ovary, all enlarged; 4, entire

plant, much reduced,

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BIFRENARIA tyrrantuina.

Native of Brazil.

Nat. Ord. Orcurprm.—Tribe VanDEX.

Genus Birrenarra, Lind/.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 546,

Birrenanria tyrianthina; pseudobulbis magnis ovoideis trigonis subcancellatis,

folio sessili elliptico-oblongo, pedunculo valido 3-5-flora decurvo, bracteis

spathaceis tubulosis brunneis, pedicellis crassis, floribns amplis rubro-pur-

pureis, marginibus sepalorum et petalorum subcrispatis, sepalis oblongo-

rotundatis dorsali erecto, lateralibus dorsali multo majoribus latioribusque

ope pedis columnz in mentum fere bipollicarem rectum obtusum connatis,

etalis sepalo dorsali paullo minoribus subtrapezoideo-obovatis retusis

asi cuneatis, labello sepalis multo minore tubo infandibulari, lobis

lateralibus rotundatis, terminali lato revoluto intus pilis albis hirsuto,

callo tubo incluso crasso carnoso subclavato hirsuto apice truncato,

columna brevissime in pedem elongatum hirsutam producta, polliniarum.

stipitibus liberis.

B. tyrianthina, Reichb. f. Xenia, vol.i. p. 61 and 223. Regel Gartenfl. vol.

xiii. (1864) p. 4, t. 422, £.2. Rolfe in Lindenia, vol. x. t. 446.

B. Dallemagnei, Hort. Linden.

Lycaste tyrianthina, Lodd. Cat. ew Loud. Hort. Brit. Hd. 1850, Suppl. p. 582.

Maxillaria tyrianthina, Hort. ex Baxt.in Loud. l.c. Josst, Beschr.u. Cult.

Orchid. p. 272.

The history of Bifrenaria tyrianthina has been given by

Mr. Rolfe in “‘ Lindenia,” cited above. It was introduced

by Messrs. Loddiges from Brazil about sixty years ago, and

according to Loudon appears in one of Loddige’s catalogues

as a Lycaste, but in which of the catalogues (there were

several of the plants of that celebrated nursery) does not

appear, nor can I find it in any to which I have access.

There is a specimen of it in Lindley’s Herbarium (now at

Kew) ticketed as from “Mr. Hedges, the Castle, Wal-

lingford,” without date, but obtained probably not long

after its introduction. Lindley supposed it to be a purple -

flowered variety of B. inodora, Lindl. (B. fragrans, Rod-

rig.) to which it is very nearly allied; but according to

Mr. Rolfe, besides the difference of colour of the flowers,

the lip is more velvety, the callus more truncate, and the

mentum longer and stouter. A further difference is that

B. inodora, though so named by Lindley, is said by Rod-

FEBRUARY Ist, 1896,

rigues to be very fragrant, and was subsequently named

B. fragrans by the latter author. The resemblance of the

flowers to those of B. Harrisoniz (Mazillaria Harrisome,

Lindl. (see Tab. 2927) is very strong, in all but the colour

of the sepals and petals which in that plant are of a pale

brown. Amongst other differences are the pollinia, which

in B. Harrisoniz are subsessile on a very short broad 2-fid

strap.

The plant here figured was obtained in 1893 from the

establishment of M. Linden, “ L’Horticulture Interna-

tionale,” under the name of Bifrenaria Dallemagnei. It

flowered in a cool house in the Royal Gardens, Kew,in

June, 1895.

Descr.—Pseudobulbs three inches long by two and a half

broad, ovoid, compressed, trigonous, the sides marked with

many shallow depressions, top dark brown. Leaf about

six inches long, by two to three broad, sessile, elliptic

—oblong, suberect, dark green, many-nerved. Scape de-

curved, then ascending, very stout, about three-fid., green,

streaked with brown; sheaths few, and spathaceous bracts —

brown; pedicel with ovary two inches long, green.

Flowers three inches broad across the sepals, nearly three ~

and a half from the tip of the dorsal sepal to that e..

mentum, red purple ; margins of sepals and petals obscurely _

crimped. Dorsal sepal broadly oblong, erect ; lateral del *

broader, rounded, connate at their bases with the long

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shaped ; lateral lobes rounded, erect ; mid-lobe short, very

broad, revolute, undulate, bright red purple, clothed with

white hairs; callus forming a very stout, broad hairy

cushion between the lateral lobes and ending in a truncate

boss. Column very short. Pollinia each on a straight

columnar strap, which is seated on an oblong, retuse

gland.—J, D. H.

Fig. 1, Lip with one side-lobe removed ; 2, column and mentum; 3, anther-

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INCARVILLEA Detavart.

Native of China.

Nat. Ord. BrenontaceEa.—Tribe TECOMES.

Genus Incarvitura, Juss. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1049.)

IncanvittKa Delavayi ; glaberrima, caule brevi erecto robusto, foliis pedalibus

lineari-oblongis pinnatis, rachi valida, foliolis suboppositis remote 8-10-

jugis sessilibus lanceolatis obtusis crenato-lobulatis supremis confluenti-

bus, nervis subtus validis, scapo elongato robusto nudo apicem versus

plurifloro, bracteis setaceis, floribus magnis breviuscule pedicellatis, calycis

tubulosi alte 5-costati puberuli dentibus acuminatis, corolle rosaess

tubo 2-pollicari curvo, limbi 3-poll. diam. lobis rotundatis margine

undulatis, antherarum loculis glabris.

I. Delavayi, Bur. & Franch. in Morot Journ. Bot. (Paris), (1891), 39. Rev.

Hortic. 1898, p. 544, fig. 173. Journ. Hortic. Ser. 3, vol. xxx. p. 449, f. 1.

tg! i es vol. xliii. (1894), t. 1898. Baillon Histoire des Plantes, vol. x.

p. 52. .

This superb species of the central Asiatic genus

Incarvillea was discovered by the Abbé Delavay in pastures

of the lofty mountains of Yunnan in West China, at eleva-

tions of 8000-11,500 ft. It was first published by the

authors cited above in a paper on the plants of Tibet and

China, chiefly collected by Prince Henri d’Orléans, during

his and M. Bonvalet’s adventurous journey across Central

Asia. In the same paper the authors give diagnoses of

eight species from the same region, which, with those

previously described, makes ten now known, whereas at

the date of the publication of the Bignoniacee in the

‘*Genera Plantarum” (1876), the genus consisted but of

one. The only species previously figured in this work is

I, Koopmanni, Lauche (Tab. 6593), a native of Turkestan ;

as to which the late Dr. Regel informed me by letter that

I was right in my supposition as to its being only a variety

of I. Olgz, Reg.

The plant of I. Delavayi from which the accompanying

figure is made, was received from Mr. Max Leichtlin of

Baden Baden, in 1894, and flowered in a cool greenhouse

of the Royal Gardens in May, 1895. Handsome as it

Maxcu Isr, 1896,

is it falls far short of the magnificence which the plant

attains, for Mr. Thompson of Ipswich informs me that

it flowers with him in an open border much more

luxuriantly than in a house, one specimen having two

scapes with nine and ten leaves, and twelve to thirteen

flowers respectively, and that it withstood the cold of last

winter (1895) without the slightest protection.

Descr.—Rootstock stout, lobed. Stem very short, simple,

or very sparingly branched. Leaves few, radical, twelve

to eighteen inches long, pinnate; rachis stout, nearly

terete; leaflets six to eight rather distant pairs or

fewer, four to five inches long, sessile, subopposite, lan-

ceolate, subacute, spreading and decurved, unequal-sided,

coarsely unequally crenate or lobulate, midrib strong,

lower margin, sometimes slightly decurrent, terminal

more or less confluent; petiole as long as the blade.

Scape as long as the leaves or longer, erect; as thick as a

goose-quill, naked, three- to thirteen-fid. ; bracts small,

lanceolate; pedicels half an inch long. Caiye an inch

long, tubular-campanulate, green, five-angled and -lobed,

puberulous ; lobes shorter than the tube, ovate-lanceolate, —

acuminate. Corolla bright rose-red; tube three inches —

long, decurved, glabrous within, base within the calyx

cylindric, above it slightly inflated; limb three to three

and a half inches broad, lobes rounded, margins undulate,

recurved. Stamens included, filaments glabrous ; anthers

glabrous, cells divaricate, dorsally spurred. Disk cupular.

Ovary cylindric; style included, stigma large, peltate.

Capsule one and a half to two inches long, tetragonous,

valves corrugated. Seeds flattened, broadly obovate,

winged, rugose.—J. D. H. ) a

Fig. 1, Portion of calyx laid open, showin the di | :

corolla laid open with stamens ; 3 ane 4, anthers hd miaigea 2 —

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COMANTHOSPHACE JAPONICA.

Native of Japan.

Nat. Ord. Lasuta.—Tribe SATUREINER.

Genus ComantHospHace (Spenser Moore in Lond. Journ. Bot. vol. xv. (1877),

p- 293.)

CoMANTHOSPHACE japonica; suffruticosa, ramulis tetragonis inflorescentiaque

plus minus cano-tomentosis, foliis petiolatis ovatis ovato-lanceolatisve

— serratis, verticillastris multifloris in racemum strictum erectum

racteatum dispositis, bracteis amplis membranaceis rotundatis concavis

rostratis v. acuminatis caducissimis, floribus breviter pedicellatis flavidis,

calycis tubulosi enervis dentibus brevissimis obtusis, corolla puberulz

tubo exserto intus annulo pubescente cincto, limbi lobis 2 posticis brevi-

bus rotundatis erectis, lateralibus paullo majoribus, antico duplo majore

hemispherico deflexo, staminibus deflexis, filamentis glaberrimis, antheris

minutis globosis, disco annulari, nuculis oblongis truncatis glandulosis.

C. japonica, barbinervis, sublanceolata & stellipila, Sp. Moore, be.

Pogostemon japonicus, Benth. in Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii.

p. 1180.

Elsholtzia japonica, barbinervis, sublanceolata, & stellipila, Mique! Ann.

Mus. Lugd. Bat. vol. ii. p. 103 (Prolus. Japon, p. 35). Franch. § Sav.

Enum. Pl. Japon. vol. i. p. 364.

The genus Comanthosphace was established upon four

species of Japanese plants, first described under Elsholtzia

by Miquel, and subsequently referred (as one species,

on the authority of Maximovicz) to Pogostemon by Bentham.

That the affinity of Comanthosphace is with Pogostemon is,

1 think, unquestionable, as is shown in the structure of

the anthers, but it differs from all species of that genus

in the form of the corolla, which is 5-lobed, and strongly

pilabiate, with a prominent hemispheric lower lip, whereas

in Pogostemon the corolla limb is nearly equally 4-fid. As

Mr. Moore observes, Comanthosphace approaches Elsholtzia

in the form of the corolla which is somewhat two lipped

in that genus; but there is a wide difference between them

in this organ, and a still wider in the anthers, those of

Elsholtzia being ovoid or oblong, and distantly 2-celled,

and the cells 2-valved, while in Comanthosphace, as in

Pogostemon they are subglobose, imperfectly 2-celled, and

2-valved. In his description of the genus Mr. Moore, by

Marcu Isr, 1896.

oversight no doubt, describes the flowers as obscurely

bracteate, but the bracts are very large, as shown in the

figure; they are, however, very caducous.

Comanthosphace japonica was raised at the Royal

Gardens from seeds sent by Professor Sargent, Di: ector

of the Harvard Arboretum, Massachusetts, in 1893: plants

raised from which flowered in the open air in the Kew

Arboretum in October, 1894.

Descr.—A small undershrub, with hoary branches and

inflorescence. Stem 4-gonous. Leaves three to five inches

‘long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, serrate, dark green and

subrugosely reticulated above with sunk nerves, pale

beneath with raised nerves, base narrowed into a short

stout channelled petiole. Spikes terminal, strict, erect,

very shortly peduncled ; rachis stout ; flowers very shortly

pedicelled in small bracteate verticillasters, about half an

inch long; bracts half an inch long, orbicular or ovate, con-

cave, beaked, very caducous, pale brown. Calyx tubular-

campanulate, 5-toothed, green. Corolla very small, yellow,

tube cylindric, girt within with a pubescent ring, lobes

small; upper lip obtusely 4-toothed; lower projecting,

orbicular, concave. Stamens 4, filaments very long, far

exserted, subequal, glabrous; anthers minute, 1-celled,

2-valved. Disk annular. Nucules truncate. Style long,

exserted, stigma 2-fid.—J. D. H. :

Fig. 1, Flower; 2, corolla laid open with stamens; 3 and 4, top of —

filaments with anthers; 5, disk and ovary:—All enlarged.

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DIPODIUM pPatuposum.

Native of the Malayan Peninsula,

Nat. Ord. OrcnipEa#.—Tribe VanpDEZx.

Genus Driropium, Br.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. iii. p. 539.)

Diropium paludosum; caule stricto robusto erecto, foliis distichis erecto-

patentibus strictis ensiformibus acutis carinatis, vaginis equitantibus

costatis, scapo elongato erecto, racemo laxifloro, bracteis parvis ovatis,

ovario elongato, floribus longiuscule pedicellatis albis (intus pallide)

purpureo maculatis, sepalis petalisque consimilibus lineari-oblongis ob-

tusis patulis demum reflexis, labello sepalis #quilongo anguste lan-

ceolato subcymbiforme acuto basi v. altius bidentato conduplicato intus

marginibus costaque medio villosis dorso glabro, columna revi crassa

lateribus rotundatis antice basin versus excavatum pubescente, anthera

parva terminali, polliniis segregatim ope candicularum glandule magne

orbiculari affixis, caudiculis pone pollinia calcaratis.

D. paludosum, Reichb. f. Xen. Orchid. vol. ii. p.15; in Walp. Ana. vol. vi.

p. 648. Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. vi. p. 19. b

: Gade iophylisis paludosum, Griff. Notul. vol. iii. p. 344; Ic. Pl. Asiat. t.

Wailesia paludosa, Reichb. f. in Bonpland (1854), p. 93.

Dipodium is one of a few remarkable genera of Orchids

in which the species are divisible into two groups of

absolutely opposite mode of growth, habit, foliage and

inflorescence, but of similar floral structure. It was

established by Brown on an Australian leafless plant, with

fleshy roots, and no other stem but a scaly flowering scape ;

to which was added by Reichenbach two Malayan plants

with the habit of that here figured. Hxcept some slight

difference in the pollinia, and in the length of the column,

that of the leafless species being much longer than of

the leafy, I can point out no character beyond that of

habit to distinguish these two forms generically. Another

species, D. pictum, Reichb. £., a native of the Malayan

Peninsula, but first described from Java, has an elongate,

scandent, epiphytic stem, from a terrestrial root. — It is

the Leopardanthus scandens of Blume, and, like D. pictum,

has flowers blotched, in this case with crimson. Should

the two forms of the genus be dissociated in name,

Leopardanthus should be taken for the leafy forms,

having precedence by one year (1848) over Wailesia, |

Marcu lar, 1896.

which Lindley proposed (Journ. Hort. Soc. iv. (1849) 262 ;

Pazxt. Mag. Bot. xvi. 321, with fig.) for the plant described

by Blume.

D. paludosum is a native of marshes in the Malayan

Peninsula. There are specimens of it in the Kew

Herbarium from Griffith, who was its discoverer (in or

about 1841), and Perak ones from Wray. Griffith found

it growing in similar localities to those frequented by

several species of Nepenthes, Hypericum and Lycopodium

cernuum.

The specimen here figured was sent in 1893 from the —

Royal Gardens of Glasnevin, Dublin, by their keeper,

F. W. Moore, A.L.S., to Kew, where it flowered in July,

1895, in a stove.

Deser.—Whole plant two to three feet high. Stem

erect, rooting at the base, stout, simple or sparingly

branched, densely leafy. Leaves strict, erecto-patent, ten

to twelve inches long, by an inch broad, ensiform, sub-

acute, distichous, coriaceous, channelled above, keeled

beneath, bright green, margins recurved, articulate upon

the short green sheath which is very strongly ribbed.

Scape axillary, twelve to sixteen inches long with the

raceme which occupies half its length, erect, terete,

smooth, green; sheaths appressed. Flowers loosely

racemed ; bracts very small, ovate, brown. Peduncle with

ovary about an inch long, white, spreading. Perianth

two inches in diameter, very pale straw colour, or nearly ~

white, with small purple blotches in the backs of the .

sepals and petals, which are faintly seen-in front. Sepals —

and petals similar, linear-oblong, spreading and recurved,

subacute, rather fleshy. Lip as long as the petals, elon-

gate cymbiform, two-toothed at the base (the teeth repre-

sent lateral lobes); tip acuminate, recurved; base within

and margins broadly villous, dorsally glabrous, with rows

of purple blotches. Column very short and stout, pubes-

cent in the deeply concave front. Anther small. Pollinia

oblong, each seated on a rather stout pedicel, which is

prolonged into a dorsal spur, and at the base is inserted —

on a large orbicular gland.—J. D. H. |

Fig. 1, Lip; 2

, column; 3 and 4, pollinia :—all enlarged; 5, reduced view —

of whole plant.

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MASSONTA. JASMINIFLORA.

Native of Orange Free State.

Nat. Ord. Littacem.—Tribe ALLIER.

Genus Massonia, Thunb.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 806.)

Massonia jasminiflora ; foliis binis synanthiis patulis humifusis suborbiculari-

bus levibus glabris viridibus verticaliter multistriatis, floribus albis

suaveolentibus in umbellam centralem sessilem dispositis, pedicellis

brevissimis, bracteis membranaceis albis apice viridibus exterioribus

ovatis perianthii tubo brevioribus, perianthii tubo subcylindrico, lobis

ovato-lanceolatis patulis tubo duplo brevioribus, staminibus lobis

brevioribus, filamentis linearibus basi connatis, antheris oblongis parvis.

M. jasminiflora, Hort. Burchell ; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. xi. p. 390.

This genus Massonia, which was named by Thunberg in

commemoration of the botanical explorer, David Masson, is

entirely confined to Cape Colony. About thirty species are

now known, but they are very rarely seen in cultivation.

The present plant was discovered at the beginning of the

century by the celebrated traveller Burchell, but up till now

it has only been known from a single specimen dried from

his garden at Fulham in 1818, and preserved, like the rest

of his Cape and Brasilian plants, in the Kew Herbarium.

It was sent alive to the Royal Gardens in 1892 by the

Rey. F. O. Miles of Almonbury, Bristol, who had received

it-from the Orange Free State. All the species of the genus

agree closely in general habit. This one belongs to a

small group in which the stamens are shorter than the

perianth-lobes. It is probable that it is the plant upon

which Salisbury founded his genus Podocallis.

Deser.—Bulb ovoid, tunicated. Leaves two to a bulb,

spreading on the surface of the ground, suborbicular,

minutely cuspidate two or three inches long and broad,

glabrous, smooth, dull green, with about fifteen distinctly

marked vertical ribs. Umbel sessile in the centre of the

two leaves, many-flowered ; pedicels very short; bracts

ovate, small, membranous, white, tipped with green.

Perianth white; tube subcylindrical, half an inch long;

Marcu Ist, 1896,

lobes ovate-lanceolate, spreading, half as long as the

tube. Stamens inserted at the throat of the perianth-

tube, rather shorter than the lobes; filaments linear,

connate at the base; anthers oblong, small. Ovary am-

pulleform, narrowed gradually into the short style—

J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, Bract; 2, flower, cut open; 3, front view of anther; 4, back view of

anther; 5, pistil; 6, horizontal section of ovary :—AJi enlarged.

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UTRIC ULARIA JANTHINA.

Native of Brazil.

Nat. Ord. LENTIBULARIES. :

Genus Urricuntarm, Linn.; ort & ape f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 987.)

UrRicuLaRia (Oligocista) uitteede folio sie petiolato reniformi ‘adejeelima

_ undulato, seapo 6-8-floro petiolo longiore, bracteis tripartitis pedicellis —

elongatis multoties brevioribus, laciniis lanceolatis intermedio | ngiore,

+ floribus amplis, sepalis subaequalibus | -eymbiformibus - obtusis, corolle -

pallide violacew labio dato valde hemispherico inferiore bilabellato labello _

2 valde

atato transverse oblongo lateribus =

Uz janthina, Hook. £

_. The nearest allied species of Utricularia to U. janthina —

is U. reniformis, St. Hil, and I long hesitated before

venturing to regard the former as anything but a variety, —

differing notably in the colour of the flowers, those of |

U. reniformis being described as rose-colrd., with two

darker lines on the palate; observations which must have

been made on. the living plant by the author, who was

also the discoverer of the species. Nor is it easy to

reconcile the characters of the corollas of the two

plants, that of reniformis being described as having the

lateral lobes broad, the mid-lobe much shorter, and hardly on

| duced. can all: “other respects the two plants seem to

ss ‘coun the | Province of Minas Geraes in Brazil; but —

convexo fasciis 2 aureis verticalibus in- =

upper lip truncate emarginate, the lower 38-lobed, the | ‘:

eal characters. They also inhabit the same — 4

they diffe remarkably i in choice of conditions under which ae

_ they were respectively found, for U. reniformis 3 is described _ .

as inhabiting sphagnous swamps, and U. janthina the

axils of the leaves of a Vriesia, probably V. Glaziovit,

Mr. Sander, by whom U. janthina was introduced into Be :

_ England, infornia me that this and U. longifolia, Gardn., —

_ both grow on Vriesias, and a are 7 saficult oh ee, cs,

- Manxcu 1st, 1896, ; ree ee

for they require that water should frequently be poured

_ over them during the voyage. Also that the Central

_ American and Roraima (Guiana) species are comparatively

much easier of importation: = es

Plants of U.janthina were received at Kew from Messrs.

Sander in 1892. Mr. Watson informs me its first formed

leaves were twice as large as those here figured. It

flowered for the first time in Europe in a stove in the Ro

Gardens, in July, 1895, the scape being eighteen inche

long. ? . ae

3 Spey oo two to four inches in diameter, reniform,

quite entire, undulate, suddenly contracted at the cordate

_ base into a slender dull red petiole four to six inches long,

pale green on both surfaces ; nerves flabellate, very obscure,

_ Scape twice as tall as the petiole, green, about six-flowered,

naked, except for one to two lanceolate, green bracts

about half an inch long. Flowers racemed; pedicels

slender, one to one and a quarter inches long; bracts

h shorter than th els, erect, herbaceous, green,

yes: lat lateral half as long as the —

a ped, obtuse, her- —

broad, quit

_ Spur elongate, incurved

lum, and protruded shortly beyor it. Ovary ovoid; pr

duced into a short, stout style, which is dilated into a

lobed stigma, with a short, incurved, spur-like upper lobe,

and a broad, undulate lower one.—J.D.H.

Fig. 1, Portion of lower lip of corolla, with stamens; 2, ovary :—Both

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POSOQUERIA macropus.

Native of Brazil.

Nat. Ord. Rusracez#.—Tribe GARDENIEX.

Genus Posoqueria, Aubl, ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 83.

PosoqueRIA macropus; ramulis petiolis foliis subtus panicule ramis calyci-

basque pubescentibus, foliis breviter petiolatis ovatis acutis v. acumi-

natis supra lete viridibus inter nervos profunde impressos tumidis, subtus

pallidis nervis prominulis, stipulis triangularibus acutis v. longe

acuminatis, panicula breviter pedunculata multiflora, bracteis minutis,

calycis lobis brevibus obtusis, corollee tubo 5-pollicari, ore villoso, limbi

alabastro-erecti ovoidei lobis pollicaribus lineari-oblongis apice rotun-

datis sinistrorsum contortis, antheris lineari-oblongis connectivo crasso,

eae margine pilosulis, stigmate bicruri cruribus recurvis glandulosis

pllosis. :

P. macropus, Vart. in Flora, xxiv. (1841) Beibl. II. p. 79. Mart. Fl. Bras.

vol. vi. pt. vi. p. 336, t. 140, f. 1.

P. multiflora, Lemaire Illustr. Hortic. vol. xvi. (1869) t. 597.

Posoqueria is a tropical American genus, which is

described as having the limb of the corolla when in

inclined and gibbous; but this is not the case in P.

macropus, nor in several other species which I have

examined. All are shrubs or small trees, most of them

with large glossy very coriaceous leaves. P. macropus is

one of the only two described species in which the leaves

are pubescent beneath. The other is P. palustris, Mart.,

with narrowly oblong leaves, and subcoriaceous calyx-

lobes.

P. macropus was described by Martius in 1841, with

the habitat and collector’s name of ‘* Minas?, Schick.” |

In his great “Flora Brasiliensis,” cited above, the

additional habitats are given of S. Brazil, and Campos of

Rio de Janeiro, Glazivu. More recently it has been

found in the Province of Sta. Catharina, by M. Gautier,

who sent plants of it to Messrs. Verschaffelt of Ghent,

when it was published as P. multiflora, by Lemaire. It

is fairly well figured in the “Flora Brasiliensis,” but

evidently from a poor dried specimen; the corolla lobes

are represented as too narrow, and the hairs at the mouth

are omitted, otherwise the figure is very characteristic.

