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BOTANICAL REGISTER:

OR,

ORNAMENTAL FLOWER-GARDEN

AND SHRUBBERY: Ltar^tASfv

CONSISTING OF '^ ©AKUiiN

COLOURED FIGURES OF PLANTS AND SHRUBS,

CULTIVATED IN BRITISH GARDENS;

ACCOMPANIED BY THEIR

l^istorg, i$cst ittetHoU of treatment in CuUibatton, ^propagation, &t.

CONTINUED

By JOHN LINDLEY, Ph. D. F.R.S. LS. and G.S.

PROFESSOR OF BOTANY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON,
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BARTHOLINA* pectinata.
Pectinated Bartholina.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

LIBRA ITT

WKW YORK

JJOIANICAL

JCTMOeN

Nat. ord. Orciiide^. § Ophrydese Lindl. {Introduction to the
natural system of Botany, -p. 262.)

BARTHOLINA R. Br. — Perianthium ringens. Calyx basi tubulosus,
secundus, laciniis ssqualibus. Petala sepalis parallela, falcata, infern^
labello subconnata. Labellum calcaratum, explanatum, patens, 3-lobum :
iobo medio multifido lateralibus trilobis : laciniis omnibus filiformibus. An-
thera erecta, elongata, lobis parallelis cucullatis ; cuculli distincti, basibus
valvulariim inflexis absconditi, Pollinia parva, caudiculis longissimis cana-

liculatis, glandulis intra cucullos inchisis. Herba pusilla, unijiora, uni-

folia, hirsuta, radicibus tuber culiformibus.

Bartholina pectinata. R. Br. in Hort. Kew. 5- 194. Smith in Rees append.
Bartholina Burmanniana, Ker in Brande's journal, 4. 204. t. 5. Jig. 2.
Orchis pectinata. Willd. sp. pi. 4. 1 1.
Orchis Burmanniana. Linn. sp. pi. 1334. Swartz in Web.et Mohr Archiv.

1. 55. t. 3.
Arethusa ciliaris. Linn, suppl. 405.

Folium reniforme, lobulis baseos imbricatis, pilosum ut omnes partes
virides. Caulis vix palmaris, erectus, fuscus, teres, xmijlorus. Bractea
unica, ovata, cucullata, ovarium terjens. Calyx basi tubulosus, viridis,
laciniis secundis, erectis, parallelis, lanceolato-linearibus. Petala falcata,
acuminata, alba, violaceo colore tincta, supra antheram curva, basi cum
labello levissime connata, glabra. Labellum unciam latum, medio viride,
basicalcare brevi conico pubescente cavoprceditum, lamina explanatd, circum-
scriptione orbiculari, trilobum; laciniis lateralibus trilobis, intermedio multi-
fido, ojnnibus violaceis filiformibus. Anthera erecta, loculis elongatis, basi
contiguis: suturis ob torsionem valvularum basi approximatis ; cucullis dis-
tinctis, sub basibus valvularum exteriorum antherce absconditis. Pollinia
parva, aurantiaca ; caudiculis longissimis fulvis linearibus canaliculatis ;
glandulis parvis in cucullis sziis latentibus. — Ohs,. foramen, v. areola trans-
parens muco repleta in cucullo utrorjue adest sub glandulis. Stigma areola
madida, oblonga, ad basin columnce, ubi calcar ab ovurio separatur.

* Dedicated by Dr. Brown to the memory of the great Danish anatomist
and physiologist Thomas Bartholin, whose various writings relating to plants,
in the old Copenhagen Transactions, entitle us to adorn the history of the
science with his truly illustrious name. — Smith.
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We believe this to be, with the exception of a very im-
perfect representation in Brande's Journal, the first figure
from the live plant that has been published of this rare and
curious species, which appears from the Hortus Keweiisis to
have been introduced so long ago as 1787, but which we
never met with till we were favoured with it in August 1832
by the Messrs. Rollisson, of Tooting. It is a native of the
Cape of Good Hope, where it was found by Thunberg on
the sides of hills in Roode Sand, and near Cape Town,
flowering in October, November, and December.

We presume that this, like all the Cape Orchideous
plants, is incapable of being cultivated permanently by any
means hitherto discovered ; for the roots, although when
first imported they flower, afterwards disappear. They
should be planted in sandy loam, and kept in as light a
greenhouse as possible ; for it is probable that the reason
of their disappearing is the want of light during their grow-
ing season in this country.

In the accompanying figures a is the plant of its natural size ; b,
a flower seen in front ; c, the same viewed from behind ; d, the same
shewn in half profile, the lip being cut away, 1. is the spur ; e, a front
view of the petals and anther, 1. the spur, and 2. the anther : the two
last figures are magnified.

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1654

LIATRIS* scariosa.
Large-flowered Liatris.

SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA jEQUALIS.

Nat. ord. Composite Juss. § Vernoniaceee ^wpa^oriecE, Lessing. Gen.
Compos, p. 157. (^Introduction to the natural system of Botany, p. 197.)

LIATRIS Schreb. — Pappus pluriserialis, plumosus. Corolla limbo k
tubo non distincto. Involucrum multiseriale. Rachis ebracteolata. — —
Herbse Boreali-AmericancB, perennes, radicejibrosd v. tuherosd ; foliis alternis,
integerrimis, saepc angustis, glaiiduloso-ptinctatis ; capitulis multifloris, spi-
catis V. corymb osis ; involucris imbricatis. Lessing 1. c.

L. scariosa; caule simplici subpubescente, foliis lanceolatis utrinque at-

tenuatis margine scabris, floribus (capitulis) racemosis distantibus, squamis

anthodii (involucri) spatulatis margine coloratis. Spreng. syst. veg. 3.

432.

L. scariosa. Willd. sp.pl. 3. 1635. Hort. Kew. 4. 503. Pursh Ji. amer.

sept. 2. 509. Beck bot. of north. St. p. 175.
Serratula scariosa. Linn. sp. pi. 1147,

Radix tuberosa, crassa, carnosa. Folia radicalia, spatulata, in petiolum
angustissimum attenuata, glabra ; caulina a lata basi oblong o-linearia, pa-
tentissima, undulata, margiiie scabra : superiora sensitn minora. Caiilis
2-2^-pcdalis, angulatiis, pilis scaber, apice [in hortis) subramosus, scepiusque
in corymbum contrahens. Pedunculi in corymbosis basi fere nudi, in race-
mosis foliis parvis scabris recurvis sparsis vestiti, in squamis involucri sensim
abeuntibus. Capitula omnium maxima, hemisphcerica; involucri multiseriati
foliolis ciliato- scabris exterioribus foliaceis squarrosis acutis, interioribus
oblongis obtusis appressis margine coloratis.

Professor Beck calls this, most correctly, a very variable
species. It is a native of North America, from Pennsyl-
vania to Carolina, inhabiting sandy w^oods, and growing
3 or 4 feet high ; but in this country we have never
remarked it more than 2^ feet, or 3 feet high at the most.

The meaning of this word is unknown.

Its variable nature consists chiefly in the size and arrange-
ment of its flower-heads, which are from 1 to nearly 2 inches
in diameter, with the borders of their scales stained more
or less with rich crimson. Sometimes the stalks of the
flower-heads are all of nearly the same length, and then
they form a simple raceme, as in our figure ; but very often
the stalks of the lowest are very long, and even branched,
and then a broad corymb is produced, which, on account of
the rich purple of the flowers, is exceedingly beautiful.

It is one of the most common of this very handsome
genus, and perhaps the most worth cultivating ; for it is
less impatient of cold and wet than most of the others.
They are all, however, richly deserving the care of the
gardener; and it is probable that if they were kept in a
sandy peaty soil which is thoroughly well drained, and
covered by dead leaves in winter, as happens in their native
woods, they would all thrive equally well. Flowers from
August to October.

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PYRUS* crenata.
Crenated Beam-Tree.

ICOSANDRIA DIGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Pomaces Juss. (Introduction to the natural systetti of
Botany, p. 83.)

PYRUS.— Supra, vol. G.fol. 514.

P. crenata; foliis oblongis crenato-serratis utrinque acutis junioribus den-
sissime lanatis adultis supra calvis nitidissimis, corymbis lanatis,

P. crenata. Don prodr.Ji. nep. 237.

P. vestita. Wall. cat. no. 679.

Arbor facie oninino P. Arise, qiid differ t foliis junioribus densissim^ lanatis

acutissimis, corymbis {in exemplo spontan.) lanugine albissimd obductis, foliis

adultis nitidis glaberrimis subtus quasi pannosis.

This is one of the trees that, along with the P. lanata,
or Kamujiensis, which is a mere variety of Pyrus Aria,
recalls to the mind of the British traveller upon the moun-
tains of India his own land, and the sweet scenery of the
west of England. Nature seems to have intended it to
brave the utmost inclemency of climate ; for in its own
country, in the earliest spring, the leaves, while still delicate
and tender, are clothed with a thick white coating of wool ;
and the flowers themselves are so deeply immeised in an
ample covering of the same material, as to bid defiance even
to Tartarian cold. But in proportion as it descends towards
the plains, or as the season of warm weather advances, it
throws off its fleecy coat, and at length becomes as naked
and glittering- with green as the trees which have never had
such rigour to endure. In England it scarcely acqiures
any part of its natural woolliness, but is as naked as our
common Beam-Tree.

* Seefol. 1196.

It is found naturally in the highest of the mountainous
parts of Northern India. Dr. Wallich received it from
Kamoon and Chinese Tartary, as well as from Nepal ; and
Mr. Royle informs us, that " in the tracts of mountains which
intervene between the Ganges and Sutlej rivers, it is found
on such lofty mountains as Tuen, Choor, and Kedarkanta,
from 9000 feet up to the limits of forest, or nearly 12,000
feet of elevation. In such situations it comes into flower
in the month of May, when the thermometer ranges from
42° to 65°, the snow is fast melting away, and species of
Primula, Caltha, Viburnum, and Lonicera, are in full
flower, with the splendid Rhododendron campanulatum.
The fruit of this species, as well as of P. lanata, called
paltoo, is eaten by the hill people."

Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticul-
tural Society in June last. The tree is to be increased by
grafting on the Whitethorn.

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1656

ASTER* eminens ; var. virgineus.
Pure-white Lofty Aster,

SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA.

Nat. ord. Com posit ;e Juss. {Introduction to the Jiatural system of
Botany, p. 197.)

A. foliis lanceolato-acuminatis subamplectentibus inferioribus in medio argute
serratis supra in ambitu late scabris, cauie paniculato patulo, ramis apice
simpliciter corymbosis, periclinii turbinati subsequalis foliolis lineari-
lanceolatis patulis. Nees ab Esenbeck gen. et sp. Ast. p. 87.

A. junceus. Hort. Kew. 3. 204, S^c.

A. longifolius. Lam. enc. meth. 1. 306.

Var. virgineus ; calathiis albis, foliis latiusculis supra magis scabris. Nees
I.e.

A. virgineus. Nees synops. Ast. p. 22.

A. albus. Hort. angl.

An extremely common and consequently very variable
North American herbaceous plant, found by the sides of
canals and in marshes from New York to Carolina ; flowering
from September to October.

Its varieties are so dissimilar, that one would be inclined
to believe some of them distinct species, if it were not for
the narrow, spreading leaves of the involucrum, which have
a very peculiar appearance, and which distinctly point them
out. In the length of their leaves, in the colour of their
flowers, and in their general stature, they are exceedingly
unlike, some being as much as 6 or 7 feet high, others not
more than 3 feet ; some having remarkably long, narrow,
recurved leaves, others straight and rather short ones ; the

Suprk, fol. 1487.

flowers of some are violet, of others light blue, and finally
of the variety before us white.

Unfortunately our artist has paid no attention to the
character of the involucrum, which is, therefore, in the
accompanying figure extremely inaccurately represented.
In reality it consists of a few very narrow, rather leafy,
spreading scales, which seem as if they all originated from
the same circle, and have a somewhat squarrose appear-
ance : otherwise the figure is faithful enough.

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1657

BELOPERONE* oblongata.

Oblong-leaved Beloperone.

DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Acanthace^. § Justiciese Gendarusseae Nees. {Introduc-
tion to the natural systevi of Botany, p. 233.)

BELOPERONE. — Calyx prot'unde quinquefidus, laciniis J3equalibus
latis V. latiusculis, tubo angusto. Corolla ringens, tubo labioque superiore
concavo conicis rectis, inferiore labio trifido cequali. Stamina 2, tubo infra
medium inserta. Antherce bilocellatse, locellis muticis v. basi calcai'atis, in
connective semisagittato-ovali oblique distantibus altero altiore, in quibus-
dam, connectivo magis contracto, subcontiguis altero post alterum oblique
sitis. (S^z^rwa subulatum. Ca/JswZa a basi ad medium compresso-unguiculata

asperma, apice tetrasperma. Semina colorata. Inflorescentia : spiese

axillares terminalesque, breves, secundce. Flores alterni, bracteis bracteolis-
que cEqualibus longis angustis. Corollae speciosce, coccinece. Nees ab
Esenbeck in Wallich pi. as. rar. 3. 102.

B, oblongata; spicis axillaribus, bracteis bracteolis foliisque lanceolatis,

antheris basi calcaratis. Nees I. c.
Justicia oblongata. Link et Otto ic. pl. select, p. 115. t. 54. Willd. sp.

pi. ed. 2. 1. 381.

Frutex 2-3-pedes altus, ramis teretibus ad geniculos parum tumidis. Folia
brevipetiolata, lanceolata, acuminata, glabra, atroviridia. Spicai axillares,
brevi pedunculatce, 2-'3-JiorcE, foliis breviores. Bractese lineares, acu-
minates, foliacece, calyce longiores. Bracteolse conformes, sed angus-
tiores et breviores. Calyx cequalis, 5-partitus, tubo brevissimo subcar-
tilagineo : laciniis linear i-layiceolatis, pungentibus, apice pubescentibus. Co-
rolla extus pubescens, H unciam longa, roseo-purpurea, tubo conico recto,
limbo bilabiato ; labium superius rectum, concavum, integerrimum, inferius
trifidum, cequale venis elevatis pictum. Stamina 2, rudimentis nullis sfe-
rilium ; filamenta linearia ; antheraj connectivo obcuneato membranaceo ob-
liquo, loculis incequalibus, altero breviore mutico, altero longiore basi brevi-
calcarato.

A pretty species of hothouse plant, native of the Brazils,
whence it was originally introduced into Prussia. Our

* So called from /3s A«?, an arrow, and tte^ov*), a strap or band; in allusion
to the arrow-shaped band which holds together the two cells of the anther.

drawing was made in September 1833, in the Nursery of
Mr. Knight, who obtained it from France in 1832.

It is cultivated, like all the tribe, without any difficulty,
and is easily multiplied by cuttings.

The name we have adopted is that proposed by Professor
Nees von Esenbeck, in his admirable revision of the Natural
Order to which this plant belongs. To some it may appear
that the principle of division has been pushed by our learned
friend too far, and that genera have been unnecessarily
multiplied. But we confess we entertain a very different
opinion; for surely nothing can possibly be more at variance
with the modern principles of Botany than such a genus
as Justicia, as left even in the new edition ofWilldenow,
published in 1831. It is quite a relief to turn from such
confused and unintelligible masses of species to the definite
and lucid arrangements of men like Nees von Esenbeck.

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1658

RIBES* punctatum.
Dotted Currant.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Grossulace^ Dec. (^Introduction to the natural system
of Botany , p. 54.)

RIBES.—Suprd, vol. 2.foL 125.

R. punctatum ; foliis trilobis serratis subtils punctatis, racemis pendulis
brevibus, bracteis oblongis ciliatis punctatis, calycibus flavicantibus. De
Cand. prodr. 3. 482.
R. prostratum. Ruiz et Pavonfl. Peruv. 3. 12. t. 233. f. a.

Frutex sempervirens, compactus, nitidus, resinosus. Petioli pubescentes
et ciliati. Racemi pedunculati, penduli, primum ovati, dein oblongi, denique
laxiores. Flores luteo-virides. Calycis lacinice parvcB, acutce. Petala
parva, ohlonga, acuta, lutea, calyce inclusa. Stamina versils basin tubi
inserta. Baccse parvce, glabra, virosimiliter fusco-virides.

Rather a pretty evergreen shrub, native of Chile, near
Valparaiso and Conception. It is remarkable for the shining
yellowish green appearance of its leaves, and the short
bunches of yellowish flowers.

It is hardy enough to live in a dry border without pro-
tection, and would probably succeed extremely well in the
south of England in rocky situations. It flowers in April
and May ; but has never yet produced its fruit in this
country.

Our drawing was made in the Horticultural Society's
Garden, where it has been cultivated as a hardy shrub for
several years. It strikes freely, like all the genus, from
ripe cuttings.

* See fol. 1237.

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1659

STIGMAPHYLLON* aristatum.
Awned Stigmaphyllon.

DECANDRIA TRIGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Malpighiace^e Juss. {Introduction to the natural system
of Botanij, p. 118.)

STIGMAPHYLLON Aug. de St. Hil. fl. bras, merid. vol, 3. p. 48.—
Calyx 5-partitns, laciniis 4basi biglandulosis. Petala ingequalia. Stam. 10,
insequalia et dissimilia ; antherce connective crasso glandulseformi. Sty/i

tres, apice foliacei. Samarce 3 v. abortu pauciores apice alatse. Frutices,

scBpius scandentes. Folia opposita v. ternata, rarb alterna, petiolis glan-
dulosis.

S. aristatum; foliis glabris sagittato-hastatis angulatis acutis lobis posticis
truncatis margine passim aristatis, petiolis apice biglandulosis, sa-

maris

Caulis volubilis, glaber. Folia caulina ut supra descripta, ramulorum

minora scepe ohlonga, integerrima. Umbellae pedunculatce, pauciJlorcB.

Glandulse calycis carnos<B,Jlavce, sem,ipellucidce. PetaXdL^mbriata, vitellina.

A native of the tropical part of South America, and
consequently requiring the heat of a stove. We are
indebted to Mrs. Marryatt, of Wimbledon, for the specimen
from w^hich our drawing was taken. It had been received
in that lady's extensive collection under the name of Banis-
teria auricutata, which is quite another species, but of the
same genus.

A handsome climber, flowering in June, July, and
August, and propagated by cuttings.

The different species of this genus are common in
Brazil, from whence one would think they might be easily
obtained. As they are all handsome climbers, they are
well worth inquiring about.

* So named in allusion to the singular circumstance of the stigmas of
this genus being expanded into a sort of leaf.

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ONCIDIUM* ciliatum.
Ciliated Oncidium.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. Orchideje Juss. % Vandese. {Introduction to the natural
system of Botany, p. 262.)

ONCIDIUM.—Suprd, vol. \3.fol 1050.

O. ciliatum ; pseudobulbis ovatis compressis monophyllis, foliis complicatis
lineari-oblongis obtusis scapo erecto flexuoso apice paucifloro pluries
brevioribus, sepalis undulatis lineari-oblongis obtusis : anteriore bilobo,
petalis obovatis crispis, labello sequaliter tripartito sepalis breviore: laci-
niis obovatis sinubus suis latissimis fimbriatis, crista 5-corni cornubus
posticis divergentibus anticis coUateralibus tuberculis quibusdam inter-
jectis, columnse alis ovatis acutis. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. Plants,
p. 200.

This plant is probably not uncommon in some parts of
Brazil. It originally reached the Kew Garden, where it
flowered in February 1819, at which time a sketch of it
was made by Mr. Bauer; it was afterwards obtained by
Mr. Cattley, who had it for several years. Mr. Knight's
rich collection in the King's Road supplied the specimen
from which our figure was made, in October last : about
the same time Mr. Booth sent us a drawing and specimen
from Sir Charles Lemon's Garden ; and two or three patches
of it were lately received by the Horticultural Society from
Brazil.

It is very nearly, related to Oncidium barbatum, from
which it may, however, be certainly distinguished by all
the divisions of the lip being equal, and by its very dwarf

* Seefol. 1542.

habit. In colour its flowers vary, sometimes being yellow
spotted with red, and sometimes the brownish orange of
the accompanying figure.

It will only grow in a hot damp stove ; but succeeds
best if tied to a piece of the branch of a tree. The following
is Mr. Booth's account of the species : —

" This pretty little species of Oncidium has been culti-
vated for the last three years in the collection of Sir Charles
Lemon, Bart., M.P., at Carclew, Cornwall, where it has
annually, in November, produced its interesting and cu-
riously-formed flowers. I do not know who has the merit
of bringing it to this country, but believe it to have been
received through some of the officers of his Majesty's Packet
Establishment at Falmouth.

** Pseudobulbs ovate, compressed, one-leaved. Leaves
slightly complicate at the base, oblong-obtuse, about 2
inches long and half an inch broad, with a little hook at the
point. Their colour is a rich shining green, excepting where
they are connected with the bulbs, which is brownish red.
Scape nearly erect, small and round, from 4 to 6 inches
high, and thickly covered with brownish spots ; usually
two-flowered. Sepals much undulated, brownish green,
the two lower ones pointed, the three upper emarginate
and rather shorter than the rest. Labellum bright yellow,
and about the length of the upper sepals. The lower
division is reniform and unguiculate ; the other two are
oblique, broad at their extremity, and somewhat crescent-
shaped. The fleshy part in the centre of the flower is
tuberculated, and beautifully marked with blood-red spots.
The lower edge is finely ciliated. The column in front is of
the same colour as the labellum ; behind and at its base it
is marked with deep red."

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*CYCL0B6tHRA alba.

White Cyclobothra.

HEXANDRIA TRIGYNIA.

Nat. ord. LiLiACE^, Juss. (Introduction to the Natural System of
Botany, p. 279)

CYCLOBOTHRA Sweet, /^/ores nutautes ventricosi v. campanulati. Sepala
glabra, acuta. Petala majora et dissimilia, barbata, infra medium fovea o-labra
nectarifera alte impressa extus gibbosa. Stigmata 3, Capsula triptera, conaceo-

membranacea. Semina serie simplici afBxa, angulata. Bulbi tunicati Califor-

nici et Mexicani, foliis plants acuminatis.

C alba ; umbella 2-3-flora, pedunculis bracteis brevioribus, floribu? obloncis
inflatis, petalis ovatis obtusissimis margine nudiusculis fovea leviter impress^
sepalis ovato-lanceolatis duplo longioribus. Bentham in Hart. IVans.
n. s. vol. 1, p. 413, t. \4,Jig. 3.
Calochortus albus. Douglas in litt.

Caulis teres, erectus, glaber, versus apicem ramosus, 3-4-Jlorus. Folia
glauca ; inhnus lineari-lanceolatum caule scepe altius, basi sub terra hre-
vissinie vaginans ; superiora multo breviora, pedunculos excedentia. Floras
solitarii, v. 2-3, oblongi, ventricosi, nutantes, ovi columbini magnitudine .
Sepala viridilutea, ovato-lanceoluta, acuminata, glabra, petalis duplo brevi-
ora. Petala alba, oblonga, concava, obtusa, per omnem faciem sparse bar-
bata, sed pilis marginalibus inflexis vix ciliata ; fovea nectarifera Jlavu pilis
absconditd, extus valde gibbosa. Stamina 6, hypogyna ; antheris linearibus
introrsis. Ovarium oblongum, tripterum. Stigmata tria, recurva.

A Californian bulbous plant, introduced by the Hor-
ticultural Society, in whose Transactions it has recently
been published by Mr. Bentham. Along with the following
species, and some other plants from the same country, it
forms quite a new class of Horticultural objects, of great
interest ; representing, at midsummer, which is their time
of flowering, the Fritillaries and Tulips of the spring.

They are probably quite as hardy as Tulips, like which
they should be treated ; unless it should prove that their
bulbs are capable of living all the year round in the open

* From kvkKoq a circle, and fio^poc a pit, in allusion to the circular depres-
sion from which the petals distil honey.

VOL. XX. C

ground ; a property we can hardly anticipate, considering
how dry and mild a climate is that of California compared
with England. In the Garden of the Horticultural Society,
they have been planted in the open border, in a light loamy
soil, in a cold frame, where they grew with considerable
vigour, flowered beautifully, and produced some abundance
of seed.

Mr. Bentham, in his remarks upon these plants in the
Horticultural Transactions, observes — that " this species
resembles very much the succeeding one, but the flowers
are larger, the petals both longer and broader, of a whit-
ish colour, marked towards the centre with a shallow pit,
covered with inflected hairs, glabrous below it, above
it slightly covered with scattered hairs, and almost
naked at the border, where the few hairs that straggle
so far are turned inwards, and by no means form a fringe
as is the case in C. pulchella.''

He also observes, that " the Calochorti of Douglas with
pendulous flowers, including the C. elegans of Pursh, belong
certainly to the genus CyclobotJira established by Sweet,
rBritish Flower Garden, 3, t. 173,) for the Fritillaria bar-
hata of Kunth, and are nearer allied to Fritillaria than to
Calochortus, but sufficiently distinct from either."

To this we may add that the Cyclohotkras may not only
be known by their nodding flowers, but also by the presence
of a deep honey-pit a little below the middle of the petals,
whence the latter have a humped appearance externally ;
while, on the contrary, Calochortus is destitute of the honey-
pit, in room of which is only a slight discolouration ; the
seeds also are different in the two genera : in Calochortus
they are flat and smooth ; in Cyclobothra they are roundish
and angular. The generic character of Calochortus may
therefore be thus expressed : —

Calochortus, Pursh. Flores erecti, explanati, pa-

tentes. Sepala glabra, convoluto-acuminata. Petala ma-
jora, rotundata, plana, medio barbata, basi maculata, glabra.
Stigmata 3. Capsula triangularis, coriacea. Semina serie

simplici affixa, plana, testa suberosa Bulbi tunicati Cali-

fornici, foliis convoluto-acuminatis, rigidis.

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Deep-yellow Cyclobothra.

HEXANDRIA TRIGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Liliace^. Juss. {Introduction to the Natural System of
Botany, p. 279.)

CYCLOBOTHRA. Suprd, foL 1661.

C. pulchella ; umbellis 2-3-floris, pedunculis bracteis brevioribus, floribus glo-
bosis, petalis ovatis obtusis serrulato-fimbriatis fovea valde excavata extus
callosa, sepalis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis vix brevioribus. Bentham in
Hart. Tram. n.s. vol. \,p. 415, tab. 14, Jig. 1.
Calocbortus pulchellus. Douglas in lilt.

Caulis erectus, teres, glaber, subcorymbosus, apice magis ramosus quam
inprcBcedente, et humilior. FoVia. plana, acuminata, minus glauca ; sujjerioribus
brevioribus. Pedunculi bracteis foliaceis breviores, bini ternive. Ylores globosi,
minores quam in prcecedente, lutei. Sepala virescentia, viridi-striata, pe-
talis paululum breviora, acutissima. Petala ovata, barbata,Jimbriata, basi
glabra : fovea nectariferu pilis absconditd.

We doubt whether this plant likes the climate of England
so well as the last ; for although it grew with apparently
perfect health, flowered freely, and ripened its seeds under
the same circumstances as Cyclohothra alba., yet the speci-
mens which were produced could not be compared with the
wild ones sent home by Mr. Douglas for beauty. The latter
consist of many-flow^ered and rather dense corymbs of
flowers ; but the cultivated plant hardly exceeded C. alba
in the number of its blossoms.

Speaking of C. alba, we adverted to the nature of the dif-
ferences that exist between Cyclobothra and Calochortus.
Let us use the present opportunity as a means of explaining
the affinity which the two genera bear to other plants.

* See folio 1661.

We have been always accustomed to refer them to Lili-'
acecB, on account of their manifest resemblance to Fritillaria^
and general accordance in other respects ; and we scarcely
expected that a different opinion could be entertained, not-
withstanding the difference between the calyx and corolla,
which seemed to point out a relationship to Commelinece ; all
that we have ever considered that circumstance to indicate,
was at most a tendency on the part of Liliacece to pass into
Commelineae. We find, however, in the last volume of
Romer and Schultes' Si/stema Vegetabilium, — a work which,
now that it is in the hands of Professor Schultes the younger,
has become a most valuable collection of Botanical facts,
notwithstanding that it has the misfortune to be arranged,
in obedience to the will of the booksellers, according to
the obsolete system of Linnaeus. In this most useful work
we find Calochortus referred to MelanthacecB. For a long
time we were at a loss to know how this singular opinion
could have been formed ; and we once thought that it must
have arisen from the three parted style which is found both
in Calochortus and Cyclobothra. But upon a more atten-
tive consideration, we ascertained that the bulbs of all the
species were described by Prof. Schultes, who appears to have
seen none of them, as solid. The old expression hulbus
solidus, which is a contradiction in terms, and which in
fact means rhizoma, is employed upon the authority of Mr.
Douglas, who inadvertently used in his descriptions the term
bulb solid, instead of bidb tunicated ; a technical difference
which Mr. Douglas, who was little versed in the minutiae
of botanical phraseology, might naturally misunderstand.
Now every Botanist must know that this discrepancy, how-
ever unimportant it may appear to the uninitiated, does in
fact lead to most material errors in judging of affinity : for
no Liliaceous plant has, or is likely to have a bulbus solidus ;
while it is the common character of Melanthaceae, which are
equally hexandrous. We therefore conclude that it is this
that has led Professor Schultes to refer the plants to Melan-
thaceae, and that, now he has become aware of his error, he
will agree with us in referring them, without any doubt, to
Liliaceag.

As this genus is likely to become extensively cultivated,
and as collectors will doubtless be o-lad to know where to

seek for unintroduced species, the following list may be
useful.

*1. C. pulchella. Bentliam, t. 1662 California.

*2. C. alba. id. t. 1661 California.

3. C. paniculata ; floribus solitariis, pedunculis bracteis subsequalibus, flori-

bus oblongis, petalis angustis obtusis subclliatis dimidia superiore calvis
fovea leviter excavata sepalis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis duplo longioribus.
— Praecedenti affinis ; caule, panicula, floribus solitariis, pedunculis bracteis

longioribus, alabastris angustis, cseterisque satis distincta. Flores albi.

In California Douglas, {hab. s. sp.)

4. C. elegans. Bentham, I. c. — Calocbortus elegans. Douglas. In Ca-

lifornia Septentrionali.

5. C. flava. — Calocbortus flavus. Schult. Jil. — Fritillaria barbata, Kth. ■

In Mexico
*6. C.lutea; wo6. <. 1665. — Cyclobothra barbata, <Swee^ In Mexico.

7. C. pallida ; noh. — Calocbortus pallidus. Schult. Jil. In Mexico.

8. C. fusca ; nob. — Calocbortus fuscus. Schult. Jil. In Mexico.

*9. C. purpurea. Sweet. — Calocbortus Bonplandianus. Schult. Jil. Fritil-
laria purpurea. Kth. In Mexico.

Of the above, those only marked * are, or have been in
this country.

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* CYCLOBOTHRA lutea.

Pale Yellow Cyclohoth^a.

HEXANDIIIA TRIGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Liliace^, Juss. {Introduction to the Natural System of
Botany, p. 279.)

CYCLOBOTHRA. Supra, fol. 1661.

C. lutca ; caule bulbifero, pedunculis bracteis longioribus, floribus solitariis cam-
paimlatis, petalis rhombeo-ovatis acuminatis apice calvis sepalls calvis con-
coloribus longioribus.
Cyclobothra barbata. Sweet Fl. Card. t. 273.

Caulis gracilis, subsimplex, pedalis et ultra, Icete viridis, in axillis
foliorum bulbillifer. Flores solitarii, nutantes, pedunculis bracteis longiori-
bus. Sepala lutea, ovata, acuminata, intus glabra, nulla barbce vestigio.
Petala ovata suhrhomboidea, apice angusla, facie barbata, sub medio fove-
ata extus gibbosa.

This pretty species was obtained some years since from
Mexico by Mr. Tate, and has now become dispersed through
many collections. It appears to grow freely in a light mix-
ture of peat and loam, and to require no other protection
than a good pit.

It represents a form of the genus in which the segments
of the flower curve outward, instead of inward, and which
consequently approaches still more nearly to Fritillaria than
the kinds previously figured. If this difi'erence were always
accompanied by the property of bearing little bulbs in the
bosom of the leaves, as happens in this and some others, it
might perhaps be considered of generic importance. But it
seems that C.fusca has no bulbs, although agreeing other-
wise with the Mexican Cyclobotliras ; so that no ground
can be said to exist for their separation.

When this plant was first introduced, it was supposed to
be the same as the Fritillaria barbata, published in Mr.
Kunth's account of the plants discovered by Humboldt and
Bonpland ; but we learn from the last volume of Romer and
Schultes that that species has a bearded horse-shoe mark
on its sepals, no trace of which can be found in the
plant now figured. We are therefore unwillingly obliged

* See folio 1661.

to amend the name by which this has hitherto been known ;
a name which would be untenable, even if Fritillaria bar-
bata were the same plant, because it is equally applicable
to every species of the genus.

Among Mr. Douglas's unpublished Californian plants are
three related to Cyelobothra, a short account of which may
not be unacceptable to our botanical friends ; they are all
Fritillaries, and of remarkable appearance. The first has
very much the aspect of F. verticillata, but the leaves are
not cirrhose, and the flowers are greenish purple, spotted like
F. Meleagris^ growing in long racemes ; this may be called
F. mutica. The second, F. UUacea, is closely allied to F.
alba of Nuttall, from which it differs in its broader leaves,
and differently shaped capsule ; it is a most remarkable
plant, with the habit of a Lily ; its flowers are apparently
pale yellow, narrow at the base, and not unlike those of
Lilium pudicum. The third, which may be called F. hi-
fioi^a^ resembles F. tulipifolia in habit, but differs in its two-
flowered stem, and numerous leaves which are either alter-
nate or verticillate. The two first of these would be great
additions to our gardens, if they could be procured ; the
last is a mere botanical curiosity, and chiefly interesting as
shewing, along with F. mutica, how nearly the Flora of
North West America, even in so low a latitude as Cali-
fornia, approaches in some respects to that of Northern and
Temperate Asia.

The distinctive characters of the three species may be
expressed in technical language, as follows : —

Fritillaria mutica ; caule basi longe nudo apice racemoso
multifloro, foliis inferioribus verticillatis a lata basi longe
angustatis ecirrhosis, floribus secundis tessellatis nutantibus
basi obtusis bracteis triplo brevioribus, pedunculis brevissimis
recurvis.- In California, cum 2 sequentibus legit Douglas.

Fritillaria UUacea ; caule stricto apice racemoso basi foli-
oso, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis inferioribus verticillatis superi-
oribus alternis, floribus secundis concoloribus cernuis basi
angustatis, pedunculis erectis bracteis longioribus, capsula
oblonga apice rotundata basi mutica.

Fritillaria biflora ; caule basi nudo apice bifloro, foliis
verticillatis alternisve oblongo-lanceolatis versus apicem
caulis deficientibus, floribus pendulis subcylindraceis con-
coloribus, pedunculis bracteis brevioribus.

