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"PROFESSOR LINDLEY AND SIR JOSEPH PAXTON.

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THE RETUSE ECHEVERRIA.

(ECHEVERRIA RETUSA.)

A handsome winter-flowering Greenhouse Succulent Plant, from MEXICO, belonging to the Order of
HOoUSELEEKS.

Specific Character.

HE RETUSE Caulescent. L bovate, | ECHEVERRIA RETUSA; caulescens, foliis obovato-spathu-
spathulate, finally scattered, glaucous, when old retuse latis demum sparsis glaucis ; vetustis retusi nulatis ;
and somewhat ated ; those of the stem linear-oblong, caulinis lineari-oblongis integerrimis basi solutis, panieulà
entire, free at the base. Panicle small, dense, divaricating, parva densa divarieatà sub-corymbosá ramis paucifloris,
somewhat corymbose, with few-flowered branches, Sepals sepalis angusté ovatis acutis ineequalibus corolla multd
narrowly ovate, acute, unequal, much shorter than the brevioribus, petalis carinatis acutis basi gibbosis.

corolla. Petals acute, keeled, gibbous at the base.

Echeverria retusa: Lindley, in Journ. of the Hort. Soc., vol. ii., p. 306.

Tuts is by no means so well-known a plant as its usefulness should have rendered it, seeing that
it was published almost five years since in the Journal of the Horticultural Society, with
the following account :—

“Tt was raised from seeds, received from Mr. Hartweg in February, 1846, and said to have
been collected on rocks near Anganguco, in Mexico. A dwarf species, not unlike a contracted
form of E. Scheerii. Its leaves are originally closely imbricated, but are never truly rosulate, and
by degrees separate as the stem lengthens; they are broad at the point, but acute when young ;
when old become extremely blunt, and irregularly crenated, as well as bordered with purple. The
flower-stem is from nine inches to more than a foot high, and bears at the very summit a compact panicle
of handsome crimson flowers, covered with a delicate bloom, and orange-coloured inside. It is a pretty

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greenhouse, half-shrubby species, growing from one to two feet high, and thriving vigorously in a
light mixture of sandy loam with leaf-mould and plenty of sand. Tt is easily increased by the leaves,
and flowers freely from November to April, that is to say, throughout the winter."

. No plants are better suited to window gardens than these Echeverrias, all the species of which
blossom the whole winter long, will thrive in soil of any sort, are not very impatient of either heat
or cold, dryness or dampness, and which are so varied in colour, form, and manner of growth, as
to form of themselves variety enough for such a space as the recess of a window affords. One of
the most singular is the Pachyphytum bracteosum of Klotzsch, which does not appear to be in
any way distinguishable from the genus.

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THE THYRSE-LIKE BILLBERGIA.
(BILLBERGIA THYRSOIDEA,)
A Stove Perennial, from Brazil, with rich crimson bracts, arranged in a cone, belonging to BRoMELIADS.

Specific Character.
gene gn e LIKE BILLBERGIA. Leaves erect, | era emm ge folis erectis lato-

ped, with a point, unifo igulat cavis,
st erc d about as long as th هما الاسم‎ scapo sub-sequalibus, bracteis ovato-
B ovato-lanceo , collected into a cone or | d acuminatis in strobil aggregatis, spicd
spike like a thyrse in form. Calyx covered with white | ^ thyrsoideá, ovariis albo-farinosis, petalis obtusis calyce
mealiness. Petals obtuse, much longer than the calyx. | multó longioribus.

Billbergia thyrsoidea : Martius in Römer and Schultes Sp. Plant., T., 1261.

E them with the manner of growth and appearance of a Pine Apple, except that the leaves are

wholly destitute of a mealy or glaucous covering, but are a clear bright green. Leaves loosely
arranged, rather wavy, with small prickly serratures, and a short abrupt point. Bracts rich crimson,
very regularly arranged in an oblong obtuse cone, or thyrse, not mealy. Flowers rather larger than the
bracts, and of nearly the same colour. Sepals oblong, obtuse, smooth, much shorter than the closed-
up straight erect petals. Stamens six; three free, and opposite the sepals ; three united to about the
middle of the petals which have at the base a pair of half ovate scales, the outer edge of which is
coarsely toothed, Ovary covered with a fine white loose mealiness, which is composed of minute
oval loose cells filled with air ; three-celled, with numerous anatropal ovules having an elevated raphe,
a crested chalaza, and a large secundine projecting beyond the orifice of the primine ; the stigmas are
three, and convolute.

Such are the characteristic marks of this very beautiful stove plant, originally found by Martius
on rocks near Rio Janeiro, and recently imported by M. de Jonghe of Brussels. For the opportunity

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4 THE THYRSE-LIKE BILLBERGIA.

of figuring it we are indebted to Mr. Henderson of the Wellington Nursery, St. John's Wood. It
requires to be managed in the same way as a Pine Apple.

Tt is most nearly allied to the Pyramidal Billbergia figured in the Botanical Magazine, t. 1732,
and in the Botanical Register, t. 203 and 1181; but that plant has glaucous taper-pointed leaves,
and very large spreading flowers, conspicuous for the white mealiness of the calyx.

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THE GOLDEN SWAN-ORCHIS.
(CYCNOCHES AUREUM.)
A noble Epiphyte, with clear yellow flowers, from CENTRAL America, belonging to ORCHIDS.

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Specific Character.

| CYCNOCHES AUREUM ; racemo longo pendulo com-
| pacto, sepalis lanceolatis planis, petalis conformibus ab
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THE GOLDEN SWAN-ORCHIS. Raceme long, pendu-
lous, compact. Sepals lanceolate, flat. Petals of the same

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short stalk, at the end ovate and acute, with a round disk disci rotundati margine in processubus brevibus arcuatis
the edge of which is broken up into short curved pro- apice fureatis soluto : 2 basilaribus majoribus discretis
rectis, eolumná labelli longitudine.

T°, the very singular race of Swan-Orchises, we have now the gratification of adding a new form,

introduced from Central America by Mr. Skinner. Tt is very near the “ Spotted,” from which it
differs in having a shorter and more compact raceme, whole-coloured pale clear yellow flowers, and a
lip the terminal lobe of which is short and ovate, not long and linear-lanceolate, while the append-
ages into which the edge of the disk is broken up are short, forked, all radiating from the centre,
instead of the uppermost one being bent back, and the two lowest are very considerably larger than
the others,

Is this a species? or is it a form of C. maculatum, or of some other of this masquerading genus ?
Upon this subject we venture to repeat what was said six years ago in the Botanical Register, upon
the surprising transformations to which the Swan-Orchises are subject, and concerning which we
have no more information than we had in 1846. "The plant to which the remarks applied was the
green state of the Egertonian Swan-Orchis.

“This is evidently a variety of the C. Fgertonianum, distinguished by its flowers being of a pale watery
green, and not deep purple. But what is C. Egertonianum itself? In Mr. Bateman’s magnificent

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6 THE GOLDEN SWAN-ORCHIS.

work we are told how the long-spiked small purple-flowered C. Egertonianum is only the short-spiked

green-flowered C. ventricosum ; how the same plant at one time bears one sort of flowers, and at
another time another sort; and we have ourselves shown how the same plant, nay the same spike;
is sometimes both the one, the other, and neither. C. Eyertonianum is then a * sport,’ as gardeners
say, of C. ventricosum.

» But what again is C. ventricosum? Who knows that it is not another ‘sport’ of C. Loddigesii,
which has indeed been caught in the very act of showing a false countenance, something wonderfully
suspicious, all things considered, and justifying the idea that it is itself a mere Janus, whose face is
green and short on one side, and spotted and long on the other.

“Then, if such apparently honest species as C. Zgertonianum, ventricosum, and Loddigesii ave but
counterfeits, what warrant have we for regarding the other so-called species as not being further
examples of plants in masquerade? For ourselves we cannot answer the question: nor should we
be astonished at finding some day a Cycnoches no longer a Cycnoches, but something else; perhaps
a Catasetum. If one could accept the doctrine of the author of the * Vestiges, it might be said
that in this place we have found plants actually undergoing the changes which he assumes to be in
progress throughout nature, and that they are thus subject to the most startling conditions only

because their new forms have not yet acquired stability."

Since we have space for the purpose, we avail ourselves of the opportunity to give a list of the
known forms of this strange genus.

SO-CALLED SPECIES OF CYCNOCHES.
* Lip perfectly entire, fleshy, without a es.

1. C. Loddigesii Lindl. Gen. عل‎ Sp. Orch., p. 154 ; Bot. Cab., t. 2000 ; Bot. Reg., t. 1742.— Surinam.— Flowers. very
large, fragrant, green and purple, with a white spotted lip. Sports by producing smaller broad-lipped flowers without
scent, and with a very short eucullate elub-shaped column. This is the original state of the genus.

2. C. ventricosum Bateman Orch. Mex. & la, t. 5.—Guatemala,— Flowers large, green, with a white lip.
Sports to Egertonianwm ; and even towards the cucullate form of C. Loddigesii, هه‎ was ascertained by Sir P. Egerton,
in 1849,

3. C. ehlorochilon Klotzsch ; Sertum Orchidaceum, t. 16.— Maracaybo.— Flowers very large, green, whole-coloured.
Has not been observed to sport ; but is probably a mere variety of C. ventricosum.

* * Lip having the edge broken up into fleshy appendages.

4. C, pentadactylon Lindl. in Bot. Reg., 1843, misc. 26, t, 22. — Brazil.— Flowers large, yellowish green, banded with
brown, In the garden of Mr. Kenrick, of West Bromwich, this produced two flowers of Egertonianum, among the
usual flowers peculiar to itself, Sept. 12, 1851.

. C. aureum Lindl. in Paxt. Fl. Garden, t. 75.—Central America, —Flowers large, clear pale yellow. Has not been
yet observed to sport.

6. C. maculatum Lindl. in Bot. Reg., 1840, mise, 8 ; Sertum Orchidaceum, t. 33.— Mexico? La Guayra.— Flowers
small, yellow, spotted with brown. Has not been observed to sport.

7. C. Egertonianum Bateman Orch. Mex. & Guatemala, t. 40 ; Bot. Reg., 1846, t. 46.— Guatemala and Mexico.—
Flowers small, purple or greenish, unspotted. Sports to Ventricosum, and to Pentadactylon.

* * * Lip three-lobed, membranous, without appendages,

8. C. Peseatorei Lindl. in Paxt. Fl. Gard., no. 174 ; aliàs Acineta glauca Linden.—New Grenada.—Flowers yellow
and brown, in a long pendulous raceme, Has not been observed to :

9. C. barbatum Lindl. in Journ. of Hort. Soc., vol. iv. ; Bot. Mag., t. 4479.— New Grenada, and Costa Rica.—Flowers
soft delicate flesh-colour, spotted with red. Has not been seen to sport.

GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

Linariads. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. (Fig. 233.

It forms a neat,
B w 7
tubular white
e-yellow at the mouth,

in the mn, or early
rding to the treatment it
A mixture of peat, loam,

ge Calodracon Sie-

and purple in its foliage. It is said to be more pete ace the last species, and far more attractive. * Entre

464. CHÆNOSTOMA LINIFOLIUM. Bentham. (aliàs Manulea linifolia Thunberg; alias Chienostoma
fasciculatum of Gardens.) A beautiful little shrub, with long white flowers having a yellow orifice.

Belongs to

We think there can be no doubt that
the Ch. fasciculatum of Gardens is identi-
eal with Ch, linifoliwm, notwithstanding a,
that its flowers are much longer and more A A

which are sometimes bluntly toothed, and
long loose racemes of

flowers, oran
beyond which dia yellow anthers project.
It blossoms late

flower, it should be allowed to complete
wth, and then be rested for
or four months. It must have abundance

its

blin
such plants as Mignonette, which are
altho

really undershrubs, ugh flowering
the first y.
465. RACON NOBILIS.

Planchon.

boldii Planchon ; alias Dracæna no-

bilis Van Houtte.) A hothouse
plant with a dinem but noble habit, and rich purple and crimson leaves. Native of Japan.
Belongs to Lilyworts
This plant, din: known in gardens under the name of Dracena nobilis, resembles the Calodracon — of
Planchon (Drac. ferrea and terminalis of books), and is remarkable for the singularly vivid mixture of streaks of rich

mille plantes d'une serre, c'est sur elle que se portent d'abord les regards ; dans un salon, c'est l'ornement le plus
exquis que la nature puisse préter au ibus de luxe ;* e is the flowery language in which M. Planchon speaks

8 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

of itin Van Houtte's Flore des Serres, where there is an excellent figure of the species. It has not yet flowered. The stem
i being so short as to be almost concealed by the head of leaves ; nothing, it is added, can be more

is described as r
beautiful either in the stove itself, or in a vase in a sitting-room warm enough to keep it in health, and sufficiently
lighted, :

466. COMMELYNA SCABRA. Bentham. A half-hardy perennial plant, with glaucous wavy
leaves, and large dull purplish brown flowers. Native of Mexico. Belongs to the Order of
Spiderworts. Introduced by M. Allardt of Berlin.

(Fig. 234.) :

A very singular herbaceous plant, first found by Mr. Ehren- PUR

berzin the North of Mexico, and afterwards by Hartweg. It

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leaves are sessile, lanceolate, stiff, cartilaginous at the ed e;
covered all over with fine asperities, with purplish sheaths
fringed at the orifice. The spathes are almost cordate, folded
together, downy, with five to ten flowers in each. The petals
are of a singularly dull purplish brown colour.— Link, Klotzsch
and Otto, Icones, t. 30. This does very well in a warm border

467. GRINDELIA GRANDIFLORA. Hooker. A
hardy biennial, with large showy orange-coloured
flower-heads. Native of Texas.

longs to Composites. Intro-
duced at Kew.

Raised from seeds sent by Dr. Wright
from Texas, and quite hardy, flowering in
the open air as late as November lst

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leafy and terminated by a flower. Whole plant hard and rigid,
sub-glaucous. Leaves alternate, sessile, from a broad cordato-
semiamplexicaul base, lanceolate, gradually tapering to a
the base coarsely dentato-serrate, the rest nearly entire.

Flowers (capitula) very large, solitary, on each terminal branch,

full orange-yellow. Involucre hemispherical, glutinous : scales

subulate, spreading or even recurved, squarrose, herbaceous,

Radical florets ligulate, very long, with a slender tubular base

Ovary obovate, furrowed, bearing one or more sete: style

with the branches subulate. Florets of the dise tubular, five-

toothed, of the ovary, as in the ray, setze three to six. A stout i
plant, making a showy appearance when in flower. Towards autumn the stem

becomes hard and wood ; after f
the stem and roots are exhausted and die, showing that the plant is only i i Sao

ering»

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with clusters of .

GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 9

468. ODONTOGLOSSUM ANCEPS. Klotzsch. A diminutive epiphyte with greenish yellow flowers,
and a white lip. Native of Brazil. Flowers in July. Introduced by M. Allardt of Brazil.
` 0. anceps ; pseudobulbis compressis, versus apicem attenuatis ; foliis binis, oblongis, apice oblique rotundatis, ternis ;

racemo ancipiti, unifloro, foliis longiore, biartieulato ; vagina bivalvi, membranacea, subarida ; perigonii foliolis
lanceolato-oblongis, obtusis, patenti-recurvis ; labello rhomboideo-lyrato, apice recurvo, appendiceque bidentato atque
anteriore intermedio breviore instructo.

Pseudobulbs two inches long. Leaves four inches long, by six lines broad. Scape two-edged, four and a half inches
long. Sepals an inch long, greenish yellow, the two side ones with a purple we T upper and e n without
marks. Lip white, with purple lines and spots at the base.— Klotzsch, in Allgem. zeit., Aug. 9,

469. CALCEOLARIA stricta. Humboldt & Bonpland. A "den half hardy e from Peru.
Flowers pale yellow, appearing in September.
Introduced by Messrs. Veitch & Co. (Fig.
235.) |

sis another of those valuable, shrubby, willow-
ER Calceolarias which, independently of their in-
trinsic merit, will become so important as breeders. It
is nearly related to the C. tetragona mentioned by us

leaves, the size and colour of the flowers, and the pro-
portion of the calyx. This species forms a small
smooth bush, with willow-like leaves, pallid —

Messrs. Veitch’s nursery in the open air, and flowering
in great beauty. No doubt it should be planted out in
the summer, in light

of 1850-1 in a cold
frame. Mr. Wm.
Lobb, who found it

it as a shrub from
two to three feet
470. Impa-
TIENS CORNIGERA.
Hooker. A robust
| and handsome
PH \ tender annual,

hairy large purple

and yellow flowers in the axils of the leaves. Native of Ceylon. Introduced in 1851.
Raised in the stove of the Royal Gardens, from seeds sent from Ceylon by p Veget It flowered
the whole summer and autumn, and may be وه روصمو‎ a really ornamental t. Herbarium
we find specimens which we consider to be identical, from Assam, sent by Major Sean! and among

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those specimens are some with glabrous flowers, which have considerable affinity with Impatiens levigata
Wall., but from which the present appears y distinct. Stem erect, ree to four feet high, rather stout
succulent, semipellucid, striated, often red at the setting on of the leaves, very thick and much branched and rooting
below. Leaves alternate, large, sometimes nearly a span long, ovate, acuminated, penninerved, pale beneath ; petiole

long, and nearly a line broad, semiterete, margined, the margin bent, with more or less numerous long, soft, distant
fimbrize tipped with a gland. Peduncles aggregate, axillary, single-flowered, much shorter than the petiole, a little
enlarged upwards, and curved down with the weight of the flower. The size of the flower is about equal to those of
Impatiens balsamina, and the colour is yellowish, much suffused with pink. The upper sepal (two united) is remarkable
for a large green horn-like projection from the back ; the lower for being downy, and for the short, much-curved,
green spur. This, like other tropical species of the genus, requires to be treated as a tender annual. If potted in
light rich soil, and kept in a stove and well supplied with water, it attains a considerable size, producing thick side-
branches, which in time assume a hard woody appearance. When placed in a favourable situation as regards shade

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materially assist in supplying nourishment to the plant. As it flowers late, we fear it will not ripen seeds ; but it may
be increased by cuttings, which root readily in the summer, but require much care in the winter, as they are liable to
damp off.— Bot. Mag., t. 4623.

471. SoPHRONITE, THE SPECIES OF.

illustrated by the accompanying woodcut, may be useful both to cultivators and botanists. The genus was first proposed
at fol. 1129 of the Botanical Register, under the name of Sophronia, afterwards at t. 1147 of the same work changed
to Sophronitis. The original species named S. cernua, imported from Botofogo, a place in the neighbourhood of Rio
Janeiro, was for a long time the only kind known in gardens, and appears to have since given rise to three other names,
viz., S. isopetala, Hoffmannseggii, and mutans, the plants bearing which are not in any way distinguishable by the
accounts their authors have published of them. A second species was added in the Sertwm Orchidaceum, with large
scarlet flowers, under the name of S. grandiflora ; then in 1840 came a third with violet flowers, called S. violacea ; and a
fourth, S. pterocarpa, has long lain buried in herbaria. A good generic character not having been yet published, we offer
the following as one applicable to all the four species now known :—

Perianthium explanatum, subæquale. Sepala et Petala imbricata, libera. Zabellum integrum,
cucullatum, linguiforme, basi cum columna connatum, sæpiùs crist simplici transverså in medio
lamellisque 2 axialibus. Columna libera, apice utrinque alata: alis integris conniventibus super

cristam labelli. Stigma concavum, rostello obtuso. Anthera terminalis, opercularis, 8-locularis,
cardine crasso inarticulato. ^ Pollinia 8, antice et posticé parallela, caudiculáà duplici pulvereà.
— Herbe epiphyte (Brasilienses) monophylle, pseudobulbose, racemis axillaribus effusis paucifioris,
floribus coccineis v. violaceis. :

Of this the following are the species with their distinctive characters :—

472, SOPHRONITIS CERNUA Lindley in Botanical Register, t. 1129; (alids 8. isopetala
Hoffmannsegg in Botan. Zeitung, Y. 834; alias S. Hoffmannseggii Reichenbach Jil in Linnea Litt.
Ber., XVI. 236; aliàs S. nutans Id. Ibid. 3) folio ovato-oblongo, racemo corymboso paucifloro,
sepalis petalisque ovatis acutis, labello repando acuto, columnæ alis brevibus obtusissimis, ovario sex-
costato. (Fig. 236; 8, a lip; 9, pollen masses ; 10, an end view of the ovary.)

This plant has small brilliant scarlet flowers, with a yellow lip.

The sepals and petals are of the same size. There
not seem to be any essential difference in the plants now referre

d here. The species is common in gardens,

473. SopHRONITIS GRANDIFLORA Lindley Sertum Orchidaceum, t. 5, g. 2; (alias Cattleya
coccinea Bot. Reg., fol. 1919;) folio oblongo acuto pseudobulbo ovali tereti longiore, floribus solitariis,
spathá nulla, sepalis lineari-oblongis obtusis rectis, petalis triplo latioribus, labello ovato basi cucullato
indiviso apice plano sepalis breviore. (Fig. 237.)

Found by Deseourtilz, upon the high mountains that separate the province of Bananal from that of Ilha Grande ; by
ardner, on trees near Rio Janeiro, on mountain heights, where rime frost is seen in the morning (659 and 5878 of his

Herbarium). The finest of the genus. Flowers bright scarlet or cinnabar, three inches across ; lip yellow.

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474. SOPHRONITIS vioLACEA Lindley in Bot.
Reg., 1840, misc., no. 15; pseudobulbo ovali, folio
solitario lineari scapo PEART basi multibracteato
l-floro longiore, labello obovato acuto nudo basi gib-
boso, columnæ alis maximis carnosis obtusis falcatis.
(Fig. 238; 1 and 2, views of the column and wings;
9, lip; 4, pollen masses.)

A common Brazilian plant, found on the Moun-

tains. The very narrow leaves, violet, not brick-red flowers,
sad: numerous dry scaly bracts, readily distinguish it. For

the specimen now represented we are indebted to Mr
Bellenden Ker.

475. SOPHRONITIS PrEROCARPA Lindley in Herb.
Martius; folio coriaceo subrotundo oblongo, race-
mis brevibus corymbosis, ovario hexaptero longè
rostrato, labello ovato cristato. (Fig. 239; 6, the
pollen masses ; 7, a transverse section of the ovary.)

This very rare plant in gardens has rosy
purple flowers, a very remarkable ovary,
with six broad wings and a very long neck,
and roundish oblong leaves, Gardner found
it on the Organ Mountains (665) ; Martius
on rotting trees near Mainarde, in the p
vince of Minas Geraes.

GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

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476. SkrMMIA JAPONICA. Suprà, vol. ii., no. 318, fig. 163.

At the above place we referred to this plant, as a synonyme, the Limonia Laureola of Wallich, the materials at our
disposal not enabling us to point out any difference. We have since been supplied with further information by Messrs.
Standish and Noble, who have fruited the Skimmia japonica in abundance, and we are now satisfied that the two plants
are distinct. The following letter from Mr, Standish includes the main points of difference :— |

“Sir,—At your request, I have much pleasure in sending two or three seeds of Skimmia japonica. They have been
gathered and put i d than a month—therefore are almost spoiled for your purpose. When perfect, they contain
two seeds, but never more. Amongst the quantity that we have pulled to pieces for sowing, about one third contained |
two seeds—the rest only one. The whole of the berries were oval in shape. Enclosed is a leaf of our plant, and one

or fruited, M. Van Geert, of Belgium, tells me that he has had Limonia Laureola many years—is quite satisfied it is
not the same as ours ; and, although his plant is three feet in height, and every year has all the appearance of coming
into bloom, yet never comes. Many p lling Limonia Laureola for Skimmia japonica, and the publie will be
very much disappointed when they come to see the two plants, therefore I think they ought to be made acquainted with
these facts. Every one who has seen Skimmia japonica in fruit, has been charmed with it. We find it perfectly hardy ;
and, whether looking at it as an evergreen, or its very sweet-scented flowers or fruit, it is a very fine plant."

These statements we can quite confirm ; for, although both ha t ted leaves, yet Limonia Laureola is by no
means so sweet as Skimmia japonica. The form of the leaves, too, is different—in the former flat and nearly acute—in

2. S. Lawreola (aliàs Limonia Laureola Wallich) ; foliis oblongis acutis planis rutæ olentibus.

The scent of the leaves of the first seems to us to resemble ripe apples, of the latter a mixture of Rue and Fraxinella,
77. MAXILLARIA PUNCTULATA. Klotzsch. A Brazilian epiphyte with greenish yellow flowers, —
three-lobed yellowish lip spotted with purple at the edge. Introduced to the German gardens.

M. punctulata ; caulescens ; pseudobulbis oblongis, versus apicem attenuatis bifoliatis, bifariam imbricatis ; foliis
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478. EPrpENDRUM WaGENERI. Klotzsch. An orchidaceous epiphyte with greenish yellow

arden, Berlin. |
E, Wageneri (Eneyclium) ; pseudobulbis ceespitosis, ovatis, 2— 3-foliatis ;
tortuosis, apice obtusis; racemo paniculato terminali, viridi-pun

lobis lateralibus brevibus, conniventibus, faleato-oblongis, obtusis, lobo intermedio cordato, orbiculato-ova
culata.

Pseudobulbs two inches long, and one and a half in diameter above the base. Leaves fifteen inches long, and eight

Racemes two feet long. Flowers sweet-scented, yellowish green. Lip white changi
i T 9 t 1 em
Klotzsch, in Allgem. Gartenzeit., Aug. 9, 1851. s ELO Om

479. EPIDENDRUM COLORANS. Klotzsch. An orchidaceous epiphyte with small pink flowers.

E. colorans (Spathium) ; caule tereti ; foliis distichis, patentirecurvis, oblongis, brevi-acutis, subcarinatis ; racemo
brevi, punctato-scabro ; spatha, dorso crenulata, diphylla ; floribus parvis, brevi-pedicellatis, bractea lanceolata
acuminata, pallide lilacina suffultis ; perigonii foliolis spathulatis, interioribus subbrevioribus angustioribusque ; labelli
>

12 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

4
and a

flowers, and a white lip streaked with purple. Native of Venezuela. Introduced at the Botanic

Native of Guatemala. Introduced by Mr. Warczewicz. Flowered with M. Allardt of Berlin.

cL سس‎ penance pedis EE
I

GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 13
trilobi go — brevioribus, integerrimis, subobliquis, intermedio elongato, apice bilobo, lamellis 3 parallelis,
angustis in

Stems a pu high. Flowers pendulous small, bracts two lines long. Sepals white at first, then yr 1 has narrower
and a little shorter. Lip white with three narrow plates.— Klotzsch, in Allgem. Gartenzeit., Aug. 9, 185

480. ILEX LATIFOLIA. A hardy evergreen tree, with long shining leaves, greenish flowers, and
small red axillary berries. Said to be a native of Japan. Belongs to Aguifoils. (Fig. 240.)

This is a stout, stiff, evergreen, hardy tree, of great beauty. Every part is morte free from hair. The shoots, which
p green or tinged with violet, are

phrodite, pale green, in very elon axillary
racemes, about as dm as the pee and
supported by etis ovate, acute g, car-
tilaginous bra The berries, whith ripen
in February, are in short compact clusters, of

is valuable م‎ under the
aem of Ilex eda by which Thun
te 1 ed, in عمد‎

esign:
No-Ko-Giri ; but, if € statement of that botanist can be t
his plant must be different, for he says the leaves are ini الب‎
and three inches long by two broad, which gives them an entirely
different outline from the species before us, pm hake seid of
whose leaves is not three by two, but six or n by two, a
very material difference. TT in in the $ ed of any
authentic evidence, we leave the garden e as we find it, espe-
cially since it i is probably the Z. latifolia of pate and Siebold
(Flore japonice familie naturales, sect. i., p.40), or T. macrop: kylla
of Blume. According to the first of these authors, the leaves in
the wild plant vary in form, being, on the same bran ch, oblong,
ovate, or elliptical, acuminate or obtuse, and finely serrated, or
slightly crenate.

x Ta L The "a nearly approaches the Zlex Perado of the Hortus
a CM i Kewensis, a native of the Canaries, figured in the Botanical
MS CN E Magazine, t. 4079, under Webb and Berthellots name of 7. — another very vens
"s NN hardy shrub, differing from this in bearing clusters of large white flowers, aud frui

NY than twice the size of that of the present plant. There is no doubt pus this Z. lati ifolia, of which
we believe two varieties are in cultivation, and which is plentiful in the nurseries, is as eis
as the common holly itself.

481. EverxiA Uexr. Hooker. (alias Myrtus Ugni Molina; alias Murtilla Feuillée.) A
beautiful evergreen bush, with globular pink and white flowers, and fragrant foliage. Belongs to
Myrtleblooms, Native of Chili. Introduced by Messrs. Veitch.

It forms a charming shrub, native of South Chili and the islands, abundant in Chiloe and in the Bay of Valdivia,
where the natives call it Ugni, and the Spaniards Murtilla or Myrtilla ; and the habit is not unlike that of our European
Myrtle. Introduced by Messrs. Veitch and Son, through their collector, Mr. William Lobb. It proves quite hardy in
their Nursery at Exeter, whence we were favoured with the flowering specimen here re figured in July, 1851. The flowers
are fragrant, and the leaves when bruised are no less so ; which ensures its being prized by all cultivators. A shru
varying in height, according to Mr. Bridges, from two to ا‎ feet, copiously branched ; branches erecto-patent, dotad
with brown bark, young shoots downy. Leaves copious, opposite, spreading, on very short petioles, thick, coriaceous,

14 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

ovate, sometimes varying to lanceolate, very acute, impunctate, nerveless, the margin reflexed, dark green above, pale
and when dry almost white beneath. Peduncles axillary, solitary, single-flowered, with a pair of linear reflexed bracts
at the setting on of the flower. Calyx-tube turbinate, dotted: limb of five (or rarely four) recurved, linear lobes, exactly
resembling the bracts. Petals five (or four), erect, orbicular, very concave (forming a globose corolla), white, tinged with
rose. Stamens numerous: anthers red. Style shorter than the petals, thick, subulate. Although, no doubt, sufficiently

Experi-
ments should, however, be made in all situations, to ascertain the degree of cold it will bear ; for if truly hardy it will
prove a great acquisition to the ornamental shrubbery. Like most of the genus, it strikes freely from cuttings, —
Bot. Mag., t. 4626.

hen we saw this in September last, in Messrs. Veitch's nursery, it was loaded with little pendulous spherical
purple fruit, each having at its base the pair of bracts above described, curved back so as to resemble horns. We
imagine it to be about as hardy as a common Myrtle ; but whether tender or not it is a charming acquisition, and must
become a universal favourite.

482. /ESCHYNANTH, THE SPECIES OF.— We find in the Allgemeine Gartenzeitung for November 22,
1851, the following list, by Mr. Edward Otto, of the ZEschynanths cultivated in gardens :—
JEsch. Boschianus de Vriese,—Paxt. Mag. of Bot. XII. p. | Asch. miniatus Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1846, t. 61.—Van Houtte

. €. tab.—Morren Ann. de la soc. d'agr. et bot, Fl. I. ec. t. 236. (Esch. radicans Wall.—Tricho-

de Gand II. 403.—Java. sporum radicans Blwme).—Java, .
— chinensis Gard, et Champ. in Hort. Kew gard. mise.| — pulcher DC. (Trichosporum pulchrum Blum.) Bot.

I. 328.—China. Mag. 4264.— Van Houtte Fl. IIL. 2, t. 6.—Paxt, XVI,
— grandiflorus G. Don (Trichosporum grandifl. Don, — Java,

olim ; Incarvillea parasitica Rozb.; Esch. Para- — purpurascens Hsskri. Bot. Mag. 4236, (Esch. albida

siticus Wall.), Bot. Mag. t. 3043.— Bot. Reg. Alph. DC.—Bignonia albida Blum.—Trichosporum .

1841. t. 49.— Silhet. albidum Nees.—Lisionotus albidus JBlum.)—Java.
— Horsfieldi R. Br. (Journ. d'hortieult) Allg. Gar-| — radicans Jack.— Java, Sumatra,

tenz. XI. p. 243.—Java. | ramosissimus Wall. (parasiticus Hort.) Marnock in
— javanicus Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4503.— Van Houtte Fl. Florieult. Mag.— Nepal.

VI. 65. p. 558.— Java. | speciosus Hook, Bot. Mag. 4320. (Æsch. Auclandii

— Lobbianus Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4261.— Van Houtte Fi. | Hort.) Paxt. Mag. of Bot. 1847. p. 201.—Van
111. 246.—Java. | Houtte Fl. III. t. 267.—Ann. de la soc. d'agr. et
— longiflorus Blume (Lisionotus longifl. Blume olim). de bot. de Gand III. 415. tab. 163,— Java.

Bot. Mag. 4328.—Van Houtte FI. I. e. t. 288.—| — Teysmannianus Mig. Bot. Zeitung VI. 509. (isch,
Paxt. XV. 25.— Mountain Woods of Java. i inden Catalog. 1851.)—Java, in
maculatus Lindl, Bot. Reg. 1841. t. 28.— East Indies. woods and on the trunks of trees,
In addition to which are the followiug, of which little or nothing is known :—
ZEsch. atrosanguineus Van Houtte Cat. 1851. ZEsch. repens Van Houtte Cat. 1851.
— candidus E. G. Hendersows Cat. 1851. — Roxburghii Pazt. Bot. Dict.— Java.
— Paxtonii Pazt, Bot. Dict.— Khasya. — Zebrinus Van Houtte Cat. 1851.— Java.

— pulehellus Henders. Cat, 1851.

483. PENTSTEMON BACCHARIFOLIUS. Hooker. A half-hardy perennial with long panicles of rich
crimson flowers not unlike those of P. Hartwegii. Native of Texas. Introduced at Kew.

Stems erect, or decumbent at the base,

inates in the panicle), terete, stout and ri

dark green, spreading, coarsely and spinescently toothed or serrated (genera

ones spathulate, upwards on the stem becoming oblong, and finally, nearest

same region as P. Wrightii, Judging by the appearance of
the severe frost in November last, we may conelude that it is not sufficiently hardy to live throughout the
winter without some protection ;rit is therefore desirable to keep a stock in pots, that may be placed in a cool

GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 15

frame during the winter. Beinga uM species, it did not ripen its seeds, but, like the allied species of the
genus, it may be increased by euttings.— Bot. Mag
484. DRYANDRA NOBILIS. Lindley. ipe D. runcinata Meisner.) A very pretty dwarf
evergreen shrub, with bright yellow flower-heads. Native of Swan River. Belongs to Proteads.

Reared from seeds sent by Mr. Drummond from the Swan River settlement. We can scarcely doubt its being the
D. nobilis of Lindley, and of the Plante Preissiane ; yet our flowering plant, in May, 1851, was considered by Dr.

spongioles of the roots, and the plant flags and dies.— Bot. Mag., t. 4633. [We confirm Sir William Hooker’s determination
of this plant, which appears to differ in nothing from the original specimens of D. nobilis now before us

485. BEGONIA BULBILLIFERA.
& Otto. A beautiful little stove eux
ceous plant, with large rose-coloured
flowers. Belongs to Begoniads. Native
of Mexico. Introduced by the Berlin
Garden. (Fig. 241.)

This is one of the beautiful bulbous Begonias,
which are far more rare those with per-
manent stems, or fleshy rhizomes. The stem is
downy. The first leaves are heart-shaped,
roundish, scarcely unequal-sided, crimson beneath;

nearly an inch long, oblong ; the two inner much
smaller ; all are deep rose-coloured. The males
and females are alike ; the ovary is acutely trian-

The plant grew out of the earth in which

16 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

some orchidaceous plant was sent from Mexico by Mr. Schiede, It flowers from August to October, in any good hot-
house, or even greenhouse, provided it is planted in good rich, light earth, and has plenty of air.— Zink & Otto, Icones, 45.

486. CassrNIA LEPTOPHYLLA. R. Brown. (aliàs Calea leptophylla Forster.) A hardy evergreen
shrub, with clusters of white flowers. Native of New Zealand. Flowers white. Belongs to Com-

posites. Introduced in 1824. (Fig. 242.)
We received this from an anonymous correspondent of the Gardeners Chronicle. Tt is a dwarf, compact, heath-like

bush, with dark green linear leaves, hoary, and rather yellow beneath, At the end of every branchlet isa short eorymb

mia antennifera, now beginning to be made known as a very pretty, novel, evergreen hard
ion, that the plant flowered so long ago as 1824, in the Garden of the Horticultural

see, from specimens in our
We also possess wild specimens from the same country

Society, in which it had been raised from New Zealand seeds.
from Mr. Bidwill

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THE PURPLE GESNERA.
(GESNERA PURPUREA.)
سا سك‎
A noble Hothouse Tuberous Plant, of UNKNOWN ORIGIN, belonging to GESNERADS.

Specific Character.

THE PURPLE GESNERA. Leaves whorled, heart- | GESNERA PURPUREA ; foliis verticillatis cordatis
shaped, oblong, serrato-dentate, downy. Panicle some- | blongis serrato-dentatis tomentosis, panieulà sub ver-
what whorled, with very short peduncles. Pedicels long, | ticillatà ped lis brevibus, pedicellis elongatis umbellati
umbellate, hairy. Corolla with a long tube, downy, with | pilosis, corollis longè tubulosis tomentosis limbi lacinia
the upper limb straight, two-lobed, almost square, the | ^ supremá rectá bilobá subquadratà lateralibus rotundatis
laterals rounded and much shorter. | multó brevioribus.

Gesnera purpurea of the Gardens.

us very handsome plant belongs to the race of G. Douglasii, to which alone M. Decaisne limits

the name, applying that of Coryrnrotoma to Gesnera striata, Sceptrum, ignea, Marchii, and the
like; Isonoma (the Kohleria of Regel) to G. vestita, spicata, mollis, longifolia, &c.; Dircma to
G. bulbosa, faucialis, lateritia, &c.; while Gesnera pardina and Gardneri form the genus HovrrEA,
G. picta Trpma, ©. allagophylla and two more RxCHsTEINERA. These, and some other minor
corrections necessary for restoring order among the confused mass of plants referred to Gesnera by
authors, although not exhausting the subject, render the limits of the genera better than they had
previously been. With the subject of the present plate, under the name of GESNERA, are associated
G. , cochlearis, macrostachya, and discolor aliàs polyantha.

Tt is evident that the present species is very near ©. Douglasii itself, although far handsomer
than even the best of the varieties (?) of that species. Not only are its dimensions larger in all

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18 THE PURPLE GESNERA.

respects, but its flowers have a rich deep rose-colour, relieved by the characteristic spots of ©. Douglasii,
and the leaves are deeply heart-shaped, which never happens in the latter species; scarcely even in
the beautiful verticillate form figured by Sir William Hooker in the Botanical Magazine.

But what is the history of this G. purpurea? It has the tender constitution and the general aspect
of the tuberous stove plants with which it is associated ; requiring the very same cultivation as they
do. ‘Travellers and botanists appear, however, to have been alike unacquainted with it in a wild
state. Its introduction is unknown. The name which it bears seems confined to gardens, never
having been registered in works of science. For these reasons we venture to suspect it to be a
mere hybrid, produced perhaps between G. Douglasi? and G. discolor. At all events it is one of the
most striking of the noble race to which it belongs.

PLATE 77.

LConstans del & gne.

Printed by C.F. Chaffins, London.

[Prate 77.]

THE MOREL BILLBERGIA.

(BILLBERGIA MORELIANA.)

A very fine Stove Perennial, from BRAZIL, belonging to the Natural Order of BROMELIADS.

Specific Character.

MO BILLBERGIA RAR chan- | BILLBERGIA MORELIANA ; foliis ligulatis canaliculatis
nelled, blunt, banded with oe dk as us the ste stem, with obtusis albo-fasciatis versus basin spinoso-dentatis cauli
some spiny teeth near the base. Stem smooth, ‘clothed sequalibus, caule glabro squamis magnis petaloideis laxis
with large loose petaloid distant scales. Raceme many- dis racemo multifloro recurvo g $

owered, ed 00 racts ured, bracteis coloratis dorso minutissimé lepidotis floribus fasci-
finely scaly at the back, longer than the fascicled flowers. — longioribus, mcm مس‎ obtu mucronatis
Sepals oblong, obtuse, mucronate, with a membranous petalis revo-
margin, smooth, as well as the ovary. Petals revolute, lutis calyce multê | longioribus, staminibus ud exsertis.
much vie than the sepals. Stamens projecting far.

Billbergia Moreliana : Adolphe Brongniart in “ Portefeuille des Horticulteurs.” Revue Horticole, iii, 82.

(NE of the most charming of the Bromeliaceous Order, and among the easiest to cultivate. Its
flaming rose-coloured bracts contrast finely with the deep clear violet of the petals, and
appearing on drooping racemes above a foot long, produce an unusual as well as most brilliant effect.
species appears to be a native of Brazil. It was originally published by Prof. Adolphe
Brongniart in the Portefeuille des Horticulteurs, a work we have not seen. Shortly afterwards it was
mentioned in the Revue Horticole in the following terms : —
“This magnificent Bromeliad is cultivated by M. Morel, a zealous amateur, possessing the most
beautiful collection of Epiphytes in Paris. In its leaves, the species which we describe reminds us of

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20 THE MOREL BILLBERGIA.

certain Tillandsias destitute of spiny teeth ; but the flower-stem, turned back, branching, and furnished
at the upper end with large bright rose-coloured delicate and semi-transparent bracts, covered with a
white mealy powder, immediately distinguishes it. From the axil of these bracts spring the flowers,
which are slightly irregular, of a pure violet colour, rendering this species one of the most beautiful
ornamental plants of our hot-houses. M. Morel cultivates it in baskets, hung up, and filled with
peat earth covered with P en aco which retains the freshness of the soil, and at the same time
indicates the moisture of the house.”

We find no other notice of the plant. The specimen now represented was flowered in the
garden of the Horticultural Society, where it had been received from M. Keteler, of Paris, in 1848, as -
a fine variety of Billbergia zebrina. In February last we observed it in flower with Messrs. E. G.
Henderson and Co., of the Wellington Nursery, St. John’s Wood, who obtained it from M. Morel
himself. ‘

As to Billbergia zebrina, of which it has been supposed to be a variety, it is enough to observe
that the ovaries and sepals of that plant are closely coated with white meal, and the stamens twice
as long as in the plant before us, to say nothing of the leaves of Billbergia zebrina being spiny
to their points, and the bracts by no means so richly tinted.

LConstans del. & ane.

Printed. by C.F. Cheffins, London.

[Prae 78.]

THE MASTERS CYMBID.
(CYMBIDIUM MASTERSII.)
يسدنه‎ Ua

A handsome Terrestrial Orchid, from the East INDIES.

Specific Character.

rowly sword-shaped, obtuse. uncle erect, close formibus obtusis, pedun squamis herbaceis
co with herbaceous equitant sharp-pointed scales uitantibus acutissimis imbricato, spicá brevi paucifiora
Spike short, few-flowered, plunged within th is petalisque lineari-oblongis

i e es. squamis immersá, sepalis
als and petals linear-oblong, blunt. Lip obovate, acutis, labello obovato trilobo intüs pubescente, lamellis
three-lobed, downy inside; with the ridges continuous, continuis apice confluentibus nune in tuberculum subtri-
confluent at the points, and sometimes expanded into a dentatum expansis, lacinià intermedia oblongá undulata
three-lobed tubercle ; the middle segment oblong, wavy, lobatá lateralibus obtusis planis.
lobed, those at the side blunt and flat.

Cymbidium Mastersii : Grifith in Hort. Bot. Calcutta; Loddiges’ Catalogue, No. 1233; Lindley in Botanical Register, 1845, t. 50.

Wes this was published in the Botanical Register, seven years ago, nothing could be said about it
except that it was received from the East Indies by Messrs. Loddiges in the year 1841, and
blossomed in December, 1844; that it is a very distinct species, with snow-white flowers, sweet-
scented, having the fragrance of almonds; and that its erect flower-stalk, closely covered with long
green sharp-pointed equitant imbricated sheaths, is quite unlike that of any other species. It was
understood to have been named by Griffith after Mr. Masters, one of the principal assistants in the
Botanical Garden, Calcutta.
Since that period it has continued to appear occasionally in collections, but remains a rare plant.
The specimen now figured, if compared with the original plate in the Botanical Register, will show
what cultivation has done in the hands of Mr. Bateman, from whom we received it last December.

22 THE MASTERS CYMBID.

It is undoubtedly a genuine Cymbidium, as is shown by the two parallel plates on its lip, and
the short somewhat transverse gland of the pollen masses. One of its nearest affinities is C. elegans,
another species from the continent of India.

Although the species of this genus are capable of growing upon the bark of trees, and the Aloe-
leaved was one of the very few which was able to endure the ill-treatment of gardeners before 1822,
yet they are much more advantageously regarded as terrestrial plants. They should all be grown in
pots, in thoroughly-drained lumps of peat, into which their long roots can penetrate, roasted in
summer, but well watered and kept in an atmosphere saturated with humidity, but continually
in motion while they are making their growth, after which thev should be gradually dried off again.

GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

487. CHEIROSTEMON PLATANOIDES. Humboldt & Bonpland. A large greenhouse tree, with
broad Plane-like leaves, and brown bell-shaped flowers. . Native of Guatemala. Belongs to the
Order of Sterculiads. (Fig. 243.)

In a recent number of the Flore des Serres are some observations on this plant by M. Adrien de Jussieu, from which
we borrow our figure and what follows. The tree, known among us as “the Hand-plant,” has never flowered in our
collections, although common in them.

i as observed in
Mexico from the time when

palapan, of which Hernandez
made such good use, and of
which some traces still remain.
— ]t is said to be wild in the
forests of Guatemala.” [Since
Humboldt wrote, the accuracy of his conjecture has been established. Hartweg
found it on the mountains of Acatenango, and on the volcano called the Volean
de Agua, forming trees from fifty to eighty feet high.] Hernandez made the plant
known in his celebrated work (Rerum medicarum Nove Hispanic Thesaurus) by
a short description and figure. He preserved the Mexican name Maepalxochi

243

or rather a paw with five claws. In the garden of Montpellier is a tree

from seeds obtained from Madrid ; in 1813 it was twenty feet high, but had not à
flowered ; but since that time it has blossomed abundantly. At Paris it has of late years been planted out in one of the
great conservatories, is now about thirty feet high, and has occasionally flowered since June, 1850. To this M. de Jussieu
adds a detailed botanical deseription, for which the reader is referred to the Flore des Serres itself, vol. vii., p. 8, &c.

24 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

488. PASSIFLORA SICYOIDES. Schlechtendahl. (alias P. odora Link & Otto.) A greenhouse
twining plant, with greenish sweet-scented flowers. Native of Mexico. Introduced by the late

George Barker, Esq., of Birmingham. Flowers in August. (Fig. 244.)

This fragrant climber first flowered with Mr. Barker in 1839, since which time it has continued to appear occasionally,

by division of the roots, which

alids V. lutea of Gardens.)

although we do not find it figured in any English
work. The whole surface is covered with forked

with it, are pretty generally furnished with
bristle-pointed serratures near the base. Their
stalk is remarkable for two large opposite, oblong,
glands. The flowers are solitary in the axil of
the leaves, on stalks shorter than the petioles ;
with four very long hairy deciduous bracts. The

pals are greenish, hairy outside, white within -
the petals are much smaller and white. The
coronet consists of threads, variegated with red.

as

P

plant near Jalapa. It has been distributed amon

Coulter’s Mexican plants under two numbers—

62 and 63. y Messrs. Link and Otto altered

Professor Schlechtendahl’s name, we are unable
lain.