APRIL Ist, 1896,

- The plant has been for many years in cultivation in the

Royal Gardens, Kew, having in all probability béen

obtained from Messrs. Verschaffelt’s establishment, one of

the oldest surviving correspondents of the Royal Gardens of

Kew. It forms a bush in a tropical house three to four

feet in height, flowering in May. The flowers are very

fragrant.

Descr.—A much-branched bush; branchlets, leaves be-

neath, petioles and branches of the panicle hispidulously _

pubescent. Leaves four to five inches long, shortly —

petioled, ovate or ovate-oblong, subacute, dark green and

glossy above, swollen between the eight to ten pairs of

deeply sunk nerves, paler beneath with raised nerves ; base

rounded; margins recurved; stipules triangular, brown,

acute, or acuminate. Panicle many-fiowered, very shortly

peduncled; branches short, opposite; bracts minute ;

pedicels short, stout. Calyx hispidulous, one-sixth of an

inch long; tube hemispheric; lobes 5, short obtuse.

Corolla pure white; tube five inches long, quite glabrous,

slender, not or obscurely dilated towards the summit, limb

oblong and erect in bud, with the lobes overlapping to |

the left, five-partite, lobes spreading and recurved, linear-

oblong, convex, tip rounded; mouth villous with white

cellular hairs. Stamens five, inserted at the mouth of the

corolla, erect; filaments very short, glabrous; anthers

linear-oblong, margins of the cells villous. Ovary two-

celled, crowned with a fleshy disk; ovules many; style —

very long, filiform; stigma of two revolute, narrow, hispid —

lobes.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Calyx and style; 2, vertical section of calyx and ovary ; 3, portion

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HYPOCYRTA putcura.

Native of New Grenada.

Nat. Ord. Gesneracrem.—Tribe CyRTANDRE.

Genus Hypocyrrra, Mart.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. 11. p. 1010.)

Hyrocrrta pulchra; tota hirtula, caule erecto robusto annulato, foliis

petiolatis ovatis subacutis basi rotundatis v. sub-cordatis serrulatis,

supra fusco-viridibus bullatis setulosis (setulis albidis tuberculis globosis

insertis) nervis arcoatis utrinque 10-12 pallidioribus, subtus rubris nervis

nervulicque prominulis hirtellis reticulatis, petiolo terete valido, pedun-

culis solitariis axillaribus petiolis longioribus erectis validis superne

incrassatis, sepalis amplis late ovatis cinnabariuis costa valida, corolla

calyce duplo longiore ampullewformi hirsuta, tubo basi gibbo flavido, ore

constricto, lobis 5 parvis cinnabariais recurvis, staminibus 4, filamentis

superne tortis basi dilatatis et in vaginam postice fissam basi corolle

insertam confluentibus, antheris didymis, disco erecto postico, ovario

hirsuto, stylo glabro., :

H. pulchra, N. EF. Br. in Gard. Chron. (1894) vol. ii: p. 244; in Kew

Bulletin, 1895, App. II. p. 44. :

Of the eighteen or twenty known species of Hypocyrta,

none equal H. pulchra in brilliancy of colouring. Some

idea of the more usual appearance presented. by the species

may be gained by a reference to two published in this

magazine, H. strigillosa, Mart. t. 4047, and H. glabra,

Hook. t. 4346. These, like H. pulchra, are plants of erect

habit with opposite leaves, solitary axillary flowers, large

sepals, and an urceolate more or less gibbous corolla with

a constricted mouth and small recurved lobes. All have

the filaments dilated at the base and confluent in a broad

lamina. Of two other plants published in this magazine

as belonging to Hypocyrta, one, H. gracilis, Mart., belongs

to the genus Codononthe, Hanst., and the other, H. leuco-

stoma, Hook., to Besleria.

The nature of the very short pubescence of the upper

surface of the leaves of H. pulchra is very curious (see fig.

1). The whole epidermis is covered with close-set minute

globose papillz each surmounted by a short bristle.

: Hypocyrta pulchra is a native of New Grenada, whence

it was imported by Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, from whom

the plant figured was obtained. It flowered in a stove of

the Royal Gardens in June, 1895.

Arnit Ist, 1896,

Descr.—Stem very stout, erect, columnar, five inches

high, and haJf an inch in diameter in the specimen figured,

annulate, with minute buds at the lower nodes, dull grey

green below, clouded with pale brown, vinous red above,

and minutely pubescent. Leaves four to five by three and

a half inches, ovate, subacute, base cordate, rather

fleshy, serrulate; upper surface bullate, dull green, clouded

with brown, and clothed with tubercle-based setule; beneath

vinous-red hispidulous, lacunose, midrib pale above;

nerves about twelve pairs, arching, sunk above, very pro-

minent beneath, with prominent reticulating nervules ;

petiole about half an inch long, very stout, vinous red.

Flowers axillary, solitary. Pedicels one to one and a half

inch long, erect, stout, pubescent, rather thickened up-

ward, scarlet. Sepals half an inch long, ovate-cordate,

erect, pubescent, scarlet. Corolla nearly an inch long,

urceolate, hirsute except at the glabrous base, pale yellow ;

mouth constricted, lobes very short, broadly ovate, re-

curved, scarlet. Filaments dilated below, and confluent in .

a deep lamina. Disk oblong, placed behind the ovary.

Ovary pubescent; style glabrous; stigma capitate, his-

pidulous.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Superficial papillae and hairs of the leaf: 2, corolla; 3, base of

-eorolla and stamens; 5, ovary and disk :—Al/ enlarged. : Oe gees

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OLYRA coNCcINNA,

Native of Costa Rica.

Nat. Ord. GramMinE&.—Tribe PanicEz.

Genus Otyra, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 1110.)

OLYRA concinna; gramen nanum, dense czespitosum, glaberrimum, culmis

filiformibus simplicibus decurvis pendulisque foliosis, foliis omnibus

conformibus confertis distichis parvulis ovatis cuspidato-acuminatis

inzequilateris basi rotundatis marginibus ciliolatis, costa tenui, nervis

creberrimis, vaginis lamina multoties brevioribus apice 2-auriculatis,

auricula altera longius producta, ligula brevi rotundata, spicis axillaribus

et terminalibus brevibus, rachi filiformi stricta, spiculis 3, fem. 2

brevissime pedicellatis majusculis altera basi altera apice racheos elongate

inserta, masc. solitaria minuta basi spice inserta longe pedicellata : spic.

masc.: gluma solitaria oblonga obtusa 1-nervi, palea glumx zquilo

binervi, staminibus 3, lodiculis 3 minimis; spic. fem.: glumis 3, I et I

lanceolatis acuminatis 3-nerviis herbaceis, III paulo breviore breviter

stipitata obtusiuscula coriacea pallida marginibus involutis, palea glamz

fere 2quilonga, lodiculis 3 ovato-rotundatis, ovario in stylum elongatum

capillarem angustato, stigmatibus 2 brevibus.

O. concinna, Hook. f.

Olyra is rather a large genus of tropical grasses, all

except one or two African, being American, It is re-

markable for the great variety it displays in habit, foliage,

inflorescence, and sexuality of the spikes, and in the forms

of the spikelets and their glumes, which has necessitated

the lengthy description given above. The majority of the

species are tall, often branched, or even suffruticose plants,

with broad, flat, coriaceous leaves often petioled on their

sheaths ; but a few are of the humble growth of O. concinna.

Amongst the latter I find none described to which O. con-

cinna could be referred, but there is in the Kew Herbarium

a flowerless specimen of a species which, if not the same,

must be very closely allied to it. This last differs in having

rather longer and narrower leaves, and somewhat hairy leaf-

sheaths; it was found by Dr. Traill, F.R.S. (now Professor

of Botany at Aberdeen) in the Rio Jarua, an affluent of

the Upper Amazons river, in 1874. Of the described

ecies the nearest in habit and foliage to O. concinna is

lypodioides, Trin. (Doell in Mart. Fl. Bras. i. 11, 327,

1896.

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t. 45, f. 1), which, with similar habit, differs totally in

inflorescence and spikelets. : “4

O. concinna arrived at the Royal Gardens, Kew, in

1891, in a box of filmy-ferns, sent by Mr. C. Winkle, from

San José in Costa Rica. It flowered in January, 1895, and

forms a very elegant evergreen pot-plant.

Descr.—A dwarf, densely tufted, perennial grass, quite

glabrous. Stems six to ten inches long, filiform, at first

erect, then decurved and drooping, clothed with leaves,

except the erect basal portion. Leaves an inch long, uni- _

form in disposition and form throughout the stems, dis- —

tichous, sessile in the very short sheaths, almost imbri-

cating, ovate, cuspidately acuminate, unequal-sided, striate

with close-set nerves, midrib faint, base rounded, margins

ciliolate, dark green above, often at length rufous

towards the tips, pale beneath; sheaths slightly com-

pressed, mouth unequally two-auricled, ligule short,

rounded. Spikes rather shorter than the leaves, terminal

and axillary; peduncle enclosed in the leaf-sheaths and

rachis very slender, strict, rigid, compressed. Spikelets

three, two fem. and one male. Jem. spikelets very distant,

one at the top, the other half an inch below it at the base

of the spike, lanceolate, about half an inch long; gl. I

and II herbaceous, lanceolate, acuminate, 3-nerved, margins

incurved, III shortly stipitate, coriaceous, margins in-

volute; palea like the gl. but *ather shorter and

narrower. Lodicules 8. Style very long and slender,

stigmas short. Male spikelets solitary in a long filiform

pedicel inserted at the base of the lower fem. spikelet ;

very minute; gl. solitary, 1-nerved; stamens 3, with 3

minute lodicules at their bases.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Leaf and spike; 2, male spikelet; 3, its glume; 4, stamens and

lodicules; 5, fem. spikelets with gl. I removed; 6, palea; 7, stipes of gl. III

with lodicules and style and stigmas; 8, lodicule :—A/I enlarged,

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CATASETUM Ranpu (Masc.).

Native of Brazil.

Nat. Ord. OrncHIDEZ.—Tribe VanDEx.

Genus Catasetum, Rich.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p.537.)

Carasetum (Myanthus) Randii (Masc ); pseudobulbis oblongis, foliis oblongo-

lanceolatis acuminatis, scapo ascendente plurivaginato vaginis brevibus

obtusis, racemo masculo erecto multifloro ; floribus masculis 2% poll. latis,

sepalis petalisque subconsimilibus patentibus lanceolatis acutis subun-

dulatis marginibus incurvis pallide viridibus purpureo-macalatis, labello

parvo infero trilobo, lobis lateralibus brevibus fimbriatis, basi inter lobos

laterales crista compressa erecta lamellata lamellis fimbriatis instructo,

lobo terminali angusto lineari porrecto basi dilatato et dorso tumido-

marginibus fimbriatis, dein integro apice truncato denticulato,

disco basin versus setis elongatis nicillato, columna clavata tereti,

antennis deflexis incurvis, anthera longe rostrata, polliniis obovoideis,

caudicula lineari, glandula orbiculari floribus fom. subglobosis, sepalis

petalisque oblongis recurvis, labello supero urceolari hemispherico,

columna brevissima crassa rostrata.

C. Randii, Rolfe in Kew Bulletin, 1894, p. 394; 1895, App. IT. p. 36.

Mr. Rolfe, who first distinguished and published this

species, observes that its nearest, and indeed very near

ally, is (as a reference to the figures at t. 7069 of this maga-

zine shows) C. Garnettianum, Rolfe, a native also of the

Amazons. Indeed, except from its much larger size, more

spotted perianth, and the far more complicated appendages

of the lip, Randii might be regarded as an exaggerated and

more highly developed form of Garnettianum, which suggests

that intermediates connecting them may be discovered.

The pollinia of the two are identical. Under the above

cited plate I have described the affinities of Garnettianum

with its other allies, to which I must refer for information

on this point in respect of C. Randii. I have in the same

article given Mr. Rolfe’s sections of the genus Catasetum,

founded on their sexuality and the position of the lip; where

these dicecious species with deflexed antenne on the male

column, an anticous lip of the male, and a posticous lip of

Apxit Ist, 1896.

the female, form the section Myanthus. This, of course,

includes both Randii and Garneitianum.

The drawing of the male plant here reproduced, was

made from a specimen sent by E. S. Rand, Esq., of Para,

to whom the Royal Gardens are also indebted for (.

Lemosit, Rolfe, figured at Tab. 7444, It arrived in 1894,

and flowered in a stove in March, 1895, Figure 5, represent-

ing a female flower, was drawn from a specimen preserved

in alcohol, also sent by Mr. Rand. The precise habitat of

both is the Upper Amazons, above Manaos. ee

Descr.—Marz prant. Pseudobulbs about four inches

long, oblong, obtuse, compressed, sulcate. Scape four to

five inches long, ascending, stout, with four to five short

tubular obtuse sheaths. Raceme many-fid., inclined,

flowers rather crowded, about two and a half inches broad.

Bracts lanceolate, lower half an inch long; pedicels with

Ovary spreading, about twice as long as the bracts.

Sepals spreading, lanceolate, acute, with incurved margins,

rather flexuous, pale apple-green, with small transverse,

purple-brown spots. Petals like the sepals, erect, with

recurved tips. Lip not half as long as the sepals, three-

lobed ; lateral lobes short, broad, deeply fimbriate, with a

large erect lamellate and fimbriate crest on the disk of

the lip between them; mid-lobe longer than the lateral,

dilated and fimbriate on each side towards its base, then

linear, truncate and crenate at the tip, base with a large

dorsal rounded knob, disk towards the base with a brush of

long fleshy filaments. Column stout, terete, speckled with

purple, beaked at the tip; antennz deflexed, and a little

incurved. Anther long-beaked. Pollinia obovoid, caudicle

jinear ; gland orbicular.—Fem. piant; flower subglobose ;

sepals and petals linear-oblong, revolute ; lip posticous,

pitcher-shaped ; column very short and stout, cuspidate.—

J.D), H,

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PHALERIA ampigaua.

Native of Java.

Nat. Ord. ToymeL#acra.—Tribe PHALERIES.

Genns Paaterta, Jack.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 199.)

PuHaLeRIa ambigua; arbuscula scandens, glabra, ramulis teretibus fuscis,

foliis breviter petiolatis ellipticis apice cuspidato-acuminatis base

acutis, nervis utrinque ad sex, nervulis gracillimis, supra saturate

subtus pallide viridibus, capitulis axillaribus et pseudo-terminalibus

_ sessilibus multi-densifloris, involucri foliolis ovato-oblongis obtusis -viri-

dibus, floribus albis flavo pallide suffusis puberulis, perianthii tubo 3-

pollicari gracili superne vix ampliato, limbi lobis f oliisaribas late

ovatis apice rotundatis, staminibus 8, filamentis filiformibus glabris v.

ima basi puberulis lobis perianthii longioribus 4 fauci 4 ore corolle insertis

erectis antheris parvis connectivo dorso glanduloso.

Drymispermum ambiguum, Meissn. in DO. Prodr. vol. xiv. p, 605. Miquel

_ Fl. Ind. Bat. vol. i. p. 886. ;

D. lancifolium, Zoll. Cat. Verz. vol. ii. p. 117.

The species of Phaleria are extremely difficult of dis-

crimination, from Herbarium specimens especially, and the

Javanese botanists have, in the magnificent Botanical

Gardens and Herbarium of Buitenzong, the only full

materials for the elucidation of its Malayan members.

One has been figured in this work, P. lawrifolia, Benth.,

Tab. 5787, Drymispermum laurifolium (Decne.), from a

plant received from the Botanical Gardens of Ceylon, and

which came from Buitenzorg, under the latter name;

though its correctness is far from satisfactorily established,

as pointed out by Bentham in the “ Flora Australiensis ”

(vol. vi. p. 38). P. ambigua, here figured, was sent, so

named, to the Royal Gardens, Kew, from those'of Buiten-

zorg in 1894, but it does not altogether agree with

Meissner’s description of that plant, which has an eight-

flowered head, and nine to fifteen pairs of nerves in the

leaf, characters of relative importance probably, and not

specific. In so far as I can ascertain from the published

descriptions and Herbarium specimens, the plant here

figured (whether or no rightly named) differs from all other

Arrit Ist, 1896,

hitherto described. Upwards of twenty species of the genus

are known, all, with the exception of an Indian one, natives

of the Malayan Archipelago, Australia, and the Pacific

Islands; some of them under the generic name of Drimy-

spermum, Reinwardt (altered to Drymispermum by Reichen-

bach) all agree in the short involucral leaves, numerous

flowers in a head, broadly ovate pubescent perianth-

lobes, and perhaps also in the climbing habit, which last

character, however, I do not find to be attributed to the

genus, or to any described species of it except P. ambigua.

The Royal Gardens, Kew, are indebted to Dr. Treub,

Director of the Buitenzorg Botanical Gardens, for many

interesting plants, including the above, which flowered in

a stove in May of the present year, and was, like its

allies the Daphnes, deliciously fragrant.

Descr.—A climbing, glabrous shrub, branches terete,

bark brown. JLLeaves four to five inches long, shortly

petioled, elliptic, cuspidately acuminate, base acute, light

green above, pale and yellower beneath, nerves about. six

pairs, rather slender. Heads of twelve to fifteen flowers,

axillary, and subterminal ; involucral bracts ovate, obtuse,

herbaceous, green. Perianth pure white, or faintly flushed

with dull yellow, minutely pubescent; tube three-quarters

of an inch long, slender, hardly dilated upwards; limb as ~

broad across the broadly ovate obtuse lobes. Stamens eight,

four inserted in the throat of the perianth, and four at the

mouth; filaments rather longer than the perianth-lobes,

slender, erect, faintly pubescent at their insertion; anthers

all reaching the same level, very small, broadly oblong ; con-

nective dorsally thickened and glandular. Disk crenulate.

Ovary very small, ovoid, style slender ; stigma nearly on a

level with the anthers, very large, depressed-capitate.—

d,s

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OSTROWSKIA MAGNIFICA.

Native of Central Asia.

Nat. Ord. Campanunacex.—Tribe CAMPANULEA.

Genus Ostrowsxia; (Regel in Act. Hort, Petrop. vol. viii. (1884) p. 686, t. 1.)

OstRowsKIa magnifica; radice tuberoso, caule 3-5-pedali simplici robusto

fistuloso, foliis breviter petiolatis verticillatis ovatis dentatis, floribus

amplis in racemum terminalem pauciflorum dispositis erectis, calycis

tubo turbinato sulcis per a limbi laciniis alternantibus in-

structo, limbi lobis 5-9 lineari-lanceolatis, corolla late campanulata, tubo

15-24 costato, lobis 5-9 brevibus latis, staminibus 5-9, filamentis brevibus

basi dilatatis et pilosis, antheris lineari-elongatis demum tortis, ovario

5-9-loculare, stylo crasso, stigmatibus 5-9 linearibus recurvis primum

in columnam fusiformem cohwrentibus, capsula pergamenea turbinata poris

lateralibus magnis oblongis dehiscente, seminibus ovoideis compressis

anguste alatis.

O. magnifica, Regel Deser. Pl. Nov. fase. ix. (1884) p. 46, t. 1. Gartenfl. vol.

xxxvi. (1887) p. 639, fig. 160. André Rev. Hortic. (1888) p. 344, f. 72;

(1893) p. 348. Gard. Chron. (1888) vol. ii. p. 65, f. 6. Illustr. Hortic.

vol. xxxv. t.71. Journ. Hortic. Ser. II. vol. xxvii. 1893, p. 5385. Le

Jardin (1888) p. 175.

This stately plant is one of the many botanical dis-

coveries in Central Asia made by Albert, son of the late

Dr. de Regel, so long the able and energetic Director

of the Imperial Botanical Gardens of St. Petersburgh.

During a long residence in Western Turkestan, where he

served in the Imperial Army, and made some remarkable

exploratory journeys, the then young Albert Regel devoted

himself with great success to enriching the collections

under his father’s charge, and Ostrowskia is one of the most

striking of the results of his labours. Its precise locality

is the Khanat of Dharwar in Eastern Bokhara, where it was

found at an elevation of 7000 ft. above the sea.

Botanically Ostrowskia is almost too closely allied to Cam-

panula, from which it is distinguished by the whorled leaves,

the numerous divisions of the calyx and lobes of the corolla

of the cells of the ovary and stigmas, and by the pores

of dehiscence of the capsule being double the sepals in num-

ber. Ostrowskia, as Dr. de Regel states, commemorates

May Ist, 1896,

the services of an illustrious patron of science, N. ab

Ostrowsky.

The drawing of this noble plant was made from a

specimen kindly communicated by F. Ducane Godman,

Esq., F.R.S., in whose rich garden at South Lodge,

Horsham, it flowered in June, 1895. It was one of eight

stems about five feet high, borne on the same plant.

Plants of it had flowered in the Rock Garden of Kew

some years previously, and in many continental gardens.

Descr.—A tall, strict, stout, erect, glabrous herb. oot

tuberous. Stem four to five feet high, as thick as a goose-

quill, quite simple, terete, pale green speckled with red-

brown. Leaves in distant whorls of four to five, except

the lowest, which are opposite, four to six inches long,

ovate, acute, toothed, narrowed into a short winged petiole,

pale green, subrugose above; midrib and five to six pairs

of nerves prominent beneath. lowers three to six, in a

terminal corymbiform raceme; pedicels stout, erect, terete,

bracteate at the base and middle; bracts small, lanceolate,

acute, withering. Flowers erect, very large, four inches 2s

across the mouth of the corolla. Caiyz-tube turbinate,

with a pair of oblong parallel depressions between the

lobes ; lobes two inches long, linear-lanceolate, acuminate,

green, spreading and recurved. Corolla broadly cam-

panulate, pale lilac; tube two inches. long, terete, with

three ribs opposite each lobe; lobes very short, broadly

triangular, broader than long, spreading and recurved.

Stamens as many as the calyx lobes, very short ; filaments

short, flat, suddenly dilated into a fleshy, hairy, tumid

base ; anthers very narrow, half an inch long, at le

twisted. Ovary 5—9-celled, style very stout, short, pubes

cent; stigmas 5-9, at first coherent in a fusiform column.

Capsule turbinately pyriform, crowned with the calyx-

lobes, dehiscing, by 10-24 lateral pores. Seeds ovoid,

compressed, narrowly winged—J. D. A.

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PITTOSPORUM sriocarpum. ‘

Native of the Himalaya.

Nat. Ord. PrrrosporE2.

Genus Pitrosporum, Banks; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 131.)

PITTOSPORUM ertocarpum ; arbor parva, ramulis subverticillatis, foliis junioribus

et inflorescentia floccoso-tomentosis, foliis ovatis oblongis v. oblongo-

obovatis obtusis acutisve basi cuneatis utrinque tomentosis supra demum

glabratis costa subtus nervisque utrinque 12-15 validis, paniculis ad

apices ramulorum corymbosis breviter pedunculatis multifloris, floribus

breviter pedicellatis, sepalis ovatis ovato-lanceolatisve tomentosis,

corolle flaves petalis in tubum sepalis quadruplo breviorem cohzrentibus, —

ovario tomentoso, capsula globosa tomentosa polysperma, valvis lignosis.

P. eriocarpum, Royle Illustr. Bot. Himal.p. 77. Hook. f. Fl.-Brit. Ind. vol. i,

p- 199. Brandis, For. Flor. N.W. Ind. 19,

Pittosporum, Wall. Oat. n. 8129, 8131,

Solanum? Wall.Cat. n. 9074.

The genus Pittosporwm contains not a few handsome

shrubs and small trees that, but for the winter cold of

England, should thrive in our gardens. Of these only

four, as appears from the ‘‘ Handbook of the Kew Arbore-

tum,” have as yet been introduced into Kew, and proved

more or less hardy. They are the long established P.

Tobira, Ait., of China and Japan-(Plate 1396) ; P. crassi-

folium, Soland. (Plate 5978) which flourishes in the south-

west of England, and especially in the Scilly Islds.; P.

_undulatum, Vent. of 8.W. Australia; and P. tenuifolium,

Banks and Sol. of New Zealand, which is certainly the

hardiest of the four, as it well may be, from its inhabiting

_ the whole length of the New Zealand islands as far south

as Otago. oe: |

P. eriocarpum is a native of the Western Himalaya in

the provinces of Kumaon and Garwhal, at elevations of

3000-5000 ft. Of the ten Indian species it is the only

one that may prove hardy in this country, especially if the

seeds were obtained from plants at the highest level of its

range. Of the twelve or more New Zealand species there

May Isr, 1896,

are several of the mountain regions of the Southern Island,

that might succeed in England.

The specimen here figured of Puttosporum ertocarpum

was sent to be named at the Herbarium of the Royal

Gardens, Kew, by Thos. Hanbury, Esq., F.L.S., from his

celebrated garden of the Palazzo Orengo, La Mortola; _

and there was no difficulty in identifying it with the above

named Himalayan plant. The flowers were rather heavily

sweet-scented.

