Tas. 7392.

TALAUMA Hopesont.

Native of the Hastern Himalaya.

Nat. Ord. MaGnouiacea.—Tribe MaGnouiea.

Genus Tatauma, Juss.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. i. p. 18.)

Tatauma Hodgsoni; arbor 50-60-pedalis, foliis amplis obovato-oblongis

obtusis v. cuspidatis marginibus subsinuatis supra creberrime reticulatis

subtus glaucis, petiolo bipollicari, floribus amplis solitaris terminalibus,

pedunculo crasso 1—-2-annulato, alabastro ovoideo, bracteis caducis, sepalis

3-5-obovato-oblongis obtusis extus late cceruleo-purpurascentibus, petalis

ad 6 sepalis consimilibus albis fructu magno ovoideo, carpellis subtetra- .

gonis acute rostratis, rachi profunde excavato foveolis rotundato-

quadratis.

T. Hodgsoni, Hook. f. & Thoms. Fl. Indica, p. 75, et in Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. i.

p. 40. Hook. f. Iilustr. Himal, Pl. t.6, Gamble, List of Trees of Dar-

jeeling, p. 3, & Manual of Indian Timbers, p. 5.

Talauma Hodgsoni is one of the noblest of the flowering

forest trees of the Himalaya, a country which, considering

its narrow area, contains perhaps more handsome magno-

haceous trees than does any other of equal dimensions in

India, if not of the world. Its forests produce Magnolia

Campbellii, Hf. & T. (Tab. 6793), globosa, Hf. & T.; ptero-

carpa, Roxb., Manglietia insignis, BL. ; Michelia Catheartii, ©

Hf. & T., M. Champaca, Linn., M. excelsa, Bl., M. lanu-

ginosa, Wall. (Tab. 6179) and M. Kisopa, Ham. Of these

the prince is, no doubt, Magnolia Campbellii, and next to it

is Talawuma Hodgsoni, of which I was the fortunate dis-

coverer in 1848, when I found it forming forests in the

valleys of Sikkim at an elevation of 5000 to 6000 ft., and

it was subsequently gathered by Dr. Thomson and myself

in the Khasia hills.

As a timber tree 7’. Hodgsoni is not of muchuse. Mr.

Gamble, in his valuable “‘ Trees, Shrubs, and large Climbers

of the Darjeeling District,” says of the wood, that it is

white, but in very old trees quite black, especially the

wood of the roots; as also that it is used for the handles

of weapons and tools, and for other small-wood purposes.

Its specific name commemorates the services to the

Literature, Arts, and Sciences of India of my late dis-

JaNUARY Ist, 1895. A

tinguished friend, the Orientalist, Brian H. Hodgson,

LL.D., F.R.S., formerly Minister at the Nepal Court,

my host for many months at Darjeeling, who passed

away only last year at the great age of ninety-four.

Two plants of 7. Hodgsoni were received at Kew from

the Botanical Gardens, Calcutta, about twenty years ago,

and were grown in pots in the Palm House. They were

subsequently removed to the Temperate House, and

planted out there, where the tallest is now 25 ft. high,

with leaves 2 ft. long. Mr. Watson informs me that the

plant flowered in a sunny position, and that the flowers

last but a few hours after fully opening. They are at

first white, then change to creamy-yellow, before fading

to a dark brown. My attention was first directed to the

tree in the dense Sikkim forests by seeing the petals in

the ground, which resembled hen’s eggs, and had a spicy

fragrance.

Deser.—An erect evergreen tree, with a clean trunk off

30 to 40 feet high, and three to six feet in girth, flowering

and leafing together. Leaves 8-20 inches long, by 4-9

broad, obovate-oblong, cuspidate or obtuse, coriaceous,

glabrous, margins waved; costa and nerves strong;

nervules closely reticulate, bright green above, pale, and

more or less glaucous beneath; petiole 1-2 inches long. —

Flowers solitary, terminal, fragrant, 6-7 inchesin diameter _

across the outspread sepals; peduncle 1-14 in. long, stout,

green, ringed by the caducous bracts ; buds about 3 inches

long, ovoid. Sepals 3-5,obovate-oblong, concave, thick and

fleshy, dark vinous purple externally; suffused internally

with pink. Petals about six, like the petals, but all white or

faintly rose-colrd. towards the tips. Stamens numerous, —

on a conical torus; filaments very short, anthers linear, —

red. fruit ovoid, woody, four to six inches long, muri-

cate, formed of numerous sharply beaked dehiscent carpels,

which fall away from a deeply pitted woody central

column. Seeds one or two in each carpel, orbicular,

compressed ; outer coat of testa fleshy, red—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Apex of peduncle with stamens and carpels, some of the latter

removed to show the convex receptacle:—of the nat. size; 2, stamens;

3, carpel; 4, the same laid open, showing the ovules, al/ enlarged; 5, reduced

views of plant in the temperate house, Kew.

Brooks Daye"

Vincent

TAR. 4005.

ACIDANTHERA zquinoctiauis.

Native of Sierra Leone.

Nat. Ord. IntpEa2.—Tribe Ix1mz.

Genus ActpantuErRa, Hochst.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 706.)

ACIDANTHERA xegninoctialis ; cormo magno, depresso-globoso tunicis exteriori-

bus scariosis brunneis fibris parallelis, caule stricto erecto elongato, foliis

pluribus ensiformibus superpositis pedalibus vel sesquipedalibus vaginato,

spicis distichis laxissimis simplicibus 3—6-floris, spathe valvA exteriori

lanceolata elongata foliacea, perianthii tubo cylindrico apice curvato,

limbi segmentis ovatis cuspidatis late imbricatis albis basi purpureo

maculatis flore expanso horizantaliter patulis, genitalibus arcuatis limbo

paulo brevioribus, fructu oblongo-trigono.

A. equinoctialis, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xvi. p. 160; Handb. Irid.

p. 188. Gladiolus equinoctialis, Herb. inedit.

This is the tallest and most showy of all the known

species of Acidanthera, a genus which holds an interme-

diate position between Gladiolus and Ivia. The present —

species for half a century has been known only from a

drawing of the spike by Dean Herbert, contained in a

bound quarto volume of his sketches in the Lindley

library. It was rediscovered in fruit in 1892 by Mr.

Scott-Elliot, in the crevices of bare gneiss rocks, near the

summit of Sugarloaf Mountain, Sierra Leone, at an

elevation of about three thousand feet above sea-level. In

this state it was not recognized, and was distributed in

his dried collection as No. 3904. In 1893 a quantity

of corms was sent home by Captain Donovan, which was

handed over to the Royal Gardens at Kew. ‘Those which

received greenhouse treatment failed to flower, but in a

warm conservatory they found themselves quite at home,

and came into flower in the month of November. Seven-

teen species of the genus are now known. One inhabits

Mount Kilimanjaro, two the mountains of Abyssinia, one of

them extending to Zambesi land, and all the others belong

to different regions of the Cape Colony.

Deser.—Corm large, depresso-globose; outer tunics

Scariose, brown, with parallel fibres. Stem stout, stiffly

Janvary Ist, 1895, a2

erect, three or four feet long. Leaves many, superposed,

ensiform, a foot or a foot and a half long, glabrous,

strongly ribbed. Flowers three to six in a very lax,

‘simple, distichous spike; outer spathe-valves lanceolate,

foliaceous, three or four inches long in the lower flowers.

Perianth tube slender, cylindrical, curved at the top, five

or six inches long ; limb two inches in diameter; segments

ovate, cuspidate, much imbricated, white, with a purple

spot at the base. Stamens contiguous, arcuate, rather

shorter than the segments of the perianth. Capsule

oblong-trigonous, an inch long.—J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, Front view of anther; 2, back view of anther; 3, stigmatic lobes

and upper part of style; exzlarged; 4, whole plant much reduced.

N’S. del JN Fitch ith.

Tas. 7394.

LONICERA ALBERTI.

Native of Hastern Turkestan.

‘Nat. Ord. CarrriroLtiace&.—Tribe Lonicer2&.

Genus Lonicera, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 5.)

Lonicrra (Xylosteum) Alberti; fruticulus humilis, rigidus, ramosissimus,

glaberrimus, foliis sessilibus linearibus obtusis subtus albicantibus, basi

seepissime dentibus acutis 1 v. 2 utrinque auctis, floribus ramulis laterali-

bus 2-nis, bracteolis in involucrum brevem stipitatum 4-lobum connatis,

lobis rotundatis, ovariis liberis ovoideis, calycis dentibus 5 inzqualibus

obtusis, corollz roses tubo cylindracen, lobis tubo intus piloso brevioribus

subzequalibus ovatis obtusis patentibus, staminibus breviter exsertis,

stigmate spathulato recurvo baccis liberis.

L. Alberti,’Regel in Act. Hort. Petrop, vol. vii. (1880), p.550, and in Gartenflor.

* (1881), p. 370 and 387, t. 1065.

Lonicera Alberti is typical of a considerable number of

the Xylosteum section of Honeysuckles that inhabit the

dry mountains of Central Asia from the Altai to the

Himalaya, where they form stunted, intricately branched

shrubs. Inthe Himalaya there are no fewer than eighteen

such species, of which hardly anyoccur below 6000 ft., many

are confined to elevations between 10,000 and 12,000 ft.,

and one ascends to above 16,000 ft. in Tibet, north of

Sikkim. J. tomentella, figured at t. 6486, is an example of

one of the larger of the group. For the most part they

have nothing to recommend them horticulturally, and

their habit and habitat are all they have to interest a

botanist. L. Alberti is the most attractive of those known

to me, from its abundance of bright, rose-colrd. flowers,

and sweet, though faint odour. It is one of the many

discoveries of Dr. Albert Regel, a distinguished explorer

of Western Turkestan, who, during arduous and often

perilous services in Central Asia, made large collections

of living and dried plants for his father, Dr. de Regel, the

late eminent Director of the Imperial Gardens of St.

Petersburgh. A plant of it was sent to Kew by Dr. Regel

January Ist, 1895.

from those gardens in 1880, which flowered in May, and is,

as might be expected, perfectly hardy.

Deser.—A small, much-branched, quite glabrous shrub

2 ft. high; branches divaricate in native specimens, less

so in cultivated, bark dark. Leaves 3-11 in. long, sessile,

linear, obtuse, very pale beneath, quite entire, or with one

or two acute teeth on each side, near the base. Flowers

in pairs, terminating short lateral branches, fragrant;

bracts short, rounded, connate into a 4-lobed stipitate cup,

the ovaries quite free. Calyzx-tube ovoid, contracted at

the tip; lobes 4, short, obtuse, unequal. Corolla glabrous,

rose-red ; tube cylindric, hairy within, }-} in. long; limb

4 in. diam., lobes equal, ovate, obtuse. Stamens shortly

exserted. Stigma spathulate, recurved.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Top of flowering branch and flowers; 2, ovary and style; 3 and 4,

stamens :—A// enlarged.

Tas. 7395.

ACACIA sPADICIGERA.

Native of Central America and Cuba.

Nat. Ord. Lecuminos".—Tribe AcAcIcEa.

Acacia (Gummiferss) spadicigera; frutex rigidus, ramosus, stipulis spine-

scentibus demum maximis 1-1} pollicaribus inflatis corneiformibus

brunneis rectis curvisve basi connatis, pinnis 4-8 jugis, foliolis 15-20

-jugis lineari-oblongis obtusis, puberulis costa nunc inappendiculata,

nune appendicula fusiformi carnosula caduca apice instructa, spicis

axillaribus solitariis binisve crasse pedunculatis cylindraceis obtusis

densifloris, pedunculo basi involucellato, floribus minimis aureis sessilibus

densissime congestis squamulis longe stipitatis peltatis immixtis, calycis

urceolati lobis brevibus obtusis, corolla calyce paullo longiore 5-dentata,

staminibus breviter exsertis, legumine sessile oblongo recto v. falcato.

A. spadicigera, Cham. et Schl. in Linnea, vol. v. (1830) p. 594. Benth. in

her Linn. Soc. vol. xxx. p. 514, Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot. vol. i.

p. 355.

A. cornigera, Willd. Sp. Pl. vol. iv. 1080, exel. syn. Ait. Hort. Kew, Ed. I,

vol. ili, p. 441. A. Rich. Fl. Cub. vol. i. p. 462.

A.? cornigera, DC. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 460, Hcl. Syn.

Mimosa cornigera, Jacq. Select. Stirp. Amer. Hist. p. 266,

The plant here figured is one of two closely allied species

of Acacia, A. spadicigera and A. sphxrocephala, remarkable

for their enormous horn-like stipules. Both are included

under Mimosa cornigera, Linn. (Acacia cornigera, Willd.),

which was founded on the Arbor cornigera of Hernandez,

** De Historia Plantarum Nove Hispanie”’ (p.86), published

in 1651, who unfortunately gives no description of the

plant, only two rude woodcuts of the leaves and stipules,

with a brief account of the latter forming the home of a

stinging ant.

The history of the twin Acacie cornigere is horticulturally

interesting, one of them having been in cultivation previous

to 1692, in the Royal Gardens of Hampton Court, under

the names of the Horn’d Acacia, or Cuckold tree, and of

which a leafing branch with stipules was figured by Pluke-

net in the “ Phytographia”’ in 1696, as Acacia Americana

- + + aculeis cornua bovina referentibus. Plukenet does not

describe the flowers, but cites Hernandez’ plant as a

JANUARY Ist, 1895,

synonym, relying, no doubt, on the similarity of the

spines.

ii the following year, 1697, Commelin, ** Hortus Medi-

cus Amstelodamensis” (vol. i. p. 209, t. 207), figures an

Arbor cornigera, and describes it as having a globose head

of flowers (as in A. sphexrocephala) giving as the habitat

Cuba and Mexico. He does not figure the flowers, but as

he cites Breyn’s “ Prodomus Historiz Plantarum Rario-

rum” (1680), in which the globose heads are mentioned, |

he may have borrowed this particular from Breyn. Re-

ferring to the latter work, I find a good description of his

plant, flower, fruit, and seed, with a citation of Hernandez

Arbor cornigera ; but he adds that Hermann had stated,

on the authority of an English nobleman versed in Her-—

baria, that his (Breyn’s) plant was not that of Hernandez; _

from which it may be surmised that the English nobleman, —

knowing the Hampton Court plant, regarded it, and not—

Breyn’s, as that of Hernandez. This would further render

it probable that the Hampton Court plant was, if either,

A, spadicigera. F

In 1734 Seba, in his “ Thesaurus” (i. p. 218, t. 70, fe”

13) figures spines and leaves of an Acacia cornuta, and

cites Recchus (the compiler of the Botanical chapters

Hernandez) for it; giving also Hernandez’ native name,

Hoitzmamaxatl, together with his description of the ants;

&e. The figure answers to either species. He says 1b

was sent to him by a friend in the East Indies, no doubt

an error. :

Linneus, in the “ Hortus Cliffortianus ” (1737, p. 908),

under Mimosa aculeis alarum geminatis, cites for it Her-

nandez, Plukenet, Breyn, and Commelin, with Mexico a0

Cuba as habitats, but unaccountably overlooks the de

scription of the flowers given by the two last named authors.

In 1753 the twins were in the Species Plantarum, included

under Mimosa cornigera; all previous authorities, except

ne being cited for it. ; |

n 1763 Jacquin (* ist.”? p. 260)

ficutind ie an Select. Stirp. Amer. Hist.” p Z

spikes of yellow inod

while overlooking his

now, in *‘ Species

first to refer Mim

rnigera, Linn., as having cylindric

orous flowers; and cites Commelin,

description of globose heads. Willde-_

Plantarum ” (iv. 1080) was, I think, the ;

osa cornigera, Linn. to Acacia, describipg »

it as having flowers in cylindric spikes, and in this he is

followed by De Candolle in the Prodromus, both authors

citing Commelin, without looking at his description; I

have found no work in which the two species were dis-

criminated earlier than the 9th edition (Martyn’s, 1807) of

Miller’s ‘‘Gardener’s Dictionary,” where one appears as

Mimosa, n. 49, with ‘‘ flowers in cylindric spikes, yellow,”

and the other, n. 44, with “ spikes globular white.” The

latter, he says, was sent to Hurope in 1729, from Vera

Cruz, but was cultivated at Hampton Court in 1690.

Lastly, Chamisso and Schlechtendahl, in “ Linnea” (vol. v.

1830, p. 594) describe the two as Acacia spadicigera and

A. spherocephala, names adopted by Bentham in his ex-

haustive monograph of Acacia, and which will, no doubt,

be retained; and that of A. cornigera, Willd., be sup-

pressed, having regard to the fact that, by citing Com-

melin, Willdenow virtually included both under it.

Reverting to Hernandez’ figure or rather figures, for

there are two, it is possible that they pourtray both species,

their “horns” are identical; but the leaves of the right

hand figure have short pinne, with fewer pinnules, as in

A. spadicigera; those of the left hand one have pinnze

twice as long, and very numerous pinnules, as in 4,

spherocephala. Which the Hampton Court species may

have been is doubtful. If Commelin’s description

refers to it, it is A. spherocephala ; if the English noble-

man’s opinion is worth anything, the plant was more pro-

bably A. spadicigera. In conclusion, it must be remembered

that there is a third Mexican Acacia, with similar horned

stipules, namely, A. Hindsii, Benth., which differs from

A, spadicigera in having very slender spikes of flowers.

It may be one of Hernandez’s two plants. It is a native

of the West Coast of Mexico, and hence less likely than

the others to have been introduced at an early date.

The plant from which the drawing of A. spadicigera is

taken was received from M. Linden of Ghent in 1882.

It is cultivated in a pot on ashelf in the Palm House,

along with two allied species, A. sphxrocephala and A.

Hindsii, both of which have large horn-like spines and

fleshy appendages on the tips of the leaflets. Of these

A. spherocephala has since flowered, and a figure of it

has been prepared for this work. A. spadicigera flowered

in May of last year, but produced no ovaries in any of

the flowers examined. There are native specimens of it

in the Kew Herbarium from Mexico, Central America,

Panama, and St. Martha, in New Grenada.

Far more interesting than the synonymy of these horned

Acacias is the fact that when found they play a wonderful

part in the economy of nature, by housing and feeding @ —

tribe or tribes of ants which find their habitation in the |

stipular thorns, and their food in the fleshy appendages 00 —

the tips of the leaves; a hospitality which they repay. with —

interest, by waging a successful war against the armies of

leaf-cutting ants who would otherwise soon extirpate the —

Acacias.

This curious subject was carefully studied by the late

observant Naturalist, Mr. Th. Belt, whose published |

account of it is so interesting, that, feeling sure it will be

welcome to the readers of the “ Botanical Magazine,” Is

herewith extract it.—J. D. H.

‘These thorns are hollow, and are tenanted by ants —

that make a small hole for their entrance and exit near

one end of the thorn, and also burrow through the partl-

tion that separates the two horns, so that one entrance

serves for both. Here they rear their young, and in the

wet season everyone of the thorns is tenanted; and

hundreds of ants are to be seen running about, especially :

over the young leaves. If one of these be touched, OF

a branch shaken, the little ants (Pseudomyrma bicolor, —

Guer.) swarm out from the hollow thorns, and attack the

aggressor with jaws and sting. They sting severely,

raising a little white lump that does not disappear in less_

than twenty-four hours.

** These ants form a most efficient standing army for

the plant, which prevents not only the mammalia from

browsing on the leaves, but delivers it from the attacks 0

: me more dangerous enemy—the leaf-cutting ants.

so services the ants are not only securely houses

; = : sas i but are provided with a bountiful supply 1 |

Sosa 0 secure their attendance at the right time a2

place, this food is so arranged and distributed as to effect

that object with wonderful perfection. The leaves are Dr

pinnate. At the base of each pair of leaflets, on the mid-

rib is a crater-formed gland, which, when the leaves ar¢

young, secretes a honey-like fluid. Of this the ants are

very fond, and they are constantly running about from one

gland to another to sip up the honey as it is secreted.

But this is not all; there is a still more wonderful pro-

vision of more solid food. At the end of each leaflet there

is, when the leaf first unfolds, a little yellow, pear-shaped

body, united by a point, and the ants are then continually

employed going from one to another examining them.

When an ant finds one sufficiently advanced, it bites its

small point of attachment; then, bending it down, it

breaks it off, and bears it away to the nest. As these

ripen successively, the ants are kept about the young leaf

for some time after it unfolds ; and no caterpillar or larger

animal could attempt to injure them without being

attacked by the little warriors. The fruit-like bodies are

about ,/, in. long, and are about 4 of the size of the

ants ; so that the ant bearing one away is as heavily laden

as a man bearing a large bunch of plantains. I think

these facts show that the ants are really kept by the acacia

as a standing army, to protect its leaves from the attacks

of herbivorous mammals and insects,

‘The bull’s-horn thorn does not grow at the mines in

the forest, nor are the small ants attending them found

there. They seem specially adapted for the tree, and I

have seen them nowhere else. Besides the Pseudomyrma,

another ant lives on these Acacias; it is a small black

species of Crematogaster, whose habits seem to be rather

different from those of Pseudomyrma. It makes the holes

of entrance to the thorns near the centre of one of each

pair; and itis not so active as that species. It is also

rather scarce; but when it does occur it occupies the

whole tree, to the exclusion of the other. The glands on

the Acacia are also frequented by a small species of wasp

Polybia occidentalis). I sowed the seeds of the Acacia in

my garden, and reared some young plants. Ants of many

kinds were numerous ; but none of them took to the thorns

for shelter, nor the glands and fruit-like bodies for food ;

for, as I have already mentioned, the species that attend

on the thorns are not found in the forest. The leaf-cutting

ants attacked the young plants and defoliated them ; but

I have never seen any of the trees out on the savannahs

that are guarded by the Pseudomyrma touched by them,

and have no doubt the Acacia is protected from them by

its little warriors. The thorns, when they are first deve-

loped, are soft, and filled with a sweetish, pulpy substance ;

so that the-ant, when it makes an entrance into them, finds

its new house full of food. It hollows this out, leaving ;

only the hardened shell of the thorn. Strange to say, this —

treatment seems to favour the development of the thorn,

as it increases in size, bulging out towards the base ;

whilst in my plants that were not touched by the ants, —

the thorns turned yellow, and dried up into dead but pera

sistent prickles. Iam not sure, however, that this may :

not have been due to the habitat of the plant not sulting

it.

“These ants seem to lead the happiest of existences. —

Protected by their stings, they fear no foe. Habitations —

full of food are provided for them to commence house- —

keeping with ; and cups of nectar and luscious fruits awalt —

them every day. But there is a reverse to the picture.

In the dry season, on the plains, the Acacie@ cease to_

grow. No young leaves are produced, and the old glands

do not secrete honey. Then want and hunger overtake

the ants that have revelled in luxury all the wet season;

many of the thorns are depopulated, and only a few ants

live through the season of scarcity. As soon, however, a3 —

the first rains set in, the trees throw out numerous —

vigorous shoots, and the ants multiply again with astonish-

ing rapidity.”’—Belt., ‘The Naturalist in Nicaragua,

p. 218 (1874).

Fig. 1, Portion of leaf with pj le; § ; i ith bracts and

male flowers :—Both enlarged, Se cies nipadeag hd elim:

Tas. 7396. :

CYRTOPODIUM virescens, Reichb. f. 6 Warm.

= Native of Brazil.

Nat. Ord. OncHIpExZ.—Tribe VanpvE&.

Genus Crrtoropium, Br.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 541,

partim, Excl. Cyrtopera, Bl.).

Cyrtoropium vivescens; pseudobulbis fusiformibus annulatis, foliis hyster-

anthiis anguste lanceolatis acuminatis, scapo elato, vaginis remotis

acutis, panicula multiflora, floribus basi dissitis, bracteis ovaria equanti-

bus oblongis acutis rubro punctulatis, floribus breviter pedicellatis 1 poll.

diam., sepalis late ovatis acutis petalisque concoloribus ovato-rotundatis

primulino-virescentibus purpureo guttatis, labello sepalis breviore carno-

sulo breviter unguiculato ambitu quadrato crenato-undulato sub-

zequaliter 3-lobo, lobis lateralibus auriculeformibus rubro-purpureis,

terminali 3-lobulato aureo rubro-guttato, disco inter lobos laterales cristis

erectis crenatis aucto, columna mediocri pallida guttata.

C. virescens, Reivhb. & Warm. in Reichb. f. Otia Botan. Hamb. p. 89. Warm.

6 rae Meddel. Nat. Fr. Kjobenh. (Symb. Fl. Bras.) 1884, p. 851,

eet. es

Of the American genus Cyrtopodiwm, about thirty

species have been described, but few have been introduced

into this country. Such as have been are very handsome

plants, especially C. punctatum, Lindl., figured at t. 3507

of this work, wherein also are represented C. Woodfordii,

Sims, t. 1814, and OC. Andersonii, Br. t. 1800, the type of

the genus. All are terrestrial, pseudobulbous, and flower

before leafing. In the ‘ Genera Plantarum” the genus

Cyrtopera is erroneously merged’ in it, as pointed out

under Plate 7330 of this work; the latter genus being

referable to Eulophia, Br. —

The only recorded locality for C. virescens is that where

it was discovered by Warming, namely, Lagoa Santa in

Brazil. The specimen here figured was obtained from

Messrs. F. Sander & Co. of St. Albans, and flowered in

awarm house in the Royal Gardens in December, 1¢93.

It matured its leaves in May of the following year.

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RICHARDIA Pentianpi.

Native of Basutoland.

Nat. Ord. AroipEa.—Tribe PHILODENDREA.

Genus Ricuarpra, Kunth; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. iii. p. 982.)

Ricuarpia Pentlandii; elata, foliis immaculatis ovato-cordatis caudato-

acuminatis sinu aperto, lobis rotundatis, costa crassa, spatha crocea late

infundibulari tertia parte laxe convoluta intus leviter rugulosa, ore

expansa, apice abrupte recurvo subulato, marginibus recurvis, ima basi

intus plaga atropurpurea picta. —

R. Pentlandii, R. Whyte mss. Wats. in Gard. Chron. 1892, vol. ii. p. 123, and

1894, vol. i. p. 590.

Of the eight recorded species of Richardia (all of which

are African) five have now been figured in this magazine,

namely, the original R. xthiopica, Kunth. (Calla xthiopica,

tab. 832), CO. albo-maculata, Hook. (tab. 5140), C. hastata,

Hook. (tab. 5176), C. melanoleuca (tab. 5765), and that

here represented. These fall naturally into two groups,

according as the leaves are cordate or hastate at the

base. ‘lo the first of these belong R. xthiopica and Pent-

landit ; to the latter R. albo-maculata, hastata, and melano-

leuca. The differences in their spathes are well marked,

that of xthiopica is white, narrow, with a long point; of

Pentlandii as given above ; of albo-maculata, like xthiopica ;

of hastata, greenish yellow, broadly open, with a long

‘point, and of melanoleuca white with a purple base, broad,

quite open, or convolute, at the base only. ‘he spadixes

of none afford good diagnostic characters. R. Pentlandii

is much the largest leaved species, is the only one with

a deeply gamboge yellow spathe within, which is much

the largest and broadest of any. The other recorded

Species are all imperfectly known, namely, R. angustiloba,

: Schott, of Angola, R. Rehmaniana, Engl., and &. Elliotti-

ana, Knigt (ex Wats. i Gard. Chron., July 80, 1892, p.

123), which may be a var. of albo-maculata.

Feprvary Ist, 1895,

For the following account of the introduction into

Europe, and of the native country of Richardia Pentlandu

I am indebted to the articles upon this plant by Mr

Watson in the Gardener’s Chronicle cited above. He says,

“This plant was introduced by Mr. Whyte, Pentland '

House, Lee, who flowered it in May, 1892, and exhibited

it at a meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society, when —

it was awarded a First Class Certificate.’ Mr. Whyte

wrote in June, 1892, “I did not import this plant, bub —

about two years ago a friend gave me six tubers, and said :

I should probably find a yellow-flowered one amongst —

them. Two flowered last year, and were only of the

ordinary type, the third is that which I have called

h. Pentlandii, and I think there will be another of this, 0

of the other three. In May, 1892, Mr. E. H. Galpit,—

F.L.S., a resident of Barberton, in South Africa, paid 4 _

visit to Kew, and brought with him six tubers of a yellow —

flowered Richardia, whcih had been presented to him by —

a gentleman in the Transvaal, who obtained them from —

a Staats artilleryman, who got them from a Basuto chief

whilst on active service. One of those (that here figured)

is now (May, 1894), in flower at Kew, and proves to be

identical with Mr. Whyte’s R. Pentlandii. 4

Descr.—Leaves a foot long, subsagittately ovate-cordate, _

caudate-acuminate, broadest across the rounded basal

lobes, which are separated by a rounded sinus, dark green

above, unspotted ; costa very stout; nerves slender F

petiole two feet long, terete, quite glabrous, dark greet

Pedunele longer than the leaves, dark green, quite glab-

rous. Spathe five to six inches high; an inch to an inch

and a half broad about the middle, and three to fou!

inches across the broad mouth, loosely convolute for tw

thirds of the height, then expanding into a broad, nearly

horizontal limb, with recurved margins, and suddenly.

narrowed into a recurved, Nbitate tip; outer surface

canary-colrd., inner bright gamboge-yellow, and rugulosé;

base within dark purple. Spadiz two inches long ; ovaries

occupying a third of its length.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Base of spathe laid open and dix ; 2 hors: 8 All

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APHAIREMA spicata.

Native of South Brazil.

Nat. Ord. Samypacez.—Tribe ABATIE.

Genus ApHarema, Miers. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 799.)