1 RaNUNCULUS CORTUSHFOLIUS.
Willdenow. (alias R. Teneriffe Pers. ;
alias R. grandifolius Low.) A large-
flowered hardy perennial, with a weed
habit. Native of the Canary Islands, &c.
Blossoms yellow.

Unquestionably the handsomest of all the
Buttereups yet known to botanists. The flowers

woody districts. It flowers during the summer
months, This plant, being of neat habit and
flowering freely in a pot, is well suited for being

0

Species to the protection of a frame during the
winter and early spring months. When planted
in the open border, it should be protected by a
additional covering being provided during severe frosts, It is increased
should be done in autumn.— Bot, Mag., t. 4625.

490. VIOLA PYROLÆFOLIA. Poiret. (aliàs V. maculata Cavanilles ;

Ld

GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 25

A very handsome stemless hardy perennial plant, with large yellow flowers. Native of Patagonia.
Introduced by Messrs. Veitch.

Some of our readers have seen this beau-
tiful species in the exhibitions of London. It
is a stemless hairy herbaceous plant with
leaves not unlike those of the وساف‎ in
form, but thicker, convex, and a م‎ d deal

led. From rise up numerous
stout flower-stalks, each three or li inches

ulata, or

spotted, given this plant by Cavanilles, is thus

explained by Dr. Planchon in the Flore des
it

seems to be resinous matter, which, in dri

specimens, manifests itself on the lower sur-
face of the leaves, the sepals, and the capsules
in the form of minute brownish points. These

nassia ; they are sprinkled over most violets,
of species, become num 1 very evident
in the plant before us, but only on the old and
i outte states that the
Viola lutea does very well out of doors if
treated like an alpine plant, that is to say,
kept in a cool shady place, in light soil con-

freely in the greenhouse during winter. It
is propagated by side runners.”

491. DENDROBIUM BIGIBBUM. A tropical New Holland epi-
phyte, with pretty purple flowers. Introduced by Mr. Loddiges.
Blossoms in January. (Fig. 245.)

D. bigibbum (Dendrocoryne) ; caulibus elongatis apice 3-5-phyllis, racemis
— © elongatis dissitifloris, petalis subrotundis sepalis dupló latioribus, labelli
trilobi lobis rotundatis medio cristato basi gibboso, sepalis lateralibus in ealear
productis.

This very remarkable plant was obtained from the north-west coast of New
Holland by Mr. Loddiges, with whom it flowered in January last. The stems

are long, narrow, fusiform, or tapering to the base, closely invested with dry
light brown sheaths ; near the end they bear five or six long, narrow, firm,
spreading acute lives; each with five ribs (not three as in the accompanying
eut). The raceme is erect, and consists of three or four flowers, placed at the
end of a graceful peduncle eight or nine inches long. The bracts
and scale-like, The blossoms are rich purple, nearly of the same colour as
Bletia verecunda.

above the spur of the sepals, is moveable, and projects outwards at its base
in the usual way, so ird = flower md . kind of double chin. The three lobes E | Y
of the lip ded ze, the central one being the darkest \

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26 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

colour ; along the middle are three raised lines, which terminate at the base of the central lobe in the form of three
short rows of fleshy notches. At the base of the lateral sepals next the orifice of their spur is found on each side a
thick callus. The species is nearly allied to D. Kingianwm and elongatum, but is much handsomer.

492. Roscona PURPUREA. Smith. A half-hardy herbaceous plant with dark purple flowers.
Native of Khasya. Belongs to Gingerworts. Blossoms in September.

d from tubers sent to the Royal Gardens, from Khasya, in North-eastern Bengal, by Dr. Hooker ; and these
specimens (flowering in September, 1851) exactly correspond with drawings made by that naturalist on the spot. They
sufficiently accord with the original R. purpurea of Sir J. E. Smith, to satisfy us that it is identical with that species ;
whereas, further north, in Sikkim-Himalaya, Dr. Hooker detected and drew and transmitted living plants to Kew of
what has been called R. purpurea by us (in Exotic Botany), by Mr. Roscoe (in his fine work on Monandrian plants),

truly distinct, though I am disposed to think them so: but whether species or varieties, our present plant, now we

believe first reared in England, is the same with the original R. purpurea. This Himalayan species is sufficiently hardy

to thrive in a cool pit, protected from frost. After the decay of the stems, the underground tuber-like rhizome remains

in a dormant state during the winter. At this season the soil in the pots should be kept just sufficiently moist to preserve

the tubers from shrivelling. Early in the spring these should be repotted in fresh soil, consisting of a mixture of light

loam and peat, little or no water being given till they begin to grow, and then but sparingly ; for being of a soft fleshy
630.

493. CaraLPA Porrstt. Seemann. A half-hardy shrub, from Mexico. Belongs to Bignoniads.
Flowers apparently pink. Introduced at Kew.

A bush four to six feet high. Branches very smooth. Leaves coriaceous, li 1 late, entire, glaucous, Flowers
from two to two and a half inches long.

Two species of Catalpa, viz., 0 Sims, from North America, and C. longissima Sims, from the West
Indies, have been for some time cultivated in the gardens of Europe. To these has been lately added a third from

Mr. John Potts, and is now to be found in the gardens at Diisseldorf, Hanover, and Leipsig. This circumstance has
induced me to name it, and I have accordingly done so after its discoverer. To the above short charact ,& more
detailed account will be added in “ The Botany of H. M. S. Herald."— Seemana, in Allgem. Gartenzeit., Oct. 11, 185).

494. RYTIDOPHYLLUM OrmsrEDTUI. Klotzsch. A half-shrubby hothouse plant, with greenish

flowers spotted with purple. Belongs to Gesnerads. Native of Central America. Introduced by
M. Warczewicz.

bark of the tree on which the plant stands ; for this reason, and because it grows at a considerable height from the
ground, and is thus subject to no inconsiderable daily change of temperature, its cultivation is difficult. e plant was
vered by Dr. Oersted and M. von zewicz, in Costa Rica (Central America) growing on trees,

: eG 5 . The hairs are, as in all the species belonging
to this genus, jointed. The flowers are an inch and a half in length, the tube swollen and bent, three quarters of an inch

in diameter. The corolla is hairy, with broad, rounded distinct lobes, green, with 1 — in A
Gartenzeit,, Jan. 17,1852. : EN Een Ce MUN eee

495. LENNEA ROBINIOIDES. Link, Klotzsch $ Otto. A Mexican greenhouse tree, with the

|

GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 27

| appearance of a mm sig r Belongs to E u Ofder. Introduced by the
| Royal Garden, Berlin. (Fig. 2

|} This is a small tree, in cultivation a mere bush, from two to three feet high, tly of hairiness, with unequally
| pinnated distichous leaves. Stipules
dg subulate, deciduous. Leaflets in
four or five pairs, with prickly stipules

pcr in May. The genus is re-
eognised by Mr, Bentham, who places

summer, although requiring there the
shelter of a greenhouse in the winter.
496. ODONTOGLOSSUM EHREN-
BERGIL. Klotzsch. A Mexican
Orchidaceous epiphyte, with deli-
cate white flowers spotted with
brown on the sepals. Introduced
in 1846. Flowers in August.
(Fig. 247.)

liolis LE. ا‎ lanceo-
latis, acuminatis, dorso r
carinatis, patentibus

us latioribus, oblongis, scu

ipii attenuati

lal subcordato, acuto, calls
crenulato; lamellis unguis callosis,
integerrimis, antice in rostrum
obtusum breve confluentibus ; co-
lumna aptera, puberula.— K lotzsch
abbrev

This is one of the prettiest of
the white-lipped موسي‎ M.
Charles Ehrenberg found it on an

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28 : GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.
oak tree near San Onofro, on the banks of the River Zimapore. In habit it is hardly distinguishable from O. Rossii,

white sepals banded with brown, instead of green ones ; the lip too is acuminate, not rounded, each stem bears but one
flower, and the processes at the base of the lip are white, not yellow, and join into an undivided apex instead of a

o-lobed one. Perhaps as good a way of bringing this species distinctly to the reader's eye is to speak of it as being
intermediate between O. Rossii and O. stellatum.

497. MACILERANTHERA TANACETIFOLIA. Nees. (alias Aster tanacetifolius H. B. K.; alias A.
chrysanthemoides Wil/denow.) A handsome half-hardy suffruticose plant, with large deep-violet
flower-heads. Belongs to Composites. Native of New Mexico. Introduced at Kew.

A pretty and singular suffruticose Composite, with flowers nearly as large as a China Aster, and the leaves deeply
pinnatifid, like some Anthemis, perhaps, rather than Tanacetum. It was seen by Humboldt cultivated in gardens in
Mexico ; but Dr. Wright appears to have found it wild in Mew Mexico, and from his seeds our plants were raised in

roeumbent, or rather ascending, half-shrubby plant, with branching slender stems, nearly a foot long, everywhere, as
well as the foliage, slightly downy. Flower-head large, yellow, with a purple ray, solitary, terminal on the branches.
Involuere hemispherical, of numerous, spreading, subulate, glandular, herbaceous, scales. Ligules of the ray rather

garden plant, it produces but a small quantity of perfect seeds, and is not readily propagated by cuttings.—Bot. Mag.,
t. 4634. [Otherwise it would be a fine bedding out plant, its colour being one much wanted in gardens, ]

498. TRICHOPILIA ALBIDA. Wendland. A stove epiphyte, with white and yellow flowers.
Belongs to Orchids. Native of the Caraccas. Introduced by M. Otto, of Hamburgh.

T pseudobulbis oblongo-lanceolatis, eompressis, sulcatis, phy lli ; folia ohl g 1 id : lanis, basi subcordatis,
apice acuminatis, recurvis ; racemis basilaribus pendulis, subtrifloris ; perigonii foliolis conformibus, lineari-lanceolatis,
acuminatis, undulatis, rectiusculis, subtortis, pallide luteo-viridulis, margine subhyalinis ; labello petalis longiore,
quadrilobo, lobis rotundatis undulato-crispatulis, basi arcte convoluto, albido, fauce punetis luteo-ochraceis confluentibus
adspersá ; eucullo trilobo, laciniis fimbriatis, media longiore.

pseudobulbs are five inches long, and from six to ten lines broad, flat, somewhat furrowed and sharp-
cornered, oblong and a little narrow towards the top. The young inflorescence is covered by darkly-spotted sheaths.
The leaves are a little longer than the bulbs, from an inch to an inch and a half broad, solitary, leathery, somewhat
heart-shaped and downy at their base, flat, and with reeurved points. The flower-spikes, which generally bear three
flowers, proceed from the base of the pseudobulb, are from four to six inches long, and of the thickness of a crow-quill,
The flower is three inches in diameter ; the sepals and petals are alike, an inch and a half long, and three lines broad,
linear-lanceolate, pointed, waved at the edge, tolerably erect, but inclined a little forwards, not much twisted, pale yellow-
green, and nearly transparent at the edge. The labellum is smooth, a little longer than the sepals, four-lobed ; the lobes
are rounded, waved, and crumpled at the edge, and rolled closely together at the base; in the middle of the labellum are

green towards the base. The hood is three-lobed, the middle lobe being a little prominent, and all fringed. The flowers
have a faint delicate odour, and last only a few days. This species is closely allied to Trichopilia tortilis Lindl. and

499. Canna SANGUINEA, Warceewiez,
Concerning this, which is not the Canna sanguinea of others,
enzeitung for September 13th, 1851 :—
cies, from Costa Rica, was introduced into the gardens of Germany by. M. Warezewiez in
e open ground in summer ; it flowers freely, and is remarkable for its
ould be taken up and kept all the winter in à temperate greenhouse. If
e j . To be seen in all its beauty, the plant
uires a warm sheltered place, rich garden mould, and a plentiful supply of water, It seeds abundantly. The
specimens which we saw in M. Mathieu's garden were three feet high.”

: gu CYCNOCHES MUSCIFERUM. A curious epiphyte from Colombia, with pale flowers spotted
with brown. Flowers in February. Introduced by Messrs. Rollissons from Mr. Linden. (Fig. 248.)

C. musciferum ; racemo laxo stricto, bracteis subulatis, sepalis lineari-lanceolatis acutis dorsali refracto, petalis

we find the following memorandum in the Allgemeine

GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 29

linearibus, labello membranaceo hastato : laciniis lateralibus linearibus ascendentibus intermediá basi rhombeà barbatá
in apicem linguiformem attenuata.

This very curious little plant looks like a diminutive form of O. barbatum ; its flowers are very pale bistre plentifully
bestrewed with minute brown specks an freckles. It is a curiosity, but not brilliant enough in appearance to suit the
taste of any except botanists. The resemblance of the blossoms to some kind of fly is striking.

501. Sisyrincutum MAJALE., Link, Klotzsch 5 Otto. A half-
hardy perennial, from Chili, belonging to the Order of Irids.
Flowers yellow with a brown eye. (Fig. 249.)

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A dwarf perennial, with rough narrow grassy leaves, and large rough green spathes, from among which the flowers
appear in succession for some weeks in May and April. The roots are fleshy and fasciculate ; the stem is from six
inches to one foot and a half high ; the sepals and petals bright yellow, with a deep brown spot, variable in size, at the
base of each. This is no doubt the Sisyrinchium graminifolium, var. pumilum, of the Botanical Register, t. 1914 (1915),
of which specimens are before us from Conception, where they were gathered by Macrae. The true 5. graminifolium
is represented by No. 478 of Cuming's Chilian Collections. According to Dr. Klotzsch, the species most nearly allied

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30 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

ium MESE are S. tenuifolium, convolutum, palmifolium, flexuosum and er S. ei ذ‎ is
gre? by its entire-edged calyx ; S. convolutum, by its fibrous roots; S. palmifolium, by its bu oot and
white flowers ; S. flexuosum, by its crooked stem and its Fee — ovaries ; and S. graminifolium, with in varieties,
only by its undivided bracts, cylindrical smooth stem, and rough leav

502. PENTARHAPHIA VERRUCOSA. Decaisne. (alias Conradia verrucosa Scheidweiler.) A rigid

greenhouse shrub, with pase scarlet flowers. Belongs to Gesnerads. Native of Cuba. Intro-
duced by re (Fig. 2

a plant not uncommon in gardens, called Pentarhaphia cubensis, which is so like this as to suggest the
لد‎ " the two belonging to the same species. Both were found by Mr. Linden in Cuba: that no Pear on
Mount Liban, flow wering in May ; the other ata place ealled Pinal de Nimanima, both in the province of St. J They

De Candolle unadvisedly acquiesced in it. But Prof. Decaisne, in a luminous paper in the Annales des Bino for
ES restored the genus Pentarhaphia, inereasing the number of its species to fifteen, and left Von Martius' name of

nradia for one species only, the era humilis of Linnszus, The genus Pentarhaphia still then continues to be
Ben by the five long needle-like teeth of its iod inferior calyx, its five to ten-ribbed fruit, and its annular disk.
The wild speeimens of Pentarhaphia verrucosa brought from Cuba by Mr. Linden, are dotted with a glutinous
exudation, and the leaves are much harder, stiffer, and more bullate than in the garden plant.

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THE NEPAL ASH-LEAVED BERBERRY.

(BERBERIS NEPALENSIS.)

A half-hardy Evergreen Shrub, with yellow flowers, belonging to BERBERIDS, from the East INDIES.

Specific Character.
THE NEPAL HOLLY-LEAVED BERBERRY. Leaves | BERBERIS NEPALENSIS; foliis pinnatis, foliolis

pinnated, leaflets in from two to five pairs, ovate, spiny- 2—5-jugis ovatis spinoso-dentatis cum impari petiolulato,
1 ed, with the odd one on a long stalklet. Racemes racemis fasciculatis strictis densifloris inalibus,
fascicled, upright, compactly flowered. Fruit oblong. fructu oblongo.

Berberis pinnata : Roxb. fl. Indica, ii. 184. Mahonia nepalensis : De Cand. Prodr. i. 109. Berberis nepalensis :
: Wallich Catalogue, no. 1480 ; Lindley in Hort. Soc. Journal, vol. v., p. 18.

us beautiful specimen of one of the handsomest of the pinnated Berberries was produced in the

Garden of the Horticultural Society in March last. It had been received from the Royal
Botanic Garden, Kew. About the same time it blossomed in several other places, we believe for the
first time in Europe. Tt is very near the North American B. g/umacea. :

_ When grown in a conservatory the species is remarkable for the delicate light green of its
foliage, which spreads gracefully from a stiff erect stem, something in the way of a miniature Palm.
At first the plant produces its leaflets in threes; at a late period they grow in fives, and when in
complete vigour they appear in about five pairs with an odd one. Each leaflet is very regularly
furnished with large equal spiny teeth along the whole of its ovate or ovate-oblong outline. The
flowers are of a rich bright yellow, forming close erect racemes clustered in the upper end of the
shoots, and drooping gracefully. Their ovary is oblong.

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32 THE NEPAL ASH-LEAVED BERBERRY.

The plant is probably hardy ; at least it has sustained no injury during one winter in the open
air, and a slight screen of glass without fire has saved it from the effects of the unprecedented cold
of the present spring. But it is doubtful whether it will not be necessary to give it the protection
of a glass roof, in order that its beautiful leaves may not be injured by winds. It is understood to
prefer sheltered nooks in the Himalayas, and there only to display the beauty that belongs to it.

It seems probable that Asia contains four Berberries nearly related to this, if not five, all of
which would prove horticultural treasures.

First, there is the present plant, which seems to be confined to the chain of the Himalayas and
the adjoining districts.

A second is the B. acanthifolia of Wallich, abundant in the Nilgherry range; when growing
in favourable situations, as Dr. Wight informs us, it forms a small tree. It is known by its very
numerous leaflets, as many as twenty-one in some specimens, and bluish-purple globose, not oblong,
fruit. It appears to be the same as B. Leschenaultii of Wallich and Wight, which the latter finds
in almost every clump of jungle about Ootacamund, the well-known sanitarium of the Madras
presidency.

A possible third is mentioned by Dr. Wight as having drooping racemes, and inhabiting Coorg.
He supposes it to be identical with a plant seen by him on the Pulney Mountains, with * diffuse
rambling branches."

A fourth is the Berberis japonica, figured at No. 10 of the Gleanings in our first volume.

A fifth is a most remarkable species, found by Mr. Fortune in his visit to the tea countries of

China, and regarded by him as a possible form of B. nepalensis. Of this B. trifurca we shall
speedily produce a figure.

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THE MANY-SPIKED BILLBERGIA.
(BILLBERGIA? POLYSTACHYA.)
ل‎ MUERE

A handsome evergreen Hothouse Perennial, Belonging to BRowELIADS, from BRAZIL.

Specific Character.

THE MANY-SPIKED BILLBERGIA. Leaves chan- | BILLBERGIA? POLYSTACHYA ; foliis canaliculatis
nelled, with spiny teeth, curved back at the point, inflated spinoso-dentatis apice recurvis basi ventricosis scapo

at the base, shorter than the scape. Spike conical, many- brevioribus, spici conicA polystachyá farinosá, bracteis
ranked, mealy. Braets roundish, aeuminate, closely subrotundis acuminatis arcté imbricatis.
imbricated.

(JUE knowledge of this beautiful plant is very imperfect. A specimen in flower was exhibited by

M. de Jonghe, of Brussels, at one of the Meetings last year in the Garden of the Horticultural
Society, as a new species of Billbergia. Having been afterwards removed we had no opportunity of
describing it, and are only now able to make it known by means of a coloured drawing which
accompanied the specimen.

It is no doubt a Brazilian plant, and seems nearly related to Lemaire’s Billbergia rhodocyanea,
another charming species, figured in the Flore des Serres, vol. ii., p. 207, with long loose stiff
spiny-toothed crimson bracts, bright blue corollas, and broad blunt dark green leaves banded with
white. That plant flowered with Mr. Van Houtte, but has not appeared in our gardens.

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THE ROSY LIMATODE.

(LIMATODES ROSEA.)

A most beautiful Terrestrial Hothouse ORCHID from the East INDIES.

Specific Character.

THE ROSY LIMATODE. Pseudobulbs fusiform. Leaves | LIMATODES ROSEA ; pseudobulbis fusiformibus, foliis
oblong-lanceolate, plaited, smooth. Scape many-flowered, oblongo-lanceolatis plicatis glabris, seapo multifloro foliis
longer than the leaves, shaggy, as well as the loosely longiore floribusque laxis villosis, bracteis membranaceis
placed flowers. Bracts membranous, curved backwards, recurvis ovario brevioribus, labello oblongo plano retuso,
shorter than the ovary. Lip oblong, flat, retuse. Spur calcare recto obtuso horizontali, columná naná tomentosá.
straight, blunt, horizontal. Column dwarf, downy.

HE genus Limatodes has hitherto been known to the public exclusively by a figure in the plates
belonging to Blume's Bijdragen, and the scanty accompanying letter-press. The species there
mentioned, L. pauciflora, a native of dense woods on Mount Salak in Java, is described as a fibrous-
rooted terrestrial plant, having stems swollen at the base, broadly lanceolate membranous ribbed
leaves, lateral solitary few-flowered peduncles (by which we understand scapes), and white blossoms.
The figure shews it to be a genus very nearly allied to Calanthe, from which it differs in having the
lip perfectly free from the column, instead of being united with it. It also appears to have a
column much elongated, while that of Calanthe is in general particularly short ; but such a difference
is unimportant, because Calanthe densiflora has also a very long column, and the discovery of the
present species with a very short column still further destroys any value which the character
alluded to may have been supposed to possess.

56 THE ROSY LIMATODE.

It was near Moulmein, in the province of Martaban, that this brilliant species was discovered by
Mr. Thomas Lobb, and sent to Messrs. Veitch, with whom it flowered in December last. In all
respects it has the habit of a Calanthe, but the pseudobulbs are long and fusiform. The stem and
flowers are covered with long hairs like Calanthe vestita. The latter are scentless, deep rose-
coloured, with an oblong undivided lip, marked at the base of the expanded part with a deep red
ring, but destitute of certain callosities remarked by Blume in his original species; at the base it is
rolled up like a Cattleya, and embraces an extremely short pink downy column. For the con-
venience of our more scientific readers, the following transcript is added of notes made at the time of
examining the plant :— :

Labellum omnino leve, ungue circa columnam nanam convoluto, eique denique per spatium
minimum adnato; haud vestigium callositatis aut appendicis cujuscunque. Anthera apice biloba,
valdé gibbosa, 8-locularis. Pollinia 8, per filum pulvereum colligata. Rostellum bilobum, lobis
rotundis prominentibus. Glandula minuta, à rostello vix separabilis.

| Messrs. Veitch inform us that this species flowers most abundantly, and that the pseudobulbs
invariably have the peculiarity of producing a kind of neck about their middle; in the imported
bulbs the part above the neck had all fallen off.

A third species of this genus was found on the lower ranges of the Mishmee hills by Griffith, from
whom we have a dried specimen. It produces a leafy stem from two to three feet high, bearing five
or six broad acuminate leaves. The flowers are few in number, at the extremity of a smooth and
rather weak scape. They are somewhat larger than in L. rosea, with a curved spur, and an obovate
four-lobed lip; their colour is unknown. Of these three species the following may be the present
arrangement :—

: * Column elongated.
1. L. pauciflora (Blume Bijdragen, 375, t. 72); floribus glabris, calcare recto, labello oblongo retuso apiculato basi
bicalloso,—Java, on Mount Salak.

dh i L. mishmensis ; floribus glabris, calcare incurvo, labello obovato nudo obtuso apice 4-lobo.—Mishmee Hills
T1 ٠ 4 j

* * Column very dwarf.

8. L. rosea {Lindley in Paxton’s Magazine, t. 81) ; floribus villosis, calcare recto horizontali, labello oblongo obtuso
nudo.— Moulmein. |

So many species of CALANTHE, the genus nearest to Limatodes, are now in Gardens, the others |

are so easily procurable, and all are so very handsome, that we cannot do better than occupy a
vacant space with an enumeration of such as have yet been named, distinguishing by a * those

ism are not yet known to be in cultivation. Three sections may be conveniently formed among
them :—

* Lip spurless or nearly so.

SPECIES OF CALANTHE. $7

* * Lip with a long spur ; column much elongated.
6. C. densiflora Lindley.— Mountains of Sylhet.

* * * Lip with a long spur ; column very short.
* 7. C. clavata Lindley— Mountains of Sylhet. Khasiya Hills (Grifith

8. C. angustifolia Zindley.—Shady mountainous places in Java, in the province of Buitenzorg (Lobb, 221).

9. C. curculigoides Wallich.—P enang and Singapore.

10. C. Page Lindley.—dJapan.

11. C. striata R. Brown. (alias Limodorum imi Ic. Kempf, t. 2).— Japan.— Possibly this may be the same
as "wy last, يي‎ ta some apparent discrepan

12. C. Grifithii ; racemo laxo multifloro, ovario اي‎ SO d lobis lateralibus linearibus obtusis intermedio
E dn truncato عر‎ sub apice dente unico magno aucto, caleare recto pen dulo Len ente.—Bootan, above
Puer 3 also no, 33; “to Chuka on wet iun 6000 feet. Pe explanat. * * ringens.” — Gri

vestita لساك‎ werd "decur Griffithii Wight ic. t. 1751-2.) —Burmese Empire, Mergui, T
ie plantaginea Lind pua Nepal and Kemaon, Bootan, between Tussulling and Chindrippa (rift, 877)

is C. discolor Lindley.—Japan?! Java!

16. C. parviflora ; scapo gracili multifloro pubescente, bracteis reflexis, labelli lobis lateralibus ovatis intermedio
bilobo N divarieato usque ad basin verrucoso, calcare glabro fusiformi pendulo sepalorum longitudine.— Java
(Lobb,

i 44 versicolor Lindley.—Some part of the East Indies, Locality uncertain.

18. C. Masuca Lindley.—Nepal.

19. C. purpurea Zíndley.—Ceylon.—Known from the last by its leaves being downy on the under side.

20. C. furcata Bateman,— Philippines.

21. C. veratrifolia R.Brown.—Indian Archipelago, &c.— [ Var. B ; australis Zort.—New Holland.]

22, C. sylvatica Lindley.—Mascaren Islands, — [*Var. B ; natalensis Rete Reichenb. f. in Linnea, 19. 374.—Port Natal. ]

Obscure species T wa
x C. comosa Reichenb, f. in Linnea, 19. 374,—Nilgherri
i C. pulchra Lindley.—Java ; in woods on the ionis of Seribu.— Flowers pale orang
ss C. speciosa Lindley.—Java ; in the deep mountain woods of the provinces of Bantam ind Buitenzorg.— Flowers
sic Baa
More um Lindley.— Java ; in the primeval woods of Mount Gede.— Flowers violet, with orange-coloured
callosities on the li

What is the Sryroarossuu of Kuhl and Hasselt, whose work on Orchids is to us completely
unknown, and which is referred hither by Endlicher ?
And what can the following possibly be?

Calanthe mexicana Q. Rehb, fil. in Linnea, 18. 406 ; seapo erecto foliis latis oblongis acuminatis breviore s. sequali
multifloro, bracteis lanceolatis ovariis longioribus, sepalis petalisque minoribus oblongis obtusiusculis, labello ovato
obtuso ate puberulo calearato, calcare tenui ovario breviore.

* This plant grows to the height of six or seven inches. The base of the stem is covered with several leafy
sheaths. مخ‎ oblong, very finely pem extending beyond the stem, or the same length. The three outer ealyx
leaves oblong, four lines long, one broad, the two inner three lines long, one line broad, perfectly white.
Lip longish, oval, blunt at the sis يع‎ ez darker coloured, covered with numerous little short hairs. Spur
very weak, pointed, somewhat shorter than the ovary. Column short, cut quite round at the edge. Anther at the
lower end heart-shaped and notched. Pollen masses eight, and remarkably short for a Calanthe.— Temperate Mexico.—
Leibold.”

We repeat it, all these plants are eminently deserving of cultivation, and those which are not

38 SPECIES OF CALANTHE.

in England should be diligently sought for by persons living where they are found. As an

encouragement to perseverance we produce the following representation of what Calanthe vestita was
a few months since in the hands of the Messrs. Veitch.

| ame emt at EI AEE

GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.
503. DAcTYLICAPNOS THALICTRIFOLIA. Wallich. A climbing hardy perennial, with large

yellow flowers. Native of Nepal. Introduced by Sir Charles Lemon, in 1834. (Fig. 251.)

ine, sometimes more, ovate
e glaucous green, with small strongly marked brownish longi-
tudinal veins beneath. All of them are furnished with a

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40 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

smaller petals and the other parts of the flower. When opened, ne appear to be carinate, and exhibit the remarkable
fleshy protuberance peculiar to the genus, at the base of each, and which in this species is about the length of the ape
curved, deep green. The inner petals are curiously formed, being fiddle-shaped, broadest near the point, which is obtus
and a little elongated, and supported for half their length by a small slender thread eohering to the lower part of i
stamens, and attached at the base opposite the "tomes Stamens closely surrounding the style ; the lower half of each is
slightly angular and fleshy, with an uneven surface ; the upper part is capillary, bearing the anthers on the top. Style
long, slender, and compressed, pale green, with a comparatively br broad and thin an desea point.” The fruit is an oblong,

parietal placentæ. Its fleshy indehiscent fruit constitutes the generic peculiarity by which it is separated from Dielytra.
504. IwPATIENS FASCICULATA. Lamarck. (alias Balsamina fasciculata De Cand.; alias
Impatiens setacea Colebrooke; alias I. heterophylla Wallich; aliàs Balsamina heterophylla
Don.) A neat succulent tender annual, with solitary axillary pale flesh-coloured flowers. Native of

Ceylon.

this pretty Balsam were sent by Mr. Thwaites, from the hilly country of Ceylon, to the Royal Gardens of
Kew, hé the plants blossomed in the summer of 1851. The name fasciculata is not & very rr a one ; for
though some of our wild specimens have the peduncles in Mom pairs, other
specimens are not, and our tipi plants had them invariab ly solitary i in each axil, The | genus or family is described
as being destitute of stipules ; but in the present species, ا‎ as far as I am aware by authors, yet fi
Dr. Wight's artist, is a يست‎ vs deflexed and very conspicuous spur at the base of each side of the leaf and ا‎
with the stem, which I can look upon in no other light LEM asa stipule. The plant is found in a great part of the

eontinent of India, as well as in Ceylon, MN ME over the Peninsula in marshy grounds, decorating them, as
Dr. Wight says, with its large showy pink flowers. Colebrooke gathered it in Sylhet; Mr. Griffith in Khasiya ; e
Drs. Hooker and Thomson along the whole Himalayan range. t, as Impatien

cornigera ; and being of the same nature, will be difficult to retain as a garden plant, otherwise than by yearly Xr
fresh seeds fr from Ceylon.— Bot. Mag., t. 4631.

505. PrrcArmRNIA FUNKIANA. Dietrich. (alias Puya Funkiana Linden.) A charming hothouse
perennial, with yellow and white spikes of flowers. Belongs to Bromeliads. Inhabits the Andes
of Merida.

P. caule folioso tenué tomentoso, foliis elongato-1 latis int labri vaginis tenué tomentosis,
racemo terminali pyramidato, bracteis ovatis acuminatis calycem subæquantibus, م‎ rectis . apice acutis subrecurvatis
basi nudis, T longitudine petalo orum,

This beautiful plant is now in flower in the garden of M. Nauen, of Berlin. Its blossoms are white and surrounded
by a calyx and wee of a yellow colour ; it is cultivated in M. Linden’s garden, in Brussels, under the name of Puya
Funkiana, and is to be found under the D name in his catalogue (No. 5, 1850). A closer examination, however,
has shown that the plant is not a Puya, but a Pitcairnia, for the former has the ovary free and not joined to the calyx,

is not required, as the plant grows vigorously on the shelves of a hothouse. The plant is very handsome, and well
worthy of notice. Its price is, according to M. J. Linden's catalogue, fifteen franes.—Allgem. Gartenzeit., Oct. 25, 1851.
506, Canna WARCZEWICZI. Dietrich. A handsome hothouse perennial, belonging to the
Order of Marants. Flowers scarlet. Native of Central America. Introduced by M. Von
Warczewicz.
C. foliis ovatis vel ovato-oblongis cuspidato-acuminatis
glabris margine cauleque coloratis, germine subgloboso
ogi road calycis phyllis lanceolatis obtusis coloratis rore glauco adspersis, labio s superiore corollse limbi
Spinn partito, laciniis obverse lanceolatis obtusis, labello revoluto anguste spathulato obtuso apice emarginato,

i Fonds one of the many plants — by M. Von Warezewiez, who brought its seeds with him from Central
neo no Specimens in پا‎ iod may be seen in several gardens, as, for e example, in those belonging to M. Mathieu,
Dannenberger, of Berlin. There is no doubt that it isa new and hitherto undescribed plant. It is very

GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 41

eautiful, especially as the stalks, and more particularly the peduncles and pedicels, flower-bud, calyx, and b
d a blood-red colour, and are covered with a bluish bloom. The flowers are bright scarlet. The plant belongs to da
division of the genus which has a bifid upper lip, as in Canna speciosa, discolor, occidentalis, compacta, carnea, &

—Allgem. Gartenzeit.,
Sept. 13, 1851.

507. OLEARIA
pannosa. Hooker.
A half-hardy ever-
green shrub, native
of New Holland.
Belonging to the
Order of Composites.
Flowers white. In-

(Fig. is )
notice of
this he is to be found
in Sir W. Hooker’s
Ie 1 t

Pere A are pure

ellow
die sis whole plant
is covered with a close
white felt, except the
upper side ofthe leaves,

the Canary Island Chry-
santhemums,

508. BEGONIA
CONCHJEFOLIA. Die-
trich. A stove per-

B. acaulis, rhizomate repente, foliis oblique cordatis rubro-marginatis angulato-dentatis acuminatis, subtus ad nervos
et ad marginem squamis coloratis sepe bipartitis apice filamentosis dense obsitis supra denique subglabratis, petiolis -

According to the number in his catalogue the plant grows in the Chiriqui-Cordilleras. Like B Begonia’

and, notwi withstanding its very different habit, must be looked upon as goo allied to them. In its hairy coating the |
p

49 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

ennial with minute red flowers, from Costa Rica. Introduced by M. Von Warezewiez. Flowered
in veu in 1851.

acaulis, rhizomate repente, foliis radicalibus renee pa concheato-concavis oblique ovatis angulato-dentatis
aie basi rotundatis supra nitidis subtus albicantibus ad nervos rufo-lanatis, petiolis scapisque dichotomis gemens
rufo-lanatis, floribus dipetalis, femineis bibracteatis, capsule ihi كس سي‎ duabus angustioribus viridibus, tertia par
latiori suberenulata colorata
This elegant little Begonia with deep shell-like leaves has been introduced by M. Von Warczewicz from central
America, and is found in many of our gardens bearing the name of B. Lindleyana, said to have been given to it by
the introducer. Here is, however, some mistake, for M. Von Warezewiez himself tells us that his B. Lindleyana is one
of the most beautiful of large-flowered Mog whilst the present plant has very small flowers, indeed the smallest of any
Begonia. It belongs to the perenn al division, with a creeping many-headed rhizome, from which arise tufts

characterised by its small, very elegant, shining, peltate leaves, so concave on their upper surface as to look like mussel-

this peculiarity. The seeds were collected by M. Von Warezewicz, in the province of Costa Rica and in the Chiriqui-
Cordilleras, during his travels in Central America, and were sent by him in 1850 to several gardeners. The plant itself is
dwarfish, perennial, evergreen, and thickly covered with leaves ; it flowers in June, Its flowers are very small, but the
petioles and peduncles are of a bright red colour, It requires to be kept in a hot-house, and to be cultivated in the
same way as the other species. It is certainly a pretty addition to the many sorts hitherto found in cultivation. Plants
can be procured from M. Bergemann of Berlin.— Allgem. Gartenzeit., Aug. 16, 1851.

509. BEGONIA sTRIGILLOSA. Dietrich. A hothouse perennial, with rose-coloured flowers.
Native of Central America. Introduced by M. Von Warczewicz.

scapisque carnosis e squamis coloratis piligeris hispidissimis, cymis dichotomis, perigonio masculo et femineo diphyllo,
phyllis hector: germine trialato, alis duabus obtusangulis, tertia parum latiori acutangula.
Mec seeds of this were sent to Europe by M. Von Warezewiez, who discovered it during his travels in Central

tenes it belongs to the perennial subdivision with creeping roots, no stems, and tufts of leaves and flower- stalks,

resent species has some resemblance to B. manicata, but the latter has a woody fle eshy stem. The stalks and leaves
and especially the petioles are eovered with crowded, red, and often bifid scale-like hairs, much resembling the slit
hei of that plant. These hairs give it a peculiar rough and wild appearance, and render it very interesting amongst
and shining sorts. The potter are cae c des m with a red border, The flowers, whether male
or parses have only 2 sepals.— A/lgem. ., Oct. 18, 1
910. CEDRONELLA CANA. Bi A nm hardy perennial, with long interrupted spikes
of purple flowers. Native of New Mexico. Belongs to Labiates.

Mr. Bentham has long ago referred the Gardoquia mexicana H. B. K. (G. betonicoides Lindl. and Graham in Bot.
Mag., t. 3860), to the genus Cedronella. The two genera are, however, in different sections of the Labiate. From that
species our present one, — by Mr. Charles Wright in an expedition from "Western Texas to El Pasco, New
Mexico, and number 474 of that g d collections, differs in the entirely glaucous stem and leaves, occa-
sioned by a minute 0 اها ا لامر‎ Mus in - recent plant, in the much smaller, more mithetous, and

short: 01 rs. Like that, however, th

oil-dots. It flowers in the summer months, and makes sa r nrt appearance in the flower-border. Two and a half to

three feet high, much +S cee especially at the base ; d opposite, square, hoary with very minute REE

Leaves small and entire, hoary in the upper part of th and near and about the flowers, and th

approximate, ovate or i ملست‎ ; lower down ود‎ and cordato-ovate, or even approaching to hasta tate, all rather

obtuse, scarcely ever acuminated, and then but slightly so, more or less strongly dentato-serrate, the teeth never
reaching to the point. Whorls of flowers in axillary racemes, shortly pedunculate, the flowers pointing upwards. Calyx

tubular, with five narrow, ae subulate, or subulato-lanceolate, erect teeth. Corolla almost exactly as in the

U. mezicana.— Bot. Mag., t. 4618.

511. PeprcULARIs moriis. Wallich. A perennial (?) herbaceous plant from the Himalaya,
with long narrow whorled spikes of dull purple Wen Belongs to Linariads. Of no E
interest.

Bentham well observes of this Pedicularis, “ Species nulli proxime affinis :” the form of the corolla is extremely‏ سوام
erent from any other of the genus. It has nowhere been found except by Dr. Wallich in Gossain Than, Nepal, and‏

GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 43

in the high mountains of Sikkim-Himalaya by Dr. Hooker : from seeds sent by the latter our plants were raised in the
Royal Gardens of Kew.— Bot. Mag., t. 4599.
519. VANDA PEDUNCULARIS. Lindley. A hothouse epiphyte from Ceylon, with distichous
two-lobed leaves, and brown and purple bee-like flowers. Blossoms in March. Introduced by
G. Read, Esq. (Fig. 253; a, the flower slightly magnified ; 4, the pollen-masses and caudicle.)

When enumerating the known species of Vanda at Plate 42 of our last volume, this was mentioned as not being in
cultivation. On the 22nd of March of the present year, we had, however, the pleasure to receive specimens in flower

of Ceylon, where it was first found by the late Mr.

flowers are pale green, or yello ather sweet-
scented, with a deep purple fleshy lip bordered with
green, and hairy at the ap oh 80 | resemble en
of the species of 8.

hr
six to twelve together, fd. de ومس يطو‎ pé of
peduncles sometimes as much as three feet long
and even furnished with side branches, these flowers
wave about in the air with all the appearance of
nimal life, and are quite as much like hairy insects

as our own wild Bee and Spider Orchises.

In some respects this * n: a tus اسلا‎ 5
nollen
pollen
out on one side, the caudicula is unusually long and
slender, and the lip is in no degree saceate—on the

he di
leaved East Indian Orchids shall pe p
reinvestigated. In the mean while
ollowing technical description of its cha dais —
* Labellum carnosum, margine tenerius, pal-

lescens, Mem e leviter emarginatum. 0 atro-
ureo, ssile, immobile, lineá medianá ex

pallidá, in i osi apicem desin basi

auricula am carnosius; tuberculo parvo bar-

sstivatione ab apice involutum. lumna Beni
e tomentosa, anticé utrinque unidentata ; stig-
Anthera

altè excavato veta loool,
anticó membran pieulo recurvo. Pollinia 4,
geminata, aurantiaca, deltoiden, i in — caudiculæ
l g subrotundá

518. ACROPERA FLAVIDA. Klotzsch. An
epiphyte, with pale yellow flowers. Native
of Mexico. Introduced by Mrs. Lawrence.

A. pseudobulbis ovatis, apice attenuatis, bifoliatis; ;
— oblongis tri-quinquecostatis, acuminatis » basi

reus glabris, —— mbranaceis, omits
is 5 wed tle supremo galeato
ino ; germini-
bus cmn scabridis is pedicellsque. pallide fia fla ione
This plant flowered in July, 1851, in the garde

iiie apicul

racemes consist of from

Dr. Klotzsch, is insuffi-

. 0
t 421" 1T
ariu:

ribus,
rmedia
vi, subincurvo,

the lip smooth, and the anterior

e sepals are twenty lines long, pale yellowish green ; the petals rather shorter, white,

tinged with pink ; the lip shorter than the petals, whitish ; the braets are from eight to nine lines long.— Klotzsch, in
Allgem. Gartenzeit., July 12, 1851.

the officers of H.M.S.
ost valuable evergreen,

picuous green-

native of Mexico. The
The
le yellow, with an orange-yellow lip.
The character of this species, as given by
cient to distinguish it from A. Jlavida.]

iphyte, of the Order of Orchids, from Guatemala.
mooth white lip. Flowered with M. Nauen, of Berlin.

L4 5 4 iJ 27 2 Supr: ov
patentibus apice recurvis, intus ad basin villosulis, interio:

trilobo, glabro, laciniis lateralibus apice truncatis, inte
rmi concava, adnata, inter lacinias laterales ; germine bre
minutissime atro-punctato.

Nuttall. A hardy evergreen bush or small tree. Flowers white.
Introduced by the Horticultural Society. (Fig. 254.)

Bird-cherry. It has not

ilum E E eges specimen, in order that the Dumerous possessors of this now
ommon plant may know what t ey have to expect. It is evidently by no means so excitable as the Lauro-
cerasus, and will probably stand when that species suffers,

ttifera KZotzsch.) Am incons

44. GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

Caspar, who received it from Mrs. Lawrence. It is probably, like A. Loddigesii, a
pseudobulbs are two inches long ; the leaves a foot lon , three inch a wide, Th
eight to twelve flowers, and are from six to eight inches long, The flowers are pa.
—Klotzsch, in Allgem. Gartenzeit., July 12, 1851. [

514, LYcAsTE BREVISPATHA. Klotzsch. An ep
Flowers pale yellowish green, with a s
L. bracteis distantibus 1 is, aridis,

vix attingente ; perianthii foliolis exterioribus oblongis,
basi im pilosis, apice recurvis ; labello petalis breviore,
oblonga, obtusa, recurva, appendice linguzefo

dis. fusceseenti

hrevissim

This is said to differ fr

: om L. leucantha in the bract being shorter than the ovary,
lobes of the lip truncated. Th

515. CERASUS ILICIFOLIA.
Belongs to Almondworts,
Found in California in the
Blossom, and last by Hartweg,
Apparently as hardy as a Laur

first instance by Mr. Nuttall, then by Coulter,

afterwards by
who reports the fruit to resemble a small che is i

18 a m

rry.
el, and having the foliage of a holly, with the flowers of a

yet flowered, and our figure is made from a dried

516. N TENUIS. Lindley. (alias N otylia sagi
flowered Orchidaceous epiphyte. Native of Demerara.

(Fig. 255.)

GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 45

We copy the annexed figure from the ne plantarum, rariorum Horti Botanici Berolinensis of Link, vnda and
Otto; itrepresents very well the lower part of the long slender spike of a plant of mere botanieal interest, which
Dr. Klotzsch believes to be the tp وج‎ mug ad of Humboldt. He says that he has compared it with the

original specimens, and is unable to perceive the least difference. To this we can offer no objection; but we
are obliged to add that it is most ‘certainly
not the N. punctata of e d

its long slender spike, and in the absence
of that eallus on the lip by which N.
d.

enumerating those we are acquainted with
They are much alike, but vary in the form
of their lip, in the size of their flowers, in

the presence or absence of a lip-tubercle,

er.

2. N. tenuis Lindl., in Bot. Reg., 1838;
(aliàs Pleurothallis sagittifera H.B.K.,
according to Klotzsch, and therefore N
multiflora Lindl. ; and — the
plant figured cna that name by Sir
W. Hooker in the em pias of
Botany, ed m. tI

3. N. incurva ed! in Bot. Reg.,
ma misc. - 167.

4. N. ede Id., 1838, mise, 168.

5. N. rantha Id.

6. N. pubescens Zd., 1842, mise. 72.

7. N. aromatica Jd., 1941, mise. 77.

8. N. bicolor Zd., ín Plant. Hartweg.,
no. ape

trisepala sp. now. digne gracili
"s ‘uae
bus, sepalis clausis disjunctis, labello
0

M. Van ; native
unknown. The are almost
white.

10. N. Tridachne (aliàs Tridachne
virens mn); sepalis lateralibus

o connatis labello

1
acuminato basi angustato ecalloso.— This was received by the Horticultaral debel, from Mr. Weilbach of ee. ;
ahd is remarkable for the EVEN of its sepals into two, instead o f three ; the petals are yellow, with one or two pale
orange bands ; the lip is clear yell

It is pohiti ae N. Hage, a 7 = Nov. gen. et sp. plant. p. 3, a work oe since this was =>
the same as the present species. We find it thus defined from a Mexican ee tia the garden of Baron Charles
v. Hugel :—« Peeudobulbi "uu inim compressi minuti. Folia solitaria cor Engestormia planiuseula, subtus basi
carinata. Racemus radicalis pendulus multiflorus, pedicellis bractea ia k triplo, flore triente e E
recurvo-patulis, Perigonii viridi-flavi foliola externa lateralia labello supposita in unum apice tnt MM, Dm
superiore sublongiore lineari-lanceolata acuta ecarinata navicularia apice recurva ; interna ieri ae dimidio
angustiora lineari-subfaleata acuminata medio superposite aurantico-bi-v. quadripunctata. Labellum porrectum
unguiculatum trullæforme integerrimum acutum apice subincurvum."

46 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

In — to these, others no doubt remain unexamined among South American collections, exclusive of the
followin
oubtful Species.
ll. N, laxiflora Westcott, in the Phytologist, i. e ; perhaps the same as N. aromatica.
12. N. orbicularis Richard & Galeotti ; a Mexican plant that we have never seen.

517. Krvera NoroxiawNa. De Candolle. (alias Wulfenia Notoniana Wallich ; alias Glossanthus
Notoniana Brown ; alias Glossanthus malabarica Klein; alias Glossanthus zeylanica Brown.)
An annual weedy plant, with deep blue flowers. Native of Ceylon. Belongs to Gesnerads.