Deser.—A small tree, ten feet high or more; branches

spreading, more or less whorled; branchlets, young leayes

and panicles covered with a white flocculent deciduous —

tomentum that adheres for some time along the midrib

and nerves of the leaves above. Leaves three to six inches.

long, shortly petioled, very variable in shape from obovate-

oblong to ovate-lanceolate, narrowed to an obtuse tip,

coriaceous, at length glabrous and dark green above, be-

neath pubescent, with a pale brown tomentum ; midrib

and twelve to fifteen pairs of nerves strong beneath ;

petiole half an inch long, stout. Flowers in terminal

panicles that are corymbosely collected at the extremities

of the branches, golden yellow, sweet-scented. Panicles

two to three inches long, shortly peduncled; branches

and branchlets short, stout, tomentose; bracteoles at the

base of the pedicels minute. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, sub-

acute, tomentose, three-fourths shorter than the corolla-

tube. Corolla-tube a third of an inch long; lobes ovate,

recurved, not half as long as the tube. Filaments glabrous ;

anthers linear, red-brown. Ovary tomentose, style stout. _

Capsule half an inch in diameter, globose, woody, many-

seeded, crowned with the persistent style.—J. D. H. , a

Fig. 1, Flower with the corolla removed; 2 and 3) stamens; 4, ovary;

5, transverse section of do,:—A/l ealarged; 6, capsules from the Herbarium,

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COCHLIODA Nozztrana.

Native of Peru.

Nat. Ord. OncuwpEa.—Tribe Vanvex.

Genus Cocutiopa, Lindl.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 560.)

Cocuttopa Noezliana; pseudobulbis confertis ovoideo-oblongis compressis

rugulosis, folio sessili lineari-oblongo obtuso carinato, scapo suberecto

plurivaginato, racemo elongato nutante laxe multifloro, bracteis pedi-

cellis duplo brevioribus, floribus 1-1} poll. latis roseis, sepalis late ovatis

acutis, dorsali erecto, lateralibus recurvis v. fere revolutis, petalis

angustioribus oblanceolatis rectis, labello sepalis breviore, ungue erecto

column adnato, lobis lateralibus rotundatis reflexis, lobo medio obcordato

deflexo, disco callis 2 lineari-oblongis instructo, columna leyiter incurva,

clinandrio membrana angusta 3-loba circumdato, anthera subhemispherica

obscure rostrata, polliniis oblongis stipite crassiusculo obovato, glandula

depressa postice appendiculata.

C. Noezliana, Rolfe in Lindenia, vol. vi. (1891) p. 55, t. 266. Orchidophile

(1892) 272 (Noetylana). Rev. Hortic. Belg. vol. xviii. (1892) p. 49, t. 5.

Werner Orchid. Alb. vol. xi. t. 509. Gartenfl. (1894) t. 1403. Gard.

Chron, (1894) vol. ii. p. 71, fig. 11. Vettch Man. Orchid. Pt. ix. p. 187.

Odontoglossum Noezlianum, Hort. ex Gard, Chron, (1892) vol. ii. p. 570,

602. Journ. des Orchid. vol. i. p. 294.

The characters and limits as then known of the genus

Cochlioda were first accurately determined by Bentham,

and laid down by him in the “ Genera Plantarum,” where,

to the solitary species on which Lindley founded the genus,

five are added, most of them taken out of Mesospinidium and

Odontoglossum. Three of these have been already figured

in this work as Odontoglossum roseum, Lindl. (Plate 6084) ;

Mesospinidium sanguinewm, Reichb. f. (Plate 5627); and

M. vulcanicum, Reichb. f. (t. 6001). All are natives of

Peru or Ecuador, and all, including C. Noezliana, are in

cultivation at Kew.

C. Noezliana was discovered by Mr. John Noezli, and

sent by him in 1891 to Messrs. Linden, by whom it was

distributed. It has also been independently introduced

‘into England by Messrs. Charlesworth, Shuttleworth and

Company, who informed Messrs. Veitch that it was col-

lected in Northern Peru, near the locality in which C.

vulcanica is found. The latter plant was discovered by

Spruce in 1871, on the volcanic mountain of Tunguragua,

May Ist, 1896.

_ where it grows amongst the scoriz of the crater at 10,000—

11,000 ft. elevation. The specimen of OC. Noezliana here

figured was purchased at an auction sale in London, and

flowered in a cool house of the Royal Gardens in July,

1895.

Descr.—Pseudobulbs clustered, one and a half inch long,

oblong, compressed, dark blueish green, wrinkled. Leaf

solitary, three to four inches long by nearly one broad,

linear-oblong, narrowed at the base, but not petioled,

obtuse, dorsally keeled, bright green above, paler beneath.

Scape six inches long or more, slender, inclined, purplish

green, with many lanceolate sheaths about half an inch

long. aceme six inches long, inclined or drooping, loosely

many-fid.; bracts lanceolate, not half the length of the

pedicels, which are half to three-fourths of an inch long.

Flowers an inch and a quarter in diameter, dark rose-red,

suffused -with golden-yellow on the tip. Sepals free,

broadly ovate, dorsal erect, lateral recurved, almost revo-

lute. Petals narrower, oblanceolate, spreading. Lip

shorter than the sepals; claw adnate to the column, limb

deflexed, lateral lobes rounded, recurved, midlobe obcor-

date; disk with two parallel linear-oblong golden-yellow

calli. Column elongate, arched; clinandrium broad, girt

with a narrow 3-lobed crest or wing. Anther hemi-

spheric.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Front view of column and lip; 2, back view of do.; anther; 4and

5, pollinia :—All enlarged.

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COFFEA stTENOPHYLLA.

Native of Sierra Leone.

Nat. Ord. Rusracez.—Tribe [xonEz.

Genus Correa, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 114.)

Correa stenophylla; foliis breviter petiolatis ovato- v. oblongo-lanceolatis

- oblanceolatisve obtuse caudato-acuminatis glaberrimis lucidis nervis

gracilibus axillis glandulosis, stipulis triangulari-ovatis acuminatis,

floribus axillaribus et terminalibus brevissime pedicellatis, bracteis

linearibus, calycis margine brevissimo eroso, corolla tubo lobis 6-10

linearibus stellatim patentibus multo breviore, staminibus 6-10 fila-

mentis brevibus erectis, antheris elongatis lineari-subulatis baccis

globosis.

C. stenophylla, G. Don Gen. Syst. Gard. vol. iii. p. 581. Hiern, in Oliver, Fl.

Trop. Afric. vol. iii. p. 182. Kew Bulletin, 1893, p. 167.

_ C. arabica, Benth. in Hook. Niger Flora, p. 413, in part.

Coffea stenophylla is an interesting plant, as being one

of the two* indigenous West African species which, in

point of commercial value, may prove a formidable rival

of the Arabian. It was discovered by Afzelius upwards

of acentury ago; but was not published till 1834, when G.

Don described it from specimens collected by himself at

Sierra Leone. It was regarded by Bentham, perhaps

rightly, in the ‘‘ Niger Flora” as a variety of OC. arabica

(Plate 1303). The following notice of its oecurrence in

West Africa is extracted from the report of Mr. G. F.

Scott Elliott, F.L.S., on the Botany of the Sierra Leone

district traversed by the Anglo-French Boundary Commis-

sion in 1892, issued by the Colonial Office, and reproduced

in the Kew Bulletin l. c.

** Coffea stenophylla, the narrow-leaved ‘ wild,’ ‘bush,’

or ‘native Coffee,’ is sometimes found wild in the hills,

and is more often cultivated than the Liberian. It grows

very freely, and appears to yield quite as much as the

Liberian, but is somewhat longer in coming into bearing.

* CO. liberica, Bull.; Hiern, |. ¢.

May Ist, 1896.

Both the natives and French traders at Freetown say that

it has a superior flavour, and prefer it to the Liberian. In

fact, latterly a certain amount has been exported to a

wholesale French dealer, who is said to sell it at 4 frs. 50

cents. a lb. as ‘best Mocha.’ Considering that it is

worth at Freetown 6d. a Ib. this should be a fairly pro-

fitable trade, and a trial shipment should be made by the

English merchants to find out exactly what the market

value in Liverpool would be. The plant appears to thrive

best in the higher hills about Sierra Leone on gneissose or

granitic soil, and can be grown at from 500 to 2000 ft.”

Mr. Scott Elliott’s specimens are of a very slender

state, with lanceolate leaves only two to two and a half

inches long by one-third of an inch to two-thirds of an

inch broad, very different from that here represented, and

these together favour the opinion entertained by Bentham,

that both are forms of C. arabica, Linn.

Coffea stenophylla was raised at the Royal Gardens, Kew,

from seeds sent in May, 1894, by Sir W. H. Quayle Jones,

late Chief Justice of the West African Settlements, and

acting Governor of Sierra Leone, and the plant here figured

was raised therefrom, and flowered as early as September,

1895, in a tropical house. Supplies of the seed have been

distributed from Kew to the Botanical Gardens of India

and the Colonies, from whence, if the plant resists the

coffee disease, and proves to be as excellent a coffee as

the French merchants declare it to be, good results may

be expected.

Deser.—An evergreen shrub, or small tree, up to twenty

ft. high, perfectly glabrous, with brownish bark, and ©

green, terete branches; youngest leaf-shoots and leaycs _

pink. Leaves four to six inches long by one to one

and a half inches broad, shortly petioled, ovate- or

oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate, obtusely caudate-acumi-

nate, bright green and glossy, paler beneath; nerves six

to ten pairs, very slender, with small vlands at the axils,

which are white, and perforated in the upper surface,

green on the under; stipules triangular-ovate, acuminate.

Flowers very shortly peduncled, solitary or 3-nate, ter-

minal and axillary, one to one and a half inch across the

corolla-lobes; bracts linear, caducous. Calyx limb erose.

Corolla-tube about a third of an inch long, lobes 6-10,

linear, obtuse, stellately Spreading. Stamens 6-10; anthers

linear-subulate. Berry half an inch in diameter, globose.

Seeds hemispheric, with a narrow ventral furrow.—

wo:

Fig. 1, Portion of leaf, showing upper surface and glands; 2, ovary, style

and stigmas ; 3, portion of corolla with stamens laid open; 4, vertical section

of ovary, exposing ovules; 5, berry (from the Kew Museum) ; 6, seeds; 7, trans-

verse section of seed; 8, vertical section of do, ; 9, embryo:—All but No. 5

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MASDEVALLIA cornicutara, var. INPLATA.

Native of New Grenada.

Nat. Ord. Orncuiprx.—Tribe EpIpENDRER.

Genus Maspevatiia, Ruiz § Pav.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii.

p- 492.)

Maspevatiia (Cucullata) corniculata, var. inflata; folio oblongo obtuso in

petiolum sulcatum angustatosubtus carinato, bractea ampla tuboperianthii

gquilonga cymbiformi rostrata viridi; corolle aurantiace tubo inflato

urceolari 6-costato extus et intus rubro punctulato, lobis aureis e basi -

triangulari longe filiferis, petalis erectis carnosulis lanceolatis basi in-

wquilateris apices versus dentatis, labello petalis zquilongo breviter

crasse unguiculato lanceolato obscure 3-lobo disco papilloso apice denti-

culato, columna gracili, anthera apice truncata 2-dentata, ovario 3-alato,

alis undulatis.

R. inflata, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. (1881) vol. ii. p. 716. Godefroy in

Orchidophile (1881) p. 172.

R. corniculata var. inflata, Veitch Man. Orchid. pt. v. p. 37.

Masdevallia corniculata belongs to a small group of the

genus characterized by the solitary leaf-stalk and 1-fid.

scape being enclosed in a long tubular scarious sheath, and

by the very large cymbiform green bract that arches over the

flower. Up to the present time only two other species of

the group are known, WM. cucullata, Lindl., and M.

macroura, Reichb. f. All are natives of the temperate:

regions of the New Grenadan Cordillera. M. corniculata

was introduced in 1877 by Messrs. Backhouse, and is well

_ figured in the Marquess of Lothian’s fine work, ‘ The

_ Genus Masdevallia,” in which unfortunately the plates are

not numbered, or the descriptions paged. A reference to

that figure shows that var. inflata differs from it most

conspicuously in the paler colour, and much smaller spots

_ of the perianth, and in the broader perianth-lobes, which

are of a golden-yellow colour within, not orange-brown

bordered with yellow, as in the figure cited of M. corni-

culata. The lip, too, is more narrowed to the toothed

apex, and has rounded (not acute) side-lobes. The var.

inflata first appeared in Mr. Bull’s collection in 1881, and

May Ist, 1896,

a specimen of it was sent in 1887 to the Herbarium of the

Royal Gardens by Mr. Moore from the rich orchid collec-

tion of Glasnevin. The plant figured was presented to Kew

in 1891 by 8S. Courtauld,. Esq., of Braintree, where it

has flowered annually in a cool house in the month of

October.

Descr.—Stems tufted, very short ; petiole enclosed for

half its length in three superposed scarious, tubular

cylindric sheaths, with truncate mouths, of which the lower

are short, the uppermost an inch long, more inflated, and

half an inch in diameter. Leaf solitary, three to five

inches long, by one to one and a quarter inches broad,

linear-oblong, obtuse, coriaceous, channelled above, and

bright green, paler beneath, with a prominent keel, nerve-

less till dried, then 5-nerved, base narrowed into a stout

channelled petiole two inches long, enclosed for the most

part in the sheaths of the stem. Scape three inches long,

stout, erect, 1-fld., enclosed for half its length in the

upper sheath of the stem, and with minute sheathing

bracts at its base. Bract cymbiform, beaked, one and a

half inches long, erect, green, base rounded. Corolla-

tube urceolate, base gibbous in front, 6-ribbed, orange-

yellow, speckled with red without and within; limb yellow,

of three triangular-ovate lobes tapering into slender tails

one and a half to two inches long, upper erect, two lower

pendulous flexuous. Petals erect, lanceolate, margins un-

dulate, shortly broadly unguiculate, toothed towards the

tip, base excised in front. Lip erect, shortly clawed,

lanceolate, dilated in the lower half, papillose, tip toothed.

Column rather slender ; anther truncate and 2-toothed in

front.—J. D. H. ii

Fig. 1, Ovary, petals and column ; 2, petal; 3, lip; 4, column ; 5, anther ;

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AGAVE LAXIFOLIA:

Native of Mexico.

Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDEZ.—Tribe AGAVE.

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

Agave (Huagave) laxifolia; breviter caulescens, foliis 20-30 laxe rosulatis

oblongo-lanceolatis crassis coriaceis facie sordide viridibus dorso pallide

viridibus spina parva brunnea pungente terminatis, spinulis marginalibus

parvis deltoideis apice brunneis, pedunculo valido elongato, floribus in

paniculam laxam ramis corymbosis dispositis, bracteis parvis deltoideis,

pedicellis apice elongatis, ovario cylindrico, perianthii tubo infundibulari

limbi lobis lanceolatis basi deltoideis, staminibus limbo 2-3-plo. longioribus,

antheris linearibus magnis.

A. laxifolia, Baker.

This Agave has been cultivated for many years in the

Royal Gardens at Kew, and flowered for the first time in

' the summer of 1895. It was received as a variety of A.

mexicana, but it differs widely from all the forms of that

species by its laxly disposed rosette of leaves, which are

green on both sides even in an early stage, and by its

smaller spinules. Its place is in the section Rigide, in the

neighbourhood of A. excelsa, Jacobi. The flowers give out

a smell exactly like that of mice. As in many other species

the style does not grow out to its full length till after the

anthers of the same flower are faded.

_ Deser.—Shortly caulescent. Leaves twenty or thirty in

a lax rosette, oblong-lanceolate, firm in texture, one and a

half or two feet long, three inches broad at the middle, by

half as much above the dilated base, above which they are

half an inch in thickness, dull green on the face, paler

green on the back, without any glaucous tinge, even in an

early stage, with a small brown pungent end-spine, and

copious small deltoid marginal spinules, tipped with brown.

Peduncle stout, four or five feet long. Inflorescence a lax

panicle about as long as the peduncle, with corymbose

branches ; bracts small, deltoid ; pedicels half an inch long,

articulated at the tip. Ovary cylindrical, green, an inch

and a halflong. Perianth-tube funnel-shaped, half an inch

JuNE Ist, 1896.

long; lobes green, half as long again asthe tube. Stamens

inserted at the throat of the perianth-tube, two inches

long; anthers large, linear. Style finally overtopping the

anthers.—J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, a flower cut open; 2, front view of anther; 3, back view of anther :—

All wii 4, entire plant, much reduced,

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HABENARIA Etvwest1.

Native of the Nilghiri Hills.

Nat. Ord. OxrcH1IpE#.—Tribe OpHRYDER.

Genus Hapenaria, Willd.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 625.)

Hazenaria (Ate) Elwesii; lete virescens, tuberibus oblongis, caule folioso,

foliis erectis ovato- v. elliptico-lanceolatis acuminatis, vaginis teretibus,

racemo laxifloro, bracteis floribus squilongis lanceolatis acuminatis

scaphiformibus marcescentibus, floribus 2-poll. longis flavo-viridibus,

sepalis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis lateralibus deflexis, petalis e basi

lata profunde in lacinias elongato-subulatas divaricatas falcatas sepalis

longioribus pilosas sectis, labelli glaberrimi limbo lineari in segmenta 3

elongata filiformia limbo multoties longiora fisso, caleare gracili pedicello

zequilongo ore lingula calcariformi recurva instructo, columna lata obtusa,

staminodiis erectis clavatis apice glandnlosis, antheris divergentibus

tubulis brevibus clinandrio adnatis, rostello late deplanato, processubus

stigmaticis corniformibus divaricatis.

Habenaria Elwesii, though horticulturally devoid of

beauty, is a very interesting plant botanically, as being

the first that has been cultivated in this country of a

curious Indian group of that immense genus, which I have

characterized as Ate, in which the petals are bifurcate.

The type of the group is H. barbata, Wight, upon which

Lindley founded the genus Ate, taking for its character

the presence of a recurved process on the lip at the mouth

of the spur, on the side opposite the column, and which is

seen in fig. 2 of the accompanying plate. This process 1s

present or absent in very closely allied species, all having

divided petals, and I therefore, in the “ Flora of British

India,” took the latter character as that of the group Ate,

bringing under it fourteen plants of obvious near affinity.

The function of the above-mentioned process of the lip is to

guide the proboscis of an insect into the spur, whilst it

brings its head or part of its body into contact with the

glands of the pollinia, and thus removes these. This was

first pointed out by Roland Trimen,* who was induced by

* Journ. Linn, Soe, vol. ix. (1867) p. 156, t. 1.

June Ist, 1896.

Darwin’s account of the organization of the Cape plant

Bonatea speciosa,* which has a similar process in the same

position at the mouth of the spur, to. examine living

specimens of that plant. By a curious coincidence Bonatea

has the cleft petals of “‘ Ate,” and is otherwise so near to

Habenaria that Lindley referred the Indian Habenaria tri-

nervia, Wight, to Bonatea,as B. punduana; and subsequently

both he and Reichenbach have reduced all the Bonatex to

that genus. Mr. Bolus in his Orchids of S. Africa (Tab.

16) also reduces a species of Bonatea to Habenaria. The

principal character of the former genus as distinguishing

it from the Ate group, is the enormous helmet-like rostellum,

the staminodes reduced to papilla on the sides of the ros-

tellum, and the long tubular stigmatic processes ; but how

far these characters differentiate Bonatea from other

_ Habenarias I am unable to say. The fact is that the

modifications of staminodes, anthers, rostellum and stig-

matic processes of Habenaria are so extraordinarily great,

even in apparently allied species, that when working up the

Indian species I hoped to have been able to use them for

sectional purposes; but, like Bentham before me, I failed

in the attempt. ° :

H, Elwesti is most nearly allied to H. digitata, Lindl.,

(H. trinervia, Wight Icon. Plant. Ind. Or.t. 1701), differing

in the much larger flowers, hairy petals with much longer —

divisions, long lobes of the lip, and spur-like stigmatic — 2

processes. The only other species with hairy petals is H.

barbata, Wight (Ate virens, Lindl.; Wight Ic. t. 928),

which has small flowers with shortly bifid petals, a scabrid

lip cleft at tip only’ into short subulate segments, and

clavate stigmatic processes. H. Hlwesii is a native of

Nilghiri Hills, whence it was sent to the distinguished

naturalist and horticulturist whose name it bears by Mr.

Proudlock, Curator of the Gardens and Parks of Ootaca-

mund. It flowered in Mr. Elwes’ garden at Colesborne,

Gloucestershire, in July of last year.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Petal; 2, front and 3 side views of column; 4, pollinia:—A JZ

enlarged.

* On the Contrivances by which Orchids are fertilized by Insects, Ed. ii.

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PHAJUS MisHMensis.

Native of the Eastern Himalaya.

: Nat. Ord. OrcHIDE”.—Tribe EpipENDRE.

Genus Puasus, Lour.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iti. p. 512.)

Puasus mishmensis ; caulibus fastigiatis erectis elatis basi vix pseudobulbosis

superne foliosis, foliis alternis quaquaversis elliptico-ovatis -lanceolatisve

acuminatis 5-nerviis, scapis axillaribus gracilibus elongatis erectis laxe

plurifloris, floribus erecto-patentibus roseis, bracteis pedicellis gracilibus

zequilongis lanceolatis acuminatis concavis herbaceis caducis, sepalis

petalisque lineari-oblongis acutis apicibus subrecurvis, labelli lobis latera-

libus amplis rotundatis recurvis terminali brevi explanato trilobulato

lobulis obtusis, intermedio 2-fido, caleare gracili incurvo sepalis dimidio

breviore, disco crista ciliata instructo, columna gracili supra medium

dilatata, apice 2-loba, anthera hemispherica pilosula.

P. mishmensis, Reichb. f. in Bonplandia, vol. v. p. 48; in Walp, Ann. vol. vi.

pp. 922, 928. Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind, vol. v. p. 817, and in Ann. Roy.

Bot. Gard. Cale. vol. v. pt. I. p. 25, t. 37.

P. roseus, Rolfe in Kew Bulletin (1893} 6, and (1894) 182 (mishmensis).

Limatodes mishmensis, Lindl. & Paxt. Fl. Gard. vol. iii. p. 36.

There are considerable differences in the habit of growth

of the species of Phajus, of which I took advantage in

dealing with the Indian species in ‘The Flora of British

India ;” and it remains to be seen how far the grouping

there adopted is applicable in the African and other extra-

Indian species. In P. Wallichii, Lindl., better known as

P. bicolor, Lindl. (Tab. 4078), the flowering scape arises

from the side of the pseudobulb. In P. callosus, Lindl.,

of the Malay Peninsula and Java, from the top of the

pseudobulb. In P. mishmensis the one or more scapes

are axillary; and in P. albus, Lindl. (t. 3991) the in-

florescence terminates the leafy stem, which latter character,

and the bifarious leayes, are those which that species

was raised to generic rank as Thunia by Reichenbach. JP.

mishmensis was discovered in the Mishmi Mts. in Upper

Assam by Griffith in 1836, and was first published by Lindley

as a Limatodes from Griffith’s Herbarium specimens. It

has recently been collected in the Sikkim Himalaya by

Mr. Clarke and other botanists at elevations of 4-5000 ft. ;

JUNE ist, 1896.

and in Lower Burma at 6000 ft. by Mr. Boxall, when

collecting for Messrs. Hugh Low and Sons of. Clapton.

Very recently it has been described as P. roseus, under the

misapprehension that it was an undescribed species of

Western tropical Africa. The specimen here figured was

presented by the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Scarborough to the

Royal Gardens in November, 1895, who collected it himself

during his visit to India.

Descr.—Stems two to three feet from a tuberous lobed

base, terete, green, leafless and sheathed below, leafy

above. Leaves six to ten inches long, elliptic-lanceolate,

acuminate, plicately five-nerved, margins rather waved,

dark green aboye, paler beneath with prominent nerves ;

Sheaths with acutely angled ribs. Scapes one or more,

axillary from the lower leaves, one to two feet long, to-

gether with the loose, erect raceme slender, green, with a

few scattered appressed lanceolate sheaths towards the

base and middle. Raceme eight- to ten-fld.; bracts about

an inch long, as long as the slender erecto-patent pedicel and

ovary, lanceolate, acuminate, concave, herbaceous, dark

green, caducous. Flowers nearly two inches broad when

expanded, pale or dark rose-colrd. ; lip paler and speckled.

Sepals acuminate, with recurved tips, keeled, linear-oblong ;

dorsal more oblanceolate, concave. Petals narrower than

the sepals. Lip nearly as long as the sepals, three-lobed ;

side lobes broad, orbicular, margins recurved, midlobe sub-

quadrate, truncately 3-lobulate; side lobules rounded,

median much smaller, 2-fid; disk of hp with a median

hairy ridge; spur one half to two-thirds of an inch long,

rather slender, incurved, yellow, tip 2-lobed. Column long,

rather slender, the sides dilating above the middle into

narrow wings, top 2-lobed; anther hemispheric, sparsely

hairy.—J. D. H.

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ERANTHEMUM Reticuratrum.

Native of the Melanesian Islands 2?

Nat. Ord. AcanrHacex.—Tribe JustTiciEx,

Genus Erantuemum, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1097.)