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*ECHiTES stellaris.

Star-Jiowered Eckites.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Apocyne^. Jxiss. {Introduction to the Natural Syste?n of
Botanij,p. 210).

ECHITES Linn. Corolla hypocrateriforniis, fauce tuboque esquamatis,
laciniis Ihnbi quinquepartiti incequilateris. Stamina inclusa. Antherce sagittatae,
medio stigmati coliEerentes, lobis posticis poUine vacuis. Ovarial. Stylus 1,

filiformis. Squamce 'j, hypogynffi. Folliculi graciles. Frutices volubiles

(Americce meridionalis). Folia opposita, ciliis interpetiolaribus glandulosis.
PedunCuli interpetiolares, multiflori. Flores utplurimum speciosi, albi, lutei
et purpurei. R. Br. in Wem. Trans. I. 59.

E. stellaris ; tota pubescens ; racemis corymbosis longe pedunculatis horizon-
talibus V. recurvis, foliis ovato-oblongis acuminatis, corollse tubo basi ventri-
coso conico medio constricto fauce stellatim colorata, caule volubili.

Caulis volubilis omnesque alice partes, salvis corolla calycisque laciniis,
pilis brevibus densis mollibus holosericeus. Folia ovato-ohlonga, acuminata,
brevi-petiolnta, supra atro-viridia, subtus lutescentia ; inter folia adsunt,
stipularum loco, cilia: breves rectce parum piloses, deciducB. Racemus multi-
florus, corymbosus, umbellam referens, longe pedunculatus, horizontalis ;
pedicellis scepe refractis v. tortuosis. Calyx 5-partitus, laciniis ovatis acu-
minatis ; inter calycem et corollam adsunt squamce 5, breves, sepalis oppo-
sitcB, deltoidece, 5-partitcB glabrce, cu7)i squamis hypogynis alternantes.
Corolla odorata, carnea, carnosa : tubo medio constricto, basi ventricoso glu-
tinoso, apice infundibulari ; fauce notata stella lata, 5-loba, purpurea,
ochraceo colore limbata ; laciniis contoriis incequilateris rotundatis. Antherse
supra stricturam tubi insertce, cartilaginecE, acuminatce in conurn supra
stigma conniventes, intra tubum omnino inclus(S. Squama hypogynce 5, ob-
longcE, rotundatce, sepalis alternce. Ovarium subrotundum. Stylus filifor-
mis. Stigma incrassatum, basi truncatum, apice abrupte acutatum.

A tender stove climber, introduced from Rio Janeiro to
the Horticultural Society by the Hon. Robert Gordon. In
the month of August, its flowers perfume the part of the
hothouse in which it is placed, with a delightful smell of

* The Latin name of the Birthwort, one of the twining species of Aristo-
lochia. Its meaning being " serpentine," from e^^if a snake, Linnoeus applied
it to the present twining genus.

Primroses. It grows readily in peat and loam, but is
scarcely to be propagated except by cuttings of the root.

Although this is probably not of uncommon occurrence in
Brazil, it appears to have been hitherto undescribed ; the
obscure E. pubescens of Willdenow, to whose character it
nearly approaches, having heart-shaped leaves. We have
named it with reference to the coloured eye of the corolla,
which, being deep rosy red in the centre, with five starry
lobes, bordered with a sort of orange-yellow, gives a strik-
ing appearance to the flowers.

It belongs to the genus in its strictest sense, as defined
and most skilfully limited by Dr. Brown. In the dissections
in the accompanying plate, figure 1 represents the style
and stigma, and the five scales that surround the ovary;
fig. 2, a perpendicular section of a part of the calyx and co-
rolla, shewing the relative position of the ovary, style, stigma,
anthers, and contracted part of the tube of the corolla.

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1665

* ISMENE Amancaes ; var. sulphurea.
Sulphur-coloured Ismene.

HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Amaryllide^. R. Br. {Introduction to the Natural System
of Botany, p. 259).

ISMENE Herbert. Scapus solldus. Corona staminlfera. Tubus cur*-
vatus, cylindricus. Filamenta brevia, tria in coronam deflexa, tria inferiora im-
plex^ conniventia. Semina carnosa, rotunda, virldia. Plantce Americanae

foliis autumno depereuntibus. Herbert in litt.

Amancaes ; var. hybrida sulphurea ; (matre I. Amancaes, patre I. Calathina)
foliis octo tripedalibus parte inferiore pedali cylindracea, apice minus ac in
I. Amancaes attenuato ; scapo tripedali, compresso ; spatha marcescente,
germine viridi brevissime pedunculato ; tubo viridi circiter triunciali, corona
2j-unciali sulphurea fasciis sex internis viridibus luteo marginatis, lobis
duodecim-dentatis ; limbi laciniis 2^-uncialibus canaliculatis : umbella sex-
flora, odore gravi, neque (uti in Calathina) fragrante, neque (ut in Amancaes)
foetido. — Herbert in litt.

For the drawing, technical character, and following ac-
count of this plant, we are indebted to our highly valued
correspondent the Hon. and Rev. William Herbert.

This very ornamental bulb was raised four years ago from
a seed of Ismene Amancaes, which had been fertilized by
the pollen of Ismene Calathina. It is interesting as con-
firming the generic character of Ismene, from which no
intermixture with the cognate genus Hymenocallis has been
produced, though many attempts have been made; and also
by the great change which has been wrought in it by the
impression of the male species. The colour of the flower is
intermediate, and the scent, though very powerful, is not
delightfully fragrant as in Calathina, nor so disagreeable
as that of Amancaes. The constitution is vigorous, like that
of the former species, from which it inherits also a more

* A classical name applied to this genus by Mr. Herbert. Ismene was a
daughter of CEdipus.

robust stature and less attenuated leaves. The natural seed-
lings of I. Amancaes make very slow progress. There is
one twelve years old at SpofForth, which is not yet of flower-
ing size ; but those of I. Calathina advance rapidly. The
flowers of the mule have a tube slenderer than that of
Amancaes, and the cup terminating in twelve distinct lobes
which are jagged at the margin : from the points where the
filaments are inserted, six strong green lines, margined with
yellow, mark the inside of the cup. Ismene Calathina
thrives vigorously out of doors in a border of sand and peat
mixed, and flowers in July and August, if the bulbs are
planted out in April, and taken up when the leaves decay
in November or October. The soil being loose and light,
it is easy to avoid breaking their strong fleshy fibres, which
should not be injured. The bulbs so taken up should be
put all together in a large pot, or a small tub according to
their number and size ; and, some light soil being poured
over them, they should be placed at the back of a green-
house, or in any shed where they will be preserved from
frost, and must have no water. I. Amancaes requires a
much more sandy soil, and less moisture : if planted out of
doors, a large pot full of soil should be taken out of the
border where it is set, and the hole filled with pure white
sand, and unless the summer is very wet it will succeed
well. If kept in the greenhouse, it should be potted in very
sandy compost, and be watered sparingly ; and should be
left quite dry from the time the leaves decay till May. Peat
and too much water have caused many cultivators to lose
this plant, which is not difficult to preserve. The Horti-
cultural Society have imported an Ismene, which, unless it
' be a new species, is at least a variety of Amancaes with
very difl'erent habits, spawning abundantly, and the leaves
not sheathing high, of a hardier constitution, and less averse
to moisture. Its flower has not yet been seen. W. H.

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1066

* CYPRIPEDIUM spectabile.
Large white Lady's Slipper.

GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA.

Nat. ord. CvPRiPEDiEiE. Lindl. Nixus Plantarum, p.22, Ao. 234.
CYPRIPEDIUM. Supra, vol. 10, fol. 788.

C. spectabile ; sepalis subaqualibus oblongis obtusis, petalis lanceolatls planis
longiorlbus, labello petalis longiore ventricoso subsulcato, stamine sterili
cordato-ovato obtuso.

C. spectabile. Swartz in act. holm. 1800, p. 251. Salisb. in act. Linn. 1. 78.
t.S.f.S. Willd.sp. pi. 4. 144.

C. album. Ait. Kew. ed. 1. 3. 303. Bat. Mag. i. 216.

C. canadense. Mich. Amer 2. 161.

C. reginffi. Walt. Carol. 212. Jide Pur sh.

A native of the low meadows and bogs of North America,
particularly in the mountainous tracts from Canada to Ca-
rolina, flowering in May and June, according to Pursh.
Our wild specimens were gathered in Canada by Mr.
Gouldie.

This remarkable plant is the finest of the North American
Cypripediums, and is not by any means uncommon in the
gardens of this country, its roots being periodically imported.
It has, however, resisted all attempts at propagating it, and
seldom lives above a year or two after its arrival. Those
who manage it the best treat it as a greenhouse plant, keep-
ing it constantly under glass, in a moderately warm atmo-
sphere, and very near the light until its leaves have withered,
when it is removed to a dry shelf till its growing season re-
turns. Except in the colour of its flower, it is very nearly
the same as the Siberian C. macranthos, already figured at
fol. 1534 of this work.

* See fol. 1534.

16G7

* CATASETUM liiridum.
Lurid Catasetum.

GYNANDRIA MOl^ANBRIA.

Nat. ord. OrchidEjE. Juss. § Vandese Lindl. (Introduction to the
Natural System of Botany, p. 262).

CATASETUM. Supra, vol. 10,/o/.840.

C. luridum ; caulibus defoliatis angustis sulcatis, perianthio subgloboso parum
maculate, sepalis petalisque oblongls apice rotundatis, labello cucullato car-
noso mutico apice paulo producto truncato, racemo brevi nutante.

C. luridum. Lindl. Gen. Sf Sp. Orch. p. 156.

Anguloa lurida. Link in Verhandl. des Vereins. z. bef. des Gartenb. in dem
Konigl. Preuss. Staat. I. p. 289. t. 6.

Cavles dejlorati angusd, cinerei, sulcati, 3-5 uncias longi. Folia pli-
cata, suhundulata, acuminata. Racemus vix pedalis, apice nutans, pauci-
fiorus ; bracteis hrevibus canaliculatis obtusis. Perianthium globosum ; se-
palis petalisque herbaceis oblongis apice rotundatis maculis quibusdam pal-
lidas notatis. Labellum carnoswm, cucullatum, lutcscens, antice truncatum
subemarginatum, mnrginibus atro-purpureis maculatis, nee ciliatis, nee den-
tatis, nee injiexis. Coluinna bicirrhosa generis.

After having been imported into Prussia some years since,
and been apparently lost, this rare plant has suddenly made
its appearance almost at the very same time in several col-
lections. The first notice we had of it was from Messrs.
Loddiges, with whom it flowered in September, 1833. Al-
most immediately afterwards, it was communicated to us by
our amiable and much lamented correspondent the late
Mrs. Arnold Harrison, whose truly splendid collection of
Orchideous epiphytes has lately been added to the stock of
Mr. Knight, of the King's Road ; it was obtained by that
lady from Bahia. We had scarcely secured a drawinp- of
Mrs. Harrison's specimen, before a sketch and specimens
reached us from Mr. Bateman ; and before many more days

* A name, the meaning of which is unexplained.

had elapsed it burst into blossom in the stove of the Hor-
ticultural Society.

It is a native of the woods not only of Bahia, but pro-
bably of the greater part of Brazil, the Prussian specimens
and those of the Horticultural Society having been imported
from Rio Janeiro. Like all the species with similar habits,
it grows freely in decayed vegetable matter, mixed with a
little pure loam, among quantities of potsherds, and it pro-
bably will soon become common. Although it cannot be
compared for beauty with Catasetum tridentatam, it is never-
theless a very interesting species ; the spots on the margin
of the lip are of the deepest and richest ruddy-brown ; while
the horns of the column may be compared to the forelegs
of some spider lurking in the bosom of the flower to seize
upon the victims that may enter it.

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*BEG6nIA heracleifolia.

Parsnip-leaved Begonia.

MONiECIA POLYaNDRIA.

Nat. ord. BegoniacevE, Juss. {^Introduction to the Natural System of
Botany, p. 169.)

BEGONIA. Supra, vol. 4,foL 284.

C. heracleifolia ; acaulis, foliis subsequalibus ambitu orbicularibus cordatis pro-
funde septein-lobatis lanceolatis incequaliter sinuato-sublobatis denticulatisque
ciliatis utrinque rariter sparsim pilosis supra planis obscuris subtus pallidis
vesiculiferis : nervis prominulls fuscescentibus hirtellis, petiolo pedunculoque
patentim hirsutis. De Schleckt et Chamiss. in Linnceu, vol. 5, p. 603.

B. radiata. Graham in Edinb. New Phil. Journal for July, 1833.

Ffuctus trialaius, glaher ; alis rotundatis, duahus nanis herbaceis,
altera rosea elongata ascendente.

A native of Mexico, where it was met with by the Ger-
man ti'avellers Schiede and Deppe, in several localities. In
the Linnaea three are mentioned, namely, shady places in
Jalapa, in March ; near Hacienda de la Lagiina in Sep-
tember ; Baranca de Tioselo in October. It is therefore
probable that it flowers nearly all the year round in its own
country as it does in England.

The plant from which our drawing v^'as taken was re-
ceived by the Horticultural Society from the Botanic
Garden, Berlin. It is a very free growing hot-house plant,
producing its rosy flowers in every month of the year ; all
that it demands at the hand of the cultivator is heat, moisture
and a full exposure to light. If kept too much in the shade,
the flowers lose the bright rosy tint which is natural to them,
and with it their beauty.

Our learned friend. Dr. Graham, who obligingly pointed
out to us the identity of his B. radiata with B. heracleifolia,
thus describes it: — "Leaves (seven inches across) bright

♦ See folio 1252.

green above, paler below, all radical, subpeltate, cordato-pal-
mate, hairy above and below, with seven strong radiating
nerves, veryprominent below, lobes lanceolate, oblong, undu-
late, sinuated, dentate, unequal, the central (four inches from
the insertion of the petiole to its apex) being the longest, the
others gradually smaller to the sinus ; petiole rather shorter
than the middle lobe, densely covered with long coarse
entangled crystalline hairs, which, in fading, resemble
yellow wool. Scape (two feet high) tapering upwards,
straight, pretty closely covered with oblong red streaks,
from which spring long, tortuous, acute, crystalline hairs.
Bractece in opposite pairs at each division of the flower-
stalk, serrated, ovate, hairy, dentato-ciliate, nerved, smaller
in every succeeding pair. Peduncles dichotomo-deliquescent,
streaked like the scape, and somewhat hispid. Flowers
rose-coloured, dipetalous, petals rotund, entire ; male flowers
in the cleft of the peduncles, expanding before the female.
Stamens yellow, ascending ; filaments cohering only at the
base ; anthers spathulate ; connective extending beyond the
loculaments."

The fruit, with which neither Messrs. Schlechtendahl and
Chamisso nor Dr. Graham were acquainted, has three rounded
wings, of which two are small and green, the third much
longer, pink, and a little directed upwards.

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* CALOCHORTUS vemistus.

Spotted Calochortus.

HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Liliaceje, Juss. (Introduction to the Natural System of
Botany, p. 279.)

CALOCHORTUS Pursb. Flores erecti, explanatl, patentes. Sepala gla-
bra, convoluto-acuminata. Petala majora, rotundata, plana, medio barbata, basi
maculata, glabra. Stylus o. Stigmata 3. Capsula triangularis, coriacea. Semina
serie simplici afRxa, plana, testa suberosa. — Bulbi tunicati (Californici), foliis
convoluto-acuminatis rigidis.

C. venustus ; caule paucifolio subbifloro sepalis erectis, petalis pra?ter fasciculiim
pilorum glabris basi rubris et versus apicem macula rubra notatis. Bentham
in Hort. Trans, vol. 1, n. s. p. 412, t. 15, Jig. 3.

Cax\\\8Solidus,fiexuosus,erectus, sub-bipedalis,striatus, apicem versus
subramosus. Folia liriearia, acuminata, siccatione convoluta, basi amplexi-
caulia. Pedunculi circiter 4 pollices longi, rigidi, unijiori. Sepala ovato-
lanceolata, acuminata, recta, herbacea, petalorum longitudine. Petala cune-
ato-subrotunda, margins crispata, versus basin pulvillo pilorum longorum
pilisq. quibiisdam spai^sis barbata, basi ipsa glabra ; alba, basi lutescentia,
vittd cuneiformi basilari coccined apice lutescente, tunc macula subrotunda
interruptd castaned luteo-limbatd, denique cis apicem maculd pallida san-
guinolentd notata.

A very remarkable and beautiful bulbous plant, sent
from California by Mr. Douglas to the Horticultural Society,
in the last part of whose transactions it has been published
by Mr. Bentham. Like the Cydobothras, lately figured in
this Avork, it flowers at Midsummer, at which season it con-
tributes, with some other species, to give quite a new feature
to the flower garden.

It appears to be cultivated without difficulty, but to be
less hardy than the species of Cyclobothra ; hitherto it has
been planted in the open border in the summer only ; its
bulbs have been taken up as soon as the leaves were

* Supra, fol. 1152.
VOL. XX. I)

withered ; they have been kept dry till they beghi to shoot,
which is about Christmas ; and they have then been planted
in pots in the greenhouse, whence they will be again trans-
ferred to the open border as soon as the chance of spring
frosts is over. In the garden of the Horticultural Society
they have been tried both in common garden mould and in
loam, and they seem to succeed equally well in either.

The stems grow about two feet high, and are sparingly
clothed with rather stiff narrow green leaves, which quickly
roll up, and become sharp-pointed when dry weather sets
in. The flowers are placed on stiff stalks, and remain ex-
panded for several days ; but they offer so broad a surface
to the weather, that they are apt to be damaged and de-
faced by storms of rain. The sepals are green ; the petals
are pure white at all the widest parts, and yellowish at the
base, where they have a deep crimson wedge-shaped stain
terminated by a yellowish spot ; above the latter is a deep
stain resembling a clot of dried blood, bordered with yellow,
and between the last and the end of the petal is another and
a paler spot of dirty red without any yellow. A short dis-
tance above the base of the petals there is a tuft of hairs
which partly overspread the vicinity of the tuft.

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* LUPINUS leptophyllus.

Fine-leaved Lupin.

DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA.

Nat. ord. Leguminos^. Juss. (Introduction to the Natural System of
Botany, p. 86).

LUPINUS. Supra, vol.13, fol. 1096.

L. leptophyllus ; annuus, caullbus erectis subsimpllcibus patentim pilosis, foliis
linearibus utrinque angustatis pilosis vix sericeis, Horibus sparsis approxi-
matis, bracteis ante anthesin subcomosis, pedicellis bracteolatis, calycis labio
superiore bipartite inferiore longiore tridentato, — Bentham in Hort. Trans,
vol. 1, n. s. p. 411,

Caulis pedalis et ultra, simplex, ut et omnes partes herbacece, pilis
longis albis debilibus patentissimis, brevissimis appressis intermixtis, hir-
sutus. ¥o\\a. petiolis tenuibus , foliolis 1 -9 linearibus longioribus. Stipulse
longcE subulatce. Racemus gracilis, bracteis longis pectinato-villosis comatus.
Calyx pilis longissimis villosus ; bracteolis brevibus filiformibus, labio su-
periore bipartito inferiore longiore tridentato, Petala purpurea- lilacina,
maculd sanguined in medio vexilli ; carina glabra.

Upon this new Lupin Mr. Bentham has the following
remarks in the last part of the transactions of the Horti-
cultural Society : —

" This species is remarkable for its narrow leaves and
hairy surface. It is about a foot high : the spike of flowers
is elegantly coloured with blueish lilac, and there is a deep
crimson stain in the middle of the standard. The spike is
covered with flowers in an irregular manner, and crowned
by the long linear bracts of the unexpanded blossoms. It
is not so pretty a species as many others of this generally
beautiful genus ; it has hitherto produced but a very few
seeds, which are unusually small for a Lupin, and pale
brown, mottled with a darker shade. It probably requires
shade."

Our drawing was made in the garden of the Horti-
cultural Society in June last. The species is annual.

* See fol. 1198.

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*LIPARIS guineensis.

S. Leone Liparis.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. Orchide.?^. Juss. § Malaxldese Lindl. (^Introduction to the
Natural System of Botany, p. 262.)

LIPARIS. Supra, vol. 11, fol. 882.

L. guineensis ; foliis pluribus oblongls acutis plicatis racemo paucifloro breviori-
bus, scapo angulato, labello postico cuneato bilobo piano basi bituberculato,
petalis sepaloque supremo linearibus patentibus, sepalis laterallbus subro-
tundo-ovatis labello brevioribus.

Pseudobulbi ovati, nucis avellance magnitudine, exuviis membranaceis
foliorum vestiti. Scapus semipedalis. Flores parvi virides sessiles, maculis
2, lutescentibus in apice labelli. Ovarium alatum, bracteis lineari-subulatis
longius.

A native of Sierra Leone, whence plants were brought
in 1832 by Mr. Whitfield. Our drawing was made in
September last in the garden of the Horticultural Society.

It requires to be kept in a damp stove while growing,
but to be removed into a cooler and dry place as soon as its
leaves decay.

The Liparis Luselii of this country is nearly related to
it, but is abundantly distinct in the leaves and the form of
the labellum.

* See fol. 1175.

1672

*PORTULACA Gilliesii
Dr. Gillies' Purslane.

POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. PoRTULACEiE, Jiiss. {Introduction to the Natural System of
Botany, p. 159).

PORTULACA. Supra, fol. 792.

P. Gilliesii ; caulibus suberectis basi ramosis, foliis oblongo-cylindraceis subcom-
pressis obtusis punctatis, pilis axillaribus f'asclculatis erectis appressis, flori-
bus terminalibus, petalis calyce longioribus. Hooker in Bot. Mag. t. 3064.

Dr. Gillies, to whom we are so much indebted for many
illustrations of the Botany of Chili and of the neighbouring
province of Mendoza, brought seeds of this plant to the
Botanic Garden of Glasgow, whence it has been liberally
distributed. We are informed by Dr. Hooker that it is a
native of the plains of Mendoza. This circumstance will
point out the cultivation it requires ; for the dryness of that
climate is so well known, that it may be easily understood that
the only chance of managing this plant successfully, consists
in preserving it, during winter, in a well ventilated dry
greenhouse or stove, and allowing it water only when in a
growing state, and then only in moderate quantity.

It is a truly splendid plant ; but to be seen in perfection
it should be exposed to the greatest heat and the brightest
light that our summers will supply. It then opens its rich
crimson flowers in considerable quantity, and lying as they
do upon a little bed of neat deep green leaves, the prettiest
effect imaginable is produced.

It is a perennial, and is propagated readily by cuttings.
Our drawing was made last July in the garden of the Horti-
cultural Society.

* An ancient Latin name, whose supposed origin has exercised the ingenuity
of the learned, but concerning which we find notliing worth explaining or con-
trovertins. — Smith .

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1673

* LIMNANTHE8 Douglasii.
Douglas L'mmanthes.

DECANDRIA MO'^OGYNIA.

Nat. ord. LiMNANTHE^, R. Brown in Loud, and Edin. Phil. Mag,
July, 1833. Lindley Nixus Planlarum, p. 11, No. 31.

LIMNANTHES, R.Br. CaZ?/a; 5-partitus. Petala 5. Stamina 10.
NuculcB 5. — Herba annua, carnosa, glaberrima (Californica) ; floribus con-
spicuis.

L. Douglasii ; R. Br. I. c. Beritham in Hort. Trans, vol. 1, n.s. p. 409.

Annua, pallid^ inridis, succulenta, glabra. Caules spithatncsi, terefes,
ramosi, in planta culta prostrati v. saltern decumbentes, in spontanea erecti.
Folia alterna, exstipiilata ; petiolo tereti, supra sulcato, patente ; lamina tri-
foliolatd V. jnnnatd, 2-3-jugd cum impari ; foliolis lineari'Ovatis integerrimis
V. inaqualiter 2-3-lobis v. 2-3-partitis. Flores fragrantes, | pollicis lati,
axillares, soUtarii, laxt racemosi, pedunculis filiformibus, ascendentibus
ebracteoiatis folds longioribus. Calyx basi subcarnosus, 5-partitus, cequa-
lis ; laciniis ovatis acutis corolla brevioribus, quinqueveniis ; venis laterali-
bus intraynarginalibus simplicibus apice sepali cum intermedia confluentibus ;
cestivationc valvatd. Petala 5, subperigyna, cuneata,retusa, lutescentia limbo
albo, subsimpliciter venosa, cestivatione convoluta. Stamina 10, subperi-
gyna ; quorum 5 petalis opposita breviora sunt Jilamentis basi planiusculis,
5 sepalis opposita Jilamentis basi extus gibbosis : Antherse oblongcB, bilocu'
lares, supra medium ajjixce, versatiles, introrscB, (z'w ico7ie extrorsce incurid
pictoris) longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ovaria 5, omnino disjuncta, sepalis
ideoque Jilameyitis gibbosis opposita. Stylus Jiliformis, laciniis 5 erectis te-
retibus stigmata tot mimita capitata gerentibus. Fructus calyce petalisque
persisteniibus induviatus, constans e nuculis 5 baccatis discoloribus rugosis
monospermis. Semen erectum. Embryo exalbuminosus, cotyledonibus car-
nosis plano-convexis, radiculd inferd.

A neat little annual, with flowers of a delicate yellow
colour, bordered with white, and slightly but most agree-
ably fragrant. It is rather succulent in all its parts, is quite
destitute of hairs, and has all the appearance of being a
native of the sides of rivulets or of moist and shady places.

* Apj)arcntly from Xinuri a lake, and a>''?oc a flower, in allusion to the sup-
posed habits of the only species.

Concerning this, however, we have no information from
Mr. Douglas, by whom it was sent to the Horticultural So-
ciety from California, It flowers in the autumn, and ripens
seeds in tolerable plenty.

What gives it its chief interest is its remarkable structure,
and the station it occupies in the natural system of plants.
Dr. Brown, who first examined it, considers it to form, along
with Flurkea, an obscure North American plant, a new
Natural Order which he calls LhnnanthecB, and stations near
Geraniacem and their allies. In this view we have not hesi-
tated to concur, although, as far as regards Fl'di'kea, we had
expressed a different opinion in the account we gave of that
genus in Dr. Hooker's Journal of Botany. Without over-
looking its manifest relation to Geraniaccce, we had consi-
dered Florkea to be upon the whole more nearly related to
SanguisorhecB than to any other plants. But at that time
Limnanthes was unknow s and we had nothing to connect
Florkea more with one Natural Order than another. Now
that Limnanthes has been discovered, it becomes obvious
that Flurkea, which is closely allied to it in structure,
is more nearly akin to Geraniacece than to Sanguisorbece,
and that it must constitute a new form in the groupe of
Gynobasic Natural Orders. But while we admit this, it is
necessary to add that we do not therefore give up the affi-
nity of Florkea to Sanguisorbece ; on the contrary, we con-
sider it one of the links by which the gynobasic and pol}^-
carpous groupes of Dicotyledonous plants are connected.

In the Analysis of tlie parts represented in the plate, 1 . is the ovary, sur-
rounded by the 10 stamens, the sepals and petals being cut away; 2. a stamen,
with the projection at its base, a. ; 3. the ripe fruit enclosed in the calyx ; 4.
a nucule separate ; and 5. the same cut through horizontally, to shew the coty-
ledons of the embryo.

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MIMULUS Smithii.

DIDYNAMIA ANGJOSPERMIA.

Nat. ord. ScROPHULARiNEiE. Juss. {Introduction to the Natural System
of Botavy, p. 228).

MIMULUS. Supra, vol. 11, fol. 874.

Garden Variety.

Flowers of tliis beautiful plant were put into our hands
last autumn by Mr. George Smith, Nurseryman, of Isling-
ton, who informed us he had raised it between M. variegatus,
fertilized by Mimulus luteus rivularis.

It is a hardy plant, with all the habit of ilf^. luteus rivu-
laris, and no doubt requires the same cultivation as that
species.

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* PERNETTIA mucronata.

Pointed-leaved Pernettia.

DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Eeice^. Jiiss. {Introduction to the Natural System of
Botany, p. 182.)

PERNETTIA Gaudichaud. Calyx 5-partitus siccus. Corolla globosa,
limbo 5-dentato. Stamina 10, hypogyna ; Jilamentis basi dilatatis, antkeris
muticis: lobis apice angustatis bidentatis. Ovarium 5-loculare, polyspermum ;
squamis 10 hypogynis ambientibus. Capsula baccata polysperma — Frutices
(Australi-Americani), foliis parvis sempervirentibus, pedunculis axillaribus
paucifioris.

P. mucronata ; foliis ovatis serratis mucronatis pedunculis laxis brevioribus,

squamis hypogynis integris.
P. mucronata ; Gaudichaud in Ann. des sc. vol. 5. p. 102.
Arbutus mucronata ; Lin.Jil. suppl. 239. Forst. Comment. G'ott. 9. p. 31.

Graham in Bot. Mag. t. 3093.

For the opportunity of publishing this interesting plant
we are indebted to William Harrison, Esq. by whom it was
communicated from his garden at Cheshunt, in July, 1833.
It has there already acquired a size which is quite remark-
able for so small a plant, considering how young the speci-
men still is. Within three years it has formed a bush three
feet six inches in diameter, and two feet six inches high. It
is a hardy evergreen shrub, of considerable beauty, on ac-
count of the neat appearance and dark colour of its foliage ;
its flowers are pretty, but they are small, and do not make
much appearance. Mr. Harrison cultivates it in peat, as an
American plant.

It is usually called an Arbutus ; but it agrees with that
genus neither in appearance nor in structure. In both

* Named by M. Gaudichaud " after Dom Pernetty, the author of the ac-
count of a voyage to the Falkland Islands, a work remarkable for its interest as
■well as for its candour and exactness." The original species of the genus was
mentioned by this traveller under the name of " Bruyere dfeuilles pointues."

Arbutus and Arctostaphylos the anthers have two long horns
projecting from their back, and the ovary is surrounded by
a fleshy ring with ten angles ; but in this plant the anthers
liave no horns, and are split into four bristle-shaped teeth
at their apex, while the base of the ovary is surrounded by
ten distinct scales. We therefore adopt, without any
scruple, Mons. Gaudichaud's genus Pernettia, which in
reality is much more nearly allied to Andromeda and Gaul-
theria than to Arbutus, particularly to Andromeda myrsmites
and Gaidtheria serpi/llifolia, which last is certainly no Vac-
cinkmi.

Gaudichaud refers to this genus Arbutus pumila, and
microphylla ; as far as habit and the structure of the flowers
are concerned, Aj^butus pilosa, of Professor Graham, would
also be referable to Pernettia ; but we incline to believe that
plant an Andromeda.

The subject of these observations is a native of the
Straits of Magellan ; we have specimens communicated to
the late Mr. Donn, of Cambridge, out of Forster's Herbarium,
others procured by Macrae, off Cape Horn, and fruit
gathered in Staten Island by Mr. Vv^ebster, of H. M. S. Chan-
ticleer. Gaudichaud did not meet wdth it in his visit to the
Falkland Islands, but in its place he found plenty of another
species, Pernettia empetrifolia, v/bich formed a small bush
covered with eatable berries, and grov/ing at the back of the
sand-hills wherever a little vegetable mould was collected.

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CALOCHORTUS splendens.

Satiny Calochortus.

HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. LiLiACEiE, Juss. (^Introduction to the Natural System of
Botamj, p. 279).

CALOCHORTUS. Supra, fol. 1669.

C. splendens ; caule 3-5-floro, sepalis revolutis, petalis intus sparse pilosis in
parte superlori glabris basi maculatis extus ecostatis. Bent ham in Hart.
Trails, vol. l,n. s. p. 411, t. \5,Jig. 1.

C. venusto similis habitu, staturd, et figurd florum ; diversissimus tamen
horum colore, petalorum hirsutie, sepalisque revolutis. Petala tota lilacina,
immaculata nisi ad ipsam basin saturatiorem subsaccntam ; ibi adest pul-
villus pilorum densissimorum, brrviian, rigidorum, a pills longis debilibus
sparsis faciei petalorum intervallo calvo sejunctus. Flores paulo minores
sunt cjuam in C. venusto.

Another fine species of Californian bulb, obtained by
the Horticultural Society from Mr. Douglas. It requires
precisely the same treatment as C. venustus, (fol. 1669) to
which we refer our readers. From that species it differs,
not only in the colour of its petals, but in its flowers being
somewhat smaller, and its sepals rolled back from the point;
the arrangement of the hairs upon its petals is also very
different. In C. venustus there is just above the base of the
petals an oblong tuft of rather loose hairs, which gradually
scatter themselves over the petal for a short distance round
the tuft ; but in C. splendens, the tuft is smaller, and com-
posed of very short firm hairs collected into a compact ob-
long mass, almost resembling a wart, and separated by a
smooth interval from the scattered hairs of the petal, which
are long and numerous.

* See fol. 1152.

The genus Calocliort.us now consists of five species, of
which the following is a list ; those only marked with a *
have yet been introduced into this country ; all are natives
of California.

*1. C. macrocarpus ; Douglas. — Bot. Keg. fol. 1152.

2. C. nitidus ; Douglas in Hart. Trans.

*3. C. splendens ; Douglas. — Bot. Reg. 1676.

*4. C. venustus ; Douglas. — Bot. Reg. 1669.

*5. C. luteus; Douglas.— Bot. Reg. 1567.

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1677

*ESCHSCH6LTZIA ciocea.
Saffron-coloured Eschscholtzia.

ICOSANDRIA? POLYANDRIA? TETRAGYNU.

Nat. ord. Papaverace^. Juss. {Introduction to the Natural System of
Botany, p 8.)

ESCHSCHOLTZIA. Supra, vol. 14, fol. 1168.

E. crocea ; caule ramoso folioso, foliorum segmentis linearibus, pedunciili cyatho

infundlbuliformi : limbo maxlmo dilatato, calyce longe acumiiiato. Bentham

in Hort. Trans, vol. 1, n. s. p. 406.
Facies omnino E. CaliforniccB ; sed flores majores aurantiaci, nee Intel, cyathi

limbus maximus dilatatus, nee obsoletus, et calyx elongato-conicus, nee sub-

rotundus acuminatus.

*' In general habit, foliage, and size of the flower, this
new species of Eschscholtzia closely resembles the E. Califor-
nica, introduced by Mr. Douglas on his first expedition,
and now^ so generally admitted to be one of the most beauti-
ful additions to our hardy ornamental plants. The present
species, however, promises far to surpass even that one in
the rich orange colour of the petals. It appears to be
equally hardy, and, judging from the experience of a sea-
son, to flower still more freely. It is chiefly distinguished
botanically from E. Californica by the widely expanded
limb of the curious appendage of the peduncle beneath the
insertion of the calyx, which is characteristic of the genus,
and by the long attenuated point of the calyx."