APHEREMA spicata; herbacea, erecta, fere glaberrima, caule terete, foliis

oppositis breviter petiolatis ovato-cordatis acuminatis serratis exstipu-

latis, floribus parvis in racemum spiciformem multiflorum terminalem

erectum puberulum dispositis aureis breviter pedicellatis, bracteis subu-

latis, alabastris globosis, petalis 0, sepalis 4 ovatis valvatis persistentibus,

staminibus 8-16 subperigynis filamentis filiformibus antheris didymis,

loculis reniformibus, connectivo dilatato, ovario conico-ovoideo, placertis

3-4 parietalibus multiovulatis, stylo perbrevi, stigmate obscure 3—4-lobo,

serene parva depresso globosa loculicide 3—4 valvi polysperma, seminibus

_ oblongis.

A. spicata, Miers. in Proc. R. Hort. Soc. vol. iii. (1863), p- 294.

Aphzrema is a monotypic genus, founded on a plant

discovered in South Brazil in the province of 8. Paulo in

1861-2 by Mr. J. Weir, when collecting for the Royal

Horticultural Society. It was described from Herbarium

specimens by the late excellent botanist, J. Miers, F.R.S.,

in the Proceedings of the said Society. Since that period

it has been collected, in so far as I am aware, by only one

other botanist, Dr. Fritz Miiller, who found it in the

Province of Sta. Catherina, which adjoins 8. Paulo on the

south.

The specimen here figured agrees closely with Miers’

characters, except in respect of the stamens being more

than eight and up to sixteen, and the capsule being some-

times 4-valved, with as many placentes. The genus is

very closely allied to Raleighia, of Gardner, if, indeed, it

is not referable to it. The principal difference between

them appeared to consist in Raleighia being stipulate,

whilst Apherema is exstipulate ; for the more important

character of the former genus, that of the stamens being

very numerous and in several series, whilst Aphzerema

was supposed to have only eight, is invalidated by the

Fesrvary 1st, 1895.

specimen here figured having sixteen. Nor is the stipular

character free from doubt. In the ‘Genera Plantarum’

(i. 799) Raleighia is described, on Gardner’s authority, as

having foliaceous, deciduous stipules. But this 1s an

obvious oversight, for Gardner describes the leaves as

exstipulate, and so I find them in the specimen in the

Kew Herbarium, and so they are in the only other genus

of the tribe, namely, Abatia, and in a hitherto undescribed

species of Raleighia.

Descr—A_ slender, glabrous shrub, or undershrub ;

branches erect, terete. Leaves opposite, two to three

inches long, shortly petioled, ovate-cordate, obtusely acuml-

nate, crenate-serrate ; basal lobes rounded, sinus narrow,

light green above, paler beneath ; nerves six to eight pairs,

deeply impressed. lowers in solitary, terminal, slender,

peduncled, nodding racemes, three to four inches long,

shortly pedicelled, § in. broad, golden yellow; buds

globose ; bracts subulate. Calyx four-partite ; lobes trian-

gular-ovate, valvate. Petals 0. Stamens 8, 12, or 16,

perigynous ; filaments slender; anthers yellow, didymous.

Ovary broadly conico-ovoid, 3—4-celled ; style short, stigma

obscurely lobed ; ovules numerous, on three or four parietal

placentas, anatroprous.—J. D. ff.

Fig. 1, Rachis of spike, bract, and bud; 2, flower; 3 and 4, stamens;

5, ovary; 6, the same in transverse section; 7, fruiting raceme; 8, capsules

9, transverse section of do.; 10, immature seed :—all but tig. 7 enlarged.

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ALOE pracuystTacHys.

Native of Zanzibar.

Nat. Ord. Lintacrm.—Tribe ALOINER.

Genus Atos, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 776.)

Ator brachystachys; caudice elongato simplici, foliis dense rosulatis ensifor-

mibus sesquipedalibus vel bipedalibus pallide viridibus immaculatis,

aculeis marginalibus deltoideis concoloribus magnitudine mediocribus,

pedunculo flexuoso elongato, racemo denso simplici, pedicellis elongatis

ascendentibus apice articulatis, bracteis orbicularibus parvis, perianthio

cylindrico pallide rubro apice viridi, lobis lingulatis tubo brevioribus,

staminibus demum breviter exsertis.

This new Aloe was sent by Sir Jchn Kirk in 1884 to

the Royal Gardens, Kew, from Zanzibar. It flowered for

the first time in the Succulent House in January, 1894,

and proved to be a new species. It belongs to the true

Aloes, with a long caudex, and dense rosette of ensiform

leaves, Its nearest allies are A. abyssinica (Bot. Mag. t.

6620), and the Angolan A. littoralis, Baker, which has

not yet been brought into cultivation. The number of

Aloes known in Tropical Africa has increased very largely

of late years.

Descr.—Caudex long, slender, erect, simple. Leaves

about twenty, crowded together at the top of the stem,

all except the youngest drooping, ensiform, one and a half

or two feet long, two inches broad above the dilated base,

narrowed very gradually to the point, bright green, smooth »

on both surfaces, unspotted, a quarter of an inch thick in

the middle; marginal prickles deltoid, middle-sized, not

brown at the tip in the cultivated plant. Peduncle simple,

very flexuose, about as long as the leaves. Haceme dense,

simple, oblong, half a foot long; pedicels ascending, an

inch long, articulated at the tip; bracts orbicular, much

Fesrvary Ist, 1895.

shorter than the pedicels, pale green, with 5-7 distinct

brown stripes. Perianth cylindrical, an inch and a

quarter long, pale pink, tipped with green; lobes lingulate,

shorter than the tube. Stamens finally shortly exserted.—

J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, A flower, cut open; 2, stamens; 3, ovary, all enlarged; 4 whole

plant, much reduced.

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CEPHALANTHUS NATALENSIS.

Native of 8. E. Africa.

Nat. Ord. Rupracem.—Tribe Navuciea.

Genus Cernatantuus, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 30.)

CePEaLantuus zafalensis; fruticulus ramosissimus, ramulis pedunculisque

hirtello-tomentosis, foliis breviter petiolatis ovatis acutis obtusis v.

obtuse acuminatis, stipulis parvis triangularibus, capitulis nutantibus,

bracteolis calycis tubo brevioribus clavatis ciliatis dorso glandaliferis,

ecalycis tubo brevi, limbo 5-dentato puberulo sinubus eglandulosis,

corolla tubo gracili glabro superne infundibulari, limbo obliquo intus

lobisque 5 brevibus ovatis pubescentibus, antheris vix exsertis, connec-

tivo apice producto, stylo exserto, stigmate clavato, capitulis maturis

_ succulentis.

C. natalensis, Oliver in Hook. Ic. Pl. vol. xiv. p. 22, t. 1331.

Cephalanthus natalensis is the only described African

species of the genus, all others being Asiatic and Ameri-

can; a supposed Madagascar congener being referable to

the allied genus Adina, which has more than one ovule in

each ovarian cell. One species, C. occidentalis, Linn., the

American Button-wood or Button tree, was early intro-

duced into this country by Peter Collinson, in 1735. It is

a very common North American shrub, extending across the

whole continent, and remarkable as being the only woody

plant of the vast natural order to which it belongs, that is

a native of temperate North America. As far as I am

aware no properties of economic value have been attri-

buted to any species of the genus, except the present, to

the seeds of which the name of Quinine fruit was attached

by the sender; and the fruit of which is edible.

C. natalensis is a native of the mountainous regions of

Natal, the Transvaal, and Basutoland, at elevations of

3000 to 45000 ft. It was discovered by the collector

Gerrard about forty years ago, and has since been col-

lected by Dr. Atherstone, and by Messrs. Medley Wood ~

and E. K. Galpin, the latter of whom describes the fruit

Feprvuary Ist, 1895.

as resembling a strawberry, and edible. It ree ie

duced by Mr. Bull, who sent a specimen » a ae

named as a plant yielding a good edible sore Fe a

from which our figure was made was sees i Road

received in 1886 from W. J. Horn, Ksq., of Ous oa ‘

Balham, who collected the seeds with those Pe aa

other interesting plants, notably the showy r chat (a

dantha, figured t. 7331. Mr. Watson informs me oa

forms a compact little shrub, and flowers freely in spring o

the Temperate House of the Royal Gardens. —

escr.—A small, much-branched shrub, wi be

stout, terete, hirtellous branches and branchlets. a '

about an inch long, ovate, acuminate, acute, or io boo

obtuse, dark green, glabrous and shining above, er

neath with red midrib and nerves, and with hairy g :

at the axils of the nerves and midrib. Flowers “

numerous, in globose, terminal, peduncled heads, on saa

one and a half inches in diameter ; peduncle one to an

inches long, stout, decurved, hirtellous, bearing one a

sears of fallen bracts. Calyces minute, densely ee ie

sessile on a fleshy receptacle, surrounded by severa ‘s e

clavate, truncate, ciliate bracteoles, each of which ae hae

oblong, dorsal gland; tube of calyx produced abot e

ovary, 5-toothed, ciliate. Corolla about one-third ae

inch long; tube rose-red, glabrous, slender below -

middle, then obovoid, narrowly funnel-shaped, pubes .

within, as are the five short Ovate, spreading, green lo i —

within the mouth of the corol ; i

filaments very Short, Migerted at the entire ‘hase of “a :

oblong anther; connective shortly produced. Ovary o-—

. in |

celled ; » Stigma clavate ; ovules one

3 style slender, exserted

each cell, pendulous. Fruit succulent, edible.—J. D. H.

Silla

back of leaf with

: a

Fig. 1, Portion of the gland at the axil of the pore f the a

costa ; 2, calyces and @ corolla; 3, section of portion of the receptacle

°a

head, with 3 Ovaries, one cut vertically, showing the ovules, also the bracteole

at the base of the two other ovaries ;

4, a bracteole ; 5, upper part of corolla 2

laid open :—Al enlarged,

Vincent Brooks Day

Tas. 7401,

MUSA HILLII, F. Muell.

Native of Queensland.

Nat. Ord. Sctraminea%.—Tribe Muszea.

Genus Musa, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 655.)

Musa (Eumusa) Hillii; caudice elato robusto stolonifero, foliis longiuscule

petiolatis lineari-oblongis patulis basi cuneatis, spica valida erecta densi-

flora, bracteis ovatis cymbiformibus | flavo-viridibus apicibus obtusis

brunneis, fl. masc. perplurimis 2-pollicaribus, calycis leviter curvi dentibus

brevibus obtusis lateralibus majoribus appendice fusiformi ruguloso in-

structis, corolla lineari-oblonga subacuta, A. fem. ovario ovoidei 3-gono

perianthio masculo breviore, stigmate majusculo trilobo, baccis densissime

confertis ovoideis 3-gonis truncatis, seminibus perplurimis parvis angulo-

sis valde depressis.

M., Hillii, F. Muell. Fragment. vol. ix. p. 169. Baker in Ann. Bot. vol. vii.

p. 217 in Gard. Chron, 1893, ii. p. 743, in Kew Bulletin, 1894, pp. 239, 246.

Four species of Plantain are now known to inhabit

tropical Australia, all of them endemic, namely, M. Banksii,

F, Muell. Fragm. vol. iv. p, 182 (M. Banksiana, Kurz in

Journ. Agr. Hort. Soc. Ind. N.S. vol. v. (1878), p. 164);

M. Fitzalani, F. Muell. 1.c. vol. ix. p. 188; M. Charlioi,

W. Hill, Rep. Brisbane Bot. Gard. 1874 (undescribed),

and that here figured. Whether any of these are identical

with described species from the Malay or the Pacific Islands

is not determinable until these are better known; and as it

is only by comparison under cultivation, or by very care-

fully executed drawings that the members of this noble

genus can be determined, it will probably be many years

before this can be realized. Much has been done of late

towards a knowledge of the Plantains and Bananas by

summaries of the known species which have been drawn up

by Mr. Baker, and published in the “ Annals of Botany,”

and by a paper in the Kew Bulletin, both cited above. From

these it appears that about thirty-five species are more or

less known, though possibly some of them are synonymous,

or founded in error. Of these nineteen are now in culti-

vation at Kew, but only six of them have hitherto been

figured in this magazine.

Fesrvary Ist, 1895.

Seeds of M. Hillii were received at Kew from F. M. j

Bailey, Esq., F.L.S., Colonial Botanist, Queensland, in’

March, 1889, from which the plant here figured was raised. —

It flowered in the Palm House of the Royal Gardens in |

December, 1893. :

Deser.—Caudex attaining 30 ft. in height, and 18 inches

in diameter at the base, stoloniferous, cylindric. Leaves

as of M. sapientum, attaining 15 feet in length, base —

cuneate; petiole long. Spike erect, three to four fee

high, cylindric. Bracts six inches long and upwards

ovate, obtuse, pale yellow-green, with a brown tip. Mat

FL. very many in a bract, two inches long, narrow, slightl

curved, sub 4-angled, pale yellowish. Calywx-teeth short

obtuse, two lateral rather the largest, these and the media

tipped terminating in thickened rugose spindle-shaped

prolongation of the midrib; two intermediate much th

smallest. Petals linear-oblong, obtuse, one-fourth shorte

than the corolla. Anthers pale pink, about as long as th

filaments. Fra. ri. pentandrous. Perianth shorter tha

in the male. Ovary short, ovoid, 8-gonous ; style clavate

stigma three-lobed. Fruit two to two and a half inche

long, sessile, ovoid, acutely angled, truncate, fleshy. See

very rth 4-5 in. diam., much depressed ; testa black.—

Fig. 1, Male flower; 2, the same, with the calyx narrowed; 3, anther, 4%

enlarged; 4, bract and mal flower: : nat. sid

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HEPTAPLEURUM venutosouy, var. erythrostachys.

< Native of tropical Asia.

Nat. Ord. ARALIACES.

Genus Heprartevrum, Gertn. ; (Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 942.)

HEpPTaPLEURUM venulosum; arbor parva erecta v. frutex subscandens, ramulis

robustis, foliis digitatis longe petiolatis, foliolis 7-9 petiolulatis elliptico-v.

ovato-oblongis obtusis acutis v. obtuse subcaudato-acuminatis glaberrimis,

basi cuneatis rotundatisve, supra lete viridibus nervulis reticulatis promi-

nulis, stipulis ima basi petioli adnatis, panicule ample pedunculo gracili

v. robusto brevi v. elongato, ramis verticillatis glabris puberulisve,

capitulis florum breviter v. longius pedunculatis, floribus 4—5-meris

brevissime v. longius pedicellatis subpolygamis calycis patellefsrmis

limbo obscure dentato, petalis calyptratim cohwrentibus obtusis, stami-

nibus 4-5, ovario disco tumido coronato, stylo depresso obscure 4—5-lobo,

baccis parvis ovoideis flavis 4-5-locularibus.

H. venulosum, Seem. in Journ. Bot. iii. (1865), 80. Brand. For. Fl. N. W.

& Centr. Ind. p. 249. Kurz For. Fl. Brit. Burm. i. 538. Clarke in

Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 729. Benth. Fl. Austral. iii. 384. Beddome

Forester’s Man. 8. India, p. exxii,

H. ellipticum, Seem. J. ¢,

Paratroria.venulosa, Wight & Arn. Prodr. Fl. Penins, Ind. Or. p. 877.

Wight Illustr, Pl, Ind, Or, vol. ii. p. 62, t.118. F. Muell. Fragmenta,

vol, iv. p. 121.

P. elliptica v. macrantha, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. p. 756.

HepERA macrophylla, terebinthacea et venosa, Wall. Oat. n.n. 4918, 4920

partim, 4923.

Sciaporuyiivum ellipticum, Blume Bijdr. p. 878. DC. Prodr. vol. iv. p. 260.

Arata digitata, Roxb. Hort. Beng. p. 22; Fl. Ind. vol. ii. p. 107.

A. Moorei, F. Mueld. 1. ¢. vol. ii. p. 108.

Unsata, Rheede Hort. Malab, vol. vii. t. 28.

Var. erythrostachys, panicule robuste ramis ramulis petalisque rubellis

pedunculis pedicellisque brevibus.

Under the name of Heptapleurum venulosum, one or

more large species of the genus, ranges from Kumaon, in

the subtropical Western Himalaya, eastwards throughout

the range, to Burma, and southwards in moist forests to

Malabar, the Circars, and Singapore; thence extending

Marcn Ist, 1895,

to the Malayan Islands and tropical Australia. It has |

not, however, been detected in Ceylon, As might be |

expected, with so wide a range, it varies much in habit, —

and in the size of the leaves and flowers, and it is very —

possible that more than one species is included under the

above name. Amongst the very large series of Indian —

specimens that I have examined, I find the greatest

differences (and they are very great) to be in the stout-—

ness or the contrary of the rachis and branches of the

panicle, in the length and stoutness of the peduncles of the |

head of flowers, and of the pedicels of the flowers them-

selves. Inthe Himalaya the peduncles and pedicels are

for the most part as represented in the plate, but i

Malabar, Burma, Penang, and in Wight’s figure all the —

ramifications of the panicle are very slender and distinct, —

the peduncles attain an inch long, and the pedicels half an

inch. The flowers, too, vary greatly in size. In no case —

do I find any note of the colour of the panicle and its —

ramifications being red, as in the plant here figured; m_

all that I saw in the Himalaya and Khasia Hills, Iq

remember no colour but green. Wight, however, figures

these as violet-blue, and the flowers as green. :

I regret not being able to give the native country of |

var. erythrostachys. The specimen figured is from a plant

cultivated in the Temperate House of the Royal Gardens, :

presented by M. de Falbe, Danish Minister, from the

Villa Valetta, Cannes. It flowered in April, 1894. The

species is, as Mr. Watson informs me, not uncommon I

such gardens as can afford it house-room, but it seldom

flowers. :

Descr.—A small, diffusely branching tree, or bush, with

rooting lower branches, or sometimes a woody climbers

branchlets stout, dark green, dotted with white. Leaves

alternate ; petiole 4-8 inches long, terete ; leaflets 7-9,

whorled, 5-7 inches long, elliptic- or ovate-oblong, obtuse,

acute, or subcaudately obtusely acuminate, base cuneate

or cordate, reticulate on both surfaces ; petiolule 1-1} in.

Panicle on a short, stout, slender peduncle, glabrous oF

puberulous ; branches subverticillate, 3-6 inches longs

stout or slender, spreading, bearing throughout thelr

Ne peduncled, globose heads of flowers about §—3 in.

lam. lowers minute, polygamous; pedicels short

long Calyx broadly cupular, margin obscurely 5-toothed.

Petals short, obtuse, cohering in a deciduous operculum.

Stamens 4-5. Disk tumid, with an obscurely 4-5-lobed

very depressed central style.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower; 2, the same with the operculate corolia raised; 3, flower

with the petals removed; 4, calyx, ovary and disk showing the style;

5, vertical section of ovary :—Al/ enlarged.

Tas. 7403.-

DISA SAGITTALIS.

Native of South Africa.

Nat. Ord. OrcuipEx.—Tribe OrpHryYDER.

Genus Disa, Berg. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 630.)

Disa (Coryphea) sagittalis; foliis synanthiis, radicalibus pluribus oblanceolatis

acutis, caule erecto vaginis acutis membranaceis arcte vestito, racemo

oblongo cylindraceo v. subcorymbiforme, floribus patentibus puberulis

pallide lilacinis, bracteis ovario brevioribus, sepalis lateralibus oblongis

acutis, postico erecto e basi tubuloso repente in laminam patulam alte

2-lobam recurvam dilatato, lobis cuneatis basi tortis, calcare recto elougato

conico, petalis erectis linearibus basi extus in auriculam magnam dilatatis,

labello lineari undulato, rostello brevi rotundato concavo, polliniarum

glandula 2-loba.

D. sagittalis, Sw. in Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Nya Handl. vol. xxi. (1800),

P- = Lindl. Gen. &§ Sp. Orchid. p. 350. Bolus Ie. Orchid. Austro-African,

1. t. 32. ;

Orchis sagittalis, Linn. f. Suppl. p. 399.

Satyrium sagittale, Thunb. Prodr. Pl. Cap. p. 5.

No genus of terrestrial Orchids requires for its satis-

factory elucidation good drawings and analysis more

than does Disa; for the species are very numerous, and

the structural differences and complicated features of its

column and sepals are greater, I think, by far, than

in any other genus of the Order. To which must be added

the difficulty of describing, in intelligible language, the

irregular and often bizarre and even deceptive characters

of these organs, which, in dried specimens especially, are

apt to lead the systematist far astray. Considering his

materials and opportunities, Lindley’s work on the genus

in his ‘‘Genera and Species of Orchids,” is remarkably

skilful; but until Mr. Bolus took the field and published

his masterly researches in the ‘‘ Orchids of the Cape Penin-

sula” and “Icones Orchidearum Austro-Africanarum”’

hardly a dozen of the 109 described species could be

said to be satisfactorily known.

_ Disa sagittalis is figured and described in the last men-

tioned of Mr. Bolus’ works, and a comparison of his

results with those given in our figure shows a remarkably

Marcu Isr, 1895, -

perfect agreement in all essentials of structure. The

chief differences are, the greater luxuriance of the cul-

tivated specimen, its more numerous suberect, oblanceolate

bright green leaves, its reticulated sheaths on the brown

stem, its pale lilac sepals and petals; also the spur of

its posticous sepal is rather longer and narrower, and the

lamina is quite entire. The species is referred to the

section Coryphxa, both by Lindley and Bolus, in which

there should be two glands of the pollinia, whereas a

single 2-lobed one is (correctly) represented in Bolus’

figures and in that here given. JD. sagittalis is a native of

both the South Western and South Eastern regions of

South Africa, extending in the East to Natal. The

specimen represented was sent to the Royal Gardens by

H. J. Elwes, Hsq., F.L.S., from his gardens at Coles-

borne, Andoversford, which have contributed so many

rarities to this work, and amongst them more terrestrial

Cape Orchids than has any other contributor. It flowered

early in May of the present year.

Descr.—Tuber fusiform. Leaves radical, 2-4 inches

long, oblanceolate, bright green. Stem 6-8 inches high,

dark brown, clothed with membranous, acute, reticulate —

sheaths. Flowers few or many, minutely puberulous, iD 4 —

subcorymbiform raceme; about 3 of an inch long from

the tip of the lip to that of the dorsal sepal, pale lilac,

with red streaks on the petals and lip; pedicel spreading;

with the ovary an inch long; bracts shorter than the

ovary. Sepals, lateral oblong, acute, deflexed ; posticouss

erect, tubular below, and produced into a straight, conical,

acute spur, expanded above, and 2-lobed, lobes twisted ab

the base, fan-shaped, with the margins recurved and entire.

Petals erect, linear, with each a broad, rounded basal

auricle. Lip linear, waved. Column very short, depresses

with a short, broad, rounded, concave rostellum. Gland

of the pollinia 2-lobed. Ovary straight.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower seen in front and 2 from the back; 3, posticous sepal ;

de and lip, 5 dorsal and 6 lateral view of column; 7, pollinia :—~ ul

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VERONICA togantorpzs,

Native of New Zealand.

Nat. Ord. ScropHULARINE®.—Tribe DIGITALER.

Genus Veronica, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 964.)

Veronica (Hebe) loganioides; fruticulus humilis, basi decumbens, dein

erectus, ramis virgatis, cortice fuseo, ramulis pedunculisque laxe pilosis,

foliis 4-} poll. longis laxe densiusve imbricatis patenti-recurvis ovatis

acuminvatis crassiusculis carinatis viridibus integerrimis v. utrinque

pauci-denticulatis, floribus in racemulis ad apices ramorum corymbose

congestis dispositis oppositis brevissime pedicellatis, bracteis ovato-

oblongis calycibus brevioribus glaberrimis, sepalis oblongis obtusis

carinatis ciliolatis, corolla 3 in. diam. alba, tubo brevissimo, lobis ovato-

rotundatis, filamentis mediocribus, antheris pallidis, ovario glaberrimo

apice 2-lobo.

V. loganioides, Armstr. in New Zeald. Country Journal, vol. iii. et in Trans.

New Zeald, Instit. vol. xiii. (1881) 352, and p. 359,

Veronica loganioides is described by its author as “a

most singular plant, quite different in appearance from

any known Veronica * * * the corolla seems to

approach that of V. linifolia, but the aspect of the plant

is more that of JV. tetragona, though the leaves are not

connate at the base.” And he adds, “ until the fruit is

obtained the position and relationship cannot be deter-

mined.” Judging from the ovary, I think that it may be

safely referred to the section Hebe, or the subgenus

Korronika of Armstrong, which includes all the Hebes,

except those with scale-like, appressed leaves, to which he

has given the subgeneric name of Pseudo-Veronica. Its

nearest affinity is probably with V. epacridea (‘‘ Handb. of

N. Zeald. Flora,” p. 213), a prostrate, tortuous species,

with uniform small leaves in opposite pairs, and free at

the base; which species, however, differs widely, having

broadly, obovate-oblong obtuse leaves, and a corolla with

a long tube. Mr. Armstrong describes the corolla of

V’. loganioides as white, with pink stripes; but in all the

Marcu Ist, 1895, .

cultivated specimens that I have seen they are pure white.

It appears to be a very rare plant, a native of the Southern

Island, and the only native specimens in Kew Herbarium,

were sent to Kew by ‘hos. Kirk, Esq., F.L.S., of Wel-

lington. Mr. Armstrong gives as habitats the Rangitata

Valley, where he collected it himself, and the Clyde

Valley, alt. 5-6000 ft., Mr. W. Gray.

The specimen figured flowered in the Rockery of the Royal

Gardens, in June, 1893, and the same plant has been

received from the Royal Gardens of Edinburgh, under the

name of V. epacridea.

Descr.—A dwarf shrub, six to twelve inches high, with

many slender, terete, erect branches from a decumbent

base. Stems hardly as thick as a crow-quill, branched

above, naked, but annulate with scars below, leafy above,

as are the branches. Leaves quadrifarious, in opposite,

rather close-set pairs, about one-sixth of an inch long,

erecto-patent, ovate-lanceolate, subacute, coriaceous,

keeled, dull green, shining. Flowers sessile, small, in sub-

terminal opposite, corymbiform spikes ; peduncle one half

to two-thirds of an inch long, sparsely hairy ; bracts

lanceolate, shorter than the calyx. Calyx segments erect;

linear-oblong, obtuse, coriaceous, margins ciliolate. Corolla

one-fourth to nearly one-third of an inch in diam., white;

tube not longer than the calyx; posticous and lateral lobes

orbicular-ovate, posticous rather the largest ; anticous

much the smallest, ovate. Filaments about as long as

the corolla lobes; anthers oblong, erect, pale, Ovary

glabrous, style slender.—J. D. H.

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WE LDENIA CANDIDA.

Native of Mexico and Guatemala.

Nat. Ord. ComMELINacE#.—Tribe TRADESCANTIER.

Genus Wetpenta, Schult. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. iii. p. 855.)

We.penta candida; herba erecta, puberula, tuberosa, caule simplici folioso,

foliis linearibus oblongisve acutis subsessilibus basi angustatis subtus

alte 5-0-costatis, costis puberulis pallide viridibus supra concavis

fasciculis pilorum raris albis conspersis, vagina laxa cylindracea mem-

branacea, floribus terminalibus fasciculatis sessilibus albis, calycis tubo

superne fisso, limbo 5-fido puberulo, corolle tubo elongato gracili calyce

duplo longiore, limbi ampli segmentis 3 orbicularibus patentibus,

staminibus 6 filamentis gracilibus exsertis, antheris oblongis, ovario

lineari-oblongo 3-loculari, stylo filiformi, stigmate 3-lobo, ovulis in

loculis paucis subbiseriatim superpositis.

. candida, Schult f.in Flora, vol. xii. (1829), p. 3, t.i. A. Roem. & Sch.

Syst. vol. vii. p. 1186. Hassk. Commel. Ind. p. 3. Baker in Journ.

z Linn. Soe. vol. xvii. p. 454. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phanerog. vol. iii.

p. 319. Kew Bulletin (1894), p. 135.

W. Schaultesii, Schlecht. Hort. Halens. p. 14.

Lampra volcanica, Benth. Pl. Hartweg, p. 95; & in Hook. Ic. Plant. vol. xiii.

p- 28, t. 1236.

Rugendasia majalis, Hhrend. mss.

The remarkable plant here figured, which is monotypic,

was discovered by Ehrenberg, between Chico and Real

del Monte in Mexico; Karwinsky subsequently found it

‘in the Nevado de Tolucca, and Schiede on the Cuesta de

Catingoa. Hartweg, in 1840, collected it in the crater of

the Volean de Agua in Guatemala, and specimens from

the same locality have lately been received at Kew from

J. Donnell Smith, Esq., an excellent botanist.: The fol-

lowing account is given in the Kew Bulletin cited above.

“ Last year Mr. Audley C. Gosling, Her Majesty’s Minister

_ to Central America, informed us that his sons had “ made

the ascent of the Volcan de Agua, and at the bottom of

the crater had found bulbs of the plant which Mr. Donnell

Smith informs me is Weldenia candida.... I have

planted these bulbs here, and they flower to perfection at

9000 ft. lower altitude than where found. The daily

Maxcu Isr, 1895.

range of the thermometer in this city (Guatemala) is from

9°.22° centigr. (48°-71° Fahr.), and in the crater of de

Agua it is from —6° to 11° centigr. (21°-51° Fahr.). If you

have not the plant in cultivation, I shall be happy to send

you some bulbs. Mr. Gosling’s offer was gladly accepted,

and in September, 1893, the plants were received at Kew,

where they flowered in April in a cool greenhouse.”