ERANTHEMUM reticu/atum; suffruticosum, glaberrimum, foliis ovato-lanceo-

latis obtusis in petiolum alatum angustatis marginibus undulatis,

senioribus luride viridibus nervis sulphureis, junioribus angustioribus

pulcherime aureo viridique reticulatis, racemis axillaribus terminalibus-

que erectis, pedicellis bracteatis, bracteis parvis subulatis, calycis seg-

mentis snbaqualibus angustis, corollz hypocrateriformis tubo calyce

plusquam duplo longiore, limbo explanato subbilabiato albo orm versus

sanguineo adsperso, lobis apice rotundatis 2-posticis oblongis 3 anticis

majoribus latioribus, filamentis breviusculis, antheris oblongis rufo-

brunneis. :

E. reticulataum, Hort. ex Gard. Chron, (1875) vol. i. p. 619.

E. Schomburgkii, Hort. ew Illustr. Hortic. vol. xxvi. (1879) t. 349.

E. aureo-reticulatum, Hort.

Though well known in cultivation in England for up-

wards of a quarter of a century, the native country of the

beautiful plant here figured is unknown, and its names

are of ‘‘garden” authority. In the earliest notice

that I can find of it, that in the Gardener’s Chronicle,

nothing is said of its origin; but four years later, in the

‘‘ Tllustration Horticole,’’ it is stated to have been received

from Australia, and the adoption for it of the name Schom-

burgkit would imply that the late Director of the Botanical

Gardens of Adelaide (Richd. Schomburgh) was concerned in

its introduction. The figure in the latter work is accom-

panied with a note to the effect that it is “apparently

Melanesian.”

H. reticulatum has been long cultivated at Kew, where

it has attained a height of four feet, flowering in autumn

in a stove.

Deser.—A small, erect, leafy, evergreen shrub ; branches

obtusely four angled. Leaves opposite, lower six to ten

inches Jong, ovate-lanceolate, dark green above with arch-

ing golden nerves, pale beneath, margins undulate, tip

rounded ; base cuneiform, rounded or subcordate, narrowed

JuNE Ist, 1896,

suddenly into a stout petiole about an inch long; upper

leaves narrower, beautifully reticulated with golden or

sulphur-yellow and green. Panicles in the upper leaf-

axils and terminal, strict, erect; branches, bracts, and

sepals pale green; pedicels one-fourth inch long, or of the

lower flowers longer, slender, bracteate at the base and

middle, bracts small, subulate. Calyx a third of an inch

long, narrow; segments linear, acute, subequal, erect.

Corolla salver-shaped, white, tube more than twice as long

as the calyx, straight, narrow, white, speckled with red at

the shortly funnel-shaped top; limb an inch and a half

broad, pure white, speckled with blood-red round the

mouth of the tube, sub 2-lipped, lobes oblong tips rounded ;

two posticous smallest, suberect, of the three anticous the

middle is the broadest. Stamens 2; filaments short, erect,

each with a minute 2-fid staminode at its base; anthers

oblong, red-brown. Ovary glabrous, seated in a rather

long annular disk ; style slender, stigma 2-fid.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Calyx and style; 2, portion of throat of corolla and stamens; 3 and

4, anthers; 5, ovary and disk :—AIl enlarged.

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EPISCIA venga.

Native of Demerara.

Nat. Ord. Gesneracem.—Tribe CyrtTanDRE.

Genus Eriscia, Mart.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1006.)

Episcra (Centrosolenia) densa; caule robusto brevi puberulo atque petiolis

foliis subtus sepalis extus sanguineo-rubris, foliis longe petiolatis ovato-

oblongis subacutis crenato-serrulatis basi rotundatis v. subcordatis, supra

laete viridibus pilosulis subtus glabris costa nervisque validis, petiolo semi-

_eylindrico, floribus tn racemulis axillaribus congestis, pedunculis pedicellis-

que brevibus, bracteis parvis, calycis urceolaris segmentis oblongis obtusis

ciliolatis intus viridibus postico parvo libero ceteris connatis, corolla fere 2-

pollicari subcylindracea hirsuta straminea basi dorsa gibba dein paullo

inflata, lobis 5 brevibus patentibus planis rotundatis intus primulinis,

staminibus inclusis, filamentis glaberrimis, antheris didymis per paria apices

versus cohaerentibus, ovario hirsuto, stigmate capitellato 2-lobo, disci

glandula solitaria postica.

E. densa, 0. H. Wright in Kew Bulletin (1895) p. 17.

E. densa belongs to the Centrosolenia section of the very

considerable genus Hpiscia, characterized by the short

stem, crowded flowers, narrow calyx-segments, and by the

gibbously saccate base of the tube of the corolla. Amongst

those figured Mr. Wright considers its nearest ally to be

E. erythropus, Hook. f., Tab. 6219 of New Grenada.

It is curious that though the upper or exposed surface

of the leaves are green, and the under crimson, the cor-

responding surfaces of the sepals are, the outer red and

inner green. Hpiscia densa was received in 1895 from M.

Jenman, F.L.S8., Govt. Botanist and Superintendent of the

Botanical Gardens of Georgetown, Demerara, who dis-

covered it on the banks of the river Masouria. It flowered

in a stove at Kew in October of the same year.

Descr.—Stem short, as thick as the middle finger,

cylindric, puberulous, dull purplish-crimson. Leaves few,

crowded, six to ten inches long, ovate-oblong, subacute,

crenate-serrulate, base cuneate, rounded, or subcordate,

above bright green slightly pubescent, beneath bright

JUNE Ist, 1896.

blood-red, quite glabrous, with very stout midrib, and

many arching nerves; petiole three to four inches long,

stout, semi-cylindric. Racemes of flowers crowded on the

arrested nodes of the stem, very short; peduncles and

pedicels short, red-purple; bracts minute. Calyx two-

thirds of an inch long; lobes oblong, erect with recurved |

tips, coloured externally like the undersurface of the

leaves, green to the base within, margins ciliate; dorsal

lobe smallest, free, the rest connate to above the middle.

Corolla nearly two inches long, slightly decurved, tubular,

hirsute, pale straw-coloured, posticously gibbous at the

very base, contracted above it, and then somewhat inflated ;

lobes very short, orbicular, expanded, flat, primrose-yellow.

Stamens included ; filaments quite glabrous ; anthers didy-

mous, each pair adhering by their tips. Ovary ovoid,

hirsute; style slender ; stigma capitellate, 2-lobed, included.

Disk-gland solitary, posticous, 2-lobed.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Section of calyx showing disk and pistil; 2, corolla laid open;

3, base of corolla ; 4 and 5, anthers :—All enlarged.

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LO URYA CAMPANULATA.

Native of Cochin-china.

Nat. Ord. Hamoporacex.—Tribe OpxtopogonEeR.

Genus Lourya (Baill. Bull, Soc. Linn. Paris, No. 93, p. 743.)

Lourra campanulata; rhizomate brevi, foliis radicalibus longe petiolatis

oblongo-lanceolatis utrinque acuminatis nervis elevatis subplicatis,

petiolis basi vaginis membranaceis stipatis, floribus in racemos breves

breviter pedunculatos densifloros dispositis, bracteis ovatis acuminatis

membranaceis, pedicellis brevibus, perianthii late campanulati marsces-

centis lobis 6 2-seriatis subeequalibus patentibus subacutis flavidis,

exterioribus late ovatis, interioribus late oblongo-ovatis, ore membrana

horizontali antherifera fere clausa, antheris 6 erectis late oblongis

2-locularibus, ovario infero late obconico depresso 3-loculari, stigmate

parvo pyramidato obtuse trilobo, ovulis in loculis paucis basilaribus erectis

anatropis, bacca ovoidea coerulea. :

L. campanulata, Baill. l.c. Oarritre in Rev. Hortic. vol. xi. (1889) p. 128,

fig. 32.

A very curious plant, with the habit of Curculigo and

Peliosanthes, differing from the former of these genera in

the stamens and basal ovules; and from Peliosanthes in

the baccate fruit, the pericarp of which is not burst open

when in a young state by the enlarging seeds, and thus

necessitating the maturing of the latter in a freely exposed

condition. I have unfortunately been unable to figure or

describe the seeds of Lowrya from the fruit of the Kew

plant having been destroyed by insects on ripening.

The specimen here figured was obtained from a French

nursery in 1892. It flowered in a stove of the Royal

Gardens, first in December, 1894, and again in January,

1896, when the fruit of the former year was approaching

maturity.

Descr.—Rootstock stout, shortly creeping underground,

and throwing up tufts of leaves and flowering stems, the

_ and peduncles of which are enveloped in long,

anceolate, pale yellow-brown membranous sheaths, two to

four inches long. Leaves (with the petiole) ten to twenty

inches long, by three to four broad, erect, inclined or

drooping, oblong-lanceolate, acute at both ends, narrowed

Juty Ist, 1896,

into a terete, stiff, green petiole, three to six inches long,

dark glossy green above, paler beneath, plicate and

traversed by ten to twelve prominent nerves, which are

united by transverse nervules. Raceme radical, shortly

peduncled, sub-corymbiform, about three inches long, very

dense-fid. ; bracts membranous, as long as the flowers,

ovate, acuminate. Flowers half an inch in diameter, shortly

pedicelled, nodding, pedicel jointed above the middle.

Perianth broadly campanulate, pale yellow, with a dark

purple disk formed of the confluent filaments ;

broadly obconic; limb superior, of six broad Spreading

membranous lobes in two series, outer broadly ovate, inner

oblong-ovate. Filaments united ina horizontal dark purple

membrane, nearly closing the tube, but leaving a hexagonal

opening over the stigma; anthers small, erect. Ovary

inferior, 38-celled, surmounted by a small sessile central

pyramidal 6-lobed obtuse stigma; ovules several in each

cell, basal, erect, anatropous. Fruit an inch long, ovoid,

obtuse, terete, dark blue, smooth, shining, surrounded at

the base by the withered perianth.—J. D. H.

tube very

Fig. 1, Bracts and flower-bud, of the natural size;

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PILOCARPUS JABORANDI.

Native of Pernambuco.

Nat. Ord. Rutacex.—Tribe ZANTHOXYLE.

Genus Pinocarrus, Vahl.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 299.)

Pinocarrus Jaborandi; ramis ramulis petiolisque hirtellis, foliis alternis,

foliolis 4-5-jugis oppositis breviter petiolulatis coriaceis ellipticis oblong-

isve obtusis v. retusis glanduloso-punctatis, supra luride viridibus subtus

flavo-viridulis, racemis gracilibus decurvis, pedicellis medio minute

bracteolatis, floribus parvis pentameris, calycis tubo hemispherico, limbo

brevissimo obtuse 5-lobo, petalis lanceolatis acutis 1-nerviis roseis basi

marginibusque luteis, disco undulato glanduloso-punctato, carpellis

maturis 3-5 tenuiter coriaceis apice rotundatis lateribus sulcis concentricis

exsculptis, seminibus ovoideo-oblongis nigris nitidis.

P. Jaborandi, Holmes in Pharmaceut. Journ. Ser. III. vol. xxiii: (1893)

p- 1008; Ser. IV. vol. i. (1895) pp. 520, 541.

P. pennatifolius, Bentl. & Trim. Medic. Plants, t. 48, figs. 6-11 tantum.

The name Jaborandi has been applied indiscriminately to

drugs produced by Brazilian plants of various natural

families and genera, the properties of which are diaphoretic

and sialogogue ; but it was not till comparatively recently

that the one has been introduced into medical practice in

Europe, which now is understood by that name. This

was sent from Pernambuco by Dr. Coutinho of Pernam-

buco to Prof. Gubler of Paris, who tested its properties,

and confirmed Dr. Coutinho’s statement as to their power-

ful effects. A sample of the drug, which consisted of dried

and broken leaves, was communicated to Prof. Baillon, who

referred it to the genus Pilocarpus, Vahl. of Rutacee; an

opinion which was almost simultaneously confirmed by

Mr. Holmes from an examination of some dried fruits

which he had received from Pernambuco. Its specific

determination, however, remained indeterminable until

complete specimens should be obtained, and it was in the

meantime doubtfully referred to Pilocarpus pennatifolius,

Lemaire, 2 native of Paraguay and San Paolo in South

Brazil (see Tab. 7235 of this Magazine). This identifica-

tion was, however, disposed of by Prof. Oliver, who, after

Jury Ist, 1896.

a careful comparison of the leaves of P. pennatifolius with

those of the Pernambuco plant (see Kew Bulletin, 1891, |

p. 179) pronounced them to belong to different species.

Fortunately, in 1882, ripe seeds of what has proved to be

the true plants of Pernambuco, were presented by Dr. J. L.

Paterson, of Bahia, to the Royal Botanic Gardens of

Edinburgh, from which plants were raised and distributed.

One of the latter, given to the Cambridge Botanic Gardens,

flowered there in 1893. From it Mr. Holmes was enabled

to draw up a full description; and finding it to be a new

species, named it very appropriately Pilocarpus Jaborandi.

The drawing here given was made from a plant com-

municated to the Royal Gardens from Cambridge, which

flowered in a stove in January, 1896.

Deser.—A bush or small tree; branches, branchlets,

petioles and rachis of the leaves hirtellous. Leaves alter-

nate, pinnate; petiole short, and rachis terete, stout;

leaflets 3-4 pairs with a terminal one, three to three and a

half inches long, opposite, shortly petiolulate, oblong or

elliptic, obtuse, retuse, or emarginate, coriaceous, quite

glabrous, dark green and shining above, yellow green

and glandular-dotted beneath, base slightly unequal ;

nerves about eight to ten pairs, slender, arching. Racemes

axillary, a foot long, slender, shortly peduncled, many-

flowered, rachis terete, reddish-green ; pedicels about half

an inch long, slender, spreading, with a minute triangular

bract at the base, and two very inconspicuous rudiments

_of bracteoles above the middle. Flowers a third of an inch

broad. Calyx broadly cupular, obscurely broadly 5-lobed.

Petals lanceolate, 1-nerved, dark rose-colrd., with golden

margins and base. Filaments erect, about as long as

the petals; anthers oblong. Disk undulate. Ovary de-

pressed, top 5-lobed, stigma very short, 5-lobed. Fruit)

about an inch broad, of three to five suborbicular fr

thinly coriaceous or sub-crustaceous, dehiscent carpels, the

sides of which are marked with concentric ridges. Seeds

few, broadly oblong, testa black shining.—J. D. H.

ee,

Fig. 1, Flower-bud and edicel; 2, flower; 3, calyx, disk and ;4and

5, stamen :—A// dulecgad: © need of tha: wee eee

I 6 and 7, fruit and seed of the natural size;

8, greatly reduced view of th

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ASPIDISTRA TYPICA.

Native of Tonkin ?

Nat. Ord. Liniacna.—Tribe AsPIDIsTREs.

Genus Asripistra, Ker.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 772.)

AsrrpistRa typica; foliis longe petiolatis elliptico-lanceolatis acuminatis basi

subinequilateralibus utrinque laete viridibus sub-7-nerviis, nervulis trans-

versis creberrimis, petiolo gracili canaliculato viridi dorso rotundato,

floribus numerosis longe pedunculatis, pedunculo robusto prostrato v.

geniculatim decurvo flexuoso vaginato purpureo maculato, vaginis sparsis

_brevibus ovatis obtusis flavidis, floribus 2-bracteatis, bracteis perianthio

suppositis late ovatis acutis patentibus purpureo-variegatis, perianthio

crasse coriaceo globoso breviter 6-fido extus pallide purpureo punctulato

intus saturate purpureo, lobis ovatis obtusis erectis wstivatione valvatis

apicibus imbricatis, antheris 6 parvis basi perianthii sessilibus, ovario

brevi 3-loculari loculis 2-ovulatis, stylo brevi crasso stigmate umbraculi-

forme margine 6-lobo.

A. typica, Baill. in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, No. 143 (1894) p. 1129. Wiener

Illustr. Gartenz. (1894), p. 266. Kew Bulletin (1895) App. II. 34.

The remarkable plant here figured differs from its con-

geners in the apparently constantly trimerous parts of the

flower, the arrangement in the other species being normally

tetramerous ; though a departure to the trimerous is known

to occur in one of these. In fact the genus Aspidistra was

established on a trimerous flowered state of A. lurida, as

will be found on referring to the original description of

the genus by Ker in the Botanical Register (t. 628); the

tetramerous state of which species is figured at t. 2499 of

this magazine. It is this reversion in A. typica from

the tetramerous state (which is abnormal amongst Mono-

_cotyledons) to the typical trimerous of this class, that the

Species owes its name. Another member of the genus,

A. punctata, var. albo maculata, is figured at t. 5386 of this

work. It has also tetramerous flowers ; as has A. punctata,

Lindl. (Bot. Reg. t. 977). These two plants, if specifically

the same, which is, I think, doubtful, differ from A.

lurida and typica in their stigma, which is not a simple

umbrella-like 6-lobed organ, but has a much divided circum-

ference of 6 teeth alternating with as many reflexed lobules.

M. Baillon has described (Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 1. c.)

Jcxy Ist, 1895,

a curious modification of the flower of a Javan species,

A. elatior, Blume, which has the stigma of 4. punctata.

In this the inner walls of the tube of the perianth are

perfectly smooth till the stigma has attained its greatest

diameter, when folds are formed on the inner walls,

that fit into the spaces between the marginal teeth of

the stigma, thus enclosing the mature anthers in a

sealed chamber, requiring force to open it. Referring to

the enlarged view of a flower of A. punctata laid open, at

fig. 1 of t. 53886, it appears to me possible that access to

the closed chamber in this species may be provided by the

reflexion of the folds between the teeth of the stigma, -

after the maturation of the anthers, for the admission to

these of insects or their organs. And if, as I suspect, the

stigmatic surfaces, which are punctiform, occupy the tips

of the reflected lobes, the arrangement would be adapted

for cross-fertilization of the plant, because any insect

seeking access to the anthers must brush past a stigmatic

surface. It remains to be observed during its next flower-

ing, whether the perianth-tube and stigma of A. typica

undergo modifications analogous to those of A. elatior.

A. typica was obtained by the Royal Gardens, Kew,

from the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, in 1895, and it

flowered in a stove in September of the same year.

_Deser.—footstock stout, creeping. Leaves twelve to

eighteen inches long, long-petioled, elliptic-lanceolate,

nerves about 7, with many cross nervules, base acute,

unequal; petiole longer than the blade, channelled in

front. Flowers very many, radical; peduncles two to

two and a half inches long, stout, flexuous, prostrate

or geniculately decurved, purple with darker blotches; _

sheaths few, distant, oblong, obtuse. Flowers two-thirds

of an inch in diameter, thickly coriaceous, globose, six-

cleft, base closely embraced by two ovate spreading

purple bracts, dirty white or greenish speckled with red,

dark purple within ; lobes one-third to one half the length

of the perianth, biseriate, ovate, subacute, erect, then

spreading. Stamens six; anthers reniform, sessile on the

base of the perianth. Ovary very short, crowned with an

umbrella-like six-lobed stigma.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower with portion of perianth removed; 2

_ stamen; 3, stamen :—A/l enlarged ; , portion of perianth and

—4, reduced view of whole plant.

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AKEBIA tosata.

Native of China and Japan.

Nat. Ord. BerperipEx.—Tribe LARDIZABALER.

Genus Axesia, Dene.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. i. p. 42.)

Axess lobata; frutex alte scandens glaberrimus, ramulis cylindraceis lenti-

cellatis cortice brunneo, foliis gracile petiolatis 3-foliolatis racemisque

gemmis lateralibus enatis, foliolis gracile petiolulatis late ovatis obtusis

repando-lobulatis apice retusis apiculatis pallide viridibus, racemis

gracilibus nutantibus pendulisve; fl. masc. parvis numerosis confertis

pallide purpureis breviter pedicellatis, bracteis subulatis, sepalis ovatis,

antheris subsessilibus loculis linearibus extrorsis, connectivo crasso; fi.

fem. paucis multo majoribus longe pedicellatis, sepalis concavis coriaceis

purpureis, staminodiis 6 minutis, carpellis 3—6-viridibus, stigmatibus

purpureis, baccis oblongi obtusis polyspermis, seminibus atris pulpa aquosa

immersis. -

A. lobata, Dene. in Ann. Se, Nat. Ser. II. vol. xii. (1839) p. 107; & in. Archiv.

Mus. Par. vol. i. p. 195, t. 13, B. Walp. Rep. vol. i. p. 99. Sieb. §& Zuce.

Fil. Jap. vol. i. p. 145, t. 78. Miquel Prolus. Fl. Jap. p. 197. Franch.

& Sav. Fnum. Pl. Jap.i. p. 21. Forbes & Hemsl. in Journ, Linn. Soc.

vol. xxiii. (1886) p. 30. Tokio Hort, Bot, vol. ii. t. 2.

One species of Akebia, A. quinata (Tab. 4864) has

been long known in European gardens, having been intro-

duced from China or Japan (of both which countries it is

a native) half a century ago; but though three other

species from the same country have been described, it is

only quite lately that a second, the subject of the accom-

panying plate, has beenimported. This latter differs a good

deal in habit from A. quinata, in having more woody

branches, and trifoliolate leaves with broad lobulate very

pale green more membranous leaflets, the flowers too are

smaller, though of the same structure and colour; and,

as in A. quinata, the females are fewest, much the largest,

and placed below the males in the raceme. :

A. lobata ig a native of Japan and N. China, and is

apparently common in both countries; in the former

specimens have been collected in various localities between

Hakodadi and Yokohama; and in the latter from the pro-

vinces of Kiang-su, Szechuen, and Hupeh. Of two other

JULY Ist, 1896,

Japanese species, A. quercifolia, and clematifolia, Sieb. &

Zuce., Count Ito has made a note in the Kew Herbarium,

that they may be only varieties of A. lobata.

The drawing here reproduced was made from a plant

that flowered in a greenhouse of the Royal Gardens, Kew,

in January of the present year, and which was received

from Mr. F. Takagi, nurseryman of Tokio. The fruit is

described from the Japanese work cited above, which con-

tains an excellent figure of the species.

Descr.—A tall glabrous climbing shrub; branches

cylindric, woody, flexuous, as thick as a goose-quill, bark

brown, covered with scattered lenticels ; buds at the rather

distant internodes, covered with oblong obtuse green and

purple herbaceous deciduous scales, and sending forth

leaves and flowers from an arrested axis. Leaves long-

petioled, trifoliolate, three to five inches long ; petiole two

to three inches long, very slender; leaflets petiolulate,

petiolule of lateral one-eighth to one-half inch, of terminal

nearly one inch; blade one to two inches long, broadly

ovate, repand-lobulate, tip retuse and apiculate, almost

membranous, pale green above, paler and bluer green

beneath ; nerves few, very slender. Raceme with its long

peduncle three to four inches long, slender, nodding or

pendulous. Male fl. very numerous, one-sixth inch

diameter, shortly pedicelled, crowded, pale purple; bracts

minute. Sepals ovate, acute, incurved. Anthers 6, sub-

sessile, cells linear, extrorse ; Jem. fl. few, below the males,

distant from one another, one half to nearly an inch in

diameter, pedicels half to two-thirds of an inch. Sepals

orbicular-ovate, concave, dark vinous purple. Staminodes

6, minute, of imperfect anthers alternating with the carpels.

Carpels three to six, green with purple stigmas. Fruit

ripens after frost, three inches long, oblong, cylindric,

slightly curved, rounded at both ends; pericarp thin.

are a or many, black, immersed in a white pulp.—

Fig. 1, Male flower; 2, thre isti ;

prea These phe stamens and pistillode; 3, stamen; 4, carpels

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HAEMARIA Dawsonrana.

Native of Burma. —

Nat. Ord. OncnipE2.—Tribe NEorriez.

Genus Harmaarta, Lindl.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 601.)

Harmaria Dawsoniana; caule robusto basi nudo, foliis ovatis acutis in

petiolum roseum angustatis glaberrimis supra luride viridibus nervis

nervulisque reticulatis sanguineis, subtus roseis, seapo pallide viridi,

racemo ovariisque laxe pilosis, vaginis lanceolatis, floribus spicatis,

bracteis ovario paullo brevioribus lanceolatis albis roseo-tinctis,

perianthio 1 poll. diam. albo, sepalis late ovatis obtusis, postico minore

erecto, lateralibus patentibus, petalis linearibus falcatis sepalo postico

subcoherentibus, labelli albi basi saccati ungue lineari, limbo stipitato

2-lobo, lobis oblongis truncatis divaricatis, sacco 2-lobo, columna clavata

aurea, rostello furcato, anthera rostrata.

H. discolor var. Dawsoniana, Reichb. f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xxx. (1874)

p. 142. Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. vi. p. 102 (in note).

Aneectochilus Dawsonianus, Low ex Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. (1868) p. 1038.

Haemaria is a small genus of Asiatic Orchids, of which

only two species are as yet known, JJ. discolor, Lindl.

(Goodyera discolor, t. 2055), and the plant here figured.

These two are so closely allied that Reichenbach from im-

perfect specimens of H. Dawsoniana described it as a

variety of discolor, at the same time overlooking the fact

that it had already been published as an Anectochilus by

Low in 1868, also under the name of Dawsonianus.