The genus Klugia of Schlechtendahl in Linnea (1833), the same with سمو‎ of Klein (1835) and of Brown,
was founded on a Mexican plant ; but a congener, if not congeners, are found in India: the present is one of them,
remarkable for the great obliquity of the base of the leaf, and the brilliant colour of the bine flowers. Our living plants
were received from Ceylon, through the kindness of our valued friend Mr. Thwaites, of the Botanic Gardens, Peradenia.
Hence we suspect it may be the Glossanthus zeylanica of Mr. Brown, l.c., without description. It is, however, certainly
the Wulfenia notoniana of Dr. Wallich, and ee a Glossanthus notoniana of Mr. Brown, and Klugia notoniana
of De Candolle, whose name we here adopt. It is abundant in the Neilgherry hills, and flowers in the stove in
September. A soft-stemmed tropical plant, of low dicii habit, and produciug roots from the under side of the
stem. It is at this time growing and flowering freely in a warm stove, A mixture of light loam and peat-soil suits 2
and it appears to love moisture ; it is, however, liable to suffer kd an Wie of — = in the — of the hou
in the winter, and more particularly towards the spring, as by that ti and it is el
to damp off.— Bot. Mag., t. 4620.

Ly

518. ACANTHOSTACHYS STROBILACEA. Klotzsch. (aliàs Hohenbergia strobilacea Schultes.)

A curious perennial, with very narrow spiny leaves, like the Pine Apple, and a short prickly cone of
yellow flowers in orange-coloured bracts. Belongs to Bromeliads. Native of Mexico. (Fig. 256.)
meti to Mr. Otto this comes pee the southern provinces of Brazil, where it was first found by Martius, and
afterwards by Sello. It flowers in the stove in June and July, in equal parts of sand and decayed vegetable mould. A
second species is Hohenbergia lentia capitata, also from Brazil. One of the great peculiarities of this genus is

| its having its ovules in pairs only, and notin crowds on the edges of an axile placenta ; it is ا‎ like
n: itself. The leaves are very long and narrow, thiek, eurved, prickly, channelled, and seurfy. The scape is
ong, simple, mealy, and bears at the base of the priekly spike (or cone) a pair of very long channelled leafy riens —

» Klotzsch, and Otto’s Icones.

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[Prater 82.)

THE DARK PURPLE HELLEBORE.
(HELLEBORUS ATRORUBENS.)

—9—————

A hardy Herbaceous Plant, from CROATIA, belonging to the Order of Cnowroors.

Specific Character.

THE DARK PURPLE HELLEBORE. Radical leaves , HELLEBORUS ATRORUBENS ; foliis radicalibus gla-
quite smooth, pedate, pale beneath and shining : those of berrimis pedatisectis, subtus pallidioribus nitidis, caulinis
the stem nearly sessile and palmate. Stem rather angular, subsessilibus palmatipartitis, caule subangulato bifide
branched by bifurcation. Sepals roundish, coloured. ramoso, sepalis subrotundis coloratis—D. C.

Helleborus atrorubens: Waldstein & Kitaibel, Plante rariores Hungaria, vol. iii., p. 301, t. 271; De Cand. Prodrom. i. 47.

ALrHoveH very far from a novelty, this curious plant is hardly known in the gardens of this

country. That which is now figured was kept in a greenhouse in the Garden of the
Horticultural Society, where it had been received from Mr. Van Houtte. It is, however, perfectly
hardy, flowering in March and April in a border among shrubs. The skirts of a clump of
Rhododendrons suit it perfectly.

It was first made known to botanists by Waldstein and Kitaibel, who give a very bad figure of
it in their great work on the plants of Hungary, in which they state that it is found wild in woods
and thickets in Croatia, in great abundance near Korenicza.

Although a native of sucha country, in which the winter's cold and the summer’s heat are far
beyond anything experienced in these islands, the plant is much more beautiful in a greenhouse
than in the open air. It is only in the former, indeed, that its peculiar and rather striking tints

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become developed. The leaves are liable to considerable difference of form, being five-parted, or even
nine-parted, but they never assume the lobed condition of the other purple species H. purpurascens,
nor are the lobes united half-way up; on the contrary, with the exception of the side divisions, they
are distinct almost to the very base. The stem is about eighteen inches high, and produces its
branches by two or three series of forkings. The flower-buds are a deep black-purple; the
expanded flowers are of a peculiar violet-purple, except at the edges and centre, both which are
green; but in a few days the violet flies off, and leaves nothing behind except a dingy green
tinted with dull purple. No such brilliancy as is found in our figure is produced in the open air
as far as we have remarked. The plant is, however, perfectly hardy.

The Honourable W. F. Strangways, who has paid much attention to the species of this genus,
has favoured us with the join useful memorandum respecting them :—

Since I find that fi

and shrubberies, the aa synopsis may pn be acceptable :—

hardy herbaeeous plants, fit for undergrowth in woods

A. Suffrutescent, with biennial stems.
H. argutifolius

| lividus } three-leaved.
H. feetidus palmate-leaved.

| B. Herbaceous, with annual stems.
H. niger, two or three varieties )

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f with coloured flowers.
atrorubens J

H. cupreus
purpurascens | with dusky flowers.
i edius
a

with green flowers.

rus
angustifolius |
graveolens
H. Bocconi, and perhaps another species—doubtful—in Italy. H. foetidus is a native of Wales; H. viridis, of
Dorsetshire ; H. argutifolius and lividus, of Corsica ; H, niger of the Alps ; H. abchasicus, orientalis, and olympieus,
of the Levant, The rest, of Hungary. All, except lividus, of the easiest culture in shady situations,

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THE CILIATED RHODODENDRON.

(RHODODENDRON CILIATUM.)

=

A hardy (?) Evergreen Shrub, from SIKKIM-HIMALAYA, belonging to the Order of HgATRWORTS.

Specific Character,

xe r RHODODENDRON. A low rigid gioi sin sede à CILIATUM ; humile, suffrutico-
ranches, leaf, and flower-stalks covered with ramis petiolis pedicellisque rigide villosis, foliis
a pa hairs. Leaves on short footstalks, ellipti- سنال أي‎ ellipticis obovatis acutissimis lætè viridibus
cal, obovate, very sharp, bright green above, the margins ciliatis subtus pallidis glaucescentibus minuté lepidotis,
and mid-rib with stiff spreading hairs, paler and rather floribus 4—5-nis pallidé purpureis, pedicelli is brevibus
glaucous below, dotted with small scales. Flowers four rigidis, sepalis latè ovatis obtusis ciliatis, corollà cam-
or five pue pale purple, on stout short flower-stalks. panulatà patentissimá imo margine recurvá, staminibus
Sepals broadly ovate, blunt, ciliated on the margin. 10, ovario lepidoto 5-loculari.
Corolla bell-shaped, with spreading recurved lobes.
Stamens ten. ees scaly, five-celled.—J. D. Hooker.

Rhododendron ciliatum : J. D. Hooker, Sikkim Rhododendrons, t. 24 ; u of Horticultural Society, vol. vii., pp. 77, 95 ;
Botanical Magani, t

is the first of the true Sikkim Rhododendrons which has flowered in this country. Messrs.‏ متسل"

Standish & Noble exhibited the specimen now represented to the Horticultural Society in the
beginning of last March, and the species has also produced its flowers at Kew. It is not a little
remarkable that neither of them resembled in colour the beautiful figure in the Sikkim Rhododen-
drons, or indeed each other. In a wild state the blossoms appear to be violet ; with Messrs. Standish
and Noble they were pale delicate rose-colour; at Kew they were almost white.

50 THE CILIATED RHODODENDRON.

'This is, no doubt, one of the most cultivable of the Indian alpine species, those who have had
the worst success with others having managed to keep it in health. It has a peculiarly bright
green aspect, breaks its buds very early if in a greenhouse, and seems as little impatient of confine-
ment as of external cold when exposed. It does not appear to grow above a foot or two high, and
begins to blossom when not more than six inches tall. The flowers themselves are delicate and
beautiful, but the great value of the plant may be expected to consist in its giving dwarfness
to mules with the tall and hardy Rhododendrons, such as ponticum, catawbiense, and maximum.
Dr. Hooker, in his very able and instructive paper on the climate of the Sikkim Himalaya, in the
Journal of the Horticultural Society, speaks thus of the plant before us :—

“R. eiliatum.—Distribution and range: Sikkim—9000 to 10,000 feet—in rocky valleys of the
interior.

“This forms a small very rigid shrub, growing in clumps 2 feet high, generally in moist rocky
places. Odour faintly resinous and pleasant. Corolla 14 inch long, nearly as much across at the
mouth; tube rather contracted below, limb 5-lobed, colour pale reddish-purple ; upper lobe obscurely
spotted. Allied to R. darbatum, but widely different in stature, habit, and the scattered scales
on the under surface of the leaves. I have not observed it in other valleys than those flanked by
snowy mountains, where it is common, scenting the air in warm weather. The scales (as in its
congeners) are orbicular, sessile, attached at the centre, formed of 3 concentric series of cells
surrounding a central one, in which a resinous fragrant oil is secreted.”

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[PLaTE 84.]

THE DARK-EYED FRINGED DENDROBE.
(DENDROBIUM FIMBRIATUM ; VAR. OCULATUM.)
——9———-
A Stove Epiphyte, of great beauty, from the East INDIES, belonging to ORCHIDS.
ÁÁÁ :
Specific Character.

THE FRINGED DENDROBE. Stems terete, leafy. | DENDROBIUM FIMBRIATUM (Sracuyosium) ; cauli-
Leaves ovate-lanceolate. Racemes lateral, lax, many- b iosis, foliis ovato-lan tis, racemis
flowered. Bracts herbaceous, minute. Sepals oblong, lateralibus laxis multifioris, bracteis herbaceis minutis,
spreading flat. Petals larger, toothletted. Lip undivided, sepalis oblongis patentissimis, i
rounded, hooded, shaggy, fringed ; the fringes lacerated. ticulatis, labello indiviso rotundato cucullato villoso fim-

iis .
Var. B. Dark-eyed. Flowers larger, with a deep . B ; oculatum, floribus majoribus, labelli medio
brown spot in the middle of the lip. piceo aterrimo.
Dendrobium fimbriatum : Hooker, Exotic Flora, t. 11 5 Lindley, Genera & Species, no. 38. Var. B ; D. fimbriatum `
oculatum : Botanical Magazine, t. 4160.

0" this most beautiful plant our gardens contain two distinct varieties ; one with whole-coloured

flowers; the other with a deep rich pitch-brown spot in the middle of the lip. In both, the colour
is otherwise of a rich apricot-yellow, rendered the more brilliant in consequence of the surface and
edge of the lip being cut up into glittering points innumerable. The first was sent home many
years ago by Dr. Wallich, and flowered in the Botanic Garden at Liverpool about the year 1822 ;
the second, now figured from Chatsworth, is of much more recent introduction, and is sometimes
known under the erroneous name of Paztoni, which is a two-flowered species. The wild specimens
in our possession, belonging to the second or dark-eyed form, were collected by Griffith in Mergui;
the whole-coloured form seems to come only from Nepal.

53 THE DARK-EYED FRINGED DENDROBE.

It is most nearly related to D. clavatum (our Fig. 189), which is readily known by its
long membranous bracts, and from D. Gibsoni (our Fig. 204), the flowers of which are smaller, and
never open flat ; neither of those species has any fringes upon the petals.

A CATALOGUE
Of the DENDROBES belonging to the Section STACHYOBIUM, having an undivided lip ; with their synonymes and
horticultural merits,

ene URES
Group 1.—AUREA.

1. D. auriferum Zind/ey.— China.— Flowers yellow, with long tapering points, and enclosed in
the hooded bracts of short lateral racemes. Only known from a drawing in the library of the
Horticultural Society.

2. D. flavescens Lindley (aliàs Onychium flavescens Blume).—Java.—Flowers small, yellow.

3. D. rhombeum Lindley.—Manilla.—Very like D, aureum, but the flowers are racemose.

4. D. sulcatum Lindley.—East Indies.—Flowers erect, yellow, whole-coloured.

5. D. polyanthum Wallich.—Moulmein.—Flowers yellow (?) very pale (?).

6. D. Gibsoni Paz/on.—Rast Indies.—Flowers inlong pendulous racemes, rich apricot-yellow,
with a purple stain on the lip.

T. D. fimbriatum Hooker—N epal, Burma.—Var. A; flowers rich orange-yellow, whole-coloured:
var. B; flowers larger, with a rich purple-brown centre to the lip.

8. D. clavatum Wal/lich.— Assam.— Flowers large, bright yellow, with a double rich brown stain
in the middle of the lip.

9. D. moschatum Wallich (aliàs D. Calceolus Hooker ; alias D. cupreum Herbert).— Burma,
Ava, Pegu.—Flowers large, pale nankeen-coloured, richly stained and veined with crimson, musky-
scented.

apos 2.—AXANTHA,
10. D. Dalhousieanum Pazton.—Rast Indies.—A magnificent plant, with large cream-coloured
flowers tinged with rose, and a pair of broad purple blotches on the lip.
11. D. formosum Roxburgh.—East Indies.— Flowers white, very large.

12. D. mutabile Lindley (aliàs Onyehium mutabile Blume).— Java.— Flowers pale rose; lip with
three yellow glands,

13. D. sclerophyllum Lindley (aliàs Onychium rigidum Blume).—]Java.— Flowers whitish, with
three yellow glands on the lip.

14. D. triadenium Lindley.— Sava.—F lowers nearly white; with a violet spot on the ends of

A CATALOGUE 015 5. 58
the sepals and lip: the latter with three yellow glands. Possibly these three last may be only
varieties of each other.

15. D. aduncum Lindley.—Kast Indies.—Flowers almost transparent, of the most delicate pink.

16. D. japonicum Lindley (aliàs Onychium japonicum Blume).—Japan; cultivated in Java.—
Flowers lilae, sweet-scented, with a ciliated lip.

17. D. nudum Lindley (aliàs Onychiwm nudum Blume).—Java.—Flowers pale purple, changing
to yellow.

18. D. calearatum 4. Richard.—Island of Vanikoso.
19. D. ramosum Zind/ey.—East Indies.—Flowers small, colourless.

20. D. herbaceum Lindley.—Kast Indies.—Flowers small, greenish, inconspicuous.

N.B.—D. cassythoides 4. Cunningham, a leafless creeping plant from Port Jackson, described
in the Botanical Register for 1836 under figure 1828, the pollen of which is unknown, is probably
some Vanilloid plant allied to Cyrtosia, if not belonging to that genus.

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GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

519. Irex Prrapo. Hort. Kew. (aliàs I. platyphylla Webb & Berthellot.) A hardy
evergreen tree, with broad flat foliage, and bright red fruit. Native of the Canary Islands.
Flowers white in June. (Fig. 257.)

An old inhabitant of our greenhouses, but to all appearance perfectly hardy near London. The first published account
of it is to be found in Plukenet’s Almagestum (t. 262), where it is represented under the name of * Aquifolium amplis-
simis foliis ex insulis Fortunatis.” In the first edition of the Hortus Kewensis it was placed among other Hollies as Hex

of

Lamarck, p which we find no

€— yap The Per-
of

sembles a broad, flat, roundish-
leaved Holly, with little or no
toothin h

It is a truly noble evergreen.

520. /ESsCHYNANTH, THE SPECIES OF.

At p. 14, No. 482, we gave a list of the species of this genus ex-
tracted from the Allgem. Gartenzeitung, where two kinds were name
as doubtful. Concerning these, we have received the following memo-
randum from Mr. Moore, of the Apothecaries’ Garden, Chelsea.

M 521. /EsCHYNANTHUS DISCOLOR. Leaves elliptic, acumi-
| nate, obsoletely sinuate-dentate, glabrous, fleshy, veinless.

VOL. 117. 1

56 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

* 5 6 . è .
Flowers axillary, with pentagonal solitary or twin peduncles, calyx glabrous; the tube one-third as
long as the subulate segments, which are one-third shorter than the glabrous corolla ; limb of the
corolla ciliate; stamens much exserted, hairy; style very short, included within the tube of the calyx.

labrous shrub with round greenish stems and thick broadly lanceo ate stalked leaves, without evident
veins, but having beneath a prominent purple costa, and a corresponding channel above ; the margin almost entire when
ly grown, but having a landular teeth-like projections when ; four inches long, an inch and a half broad, on

oung
petioles half an inch long, deep green above (sometimes obscurely dotted with dull purple), dull reddish purple beneath,
Flowers axillary, with minute bracts at the base of the glabrous distinctly pentagonal peduncles, which are longer than
the petioles. Tube of the calyx prismatical, nearly as long as the peduncles, and three times shorter than the
subulate segments of its limb, glabrous and purplish throughout. Corolla one-third longer than the calyx, the green tube
widening upwards slightly curved, the limb oblique with roundish ciliated segments, marked within with three con-
verging chocolate-brown bars, which meet within the border and form an angular figure on each segment. Stamens
half as long again as the corolla, hairy above. Style half as long as the tube of the calyx, straight, the stigma forming a
groove at the scarcely expanded apex. Ornamental owing to its coloured foliage. This is the Æ. atrosangwineus Hort.
(not of Paxton's Bot. Diet., whieh is stated to have dark red flowers). It may also be the Æ. atropurpureus Hort. Van
Houtte (Walp., Rep. V., 521), but the leaves in our plants are scarcely spotted except by accidental discoloration, and
the flowers of Van Houtte’s plant are not described,

522. /scuvNaNTHUS MARMORATUS. Leaves oblong-lanceolate (or obovate-lanceolate or ovate),

widening upwards, and an oblique limb of roundish ciliated. Segments, the tube green, the limb blotched with chocolate-
brown. Stamens much exserted, hairy in the upper part. Style nearly as long as the tube of the corolla, thickened and
glabrous below, densely villous above, terminated by an expanded transversely grooved stigma, The marbled leaves
give the plant an ornamental character.

4E. purpurascens Hasskarll ; but, independently of other
differences in the foliage and flowers, Æ. discolor is at once distingui d by it h 4 1 t
its obsolete ealyx-tube. : a er ah a cet
523. BESCHORNERIA TUBIFLORA. Kunth. (aliàs Foureroya tubiflora Kunth & Bouché.) An
Aloe-like greenhouse perennial, belonging to Amaryllids. Flowers greenish-brown. Native of Mexico.
R W, where it produced its Agave-like blossoms in a cool greenhouse
intermediate

be inte between Littea (Agave, sect. 2) and
urcræa, differing from the latter in habit, from the former in its included stamens, and from both in tubular
flower. Stemless Leaves radical, tufted, g and more or legs recurved, linear, sword-s , very much

tooth or swelling, bearin -coloured, ovate

membranaceous bractea. Pedicels shorter than the bractea, green, à 5 i es 9 da مسب‎ t ase.

Perianth divided to the top of the ovary, into six green, s thulate, nearly equal segments (brownish-purple externally),

erect and approximating into a tube, the apices only sp Stamens six, equal rather shorter than the
rianth ; filame te;

small, three-lobed.— Bor, Mag., t. 4642.
524. Ecmivocacrus LONGIHAMATUS. Galeotti. A glaucous ribbed succulent plant with very
long recurved spines and large yellow flowers. N ative of Mexico. Blossoms in July.
A fine and handsome Species :—remarkable in the very i i i

prominent ridges, the large and regularly arranged spines,

the central one very long, flattened, and hooked at the end, and handsome in the size and colouring of its flowers, both

in the bud and when fully expanded. It is a native of Mexico, and appears to have been introduced to our collections
by M. Galeotti.— Bot. Mag., t. 4632

GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 57

525. BERBERIS TRIFURCA. A hardy (?) evergreen shrub, with pinnated
leaves. Flowers unknown. Native of China. Introduced by Mr. Fortune.
وم‎ 258.

B. (Mahonia) trifurca ; foliis pinnatis, foliolis ovato-elongatis j juxta basin distanter
entatis termina ili

of B. trifurca, among the remarks upon B. nepale

allied to the latter species, it is readily distinguished by its long leaflets, which have a few

. coarse toothings near the base, then a long toothless interval, and at the point three stout

teeth ; in addition to which the termina is sessile. Living plants exist in the nursery

of Messrs. Standish and Noble, of Bagshot, to whom it was sen
ortune

526. HELMIA racemosa. Klotzsch. A climbing shrubby
hothouse plant from Central America. Belongs to the Order
of Yams. Flowers small, yellow and purple. Introduced by
Von Warczewicz.

H. suffrutex volubilis, glaber ; rhizomate tuberoso, carnoso ; ramis

58 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

teretibus ; foliis sparsis, cordato-ovatis, acuminatissimis, 9-nerviis, supra lete viridibus, subtus pallidis, nitidis, versus
basin ganda lis scrobiculatis sparsis obsitis ; petiolis basi apiceque incrassatis; racemis masculis axillaribus solitariis,
racemosis, folio subtriplo brevioribus ; Facbibul angulato-alatis, alis. brevissimis, minutissime puberulis ; floribus soli-
tariis bracteis sque duabus ad basin جح‎ purpureis ; er turbinato-rotati laciniis ovato-oblongis, subobtusiss
pa mis, ar 5 imatis, centro disci atro-purpurei hexagoni insertis; antheris introrsis
bilocularibus post d turate aureis ; rudim ento pera nullo.

Althou vd it is not easy to class a dicecious sinn of which only one sex is known, and that with scarcely charaeters
enough to authorize its being made the basis of a new genus, yet I think that in the present ease there are two characters
sufficient for this purpose ; viz. the presence and form of the sheath of the male flowers, and the presence of two

ual great bracts at the base of each peduncle. As to the species, there is the cylindrical twining stem, the thickness
of a crow-quill. The petiole, also cylindrical, two to three inches long, and thickened both at the top and the bottom.

have red filaments and bluish anthers. The bulbs of this aie are o adi in shape and size to that of Disi alata,
and were received by M. Mathieu of Berlin, who has them now (December 1851) in etd from M. Von Warezewiez,
who discovered dd in Central America.— K lotzsch, in Allgem. Gartenzeit., Dec. 13, 1

527. CESTRUM BRACTEATUM. k & Otto. (aliàs 0. stipulatum Fellozo.) A green-
flowered, greenhouse shrub. Native if Brazil. Belongs to Nightshades. (Fig. 259.)

This species is remarkable for the large size of its greenish bracts, which extend from the calyx as far as the limb
of the corolla. It forms a stout branchin ng shrub, five to six feet high, with green downy branches. The leaves are
al

ing
it is of little horticultural interest.

528. 8860714 PUNCTATA. Link,
Klotzsch, & Otto. A hothouse per-
ennial with panicles of pink flowers.
Belongs to Begoniads. Native of
Mexico. oe 260.)

andsome stemless herbaceous
he

ed palmate lobes bordered with

i seat slightly ard on each side,

: dark n the upper, pale green on

the under side, with a tinge of red towards the ite ; pnm iile are furrowe

covered with spreading hairs, | and furnished with a purple ramentaceous collar just beneath the

aren The sepals are in pairs, oblong, a little narrowed to the base, bright rose-colour, with

Bip ud MM Fore es htt o پوچ‎ a the outside, Fruit dotted with scarlet, the wings rounded, one being very

cleifolia an i E pe À is plant, figured i In Link, Klotzsch, de Otto’s Abbildungen, is very near B. hera-

int erassica e former differs in having dias ear green, smaller, and more deeply cut leaves, crenate bracts,

unspotted flowers ; the latter in blossoms without leaves, white flow. wers, small oblong leaves, and perfectly circular
sepals. They all have the same great double placenta, and belong to the section (1) Diploclinium, in -=

GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. ; 59

529. RYTIDOPHYLLUM Humpoxpru. Klotzsch. (alias Gesnera Humboldtii Warez.) A hairy
half-shrubby hothouse plant, with greenish flowers spotted with purple. Belongs to Gesnerads.
Native * Central America. Introduced by M. Warezewicz.

ullum Humboldtii; suffruticosum ; caule erecto, ramoso, villoso ; foliis — oblongis, membra-

eis eia inzequalibus, grosse serratis, acuminatis, basi subattenuatis, supra se pu ntibus, subtus

piieis villosis و‎ corymbis in apice ramulorum axillaribus, longe pane 2 Mori, foliosis ; calycis laciniis
ovato- olatis, tis

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in ae villosis, tul
su ne re us ; corolle inae ui ro-

tundat us
uten vireseentibus, paperanian ra
مه وده‎ sparsi m e pilosis ;

i5.
ri, 5-cre
E^ "per ient silent, about three feet high,
collected by M. von Warezewiez in Veragua

is one inch € are ten inches in Mas
on the lower The
calyx are uml as long as da tube

America). The leaves, including: the petiole which à‏ سد
three i‏

and in
of the a عبد ع‎ in Allgem. Gartenzeit., Jan. 17,1852.
530. RyrmornyrLum Tronrpra. Klotzsch. (aliàs Gloxinia Tigridia OWMendorff; alias Sisyro-
carpum Ohlendorffii KJotzsch.) A climbing half-shrubby hothouse plant, from Venezuela. Flowers
very large, greenish, spotted with purple. Belongs to Gesnerads. Introduced by M. Moritz.
Rytidophyllum Tigridia; suffruticosum ; caule scandente, teretiusculo, hirsutissimo ; foliis oblique ellipticis,

60 : GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

inter se insequalibus, petiolatis, grosse serratis, ciliatis, supra sparsim pubescentibus, subtus nervoso-hirsutissimis ;
ram lo

inches long, and from one and a half to three inches broad; the flowers are bell-shaped, pendulous, three inches long, and
nearly two inches in diameter, woolly outside, smooth inside. There are now twelve species of this well-limited genus,
and of these one half come from the West India islands—one is from Brazil, two from Peru, one from Columbia, and

the corolla, yellowish or greenish, and spotted with dark red purple. The fifth pollen cell, which M. Von Martius
supposes, in his description of the genus, to be abortive, is absent from all the species which I have had the opportunity of
examining.— Klotzsch, in Allgem. Gartenzeit., Jan. 17, 1852.

531. ECHEVERIA BRACTEOSA. (alias Pachyphytum bracteosum Link, Klotzsch, & Otto.) A
glaucous succulent undershrub. Native of Mexico. Flowers green and red. Belongs to the Order
of Houseleeks. Blossoms in January and February. (Fig. 261.)

This very fine species was sent to the Royal Botanic Garden, Berlin, in 1838, from Mexico, by Mr. Charles
8

bloom. The leaves rose t the end of a
short stem flat, obovate, obtuse, almost a
an inch thick, Fro; em rises a

erect, united at the base into a short cup, rather unequal,
and considerably longer than the dull red petals, It
probably exists in our gardens among the Mexican
Echeverias that have not yet flowered.

532. STROBILORACHIS GLABRA. Link,
Klotzsch, & Otto. (alias Strob. prismatica
Nees; aliàs Ruellia prismatica 7 ellozo ; aliàs
Harrachia macrothyrsus Martius ; aliàs Justicia
imbricata Po.) A hothouse shrub, with green
cones of bracts and pale yellow flowers. Native
of Brazil. Belongs to Acanthads. (Fig. 262.)

This plant has something the habit of an Aphelandra.
Theleaves are oblon g-lanceolate,acuminate, convex, wavy
bright green. The flowers are arranged in four-cornered, i
cones, four or five inches long, formed of strongly keeled, T
ovate, green bracts, from within w ich appear pale yellow bilabiate corollas, having a truncate two-lobed upper lip, and
a three-lobed lower lip, the middle lobe of which is broader and more blunt than the laterals. The species is by no
means infrequent in continental gardens, to which it was introduced from Be
shady places on the Coreovado Mo , and in many similar places near Rio Janeiro. We are at a loss to
understand upon what principle the name first given to the plant by Dr. Klotzsch was altered by Professor Nees von

| GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 61

| Esenbeck. It is a rule, no doubt, among some botanists to insist upon the retention of the first specific name that is
| published, one erroneous may have been its reference to a particular genus : the second name being held to be
| unchangeable whatever may happen to the i But we dispute the propriety of this plan, and refuse to acknowledge
| -r sufficient authority for the practice, which is sometimes yy are ad generally — and not unfrequently
| sur Nothing is more common than for an unskilful bota refer a plan a wrong genus. Another
| لمجي‎ him, places it in its right genus, but with a new Mugs n the first ong undiscoverable on account
| of the original blunder with which it was associated. Then comes in a third gentleman, who takes upo > oyna 1f
| to cancel half the first genuine name in favour of half the previous inaccurate name, and thus introduces a veleum
| into the overburthened pages of science. For example:
| publishes in 1840 a certain Quercus lignea ; B finds the plant

in 1842, recognises it to be a Juglans, not a Quercus, and gives ١

it to the world as Juceraws lamellata; then uprises C, and

coolly changes B's name into Jue UGLANS lignea, upon the ground

a!

sce in
Professor Nes von Esenbeck’s change of Klotzsch’s original name of
Strobilorachis glabra! into S. Pa, for no better reason than that
somebody (in t g friar) had previously
called it Ruellia prismatica.

533. TRIGONIDIUM RINGENS. Lindley. (aliàs Mormolyca lineolata Fenzl.) A dingy brown-
flowered Orchid. Native of Mexico. Introduced by the Horticultural Society.

This has lately been + سس‎ by cers Fenzl, in a pamphlet called Nova quedam genera et species plantarum
t. 2, indie the aliàs above quoted. It was first made known in the year 1840, in the Botanical Register, at No. 121 of
the miscellaneous ma

534. HAKEA MYRTOIDES. Meisner. A stiff-leaved greenhouse shrub. Native of Swan River.
Flowers purple and yellow. Belongs to Proteads. Introduced at Kew.

Raised from seeds sent to this country by Mr. Drummond, It is extremely different from any previously describe
species, but perhaps most allied to Hakea dide La Billard. The bright red flowers (so unusual in the genus) d

62 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

among the foliage, have a very pretty effect. It blossoms in the Royal Gardens in February. An ascendant or rather
straggling shrub, a foot or a foot and a half in height, rigid, much branched ; branches terete, younger ones puberulous.
Leaves generally very patent and slightly tortuous, so as to have a.squarrose appearance, n lanceolate, sessile,
subcoriaceous, with very indisti tinet, close-pressed pubescence, plane, or the sides slightly recurved, the margins thickened
and running out at the apex into a rather gv at mucro. Flowers in axillary, sessile fascicles, red, handsome,
Pedicels purple, thickened upwards, Sepals r, their apices spathulate, recurved, orange-yellow, bearing a yellow
nearly sessile anther in the cavity. Style “ts end يه‎ red, bearing at the apex an erect, cylindrical, but rather
acute stigma.— Bot. Hex t. 4643,

535. HUNTLEYA CERINA. A beautiful stove Orchid, from Central America. Flowers pale
yellow, with a purple column, in April. (Fig. 263.)
H. cerina; sepalis subrotundis concavis, labello ovato convexo retuso eristá crassá semi-circulari truncata plicata,
columnéa apice nuda.

hird species is now added to the curious deg pess neither with brown nor violet flowers, but with firm

whitish waxy blossoms, not unlike those of Mazillaria Harrisonie. It was found in in Veragua, by Mr. Warezewiez, on
the Chiriqui Volcano, at 8000 feet above the level of the sea, d was sold by auction by Mr. derne some time in 1

Mr. Rucker has been the

London.

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PLATE 85.

[Prate 85.]

THE OVAL OXYLOBE

(OXYLOBIUM OVALIFOLIUM.)

A very handsome Greenhouse Shrub, from Swan River, belonging to the Lecuminous Order.

Specific Character.

THE OVAL OXYLOBE. Stipules setaceous, queis OATLOBIUM ifan UA ; stipulis setaceis petiolum
longer than the petiole. Leaves in whorls of three cillati
four or opposite, oval, obtuse, or emarginate, mucronu- : positisque ovalibus obtusis v. emarginatis HG
bus te

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late, silky on the under side as well as the branchlets. subtus ramulisque sericeis, capitulis axillari ermi-
Heads of flowers axillary and terminal, on short stalks, nalibusque breve peduneulatis densé multifloris, calycibus
densely many-flowered. Calyxes and pods shaggy. leguminibusque villosis.— Meisner.

Oxylobium ovalifolium : Meisner, in Plant. Preiss., i. 28 ; alias Gastrolobium pyramidale: 7. Moore, in Garden Companion,
vol. i., p. 81, with a figure.

1 is now between twenty and din; years since an Ozylobium retusum, from King George's Sound,
was published i in the Botanical Register, t. 913. The same plant had been previously described
by Smith in the Linnean Transactions, vol. ix., p. 254, under the name of Chorizema coriacea.
Nevertheless, the systematic writers who have followed, seem in every instance to have overlooked
the plant, although it is by no means uncommon in gardens. We, therefore, reproduce the passage
in which Ozy/obium retusum was established :—
“The genus Oxylobium, as defined by Mr. Brown in the second edition of Hortus Kewensis, is
distinguished from Chorizema of Labillrdiére by its calyx being nearly regular, not distinctly
bilabiate; by the carina being compressed, and as long as the alie, not inflated and shorter than alee ;

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64 THE OVAL OXYLOBE.

and by the pod being ovate and sharp-pointed. In the characters of the flower, the subject of this
‘article agrees better with Oxylobium than with Chorizema, and Mr. Brown has been so kind as to
inform us, that the pod is that of Oxylobium, to which genus he has referred it under the name we
have adopted. A handsome greenhouse shrub, native of King George’s Sound in New Holland,
whence seeds were brought by Mr. J. Richardson. The specimens from which our drawing was
made were communicated from Mr. Colvill’s nursery, under the name of Callistachys capitata.
"Wild specimens, collected in King George's Sound by Archibald Menzies, Esq., and preserved in
the Banksian Herbarium, present two forms of leaves, one ovate and the other oblong; but they
are obviously only different states of the same species.

* Branches somewhat angular, furrowed, densely velvety, and ash-coloured. Stipules subulate,
erect, downy. Leaves stalked, with a short, downy footstalk, oblong or ovate, retuse, with a little
point, their surface elegantly reticulated with prominent veins. Racemes capitate-corymbose, stalked,
axillary or terminal, much shorter than the leaves. Calyx campanulate, five-toothed, very villous,
with a bractea at base, in wild specimens ferruginous, in the garden specimens silvery. Corolla
orange-coloured, with purple veins. Vexillum transverse, erect, flat, emarginate. Wings and keel
projecting, purple, the length of vexillum."

To this Ozylobium retusum the present plant is so closely allied that it is not improbable that it
may be one of the forms above alluded to as existing in the Banksian Herbarium. Professor
Meisner calls it O. ovalifolium; and states that it was found by Preiss among close thickets
near Mount Manypeak, and on rocks at the foot of the Baldhead Mountain in King George’s Sound.

The main distinctions between it and O. refuswm are that the former has the stipules much
longer than the leafstalks, and the leaves as broad at one end as the other. The hairs on the
shaggy calyxes are white on the stalks and tube, but rich brown on the edges and lobes, which,
moreover, are very generally petaloid inside.

À very beautiful shrub, requiring the treatment applied to other New Holland leguminous

plants of a similar nature. Our drawing was made from a plant belonging to Messrs. Henderson
and Co., of Pine Apple Place.

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PLATE 86,

L.Constans del. gne

8 Printed. by C.F.Cheffins, London.

[PraTE 86.]

In order that there may be no error in the determination of this plant, the letter-press belonging to

the Plate is delayed till next month.

[Prats 86.]

THE LONG-LEAVED PUYA.
(PUYA LONGIFOLIA).
يي سك‎

A Stove Herbaceous Plant, supposed to come from the Canaccas, belonging to the Order of BROMELIADS.

Specific Character.

THE LONG-LEAVED PUYA. A bulbous, stemless plant. | PUYA LONGIFOLIA ; bulbosa, acaulis, foliis biformibus,
Leaves of two forms; the external spiny, leathery, exteriori i iacei i
narrowly pinnated, with a long awl-shaped point ; the subulato interioribus gramineis levibus spicá pluries

linear-lanceolate, keeled, shorter than the petals, which fissum convolutis dupló brevioribus.

Puya longifolia : Morren, in Annales de la Société Royale de Gand, vol. ii., p. 483, t. 101.

A SPECIMEN of this plant was sent to us in March last by Messrs. Weeks & Co. of the King’s Road,
with the flowers in the pallid state now represented. Since the plate was prepared, we have
discovered that the species has been figured in the work above quoted, and that the flowers are, when
in health, as deep in tint as the most scarlet Tillandsia. In Professor Morren’s plant, the outer
leaves were moreover broader and nearly pinnatifid, not cut down to the middle, as in ours. The
account which he gives of it is this.
“This new kind of Puya possesses the coral-red brilliancy of the flowers of its congener, the
P. Altensteinii, but its spike is much smaller. It has the habit and appearance of the
P. heterophylia of Lindley (Botanical Register, 1840, t. 71), which it resembles in the bulbs, which do

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66 THE LONG-LEAVED PUYA.

not flower; but in all other respects it is different. The leaves are much longer, linear, and are
often as much as a foot and a half in extent, curving down around the plant, and even doubling by
their own weight. The spike consists of very long straggling flowers, by no means collected into a
capitate spike. The corolla of P. heterophylla is rose, this is as red as the richest coral; one
might say that the scarlet of the bracts of P. Altensteinii is here transferred to the corolla, which
in that species is dazzling white. The form of the nectarial scales is also different in P. heterophylla.”

It is uncertain when this plant came into our gardens; all that was known about it to Prof.
Morren was that it was introduced into Belgium in 1843 by government collectors of plants, and he

. thought it highly probable that it came from Mexico. But then he adds, that it is also very

probable that it came from either La Guayra or the Caraccas, where Messrs. Funck, Linden, and
others had been employed.

It is strictly a stove species, demanding the treatment of Tillandsias and similar plants. It is
probable that it would look best if grown like an epiphytal Orchid, which would allow the long
narrow leaves to hang down without risk of being bruised or broken.

PLATE 67.

Printed by C.F. Cheffins. London-

_[Prate 87.]

THE HOODED ONCID.
(ONCIDIUM CUCULLATUM.)

a ——

A Stove Epiphyte, from CENTRAL America, belonging to the Order of ORCHIDS.

Specific Character.

THE HOODED ONCID. Pseudobulbs oval, long, bluntly | ONCIDIUM CUCULLATUM, (TETRAPETALA MICRO-
ribbed. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, flat, as long as the PETALA) ; pseudobulbis ovalibus obtusé costatis elongatis,
angular seape. Raceme simple, scarcely panicled. Upper foliis oblongo-lanceolatis planis scapo angulato eequali

: : ei ;

two-lobed, with round toothletted divaricating lobes ; the concavum bidentatum connatis, labello cordato panduri-

base furnished with three convex rounded plates, and a formi apice dilatato bilobo laciniis rotundatis subdentatis

line of well-defined hairs near the base. Column dwarf, divarieatis lamellis 3 brevibus levibus rotundatis pone

with short rounded auricles near the base. Anther-bed basin serie solitarià villosum, colummá nané auriculis

hooded, fleshy. brevibus rotundatis juxta basin marginatá, clinandrio
| earnoso eucullato

Oncidium cucullatum: Lindley, Sertum Orchidaceum, sub t. 21 ; Orchid. Linden ; aliàs Leochilus sanguinolentus :
Bot. Reg. 1844, mise. 91.

THIs curious plant was originally made known through a dried specimen, probably from

Dr. Jameson, in Sir W. Hooker’s Herbarium, gathered on the trunks of trees on the western
declivity of Pichincha. It was afterwards found by Mr. Linden, in the account of whose
Orchidaceous plants it is mentioned as “ An epiphyte with oval obtuse ribbed pseudobulbs. This
magnificent species has deep red petals, and a two-lobed violet lip spotted with purple. Forests of

68 THE HOODED ONCID.

Quindiu, at the height of from 7800 to 8700 feet; February. The Gallegos call it Hierba buenal
and la Mesa." At a later period it was found by Schlim in New Grenada, at a place called Las
Vetas, at the height of 10,000 feet above the sea.

The first knowledge we had of it in a live state was from a couple of wretched flowers sent us by

the late Mr. Barker, when it was supposed to be a Leochile, and the following note was published of
it in the Botanical Register :—

“Although the flowers are small they are very beautiful, having a deep crimson lip richly
studded with clear purple spots. In the smallness of its anthers, the extension of the anther-bed
behind into an elevated rim, and in the shortness of the column wings, it is somewhat different from
the rest of the genus.”

At last it has taken a permanent place among cultivated Orchids, and has produced the materials
from which the annexed figure was made, in the collection of Thomas Brocklehurst, of Macclesfield,
with whom it flowered in February last. From the gardener, Mr. Pass, we have the following note :—

“ Oncidium cucullatum was bought at Mr. Linden's sale of imported plants, in June last. When
received, it was potted in very fibrous peat and broken pots, using plenty of drainage in the pot,
and placed in a rather cool and dry atmosphere, until it began to grow, when it was removed to
a house used for growing Cattleyas, Odontoglots, and other South American Orchids—together with
fruiting pine-plants. The heat would be from 70° at night to 85° in the day ; admitting air freely
on fine days, giving the plants a light syringing, throwing water on the walks, walls, &c., and
closing the house early on sunny afternoons, so as to get a strong moist heat for an hour or two in
hot weather. In dull cold days in summer, not uncommon here, I give air for two or three hours
in the day, keeping a moist genial heat of 75? to 80° by fire. When in bloom and at rest, I keep them
in a much cooler and drier house. The above is a sketch of my way of growing a portion of the
Orchids here, amongst which are many of the plants sold by Linden last summer, all of which grew,
and are mostly doing well. I should say that a strong-grown plant would produce more than
fifteen or twenty flowers on a spike, and probably larger flowers, for our plant was very small when
bought, and the bulb it made was not more than one-third the size of the imported one."

The species seems to vary a little in the colour of the flowers,
coloured than those now represented, and in the form of the li
among alpine epiphytal Orchids.

which are sometimes more rose-
, à very common circumstance

GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

536. MAXILLARIA ELONGATA. A hothouse: terrestrial Orchid from Central America. Flowers
pale yellow and brown. Introduced by Mr. Skinner. (Fig. 264; a, a flower magnified.)
. elongata, (Racemosee) ; d cylindraceis elongatis diphyllis, foliis msn cm 3-costatis circiter dupló
longioribus, scapo erecto bivaginato, racemo denso oblongo pseudobulbis equali, b: setaceis ovario Ó—
sepalis petalisque linearibus acuminatis, labello ovato-oblongo carnosissimo utrinque ewm utrique facie densé vi

cosa, ad medium hypochilium usque.
Pale yellow flowers, as large as those of Mazillaria supina, with a purplish-brown lip, singularly studded within

almost cylindrical or ee
full six inches e mark this
xillaria

species Ma
clearly. The 3 vcre like

e
a few remarks here may not
be without interest.

70 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

In the great genus Maxillaria, as now limited, the majority of the species (1. § AcAULES) are stemless, and produce
one or two flowers only at the end of the scape, others (2. § RAcEMOSE) are also stemless, but form their flowers in
many-flowered racemes, while the remainder (3. 5 CauLEscENTES) have branching stems with pseudobulbs, and leaves
clustered upon them at short intervals. It is to the second of these sections re the plant before us belongs, together
with about a score other species, of which the n irit is a brief enumeratio

2. $ Racemosæ ( Xylobia).

1. M. Colleyi, Bateman. A brown-flowered plant, with few-fl arly sessile racemes

2. M. squalens. Hooker. (aliàs Xylobium duae Lindley ; alias Maxillarin supina Pappy & Endlicher.)
Flowers yellow and dirty brown, with a purple pointed lip

3. M. seabrilinguis. Lindley. (aliàs Cyrtopera icio pup. a: alias Dendrobium carnosum Presl., Reliq.
Henkeane.) Flowers dull purplish-yellow.

4. M. bractescens. Lindley. Flowers dull yellow, in a tall lax raceme.

5. M. corrugata. ley. Flowers pale brownish-purple.
+ 6. M. longifolia. Lindley. (alias Dendrobium longifoliam H. B. K.) Flowers with a purple lip, on a scape
two feet high.

M. elongata. Of this place.

. M. pallidiflora. Hooker. Flowers greenish, in a thin racem i

. M. decolor. Lindley. (alias 11. palmifolia Lindley ; pus D endrobium palmifolium Swartz) Flowers
— او‎ in a short raceme. There can be little doubt that the two plants now brought together

oan

10. 3 concava. gm Flowers pale me. in a rather thin raceme.
ll. M. foveata. Lindley. Much like the las

+ 12. M. hyacinthina. Reichenb, fil. Flowers wid with a rose-coloured lip, very sweet-scented like a Hyacinth.
+ 13. M. latifolia. Lindley. (aliàs Dendrobium latifolium H. B. K.) Flowers yellow and red, in a spike
two feet lo

++

14. M. maculata. Lindley. (aliàs Dendrobium maculatum H. B. K.) Flowers large, green, very sweet-
scented, in a spike rising higher than the leaves.

N.B. Euge: marked f are not yet known to be in eultivation. The following Maxillarias, of the Flora Peruviana,
slightly characterised, that they must all be regarded as doubtful species, which it may perhaps never
be poids to identi

15, undulata ; 16, variegata ; 17, triphylla ; 18, hastata ; 19, cuneiformis ; 20, bicolor ; and 21, tricolor.

537. PHRYNIUM sANGUINEUM. Hooker. (alias Maranta sanguinea Hortul.) A handsome
stove herbaceous plant, with white flowers and crimson bracts. Blossoms in the spring. Native
of — die Introduced by Mr. Jackson, of the Kingston Nursery.

d from the continent, under the name of Maranta ip arnt but of what author, or where, if anywhere, +
able to ascertain. It is assuredly rather a Phryniwm than a Maranta, and
Phrynium capitatum, figured in the Botanical Magazine. That species, however,

s

e serae penninerved ; nerves clique dark full green above, rich purple below, on short EER which
are jointed upon the long base, of which the inside forms a لوده‎ membranous sheath to sed pe

Mibi foot to a foot and a half long, erect,
rac

fed, bein red all, turbinate, longitudinally furrowed. The outer se » ovate, obtuse,
nearly equal, free to the base, erect. sepals erect, very unequal, one of them deeply two-lobed, combined for a
part of their length from below among themselves, and with the Pr and flat petaloid filament and style.

Anther solitary, lateral, Style curved. Stigma grooved.— Bot, Mag., t. 464
i 538. Cesreum Wamozmwiczu. Klotzsch. A greenhouse shrub, with light orange-yellow
owers. Belongs to Nightshades. Native of Central America. Introduced 8 M. Von Warczewicz.
r tem foliis petiolatis, ovalibus us, utrinque attenuatis, supra nitidis, sa tus pallide-viridibus ; ; floribus

in corna id aimed
thyrsoideos fastigiatos terminales sessili bus ; bracteis S persistentibus ; pene tubulosis, quinquecostatis,

GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. nm.

GERENTE dentibus subulatis ; corollis haces glabris, tubo flavido calyci duplo longiore, um
vitelli

ino, reflexo ; filamentis paullo supra medium tubum debeas insertis, dente puberulo instructis, in
subpuberulam decurrentibus ; stigmate viridi, capitato, subumbilica
This Cestrum, which was discovered by M. Von Warezewicz near nae voleano of Carthago, in Central America, was

named by pum in his seed catalogue Habrothamnus aureus; it is now (Nove mber, 1851) in flower in M. Mathieu's

ca
tube of ed rie and the flowers are of a clearer and more golden-yellow colour.—Klotzsch, in Allgem. Gartenzeit.,
Nov. 15,

539. PASSIFLORA ALBA. Link § Otto. A stove climber, with white flowers. Native of Brazil.
Blossoms freely from May to September,
and produces an abundance of fruit the
size of a Walnut. (Fig. 265.)