Deser.—Tubers very many, tufted, narrowly fusiform,

2-3 inches long, fleshy. Stems 1-8 inches high, as thick

as a swan’s quill or less, simple or divided, leafy at the

tip, the leayes passing below into tubular, hyaline, striate

pale sheaths. Leaves 2-6 by 1-} in., crowded towards

the top of the stem, spreading and recurved, from oblong

to linear, or narrowly oblanceolate, acuminate, ecostate —

nerveless smooth above, and glabrous, except for 4

few small scattered superficial tufts of white cellular

hairs ; beneath pubescent on five or more prominent ribs ;

sheath loose, cylindric, membranous. Flowers sessile, in

terminal tufts amongst the leaves. Calye an inch long,

tubular, pale green, split to about the middle, tip with 3

very narrow teeth. Corolla pure white; tube twice as

long as the calyx, slender, cylindric, white ; limb one and

a half inches in diameter, 3-partite; segments orbicular,

spreading. Stamens 6, inserted at the mouth of the

corolla, filaments slender, about half as long as its lobes;

anthers basitixed, horizontal, ovate-oblong, yellow, base

cordate, slits lateral. Ovary sessile, columnar, 3-groved,

3-celled; style filiform; stigma exserted, 3-lobed, lobes —

ata ag ovules few in each cell, biseriately superpose?

Fig. 1, Epidermis of leaves with tufts of hairs; 2, hairs from the same+ —

3, tip of calyx; 4, stamen; 5, sti . ith one cé

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SCHINUS pspenpens.

Native of South America.

Nat. Ord. ANAcCARDIACEM.—Tribe ANACARDIEX.

Genus Scuinus, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol.1. pp. 422, 426.)

(Scurnvus et Duvava.)

Scuinus (Duvaua) dependens; frutex ramis strictis flexuosisve extimis spino-

sis, foliis parvis breviter petiolatis oblongis obovatisve glaberrimis

integerrimis v. serrato-dentatis, floribus polygamis in racemos axillares

folia subequantes dispositis, bracteis ovatis minutis ciliolatis 1-2-floris,

alabastris globosis, calycis lobis ovatis ciliolatis, petalis obovato-oblongis

unguiculatis, ovario globoso glabro, drupis globosis.

S. dependens, Ortega, Decad. vol. viii. p. 102. DL. March. Anacard. p. 164.

Engler in Mart. Fl. Bras, 387, et in Alph, DC. Monog. Phanerog, vol. iv.

p. 339, 538.

8S. Huygan, Molina, Sagg. Chili, Ed. I. 169, 355,

S. Bonplandianus, ZL. March. 7. ¢.

Dovava dependens, DC. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 74. Kunth in Dict. Sc. Nat. Te. t.

47, Hook, Bot. Misc, vol. iii. p. 176. C. Gay Fl. Chil. vol. ii. p. 42.

Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1573.

D. ovata et D. longifolia, Lindl, Bot. Reg. t. 1568, et vol. xv. (1843), t. 59.

D. dentata, DC. Prodr. 1. ¢.

D. cuneata, et D. inebrians, Gill. ex Hook. & Arn. in Hook, Bot, Mise, vol. iii.

p. 176.

-D. fasciculata et D. pracox, Griseb. in Goett. Abhandl. vol. xix. (1874),

p. 116.

D. ornata (sphalm. pro ovata) Philipp. f. Cat. Pl. Vase. Chil. p. 47.

D. polygama, Kunth in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. i. vol. ii. p. 340.

D. spinescens, Tenxore Cat. Ort. Nap. p. 85.

Amyris polygama, Cav. Ic. vol. iii. p. 20, t. 239.

Professor Engler, in his able monograph of the Anacar-

diacex, has shown that the long-established genus Duvaua,

of Kunth, can only be regarded as a subgenus of the older

Schinus. Though previously placed wide apart in the

Order, the only character by which they could be separated

was that of leaves simple in Duvawa and compound in

Schinus, which of itself is insufficient for the establish-

ment of two genera.

Marcu Isr, 1895,

S. dependens has a very wide range in the west coast

of South America, from Valdivia in latitude 40° 8S. to 19°

S. in Bolivia, where it ascends to 13,000 ft. elevation. —

It also extends over a great portion of the Argentine —

Republic, Paraguay and Uruguay. Its northern limit in ©

the east coast of America is the province of Rio Grande ~

do Sul, in the extreme south of Brazil. According to ©

the late Dr. Gillies (confirmed by. C. Gay) the Indians ~

of the Mendozan Andes distil an intoxicating liquor from

the fruit. The bark yields a balsam used as a vulnerary,

and other parts of the plant afford medicines formerly

much in use in Chili. Its native name is Huingan.

S. dependens was introduced into the Garden of the

Royal Horticultural Society before the year 1833, when it

was figured in the “ Botanical Register”? by Lindley, who

states that it will not bear the climate of London without

protection from frost, but would probably succeed i

crevices of rocks in Devonshire and Cornwall. The

specimen here figured is from a plant raised at Kew from —

seeds sent from the Botanical Gardens of Santiago, Chih,

in 1885 ; and which has proved to be perfectly hardy. It

flowers in May.

Descr.—A shrub or small tree, 12-15 ft. high, abun-

dantly flowering, with rigid branches, spinous at the tips;

or with more or less drooping branches in favourable

situations; bark brown. Leaves one-third to nearly one

inch long, very shortly petioled, oblong or obovate, more —

or less coriaceous, quite entire or more or less toothed,

dark green above, pale beneath. Flowers yellow, is ™-

diam., produced in great numbers of axillary, very shortly

peduncled racemes, about as long as the leaves; bracts

minute, ovate, ciliolate, 1-8-fld.; pedicels about one

twelfth of an inch long, glabrous. Calya minute, 4-lobed 5

lobes rounded, ciliolate. Petals obovate-spathulate, spread-

ing. Stamens in the male fl. nearly as long as the petals,

anthers large ; in the female reduced to minute staminodes.

Disk urceolate, 8-10 lobed. Ovary glabrous. Drupe

pisiform.—J, D. H.

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MACARANGA Porreana.

Native of the Philippine Islands.

Nat. Ord. EvpHorprackzZ.—Tribe Crotoneas, —

Genus Macaranea, Thou. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. iii. p. 320.)

Macaranea (Eumacaranga) Porteana; caule erecto cylindraceo cicatricato,

foliis amplis longe petiolatis peltatis orbiculari-ovatis acutis calloso-

crenulatis ciliolatis supra lete viridibus nervis aureis, immaturis supra

araneosis, subtus rufescentibus puberulis costa nervisque validis viridi-

bus, nervulis transversis perplurimis elevatis rubris, stipulis maximis

oblongis erectis cymbiformibus pallide flavo-virescentibus, paniculis

axillaribus petiolo brevioribus breviter pedunculatis roseis hic illic folii-

feris, bracteis primariis (basi ramorum inferiorum) pollicaribus ovato-

lanceolatis acutis, superioribus linearibus, floralibus parvis cymbiformibus

incurvis, bracteolis linearibus incurvis obtusis, floribus minutis sessilibus,

masculis perplurimis polyandris, femineis hermaphroditisve ad apices

ramulorum raris, perianthii segmentis ovatis, staminibus confertis,

antheris 4-lobis, ovario oblongo, stylis 2 elongatis subulatis stigmatosis.

M. Porteana, #. Andr? in Rev. Hortic. (1888), p. 176, fig. 36.

Mappa Porteana, Hort. ex W. Wats. in Gard. Chron, (1894), vol. ii. p. 284,

cum Ic. et Suppl. (1894) Sept, 8th.

As grown in a large pot standing in the tank of the

Victoria House at Kew, this forms one of the most

stately attractions of the many noble plants that sur-

round it. From a stout erect stem four-and-a-half feet

high, clothed above with the large erect, pale stipules,

are given off long bold, bright green petioles, two to three

feet long, supporting peltate leaves, nearly three feet

broad, of a lustrous dark satin green colour above, traversed

by golden nerves ; beneath the young leaves are of a rusty-

red hue, beautifully reticulate, with strong green nerves,

and innumerable transverse parallel red nervules; the

older leaves are uniformly pale green beneath. The in-

florescence, consisting of axillary panicles, is of pale red,

insignificant flowers. ae

Macaranga is a large tropical genus, consisting of —

upwards of eighty species, confined to the old world,

and chiefly Malayan. M. Porteana was discovered in the

Philippine Islands by M. Marius Porté, a French Botanist,

APRIL Ist, 1895. :

who collected there in 1860-5, and by him it was introduced

into the Jardin de Plantes, Paris, whence a young plant was

sent to the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1892. The latter was

only a foot high when received, but grew so rapidly as

to attain the dimensions mentioned above by April, 1893,

when it flowered.

Deser.—Stem woody, 4-44 ft. high in the plant figured,

erect, cylindric, dark brown, marked with triangular scars

of fallen leaves. Leaves at the tip of stem, peltate,

orbicular-ovate, acute, crenulate, dark green above, with

golden nerves, young rosy beneath; petiole two to three

feet long, horizontally spreading, stout, terete, green;

stipules three to six inches long, free, concave, linear-

oblong, acute, erect, very pale yellowish green, with

rusty-brown withering edges and tips. Panicles axillary,

shorter than the petioles, erect, pyramidal, laxly-branched,

pale reddish, bearing here and there on the rachis small,

ovate, acute, deeply toothed, reddish leaves, which are not

peltate ; bracts at the base of the lower branches an inch

long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, concave, upper gradually

smaller. lowers sessile on the suberect branches of the

panicle, bracteate and bracteolate, all male, except an

occasional terminal fem. or bisexual; floral bracts § 1.

long, boat-shaped, incurved, acuminate, 1—2-fld. ; bracteoles

two, lateral, much smaller than the bracts, linear, obtuse-

Maun rt.; sepals 3, ovate; stamens numerous, filaments

shorter than the sepals; anthers 4-lobed, 4-celled. sm.

FL. 5 perianth of the male; stamens fewer ; ovary oblong,

with two long subulate styles.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Portion of branch with male infl

orescence; 2, male branch,

bracteoles and flowers ; 3, male flowers; 4 and 5, scans 6, tip of branch

with four male and a bisexual terminal flower :—All enlarged.

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SAINTPAULIA IonantHa.

Native of Eastern tropical Africa.

Nat. Ord. GusnERACEHZ.—Tribe CyRTANDRER.

SarntpauLis, Herm. Wendl. in Wittmack Gartenflor. vol. xlii. (1893), p. 322,

t. 1391, and Abdbild. 66,

SaintPautra tonantha; acaulis, hirsutula, foliis petiolatis ovato-v. oblongo-

cordatis obscure crenatis apice obtusis v. rotundatis, pedunculis radicalibus

ascendentibus, floribus paucis cymosis nutantibus, alabastris pendulis,

sepalis 5~7 linearibus obtusis, corolle extus pubescentis tubo brevissimo,

limbo subrotato violaceo 2-labiato, labio superiore bilobo lobis rotundatis

inferiore paullo majore 3-lobo lobis obovato-rotundatis, staminibus 2

ore constricto corolle insertis, filamentis crassiusculis, antheris conniven-

tibus reniformi-rotundatis apicibus cohwrentibus, staminodiis 2 minimis

posticis, disco angusto annulari, ovario-oblongo 1-loculari hirsuto,

placentis intrusis contiguis furcatis secus ramos revolutos ovuliferis,

stylo brevisculo gracili, stigmate simplicii.

Sarntraviia ionantha, Herm. Wendl.; in Bull. Soc. Tosc. Ort. (1894), p.

13, f. 1; in Rev. Hort. Belg. (1894), p. 109, ewm Ic. Neub. Garten.-Mag.

(1894), p. 362, fig. 97.

It does not often happen that a plant newly introduced

into Europe can claim the honour accorded to the subject

of this plate, of being within two years of its flowering

figured in five first-class horticultural periodicals. Over

and above its attractiveness it is interesting as being one

of the few ornamental plants that have been introduced

from the hilly regions of Eastern tropical Africa. /It was

discovered by Baron Walter von Saint Paul, whose father,

Hofmarschal Baron St. Paul, of Fischbach in Silesia,

President of the Dendrological Society of Germany, has

kindly sent me the following account of its habitats, &e. :

—“ The Saintpaulia was discovered by my son, who lives

in East Africa, where he owns plantations of Vanilla and

India-rubber trees. It was found in two localities; one

about an hour from Tanga, in wooded places, in the

fissures of limestone rocks, as well as in rich soil with

plenty of vegetable matter. This place is not more than

fifty to one hundred and fifty feet above the sea level.

The second place is in the primeval forest of Usambara,

APRIL Ist, 1895,

likewise in shady situations, but on granite rocks, two

thousand five hundred feet above the sea. It is much

‘more plentiful in the former place. Several varieties have

been discovered that differ slightly in colour of the

flowers, but all are blue.’ Seeds were sent to his father

by Baron Walter; from these plants were raised by Dr.

Wendland at Herrenhausen, which flowered in 1893, and

were exhibited at the International Horticultural Exhibi-—

tion, held in that year in Ghent.

The specimen figured here was raised from seeds

obtained from a continental nurseryman, and flowered in

the Royal Gardens in July, 1894, under Gloxinia treat-—

ment.

The affinity of Saintpaulia is, according to Mr. C. B.

Clarke, who has monographed the Cyrtandrex, to be re-

garded as doubtful, until the ripe fruitis known. In habit

and floral characters it perfectly agrees with Boea, Comm.,

a tropical Asiatic genus; but in that the capsule is long,

slender, and twisted, whereas in Saintpaulia, judging from

the immature fruit (fig. 7) it would appear to be short and

straight.

Descr.—A perennial, stemless, hirsutely pubescent herb. |

Leaves one and a half to two inches long, shortly

stoutly petioled, ovate- or oblong-cordate, obtuse, crenate,

dark green, basal sinus closed; nerves few, spreading,

deeply sunk on the upper surface, much raised beneath.

Flowers in stoutly peduncled cymes, nodding ; pedicels one

half to one inch long; bracts small, narrow. Sepals 5-7;

linear, obtuse, erect, green. Corolla an inch in diameters

subrotate, pale blue; tube much shorter than the sepals ;

limb bilabiate; upper lip 2-lobed, much the smallest;

lower spreading, lobes: all orbicular, concave, ciliolate-

Stamens 2, inserted in the contracted mouth of the tubes

filaments short, stout; anthers shortly exserted, didymous,

conniving ; staminodes minute conical projections in the

throat of the corolla. Ovary ovoid, hirsute, style filiform,

stigma purple. Ovules many, on the revolute arms of tw

parietal placentas. Capsule ovoid, hairy.—J. D. #.

Fig. 1, Calyx and style; 2, tube of corolla laid open and stamen; 3, ovary

and disk; 4, transverse section of ovary; 5, hair of margin of corolla 5

6, ovules; 7, immature fruit All enlarged,

I. Reeve & C° London

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IXTANTHES rerzioipes.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Nat. Ord. ScRopHULARINEZ.—Tribe CHELONER.

Genus Ix1antues, Benth. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 987.)

Ix1tantues retzioides; frutex erectus, hirsutus, foliosus, foliis subverticillatim

confertis erectis lineari-oblanceolatis acutis serratis rigidis, floribus

axillaribus, pedicellis brevibus 2-bracteatis, calycis labio superiore 3-fido,

inferiore 2-fido, lobis brevioribus lanceolatis acutis, corolla sulphures

viscido-puberule tubo inflato gibbo, labio superiore 2-fido erecto lobis

rotundatis, inferiore patente 3-fido lobis obiongo-rotundatis, staminibus

2 corollx basi insertis inclusis, antherarum loculis divaricatis, staminodiis

2-3, stylo incluso apice emarginato, capsula ovoideo-tetragona septicida,

seminibus curvis.

I. retzioides, Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. vol. ii. (1836), p. 53; in DC.

Prodr, vol. x. p. 335. Harv. Thes. Capens. vol. i. t. 99. Macowan in

Gard. Chron. (1889), vol. i. p. 186, £. 19.

Ivianthes retzioides is described by Professor Macowan,

F.L.S. (writing from Capetown) in the above-cited article

in the Gardener’s Chronicle, as one of the rarest of Western

Cape plants. He says of it, “It appears to have been

gathered by our predecessors Ecklon and Zeyher, and

long afterwards by the late Dr. Pappe, who died in 1862.

Mr. Robert Templeman, a nurseryman here, found a soli-

tary plant in 1882 or 1888, and my colleague, Bolus,

dropped upon the very same one some year or so after-

wards, when it was almost destroyed by the cutting of a

water-furrow. I have hunted for other examples every

summer since. This year, after my return from an unsuc-

cessful raid, the farmer, on whose property the locality is,

found a small colony of the shrub, some examples being

five feet high, and magnificently in flower. It grows

almost in water.” There are specimens of it in the Kew

Herbarium from both Ecklon and Pappe, and from

Messrs. Macowan and Bolus. The latter give as its habi-

tat, by streams in the mountains near the waterfall of

Arai Ist, 1895,

Tulbagh, alt. 1200 ft. ‘‘rarissima.’” Ecklon gives also

the county of Worcester, which adjoins Tulbagh on the

S.E., as ahabitat. No others are recorded. Prof. Macowan

has sent to Kew dried specimens of a white-flowered

variety, with the leaves rather more acutely serrated.

The plant here figured was raised from seeds sent in

1891 to the Royal Gardens, Kew, by Prof. Macowan,

Government Botanist at Capetown, and which flowered

in a cool greenhouse in June, 1894. Mr. Watson in-

forms me that good plants of it were growing in the

open air during the summer months, but that they would

not survive the cold of an English winter.

Descr.—A branching, leafy shrub, attaining seven feet

in height, all parts except the interior of the corolla pubes-

cent. Leaves alternate, densely subverticillatedly crowded,

3-4 inches long, by about one-third of an inch broad;

sessile, very narrowly oblanceolate, acute, serrate beyond

the middle, greyish green above, paler beneath; nerves

short, slender, spreading. Flowers 1-3, on short axillary

peduncles. Calyx three-quarters of an inch long, glandular-

pubescent, obscurely 2-lipped, deeply 3-lobed, with the

posticous (or upper lip) broadest, and 3-fid at the tip; the

others lanceolate, acute, all valvate. Corolla sulphur-

coloured, glandular-pubescent externally ; tube gibbously

inflated, two-thirds of an inch long; limb one and a half

inch broad, 2-lipped, 5-lobed; lobes orbicular-obovate,

nearly equal; two upper erect, three lower spreading;

mouth transversely oblong. Stamens two, included, in-

serted at the very base of the corolla-tube, with two oF

three interposed setiform staminodes; filaments slender,

glabrous, incurved; anthers didymous. Ovary oblong;

glandular-pubescent; style filiform, stigma purple. Cap-

sule ovoid, acute, septicidal, many-seeded. Seeds curved,

testa lax.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Calyx laid open, showing the two lateral lobes and one of the three

connate dorsal lobes; 2, base of corolla, stamen, and staminodes from the

specimen figured; both enlarged; 3, the same from native specimen :—

enlarged.

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PIPTOSPATHA Ruvteyt.

Native of the Malay Peninsula.

Nat. Ord. AnomipE#%.—Tribe PHILODENDRES.

Genus Pirtospatua, N. £. Br.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii.

p. 855.)

PierospatHa Ridleyi; acaulis, foliis petiolatis elliptico-lanceolatis acutis

apicibus tubulosis, supra viridibus pallide marmoratis, subtus pallidis,

nervis primariis utrinque 6-8 rubris, nervulis tenuissimis, petiolo

vaginisque lanceolatis rubro-fuscis, pedunculo petiolo multo longiore

rubro-fusco, spatha nutante ovoidea apice repente rostrato recurvo,

dimidio inferiore luride viridi, superiore roseo striato et punctato, spadice

brevi basi annulo organorum neutrorum cincto, parte mascula apice

rotundata femines mquilonga, antheris sessilibus quadrato-oblongis

loculis lateralibus angustis poris terminalibus dehiscentibus, connectivo

crasso apice hemisphzrico, ovario ovoideo, stigmate pulvinato, ovulis

basilaribus.

P. Ridleyi, ¥. L. Br. mss.

The genus Piptospatha was established in 1879 by Mr.

N. E. Brown in the Gardener’s Chronicle, upon a Bornean

plant, P. insignis, which has been figured in this Magazine

(Tab. 6598); the generic name taking precedence by one

year of Engler’s Rhynchopyle. It belongs to the tribe

Philodendree of Aroideex, and is distinguished by the

nodding spathe, the limb of which is calyptrately deci-

duous from the tube, the latter forming a funnel-shaped cup

around the fruiting spadix; by the prolonged connec-

tive of the anthers, which in P. insignis forms a conical

horn; and by the unilocular ovaries with basilar or sub-

basilar erect ovules. The seeds of the species in which these

have been seen, are remarkable for the testa being produced

into a tail longer than the nucleus. P. Ridleyi differs

from P, insignis, in the greater size of the broader foliage,

in the connective of the anthers forming a pubescent hemi-

sphere, and in the orbicular stigma distinct from the crown

of the ovary. The other described species are P. elongata,

N. E. Br., and P. marginata, N. E. Br., both Bornean,

and published in Engler’s “ Bot. Jahrb.,” i. (1881), 184,

APRIL Ist, 1895,

and figured in Beccari’s “‘ Malesia”? (under Rhynchopyle),. —

and there are yet others in the Kew Herbarium hitherto un-

described. As with other tribes of obscure Malayan Aroids,

natives of dark tropical forests, they are overlooked by col-

lectors in search of showy plants of horticultural interest ;

and it is only when their native habitats are visited by such

experienced botanists and travellers as Dr. Beccari, in

the Malayan Islands, and Mr. Ridley in the Peninsula,

that they are likely to be procured for scientific purposes.

Piptospatha Ridleyi is a native of Johore, in the southern —

extremity of the Malay Peninsula. It was sent to the —

Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1893, by the botanist whose

name it bears, the Director of the Garden and Forest

Department of the Straits Settlements. It flowered in the —

Tropical House in June of the same year, and continued —

in flower all the summer. :

Descr.—Basal sheaths of stem lanceolate, acuminate, —

and like the petioles a dark vinous red. Leaves erect,

six to eight inches long by two broad, elliptic-lanceolate, —

acute at both ends, dark green above, with pale blotches —

between the eight to ten pairs of ascending nerves; dull —

pale green beneath, with slender midrib nerves, and a

narrow, intramarginal nerve; petiole about half the length |

of the blade, grooved in front. Peduwncle about as long a8

the leaves, pale reddish brown, as thick as a small goose-

quill. Spathe two inches long, nodding or decurved,

ovoid, with a short, upturned beak, closed, except at the —

apex; base dull green, upper half or more, pink, with —

slender, darker nerves and dots. Spadivx sessile, about —

one-quarter the length of the spathe, cylindric, top rounded;

flowers densely packed; male portion as long as tbe

female, the latter subtended by a ring of minute, clavate

neuters. Anthers quadrately oblong ; cells lateral, opening

by minute, terminal pores ; connective hemispheric, pubes-

cent. Ovaries ovoid, 2-celled; stigma sessile, disciform ;

ovules many, basal erect, orthotropous.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Top of peduncle and spadix; 2 and 3, anthers; 4, neuter orga

5, ovary; 6, the same cut lengthwise, and 7, transversely; 8, ovules A

enlarged.

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MAGNOLIA parvirFLora.

Native of Japan.

Nat. Ord. Macnoriaces.—Tribe MaGNno.Liem.

Genus Maenorra, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 18.)

Maenotta parviflora; arbor, ramulis pubescentibus, foliis deciduis petiolatis

elliptico-ovatis cuspidatis immarginatis basi rotundatis subtus pallide

viridibus puberulis, nervis utrinque 5-7 arcuatis impressis, floribus foliis

coetaneis longe pedunculatis 33—4 poll. diam., sepalis 3 oblongis pallide roseis

demum reflexis, petalis ad 6 late obovatis concavis albidis, staminibus

numerosis incurvis, filamentis antheras lineari-oblongas sanguineas

zquantibus, gynostegio oblongo breviter stipitato, carpellis paucis.

M. parviflora, Sieb. & Zuce. in Abh. Akad. Muench. vol. iv. pt. 2 (1848), p. 187.

Miq. Prolus. Fl. Japon. p. 146. Franch. & Sav. Enum. Pl. Japon. vol. i.

p. 16. Rev. Hort. Belg. (1891), p. 44,45. Walp. Ann. i.956. Keisuke

Ito, Descr. Plant. Bot. Gard. Koishikawa (Tokio Hort. Bot.), vol. i. t. 18.

Kwa-wi Arb. vol. iii. fol. 8. Phonzo Zufou, vol. 82, fol. 9, 10.

Oyama Renga, Jap.

Under Magnolia Watsoni, I have in this Magazine (Tab.

7157) alluded to M. parviflora, and indicated the differences

between these two species, which consist in the small size

of all the parts of the latter, the few nerves of its leaves,

and the long peduncle of its flowers; to which may be

added the absence of the yellow margin of the leaves, and

the fewer carpels.

M. parviflora is a native of the alpine region of the

Japanese island of Nippon, and is recorded from Mounts

Hakone and Hego-san, and from the foot of the volcano

of Wunyen. The plant from which the drawing is made

was purchased in 1893, from the Yokohama Gardener’s

Association. It flowered in June, 1894, in the Temperate —

House of the Royal Gardens, Kew. :

Deser.—A small tree ; branches rather slender, glabrous ;

branchlets pubescent. Leaves four to six inches long, mem- —

branous, oblong or obovate-obloug, shortly obtusely cuspi-

date, glabrousabove, pubescent beneath, base rounded, nerves

five to six pairs, light green above, much paler beneath

Aprit Ist, 1895,

with yellowish nerves, margins green ; petiole three-fourths

of an inch long, green, pubescent. Flowers long-peduncled,

three and a half to four inches in diam.; peduncle one to

two and a half inches long. Sepals three, oblong, pale

rose-colrd., glabrous. Petals about six, obovate, very con-

cave, white. Stamens very many, strongly incurved;

‘anthers about equalling the filaments, blood-red, tips

obtuse. Carpels few, lanceolate, adnate to the axis of the

gynophone. Ovules two.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Portion of under surface of leaf; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, young

carpel :—All enlarged.

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KNIPHOFIA Norrarz.

Native of Cape Colony.

Nat. Ord. Littacra.—Tribe HemErocaLLeR,

Genus Kyirnorias, Mench. (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 775.)

Kyrenorta Northiz; breviter caulescens, foliis 30-40 dense rosulatis lanceo-

latis acuminatis recurvatis glaucescentibus e basi ad apicem sensim an-

gustatis, dorso indistincte carmatis margine crebre denticulatis, pedunculo

valido foliis multo breviore, racemo densissimo oblongo, pedicellis

brevissimis clavatis, bracteis ovatis navicularibus pedicello longioribus,

perianthio subcylindrico supra ovarium leviter constricto citrino ante

anthesin rubro tincto, lobis brevibus obtusis, staminibus longe exsertis,

stylo staminibus longiore.

K.N ea Baker in Journ, Bot. 1889, p. 43; in Gard. Chron, 1891, vol. ii.

p. 66,

This is the most robust and aloe-like of all the species

of this favourite genus. From its nearest ally, K. caules-

cens, Baker (Bot. Mag. tab. 5946) it may be easily distin-

guished by not having any raised keel on the back of the

leaf. It was first brought into notice in this country by

Miss Marianne North, who painted it (see the North Gallery,

No. 367) and brought home a plant which she presented to

the Royal Gardens at Kew. Weare informed by Mr. KE.

Tidmarsh, the Curator of the Botanic Garden at Grahams-

town, that it was first found in a wild state in the neigh-

bourhood of that town by Mr. W. Dugmore. It was

brought to Kew by Miss North in 1883, and flowered for

the first time in the Succulent House in July, 1889.

Plants were distributed from Kew, and one of these

flowered with Mr. W. E. Gumbleton in County Cork in

1891. For two years a large group of it has been planted

out in the open air at Kew, on the south side of the

Orchid House, the plants being only protected in winter

by a few dry leaves being placed round their collars.

Under these conditions it grows freely, and this year

every plant has flowered, so that it may be considered as

hardy in favourable situations in the south of England

May Isz, 1895,

and Ireland. Our drawing was made from a plant that

flowered at Kew in June, 1894.

Descr.—Stem shortly produced below the rosette of

leaves, two or three inches in diameter. eaves thirty or

forty in a dense rosette, lanceolate, acuminate, glaucous,

four or five feet long, five or six inches broad near the

base, narrowed gradually to a long point, without any

acute keel on the back, strongly and closely denticulate

on the edges. Peduncle very stout, much shorter than

the leaves. aceme dense, oblong, half a foot to a foot

long; pedicels very short, deflexed, clavate ; bracts ovate-

navicular, longer than the pedicels. Perianth subcylindri-

cal, constricted a little above the ovary, an inch or rather

more long, pale yellow when mature, in an early stage

more or less tinged with red; lobes short, suborbicular,

obtuse. Stamens half as long again as the perianth.

Ovary ovoid; style very long, overtopping the anthers.—

J. G. Baker. he hes eee

Fig. 1, Margin of leaf; 2, flower, with pedicel and bract; 3, pistil, all

enlarged ; 4, whole plant, much reduced,

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VACCINIUM sryturocarrum.

Native of the Alleghany Mountains.

Nat. Ord. Vacctntacra.—Tribe Euvacciniga.

Genus Vaccinium, Linn. (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 5738.)

Vaccinium (Oxycoccoides) erythrocarpum; fruticulus ramis divaricatis,

ramulis puberulis, foliis deciduis ovatis ovato-oblongisve acuminatis

serrulatis sinubus setiferis supra setulosis venosis, floribus solitariis

axillaribus longe pedicellatis pendulis, calycis tubo obconico limbo

brevissime 4-dentato, corolla rosea alabastro conica, tubo brevi, lobis 4

loriformibus revolutis, filamentis villosis, antheris elongatis puberulis

dorso medio bicalcalearatis, baccis globosis demum nigricantibus.