Referring to the plate of H. discolor cited above, or

better to a figure in the Botanical Register, t. 271, it

will be seen that it is a much more robust, more

glabrous plant, with very dark green whole-coloured

leaves edged with red, and having smaller flowers. The

genus is allied to Anewctochilus, but the sac of the lip is

concealed between the bases of the lateral sepals, other-

wise the genera are exceedingly alike.

- H. Dawsoniana is a native of Burma, where it was dis-

covered, I believe, by the Rev. Mr. Parish in the Moolmain

district. Living specimens have been received at the

JuLY Ist, 1896,

Royal Gardens, Kew, from those at Calcutta. It flowers

in a stove in the month of January.

Deser.—Whole plant eight to ten inches high. Stem as

thick as a goose-quill, leafless below, but bearing one or

more tubular membranous sheaths, pale green. Leaves

two to four inches long, petioled, ovate, acuminate, dark

green above and tessellated with nine to twelve pairs of

longitudinal and oblique transverse blood-red nerves,

margins blood-red, beneath rose-colrd. ; base narrowed into

a stout, rose-colrd. deeply concave petiole. Scape with

spike six inches long, slender, together with the bracts and

ovaries pubescent with flaccid hairs ; sheaths few, lanceo-

late. Spike many-fid.; bracts as long as the ovaries,

lanceolate, pale greenish, or white suffused with rose.

Flowers horizontally spreading, about one inch in diameter,

pure white, with the column and anther yellow. Ovary

sessile, two-thirds of an inch long. Sepals ovate, obtuse,

lateral spreading; dorsal smaller, erect. Petals erect;

coherent with the dorsal sepal, linear, falcate. Lip as

long as the sepals, base saccate; claw broadly linear, sud-

denly contracted into a short stipes for the limb, which

consists of two divergent, oblong, truncate lobes; sac

globose, two-lobed. Colwmn stout, tip turned to one side ;

rostellum forked. Anther lanceolate, beaked. Pollinia

narrowly clavate, of about six rows of flattened granules,

stalked ; stalks inserted on an oblong gland.—J. D. H.

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SANSE VIERIA ROXBURGHIANA.

~ Native of the East Indies,

Nat. Ord. Hamoporacrz.—Tribe OpH1opoGoNER.

Genus Sansevierra, Thunb.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 679.)

SANSEVIERIA Rowburghiana; foliis 2-24 pedalibus anguste lineari-ensiformibus

strictis erectis a basi ad apicem teretem obtusum sensim angustatis

dorso rotundatis 7-9-costatis, supra (apice excepta) concavis striatis

viridibus fasciatis rubro anguste marginatis, scapo foliis breviore, vaginis

appressis acuminatis, racemo elongato gracili stricto anguste cylindraceo

subdensifloro, floribus secus rachim teretem fasciculatis, fasciculis 3-6-

floris, pedicellis brevibus basi bracteolatis, perianthii pallide flavo-

virescentis, tubo 3-pollicari gracili lobis linearibus obtusis revolutis

longiore. _

8. Roxburghiana, Schult. fil. Syst. Veg. vol. vii. p. 357. Kunth Enum. Pl.

vol. v.p.18. Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xiv. (1875) p. 549. Hook. f.

Flora Brit. Ind, vol. vi. p. 271.

PS. lanuginosa, Willd. Sp. Pl. vol. ii. p.160. Kunth l.c.19. Baker Zc.

s. pe bong Roxb. Corom. Pl. vol. ii. p. 45, t. 184; Flor. Ind. vol. ii. p- 161 (non

Widlid.).

Sansevieria, Wall. Cat. n. 5054, et p. 215.

PKatu Kapel, Rheede Hort. Malab. vol. xi. p. 88, t. 42.

Mirva, Jones in As. Research. vol. iv. p. 271.

It is a curious fact, that except Roxburgh’s excellent

figure and description in the “ Plants of Coromandel,”

published a century ago, and of which the description is

repeated in his ‘‘ Flora Indica,” I can find no reliable

account of this remarkable and economically useful plant

in any Indian botanical work. Nor can this be accounted

for by Roxburgh’s having assumed it to be the very different —

S. zeylanica of Willdenow, for as far as India is concerned

the history of that plant is as obscure as is that of

S. Roxburghiana. A third Indian species (real or sup-

posed) of Sansevieria, is S. lanuginosa, Willd. (Baker, 1. c.)

for which the only authority is Rheede’s “ Hortus Mala-

baricus,”” where it is figured (vol, xi. p- 83, t. 42), and

described as having leaves with dorsal woolly strie, a

character unknown in any other Species of the genus, and

hence open to suspicion. In general appearance the

Aveust Isr, 1896,

figure of S. lanuginosa accords with S. Roxburghiana, as

does the inflorescence; but what is very singular is, that

Rheede, though dwelling on the medicinal value of the

leaves of his plant, says not a word of its uses as yield-

ing a fibre. Rheede gives as its habitat, Malabar in

sandy places. Roxburgh says of his plant that in

Coromandel it grows very commonly under bushes in thin

forests, in almost every soil, flowering from January till

May; and adds an account of its cultivation, and the pre-

paration and uses of the fibre. Referring to the Kew

Herbarium, I find a specimen from Rottler’s Herbarium —

named 8. lanuginosa, Willd., with perfectly glabrous leaves,

and aecording, in all respects, with 8. Roxburghiana; and

others from the Island of Antigua, where it is naturalized.

In the many works on the economic products of India in

which the native Sansevieria is mentioned as a cordage-

yielding plant, it is impossible to say whether S. Roz-

burghiana or zeylanica is meant. The latter, of which a

good figure is given in the Botanical Register (t. 160) is a

reputed native of Ceylon, and is said to be cultivated for

its fibre in India. Mr. Baker informs me that S. zeylanica

is a native of South and probably also of Tropical Africa.

Tn conclusion, it must be left to Indian botanists to clear

up the history of the Indian Sansevierias, a plant which

may prove of great value, now that the fibre-yielding Aloes

Agaves and their allies are attracting so much attention in

the British market.

The specimen of S. Roxburghiana here figured, and which

“precisely accords with Roxburgh’s description and the

drawing in his unpublished Icones at Kew, was received

by Messrs. Veitch from Burma, and flowered in the Royal

Gardens, Kew, in July, 1895.

Descr.—Stem very short. Leaves about 8-9 in a tuft,

two to two and a half feet long, by one inch broad

towards the middle, suberect, rigid, dagger-formed, con-

cave above, and ending in a terete point nearly two inches

long, pale green fasciated with darker green narrowly

bordered with red, upper surface concave, striated, lower

rounded, about a quarter of an inch thick from back to

front, margin thin, lowest leaves shorter and broader.

Peduncle a foot long, cylindric, green. Haceme one to one

and a half feet long, by one and a half to two inches in

diameter, strict, erect, cylindric. Flowers in fascicles of

three to six, suberect, very shortly pedicelled; bracts

minute, ovate, acute, pale green. Perianth very pale

greenish white, tube narrow, half an inch long, cylindric ;

lobes about as long as the tube, linear-oblong, obtuse.

Filaments as long as the perianth-lobes ; anthers oblong.

Ovary trigonous, 8-lobed, lobes pitted at the top; styles

filiform, exserted, stigma minute. Fruit, according to

Roxburgh, of two to three pisiform, orange-coloured,

1-seeded berries.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower; 2, portion of do. laid open; 3 and 4 anthers; 5, ovary :—

All enlarged.

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CYRTANTHUS Horton.

Native of the Cape Colony.

Nat. Ord. AMaRYLLIDEZ.—Tribe AMARYLLEZ.

Genus CrrtantTHvs, Ait.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 729.)

Cyrtantuvs Hutioni; bulbo globoso, tunicis exterioribus membranaceis brun-

neis, foliis circiter 4 synanthiis ensiformibus glabris viridibus suberectis

scapo brevioribus, scapo valido tereti elongato, umbellis 6-10-flris,

spathes valvis 2 ovatis brunneis membranaceis, pedicellis elongatis, peri-

anthio anguste infundibulari rubro intus luteo lobis ovatis tubo duplo

brevioribus, staminibus prope faucem tubi insertis filamentis brevissimis,

stylo elongato.

C. Huttoni, Baker Handb. Amaryllid. p. 55.

This recently introduced Cyrtanthus is much more robust

than C. angustifolius (Bot. Mag., tab. 271), and its numer-

ous allies, but is not nearly so large in its flowers as 0.

obliquus. It was first flowered at Kew in May, 1864, from

plants sent by Mr. J. Hutton from the south-eastern district

of Cape Colony. A specimen was sent to Kew from Glas-

nevin in 1884; and from the province of Somerset Kast,

from Mr. James O’Brien in 1890. The plants now grown

at Kew were raised from seeds received from the Hdin-

burgh Botanic Garden in 1892. Like all the other species

it requires the shelter of a cool frame in an English garden.

The flowers are not scented.

_ Deser.— Bulb globose, an inch or an inch and a half in

diameter. Leaves about four to a bulb, contemporary

with the flowers, ensiform, bright green, arcuate, glabrous,

above a foot long, nearly an inch broad. Peduncle stout,

terete, a foot and a half or two feet long. Flowers six to

ten in an umbel ; spathe-valves two, ovate, brown, mem-

branous; pedicels an inch or an inch and a half long.

Perianth narrowly funnel-shaped, an inch and a half long,

bright red outside, yellow within ; lobes ovate, half as long

Aveust 1st, 1896.

- as the tube. Stamens inserted near the throat of the

perianth-tube ; filaments very short; anthers small, oblong.

Style about as long as the perianth-tube.—J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, A flower cut open; 2, front view of anther; 3, back view of anther;

4, pistil, complete :—A/I enlarged.

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SARCOCHILUS HatnaneEnsis.

Native of the Island of Hainan.

Nat. Ord. OncHIDEZ.—Tribe VanDEz.

Genus Sarcocuitvs, Br.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ili. p. 575.)

SarcocHitus (Cuculla) hainanensis; caule elongato radicante robusto, foliis

4-5-pollicaribus lineari-oblongis obtusis, vaginis brevibus, racemis

secundis patentibus et decurvis crasse pedunculatis compressis, bracteis

rachi adnatis brevibus distiche imbricatis ovatis obtusis carnosis, floribus

2-pollicaribus, perianthio angusto falcato aureo, sepalis petalisque con-

similibus anguste linearibus falcatis conniventibus, labello parvo sacci-

forme puberulo, lobis lateralibus parvis triangularibus obtusis, terminali

crasso conico obtuso basi intus squama parva obtusa instructo, sacco

late conico apice rotundato 2-lobo intus basi villoso, columna brevi,

anthera hemispherica, polliniis oblongis.

The genus Sarcochilus is a very large tropical Hastern

Asiatic one, the species of which have never been reduced

to a system, and, being polymorphous, may offer characters

for the establishment of several genera. In the “ Flora

of British India” I brought thirty-five species, more than

half of which were new, and some of the rest taken out of

genera to which they did not belong, under Sarcochilus,

dividing them into nine sections. Of these sections Cuculla,

to which S. hainanensis belongs, is one of the best marked,

on account of the compressed rachis of the raceme, with

pectinately arranged, imbricating, persistent bracts. ‘The

flowers appear to come out two at a time in the species

here figured, one from each of two adjacent bracts,

the rachis of the raceme probably having a very long

duration. :

The plant here figured was one amongst a collection of

Orchids made in the Island of Hainan in Southern China,

which was sent in 1894 to the Royal Gardens, Kew, by the

Director of the Botanical Gardens of Hong Kong. It

flowered in a stove in July of the same year.

Descr.—Stem (in the specimen figured) six inches high,

erect and leafy, but probably attaining a much greater

length, and becoming pendulous, as thick as a goose-quill,

Aveust Ist, 1896.

flowering or rooting, or both, towards the middle of almost

every internode, the peduncles or roots bursting through

the leaf-sheaths ; internodes one-half to three-quarters of

an inch long, wholly sheathed. Leaves about four inches

long, by three-quarters of an inch broad, linear-oblong,

obtuse, coriaceous, dark green above, deeply furrowed,

paler and keeled beneath, margins subrecurved. Peduncles

together with the racemes about as long as the leaves or

shorter, horizontal and decurved, stout, cylindric ; rachis

of raceme stout, compressed; bracts confluent with the

rachis, about half an inch long, ovate, obtuse, distichous,

green, tipped with brown, closely imbricate, except to-

wards the base. lowers one and a half inch long,

pendulous on short white pedicels, falcate. Sepals and

petals similar, very slender, narrowed from the base to the

subacute tip, golden-yellow. Lip very small, white

sprinkled with pale red, sessile on the base of the column,

saccate, puberulous ; side lobes very short, erect, triangular;

midlobe short, conical, obtuse, with a small scale at its

base within ; sac or spur hardly longer than the midlobe ;

base broadly 2-lobed villous within. Column very short.

Anther hemispheric.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Column and lip; 2, the same, with the lip bisected; 3, column;

4, anther; 5 and 6, pollinia :—All enlarged.

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ADONIS amurensis.

Native of Manchuria and Japan.

Nat. Ord. Rayuxcutacez.—Vribe ANEMONES.

Genus Aponis, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook, f, Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 5.)

Aponis (Consiligo) amurensis; perennis, robusta, glabra v. sparse pilosa,

caule basi aphyllo longe vaginato superne folioso, foliis (spuriis e. fol.

2-3 confluentibus constantibus) caulinis petiolatis (supremis sessilibus)

amplis ambitu fere orbicularibus 3-sectis segmentis pinnatisectis, pin-

nulis anguste oblongis argute pinnatifidis, petiolo (axi secundario) robusto

vagina elongata membranacea instructo, floribus breviter pedunculatis

amplis, sepalis oblongis obtusis, petalis 20-50 sepalis paullo longioribus _

anguste obdovatis subspathulatisve versicoloribus, carpellis subglobosis

stylo elongato recurvo, maturis dense pubescentibus stylo uncinato.

A. amurensis, Regel & Radde, Bot. Abtheil. Radde Reis. Sud-Ost Sibir. vol.

i. (1861) p. 33, t. 2, f. 1,2; et in Bull. Soe. Nat. Mosc. (1861) vol. ii. p. 35,

t. 2,f.1,2. #. Schm. Reis. in Amurl. et Ins. Sachal. pp. 30,104. Franch.

in Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris. Ser. 3, vol. vi. pp. 84, 88. Hemsl. in Gard.

Chron. (1887) vol. ii. p. 491.

Fu Ku Jus6 Shin Dsu. (Figures of varieties of Adonis amurensis).

A. apennina, var. y, dahurica, Maxim. Prim. Fl. Amur. p. 491,

Adonis amurensis was discovered on or near the Bareya

Mts., on the right bank of the lower Amur river, Lat,

50 N., in what are now called the Amur Provinces of

Russia; and it has since been found in Islands of Sachalin,

Jesso, and in the north of Nippon. It was first described

by Maximovicz from a very imperfect specimen as a variety

of A. apennina, but was subsequently discriminated by

Regel and Radde, and still more recently studied by

Franchet, in a valuable paper cited above, and entitled

**on the perennial species of Adonis and their geographical

segregation.” In this paper Franchet points out that the

apparent petiole with trisect leaf is really an arrested axis

bearing two or three leaves, of which the petioles resemble

the divisions of a single petiole, and were mistaken for

them. The so-called leaf is therefore a branch, inserted

in the axis of a leafless or almost leafless sheath. This

arrangement Franchet regards as common to most pro-

bably all the species of the Consiligo group of Adonis ; they

Aveust Ist, 1896.

are in fact branching herbs, though, as in A. amurensis,

the main axis may be the only flowering one.

The Japanese work cited above consists of twenty-one

figures of varieties, or more probably garden sports of

A. amurensis, of all sizes, with single“and double flowers,

white, grey, yellow, green, purple, rose-colrd. and scarlet.

Some are double, like “ bachelor’s buttons;” others have

five laciniate petals, like a Dianthus. The sepals are

often represented as ovate, acuminate, and very dark-colrd.,

and there are deviations from the type which might excite

suspicion as to the good faith of the artist.

The figure of the plant here given is from a specimen

that flowered in a cool house of the Royal Gardens in

February of this year. The red flower, fig. 3, is from the

Japanese work.

Descr.—A glabrous or sparsely hairy perennial-rooted

herb, Stem eight to eighteen inches high, simple or

branched, as thick as a swan’s quill, leafless below, but

clothed with long membranous pale sheaths an inch long

and more, the upper of which have sometimes foliaceous

tips. Cauline leaves (really 2-3 connate leaves) three to

six inches long and broad, the lower stalked, the upper

sessile, orbicular-ovate in outline, trisect to the base;

segments (true leaves) pinnatisect to the base; segments

crowded, linear-oblong, pinnatifidly acutely incised, dark

green above, pale beneath; petiole (a branch or secondary

axis) of the lower leaves three inches long or more, very

stout, connate with, or in the axil of a linear membranous

sheath. Flowers two inches in diameter, shortly stoutly

peduncled, golden-yellow, white, rose-colrd., or bright red.

Sepals oblong, obtuse, concave, greenish or brownish dor-

sally. Petals twenty to fifty, rather longer than the sepals,

narrowly oblong-obovate, or subspathulate, tip rounded

entire or erose. Stamens very many, about one-third the

length of the petals; anthers small, oblong, yellow. Carpels

in a globose head, subglobose, pubescent; style as long as

the ovary, recurved ; ripe carpels globose, densely pubes-

cent, style uncinate and recurved on the ovary.—J. D, H.

Fig. 1, Stamen; 2, carpels :—both enlarged ; 3, flower from the plate in the

Fu Ku Jus6 Schin Dsu, of the natural size,

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SOLANUM cernuvm.

Native of South Brazil.

Nat. Ord. Sonanacem.—Tribe SoLane&.

Genus Sonanum, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 888.)

Soranum (Pachystemonum) cernuwm; arbuscula orgyalis, candice valido

erecto apice ramoso ramis crassis petiolis costa foliorum subtus cymzque

ramis ramulisque pilis flexuosis brunneis undique dense crinitis, foliis

amplis oblongis obovatisve acuminatis marginibus undulatis basi rotun-

datis in petiolum brevem crassum angustatis supra levibus nervis utrinque

6-10, marginibus undulatis, subtus nervosis tomentoso-leprosis albido-

- spadiceis, junioribus utrinque sparse stellato-pubescentibus, racemis

suboppositifoliis decurvis pedunculo brevi ramisque crassis, floribus

confertis brevissime pedicellatis pollicem diametro albis, calyce brevi

subcampanulato inequaliter 4-5 lobo post anthesin inflato baccam

tegente, lobis ovatis obtusis stellatim pilosis, corolla 5-partita, antheris

ates poris introrsum spectantibus, ovario apice piloso, bacca globosa

irsuta.

S. cernuum, Velloz. Fl. Flum. p. 84, Ill. vol. ii. t. 103. Mart. Reise, vol. i.

p- 282; Syst. Mat. Med. Veg. Bras. p.10. Sendtn. in Mart. Fl. Bras.

vol. x. p. 42.

S. paleatum, Schott mss. in Herb. Vind. n. 5419.:

S. jubatum, Dunal mss. in Herb. Banks ex DC. Prodr, vol. xiii. pars. i. p. 132.

Wawra Bot. Reis. Pr. Saxe-Coburg, vol. i. t. 66.

A very-singular looking plant, from its stout habit and

the dense clothing of long flexuous chaffy, sometimes

secund hairs resembling the fur of an animal, and giving

rise to the Portuguese name of Bolsa de Pastor, or

** Braco de Preguiga,”’ arm of the ant-eater, It is a native

of the provinces of Rio and Minas Geraes, growing in stony

soil in the deciduous forests, and is a reputed sudorific of

the Brazilian Pharmacopcea. The drawing here reproduced

gives no idea of the size and robustness which the branches

and petioles attain, or the length and breadth of the leaves,

es of the cymes, which are sometimes as large as the

st. | :

Dunal in De Candolle’s Prodromus, adopted jubatum, a

ms, name of his own, for this plant, in place of the earlier

cernuum Of Vellozo, and this though Vellozo’s had been

taken up by Martius and by Sendtner. Dunal gives as

his only reason that Vellozos’s name was not sufficiently

Aveust Ist, 1896,

applicable (‘‘non satis congruens.”) I suppose that he

overlooked the decurved or drooping inflorescence, which

is represented in Vellozo’s figure, as well as in that of

Waura, and of this work, from any of which it may be

seen that the name cernuwm is very appropriate.

Descr.—A small tree or subarboreous shrub, with an

erect cylindric stem or trunk, six to eight feet high, naked

below, and furnished with short branches at the top;

upper part of the stem, branches, midrib of leaves beneath,

branches of the cyme and calyces crinite with long brown

flexuous chaffy hairs, nearly a quarter of an inch long.

Leaves up to two feet long, broadly oblong or obovate,

acuminate, base rounded or narrowed below into a very

stout petiole, margins undulate, above bright green and

shining with eight or more pairs of arching nerves, be-

neath white, with scattered or appressed silvery or brown

scurf and stellate hairs; young leaves stellately hairy on

both surfaces. Cymes drooping, sub-leaf-opposed; peduncle

short, and branches stout, green except for the brown

hairs; flowers an inch in diameter, subsessile, pure white

with golden anthers. Calyx subcampanulate, crinite, very

unequally three to five-cleft ; lobes obtuse, or if of connate

lobes then fewer and cleft at the apex. Covolla-lobes ovate,

acute. Stamens short; anthers oblong, lobes obtuse, pores

towards the apex opening towards the style. Ovary oblong,

top hairy; style slender, stigma narrowly clavate. Berry

(as described by Martius). globose, hirsute, enclosed in the

enlarged calyx.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Stellate hairs from the undersurface of the leaves; 2, calyx;

3, anthers ; 4, pistil:— AZZ enlarged.

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CHONEMORPHA macrorHyLtia.

‘Native of India and the Malay Islands. |

Nat. Ord. Apocynace®.—Tribe EcHITIDER.

Genus Caonemorena, G. Don. (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 720.)

CuoneMorena macrophylla; frutex scandens glaber v. pubescens, ramis

crassiusculis teretibus, foliis amplis orbicularibus ovatis obovatisve cuspi-

datis basi cuneatis rotundatis cordatisve sepius pubescentibus, nervis

utrinque cost 10-12 arcuatis nervulisque transversis creberrimis pro-

minulis, cymis axillaribus et pseudoterminalibus breviter-pedunculatis

paucifloris, ramis divaricatis, bracteis minutis ovatis, pedicellis crassius-

culis, calyce oblongo tereti breviter 5-fido demum tabescente brunneo

medio constricto tubum corollz# arcte cingente, corolle tubo gracili 14-

poll. longo, limbi 3-poll. diam. lobis trapeziformibus, disco 5-lobo,

folliculis 12-18-pollicaribus.

C. macrophylla, G. Don Gen. Syst. Gard. vol. iv. p. 76. -A.DQ. Prodr. vol.

viii. p. 430. Wight Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 432. Brandis For. Flor. N.W.

Ind. p. 328. Kurz For. Flor. Brit. Burm, vol. ii. p. 187. Hook. f. Fl.

Brit. Ind. vol. iii. p. 661. Gamble Trees, §c., of Darjeeling, p. 56.

°C. grandiflora, G. Don l.c.

C. mollis, Miguel Fl. Ind. Bat. vol. ii. p. 444, fide Kurz in Journ. As. Soc.

Beng. vol. xlvi. pars II. (1877) p. 257.

Echites macrophylla, Roxb. Fl. Ind. vol. ii. p.13. Wall. Cat. n. 1657.

E. grandis, Wall. l.c. n. 1658. Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. p. 1138. Dalz. & Gibs.

Bombay Flor. p. 147.

PE. macrantha, Spreng. Syst. Veg. vol. i. p. 632, A.DC. l. ¢. p. 477.

Epichysianthus macrophyllus, Voigt Hort. Suburb. Calcutt. p. 523.

Belutta-Kaka-Kodi, Rheede Hort. Matlab. vol. ix. t. 5, 6.

One of the commonest and handsomest of the white-

flowered climbing shrubs of Indian tropical forests, ex-

tending from the foot of the Himalaya in Kumaon, east-

ward along the whole range, and southward to Travancore,

Ceylon, the Andaman Islands, Malayan Peninsula, Sumatra

and Java. Throughout this wide range of distribution it

presents little variation except in the size and shape of the

leaves, their hairyness, and somewhat in the dimensions

of the corolla. In the forests of Sikkim, where it reaches

an elevation of 6000 ft., it climbs the loftiest trees, often

covering their tops with a white sheet of flowers. On in-

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cision the trunk yields a white coagulable milk, which is

described by Gamble as “ a good sort of Caoutchouc.”’

Chonemorpha macrophylla was raised at the Royal

Gardens, Kew, from seeds sent from those of Calcutta in

1884. The plant is trained against a rafterin the Victoria

Regia House, where it develops its sweet-scented flowers

in July.

