PLANT Л АЧТАТІСЖ RARIORES. | VOLUME I. PLANT A ASIATIC/E RARIORES; | OR, DESCRIPTIONS AND FIGURES OF A SELECT NUMBER OF UNPUBLISHED EAST INDIAN PLANTS, BY NATHANIEL WALLICH, M.&PH.D. KNIGHT OF THE ROYAL DANIO ODHE OP DANNEBROG : FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETIES OF LONDON AND EDINBURGH; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTE OF FRANCE; FELLOW OF THE LINNEAN AND GEOLOGICAL SOCIETIES OF LONDON; MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SOC. OF SCIENCES, AND THE ROYAL MEDICAL SOC. OF COPENHAGEN, THE ACAD. МАТ. CURIOS. OF BONN, THE ASIAT., AGRIC. AND MED. SOCIETIES OF CALCUTTA, THE ROYAL ASIAT. SOC. OF LONDON, THE SOC. МАТ. CURIOS. OF MOSCOW ; FOREIGN MEMB. OF THE PHYSIOGRAPH. SOC. OF LUND, AND OF THE HORT. SOC. OF LONDON; CORRESPONDING MEMB. OF THE MUS. D'HIST. NAT. OF PARIS, OF THE ACAD. OF NAT. SCIENC. OF PHILAD. THE SOC. OF ARTS AND SCIENCES OF BATAVIA, THE ECON. 80С. OF THE PHILIPPINES; HONORARY MEMB. OF THE HELVETIC SOC. OF NAT. SCIENC., THE ROYAL BOT. SOC. OF RATISBON, THE LIT. SOC. OF MADRAS, THE AGRIC. SOC. OF ST. HELENA, &c. &c. IN THE BENGAL MEDICAL SERVICE OF THE HONOURABLE EAST INDIA COMPANY, AND SUPERINTENDANT OF THE BOTANIC GARDEN AT CALCUTTA. VOL. I. E CONTAINING 2 PLATES I.—C. Mo. Bot. Garden, Wa 1896. LONDON: TREUTTEL AND WÜRTZ, TREUTTEL JUN. AND RICHTER, FOREIGN BOOKSELLERS TO THE KING, 30, SOHO SQUARE: PARIS; TREUTTEL AND WÜRTZ, RUE РЕ МЫХ: STRASBURGH; TREUTTEL AND WÜRTZ, GRANDE RUE. 1830. RICHARD TAYLOR, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY ОҒ LONDON, RED LION COURT, FLEET STREET. М DCCC ХХХ, то THE HONOURABLE THE CHAIRMAN, DEPUTY CHAIRMAN, AND COURT OF DIRECTORS OF THE UNITED EAST INDIA COMPANY, THIS WORK, WHICH OWES ITS EXISTENCE TO THE MUNIFICENCE WITH WHICH THEY HAVE ENCOURAGED AND SUPPORTED BOTANICAL SCIENCE IN INDIA, IS DEDICATED, AS A HUMBLE TRIBUTE OF UNCEASING GRATITUDE AND RESPECT, ВУ THE AUTHOR. PREFACE. IN presenting this Work to the Public, I feel myself called upon to notice briefly the circumstances out of which it has arisen, and the sources whence the materials of which it is composed have been derived. “Ewent to India іп the year 1807, їп the capacity of Surgeon to the Danish settlement of Зегатриг іп Bengal, and immediately on my arrival had the advantage of becoming personally acquainted with the late Dr. Roxburgh, then Saperintendant of the Honourable Company's Botanic Garden at Calcutta. I continued to benefit by the friendship of that distinguished botanist until 1812, when the state of my health obliged me to proceed to the Mauritius. About a year after my return to Bengal, after an absence of some months; I was honoured by a com- mission in the Company's Medical Service; and on the departure for Europe of my late friend Dr. Hamilton, the successor to Dr. Roxburgh, in the beginning of 1815, I was nominated to the temporary charge of the Garden at Caleutta; an appointment which the Honourable Court of Directors were pleased to confirm permanently, at the recommendation of the late Sir Joseph Banks and Dr. Fleming, and of Mr. Colebrooke. The opportunities I have enjoyed for prosecuting the study of Indian botany during the subsequent thirteen years, ший the date of my departure for Europe, will be fully appreciated by those who are acquainted with the character and objects of the splendid Establishment over which I was placed. The Botanic Garden at the time of my appoint- ment had been in existence nearly thirty years; during which period, by the labours of its enlightened founder, the late Colonel Kyd, and by the scientific zeal and exertions of the late Drs. Roxburgh and Hamilton, and of Mr. Cole- brooke, it had been enriched to an extent, which requires no other proof than that afforded by the Hortus Bengalensis, printed іп 1812. Тһе native plants contained in that publication had been fully described in Dr. Roxburgh’s manu- script Flora Indica, а work of sterling merit, illustrated by nearly 2000 original drawings, made by native artists, of which copies exist in the Library of the Honourable Company at the India House. [п 1890 I made а botanical excursion into Nipal, the riches of which country had already been opened те by the liberal contributions of my highly esteemed friend the Honourable Edward Gardner. | After continuing there а м” 1 returned to the Garden, with the intention of publishing an account of the plants which I had collected ; ка was redii at the time by а severe illness, which forced me again to seek benefit from a sea voyage.. On this с ҮШ PREFACE. occasion I visited the islands of Penang and Singapur, and some other places in Ше Straits of Malacca ; and after an absence of five months I returned to Caleutta, having reaped a rich harvest of tlie productions of those countries. In 1825 I was deputed by the Government to inspect the timber forests of the western provinces of Hindustan, when I had a favourable opportunity of examining and collecting the plants of the kingdom of Още, the province of Rohilcund, the valley of Deyra, ес. * My last journey was in 1826 and 1827, when I accompanied a mission from the Supreme Government of British India to the Court of Ava. I ascended the Irawaddi as far as Ava, and visited the mountains in the neighbourhood of that capital; and proceeded afterwards to the lately acquired territories on the coasts of Martaban and . Tenasserim. This short enumeration of my principal excursions will serve to point out the sources from which a great proportion of my collections was derived. But besides these opportunities, of which I availed myself personally, Г had all the advantages belonging to the Institution over which I presided, and which for extent and importance I believe to be unrivalled. "These consisted in the cooperation of many distinguished individuals residing in different parts of India, who were in the constant habit of transmitting every object of interest which the vegetable kingdom presented to their notice. I discharge a most pleasing duty in recording here the names and services of the late Sir Stamford Raffles and Mr. Jack, who contributed plants from Penang, Singapur, and Bencoolen ; of the Honourable E. Gardner, the Resident, and the late Mr. Robert Stuart, Assistant Resident in Nipal; of Sir Robert Colquhoun, Baronet, at Kamaon ; of the Rev. Dr. Carey ; of Major-General Hardwicke ; of Mr. J. F. Royle, Superintendant of the Botanic Garden at. Saharunpur ; of Dr. Govan, Captains Webb and Gerard, and Mr. J. S. Gerard, from the mountains of Western Hindustan and the Himalaya... Besides the riches which flowed in from these sources, I. derived others from the labours of a number of plant-collectors connected with the Garden, who diio „stationed in various parts of India, such as Sillet, Nipal, Kamaon, Penang, «с. It cannot excite surprise, therefore, that from these combined advantages there should ‘result ultimately an extensive collection of the plants of India. The number of indigenous ' plants cultivated in the Garden was greatly increased in the course of а few years, and my herbarium ultimately amounted to upwards of 8000 species, comprising a vast number of duplicates. Numerous selections from it were successively transmitted to England, and deposited in the Museum of the East India Company, (һе Banksian Herbarium, that of the late Sir J. E. Smith, of Mr. Lambert, and various others throughout Europe. Мапу of the plants have been. published іп the works of Professors DeCandolle and Hooker, Dr. Greville, in the Botanical Magazine and Register, с. ; as well às by myself in Roxburgh's Flora. Indica, the Asiatic Researches, the Linnean Transactions, and in the Tentamen Flore: Napalensis Illustrate. Іп order to place before the reader the relative position of the places whence the plants were obtained especially with reference to those described in my present Work, a Map will form part of the concluding volume accompanied by such illustrations as may be necessary in a botanical point of view. My health on my return from the Burmese country had now become so impaired from repeated attacks of illness that it was deemed indispensable I should visit Europe for my recovery; and in 1828 permission was айы , ; i uu. me ‘to leave for a time the duties of my situation, and to take my collections with ше, in order that I might have the honour of delivering them in person to the Court of Directors, That enlightened Body, with à munificence А , never PREFACE. 1х equalled, ала whieh has already been appreciated and gratefully acknowledged, not only in this country, but throughout Europe, immediately directed me to. proceed to the distribution of the duplicates among the principal public and private museums in Europe and America. They were pleased to order a similar distribution of the herbariums of continental Indian plants in their Museum, made by Drs. Patrick Russell, Roxburgh, and Най е Tranquebar Missionaries, the late Mr. Finlayson, Mr. Wight, and myself. Тһе assistance which I have already received in the laborious details connected with the above distributions, has placed me under the greatest obligations to some of the most eminent botanists of Europe. I have been honoured by the personal aid of. Mr. Brown, Professors Kunth, Hooker, Graham, and Lindley, M. Alphonse DeCandolle, Mr. Arnott, Mr. Prescott, and Mr. Bentham. Besides the homage which has been paid to the Company in many publications for their princely liberality in thus affording these ample means for the diffusion of a knowledge of the botany of the East Indies, a still more effectual method of testifying a sense of the general obligation they have conferred upon the scientific world, has been adopted by a number of celebrated Botanists,» who have undertaken to publish Monographs of the. more extensive and interesting families, thereby powerfully contributing to the completion of a scheme so truly worthy of the British East India Company. It is a source of pride for me to introduce here the names and separate labours of those who have thus zealously come forward to advance the interests of science. . Mr. Авмотт has undertaken the publication of the families of Ranunculacee, Nymph:acew, Papaveraceie, — Droseraces, Асегіпег, Tamariscinez. | Mr. Вкхтнлм: Caryophyllee, Labiate, Linez, Меазюотасе», Метесу!еге, Alangiez, Onagrariew, Salicarie:w, Serophularineze, Orobanchew. ` | Prof. Besser of Crzmieniec : Artemisia. M. Аротене ВкохомтАвт of Paris : Celastrineee, Rhamnez. Mr. Brown : Апповасее, Capparideæ, Rubiacee, Graminez. M. САмвЕвЕрЕв of Paris : Нірросгайсеге, Sapindaceæ, Ternstroemiacee. Prof. Снотзу of Geneva: Guttiferæ, Нурегісіпеге, Convolvulacee. Prof. DECaxpoLLE of Geneva: Araliaceee, Umbelliferee, Saxifrageæ, Сипошасее, Caprifoliacecw, Loranthe:e, Valerianez, Пірвасеге, Composite, Polemoniacez, Еһепасеге, Sapotez, Styracinez, Зезатег, Gen- папеге, Aristolochiez. T | | | M. ALPHONSE DECANDOLLE of Geneva: Flora Burmanica, Сатрапшасег, Bignoniaceæ, Myrsineæ, Urticeæ. M. Duvav of Paris: Pedicularis, Veronica. | Prof. Grawam : Leguminosee. Dr. Сввуплв: Algz, Filices. Mr. Намовтн : Crassulacee. Prof. Hooger: Myristicez, Filices, Musci. Prof. Apr. Jussieu of Paris: ТШасеге, Malpighiacee, Rutacez, МеПасеге. Prof. Кохтн of Berlin: Bombacez, Büttneriacez, Sterculiacee, Потһеуасеге, Маһасеге, Еаеосагре», Tere- binthaceze, Cambretaceze, Уегрепасеге. Mr. Lampert: Conifere. Prof. Leumann of Hamburgh: Potentilla, Boraginez, Primulacez. РКЕЕАСЕ Prof. Ілхріву : Rosacew, Amentacew, Orchidee. Prof. Von Martius of Munich: Amaranthacee, Palma, Кезйасеге. Prof. Meisner of Bale : Begoniacex, Polygonea. Prof. Nees von Еѕемвеск of Breslau : Асапасеге, Solanacex, Laurine. Mr. Prescorr: Cyperacecw. Prof. Влснако of Paris: Мешврегшег, Myrtacez, Asphodeleze, Smilacec. Prof. Варев of Bale: Euphorbiacee. М. Serinee of Geneva: Salix. Prof. бснілілев of Landshut: Various miscellaneous genera. Prof. бркехокі, of Halle: Berberidez, Cruciferae, Polygalew, Ericeze, Аросупеге, Asclepiadez. On the above cooperation, exhibiting an unparalleled instance of zeal and liberality in the promotion of a common cause, I can offer no comment ; nor can I adequately express the gratitude which I feel towards those, who have thus generously relieved me from some of the most difficult parts of my labour. The present Work consists of a selection of plants made chiefly from a series of 1200 drawings, executed under my direction by Indian artists, at the Calcutta Garden, and on my various journeys; and this will at once explain any imperfections in the figures which accompany it. I am very far from aspiring to any other claim than that of having endeavoured to perform the duties of a faithful pioneer and collector in the field of Indian Botany ; for I am too sensible of my deficiency, to suppose for a moment that any Work of mine can be con- sidered comparable to those which have appeared in recent times, so admirable for their scientific accuracy and the elaborate beauty of their detail. When I originally left Europe, I had had very little opportunity of acquiring that precise knowledge of the Natural System, which has now been made so familiar to the student of botany ; and in my remoté situation in India I was naturally deprived of an intercourse with those who are justly looked upon in Europe as the lights of modern botanical science. In India those who cultivate natural history are necessarily thrown on their vr unaided resources; and if I shall be judged not to have failed altogether in the use of those enviable opportunities that have fallen to my lot as the servant of a Government which so liberally extended its patronage to me, to which I owe not only the prosperity, but in many respects the happiness of my life, the warmest wishes of my heart will have been most abundantly realized. But while I have thus frankly avowed the defects under which this Work labours, I claim for it those merits, which the splendid talents of several friends have imparted to it; and to them the world will do ample justice. To Mr. Brown, who has been 50 justly styled BOTANICORUM PRINCEPS, I owe contributions which could have been derived from no other source. To Professor Lindley I owe many obligations ; and I can truly say, that but for the counsel and unremitting assistance of this most valued friend I could not have undertaken or prosecuted my Work. From Mr. Bentham I have also received many favours, especially the interesting Synopsis of the Indian Labiatze. N. WALLICH. London, September, 1830. PLATE PLATES. TABLE OF THE OF THE FIRST VOLUME, IN NUMERICAL ORDER. } Amherstia nobilis Sterculia populifolia Hibiscus Lindlei Anneslea fragrans Phaseolus fuscus Caralluma crenulata Caralluma fimbriata Curcuma Roscoeana Curcuma cordata Melanorrhoea usitata Нігаеа hirsuta Cardiospermum canescens Abelia triflora Matonia pectinata Cometes surattensis Cometes abyssinica Impatiens reticulata Clematis subpeltata — ,. Eranthemum cinnabarinum Dillenia scabrella Dillenia ornata i Gastrochilus pulcherrima | . Gastrochilus longiflora Urena speciosa Kaempferia elegans Justicia guttata Dendrobium amplum Podocarpus latifolia Ruellia alata . Knoxia plantaginea ; Aphanochilus polystachyus Aphanochilus flavus Liparis longipes Eria paniculata . Uraria cordifolia Coelogyne Gardneriana Dendrobium formosum Dendrobium densiflorum . ‚ Aconitum ferox Ruellia gossypina Convolvulus atropurpureus Bamia crinita* Centranthera hispida Quercus spicata Mucuna macrocarpa Sphaeropteris barbata . Echites rhynchosperma Chirita grandiflora PAGE о село ото m кы кч кі шы кы шш „ш һы SAAS YNES SSS DISER 26 51 52 58 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 68 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 88 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 91: PLATE Hibiscus macrophyllus Allantodia Brunonianna Coelogyne maculata Coelogyne. Wallichiana Zingiber barbatum . Kaempferia candida Curcuma parviflora . Amomum corynostachyum Sterculia versicolor Tephrosia coccinea . Viburnum foetidum Cyrtotropis carnea Phaseolus rostratus . Eriolaena Candollii . Boottia cordata Justicia venusta 2 Cirrhopetalum Wallichii Otochilus fusca Bolbophyllum cylindraceum Trias oblonga А Aescynanthus ramosissima Chirita macrophylla Ceropegia longifolia Roylea elegans Hoya fusca Argyreia festiva Melhania Hamiltoniana Pongamia atropurpurea Bombax insigne . Wightia gigantea Barleria polytricha . Ruellia Neesiana Apostasia odorata} . Apostasia nuda Iris decora Corylus ferox Oxyspora paniculata Myristica sphaerocarpa Myristica amygdalina Piper ribesioides . Justicia palatifera Justicia ventricosa Desmodium pendulum Bignonia multijuga Begonia pedunculosa Clematis grata Thomsonia napalensis Polygala arillata * This name should be altered to Abelmoschus crinitus: see note to page 39. + This name should be altered to Apostasia Wallichii: seo page 76. PAGE TABLE OF THE PLATES OF THE FIRST VOLUME, IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER. Abelia triflora Aconitum ferox Aescynanthus ramosissima Allantodia Brunonianna Amherstia nobilis Amomum corynostachyum Anneslea fragrans Aphanochilus flavus Aphanochilus polystachyus Apostasia nuda р Apostasia odorata* Argyreia festiva Bamia сгшйа { Barleria polytricha . Begonia pedunculosa Bignonia multijuga Bolbophyllum cylindraceum Bombax insigne , Boottia cordata Caralluma crenulata Caralluma fimbriata Cardiospermum canescens Centranthera hispida Ceropegia longifolia Chirita grandiflora Chirita macrophylla Cirrhopetalum Wallichii Clematis grata Clematis subpeltata Coelogyne Gardneriana Coelogyne maculata Coelogyne Wallichiana Cometes abyssinica Cometes surattensis Convolvulus atropurpureus Corylus ferox Curcuma cordata Curcuma parviflora . Curcuma Roscoeana Cyrtotropis carnea Dendrobium amplum Dendrobium densiflorum . Dendrobium formosum Desmodium pendulum Dillenia ornata Dillenia scabrella Echites rhynchosperma 21 тт арт — PLATE 20 | Eranthemum cinnabarinum `. Eria paniculata . Eriolaena Candollii . Gastrochilus longiflora Gastrochilus pulcherrima . Hibiscus Lindlei Hibiscus macrophyllus Hiraea hirsuta Hoya fusca Impatiens reticulata Iris decora ) Justicia guttata Justicia palatifera Justicia ventricosa Justicia. venusta Kaempferia candida Kaempferia elegans Knoxia plantaginea Liparis longipes Маѓопја. pectinata Melanorrhoea usitata Melhania Hamiltoniana Mucuna macrocarpa Myristica amygdalina Myristica sphaerocarpa Otochilus fusca Oxyspora paniculata Phaseolus fuscus . Phaseolus rostratus . Piper ribesioides . . . . Podocarpus latifolia Polygala arillata Pongamia atropurpurea Quercus spicata Roylea elegans Ruellia alata . Ruellia gossypina Ruellia Neesiana Sphaeropteris barbata Sterculia populifolia Sterculia versicolor Tephrosia coccinea . 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PETALA 5 inzqualia: duo inferiora minuta, subulato-hamosa ; lateralia cuneiformia, divaricata ; supremum maximum, patens, obcordatum, unguiculatum. ЅтАміхА 10 diadelpha, filamentis 9 in tubum longum connatis, superné liberis, alternis nanis ; decimum liberum, basi pedicello ovarii accretum. Ахтневл versatiles, omnes polliniferze, alternæ breviores. Оулвтом stipitatum, falcatum, 4—6-ovulatum, stipite tubo calycino adnato; stylus filiformis; stigma convexum, parvum. Lecumen pedicellatum, planum, oblongum, oligospermum. Systema Linneeanum, Diadelphia Decandria. Ordo naturalis, Leguminosarum cohors Cassiee Decand., Heterostemoni Desf. affinis. Habitus: Arbor foliis amplis, pari-pinnatis, 6—8-jugis, floribus speciosis, digestis in racemos maximos, axillares, pedunculatos, flaccidé pendulos. Genus dedicatum Nobili Comitissee Amherst et filie ejus Domine Sarah Amherst, in tesseram summe observantiz, debitze assiduitati indefessæ felicique successui quibus, dum in Hindustania тогаќе sunt, botanicam scientiam coluerunt et promoverunt. AMHERSTIA NOBILIS. Tab. 1. & 9. . Ратка vix non Martaban, provincia regni Burmanici ad oram Tenasserim sita. Cultam tantüm observavi prope ripam dextram fluminis Saluen, ad urbem Martaban et ad Kogun, floribus onustam mense Martii. ^. Nomen Burmanicum 77oca. Annon 30—40-pedalis, trunco crasso, 12-pedali, cortice inzequali, ex cinereo fuscescente, comá ampla, ramosá, frondosà. Ramu cylin- dracei, crassi, glabri, glauci; ¢enelli pubescentes, laxt penduli. Forra sparsa, patentia, approximata, pedalia ad sesquipedalia, abrupt? pinnata, 6—8-juga. РЕТІОІ05 communis teres, glaber, basi valdé tumidus, infra jugum primum bipollicaris, inde attenuatus, gracilis, rectus, equalis, ad insertionem pinnarum vix dilatatus, terminatus cuspide subulatà emarcescente ; partiales breves, cylin- drici, crassiusculi, transversim rugosi, quandoque ad medium dorsi bracteolà muniti latiusculà adpressà; basi inconspicué articulati. Pinn& paribus 6, 7, vel 8, uncias duas ab invicem distantibus opposite, patenti-nutantes, oblongae, basi rotundato-acutze, vix ineequales, extrorsum attenuate: in acumen gracile, lineare, cuspidatum, роШсаге; plane, membranacez, marginibus fere parallelis integerrimee ; suprà saturate virides, glaberrime, opaca ; subtüs adpresse puberule, valdé glaucee, costa gracili nervisque filiformibus elevatis, obliquis, aliquá e peripheria distantià, mediante vena arcuatá usque ad imam cuspidem acuminis pinnze excurrente, pulcherrime, anastomosantibus ; subtilissim?. reticulato-venose ; interiores breviores, subovatze, 6—7-pollicares, exteriores sensim longiores 10—12-pollicares, quin ultrà. Foura tenera. unà cum ramulo novello pendula, flaccida, valdé glauca, pinnis purpurascentibus, adpresse sericeo-puberulis, conduplicatis, Өтірік opposite, interdum alterne, rard deficientes, foliaceze, lanceolate, Sten noumi intégerrimue, subun- guiculatze, puberule, erecta, interdum subverticales, deciduze, pollicares vel раем m omnium maximi, ovati, acuti, solitarii, axillares, penduli, coccinei, cubitales ad tripedales, basi diametrum pedis et dem emetientes, отров constantes 20 ad 26 speciosissimis, sparsis, approximatis, longè pedunculatis, adscendenti-patentibus, ruberritnis, flavo-ocellatis inodoris. PRDUNCULUS com- munis teres, carnosus, puberulus, rufescens, pennam anserinam crassus, 97710-polliceris, vestigiis bractearum delapsarum sparsis notatus ; RHACHIS gracilis, subangulata, leviter undulata, saturatiis colorata, ad insertionem pedicellorum parüm tuberculata, et cicatricibus bracte- arum notata. Рертсвым l-flori, graciles, teretes, obsoletè spirales, pubernli, cum calyce bracteisque ruberrimi, 5-pollicares, nj "ER cylindricam, propter lineolas quatuor à commissuris et lateribus — pec г фара балда а е m bs us simá, pallidé viridi, lanceolatá, acuminata, pubescente, ad prin men angustata, ponon ; ten A d 54 мөл Олаф < culum communem sparse, citissime evanide. BmacrEx calycine due — opposite, реч Pe 4 ый и жездесі ceolate, acute, integerrimæ, parüm inzequilateree, margine altero IU rectiore, Папа, pollices duos et dimici ge, , longè acuminatis. 9 pubescentes, obsolet& nervosz, infra apicem pedicelli, linearum. trium circiter a tubo calycis шал conmisturt utrinque porrecta lateraliterque carinatå insertæ, deciduæ, æstivatione valvatæ paginisque interioribus, salvis earum basi et medio alabastrum foventibus, sibi invicem applicitis et contiguis. Сліүх tubulosus, limbo patente, quadrifido, corollaque zstivatione imbricatis ; tubus cylindraceus, carnosus, crassus, obsolet? sulcatus, bracteis parüm brevior, 2-pollicaris, persistens, sursüm leviter ampliatus, ad faucem stamina et petala gerens; [асе integerrima, acute, membranaceo-marginate, longitudine tubum et se invicem zequantes, tenuiter пегуоѕге, deciduz ; superior (i. е. lacinize 2 vexillo subjectae in unum coalitæ) lanceolata, apice sæpiùs minutim bidenticulata, lateralibus oblongis dupló feré latior; inferior oblongo-lanceolata. Cororta 5-petala, patentissima, propter duo petala inferiora nana et occulta quasi deorsum unilateralis, glabra. Ретльом superius, seu VEXILLUM, maximum, coccineum, expansum, adscendens et parüm recurvatum, tripollicare, diametro bipollicari, obcordatum, sinu lato, ше porrecto et crenulato, lobis rotundatis subrepandis; deorsum canaliculatum sensim- que attenuatum in unguem semipollicarem, sulcatum, suprà puberulum ; disco albo versus sinum macula flava, magná, orbiculato-reni- formi, radiatim venulosá, excepto margine superiore sinui contermino, cinctá fasciá atro-sanguinea ; lateribus conspersis lineolis brevibus, parallelis, subgeminatis, sanguineis. Lateralia cuneiformia, vexillum longitudine zequans, extrorsum lineas octo lata, divaricata, demim reflexa; utrinque coccinea, disco obliqué venulosa, ad apicem obtusam suprà notata ocello flavo, reniformi, magno; deorsum sensim atte- nuata in unguem semicylindricum, brevem. Inferiora 2 cuneato-subulata, acuta, humulosa, erecta, albicantia, basi adelphize adpressa, lineas 2 longa, intra laciniam calycis inferiorem recondita. Этлмимл 10, diadelpha. Еплмемтл carnosa, levia, pallida; 9 deorsum connata in tubum rectum, quadrisulcatum, sesquipollicarem, fauci calycis superné insertum, posticé fissum ; apice libera et longitudine valdé inzequalia: 5 nempé longissima, adscendentia, teretia, adelphiam æquantia; 4 hisce alterna brevissima, subulata, vix bilinearia, basi latiora; decimum liberum, pollicare, pedicello ovarii mox supra faucem calycis insertum. ANTHERS oblongze, versatiles, fusco-virides, filamentorum breviorum decimique liberi reliquis mult} minores, subovatze; omnes polliniferze. — PrsriLLUM staminibus parüm brevius. Ovarium compressum, falcatum, villosum, canescens, uniloculare, ovulis 4 ad 6, margini loculi recto insertis ; suffultum pedicello tereti, supernè libero, unguiculari, rufescente, infernè per tubum calycis decurrente parietique ejus postico connato. $түтлѕ filiformis, adscendens, sanguineus. STIGMA parvum, convexum. LEGUMEN immaturum oblongum, complanatum, coriaceum, ruberrimum, glabrum, rugosulum, 7-pollicare, extrorsum pollices duos latum, acuminatum, deorsum attenuatum, basi acuta, margine altero recto, tumido, plano; 5-spermum, suffultum stipite bipollicari, ultra medium vaginato calycis tubo truncato, fere immutato. Maturum haud vidi. The first notice I had of the existence of this magnificent tree was at Rangoon, in August 1826 ; when Mr. Crawfurd favoured me with some dried unopened flowers and a leaf of it, together with the following account, taken from a statement of his visit to Martaban, contained in the Calcutta Government Gazette, of the 29th May of that year. “ Around the hill" at Kogun, on the Saluen river in the province of Martaban, “ва garden belonging to a neighbouring monastery, in no very good order. Тһе only plant in it, which struck us as remarkable, was a tree about twenty feet high, abounding in long and pendulous panicles of rich geranium-coloured blossoms, and long and elegant, lance-shaped leaves. It is of the class and order of Diadelphia Decandria, and too beautiful an object to be passed unobserved even by the uninitiated in botany. Handfuls of the flowers. were found as offerings in the cave before the images of Buddha.” Captain Hitchens of the Honourable Company’s Madras military service, was good enough to give me а promise at the time, that he would if possible obtain for me, against my arrival on the Tenasserim coast, some more dried specimens ; which he in part performed. In the mean time I accompanied the British Envoy to Ava; but neither while we stayed there, nor during our progress on the Irawaddi, could I procure the slightest additional information concerning the tree. It was not even known by name at the capital of the Burma empire. This I mention as a striking instance of the profound ignorance and indifference of that nation concerning all matters connected with’ the natural productions of their country, notwithstanding the unblushing pretensions of the higher classes, which The subject of these pages is so interesting that I venture to make one more extract respecting it, from my official report of a.journey on the river Saluen, undertaken in March 1827 ; in order to examine the site and about two miles from the right bank of the river and twenty-seven from the town of Martaban. I had been prepared to find a tree growing here, an account of which had long ago been communicated to me by Mr. Crawfurd, and which I had been fortunate enough to meet with for the first time a. week ago at Martaban ; nor was I disappointed There were two individuals of this tree here; the largest, about forty feet high, with a girth, at three feet above the Ms of six feet, stood close to the cave; the other was smaller, and overhung an old square reservoir of water, lined құм апа stones. They were profusely ornamented with pendulous racemes of large vermilion-coloured а formi superb objects, unequalled in the Flora of Ше East Indies and, I presume, not surpassed in magnificence и elegance in any part of the world. 1 call this tree Amherstia nobilis. The Burmese name 15 Thoka. Neither the people here nor at Martaban could give me any distinct account of its native place of growth ; but there is little үлен that it belongs to the forests of this province. Тһе ground was strewed, even at a distance i its blossoms, whicl are carried daily as offerings to the images in the adjoining caves. Round the spot PRU numerous individ 1 p Jonesia Asoca in full blossom, inferior in beauty only to those. trees; also several Nagesurs (Mesua ferr cme i 15 not a little remarkable, that the priests in these parts should have manifested so good a taste as to select BEE of trees as ornaments to their objects of worship, belonging to a small but well-marked and extremely beautiful riet 4 Engelmann Ри сеа LI өз vius ве та Engmann, > Алла by Е 9 reni aud del* е 3 group in the extensiye family of Leguminous plants. At Martaban I of great beauty, Bauhinia variegata, planted close to the Amherstia. compare and correct the figure he had already made from the Martaban specimens." There can be no question that this tree, when in full foliage and blossom, is the most strikingly superb object which can possibly be imagined. І have very great satisfaction in naming it after the Right Honourable Countess Amherst and her daughter Lady Sarah Amherst, the zealous friends and constant promoters of all the branches of Natural History, especially Botany, who, after a residence of nearly five years in India, during which they performed an arduous and extensive journey to the lofty regions of western and northern Hindustan, spending many weeks among the mountains near the Himalaya, at an elevation of 10,000 to 12,000 feet, have returned to England with a large and very interesting collection of preserved specimens of plants, gathered and excellently preserved by their own skill and industry. . found a third member of that same group, also I had my draughtsman with me on purpose to . The leaves are ample, pinnate, and of a dark green colour; while young they are glaucous-purple and hang down loosely, together with the tender shoots to which they are attached. Тһе leaflets are large, oblong, tapering into а most slender point, very glaucous underneath, and furnished with slender prominent rib and nerves, the latter uniting towards the margin in a most elegant manner. The flowers are numerous and very large, scentless, of a brilliant vermilion colour, diversified with three yellow spots; they are arranged in gigantic ovate bunches, pendulous on their long peduncle, and partially hidden beneath the profuse and elegant foliage. І have only seen one single pod, which was unripe; it was sword-shaped, flattened, with one of the margins thick and ribbed, seven inches long, pointed, dark red, containing five or six imperfect seeds. By the assistance of my people I was able to procure some layers for the botanic garden at Calcutta; two of these, Г attempted to bring with me to England, but although they produced fresh shoots soon after their embarkation, they perished early during the voyage. . : Тһе genus is nearly allied to Heterostemon of Desfontaine, but differs in the large valvate floral bracts, five- petalled irregular corolla, ten diadelphous stamens, and finally in having all the anthers polliniferous. Together with that genus, Jonesia, Bauhinia, and some others having a distinctly tubular calyx, it may perhaps be fitly separated into a distinct order, to which I would propose the designation of Bauhinice. Plate I. A branch with a leaf and a raceme ; much reduced. Fig. 1. A leaflet; natural size. Plate II. Fig. 1. Flower-bud. 2. The same opened. 3. The same, the calyx and corolla being removed to show the stamens. 4. An expanded flower. 5. Тһе same dissected. 6. Ovarium opened. 7. Unripe pod. АИ the figures of the natural size. STERCULIA POPULIFOLIA. Tab/3. Forus rotundato-cordatis, acuminatis, integris, membranaceis, glabris; racemis axillaribus, pedunculatis, ramosis, foliis brevioribus; perianthii laciniis linearibus, elongatis, revolutis, obtusis ; folliculis ventricoso-ovatis, аја obtusis- simá, cultriformi terminatis, longè stipitatis, glabris, intüs villosis. Sterculia populifolia, Когд. Hort. Beng. 50. : Sterculia populifolia, В acutiuscula, Decand. Prodr. 1. 483. In Coromandelia detexit Benj. Heyne; misitque in hortum botanicum Calcuttz, ubi primá vice floruit Aprili 1823. Fructus maturi mense Junii. Annon 20-pedalis, trunco recto, valdé æquali, cortice lzevigato, cinereo. Камі juniores valdé glauci, ѓегё pruinosi, cylindrici ; вот simi unà cum foliis tenellis tomento copioso, stellato, ferrugineo obtecti. Forra ad apicem ramorum approximata, sparsa, patentia, subrotundo-cordata, integerrima, in acumen gracile attenuata, sinu baseos profundo, triangulari, lobisque divergentibus v oto 4- 6-pollicaria, membranacea, glaberrima; suprà nitida, punctis minutis, elevatis dens? conspersa, subtus glauca, T" тоз duobus obsoletis, brevibus, marginalibus, axillis omnium cano-villosis ; reticulato-venosa. РЕттош5 teres, gracilis, laminam folii longt- tudine, c quans, glaber, utrinque рагі intumescens. Эттроьж longiuscule, subulato-filiformes, subcarnosee, уШовае, endueissihee. Racemi axillares, solitarii, vel ex vestigiis foliorum delapsorum tuncque paniculati, ramulosi, pedunculati, erecto-patentes, patiolos subeequantes, rarb iisdem longiores, pauciflori, ramulis brevibus, alternis, remotis. Реромсом teretes, graciles, rie ғ. ийи stellata parcè conspersi, demim glabri; universalis 2-pollicaris; partialés pollicares. BnacrEA parvula, linearis, emarcida, еһе — infra divisuras pedunculorum. Frores duo tresve fasciculati, brevé pedicellati, coccinei, odorati. PERIANTHIUM profundé divisum in lobos 5 lineares, recurvatos, obtusos, feré pollicares, integerrimos, suprà coccineos, cano-puberulos, subtis — et — ANTHERS minute, oblongz, sessiles, aurantiacze, biloculares, duplici serie circum basin ovarii. dispositee: 5 inferiores angulis hujus opposite, 5 superiores iisdem alternantes. OvanruM ovatum, attenuatum, dens? villosum, obtuse 5-angulare, nutans, suffultum pedicello ex fundo perianthii orto, 4-lineari, basi capillaceo, gracillimo, sursum ampliato et clavato, apice acuto; 5-loculare ; locula polyspora, ovulis . 4 . i adfxis. SrYLUs brevis, columnaris. Sriema patvum, planiusculum. Еоллсш 4 vel 5, nunc pauciores, 2-pollicares, oblique ovati, lud ы ы. * 3 ) . . . . . . . . : . % ventricosi, pedunculati, dorso convexi, apice terminati alà Јака, рапа, cultriformi, sesquipollicari, obtusissima, ventre planiusculo debis г . . . Y centes ont А reticulato-venosi, glabri; loculum magnum, tomento copioso, stellato, molli obsitum. . PEDUNCULUS communis ses 3 s LI LI ... . е. € quipollicaris ; partiales paulo longiores, teretes, graciles. Semma subrotunda, grisea, leevia, nitida, basi latà suturze ventrali inserta. 1 . culia differs from М. Decandolle's 5. populifolia, in having acuminate The claims of priority entitle it to the name given to it by Dr. Rox- It is also allied to 5. macro- This handsome and curious species of Ster leaves, and in the follicles being villous within. с К burgh; and I would therefore suggest for the other the specific name of 5. Candolli. nÁylla of Ventenat. Plate Ш. Fig. 1. 2. Flower. 3. The same opened. 4. Ovarium. 5. The same dissected. 6. Follicles. 7. A follicle burst open. HIBISCUS LINDLEI. Tab. 4. Cau e suffruticoso, petiolis pedunculisque scabris et aculeatis ; foliis subrotundo-cordatis, palmatim 3—7-partitis, lobis lanceolatis, acuminatis, serratis; floribus axillaribus, solitariis ; involucelli foliolis linearibus, hispidis, apice bilobis ; corolla patentissimá ; capsulá adpresse pilosa, sericed, demum glabra. | Sectio generis Furcaria Decand. “г Habitat in regno Burmanico versus Segain, et in monte Ave Taong Dong dicta, florens et fructiger Novembri. Ad Тауоу огге Tenasserim legit plantarum meus collector Gul. Gomez. . | SurrruTex erecta, 3—4-pedalis, parcè ramosa. Rawr cylindrici, superné, uti petioli pedunculique asperi propter puncta minuta elevata et aculeos sparsos, breves, incurvos, conicos, subdiaphanos; ad apicem parüm pilosi. Forra alterna, patentia, rotundato-cordata, 4-pollicaria, plùs minusvé profundé 3—7-partita, lobis oblongo-lanceolatis, acuminatis, gross? et inzequaliter serratis, purpureo-margi- nulatis, inferiora aliquot nunc apice tantüm triloba; suprà glabra, nitida; subtus 5—7-nervia, venosa, nervis tactu scabris. Ретош teretes, parüm aculeati, pilosiusculi, longitudine foliorum. Srrevnx lineari-lanceolatze, unguiculares, sericeo-pilosee, decidue. Еговкз magni, speciosi, axillares, solitarii, brevissime pedunculati. Pepuncuxus crassus, clavatus, aculeatus, semipollicaris, suffultus BRACTEA lineari, гесигуй, hispidulà, ipsum longitudine zequante, decidua. IwvonucELLUM 8—10-phyllum, patentissimum, ciliatum pilis longis, hyalinis, rigidis, copiosis, basi dilatatis: Forora linearia, acuta, unguicularia, dorso nudiuscula, apice intus aucta lobo conformi, vix bre- viore, parallelo, leviter divergente. Слух ovatus, 5-fidus, involucello dimidid longior, patens, fructus clausus, costis 10, prominentibus pilisque longis munitus, reticulato-venosus, intüs sericeo-villosus; глсіміж triangulares, valdé acuminate, ciliate. Соком paten- tissima, diametro fer? 4-pollicari, violacea, fundo parüm concavo saturatiore, basi extus pilis adpressis, sericeis, solubilibus obsita ; LACINLE Obovatze, obtusissimee, parallelé yenosze, basi contract’ inappendiculate. Сомма filamentorum purpurascens, gracilis, corolla dimidio Теге brevior, basi laxiusculé ampliatus, indeque gerens antheras luteo-aureas, fasciculatim filis brevissimis suffultas. OvARIUM subrotundum, dens? pilosum. Sriamara 5, cuneata, villosula, purpurea, vix exserta. CaPsuLA ovata, magnitudine fructus grossularize minoris, calycis lobis conniventibus omnind inclusa, pilis sericeis dens? vestita, matura glabrior. ЅемІМА 2 vel З in singulo loculo, triangularia, grisea, lineata, punctis elevatis, callosis, fuscis conspersa. This very handsome species I took at first to be only а purple variety of Roxburgh's ZZ. furcatus, which I have likewise found on the banks of the Irawaddi. But having had an opportunity, since my return from Ava, to compare both plants in their growing state in the Honourable Company's botanic garden at Calcutta, I am able to propose the following marks as sufficient to distinguish them specifically. Тһе leaves in our plant аге not hairy as in Roxburgh's, but nearly smooth ; the involucres do not enlarge at the bifid apex, but are of a uniformly linear figure; and lastly the flowers, instead of being yellow, as in that species, are constantly of a deep purple colour. 27. bifurcatus Сауап. differs, according to а note in Dr. Roxburgh's manuscript Flora Indica, made from the living plant introduced into the garden from Trinidad, in being smoother and void оҒ the small tubercles, which render the other shrubs peculiarly rough to the touch ; in having setaceous stipules and rose-coloured flowers. Like most of the members of the extensive genus to which it belongs, it abounds in strong and woody fibres. АП its green parts have an agreeably acid taste. Plate Ш. Fig. 1. Calyx and involucre opened, showing the pistil. 2. Corolla opened, showing the stamens. 3. Calyx closed over the capsule. ой. (әді; by Ene / лиле алй det? ANNESLEA. `- Саух basi bibracteatus, profundé partitus in lobos 5, subinzequales, persistentes, zestivatione imbricatos. CoroLLA monopetala, ovata, perigyna, fauce contractá 5-fidá, laciniis lobis calycinis oppositis. Этамиха numerosa, erecta, in- clusa, serie duplici disco perigyno inserta, distincta ; лхтнева$ linearibus, adnatis, longè cuspidatis. Ovarium turbi- natum, subinferum, 3-loculare, polysporum ; ovuuis ex apice placentz centralis ope funiculorum brevium suspensis. Sryzus 1, cylindricus, subpersistens. Sriamara 3, subulata. Bacca infera, sicca, globosa, bracteis binis persisten- tibus suffulta, lobis calycinis coronata, 3-locularis, loculis 1—3-spermis. SEMINA pendula, arillata, empryone repli- cato, cylindrico, inverso. Classis Linnzeana Polyandria Monogynia. Ordo naturalis Ternstroemiacee, Mirb. Cleyere proxima. Habitus : Arbor foliis exstipulatis, integerrimis, sparsis, floribus axillaribus, longè pedunculatis, fragrantibus. Cum Anneslea Roxburghii et Salisburii revocata sit ad Кигуаѓен et Acaciam, nomen de scientiis optimé meritum denuó restituo, in testimonium reverentize erga nobilem virum Georgium Annesley, Comitem Mountnorris, Societatis Regie et Linneanze socium, peregrinatorem preclarum cujus, tunc Vicecomitis Valentiæ, exstant itinerum volumina tria, Botanices cultorem et fautorem indefessum. ANNESLEA FRAGRANS. Tab. 5. Repent in sylva prope Moalmeyn, in Martabania, florentem Januario, fructigeram Aprili. Annon 30-pedalis. Влмом grisei, teretes, uti omnes partes leves. Кош versus apices ramorum approximata, sparsa, patentia, lan- ceolata, vel oblongo-lanceolata, obtusa, integerrima, basi acuta, coriacea, lucida, atroviridia, siccitate subflavicantia, 2—4-pollicaria, subtis pallida, costa gracili elevatà, nervis distantibus, capillaceis, vix prominulis, versus marginem reticulatis. Реттогов brevis, suprà planus. бити nulle. Frores axillares, vel e vestigiis foliorum summorum delapsorum, erecto-nutantes, ex albo flavicantes, majus- culi,.longé pedunculati, fragrantes, æstivatione imbricati. Реромсом teretes, graciles, subclavati, 3-pollicares, foliis partum breviores, basi nudi, superné leviter angulati, apice infra calycem ввлств1 2 ovatis, obtusis, concaviusculis, subcarinatis, oppositis, raro alternantibus, persistentibus. Catyx profundé divisus in lobos 5 crassos, coriaceos, ovatos, acutos, membranaceo-marginatos, subincequales, basi lata nunc subcordatos, patentes, persistentes, unguiculares, intüs flavicantes. Сокол monopetala, flavescens, calyce parüm brevior, ventri- coso-ovata, acuta, 5-fida: LAcINUE ovato-cordatz, acutæ, conniventes et imbricantes, lobis calycinis opposite ; FAUX contracta. STAMINA circiter 30, erecta, glabra, æqualia, corolla parüm breviora, intra basin hujus, circum verticem ovarii conicam duplici serie inserta, omnino distincta. Frmamenra filiformia, brevia. Ахтневж lineares, longs, utrinque longitudinaliter dehiscentes, connectivo ulterius in cuspidem longam, filiformem producto. Ovarium parvum, adnatum, vertice tantüm intra corollae fundum, liberum, turbinatum, carnosum, 3-loculare: ovuta plura ad fornicem loculi coacervata, obtusa, basi lata ope funiculorum brevium carnosorum ex apice dis- sepimenti suspensa. SrYLus teres, glaber, corollà parüm longior, basi persistens. темата З brevia, subulata, recurvato-subpatentia. Bacca infera, globosa, nutans, magnitudine cerasi, tuberculis minutis, sublepidotis obtecta, basi munita bracteis calycinis duabus adpressis, fer’ immutatis; coronata lobis calycis tard? dilabescentibus, intra quos convexa centroque stylifera; 3-locularis, demim fissurà unà alterâve valdé irregulariter disrumpens. Caro crassa, suberosa. ЗЕМІМА 2 vel 3 in singulo loculo farcto, nunc solitaria, unguicularia, oblonga, parüm complanata, obtusa, ARILLO Carnoso, tenui, coccineo obtecta, ex apice dilatata placenté centralis triquetree unà cum pluribus ovulis abortivis et immutatis pendula. Есхіссіл breves, carnosi, шгедиайев. Testa chartacea, nitida, flava. Memprana interna crassiuscula, diaphana. Емввуо cylindricus, albus, pollicem fer’ longus, medio replicatus in crura duo parallela, subequalia, approximata, mediante processu angusto teste, e basi ejusdem orto sejuncta. CorvuEpowEs semicylindrice, intüs planae, RADICULAM cylindricam, superam longitudine vix excedentes. This very elegant tree comes near to Cleyera and Freziera, but differs іп having а monopetalous, ventricose corolla, with a contracted mouth, and smooth, linear anthers, which in the former genus are hispid, and in the latter subcordate at their base. It seems to unite the first two divisions of the family to which it belongs, as established by Professor Decandolle, by having the monopetalous corolla of the one, and the divided stigma of the other. Из ovarium is semiadherent ; but the berry is absolutely inferior. Іп habit it much resembles Cleyera ochnacea. The flowers are delightfully fragrant. Plate V. Fig. 1. Flower opened, the lobes and bracts of the calyx being detached, showing the stamens and style. 2. Corolla, detached. 3. The same opened. 4. Flower divided longitudinally, exhibiting the structure of the ovarium and the insertion of the stamens and style. 5. Stamen. 6. Berries, natural size. 7. The same cut across in the middle. 8. Seeds in their natural position. 9. Placenta, showing the abortive ovula and one ripe seed, the others being removed. 10. Detached seed. 11. The same divided in the middle. | 12. The same having the arillus partly removed, exhibiting the testa. 13. The same, the testa being partly removed to show the posture of the embryo. 14. Embryo. PHASEOLUS FUSCUS. Та). 6. "те . . . 5 А P . . . . 2 foliolis Annuus, cano-pubescens, pilosulus, volubilis, ramosissimus ; radice бргоѕа ; ramis filiformibus. sulcatis ; d ? . ее . . . ` i . . i Б Б ovatis, acutis, integris; racemis pedunculatis, foliis brevioribus; floribus extüs lucidis; calyce resinoso-punctato, , 5, e 7 dentato, dente inferiore elongato ; cariná subrostratà, incurvá ; legumine hirsuto, plano, lineari. я i , . 4 z 20/295 Habitat ad Prome, in regno Burmanico, florens leguminibusque immaturis onustus initio anni. In horto botanico | , Caleuttensi floruit prima vice mense Martii 1827. Herga annua, gracilis, ramosissima, pubescentià mollissima, сорїова, сапа пиа, рлы brevibus ve pared г E Влогх constans fibris ramosis, gracilibus. Cauxrıs brevis, mox divisus in RAMOS gracile, quieis 3 оваја Год: ти да > - „ОШ mata, patentia. Ретюм 2—3-pollicares, pilosuli, suprà шем partiales үлен есі міні йшй, ovata, e я чеч acuta, basi rotundata, feré æqualia, membranacea, 3-pollicaria, subtüs molliora, villosa, Шовод, пиано resinosa- pun s yra ^ 3-nervia. Бъри valdé decidue, lanceolate, adpresse, brevissime. Жасы: Фр. өши Геге agilis sutiévioribua до Көлі әлі L oblongi, pepuncuto suffulti tereti, villoso, pollicari. FLORES numer gay Approximati, sparsi nunc ЕШ; но, Wacom Pon іподогі, extüs fusci, lucidi, intüs flavi. Рерлсемал breves, cylindrici, ош, реа, Мај BRACTEOLA linger, ca ines adu ut cescens, ovatus, pilis copiosis capitato-glandulosis, punctisque ferrugineis, gomona elevatis, я obsitus, int 4 (dn 4-dentatus, dentibus acutiusculis : inferiore lineari, parüm elongato, superiore latiore, ovato, lateralibus brevissimis. VEXILLUM bign ato- reniforme, expansum, parùm depressum, medio canaliculatum, lineas 8 Дориятегнав Е subtus saturaté fuscum, admodum lucidum, suprà opacum, flavescens, venis parallelis, fuscis, ad marginem reticulatis, ungua brevi incurvo. Carina subovata, compressa, flava, in rostrum attenuata breve, super vexillum arcuato-decurvum, apice vix spirali subtruncatum. Аки cuneato-oblonge, erectæ, ше, basi semisagittatee, carina dimidio breviores. Оулвгом pilosum, brevissimé stipitatum, basi сааи annulo синко, brevis- simo. SrvLus gracillimus. Sriema clavatum. LEGUMEN planum, lineare, acuminatum, Georgam pon attenuatum, sessile, pity valdé copiosis, patentibus, ferrugineis obtectum, polyspermum. Semma levia, reniformia, isthmis haud interstincta; matura haud visa. This is a very elegant climber, remarkable chiefly on account of its very glandular calyces, and the dark brown, glossy colour of the back of the vexillum, while its inner surface is opaque and of a yellow colour, slightly tinged with brown, and elegantly veined and reticulated. Тһе plant is annual and much branched ; all its green parts are densely covered with soft pubescence, interspersed with short hairs. Plate УГ. Fig. 1. 2. Flower viewed in two directions. 3. The same dissected. 4. Ala and Carina detached. 5. Legume. CARALLUMA CRENULATA. Tab. 7 Ramis erectiusculis, rigidulis, tetragonis, lucidis, lavibus, sinuatis, multidentatis, dentibus porrectis ; foliis subcor- datis, plicatis, recurvis; floribus terminalibus, umbellatis, planis ; laciniis corolla triangulari-ovatis, acutis, fimbriatis ; corona staminea 5-fida, lobis apice truncatis, crenatis. Habitat in arenosis montium prope urbem Segain, ad ripam dextram fluminis Irawaddi, contra Avam sitam, florens Novembre. Іп horto botanico Calcuttze floruit mense Augusti 1826. ' Cavus basi cylindricus, subrepens, adscendens, radices emittens filiformes ; adscendentes, rigidiusculi, lzeves, lucidi, digitum minimum crassi, 1—4-pollicares, vix attenuati ; anguli prominentes, profundé sinuati et dentati: dentes porrecti et acuti, alternantes, apice adfigentes FOLIUM patenti-recurvum, subcordato-ovatum, plicatum, acutum, vix ultra lineam longum. FronEs pedunculati, inodori, 20 circiter collecti in umbellam globosam, terminalem, carem emetientem. — PEDUNCULUS feres, carnosus, subclavatus, unguicularis. ^ LACINUE CALYCIS lanceolate, patentes, acute, leves. Сокошл omnind plana, patentissima, pollicaris, subtus pallide viridis, albicans ; suprà flava, fasciis latiusculis, flexuosis, parallelis, ver- susque medium annulis concentricis, angustis, fuscis ornata; LACINLE lato-ovatze, fere triangulares, acutae, dimidiá inferiore parte ciliatae pilis longis, patentibus, violaceis, clavatis. CoLUMNA minima, exserta, subglobosa. Corona sTAMINEA simplici serie 5-fida ; lobi violacei, antheris incumbentes, lineares, apice subtruncatá 2—3-crenati, basi utrinque in denticulum acutum, arcuatum producti. Ахтнввж brevissimz, membranacez. Massa POLLINIS cuneate, subtriangulares, opacze, fusce, utrinque convexa, brevissimé pedicellatze, ope corpusculi ovati profunde sulcati, fusci, nitidi angulis stigmatis adfixe. ОулвтА subcylindrica, levia. тома pyramidatum, 5-angulare, truncatum. sursüm ramosa, paniculata. Rawr tetragoni, erecto- diametrum sesquipolli- This species comes near to Stapelia (Caralluma) umbellata Roxb., but differs in its short, compact habit, straight, glossy, sharply four-cornered branches, smaller flowers, perfectly flat corolla with ciliated lobes, and finally in the five- parted corona staminea. It is altogether smaller than that species. Tab. УП. Fig. 1.2. Flower viewed from both sides, - ) | 3. Calyx and columna. 4. Pistillum. to their corpusculum. Ali more or less magnified. 5. Two masses of pollen attached ентот ото раната со a ање 7 4 тег ы - Ll M Gaua ВА by Engelmann, Стаў Condet Фо y и na FüsAnupnersaua. del? № Z jp ңе“ Жы, EX / Lon = shnupersaud det. р Printed by Engelmann, Graf Coindet ба 2 (2 tales жб ph ours ; M Gauci вода CARALLUMA. FIMBRIATA. Тар, 8. Ramis elongatis, attenuatis, apice nutantibus, obsolete sinuato-denticulatis ; foliis lineari-lanceolatis, acutis, planis ; floribus axillaribus, solitariis, subcampanulatis, nutantibus ; laciniis corolle apice falcatis, marginibus replicatis fimbriatis ; foliolis coronz antheris alternantibus 2-cornutis. Habitat in collibus sterilibus arenosis ad Yenangeun fluminis Irawaddi, petroleo et fossilibus tantüm uberibus, et inter ruinas urbis Pagamew, florens (ut etiam in horto Calcuttensi) et fructifera mense Septembris. Pianta 8—12-pollicaris, pallida, subglaucescens, debilis, glaberrima. Raprx constans fibris longis, pallidis. Слога digitum crassus, inferné subcylindricus, surstm angulatus. Вам elongati, 4—7-pollicares, quadrangulares, apicem versus attenuati, subcylindrici, её parüm nutantes ; anguli obsolet? sinuosi et remotd denticulati. Fora lineari-lanceolata, acuta, erectiuscula, plana, lineas duas longa. Frores axillares, solitarii, parvi, nutantes, rarissim? 2 vel 3 terminales, violacei, inodori, campanulati. PepuNcuLUs cylindricus, ungui- cularis. Catyx profundé divisus in lacinias 5 lanceolatas, acutas. CoroLLA campanulato-patens, profunde 5-fida; ілсіміж fer’ polli- cares, dimidid inferiore parte lanceolatze, nudae, suprà flavee, lineis pluribus transversis purpureis striate, subtus pallidé flavee ; exteriore parte ригригег, explicatione ovate, sed. propter latera replicata verticales et falcatee, cuspidate, margine superiore recto puberulo, posticis convexis fimbriatis filis longis, tenuissimis, concoloribus, basi articulatis, vacillantibus. Сомма parvula, globosa. Corona atropurpurea, 10-fida: Lacinta 5 antheris incumbentes lineares, apice subemarginatz; 5 hisce alternantes ad basin usque divise in dentes duos arcuatos, divaricatos, cum proximis decussantes, apice terminatos glandulà minutissima flavicante. Mass POLLINIS plani- uscule, cuneate, opacee, pedicellate ; coRPUSCULA linearia, fusca, nitida. Еошлсоиѕ abortu solitarius, cylindricus, gracilis, lævis, 5-pollicaris. Roxburgh's Stapelia adscendens (Caralluma, Br.) is very like our plant, but differs in the absence of the long articulated flaccid сіе of the corolla. Stapelia subulata, Forsk. Cat. Arab. р. cviii. n. 193. t. 7, approaches also very closely to it ; but I conjecture they are different. | This curious species delights in arid exposed situations. I found it among the ruins at Pagamew, and on the hills, at Yenangeun, among stones and fossils, not far from the celebrated petroleum wells*. Tab. VIII. Fig. 1. Calyx after the corolla has fallen off. 2. Flower. 3. A detached lacinia of the corolla. 4. Columna. 