V.erythrocarpum, Michxy. Fl. Am. Bov, vol. i. p. 227, A. Gray Fl. N. Un.

t. ed. v- p. 290; Synopt. Fl. N. Am. vol. in. pt. i. p. 25. Chapm. FI. 8.

Un. St, p, 259.

Oxrcoccus erectus, Pursh Fl. Am. Sept. vol. i. p. 264. DO. Prodr, vol. viii.

pars ii. p. 577. Wats. Dendrol. Brit. vol. i. t. 31. Loud. Arboret.

Brit. p. 1171, fig. 994.

O. erythrocarpus, Pers. Synops. vol. i. p. 419.

A remarkable whortleberry, uniting by the structure of

its flowers, the deciduous leaved species of Vaccinium

proper, in which the corolla is ovoid, with the true

Oxycocet or cranberries, which have persistent leaves, and

a corolla divided nearly to the base into long narrow at

length revolute lobes. This has led to differences of

opinion regarding the position of V. erythrocarpum, and

the validity of Oxycoccus as a genus differing from Vacct-

nium. Michaux, who, I believe, discovered, and who first

described the plant, placed it in Vaccinium, while Persoon,

and following him Pursh, referred it to Oxycoccus. Asa

Gray, the highest authority for North American plants,

reduced Oxycoccus, including V. erythrocarpum, to a section

of Vaccinium, distinguishing the latter from the other

Oxycocci, the Cranberries by its habit and deciduous leaves.

Lastly, in the Genera Plantarum, V. erythrocarpum is

retained in Vaccinium, with the sectional characters of the

corolla, whilst Oxycoccus is restored for the two cranberries

(O. palustris and O. macrocarpus), which differ from all

May Isz, 1895.

Vaccinia in their mode of growth, and in the flowers being

produced on erect terminal pedicels from bracteate buds.

V. erythrocarpum is a native of the higher Alleghanies,

from Virginia to North Carolina, where it grows gre-

gariously, flowering in July. I do not find that it hasa

native name. It was introduced into England in 1806

by Messrs. Loddiges. The specimen here figured was

from a plant raised from seeds sent by the late Dr.

A. Gray from Harvard Botanical Gardens in 1886, and

which flowered in the Arboretum of the Royal Gardens

in June, 1894, The fruit, which is of a bright red when

immature, and ripens to a blue-black, is slightly acid and

insipid.

Descr.—A shrub three to four feet high, with spreading

terete branches, and puberulous branchlets. Leaves one

and a half to two inches long, subsessile, deciduous, ovate

or ovate-oblong, acute or acuminate, serrulate, with minute

bristles on the upper surface, and in the angles between

the teeth, base rounded or subacute, upper surface dark

green, with sunk veins, under paler, with strong nerves

and reticulate nervules; young leaves tinged with red.

Flowers solitary in the axils of almost every leaf, half an

inch long, pendulous from slender, minutely bibracteolate,

pedicels one-fourth to two-thirds of an inch long. Calyx

obconic, terete; limb minutely 4-toothed. Corolla come

in bud, deeply four-lobed, the lobes linear and revolute.

Stamens as long as the corolla-lobes, cohering in a trun-

cate, erect cone; filaments very short, hairy, orange-red }

anthers slender, pubescent, with two short, dorsal, spread-

ing horns about the middle; tubes long, connate. Style

stout. Berry at first red, ripe blue black, half an inch 10

diameter, smooth, many-seeded.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Portion of upper surface of ‘ sF tyle; 4and

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ARGYLIA cANESCENS.

Native of Chili.

Nat. Ord. Bignonraceam,

Genus Arerita, D. Don. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1043.)

ARGYLIA canescens; candice erecto cylindraceo, caules annuos erectos ascen-

dentesve simplices ramososve laxe foliatos pilosos subapice emittentes

foliis alternis distantibus longe petiolatis pubescentibus rotatim 7-

foliolatis, foliolis petiolulatis ovatis bipinnatifidis lobis ultimis brevibus

obtusis, floribus apicem versus caulis subcapitatim corymbosis breviter

pedicellatis additis pancis dissitis, bracteis lanceolatis icellos

subwquantibus, sepalis linearibus obtusis laxe villosis, corolla aures

ubescentis tubo infundibulari-campanulato intus rubro striato, limbi vix

ilabiati lobis 5 subequalibus late obovatis retusis, capsula lineari

- rostro erecto.

A. canescens, D. Don in Edinb. N. Phil. Journ. (Apr.-June, 1829), p. 88.

G. Don Gen, Syst. vol. iv. p. 229. DC. Prodr. vol. ix. p. 235. C. Gay

Fl. Chil. vol. iv. p. 441.

A. radiata, Endl. Iconog. vol. xii. p. 71.

Argylia is a very remarkable genus of Bignoniacex, con-

fined to the Andean region of Chili and Peru. About

twenty species have been described, but so imperfectly

that it is impossible to say how few or many of them are

really distinct. The genus was founded on a plant figured

by Louis Feuillée,* in his “Journal des Observations

physiques mathematiques et botaniques, faites par ordre

du Roi, sur les Cotes Orientales de |’Amérique Méridional,

et dans les Indes Occidentales, depuis 1707-1712,” pub-

lished in 1714, with fifty plates of plants. Amongst the

latter is an Argylia, a native of Peru, which differs from

A. canescens in the broader, more entire leaflets, the long

tube of the corolla and other characters. The genus was

named in honour of Archibald Campbell, third Duke of

Argyle (who died 1761), a great lover of plants, and the

introducer of many American trees and shrubs into

Whitton Park, Isleworth, for many years his residence, of

* A notice of the Life and Labours of Friar Feuillée will be found under

tab. 7249, Pasithea coerulea.

May Ist, 1895,

which the greater part were transferred on his death to

Kew, but some still remain.

The genus is here for the first time figured from a

specimen cultivated in Europe. It was presented to the

Royal Gardens, Kew, by Thomas King, Hsq., of Garnett

Hill, Glasgow, in 1892, along with a collection of bulbs

and seeds from Valparaiso. It flowered in a cool house

in July, 1893, and again in 1894, The plant is not un-

common in Chili, from the latitude of Concepcion to that

of Coquimbo, ascending to 7000 feet on the Andes.

Descr.—Caudex several inches high, cylindric, three-

quarters of an inch in diam. or more, contracted at the

apex, emitting from near the top annual leafing and

flowering stems ; bark pale, covered with transverse scars.

Flowering stem strict, erect, twelve to eighteen inches high,

simple or branched, as thick as a goose-quill, terete, green,

pubescent. Leaves alternate, distant; petiole four to eight

inches long, pubescent, terminated by a whorl of pubes-

cent, broadly ovate bi-tri-pinnatifid petiolulate leaflets,

two to three and a half inches long, the segments of which

are narrow and obtuse. Flowers subcorymbosely disposed

on the summit of the stem, with a few distantly scattered

lower down the stem; bracts lanceolate, green, half an

inch long, about as long as the pedicels, softly hairy, as 18

the calyx. Sepals one-third of an inch long, linear, obtuse,

erect. Corolla golden-yellow, with blood-red interrupted

streaks in the throat opposite the three lower lobes ; tube

nearly one inch long, glandular-pubescent, narrow at the

base, then dilated and sub-campanulate ; limb one and

a quarter to one and a half inch in diam., lobes subequal,

broadly obovate, retuse. Stamens 4, didynamous, included

in the corolla tube, inserted at the tip of the narrow por-

tion; staminode minute styliform. Disk naked, 4-lobed.

Ovary oblong, shortly stipitate, pubescent; style slender,

stigma of two ovate lamella. Capsule four inches long,

deflexed, narrow, cylindric, with a long, subulate, straight

beak. Seeds many, minute, subdidymously orbicular,

beautifully striate-—J. D. D.

Fig. 1, Calyx, style and stigma; base of tube of corolla laid open, with

stamens and staminode; 3, anther; 4, disk and ovary; 5, capsule of

natural size); 6 and 7, seeds :—All but fig. 5 enlarged.

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VERONICA Heocrort.

Native of New Zealand.

Nat. Ord. ScropHuLARINEZ.—Tribe DiciITaLEe,

Genus Veronica, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 964.)

Veronica (Hebe) Hectori; fructiculus robustus, ramosus, ramulis elongatis

erectis teretiusculis, foliis per paria connatis appresse imbricatis late

ovatis v. orbiculari-ovatis obtusis crassis pinctulatis dorso convexis

ecarinatis, junioribus ciliolatis, floribus in capitula terminalia aggregatis

axillis, summis sessilibus, bracteis foliis conformibus sed paullo latioribus,

sepalis lineari-oblongis obtusis ciliatis, corolla albw tubo calyce vix

longiore, limbi lobis 3 oblongis obtusis, antico angustiore, antheris

rubro purpureis, ovario glaberrimo, capsula sepalis equilonga.

V. Hectori, Hook. f. Handb. N. Zeald. Flora, p. 212. Armstr.in Trans. New

Zeald, Institute, vol. xiii. (1885), p. 352.

V. Hectori belongs to the group of New Zealand Speed-

wells, which includes V. lycopodioides (tab. 7338), V.

tetragona (Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 580), and a few others,

characterized by the short, thickly coriaceous, scale-like,

densely imbricating leaves, often united by thin bases into

a two-lipped cup. In most of the species of this group

the branches are more less tetragonous, from the leaves

being dorsally keeled, but in V. Hectort the branches are

nearly terete, from the leaves being dorsally rounded. —

From both the above-named species V. Hectort differs in

the very small flowers and broader sepals.

The discoverers of this species, which is confined, as far

as is known, to the Alps of Otago, in the southern province

of the Southern Island of New Zealand, were Sir James

Hector, F.R.S., and Mr. Buchanan, who describe it as the

largest shrub at elevations of 7000 to 8000 feet in the

Lake district, growing about two feet in height; and also

as forming low, rigid, spreading patches, which “crackle

under the feet.” In its native country it flowers in April

and May, months answering to October and November in

ours, whereas it flowered in Edinburgh in July ; an apparent

anomaly probably due to the elevation of its native habitat.

May Ist, 1895, :

The flowers are pink or white. The specimen figured

was communicated by Dr. Balfour, F.R.S., from the Royal

Botanic Garden of Edinburgh in July, 1894.

Deser.—A small woody, tufted, erect shrub, growing in

patches. Stem terete, brown, woody, as thick as a goose-

quill below, marked with the close-set scars of fallen leaves ;

branches erect, sparingly divided, densely clothed with

decussate closely imbricating appressed scale-like leaves,

nearly terete, bright green. Leaves one-sixth of an inch

long, very coriaceous, broadly orbicular-oblong, connate

to the middle in pairs, dorsally convex, bright green,

shining; margins of young leaves ciliate. lowers few, in

small terminal heads, bracts (the uppermost leaves) rather

larger than the cauline leaves, ciliate. Calyx four-lobed

nearly to the base; sepals linear-oblong, ciliate. Corolla

one quarter of an inch broad, white (or pink) ; tube hardly

longer than the sepals ; lobes oblong, obtuse, the anticous

much narrower than the others. Anthers oblong, red-

es ery oblong, quite glabrous ; style very slender.

Fig. 1, Summit of branch wi lo daauke

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Tas. 7416.

CYPRIPEDIUM Cuaarteswortatt.

Native of Arracan.

Nat. Ord. OrcurpEx.—Tribe CyrpripeDIE®.

Genus Cyprivepium, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 634.)

Cyrripepium (Coriaceew) Charlesworthii; foliis lineari-oblongis loratisve

acutis laete viridibus, scapo unifloro hirsutuio virescente rubro maculato,

bractea ovario breviore obtusa, ovario brevi costis purpureis hirsutis,

sepalo dorsali magno orbiculari demum convexo roseo nervis sanguineis

reticulato, sepalis lateralibus in laminam late ovatam obtusam vVires-

centem pubescentem labello suppositam connatis, petalis planis patentibus

lineari-oblongis obtusis pubescentibus luride flavo-viridibus nervis rufescen-

tibus, labello petalis concolore saccato auriculis rotundatis, staminodio

_ eburneo orbiculari disco tumido in cornu conicum producto, stigmate

reniformo.

C. Charlesworthii, Rolfe in Orchid Review, vol. i. pp. 308, 355, ewm Ic.

Gard. Chron. (1893), vol. ii. pp. 406, 437, fig. 70. Journ. of Hortic. (1893),

vol. ii. p. 307, fig. 43. Gartenflora, vol. xliv. p.1,t. 1410. Rev. Hortic.

Belge (1894), p. 253, ewm Ie. Lindenia, vol. x. p. 25, t. 443.

As observed by Mr. Rolfe, Cypripedium Charlesworthii is

a very distinct species from any hitherto known, most

nearly allied to C. Spicerianum, Reichb. f. (Bot. Mag. t.

6490), and C. Drurii, Beddome (Lindenia i. t. 6), but well

distinguished from both by (amongst other characters) the

- rose-cold. dorsal sepals, and the horned boss on the disk of

_ the staminode, in which respects it is unique in the genus.

It is named in honour of the head of the firm of Messrs.

Charlesworth, Shuttleworth & Co. of Heaton, Bradford,

who were the importers of the species.

The specimen here figured was purchased at an auction

sale. It flowered in the Orchid House of the Royal

Gardens in August of last year. It is a free flowerer, and

the flowers show considerable variation in size and colour.

Its native country is the province of Arracan, in the Bay

of Bengal, one of the most unhealthy districts of India, —

and hence unexplored botanically. It was found in com-

pany with C. bellatulum, Reichb. f., a species the habitat —

of which was previously unknown, and which species 18

May Ist, 1895.

consequently not described in the Flora of British

India.

Descr.—Leaves six to eight inches long by an inch broad,

spreading and recurved, acute, glabrous, bright green above,

pale beneath with purple spots towards the base. Scape

one-fid., as long-as the leaves, stout, hirsute, green, with

crowded red linear spots. Bract an inch long, oblong,

obtuse, green, with dull purple blotches. Ovary one to’

one and a half inch long, green, with hirsute, dark purple

ribs. Dorsal sepal erect, orbicular, two inches in diameter,

at first flat, at length convex, from the sides recurving,

rose-cold., reticulated with blood-red nerves ; lateral

sepals connate in a broadly ovate, obtuse, pale greenish

blade, with pale, brownish-red nerves. “Petals one and a—

half inch long, horizontally spreading, linear-oblong,

_ obtuse, pubescent, dull yellow-green, with five to seven

broad, red-brown nerves. Lip saccate, dirty greenish

yellow, suffused with brown, mouth wide, truncate,

margins not recurved, auricles rounded. Staminode sub-

orbicular, ivory-white, with a central boss ending i @

short, conical horn ; stigma reniform.—J. D. H.

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CRINUM Scutmeert.

Native of Abyssinia.

Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDEZ.—Tribe AMARYLLER:

Genus Crinum, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook, f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 726.)

Crinum (Codonocrinum) Schimperi; bulbo globoso magno collo elongato, foliis

8-10 linearibus glabris recurvatis facie viridibus dorso glaucescentibus,

pedunculo valido foliis breviore, umbellis paucifloris, spathe valvis

2 ovatis, pedicellis subnullis, perianthii tubo cylindrico 4-pollieari brun-

neo-viridulo primum suberecto demum cernuo, limbo albo tubo wquilongo,

lobis oblanceolato-oblongis acutis apice patulis, staminibus declinatis

limbo brevioribus, stylo declinato staminibus longiore.

O. Schimperi, Vathe inedit. ; Schum. in Gartenflora, vol. xxxviii. (1899), p. 561,

tab. 1309.

This fine Orinwm belongs to the same group as

C. latifolium, Linn, zeylanicum, Linn, and longifolium,

Thunb. (capense, Herb.). In its foliage and general

habit it closely resembles C. abyssinicum, Hochst. ; but

the flower is much larger. From C. scabrum, Herb.,

and Sanderianum, Baker, it differs by its pure white

flowers. The bulbs were sent by Schimper from the

mountains of Abyssinia, about twenty years ago, to the

Botanical Garden at Berlin, but it was not recognized

and described as a new species till 1889, and in the mean-

time some of the bulbs had been distributed under the

name of OC. abyssinicum, Hochst. The Royal Gardens,

Kew, has received it both from the Berlin Botanical Garden

and Herr Leichtlin. It flowered in an unheated frame

last July, and seems likely to become one of the favourite

half-hardy species of this large and difficult genus.

Descr.—Bulb globose, the size of a man’s fist, with an

elongated neck. Leaves eight or ten to a rosette, deve-

loped at the same time as the flowers, linear, recurving,

glabrous on the surfaces and edges, three feet long, two

inches broad low down, tapering gradually to the point,

green above, glaucous beneath., Peduncle arising from

the base of the rosette of leaves, very stout, terete, two

June Ist, 1895.

feet long, brownish. Umbel few-flowered ; spathe-valves

two broad, ovate; pedicels very short. Perianth with a

cylindrical reddish-green tube four inches long, which is

finally more or less curved, and a pure white permanently

funnel-shaped limb of the same length, of which the oblan-

ceolate-oblong acute lobes spread at the tip when the

flower is fully expanded. Stamens declinate, an inch

shorter than the perianth-limb; filaments white ; anthers

small, whitish. Style declinate, entire, rather longer than

the stamens.—J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, Back view of an anther; 2, apex of the style, both enlarged ;

3, whole plant, much reduced.

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TRICHOCLADUS Granpiriorvs.

Native of the Transvaal.

Nat. Ord. HamMamMELIDEA

Genus Tricnoctapvs, Pers. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 667.)

Tricnoctapus grandiflorus; frutex v. arbuscula, ramulis rubro punctatis

novellis racemisque stellato-puberulis, foliis petiolatis tenuiter coriaceis

ovatis subacutis v. ovato-lanceclatis subcaudato-acuminatis apicibus

obtusis integerrimis reticulatis supra laete viridibus subtus pallidioribus,

racemis subsessilibus brevibus axillaribus et terminalibus, rachi

robusto, pedicellis brevissimis, calycis clausi demum 2-3-fidi lobis

triangulari-ovatis, petalis elongatis loriformibus undulatis albis basi

roseis, staminibus brevibus, filamentis subglobosis, connectivo in cornu

uncinatum producto, ovario apice hirto, stylis subulatis recurvis intus

stigmatosis, capsula globosa.

T. grandiflorus, Oliver in Hook, Ic. Pl. vol. xv. p. 64, t. 1481.

Though differing in some important points from the

type of the genus T’richocladus, with which it accords in

habit, and in most of its characters of flowers and fruit,

it must, I think, be regarded as a congener of it. Of

these characters Professor Oliver has indicated the 2-8-fid

calyx, and the adhesion of the ovary to the tube of the

calyx (which he regards as indications of affinity with the

Malayan genus Maingaya); to which should be added the

bisexual flowers, and the anthers not being univalvular in

‘dehiscence. The fruit, which Professor Oliver had not

seen when describing the species, altogether resembles

that of 7. crinitus, Pers.

Five species of T'richocladus have been described, all South

Africa, 7’. crinitus, Pers., the type of the genus; 1’. ellip-

ticus and T. verticillatus, Eckl. & Zey.; T. peltatus,

Meissn., and that here figured.

Trichocladus grandiflorus was discovered in the Berg

Plateau of the Transvaal by Mr. C. Mudd, who sent speci-

mens to Messrs. Veitch in 1883, by whom they were

transmitted to the Kew Herbarium. It has since then

been received from Mrs. Royston, of Moodies, and from

JuNE Ist, 1895,

Mr. KE. E. Galpin, who collected it in wooded ravines near

Barberstown, at an elevation of 3500 to 4000 feet. To Mr.

Galpin the Royal Gardens are also indebted for seeds sent

in 1890, a plant raised from which has now attained a height

of nine feet in the Temperate House, where Mr. Watson

thinks it looks as if it would grow into a good sized tree.

Tt flowered for the first time in July, 1894.

Deser.—A shrub or small tree, bark brown; young

branches green, with red-purple spots, at first stellately

pubescent. Leaves three to four inches long, shortly

petioled, ovate, subacute, or ovate-lanceolate and caudately

acuminate, dark green above, paler beneath, young bronzy

brown, stellately pubescent. Flowers an inch and a halt

in diameter, crowded in short, axillary and terminal sub-

sessile racemes; rachis and pedicels short, and calyces

stellately pubescent. Calye a quarter of an inch long,

green, splitting irregularly into two or three triangular

deciduous lobes. Petals five, one half to two-thirds of an

inch long, strap-shaped, undulate, white, rose-colrd. at the

base. Stamens very small; filaments subglobose, shorter

than the two-celled anthers, which dehisce laterally, con-

nective produced into an incurved horn. Ovary 2-celled,

adnate to the calyx-tube; styles subulate. Capsule sub-

globose.—J. D. H.

fod 1, Bud; 2, stellate hairs; 3, tube of calyx and stamens; 4 and 5,

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RIBES sracrrosum.

Native of Western North America.

Nat. Ord. Saxrrracea.—Tribe Ripesiee.

Genus Rises, Linn. (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 654.)

Ripgs (Ribesia) bracteosum; fruticosum, inerme, glaberrimum, glandulosum,

foliis amplis 5-7-lobatis, lobis ovatis lanceolatisve acutis v. acuminatis

grosse serratis, petiolis elongatis, racemis elongatis erectis ascendentibusve

multifloris, bracteis persistentibus linearibus spathulatisve infimis

foliaceis, floribus flavidis, calycis lobis oblongis obtusis petalis spathulatis

triplo longioribus, staminibus petalis aquilongis, baccis atris glandulosis

polyspermis.

R. bracteosum, Doug?l. in Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. vol. i. p. 233. Bongard, Veg.

Sitcha, p. 188. Torr. & Gray Fl. N. Am. vol.i. p. 550. Haton & Wright

Man. Bot. p. 395. Ledeb. Fl. Ross. vol. ii. p. 201. Rothr. Fl. Alask. p. 446.

S. Wats. Bot. Calif. vol. i. p. 206. Mawimov, in Bull. Acad. Petersb.

vol. xix. p. 253. (Mel. Biol. vol. ix. p. 222.)

It is rather singular that so fine and hardy a plant as

the subject of this plate, which was discovered nearly

seventy years ago, and is common in what has long been

an English colony, should never have been figured in any

work, or found its place in our shrubberies of England ;

for, so far as I can ascertain, it is in cultivation nowhere

but at Kew, where there is no history of its introduction.

It was discovered by David Douglas in 1826, at the mouth

of the Columbia River in Oregon, and has since been found

along the Pacific coast of North America from Mendocino

county in California to Sitka in Alaska, a range of upwards

of 1200 miles. Not a few other shrubs besides trees and

herbaceous plants extend through as many or more degrees

of latitude on that coast, due no doubt to the equability

of its temperature.

R. bracteosum forms a handsome shrub when five to six

feet high, with bright green leaves like those of the maple,

which attain a breadth of eight to ten inches. It flowers

at Kew in May.

Deser.—Quite glabrous, or minutely pubescent on the

raceme, and sparsely glandular. Stem four to ten feet

June Ist, 1895, :

high, erect, branched, terete, smooth. Leaves three to

nine inches broad, palmately 5—7-cleft to or below the

middle, membranous, bright green; lobes ovate or lanceo-

late, acute, coarsely serrate, base truncate; petiole

slender, longer than the blade. Racemes three to six

inches long, shortly peduncled, erect, many-fld., length-

ening in fruit often to a foot; bracts linear or spathulate,

persistent, lower sometimes foliaceous; pedicels half an

inch long, slender. Flowers erecto-patent. Calyw-tube

turbinate, glandular ; limb a third of an inch diam. ; lobes

ovate-oblong, obtuse, spreading, golden yellow, with green

tips and red bases, but probably variable in colour. Petals

minute, spathulate. Stamens as long as the petals.

Anthers didymous. Styles slender. Berries erect, globose,

black, glandular.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower, pedicel, and bract; 2, gland; 3, flower with two sepals

removed; all enlarged ; 4, portion of fruiting raceme of the nat. size.

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PERAPHYLLUM Rramostssimum.

Native of Western North America.

Nat. Ord. Rosacra.—Tribe Pome.

Genus Perarnyiium, Nutt.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. i. p. 628 (sub

Amelanchier.)

PERAPHYLLUM ramosissimum ; frutex fruticulusve ramosus rigidus, foliis coria-

ceis anguste oblanceolatis acutis in petiolum brevem angustatis integer-

rimis vel apicem versus denticulatis sparse sericeo-pubescentibus, floribus

in corymbos paucifloros subsessiles erectos dispositis, pedicellis crassius-

culis 2-bracteolatis, calycis tubo turbinato lobis lanceolatis, petalis

orbicularibus patentibus roseis, staminibus petalis mquilongis, stylis

elongatis tomentosis, baccis globosis.

P. ramosissimum, Nutt. in Torr. & Gr. Fl. N. Am. vol. i. p. 474. Walp. Rep.

vol. v. p. 660. Wenzig.in Linnea, vol. xxxviii. (1856), p- 115. Brandegee.

Fil. 8. W. Colorado, p. 236. S. Wats. Bot. Calif. vol. ii. p. 445. Coulter,

Man, Rocky Mt. Bot. p. 89.

A genus ofa single species, so closely allied to Amelan-

chier, that it was reduced to the latter in the “ Genera

Plantarum,” because the character taken from the fruit

upon which it was founded, and which had been incor-

rectly described, did not hold good. This reduction has

not been accepted by American botanists, and a better

knowledge of the habit of the plant affords ample

characters for the retention of the genus. In Amelanchier

the leaves are broad, membranous and serrate, the flowers

are racemose, the calyx-tube short, and the petals oblong.

In Peraphyllum the leaves are narrowly oblanceolate,

flowers in subsessile corymbs, the calyx-tube cylindric, and

petals orbicular. In both the fruit is globose, fleshy and

edible.

Peraphyllum ramosissimum seems to have a very inter-

rupted distribution, being nowhere very common, but

occupying a wide area, from the Blue Mountains in Oregon

to 8.W. Colorado, Southern Utah, and California. It

has been grown in the Arboretum of Kew for upwards of

twenty years, where it forms a shrub about three feet

high, but was never observed to flower till May, 1894.

June Ist, 1895, |

It is probably one of Dr. Asa Gray’s seed contributions to

the Royal Gardens.

Deser.—A much-branched shrub, two to six feet high;

bark grey; branchlets short, rigid. Leaves one to two

inches long, obovate-oblong, or narrowly oblanceolate,

acute, obtuse, or apiculate, narrowed into a very short

petiole, quite entire, or rarely sparingly toothed towards

the tip, silkily pubescent, at length glabrescent. [lowers

three-quarters of an inch diam., erect, in small, subsessile,

erect, branched corymbs ; pedicels rather stout, one-fourth

to one half in. long, with one or two small linear bracts.

Calyx-tube shortly cylindric or subcampanulate, silky ;

teeth narrow, erect, shorter than the tube, persistent.

Petals orbicular, spreading, white, with a rose-colrd. disk.

Stamens many, as long as the petals; anthers broadly

oblong, yellow. Ovary 2- or incompletely 4-celled; styles

2-3, long, silky; stigmas capitate. Berry pendulous, half

an inch diam., globose, fleshy. Seeds compressed, acutely

margined.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower with the petals removed; 2, base of calyx and _ styles;

_ 8, vertical section of ovary; 4, fruit :—All but fig. 4 enlarged.

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ROSA Louora.

Native of Japan and China.

Nat. Ord. Rosacka#.—Tribe Rosra.

Genus Rosa, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 625.)

Rosa (Synstyle) Duet; frutex ramis prostratis, ramulis floriferis glabris

sparse aculeatis, aculeis uncinatis, foliolis 5-9 ovatis elliptico-ovatis v.

ovato-rotundatis utrinque glabris firmis mucronatis simpliciter dentatis

superioribus breviter acuminatis, stipulis strictis denticulatis v. fimbriatis

longe acuminatis rectis v. divaricatis auriculis angustis, petiolo glabro

nudo y. aciculato v. subglanduloso, floribus solitariis v. subcorymbosis,

bracteis caducis integris denticulatisve, pedicellis glabris subglandulosis

v. rarius dense glanduloso-pubescentibus et aciculiferis, calycis tubo obo-

voideo ellipsoideo v. globoso glabro raro glanduloso-pubescente, sepalis

ovato-oblongis lanceolatisve breviter v. longius acuminatis caudatisve

integris pinnatifidisve deciduis, petalis 3-3 poll. latis orbiculari-obovatis

retusis albis, disco prominulo, stylis velutinis inferne connatis, fructibus

parvis globosis levibus purpureis v. coccineis.

R. Lucie, Franch. et Rochebr. in Bull. Soe. Bot. Belg. vol. x. (1871), p. 324,

et vol. xv. (1876), p. 204. Crepin Prim. Monogr. Ros. fase 3, p. 258; et in

Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. vol. xiii. (1874), p. 251, & vol. xvii. (1879), p. 285 ; et

in Comt. Rend. Bot. Soc. Belg. vol. xxv. ii. p.13. Franch. & Sav. Enum.

Pl, Jap. vol. i. p. 135, et vol. ii. p.344. Forbes & Hemsl. in Journ, Linn.

Soc. vol. xxiii. (1887), p. 251.

R. Wichuraiana, Crepin et Desegl. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. vol. xiv. (1876),

p- 204, et vol. xxvii. (1888), p. 189. J. G. Jack in Gard. & Forest. vol. iv.1

(1891), p. 44, e¢ vol. v. (1892), p. 367. Sargent I. c. vol. iv. ii. (1891),

p. 570, fig. 89.