Descr—A very large scandent shrub, more or less

pubescent, or with the leaves almost hirsute beneath ;

branches stout, terete. Leaves large, up to ten inches

long and broad, opposite, shortly petioled, from orbicular

to ovate or obovate, cuspidate, base cuneate, rounded, or

subcordate, dark green above with ten to twelve pairs of

sunk arching nerves, beneath always more or less pubes-

cent, very pale green, with prominent nerves and cross-

nervules; petiole terete. Flowers in subterminal shortly

peduncled cymes, with widely spreading terete green

branches and pedicels speckled with red; pedicels one

half to three-fourths of an inch long; bracts minute,

ovate, acute, brown. Calyx three-fourths of an inch

long, tubular, terete, unequally shortly 5-lobed, at length

on withering red-brown and tightly constricting the tube

of the corolla. Corolla white, tube proper very short,

hairy within, produced into a tubular terete throat an inch

and a half long above the insertion of the stamens; limb

three inches broad, lobes broadly obliquely triangular or

trapezoid from a very narrow base, white, yellowish to-

wards the narrow mouth. Stamens inserted at the mouth

of the tube at the bottom of the long throat, filaments

very short, pubescent ; anthers sagittate. Disk five-lobed.

Ovary two-grooved, narrowed into a long two-grooved

style which is hairy at the top and terminated by a

conical bifid stigma constricted at the base. Iruit of two

long straight hard trigonous follicles, twelve to eighteen

inches long. Seeds flat with a long tuft of hair.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Base of calyx and corolla bisected; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, ovary

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DENDROBIUM Loaovis,

Native of the Malay Peninsula.

Nat. Ord. Oncu1pEa.—Tribe EripEnpRrEA,

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

DeEnpropium (Aporum) Leonis; caulibus coespitosis compressis foliosis, foliis

persistentibus distichis equitantibus verticalibus late ovatis obtusis

crasse coriaceis enerviis, vaginis brevibus membranaceis applanatis,

floribus in apicibus ramorum solitariis, pedicellis brevibus bracteis

scariosis demum laceris vaginatis, floribus ? poll. longis, sepalis lateralibus

triangulari-rotundatis aureis basi fusco-sanguineo striolatis in mentum

latum rotundatum cum columna confluentibus, dorsali multo minore ovato-

rotundato, petalis ellipticis obtusis sepalum dorsale s«quantibus, labello

lineari-oblongo recurvo integro ecristato, disco paullo incrassato sanguineo

striato apice late rotundato incrassato hispidulo aureo, anthera vertice

biloba.

D. Leonis, Reichd. f. in Walp. Ann. Bot. vol. vi. p. 280. Hook. f. Fl. Brit.

Ind. vol. v. p. 723; in Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calcutt. vol. v. part I. p. 7,

tab. 10.

Aporum Leonis, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. (1840) Misc. p. 59. Griffith in Cale.

Journ. Nat. Hist. vol. v. (1845) p. 368.

A. indivisum, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. n. 2081; Gen. & Sp. Orchid. p. 70 (non

Blume).

The curious Orchid here figured was introduced from

Singapore sixty years ago by the famous botanical collector

Cuming, who sent it to Loddiges, under the local name of

**Lion’s mouth,” given it from a fancied resemblance of

the flower to the open mouth of that animal, the lip repre-

senting its tongue. It had been previously found by Mr.

Prince, who sent it to Dr. Wallich, then Superintendent of

the Calcutta Gardens, with a rude drawing from which

Dr. Lindley erroneously referred it to Aporwm indivisum

of Blume. A. Leonis is probably common in the Malaya

Peninsula, having been found in Perak, Malacca, Singa-—

pore, and extending thence to Java. Mr. Ridley informs

a by letter that the flowers are exquisitely scented of

anilla. :

The section Aporum, to which D. Leonis belongs, differs

widely in habit from other Dendrobias, owing to the

vertical direction (that is the lateral compression ) of the

evergreen distichous leaves, the anatomical study of which

SErremBeER Ist, 1896.

would be worth undertaking. One species has been pre-

viously figured in this work, D. anceps, Sw. of Bengal,

t. 3608, which has axillary flowers with minute bracts.

In D. Leonis the bracts in some specimens have broken up

into a brush of brown fibres, out of which the flower

arises. :

Plants of D. Leonis were received at the Royal Gardens

from Mr. Curtis, F.L.S., Assistant Superintendent of the

Garden and Forest Department of Penang, who procured

them from Perak in the adjoining Peninsula. One of

these flowered in a tropical House in April of this year.

Descr.—Stems tufted with fibrous roots, branching from

the base; branches four to six inches long, one and a half

inch broad across the distichous leaves which clothe the

branches from base to apex. Leaves about an inch long,

ovate-oblong, obtuse, equitant and distichously imbricating,

their flattened scarious sheaths embracing the broad flat-

tened stem, dark green, hard and fleshy, quite smooth,

nerveless ; sometimes, when the internodes are lengthened,

the leaf breaks away from the scarious sheath, and the

latter presents a truncate face of a pale grey colour con-

trasting with the dark green of the adjacent leaves.

Flowers solitary, and very shortly pedicelled at the ends of

the branches, about three-fourths of an inch long by nearly

as broad, of a dirty golden-yellow, streaked with dull

purple at the base of the lateral sepals and lip. Lateral

sepals much larger than the rest of the flower, very

broadly ovate, obtuse, connate with the foot of the column

into a rounded mentum ; dorsal sepal very small, orbicular-

ovate. Petals about as large as the dorsal sepal, ovate-

oblong, obtuse. Lip as long as the lateral sepals, linear-

oblong, undivided, disk with a thickened median band

terminating in a rounded broad thickened setulose tip.

Column very short. Anther hemispheric, crown 2-lobed.

—J.D. H.

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BAUHINIA Gatpint.

Native of the Transvaal.

Nat. Ord. Legumrmosr“2.—Tribe Bavainieg.

Genus Bavainia, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 575.)

Bavurnta (Phanera) Galpini; frutex subscandens fere glaberrimus, ramulis

rufo-puberulis, foliis petiolatis orbicularibus v. transverse late oblongis

breviter 2-lobis, 7-nerviis, basi rotundatis v. truncatis, lobis rotundatis,

subtus glabris puberulisve, petiolo lamina § v. } breviore, stipulis parvis

subulatis, racemis terminalibus et oppositifoliis 6-10-floris, rachi pedun-

culis calycibusque ferrugineo-puberulis, bracteis parvis subulatis, calycis

tubo subpollicari recto, limbo tubo subzequilongo spathaceo, petalis 1-14

poll. longis coccineis, limbo orbiculari cuspidato ungue zquilongo,

staminibus 3 perfectis ceteris brevibus subulatis, antheris flavis, ovario

pubescente, stigmate capitellato, legumine 3-5-poll. longo lineari-oblongo

compresso basi attenuato apice decurvo rostrato dorso alte costato,

seminibus oblongis.

B. Galpini, NV. £. Br. in Gard. Chron. (1891) vol. i. p. 728. Oliverin Hook. Ic.

Fi, t. 1994.

According to a note accompanying dried specimens in

the Kew Herbarium, Bauhinia Galpint was discovered by

Mr. W. Nelson at Dorn Spruit Spelunken, under the

tropic of Capricorn, in 1880. Specimens have since been

received from other localities in the Transvaal, as Baber-

ton, the De Kaap Valley, &c., by Messrs. Thorncroft,

Wood, &c.; and both seeds and dried- specimens from

Mrs. K. Saunders of Torgaati, Natal, where the plant is

cultivated. It advances far into the tropic, Mr. Last

having found it in the Makua country, Mozambique. At

Baberton it appears to be a common shrub, clothing the

hills in great masses five to ten feet high, conspicuous by

the bright scarlet flowers. ;

In the Royal Gardens it has attained a height of eight

feet in the Succulent House, where it flowered for the first

time in October, 1895. i

Descr.—A half climbing shrub, five to ten feet high ; bark

brown, of young shoots rusty-puberulous. Leaves petio-

late, one to three inches long, orbicular or transversely

broadly oblong, broadly 2-lobed from one-fifth to one-half

their length, 7-nerved, base rounded or truncate, pale

SerremBER Ist, 1899,

green above, still paler and glabrous or puberulous be-

neath ; petiole about one-fourth of an inch ; stipules minute,

subulate, deciduous. Racemes leaf-opposed on_ short

‘lateral shoots, 6-10-fld.; peduncle short, and rachis

pedicels and calyx rusty-puberulous ; bracts one-eighth to

one-quarter of an inch, subulate, fugacious. Calyw-tube

three-fourths to one and a quarter inch long, cylindric,

linb about as- long as the tube, spathaceous. Petals one

to one and a half inch long, crimson or scarlet, claw as

long as the orbicular cuspidate limb. Stamens three

fertile, the remainder reduced to short subulate filaments,

fertile nearly as long as the petals; anthers yellow, linear-

oblong. Ovary long-stipitate, rusty-pubescent; style

pubescent, stigma capitate. Pod three to five inches long

by nearly one inch broad, flat, narrowed into a stipes at

the base, and into a decurved beak at the apex, convex

margin with two strong keels. Seeds half an inch long,

oblong, compressed, dark brown.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower with calyx and corolla removed; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, ovary;

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RHOD ODENDRON Smrenovi.

Native of Trans-Caucasia.

Nat. Ord. Ertcacka2.—Tribe RuoporEx.

Genus Ruopopenpkon, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 599.)

RHODODENDRON (Eurhododendron) Smirnovi; subarboreum, ramulis robustis

foliisque subtus lana griseo-alba appressa opertis, foliis lineari-oblongis

obtusiusculis in petiolum robustum brevem griseum angustatis crasse

coriaceis marginibus subrecurvis supra saturate viridibus subopacis, costa

pallida subtus valida nervisque obscuris lana opertis, floribus in corymbum

magnum globosum dense aggregatis breviter pedicellatis, pedicellis robustis

calyceque brevi obtuse 5-fido lanatis, corolla ampla infundibulare pallide

rosea v. alba profunde 5-fida, tubo brevi, lobis amplis patulis rotundatis

marginibus undulato-crispatis saturatius roseis, dorsali punctato, stami-

nibus 10 declinatis filamentis roseis infra medium pilosis antheris aureis,

ovario conico-cylindraceo tomentoso 5-loculari, stylo incurvo rubro

stigmate truncato. =

R. Smirnovi, Trautv. ea Regel in Gartenfl. vol. xxxiv. (1885) p.335, and vol. xxxv.

(1885) t. 1226, f. 11, d-g. (execrabilis).

Two noble species of Rhododendron, Rk. Smirnovi and

R. Ungerni, showing a marked affinity in foliage with some

Himalayan congeners, have comparatively recently been

discovered in the mountains South of the Caucasus by

Baron Ungern Sternberg of Artwin. Both occupy a

region intermediate between those of BR. ponticwm, which

ascends to 5000 ft., and below that of R. caucasicum,

which descends to 8000 ft., where they form small bushy

trees, fifteen to twenty feet high. The more precise loca-

lity is 100 versts (about sixty-six miles) from Batoum.

Dried specimens of both were sent by the Baron to M.

Smirnow, by whom they were communicated to Prof.

Trautvetter of St. Petersburgh, and were there described

by Dr. Regel in the work cited above. Later, seeds of both

were obtained by Massalsky, a collector for the Imperial

Botanical Garden of St. Petersburgh, a portion of which

were sent to Kew by Dr. Regel in 1866, and from these

the plant here figured was raised. It flowered when only

a foot high, in the early part of May, 1894. Mr. Watson

informs me that it is perfectly hardy at Kew, forming a

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compact bush, with thick leathery leaves, and that seedlings

from crosses with it and other garden forms of the genus

are now growing at Kew.

Of the Himalayan species, R. Smirnovi is nearest to PR.

lanatum in foliage, differing from it and from all the large

Indian species with woolly undersurfaces of the leaves in

the infundibular corolla.

Descr.—A small robust tree, fifteen to twenty feet high ;

branches stout, compact, young clothed with a grey

felted wool, as are the leaves beneath petioles pedicels

and calyx. Leaves three to five inches long, by one to

one and a quarter broad, narrowed into a stout petiole,

elliptic-oblong, subacute, thickly coriaceous, margins sub-

recurved, upper surface dark green with a yellowish

sunken midrib, and very obscure nerves, under grey-white

or very pale brown, with a stout midrib; nerves six to

eight pairs; petiole half an inch long. Flowers in a com-

pact globose sessile head six inches in diameter; pedicels

short, stout. Calyx a small tomentose 5-lobed cup ;

lobes broadly ovate, obtuse. Corolla funnel-shaped, with

a short tube, and very large open corolla, three inches in

diameter, rose-red ; lobes rounded, with broad crisped and

curled darker rose-colrd. margins; upper lobe speckled

on the disk with scattered oval brownish spots. Stamens

10, declinate; filaments slender, rose-colrd., hairy in the

lower half; anthers oblong, yellow. Ovary cylindric-

conic, tomentose, 5-celled ; style recurved, stigma simply

truncate.—J. D. H.

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CELMISIA Moyrot.

Native of New Zealand.

Nat. Ord. Composita.—Tribe ASTEROIDES.

Genus Cetmisia, Cass.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 278.)

Cetmista Munroi; caule robusto, foliis perplurimis 3-8-poll. longis 3-1} poll.

latis sessilibus anguste lineari-oblongis acuminatis coriaceis subplicatis

marginibus recurvis supra laete viridibus pellicula gossypina argenteo-

nitidula obtectis enerviis, subtus lana sericea argentea appressa opertis,

costa crassa, scapo foliis longiore valido gossypino, bracteis linearibus

numerosis elongatis erectis, capitulo 1-2} poll. lato, involucri late cam-

panulati bracteis numerosissimis linearibus coriaceis tomentosis erectis

recurvisve, flosculis radii perplurimis confertis 2-3-seriatis, tubo glabro,

limbi linearis apice 3-crenato, acheniis linearibus obtuse angulatis glabris

hispidulisve, pappi setis flexuosis scaberulis.

C. Munroi, Hook. f. Handb. New Zeal, Fl, p. 133.

Celmisia Munroi is one of the handsomest of the genus

which represents in New Zealand the Asters of other parts of

the world. Upwards of thirty species are known to inhabit

the Southern Islands of the Archipelago, only two of which

are also found in the Northern; and of these two one, C.

longifolia, Cass., extends to the Alps of Australia and

Tasmania. This latter is the only species that ranges

throughout the whole length of the New Zealand Islands

from the Bay of Islands to Otago.

Many attempts have been made to introduce not a few

of the species of Celmisia into English gardens, but with

little success. In so far as I am aware, only two have

been figured from liying plants grown in this country, C.

spectabilis, Hook. f., Tab. 66538, and C. Lindsayi, Hook f.,

Tab. 7184, both of this work.

Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons are the introducers of C.

Munroi, as they were of CO. spectabilis. The former was

received at Kew, under the name of C. coriacea, Hook. f.,

a closely allied species with leaves and flowers as large,

but which differs in the pubescent tubes of the corolla and

compressed achenes. | ;

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1896.

Celmisia Munroi inhabits the northern half of the Middle

Island of New Zealand, at elevations of 1500 to 4500 ft.

It was discovered by Dr. Munro of Nelson, in the Upton

downs of the Marlborough province, and it has since

been found at various localities about Mt. Cook and

elsewhere in the Canterbury province.

_ The plant here figured flowered in a greenhouse of the

Royal Gardens in May of the present year, the flower

— lasting, as Mr. Watson informs me, about a fortnight.

Deser.—Whole plant except the upper surface of the

leaves and florets clothed with a snow-white cottony ap-—

pressed wool. Stem short, as thick as the thumb, crowned

with a thick mass of erect and recurved linear-lanceolate

leaves, and bearing one or more erect single-fid. scapes.

Leaves sessile, three to eight inches long by one-third to

one and a half inches broad, acuminate or subacute,

coriaceous, subplicate, margins recurved, midrib very

broad at the base, nerves almost parallel, upper surface

dark green, clothed with a silvery pellicle, undersurface

silvery-woolly with a stout midrib. Scape longer than the

leaves, stout, erect, clothed with erect linear bracts one to

two inches long, that are green above and silvery-tomen-

tose dorsally. Head one to two anda half inches broad.

Involucre broadly campanulate; bracts many-seriate, erect

or recurved, linear or subulate, acuminate, dorsally woolly.

Ray-flowers many, in two to three series, tube glabrous ;

limb linear, white, two-thirds of an inch long or less, tip

3-toothed. Disc-flowers golden-yellow, very many, tube

5-cleft. Achenes linear, obtusely angled, glabrous or sparsely

hispidulous ; pappus-hairs rigid, rather flexuous, unequal,

scaberulous.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Involucral bract ; 2, floret of ray; 3, do. of disk; 4, hair of pappus;

5, stamen ; 6, style-arms of ray floret :—<Ad/ enlarged,

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ACTINIDIA POLYGAMA,

Native of Japan,

Nat. Ord. TernsTROEMIACE2%.—Tribe SAURAUVJER.

Genus Actinipia, Lindl.; (Benth.“& Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 184.)

Actinip1a polygama ; frutex gracilis, alte scandens, glaberrimus, foliis longe

petiolatis late ovatis ovato-oblongisve acutis v. acuminatis setuloso-

serrulatis membranaceis undulatis basi obtusis rotundatis cordatisve,

supra laete viridibus subtus pallidis, nervis utrinque costae 6-9, petiolis

roseis, floribus subglobosis nutantibus in corymbos’ axillares breve

pedunculatos subtrifloros dispositis, sepalis ovato-oblongis obtusis, petalis

orbicularibus concavis albo-virescentibus, staminibus perplurimis, ovariv

laberrimo, stylo brevi crasso, stigmatibus ad 20 lineari-clavatis radianti-

us, bacca oblonga. -

Actinipia polygama, Planch. in Hook. Lond. Journ, Bot. vol. vi. (1847)

p- 802, in nota. Franch. & Sav. Enum. Pl. Japon. vol. i. (1875) p. 59.

Miquel Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. vol. iii. (1867) p. 15. Lauche in

Monatschr. Ver. Gartenb. Berl. vol. xxii. (187) iE 319, t. 4, fig. 3-8.

Bolle in Deutsch. Garten (1881) p. 47, eum Ie. Ito, Koishik. Bot. Gard.

vol. ii. t. 20.

TrocHostiema polygamum & T.. repandum, Sieb. & Zuce. in Abhandl. Akad.

Muench. vol, iii. pars. II. (1843), p. 728, t. II. fig. 2.

A graceful copiously branched climber, the branches

festooned with leaves of a delicate consistence, and bright

pale green colour, thus forming a very ornamental conser-

vatory plant; flourishing also under a verandah in many

parts of England, and unprotected in the western

counties. The genus to which it belongs is confined to

the Eastern Himalaya, China and Japan, 12 species in

all being enumerated, of which some may be synonyms,

as A. arguta, Miq., which is, I suspect, referable to A.

callosa, Lindl. The name polygama is inappropriate in so far

as the Kew specimens are concerned, the flowers examined

being all hermaphrodite.

The specimen here figured was sent by the Rev. Canon

Ellacombe, of Bitton, where it flowered in the open air in

June, 1895. At Kewit hasthe protection of the ‘Temperate

House, where it festoons one of the pillars for thirty feet,

and flowers annually,

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Deser.—A tall climber; stem slender, clothed with

leafing and flowering branches, quite glabrous. Branch-

lets slender, terete; bark lenticillate, red-brown; of

flowering branchlets dull olive-green, contrasting with the

rose-coloured petioles. Leaves three to four inches long,

and often as broad, long-petioled, broadly ovate or ovate-

oblong, acute, setulosely closely serrulate, membranous.

undulate, bright green, base cuneate rounded or cordate ;

nerves six to nine pairs, arched ; petiole one to one and a

half inches long, slender, rose-colrd. Flowers three-

quarters of an inch in diameter, subglobose, in usually

three-flowered shortly peduncled axillary cymes, pendulous,

faintly tinged with green; pedicels half to three-quarters

of an inch long, very slender ; bracts at their bases minute,

setaceous. Sepals about half as long as the petals, ovate-

oblong, obtuse, green, deciduous. Petals orbicular, very

concave, incurved. Stamens very many in a whorl round

the ovary, included; filaments filiform, glabrous; anthers

oblong. Ovary sessile, oblong, terete, very many-celled ;

cells small, surrounding a broad axis. Style short, stout,

crowned with about twenty radiating narrowly clavate

stigmas. Fruit a many-seeded, oblong, fleshy, yellow-

green berry, nearly an inch long—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Portion of margin of leaf; 2 and 3, anthers; 4, ovary; 5, transverse

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ALOCASIA revursa,

Native of the Philippine Islands.

Nat. Ord. ArorpE&.—Tribe Conocasizz.

Genus Atocasia, Schott.; (Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 975.)

Axocasta (Eualocasia) reversa; humilis, foliis 5-8 poll. longis deflexis ovatis

oblongisve acutis cuspidatisve basi cordatis sinu angusto brevi v. ad

petiolum extenso, nervis utrinque 4 cum basilari reversa, supra griseo-

viridibus secus costam et nervos late saturate viridibus, margine anguste

aureo, subtus pallide viridibus, petiolo 6-pollicari tereti pallide viridi,

vaginis pallidis membranaceis apicibus nudis v. subfoliaceis, scapo 4—5-

eet pallido, spatha 23-pollicari alba, tubo ovoideo, limbo tubo

uplo longiore oblongo acuto demum revoluto purpureo-marginato,

spadice 2-pollicari, inflor. masc. $ poll. longa alba, fem. } poll. laxiflora,

staminodiis paucis rubris, appendice fusiformi ochraceo sinuato-ruguloso,

Ao ag pene stylis elongatis, stigmatibus dilatatis integris y. 2-3-

obulatis.

Atocasia reversa, V, EH. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1890, vol. ii. p. 38.

A, reversa is closely allied to A. sinuata, N. E. Br. (in

Gard. Chron, (1888) ii. 678), also a native of the Philip-

pine Islands, which differs in its very much larger size,

and in the sinuate margins of the obtuse differently coloured

leaves with more numerous nerves: in both species the

tendency of the sheaths to bear foliaceous tips is very

manifest, though more so in A. sinuata. Mr. Brown re-

marks that the darker shade of colour along the midrib

and nerves of the leaf of A. veversa is the reverse of what

is usual in the genus. In the specimens which he described

the leaves are cleft to the insertion of the petiole, in those

here figured the basal lobes are connate almost throughout

their length.

A. reversa was imported from the Philippine Islands by

Messrs. Sander of St. Albans, from whom the specimen

here figured was obtained. It flowered in October, 1895,

in a stove of the Royal Gardens, Kew. ae

_ Deser.—Stem very short or 0. Leaves five to eight

inches long by three to four broad, deflexed from the

petiole, oblong or ovate-oblong, acute or cuspidate, base

cordate, with a narrow sinus which sometimes extends

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to the insertion of the petiole, grey-green above, passing -

into dark green in broad undefined bands along the midrib

and nerves, under surface uniformly very pale green,

margins narrowly bordered with yellow, basal lobes

parallel obtuse; nerves four arching pairs, and a pair re-

versed and running through the basal lobes nearly parallel

to their inner margins, each giving off two branches; petiole

six inches long, terete, pale green, as thick as a goose-

quill. Sheaths at the base of the petiole elongate, mem-

branous, very pale, sometimes tipped with green or

subfoliaceous. Scape three to five inches long, pale green.

Spathe two to two and a half inches long, white, mem-

branous, with narrow purple margins ; tube ovoid, half as

long as the oblong acute revolute limb. Spadix two

inches long, lower one-third female, with rather distant

green ovaries ; median portion male, three-fourths of an

inch long, white, separated from the female by a short

naked space; appendix cylindric, rugulose, ochreous.

Male fl. of many narrow anther-cells together forming

a cylindric truncate column. Ovaries ellipsoid, style rather

long, stigma dilated obliquely 2-3 lobed ; ovules 4-7, basal.

~—J. DH.

Fig. 1, Spadix; 2, male flowers; 8, a female flower; 4, the same bisected

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LATHYRUS onpburatvs.

Native of the shores of the Dardanelles.

Nat. Ord. Lecuminosa.—Tribe Victrz. ¢

Genus Latuyrrus, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 526.)

Latayrus (Eulathyrus) uxdulatus; perennis, glaberrimus, caulibus anguste

s=. alatis, stipulis semisagittatis 2-partitis segmento antico subulato-lanceo-

fie late defiexo incurvo, postico parvo subulato erecto, petiolo angustis#ime

alato in stipitem gracilem apice cirrhiferam producto, foliolis unijugis

ovatis mucronatis 5-9-nerviis marginibus undulatis, subtus glaucis

nervis prominentibus, flexuosis anastomosantibus, pedunculis folia

superantibus strictis 5~7-floris, calycis lobis tubo subequilongis lanceo-

latis recurvis, corolla purpureo-violacea, ovario pubescente, legumine

longe lineari apice incurvo attenuato rostrato sutura superiore carinata,

seminibus oblongis rugulosis.

L, undulatus, Boiss. Diagn. Pl. Or. Ser. I. pars. ii. p. 41; Fl. Orient. vol. ii.

p- 611. ‘

L, latifolius, Stbth. & Sm. Prodr. Fl. Graec. vol. ii. p. 69 (non Linn.).