We borrow the foregoing account from Mr. Bentham 's
paper in the Transactions of the Horticultural Society, add-
ing only, that it has not hitherto produced any seed, and
that two plants in the Garden of the Horticultural Society
are all that at present exist in Europe.

• See folio 1168.
VOL. XX. K

When the sun sliiiies, the petals uiich)se, and by their
rich coloLir and velvety lustre produce an effect which for
brilliancy is unrivalled in the Flower Garden.

Like Eschscholtzia Californica, this is a perennial, but
in consequence of its bleeding copiously when v.'ounded, it
is not likely to bear propagation in any other way than by
seed.

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* P.'EONIA Moutaii ; alhlda plena.
Douhle-irJuie Tree Pceony.

POLYANDRIA ISWNdGYlsllA.

Nat. ord. Ranunculace^. Jus.s. (^Introduction to the Natural System
of Botany, p. 6.)

PMONIA. Supra, vol. 1, fol. 42.

Garden Variety.

This noble-variety of the Tree Pseony was raised by the
Earl of Mountnorris from seeds of P. papaveracea, saved at
Arley Hall. It differs from the original in being semi-
double, and in having narrower and more lacerated petals.
Our plate was prepared from a drawing lent us by Lord
Mountnorris, in whose possession the plant, we are in-
formed, almost exclusively exists.

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PLATYSTflMON Californicum.

Califo7'nian Platystemon.

POLYANDRIA POLYGYRIA.

Nat. or d. Papaverace^, Juss. {introduction to Ihe Natural System of
Botany, p. 8.)

PLATYSTEMON Bentham. Flores trimeri ! Sepala 3, hispida.
Petala 6, ordine duplici. Stamina subindefinita ; Jilamentis petaloideis ; an-
theris linearibus rectis. Carpella 9-12, collateralia, stigmatibus linearibus erectis
simplicissimis ; matura leviter cohterentia, indehiscentia, cartilaginea, torulosa ;
in articulos transversos monospermos secedentia. Semina Isevia, ecristata ; al-

bumine oleoso. Herba ( Calif ornica), annua, tenera, foliis {v. potius

petiolis dilatatis aphyllis) linearibus paralleliveniis, alternis et vertici/latis,
scEp^ unilateralibus ; floribus terminalibus et axillaribus longe pedunculatis.

Platystemon Californicum ; Bentham in Hort. Trans, vol. 1 , n. s. p. 405.

Herba annua, erecta, subramosa, succulenta, pilis sparsis in pedunculis
calycibusque rigidioribus rarb vestita. Folia lineari-oblonga, sessilia, ob-
tusa, venis monocotyledonearum more parullelis, inferiora allerna, intermedia
3 uncias longa sub-verticillata, suprema minora situ variantia. Pedunculi
axillares et terminales foliis quadruplo longiores, ascendentes, stricti, uni-
Jlori. Sepala tria. concava, decidua, Papaveris more. Petala 6, duplici serie
disposita, ovata, pallide lutea, inferiora paulb minora. Stamina plurima,
numerosa, hypogyna ,- filamentis petaloideis, antheris linearibus lateralite.r
dehiscentibus, innatis, breve unguiculatis. Carpella 9-12, dorso hispida,
seriebus pluribus ordinata, onininb sejuncta, stigmatibus toiidem linearibus
erectis ; matura subcalva, coriacea, torulosa, transversim in articulos mono-
spermos secedentia, informam cylindraceam aggregata, stigmatibus lineari-
bus parum divergentibus terminata.

A native of. California, whence it was sent by Mr. David
Douglas to the Horticultural Society, in whose garden it
flowered last September; the few seeds it produced have
failed to vegetate, and the plant is therefore lost to our gar-
dens ; fortunately, however, our drawing was made before
the specimen had withered.

* So named from nXarvr broad, and rrr^fuop a stamen, in allusion to the
breadth of the filaments.

If it could again be procured, it would probably be pre-
served, for we are now more acquainted with its habits than
we were at first ; and it is evidently a pretty plant, if we
are to judge from the dried specimens in the herbarium of
the Horticultural Society. Both these and its seeds were
sent home by Mr. Douglas without a particle of information'
as to the treatment it would require.

Mr. Bentham, to whom we are indebted for the first
account of it, speaks of it as being as " interesting to the
Horticulturist from its beauty as it is to the Botanist, from
formino; the connecting; link between the Ranunculaceae and
Papaveraceae. The trisepalous calyx, and numerous dis-
tinct ovaria would have placed it in the former order, were
it not for the structure of the anthers, the very deciduous
sepals, and the general habit, which do not admit of its
being removed from Papaveraceae, especially considering its
close affinity with Eschscholtzia through Platystigma and
Dendromecon.

" It is a low, branching, erect, and pale green annual,
seldom attaining beyond a foot in height. The whole
plant is smooth, with the exception of long spreading hairs
on the peduncles, the margins, and here and there the sur-
face of the leaves, and on the calyx and ovaria. The leaves
are alternate, the upper ones often several, so near together
as to have the appearance of an imperfect whorl ; they
are oblong, lanceolate, obtuse, perfectly entire, embrace the
stem at the base, and are marked with from three to five
parallel ribs. The peduncles are solitary, axillary, about
six inches long, and bear at the extreihity a single erect
flower, rather larger than that of the common Helianthe-
mum. The sepals are very hairy, round, ovate and ob-
tuse ; the petals yellow, with occasionally a reddish tinge
outside. The flower is sweet-scented, and of a pale straw
colour."

Considered in a botanical point of view, it serves to
show the very close relationship that exists between the
Crowfoot and Poppy tribes, to the former of which its dis-
tinct carpella, and to the latter its deciduous calyx and oily
albumen so nearly equally refer it, that it might be a ques-
tion in which of the two it ought with the greater propriety

to be stationed. In fact, like Petunia in Solaneae (see fol.
1626), this is a genus which stands on the very boundary
line of' two Natural orders, passing by one part of its struc-
ture into Papaveraceae, and by another part into Ranuncu-
laceae, but with the mass of its characters preponderating in
favour of the former. Its habit is also that of the Poppies
rather than of the Crowfoots, and its curious fruit may be
compared to that of Hypecoum, with the carpels separated
and increased in number. The contractions of the sides of
the carpels, in consequence of which the seeds are confined
in little closed cells, occur equally in Hypecoum, but being
of the same nature as those in the fruit of the Radish and
its allies among Cruciferous plants, of Ornithopus and others
among Leguminous plants, of several Anonaceaj, and of
divers others, cannot be esteemed characteristic of one
Natural order more than another ; in fact, such fruits may
be expected to occur in any and every polyspermous Natural
order.

The following arrangement will serve to show in what
order a series of genera to connect the Poppy with Platy-
stemon, and the latter with Ranunculacese, would naturally
follow ; taking the Poppy for the typical centre of a Papave-
raceous groupe.

Papaver — Meconopsis • — Glaucium — Eschscholtzia —
Hvpecoum — Platyste-||-mon — Trollius, &c.

In the analysis of the accompanying plate, 1, represents
a stamen ; 2, a cluster of carpels ; 3, a separate carpel,
seen in profile.

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^ARISTOLGCHIA Chilensis.

Chilian Blrth-icort.

GYNANDRIA HEXANDRIA.

Nat. ord. AmsTOLocHiiE. Juss. (Introduction to the Natural System
of Botany, p. 72.)

ARISTOLOCHIA. Supra, voL8, fol. 689.

A. Chilensis ; herbacea, calycis infracti basi ventricosa limbo oblongo obliquo
utrinque emarginato intus villoso, pedunculls l-floris ebracteolatis pubfes-
• centibus, foliis reniformibus emarglnatis undulatis subtus pubescentibus.
A. Chilensis ; Bridges in Hit.

Caulis volubilis, pubescens, angulatus, pilosus. Folia subtus puhescentia,
breve petiolata, exacte reniformia,' emarginata, subcochleata, supra Icete
viridia, subtus glauca. Flores axillares, solitarii, ebracteolati, pedicellis
petiolorum longitudine, ovariisque pubescentibus. Calyx infractus, viridi-
purpureus, venosus, intus villosus, extus Iceviusculus, 2^ poll, longus, basi
ventricosus, sursum infundibularis ; Umbo obliquo, utrinque emarginato
subcompresso. (Obs. basis calycis deorsum in pileoli speciem ovarii apicem
tegentem producitur ; v. analysin hvjus tabulcB.)

We do not discover any mention of this species among
writers on South American Botany ; and yet it appears to be
very common in Chili, whence we have had many specimens
gathered by various collectors. Mr. Bridges sends it under
the name we have adopted, adding that it is called by the
Chilenos Oreja de la Zoera, and that it is an herbaceous
plant, found in stony places near Valparaiso and Quillota.

For our specimens we are indebted to Robert Bevan, Esq.
who forwarded them to us in flower in September last. The
plant is hardy enough to bear our climate, if protected from

* Sec fol. 13'J9.

wet and the severest cold in winter. It may no doubt be
increased readily by cuttings, and may soon be expected
to become common.

It is nearly related to Aristolochia glauca of the South
of Europe, but is very difterent in the form of its leaves.

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*BLETIA gracilis.

Slender Bletia.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. OrchidEvE, § EpiDENDREiE Zinc?Z. (^Introduction to the Natural
Systein of Botany, p. 262.)

BLETIA. Supra, vol. \l,fol. 1401.

B. gracilis ; sepalis petalisque subEequalibus lanceolatis acuminatis, labelli trilobi
lobis lateralibus nanis rotundatis intermedio transverse emarginato undulato :
lamella solitaria in medio, foliis plicatis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis subtus
discoloribus.

B. gracilis ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. 1681.

Pseudobulbi ovati, agyregati, purpurei. Folia plicata, membranacea,
latitudine variabilia, scepius unico tantum perfecto cuique pseudobulbo.
Scapus terminalis, gracilis, purpuratus, 1 J pedem longus, erectus, calami
corvini crassitudine, parcissime squamatus,apice racemum brevem 3'4-Jlorvm
gerens. Flores subringentes, sepalis petalisque sordide luteis, rosea versus
apices suffusis ; labello basi roseo venis picto apice luteo.

A native of Mexico, whence it was introduced by the
Messrs. Loddiges, of Hackney. Our drawing was communi-
cated by James Bateman, Esq. from his collection at Kny-
persley, in July, 1833 ; we also received it in flower at
nearly the same time from the Hon. and Rev. William Her-
bert.

It probably requires the treatment of Bletia verecitnda,
acutipetala, and Shepherdi, to all which it is nearly re-
lated ; and it ought, when at rest, to be kept where it is in
no degree exposed to circumstances that are favourable to
its growth. Dryness, and a cool place at the back of a

* Sccfol. 1401,

green-house, or even a common pit, protected from cold
and wet, would probably suit it until tha season for its
growth returns, at which time it should be removed to a
hot damp-stove, among tropical epiphytes, to remain
there till its leaves decay; when that happens, it- should
once more be restored to a resting-house.

The species is very distinct from any previously de-
scribed.

MS2.

1G82

* GILIA Acbillesetolia.

Milfoil-leaved Gilia.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Polemoniace^. Juss. {Introduction to the Natural System
of Botany, p. 219.)

GILIA, Supra, vol. U,fol. 1170.

Sect. 3. Eugilia. Folia alterna, pinnatifida v. pinnatisecta. Flares

subsolitarii, v. scepius qlomerati. Corollce tubus calyce subbrevior. Bentham
in Bot.Reg. fol. 1622/

G. Achillecefolia ; caule erecto glabriusculo, folils 2-3-pinnatisectis : segmentis
lineari-subulatis, corymbis capitatis multifloris longissime pedunculatis, caly-
cibus sublanatis, coroUis calyce duplo longioribus, staminibus corolla brevi-
oribus. Bentham, I. c.

Herba a?mMa, Icete viridis, ra7nosa, pedalis et ultra, glaberrima, sahns
folioru?n basibus ciliatis calycibus pedunculisque. Corollas purpurece ; sta-
mina ad ipsos sinus inserla, limbo breviora, antheris cyaneis.

A new hardy annual, sent from California to the Horti-
cultural Society by Mr. Douglas. It resembles G. capitata
in its foliage, and in the arrangement of its flowers ; but its
appearance is much more green, and its habit is dwarfish.
The flowers, too, are purple, instead of sky-blue.

It will grow in any kind of soil, and produces seed in
abundance, so that it will soon become as common as G.
capitata itself.

Our drawing was made in August last, at which time
the flowers first began to open. The plant continued in
perfection till the beginning of December, when the cold
nights killed it.

* See fol. 1170.

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1G83

LINARIA DalmaticH.
Dalmatian Toad-jiax.

DIDYNAMIA A^GWSPERMIA.

Nat. ord. ScrophularinejE.. Juss. (^Introduction to the Natural Syste7H
of Botany, p. 228.)

Siibtribus Antirrhinecc ; Chavannes.

LINARIA, Toumef. Calyx 5-partitu,s. Corolla personata ; tul)o ab-
breviate inflato basl calcarato ; palato ad faucem prominente interdum depresso.
Cupsula valvulis dentibusve 4-10, v. operculis 2 dehiscens. Chavannes Monogr,
Antirrh. p. 74.

L. Dalmatica ; glauca, ramosa, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis approximatis,
fioribus ad summitates ramorum paucis et laxis, calycis segmentis oblongo-
V. lineari-lanceolatis acutis glabris, Chavannes, I. c. p. 126.

Calcare corollce aqiialt.

Linaria grandiflora ; Desf. coroll. inst. Tourn. p. 30. t. 21. Chavannes, I. c.

Calcare corolla inulth breviore.

Antirrhinum Dahiiaticum ; Linn. sp. 857.

Linaria Dalmatica; Mill. diet. ed. 8, No. 13. -

Seeds of this handsome plant were gathered in Persia,
and presented by Sir Henry Willock to the Horticultural
Society, in whose garden a plant or two flowered about
Midsummer last year. The shoots spring, with very few
branches, straight from the ground, and rise to the height
of two or three feet. They and the leaves are covered over
with a dense bloom, which contrasts agreeably with the deep
yellow of the showy flowers.

It has not produced seeds ; but as it is perennial, it may
probably be increased without difficulty, by dividing the
crow^ of its roots.

* An alteration of Linum, flax, vvliich many of the species resemble before
thev fluvver.

That this Persian plant is, the same as the Armenian and
Dahnatian species, we cannot for an instant doubt. The
only distinction that Monsieur Chavannes, in his elaborate
and truly excellent monograph, was able to point out be-
tween them, consists in the greater length of the spur in this
form of the species. But in all other respects it is so identi-
cal with the others, that it does not appear to us advisable
to separate them even as varieties.

The range of the plant, then, in its wild state, will be
from Dalmatia and Candia, in Europe, into Armenia and
Persia.

It appears to be a hardy perennial.

1684

* RHODODENDRON arboreum; var. album.
White Tree Rhododendron.

DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Erice^. Juss. (Introduction to the Natural System of
Botany, p. 182.)

RHODODENDRON. Supra, vol. 1, fol. 37.

H. arboreum ; foliis glabris lanceolatis subtus micantibus, capsula valvulis 10,

caule arboreo.
a. sanguineum ; floribus atrosangulnels, foliis subtus argenteis.
R. arboreum. Supra, vol. II, fol. 890.
(i. roseum ; floribus intense roseis, foliis subtus ferrugineis. Supra, vol. 15,

fol. 1240.
y. album ; floribus candidis, foliis subtus ferrugineis.
R. arboreum album. Wallich. PL As. rar. vol. 2, p. 23, t. 123.

Never did we behold any flower more perfectly lovely
than was this when we received it from the conservatory of
Mr. Wells, in the month of February last. Its leaves
of the richest and deepest green, mellowed by the warm
tone of their under surface ; its large clusters of bell-
shaped flowers, hanging loosely yet compactly by their
slender stalks, and the half transparent snowy corollas,
without a stain or a spot, save what Nature had given them
to render their whiteness the more pure and brilliant, formed
together an eflect which few objects could rival, and none
surpass. Neither the rich crimson of the common Tree
Rhododendron, nor the deep rose-colour of its pale variety,
can for a moment be compared with that admirable deli-
cacy which no art can imitate, and no pen describe.

Dr. Wallich, in his splendid Plantce AsiaticcB, speaks
thus of the native habits of this noble plant : —

" Both it and the rose-coloured variety are confined to
the single mountain Sheopore, among those which I had an

* See fol. 1240.
VOL. XX. F

opportunity of visiting during my sojourn in Nipal, occupy-
ing the very summit of it, at an elevation of not less than
10,000 feet above the sea. I observed a considerable
number of individuals, but it appeared to me that those
with rose-coloured flowers were by far the most common.
They attain the size of very large forest trees, and are noble
objects at all times. They blossom simultaneously in April,
in which state the beauty of them surpasses all description,
the ample crown of the trees being entirely covered with
bunches of large and elegant blossoms. The common red-
flowered or parent species is likewise found on the above-
mentioned mountain, but it is less frequent there than in
lower situations, where it blossoms a month earlier, that is,
in March.

"There cannot be the slightest doubt that the above-
mentioned trees are mere varieties of the common Rhodo-
dendron arhoreum ; and if it were necessary to adduce proofs
of this, in addition to the fact that in every essential cha-
racter they perfectly agree, I should mention that I have
actually seen the white and rose-coloured sorts gradually
change into each other, as well as into the colour of the
parent tree. The only marks of distinction from the latter
consist in the more or less brown colour of the lower sur-
face of the leaves, which both varieties have in common,
and the colour of the flowers, which in our variety is pure
white, with a very slight tinge of pale pink on the base of
two or three of the lobes of the corolla. I am convinced,
moreover, that from the great elevation at which the varie-
ties are found, they will prove hardy trees in this country ;
and that even the common Nipal Rhododendron, provided
the individuals are derived from mountains not lower than
that at which its varieties grow, will also stand the climate
of England."

We regret to find that experience does not confirm the
expectations of our learned friend ; for all the Indian Rho-
dodendrons appear to be incapable of enduring the climate
of Great Britain. The only way to cultivate them success-
fully, is to treat them as hardy conservatory plants.

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1085

*TRITEI.EiA laxa.
Loose-jiowering Triteleia.

HEXANDRIA MOfiOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Asphodele^. Juss. (^Introduction to the Natural System
of Botany, p. 273.)

TRITELEIA Hooker. Perianthium tubulosum, subinfundibulare, mar-
cescens. Stamina 6, duplici serie inserta ; superioribus petalis oppositis. SquamcB
hypogynse nuUae. Ovarium SiEpius stipitatum, raro sessile, polyspermum ; stig-
mata trilobo. -Herbae (^Austro et Boreali Americana), cormis induviatis.

Floras umbellati.

T. laxa ; foliis linearibus glaucis scape longioribus, involucre pedicellis duple
breviore, pedicellis laxiusculis periantbio basi angustato aequalibus, ovario
longe stipitato, filamentis 6 decurrentibus basi cristatis, umbella multiflora.

T. laxa. Bentham in Hort. Trans, vol. 1, n. s. p. 413, t. 15, f. 2.

Involucrum membranaceum, scept 3-phyllum, sed jioribus numerosioribus
polyphyllum ; bracteis pedicellis brevioribus. Umbella multiflora, (6 — 20),
laxiuscula, Flores ccerulei, infundibulares , pedicellorum longitudiae, circa
ovarium marcescentes ; laciniis ovatis, dorso viridi-costatis, cxterioribus
paulb angustioribus et acutioribus. Stamina 6, duplici serie ordinata, tubo
adnata, Jilamentis elevatis basi incrassatis et crenulatis ; superiora petalis
opposita. Ovarium stipite longo curvo subhexagono imposilum, oblongum,
cyaneum, 3-loculare, polyspermum ; stylus unicus brevis ; stigma trilobum.

Mr. Bentham remarks that this is "a very handsome
plant, the scape of which is from a foot to eighteen inches
high. Its flowers are about the size of those o^ Brodicea
grandijiora, and of the same deep blue colour. They grow
in a lax umbel, but notwithstanding the length of their
stalks stand nearly erect ; the scape is, however, apt to be
procumbent if not supported. It seeds freely, and will soon
be very common."

No plant can be more easy to cultivate ; it will grow in
common garden soil, but prefers such a mixture of peat,

* From Tpiiq three, and riXewQ complete, in allusion to the perfectly
ternary arrangement of its parts.

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loam and sand as is found in a border for American plants;
it appears to be perfectly hardy, and if allowed to remain
undisturbed, it will propagate itself by offsets as well as by
seeds. At the time when our drawing was made the plant
was weak, in consequence of having suffered from a long
voyage round Cape Horn ; it has now become stronger ;
and we write with a specimen before us bearing 20 flowers
in an umbel. It blossoms in June and July",

At fol. 1293 of this work we defined the genus Triteleia,
describing briefly such species as we were then acquainted
with. The discovery of this rendering it necessary to amend
the characters of one of the species, we avail ourselves of
the present opportunity of doing so, and of publishing a
fifth.

T. grandiflora (Lindl. Supra, vol. 15, fol. 1293); foliis
linearibus glaucis scapo erecto bipedali brevioribus, involucro
pedicellis sequali, pedicellis strictis perianthio infundibulari
vix sequalibus, ovario breviter stipitato, filamentis 3 decur-

rentibus basi callosis, umbella pauciflora. North West

America. Formerly cultivated in the garden of the Horti-
cultural Society, but now lost.

T. peduncularis ; foliis linearibus scapo erecto bipedali
brevioribus, involucro pedicellis quater breviore, pedicellis
strictis perianthio obconico quater longioribus, ovario breviter
stipitato, limbo perianthii tubo longiore, umbella multi-
flora.- California. Flowers apparently pale blue. Not

yet introduced.

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1686

* GARRYA elliptica.

JElliptic-leaved Garrya.

DIOECIA TETRANDRIA.

Nat. ord. Garryace^.

GARRYA. Dioica. $. Calyx tetraphyllus. Stamina A. — ^ . Calyx
superus, bidentatus. Ovarium 1-loculare; s^z//zs duobus setacels ; ovulis duo-
bus ab apice funiculorum totidem pendulis. Pericarpium baccatum, indehiscens,

dispermum. Embryo minimus, in basi albuminis carnosi. Frutex (^Boreali-

Americanus). Folia opposita, exstipulata. Flores intra bracteas connatas, in
spicis amentaceis peridulis dispositi.

Garrya elliptica. Douglas in herb.

Frutex dioicus, in kortis S-A-pedalis, verosimiliter fere orgyalis ; rarais
junioribus pubescentibus viridi-purpureis, adultis laevibus, viridi-yriseis, ri-
mosis. Lignum zonas nullas ostendit concentricas : sed maxima jjto parte
e tubis ligneis constat granulis olivaceo-fuscis punctatis, circa medullam
copiosam in lamellis, processubus crassis medullaribus separatis, radiatim
ordinatis ; vasis paucis annularibus reticulatisve inter lignum sparsis ;■ nullis
punctatis interjectis. Folia exacte opposita, exstipulata, undulata, breve
petiolata, oblonga, acuta, coriacea, sempervirentia, supra atro-viridia gla-
bra, subtus pilis simplicibus tortilibus intertextis pubescentia et cana ; vents
pennatis, primariis intra marginem incurvis. Flores in amentis longis pen-
dulis caudceformibus aggregati, e bracteis constantibus, pubescentibus, in-
canis, oppositis, connatis, cuspidatis, decussantibus, persistentibus ; masculi
{Jig. 1), cuique bractece 3, i)edunculati ; sepalis 4, linearibus, pallide viridi"
bus, membranaceis , pilosis ; staminibus totidem sepalis alternis et brevioribus ;
antheris obloyigis, introrsis, bilocularibus, longitudinaliter dehiscentibus,
{Jig. 2) ; foeminei (^Jig. 3) villosi, cuique bractece 3, sepalis 2, minimis superis
stylos decussantibus , ovario infero, \-loculari, ovulis duobus ab apice funi-
culorum brevium pendulis, stigmatibus duobus subulatis {ovario intermedia
anticis posticisque, lateraliuin dextrorsis sinistrorsisque) . Fructus in amentis
dispositi, baccati, pubescentes, oblovgi, uniloculares, dispermi, stigmatibus
persistentibus coronati. Semina oblonga; testa exteriore tenui, suberosa,
interria transverse corrugata, brunnea, chalaza conspicua ad apicem
rapheque elevata ab hilo ducente. Albumen carnosum, homogeneum, embryone
minima dicotyledoneo, radicula hilo proximu ideoque quoad fructum superd.

* Named by Mr. Douglas in compliment to Nicholas Garry, Esq. Secre-
cretary of the Hudson's Bay Company, to whose kindness and assistance
he was much indebted durinc; his travels in North-west America.

Sub Germlnatione embryo elongatur et axin albumiuis occupat, colyledoni-
bus siinul dilatantibus ; tunc, hill coleoptile elevato, cauliculus promitur in-
crassahis, dejlexus, cito in radiculam corrugatam mutatus ; plumula demum
se tollit e medio cotyledonum semper intra semen latentium, more Quercus
aliarumque Cupuliferarum.

A hardy evergreen shrub, native of Northern Cali-
fornia, where it was discovered by Mr. Douglas. It was
introduced in 1828, and a male plant flowered for the first
time in October last in the garden of the Horticultural
Society. In appearance it is very similar to a Viburnum,
and like that genus is readily increased by layers. It has
generally been cultivated in peat, but it certainly prefers a
loamy soil.

Although this plant cannot be compared " for beauty to
the Berberries, Ribes, Lupines, Pentstemons, Clarkias, Calo-
chorti, and other fine things discovered by Mr. Douglas,
it is probable that it is the greatest botanical curiosity in all
his collections ; for it appears to represent a Natural order on
the one hand altogether distinct from any previously known,
and on the other connecting certain well known Natural
orders in an unexpected and satisfactory manner.

In its amentaceous inflorescence, imperfect flowers, su-
perior calyx, and mode of germination, Garry a is very simi-
lar to Cupuliferce, from which it differs most essentially in
its wood without concentric circles or dotted vessels, its oppo-
site exstipulate leaves, simple fruit, and minute embryo
lying in a great mass of albumen.

The latter characters bring it near Piperacece and their
allies, especially ChloranthecB, with which its zoneless wood
(for Chloranthus has no annual zones'), simple fruit, and
opposite leaves also agree ; but the stipules of Chloranthece,
together with its achlamydeous bisexual flowers, and ar-
ticulated stems, distinctly separate that order.

Urtice(^ and Stilaginece may also be compared with Gar-
rya on account of their imperfect unisexual flowers, some-
what amentaceous inflorescence, and simple fruit ; but their
superior fruit, alternate leaves, and more perfectly formed
wood are important points of difference.

Gnetacece, a naked-seeded order, consisting at present
of the genus Gnetum alone, most essentially distinguished
from Coniferce by the veining of its leaves, its jointed stems,
zoneless wood, and more complete vascular system (for it
certainly abounds in true spiral vessels, contrary to the ob-
servation of Mr. Adolphe Brongniart), and forming a con-
necting link between PiperacecB and Taxinece. Gnetacecs

may also be compared to Garrya on account of their oppo-
site exstipulate leaves, amentaceous unisexual flowers ap-
pearing from the axillae of connate bracteae, their minute
embryo lying in a great mass of albumen, and imperfect
zoneless wood, which in both cases is chiefly constituted of
woody fibre (the sides of which are marked with numerous
brownish granules), and of annular and reticulated vessels
lying scattered sparingly among the tubes of woody fibre.

Finally, Henslovia, an imperfectly known genus, with
regularly zoned wood filled with dotted ducts, like those of
Ulmus, is not to be overlooked in comparing Garrya with
other genera, on account of its imperfect unisexual flowers
and opposite exstipulate leaves ; but the Natural order
(ffensloviacece) of which it must be considered the type, is
too little known to enable us to carry the comparison
further.

Garrya, then, proves to be essentially different from any
known order, and to constitute the commencement of a new
natural groupe, to which the following characters may be
assigned.

Garryace^.

Dicotyledones, incompletae, rectembrise, inarticulatae ;
ligno exogeno, ezonato ; foliis oppositis, exstipulatis ; Jioribus
unisexualibus, monochlamydeis ; ovario infero, monocarpo,
oligospermo ; ovulis pendulis ; embryone minimo, in basi

albuminis carnosi ; germinatione intraseminali. Cupuli-

feris affines, easque cum Coniferis connectentes per Chlo-
rantheas in Gnetaceis transeuntes.

Fig. i represents a barren flower ; 2, an anther ; 3, a
fertile flower ; 4, a vertical section of the latter.

N.

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1687

* GEODORUM fucatum.

Painted Geodorimi.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. OrchidEjE. Juss. § Vande^, LindL {Introduction to the
Natural System of Botant/, p. 262.)

GEODORUM. Supra, vol. 8, fol. 675.

G. fucatum ; scapo florlfero foliis duplo breviore, spica pendula congesta,
labello gibboso ovato emarginato integerrimo : lineis duabus callosis ele-
vatis.

Folia e tubere subterraneo annulatim cicatrizato erumpentia, oblongo-
lanceolata, acuta, plicata, pedem longa, scapo forifero duplo longiora, frugi-
fero subcequalia. Scapus radicalis, erectus, vaginatus, apice recurvus, et
spicam ideo pendulam, partlbus omnibus inversis, compactam, brevem gerens.
Bracteffi lineares, acutce, ovarii longitudine. Flores subcampanulati, magni-
tudine et facie G. dilatati. Sepala lineari-oblonga, acuta, rosea, apice paulu-
lum recurva petalis paulo latioribus omninb conformia et jjarallela. Labellum
ob spicam i?iversam, anticum, revera posticum, ovatum, concavum, subtus
gibbosum, cum columna parallelum et continuum nee articulatum, integer-
rimum, emarginatum ; roseum, venis lateralibus intensioribus pictum ; lineis
duabus latis, elevatis, parallelis, contiguis, ochraceo-sanguineis, in medio.

A single plant of this new species of Geodorum sent to
the Horticultural Society from Ceylon by Mr. Watson, in
1832, flowered in the Chiswick garden last July. It resem-
bles G. dilatatum figured in tab. 675 of this work ; but has
rather smaller flowers, and a very difl'erent labellum.

It thrives in a hot, damp stove, but requires to be rested
after its leaves have withered.

Fig. 1. represents the labellum seen from above; fig. 2.
the column and labellum after the other parts of the flower
have been removed.

From yi] the earth, and lw[)ov a gift.

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1688

SPHJSROSTEMA propinquum.

Small-jiowered Sphcerostema.

• DICECIA POLYANDRIA.

Nat. ord. Anonace^ Juss. § ScHizANDREiE Blume. (Nix7is Plan-
tarum 9.)

SPHjEROSTEMA, Blume.— Dioicum. Sepala 6, dupllcl ordine di-
gesta, exterioribus minoribus. Petala 3. Stamina maris in globum coadunata,
mAe^nitdL, Jilamentis omnino v. pro parte tantum connatis. Carpella indefinita,
disperma; »m/z<ra baccata, receptaculo longissimo spicatim disposita. Semina

reniformia ; albumine carnoso, homogeneo. Frutices (Asiaticce) volubiles,

aromaiiccB, glabrcB. Folia dentata. Flores axillares.

S. propinquum ; follls ovatis acuminatis dentatis, floribus subsolitarlis petiolo

a>qualibus, petalis ciliatis, antheris immersis.
S. propinquum, Blume. — Wall. Cat. iVo. 4986.
Kadsura propinqua. Wall. Tentamen, p.W, t.\5.

Frutex volubilis, glaber, aromaticus. Lignum m,ore Stauntoniae zonas
nullas annxias ostendit, sed mera est congeries tuborum ligneorum radiatim
?iiedullam copiosam circumstantium, et processubus tenuibus medullaribus
continuis in lamellas tenues separatorum ; inter quos copia adest vasorum
annulatorum reticulatorumque sine ordine dispositorum. Tubi lignei parietes
habent admodum crassas, diaphanas tamen, et glandulis fuscis uniseriatis
notatas ; vasa multb tenuiora et grandiora. Folia ovata, acuminata, dentata,
Flores masculi solitarii, axillares ; pedunculo l-2-bracteato, petiolo paiclh
longiore. Sepala viridia, incequalia, tria exteriora minima, interiora viajora,
concava, oblonga, ciliata. Petala 3, sepalis interioribus conformia, lutea,
mox fulva. Stamina plurima, in globum carnosum coadunata, apicibus
tantum antheriferis liberis ; antherae ovata:, biloculares, dorso afixcR, in
foveis globi nidulantes.

\_Foeminei (ex eel. Wallich) quoad sepala masculis simillimi. Ovaria
minima, valde numerosa, carnosa, ovata, supra et intus marginula parum ele-
vata notata, imbricata in acervulum subglobosum. Stylus nullus. BacccB glo-
bosae, carnosfe, numerosae, laeves, coccineae, parum minores quam in antecedente,
fabric'd vero interna omnino similes, dispositse in spicam brev6 pedunculatam,
sex poUicarem, cylindricam, rachi parum iucrassata, valde aspera propter tubercula
numerosa baccas adfigentia.j

A hot-house climber, found by Dr. Wallich in Nipal, on
Mount Sheopore, and on hills about Sankoo. It is easily

* So named from nfalpa a globe, and arFfpa a stamen, in allusion to the
structure of the male flowers.

propagated by cuttings, and in the fertile state must be a
handsome plant, with its long pendulous spikes of scarlet
berries. Unfortunately, the plant which flowered in the
garden of the Horticultural Society last July, and from which
our drawing was taken, was a male ; so that we are not
likely to see these berries until a fresh importation of plants
shall have taken place.

In the structure of its flowers it is extremely curious.
The stamens (fig. 2.) are all consolidated into a solid globu-
lar mass, the anthers only being at liberty, and nestling in
a number of little excavations (fig. 1.) of the mass.

We find, by our memoranda, that Dr. Blume combines
this genus, Kadsura, Staimtonia, and Schizandra into a small
group, called SchizandrecB. We have not at hand the work
in which Dr. Blume's ideas upon this subject are explained,
but we presume, from the ternary structure of the flower of
those genera, their aromatic foliage, apocarpous fruit, hypo-
gynous stamens, and minute embryo lying in a great mass
of albumen, that they constitute a section o^ Anonacece ; dis-
tinguished by the climbing habit, imisexual flowers, homo-
geneous albumen, and, perhaps, also by their wood. Upon
this latter point we however cannot judge, from want of
means of examining the wood of Schizandra and Kadsura ;
that of Sphcerostema is very like the remarkable wood of
Stauntonia or Hollhollia, figured in our introduction to Bo-
tany, p. 70, as will be evident from the technical description
given of it in this account.

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1689

* HUPINUS densiflorus.
JDense-Jiowered Lupin.

DIADELPHIA DEC^NDRI^.

Nat. ord, LEGUMiNosyE. Juss. {Introduction to the Natural System of
Botany, p. 86.)