Stem twining like that of other Passion-flowers.
p the

leaf-stalks.— Link & Otto.

540. "lROPEOLUM
DIGITATUM. Karsten. A
handsome annual (?)
climber, from the Ca-
raccas. Flowers bright
scarlet. Introduced by
M. Decker of Jena.

scandens, radice
firot, foliis peltatis
que — septem- -lobatis, lobis

ve; antheris virescen-

iu seeds of this new

2 oc year e to M. Decker, who sowed them on the 8th of August, directly after their arrival. A specimen is
in flower in my garden, and the plant will be ready for sale next spring. The fibrous root of this new and beau-

ta climbing plant soon sends out a high climbing stem adorned with an elegant and rich foliage. The present species
iffers from those hitherto known in its unexampled rapidity of eee and in the peculiar form of its leaves. The leaves
are five tọ seven-lobed, rounded and entire, varying occasionally with respect to the depth of their lobes, of a fresh green

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79 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

colour, which is deepened by the greyness of the underside, From amongst this foliage the numerous yellow and
carmine flowers peep out. The flower itself measures, with the spur, about one and a half inch in length. The calyx
and spur are brick-red, inclining to carmine and running into pale green, the former at its base, and the latter at its
point.— Maurer, in Allgem. Gartenzeit., Dec. 13, 1851.
541. BESCHORNERIA YUCCOIDES. A very fine half-hardy perennial from Mexico. Flowers green,
among deep red bracts. Belongs to Amaryllids.
B. Yuccoides; foliis radicalibus is rigidis lato-l I tactu scabris margine
minutissimé cartilagineo-serrulatis, scapo racemoso subpaniculato, bracteis amplis coloratis maculatis, floribus glabris
ipolli earibus pedunculatis fasciculatis, — '

lat? 0 "m 3d تت‎ | he

rises gracefully to the height of six or seven feet, with a few lateral branches ; it is smooth, blood-red, obtusely angular,
0 ow in f:

two to four each, on pedicels from half an inch to an inch long, from which they very readily disarticulate ; when
full-grown they are two and a half inches long above the articulation. The ovary is clavate, acutely triangular, three-
celled, with numerous horizontal ovules in a double line. The sepals and petals are green, distinct, but formed into
a tube, and nearly alike in form and texture, narrowly oblong, channelled, obtuse, with a thick rib at the back; the

honey is secreted in abundance from near the base, when the flowers are open ; but they never spread much at the

The stam

awl-shaped at first; after a time they acquire a sigmoid form near the base in consequence of not being able to
extricate themselves from the flower as they lengthen. The anthers are versatile, linear, two-celled, arrow-headed at the
base, and contain a pale greenish pollen ; the pollen-grains usually adhere in fours, or a smaller number, are smooth,
spherical, and have a distinctly pitted surface ; placed in water they quickly burst their outer shell, when the inner sac

ill escape in the form of a free transparent globe. The style is continuous with the free triangular apex of the ovary;
is slender, three-cornered, and terminates in a papillose three-lobed stigma, from which drops of honey exude some time
before the flower expands,

e three genera, Agave, Furcræa, and Beschorneria, are nearly related but satisfactorily distinguished. In Agave
the filaments are folded down before expansion ; in the other two they are straight. Then Furcræa has short filaments,
with a great dilated base ; while in Beschorneria the stamens are long, and taper gradually from base to apex.

The plant before us flowered the other day at Abbotsbury, in the garden of the Honourable W. F. Strangways.

542. Ibex rEPTACANTHa. A handsome, hardy, evergreen shrub, from the North of China.
Introduced by Mr. Fortune.

È leptacantha 1 foliis ovali-oblongis acuminatis breviter petiolatis equaliter spinoso-dentatis dentibus gracilibus.

That this plant is an Ilex seems to be proved, in the absence of flowers and fruit, by its being readily grafted upon

the common Holly. It has very handsome foliage ; the leaves being six inches lon by two inches wide, of a very

iem oval figure, bordered regularly with distant slender spiny teeth, It is a good deal like the Nepal Z. dipyrena,
u at plant PEA tn ESCAS 4

"m3

this plant they are of about the texture of a Portugal Laurel.

543. MEDINILLA SIEBOLDIANA. Planchon. A beautiful stove shrub, with rose-coloured flowers.
Belongs to Melastomads. Native of the Eastern Archipelago. Introduced by M. Van Houtte.

A native, it is said, of the Moluccas, whence it appears to have been introduced to the Belgian gardens by M. Van
Houtte, and through that channel to our stoves in England. It forms a handsome shrub, with large dark green leaves,
and drooping racemes, of waxy rose-coloured fi i

yes, m

and continues long in blossom.
branches quite terete ; the branchlets only

ERATAN AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 13

and branches, between the petioles of the leaves, is a dense tuft of soft spicules of a dirty brown colour. Leaves, on short
thick petioles, four to five or six inches long, coriaceous, glabrous, between ovate and elliptical, quite سود‎ acute at the
base, shortly and sign acuminate at the — trongly 5> nerves very pees beneath, where the
colour is pale green, while it is dark green above. Peduncle terete, as long as the , together with the
thyrsoid panicle of Moe. Fini Pedicels Mont as sa as the calyx, which latter ‘ie re iul nearly globose,
fleshy, pale rose; the very short margin or limb erect and erose. Petals four, spreading, broad, ovate, acute, rose-
coloured. Stamens eight, pointing and spreading to one side : filaments subulate, white, curved : anthers also subulate,
deep purple, wrinkled on the upper side: at the base above formed into two incurved lobes, below furnished with a
"egi spur. Ovary combined with the calyx : style curved, subulate ; stigma obtuse.— Bot. Mag., t. 4650.

544. TuynmsaCANTHUS RUTILANS. Planchon ¥ Linden. A
beautiful hothouse shrub, from Central America. Flowers rich
crimson. Belongs to Acanthads. Introduced by Mr. Linden.
(Fig. 266.)

We are only acquainted with this from the following note, and a coloured
fipure circulated by Mr.
Linden in the beginning. of

in mes of
brilliant crimson tubular
bl bout two inches

* Thyrsacanthus rutilans
Planch. & Lind. ; T. (sec-
tionis primee Nees); foliis
subsessilibus oblongo-lan-

dicellum د‎ aCe co-

mis sterilibus 2 (€ eapitellatis.— Cette espéce a été découverte par M,
Schlim, MEE de mon établissement, dans les endroits humides et ombragés
pres de Sa Cruz Gites d'Ocana, Nouvelle Grenada) à un altitude de 4000

ue EN

74 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

pi J'enai reeu des pieds vivans au mois - Juin 1851, dont quelques uns fleurissent depuis le commencement de
Février et paraissent devoir durer j jusqu'en Juin

545. MASDEVALLIA WAGENERIANA. inden. A curious little Orchidaceous Metu from
Central America. Flower small, dull pale red. Introduced by Mr. Linden. (Fig. 267.)
M. Wageneriana ; uniflora, folio obovato-oblongo rotundato in petiolum Ser sapi foliis æquali angulato, sepalis
ovatis in setam longam extensis,
petalis truncatis 'Sübesrnosis obtusé tridentatis mar-
gine anteriore in plicam produeto, labello rhombeo
serrulato apice calloso inflexo
— Me song the nes لات‎ plants
of the
One of + dor M. coccinea, which was sold lately at
one of Mr. Stevens’ s sales, has large flowers as

rest of its genus, it is a little alpine thing, requiring

the treatment of a Stelis |

546. nidis" GIGANTEA. Hooker. |

A magnificent aquatic, with blue flowers.
Native of New Holland. Not introduced.

uring the e early part of the present year (1852) seeds of an Australian n Nymphzeaceous = were in the hands of

aed cultivators in this coun try as a new Vo qi. Victoria Fitzroyana, with flowers of a * purplish-blue,"* iem what

source obtained I have not been able to asce Those which were gne b erem to us by Mr. Carte rier an

u
disposed to think that this is the plant producing the seeds in question, and. that the plant having been MAR to other
colonists in Australia, the seeds have been by them sent to their friends in this country, under the name of Victoria
Fitzroyana. Mr. Bidwill is too good a botanist to have done so. Be that as it may, we deem it a matter of duty now
to lay a figure and description of our magnificent plant beca the publie, and even a coloured d figure ; for so beautifully
are the specimens dried by our valued friend and c rrespondent, that we think we cannot err much on that مه‎
And sure we are that, even should all the seeds above alluded to fail to germinate, or prove to be those of another
our Nymphæa gigantea will ere long find its way into our tropical tanks, and adorn them with a Water-Lily little

Nymphza, being

cultivation, but unfortunately dry and dead, i iat the size of ai n ordinary apricot, and nearly as rini having
numerous depressions or eyes, like the <“ eyes" of the potato, with a scale at each depression. The leaves of our dried
specimens are eighteen inches across ss, nearly orbieular, but longer than broad, with a

ace appeari
very thick and prominent, radiate from the insertion of the petiole, and form elevated irregular hexagonal reticulations
all over the under surface, which surface is uid minutely wrinkled. Petiole ge an inch across, terete, full of
air-cells ; its attachment to the leaf is within, or at a distance fr rem, the base of the fissure, and thus constitutes a

peltate leaf. Flower twelve inches i in diameter (in a dina state). Calyx of four leaves, or sepals, as long as the petals,

GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.
Leeds مااع‎ PE green or VENTRE rgreen; one has the two margins and another one margin pe
Petals blue, e enir eu ewe — =) ir (a fov of them herbaceous at the عوط‎ k fim the
centre), obo tha d with , the inner ones rather shorter than the outer,
linear- lanceolate, all of ‘dak iis Stamens exceedingly ا‎ more so than I have seen in any N
filif

us
igma ; filaments ; Short, ineurved (n

hæaceo
one of them petaloid) ;
à a SO covered by the copious stamens that the stru
without destroying the specimen.—Enough is here icd in proof that the species is very distinet from any of the
hitherto blue Water-Lilies, or of the genus.— Bot. Mag., t. 4647.

547. LONICERA FRAGRANTISSIMA, A sub-ever-
green hardy shrub. Flowers whitish, very sweet-
scented. Native of China. Belongs to Caprifoils-
, Introduced by the Horticultural Society. (Fig. 268.)

A L. fragrantissima (CHAMECERASUS) ; glaberrima, foliis sem-
/ pervirentibus oblongis acutis subtus pallidis, pedunculo nu-
tante petiolo longiore, bracteis herbaceis lineari-lanceolatis
ovario longior ribus.

his is one of the plants obtained from China by Mr.
Fortune, while in the service of the Horticultural Society, but

has not flowered in the Chiswick Garden, where it has been eii
known as a perfectly hardy evergreen “ Caprifolium.” In Janu

us specimens, with the following note, on the 13th April (es
“The plant which affords me these flowers has been in bloom =
since January. It occupies an east wall, and has enjoyed no particular advantag
il

Its evergreen foliage distinguishes it from “al the previously known species of the
ham:ecerasus division of the genus.

548. ACACIA MARGINATA. R. Brown. (alias A. trigona Alph. De
Candolle.) A handsome greenhouse shrub, with dark green leaves,

76 à GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

and bright yellow blossoms appearing in April Native of King
George's Sound. (Fig. 269.)

This is known in Gardens as A. celastrifolia major, under which name the
plant from which our drawing was made was exhibited by Messrs, او‎
& Co., of Pine Apple Place. Its long narrow curved slides (leaves) shorter
spikes, and downy ovary, amply ee it des = species. To A —

it approaches much more nearly, r. Bentham has remarked ; it seem
indeed to be aE only by ft longer s more falcate nre and more
owny ovary. the A. marginata o repos we believe it is more

ine A. anh itself than anything e

549. GASTROLOBIUM VELUTINUM. A handsome Swan River
greenhouse shrub, of the Leguminous Order. Flowers rich orange.
Introduced by Messrs. I. and A. Henderson. (Fig. 270.)

oie velutinum ; einereo-velutitom, foliis ternis subsessilibus euneato-oblongis v.

is subcrenulatis, racemis elongatis

terminalibus, calycis villosi labio ` superiore rotundato recto bilobo inferiore
3-fido revoluto, ovario villoso stipitato dispermo.

This very pretty shrub was exhibited at a meeting of the Horticultural

Society, on the 20th April last, by Messrs. Henderson, of Pine Apple oe

a Lg lately raised from Swan River seeds received from ipe Drumm tH
as in flower something theaspect of Chorizema Henchma ni, on nen a its

peculiarly rich orange-coloured flowers; but it is in real ity nearer Gastrolo-

bium bilobum than anything else. Its very small leaves, and soft velvety ties.

are striking peculiarities,

550. Loasa BICOLOR. Klotzsch. An annual, with white flowers.
Native of Central America. Belongs to Loasads. Introduced by
M. Von Warezewicz.

L. herbacea, annua, robusta, ramosa, hispida, erecta; foliis alternis, petio-
latis, impari-bipinnatisectis, pinnis trijugis, ovalibus, ultimis confluentibus, supra
lete viridibus, sparsim-subtus subalbidis in nervis hispidis, segmentis se tis ;
floribus paucis, racemosis, terminalibus : calycis tubo campanulato, hispidissimo,
lobis ovatis, puberulis, margine subhispidis ; petalis ce a s calyce
longioribus, &piee huge setis 2 erectis, اميه‎ ua

Ais annual plant, one foot and a half high. he was ú ds S3
covered in the Chiri qui Mountains, i in Central America, by M.

Von Warczewicz, a marked it in his catalogue of seeds as a ; i A 2 Ww M 1
species of Loasa. It is at present (November, 1851,) in the LAE 7
gardens of Messrs. Moschkowitz and Siegling, in Erfurt. S x 7 Sy 8 NI Nir WZ
species is closely allied to Z. rudis Benth., from Santa Mari FESR L3 EN ln. EM / ١

in Guatemala, but is distinguished from it by the leaves whe, T A 4 E \ V
in the present plant, are are pinnated, whitish beneath, and six Ê KE e =N WW ١
inches long.— Klotzsch, in Allgem. Gartenzeit., Nov. 15, ien: ENG ال‎ "Zi

951. PENTAPERA SICULA. Klotzsch. (aliàs Erica
sicula Gussone.) A half-hardy evergreen shrub, with

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This little known plant has linear terete leaves growing in AN y! R S

fours, globular or ovate-oblong and downy flowers, having a - os AW IÑ ET

membranous calyx, and growing in umbel-like APF PS >

clusters on long slender stalks. Acco ecording to Gussone the 1 Mie MZ
shrub grows in Sicily, on the caleareous rocks of the mountains A dh V j
that overlook the sea, especially on M. Cofani near Trapani. : NVZ
Its flowers are as large as as those of an Arbutus T 74

GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 77

552. ARAUCARIA COOKII. R. Brown. (alias Cupressus columnaris Forster; aliàs Dombeya colum-
naris Fw T aliàs Araucaria columnaris Hooker.) See our Vol. II. p. 132, No. 403. (Fig. 272.)
In the Bot. Mag., t. 4635, are the following remarks upon this plant, in addition to aa made in the Journal of the
Horticultural cte and v gnat at the place i in our pud eia referred to.
‘To Ca in his s voyage, is due the first discovery of this Araucaria, in the
little islands off Nis TR and subsequently on main island :— On one of the western small isles was an

fire gone before night, and no more xem been seen after. They were still more positive that the elevations were
pillars n Vids. like those which compose the Giants Causeway in Ireland.’ On nearing the island, a few days
later, *every one was satisfied eft were trees, except our philosophers, who still maintained they were basaltes.'
To the commander * they had mu of tall pines, which occasioned my giving that name to the island."
* I was, however, determined not " sen the: eint till I knew what trees these were which had been the subject of our
uite T as they appeared to be of a sort useful to visco and had not been seen anywhere but in the
h of this land At length Capt. Cook landed, accompanied by the Botanists. * We found the tall trees to

be a kind of Spruce Pine, very proper for spars, of which we were in want. We were now no longer at a loss to know
of what trees the natives made their canoes. On this little isle were some which measured twenty inches diameter, and

on the main and larger isles ; and if appearances did not deceive us, we can assert it. If I except New Zealand, I, at
this time, knew of no island in the South Pacific Ocean where a ship could supply herself with a mast or a yard, were

“ There cannot be a doubt that this resemblance to columns of basalt induced the elder Forster to call this tree
Cupressus columnaris, though he has fallen into an error in considering the Norfolk Island Pine (Araucaria excelsa) to

, nor
found by the ‘ philosophers’ of Capt. d PAD but à fine apex of a branch and young cone were ciam home,
and are preserved in the Banksian Her d fi in Mr. Lambert’s splendid work, under an impressi :
the species was identieal with that of N onfolk, Island, and on o'r same plate with the perfect cone of the latter species
La L

ces ve
think it only justice to the latter author to restore it to that particular species for which it was intended, and to which
itis so very appropriate ; we would otherwise gladly have opo r. Brown's excellent one :—for assuredly nearly all
the partieulars we know of this interesting Pine are derived from the narrative of the illustrious navigator. Sin
enough, as Dr. Lindley quotes from Mr. Moore's letter, ‘the first tree of this, noticed by ti Cook (in 1774) as
“elevated like a tower,” still stands (1850) and is in a flourishing condition. Its appearance now is exactly that of a well-
proportioned factory chimney of great height. The species is no doubt equally tender with the Norfolk Island Pine.”
The remarks on the nomenclature of plants made at p. 61 of the last number of this work explain why we cannot

ireumstances
which are said to justify this measure. The plant in question was supposed by Forster, the first botanist who saw
it, to be a Cupressus, and he called it colwmnaris, which, had it been a Cypress, would have been a characteristic name.
But it proved to have no claim to stand in ae genus where it was placed, and he afterwards published it as
Dombeya columnaris, under which h ixed up the present plant and the Norfolk Island Pine, that there is no

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18 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

certainty what he meant. When Mr. Robert Brown referred to Araucaria that plant which the late Mr. Lambert had
published, in his splendid monograph of Pines, under the name of Dombeya excelsa, he decided, and we think ri htly,
that he was not called upon to go back to the name of columnaris, applied to Dom

. Co fr as we learn from
me, A. Cookii
4 rum, and was received in i-e Journal of the Horticultural Society. Neverthele
exchanged in the Botanical Magazine for the LACT columnaris,
the name colwmnaris was given to a a Cupressus vei not to an Araucaria, although all the Araucarias a
columnar, and the name is t most especially although the revival of Forster’s obsolete name

nd
can only tend to inerease that rampant hai: among the names of plants, of which every one complains with
som "n truth.

The accompanying figure of the Cone is borrowed from the Journal of the Horticultural Society.

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PLATE 88.

L.Constans dal. & jue.

Printed vy C-F.Chcffins , London:

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[Prate 88.]

THE MYSORE HEXACENTRE
(HEXACENTRIS MYSORENSIS.)
ج سس‎

A beautiful Stove Climber, from Mysore, belonging to the Natural Order of ACANTHADS.

Specific Character.

THE MYSORE HEXACENTRE. Leaves oblong, acumi- HEXACENTRIS M YSORENSIS ; 1 foliis oblongis acümi-
or lobed or hastate. Bracts very small. Bractlets ovate, bracteis minimis, bracteolis ovatis acutis corolla duplà
acute, twice as short as the corolla. Lower lip of the brevioribus, corollze labio inferiore tripartito lobis equa-
corolla three-parted, with ovate reflexed lobes ; the upper libus reflexis superiore obtuso galeato bilobo tubo basi

obtuse, € two-lobed ; the tube at the base shaggy intus villoso, antheris villosis, stigmate tubuloso
inside. shaggy. Stigma

Hexacentris mysorensis : Wight. ic. plant., t. 871; fide Walpers’ Annales, 1. 539.

MONG all the fine plants exhibited in the garden of the Horticultural Society last May, none
excited such universal interest as that now represented. It formed a small umbrella-like creeper
trained over trellis in the manner represented in the annexed vignette, the whole circumference of
which was loaded with pendulous racemes of most beautiful large yellow and crimson flowers. The
plant was sent to Messrs. Veitch of Exeter from the Mysore country, which it inhabits, as its name
indicates. No doubt it is the best hothouse climber that has been introduced for many years.

We understand that the plant was sent home by Francis Maltby, Esq., of the H.E.L.C. Civil
Service. Our drawing having been taken from an inferior specimen, by no means represents all
the character and beauty of the species. One drawing, received from Mr. Maltby since this figure
was made, represents the bunches of flowers and buds from fifteen to eighteen inches long, and

Petipa a

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| 80 THE MYSORE HEXACENTRE.

another with the upper or first flowers dropped, and a large cluster suspended at the end of a flower-
stalk of about the same length. It is added that, before the plant is out of bloom, the pendulous
flower-stalks are from two to two and a half feet long.

Whatever may be thought of the so-called species, which Professor Nees von Esenbeck has
separated from the original Heracentris coccinea, Dr. Wallich's Thunbergia coccinea, nobody will
question the entire novelty of the plant before us, whose small not leafy bracts, large corollas, and
shaggy not smooth anthers, indicate a totally different organisation.

The genus Hexacentris, which signifies six spurs, is named in allusion to two of its stamens

having one spur each proceeding from the base of the anthers, while the other two have each
two spurs.

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وح ES, WEE Emu oe‏ هميد للد اد

London

onstans, del. & gne.

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[Piste 89.]

THE DWARF CRIMSON CHINESE AZALEA.
(AZALEA AM(ENA.)

و

A hardy (?) Evergreen Dwarf Shrub, from the NORTH or CHINA, belonging to the Order of HEATHWORTS.

Specific Character. :
THE DWARF CRIMSON CHINESE AZALEA. A dwarf | AZALEA AM(GNA ; humilis, ramulis ramentaceo-squa-

bush. Branches when young covered with ramentaceous matis demum ferrugineis, foliis obovatis pilosis obtusis |

scales ; when old rust-coloured. Leaves obovate, hairy, basi angustatis sempervirentibus, calyce nullo (?), floribus
blunt, narrowed at the base, evergreen. Calyx wanting (1). pentandris. .
Flowers pentandrous. i

TIS is a dwarf evergreen bush, resembling Rhododendron ferrugineum in habit. The branches

when young are closely covered with long thin white ramentaceous scales; when old they are
brown and coarsely hairy. The leaves are as small as those of Box, flat, obovate, very round at the
point, coarsely hairy, paler on the under side. The flowers are rich crimson, almost campanulate,
tolerably regularly five-lobed, with that kind of double corolla which is called “hose in hose.” No
calyx is discoverable; but whether that organ is absent, or is converted into the external corolla,
1s uncertain,

... The specimen now represénted was exhibited to the Horticultural Society on April the 23rd, by
Messrs. Standish and Noble of Bagshot, with whom it had flowered, on which occasion it was
distinguished by a Silver Knightian medal. Branches, uninjured by cold, were produced from a
plant which had been exposed during the whole winter without protection ; and the species is expected
to be perfectly hardy. Mr. Fortune has communicated the following information concerning it :—

“This pretty Azalea was found in a nursery near Shanghae, and had been brought from the
far-famed city of Soo-chow-foo. Further than this its origin is unknown. It is no doubt a very

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52 THE DWARF CRIMSON CHINESE AZALEA.

distinet species, and probably comes from a country further north than any of its race in China,
or, at all events, from a higher elevation on the mountains. As a greenhouse plant in this country
` it willbe greatly prized. The striking form and novel colour of its flowers, its small leaves and neat
habit, will render it most desirable for bouquets and for decorative purposes. But it is not unlikely
that it may prove perfectly hardy in our climate; indeed it stood out in the Bagshot Nursery last
winter, without the slightest protection, and lowered most profusely last spring. We may, therefore,
hope to have in time a race of'Chinese Azaleas growing and blooming in our borders, and vieing
in beauty with the well-known Rhododendrons of North America.”

Although the plant is in a monstrous state, and is clearly a garden production, yet as it seems to

belong to some wild form of the genus not before described, we have felt justified in treating it as
a distinct species.

PLATE 90,

1 iC ع‎ E x: i

Ll. Constans dei.K anc.
9

Pintod by CE. Chalon, DORT a7

[Prark 90.]

THE PESCATORE ODONTOGLOT.

(ODONTOGLOSSUM PESCATOREI.)

—9—————

A Stove Epiphyte, of great beauty, from New GRENADA, belonging to the Order of ORCHIDS.

Specific Character.

THE PESCATORE ODONTOGLOT. Pseudobulbs ovate, | ODONTOGLOSSUM PESCATOREI ; (Leucoglossum)
slightly ribbed, two-leaved. Leaves strap-shaped, flat, pseudobulbis ovatis leviter eostatis diphyllis, foliis loratis
narrowed at the base, shorter than the loose many- planis basi angustatis, paniculà erecta diffusà multiflora,
flowered erect panicle. Bracts minute. Flowers bracteis minutis, floribus membranaceis, sepalis ovato-
membranous. Sepals ovate-oblong, with a small point, oblongis apiculatis leviter undulatis, petalis conformibus
slightly wavy. Petals of the same form, but twice as dupló latioribus, labello cordato oblongo cuspidato sub-
broad. Lip heart-shaped, oblong, cuspidate, somewhat pandurato basi denticulato utrinque appendice carnoso
contracted in the middle, rather toothed at the base, plano lac to lamellis 2 parallelis anticé denticulatis
furnished on each side with a flat lacerated appendage, a interjectis, columne brevis alis brevibus laceris,
pair of parallel plates being placed between. Wings of
the column short, lacerated.

Odontoglossum Pescatorei : Linden’s Catalogue.

NOXE of the Odontoglots equal in beauty this most lovely species, to which the smallness of our

plate forbids our doing justice. The panicle of large white flowers is from two to three feet
high, and not much narrower, so far do the branches extend. The flowers themselves are of ample
size, of a delicate semitransparent texture, with a faint blush line along the middle of the sepals, and
a stain of yellow near the base of the lip, where also are found a pair of broad deep crimson
lacerated appendages. The column itself is white, with the ragged wings also stained with crimson.

A specimen in flower was sent us last April by Mr. Linden, and when exhibited, although long

84 ` THE PESCATORE ODONTOGLOT.

detained on its road from Brussells, struck all who saw it with admiration. And yet Mr. Linden
assures us that those very flowers had been expanded for two months. It had been in fact exhibited
at a great Horticultural Meeting at Brussells on the 14th March, when it received a prize, which it
most richly deserved. We observe that plants are offered for sale by Mr. Linden at from 100f. to
200f. each—cheap enough.

It has been named after the great and liberal French horticulturist, Mons. Pescatore,
whose beautiful hothouses at Celle St. Cloud, near Paris, contain we believe the finest collection of

Orchids known upon the Continent, and are perhaps richer in rare species than even the best
in England.

GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

553. CHIONANTHUS RETUSUS. A hardy deciduous shrub, with white m flowers.
Native of China. ou to Oliveworts. Introduced by Mr. Fortune. (Fig. 2
C. retusus ; s longe petiolatis obovatis retusis membranaceis subtus ! gum HT terminalibus
subverticillatis iii corollze tubo sepalis subulatis longiore lobis lineari-spathulatis.
essrs. Standish and Noble of Bagshot furnished us, last May, with flowering specimens of this very pretty sweet-
scented bush, n for them by Mr. Fortune. When out of leaf it looks like some slender kind of Ash. The leaves

are slight] 1 pompa ciae membranous. ‘ie the upper end notched out o
red ees abg T€ ni ge E 0 pure white, i Ín slender, terminal, somewhat iid

panicles, shorter (in the specimens before us) ré ie laren The corolla has a very distinct tube, rather longer than

VOL, II. a

pairs of small oblong leaflets, when dry revolute at the margin. Peduncle rather longer than the leaves, axillary, slender,

86 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

here are two stamens, concealed within the tube of the corolla, with stiff, short, erect filaments, and fleshy
Maii The ovary is ovate, two-celled, with a pair of ovules in each cell. e stigma is m two-lobed and sessile.
e find no tendency to the separation of the petals into two الس‎ on the contrary, they form a true monopetalous
diii but they are easily torn asunder without laceration. Mr. Fortune has dici us with the following

memorandum concerning this plant :—

* A dwarf shrub, obtained in a garden near Foo-chow-foo, on the river Min. Its Chinese name is Ting-heang. It is
| deciduous in winter, and produces its snowy white flowers probably in spring. The flowers are singularly fragrant, and
| on this account it is much prized by the natives in Fokien. Although discovered in Foo-chow, I suspect it has been
brought there from a more northern latitude, I took some plants north to Shanghae, for Mr. Beale's garden, and I

It is just possible this plant may have been brought from the Loo-choo Islands, or Japan, in the trading junks which
Foo-chow every year. The Chinese propagate it by grafting on Olea fragrans. It will be Pere however, to
choose some other stock for it in this country, as it may probably be found a hardy plant in our clim
554. Popocarpus NERIIFOLIA. Don. A greenhouse evergreen shrub, native of Nepal. Delongs
to Conifers. Fruit fleshy, orange-red. Introduced by Dr. Wallich.
With us this forms a good-sized greenhouse shrub or small tree, with very copious dense evergreen foliage, and in
a state of fruit really handsome from the copious purple-red Ben receptacles of ihe seed, which are produced in the
winter months, It appears to be a mountain plant, and it is not impossible but it may prove hardy enough to bear the
open sg against a wall It is with us treated like the Australian and New Zealand plants. inis m — spp
very apt to coalesce, and the receptacles then to bear two berries; and even when there is on
to be ein unnaturally enlarged, and to be ene deformed. The st amenta are described frat Dr. Wallich's dried
specimens in our herbarium. The female fructification is produced in the winter months. "The fleshy receptacles are
said to be eaten by the Nepalese. Our plants are from six to seven feet high, much branched, the branches copiously
furrowed from the decurrent petioles, Leaves scattered, approximate, sometimes appearing verticillate, in whorls of
three to five, narrow, lanceolate, acute, coriaceous, the margins slightly revolute, dark green above, pale and slightly
glaucous beneath, below tapering into a very short decurrent petiole. Male amenta axillary, sessile, solitary, cylindrical,
slender, an inch or more long, arising from : de fena ine und o dssdo Anthers numerous, imbricated, two-celled,
ft

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much acuminated, at length reflexed. Peduncle o axillary, single-flowered, about half an inch long.

Receptacle of the fruit oblong, fleshy, soon vt maroon in breadth, with an oblong depression at the top, and

variously A d on each side, from pale yellow-green becoming orange-red, at length deep purple, slightly glaucous,

bearing a s subulate recurved bractea at the base. At the apex it bears an obovate glaucous-green seed. Sometimes
two or more e receptacles grow from the same peduncle, and such a one we have seen to be proliferous at the اسع‎
| — Bot. Mag., t.

| 555. rdc WanczEwrrzu. Klotzsch. A stove epiphyte, from Central America, belonging
_ to Orchids. Flowers pale waxy yellow, with a few red dots. Flowered in Berlin in April.

. Warezewitzii ; pseudo-bulbis ova em compressiuseulis, leviter suleatis, apice 3—4-foliatis ; foliis maximis,
late lanceolatis, subplicatis, utrinque attenuatis ; scapo basilari pendulo multifloro ; floribus carnonilic, pallide cerinis,
apertis, ge sae — ee impenetatis, brevissime acutis, extus convexis, duobus inferioribus oblique ovatis,

ti i i cum

kc enne elliptie sequilongis, obovatis, obtusis, basi attenuatis "ipei rubro-punctatis ; labello
columna continuo, crasse so, hypochilio oblongo concavo, intus puberu o, rubro-punctato, extus ad apicem
| didis epichilio e e cust, tripartito, adscendente, basi ED ER atro-purpureo, quadrangulato,
a inaliter unicostato, apice truncato, inflexo, lobis lateralibus latis, truncatis, erectis, intus ae
| i io aureo, obovato, plano, patente; columna elongata, و تسج‎ albida, dorso pilosa, intus versus basi
| má pan I alis suban angust is.— Klotzsch.
| in the opinion of Dr. Klotzsch, a well-marked new species. The scape is pendulous and many-flowered ;

the Pe rather fleshy, pale wax-colour, spreading open ; the sepals not dotted ; di petals dotted with red, as is the

lip at the base; its appendage is dark purple and quadran gular; its middle lobe golden yellow. It was sent by

. Warezewiez to M. Mathieu, nurseryman, Berlin, with whom it flowered last April.—Allgem. Gartenzeit., 1852, p. 145.

996. ACACIA Cycnorum. Bentham. A greenhouse shrub, much like r pulchella, Flowers
yellow. Native of Swan River. Introduced by Messrs. Lucombe & Pince.

. Cycnorum, as its name implies, is an inhabitant of the Swan River settlement , Where it appears to be common ;
and Meisner gives two varieties: but Mr. Bentham is rather inclined to think that this Pat to be وما‎ along
with A. lasiocarpa and A. hispidissima, among the varieties of = pulchella of Mr. Brown. Be that as it may, it is a
very greens plant, and deserves a place in every greenhouse or conservatory where early flowers are requi
eine o to three feet high, with rather slender and iiid terete n branches, clothed with somewhat dense
t a hae Spines none in our specimens, Leaves alternate, bipinnate. Petiole very short, without gland (in

it we have examined). Rachis hairy. Pinne two pairs; the lower pair each with three, the upper with four,

GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 87

arising from a scaly gemma. Head of flowers globose, rather deep yellow. Flowers crowded. Calyx turbinate, five-

lobed, with spreading hairs in the upper half; the lobes short, very obtuse, Corolla four-lobed ; lobes concave, ovate,
erect. Stamens numerous. Style rather longer than the stamens.— Bot. Mag., 53.

557. SCELOCHILUS Orrowis. Klotzsch. An orchidaceous, stemless, bulbless epiphyte, from the

Caraccas. Flowers yellow, with a few red streaks. Introduced into the Berlin Garden. (Fig. 274.)

is not a little singular that this rather pretty Orchid, although received in Berlin from the Caraceas in the year

1840, should never have found its way into our Gardens. in the hope of drawing some attention to it we reproduce the

“This small Epiphyte has, with vd E of the
flowers, entirely the structure of Oncidium carthaginense, but
the leaves are only five inches long an id ùi one inch and a ‘half
broad. The flower-spike is a little eet slightly longer .
than the leaf, taper, thread-like, smooth, a

sessile, dry, membranaceous, lane d acuminate
brac he flowers are short-stalked, yellow, compressed,
7 lin. long. The column is without colou ce as short as

the floral envelopes. It was introduced in the year 1840
into the Botanic Garden of Berlin by Mr. Edward Otto.
He discovered it upon the Silla of Caraccas, 5600 feet above
the level of the sea, in thick woods, on the trunks of trees.

sun. It produced - "ue yellow flowers for the first time
in the month of Jul
Shortly swarê it was republished in the work above
quoted with an excellent figure, and the following amended
character :
e اس‎ eee in Otto et Dietrich Garten-
vea 1841, p. 3 ee * Perigonii conniventis foliola exte-
gusta, cularia, carinata, basi subcohzerentia,
denen labello melita in unicum connata, basi in ealear
obtusum, breve producta ; interiora wisi libera. Label-
lum integrum, supra basin E continuum, basi brevis-
sime bifidum, liberum, disco calloso, العا‎ longitudina-
liter ا‎ antice bidentato, denti s obtusis, conniven-
tibus ; costis infra medium bicornutis ; duit. apice emar-
lum:

RE caudicula lineari instructa, glandula parva,
E caracasana, epiphyta ; osea ceespi-
i pecudobulbis bb ; ; foliis solitariis, coriaceis,
, basi vaginis squameefo — papie dani invo-
عم‎ racemo radicali ; xà ribus mpressis, flavidis.
5.0

rvis ; ra , foliis 0
foliolis perigonii interioribus obov inda, SPI, intus longi-
tudinaliter purpureo-striatis, sparsim pilosis."

The genus forms one of a small group among Morse
Orchids, to which it has been proposed elsewhere to giv
the name of Ionopsips, a: consisting of RS o

Comparettia and Trichocentrum. Of these Comparettia fa known e its do

figured by 2 PPE» although a mere puzzle, at all events must be

spurred auriculate lip, and distinct ecalearate lateral sepals ; Zo onopsis has a rostrate stigma, the pollen-masses of
Oncidium, and a ‘tent habit ; Burlingtonia has a column with a pair of long arms, arms, and the flowers of Rodriguezia ;

the latter has no spur to the sepals, ears on its column, and a free lip not rolled up in the lower sepals. It is however to

58 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.
Rodriguezia th that this van comes nearest ; in fact one of the supposed species of that genus, Rodr. stenochila of the
Orchi næ, proves to be really a Scelochilus. A third species from Quito enables us to complete tlie
history of the peg up to the — time, by the following enumeration :—
1. Scelochilus Ottonis. Klotzsch.
ochilus Linde (alias Rodriguezi s'enochila of Lindley, in the Orch. Lind., no. 123, where it is
published with the following character :—* foliis imis. planis, racemo laxo ereeto pelda, fioribus divaricatis,
sepalo inferiore bilobo obtuse calcarato, labello hastato basi sagittato, columná apterá. ‘An
epiphyte, from the forests of Jaja. Flowers pale pillow. aed with red. Venezuela, at the height of 6000 feet ;
July, 1842.’ (No, 659). Of this species I have only a leaf and a couple of loose scapes ; the latter are about
three inches long, with two or three sharp keeled distant sheaths, and four flowers, about the size of those of
" R. secunda. The very narrow lip - = — column are quite peculiar ”).
3. Scelochilus Jamiesoni ; foliis d n E — oae:
brevi ancipiti, bracteis setaceo-acuminatis pedicellis longioribus, se
inflato rotundato, petalis "ppm labello obovato concavo aei — — ليد‎ — ewe
| 2 incurvis pone basin.— Quito. Jamieson, 1848.— ce of th
| of the only flower at our cien 1t seems i de be Be
558. MaxiLLARIA REVOLUTA. Klotzsch. A terrestrial Orchid with yellow flowers. Native

country mobi Meri with Mr. Linau of Frankfort.
elongatis squamosis pseudobulbosis ; pseudobulbis oblongis compressis levibus, apice
unifolintis ; folic end RN. erecto subtortuoso unicostato, apice obtuso emarginato, basi conduplicatim-attenuato ;
pedunculis unifloris pseudobulbo duplo longioribus ; flore vitellino ; perigonii foliolis exterioribus oblongis erectis
brevissime acutis, marginibus lateralibus brevi recurvis, interioribus brevioribus obtusis, apice revolutis ; labello

i
atro-purpurea adnata ad basin inter lacinias laterales ; gymnostemio erecto brevi semitereti virescente glabro, dorso
obtuso; germine longissimo tereti stricto.

This extremely pretty Maxillaria vety much resembles in its habit M. Henchmanni Hooker, and M. tenuifolia
Lindley, but differs from the former in its upright leaves,and from the latter in its size, and from both in the colour of its
flowers, and the recurved points of its petals. The pseudobulbs are one inch long and three inches broad. Th
peduncle is as thick as a crowquill, upright, and provided with long, lanceolate, pointed, dry, paper- like scales. Theleaves
are five inches long, half an inch wide, and leathery. The ovary with its short stalk measures two inches. The sepals
are from seven to eight lines long and two broad, the petals six lines long and one and a half broad ; the tongue-shaped
lip five, and the column three lines long.—Allgem. Gartenzeit., June 12, 1852

559. OLBARIA Gunntana. Hooker fil. (alias Eurybia Gunniana De Candolle.) A half-hardy
shrub, — of Van Diemen's Land. Flowers white. Belongs to Composites. Introduced at Kew.

s is another interesting plant of Van Diemen's Land, which braves the cold of — and even the vicinity of

Loin, provided it be trained against a wall. In such a position it has long been cultivated in the Royal Gardens of

Kew, flowering copiously late in the autumn. We wish it vedi —— neni to recommen it. It was raised from seeds

sent by Mr, Gunn, by whom, as its name we it We think Dr. Hooker has properly referred it

| to Olearia, and that Zurybia a, d is € one of the many forms of the same variable species ;

| variable especially in the size and incision i the leaves, añ and searcely less so in the length of the peduncles and the more

owers,

much branched, ultimate branches often very short. Leaves numerous, varying much in length in our native specimens,

from half an inch to two inches long, on short petiolis, D or linear-lanceolate, generally rather deeply sinuato-

dentate at the margin, penninerved, the nerves deeply impr above, and there the surface is nearly quite glabrous,

sm. wrinkled with reticulated veinlets : below, as on the branches, peduncles, and involucres, white with dense compact
entum. Ssh appe subterminal, on short branches, single-flowered, or elongated and panieled with several flowers or

| dicii, k . Involuere of several small imbricated downy scales. Florets of the ray white, of the dise yellow.

Achenium, at least of the central florets, punctato-tuberculate. Bristles of the pappus eim the scales lanceolate, with
fringed serratures, sufficiently hardy to thrive in the open air of this climate in mild winters. It forms a low evergreen
~ shrub, well suited for the front row of shrubbery borders. In summer, when in flower, it presents a very showy
ce, which makes it worth wie to keep a Monk of young pan. unke protection to meet t the casualties of a
severe winter. It flowers freely if Bot. Map, t. 4638.
560. Lycaste Rrcorom. Klotzsch. A terrestrial Orchid from Guatemala, Flowers pink.
Introduced by Mr. hiked Flowered with Mr. Nauen of Berlin.
. tricolor ; bracteis membranaceis elongatis acuminatis convolutis densis viridibus, suprema ovario duplo longiore ;
-— thii foli. liolis em موده‎ oblongis brevissime acutis patentibus arcuatim-recurvis lide rufescentibus, — و‎
tins interio aan brevioribus roseis obovatis, utrinque glabris, inferne subconniventibus, apice recurvis ;
— unctato glabro petalis parum nikon Menit lateralibus rotundatis paren

GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 89

intermedia oblonga unguiculata subrecurva i d appendie marginato libero suberecto brevi ad
— inter lacinias laterales ; gymnostemio candido glabro arcuato ad hesin internam purpurascen
The pseudobulbs are enclosed in , long-ovate, with from six to eight blunt angles

three inches leng, and an inch and a half broad. They: are furnished at the point with from three to five ribbed leaves, which
are one foot and a half long, and from three to three and a half inches "m longish, ae at "e beso, tapered into a a
fine point.— The flower-stalks, of which there are generally several, seld

naked, and as thick as a crowquill. The upper bract which protects and encloses the ovary is — lines long, or

double the length of the ovary, ovate-lanceolate, short but finely pointed, with its edges turned tow; each other on the
under side, but sp out flat near the point. The sepals are long, lanceolate, sessile, very LS ‘pointed, of a light
b colour, one and a half inch long, and half an inch broad, and near the inner base ittle he petals

are rose-colour, obovate, fifteen lines long and seven broad. The lip is naked, rose-coloured, three-lobed towards the
inside, more darkly spotted, and from thirteen to fourteen lines long ; the two side lobes are blunt, incurved, half as short
as the middle lobe. The appe pendage, which in other species stretches from the base of the labellum to the middle lobe,
and there looks like a tongue growing to its lower part, and is traceable to its base, proceeds in the present plant only
from below the base of the middle lobe, and has the appearance of a flat sessile Soke, one and a half line in length and
breadth, and whose downward course is not visible. The column is a little curved, semicircular, five lines long, white
and naked.—Allgem. Gartenzeit., June 12, 1852

7 y /
561. ErrsENA LoNGIPETALA. Lindley. A half-hardy bulbous plant. Flowers white tinged with
green. Native of Peru. Belongs to Amaryllids. (Fig. 275.)
This pn was first noticed in the Botanical Register for 1838, p. 45 of the miscellaneous matter, with the following

morandum

* To the seen ca of bulbous plants this fine species will form a weleome addition. It is very nearly related to the
Pancratiwm ringens of the Flora Peruviana, out of which Mr. Herbert has formed his genus Elisena, and, like it, is a
native of Peru, It was obtained from Lima by Richard Harrison, Esq., of Aighburgh, near Liverpool, and it blossomed
in the e of that gentleman in May, 1838. The leaves are much like those of an Amancaes ; the flowers are of a
delicate semi-transparent white, and are remarkable for their long weak sepals, which are rolled up, and in that state
esie wider than the long white declinate ens."

Its flowers have lately been sent us by an unknown correspondent, and have enabled us to give the Peg figure

mennem — — M IE

90 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

of one of them, About five such grow in an umbel at the end of a stiff two-edged scape, about three feet high. Dean
Herbert's figure, in the Botanical Magazine, t. 3873, does not at all do justice to the species, which is rea ig: very handsome,
He recommends it to be grown out of doors in a bed of white sand, and guarded against spring frost
562. BRACHYSEMA LANCEOLATUM. Meisner. An evergreen greenhouse shrub, «d rich crimson
flowers. Belongs to the Leguminous Order. Native of Swan River. Introduced by Messrs.

Lucombe & Pince.
A handsome species, and its beauty is enhanced by the good-sized almost polished voces dark green above,
beautifully silky beneath. It is a native of Swan River, and was raised from seeds sent home by Mr. Drummond, in
the Exeter Nursery of Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., where it flowered x the first time in February, 1852. It
is one great charm of the Australian plants that diy so generally flower when there is little else to enliven the
sewer dre S and this cannot fail, on that account, to be very acceptable to ساس‎ Dr. Meisner had evidently
very imperfect specimens to describe from, for he was ignorant of the colour of the corolla, which in the living and in

the dried. specimens of Mr. Drummond, is of the richest scarlet ; and he describes the flowers as solitar
contrived to form three varieties. The leaves are certainly variable i in form, even on the same indiyidasl branch.
A handsome though somewhat straggling shrub, with terete, silky branches, and usually opposite sen pias two ie

half to three inches long, shortly petiolate, varying from ovate to lanceolate, rarely obtuse, usually acute
Pin entire, penninerved, the upper surface dark green, and when dry beautifully and minutely miens pens
at most two lines long, with a subulate, coloured stipule on each side, vise eem deciduous. Flowers four to
six, on a sessile subeompound raceme in the axils of the leaves, and shor n the lea racteas ovate, acute, silky.
Pedicels short. Calyx large, ovate, five-lobed ; lobes acuminate, erect. ORE all ^ dus dat is distinctly visible,
rieh scarlet ; for the a ale and vexillum are mien; ien beyond the calyx, while the carina is twice the length of
| the latter. The small Were is cordate, attenuated, yet obtuse, white at the margin, red in the dise, with a large yellow
| spot in the centre. Stamens ten, free. ا‎ oblong, Jüky Style subulate-filiform. Stigma obtuse.— Bot. Mag., t. 4652,
563. CORDYLINE rNDIVISA. Kunth. (alias Draceena indivisa Forster). A hardy (?) arborescent
Yucca-like plant, native of New Zealand. Flowers in large whitish fragrant panicles. Belongs to

Lilyworts. Introduced by Messrs. Veitch of Exeter.

rtion of this noble plant, consisting of a few leaves and a piece of the inflorescence, was exhibited by Messrs.
| Veitch of Sei at p J uly meeting of the Horticultural Society, it having flowered in their nursery at Exeter for the
| first time in Europe. It is stated to be an inhabitant of Dusky Bay in New Zealand, where it grows as much as eighteen
| feet high on rocks near hae At Exeter it forms a noble specimen, twelve or fourteen feet high, with a single graceful
stem, terminated by h ard sharp-pointed sword-shaped leaves nearly four feet long by two inches wide, and narr owe ed into

white six-parted spreading limb, of narrow blunt concave segments, at the foot of each of which is placed a stamen with
a broad petaloid filament. The ovary is obovate, three-celled, with many axile ovules in each cell ; the ا‎ is filiform,
the stigma simple. The plant is, therefore, a Cordyline, and not a Dracena. Nothing can be more deliciously fra t
than the flowers of this fine plant, which reminds the observer of the stately Yucca draconis, of which it has all the
habit, but much lighter green leaves, It has ieee for many Jean] in the open ground in the Exeter Nursery, and seems
to be quite hardy. According to Richard it , each marked with three excavated points near
the end, and containing about seven dark mood roundish, ; half-moon-shaped seeds in each cell,

564. MORMODES rLAVIDUM. Klotzsch. A terrestrial Orchid, with yellowish flowers. Native of
Central America. Introduced by M. Von Warezewiez. Flowered vith Mr. Mathieu, d HE wes
M.

widum ; pseudobulbis elongatis, articulatis, va vinea : I
culato pseudobulbo altiore; floribus flavidis, erectis, pedicellatis, bracteolis obl obtt 1 tructis ;
perigonii foliolis lanceolato-linearib Pes acutis, flavidis, tribus rik arcte e binis دتمم‎ erectis ; labello
albido-luteo, erecto-incurvo, obovato, apiculato, integerrimo, lateribus deflexis ; columna oblique torta, acumina
The ps ulbs are Tong, cylindrical furnished with six or seven joints, covered with sheath-like ‘ia of leaves,
and four معد‎ long by th inch thick, The leaves of the specimen which I possess are not developed ;

the flower-stalk springs from the third joint of the pseudobulb, is as thick as a crow-quill and three inches

top. The lip is obovate, مر سي‎ (as is the aeuminate column), bent inwards, with a short point, almost entire,

the
with both edges eurved back, from ten to eleven lines long, and below the per six lines broad.—Allgem. Ga rtenzeit.,
April 10, 1852.