R. Maximovicziana, Regel in Act. Hort. Bot. Petrop. vol. v. (1877), p. 378.

R. moschata, Benth, Fl. Hongkong, p. 106.

Rosa Lucie is most closely allied to R. multiflora,

Thunb., figured at t. 7119 of this work, is as variable, and

occupies precisely the same geographical area. It differs

remarkably from that plant in its prostrate habit, much

smaller, rounder leaflets; usually much larger flowers, not

collected in large compound corymbs, and in its pisiform

fruit. Franchet and Savat enumerate no fewer than eight

_ Japanese varieties of it, differing in foliage, naked or

glandular-pubescent pedicels, form and length of sepals,

‘size of the petals, &c. It is so difficult to distinguish

several of these varieties from those of F. microphylla, that

June Isr, 1995. | | 7

M. Crepin suggests the possibility of some of these being —

of hybrid origin between the two species. The plant —

which flowered at Kew, and of which a specimen is here —

figured, is very much larger in all its parts than the m- —

digenous ones in the Herbarium, in some of which its —

flowers are not larger than the area occupied by the

stamens in the plate, and are in crowded, short panicles,

with almost glandular-tomentose very short peduncles and

pedicels and calyx-tube. The sepals, too, of the Kew

specimen are much shorter, broader, and more ovate than

in the ordinary state of the plants when they are often |

drawn out into caudate points, and are cut or pinnatifid —

on one or both sides.

The discoverer of R. Lucix was, according to Crepin, —

M. Callery, whose specimens gathered in China in 1884 —

are in the Herbarium of the Jardin des Plantes. It —

appears to be very common in Japan, where, according to —

Maries, it ascends the mountains to 7000 ft. elevation.

There are specimens in Kew Herbarium from Corea and

Manchuria, from various places in Hast China to as far

south as Hong Kong ; Hance collected it at Whampoa; Tate —

in the Quantung Provinces ; and Oldham in Formosa. j

Plants of R. Luciw were received from Professor Sar- |

gent, Director of the Harvard Arboretum, Boston, U.S.A, —

mn 1891,* which flowered freely in August, 1894, in the

Arboretum of the Royal Gardens, Kew, and fruited in the —

following October. It is, of course, perfectly hardy. :

According to Professor Sargent, who gives a description |

and excellent figure in “ Garden and Forest,” adding that —

ht. Lucie was sent by Mr. Louis Spiith of Berlin in 1888 to —

the Harvard Arboretum, where it produces prostrate stems —

ten to fifteen feet long in a single season, and covers the

ground as with a dense mat. Also that it has been very —

largely used by the Parks Department of the City of Boston —

for covering rocky slopes, &c., where its remarkable _

a hardiness, the brilliancy of its lustrous foliage and —

e beauty of its flowers, which appear when most shrubs —

we thes of bloom, certainly recommend it to the attention —

e cultivators of hardy plants.” In another volume:

* It must, however, have been introduced into England at an earlier periods

for there is a good . “slog ‘ . raphe

ENacombe in F380. specimen of it in the Kew Herbarium received from a

**Garden and Forest’? Mr. Jack describes it as ‘* so thickly

covering the ground with its white flowers as to almost give

the effect of snow; and its fragrance as not that of most wild

roses, but more nearly suggesting the Banksian rose, though

it is sweeter, and without a certain disagreeable quality of

the Banksian.”

The name Lucix was given in compliment to Madame

Lucie Savatier, who accompanied her husband to the far

East, and actively aided him in his scientific exploration

of Japan.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Calyx and styles; 2 and 3, stamens :—Hnlarged.

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SENECIO Huvattata.

Native of Chili and Argentaria.

Nat. Ord. Composirm—Tribe SENECIONIDES.

Genus Senecio, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 466.)

Seyzc1o Hualtata; herba elata, robusta, junior araneosa, caule simplici

erecto tereti striato, foliis radicalibus 14-2 pedalibus oblongo-ovatis

obtusis basi inewqualiter cordatis marginibus undulatis dentatisque

supra laete viridibus subtus saepe cerulescentibus v. purpurascentibus,

costa crassa, nervis utrinque 8-10 patentibus, petiolo semipedali crasso

fistuloso, foliis canlinis paucis sessilibus lanceolatis serratis, capitulis ad

apices ramorum panicule ample congestis breviter v. longius pedicellatis

diam. pollicaribus, involucri brevis pauci-bracteati foliolis lineari-oblongis

obtusis apicibus barbellatis, radiis 12-16 late oblongis apice crenatis

pallide stramineis, disci corollis aureis, acheniis glabris.

8. Hualtata, Bertero, ex DC. Prodr, vol. vi. p. 417. CO. Gay Fl. Chili, vol. iv.

p- 194. Hook. & Arn. in Hook, Journ. Bot, vol. iii. (1841), p. 340. Griseb.

Symb. Fl. Argent. p. 206, e¢ Pl. Lorentz. p. 145. S. fistulosus, Poepp.

Lessing in Iinnea, vol. vi. (1831), p. 246. Cineraria gualtata, Gillies

mss.

Senecio Hualtata belongs to a group of gigantic herba-

ceous Ragworts, which includes 8. sagittifolius, Baker

(Tab. 7322), all natives of extra-tropical South America.

Five or six species at least have been described; but it is

impossible to say from Herbarium specimens how far

they are all distinct. S. Hualtata is the best known of

them, having a very wide distribution, and having been

collected by many botanists. CC. Gay describes it as in-

habiting the whole Republic of Chili, meaning, no doubt,

the more temperate parts, for I find no evidence of its

occurring further south than Valdivia, in lat. 40°. It

crosses the Andes to the western slopes, where it fre-

quents water-courses, and where it has been found as far

north as Tucuman, in lat. 25°S. by Lorentz and Hierony-

mus; thus giving it a range of 15° lat. Its native name

in Chili generally is Hualtata or Gualtata; but at Valdivia,

according to Mr. Reed, it is called “ Lengua de Vaca.”

‘The Royal Gardens, Kew, are indebted for seeds of this fine

plant to Mrs. J. S. F loyer of Basingstoke, whose daughter, :

JULY Ist, 1895,

Mrs. Glynne Williams, sent them in 1890 from Vipos,

thirty kilometres north of the city of Tucuman. The

Kew plant, after having stood for several years without

protection, on a slope close to the pond opposite the Palm

House, in June of last year sent up its flowering stem

five feet high, and flowered profusely.

Deser.—A tall, very stout herb, in a young state

sparingly woolly; flowering stem five feet high, terete,

striate. Leaves chiefly radical, twelve to eighteen inches

long, by four to six broad, oblong-ovate, broadest at the

unequally truncate or cordate base, bright green above,

more blue-green or purplish beneath, margin undulate and

crenate-toothed, midrib very stout ; nerves eight to tel

pairs, spreading ; petiole about as long as the blade, stout,

hollow; upper or cauline leaves much smaller, sessile

lanceolate, toothed. Head, an inch in diameter, shortly

pedicelled in crowded clusters at the ends of the naked

branches of a pyramidal panicle one to two ft. high.

Involuere cylindric; bracts linear-oblong, green; tips

brown, bearded. Ray-flowers twelve to sixteen, limb

broadly obovate-oblong, pale straw-colrd., tip cremate.

Disk-jlowers many, golden-yellow. Achenes (ripe, not

seen) glabrous; pappus silvery.—J. D. H. Me

Fig. 1, Bract of involucre; 2, fl. of the ray; 3, pappus hairs; 4, fl. of disk;

5, stamens; 6, style- i on ‘aad . d view 0

peered te yle-arms of disk f.:—Al/ enlarged ; fig. 7, reduce :

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PYRUS oratmaGirorta.

Native of Italy.

Nat. Ord. Rosaczz.—Tribe Pomem,

Genus Prrvs, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. i. p. 626.)

Prrus crategifolia; arbor v. arbuscula, ramulis petiolis corymbisque pubes-

centibus, foliis gracile petiolatis late ovatis acutis subtus lanatis demum

glabratis lobulatis, lobulis utrinque 4-6 grosse dentatis, petiolo gracili,

stipulis brevibus acutis caducis, corymbis terminalibus laxifloris pubes-

centibus, pedicellis gracilibus elongatis roseis, calycis tomentosi tubo

campanulato, lobis lanceolatis deflexis demum deciduis, petalis orbiculatis

nivels, staminibus ad 15, stylis 4-5 elongatis erectis tomentosis basi

connatis, baccis ellipsoideis rubris. :

P. crategifolia, Targ. Tozz. exw Savi Tratt. Alb. Tose. ed. ii, vol. i. (1801),

p- 169. Archang. Comp. Fl. Ital. p. 232.

P, florentina, Zarg. Tozz. in Mem. Soc. Moden. vol. xx. pars. ii. (1829), p. 302»

t.20. DC. Prodr, vol. ii. p. 628; Walp. Rep. Bot. vol. ii. p. 53.

P. torminalis B., Penore Syill. Fl. Neap, 243.

Mespilus florentina, Bertol, Amen. Ital. p. 29.

Cratsgus florentina, Zuccagn. Cent. Prim. Obs. Bot. Hort. Florent. vol. i.

(1806), ex Roem. Collect. 142. Bertol. Fl. Ital. vol. v. p. 142.

Sorbus florentina, Nym. Syll. Fl. Europ, p. 266.

A native of Italy, and apparently a rare plant, growing

in woods near Florence, Bologna, and Lucca, and a few

other spots in the north of the Peninsula, but local. Its

nearest ally is perhaps P. torminalis, from which it differs

in the more cordate base of the leaves which are inciso-

serrate and tomentose beneath, in the simple terminal

corymb with very long pedicels, and in the four to five

filiform styles, and in the small, ellipsoid, red fruit, —

P.crategifolia forms a bush about four feet high in the

Arboretum of the Royal Gardens, Kew, flowering in June,

and was, I believe, raised from seed received from the

late Mr. Grover of Florence, one of the most acute

and accomplished of Italian Botanists.

Descr.—A bush or small tree, with slender branches

and dark brown bark; young branches, leaves beneath,

and young inflorescence copiously woolly, at length glabres-

JuLy Ist, 1895,

cent. Leaves thin, one and a half to two and a half inches

long, broadly ovate, or almost orbicular in outline, acute,

base truncate, margins cut into four to six triangular,

coarsely-toothed, ovate lobes, dark green above, with as

many sunk nerves as lobes, pale woolly, at length

glabrate beneath; petiole one half to two-thirds ot

an inch long, slender, reddish; stipules small, ovate,

acute, deciduous. Corymbs terminal, lax-fld., tomentose ;

rachis and long pedicels rose-pink, pedicels very slender,

an inch to an inch and a half long. Flowers nod-

ding, nearly an inch in diameter. Calyzx-tube narrowly

campanulate, produced much beyond the ovary; lobes

lanceolate, as long as the tube, reflexed, at length deci-

duous. Petals inserted in the mouth of the calyx, orbi-

cular, notched at the tip, pure white, spreading. Stamens

ten to twenty, filaments glabrous. Styles four or five,

elongate, villous, united at the base; stigmas capitate.

Berry half an inch long, broadly ellipsoid, or elliptic-

oblong, red.— J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower with the petals removed ; 2, vertical section of ovary :—both

enlarged ; 3, berries of the natural size.

Vincent Brooks Day ® Son Imp

Tas. 7424,

ARISTOLOCHIA ctneuttrotta.

Native of Borneo.

._ Nat. Ord. ARISTOLOCHIACER.

Genus AristoLocuiA, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 121.)

Aristotocnia (Diplolobus) ungulifolia; volubilis, glabra, foliis amplis ambitu

suborbicularibus profunde trilobis, lobis oblongisdecurvis sinu rotundato,

lateralibus oblongis apice rotundatis intermedio oblongo-lanceolato

obtuso, floribus in racemos breves dispositis, perianthio basi in stipitem

cylindraceam producto, dein in vesicam late oblongam dorso bigibbosam

inflato, ultra. vesicam in tubum angustum recurvum producto, ore late

ee limbo elongato spathulato erecto villoso marginibus

revolutis.

A. ungulifolia, Masters in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xiv. (1875), p. 494; in Gard.

Chron. (1880), vol. ii. p 116, f. 28.

According to specimens in the Herbarium of Kew,

A. ungulifolia is a native of Borneo, where it was dis-

covered by Messrs. Motley and Barber in the province

of Labuane. It is very distinct from any hitherto pub-

lished species, and probably unique in the presence of two

curious swellings in the dorsal surface of the saccate base

of the perianth. These swellings correspond to depres-

sions with ciliate margins in the inner surface of the same

sack, and are presumably concerned in the pollinisation of

the plant by insects. The Indian ally of A. ungulifolia is

A. indica, Linn., a frequent plant all over tropical India.

A. ungulifolia was first described by Dr. Masters,

F.R.S., from specimens exhibited in 1880 at the Exhibition

of the Royal Horticultural Society, South Kensington, by

Mr. Mortimer, gardener to Major Storer, Purley Park,

Reading. he specimen here figured was received at the

Royal Gardens, Kew, from H. N. Ridley, M.A., F.L.8.,

Director of Gardens and Forests, Singapore, in November,

1894, and which flowered in a stove in the following

November. :

Descr.—A tall, glabrous climber, with slender, terete,

Juty Ist, 1895.

green stems; branches obscurely angled. Leaves six to

seven inches long and broad, suborbicular in outline,

abruptly narrowed into the petiole at the broad hardly

cordate base, deeply 3-lobed, pale green, and convex on

the upper surface, with reticulated veins; lobes sub-

parallel, decurved, lateral oblong, rounded at the tip;

mid-lobe longest, oblong-lanceolate, narrowed at the

obtuse tip ; sinus between the lobes narrow, base rounded ;

petiole one to one and a half inch long, deeply grooved on

the upper side; stipular leaves none. [lowers about three

inches long, in few-fld. corymbs. Perianth divisible into

four sections; 1, a short, narrow, terete, solid stipes,

about a quarter of an inch long; 2, a dull purple, broadly

obovoid, oblong bladder, nearly an inch long, with two

collateral, dorsal bosses on the back below the next

section; 3, acurved tube, about as long as the bladder,

expanding into a small, funnel-shaped mouth, with re-

curved margins, from the dorsal margin of which arises ;

4, a spathulate, erect, or reclined, tomentose, red-brown

limb, an inch long, with a terminal apiculus, and revolute

margins; inner surface of the bladder and mouths of the

bosses villous. Colwmn cup-shaped round the six stigmas,

and with a few hairs at the base—J. D. H.,

_ Fig. 1, Section of tube of perianth; 2, column with the ovary and pedicel

like base of the perianth ; 3, column :—A/] enlarged.

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NEUWILEDIA Grtrriruatt.

Native of Malacca.

Nat. Ord. Orcu1pEx%.—Tribe APosTASIEZ.

Genus Neuwiepia, Blume; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. yol. iii. p. 635.)

Nevuwiepia Grifithii ; foliis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis, scapo breviusculo,

racemo hispidulo, bracteis ovato-lanceolatis flores subeequantibus

erectis, perianthio ovoideo albo, filamentis brevibus liberis quam

antheras oblongas multo brevioribus.

N. Griffithii, Reichb. f. Xen. Orchid, vol. ii. (1874), p. 16. Rolfe in Journ.

Tinn. Soc. vol. xxv. (1890), p. 235. Hook, f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. vi.

p. 176.

On Tab. 7368 is figured, for the first time, from living

specimens, the remarkable Malayan genus of Orchidex,

Neuwiedia, and under the description of it (N. Lindley) it

is stated that another species, N. Griffithii, is also in culti-

vation at Kew. ‘The latter has since flowered (in Sep-

tember, 1894), and is here represented. N. Griffithii

differs from N. Lindleyi in its much smaller size, shorter

spike, broader bracts, and very small white flowers, which

are much more pubescent. It was discovered by Dr. Griffith

in Malacca, and it was subsequently collected there by the

late Dr. Maingay, and lastly, by Mr. Ridley, to whom the

Royal Gardens are indebted for living plants, as they were

to him for those of N. Lindleyi. It has also been found

in the province of Perak (in the Malayan Peninsula) by

collectors sent by Dr. King from the Royal Botanical

Gardens, Calcutta.

There still remain two Javan species of Neuwiedia, which

are very imperfectly known, and from dried specimens

alone, N. veratrifulia and N. Zollingeri, Blume, together

with N. Ourtisii of Rolfe of Penang, and N. calanthoides

of New Guinea, all of which require investigation from

living specimens before the species of the genus can be

pronounced to be satisfactorily established. With regard

to N. Lindleyi, I have, with regret, to state that the colour-

ing of the flower in the plate is of far too bright a golden-

yellow, and in this respect very far from a faithful repro-

JuLy Ist, 1895.

duction of the artist’s drawing, which is (as with all the

original drawings published in the Botanical Magazine)

preserved in the Herbarium of the Royal Gardens for

verification of the published plates. The true colour is a

pale primrose. :

Descr.—Whole plant sixteen inches high, quite glabrous,

except the spike. Leaves four to ten inches long by one

to one and a half broad, erect, elliptic-lanceolate, acumi-

nate, many-nerved. Spike shortly peduncled, four to SIX

inches long in flower; rachis, bracts, and flowers hispidly

pubescent; bracts green, ovate-lanceolate, about as long

as the very shortly pedicelled flowers. Ovary trigonous,

produced into a very short neck. Perianth deflexed, one-

third of an inch long, ovoid, white; sepals boat-shaped,

pubescent dorsally convex, with a short infra-apical beak ;

petals lke the sepals, but glabrous, -with a stout dorsal,

hispidulous_ keel, produced into a short, blunt spur.

Anthers short, broad. Stigma obscurely 3-lobed.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Bract and flower; 2, petal viewed from within, and 3 from

without ; 4, column; 5, anther :—A/l enlarged,

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Tas. 7426.

RUBUS tastostyuvs.

Native of China.

Nat. Ord. Rosacex.—Tribe Rusez.

Genus Rusvs, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol.1. p. 616.)

Rusvs Jasiostylus; frutex suberectus, fere eglandulosus, aculeatus, caulibus

teretibus fusco-purpureis pruinosis demum niveis aculeis gracilibus rectis

y. lente curvis instructis, ramulis petiolisque glabris pubescentibusve,

foliis pinnatis, petiolo gracili rubello aculeato, foliolis 3-5 duplicato ser-

rolatis subtus niveo-tomentosis nervis pallide roseis, lateralibus ovatis

acutis, terminali multo majore integro v. trilobo basi rotundato v. subcor-

dato, stipulis oblique lanceolatis acutis submembranaceis, cymis fere

terminalibus sessilibus v. breviter pedunculatis paucifloris, pedicellis

_elongatis aculeatis, foribus nutantibus, petalis orbicularibus sanguineis

sepalis lanceolatis recurvis multo brevioribus, carpellis siccis dense

lanatis lacunosis, stylis gracilibus rectis lanatis.

R, lasiostylus, Focke in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1951.

R. lasiostylus is allied to several Asiatic species, all with

more or less erect stems, white-tomentose undersurface of

the leaves, long calyx-lobes, small red petals, and villous

carpels. Of these two, R. niveus, Wall., and R. lasio-

carpus abound in the temperate regions of the Himalaya;

both are extremely variable, and their forms have given

origin to many species, some of which are founded on

specimens, not even on varieties. In both the ripe carpels

are either dry or fleshy, and the endocarp of the fruit is

lacunose; both are usually much more strongly armed

plants than is #. lasiostylus, but they are very variable in

this respect. |

R. lasiostylus is a native of China, wheré it was dis-

covered in the Province of Hupeh, by Augustine Henry,

Esq., F.L.S., in 1888 ; since which period Mr. Hemsley in-

forms me that very large numbers of Chinese species of

ftubus have been added to the Kew Herbarium, bringing the

total up to about sixty. Judging from his, and having

regard to the extent of country in China that is botanic-

ally unexplored, especially the mountain regions, there can

Juty 1st, 1895.

be no doubt but that this country is the head-quarters of

the genus, greatly surpassing the Himalaya, whence only

forty species have been described. Europe may boast of

a far greater number of recorded species; but the vast

preponderance of these are closely allied forms of one

type, as to the limits of which forms botanists have the

most divergent opinions, whereas in China and India many

types of the genus occur that have no allies at all in

Europe.

R. lasiostylus was raised at the Royal Gardens, Kew,

from seeds received in 1889 from Mr. Henry, who during

his residence at Ichang, on the Yangtse-kiang River, 700

miles from its mouth, transmitted to Kew magnificent

botanical collections abounding in novelties. The plant

flowered in June, 1894, for the first time, and has proved

to be perfectly hardy.

_ Deser.—A suberect shrub, covered with slender, spread-

ing, straight, or slightly curved prickles, which are stronger

towards the base of the stem. Shoots four feet high,

half an inch in diameter and very aculeate at the base,

covered with a primrose-purplish bark, that turns nearly

white in winter, young branches and petioles pubescent.

Leaves pinnate, three to five inches long ; leaflets three to

five, sharply, irregularly, doubly serrate, dark green

and rugose above, young suffused with red; white tomen-

tose beneath, with prominent pale, reddish nerves, and a

setose midrib ; lateral leaflets one and a half to two and a

half inches long, ovate, acute, base acute or rounded, ter-

minal lobe much larger and broader, often 3-lobed ; petiole

slender, red, prickly ; stipules lanceolate. Flowers in few-

fid. subterminal corymbs ; pedicels one to one and a half

inch long, decurved, red. Stamens an inch across the

sepals, nodding. Sepals lanceolate, caudate-acuminate,

brown-tomentose, or glabrescent; margins pale. Petals

orbicular-spathulate, about half as long as the sepals,

bright blood-red. Achenes crowded, woolly, dry, lacunose ;

style long, straight, villous—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Petal; 2, young, and 4, ri : , of ripé

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TAB. 7427.

PROCHYNANTHES Botttana.

Native of Mexico.

Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDEH.—Tribe AGAVE.

Genus Procuynantues, S. Wats. in Proc. Amer. Acad. vol. xxii. p. 457.

ProcuynantueEs, Bulliana; rhizomate tuberoso fibris coronato, foliis radicalibus

paucis rosulatis oblanceolatis acutis subcoriaceis persistentibus glabris

margine denticulatis, pedunculo elongato foliis paucis reductis lanceolatis

pradito, floribus geminis sessilibus in spicam laxam elongatam dispositis,

bracteis ovatis parvis, perianthio purpureo-viridulo ad medium decurvato

tubo deorsum oblongo sursum campanulato, lobis ascendentibus sub-

orbicularibus, staminibus inclusis ad medium tubi insertis, stylo

perianthio zequilongo apice lobis tribus patulis orbicularibus pubescentibus

_ stigmatosis preedito.

Bravoa Bulliana, Baker in Gard. Chron. 1884, vol. ii. p. 328; Handb.

Amaryllid. p. 161.

This fifth genus of Agavexe has been discovered since

the publication of Bentham and Hooker’s Genera Planta-

rum. Itis mtermediate between Polianthes and Bravoa,

differing from both by its more coriaceous persistent leaves

and greenish-brown flowers abruptly decurved and dilated

at the middle. The original species, P. viridiflora, 8.

Wats., which was discovered by Dr. Palmer in 1886 in the.

province of Jalisco, has long pedicels, which are articulated

at the middle. In the present plant the flowers are larger

and quite sessile. It was imported from Mexico by Mr. —

Wilham Bull, and first flowered by him in the year 1884,

at which date [ described it in the Gardener’s Chronicle,

under the genus Bravoa. Mr. Bull presented a plant to

the Royal Gardens, Kew, and our drawing was made from

this when it flowered in an unbeated frame last summer.

This is the first time the genus has been figured, and the

original species, so far as I am aware, has never been

brought into cultivation.

Descr.—Rootstock tuberous, crowned by a dense mass of

fibres. Leaves few in a radical rosette, oblanceolate, acute,

subcoriaceous, persistent, bright green, a foot or more

long, two inches broad at the middle, denticulate on the

pale horny margins. Pedunele erect, twice as long as the

Aveusr Isr, 1895. :

leaves, furnished with several lanceolate reduced leaves.

Flowers in pairs, forming a very long, lax, simple spike,

quite sessile; bracts ovate, small. Perianth brownish-

green ; tube abruptly decurved and dilated at the middle,

oblong in the lower half, campanulate in the upper half;

lobes suborbicular, ascending. Stamens inserted at the

base of the dilated upper half of the perianth; filaments

filiform ; anthers linear-oblong, versatile. Style as long as

the perianth ; stigmatose apex of three spreading orbicular

pubescent lobes.—J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, A flower cut open to show the stamens; 2, ovary and style;

3, horizontal section of the ovary: all enlarged; 4, whole plant: much

reduced,

Gel, IN Fitch lith,

Tas. 7428.

SACCOLABIUM Moorzanvm.

Native of New Guinea.

Nat. Ord. OncH1pEZE.—Tribe VanpEx,

Genus SacconaBium, Bl. (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 578.

Saccotanrum (Genuine) Mooreanwm ; caule brevi crasso, foliis oblongis

lineari-oblongisve apice 2-lobis crasse coriaceis, pedunculis robustis

decurvis viridibus purpureisve, vaginis remotis brevibus obtusis pedunculo

arcte appressis brunneis, spicis densifloris oblongis, bracteis lineari-lan-

ceolatis, floribus subglobosis pallide viridibus v. roseis, sepalis conniven-

tibus lineari-oblongis obtusis concavis, petalis obovatis obtusis, labelli

carnosi 3-lobi lobis lateralibus semi-orbicularibus erectis terminale parvo

cymbiforme, calcare sepalis duplo longiore dependente clavato obtuso,

columna brevi antice in brachia 2 truncata producta, anthera galeeforme

vertice lobulato.

S. Mooreanum, Rolfe in Kew Bulletin, 1893, p. 64.

Mr. Rolfe describes 8S. Mooreanum as allied to S. minus,

Reichb. f., and to “two or three other Polynesian species,

having a peculiar decurved appendage in front of the

column, looking down as it were into the spur.” This

appendage, which is well shown in fig. 2 of the plate,

seems to be a prolongation of the sides of the column or

its clinandrium, upon the truncate face of which the very

large gland of the pollinia rests, and may hence be com-

pared with a rostellum.

Mr. Rolfe further points out the similarity of this

“appendage ”’ to what occurs in Unctfera, Lindl., a genus

I have reduced (Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 65) to Saccolabsum; m

which it is seen to be a prolongation of the column itself

into two parallel arms. This is shown in my drawings of

both species of Uncifera (Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 2184, 21385), in

one of which, S. acuminatum, the arms are truncate with

the gland of the pollinia placed exactly as in S. Mooreanum,

whilst in the other, S. obtusifolium, they are more acute,

or rather, more obliquely truncate. In short, except for

the beaked anther and incurved spur of the former

the flowers of S. Mooreanum and acuminatum are

Aveust Ist, 1895.

(sepals, petals, lip, spur and column) almost identical ;

and if Uncifera is to be kept up, it claims both these

species.

Further, the remarkable characters of the pollinia of

Uncifera, of the very large gland, and the broad wings

of the strap, which are recurved when dry, are repeated in

S. Mooreanum, the only difference being that the pollen

masses are raised on an incurved stipes on the face of the

strap in Uncifera, and sessile in S. Mooreanum.

S. Mooreanum was imported from New Guinea by

Messrs. F. Sander & Co. of St. Albans, from whom both

forms were obtained by the Royal Gardens, and which

flowered in the Tropical Orchid House in January of this

year.

Descr.—Stem stout, short. Leaves four to six inches long,

distichous, oblong, 2-lobed, coriaceous; margins recurved,

bright green above, paler and mottled beneath. Scape as

long as the leaves, stout, decurved, green or red-purple

and speckled; sheaths two or three, distant, short, obtuse,

brown, appressed; bracts small, lanceolate. Sypike two to

three inches long, oblong or ovoid, very dense-fid. Flowers

subglobose, rose-purple or greenish white, one-third of an

inch in diameter. Sepals conniving, oblong, obtuse, con-

cave. Petals conniving, obovate-oblong. Lip small, side

lobes rounded erect; terminal lobe cymbiform, fleshy,

subacute, thickened transversely at the base; spur longer

than the sepals, clavate, dependent, without internal sep-

tum, or dorsal scale below the column. Colwmn short,

stout, produced in front into truncate arms, on which the

gland of the pollinia rests. Anther helmet-shaped, with

four bosses on the crown; strap of pollinia trapeziform at

the apex, with the sides recurved, bearing two sessile

pollen masses; gland very large, obtuse.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Front view of white fd. var. ;

Le j ‘ 3, anther;

4, pollinia, all from the same; 5, side view Be er eee

f red-fld. var. :—AJl enlarged.

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SPIRAIA BRACTEATA.

Native of Japan.

Nat. Ord. Rosacr#.—Tribe SPrrex,

Genus Srirama, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 611.)

Srirma bracteata; glaberrima, ramulis angulatis, foliis orbiculato-obovatis

rotundatisve ad apicem rotundatam crenatis subtus glaucis nervis

gracilibus, petiolis brevibus, corymbis multifloris hemisphericis foliolosis,

calycis lobis ovatis fructu erectis, petalis albis truncato-orbiculatis im-

bricatis, staminibus ad 20 petalis paullo brevioribus, disco elevato

crenato, carpellis dorso medio lanatis maturis stylo demum deciduo

parum brevioribus, seminibus breviter appendiculatis, testa levi arcte

appressa. '

S. bracteata, Zahel in Wittm. Gartenzeit. vol. iii. (1884) p. 496. Strauch.

Spirden, p. 45. Dippel Handb. Laubholzk, p. 468.