LUPINUS. Supra, vol. \Z,fol. 1096.

L. densiflorus ; annuus, pilosus, caulibus adscendentibus basi foliosis ; foliolis
7-9 oblongo-spathulatis, verticillis numerosis villosis approximatis 6-10-
floris, pedicellis bracteatis, calycis labio superlore membranaceo bipartite in-
feriore piloso tridentato duplo longiore, leguminibus villosis dispermis.
L. densiflorus. Bentham in Hort. Trans, n. s. vol. \, p.

Annuus ; caule erecto, simplici, brevissimo, villoso, in spontanea pedun-
culo communi mullo breviore. Folia pilosa ; foliolis oblongo-spathulatis,
7-9, pallide viridibus, in spontanea pedunculo longioribus, culta brevioribus ;
stipulse setacece, intertcxtim villoscB. Verticilli villosissimi, 6-lO-Jlori, cequales,
approximati ; inferioribus magis distantibus. Bractese a lata basi setacece,
carincB longiludine, apice sphacelatce. Calyx villosus, in cultu tantum pu-
bescens ; bracteolis setaceis labii superioris longitudine ', lab. sup. bipartito,
laciniis approximatis; inferiore apice tridentato dente intermedia minimo,
superiore breviore. (Obs. jjartes in icone incuria pic t oris falsi delineantur.)
Vexillum lacteum, acutiusculum, basi viridi-punctatum ; alae et carina acumi-
natce, rosece, lineis intensioribus striaice. Semina olivacea, Icevia, nigra
maculata.

Raised in the garden of the Horticultural Society, from
seeds sent from California, by Mr. Douglas. Mr. Bentham,
in his paper in the Horticultural Transactions, to which we
have so often referred, speaks of it thus : —

" The flowers, which grow in distinct whorls, are white,
delicately stained with pink ; they are also a little speckled
at the base of the vexillum. The leaves are closely clustered
together, are covered with fine soft hairs, and each has about
nine narrow divisions. The stem does not grow above six
or seven inches high."

It is a hardy annual, but not one of the most beautiful
species. Seeds have been hitherto produced by it in such
small quantities, that it still remains extremely rare.

* Seefol. 1198.

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1690

* YI'JCCA superba.
Superb Adam's Needle.

HEXANDRIA MONOGYmA.

Nat. ord. LiLiACEiE. Juss. (Introduction to the Natural System of
Botamj, p. 279.)

YUCCA. — Corolla hexapetalo-partita, campanulata, demum marcescens *
laciniis cequalibus parum patentibus, ungue connatis. Stamina valida, brevia ;
filamentis basi corollse insertis, superne tumidulis. Antherce parvae, suboblongse
V. subglobosae. Germ, oblongum, teretiusculum, 6-sulcum, stamina excedens.
Stigmata 3, sessilia, obesa, deorsum confluentia, apice parum recurvata. Caps.
carnosa, oblonga, obtuse 3-6-gona, apice perforata et demum dehiscens, 3-6-locu-
laris, dissepiraentis 3 crassioribus. Semina numerosissima, uniserialia, plana.
Romer and Schultes Syst. veg. v. 7, xli.

Y. superba ; foliis loratim lanceolatis amplis 2-3 uncias latis subplicatis parum
mucronatis, floribus confertissimis oblongo-campanulafis, inapertis apice
assurgenter rostratim curvantibus, caudice decempedali. Haworth Suppl.
Succ. PL p. 36. — Rumer and Schultes Syst. veg. vol. 7, p. 720.

Y. gloriosa. Bot. Rep. t. 473.

We are indebted to the Honourable and Rev. William
Herbert, for the specimen from which our drawing was made.
Having no knowledge of the plant ourselves, we can only
repeat the observations made by Mr. Haworth, when he first
pointed out the species, with the addition of Mr. Herbert's
remarks in the letter that accompanied the specimens.

" This conspicuous species," says Mr. Haworth, " has
been taken, by the authors of the Botanical Magazine, for
Yucca aloifolia ; and, misled by relying too much on their
decision, I have cited its beautiful figure in the Botanical
Repository, for Y. aloifolia. But on more mature consi-
deration, nothing can appear more distinct in the whole
genus than those two plants. The leaves of the present spe-

* Yuca is said to be the name of this genus among the natives of Saint
Dominsfo.

cies are entire, and smooth-margined, not serrulated, and
three times broader than those of aloifolia ; and they possess
much weaker and less pungent points. Indeed, as a species,
it is much nearer allied to Y. gloriosa ; and, in fact, appears
to differ from that species only in the shape of its corolla,
and in its arborescent stem, which differences are, however,
sufficient." — (^SuppL Succ. p. 36.)

Mr. Herbert tells us that he bought the Yucca, twenty
years ago, from Mr. William Malcolm, of Kensington ;
and that it is unquestionably the most magnificent plant in
the flower-garden. The flower-stem rises eight or nine feet
high, and the profusion of blossom is so great, that as the
lateral shoots are rather suberect than diverging, a pin can-
not be passed between the flowers in the centre of the
column. The deep crimson of the stalks and stem, and the
purple stripe on the outer petals of the flower, remind one of
the colour of crinum amabile, and contrast beautifully with
the glossy white flowers. It is a very hardy species, and
flowers frequently. In a very dry season the colour is not
so deep ; w^arm or temperate, and showery weather, bring
it to the highest perfection of beauty. Its leaves are more
acutely pointed than those of Yucca gloriosa.

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1691

* GILIA coronopifolia.
Ravenfooted Gilia.

PENTANDRIA MO'NOGY^IA.

Nat. ord. Polemoniace^. Juss. (^Introduction to the Natural System
ofBotamj, p. 219.)

GILIA. Supra, vol. 19, fol. 1622, in textu.

§2. Ipomopsis. Foliaalterna, pinnatisecta v. pinnatifida. Flares axil-
lares V. subglomerati. Corolla: tubus elongatus longh exsertus. Bentham,
supra, fol. 1622.

G. coronopifolia ; caullbus strictis panlculatis glanduloso-pubescentibus, foliis
pectinatim pinnatis : laciniis filiformibus apice setaceis, corollis elongatis
tubulosis limbi patuli laciniis oblongis acutis.

G. coronopifolia. Pers. synops. 1. 187.

Ipomopsis elegans. Smith Exot. hot. 1. 23. t. 13.

Ipomopsis picta. Hort. Gallic.

When we published the beautiful plant called Ipomopsis
elegans at folio 1281 of this work, we thought it certain,
firstly that the genus Ipomopsis was distinct from Gilia, and
secondly that the old Gilia coronopifolia of the gardens was
the same as that species. It however appears from the inves-
tigations of Mr. Bentham that we were in error in both these
particulars ; for he sinks the genus Ipomopsis in Gilia, and
separates the north-west American species from that of
Carolina.

In regard to the latter point we are satisfied that we were
in error, and we accordingly avail ourselves of the present
opportunity of pointing out the differences between the two
species.

Gilia coronopifolia, a Carolina plant, called in the French
gardens Ipomopsis picta, has its stem covered over with fine
glands mingled with a delicate downiness ; its leaves have

• See fol. 1170.
VOL. XX, G

extremely narrow divisions, which are tapered off to a fine
point ; and its corolla has the segments in no wise reflexed,
bat spreading flat, and oblong with a slight point.

G. jMlchella (fol. 1281) on the contrary, a North-west
American plant, has no glands on its stem ; its leaves have
narrow flat segments, which do not taper to the point ; and
its corolla has the segments almost triangular and reflexed.

By these botanical differences then they may be distin-
guished ; in addition to which we may add, that G. coronopi-
folia is a plant which although delicate is tolerably easy to
cultivate, and produces its seed in some abundance ; while on
the other hand Gilia pulchella is so impatient of cultivation
that it is already nearly lost from our gardens.

Both species are little better than biennials, and succeed
more perfectly in a cool airy green-house than in the open
air ; they are equally handsome, and as may be supposed,
from their having been confounded with one another, very
much alike.

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1692

* RIBES niveum.

White-Jiowei'ed Gooseberry.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Grossulace^. J7xss. (Introduction to the Natural System
of Botany, p. 54.)

RIBES. Supra, voL2,foL 125.

R. niveum; ramis aculeatis, aculeis 1-3, foliis subrotimdis obtuse trilobis cre-

nato-incisis basi integerrimis glabris, pedunculis subbifioris, sepalis reflexis,

staminibus long^ exsertis conniventibus pilosis stylo longioribus.

Frutex R. Grossularise facie et statura. Aculei sub ramulis solitarii

gemini ternive pugioniformes, quibusdam prceterea minorihus in internodia ;

in ramulis vegetioribus densissimi, reflexi. Folia glabra, axillis venarum

nonnunquam villosis, venisque ipsis memhrana connexis: Racemi 2-3-Jlori,

penduli, foliis midto hreviores. Calyx viridis, laciniis albis, reftexis, paulu-

lum glandulosis ; petala erecta, conyiiventia, lacera. Stamina dongata, con-

niventia ; lilamentis pilosis, stylo piloso longioribus. Baccse nigrce, glabrce,

R. nigri omnino facie et magnitudine ; sapore acido vinoso submoschato gustui

gratissimo.

An undescribed Gooseberry, brought to the Horticultu-
ral Society by Mr. Douglas, from North-west America.
It is nearly allied to the common European Gooseberry, from
which it is distinguished by its long conical stamens.

Hihes triflorum, an American species, to which this also
approaches, is essentially distinguished by its much more
slender habit, smaller dingy green flowers, and much smaller
fruit.

The latter is about the size of that of a Black Currant, and
of the same deep rich purple colour ; it has altogether the

* See fol. 1263.

g2

appearance of a small smooth gooseberry, but its flavour is
very different. It is entirely destitute of the flatness which
is more or less perceptible in even the best gooseberries, in
lieu of which it has a rich sub-acid vinous rather perfumed
flavour, which is extremely agreeable. The fruit is rather
too acid to be eaten raw, but when ripe it makes delicious
tarts, and would probably form an excellent means of im-
proving the common gooseberry by hybridizing.

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1693

*- 01PL0PAPPU8 incanus.

HoavD Dlplopappus.

SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA.

Nat. ord. Composite. Juss. {Introduction to the Natural System of
Botany, p. 197.)

DIPLOPAPPUS Cassini. Radius uniserialis foemiiieus. Discus herma-
pliroditus. Pappus biserialis conformis. Corolla disci regularis. Achcenium

erostre. Herbae v. fruticuli Americani, Asiatici, v. Africani, foliis alternis

integris ; capitulis terminalibus, solitariis, colore vario tinctis Lessing. Synops.
gen. comp. p. 163.

D. incanus ; sufFruticosus, foliis linearibus obtusis glauco-incanis semiamplexi-
■caulibus, caulis corymbosi ramulis unifloris, involucri squarrosi foliolis lineari-
lanceolatis glandulosis.

Herba perennis, svffruticosa, incano-tomentosa, subbipedalis, corym-
boso-ramosa ; ramulis distanter foliatis monocephalis . Folia omnia linearia,
incana, sessilia, apice mucromdata, patentia ; in ramulis floridis sensim eva-
nesceyitia. Involucra hemisphcerica, squarrosa, bracteis linearibus, acutis,
subglandulosis, interioribus erectis, basi albidis apice kerbaceis. Radius
biseriatus, violacevs ; discus luteus. Pappus biseriatus,Jiliformis, pubescens ;
serie exteriore abbreviala ; ovario tereti lanato.

A handsome half-shrubby species, discovered in Cali-
fornia by Mr. Douglas, by whom seeds were sent to the
Garden of the Horticultural Society in 1832.

It is easily known from D. linariifolius and its allies by
its hoary leaves, and soft flower-heads, which have the
leaflets reflexed at the points in a squarrose manner, and
covered with minute semi-transparent glands. Its flowers
are of a rich lilac, with a bright yellow disk.

The species is rather tender, and should be protected dur-
ing winter in a frame. In summer it grows freely in any
hot, exposed situation, for which its Californian constitution
particularly qualifies it.

* So called in allusion to the double row of pappus of the genus.

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1G94

* PULTENJEA flexilis.
Shining- leaved Pultcncea .

DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. Orel. Leguminos.i;, Juss. (Introduction to the Natural System
of Botany, p. 87.)

PULTEN^A. Supra, vol. 5,foL 378.

P. flexilis ; daberrima, floribus axillaribus, foliis oblongo-linearibus inucronatis

planis. R. Broivn in Hort. Kew. vol. 3, p. 19.
P. flexilis. Smith in Linn. Trans. 9. 248. De Candolle Prodr, 2. 111.
Dillwynia teucrioides. Sieber plant, exs. n. hall. No. 423.

Rami minutissimc pubescentes, subangulati. Folia obovato-ohlonga,
angiista, mucronulata, plana, viridia, nitida, glaberrima ; stipulis setaceis,
fuscis, ppJiolo paidh longioribus. Flores solitarii, axillares, brevipedunculati.
Calyx glabcrrimus, bibracteatus, 5-dentatus ; dentibus brevibus subcequalibus.

We are indebted to Mr. Cunningham for the knowledge
of this being the true P. flexilis of Smith and the Hortus
Kewensis, with which an entirely different plant, with glaucous
leaves and hairy calyxes, has been confounded by Mr. Sweet.

Mr. Cunningham concludes it must also be P. flexilis of
Mr. De Candolle, because that Botanist quotes as a synonym,
Dillwynia teucrioides of Sieber, the identity of which with tlie
present plant is proved by the comparison of authentic speci-
mens. The statement made by Mr. De Candolle, that his plant
has no bracts, may possibly be accounted for upon the suppo-
sition that the specimens he described were imperfect.

Mr. Cunningham further adds that the species is " closely
allied to P . polygalifolia of Rudge, but the calyx of that species
is interspersed with villous hairs ; its leaves are smaller ; and
it is altogether a more abundant flowering plant. P. euchila
D. C. has also smaller cuneated leaves, and a remarkable

* See fol. 1584.

ample calyx, like, as De CandoUe observes, Euckilus of
R. Br. and especially, to my view, like that of some Gompho-
lohia. — I have now before me an authentic bit of Sieber's
Dillwynia cuneata.''

" P.Jlexilis Sm. and Br. is a native of the country around
Port Jackson, where it flowers in the spring (Sept.) ; and
according to Hortus Kewensis, has been an occasional inha-
bitant of the English gardens for upwards of thirty years."

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1695

* DENDR(3BIUM aggregatum.
Clustered Dendrohium.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. Orchide^. 8. Malaxideae Lindl. {Introduction to the Natural
System of Botany, p. 262.)

DENDROBIUM. Supra, vol. 7,fol.548.

D. aggregatum ; pseudobulbis monophyllis fusiformibus cinereis corrugatis, folio
oblongo coriaceo obtuso racemo laterali cernuo multlfloro duplo breviore,
petalis ovatis sepalis duplo latioribus, labello integerrimo latiore quam longo
medio transverse plicato basi pubesceiite.

D. aggregatum Roxb. FL Ind. 3. 477. Lindl. in Wallich. cat. 7411.

Pseudobulbi fusiformes, ccespitosi, 2-pollicares, sqiiamis cinereis pellu-
cidis vestiti. Folia S-pollicaria, obscure 5-striata. Racemi e latere pseudo-
bulbi provcnientes, 9 pollices et ultra longi, laxi, cernui, v. nuiantes, 1 0-
\5-fiori. Bractese minimoe, ovatce, purpurascentes. Flores pallidi, sub-
crocei, pedicellis gracilibus Jlexuosis inscrti. Sepala explanata, anguste ovata,
anterioribus valde obliquis in pseudocalcar obtusum conniventibus, more
generis. Petala ovata, sepalis duplb latiora. Labellum versus basin intensius
croceum, tali modo dilatatum et plicatum ut marginibus suis posterioribus
petalorum dimidiam inferiorem imbricat ; cum columna articulatum. Columna
parva, albida, basi processu carnoso squamiformi dejlexo aucta ; clinandrio
obtuse tridentato.

Received, according to Dr. Roxburgh, into the Botanic
Garden, Calcutta, from Mr. Pierard, who found it growing
on the trunk of Lagerstreemia Regince, on the northern border
of Arracan, and observed it in the woods exclusively on that
tree ; it was, however, found to thrive on the Mango tree in
the Botanic Garden. It is also a native of the banks of the
Chappadong river in the Gulf of Martaban, whence it was
brought some years since by Dr. Wallich. It belongs to a
curious section of the genus, all the species of which have
their stems shortened into the pseudobulbous form of Bolbo-
phyllum, and thus form a natural transition to that genus.

* Sec fol. 1239.

It appears to require, as much heat and moisture as any of
the Indian species^ a circumstance which is explained by its
inhabiting, when wild, the damp and sultry woods of Marta-
ban. We believe it was originally distributed by the Horti-
cultural Society ; but it has hitherto flowered only in the
collections of Mr. Harrison and Mr. Bateman, from both of
whom we have received specimens. It blossoms in March
and April.

The lip of this species is remarkable for being much
broader than long, and plaited in the middle in such a man-
ner as to form a projection round the hollowed part which
lies against the column ; it is moreover more distinctly
articulated with the column than is usual in the genus. Its
column has a fleshy reflexed appendix near its base.

In the accompanying figure 1 represents the lip, viewed
from above : and 2 a section of the column and part of the
lip, for the purpose of shewing at a the bed of the anther,
at h the scale near the base of the column, at c the hairiness
of the cavity of the lip, and at d the point of articulation
between the lip and the column.

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1696

«

* PHACELIA tanacetifolia.
Tansy-leaved Phacelia.

PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA.

•Nat. ord. HYDROPHYLLEiE, R. Br. (Introduction to the Natural SyS'
te7)i of Botany, j}.24i4.)

PHACELIA. Juss. Corolla decldua. Ovarium ovoideo-globosum, plloso-
hispidum. PlacentcB lineares, ssepuLS dorso parletibus ovarii adnata^, biovulatae.
Capsula dissepimentis subcompletis pseudobilocularis. — Herbte annucB v.
perennes, erectce v. diffuses . ¥\ores racemosi, densi, sessiles, v. laxi pedun-
culati, cymis unilateralibus simplicibus v. dichotomis. Bentham MSS.

P. tanacetifolia ; scabro-pubescens v. hispida ; foliis bipinnatifidis : segmen-
tis oblongis dentato-pinnatifidis, calycis laciniis oblongo-linearibus hispidis,
staminibus exsertis. Bentham MSS. '

P. tanacetifolia, Bentham in Hort. Trans, n.s. vol. l.p. 479.

Annua. Caulis suberectus, debilis, ramosus, fragilis, subangulatus, ■pilis
rigidis incequalibus laxii exasperatus. 'Folia pilis brevissimis asper a, fragilia,
subsucculenta, pinnata ; laciniis pinnatifidis lobis ovatis obtusiusculis grosse
scrratis. Racemi compositi, more ordinis circinati, hirsutissimi. Calyx
ebracteatus, 5-phyllus ; sepalis linearibus, corollce subceqicalibus, 4 omniiio
(Ecjualibiis,quintopaululummaJore et sub cestivatione a reliquisremoto. Corolla
tubo brevi obconico ; limbo cequali, 5-lobo ; laciniis oblongis subundulatis
patulis, CEstivatione imbricaiis. Stamina 5, basi corollce inserta, flamentis
S7ibulatis exsertis ; antherae oblong at, flavesce7ites,siibversaiiles. Squama tubi
10, membranacece, lunatce, per.paria inter bases flamentorum approximatce,
verosimiliter pro antheris sterilibus d dorso tubo corollce adnatis, lobis liberis
inembranaccis, habendce. Ovarium parvtmi, ovatum, apice crinitum, uniloculare,
placentis 2, erectis, subulatis, linearibus, liberis, (quasi parietalibus solutis),
apice et basi ovario adhcBrentibus. Ovula cuique placentce 2, appensa, v.
potius peltata, quorum 3 scepius abortimit, uno tantum vivifcato. Capsula
loculicido-bivalvis, oblonga, calyce inclusa, monosperma. Semen oblongum,
compressitm, scrobiculatum, per lineam totam fere faciem occupanlem
jylacenicE adnatum ; embryone in axi albuminis tarnosi, radicula tereti,
superd, cotyledonibus oblongis planis longiore.

* From ^oK-eAoc, a bundle, in allusion to the flowers being collected in close
parcels.

We have extracted the generic and specific characters of
this plant from an important memoir by Mr. Bentham, upon
the Natural order Hydrophylleae, which was read before the
Linnean Society on the J 7th of June last ; it comprehends no
less than 17 new species, and one new genus of this small
groupe.

Upon this plant Mr. Bentham has the following observa-
tions : —

" This is a more elegant and less weedy plant than the
P. circinata now common in gardens. It grows to the height
of a foot and a half or two feet. The stems are erect, not
much branched, bearing a few rigid and reflexed hairs. The
leaves are altogether from 3 to 5 inches long ; the primary
segments, especially the lower ones, are slightly petiolated,
from 8 to 12 in number on each leaf, and from half an inch
to an inch distant. The secondary segments are from a
quarter to half an inch long ; those nearest the axis, sessile
and distinct, the upper ones confluent ; they are green on
both sides, nearly glabrous, but covered with asperities.
The flowers are of a light bluish violet colour, nearly sessile
along one sided spirally incurved racemes, forming together
a dense dichotomous panicle placed at some distance from
the upper leaves ; the calyxes are covered with bristly hairs.

" It is a hardy annual, thriving in any soil or situation."

A native of California, where its seeds were gathered by
Mr. Douglas.

Fig. 1. is a view of the ovarium, with the two-parted
hairy style ; fig. 2. represents the corolla cut open, shewing
the ten scales near its base. We would take the present
opportunity of suggesting that these 10 scales represent five
sterile anthers adhering to the tube of the corolla by
their backs, and consisting each of two membranous lobes.
This is chiefly rendered probable by their number and
position ; but we are not acquainted with any direct evidence
of such being the true nature of these singular appendages.

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1697

* STACHYS inflata.
Bladdery Stachys.

DIDYNAMIA GYMT<!OSPERMIA.

Nat. ord. Labiate. Juss. (Introduction to the Natural System of
Botany, p. 239.)

STACHYS. Supra, vol. \5,fol. 1289.

§. VIII. Ambleia. Suffrutices, fruticesve, tomentosi, rarius glabrati,
nee pilosi. Verticillastri 2-6 rarius sub lO-Jlori. Bractece parvcBv. -pauccB.
Calyces tomentosi v. lanati dentibus mollibus muticis. Bentham Labiat. gen.
et sp. p. 558.

S. injlata ; suflfruticosa, ramis albo-tomentosis, foliis subsessilibus oblongis
obtusis integerrlmis subrugosis subtus albo-tomentosis, verticillastris subsex-
floris distantibus, bracteis linearibus brevibus, calycis sessilis inflato-campa-
nulati albo-tomentosi dentibus ovatis obtusiusculis muticis, coroUis calyce
dimidio longioribus. Bentham I. c. p. 562.

Caulis suffruticosuSy incanits, lanatus, subteres. Folia ovata brevipetio-
lata, integerrima, rugosa, supra cinerea, infra albolanata ; superiora minora,
subscssilia. Spica elongata, nudiuscula ; verticillastris distantibus subsex-
fioris : foliis duobus parvis fioralibus suffultis. Calyces cinerei, tomentosi,
campanulati, inflati, bracteolis parvis subulatis ; dentibus brevibus mollibus,
erectis. Corolla pallide violacea, transparens ; labio superiore lineari, sub-
emarginato, apice inflexo, inferipre dilatato, iindulato, trilobo ; fauce pubes-
cente ; tubo annulo julorum in medio. Staminum filamenta pilosiuscula,
inferiorum post anthesin ad latera corollce reflexa.

This plant was raised in the garden of the Horticultural
Society ; but the label having been accidentally lost, it is
uncertain of what country it is a native. Mr. Bentham con-
jectures that it has come from the North of Africa, which is
rendered the more probable by its having been growing near
some plants obtained from Egyptian seeds presented to the
Society by Mr. Greenough.

It is apparently hardy; but in consequence of the mildness
of the last two winters it is not safe to speak confidently upon

* See fol. 1226.

that point. All that we certainly know about it is that it
grows freely in common garden soil, in the open air, and
that it is easily propagated by cuttings.

It belongs to a section of the genus very different from the
wild Stachyses of our hedges, and distinctly characterised by
the small wrinkled downy hoary leaves and the soft teeth of
the calyx.

Although not a very handsome plant, yet its thin half-
transparent light violet flowers, and neat hoary leaves give
it a pleasing appearance.

In the accompanying plate, fig. 1. represents the corolla
cut open, to shew the place of the filaments and of a ring of
hairs ; 2. a magnified anther with the upper part of the
filament; and 3. is the ovary with the style and stigma.

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1698

* ERICA codonodes.
Bell-heari7ig Heath.

OCTANDRIA MOl^OGY'NIA.

Nat. ord. EmcEiE. Juss. (Introduction to the Natural Sijstem of
Botaynj, p. 182.)

ERICA. Supra, vol. 1, fol. 6.

E. codonodes ; ramulis villosis, follis ternis angustissimis, corollis campanulatis,
calycis laciniis minimis acutis subherbaceis, antheris basi aristatis inclusis,
stylo exserto stigmate simplici.

E. arhoxeas: facie, diversa tamen foliis angtisiioribus, corollis majoribus
et omnino campanulatis nee subglobosis, demum stigmate parum dilatato inte-
gro nee peltato lobato. E. polytrichifolia aZiewff esse speciei videtur ob corollas
multo minores, stylos longiores, et stigmata magna infundibularia siccatione
plicata. An E. arborese mera varietas ?

This species of heath has the general appearance of E.
arborea, a plant which is a great ornament to rocky places
in the South of Europe, where it .grows intermixed with
different kinds of Cistus and the wild Arbutus. But it seems
essentially distinct in its larger flowers, more slender leaves,
less hoary branches, and truly bell-shaped corolla, . which has
by no means the globular form of that of E. arhorea ; its
stigma is moreover very small, and not at all dilated or
lobed,. either when dried or recent. E. polytrichifolia, which
we presume is the E. arborea stylosa of English gardens, is
equally distinct in the same characters.

Our drawing was made from specimens communicated to
us by Mr. Wm. Wood, Nurseryman of Maresfield, in Sussex,
who informs us that the species is quite hardy, and forms a

* So named from eptiKw to break, in allusion to its supposed lithontriptic
powers ; its name may also refer to the unusual brittleness of the branches.

bush from 10 to 12 feet high. It begins to blossom in February,
and continues till the end of May, disregarding both frost
and snow, being often covered with flowers from top to bot-
tom, and forming a most beautiful object.

It thrives in light sandy peat, and is increased, but with
difficulty, either by cuttings struck in sand under a bell glass,
or by layers bent down in July.

1G99

* ONCIDIUM ampliatum.

Inroad-lipped Oncidiiim.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.
Nat. ord. Orchide-e. Juss. {Introduction to the Natural ^ijstem of
Botam/, p. 262.)

ONCIDIUM. Supra, vol. \3. foL 1050.

O. ampliatum ; sepalls omnibus liberis, labello bilobo subrotundo transverso :
laciniis lateralibus brevissimis, callo baseos .5-lobo : lobis lateral ibns patentis-
simis planls truncatis intermediis teretibus centrali compresso, alis columuae
cuneatis dentatis reflexis, pseudo-bulbis subrotundis compressis, foliis planis
oblongo-lanceolatis, scapo erecto apice ramoso.

O. ampliatum. Lindl. in Hook. Bot. misc. v. 3. p. Gen. et sp. orch. part 3.
p. 202.
Folia et pseudobulbi /acie omnino O. papilionis. Scapus ascendens, radi-

calis, l^-2-pcdalis, apice ramosus. Flores lutei, labelli dorso alho.

First found in central America by Mr. Cuming, and afterwards
procured in a living state by Richard Harrison, Esq. from whom the
beautiful specimen now figured was received in March last.

Peculiar as are its flowers, and distinct as the species is in most
respects, it is curious that its leaves and pseudo-bulbs should be so
like those of O. Papilio, that we have known the latter to be mis-
taken for it.

Like all the rest of its genus, it requires the hot damp atmosphere
of a stove, in which, if we may judge by Mr. Harrison's specimens, it
finds itself perfectly at home. We have not yet heard of it in any
other collection.

It is well known that the most considerable part of the Epiphy-
tal Orchidese is found in the greatest vigour in damp sultry %voods of
tropical countr ies ; and accordingly we endeavour in our artificial
cultivation, to form an atmosphere for them as nearly as possible that
which they would naturally breathe in such stations. That this is
attended with very great success is obvious from such plants as the
one now figured, and from the numerous splendid specimens which
are from time to time appearing in the collections of Earl Fitzwil-
liam, Lord Grey of Groby, the Messrs. Harrison, Bateman, Huntley,
Loddiges, and Knight, and the Horticultural Society.

But it is sufficiently evident that although this kind of treatment
is admirably suited to a considerable number, there are others which
grow most unwillingly, or scarcely survive, under such circum-
stances. For instance, Dendrohium speciosum languishes in situations
where the Stanhopeas are in their greatest splendour ; and the Chinese
Bletias almost perish by the side of Eulophia and Zygopetalum. This
arises from the great difference in their respective constitutions, which

* Seefol. 1542.
VOL. XXI. II

are each adapted to distinct conditions of life, and our failure arises
from our mistaking a general principle for an universal law. If a
great majority of Epiphytal Orchidese swarms in damp tropical
forests, there is a considerable minority which lives in an entirely
different climate, of which a few examples will not be without
instruction. Thus in the genus Oncidium itself, where almost all the
species are of tropical habits, O. nuhigenum is only found on the
cool mountains of Peru, at the height of 14,000 feet ; it will there-
fore require a treatment altogether distinct from that of the mass
of the genus. Dendrohium moiiiUforme and catenatum, again, occur
only in Japan, as far north as 37° or 38", or the parallel of Lisbon,
and are periodically subject to a very low temperature.

But the most remarkable instances of a disposition on the part
of some Orchideous Epiphytes to depart from the ordinary habits of
the tribe are found in Australia and its dependency New Zealand.
In some extremely valuable observations upon the geographical dis-
tribution of the Orchideous plants of New Holland, which have been
placed in our hands by Mr. Allan Cunningham, we find a passage
which bears so directly upon this subject, that we cannot do better
than quote it entire.

" There are two, if not three plants of this family," says this
enterprising and scientific traveller, " that grow on trees or rocks in
New South Wales, whose natural constitution should, in cultivating
them, form exceptions to the uniformly adopted mode of treatment of
Epiphytes generally in our English stoves ; namely, that in which
high temperature and considerable humidity are employed. These
are Dend. (Bmidum, J3r., an Epiphyte uniformly found upon the
rugged trunk of Eucalyptus resinifera or Ironbark, in the open very
dry forest grounds of the older colony at Port Jackson; — Cymbi-
dium canalicidatum, Br., which of late years has been observed
beyond the Tropic, both at Moreton Bay and still farther to the
southward at Hunter's River, growing upon the principal limbs of
several of the Eucalypti in the dry open shadeless forest. These two
Epiphytes flourish most luxuriantly in an extremely dry atmosphere,
and flower usually in the summer season in their native wilds, the
high temperature of which is oftentimes greatly increased by the
blighting hot winds, which not unfrequently prevail at that period
from the north-west. The third is I)endrohium undulatum of Mr.
Brown, a handsome species, originally discovered by Sir Joseph
Banks at Bustard Bay, and which has been lately found on bar-
ren hills, naturally clear of timber, upon the banks of the Bris-
bane River at Moreton Bay, where the plant forms tufts on bare
rocks exposed to the full heat of the sun, which during nine months
of the year is very considerable on that part of the coast. These
species were some years since received alive at Kew, from New
South Wales ; and with them was communicated, as a guide to
their culture, a note of the particular situations, with regard to expo-
sure to drought, &c. which they naturally occupy and delight in, in
their native wilds. These particulars were, however, in all probability
wholly unheeded in the King's Gardens — the plants were asso-

ciated with other Epiphytes of this vast and variable family, from
Equinoctial America and the West India Islands, desiring a humid air
^vith wai-mth to luxuriate in, amongst whom the Australians soon
shewed sickness, in consequence of the excess of moisture to which
they were constantly subjected ; and eventually dying, were not only
lost to Kew, but I may add to Europe ! Had they been placed in the
dry stove among Cacti, Stapeliai, &c. with but an occasional light
sprinkle of water aiforded them, they would have fared better!
D. eemulum was, I find, notwithstanding, induced to flower, and thus
shewed by its delicate blossoms that it was well worthy of better
treatment : and might afterwards have been retained, had the notes
communicated with the plant from the Colony, and its look and con-
stitution, so to speak, been at all consulted. I would just observe,
in this place, that it is to be greatly regretted, that collectors of
these beautiful vegetables in foreign countries, are not more care-
ful to note and communicate home with the collections they form,
the particular localities of the species, which would be of great use
to the experienced cultivator ; inasmuch as it would enable him to
treat them in a way, as neai'ly accordant with their habits in their
respective native countries, as would secure their lives in the Garden,
and probably induce them to flower when fully established in their
new situations."

To these instances of Orchideous Epiphytes may be added two
others, which are worthy of still more attention than those just cited.
One is the beautiful little Gunnia australis, which has much the aspect
of Chiloschista usneoides found in the jungle of Nipal ; it grows on
the branches of shrubs in Emu Bay, in Van Diemen's Land, in
about41'' S. Lat. and 146° E. Long. Earina mucronata is the other exam-
ple. This plant, although occurring as far to the Northward as 35° S,
Lat. in humid forests at the Bay of Islands, in New Zealand, exists also
in abundance in the " very (permanently) damp woods which clothe
the shores of Dusky Bay, (Lat. 45° 45' S.) on the western side of the
Larger or Middle Island of New Zealand," where it was originally
observed by Forster, in Cook's Second Voyage, and where it has been
since met with by Mr. Cunningham, whose words we have quoted.

Considering the lower rate of temperature which prevails in
the Southern hemisphere, as compared with that of the Northern
in corresponding latitudes, the station of Earina in New Zealand
is not naturally different from the damper parts of the south-west
coast of Ireland.

These remarks will we trust suffice to cause a greater degree of
attention to be paid to the differences of constitution of particular
species of Orchideous Epiphytes ; for although we have only cited
extreme cases, we may be assured that minor peculiarities, which it
is not less important to study, exist in abundance.