5. Two masses of pollen inserted in their corpusculum. The last three figures much magnified. * I avail myself of this opportunity for correcting a slight mistake in the notes, which it appears the late envoy to the Court of Ava communicated to Professor Buckland, and on which this eminent geologist founded a memoir entitled, Geological Account of a series of Animal and Vegetable Remains and of Rocks, col- lected by J. Crawfurd, Esq., on a Voyage up the Irawaddi in 1826 and 1827 ; which was read before the Geological Society on the 18th of April:1828, and has since been inserted in the 2nd volume of their Transactions, 2nd series, page 377. І was in hopes that Mr. Crawfurd, in recently publishing his Journal of an Embassy to the Court of Ava, would himself have rectified the mistake, especially as he has incorporated the whole of the said memoir, in which it occurs, with his book, in the shape of an Appendix ; but since he has omitted this, I now proceed to do it for him, in as few words as I can. | Professor Buckland begins his memoir in these words: “ For the specimens and notes which form the subject of the present communication, the Society is indebted to the zeal and activity of J. Crawfurd, Esq. one of its Fellows, who having occasion to traverse the Burmese country on an Embassy to Ava in the years 1826 and 1827, discovered an extensive deposit of organic remains in that unknown and distant region." Again, a little further оп, “It is on an examina- tion of these specimens, and of the notes contained in Mr. Crawfurd's daily journal, that the observations and descriptions that make up the present memoir are founded." Memoir, page 377; Appendix to Mr. Crawfurd’s work, page 78.—In the next page and at the conclusion the following encomium is bestowed upon the late envoy. “ It could scarcely have been anticipated that, within so short a period as has elapsed since the date of this publication" (Professor Buckland's Reliquie Diluviane), ** the zealous investigations of a single individual should have gone so far as those of Mr. Crawfurd have done, to supply an answer to the question then proposed." “It must be confessed, in concluding, that the result of these discoveries, though intensely interesting, and a splendid example of what may be done by the skill and activity of one zealous gentleman," &c. Memoir, pages 378 and 389; Appendix, pages 78 and 88. The reader is now requested to turn to Mr. Crawfurd’s book. « Тһе most curious petrifaction, however, which we met with, was obtained by Dr. Wallich,—_ a fossil bone, which from its appearance we judged at the time to be the lower part of the femur or thigh-bone of an elephant.” Journal, 23rd September, p. 53. On this passage I have to remark, that I did not obtain this fossil, but walking along the hanks of Ше Irawaddi a little below Yenangeun, in company with Dr. Stuart and Lieut. Montmorency, the envoy being on board the Diana steamer at the time, I—or according to Professor Buckland's memoir, Mr. Crawfurd—disco- vered this large relic. "Тһе whole party landed іп the afternoon, but we could find no more specimens of the kind ; nor did we meet with a single one for upwards of three months, until on our return from Ava we came again to the identical spot where the discovery had originally been made; and here we now collected an amazing quantity of similar animal petrifactions. This last event, which has nothing whatever to do with the discovery, our E M in chap. 12, p. 336; and he pointedly refers to it in the list of contents which heads the chapter, in these words: i Remarkable discovery of fossil bones;" while the list of the contents at the beginning of chap. 2, which contains the real discovery, is perfectly silent on the subject of it. . | | Great praise is no doubt due to the geological labours and discoveries of Mr. Crawfurd. TEM little credit should, I think, be given also to die sources from whence were derived the splendid and altogether matchless opportunities, which the Mission enjoyed for prosecuting researches into natural history, and which rendered success absolutely inevitable. My own share in the harvest has been but trifling, but so much the less can I afford to part with it; and I leave it with confidence to the decision of the Geological Society, to whom I һауе had the honour of belonging these many years, whether Mr. Crawfurd’s pretensions, as held forth in their Transactions, are founded on facts or otherwise. CURCUMA ROSCOEANA. Тар. 9. ӛрісі centrali oblongá, tetragoná, сосешей, nuda, bracteis ligulato-porrectis, quadrifariis ; antherá cristata, loculis discretis, ecalcaratis ; foliis oblongis, subcordatis. Habitat in Реки et ad oram Tenasserim : floret tempore anni pluvioso. tuberculosa, plurima demittens tubera ovata vel rotunda, parva, filo gracili PLANTA 1—3-pedalis surgens e radice parva, oblonga, suspensa, fuscescentia, intüs lacteo-alba, apice sæpè terminata radiculà fibrillosà, vix semipollicaria. Слоиз crassus, compressus, 6—8- is, marginatis, fuscescentibus, striatis, laxe villosis, pollicaris, quin pedalis, compositus e vaginis foliorum bifarié imbricantibus, alterni D : scapum omnino involventibus, ore utrinque productis in ligulam brevem, obtusam. Forra patula, oblonga, subrepanda, basi inmqualiter subcordata, glabra, pedalia ad sesquipedalia, suprà nitida, uniformiter viridia, obliquè undulata, gubtüs glancti cost отв orasah. Реттом graciles, profunde sulcati, purpurascentes, folia longitudine subaequantes. SPrcA erecta, оета! foliorum, ере tertio brevior; 6—8-pollicaris, diametro tripollicari, ad apicem haud comosam pauld contracta, basi attenuata In scapum cylindricum, e viridi lutes- centem, crassiusculum, omnino a vaginis foliorum involutum et occultum; fulgido-coccinea, valdé regulariter tetragona vel pentagona, totidemque exarata sulcis latis, totam longitudinem excurrentibus. Ввлстеж sesquipollicares, glaberrime, соссіпеге, 2——3-florz, basi Јака, adnatze et leviter decurrentes, sursim liberze, infundibuliformes, fauce amplá, in limbum productz ligulato-ovatum, obtusum, recurvato- patentem, plicatum, dorso convexum, in series 4 vel 5 porrectas, regulares, longitudinales dispositee, summae pauló decrescentes, con- colores, terminales vacuæ. Өріса JUNIOR inaperta, oblongo-ovata, attenuata, acuta, strobiliformis, intensé coccinea, bracteis lato-ovatis, adpressis, apice parüm recurvatis, imbricantibus. Frons flavi, infundibuliformi-clavati, majusculi, faucem bractearum totam successive occupantes supraque eam parüm elevati. Товоз cylindricus, dimidià inferiore parte obtectus CALYCE tenuissimo, cylindrico, tridentato, sursüm leviter ampliatus. Сокола duplici serie alternatim sexfida, bilabiata. LacrNLE EXTERIORES ovate, subacutze; dorsalis paulo latior, concava, cum interioribus lateralibus, subconformibus, ovatis, basi latis in labium superius limbi fornicatum connivens ; labellum sive lacinia antica seriei interioris subrotundum, obtusum, levissimé retusum, patens, supra bracteam spicze parüm decurvatum, disco lineis duabus elevatis sulcoque intermedio notatum. Ешлмехтом latiusculum, breve, inter bases subdistantes laciniarum lateralium interiorum insertum. Ахтнквл oblongo-conica, carnosa, infra labium corollz superius nutanti-adscendens, longiuscula, attenuata, cristà membra- пасей, ciliata, ovatà, recurvatá terminata, basi latà cum filamento articulata ; locula 2, antica, omnino discreta sulcoque profundo separata, basi obtusa et nuda, superne evanescentia. OvanruM parvulum, ovatum, puberulum. SryLus filiformis, basi corpusculis luteis brevissimis auctus. SrrGMA infundibuliforme, pubescens, vix ultra cristam anthers elevatum. CAPSULA immatura oblongo-clavata, laevis, 3-locularis, seminibus farcta numerosis, arillo magno, candido, profundé fimbriato involutis, fer inodoris et insipidis. This is an extremely beautiful and splendid plant, and certainly one of the most ornamental of the whole genus. It may at once be distinguished from all the other species by its uniformly scarlet, straight, tetragonal or pentagonal, deeply furrowed, oblong, subacute spike, which is destitute of any coma, and consists of very numerous tongue- shaped spreading bracts disposed in four or five longitudinal, protruding series, each forming a large pouch occupied by one flower at a time. Тһе structure of the anther differs from any observed in the other species, and in some degree invalidates the character of the genus as it now stands; for it is terminated, as is the case in Aempferia, by a large oval crest, and its base is perfectly naked; its cells resemble those of a Набепата, being completely separated from each other by a deep and broad furrow, and vanishing upwards. Тһе size of the plant varies considerably. In the wild state I have rarely found it beyond one or two feet in height; but in the botanic garden of Calcutta it even exceeded three feet, with a spike full twelve inches long. The principal root is very small, the tubers very numerous, small, milk-white within, possessing a very faintly aromatic taste. Plate IX. Fig. 1. Spike before expansion. 2. Flower. 3. The same, with the outer limb turned back to show the stamen. 4. The same dissected. 5. Stamen much enlarged. CURCUMA CORDATA. Tab. 10. : Rapice BEANS cu tuberibus plurimis globosis, ex apice filorum subfusiformium pendulis; foliis ovato-cor atis, acuminatis, concoloribus, utrinque sericeo-villosi 1 itudi 1 1 -villosis, репо! : ;; Spicá 1 i q , petiolos longitudine zequantibus ; spicá centrali, supra vaginas subsessili, oblongo-cylindricá ; bracteis ovatis, obtusissimis, villosis, ore amplissimo patentibus, come lucidis apice fusco-maculatis. ‚ purpureis Habitat in montibus ripe lrawaddi e region à ione Prome, fl y : Е CNN g orens tempore pluvioso. In horto Calcuttensi floruit Henga erecto-patens, pedes 2, 3, ad 4 alta. Raprx magna, horizontalis, glabra, digitato-palmata > flavicans ; lebi cylindrici, digitum minimum crassi, nunc ovati. extis pallid® ferruginea, ints dilutè TUBERA plurima, subrotunda, pollicaria, alba, inferiore parte fibrillosa Фа” Coindet ЖО. imar за by Enge Prinz dei? SAU ANS UME P «Ж Gaua litheg A LM 7 P4 LVF) РА ma Aia deem P 2 с істия фу Етайталл. Graf. Conder 4200 зоти ње ”/ Ж 27 СИРЕ ОЙсасоса. НА uL lcuaasna cotdala ча Ро. Р, | 4 \ Бы... отаде? Kio Ф raf, Printed, by Engelmann Lei aua Pishnuper 9 . intüs scepissimé cava, carne lacteà, molli ; suspensa filis longis, carnosis, pallidis, a basi valdé crassa sensim attenuatis, apice gracilibus. CauLIs crassus, compressus, villosulus, 6—8-pollicaris, constans vaginis bifari& imbricatis, dorso rufescentibus, supern? liberis, apice obtuse bidentatis. Ретюшм erecto-patentes, subbifarii, canaliculati, villosi, folium longitudine subzequantes. Еомл ampla, 10-polli- caria ad pedalia, quin majora, ovata, acuminata, basi cordata vel retusa, nunc rotundata, membranaceo-marginulata, plana, obliqué sulcata, villis sericeis, laxis obsita, uniformiter saturat? viridia; suprà nitida, subtus mollissima, pallida, cost’ prominente, рИов4. Sprca centralis petiolorum, vix apicem interiorum longiorum attingens, erecta, cylindrico-oblonga, 6—8-pollicaris, uncias 2 lata, ornata сота violacea, lucida, bracteis constante summis, vacuis, reliquis paulo longioribus, iisdemque solutioribus, apice fusco-sanguineis; suffulta всаро cylindrico, pennam cygneam fer? crasso, salva apice 2-pollicari, vaginis foliorum recondito. Ввлстеж ovatee, quinquefarié ordi- nate, obtusissimze, уШовае, 2—3-floree, limbo brevi, rotundato, parüm recurvo, ѕгерійѕ dilutè purpureo ; fauce ampla, excavatà. FronEs magni, flavi, supra faucem bractearum parùm elevati. Слух brevis, clavatus, ore contracto, crenulato. Comorux tubus gracilis, cylindricus, calyce angustior, eodemque triplo longior, pallidus, supern? ampliatus in limbum magnum, campanulatum, fauce ventricoso- inflatum. Lacini# exteriores З tenuissime, ovate, acute, dilutissim? rosez ; suprema subcucullata, infra apicem cuspidata ; inte- riorum 2 superiores alt? connate, introrsum plicatæ et conniventes, acute; inferior, sive LABELLUM, magnum, flavum, infundibuliforme, limbo leviter porrecto, obtusé bilobo. ANTHERA magna, sagittata, FILAMENTO difformi, lato, brevi, sinui laciniarum superiorum et inte- riorum inserto. This noble species is so very like Curcuma petiolata Roxb. (beautifully figured in Mr. Roscoe's splendid work on Scitaminee), that I considered it, at the time I found it, as a large variety only of that plant. But subsequent examination and comparison of these plants in the Honourable Company's botanic garden at Calcutta, has induced me to separate them as two distinct species. Ours is much larger and more stately, having all its green parts beset with long, adpressed, silky hairs. "The leaves are more decidedly cordate ; they are soft and villous, while in the other plant they are perfectly smooth. Тһе spike is villous; its crown, or. coma, glossy and purple, each of its bracts being besides tipped with a dark-red, brownish spot; a purple or lilac tinge always extends more or less downwards upon the exterior margins of the fertile bracts, and sometimes it even reaches those at the base of the spike. In Roxburgh's species the spike is smooth, and the coma of a uniform lilac colour. Our plant grows only, as far as my observation goes, among the thick bamboo forest on the hills opposite Prome; the other is, I believe, limited to Pegu, where I found it in abundance about Rangoon, in flower in August. Plate X. Fig. 1. Flower with its proper bract. 2. The same, having the dorsal lobe of the outer limb turned down to show the inner limb. 3. The same, with all the outer lobes detached, and the inner and upper ones somewhat expanded. 4. Inner and upper lobes of the corolla, with the anther between them. MELANORRHGEA. SrPALA 5 in calycem calyptraceum, 5-nervium, caducum, valvatim cohzrentia. Perata 5, raro 6, estivatione imbricantia, persistentia, infra fructum aucta. STAMINA plura, distincta, toro convexo inserta. Разтиллм 1. Ovarium obliqué lenticulare, stipitatum, l-loculare, l-sporum: ovulo suspenso chordá funiculari liberá, e fundo loculi adscendente. Этугоз lateralis verticis ovarii. Өтісма parvum, convexum. Fnucrus indehiscens, coriaceus, depresso-reniformis, obliquus, pedicellatus, involucro corollino stellatim patente, maximo suffultus. Semen exalbu- minosum, decumbens. CoryLepones carnose, crass. Hanrcura lateralis, adscendens et in commissuram cotyle- doneam replicata. Classis Linnzeana, Polyandria Мопогута. Ordo naturalis, Z'erebinthacearum tribus Anacardee, Brown. ( Habitus : Arbores magne facie Semecarpi, omnibus partibus scatentes succo viscido, ferrugineo, a contactu atmo- spherico citò in atrum converso; coma laté protensa ; folia ampla, coriacea, simplicia, integerrima, decidua, pen- ninervia. Panicule florum axillares, oblonge ; fructuum ample, laxze, involucris maximis, rufis, demum ferrugineis ornate. Е . ) Obs. Characteres generici quoad florem precipue а M. glabra, quoad fructum а M. usitata Чезитри ; habitus feré totus posteriorem speciem respicit. MELANORRHQGA USITATA. Tab, 11 & 12. Foris obovatis, obtusissimis, villosis. nie Бо Provenit in convalle magna, Kubbu dicta, regni Munipuriani Hindustaniz, Sillet et Тіррегае сошегшип; 1n imperio D ‹ 10 * Burmanico, et ad oram Tenasserim usque ad Tavoy, inter gradum xxv. et xiv. latitudinis meridionalis. Ipse observavi juxta ripam sinistram Irawaddi fluminis ad Prome ; in provincia Martabanize ad urbem Martaban, ad Kogun fluminis Saluen et ad Neynti fluminis Attran. Floret initio anni; fructus maturi a fine Martii ad medium Мап. І Nomen vernaculum : Munipurensibus АЛеи ; Burmanis Theet-tsee vel Zit-si. Annon vasta, ramosa et umbrosa, trunco robusto, cortice sordid’ fusco, rimoso, ligno ponderoso, compacto, e fusco rufescente, viliori varietati ligni Swietenie Mahagoni haud absimili. ВАамом crassi, cylindrici, grisei, villosi, a lapsu foliorum cicatricibus majusculis, fre quentibus notati; novelli ferrugineo-villosi. Семмж axillares et terminales parvee, ovate, acuta, squamis paucis, coriaceis, villosis, citò dilabescentibus. Forra versus ramorum extremitates approximata, sparsa, patentia, decidua, obovata, obtusa, гаго subretusa, nunc oblongo-cuneata, deorsum valdè attenuata, basi acuta, integerrima, subsinuata, lateribus quandoque disparibus ; coriacea et firma, spithamzea ad pedalia, utrinque ferrugineo-villosa, mollia, геќаќе glabriora ; suprà atroviridia, subtüs nervo principali crasso, Blevato, secundariis numerosis, suboppositis, parallelis, obliquè ad peripheriam excurrentibus, parvàque ab Ша distantià arcuatim anastomosanti- bus; venis numerosis, prominulis, reticulatis. . Perrorvs brevis, nudus, villosus, crassus, basi intumescens, suprà planus, a folio subdecur- rente parlim marginatus. SrrPun nulle. Гувговкзсехттам haud vidi ; flores aliquot delapsos, emarcidos et cariosos tantùm observavi. Erant parvi ét inconspicui, pedicellis insidentes brevibus, teretibus, villosis. ` Nullum vestigium calycis nisi forsan lineola obsoleta infra corollam. Peraza 5 lanceolata, acuminata, bilinearia, purpurascentia, uninervia, pubescentia, ciliata, inths minutim glanduloso-punc- tata, persistentia, tria exteriora parüm majora. SrAwrNA 20—30 libera, erecto-patula, petalis pauld breviora, toro conico, elevato undique inserta; filamenta glabra, сарШасеа; antheræ ovate, овсШафогіге, biloculares, utrinque dehiscentes, albicantes. ^ OvaniUM oblique lenticulare, margine altero rectiore, altero gibboso, parvulum, pubescens, pedicello suffultum proprio, inter stamina e centro tori surgente, l-loculare, l-sporum ; ovulum reniforme, sustentum funiculo libero, e fundo loculi orto, secus angulum hujus rectiorem adscendente, apice incurvato. SrvLus lateralis e vertice ovarii, subulatus, pubescens, deciduus. тама parvulum, convexum. Discus hypogynus nullus. PaxicuLA rructuum terminalis, ampla, patens, laxa, villosa, constans cymis pluribus, pedunculatis, oblongis, nutan- tibus, 6—7-pollicaribus, ramosis, axillaribus foliorum delapsorum. PEpuNcuL: teretes, villosi, infra divisuras cicatricibus bractearum caducarum. Евостоз coriaceus, indehiscens, transverse? ovatus, depressus, subreniformis, vertice рапа nudus, hinc gibbosior et porrectior (ideoque excentricus), magnitudine cerasi, glaber, reticulato-venosus, venis viridibus demim nigricantibus, ruber, glaucescens, репа maturitate fuscescens, stipitatus thecaphoro clavato, tereti, unguiculari; 1-locularis, 1-spermus, involucratus. Тмуогосвом 5- raro 6- phyllum, patentissimum demiun subreflexum ; foliola oblonga, obtusa vel pauld retusa, integerrima, 2—3-pollicaria, pubescentia, ruber- rima, furfuracea, demüm fusca, coriacea, arida, suprà convexiuscula, subtüs eleganter reticulato-venosa, venis mediis in fasciculum collectis latiusculum, prominulum, ultra basin in unguem brevissimum subproductum. Semen transverse decumbens, magnum. SPERMO- DERMIUM chartaceum, leve, embryonem arcté cingens, vertice crassius et ad latus ejus radiculare exsculptum sulco pro recipienda chorda funiculari lata, plana, e basi fundi oriunda, adscendente, partem spermodermii apici radiculee oppositam perforante moxque evanida. Емввүо magnus, semini conformis, exalbuminosus. CorvLEDoNES crasse, сагпоѕге, semiovate, obtusze, gibbose, rugosule, ad paginam internam plane агскедие sibi invicem accumbentes, hypogez. Rapıcura brevis, planiuscula, ad extremitatem elevatiorem embryonis locata, adscendens, commissure cotyledonum adpressa, basi subbifida, apice inclinata et obtusa. Pruwura minuta, occulta, lanceolata. The first time I met with this very interesting tree was at a small village below Prome, on the river Irawaddi, where a few had been planted ; and on my return from Ava I found it again in abundance on the hills surrounding the first-mentioned town ; but in both instances the trees were without any fructification. Іп the Martaban province I had the satisfaction of seeing the tree in great numbers in March 1827, on a small acclivity rising behind the town of Martaban. They were loaded with bunches of red, nearly ripe fruit, but were not very large; few only exceeding thirty feet in height, with a short trunk measuring not more than four or five feet in circumference. Тһе leaves had entirely fallen off, and strewed the ground in every direction. At Neynti, a village on the Attran river, behind the military station at Moalmeyn, I also observed a few trees: and lastly, on the Saluen river towards Kogun. Неге they were of greater dimensions than those just mentioned ; one of them being forty feet in height, with a stem twelve feet long and eleven in girth at four feet above the ground. One of my assistants brought me fruit-bearing specimens from Tavoy on the Tenasserim coast. I took with me to Bengal a large quantity of ripe fruits of the Varnish-tree, which germinated freely and produced upwards of 500 strong and healthy plants. Out of several individuals, which I had with me on board the ship in which I came to Europe, I succeeded in preserving only one living plant, which was presented to His Majesty’s garden at Kew by the East India Company. Subsequently several other plants have been forwarded from the Calcutta garden to England. Before leaving Bengal I had an opportunity of identifying our tree with the majestic Kheu, or Varnish-tree of Munipur, a principality in Hindustan, bordering on the N.E. frontier districts of Sillet and Tippera. Mr. George Swinton, chief Secretary to the Bengal Government, (to whose kindness I am indebted for much valuable information concerning the produce of this and other useful trees of India,) obtained for me a supply of ripe fruits from thence, е ш кү. жа а ара at DE They vegetated speedily, and produced plants түте the following pd ee ЧЕ pe 3 ‚ Grant, who has a military command at Munipur, had the goodness г : follow | : grows ш great abundance at Kubbu, an extensive valley in the above- mentioned principality, forming large forests in conjunction with the two staple timber-trees of continental India, the Saul and Teak (Shorea robusta and Tectona grandis), especially the former. Numbers of the gigantic woodoil-tree 11 (Dipterocarpus) are also found in company with it. Тһе size of it varies; but in general it attains very large dimen- sions. Captain Grant speaks of trees having clear stems of forty-two feet to the first branch, with a circumference. near the ground of thirteen feet; and he mentions that they are known to attain a much greater size. All the individuals grow in the same manner ; that is, they reach a great height before throwing out any branches. . As long since as the year 1812, the late Mr. M. R. Smith, for nearly forty years an inhabitant of Sillet, and during the latter part of that long period a zealous contributor to the Honourable Company's botanic garden at Calcutta, furnished some very curious information. concerning our tree to Mr. H. Colebrooke, then in charge of that institution. He must therefore be considered as the first person who brought this valuable tree into notice, although he failed in his endeavours to procure either dried specimens or fresh seeds of it.—I shall here subjoin some of his remarks. “Т have discovered a sort of varnish, which I consider as the identical one made use of by the Chinese in their eastern and north-eastern provinces. It is procurable in great quantities from Munipur, where it is used for paying river crafts, and for varnishing vessels destined to contain liquids, such as oil, ghee (clarified butter), milk, honey, or water. Тһе drug is conveyed to Sillet for sale by the merchants, who come down annually with horses and other objects of trade. Тһе tree which yields it grows to an amazing size. I am informed that it attains one hundred cubits in height, and twenty cubits in circumference, and even more. It forms extensive forests, which commence at a distance of three days' journey from the capital, and stretch in a northerly and easterly direction towards China for many miles." That Ше Клеи which Mr. Smith describes is the same as that found by Captain Grant, there cannot be any doubt ; nor that it is identical with the Theet-tsee, or Varnish-tree of the Burmese. It follows, hence, that the tree has a very wide geographical range, extending from Munipur (in latitude 25° М. and longitude 94° E.) to Tavoy (in latitude 14°, longitude 97°). Тһе valley of Kubbu, which has been ascertained by actual survey, made by Lieutenant Pemberton, to be only five hundred feet above the plains of India, is distant two hundred miles from the nearest sea shore. Тһе tree there attains its greatest size, and I believe it becomes smaller as it approaches the sea on the coast of Tenasserim, where it grows in comparatively low situations. Our tree belongs to the Deciduous class, shedding its leaves in November, and continuing naked until the month _ of May, during which period it produces its flowers and fruit. During the rainy season, which lasts for five months, from the middle of May until the end of October, it is in full foliage. Every part of it abounds in a thick and viscid greyish-brown fluid, which turns black soon after coming in contact with the external air. In the Edinburgh Journal of Science, vol. viii. page 96 and 100, there are two interesting articles, containing valuable information concerning the varnish produced by our tree, and its deleterious effects on the human frame. № is a curious fact, that, to my certain knowledge, the natives of the countries where the tree is indigenous never experience any injurious con- sequences from handling its juices: it is strangers only that are sometimes affected by it, especially Europeans. Both Mr. Swinton and myself have frequently exposed our hands to it without any serious injury. I have even ventured to taste it, both in its recent state and as it is exposed for sale at Rangoon, and have never been affected by it. It possesses very little pungency, and is entirely without smell. I know, however, of instances where it has produced extensive erysipelatous swellings, attended with pain and fever, but not of long duration. Of this description was the effect it had on the late Mr. Carey, a son of the reverend Dr. W. Carey, who resided several years in the Burma empire. Among the people who accompanied me to Ava, both Hindus and Mahomedans, no accident happened, although they frequently touched the varnish, except in a slight degree to one of my assistants, whose hand swelled and continued painful during two days. Dr. Brewster informs me that, after resisting its effects for a long time, it at length attacked him in the wrist with such violence that the pain was almost intolerable. It was more acute than that of a severe burn, and the Doctor was obliged to sleep several nights with his hand immersed in the coldest water. He considers it as a very dangerous drug to handle. One of his servants was twice nearly killed by it. In the neighbourhood of Prome a considerable quantity of varnish is extracted from the tree ; but very little is obtained at Martaban, owing, as I was told, to the poverty of the soil, and partly also to the circumstance of there being none of the people in that part whose business it is to perform the process. This latter is very simple: short joints of a thin sort of bamboo, sharpened at one end like a writing-pen, and shut up at the other, are inserted in a slanting direction into wounds, made through the bark of the trunk and principal boughs, and left there for twenty- four or forty-eight hours, after which they are removed, and their contents, which rarely exceed a quarter of an ounce, emptied into a basket made of bamboo or rattan previously varnished over. As many as a hundred bamboos are sometimes seen sticking into a single trunk during the collecting season, which lasts as long as the tree is destitute of leaves, namely from January until April; and they are renewed as long as the juice will flow. A good tree is reckoned to produce from 1+ to 2, 3, and even 4 Viss annually, a Viss being equal to about ЗН. avoirdupois. In its pure state it is sold at Prome at the rate of one Tical, or 2s. 64. the Viss. At Martaban, where every thing was dear when I was there, the drug was retailed at 2 Madras rupees per Viss; it was of an inferior quality, and mixed with sesamum oil ; an adulteration which is often practised. The extensive use to which this varnish is applied, indicates that it must be a very cheap commodity. Almost 12 every article of household furniture destined to contain either solid or liquid food 1s lacquered by means of it es а village close to Pagam on the Irawaddi, called Gnaunee, where this sort of manufacture is carried on very pon y and to great perfection, I endeavoured to obtain some information relating to the precise mode of laequering : ut I could, learn. nothing further than this,—that the article to be varnished must first be prepared with a coating of pounded calcined bones; after which the varnish is laid on thinly, either in its pure state or variously coloured by means of red or other pigments. I was told that the most essential as well as difficult part of the operation consists in the process of drying, which must be effected in a very slow and gradual manner ; for which purpose the articles are placed in damp and cool subterraneous vaults, where they are kept for several months until the varnish has become perfectly dry. Another object for which the drug is extensively employed, is as а size ог glue in the process of gilding; nothing more being required than to besmear the surface thinly with the varnish, and then immediately to apply the gold leaf. If it is considered how very extensively that art is practised by the Burma nation, it being among their most frequent acts of devotion and piety to contribute to the gilding of their numerous religious edifices and idols, it will be evident that a great quantity of the drug must be consumed for that purpose alone. Finally, the beautiful Pali.writing of the religious order of the Durmas on ivory, palm-leaves, or metal, is entirely done with this varnish, in its native and pure state. I was not so fortunate as to see the tree while in flower, or to procure specimens of it in that state. But the examination of its fruit and of some decayed old flowers, which I found under the trees, has enabled me to establish it into a perfectly distinet new genus. А few days before I left India I obtained specimens in flower, but without any fruit, of a second species from Tavoy, which һауе aided me in completing the generic character. Тһе genus is allied to most of those which form the tribe of Anacardee ; but it differs from them all in having a calyptriform, one-leaved, caducous calyx, a persistent corolla which enlarges into a spreading involucrum, indefinite stamens, a free ovarium, and a dry fruit, supported by an unaltered proper pedicel. I shall conclude by a few remarks on each of the genera to which Melanorrhæa approaches. Anacardium and Semecarpus have their fruit resting on ап enlarged and fleshy peduncle or torus, and the latter genus has three styles and a distinct hypogynous disc. | Holigarna, a genus to which Mr. Brown has referred many years ago in his Appendix to Tuckey's Expedition to ` Congo, is very distinct, by its inferior, adherent fruit. Both И. longifolia and Н. racemosa Roxb. produce an acrid juice, which is used as a varnish. Му friend and predecessor Dr. Hamilton, by whose death the world has recently lost a very learned and excellent naturalist, informed me that he knew nothing of the Burmese Varnish- tree, if different from a species of Holigarna. In the collection of specimens, which he brought away from Ava, and among the descriptions and drawings belonging to them, all of which are deposited in the Banksian Herbarium, I can find no trace of this last-mentioned tree, nor did I meet with it during my visit to that country. Висйапата has a степаќе or lobed disc round the sessile ovarium, 5 styles, and a baccate, naked drupe. Astronium resembles our genus in having an involucred fruit; but it is the persistent calyx and not the corolla which enlarges: it has besides a sessile ovarium and 3 styles. Its leaves are compound. Augia of Loureiro (not to be confounded with иеа Thunb., a Cape plant belonging to a widely different family) has polyandrous flowers ; but the fruit is naked and sessile. Its leaves are pinnate. According to Loureiro the varnish produced by this tree is that which is commonly used in China and Siam. Neither this nor the following genus has been noticed by subsequent botanical writers. | Stagmaria verniciflua Jack. (in Malayan Miscellanies, vol. ii. Append. 3. р. 12.) has a tubular calyx, 5 stamens, a stipitate, 3-celled ovarium, and a naked berry, containing a pseudo-monocotyledonous embryo. It is a native of the Malayan islands, and is the same as Arbor Vernicis of Rumphius, according to whom, Mr. Jack observes, it is the tree, which yields the so much celebrated Japan lacquer or varnish, as well as that of Siam and Tonquin ; although Loureiro represents the varnish of the two last countries as being the produce of a different tree. Mr. Jack adds, that under the article Sanga in the Encyclopédie Botanique, part of Rumphius's account is given, but by a singular mistake the tree is conjectured to be a Hernandia; and that, in the first volume of the same work, the Arbor Vernicis is made Terminalia vernix ; an error which has not been corrected by later authors. Rhus and Mauria differ in having a sessile, naked fruit, and foliaceous cotyledons.—I take this opportunity of remarking that my Rhus juglandifolia, which I cannot distinguish from Kzempfer's Site or Sitzdsju, owes its specific name to a hint thrown out by that author. As there exists a tree so called by Willdenow, Professor Decandolle has changed the name to И. vernicifera. The coincidence of the Burmese name of Melanorrhea usitatissina with that of the Japan Varnish-tree is remarkable. | Plate XI. A branch with leaves. Plate XII. A naked fruit-bearing branch a little before maturity. lucrum. 2. A fruit cut across in the middle. 3. Seed. 6. The same seen from the inner smooth surface. Fig. 1. A detached fruit, perfectly ripe, showing the large invo- 4. The same with the cotyledons a little Separated. 5. Cotyledons. ; Ж а otn ГИЯ м. S N < - 3 N N ы % “а “м “м; S EN NN е. 262% йз пиел at d, hinted ду Enasimann Graf Ganaeb КО 13 е B НЇВЛ А HIRSUTA. Tab. 13. . \ . . . . « . . . . ... эт. . Fouts obovatis, brevé acuminatis, basi retuso-subcordatis, utrinque, ramis paniculisque vestitis pilis longis, paten- tibus ; samaris oblongis, dorso nudis, apice emarginatis. Hasrrar in Imperii Burmanici montibus Prome vicinis, et ad basin montis Taong Dong dicte, florens et fructigera a mense Augusti usque ad finem anni. Евотех alt? volubilis, ramosissima, summis partibus lax? nutantibus. Вам cylindrici, longissimi, graciles, ad insertionem petiolorum lineà obsoletà annulati, uti folia utrinque pedunculique obsiti pilis copiosissimis, longis, erectis, patentibus, dilut? ferrugineis, basi simplici punctulo elevato insertis. Коа opposita, patentia, distantia, ovata vel obovata, acumine brevi, lanceolato, angusto terminata; integerrima, basi retusa vel subcordata, lobis rotundatis, brevibus ; palmaria, coriacea, ciliata, utraque pagina pilosa, subtüs glaucescentia, costá elevata, nervis süboppositis, versus marginem arcuato-anastomosantibus, venis transversis, reticulatis; floralia ovalia, minora et approximatiora. Реттом breves, unguiculares, suprà leviter sulcati, basi vix incrassati. STIPULÆ opposite, minutze, subcarnosze, ciliate, lineares, ab axillis parüm remotz, decidue. —PawicuLx axillares terminalesque, opposite, solitarize, pedunculatze, erecto-patule, folia subæquantes, fructi- gere nutantes iisdem longiores, bis terve opposite гашовге, paniculam amplam terminalem formantes. PEDUNCULI graciles, filiformes, valdè pilosi, pilis curvis, subdecumbentibus, medio insertis. BRACTEÆ oppositæ, lineares, pilosæ, semiunguiculares. Frores parvi, ex albo flavicantes, inodori, fasciculati, vel subumbellati, elongatione pedunculi partialis demùm subracemosi, suffulti pedicellis unguicularibus, subcapillaceis, basi munitis bracteold lineari, десий. CaLyx eglandulosus, glaber, ovatus, 5-partitus ; lacini@ lanceolate, acute, ciliatze, - post florescentiam reflexze. PETALA 5, subrotunda, obtusa, concaviuscula, calyce dupld longiora, estivatione imbricata. STAMINA 10, erecta, corollam subzequantia, alterna breviora ; filamenta alba, capillacea, basi feré libera ; antherce oblongze, егеске, utrinque dehiscentes. Ovarium glabrum, 3-lobum, 3-loculare ; lobi ad dorsum depresso-plani ; ovula solitaria, medio axis appensa. Srvur 3, leviter divaricati, glabri, stamina subsequantes, persistentes. STIGMATA carnosa, clavata, glabra. Samaræ 3, oblongze, lzeves, 2-pollicares, utrinque obtuse, apice emarginate, lateribus parüm recurvatis, marginibus subrepandis, dorso concaviusculo nudz, ventris medio inserts sinubus * receptaculi 3-dentati, parvuli, e fundo calycino orti; unite in samaram compositam, triangularem, pedunculatam. LocULAMENTUM Cen- trale, lineare, coriaceum, intis carinatum styloque brevi, persistente auctum, extis circumdatum ај, mémbranaceá, scariosa, fusca, radiatim nervosa, reticulato-venosá. Semen loculo conforme, lineas 4 longum, integumento tenuissimo, ferrugineo obtectum. PERISPERMUM nullum. Емввүо rectus, albus. Сотуьеромез plane, longe, lineares. RApicuraA oblonga, brevis, leviter complanata, supera. This extensive climber may be easily distinguished by the long and rust-coloured hairs, which cover all its parts, and which are nowhere, except on the partial peduncles, mixed with those decumbent, centrally adfixed bristles, so remarkable in the genus Mirea. у The following are the other East Indian species, which have come under my observation. . H. indica Roxb. Decand. Prodr. 1. 585. I have had specimens of this very variable shrub from Chittagong in the eastern part of Bengal ; I have likewise found it in the province of Martaban. И. nutans Roxb. Decand. loc. cit. Wild specimens were gathered by one of my plant-collectors on the lower range of hills at Kamoon ; but as they are without fruit, I am not quite certain whether they belong to this or the” following species. H. lanuginosa Nobis: foliis ovato-cordatis, attenuatis, acuminatis, suprà glabris, subtus lanugine densá, adnatá vestitis ; samaris ovatis, retusis, dorso nudis. À native of the. mountains surrounding the great valley of Nepal, where I found it in flower in June, and in fruit in the month of October. Н. cordata Неуп.: foliis cordatis, in acumen latissimum, valdé elongatum productis, subtüs lanuginosis. Specimens of this are preserved in the collection of the late Dr. B. Heyne, now in the Museum of the Honourable East India Company. Ї is remarkable, chiefly, on account of the long and broad point, which terminates its leaves. It appears to be intermediate between Hirea nutans and H. lanuginosa, of either of which species it may perhaps only be a variety. I have not seen the fruit. Тһе peninsula of India is probably its native country. И. concava Nobis: foliis oblongis, attenuato-obtusis, basi rotundatis, utrinque glaberrimis ; samara suborbiculatá, dorso cristatà. I found this shrub very sparingly near the sea-shore at Amherst in the province of Martaban, in fruit in February. H. orbiculata Roxb. Hort. Beng. Append. p. 90 : foliis orbiculatis, subtüs paniculisque villosis, samará orbiculatá, dorso cristata. | I know this species only from the Manuscript Кога Indica of the late Dr. Roxburgh, who says И is a native of Chittagong. Plate XIII. Fig. 1. 2. Flower. 3. The same dissected. 4. Fruit, consisting of three samaras united together in the centre. 5. The same cut across in the middle. 6. Тһе same, one of the samaras being removed to show the insertion of the other two. 7. A detached samara cut across in the middle. 8. Cell of the samara opened, showing the position of the embryo and the funicular chord detached from the wing. 9. Embryo. А 14 CARDIOSPERMUM CANESCENS. Тар. 14. Caxo-viLLOsuM, foliis biternatis, foliolis cuneato-obovatis, grossé serratis, intermedio subpetiolato, basi cuneata integerrimo, lateralibus sessilibus. | Frequens secus ripas Irawaddi, ad Pagamew, Prome, Segaen, et Avam. Etiam observavi in Martabania. Floret et fructificat toto anno. PLANTA annua, scandens, ramosissima, omnibus partibus pallida et incana а villositate mollissima, copiosa. Ramı elongati, filiformes, gracillimi, teretes, 5-sulcati. Forra alterna, patentia, biternata, circumscriptione triangularia, 2—3-pollicaria, summa simpliciter ternata. Еотлолл cuneato-obovata, acuta, extrorsum serraturis utrinque paucis, magnis, basi integerrima et attenuata, subpetiolata, pollicaria, utrinque cano-villosa et mollia, praecipue subtüs ; lateralia dimidid minora, oblongata, subsessilia, basi acuta, haud attenuata. Ретгош gracillimi, villosi, suprà leviter sulcati, subtüs angulati, pollicares vel вевдшроШсагев; partiales dimidio breviores. б$тїри„® nulle. Реромсом solitarii, foliis oppositi, eademque longitudine æquantes, filiformes, villosi, patentes, sulcati, apice incrassatà inzequaliter bifidi, 6—8-flori. Cra 2, aliquot linearum а bifurcatione distantià pedunculo inserti, graciles, pollicares, planiusculi, integri, cir- cumvolutione simplici vel duplici spiraliter torti. Frores albo-viridescentes, inodori, pedicellis brevibus, villosis suffulti. Слиүх sub- persistens, 4-sepalus; sepala 2 exteriora valde parva, ovata, acuta; inferiora oblonga, illis quadrupló majora. PETALA 4, stellatim patentia, ovalia, appendicibus duabus cucullatis, petaloideis, adque basin glandulis duabus flavicantibus instructa. Caprsuua inflato-trigona, fer? globosa, glauca, pubescens, pollicaris. Although much resembling Cardiospermum Halicacabum L., which 1 have also found in the Burmese countries, our plant differs in various essential points. Instead of being smooth and dark-green, it is of a pale, glaucous colour and densely covered with soft pubescence. Its leaflets are short, obovate or cuneate, tapering downwards; in the Linnean plant they are long and narrow, and attenuated upwards into a long point. In colour and pubescence , it approaches (о С. Corindum L., of which I have seen specimens in the Banksian Herbarium, gathered in the West Indies by Houstoun and Rohr, but in the figure of the leaflets it differs nearly in the same manner, as it does from the first-mentioned species. Plate XIV. Fig. 1. 2. Flower. 2. The same dissected. ABELIA. (Brown apud Abel, in Itin. Chin. Append. B. p. 376.) Слух foliaceus 5- vel 2-partitus. Conorra subinfundibuliformis, 5-loba. Sramina 4, didyma vel subæqualia. Ovarium 3-loculare ; /oculis 2 polyspermis, abortientibus! tertio 1-spermo, fertili. PERICARPIUM 1-spermum, exsuc- cum, indehiscens, calycis limbo foliaceo, aucto coronatum.—Brown MSS. Classis Linnzeana, Didynamia Angiosperma.—Brown loc. cit. Ordo naturalis, Caprifoliacee vere Brown; Caprifoliacearum sectio 1. Juss. Gen. p. 211, Linnee prox.—Brown. Habitus: Frurices. оџа opposita, petiolata, dentato-crenata, vel integerrima. | INrLonEscENTIA varia.—Brown. ABELIA TRIFLORA. (Brown MSS.) Tab. 15. Етовтвов corymbi congesti ternatis : lateralibus 3-bracteatis ; calycibus 5-partitis ; foliis ovato-lanceolatis, acumi- natis, integerrimis.— Brown. Habitat in montibus meridionalibus provincie Kamaon, Himalayam versus, ubi detexit plantarum collector meus Robertus Blinkworth. Floret mense Maii. Nomen vernaculum Awni. AnBUscULA. Rami oppositi, erecto-patentes, graciles, teretes, utrinque notati sulcis З levissimis, sursüm evanescentibus, glabri, cinerei 2 ad insertionem ramulorum dilatato-tuberculati. Влмом ad basin circumdati squamis aliquot gemmaceis, persistentibus, rotundatis, con- ` cavis, fuscis, ciliatis, undique imbricantibus. Боша opposita, patentia, brevé petiolata, lanceolata vel subovato-lanceolata, a basi acuta vel rotundata extrorsum attenuata, acuminata, integerrima, pilis hyalinis vix patulis ciliata, czeterum glaberrima idit Ribas 2—3- quin 4-pollicaria, opaca, subtüs glaucescentia, costa gracili, elevatà, nervis tenerrimis, obliquis, parüm Md oq ё FLORALIA reli uis ы iüs longiora, basique latiora. Реттоглов brevissimus, suprà sulcatus, ad margines sulci pilosulus, basi subtüs gibbosus, ad axillam ша а Әтіріле nulle, sed marginula obsoleta, angustissima, ramulum inter insertiones petiolorum ambiens. Fores terminales et ex alis supremis, ternati 1 1 hj i ili i p ‚ ternatim fasciculati, laterales breve pedunculati, intermedius sessilis, ex albo dilutissime rosei, suaveolentes ; fasciculi geminati 1 / a ПАМЕЛА >” P Дацреттаня дігі Printed Ху ЕпФейтағ>иу Graf ила £ Co. я ^ ad ЕСА ГА 15 vel ternati, pedunculati, inflorescentiam densam, terminalem, pari foliorum floralium breviorem efformantes. Реромсим breves, tengri, pilis paucis obsiti. Рерісвил florum lateralium vix ultra lineam longi. Ввастеж sessiles, membranacez, pallide virides, ciliatze, reticulate ; floris intermedii solitaria, lanceolata, unguicularis; lateralium utrinque 3, istà multd minores, ad apicem pedicelli sitze : harum exterior paulo longior, laterales huic directione contrariz, ovarium subzequantes. Слгүх superus, limbo 5-partito, persistente ; lacinie angustissimé lineares, obtusiusculz, erecto-patentes, 3-nervize, reticulatze, villis longis, numerosis, sericeis, patentibus ciliata, cæ- terum glabrze, æquales, lineas 8 longæ. Conorza infundibuliformis, utrinque pubescens ; tubus cylindricus, gracilis, lacinias calycis aequans, sursum leviter dilatatus; limbus patentiusculus, 5-fidus, æstivatione imbricato-ovatus ; lacinie ovate, obtuse, venulose, ciliatee, Теге aequales, tertiam tubi partem longitudine vix superantes ; faux puberula, pervia. SrAMINA 4, гедиа а, fauce recondita ; filamenta brevissima, ' capillacea, infra sinus limbi inserta, basi villosa, lineolis 4 sericeis tubum intüs percurrentia ; anthera oblongze, егесіге, 2-loculares, utrinque longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ovanruw inferum, oblongum, hinc planiusculum, pilosulum, prominenter et inzequali distantià 5-nervium, lineas circiter 3 longum, apice in collum breve attenuatum, 3-loculare ; locula abortiva 2 supra medium 3—4-ovulata, ovulis minutis, subulatis, obliqué ex axi apice fenestrata pendulis, l-seriatis; loculum tertium fertile reliquis parüm amplius, 1-sporum, fundo vacuum ; ovulo. majusculo, oblongo-ovato, axi supra medium inserto, pendulo. Srvrus filiformis, glaber. тема clavatum, subcarnosum, an- therarum elevationem attingens, cumque iis inclusum. Евостоз haud visus. “ This new species of Æbelia has in its inflorescence nearly the same relation to Æbelia chinensis, that Caprifolium has to Xylosteum ; the central flower present in A. triflora and in Caprifolium being abstracted in Xylosteum and in A. chinensis. Іп a third species (Abelia uniflora) sent from China by Mr. John Reeves, and for a specimen of which I am indebted to the Horticultural Society, another modification of inflorescence occurs. The peduncles in this species have but one flower, which is considered as one of the lateral flowers, the ovarium being subtended by three bracts, placed exactly as in those of the corresponding flower of Мека triflora. “ Of the Natural Order Caprifoliacee, the only certain genera appear to me to be,— Caprifolium, Xylosteum, Sym- phoricarpus, Linnea, Abelia, Diervilla, (to which belongs Weigelia of Thunberg, who described the epigynous gland as the ovarium, which he overlooked,) Zriosteum and Leycesteria of Dr. Wallich. I am not acquainted, however, with any other character distinguishing them from the genera, which have hitherto been associated with them, except the very minute one of the raphe, or adnate portion of the funiculus umbilicalis, being on the outer instead of the inner side of the ovulum.”—Brown MSS. My plant-collector, who discovered this elegant species on the highest mountains of Northern and Western Ka- maon, towards the Himalaya, informs me that it grows to а“ middling-sized tree, and that its flowers are delight- fully fragrant like those of Jasminum revolutum." It is with much satisfaction that I find myself able to add a new species to a genus, long since consecrated by Mr. Brown to а mutual friend, now no more, whose private worth and scientific attainments I had many opportunities of appreciating, and whose premature death science will long have cause to regret. For the generic and specific characters and observations belonging to this and the three following plants, I am indebted to the liberality of my inestimable friend R. Brown, Esq., under whose direction the drawings were executed by the accurate hand of Mr. Charles Curtis. It must be evident to every one, how much valuable aid I have derived in my description of the plants from Mr. Brown's minute and masterly dissections. His absence from England at this moment unfortunately prevents me from adding that detail (more particularly as far as regards the two species of Cometes) which would assuredly have been supplied by him had he been on the spot. It enables me, however, to take this opportunity of expressing those feelings of admiration and respect, with which his name has for nearly twenty years inspired me, and which have been augmented, since my return from India, by those of gratitude for the most important assistance in my labours. Plate ХУ. Fig. 1. A fascicle of flowers, immediately after the corollas have fallen off, showing the position of the bracts. 2. Flower- bud. 3. Flower. 4. Corolla opened, showing the stamens. 5. Calyx and pistil. 6. Stamen viewed in front. 7. The same viewed sideways, showing the bursting of the anther. 8. A grain of pollen. 9. 10. Ovarium viewed in two aspects, exhibiting the arrangements of the nerves. 11. The same cut across in the middle. 12. The same having two of its:cells opened lengthways, one of them containing three abortive ovula, the other containing a solitary fertile ovulum. 16 MATONIA. (Brown М55.) Son: dorsales, rotundi, e puncto confluentize venularum plurium orti. Ixpvsruw orbiculatum, peltatum. CaprsuLe sessiles, in serie simplici circa receptaculum dispositee.— Brown. Systema Linneanum, Cryptogamia Filices. Ordo naturalis, Filices, tribus Polypodiacee.—Brown. Habitus: ЕШх pulcherrima, levis, fronde subbipinnatá. Pinna plures hinc superiores, * . . . . е ` . . singulis basi, nunc utroque latere, nunc inferiore tantüm monosoris, гаго bisoris. pauciores inde secundae, · omnes pinnatifide, lobis integerrimis, —Brown 4. с. Genus valdé distinctum a Roberto Brown dicatum amico suo Georgio Maton, M.D., Collegii Regii Medicorum nec- non Societatis Regie Socio, Societatis Linnæanæ Vice-Prasidi; viro wstumatissimo, historie: naturalis scrutatori indefesso, botanico perito, scriptisque variis optimé merito. Nomen Matonie, quod b. Smith generi Кенате а cel. Matonio condito imposuit, relinquendum est, teste ipso nominis donore, in Supplemento Cyclopadiz Reesiane. MATONIA PECTINATA. Tab. 16. Marowia PECTINATA. Brown MSS. Habitat in monte vulgó Ophir dicta, 4000 Теге pedes alta, milliaria 36 ab urbe Malacca distante, versus cacumen, ubi anno 1815 detexit Gulielmus Farquhar, Militum Tribunus. Еилх sesquipedalis, adscendens, apice recurvata, let? viridis, levis, hinc lucida, inde glauca. 8тіркв fuscus, nitidus, 10-pollicaris, suprà exaratus sulco lato, plano, acuté marginato, subtüs convexus, basi calamum scriptorium crassus, sursum parüm attenuatus. Екомз magna, adscendenti-recurvata, subbipinnata, pedem circiter longa, uncias 10 lata, rigidiuscula. Рихмл 14, plane, lineares, approximatze, lineari-ensiformes, profund? pinnatifidz, utrinque attenuate, pectinato-acuminate, per petiolum pollicarem marginulá integra usque ad basin fer decurrentes, suprà lucidze, subtus glauce, costà valde elevatà, dorso plana ideoque subtetragoná, spithamææ, mediz longi- ores; plurimae sursüm unilaterales, егесте et strictæ, approximatissimé insertze margini superiori, convexo rachis plane, 2-pollicaris ; duæ exteriores deorsum unilaterales vel secundze, petiolis brevissimis basi subconnatis, harum inferior uti terminalis frondis reliquis multd breviores, 3-pollicares. І.лсіміж alternze, parallele, approximatze, lanceolate, obtusiuscule, levissim? sursüm falcatæ, integerrime, marginibus parüm recurvis, mediz profundius separate, supreme et infimee subconfluentes, suprà secus venarum tractus minutim striatulee, subtus 1-пегуіге, nervo prominulo, planiusculo, venis copiosis, parallelis, obliquis, semel bisve furcatis, anastomosantibus, ad soros radiatim convergentibus punctoque insertionis confluentibus. Sonr ad basin laciniarum, medid inter nervum et marginem utrinque, quandoque ad unum tantüm nervi latus solitarii, гаго duo, sessiles, parvi, farcti, depresso-globosi, fusci, glaucescentes, glabri, vertice torulosi prominentiis aliquot minutis, centro elevato subumbilicati— INpusruw depresso-spheroideum, capsulas omninó includens, | hemisphzerio superiore crassiusculo, inferiore tenuissimo, membranaceo, capsulis arcté applicito, et mox subevanido. ҺЕСЕРТАССІЛ/М parvum, paulo elevatum. | Carsun annulo oblique verticali, incompleto сіпсіге. Semina angulata."— Brown MSS. ** The beautiful ramification of the veins, and their union, from which the sorus originates in Matonia, is not altogether peculiar to it. Among those genera of Po/ypodiacee having an indusium, one remarkable example occurs in a genus as yet undescribed (ZZypoderris), which, with an indusium not materially different from that of Woodsia, has exactly the habit of Aspidium trifoliatum : while of those genera of Po/ypodiacee which are without an indusium the same kind of vascularity is found in an extensive and very natural section of Polypodium, to which Polypodium cse and the greater number of those species soris saccatis belong.” —Brown. The specimen which has been described above, and of which Plate XVI. is an exact representation, is probabl unique in Europe. I received it from my late friend Mr. Jack, to whom it had been presented by our = lt friend Colonel W. Farquhar. This gentleman discovered the fern towards the summit of a very lofty mountain, distant about thirty-six miles from the town of Malacca, where he met with only a single individual of it. When 1 visited Singapore in 1822, I saw a coloured drawing in the possession of Colonel Farquhar, executed by a Chinese artist representing the fern in a decumbent position, with an ascending and spreading frond. In its natural state I su k this most beautiful plant is erect or ascending, with the frond horizontally кч recurved and fan-sha И a. upper pinne being erect, and the outer and lower ones descending. Its texture is firm like that of a M uiuis E ои Нај IT 25 Part of a ae bass from both sides, showing the curious arrangement of the veins at the insertion of the К 1 detached sorus seen from below. 4. Тһе same seen from the to i i i | i p- 5. Inside of the ind қ inserted round the central receptacle. 7. A detached capsule. 