S. nipponica, Maxim. in Bull. Acad. Peters. vol. xxxi. (1868) p.39 ; Diagn. Pl.

Nov. Asiat, (Mel. Biol.) vol. xii. p. 934.

S. media, F. Schmidt, Hstr. Baumz. 53, t. 54.

S. media, var. rotundifolia, Nichols. in Gard. Chron. 1885, vol. i. p. 283, Fig.

26; and Gard. Dict. vol. iii. p. 477.

S. rotundifolia, fl. albo, Hort. P. F. von Siebold.

Spirza bracteata is well distinguished by its nearly orbi-

cular leaves, its hemispheric heads of flowers, the broad

imbricating petals of which so closely overlap as to re-

semble a monopetalous corolla. The name is derived from

the presence of numerous small leaves on the branches of

the corymbs, which are concealed by the sweet-scented

flowers. Another peculiarity is the great size of the

glands of the disk, which surround the mouth of the

calyx-tube, and resemble a string of large beads.

Mr. Nicholson informs me that S. bracteata was intro-

duced from Japan by Siebold, and distributed from his

old nursery at Leyden, under the name of 8. rotundifolia.

It was described as S. nipponica by Maximovicz, two years

after it had been published by Zabel, and there are speci-—

mens under that name in the Kew Herbarium, from the

Imperial University of Japan, collected on Mount Fusiyama,

and from M. Maries, who found it at elevations of two to-

Auveust Ist, 1895.

seven thousand feet in Central Japan. Maximovicz con-

sidered that its nearest ally is his S. mongolica, which differs

in having triple-nerved leaves.

The drawing was made from a specimen that flowered

in the Arboretum of the Royal Gardens, Kew, in June,

1894.

Descr.—A small glabrous shrub; bark on the main

branches dark brown, young branches bright.red. Leaves

one half to one inch long and broad, orbicular, or very

broadly obovate, with a few broad crenatures on the rounded

tip ; petiole very short, nerves slender, spreading. Corymbs

two inches in diameter, subsessile, hemispherical ; dense-

fld.; branches with small green foliaceons bracts concealed

by the very shortly pedicelled flowers, which vary from a

quarter to nearly half an inch in diameter. Calyz-lobes

triangular-oyate, hairy within. Petals orbicular, truncate,

so closely overlapping as to resemble a cupular broadly

5-lobed corolla, white. Disk a crenate ring at the mouth

of the calyx-tube. Stamens shorter than the petals.

Carpels dorsally woolly about the middle; styles rather |

long.— J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Calyx disk and carpels ; 2, petal ; 8, stamens; 4, section of calyx,

showing carpels :—All enlarged.

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Tas. 7430.

PYRUS © stxxrmensis.

Native of the Himalaya.

Nat. Ord. Rosacrm.—Tribe Pomes.

Genus Prrvs, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 626.

Prrvs (Malus) sikkimensis ; arbor parva, ramulis novellis foliis subtus calyci-

busque tomentosis demum glabratis, foliis ovatis v. ovato-lanceolatis

acuminatis serrulatis, lamina petiolo pluries longiore, stipulis setaceis,

corymbis multifloris, pedunculis elongatis gracilibus, alabastris roseis,

calycis tubo ellipsoideo, sepalis lanceolatis reflexis deciduis, petalis orbi-

cularibus v. late obovato-oblongis, ungue brevi villoso, staminibus 25-30,

stylis glabris basi connatis, baccis parvis obeonico-pyriformibus.

P. sikkimensis, Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. ii. p. 373.

P. baccata indica, Hort.

There are in the Himalaya three species of the Malus

group of Pyrus; 1, the apple, which is indigenous in the

Western hills, as well as cultivated up to 11,500 ft. in

Tibet ; 2, the Siberian Crab, P. baccata, Linn., differing

from the common N. Asian plant only in the smaller sub-

pyriform fruit, a form of fruit which occurs rarely in

Siberia, but which is figured in Pallas Flora Rossica. It is

found from Kashmir to Kumaon, sometimes in a cultivated

state, and in Bhotan and the Khasia Hills, but has not

been brought from Nepal or Sikkim; 3, the plant here

figured, which differs from P. baccata in the tomentose

under surface of the leaves and calyx, and glabrous column

of styles. The fruit also is speckled with white, as in P.

Pashia, which belongs to the Pyrus proper section of the

genus, but the spots are much smaller in sikkimensis.

The tree from which the specimens figured were obtained

has existed in the Arboretum of the Royal Gardens for

many years, and all traces of its history are lost. It is

evidently a very old plant, in a gnarled condition, bearing

conspicuous stout branching spurs on the trunk, owing no

doubt to the poverty of the soil; and it may be assumed

to have been raised from seeds sent by myself from Sikkim

in 1849, now forty-five years ago, before which time no

Aueust lst, 1895.

plants or seeds had been sent from that country. The

species had, however, been discovered in Bhotan by Griffith

some years earlier, and fruiting specimens collected by him

are in the Kew Herbarium. I found it frequently at

elevations of 7-10,000 feet in the interior of Sikkim, as a

small stoutly branching tree, twenty to thirty feet high,

flowering in June and July, and producing fruit of which

I made an agreeable stew. The Kew tree flowers in May,

and fruits in September.

Descr.—A small gnarled tree, bark brown, young shoots

leaves beneath (and above in a young state) and calyx

more or less woolly. Leaves three to five inches long,

ovate, acuminate, serrulate ; petiole much shorter than the

blade; stipules subulate. Flowers corymbose, an inch in

diameter ; buds rose-colrd. ; pedicels one and a half to two

inches long, very slender. Calyz-tube ellipsoid; lobes

lanceolate, recurved, deciduous. Petals orbicular, white,

claw very short, tomentose. Stamens very many. Styles

slender, connate below, glabrous. Fruit two-thirds of an

inch diameter, broadly subglobosely pyriform, dark-red,

speckled with white.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Calyx and stamens; 2, petal :—Both enlarged.

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PLEUROTHALLIS Scarma.

Native country unknown,

Nat. Ord. OrcHipE&.—Tribe EprpgnDREA.

Genus PLevrotHattiis, Br.; (Benth. & Hook. J. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 488.)

PLevrRoTHALLIs (Acuminatse) Scapha; glaberrima, caulibus erectis gracilibus

teretibus internodiis inferioribus maculatis, 1-foliatis, vaginis appressis,

folio oblongo-lanceolato crasse coriaceo suberecto basi angustato, dorso

acute carinato supra saturate viridi subtus pallidiore, racemo folio multo

longiore pendulo laxifloro, rachi gracillima, bracteis tubulosis albis,

oblique truncatis, floribus 23-3 poll. longis gracile pedicellatis, sepalis

lanceolatis in caudas filiformes lamina multo longiores recurvas angus-

tatis, lateralibus connatis albis rubro striatis, dorsali rubro-purpureo,

petalis sepalis equilongis e basi angusta caudato-acuminatis pallidis

patenti-recurvis, labelli lobis lateralibus falciformibus decurvis, interme-

dio duplo longiore lineari carnoso integerrim glaberrim, columna

acuta medio dorso incrassata, anthera mitriforme.

P. Scapha, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron, (1874) vol. ii. p. 162. Xen. Orchid. vol. iii.

p. 86, 247, f.1. Hemsl. in Gard. Chron. (1881) vol.i. p. 784, £. 139, vol. ii.

p. 42. :

Pleurothallis Scapha has been long known in cultivation,

having been introduced by Mr. J. Day before the year

1874, when it was described by Reichenbach. It belongs

to Lindley’s section Acwminatex, characterized by the leaves

narrowed at the base, the long racemes and the acuminate

sepals, and to the subdivision of this with long-pedicelled

flowers. Its nearest ally is P. insignis, Rolfe (Tab.

6936) which has much fewer and larger flowers, and a li

bearded at the tip. ‘The native country of both these

species is unknown, but P. insignis has been supposed to

have been sent from Caraccas.

The specimen figured was communicated to the Royal

Gardens by Mr. Moore, A.L.S., Keeper of the Glasnevin —

Gardens, Dublin. It flowered in a cool house in January _

of the present year. : :

Deser.—Stem two to five inches high, erect, rigid, terete,

as thick as a crow-quill; internodes one to one and a half

inch long, lower pale brown spotted with dark red, upper —

Aveust Ist, 1895. a eae ae

(leaf-bearing) one to two inches long, green. Leaf four to

six inches long, oblong-lanceolate, tip recurved obtuse,

narrowed to the base, thickly coriaceous, keeled dorsally,

dark green above, paler beneath, nerves very obscure.

Raceme six to ten-fld., with the peduncle nearly a foot

long, very slender, decurved and pendulous; sheaths

closely appressed, streaked with brown. Flowers remote,

long-pedicelled ; bracts green, tubular with obliquely trun-

cate rather dilated mouths; pedicels three-fourths to an

inch long, filform. Ovary one-fourth to half an inch long,

green, subterete. Dorsal sepal two and a half inches long,

ovate-lanceolate, narrowed into a filiform tail four or five

times as long as the convex blade, white with three red-

purple streaks; lateral sepals connate into a red-purple

lanceolate blade which is narrowed into a slender tail,

like that of the dorsal. Petals with a yellowish blade,

much smaller than the sepals, but narrowed into as long

spreading recurved tails. Lip yellow; side lobes sickle-

shaped, decurved, half as long as the strict linear fleshy

subacute mid-lobe. Cuvolwmn very short, stout, acute.

Anther ritriform.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Lip; 2,side and 3 front view of column; 4, anther ; 5, pollinia—All

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HELIANTHUS pesitis.

Native of the Southern United States.

Nat. Ord. Compostrz.—Tribe HELIANTHOIDER.

Genus Hetiantuvs, Linn. ; (Benth, & Hook.f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 376.)

Heiantuvs debilis; annuus, hispidulus, caule e basi ramoso, ramis gracilibus,

foliis longe petiolatis ovatis deltoideisve subacutis grosse inwqualiter

crenato-dentatis denticulatisque e basi cuneato 3-nerviis, floribus amplis

gracile peduuculatis, involucri bracteis patentibus inzequalibus herbaceis

lanceolatis acuminatis scabridis, receptaculi planiusculi bracteolis tran-

catis v. inequaliter 2~3-fidis-dentatisve, corollis radii sub 3-seriatis

elliptico-oblongis 3-5-nervis aureis, disci corollis cylindraceis rabro-brun-

neis, achzeniis obovato-oblongis hispidulis, pappi setis brevibus ineequali-

bus coriaceis.

H. debilis, Nutt. in Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. N.S. vol. viii. (1841) p. 367. Torr.

& Gray Fl. N. Am, vol. ii. p. 320. Chapm. Fi. 8. Un. St. p. 229. A. Gray,

Synopt. Fl. N. Am., Gamopet. part i. p. 273.

H. precox, Engelm. & Gray in Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. vol. v. (1847) 221, and

Pl, Lindh, vol. i. p. 18.

H. debilis, var. cucumerifolius, A. Gray l.e. Gard. Chron. (1895) vol. i. p. 167,

fig. 24.

H. cucumerifolius, Zorr. & Gr. Fl. N. Am. vol. ii. 319.

Helianthus debilis belongs to a small section of the

genus in which the root is annual, chiefly natives of the

Southern States of N. America, and which includes six

species, the common #. annuus, Linn., being one of them.

A. Gray says of the whole group that the species are

‘difficult of determination, and apparently confluent.”

He includes under it H. precoz, as a variety with a more

hispid stem, but Chapman retains this, describing it as

erect, H. debilis being more or less decumbent, and

having 15-20 ray-flowers, whereas he attributes only

10-14 to H. debilis. Chapman further describes the

flowers of debilis as small, but Gray says of them that

they are half an inch or more in diameter.

H. cucumerifolius, Torr & Gray, is described by Gray

as another form of debilis, distinguished by its greater

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1895.

size, usually purple-mottled stem, and more numerous

broader rays, 15-20 in number, an inch and more long,

and its irregularly serrate leaves with salient teeth. A

careful comparison of a suite of authentically named speci-

mens of debilis, precox, and cucumerifolius shows that there

are no good grounds for distinguishing them as varieties,

they differ considerably, but only in the size of the leaves

and flowers, those of the specimen here figured are much

larger than in any of the native ones, and the nearest

approach to it is labelled H. debilis by Gray. In the

. Gardener’s Chronicle H. debilis var. cucumerifolius is de-

scribed as having stems blotched with purple (as described

by Gray), and as suited to a perennial border ; but the stems

of the Kew plant are speckled with white, and the plant

1s an annual.

H., debilis was raised at Kew from seeds purchased from

anurseryman. Itisa native of the sandy sea shores of

Florida, Louisiana, and E. Texas. At Kew the plants

flowered in an open border in September, 1894

_ Deser—Annual; whole plant hispidulous. Stem branch-

ming from below; branches two feet long, slender, green,

speckled with white. Leaves, lower opposite, upper alter-

nate, three to four inches long, ovate or deltoid, subacute,

more or less irregularly crenate or toothed, or acutely

sublobulate and denticulate, thin , rough on both surfaces,

dark green, 3-nerved from the cuneate or truncate base;

petiole one to three inches long, slender. Flower-heads

two to three inches in diameter, on slender peduncles.

Involucre of many spreading unequal herbaceous, lanceolate

acuminate scabrid bracts. Receptacle nearly flat, with

narrow unequally toothed or rarely entire chaffy bracteoles.

Ray-flowers twelve to twenty, bright golden yellow ; limb

oblong, obtuse, three to five-nerved. Disk-flowers marooo

brown ; corolla cylindric; lobes obtuse, suberect. Achen?

obovate-oblong, pubescent ; pappus bristles about tw |

very unequal, short, rigid.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Ovary and base of coroll rs

» UV a of ray-fl.; 2, bracteole of receptacles

3, fl. of the disk; 4, stamens ; 5, style-arms All enlarged.

Vincent Brooks Day 450"

Tas. 7433.

RUMEX aywenoserates.

Native of New Mexico and Arizona.

Nat. Ord. Potyconacem.—Tribe Rumicex.

Genus Rumex, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. iii. p. 200.)

Rumex hymenosepalus; glaberrima radice tuberosa, caulibus erectis elatis

robustis, foluis oblongis ovato- v. lanceolato-oblongis acuminatis in

petiolum crassum angustatis uudulatis pallide viribidus, reticulatim

venosis, coste crassa, nervis primariis utrinque 6-10, stipnlis magnis

hyalinis caducis, paniculis axillaribus et terminalibus densifloris pedi-

cellis floribus hermaphrodis brevioribus basi versus articulatis, sepalis

interioribus quam exterioribus multo majoribus amplis orbicularibus veno-

in fructiferis basi cordatis intus e Caitogis integerrimis, akeniis 4 poll.

ongis,

R. hymenogepalus, Torrey Bot. Mewic. Bound. p.177. S. Wats. Bot. Calif.

vol. ii. p. 8 and 479. Am. Journ. Pharm. 1876, p. 49; Aug. 1889,

and April, 1893. Kew Bulletin, 1890, p. 63, and 1894. p. 167,

Journ. & Trans. Pharmac. Soc. 1889, p. 187, and July, 1893, p. 42.

Nugent in Foreign Off. Report, 1894, n. 1879.

S. Saxei, Kellogg in Pacif. Rural Press, June, 1879.

Considerable interest attaches to the plant here figured,

on account of its tanning properties, which have led to its

cultivation in the United States’ experimental station

attached to the Agricultural College at Las Cruces, ‘‘ where

the evolution of the plant from the wild to the cultivated

state is being closely watched and recorded.” <A very

full account of its history, chemical, and other properties,

together with the steps being taken in America for its pro-

fitable culture, will be found in the Kew Bulletin cited above,

Its native name is Canaigre (or Ganagra), and the tan-

ning material is contained in the roots in large quantities.

These roots are described as globular or fusiform, two to

six inches long, and three inches in diameter, of a dark

reddish colour, and growing in clusters like sweet potatoes.

Its properties are said to have been known to the Mexicans

for more than two centuries. |

R. hymenosepalus is a native of the driest regions of

Northern Mexico and the South Western States of N.

SrrTeMBER Ist, 1895,

America, from South California to Arizona, New Mexico,

and from Western Texas and South Utah. It was

first known botanically from being collected during

the United States’ Survey of the Mexican Boundary, by

Dr. Parry, Botanist to that expedition, the results of which

were published by Dr. Torrey. The stem and leaves have

a pleasant acidity, and are, according to Watson, used in

California and Utah, under the name of Wild Pie plant.

The specimen figured was raised from seeds sent to the

Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1890 by Dr. F. H. Goodwin, of

Tucson, Arizona, which flowered in the herbaceous ground

in June, 1894,

Descr.—Quite glabrous. Root of fusiform tubers. Stem

twelve to twenty-four inches high, stout, terete, leafy, and

as wellas the whole plant perfectly glabrous, pale green,

suffused with brown. Leaves six to ten inches long by

two to three broad, oblong- or ovate-lanceolate, acuml-

nate, narrowed into a stout petiole, pale grey-green on

both surfaces, rather mottled beneath, reticulately nerved; |

midrib stout; nerves six to ten pairs. Panicles axillary

and terminal, subsessile, three to five inches long. /lowers

nearly half an inch in diameter, crowded, bisexual, green;

pedicels a sixth to a third of an inch long, jointed at the

base, red brown. Outer sepals minute, inner very large,

orbicular, cordate at the base; fruiting two-thirds of an

inch in diameter, pale brown, quite entire, disk without

a callus. <Anthers linear. Ovary very broadly ovoid.

Achene about one-sixth of an inch long.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower; 2 and : . iti

panicle of the sabe! tee. ee er a es 7 gs

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Tas, 7434,

CLEYERA Forrunst.

Native of Japan?

Nat. Ord. TeRNsTREMIACE®.—Tribe TERNSTREMIER.

Genus Crrrera, DO. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 183.)

Ciryera Fortune ; foliis 4-6-pollicaribus elliptico-v. lineari-oblongis obtusins-

culis utrinque sensim angustatis lucidis, costa nervisque prominulis,

pedicellis confertis }-pollicaribus, floribus % poll. latis, petalis primulinis

sepalis obtusis ciliolatis triplo longioribus, staminibus 15-20 filamentis

inzequilongis, antheris oblongis pilosis.

C. Fortunei, Hook. f. in Gard. Chron. 1895, vol. i. p. 10.

C. japonica, foliis variegatis, Hort.

Euryz Sp. Gard. Chron, 1861, p. 735.

E. latifolia variegata, Verschaff. in Expos. Gand 1882, ex Bullet. Féd. Soc.

Hort. de Belgique (1886), p. 394.

The first account of this handsome shrub is contained

in the Gardener’s Chronicle for 1861, where it is alluded

to as a new Japanese plant, introduced by Fortune, and

exhibited by Mr. Standish at a meeting of the Royal

Horticultural Society, as a broad-leaved Hurya. It has been

in cultivation ever since, but never having been observed

in a flowering state till comparatively recently, its genus has

remained doubtful. That it is a Cleyera is evident; but

the Asiatic species of that genus are so very closely allied,

that the establishing a new one, on what is no doubt a

garden variety, and probably due to Japanese or Chinese

skill, is a hazardous proceeding. I say Japanese or

Chinese, for Fortune sent variegated-leaved shrubs from

both countries, and the absence of any specimen of (.

Fortunei in the rich Herbarium of Japanese plants at Kew

is suspicious. :

There are three described Cleyeras; two Indian (per-

haps varieties of one) C. ochnacea, DC., and 0. grandiflora,

Hook. f. & Thoms.; the third is C. japonica,* Sieber &

Zucc., a native of Japan, China, and Formosa, which has by

some botanists been regarded as a form of C. ochnacea. The

* Which must not be confounded with Cleyera japonica, Thunb., a ies :

of Ternstremia. _—

SepTEMBER Ist, 1895.

chief difference between the Japanese and the Indian

species is the well-marked venation of the leaves of the

latter; the nerves of C. japonica being, in the dried leaf,

very obscure. Both vary in the size of the flowers and

leaves, and in the form of the latter. The large flowered

form would appear, from the specimen in the Kew Her-

barium from all three localities, to be the more common

of the two.

OC. Fortunei agrees with C. ochnacea and grandiflora in

the nervation of the leaves, and with the last in the size

of the flowers; but differs from both in the longer,

narrower leaves, and their thinner texture—characters

that may be due to cultivation; and if the Himalayan

Species were to prove to be also Chinese (as are so many

Himalayan shrubs), it would strengthen the suggestion I

have thrown out, that C. Fortunei is of Chinese, and not

Japanese origin.

The above notes appeared in the Gardener's Chronicle

in January last, and I have nothing to add to them. The

species must still be regarded as an unstable one, waiting

further evidence. The specimen here figured was kindly

forwarded by T. Acton, Esq., J.P., of Kilmacurragh,

Rathdrum, County Wicklow, in September, 1894.

Descy.—A glabrous, erect, much-branched — shrub.

Branches stout, bark brown. Leaves four to six inches

long, elliptic- or linear-lanceolate, subobtuse, narrowed

at both ends, bright green, variegated with golden-yellow

and scarlet towards the margins; midrib and nerves

slender. Flowers one half to two-thirds of an inch in

diameter, solitary or fascicled in the axils of the leaves,

or on nodes of the branches; pedicels half an inch long,

stout, green and red. Calyx small, 5-lobed; lobes shortly

oblong, ciliolate, red brown. Petals a fourth to a third

of an inch long, oblong, obtuse, pale yellow, margins in-

curved. Stamens fifteen to twenty, of unequal length;

anthers adnate to the filaments, oblong, hairy; connective

shortly produced. Ovary shortly, stoutly stipitate, broadly

ovoid, 2-celled ; style erect, tip 2-fid; ovules many in each

cell.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower with

the petals removed ; 2, petal and st mens: 3, anther;

4 ovary; 5, vertical, a fi , petal and sta ;

nd 6, transverse section of do. :—Ali enlarged.

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Tap. 7435.

ATRAPHAXIS Moscuxetowl1.

~. Native of Central Asia.

Nat. Ord. Potyconacez%.—Tribe EuroLyGonex.

Genus Arrapnaxis, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 96.)

ATRAPHAXIs (Tragopyrum) Muschketowi ; frutex glaberrimus, ramis flexuosis,

foliis 1-1j-pollicaribus oblongis obtusis crenulatis basi cuneatis v. rotun-

datis pallide viridibus, nervis gracilibus arcuatis, stipulis ad medium

connatis elongato-subulatis, racemis terminalibus breviter pedunculatis

oblongis, floribus } poll. diam. albis ovario antherisque rubellis, pedi-

cellis gracilibus perianthio longioribus basin versus articulatis, perianthii

segmentis exterioribus 2 ovatis obtusis deflexis quam 3 exterioribus

erectis dimidio brevioribus, staminibus 8-9, stylis brevibus, achznio

triquetro.

A. Mnschketowi, Krassn. Descr. Pl. Nov. v. Minus cogn. (1886), 20; Fl. Thian

Schan. p. 340.

seer lanceolatum, var. latifolium, Regel in Gartenfl. t. 1344 (1894),

g. 1-3.

I have retained for this plant the name under which it

was published by Krassnov, though expecting that when

the species of Atraphawis shall have been critically studied,

it will prove to be a form of a previously published one.

It has been referred by Regel to A. lanceolata, Meissn.

(in DC. Prodr. xiv. pt.1. p. 78); (Tragopyrum lanceola-

tum, Bieb.), which includes the Siberian and Dahurian

Polygonum fruticosum, Linn. (Fl. Upsal. p. 95; Sp. Pl.

p- 359). Of this (the Linnean) plant I have examined

the specimen in the Linnean Herbarium. It is a very

small and narrow-leaved species, with small flowers, quite

unlike Tag. lanceolatum, Bieb., and very different from

A. Muschketowi. The figure of P. fruticosum, given in the

Botanical Register (t. 254), which was taken from a

specimen that flowered in Fulham Nurseries in 1818

_ resembles the Linnwan specimen in foliage, but differs

in the flowers being rather larger, and in a leafy

raceme. Atraphavis micrantha, Jaub. & Sp. (Jil. Pl.

Or. vol. ii. p. 15), doubtfully referred to A. lanceolata

by Meissner, is probably P. fruticosum of Linnzus

Herb. It must further be borne in mind that Linnzus has

cited under P. fruticosum a Levant plant of Tournefort

SEPTEMBER lst, 1895.

(A. Tournefortii, Jaub. & Sp.), so that his species is, like

Meissner’s, a composite one. Another allied plant is

A. buxifolia, Jaub. & Sp. (Polygonum crispulum, Tab.

1065) which has the racemes of A. Muschhketowi, but the

pedicels are jointed about the middle, and the perianth

segments crisped.

As with so many Central Asiatic shrubs, the leaves of

the species of Atrapharis vary extremely, and together

with the habit of the plant, depend on the aridity or

moisture of the locality they grow in. A. Muschketowi is

a native of the foot of the Alatau Mts. a member of the

great Thian Schan range of Central Asia, where it was

found by Krassnov near the Amatinka river in lat. 43° 0

N. and long. 77° 47’ E. The specimen figured is from a

plant sent from the Imperial gardens of St. Petersburg to

the Royal Gardens, Kew, where it flowered in May and

June in the Arboretum.

Descr.—A dwarf, leafy, spreading, deciduous shrub, three

feet in diameter; bark of branches brown. Leaves one to

one and a half inches long, very shortly petioled, oblong,

acute, crenulate, pale green, nerves arching ; stipules half

an inch long, erect, subulate, connate to about the middle.

Racemes terminal, chiefly in whorls, lateral branches one to

one and a half inch long, very shortly peduncled, oblong.

Flowers about a third of an inch broad, white, with red

anthers and ovary ; peduncle very slender, longer than the

perianth, jointed above the base. Perianth 5-partite ; two

outer perianth-segments oblong, reflexed, about half as

long as the orbicular, erect, inner. Stamens 8. Ovary

trigonous ; style very short.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Stipules ; 2, fis. with pedicel; 3, perianth, stamen and ovary; 4 and

» anthers ; 6, ovary:— All enlarged.

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RICHARDIA Renmannt.

~ Native of Natal.

Nat. Ord. ARomwEx.—Tribe PHILODENDREA.

Genus Ricwarpia, Kunth; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 982.)

Ricuarpia Rehmanni; foliis anguste elliptico-lanceolatis acuminatis in

petiolum angustatis plagis elongatis pallidis notatis, nervis omnibus

tenuissimis, spathe tubo cylindraceo extus pallide vivescente intus

toto albo, limbo lanceolato albo plus minusve roseo tincto acuminato

supra medium revoluto, oris margine recurvo, spadice stipitato.

R. Rehmanni, V.E. Br. in Hort. Bot. Cantab. Krelagein Gard. Chron. 1893,

vol, ii. p. 564, fig. 94 (sphalm. Lehmanni), et in Gartenfl. 1894, p. 12, f. 7.

W. Wats. in Gard. Chron. 1894, vol. ii. p. 364.

Zantedeschia Rehmanni, Hngl. Bot. Jahrb. vol. iv. (1883), p. 63.

R. Rehmanniana, nov. in textu, ante sub tab. 7397 (sphalm.).

De Waals Richardia, Masters in Gard Chron, 1893, 1. c.

Under Tab. 7397 of this work I have alluded to the

plant here figured under the name of Richardia Rehman-

niana, for which I failed at the time to find any authority.

Its now having flowered at Kew gives me the opportunity

of clearing up its history, which is somewhat involved.

In 1888 Mr. Lynch sent a specimen of it from the Botanical

Gardens of Cambridge to the Kew Herbarium, where it

was examined and recognized by Mr. Brown to be the

Zantedeschia Rehmanni of Engler, and a true Richardia,

This information was communicated to Mr. Lynch by Mr.

Brown, who may hence be regarded as the originator of

the name the plant now bears.

R. Rehmanni was discovered on grassy, stony hills

near Standerton, Natal, by Mr. Rehmann, and, as stated

above, was described as a Zantedeschia. Its introducer

into England was Mr. R. W. Adlam, who sent tubers to

Mr. Lynch in July, 1888, as a rose-fld. Richardia. These

tubers, on first flowering at the Cambridge Botanical

Gardens, had white spathes, without any tinge of rose,

and on informing Mr. Adlam of this, that gentleman

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SEPTEMBER Ist, 1895.

nearly white, with hardly a trace of pink. Yet when [

collected it the spathes were nearly of the colour of a

Homére rose. It grew in crevices of granite rock, not

in swamps.”

For tubers of R. Rehmanni the Royal Gardens are

indebted to Mr. Medley Wood, Curator of the Durban

Gardens. These were received in 1893, and the plants

flowered in the Cape House in October, 1894. The species

differs from any hitherto described in foliage, colour, and

the stipitate spadix.

Descr.—Leaves ten to twelve inches long, narrowly

elliptic, lanceolate, acuminate, narrowed into and much

longer than the stout petiole, undulate and recurved,

bright green on both surfaces, with scattered linear

blotches of greenish white, parallel to the very numerous

close-set slender nerves; midrib stout, pale grecn.

Peduncles shorter than the leaves, green. Spathe about

five inches long, erect; tube two inches long by about one

in diameter, cylindric, pale green, white to the base

within; limb lanceolate, undulate, acuminate, white, suf-

fused with pink on the margins, upper third recurved,

margins of mouth recurved. Syadix two inches long, its

stipes rather more than half an inch, and as long as the

female portion. Ovary glabrous, stigma sessile—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Base of spathe and spadix ; 2 oe : tical section

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ANTHURIUM Gostavt.

Native of New Grenada.

Nat. Ord. Anorpr%.—Tribe ORONTIE.

Genus AntuvuRivm, Schott. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 998.)