L. Sibthorpii, Baker (ex Hort.) in Gard. Chron. (1890) vol. i. p. 704.

Lathyrus undulatus is a critical species, being very

closely allied to the oriental L. rotundifolius, Willd., and

to the Western European L. latifolius, Linn., with which

latter Sibthorp confounded it. Of these L. rotundifolius

(Tab. 6522) is easily distinguished by its much larger size

and stouter habit, broader leaflets, much larger broader

stipules, numerous crowded smaller flowers of a dull rose

colour, and short calyx-lobes. JL. latifolius (regarded by

some botanists as a variety of L. sylvestris, L.) has lan-

ceolate leaflets, and numerous much larger violet-purple

flowers with a green keel.

L. undulatus has been Jong known in cultivation under the

garden name of L. Sibthorpit (which Mr. Baker has adopted),

and which seems to indicate that it was introduced by

Sibthorp, who certainly was its discoverer, into the

Oxford Botanic Gardens. According to Mr. Hinds of

Newton Abbot, whose observations are given by Mr.

Baker in the Gardener’s Chronicle, it flowers from a fort-

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night to three weeks before L. rotundifolius, and is a

much smaller plant, does not grow above three feet high,

and can nearly or quite support itself without a stick. Its

geographical area is very restricted, being confined to the

neighbourhood of Constantinople, and the opposite coast of

Bithynia, where it grows amongst bushes. According to

Boissier L. rotwndifolius is also a ‘native of Byzantium, and

extends thence to mid-Russia, Armenia and Persia; but Mr.

Baker considers this an error, and that L. rotundifolius will

prove to be restricted to the Caucasus and Crimea.

Plants of L. undulatus were received at the Royal

Gardens, Kew, from those of Glasnevin in 1895, and from

one of these the accompanying drawing was made in May,

1896.

Deser.—Quite glabrous. Stem two to three feet high,

slender, scandent, narrowly winged. Stipules semisagittate,

one-half to two-thirds of an inch long, bipartite, with a

rounded sinus; segments divaricate, upper short, subu-

late, erect, lower much longer, subulate-lanceolate, erect or

deflexed, Leaves with two opposite leaflets, a rather stout

compressed petiole, about an inch long, terminated by a very

slender rigid stipes, which bears a trifid terminal cirrhus ;

leaflets two to three inches long, sessile, elliptic or ovate,

acute or mucronate, 5—7-nerved, dark green above, pale

beneath, margins undulate, nerves very slender and

anastomosing above, prominent asis the midrib beneath.

Peduncle much longer than the leaves, erect, slender,

loosely five- to seven-flowered. Flowers about half an inch

broad, bright rose-purple, fading to violet, inodorous.

Calyz-tube campanulate, lobes lanceolate, or deltoidly

Janceolate. Standard orbicular, not callous at the base.

Wing-petals oblong, tips and basal auricle rounded. Keel-

petals semicircular, hardly auricled. Ovary pubescent,

style short, stigma trulliform. Pod two to three inches

long, linear, flat, glabrous, gradually narrowed from the |

middle to the base, tip incurved, upper suture keeled.

Seeds oblong, rugulose.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Calyx and stamens; 2, wing-petal; 3, keel-petal; 4, ovary :—All

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FRITILLARIA nonrtis.,

Native of Armenia.

Nat. Ord. Littacra.—Tribe Tunirez.

Genus Frititiaria, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook, f, Gen. Piant. vol, iii. p. 817.)

Fritittaria (Monocodon) nobilis bulbo globoso, tunicis paucis parvis ovatis,

caule unifloro brevissimo, nodis foliiferis sepissime 2, foliis erectis in-

ferioribus oppositis lanceolatis superioribus 3 linearibus, perianthio magno

campanulato cernuo breviter pedunculato, segmentis oblongis extus con-

coloribus glaucescentibus rubro-brunneis intus flavo-viridibus maculis

copiosis rubro-brunneis praditis supra basin foveolatis, foveolé parva

oblonga, staminibus perianthio duplo brevioribus filamentis glabris

antheris lineari-oblongis, ovario oblongo-cylindrico, stylo ovario longiore

apice tricuspidato, fructu oblongo ad basin attenuato.

This pretty little Fritillaria is remarkable for its dwarf

habit and large dark claret-coloured flowers copiously

spotted on the inside. It was discovered by Sintenis in

1890 in the pine-woods of Koessedagh in Turkish Armenia,

and was imported in plenty in a living state and distri-

buted by Herr Max Leichtlin, from whom the bulbs from

which the plants here drawn, which were raised in the

Royal Gardens, Kew, in the spring of 1896, were received.

It has been regarded as a variety both of the Caucasian

F. latifolia, Willd., and the Persian F. Kotschyana, Herb.,

but in my opinion is quite distinct from both of them.

Descr.—Bulb small, globose, with few small ovate,

white, fleshy tunics. Stem terete, erect, one-flowered, not

reaching a height of more than three or four inches above

the soil, with two leaf-bearing nodes. Leaves erect ; lower

opposite, lanceolate, about two inches long; upper usually

three in a whorl, linear. Flower drooping, shortly

peduncled. Perianth broadly campanulate, an inch and a

half long ; Segments oblong, obtuse, dark plain claret-

brown, with a glaucous tinge outside, inside copiously

Spotted with the same colour on a ground of greenish-

yellow. Stamens half ag long as the perianth; filaments

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flattened ; anthers linear-oblong. Ovary oblong-cylindrical ;

style longer than the ovary, with three short ovate cusps.

Capsule oblong, an inch and a half long, narrowed to the

base.—J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, Base of a segment of the perianth, with stamen; 2, front view of

stamen ; 3, back view of stamen; 4, pistil:—AJl enlarged.

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PARROTIA Jacqurmontrana.

Native of the Western Himalaya.

Nat. Ord. HamMaMELIDEm,

Genus Parrotta, C. A. Mey.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 666.)

Parrotia Jacquemontiana; foliis breviter petiolatis orbicularibus v. sub-

quadratis crenato-denticulatis stellato-tomentellis, stipulis oblongis,

bracteis involucrantibus 4-6 amplis orbicularibus obovatisve albis dorso

marginibusque squamulis furfuraceis purpureis conspersis, calycis dentibus

parvis, tubo ovarioque villosis, staminibus numerosis, filamentis linearibus,

antheris brevibus oblongis obtusis connectivo vix producto.

P. Jacquemontiana, Decne. in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. p. 73, t. 82. Hook. f. &

Thoms. in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. ii. (1858) p. 85. Brandis For, Fl. N.W.

& Centr. Ind. p. 216, t. 28. Olarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. ii. p. 426.

Aitchis. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xviii. (1880) 59. Gamble Manual of

Indian Timbers, p.174. Stewart, Punjab Plants, p- 110.

Fothergilla involnerata, Falconer in Proc. Linn. Soc. vol. i. (1839) p. 18; et

in Royle Ill. Bot. Himal. Introd. p. xxv.

Though placed in the same genus as Parrotia persica,

C. A. Mey. (see t. 5744) P. Jacquemontiana differs in very

marked characters from that plant, in which there is a

total absence of stellate hairs, the leaves in late autumn

turn to brilliant orange-yellow golden and scarlet colours,

the calyx-lobes are oblong, the involucrant bracts small

and dark brown externally, the stamens very few, with

almost capillary filaments, and the anthers narrow, scarlet,

and mucronate. P. Jacquemontiana is indeed much nearer

the N. American Fothergilla alnifolia (Tabs. 1341, 1342)

in foliage, stellate hairs, and the numerous stamens with

short anthers. There is in fact nothing to distinguish P.

__ dacquemontiana generically from Fothergilla, but the capitate

- Iinvolucrate inflorescence, in contrast with the spicate ex-

involucrate inflorescence of the latter. aed

The geographical range of Parrotia Jacquemontiana 18

almost limited to the outer Himalayan ranges between the

sources of the Ravi in Chamba, and the Indus, where

it. extends often gregariously from Murree to Gilgit and

Hazara. It was discovered in about 1836 in Kashmir by Dr.

Falconer, that being the central area of its distribution.

Its range in elevation is from 2800-8500 ft. It occurs

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sparingly in N.E. Afghanistan, as in the Kuram Valley,

where Dr. Aitchison describes its use in making a wicker-

work which, plastered with clay, is the building material

of the inhabitants. According to Gamble its wood, which

is pinkish-red, hard, heavy, and very close-grained, is

highly esteemed for walking-sticks, tent-pegs, native bowls,

&c.; and the flexible twigs are twisted into thick ropes

often 300 ft. long, used in the construction of bridges.

The Royal Gardens are indebted to Mr. Robert Ellis of

the Forest Department, Panjab, for seeds of this interesting

plant, received in 1879. The plants raised from these have

attained eight feet in height, three feet six inches in

diameter, and are of a pyramidal form. They flowered in

the Arboretum in March of the present year. Plants of it

have also been received from our indefatigable correspon-

dent, Mr. Max Leichtlin. As implied above, the leaves

present no bright colours preceding their fall in autumn.

Deser.—A shrub or small Hazel-like tree, attaining

fifteen to twenty feet in height, with spreading, flexuous

branches. Leaves up to four inches long and _ broad, very

shortly petioled, orbicular, subquadrate, or very broadly

obovate, tomentose on both surfaces with stellate hairs ;

margin crenately toothed, sometimes obscurely lobed ;

stipules oblong, pubescent. Flowers about twenty, in

dense globose sessile heads, one-half to three-quarters of

an inch in diameter, surrounded by four to six orbicular

or obovate white unequal bracts, the largest half an inch

diameter, which are sprinkled on the back and margins

with a red-purple scurf ; stipules oblong, obtuse, pubescent.

Flowers densely crowded, sessile, appearing as a head of

golden stamens. Calyx a very small toothed pubescent

cup embracing the pubescent ovary; teeth small, subulate.

Petals 0. Stamens about fifteen, filaments a quarter of an

inch long, linear, erect; anthers shortly oblong; connec-

tive produced into an obtuse top. Ovary 2-celled, with

two filiform sessile stigmas. Fruit a crustaceous 2-beaked

nut, dehiscing between the beaks. Seeds oblong, smooth,

polished.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Stellate hairs; 2, flowers; 3, calyx and ovary; 4 and 5, anthers;

6, section of ovary: all enlarged; 7, head of fruits, and 8, sced, both of the

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CYCNOCHES Haacn.

Native of Brazil.

Nat. Ord. Orcuiprx.—Tribe VANDEX.

Genus Crcnocues, Lindl.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 552.)

Crcyocurs Haagii; caule crasso folioso compresso, foliis snbdistichis 6-8-—

pollicaribus lanceolatis acuminatis basi angustatis laete viridibus, subtus

pallidioribus carinatis nervis 5-7, vaginis caulinis brevibus levibus,

racemo axillari breviter pedunculato suberecto 6-7-floro, pedunculo basi

vaginis brevibus obtusis membranaceis instructo, rachi pedicellisque

teretibus pallide viridibus, bracteis lanceolatis membranaceis brunneis

icellis brevioribus, floribus 2-24 poll. latis, sepalis oblongo-ovatis

obtusiusculis concavis petalisque patulis intus sordide flavo-viridibus extus

lividis, petalis ovatis subacutis, labello carnoso rotundato subacuto con-

vexiusculo albo maculis paucis rufis asperso basi cordato saccato, disco

ad orem sacci tuberculis 2 conniventibus instructo, columna viridi infra

medium punctulata, anthera parva.

O. Haagii, Rodrig. Gen. § Sp. Orchid. Nov. vol. ii. (1881) p. 221, Ic. ined.

t. 687.

The genus Cycnoches, a near ally of Catasetum, now con-

tains ten or eleven described species, of which four have

been figured in this magazine (tabs. 3855, 4054, 4215,

4479). They differ greatly from one another in the size

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the lip, but agree in the singular slender arched column,

and in the structure of the pollinia. All are tropical

American.

C. Haagii, which is remarkable for the lurid green of

its sepals and petals, is a native of the delta of the

Amazons, and was first described in 1881 by J. Barbosa

Rodrigues, from specimens procured from the River

Andira, a tributary of the Amazons in lat. 8° 80’ 8. and

long. 57° 38’ West. The drawing here given is of a fine

plant received in May, 1891, from EH. 8. Rand, Esq., of

Para, to whom the Royal Gardens are indebted for other

interesting allied Orchids, notably Catasetum Randi (Tab.

7470) and C. Lemosii (Tab. 7444). It flowered in a tropical

house for the first time in October, 1892, and again in the

same month of 1895.

NovemBek Ist, 1896.

Deser.— Stem about six inches high and one in breadth,

slightly compressed, leafy, clothed at the base with old

brown leaf-sheaths. Leaves subdistichous, lower three to

four inches long, sessile, oblong-lanceolate ; upper six to

eight inches long, recurved, lanceolate, acuminate, bright

green above, paler beneath, with five to seven strong ribs,

base narrowed into the short smooth green sheath.

Peduncle short, erect or suberect, clothed with brown

membranous obtuse sheaths. Racemes five- to seven-

flowered, inclined ; rachis and pedicels pale green; bracts —

half as long as the pedicels, which are about an inch long,

narrowly lanceolate, membranous. Jlowers two to two

and a half inches broad across the petals. Sepals oblong-

ovate, obtuse, lividly yellow green, dorsally brown-green ;

dorsal erect; lateral deflexed, concave. Petals as long as

the sepals and of the same colour, ovate, subacute,

spreading. Lip coriaceous, rather shorter than the sepals,

orbicular-ovate, subacute, white, or suffused with pale

rose, sparsely spotted with red-brown; base cordate, sac-

cate, disk with two obtuse conniving smooth low conical

tubercles at the mouth, separated from one another by a

narrow sinus leading into the sac. Column long, slender,

arched in a semicircle, green, speckled with red-purple in

the lower half. Anther small, depressed ; pollinia oblong,

terminating a long, linear caudicle which is dilated below

the middle ; gland large.—J. D. H.

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RHODODENDRON szmEprpPyLuLiFfotiom.

Native of Japan.

Nat. Ord. Ericacrm.—Tribe Ruoporea.

Genus RHopopEnpRoN, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 599.)

RHODODENDRON (Tsusia) serpyllifolium ; fruticulus humilis, erectus, microphyl-

lus, caule robusto, ramis ramulisque rigidis strigoso-setosis, foliis 3-} poll.

longis ramulis brevissimis confertis et quasi verticillatis obovatis obtusis

setulosis eglandulosis et elepidotis, gemmis floriferis terminalibus aphyllis

1-floris, bracteis oblongis scariosis fulvis, floribus breviter pedicellatis,

pedicellis paleis lanceolatis hyalinis argenteis opertis, calyce patelleformi

5-lobo, lobis rotundatis ciliatis, corolla infundibulari-rotata intus glaber-

rima, lobis ovato-oblongis obtusis, staminibus 5, filamentis exsertis infra

medium glanduloso-puberulis, antheris parvis, ovario oblongo paleis

at tea linearibusve integris v. fissis argenteo-hyalinis vestitis 5-

oculare. .

R. serpyllifolium, Mig. in Ann. Mus. Bot. Iugd. Bat. vol. ii. p. 165 (Prolus

Fi. Japon. p. 97). Mamimov. Rhod. As. Or. p. 42, t. 4, fig. 18-25 (ex Mem.

Acad, Se. Petersb. Ser. 7, vol. xvi. (1870) No. 9). Franch. & Sav. Enum.

Pl. Japon. vol. ii. p. 292.

Azalea? serpyllifolia, A. Gray in Perry Exped. Japan, vol. ii. p. 315; in

Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts. § Se. N.S. vol. vi. I. (1857) p. 399. Mast. in

Gard, Chron. (1882) vol. i. p. 429.

With the exception of the little high-alpine Rhododendron

nivale of Sikkim, R. serpyllifolium is perhaps the most

inconspicuous species of the genus. Specifically it is

closely allied to R. indicum, and especially to the var.

amenum (Azalea amena, tab. 4728), which is a much

larger species, and has the youngest leaves clothed

with silvery hyaline sete like those on the pedicel and

ovary of R&R. serpyllifolium. Indeed I should not be sur-

prised if the latter proved to be a very dwarf form of

ft. indicum. The specimens described by A. Gray were

from a plant cultivated at Simoda, which is the sole

habitat given for it by Maximovicz, who describes the

flower as pale lilac. Moseley, during the Challenger Expe-

dition, collected it in 1875 at Kobe (near Hiogo, on the

Inland sea),

The figure in the Gardener’s Chronicle is from a plant

cultivated in Veitch’s establishment, and is described as

November Ist, 1893.

having the flowers appearing in terminal tufts, white, and

the filaments glabrous. I do not find the silvery pales

of the pedicels and ovary to be described by any author,

those of the former are one-sixteenth of an inch long,

twice as long as those of the pedicels ; they are modifications

of the silvery hairs of R. indicum. —

Plants of R. serpyllifolium were purchased for the Royal

Gardens from the Yokohama Nursery Company in 1895,:

and are now about a foot high; they flower in April, and

though possibly hardy, succeed best when grown in pots,

and kept in a close frame.

Deser—A very stout, scrubby, much _ irregularly

branched, rigid shrub, of low stature; bark dark brown ;

branchlets strigose with rigid appressed subulate bristles.

Leaves deciduous, crowded, sessile, and as if whorled on

very short lateral branchlets, rarely more than a third of

an inch long, obovate, ciliate on the margins and surfaces,

neither glandular nor lepidote, bright green above, pale

beneath. Flowers solitary, subsessile, from special (leafless)

buds at the ends of the leafy branchlets, surrounded by

brown, ovate-oblong, obtuse, yellow, scarious bracts; pedicels

very short, clothed with silvery, scurfy lanceolate scales.

Calyx a small patelliform disk, with five broadly rounded

ciliate lobes. Corolla about an inch broad, bright rose-

red; tube very short, funnel-shaped, quite glabrous without

and within; lobes five, oblong-ovate, obtuse, spreading.

Stamens 5, filaments longer than the corolla-lobes, slender,

glandular below the middle; anthers small, shortly oblong,

brown. Ovary oblong, five-celled, clothed like the pedicels

with linear silvery hyaline scales ; style slender, glabrous ;

stigma small, capitellate.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Portion of branchlet; 2, leaves bracts and ovary; 3, pedicel and

ovary ; 4, hyaline scales of ovary ; 5, stamen :—A/l enlarged.

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PENTSTEMON AZUREUS.

Native of California,

Nat. Ord. ScrorpHuLARINEXZ.—Tribe CHELONER.

Genus Pentstemon, Mitch. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 940.)

Prntstemon (Saccanthera) azwreus; perennis, basi frutescens, glaberrimus,

glaucescens, foliis lineari-lanceolatis oblanceolatisve obtusis integerrimis

vy. hic illis serratis radicalibus subspathulatis, racemis gracilibus secundi-

floris, bracteis parvis lanceolatis, pedunculis 1-floris supra medium

bibracteolatis, pedicellis brevissimis, calycis parvi lobis lineari-lanceolatis

recurvis, corollz pollicaris violacesee tubo calyce duplo longiore ad + poll.

longo in faucem infundibulari-campanulatam semipollicarem sensim

dilatato, limbo patente majusculo, labii superioris lobis rotundatis re-

curvis, inferioris latioris 3-lobi lobis brevissimis rotundatis squilongis,

disco roseo-purpureo, antheris ovato-cordatis loculis post anthesin sub- .

divergentibus recurvis basi saccatis marginibus rimarum pubescentibus,

a gracili apice clavato glaberrimo, ovario glaberrimo, stylo

gracili.

P, azureus, Benth. Pl. Hartweg. p. 327; in Journ. Hort. Soc. Lond. vol. v.

(1850) p. 144. Paat. Fl. Gard. vol. ii. p. 188, t. 64. Lemaire Jard. Fleur.

t. 211. Moore & Ayres Mag. Bot. (1850) t. 209. A. Gray in Proce. Amer.

Acad. vol. vi. (1862) p. 75; Bot. Calif. vol. ii. p. 561; Synopt. Flor. N.

Am. vol. ii. pars. I. p. 272.

A common and very variable plant throughout the

state of California, ascending in a dwarf form to 8000 ft.

above the sea. A. Gray, in his Synoptical Flora of the

United States, describes five varieties, with none of which

does that figured here exactly accord, agreeing best with

var. ambiguus (P. heterophyllus, Wats., not of Lindley,

_ figured at tab. 1899) in stature, habit and upper leaves

narrowed to the base, but having a much longer corolla.

Another variety is Jaffrayanus (P. Jaffrayanus of this

work, tab. 5045), which, with the shorter corolla of var. am-

biguus, has a stouter habit, much broader lower leaves, and

the upper leaves broad at the base. P. aawreus belongs

to a comparatively small section of the genus (which

contains twelve species) distinguished by the structure

of the anthers, the lobes of which are confluent above, and

instead of diverging remain nearly parallel, dehiscing in

their upper halves and across the top, whilst their lower

NovemBER Ist, 1896,

halves remain closed, and assume a saccate form. In

reference to this character I find that the neglect of it in

the drawing of P. speciosus, Dougl. (P. glaber, Pursh) in

the Botanical Register, renders it impossible to distinguish

that figure from P. azureus. The anthers of P. speciosus

have divaricated cells, as may be seen in Douglas’s type

specimens at Kew, whilst those represented in the Register

are of exactly the same form as in azureus.

Pentstemon azwreus was raised from seeds sent to the

Royal Gardens in 1895 by Professor Goodale, Director of

the Botanic Garden of Harvard University, Massachusetts.

Plants raised from these flowered in June of the present

year in the open air. The stems, which become hard and

woody, were protected in a cold frame in’ winter.

Deser.—More or less glaucous. Stem two to three feet

high, woody and branching from the base; branches

erect, slender, green and red-brown. Lower leaves three

to five inches long, narrowly oblanceolate, acute, quite

entire, or rarely with one or two lateral incisions, yellow-

green ; upper leaves gradually smaller, about an inch long,

linear, narrowed to the base. Flowers secund, in slender

terminal and lateral racemes, which are sometimes

branched at the base, bracteate and bibracteolate ; pedicels

slender; bracts and bracteoles ovate-lanceolate, one-sixth

to one-third of an inch long. Calyx small, lobes ovate,

with recurved tips. Corolla an inch and a half long,

bright azure or violet blue, rose-purplish towards the

base of the tube, and on the disks of the lower corolla-

~ lobes; tube terete, about a third of an inch long, gradually

dilated into the tubular-campanulate elongate throat ;

limb broadly two-lipped, three-quarters of an inch broad

across the tips; upper lip of two broad retuse recurved

lobes; lower broadly transversely oblong, shortly trun-

cately three-lobed, the lobes retuse. Stamens included,

filaments quite glabrous; anthers golden yellow, margins

of cells shortly villous. Staminodes filiform, tip clavate,

quite glabrous. Ovary and style glabrous.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Calyx and ovary ; 2, base of corolla laid open with stamens; 3 and

4, anthers; 5, ovary :—All enlarged.

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HAWORTHIA XIPHIOPHYLLA.

Native of Cape Colony.

Nat. Ord. Liniacra.—Tribe ALoINEs,

Genus Hawortuia, Duval; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 777.)

Hawortnta wiphiophylia; acaulis, foliis 40-50 dense rosulatis lanceolatis

pallide viridibus facie planis dorso distincte carinatis e basi ad aristam

terminalem pellucidam sensim attenuatis, aculeis marginalibus magnis

pellucidis, carind dorsali aculeis consimilibus predita, pedunculo semi-

pedali bracteis vacuis paucis ovatis pallidis preedito, racemo laxo 10-12-

floro, pedicellis brevibus ascendentibus, bracteis ovatis parvis, perianthii

albi tubo oblongo-cylindrico lobis lineari-oblongis tubo brevioribus 3

inferioribus quam superioribus magis recurvatis, genitalibus tubo inclusis,

antheris subglobosis parvis, ovario oblongo, stylo brevissimo, stigmate

capitato.

This pretty ‘little new Haworthia belongs to the small

section Arachnoidea. Of the old well-known species of the

same section it differs from H. setata, Haw., by its narrower,

thinner leaves, and from H. arachnoidea, Haw. (Aloe

arachnoidea, Haw. (Bot. Mag. tab. 756) by the leaves not

being at all pellucid or lineate. Like the other species of

the genus it requires protection in winter. It was sent to

the Royal Gardens, Kew, from the neighbourhood of

Uitenhage, by Mr. C. Howlett, late a member of the

garden staff at Kew, and now foreman in the nursery of

Messrs. Smith Brothers, of Uitenhage. It flowered for

the first time in April, 1896.

Descr.—Leaves forty or fifty in a dense sessile rosette,

lanceolate, two inches long, one-third of an inch broad

low down, tapering gradually to a large pellucid terminal

awn, fleshy, pale green, not at all pellucid or lineate on

either surface, flat on the face, acutely keeled on the back,

margined with large pellucid prickles, which extend to the

upper part of the keel. Pedunele terete, half a foot long,

furnished with a few small scariose ovate empty bracts.

Perianth white, three-quarters of an inch long; tube

oblong-cylindrical ; lobes linear-oblong, rather shorter than

the tube, the three lower more reflexed than. the three

November Isr, 1896,

upper. Stamens included in the perianth-tube ; anthers

small, subglobose. Ovary oblong ; style very short ; stigma

capitate.—J, G. Baker.