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965. GUICHENOTIA MACRANTHA. Turczaninow. An inelegant greenhouse shrub, with pale
purple veiny flowers. Native of Swan River, Belongs to Byttneriads. Introduced at Kew.
A singular-looking, rather than beautiful, hoary shrub, with large purplish flowers, at first sight not unlike those of
some Solanum ; native of Swan River, whence seeds have been sent by Mr. Drummond to Kew, and reared in 1847.
Our first Sowers appeared in March, 1852, in an ordinar greenhouse, The genus Guichenotia, so named by M. Gay, in

specimens, It pie Pang — The shrub is with us two and a half feet high, erect, branched,
Branches rcg رحا‎ "s ted down. Leaves downy, whorled in threes, linear-oblong, on very short petioles,
entire, penninerved, the nerves ee at right angles from the costa, transverse, slightly branched, the margin revolute.
Peduncles axillary, generally longer than the leaf, erect, few-flowered ; flowers one to three, drooping. Pedicels naked.
or bearing one to two lanceolate distinct bracts: the hypocalycinal bract tripartite, eT leafy, veined. Calyx

between rotate and campanulate, dull and pale purple, downy, veined, the five lobes acuminate. Petals five, small,
squamiform, dark purple, one at the base of each stamen. Stamens converging into a cone sees the pistil : filaments
subul anthers dark . Germen 5 i-

ovate, acumi
nate, downy. Style articulated upon the ovary, about
equal to it in on slender, subulate. Stigma obtuse,

— Bot. Mag., t
566. E ALSINOIDES. Sims. (alias
C. unalaschkensis Fischer; alids Limnia alsi-
noides Haworth; alias C. sibirica Bot. Mag.,
with pink flowers.) A neat succulent annual,
si with small white flowers. Native of North
West America. Belongs to Purslanes. (Fig,

276.)

A small annual, with bright green succulent insipid
leaves, forming patches eight or nine inches in diameter,
and well suited to form a temporary covering to was
places or borders that require to be concealed without
being cropped, Its flowers are white, or in the Siberian
variety pink, small, but pretty when open beneath the
sun, It seems to be common all over North West

liata, which is, however, very nearly allied to it.

567. HAKEA scoparia. Meisner. A long
slender-leaved greenhouse shrub. Flowers in
yellow heads. Native of Swan River. Belongs
to Proteads. Introduced at Kew.

This species of Hakea i isa s nativo of fhe Swan River
Settlement, and 1 g

92 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

dried specimens (numbered 600)1 by Mr. Drummond. It is ep the plant yr ely Dr. Meisner in the Plantæ Preis-
siane above quoted, from specimens of Mr. ae in Mr. 5 huttle worth's s her ium. Thes aut hor, indeed, thinks it
possible it may prove to be a variety of H. sulcata, but
racters are well pointed out by Dr. Meisner. A small dinh with rather صو‎ terete branches, clothed with pale grey
bark, the younger ones puberulous. 11, elongated,
filiform, rigid, semiterete, rather deeply five-furrowed “throughout their whole length, the upper furrow y the broa adest,
hairy in the furrows, the apex sharply mucronate, the base, where inserted upon the branch, a little swollen and dilated.
Flowers pale yellow, arranged in sessile heads, which are axillary, involucrate, involucre of several imbricated, brown,
pubescent scales, shorter than the heads. Pedicels as long as the perianth. Perianth of four spathulate pale yellowish-
white sepals, the apices concave, tai Style very long, a little “dilated at the apex, and there bearing a nearly
cylindrical stigma.—Bot. Mag., t. 464

568. MaxiuLARIA HARRISONLE. Lindley. A stove Epiphyte from Brazil, with large waxy
pale deam flowers, and a rich rose-coloured hairy si Flowers in anan and May. sps 277 ie

figured was exhibited last April by Mrs. Lawrence, and has since Twin in other collections. Of its history nothing
is known. We should add that the pseudobulbs are rather narrower than in the original species, but the leaves are not
at all different. ;

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THE THREE-FLOWERED ABELIA.
(ABELIA TRIFLORA.)
—

A half-hardy Shrub, from NORTHERN Innia, belonging to the Order of CAPRIFOILS.

Specific Character.
THE THREE-FLOWERED ABELIA. Leaves ovate- | ABELIA TRIFLORA ; folis ovato-lanceolatis integris
ceolate, entire, subsessile, ciliated. Flowers in threes ; subsessilibus ciliatis, floribus ternatis : lateralibus tri-
the lateral with three bracts, Calyxes shaggy, five-parted, bracteatis, calycibus villosis 5-partitis laciniis linearibus
with linear very narrow, acuminate, divisions as long as acuminatis angustissimis corollæ tubi longitudine.
the tube of the corolla.

Abelia triflora : R. Brown, in Wallich’s Plante Asiatice rariores, vol. i., p. 14, t. 15.

FOR living specimens of this beautiful shrub we are indebted to Mr. Moore of Glasnevin, who sent
them last June, with the following memorandum :—

“ Abelia triflora is now nicely in flower here in the open border, where it has stood in front of
one of our conservatories without protection, since it was planted four years aga. Major Madden
sent the seeds here from Simlah, from which our plants were raised in 1847, and this is the first of
them which has bloomed. I consider it an acquisition in the way of a hardy shrub. Our plant is
about three feet high, and covered over with pretty pink blossoms.”

Dr. Wallich states that it is found wild on the highest mountains of the province of Kamaon,
towards the Himalaya, where his plant-collector, Robert Blinkworth, met with it in the month of
May; the natives called it Kumki. He reported it to be a small tree, with delightfully fragrant

lossoms, like those of Jasminum revolutum.

VOL. III.

94 THE THREE-FLOWERED ABELIA. +

The branches are slender, grey, and covered with long hairs. The leaves are very dark green,
bordered with red, ovate-lanceolate, very acute, slightly silky on both sides, and copiously fringed
with long hairs. The flowers, which appear at the ends of the branches in clusters of threes, are
remarkable for the very long hairs which cover the five narrow sharp-pointed reddish erect sepals,
and which are as long as the tube of the corolla. The latter is pale yellow before expansion, but
when open with a flat white limb, having five rounded lobes delicately tinted with rose.

This must be regarded as a charming addition to our shrubs, even although it should in England
require a greenhouse or a conservative wall. In Dublin it seems to be hardy; but experience tells
us that we must make some allowance for the greater mildness of an Irish winter.

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THE LARGE-FLOWERED GLUTINOUS DIPLACUS.
(DIPLACUS GLUTINOSUS; var. GRANDIFLORUS.)

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A Greenhouse Evergreen Shrub, from CALIFORNIA, belonging to the Natural Order of LixARIADS.

Specific Character.
THE GLUTINOUS DIPLACUS. Branches downy. | DIPLACUS GLUTINOSUS ; ramis pubescentibus, foliis
y oblongis lan i tatis
toothed and eroded or entire, narrow at the base, smooth integerrimisque basi angustatis supra glabris, floribus

on the upper side. Flowers solitary. Calyx smoothish, solitariis, calycis glabriuseuli dentibus lanceolatis
with lanceolate unequal teeth, ineequalibus.— Bentham.

Diplacus glutinosus : Nuttall, in Taylor's Annals of Natural History, t. 138 ; Bentham, in De Candolle’s Prodromus, t. 368 ;
aliàs Mimulus glutinosus Wendland obs. p. 51.

ME Brytuam has truly remarked (De Cand. Prodr. x. 368) that this species is extremely variable;
the stem being more or less woody; the leaves from two to six inches long, and from four to
twelve lines broad, blunt or occasionally rather sharp-pointed, coarsely toothed or hardly toothed at
all, more or less downy or flocculent on the under side; the flower-stalk as long as the calyx or more
usually shorter; and the corolla of very uncertain length, pale yellow, orange, or crimson, with the
lobes more or less deeply divided. These conclusions are abundantly justified by the evidence to be
found in gardens, no less than by the long series of specimens in his own herbarium.
For cultivators the species may be separated into the following varieties :—
1. Avranttacus, figured in the Botanical Magazine, t. 354, with orange-coloured flowers.

56 THE LARGE-FLOWERED GLUTINOUS DIPLACUS.

2. 20210813, figured in the same work, t. 3655, with scarlet flowers, the lobes of which
are very s

3. GRANDIFLORUS, now figured with pale salmon-coloured flowers, the lobes of which are
deeply cleft, and the leaves rather shorter than usual, and less serrated.

4. LarrroLrus, with large yellow flowers, whose lobes are scarcely split, broader leaves,
and, as is said, a dwarfer habit.

All are greenhouse shrubs, found on the borders of streams and damp situations in California,
where they grow about six feet high. "That now figured has been raised in many places within the
last few months, and has already gained the false name of D. Zeptanthus, a plant to which it bears
very little resemblance.

Flowering early in the spring, having a neat habit, succeeding well with unskilful people, and
propagating freely by cuttings, the species of this genus have always been favourites, and will long
continue so. That now figured is certainly much the finest, on account of its large pale salmon-
coloured flowers ; a cross between which and puniceus ought to be very handsome.

PLATE 93,

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THE FIERY-RED MORMODES.

(MORMODES IGNEUM.)

A Hothouse Epiphyte, from CENTRAL AMERICA, belonging to the Natural Order of ORCHIDS.

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Specific Character.

THE FIERY-RED MORMODES. Raceme long, many- | MORMODES IGNEUM ; racemo elongato multifloro,
flowered. Sepals reflexed, petals ascending: both lanceo- sepalis reflexis petalisque ascendentibus lanceolatis
late, flat, very acute. Lip stalked, -— with a distinct acutissimis planis, labello unguiculato carnoso apiculato
point, rolled back at the eue scarcely angular, with a lateribus revolutis ambitu transverse elliptico vix
transversely elliptical outlin ato.

quas fine plant, and several others of the same genus, has been produced from the rejectamenta of

one of Mr. Warczewicz’s sales. In January last, we received from Mr. Rucker five sorts of
Mormodes, all derived from the same source, all in flower, and all new. Of these we represent three.

That in the middle of our plate, to which the name of igneum is given, was conspicuous for the
greater size of its parts, and for its intense colouring. A stiff stalk, about a foot high, bore a dozen
large fleshy flowers, of which the sepals and petals were alike chocolate-coloured, and the lip a rich
fiery orange-brown. ‘There was no streaking or spotting in any part of the surface. The sepals
were flat, linear-lanceolate, very sharp, and spread flat out, even turning backward after a time ; the
petals, on the contrary, were erect, and somewhat broader. The lip, a tough fleshy body, when
spread out had an elliptical outline, with the major axis transverse, and the edge extended into a
triangular point on one side; in its natural condition it was nra back, and folded so as to look as
if angular, though not really so.

The sorts marked B and C in the plate accompanied it. B had dingy red flowers, marked with

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98 THE FIERY-RED MORMODES.

lines of dots; and C had dark lake flowers, speckled irregularly with red, but not dotted ; their lips
were thinner, smaller, and had a decidedly angular outline.

The two other kinds, not now figured, were the same in habit; but neither had any dots; one |

had faint stripes along the sepals and petals, which were dirty pink, and the lip was a dull green ;
the other had a much yellower flower; in both the sepals and petals were as in B and C, but the
lip was much larger, thinner, and still more decidedly angular.

Are these forms to be regarded as distinct species? and are they new, or are they varieties of
some species already known? There grows in the temperate parts of the snow-capped mountain
ridge of Santa Martha, especially on the branches of an Erythrina, a Mormodes of which travellers
speak as being most remarkable for the infinite variety of its colours. A striped state of it having
flowered at Syon, some years since, Sir William Hooker published it in the Botanical Magazine,
t. 4214, and called it Cartoni, under which name it is current in gardens. Of that plant we
entertain no doubt that our figures B and C are mere varieties. The main figure, so resplendent in
colour and striking in dimensions, seems to differ in its broader and more fleshy sepals and petals,
and in its thicker more leathery lip, which has little of the angularity which belongs to M. Cartoni ;
we therefore distinguish it under the name of M. igneum. As for the other varieties above alluded
to, and not figured, they probably belong to the M. flavidum of Klotzsch.

It is not improbable, however, that all these things are one and the same species ; and if so the
M. lentiginosum of the Botanical Magazine, t. 4455, will have to be added; for beyond colour the
plant seems to have nothing to distinguish it except the total absence of all angularity in the lip.
The same principles which justify the separation of that plant equally authorize the distinction of
Cartoni, igneum, and flavidum; and also the separation of a small species with rather more mem-
branous pallid flowers, also from Santa Martha, and now in our gardens, the lip of which is rolled up
into a slender pipe, but which when flattened has much the form of a sharp trowel. We received it
last March from an anonymous correspondent at Buckland in Berkshire, and propose to distinguish it
with the following name and character.

M. convolutum ; sepalis petalisque linearibus reflexis, labello tereti convoluto unguiculato
apiculato incurvo levi ambitu hastato angulis abbreviatis et igitur trulleeformi—Santa Martha.—
Flowers the smallest yet known in the genus, dull yellow, spotless.

A much more striking species than any yet recorded was sold at the same sale of Mr. Warcze-
wicz’s as the others. It formed Lots 39 the first day and 34 the second day. According
to a drawing now before us, for which we are indebted to Mr. Skinner, the flower-buds
are three inches long, and consequently each flower, when expanded, is eighteen inches in circum-
ference. They are represented as of a deep chocolate-brown, and are especially remarkable for the
lip being ovate-lanceolate, taper-pointed, and perfectly flat. Tt may be distinguished thus :—

M. macranthum; racemo laxo multifloro, sepalis petalisque angusté lanceolatis acuminatis
patentibus, labello unguiculato ovato-lanceolato acuminato plano.— Central America, 1000 feet above
the level of the sea.

GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

569. BunLINGTONIA DE-
CORA. Lemaire. (alias B.
ameena Planchon in Hort.)
A beautiful epiphyte from
Brazil. Flowers rose-co-
loured spotted with red, and
a white lip. Introduced
by M. de Jonghe, of Brus-
sels. (Fig. 278.)

B. decora; pseudobulbis compressis ovatis mono-

phyllis, foliis arcem subundulatis recurvantibus,

3—5-floris, sepalis petalisque glee

bus acutis lateralibus vix semiconnatis, labello multà
longiore bilobo dilatato basi appendice lacero Er

EAN — utrinque aucto, calcare conico rient

sequantibus, ge cornubus glabris staminodiis plus dupló
brevioribus.” —

This ry P Rm epiphyte has been lately figured by
M. Van Houtte in his Flore des Serres, with a note by
M. Planchon, a which the following is the substance :—
Introduced from the province of St. Paul's, in Brazil, by
M. Libon, the collector for M. de Jonghe, this flowered
in May, 1851, with M. Makoy, when it was provisionally

petals are deep rose-colour , spotted with small irregular
crimson specks ; the lip, which is twice as long as the

speckled appendage vs each side of the base. It seems
to prefer a mixture 0 f sphagnum, rotten willow-wood,
and broken potsherds, in which it succeeds perfectly.
suspended in a basket of copper wire, It likes a hot
damp atmosphere while growing, and a good season of
rest, obtained by lowering the temperature, and diminish-
in
لمعه ماه سح يد‎ it with a B. obtusifolia, very slightly defined in the Sertum Orchidaceum, under t. 36;
and it is indeed a poar of the same division of the genus, us, characterised by the column bearing a pair of long hairy
ears (staminodia). B. obtusifolia is in reality very near B. rigida, from which it only differs in the ears being
blunter and longer, "m leaves smaller, narrower, more id and tapering to the base, the flowers 1 and the

100 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

lateral lobes of the lip much narrower. In this plant, however, we have, I in to the authors above quoted, much
smaller ehe a simple conical not two-lobed spur, short very sharp sepals and petals, and a pair of great lacerate
appendages at the base of € lip ; to say nothing of the لومي‎ whieh is so vidi unlike anything known among
P Lene aedi except m
570. RHODODENDRON LEPIDOTUM. Wallich. (alias Rhododendron eleagnoides, R. salignum,
and R. obovatum Hook. fi.) A pretty alpine greenhouse shrub, with yellow or purple flowers.
Native of the Himalayas. Introduced at Kew.
The purple-flowered state of this very variable species of Rhododendron blossomed freely in April, 1852, in a cool
genet of the Royal Gardens. The seeds were sent from Sikkim-Himalaya by Dr. Hooker, under the name of
, and as such this is figured in the work on the Rhododendrons, with dark purple flowers, and also with
dup yellow flowers, looking like those of some Helianthemum. In that work, however, the author alludes to its close
affinity, as well as that of R. salignum, with the R. lepidotum of "Wallich (only known to us from dried specimens) ; and
a further examination has satisfied him that they and his R. obovatum can in no way be specifically distinguished from
authentic specimens of lepidotum. He has, therefore, in the Journal of the Horticultwral Society of London, united them.
» The species abounds,” Dr. Hooker says, “at an elevation of Eastern Himalaya of from 14,000 to 15,000 feet; but may be
found as low down as 8000 feet, ^ es valleys, forming a stout tortuous stalk : the branches as thick as a crow's quill,
rather scattered, bearing tufts of branchlets at the top. It is a slender or stout twiggy shrub, one to four feet high,
branching, often growing in petted dude clumps, as heather does with us, but never so extensively ; and it emits in
sunshine a powerful resinous odour, Leaves of a pale glaucous groon, vier ana e M es ferruginous
scales abound, one half to one and a half inch long. Flow e and a half to
two inches long, slender. Corolla yellow or dirty purple, half an inch across as the د‎ lobes, scaly, ey on pm outside of
e tube ; the upper lobes are spotted with green. The odour of this plant is strongly resinous, dno rather sweetish and
pleasant: Its common native name is 7saluma, or Tsuma, amongst the Bhoteas."— Bot. Mag

571. Veronica ELLIPTICA. Forster. (alias V. decussata Aiton.) A s (P) evergreen bush,
with deep green leaves and white flowers. Native of the antarctic and neighbouring regions.
Belongs to Linariads. (Fig. 279.)

Beautiful flowering specimens of this were exhibited last spring to the Horticultural Society, by the Hon. W. F.
Strangways, with whom the plant is hardy in Dorsetshire. It forms a dwarf dark green bush, with opposite oblong
leaves, each pair of which ly crosses the previous pair,so as to produce the appearance which botanists call
decussate, the name by which the idit is known in gardens. Dr. Hooker has, however, —— that in reality it is
the same plant as the F. elliptica of Forster, published many years before the name decussata was heard of. Upon what
vip hen opinion has been formed will appear from the following extract from Dr. Hooker's eium Flora antarctica,
vol. i, p. 58 :—

“Found in Lord Auckland’s group and Campbell's Island ; at the margins of woods near the sea, abundant.

» This isa very well known plant in our gardens, introduced from the Falkland Islands, and is one of the most

c trees, both in this longitude and in that of extreme Southern America, there reaching the fifty-seventh parallel
of latitude. It was first collected in New Zealand by Forster, its original discoverer, in Dusky Bay, where it has since
been found by Anderson and Menzies. I believe it, however, to have been noticed before as a native of the Straits
of Magalhaens, by the older navigators.

* In combining the V. decussata Ait. with V. elliptica, I have followed the — opinion. a Dr. Solander. In
the British Museum there are drawings of the latter plant by Forster, New Zealand ki ollected probably by
that author, and notes by Dr. Solander, The specimens alluded to are in fruit scs d agree in the foliage with the

gures, which represent it in its flowering state. Dr. Forster's own handwriting (of V. ol is on the same sheet
with it ; but another plant, V. Menziesii Benth. MSS., has been fastened down on the paper at a future period, and the
habitat, New Zealand, Dusky Bay, Gul. Anderson, is written on the back, a station probably applying to the latior
specimen alone. Solander's handwriting of V. decussata B., at "dh bottom of the sheet, applies to both, as in his MS.

.d

ea yeine segments, and the tier as bul In all our specimens, both from Lord Auckland’s and — T

A re

GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 101
(Forster), ramis glabriusculis, frutex sesqui-
In Forster's drawing, the mineral

resh. wan want of down on the branches
arises from
"Im Iaei RTRT s group this species
attains a much larger size than it
America, there seldom exceeding four feet in
height ; whilst Forster describes the Dusky
Bay tree as twelve feet, and I have seen it as

overlooking Rendezvous Harbour ; from
ce it looked powdered with white
flowers.”

572. Epacris NivALIs. —Loddiges. A half-hardy evergreen bush,
from Australia. Flowers pure white. Belongs to Epacrids. (Fig. 280.).

This was introduced from New Holland by the late Henry Moreton Dyer, Esq.,
while vice-president of the Horticultural Society, who gave seeds of it, in 1829, to Mr.

snow-white flowers, is atten ornamental Any greenhouse will afford it pro-

tection enough in summer it bear the pre air of this climate.
In Dorsetshire indeed it “ found to be perfectly hardy ; ; Mr. Strangways having
furnished us with the specimen

from which our cut was taken,
from his garden at weed
bury. In the open air it is ;

very much handsomer fae in a greenhouse, dwarf, compact, and
crowded with little white bells, nestling among the black-green
leaves. Itis not unlikely to stand even a London winter if placed
in a Northern exposure

579. PAULOWNIA IMPERIALIS. Siebold & Zuccarini.
A hardy deciduous tree, belonging to the Natural Order
of Linariads. Native of Japan. Flowers violet and
sweet-scented.

The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Exeter did me the favour
to send me two panicles from hc ay grounds of €
near Torquay. “The blosso: his Lordship writes, “
terminal clusters ; and the di fleet will probably be lost w tim
2 reaches you) is of a very delicate violet-like character."—* But

ter all, the effect to the eye is rather suoi 4 dor the
half o

cially in a plant whose si ng
inspected upon the tree ; “yet a cut panic

violet-purple blossoms, as large as those of the oe with a
young shoot of tender green leaves, is a very lovely object, to say

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102 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

— ت م و ب‎ OG N ——M N

E of the fragrance as a further recommendation. Virol: it is only the climates a ااا‎ to the
Ab
50

08
| In France, even at Paris, the wood ripens better. Although forming a tree (in its native country, Japan, thirty to pone
| feet high), and bearing flowers like a Bignonia, and with a foliage and habit like Catalpa, the Paulownia belongs never-
theless to the Scrophularia family. Dr. Siebold considers it * un des plus magnifiques ii du Japon ;" and partl

genre, pour rendre hommage au nom de Son Altesse Impériale et Royale la Princesse héréditaire des Pays Bas.” In
Japan the trunk of the tree attains an elevation of thirty to forty feet. Tts growth in Dr. Siebold's garden has been six
to ten feet in one year, and in three years a diameter of four to five inches. The flowers appear in April, and are
grouped in large compound panicles, like those of the Horse-chestnut. It appears most abundantly in the rouge
countries of iom, flourishing in the valleys and on the sides of hills exposed to the powerful action of the sun.—
Bot. Mag., t. 4

514. AcRoPERA CORNUTA. Klotzsch. A brown-flowered epiphyte, from Guatemala. Introduced
by Mr. Warezewiez. Flowered with Mr. Allardt, nurseryman, Berlin.

A. cornuta ; pseudobulbis ezespitosis ovatis, apice attenuatis bifoliatis ; foliis oblongis 3—5-costatis acuminatis, basi
longe ا‎ leete viridibus ; racemis basilaribus pendulis sesquipedalibus e viridi-purpureis 16—20-floris ; bracteis
lanceolatis acuminatis ; perigonii foliolis exterioribus obovatis longius apiculatis fulvis, lateralibus tortis, supremo
patentissimo — interioribus semi peque anm brevibus; labello brevi unguieulato saccato, apice longissim
ineurvo-co: ; gynostemio albido, intus ad purpureo-punctato ; germinibus leviter striatis pedicellisque

In its habit pos plant much resembles A. Loddigesii, only the MUN TN racemes and flowers, are larger.

racemes attain a length of one and a half or two feet, and the number of flowers on each raceme varies from
sixteen to twenty-two. The "ber of the flowers, which in A. Loddigesii are vus tens inelining to green, is here
pale yellow. The sepals are obovate, keeled at the back, and run out into a long soft horn. The bag-shaped labellum

as the colour of yolk of egg, spotted with red on the inside, half an inch "ge and on the outside towards the point is
pre with an ineurved horn four lines long.—Allgem. Gartenzeit., June 12, 1

575. CoscintuM FENESTRATUM. Colebrooke. (alias Pereiria medica Lindl. ; aliùs Menispermum
fenestratum Gara. ; Wennewelle, or Wennewelle-jette, of the Cinghalese.) A broad-leaved climbing
shrub, with brownish-green flowers. Native of Ceylon. Belongs to Menispermads. Introduced
at Kew.

We have received seeds of this plant at the Royal Gardens of Kew, from Mr. Thwaites, of the Botanic Garden in
Ceylon. There has been of late a very extensive Boa. مسوم‎ of what we here term “ false Calumba-root,” instead of the
true Calumba-root, Jateorrhiza palmata, Miers. iel Hanbury, Esq., of Plough Court, London, in a recent volume of

Colum t or root, that it was derived from Columbo in Ceylon, and a native of that island, At length it was
ascertained that the men plant was a native of Mozambique, where it is known by the name of Kalumb or Kalumba
General Maedowall then sent out our present plant to his scientific correspondents in order to ascertain whether this,
— celebrated in the Cinghalese Pharmacoposia, was not the true Calumba-root, and for that purpose consigned
“a large bit of the root,” sawed from the centre of a knot, to Dr. Roxburgh, that he might make experiments with
it. Dr. Roxburgh, ina note, Fl. Indica, p. 811, at once sets the question at rest: “This is certainly not the Calwmba-
root of our Materia eee Nevertheless there have been large importations and ready purchasers for the Ceylon
drug into England, the real properties or virtues oes which (belonging though the plants do to the same Natural Family)

are, to say the least, very فسوي ندا‎ It now only remains for usto give Mr. Thwaites’s remarks and ipa gne
in his own words. “This species is eis sod near the sea-coast in Ceylon, and occurs also in the Centra
Province. The specimens from which the mpan figure was taken were procured about twelve miles from eats:

yin,
The Cinghalese value this plant very highly, using a decoction of the knotty parts of the stems (not the root) as a tonic
and anthelmintic. The wood yields an inferior yellow dye.” Some further remarks are given by Mr, Thwaites in a

GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 108

letter dated Peradenia, — 14, bids —* The Menispermwm fenestratum Roxb. is taken here, I am told b
intelligent native, mixed with other thing a great many complaints, and applied externally in some cases, such as for
weak eyes, &e. The Mie e nM it is to chop up the wood at the knots of the stem very small, and to boil it
(with other things, which was partieularly impressed upon me) in seven measures of water, until they are evaporated
to one measure. It seems to be one of the universal medicines employed here in any and every complaint. It is

quite impossible to get at any definite information from the natives as to what particular complaints certain plants are
useful in. The priests, who are the doctors, appear to me to mystify the poor people by directing them to take certain
leaves and roots, which it often gives them no little trouble to find ; and I think that the mind being employed in the -
matter, as well as the bodily exercise the patient often takes to procure the valued remedies, and a certain mixture of
faith, have more to do with the cure than the drugs, some of which are evidently perfectly valueless, except to feed cattle.”
— Bot. Mag., t. 4658

576. GREVILLEA ACANTHIFOLIA. A. Cunningham. A half-hardy evergreen shrub from Australia.

Flowers purple, in April and May. Belongs to Proteads. (Fig. 281

There is no doubt that some of the Proteads from New Holland are very nearly if not quite hardy. @. sul
and rosmarinifolia are open ground bushes at Exeter, and this, always regarded as a greenhouse plant, requires no pro-
n

following description of the plant as he saw it in Mr. Cunningham’s
Nursery at Comely Bank, near Edinburgh :—“ Shrub erect ; stem
round, bark brown, branches scattered, angular, green. Leaves
scattered, pinnatifid, rigid, smooth on both sides, revolute in their
edges, dark green above, paler below ; pinnæ wedge-shaped at
' the base, trifid, segments tipped with a spine; 0 of the

sm d shining pink. Stigma flattened, set straight on the
top at bd yie; gen or barett ting med ue calyx ; it one -"
its ce

7 (P ‘Gee VERRUCOSUS. ` Nuttall. A "ads
evergreen shrub from California, with pale bluish flowers.
Belongs to Rhamnads. Introduced by oe Horticultural
Society.

The > of this pretty and, as it proves, hardy T

shrub is due to the venerable Mr. Nuttall, who found it at San

have been carefully compared with Mr. Nuttall's original ones, and

they seem ssi to agree. The foliage in our plants is rather

larger and generally more orbicular, a change that may be due to cultivation ; and in both the leaves are very variable,
even on the same specimens. Our flowers are very pale purplish-blue. They would appear “ white? in the dried plant
as described by Torrey and Gray. Our plant is nearly four feet high, much branched, with opposite and more or less
spreading branches, which are terete, glabrous, studded at the nodes with two to four large, brown, ovate, acute, warty

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104 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.
excrescences, Leaves opposite, and ERIE bearing a fascicle of young leaves in their axils, oval or cuneate, or
orbicular-cuneate, or quite orbicular, almost sessile, very entire or more or less dentate, coriaceous, dark green, persistent,
quite glabrous and glossy, and obscurely penninerved above, paler beneath, strongly penninerved and Se the
areole of the compact reticulations minutely villous. Corymb from the apex of small lateral branches:
elongated, fleshy, indented as it were to receive the pedicels. Flowers gabe purplish-blue. Calyx of five wide
ovate segments. Pedicels unguiculate ; the lamina cucullate. Stamens
five : filaments subulate, dd ereet, opposite the petals. Ovary sunk (
in a fleshy dise, and surmounted by five lobes. Style thick. Stigmas
three, capitate. Fruit in Mr. Noite s specimens as large as a small pea.

— Bot. Mag., t. 4660.

578. BEGONIA MONOPTERA. Link and Otto. A tuberous
greenhouse perennial. Flowers pure white. Native of Mexico.
Belongs to Begoniads. - (Fig. 282.

This very pretty species seems to be unknown in England. It was
found in Mexico by Deppe, and by him the tubers were sent in 1826 to
the Botanical Garden, Berlin, where it flowered. It is described as having

a simple taper reddish s growing two feet high and more, and covered
with extremely delicate vesicles. e leaves have a long hich i
flat towards the top ; its blade wedge unequal-sided, three inches

lar
manner, bright green on the upper side, deep red on the under, The
flowers grow in a terminal thyrse, with ES pito flower-stalks.
Among the flowers are some bulbs. The ovary has one lanceolate wing,

white, with the wigs rolled back. The flowers appear in July and August.
It is propagated by tubers, seeds, and the small tuber-like bodies among the

owers, The latter should be placed in dry sand as soon as the stems are
dead.— Zink and Otto, Icones.

579. DENDROBIUM FARMERI. Paston. Mag. Bot. A
beautiful hothouse epiphyte, with
pink and yellow flowers. Native of
the East Indies. Blossoms in May.

D. Farmeri (Dendrocoryne) ; caulibus
Lesen elavatis articulatis profunde sul-

tis basi pseudobulbosis apice foliosis,
foliis 2—4 ovatis coriaceis striatis,
lateralibus multifloris pendulis, bracteis
parvis ovatis concavis, sepalis (alboflaves-
centibus roseo-tinctis) — ovatis obtusis,
petalis conformibus (ejus
flavo disco luteo) rhomboideo | obtusissimo عب مص‎ lato supra ume
cente margine denticulato.— Zoo,

A most delicate and lovely Dendrobium, sent in 1847 by Dr. M‘Clel-

land, from the Calcutta Botanic Garden, to W. G. Farmer, Esq., after

<

lehall

stems are more an , and the flower-scape is less densely laden with
bloom ; the flowers, too, are altogether different.” The flowers, however,

racters, there is no difficulty in distinguishing this species. In the s =
of the Royal Gardens of Kew it flowers in May. Our plant has Mant club-shaped stems, jointed and deeply suleated,
growing in elusters ; at the base they swell out into a kind of pseudobulb, scarcely so large as a hazel-nut. The young
stems bear from twò to four spreading, ovate, coriaceous or fleshy leaves at the top, acute, striated ; the old stems throw
out pendulous racemes from near. the aunit which exceed the stems in length. Flowers numerous, but rather lax.
Bracteas ovate, concave. Sepals very patent, broad, ovate, obtuse, pale straw-colour, delicately tinged with rose.
Petals of the same colour and form, but larger, spreading, Lip moderately large, pale straw-colour, the whole dise

GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 105
-— broadly rhomboid, very obtuse, mito rept the base contracted into a claw, and above the claw the
margin is on both sides folded and sinuated : bove bears an oblong flattened tubercle. Column very woe
ييا ودب‎ po the obtusely conical anther-case : Pad ms part of the column is extended downwards, so as
obtuse spur to the labellum.— Bot. ده‎ t. 4659.
This beautiful species is very near D. chrysotocwm, from which it differs in its lip not being so much fringed, nor so
large, and in the sepals being suffused with pink,

580. PosoquERIA REVOLUTA. Nees v. Esenbeck. A hothouse shrub. Flowers very long, white,
sweet-scented, Belongs to the Order of Cinchonads. Introduced by Messrs. Veitch and Co.
(Fig. 283.)

This handsome shrub was produced by Messrs. حجنا‎ in April last, at one of the meetings of the Horticultural

Soci The leaves are evergreen, ovate-oblong, rather acuminate, with a stalk about half an inch long, and the edge
ers

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106 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

into a five-lobed limb, the divisions of which are linear-obtuse, and not more than three-quarters of an inch long. It
seems to be the same as No. 767 of the Vienna distribution of Pohl’s plants.

581. ConvaNTHES SPECIOSA. Hooker. (alias Gongora speciosa Hooker. A stove epiphyte

from Brazil. Flowers very large, pendulous, dull pale yellow. Introduced about 1825. (Fig. 284.)

This, the first of the Coryanths that was discovered, was originally supposed to have erect flowers, and is so repre-
sented in the Botanical Magazine ; but in fact they are pendulous, and necessarily so, as in all the others. From the
branches of trees on Victoria Hill, above Bahia, hang down little vegetable buckets, into which a pair of stumps or fingers
constantly distil a sweetish colourless fluid, which, drop by drop, gradually fills the bucket. The fingers are processes

(unguis) which keeps it perfectly steady, so that the honey may not be spilt. The column itself turns back as if to keep
its head out of the way of the drops, while the broad I lateral sey qui
as if to unveil the singular phenomena which the blossoms present. The plant is very rare in collections ; it is easily

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remarkably short. The smell of the flowers is to us rather unpleasant, some think it agreeable. Other Coryanths in
cultivation are macrantha, Albertinie, maculata, and Fieldingii. Of the present there are two varieties, one with pale
` yellow, the other with almost white flowers.

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[PrarE 94.]

THE WOOLLY CLEMATIS.
(CLEMATIS LANUGINOSA.)

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A very fine large-flowered Hardy Climber, from CHINA, belonging to the Order of CROWFOOTS.

Specific Character.

THE WOOLLY CLEMATIS, Leaves simple and ternate; | CLEMATIS ZANUGINOSA (VITICELLZE) ; folis sim-
leaflets coriaceous, cordate, acuminate, shaggy on the plicibus ternatisque, foliolis coriaceis cordatis acuminatis
underside as are the footstalks. Buds, peduncles, and subtüs petiolisque villosis, alabastris pedunculis foliisque
young leaves buried in wool. Sepals six, ovate, acuminate, junioribus lanatis, sepalis 6 ovati inatis patentissimi

spreading flat.

Tus magnificent, plant flowered last spring in the nursery of Messrs. Standish and Noble of

Bagshot, who received it from Mr. Fortune. We have a wild specimen from that enterprising
traveller, marked “Hills of Chekiang, July, 1850,” and he has also favoured us with the following
memorandum concerning it :—

“This pretty species was discovered at a place called Tein-tung, near the city of Ningpo. It
is there wild on the hill sides, and generally plants itself in light stony soil near the roots of dwarf
shrubs whose stems furnish it with support as it grows. Before the flowering season arrives
it has reached the top of the brushwood, and its fine star-shaped azure blossoms are then seen
from a considerable distance rearing themselves proudly above the shrubs to which it had clung
for support during its growth. In this state it is most attractive, and well repays any one who
is bold enough to scramble through the brushwood to get a nearer view.

“The flowers of this species are much larger and more hairy than those of the Japanese
C. azurea grandiflora, to which it bears some resemblance. It is no doubt equally hardy, and
perhaps more so. As a neat pot-climber for the greenhouse it will be much prized. The situations
and soil in which it is found wild will point out the true mode of managing it in our gardens.”

VOL, Il.

108 7 THE WOOLLY CLEMATIS.

It is no doubt very near C. azurea, from which it differs in the leaves being coriaceous not
thin, shaggy beneath with white hairs not finely silky, and cordate not ovate; in the flower-buds,
young leaves, and peduncles being buried in wool, not subpubescent, and in the great size of the
flowers, whose divisions are broader and more acute.

There seems no reason to doubt that it is quite hardy ; and if so it will prove one. of the finest,
if not the finest, climber our gardens yet possess,

[Prate 95.]

THE BEAUTEOUS VERONICA.

(VERONICA FORMOSA.)

A handsome Evergreen. Half-hardy Shrub, from Van DIEMEN’S LAND, belonging to LINARIADS.

Specific Character.
THE BEA ‘Sine VERONICA. Shrubby. Branches | VERONICA معي اميف‎ fruticosa, ramis bifariam

Leaves on very short stalks, oblong- pilosulis, foliis imé petiolatis oblongo-lanceolatis
lanceolate, uk entire, one-nerved, narrowed to the pur seinen sa uninerviis basi angustatis glabris,
base, smooth. Racemes few-flowered, loosely corymbose racemis in apicibus ramulorum paucifloris laxé sub-

at the ends of the young branches. Segments of the eorymbosis, calycis segmentis angust? lanceolatis acutis,
calyx narrowly lanceolate, acute. Capsule twice as long eapsulá ددنت‎ duplé longiore.— Bentham.
as the calyx.

Veronica formosa : R. Brown, Prodr., 434 ; Bentham, in De Candolle’s Prodromus, 10, 462 ; aliàs V. diosmeefolia :
Knowles and Westcott, Fl. Cab., 3, 65, t. 106.

A ‘ative of Van Diemen's Land, where it appears to be plentiful. Mr. Gunn, from whom we

have wild specimens, says “it is common on the South Esk at Launceston, and I have
gathered itat an altitude of 3500 feet above the sea on Mount Wellington and the Western
Mountains. Are there not two species under my number 527?”—a question which he is more
competent to pronounce upon than we are.

What we have in cultivation is a compact, dark green, evergreen bush, with small box-like leaves
arranged in a distinctly decussate or four-rowed manner, and always having a great tendency to
preserve the horizontal line, or even to curve below it. The flowers are a clear bright blue, appear
in little corymbs at the ends of the branches, and are much like those of 7. maritima on a large

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110 THE BEAUTEOUS VERONICA.

scale. Their size varies much, according to the health of the plant and the climate in which they
are produced. Those now represented, from a plant which lives out of doors without protection, at
Abbotsbury, in Dorsetshire, with the Hon. W. F. Strangways, are by no means so large as we find
upon some of the wild Van Diemen's Land specimens.

The Mount Wellington plant, alluded to by Mr. Gunn in the above memorandum, we also
possess from Mr. George Everett. It has narrower leaves, more strikingly. recurved than in
Launceston specimens, and smaller flowers; but these are differences that may very well be caused
by an alpine climate.

Mr. Strangways' plants flower with him in June: when the bushes become objects of great
beauty. It is not, however, to be expected that the species will be hardy in the midland counties.
There it would probably live in a glass wall, a proper place to try it in: or even beneath a north
wall out of the way of direct sunlight ; but this is to be determined experimental. Near London
it is regarded as a greenhouse plant.

The name 7. diosmefolia applied to this by Messrs. Knowles and Westcott, and still retained
here and there in gardens, belongs to a totally different shrub, with small white flowers, from
New Zealand.

PLATE

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L.Constmms del & zinc.

[PLATE 96.]

THE PURPLE-STAINED LAELIA.
(LZELIA PURPURATA).
VR م‎

A magnificent Stove Epiphyte, from St. CATHARINE’S in Brazil, belonging to the Order of ORCHIDS.

; Specific Character.
THE PURPLE-STAINED LJELIA. Pseudobulbs oblong. | LZELIA PURPURATA ; pseudobulbis oblongis, foliis
Leaves marginate. Pe inati â
eedin

b
i Peduncles two- angusté oblongis emarginatis, pedunculis bifloris غ‎ spathá
0 m a is lineari latis. i
lanceolate ; petals oblong-lanceolate, obtuse. Lip very lanceolatis obtusis, labello maximo circa columnam con-
large, rolled round the column, rounded, the lateral lobes voluto rotundato lobis lateralibus obsoletis ab intermedio
very obscure and hardly distinguishable from the middle parum diversis,
one,

NE of the most striking novelties which has for a long time been seen was produced by Messrs.
Backhouse of York, at one of the garden meetings of the Horticultural Society, under the name
of a new Cattleya from the island of St. Catharine’s in Brazil. It had in fact much the appearance
of Cattleya crispa, or of a white C. labiata, but the experienced eye of one of our most acute
Orchidophilists suggested to him at the first glance that it was probably a Lelia related to
L. Perrinü. And such it proved to be when the pollen-masses were examined; they are eight,
not four. |
The pseudobulbs are oblong, and produce at their end a narrow oblong blunt leaf, as broad at one
end as the other, about eight inches long, and deeply notched at the point. In the axil of the leaf
comes a compressed pale green spathe fully three inches long, and much like that of Cattleya labiata.
The peduncle which appears from within this is stout, deep green, and two-flowered. The flowers
are rather more than six inches from the tips of the petals. Sepals and petals pure white ; the

—

112 THE PURPLE-STAINED LAELIA.

former linear-lanceolate, rolled back at the edge towards the base and thus appearing unguiculate ;
the latter three times as broad, ovate-oblong, obtuse, wavy. The lip is three inches long, rolled
round the column, with a much-rounded point from which the rounded lateral lobes are hardly dis-
tinguishable ; it is yellow in the middle towards the base and streaked with crimson, but the limb is
of the deepest and richest purple, diminishing in intensity towards the edge.

It is evidently very near the Lelia grandis, another Brazilian species, introduced into this
work at No. 21 of the Gleanings ; but that species is represented to have a leaf broader at the base
than the point, and nankin-coloured flowers, with a white lip washed with rose at the base; the
sepals and petals are also narrower, more wavy, sharper, the latter serrulate, and the lateral lobes of
the lip very distinct and ovate.

The vignette represents the plant as it was exhibited at Chiswick.

GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

582, DENDROBIUM BARBATULUM. Lindley. A handsome epiphyte from Bombay. Flowers
white. Introduced by Jas. Bateman, Esq. (Fig. 285.)

This species is by no means rare in collections, under the erroneous name of D. Heyneanwm, which it has acquired,

Heaven knows how, the real plant of that name being totally different. D. darbatulum was originally taken up, from

whence I received it in 1844 from Mr. Bateman, under the name of D. Heyneanwm. It often appears at exhibitions, where
it is pin by its erect spem of pue white muslin like flowers, in which not a tinge of any other colour is visible. The
sepals an t d , but the petals
are the ips of the two. The lip is three-lobed, very slightly
downy, with two short lateral obtuse lobes, and a linear callosity

and sketches led me into the great error of confounding this with
the widely different D. chlorops. (See Bot. Reg., 1844.)
' 683, LANSBERGIA CARACASANA. De Vriese, A
stove tuberous-rooted plant. Flowers golden-yellow
spotted with black. Native of the Caraccas. Belongs
to lrids. Introduced to the Botanic Garden of the
University of Leyden.

This curi lant. , although it fl d L 1
does not seem to have m reached etia It was obtained in the
Caraccas by van Lansberg, a Dutch gentleman, who
sent many fine things in eae to the Botanic Garden of that uni-
versity. . Professor De Vriese describes it as having the habit of
Marica, Phalocallis, Cypella, Morsea,&c. The root tuberous.
Stems simple, compressed, zigzag, tumid at the joints, half a yard
long. Radical leaves equitant, distichous ; stem-leaves sheathing,
compressed, from three to five times shorter than the others.
Spathes terminal, compressed, leafy with pellucid membranous
edges. Sepals largest, expanded from a narrow base, then con-

said to flower all the year round i in the stove, one flower only ap-
pearing at a time, and very fugacious. The learned author of the
genus observes that Phalocallis has a eS AE flower with
spreading sepals; Lansbergia, on the contrary, has all the sepals
closed and converging, besides which its leaves are neither plaited
nor ribbed, In Phalocallis the cells of the anther are attached by
the upper part only to the lobes of the style, but in Lansbergia they
adhere by their whole length. In the former the sti

transversely two-lobed, in the latter they are minutely crested, and

114 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA,

by no means petaloid. Cypella differs in its “stigmas being distinctly lobed, acute, stretched forward, horny, fringed
at the upper side with acute horny crests.” The scientific characters of this tg are thus given in the Zpime-
ad 1 seminum anni 1846, de plantis novis in hort, bot, Ac. AL Bat.
LawsBERGIA. De Vriese. Perianthium superum, hexaphyllum, petalis Dipig tribus externis majoribus concavis,
ternis angustis, apice involutis. Filamenta basi vix connata, filiformia, loculis murum latere dehiscentibus, styli
lobis dorso per totam longitudinem adglutinatis. Stylus trigonus, apice trilobus,
apicibus) brevissimis, vix cristatis. Capsula triquetra-oblonga, operculo vix conspieuo. Semina globoso-angulata,
scrobiculata.