8. The same burst open. 9. Seeds E. E 15 M баша thog Printed by Engelmann, Graf @indet «Фе tha М Curtis Фед? Engeimanr. и Желе > ЧЕ 17 COMETES. (Burm. Flor. Ind. p. 39.) Carxx 5-partitus. , PETALA nulla. ТАМІЛА imo calyci inserta, feré hypogyna, antherifera 5, infrà cum wtideki sterilibus membranaceis in urceolum connata. ANTHER® 2-loculares. Ovarium l-spermum, ovulo adscendente, funiculo e basi cavitatis orto. Ятилз l. Sriemara 3. Prricarrrum: UrricuLus calyce persistente inclusus, appendicibus setaceo-ramosis, post anthesin auctis et expansis involucratus. Semen adscendens, chalazá laterali. ALBUMEN unilaterale. Емвкуо periphericus, rectus ; RADICULA infera.— Brown MSS. Classis Linnzeana, Pentandria Monogyma. Ordo naturalis. Cum Prerantho Forsk. parvulum tribum efformat, hinc Zl/ecebreis proximum, inde ad Amaranthaceas veras per Desmochetam, Digeram, ес Saltiam Nob. hodiè (que Achyranthes рарроза Forsk.) minis arcté tamen accedens.— Brown. | Habitus: Неввл (annum?) ramosæ, oppositifolie. "Која integerrima, stipulis scariosis, subsetaceis, vel lateralibus liberis, vel basi cum petiolo connatis. Prpuwcurr e superioribus alis alterni, apice 3-flori. Ввлетеж ternationis singule 6, quarum 2 oppositze communes ; reliquie 4 per paria floribus lateralibus, intra communes pedicello brevissimo insidentibus, pertinentes, subulatze : singula appendice (ramo mutato) axillari, setaceo-diviso, ramulis sub anthesi fasciculatim approximatis, florescentiá peractá auctis et patulis, subdivisionibus singulis bracteolà subulatá subtensis. — Brown. COMETES SURATTENSIS. Та). 17. Forus cuneato-obovatis, ellipticisve ; ramulis levibus ; stipulis petiolaribus ; fructus involucri ramulis fasciculatis, imis deflexis—Brown MSS. Cometes surattensis, Burm. Flor. Ind. p. 39. tab. 15. fig. 0. Linn. Mant. 1. p.39. Guillemin in Dict. Class. d Hist. Nat. vol, 4. р. 356. Cometes alterniflora, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 12. vol. 2. р. 127. Ad Sinum Arabicum prope Bussoram lectam communicavit Dom. Robertus Taylor anno 1819. PLANTA vix non annua, adscendens, debilis, subcarnosa, pollices 10 vel 12 alta. Raprx sublignosa, cylindrica, longiuscula, attenuata, glabra. Слои teres, alternatim ramosus, ad divisuras leviter tumidus, obsoletè flexuosus, laevis, fistulosus, basi pennam columbinam crassus. Вамі tenerrimi, erectiusculi, bis tervé dichotomi, superné pube copiosa, hyalinà obtecti. Еол opposita, patula, cuneato- obovata, cuspidato-acuta, basi attenuata, brevissimé petiolata, pollicaria, subcarnosa, integerrima, lævia, juniora ciliata, pallidè viridia, interstitiis plus dimidio breviora, superiora eadem æquantia, siccitate propter epidermidem laxiusculam et vesiculosam sublepidota, costa subtis vix elevatá, nervis inconspicuis, capillaribus, obliquis, alternantibus, venis minutim reticulatis. PETIOLUS vix ultra lineas 3 longus, planiusculus, membranaceo-marginulatus. STIPULA axillares, oppositee, setacez, ciliatee, membranacez, persistentes, lineam longe; preeterea alice 2, medio petioli utrinque insert, opposite, istis simillimae sed parüm longiores, patentes. Реромсом ex supremis axillis alterni, solitarii, nunc terminales, brevissimi, сарШагев, teretes, villosuli, 3-flori, erectiusculi, foliis dimidio breviores ; fructiferi parüm elongati, gracillimi, subnutantes. Frores oblongi, parvi; laterales brevissime pedicellati ; intermedius sessilis. Ввлстеж lineari-setacecw, brevissimee, opposite, zequales, canaliculate, acuminate, ciliates, persistentes et immutatee, 6 in singulo fasciculo florum: 2 nempe communes supra basin pedicellorum lateralium inserts, iisdemque parüm longiores, reflexze; 2 aliz infra singulum florem lateralem opposite, calyci utrinque adpresse, eodemque dimidid breviores. Ex axillis omnium bractearum nascitur appendix (ramulus mutatus Brown) planiuscula, setis longis, fasciculatis, inzequalibus, ferrugineis, fimbriato-pinnata, florem longitudine eequans eodemque utrinque laxiusculé adpressa; in fasciculo fructifero appendices Ваессе valdé grandefactee, difformes, munitæ setis numerosissimis, penicillato- fasciculatis, radiatim divaricatis, reflexis, hispidulis, ferrugineo-rufis, basi bracteis persistentibus nec magnitudine nec loco mutatis suffultze ; inferiores elongate in ramulos 4 subflexuosos, per paria parallelos, externé fasciculatim multisetosis, setis superioribus sensim brevioribus minüsque reflexis, summis undique patulis. Слшух 5-partitus ; lacinie oblongae, subobovate, basi angustatze, sursüm membranaceo-marginulatz, apice retusze, bidenticulatze, setAque brevi intermedia a nervo dorsali excurrente ; ех з puberulze, intüs glabrae. Сокоша nulla. 8тамтма 10, calyce breviore, inclusa, glabra. FiLAMENTA basi connata in urceolum brevem, membranaceum, ovarium subzequantem, circum basin ejus fundo calycis insertum, superné libera; 5 sterilia, brevia, subligulata, obtusa et nuda; 5 hisce alternantia antherifera, capillacea. Амтневж егесіге, dorso adfixæ, oblong, biloculares, utrinque longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Оулвшм glabrum, oblongum, acutiusculum, 1-loculare, 1-врогша ; ovulum cuneatum, ventre insertum apici placentze liberze, centralis, obliqué adscendens. SrvLus capillaris, calyce parüm longior. SrrGMATA З exserta, glabra, patula, subulata. РЕВЕСАВРИ structura ut suprà in charactere a cel. Brunonio dato. « The genus Cometes, proposed by the younger Burmannus (in Flora Indica, p. 39), was adopted in Mantissa prima by Linnzus, whose generic character agrees in most respects with the short description of Burmannus, from which it was no doubt chiefly formed: as, however, it differs in some points, he probably had seen and slightly examined ‘the original specimen, which Burmannus may have taken with him to Upsal, as it is known he carried there for Linnzus’s determination many of his rarer unpublished plants. But Linnzus, in describing the fruit of Cometes to be F 18 a ‘capsula tricocca, must. have presumed on the affinity which he erroneously supposed the genus to have to Dalechampia. | Ж | d Не ер “ Burmannus's specimen of Cometes surattensis I have seen in his Herbarium, now in the possession o ron Delessert. Jt corresponds tolerably with the figure of ола Indica, which, notwithstanding some differences, was probably made from it. P ** Wlien engaged in drawing up the catalogue of Mr. Salt's Abyssinian plants, it occurred to me that the genus which І have in that catalogue named Saltia, was at least nearly related to Cometes P but I had at that time no mis of verifying my conjecture. I afterwards, however, requested M. Decandolle to examine the specimen in M. Delessert 5 Herbarium, and the result of that examination is given іп a note attached to the specimen, written by M. Delessert іп 1816, in which it is stated, on M. Decandolle's authority, to be а species of his genus Desmocheta, ог Рирайа of Jussieu. ; ** In September of the same year I examined the specimen, and left attached to it the following note, which refers to M. Decandolle's opinion, as well as to the Abyssinian genus, which I had published: * Non Desmochetz sed Saltiæ species, vid. Catal. Pl. Abyssin. in Itin. D. Salt. Cometis nomen restituendum, R.B» | ** M. Guillemin, іп the Dictionnaire Classique Ф Histoire Naturelle, tom. 4, p. 356, states that M. De Jussieu, who examined, or at least saw, the specimen in M. Delessert's Herbarium, recognized it to belong to Amaranthacee, and that M. Decandolle regarded it as a species of Desmocheta.. М. Guillemin himself, in adopting M. Decandolle’s opinion, proposes to apply to that genus the older name Cometes; and he adds that in a manuscript note in Burmannus's specimen, I have proposed to do the same thing. But from that note, which I have already given verbatim, it appears that my proposing to restore the name Cometes referred to Saltia, and not to Desmocheta, to which it was evident to me Cometes did not belong. i ** In the Linnæan Herbarium the specimen named Cometes, I believe in the writing of the younger Linnæus, proves to be а plant belonging to Convoleulacee, and it is probably a species of Convolvulus or Ipomea. “ Burmannus (in Flora Indica) has given the specific name of surattensis to his Cometes, and that name Linneus has adopted in his first Mantissa. In the 12th edition of Systema Nature (vol. ii. р. 127), published in the same year but subsequently to Ше Mantissa, he changed the specific name to alterniflora, по doubt derived from the account of the inflorescence given both by Burmannus and himself. It is, however, not a very apt name for a plant, whose flowers are always in threes, though the common peduncles are generally alternate. І have therefore recurred to the original name. ий “ Sir James Smith in a (pencil) note on the specimen in the Linnean Herbarium, though aware that the specimen is not really Cometes, supposes the specific name last given by Linnzus to have been suggested by it. This might have been the fact had that name been alternifolia, which, when he wrote the note, I have no doubt he believed it to be; but the actual name alterniflora could not well be suggested by this plant, which has its flowers in a capitulum." —JBrowns MSS. For my specimen of this highly interesting plant I am indebted to the kindness of my friend Major Robert Taylor, of the Honourable Company's Bombay Establishment, Political Resident at Bussora, who found it near that town in 1819 Plate XVII. Fig. 1. A leaf with its four stipules. 2. A fascicle of flowers, showing the relative position of the bracts and appen- dices. 3. А flower with one of the calycine leaflets turned down in order to exhibit the stamens and pistil. 4. Stamens. 5. А grain of pollen. 6. Pistil. 7. Ovarium opened, showing the ovulum and its placenta. 8. А fruit-bearing fascicle, showing the enlarged appendices with the unaltered bracts. 9. An utriculus in situ, three of the calycine leaflets being removed. 10. 'The same opened. 11. 12. Seed. 13. Embryo. COMETES ABYSSINICA. (Brown MSS.) Tab. 18. Fouts lineari-lanceolatis, mucronatis, pungentibus tus involucri ramulis pinnatis, patulis—Brown MSS. Saltia abyssinica, Brown apud Salt, in Itin. Abyssin. Append. B. р. 376. Habitat in Abyssinia, ubi super rupibus ad Dixon legit Dom. Salt. Herdar. Banksian. Annua? adscendens, pedalis. Слгив infernd sublignosus, sursùm attenuatus, filum emporeticum crassus pauci, graciles, asperuli a pubescentia copiosa, hyalina, ad divisuras parüm tumidi. | sessilia, opposita vel quaternatim subverticillata, patentia, uncialia, suprà glabra, axillares, oppositae, libere, lineari-subulatz, longè cuspidatee, ciliate, evanida, ; stipulis liberis ; ramulis pulvereo-pubescentibus, scabris; fruc- distanter dichotomus. ВАМІ Forra lineari-lanceolata, mucrone pungenti terminata, . subtùs ad costam marginesque scabrida. $тіроі 2 ad insertionem, uti axillæ foliorum, munitæ tuberculis | р ү ту) | dd | M ІШ | (С. г ХУУ, ма ето. -17 £93 M. Ganci ИА os 2 (puede m 72 А / 19 LJ aliquot glandulzeformibus, convexis, lzevibus, siccatione brunneis. PEDUNCULI solitarii, axillares, alternze, densé pubescentes, unguiculares 3-flori ; fructiferi elongati, folia longitudine sequantes, nutantes. Frores oblongi, extàs valdé pubescentes; laterales brevissime pedis cellati, intermedius sessilis. Ввастеж lineari-aeuminatze, villosule, persistentes et immutatee, omnind ut in priori specie dispositæ. н APPENDICES aristato-pinnate, villosule, calyces longitudine æquantes, siccitate rufescentes ; in fasciculis fructuum valdé expanse et elon- gatze, ramosze, pubescentes, glaucescentes, setis longis, patentibus, alternis munite. LACINLE CALYCIS oblong:e, apice bidentate, setA inter- media longa, divaricato-patula, a nervo dorsali fusco, elevato longè excurrente instructze, basi angustatze. Совомл nulla. | FILAMENTA 10 inclusa, basi connata in tubum ovarium ambientem, sursim libera ; alterna sterilia, linearia, obtusa; alterna antherifera filiformia, illis breviora perque adelphiam decurrentia. PrsTILLUM et FRUCTUS ut in preecedente specie. The above account was taken from some specimens in the Banksian Herbarium in the British Museum. I must again express my regret at the want of detail in the description, caused by the temporary absence of my friend. I trust, however, to be able to remedy this deficiency in a subsequent part of this volume; in the mean time the dissections, exhibited in the plate, will afford all the information concerning the flower and fruit of this highly remarkable plant, which can be desired. Plate XVIII. Fig. 1. A leaf with the two free axillary stipules. 2. A fascicle of flowers. +3. Calyx, one of its segments being forcibly depressed in order to show the stamens. 4. Stamens. 5. Pistil. 6. Ovarium opened. 7. А fascicle of fruits sur- rounded in every direction by a branched and spreading involucre, formed by the enlarged appendices of the bracts. 8. Fruit, with the calyx partly attached to t. 9. 10. 11. Seed. 12. Embryo. IMPATIENS RETICULATA. Tab. 19. Levis, carnosa, basi repens ; foliis oppositis, lineari-oblongis, serratis, acutis, basi retusis, subsessilibus ; pedunculis axillaribus, solitariis, 1-floris, folio brevioribus, fructiferis deflexis ; petalo inferiore reticulato, calcare brevi, incurvo. Habitat ad loca depressa et humida in Pegu, prope Rangoon. Floret et fructus profert Augusto. Herga pallida, carnosa, subdiaphana, omnino laevis, erecta. Cautis teres, gracilis, basi repens, superné rufescens. Rami pauci, alterni vel oppositi, obsolet? quadrangulares. Forra opposita, patentia, brevissime petiolata, lineari-oblonga, acuta, cuspidato-serrulata, basi retusa, interstitia subeequantia, pollicaria, carnosa, subtüs albicantia, costá parüm elevata. РЕттогюз planus, vix ultra lineam longus. Рерохсилл oppositi, axillares, solitarii, 1-flori, folio parüm breviores, filiformes, lineolà laterali, cano-villosà notati, basi bracteolá minutá, subulatá; fructiferi deflexi. Fros roseus, fundo атоепіѕѕітё subpellucidé reticulatus, nutans. БЕРАЬА 2 lineari- falcata, angustissima, marginibus petali superioris parallela. PErALUM SUPERIUS ovatum, leviter fornicatum, acutum, dorso vix carina- tum ; INFERIUS infundibuliforme, reticulato-venosum, ore amplo antice parüm producto, obtuso, fundo desinente in calcar breve, cylin- dricum, incurvum, obtusum, flavidum ; LATERALIA ovata, obtusa, conniventia in labium porrectum, basi desinentia in unguem linearem, utrinque munitum dente curvo. ANTHER& omnes 2-loculares, polline albicante. Sriama acutum. | CarsuLa ovata, utrinque attenuata, laevis, 5-sulcata. Plate XIX. Fig. 1. Flower a little enlarged. 2. 'The same with its parts detached. 3. Pistil. 4. Capsule burst open. CLEMATIS SUBPELTATA. Tab. 20. Уошовил5 et scandens ; foliis simplicibus, levibus, ovato-cordatis, acutis, integerrimis vel obsoleté crenulatis, basi angustissimé peltatis ; petiolis cirrhatis; paniculis axillaribus laxis, folia zequantibus; floribus apetalis, extus fer- rugineo-tomentosis, sepalis ovatis. : Habitat in monte Taong Dong dicta prope Avam ; florens mense Novembris. Cavuis elongatus, ramosus, angulatus, glaber. Вамі graciles, leviter angulati, glabri, volubiles et ope petiolorum scandentes. Еошл exact? opposita, patentia, remotiuscula, simplicia, acuta, ovato-cordata, lobis basis latis, rotundatis, integerrima vel obsoleté et remote crenulata, angustissim? peltata, petiolus nempe aliquot linearum a basi folii distantià insertus ; coriacea, leevia, 5—7-pollicaria, opaca, suprà bullata, subtüs glauca, 7-nervia, venis remotis, transversis. Реттол cylindrici, folia longitudine æquantes, basi рагит dilatati, scepissimé torti et cirrhati. Рамсоьж axillares, laxiuscule, foliorum longitudine. Реромсом teretes glabri; PEDICELLI ferrugineo-villosi, pollicares. Fuores fragrantes, nudi, apetali, oppositi, nunc fasciculati. Bracre# foliaceæ, infra pedunculos oppositze, oblongze vel lan- 20 и . ‚ alic ali i i i iacea, patentissima eolatze, acute, basi contraetze, pollicares, glabra ; alice aliquot рагуге, lineares ad basin pedicellorum. SEPALA 4, сог ; a cn ; i 1 inibus latis геви- demi э” 206 ovata, obtusa, fer& unguicularia, extüs tomento denso, fusco obtecta, intüs purpurea et levia, marg галі айе ; i inque adnate. Ovaria vatione valvata. Sramna plurima, patentia. ЕШАМЕКТА carnosa, subclavata, apice nuda. Амтневж angusto, utrinq villosa. SrrGMATA cuneata. This is a very handsome climber, approaching closely to my Clematis smilacifolia, which was а 1820 іп Asiatic Researches, vol. xiii. р. 420. It differs in having subpeltate, broad-cordate leaves, whic А ў иа пра are simply cordate, without any tendency to being peltate ; in the panicles being shorter, and the leaflets of the calyx being ovate, and not, as in the above-mentioned plant, linear-oblong. Plate XX. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Stamens. 3. Pistil.. ERANTHEMUM CINNABARINUM. Тар, 21. Кога oblongo-ellipticis, attenuatis, longissimé acuminatis, glabriusculis; racemis terminalibus, recurvato-paten- tibus, paniculatis ; bracteis filiformibus ; floribus subsessilibus, secundis ; laciniis corollæ ovatis. Habitat prope rupes ад Trogla in Martabania. Floret mense Martii. Евотех erecta, ramosa, 3—4-pedalis, usque ad altitudinem humanam attingens. Rau oppositi, cylindrici, leves, pennam anserinam crassi, supra petiolorum insertionem leviter tumidi. Forra patentissima, spithamæa, elliptica, in touman yu ҚАНЫ 77 integerrima, nunc obsoleté crenulata, basi acuta, utrinque pube minutá РА рро saturaté viridia, supra nitida, subtus ty а elevatà nervisque gracillimis obliquis, ЕБОВАША reliquis sæpiùs multd angustiora et brevior, ablonga, suhiacosi in, Ls а ев, sesquipollicares. Pawrcura terminalis, nuda, constans racemis aliquot oppositis, герила, páténtibus, a digito ad ярі e prigis. Рерохсиш teretes, pubescentes, basi suffulti bracteis 2 oppositis, lineari-filiformibus, puhescengibug, FLORES megni; speciosi, ruberrimi, erecti, secundi, brevissimè pedicellati, fasciculatim oppositi, suffulti bracteolis linearibus brevibus. Catycis ерме аме, рү, villosee. Сово„® rusus gracilis, puberulus, pallidus, sesquipollicaris ; limbus patens, profunde 5-fidus, subbilabiatus, tubo dimidió brevior; /acinie ovate, obtuse, inferiores 2 parum angustiores, basi suprà convexie: saturatilsque rubre. ANTHER 2 lineares, supra faucem perviam ехвегіге, divergentes. SryvLus capillaceus, glaber. Stigma parvum, bifidum. The only spot where Т found this charming shrub was at the foot of the hills at Trogla, about a mile from the river Saluen in the province of Martaban. It varies considerably in size. I have seen it as high as six feet. It is of a slender habit, with large deep-green, smooth, spreading leaves. The flowers are large, of a vivid red colour, forming unilateral, spreading, and recurved racemes, which are disposed in a terminal panicle. Plate XXI. Fig. 1. Calyx and style. 2. Corolla opened. DILLENIA SCABRELLA. Tab. 22. Foris cuneato-oblongis, petiolatis, cuspidato-serratis, suprà scabris, sparsis lanceolatis; stylis 7 acutis, stamina longiora zequantibus. Dillenia scabrella, Rows. Hort. Beng. р. 43. Habitat in sylvis Bengale orientalis. subtus villosis ; pedunculis fasciculatis ; bracteis In horto Calcuttensi floret initio anni, fructus maturescunt mense Maii. Аввов 30—40-pedalis, ramosissima. Rawr cylindrici, grisei, superné villosi. obtusa vel subacuta, cuspidato-serrulata, spithamea ad pedalia, utrinque villosa, suprà scabra, subtüs mollia, parallelé nervosa. Ретто1лв profundé sulcatus, basi dilatatus, pollicaris, uti costa folii valde elevata villis longis obsitus. fasciculati ад vestigia foliorum delapsorum. Prpuncuti cylindrici, parvo, squamis gemmaceis circumdato inserti. oblongz, acutze, ciliate, diutiüs persistentes. ЗЕРАТА 5 ovata, obtusa, unguicularia, concava. Forra valdé approximata, patentia, oblongo-cuneata, Frores numerosissimi, lutei, suaveolentes, carnosi, purpurascentes, glauci, puberuli, 2-pollicares, tuberculo Ввлстеж 2 vel 3 ad medium pedunculi sparse, nunc арргохипане et subverticillatze, Catyx glaucus, levis, cestivatione imbricato-globosus; fructus clausus, leviter auctus. PETALA 5 patentissima, demüm super calycem recurvata, obovata, obtusa, angustata, leviter undulata, et crenulata, lutea, pollicaria, valdè caduca. adscendenti-patentia ; interiora circiter 15 exterioribus fer? tripló longiora, deorsüm STAMINA densissimé aggregata, glabra; exteriora brevia, supraque illis recurva. FILAMENTA planiuscula. Амтне- Vishnupersaud del” е S mpatt0td hele cut ln. Fi EA қ 7 em 7772 СА 20. C 7; / Ж РРР. ct 922000076966? / 1 7 >). Ра Ao Ж 2; ж p. and 7 ТОА СРАЊЕ. del Гтрияа. губ пдебталл, б >, бета та? «d (ar >” p лед 21 RARUM locula angusta, filamentis utrinque a medio ad apicem adnata. Оулша 6 vel 7 subcylindrica, erecta, lzevia ; ovula circiter 10 angulo interno loculi inserta. Зтуш subulati, persistentes, emarcescentes. SrrGMATA acuta. САВРЕША 6 vel 7 oblonga, triangularia, dorso сопуеха, n interiore acuto, inferné chordze pistillari adfixo, ex flavo viridescentia, glabra, 1-locularia, monosperma, loculo repleto gelatinà copiosá, limpida ; coacervata in fructum globosum, vertice stylis radiatim patentibus, adpressis notatum, calyce carnoso, aurantiaco reconditum, cerasi magnitudine. Semen in singulo carpello inter plura ovula abortiva solitarium, ovatum, obtusum, parùm compressum, lave, nitidum, tenuissimé reticulatum, basi ineequaliter bicrus ; crura brevia, acuta, sinu angusto separata. Tesra durissima, feré ossea, transverse fibrosa. PERIsPERMUM carnosum, album, membrana tenuissimá obtectum. Емввуо minutus ad basin perispermi situs, erectus. This tree was introduced from Chittagong by the late Mr. John Roxburgh in 1807. It is deciduous, and of very slow growth. At the time of flowering it is entirely destitute of leaves, instead of which it is covered by.countless numbers of elegant and fragrant yellow blossoms, which last, however, only a few weeks, and are soon succeeded by a plentiful crop of small, round; orange-coloured fruits. The fleshy leaves of the calyx, which cover these, have a pleasantly acid taste, and are used in curries by the inhabitants of Chittagong, (of which district of Bengal the tree is а native,) in the same manner as those of Dillenia speciosa (Chalta of the Bengalese). The tree is in full foliage during the rainy season. It differs from ела aurea Smith, in having smaller, simply serrated, villous, and soft leaves, and small tvdre, disposed in round lateral fascicles on the naked branches. From the figure of that species in Evotic Botany, vol. ii. t. 92 and 93, it appears that the inner series of the stamens is shorter than the outer; in our species the reverse is the case. From Dillenia pentagyna, Roxb. (Colbertia coromandeliana, Decand.), it differs in having larger flowers, bracted peduncles, and 6 or 7 pistils with acute stigmas. Its leaves are not one half the size of those of the last- mentioned species. The structure of the seed is somewhat peculiar. Тһе base of it is divided into two unequal, tooth-formed lobes, separated from each other Бу a narrow sinus, into which the fleshy axis of the fruit insinuates itself. One of these lobes, namely the inferior, is larger than the other, aid forms in fact the base of the seed, being hollow within for the reception of part of the perisperm and the embryo. The other, or superior lobe, is smaller and solid, being formed by a simple elongation of the testa. It sometimes happens, that the interstice, or sinus, 1s subdivided by a transversal partition, which gives the seed the appearance of being two-celled, one of the cells being embryoniferous, the other vacant. Plate XXII. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. The same dissected, with a stamen of both the inner and outer series detached. 3. A fruit. bearing branch. 4. Fruit, the calycine leaves being cut off. 5. The 'same divided in the middle. 6. The same cut lengthways. 7. 8. Seed. 9. 'The same cut across in the middle. 10. The same divided longitudinally, showing the position of the Embryo. DILLENIA ORNATA. Tab. 23. Fours obovatis, remoté crenulato-denticulatis, petiolatis, suprà glabris, subtüs pubescentibus ; floribus ramulorum terminalibus, solitariis. Habitat in Martabania in sylvis riparum fluminum, Attran et Saluen, florens Martio. Аввов 50 pedes alta, trunco recto, ramis copiosis. Ramı juniores cylindrici, cinerei, glabri; tenelli sericei. Еола approximata, sparsa, pedalia, obovata, obtusa, remoté crenata, crenaturis subulato-denticulatis, deorsàm attenuata, basi acuta per petiolum pollicarem, semi- cylindricum subdecurrentia, suprà glaberrima, nitida, subtüs pube molli, incaná obtecta, costá magná, nervisque plurimis suboppositis, parallelis, approximatis, elevatis ; novella tomento sericeo, deciduo obsita. Еіоввв magni, speciosi, flavi, odorati, patentissimi, diametrum 3—4-pollicarem fer? emetientes, ramulorum ultimorum, nudorum terminales et solitarii, suffulti pedunculo cylindrico, crasso, pollicari, pilosulo, basi bracteis aliquot parvis, ovatis, valdé deciduis munito. Separa carnosa, oblonga, obtusa, concava, pollicaria, patentia, demüm reflexa, glauca, dorso villis longis, sericeis, mox deciduis. Ретльл patentissima, obovata, venulosa, Теге 2-pollicaria, basi angustata. SrAwrNA valdé numerosa; interiora reliquis longiora superque iis recurvata. Эттаматл 9, acuta, stellatim patentia. This noble tree is rather common in the forests of the principal rivers in Martaban, where I know from experience that it has not unfrequently been mistaken for the Teak (also a native of that province), to which, indeed, it has some resemblance when in full foliage. The flowers are large and fragrant, and produced in vast abundance. Plate XXIII. A flower dissected. 22 GASTROCHILUS. i Совомл duplici serie 6-fida. — LaciNUE INTERIORES cum basi filamenti in tubum coalite ; inferior sive LABELLUM gibboso-ventricosum. АХТНЕВА nuda, loculis obtusis, connectivo retuso longioribus. Systema Linnzanum, Monandria Monogynia. Ordo naturalis, Scitaminee, media inter Alpiniam et Kempferiam. | Habitus: Herb: acaules vel caulescentes, radice repente vel fibroso-ramosá, tuberibus subsessilibus, fasciculatis ; spicá radico'i vel terminali imbricata ; floribus elegantissimis, nutantibus, tubo longissimo, lobello ventricoso (unde omnen). GASTROCHILUS PULCHERRIMA. Tab. 24. Cauescens, foliis lanceolatis subsessilibus ; spicá terminali secundá, tubo coroll incluso. Habitat ad Rangoon in sylvis; floret mense Augusti. Raprx repens, carnosa, extis fuscescens, intüs pallida, absque ullo ferè sapore vel odore, divisa in articulos subrotundos, pollicares, sursüm fibras aliquot breves, carnosas, indivisas, deorsim radiculas plures, fibrillosas emittentes. Tusera plura, cuneiformia, pollicaria, sursüm attenuata, subsessilia. Слогеѕ aliquot seriati, ex singulis nempe articulis radicis solitarii, erecti, cylindrici, glabri, pennam cyg- neam fer? crassi, pedales ad 2-pedales, induti vaginis striatis, infimis arcté adpressis, aphyllis, reliquis apice utrinque lobulo obtuso, oblongo; supremis laxiusculis, basin spicee involventibus (unde caulis subclavatus evadit). Forra versus superiorem caulis partem subapproximata, alterna, patentia, subsessilia, 5—7-pollicaria, lanceolata, in acumen gracillimum attenuata, basi acuta, planiuscula, subcoriacea, glaberrima, suprà nitida, subtis glauca, costa elevatà. PErroLUus vix semiunguicularis, canaliculatus. Spica terminalis, sessilis, oblonga, secunda, attenuato-acuta, 5-pollicaris, basi vaginis summis occulta, antice florifera, posticé plana et imbricata BRAcTEIS erectis, alternis, adpressis, subdistantibus, planis, lanceolatis, acutis, pollicaribus, viridibus. Racmıs carnosa, crassa, planiuscula, dorsi medio a bractearum basibus denudata. Ввлстеж INTERIORES 3, oblongo-lanceolatce, acutae, tenuissime ; harum exterior cum bractea exteriore rachi inserta, interiores pubescentes, infra ovarium adnatz. FromEs pauci, secundi, diluté flavicantes, limbo rufo-striati, subdiaphani, glaberrimi, subsessiles. Catyx laxiusculus, oblongus, hinc fissus, ore 3-dentatus, tubo tripló brevior. Товоѕ conornx gracilis, teres, apice incurvus, pollicaris, bracteis parüm brevior. Ілмвоѕ campanulatus, subtüs gibbosus, fauce levissimé angustatus, nutans, {его pendulus, 6-fidus, pollicaris. Пасікіж conniventes, duplici serie dispositze. EXTERIORES oblonge, obtuse, lineas 8 longze, leviter concave, limbo superné айргеѕѕге. Іктеноввв difformes ; superiores nempe, vel laterales, cuneato-obovatee, obtuse, flavicantes, venulosæ, unguiculares, basi contract insert dorso filamenti, intra lacinias exteriores decumbentes ; inferior sive labellum campanulato-infundibuliforme, subtus gibboso-ventricosum, limbo рагат porrecto, rufo-striatulo, retuso, inths nudum, basi angustatà filamenti basi accretum. | FILAMENTUM breve, limbo inclusum, basi cum limbo interiore concretum in tubulum brevissimum, apice liberum. Ахтневл oblonga, nuda, loculis connectivo longioribus. Ovarium oblongum, glabrum brevissim? pedicellatum. Srynus filiformis, basi corpusculis teretibus, flavicantibus lateraliter auctus. Stiema glabrum, convexum, supra antheram vix elevatum. The habit of this plant resembles that of an ина, with which genus it also agrees in having a naked anther. But it differs essentially in its 6-parted corolla, having the lobes disposed in two alternating rows, as in Kempferia. The plant is therefore intermediate between those two genera. Its flowers are very beautiful, and of a most delicate, subdiaphanous texture, pale yellow, with the exterior part of the lip rose-coloured. Plate XXIV. Spike seen from the back. 2. A flower, with the interior bract. 3. Two exterior bracts. 4. Flower, with the exterior lobes of the border detached. 5. The same, with the border dissected and the calyx detached. GASTROCHILUS LONGIFLORA. Тар. 95. Асхита5, foliis oblongo-cordatis, longè petiolatis ; spicis radicalibus; tubo coroll longissimo, exserto. Habitat in sylvis prope Rangoon ; etiam observavi in Martabania. Floret Augusto. Ranix constans fibris longis, ramulosis, gracilibus, tuberibusque aliquot fasciculatis, vel 2-pollicaribus, pallidis, extüs rufescentibus. Folia aliquot radicalia, erecta, subbifaria, oblonga, acuminata, basi cordata, lobis sub- distantibus, rotundatis, interdum inzequalibus, membranacea, glaberrima, suprà saturate viridia, nitidula, leviter oblique plicata, subtüs purpurea, oblique lineata, costa crassa, viridescente ; 6—8-pollicaria. profund? canaliculati, medio utrinque denticulo acuto notati, Spica circiter 6, radicales, sessiles, et basi terrá recondita, cylindricis, pennam eygneam crassis, pollicaribus Ретюм limbum folii longitudine fer’ sequantes, crassiusculi, deorsum valdé ampliati, membranaceo-marginati, basique Ъіѓагіё imbricantes. glabree, erectee, cylindraceo-oblongo, attenuatze, 3-pollicares. Ввлсткж distantes, Printed. by Engelmann. атау. (стѓе M Gane athog. ; АА binata 2 - о “е Хе lene. , / asti 23 imbricantes, oblongee, attenuate, acute, purpurascentes, striate, 1—2-floree, infimze vacua, supreme apice sublibere ; interiores 2 vel 3 lineares, canaliculate, tenuissimé membranacese. Frores pauci, e sinu bractearum exteriorum solitarii vel рака, brevé edicellati, illis praecedentis speciei minores, flavi, fauce rufiduli. Carvx oblongus, hinc fissus, apice 3-dentatus. Товов Надарен мы feré 3-pollicaris, pallidé flavus, dimidià superiore parte supra bracteis spice elevatus et liber, apice incurvus. LiwBus дымды» сат ка latus, tubo plùs dimidid brevior. Lacin1m exteriores erecto-patentes, oblongze, obtuse, concave, unguiculares. INTERIORES poi d difformes ; superiores vel laterales valdé parvae, oblongze, obtuse, basi labelli superne insertz, filamento incumbentes, apice recurvatae lineas 3 longæ ; inferior sive labellum descendens, subtis gibboso-ventricosum, limbo oblique porrectiusculo, obtuso, basi cum блм іп tubulum connatum, вирегпё lacinias laterales adfigentem. Еилмемтом breve, crassum, apice nudum. ANTHERA majuscula, loculis distantibus, connectivo lato, retuso longioribus. SrrGwA4 parüm exsertum, ciliatum, clavatum. i This second species of Gastrochilus has the habit of a Kempferia. Its flowers are smaller than those of G. pul- cherrima, from which it differs abundantly in being stemless, and having long petioled, cordate leaves, radical spikes, and flowers with very long tubes. "The lip embraces the filament at its base, and forms with it a short tube, on the back of which are inserted the inner lateral lobes of the limb. Mr. Don's Gastrochilus, Prodr. flor. nepal. р. 32. (Epidendrum calceolare Hamilt.) of which I have seen an authentic ША in the late Sir J. E. Smith's herbarium, seems to be either a species of Sarcanthus Lindl., or of Saccolabium ume. | Plate XXV. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Тһе same dissected. 3. A detached Anther. URENA SPECIOSA. Tab. 26. Forus trinerviis, denticulatis, subtüs cano-tomentosis, nervis mediis basi glandulosis ; inferioribus subrotundis, -acuté subtrilobis, longè petiolatis, mediis oblongo-cordatis, acuminatis, summis lanceolatis, subsessilibus; corolla maxima infundibuliformi, calycem et involucellum quinquefidum multoties superante ; carpellis lzevibus, reticulatis. Inveni ad inferiorem partem montis Taong Dong dicte prope Avam, super rupibus nudis crescentem, florentem et fructigeram mense Decembre. | РгАхтА fruticosa, erecta, 2—4-pedalis, pube сарӣ, stellatà соріоѕё obtecta. ^ CauLrs teres, basi usque ad digitum minimum fere crassus, superné ramos emittens paucos, alternos, simplices, breves. Forra sparsa, patentia, subapproximata, denticulata, 3—5-nervia, suprà pubescentia, subtüs cano-tomentosa, reticulato-venosa, nervo medio, quandoque lateralium uno alterove ad basin glandulà oblonga, rimosá, submucosá munitis ; inferiora subrotunda, 3—5-pollicaria, extrorsüm acutiusculé 3-loba, longé petiolata; medii caulis oblongo- vel ovato-cordata, attenuata, acuta, integra, rariüs lobata; summa nec non ramea lanceolata, obtusa, pollicaria, brevissime petiolata. Реттош graciles, teretes, pubescentes, apice cylindraceo-tumidi, inferiores folia zquantes, medii iisdem pluries breviores, summi brevis- simi. SripuLa parva, opposite, lanceolate, decidus. Frores magni, speciosi, говеі, inodori, ad apicem caulis ramorumque approxi- mati, racemosi, paniculam terminalem simplicem, rotundatam formantes, inferiores axillares foliorum summorum parvorum, reliqui suffulti bracted oblonga, аси, pedicello tereti, bilineari parüm longiore. Слух беге semiunguicularis, oblongus, profunde 5-dentatus, pallidus, membranaceus, obsoleté 5-angularis et 5-nervius, angulis villosulis, intùs glaber, dentibus acutissimis, ciliatis ; cinctus involucello coriaceo, раш breviore, acuté 5-dentato, adpresso, nervis pluribus parallelis lineato, incano-subtomentoso, intüs Ігеуі, dentibus istos calycinos zequantibus, iisdemque alternantibus, ciliatis. Совомл infundibuliformis, 2-pollicaris, rosea, venosa, extüs pubescens ; tubus brevissimus calycem æquans, sensim ampliatus in limbum patentem, fer’ sesquipollicarem, 5-lobum, lobis rotundatis, crenulatis. Fira- MENTA connata in tubum cylindraceum, rectum, corollà parüm breviorem, fundo ejus supra tubum insertum, dimidià superiore partè gerentem antheras oblongas, sparsas, parvas, subsessiles, numerosas. Ovarium rubrotundum, Гете ; stylus gracilis, teres, tubo stamineo parüm longior, apice 10-partitus ; stigmata capitata, pubescentia, purpurea. CamPELLA levia, reticulato-vasculosa; semina grandiuscula, solitaria, grisea. I found this very charming plant on exposed, rocky and naked situations at the foot of the mountain called Taong Dong near Ava, both in flower and fruit, in December 1826. It varies considerably in stature and in the form of its leaves. Тһе latter are long-petioled, round and lobed at the base of the stem, oblong or ovate-oblong at its middle ; while the uppermost are small, subsessile and. lanceolate. Тһе corolla is exceedingly beautiful, of a pink colour, and elegantly veined, nearly two inches long, and by far the largest of the genus, which has in general small and incon- spicuous flowers. All the green parts of the plant are covered with more or less stellate, soft pubescence; the lower surface of the leaves is hoary and whitish. i Plate XXVI. Fig. 1. Involucellum opened, showing the pistil. 2. Calyx detached and opened. 3. Corolla opened. H KAMPFERIA ELEGANS. Tab. 27. CauLrscENS, basi repens, radice simplici, fibrosâ; foliis oblongis, dimidiato-cordatis, petiolatis spicá terminali basi involutá spathá nervosá ; laciniis corollze interioribus obovatis; crista filamenti subrotunda, indivisa, revolutá. Frequens in sylvis Pegu et Martabaniz, vigens et florens tempore pluvioso. PraNTA pedalis, subezespitosa. Raprx constans fibris simplicibus, carnosis, fuscescentibus, teretibus. TUBERA nacio nds erectus, digitum minimum fer? crassus, leviter complanatus, glaber, constans vaginis petiolorum paucis, subbifariis, pallidis, striatis, apice obtuse bidentatá solutis; e basi emittens caules aliquot annotinos, inferiore parte repentes. Forra oblongo-ovata, acuta, leviter undulata, sub- plicata, basi oblique et subdimidiato-cordata, erectiuscula, suprà saturat? viridia, subtis glauca, costa crassa, pilosulà, obliqué et tenuiter nervosa, 6-pollicaria. —PETIOLI crassiusculi, canaliculati, pubescentes, 1—4-pollicares, basi vaginantes. Spica terminalis, solitaria, erecta, 4-pollicaris, gracilis, pauciflora, cylindrica, vix medium folii summi attingens, suffulta pedunculo gracili, filiformi, vaginis caulis involuto, supernd libero, pollicesque duos longo. Вваства exterior spathacea, foliacea, viridis, flores infern& amplectens, convoluta in cylindrum pennam anserinam feré crassum, e basi parùm attenuatum, 23-pollicarem, lineis elevatis, parallelis, copiosis, striisque inter has transversis, brevibus, fuscis ornatum ; apice expansa in laminam patulam, lanceolatam, acutam. Frores 4 vel 5, rhachi brevi, occultz inserti, alterni, singuli suffulti bracted tenui, membranacea, lanceolata, acutá, враћа breviore. Carvx cylindricus, sursüm parüm ampliatus, tubo corolle dimidid brevior, glaber, ad medium obliqué fissus, hinc attenuato-ligulatus, apice 3-denticulatus. Совошиж tubus gracilis, filiformis, pallidus, 3-pollicaris, basi cum calyce spatha occultus, superné exsertus et liber. Ілмвов duplici serie 3-partitus; exterioris lacinie раге, albicantes, membranacez, lanceolate, acuminatee, feré роШсагев, patentes, suprema subreflexà; inferior plano-paten- tissimus, suprà purpureus, subtus albicans: Ѓасіпіе superiores obovate, levissimé retusc, limbo exteriore reflexo parüm breviores ; inferior sive labellum illis dupló majus, profunde 2-partitum in lobos semiovato-rhomboideos, obtusos, marginibus interioribus rectis et parallelis, laciniis limbi exterioris vix breviores. Еплмемтом membranaceum, brevissimum, fauci infra laciniis superioribus limbi inte- rioris insertum, purpureum, antice concavum et gerens antheras 2 oblongas, 2-loculares, apice lata coronatum cristá magná, indivisá, rotundata, revolutà. Ovanruw pubescens, ovatum. SrvLus filiformis. Эттемл clavato-complanatum, ciliatum, carnosum, filamenti basi involutum, apice vix exsertum. This very beautiful plant is a native of the kingdom of Pegu and of Martaban. I found it growing abundantly in the thickets about Rangoon and near Amherst and Moalmyne. Like all other East Indian scitamineous plants, it is in full vigour during the rains, dying down to the root soon after their cessation. It is totally different from the species noticed by Dr. Roxburgh in his Flora Indica, and belongs to the section, which I have long ago indicated in that work (vol. i. p. 20) as differing from the other in the caulescent habit, absence of tubers, and entire crest. The two other species of that section, Кетр/ета secunda and linearis, Y have repeatedly received in a growing state from the Pundua mountains, bordering on Sillet ; but I have never been able to keep them alive in the Botanic Garden at Calcutta. АП three ought perhaps to be removed from A@mpferia, and formed into a distinct genus, for which I would propose the name of /Monolophus, in allusion to the entire crest of the anther. The flowers of our species expand successively, and are of a beautiful purple colour on the upper surface, and white below. Тһе outer bract or spatha is elegantly nerved, and marked with numerous short, transverse, brown stripes. No part of the plant possesses any remarkable aromatic smell or taste. Plate XXVII. Fig. 1. Spike with Ше spatha opened. 2. Calyx and corolla; tube of the latter opened. 3. Stamen and pistil, the corolla being cut away from the place where the filament is decurrent on the inside of its tube. JUSTICIA GUTTATA. Tab. 28. Caure subsimplici, erecto; folis oblongis, utrinque attenuato-acutis, subcrenulatis, brevé petiolatis, levibus ; racemo terminali; floribus fasciculatis; dentibus calycinis bracteisque linearibus; labio coroll superiore recto, bilobo, lateribus reflexo; laciniis labii inferioris ovatis, obtusis, patentibus ; antheris nudis, carnosis, erectis, demùm divaricatis, loculis anticis, parallelis, gracilibus. Incolit montes Pundua, Bengalæ orientali confines, florens initio anni. In horto botanico Calcuttæ floret mensibus Decembre et Januario. Nomen Khasianum : Вееја. Рилкта glabra, fruticosa, erecta, pedalis, 2-pedalis. Raprx gracilis, ramoso-fibrosa. Слотлѕ obsoletissimè 4-angularis, pennam scrip- toriam crassus, supra foliorum insertionem ventricoso-intumescens, superné fuscescens, scepissim? simplex, nunc ramulo uno alterove brevi, gracili. Ромл patentia, oblonga, utrinque attenuata, brevé acuminata, obsoleté et distanter crenulata, basi acuta, interstitiis bis terve Метод mel! s4 ј » ost 2 2 Lena истини raf Condet, & e T лдеДталл Printed E Fishnupersaud del? И Carci САВА 7-7, ај re Serac^aa de рд? AL eet. fe те” ° a5 ДА longiora 5—6-pollicaria, coriacea, lævia, opaca, utrinque minutim punctulata е: 2 nervisque copiosis, prominentibus. suprà atro-viridia, parüm bullata, subtis pallida, costa PrTIOLUs brevis, semipollicari » Semipollicaris vel parüm ultra, suprà inali ue l rà sul * 5 palmaris, oblongus, constans floribus magnis ex viridi albidi е ts asp ШИ Келн бон EI uu cU 1018, purpureo-guttatis, dispositis in fasciculos trifloros, oppositos, remotius- i ) positis solitariis. PEpuNcULUs communi i icelli unis teres, glaber ; partiales pedicellique fuscescent 1 | 4 | es. BRACTE® lineari lanceolate, patentes, oppositæ, ciliate, pedicellos æquantes. Слух ovatus, subcarnosus purpurascens, puberulus ; dentes 1 ceolati, acuminati, ciliati. Совок tubus semiunguiculari i 1 i ' Маринина сна ње guicularis, leviter ventricosus, calyce paulld longior, minutim pubescenti-glandulosus. MN Ai sc T b m edu bilabiatus; labium superius erectum, obovatum, apice obtuse bilobum, lobis ovatis lateribusque Se : : ; чо и с Щи қ vom 9 idum, anticé maculis purpureis ornatum ; labium inferius patens, tripartitum, lobis ovatis, obtusis. Тш ка заві crassinsenia, curva et pubescentia, erecta, demim divaricata, exserta, labio corolla superiore parüm breviora. ктневж Oblong:, сагпозае, viridescentes, dorso convexa, nude, leves, parallele, demüm lateraliter deflexz, anticd loculis angustis, parallelis, € valdé approximatis. Preterea stamina 2 sterilia, subulata, fauci, inter labia inserta. SrvLvs pubescens, staminibus parüm brevior; stigma obtusum. } Flate ХК, Fig. 1. Flower, immediately after expansion. 2. The same, in a more advanced state, after the stamens һауе be- come divaricated. 3. The same, seen from behind. 4. Corolla opened. 5. Stamen. 6. Calyx opened, showing the pistil. DENDROBIUM AMPLUM. Tab. 29. RurowarE repente, squamoso, pseudobulbos ovatos, squamosos, diphyllos gerente ; foliis ovato-oblongis, emargi- natis, petiolatis; floribus solitariis, longé pedunculatis, axillaribus, e bracteis duabus oblongis, petaloideis provenientibus; sepalis ovatis, acuminatis ; petalis angustioribus ; labello sessili, trilobo, medió lamellato, lobis lateralibus abbreviatis rotundatis, intermedio ovato, crenulato, acuto. Lindl. MSS. Dendrobium amplum, Lindl. in Wall. catal. herb. ind. num. 2001. Inveni in monte Sheopore Napaliæ, arborum rupiumque parasiticum, florens sub pluviis. . ОвснтрЕА magna et speciosa, omnibus partibus glabra. Ruizoma longissimum, teres, gracile, sublignosum, fuscum, Ігеуе, indutum squamis aridis, adpressis, alternis, imbricantibus, ovatis, acutis, lineatis, unguicularibus, magnitudine versus pseudo-bulbos increscentibus, tardiùs deciduis ; demüm nudum, per plures pedes super arboribus saxisve, ope fibrarum. radicalium teretium, е basi pseudobulborum provenientium, subfasciculatarum, serpens. Рэкоровотвт З ad 5 pollices ab invicem distantes, alterni, ovati, firmi et sublignosi, leves, nitidi, pollicem duosve longi, obtusi, vertice 2-phylli, obtuse 3- vel 4-angulares, squamis aliquot magnis distichè imbricantibus, ovatis, acutis, pollicaribus deorsüm sensim decrescentibus, et in squamas istas rhizomatis abientibus ; геѓаќе nudi et basi tantüm a rudimentis squamarum fibrosi. Forra 2, erecto-patula, ovato-oblonga, utrinque acuta, apice 2-denticulata, coriacea, lucida, laevia, 4—6-pollicaria, suprà atro-viridia, nervoso-lineata, subtüs pallida, desinentia in petiolum pollicarem, sulcatum, rigidiusculum, basi leviter dilatatum. FLORES magni, speciosi, solitarii, longè pedunculati, ex apice pseudobulbi inter petiolos provenientes, patentissimi, diametrum feré 4-pollicarem emetientes, vix apicem foliorum attingentes, e viridi-fuscescentes, purpureo-punctati, lobello fusco, inodori. PrpuNcuLvs cylindricus, ovario parüm brevior cumque illo tripollicaris, ferè occultus bracteis duabus oppositis, laxiusculé erectis, oblongis, planis, acutis, deorsüm . parüm angustioribus, parallelis, foliis directione contrariis, membranaceis, sesquipollicaribus ; aliis.parvis preeterea interioribus ad basin pedunculi, et terminali ad apicem ejus solitaria, lanceolata, unguiculari, basin ovarii vaginante. Separa patentissima, гедиаНа, e basi ovata, lata, elongato-attenuata, acuminata, {егё 2-pollicaria, integerrima, viridescentia, suprà punctis lineolisque fuscis notata, lateribus revolutis; postica subfalcata, infra columnam connata et plana. PETALA sepalis angustiora, sed longitudine eadem æquantia, linearia, attenuato-acuminata. LABELLUM sessile, sepalis dimidid brevius, basis subinfundibuliformis marginibus erectis, convexo-subfalcatis, ob- tusis, purpureo-guttatis, fundo 3-cristato, cristis parallelis, nudis, intermedio breviore ; lamina lato-ovata, patente, acuta, undulato-crispa- аа, fuscá, nuda, reticulata, flavido-marginatà. CoLumNa semicylindrica, labello dimidio brevior, antice plana, basi valdé dilatatà рагит producta. AwTHERA terminalis, ovata. Mass POLLINIS 4, сегеасеге, aequales, per pares collaterales. Ovartum subcylindricum, 2-pollicare. « This is one of the transitions from Dendrobium. to Bolbophyllum, agreeing іп habit with some species of the latter genus, and in fructification more with the former, but not exactly with either." Lindl. MSS. | For the specific character and observation given above I am indebted to my inestimable friend Professor Lindley, who has undertaken, and in a great measure accomplished, the elaboration of the families of Orchidee, Rosacee, and Ателіасее, in my possession ; and from whom I have, besides, derived constant and important "d in the prosecution of this publication, in the arrangement of the herbaria placed by the Honourable East India Company under my charge, and in the distribution of their duplicates. Many years, indeed, before I left India, have I benefited by Мг. Lindleys generosity and kindness to а degree, which has placed me under the most lasting obligations. I have long been desirous of an opportunity, and I seize the present one with great satisfaction, of expressing publicly the sincere respect and gratitude which I entertain towards that eminent and highly accomplished botanist. Our plant attains a very large size, and is certainly one of the most beautiful of the genus to which it belongs. It is rare іп Nepal, and І have only found it towards the summit of one of the highest mountains, which surround the great valley of that country. It grows parasitically on trees and rocks in moist and shady situations, and pro- duces its large flowers towards the latter end of the rainy season. . Plate XXIX. Fig. 1. Flower dissected ; the labellum expanded, with a portion of the column attached. | 26 PODOCARPUS LATIFOLIA. Tab. 30. Monoica ; foliis ovato-lanceolatis, valdé acuminatis, oppositis ; amentis masculis fasciculatis, axillaribus, pedunculo communi suffultis ; nuce globosá, receptaculo angusto, bracteis sparsis obsito. . Habitat in montibus Pundua, ubi detexit Francis De Silva. Floret mense Martio ; fructus maturi fine anni. Nomen Khasianum : Soplong. Annon mediocris, sempervirens. Rami cylindrici, crassiusculi, virides, uti omnes partes leves ; novelli cum foliis glauci, pallidi, basi squamis gemmaceis sparsis, lanceolatis muniti. Forra opposita, bifarié patentia, interstitiis tripló longiora, lato-lanceolata, nunc ovato- lanceolata, attenuato-acuminatissima, plana, integerrima, basi acuta, coriacea et firma, lætè viridia, lucida, pollices 5 longa, subtüs pal- lida, costá parüm elevatà. Ретош brevissimi, lineam vel duas longi, suprà plano-sulcati. FronEs monoici. , AMENTA MASCULA ovato- oblonga, obtusa, patentia, sessilia, pollicaria, basi bracteis aliquot lanceolatis, acutis circumdata, 5 ad 9 conferta in fasciculos aliquot medii rami axillares, oppositos, solitarios, erecto-patulos, subglobosos, suffultos pedunculo communi gracili, tereti, superné parüm incras- sato, pollicari vel sesquipollicari, foliis pluries breviore. Ахтневж valdé copiose et dense, undique sparse, patentes, filamentis capil- Тасев, brevissimis insidentes, lineam longze, lato-ovatæ, utrinque гіта longitudinali dehiscentes, loculis superné parüm divergentibus, connectivo dilatato, ensiformi-cuspidato. FLonEs гемгхвт infra amenta mascula axillares, solitarii, oppositi, pauci, suffulti pedunculo суп. drico, pollicari, rudimentis bracteolarum denticulato. Оулвгом obliqué ovatum, acutiusculum, insidens receptaculo oblongo, cylindrico, unguem longo, bracteolis sparsis, persistentibus, lanceolatis, patentibus munito, sub nuce paulld ampliato et succulento, purpureo. Мох globosa, basi acutiuscula, diametri semipollicaris. This species is very distinct from Podocarpus macrophylla in the size, figure, and insertion of its leaves, and the fascicled aments. Both are found on the same lofty range of mountains bordering on the eastern parts of Bengal, not far from the district of Sillet, (see Tentamen flore napalensis illustrate, 1. p. 56.) Му plant-collector, who sent me both living plants and dried specimens, informs me, that it grows to the size of a middling tree ; but he could not ascertain whether it is put to any particular use by the mountaineers. It is probable that the juicy receptacles are eaten like those of the kindred species. „Г find that I have mistaken this tree for the Dammara alba of Rumphius (Pinus Dammara) in my account of the Nipal Sassafras and Camphor Tree, inserted in the Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta, vol. 1. p. 46. (note at the bottom). I had not then seen its flower and fruit, and was deceived by the striking resem- blance, which exists between the leaves and branches of the two trees. In the Botanic Garden at Calcutta the young trees of this species thrive luxuriantly. They were introduced in 1824. Plate XXX. Fig. 1. Tender branch and leaves. 2. Male amentum. 3,4. Stamen viewed from two sides. 5, 6. Ovarium and Receptacle. 7. Fruit on its fleshy receptacle. RUELLIA ALATA. Tab. 31. НЕвВАСЕА erecta; caule ramisque quadrialatis, alis undulatis ; foliis ovatis, acuminatis, serrulatis, basi acutis, perque petiolum decurrentibus, pubescentibus ; floribus axillaribus, calycis laciniis linearibus, demüm valdé elongatis capsu- láque lineari longioribus. Legi in monte Sheopore Napali versus cacumen, ad elevationem pedum 10,000, florentem Julio et fructigeram Octobre. Etiam habui e regionibus magis adhuc elevatis versus Gossain Than Himalayz. йыз annia, erecta, paniculatim ramosa, 2—3-pedalis. Cauris teres, glaber, basi pennam anserinam crassus, sursüm attenuatus, ramique graciles ventricoso-articulati, alis 4, undulatis, subcrispatis, viridibus, ciliatis, utrinque versus articulos attenuatis et delites- centibus, medio lineas 2 vel 3 latis, aliquando unà duabusve harum geminatis, ad apicem ramorum sensim angustioribus. RAMULI аси. tetragoni, subflexuosi, in pare longitudine semper ineequales. Коша patentia, remotiuscula, interstitiis breviora, 3—5-pollicaria, in- zequalia, ovata, attenuato-acuminata, Serrulata, serraturis uncinato-incurvis, basi integerrimá rotundato-acutá per petiolum ань secus nervos valdé obliquos, extrorsum fer? longitudinales, utrinque prominentes pilis brevibus raris conspersa, cæterùm glabra, su "i saturate viridia, subtis albicantia, venosa, costá elevatà. Еол Логайа lanceolata, sessilia. Реттопл фоне ob foliorum basin ќе currentem marginati, in pare alter altero multüm brevior, et ad apicem caulis et ramorum omnind deficiens. NM magni, speciosi purpurei extüs albicantes, ad ахШав exteriores oppositi, solitarii, subsessiles, 2-pollicares. Сліхх profundissim? Аты >= naceus, semiuncialis, suffultus bracteis 2, lineari-cuneiformibus, oppositis ; Ѓасіпісе lineares, acute, pilis brevibus, capitellatis diae, post - „И бак” Аййәе Ж ^d / ИН Hn E v Ju ai Ў / emt i o y, —— —————— + : "epe 7 7 : mc Printed by Engelmann, Graf, Coast 4 6o M ЕУ. / / / Mr И ЖА ho PITCH Gg С {/ 2/2 — / й 51 AM балег доу а Graz уа 4 Gracia ael” 27 - florationem vald? elongatse. Совотлал infundibuliformis, glabra, calyce tripló longior, fubo versus faucem valdè ampliato виргадие gib- boso; limbus patens, 5-lobus, lobis rotundatis, subzequalibus, semiunguicularibus. ЕшамЕхта pilosula. AwrHEmx per pares parallele et contiguze, infra faucem. OvanruM parvum, oblongum, subtetragonum, insidens disco oblongo, carnoso, flavo. SrvLus filiformis, pubescens. Эттемл clavatum, acutum, зарег antheras parüm elevatum. Carsura lineari-subtetragona, levis, laciniis calycis valdé elongatis, pollicaribus ferd dimidio brevior, dehiscens in valvulas 2 graciles, recurvatas, dorso sulcatas, ventre carinatas et retinaculis 2 magnis munitas. SEMINA 4 plana, suborbiculata. This in my opinion is one of the most charming species of the whole genus. It grows to be a large ramous plant, which at first sight may be easily recognised on account of the four waved wings of the stem and principal branches, which are very broad in the middle, between the joints, but gradually decrease and almost entirely disappear towards the joints themselves. The leaves are very unequally petioled, one of the petioles in each pair being always considerably > shorter than the other, so that towards the upper ends of the branches one of the leaves becomes sessile, while the other is petioled. Тһе flowers are large and exquisitely beautiful, of a purple colour, pale or nearly white without. Plate ХХХІ. Fig. 1. Calyx opened. 