One of the plants just mentioned being imperfectly known to
Botanists, and the other not at all, we sul3Join the following brief
account of them for the use of our systematic friends,

II 2

GuNNiA. — Perlanthium ringens. Sepala herbacea, lateralia postica, sub-
falcata, erecta, ungui labelli lineari longe producto adnata. Petala herbacea, sub-
lanceolata, obtiisa, ab ungue columns omnino libera, cum sepalo altero distincto
pendulo parallela. Labellum carnosum, ungue long^ producto lineari erecto, cum
basi columnce continuum, bilobum, antic^ cornutum, mucrone inflexo, disco tuber-
culatum. Columna nana, semiteres, aptera. Pollinia 4, in paribus globosis coadu-

nata ; retinaculo lineari. Rostellum bifidum. Herba epiphyta ; radicibus

loncfis tortuosis supra fruticum ramos repentibus. Folia lanceolata,falcata, disticha,

basi, articulata. Racemus simplex, strictus, foliorum longitudine.

Sp. 1. Gunniaaustralis.

Hab. in Insula Van Diemen, in sinu Emu, Backhouse, (hab. s. sp. comm.

eel. Gunn.^

Tota planta vix 2 pollices excedens. Sepala et petala luteo-viridia. Labellum
verosimiliter album, v. leviter rubescens, lobis lateralibus oblongis obtusis ; tuber-
culis 4, lutels, quorum 2 exteriores majores.

We have named this most curious plant after our liberal correspon-
dent, Ronald L. Gunn, Esq. who is now examining the vegetation of
Van Diemen's Land, with equal skill and assiduity. The genus is
nearly related to Chiloschista,

Earina. (^eapivog.^ — Sepala erecta, aqualia, acuta, membranacea, carinata.
Petala carnosa, obtusata. Labellum carnosum, posticum, cucullatum, trilobum,
disco nudo, cum columna continuum et subparallelum. Columna teres, nana, stig-
matis obliqui labio inferiore prominulo. Clinandrium proclive. Anthera bilocularis.

Pollinia 4, per paria coharentia, coUateralia. Herba caulescens, rhizomate

articulate, repente. Folia linearia, disticha, vaginantia. Flores parvi, paniculati,
bracteis cartilagineis, striatis, cucuUatis.

Sp. 1 . Earina mucronata.

Epidendruni auturanale. Forst. prodr. Ji.3l9.

Cymbidium auturanale. Swartz. nov. act. ups. 6.72. fVilld. sp. pi. 5. 98.

Hab. in Nova Zelandia. {hab. s. sp. comm. eel. Cunningham.)

Rhizoraata inter muscos mortuos repentia, articulata. Caules ascendentes, palmares, pedales-
que, pennse corvin<e crassitudine, maculati, basi vestigiis laceris vaginarum vestiti. Folia lineari-
ensiforraia, apice leviter obliqua, mucronulata. Flores e bracteis rigidis cucullatis mucronatis erura-
pentes, parvi, ovario recto costato bracteolarum longitudine. Sepala omnia libera, angusta, mucro-
nata, carinulata. Petala latiora, carnosa, obtusiora, aequilonga. Labellum posticum, carnosum,
cucullatum, inappendiculatum, basi liberum, cum columna continuum et paraUelum, trilobum,
nudum ; lobo intermedio bipartite laciniis oblongis crenulatis mucrone intermedio. Columna sub-
erecta, nana, antica, teres, clinandrio subcucullato membranaceo-marginato ; stigmate excavate,
rostello obtuso. Anthera ovata, S!-locularis. Pollinia 4, per paria cohaerentia, cereacea, coUate-
ralia, materie viscida rostello adheereutia.

For fine specimens of this we are indebted to Mr. Cunningham,
w^ho observed it " growing commonly in moist woods upon the shores
of the Bay of Islands, New Zealand, on mossy rocky banks, and on
the limbs of trees, flowering in September and October, which in New
Zealand is the season of spring." From the latter circumstance we
have contrived the generic name.

This genus belongs to Malaxidese, and is related to Ccelogyne and
Dilochia, of the latter of which in particular it has much the habit,
only on a smaller scale. From the former its wingless column,
and from the latter the number of its pollen masses, sufficiently dis-
tinguish it, independently of other points of difference.

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* AZALEA Indica ; lateritia.
The Brick-red Chinese Azalea.

PENTANDRIA MONOGY'NIA.

Nat. ord. Erice^. Juss. (Introduction to the Natural System of Botany ,
p. 182.)

AZALEA. Supra, vol.2, fol. 120.

A. indica ; coroUis tubuloso-campanulatis, folils spatulato-oblongis obtusis v.

lanceolatis costa rufo-hispida, calycibus minimis hispidissimis.
A. indica. Linn, sp.pl. 214.
Var. lateritia ; floribus pentandris Isete lateritiis, foliis spatulatis obtusis.

A beautiful nfisv Chinese variety, our drawing of which
we made in Mr. Knight's Nursery in May last. It had been
introduced by Mr. M'Killigan, along with the lovely varie-
gated kind, and with it was purchased by Mr. Knight.

The plant is remarkably bushy. Its foliage is a rich
deep green, to which a slight rusty tinge is given by the
numerous brown hairs of the mid-rib and margin ; the
leaves are narrow, very blunt, and remarkably covered with
hairs, which give their surface a rough appearance ; the
flowers are of a bright clear brick-colour, a little tinged
with rose.

It will no doubt require the same treatment as the other
Chinese Azaleas ; and will probably form as striking a
variety as any of them, on account of the peculiarly
bright colour of the flowers.

The habit of the plant is entirely that of the variegated
kind, and we understand that it is the opinion of Mr. Reeves
that it is a mere sport from that variety. It is however very
different in the colour of the flowers, as will be seen when
our figure of the latter makes its appearance.

* fc)ce fol. 1 306.

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1701

* 6RCHIS foliosa.
Leafy -spiked Orchis.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord, ORCHiDEiE. Juss. (Introduction to the Natural System of
Botany, p. 262.)

ORCHIS. Supra, vol. 3, fol. 202.

§ 1. Mascul^. Sepalis lateralibus re/lexis v. patentibus. Lindl. gen.
et sp. orch. pars. 4. ined.

O. foliosa ; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis lax6 vaginantibus, spica oblonga
multiflora, sepalis ovatis acutis, labello latiore quam longo obsolete trilobo
piano: laciniis lateralibus emarginatis intermedia acuta multomajoribus, cal-
care pendulo cornuto labello duplo breviore, bracteis herbaceis acuminatis
flore saepe longioribus, tuberculis palmatis.

O. foliosa. Soland. MSS. Lowe Primit. Fl. Mader. p. 1 3.

Omnino 0. latifoliam refert ; sed omnibus partibus major est, labello piano ma-
nifeste trilobo nee rhomboideo, calcare breviore graciliore, caule elatiore.

A fine species of Orchis, native of woods and copses in
Madeira ; very much like the European O. latifolia, from
which it differs in being larger in all its parts, having a
distinctly three-lobed flat lip, instead of a lozenge-shaped con-
vex one, a shorter and more slender spur, and a taller stem.

We were favoured with our specimens by Messrs. Young
and Penny ofMilford, near Godalming, in whose collection,
so rich in Canary plants, it has for some time been culti-
vated. It succeeds, we are informed, extremely well, either
in well-drained pots, or a turf pit, in a soil composed of the
turfy portions of heath mould, with a mixture of moss and
sand.

Like many others, this species varies with spotted and
spotless leaves. In this country it flowers in May.

* See fol. 115.^.

The genus Orchis is usually divided into sections, cha-
•"acterized by the nature of the tubercles of the roots, a dis-
tinction which obviously is inconvenient, and which is also
incompatible with a natural distribution of the species. A
better character may be obtained from the calyx, which in
some converges into a sort of casque or helmet (§. militares),
and in others is spread open or reflexed (§. mascul^.) The
sections of Orchis thus obtained are so extremely distinct
that it may be doubted whether, upon the principles on
which other genera are constituted, they should not be
considered each a genus. But so much inconvenience would
attend an alteration in the names of a great many common
species, that less disadvantage will perhaps arise from re-
taining the militares as a mere form of Orchis ; although the
inconvenience might be diminished by the creation of such
a name as Hevorclm.

As some time must elapse before the appearance of the
fourth part of the genera and species of Orchidese, it may
be interesting to Botanists to know in what way we propose
to distribute the genera of Ophrydeae. We therefore avail
ourselves of the present opportunity to explain our present
views upon the subject. The following list will shew, firstly,
what the general arrangement of the tribe will be, and
secondly, what new genera we propose to establish.

* AnthercB loculi contigui paralleli, basi nulla modo elongati v.
divaricati.

1. Orchis.— 2. Anacamptis. — 3. Nlgritella. — 4. Glossaspis. — 5. Gymna-
dcnia. — 6. Scopularia nob. — 7. Aceras, as limited by Dr. Brown. — 8. Sera-
pias. — 9. Ophrys.

** AnthercB loculi sejujicti, basi divergentes, scepc elongati.

10. Monotris 7iob. — 1 1. Holothrix. — 12. Bartholina. — 13. Disa. — 14. Re-
pandra nob. {=T)'isa cornuta, &c.) — 15. Corycium. — 16. Dryopeia. — 17.Dispe-
ris. — 18. Pterygodium. — 19. Satyrium. — 20. Bonatea. — 21. Habenaria. — 22. Di-
plomeris Don (=Diplochilus Lindl.) — 23. Bilabrella nob. — 24. Cynorchis. —
25. Tryphia nob. (=Orchis secunda Thunb.) — 26. Bicornella nob. — 27. Ccelo-
glossum nob. — 28. Peristylus Blume (the calcarate Herminia.) — 29. Hermi-
nium (as limited by Dr. Brown.) — 30. Aopla nob. — 31. Platanthera, (:=Mecosa
Blnmr^ and including moyt of the North American Habenarias.) — 32. Perularia
nub. (=0. fiiscescens Z.)

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1702

MAYTENUS chilensis.

Chilian Mayten.

POLYGAMIA MO'SCECIA.

Nat. ord. Celastrine^. R. Br. (Introduction to the Natural System of
Botany, p. 1 10.)

MA YTENUS Juss. Flores polygami. Calyx 5-fidus, parvus, persistens.
Petala 5, sepalis alterna, patentissima. Stamina 5, petalis alterna. Discus
carnosus circa ovarium. Stigma sessile, 2-3-lobum. Capsula 1-4-valvis, valvis
medio septiferis, Semina in fundo pauca, arillata. Embryo planus in albumine

carnoso. Arbuscul^ Peruviance aut Chilenses, foliis alternis, simplicihus,

coriaceis, perennantibus, dentatis, floribus axillaribus albido virescentibus,
minimis. Capsulae scepius intus crocecc. De Cand. Prodr. 2. 9.

M. chilensis ; foliis elliptico-oblongis basi attenuatis apice acuminatissimis niar-

gine serratis. D. C. I. c.
Maiten. " Feuill. obs. 3. 39. t. 27."
Senacia Maytenus. Lam. illustr. n. 1712.
Celastrus Maytenus. Willd.sp.pl. 1. 1127.
Celastrus uncinatus. Fl. Peruv. 3. t. 230. Jig. A.
Maytenus boaria. Molina ?
Maytenus chilensis. Hooker and Arnott. in Bot. Miscell. 3. 171.

Frutex sempervirens, in hortis orgyalis et ultra. Folia ovato-lanceolata,
tenuia, glanduloso-serrulata, exstipulata, glaberrima. Flores axillares,
fasciculati, herbacei, parvi, polygami. Masculorum calyx inferus, parvus,
5-dentatus ; petala 5, oblonga, obtusa, concava ; discus carnosus, 5-lobus ;
stamina 5, petalis alterna et breviora ; pistilli rudimentum. Foeminei in
horto nondum apparuere. Capsulse magnitudine pisi, turbinati, cinerei,
coriacei, loculicido-bivalves, dispermi. Semina 2, erecta, arillo croceo veslita.

A handsome evergreen shrub, which has been growing
for some years in the garden of the Horticultural Society.
It succeeds best trained to the front of a south wall, but it
also survives the winter without even that slight protection.
It would, no doubt, prove perfectly hardy in the milder
parts of England and Ireland.

* From Mayten, the vernacular name among the Chilenos,
VOL. XX. I

Its native country is Chili, where it seems to be a very
common plant. Flowers in May.

Fig. 1, represents a sterile flower magnified ; 2, "the calyx
and disk after the petals and stamens are removed ; 3 and 4,
stamens. We have not yet met with any fertile flowers.
The description above given of the fruit is taken from wild
specimens sent us by Dr. Gillies.

The following are the essential characters of the new
genera in the foregoing list :

6. ScopULARiA. — Calyx membranacous, connivens, sepalls lateralibus mino-
ribus. Petala membranacea, lacero-multifida, circa labellum convoluta. Label-
lum erectum, convolutum, membranaceum calcaratum apice lacero multifidum.
Anthera libera, erecta ; loculis approximatis, parallelis, basi dilatatis ascendenti-
bus cucullum magnum ina;quilateralem glandulas tegentem formantibus. Glan-
dalas poUiniorum sub basi dilatata loculorum antheriE absconditse, cucuUo nullo
(quantum videre potui) inclusa;. — Radices testiculatce. Folia radicalia membra-
nacea. Caulis aphyllus. Spica elonjjata subsecuuda. — Sp. 1. iS. Burchellii.
C. B. S. "

10. MoNOTRis. — Sepala membranacea, postice connata, lateralibus antic^
distinctis, labello petalisque duplo minora, fetala carnosa, acuminata. Labellum
liberum, apice carnosum, trifidum, cucullatum, basi cornutum. Antbera libera,
erecta, loculis basi divergentibus : valvulis exterioribus dilatatis, incurvis, glandu-
1am tegentibus. — Radices testiculatse. Folium minimum radicale. Caulis retror-
sum hispidus. Flores parvi secundi. BractcEe et sepalorum margines hispida. —
Sp. I. Monotris secunda. C. B. S.

23. BiLABRELLA. — Sepala patentia, carnosa, petalis multo minora; supre-
mum 3 partitum. Petala membranacea, reflexa, maxima. Labellum carnosum,
3-partitum, calcaratum. Anthera loculis basi elongatis, solutis, divergentibus,
distantibus, ascendentibus, glandulis nudis. Rostellum lineari-lanceolatum, recur-

vum, antherse longitudine, Processus carnosi magni ascendentes. Radices

.... Caulis foliosus. Folia angusta membranacea, Racemus elongatus Ha-
benarice facie. — Sp. 1. B. falcicornis. C.B. S.

26. BicouNELLA. — Sepala iuEequalia ; lateralia majora, labello extus oblique
adnata. Petala sepalo supremo in galeam convexam agglutinata. Labellum
calcaratum, indivisum, angustum, canaliculatum, columnae nanjE adnatum, An-
thera fere horizontalis, lobis ascendentibus, basi elongatis, lobis lateraHbus rostelli
adnatis, extus appendice linguisformi (stamine sterili) auctis. Rostelli lobus me-
dius ovatus, planus, abbreviatus. PoUinia minima; retinaculo longo lineari basi
antherae elongata tecto, — Herbas (Mascarenenses) caule folioso v. subfolioso.
Flores parvi, spicati.

27. — CcELOGLOSSUM. — Sepala conniventia, a^qualia, libera. Petala con-
formla, ungui labelli adnata. Labellum carnosum, unguiculatum, calcaratum,
tripartitum, disco sapius tuberculatum ; ungue valde carnoso, concavo, ascen-
dente, margine nunc eroso et glanduloso, scepiCls (an semper) processus 2, car-
nosos, clavatos, ex ore calcaris ortos, parallelos, adnatos gerente. Anthera parva,
cavitate unguis brevior, lobis basi ascendentibus, rostello tridentato brevi adnatis.
Glandultf inid;»_> — Ilcrlj.p, (Tndica',) radicibus tcsticulatis, caule folioso aut
vaginato. Flores onniium minuti. Sp. 5. adhuc nota; quarum dua; sunt
Gynmadenia? tenuis Walt. Cat. No. 7057, et G. secunda. ib. No. 7054.

30. AoPLA.— Calyx bilabiatus. Sepala lateralia deflexa, supremum erectum
cum petalis ao-glutinatis galeam formans. Labellum lineare, ecalcaratum. An-
thera brevis,''erecta, lobis brevibus ascendentibus, rostello decurvo elongato.
Glandulaj nudaj.— Herba (Indica) radicibus testiculatls. Folium solitanum,
radlcale. Spica laxa secunda. Flores herbacei.— Sp. 1. ^. rem/omis. (=Her-
minium reniforme Wall. Cat. no. 7067.)

1703

* RHODANTHE Manglesii.

Captain Mangles s Rhodanthe.

SYNGENESIA FOLYGAMIA JEdUALlS.

Nat. ord. Composit^e. Tribe Senecionideos, Subtribe GnaphaliecE. 3, He-
lichrysccB Lessing.

RHODANTHE. Capitulum multiflorum, bomogamum. Pappus uniserialis,
piliformis, plumosus, distiiictus. Achaenium erostre, lanatum. Receptaculum
nudum.

R. Manglesii.

Herba annua, erecta, ramosa, omnino depilata, obscure glauca ; ramis
teretibus distanter foliatis. Folia oblonga, obtusa, amplexicaulia. Capitula
solitaria, turbinala, pedunculis nudiusculis inserta. Involucri squamce mem-
branacecB, ovatce, acutce, exteriores argentece rubicundce, interiores patentes
amoene rosece, apice denticulatte . Receptaculum nudum. CorollEe tubulosce,
glabrcB, lufecc, hermaphroditcB. Rami stigm'atis divergentes, lineares. Ache-
iiium densissimt lanatum. Pappus uniserialis, piliformis, plumosus, longitU'
dine tubi corolla:.

A charming greenhouse annual, introduced from the
Swan River Colony in New Holland by Captain Mangles,
R. N. after whom we have named it. It first flowered in
the beautiful collection of Robert Mangles, Esq. of Sunning
Hill, where our drawing was obtained in 1833, and whence
it has since been liberally distributed. In token of its
beauty it received the distinction of a medal at one of the
great exhibitions in the Garden of the Horticultural Society.

Its season of perfection is May and June, at which time
there is nothing in the Gardens that equals it in beauty, for
it possesses the brilliancy of the Cape Helichrysa, without
their stiffness and formality. In July it becomes shabby,
and by the beginning of August its seed is ripe and its life
departed.

* From pocou, a rose, and av$ur, a flower, in allusion to the colour of the
flower-heads.

It requires to be treated as a tender annual, and to be
kept in a cool greenhouse during its time ot" growth ; too
much heat seems to be particularly offensive to it.

The Botanical relationship of Rhodanthe seems to be
greatest with Podotheca, from which it differs in having a
pappus composed of a number of perfectly distinct filiform
feathery rays.

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1704

* GILIA tricolor.
Three-coloured Gilia.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Polemoniace*. Juss. (Introduction to the Natural System
of Botany, p. 219.)

GILIA. Supra, vol. \9,fol. 1622, in textu.

§3. EuGiLiA. Folia alterna pinnatijida V. pinnatisecta. Flores subsoli-
tarii, v. scepius glomerati. Corollce tubus calyce subbrevior. Bentham
supra, fol. 1622.

G. tricolor ; caule erecto glabro folioso, foliis bipinnatisectis : segmentis lineari-
subulatis, corymbis 3-6-floris virgato-paniculatls, coroUis calyce subtriplo
longioribus. Bentham I. c. Hort. Trans, n. s. vol. 1. t.\%.f. 3.

Mr. Bentham, in liis account of this in the Transactions
of the Horticultural Society, remarks that it is " perhaps the
handsomest of the new Polemoniaceae received from Califor-
nia, both from the general appearance of the plant, and the
abundance and brilliancy of colour of the flowers. It grows
to the height of about a foot, with an erect stem, and foliage
much resembling that of G. capitata, but the flowers are very
much longer, and instead of being collected in globose heads
widely spread at the end of long peduncles, they are few in
number in each head ; but the peduncles being much shorter
and very numerous, they form a large and rather dense
panicle, in which the deep orange of the centre of the colour,
and the light purple or white of the margin, separated by a
circle of deep purple, show off" to great advantage."

It is quite hardy, and will grow in any kind of soil. The
time of flowering is from July to September, but it may be
retarded or advanced by a little management. Nothing can
well be prettier than this is when thickly filling a bed a few
feet in length and breadth.

* See fol. 1170.

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1705

* LUPINUS nunus.
Dwarf Lupine.

DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA.

Nat. ord. Leguminos^. Juss. (Introduction to the Natural System
0/ Botany, p. 86.)

LUPINUS. Supra, voLU,fol. 1096.

L. nanus ; annuus humilis pilosiusculus, caulibus decumbentibus parum ramosis,
follolls 5-7 spathulatis, floribus verticillatls, calycibus sericeo-lanatis villosis
obsolete appendiculatis : labio superlore bipartite inferiore longiore obscure
tridentato.

L. nanus. Bentham in Hort. Trans, vol. 1, n. s. t. 14. /. 1.

We have no prettier annual than this little Lupine, which
has recently been introduced from California by the Horti-
cultural Society. It forms a low tufted plant, from 6 inches
to a foot in height, producing a succession of upright shoots,
terminated by several tiers of flowers, which continue to open
in succession for two months. The colours being bright
purple, intermingled with white and rose, a gay variegated
appearance is produced, which is extremely agreeable when
the plant is grown in masses.

It is well adapted for covering flower-beds, or for forming
a compartment in a parterre, or for the edge of a small clump,
or in short for any purpose which requires neatness, and a
protracted blooming.

If sown in the autumn it will flower in May and June ; if
sown in spring, it will be in beauty in August and September;
and by deferring the period of sowing till the beginning of
June, it may be made to blossom as late as November.

* See fol. 1098.

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1706

* OEROPEGIA elegans.

Elegant Ceropegia.

PENTANDRIA DIGY'NIA.

Nat. ord. AscLEPiADEiE. R. Br. (Introduction to the Natural System
of Botany, p. 210.)

CEROPEGIA. Supra, vol. 8, fol. 626.

C. elegans ; volubilis, laevls, radice fibrosa, foliis oblongis acutis, pedunculis axil-
laribus 1-2-floris, corollce tubo clavato incurvo basi inflato-ventricoso, liinbo
hemispha;rico, laciniis ligulatis longe ciliatis, lobis corona? staminea; exterio-
rlbus profunde bipartitis. Wallich. in Bot. Mag. t. 3015.

A native of the mountains of India called the Nilgherry,
and introduced to this country in 1826 by Dr. Wallich.

It is a small twining plant, with dingy purplish brown
stems and leaves, and livid flowers blotched with purple.
They have little beauty, except when they are open ; at
that time their orifice is closed by a number of long purple
bristles, which converge over the centre, and form a sort of
natural cJievaux-de-frise, which will prevent both the in-
gress and egress of insects.

Being an East Indian plant, it is usually kept in the
stove, where it flowers well enough from May to October,
and is easily multiplied by cuttings. It is, however, nearly
hardy ; it thrives better in the open border trained to a
stick in a sheltered place, and in the winter requires no
better protection than a common green-house.

* From Ki]()OTn'iyioy a candlestick, in allusion to the resemblance borne by
the corollas of some species to the branch of an antique candclalira.

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1707

* ECHINOCACTUS Eyriesii.

Sweet-scented Spiny Cactus.

ICOSANDRIA MO^OGYNIA.

Nat. ord, Cacte^. Juss. {Introduction to the Natural System of
Botany, p. 54.)

£ CHINOC ACT US Liink et Otto. Omnia Cerei, sed caulis umbllicatus
V. globosus.

E. Eyriesii ; caule subgloboso umbilicato, costis 13 continuis acutatis subundu-
latis, tuberculis lanatis spinas plures breves rigidas rectas gerentibus, flore
bucciniformi curvato 6 uncias longo odoratissimo extus cinereo villoso,
petalis acutissimis stellatis.

E. Eyriesii. Otto in verhandl. Preuss. Gart. ver. c. ic.

We do not find any mention of this remarkable species
in the treatises of either Martins, Link and Otto, or De Can-
dolle ; but we believe it is published with a figure in the
Transactions of the Prussian Horticultural Society, a work
we do not happen to have at hand.

It was presented to the Horticultural Society some years
since by Sir John Lubbock, who had procured it from
Mexico, where the genus seems to exist in great numbers ;
it flowers at various seasons, and now and then forms an
offset.

Independently of the large size of its flowers, which
rival in dimensions those of the Cereus tribe of Cacti, it is
remarkable for the rich delicious odour they exhale at
night, at which time its glorious blossoms expand. When
young they resemble long sooty-grey horns Covered over
with a thick shaggy hairiness, and would never be suspected

* The form of the marine animals called Ecliini has naturally suggested the
application of their name to plants which so much resemble them.

to conceal a form of the utmost beauty, or a clear and deli-
cate complexion. When the hour of perfection has arrived,
and the coarse veil of hair begins to be withdrawn by the
expansion of the unfolding petals, one is amazed at the
unexpected loveliness which stands revealed in the form of
this vegetable star, whose rays are of the softest white, while
the disk is of a rich yellow formed by the stigma and the
clustering anthers.

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1708

* CATASETUM semiapertum.

Half-open Catasetum.

GYNANDRIA MO^ANDRIA.

Nat. ord. Orchide^. Juss. h. Vandeee. Lindl. {Introduction to the
Natural System of BotanT/, p. 262.)

CATASETUM. Supra, vol. lO./o/. 840.

C. semiapertum ; folils oblongo-lanceolatls undulatis racemo compacto longiorl-
bus, perianthio subpatente secundo : lacinils lanceolatis, labello apice incurvo
cucullato marginibus ciliato-denticulatis.

C. semiapertum. Hooker Exot.fi. t. 213. Lindl. gen.etsp. Orch.p. 156.

Habitus, pseudobulbi, et folia omyiino C. tridentati. Floras diversissimi,
odorati, Jierhacei, immaculati : sepalis petalisque anguste lanceolatis scepius
dependeniibus ob labellmn posticum. Labellum siibcomyresum, carnosum,
lobo apicis rotundato incurvo, lateralibus cilia, (enui, denticidutd tamen,
marginatis.

First introduced by Mr. Bell Edward Lloyd, who sent it
from Brazil to Miss Falkner of Fairfield, about 8 or 9 years
ago. More recently it has been transmitted to Mr. Harrison
of Liverpool by Dr. Dundas, an eminent medical gentleman
residing at Bahia.

It is not so shewy as C. tridentatum, but it is peculiarly
fragrant, a quality which all the other known species are
destitute of. It requires the same treatment ; and when in
rapid growth will thrive the better if its roots are actually
allowed to immerse themselves in water.

Our specimen was communicated to us by Mr. Harrison
in February last.

* Sec folio 1667.

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1709

* TALAtJMA Candollii.
De Candolles Talcmm Tree.

POLYANDRIA POLYGY}^IA.

Nat. ord. Magnoliace^. Juss. {Introduction to the Natural System
of Botany, p. 24.)

TALAUMA Juss, Petala 9-15, ordine ternario serlalia. Stamina
numerosa, antheris anticis. Ovaria plura, coadunata, biovulata. Fructus
coadunatione unicus, strobiliformis, lignosus, irregularlter dehiscens, semlnibus
1-2 pendulis, in foveolis receptaculi centralis cylindraceo-elongati dehiscentia
liberi. Blume Flora Javce Magnol. p. 29.

T. Candollii ; foliis oblongis utrinque acuminatis glabris, floribus 9-12-petalis,
petalis exterioribus calycinis reliquis triente brevioribus. Bl. I. c. t. 9.

Magnolia odoratissima. Reinwdt.

A native of Java, where it is found growing in thickets
to the height of about 15 feet, and perfuming the air with
so delicious an odour that the very Javanese think it worth
the pains of cultivation.

Its flowers open very unwillingly in the stove. Dr. Blume
has represented them closed, as they commonly appear ; but
we were so fortunate as to be able to sketch the plant with
its flowers fully expanded, just as they were about to drop
off". At first they are a pale lemon colour, but they change
to a sort of buff", in which state we have represented them.

It is a tender stove plant, increased only by inarching
upon Magnolia pumila, which Dr. Blume has ascertained
to be also a Talauma, or by layers, or by having a pot of
earth fastened round a wounded branch. It flowers in
February and March.

* The vernacular name of the South American species.
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1710

* LliPTOSlPHON aiidrosaceus.

Androsace-likc Leptosiphon.

PENTANDRIA MONOGY^'IA.

Nat. Old. PoLEMONiACEjE. Juss. (^Introduction to the Natural System
of Botany, p. 219.)

LEPTOSIPHON. Bentham. Calyx tubuloso-campaiuilatus, a^qualis,
semi-5-fidus, lobls Ilneari-subulatis acutis, sinubus membrauaceis. Corolla infuii-
dlbuliformis, (hypocrateriformis) tubo long^ exserto tenuissimo, limbo campanu-
lato (rotate) 5-fido ; lobis ovalibus obtusis integerrimis. Stamina fauce inserta ;

antherce oblonga?, basi sagittatiE. Capsules locull polyspermi. Herba; annucB,

basi glabrce, apice piibescentes. Folia sessilia, opposita, palmatisecta, segmen-
tis linearibus v. suhulatis. Flores dense corymboso-capitati, axi sublanato.
Bractea; imbricatce, foliis conformes, segmentis ciliato-hirsutis. Bentham,
supra, fol. 1622.

L. aiidrosaceus ; foliis 5-7-fidis : laciniis oblongo-linearibus, corolla tubo limbo
2-3pIo longiore, staminibus limbo corollas triple brevioribus. Bentham, I. c.
Hort. Trans, vol. \. n. s. t. \%. f. \.

Herba erecta, spithamcea, ramosa, annua, internodiis foliis duplo lon-
gioribus, undique pilis rigescentihus articulatis sparsis vestita. Caulis teres,
purpurascens. Folia opposita, sessilia, digitato-4-lO-partita, nunquam v.
rarissime 3-5-7-v. 9-partita, laciniis linearibus acuminalis, ciliatis; superiora
densissime flores fosciculatos irwolucrantia, eorumque tubo cequalia. Calyx
infundibuliformis, ^-fidus, laciniis cequalibus, triangulari-subulatis, pilosis,
memhrana tenui ad sinus junctis. Corolla unciam longa, alba, purpurea,
aut violacea, hypocrateriformis ; tubo gracillimo lutcscente, glanduloso-
pubescente ; limbo planiusculo utrinque glabra : laciniis oblongis obtuse
apiculatis. Stamina brevia, exserta, fouce ptirpurea sub sinubus inserta.
Pollen lutcum. Ovarium joarvM7«, oblongum, atroviride, disco nulla ; '3-locu~
tare, polyspermum. Stylus capillaris ; stigma luteum 3-partitum, laciniis
angustissimis obtusis cequalibus.

" This is a bushy annual, growing to tlie height of eight
or ten inches, smooth in the lower part, with the upper
leaves and extremities of the branches slightly downy. The
leaves are opposite and sessile, but nearly divided to the

* \AitxdX\y slender-tube, in allusion to the btriicturc of the corolla.

base into a number of linear segments, so as to appear to be
whorled. The flowers are collected into terminal heads,
surrounded at their base by a number of floral leaves, divided,
like the stem leaves, into linear segments. The long slender
tube of the corolla projects beyond these leaves, and bears
at the top five spreading oval divisions, varying in colour
from white to pale blue and pink. The multitude of these
flowers gives the plant a very gay appearance, and as it is
perfectly hardy and promises to seed well, there is no doubt
but that in a short time it will be found an important addi-
tion to our flower-beds."

To the foregoing account by Mr. Bentham, in the Hor-
ticultural Society's Transactions, we have little to add.
Although the species is perfectly hardy, yet it cannot bear
our summer heats, and only flourishes in the spring, or
more particularly the autumn, when the sun has lost his
power, and the nights are cool with heavy dews. It should
therefore either be sown in the autumn, so as to flower
early, or in June, in order that it may be read}'' for blossom-
ing in September.

Any kind of soil seems to suit it, but it is not improbable
that a shaded American border may be best. It is a native
of California, whence it was sent by Mr. Douglas.

The leaves are deeply divided into very narrow sharp-
pointed segments, which we remark are always some even
number, 4, or 6, or 8, or 10, and never an odd number, a
fact that seems to deserve the attention of the systematic
Botanist.

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1711

* CALCEOLARIA polif61ia.

White-leaved Slipperwort.

DIANDRIA M0'N0GY1<!IA.

Nat. ord. Scrophularine^. Juss. {Introduction to the Natural System
ofBotamj, p. 228.)

CALCEOLARIA. Supra, vol. 9, fol. 723.

C. polifolia ; sufFruticosa, caulibus ascendentlbus foliisque ovatis incano-tomen-
tosis levissim^ crenatis, pedunculis dichotoniis, floribus congestis, corollas
lablo inferiore niajore subgloboso, staminibus stylo brevioribus.

C. polifolia. Hooker in Bot. Mag. t. 2897.

Apparently a very common plant in the passes in the
mountains between Valparaiso and St. Jago, for almost every
collection from that locality contains it.

It is a hardy perennial, about a foot high, with a woody
stem, which would probably become shrubby in favourable
situations. Its little hoary leaves, and very numerous pale
primrose-coloured flowers, have quite a peculiar appear-
ance, and render it extremely different from all the other
species.

It thrives with the same treatment as other Calceolarias,
but it is impatient of damp in winter ; cuttings readily mul-
tijily it.

Our drawing was made in September 1833, in the
garden of the Horticultural Society, where it had been raised
from seed received from Mr. Cruckshanks.

* See tblio 1214.

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1712

* SOLANUM etuberosum.
Tuber less Solanum.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Solane^. Juss. (^Introduction to the Natural System of
Botany, p. 231.)

SOLANUM. Supra, vol. 1, /oZ. 71.

* Inermia, foliis imparipimiatis ; racemis corymbosis terminalibus.

S. etuberosum ; rhizomate crasso subterraneo etuberoso, caule herbaceo, folio-
lis inaequalibus complicatis undulatissimis approximatis alternis minutis,
pedicellis articulatis, calycibus coroUisque 5-angulatis glabris.
Fades omnino S. tuberosi, sed tubera nulla prof ert; fioresmajores sunt,
hrevius pedunculati, calyxque glaber est et lucidus, nee pilis hispidus. Spe-
cies certo certius distinctissimu, etsi notis levibus cognoscenda.

This curious plant is a hardy perennial, native of Chili,
whence it was obtained some years since by the Horticul-
tural Society. It bears its rich clusters of deep purple blos-
soms, with a golden yellow centre, from July to October,
and is very easily multiplied by dividing its stout rooting
underground stems.

Although extremely similar to the Potatoe in appearance,
yet its larger and more compact flowers, and its want of the
power of producing tubers render it a proper plant for a
flower-garden.

There can be no doubt that this is a species essentially
distinct from the Potatoe, and yet it is impossible to point out
any character by which it is to be positively distinguished,
except the want of tubers, and the smoothness of the calyx
and flower-stalks ; these latter have a shining, and nearly
downless surface, instead of the rough dull appearance which
we meet with in those parts in the common Potatoe.

* See folio 1516.

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1713

* NEMOPHILA insignis.
Shewy Nemophila.

PENTANDRIA MO'NOGY^IA.