L. Caracasana. De Vriese. Foliis equitantibus, —

spatha valvi, com —4 flora, pedunculo ore
perigonio læte ee — laciniis exterioribus
obovatis, medium late nigro-
maeulatis, int ib bi 1 aanika oi عن‎

nigra tinctis, apice dilatato, rotundatoque tilissime mucronu-

latis ; filamentis basi, badia primum via demum solutis,
flexuosis ; antheris oblon ongis.

584. Acnyropaprus SCHKUHRIOIDES. Link & Otto.

A yellow-flowered inconspicuous annual. Native of

Mexico. Belongs to the Composite Order. Introduced
by the Royal boe d Berlin. (Fig. 286.)

The name of this ing in some seedsmen's lists of

annuals, it is as well vi it should be bine known than it is.

rom Mexico it was sent to Berlin by Cervantes, the director of
the Botanical Garden in that city. It is à small spreading annual

Icones, p. 59, t. 30, from which our cut is borrowed.

585. Brassta Kerana. Reichenbach fil. A yellow-
flowered epiphyte, with large keeled bracts. Belongs to
Orchids. Flowers produced at Leipsic in the collection
of M. Keil.

B. spicá pauciflora, bracteis ER مااع‎ acutis, arguté cari.
natis ovaris E اس‎ perigonii phyllis lineari-lanceolatis acu-
; labello a basi bre-
vissime lateque cuneato oblongo, margine hine microscopicè den-
ticulato, undulato, apice acuminato, phyllis lateralibus internis bre-
viore, lamellis baseos erectis utrinque obtusangulis, præsertim
basin imam versus papillis velutinis, anticè in auriculas extrorsas

postico protenso, marginibus membranaceis foveæ stigmaticæ pro-
ductis.— Reichenbach fil. i n litt.

gentleman has a very good FEE of Orchids, consisting ‘of large vigorous specimens, well managed by his skilful gar-
dener Tube, who has also made some good experiments on exposing Mexican Orchids to the open air in summer—Rchb

We are indebted for our kaii of this plant to Mr. H. G. Reichenbach the younger, of Leipsic. It is evidently
allied to B. glumacea, but its flowers are much larger, and the lip of a different form.

586. Mxcoyorsis WarnrOHir. Hooker. A beautiful blue-flowered herbaceous half-hardy plant.
Native of the Sikkim Himalaya. Belongs to Poppyworts. Introduced at Kew
A very handsome species of Meconopsis, detected in in Sikkim-Himalaya by Dr, Hooker, » sent seeds to the Royal

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GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 115

Gardens, which produced flowering plants in June, 1852. 16 is
ith

yellow flowers, and a “ globose eapsule, as large as à garden cherry.
It quite accords with an unnamed “ Meconopsis, n. 8123, 8," of
Wallich’s Catalogue, from “ Kamaon ?? Dr. Hooker has another and
apparently distinct species in his مس‎ with much longer yellow

ni The plant

Fr

and lobes ovat clog, sinuated. Stem-leaves sessile, oblong,
pinnatifid. Flowers large, drooping, arranged in an elongated leafy
raceme, compound below. Peduncles and pedicels rather short, curved

ovary. Stigma capitate, of six or seven dark green erect lobes.— Bot.
Mag., t. 4668.

587. SCHLIMMIA JASMINODORA. Planchon § Linden.
Àn orchidaceous epiphyte from Central America. Flowers
white and very fragrant. Introduced by Mr. Linden.
(Fig. 287.)

fino Mr. Linden's interesting catalogue of 1852, we find the following

geo fete JASMINODORA. Pine et imeem Genre nouveau des
plus curieux, & sépales inférieurs t formant un sac
ressemblant à ceux des Cypripe dium. L'espéce en question porte une
hampe inclinée de huit à dix pouces, garnie de dix à quinze fleurs d'un
blane pur, à odeur de jasmin fortement ate Elle croit épiphyte

Seape, which is radical, is altogether a foot high, with about six distant
loose oblong scales, and three secund flowers, each of which is about
an inch long, pure white, with the lower sepals very large and grown
into a deep bag, beyond whisk project a pair of linear reflexed petals.
ae not a showy plant, its very fragrant flowers render it one
he desirable in a hothouse. The genus may be characterised

Scu HLIMMIA ; sepala carnosa, inszequalia; dorsale lineare rectum
liberum, lateralia maxima in saccum altum omnind eonnata. Petala sepalo dorsali æqualia, reflexa,
bellum repe ungue carnoso cum pede columnæ articulato tubereulato, limbo simplici
membranaceo dupló breviore. Columna semiteres, apice utrinque auriculata, in pedem cum sepalis
lateralibus connatum producta ; rostello setaceo de fle exo. Pollinia 2, cereacea, caudicula elongata

cuneata glandulá minutá lunatá.
The lip is a fleshy body, shorter than the column, and articulated with it, with three knobs
near the foot of ice cium, another i in be سيد‎ e - € and a fourth which is concave at
Hy, w

its extremit

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116 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.
588. Erra FLORIBUNDA. Lindley; var. leucostachya. An epiphyte from Borneo, with long
close spikes of white flowers. Introduced by Messrs. Low and Co. of Clapton. (Fig. 288.)

pretty plant was exhibited in November, 1847, to the coer bend by Mr. Low, whose son found
it on es Paid of the Sarawak River, growing in large masses on trees, the branches of which were fully exposed to the

near Birmin and we are able to confirm th icion, th eture of the two plants عد وت‎ the same. The
are, however, much more closely packed, and pure PV: without à ined of the purple with which the thin d of
, floribunda are suff

589. MALCOLMIA LITTOREA. A.
Brown. (alias Hesperis littorea
Lamarck; alias Cheiranthus litto-
reus Linacus.) A hardy annual,
with large purple flowers. Belongs
to the Cruciferous Order. Native
of the South of Europe. Blossoms

Fig A.

5 »
pieni: TOM
S SN

in the Autumn. MA Me
Of this really beautiful hardy plant, BRIG RY 1 i x
cultivated in our gardens so early as 1683, Z 2 xe aS y. 7و1‎ um
no bas hitherto been given Set FRAU M:
It isa littoral plant of South Europe. Its vium. di Vie
i ZS Aw eae sf
northern 1 tes, and Lys SIR EN JE
thence it extends itself along the coasts E SSN RSP
of Spain and Portugal, and the western E Pee,
shores of the Mediterranean. Desfon- "ESI E QNO:
taines detected it in Barbary, and Brous- 288 E^ zx whe
sonet in Morocco. In our country it is bi A VAY vay
ted as an annual. In warmer ORRIN
climes it is at least biennial, the lower Nez

MV C
NA SYNA

Our annual plants (and they woul
survive a winter in our climate) sede erect, but flexuose, branching stems, scarcely a foot high, eiiis, hoary, as is the whole
plant, petals and stamens excepted, with short stellated hairs. Lea ves lanceo late or linear-lanceolate or more frequently

ual
Flowers large for the size of the plant, in lax, termisud; many-flowered racemes. Pedicels at first very short, at len
about equal in length d the calyx. Calyx narrow, oblon, : Sepals li near, obtuse, quite erect, two of them a little

them), the lamina بسك"‎ weed (not veiny, like Malcolmia maritima, Bot. Mag. t. 166). Stamens six : the
four longer nearly equalling the pistil ; two shorter rather longer than the germen. Germen cylindrical, downy. Style

1 igmas two, long, linear, glandular within, and at the margin and apex, and united for the whole length of
their faces into one, more or less bifid at the point. Siliqua two or two and a half inches long, uen terete (not
torulose), flexuose, erecto-patent, terminated by the style and now sharp withered stigma.— Bot. Maj. 672.

590. MEDINILLA SrgBoLDIANA. Planchon. A fine white-flowered hothouse shrub. Native of

GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. “Da

Java. Blossoms in September. Belongs to — Introduced by Mr. Van Houtte.

A noti
176. The introduction of the vas to our gardens enables us

meeting of the Horticultural Society by Mr. Cole, gardener to
J. Colyer, Esq., of Dartford, one of the most zealous and suc-
an!

ul competitors at the metropolitan summer exhibitions. It is a stiff erect shrub, with short coarse fibres in 2
place of stipules, The leaves are oblong, a little tapering to either end, eem entire, cipio em on the under
Side. Panieles naked, erect, pyramidal Flowers tetramerous. Petals white. Stamens purple. A very handsome
stove plant, bearing carriage well, and therefore suited to the purpose of exhibition.

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118 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

591. ANIA LATIFOLIA. Lindley. (alias Calanthe viridi-fusca Hooker.) A stove terrestrial plant.
Flowers greenish brown. Native of Assam and Sylhet. Belongs to the Order of Orchids
This plant, and another of the same genus, was distributed by Dr. Wallich under the name of pen —
(Wall. Cat., No. 3741), which was afterwards published in the Genera and Species of Orchidaceous Plants,
third species was afterwards figured in the Botunical Register, 1844, t. 8, from Ceylon, as Ania bicornis, They Msc
a little group nearly allied to Bletia and Phaius, from which the spur on the one hand, and the 3-lobed lip accompanied
by a 6 or 8-celled silio d istinguish them on the seni They are all terrestrial tuberous plants, with solitary somewhat
ribbed leaves, and long spikes of dull-coloured flowers. By some oversight that now mentioned has been referred to
Calanthe in the Botanical Magazine, t. 4669, where we vue the following account of it :—
* A native of Amam, whence it was sent to the Royal Gardens of Kew by Mr. Simon. It flowered with us in April,

1852 ; and i ble among known species of Calanthe for the erect or nearly closed sepals sud gene the peculiar
form ot the e and the colour of the flowers. We presume it to be terrestrial. The habit hat of Calanthe
Masuca more than any other species. The pseudobulb is broad-ovate, spreading out most one eie side, dex green, firm,

at the base yide and lobed, the upper part more or less covered with the remains of the long sheathing scales of the
receding year's leaf. solitary, arising from an infant inconspieuous pseudobulb, a foot or more long, lanceolate,
asc mbranaceous, plicato-striate, much and gradually acuminated at the point, the base tapering into a very long petiole,
which is sheathed by three or four long cylindrical scales. Scape (including the long lax spike) a foot and a half long
terete, glabrous, erect, arising from the base of a pseudobulb bearing brown, striated, sheathing, membranous bibit
especially at the base. Spike many-flowered, bracteated ; bracteas subulate, green, one under each ovary, and shorter
than it. Ovary slender, elavate. Flowers greenish peoi; moderately large. Petals and sepals lanceolate, nearly
uniform, and, as well as the labellum, erect, so as almost to close over the column of fructification, quite find it.
Lip broad, oblong or ا 0اا‎ applied to the column, but scarcely connate with it, which is embraced an
almost included in its involute sides; three-lobed, lateral lobes ovate, erect, middle or terminal one a little reflexed,
— Lega the eolonr of the lip is yellowish green, spotted or dotted in lines with purple within ;
8 the whole length of the disc, are three lamellz, a little fimbriated at their termination. Spur short,
mpressed, | ineurved, yellow, didymous at the apex. Column long for the genus, semiterete, furrowed in i
sewer blotched with rose-colour. Anther-ease sunk in the apex of the column. Pollen-masses eight, as in the genus.’

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592. ONCIDIUM QUADRICORNE. Klotzsch. A species of unknown origin, with panicles of small
brownish yellow flowers. Observed in blossom in the nursery of M. Allardt of Berlin.

Oncidium (Euoncidium $$. Labellum panduratum, medio constrictum) quadricorne Kl. Pseudobulbis lentieularibus
parvis monophyllis; foliis carnosis lineari-oblongis recurvis acutis subsessilibus, dorso carinatis, basi attenuatis con-
duplieatis ; paniculis basilaribus erectis filiformibus ; perigonii foliolis patentissimis oblongo-obovatis sordide alee”
Passes aq labello ups ids stricto albido apice bifido, lobis lateralibus obsoletis, crista basilari e
alba quadridentata ; columnze nanze candidee alis erectis ovatis,

The foregoing aaa | is given in 2 Allgemeine Gartenzeitung, Aug. 7, 1852. The fleshy leaves are said to be
linear-oblong, recurved, acute, and placed singly on lenticular pseudobulbs. The flowers are in slender oe dirty
yellow, with a long whitish lip, and a white four-toothed crest. It seems to be very near O. Harrisonianum.

593. ALLARDTIA CYANEA. Dietrich. A blue-flowered stove herbaceous plant, native of
Guatemala. Belongs to the Bromeliaceous Order. Introduced by M. Allardt of Berlin.

Dr. Dietrich has named this, which he conceives to be a new genus of plants, after M. Allardt of — who is said
to have the finest trade collection of Orchids in Prussia. It is described as being a simple-stemmed Bromeliaceous plant
with a branching panicle of green and blue flowers, growing from the centre of a ع‎ of strap-shaped entire leaves. The
whole plant when in flower is said to be two and a half feet high. Each flower lasts for a day. The following are the
characters assigned by Dr. Dietrich to the new genus and species,

Perigonium sexpartitum, laciniæ exteriores calycinze, cum disco hypogyno turbinato connatze, interiores ~~
tubulum convolute, liberze, basi nudæ, apice patentes. Stamina sex, disco inserta ; filamenta filiformia, libera ;
incumbentes, basi sagittato-emarginate. Germen disco turbinato dae liberare; pyramidatum, triloculare ; ; stylos
filiformis ; stigma trifidum, lobis filiformibus spiraliter contortis. Fru

Allardtia cyanea. Herba americana, C! simplex. Folia Bride aedis integerrima, nuda, basi dilatata.
Flores paniculati ; panicula ramosissima, ramis racemosis, spatha suffultis, ramulis spicatis, bractentis.—4 ligem.
Gartenzeit., 31 July, 1852.

594. GRINDELIA SPECIOSA. Hb. Bentham. A hardy undershrub, with large yellow flower-
heads. Native of Patagonia. Belongs to Composites. Introduced by Henry Wooler, Esq.
(Fig. 290.)

. speciosa ; suffruticosa, viscosa, glabra, foliis oblongis basi angustatis ineequaliter inciso-dentatis, capitulis solitariis

GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 119

peduneulatis, Ó hemispherico subsquarroso glutine copiosissimo viseosissimo obducto, receptaculo plano, pappi
setis rigidis circiter 10 aliis corollze longitudine aliis multó brevioribus.

This eC was introduced by Henry Wooler, Esq., of Upper Tulse Hill, from whom we received it in the beginning
of August last. He ob btained the seed from his son, then at the Falklands, who had gathered it at a place called
New Bay, on the coast of Patagonia, from a plant growing in the sand just above high-water mark. A specimen marked
G. speciosa, collected by Captain Middleton in Patagonia, exiata in Ms. Bentham’s Herbarium. With Mr. Wooler it
forms a bushy plant, two feet high, with from pes to forty heads open upon it at the same time. These heads

bl

thiekness with a transparent

vi It seems most nearly
related to the Brazilian G
buphthalmoides.

595. EPIDENDRUM GUA-
TEMALENSE. Klotzsch. A
handsome species from
Guatemala. Flowers yel-
lowish green, dotted with
purple, and with a white
lip. Introduced by M. _
Allardt of Berlin. Blossoms A™
in July.

Epidendrum (Encyclium)
Guatemalense Ki. Caule ad-

radicante
seudobulboso ; — = ovato-oblongis teretibus, apice atte-
nuatis dipbyllis 5 foliis 1 latis longis attenua tis bre revi acutis
riaceis subtus carinatis racemum subsimplicem termi-
— orti une brevioribus : perigonii foliolis موسا‎ viridibus,

exterioribus oblongis utrinque € interioribus spathulatis bre-
vissime acutis ; labelli omnino liberi trilobi eandidi lobis lateralibus
obovatis col amplectentibus, ب‎ hre orbieulari deflexa bre-
vissime acuta, lineis violaceis gps parallelis notata, basi angusta
navieulari subeallosa ; columna trigona auriculata, auriculis obtusis

inflexis vitellinis ; germinibus cem "albido punctato-scabris.
According to "De Klotzsch who has described this in the Allge-
meine Gartenzeitung, Aug. 7, 1852, this has taper pseudobulbs, eaeh
l i wem

is
feet long, as thick as a erowquill, and carries from twenty to ler flowers one ineh and a quarter in diameter.
The sepals and petals are yellowish green with = Sans dots, the former three, the latter two lines broad. Lip white,
half an inch long, striped with violet in the mid
596. Manaranoa Emopt. (alias Onosma Emodi Wallich.) A hardy perennial from Nepal.
Flowers pale rose-colour, ‘small. Belongs to Borageworts. Introduced by Major Madden,
(Fig. 291.

Our knowledge of this singular herbaceous plant is owing to Mr. Moore, the Superintendent of the Botanic Garden,
Glasnevin, who forwarded us specimens in May, 1851. The seeds were sent him from the Himalayas, by Major
Madden, under the name of Onosma Emodi, and it corresponds ds with specimens so marked in our herbarium, for which
we are indebted to Dr. Wallich. M. s qiu: De — seems, Mv to intend the present plant by his

Makaranga Wallichiana, at least it a dromus, and not with that of his M. Emodi.
We have not indeed seen any plant to r the latter definition will apply, none of our Maharangas having from three

.

120 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

to five-nerved leaves. The genus is distinguished from Onosma by the presence of a plaited coronet inside the tube of the
corolla above its insertion, and by the peculiar form of that organ, which consists of a short cylindrical tube expanding
suddenly into a great ovate closed limb. The name Maharanga is that employed by the Nepalese, among whom the
great fusiform root of the plant is used in producing a blue dye: it is said to signify “ a strong or intense colour." Dr.
Wallich, in Carey's Flora indica, thus describes the species as it occurs in Nepal :—
* Root stout, sub-fusiform, dividing at the end into several thick branches, whitish within, vog with deep m
bark ; fibres capillary, few. Ste m slender, round, divided into simple branches, as well as all the other parts, covered
wi circular dots, each terminating in a straight, simple bristle. Leaves scattered, sessile, hispid and dotted
durs smoother below, with three longitudinal nerves, uniting a little above the base, sometimes with another pair
from the middle rib, varying considerably in size, mostly lanceolate, four or five i a es bnt s sometimes sub-linear, and
in that case generally shorter. Racemes gradually expanding and becoming ere very hispid, one
or two inches long. Flowers smal, copious, secund, erect, on short pedicels, viti equal their linear, solitary bracts.
Calyx ovate, five-angled, g with the ripening seeds; laciniz triangular, acute, the base of their sinuses
forming five prominent corners. Corolla pale, bluish towards its thouth, twice the length of the calyx, hairy, igicur.
with as many deep furrows ; the base inverted over the ovaria, and embracing the base of the style; throat co
lacinize ovate, acute. Fi lamen ts rini on five villous protuberances, below the middle of the tk corre’ ine ina
the peii ee nd anthers linear-sagittate, larger than the voe converging in cone ; their pna
ring. Styl e longer dini the corolla, slender ; stigma annular. Seed bro ich; shining, dotted, and
ney keeled on the inner side, ending in a compressed short bak; int in other respects exactly like those of
O. simplex, Gaert. Carp., i. 325, tab. 67.
“ Obs. I should have taken this plant to be the same as 0, tinctoria, had any of the authors I have consulted, and

who appear to have copied Marschal a Bieberstein’s description of. that species,
made any “seg to dee EE c f the corolla. Its base is bent
margin,

inwards, ing
of the pisil ; ae middle is ا‎ five-
berances on which the stamina
سام‎ for dyeing blue, and importe
Thibet, as a drug, under the native name,

The
from Gosain o probably also from
mentioned above

PLATE 97.

CE Chaffins, Locos

L.Consíans dal. i gane.

Printed. by

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[Prite 97.]

THE AZOREAN FORGET-ME-NOT.

(MYOSOTIS AZORICA.)

HUMANI, MEE

A brilliant half-hardy Perennial, from the Azores, belonging to BORAGEWORTS.

hirsuto pilis reflexis, foliis

Specific Character.
MYOSOTIS AZORICA ; caule basi decumbente ramo-
aisi ue :

ssimo ubique densé se

E t A £ L3 tu ,
inferioribus oblongo-spathulatis superioribus oblongis
btusiuseuli is ebracteatis densi

floris sub anthesi

racem

corymbosis, calycibus sub-5-partitis pedicello erecto

pressè pilosis demum apertis
د‎

sequalibus adpresse aut subad

longitudine tubi corollze, nuculis lee

Prodr., 10. 106.

THE AZOREAN FORGET-ME-NOT. Stem decumbent,
much branched, covered all over with close bristl

spreading, "uà as long as the tube of the corolla. Nuts
ooth.

Myosotis azorica : H. 0. Watson, in Bot. Mag., t. 4122.

0 urs beautiful Forget-me-not is found about waterfalls, and on wet rocks with a north-east aspect,

in the islands of Corvo and Flores, the most westerly of the Azores. Its proper habitat appears
to be on the mountains ; though it comes down nearly to the sea-shore, following the course of rocky
mountain streams, where the atmosphere is kept humid by the spray of the water. The deep rich
blue of its numerous flowers, and their long succession from the lateral branches, combine to render
this species well deserving of cultivation, provided it can be brought to flourish in the drier climate

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129 THE AZOREAN FORGET-ME-NOT.

of our gardens. It will require a loose, peaty, or sandy soil, careful shading from the midday sun,
frequent sprinkling with water, and to be covered with a glass in hot dry weather. Under this
treatment a plant of it in my garden has completely filled with its numerous stems a square hand-
glass, twenty inches to the side, and twenty-four inches in depth; and apparently it would have
grown larger, had space allowed the free development of the lateral branches, which are much
cramped by the glass. It will bear some frost, but may likely prove more impatient of cold than our
native species of the genus. In a Wardian case it would probably succeed very well."

Such is the account given of this charming plant by Mr. Hewitt Watson, its discoverer. We
find it thrive perfectly well in a greenhouse, among Heliotropes and Pelargoniums, where it ripens its
little black glossy nuts (seeds) in tolerable abundance. The play of colour in the many-tinted flowers

ES را‎ Re الل‎

, and flower-buds is scarcely rivalled by anything in cultivation.

z
Lang a ts Sanimi سو‎

nstans dal. zinc.
nte

[Piare 98.]

THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE'S WATER LILY.
(NYMPHAEA DEVONIENSIS.)
RU اك‎

A very brilliant Hysrm Aquatic, with Crimson Flowers.

Nymphza Devoniensis : Paxton, in Gardener’s Chronicle, July 10, 1852 ; Hooker, in Botanical Magazine, t. 4665.

3 HY is it that aquatic plants are seldom or never brought under the influence of hybridism ?
They are objects of great beauty, are and always must be much in request, and appear to be
Just as submissive to man as other plants. Their constitutions may certainly be affected by crossing,
quite as much as a Rhododendron. Yet, while the tender crimson species of Indian Rhododendron
are brought to act upon the hardy pale faces of the United States, the delicate white Water Lily of our
rivers is left to wild nature in the presence of the most glowing tints possessed by her tropical
kindred.

“Tt may be said that there are physical difficulties in the way of crossing Water Lilies. We
grant it. The yellow Nuphars are not likely to breed with the white and blue and crimson
Nympheeas, and perhaps Victoria may refuse all alliance with either. But then it is the same every-
Where; a Currant will not breed with a Gooseberry, nor an Apple with a Pear. Nevertheless,

. Gooseberries find kindred blood among Gooseberries, and Currants among Currants: and why may

it not also happen to the N ympheas themselves? This sort of crossing is certainly possible. It
has been done.

“Some years since mules were obtained in the Horticultural Garden between the tender blue
Nymphzea of the Cape of Good Hope and the hardy white one of England. But owing to neglect
they were allowed to perish, and that experiment came to nothing.

“At this moment there is actually flowering at Chatsworth a mule produced by crossing
Nymphea rubra with N. Lotus.

——————

124 THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRES WATER LILY.

«Seeds were obtained in the autumn of 1850, and from them in the following summer
Sir Joseph Paxton had the gratification of finding himself in the possession of a most beautiful
hybrid, which he named Devoniensis, after the duke, his patron. In leaf and flower it has a great
advantage in point of size and robustness of growth over either of its parents; but its most
valuable property is its continuing to flower the whole of the season without intermission. The
parent plant produced its first flower as early as the 12th of April, 1851, and continued to flower
until the middle of October, when it was removed, with a fine succession of flower-buds still upon
the plant, to its winter quarters. During this period it often had two expanded flowers and five
buds in different stages of development. It produces its flowers quite as freely as N. dentata ; and
its beautiful colour (which is not quite so deep as ifs parent), together with its large size which has
often been as much as eight inches in diameter, together with its fine leaves which have been seldom
less than thirteen to seventeen inches across, renders it one of the best Nymphæas in cultivation.

“Let us hope that this example will not be thrown away. The season has come; the
Nympheeas are all in flower, or nearly so; and there can be no difficulty in operating to any extent
upon the white Nymphzea, which we should take for the mother of the brood that it is hoped
will come.”

The plant thus referred to in the Gardener's Chronicle is now represented from a specimen
received from Chatsworth, and it will be admitted that it deserves all that was said of it. It has
also been published in the Botanical Magazine by Sir W. Hooker, who states that for the
opportunity of figuring this truly splendid plant, he is indebted “to Mrs. Spode, the lady of
Joshua Spode, Esq., Armitage Park, Rugely, Staffordshire, whose gardens and rare exotics are
celebrated in the neighbourhood, and are likely to be still more so from the taste and skill displayed
by their generous proprietors, and by the zeal and energy of their intelligent head gardener.” Sir
William adds that the living plant at Kew, from Mrs.'Spode, as well as cut specimens received from
Armitage, and others sent by Mr. Davison from Sir W. Molesworth’s tropical aquarium at Pencarrow,
Cornwall, amply justify all that is said in the Gardeners Chronicle.

Mr. Davison observes, that with him Devoniensis grows and flowers most freely, planted in rough
turf taken from a pasture and laid in a heap one year previous to its being used, with one-sixth of
dried cow’s-dung. The water in the tank in which it grows is kept from 75° to 80°.

We should add that Sir W. Hooker raises the question of whether JV. dentata may not have
been one of the parents of N. Devoniensis, rather than N. Lotus. He remarks that N. Lotus and
N. dentata are very closely allied species, if they be really and truly distinct. He thinks that the
pale and depressed base of the calyx of W. dentata, giving that part a somewhat conical form,
furnishes what may perhaps prove a distinguishing mark, and that character he finds in N. Devoniensis.
Mr. Davison, at Pencarrow Gardens, also speaks of the JN. Devoniensis as “a hybrid between
N. rubra and N. dentata? We have no means of assisting in this enquiry.

F. Chefs lt

[Prate 99.)

THE THICK-LEAVED CLEISOSTOME
(CLEISOSTOMA CRASSIFOLIUM.)

A very pretty Hothouse Epiphyte, from the East INDIEs, belonging to the Natural Order of ORCHIDS.

Specific Character.

THE THICK-LEA VED CLEISOSTOME. Leaves fleshy, CLEISOSTOMA CRASSIFOLIUM ; foliis earnosis cana-

channelled, curved, stiff. Panicle simple, with the branches ieulatis arcuatis rigidis, panicule simplicis ramis densé
closely spieate and nodding. Lip with the lateral lobes spicatis nutantibus, labelli lobis lateralibus minutis erectis
erect and very small, the middle one roundish, with a intermedio subrotundo dente utrinque runcinato, calcaris
small recurved tooth on either side. Tooth of the spur dente parvo obtuso carnoso.

blunt and fleshy.

A very distinct species of Cleisostome, imported from some part of the East Indies, probably

Moulmein, by Messrs. Veitch and Co. Tt is remarkable for its thick tough aloe-like leaves, and
panicles of dense sea-green flowers, singularly enlivened by a rose or violet lip. The inflorescence,
too, although, as is customary among Cleisostomes, consisting of small flowers collected into dense
spikes at the end of the branches, has a peculiar curved or drooping appearance, by which the
species may be known irrespective of its foliage.

Sepals oval, blunt, nearly equal, spreading. Petals with a similar form and the same direction,
but very much smaller. Lip with a blunt oblong spur, filled with honey, one-celled, and twice as
long as the limb, of which the lateral lobes are very short and erect, and the middle one rounded,
with a minute tooth near the base on each side, while the point is so much reflexed as to be hidden
unless the lip is lifted up. At the base of the column stands the characteristic tooth in the form of
a blunt fleshy process, partly closing up the entrance to the spur. The pollen-masses are four, very

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126 THE THICK-LEAVED CLEISOSTOME.

small, pear-shaped and distinct, at the end of a filiform caudicle attached to an oblong gland. In
this respect the plant is at variance with other Cleisostomes, such species as we have examined having
the pollen-masses in pairs, the lobes of which are unequal and plano-convex.

We observe that the late Mr. Griffith enquires in his Notule (p. 358) why Cleisostoma is
separated from Saccolabium and Sarcanthus. The differences among the three genera are these :—
In Saccolabium the spur of the lip is one-celled, without any tooth at the foot of the column ; to
Cleisostoma and Sarcanthus that peculiar process is essential. In Cleisostoma the spur is absolutely
one-celled, while in Sarcanthus it is more or less completely two-celled. It is a question, no doubt,
whether Blume’s genus Cleisostoma ought to be separated from Sarcanthus, but about the
distinctness of Saccolabium we entertain no doubt.

GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

997. Gaura LINDHEIMERI. Engelmann. A hardy perennial, with white and pink flowers.
Native of Texas. Belongs to the Order of Onagrads. (Fig. 292.)

A branching ‘herbaceous plant, growing from three to four feet high, and producing an abundance of gay white and
reddish flowers during all the latter part of the year
long, rod-like, naked except at the extremities where the flowers grow,
The lower leaves are deeply divided in a pinnatifid or sinuate manner ;
the upper are lanceolate and slightly toothed, the uppermost of all are

lower g g when young, à warm reddish brown
just before expansion. The seed-vessels áre small sessile four-cornered
nuts. A perennial, growing freely in any good garden soil, and flowering

m July to Septem-
ber. It is easily in-
creased from seeds,
and is best treated as

is really a showy al-
though a straggling plant, and well suited for decorat-

ing mixed beds of flowers, or the skirts of a plantation
in the autumn.—Journ. of Hort. Soc., vol vii.

| 598. GOETHEA STRICTIFLORA. Hooker.
An uninteresting hothouse shrub from Brazil, belonging to
the Natural Order of Malvads. Flowers whitish.

A very remarkable-looking plant, sent to us by Messrs, Rollison,
and by Mr. Henderson, St. John's Wood, under the name of Goethea
cauliflora of Nees von Esenbeck. But it is certain that the plant can

neither be the G. cauliflora of Nees and Martius, nor his G. semperflorens. Our plant has the

To
leaves. The flowers are very inconspicuous, and quite concealed by the involucre, whose beautiful red-veined bracts,
looking like a calyx, persist long after the blossoms have passed. Leaves alternate, large, petiolate, ovate, مه‎ broadly
80, acuminate, penninerved (with three principal nerves from near the base), the upp dentate at the margin.
Peduncles short, aggregated in the axils of the leaves (and often remaining after the leaves are fallen, above the scars),
scarcely half an inch long. Involuere of four erect, pale, yellowish-white, cordate bracteas, striated and veined with red,
including a single flower, whose sti, alone are sometimes protruded beyond the involucre. Calyx nearly white, or
greenish, cut into five erecto-connivent acuminated lobes. Corolla of five obcordate, veiny, small petals, which are

128 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

united by their base to the cylindrical tube of the filaments of the anthers, shorter than the ealyx. pui as long as the
tube of the anthers, then separating into ten branches, each bearing a capitate stigma,— Bot. Mag., t. 4677

599. CERASUS LAUROCERASUS; var. Pumilio.

This is a curious dwarf variety, resembling the common Laurel in much the same way as the Clanbrazil Fir resembles

a Spruce. The leaves are from two to three m long, and the habit extremely Pg If it does not hereafter run

away, it will be a useful variety for places where the common Laurel is too large. A plant was received by the Horti-

cultural Society in 1851, from Lieut-General Monckton, H. om whose brother's gardener, William Reynolds, raised it
from seed of the common Laurel.— Journ. of Hort, Soc.,

600. HELIOPHILA PILOSA. Lamarck; var. arabidoides Sims. A hardy annual, native of the
Cape of Good Hope. Flowers bright blue. Belongs to the Cruciferous Order. (Fig. 293

little grown plant deserves to be reintroduced to eultivation, for its
flowers are of the most brilliant blue, and although fugitive are so incessantly
renewed, that the effect of a bed of it is nearly as good as that of a blue Lobelia,

duces; sometimes, in wild specimens it is almost shaggy ; at other times, in

cultivation it is so nearly smooth that our artist overlooked the few that continue

toappear. It grows about eighteen incheshigh and ripens seed plentifully. The

long narrow pods are uniformly dilated at the end, as if a ttempting to assume the

necklace form observable in so many species of the genus; and the pair of short

res is Aa — with a + conspicuous dorsal tooth. Our cut has beer
im ted many years ago by Mrs. Wray.

601. PELARGONIUM FOLIOLOSUM. De Candolle. (aliàs Geranium
pinnatum Andrews.) A tuberous-rooted greenhouse plant with pale
yellow flowers. Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

This was purchased from Mr. Wicks, a collector of Cape plants, May 3rd,

1852, as a "Yellow Pelargonium. It is one of the fleshy-rooted species, often
ed Hoareas. It has hairy pinnated leaves, with about seven

entire leaflets, and an odd one, which is much broader and rounder. The flower-
stem grows higher than the leaves, and divides into two unequal arms about the
middle ; of these, one flowers some weeks before the other. The umbels consist
of six or eight blossoms, with hairy stalks three times as long as the subulate
b are linear, channelled, recurved, blunt, pale clear buff, the
two upper standing nearer to each other, and with a deep crimson spot in the
mi This was obtained for the sake of ‘its yellow flowers, which it is hoped
may be made to يجو‎ the deem of some of the large-flowered Pelargoniums.

As the pollen is good, this may happen. It requires a good rich sandy soil, and
to be treated like the ordinary ‘kinds of Pelargoniums ; but it must be kept rather
NX dry in winter. As has been stated, its value will be as a breeder ; the flowers

are too insignificant to render it sad eT otherwise in a gardening point
of view.—Journ. of Hort. Soc.,

602. SraNHoPEA DBuckPHALUs. Lindley; var. guttata. A beautiful stove epiphyte, with deep
orange spotted flowers. Blossoms in September.

This very fine variety has been sent us by Mr. James Napier, gardener at Corehouse near Lanark. We
unacquainted with its native country. F single spike, the largest number yet remarked
in any Stanhopea. The lip has the peculiar long narrow hypoebil and short smooth mesochil which so distinctly
ch; species ; but the sepals, ghe and hypochil are a deep apricot orange-colour ; on the hypochil
are four deep brown blotches, two outside and two inside ; the sepals have no spots ; on each petal there are four, two at

, and two above the middle, so that there are in all twelve broad brown stains ; the epichil is brightly speckled,
but at the base only.

129

GLEANINGS AND RA MEMORANDA.

603. HEINTZIA TIGRINA. Karsten. A magnificent hothouse plant, belonging to Gesnerads.

Flowers rose-colour and
white. Native of the Carac-
cas. (Fig. 294.)

This appears, from the Flore
des Serres, to have found its
way into the gardens of Ger-
many. It is one of the noblest
plants of its noble race. The

such a high temperature and
moist atmosphere as suit the

more tender plants of the doe.
Sinningias, Gloxinias d
Nematanths.

604. Brya EnrNvs.
De Candolle. (alias Ame-
rimn

alias Brya arborescens
Browne ; aliàs Aspalathus
arboreus, &c. Sloane.) A

to the Leguminous Order.

Native of the West Indies,

where it is called Jamaica
ony.

A well-known West Indian

Serves ; for oe in its
. native ل‎ attains a

pee e N A

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130 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

height of fifteen or twenty feet (M‘Fadyen ; Sloane says forty feet), yet, cultivated in a pot, in a warm stove, it
maintains a shrubby character for a very great number of years, wit th pretty, evergreen, box-like foliage, bearing copious

° bright orange pea-shaped flowers in the month of May, yielding a delicious perfume. It abounds in the sa

of Jamaica, where, Dr. M‘Fadyen says, with its long twiggy branches, it reminds the traveller of the Broom of
The wood is hard and ponderous, of a fine greenish brown colour, susceptible of a good polish, and used

work. “ The slender branches," says Patrick Browne, “are very tough and flexile, frequently used for riding-switches,
and in his days (days happily now gone by) generally kept at all the wharfs about Kingston to scourge the refractory
slaves.” A shrub or small tree, from eight or ten to forty feet high, with long twiggy branches, armed with short,
sharp, subulate, stipulary spines, Leaves solitary or in clusters, box-like, evergreen, obovato-cuneate, sessile. Flowers
axillary, solitary, or two or three together. Peduncle short, with a pair of minute, opposite, small bracts above or near
the middle. Calyx bell-shaped, pubescent, obscurely two-lipped ; upper lip bipartite, lower tripartite ; segments ovate,
acute, the lowest one spreading, the rest erect. Corolla bright orange-yellow. Vexillum subrotund, with deep purple
streaks in the centre. Als and carina p. somewhat Pres obtuse : all the petals with short claws. Stamens ten,

mere point. a mar not an inch in
len the valves char-
o, hirsute with ty capitate hairs, biar-
ticulate ; lower joint with the upper suture nearly
straight, and the under convex; upper joint small,
abortive.” M‘Fadyen.—Bot. Mag., t. 4670.

605. OPHIOXYLON masus. Hasskari.
(alias O. album Siedold.) A neat hothouse
shrub, native of the East Indies. Belongs
to Dogbanes. Flowers white in April.
(Fig. 295).
There has been a difference of opinion among
botanists whether there are one or two species of
Ophioxylon ; but the question would seem to be set
at rest by Mr. Hasskarl, who describes this plant as
being altogether stronger in growth, with a smooth
shrubby stem four feet high, leaves green beneath,
white flowers, and olive-shaped fruit, while in
0. num this plant does not grow above a foot high, is not a shrub, has
leaves red underneath, larger reddish flowers, and globose fruit. The large
white-flowered plant, O. majus, thought by Hasskarl to be possibly the Ophioxylon
album of Geertner, forms in the stove a small light green shrub with oblong-
lanceolate membranous leaves placed in threes or fours, and loose cymes of white
flowers. The corolla is nearly three quarters of an inch long, with the lobes
of the limb half circular. It grows freely in a mixture of sandy loam and peat ;
but requires to be kept in rather a moist atmosphere. It is increased by cuttings
put in sand under a bell-glass, and plunged in the bark bed. The plant is of
little value in a horticultural view, the white flowers being too small to produce
a striking effect. It is however of some medical interest, being one of the plants

whose roots are believed by Indian practitioners to be a cure for the bite of
venomous serpents.— Journ. of Hort. Soc., vol. vii.

606. SALVIA Rameriana. Scheele. (Linnea, xxii. 586.) A
pretty sub-shrubby half-hardy plant, with spikes of crimson flowers,

produced all the summer. Native of Texas, “ in woods near Neubraunfels.” Belongs to Labiates.
Flowered in the Chelsea Botanic Garden.

Stems two feet high, branched, villous, quadrangular. Leaves on longish hairy petioles, which are dilated and some-
what connate at the base, and slightly furrowed above ; rugose with coarse sunken reticulated veins which are prominent
beneath, pilose on both surfaces, with numerous senile glands, (which are flame-coloured when dry); dark dull green

GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 131

above, paler and grayish beneath. The lower leaves are Er pinnately na in the cultivated plants producing a
pair of very small obovate subopposite leaflets, and a man es larger broadly ovate almost reniform terminal one,
which is cordate at the base, and deeply and irregularly si دوو‎ r on the 0 The upper leaves are simple
cordate-ovate, deeply erenate-lobed. The inflorescence forms spikes of eight to ten inches long, with distant three to four-
flowered viviied enters, | in the axils of oblong-lanceolate villous bracts equalling the peduncles. The flowers are small,
of a very rich crimson. Calyx green, thirteen-nerved, turbinate-campanulate, two-lipped, clothed with white hairs inter-

euspidate ; lower lip of two ovate-lanceolate sharp-pointed teeth nearly as long as the tube. Corolla tubulose, much
exserted, nearly three times as long as the calyx, the tube enlarged above, puberulous aids, end. with a broad ring of
hairs within near the base ; upper lip erect, concave, emarginate ; lower lip patent, trifid, th led, ovate,
preading, the middle lobe DM. broader, emarginate, style and filamen ts red, the cells of the anthers separated by
the prolonged connective ; stigma bifid, the lobes recurved.— T. Moore.

607. CAMPANULA VIDALII. Watson. A half-hardy undershrub. Flowers large, dirty white.
Native of the Azores. (Fig. 296

)

This species was first made known through Sir William Hooker's 7cones, by Mr. Hewitt Watson, to irr it was
given by Captain Vidal, R.N., whose name it bears. It was found on an * insulated rock off the east coast of Flores,
between Santa Cruz and Ponta Delgada.”
Seeds were received some time since from
Mr. Ayres, who was indebted for them to
Mr. P. Wallace. The plant has a fine
handsome deep green shining succulent

in August, and is a good object for rock-
work in a climate which suits it ; but,
being tender, its value is much diminished,
independently of the dingy colour of its
flowers. This plant has so little the ap-

Cam that

rdinary panula
it isa question whether it truly belongs
would rather

inside the corolla, there
except habit, does there

runs'a broad yellow fleshy ring-like disk ; but neither in this nor in cod T circumstance,

appear to be real ground for generie separation.— Journ. of Hort. Soc., ¥ il land

608. IMPATIENS MACROPHYLLA. oder. A hothouse Sal, with sm Lie dae oure
fowers. Native of Ceylon. Belongs to the Natural Order of Balsams. Introduced at Kew

e have here another of the many curious species of Balsam which abound so much in Ceylon, and we may say

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132 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

perhaps in the moist and mountainous parts of India generally. Our gardens are indebted for seeds of this to
Mr. Thwaites, the able superintendent of the Botanic Garden at Peradenia, who sends it to us from Adam’s icm
(No. 436 of Mr. Thwaites' dried collection), and Mr. Gardner's specimens (No. 159 ot his collection) are from Newr
Ellia, at 6000 feet of Meier We had, many years ago, received Ceylon specimens, without any particular locality,
from Mrs. General Walker. Our plants flowered at the Royal Gardens, in a moist but not very hot stove, in
the early summer of the year after the seeds were sown ; and, small though the blossoms are, yet their deep tawn.
orange-colour, stained with red, and the numerous long bright petioles, together with the ample foliage, render this a
handsome plant. Our plants attain a height of from two to three feet ; in their native country they are probably much
taller. The stem is erect, straight, as thick as, or thicker than, one’s finger, purplish. Leaves mostly at the top of the
stem, below them are the scars of many fallen ones; they are crowded, oret or scattered, large, five to six inches
Ped (some of our native specimens measure sew a foot), ovate, much and gradually acuminated, pilose on both sides,
k green above, paler beneath, closely penninerved ; the margin everywhere serrated, the serratures mucronate ; at
"s base the is fringed with long soft hide: tipped with a gland, and is gradually attenuated into the long, stout,
bright, red leaf-stalk upon which are a few scattered glandular sets. Peduncles axillary, aggregated (often densely
crowded), much shorter than the petioles, single-
i i base.

The lower one, or labellum, is cucullate, the mouth
nding in a sharp recurved acuminated point, like

e

eu) Nar 2 E] the mouth of a ewer; the spur is short, eas
DA n 4 NI ا‎ / with a few long bristles, singularly incurved almos

X) WA Rae "ad and swollen and didymous at the apex.— Bot. Me. »

609. SEDUM PugPUREUM. ink. (alias S. pur-
purascens Hort.) A hardy herbaceous plant, with
purple leaves and flowers. Native of Russia. Belongs
to the Order of Houseleeks. (Fig. 297.)

By many writers this is regarded as a mere variety of Sedum
Telephium, and their opinion is probably correct. It only

being oblong and rounded at the base. The petals a flat,
not channelled at the point, and the stamens are rather longer
than the petals. It grows naturally in middle Russia, and all

over Siberia, whet her in the Altai, the Ural, or the Baical,

plant for rock-work in summer.—Journ. of Hort. Soc., vol. vii.

610. Restrerta NUDA. Klotzsch. A stove
epiphyte, belonging to Orchids. Native of Vene-
zuela. Flowers white. Introduced by M. Allardt
of Berlin.

Restrepia nuda ; caulibus secundariis ezespitosis, basi vaginatis teretibus ; foliis carnosis so olitariis acutis planis

latis, dorso aeumineque setiformi purpureis ; labello purpureo elongato-obovato acuminato margine fimbriato ima
urieulato ; gynostemio clavato.

Stems two to three inches long, ezespitose. Leaf leathery, shining, three to four inches long. Flowers solitary,
one ineh and a half long. Sepals white striped with red, an inch long, three to fourlines broad; petals ten lines
es odes Gartenzeit., Aug. 28, 1852, The pollen-masses not being mentioned, it is uncertain whether this is a

Restrepia or a Pleurothallis.

GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 133

611. PLEUROTHALLIS PEDUNCULATA. Reichenbach fil. (alias Rhynchopera pedun-
culata Klotzsch.) A hothouse epiphyte with dingy greenish flowers,
Native of the Caraccas. Introduced by the Berlin Garden. (Fig. 298.)
We long ago stated that Dr. Klotzsch’s genus Rhynchopera must be reduced

to Pleurothallis (Bot. Reg. 1845, misc. 30), and more recently Mr. Reichenbach
has formally installed it among the species, but with the above name, which
must, we fear, be relinquished, there being also a Pl. peduncularis from Brazil.
Karsten's Rhynchopera retusa must share the same fate, as also must our own
Restrepia vittata, the subject of the next notice. This plant has slender stems
about six inches long, growing in tufts, each with a single long brown sheath in
the middle, and another at
the base; the solitary leaf is
oval, acute, shorter than the

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stem and about as long as the weak drooping raceme. The à /
latter has five or six distant flowers, large for the genus, each ===> ١ | /
with a white membranous cucullate bract at its base. The
sepals, petals, and lip, are nearly alike in size and form ; only the two lateral sepals
are united into one, and the lip is dilated at its base on each side; all are line
lanceolate and acuminate. Mr. Edward Otto discovered it on the Silla of Caraccas at
the height of about 5000 feet above the sea, growing both on branches and on the
ground. The flowers appear in December and last but a short time.

612. PLEUROTHALLIS HEMIRHODA. (aliàs Restrepia vittata, Lindley,
in Journ. Hort. Soc. IIT. 815. ic.) A very pretty epiphyte, with white
and red flowers. Native of Colombia. Introduced by Mr. Linden.
(Fig. 299.)

No positive difference appears to exist between the genera Pleurothallis and
Restrepia, except that the former has two and the latter four pollen-masses. Usually,
however, the latter have solitary, handsome, brightly-coloured flowers and a pair of
ears at the base of the lip, and judging from this alone, we referred the present plant
to Restrepia, But having now had the opportunity of examining its pollen-masses, al
we find that it is a true Pleurothallis, to which genus we are obliged to refer it, 3
necessarily changing the specifie name, there is already a Pleurothallis vittata
from Mexico. The following account of it was given in the Journal of the Horticul- 1 A
tural Society, from which our cut is also borrowed. <“ This curious thing has the habit ١

shorter than the double anterior sepal and blunt. It requires to be treated like the 72
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134 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

genus Pleurothallis, and is one of the handsomest of the race which that genus represents." The outer half of the flowers
is pure white, the inner half more or less red : whence the name.