2. Corolla opened. е. KNOXIA PLANTAGINEA. Та. 32. Rapıçe subfusiformi; caulibus herbaceis subsimplicibus ; foliis subradicalibus, elongato-lanceolatis, petiolatis, pilosis ; caulinis distantibus, brevibus, linearibus, sessilibus ; floribus. subcapitato-terminalibus, dente calycis uno, quandoque duobus tuboque corollz longissimis. Habitat in montibus ad Prome rip Trawaddi in regno Burmanico, florens fine anni. Raprx subfusiformis, Попова, digitum crassa, longiuscula, fusca, fibras exserens multas, teretes, ramulosas. Слов aliquot graciles, erecti, teretes, pedales 2-pedalesque, pubescentes, впреги pari unico vel duobus ramulorum brevium, oppositorum, simplicium. Foura ad basin caulis numerosa, et valde approximata, patentia, elongato-lanceolata, utrinque attenuata et acuta, 5—6-pollicaria, quin ultrà, planá, flavo-viridia, molliter villosula, subtüs pilis canis, brevibus densiüs obsita, соѕій elevatá, nervisque paucis, valdé obliquis et fere longi- tudinaliter excurrentibus; in planta juniore fer radicalia et sessilia, sed іп adultiore, propter elongationem caulis, versus basin hujus paribus aliquot approximatissimis disposita, et tunc suffulta. petiolo canaliculato, 2—3-pollicari, a folio decurrente marginato, basi mem- branaceo-dilatato, subamplexicauli. Forra caulina pauca, remotissima, brevia, pollicaria vel 2-pollicaria, linearia, acuminata, pilosula, opposita, sessilia. Frores соегіеі, subsessiles, numerosi, admodüm approximati in capitulum hemisphiericum, sesquipollicare, оваја ‚ ramorumque terminale ; inferiores, elongatione plante, advectàque floratione aliquá distantià deorsürft sparsi et remotiusculi ; singuli suffulti bracteold lineari, ovarium equante, стай. Рерісвілл carnosi, brevissimi, villosuli. Canvx constans dentibus 4 vel 5 acutis, ciliatis, seritis deciduis, 1 гагійѕ 2 reliquis minutis, subulatis pluries longioribus, linearibus, tubi dimidium (еге eequantibus. фын hypocrateriformis, extüs glabra; tubus gracillimus, pallidus, lineas 10 longus, apice cylindraceo-dilatatus ; Riva НАМ етін simus, tubo tripld brevior, 4-partitus, laciniis lanceolatis, obtusis; faux pervia, intus dens? pilosa. Sramina 4, tubi apici dilatatee infra inserta, inclusa ; filamenta brevissima. ANTHERS Oblonge, erectæ. OvanruM parvum, ovato-oblongum, dentibus calycis vald? inzequa- libus coronatum, pilisque densis, canis villosum, 1-loculare, 2-sporum ; ovula planiuscula, pendula. SrvLus capillaceus, corollà parüm longior. STIGMATA 2 exserta, teretia, longiuscula, divaricato-revoluta, purpurascentia. Plate XXXII. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx. 3. The same dissected, showing the pistil ;—these two figures exhibit, besides, the difference which occurs in one or two of the teeth being elongated. 4. Corolla opened. APHANOCHILUS POLYSTACHYUS. Tab. 33. spicis laxis, teretibus, paniculatis ; foliis floralibus bractezeformibus, Fours oblongis, basi attenuatis, nervosis ; ewfc : Вай. in Botan. Reg. vol. 15. ad calcem пит. 1282 ; et infra, p. 29. minutis ; corollis calyce quadrupló longioribus. Perilla fruticosa, Don Prodr. Flor. Nepal. p. 115? Crescit in montibus convallis Napalize altissimis Sheopore et Octobre. Chandaghiri, florens sub pluviis, fructifer mense Caurs strictus, obtusè quadrangularis, quadrisulcatus, basi pennam cygneam sis villosi. Ramı ex alis superioribus, breves, subsimplices, oppositi, erecto- I Surrrutex 2—3-pedalis, erecta, superné ramosa. crassus, griseus, superne ramique pilis brevibus, subulatis, copio 98 patentes roximata, patentia interstitiis triplo longiora, lato-lanceolata, nunc ovato-lanceolata, acutissima, serrata, serraturis . ovatis, КЕ, ма duplicatis, basi Wes тором 5-pollicaria, pubescentia, suprà etxo-viridin, subtàs pallida, nervis multis gracilibus, уа 48 obliquis, €ostáque elevatis, villosulis, glandulisque minutissimis, extigiobosis, numerosis, resinosis, fuscis, attritu odorem aromaticum, gratum spargentibus. Fouta summa lineari-lanceolata, vel sublinearia, parva, subeessilia, serrulata. Ретол bre- vissimi, vix unguiculares, suprà викан. Sprcæ terminales, solitariæ, et axillares foliorum summorum opposite, егесіне, breve pedun- culate vel fer? sessiles, paniculatze, cylindraceze, obtusze, pennam cygneam ad digitum minimum cram, 4—5-pollicares, chno-villosa. Frores valdé numerosi et densi, parvi, flavicantes, brevissim? pedicellati, undique patentes, dispositi in fasciculos oppositos, suffultos bracteis: (foliis floralibus Benth.) lanceolatis, 2-linearibus, Сагух subovatus, villosulus, glendelastepugatatia, fauce parùm апа 5-dentatus, dentibus lanceolatis, acutis. Совошьл tubulosa, parüm incurva, calyce tripló quadruplòve longior, pubesonpa et punétata, vix ampliata versus limbum obscure bilabiatum, subinzequaliter 4-fidum ; lacinia superior recta, leviter fornicata, retusa ; inferior lato-ovata, lateralesque obtusz, ША breviores, patentiuscule. 8Зтаміха distantia, recta, subzequalia, parùm exserta, glabra. Амтневл: reniformes, lobis divaricatis, fissurd continua dehiscentibus, loculoque communi demüm hiantibus. Оли disco luteo, magno, 4;dentato suffulta, dente infimo longiore, subulato. SrvLus glaber, longitudine staminum. Sriema bilobum, lobis subulatis, divergentibus.* CanvorsipEs oblongo-triangulares, fuscze, glabrae. E K; The whole plant, as also the following species, although in a less degree, possesses a pleasant aromatic smell, which is elicited by attrition. It has a somewhat rigid habit, and its leaves are of a dark green colour. Plate XXXIII. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. 3. Anther before and after the bursting of the cells. — 4. Pistil. APHANOCHILUS FrLaAvUs. Tab. 34. Forus petiolatis, latè ovatis, acuminatis, nervosis ; spicis laxis, teretibus, axillaribus, terminalibusque ; foliis floralibus bractezformibus, ovato-lanceolatis, acuminatis, calyces subzquantibus; corollis calyce dupló longioribus. Benth. in locis citatis. . Habitat in montibus altissimis Хара е, Sheopore et versus Gossain Than. Tempus florendi et fructificandi idem ас precedentis speciei. SurrRUTEX erecta, 2-pedalis, simpliciter ramosa, omnibus partibus villositate parea, cand, molli obsita. Слив ramique obtus? 4-angulares. Forra ampla, patentissima, ovata, acuminata, serrata, serraturis lato-ovatis, acutis, basi subcontract, obtusá, nunc rotundatá integerrima, interstitiis tripló longiora, palmaria, suprà glabriuscula, subtüs pubescentia, minutim glanduloso-punctata, nervoso-venosa, nervis inferioribus suboppositis ; summa subsessilia, lanceolata, serrulata. Реттом graciles, teretes, suprà sulcati, 2—3-pollicares, уШо- süli. Sprcm terminales solitarif* vel ternze, axillaresque opposite, brevé pedunculate, cylindrica, erecta, obtuse, digitum minimum ` crasse, densiflora, paniculata. Frores valde numerosi, undique patentes, flavi, villosuli et glanduloso-punctulati, odorati, fasciculati, breve pedicellati ; fasciculi multiflori, oppositi, suffulti bracteis (foliis floralibus Benth.) ovatis, acuminatis, villosis, ciliatis, dimidio brevioribus; pretereà bracteola linearis ad basin singuli pedicelli. Canyx oblongus, subquinquangularis, 10-nervosus, villosus, glan- duloso-punctatus, 5-dentatus; dentibus lanceolatis, acutis, ciliatis, 3-nerviis, equalibus ; fructus parüm auctus, aridus, ferrugineus. Совомл calyce vix dupld longior; limbus subbilabiatus, 4-lobus ; lobus superior erectus, leviter fornicatus, obtusus, retusus ; reliqui оуай, patuli, intermedio majusculo, crenulato. SrAMINA glabra, parallela, didyma ; ал Лене reniformes, loculis inzequaliter bilobis, demüm reflexis et fissurà communi hiantibus. SriGMA subulato-bilobum, lobo inferiore elongato. CanmvorsrpEs ovales, leves, griseze, apice rotundatze, basi acutá intus hilo notatze, calyce tripló breviores. Plate XXXIV. Fig. 1. Flower. | 2.3. Anther before and after the cells have burst open. 4. Pistil. For the following Synoptical Account of the Indian Labiate, enumerated in my Catalogue of dried specimens, I am indebted to my esteemed friend Mr. George Bentham; to whom I am under very great obligations, both for this important addition to my work, and for the valuable assistance he has afforded me in my labours connected with the herbaria under my charge. SYNOPSIS Of the Genera and Species of Indian Labiatæ enumerated in the Catalogue of the Collections іп Dr. Wallich’s charge. By Grorce Вехтнам, Esq. Tribus 1. MENTHOIDEA, Benth. in Bot. Reg. vol. 15. ad calc. rariüs З vel 4, subexserta, distantia. Antheræ 2-loculares, loculis num. 1282. distinctis, stipitatis, connectivo lineari infra medium adnatis. Stylus I. MrnrANDRA, Benth, loc. cit. apice subequaliter 2-fidus, lobis subcomplanatis. Calyx ovatus, bilabiatus, labio superiore concavo, integro vel bre- Although the structure of the anthers bears considerable analogy vissimé 3-dentato, inferiore bifido ; intüs fauce пида. Corolla tubo | to that of the anthers of Salvia, yet this affinity does not appear to calycem subequante, subequaliter 4-fida, lobis patulis. Stamina 2, | be of sufficient importance to require the placing the two genera in the same tribe, when the direction of the stamina and the form of the corolla are so different. In Thymbra spicata, as well as in several species of. Calamintha and Acynos, the cells of the anthers are more or less separated by the fleshy connectivum, without this character running through the whole of the species even of the same genus. 1. М. bengalensis (Benth. in Wall. Catal. Herb. Ind. num. 1526), caule glabriusculo, ramis canescentibus, verticillastris remotis, ra- cemoso-paniculatis.—Salvia bengalensis, Roxb. Fl. Ind. 1. p. 146. S. dianthera, Roth. Nov. Spec. p. 18. 8. indica, Herb. Heyn. S. stellata, Hamilt. MSS. Folia feré Salvi officinalis. Racemi sæpiùs numerosi, paniculati. Verticillastri 20—30-flori, subglobosi. Folia ЙогаНа* calycibus sepiüs breviora. Calyces breviter pedicellati, pubescentes, post anthesin aucti. Flores magnitudine Thymi Serpylli vel vulgaris. Stamina exserta, 2, гагійѕ З vel 4.—“ Foliorum sapor et odor fortiores quàm in Salvia officinali Roxb. loc. cit. attritu valdé camphoratus,” Wall. MSS. Colitur in hortis Hindustanie. | 2. М. strobilifera (Benth. loc. cit. n. 1597), ramis densà floc- coso-tomentosis ; verticillastris spicatis, inferioribus'subremotis ; foliis floralibus bractezeformibus, ovato-lanceolatis, quadrifariàm imbricatis. — байда strobilifera, Wall. MSS. Frutex 2—3-pedalis et ultrà. Folia rugosissima, basi hastato- sagittata. Verticillastri pauciflori, bracteis parvis, ligulatis. minuti. MSS. . Hab. in Sirmore. II. Mentua, Linn. Gen. 713. Calyx ovatus vel campanulatus, equalis, 5-dentatus intüs fauce nuda vel уШоза. Corolla tubo calycem feré zquante, subzequalis, 4-fida, lobo superiore latiore, sepiüs emarginato. Stamina 4, di- stantia, exserta, vel tubo inclusa. Filamenta nuda. Anthere 2- loculares, loculis parallelis. Stylus apice subzequaliter bifidus. 1. M. Royleana (Wall. Cat. n. 1537), caule erecto, ramoso, to- mentoso ; foliis oblongis, breviter petiolatis, subtüs incano-tomentosis, arguté et inzequaliter serratis; spicis elongatis, tenuibus; verticillas- tris inferioribus subremotis ; calyce tomentoso, campanulato, obtuse 5-dentato; corolle lobo superiore emarginato; staminibus corollam zequantibus ; stylo exserto. Habitu M. sylvestri similis, sed magis tomentosa, spica gracilior, elongata. Flores minuti. Hab. in Deyra Dhoon, ubi detexit Dom. J. F. Royle. 2. M. Pudina (Herb. Hamilt), glaberrima, caule adscendente, subramoso; foliis subsessilibus, ovatis, cordatis, undulatis, lacerato- dentatis; spicis oblongis, laxiusculis; verticillastris multifloris ; foliis floralibus lineari-lanceolatis; dentibus calycinis bracteisque subulatis; согоПге lobo superiore integro; staminibus longé exsertis. --М. crispa var. exserta, Wall. Cat. n. 1536. М. sativa, Roxb. Hort. Beng. p. 44. Patria dubia. Colitur per totam Hindustaniam. III. Coresrooxea, Smith Exot. Bot. 2. p. 111. Calyx zequalis, 5-partitus, plumosus, maturatione papposus, ache- niis adherens. Corolla tubo calycem subequante, Теге æqualis, 4- fida, lobo superiore emarginato. Anthere 4, subsessiles, 2-loculares, loculis parallelis. Stylus profundé 2-fidus. Frutices tomentosi, verticillastris multifloris spicatis, spicis pani- culatis, floribus minutis involucratis. à 1. C. ternifolia (Roxb. Corom. 3. p. 40. t. 245), ramis, foliis, spi- cisque ternatim verticillatis. Folia breviter petiolata, subtus densé ferrugineo-tomentosa, ob- longo-lanceolata, utrinque attenuata. Hab. in montibus Carnaticis. 4 2. С. oppositifolia (Smith loc. cit.), ramis, foliis, spicisque oppositis. * Odor totius plante Flores Stamina vix exserta.—“ Odor totius fortis, ingratus," Wall. ж In the Labiatz I give the name of folia floralia to those leaves or bracts, which are immediately under the verticillastri, and of which there are always two opposite to each other; and reserve the name of bractew for those, which are placed at the base of each pedicel and are always single. —G, В. 29 се Folia longids quàm in precedente specie petiolata, minüs tomen- tosa. Spice minores, graciliores. Hab. in Napalia et Kamaon. IV. Ревпла, Linn. Gen. p. 578. Calyx campanulatus, per anthesin subequalis, 5-fidus, post an- thesin bilabiatus, labio superiore dilatato, 3-lobo, inferiore 2-fido, intus fauce nudá. Corolla calycem feré zequans, subzequalis, breviter * 5-fida. Stamina 4 distantia, corollam седиап а. Апфега 2-loculares, loculis parallelis, demüm divergentibus vel subdivaricatis. Stylus profundé 2-fidus. 1. P. ocymoides, Linn. loc. cit. Hab. in Napalia, Ava. The P. macrostachya Wall. Cat. n. 1559 is probably the P. ocy- moides in a more advanced state. This is the only described species, which really belongs to the genus; there are, however, in the Вапкз-. ian herbarium, two Chinese plants, which appear to be true Perille. У. Ешвногтиа, Willd. Spec. 3. p. 59. Verticillastri spicati et folia floralia’ bractezeformia secunda. Calyx sequalis, 5-dentatus, intus fauce nuda. Corolla tubo leviter exserto, limbo subaquali, breviter 5-fido. Stamina 4 distantia. Antheræ lineares, 2-loculares, loculis divaricatis. Stylus apice subequaliter : bifidus. 1. Е. cristata, Willd. loc. cit. | Caulis herbaceus, erectus, ramosus, glaber. Folia petiolata, in- feriora ovata, superiora oblonga, utrinque attenuata. Spice termi- nales, 2—3-unciales. — Verticillastri secundi, approximati, multiflori. Folia floralia bractezformia, ovata, acuminata, margine ciliata, flores paulld superantia. Calyces ciliato-hirsuti. Вгасіва minute, lineares. Hab. in Emodo ad Gossain Than. VI. Авнлкосниоз, Benth. in Bot. Reg. vol. 15. Calyx subzqualis, 5-dentatus, intüs fauce nuda. Corolla tubo nunc exserto, nunc calycem æquante, breviter 4-fida, lobo superiore suberecto, subconcavo, emarginato, inferioribus patentibus. Stamina 4, sæpiùs exserta, distantia. Antherarum loculi divergentes vel di- varicati, demùm confluentes. Stylus apice subæqualiter 2-fidus. 1. 4. blandus (Benth. їп Wall. Cat. n. 1550), canescens, foliis oblongis, utrinque attenuatis ; verticillastris secundis, laxè spicatis ; spicis paniculatis.—Mentha blanda, Wall. MSS. ann. 1821. Perilla polystachya, Don Prod. Flor. Nepal. p. 114? . Caulis erectus, ramosus. Folia 2—3-pollicaria, latitudine semi- pollicaria, grossé serrata, basi in petiolum attenuata, suprà viridia, subtüs canescentia. Spice numerose, paniculate, 3—6-pollicares. Verticillastri circiter 20-flori. Flores breviter pedicellati, minuti. Bractec subulate. Calyx post anthesin auctus. Corolla calycem vix superans.—“ Odor totius aromaticus, debilis," Wall. MSS. Hab. in montibus Napali, Sillet, ef Ау. 2. А. fetens (Benth. loc. cit. п. 1551), foliis rhomboideis, ovatis, inciso-serratis, petiolatis; verticillastris equalibus, laxé spicatis ; spicis paniculatis.— Летіла fatens, Wall. MSS. М. blanda, De- cand. Plant. Rar. Hort. Genev. р. 23. t. 8? Lindl. іп Transact. Hort. Soc. 6. p. 275. Aphanochilus incisus, Benth. loc. cit. n. 1552. Mentha incisa, Wall. MSS. Precedenti affinis. Differt foliis brevioribus, latioribus, haud ob- longis, profundiüs incisis, spicis viscosis, tenuioribus, brevioribus (1—13-pollicaribus), foliis floralibus subulatis, flores superantibus.— * Odor gravis Chenopodii botrydis,” Wall. MSS. Hab. in Napalia. 3. A. flavus, Benth. loc. cit. n. 1553; et suprà p. 27. Mentha flava, Wall. MSS. Hab. in Napalia. 4. A.polystachyus, Benth. loc. cit. n. 1554; et suprà p. 28. Mentha polystachya, Wall. MSS. Perilla fruticosa, Don Prodr. Flor. Nepal. р. 1151 Hab. in Napalia. 5. A. eriostachyus (Benth. loc. cit. n. 1555), caule pubescente ; fo- liis breviter petiolatis, ovatis, subtus pubescentibus ; spicis densis, tomentosis; foliis floralibus bractezformibus ovatis, floribus bre- vioribus. қ Habitus feré Cyclostegia strobilifere. Spice terminales, 1—13- pollicares. Calyces lanato-tomentosi. Corolla calycem paulld superans. Hab. in Napaliz montibus, et Emodum+versus. 6. A. pilosus (Benth. loc. cit. n. 1556), caule foliisque ovatis, piloso- hirsutis; spicis densis, hispidis; foliis floralibus bractezeformibus, subulatis, imbricatis, flores superantibus. | Precedenti habitu affinis, sed inflorescentià valdé diversa. Hab. in Napalia. 227. A.? paniculatus (Benth. loc. cit. n. 1557), glaber, foliis ovatis ; spicis densis, teretibus, paniculatis . . . . The specimens of this plant in Dr. Wallich's collection are in too far advanced a state to be determined with accuracy ; but it appears to be nearly allied to the preceding species. Hab. in Napalia. The Perilla elata, Don Prodr. Fl. Nepal. p. 115, appears to con- stitute another species of Aphanochilus. VII. Cycrosreera, Benth. in Bot. Reg. vol. 15. Florum spica strobiliformis: Folia floralia bractezeformia, mem- branacea, venosa, margine ciliata, imbricata, cyathiformia, ex duobus oppositis connatis constantia. Calyx гедиа!15, 5-dentatus. Corolla tubo exserto, 4-fida, lobis subzequalibus, superiore suberecto, emar- ginato, inferioribus subpatentibus. Antherz ovate, loculis confluen- tibus. Stylus apice subequaliter 2-fidus. 1. С. strobilifera, Benth. in Wall. Cat. n. 1562. Mentha strobi- lifera, Wall. MSS. Majana fwtida, Rumph. Amb. vol. 6. p. 41. tab. 16. fig. 2. Mentha fetida, Burm. Flor. Ind. p. 126. Caulis herbaceus, erectus, semipedalis vel pedalis, glaber, vel basi et axillis pilis mollibus pubescens. Folia ovata, petiolata, basi Spice cylindrieze, 1—2-pollicares. —Verticillastri Вгасбе minute. parüm attenuata. 6—10-flori. Flores foliis floralibus subinclusi. — Odor totius perquam gratus, aromaticus,” Wall. MSS. Hab. in Napalia et ad Gossain Than Emodi. VIII. Вуворнутла, Blume Bijdragen, p. 826. Calyx zqualis, 5-dentatus, intùs fauce nuda. Corolla tubo calycem subeequante, 4-fida, lobo inferiore subpatente. Stamina 4, exserta, distantia. Filamenta barbata. Anthere terminales, 1-loculares, типа transversali dehiscentes. Stylus apice subzqualiter 2-fidus. Flores densé spicati, foliis floralibus bractezeformibus. ж Foliis verticillatis. l. D. stellata (Benth. in Wall. Cat. n. 1542), glabra, caule repente, ramis erectis, simpliciusculis; foliis. 6—8-verticillatis, an- gusté linearibus, internodia subzequantibus, integerrimis; floralibus subulatis; calycis villosi, ovati, dentibus erectis, acutiusculis.— Mentha stellata, Lour. Cochinch. р. 361. М. malabarica, Herb. Heyn. М. quaternifolia, Roth. Nov. Spec. p. 256? Caulis basi repens, radicans. Rami numerosi, simplices vel рагсе ramosi. Folia feré Galii veri, vix }-uncialia. Spica 1—3-pollicaris. Hab. ... Herb. Heynean. 2. D. pumila (Benth. loc. cit. n. 1546), glabra; caule ascendente, | ramoso; foliis quaternis, inferioribus subsenis, elliptico-linearibus, utrinque attenuatis, remoté serratis ; floralibus ovatis ; calycis villosi, campanulati, fructiferi inflati, dentibus obtusiusculis, suberectis.— Mentha pumila, Graham in Edinb. New Phil. Journ. 1828. p. 393. М. verticillata, Hook. in Curt. Bot. Mag. vol. 56. t. 2907, non Roxb. М? quadrifolia, Herb. Hamilt. Folia 1—13-pollicaria, utrinque serraturis 2—3 remotis. vix pollicaris. Folia floralia calycibus vix breviora. This species appears to me to be very distinct from Roxburgh's М. verticillata, a Bengal plant, of which I have seen no specimen from Nipal. Мг. Don informs me that his description (Prodr. Fl. Nepal. p. 114), which refers to the true D. verticillata, was in fact taken from Dr. Roxburgh's Bengal specimens. Hab. in Napalia. 3. D. crassicaulis (Benth. loc. cit. n. 1545), glabra; caule adscen- dente, ramoso; foliis quaternis, nunc quinis vel senis, lanceolatis, linearibus, basi dilatatis, subintegerrimis; spicis elongatis; foliis floralibus lanceolatis, flores superantibus ; calycis pubescentis den- tibus obtusiusculis, suberectis.— Mentha stellata, Herb. Hamilt. Spica 30 Rami verticillati. Folia ѕерё 2—3-uncialia, basi dilatato-amplex icaulia. Spicae 3—5-pollicares. Hab. ad Sillet. 4. D. verticillata (Benth. loc. cit. n. 1544), glabra, caule erecto, ramis foliisque 6—10-verticillatis; foliis elongato-linearibus, utrinque attenuatis ; spicis densissimis ; calycis fructiferi dentibus ovatis, stel- lato-patulis.— Mentha verticillata, Roxb. Hort. Beng. р. 44. Dyso- phyila ramosissima, Benth. loc. cit. п. 1543. Hab. ad Sillet. 5. D. quadrifolia (Benth. loc. cit. n. 1539), velutino-pubescens vel tomentosa; caule erecto, subramoso, ramis уегисШайз ; foliis qua- ternis, elliptico-linearibus, integerrimis vel remote serratis, utrinque attenuatis; spicis elongatis, verticillatis, inferioribus subremotis; foliis floralibus linearibus, floribus brevioribus; calycis ovati dentibus an- gusté lanceolatis, acutis, erectis. ш densé tomentoso-pubescens. Beng. p. 44. B breviter velutino-pubescens, foliis nervosis, basi in petiolum attenuatis. Mentha velutina, Wall. MSS. Dysophylla velutina, Benth. loc. cit. n..1538. y parcé pubescens, foliis angusté linearibus. Dysophylla linearis, Benth. loc. cit. n. 1540. | Caulis erectus, parcé ramosus, ramis quaternis, simplicibus. Folia 1—2-pollicaria, in var. В 3-pollicaria. Spice 3—6-pollicares, ver- ticillastris subdistinctis. Hab. « Mont. Circar. В Tavoy ore Tenasserim. y Pundua. 6. D. cruciata (Benth. loc. cit. п. 1541), pilis mollibus patulis hirsuta; caulibus elongatis, procumbentibus, simpliciusculis; foliis quaternis, rariüs quinis vel senis, lanceolatis, obtusis, integerrimis, margine revolutis; spicis densis, verticillastro inferiore distincto ; foliis floralibus lanceolatis, flores subeequantibus ; calycis villosi den- tibus obtusiusculis, suberectis. Folia semipollicaria aut vix pollicaria. Spicæ 14—3-pollicares. Hab. in Napalia. i Mentha quadrifolia, Roxb. Hort. ** Foliis oppositis. 7. D. Auricularia (Blume Bijdrag. p. 826), pilis mollibus patulis hirsuta ; caulibus procumbentibus, parcè ramosis; foliis oppositis, sub- sessilibus, ovatis, grossè serratis; spicis densissimis; bracteis ovato- lanceolatis, flores subæquantibus ; calycis villosi dentibus ovatis, post anthesin couniventibus.— Mentha Auricularia, Linn. Mant. p. 81. Hab. in Bengala orientali; Penang ; Taong Dong ргоре Avam. 8. D. strigosa (Benth. loc. cit. n. 1549), pilis adpressis, strigosis pubescens; caule erecto, subramoso ; foliis oppositis, subsessilibus, lanceolato-ovatis, grossé serratis; spicis crassis, laxiusculis; foliis floralibus lanceolatis, floribus brevioribus ; calycis ovati, hirsuti den- tibus subulatis, erectis. Spicee 3—4-pollicares, crassiores et flores majores quàm in ceeteris speciebus. Verticillastri subdistincti. Folia Теге D. Auricularia. Hab. ad Sillet. 9. D. myosuroides (Benth. loc. cit. n. 1547), sericeo-tomentosa ; caule erecto ramoso; foliis oppositis, breviter petiolatis; spicis densis; foliis floralibus ovatis, minutis; calycis tomentosi dentibus brevis- simis. Mentha myosuroides, Roth. Nov. Spec. р. 257. Hab... . Herb. Heynean. IX. Росовтемох, Desf. Mem. Mus. 2. p. 154. Calyx equalis, 5-dentatus, intus fauce nuda. Corolla 4-fida, sub- bilabiata, labio superiore 3-fido, inferiore integro, lobis omnibus in- tegerrimis, patentibus. Stamina 4, exserta, distantia. Filamenta barbata vel nuda. Anthere terminales, uniloculares, rima transver- sali dehiscentes. Stylus apice subzequaliter 2-fidus. * Filamentis barbatis. 1. P. paniculatum, caule erecto, ramoso, pilis adpressis, erectis pubescente; foliis ovatis, inciso-serratis, basi attenuatis; verticillastris remoté spicatis, globosis, secundis; spicis terminalibus; bracteis lato-ovatis, membranaceis, calyces superantibus; calycis membra- nacei, pubescentis, dentibus lanceolatis.— E/sho/tzia paniculata, Willd. Spec. 3. p. 59. Flores minuti. Characteres omninó generis. а PP Prod Av ng ” pA ^ne ДА НЕС ES С 7 Рут ngelmanz,, Graf @ 7 M Gaua da Fishrumersmui a4 Hw и ieu + Р АУЫЛЫ OREO ces AX M A E 2 Ж be nde “ау”, j ж! SES 12», 10е > it 322 9 e, ATE A TTE амай Be 26 к ps Gerachard dal / Ж ua fla va. lpha WO 2. P. plectranthoides (Desf. 1. c. t. 6), cano-pubescens, caule erecto, ramoso; foliis ovatis, basi attenuatis, duplicato-serratis; floribus subsecundis, glomerato-spicatis; spicis ovatis, pedunculatis, panicu- latis ; bracteis lato-ovatis, striatis, glanduloso-punctatis, calyces su- perantibus; calycis membranacei, hirsuti, glanduloso-punctati den- tibus lato-lanceolatis, acutis—Mentha secunda, Roxb. Hort. Beng. Hyssopus nepetoides, Herb. Heyn. Origanum benghalense, Burm. Ind. p. 128. t. 38. Ё 3? Hab. in Hindustania, Napalia, Kamaon. 3. P. parviflorum (Benth. loc. cit. n. 1531), caule adscendente, pubescente ; foliis glabriusculis, ovatis, basi attenuatis, duplicato- crenatis ; floribus subsecundis, glomerato-spicatis ; spiculis racemo- sis; racemis axillaribus terminalibusque ; bracteis ovatis, striatis, pubescentibus, flores superantibus; calycis villosi, membranacei den- tibus angusté lanceolatis. Mentha integra, Herb. Наш. Folia majora, glabriora quàm in P. plectranthoide; corolle tripló minores, lobis angustioribus; spiculæ tenuiores; calyces longiores. Hab. ad Sillet. 4. P. Heyneanum (Benth. loc. cit. n. 1532), caule adscendente, : pubescente ; foliis glabriusculis, ovatis, basi attenuatis, irregulariter crenatis; verticillastris subsecundis, interrupté spicatis; spicis pani- culatis ; bracteis ovatis, subenerviis, calyces subæquantibus ; calycis pubescentis dentibus ovatis—Origanum Benghalense, Herb. Heyn. Origanum indicum, Roth. Nov. Gen. et Spec. p. 266? Corolla Теге Р. parviflori, sed bracteis, inflorescentià et habitu diversum. Herb. Heyn. 5. P. glabrum (Benth. loc. cit. n. 1533), glaberrimum ; caule erecto; foliis ovatis, basi attenuatis, longé petiolatis, crenatis; verticillas- tris subequalibus, globosis, spicatis; spicis paniculatis; bracteis ovatis, calyce tripló brevioribus; calycis glabri dentibus ovato-lan- ceolatis. Hab. in Napalia. 6. P. tuberculosum, pilis brevibus, stellatis, ex tuberculo ortis pu- bescens; caule erecto, tuberculoso; foliis ovatis, basi attenuatis, petiolatis, duplicato-serratis, utrinque tuberculoso-rugosis; verticil- lastris distinctis, remotis, æqualibus, globosis, spicatis; spicis pani- culatis ; bracteis minutis ; calycis tuberculosi dentibus subulatis. Hab. in Napalia. 7. P. rotundatum (Benth. loc. cit. 1535), pubescens ; caule adscen- dente ; foliis lato-ovatis, duplicato-crenatis, basi rotundatis vel corda- tis; racemis simplicibus ; verticillastris eequalibus, subremotis; brac- teis minutis; calycis villosi dentibus lanceolatis.—JMentha villosa, Herb. Heyn. Planta circiter pedalis, habitu a precedentibus recedens. Racemus simplex, 3—6-pollicaris. Саусез tubulosi, 4—5 lineas longi. Bab. uva Herb. Heyn. 8. P. vestitum (Benth. loc. cit. 1534), tomentoso-lanatum ; caule adscendente ; foliis rugosis, molliter tomentosis, ovatis, basi subcor- datis, crenatis ; spicis simplicibus ; verticillastris secundis, approxi- matis; bracteis minutis; calycis villosi dentibus lanceolatis. Statura precedentis, cui affine, sed characteribus notatis distinctum. Herb. Heyn. 31 **' Filamentis glabris. 9. P. speciosum, caule erecto, piloso; foliis lato-ovatis, basi cor- datis, duplicato-crenatis ; spicis simplicibus; verticillastris teretibus, laxis, approximatis; bracteis minutis; calycis glabriusculi, tubulosi dentibus subulatis. Spica oblonga, 3—4-pollicaris. Herb. Wightianum. Tribus 2. SATUREINEZE, Benth. in Bot. Reg. vol. 15. ad calc. 1282. X. Tuymus, Linn. Spec. Verticillastri nunc axillares, nunc spicati vel, capitati. Calyx 10-striatus, ovato-tubulosus, bilabiatus, labio superiore 3-dentato, in- feriore 2-fido, intus fauce villosa. Corolla tubo calycem subzequante, bilabiata, labio superiore erecto, subplano, emarginato, inferiore pa- tente, 3-fido. Stamina 4, distantia. Antherarum loculi paralleli. Stylus apice subeequaliter 2-fidus. 1. Th. linearis (Benth. in Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 1567), suffruti- cosa, procumbens ; ramis adscendentibus, glabris vel apice villosis ; foliis subsessilibus, elliptico-linearibus, obtusis, integerrimis, planis, basi ciliatis, glabris, punctatis, venosis; verticillastris 6—10-floris, subrotundo-spicatis ; pedicellis calycem subequantibus ; calycis gla- briusculi labio superiori breviter ovato-3-dentato, inferiore subulato- 2-fido; staminibus exsertis. Th. Marschalliano Willd. affinis ; at in Шо verticillastri гасетоѕі, rami calycesque villosi, calycis labium superius subulato-3-dentatum. А varietatibus nonnullis 77. Serpylli vix diversus. Hab. in Kamaon. 2. Th. biflorus (Hamilt. in Don. Prodr. Fl. Nepal. p. 112), suffruti- cosus, procumbens ; ramis adscendentibus, pubescentibus vel pilosis ; foliis subsessilibus, ovatis, cordatis, lanceolatis vel ellipticis, obtusius- culis, integerrimis, planis, glabris, venosis; pedunculis axillaribus, 1—3-floris, subsecundis; calycis tubulosi, pubescentis dentibus om- nibus subulatis. Hab. in Napalia, Kamaon. XI. ОвтоАхом, Linn. Gen. 726. i Florum spica tetragona, strobiliformis, bracteis imbricatis. Calyx varius. Corolla tubo calycem subæquante vel exserto, bilabiata, labio superiore erecto, subplano, emarginato, inferiore patente, 3-fido. Stamina 4, distantia. Antherarum loculi paralleli. Stylus apice subæqualiter 2-fidus. 1. O. normale (Don. Prodr. Fl. Nepal. p. 113), caule adscendente, villoso, subramoso ; foliis breviter petiolatis, ovatis, integerrimis, basi attenuatis; florum spiculis laxis, corymboso-paniculatis ; bracteis ovato-lanceolatis, calycibus subbrevioribus; calycis oblongi, villosis- simi dentibus subzequalibus, subulatis; staminibus exsertis. Hab. in Kamaon, Sirmore. , 2. О. Wallichianum (Benth. loc. cit. п. 1565), caulibus adscenden- tibus, glabriusculis; foliis tomentoso-canescentibus, breviter petio- . latis, ovalibus, obtusis, integerrimis ; spiculis ovatis, glomeratis, pa- niculatis; bracteis arcté imbricatis, rotundatis, ciliatis, calyces com- pressos, dilatatos, infrà fissos subsuperantibus ; staminibus breviter exsertis. Hab. in Napalia.* LIPARIS LONGIPES. Tab. 35. Рвесоовол,вт8 longissimis, scapo ancipite ; labello ovato, Liparis longipes Lindl. teretibus, diphyllis ; foliis ensiformi-lanceolatis, racemo acuto, ecalloso, columne longitudine ; petalis linearibus. stricto, multifloro brevioribus ; Lindl. MSS. ж This Synopsis will be concluded in another part of this volume. K 32 Arborum et rupium parasitica in montibus Sillet confinibus, unde in hortum botanicum Calcuttz misit M. В. Smith. In montibus Ceylon:e detexit Macrae (Lindl.). Floret tempore anni calido. Nomen Khasianum : „иа Али. . PrawTA erecta, gracilis, pedalis—1}-pedalis, levis. Рэкоровотвоз cylindraceo-attenuatus, 5-pollicaris, involutus squamis magnis, oblongis, acutis, laxis vaginantibus, 2-pollicaribus, aridis, membranaceis, infimis parvis; basi digitum crassá exserens fibras radicales teretes, villosas, simplices; apice nudiuscula subalternatim diphyllus. Forra ensiformi-linearia, erectiuscula, leviter divergentia, coriacea et firma, acuta, marginibus feré rectilineis, suprà lucida, canaliculata, subtüs costà subcarinata ; basi paràm angustatá, et сотр са 4 unum super alterum, parva ab invicem distantià, pseudobulbi apici inserta, 6—8-pollicaria. Scarus gracillimus, subfiliformis, leviter anceps, ex apice pseudobulbi surgens, basi folii summi parüm amplexus, czeterüm liber, erectus, 3-pollicaris, sursim bracteis paucis, vagis, lanceolato-linearibus, acuminatis, erectis, unguicularibus. Racemus terminalis, erectus, gracilis, cylindricus, attenuatus, spithamezeus, supra folia elevatus, basi digitum crassus, constans floribus parvis, numerosis, undique sparsis, albis, labello flavicante, breviter pedicellatis, bracted parva, lanceolata, patulá, albicante, pedicello breviore suffultis. Separa fer? aequalia, ovata, acuta, distincta. PETALA linearia, angustissima. LanzLLUM simplex, nudum, unguiculare, suprà flavicans, basi vix infundibuliforme, apice parüm expansum in laminam ovatam, acutam. CoLuwNa gracilis, libera, semiteres, leviter versus labellum arcuata, hujusque fer longitudine, apice subtruncato- concaviuscula. Ахтнвва terminalis, persistens, semiglobosa, bilocularis. Massa ромлмиз 2, oblongze, posticd sulcatee. OvanruM bre- vissimum, subclavatum. Plate XXXV. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. The same dissected. 3. Upper. part of the column with the anther and pollen masses detached. : ЕВТА PANICULATA. Tab. 36. Fours lineari-lanceolatis, acuminatis, subtüs glaucis; caulibus teretibus, pendulis, elongatis ; racemis terminalibus, aggregatis, cylindraceis, multifloris ; sepalis lanatis, ovatis, obtusis, petalisque minoribus, guttatis ; labello trilobo, basi apiceque calloso, lobis guttatis: intermedio truncato.—Lind/. MSS. Eria paniculata, Lindl. apud Wall. in Cat. Ind. n. 1971. Hab. in convalle Napaliz minore, Доаќоѓе dicta, arborum parasitica. Etiam crescit in montibus Pundua, Sillet confinibus. Floret Martio. Рглмта parasitica, ex arborum truncis subpendula, salva inflorescentià levis. Влогх constans fibris numerosis, longis, fuscis, ramosis. CauLEs aliquot cespitosi, cylindracei, 1—2-pedales, pennam cygneam crassi, extrorsüm obsoleté compressiusculi, vaginati. Forra ap- proximata, numerosa, alterna, bifaria, angulo acuto patula, lineari-lanceolata, e basi transverse geniculata, semipollicem lata sensim attenuata, valdé acuminata, 6—8-pollicaria, crassa, coriacea et rigida, suprà lucida, leviter plicata, subtüs pallida, subglaucescentia, costà parüm elevatà, marginibus acutissimis, fer’ scindentibus, desinentia in vaginas striatas, caulem arctè involventes, 2-pollicares. Racemt terminales, simplices vel bifidi, breviter pedunculati, cylindrici, digitum crassi, 3—5-pollicares, paniculam formantes ovatam, laxam pendulam. Реромсом erubescentes, pollieares rachesque teretes, carnosi, tomento cano, copioso densé vestiti. Frores numerosi, ap- proximati, undique sparsi, mediocris magnitudinis, flavicantes, suprà rufo-punctati, inodori, brevé pedicellati, extüs cano-villosi, suffulti bracteis ovatis, lanceolatis, acuminatis, glabris, reflexis, persistentibus, membranaceis, pedicellum villosum, 3-linearem zequantibus. SEPALA ovata, obtusa, unà cum petalis labelloque punctis crebris, rufis guttata, ех в ad basin villosula, ætate glabriora; anticum leviter forni- catum ; /ateralia patentia, basi lata infra basin columnze elongatam connata, ind? subproducta et quasi calcarata. PETALA lanceolata, sepalis dimidio angustiora paulldque breviora, valdd obtusa, columnze lateraliter adposita, omnind glabra. LABELLUM sessile, adscendens, 3-lobum, lobis lateralibus ovatis obtusis, intermedio truncato, retuso, intüs disco callis duobus oblongis, altero ad insertionem labelli, altero majore, apicali in sinu lobi intermedii. Coruwwa brevis, basi elongata sepala lateralia et labellum adfigens. Амтневл terminalis, ovata, bilocu- laris, loculis fundo 4-locularibus. Mass; POLLINIS 8, сегеасеге, quaternatim pedicellate. Ovartum breve, clavatum, villosum. “ This plant is intermediate between Dendrobium and Eria, agreeing with the former in its pendulous habit and taper stems, and with the latter in fructification. Dendrolirium of Blume is the same genus as Ғ??а, but of later date. Octomeria is entirely different, agreeing in nothing but the number of its pollen masses. Octomeria stands next Pleu- rothallis ; Епа next Dendrobium."— Lindl. Our elegant plant is a native both of the borders of Bengal, on the lofty range of mountains called Pundua, and of Nipal. In the latter country it grows in the valley of Noakote, which is considerably less elevated than the great valley of Nipal. It is, however, a rare plant in both places. Plate ХХХУГ. Fig. 1. Flower. — 2. The same dissected. Gaus Engelmann, Graf, Coindet К С: Printed by „И Gauci leg. 7 еее Ито м Gorachand del? 33 URARIA CORDIFOLIA. Tab. 31. Fruticosa, foliis simplicibus, lato-ovatis, cordatis, subtüs ramisque villosis ; racemis terminalibus, paniculatis, elon- gatis, hirsutis ; leguminibus 2—3-articulatis, villosis, inclusis ; bracteis ovatis, acuminatis, sericeo-pilosis. | Habitat in montibus prope Prome et Meaong ripe Irawaddi; in Taong Dong prope Ауат? et in Martabania ; indeque in hortum botanicum Calcutta introducta, Floret et fructificat fine et initio anni. Екотех erecta, ramosa, 2—3-pedalis, omnibus partibus ferrugineo-villosa. Саша crassus, leviter angulatus et sulcatus, геѓаќе glabrior. Rami villosi, parüm flexuosi, subsimplices. Forra patentissima, simplicia, latissimé ovata, cordata, acuta, sinu basis plùs minisve profundo, lobis rotundatis ; palmaria, in adulta planta 10-pollicaria ad pedalia, utrinque villosa, praecipue subtüs, ubi nervoso-venosa et reticulata; summa multó minora, ovato-cordata, obtusissima. Ретюьоз cylindricus, suprà plano-sulcatus, pilosus, 2—3-pollicaris. SripuLA lato-lanceolatze, subtriangulares, valdé acuminate, nervoso-lineatce, adpresse, pilosz, lineas 3 longae. 8тірем,ж parvae, lanceo- late. Racemi brevé pedunculati, cylindrici, attenuati, digitum crassi, 6—8-pollicares, axillares foliorum supremorum simplices, et termi- nales ramosi et paniculati, multiflori, pilosi. Реромсом fer? teretes; pedicelli gracillimi, filiformes, patentissimi, 3-pollicares, fasciculati, sæpiùs geminati ternative, valdé pilosi. Ввлстеж infra divisuras panicule, stipulis similes; infra singulum florum fasciculum ovate, caudato-acuminatz, pilis sericeis, adpressis dense vestitze, ѕсагіоѕге, valdé deciduz. Fores parvi, ex albido rosei. Catycis pilosi dentes sequales, setaceo-acuminati, сШай. Сокол subbilabiata, calyce dupld longior, carinà alisque deflexis, vexillo subrotundo. LEGuMEN calyce brevius, catenulato-spirale, depressum, villosum, 2—3-spermum, articulis subrotundo-planis, I-spermis. Земтмл levia, nitida, reniformia, olivacea. This is a very large and distinct species, varying in the size of its leaves and the density of its hairiness according to age and situation. I am in doubt whether to consider the plant I met with on the mountain called Taong Dong near Ауа, as a mere variety or a distinct species. It was exceedingly hairy, and one or two of the upper leaves were ternate, the intermediate leaflet being rhomboidal with an attenuated base. In every other respect the plant resembled the Irawaddi and Martaban specimens. Plate XXXVII. Fig. 1. The flower. 2. 'The same opened. ССЕТОСУ ХЕ GARDNERIANA. Tab. 38. Psruposutsis ampullaceis, teretibus ; foliis lanceolatis, 5-costatis, acuminatis, longé petiolatis ; racemis nutantibus, densifloris, terminalibus radicalibusque, foliis tertió brevioribus ; bracteis deciduis; sepalis petalisque oblongis ; labelli denticulati, basi saccati lobo medio retuso, lateralibus minore.—Lind/. MSS. Habitat super arboribus ad Noakote in Napalia, unde anno 1817 misit Dom. Edwardus Gardner. PrANTA admodim speciosa, levis. PsEupoBuLBUS ovato-oblongus, sursüm valdé attenuatus, apice 2-phyllus, nudus, 5-pollicaris, basi radiculas exserens simplices, longissimas, filiformes. Fori lanceolata, acuta, utrinque attenuata, erecto-patentia, nervosa, coriacea, levis- sima, lucida, pedalia. РЕтіо1л/8 crassus, 2-pollicaris, profundé canaliculatus. Rackwr oblongi, laxi, nutantes, palmares, pedunculati ; horum terminalis solitarius, foliis tertid ferè brevior; radicales aliquot, ad basin pseudobulbi laterales. Рвргхчсоі/в gracilis, filiformis, 3—4-pollicaris, involutus bracteis ovatis, obtusis, ventricoso-imbricantibus, deciduis, membranaceis. Frores magni, albi, гешойпаспн, alterni, brevé pedicellati rachi tereti, Пехиова, suffulti bracteis magnis, oblongo-lanceolatis, acutis, ий et чё, pedicello — culari tripló longioribus, concaviusculis. SEPALA oblongo-linearia, acuta, sesquipollicaria, lateralia basil paullb dise et puc » calcar breve, conicum, obtusum. РЕтлгл sepala longitudine zequantia, sed iisdem angustiora. LanmkLLvuw infundibuliforme, lamind patula, trilobá, denticulatà, lobo intermedio retuso, lateralibus rotundatis minore. The only specimen I have ever seen of this fine Orchidea was sent to me in the year 1817 by my highly valued friend the Hon. Edward Gardner, who received it from the valley of Noakote in Nipal. I had not the means at the time to have the plant more minutely drawn or described ; it is, however, sufficiently distinct in the great size of all its parts, and in the particulars mentioned in Mr. Lindley’s specific character, to admit of its being confounded with any of the other species. I have dedicated the plant to the gentleman who communicated it to me, and to whom Indian Botany, especially the Botany of Nipal, owes a vast number of interesting and valuable contributions. 34 . . е DENDROBIUM FORMOSUM. Tab. 39. Слшлвиз teretibus, pendulis, pilosis ; foliis distichis, ovatis, apice obliqué emarginatis, сеща: ; racemo brevi, ter- minali, 4—35-floro ; bracteis brevibus, ovatis ; (floribus maximis ;) sepalis oblongis, acutis : lateralibus basi longé pro- ductis, petalis duplò latioribus, acutis ; labello obovato, dilatato, retuso, cum basi columne in calcar obtusum connato. —Lind!. MSS. Dendrobium formosum, 9040. Hort. Beng. р. 63. Habitat in montibus Napaliz ; in montibus Sillet confinibus, M. R. Smith ; in Martabania d Mamie: ; ad Tavoy оге Tenasserim, Gul. Gomez; florens et fructiferum tempore calido et pluvioso. OrcHIDEA magna, rigida, arborum parasitica, dependens. Raprx constans fibris copiosis, fasciculatis, cylindricis, lzevibus, spongioso- corticatis, fuscescentibus, simplicibus. Caurzs plures, clavato-cylindrici, digitum crassi, pedales, 2-pedalesque, sublignosi, sulcis pluribus, profundis exarati, totidemque angulis obtusis notati, omninà induti vaginis foliorum arcté adpressis, pollicaribus, pilis brevibus, atris, solu- bilibus обвит, infimis aphyllis. Коша appr oximata, alterna, bifarié patentia, interstitiis tripló longiora, oblonga, apice obtusiusculà hinc retusa et obsolet’ bidentata, dentibus obtusissimis, basi obtusa, subamplexantia ; coriacea, lzevia, lucida, 3-pollicaria, suprà parüm canali- culata, subtüs pallida, parùm puberula, costa carinatà. FLORES maximi, campanulato-infundibuliformes, limbo patentissimo, 3-pollicari ; albi, labello intüs flavo, fragrantes, 4 vel 5 approximati in racemum brevem, terminalem, sessilem, subrotundum. — PepuNcuLUs teres, car- nosus, albus, sesquipollicaris, sursim leviter ampliatus, levis, basi suffultus bractea ovatà, concava, З lineas longa. Separa subcoriacea, patentia, oblongo-lanceolata, acuta, sesquipollicaria, plana, dorso subcarinata ; lateralia basi dilatatà cum column basi connata in calcar magnum, conicum, obtusum, pedunculo dimidio brevius. Perata rotundato-obovata, acutiuscula, sepala longitudine zequantia sed iisdem dupld latiora, basi parüm attenuata. LaBELLUM petalis parüm majus, obovatum, retusum, deorsim attenuatum et subinfundiduli- forme marginibus rotundato-porrectis, disco nudo, flavo. Corumna brevissima, valdé crassa, basi latissimà producta, anticé plana, stigmate cavo, subterminali, dorso convexo-gibbosa. Амтневл terminalis, ovata, postice adfixa, obtusa, 2-locularis. Massa PoLriNIs 4, oblonge, per pares contiguee. Ovarium breve, obtusé triangulare. CaPsurA magna, 2-pollicaris, ovata, triangularis, fusca, laevis. This stately plant was first discovered by the late Mr. M. R. Smith, on the mountains bordering on Sillet, and thence introduced into the Calcutta garden. I have found it on most of the mountains іп Nipal, as well as on the plains of Martaban about Moalmyne. Опе of my plant-collectors, William Gomez, who accompanied me on my journey in the Burma countries, found the plant at Tavoy on the coast of Tenasserim. Neither Mr. Lindley nor myself have been able to discover any difference among these plants. They grow generally in large tufts on trees, sometimes оп rocks; their flowers are very,large, white, with the lip yellow within, possessing a delightful, though faint perfume. Plate XXXIX. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. The same dissected. 3. Ripe capsule. DENDROBIUM DENSIFLORUM. Tab. 40. Сломвиз articulatis, clavatis, pendulis, ad apicem foliosis ; foliis oblongis, acutis, nervosis ; racemis lateralibus, multifloris, foliis longioribus : junioribus strobiliformibus ; bracteis oblongis, plicatis, recurvis, pedicellis longioribus ; sepalis patentissimis, ovatis, obtusis ; petalis conformibus, paulló majoribus; labello majusculo, rhomboideo, ungui- culato, denticulato, retuso.—Lind/. MSS. Habitat in montibus Napaliz, frequens. Floret tempore pluvioso. Рглхтл pendula, levis, cæspitosa, arborum parasitica, pedalis—2-pedalis. Влртх constans fibris numerosis, fasciculatis, teretibus indivisis. Caurzs plures, rigidi, cylindraceo-clavati, lucidi, zetate flavicantes, maxim’ parte nudi, sulcis aliquot profundis totidemque angulis obtusissimis notati, vestigiis vaginarum remotis annulati, extrorsüm digitum crassi, apice foliosi. Forra valde approximata, patentia, alterna, ovato-oblonga, acuta, 5-pollicaria, firma, subcarnosa, lucida, plana, nervosa, basi contractá, obsoletissim’ petiolata abientia in vaginas breves, adpressas, deciduas. Влсемиз magnus, solitarius, laxt pendulus, versus apicem caulis infra folia lateralis, pedunculatus, 6—8-pollicaris, ovato-oblongus, obtusus, multiflorus; novellus, 10058 ante expansionem, sessilis, ovatus, strobiliformis 2-pollicaris, valdé regulariter imbricatus bracteis adpressis, planis, alternantibus. Pepuncuwus crassus, cylindricus, 2—3-pollicaris, bracteis sparsis, oblongis, recurvis, nervosis, membranaceis, feré pollicaribus, persistentibus. Frores valdé numerosi, majusculi, flavi, approximati undique sparsi, patentissimi, insidentes pedicellis teretibus, pollicaribus, suffultis bracted шарта, ороуаќа, nervosa, persistente. SEPALA ob- longa, obtusa, semipollicaria; /ateralia parùm majora, basique dilatatà infra basin columnee in calcar brevissimum, subcylindricum, obtusum connata, uti petala ovata, subzequantia, patentissima. Глвемлум planum, patens, retusum, ciliato-denticulatum, suprà pubescens, basi desinens in unguem brevem, canaliculatum. Согоммл brevis, conica, crassa, basi leviter producta. ANTHERA ovata. This lovely Orchidea comes so near to Roxburgh's Dendrobium clavatum (Hort. Beng. р. 63.), that I should con- sider them as identical, if he had not ascribed bulbs to his plant, of which ours is entirely destitute. In the Calcutta garden the two plants maintain that character, although in other respects they are alike. It is possible that under particular circumstances, the bulbs or pseudobulbs may become elongated into clavate stems, and if so the Sillet plant would be the same species with ours from Nipal. Plate XL. Fig. 1. Flower dissected. 2. Column. Printed by Engelmann Graf, Comdet K Co 4, / / | 7 Д j ў Ру ] | 7; fi HI " ј / 1 р | | РУ | К и ij ва 1% | { , | | 1 | T 4А С? / Ри i / А 4 | 7 | Г | ‘a R " H if ` ј ii Y P \ i Z ВИА Ahd nettan 59 maf nnda bbe Printed ду 2 етте ы. ит 222220046 227 CPL РА FUP S 272 ао қ % 35 ACONITUM FEROX. Тар. 41. Ғ.овтвив racemoso-paniculatis, villosis ; galeá semicirculari, anticé acuté porrectá, .deorsüm attenuata; cucullorum sacco longo, angusto, calcare inclinato, labio elongato, recurvo ; filamentis alatis, subsagittatis, ciliatis, ovariis, cap- sulis ramisque villosis ; foliis quinquepartito-palmatis, subtis pubescentibus, lobis inciso-pinnatifidis, basi cuneatis, | lobulis acutis, divaricatis. А Aconitum ferox, Wall. apud Seringe Mus. Helvet. 1. р. 160. t. 15. f. 43, 44. Decand. Prodr. 1.:64. Aconitum virosum, Don. Prodr. Flor. Nepal. р. 196. E Habitat in Himalaya ad Gossain Than, Dom. Е. Gardner ; in Sirmore, б. Govan, M,D.; in Kamaon, Robertys Blinkworth. Ypse legi ad cacumen Sheopore montis in Napalia. Floret sub pluviis, fructicat Octobre, Novembre. Nomen Sanscriticum : Visha, i. e. venenum, et Afivisha, 1. e. venenum summum, atrox ; Hindustanicum : Vis vel Bikh, (ex auctoritate illustr. Colebrookei) ; Newarensibus : Bikh et Вита. Raprx constans fuberibus aliquot (2 vel 3) fasciculatis, fusiformibus, 2—4-pollicaribus, attenuatis, nigricantibus, intùs albidis, sub- carnosis, fibras sparsas, teretes, ramosas, longiusculas exserentibus. Cavus erectus, cylindricus, fistulosus, basi glaber, obsolet® angu- >, latus, pennam cygneam usqué ad digitum minimum crassus, superne attenuatus, pedalis, 2—3-pedalisque, (ex observatione Govanii usque ad 6-, quin 12-pedalem,) parüm villosus, subsimplex, vel ramos emittens paucos, alternos, breves, villosos. Forra remota, patentia, circumscriptione orbiculato-cordata, profundé 5-partita, lobis inciso-pinnatifidis, basi cuneato-attenuatis, lobulis distantibus, oblongis, dentiformibus, acutis; suprà saturaté viridia, glabra, secus tractus vasorum sulcata ; subtüs pallida, nervoso-venosa, grossé reticulata, вгерійв ad vasa pubescentia ; inferiora palmaria, long? petiolata ; media brevé petiolata; summa sessilia, amplexicaulia ; floralia valdé parva, trifida, vel integra, pedunculos floriferos eequantia. Ретюм graciles, canaliculati, basi dilatati ; inferiores spithamei, parc? pubes- centes, folio longiores; medii illo pluries breviores, villosi. RacEMr terminales caulis ramorumque, graciles, attenuati, 6-pollicares ; fructiferi elongati; tenuiflori, pube molli, densa obsiti. FLORES magni, cœrulei, extüs pedunculique teretes, pollicares cano-villosi. GALEA pollicaris, adscendens, gibboso-semicircularis, anticè in acumen breve porrecta, deorsüm attenuata. Аж orbiculato-reniformes, galeà егі breviores. ФЕРАЦА inferiora oblonga, acuta, deflexo-patula, semiunguicularia. PrTALA superiora cuculliformia cylindracea, angusta, leviter incurva, calcare vix dilatato, labioque elongato, recurvato obtusis, stipitata ungue levi, filiformi ; inferiora nulla. FiLAMENTA capillacea, pilosula, basin versus marginata membraná tenuissimá, latiusculá, саха, supernè bidentato-sagittatà; nunc glabra, sursüm attenuata’ et edentulà. Ovara 5, villosa. CaPsULE oblongz, уШовее, albicantes, reticulate, pollicares. Semra atra, favosa. This plant varies considerably, according to the situation in which it is found. On Sheopore, at an elevation of about 10,000 feet, (the only place where I have found it in Nipal Proper,) it is a smaller, slenderer and smoother plant, with almost simple stem, narrow segments of the leaves, and thin racemes. Ав it approaches higher elevations, towards the snowy mountains, it attains a larger size and habit, and is covered with soft, greyish hairs, the divisions of the leaves become broader, the spikes larger, and the flowers more dense and numerous. These various appearances so gradually succeed each other, that I am unable to discover any point on which to form a specific distinction ; nor can I even sufficiently limit the varieties to render their enumeration a matter of utility. There are three other species of Aconitum or 2 onkshood, all of them tuberous-rooted, which inhabit the southern . side of the Himalaya, and are considered by the natives as strong poisons. Our species, however, exceeds them all in virulence, and is probably the most deleterious vegetable poison of continental India. On the subject of the Nipal poisons, the late Dr. Hamilton has the following observation in his Account of the Kingdom of Nepal, р. 98. “ Тһе term Bish ог ВАЛ, according to the pronunciation of the same letters in the plains and on the mountains, is applied to four different plants with tuberous roots, all in great request. I have already mentioned the Singgiya Bish, as found on the lower mountains and hills, and supposed it to be a species of Smilax. The others have not the smallest resemblance to it, but are so strongly marked by a resemblance to each other, that I have no doubt of their all belonging to the same genus, although I have only seen the flowers and fruit of one. This is called Bishma or Bikhma, and seems to me to differ little in botanical characters from the Caltha of Europe. The Bishma or Bikhma is also, 1 believe, called Metha, although I am not certain but that the name may be also given to the following species, which deserves the most serious attention, as the Bikhma is used in medicine as a strong bitter, very powerful in the case of fevers, while the plant which will be next mentioned, is one of the шы This Ал of which large quantities аге annually imported, is equally fatal when taken into the stomach, or applied to wounds, and is in universal use for poisoning arrows j and, there is too much reason to ија vá = worst of purposes. Its importation would indeed seem to require the attention of the thagistrates. ле Gorkhalese retend that it is one of their principal securities against invasion from the low countries ; and that they would 50 infect all the waters on the route by which an enemy was advancing, as to occasion his certain destruction. ` In of such an attempt, the invaders ought no doubt to be on their guard ; but the country abounds so in gras that might be soon cleared, as to render such a means of defence totally ineffectual, were the ме: атаке о 526 sap- stance. This poisonous species is called Bish or Bikh and Hadaya Bish or Bikh; nor am І certain whether the Metha ought to be referred to it, or to the foregoing kae 36 “Тһе Nirbishi ог Nirbikhi is another plant of the same genus, and like the first kind has no deleterious qualities, but is used in medicine. Тһе President of the Asiatic Society, ша note annexed to Dr. Roxburgh's account of the Zedoary, gives the Nirbisha or Nirbishi, as a Sanscrita or Hindwi name of that plant, which has not the smallest re- semblance to the Wirbishi of the Indian alps. In fact, the nomenclature of the materia medica among the Hindus, аз - far as I can learn, is miserably defective, and can scarcely fail to be productive of most dangerous mistakes in the practice of medicine. For instance, the man whom I sent to Thibet for plants brought, as the species producing the poison, that which was first brought to me as the Wirbishi, or kind used in medicine." That the roots mentioned above, excepting the Sing giya, which Dr. Hamilton thinks is a species of Smilax, with ternate leaves and poisonous root and berries, the latter of which, when applied externally, are said to be a cure against the Goitre (Account of Nepal, р. 86.), belong to plants of the genus Aconitum, is quite certain. His herbarium, at present under my charge, contains specimens of three plants, labelled Caltha? Bishma, C.? Nirbisia, and С.? Codoa; and although they are in a very young state, they afford evidence enough to prove that two of the three species . “аге identical with my Aconitum feroz, the third being perhaps a different species. His statement of the belief of the | Goorka's; that the Bikh would protect them from foreign invasion, and his opinion that such a kind of defence might be easily frustrated, have been fully verified during the late war with Nipal. In the Turraye, or low forest-lands, which skirt the approach to that country, and among the lower range of hills, especially at a place called Hetounra, quan- tities of the bruised root were thrown into wells and reservoirs, for the purpose of poisoning our men and cattle; the attempt, however, was very soon discovered, and effective precautions taken to prevent the occurrence of any oed mischief. I am informed by Henry Colebrooke, Esq.