Nat. ord. Hydrophylle^. R. Br. (Introduction to the Natural System
of Botany , ]i. 244.)

NEMOPHILA. Supra, vol. 9,fol. 740.

N. insignis ; foliis oppositis pinnatifidls basi In petiolum angustatis : lobis inte-
gcrrimis 1-2-dentatisve, calycls sinubus reflexis, corollis calyce duplo longio-
ribus, ovariis multi-ovulatis. Bentham inHort. Trans, vol. \.n.s. p. 643.

The Nemophilas are all difficult plants to preserve in
gardens. JV. phacelioides has long since disappeared ; and
we fear this brilliant Californian species, which flowered in
August 1833, in the garden of the Horticultural Society,
will scarcely be found more manageable. Mr. Bentham
gives the following account of it in the Transactions of the
Horticultural Society : —

"This elegant species of Nemophila is readily distin-
guished by the size of the flowers, which are larger even
than those of JV. phacelioides, (figured in the Botanical Ma-
gazine, t. 2373.) It is a low procumbent herb, but less
straggling than the parviflora and peduncidaris. The leaves
are from one to two inches long, green, with a few rigid
hairs; the lobes from 3 to 5 on each side, deeply cut, but
not reaching the midrib, of nearly equal size on the same
leaf, ovate and slightly falcate. The peduncles axillary,
solitary, one-flowered, nearly twice as long as the leaves.
Flowers blue, above an inch in diameter. The ovarium con-
tains usually 20 or 24 ovula, regularly arranged on each side
of the central lines of the broad fleshy placenta, and from 8 to
12 of these ovula usually attain maturity in each capsule.

* See folio 1601.

" It is a hardy annual, requiring a rich soil, not damp,
and a situation fully exposed to the sun ; it must be pro-
tected carefully from wet when forming' its seeds, or they
will not ripen ; indeed it produced its seeds in the garden
very sparingly, with all the care that could be given to it."

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1714

* BATEMANNIA CoUeyi.

Colley^s Batemannia.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. Orchide^ § Vande^. (Introduction to the Natural System
of Botany, p. 262.)

BATEMANNIA. Flores ringentes. Srpala •^a.tentvA, lateralia unguicu-
lata basi a^qnalia. Petala. sepalis latiora, basi obliqua, pedi producto columnae
adnata. Lahellum cum columna articulatum, trilobum, cucullatum. Culumna
semlteres, basi elongata, clinandrio marginato. Anthera parva, bilocularis, mem-
branacea. Pollinia 2, postice biloba, glaudula triangulari, candicula nulla.

B. Colleiji.

Epiphyta. Pseudobulbi ovati, subtetragonl, lucidi, olivacei, suhcorru'
gati, ovi gullinacei magnitudine. Folia 2-3, ohovnto-ol>longa, plicntn, basi
angustata. Racemus radicalis, pendulus, spmipedalix, laxe 5-\0-Jlorus.
^vpiCteoi rhombece, sfriatce, cucullatcp, inflatce. Flores pedicellati, ovaxlo pedi-
cello breviore. Sepala et petala poll, longa, intus fusfG-puipnrea, extus viridi
vitta notata, npice quoque viridia ; sepalum posterius oblongnm ohtusiuscu-
lum : lateralia spatulata divergentia petalis paulo longioru ; petala a basi
triangulari oblonga, sepala supremo latiora. Labellum oblongum, ultra me-
dium disci bidentatnm, album, intus lutescens, extus levissime rubescens ;
lobis rotundatis, serrulatis, lateralibus intermedia subcunenta hreviaribus.
Anthera membranacea, depressa, quadrata, 1-lncnlaiis. Rostellum subula-
tum. Clinandrium marginatum, dcntatum. Stigma; rima paria transversa.

Sent from Demerara to James Bateman, Esq. by Mr,
Colle)^, his collector in that country, who has just returned
from a successful mission with a considerable number of
epiphytes, which are new to our gardens.

Mr. Colley states that this plant, when in perfection,
bears double the number of flowers in the accompanying
plate. Even in its present state, it is a very handsome
species, and extremely difterent from all genera previously

* We name this genus in compliment to James Bateman, Esq. of Kny-
persley, art ardent collector and successful cultivator of Orchideous epiphytes.
Mr. Colley, after whom the species is called, was Mr Bateman's collector in
Demerara.

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described. It belongs to the Maxillaria set of Vandeae,
which is characterised by the projecting base of the column.
But in this genus the petals are not only much larger than
the sepals, but seem as if they had pushed the lateral ones
out of their place. It is generally the sepals which grow to
the 'lengthened base of the column, hiding the lip until the
flower opens ; but in Batemannia the sepals have a narrow
contracted base, and the office of protecting the lip is per-
formed by the broad-based petals.

Our specimens were communicated, along with a draw-
ing by Mr. Holland, in August last.

Fig, 1 is a view of the column and back sepal, the other
parts being cut away ; 2 is the inside of the lip ; 3 is a view
of the pollen masses from above ; 4 one of the pollen masses
with its posterior lobe.

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1715

* KENNl&DYA nigricans.
Dingy -flowered Kennedya.

DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA.

Nat. ord. Leguminos.e. Juss. {Introduction to the Natural System of
Botany, p. 86.)

KENNEDYA. Supra, vol. 11, fol. 944.

§. 1. Foliis 3-foliolatis, carind rectd vexillo sublovgiore. D. C.

K. 7iigricans ; foliolis ovato-oblongis obtusis solitariis ternatisve, racemis slm-
pllcibus, floribus erectis, calycibus villosis basi angustatis.
Frutex volubills, facie K. rubicundaj ; sed foliola latiora, obtusiora, scepe

solitaria, mugis reticulata, ra.cemi simplices 7iec paniculati ; ^oves erecti, se-

cundi, quasi resupinati, nee penduli ; calyces multo angustiores et vAllosiores ;

demum petala purpureo-nigra maculd oblongd viridi in discum vexilli.

A fine addition to the species of green-house twiners,
native of New Holland, where its seeds were collected by
Dr. Nisbet. Our specimens were supplied from the garden
of Boyd Miller, Esq. of Collier's Wood, near Mitcham.

It is very near K. rubicunda, from which it differs not
only in the remarkable colour of the petals, but also in its
broader and more reticulated leaves, and in its much more
compact inflorescence, the flowers of which stand erect, in-
stead of being pendulous, as in that species. It flowers in
April.

* See folio 1421.

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1716

* AZALEA indica ; variegata.
The Variegated Chinese Azalea.

PENTANDRIA MOAOGFA'JJ.

"Nat. ord. Erice^. Juss. {Introduction to the Natural System of
Botany, p. 182.)

AZALEA. Supra, vol. 2,fol. 120.

A. indica ; corollis tubuloso-campanulatis, foliis spatulato-oblongis obtusis v.

lanceolatis costa rufo-hispida, calycibus minimis hispidissimis.
A. indica; Linn. Sp.pl. 2\ A.

Var. variegata ; floribus pentandris albo roseoque variegatis, foliis spatulatis
obtusis.

This is the celebrated variegated Chinese Azalea, which
so many attempts have been made in vain for these twenty
years to procure alive. It was brought home by Mr. M'Kil-
ligan in 1832, and is now in possession of Mr. Knight, of
the King's Road.

In habit and leaves it is exactly the same as the brick-
red kind figured at t. 1700 ; but it is far handsomer in
flower. The blossoms which were produced in Mr. Knight's
Nursery, not having been so perfect as could have been
wished, we have completed our figure from a Chinese draw-
ing in the possession of the Horticultural Society, which had
been made under the inspection of Mr. Reeves.

* See folio 1366.

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1717

* ECHINOCACTUS oxygonus.
Sharp-angled spiny Cactus.

ICOSANDRIA MONOGYl^lA.

Nut. ord. Cacte^. Juss. {Introduction to the Natural System of
Botany, p. 54.)

ECHINOCACTUS. Supra, fol. 1707.

E. oxygonus ; glaucescens subglobosus 14-angularis, costis acutis repandis,
spiiiis patulis inaequalibus, flore longissimo. Link et Otto in Verhandl. des
Pr. Gart. Vereins, vol. 6, t. 1.

We have been favoured by Mr. Frederick Mackie with
the figure of this species, which he received along with a
large number of other rare and valuable succulent plants,
belonging to the unrivalled collection of Mr. Hitchin, which
he has recently added to his Nursery at Norwich.

The flower remained expanded about 48 hours. The
species is thus described in the Transactions of the Prussian
Horticultural Society : —

"The stem is from 10 inches to a foot in height, nearly
10 inches in diameter on the top, somewhat smaller below, and
nearly of a globular form, of a bluish-green colour. Its ribs,
which are fourteen, rise from a broad base, running into an
acute edge. The furrows are somewhat sharp ; spines
about 14, of various sizes, the outer generally larger, the
inner smaller; those more or less divaricate from each
other, these standing up nearly perpendicular ; all of a
brown colour, cone-like, not flat, the younger surrounded

* Sec foli(. 1707.

by a tomentiim, which is more or less wanting in the
older. The flowers proceed from the furrows about the
middle of the stem ; are nearly a foot long ; reversed, cone-
shaped ; the tube somewhat curved ; firmly attached to the
germen ; exteriorly covered with leaflets ; the lower are
small and red, increasing upwards in size, and at last termi-
nating in the petals, which are broad, lance-shaped, and of
a rose-colour. The stamens are numerous, and every where
internally attached to the tube, shorter than the flower.
The stigma is multifid and equal to the stamens. We received
this plant from Mr. Sello, from the Brazils, without giving
its strict habitat."

--^■tM^ta^t^.aid,

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1718

^DEIOtZIA scabra.

Rough-leaved Deutzia.

DECANDRIA TRIGYNIA.

Nat. ord. PHILADELPHE.E. Don. {Introduction to the Natural System
of Botany , p. 52.)

DEUTZIA. Thunb. CaZyx 5-partitus. Petala 5, fiwhereci^. Stamina \0,
epigj'iia ; filamentis marginatis tridentatis. Discus epig^'nus cyathiformis. Ova-
rium 3-5-loculare polyspermum. Styli 3-5. Stigmata simplicia, compressa.
Pericarpimn chartaceum, umbilicatum, stylis persistentibus discoque carnoso coro-

iiatum, 3-5-loculare, polyspermum, basi dehiscens. Frutices, foliis deciduis

serratis, steliato-pilosis, Pbiladelphi facie.

D, scabra ; foliis ovatis acutis argute serratis utrinque pilosis, racemis terminali-

bus tomentosis basi subcompositis, floribus saepiUs trigynis.
D. scabra. Thunb. f. Jap. p. 10. et 185. t. 24. De Cand. prodr. 3. p. 16.

Joro, vulgo Utsugi v. Jamma Utsiigi Kcetnpf. amoen. exot. p. 854.

Ymiex in her tis ramis gracilibus subscandentibus, cor tice glabra castaneo
vestitis. Folia ovata, acuminata, argutissime serrata, utrinque stellatim
pilosa, scahriuscula, petiolis bj-evibus lepidotis, atroviridia, subtus paulh pal-
lidiora. Racemi terminales, foliis longiores, erecti, basi subramosi, dense
piloso-tomentosi. Calyx inferus, tomentosus, 5-partitus. Petala nivea 6-7
iineas longa, angusta, oblong o-lanceolat a, obtusa, piibescentia. Stamina 10,
alterna breviora, filamentis marginatis, tridentatis, dente intermedio longiorc
antherifero ; Anthera? subrotundcB, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Discus epi-
gynus cyathiformis, luieus,carnosus, margine subcrenulato. Ovarium inferum,
3-A-loculare, placentis carnosis polyspermis. Styli 3-4, filif or mes, apice in
stiginata compressa incrassaii.

A new hardy shrub, native of the Fakon mountains and
neighbouring parts of Japan. For tliis most interesting
addition to our gardens we are indebted to John Reeves,

* Named by Thunberg after Jobn Deutz, Sheriff of Amsterdam, &c. who
was one of the gentlemen by whose assistance that Botanist was enabled to prose-
cute his researches iu Japan.

Esq. who imported it in 1833. From a plant presented by
that gentleman to the Horticultural Society our drawing was
made in May last.

It forms a small shrub, which strikes freely from cuttings
or layers, thriving in common garden soil. It appears tb
require to be trained to a stick, as its branches are not stiff'
enough to stand erect, and it seems to have something of a
climbing habit. It is doubtful, however, whether this is not
owing to weakness in its cultivated state, for Thunberg tells
us that his plant is a little tree about as high as a man. We
presume this species is the same as is represented by that
Botanist in his Flora of Japan ; although it must be con-
fessed that the figure he has given would scarcely by itself
sanction such a conclusion. But upon considering his de-
scription, and the account given by Ksempfer of his Joro
Utsiigi plant, which Thunberg states to be the same as
D. scabra, we suspect that any partial discrepancy which
may be observable between our plant and the accounts of
these writers, must be considered unimportant. The prin-
cipal difficulty consists in the statement made by Thunberg,
that the leaves of Dcutzia scabra are used by the Japanese,
on account of their roughness, for polishing furniture. This,
if true, would certainly not be reconcileable with the plant
before us ; but in addition to the improbability of any plant
allied to Philadelphus possessing any such property, it is
to be remarked that Ksempfer, a far better authority than
Thunberg, makes no mention of their being employed for
this purpose. He only sa3^s that the wood is used by the
cabinet-makers for making the very finest of their pegs, for
which its hardness and toughness render it well adapted.

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1719

* BILLARDIERA ovalis.

Oval-leaved Billardiera.

PENTANDRIA MOKOGY'SIA.

Nat. ord. PiTTOSPOBEiE. R. Br. (Introduction to the Natural System
of Botany, p. 138.)

BILLARDIERA. Smith. Sepala 5, acuminata. CoroZ/a tubuloso-campa-
nulata, petalis 5 ; miguibus margine convolutis approximatis. Stamina petalorum
longitudine ; antheris liberis, linearibus, longitudinatiter dehiscentibus. Ovarium
rectum. 2-loculare, polyspermum. Pericarpinm moWe, spongiosum, subbaccatum,

loculis inflatis. Seruina plurima, pulpa luilla obducta, rotunda, compressa.

Frutices volubile.'i (Australasici) foliis integris scrratisr;e, ^orihus sub-solilariis,
viridi-lutescentibiis, axillaribus, pendulis.

B. ovalis ; ramis junioribus pubescentibus, foliis lineari-oblongis obtusis utrinque
concoloribus, pedunculis 1-floris glabris flori subaequalibus, petalis rectis
obtusiusculis.

A native of Van Diemen's Land, whence it was introduced by Mr.
Lowe, of Clapton, who furnished us with the specimen for our figure.
It is nearly related to B. longiffora, from which it chiefly differs in
its smaller and shorter flowers, and more oval obtuse leaves ; with the
fruit we are unacquainted. Its flowers change from greenish yellow
to dark purple, and appear in May.

It is probable that it will be quite hardy enough to live in this
country trained to a west wall, if protected from wet in winter ; at
all events a cold pit would be ample covering for it, and for all the
other species. The beautiful Sollya also (figured at tab- 1466 of this
work) grows Avith all its native luxuriance in such a situation.

With regard to the latter plant, we avail ourselves of the present
opportunity of making a few remarks touching its differences from
Billardiera. At the time when we described Sollya, we were acquainted
only with its flowers ; but their structure was so different from that
of Billardiera that we had no doubt of its constituting a distinct genus.
Its inflorescence opposite the leaves, short somewhat campanulate
corollas, short stamens, with the anthers adhering in a cone round the
style, and opening by two pores at their points, were obviously cha-
racters of importance when contrasted Avith the axillary inflorescence,
long corollas, who?e petals roll tcgether into a tube, and the long sta-
mens with Avidely distant anthers ( f Billardiera. Upon such marks,
then, the genus was formed ; and Avhen aa'c afterwards ascertained
that Labillardiere had described the fruit of Sollya as a dry papery

* So named in compliment to the French Botanist La Billardiere, wlio
accompanied D'Entrecasteaux in his Voyage in search of La Perouse, from 1791
?© 1-794.

berry, we thought that chai'acter, whatever it might mean, was some-
thing worth noticing in addition.

It however turns out, from the observations of Mr. Don, that the
fruit of Sollya is succulent, and filled with a soft pleasant pulp, and
therefore he has proposed to reduce it to Billardiera {Brit. Fl. Gard.
2nd series, fol. 252 note.). But, in the first place, the character of
Sollya is, as we have just stated, independent of the structui-e of
the fruit ; so that if the latter were really like that of Billardiera, still
the genus Sollya would remain ; and secondly, a succulent fruit filled
with soft pulp is not what occurs in Billardiera, whose pericar-
piura indeed is of a soft spongy substance, but wholly destitute of
internal pulp, the seeds lying loose in the cells. Mr. Don adds that
the fruit of Sollya is four-celled. We have never seen the fruit more
than half ripe ; in that state it has two cells, each of which is occupied
by two rows of seeds, set fast in a firm somewhat fleshy substance,
which fills each cell, and which we presume to be what finally be-
comes the soft pulp that envelopes the seeds. A cross section of the
fruit made at that time looks as if there were four cells, which is not
the case. The genus Sollya, then, instead of being destroyed by the
discovery of the true character of its fruit, is established on still more
solid grounds than before.

Although it turns out that Sollya has not the thin papery pericar-
pium that has been assigned to it, yet we have been favoured by Mr.
Cunningham, to whose numerous discoveries, and the disinterested libe-
rality with which they are communicated to others, we have so often
had occasion to bear witness, with a new genus allied to Sollya, in
which the pericarpium is dry and leathery. This plant is called Chei-
r anther a linearis by its discoverer, because its anthers bend away from
the ovary, forming themselves into a line slightly curved like the
fingers of an open hand, and resembling what occurs in the Pleuran-
dras of the same country. This remark of Mr. Cunningham is the
more important because it tends to approximate PittosporecB to Dillc-
niacea, and thus to confirm the propriety of placing those plants near
each other in 'a natural arrangement. (See JVixus pi. p. 10.) By
means of a drawing from the living plant, and fine dried specimens
with which Mr. Cunningham has supplied us, we are enabled to draw
up the following character of this most interesting genus.

Cheiranthera. Cunn. Mss. Sepala 5, acuminata. Corolla crateriformis, petalis 5 ; iingui-
busdistantibus. Stamina 5 electa, pistillo breviora ; antheris libeiis, lineaiibus, secundis, p irisapicis
dehiscentibus. Ot'aj-juni declinatum, biloculaie, polyspermnm. Fericarpii.m siccum, indeliiseens,

ventricosum. Semina plurima, pulpa nulla obducta. Frutex erecius (Australasicus), foliis

Linear thus, integ)'is sidrfascicuialis, floribus ca?r!/ Zeis coriiinbosis erectis.

1. C. linearis Cunningha.m. Found in dry barren tracts of coun-
try on the north of Bathurst, New South Wales, where it was observed
inflower and young fruit in November 1822. Subsequently, in the same
season (namely the summer of 1825), it was again detected most luxu-
riantly in flower in an arid scrubby region at the foot of Croker's
range of mountains, on the west of Wellington Valley, in the interior
of that col on V.

This is one of the most beautiful plants in all the flora of New
Holland.

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1720

* ADESMIA Loiidonia.
Mr. Loudon's Adesmia.

DECANDRIA MONOGYNtA.

Nat. ord. Leguminosje. Juss. (^Introduction to the Natural System
of Botany, p. 87.)

ADESMIA. D. C. Ca/yx 5-fidus, laciniis acutissubfequalibus. Corolla
papilionacea, vexillo juniore super alia petala complicato, carina apice curvo-trun-
cata. Stamina dlstincta, approximata. Legumen compressum transverse pluri-
articulatum, sutiira, siiperiore subrecta crassiuscula, infer, sinuato-lobata, articulis
1-spermis demum secedentibus suborbiculatis. Semina compressa, reniformi-

orbiculata. Herbte australi-Americance. Stipulaa lanceolatce. Folia abrupt^

pinnata ; petiolo in setulam producto. Pediculi axillares, \-flori, et foliorum
superiorum abortu in racemum terminalem dispositi. De Cand. Prodr. 2. 318.

A. Loudonia ; fruticosa cinereo-sericea erecta ramosissima valde foliosa, follis
trijugis foliolis lineari-lanceolatis mollibus patentibus petiolo loncrioribus, pe-
dunculis axillaribus solitariis calycem 5-iidum sericeum sequantibus, vexillo
sericeo, leguminibus (vix maturis) triarticulatis appresso-sericeis calyce duplo
longioribus, Hooker and Arnolt, Bot. Misc. vol. 3. p. 193. quibusdam
mutatis.

Frutex GenistcB cujusdam sericecc facie. Caulis et folia cinerea, sericea,
Stipulae angusiissimcc, libercB. Foliola lineari-lanceolata, mollia, subtus palli-
diora. Flores soUtarii, axillares, foliis breviores. Calyx sericeus 5-Jidus,
laciniis anterioribiis longioribns. Vexillum sericeuin, complicatiim in alas
ineianhens. AIeb glabrce vexillo breviores. Carina paulo incurva alis palli-
dior et brevior, suturu anteriore villosu. Stamina 10, subcequilojiga, fere
hypogyna, filamenta libera fere usque ad basin, membranaceo-marginata, apice
subulata ; Antherae parvce, oblongce, cequales. Ovarium lineare utrinque
angustatum, villosum, stylo ascenderite curvato suhulato glabro.

A Chilian shrub, our drawing of which was made from a
specimen in the possession of Mr. Tate. It was originally
supposed to be a new genus, and was called Loudonia, to
which some not over-honest dealer added the specific name

* So named from a priv. and cen^Loc a union ; in allusion to the separation
of the stamens by which Adesmia is known from Onobrychis and i^schynomene.

superba, for the sake of inducing people to buy it. So far is
it from deserving such a name, that we should not have
thought it interesting enough to be figured if it had not been
for the purpose of putting an end to this fraud.

It is very like some gray Genista, and may be easily pre-
served in a dry frame during the winter. It flowers in June.

In habit it agrees but indifferently with the mass of the
genus, but its flowers present no distinction ; and Dr. Hooker
finds the fruit to be that of Adesmia.

PIRACY.

[^Extract from the Times Newspajier of Nov. 8, 1834.]

COURT OF CHANCERY, FRIDAY, NOV. 7, 1834.
RiDGWAY V. Henderson.

Mr. Kindersley moved for an injunction to restrain the defendant from conti-
nuing the pubhcation of two numbers of a work in which it was alleged there
were piracies from the work of tlie plaintiff. The plaintiff had for some time past
published a work, entitled the " Botanical Register," which appeared monthly.
It contained plates, eight in each number, representing flowers and plants, and
descriptions of those plates. The defendant also published a periodical work on
botany, similar in some respects to the plaintiff's work, and he had copied in
two of his numbers two plates, one of which recently a])peared in the plaintiff's
work, and the other in a number published by the plaintiff some years ago.
The plaintifTs and the defendant's works were handed up to the Lord Chancellor,
who compared the jilates pointed out, and was satisfied that the one was copied
from the other. The letter-press was then referred to, and there also a great
similarity was apparent. It was pointed out by the counsel, that where in the
original work a reference had been made to a preceding number, in the words
" supra, vol. 2," the copier had mistaken the word supra for the name of some
author, and had so printed it.

The Lord Chancellor said these were the pitfalls into which pirates often fell.
There was a curious instance of a similar mistake committed in a piracy upon Dr.
Johnson's Dictionary. The Doctor stated the word " curmudgeon" to be derived
from the French, cceur mechant, and added as his authority for this derivation
the words "vmknown correspondent." The copier (Dr. Ash) mistook these last
words, and gave the word curmudgeon as derived from the French cceur. unknown,
mechant, correspondent. In this case his Lordship said there was enough shewn
to warrant the injunction, which he ordered accordingly.

We beff to call attention to the foreo-nino; extract. It
may not be generally known to the public, although it has
long been notorious to those who are conversant with the
publishing business, that there exists in this metropolis,
on the part of certain writers and booksellers, a system of
gross literary piracy ; that no sooner does valuable original
matter, which has been obtained at great expense by tlie
fair dealer, make its appearance, than it is snatched up and
republished verbatim by certain unprincipled persons ; in
particular, that there are books called cheap periodicals,
which are entirely maintained by the plunder of original

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works of reputation ; and in short, tliat there are indivi-
duals who, under the name of publishing booksellers, open
shops for no other purpose than that of becoming receivers
of pirated goods of a particular description. If these persons
committed such offences against what are termed the crimi-
nal laws of England, they would be speedily transferred t-o
our penal settlements as felons ; but as they cunningly con-
fine their practice to acts, which, whatever may be the moral
delinquency of the perpetrator, the law refers to the class
of civil offences, they cannot be brought to the bar of
the Old Bailey, but are amenable to higher courts, and
subject to pecuniary punishment only. By the opera-
tions of depredators of this kind, we have long been
seriously injured. The principal part, if not the whole of
certain cheap periodicals, have been prepared by pirating
the letter-press and plates of this work ; that such pro-
ceedings should take place without acknowledgment is only
human nature, for when will the thief acknoAvledge from
what purse he has purloined his gains ; that they should go
unpunished would be to offer a premium to roguery at the
expense of honesty. We have therefore at length deter-
mined to put down, if we can, the practice of literary piracy,
so far as we are interested, by an appeal, first to the laws of
the country, and secondly to the good feeling of the public,
wdio we are persuaded would be as much ashamed of encou-
raging book-robbery by the purchase of publications supplied
by it, as they would feel themselves disgraced by being seen
to enter the shop of a notorious housebreaker, for the sake
of the cheap bargains his plunder might enable him to offer.

To our appeal to the law, the Bench has promptly and
efficiently responded by the above injunction. To our appeal
to the public we are confident that a similar answer will be
made, and that the high moral feeling which is the peculiar
boast of this country, v/ill be quite sufficient to put down
such practices.

We therefore warn all those whom it may concern,
that we shall immediately proceed in the courts of justice
against all future piratical offenders, until the nuisance is
abated ; and that we shall take efficient means of another
kind, to expose the parties to whom these observations more
particularly apply, if we shall see occasion to do so.

1721

* MYANTHUS cernuus.
Drooping Fly -wort.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. Orchide^ § Vande^, (Introduction to the Natural Sys-
tem of Botany, p. 262)

MYANTHUS. Lindl. Supra, foL 1538.

M. cernuus. Gener. and Sp. of Orch. pL part 3. p. 155.
Catasetum trifidum. Hooker. Bot. Mag. t. 3262.

This very curious plant is found growing upon the trunks
of trees near Rio Janeiro. It seems first to have found its
way to this country through Trinidad, whence it was sent
to the Glasgow Botanic Garden, and figured in the Bota-
nical Magazine.

For the beautiful drawing which we now publish, we are
indebted to Miss M. A. Huntley, the daughter of the Rev.
J. T. Huntley, in whose rich collection it flowered in great
beauty in May last.

Like all the species with the habit of the now common
Catasetums, this is very easily cultivated, provided it is
rested for some mouths by being kept cool and dry, when
not growing, and is vigorously forced when in full vege-
tation. We know not whether it is as avid of water as
some of the Catasetums, but we find those plants thrive best
when their roots are actually immersed in water while
growing.

[In the dissections, fig. 1. represents a side view of the
flower, to shew that when it is expanded the two petals are
connivent with the upper sepal ; fig. 2. shews the labellum
jointed with the column ; fig. 3. a back view of the pollen-
masses with their caudicula and gland. M. A. II.]

* From fxv'ia a fly ; the flowers look when dried very much like a fly
pressed flat.

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1722

* LALAGE ornata.
Gay-fiowering Lalage.

MONADELPHIA BECAliBRIA.

Nat. ord. LEGUMiNOSiE. §. Lotece De Cand. {Introduction to the
Natural Sijsteni of Botany, p. 87.)

LALAGE. Flores bractels deciduis aiidis inclusi. Calyx bilabiatus ;
labio superiore bifido, inferiore tripartite, laciniis omnibus setaceis. Vexillum
planum, subrotundum, emarginatum. Carina obtusa. Stamina omnia connexa,

decimo semilibero. Legumen

Ymtex Australasic^ls. YoWa. alt erna, simplicia, stipulata. Flores axillares,
aurantiaco purpureoque varii.

Lalage ornata.

Frutex atroviridis ; ramis teretibus sericeis. Folia lata, ovata, breve
petiolata, valde reticulata prcesertim infra, supra scabriuscula, brevissime
pilosa, subtus sericea. Stipula setacecB, lineata, scariosce, petioli longitudine,
dorso pilosce. Flores getnini, axillares, e squamis imbricatis, testaceis, aridis,
deciduis eriimpentes ; pedicellati, bracteolis filiformibus viridibus villosis
calycis longitudine. Calyx villosus, intus coloratus. Vexillum subrotundum,
explanatum, emarginatum, intense luteum basi macula sanguined limbo
fusco-purpureo notatum. A\se: fusco-purpurece , lineari-oblongce, obtusi simce,
cum carina parallelce. Carina paulb injlata, Icete purpurea, denticulata
obtusa. Stamina basi alba, apicibus purpurea. Antherte ovatce, obtusae.
Ovarium villosissimum, stylo ascendente, subulato, glabro.

A native of the south-west coast of New Holland, where
its seeds were collected by Mr, Baxter. Our drawing was
made in Mr. Knight's Nursery in April last.

This is one of the prettiest of the New Holland legumi-
nous plants. Its leaves are of a deep rich green, and the
colour of the flowers is a pleasing mixture of yellow, orange,

* May we be permitted to apply to this gay and lively-looking plant the name of
a laughing witty dame, who has been immortalized by the poetry of Horace ?

purple, and crimson. It requires to be kept in a well-aired
green-house, and may be multiplied by cuttings.

Although its fruit is unknown, we have no hesitation in
considering it a new and distinct genus ; differing from
Hovea, JBossicEa, and Platylohium, in the form of the upper
lip of the calyx.

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1723

* EUPATORIUM glandulosum.
Glandular Eupatorium.

SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SQUALLS.

Nat. ord. Composite § EuPATORiEiE Lessing. (^Introduction to the Na-
tural System of Botany, p. 197.)

EUPATORIUM L. Capitulum. pauci — s. multi — nee 4-florum. Pappus
uniserialis non plumosus. Corolla limbo a Uibo non distincto. Involucrun

pauci-multiserlale. Rachis ebracteolata. AchcEnium 4-5-quetrum. Arbo-

res, frutices, ant herba;, hi Europa et Asia, sed longe plerceque in America
crescentes, pi. erecti, ramis foliisque oppositis, sive verticillatis, rariits alter-
7iis ; capitulis violaceis v. albis, corymbosis s. corymboso-yaniculatis. Lessing.

§ 4. Involucrum campanulatum ; folioUs crebris subcequalibus lanceo-
latis aculis. Caidis scepius herbaceus. Kunth. synops. 2.418.

E. glandulosum ; caule herbaceo paniculato glanduloso-hirto, foliis oppositis
ovato-triangularibus subacuminatis grosse serratis supra glabris subtus pilo-
siusculis, coiymbis terminalibus trifidis, ramis ramulisque glanduloso-hirtis,
involucri foliolis acutis subciliatis exterioribus pubescentibus. Humb. et
Kunth. nov. Gen. et Sp. pi. vol. A. p. 122. t. 346. Sijnops. I. c.

Caulis herbaceus, fusco-purpurascens, pilis brevibus erectis glaridtilosis
densissime obsitvs, 3-4 pedes allies, ramosus. Folia in plantd vegetiore
rhomboidea, v. triangulari-ovata, petiolata, basi cuneata integerri}na,apicem
versus grosse serrata, in debiliore oblonga, vix rhomboidea et breviiis petio-
lata ; supra glabra venis triplicibus costceformibus altihs impressis, subtus
puhescentia, petiolo glanduloso. Flores ulbi, leviter suaveolentes, ramis
injlorescentice corymbosis glanduloso-pilosis. Involucrum campanulatum ;
squamis subulatis pallidc viridibus, glandulosis, subcequalibus, appressis.
Receptaculum planum, nudum. Achenia nigra, tetraquetra, Icevigata, pappo
simplici pauciradiato pubescente coronaia.

A native of Mexico, whence seeds were received by the
Horticultural Society some years since, through the favour of
the late Mr. Canning. It was found by Humboldt and Bon-

* Pliny says that Eupator, King of Pontus, first used the Eupator herb
medicinally. The Eupatorion of the Greeks was however not this genus, but the
modern Agrimony.

pland upon the high table-land of Mexico, between Carpio
and Gasave, at between 7 and 8000 feet of elevation.

For some time after it was raised it was kept in a pot,
where it flowered abundantly in November and December
in the green-house ; and from plants so treated our draw-
ing was prepared. But it has subsequently been turned into
the soil of a turf-pit, which is screened from wet and the
most severe of the winter's cold, and there it has grown so
vigorously as scarcely to resemble its former self; on this
account some discrepancy will be found between our descrip-
tion and figure. It now forms a thick bush three or four
feet high, wdiich flowers in October and November,

Easily increased by cuttings, which strike root as freely
as those of the Dahlia.

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1724

* PYROLIRION aiueuin.
Golden Flame-lily .

HEXANDRIA MOKOGYl^lA.

Nat. ord. Amaryllide;e. (^Introduction to the Natural System of
Botany, p. 259.)

PYROLIRION. Herbert. — Scajms uniflorus, cavus. Flos sessilis,
campanulato-infundibularis, erectus,.laciniis aeqiialibus acutis apice recurvis, tubo
cylindraceo spatha; bifida; subcequali. Stamina ffiqualiter patentia, tubi fauce
nuda inserta; tribus longioribus. Antherce biloculares. Ovarium 3-loculare,
polyspermum, ovulis horizontalibus planis ; sligma trifidum : laciniis linearibus
apice dilatatis.

P. aureum. Herbert in Bot. Mag. append, p. 37.

Amaryllis peruviana. Pair, enc mrth. suppl. 1.315. Ker in Bot. Mag. 1089.

Romer et Schulf. Syst. Vecj. 7. 805.
Amaryllis aurea. Ft. Peruv. vol. 3. t. 286. a. p. 56.

Bnlbus subrotundns, paululum turhinutus, pallide fuscus, castanece
parvce magnitiidine. Folia 2na v. solitaria {in cultu), line'iria, apAce angus-
tata, atroviridia, canaliculafa, apice reciirva. Scapus teres, cavus, vnijlorus,
iti cultd foliis brevior, in spontaneis longior, et robusiior. Spatha membra-
nacea, bifida, tubo paulb longior. Flos sessilis in scapn, amcene aureus, in
cultd vix 3-pollicaris, in spontanea 4-poll. Perianthium infandibulare, in
tuhuvi angtistafum, supra tubuvi subventricosum, vel quasi anguste campann-
latum, sed nullo modo abrupte constrictuvi ut in icotie Fl. Per. quce ad sic-
cum confecta videtur, Sepala lanceolata, acuta, usque ad tnbiim distiacta,
ibi conferruminata ; Petala conformia, omnia cequalia, et cequaliter pafentia.
Stamina ya^/ce tubi inserta, filamentis versus basm sensim incrassatis, sed ne-
quaquam ex squama oriundis ; tria paululum breviora ; omnia cequaliter
patentia. Antherffi lineares, versatiles. (Jvar'niva. oblong um, cum scapo conti-
nuum, obscure trigonum, triloculare, polyspermum ; ovula, plana, horizonta-
lia. Stylus simplex, teres; stigmata 3, lincaria, apice dilatata, minute papil-
losa.