Antuvrivum (Cardiophyllum) Gustavi; acaule, foliis longe petiolatis cordato-

ovatis obtusis, margine undulatis, lobis rotundatis, sinu oblongo, nervis

primariis utrinque 10-15 inferioribus retrorsis, petiolo lamina longiore

teretiusculo alte costato, geniculo mediocri, spatha cylindracea lente

curva pedali breviter crasse pedunculata basin versus sensim tumescente

apice attenuata obtusa crasse coriacea luride purpurea levissima margini-

bus incurvis, spadice spatha paulo longiore sessili cylindracea obtusa

purpurea, sepalis linearibus truncatis subtrigonisintus profunde canali-

culatis, filamentis linearibus compressis, antheris late oblongis, ovarioin ~

stylum crassum elongatum attenuato.

A. Gustavi, Regel in Gartenfl. v. 1878 (1878), p. 324, nomen, et (1882), p. 67,

t. 1076. Engler, Monogr. Arac. in DC. Monogr. Phanerogam, vol. ii.

p- 640, nomen.

Anthurium Gustavi was discovered by G. Wallis near Buona-

ventura, a seaport in the province of Cauca, in New Grenada,

and was introduced by him into the Imperial Botanical

Gardens of St. Petersburg in 1878. There it flowered,

and was figured by Regel in the Gartenflora in 1882, but the

spathe, according to the description given, was only a little

over five inches (13 cm.) long; and the petiole is described

as subterate. The leaves, however, had attained the same

dimensions as those of the Kew specimen. The plant here

figured was obtained from Messrs. F. Sander & Co., of St.

Albans. Itis growing in a large pan over the tank in the

Victoria House of the Royal Gardens, where the leaves

attain a diameter of three feet, and the petioles a length

of three and a half feet. The species had previously been

sent (in 1887) to the Royal Gardens from Herrenhausen,

Hanover, by Dr. Wendland, but had not flowered.

Descr.—Stem very short, stout, tuberous; basal sheaths

few, small, red-brown, not enveloping the base of the petioles

and peduncle. Leaves one and a half to nearly four feet

long, rather longer than their petioles, broadly ovate-cor-

date, obtuse, thinly coriaceous, bright green above, paler

OctoBER Ist, 1895.

beneath ; basal-lobes rounded ; sinus oblong; nerves ten to

fifteen pairs, pale green or reddish, of which four to six

pairs are recurved, and occupy the lobes, all uniting in a

faint intramarginal nerve; petiole subterete, with about

twelve sharply keeled parallel ridges, green, purple at the

base; knee at the apex about an inch Jong, green. Spathe

cylindric, a foot long, by one and a half inch diameter at

the rather tumid rounded base, gently curved, elongate

linear-lanceolate, narrowed at the rather thickened obtuse

tip, margins incurved ; peduncle hardly an inch long, very

stout, and like the spathe, dark violet-purple. Spadiv

rather longer than the spathe, an inch in diameter, cylindric,

gradually narrowed from the sessile base to the rounded

tip, red-purple. Sepals linear, truncate, deeply grooved in

front. filaments linear, flat; anthers shortly oblong.

eit Sidhe into a very stout style, stigma simple.—

Fig. 1, Section of petiole; 2, flowers; 3, fower with one sepal removed;

4, « sepal; 5 and 6, stamens; 7, section of ovary :—All enlarged.

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MORMODES Rotreanvum.

Native of Peru.

Nat. Ord. OrncuipE@.—Tribe VANDEA.

Genus Mormopss, Lindl. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 552.)

Mormopes Rolfeanum ; pseudobulbis fusiformibus, foliis lanceolatis acuminatis

nerviis, pedunculo robusto suberecto paucifloro, bracteis viridibus, floribus

erectis, sepalis petalisyue aureis sanguineo striatis et conspersis, sepalis

ovatis obtuse acuminatis detiexis, petalis orbiculari-obovatis acutis erectis

incurvis lateralibus reflexis, labello sepalis equilongo erecto forte incurvo

e basi angusto oblongo apice cuspidato v. rotundato, intus rubro-castaneo,

columna alba roseo pallide irrorata.

M. Rolfeanum, Linden in Lindenia, vol. vii. p. 5, t. 289. Masters in Gard.

Chron. 1892, vol. i. p. 203, fig. 30.

The genus Mormodes is rapidly increasing in number of

species. At the date of the publication of the Orchidex in

the ** Genera Plantarum” by Mr. Bentham (1883) fourteen

species were known. ‘T'wenty-four are enumerated in

Part Ill. of the ‘Kew Index,” published in 1894, and

Mr. Rolfe informs me that not a few have since been dis-

covered. It affords me great pleasure to be able to figure

so fine a plant, dedicated, as it is, to a late colleague at

Kew, who has ever most generously given me the aid of

his unequalled knowledge of the difficult Order to which

Mormodes belongs, whether in the preparation of the matter

for the “ Botanical Magazine” or of the ‘* Flora of British

India.”

M. Rolfeanum is not very closely allied to any other.

Of the eight already figured in this Magazine, it comes

nearest in some characters to M. Greenii (Tab. 5802),

especially in the form of the sepals, petals and lip, but

that is a much larger plant, with a long pendulous many-

fld. raceme, the sides of the lip are incurved, and its tip

is bifid and erosely ciliate. The colouration, too, of the

whole flower is entirely different. =

The plant was obtained from Mr. Linden’s establishment,

Octoser Isr, 1895.

* T/ Horticulture International ” of Brussels, in 18938, and

flowered in the Tropical Orchid House of the Royal

Gardens in January, 1895.

Descr.—Pseudobulbs three to four inches long, fusiform,

terete, straight, pale green. Leaves eight to ten inches long,

by one and a half to two inches broad, lanceolate, acumi-

nate, light green above; paler speckled with dark green,

and strongly nerved beneath ; petiole stout, three to five

inches long, green and speckled. Scape six inches high,

stout, erect, pale green, with two or three short obtuse,

green, appressed sheaths. Raceme terminal, few-fid. ;

bracts about a third of an inch long, ovate-oblong, ap-

pressed, green. Flowers erect, four inches long from the tips

of the defiexed sepals to that of the erect lip; sepals and —

petals and back of the lip golden-yellow, streaked and

speckled with blood-red. Sepals broadly ovate, obtusely

acuminate, deflexed. Petals erect, almost orbicular, obtuse

or apiculate, rather broader than the sepals. Lip as long

as the sepals, erect and strongly arched inward, obovate-

oblong (when spread out) from a subunguiculate base, dark

red-chestnut within, tip rounded or apiculate, sides revo

lute. Colwmn white, clouded with red.—.J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Column ; 2, anther-cap ; 8, pollinia :—AJ/ enlarged.

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POLYGALA GaALPINI.

Nalional the Goantiand.

Nat. Ord. PotyGaLEZz.

Genus Potyeata, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 186.)

Potyeata Galpini; fruticulus gracillimus, ramulis flexuosis petiolis foliis

subtus racemique rachi hispidulis, foliis petiolatis ovatis acuminatis

ciliolatis basi rotundatis v. subeordatis, racemis axillaribus erectis multi-

floris, floribus majusculis pallide roseo-lilacinis, sepalis deciduis, 3 exterio-

ribus late ovatis obtusis cymbiformibus, dorsali lateralibus duplo fere

longiore, alis obovatis capsula latioribus, corolle lobis lateralibus oblongis

obtusis, carine lobis truncatis plicatis, capsula (immatura) fere orbiculari

emarginata anguste alata, stylo apice incurvo anguste buccewformi trun-

cato, stigmate punctiforme.

P. Galpini, Hook. f.

The genus Polygala is very numerous in South Africa,

as indeed it is in many other countries; and the species

have proved to be difficult of limitation, and more so of

classification. In respect of the first of these obstacles,

P. Galpini is happily an exception, for there is none to

which it comes near in habit and foliage; and as to the

second it takes its place in the group designated ‘ Hispi-

dee” by Harvey in the ‘ Flora Capensis,” characterized as

consisting of small, half-herbaceous, or suffruticose plant,

with ovate or lanceolate (or sublinear) pubescent leaves,

terminal or lateral erect racemes, and wings of calyx

broader than the capsule.

_ P. Galpini was discovered by the collector, W. T. Gerrard,

in Natal or Zululand nearly half acentury ago. Mr. Galpin

describes it as a shrub three to five ft. high, growing

amongst shrubs or banks of streamlets and margins of

woods at Havelock Concession, Swaziland, and Devil’s

Bridge, in cool places at elevation of 4—5000 ft. In cul-

tivation its habit is more erect than in the wild state, and

it forms a very graceful greenhouse ornament. The plant

figured was raised from seeds sent in 1889 by Mr. Galpin,

OcroBER Ist, 1895.

of Barberton in the Transvaal, and flowered in the Tem-

perate House of the Royal Gardens, Kew, in September,

1894, when about a foot high.

Descer.—A very slender straggling shrub, three to five

ft. high, with flexuous branches, branchlets, petioles,

nerves of leaf beneath and inflorescence sparsely hispidulous.

Leaves two to three inches long, shortly petioled, ovate,

acuminate, bright green above, paler beneath, margins cilio-

late ; nerves four or five pairs, sunk above, reddish beneath ;

petiole one-third to half an inch long, reddish. Macemes

axillary, erect, three to four inches long, rachis hispidulous ;

pedicels one-sixth to one-fourth of an inch long, of lower

flowers decurved ; bracts as long as the pedicels or longer,

ovate-lanceolate, green, caducous. Flowers nearly an inch

across the expanded wings, pale rose-lilac. Sepals five,

three outer about half the length of the wings, broadly

ovate, cymbiform, obtuse, ciliolate, the dorsal much the

largest ; wings obovate. Oorolla shorter than the wings;

two lateral lobes oblong, obtuse, rather shorter than the

keel, which is two-lobed, the lobes truncate and plicate.

Upper third of style upcurved, trumpet-shaped, tip truncate,

with a punctiform stigma in front. Young capsule nearly

orbicular, very narrowly winged.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower; 2, corolla with one petal removed; 3, top of filament and

anther; 4, ovary and disk :—A/l en larged.

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TULIPA vVIoLAcEA.

Native of Persia.

Nat. Ord. Lin1acr®.—Tribe TuLrrex.

Genus Tutrra, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 818.)

Tuxtpa violacea; bulbo ovoideo, tunicis exterioribus chartaceis brunneis apice

tantum pilosis, caule glabro unifloro, foliis 3-5 crebris ascendentibus glabris

inferioribus lanceolatis superioribus linearibus, pedunculo glabro gracili

elongato, perianthio campanulato basi cuneato sepissime splendide

rubro raro albo-rubello, segmentis conformibus oblongis subacutis basi

macula nigra albo-marginata preeditis, staminibus nigris, filamentis supra

basin pilosis, ovario triquetro-cylindrico stigmatibus parvis.

T. violacea, Boiss. et Buhse Aufzihl Transcaue. p.211. Baker in Journ. Linn.

Soe. vol. xiv. p. 290. Boiss, Fl. Orient. vol. v. p. 199.

This beautiful tulip is one of the few species that have

filaments hairy near the base, and bright red flowers. It

is allied to 17’. Haagert (Bot. Mag. tab. 6242), and 7. pul-

chella (Bot. Mag. tab. 6304). It was first described from

specimens gathered by Buhse in 1848 in Northern Persia at

an elevation of 6000 to 8000 feet. Boissier, writing in

1881, says that he has seen it cultivated from the neigh-

bourhood of Teheran. In 1882 it was found by Pichler

on Mount Elwend, in the neighbourhood of the snow; and

in 1890 it was collected by Dr. Strauss in the district

of Sultanabad in the Raswand Mountains, whence it was

sent to Leichtlin. Our drawing was made from plants

grown from bulbs which the latter gentleman presented

to the Royal Gardens, Kew, and which flowered at

the end of March, 1895. The flower in these was bright

mauve-red, not violet, so that the name is misleading, but

our dried specimens show that it varies to red, with a

slight flush of red outside.

Descr.—Bulb ovoid, an inch in diameter; outer tunics

dark brown, subcoriaceous, hairy only at the tip. Stems

one-flowered, under a foot long in the wild plant. Leaves

three to five, crowded, ascending, glabrous, slightly

glaucous, the lowest lanceolate, an inch broad, the others

OctToBER Ist, 1895.

linear. Peduncle long, erect, glabrous. Perianth cam-

panulate, with a contracted base, fragrant, an inch and a

half or two inches long, typically bright mauve-red, vary-

ing to white, with a slight flush of red outside; segments

uniform, oblong, subacute, with a large blotch at the base

of black bordered with white. Stamens half an inch long,

black ; filaments hairy above the base. Ovary triquetro-

cylindrical, shorter than the stamens; stigmas small,

sessile.—J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, Front view of stamen; 2, back view of stamen; 3, pistil :—Al

enlarged.

Tas. 7441,

STERNBERGIA FISCHERIANA. :

Native of the Caucasus, Persia and Asia Minor.

Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDEZ.—Tribe AMARYLLEA.

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

p. 721.)

SrernBercia (Oporanthus) Fischeriana; bulbo ovoideo, tunicis membranaceis

branneis supra collum productis, foliis 8-9 vernalibus synanthiis lineari-

bus obtusis glauco-viridibus integris, pedunculis brevibus unifloris,

spathis magnis membranaceis sepissime bifidis, ovario subsessili vel bre-

viter pedicellato, perianthii citrini tubo brevi infundibulari, segmentis

oblongo-spathulatis: tubo multo longioribus, staminibus inequalibus

perianthio manifeste brevioribus, antheris oblongis parvis luteis, stylo

elongato, stigmate capitato.

Sternbergia Fischeriana, Roem. Amaryll. p.46. Kunth Enum. Pl. vol. v.

p. 702. Boiss, Fl. Orient. vol. v. p. 147. Baker Mandb. Amaryll, p. 29.

Oporanthus Fischerianus, Herb. Amaryl, p. 412, tab. 47, fig. 3.

Amaryllis lutea, Bieb, Fl. Taur. Caue. vol. ii. p. 255, non Linn.

This beautiful Sternbergia closely resembles the finest

forms of the well-known Sternbergia lutea (Amaryllis

lutea, Linn., Bot. Mag. tab. 290), but it flowers in spring

instead of autumn. Sternbergia was separated from

Amaryllis by Waldstein and Kitaibel, who named it in

honour of Count Sternberg, the monographer of the Saxi-

frages. Like S. lutea it is quite hardy in England, and it

is therefore likely to become a popular garden plant. It

was first described and figured by Herbert from the

Caucasus, where S. lutea has not been found. Bulbs of it,

collected in Persia, were received at the Royal Gardens,

Kew, from Messrs. Damman in 1894; and others from

the neighbourhood of Smyrna from Mr. E. Whittall in the

same year. Our drawing was made from plants that

flowered in a sunny, open border in the Royal Gardens, —

Kew, in March, 1895, the bulbs of which were presented

by the latter gentleman. 2

Descr.—Bulb ovoid, one and a half or two inches in _

diameter; outer tunics membranous, brown, produced —

above its neck. Leaves 8-9 to a bulb, vernal, contem-

OctoBerR Ist, 1895.

porary with the flowers, linear, obtuse, glaucous green,

half a foot long at the flowering season, lengthening out

afterwards. Peduncles short, one-flowered, two or three

to a strong bulb. Spathes membranous, white, usually

bifid. Perianth bright yellow; tube funnel-shaped, under

half an inch long; segments of the limb oblong-spathulate,

an inch and a half long. Stamens unequal, shorter than

the perianth; anthers small, oblong, versatile, yellow.

Ovary subsessile or shortly stalked; style long, simple;

stigma capitate.—J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, Front view of stamen ; 2, back view of stamen; 3, style and stigma:

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ANGRAICUM Korscnyt.

Native of Hast Tropical Africa.

Nat. Ord. Orcu1pEZ.—Tribe VANDER.

Genus Aneracum, Borg. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 583.)

AnGRzEcUM (Euangrecum) Kotschyi; caule brevi, foliis amplis obovatis ob-

tusis rubro-punctatis, scapo brevi robusto, racemi penduli rachi

elongato laxifloro brunneo, bracteis brevibus triangularibus acutis, pedi-

cellis 13-pollicaribus decurvis, floribus 2} poll. diam. albis, sepalis

petalisque patenti-reflexis oblanceolatis acuminatis subtortis apiculatis,

apiculis brunneis, labello spathulato explanato cuspidato ima basi

3-costato, calcari longissimo gracili flexuoso v. torto pallide fusco apice

anguste fusiformi, columna brevi crassa straminea, rostello gracili

porrecto ascendente, anthera hemispherica, polliniis oblongis stipiti

angusto sessilibus, glandula oblonga majuscula.

A. Kotschyi, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1880, vol. ii. p. 456 and p. 693, fig.

131. G. Schneider in Orchidoph. 1883, Ic. p. 797. Warner & Williams,

Orchid. Album. t. 179. Veitch Man. Orchid. pt. vii. p. 132, cum Ic.,

Wien Illustr. Gartenz. 1891, Ic. p. 309.

A. Grantii, Batem. mss.

As the exploration of tropical Africa advances, acces-

sions may be expected to the genus Angraecum, which will

probably prove to be the largest of epiphytic Orchids in the

dark continent and in Madagascar. Unfortunately for

Orchid growers, its flowers appear to be invariably white,

or if tinged with colour, green only. Ido not remember

any other genus of epiphytic Orchids containing a con-

siderable number of species, and many of these large-

flowered, in which there is this such all but total absence

of colour.

Furthermore, judging from the importation of Orchids,

whether from the east or western coast, or the interior,

and from the accountsof many intelligent travellers, tropical

Africa is not only deficient in genera and species of epiphy-

tic Orchids, as compared with tropical Asia and America,

but such as have been found are in no respect the repre-

sentatives of Dendrobium and Catleya, or of such bizarre

forms as Catasetum and Stanhopea. On the other hand,

some of the terrestrial tropical African genera, as Phajus

and Lissochilus, afford species of remarkable beauty and

variety of colour.

Novemser Ist, 1895.

Angrecum Kotschyi is anative of Hastern tropical Africa,

where it appears to have avery wide range of distribution.

It was discovered by Theod. Kotschy (after whom it 1s

named) when travelling with Russeger in 1838, growing

on Capparidee, but the exact locality isnot known. It was

next met with by C. J. Meller in 1861, in the valley of the Shire

river, not far from its junction with the Zambesi. In 1862

the great explorer Captain Grant found it in the Upper Nile,

at Gondokoro; and Hildebrandt collected it, in 1876, on the

seashore in Zanzibar, whence plants were sent through

Mr. H. Waller to Messrs. Veitch by Sir John Kirk. These

flowered for the first time at Chelsea in 1880. Lastly,

plants were sent to Kew from the Kilimandjaro district by

Consul C. 8. Smith, when acting as British Commissioner

for the delimitation of the Anglo-German Boundary

1892, which flowered in the Tropical House of the Royal

Gardens in October of this year. The noble raceme here

figured was kindly forwarded by Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bt.;

the leaves are from the Kew plant.

Descr.—Stem short; roots very thick, brown. Leaves

three to four inches long, obovate, obtuse, pale yellowish

green speckled with red-brown, margins waved. Scape

short, with the pendulous raceme a foot to a foot anda

half long, as thick as a goose-quill, red-brown, decurved.

fiaceme distantly many-fld.; bracts small, triangular;

dark brown; pedicels with the ovary one and a half to

two inches, flexuous, brown. Jlowers white, two and a

half inches broad across the petals, white with a very

faint tinge of pink at the bases of the perianth segments.

Sepals and petals spathulately oblanceolate, apiculate, eX _

treme tips brown, spreading and reflexed, more or less

waved. Lip broadly spathulate, with three short ridges

at the very base ; limb nearly orbicular, cuspidately acum!

nate ; spur attaining a foot in length, very slender, flexuous,

thickened and pale brown, from one and a half to two

inches of the apex. , Column short, stout; rostellum long;

subulate, ascending. Anther hemispheric. Poilinia oblong;

strap slender, dilated upwards, as long as the pollinia 5

gland oblong.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Lip and column; 2, clinandrinm and anther; 3, anther; 4 and

®, pollinia with strap and gland :—A/I enlarged.

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SPATHOGLOTTIS Kimparrtna.

~ — Native of Borneo.

Nat. Ord. OncHIpea#.—Tribe DENDROBIER.

Genus SraruHoctorris, Blume; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. iii.

p. 571.)

Spatuoetottis, Kimballiana; elata, pseudobulbis vestigiis folioruam vestitis,

foliis 2-pedalibus anguste lineari-lanceolatis longe attenuato-acuminatis

5-7-nervis, bracteis cymbiformibus rufescentibus, floribus amplis, sepalis

petalisque consimilibas late oblongis obtusis intus aureis, sepalis extus

striolis rubris aspersis, labelli lobis lateralibus magnis auriculw-

formibus incurvis intus basi rubro striolatis, lobo intermedio angusto

glabro basin versus lobulis 2 rotundatis glabris basi 2-dentatis instructo

apice dilatato truncato.

S. Kimballiana, Hort. Sander.

Under 8S. gracilis, Plate 7366 of this work, I have alluded

to its very close relationship with S. aurea, Lindl.,*

of Mt. Ophir, 8. Wrayi, Hk. f. of Perak, and the

subject of this article, adding, “it may well be doubted

whether these species are not varieties of one; and all the

more from the fact of S. gracilis and S. Kimballiana

having been received from Borneo growing in the same

clump, by Messrs. Sander.” The figure of S. Kimballiana

here given, together with those of S. awrea, in Gard.

Chron., and S. Wrayi (Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 2086) and of S.

gracilis, if they do not solve the doubt, enable the

botanist to see at a glance the differences between the

types of all; but the resolution of the doubt awaits

a comparison of more specimens of each from other

localities than that of the types; for until such are ob-

tained, the first desideratum, namely, the direction and

limits of the variation of each, cannot be taken into account.

In so far as available materials enable me to judge, the

* The typical S. awrea was introduced by Messrs. Veitch in 1849, and pub-

lished in 1850 by Lindley (in Pawt. Fl. Gard. vol. i. p. 16, and in Jowrn. Hort.

Soc. Lond, (1850) 34), but the plant died before being figured. The species

was again introduced in 1886 from Borneo, by Messrs, Sander, and is described

by Reichenbach and figured in the Gardener’s Chronicle, 1888, vol. ii. p. 92,

zg. 9.

Novemser Ist, 1895.

following are diagnostic characters of the five above named

species.

S. aurea; surfaces of sepals concolorous, lateral lobes

of lip linear falcate, basal lobules villous within; leaves

three feet long by one and a half inches broad.

S. gracilis; surfaces of sepals concolorous, lateral lobes

of lip oblong-spathulate, or oblong-truncate, basal lobules —

within and lateral teeth villous, leaves two inches broad.

S. Kimballiana ; dorsal surface of sepals mottled with

red-brown striz, Jateral lobes of lip broadly ear-shaped,

basal lobules and teeth glabrous; leaves one to one and a

half inch broad.

S. Wrayi; surfaces of sepals unrecorded, lateral lobes |

of lip linear-oblong, basal lobules and teeth glabrous;

leaves one and a half inch broad.

I have not taken into account the form of the terminal

lobe of the lip, which appears to be very variable. —

Reichenbach says of that of aurea, * mid partition of apex

of lip subject to greatest variation, narrow and acute, or

broad, or very broad and simply retuse, or 3-toothed.”

8S. Kimballiana was named by Messrs. Sander in com-

pliment to the late Mr. W. S. Kimball, of Rochester, —

U.S.A., Nurseryman, who is described in the Gardeners

Chronicle (1895, vol. i. p. 497) as famous for his collections -

of pictures, china, and articles of vertu; and especially —

for his four hundred species and varieties of Cypripedium. —

“In his great Orchid House, which is open daily to the

public, five thousand plants of this Order may be seen 1) _

bloom at one time.”

The specimen of 8. Kimballiana here figured was ob-

tained from Messrs. Sander & Co. in 1890. It flowers

every Spring in the warm Orchid House of the Royal

Gardens.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Portion of lip; 2, column; 3, anther; 4, pollinia :—A// enlarged. i

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CATASETUM Lewmostt.

Native of Brazil.

Nat. Ord. OrncHIpEs%.—Tribe VaNDEA,

Genus Catasetum, ich. ; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 551.)

Catasetum Lemosii; pseudobulbis elongato-ovoideis pallidis sulcatis, foliis

oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis undulatis pallide viridibus, scapo ascen-

dente, bracteis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis viridibus, sepalis pallide:

flavo-viridibus, dorsali erecto oblongo-lanceolato acuto, lateralibus reflexis.

ovato-lanceolatis acutis, petalis flavo-viridibus erectis ovato-oblongis

acutis, labello galeato crasse coriaceo virescente trilobo ore late obcordato,

lobis lateralibus quadrato-rotundatis incurvis denticulatisy, intermedio

parvo triangulari recurvo, columna crassa rostrata, antennis gracilibus

deflexis, polliniis oblongis caudiculw latiuscule equilongis, glandula

magna orbiculari.

C. Lemosii, Rolfe in Kew Builetin (1894), 394.

C. roseum, Rodrig. Gen. § Sp. Orchid. Nov. vol. i. p. 128, non Reichb. f.

As stated by Mr. Rolfe in the Kew Bulletin, Catasetum

Lemosii is the C. roseum of Don Barbosa Rodrigues, who

appears to have been unaware, when he published it in

1877, of a previous C. rosewm having been described by

Reichenbach in the Gardener's Chronicle in 1872. For

this reason Mr. Rolfe has substituted for this the name

Lemosii, after Dr. Lemos, Superintendent of Schools

in the Province of Para. In another respeet the change

of name is welcome, for neither in Don Rodrigue’s drawing

of the plant (of which there is a copy in the Kew

Library) nor in specimens cultivated at Kew, are the flowers

really rose-coloured. Little dependence, however, can be

placed on colour in this, as in many other Orchids ; for

in Mr. Rolfe’s description the sepals and petals are

brownish flesh-coloured, ultimately becoming tawny-

yellow; whereas they are rather greenish-yellow in the

specimen here reproduced. According to Don Barbosa’s

description the sepals and petals should be rosy, the tip

green behind, and orange-yellow in front.

Catasetum Lemosii is a native of the Ile de Marajo,

Province of Para, at the mouth of the Amazons, whence

plants were procured by Dr. Lemos, who gave them

NovemBER I1s1, 1895.

to Mr. HE. 8. Rand, by whom a fine specimen was sent

to the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1894, which flowered in

March of the present year. The species had previously

flowered (in 1892) in the collection of M. Robinow,

Esq., of Hawthornden, Didsbury. Our figure is of the

male plant; the female, which (as with its congeners) no

doubt differs greatly in its flowers, is as yet undiscovered.

Deser.—Pseudobulbs two to four inches long, elon-

gate ovoid, deeply grooved, pale grey from the persistent

appressed leaf-sheaths. Leaves six to twelve inches long,

oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, pale green; nerves proml-

nent beneath. Scape with raceme six inches long, ascend-

ing, green, with few lanceolate acuminate bracts, about 8-

fid. ; floral bracts like the cauline, green. Flowers drooping,

about one and a half inches long and broad (across the

petals). Sepals and petals subsimilar, acute, pale, dark

yellowish-green or brown; dorsal sepal erect, lateral at

length reflexed ; petals erect, as long as the dorsal sepal.

Lip large, galeate, nearly globose, fleshy, dark green,

suffused with red posteriorly, three-lobed ; lateral lobes

rounded, incurved, erose; midlobe small, triangular, re-

curved or revolute; base of lip within with many narrow

parallel yellow bands. Column stout, beaked, green with

a transverse red band; antenne filiform, deflexed; anther

beaked.—J. D. H.

_ Fig. 1, Column viewed laterally, and 2, in front; 3, anther; 4 and

5, pollinia with strap and gland alae? iesoéa. in front; », an ;

E 3

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AMASONIA BreEcta.

Var. LATEBRACTEATA.

Native of tropical South America,

Nat. Ord. Verpenacea.—Tribe VERBENES.

Genus Amasonta, Linn. f.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1147.)

Amasonta erecta; frutex gracilis pubescens, foliis obovato-oblongis obtusis in

petiolum angustatis grosse crenato-serratis glabris v. puberulis luride

viridibus, floribus racemulosis, racemulis brevibus in paniculam ter-

minalem elongatam racemiformem dispositis subsecundis confertis

bracteatis breviter pedicellatis, bracteis ovatis v. fere orbiculatis apiculatis-

serrulatis coccineis basi aureis, floribus nutantibus, calycis tubo brevi

laciniis basi contiguis ovatis acuminatis, corolla pallide flaves tubo

elongato piloso, lobis tubo plus quam dimidio brevioribus oblongis

obtusis rugulosis coccineo-reticulatis ciliatis.

A. erecta, Linn. f. Suppl. p. 294. Vahl Helog. vol. ii. p. 51. Schauer in DC.

Prodr. vol. xi. p. 677. Benth, in Ann. Nat. Hist. vol. ii, (1839), p. 450.

Bocquill. Rev, Verbenac. 121.

A. punicea, Vahl. l.c., Schauer lc. et in Mart. Fl. Bras. vol. ix. p. 292.

Bocquill. tl. e.

A. arborea, Humb. Bonpl. & Kunth Nov. Gen. § Sp. vol. ii. p. 258.

Taligalea campestris, Aubl. Guian. vol. ii. p. 625, t. 252.

Var. latebracteata, bracteis orbicularibus breviter petiolatis remote denticula-

tis. Tab. nostr. 7445.