—the best friend and patron I ever possessed in the world, to whom I am under far greater obligations than to any man living, and whose name it is impossible for me ever to mention _ without emotions of the warmest gratitude and respect, —that the ВА is employed in the northern parts of Hindustan for destroying tigers. Arrows poisoned with that drug are shot from bows fixed near the tracks leading to their watering-places ; and it generally happens that the animal is found dead at the latter. I am unacquainted with the Bikhma which Dr. Hamilton speaks of as a strong bitter, and which the late Colonel Kirkpatrick alludes to as a kind of Gentian, in his Account of the Kingdom of Nepaul, р. 182, (note at the bottom ;) and I take this opportunity of bearing witness to the accuracy of the observation of the former author concerning the defectiveness of the nomencla- ture of the materia medica of the Hindus, which, I must say, extends in an equally lamentable degree to their botanical nomenclature; and this is most especially the case with regard to the natives of Nipal. Not one in twenty of the names of plants which were given to my late friend, while he was in that country, is correct, or has any existence, except in the deceitfulness of the native collectors, whom he was obliged to employ. On this subject I can speak with confidence, having myself visited Nipal twenty years after Dr. Hamilton was there, under far more favourable circumstances than existed in his time, and having during the last twelve years enjoyed uninterrupted facilities for instituting inquiries, partly by my own people, partly through the kindness of my friends at the British Residency at Katmandu. My friend Mr. Royle has successfully introduced the plant from the Choor mountain, into the botanic garden at Saharunpure, in the north-west of Hindustan, distant about 1100 miles from Calcutta. He informs me that the root is sent down into the plains, and used as a medicine, under the name of Meetha or Tileea ; and that, being previously mixed with other drugs, an oil is distilled from it, which is said to be useful in rheumatism. I feel highly indebted to Mr. J. Pereira, of the General Dispensary in Aldersgate Street, London, for the sub- joined detail of several interesting experiments made with the roots of the Aconitum ferov, which I brought with me from Nipal ten years ago. They fully establish the extreme virulence of the poison. “ The experiments which I have made to determine the physiological effects of the root of the Aconitum ferov, de- monstrate that this substance is a most virulent poison. These experiments were made in the presence of Dr. Falconer, Assistant Surgeon on the Bengal Establishment, and my brother, on rabbits and dogs, and with the root in the form of powder, spirituous extract, and watery extract. Of these preparations the spirituous extract is by far the most power- ful. The effects were tried by introducing this extract into the jugular vein, by placing it in the cavity of the peri- toneum, by applying it to the cellular tissue of the back, and by introducing it into the stomach. In all these cases, except the last, the effects were very similar: namely, difficulty of breathing, weakness, and subsequently paralysis, which generally commenced in the posterior extremities, vertigoes, convulsions, dilatation of the pupil, and death, apparently from asphyxia. “Тһе bodies of most of the animals were examined immediately after death. In all the cases the right side of the heart was found distended with dark-coloured blood, and the left empty. In one or two cases the auricles were still contracting, but the ventricles had ceased to contract. Тһе galvanic apparatus produced a quivering in a few of the fibres of ‘the ventricles, and either produced, or very much increased, the contractions of the ventricles. ДИ the voluntary muscles were susceptible of galvanism. -.** One grain of the alcoholic extract introduced into the cavity of the peritoneum of a rabbit, began to produce its effects in two minutes ; death took place in nine minutes and а half. | In a second experiment of a similar kind, the effects commenced in two minutes and a half, and death was produced in eleven minutes. Two grains introduced: 37 into the jugular vein of a good-sized, strong dog, produced convulsions in one minute, and death"in three minutes. One grain introduced into the cellular tissue ‘of the back of a rabbit, began to affect the system at the end of sik , minutes, and produced death in fifteen minutes. А rabbit was made to swallow three grains of the extract. No effect was produced, except that the animal continued chewing for several hours as if ruminating, and which arose probably from the local action of the poison on the mouth and throat. The watery is less powerful than the spirituous extract. Two grains of it introduced into the peritoneum of a rabbit did not produce death until the expiration of twenty-seven minutes. ‘ “Ву referring to the experiments of Professor Orfila in his General T: oxicology, and of Mr. Brodie in the Philoso- . phical Transactions, it will be seen that the symptoms produced by the Aconitum Napellus are very similar to thosé pro- duced by the Aconitum ferox. Hence then it is most probable, that both species contain the ваше active principle: but the 4. ferov must contain it in much greater quantity, as its effects are so much more powerful. Indeed the alcoholic extract of this root appears to be nearly equal in power to Strychnine, Upas Antiar, Upas Tieuté, and Woorara poisons.—That it is equal in power to S¢rychnine Y can speak from numerous experiments, which I have made with this latter ; but with respect to the activity of the Upas and Woorara poisons I сап only speak from the experiments of Orfila, Brodie and others. “ As my experiments demonstrate, that the activity of the Aconitum ferox is in proportion to the absorbing power of the surface to which it is applied, we have, I think, a right to infer, that this poison becomes absorbed ; and that it acts on the brain there cannot be the least doubt if we refer to the symptoms,—But we are not justified in assuming, because it becomes absorbed, and produces its effects on the brain, that, therefore, it operates by coming into contact with that viscus. The experiments of Messrs. Morgan and Addison-seem to prove that poisons, any how introduced into the blood-vessels, act on the lining membrane of the vessels, and by sympathy affect the brain. That the alcoholic extract of this root acts on the nerves of the part to which it is applied, was proved by placing a minute portion of it on the tongue. Shortly afterwards a peculiar pricking and numbness in the tongue and lips came on, which lasted for several hours. In one experiment, the impression remained for eighteen hours. Once I experienced а peculiar feeling in the throat, as if the velum and uvula were elongated and rested:on the dorsum of the tongue. This arose from my taking rather more of the extract than usual. A similar sensation was felt by Drs. Boott and Wallich.” I am indebted to my friend Dr. George Govan for the following interesting details :— “ This plant in all its parts is said to be a virulent poison taken internally by men or other animals. Тһе idea of its effluvia affecting the air, so as to produce deleterious effects upon those exposed to it, is likewise very prevalent among the inhabitants of Bissehur and Gurhwal. Having been myself, as well as all those who accompanied me, . repeatedly exposed both during the day and night to its influence, without having ever experienced inconvenience, I should rather be inclined to attribute this belief to the circumstance of the plants always occurring at very high | elevations ; where, we are informed by the first authority, great inconveniences, similar to those believed to be pro- duced by it, are often felt ; viz. giddiness, fainting, somnolency and difficult respiration. Тһе last of these symptoms has . been usually attributed to rarefaction of the air, and has been said to occur when the body remained perfectly at rest. “ The plant occupies the highest situations in the forest belt investing the sides of the Himmalaya; and I have never met with it much below where the barometer stood at 19 inches. | ** From my own personal experience of the effects above mentioned, and from that of the people who accompanied me in crossing the Himmalaya, by the Role or Pannung Pass in Bissehur, where the barometer stood at about 17 inches, I can assert that, after passing the night at what I should judge the upper limit of perpetual snow, no other inconvenience or difficult respiration was felt, than what was the necessary result of the exertion in ascending, and which ceased whenever the body remained at rest. А degree of sickness and giddiness was experienced upon опе occasion, with anxiety in respiration, and several of the servants would willingly have remained behind, to sleep for a short time on the snow; but these circumstances did not take place during the exertion of ascending. Here, however, the plant was not to be found for many miles, and as the situation was much inferior in elevation to that above mentioned (the pace only having sunk to 19 inches), I could not help attributing the sensations experienced, to the exertion of walking more than ankle deep among snow, for nearly six hours, during which the T Tes Hi Att ad the үзі exposed to the very powerful gis he um de O the sun. This was in crossmg Manjhee-ke-khanda, between the and i, in the beginning of October. дігіне OMS Kod INS root of pud Ed is imported in very considerable quantity into the тн. po it is e ең the rate of one rupee per Seer. (about one shilling the pound), although the sale of it a m ет ар ibi ың under the native governments, on pains of heavy penalties, except to persons well known, or by authority. ^ is also ще in cases of chronic rheumatism by Ше native practitioners. The coincidence in opinion respecting its efficacy in вис cases between them and Professor Stoerk of Vienna, who applied the extract of the roots of some of the European species to similar purposes, may perhaps add to the evidence respecting Из utility. Тһе names of Меейа Doodhya and Meetha Теа ате applied to different preparations of it." Plate XLI. Fig. 1. Flower dissected. 2. Fruit; one of the capsules detached. 3. Seed. 4. Segment of a root. 38 в RUELLIA GOSSYPINA. Tab. 42. Fruricosa, erecta, paniculatim ramosa, caule, ramis, foliisque junioribus indutis tomento densissimo, niveo ; foliis ovato-cordatis, subcrenulatis, etate glabriusculis ; floribus racemoso-paniculatis ; laciniis calycis bracteisque linearibus corollà dimidió brevioribus. | ( Ж Эв Habitat in Napalia inferiore juxta ripam fluminis Rapti. Etiam observavi in monte Charculi in valle Deyra. Floret fine pluviarum. FnUTEX erecta, ramosa, 2-pedalis. Слшхз lignosus, obsolet? quadrangularis, basi digitum minimum crassus, ramique numerosi, subdecussatim patentes omnino velati tomento candicante, mollissimo, admodim denso, zetate deciduo, superficiem "dolente griseam, glabriusculam. Forra subequalia, patentia, approximata, ovato-cordata, attenuato-acuminata, minutim crenulata, 5--8-роШсагіа, sinu basis levi, nunc obsoleto, lobis brevibus, rotundatis ; рагаПе et obliqué multinervosa, nervis costáque subtüs elevatis, reticulata ; novella cum petiolis niveo-tomentosa, dein villosa, «tate férb glabra supràque saturate viridia; floralia parva, lanceolata. Ретюш teretes, folio tripld breviores, inzequales, demüm glabriusculi. Frons axillares, oppositi, subsessiles, coerulei, paniculam terminalem amplam densamque formantes, suffulti bracteis binis oppositis, linearibus, semiuncialibus, calycem subzequantibus cumque hoc villosis. Lacrxu calycis lineares, subinzequales, leviter patulae. Соко calyce duplo longior, tubo suprà parüm gibboso, limbo patente іп /0/05 diviso 5, rotundatos, obtusos, parvos; fauce intus villosulà. Sramına inclusa. 8тісмА clavatum, acutum. It is impossible to mistake this elegant plant for any other, on account of the dense, milk-white and soft woolliness with which its stem and branches, as well as the young leaves are covered, to a thickness sometimes of one third of ап inch. Аз the plant advances in age this tomentum falls off in large flakes, leaving the branches naked and of a grey colour. The flowers are much smaller than those of бие а alata, but very handsome and of a blue colour. Plate XLII. Fig. 1. Flower with a floral leaf and bracts. 2. Calyx opened. 3. Corolla opened. CONVOLVULUS ATROPURPUREUS. Tab. 43. ` Уоповилз, densé pilosus; foliis ovato-cordatis, integerrimis, attenuato-acuminatis, petiolis (тірі longioribus ; fasciculis axillaribus, paucifloris, pedunculatis, involucratis bracteis maximis, foliaceis, lanceolatis ; corollá campa- nulatá, extüs barbata. Convolvulus (Тротега) atropurpureus, Wall. in Rowb. Flor. Ind. 2. р. 54. Ipomeea spherocephala, Don. Prodr. Flor. Nepal. р. 98. (non Hoa.) Habitat in montibus Napali, ubi primüm detexit Dom. Edw. Gardner, posteaque ipse copiosé legi. Etiam incolit regiones elevatiores, versus Gossain Than. Floret Junio— Octobre. Frurex magna, ramosa, lat? super arbuscula et frutices volubilis, omnibus partibus vestita pilis copiosis, mollibus, decumbentibus, diluté ferrugineis. Слога teres, longissimus, pennam scriptoriam crassus, ramique pauciores dense pilosi. оа alterna, patentia, sub- distantia, oblongo- vel ovato-cordata, indivisa et integerrima, valdé attenuata in acumen longum, gracile, lobis basis rotundatis, . nunc inzequalibus, sinu plùs minis profundo, nunc levissimo, utrinque, preprimis subtis mollissimd pilosa, ibique sub-7-nervia, transversé reticulato-venosa ; membranacea, 5—7-pollicaria; novella sericeo-barbata. ^ PETroLUS teres, densé pilosus, folio tripld brevior, apice utrinque glandulà mucosá, plana, ovatà. 8тіріліе nulle. Frores magni, speciosi, atropurpurei, brevé pedicellati, pauci dispositi in fasciculis axillaribus, solitariis, pilosis, involucratis, pedunculo communi suffultis cylindrico, petioli dimidium vix attingente. Ввлстех magne, ГоПасеге, lanceolate, acuminatee, basi latiusculá, subretusá subadnatze, Теге 14-pollicares, interiores breviores. CALYX bracteis occultus, iisdemque parüm brevior, constans sepalis 5 lanceolatis, acuminatis, submembranaceis, іпедаа ав. Соко campanulata, calyce feré dupld longior, extis pilosa ; limbo patente, 5-lobo, lobis rotundatis. STAMINA inclusa ; filamenta subulata, basi villosa ; antherc lineares. OvantvM ovatum, lzeve, disco angusto, flavido basi circumdatum. SryLus glaber, capillaris. Sriamara 2 globosa. This beautiful Convolvulus was first sent to me from Nipal by the Hon. E. Gardner. When I visited that country іп 1820 and 1821 I found the plant in abundance on the hills surrounding the great valley. My people brought me likewise specimens from still more northern and elevated situations in the direction of Gassain Than. It is a very large shrub, and I am scarcely acquainted with any species, which would be more desirable as an ornament either to a garden or to a hothouse. ‘From С. spherocephalus Roxb., with which Mr. Don has united it in his work, quoted above, it is in every respect different, as may be seen on reference to the second volume of Кога Indica, р. 53 & 54, where both these plants have been fully described. Plate XLIII. Fig. 1. 2. Flowers. 3. Corolla opened. 4. Pistillum. 5. Ovarium. 7 / к и қ p ts Жет? [4 OX е Printed by Engelmann Graf, ла K Co ЈАС Само: ИРА M Gauc дер Corie СО Graf улде. by Engelmann > Trakand ; Qi LK Printed by Етдейтотт, Graf, Grinder 4200 M бале, Шор. й Shrupersaud dsi? "Piu 2 LM ai ОЕА 5 39 ABELMOSCHUS. Слтях 5-dentatus, spathaceus, deciduus, cinctus ¿nvoluczo (calyce exteriore) 5—10-partito. Sricmata 5. CaPsuLA 5-locularis, valvis medio septiferis, polysperma. | SEwtNA calva.—Brown MSS. { '. Abelmoschus, Medic. Malac. p. 45.--Мелей, Method. p. 616. е Hibisci species, /лл„.—бесйо Hibisci Ш, Manihot; et VI, Abelmoschi aliquot species, Decand. Classis Linnzeana; Monadelphia polyandria. | Ordo naturalis, Malvacee, Brown. ‘ Habitus Hidisci. Nomen Вате olim in Herbario Banksiano a celeb. В. Brown adhibitum, a nomine arabico plantis hujus generis, петре Hibisco esculento, precoci, et ficulneo Linn. dato. Conf. Forsk. Flor. Ægypt. p. 125. ABELMOSCHUS CRINITUS. Tab. 44.* Seroso-hispidus ; foliis subrotundo-cordatis, acuminatis, dentatis, obtusé 5-angularibus ; summis sagittatis ; racemo paucifloro ; involucro 12-partito, laciniis stipulisque lineari-filiformibus. Habitat in montibus ad Prome, florens Septembre et Octobre. Рулктл erecta, herbacea, parcé ramosa, 3-pedalis, omnibus partibus obtecta setis longis, fulgentibus, patulis, solubilibus, pungentibus, pilis brevibus mollibus intermixtis. Слив cylindricus, basi digitum minimum crassus, ѕирегпё ramique parüm flexuosi. Forra subrotundo- * cordata, acuminata, latè et obtusé dentata, 5-angulata, angulis obtusis, infimis nunc obsoletis ; sinu basis profundissimo, lobis rotundato- ovatis, conniventibus; 5—7-nervia, utrinque pilosa; inferiora distantia, longissime petiolata, palmaria; superiora aliquandd ovato- cordata et obsoletissim? angulata, petiolo duplo longiora: summa sagittato-oblonga, attenuato-acuminata, versus basin sinuata. Реттом cylindrici, hirsutissimi ; inferiores pedales, folio dupló longiores; superiores eodem dupld triplóve breviores. SripuL# angusto- lineares, subsetaceze, pollicares, hirsute, deciduz. FromEs magni, speciosi, flavi, pauci, dispositi in racemum terminalem brevem, suffulti pedunculis crassiusculis, pollicaribus, involucro calyceque hispidissimis. Bracrem 2 ad basin pedunculi, longitudine eum гедпапќев, · stipulis simillimze, tardiüs deciduze. Імуомосвом usque ad basin fer’ partitum in lacinias 12, setaceo-lineares, sesquipollicares, incurvas, apice conniventes, ciliato-hispidissimas. CALYX membranaceus, ovatus, spathaceus, apice acutiusculà obsoleté 5-dentatus, hinc "longitudinaliter fissus, involucro parüm brevior, deciduus. Совошд levissimé infundibuliformis, limbo plano-patentissimo, diametrum 4-pollicarem fer? emetiente, diviso in lobos 5 obovatos, obtusissimos, venosos; fundo atro-sanguineo. Ахтнекж albide, numerose, рег totam longitudinem Теге cylindri filamentorum salva ejus basi sparse. Ѕтісматл clavata, velutina, purpurea. This species approaches to Hibiscus racemosus, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. vol. 9. n. 917, which is Я. cancellatus, Roxb. MSS. (not of Linnwus, that being a species of Pavonia), but differs in being less hairy, іп the lobes of the leaves being obtuse, and the racemes shorter and with fewer flowers. In stature it is somewhat smaller than that plant, but the flowers of both are exceedingly alike, and very beautiful. CENTRANTHERA HISPIDA. Tab. 45. Errera, cano-hispida ; foliis linearibus, subintegerrimis, calycibus ovatis, acutis, ventricosis. Centranthera hispida, Brown Prodr. Flor. Nov. Holl. 1. р. 438. | Digitalis stricta, Row. Hort. Beng. p. 49. Capraria rigida, Напий. MSS. et Herb. Centranthera nepalensis, Don. Prodr. Flor. Nepal. p. 88. Carosinam, Rheed. Mal. vol. 9. p. 133. t. 78? (ev Hamilt.) | ; Frequens per totam Hindustaniam et in Napalia et Kamaon, ad loca inundata, depressa, florens mensibus Junio— ra Decembre et Januario. Etiam observavi ad ripam Irawaddi inter Prome et Avam. In Coro- Augusto; fructige д Bot 2 йылды et Malabaria colligerunt Dom. R. Wight et b. Klein ; ad littora Nove Hollandiz, illustr. В. Brown. PrANTA rigida, erecta, decussatim ramosa, staturá admodùm varians ; nunc palmaris, e basi usque ramosa, nunc жени е pedalis, quin 2-pedalis, stricta, omnibus partibus aspera pilis canis, patulis, copiosis, буе Raprx sublignosa, scele өдр tme simplices, hispidi, obtuse 4-angulares. Forra opposita, sessilia, erecto-patentia, vel meets linearia, interstitia subzequantia, рошсапа, marginibus subrevolutis obsolet? et remot? denticulata, utrinque hispida et scabra, subtüs subargentea, costa elevatá, 2-pollicaria, obtusa, | ' | wens i floralia multd breviora, alterna; summa bractezformia, floribus breviora. Frores majusculi, purpurei, solitarii, nervis inconspicuis ; tion should also be made in Nos. 1915 to 1927 of my * The reader is requested to alter the name Вата іп this plate for Abelmoschus. А similar correc Catalogue of Indian Plants. да . 40 oppositi, axillares, sessiles, роШсагев, superiores alterni; suffulti bracteolis 2-linearibus, calyce brevioribus. Слух ventricoso-ovatus, obsoleté 4-angularis, angulis subdenticulato-scabris, hispidus, dorso gibbosus, fauce parüm contracta, obliquà suprà 2-dentatus, subtis fissus, demimque irregulariter per totam fer? longitudinem disrumpens, quasi 2-partitus ; fructus paulló ampliatus. Совомл infundibuli- formis, extüs pilosula, ибо parüm incurvo, calyce bis longiore, subtüs planiusculo ; limbo patente, diviso in lobos 5 subrotundos, subinzequales, crenulatos. . Srammna inclusa; filamenta pilosa; antherc pallid, subsagittatze, lobis inzequalibus, superné ad apicem filamenti contiguis, deorsim divaricatis, superiore calearato. Ovarium rotundatum, leve. SrvLus filiformis, caducus. Sriama com- planatum, lanceolatum, acutum. (CAPSULA ovata, fusca, levis, magnitudine pisi, calyce obtectus, 1-000ана 2-valvis, secus suturas submarginulata ; valvulce subseptiferse, apice 2-denticulate ; placenta convexa, demüm libera, а vestigio вери angustissimi marginata. Sema valdé copiosa, locula omnino replentia, subulata, testa laxa, dilutissimé ferrugineá, reticulato-striatà obtecta ; plurima abortiva. Mr. Brown, in his matchless work quoted above, alludes to the plant I have deseribed, with a doubt as to its being specifically different from that of New Holland. I should not have presumed to decide upon a point, respecting which such a botanist hesitates, had I not by his kindness been indulged with the means of carefully comparing the speci- mens in the Banksian Herbarium with those from the East Indies ; and had it not been found safer to consider them as one and the same plant, than, by endeavouring to separate them, to form a precedent for establishing the various ` changeable appearances of the Indian plant into so many separate species. It is a very common plant throughout Hindustan, delighting in wet and rich situations, and producing its neat blossoms during the rainy season. I have also found it on the banks of Ше Irawaddi. It varies exceedingly, according to the soil and elevation of the place of its growth; being sometimes scarcely a span high, with an undivided slender stem, or producing branches from the very base; but more frequently growing to an upright, rigid plant, from one to two feet high, and harsh with short, stiff, and whitish hairs. The two following plants may perhaps be found to _ constitute different species. C. humifusa, caule nano, ramoso, humifuso; foliis linearibus calycibusque parcé pilosis.—Capraria humifusa, Hamilt. MSS. Hab. in Nathpur ; Herb. Hamilt. С. Brunoniana, molliusculé pilosula, erecta ; foliis lanceolatis, remoté dentatis, obtusis ; calyce oblongo, acuminato. Hab. in Martabania prope Moalmyne. Plate XLV. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx opened. 3. Corolla opened. 4. Stamens. QUERCUS SPICATA. Tab. 46. Forus elliptico-lanceolatis, integerrimis, attenuato-acuminatis, basi acutis, nunc obtusis, laevibus ; amentis gracilibus, erectis, axillaribus, solitariis, terminalibusque fasciculatis; fructibus fasciculatis, longissimé spicatis, nucibus subglobosis, apiculatis, laevibus, cupulas abbreviatas, lamellosas, villosas longé superantibus. Quercus spicata, Матиќ. apud Smith, in Cycloped. Reesiana, in loco. Quercus squamata, 2020. Hort. Beng. p. 68. Habitat in montibus Sillet confinibus, ubi detexit М. В. Smith. Frequens in sylvis Napalie. In Kamaon, Blinkworth. Floret mensibus Martio et Aprili; fructus maturi Octobre. Nomen Newarrense: Dundwa Singali et Phaco Singhali; Parbutteum : Arcaula; Khasianum Burra Chukma. ARBOR maxima, procera, ramosa et umbrosa, trunco vasto, induto cortice ramoso, nigricante. Ramuri cylindracei, glauci, puberuli. Foxa patentia, sparsa, approximata, elliptica, lanceolata, nune subobovata, 6—12-pollicaria, quin ultra, attenuato-acuminata, vel acuta, integerrima, basi acuta, aliquandd obtusa, nunc subretusa et quasi auriculata, lobis brevibus rotundatis; levia, coriacea, suprà lucida, interdum bullata, subtis glaucescentia, nervis gracilibus, obliquis, parallelis. Ркттош suprà sulcati, basi parùm intumescentes, pollicares 13-pollicares, aliquandd brevissimi. SrrPULE lineares, acuminate, semi-unguiculares, valdé decidue. Амемта gracilia, cylindrica, cano- tomentosa, subsessilia, erecta, foliis plerümque breviora, axillaria solitaria et terminalia fasciculata, subpaniculata. ^ Mascura valdé numerosa, basi interdim composita, constantia fasciculis florum subglobosis, copiosis, sparsis, approximatis, bracteolà suffultis lineari, subreflexà. Squama in singulo flore 8 v. 10 ovate, obtuse, ciliatze, extis tomentosce. STAMINA 10, squamis longiora; filamenta capillacea, glabra; antherz fuscescentes, ovate; rudimentum ovarii centrale. Amenta feminea in distincta arbore, гагійѕ masculis intermixta, iisdem graciliora, fasciculis remotioribus, minoribus. Fructus valdé numerosi, 3—4 collecti in,fasciculos approximatos, subsessiles, digestos in spicam rectam, longissimam, 10-pollicarem, pedalem, imd sesquipedalem, cylindricam, diametrum 3-pollicarem emetientem. Мих globosa, vel subovata, apiculà cano-tomentosá terminata, fusca, furfuracea, demüm lucida, magnitudine nucis avellanze, nunc еддет dupld major, insidens cupule brevi, tomentosze, acute marginatze, squamis parvis, obtusis, confluentibus extüs imbricata. This is one of the largest as well as the commonest sort of oak in Nipal, where it attains the most gigantic size. The wood is exceedingly like the English oak in colour, and most probably equals it in other respects, but the moun- М нс (йе rented by Engelmann Graf тра ; Vishnupers aud, ded J ff од CHAKA. © + 226 Printed. by Engelmann, bray, Conder & Co M Gauci lilhog Ту roshand © — ip dar a PID. RP OSs еа Пааа үх po rann, Graf Grind й Со inted by Erg ет“ Des 22 de йз hago ers ad «сее spicata 22, Ж 41 taineers do not esteem it much, owing, as they say, to its speedy decay; a circumstance owing no doubt to their employing it in its green state. A similar prejudice prevails in that country against the other species. I am unable to distinguish it from Dr. Roxburgh’s Quercus здиатаќа, which is a native of the mountains bordering on the district of Sillet. By an oversight an erroneous representation of the male flowers has been copied on the plate. - i MUCUNA MACROCARPA. Tab. 47. .. \ . . . . . . . . . . со . . . Fruticosa, foliis parce pilosis; floribus maximis, racemosis, cariná alis longiore, discolore ; leguminibus longissimis, ensiformibus, torulosis, tomentosis, polyspermis. Habitat in montibus Napaliz, sed rariüs. Floret Aprili, fructus maturos profert Augusto. Екотех maxima, ramosa, lat? volubilis, caule digitum ad brachium fer? crasso, induto cortice ramoso, fuscescente. Rawrlongissimi, te- ` retes, villis ferrugineis dens obsiti, pilis solubilibus, numerosis intermixtis ; novelli unà cùm foliis recentibus sericeo-villosi. Бота distantia, alterna, patentia, magna, long? petiolata, ternata. Forora 5-pollicaria et ultrà, acuminata, integerrima, magnitudine гедиаЦа, membranacea, utrinque adpresse pilosa, геќаќе glabriora ; lateralia semicordata, basi hinc valdé gibbosa ; intermedium longiüs petiolatum, lato-ovatum, sub- rhomboideum, basi acutum. PrrroLus cylindricus, foliolis рагит longior, basi vald? tumidus ; partiales unguiculares, pilosi. ӛтірсіме parvae, lanceolate, acuta, deciduze. Frores maximi, 2—23-pollicares, inodori, speciosi, versicolores ; vexillo nempe viridi, alis purpureis, сагша fuscá; numerosi et approximati, dispositi in racemos semipedales ad pedales, laterales ramorum vetustiorum, scilicet ex axillis foliorum delapsorum, solitarios vel geminatos, laxé pendulos, ovatos vel oblongos, obtusos. PEDUNCULUS communis crassus, carnosus, cylindricus, par- tialesque teretes, pollicares, pilosi. Сатух amplus, ovatus, basi lata, subretusá hinc gibbosáà, unguem longus, ore subbilabiato; labio superiore 3-dentato, dentibus lato-ovatis, acutis, intermedio majore; inferiore subtruncato, obsolete 2-dentato. ComoLra calyce quadrupló longior, petalis brevissimé unguiculatis, extüs pilosis. Укхилом latissim? ovatum, obtusissimum, ventricoso-gibbosum, subreflexum, sesquipollicare, viride, basi parüm contractá, bidentatá, ungue incurvo, canaliculato. Anz oblongze, obtuse, carinze parallele et adpresse, eddemque paulld breviores, ригригеге, apicem versus сопуехае. Carina oblonga, diluté ferruginea, monophylla, apice attenuato-acuta et роггесій, dorsoque gibboso bifida. ЕшлмемтА diadelpha, carinam feré equantia. Ахтневж pilosule, ovate; alternze majores, elevatiores, subsagittate. Оулвтом pilosum. LEGUMEN 6—18-pollicare, pollices 2 latum, ensiforme, acutum, complanatum, torulosum, 5—10-spermum, fusco-villosum, minutim rugosum, dorso planiusculo 3-carinatum, intüs leve, septis angustis, obliquis,coriaceis. SEMINA magna, fusca, plana, suborbiculata, ` hilo longissimo per duas tertias ambitus partem circumdata, funiculoque maximo, spongioso appensa. This superb climber approaches closely to Mucuna gigantea Decand., but differs in the size of its flowers and fruit, as well as in other respects. It is furnished to a less degree than most of the other species belonging to the genus, with those long and easily separable hairs, which on the slightest touch enter the skin, and cause an intolerable burning. The flowers, especially the calyces, are in this respect the most offensive parts; but this is abundantly counterbalanced by their size and beauty. Plate XLVII. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Тһе same dissected. 3. Pod. SPHJ/EROPTERIS. IxvorvcnA dorsalia, e medio venulz orta, pedicellata, spheerica, clausa, verticaliter dehiscentia, bivalvia. CapsuLm pedicellatze, receptaculo communi convexo insidentes.— Brown MSS. Spheropteris, Wall. in Herb. Societ. Mercator. Ind. Orient. 1823. (haud Bernhardi, quie Cyathee spec.) Peranema, Don. Prodr. Flor. Nepal. p. 12. (haud Peronema Jack). Classis Linnzana, Cryptogamia Filices. Ordo naturalis, Filices Polypodiacee, Brown. > Habitus „рии, caudice nullo,’ frondibus decompositis, venulis subtüs glandulosis, stipite rachique, paleaceis.— Genus nimis forsan affine Diacalpi, Blume Enum. Plant. Javan. p. 241, (fide speciminis Javanici a Domino Horsfield anno 1818 communicati,) quæ similis habitu, venulis glandulosis, medio soriferis, involucro sphærico, clauso, reticulato, areolis subrotundis, parietibus moniliformibus nodulosisve; diversa involucro sessili, laceratim dehiscente, capsulis vix pedicellatis, et receptaculo obsoletiori insidentibus. Hoc ultimo charactere et reticulatione involucri a Cyatheis nonnullis (involucro e medio venæ orto) præsertim distinguenda ; arctiore tamen affinitate nexa cum 00а, mediante specie mexicana (W. mexicana Nob.) доге, ni fallor, Physematiummolle, Кач. in Regensb. Bot. Zeyt. 1829. 1. Band, р. 34 1, сш cel. auctor attribuit involucrum * circumcirca clausum" quod уегб in nostra planta apice divisum est, lobis subciliatis, arcté conniventibus.—Brown MSS. 42 SPH/EROPTERIS BARBATA. Tab. 48. Spheropteris barbata, Wall. loc. cit. Peranema cyathoides, Don. loc. cit. Habitat in montibus altissimis Napalize Sheopore et Chandaghiri, vigens tempore anni frigido, Novembre—Januario: . Епих erecta, 2—3-pedalis, let? viridis. Raprx ramosa, fibrosa. Sripes pedalis, pennam anserinam crassus, hinc convexus, ind? exaratus sulco angusto, rachesque dens? obsiti paleis lanceolatis, acuminatis, reticulatis, integerrimis, majusculis, dilute ferrugineis, persistentibus, in novello stipite unguicularibus. Frons patens, -lato-ovata, acuminata, membranacea, tripinnata. Римма patentissime, approximate, sessiles, oblongz, attenuate, pectinato-acuminate, inferiores subopposite, 10-роШсагев. PrNNULE numerose, approximate, alterne, sessiles, oblongæ, obtusze, 2-pollicares, suprà secus vasa munitz pilis brevibus, hyalinis, subulatis, incurvis, moniliformi-subarticu- latis; pinnate, apice simpliciter serrate. І.лсіхіж oblonga, oblique obtusze, vel subtruncate, simpliciter venulosæ, venis subtis przeditis corpusculis minutissimis, globosis, vel oblongis, stipitatis, glanduleeformibus ; inferiores unguiculares, opposite, dentato-pinnatifidze, sub- falcate ; exteriores integerrimze, sensim confluentes. Влснез partiales graciles, Гегӛ exsulcze, paleaceo-subvillosee. Sori in aversa frondis pagina, ad basin laciniarum solitarii, nunc 2 vel 3, exacté globulares, magnitudine feré seminis coriandri, basi foveolA notati, suffulti pedicello tereti, filiformi, diametrum ipsorum longitudine æquante, venulze lateraliter, i.e. aliquà a basi apiceque ejusdem distantià in- serto. InvoLucrum integrum, clausum, sorum omninò involvens, farctum, coriaceum, dilutè ferrugineum, ætate fuscum, elegantissime reticulatum, maturitate verticaliter disrumpens in valvulas 9, ferè æquales, hemisphæricas, demùm reflexas et subexplanatas. Сарвілж densissimæ, ovatæ, parùm complanatæ, deorsùm acutæ, annulo crassiusculo, articulato circumdatæ, pallidè ferrugineæ, longiusculè et capillaceo-pedicellatæ, in fundo involucri insertæ receptaculo convexo, ferè capitato, majusculo. SEMINA subglobosa, grandiuscula. The accurate. figure drawn by Mr. Curtis, and the masterly dissections executed ќеп years ago, at the request of Mr. Brown, by Mr. Francis Bauer, exhibit this interesting fern with such fidelity and truth, that all further illustration on my part is wholly unnecessary. То the latter gentleman, who unquestionably holds the first rank among the botanical painters of this age, I beg to offer my best thanks for his valuable addition to my work: and to Mr. Brown, who has favoured me with the generic character and observation on the fern, I have again to express шу deep obli- gation. Тһе plant is one of the rarer productions of Nipal. I have only found it on the summit of two of the highest mountains near the great valley of that country, and have never received it from any other place. | _ № is necessary to explain the reasons for my having preferred a manuscript name for my fern to one already published. It is eleven years since I first furnished my correspondents in England with specimens of it; and it was included in a general collection of ferns, which I sent in 1823 to the Museum at the India House. Of the arrival of this collection I presume the author of the Prodromus Flore Nepalensis cannot have been ignorant, since (һе Hon. East India Company most liberally distributed the duplicates in May of the following year. In the museum just mentioned the fern was labelled, ‘ Cyathea? barbata, Wall., viv non genus novum, Spheropteris Nob., non Bernhardi" a name which Mr. Brown did me the honour of adopting immediately, in preference to that of Podeilema, which he had given the plant, at the time he procured the beautiful drawing, from which the details of my plate were derived. In the work alluded to, neither is any notice taken of the name proposed by me, nor is even the source mentioned from whence the fern was obtained; and in a number of other cases the author has treated me with still less courtesy, inasmuch as he . repeatedly quotes my names of plants, and at the same time rejects them. In the instance of Aconitum Лето (see above p. 35.) he cites that name, he even repeats it, as having been adopted by my illustrious friend Professor DeCan- dolle, from my manuscript ; and yet he rejects us both, and introduces the species under the name of 4. virosum. In the same manner he disposes of a species of Aspidium from Nipal, called after me, and published by a botanist of the greatest authority and celebrity, one of the dearest and most esteemed friends I possess in the world, Professor Hooker ; not to mention a great many other instances of a similar nature, and some of them still more pointed, which occur in his own publication, as well as in his additions to those of others. Having never in my life experienced such conduct, or any thing in the remotest degree like it, from any other quarter, I might have been justified in the course I have taken ; but there is another reason for my not adopting the name Peranema, which is, that there exists already a genus of Verbenacee called Peronema by the late Mr. Jack, in a work which was published in 1822 (Malayan Miscellanies, vol. 2. no. 7. p. 46.). That these names are likely to be confounded must at once be evident, and is proved by M. Kaulfuss, who in speaking of this genus of ferns uniformly calls it Peronema. Plate XLVIII. Fig. 1. A pinnula presenting the upper surface. 2. The same viewed from below. 3. A segment of the same, with two lobes still more enlarged, showing the fructification and the glandular veins. 4. A detached sorus with its peduncle. 5. The same seen from below. 6. 7. The same after bursting, showing the bivalvular involucrum and the crowded seeds. 8. The same in a still more advanced state, with the valves entirely expanded. 9. Vertical section of a sorus, exhibiting the. hemispherical receptacle with the seeds attached. 10. 11. 12. 13. Capsules with their pedicel. 14. Тһе same burst open. 15. Seeds. 16. Two jointed hairs detached from the upper surface of the pinna. 17. Capitate glandular bodies, removed from the veins on the under surface of the pinna, of various shapes. Тһе last eight figures highly magnified. M aua hog P Р АТТА ҚАДАЛА САТА 2 .M Gana "Мер мй. by Engdmann (raf. Coin let Е Co. 2 Fr. Bauer anal. del" С furtis frond \ 48 ECHITES RHYNCHOSPERMA. Tab. 49. Foris ovato-lanceolatis, acuminatis, glabris; floribus laxé dymosis, limbi corolle tubo longioris laciniis falcato- obovatis ; folliculis gracilibus, longissimis, parallelis, pendulis ; seminibus longé rostratis, coma maximá. Habitat in Martabania secus ripas fluminum Saluen et Attran, adque Moalmyne, Amherst, «с. Floret fructificat- que mensibus Martio—Majo. . : ЕвитЕХ magna, volubilis, ramosa, trunco diametrum pollicarem 2-pollicaremve emetiente, cortice fusco, calloso-punctato, levi. Rami teretes, glaucescentes. Еола patentia, opposita, approximata, ovata vel oblongo-lanceolata, attenuato-acuminata, leviter undulata, basi acuta, nunc rotundata, leté viridia, glaberrima, subtüs nervosa et reticulata, axillis nervorum concavis, puberulis ; 3—5-pollicaria, ad palmaria. Реттом glabri, teretes, suprà plano-sulcati, ciliis axillaribus subulatis, carnosis, seriatis, ramum utrinque ambientibus. Сума terminales, et in ramis junioribus infra folia sep? opposite, lato-ovate, pollices 5—6 emetientes, laxe, multifloree, irregulariter tèr quatérve dichotomz. Реромсом complanati, glabri; universalis 2-pollicaris; ultimi pedicellique unguiculares, rufescentes, puberuli. Внлстеж opposite, lanceolate, ciliatee, 2—3-lineares. Flores magni, pulcherrimi, odorati, albi, tubo limboque versus faucem rubris. Слух oblongus, puberulus, ultra medium 5-fidus, laciniis ligulatis, obtusis, fundo extra corollam corpusculis 5-planis, carnosis. Совоша hypocrateriformis ; tubus quinquangularis, semiunguicularis, basi parùm ventricosus, extüs glaber, intüs praecipue ad faucem contractam munitus pilis canis, brevibus; limbus plano-patentissimus, tubo Фар longior, profundé partitus in /acinias 5, obovato-falcatas, obtusissimas, basiangustatas. Sramına 5 inclusa ; filamenta carnosa, puberula; anther sagittatee, acuminate, invicem stigmatique subcapitato cohze- rentes, lobis posticis longis, polline vacuis. Ovanruw glabrum, ovatum, annulo carnoso, 5-partito, brevissimo, circumdatum. тү longiusculus. Еошлсол 2 penduli, paralleli et approximati, pedales ad sesquipedales, cylindracei, acuminati, sessiles, glabri, basi attenuati, etate compressi, coriacei, fusci, intüs levissimi, nitidi, ferruginei. SEMINA ovata, plana, ferruginea, semiunguicularia, lzevia, desi- nentia in rostrum planum, angustissimum, pollicare, basi leviter dilatatum, apice articulatim adfigens comam. splendidissimam, amplam, bipollicarem. or, This is an exceedingly handsome climber, and certainly the most ornamental of the genus to which it belongs. The flowers are not unlike those of Cerbera fruticosa Roxb. Plate XLIX. Fig. 1. Calyx opened showing the pistil. 2. Corolla opened. 3. Anthers viewed from two sides. 4. Follicles. 5. Seed with its remarkable beak and long coma. CHIRITA GRANDIFLORA. Tab. 50. Fouts ovatis, acuminatis, pilosis ; pedunculis axillaribus paucifloris, nunc 1-floris ; caule adscendente. Habitat in montibus altissimis Napaliz ad loca umbrosa, humida, super rupibus. Floret tempore pluviarum, mensibus Julio et Augusto. PraNTA gracilis, adscendens, carnosa, pilis mollibus, patulis, hyalinis conspersa, pedalis, basi repens, radiculis filiformibus, fuscescentibus, , ramulosis. Caurs teres, pennam anserinam crassus, sæpiùs simplex, nunc pari uno duobusve ramorum oppositori, ИНИ, Forna paribus paucis opposita, patentia, oblonga vel ovato-oblonga, acuminata, acutè ма, basi obtusa et е Корс медиен, 3—6-pollicaria, carnosa, saturate viridia, utrinque pilosula, suprà parüm rugosa, subtiis ока — — netvisque alternis, arcuatis. Ретюцоз teres, suprà leviter sulcatus, folio tertid vel dimidid brevior. FronEs magni, ен, rosei, axillares, solitarii, rariüs in pedunculo communi geminati, vel ternati, tuncque brevé pedicellati, inodori, 23-pollicares, erectiusculi. PEDUNGURDS teres, carnosus, ex albido dilutè roseus, pilosulus, longitudine ferè petioli, supra medium, vel dum adsunt flores 2 "t infra pu bases bracteis 2 oppositis, foliaceis, lanceolatis, acutis, semiunguicularibus, ciliatis. CALYX ipiepnhepsonns, двкзйиов; рида amplus, oblongus, zstivatione inflato-ovatus, subvalvatus, 14-pollicaris, 5-nervius, subquinquangularis, pilosus, erubescenti-striatus, ыйын. оһеоейыйтё 2.labiatus; lacinie егесіге, lanceolate, attenuato-acuminate, inferiores 3 paulld роого омы коштмо. Соол in- fundibuliformis, calyce duplo longior, extüs pilosula, basi calyce angustior, se 6 em pete in белен paténtem, 2-labiatum 5-lobum ; lobi ovati, obtusi, fauxque pervia, flava venis rubris reticulati ; A — inferiorum MOOD эи STAMINA 5, medio согоПге inclusa ; fertilia 2, longa distantia infra sinus loborum = inferioris inserta, eee врргозата, glabra ; filamenta carnosa, filiformia, supra basin complanato-dilatata et spiraliter torta, ни incurva; ап еге жаймен; мны; о ешек et superné coherentes, 1-loculares, гіта communi hiantes, polline pallidé flavo. Sramina 3 sterilia, subulata, pilosula, subcapitata ; 2 insertione interlabialia, tertium hisce intermedium, obsoletum. Ovarium gracile, subcylindricum, glabrum, subpedicellatum, basi cinctum disco brevissimo, carnoso, flavo, crenulato, pseudo-quadriloculare, polysporum, placentis nempe 9 parietalibus, oppositis, ad axin ovarii . contiguis, bilobis, marginibus liberis, рага recurvis ovuliferis. STYLUS carnosüs, cylindricus, pilosus, ovaio е вечар е faucem, foliaceum, dimidiato-infundibuliforme, bilobum, supra antheras elevatum, икатенцаооатин, ење нот о Hee ү um marginibus interioribus parallelis. СарвотА gracillima, lovis, а иш тө; ici ич pilosulo terminata, п M p obsoletissimá sulcata, 2-locularis, longitudinaliter bivalvis, valvulis angustissimis, membranaceis. DissEPIMENTA 2 opposita, 2-Juga, marginibus seminifera. SEMINA minuta, subulata, calva, utrinque acuta, fusca. This charming plant belongs to the family of Didymocrapee. 1 have retained Dr. Hamilton's name for the genus, in preference to that of Calosacme, under which I sent it to the Hon. Fast India Company's Museum iu 1824, although * is founded on a fictitious native name, furnished to my late friend, while he was in Nipal. : Plate L. Fig. 1. Calyx opened. 2. Corolla opened. 3. Stamens. N “44 HIBISCUS MACROPHYLLUS. Tab. 51. AnnonEUs, foliis amplissimis, rotundato-cordatis, acuminatis, crenulatis, 9-nerviis, subtüs glandulosis, petiolis pedunculisque hirsuto-tomentosis ; calyce exteriore 12-fido ; сареша polyspermá, seminibus margine sericeo-barbatis. Hibiscus macrophyllus, Roxb. Hort. Beng. p. 51. Hornem. Suppl. Catal. Hort. Hafn. 149. Decand. Prodr. |. p. 455. à | Habitat in Chittagong, ubi floret tempore frigoris, Januario et Е ebruario, indeque in hortum botanicum Calcutten- sem introductus ; etiam in Sillet. Fructus maturescunt mense Majo. Nomen Bengalense: Casyapala. Аввов magna, ramosa et umbrosa, trunco recto, cortice induto cinerascente ; ramuli cylindracei, grisei, à vestigiis foliorum et stipu- larum annulati, uti petioli pedunculique densissimé vestiti tomento molli, brevi, stellato, cano, pilis intermixto prelongis, patentissimis, fasciculatis, valdè copiosis, ferrugineis, nitidis, molliusculis, seriüs deciduis. Forra magna, undique patentia, satis regulariter tamen per ramulos spirze in modum disposita, long? petiolata, orbiculato-cordata, acumine angusto, pollicari terminata, indivisa, leviter crenulata, sinu basis angusto lobisque magnis rotundatis ; subcoriacea, utrinque molliter et dens? tomentosa, praecipue subtüs ubi incana, 9-nervia, nervis ferrugineo-pilosis, medio vel ultrà medium notatis glandulà carnosá, levi, oblongá, типа longitudinali exsculptà; palmaria, pedalia, usque ad bipedalia. Реттом cylindrici, crassi, utrinque parüm incrassati, densé piloso-tomentosi, diametrum folii longitudine equantes. Вто шарп, foliaceze, оМопрае, obtuse, opposite, utrinque sericez, recurvato-patentes, citò decidus, раШдее, intüs ad basin rubicunde. INFLoREscENTIA terminalis, semel bisve ramosa, constans floribus aliquot magnis, flavis, fundo atropurpureis, breve pedunculatis, inodoris. Bracrea spathacez, magne, pilosce, demüm bipartite, citò caducee. Реромсим crassi, subclavati, dense pilosi, semipollicares. Caxyces valdé hirsuti, persistentes ; exterior 12—14-partitus, laciniis linearibus, pollicaribus ; inferior profund? 5-fidus, exteriore paulld longior, laciniis lanceolatis, acutis. Соком campanulato-patens, limbo pollices 3 transversos emetiente ; lobi obovati, integerrimi, extüs venosi leviterque pilosi et purpurascentes. Sriamara 5 vel 6, clavata, purpurea. Capsuxa obovato-globosa, dens’ barbata, calyce utroque inclusa, interiore parùm brevior, 5—6-valvis. Szmrna plurima, compressa, reniformia, fusca, juxta marginem, salvo hilo, densissimé barbata villis patentissimis, longissimis, pallide ferrugineis, sericeis, lateribus glabra. For the principal part of the above description, as well as for the drawing from which the plate has been engraved, I am indebted to the kindness of Henry Colebrooke, Esq. Тһе tree was introduced into the Calcutta garden in 1810, by the late Mr. John Roxburgh, and has at present attained а height of twenty-five feet. It forms at all times a beautiful object, but especially when in flower. "Тһе leaves are very large and spreading ; they are disposed in a spiral manner round the branches. It appears from the Hortus Bengalensis that ropes are made from the bark, an object for which its tough and fibrous texture seems to render it especially adapted. Plate LI. Fig. 1. Calyx opened. 2. Corolla opened. 3. Capsule. 4. А detached valve. 5. Seed. ALLANTODIA BRUNONIANA. Tab. 52. Евохотвов simpliciter pinnatis, oblongis ; pinnis caudato-acuminatis, integerrimis. Habitat in monte Napalie Sheopore, ad Mareko; vigens Januario. In insula Otahaite detexit David Nelson. (Herb. Banks.) Ғпих erecta, glabra, pedalis, 2- quin 3-pedalis, surgens e radice modice crassa, fibrosa. SmiPrrEs pauci, basi pennam anserinam fer? emetientes, antice sulco latiusculo exarati, spithamei, abientes in rachin gracilem, rectam. Frons oblonga, 8—10-pollicaris, aliquando altior, pinnata. Ріххж alternze, patentes, subapproximatz, inferiores nunc opposite, oblongee, integerrimze, vel leviter sinuatze, attenuate in acumen gracile, angustum, pollicare, obsoleté crenulatum ; basi retusze lobis obtusissimis, nunc obliqué cuneatze, sessiles, latere infe- riore nunc subadnate ; membranaceæ et tenuissimze, subdiaphanse, pallide virentes, 5 ad 6 pollices longe, pulcherrimé reticulate, apicibus venularum intra margines subincrassatis, nervo medio gracili, subtüs levitér elevato; terminalis proximis parüm major. Sort oblongo- cylindrici, nervo medio approximati, ab eodem oblique divaricati, suboppositi, lineas 4 vel 5 longi, exteriores parüm breviores, уегвйз apicem ріппәе paucze vel nullæ, ramulo superiori vene inserti, ferruginei. Імргвпум tenuissimum, membranaceum, demüm nigricans, sorum arcté involvens, infraque eum venule utrinque insertum, margine insertionis superiori vel interiori satis regulariter dehiscens, et mox extrorsim vel deorsim reflexum. CapsuL& copiose, subrotundo-pyriformes, pedicellatze, annulo majusculo, saturatiüs ferrugineo cinctze. I found this singular and beautiful fern in the dense forest of Oaks and Rhododendrums on Sheopore in Nipal. In 1823 I sent specimens to the Hon. the East India Company's Museum, under the designation ** Asplenium? reticula- tum, an Allantodia?” Mr. Brown, who at once decided that it was a species of ЯЙатофа, did me the favour to show por Си = лав. hy Engelmann, Graff Coindet 6) (o М баце ИА Ж» th 52 nchosp ATM M әс lithos Gorachand dal * \ >. Printed by Engelmann Graf бота? б б ы dup Chita fendi Princes! by Engelmann, raf, Condet À СЕ Gorachand ded! è г. а : ^ Ж” wid mactoph. Фе зафатен Printed. by Engelmann, Graf Стпае ѓе Б „М Gauci ith С. Curtis дей“ : ty "d ри. ООО, . 45 ше specimens in the Banksian Herbarium, collected by David Nelson in Otahaite, in Cook's third voyage, differing in no respect from my fern. . The same gentleman has also had the goodness to procure the фаны i аиб «the accompanying plate was engraved, in which fig. 2. represents a leaflet of the Otahaitean fern. The же of frac- tification before the bursting of the indusium are perfectly cylindrical, and look like a number of microscopical saus x attached to the underside of the fern; and it is this singular appearance, which is зо happily еј in the а of the genus. . Р "Plate LII. Fig. 1. Root and base of the stipes. 2. А pinna of the Otahaitean plant. 5. The same after the bursting of the indusium. 6. 7. 8. Capsules. ж : 3. Sorus. 4. The same partly opened. CQ@:LOGYNE MACULATA. Tab. 53. Forus lanceolatis, plicatis ; labelli lobis lateralibus abbreviatis, integris: intermedio ovato, retuso, undulato, disco lineis 4 rectis, denticulatis ; columna integra, bracted ventricosà. Lindl. Orchid. p. 43. ; Сојогуве maculata, Lindl. loc. cit. Habitat super saxis arborumque truncis inter muscos montium Pundua, Bengal orientali confinium, florens et fruc- tigera ad finem anni. Primum detexit M. R. Smith, inque hortum Caleuttensem introduxit anno 1816. Nomen Khasianum : Atia-Chakarpate. PraANTA parva, sepius gregaria, glabra. PsrupomuLBus abbreviatus, subcylindricus, pollicem crassus, duos longus, medid parüm contractus, rigidus, atroviridis, lineis latis, reticulatis, purpureis, e punctis innumeris constantibus ornatus, verticis centro elevato in umbilicum conicum ; laxé obtectus reti tenuissimo, capillaceo, griseo, persistente, demüm vari? rupto; e basi exserens radiculas plures, cylindricas, simplices. Forra geminata, terminalia pseudobulbi, vel lateralia ex ejusdem basi, erecto-patentia, lanceolata, coriacea? lævia, utrinque acuta, parùm plicata, obsolete 3-nervia, 6-pollicaria, suffulta petiolo brevi, convexo, anticé profund? canaliculato. Fros magnus, pulcherrimus, candidus, labello intis flavescente et purpureo-variegato, fragrans, patens, nutans, pedunculatus, terminalis pseudobulbi, vel paulló supra basin ejus lateralis, et tunc sæpiùs 2 oppositi. PEpuNcuLus gracilis, teres, 13-pollicaris, fructifer elongatus, salva terminali parte involutus vaginis laxissimis, amplis, ventricosis, pallide viridibus, lzevibus, glaucis, unguicularibus, deciduis, in tenella planta inclusis tegmine bractezeformi, crustaceo, mox fracto partimque ope retis istius super pseudobulbum elevato ; apice bracted pollicari, infundibuli- formi, obtusissima, convoluta, ovarium includente, mox caducá. Совомл undique patentiuscula. Perata plana, subcarnosa, oblongo- lanceolata, acuta, basi simplicissima levitér contracta, obsoleté 3-nervia, Теге sequalia, parüm ultra pollicem longa, interiora paulld angustiora. LaBELLUM sessile, convoluto-infundibuliforme, petalis vix brevius, expansione lato-ovatum, limbo subrotundo, trilobo, lobis rotundatis, crenato-undulatis, intermedio maximo, profundé retuso, lateralibus brevibus; intüs flavo, maculis quadratis lineisque purpureis : ornato, cristis 4 rubris, glanduloso-dentatis, parallelé decurrentibus. Согоммл clavata, anticé sulcata, labello inclusa, apice membranaceo- dilatata, cucullata, utrinque 2-denticulata : stigmatis 2-labiati labio inferiore brevissimo, obtuso. Амтнева terminalis, decidua, conica, obtusa, ап св parüm producta, subtüs sulcata, incomplet? 