613. LILIUM GIGANTEUM. Wallich. (alias L. cordifolium Don.) A magnificent hardy bulbous
plant from Nepal. Flowers white and fragrant, appearing in July.

The discovery of this Prince of mosey we owe to Dr. Wallich, who detected it in moist shady places on Sheopore

from the base of the stem to its apex. The flowers are proportionably lante and delightfully bp. not unlike those
of the common white Lily.” Nor does it degenerate in cultivation; the flowering plant having attained a height of

ten to twelve inches long and eight inches broad, must have afforded a striking spectacle. Baron Hügel found
sa plant in the Peer Punjäl pass of the Himalaya, leading into Kashmeer ; E and we believe that Drs. Thomson and

Madden says the Zilium Veg tes is common in the damp thick forests of the Himalaya, the provinces of Kamaon,
Gurwhal, and Busehur, in all of which he has frequently met with it. It grows in rich black mould, the bulb
close to the surface, at from 7500 = 9000 feet above the level of the sea, where it is covered with snow from November
to April, or thereabouts. The hollow stems are commonly from six to nine feet high, and are used for musicai pipes.
ipens in November and December. Stem straight, cylindrical, smooth, gradually attenuated to the apex,
nearly ten feet high, five and a half inches in circumference at the base, green with a reddish-purple hue at the upper
Leaves alternate, scattered, the internodes varying in length, petiolate, broadly ovate, cordate, acuminate,
shining dark green above, paler below, venation reticulated, having an evident midrib, with the veins coming off from
it ending in an peerage vein ; lower leaves with long petioles, very large, ten to twelve inches long, eight inches
broad, becoming gradually لط‎ in ascending ; upper leaves small, sessile, ovate, acute. Petioles of lower leaves
twelve to fourteen inches long, thick, broad and somewhat sheathing at the base, lower surface convex, upper with a deep
and broad furrow ; petioles of upper leaves short. Bracts ovate, acute, caducous, leaving a semilunar scar. Flowers
white, with purple sheaths, greenish below, infundibuliform-campanulate, inclined downwards, twelve on the racem
t; tube greenish, two inches in circumference at the base, gradually dilating upwards ; limb slightly does
leaves of the perianth oblong-spathulate, three outer with slight purple ibn inside, three inner rather broader, with
a deep purple tinge on the inside, and with a prominent ridge on the pons suleated on either side, and two

elevated ridges on the inner surface separated by a shallow groove."— Bot. ., t. 4673. There is great reason to
hope ed eme noble plant, of which ies Veitch have raised an abundance, will prove hardy. At least it can require
nothing more than a covering of ashes in winter.

614. PEREON PURPURASCENS. Morren and Decaisne. (aliàs Cynanchum purpurascens
Siebold.) A hardy herbaceous half-twining plant. Native of Japan. Belongs to the Order of
Dogbanes. Flowers purple.

Stems and all the green parts slightly downy ; when in flower becoming weaker, with a tendency to twine. Leaves
narrow, oblong, mucronate, becoming smaller near the ends of the shoots where the flowers appear. Flowers dull purple,
on slender ege in long-stalked many-flowered cymes, proceeding from the axils of the superior leaves, the size of, and
very much like, Vincetoxicum nigrum. This perennial appears to be hardy, or half-hardy, like V. japonicum,
growing with it freely in a peat border ; but, although transmitted as a good garden plant, it must be consigned to the
mere botanical collector.—Journ. of Hort. Soc., vol. vii.

615. PLEUROTHALLIS WAGENERIANA. Klotzsch. A stove epiphyte, of no great interest,
PPE to Orchids. Native of Venezuela. Flowers yellowish. Introduced by M. Allardt
of Berlin,

Pleurothallis (Aggregatæ) Wageneriana ; rhizomate ret squamis obtecto, caulibus secundariis 2—3
articulatis, vaginis 2 appressis obtusis subintegris obtectis ; folio crasso carnoso angusto pri rimum conduplicato fu
eanaliculato, basi euneato apice attenuato retuso ; floribus binis d peduneulatis ; perigonii quoda tribus exterioribus
ringentibus crassis carnosis sordide flavidis, ioterioiben —€— suleatis acutis flavidis striis parallelis purpureis

notatis, exterioribus triplo minoribus ; labello trilobo atro-purpureo tumido, anticé tuberculoso buie perigonii foliolis
interioribus sequa uantibus ; pedunculi i Dubois hyalinis obtusis binis aut tribus subeucullatis vestitis.

Stem the thickness of a erowquill, three to four inches long. Leaf very thick and fleshy, the same length and half
‘an inch broad. Flowers three lines long, with white bracts. Petals streaked with red and membranous. Lip deep
red,—Allgem. Gartenzeit., Aug. 28, 1852.

PLATE 100,

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[Pirate 100.]

THE SCARLET SALPIGLOT.

(SALPIGLOSSIS COCCINEA.)

A beautiful half-hardy annual, of GARDEN ORIGIN, belonging to the Natural Order of LINARIADS.

LL we know of this beautiful novelty is that it has been raised near Colchester, and that it was
sent to us last August by Messrs. Henderson of Pine Apple Place. Tt seems to differ from other
Salpiglots in nothing except colour, which is here of a clear vivid tender scarlet, charmingly relieved
by short veins of a deeper colour. As a garden plant it possesses high claims to distinction, for there
are few annuals that equal it.

In a Botanical point of view it seems to confirm Mr. Bentham's opinion that all the so-called
species of the genus, known by the names of atropurpurea, straminea, picta and Barclayana are mere
forms of one wild but variable species, the S. sinuata of the Flora Peruviana, among which there is in
reality no character available for specific distinction.

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THE PRETTY RAPHISTEM.
(RAPHISTEMMA PULCHELLUM.)

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A fine stove climber, from the Tropics or Asta, belonging to the Order of ASCLEPIADS.

Specific Character.

THE PRETTY RAPHISTEM. A twiner. Leaves heart- | RAPHISTEMMA PULCHELLUM; volubile,foliis cordatis
Shaped, taper-pointed, membranous, smooth on each inati b is utri labri petiolum
side, having glands on the upper side above the petiole.
Segments of the corolla ovate, blunt, erect. Lobes of the
coronet twice as long as the column. Stigma prominent,
umbilicate.

glanduliferis, corolla laciniis ovatis obtusis erectis, coronæ
4 2 falta gy 4 gi A plo I ast. , stigmate
prominulo umbilicato.— Decaisne.

Raphistemma pulchellum: Wallich, Pl. As. rariores, vol. ii, p. 50, t. 163 ; Decaisne, in D.C. Prodr., viii. 516 ; alias
Asclepias pulchella : Roxb. Fl. Ind., ii. 54.

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()UR knowledge of this fine new stove plant is derived from a specimen furnished last summer by
Messrs. Weeks and Co., of the King’s Road. Its large straw-coloured flowers, broad foliage,
and twining habit make it a useful companion for the favourite Stephanotis ; its leaves, however, are
not so thick. i
According to Dr. Roxburgh, “ it is an extensive perennial twining species, native of the forests of
. Silhet, where it is called Kulum, flowering in the rainy season." To this Dr. Wallich adds Gualpara,
Tavoy and Pegu; and that it is the largest flowered Asclepiad with which he is acquainted.
Dr. Roxburgh describes it thus : “ Stems and branches twining; young shoots perfectly smooth
and deep green. Leaves opposite, long-petioled, cordate, entire, smooth, acuminate, from four to eight
inches long, and from three to six broad. Racemes very long-peduncled, sometimes proliferous ; by

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138 THE PRETTY RAPHISTEM.

age the rachis lengthens into the form of a short raceme. Flowers very large, pure white, long-
peduncled. Calyx five-parted, smooth ; corolla five-parted, rotate ; segments oblong, in the bud
imbricated. ` Nectary sub-cylindric: exterior lamina membranaceous, ensiform, ending in long, fine,
acute points, which converge over the stigma, their texture horny and polished ; in their retuse tops,
are the pits where the anthers are lodged. Germs two, style short, common stigma five-angled; to
the points of the angles the five ovate, hard, polished, chestnut-coloured bodies are attached, which
give substantial support to the five pairs of large oval anthers, by means of their thick, short, polished,
‘chestnut-coloured, cyathiform pedicels.— F7. Ind. TI. 55.

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THE RACEMOSE SOLENID.

(SOLENIDIUM RACEMOSUM.)

A hothouse Epiphyte, from New GRENADA, belonging to the Order of ORCHIDS.

. Generic amu Specifi Character.

SOLENIDIUM ; sepala -a explanata, libera.
conformia. ieulatum deflexum, lamellis 2
elevatis plumosis apice » liberis, carina basilari interjecta.
mbranaceo-marginata, apice utrinque
utrin

Hest 1 Americe tropics bulb , Oneidii

S. RACEMOSUM ; sepan 2, angusté loratis scapo racemoso
brevioribus, pedun divarieatis, labello lineari apice
ilatato euis.

npe equal, spreading flat, distinct.
e form. iculate, bent ogee
vien with two e feathery plates which are fre
at the point, and have a keel between them at the
Column straight, bordered with a membrane, one-toothed
at the end on each side, with an elevated fleshy anther-

mm UM.
the

a gland. Pollen-masses
two, waxy, excavated behind ; caudicle linear ; gland
small and roundish. An epiphyte from tropical America,
bearing pseudobulbs, and having the habit of Oncidium.

THE RACEMOSE SOLENID. Leaves two, AT

strap-shaped, shorter than the racemose scape. Flow
stalks straggling. Lip linear, dilated and rounded at die
point,

Solenidium racemosum : Lindley, in Orchidacee Lindeniane, no. 19.

AN epiphyte from the forests of New Grenada, near Pamplona, whence it was introduced by
Mr. Linden ; who states that it grows at the height of 8500 feet, flowering in November. For a
fresh specimen we are indebted to Robert Hanbury, Esq., of Poles, with whom alone we believe that

it has flowered.

THE RACEMOSE SOLENID.

140

The plant has much the appearance of an Oncidium, in its manner of growth, foliage, and
flowers, but it is materially different in structure. The original definition of the genus, framed upon
an examination of shrivelled and crushed flowers, is in some respects erroneous, and is now set right.
The lip is not furnished near the end with two teeth ; that appearance was produced by the two feathery
plates which occupy the lip (fig. 4) having been pressed into a mass inseparable from the lip itself ;
and the incumbent position of the pollen-masses with respect to their caudicle arose from the same
cause and is not natural in the plant.

The main differences between Solenidium and Oncidium consist
in this; that the column is earless and has a thin membranous border,
terminating upwards in a thin triangular tooth, and rounded off above
the base; beneath the lower end of the column stands a pair of distinct
but minute glands, which must be analogous to the column ears of
Oncidium, if there is any analogy between them. The crest of the lip,
which in Oncidium is composed of three or some other uneven number of
tubercles, is here replaced by a pair of long feathery plates which stand
considerably above the lip itself, and being free at the end look in profile
like a pair of shaggy ears. All this is very unsuccessfully represented
on our plate at A. Variable as is the crest of the lip of Oncids it
presents no structure approaching this, not even in the pulvinate
division. The feathery plates are more like the raised lines of
Cymbidium or Brassia, but the column and its peculiar basal glands
resemble neither the one nor the other.

The feathery processes upon the lip, and the glands on the column,
of Solenidium will be regarded as staminodes (abortive stamina),
belonging—the first to the same series as the perfect stamen, and the
last to a supposed inner series of undeveloped stamens, provided the
theory referred to in Folia Orchidacea under Zygostates should be
accepted by botanists. According to this theory the staminal apparatus
of an Orchidaceous plant consists of two rings or whorls, each composed
of three stamens more or less developed. In general the central of the
outer whorl is alone perfect ; while in Cypripedium perfection is
confined to the two lateral inner stamens. The rest of the stamens are
either wholly suppressed, as in many Dendrobes, or appear in the form
of ears to the column or crests upon the lip; the ears of the column
sometimes representing the lateral inner staminodes, and the crests of the
lip being made up either of two lateral outer and one central inner
staminode, or of either. Such evidence as exists upon this subject
appears favourable to the opinion; which would be conclusively
established if the crests of the lip were detected bearing pollen, a
circumstance that has not yet been observed.

Upon. this theory, the accompanying diagrams will represent the
condition of the staminal apparatus in the different modifications
which this Order produces. (In all cases but one, No. 5, the exterior

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ring represents the series to which the perfect stamen belongs, and the

inner ring the series which is usually more or less disguised. For the K
convenience of description the perfect stamen and accompanying j
abortions may be called the outer stamen and staminodes, while those /
of the second and more paradoxical series may be termed the inner |
stamen and staminodes. The asterisks indicate an entire suppression — |

of staminodes.) *

No. 1 shows the theoretical state of the flower, with the three outer ا‎
stamens complete, and three inner staminodes. The outer stamens are ba
here in the condition in which they appear in the plant figured by Dr.

Wight under the name of Euproboscis, and by Griffith in Falconer’s
Dendrobium normale.

No. 2. represents such genera as Odontoglossum in which one outer
stamen is perfect, the two outer staminodes in the form of the lateral
plates of the crest of the disk ; then of the inner staminodes two form
the wings of the column, and the other the midrib which separates or is T
blended with the lateral plates of the disk. E e

No. 8 represents such a structure as that of Anacamptis, where the
usual outer stamen is attended by two of the inner staminodes, while
two outer staminodes appear as plates on the lip, and the central of the
inner staminodes is missing. Solenidium would also belong to this
form.

No. 4 is the case of Cymbidium properly so called, in which all the
inner staminodes are deficient, and the lateral outer staminodes lie upon
the lip in the form of two raised lines.

No. 5 shows the beginning of the series in which outer lateral

staminodes are wanting, except one which represents the perfect stamen
in the preceding cases, while on the other hand the two lateral inner
stamens are perfect and the third wanting ; this occurs in Cypripedium. :

No. 6. In Orchis the structure is absolutely reduced to one perfect
outer stamen and a pair of inner lateral staminodes, occurring as
tubercles at the base of the column; all the other staminal apparatus &
being missing. Thelymitra comes here. e

No. 7 shows what happens in Zygostates in which the outer lateral
staminodes are absent, but the whole of the inner ones are fully and
largely developed. The structure of Pterostylis enters into the same
category, although in some respects very different.

No. 8 may be regarded as the expression of Maxillaria, with all the
staminal apparatus gone except the usual outer stamen and the corre-
sponding inner staminode in the form of a tumour on the lip.

No. 9, with every part wanting except the outer central stamen, shows
What the structure is of many Dendrobes, and Sarcopods.

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142 THE RACEMOSE SOLENID.

But although these differences exist, and notwithstanding their seeming importance, we own
our inability to discover their true value. It does not appear that they can even be employed for
the limitation of genera; for Odontoglossum Teve can hardly be said to possess a trace of the great
staminodes of both series which are generally characteristic of genera. This question is, however, only
now opened, and it may happen that further observations from this point of view may show a
means of employing staminodial distinctions at present unsuspected.

GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

616. CALCEOLARIA cHELIDONIOIDES. Humboldt, Bonpland, and Kunth. A very pretty half-
hardy annual, native of Peru. Belongs to Linariads. Flowers yellow. Introduced by Isaac
Anderson, Esq., of Edinburgh. (Fig. 300.)

eumbent, branching, entangled, viscid, hairy, brown-stemmed annual Leaves pinnated, with pedicellate

A de
lanceolate incised divisions, the uppermost ter-
te

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- It is very pretty, and a most abundant

flowerer, well suited for planting in the American
border.—Journ. of Hort. Soc., vol. vii.

617. BEGONIA HERNANDLEFOLIA.
Hooker. A very fine hothouse herba-
ceous plant. Native of Veragua. Flowers
deep rose. Introduced at Kew.

beneath, with the nerves slight] prominent. :
colour as it, bearing à Sibi corymb of drooping, deep rose-red flowers ; at the setting-on of the branches a pair
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144 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

of opposite small stipules are present. Each fork generally bears one male and one female flower. Male flower of four

spreading sepais, = ' (opposite) eger and orbicular, the two iine oblong-spathulate. Female flower of three sepals,
two large The

fruit (nearly mature) is bright red, triangular,

obovate, with a narrow rounded wing at two of

the third angle.— Bot. Mag., t. 4676.

618. CYMBIDIUM GIBSONI. Pazton.
A terrestrial Orchid, from the Khasiya
hills. Flowers sweet, greenish, with
brown spots. Introduced by his Grace
the Duke of Devonshire. (Fig. 301.)

C. eaule fusiformi artieulato nudo, foliis lan-
ceolatis acutis, spicis lateralibus strictis pauci-

oribus, vni deed dio vontrácto "e re-
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last March. It seems naturally allied to C. pues
lium, and lancifolium, and is readily recognised
in its — الوسر‎ naked stem, and lateral

inflorescence

bids, The s species is of little importance as le an

ornamental

619. 0 ا‎ BRACTESCENS.
Hooker. (aliàs Nautilocalyx hastatus
Hort.) A hothouse herbaceous plant
belonging to the Order of Gesnerads.
Native of New Grenada or Venezuela Wide
Flowers white. Introduced by zs ap

We adopt the opinion of Mr. ham in

idering the genus to which the Fam belongs
not distinct from his Centrosolenia. From every
known species, the present is abundantly distin-

stout, herbaceous, erect, simple, two feet high,
the upper part clothed, as is most of the younger
portion of the plant, with deciduous silky down
ves opposite, very large Ms a foot long),
nearly equal, ovate, acumina ly se
penninerved, beneath akd ted and the nerves
prominent, below tapering very much ; o base of
the two opposite leaves unite and s und the
stem, or, in other words, the leaves are tia
upon the petiole so as to form a a very broad
wing to the extremely thickened rachis. In the axils of the leaves there appears on a short peduncle a very
T tuque nearly orbicular, concave, sharply almost cuspidately acuminated, purple-green reticulated reperi
es across, d first closed like the two valves of such a shell as a Pecten or Venus, then partially ©

GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 145

for the emission of the several flowers, within which they expand in succession, and are themselves bracteated
with ovate or lanceolate acuminated and serrated bracteoles. Each flower, when fully open, is nearly as long as the
set bracteas, and shortly pedicellate. Calyx a little Pto than the tube of the corolla, white be below, epe
above, and retieulated with white, deeply cut into five segments, of which four are lanceolate, serrated finely

uminated, the fifth free to the very base, and bent down, as it were, below, by the Besitos of the spur, má this
is subulate, very narrow. Corolla large, white, the tube dilated upwards, below on one side extended into a short,

within the tube of the corolla; filaments subulate, didynamous, curved over the pistil. Anther subglobose. Ovary
ovate, slightly pubescent, with a oe fleshy hypogynous gland on one side. Style thickened, a little curved. Stigma
slightly dilated.— Bot. Mag., t

620. Loprzia ER Planchon. (aliàs Jehlia fuchsioides Hort.) A showy half-hardy
perennial Flowers deep rose. Native of Guatemala. Belongs to Onagrads. (Fig. 302.)

'This is a soft smooth pale e shrub, with a fleshy tuberous root, like some Fuchsias. The leaves are stalked,
almost wholly smooth, oblong-la
ceolate, acuminate, narrowe

base they are furnished with a pair
of red pyramidal short glands. The
flowers stand on long slender stalks,
singly in the axils of leaves, are

employed, but with some doubt, is
that under which M. Planchon ""
given it in the Flore des

but it seems impossible "ranis it ean
be the plant which sein

first described as a macro-
phylla, in the Plante انس ممت‎
a shrub with downy leaves and

species in

Society's Garden, from Mr. TAE but, not having flowered, cannot at present be canna Sis James
accumulate for the satisfactory settlement of this question the name employed by M. Planchon r stan

unchanged. A greenhouse soft-wooded shrub, growing freely in a mixture of sandy loam and leaf-mould, and requiring

the same éréatzent asa Fuchsia. It is increased by cuttings put in sand under a bell-glass, and flowers cem ead

and spring. It is likely to be valuable as a winter flowering plant, notwithstanding that it is coarse in foliage an it.

— Journ. of Hort. Soc., vol. vii.

621. MYRICA catrrornica. Chamisso and Schlechtendahl. A handsome hardy evergreen shrub.

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Native of California. Belongs to Galeworts. Berries bluish grey. Introduced by the Horticultural

Society.
Said to be wild in woods near Monterey, growing twelve feet high. This was لوصوم‎ gathered by hugs on the
north-west coast of America. Douglas found it at Puget Sound. It forms an evergreen bush, with dense, narrowly

lanceolate, slightly serrated leaves, covered, especially on the under side, with transparent, glossy, i ps sunken
scales, of microscopical dimensions, consisting of a layer of wedge-shaped cells, placed obliquely round a common centre,
The flowers are green and inconspicuous, in short axillary spikes, which depend bear from one to three small globular

its, whose surface is closely studded with fleshy, oblong, obtuse grains o dull red colour, and astringent flavour. It

garden ves eee T seeds or by layers, in

for rock-work or for the front of a shrubbery.
— Journ. of Hort, Soc., vol. vii,

622. EPIDENDRUM LEUCOCHILUM.
Klotzsch. (alias E. flavidum Lindl.)
handsome epiphyte from New Grenada.
Flowers large, yellowish, with an ivory
white lip. Exists in the German Gardens.
(Fig. 303.)

This is a fine caulescent fleshy-leaved species,
with the habit of E. umbellatum, and such flowers
as those of E. nocturnum. The stem is about
two feet high. Leaves coriaceous, distichous,
recurved, emarginate. Raceme many-flowered,
drooping, issuing from a long green compressed
spathe. Flowers three inches in diameter, een
stalks rather shorter than themselves. Pe

cee Lindeniane were published, I only knew the

excellent figure in the Zcones Beroli ‘shows
it Under this misapprehension, when 1
found it among Mr, Linden’s Orchids (No. 2213),
I supposed it to be new, and called it Z. flavidum,
an error which is now correcte

| 623. ASTRAGALUS PONTICUS. Pallas.
| A hardy herbaceous plant of the Legu-
| minous Order. Flowers yellow. Native
| of the West of Asia. Introduced by
| H. C. Calvert, Esq., of Erzeroom.

: A deeumbent perennial of a bright lively
|
|

n colour. Stems about two feet long, slightly

downy. Leaves almost smooth, of the texture of the Garden Pea, about a foot long, composed of seventeen or eighteen
Pairs of ovate-oblong, obtuse, or emarginate leaflets. The flowers are bright yellow, in nearly sessile ovate heads,

| with short calyx tube, much "lens hairy than in the allied species. "The cultivators of hardy herbaceous plants will

— sna i

GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. | 147

understand what this is when it is compared with Astragalus alopecuroides, which it is a good deal like, It is half-
shrubby, growing عدم‎ in peat-soil and flowering in August. Though not showy, its fine foliage renders it well
adapted for shrubberi
eoarse rockwork, iid
flower borders, devoted
to the cultivation of the
rougher kind of peren-
nials.—Jowrn. of Hort.
Soc., vol. vii.

624. BOMARIA
ACUTIFOLIA. Herbert.
(aliàs ^ Alstroemeria
acutifolia Zink and
Otto.) A half-hardy
twining herbaceous
plant. Native of
Mexico. Flowers dull
red. Belongs to Ama-
ryllids. (Fig. 7

Stem, according t

M.M. Link and Otto,
attaining a height of five
or

terminal, o many

erect, and but slightly

ones oblong, of a iem
but not very bright red ie d i
acute ; the three inni more delicate in texture, broadly spathulate, orange-coloured ; all ei €— a تحتو‎
at the tip. Stamens shorter than the corolla. Filaments pale reddish-purple. Anthers 0 = 57 2 n
inferior, turbinate, ies qd downy ; style straight, filiform, Aperi white, thickened e s t yr a ise sd
terminated by a trifid stigma. Capsule remarkably —€— oF opening at the by
on vam nett of it, of a bright ict colour. e
For this beautiful species of Alstræmeria our gardens are indebted to Mr. Otto of | Berlin, — transmitted €
Botanic © Gardens both of ooo and — - from speci ,
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148 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA,

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It amt Mexico, where it was discovered by M. Deppe, who i ti ting regi
as a Botanist. In our stoves it has flowered in the months af J August and SER — Bot, Mag. t. t. 3050.

e ossa part of these beautiful € are ares of elevated situations and dislike a high temperature. They will be
found to thrive best out of doors in this country in summer time, and will endure the winter if planted pretty deep in
light soil and covered over with leaves in és cold season, especially if any sloped heading be laid on to throw off the wet.
Even es depen C in the greenhouse keeps its leaves through the winter, will succeed with that treatment.— Herbert.
Amaryllid. p

625. Tacsonta SANGUINEA. De Candolle. (aliàs Passiflora sanguinea Smith; alias P. diversifolia
of Nurseries; aliàs P. quadriglandulosa Meyer; aliàs Tacsonia quadriglandulosa, T. quadridentata (?)
et T. pubescens (?) De Candolle, according to Hooker.) A very fine hothouse creeper, with large
scarlet flowers. Native of Trinidad. Blossoms in July. Introduced by Messrs. Low and

E IM E the Passiflora sanguinea of Sir J. E. Smith, in Rees’s Cyclopedia, ع‎ only by that description known
to De Candolle, who was induced to refer the species, in its present genus, to the section Zutacsonia ; and thus, ipee
from "does Dijoun West Indian species, T. quadriglandulosa, T. quadridentata, and T. pubescens, placed i in the secti
» pM eoe ” These three, though very briefly characterised by De Candolle, one from Guiana (whence we

his species), and the two others from the “ West Indies," derived from the Banksian Herbarium, and

Very probably rom Trinidad, appear to us to be referable to one and the same plant. The very variable nature of the
leaves on the same or on different individuals will easily account for their being supposed distinct. Mr. Low observes
that the species ki a free flowerer, and will evidently make a first-rate plant for a conservatory, as it does not seem to
require much heat, and is easy of cultivation, A climber, with terete branches, and leaves which are extremely variable
on the same or on different plants, sometimes ovate or oblongo-ovate, acute, simple ; sometimes cordate and deeply
three-lobed, with the lobes ovate, acute; the margins everywhere remarkable for being more or , and cut
into large but unequal teeth, penninerved, the underside strongly reticulated with prominent nerves 8, sometimes downy
and een, whereas the upper side is بس‎ glabrous and dark green. Petioles about half an isch long, glandular
at the base, and there are sometimes glands in the sinuosities of the leaves. Peduncle solitary, single-flowered, longer
than the petiole, furnished below the apex iih a small three-leaved downy involucre : the leaflets from a broad base,

form a five-furrowed, rather short, greenish tube, very obtuse at the base. Petals five, as long, mi of ip same shape, as
the sepals, equally spreading, and deep rose-red on both sides. Crown or nectary double, short: inner consisting of &
white membrane, with يا‎ 000 erect, red rays; outer of a circular row of numerous Nan eau white,
banded and tipped with red: e lesser Apoc ts, and very short, are found between the outer and inner corona
Column three or four times as uid ng as the crown, greenish, spotted with red, as are the short recurved filaments
Anthers green. Ovary oval. Styles clavate, dem red ; stigmas green.— Bot. Mag., t. 4674.

626. VANDA LONGIFOLIA. Lindley. An unimportant hothouse epiphyte, with yellow flowers.
Native of the East Indies. Introduced by the Court of Directors of the East India Company.

This is a very fine-looking plant when not in flower, with dark green distichous leathery wavy leaves, as much as a
foot and a half long and two Midi wide, obliquely rounded at the end. Its habit is almost that of Angracum eburneum.
Very thick greyish-green roots protrude from its stem, and have a tendency to branch wherever the first point is injured.
But the flowers are insignificant, very much like those of Vanda multiflora i in form and colour, except that they are paler ;
they, however, have a pleasant perfume. These flowers appear in a corymb at the end of a short stiff ascending peduncle
not one quarter the length of the leaves ; they are very fleshy, and are banded with red upon a dull yellow ground ; the
lip is white. Inside the pouch of the lip are numerous yellowish hairs, concealing an erect fleshy plate, which partially
divides the hollow of the lip into two halves, It is not gie heater for the flowers, but the foliage is handsome, and
serves to set off other Orchids,—Journ. of Hort. Soc., vol. vi

627. CrAworHUs verrucosus. Nuttall. A very,valuable hardy evergreen shrub. Native of
California. Flowers light blue, in June. Belongs to Rhamnads. Introduced by the Horticultural
Society as “a shrub eight feet high, growing on the Santa Cruz mountains.”

This proves to be a hardy evergreen of the best kind. It forms already a large bush, and will aera paces 8
tree with long stiff rod-like downy branches, covered in winter with multitudes of large oblong or roundish brown buds.
Pet leaves are opposite, roundish oblong, iei slightly notched or entire at the end, scarcely an inch long at the Is

flat, deep green, shining, with grey hairy p its distributed over all the under surface. Occasionally, when the plant is
young, they are coarsely toothed, as is represented in the Botanical Magazine ; but that is an exceptional state.

GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 149

At the base of each leaf is a pair of stipules, which gradually lose their thin extremities and change into soft
fleshy conical prickles. The flowers are very pale blue, produced in great abundance in dense corymbs at the end
of very short stiff lateral branches, This shrub is among the most easy of plants to grow, and seems indifferent to

may be added that with the eet وح ا‎ of C. cuneatus, a white-flowered species of little beanty, all the Californian
Ceanothuses prove to be hardy near London. It is only requisite that they should not be placed in soil which keeps

them growing till late in the year, but that their wood should be well ripened. In the Botanical Magazine M William

Hooker, in speaking of C. rigidus, observes that—** The 2 orth-west American Ceanothuses are

of cultivation in the open ground ; but it may require a Devonshire climate to bring them to the state in which they

are at Bishopstowe, as just announced to me ina jin dated 27th Slay. 1852, of the Bishop of Exeter :—‘ The
us divaric ow in its highest

beautiful thyrsoid penis so that the leaves are

C. pa is just coming into flower ; C. azu-
reus will not blossom before August." "A
of Hort. Soc., vol. vii.

628. EUGENIA? aPICULATA. De Can-
dolle. An evergreen half-hardy shrub, from
Chili. Flowers white. Fruit deep purple.
Belongs to Myrtleblooms (Myrtacee), In-
troduced by Messrs. Veitch & Co. (Fig.
305.)

This is a plant with much the appearance of
the common Myrtle. The branches are clothed
š y hai

young, but quite smooth and deep green when
old. The f ‘Bowers, — are solitary and axillary,
at the

consist of iUur
edge, outside which stand four leafy round sepals.
The fruit is a spherical purple berry, the size of
that of the common Myrtle, with a pair of ex-
tremely minute bracts at the base, and crowned

together, i is an exceedingly pretty shrub for the milder parts of England. But to what genus does it belong ? : The
seeds like those of Vicia Faba on a small scale, correspond with no generic character yet published.

of the fieshy-fruited Myrtacee are greatly in need of amendment.
629. TILLANDSIA stricta. Botanical Magazine. A hothouse epiphyte with blue flowers.
Native io: Brazil. Belongs to Bromeliads.

iS à small Pine-Apple-like plant, about six inches high when in flower. The leaves are very narrow, channelled,
ut point, and eurved backwards till their ends are below the base of the plant.

I^ flowering stems are shorter than the — see downwards, clothed with small green leaves resem
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150 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.
convex, imbricated bracts, the lower of which have a leafy point. Two varieties were € one with bright rose-
racts and blue flowers, the other with greenish bracts and white flowers. Among the less important
inhabitants of the stove this may be regarded as a useful little plant, growing best in a warm moist air, attached to a
block of wood, where it flowers in August.—Jouwrn. of Hort. Soc., vol. vi.

630. ECHEVERIA quirensis. Lindley. (alias Sedum quitense Humboldt and Kunth.) A very
pretty half-hardy succulent plant. Native of Peru. Flowers deep red. Belongs to the Order of
Houseleeks. Introduced by Isaac Anderson, Esq. of no a

A bright green smooth succulent plant, forming stiff erect stems about six inches high, clothed by. E ME
spathulate leaves, with an almost circular base attached to i^ stem only by one bundle of fibro-vascular tissue. The
flowers are in stiff close erect racemes, shorter than the lower bracts, which resemble in form the leaves, er taper less
to nt — n five, longer than the pedicel, equal, linear, — — shorter than the corolla, which forms

d pyramid, opening very slightly at the end into fi elobes. Of the ten miae five stand

in iis of the petals, and five are distinct. This is evidently an Echeveria, as De Candolle surmised, and not a Sedum.

the summer it does very well on rockwork out of doors, but it is probable that it should be mice as à green-

house shrubby succulent plant, requiring the same kind of soil and treatment as Echeverias. It is easily increased by

cuttings, and seeds, which it ripens abundantly, When grown out of doors, though pretty, it is not a very nia plant.
It flowers in August. How it will look in a greenhouse is not ascertained as yet.—Journ. of Hort. Soc., vol. vi

631. Vinceroxicum JAPONICUM. Morren and Decaisne. (alias Cynanchum flavescens Siebold.)
A hardy herbaceous plant from Japan. Flowers ale yellow. Belongs to Dogbanes. (Fig. 306.

P P Pae y 8 8 8

mueronate, nearly sessile. Flowers few, pale greenish-yellow, in nearly sessile cymes, with slender pubescent flower-
stalks. A perennial, supposed to be hardy or half-hardy, growing best in the peat border, and increased by division of
the roots when in a dormant State, It is, however, of no kind of horticultural interest. It flowers in July and August.
—Journ. of Hort. Soc., vol. vii. We figure ees "idus for the sake of showing what sort of things are sometimes sent to
this country as new and اجيج‎ Garden plant

PLATE 103.

L.Consfans, del.& gine.

[Prate 103.[

THE GOLDEN-FLOWERED DIELYTRA.
(DIELYTRA CHRYSANTHA.)
———————

A handsome hardy Herbaceous Plant, from CALIFORNIA, belonging to the Order of Fumeworts.

THE GOLDEN-FLOWERED DIELYTRA. Stem tall, DIELYTRA CHRYSANTHA ; caule elato folioso ramoso,
i foliis n 1 i acuti

leafy, branching. Leaves twice or thrice pinnate, with : 2—3-pinnatim sectis segmentis linearibus tis
linear acute segments. Panicle lo paniculê elongatá, bracteis calycibusque latè
and calyxes broad-ovate, blunt. Petals spatbulate, the ovatis obtusis, petalis spathulatis exterioribus basi vix
outer scarcely gibbous at the base; the inner with a gibbosis, interioribus dorso feré per totam suam longitu-
broad wing along almost the whole length of the back. dinem lato-alatis, stigmate latissimo truncato.— Hooker
Stigma very broad, truncate. and Arnott.

Dielytra chrysantha : Hooker and Arnott, Botany of Beechey’s voyage, p. 320, t. 73.

THs very handsome hardy perennial was originally discovered in California by Douglas, from موه‎

specimens it was published in the work above quoted. More recently it has been found in the
same country by Mr. W. Lobb, from whose seeds Messrs. Veitch succeeded in raising it. It
flowered in the Exeter nursery for the first time last September.

It forms a handsome tuft of firm very glaucous foliage, sometimes much more finely cut than in
our figure, and in general texture and colour resembling Garden Rue. Among the leaves rise stiff
branching panicles of rich golden-yellow blossoms.

Although very inferior to Dielytra spectabilis, this has a beauty of its own, which will render it a

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152 THE GOLDEN-FLOWERED DIELYTRA.

favourite for autumn decoration. The contrast between the gray dull leaves and gay glittering
flowers is particularly agreeable.
We are not aware that this demands any particular care. Like other Californian plants it likes

a roasting summer, and therefore should have the warmest and driest berth which the garden
can afford.

[PraTE 104.]

THE BELL-FLOWERED SPATHODEA.
(SPATHODEA CAMPANULATA .)

E. الس‎
A magnificent Hothouse Shrub, from TROPICAL AFRICA, belonging to the Natural Order of Btexoxtaps.

perife Character.

apparently smooth. Leaves alternate, unequally pinnate ; foliis alternis impari-pinnatis, foliolis 4-jugis lanceolatis
the leaflets of four pairs, lanceolate, quite entire. Raceme integerrimis, racemo terminali subramoso, calyce longitu-
terminal somewhat branched. Calyx velvety in longi- dinaliter subvelutino nervoso apice arcuato, corolla
tudinal lines, curved at the point. Corolla campanulate, eampanulatá glabra limbo subzequali.— De Candolle.
smooth, with a nearly equal limb.

Spathodea campanulata : Palisot de Beauvois, Flore d"Oware et de Benin, I. 47, t. 27 ; De Candolle, Prodrom. 9. 208 ;
Bentham, in Hooker's Niger Flora, p. 461; alias Spathodea tulipifera : G. Don; alias Bignonia
tulipifera : Schumacher and Thonning, Beskryving, p. 273.

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THIS gorgeous plant produced its flowers at Chatsworth last August, when the accompanying figure

was made. It had previously blossomed in June, at which time the flowers were still finer, and
the colours more distinct and rich. It has a fine Ash-like habit, producing great opposite pinnate
leaves, with broad leaflets, from among which come the glorious racemes of Tulip-like tough
leathery fiery-orange flowers, six or seven together; they are quite as handsome as the wild

specimens before us from the Niger, where it was found on Stirling Hill by poor Ansell.

Palisot de Beauvois says it is a middle-sized tree, with wood smelling strongly of garlic when
broken. He only found one specimen three leagues north of Chama.

154 . THE BELL-FLOWERED SPATHODEA.

In the Niger Flora Mr. Bentham speaks of the plant thus :—

“Although the descriptions differ in several points, there is every reason to conclude that
Beauvois’ and Thonning's plants belong to one species. Beauvois’ characters are generally drawn
up from mere fragments, his drawings made on the spot of this and other plants having been
destroyed by fire at St. Domingo, and he is very likely to have committed the mistake of describing
the leaves as alternate instead of opposite. The corollas in Ansell’s specimens are fully as large as
that figured by Beauvois ; those which are well dried, are even larger; Thonning says they are as
large as the largest tulips. The leaflets in Ansell’s plant are rather broader than in Beauvois';
they are covered on the underside with a minute tomentum, which is scarcely perceptible in the
older leaves; they are also marked on the same side with innumerable small black dots, only visible
under a lens. Thonning’s detailed description is very accurate.”

We believe the introduction of this plant to our gardens is owing to Mr. Whitfield, well known
as an indefatigable collector of objects of natural history in Tropical Western Africa.

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THE HAYTIAN LALIOPS.
(L-ELIOPSIS DOMINGENSIS.)
يك‎ ss) Werte hea

A handsome Hothouse Epiphyte, from Sr. Domingo, belonging to the Natural Order of Orcas.

Generic anv Specific Character.

LÆLIOPS. A Cattleya in all respects, except that the | LZELIOPSIS. Omnino Cattleya, nisi quod flores membra-
owers are membranous, and the veins of the lip nacei neenon venze labelli tæ.

bearded.

THE HAYTIAN LÆLIOPS. Pseudobulbs 2-leaved. | LÆLIOPSIS DOMINGENSIS ; pseudobulbis 2-phyllis,
Leaves oblong, coriaceous, obtuse. Scape slender, naked, foliis oblongis coriaceis obtusis, scapo gracili nudo apice
with about 8 flowers at the end. Lip 2-lobed, with its sub 8-floro, labelli 2-lobi laciniis denticulatis undulatis
divisions wavy, dentieulate, recurved. Central veins recurvis venis centralibus barbatis. :
bearded.

Cattleya domingensis: Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch., p. 118; Broughtonia lilacina : Henfrey, in Gardener’s Magazine of Botany,
Vol. IIL, p. 201, with a figure.

wr is the genus of this beautiful plant? LxLrA? no; because it has only four pollen-masses—

BROUGHTONIA ? no; for although its flower is deeply cuniculate, yet it has not a long external
adnate spur and decurrent sepals—EprpenpruM ? no; for it wants the unguiculate lip more or less
united to the colamn—CarrreyA? still no; although we once thought it one; for the flowers are
membranous, the veins of the lip bearded, and the habit quite different.

We see no means of providing a fixed station for this and a few allied plants, except by giving
them a genus to themselves, the essential features of which shall consist in what has been above
proposed. There is no doubt that CaTrLExa, EPIDENDRUM, and BROUGHTONIA, are so very nearly
related that on mere technical grounds they might be all placed in the same genus: but their habits

—— ER

156 THE HAYTIAN LALIOPS.

are very different, and the mind is unable to reconcile itself to their union. As to Broucuronta, if
we disregard its cucullate lip and manifest external adnate spur, there is little to divide it from
Epidendrum, the majority of whose species have a cuniculate ovary, and in the case of Æ. vesicatum,
even a spur partially visible ;—or from CarrLEya, except the tough coriaceous quality of the lip
in that genus, and the adhesion of the sepals of Brovewronta to the face of its external spur.
Upon grounds of the same nature as those which separate these genera must Lattoests be sustained,
when the mutual differences among the four genera may be tabulated thus :—

Labellum calcaratum, sepalis calcari adnatis. BROUGHTONIA.
Labellum ecalcaratum, cuniculatum tantum.
iculatum ; ungue sepius columns adnato. § EripENDRUM.
sessile, convolutum.
coriaceum imberbe. CATTLEYA.
membranaceum barbatum. La&.iopsis.

Laliopsis thus defined will receive, in addition to the species now published, Lelia Londen,
Broughtonia chinensis, and Epidendrum cubense.

Leliopsis domingensis was first found on trees in St. Domingo, by Mr. Mackenzie; then Jaeger
gathered it off branches of the Logwood tree in woods near Miragoane, where he saw it in flower
in April. It has lately been introduced to our gardens, and exhibited by Messrs. Henderson, of
Pine Apple Place Nursery, and Mr. Rucker. We owe our opportunity of making a drawing to
W. F. G. Farmer, Esq., of Nonsuch Park, who sent it us in the course of last summer.

It is an extremely pretty species, because of its gay lilac flowers a little veined with yellow in
the middle of the lip. Like other St. Domingo plants it demands all the heat of the stove while
growing ; but it a to be naturally dried up after the growth is made, if we are to judge from
our wild specim

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GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

632. SALVIA HIANS. Bentham; var. plectranthifolia. A hardy herbaceous plant belonging to
Labiates. Native of the Himalayas. Flowers violet and white. Introduced by Major Madden.
(Fig. 307.)

received a specimen
of this in October last from

Botanic Garden, with the
following note :—

“ It is pretty, and quite
hardy. Major Madden col-
lected the seeds, from which
I raised the plants, near

it to be quite a new species
to him. In its native
habitat, I understand, Sal-
via plectranthifolia is a very

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633. Rosa Forrv- :
NIANA. Lindley. Fortune’s Double Yellow, or Wang-jang-ve Rose.
If it is desirable to give a botanical ifie name to a hybrid plant at all,it can only be done, with any kind of

propriety, when we are acquainted with the double origin of the plant in question, viz. both parents. Of the pedigree of

158 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

the Rose here figured we pati nothing, save that it comes from China; and, as Dr. Lindley has observed, it is
fruitless to inquire. As an ornamental rose for the garden, we should have thought there could have been but one
opinion among those who e seen the flowering plant (the enn of the el cannot be imitated by art), and that is
entirely in its favour. But it has been spoken of unfav by some ; and this has been accounted for by
M s

space. “Seldom,” write Messrs. Standish and Noble,in June of the present year, “has a really beautiful Soi

it to be worthless. In fact there exists a deeply rooted prejudice against the plant, caused, no doubt, by the very
Yet nothin

tint of crimson lake, and you obtain an idea of its colour. The centre petals have generally a predominance of lake, and
the outer ones are more strongly marked; but -— isa ماي‎ clearness about them, which can only be appreciated
by examining a flower, Apart from the prejudice which t the plant, many persons have spoken derogatively
of it, from having failed to cultivate it simis ; their plants: producing but few flowers, and those indifferent both
in size and colour. This has arisen from an improper mode of treatment, If pruned in the manner usually adopted for

to a wall, the shoots should only be thinned,—to shorten them is to destroy the flowers. We have at the time of
writing this (June 28) some standards, from three to e feet through the heads, covered with blossoms; and mor

it has been said to be tender ; but we have never seen it injured in the least, even during the most severe weather, It is
one of the most rapid-growing roses, and well adapted for a wall or pillar.” Mr. Fortune tells us, “ the rose you inquire
about is well known to me, and was discovered in the garden of a rich Mandarin at Ningpo. It completely covered an
old wall in the garden, and was in full bloom at the time of my visit : masses of glowing yellowish and salmon-coloured

owers hung down in the greatest profusion, and produced a most striking effect. It is called A the Chinese the Wang-
jang-ve, or yellow rose. They vary, however, a good deal in colour ; a circumstance which, my opinion, adds not a
little to the beauty and character of the plant. I fancy it is quite distinct bel any other ee variety, and certainly
different from any China kind. It is admirably adapted for covering walls: and if planted in rich soil, and allowed to
grow to its full size, nothing can ادي‎ a finer effect in our gardens. It was sent home to the Horticultural Society

in 1845, and noticed by me in the Journal of the Society, vol. i. p. 218, and again in my Journey to the Tea Countries,
P "uet a doubt = hayi hide: =e that it has been properly € treated by Men Standish and Noble, will soon
— Bot. Mag. 679.
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634, CowACLINIUM AURANTIACUM. Scheidweiler. (alias Tithonia splendens Gardens.) A most
beautiful half-hardy perennial, with scarlet flower-heads. Native of Guatemala (P). Belongs to
Composites. Introduced by Mr. Van Houtte.

This plant looks like an “ African Marigold,” with the flowers of a Scarlet Zinnia, M. Planchon says that it was
raised from seeds found in the earth belonging to a lot of Orchids from Central America, by Mr. Ortgies, the foreman
in Mr. Van Houtte’s hothouses. It was planted out under the wall, in front of an Orchid-house, and flowered last autumn.
Messrs; regor and Scheidweiler are of opinion that it forms an entirely new genus in the tribe of Tagetineæ, which
are b y their copious oil cysts, close to the Pectidese, * now lost, one hardly knows why, among Vernoniaceæ.”
The cakes is the character given by these gentlemen of their new genus :—

apitulum multiflorum, heterogamum, floribus radii ligulatis, uniseriatis, foemineis, disci hermaphroditis (?) tubulosis,
centralibus subabortivis. Involucri squamee circiter 12 , subuniseriatæ, à basi liberze, marginibus tantum leviter imbricatee,
lineari-spathulate, epe longitudinaliter bete حي‎ dilatat to wa vend em, vittis — lineatze.
eulum conicum, floribus dem ob paleas i mosum e nomen). Corolla
floseulorum apice vix eta; te 5-fida, gem uris crassis, e vain pue BARES x chr contortis.
Antherze ecaudatze : pollen is اف‎ echinulatum. Styli bifidi cruribus ad margines minute dipsa sub apice
conico breviter annulato-barbatis. Ovaria cylindraceo-clavata, haud manifeste angulata nec alata. Pappus è paleis circiter

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punctiformibus conspersa. Capitula terminalia, solitaria, pulehré aurantiaca, pedunculo uctus
incrassato, bracteolis 2—3 lineari-lanceolatis involucro admotis.—Scheidweiler and Pi eere
635. LILIUM CANADENSE. J.; var. occidentale. A fine showy bulbous plant, with narrow

GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 159
whorled leaves, and revolute orange flowers spotted with crimson. Native of California. Introduced
by the Horticultural Society. (Fig. 308.)