Fig. 1, A leaf; 2, a flower, complete; 3, portion of the perianth, with

stamen ; 4, pistil :—A/I enlarged. ,

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ACANTHOLIMON venuvstoum.

Native of Asia Minor.

Nat. Ord. PLUMBAGINE#.—Tribe Statice.

Genus ACANTHOLIMON, Boiss. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 625.)

AcaANTHOLIMON (Rhodocalycina) venustum ; laxe coespitosum, fere glaberrimum,

foliis rosulatis planiusculis et carinatis v. angaste linearibus v. acerosis

exigue calcareo-squamulatis marginibus scaberulis, scapis remote vagi-

natis foliis multo longioribus, spica simplici erecta subrecurva laxiflora,

floribus secundis 3-bracteatis, bracteis glabris v. pubescentibus acuminatis

exteriore triangulari ovata v. ovato-lanceolata membranaceo-marginata,

interioribus lanceolatis latius marginatis quam exteriore 3-} longioribus,

calycis tubo pilosulo limbo infundibulari fusco eroso paullo longiore,

petalis roseis purpureisve.

A. venustum, Boiss. Diagn. Ser. I. vol. vii. p. 80; Fl. Orient. vol. iv. p. 831;

in DO. Prodr, vol. xiii. p. 631. Tehihatch. Voy. As. Min, pars. ILI. vol.

ii. p. 408, t. 37.

A. laxiflorum, Boiss. in Bourgeau, Pl, Exsice. No. 295.

Statice Olivieri, Jaub. & Spach. Lil. Pl. Orient. vol. i. p. 168, t. 93. Verlot in

Rev. Hortic. (1866) p. 451 cum Ie. pict.

S. venusta, Fenzl. mss.

8. dianthifolia, Jawb. & Spach. 1. c. vol. i. p. 162 (exel. syn.). e

Limonium orientale, &c., Tourn. Coroll. Instit. Rei Herb. p. 25. oO

Though numbering nearly one hundred described species,

the genus Acantholimon has only a couple of representatives

known to be under cultivation in English gardens, namely,

A. glumaceum, Boiss., and the plant here figured; and none

are figured in any British work devoted to horticultural

illustrations. The genus is peculiar as being separated

from Statice by habit alone, which renders it all the more

remarkable that it should have a very wide yet exceed-

ingly well defined geographical distribution, abounding

from Western Asia Minor through Persia to Affghanistan,

Turkestan, and the Altai Mountains. Only one species

enters Europe, A. androsaceum, Boiss., which extends

westward from Cappadocia to Crete and the mountains of

Greece; and one alone crosses the Indus, the A. lycopo-

dioides, Hook. f., found in Northern Kashmir. Many of

November Ist, 1896,

the species, including A. venustum, have, in the dry lime-

stone hills which they inhabit, the leaves and stems coated

with an incrustation of calcareous matter.

A. venustum is, according to Boissier, a native of

mountain ranges of Cilicia, Cappadocia, Catalonia, Anatolia,

and Armenia, at elevations of 4000 to 7000 ft. That author

describes three forms of it which pass into one another ;

venustum proper, with rather broad plano-carinate leaves ;

8. Olivieri, to which the plant here figured is referable,

with longer narrower leaves; it extends from Lycia to

Western Persia; and y. assyriacum, with a_ velvety

pubescent rachis of the spike and bracts, which has been

found in Assyria only. The flowers vary from rose to

purple. The specimen here figured is from a plant in the

Rock garden at Kew, where it has long been cultivated,

forming a dense tuft a foot across, and flowering in

summer. It was introduced into Europe, probably by

Bourgeau, the French botanical traveller.

Descr.—Stems densely tufted, forming moss-like green

patches. Leaves very variable, spreading, an inch long or

upwards, acicular in the form here represented, bright

green, rigid, almost pungent, dorsally rounded, ventrally

concave, margins minutely scaberulous. lowering stems

three to four inches long, erect or slightly recurved,

slender, rigid, green; sheaths distant, lanceolate, acumi-

nate, erect, green, margins narrowly hyaline. Spike

secund, subrecurved, two to three inches long, many-fid. ;

bracts three, about one-third of an inch long, like the

stem-sheaths, but with broader hyaline margins, outer

triangular about a third to a half shorter than the inner.

Flowers one half to three-fourths of an inch broad. Calyzx

infundibular, scarious, yellow brown, five-lobed; tube

sparsely hairy in the nerves, lobes broadly ovate, acute,

erose. Petals spathulately oblanceolate, one-nerved, rose-

coloured.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Portion of leaf; 2, calyx; 3, petal and stamen; 4 and 5, anthers;

6, pistil :— All enlarged.

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GRAMMATOPHYLLUM Rompnranum.

Native of the Moluccas and Borneo.

Nat. Ord. OxrcHipE®.—Tribe VANDE#.

Genus GRAMMATOPHYLLUM, Blume; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. iii,

p- 539.)

GRaMMATOPHYLLUM Rumphianum; pseudobulbis magnis ovoideo-fusiformibus,

foliis pedalibus oblongo-oblanceolatis, pedunculo cum racemo 3-4-pedali,

racemo pendulo v. nutante laxe multifloro, rachi viride punctato, bracteis

parvis ovato-lanceolatis, pedicellis cum ovario brevi 23-pollicaribus,

floribus 8 poll. diam., sepalis petalisque consimilibus obovato-oblongis

obtusis undulatis luteo-viridibus plagis magnis rufo-brunneis ornatis,

sepalo postico arrecto, labelli parviintus pilosi lobis lateralibus rotundatis

incurvis, terminali rotundato, disco aureo lineis 5 purpareis hirsutis

eae columna incurva basi foveolata, anthera pubescente ambitu

obulata.

G. Rumphianum, Miquel Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. vol. iv. p. 219, t. 8, 9.

Rolfe in Orchid Rev, vol. iii, (1895) p. 208.

G. Gulielmi II., Kreenzlin in Gartenfl. vol. xliii. (1894) p. 114.

G. scriptum, Teysm. § Binnend. in Natuurk. Tijdsch, vy. Nederl. Ind.-vol. xxvii.

p- 21, erel. Syn. Blumei.

G. Seegerianum, Hort.

Though greatly inferior in the dimensions of all its parts

to the type of the genus @. speciosum (Tab. 5157), G.

Rumphianum must still, taking into aceount the size of

the pseudobulbs, rank amongst the most massive of

orchids. Its nearest, and indeed very near ally, 1s G.

Fenzlianum, Reichb. f. (Xen. Orchid. vol. ii. t. 16), which

differs in the smaller size of the flowers, with fewer smaller

spots, and which, being a native of Amboyna, should per-

haps rather than this, have borne the name of the author of

the “ Hortus Amboinensis.” G. Measuresranum is, I think,

a garden name for G@. Fenzlianum rather than of Rumphia-

num, -

Two plants of G. Rumphianum flowered simultaneously

at Kew in June, 1895, of which one was received from

the Botanic Gardens of Hongkong, with the information

that it camo from Kudah in Borneo. The other was

obtained from Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., under the name

of G. Gulielmi II., Krenzlin. The flowers remain fresh for

Decemper Ist, 1896.

at least two months. The two lowest of the racemes have

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Islands.

Descr.—Pseudobulbs six to eight inches long, terete,

stout, ovoid or fusiform, compressed, dark green. Leaves

twelve to eighteen inches long, oblanceolate-oblong, ob-

tuse, midrib beneath very stout, nerves slender. Raceme

with the peduncle three to four feet long, spreading and

nodding, or pendulous, shortly peduncled, laxly very many-

flowered; rachis as thick as a goose-quill, terete, green,

speckled with darker green; bracts small, about half an

inch long, ovate-lanceolate, white, at length pale brown;

_ pedicel white, with the short ovary two and a half inches

long, as thick asacrow-quill. Perianth three inches broad.

Sepals and petals similar, obovate-oblong, spreading, undu-

late, tip rounded, yellow green, covered with very large

red-brown blotches of irregular outline. Lip very much

smaller than the sepals, three-lobed ; disk undulate, yellow

with five purple nerves, more or less hairy all over; side

lobes broad, rounded, incurved; terminal lobe oblong.

Column incurved, with a deep pit in front of the base, and

a lobed callus below it on each side. Anther orbicular,

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PRUNUS susBHirteqta.

Native of Japan.

Nat. Ord. Rosacrm.—Tribe Prunes.

Genus Prunus, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 609.)

Prunus (Cerasus) subhirtella; arbuscula, cortice pallide brunnea, ramis

patulis, squamis gemmarum brevibus coriaceis obtusis, foliis ovatis

acuminatis caudato-acumivatisve argute duplicato glanduloso-serratis

_viridibus glabris basi cuneatis v. rotundatis nudis v. 1-2-glandulosis

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ciliolatis longiore, petalis albis inzsqualiter crenatis v. lobulatis, staminitus

Te ovario styloque glaberrimis, fructu immaturo ellipsoidev-

globoso,

P. subbirtella, Miguel Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. vol. ii. p. 91 (Prol. FI.

Japon. p. 23). Franch. & Sav. Enum. Pl. Japon. vol. i. p. 118.

The Eastern Asiatic and Japanese species of the

tribe of Prunew require a much closer study than they

have hitherto received, nor is it till very recently that

materials for their full investigation have been received

in European Herbaria. Forbes and Hemsley in their

enumeration of Chinese, &c., plants (Journ. Linn. Soc.

vol. xxiii. p. 218 and seq.) enumerate nine species of

the tribe as Chinese, of which four are also Japanese; and

Franchet and Savatier, in their enumeration of Japanese

plants, give six as natives of that Archipelago. From

most of those inhabiting both countries P. subhirtella

differs in its habit of flowering before leafing; in other

respects it approaches nearest to P. japonica, Thunb.

(Amygdalus pumila, Sims, t. 2176). ce

Miquel describes a variety of P. subhirtella (oblongifolia)

with oblong leaves. Of this there is an authentically named

specimen in the Kew Herbarium, with leaves three inches’

long. He describes the calyx-tube of P. subhirtella as

villosulous and only one-twelfth of an inch long. This

Decrmper Ist, 1896.

organ varies much in length, but in both the cultivated

specimens and in wild ones collected by Maximowicz, it is

much longer, and quite or nearly glabrous. P. subhirtella is,

according to specimens in the Kew Herbarium, enumerated

by Maximowicz asa native of the mountains of Nippon, and

as cultivated at Nagasaki. Miquel gives three Japanese

names for it, Iteo Sakura, Hisakura, and Sakako.

The specimen here figured is from a small plant received

at the Royal Gardens in 1895 from Professor Sargent,

Director of the Arnold Arboretum, Boston, U.S.A., and

which flowered in the open air in April of the present

year, and was in full leaf in May.

Deser.—A small tree? branches suberect. Leaves ap-

pearing after the flowering, two to three inches long,

ovate, acuminate or caudate-acuminate, doubly glandular-

serrate, dark green above, with twelve to fourteen pairs of

nerves, paler beneath, base rounded or cuneate, eglandulose ;

petiole one-sixth to one-fourth of an inch long; stipules

subulate, entire; scales of bud and leaves short, obtuse,

pale yellow brown. Flowers in fascicles of three to five,

produced before the leaves expand, white, about three-

fourths of an inch broad ; outer bud-scales as of the leaf-

buds, inner small, herbaceous, often irregularly three-

lobed, glandular-ciliate ; pedicels usually rather longer than

the calyx-tube, laxly hairy. Calyx-tube cylindric, inflated

at the base, green, laxly hairy; lobes about a third

shorter than the tube, ovate-oblong, subserrate, ciliolate.

Petals more or less irregularly crenate or lobulate.

Stamens in two series. Ovary and style glabrous.—

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of calyx-tube showing stamens and ovary ; 4 and 5, anthers :—All enlarged.

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CORIARIA sapontva.

Native of Japan.

Nat. Ord. Cortariza.

Genus Coriartia, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 429.)

CorIARia japonica; ramis robustis acute tetragonis lenticellatis, foliis breviter

petiolatis ovatis ovato-lanceolatisve acuminatis, racemis ramulis anno-

tinis enatis monoicis szpissime 3-nis (unico masculo) 2-3-pollicaribus,

pedunculis brevibus multibracteatis, bracteis ovatis, fl. masc. parvis,

sepalis ovatis acutis petalis oblongis subtriplo longioribus, filamentis

_ elongatis capillaribus, antheris lavibus, pistillodios 0, fl. fem. subglobosis,

sepalis ovato-oblongis, petalis late ovatis valde imbricatis cerasinis

corallinisve apicibus rotundatis ovarium superantibus, nuculis 4-+ poll.

longis reticulatim 5-costatis.

C. japonica, A. Gray in Mem. Am. Acad. Nat. Se. vol. vi. (1858-9) p. 383-

Miquel Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. vol. iii. p. 91. (Prolus. Fi. Jap-

p. 255). Franch. & Sav. Enum. Pl. Jap. vol.; p. 93. Mazim. in Mem.

Acad, Se, Petersh. Ser. 3, vol. xxix, (1881) No. III. p. 9; fee ie

Useful Plants of Japan (1895) p. 125. Ic. n. 487.

Croton Siraki, Sieb. & Zuce. Pl. Jap. Fam. Nat. Sect. i. p. 36, n. 133, women.

(ee Mawim. l.c.).

Arbor foliis Rhamni, &c., Thunb. Fl. Jap. 359; pl. Obse. n. 50.

Doko-utsugi, Jap.

The most interesting feature of this Coriaria is the

colour of the flowering and fruiting petals, which varies

from cherry- to coral-red, that of all other known species

being black or violet-black. Maximowicz indeed, who

must have seen the plant in Japan, describes those of

C. japonica as black, yielding a violet juice, and as there

is no allusion to colour in Gray’s too brief diagnosis of

C. japonica, or in any other of the works cited above, it

may be doubted (assuming Maximowicz to be correct)

whether a black or coloured fruited one should be regarded

as japonica of Gray. Fortunately a good figure and descrip-

tion in the little work on the “ Useful Plants of Japan”

(including the poisonous!) referred to above, proves that

the one here figured is known in Japan as C. japonica,

for in it the fruit is represented as bright red, and

described as “round, red, very pretty, but poisonous,’

Decemser Isr, 1896.

and here the matter must rest for the present, with the

remark, that some very old withered fruits of the Kew

plant have been observed to turn black, but this is quite

exceptional.

The genus Coriaria, which contains six or more species,

has been ably monographed by Maximowicz in the Memoirs

of the St. Petersburgh Academy, where he divides it into

two sections ; in one, to which all the old world species

belong, the racemes are formed on the wood of the previous

year, and the bracts are rounded, or ovate; in the other,

containing two or more species of New Zealand and —

South America, the racemes terminate in the shoots of the

year, and have subulate bracts. Of the first section there

are two divisions, one in which the male and female flowers

are much alike, and the filaments very short, to which the

long ; the other with very dissimilar male and fem. flowers,

and very long filaments, includes C. japonica, and the closely

allied C. sinica, Maxim. The affinities of the genus,

which are very obscure, Maximowicz regards as closest

with Simarubex.

The figure of C. japonica here given is of a specimen

which flowered in Canon Ellacombe’s garden, Bitton, early

in June of the present year. Another plant flowered at

the same time in the Royal Gardens, which was raised

from seeds collected in Japan by Professor Sargent. Its

nearest ally is the Chinese C. sinica, Maxim., which

has the fruiting sepals hardly imbricate, and the ripe

carpels much smaller, with only three ribs; the colour of

the sepals of sinica is not given.

Descr.—A low branching shrub, with square stem and

branches, flowering on the red-brown branches of the pre-

ceding year. Leaves one to two inches long, ovate or

ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 3-nerved. Racemes springing

from the opposite leaf-scars of the branches, two or three

together, all female, or one male, one and a half to three

inches long, erect or spreading, strict or slightly curved,

very shortly peduncled, rarely solitary and terminating a

leafing shoot; peduncle clothed with opposite ovate

(rarely leafy) green bracts, a sixth to a quarter of an inch

long. Male racemes more slender, at length drooping ;

flowers shortly pedicelled. Calyx of five small ovate acute

sepals. Petals much shorter than the sepals, oblong,

keeled dorsally. Filaments at first very short, rapidly

lengthening and capillary ; anthers linear-oblong, smooth.

Fem. racemes stouter, more strict; bracts ovate, acute,

green; pedicels one-sixth of an inch to one-quarter of an

inch long. Flowers subglobose, bright rose or coral-red,

about one-sixth of an inch in diameter. Sepals ovate, about

half as long as the petals. Petals broadly ovate, longer

than the ovary, strongly imbricate, tips rounded. Ripe

carpels an eighth toa seventh of an inch long, subreniform,

sides with five strong anastomosing ribs.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Male flower; 2, petal; 3, fem. flower, pedicel and bract ; 4, ovary;

5, section of do., showing the ovules; 6, ripe carpel; 7, embryo ;—All

enlarged.

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CYPRIPEDIUM Exut.

Native of Siam.

Nat. Ord. OrcurpEs%.—Tribe CrpRireDics.

Genus Crrrirepium, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 634.)

Cyrrirepium (Coriaceze) Evul; foliis 5-6 loriformibus glaberrimis laete viri-

dibus, scapo elato robusto unifloro viridi cum ovario sepalisque dorso basi

pole atro-rubro furfuraceo tomentellis, bractea ampla late cymbiformi

erbacea glaberrima, ovario trigono rostrato, sepalis petalisque ciliolatis,

sepalo dorsali amplo late oblongo apice incurvo subacuto marginibus

undulatis albis, disco viridi maculis atro-rubris asperso, lateralibus in

laminam amplam late oblongam pallide viridem obtusam confluentibus

marginibus recurvis, petalis late loriformibus obtusis undulatis flavidis

basi sanguineo maculatis, disco fascia rubra fere percurso, labello galeato

levi nitido sordide flavo, columna brevi pubescente, staminodio quadrato

pestice 2-lobo pubescente tlavo purpureo punctulato, disco medio umbo-

nato, stigmate amplo orbiculari peltato. <

C. Exal; Rolfe in Journ, of Horticult. (1892) vol. i. p. 301; in Lindenia, vol. vii.

p. 81, t. 327 (var. Imschootianum) ; O’Brien in Gard. Chron. (1892) vol. i.

pp. 522, 523, fig. 77; Rolfe in Arch. Rev. vol. iv. p. 271.

C. insigne, var. Exul; Ridley in Gard. Chron. (1891) vol. ii. p. 94.

C. Exul so closely resembles C. insigne, Wall., of the

Khasia Hills (tab. 8412) that it may, I think, well be

doubted whether Mr. Ridley was not right in referring it

as a variety to that plant. The chief structural difference

between them that I can detect, is in the form of the

staminode and stigma ; the staminode in C. insigne being

more obovate, narrowed and entire posticously, and its

stigma is very much smaller. ‘The pubescence is the same

in both, as is the great glabrous bract, and the scheme of

colouring of the perianth, though differing in detail. On

the other hand, (. Hzul is much the larger and handsomer

plant of the two.

Tonka, in the Siam Peninsula, is the native country of

C. Evul, whence plants were sent to the Botanical Gardens

of Singapore and described by Mr. Ridley, as cited above.

The fine specimen of it here figured was obtained for the

Royal Gardens, Kew, from Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St.

- in 1892. It flowered in a warm Orchid House in

arch.

DrcemBER Ist, 1896.

Descr.—Stemless. Leaves few, six to ten inches long,

by one to one and a half broad, strap-shaped, tip 2-toothed,

bright green, dorsally keeled. Scape a foot high and more, -

stout, 1-flowered, green, clothed with a dark red purple

furfuraceous pubescence, which extends to the ovary

and bases dorsally of the sepals and petals. Bract nearly

two inches long by three-fourths of an inch broad, cymbi-

form, shortly beaked, herbaceous, green, quite glabrous.

Flowers four inches broad across the petals, and nearly as

much between the tips of the dorsal and combined lateral

sepals; segments ciliolate. Dorsal sepal one and a half

inches long, upwards of an inch broad, arched, subundu-

late, white, with a pale yellow green disk spotted with

red purple ; lateral sepals confluent in a broadly oblong

subacute herbaceous pale green blade, with recurved

margins. Petals two inches long, by three-fourths of an

inch broad, loriform, obtuse, waved, yellow with three red-

purple median nerves and a few spots of the same colour

at the base. Lip oblong, galeate, dirty yellow, smooth

and shining, inflexed margins of the mouth punctate.

Column short. Staminode quadrate, 2-lobed posteriorly,

pubescent, disk with a central smooth umbo; stigma

broad, circular, peltate.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Column :—Enlarged.

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Tas. 7511.

IRIS ALBopurPurEA.

Native of Japan.

Nat. Ord. Inmpea.—Tribe Monae.

Genus Iris, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f, Gen. Plant. vol. 11. p. 686.)

Iris (Apogon) albopurpurea; rhizomate breviter repente, foliis ensiformibus

viridibus recurvatis, pedunculo tereti monocephalo foliis xquilongo,

spathe valvis ovatis acutis viridibus, perianthii tubo brevi segmentis

exterioribus recurvatis obovatis albis purpureo maculatis, segmentis

interioribus erectis oblanceolatis albis immaculatis exterioribus paulo

brevioribus, styli cristis magnis margine exteriori rotundatis integris.

A few plants of this fine new Iris were imported from

Japan, mixed with a quantity of I. levigata (I. Kempferi,

Siebold.) ‘Tull they flowered the two species looked very

like one another, but when the flowers came out this

caught the eye at a glance by the outer segments being

much deflexed, and the inner ones erect, whilst in lezvigata

all the six spread horizontally at one level, a character

very unusual in the genus Jris. Its nearest ally is J. hewa-

gona, Walt. (Bot. Mag. tab. 6787), a native of the Southern

United States. Both albopurpurea and levigata were in

flower together in damp ground by the side of the lake in

front of the Palm House in the Royal Gardens, Kew, from

the middle to the end of June, by which time nearly all

the other Irises had faded.

Descr.— Rhizome shortly creeping. Leaves ensiform,

green, not very firm in texture, two feet long, nearly an

inch broad. Peduncle terete, moderately stout, one-headed,

not overtopping the leaves. Flowers usually three in a.

cluster, opening successively ; outer spathe-valves ovate,

bright green at the flowering time, two inches long ; pedi-

cels short. Perianth-tube short, cylindrical; outer seg-

ments of the limb obovate, deflexed, three inches long by

half as broad, white, spotted with purple; inner segments

erect, pure white, lanceolate, rather shorter than the

DrEcemBER Ist, 1896,

outer, half an inch broad. Crests of the style-branches

large, rounded, and entire on the outer edge.—J. G.

Baker.

Fig. 1, Front view of stamen; 2, back view of stamen; 3, crests of the

style :—All enlarged,

INDEX

To Vol. LIT. of the Tartrp Ssrigs, or Vol. CXXILI. of

the whole Work.

7506 Acantholimon venustum.

7497 Actinidia polygama.

7499 Adonis amurensis,

7477 Agave laxifolia.

7485 Akebia lobata.

7454 Alberta magna.

7498 Alocasia reversa.

7456 Asarum maximum.

7484 Aspidistra typica.

7494 Bauhinia Galpini.

7457 Begonia umbraculifera.

7461 Bifrenaria tyrianthina.

7470 Catasetum Randii (Masc.).

7496 Celmisia Munroi.

7492 Chonemorpha macrophylla.

7474 Cochlioda Noezliana,

7475 Coffea stenophylla.

7463 Comanthospace japonica.

7509 Coriaria japonica.

7502 Cycnoches Haagii.

7510 Cypripedium Exul.

7488 Cyrtanthus Huttoni.

7453 Dendrobium Hildebrandii.

7493 Leonis.

7464 Dipodium paludosum.

7481 Episcia densa.

7480 Eranthemum reticulatum.

7500 Fritillaria nobilis,

7455 Gazania pygmea.

7507 GrammatophyJlum Rumphia-

num.

7478 Habenaria Elwesii.

7486 Haemaria Dawsoniana.

7505 Haworthia xiphiophylla.

7460 Hechtia argentea.

7468 Hypocyrta pulchra,

7462 Incarvillea Delavayi.

7511 Iris albopurpurea.

7499 Lathyrus undulatus,

7482 Lourya campanulata.

7476 Masdevallia corniculata, var.

inflata.

7465 Massonia jasminiflora.

7469 Olyra concinna.

7472 Ostrowskia magnifica,

7501 Parrotia Jacquemontiana.

7504 Pentstemon azureus.

7479 Phajus mishmensis.

7471 Phaleria ambigua.

7483 Pilocarpus Jaborandi.

7473 Pittosporum eriocarpum.

7467 Posoqueria macropus.

7508 Prunus subhirtella.

7503 Rhododendron serpyllifolium.

7495 is Smirnovi.

7487 Sansevieria Roxburghiana,

7489 Sarcochilus hainanensis.

7458 Scutellaria formosana.

7491 Solanum cernuum.

7452 Stanhopea Haseloviana.

7459 Sternbergia macrantha.

7466. Utricularia janthina.

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