2-locularis. Massa Рошахт in singulo loculo geminatze, tenuissime, plane, cuneatze, parallelze, basi acutiusculà ope fili granulosi valdé elastici unite. Ovarium cylindrico-clavatum, 3-sulcatum. | Capsura clavata, profundé sulcata, columná emarcidá terminata. This and the following most lovely plant are natives of the lofty range of mountains which confine Bengal towards the district of Sillet in an easterly and northerly direction. They were introduced into the Hon. East India Company's garden at Calcutta in 1816, and I have often had the satisfaction of seeing them in flower there. Our mode of treating these and similar Epiphytes, is to place them on beds made of brickwork, raised four or five feet from the ground, containing a rich mould mixed with a large proportion of pebbles and resting on a stratum of large stones or masses of vitrified bricks, so as to admit of being perfectly drained. "Тһе surface is covered with a quantity of moss, and the whole structure is placed in a shady and sheltered situation, corresponding to the natural place of growth of such plants. Ву the aid of these beds, and by a constant attention to the necessity of keeping the roots as well as the plants themselves moderately moist, I have succeeded in cases even where there was but little hope ; for instance, with plants from the higher region of Nipal, and even from Gossain Than in the Himalaya. Our species (though quite distinct) approaches to Epidendrum ргесог of the late Sir. J. E. Smith, a botanist whose name will be held in veneration as long as the Science has a single votary ; and whose loss is the more deeply lamented by me, because on my return to Europe I had looked forward with great delight to the happiness of becoming per- sonally acquainted with that trüly excellent and amiable man. Plate LIV. Fig. 1. Flower dissected. 2. Bract detached. 3. A pair of pollen-masses separated to show the elastic thread by which they are united. 46 : CŒLOGYNE WALLICHIANA. Tab. 54.- Fouus ----labelli lobo medio ovato, denticulato, apice bilobo, integro, cum apicula > lateralibus obsoletis, disco cristis 5 completis, denticulatis ; basi leviter calcarato ; columna apice dentatá ; stigmatis labio inferiore 3-cuspidato. Lindl. Orchid. p. 43. : Coelogyne Wallichiana, Lindl. loc. cit. i Habitat cum antecedente, tempusque florendi idem. Nomen Khasianum : Atia-Palangcha. | ч Hanrrus omnino alterius speciei, sed statura, praecipue flores parùm majores. Pskuponursnus radiculequeidem. Кога haud observavi, sed vix multüm ab illa specie differunt. Fros maximus, purpureus, patentissimus, nutans, e basi pseudobulbi lateralis, sæpèque duo oppositi, vel ejusdem terminalis, inodorus. Pepuncutus gracilis, subclavatus, 3-pollicaris, fuscescens, inferné involutus vaginis paucis, alternis, cylindraceo-attenuatis, pollicaribus, inferioribus brevioribus, purpurascentibus, punctis valdé copiosis, callosis, elevatis, albican- tibus, asperis; apice bracted membranaceá, ovata, аси, deorsim angustata, ventricoso-convolutà, fusco-reticulatà, ovarium involvente, caducá. Perara lanceolata, acutissima, 2-pollicaria, demüm revoluta et subsecunda, exteriora lateralia infra basin labelli subdilatata in calcar obsoletum, brevissimum ; interiora exterioribus Теге dimidio angustiora. LasELLuM adscendens, convoluto-infundibuliforme, sub- unguiculatum, ехрапвіопе lato-ovatum, Теге 23-pollicare, limbo 3-lobo, lobis lateralibus obsoletis, intermedio bilobo cum cuspidula • media, acute denticulato, intüs flavescente, cristis 5 acuté glanduloso-dentatis, inzequalibus, deorsüm evanidis, mediâ abbreviata. Сош/мма gracilis, clavata, apice marginato-cucullata, profunde 2-loba et utrinque 2-dentata; stigmate antice infra cucullum porrecto, 2-labiato, labio superiore 2-dentato, inferiore descendente, angusto, 3-dentato. Амтневл таззедие pollinis ut in priore specie. This charming species comes very near to Zpidendrum precow Smith, but differs in having a much shorter spur, in having a ventricose bract, and in the pseudobulbs being almost truncated. Plate LIV. Fig. 1. Flower dissected. 2. Apex of the column. 3. Anther. 4. Unripe capsule issuing with two young leaves from the centre of the sheaths of the peduncle. ZINGIBER BARBATUM. Tab. 55. Forus lanceolatis, acuminatis ; spicis radicalibus ovatis, basi cuneata terrae subimmersis, bracteis ovatis, gibboso- ventricosis, villosis, apice subulato-rostratà patentibus ; labello ovato, retuso, suprà convexo. Habitat in montibus fluminis Irawaddi, circa Prome, fructifera mense Septembri. In horto botanico Calcuttze `- floret mensibus Augusto— Februario. Raprx carnosa, repens, digitum modicum crassa, subarticulata, intüs pallide flavicans, odore parüm aromatico, fibras emittens cylin- dricas, breves, crassas, quasdam terminatas tuberibus parvis, ovatis, intüs lacteo-aqueis, Ѓегё insipidis et inodoris. Caurzs aliquot erecti, 14 ad 4- imo 5-pedales, teretes, e basi diametrum роШсагеш Теге emetiente sursüm attenuati et graciles, omnino obtecti vaginis adpressis, multilineatis, superioribus pilosulis, ore utrinque obtusé bilobis, intüsque ligula brevissimá, membranaceáà. Four bifarié patentia, sessilia, oblongo-lanceolata, attenuato-acuminata, basi acutiuscula, 5—7-pollicaria, utrinque рггергітіѕ subtüs villis adpressis, mollissimis con- spersa, subtüs pallida. Scarr aliquot radicales, vel ex imo caule progredientes, crassi et rigidi, 2-pollicares, obtecti squamis ovatis, acutis, superioribus subulato-acuminatis, villosis. Spica ovata, acuta, 2—3-pollicaris, basi cuneatà vix supra terram elevata, undique imbricata bracteis exterioribus lato-ovatis, gibboso-subventricosis, dorso villis copiosis, longis barbatis, intüs levibus, striatis, marginibus adpressis, apice terminatis cuspide longa, tereti, patula, viridi, basi rufescentibus, unifloris ; interioribus membranaceis, ovatis, acutis, villosulis, convolutis, calyce parüm longioribus. Frores majusculi, ex albo diluté rosei. Carvx 2-dentatus. Сокол tubus cylindricus ; limbus exsertus, glaber, bilabiatus ; lacinie exteriores 3, lanceolate, acuminate, J-pollicares : dorsalis adscendens, cucullata, rostrato-acuminata, apice incurva, labium superius efficiens ; laterales plane, infra labellum parallelze, cumque eo labium inferius formantes ; Jabellum sive lacinia interior patens, ovatum, retusum, suprà valdé convexum feré palatiferum. АмтнЕвВА magna, subsessilis, cucullo limbi exterioris inclusa, desinens in rostrum cylindraceo-subulatum, exsertum et supra labellum incurvum. rytus clavatus, apice incurvà parüm exsertus. SrIGMA convexum, ciliatum. Capsuxa obovata, torulosa, glabra, magnitudine Теге cerasi, continens semina atra, lucida, arillo magno, albo; plane matura haud visa. This species approaches nearest to Zingiber squarrosum of Dr. Roxburgh, which I found abundantly about Rangoon, but differs m having much broader, convex and ventricose bracts, ending in a very long cylindric point. It grows on the hills near the banks of the [rawaddi, about Prome, on both sides of that river, where I saw it with unripe fruit in September. The plants which were introduced thence into the Calcutta Garden, blossom freely during the cold and rainy seasons. The spikes issue from the creeping roots, near the stems, or from the base of the latter, and are barely elevated above the surface of the earth ; they are sometimes compound, that is, a spikelet is produced from one or two of the lowermost bracts.. Тһе whole plant possesses a very faint, though pleasant aromatic smell and taste. Plate LV. Fig. 1. Flower covered with the inner bract. 2. Inner bract and calyx detached from the pistil. 3. Corolla opened. . Crelogyne УУ СЕЛАТ 4 И Ха $ N Бы заны E 6 Ж/ Printed by Engelmann.. Graf. Coindet & Со. M. Gauci ШЫЎ Gorachand delè 5 Wyre % 772 M. Gauci lub E + 5 $ H $ $ = Š 47 KAMPFERIA CANDIDA. Tab. 56. у . . . ел . . . . . . ° . ` ^ B de 6 . . Spica radicali ; laciniá superiore limbi exterioris infra apicem fornicatam longé calcaratá ; laciniis interioribus obo- vatis; tuberibus longè pendulis, cavis ; foliis - - - - Habitat in ruderatis et arboretis Martabaniz, prope Amherst et Moalmyne, florens Martio. Влогх crassa, carnosa, fibras emittens copiosas, cylindricas; harum aliquot longissimze fubera suspendunt oblonga, 2—3-pollicaria, | obtusa vel acuta, fusca, fibrillosa, intüs lacteo-alba, cava, gelatiná repleta hyalina, carne molli, inodorá et insipidà. Forra haud obser- vata. Spica radicalis, terrae semi-immersa, magna, palmaris, erecta, ovata. Bracre magne, undique sparse, ovate, acute, егесие,Паха imbricantes, pubescentes, striatee, membranacee, раШдее, sursüm rubescentes, 2—3-pollicares. Frores magni, fragrantes, albi, limbo medid lutescente. Catyx cylindrico-clavatus, membranaceus, puberulus, tubo corolle dimidió brevior; ore laxo, ciliato, profundà 3-dentato. Соком tubus cylindricus, puberulus, sursüm lutescens, extis minutim puberulus, apice dilatata trisulcatus. Тамвоз patens bilabiatus, bipollicaris, labio superiore erecto, inferiore patente; lacinie exteriores oblongw, concave, membranacez, 13-pollicares, dorsalis partum longior, infra apicem subcucullatam abiens in processum sive cornu lineas 4 longum, teres, rectum, attenuatum (undé æstivatio limbi clavato-cornuta) ; interiores istis рагі longiores multoque latiores, obovate, obtuse, basi contracte; intermedia sive labellum apice bilobum, sinu profundo angusto, lobis obtusis, lateribus inzequaliter subincisis, deorsüm parüm attenuatum et subcon- volutum, disco lineis duabus flavis, contiguis, parallelis, ad basin usque decurrentibus. Еилмемтом breve, latum, villosum, antic? conca- vum. ANTHERA oblonga, carnosa, сгіѕій coronata brevi, 2-denticulatà. OvanruM sericeo-villosum. SryLus filiformis, gracillimus, basi corpusculis solitis, cylindraceis, valdé longis munitus. Sriema turbinatum, subtruncatum, ciliatum, infra cristam antherze porrectum. Although I have not seen the leaves of this plant, there are sufficient characters in the other parts to distinguish it from all the known species. The flowers are the largest of the genus, milk-white with a yellow tint in the centre, and delightfully fragrant. The horn of the upper and outer lobe of the limb is curious, and may be seen long before expansion takes place. No part of the root possesses any aromatic taste or smell. Plate LVI. Fig. 1. Flower dissected. 2. Calyx and pistil. CURCUMA PARVIFLORA. Tab. 57. Товевтвоз subnullis ; foliis oblongo-ovatis, longè petiolatis; spicá centrali, pedunculatá, quadrifariàm imbricata ; coma піхеа ; labello obovato ; anthera basi mutica. | | Habitat in sylvis riparum Irawaddi, ад Prome, alibique versus Avam. Іп horto Calcuttensi floret F ebruario. Rapıx carnosa, horizontalis, fibris pluribus crassis, carnosis, und alteràve clavato-subtuberosáà, preter quas nulla tubera observata. Болл erecto-patentia, ovato-oblonga, acuminata, basi subrotundatáà obliqua, undulata, 6—8-pollicaria, glaberrima, subtüs glau-. cescentia, suffulta petiolis gracilibus, canaliculatis, equantibus vel dimidió brevioribus, basi dilatatà in caulem brevem, compressum bifariàm imbricantibus. Spica ex centro vaginarum petiolorum erecta, pedunculo cylindrico brevi suffulta, oblonga, 3-pollicaris, vix ultra medium petiolorum interiorum elevata. Внлстеж ovate, obtuse, quadrifariàm imbricatæ, 2—3-flore, pesi connate intüsque concava. Fores valdé parvi, vix supra bracteas porrecti, albi, labello violaceo. Сльхх infundibuliformis, brevis, fauce obtuse $-dentatá, dente inferiore profundiüs separato et majore. І.лсіміж LIMBI lanceolate, obtuse, super antheram О жа mibæquales, Faperiore. apice subfornicato ; [афейит oblongo-obovatum, obtusum, retusum, recurvato-patentum, suprà violaceum, lineolis albis ad margines radiatum, deorsùm parùm attenuatum, laciniis exterioribus duplò majus. Амтневл brevis, nutans, subdiaphana, puberula, basi subarticulata, obtusa et nuda, anticè biloba, lobis tantüm fundo polliniferis; terminata cristà brevi, lanceolata, acuta, recurvatà. тома infra cristam antherz, infundibuliforme, ostio transverso. This is the smallest species of the genus to which it seems to belong ; for it wants the calcarate base of the anther of a true Curcuma. It is a neat little plant. Plate LVII. Fig. 1. Flower dissected. | 2. Stamen. 3. Pistil. 4. Fascicle of flowers. 48 AMOMUM CORYNOSTACHYUM. "Tab. 58. Rapice gracili, cylindrica, repente, longissima;. foliis oblongis, attenuato-acuminatis, levibus ; scapo elongato, clavato, bracteis maximis, oblongis, retusis, longè cuspidatis laxé imbricato; spicá clavato-ovatá, fastigiata ; labello - obsoleté 3-lobo, basi utrinque 2-dentato ; cristá anthers’ maxima, ovato-cordatá, integra. Habitat in sylvis Zectonarum grandium secus ripas fluminum Martabanie, florens Aprili. Rapix longissima, cylindrica, ramosa, repens, digitum minimum crassa, squamis remotis, fuscis, subvaginantibus munita, radiculas emittens longas, simplices, cylindricas, fibrillosas. (Слотез plures, remoti, erecti, cespitem amplam formantes, 3—4-pedales, uti omnes plantge partes leves; pallide virides, basi fuscescente digitum minimum crassi, sursùm graciles, compositi e vaginis adpressis, lineatis, obtust bilobis; inferioribus aphyllis, rotundato-obtusissimis, integerrimis. ^ Forr4 approximata, bifariàm patentia, lineari-oblonga, attenuato-acuminata, basi rotundato-acuta, subsessilia, pedalia ad 13-pedalia,.chartacea, pallide viridia, plana, suprà lucida. Ретюм brévissirüi, inferiores vix l-unguiculares. Scarr radicales, adscendentes, cylindrico-clavati, 6—12-pollicares, 1ахё imbricati squamis ob- longis, obtusis, coriaceis, striatis, inferioribus brevibus, superioribus 2-pollicaribus, subretusis, cuspide cylindrica, longa, patulà terminatis, spice basin involventibus. Эртсл clavato-ovata, fastigiata, 2-pollicaris, parüm supra terram elevata. BnacrEX inter squamas verticis spice Теге reconditze, membranaceze, óblongze, obtuse, сопсауге, 1-florze, pollicares ; interiores cylindracee, rubicundze, ore obtuse bilobze, ovarium et partem calycis occultantes. Frores magni, albi, labello flavo. Caryx tubulosus, rufescens, ore bilobus. Совошж tubus cylindricus, 3-pollicaris, calyce inclusus. Ілмві lacinie oblongo-ovatze, obtuse ; dorsalis subcucullata ; labellum lato-ovatum, obsolete 3-lobum, lobo intermedio retuso, lateralibus obtusissimis, disco ad centrum flavo, basi utrinque dentibus duobus subulatis, recurvatis. FinAMENTUM brevissimum. | ANTHERA oblonga, anticà profundé sulcata, coronata cristé maximá, lato-ovatá, obtusá, subcordatà, anticé concavà. Оулвшм oblongum, puberulum. SriGwa clavatum, vix ciliatum, extra loculos anthers elevatum, intra cristam occultum. Plate LVIII. Fig. 1. A leaf, natural size. 2. Flower. 3. Тһе same dissected, with the bracts detached.' 4. 5. Stamen viewed from two sides. STERCULIA VERSICOLOR. Tab. 59. Forus peltatim digitatis, foliolis 5 oblongis, acuminatis, subtüs tomentosis. Habitat in collibus calcareis тірге Irawaddi dextree ad Segaen, Avam contra, florens mense Octobre. Annon 16-pedalis, £runco crasso, brevi, irregulari, induto cortice levi, cinereo. Rami numerosi, patentes; ramuli cinerei, lzves, cylindrici, crassiusculi, vestigiis copiosis foliorum delapsorum notati. Forra approximata, patentia, longè petiolata, peltatim quinata. Fourora oblongo-lanceolata, gracillimé acuminata, integerrima, basi acutiuscula, 5—7-pollicaria, suprà atroviridia, lzevia, lucida, subtis tomento minutissimo, mollissimo, cano obtecta, punctisque paucis, sparsis, glanduloso-pellucidis notata, costa gracili, nervisque sub- oppositis, obliquis, parallelis, approximatis, usque ad marginem fer’ excurrentibus ibique reticulatis, ad axillas subglandulosis. `Рктїошв cylindricus, gracilis, 6—8-pollicaris, ad apicem orbiculato-dilatatus, cano-subtomentosus ; partiales semiunguiculares, basi articulati. INFLORESCENTIA ad apicem ramulorum patens, constans paniculis axillaribus, brevé pedunculatis, oblongis, petiolis parüm brevioribus, compositis e racemis brevibus, subsessilibus, sparsis, numerosis, pollicaribus. Frores parvi, numerosi, odorati, pallidé flavi, demim saturaté aurantiaci, brevissimé pedicellati, masculi et foeminei sparsi. PEpuNcuL: carnosi, rubicundi, demüm atro-sanguinei, cano- pubescentes. Bracrex parve, sparse, lineari-ligulate, ciliate. PrnrANTHIUM oblongo-campanulatum, subcarnosum, utrinque villosum, 5.Шпеав longum, 5—6- rard 7-fidum ; /aciniee оМопрае, obtusiuscule, apice conniventes, tamen distincte, marginibus recurvatis. In floribus masculis columna filamentorum cylindrica, apice nutans, antheras gerens dens? confertas; in famineis ovarium pedicellatum, _ ovatum, dense villosum, nutans, 5-sulcatum, circumdatum antheris sterilibus numerosis, sessilibus, lined flexuosá dispositis ; stylus brevis, inflexus, columnaris, villosus; stigma subpeltato-planum, 5-lobum, lobis parvis, obtusis. "This is a very distinct and beautiful species, the flowers of which are remarkable on account of the sweet perfume which they emit, and their variegated appearance, changing from a bright yellow colour, which they have at first, to a deep orange. I have only found the tree on the calcareous hills about Segaen, on the banks of the Irawaddi, opposite to the city of Ava. Plate LIX. Fig. 1. Male flower. 2. Тһе same opened. 3. Column with the anthers at the top. 4. Female flower. 5. Pistil. к= vs M. Gauci lth. Printed by Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co. Fishnupersaud. del ? f i Printed by Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co Fishnupersaud. del? M. баис. lith & „Ж ст Ха $5 22 Жоғ PUPA UML ПРОСТИ CO 4 e M Gauci lith Printed by Engelmann, Graf, Conder & o del? Nupersaud At е и a 6 nersaud del Я x: de Printed by Engelmann, Graf Coindet kCo Ж даша БА ОГУ? : . Z2 ма еуро еј 49 Li TEPHROSIA cOCCINEA. Tab. 60. SUFFRUTICOSA, erecta, ramis teretibus, flexuosis, 2—3-jugis, foliolis omnibus: euneiformi-obovatis, re lanceolatis, acuminatis ; staminibus diadelphis ; Habitat ad ripam Irawaddi prope Yenangheu tembre. foliisque subtis niveo- et adpressé lanuginosis ; foliis sessilibus, tusis; racemis axillaribus, longè pedunculatis; dentibus calycis stylo subtus уШово ; leguminibus linearibus pendulis. n. Floret-fructusque profert sub pluviis, mensibus Augusto et Sep- Faurax erecta, ramosa, 2—3-pedalis. Rawr teretes, flexuosi, uti petioli, pedunculi foliorumque pagina inferior dense vestiti villis lacteo- albis, longis, adpressis, mollissimis. Fori subapproximata, alterna, fer’ omnind sessilia, impari-pinnata, 2—3-juga ; foliola subcarriosa exacté opposita, obovato-cuneiformia, retusa cum cuspidula, deorsim attenuata, basi acuta, subsessilia, supra glaberrima, Км. parallelà et obliqué multilineata, subtüs adpresse villosa, candida, nervis valdé numerosis et approximatis, parallelis, gracillimis сойдаш elevatis; terminale 13—2-pollicare, cztera deorsàm sens)m breviora. 8тірсіме opposite, lanceolate, acuminate, aride, persis- tentes. Racemi axillares, solitarii, longè pedunculati, erectiusculi, foliis bis terve longiores, rarissimè ramulo uno alterove instructi, и albo-villosi. Frores mediocris magnitudinis, pulcherrim? coccinei, brev? pedicellati, extis villosi, suffulti bracteolis lanceolatis, valdé acuminatis. Carvx suburceolatus, basi obtusus, purpurascens, subbilabiatus, 5-dentatus; dentes lanceolati, valdé acuminati ; duo | inferiores parüm latiores. - VEXILLUM subrotundum, retusum, reflexum, patens, unguiculare ; ale oblongze, obtuse, Ъгеуф unguiculatze ; carma compressa, acutiuscula, pallida, alis latior. FILAMENTA diadelpha, basi subarticulato-incurva. OvARIUM айргевзё villosum, absque disco; stylus incurvus, subtüs pilosus; stigma clavatum, villosum. LEGUMEN lineare, cuspide subulatá terminatum, 2—3-pol- licare, compressum, planum, adpresse villosum, suturis convexiusculis. SEMINA 6—8, oblonga, fusca, nitida, carunculo umbilicali promi- nente, majusculo. This is an exceedingly beautiful plant, differing from all the East Indian species with which I am acquainted, in the form of its leaflets, the milk-white hairs with which it is densely clad, and the elegant scarlet colour of the flowers. I have only found it in arid, sandy situations about the Petroleum Wells near Yenangheun, some miles inland from the left bank of the Irawaddi. It was brought thence into the Calcutta garden, where it flowers and blossoms freely. Plate LX. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. The same dissected. 3. Carina. VIBURNUM F(ETIDUM. | Tab. 61. Fouts ovato-lanceolatis, grosse obtuséque dentatis, supra lucidis, subtüs pedunculisque pubescentibus ; cymis termi- nalibus, sessilibus, fructiferis pedunculatis, involucris lineari-lanceolatis. Habitat ad cacumen montis Toong Dong prope Avam. Floret et fructus profert maturos mense Novembri. Евотех 6-pedalis, ramosa ; ramis oppositis, ramulis teretibus, novellis, foliis junioribus et pedunculis pube dimidiato-stellata, canescente conspersis. Еола opposita, patentia, ovato-lanceolata, obtusa, vel acutiuscula, grossé, remoté et obtusé serrata, basi parüm attenuata integerrima, obsoleté 3-nervia, 2—3-pollicaria, suprà levia, lucida, subtis reticulata, ad axillas nervorum villosa. Periost brevissimi, рагі pubescentes. Cyma parva, terminalis, sessilis, demùm pedunculata, hemispheerica, constans pedunculis primariis elongatis, centrali brevissimo, suffultis involucro inæquali, patenti, deciduo, foliolorum unguicularium, lanceolatorum vel linearium ; pedunculis .secundariis + umbellulatis, brevibus. Frores valdé parvi, albi, brevé pedicellati. Carvcis lobi minuti, ovati, сШай. Совошл ovata, dentibus 5 ovatis, obtusis. Ешлмемта levia. Амтнквж parùm supra faucem elevate. Вассж ovate, compresse, parve, leves, nitide, primüm flavae, punctis crebris rubris сопзрегвае, demüm coccinez. SEMEN ovatum, compressum. All the green parts emit a peculiarly unpleasant smell on being rubbed. The flowers are very small and incon- spicuous ; but the vivid red berries, which are produced in great abundance, give the shrub an interesting appearance. Plate LXI. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx. 3. Corolla opened. CYRTOTROPIS. . Сліхх bilabiatus, labio superiore l-dentato, inferiore 3-dentato. Сокол papilionacea, vexillo reflexo, basi 2-cal- loso; carina lineari-falciformi, longissima, adscendente, 2-phylla; alis cuneiformibus, abbreviatis, divaricatis. STAMINA diadelpha. Lecumen sessile, lineare, compressum, membrana. subspongiosá, demüm solutá intüs obtec- * tum, isthmis pluribus multiloculare. . 50 Classis Linnæana: Diadelphia Decandria. Ordo naturalis: Leguminosarum tribus PAaseolee, Brown. Ec Habitus. Herba latè volubilis, radice perenni. Forra impari pinnata, 2-juga. FLORES laxé racemosi, carnei. Leeumen gracile, lineare, pendulum, polyspermum: de i à | Genus Dolicho et Kennedye quodammodó affine, sed abundé differens calyce 4-dentato, cariná 2-phyllá, longis- simá, incurvá, et alis abbreviatis, divaricato-patulis. Nomen imposul a киртог, curvus, et трол, carina. CYRTOTROPIS CARNEA. Tab. 62. Hasrrar in montibus altissimis Napalie Sheopore et Chandaghiry ; etiam in convalli admodüm elevata Chitlong dicta. Floret sub pluviis, mensibus Junio et Julio ; legumina matura Octobre. Рглхта alté volubilis, surgens e radice fibrosa, vix non perenni. Слоиѕ praelongus, ramos emittens gracillimos, pallid’ rubicundos, teretes, pilosulos. Forra magna, patentia, palmaria, remota, alterna, petiolata, impari-pinnata, 2-juga. Рктгогоз teres, basi parüm incras- satus, parc? pilosus, 3-pollicaris, suprà levitér sulcatus ; rachis inter pinnas 14 2-pollicaris, subarticulata, вгерё purpureo-colorata. Ріххж opposite, ovato-oblonge, cuspidato-acuminate, 4--6-роШсагев, integerrimze, membranaceze, incequilaterales, basi nempé deorsim con- vexiores, præcipuè in jugo infimo; terminalis reliquis parüm major, æqualis ; suprà saturate virides, a pilis aliquot sparsis scabriuscule, subtüs раШдее, cost elevatá nervisque gracilibus, pilosulis, inferioribus oppositis, reticulato-venosc, venis nunc coloratis. PETIOLI par- tiales breves, cylindrici, rugosi. SrrevLnm parvee, lanceolate, acute, adpressee, pilosulze, decidua. Racemı axillares solitarii, nutantes, folia longitudine subzequantes vel iisdem parüm breviores, pedunculo gracili, tereti, pilosulo, nunc colorato. Етовез magni, sparsi, carnei, insidentes pedicellis brevibus, utrinque articulatis, unguicularibus. Catyx cylindricus, basi suffultus bracteolis binis, linearibus, deciduis, fauce bilabiatà 4-dentatus: dentes membranaceo-marginulati, ciliati ; superior lato-ovatus, acutus; inferiores lanceolati, angustiores. VEXILLUM patens, ovatum, retusum, suprà convexum radiatim striatum, basi callis duobus parvis, transversis, ungue brevi, angusto. Ат vexillo carinàque dupl breviores, divaricato-patule, subrecurvate, cuneate, obtusze, ungue gracili, longiusculo. Caria angusto- linearis, obtusa, adscendens, arcuato-incurva, pollicaris, vexillo parüm longior, 2-phylla; foliola conniventia, longè unguiculata. STAMINA 10, longa, diadelpha, adscendentia, apice incurva ; filamento libero extrorsùm subspirali. Ovanruw lineare, pubescens ; stigma par- vum, convexiusculum, stylusque glabra. Іжсомем gracile, compressum, lineare, angustum, 6-pollicare, levitèr torulosum, reticulato- venulosum, glabrum, mucrone brevi, recto terminatum, polyspermum, intùs obtextum membranâ tenuissimâ, subspongiosâ, fuscá,' isthmos inter semina fermante, ad dehiscentiam solutá et variè ruptà. SEMINA 16—20, oblonga, obtusa, parüm compressa, fusca, Тема, glaucescentia et opaca, funiculo brevissimo instructa. СотүшкромЕв crassiuscule. Rapicuta brevis, inflexa. Plate LXII. Fig. 1. Flower dissected. 2. Pods. ) PHASEOLUS ROSTRATUS. Tab. 63. Perennis, pilosiusculus ; foliolis ovatis, acutis; racemis axillaribus, longè pedunculatis, paucifloris ; alis varié tortis, carinà longissimé rostratá, spirali. ! Phaseolus alatus, Rows. Hort. Beng. p. 54, haud Linn. Katu Paeru, Rheed. Malab. vol. 8. р. 75. tab. 49. Habitat in Bengala, montibusque contiguis, etiam in montibus пре Irawaddi, ad Paghamew et Prome. Floret legu- minaque profert mensibus Octobre—Decembre. Nomen Bengalense : Bun-barbuttee. PLANTA ramosa, volubilis, pilis paucis conspersa, 2—3-pedalis. Слов Ramique teretes, graciles. Forra remota, petiolata. Кошогл ovata, acutiuscula, 3-pollicaria, lateralia extrorstm gibbosa, subtüs reticulato-venulosa, pilosula. PETroLUS gracilis, canaliculatus, foliola sequans ; partiales brevissimi. Racemus axillaris, longè pedunculatus, pauciflorus. Реричсицив petiolum æquans, fructifer elongatus, abiens in rachin 2-pollicarem, ad insertionem florum tuberculatam. Frores magni, speciosi, geminati, brevè pedicellati, dilutè violacei. CaLvx bilabiatus, labio superiore ovato, obtuso, integro ; inferiore acuté 3-dentato. VEXILLUM suborbiculatum, retusum, breve ungui- culatum. Carma longissim? rostrata, apice bis terve spiraliter convoluta. Arx magne, oblongze, varié flexo et torte, apice parüm patentes, venis albidis, dichotomis ornate. FILAMENTORUM pars libera capillacea, longa. Ovarium sericeum, disco majusculo, carnoso, irregulariter et аси 5-dentato basi cinctum, LkEGUMEN pendulum, planum, lineare, incurvo-cuspidatum, arcuatum, рагит torulosum, беге glabrum, 5-роШсаге, polyspermum. | SEMINA ovata, fusca. This beautiful plant comes certainly near to Linneus's Phaseolus alatus, but appears to be sufficiently distinct by its less spreading ale, and the curved pods. Тһе flowers are by far the largest of the East Indian species. According > to Dr. Roxburgh's manuscript the lower part of the plant is perennial. Plate LXIII. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Ale and carina in situ. . 3. The same detached. 4. Vexillum. 5. Stamens. 6. Calyx and. pistil. M баша lith Printed by Engelmann Graf, Conder С G. bishnupersaud ае" 24/4 гена COANA. Vushnupersaud del! Printed by Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co. еее айа еее еее ИСТИ 61 Gauci вод M Самог lith Printed by Engelmann Graf. Condet & Co богатата dei * (> T HUN „М бажа alh, Printed, by Engdmarn, Graf, Coinde? «оо Vishmanersaue de а РУ) ERIOL/ENA Слмротллт. Tab. 64. * » А . . . . ` . i 4 . . . : . . Кош» ovato-cordatis, valdé acuminatis, integris, subtüs cano-tomentosis; floribus paniculatis ; involucri 3-phylli foliolis oblongo-linearibus. Legi in montibus Prome праг Irawaddi, floriferam et fructigeram mense Decembre. ARBOR magna, ramosa, trunco alto et.recto. Ramuri teretes, cinerei a tomento stellato, minuto, in novellis copioso. Еола sparsa, patentia, subapproximata, ovato-cordata, in acumen gracile attenuata, inzequalitér et obtuse crenato-dentata, marginibus præcipuè adul- tiorum subsinuato-crispatis, sinu basis acuto, lobis rotundatis, coriacea, 5-pollicaria ad palmaria ; suprà glabra, subtùs cano-tomentosa, 7-nervia, transversè et parallelè venosa ; floralia breviùs petiolata, reliquis mult} minora; juniora utrinque tomentosa. Ретюм teretes, graciles, folio dimidid vel tertió breviores, tomentosi, utrinque cylindraceo-intumescentes. 8тіріліе рагуге, opposite, lanceolate, aridæ, deciduæ. INFLORESCENTIA terminalis, subpaniculata, parm tomentosa, constans pedunculis axillaribus foliorum floralium, subelongatis, apice gerentibus flores aliquot magnos, racemosos, alternos, flavos, suffultos pedicellis pollicaribus, teretibus. Bracre rarze, sparsa, foliolis involucelli similibus, caducze. Carvx profundissim? 5-partitus, subcarnosus, lateraliter involucratus ; lacinie oblongo-lanceolate, acuminatee, patenti-reflexze, ultra pollicem longae, extis dens? tomentose, intüs fulvo-sericeze, praesertim ad basin, ubi покае foveolis 2 oblongis, laevibus, mucosis. Тмуотосвом calycis basin extüs semisuffultiens, patentissimum, lacinias illius longitudine Теге æquans, · subcarnosum, utrinque tomentosum, 3-phyllum ; foliola oblongo-linearia, acuta, pectinato-dentata, Теге pinnatifida, dentibus angustis, distantibus, subglanduloso-obtusis ; intermedium parüm latius. PETALA 5, cum laciniis calycinis alternantia, interque has reflexa, polli- caria, ungue brevi, latiusculo, curvo, intüs villoso instructa, limbo oblongo, obtuso, leviter retuso, unguiculari. Tusus атетогит brevis, membranaceus, mox supra basin antheriferus. ANTHERÆ oblonge, biloculares, flavæ, brevé stipitatee, депѕё multiseriales, omnes fertiles. Оулвтом ovatum, sericeo-villosum, 10-юсшаге; ovwlis pluribus, biseriatis, axi perforatee insertis. Sryuus filiformis, glaber; staminibus longior. ЭттамА 8—10-lobum, exsertum, lobis teretibus, stellatim patentibus. Capsuxa lignosa, ovata, acuminata, rugoso- scabra, tomentosa, 2-pollicaris, 10-sulcata, 10-locularis, 10-valvis: valvule anguste, lineari-oblongze, acuminate, intüs ferrugineze, lzevis- вие, medio septifere ; septo lato, margine interiore densissimé sericeo-villoso. Semina circiter 8 in singulo loculo, angulo ejusdem interiori duplici serie adfixa, totidem abortivis, minutis sæpiùs intermixta, ovata, imbricata, fusca, leevia, rugosula, dorso convexiora, basi subtruncata, vertice desinentia in alam lanceolatam, membranaceam, attenuatam, acutam, semiuncialem, margine exteriore recto, latius- culo. Емввуо lacteus, erectus, perispermio modice crasso, carnoso inclusus. Карсил cylindrica, longiuscula. Сотуперомез plane, late, profundé 2-lobze, obtusze, parüm plicatee. This handsome tree differs entirely from the only species, which has hitherto been described, namely Zriokena JVallichii of Professor DeCandolle, the founder of the genus. Its leaves and inflorescence are covered with a thin stellate and grey tomentum, whereas in that species they are densely hairy. -Its leaves are entire, апа long- acuminate, the flowers disposed in a terminal panicle, and the leaflets of the involucre linear-oblong ; in that species the former are lobed, and the latter axillary, besides being much larger, and furnished with broader and fringed involucres. Plate LXIV. Fig. 1. Flower before opening. 2. Calycine lobe of the same, showing the three glands at the inside of the base. 3., Flower. 4. The same dissected. 5. Column of the stamens opened. 6. Pistil. 7. Capsules. 8. Тһе same opened. 9. A detached valve. BOOTTIA. Fromzs spathacei, dioici. PERIANTHIUM 6-partitum, laciniis 3 interioribus petaloideis. ратна MAscULA multi- flora, floribus longè pedunculatis, exsertis. Sramina 12. бтүш 3. SriGMaTA biloba. ӘРАТНА ЕСЕМЕКЕА l-flora. 2 Ovanruw inferum, multiloculare, polyspermum. Этум srAMINAque sterilia 9. Classis Linngana : Diæcia Dodecandria. Ordo naturalis : Hydrocharidee, Brown. | | | Herba elegantissima aquatica, limo adfixa, acaulis, gregaria, glabra. Folia quidam submersa, longa, lanceolata, subsessilia ; alia natantia, longé petiolata, cordata, multinervia. Flores magni, basi spatha involuti, scapo longo supra aquæ superficiem elevati. Hydrocharidi, Stratioti et Damasonio valde affinis ; prior differt врата masculá .diphyllá, foemineá nulla ; posteriora genera distincta sunt spathis unifloris, hermaphroditis. di Quum Воо а a celeberrimo Bigelow condita a Potentillis haud distingui possit, aliud constitui genus in honorem Francisci Boott, Americani, M.D., botanici ardentissimi et peritissimi, amici dilectissimi, non minus animi probitate 7 ; quàm scientiarum cultu, ес morum suavitate egregu. 59 é BOOTTIA CORDATA. Тар. 65. * НАВЕТАТ in aquis stagnantibus ripe Irawaddi prope Avam, montiumque vicinarum. Floret mensibus Septembri —Novembri. Pianta acaulis, carnosa, glabra, limo adfixa, maxima parte submersa, gregaria, 2—3-pedalis. Raprx constans fibris copiosis, succu- lentis, simplicissimis, 2—6-pollicaribus, intüs albis, epidermide levi, pallidé ferrugineà obtectis, ex area plantae basilari, plana, orbiculari, pollicari undique ortis. Forma numerosa, basibus petiolorum latis, imbricantibus caulem brevem, crassum mentientia, vernatione ' marginibus-utrinque involutis; duplicis indolis. Quædam nempe submersa, situ exteriora, erecto-patula, oblongo-lanceolata, acuta, undulata, sub lente minutim et creberrimé crenulato-ciliata, utrinque, precipué deorsüm attenuata, tenuia et membranacea, flaccida, atroviridia, Гела, utrinque lineolis fuscis, latiusculis, rectis, transversis inscripta, 8—12-pollicaria, suprà lucida, subtùs opaca, cost’ valde elevatà et crassá in petiolum desinente brevissimum, pollicarem, à basi folii decurrente marginatum, nervisque paucis, remotis, capillaceis, suboppositis, valdè obliquis.: Alia folia natantia, illis copiosiora, long’ petiolata, ovato- vel oblongo-cordata, obtusa vel subacuta, integerrima, 4—6-pollicaria, coriacea, Сеута, sinu basis profundo, angusto, fundo parùm dilatato, lobis pollicaribus, rotundis, semi-imbrican- tibus; plana, suprà atroviridia, lucida, subtüs pallidiora, opaca, 7—9-nervia, nervis gracilibus, indivisis, ех apice petioli plano-dilatata usque ad apicem folii fer’ parallel’. excurrentibus, exterioribus utrinque duobus juxta curvaturam marginum loborum basis arcuatis, ceteris rectis, prominentibus, intermedio paulló majore, carinato; nervis aliis сарШасеів, obsoletissimis, punctisque minutis, elevatis, longitudinaliter seriatis interjectis ; venis transversis, parallelis, numerosis et approximatis, vix elevatis, fuscis. Ретюш carnosi, crassi, erecti, 3-angulares, suprà latiusculi et plani, subtis convexi et carinati, angulis aculeis minutis, hyalinis asperis ; pedales ad bipedales, basi membranaceo-dilatati et imbricantes. Scarr 5 vel 6 in singula planta ex sinubus petiolorum solitarii, erecti, cylindrici, carnosi, petiolos longitudine zequantes, hisce tamen crassiores, nudi; basi graciles, subcomplanati, albicantes ; sursim sensim dilatati, ad inser- tionem spathae dilatato-complanati, sep’ digitum minimum crassi. IwFLoREsCENTIA terminalis, supra aque superficiem elevata, erecta, spathà monophyllà inclusa, dioica. ЅрАтнА wAscULA multiflora, compressa, ovato-cordata, vel oblonga, hinc convexa, ind? plana, vel * concaviuscula, 2—3-pollicaris, carnosa, nervosa, punctis innumeris, elevatis, conicis, seriatim dispositis aspera, intüs pallida, levis, marginibus compressis, porrectis, ore contracto, parüm compresso, multi-dentato, dentibus inzequalibus, ovatis, acutis, erectis. Етовез 20—30, magni, candidi, centro lutescentes, infundibuliformi-patentes, diametro 1у-роШсагев, longissimé pedunculati supraque spathae os elevati. Реромсим graciles, cylindrici, albi, leves, sursüm levitér rubescentes, spathá dimidio vel duplo, interdum tripld longiores, fundo ejus densé inserti, apice parüm incrassati. —PERrANTHIUM 6-partitum: lacinie З exteriores oblongo-lanceolate, acute, plane, unguiculares, erectiuscule, pallidé lutescentes, уепшоѕге, nervo dorsali obsoleto apiceque viridescentibus ; inferiores istis alternantes duplóque majores, petaloides, tenuissimé membranaces, obovate, rotundato-obtusc, integerrimze, candide, juxta nervos 8 capillaceos eleganter plicatee, deorsim angustatze, planze et lutescentes, гевйуайопе vari’ plicatze et a laciniis exterioribus imbricantibus inclus. Sramina 12, erecta et parallela, duplici serie opposità disposita; 6 nempe? exteriora, lacinias exteriores longitudine гедиап а ; 6.interiora, hisce. opposita, dimidio longiora. Fitamenta distincta, carnosa, filiformia, leviter complanata, lutescentia, pilis mollissimis, multis patentibus ciliata. ` ANTHEIuE magne, glabra, сагповге, егесіге, oblong, utrinque longitudinalitér dehiscentes, polline copioso, aureo, globulari; exteriores filamentis feré longiores; interiores iisdem breviores. Ovanra nulla. туш 3, filiformes, pilosi, erecti, filamentis parüm longiores, glandulis 3 centralibus, carnosis, brevibus, sessilibus, ovatis, flavis, laciniis perianthii interioribus oppositis (staminibus sterilibus ?) alternantes. темата profunde biloba, stylos longitudine aquantia, linearia, obtusa, Теуйфг divergentia, lutea, basi parüm pilosa. РАТНА FGMINEA in distincta planta, masculà multd minor, 1-flora, oblonga, irregulariter 3- vel 4-angulata, glabra, aut punctis minutis, seriatis asperula, sursüm vix angustata, ore valdé inzequalitér dentato, dentibus lanceolatis, acutis. Fos solitarius, sessilis. Ревтлмтнтом epigynum, 6-partitum, patens; /acinie omnind ut in flore masculo. Ovarium inferum, cylindraceo-carnosum, oblongum, leve, nitidum, sursüm vix angustius, pollicare vel ultrà, враќа Теге omnind inclusum et cavitatem ejus totam replens, pseudo- multiloculare, polyspermum, placentis 9 ad 15 parietalibus, liberis, ad axin excurrentibus, utrinque ovula plurima minuta, globulosa ad- figentibus. Sryu 9, aliquandó 15, graciles, filiformes, minutim рарШові, erectiusculi. Эттематл ut in flore masculo sed angustiora, diver- gentia. FiLAMENTA STERILIA tot quot styli, hisque intermixta, nunc fasciculata, filiformia, glabra, nuda. GrANDuLE centrales 3, carnosa, ovate, crenulatze, brevissime. This is one of the most charming water plants with which I am acquainted. It grows in vast quantities in ponds, sometimes occupying nearly their whole surface. The roots are loosely attached to the bottom, while the rest of the plant is partly submerged and partly floating or erect above the water. The plant is two or three feet high, and consists of a great number of leaves and scapes, which are of a fleshy consistency, and have а dark-green colour. The leaves are of two sorts. Those which are submerged are almost sessile, oblong-lanceolate, waved, nearly a foot long, of a thin and membranous texture, elegantly variegated on the underside with numerous short, parallel, собна brown bands or stripes. The other leaves are supported on long petioles, and float on the surface of the water ; they are peculiarly symmetrical, of an ovate-cordate form, perfectly entire, with from seven to nine parallel Pie the underside is beautifully decorated with numerous short, brown veins between the nerves, The spathes vary in size and form ; the males are many-flowered and covered with innumerable elevated points, arranged in longitudinal lines. Тһе female spathes are smaller and smoother, and always one-flowered. Тһе flowers аге Ll white with a yellow tinge in the centre. — All the green parts are eaten by the Burmese as pot-herbs, for which purpose they are collected in great quanti- ties, and carried to the market at Ava, in the vicinity of which capital the plant is found in ponds, flowering profusely CZ totana 2 endet. Printed by Engelmann Graf Condet 42 Co AM Gaua lth. lishnupersaud del? 65. 2 dala Же е CO \ \ т eaves a еі ranted. by Engelmann. Graf. Conde 6 о 1 $ 4 4 EP dt ra оС ул UPrsaud qu; : Тат, 53 in the month of September. I also met with it towards the summit of th about twenty-five miles from Ava, in flower in November. : It affords me very great pleasure to be able to dedicate so fine a plant to Dr. Boott, a zealous and excellent botanist, whom I am proud to number among my best friends. I am confident also that the worthy Professor Bigelow, whose genus Boottia has been found to be too nearly allied to Potentilla to admit of being separated from it, ' will participate in my feelings on this occasion. я < e mountains -саШей Toong Dong, distant Plate LXV. Fig. 1. Male spathe and flower opened. 2. Stamens. 3. Two of these detached and enlarged. ^^ 4. Sterile styles and central glands. 5. A small spathe divided horizontally. 6. Spathe containing the female flower. 7. The same opened.: 8. Ovarium enlarged and cut transversely. 9. Style. à | JUSTICIA vENUSTA. Тар, 66. Fruticosa, folis ovatis, acuminatis, crenatis, per petiolum latè decurrentibus, pubescentibus; paniculá amplis- simá terminali, longissime pedunculatá; floribus fasciculato-racemosis, tubulosis, faucis bilabiatze laciniis linearibus ; antheris exsertis, carnosis, loculis gracillimis parallelis ; capsulá lineari, polyspermá. | | i Habitat in montibus Pundua dictis, Bengal orientali confinibus, indeque anno 1825 in hortum Calcuttensem intro- ducta. Tempus florendi Septembri et Octobri; capsule mature versus finem anni. Евотех 3—4-pedalis, erecta, parcissimé ramosa. СОлошѕ digitum feré crassus, cortice cinerascente indutus. Rami breves, obsoletè quadrangulares, superné pubescentes. Forra opposita, approximata, decussatim patentissima, ovata, attenuato-acuminata, obsolet? cre- ` nulata, basis lateribus rotundatis, medio attenuato et per petiolum decurrente, 5—7-pollicaria, membranacea, utrinque marginibusque pilis brevibus, hyalinis asperula, suprà atro-viridia, oblique rugosa, subtüs costá gracili, elevatà, nervis numerosis, parallelis, obliquis, interque hos venis capillaribus, transversis. Реттош 2—3-pollicares, sulcati, sursum propter basin folii decurrente. latiusculé marginati. Panicuta terminalis, lato-ovata, ramosa, patentissima, longissim? pedunculata. PEDUNCULI graciles, elongati, pallidi, suleis duobus oppositis, levibus notati, pubescentià copiosá, glanduloso-capitellata obsiti ; universalis semipedalis, pedalis, usque ad bipedalem ; partiales semipedales ad pedales, fere filiformes. Ввлствж infra ramificationes primarias opposite, ҒоПасеге, lineari-lanceolatze, pollicares ; reliquee lineari-csubulatzee, breves. Frores pulcherrimi, atro-purpurei, гето fasciculati, subsessiles, dispositi in racemos elongatos, graciles. Сллхх glanduloso-pilosus, parvus, 5-fidus ; /acinie lineares, acuminate. Совошмил tubulosa, tripollicaris, extis pubescens; tubus gracilis, 1-pollicaris, basi pallidus, apice subventricoso-dilatatus ; limbus 2-labiatus, tubo quadrupld brevior, labio superiore recto, levitérve ad- scendente, 2-fido ; inferiore patente, 3-fido : laciniis omnibus linearibus, obtusiusculis. Sramma 2, supra faucem perviam, puberulam parüm elevata, glabra; filamenta capillacea, brevissima; anthere oblongae, сагповге, parùm divergentes, labio coroll superiore dimidio bre- viores, antic’ 2-loculares, loculis angustissimis, gracillimis, equalibus. Capsura gracilis, pallide ferruginea, levis, linearis, subtetragona, utrinque profunde sulcata, polyspermá. Semına parva, plana, ovata, minutim rugosa. . This is one of the loveliest species of Justicia with which I am acquainted ; remarkable on account of its large and spreading inflorescence, which is lifted above the uppermost leaves by means of a long and slender common peduncle. The flowers are tubular, and of a deep purple colour, contrasting in a very striking manner with the dark-green and large foliage. I had the satisfaction of bringing a growing plant (о England in 1828, which was presented by the Honourable Court of Directors.of the East India Company to the Horticultural Society of London, in whose rich ‚ garden at Chiswick it has lately blossomed. Plate LXVI. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx. 3. Corolla. 4. Stamen. 5. Anther divided transversely. CIRRHOPETALUM WALLICHH. Та). 67. Ретлы$ sepaloque supremo oblongis, retusis, muticis ; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis, obtusis, scapi longitudine. Lénd/. Orchid. p. 59. Cirrhopetalum Wallichii, Lindl. loc. си. iic Habitat super rupibus montis Sheopore aliarumque in Napalia, florens Septembri. levis. Cavus gracillimus, repens, ramosus, radiculas longas, divisas emittens. PsEUDOBULBI PraNTULA gregaria, omnibus partibus lon Forrum erectum, oblongum, obtusum, levissimé retusum, subsessile, basi acutum, ovati, nudi, lzeves, 3-роШсагев, 1-phylli, subapproximati. ‘ ы 3-pollicare, mida coriaceum et rigidum, planum, suprà atro-viride, lucidum, leviter canaliculatum; subtàs parüm carinatum, pallidum, punctulatum. Scarus e basi pseudobulbi, erectus, tenerrimus, filiformis, teres, -pollicaris, елей munitus paucis, remotis, lanceolatis, basi subvaginantibus. Frores horizontalitèr patentes, parüm ultra pollicem longi, fusci, striis rubescentibus ornati, pedicellis unguicnla- "риз, subclavatis suffulti, 4—8 dispositi in umbellam terminalem, subdimidiato-secundam. Валотвова linearis infra singulym pedi- . cellum, ipsoque paulló brevior. SEPALUM supremum oblongo-ovatum, ұза) um p lineas 4 longum, Saritan ; lateralia lon- gissima, difformia, lineari-lanceolata, in acumen longum attenuata, pollicaria, striate, basi сопсат& infra basin Сони comiata, indè · torta, marginibus exterioribus introrsùm spectantibus, sibi invicem parallelis et contiguis, деш solutis. PETALA sepalo dorsali similia, flava, | basi sanguinea, erecta, columnze parallela. LaseLLum brevissimum, inclusum, ovatum, plicatum, acutum, articulatione colar conice, ` 2-dentatæ basi valdè elongate adfixum, læve, nudum. ANTHERA ovata, Mass Рошлхїз 4, inæqualia, рег paria agglutinata in pollinia ‚2 plana, obliquè sulcata. ; Plate LXVII. Fig. 1. Flower dissected. OTOCHILUS rusca. Tab. 68. Реворовотв1з elongatis, fusiformibus; foliis lineari-lanceolatis ; bracteis linearibus; sepalis petalisque obtusis. Lindl. Orchid. p. 35. Otochilus fusca, Lindl. loc. cit. Habitat parasitica supra arborum truncis in montibus Napalize, ubi floret versus finem pluviarum. Pianta longè serpens, omnibus partibus levis. Рзкоровоьвт plures, oblongo-clavati, vel fusiformes, graciles, flavo-virides, digitum minimum crassi, pollices 3—8 longi, basi contractà muniti squamis paucis, ovatis, aridis, subdisticht imbricantibus, ibique emittentes radiculas fasciculatas, fibroso-ramosas, infra apicem 2-phyllam catenulatim connexi, caulem mentientes subdichotomum, pedalem, 2-peda- ` lemve. Foza lineazi-lanceolata, attenuato-acuminata, basi acuta petioloque brevissimo, canaliculato suffulta, levitér divergentia, coriacea, plana, 5—8-pollicaria, suprà atroviridia, striata, subtüs glaucescentia et punctata, costa elevatà. Нлсвмов gracilis, planus, oblongus, laxus, nutans, pedunculatus, lateralitér ex apice pseudobulbi progrediens, extrafoliaceus, 6-pollicaris, constans floribus fragrantibus, gra- cilibus, approximatis, ex albo dilut? roseis, divaricato-patentissimis, alternantibus, distichis. PgpuNcuLvs teres, 2-pollicaris, indutus squamis lanceolato-oblongis, acutis, pollicaribus, subventricosis, alternis, imbricantibus; apice nudus. Racnis recta, teres. PEDICELLI breves, subclavati, rubri, suffulti bracted lanceolato-lineari, canaliculatà, unguiculari, pedicello dupl longiori, deciduâ. $єрлгА PETALAque linearia, obtusa, parüm canaliculata, subzequalia, fer? pollicaria, patentissima. ^ LanELLUM lineari-ligulatum, unguiculare, deflexum, nudum, planum, basi brevissimá, rubicunda, truncato-subtubulosá, intüs bicarinata, imam columnam amplectente. Cotumna gracillima, rubra, erecta, sepalorum longitudine, semiteres, apice clavato-incrassatá, incurvá, antice in ligulam obsoletam product. Актневл ter- minalis, conica, mobilis, decidua. Massa pou.inis 4, obovatze, ope fili vald? elastici, granulosi per pares соппехае. Plate LXVIII. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. The same dissected. 3. Anther. 4. Pollen-masses. 5. The same detached forcibly from each other, in order to shaw the elastic thread by which they are united. BOLBOPHYLLUM cYLINDRACEUM. Tab. 69. Pseuposutsts nullis; foliis solitariis, oblongo-lanceolatis, petiolatis, scapis dupló brevioribus ; spicá densissimá, cylindraceà, basi spathá involutá; sepalis lateralibus semiovatis, planis, collateralibus : supremo minore; petalis minimis, ovatis, obtusis ; labello ovato, obtuso. Lindl. Orchid. р. 54. Bolbophyllum cylindraceum, Lindl. loc. cit. Habitat ad cacumen montis Sheopore, arborum parasiticum. Floret Octobre. Рилмтл сазрНова, erecta, rigidiuscula, levis. RAprx constans fibris densis, simplicibus. Cavrrs nullus. Forta plura, oblonga, erecta, petiolata, utrinque acuta, plana, basi leviter canaliculata, coriacea et firma, 6—8-pollicaria, suprà atro-viridia, lucida, subtis pallida, costa crassá, nervis capillaceis, parallelis. Ркттошов crassus, profundé canaliculatus, 2-pollicaris, basi circumdatus squamis aliquot 1ахё im- bricantibus, lanceolatis, aridis, persistentibus, ipsum longitudine subzequantibus. Scarr pauci, graciles, teretes foliis longiores, pennam columbinam crassi, pedales et ultra, basi medioque bracteà oblong’, acuminatá, subvaginante, агіда, unguiculari vel pollicari. Spica terminalis, cylindrica, 5-pollicaris, digitum minimum fer? crassa, basi involuta bracted spathaceá, oblongo-lanceolata, pollicari vel 2-pol- licari, arida, fuscescente. Frores parvi, undique densissim’ imbricantes, pallide flavi, brevissim? pedunculati, suffulti bracteold brevi, lineari. Stratum anticum situatione inferius, ovatum, subfornicatum, apice acuta subrecurvum ; (аёегайа isto triplo majora, semiovata, basi latà infra columnam connata, plano-patentia, obtusa, marginibus interioribus parallelis.. Ретлһл valdé parva, lanceolata. LABELLUM situatione superius, ovatum, canaliculatum, subunguiculatum, рашде fuscescens. Сомма brevis, apice bidentata, basi horizontalitér producta. ANTHERA ovata, mobilis, cuspidata. Massa рошлмів 2, planc, suborbiculate. Plate LXIX. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Тһе same dissected. “М. Gauci lith Фо veneta ra^ Cetnalet детали 2 „е сет " / Printed. by En athand del? 67 Од бағадан 2 deii Printed. by Engelmann, Стар winda 60. қ M Gauci lth ейт ЖЖ 68 4 dei 3». p 5 4 ес Printed. by Engelmann, Graf, indet 4 cz M Gauci beth 7 “ e PA fo CH. dia CC HL ” Ji 77 Ки Vig . AL Gauci lith, Engelmann. Eraf ббілеіс" 00 бе achana del* 55 TRIAS OBLONGA. Tab. 70. Forus oblongis. Lindl. Orchid. p. 60. . Trias oblonga, Lindl. loc. cit. Habitat in montibus Napaliz supra arborum truncis, saxisque muscosis. | Floret Octobri. PrawTULA levis, humilis, cespites densas, sat magnas formans. Сао tenerrimus, filiformis, ramosus, repens, radiculas creberrimas, fibrillosas, breves emittens. PsEuponurar parvi, copiosi approximatique, globosi, 1-phylli, piso parùm majores, nitidi. Forum erectum, rigidum, oblongum, utrinque acutiusculum, sessile, coriaceum, crassum, 1$-pollicare, suprà atro-viride, lucidum, canaliculato-subplicatum, subtüs pallidum, costa parüm elevatá. Fros solitarius е basi pseudobulbi, longè pedunculatus, suberectus, fusco-viridis, ratione plantulae magnus, inodorus. PEpvuNcuLvs gracilis, teres, pollicaris, folio brevior, apice in ovarium breve, obsoleté 3-angulare dilatatus ; basi suffultus bracteis paucis, lanceolatis, alternis, parvis, membranaceis. ЕРАТА maxima, stellatim patentissima, eequalia, 3-angulari-ovata, acuta, plana, lineata, unguicularia; laferalia infra basin column: inserta. Perata minuta, lineari-lanceolata, vix ultra lineam longa, erecta, striata, columne parallela. LamELLUM sessile, ovatum, acutum, plicatum, fuscum, valdé parvum, adscendenti-incurvum, nudum, valde mobile, Basi contractà cum extremitate inferiore columnae рагит elongata, horizontali articulatum. CoLUMNA brevissima, antice plana, apice cavitate profunda exsculpta. Амтневл mobilis, decidua, oblonga, 2-locularis, loculo praetered vacuo, antico, antrorsim elongata, plana, curva, retusa. Mass; oLuiNIS 4, paribus duobus agglutinate. I have found another species on trunks of trees, on the banks of the rivers in Martaban, which seems to differ only in having shorter, ovate or subrotund leaves. My friend Professor Lindley, in his excellent work on the Orchidee, р. 60, calls it Trias ovata. Plate LXX, Fig. 1. 2. Flower, natural size. 3. The same enlarged. 4. The same analysed. 5. Column with detached anthers and masses of pollen, the latter cohering in two pairs. AESCYNANTHUS RAMOSISSIMA. ‘Tab. 71. Слоге ramosissimo, foliis oblongis, acuminatis ; corolla subclavata, glanduloso-pubescente. Habitat in sylvis Napalize superioris et inferioris, super arboribus rupibusque radicans, florens et fructigera a mense Julio usque ad Octobrem. PraNTA fruticosa, valdé ramosa, flaccida, ad plurium orgyarum distantiam extensa. Cavus cylindricus, calamum scriptorium crassus, przecipué ad insertionem foliorum articulato-intumescens, exserensque radiculas fasciculatas, ramulosas, epidermide indutus levi, lucida, pallidé ferrugineà. Ramı graciles, flaccidi, dichotomé divisi, virides. Forra opposita, patentia, interstitiis longiora, oblongo-lanceolata, aliquandd subovata, attenuato-acuminata, integerrima, basi acuta, ^oupollionria; сагпова, crassa, plana, suprà lucida, Мика инш, subtis pallida, punctulata, costa lata, convexiusculá, nervisque obsoletis, paucis, obliquis. Ұятты опасан, и: suprà plani, basi obscure articulati. Омвеллл terminalis et e dichotomiis ramorum solitaria, крс vel Чоайоле brevi Denies ony patens, foliis supremis brevior, constans floribus circiter 12, magnis, счети ebd fe —— speciosis, ej odoris, subcarnosis, pedunculatis. Реромсим teretes, graciles, glabri, pollicares vel infrà, и иа viget ond — se фит Ное он acutis, brevibus, involucrum polyphyllum formantibus. Сатух ODES Soe, согы dimidid brevior, ejusdem basi amplior, pallidus, glaber, obsoleté quinquenervius, 5-dentatus ; dentes lanceolati, әлді др пејат гедиа!