Introduced from Peru by Ricliard Harrison, Esq. of Li-
verpool, and communicated to us in flower in April last.
It'is said by the authors of the Flora Peruviana to be corn-

Literally Fire-lily, from the colour of the flowers.

moil about Lima in fields and hedges, flowering in January
and February, and that it is called Hamancce de Antibo,
which means satiny Hamanca. We have wild specimens
gathered near Lima by Mr. Mathews (No. 400).

There is no doubt of its being the Amaryllis aurea of the
Flora Peruviana, notwithstanding its smaller size, which is
owing to cultivation, its longer style, which it may be sup-
posed is more fully formed than the Perianth, and some dis-
crepancies between it and the figure given by Ruiz and
Pavon. The latter appears to have been made from a dried
specimen, and is very inaccurate in many respects. In the
first place, the flower is represented as stalked ; certainly it
is sessile ; secondly, the stamens are said to arise froni
scales in the mouth of the tube ; there are no such scales ;
and finally, all that concerns the form of the tube of the
flower and the ovary is a mere caricature.

Whether or not the genus Pyrolirion is a good one, we
have not the means at hand of determining to our satisfac-
tion ; as it has not any such campanulate flower as has been
represented by Ruiz and Pavon, the most prominent feature
in its supposed character is done away with, and then it
becomes difl&cult to separate it from Zephyranthes ; it differs,
however, from that genus in its sessile flowers, which we
incline to consider a character of much importance, and in
the dilatation of the points of its stigma into little spoons.
From Oporanthm, which is totally different from Sternbergia,
it is chiefly its stigma and the reflexed points of its perianth
which distinguish it, unless the seeds should prove different,
as the form of the ovules renders probable.

In the mean while, until the remainder of the structure
of this plant shall have been ascertained, we adopt Mr.
Herbert's name, without however attempting to define the
species, for we do not see what are the distinctive characters
of either P. flavum or Jlammeum.

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* LEPTOSIPHON densiflorus.
Tkick-floiuered Slender-tuhe.

PENTANDRIA MOHiOGYNlA.

Nat. ord. P0LEM0NIACE.E. Juss. {Introduction to the Natural Sijstevi
of Botany, ;;. '219.)

LEPTOSIPHON. Siqrra, fol. 1710.

L. densiflorus; foliis 9-11-fidis, laciniis subulatis strictis margine revolutls,
corollae tiibo limbo breviore. Bent ham supra fol. 1622 in textu. Hort.
Trans, n.s. v. I. t. 18. y. '2.

In its general appearance before flowering, this is very
likeZ. androsaceus, only it is somewhat grayer in consequence
of its leaves being more glandular. When in flower it is very
different ; its corolla is three times as large, with broader
and blunter segments, and with a short thickish tube, instead
of a long and slender one. Its colours vary in the same
manner from purple to blue and white, but they are less
lively, and are not produced in the same abundance ; and it
must be considered decidedly inferior in point of beauty.

It flowers in October and November, if sown in the
spring ; and in April and May, if sown in the autumn ; but
it would hardly survive a severe winter. Its seeds are pro-
duced in very small quantity, so that, being an annual, it is
likely to remain for some years a very rare plant.

* See folio 1710.

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* OPI'JNTIA monacantha.
One-sp'med Opuntia.

ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. CACTEiE. {Introduction to the Naiural System of Botany,
p. 54.)

OPUNTIA. Tourn. Sepala numerosa, ovario adnata, foliiformla, summa
plana, brevia, intima petaliformia, obovata, rosacea, expansa, tubo supra ovarium
nuUo. Stamina plurima, petalis breviora. Stylus cylindricus, basi constrictus.
Stigmata plurima, erecta, crassa. Bacca ovata, apice umbilicata, tuberculosa,
saep^ spinifera. Embryo subspiralis, teretiusculus. Cotyledones semiteretes,

germinantes foliacece plans crassaj. Plumula parva. Frutices, trunco demum

tereti, juniore ramisq. rarissimis cylindricis, sccpius plus minus compressis,
articiilatis, articulis ovatis v. ohlongis fasciculos aculeorum aut setarum ordine
quincunciali seu spirali dispositos gerenlibus. Folia sediformia, caducissima,
sub quoque fasciculo juniore. Flores e fasciculis aut marginibus arficulo-
rum orti, Jlavi, aut rubentes. Stamina tactu subirritabilia. De Cand. prodr.
3. 471.

O. monacantha ; articulis obovato-oblongis, aculeis solitariis subulatis validis.

De Cand. I. c.
Cactus monacanthus. Willd. enum. suppl.

We were favoured with a fine plant of this Cactus by the
Countess of Guildford in May last. It is said to be a native
of the hotter parts of South America.

With regard to the species, or supposed species of this
difficult genus, we cannot do better than quote the words of
Professor De Candolle, who has long, carefully and skilfully
cultivated them.

''With regard to Nopals with yellow flowers, although
they are the most common in the gardens, the study of their

* Said to be named from the country of the ancient Opuntians, where it grew
wild. These people were located upon the site of the present Tolandi, in the
Morea, where one species is still found.

species is perhaps more complicated than that of any other
section. It appears pretty well made out that M. Lamarck
and myself have united as varieties under the name of Cactus
opuntia, some species which are truly distinct ; but I also think
that since that time Botanists have gone too far in describ-
ing as species a heap of varieties probably originated in
cultivation, and the flowers of which are still unknown.
The descriptions of Opuntias made from wild plants corre-
spond so ill with those made in gardens, that it is almost im-
possible to identify them, considering the negligent manner
in which travellers have described them. Thierry de Me-
nonville, who to be sure was an indifferent botanist, but who
gave his entire attention to the study of Nopals, says ex-
pressly, ' that if Linnaeus justly complained that the species
of Cacti with angular stems were inexactly described, we
may be sure that the description of Opuntias is still more
incomplete, both with regard to number and form. There
exist in Mexico thirty species, very different from all that
have been described ; and I have had neither the time nor
the liberty to describe them.*

" The principal characters hitherto employed are the
form of the joints and the spines. The first of these charac-
ters is to be depended upon only when the mean of all the
joints of an individual is taken into account, for there are
few Nopals of any size, the same individual of which will not
furnish joints of different forms. As to the spines, their
number is often variable on the same individual, and all
travellers say the same species may have them or be
without them ; their length is not more constant, and varies
within such extensive limits, according to the mode of cul-
ture, that we can scarcely give it any importance. The
garden Nopals, in general, have them less numerous and
smaller than the wild plants. The colour of the spines seems
somewhat less variable, but as yet we have upon this subject
nothing but garden observations, made upon individuals pro-
pagated by cuttings of each other, and we do not know
whether these characters come thus from seeds. I therefore
consider the principal part of the Nopals with yellow flowers
as of doubtful species."

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1727

* COLUTEA nepalensis.
Nepal Bladder-senna.

DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA.

Nat. ord. LEGUMiNOSiE § LoTE.E D. C. (^Introduction to the Natural
System of Botany, j). 87.)

COLUTEA L. Calyx 5-dentatus. Vexillum explanatum, bicallosum,
carina obtusa majus. Stamina diadelpha (9 et 1.) Stigma laterale sub apice
styli uncinato. Stylus postice longitudinaliter barbatus. Leguvien stipitatum

cymbiformi-ovatum inflatum scariosum. Yxwticea inermes. Stipulae ^oruc,

caidince. FoUa impari-pinnata. Racemi axillares, paucijiori, foliis patdo
breviores. De Cand. Prodr. 2. 270.

C. nepalensis ; foliolis subrotundo-ellipticis retusis, racemis paucifloris nutan-
tibus, callis vexilli papilliformibus, leguminibus coriaceis pubescentibus.
Spreng. cur. post. p. 278.

C. nepalensis. Sims in Bat. Mag. t. 2622.

This hardy shrub was introduced to our gardens from
Nipal some years since, but it has as yet been little culti-
vated. In point of appearance it is when young far more
handsome than the common Bladder Sennas. Its leaflets
are rounder and more shining, and its flowers of a lighter
and rather brighter tint, with a more graceful arrangement
on the branches ; it is moreover a smaller and neater-look-
ing species.

From the character above quoted from Sprengel, the
pods would seem to be materially different from those of the
common species ; but we have never seen them. No speci-
mens were distributed under Dr. Wallich's direction ; nor
indeed are we aware of any wild specimens having been seen
in herbaria.

Flowers in June ; increased by layers.

* Tbe KoXourta of Thcophrastus is supposed to have been the Colutea
cruenia of modern Botanists.

1728

* BAjNKSIA speciosa.

Shewy Banksia,

TETRANDRIA MO'NOGY'NIA.

Nat.ord. Proteace/E. (^Introduction to the Natural Sij stem of Bo-
tany, p. 68.)

BANKSIA. Supra, vol. 8, fol. 688.

1. Stylus perlanthio longior hinc unguibus citius solutis arcuatim exsertus.
Stigma laminis tardii'ls deliiscentibus inclusum. Amentum floriferum cylindra-
ceum, fructiferum folliculis transversis pluribus. Banksise versE. R. Brown
Prodr. 247.

B. speciosa ; foliis iinearibus pinnatifidis : lobis triangulari-semiovatis mucro-
natis subti'ls riiveis obsolete nervosis, perianthii laminis lanatis, stylo pu-
bescente, folliculis tomentosis. R. Brown in Linn. Trans, v. \0. p, 210.
prodr. 252. Graham in Edinb. Phil. Journ. Dec. 1830. Bot. Mag.
t. 3052.

A rare species, which, as far as we know, has only
flowered three times in this country ; first, in the Botanic
Garden at Edinburgh, next in the garden of his Grace the
Duke of Northumberland, to whom we are indebted for an
opportunity of figuring it, and, lastly, in the collection of
Henry Berens, Esq. atSidcup.

It is chiefly for its beautiful foliage and graceful habit
that it is valued, its flowers having no strikingly brilliant
colours to recommend them.

We found neither the whiteness of the under side of the
leaves, nor the faintness of the veins, which are supposed to

* It is almost superfluous to say that this fine genus was named in honour
of the late Sir Joseph Banks, the enlightened traveller, and the steady friend of
science, whose memory would deserve to be immortalized, if it were only for his
protection of such men as Dryander and Brown.
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be characteristic of tlie species ; but these were probably
only accidental deviations from what is usual.

Dr. Brown states it to be a native of Lewin's Land, on
the south coast of New Holland, in rocky places near the
sea-coast.

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1729

* EUPHORIA Longan.
The Longan Tree.

POLYGAMIA MONCECIA.

Nat. ord. SAPiNDACEiE. {Introduction to the Natural System of Botany,
p. 116.)

EUPHORIA. Supra, vol. \3, fol. 1059.

E. Longan ; foliolis subquadrijugis cum impare ovali-lanceolatis obtusis opa-
cis, venis subtus elevatis pinnatis, fioribus paniculatis, fructibus iner-
mibus verrucosis.

Euphoria Longana. Lamarck Diet. 3. 574. De Cand. Prodr. 1.611.

Dimocarpus Longan. Lour. Cochinch. 1.288. Hort. Trans, vol.1, t.28.*

Nephelium Longanum. Camhess. Wight et Arnott. Fl. Penins. Ind. Or.
1. 113.

Scytalia Longan. Roxb. Fl. Ind. 2. 270.

The Litchi and the Longan are two of the finest fruits
tliat the Chinese possess. Both are occasionally sent to
England as presents, but they are never seen in the shops.
They have, when imported, a brown shell, which in the
former is prickly, in the latter simply warted, and contain a
single seed surrounded by a succulent aril, having much the
taste of an excellent raisin, only rather more vinous.

This species seldom flowers, and has produced its fruit
in only one place in this country : namely, at Mr. John

* Literally well-hearing, in allusion to the value of its fruit, and the
abundance in which it is produced.

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Knight's, of Lee Castle, near Kidderminster, in the year
1816. Specimens were sent to the Horticultural Society, in
whose Transactions the following account was soon after
published, with a figure of the fruit :

" Two species of Z)imocarpzfs have been introduced into
our gardens : the D. LitcM, and D. Longan. They are
both natives of the southern part of China, where they are
known as the Li-tchi and the Long-yen, and much cultivated ;^
they have also been transplanted thence to different places
in the East Indies. The present is believed to be the only
instance of the fruit having been brought to maturity, in
Europe ; and persons who were well acquainted with it in
its native places of growth, pronounced these specimens
quite as good as those grown within or near the tropics.
The Li-tchi is most esteemed by Europeans : the Chinese
prefer the Long-yen, considering it to possess medicinal pro-
perties as a stomachic. Both species are trees, and many
varieties of each are cultivated in China, differing in the
quality of the flesh, the time of ripening, and in the shape of
the fruit, some being nearly globular, some heart-shaped,
and others oblong, but not varying much in size. The Li-
tchi fruits are, however, generally the largest, and are of a
red colour, when ripe, excepting in one variety, in which
the coat remains green. The small scutiform processes, on
the coat of the fruit, in the Li-tchi, are more sharp, or
pointed, than those of the Long-yen. The fruit of the
latter is uniformly of a light brown colour. In both species
the pulp is surrounded with a tough, thin, leathery coat ; it
is a colourless semi-transparent substance, in the centre of
which is a dark brown seed, of different sizes, in the different

varieties. The Havoiir of the pulp is slightly sweet, sub-
acid, and particularly pleasant to the taste, in a warm cli-
mate. The fruit of the Li-tchi, dried either in the sun, or
by fire-heat, is frequently brought to England by the ships
from China. In this state, the pulp is shrivelled and
reduced, within the coat or shell, to half its usual size, and
has a rich and sweet taste, if it has been well preserved."

A very tender stove plant, flowering in May. Our
drawing was made in the hot-house of his Grace the Duke
of Northumberland, at Syon, in 1833.

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1730

* ACANTHOPHIPPIUM bicolor.

Two-coloured Barrel- Orchis.

GYNANDRIA MONANBRIA.

Nat. ord. Orchide^ § Vande^. LindL {Introduction to the Natural
Systevi of Botany, p. 262.)

ACANTHOPHIPPIUM. Blume. Perianthium ventricosum. Sepala
agglutlnata, lateralia ungui columns adnata, dorsale cum petalis spatulatis fonii-
cato. Labellum uuguiculatum, cum basi longe producta columns articulatum,
limbo trilobo indiviso complicato, disco lamellato. Anthera carnosa, bilocularis.

PoUinia 8, inaqualia, sessilia. Herba terrestris, subcaulescens. Caulis

inferne bulbosus, vaginatus. Folia, oblonc/o-lanceolata, plicuta. Pedunculus
vaginatus paucifiorus. Flores speciosi. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. 177.

A. bicolor ; petalis oblongo-lanceolatis acutiusculis, labelli lobis lateralibus
rotundatis, perianthio ovato.

Planta terrestris ; pseudobulbis oblongo-ovatis, corrugatis, atroviridibus,
reliquiis foliorum vestitis, pauLo in collum angustatis. Folia 2-3, oiZon«o-
lanceolata, utrinqne acuta, plicata, erecta, basi angustata, sed petiolo nullo.
Pedunculus radicalis ; squamis ovatis, concavis, brunneis, magnis, vaginatus,
1-4-Jiorus. Perianthium carnosum, iijiciam et dimidiam longurn, ovatiim, vel
subconicum, Jlavum, apice patulum sanguineutn. Sepala omnia conglntinata,
oblonga, obtusa, lateralia basiobli(jua, basi longc producta: columncB inserta.
Petala cequilonga, apice minus macidata, lineari-oblonga, acuta. Labellum
cum pede longd columnce unguem efficiente articulatum, injlexum, complica-
tum, trilobum ; lobis lateralibus rotundatis intermedia magis luted et carno-
sa, usperiusculd ; lameUis disci 2 tantum, concavis, lined elevatd sejunctis.
Columna semiteres, acuta ; stigmate marginato ; clinandrio immarginato pro-
clivi. PoUinia 8, geminata, in glandulani antice emarginatam sessilia.

A highly curious and extremely rare epiphyte, found in
Ceylon by Mr. Watson, the Superintendant of the Govern-
ment Garden at Peradenia, and transmitted by him to the
Horticultural Society. It has very much the habit of a Geo-
doriim, only it has pseudo-bulbs, instead of tubers.

* A name, the meaning of which is not explained by its author, Dr. Blume.

It flowers in June, and succeeds extremely well in a
mixture of peat and sand, mixed with broken pots, provided
it has a great deal of heat and moisture during the growing
season, and a few months rest annually in a cool and
dry atmosphere.

Of the only two other known species, one is a native of
Java, the other of Sylhet. Neither has yet been imported.

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* STAPELIA Gussone^na.

Sicilian Stapelia»

PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA.

Nat. ord. AscLEPiADEiE. {Introduction to the Natural System of
Botamj,p.2\Q.)

STAPELIA. Supra, vol. 9, fol. 755.

S. Gussoneana ; caulibus cinereo-glaucis crassis tetraquetris faciebus concavis,

angulis dentatis inermibus, floribus fasciculatis parvis, coroUis glabris.
S. Gussoneana. Jacquin.

One of the greatest geographical curiosities we know.
The genus Stapelia, extensive as it is in species, does not
possess one other which is not found in South Africa ; so that
this, which is a native of rocks on the south of Sicily, is cut
off, as far as we know, from all the remainder of the genus,
by the whole continent of Africa. Are we to infer from
this that Central Africa contains Stapelias in its unknown
Flora ? or is this a northern form, having no connection
with the Hottentot races except in general structure ? Per-
haps we shall be justified in assuming the former to be the
more probable theory, if we take into consideration that
Forskahl found a plant without flower, which he took for a
Stapelia, in Arabia ; and that Carallumas, which are alto-
gether Stapelias in habit, are found in Continental India.

The species was first made known by Baron von Jacquin
at the meeting of Naturalists at Vienna in 1832, and we
presume that he has since published it somewhere under the
name he then gave it. Mr. Bentham brought it to England
with him, and gave it to the Garden of the Horticultural
Society, where our drawing was made last October.

* See folio 755.

Unfortunately we neglected to make any notes upon the
structure of its flowers when they were before us, and we are
therefore unable to describe them. When we shewed the
plant to the late Mr. Haworth, he pronounced it to be
entirely different from any which he had ever seen.

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1732

* MESEMBRYANTHEMUM rubroc'inctum.

Red-edged Fig Marigold.

ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA.

Nat. Old. FicoiDE^. {Introduction to the Natural System of Botany,
p. 160.)

MESEMBRYANTHEMUM. Supra, vol. 3,fol. 260.

§ 30. CONFERTA.

Caules fruticosi, ramis confertis ascendentlbus. Folia opposita, subconnata
conferta triquetra acuta, angulis Isevibus. Flores pedunculati solitarii aut ternati
speciosi sole expansi rubicund! aut pallida rosei. De C. prodr. v. 3. 436.

M, rubrocinctum ; caulibus humilibus ascendentibus ramosissimis, floriferis
unifloris, foliis Isete viridibus rubrocinctis acinaciformibus lasvibus, bracteis
connatis, floribus maximis.

M. rubrocinctum. Haworth.

A species which may perhaps be considered the finest of
this very extensive genus. It is nearly related to W. spec-
tabile, from which it differs in its larger flowers and leaves,
and in its connate bracts.

It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and is said to
have been described by the late Mr. Haworth in some of his
papers, but we have not been so fortunate as to light upon
the place.

For our specimen we are indebted to the Hon. W. F.
Strangways, in whose garden in Dorsetshire it blows in the
greatest profusion upon an old wall.

Independently of its extraordinary beauty, this has the
great merit of being able to resist as much cold as a Pelar-

* From pt(rt]pftpia noontide, and av^iw to flower ; in allusion to the time of
the day at which its blossoms usually expand.

gonium, and consequently of being capable of enduring a
very mild winter in this climate. Even in our most severe
seasons, it is only necessary to protect it with a few layers of
matting from the wet, and no fear need be entertained of
preserving it.

Our drawing was made in May last.

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* SYRINGA Josikft'a.

Lady Josikas Lilac.

DIANDRIA MO^OGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Oleace^. (Introduction to the Natural System of Bo-
tan}/, p. 224.)

SYRINGA. L. Calyx breve 5-clentatus. Corolla subhypocrateriformis
limbi partitionibus 4, concavis. Stigma bilidum. Capsula ovato-compressa,
acuminata, bilocularis, loculicido-bivalvis, dlssepimento medio longitudinaliter
secedente, utrinque in valvula persistente (folliculorum coadunatorum fabrica repe-
tita) ; semina oblonga, deplana, circumalata. Reichenb. Fl. excurs. p. 432.

S. Josikcea ; foliis ovalibus acuminatis subtus pallidis, floribus subinodoris.

S. Josikaea; Jacq. in Botan. Zeitung. 1831. t. 67. 399. Reichenb. pi. crit.

viii. 32. No. 1049. t. 780. Fl. Germ, excurs. p. 432. Bot. Mag.

t. 3278.

The addition to our gardens of a new species of Lilac, is
an event of no little importance to all lovers of fine flowers
and sweet odours. Vv^e are therefore happy to lay before
our readers a figure of a plant which will probably be the
most beautiful of the genus, on account of the deep colour
of its blossoms. It is not indeed so fragrant as the Persian
species, but this will be considered an advantage by those
who find the delicious fragance of the common Lilac too
oppressive to be borne except in the open air.

S. Josikcea flowers in the month of May, and resembles
the old species very. much in its general appearance ; but its
leaves are a remarkably dark green, nearly white beneath,
and its flowers a peculiar deep stone-blue ; so that it has
been compared to a dark-flowered lilac placed on the stem
of a Tacamahac poplar.

* A poetical name. Syrinx was an Arcadian nymph, who was changed into
a reed, from wliich the first flute was made. This genus is easily applied to the
same purposes ; and the Turks fabricate from its vigorous shoots tlicir finest pipe
sticks.

It was introduced to this country by t.lie Messrs. Booths,
of Flotbeck, near Hamburgli, to whom, as the first nursery
and seedsmen in Germany, we recommend all those who
wish to procure the productions of the countries east of the
Rhine. Our drawing was made in the garden of the Horti-
cultural Society.

S. Josikaea is a native of Transylvania, in the county of
Klausenburg, near Sebes, in stony places, upon the territory
of the Countess Rosalie Josika, born Czaky, after whom it
has been named. It was first made known to Botanists by
Baron von Jacquin, at the meeting of Naturalists at Ham-
burgh in 1830 ; and was afterwards particularly mentioned
in the Botanische Zeitung for 1831, Vol. I. p. 399, where
we find the following interesting note concerning our com-
mon Syringa vulgaris :

" Concerning S. vulgaris, which is marked in the Flora
Germanica as if it were of foreign origin, and which is said
in all books to be a native of Persia, although common in
hedges and gardens, w^e may observe, whatever specimens
may have been brought from Persia to Germany and the
rest of Europe, that this species is undoubtedly wild in one
part of the district comprehended in the German Flora.
This is in Hungary, where it ornaments with its flowers,
according to Dr. Heuffel, the inaccessible lime-stone rocks
of the valley of Cserna, Mount Domaglett, and all the rocks
along the Danube, at the military boundaries of Moldavia,
Szaszka, Csiklova, and Krassova."

We may add, that the Himalaya Lilac {S. Emodi) dif-
fers but little from this except in the flatness of its leaves
and the shallowness of its veins.

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1734

* COLLINSIA bicolor.
Two-coloured Collinsia.

DIDYNAMIA AKGIOSPERMIA.

Nat. ord. Scrophularine^. (Introduction to the Natural System
of Botany, p. 228.)

COLLINSIA. Supra, vol. 13, fol. 1082.

C. bicolor ; follis ovato-lanceolatis basl subcordatis, laciniis calycinis ovatis. Ben-
tham in Hort. Trans, n. s. vol. 1. p. 480.

Annua. Caulis erectus, ramosus, pedulis, v. paulo altior, levissime
pubescens. Folia glabra, ovata, subsessilia, serrata ; siiprema minora integer-
rima. Flores verticillatim spicati, speciosi. Calyx glanduloso-pubescens ;
tubo pallida ; laciniis viridibus, ovatis acutis. Corolla omnino ut in C. gran-
diflora sed duplo major^ et colore diverso ; labium superius cum tubo album,
inferius roseo-purpureum.

A new and handsome hardy annual, introduced by the
Horticultural Society from California in 1833. Nothing is
known of the circumstances under which it is found wild,
nor is it possible to tell, in the absence of native specimens,
how far the cultivated plant equals the wild appearance ;
but, as far as can be ascertained at present, it thrives per-
fectly in common black garden mould ; it has not been tried
either in loam or peat.

It grows from a foot to a foot and half high, and produces
its pretty two-coloured blossoms most copiously in May and
June, when it has been sown the previous autumn ; if sown
in May, it will flower in August and September.

A very few plants only have yet been raised ; so that
it is still very rare, although they seeded in some abun-
dance.

See folio 1082.

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1735

* M0NACHANTHU8 discolor.

Dingy Monk-flower.

GYNANDRIA MONANDIUA.

Nat. ord. Orchide^, § Vande^, Lindl. {Introduction to the Natural
System of Botany, p. 262.)

MONACHANTHUS. Pcrianthium explanatum. Sepala et pefala
deorsilm versa. Labellum posticum, carnosum, indivisum, vcntricosum, sepalis
multo majus. Columnahrevh, crassa, mutica. Aiithera et Pollinia Cataseti.
— Epiphyta Cataseti habitu. Ge7iera et Sj). Orch. 157.

M. discolor; racemo laxo multifloro, labello hemispherico marginibus planis
medio fimbriatis.

Epiphyta, pseudobulbls 3-poll. longis, oblongis, teretilms, leviter corru-
gatis, cicatricibus foUorum annulatis. Folia oblongo-lanceolata, plicata.
Racemus cylindraceus, laxus, multiflorus, spithamam longus. Sepala line-
aria, obtusa, rejlexa, viridi-fusca. Petala recta, conformia,fusco-jnirpurea.
Labellum posticum, cucullattim , acutum, carnosum, viridi-purpureum, intus
viridi-luteum, margine refiexo viediofimbriato, Columna brevis, viridi-lutea,
mutica, stigmatis excavati margine inferiore co7ivexo prominente, lateralibus
deorsum productis.

A very rare plant in Demerara, whence Mr. Bateman
received a single bulb by his collector, Mr. Colley. We are
enabled to figure it by means of a specimen from the collec-
tion at Knypersley, which we received in November last.

Although not handsome, this is an interesting plant, as
confirming the genus Monachanthus, which before consisted
of but a single species found in the Brazils, of which we shall
give a figure in some future number of this work. It diflfers
from M. viridis in the number of the flowers, in their colour,
and especially in the form of the lip, which looks more like
an old rusty iron scull-cap, than any thing else we can com-
pare it to.

* Monks flower, whicb is the meaning of this generic name, will not be consi-
dered unapplicable, when you compare the labellum of the original species to a
cowl.

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* LITHOSPERMUM rosmarinilblium.

Rosemary -leaved GromwelL

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Boragine/E Juss. {Introduction to the Natural System of
Botany, p. 241.)

LITHOSPERMUM L. Ca^t/x 5-partitus. CoroZ/a infundibularis, pervia,
fauce .5-gibboso-impressa, plicata aut Isevi. Nuculce osseae basl truncate.
Reichenb.fi. excurs. 1. 336.

§ 3. Margarospermum. Faux laevls, nuculae laevissimae. Rchb.
L. rosmarinifolium ; fruticulosum, follis linearibus demum revolutis subtus albis

utrinque subtlliter pilosis, coroUis subhypocrateriformibus pilosis, antheris

styloque inclusis.
L. rosmarinifolium Tenore fi. Neap, prodr. suppl. II. p. 65. Synopsis p. 33. noii

Rchb.
L. gramlnifolium, Romer et Schultes syst. veg. vol. 4. p. 47 ? non Viv.

Caulis suffruticosus, diffusus , palmaris ad bipedalem, pilis appressis sub-
tilibus pubescens. Folia linearia v. lineari-lanceotata, margine revoluta,
supra subpilosa, infra pilis pallidis siccatione albis dense vestita. Gynjlorum
axillares, pedunculati, pauciflori.,foliis multo breviores. Calyx 5-partitus,
corolla triplb brevior ; laciniis subulatis appresso-pilosis. Corolla i?tter hy-
pocrateriformem et infundibular em, tubo pallida purpurascente apice piloso
basi glabro ; limbo intense coeruleo piano, extus dense piloso. Antherse et
stylus inclusa.

A native of the south of Italy ; it was found by Tenore
growing on the limestone rocks of the island of Capri.

Our drawing was made from a fine plant flourishing in the
rich collection of Mrs. Marryat, to whom the seeds had been
brought by Mrs. Pallisser. It is a beautiful and liighly inte-
resting species, and one of the best adapted lor rockwork in
a mild climate. It appears to require no particular care in

* Literally Stoneseed ; a most appropriate name, the little nuts, or seeds as
they used to be called, being extremely hard, and having as smooth a surface as a
polished pebble,

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the management, except to be protected from wet in winter.
When we saw it in flower in September last, it was not above
a foot high, but we understand it has since increased very-
much in size as well as in beauty. The blue of the flowers
is of the most intense and brilliant tint. We presume it may
be propagated by cuttings.

We cannot in this place undertake to unravel all the
synonyms of this plant, about which there is very great con-
fusion in systematic writers. All we can answer for are the
following points.

1. It is the L. rosmarinifolium of Tenore, as we have
ascertained by the examination of authentic specimens.
It is probably, therefore, the L. graminifol'ium of Romer
and Schultes.

2. It is not L. graminifolium of Viviani, as we have also
ascertained by consulting authentic specimens from Viviani
himself; that species has the truly funnel-shaped, or obconical
corolla of a Pidmonaria, without a trace of hairs on its outside;
its anthers are as long as the limb of the corolla ; and the
style is much longer than either.

3. Neither is it thei. rosmarinifolium of Reichenbach, who
seems to have described some variety of L. graminifolium,
as he himself suspects.

4. L.fruticosum, to which it is also referred in Romer and
Schultes, has its leaves covered with sharp, callous, spreading
bristles, and the corolla smooth on the outside, besides having
a totally different habit.

We may add that this last, and L. olecsfoUum of the
Pyrenees would be great acquisitions to our Gardens.

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* CHEL<3nE ceiitrantlHiolia.
Valerian-leaved Chelone.

DIDYNAMIA GYMi^OSPERMlA.

Nat. ord. ScROPHULAUiNEiE Juss. {Introduction to the Natural System
of Botany, p. 228.)

CHEL ONE.—Supra, vol. 2. fol. 175.

C. centranthifolia ; glaberrima, glauca, foliis ovato-lanceolatis integerrimls basi
cordato-ainplexicaulibus, panicula elongata, corollis tubulosis pendulis gla-
bris fauce nudis, filamento quinto imberbi. Bentham in Hart. Trans,
vol. I, n. s. p.

Perennis. Caulis 3-7-pedalis, teres, glaucus, rubro maculatus. Folia
glauca ovato-lanceolata, cnrdata, obtusa, glabra, et Icevia. Panicula scepius
longissima, gracilis, Jiexuosa, ramis omnibus brevibus parum divisis. Pe-
dunculi Jiliformes. Calyx 5-partitus : laciniis ovatis, acutis, aut cuspidalis
imbricatis. Corolla tubulosa, nulla modo iiiflata, gracilis, U7iciam longa,
infundibularis, coccinea ; \imho snbcecpialiter 5-parti(o, bilabiuto. Antherse
oblongce per paria quadratim ajyproximatce, glabrce, albidce. Filaraentum
quintum subulatum, apice dilatatum, anther arum longitudine, glabrum.

A new hardy herbaceous plant, related to Chelone barbata,
from which it chiefly differs in its very long graceful panicle,
more slender flowers destitute of a beard at their mouth, and
diflferently shaped leaves. It is a species of considerable
beauty, growing well in any soil or situation, if exposed to
the sun ; but best adapted to planting among American
plants, from the midst of whose bushy masses its long panicles
may rise like slender scarlet plumes.

A native of California, whence it was sent by Mr. David
Douglas, without any intimation of the situation it naturally
occupies. Flowers from July to November ; produces seeds
in tolerable plenty.

* Sec folio 12U.

1738

* CAMPANULA fragilis, (3. Ursula.
Hairy-leaved brittle Bell-jlower.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYIVJ^.

Nat. ord. Campanulace^ Juss. {Introduction to the Natural System
of Botany, p. 185.)

CAMPANULA.— Supra, vol. \,fol. 5Q.

C fragilis; caulibus ascenclentibus diffusis ramosis, foliis radicallbus long^ petio-
latis cordatis rotundatis obtuse crenato-lobatis, caulinis minoribus ovatis et
lanceolatis, floribus paniculatis, lobis calycinis lineari-lanceolatis erectis
coroUse subsequalibus, stylo exserto, capsula ovoidea. Alp. De Cand.
Monogr. des Camp. 306.

C. fragilis. Cyrill. plant, fasc. \. p. 32. M 1./. 2.

C. diffusa. Vahl. Symb.p. 11.

C. cochlearifolia. Vahl. Symb.p. IS.

C. crassifolia. Nees v. Esenb. Syll. Ratisb. 1. 6. amcen. hot. fasc. 2. p. 9. t. 4.

A native of the southern parts of Italy, in many places
of which it is by no means uncommon, as in the neigbourhood
of Naples, the island of Capri, about Cava, on Mount Pollino,
and probably elsewhere in Calabria, according- to Alphonse
de Candolle, who remarks that it is hardly met with further
north than 41° of latitude, that it occupies the evergreen
region of Italy, and that it even struggles through the lower
woodland region as far almost as the upper limits of the
beech, that is to say to 3000 feet of elevation above the sea.
It grows in exceedingly dense tufts, hanging down from the
face of limestone rocks; and flowering in the summer months.

In its native stations it is one of the most lovely objects
imaginable. Often have we heard travellers from Italy ex-
patiating upon the beauty of the spots which are enamelled

* The English name Bell-flower, and the Latin Campanula, equally
refer to the form of the corolla.

with the brig'lit bkie patches of this interesting stranger, but
it was never our good fortune to see it alive, till we met with
it in the garden of Mrs. Marryat, at Wimbledon, where our
drawing was made last September.