Amasonia erecta is the type (if the earliest discovered

species is considered the type) of a small genus of

Brazilian plants, which, owing to the variability of its

floral bracts, has been described under two specific names

by its author, Vahl, and most succeeding ones. Bentham in-

deed, upwards of sixty years ago, pointed out that Vahl’s A.

punicea was only a variety of A. erecta, but no subsequent

author has referred to this, though Schauer in DC. Prodr.

l.c. says of punicea, “very close to A. erecta, and hardly

differing, except in the size of the leaves and bracts.”? An

examination of a large suite of specimens from many locali-

ties, extending from Trinidad to Central Brazil (Prov.

Piauhy), shows so great variation in the size of the

foliage and form of the floral bracts, that it would be

difficult to classify them; the most divergent being those

NovemMsBer Ist, 1895.

with more or less erect spreading or recurved lanceolate _

acutely serrate bracts that do not arch over the racemes, —

and those figured herewith. And between these a —

graduated series of intermediates may be traced. A very

distinct species, first described and figured in this work, —

A. calycina (Tab. 6915) has been confounded with A.

punicea, and published as A. punicea (calycina) in the —

Illustrt. Gartenzeit., 1890, p. 68, fig. 9; and as A. punicea in

Gartenflora, vol. xxxv. (1886) p. 336, fig. 85, in neither of —

which works is the figure in the Botanical Magazine alluded —

to. Lastly, there is an A. pwnicea, figured by Séghers, in

L? Hortic. Belge, vol. xx. (1894) which, if a correct repre-

sentation, must be a very different species from either

erecta or calycina, having opposite quite entire leaves, large _

lanceolate bracts, the lower opposite, a wholly scarlet

calyx, and solitary axillary flowers with a small pure white —

corolla. L

The specimen of Amasonia erecta, var. latebracteata, here

figured was communicated by Messrs. Sander & Co. of |

St. Alban’s, who had previously presented living plants of —

it to Kew, and which latter flowered in a stove in the Royal —

Gardens at the same time, namely, July, 1895. e

Descr.—A small, slender, sparingly branched shrub a —

few feet high; branchlets red-brown. Leaves alternate —

and subverticillate, four to six inches long, obovate-oblong —

or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, crenate-serrate, —

base narrowed into a petiole two to three inches long, dark —

green above, pale beneath. Inflorescence a racemiform —

elongate terminal panicle, with the flowers collected in @ —

series of small subsecund drooping few-fid. racemules, —

each arising from the axil of and nearly hidden under a

broad leafy bract, beyond which the corollas are exserted ; —

peduncle and pedicels very slender, bright red ; bracts aD —

inch long, very shortly petioled, elliptic or suborbicular, —

apiculate, remotely denticulate, puberulous, lowest in the —

panicle foliaceous green and longer petioled, the remainder —

bright scarlet, passing at the base into golden yellow. —

Flowers drooping, one inch long. Calya-tube short, hemi- —

spheric, pubescent; lobes ovate, acuminate, erect, bases

contiguous. Corolla-tube three times as long as the calyX,

shightly dilated upwards, covered with spreading hairs,

pale dull yellowish; lobes not half as long as the tube, _

Rear et Oe

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oblong, obtuse, yellow, beautifully reticulate with red

veins, margins undulate ciliate. Filaments exserted for

half their length; filaments at length upcurved; anthers

oblong. Ovary hemispheric; style very slender, slightly

hairy above; stigmas slender, recurved—J. D. H.

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Fig. 1, Tip of bract; 2, calyx with two lobes removed, ovary and style;

3, corolla laid open; 4 and 5, anthers :—All enlarged; 6, whole plant greatly

reduced. .

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SELENIPEDIUM Sarcentianum.

Native of Brazil.

Nat. Ord. OrcuipE#”.—Tribe CypRIPEDIER.

Genus SEeLEeNrrepiIuM, Reichb, f.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii.

p. 635.)

Serenipepium Sargentianum; foliis radicalibus oblongo-lanceolatis acutis

basi equitantibus coriaceis aureo marginatis, scapo robusto hirsuto apice

2-4-floro fusco-rubro, vaginis solitariis bracteisque magnis ovato-cymbi-

formibus herbaceis obtusis viridibus hirsutis, perianthio hirsutulo, sepalis

lateralibus in laminam ovatam obtusam 2-nervosam rubro-striatam labello

suppositam connatis, dorsali oblongo obtuso rubro striato, petalis sepalis

longioribus loriformibus obtusis subtortis aureis sanguineo striatis et late

marginatis, labello oblongo aureo apice rotundato lateribus late inflexis

orem oblongam claudentibus rubro maculatis marginibus tuberculo

minuto albo ornatis, staminodio pallido late ovato pubescente.

S. Sargentianum, Rolfe in Orchid Review, vol. i. (1893), p. 239. Gard. Chron.

1894, vol. i. p. 781, fig. 100.

Under his description of this beautiful plant in” the

Orchid Review.Mr. Rolfe has pointed out its close relation-

ship to Selenipedium Lindleyi, Reichb. f., and a comparison

of the figures of the flowers of the two species shows that

the forms of all their parts are almostidentical. The most

conspicuous differences between them are the great size and

robustness of S. Lindleyt, which attains three feet in height,

the length of its leaves, upwards of two feet long, the more

numerous flowers disposed in a raceme, their colour pale or

light green with red-brown nerves, and the absence of the

two opposite contiguous white tubercles in the margin of

the inflexed portions of the lip. The habitats of these two

species are widely apart, S. Lindleyanum being (as far as is

known) confined to Guiana, where it was discovered by

Sir Robert Schomburgk in grassy swamps of the interior

half a century ago, whereas 8. Sargentianum is a native of

the Pernambuco province of Brazil, no doubt from its

mountainous interior, and probably from the chain of the

Cariris or Tabatinga, which are clothed with forests. Of

Novemser Ist, 1895.

the two S. Sargentianum is by far the most beautiful,

indeed it may prove to be the gem of the genus in point

of coloration. It may be suggested that when the inter-

mediate tracts of country between Guiana and Pernambuco

are explored, intermediate forms will be found pak So, the

supposed species would fall under the denomination of —

geographical forms. As it is, the intervention of the vast

low valley of the Amazons between their dwelling places

appears to me to render such evidence improbable.

S. Sargentianum was obtained in 1892 by the Royal Gar-

dens from Messrs. F. Sander & Co. of St. Alban’s, who

imported it, and with whom it flowered in a tropical orchid

house in February, 1895. It is named in honour of Prof. —

C. §. Sargent, Director of the Harvard Arboretum, Boston,

U.S., and editor of “ Garden and Forest.”

Deser.—Stem short, tufted, clothed with the equitan®

bases of the distichous leaves, erect; root of stout fibres. —

Leaves six to eight inches long by one and a half broad,

oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, coriaceous, bright yellow

with golden margins, deeply sulcate along the mesial line

above, keeled beneath, nerves obscure. Scape six inches —

high, as thick as a goose-quill, two- to three-flowered, —

laxly hairy, as are the sheaths ; bracts pedicels and ovaries _

red brown, bracts on the scape and flowers one and a half —

to two inches long, ovate-lanceolate, subacute, green, her-_

baceous. Flowers two to three at the top of the scape, —

three and a half inches broad across the petals. Dursa! —

sepal erect, oblong, acute, pale yellow, with five strong

bright red dorsal ribs united by cross nervules; lateral

united into an ovate subacute blade placed under —

the lip. Petals much longer than the sepals, spreading —

and rather deflexed, strap-shaped, subtwisted, undulate,

ciliate, streaked with red, margins bright red. Lip an-

inch and a half long,

slipper-shaped, tip rounded, yellow _

with pale red veins, mouth oblong, sides deflexed in the

mouth, lobes meeting by their margins, speckled with red,

and with a minute white tubercle on the margin of each.

Staminode broadly ovate, hairy, pale yellow.—J. D. H.

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STREPTOCARPUS Wenpnanou.

Native of the Transvaal.

Nat. Ord. GEsNERACEH.—Tribe CyrTaNDREX.

Genus Streprocarrus, Lindl. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 1023.)

Srreptocarrus Wendlandii; acaulis, hirsutulus, folio solitario radicali

sessili amplo late ovato-oblongo basi et apice rotundato marginibus

undulatis crenulatisque, supra saturate viridi inter nervos perplurimos

profande impressos tumido, subtus purpureo rubro pilis albis substrigoso,

scapis plurimis robustis 2-fidis ramis subpaniculatim multifloris petlicel:

lisque glanduloso-pubescentibus, pedicellis elongatis solitariis geminisque,

floribus nutantibus amplis, sepalis linearibus obtusis, corolla tubo bucce-

formi decurvo glanduloso-pubescente, limbi 1} poll. lati lobis 2 posticis

ovato-rotundatis violaceis, 3 anticis longioribus oblongis albis marginibus

late violaceis, filamentis apices versus glandulosis, connectivo tumido,

staminodiis minimis, ovario pubescente, stylo brevi curvo, stigmate disci-

forme peltato, capsula 3-pollicari angusta cylindracea torta.

8. Wendlandii, Hort. Dammann ex W. Wats. in Gard. Chron, (1894) vol. i.

p. 590. Journ. Hort. Ser. III. vol. xxviii. p. 223, fig. 37. ;

Streptocarpus Wendlandii far surpasses in size and beauty

all the previously discovered species of its beautiful genus,

and no one who saw it amongst other species border-

ing the centre bed of the Succulent House at Kew,

during the spring and summer of 1894, can forget the

magnificence of the display it afforded. Its history has

been given by Mr. Watson in the Gardener’s Chronicle

above, from which it appears that it is a native of the

Transvaal, and was first made known by Messrs. Damman

of Naples, who described it in their catalogue for 1890-

1891, having imported it from Natal in 1887. In 1888 it

independently made its appearance at Kew, having come

up as a seedling amongst some ferns imported from South

Africa, when it was supposed to be a form or young state

of S. Sandersii. 5

Mr. Watson has raised at Kew a hybrid between this

species and S. Dunnii, Mast. (Tab. 6903) which is of still

larger dimensions both in foliage and inflorescence than

either of its parents. Ofthis, which is known as S. Dyeri,

Decenszr Ist, 1895.

Wats. (in Garden and Forest, viii. (1895) 5, fig. 1), the

leaves are two feet long and fifteen inches wide, and the

inflorescence forms a sheaf of bright red-purple flowers

nearly two feet high.

The specimen of S. Wendlandii here figured, flowered

in the Royal Gardens, Kew, in April, 1895, and ripened

its fruit about six weeks afterwards. The species continued

flowering from June till November.

Descr.—Stemless, with a rosette of very small leaves at

the base of the solitary developed one, hirsutely pubescent

above. Leaf horizontal, attaining thirty inches long by

twenty-four wide, broadly ovate-oblong, rounded at both

ends, margins crenate and undulate; upper surface pale

green, tumid between close-placed parallel deeply sunk

nerves, which are joined by close-set arched nervules;

beneath dark red purple, with strongly prominent nerves

and nervules, and subhispid with white hairs. Scapes

several, stout, forked at the tip, each fork bearing a many-

fid. subpaniculate raceme of large solitary or geminate long-

pedicelled yiolet-blue and white nodding flowers; bracts .

subverticillate at the fork, short, ovate, herbaceous. Calye

small; sepals linear. Corolla-tube nearly an inch long;

trumpet-shaped, glandular-pubescent; limb one and a half

inch broad, oblique ; dorsal lobes recurved, nearly orbicular,

violet, lateral rather larger and oblong, front lobe white,

with broad violet margin and three violet streaks ; throat

with a large dark violet mark below each of the dorsal

lobes. Filaments glandular on and below the tumid con-

nective ; staminodes three minute tubercles. Ovary pubes-

cent; style very short, curved; stigma disciform, peltate.

Capsule three inches long, slender, cylindric, strongly

twisted.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Portion of tube of corolla with stamen and staminodes; 2, ovary;

—both enlarged ; 3, capsule of the natural size.

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ALOE Lonytt.-

Native of Southern Arabia.

Nat. Ord. Lin1acka.—Tribe ALOINE.

Genus Autor, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 776.)

Atoz Luntii; breviter caulescens, foliis densis primum rosulatis distichis

demum subrosulatis ensiformibus recurvatis pallide viridibus immaculatis

supra basin facie canaliculatis aculeis marginalibus obsoletis, pedunculo

stricto erecto foliis longiore, racemis laxis paniculatis lateralibus patulis,

bracteis minutis, pedicellis brevibus apice articulatis superioribus ascen-

dentibus inferioribus cernuis, perianthii cylindrici tubo elongato rubello,

lobis lineari-oblongis erectis tubo brevioribus, staminibus omnibus exsertis,

antheris oblongis parvis, polline rubro.

A. Luntii, Baker in Kew Bullet. 1894, p. 342.

This very distinct new Aloe was discovered by Mr.

W. Lunt, now of the Trinidad Botanic Garden, when he

was attached as botanical collector to the expedition

organized by J. Theodore Bent, Esq., in the winter of

1893-4, to explore the ruined cities of the province of

Hadramaut, in Southern Arabia. This district had never

been before explored botanically, and although the time of

the year was unfavourable, about thirty new plants were

discovered, of which three proved to be new genera. The

present plant was found on the hills above Dobiabah, at an

elevation of three thousand feet above sea-level. Both

living and dried specimens were brought home, and one of

the former flowered in the Royal Gardens at Kew last

November. The leaves have no marginal prickles, and

the flowers have an unusually long tube, resembling that

of a Gasteria, but not dilated into a ball at the base.

Descr.—Shortly caulescent. eaves seven or eight in a

dense rosette at the top of the stem, at first distichous,

ensiform, a foot long, two inches broad at the base,

narrowed gradually to the point, pale green on both sides,

without any spots, stripes or marginal prickles, deeply

channelled down the face in the aed half. Pedunele

stiffly erect, longer than the leaves. Panicle of four or five

DecemBer lst, 1896.

long lax racemes, the side ones spreading horizontally ;

bracts very small; pedicels short, articulated at the apex,

the upper ones ascending, the lower cernuous. Perianth

under an inch long; tube cylindrical, pale red; lobes

linear-oblong, erect, shorter than the tube. Stamens all

exserted ; anthers small, oblong ; pollen bright red.—J. G.

Baker.

Fig. 1, An entire flower; 2, front view of anther; 8, back view of anther;

4, pistil :—AJl enlarged ; 5, whole plant much reduced,

MS de, INFitatith,

Tas. 7449.

BUDDLEIA Cotvitet.

Native of the Sikkim Himalaya,

Nat. Ord. LogantacEa#.—Tribe EULOGANIER.

Genus Buppveta, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 793.)

Buppte1a OColvilei; arbuscula v. frutex, ramulis foliisque junioribus ferru-

gineo-tomentosis, foliis lanceolatis acuminatis crenulato-serratis adultis

glabratis in petiolum brevem angustatis, paniculis terminalibus pendulis

oblongis multifloris, floribus breviter pedicellatis, calycis pubescentis

lobis ovatis obtuse acuminatis, corolle roseo-purpures v. coccines tubo

cylindraceo superne paullo ampliato intus piloso calyce duplo longiore

lobis rotundatis marginibus recurvis, ore albo, antheris oblongis, ovario

pubescente, capsula oblonga, seminibus oblongis, testa laxa 3-alata

reticulata.

B. Colvilei, Hook. f. & Thoms. in Hook. f. Ill. Himal. Pl.t. 18. Clarke in

Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. (errore Colvillei) 81. Gamble List of Trees &

Shrubs, &e. of Darjeeling, p. 56; Manual of Indian Timbers, p. 267, The

Garden, xliv. (1893) p. 482, cum Ic. Gard. Chron. 1892, vol, ii. p. 187.

André in Rev. Hortic. 1893, p. 520, ewm Ic. Garnier in Ill. Hortic.

Ser. vi. p. 1, t. 10. Journ. Hort. Ser. iti. vol. xxxi. p. 85, cum Ie.

Buddleia Colvilei is certainly the handsomest of all

Himalayan shrubs, and it is impossible to exaggerate its

beauty as seen in the borders of a Sikkim forest, covered

with pendulous masses of rose-purple or crimson flowers

relieved by the dark green foliage. Unfortunately, as

grown and flowered by that enthusiastic cultivator of rare .

plants, Mr. Gumbleton, at Belgrove, Co. Cork, and who

alone has flowered the plant in Europe, the colour of the

corolla is considerably paler than in Sikkim. In my “ Illus-

trations of Himalayan Plants,” I figured it as crimson from

a drawing made by myself on the spot in 1849, when I first

saw it in flower. This colour is confirmed by Mr. Gamble

(Conservator of Indian Forests), who knew the plant well,

and who in his “ List of Trees, Shrubs and Climbers of

Darjeeling,” and subsequently in his admirable “ Manual

of Indian Timbers,” calls it ‘‘ an extremely handsome tree,

with masses of dark crimson flowers, which appear in

August, and make the tree very conspicuous in its habitat

on the summits of Tonglo.” It will be observed that Mr,

DecemBer Ist, 1895.

Gamble gives the flowering season as August, and I first

found it in flower in Sikkim late in July, whereas Mr.

Gumbleton’s plant flowered in June, which and the climate

of southern Ireland may account for the paleness of the

colour. On the other hand, the flowers of Mr. Gumbleton's

plants are rather larger than in any of my Sikkim

specimens, which averaged little more than an inch in

breadth of limb. :

B. Colvilei is a native of the temperate regions of both

the outer and inner ranges of the Sikkim Himalaya, at from

10,000 to 12,000 ft. elevation. It bears the name of my

late friend, the Right Hon. Sir James Colvile, F.R.S., who

at the time of its discovery was Puisne Judge of the

Supreme Court of Calcutta, and President of the Bengal

Asiatic Society. — ;

Descr.—A large shrub or small tree, attaining a height

of thirty feet; branches spreading ; branchlets, petioles,

young leaves and branches of the panicle clothed with

rusty pubescence. Leaves five to seven inches long,

elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, crenate-serrulate, narrowed

into a very short petiole, dark green and rugosely nerved

above, pale beneath, with fifteen to twenty pairs of elevated

arched nerves. Flowers in shortly peduncled thyrsitorm

pendulous panicles twelve to eighteen inches long, which

are leafy at the base; branches of panicle and pedicels

short, stout; bracts linear. Calya-tube short, hemispheri¢,

lobes ovate obtusely acuminate. Corolla rose-purple oF

crimson, with a white ring round the mouth; tube terete,

twice as long as the calyx, white and hairy within, scarcely

dilated above; limb one to one and a quarter inch diam.;

lobes rounded, margins recurved. Stamens very short}

anthers green. Ovary oblong, pubescent, 2-celled; style

short; stigma capitate, obscurely 2-lobed, green. Capsule

oblong, many-seeded.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Calyx laid open, showing ovary, style and stigma; 2, corolla laid

open; 3 and 4, stamens; 5, transverse section of ovary :—All enlarged.

Tas. 7450.

BARTHOLINA Protinata.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Nat. Ord, OrcuipEx.—Tribe OPHRYDER.

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

BartTHourna pectinata; herba gracilis pilosa, tuberibus oblongis, folio solitario

sessile terrea applanato orbiculari convexo, basi 2-lobo amplexicauli, scapo

l-floro, flore amplo, bractis oblongis cucullatis ovario curvo dimidio

brevioribus, sepalis erectis lineari-lanceolatis herbaceis pilosis, petalis

erectis sepalis longioribus lineari- v. subulato- lanceolatis rectis v. falcatis

albis, labello maximo circumscriptione semi-circulari v. flabellaaformi alte

trifido segmentis in lacinias 17-23 filiformes patenti-decurvas sectis,

calcare lente curvo ovario zquilongo, anthera erecta angusta petalis

dimidio breviore subacuta, loculis parallelis semi-tortis connectivo dia-

' phano interposito, polliniis oblongis, caudicula gracili, glandula parva,

stigmate parvo tumido,

B. pectinata, Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. Ed. Il. vol. v. p. 194. Lindl. in Bot. Reg.

sub t. 1653; in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. vol. ii. p. 210 et in Gen. & Sp.

Orchid. p.333. Endl, Iconogr.t.40. Bolus, Orchids of the Oape Peninsula,

p. 111. (Trans. 8. African Phil. Soc. vol. v. (1888).

B. Burmanniana, Ker-Gawl. in Brand. Journ. Sc. & Arts. vol. iv. (1818),

p. 204, t. 5, £. 2, & in Journ. R. Instit, London, vol. iv. (1818), 204, t. 6, £. 2.

Lindl, in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. l. ¢.

_ B. Lindleyana, Reichb. f. Otia Bot. Hamb. p. 119.

~ Orchis pectinata, Thunb. Prodr. Fi. Hd. 11. Cap. p. 4.

O. Burmanniana, Linn. Sp. Pl. Ed. 11. p. 1334,

Arethusa ciliaris, Linn. f. Suppl. 405.

One of the most singular of Cape plants, the “ Spider

Orchid” of the colonists, discovered by Burmann nearly a

century and a half ago, and first introduced into cultivation

in England in 1787, by Masson, the indefatigable collector

sent from Kew to 8. Africa. It inhabits grassy places

amongst bushes at the foot of the hills near the sea, from

Cape Town, eastwards to Grahamstown, and perhaps

further. It was long supposed to be monotypic, but Mr.

Bolus about ten years ago described a second species, PB.

Ethele (Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xx. (1884), p. 472, and

Orchids of the Cape Peninsula, p. 112, t. 3), which is a

larger plant, with each of the filiform segments of the lip

tipped with a flattened cushion, much like those that termi-

nate the segments of the so-called nectaries of Parnassia,—

DecempBer Ist, 1895.

and like these apparently non-secreting organs. DB.

Ethelx is a very rare plant, found hitherto in only two

places, both in the vicinity of Cape Town.

B. pectinata varies but little, and chiefly in the colour of

the lip, from white to pale violet. I find no notice of the con-

vexity of the leaf, which is a marked character in the speci-

mens cultivated at Kew. The genus was named by Brown

after Thomas Bartholin, a celebrated Danish anatomist

and physiologist, born in 1616, Professor first of Mathe-

matics, and latterly of Anatomy at Copenhagen. This

Bartholin was himself son of an eminent Anatomist (Caspar

Bartholina), and father of an illustrious family. His health

having given way under the stress of work, he retired to

a small estate which he had purchased in Denmark, where

in 1670 he lost his library and all his MSS. by fire. He died

in 1680, leaving five sons, all of whom attained eminence as

Professors respectively of Anatomy, Antiquities, Theology,

Mathematics and History; and of his three daughters one

acquired distinction as a poet.

The Royal Gardens, Kew, are indebted to Harry Bolus,

Esq., F.L.S., of Cape Town, for tubers of B. pectinata,

which were received in 1892, and flowered in a cool house

in the following July.

Descr.—A small tuberous terrestrial Orchid, one-leaved,

one-flowered, hairy all over, except the petals and lip.

Tubers ovoid, about a third of an inch long. Leaf lying

flat on the ground, one half to one inch diam., orbicular,

convex, deeply 2-lobed, and amplexicaul at the base, dull

green. Scape three to four inches high, very slender, red-

brown, with a very small basal tubular sheath ; bract oblong-

lanceolate, erect, herbaceous, half as long as the ovary.

Flowers two to three inches broad across the lip. -Sepals

about one-fourth of an inch long, erect, herbaceous, hairy-

Petals longer, linear-lanceolate or subulate, straight or

falcate, white. Lip 8-partite, each segment cut to the

base into numerous spreading threads. Spur as long as

the ovary, deflexed. Anther long, narrow, erect; cells

parallel, half twisted. Pollinia oblong, stipes. long, gland

Fig. 1, Tip of ovary, bas. : : Red :

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MUSA RuvBRA.

Native of Pegu.

Nat. Ord. Scrraminem.—Tribe Muszx.

Genus Musa, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 655.)

‘Musa (Rhodochlamys) rubra; stolonifera, caudice gracili 6-7-pedali, foliis

oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis in petiolum gracilem angustatis, spica

erecta densiflora, rachi puberula, bracteis late ovatis obtusis cymbiformibus

non revolutis lete roseis apicibus aureis, fl. masec. unaquaque bractea 3-5

sesqui-pollicaribus flavidis, calycis fere recti dentibus aureis, corolla

calyce multo breviore late ovata acuminata, fl. fem. ovario trigono,

fructibus sessilibus 3-pollicaribus fusiformi-trigonis, seminibus parvis

depresso-globosis nitidis.

M. rubra, Wail. ex Kurz in Journ. Agric. Hort. Soc. Ind. vol. xiv. Part I., p-

301. Baker in Annals of Botany, vol. vii. (1893), p. 221. Kew Bulletin

(1894), p. 258.

It is only through cultivated specimens that an accurate

knowledge of the species of Musa is likely to be obtained,

for it is very difficult to determine their characters from

dried specimens, and years must elapse before botanists, or

collectors with descriptive powers, shall have found the

opportunity of investigating them in their native, often

most unhealthy, forests. In the case of M. rubra it is

fortunate that materials are forthcoming for giving an

account of its habit, flowers and fruit. Of these materials

the first and second are derived from a specimen that Mr.

Watson brought into fine flower and immature fruit in the

Royal Gardens, Kew; and of the fruit, well preserved

specimens, with ripe seeds collected by the late Dr.

‘M‘Lelland, F.L.S., in Pegu, are preserved in the Her-

barium of the Royal Gardens. And that these latter cer-

tainly belong to M. rubra is assured partly by their being

quite like what the cultivated plant has borne, and by

being accompaniéd with some male flowers which have

the characteristic small petal of M. rubra.

M. rubra is first described in the work cited above by

M. Kurz, from specimens collected by himself in Pegu.

It must, however, have been discovered many years earlier,

for Kurz has adopted a name of Wallich’s probably given

DecemBER Ist, 1895,

by him to plants cultivated in the Calcutta Botanical

ardens. Suckers of M. rubra were received at Kew from

Dr. King in 1889, under the name of Musa rosea, which is

a different species, more like M. coccinea, with shorter

much broader leaves, and the petal nearly as long as the

sepals. Dr. King further states that M. rubra has been in

cultivation in the Royal Gardens, Calcutta, since 1882, but

its origin is unknown: at Kew it flowered freely in

Descr.—Stoloniferous, Stem five to seven feet high,

slender, lower sheaths pale brown, upper green. Leaves

four to six feet long, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, narrowed

into the petiole, pale green, not glaucous, paler beneath; —

petiole about one-third the length of the leaf. Spike erect,

strict, rachis puberulous. Bracts three inches long, broadly

ovate, cymbiform, bright rose-red, with obtuse golden tips,

not revolute with age, smooth externally, inwardly trans-

_ versely barred between the nerves. Male jl. four to six in

each bract, about one and a half inches long, nearly straight,

pale yellow ; teeth of calyx short, revolute, golden yellow.

Petal about half as long as the calyx, broadly ovate, acumi-

_ nate. Anthers pale, yellow-brown. Fem. fl. about one-

third shorter than the male. Fruit three inches long,

: fusiform, trigonous, many-seeded. Seeds about one-sixth

of an inch in diameter, depressed globose, with a large

_ circular basal hilum, and polished dark testa.—J. D. H.

— oe Fig. 1, Male fl.; 2 lobes of calyx: 3 s

stam Ee: ; 3, petal; 4, anther; 5, rudimentary

oe prs. istil of imperfect fern, fi"; 6, fem. fl. 7, immature fruit; 8, ripe |

nat, size, um specimen :—Ali enlarged but 7 and 8, which are of

INDEX

To Vol. LI. of the Tarrp Ssriss, or Vol. OXXI. of

the whole Work.

7395 Acacia spadicigera.

7393 Acidanthera squinoetialis,

7399 Aloe brachystachys.

7448 ,, Luntii.

7445 Amasonia erecta, var. late-

bracteata.

7442 Angrecum Kotschyi.

7437 Anthurium Gustavi.

7398 Aphzrema spicata,

7414 Argylia canescens,

7424 Aristolochia ungulifolia.

7435 Atraphaxis Muschketowi.

7450 Bartholina pectinata,

7449 Buddleia Colvilei.

7444 Catasetum Lemosii.

7400 Cephalanthus natalensis,

7434 Cleyera Fortunei.

7417 Crinum Schimperi.

7416 Cypripedium Charlesworthii.

7396 Cyrtopodium virescens,

7403 Disa sagittalis.

7432 Helianthus debilis.

7402 Heptapleurum venulosum, var.

erythrostachys,

7409 Ixianthes retzioides,

7412 Kniphofia Northie.

7394 Lonicera Alberti.

7407 Macaranga Porteana.

7411 Magnolia parviflora.

7438 Mormodes Rolfeanum.

7401 Musa Hillii.

7451 Musa rubra.

7425 Neuwiedia Griffithii.

7420 Peraphyllum ramosissimum.

7410 Piptospatha Ridleyi.

7431 Pleurothallis Scapha.

7439 Polygala Galpini,

7427 Prochynanthes Bulliana.

7423 Pyrus crategifolia.

7430 ,, sikkimensis.

7419 Ribes bracteosum.

7397 Richardia Pentlandii.

7436 i Rehmanni.

7421 Rosa Lucie.

7426 Rubus lasiostylus.

7433 Rumex hymenosepalus,

7428 Saccolabium Mooreanum.

7408 Saintpaulia ionantha,

7406 Schinus dependens.

7446 Selenipedium Sargentianum.

7422 Senecio Hualtata.

7443 Spathoglottis Kimballiana. —

7429 Spirea bracteata, :

7441 Sternbergia Fischeriana.

7447 Streptocarpus Wendlandii.

7392 Talauma Hodgsoni.

7418 Trichocladus grandiflorus.

7440 Tulipa violacea.

7413 Vaccinium erythrocarpum.

7415 Veronica Hectori.

7404 “4 Joganioides,

7405 Weldgnia candida,

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