ев. Ы ұяты рн leviter curva, p complanata, pollicaris, e basi angusta sensim уегвйв faucem es пе ad dorsum convexa, дија A span arri qui арени obsita, viscosula, intüs flava, glabra, rard puberula ; faux pervia, pes pneum, T laciniis ovatis, acutis, аа ре strià atro- purpurea notatis; superiore parüm majore bifida, inferiore duode о кҮЧ; STAMINA 5, guon 4 fertilia ‘ona ion tang parallela, didynama, e medio tubi orta, indeque usque ad ер еј ia "a elevatà в ЕилмЕемтА filiformia, pubescentia, corolla fer’ dimidid longiora, е basi parüm crassiore attenuata, apice поа oc s dentine Антивай рагу, сагпозге, p^ ойон, obtusze, nudze, biloculares, basi adfixæ, horizontaliter Bütantes, apice cum ista prog pou firmiter up. TAMEN quintum sterile clavato-capitatum, lineas duas longum, inclusum, vabo inter rino og superiora inserta. гените To brevius, строј Ovarium cylindricum, unguiculare, basi angustata, subpedicellata елет пеј annulo шо brevi, лий) Татан poen Барға, r loculare, polysporum ; placenta nempe оге opposite, stipitatze, jugiformes, intis ad axin contiguze ја utrinque ad parietes me ni i i liferis. SrvLus teres, brevis. Stigma carnosum, clavatum, vertice plano-convexum, marginibus extensee, matginibad БЕНЕН О ; { letissimé 4-angularis et 4-sulcata, pendula, levis, utrinque tumidis. Capsura gracillima, siliqueeformis, cylindraceo-compressa, obso E am ang zia, p (ун, 4 T НЕ rassitie реппәе columbinee, 1-locularis, 2-valvis: valvule plane, lineares, intüs argentec, nitidæ. Pra- cueva на it pi 7 ДКО ИУ marginulà obsoletà iisdem insertze, tenuissimé membranace:e, minutim iUm dd dehiscentiam : рро i li 4 spuriis continentes, posted explanate, рапа, directione valvulis parallele, iisdemque latiores. "Wa 22024. fusca, foveolis placentarum Јахё adherentia, obtusa, inversa, utrinque terminata pilo Й 2 4 Q attenuata, fusca, беміма perquam copiosa, 56 longissimo, cano, basis solitario, apicis geminato. INTEGUMENTUM exterius coriaceum, rugoso-scabrum ; interius subtilissimum. PERI- sPERMUM nullum. Емввуо cylindricus, subhyalinus ; cotyledones oblonge ; radicula teres, crassiuscula, supera. This beautiful plant is found rather common on trunks of trees and rocks in Nipal, covering their surface to a con- siderable extent. It арргоаёћеѕ closely to Roxburgh's Jncarvillea емен parasitica, but differs in having smaller flowers, and in the size and figure of the leaves. Plate LXXI. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx opened. 3. Corolla opened. 4. Two cohering anthers viewed from the back. 5. A detached anther seen from the anterior side. 6. Stigma. 7. 8. Ovarium. CHIRITA MACROPHYLLA. Tab. 72. Rapice repente; foliis longissime petiolatis, ovato-cordatis ; scapo elongato, paucifloro ; corolla cylindrica, medio ventricosa. Habitat in sylvis umbrosis montis Sheopore Napaliz, florens sub ae Pianta carnosa, erecta, pedalis, 2-pedalis. Raprx crassa, repens, densissimé fibrillosa. Ролл radicalia, pauca, longè petiolata, oblique patentia, ovato-cordata, aliquando ovata, basi acuta, latiusculé serrata, acuta, sinu basis levi, lobis rotundatis, seep? inzequalibus, subcar- nosa, 6—10-pollicaria, utrinque conspersa pilis brevibus, canis, subtüs nervoso-venosa. Perou erecti, crassi, carnosi, dense pubescentes, hinc sulcati, basi purpurascentes, folio dupld longiores. Scarus erectus, gracilis, cylindricus, petiolos longitudine zequans, pubescens, simplex vel semel divisus, nunc folio uno alterove parvo stipitatus, apice gerens flores aliquot magnos, flavos, speciosos, nutantes, subum- bellatos, pedunculatos. Ркрихсит teretes, longitudine inzequales, pollicares—2-pollicares, suffulti bracteà involucriformi, ovata, ciliata, unguiculari. Сльхх magnus, ovatus, subventricosus, membranaceus, 5-angularis, 5-fidus, pallidus, glaber ; lacini lanceolate, acuminate. Сокоца infundibuliformis, 14-pollicaris, calyce tripld longior, medio dilatata, fauce bilabiata, 5-loba; lobis ovatis, obtusis. Sramrna inclusa; 2 fertilia, З sterilia. FrLAMENTA fertilium carnosa, pubescentia, medio crassiora. ANTHER& oblonge, nutantes, coherentes. STERILIA subcapitata, intermedium brevissimum. PrsrrLLUM ut in C. grandiflora (suprà p. 43). Plate LXXII. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx opened. 3. Corolla opened. 4. Stamen. 5. Ovarium opened. CEROPEGIA LONGIFOLIA. Тар. 73. RapicE fibrosá; caule ramisque gracilibus, volubilibus, pubescentibus ; foliis oblongis, attenuato-acuminatissimis, undulatis, basi retusis; floribus umbellatis ; laciniis coroll lanceolato-falcatis, obtusis. Habitat in valli Napaliz ad sepes, florens folliculosque proferens mensibus Junio—Augusto. Rapix constat fibris carnosis, cylindricis, fasciculatis, cinereis, absque tuberibus. Слот gracilis, longus, ramosus, valdé volubilis, cras- sitie pennze columbine, uti rami gracillimi obsiti pubescentià copiosà, mollissima, canescente. Forra patentissima, opposita, remotiuscula, brevé petiolata, subcarnosa, oblonga, е basi retusa attenuata, acuminata, 3—7-pollicaria, subundulata, pubescentia, ciliata, suprà atro- viridia, levitér rugosa, ad sinum glandulis 2 parvulis, convexis et infra iis acervulo ciliarum ; subtüs costa elevatà, nervis remotis, obliquis, punctisque asperula minutis, paucis. Ретюшм curvi, j-unguiculares, basi hinc seepissim? glandulá laterali muniti, ramum serie ciliarum amplectentes. FronEs magni, fusco-viridescentes, limbo luteo, 13-pollicares, 6—12-congesti in wmbellam pedunculatam, extra-axillarem, solitariam, folio tripló breviorem. ^ PrpuNcuLus pollicaris vel 2-pollicaris, teres, pedicellique graciles, }-unciales, pubescentes. IwvoLucnmuM constans bracteis lanceolatis, acuminatis, infra pedicellis, iisdem pluries brevioribus. Слух levis, subcar- nosus, profundé 5-partitus; dacinie lanceolate, acuminate, patentes, basin согоПге dilatatam parüm excedentes. CoroLLÆ tubus curvus, j-uncialis, basi parùm dilatatus intüsque villosus, apice ampliatus in limbum magnum, ovatum, 5-fidum ; /acinice lanceolatze, lateribus replicatze, ideoque falcatze, apice obtusa pilis paucis, atris barbata, conniventes levitérque cohzrentes, sinubus latis, fundo acutis. GENITALIA basi tubi recondita. Совомл srAMINEA constans lobis 5 longis, simplicibus, capillaceis, supra antheris conniventibus. Еплмемтл oblongo- cylindrica, carnosa, corona breviora, ejusque lobis opposita, apice clavatà, obtusá, utrinque loculifera. Mass ропалм8 complanato-ovate, fusce, erecto, suffultee processu cuneato, basi аси supra basin corpusculi proprii, atri, minuti inserto. Ovanra subulata, Гела; stigma planum, obsolete 5-gonum. Кошмлсом 2 gracillimi, cylindraceo-subulati, divaricati, acuminati, 5-pollicares. Ѕеміма ovata, plana, mem- branaceo-marginata, fusca, coma sericea, сортова tripld breviora. Plate LXXIII. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx and corolla opened. M Gauci lith Printed by Engelmann Graf, Coindet К Co Gorachand. del? 277 с poo otimga Е 2 Gorachand delt Printed by Engebnar и Um Си RAMA LA Ж ДАТА 27, ЖА ТА Mt келме өр d анай по бо ap acc POP, LZ И ее. ЖС” 07 / / «тыл 75 Шлетван del: Я AY У Printed. by Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co 2 by Eng ‚ Graf. : „М. Gauci lüh G КА ; РА х қ 2 dir m f P AML ; 2 е Cx ч ROYLEA. Слух ovato-tubulosus, equalis, 10-nervius, semi-5-fidus ; subvillosà. Совош,А calyce brevior, bilabiata, labiis subzequalibus : superiore erecto, integro, fornicato, inferiore patente, 3-fido, lobo medio integro. $тлмтххл 4, sub labio superiore adscendentia. Ахтневж 2-loculares, loculis divaricatis. 8түгоз apice subequalitér 2-fidus. АСНЕХТА sicca, levia.—Bentham MSS. Classis Linnæana : Didynamia Gymnospermia. | Ordo naturalis :. Labiate ; Tribus Nepetee. Corolla feré omninó ut in generibus Ballota et Beringeria, formá calycis ; habitus etiam valdé abludit.— Benth. Nomen amici carissimi et zstumatissimi Johannis Forbesii Коуш, horti botanici Saharunpurensis praefecti, adoles- centis flagrantissimi felicissimique studii, eruditis in actis Societatis Medicae Calcuttensis scriptis preclari, huic generi imposul. laciniis dilatato-oblongis, venosis, erectis; intüs fauce quibus arcté affinis est hac planta. Differt precipue ROYLEA ELEGANS. Tab. 74. Barrora cinerea, Don. Prodr. Flor. Nepal. р. 111? (Benth.) Habitat in montibus Sirmorensibus, et in convalli Deyra dicta, florens fine Maji et sub pluviis. Nomen Hindustanicum, Ри ити. FnuTEX ramosissima, erecta, 3—5-pedalis. Rami patentes, paniculati, obsolete 4-angulares, tomento cinereo, brevi, densissimo vestiti, etate parüm glabriores; luxuriantes subscandentes, longissimi. Four copiosissima, opposita, patentia, interstitia scepilis longitudine subzequantia, ovata, acuta, levitér subcordata, grossé et obtust, in planta juniore, subinciso-serrata, 13-pollicaria, utrinque рагеё et adpressé pilosula, suprà leetissim? viridia, paràm rugosa, subtis incana, sub lente minutissimé glanduloso-punctata, nervoso-venosa. Ретюм unguiculares, pilosuli, suprà sulcati.: Реооксол axillares, oppositi, petiolos æquantes, pilosi, 3-flori. Frores ex albo dilutissime rosei, brevissime pedicellati. BnacrE ad basin pedicelli веѓасеге, уШова, lineas 3 long:e, persistentes, Carvx tubulosus, ‘persistens, incano-villosulus, minutìm glanduloso-punctulatus ; tubus cylindricus, 10-nervius, nervis hispidulis, fer& unguicularis, intüs pilosus, fauce demüm contract’; limbus magnus, scariosus, subeequalitér 5-fidus, erecto-patentiusculus, tubum longitudine zequans ; lacinice cuneato- oblongae, obtuse, deorsim parüm angustatze, 3-nervie, reticulatze. Совотлл calycem vix longitudine equans ; tubus cylindricus, gracilis, levis; limbus 2-labiatus, labio superiore oblongo, obtuso, subtruncato, fornicato, inferiore patulo, 3-lobo, lobis ovatis, obtusis, intermedio majusculo. Sramrna recta, parallela, didynama, labio superiore subocculta, eodemque vix longiora ; filamenta glabra; antherc divaricato- bilobze, loculis demùm confluentibus. Discus нуросумов obsoletissimus. SrYLus filiformis, staminibus parüm brevior. Srigma bilobum, lobis subulatis, divergentibus, subeequalibus. Аснемл oblonga, subcomplanata, fusca, lucida, levia, calycis tubo triplo breviora, 2 vel 3 e quatuor scepiüs abortiva. Тевта subcrustacea. РевзРЕВМОМ carneum, tenue. Empryo erectus, grandis, cofyledonibus ovatis, radiculá cylindrica. This handsome shrub is furnished with many branches and an abundance of pale-green, glaucous foliage. It pro- duces opposite, axillary peduncles, each of which bears three elegant flowers, remarkable on account of the large and scariose calyx in which the white corolla is almost hidden. It was found on the Sirmore mountains by John Forbes Royle, Esq. of the Honourable East India Company's Bengal Medical Service, and thence introduced @ into the botanic garden at Saharunpur; it was also sent by him to the Calcutta garden, where it thrives well, and blossoms in the cold season. · Тһе only time I ever met with the plant in its wild state was in April 1825, on опе of the mountains, which confine Deyra Dhoon (the valley of Deyra) to the northward. i ‚ I have sincere satisfaction in dedicating this new genus to my valued friend Mr. Royle, whose claims as an excel- lent botanist fully entitle him to that compliment. How eminently the garden at Saharunpur has benefited under his charge, is manifest by the numerous improvements and additions to its riches, which it owes to his indefatigable zeal and talents, and which are well known to the Government of Bengal, as well as to all who have visited the western provinces of Hindustan. But independent of having the care of this шор! useful establishment, he is likewise the founder of a nursery for medicinal and alpine plants generally, on the Chaor mountain of Sirmore, which has already proved of the greatest service. It is not, however, botany alone to which he has devoted his talents $ кек is not a branch of natural history in which Ме Ваз not acquired a high degree of proficiency. То се of t = nature he is devoting every moment of leisure, which his еее professional duties afford him, wit a degree o ardour and success, which is far beyond my feeble praise, and which must soon place his name high among natu- ralists. It will be observed, that in expressing my sentiments above, in the dedication of the genus, Г have adopted the words of the celebrated Professor Kunth, on the occasion of his naming the genus Lindleya after a very dear and mutual friend of us both, to whom I am indebted for the elegant dissections of the вана 20” Su MA I cannot allow this opportunity to pass without expressing publicly 2 E ofessor Kunth an a c Decandolle my grateful acknowledgments for their invaluable personal aid in the arrangements connected with the Herbaria under my charge, by which I am at present benefiting. Plate LXXIV. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx. | 3. Corolla. 4. Anther. 5. Stigma. 58 S XN OSS : Of the Genera and Species of Indian Labiatee enumerated in the Catalogue of the Collections т Dr. Райс а charge. By GroncE Вехтнлм, Esq. (Continued from page 31.) Tribus 3. AJUGOIDEZE, Benth. in Bot. Reg. vol. 15. ad calc. n. 1289.* | XII. Leucoscertrum, Smith Exot. Bot. p. 113. Calyx ovato-campanulatus, subzequalis, 5-dentatus. Corolla, tubo calyce breviore, bilabiata ; labiis abbreviatis, superiore erecto, emar- ginato, inferiore patente, trifido. Stamina 4, adscendentia, ex emargi- natura labii superioris longé exserta. Anthere loculis divaricatis confluentibus, subuniloculares. Stylus apice bifidus, lobo superiore breviore. Achenia reticulato-rugosa. 1. Г. canum, Smith loc. cit. t. 116. Teucrium macrostachyum, Wall. MSS. — Clerodendron Leucosceptrum, Don. Prod. Fl. Nepal. p. 103. Frutex ramis subteretibus vel alternatim levitér complanatis, ќо- mento candido densé vestitis. Folia ad summitates ramorum ap- proximata, petiolata, 6—8-pollicaria, oblonga, utrinque attenuata, suprà glabriuscula, subtüs densé tomentosa. Verticillastri densé spicati. Бра 3—6-pollicares, tomentose, genitalibus longè exsertis comose. Folia floralia bracteæformia, ovato-rotundata, sessilia, caly- cibus breviora. Calyces densé tomentosi. Corglla calycem vix su- perans, extüs tomentosa. Hab. in Napalia et Sillet. XIII. Teucrium, Linn. Gen. 764. А Calyx tubulosus, ovatus vel campanulatus, 5-fidus vel 5-dentatus, subæqualis vel bilabiatus. Corolle tubus calyce szepiüsbrevior,labium superius bipartitum, laciniis demissis, inferius patens, trifidum. Sta- mina 4, adscendentia, e fissura labii superioris longè exserta. Antheræ, loculis divaricatis, confluentibus, subuniloculares. Stylus apice sub- eequalitér bifidus. Achenia plùs minüsve reticulato-rugosa. 1. T. quadrifarium (Hamilt. in Don. Prodr. Fl. Nepal. p. 108), vil- losum vel rarids glabriusculum; caule herbaceo, obtusé quadrangulato, parcé ramoso; foliis brevitér petiolatis, ovatis, basi cordatis, arguté serratis, rugosis; floribus oppositis, secundis, laxé spicatis; spicis paniculatis ; foliis floralibus bractezeformibus, calyces superantibus, junioribus quadrifariàm imbricatis, demüm deciduis ; calycis pubes- centis dentibus subzqualibus, З superioribus obtusis, 2 inferioribus acutis; corolla tubo incluso, labio calyce dupló longiore.— 7. sto- loniferum, Roxb. Hort. Beng. p. 44.7 поп Hamilt. е hirsutissimum. Т. hispidum, Benth. in Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 2029. В tomentoso-pubescens. Т. quadrifarium, Hamilt. in Don. Prodr. Fl. Nepal. p. 108. Benth. in Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 2024. Т. ves- titum, Wall. MSS. y glabriusculum. Т. elevatum, Benth. in Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 2026. Ajuga elevata, Wall. MSS. Caules спсидг bipedales, erecti, basi stoloniferi (T). ^ Folia fere Т. Scorodonia, sed acutiora. Spice juniores densé imbricato, demüm laxze, 2—3-pollicares ; inferiores axillares, simplices; superiores sub- ramose, paniculam angustam formantes. Flores secundi, majores quàm in 7. Scorodonia. Calyx T. tomentosi, sed vix bilabiatus. The three plants enumerated above appear at first sight very di- stinct; but on a closer examination of a great number of specimens, I am induced to consider them as mere varieties. Тһе floral leaves often fall off before the flowering is far advanced, so as to change much the aspect of the plant. Dr. Roxburgh’s MS. description of Т. stoloniferum appears to refer to this species, which is however quite distinct from the plant to which that name is given in Dr. Hamilton’s herbarium. Hab. е in Sillet. В Napalia, Kamaon et Sirmore. у Taong Dong, mons prope Avam. * In Ajugoidea, as in Menthoidec, the Satureinee, and most other Labiate, the stigmata are minute, and placed on the inner side of the extremity of each division of the style. 2. Т. Royleanum (Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. п. 2027), tomentoso-vil- losum, foliis petiolatis, ovatis, basi subcordatis, serratis, subtüs tomen- tosis; floribus subsecundis, spicatis; spicis abbreviatis, axillaribus ; calycibus bilabiatis, dentibus 3 superioribus ovatis, 2 inferioribus acutis; corolle tubo exserto, labio calyce dupló triplóve longiore. Affine 7. quadrifario, sed statura humilius videtur, etcharacteribus datis satis distinctum. М Hab. in monte Choor. (J. Е. Royle.) 3. T. tomentosum (Heyne MSS. ex Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 2025), herbaceum (7); caule tetragono, densé tomentoso, ramoso ; foliis petio- latis, ovatis, basi attenuatis, duplicato-serratis, subtüs densé tomento- sis; paniculà ampla, ramosissima ; floribus secundis ; foliis floralibus bracteceformibus, ovatis, calyce brevioribus; calyce bilabiato, den- tibus З superioribus ovatis, 2 inferioribus acutis; corolla tubo in- cluso, labio calyce vix dupló longiore.— 7* paniculatum, Herb. Madr. Caulis, ut ex speciminibus videtur, herbaceus, erectus ; panicula amplior, ramosior, spiculis singulis brevioribus, floribus numero- sioribus quàm in 7. stolonifero et quadrifario. Folia latiora, minis rugosa, basi attenuata vel truncata, nec cordata ut in 7: quadrifario. HS. 4. T. stoloniferum (Hamilt. MSS.), herbaceum ; caule tetragono, glabro vel brevissimé tomentoso, ramoso ; foliis petiolatis, elliptico- oblongis, basi attenuatis, irregularitér crenatis; floribus secundis, Јахе spicatis; spicis pubescentibus, paniculatis; foliis floralibus bracteeformibus, calyce subbrevioribus ; calycis dentibus 3 supe- rioribus ovatis, obtusis, 2 inferioribus lanceolatis, acutis; corolle tubo incluso, labio calyce duplo longiore.— 7. Massiliense, Lour. Fl. Coch. 439? Flores precedentibus minores, panicula minor et laxior ; folia an- gustiora, basi attenuata. Hab. in Sillet. China (Herb. Hook. et Lindl.) XIV. Asuea, Linn. Gen. Calyx ovatus, subzqualis, 5-fidus. Corolla tubo subexserto, bila- biata, labio superiore abbreviato, erecto, integro vel emarginato, infe- riore majore, patente,trifido. Stamina 4, adscendentia, e labio superiore exserta. Ап еге biloculares, loculis divergentibus vel divaricatis, subconfluentibus. Stylus apice subzequalitér bifidus. Achenia reti- culato-rugosa. 1. A. lobata (Don. Prodr. Fl. Nepal. p. 108), glabriuscula, procum- bens, stolonibus reptantibus ; foliis longé petiolatis, ovatis, basi has- tato-cordatis, sinuato-lobatis; verticillastris sub 6-floris, spicatis, secundis. Basi pubescens vel villosa, cæterùm еге glabra. Florum spica 3—4-pollicaris, laxiuscula ; flores inferiores in axillis foliorum cauli* norum superiorum subsolitarii, a spica remoti. Folia floralia infe- riora caulinis conformia, superiora subsessilia, ovato-oblonga, grossé dentata. Calyx profundé 5-fidus, lobis lanceolatis, foliaceis. Corolla pilosiuscula, calycem triplo superans. Hab. in Napalia et Gossain Than. 2. A. macrosperma (Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 2035), glabriuscula ; caule basi procumbente, estolonoso, superné paniculato; foliis petio- latis, oblongis, utrinque attenuatis, grossé dentatis; verticillastris ` 6—10-floris, spicatis, inferioribus subremotis ; foliis floralibus flores vix superantibus, superioribus brevioribus ; calycis pubescentis den- tibus lato-ovatis, obtusis ; corolle tubo calycem dupló superante. Caulis 1—2-pedalis, paniculato-ramosus. Folia inferiora longé petiolata, limbo 2—4-pollicari. Spice 3—6-pollicares. Folia floralia inferiora caulinis conformia at minora, superiora ovato-lanceolata, integerrima, bracteseformia. Calyx maturitate turbinatus, dentibus brevibus, obtusissimis. Corolla parva, tubo elongato, labio inferiore quàm superius vix duplò longiore. Achenia valdé reticulata. Hab. in montibus Pundua et Taong Dong. 3. А. decumbens (Thunb. Fl. Japon. p. 243?) glabriuscula, vel su- perné villosa, prostrata vel ramis adscendentibus; foliis oblongis, ovatis, laciniato-serratis, basi attenuatis, inferioribus petiolatis; ver- ticillastris multifloris, teretibus, interrupté spicatis ; calycis pilosi dentibus lanceolatis, obtusiusculis; corollae tubo calycem vix su- perante. В? adpressé villosa, caulibus foliosis, spicis abbreviatis, foliosis. Caules elongati, prostrati, radicantes, parcé foliosi, glabri vel superné hirsuto-villosi. Spicee 3—4-pollicares. Flores majores даат in A. parviflora, at dupló minores quàm in А. reptante. Folia caulina glabra, floralia villosa, ovata, subintegerrima, bractezeformia. In var. В. folia numerosiora, minora, rigidiora, nervosa ; floralia flores subsuperantia. Hab. « in Napalia, valli Deyra dicta et in Bengala. В Kamaon. 4. A. remota (Benth. in Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 2033), villosa ; caule basi procumbente, estolonoso; foliis sessilibus, oblongis, basi attenuatis, grosse serrato-dentatis ; verticillastris sub 6-floris, remotis ; foliis floralibus flores superantibus ; calycis villosi dentibus lineari- lanceolatis, acutis ; corollae tubo calycem subdupló superantibus. В! verticillastris superioribus approximatis, subspicatis. Habitu quodammodo A. orientalem refert, at minor. Caules 6— 9 pollicares, vix ramosi. Folia floralia caulinis conformia, inferiora sesqui-, superiora semi-pollicaria, ovato- vel elliptico-oblonga, basi at- tenuata, irregularitér et profundé dentata. Flores magnitudine A. reptantis vel pyramidalis, labio superiore brevissimo. Hab. е in Kamaon. В Oude, Hurdwar. The var. В. appears to be intermediate between this species and the A. decumbens. Та Dr. Hooker’s herbarium there is a plant from the Cape, which is also closely allied to this one. If it be really а good species, I would give it the name of А. capensis, and distinguish it from the А. remota by the long, white, rigid hairs, with which it is clothed, Бу the leaves strongly nerved underneath, the floral ones shorter and broader than in А. remota, and by the flowers much more numerous in each verticillastrus, the calyces larger, and the tube of the corolla shorter. Тһе stem appears also to be shorter and more erect. 5. A. parviflora, dens? lanato-pilosa; caule basi procumbente, estolonoso ; foliis radicalibus ovatis, subintegerrimis, caulinis oblon- gis, basi attenuatis, obtusé dentatis, floralibus minoribus, conformi- bus ; verticillastris multifloris, гето! spicatis 7 calycis pilosi dentibus lanceolatis, acutis; corollis calycem vix superantibus.—A. densiflora, var, villosior, Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. п. 2031. 4 Folia caulina et floralia radicalibus multd minora, villosissima. Corolle tripló minores quàm in ceteris speciebus, labium inferius vix duplo longius quàm superius. Ver- ticillastri inferiores remoti, superiores subspicati. Hab. in Kamaon. 6. A. bracteosa (Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 2082, densé lanato- pilosa; caule basi procumbente, estolonoso ; foliis ovatis, basi atte- nuatis, sinuato-dentatis; verticillastris 6—10-floris, spicatis; foliis floralibus ovatis, flores superantibus ; calycis pilosi dentibus lato- lanceolatis, acutis ; corollæ tubo calycem duplo superante.—A. in- tegrifolia, Don. Prodr. Fl. Nep. p. 108? А. Hyoscyami, Wall. MSS. Affinis A. parviflore, densiflore et remota, at caulis ramosior ; folia multd latiora. Spicee 3—4-pollicares. Folia floralia numerosa, lato- ovata. Flores magnitudine 4. reptantis. Hab. in Napalia. „ 7 А. densiflora (Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 2031), tomentoso-pubes- cens; caule basi procumbente, estolonoso ; foliis oblongis, basi atte- nuatis, obtuse crenato-dentatis ; verticillastris multifloris, approximatis, spicatis ; foliis floralibus quam flores brevioribus ; calycis villosi den- tibus lanceolatis ; coroll tubo calycem vix superante. . Habitus А. parviflore et bracteose. А priorediffert floribus majo- ribus, spicis approximatis ; ab altera specie foliis floralibus minoribus, integerrimis. Caules 6—9-pollicares, vix ramosi, superne subnudi. Folia oblonga, vix crenata, subtüs densé tomentoso-villosa. Spice 2—4-pollicares, dense. Folia floralia ovata, integerrima. Corolla magnitudine A. pyFamidalis. Hab. in Kamaon et Napalia. Caules semipedales. 59 ХУ. Ам1зомегез, Br. Prodr. p. 503. Calyx ovatus, subzequalis, 5-dentatus. Corolla tubo calycem sub- equante, bilabiata; labio superiore abbreviato, erecto, integro vel emarginato; inferiore majore, patente, trifido. Stamina 4, adscen- dentia, e labio superiore exserta; ап его longiorum dimidiate, bre- viorum biloculares, loculis parallelis, transversalibus. Stylus apice subaequalitér bifidus. Achenia levia. 1. A. malabarica (Br.), caule erecto, fruticoso, tomentoso ; foliis lanceolatis, serratis, basi integerrimis, subtüs densé tomentosis ; ver- ticillastris densis, globosis, remoté spicatis ; foliis floralibus, bracteis dentibusque calycinis lineari-subulatis.—A juga fruticosa, Roxb. Hort. Beng. p. 44. Nepeta malabarica, Linn. Mant. p. 560. с ex omni parte densé cano-tomentosa. B nigrescens, tomentoso-villosa, foliis suprà nigrescentibus. Hab. « in Malabaria, Penang. В ad ripas Irawaddi. 2. A. ovata (Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. p. 364), villosa; foliis petio- latis, ovatis, irregularitér crenatis, floralibus conformibus, supremis angustioribus, verticillastro sæpè brevioribus; verticillastris densis, globosis, remoté spicatis; calycis villosi dentibus lanceolatis, acutis. — Nepeta indica, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 799. Nepeta amboinica, Linn. Suppl. p.273. Ballota disticha, Linn. Mant. p. 83. Ajuga disticha, Roxb. |. c. В glabrata, ex omni parte glaberrima.—4. glabrata, Benth. in Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 2041. y. mollissima, villosior ; verticillastris supremis approximatis ; foliis floralibus ovatis, caulinis conformibus, verticillastros superantibus. — А. mollissima, Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 2039. Hab. а et 8 in Napalia. у Prome, Taong Dong et Sillet. 3. A. candicans (Benth. in Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 2038), cano- tomentosa ; foliis petiolatis, ovatis vel ovato-oblongis, gross crenatis, basi attenuatis, floralibus (inferioribus exceptis) verticillastro bre- vioribus; verticillastris elongatis, cymosis, subsecundis; calycibus tomentosis, elongatis, dentibus lanceolatis; bracteis linearibus. The specimens of this plant are not so satisfactory as might be wished, yet there appears to me to be sufficient to show that they cannot belong either to А. ovata or to А. malabarica. Hab. Yenangheun ripe Irawaddi. 4. А. Heyneana, glabra, ramosa, parcé foliosa; foliis oblongis, acutis, serratis, basi attenuatis: florum cymis longé pedunculatis, se- cundis, paucifloris; bracteis parvis, linearibus; calycis dentibus lanceolato-linearibus.— Teucrium secundum, Heyne in Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 2028. Bue... The long branches apparently divaricate or ascendent, the small size of the leaves, and the secund pedunculate cymes of this plant, give it a habit somewhat different from that of the other species of the genus ; but, upon an examination of the flower, I find it has all the characters of Azisomeles. Tribus 4. NEPETE, Benth. in Bot. Reg. vol. 15. ad calc. n. 1289. $. 1. Calyx eequalis vel obliquus, 5—10-dentatus, nec bilabiatus. Stamina e tubo exserta, antheris perfectis. XVI. Leonorts, Br. Prodr. p. 504. Calyx ovatus, 10-nervius, obliqué 8—10-dentatus, intüs fauce nuda. Corolla tubo exserto, bilabiata, labio superiore erecto, elongato, Ѓог- nicato, inferiore brevissimo, reflexo-patente, 3-fido. Stamina 4, sub labio superiore adscendentia. Antherz biloculares, loculis divaricatis subconfluentibus. Styli lobus superior brevissimus. Stigmata mi- nuta. Achenia sicca, levia. 1. Г. nepetefolia (Br. 1. с.), herbacea, canescenti-tomentosa ; caule crasso, tetragono, quadrisulcato ; foliis ovato-subcordatis, irregulariter serratis; verticillastris densis, globosis, multifloris; bracteis lineari- subulatis, spinosis ; calycibus striatis, obliqué 7-dentatis, spinulosis, dente supremo producto, rigido—Phlomis nepetafolia, Linn. Sp. Р]. р. 820. Corolla dupló brevior quàm in Z. Leonuro, ovata, et intermedia, calyce vix duplo longior. Flores in quoque verticillastro densissimi, numerosi, ultrà 100. Hab. in Sillet, Coromandelia. XVII. Levucas, Br. Prodr. р. 504. Calyx ovatus vel cylindricus, 10-nervius, zequalis vel ore obliquus, 8— 10-dentatus, fauce intüs nuda vel villosà. Corolla tubo calycem subsequante, bilabiata, labio superiore erecto, ovato, fornicato, integro, extüs villosissimo, inferiore patente, trifido, lobo medio integro. Sta- mina 4, sub labio superiore adscendentia. Anthere loculis divaricatis, confluentibus, subuniloculares. Styli lobus superior brevissimus. Stigmata minuta. Achenia sicca, levia. § 1. Hemistoma, Ehrenb. MSS.—Calyx tubulosus, ore obliquo, inferné producto, suprà fisso. Verticillastri nunc globosi, multiflori, bracteis calyci subaequalibus ; ; nunc laxi, pauciflori, bracteis i mi- nutis. 1. L. urticefolia (Br. Prodr. p. 504), caule байыд) brevissimé canescenti-tomentoso ; foliis petiolatis, ovatis, gross? dentatis, gla- briusculis vel cano-pubescentibus ; verticillastris multifloris, globosis, remotis ; bracteis lineari-lanceolatis, acutis, ciliatis, — villosis, ore obliquo, inferné producto, membranaceo, glabro, suprà fisso, den- tibus 8—10, abbreviatis, acutis, inferioribus majoribus.— Phlomis urticefolia, Vahl. Symb. 3. p. 76. ` Leucas membranacea, Benth. in Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 2052. Hemistoma ovatum, AI MSS. Hab. in Bundlecund et Travancore. Тһе L. indica Br. (Phlomis indica Linn.) differs from this plant by its stem and its rugose leaves thickly clothed with a silky down; by its calyxes being much larger, with the three lower nerves terminated in short teeth, the upper ones scarcely, if at all, projecting beyond the margin. It is not in Dr. Wallich's collections. Тһе LZ. glabrata Br. (Phlomis glabrata Vahl), from the south-eastern coast of Africa, has the calyx of this section, though in habit it comes near Ше L. pro- cumbens and others of the section Ortholeucas. ` $2. Plagiostoma.—Calyx turbinatus vel tubulosus, ore obliquo, su- perné productiore. Verticillastri вери globosi, multiflori, solitarii vel pauci, supremis nunc — Bractez calycibus гедиајев vel paulló breviores. ` qo 2. L. martinicensis (Br. Prodr. p. 504), herbacea; caule erecto, parcé ramoso, tomentoso-pubescente, tetragono, sulcato; foliis bre- vitér petiolatis, ovatis vel oblongis, basi attenuatis, crenatis, pubes- centibus ; verticillastris globosis, densé multifloris, remotis, bracteis subulatis, calyce paulló brevioribus; calycibus tubulosis, incurvis, basi membranaceis, apice striatis, villosis, ore obliquo, dentibus sub- ulatis, rigidis, supremo longissimo.— Phlomis martinicensis, Sw. Prod. p.88. Phlomis сатбеа, Jac. Ic. Rar. 1. t. 110. Leucas polycephala, Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 2051. Hab. in monte Taong Dong. This plant is also found in Brasil and in the West Indies, where however it is probably not indigenous, but naturalized since the dis- covery of the New World. 3. L. decurva (Benth. in Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 2050), herbacea, canescens ; foliis subsessilibus, ovatis vel ovato-oblongis, crenatis ; verticillastris densé multifloris, remotis; bracteis oblongis vel lan- ceolatis, calyce fructifero dimidió brevioribus; calycibus pubescen- tibus, elongatis, striatis, decurvis, ore obliquo, reflexo, dentibus lineari- subulatis vix inzequalibus. А L. nutante differt calycibus longioribus, magis decurvis, bracteis lanceolatis nec subulatis, corollá minore, tubo filiformi. Hab. ad Segain пра Irawaddi. · 4. Г. nutans (Spr. Syst. 2. p. 743), herbacea ; caule erecto, piloso, ramoso ; foliis petiolatis, oblongis vel энн cabin grossé ser- ratis, basi attenuatis, utrinque villosis; verticillastris subsolitariis vel approximatis, globosis, densé multifloris; bracteis subulatis, ciliatis, calyce fructifero dimidió brevioribus ; calycibus tubulosis, demüm elongatis, decurvis, striatis, pilosis, ore obliquo, dentibus abbrevi- atis, setaceis, vix intequalibus. — Phlomis nutans, Roth Nov. Pl. Sp. р. 203. Hab. ad ripas Irawaddi. 5. L. Cephalotes (Spr. Syst. 2. p. 743), herbacea ; caule pubescente, ramoso, folioso; foliis petiolatis, oblongis, serratis, basi attenuatis, pubescentibus; verticillastris subsolitariis, terminalibus, densà mul- tifloris, globosis; bracteis ovato-lanceolatis, acutis, nervosis, calycem 60 equantibus ; calycibus villosis, tubulosis, apice striatis, ore obliquo, dentibus subulatis vix inzequalibus.— Г. capitata, Desf. Mem. Mus. 11. p.8.t.4. Phlomis cephalotes, Roth Nov. Pl. Sp. p. 262. Hab. in Napalia; ad ripas Gangis. The bractez are usually rather larger and more closely appressed than is represented in Desfontaines's figure, which is otherwise very good. 6. L. Plukenetii (Spr. Syst. 2. p. 7431), herbacea ; caule erecto, piloso, ramoso; foliis brevitér petiolatis, oblongis, grossé serratis, basi attenuatis; pubescenti-villosis; verticillastris subsolitariis vel paucis, remotis, densé multifloris, globosis; bracteis subulatis, ci- liatis, calycem subzequantibus; calycibus turbinato-tubulosis, incurvis, basi glabris, apice striatis, pilosis, ore obliquo, dentibus abbreviatis, acutis, vix ineequalibus.—Phlomis Plukenetii, Roth Nov. Р]. Sp. p. 261? Leucas cephalotes No. 2, Benth. in Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 2043. Phlomis esculenta, Roxb. 1. с. Hab. in Hindustania. This plant agrees very well with Roth’s description, except in the stem, which is always hairy. Іп Dr. Hooker's and other herbaria I have seen a variety from the Mauritius, which has the leaves scarcely serrate and the flowers rather larger. Blume’s Phlomis cephalotes (Bijdr. p. 830) appears to be a very different plant from Roth's P. cephalotes. Froma specimen in Smith's herbarium brought by Commerson from Java, and another in the Banksian herbarium from the Garden of Amsterdam, both of which agree with Blume's description, I should consider his plant as a di- stinct species intermediate between the 2. zeylanica, of which it has in many respects the habit and foliage, and Ше Z. Plukenetii, of which it has the inflorescence. Тһе calyx is less hairy and more oblique than in the Z. Plukenetii. In the Banksian herbarium it bears Solander's MS. name of Phlomis media, which specific name it might aptly retain in transferring it to the genus Leucas. 7. І. zeylanica (Br. Prodr. p. 504.), herbacea ; caule erecto, piloso, ramoso ; foliis breviter petiolatis, oblongis vel oblongo-linearibus, in- tegerrimis vel remoté serratis, basi attenuatis, subglabris ; verticillas- tris paucis, supremis capitatis, laxé multifloris, globosis ; bracteis sub- ulatis, ciliatis, calyce subbrevioribus ; calycibus. turbinatis, glabris, ore obliquo, dentibus abbreviatis, supremis majoribus.— Phlomis zey- lanica, Linn. Sp. Pl. 820, non Roth, пес Roxb. Leucas involucrata, Benth. in Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 2047. ‚ Hab. іп Pegu et in Ceylona. ` I have compared this plant with the original specimens of Phlomis zeylanica in Burmann's Ceylon herbarium, and also with Linnzus's specimen in his own herbarium, where however he has subsequently added a garden specimen of the L. Plukenetii. The plant sent by Roxburgh and others as the Phl. zeylanica, is the L: linifolia, and that described by Roth appears to be a variety of his Phi. dimidiata. 8. Г. linifolia (Spr. Syst. 2. p. 743); herbacea; caule erecto, cano- pubescente, ramoso ; foliis breviter petiolatis, oblongo-linearibus, re- motè serratis, basi attenuatis, canescentibus; verticillastris paucis, globosis, densé multifloris, superioribus approximatis ; ` bracteis subu- latis, ciliatis, calyce fructifero dimidio brevioribus; calycibus gla- bris, turbinatis, ore obliquo, dentibus acutis, supremo maximo.— Phlomis linifolia, Roth Nov. Pl. Spec. p. 260. Р: zeylanica, Roxb. 1. е. * Flowers white.—This plant has a pleasant aromatic smell; its flowers are used by the Brahmins to decorate their deity Iswara,” Rovb. MSS. Hab. in Sillet Bengal, et in Mauritio. 9. L. Wightiana, herbacea; caule erecto, ramoso, glabriusculo vel pilis raris, obversis pubescente ; foliis subsessilibus, oblongo-linearibus, utrinque attenuatis, integerrimis, glabriusculis; verticillastris parvis, distinctis vel supremis approximatis, globosis, dens? multifloris ; brac- teis linearibus, ciliatis, calyces subeequantibus ; calycibus turbinatis, villoso-hispidis, ore obliquo, dentibus abbreviatis, acutis, vix inæ- qualibus. Hab . Herb. Wight. 10. L. hyssopifolia (Benth. іп Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 2044), herbacea ; caulibus ccspitosis, subsimplicibus, tetragonis, hispidis ; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis vel linearibus, obtusis, subintegerrimis, ner- vosis, hispidis ; verticillastris 6—10-floris, globosis ; bracteis lineari- bus, ciliatis, calyce subbrevioribus ; calycibus turbinatis, glabris vel apice vix pilosis, ore obliquo, truncato, dentibus minutis, zequalibus, setaceis. Statura et folia feré Prunelle hyssopifolie, pars caulis persistens crassa, sublignosa. Hab. in Napalia, Kamaon. 11. L. dimidiata (Spr. Syst. 2. p. 743), herbacea ; caule diffuso, tetragono, sulcato, piloso; foliis subsessilibus, oblongo-lanceolatis, obtusis, subintegerrimis, hispido-pilosis ; verticillastris remotis, 10— 15-floris, dimidiatis ; bracteis linearibus, ciliatis, calyce brevioribus ; calycibus oblongis vel turbinatis, incurvis, basi glabris, apice striatis, pilosis, ore obliquo, dentibus subaequalibus, setaceis vel subulatis, sub- pungentibus.—Phlomis dimidiata, Roth Nov. Pl. Sp. p.264. Phlo- mis zeylanica, Roth Nov. РІ. Sp. p. 260 non Linn. This appears to be a very variable plant. The leaves resemble those of L. hyssopifolia, but are smaller; the verticillastri are con- stantly dimidiate, the teeth of the calyx аге sometimes very short, more frequently nearly as long as the breadth of the calyx. Нера (Herb: Madr., Кош. et Wight.) 19. L. stricta (Benth. in Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 2045), her- bacea ; caule erecto, stricto, ramoso, parcé folioso, piloso, foliis sub- sessilibus, oblongo-linearibus, acutis, subintegerrimis, glabriusculis vel piloso-hispidis ; verticillastris ad apicem ramorum subsolitariis, globosis, densé multifloris ; bracteis subulatis, ciliatis, calycem sub- eequantibus; calycibus turbinato-tubulosis, basi glabris, apice striatis, pilosis, ore obliquo, dentibus setaceis, superioribus longioribus, de- mim substellato-patulis—Phlomis stricta, Herb. Heyne. | This species appears intermediate between the L. hyssopifolia, or dimidiata of the section Plagiostoma, and the L. ciliata of Astrodon, thus connecting the two sections. The stems are about a foot high, with very fewleaves ; the verticillastri terminal, with a pair of very long leaves proceeding from their base, and sometimes another pair from their centre. | Hab..... (Herb. Heyne.) The Leucas aspera, Spr. Syst. 2. p. 743, (Phlomis aspera Willd.) belongs also to this section. $. 3. Astrodon.—Calyx tubulosus, ore sequali, fauce sæpiùs villo- sissimá. Verticillastri sæpiùs globosi, multiflori, solitarii vel pauci, su- premis nunc capitatis. — Bractece calycibus vix breviores. 13. L.ciliata (Benth. in Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 2046), herbacea; caule erecto, ramoso, retrorsüm piloso; foliis petiolatis, elliptico-vel ovato-oblongis, attenuatis, crenatis vel serratis ; verticillastris densé multifloris, globosis, distinctis ; bracteis lineari-subulatis, ciliatis, calycem subzequantibus ; calycibus ovatis, truncatis, pubescentibus, ore æquali, fauce intüs nunc villosissimà, nunc subnuda, dentibus subulatis, ciliatis, stellato-patulis —Phlomis ciliata, Herb. Heyne. Hab. Napalia. ; 14. Г. stelligera caule erecto, pubescenti ; rioribus oblongo-linearibus, glabriusculis, canescentibus, (Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 2049), herbacea ; foliis petiolatis, elliptico-oblongis, vel supe- utrinque attenuatis, crenatis vel serratis, nervosis; verticillastris densé multi- floris, ad apice ramorum solitariis, vel binis ternisve fastigiatis, bracteis lineari-lanceolatis, ciliatis, villosis, apice hamatis ; calycibus tomentosis, ore æquali, fauce intüs villosissimá, dentibus subulatis, rigidis, recurvo-stellatis, ciliatis. | Hab. Aurungabad. 15. L. rosmarinifolia, sessilibus, linearibus, obtusis, integerrimis, P «oreet tuberculoso-villosis, subtüs cano-tomentosis ; verticillastris subsol- tariis, terminalibus, sub-10-floris ; bracteis oblongis, acutis, calyces superantibus; calycibus ovato-tubulosis, truncatis, ore quali, fauce intis villosissima, dentibus minutis, demüm substellatis. (Herb. Wight.) 16. L. helianthemifolia (Desf. Mem. frutex (7); ramis rufescenti-villosis ; suffrutex (7); саше villoso, subtereti ; foliis margine revolutis, suprà Mus. 11. p. 2. t. 1. f. 1), suf- folis subsessilibus, elliptico- 61 oblongis,utrinque attenuatis, integerrimis vel remoté crenatis, nervosis, suprà hispidis, subtüs villosis; verticillastris approximatis, subcapi- tatis, densé multifloris ; bracteis linearibus, demüm calyce brevioribus ; calycibus ovatis, subinflatis, tomentosis, ore zequali, fauce villosissimá, dentibus linearibus, demüm recurvo-patulis.— Phlomis hirta, Heyne MS.—an Roth Nov. Sp. Pl. p.264? Leucas hirta, Spreng. Syst. vol. 2. р. 743! 1. rufescens, Benth. in Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n*2053. (Herb. Heyn. Madr. et Wight.) The L. ternifolia (Desf. Mem. Mus. 11. p. 4. t. 1. #.2.), which is not in Dr. Wallich's collection, belongs to this section, and should be placed next the L. helianthemifolia. 17. Г. lanceafolia (Desf. Mem. Mus. 11. p. 5. t. 2. f. 2.), herbacea (7); caule erecto, rufo-tomentoso ; foliis petiolatis, oblongis, utrinque attenuatis, integerrimis, venosis, suprà villosis, subtüs densé cano- tomentosis ; verticillastris globosis, distinctis, densé multifloris ; brac- teis linearibus, acutis, subspinosis, calyces cquantibus; calycibus ovatis, tomentosis, ore zequali, fauce іпбів subvillosà, dentibus abbre viatis, acutissimis, demüm stellato-patulis. Наһ..... (Herb. Wight.) 18. L. vestita, herbacea; caule erecto, ramoso, pilis rufis hirsutis- simo; foliis petiolatis, ovatis vel ovato-lanceolatis, crenatis, utrinque viridibus, densé rufo-villosis; verticillastris distinctis, globosis, densé multifloris ; bracteis linearibus, acutis, ciliatis, cal ycem zequan- tibus; calycibus ovatis, villosis, ore zequali, fauce intüs rufo-villo- sissimá, dentibus subulatis, stellato-patulis, ciliatis ; corolle pilis rufis. Hab. in Sillet. Тһе L. lamiifolia (Desf. Mem. Mus. 11. p. 4. t. 2. f. 1.) is also an Astrodon, and appears to differ from the last species chiefly by its leaves, cordate at the base, and clothed underneath with a silky down. 54. Ortholeucas.—Calyx tubulosus, ore quali, fauce subnuda. Verticillastri вгерійв pauciflori, remoti. Bractez minute, setacez. 19? L. marrubioides (Desf. Mem. Mus. 11. p. 6. t. 3. f. 1.), her- bacea (7); caule tetragono, lanato-pubescente ; foliis petiolatis, ovatis vel ovato-oblongis, basi subcordatis, grossé crenatis, suprà pubes- centibus, subtüs lanatis; verticillastris globosis, dens? multifloris, remotis, supremis folia floralia superantibus; bracteis linearibus, calyce subdimidid brevioribus; calycibus tubulosis, striatis, villosis, ore equali, vel vix obliquo, dentibus 10, abbreviatis, setaceis, erectis. В. glabrior. (Herb. Madr.) et in Ceylona (Herb. Lindl). В. .... (Herb. Wight.) This plant scarcely belongs to this section, but cannot well be placed in either of the two preceding ones, of the characters of which it partakes.—The verticillastri are 30- or 40-flowered at least; the bractez are often scarcely shorter than the calyx. 20. L. lanata (Benth. in Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 2055.), suf- frutex ; caule ramoso, densé sericeo-lanato, foliis petiolatis, ovatis, crenatis, rugosis, utrinque densé sericeo-lanatis ; verticillastris laxius- culis, multifloris, remotis; bracteis minutis, setaceis ; calycibus tu- bulosis, striatis, ore zequali, dentibus brevissimis, erectis.— Marru- bium mollissimum, Don. Prodr. Fl. Nepal. p. 112? “lores сетшеі. Odor gratus debilis." Wall. MSS. Hab. in Kamaon, Sirmore et in valle Dhoon dicta. 91. L. montana (Spr. Syst. 2. p. 742.), suffrutex ; ramis tomentosis; foliis brevitér petiolatis, ovatis, crenatis, obtusis, subtüs sericeo- lanatis, suprà villosis ; verticillastris laxiusculis, multifloris, remotis ; bracteis minutis, setaceis; calycibus striatis, sericeo-tomentosis, ore equali, dentibus brevissimis, setaceis, erectis—Phlomis montana, Roth Nov. Pl. Spec. p. 263. Ва: (Herb. Heyne.) 99. L.ovata (Benth. in Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind.n. 2057.), suffrutex (7); ramis tomentosis; foliis subsessilibus, ovatis, basi cordatis, vix crenatis, suprà glabriusculis, subtüs sericeo-lanatis ; verticillastris sub- 10-floris, laxiusculis, remotis ; bracteis subulatis, calyce dimidid brevioribus ; calycibus striatis, villosis, ore equali, dentibus setaceis, erectis. А Г. montana differt presertim foliis basi cordatis, calycis den- tibus longioribus, et aliis notis. Hab. ad ripas Irawaddi. 23. Г. mollissima (Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 2054), suffrutex ; ramis quadrangulis, tomentosis; foliis subsessilibus, ovatis, crenatis, rugosis, utrinque tomentoso-lanatis ; verticillastris laxiusculis, multi- floris, vel rameis paucifloris, remotis; bracteis minutis, setaceis ; calycibus tubulosis, striatis, villosis, ore «equali, dentibus setaceis, erectis. Calyx L. ovate a qua differt foliis multó minoribus, rugosis, cre- natis, basi vix cordatis, utrinque tomentosis; а L. lanata differt caule foliisque mollitér tomentosis, viridibus, nec sericeo-lanatis. Corolla alba, teste Wall. MSS. Hab. Napalia et in jugo Pundua dicto. 24. 1. Hamiltonii, suffrutex (7); ramis tetragonis, tomentosis ; foliis brevitér petiolatis, ovatis, acutis, serratis, rugosis, supra villosis, subtüs tomentosis; verticillastris remotis, paucifloris; bracteis mi- nutis, setaceis; calycibus tubulosis, striatis, subincurvis, tomentosis, ore quali vel subobliquo, dentibus brevissimis, setaceis.—Phlomis Rodantia, Herb. Hamilt. Hab. ad Monghir. Affinis L. mollissime, sed differt foliis multd majoribus, verticillas- tris vix 6-floris, calycibus longioribus, subincurvis, &c. 25. L. chinensis (Br. Prodr. p. 5047), suffrutex; ramis quadran- gulis, tomentosis ; foliis brevitér petiolatis, ovatis, serratis, rugosis, utrinque tomentosis ; verticillastris sub-bifloris, remotis ; bracteis mi- nutis, setaceis; calycibus brevitér pedicellatis, striatis, tomentoso- villosis, apice dilatatis, ore æquali, dentibus ovato-lanceolatis, sub- foliaceis, acutis.— Phlomis chinensis, Retz. Obs. 2. р- 19? Calyx feré Beringeric ; corolla, stamina, stylus, et habitus omnind Leucadis. ~ Hab. .... (Herb. Wight.) 26. L. teres (Benth. in Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 2060), suffrutex (7); ramis tomentosis, teretibus ; foliis breviter petiolatis, ovatis, parcé crenatis, suprà viridibus, subtüs canescentibus, vix rugosis; verticil- lastris laxé 6—10-floris, remotis ; bracteis minutis, setaceis ; calycibus striatis, villosis, ore equali, dentibus setaceis. Affinis L. mollissime, a qua differt ramis teretibus, foliis minoribus, vix rugosis, suprà glabriusculis, floribus in verticillastris paucioribus, minoribus. Hab. ad ripas Irawaddi. 27. L. nepetefolia, herbacea (7); caule tetragono, brevissimè tomen- toso, ramoso, folioso ; foliis petiolatis, ovato-rotundatis, crenatis, ca- nescenti-tomentosis ; verticillastris laxè paucifloris, bracteis minutis, setaceis, calycibus campanulato-tubulosis, striatis, glabriusculis, ore тапай; dentibus lato-lanceolatis, acutis. Hab. . . .. (Herb. Madr.) 28. L. melissefolia (Benth. in Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 2062), herbacea ; cano-pubescens ; foliis longé petiolatis, ovato-rotundatis, crenatis ; verticillastris paucifloris, remotis ; bracteis minutis, setaceis; calycibus petiolo dupló brevioribus, tubulosis, striatis, pubescentibus, ore æquali, dentibus setaceis. Hab. ad ripas Irawaddi. 29. L. pilosa (Benth. іп Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 2058), herba- сеа ; саше ramoso, tetragono, obverse piloso; foliis brevitàr petio- latis, ovatis, crenatis, piloso-hirsutis, floralibus oblongis, supremis in- tegerrimis; verticillastris remotis, laxiusculis, 6—20-floris ; bracteis minutis, setaceis; calycibus striatis, villosis, ore æquali, dentibus setaceis. —Phlomis pilosa, Roxb. Hort. Beng. p. 43. В ? cano-pubescens. Corolla purpurascens. Hab. а. ad ripas Irawaddi. В. Rajemahl. 30. Г. strigosa (Benth. in Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 2059), her- bacea ; caule acuté quadrangulo, strigoso-piloso ; foliis subsessilibus, lanceolato-oblongis, remoté serratis, supremis integerrimis, supra stri- goso-hispidis, subtüs tomentosis ; verticillastris 2—6-floris, bracteis minutis, setaceis; calycibus tubulosis, striatis, equali, dentibus setaceis. Hab. Prome. Huic affinis L. angularis, herbacea, ramis acutd tetragonis, angulis ciliatis, subalatis; foliis breviter petiolatis, ovatis, crenatis, remotis ; villosis, ore rugosis, 62 utrinque strigoso-hispidis; verticillastris bifloris; bracteis minutis, setaceis ; calycibus campanulatis, villosis, ore equali, dentibus seta- ceis ; ex Ceylona. (Herb. Lindley.) 31. L. parviflora (Benth. in Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 2061), herbacea; caule erecto, tetragono, pilis reflexis pubescente; foliis petiolatis, ovatis, serratis, cano-pubescentibus; verticillastris laxà paucifloris, remotis; bracteis minutis, setaceis; calycibus tubu- losis, striatis, cano-pubescentibus, ore subzequali, irregularitér setaceo- dentato. Folia parva. Verticillastri sæpiùs 6--10-Йогі. Calyces dupld minores quàm іп L. biflora et procumbente. Corolla purpurascens. Hab. ad ripas Irawaddi. ива, A biflora (Br. Prodr. p. 504.), herbacea ; caule procumbente, debili, tetragono, pilis reflexis pubescenti; foliis petiolatis, ovatis, crenatis, glabriusculis vel cano-pubescentibus; verticillastris sub- bifloris, remotis; bracteis minutis, setaceis ; calycibus brevitér pedi- cellatis, tubuloso-subcampanulatis, striatis, pubescentibus, ore жапай, dentibus subulatis.—Phlomis biflora, Vahl. Symb. 3. р. 77. Hab. . ... (Herb. Madr. et Wight.). In Ceylona. 33. L. procumbens (Desf. Mem. Mus. 11. p. 7. t. 3. f. 2.), herbacea ; caule debili, procumbente, glabriusculo, tetragono ; foliis petiolatis, ovatis vel ovato-oblongis, integerrimis vel serratis, glabriusculis ; verti- cillastris laxé 2—]-floris, remotis; bracteis minutis, setaceis ; caly- cibus breviter pedicellatis, tubuloso-subcampanulatis, striatis, glabris, ore æquali, dentibus subulatis.—Z. biflora, Benth. in Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 2063, non Вт. Phlomis biflora, Roxb. Hort. Beng. p. 43. nec Vahl. Hab. ad Bolahat, Patgong, Travancore, et in Ceylona. 34. L. angustifolia (Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 2064.), herbacea ; caule debili, procumbente, glabriusculo, tetragono ; foliis petiolatis, oblongo-linearibus, remote serratis, glabris ; verticillastris laxè multi- floris, remotis ; bracteis minutis, setaceis ; calycibus tubulosis, striatis, glabriusculis, ore quali, dentibus abbreviatis, setaceis. А L. biflora et procumbente differt verticillastris scpiüs 10-floris et ultrà, calycibus dupló minoribus, tubulosis nec ore dilatatis, dentibus multó brevioribus. А Г. parviflora foliorum forma et habitu distinguitur.—* Corolla resupinata,” Wall. MSS, Hab. in Napalia. The Leucas stachyoides, Spr. Syst. p. 743, and Z. flaccida Br. Prodr. р. 505, appear to belong both of them to the section Ortholeucas, to which should also be added an unpublished species in the Banksian herbarium, brought by F. Masson from the Cape, and to which So- lander gave the MS. name of Phlomis parvifolia. Та transferring it to the genus Leucas, in order to prevent any confusion, it might be called, after its discoverer, Z. Massoniana. It is a small shrub with downy branches, small glabrous leaves, calyces solitary, opposite, tu- bular and very irregularly toothed at the mouth. ХҮШ. Pnrours, Br. Prod. р. 504. Calyx tubulosus, 10-nervius, 5-gonus, equalis, 5-dentatus, intüs fauce nuda vel villosà. Corolla tubo calycem subzquante, bilabiata, labiis subzequalibus, superiori compresso, galeato, incumbente, inte- gro vel emarginato, inferiori patente, trifidó, lobis lateralibus minimis, medio integro. Stamina 4, sub labio superiore ascendentia. Ап- there biloculares, loculis divaricatis, subconfluentibus. Styli lobus superior brevissimus. Stigmata minuta. Achenia sicca, lævia. 1. P. macrophylla (Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 2065), herbacea ; caule erecto, crasso, tetragono, sulcato, glabro vel parcé villoso ; foliis longé petiolatis, amplis, hastato-cordatis, crenatis, rugosis, suprà hispidis, subtüs tomentosis, floralibus minoribus, subsessilibus, basi attenuatis ; verticillastris densé multifloris, remotis; bracteis linea- ribus, rigidis, acutis, ciliatis, calyces æquantibus ; calycibus tubu- losis, angulatis, marginibus inter dentes 5-rigido-subulatos, mem- branaceo-productis, fauce intùs nudå ; corollis calyce vix duplò lon- gioribus, labio superiori villosissimo ; staminum superiorum fila- mentis appendiculatis. “Corolla alba,” Wall. Affinis P. Herba- Venti, tuberosc ct alpine. Hab. Gossain Thau. 2. P.! breviflora (Benth. їп Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 2066), a herbacea (?); caule erecto, tetragono, glabriusculo ; foliis petiolatis, amplis, ovatis, acuminatis, serratis, basi subcordatis, nervosis, suprà breviter hispidis, subtüs glabris, floralibus conformibus; verticillastris multifloris, remotis ; bracteis linearibus, obtusis, sulcatis, subglabris ; calycibus ovato-truncatis, subincurvis, glabriusculis, dentibus 5 bre- vibus, acutis, margine interdentali membranaceo, 10-crenato, fauce intüs nuda; corollis calyce dimidio longioribus, labio superiore vil- losissimo ; stathinibus e tubo vix exsertis, filamentis nudis. Stylus omnind generis, sed achenia vix sicca videntur. teribus et habitu a Phlomidibus veris paullo recedit. Hab. Gossain Than. 3. Р.? rugosa (Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 2067), frutex ; ramis tetragonis, brevitér tomentosis ; foliis ad apicem ramorum approxi- matis, longé petiolatis, oblongis, acutis, serratis, basi attenuatis, gla- briusculis, subcarnosis, nervosis; verticillastris multifloris, remotis ; bracteis subulatis, calycem subeequantibus ; calycibus oblongis, basi contractis, subenerviis, dentibus 5 lanceolato-linearibus, patentibus, margine поп membranaceo-producto, fauce intüs nuda; corollis caly- cem paulló superantibus, subglabris ; staminum filamentis nudis. “Corolla flavescens” Wall. MSS. Labium superius vix compres- sum, fornicatum, extüs Теге glabrum. Stamina et stylus Phlomidis, a qua calyce et habitu recedit. Hab. in montibus Pundua. XIX. Котоснжте, Benth. in Bot. Reg. v. 15, ad calc. пит. 1289. Calyx tubulosus, 5-nervius, 5-dentatus, intüs fauce nuda, nervis sub apice dentium in setam hamatam productis. Corolla tubo calycem subeequante, bilabiata, labiis subzequalibus, superiore erecto, fornicato, integro, inferiore patente, trifido, lobo medio integro. Stamina 4, sub labio superiore adscendentia: filamenta superiorum basi sub insertione breviter calcarata. Antherz biloculares, loculis demüm divaricatis. Stylus apice subequalitér bifidus. Stigmata minuta. Achenia sicca, leevia. 