It had been given to Mrs. Pallisser by Professor Tenore
as his Camj)anula Cavolini ; but probably in mistake ; for it
agrees entirely, not only with the account given of C. fragilis
by that Botanist, in the latest of his published works, but
also with dried specimens from himself under the same
name. C. Cavolini has much smaller and paler flowers, and
the segments of the calyx both narrower and longer.

A perennial plant, for which it will be difficult to find in
this country the same combination of the mild dry air, the
limestone rocks, and the sunny skies of Naples. We presume
it will be necessary to treat it as a greenhouse or delicate
frame plant in winter ; and no doubt the greatest precaution
will be required to prevent its damping off.

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17:39

* BRUGMANSIA bicolor.
Two-coloured Brugmansia.

PENTANDRIA MO^^OGY^IA.

Nat. ord. SoLANEiE Jiiss. (^Introduction to the Natural Srjstem of
Botany, p. 231.)

BRUGMANSIA Pers. Omnia Daturae nisi calyx persistens nee basi
circumscissilis deciduus.

B. bicolor ; foliis ovatis sinuato-lobatis, corolla versicolore.

B. bicolor. Pers. Synops. I. 216. Romer et Schultes,Syst.veg. 4. 307.

B. sanguinea. Don in Sweet's Brit. Fl. Gard. t. 272.

Datura sanguinea. Ruiz et Pavon. Fl. Peruv. 2. p. 15. Humb. et Kunth.
nov. gen. et sp.pl, Amer. vol. 3. 6.

A shrubby plant, requiring exactly the same treatment
as the Brugmansia arborea, growing vigorously in the open
air in this climate during summer, but requiring protection
in winter.

It is on many accounts one of the most interesting plants
that have been yet brought from South America, for which
the public is indebted to Charles Crawley, Esq., who brought
it with him from Guayaquil in 1 833. It was originally raised
in the garden of Miss Traill, and also by Lady Gibbs, of
Hayes Common near Bromley, by whom we were favoured
with the specimen now represented, and the sight of a beau-
tiful drawing of the flowers in the two conditions of colour.
In the Flora Peruviana, and the systematic work of Baron
Humboldt it is fully described ; from their statements and
the materials we have received from Lady Gibbs, we are
enabled to draw up the following statement.

* So named in compliment to Briigmans, a Professor of Natural History and
Botanv at Leyden, who occupied himself with vegetable chemistry, and who is
said to have been the first to notice the secretions of plants by their roots.

This remarkable plant is a native of elevated and cold
situations in the provinces of Tarma, Xauxa, Huarochesi,
Canta, and Humalies, where it grovv^s among rubbish ; it is
also found near the village of La Cruz, and on the banks
of the river Mayo, between Almaguer and Pasto in New
Grenada, where it was found by Humboldt and Bonpland,
at nearly 7000 feet above the sea. It begins to flower in
June and ceases in November. By the Peruvians it is called
Florijwndio encarnado and Campanulas encarnadas ; by the
Columbians Bovochevo. Its stature varies from 10 to 20 feet,
the stem being generally undivided and terminated by a
roundish leafy head. The flowers are either a bright
yellowish orange colour, or the deep orange red of our figure;
we believe they change from the former to the latter. They
are succeeded by an oblong, smooth, yellow, pendulous
capsule, which is as much as eight inches long. The seeds,
like those of the common Stramonium, are narcotic in a high
degree. In the Temple of the Sun, in the city of Sogamoza,
there is a famous oracle, the priests of which inspire them-
selves by chewing the intoxicating seeds of this plant, just as
the Pythoness at Delphi received the influence of her god
by chewing laurel leaves and inhaling a gaseous vapour.
From the fruit itself the Columbians prepare a drink called
Tonga, which when weak is merely soporific, but drank in
stronger doses produces frenzy, which can only be removed
by administering immediate draughts of cold water.

From deference to the authority of Mr. Don, we adopt the
genus Brugman^ia ; but we confess our inability to discover
any ground for separating it from Datura, except that its
calyx does not separate from its base, and drop off as in the
commoner species of the latter genus.

With regard to the specific name, however, we feel bound
to preserve that first given to the plant in Persoon's synopsis.
It would have been better, perhaps, had that Botanist retained
the specific name of the Flora Peruviana, although in trans-
ferring the plant to a new genus he was by no means required
to do so ; but as he did not, we cannot perceive either the
necessity or the expediency of creating a new name now ;

while on the other hand the inconvenience of doing so must
be manifest to every one.

We were favoured by Miss Traill with the following
memorandum, concerning the management of the plant.

"Some of the plants were placed in the open ground
near the greenhouse ; but they died down in the cold weather.
They have since sprung up and attained the height of about
three feet, and have borne leaves and flowers rather imper-
fectly developed. The stove plants kept their leaves all the
winter, and are now between five and six feet high. The
plant will not flower in pots, as it has large and spreading
roots, and requires a constant supply of moisture."

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1740

* GR(3bYA Amherstiai.

Lady Amherst's Gvobya.

GYNANDRIA UQ-SA^DmA.

Nat. ord. Orchide^, § VANDEiE, Lindl. (^Introduction to the Natural
System of Botany, p. 262.)

GROBYA. Penan^Aiwrn explanatum, bilabiatum. ^epaZa lateraliabasi
connata, sigmoidea, labello supposita, supremo erecto breviora. Petala dilatata,
sepalo multo majora, erecta, conniventia. Labellinn liberum, lobatum, nudum,
cum basi columnse articulatum, ascendens, sepalis minus, (nanum). Columna
erecta, semlteres, arcuata, basi incrassata ; antherd proclivi ; stigmat fornicato.
Pollinia 2, postice lobata, caudiculls duabus brevibus glandulae ovali adnatis.
Herba Braziliensis, pseudobulbosa, foliis gramineis, racemo pendulo radicali.

G. AmhersticB.

Pseudobulbi ovati, virides teretes, cicatricibus 1-2 foliorum annulati.
Folia 3-4 e vagina squamata, linearia, striata, acuta, debilia. Racemus
pendulus, densus, 3 pollices longus, pseudobulbis duplo longior. Sepala pal-
lide ochracea, unicolora. Petala maculis fusco-purpureis seriatis notata.
Labellum cuneatum, apice 5-lobum, lobo quinto cceteris exteriore, disco

nudum, atropurpureum. Columna pallida, facie purpurea fasciata.

1. LabeUum. 2. Columna. 3. PoUinia cum glandula sud.

For this curious species we are obliged to the Countess
Amherst, in whose collection at Montreal it flowered for the
first time in September last. It had been sent home by Mr.
Hayne, a Commissioner in Brazil, from the interior of that
country in 1829. To the pencil of Lady Sarah Amherst we
are indebted for a sketch of the manner in which the plant
grows.

* The genus is named in compliment to the Right Honourable Lord Grey
of Groby, a munificent patron of Horticulture, and a most zealous cultivator
of Orchideous Epiphytes ; the species records the sense we entertain of the
claims of the noble family of Amherst upon the gratitude of Botanists, for the
countenance afforded by them to natural history so Jong as their power continued
in tlie Eastern world.

Grohya is most nearly allied to Cymhidium, from which
it is distinguished, firstly, by the lateral sepals being united
at the base ; secondly, by the large size of the petals ; thirdly,
by the lip having no parallel elevated lines ; and fourthly, by
the pollen masses being united to the gland by two distinct
caudiculse.

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1741

* SEMPERViVUM urbicum.
City Houselcek.

DODECANDRIA HEXAGYlsllA.

Nat. Ord. Crassulace^ De Cand. {Introduction to the Natural
System of Botany, p. 161.)

SEMPERVIVUM.— Supra, vol. \%,fol. 1553.

§ 1. Chronobium. Propagines niillae. Flores ssepius flavi, rarius albi.
Species omnes Canarienses aut Maderienses D. C.

S. vrbicum ; caule fruticoso erecto apice folioso veteribus foliorum cicatriclbus
quadratis tessellato, foliis spathulatis glabris nitidis cartilagineo-ciliatis, basi
tetragono-attenuatis apice rubro-marginatis. De Cand. Prodr. 3. 411.

S. urbicum. Horn, suppl. p. 60. ex. D. C. Haworth in Phil. Mag. 1827,
;>. 125.

Folia atroviridia, spathulata, obtusa ; ciliis marginis rigidis cartila-
gineis. Panicula spithamcea, densissima, pyramidalis. Flores glabri, aurei.
SquamEe hypogynae latce, truncates, glabrce, levissim^ emarginatce.

A greenhouse plant, found commonly on rocks and the
roofs of houses in Teneriffe, in inland parts of the Island,
where the air is damper than in the valleys.

It was first met with by the late Dr. Christian Smith, who
perished in the disastrous expedition under Captain Tuckey
to the Congo. Latterly it has been found by Messrs. Webb
and Berthelot, in their examination of the Flora of the
Canaries. We obtained our specimen from Mr. Young, the
skilful manager of the garden of the former of these Gentle-
men, at Milford near Godalming. It flowers in the months
of December, January, and February; and is one of the
handsomest of the shrubby species of this interesting genus.
As Messrs Young and Penny of Milford have plants of this
and other curious things from the Canary Islands for sale,
the public will have no difficulty in procuring it from them.

* See folio 1553.

ALPHABETICAL INDEX

TO

VOL. VII. OF THE NEW SERIES.

Foliuin

Acanthophippium bicolor 1730

Adesmia Loudonia 17'20

AristolocLia Cliilensis 1680

Aster eminens, var. t)(rgi»e«s 1656

Azalea Indica, lateritia 1700

Azalea Indica, racieg-afa 1716

Banksia speciosa 1728

Bartholina pectinata 16;)3

Batemannia Colleyi 1714

Begonia heracleifolia 1668

Beloperone oblongata 1657

Billardiera ovalis 1719

Bletia gracilis 1681

Brugmansia bicolor 1739

Calceolaria polifolia 1711

Calocliortus venustus 1669

Calochortus splendens 1676

Campanula fragilis 1738

Catasetum luridum 1667

Catasetum semiapertum 1708

Ceropegia elegans 1706

Chelone centranthifolia 1737

Collinsia bicolor 1734

Colutea nepalensis 1727

Cyclobothra alba 1661

Cyclobothra pulchella 1662

Cyclobotbra lutea 1663

Cypripedium spectabile 1666

Dendrobium aggregatum 169.5

Deutzia scabra 1718

Diplopappus incanus 1 693

Echinocactus oxygonus 1717

Echinocactus Eyriesii 1707

Echites stellaris 1664

Erica codonodes 1698

Escbsclioltzia crocea 1677

J^upatorium glandulosum 172;}

Eupboria Longan 17 29

Garrya elliptica 1686

Geodorum fucatum 1687

Gilia acbilleajfolia 1682

Cilia coronopifolia 1691

Gilia tricolor 1704

Grobja AniberstiK 1710

Folium

Ismene Amancaes, var. sulphurea. . . . 1665

Kennedya nigricans 1715

Lalage ornata 1722

Leptosipbon androsaceus 1710

Leptosipbon densiflorus 1725

Liatris scariosa 1654

Limnanthes Douglasii 1673

Linaria Dalmatica 1683

Liparis guineensis 1 671

Litbospermum rosmarinifolium 1736

Lupinus densiflorus 1689

Lupinus leptophyllus 1670

Lupinus nanus 170o

M ay tenus cliilensis 1702

Mesembryanthemum rubrocinctum . . 1732

Mimulus Smitbii 1674

Monachantbus discolor 1735

Myantbus cernuus 1721

Nemopbila insignis - 1713

Oncidium ampliatum 1699

Oncidiuna ciliatum 1660

Opuntia monacantba 1726

Orcbis foliosa 1701

Pceonia Moutan 1678

Pernettia mucronata ... 1675

Pbacelia tanacetifolia 1696

Platystemon Californicum 1679

Portulaca Gilliesii 1672

Pultenfea flexilis 1694

'^V' olirion aureum 1724

Pyrus crenata 1655

Rbodantbe Mauglesii 1703

Rbododendron arboreum, var. album. 1684

Kibes niveum 1692

Ribes punctatum 1 658

Sempervivuni urbicum 1741

Solanum etuberosura 1712

Spb2erostema piopinquum 1688

Stachys iiiflata 1 697

Stapelia Gussoneana 1731

Stigmaphyllon aristatum 1659

Syringa Josikaia 1733

Talauma Candollii 1709

Triteleia laxa 1685

Yucca supeiha 1690

GENERAL ALPHABETICAL INDEX

VOLS. L II. III. IV. V. VI. AND VII. OF THE NEW SERIES.

Folium

Acacia albida 1317

Acacia leprosa 1441

Acacia lunata 1352

Acacia pentadenia 1521

Acacia uiicinata ...-., 1332

Acanthophippium bicolor .... 1730

Acaeua piniiatifida 1271

Aceias secundiflora 1525

Adenoliichia amplexicaulis .... 1190

Adesmia Loudoiiia ..... 1720

Aeridcs cornutum 1485

Agave geminiflora 1145

AUtrbineria psittacina 1540

Alstrbmeria pulchtlla, var. pilosa . . 1410

Amaryllis acuminata, var. loiiyipedunculata 1188

Amaryllis coranica, var. pallida . ■ 1219

Amaryllis intermedia 1148

Amaryllis kermesina 1638

Amelanchier flurida 1589

Amelanchier sanguinea .... 1171

Amygdalus communis, var. OTocrocarpa . 1160

Amygdahis persica, var. alba . . . 1586

Anemone vitifolia 1385

Angr.ecum eburneum 1522

Anomatbeca cruenta 1309

Anona laurifolia 1328

Anthocercis viscosa ..... 1624

Antholyxa rethiopica, var. minor . . . 1159

Authnrium gracile 1635

Aphelandra cristata .... 1477

Argemone grandillora 1264

Argemone ochroleuca .... 1343

Aristolocbia caudata 1453

Aristolochia Chilensis 1680

Aristolocbia cymbifera 1543

Aristolochia trilobata 1399

Asphodclus lutens, var. sibiricus . . 1507

Aster adulterinus 1571

Aster eminens, var. viryineus . . . 1656

Aster amygdalinus 1517

Asterconcinnus 1619

Aster cordil'olius 1597

Aster coridifolius 1487

Aster cyaneus 1495

Aster eminens 1614

A^ter fragilis 1537

Aster lavis 1500

Aster pallens 1509

Aster puniceus, var. demissus . . . 1636

Aster spectabilis 1527

Astragalus succiilentus .... 1324

Audibertia incana 1469

Azalea calendulacea, var. subcuprea . . 1360

Azalea calendulacea, var. lepida . . . 1402

-Azalea calendulacea, var. Stapletoniana . 1407

Azalea Indica, var. lateritia . . . 1700
Azalea indica, var. variegata - . .1716

Azalea nudiflora, var. scintillans . . 1461

Azalea nuditlura, var. ihyrsiflora . . 1367

Azalea pontica, var. sinensia . . . 1253

Azalea pontica, var. cer«co^or . . . 155!)

Banksia litturalis 1363

Banksia prostrala 1572

Banksia quercil'ulia 1430

Folium

Banksia speciosa 1728

Banksia undulata 1316

Barleria lupulina 1483

Bartholina pectinata 1653

Batemannia Colleyi 1714

Bauhinia cumanensis 1133

Begonia heracleifolia 1668

Begonia villosa 1252

Beloperone oblongata 1657

Benthamia fragifera 1579

Berberis aquifolium 1425

Berberis glumacea 1426

Berberis repens 1176

Bignonia Cherere 1301

Billardiera ovalis 1719

Billbergia pyramidalis, var. bicolor . . 1181

Blackwellia padiflora 1308

Bletia florida 1401

Bletia gracilis 1681

Boebera incana 1602

Brasavola nodosa . . .... 1465

Brasavola Perrinii 1561

Brodiaia grandiflora 1183

Browallia grandiflora 1384

Brownlowia elata 1472

Brugmansia bicolor 1739

Bruusvigia ciliaris 1153

Brunsvigia grandiflora 1335

Buddlea heterophylla - . . . . 1259

Burtonia conferta 1600

Cactus Ackermanni 1331

Cactus speciosissinms, var. laterilius . . l-'>06

Calandrinia arenaria 1605

Calandrinia grandiflora .... 1194

Calandrinia speciosa M9S

Calauthedensifloia 1646

Calathea grandifi.lia 1210

Calceolaria arachnoidea .... 1454

Calceolaria ascendens 1215

Calceolaria chiloensis 1476

Calceolaria crenatiflora .... 1609

Calceolaria diftusa 1374

Calceolaria floribunda 1214

Calceolaria Herberliana .... 1313

Calceolaria Herbertiana, var. pamt^ora . 1576

Calceolaria polifolia 1711

Calceolaria purpurea ..... 1021

Calceolaria rugosa 1588

Calceolaria sessilis 1628

Calceolaria viscosissima .... 1611

Calceolaria, Mr. Young's .... 1448

Calliprora lutea 1570

Calocbortus macrocarpus .... 1152

Calochortus luteus 1567

Calocbortus splcndens 1676

Calochortus venustus 1009

Camassia esculenta 1486

Camellia japonica, var. imbricata • . 1398

Camellia japonica, var. punctata . . 1267

Camellia japonica, var /fceoe«iana . . 1501

Campanula fragilis 1736

Canavalia bonaricnsis 1 199

Canna Achiras 13.58

Canna discolor 1231

GENERAL INDEX TO THE NEW SERIES.

Canna lagiinensis .

Caiiiiii spcoiosa

Capparis acuiniuata

Capril'oliuiii longitlorum

Caprilolium occidcntale

Cassia bitlora

Cassia Herbertiana

Castilleja coccinea

Catasetum luridum

Catasetum scmiapeitum

Catlleya crispa

Cattleya guttata

Cereus, crimson creeping

Ceropegia elegans

Chasmonia incisa

Cheiranthus mutabilis

Clielone centranthifolia

Chelone nemorosa

Chorozema ovatum

Chorozema triangulare

Chrysanthemum indicum

Chrysanthemum indicum, var planum

Cirrha^a Loddigesii

Clarkia elegans

Clematis chlorantha

Cleome speciosissima

Clerodendron hastatum

Clintouia elegans .

Clivia nobilis

Coburgia fulva

Coleus aroniaticus

CoUinsia bicolur

Collomia grandiflora

CoUomia coccinea

Collomia heterophylla

Collomia linearis

Colutca nepalensis

Combretum comosnm

Combretum grandiflorum

Conanthera campaniilata

Conocephalus naucleiflorus

Convolvulus farinosus

Cordia grandiflora

Coreopsis Atkinsoniana

Coreopsis aurea

Correa pulchella

Corydalis bracteata

Costus pictus

Cotoneaster frigida'

Cotoueaster laxiflora

Cotoneaster microphylla, var. Uva

Crassula turrita

Cratiegus cordata .

Cratpegus heterophylla

Crinum latifolium

Crocus vernus, var. leucorhynehus

Crocus vernus, var. pictus

Crotalaria verrucosa

Cuphea Llavea

Cyclobothra alba

Cyclobothra pulchella

Cyclobothra lutea

Cymbidinm marginatum

Cyrtanthus carneus

Cyrtochilum flavescens

Cyrtopodium Woodfordii

Cypripedium macranthos

Cypripedium spectabile

Cytisus multiflorus

Daphne hybrida

Delphinium Menziesii

Delphinium speciosum

Dendrobium aggregatuni

Dcudrobium anceps

Dendrobium chrysanthum

Dendrobium longicornii

Dendrobium moniliforme

Dendrobium sccunduin

Dendrobium speciosum

Dcutzia srabra

Dianthus Libanotis

Digitalis laciuiata

Dillwynia glycinifolia

Diospyrus Mabola

Diplopanpus incanus

Folium

1311
1-270
1322
1232
1457
1310
1422
1136
1667
1708
1172
1406
1565
1706
1244
1431
1737
1211
1528
1513
1287
1502
1538
1575
1234
1312
1307
1241
1182
1497
1520
1734
1174
1622
1347
1166
1727
1105
1631
1193
1203
1323
1491
1376
1228
1224
1644
1594
1229
1305
1187
1344
1151
1101
1297
1416
1440
1137
1386
1661
1662
1663
1530
1462
1627
1508
1534
1666
1191
1177
1192
1503
1695
1239
1299
1315
1314
1291
1610
1718
1548
1201
1514
11.39
1693

Folium

Dracaana surculosa . . . . . 1109

Drimia villosa 1346

Duvaua dcpendens 1573

Dnvaua latifolia 1580

Duvaua ovata 1568

Echeveria gibbiflora 1247

Echinocactns oxygonus .... 1717

Echinocactus Eyriesii 1707

Echites stellaris 1664

Eteagnus angustifolia 1156

Epacris nivalis 1531

Epidendrum odoratissimum .... 1415

Epideudruin oncidioides .... 1623

Erauthemum foecundum .... 1494

Erica codonodes 1698

Eriophyllum caaspitosum .... 1167

Erythrina carnea 1327

Erythrina poianthes 1240

Erythrina poianthes, var. subinermis . . 1617

Escallonia montevidensis .... 1467

Eschscholtzia califoniica .... 1168

Eschscholtzia crocea 1677

Eulophia ensata 1147

Eulophia Mackaiana 1433

Eupatorium glaudulosum .... 1723

Euphoria Longau 1729

Eurybia corymbosa 1532

Enrycles Cuuninghamii .... 150C

Enloca multiflora 1180

Francoa appendiculata .... 1645

Fuchsia bacillaris 1480

Fuchsia globosa 1556

Fuchsi 1 microphylla 1269

Fnchsia tliymifolia 1284

Gaillardia aristata 1186

Galipea odoratissiraa 1420

Garry a elli plica 1686

Gastrolobium retusum 1647

Gaultheria Shallon . . . . • 1411

Genista procumbens 1150

Geodorum fucatum 1687

Gesnera macrostachya 1202

Gesnera rutila 1158

Gesner rutila, var. atrosanyuinea . . 1279

Gesnera Suttoni 1037

Geum chilense, var. grandiflorum . . 1348

Gilia Achillca;t'olia 1682

Gilia coronopifolia 1691

Gilla tricolor 1704

Gilia capitata 1170

Gladiolus psittacinus 1442

Glycine biloba 1413

Goinpholobinm capitatiim .... 1563

Gompholobium Knightij! .'m . . . 1408

Gompholobium tenue 1615

Gompholobium venulospm .... 1574

Gompholobium marginatum . . . 1490

Gompholobium tomentosum . . . 1474

Gongora maculata 1616

Grevillea concinna 1383

Grevillea punicea 1319

Grobya AmherstiiB 1740

Guettarda speciosa 1393

Habranthus Andersoni 1345

Habranthns Bagnoldi 1390

Habranthus Phycelloides .... 1417

Hakea linearis 1489

Hamelia ventricosa 1195

Haylockia pusilla 1371

Hedychium coccineum 1209

Helianthus lenticularis 1265

Helianlhus tubaiformis 1519

Heliconia pulverulenta 1643

Herniinium cordatum 1499

Hesperoscordura lacteum .... 1639

Heuchera micrantha 1302

Hibiscus Lindleii 1395

Hibiscus palustris 1403

Hibiscus splendcns 1029

Hosackia bicolor 1257

Hosta ca-rnlea 1204

Hovea chorozemtefolia 1524

Hovea lanceolata 1427

Hovea purpurea 1423

Hovea villosa 1512

GENERAL INDEX TO THE NEW SERIES.

Ipomopsis elegans

Ills bicoliii'

Iris tciiax

Ismciic Ainancaes, var. sulph

Isopogon formosiis

Jasmiiiiiin acuminatum

Jasminum Wallicliianuir

Justicia carnca

Justicia guttata

Justicia picta

Justicia quadrangularis

Justicia venusta

Kaempferia Roscoeana

Kennedya dilatata

Keniiedya inopliylla

Kennedya monopliylla, var. lony

Kennedya nigricans

Lacbenalia pallida

Lalage ornata

Latliyrus californicus

Lathyrus tingitanus

Ledocarpum pedunculare

Lepecliinia spicata

Leptosiplion androsaceus

Leptosiphon densiflorus

Leptotes bicolor

Leucocoryne odorata

Leucopogon parviflorns .

Liatris scariosa

Libertia formosa

Liinnantbes Douglasii

Liranocharis Humboldti

Linaria Dalmatica .

Linum niexicanum .

Linum sibiricuni, var. Lewisii

Liparis elata

Liparis guinecnsis .

Lissanthe sapida

Lithospermum rosmarinifolium

Loasa ambrosiaet'olia

Loasa Placei .

Lobelia longiflora .

Lobelia purpurea .

Lobelia, Low's purple .

Lobelia Tupa

Lonicera involucrata

Lophanthus anisatus

Lophospermum erubescens

Lotus arenarius

Lowea berberifolia

Lupinus arbustus

Lupinus albifrons .

Lupinus aridus
Lupinus densiflorus

Lupinus elegans

Lupinus laxillorus .

Lupinus lepidus

Lupinus leptophyllus

Lupinus littoralis .
Lupinus micranthus

Lupinus mntabilis .

Lupinus nanus

Lupinus ornatus

Lupinus plnmosus .

Lupinus polyphyllus, var. albifli

Lupinus rivularis .

Lupinus Sabinianus

Madia elegans

Magnolia Yulan, var. Soulangiana

Malva Munroana .

Malva purpurata

Malva umbellata

Mainniillaria pulcra

Mammillaria tenuis

Maxillaria ciliaris .

Maxillaria decolor .

Maxillaria racemosa

Maxillaria tetragona

Maxillaria viridis .

Maytenus cliilensis

Mesembryantliemum rubrocinctum

Michauxia laevigata

M icrostylis ophioglossoides

Milla biilora .

Miniulus propinquus

Itliiiiulus roseus

Miniulus Sniitliii

Folium
1281
14114
1218
lCti5
1288
1200
I 109

i;t!>r

1334
1227
1340
1380
1212
1520
1421
1330
1715
1.350
1722
1144
1388
1392
1292
1710
1725
1625
1293
1500
1054
1630
1073
1640
1683
1326
1103
1175
1671
1275
1736
1390
1599
1200
1325
1445
1012
1179
1282
1381
1488
1261
1230
1642
1242
1689
1501
1140
1149
1670
1198
1251
1539
1705
1216
1217
1377
1595
1435
1458
1104
1306
1302
1008
1329
1523
1206
1549
1506
1428
1510
1702
1732
1451
1290
1.5.55
1330
I59I
1074

Mirbelia Baxteri

Monachantlius discolor .

Moscharia pinnatirida .

Myanthus cernuus .

N anodes discolor .

Nemopliila aurita .

Neniopliila insignis

Nierenibergia lilicaulis .

Nicotiana persica .

Oiiiothera anisoloba

(Enothera bilrons .

CEnotliera biennis, var. grandifiora

ffinotliera decumbcns

Qinothcra densiflora

Oenothera glauca .

Oenothera pallida .

Oenothera tenella, var. tenuifolia

(-Enothera viminea .

Oncidiuni cornigeruni

Oncidium altissimuni

Oncidiuni anipliatuni

Oucidium ciliatum

Oncidiuni Harrisonianuni

Ononis peduncularis

Ophrys aranifera, var. limbata

Opuntia aurantiaca

Opuntia raonacantha

Orciiis papiliouacea

Orchis luliosa .

Osbeckia nepalensis, var. albiflora

Oxalis Bowifi

Oxalis Cummingi .

Oxalis divergens

Oxalis tortuosa

Oxalis variabilis

Pachypodium tuberosum

Palavia rhombifolia

Paeonia albiflora, var. Potts!

P<eonia hybrida

PcEonia Moutan

PMony, Semidouble tree

Pancratium pedale

Papaver Persicum

Passiflora ligularis

Passiflora gossypiifolia .

Passiflora kermesina

Passiflora phoenicea

Pentstemon acuminatum

Pentstcmon attenuatuni

Pentstemon confertum .

Pentstemon deustum

Pentstcmon diftusum

Pentstemon glandulosum

Pentstemon glaucnni

Pentstemon pruinosum .

Pentstemon pulchellum

Pentstemon Scouleri

Pentstemon speciosum .

Pentstemon triphyllum

Pentstemon venustum .

Pereskia Bleo

Perilomia ocymoides

Pernettia mucronata

Persea gralissima .

Petunia violacea

Phacelia tanacetifolia

Pharium fistulosum

Platystemon Californicum

Phlomis floccosa

Phlox speciosa

Pholidota inibricata

Phycella Hcrbertiana .

Pimelea humilis

Pimelea hispida

Pimelea intermedia

Pimelea sylvestris .

Pleurothallis prolifera .

Plumeria Lambertiana .

Podolobium trilobatuni .

Polemonium coeruleum, var. pihferum

Polemonium humile

Polygala oppositifolia, var. major

Polygonum injucundum

I'ortulacaGilliesii

Potentilla arguta .

Potentilla glandulosa .

Potentilla Hopwoodiana

Folium

1434
1735
1564
1721
1541
1601
1713
1649
1.592
1479
1405
1604
1221
1.W3
1511
1142
1587
1220
1542
1651
1099
1660
1569
1447
1197
1606
1726
1155
1701
1475
1585
1545
1620
1249
1505
1321
1375
1436
1208
1678
1456
1641
1570
1339
1634
1033
1003
1285
1295
1200
1318
1132
1262
1286
1280
1138
1277
1270
1245
1309
1473
1394
1675
1258
1626
1696
1546
1679
1300
1351
1213
1341
1268
1578
1439
1582
1298
1378
1333
1303
1304
1146
1250
1072
1379
1583
1387

GENERAL INDEX TO THE NEW SERIES.

Folium

I'otcntilla laciiiiosa 1478

I'olciitilla missonrica 1412

rolentilla Russell's 149J>

rotcutilla viscosa l-«p2

I'olhos scandens 1337

Pialia begonifolia 1373

I'riiiius caudicans ...... 113j

Pruiiiis dasycarpa 1'2-i'S

Piiltciia;a flexilis 1694

Piiltenaea rosiuaiinit'olia . . . • 1584

Ptiltenaja suburabellata .... 1C32

Puishia tiidcntata 1446

Pyroliiion aureiim 1724

Pyrus angustifolia 1207

Pyiiis crcnata 1655

Pyrus Bollwylleriana 1437

Pyrus grandifolia 1154

Pyius nivalis 1434

Pyrus salvifolia 1482

Pyrus sinensis 1248

Pyrus spuria 11^6

Ranunculus creticus, var. macrophyllus ■ 1432

Reevesia Ihyrsoidea 1236

Renanlliera coccinea 1'31

Rhaphiolepis rubra 1400

Rhodanthe Manglesii 1703

Rliododendron Alta-clerense . . . • 1414

Rhododendron arboreum, var. rosewm • • 1240

Rliododendron arboreum, var. album • 1684

Rhododendron, Cartons . . ■ • 1449

Ribes cereum 1263

Ribes divaricatum 1359

Ribes inebrians 1471

Ribes niveum 1692

Ribes punctatura 1658

Ribes sanguineum . . . • • 1349

Ribes setosum 1237

Ribes speciosum 1557

Ribes tenuillorum 1574

Rose Clare 1438

Rosa multiflora, var. platyphylla . • • 1372

Rosa Rnga 1389

Rubus nutlcanus 1368

Rubus loridus 1607

Rubus spectabilis 1424

Ruellia Sabiniana 1238

Saccolabium papillosum . . . • 1552

Sagittaria angustifolia 1141

Salpiglossis atiopurpurea .... 1518

Salvia angustifolia 1554

Salvia foliosa .../..• 1429

Salvia fulgens 1356

Salvia Grahanil 1370

Salvia involucrata 1205

Sarcanthus guttatns 1443

Sauroglossuin elatum 1618

Schizanthus pinnatus, var. humilis . • 1562

Schizanthus retusus 1544

Scilla plunibea 1355

Scottia angustifolia 1266

Scottia dentata 1233

Scottia lievis 1652

Scutellaria alpina 1460

Scutellaria alpina, var. lupulina . . • 1493

Sediun Cepa;a 1391

Selago Gillii 1504

Serapervivum villosum 1553

8empervivum urbicum 1741

Folium

Senecio lilacinus

. 1342

Senecio Tussilaginis . . . .

. 1550

Serapias cordigera, var. longipetala

. 1189

Silene laciniata

. 1444

Sinningia villosa

. 1134

Sisyiinchium grandifloruin

. 1364

Sisyrinchiuni odoratissimura .

. 1283

Solandia guttata

. 1S5I

Solanum crispum

. 1516

Solanum etuberosum . . . .

. 1712

Sollya heterophylla . . . .

. 1466

Sophora velutina

. 1185

Soulangia rubra

. 1498

Sparaxis pendula

. 1300

Spcriiiadictyou azureum

. 1235

Sphacele campanulata . . . .

. 1382

Spluerostema propinquum

. 1688

Sphenotoma capitatum . . . .

. 1515

Spiisia ari-.efolia

. 1365

Spiraia chamisdrifolia . . . .

. 1222

Stachys albicaulis

. 1558

Stachys germanica, var. pubescens

. 1289

Stachys inflata

. 1697

Stachys Salvise

. 1226

Stanhopca eburnea

. 1.529

Stapelia Gnssoneana

. 1731

Statice pubenila ....

. 1450

Stemodia chilensis ....

. 1470

Stcnactis speciosa

. 1577

Sterculia lanceolata

. 1256

Sterculia Tragacantha .

. 1353

Stigmaphyllon aristatum

. 1659

Streptocarpus Rexii

. 1173

Stylidium fasciculatum

. 1459

Syringa Josikeea ....

. 1733

Tabernasmontana densiflora .

. 1273

Tacsonia pinnatistipula

. 1536

Talauma CandoUii ....

. 1709

Tellima grandiflora

. 1178

Teucriuni orchideuin

. 1255

Thermopsis fabacea

. 1272

Thryallis brachystachys

. 1162

Tillandsia acaulis ....

. 1157

Tillandsia rosea ....

. 1357

Tillandsia stricta ....

. 1338

Trachyraene cjerulea

. 1225

Tradescantia undata

. 1403

Trichopetalnin gracile

. 1535

Trifolium vesiculosura .

. 1408

Triteleia laxa

. 1685

Tropaioluiii pentaphyllum

. 1.547

Tulipa Oculus solis, var. persica

. 1143

Tulipa Oculus solis, var. prcBcox

. 1419

Tupistra nutans ....

. 1223

Turraia pinnata ....

• 1413

Ulex genistoides ....

. 1452

Vacciniuin ovatum

• 1354

Verbena Melindres

• 1184

Vernonia axillitiora

• 1464

Viburnum cotinifolium .

. 1650

Villarsia reuifonuis

. 1533

Viola pnemorsa ....

. 1254

Westringia longifolia

. 1481

Xerophyllnm setifolium

. 1613

Yucca superba ....

. 1690

Zcphyranthes niesochloa

. 1361

Zinnia violacea, var. coccinea

. 1294

THE END.

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