“My North-West American specimens of .رق‎ canadense,” writes Sir W. Hooker (Flor. Bor. Americana,
much smaller flowers, of a redder hue, and are more disposed to be revolute ; yet I dare
not venture upon making them distinct The plant now figured is, we presume, what
he thus referred to. It is remarkable for having long grassy leaves, as many as ten ina
whorl, instead of five, which is the usual number in Z. canadense. The flowers are dee
orange, very much like those of a Martagon, with red stains, and numerous rich red-brown
blotches. The stamens are not at all united at the base. The plant is very handsome.
636. FUCHSIA MINIATA. Planchon and Linden. A very pretty green-
house shrub, with long tubular rich red flowers, having green-tipped sepals
a little longer than
the scarlet petals.
Native of New Gre-
nada. ^ Introduced

by Mr. Linden.

F. miniata (S lon-

ii. 181) “have

semi-lanceolatis acutis petala miniata sessilia apicem versus erosula
ferè tibus, staminibus majoribus sepalis æquilongis, stylo exserto.
—P lanchon. :

There is an obvious resemblanee between this and i سمه‎ ;
it has the same verticillate leaves, the same pendent flowers, the
same taper-pointed calyx, and the same colour in the petals. The form, however, of the latter is of itself sufficient
to distinguish the two plants. There is less, though still abundant, difference between this Fuchsia —— and
F. petiolaris of Humboldt. In miniata the leaves are as often in fours à s, they are more co am Ari
evidently downy ; the sepals are narrower and less cuspidate, the petals entirely smooth, and obtuse instead o ser 5 8
in F. petiolaris, acute and furnished with scattered hairs. Slight as these differences may appear, they are not the less

—Planchon, in Flore des Serres.

637. SIPHOCAMPYLUS PENDULIFLORUs. Decaisne. A very handsome ee T ve
Native of the Caraccas. Flowers bright deep rose-colour. Belongs to Lobeliads. Introduce
by Mr. Linden. dM

1 is lignosi è is leviter flexuosis epidermide e

S. penduliflorus ; scandens glaberrimus, ramis lignosis superne angulatis 1 ; |

ian minuté puncticulata vestida, foliis alternis petioli longiuseuli torsione sepe deflexis ovato-o -— rape
remoté adpresséque serrulatis crassiusculis nervis secundariis utrinque paucis venis reticulatis, racemis

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160 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

solitariis longis laxifloris, floribus nutantibus — — pedicellis pollicaribus basi braeteá parva lineari
stipatis, calycis laciniis linearibus integris stellatim patentibus tubum o conicum 2-3-pló superantibus, corolle laciniis
linearibus tubi angusti dimidium excedentibus, Rum Res f re nl 2 apice pilis liberis barbatis.— Planch

A decidedly petis habit, leaves with a twisted stalk and a long raceme of pendulous flowers, remarks M. Pied,
distinguish this from all the other Siphocampyls in cultivation. Mr. Linden, who introduced it to Europe, says that it
was discovered by his collectors, Messrs. Funck and Schlim, several years ago, near Galipan, in the province of Caraccas,
at the height of 5000 feet above the sea. Mr. Van Houtte adds that, like many other climbers, this will not flower till it
has arrived at a considerable size ; a fault, however, c — by the great quantity of flowers that follow the age of
barre It should be planted out in a warm conservatory, in a rich soil, and its stems trained toa trellis. It strikes
from patting very unwillingly ; - it may be i to be on sale by March, 1853.— Flore des Serres.

638. SENECIO CONCOLOR. De Candolle. A handsome greenhouse herbaceous plant. Native
of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers rich purple. Belongs to Composites. Introduced by
Sir Charles Hulse, who received the seeds from Colonel G. Buller

We have little doubt that this fine showy perennial is that which De Candolle meant by his S. concolor, from Tulbagh
and the Kat River mountains, although in cultivation it scarcely produces any of the hairs to which his specific character
points. It is evidently a near relation of the old Senecio speciosus. The root-leaves are spathulate, lanceolate, long-

sessile, and slightly stem-clasping and downy at the edges ; all are more or less incised. The stem grows about two feet
high, and forms an open corymb scantily clothed with foliage. The flower-heads have a rich purple colour throughout,
with a diameter of nearly two inches, most of which belongs to the rich purple ray. It requires to be treated like Cape
Pelargoniums, grows freely in a mixture of loam, peat, and leaf mould, and is increased from seeds. It is a very
handsome sere in the way of a * Cineraria," and may prove uini for bedding out during the summer. Flowers
in August and September.— Journ. of Hort. Koc., vol. vii.

639. Hoya rRATERNA. Blwme. A hothouse climbing plant from Java. Flowers buff-coloured.
Belongs to Asclepiads. Introduced by Messrs. Veitch.

A very fine new and very distinct species of Hoya, first detected in Java by Blume, and since by Mr. Thomas Lobb,
and sent by him to his employer Mr. Veitch, in whose stove at Exeter it has grown very vigorously, and yielded its very

coloured figure is taken from a portion of the plant yielding smaller foliage ; but these leaves are remarkable no less |
ues their great size than they are for their firmness and thickness, and the very indistinct remote D nerves,

scarcely seen except when the leaf is held between the eye and the light, or when the leaves are dried for the h dise
then the shrinking of the parenchyma brings the veins more distinctly into view, and shows them to ii pinnated,
anastomosing, and slender. The petioles and costa beneath are peculiarly thick. The upper side of the corolla, ae
excepted, is downy, or between silky and velvety, and = a ra اج‎ buff-colour, but five stains or spots are s
radiating from the centre towards the sinuses, whic ys wet and clamm my, which clamminess appears to be de
to a flow of honey from beneath each of the leaves of the crown or n dete: and give a rich brown tone of colour to the
whole umbel of flowers, It was named fraterna T Blume, on account of its affinity to H. coriacea, from which it is
"bie: etm distinct. A climber, with te stems and branches, rooting near the insertion of the petioles,

opposite leaves, on rather short but very pe petioles ; varying from six inches to a foot in length, singularly

thick, and firmly fleshy, subcoriaceous, elliptical, very glabrous and even, the margins recurved, the apex rather acute,
the base emarginate or subcordate, dark green and glossy shane: pale and opaque bead, het the midrib is very
broad and prominent ; lateral veins scarcely at all visible except the leaf be held between the eye and the light, when
they are seen to be pinnated, distant, slender, anastomosing towards the margin. Peduncle much shorter than the
leaves, moderately stout, thickened at the base, bearing at the apex a dense umbel of rather large, brownish red flowers.
Sepals five, oval, concave. Corolla rotate, pale buff, with five red brown blotches, five-lobed, the lobes triangular, silky,
reflexed. Leaflets of the corona pale buff, rotundato-ovate, thick, fleshy, concave above, with a blood-red spot at the
base, grooved beneath.— Bot. Mag., t. 4684.

640. ALSTROMERIA PLANTAGINEA. Martius. A very fine herbaceous plant, with rich bell-
shaped flowers of deep orange, lined with yellow, tipped with green, and spotted with dark brown
bars. Native of Brazil. Belongs to Amaryllids. Introduced by M. de Jonghe. (Fig. 309.)

A. plantaginea ; herbacea 1—1} pedalis flore excepto glaberrima, foliis ad apices ramorum sterilium confertis
ramis fertilibus plus minus inter se approximatis aversis MH (3—4 poll. longis) apice sacl
i alterá pallidio:

acutiusculis margine integro pellucido levibus 5— 7-nerviis paginá sursüm spectante lucida leeté viridi
supremis pseudo-verticillatis inzequalibus pedicellis multd ا‎ umbellà terminali 6—8-florà, pedicellis (3-poll.

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GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 161

longis), suleatis, yes nutantibus, ovario subgloboso crassé sex-costato, tl
filamentis parum qualibus leviter incurvo-deflexis breviter exsertis, polline aureo, S staminibus —
glaberrimo rai sn trifido divisuris linearibus stigmaticis.— Planchon

This noble species was obtained some years since by M. de Jonghe of festus, through his collector Libon, i.
found it in the mountainous province of the Mines. It is a herbaceous plant, with simple ereet stems, having no kind of
tendency to twine, some terminated by a large umbel of flowers, such as are shewn in the accompanying cut, while
others are merely stopped by a tuft of ribbed leaves, It requires exactly the same treatment as other Alstromerias.—
Planchon, in Flore des Serres

641. SOBRALIA CHLORANTHA. Hooker. A showy terrestrial Orchidaceous plant. Native of
Brazil. Flowers yellow. Introduced by Lucombe, Pince, a and Co. x

Rece essrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., ie June, 1852. It was sen em

by Mr. Yun hee s aries ee wef code s: in gen d structure e those of Sobralia, but of a yellow sni

and with foliage more ds that : some Cattleya, thiek and dh Poppig ve Endlicher have a an : سوس‎ ttis

(Nov. Gen. et Sp. Plant., oP? 5), which they distinguish m Sobralia by ver —€— veg A T" verd e -

tamen proxime affine adum ' and which has yellow or white preda but the saga shou 8

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162 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

attached to the middle lobe of a trifid apex to the column, In our plant, however, the lobes are shorter than in the ert
flowered Sobralias and the se m as well as the petals are eonnivent and uni ited for some length at the base. Wheth

a goose quil, nearly terete, covered for the most part with the long rather سه‎ sheathing bases of the leaves.
Leaves two or three, very unequal in size ; e lowest of them half a foot long, the uppermost from one to two inches,
resembling a bractea, all of them dark full green, oblong or elliptical-ovate, rather acute, subcoriaceous, fleshy, the

little ed, the surface iria with a few, distant, ag TE longitudinal striæ. In a sterile plant sent us,
the rm are more ides equal and more oblong. The flowe large, terminal, sessile, curved, of a uniform pale
sulphur-coloured yellow. Ovary clavate, sessile, rising a little above p sheath of the upper or bracteal leaf. Sepals

sit and of the same length, erecto-connivent. Lip — = tha greater part 8 usi length enclosed Vim the "m
and petals, large, longer than the perianth, broad!

the dise faintly striated, with a slight elevation where the Pers is set on, and below that two oblong, small, incurved scales
or portions of the margin. Column clavate, curved, about two-thirds the length of the flower, yellow, deeper-coloured
and plain in front; the apex obscurely trifid, the lobes, especially the latter ones, short, obtuse ; the anther-case
hemispherical, imbedded, as it were, within the lobes, and attached to the intermediate one.— Bot. Mag., t. 4682.

642. MERIANIA Karsten. Naudin. (alias Meriania macrantha Linden ; alias Schwerinia
superba Karsten; alias Chastenæa longifolia Naudin.) A beautiful hothouse shrub, with rich
crimson flowers. Native of the Caraccas. Belongs to Melastomads. Introduced by Mr. Linden.

enus Meriania, which was dedicated by the Swedish Botanist Swartz to the memory of Sibylle de Merian,
a Dutch lady who published a great work on the insects of Surinam, contains a small number of Melastomads inhabiting
the West Indies and the intratropical Andes, all remarkable for the delicate venation of their leaves, and the brillianey
of their flowers. Karsten's genus Schwerinia certainly belongs to it, for the pretended distinction between the anthers
of the two genera (two pores in one and one pore in the other) is too slight to possess real value. The species in question
was found in the Caraecas by Mr. Linden in 1842, and forms No. 35 of his herbarium. It inhabits the middle mountain

elegans, It is in facta shrub with oval-lanceolate acuminate seréated 3-ribbed dark green leaves, and flowers as large
as an apple-blossom, but with the peculiar colour of Lemonia.— Flore des Serres.

643. RHODODENDRON Lovis PHILIPPE. A magnificent hardy hybrid, between R. ponticum and
R. arboreum, with intensely crimson flowers.

This brilliant variety was obtained from seeds sown nearly ten years ago by M. Bertin, of Versailles, who also
succeeded in raising at the same time two other very remarkable plants, viz., the Rhododendrons Charles Truffaut and
Madame Bertin. It is said to be a variety of Rhododendron arboreum, and the brilliant colour of its flowers is in favour of
this supposition ; in consequence, however, of the indiscriminate use of the word hybrid, which is often applied even by

eminent persons imple varieties produc y و‎ we co have some hesitation in adop the above
opinion. The new Rhododendron is at all events hardy even at Paris ; it first flowered in 1846, but did not become
generally known until last year, as M. was desirous of ascertaining that its characters were constant before it

Bertin
became an article of trade. The name by which the plant is designated commemorates at once benefits conferred and
misfortunes suffered, and tends to excite feelings of gratitude and sympathy in the minds of those ami were ever interested
in the late king of the French. The following are the characters of this beautiful variety as given by M. Henzé:—A
freely flowering shrub, having from its very base extremely ramified branches ; flowers a early (April and
May); leaves of an average size, oblong-lanceolate, smooth, mucronate, clear green above, paler below, petiole
middling long, greenish. Flowers in an almost hemispherical and closely packed corymb. Flower-bud round, whole-
tte with كه‎ scales ; peduncle moderately long, green in a house, and reddish in the open air. Calyx

Mane viy shallow rounded divisions me undulating at the edges. General colour of a very brilliant lac
red, set off by rich dark purple spots covering the upper divisions and a quarter of the lateral ones. Stamens with
filaments reddish at the base and scarcely projecting beyond the corolla ; anthers darker in ety — pet de
reddish, ies than the stamens; stigma brown.—Planchon, in Bene Horticole, 1852, p. 361, fig. 19. Certainly
accordi the figure, a very fine variety, with all the brilliancy of the best states of R. nti

644. PHALANOPSIS INTERMEDIA. A very fine stove epiphyte. Flowers white ud deep rose.
Introduced by Messrs. Veitch & Co. (Fig. 310.)

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GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 163

P. intermedia; petalis latè rhombei i i lobi i 5 S i
bicirrhoso. : atè rhombeis acutis, labelli lobis lateralibus cuneatis obtusangulis intermedio ovato apice
It is not improbable that this beautiful plant is a natural mule between P. amabilis and rosea. It agrees with the
former in foliage and in the ten-

base. Lip three-lobed ; the lateral
divisions erect, wedge-shaped, with
rounded angles, violet with a few

nearly square, depressed in the
middle, deep yellow with crimson
dots.

645. ROGIERA CORDATA.
Planchon. (aliàs Rondeletia
cordata Bentham.) A beau-
tiful stove shrub, with rich
pale rose-coloured cymes of
flowers. Native of Guate-
mala. Belongs to Cincho-
nads. Introduced by Mr. Van
Houtte.

A beautiful shrub in the way
of Rogiera amena, figured in our
first volume among the Glean-
ings, no. 194, fig. 95. Its leaves

the others. The colour is said to be brighter, and the

are distinetly heart-shaped, and thus are readily known from
eye of a more clear yellow.— Planchon, in Flore des :

646. Runus JAPONICUS. Veitch. A hardy shrub, with broad bright green leaves, white flowers,

and yellow fruit. Native of Japan. Belongs to Roseworts. Introduced by Messrs. Veitch and Co.
: icus ; erectus, inermis, glaberrimus, foliis simplicibus alté cordatis palmatis lobis duplieato-serratis, stipulis

integris lineari-oblongis aeutis, floribus 2—3 terminalibus pedunculis calycibusque glanduloso-tomentosis. :

who found it growing in the Botanie Garden at Buitenzorg,

ibed. It forms a bush, with the habit of R: nutkanus,

are succeeded by beautiful yellow raspberries,
those of the “ Yellow Antwerp." The shrub seems to be hardy ; in Messrs.

rather pleasant to the taste, and as large as
where it proves to be almost evergreen.

Veitch's nursery it was planted in front of a low wall,

164 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

647. Ecurwopsts CRISTATA. Salm-Dyck. (alias Echinocactus obrepandus Sale DES A
very fine succulent plant, with large straw-coloured flowers. Native of Bolivia.

This, as well as the purple-flowered variety of it, were imported by Mr. Bridges from Bolivia (not Chili, as state d by
r. Smith in Bot. Mag., under t. 4521). The latter is already figured in the plate just cited, and we scarcely know

the present kind produces the largest blossoms ;

t. pons
648. Hupycnrom FLAVESCENs. Loddiges. (aliàs H. Roxburghii Siebold.) A handsome and,
fragrant stove plant, native of India. Flowers pale yellow, in August. Belongs to Gingerworts.
(Fig. 311.)
stout plant, about four feet high, with a great fleshy rhizome. Leaves about fifteen inches long by five inches
broad, covered on the under side with long silky hairs. Flower-spike erect, a foot long, covered with brown hairs.
Outer bracts rather distant, two inches long, with a short leafy revolute point, and closely covered with rusty hairs at =
edges ; rolled round a very short spike of five flowers, surrounded by membranous, nearly-smooth braetlets, Ovary a
long tubular calyx shaggy with brown hairs. Tube of the corolla smooth, slender, Hir inches long ; its three outer den
linear and revolute ; ; of the pale n three inner, the lateral are unguiculate, sper anceolate, acuminate, slightly
Wwo-parted with half-oval divisions, about ha If the length of the bright orange-
It require i ^ potted in a rieh loamy soil
mo Pande it should be removed to a cooler

r. Wallich, if that plant had not been described as baee five linear petals, whereas here three only are linear and two
broad spathulate-lanceolate.—Journ. of Hort. Soc., vol. vii

L.Constans

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[Prate 106.]

THE CHINESE ALTHZEA FRUTEX.

(HIBISCUS SYRIACUS; VAR. CHINENSIS.)

A beautiful Stove Shrub, native of CHINA, belonging to MauLowwonrs.

Hibiscus syriacus : Linneus.

HE common Althea frutex is said upon no very good authority to be a native of Palestine, and
even of Carniolia; but it does not appear to have been known to the Greeks, and Forskühl
expressly states that it is a garden plant in Egypt. Colitur in hortis Egypti ; floribus splendidis ;
aut totis violaceis, vel albis, basi rubris. (Fl. egypt. arab., p. 125.) Tts real country must in truth be
regarded as unknown ; it however appears to be very common in the East of Asia, but always cultivated.
Thunberg tells us that it is grown every where in Japan for live fences, and that it is the Kin of
Keempfer. Of this Ki» the latter author tells us that it is also called Mu Kunge, that it is
cultivated, and has in one state single flowers, blue shading into purple, flore in purpureum caeruleo,
in another state double tinged with blue, cerudeato, with dense crisp petals, but neither style nor
stamens. (Ameen. exot. 858.)

One of these forms is now before the reader in the accompanying plate, drawn in the garden of
the Horticultural Society, where it had been raised from seeds, presented to the Society by John
Reeves, Esq., in June, 1844, under the name of Koorkun Vellory.

The Editor of the Society's Journal speaks thus of the plant itself :—

“ I think there can be no doubt that this, although certainly Chinese, is a mere variety, and not
a well marked one, of Hibiscus syriacus. It has large violet flowers, with a crimson eye, and its
leaves are larger, thinner, and more smooth than in the shrub out of doors, owing, perhaps, to

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166 . THE CHINESE ALTHHA FRUTEX.

having been grown in a stove. But the last circumstance is evidently unimportant, for in
Mr. Fortune's wild specimens now before us, the leaf-stalks are perfectly shaggy. This traveller
found it forming a shrub eight to twelve feet high, with light ‘ blue’ flowers, in the hedges and on
hill-sides on Poo-too-san, and other islands.

» When growing in a stove, with the same kind of treatment as is required by the well-known
Hibiscus rosa-simensis—that is to say, if grown in a mixture of sandy loam, peat, and leaf-mould, it
forms a very handsome shrub, flowering in July and August.”

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PLATE 107.

[PrarE 107.]

THE CALISAYA BARK-PLANT.
(CINCHONA CALISAYA.)
AE ae

A fragrant Hothouse Shrub, native of Boutvta, belonging to the Natural Order of CINCHONADS.

Specific Character.

THE CALISAYA BARK-PLANT. Leaves oblong or | CINCHONA 041,184 YA ; foliis oblongis v. lanceolato-
lanceolate-obovate, obtuse, narrower at the base, seldom obovatis obtusis basi attenuatis rariüs utrinqu tis
sharp at both ends, smooth and shining or downy on the glabratis nitidis v. subtus pubescentibus in axillis venarum
underside, with pits in the axils of the veins. Filaments scrobiculatis, filamentis quam dimidia antherá plerumque
not half so long as the anthers. Capsule ovate, searcely brevioribus, capsulá ovata flores longitudine vix sequante,
solong as the flowers. Seeds finely and elosely fringed seminibus margine crebré fimbriato denticulatis. —
with teeth at the edge. Weddell.

Cinchona Calisaya : Weddell, Hist. Nat. des Quinquinas, p. 30, tt. 3 and 4 ; Journal of Hort. Soc., vol. vi. p. 272.

x owe our knowledge of this important plant to one of the boldest and best of the naturalists
employed by the French Government. Dr. Weddell, an English Botanist, attached to the mission
of M. de Castelnau, succeeded, among innumerable difficulties, in reaching the country where the
Calisaya, the most precious of the kinds of Cinchona, or Peruvian Barks, is produced. He
brought seeds to Europe; and from some of them, obtained from the Jardin des Plantes of Paris
through the friendly assistance of J. B. Pentland, Esq., the Horticultural Society raised the plant
whose flowers are now represented. From the very full account of it in the Society’s Journal we
make as many extracts as our space will permit.
“The leaves are oblong, obtuse, pale dull green, tapering gradually into the petiole, which is
red, as well as the midrib itself; at the back of the leaf, in the axil of each principal vein, is a small
excavation closed up by hairs. The stipules, which fall off very early, are a pair of oblong, erect,

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168 e THE CALISAYA BARK-PLANT.

blunt, smooth plates. The flowers appear in panicles at the ends of the lateral shoots, are of a pale
pink colour before expansion, almost white when fully open, and emit a most agreeable weak
balsamic fragrance. The calyx is a small superior five-toothed cup, covered with fine close down
like the branches of the panicle. The corolla has a cylindrical tube about half an inch long, and a
reflexed five-lobed limb, copiously fringed with long transparent club-shaped hairs. The stamens are
five, and can just be seen when looking down into the tube of the corolla.

Dr. Weddell} in his Natural History of the Quinquinas, states that :—

“From this species is obtained the most precious of the Jesuit's barks used in medicine,
employed from time immemorial in trade under the name of Calisaya bark, but whose origin was
wholly unknown till now.

“ I have already observed that this tree has hitherto been only found in Peru, in the southern

part of the province of Carabaya. The results at which I have arrived in endeavouring to determine
exactly the limits of the region it occupies seem curious enough to be noted in this place. Thus,
after having studied the plant in all the ancient province of Yungas in La Paz, to the north of
17° 8. lat., I followed it into that of Larecaja or Sorata, thence into Caupolican or Apolobamba, the
place of its first discovery ; and all my care has failed in enabling me to find it north of those points.
An imaginary barrier exists then beyond which the plant will not go, notwithstanding that the
neighbouring valleys appeared to be of the very same nature ; a fact that can scarcely be explained,
unless upon the supposition that peculiarities do exist in the most southern valleys of Carabaya
which are wanting in the north ; and this may possibly be owing to the manner in which the rivers
are distributed. I believe, in fact, that I am justified in referring those of the district in question to
a particular system, possibly dependent upon the Bolivian system, and that those in the other parts
of the province lose themselves on the contrary by the N. of Peru, in the Upper Amazon. This
unexplained attachment which certain plants manifest for natural regions, and especially for valleys,
is by no means without example; and now that Geographical Botany is obtaining serious attention,
science will be enriched more and more with analogous facts.

“The great reputation of the Quinquina Calisaya has caused such a demand for it, that it will
certainly some day disappear completely from commerce, and we shall be obliged to be content with other
sorts now despised. It has already disappeared around inhabited places, except in the form of a
bush ; and if by mere chance a small tree has remained unobserved in the midst of a forest, its head
no sooner becomes visible than the hatchet brings it down. For my own part, when I have wished
. to see the species in all its vigour, it has been necessary to pass long days on foot in the forests, to’
penetrate them by paths which were scarcely passable, and to undergo some of the fatigues which
are the ordinary lot of the poor Cascarilleros."

Its native station was found by this enterprising traveller to be on the slopes and precipices of
mountains as high as 4500 or 5400 feet in the hottest valleys of Bolivia and Southern Peru, in
forests between 13° and 169-30“ S. lat and 68°—72° W. long. in the Bolivian provinces of
Enquisivi, Yungas, Larecaja, and Caupolican, and in Carabaya in Peru.

This plant has been found to require very peculiar management. Mr. George Gordon, under
whose care it flowered in the Society’s Garden, explains at length in the “Journal” in what way the

specimen was treated which bloomed so abundantly in the Society’s stove, and the reader is referred
thither for information.

L.Constans del.& 5nc.

Printed. by C.F.Cheffins, London.

[PrarE 108.]

THE SPLENDID ASCHYNANTH.
(JESCHYNANTHUS SPLENDIDUS.)
Sr AN

A magnificent Stove Plant, of GARDEN ORIGIN, belonging to the Natural Order of GesneraDs.

OF this most beautiful thing we have the following account from Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co.,
of Exeter, who raised it.

* We have very great pleasure in sending you a cut specimen of our 11617
splendidus, which we think you will admire. It is a hybrid produced from Æ. speciosus impregnated
with ZZ. grandiflorus, and possesses the brilliancy of colour and hardy constitution of the male,
whilst it also fully partakes of the many good qualities of the other parent.

* It is easily cultivated, producing along succession of large umbels of brilliant coloured flowers,
and requires much less heat than many other ZEschynanths, a circumstance easily accounted for by
the fact that Æ. grandiflorus has been frequently wintered by us in a cold pit, into which frost
has sometimes penetrated. A figure of Æ. splendidus has been published in a contemporary in
December last, but it did not by any means do justice to the subject, and the specimen I now send
is better even than that from which the drawing was made. In no respect has this fine hybrid had
that publicity given to it which such a plant merits."— Zrefer, Sept. 7, 1852.

At a later period many small plants were exhibited to the Horticultural Society, for the purpose
of showing how abundantly they blossom even in the youngest stage. They formed a brilliant
circle, of which it is no exaggeration to say, that all other colours became pale when contrasted
with theirs.

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GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

649. C@LOGYNE cristata. Lindley. A beau- Y.
tiful Orchidaceous epiphyte, from the North of :
India. Flowers large, pure white, with numerous
yellow fringes on thelip. (Fig. 312.)

f the most striking of the white-flowered Indian
f

thes, which

Mrearis rU the
vary and stalk,

When e H y form a pendent

e trans-
verse roundish three-toothed middle
Along the middle run five parallel vein
‘covered by delicate ent glandular fringes at
the base of each of the three central is a wavy
plate, and at the wa bic of the two ack stand
on each side the middle vein is another solid plate
terminating abruptly in front and more or less
tooth The very fine specimen, of which our

resents a portion, flowered at Chatsworth
In i

in March, 1850. imen the pseud
bulbs were fully three inches long ; but they are
usually much smaller ١

650. HOULLETIA trartna. Linden.
(alias Paphinia tigrina Gardens.) One of

VOL. TIL,

172 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA.

the finest of all epiphytes. Flowers rich yellow daggled all over with crimson. Native of New
Grenada. Belongs to the Order of Orchids.

H. tigrina; seapo decurvo, sepalis alte connatis, petalis acutissimé trilobis, labelli epichilio sessili ovato obtuso apiculato
hastato versus basin verrucoso angulis posticis acuminatis, mesochilio apice earnoso in tu ueniam uo m elevato
cirrhis ascendentibus faleatis eolumná brevioribus, hypochilio earnosissimo basi excavato semibiloc

Wild on the ground in New Grenada, in the province of Ocafia, growing in forests of Wei mannia, where it was
found by Mr. Schlim, one r Mr. Linden’s collectors, in June and July, 1851, at an elevation of 4800 feet. It has been
our good fortune to see many beautiful Orchids, and after becoming acquainted with Pha sis amabilis, Vanda

number of our ^ Flower Garden” which will appear, a brief description is all we can give. The leaves are broad,
plaited, "t, almost two feet long, and look like those of a vigorous Stanhopea. The stem appears to be about as thick
as a swan's quill, digne red, Maur dotted with brown. The flowers are four inches in diameter, and of the firm
texture of Stanhopeas. long, concave, miii vett Fiohly mM and عي‎ aE with deep rose,
The petals are dos inch and | three-quarters long, very acute, wi , brilliant yellow
variegated way as the i agi The lip consists of a ; broad fleshy oblong stalk 2# a flat spade-
shaped blade ; tl Vines vepres ome over with crimson; the stalk is richly marked
with cross bands of blood-red, and has on either side a process shaped like a seythe-blade which rises up in the direction
of the anther. The column is dull yellow speckled with seg jdm such an account it is only necessary to say that
Mr. Linden has this noble plant on sale, and that the character of Houlletia as a genus distinct from Stanhopea is placed
in jeopardy.

We avail ourselves of the present opportunity of mentioning that Mr. Linden also possesses another Houlletia, having
much the habit of H. Brockelhurstii, and like it remarkable for its fragrance. It also grows in New Grenada, in the

differs fron dh last :—
651. H. idol: ved ; Seapo strieto, sepalis liberis. , petali os pali f, +. Gouboeld. Tete pi Lit
- unde mire aso sabesgitis q i TUM m" 1 re
fal colam brevioribus, hypochilio r ioe EER uc aud.

652. BEGONIA xawTHINA. Hooker. A noble hothouse species of Begoniad, native of Bootan.
Flowers deep yal

green above, and with the fine red of the petioles, peduncles (shaggy, with scale-like hairs), and underside of the leaf.

It flowered in July, 1852. Root a short, thick, horizontal, fleshy rhizoma, shaggy with scaly hairs at the setting on

of the petioles, and bearing fibrous radicles below. Stem n none. Leaves ample, six inches to a span or more lon

obliquely (inequilaterally) adibe shortly acuminated, more or less sinuated, the margin denticulated, subciliate,
and reticulately veined, of a deep full gl ossy green and glabrous pes — red, with the nerves

and resembling it, but glabrous above, enin a many-flowered mone at the extremity. Flowers deep full yellow,
drooping, often springing three from one point, in which case two are male flowers, and one is female. Male flower
much th of four spreading sepals, of which three are oblong-obovate, and the fourth rotundate, larger and more
concave, tinged with red at the back. Stamens very numerous, forming a Grane: globose, yellow head. Female
mag small, of six nearly orbicular, concave, erect petals, tinged with red at the back. Fruit greenish, tinged with
ae و‎ tig two of the جنا‎ abe vis me ete the third is remarkably i diae horizontally, into a sort of broad

653. tsi NUTANS. Midi A coarse purple-flowered greenhouse shrub.
Native of Guatemala. Belongs to Mallowworts. Introduced by Mr. Van Houtte. (Fig. 313.)

This forms a branching shrub, with the habit of an Abutilon or Hibiscus. The leaves are palmate, long-stalked, .

GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 173

: and iie ae five very acute serrated lobes, A ra = of stellate hairs, which cover almost every and
pa ially the (CÓ gives them a grey unpleasant appeara But, on the other hand, the great earmine-rose flowers
oping gracefully from the end of a Ani peduncle Pene a sufficiently brilliant effect. It is not certain that the

SA ١ "n s
M VA

posed to 5 so by Mr. Van — The genus Spheralcea differs from Malva
of one ; that such is the structure o of the plant now described
K M eis not having had an opportunity of verifying the faet.—

plant comes from — but ¢ is sup’
in its dehiscent carpels

ts the authority “of Prof. Scheidweiler
Flore des Serres, 6

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174 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. |

654. ODONTOGLOSSUM PESCATOREI. Linden.

It now appears that this beautiful plant, figured at Plate 90, had been previously described by Mr. H. G. Reichen-
bach under the name of Odontoglossum mobile, as has been suggested in the Folia Orchidacea. It was however
impossible to recognise the description, in consequence of the misprints which it contained ; and we question whether,
under such circumstances, Mr. Linden’s name can be disturbed.

655. Momwopxs sPECcIOSUM. Linden. A beautiful stove epiphyte, from Ocaña. Flowers

deep yellow richly speckled with cinnamon. Introduced by Mr. Linden.

M. speciosum ;. sepalis petalisque lanceolatis, labelli tripartiti glabri laciniis lateralibus ovatis obtusis intermedia
acuminata multó brevioribus.

A very fine species found by Mr. Schlim in New Grenada in the province of Ocafia, at the elevation of 4800 feet, in

. August, 1852, The appearance is that of the genus generally ; the flowers are three inches in diameter, of a deep

golden-yellow, speckled all over even to the tip of the column with the rich cinnamon-red. The points of the lip are deep
purple. is has just flowered at Luxembourg, with Mr. Linden,

656. SOPHRONITES.

viucl bal

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Q,

Mr. H. G. Reichenbach has pointed out to us that the false name of Sophronitis 8 ibed to him by
transposition of type, at No. 472, is really chargeable upon Hoffmannsegg ; and that the name of S, Hoffmannseggii, another
false name, should be placed to his father's account,

657. LeProsrPHON LUTEUM. Bentham. (alias Gilia lutea Steudel.) A Californian hardy
annual, with gay yellow flowers. Belongs to Polemoniads. Introduced by Messrs. Veitch & Co.
ig. 314.)

(Fi
This brilliant little plant was long since discovered by Douglas, but has only recently been introduced by Messrs.
Veitch. With the habit of the other species now familiar in gardens it joins very bright yellow flowers, which in one
variety are as pale as a lemon, in another as dark as an orange. It is perfectly hardy, and demands the same
treatment as Z. endrosaceus.

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imeem tpolystachya. Plate 0
the many-spiked. igs 80
Plate 7

— the Morel,
— " thyrse-like. hs 74
yrsoidea, Plate 74

POR eos No. 624, fig. 304

Brachysema lanceolatum. No. 562
Brassia Keiliana, No. 585

Broughtonia lilaeina. Plate 105

Brya arborescens. No. 604

— Ebenus. No. 604

Burlingtonia ameena. No. 569, fig. 278
— decora, No. 569, fig. 278

CALANTHE ABBREVIATA. Plate 81
— augustifolia. Plate 1

INDEX OF VOLUME III.

[ Plate signifies the coloured representations; No. the number of the Gleanings and Memoranda ; fig. the woodcuts. |

604
No. 497
7

623

No. 504
late 107

— sylvatica. Plate 81
— tricarinata. Plate 81
— vveratrifolia, Plate $1

— versicolor. Plate 81

tubiflora, No. 523‏ الما

No. 541

Bignonia tulipifera. Plate 104
Plate 76

um Ebenus, No. 604

No. 552
Cookii, No. 552, fig. 272

Asclepias pulchella, Plate 101

Aspalathus arboreus. No.

bulbillifera, No. pe fig. 241‏ و
monoptera. No. 578, fig. 282‏ —

No. 528, fig. 260
9 "

No. c fig. 258
hen ١ the Nepal ash-leaved. Plate

س ——

— the pie es 108
No.

zebrinus.‏ دم
Allardtia cyanea. No, 593‏

Alstroemeria acutifolia, No. 624
— plantaginea. No, 640, fig.
309

Amerimn
Ania latifolia, No. 591
Araucaria columnaris.

Astragalus ponticus. No.

| Azalea amoena. Plate 89
— the dwarf crimson Chinese.

Plate 89

BarsAMINA FASCICULATA.
Bark-plant, the Calisaya.

— punctata.
— strigillosa. No
xanthina.

ABELIA, THE THREE-FLOWERED. Plate | Æschynanthus, the peras 8 No.

— triflora, Plate 91

Acanthostachys strobilacea, No. 518,
fig. 256

5
RUE Meses Sehkuhrioides, No. 584,

g. 2
Acineta naf ee oe No. 555
Acropera cornuta, No. 574

— flavida. No. 513
JEschynanthus atrosanguineus. No.
48

— Boschian No. 482
— eandidus. No. 482
No. 482

Berberis nepalensis.
— Ses . Plate

— Yucecoides,

Billbergia Moreliana.

— repens, No. 482

— Roxburghii, No. 482
—_— speciosus. No. 482
— splendidus. Plate 108

— Teysmannianus. No.
482

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ECHEVERIA BRACTEOSA, No. 531, fig.
quitensis. No, 630
retusa. Plate 73
the retuse. Plate 73
Echinocactus longihamatus. No. 524
obrepandus. No. 64
ا‎ cristata. No. 646
Elisena longipetala. No. 561, fig. 275
Epacris nivalis. No. 572, fig. 280
Epidendrum colorans. No. 479
flavidum. No. 622
leucochilum. No. 622, fig.

guatemalense. No. 595

— Wageneri, No. 478

Eria floribunda, var.leucostachya. No.
588, fig. 288

Erica sicula. 551

TES ? E No. 628, fig. 305

gni 8

Eurybia Guiana. ^ 559

FORGET-ME-NOT, THE AZOREAN. Plate 7

Fourcroya tubiflora. No. 523

Frutex, the Chinese Althza. Plate 106

Fuchsia miniata. No, 636

GASTROLOBIUM vELUTINUM. No. 549,

270
Gaura Lindheimeri. No, 597, fig. 292

Gilia lutea. No. 675, fig. 314
No. 517
otoniana. No. 517

Grevillea acanthifolia. No. 576, fig. 281

Grindelia grandiflora. No. 467
speciosa. No. 594, fig. 290

Quads macrantha. No, 565

HAKEA MYRTOIDESs. No. 534

Hedychium flavescens. No. 648, fig.

Roxburghii, No. 648, fig.
311

| Glossanthus malabarica.

INDEX.
Cyenoches musciferum. No. 500, fig.

ER sie 15

48
pentadaetylon,
Pescatorei.

Cymbidium Gibsoni. No. 618, fig. 301
— Mastersii. Plate 78
Cynanchum flavescens. No. 631

DACTYLICAPNOS THALICTRIFOLIA. No.

Dendrobe, the dark-eyed fringed. Plate
8

Dendrobium barbatulum. No. 592, fig.
85
bigibbum. No, 491, fig.
245
ealearatum, Plate 84.

clavatum. Plate 84.
Dalhousieanum. Plate 84

— Farmeri. No. 9

-— fimbriatum. Plate 84

fimbriatum oculatum.‏ س
late‏

— flavescens. Plate 84

— formosum. Plate 84

— Gibson late 84

rhombeum. Plate 84
sclerophyllum. Plate 84

—— catum. ate 84
triadenium, Plate 84
Dielytra chrysantha. Plate 103

the golden-flowered. Plate 103
Diplacus glutinosus, var. grandiflorus.
Plate 92

— the large-flowered glutinous.
Plate 92

Dombeya columnaris. No. 552

Dryandra nobilis, No. 484
runcinata, No. 4

176
Calanthe beer Plate 81
viri 91
Calceolaria ies pe No. 616,
fig. 300

stricta. No. 469, fig. 235

Calea leptophylla, No. pus
Calodracon nobilis. No. 4
— Sieboldii. ا‎
Campanula Vidalii. پا‎ 296
Canna sanguin
ccm nici
Cassinia i min Mus ae fig, 242

domingensis. Plate 105

—

Ceanothus verrucosus. No. 577, 627
lla cana. No
Centrosolenia bractescens. No. 619

Cerasus ilicifolia. No. 515
— Lauro-cerasus, var. Pumilio. No.

Gestrum ane No. 527, fig. 259

Cheenostoma fasciculatum. No. 464
— linifolium. No. 464, fig. 233
nea longifolia. No. 642
Cheiranthus littoreus. No. 589
Cheirostemon platanoides. No. 487,
fig. 243

Chionanthus retusus. No. 553, fig. 273
Cinchona Calisaya. Plate 107
Claytonia alsinoides. No. 566, fig. 276
sibirica. o. 56
un kensis.
ma crassifolium.
Cleisostome, the thick- eve ps 99
Clematis lanuginosa, Plate

— the woolly, Plate 94
Coologyne cristata. No, 649, fig. 312
Comaclinium aurantiacum. No, 634
Commelyna seabra. No. 466, fig. 234
Conradia verrucosa No. 502
Cordyline indivisa. No, 563

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— punctata. No. 516

— e No. 516, fig.

tenuis. No. 516, fig. 255

Tridachne. No, 6

trisepala. No. 516

Ny mnes Devoniensis. Plate 98
gigan 0. 546

Oponroctossum anceps. No, 468
Ehren No. 496,

. 654
Odontoglot, the Pescatore. Plate 90
Olearia Gunniana, No. 559 i
annosa. No. 507, fig. 252
Oncid, a hooded. Plate 87
Oncidium cucullatum. Plate 87
No. 592
Onosma Emodi.
— album, No. 605
majus. No. 605, fig. 295
Plate 75
Oxylobe, the oval. Plate 85
Oxylobium ovalifoliam. Plate 85

PaACHYPHYTUM n No. 531
Paphinia tigrina, No.
Passiflora alba. No. 539, k 265
— diversifolia. No. 625
— odora, No. 488
— quadriglandulosa. No. 625
— sanguinea. No. 625
— sicyoides. No. 488, fig. 244
Paulownia imperialis. No. 573
Pedicularis mollis. No. 511
Pelargonium foliolosum. No. 601
Pentapera sicula. No. 551, fig. 371
Pentarhaphia verrucosa, No. 502, fig.
250
Pentstemon baccharifolius. No. 483
Phalaenopsis intermedia. No. 644, fig.
310

Phrynium sanguineum. No. 537
Piteairnia Funkiana. No. 505

| idin the golden swan.

INDEX.

Lonicera fragrantissima. No. 547, fig. | Notylia bicolor. No. 516
268 — i

Lycaste brevispatha, No. 4

— tricolor. No. 560
MACHJERANTHERA TANACETIFOLIA. No.
7
Maharanga Emodi. No. 596, fig. 291
Mahonia nepalensis. Plate 79

Maranta sanguinea. No. 537
Masdevallia Wageneriana. No. 545,
fig. 267
Maxillaria bractescens. No, 536
Co No. 536

— = decolor. 536

— elongata. No. 536, fig. 264
— foveata. No. 536

— . Harrisonim, No. 568, fig. 277
— hyacinthina. No. 536

econopsis | Wallichi No. 586
No. 548, 590,
fig. 289
Meriania Karstenii. No, 642
— macrantha. No. 642
Mormodes convolutum. Plate 93 —
— flavidum. 5
— igneum. Plate 93
— macranthum. Plate 93
— speciosum. No. 655
the fiery-red. Plate 93
Nass lineolata. No. 533
Murtilla. No. 481
Myosotis azorica. Plate 97
Myrica californica. No. 621
Myrtus Ugni. No. 481

NAUTILOCALYX HASTATUS. No. 619
T و‎ aromatica, No. 516
Barkeri. No. 516

| paths Sieboldiana.

Heintzia tigrina. No. 603, fig. 4

Heliophila pilosa, var. arabidoides. No.

600, fig. 293
Helmia racemosa. No. 526
Hellebore,the dark purple. Plate 82
Helleborus atrorubens. Plate 8

Plate 98

Houlletia odoratissima., No, 651
— tigrina. ge =
No. 6
No. uk fig. 263

Hoya fraterna.
Huntleya cerina.

ILEX LATIFOLIA. No, 480, fig. 240

— platyphylla:

— fasciculata. No. 504
— heterophylla.
— macrophylla.
— setacea.

JEHLIA FUCHSIOIDES. No, 620
Justicia imbricata. No. 532

Kuvyera Norontana. No. 517

LANSBERGÍA SERRA No. 583

e luteum. No. 657, fig. 4
ium eanadense, var. occidentale. No.
635, fig. 308
— giganteum. No. 613
Lily, the gg of ro i Water.
Plate 9
eR rosy. Plate 81
imatodes mishmensis, Plate 81
pauciflora, Plate 81
rosea, Plate 81
Limonia vei No. 566
o. A16

Loasa S ee No. 550

— the bell-flowered. im 104
Plate 1
No. 653, 8 313
Stanhopea Bucephalus, var. guttata.
N

tulipifera.
dd. nutans.

o. 602
Strobilorachis glabra. No, 532, fig. 262
prismatica, No. 532

Swan-orchis, the golden. Plate 75

—

TACSONIA 90 No. 625

No. 625

Salvia hians, var. plectranthifolia. No.

Thyrsacanthus rutilans. No, 544, fig.

Tillandsia stricta. No. 629

Tithonia splendens. No. 634
Trichopilia albida, No. 498
Trigonidium ringens. No. 533

Tropseolum digitatum. No. 540

VANDA LONGIFOLIA. No. 626
— peduncularis. No. 512, fig. 253
Veronica decussata. No. 571
— diosmsefolia, Plate 95

— elliptica. No. 571, fig. 279

formosa. Plate 95

Plate 95

Vincetoxicum japonicum. No. 631, fig.
306

purpurascens, No. 614

No. 490

— maculata. No. 490

— pyrolefolia. No. 490

—

mm

the beauteous.

Viola lutea,

| Water Lity, THE DUKE or Devon-

SHIRE's. Plate
Wulfenia Notoniana. No. 517

INDEX.

No. 494

| pe Oerstedtii,
Ti No. 530

igridia,

| SALPIGLOSSIS COCCINEA.
Salpiglot, the scarlet,

Plate 100
Plate 100

632, fig. 307

Roemeriana. No. 606
Schlimmia jasminodora. No. 567, fig.
287

Schwerinia superba. No. 642

Scelochilus Jamiesoni. No. 557
indenii. No. 557
Ottonis. No, 557, fig. 274
Sedum purpurascens. No. 609

- Purp
quitense. No. 6
No. 638
Siphocampylus penduliflorus. No. 637
No. 501, fig. 249
Sisyrocarpum Ohlendorffii. No. 531
Skimmia ms No. 476

eola. No. 476
Sobralía ids No, 641
Solenid, the racemose. Plate 102
Solenidium racemosum. Plate 102
Sophronite, the agit of. No. 471
CRM No. 6
cernua. LG 472, fig. 6
— No. 473, fig.

237

ureum. No, 609, fig. 297
30
Senecio concolor.

Sisyrinchium majale.

Rogiera cordata. No ae — Hoffmannseggii. No. 472

Rondeletia cordata. No. 645 — isopetala, No. 472

Rosa Fortuniana, No. 633 = nutans. No, 472

Roscoea p . No. 492 — pterocarpa. No, 475, fig.

Rubus و‎ No. 646 239 |

Ruellia prisma — violacea. No. 474, fig. 238

Merian Humboldtii. No. 529 | Spathodea campanulata. Plate 104
THE END.

178

Pleurothallis pedunculata. No,
298

No.‏ ااا
fig. 2‏
Wageneriana. No.‏
manatees neriifolia, No, 554‏
revoluta. No. 580, fig.‏ وفع ig‏

Ps buxifolius.. No. 604
glabra. No. 604
Puya 1 ibus. No, 505
— longifolia. Plate 86
— the long-leaved. Plate 86

RANUNCULUS CoRTUSÆFOLIUS. No, 489
grandifolius. No. 489

Teneriffa. No. 489
Raphistemma pulchellum. Plate 101
the pretty. Plate 101
ee nuda. No. 610

vittata. No. 612
ل سق‎ ciliatum. Plate 83
eleeagnoides, No. 0
lepidotum. No. 570
Louis Phi
643

— ilippe. No.

obovatum. No. 0

salignum. No. 570

the ciliated. Plate 83

Rhynehoper سوس‎ No. 611
557

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