1. М. hamosa (Benth. in Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. п. 2068.) Herbacea. Caulis erectus, ramosus, obsoleté tetragonus, brevissime pubescens. Folia longé petiolata, ovata, acuminata, serrata, basi obliqué attenuata, nervosa, glabriuscula, juniora subtüs tomentosa. Verticillastri remoti, globosi, densé multiflori, lappacei. Bractez lineari-subulate,, apice revoluto-hamosze, glaberrime, lucidz, calyce sublongiores. Calyx basi tomentosus, dentibus corollam superantibus, uti bractez apice revolutis, hamosis. Hab. Napalia. XX. Rovrra, Wall. ex Benth. іп 1. с. et suprà, pag. 57. 1. R. elegans (Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 2069, et suprà.); Ballota cinerea (Don. Prodr. Fl. Nepal. p. 1117). Hab. Choor, mons. XXI. Ешорнүтох, Benth. in l. с. Bractese subulate, non spinose*. Calyx amplus, campanulatus, equalis, dentibus 5 ovatis, subspinosis. Corolla tubo calyce subbre- viore, bilabiata, labio superiore amplo, galeato, compresso, emarginato, inferius abbreviatum, trifidum involvente. Stamina 4, sub labio supe- riore adscendentia. Anthere biloculares, loculis divaricatis. Stylus Stigmata minuta. Асһепіа sicca, Charac- apice subzqualitér bifidus. levia. 1. E. Wallichii (Benth. in Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 2070.) puo Herbacea, ex omni parte densissimé lana longa, nivea, mollissima obtecta. Caules erecti, pedales, subsimplices ; apice incrassati, car- nosi. Folia subsessilia, ovato-cuneata, apice crenata, floralia majora, sessilia, lato-rhomboidea, grossé serrata, flores superantia. Verticil- lastri in spicam terminalem approximati, sub-6-flori. Corolla flava (7), calyce dimidid longior; labium superius lenuginosum: Bracteæ subulate, calyce breviores, lana foliorum floralium et caly- cum omninó recondite. Hab. Gossain Than. XXII. Leonurus, Linn. Gen. 722. Calyx ovatus vel campanulatus, 5—10-nervius, zequalis, dentibus * In describing this genus in the Bot. Reg. I had mistaken the floral leaves for bracteas,—B. 63 5 5 subulatis, intüs fauce пида. Corolla tubo subexserto, bilabiata, labiis subzequalibus, superiore erecto, integro, subplano vel fornicato, inferiore patente, trifido, lobo medio integro vel bifido. Stamina 4, sub labio superiore adscendentia.. Anthere biloculares, loculis paral- lelis. Stylus apice subzqualitér bifidus. Stigmata minuta. Ache- nia sicca. $. 1. Leonurus.—Corolle labium superius subplanum, inferioris lobus medius integer. 1. L. lacerus (Lindl. Hort. Trans. 6. p. 296) herbacea ; caule erecto, ramoso, obtusé tetragono, glabriusculo vel adpresse pubescente; foliis petiolatis, rugosis, pubescentibus, inferioribus sub-7-nerviis, rotundatis, basi cordatis, palmato-lobatis; lobis inciso-dentatis, superioribus 3—5-пегуйз, basi integerrimis, attenuatis, apice lacero-dentatis ; ver- ticillastris sub-10-floris, inferioribus remotis, supremis approximatis, spicatis; bracteis minutis, setaceis ; calycibus glabriusculis, dentibus patulis, rigidis; corollis calyce tripló longioribus, labio superiore subplano, villosissimo, inferioris lobo medio integro. Affinis L. cardiace, a quo differt presertim pubescentiá, foliis ru- gosis, corollis longioribus, &c. Hab. in Napalia unde, seminibus a Wallichio missis, in horto Societatis Horticulturalis Londinensis colitur. 2. L. pubescens (Benth. in Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 2072), her- bacea ; caule erecto, ramoso, tetragono, glabro vel angulis cano-pu- bescentibus ; foliis petiolatis, 3—5-nerviis, pubescentibus, ovatis, acu- minatis, inciso-serratis, inferioribus basi truncatis, superioribus at- tenuatis; verticillastris multifloris, remotis; bracteis subulatis, caly- ces cquantibus; calycibus glabris, dentibus subulatis, patentibus; corollis calyce subtripló longioribus, labio superiore ovato, dilatato, subplano, inferioris lobo medio integro. Hab. Kamaon. 3. L.? Royleanus (Benth. іп Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 2073), herbacea ; caule erecto, ramoso, tetragono, tomentoso, axillis pilosis; foliis petiolatis, sub-5-nerviis, ovatis, acuminatis, inciso-serratis vel sub-3—5-lobatis, suprà villosis, subtüs cano-tomentosis; verticillastris multifloris, inferioribus remotis, superioribus approximatis, spicatis ; bracteis subulatis, glabris, calyces equantibus; calycibus cano- tomentosis ; dentibus subulatis, rigidis, patentibus. Hab. in monte Choor, Royle. $. 2. Panzeria, Mench.—Corolle labium superius fornicatum, in- ferioris lobus medius emarginatus vel bifidus. 4. L. sibiricus (Linn. Sp. p. 818); caule erecto, ramoso, obtusé tetragono, brevitér tomentoso ; foliis petiolatis, trifidis, lobis oblongis, linearibus, inciso-dentatis vel pinnatifidis, utrinque pubescentibus ; verticillastris densé multifloris, remotis, supremis subapproximatis, spicatis; bracteis subulatis, rigidis, calyce brevioribus ; calycibus pubescentibus, dentibus erectis, subulatis, rigidis; corollis calyce dupld longioribus, labio superiore fornicato, inferioris lobo medio bi- fido. Hab. Bengalia, Sillet. XXIII. Гамгом, Linn. Gen. 716. Calyx campanulatus, subæqualis, 10-nervius, 5-dentatus, aristatus, intüs fauce nuda. Corollatubo exserto, fauce inflata, bilabiata, labiis subeequalibus, superiore erecto, integro, fornicato, inferiore patente, trifido, lobis lateralibus suberectis, anticé dentatis, medio emarginato. Stamina 4, sub labio superiore adscendentia. Anthere biloculares, lo- culis divaricatis, margine extüs barbatis. Stylus apice subzequalitér bifidus. Stigmata minuta. Achenia sicca, lævia. 1. L. amplexicaule, (Linn. Spec. p. 809); caule procumbente, ramoso, glabro; foliis pubescentibus, nervosis, rotundatis, inciso-crenatis, cau- linis longè petiolatis, floralibus sessilibus, amplexicaulibus ; verticil- lastris densè multifloris; calycibus villosis, dentibus subæqualibus, subulatis; corollis calyce quadruplò longioribus, tubo filiformi. Hab. in Napalia, a speciminibus Europæanis nullo modo diversum. XXIV. Sracuys, Linn. Gen. 719. Calyx ovato-campanulatus, 10-nervius, æqualis, 5-dentatus, intüs fauce nuda, vel vix рИов4. Corolla tubo calycem subæquante, bila- biata, labiis subæqualibus, superiore subpatente, integro, fornicato vel subplano, inferiore patente, trifido, lobo medio integro vel emar- ginato. Stamina 4, sub labio superiore adscendentia. Anthere bilo- culares, loculis divaricatis. Stylus apice subsqualitér bifidus. Stigmata minuta. Achenia sicca, Ігеуіз. 1. 5. sericea (Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 2077), herbacea ; caule erecto, ramoso, longé lanato-piloso ; foliis caulinis petiolatis, oblongis, acutiusculis, crenatis vel serratis, basi subcordatis, superioribus ses- silibus, floralibus minoribus, angustioribus, basi attenuatis, acuté ser- ratis, omnibus rugosis, suprà adpresso-villosis vel lanatis, subtüs niveo-lanatis ; verticillastris sub-10-floris, distinctis, Јахё spicatis ; bracteis linearibus, calyce vix brevioribus ; calycibus lanatis, dentibus ovato-lanceolatis, acutis, pungentibus, demüm patentibus ; corolla tubo calycem zequante. B. foliis minoribus, utrinque densé niveo-lanatis. Affinis S. alpine vel heraclee, sed multó elatior, et characteribus datis distincta. | Hab. Kamaon. 2. S. splendens (Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 2075), herbacea; caule erecto, ramoso, piloso ; foliis inferioribus petiolatis, floralibus sessi- libus, minoribus, omnibus ovatis, serratis, basi subcordatis, rugosis, villosis ; verticillastris sub-10-floris, remoté spicatis ; bracteis lineari- bus, calyce brevioribus; calycibus pubescentibus, nervosis, striatis, subincurvis, dentibus lanceolatis, obtusiusculis; corolle tubo calyce dimidió longiore, incurvo. Hab. Gossain Than. 3. 5. oblongifolia (Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 2076), herbacea ; caule erecto, ramoso, tetragono, angulis pubescentibus vel villosis; foliis subsessilibus, oblongo- vel lanceolato-linearibus, acutis, serratis, basi subcordatis, rugosis, suprà villosis, subtüs canescentibus, lanatis vel villosis, floralibus conformibus, minoribus ; verticillastris sub-6-floris, laxé spicatis ; bracteis minutis, subnullis ; calycibus pubescentibus, dentibus linearibus, acutis, non pungentibus ; corollis vix. exsertis, tubo subincurvo, calyce breviore. Hab. Napalia et Sillet. XXV. Сүманта, Benth. in Bot. Reg. v. 15. ad calc. n. 1992. Calyx subglobosus, sub-10-nervius, equalis, 5-dentatus, fauce co- arctatà, intüs nuda. Corolla tubo subexserto, bilabiata, labiis sub- eequalibus, superiore erecto, integro, fornicato, inferiore patente, trifido, lobo medio integro. Stamina 4, sub labio superiore adscendentia. Antherce biloculares, loculis demüm divaricatis. Styli lobus superior brevissimus. Stigmata minuta. Achenia sicca, punctato-rugosa.— Frutices. Calyx et inflorescentia feré Craniotomis. Corolla et stylus Phlomidibus proximi. Genus habitu ad Anisomelem quodammodo accedit, sed characteribus calycis et согойге longé diversum. 1. С. dichotoma (Benth. in Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 2080) ; foliis ovatis, suprà glabriusculis, vix rugosis; cymis laxis, paniculatis ; pedunculo gracili, petiolo tripló quadruplóve longiore. Frutex 2—3-pedalis, ramis quadrangulis, tomentosis. Folia bre- vitér petiolata, ovata, utrinque attenuata, crenata, vix rugosa, glabra vel juniora subtüs tomentosa. Pedunculi axillares, oppositi, 1--2- pollicares, dichotomo-ramosi. Flores parvi, 1ахё сушові, супи race- moso-paniculatis. Bracteæ minute, ѕеќасеге. Calyces vix pubes- centes, demüm submembranacei, fauce coarctata, dentibus brevitór ovatis, acutis, demüm patulis. Hab. Taong Dong mons Ave, et Segain. 2. C. elongata (Benth. 1. с. n. 2079); foliis rugosis, utrinque to- mentosis; cymis densis, brevitér pedunculatis ; racemo terminali, elongato, laxo. A precedente differt ramis elongatis, densé tomentosis, foliis bre- vids petiolatis, sæpiùs basi rotundatis, nervoso-rugosis, densé tomen- tosis, suprà viridibus, subtüs canescentibus. Cymz florum numerosa, in racemum elongatum, terminalem disposite. Flores majores quàm in C. dichotoma. Calyces densé tomentosi, glanduloso-punctati, dentibus demüm patulis. Hab. Taong Dong. XXVI. Свамтотомк, Reichenb. Icon. Exot. 1. p. 39. Calyx ovatus, post anthesin subglobosus, sub-10-nervius, æqualis, 5-dentatus, fauce coarctatá, intüs villosa. Corolla tubo exserto, bila- biata, labio superiore brevissimo, erecto, integro, inferiore longiore, patente, trifido. Stamina 4, sub labio superiore adscendentia. An- there biloculares, loculis demüm divaricatis. Stylus apice subzequa- litèr bifidus. Stigmata minuta. Achenia sicca, Сеута, 1. C. versicolor (Reichenb. 1. c. t. 54); Anisomeles nepalensis (Spreng. Syst. 2. р. 706); Ajuga furcata (Link. Enum. 2. p. 99). Caulis herbaceus, erectus, ramosus, patentim pilosus., Folia petio- lata, ovata, acuminata, crenata, basi cordata, utrinque piloso-hispida, floralia inferiora caulinis. conformia, superiora minora, suprema mi- nuta, bractezeformia. Суше lax, pedunculate, racemos ; racemis gracilibus, paniculatis. Flores minuti, numerosi. Calyces glabriusculi, dentibus conniventibus. faux et limbus purpurei. Hab. Napalia et Kamaon. XXVII. МЕРЕТА, Zinn. Gen. Calyx tubulosus, basi subgibbus, 15-nervius, æqualis vel ore obli- quus, 5-dentatus, intüs fauce nuda уе] subvillosà. Corolla tubo sub- exserto, fauce inflata, bilabiata, labiis subzequalibus, superiore erecto, emarginato, fornicato vel subplano, inferiore patente, trifido, lobo medio dilatato, saepiüs concavo. Stamina 4, sub labio superiore ad- scendentia. Antheræ biloculares, loculis divaricatis. Stylus apice subzqualitér bifidus. Stigmata minuta. Асһепіа sicca, minut? ru- goso-punctata, rariüs levia.—Herbe verticillastris seepiüs mültifloris, laxé racemosis, raritis densé spicatis. The above character will include the Glechoma hederacea, which 1 do not think can be generically distinguished from Nepeta. The anthers are more or less “ per paria cruciatim approximate.” in most of the species, especially before they have burst. The chief character which distinguishes Nepeta from Dracocephalum is in the calyx, which in the former is regular or oblique at the mouth, but not bi- labiate as in the latter genus. The flowers of Dracocephalum are also in general larger and less numerous, with the orifice of the tube more inflated. 1. №. spicata (Benth. in Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. п. 2083); caulibus adscendentibus, subsimplicibus, tetragonis, angulis ciliatis ; foliis pe- tiolatis, ovato-lanceolatis, crenatis, basi truncato-subcordatis, suprà glabris, subtds parcé pubescentibus; verticillastris densè spicatis, spicis solitariis, terminalibus, teretibus ; foliis floralibus sessilibus, bractezeformibus, ovatis, acutissimis, serratis, bracteisque lineari-subu- latis, calycem zquantibus; calycibus vix pubescentibus, ore sub- equali, dentibus longè subulatis; corollis incurvis, calycem дир! Bractec minute. СогоШе tubus albus, 'superantibus; acheniis levissimis.— Betonica levigata, Don. Prodr. Fl. Nepal. p. 110? Hab. Bhuddrinath. 2. N.ciliaris (Benth. in Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 2082) ; caule erecto, ramoso, cano-pubescente vel basi hirsuto; foliis petiolatis, lato-ovatis, crenatis, basi cordatis, utrinque presertim paginá inferiore canescentibus, floralibus minoribus, supremis sessilibus, integerrimis, ovatis, acutis; verticillastris multifloris, secundis, supremis spicatis ; bracteis ovato-lanceolatis, calycem sequantibus, acutis, ciliatis ; caly- cibus elongatis, villosis, fauce intüs subvillosà, ore obliquo, dentibus setaceis, basi dilatatis ; corolle tubo calycem brevitér superante, acheniis minuté punctato-rugosis. В? verticillastris inferioribus remotis, brevitér pedunculatis. Hab. е Choor, Royle; В in horto Liverpoolensi orta ex seminibus е Napalia a Wallichio missis. Ап hujus vel sequentis varietas ? 3. N. ruderalis (Hamilt. MSS.); caule basi diffuso, piloso; ramis adscendentibus erectisve, pubescentibus ; foliis petiolatis, ovato- rotundatis, serratis, basi subcordatis vel attenuatis, glabris vel cano- pubescentibus; floralibus minoribus, supremis linearibus, integer- rimis; verticillastris 10—15-floris, secundis, inferioribus peduncu- latis, folia nunc superantibus, supremis sessilibus, remotd spicatis ; bracteis setaceis, calycem aquantibus, ciliatis; pedicellis brevissimis; calycibus ovatis, submembranaceis, pubescentibus, fauce intüs sub- villosa, ore obliqué setaceo-dentato ; corolla tubo calycem vix supe- rante; acheniis minuté punctato-rugosis.— №. secunda, Benth. in Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 2122. Glechoma erecta, Roxb. Hort. Beng. p. 43. G lechoma hindostana, Roth. Nov. Pl. Sp. p. 258. Glechoma indicum, Spreng. Syst. 2. p. 727. В іпсапа; foliis minoribus, rugosis, utrinque cano-tomentosis. Hab. Napalia, Hurdwar, Rajemahl; В Мараја. 4. N.graciliflora (Benth. in Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 2123); caule basi diffuso ; ramis adscendentibus, brevissime cano-pubescentibus ; foliis petiolatis, ovato-rotundatis, basi subcordatis, inciso-serratis vel profundé crenatis, glabriusculis, floralibus inferioribus conformibus, supremis bractezformibus, setaceis; paniculà elongata, diffusa ; pe- dunculis gracilibus, elongatis, dichotomis, secundis; bracteis setaceis ; floribus pedicellatis ; calycibus elongatis, glabris, fauce intüs subvil- losà, ore obliqué setaceo-dentato; corolla calycem subdupld supe- rante; acheniis minuté punctato-rugosis. Hab. Hurd war. XXVIII. Cotqunounta, Wall. in Linn. Trans. v. 13. р. 608. Calyx campanulatus, 10-nervius, subeequalis, 5-dentatus, intüs fauce nuda. Corolla tubo exserto, incurvo, fauce inflata, bilabiata ; labiis subzequalibus, superiore erecto, integro, subfornicato, inferiore patente, trifido, lobo medio integro. Stamina 4, sub labio superiore adscendentia. Antheræ biloculares, loculis divaricatis. Stylus apice subeequalitér bifidus. Achenia sicca, superné alata. 1. C. coccinea (Wall. loc. cit. et Tent. Fl. Nap. vol. i. p. 13. t. 6); ramis petiolisque floccoso-tomentosis, demüm subnudis; foliis oblongo- ellipticis, utrinque attenuatis, rugosis, glabris vel ad nervos floccoso- tomentosis; verticillastris 6—10-floris, racemosis; racemis ахШа- ribus, terminalibus ; foliis floralibus inferioribus caulinis conformibus, supremis sessilibus, ovatis, calyce brevioribus, deciduis; bracteis minutis, setaceis; calycibus pulverulentis. B parviflora, tomento vix floccoso. Hab. Gossain Than ; 8 Napalia. 2. C.vestita (Wall. Tent. Fl. Nap. vol. i. p. 14); ramis, petiolis, fo- liorum pagina inferiore, calycibusque lana candida, floccosà densé tomentosis; foliis petiolatis, ovatis, basi subtruncatis, rugosis, supra glabriusculis ; verticillastris 6--10-floris, laxé racemosis; racemis axillaribus terminalibusve; foliis floralibus ovatis, sessilibus, caly- cem vix superantibus; bracteis minutis, setaceis. Hab. Kamaon. 3. C. elegans (Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 2084); ramis breviter rufo- tomentosis ; foliis petiolatis, ovatis, basi subattenuatis, rugosis, suprà pubescentibus, subtüs densé velutino-tomentosis, floralibus supremis sessilibus, ovatis, acutis, calycem vix superantibus ; verticillastris laxé multifloris, racemosis; racemis oblongis, axillaribus, terminali- busve; bracteis oblongo-linearibus, calyce tomentoso дар brevio- ribus. Hab. Taong Dong, mons Ave. XXIX. Ногмактогрта, Retz. Obs. 6. р. 31. Calyx amplus, campanulatus, membranaceus, venosus, margine subintegerrimo. Corolla tubo exserto, fauce vix inflata, bilabiata, labio superiore abbreviato, erecto, integro, inferiore subpatente, trifido, lobis lateralibus brevissimis, medio longiore, integro. Stamina 4, adscendentia, exserta. Апћеге biloculares, loculis parallelis. Stylus Achenia sicca? rugosa. 1. И. sanguinea (Retz. loc. eit.) ; Hastingia coccinea (Sm. Exot. Bot. 2. t. 80); Platunium rubrum (Juss. Ann. Mus. 7. p. 76.) Frutex; ramis quadrangulis glabris, seepiüs tuberculatis. Folia petiolata, ovata, acuminata, vix dentata, basi subtruncata, glabra. Verticil- lastri 2—4-flori, in racemos axillares, petiolo vix longiores dispositi. Folia floralia nune caplinis conformia, nunc sessilia ovata, vel om- ninb abortiva. Pedicelli calycem amplé campanulatum, sanguineo- rubrum, membranaceum, venosum subzquantes. Corolla brevitér exserta. Hab. Hindustania. $ 2. Calyx bilabiatus. dimidiate. XXX. Dracocernatum, Linn. Gen. 729. Calyx tubulosus, 15-nervius, bilabiatus; labi " tato, dentibus ovatis, medio sepius latiore, inferiore bidentato, den- tibus linearibus ; intüs fauce nuda. Corolla tubo nunc exserto, nunc calyce breviore, fauce inflata, bilabiata, labio superiore erecto, ol ginato, fornicato, inferiore patente, trifido, lobo medio emarginato, apice subinteger. . я ^ Anthere biloculares vel connectivo brevi labio superiore triden- 65 subplano. Stamina 4, sub labio superiore adscendentia, approximata. Anthere biloculares, loculis divaricatis. Stylus apice subzequalitér bifidus. Stigmata minuta. Achenia sicca, levia. 1. D. speciosum (Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 2128); radicibus crassis, fasciculatis; caule erecto, simplici, pubescente ; foliis rugosis, pubes- centibus, profundé crenatis, radicalibus caulinisque inferioribus longé petiolatis, ovato-rotundatis, basi profundé cordatis, superioribus flo- ralibusque sessilibus, lato-ovatis, supremis calyce brevioribus; ver- ticillastris paucis, multifloris, densé capitato-spicatis, vel inferiore re- motiusculo; bracteis ovato-rotundatis, apice inciso-dentatis, calyce dimidio brevioribus ; calycis ampli, incurvi, subfoliacei lobo supremo lato-ovato, inferioribus angustioribus, acutis; corolla villosissima, ca- lyce dupló longiore, tubo amplo, incurvo. Affine D. altaico, a quo differt precipue foliis radicalibus latio- ribus, bracteis minoribus, corollis villosis, incurvis, minoribus. Flores савгшет teste Wallichio. Hab. Gossain Than. 2. D. Govanianum (Wall. 1. c. n. 2127); caule erecto, ramoso, pu- bescente ; foliis petiolatis, elliptico-oblongis, vel oblongo-lanceolatis, utrinque attenuatis, rugosis, crenatis, рагсё pubescentibus, floralibus multó minoribus, supremis minutis; floribus laxé racemoso-panicu- latis; verticillastris inferioribus cymiformibus, longè pedunculatis, su- premis subsessilibus, paucifloris ; bracteis linearibus, minutis; caly- cibus brevitér pedicellatis, tubulosis, striatis, irregularitér bilabiatis, lobis acutis, superioribus ovatis, inferioribus linearibus ; corolla calyce sub-4pld longiore, tubo gracili, faucâ valdé inflata. Affine D. sibirico, a quo differt pubescentià, foliorum forma, flo- ribus minoribus, verticillastris laxioribus, longiüs pedicellatis, &c. Hab. Sirmore et Kamaon. 3. D. Royleanum (Wall. 1. c. n. 2129); caule erecto, stricto, parce ramoso, superné villoso ; foliis ovatis, profundé crenatis, basi atte- nuatis, inferioribus petiolatis, supremis subsessilibus, floralibus con- formibus ; verticillastris paucifloris, remoté spicatis, foliis brevioribus ; bracteis petiolatis, oblongis, ciliato-dentatis, calycem subæquantibus, pedicellis post anthesin dilatatis, rigidis, cauli adpressis ; calycibus tubulosis, striatis, ore bilabiato, post anthesin clauso, dentibus invo- lutis; corollis calycem vix superantibus. Habitus D. thymifloro, sed characteribus datis distinctissimum. Hab. . . . Та horto Saharunpurensi cultum. XXXI. Meuissa, Linn. Gen. 728. Calyx 5- vel sub-13-nervius, campanulatus, bilabiatus, labiis pa- tentibus, superiore subplano, tridentato vel trimucronato, inferiore bifido, fauce intüs nuda vel vix pilosa. Corolla tubo nunc calycem subzequante, nunc exserto, fauce subinflata, bilabiata, labio superiore erecto, emarginato, subplano vel rariüs fornicato, inferiore patente, trifido, lobo medio subplano. Stamina 4, sub labio superiore adscen- dentia, superiora nunc sterilia vel abortiva. Anthere biloculares, loculis demüm divaricatis. Stylus apice subzequalitér bifidus. Stig- mata minuta. $ 1. Stamina omnia fertilia ; achenia levia. 1. М. flava (Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. п. 2126); caule erecto, ramoso, subglabro ; foliis petiolatis, ovatis, acuminatis, crenatis, subtüs ner- vosis, vix rugosis, glabriusculis, floralibus conformibus; verticil- lastris laxis, secundis, remotis, racemosis ; bracteis parvis, oblongis ; pedicellis pubescentibus ; calycibus ciliatis ; corollis amplis, calycem dupló triplóve superantibus. Calyces et folia superiora чаре purpurascentia. Flores flavi, fra- grantes. Hab. Napalia. 2. М. parviflora (Benth. in Wall. 1. e. n. 2125); caule erecto, ra- moso, glabro; foliis brevitèr petiolatis, ovatis, acutis, crenatis, subtùs nervosis, vix rugosis, glabris, floralibus conformibus ; verticillastris laxis, secundis, ѕерійѕ paucifloris, remoté racemosis ; bracteis parvis, oblongis ; calycibus glabris vel ad angulos ciliatis ; corollis vix caly- cem equantibus. Affinis precedenti, corollis minutis. Hab. Napalia. a qua differt praecipue calycibus minoribus, $ 2. Stamina superiora sterilia; achenia reticulato-rugosa. 3. М. Nepalensis (Benth. |. с. n. 2124); caule erecto, ramoso, pani- culato, glabro, tetragono, angulis asperis; foliis petiolatis, ovato-oblon- gis, serratis, utrinque attenuatis; floralibus minutis; floribus solitariis, oppositis, brevitér pedicellatis, secundis, ad apice caulis et ramorum laxé racemosis ; calycibus subglobosis, glabris vel parcé pubescenti- bus.—Cunila Nepalensis, Don. Prod. Fl. Nepal. p. 107. Lycopus dian- thera, Roxb. Fl. Ind. 1. p. 145. Mosla ocymoides, Herb. Hamilt. Habitus feré Moschosme ocymoidis. Folia parva, distantia. Racemi numerosi. Flores minuti, diluté czerulei. An genus proprium ? Hab. Napalia, Goalpara. XXXII. СїхоРоргом, Linn. Gen. 725. Calyx 13-nervius, tubulosus, basi subzequalis, sæpiùs incurvus, bilabiatus, labio superiore tridentato, inferiore bifido, intüs fauce sub- nuda. Corolla tubo згер в exserto, bilabiata, labio superiore erecto, emarginato, subplano, inferiore patente, trifido, lobo medio emarginato. Stamina 4, sub labio superiore adscendentia, superiora nunc sterilia. Antheræ biloculares, loculis distinctis, connectivo crasso seepiüs ad- natis, subparallelis, divergentibus vel demüm divaricatis. Styli lobus inferior recurvus, complanatus, superiorem breviorem, nunc brevissi- mum basi involvens. Stigma inferius marginale, superius minutum, terminale vel marginale. Achenia sicca, levia.—Herbe. — Verticil- lastri conferté multiflori. 1. С. repens (Roxb. Hort. Beng. р. 44.); caulibus diffusis, basi ra- dicantibus, ramis adscendentibus, pubescenti-villosis ; foliis brevitér petiolatis, ovatis, serratis, nervosis, pubescentibus, floralibus confor- mibus; verticillastris zequalibus, laxiusculis, multifloris, remotis vel supremis approximatis, subspicatis ; bracteis lineari-subulatis, calyci- busque ciliatis; corollis brevitér exsertis; staminibus superioribus sepiis sterilibus; antherarum loculis distinctis, divaricatis, con- nectivo crasso adnatis; styli lobo superiore brevissimo.— Thymus re- pens, Don. Prodr. Pl. Nepal. p. 113. Corolla diluté purpurea. « verticillastris omnibus remotis, bracteis hispidis, calycem æquan- tibus. В verticillastris supremis sæpiùs approximatis, spicatis, calycibus glabrioribus, bracteis calyce brevioribus. Hab. а Napalia; В Napalia et Kamaon. 2. C. longicaule (Benth. in Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 2131); cau- libus adscendentibus, ramis elongatis, pubescenti-villosis ; foliis pe- tiolatis, ovatis, basi attenuatis, parcé crenatis, obtusis, glabris vel parcé villosis, glanduloso-punctatis, floralibus conformibus, supremis calyce brevioribus; verticillastris laxé paucifloris, secundis, race- mosis; bracteis minutis ; calycibus elongatis, incurvis, corolla di- midid brevioribus ; staminibus superioribus sæpiùs sterilibus, anthe- rarum loculis parallelis, distinctis, connectivo vix incrassato ; styli lobo superiore inferiore vix breviore.— Thymus origanifolius, Don. Prodr. Fl. Nepal. p. 113? **Omnespartesherbz valdéaromatica. Corolla violacea," Wall.MSS. Hab. Napalia. XXXIII. Рвомеггл, Linn. Gen. 735. Calyx ovatus, bilabiatus, labio superiore subplano, tridentato vel trimucronato, inferiore bifido ; intüs fauce пида? Corolla tubo ex- serto, bilabiata, labio superiori erecto, integro, fornicato, inferiore patente, trifido. Stamina 4, sub labio superiore adscendentia. Fila- menta apice bidentata, dente superiore nudo, inferiore antherifero. Antherz biloculares, loculis divergentibus. Stylus apice subsqua- litér bifidus. Stigmata minuta. Achenia sicca. 1. P. vulgaris (Linn. Spec. 837); caulibus basi radicantibus, stolo- niferis, fructiferis adscendentibus vel erectis, basi glabris, superné hispidis; foliis petiolatis, ovato-oblongis, integris, margine subinte- gerrimis vel grossé dentatis, glabris vel hispidulis, superioribus ses- silibus, angustioribus; spicis oblongo-cylindricis; foliis floralibus membranaceis, rotundatis, mucronatis, ciliatis ; calycis labio supe- riore truncato, brevissimé mucronato-tridentato ; corolla calycem dupló superante, labio superiore erecto, elongato, lobis labii inferioris oblongis.— Prunella pensylvanica, Willd. Hort. Berol. 1. р. 9. t. 9. P. laciniata, Walt. e Hab. Napalia et Kamaon. The specimens I have seen from Nepal, from Europe, and from North America, do not appear to differ at all from one another, ex- cepting as to such variations as they are liable to in each of those countries. Оп the other hand, I should consider the P. parviflora, Poir. Itin. 2. p. 188, which I have often gathered in the South of France, as a distinct species, and not a mere variety of P. vulgaris, as it has generally been considered. 2. P. hispida; caule adscendente, hirsuto ; foliis petiolatis, ovatis, obtusis, subintegerrimis vel vix crenatis, piloso-hispidis ; spicis densis, ovato-capitatis ; foliis floralibus rotundatis, ciliatis ; calycis labio su- periore tridentato ; corollis calyce dimidió longioribus, labio superiore lobisque labii inferioris latis, rotundatis.— P. ovata, Benth. in Wall. loc. cit. n. 2133. non Pers. Hab. in montibus Nilghiri dictis. XXXIV. Scurettarta. Linn. Gen. 734. Calyx ovato-campanulatus, suprà in squamam concavam, dorsalem, appendiciformem productus: ore bilabiatus, labiis integris, post an- thesin clausis. Corolla tubo longé exserto, bilabiata, labio superiore erecto, fornicato, incumbente, inferiore sæpiùs breviore, suberecto, trifido. Stamina 4, sub labio superiore adscendentia, Апе саќе, staminum superiorum dimidiate, inferiorum cordate, bilo- culares, loculis divaricatis. Styli lobus superior brevissimus. Stig- mata minuta. Ovarium gynophoro incurvo elevatum. Achenia sicca, levia, nuda.—Herbe. Flores in axillis foliorum floralium solitarii, sæpiùs oppositi, brevitér pedicellati, in racemis terminalibus vel axillaribus dispositi. Calyx maturatione dehiscens, labio superiore cum appendice deciduo, inferiore persistente. 1. S. linearis (Benth. іп Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 2137); caule suf- fruticoso, basi ramoso, ramis adscendentibus, villosis ; foliis linearibus, obtusis, utrinque attenuatis, integerrimis, margine revolutis, subtüs canescentibus, eglandulosis, floralibus ovato-rotundatis, integerrimis, villosis ; pedicellis oppositis; calycibus villosis, corollis subrectis, apice inflatis, labiis profundé fissis. Corolla et habitus 5. alpine, foliorum forma diversissima. Hab. Kamaon. 2. S. rivularis (Wall. loc. cit. n. 2140), herbacea, glaberrima ; caulibus erectiusculis, simplicibus vel parcé ramosis; foliis oblongo- lanceolatis, obtusis, remoté serratis, basi sæpiùs hastatis, nunc atte- nuatis, eglandulosis, racemis solitariis, terminalibus vel rariüs pani- culatis; foliis floralibus oblongis, integris, calycem superantibus ; pedicellis brevibus, oppositis; corollis subrectis, apice subinflatis, labio inferiore superiorem subeequante.—$. barbata, Don. Prodr. Fl. Nepal. p. 109? S. peregrina, Roxb. Hort. Beng. p. 47. non Linn, Affinis 5. galericulate, sed glaberrima, flores ferd duplo minores, folia floralia multd minora. Hab. Napalia. 9. 5. discolor (Wall. MSS.); caule herbaceo, subsimplici, basi radi- cante, folioso, superné erecto, subnudo, pubescenti-villoso; foliis ad basi caulis approximatis, longè petiolatis, ovatis, obtusissimis, cre- natis, basi cordatis, rugosis, utrinque pubescentibus vel villosis, ra- cemis minuté glanduloso-punctatis, elongatis, solitariis, simplicibus vel basi ramosis; foliis floralibus minutis, pedicellis sparsis, raró oppositis; corollis rectiusculis, tubo gracili, labio inferiore abbre- viato. я Caulis basi subterraneus, repens, radicans., Folia feré omnia ad basin caulis approximata, subtüs sepius violacea. Racemus 4—6- pollicaris, basi sæpiùs ramos duos, oppositos gerens. Calyx minutus. Corolla gracilis, 6—7-lineas longa, pubescens. Folia floralia pedi- cello dupló breviora. Species pedicellis sparsis, nunc alternis, nunc glomeratis, rarissime oppositis, distinctissima. 5. indica, Don. Prodr. Fl. Nep. p. 109, non Linn. B elatior ; caulibus magis foliosis, subramosis. Hab. œ Napalia, Sillet; B Sillet. The 5. indica of Linnzus, from the specimens in his herbarium, is a very different plant, nearer related to the S. cana. 4. 5. violacea (Heyne ex Wall. loc. cit. n. 2136); caule herbaceo, erecto, subsimplici, folioso, pubescente ; foliis long? petiolatis, ovatis, acuminatis vel obtusiusculis, crenatis, basi attenuatis vel subcordatis, glabris vel hispidulis, eglandulosis, racemis elongatis, simplicibus vel basi ramosis ; pedicellis oppositis, folia floralia ovata subdupld superantibus ; corollis rectiusculis, labio inferiore dilatato, superiore breviore. В glabrior, foliis basi scepiüs attenuatis. y, foliis acuté dentatis; 5. indica, Roxb. Hort. Beng. p. 44. non Linn. Statura preecedentis, sed caulis ramosus, usque ad basin racemorum foliosus. Corolla 8. discoloris, sed vix pubescens, calyce paulld ma- jore, pedicellis longioribus, constantér oppositis. Hab. «œ .... (Herb. Heyne); 8 in Ceylona (Herb. Finl.), et in Java (Herb. Hook.) ; у... . (Herb. Roxb.). 5. S. Wightiana ; caule basi procumbente, adscendente, subramoso, pubescente; foliis petiolatis, ovatis, acutis, crenatis, basi cordatis, suprà hispidis, subtüs ad nervos pubescentibus ; racemis simplicibus ; pedicellis oppositis, folia floralia ovata, subdentata vix eequantibus ; corollis basi gibbosis, apice subincurvis, labio inferiore superiorem subeequante. В microphylla. Precedenti valdé affinis, sed magis hispida, folia floralia majora, inferiora caulinis subconformia, calyces majores, sæpiùs hispidi, corolla basi gibbosior, apice subincurva. Hab. с in montibus Nilghiri dictis ; 8... . Herb. Wight. 6. S. Colebrookeana (Wall. 1. c. n. 2135); caule herbaceo, basi re- pente, radicante, ramis erectis, subramosis, brevissimé pubescenti- bus ; foliis longé petiolatis, lato-ovatis, grossé dentatis, basi rotunda- tis, glabriusculis, densissimé glanduloso-punctatis; racemis simpli- cibus ; pedicellis oppositis, folia floralia dupld superantibus ; corollis rectiusculis, labio inferiore superiorem subzequante. Folia minora quàm in precedentibus, latitudine longitudinem zquantia, glandulis densé obsita. Herb. Heyne. 7. S. cana (Wall. l. c. n. 2141); caule procumbente, ramosissimo, ramis adscendentibus, pubescentibus ; foliis petiolatis, ovatis, crena- tis, basi rotundatis, utrinque, pesertim pagina inferiore, mollitér pubescentibus, densé glanduloso-punctatis ; racemis paniculatis, vis- cosis; foliis floralibus ovatis, dentatis vel supremis integerrimis, pe- dicellum superantibus; floribus oppositis, secundis; corollis sub- rectis. Corolla 5—6 lineas longa, pallidé flava, labio superiore дише violaceo. В diffusa, minus tomentosa. Hab. « Taong Dong mons Ave, et Kamaon-; В Мараја. 8. S.angulosa (Benth. in Wall.1.c.2139); cauleadscendente, ramoso, glaberrimo, angulato, ramis junioribus pubescentibus; foliis petiola- tis, ovato-lanceolatis, acuminatis, serratis, basi rotundatis vel subcor- datis, junioribus hispidis, demüm glabratis, minutissimé sub lente glanduloso-punctatis, floralibus lanceolatis, pedicellos superantibus, supremis ovato-rotundatis; racemis pubescentibus, subpaniculatis ; floribus oppositis, secundis ; corollis apice inflatis, subincurvis, labio inferiore breviore. Anguli presertim caulium vetustiorum 9—10 lineas longa. Hab. Napalia, Kamaon, et Srinaghur. | 9. S. grossa (Wall. 1. c. n. 2142); caule basi repente, radicante ; ramis adscendentibus, villosis ; foliis petiolatis, ovatis, crenatis, basi rotundatis vel subcordatis, glabris vel hispidulis, eglandulosis ; floralibus ovato-lanceolatis, calycem hispidum superantibus ; pedi- cellis oppositis, brevissimis ; corollis calyce 8—9-plove longioribus, tubo basi inflato, apice recto, vix inflato; labiis brevibus, superiore acutissimi. Corolla villosa, longiore. M Folia Теге 5. Wightiane. Corolla pubescens, gracilis, 9—10- linearis. Hab. Kamaon. 10. S. incurva (Wall. 1. c. n. 2138); M pubescente; foliis subsessilibus, oblongo-ellipticis, : * Ја Н, Е Т іш- serratis, glabriusculis, floralibus minutis; racemis terminalibus, 8 caule adscendente, ramoso, acutis, remoté LJ plicibus, floribus oppositis, secundis; pedicellis calyce triplo longiori- bus; corollarum tubo gracili, incurvo, labiis profundé fissis, superiore amplo cucullato, inferiore breviore. Species distinctissima, sed specimen unicum in herbario Walli- chiano imperfectum. Hab. Taong Dong. $3. Calyx bilabiatus. Antherz dimidiate, connectivo elongato, filiformi. XXXV. багуга. Linn. Gen. 39. Calyx bilabiatus, labio superiore integro vel tridentato, inferiore bifido. Corolla bilabiata, labio superiore erecto, fornicato, falcato vel rariüs recto, inferiore patente, trifido. Stamina fertilia 2, sub labio superiore adscendentia. Filamenta brevissima, tubo inclusa. Anthere dimidiate, connectivo elongato, filiformi, incurvo, posticé sæpiùs clavato, гагійѕ antherz loculum alterum gerente. Stylus apice bifidus, lobo superiore sæpiùs breviore. Stigmata minuta. Achenia sicca. This very numerous genus might be conveniently divided into sections; but as so very few of the species are Indian, I have thought that operation, which would require a general study of the whole genus, unnecessary on the present occasion. 1. S. plebeia (Br. Prodr. p. 501?) ; caule erecto, ramoso; foliis petio- latis, oblongis lanceolatisve, utrinque attenuatis, crenatis, nervosis, rugosis, tenuissimé pubescentibus; verticillastris sub-6-floris, laxé racemosis ; racemis ramosis, paniculatis ; foliis floralibus supremis bracteisque minutis, ovatis, reflexis, pedicello brevioribus ; pedicellis calycem equantibus; calycibus villosis, post anthesin nutantibus, labio superiore integerrimo ; corollis calyce vix longioribus. S. brachiata, Roxb. Hort. Beng. p. 4. Fl. Ind. 1. p. 146. 5. parviflora, Roxb. Hort. Beng. р.4? Ocymum fastigiatum, Roth. Nov. Pl. Spec. р. 277. Habitu ad Moschosmas accedit. Flores minuti, numerosissimi. Hab. Napalia, Oude, Hindustania, Sillet. 2. S. lanata (Roxb. Fl. Ind. 1. р. 1477); caulibus e basi crasso lignoso pluribus, erectis, basi densé albido-lanatis, foliosis, ramosis, superné subnudis, patentim piloso-villosis ; foliis brevitér petiolatis, oblongo-ellipticis, basi attenuatis, obtusiusculis, integerrimis vel sinu- ato-dentatis, suprà tuberculato-rugosis, sublanatis, subtüs lana candida, densissimá vestitis; petiolis dilatatis, connato-amplexicaulibus, lana- tis; racemis vix ramosis, viscoso-villosis ; verticillastris remotis, sub- 6-floris; foliis floralibus bractezeformibus, rotundatis, mucronatis, striatis, villosis, calyce subbrevioribus ; floribus subsessilibus, erectis; calycibus striatis, villosis, labio superiore trimucronato, inferiore аси bidentato; corollis calyce dupló longioribus, tubo brevitér exserto, labio superiore arcuato, fornicato; stylo exserto.—S. cana, Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 2145. 5. integrifolia, Hardw. Asiat. Res. 6. p.349? Stenarrhena lanata, Don. Prod. Fl. Nepal. p. 111. Corolla azurea, magnitudine 5. pratensis. Hab. Kamaon, Sirmore, et vallis Deyra dicta. 3. S. Moorcroftiana (Wall. loc. cit. n. 2144); caule erecto, basi densé albido-lanato, folioso, superné villoso, subnudo, ramoso; foliis longé petiolatis, amplis, ovatis, obtusis, eroso-crenatis, basi subattenuatis vel rotundatis, suprà tuberculato-rugosis, sublanatis, subtüs lana candida, densissimá vestitis ; racemis paniculatis, viscoso- villosis ; verticillastris remotis, sub-6-floris; foliis floralibus bracteze- formibus, rotundatis, mucronatis, membranaceis, venosis, ciliatis, calyces subeequantibus ; floribus brevitér pedicellatis, erectiusculis ; calycibus striatis, glandulosis, ciliatis, labio superiore tridentato, in- feriore bidentato, dentibus omnibus setaceo-mucronatis ; corollis calyce triplo longioribus, tubo long? exserto, labio superiore elongato, vix arcuato ; genitalibus exsertis. Species pulcherrima, affinis S. lanata, а qua differt foliorum forma, racemis paniculatis, corolla longiore, tubo calyce dupló longiore, et aliis notis. Hab. Luddak, Moorcroft. 4. S. campanulata (Wall. loc. cit. n. 2143), herbacea; caule ad- scendente, hirsuto; foliis longé petiolatis, amplis, ovatis, cordatis, inciso-crenatis, crenulis dentatis, utrinque hispidulis; racemis axil- laribus terminalibusque, vix ramosis; verticillastris sub-6-floris, remotis; foliis floralibus bracteisque lanceolatis, acutis, calyce fruc- tifero brevioribus ; floribus breviter pedicellatis, patentibus; calycibus amplis, campanulatis, hispidis, minuté glandulosis, labio superiore brevissimé tridentato, inferiore bifido; corollis . . . . Hab. Gossain Than. Corolle in speciminibus desunt, sed teste Wallichio, 5. nubicole similes. | 5. S. nubicola (Wall. loc. cit. п. 2146), herbacea; caule erecto, ramoso, pubescenti-villoso ; foliis longè petiolatis, hastato-cordatis, crenatis, utrinque pubescentibus ; racemis paniculatis ; verticillastris remotis, sub-6-floris; foliis floralibus bracteisque oblongis, calyce fructifero brevioribus; calycibus brevitér pedicellatis, amplis, cam- panulatis, villosis, labio superiore brevissimé tridentato, inferiore bifido ; corollis calyce subtripld longioribus, tubo exserto, labio supe- riore arcuato; genitalibus longe exsertis. 5. nubicola, Sweet, Fl. Gard. v. 2. t. 140. Hab. Kamaon et Srinaghur. Corolla flava, purpureo-punctata. 6. S. coccinea (Linn. Mant. p. 88); caule erecto, ramoso, canescenti- villoso ; foliis petiolatis, cordatis, acutis, crenatis, suprà pubescenti- bus, subtüs mollitér tomentosis; racemis terminalibus, basi subramo- sis; verticillastris 6-floris, remotis; foliis floralibus bracteisque minutis; calycibus brevitér pedicellatis, demüm nutantibus, labio superiore integro, acuto, inferiore bifido ; corollis calyce triplo lon- gioribus, labio superiore abbreviato, erecto, inferiore longiore, lobo medio maximo, obcordato; genitalibus exsertis.—S. rosea, Vahl. Enum. 1. p. 244. Hab. Secus ripas Gangis, ad Patna, ex America Mexicana advena. 7. 5. saxicola (Wall. loc. cit. n. 2147); caulibus czespitosis, sub- nudis; foliis radicalibus longé petiolatis, rotundatis, crenatis, basi cordatis, glabriusculis, caulinis raris, oblongo-lanceolatis, sinuato- dentatis ; racemis elongatis, subsimplicibus ; verticillastris 6—10- floris, infimis remotis, supremis approximatis; foliis floralibus brac- teisque minutis, lanceolatis; calycibus pubescentibus, breviter pedi- cellatis, demüm nutantibus, labio superiore integro, mucronato, infe- riore bifido; corolla tubo incluso, labiis vix calycem superantibus. Hab. Napalia. 8. S.ocymoides (Roxb. MSS. ex Herb. Madr.); caule erecto, subnudo, parcé piloso ; foliis radicalibus petiolatis, obovatis, obtusissimis, vix crenatis, basi attenuatis, hispidulis, caulinis raris, oblongo-linearibus ; racemis subsimplicibus; verticillastris sub-6-floris, infimis remotis, supremis approximatis ; foliis floralibus bracteisque calyce breviori- bus ; calycibus patentim pilosis, brevitér pedicellatis, demüm nutan- tibus, labio superiore tridentato, inferiore bidentato, dentibus mucro- natis; corollz tubo incluso, labiis vix calycem superantibus. Нр Herb. Madr.* HOYA FUSCA. Tab. 75. Rapicans, ramosissima ; foliis oblongis, acuminatis; corolla lzevissimá, corone foliolis subtus sulco exaratis. Habitat super rupibus arborumque truncis montium valli Napalize vicinarum ; etiam in Napalia inferiore secus ripas fluminis Rapti. Floret Augusto ; fructus profert Octobri. PrawTA fruticosa, magna, latissimé radicans, ramosissima, omnino levis, omnibus partibus сортове ps. Sil Raur longi, cylindrici, pennam cygneam, usque ad digitum modicum crassi, plùs minüsve penduli, epidermide сіпегей, pallida obtecti, ad foliorum insertionem parüm tumidi, et vestigio annulari ciliarum notati. Forra approximata, opposita, patentissima, valdé crassa et coriacea, firma, plana, oblonga, acumine angusto, semipollicari terminata, marginibus parallelis convexis, basi obtusa, suprà atroviridia, lucida, ad insertionem petioli utrinque corpusculo cinereo, emarcido (loco acervuli soliti ciliarum), subtüs pallida, subargentea, costá valdé elevatá, nervis trans- versis, capillaceis, intra marginem arcuatim anastomosantibus; 6—7 -pollicaria. Ретюм crassi, convexi, suprà parüm sulcati, semipollicares. Frores magni, fusci, nitidi, inodori, valdé numerosi, densissimé dispositi in wmbellam hemisphzericam, lateralem, extra-axillarem, diame- trum 3-pollicarem emetientem, erectam, pedunculatam, vix ad tertiam inferiorem folii partem elevatam, subinvolucratam. PEpuNcULUS communis crassus, cylindricus, petiolo dimidid longior; partiales teretes, pollicares, subclavati, exteriores ad basin muniti bracteold ob- • longa, obtusa, ciliatà. Carvx quinquefidus, parvus; lacinie оуаќе, obtusee, ciliate, basi extüs gibbose. Сокола rotata, plana, patentis- sima, demnm reflexa ; acini lanceolatze, subacuminatze, ForLicuLus scepiüs solitarius, cylindricus, laevis, 4-pollicaris ; Plate LXXV. Fig. 1. 2. 3. Flower viewed in different directions. 8. Masses of pollen attached to their brown gland. marginibus subrevolutz, subtüs concaviusculae. COLUMNA pentagona, truncata, раШаё fusca, 5-loba ; lobi depressi, subtüs profundé sulcati, suprà concaviusculi, antherce ovatae, obtuse, membranulá cinctae oppositum. Massa роли luteze, tenues, basi acuta apici corpusculi minuti, sulcati, fusci insert; Stroma 5-angulare, angulo interiore producto in dentem subulatum, longum, longiusculz, lineari-clavate, erecto-divergentes, vertice in umbilicum obtusum productum, antheris occultum. maturus haud observatus. 4. 5. Lobes of the column. 6. Column. 7. Anther. ARGYREIA FESTIVA. Tab. 76. Fruticosa, altissime volubilis; foliis ovatis, subcordatis, obtusis pedunculatis, paniculatis. Habitat in China; inde in Hortum Calcuttensem anno 1820 à maturi Januario. cum cuspidula, subtüs sericeo-fulgentibus ; cymis Dom. Reeves missa. Floret Septembri, fructus * "This Synopsis will be concluded in the 2nd volume. Gorachand plant.; J. Lindley fer. dal Printed. by Engelmann, Graf Condet 4/ Ca ЖҮЗ ҚР —Á oylea elegans M anon lth ч бу тапа агг ых Ж í 7 Printed. by Engelmann, Graf били & © A Сема lak whand del! я ње Printed by Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Со. AM баша thog 7 JEHUN. 69 Екотех maxima, super arbores altos volubilis, omnibus partibus scatens lacte albo, spisso et viscido. Кам cylindrici, cinerei, glabri, calloso-punetati; juniores longissimi et gracillimi, flagelliformes, adpress? sericeo-villosi, flaccidi, subpenduli. Forra approximata, patentia, ovata, obtusa cum cuspidula recurvata, basi rotundata, nunc parüm retusa vel subcordata, integerrima, 4—5-pollicaria, subcoriacea, suprà saturaté viridia, glabra, subtüs pilis densissimis, mollissimis, adpressis sericeo-fulgentia, costà ееуа basi utrinque glandulam gerente oblongam, planam, pilis adpressis conspersam, mox nigricantem, ad apicem petioli extensam; nervis obliquis, parallelis, approximatis, gracilibus, prominentibus, ad peripheriam incurvato-anastomosantibus. Perrorus teres, crassiusculus, айргеѕѕё pilosus, sericeus, folio tertid vel quadrupld brevior, exstipulatus. Коа floralia pauca, ovato-lanceolata, 2-роШсама. Сума axillares, termina- lesque, pedunculate, multiflorze, solitarize, subumbellatim bis terve ad apicem divisze, inflorescentiam amplam, ovatam formantes, sericeo- агдешеге, рПоѕе. PepuncuLus petiolo dupl? longior, cylindricus, nudus. Frores magni, speciosi, candidi, inodori, dispositi in racemis brevibus, suffulti pedicellis crassis, semiunguicularibus, clavatis, ad basin bracteis munitis duabus oblongis, obtusis, extüs sericeis, deciduis. Сатух oblongus, lineas 4 emetiens, persistens, fructüs auctus; sepala coriacea, valdè inzequalia, oblonga, intüs levia, margine purpuras- centia, interiora 2 minora. СовошА subrotata; fubus brevis, amplus, calycem longitudine haud superans, glaber; limbus patentissimus, feré planus, pollicem et dimidium transversum emetiens, usque ad faucem divisus in lacinias 5 oblongas, obtusiusculas, suprà glabras, sulcatas, subtüs sericeo-pilosas, 3-costatas, æstivatione in formam cylindraceo-oblongam plicatas; faux clausa valvis 5 carnosis, sub- cucullato-oblongis, obtusis, conniventibus, dens? glanduloso-villosis, vix lineolà obsoletà per tubum decurrentibus, staminiferis, cum laciniis limbi alternantibus. Sramina 5, exserta, parallela, Теге zequalia, glaberrima ; filamenta Теге pollicaria, filiformia, recta, infra apicem valvularum faucis inserta; anther@ lineari-oblongze, subsagittate, erectee, extrorsee; loculis parallelis, membranaceis; pollen dilutissimé luteum, feré album, constans globulis grandiusculis, hyalino-echinatis. Оулвтом parvum, ovatum, lzeve, cinctum disco annulari, brevissimo, flavicante, nitido, obsoleté 5-crenato; basi 2-loculare, loculis dispermis ; ovula magna, loculum omninò replentia, erecta. SrvLus filiformis, longitudine staminum. SrrGwA maximum, carnosum, capitatum, subhemisphericum, profundé bilobum, densissim? papillosum. | Carsura globosa, fusca, glabra, magnitudine seminis piperis nigri, monosperma, insidens fundo arilli completi, laxi et quasi inflati, globularis, tenuis, carnosi, coccinei, intis membrana coloris dilutioris, Ігеуі obtecti, styli basi sæpè coronati, pisum maximum emetientis, suffulti sepalis concavis, patentiusculis, erubescentibus, unguicularibus. IwTrEGUuMENTUM coriaceum, crassiusculum. PERI- SPERMUM parcissimum, valdé viscidum, hyalinum. Емввхо pallide viridis, contortuplicatus. This superb shrub was sent by John Reeves, Esq. from China to the botanic garden at Calcutta in 1820, where it flowered for the first time after a lapse of five years. It has since grown to a gigantic size, reaching to the summit of a large Mango tree, its stem being as thick as the wrist, and the branches stout and very numerous. Its leaves are extremely beautiful, on account of the great regularity of their form, the dark green colour of the upper surface, and the silvery shining hoariness of the lower. Тһе great abundance of clusters of large, white flowers, produces a very striking effect. The species comes very near to Laureiro's Argyreia obtusifolia, but seems to differ in the subcordate leaves, and the superior size of all its parts ; it is possible, however, tliat it may be found to be the identical plant. Plate LXXVL Fig. 1. 2. Flower. 3. Calyx and bracts. | 4. Corolla. 5. Cluster of fruit. 6. Arillus opened. MELHANIA HAMILTONIANA. Tab. 77. DzxsisiME cano-tomentosa; foliis ovato-subcordatis, obtusis, inequalitér acuté dentatis ; pedunculis axillaribus, petiolo dupló longioribus, 3-floris. Tom Novi generis species secunda, Herb. Hamilt. in Museo Banksiano. qub. We Habitat ad loca arida, arenosa ripe Irawaddi prope Melloon et preecipue ad Paghamew et Yenangheun, etiam in monte Taong Dong dicta; florens sub pluviis, a mense Septembri ad Octobrem ; fructigera Novembri. Іп horto bo- tanico Calcuttensi floret Novembri. Frurex 2—3-pedalis, ramosa, omnibus partibus obsita tomento denso, molli, садо, stellato, punctulis fuscis, glandulosis inserte Аа teretes, patentes, rigidi. Еомл sparsa, patentia, subapproximata, от Куш levissime cordata, nnne basi rotandato-obtuga, ый кышу serrata, serraturis ovatis, acutis, interdum parüm sinuata, 2—3-pollicaria, pringe tomentosa, reales subtüs albicantia adque bean, subquinquenervia, cæterùm nervis frequentibus, obliquis, costáque elevatis, yenis reticulatis, prominentibus. Keriou teres, родените, арісе intumescens. Эттроьж axillares, орровиге, erectae, setaceæ, unguiculares, vestitze, ыс, Papunen axillares foliorum Superiarume terminalesque, solitarii, teretes, tomentosi, petiolis bis terve longiores, is ond mentee, unes alternatim don: ovp crassiusculi, semiunguiculares, uti calyx bracteceque cano-lanuginosi. Frores majusculi, flavi; involuerati. Сльхх 5-partitus ; lacinice T pidato-acuminat:e, patentes, intis glabrze, cestivatione valvatee. Гхуопоском dimidiapim, 3-phyllum, laterale, calycem Rn m dicic d eodemque parüm longius, cumque eo persistens, fructfis parüm auctum ; foliola panos ovato-subcordata, aucta; КУМ аға, БЕД us recurvata, extüs concaviuscula, subunguiculata, intermedium parùm majus, fero нее. 3 ETALA 5, glaber Ки Ж? т еп Sanal obovata, obtusa, vel subretusa, parùm obliqua, basi contracta, calyce dimidio or. sestivatione ee Pam НТ : { їрзй basi angustissim? monadelpha, erecta, Тела; alterna ее» Бетел, subulata; alterna you iid T a : dia Ж plana, basi dilatata, apice obtusa et subconvergentia, fertilibus tripló longiora: Betis: ішек оі) 1 ей, агев, 4. ех ері AME versis. Ovarium ovatum, tomentosum, 5-loculare ; ovula in singulo loculo circitér 6, biserialia, axi inserta. Lus cylindricus, brevis- 70 simus. STIGMATA 5, teretia, apice parüm divergentia, staminum sterilium longitudine. Carsura subglobosa, obsoletissimé truncato-conica, dens? villosa, magnitudine pisi, calyce involucroque persistentibus laxiusculé obtecta et subocculta, vertice levissime depressa, acutiuscula, 5-rarissimé 7-locularis, parüm ultrà medium dehiscens in valvulas 5, гіта angustá separatas, basi arcté connexas, firmas, coriaceas, intüs pallidissim? ferrugineas nitidasque. SEwrNA duplici serie angulo loculi interiori, barbato inserta, horizontalia, obovata, retuso-subumbilicata, inzequalia, rugosula, 6 in quoque loculo, quorum aliquot sæpiùs abortiva. IwrEGUMENTUM coriaceum. PERISPER- мом album, carnosum. Емввүо magnus, erectus, vari? plicatus, cotyledonibus foliaceis, retusis, radiculà cylindrica, infera. That the above plant belongs unquestionably to Forskál's genus Мейата, as characterized in the second edition of Hortus Kewensis, Y have no less authority than that of Mr. Brown for stating. Не has likewise informed me, that a specimen and a drawing of it are preserved in the late Dr. Hamilton's collection of Burmese plants at the British Museum, under the designation, ** novum genus: species secunda," of which the species prima is Pentapetes phenicea. It is a very elegant species, which delights in arid, sandy, and exposed situations. I found it on the high banks of the Irawaddi, from Melloon to Yenongheun, especially at the latter place, among the ravines near the petroleum wells ; I also met with it on the mountain called Taong Dong, near Ava. I am indebted to my friend Professor Lindley for the elegant carpological details in the accompanying plate. Plate LXXVII. Fig. 1. Flower analysed. 2. Involucre detached. 3. Calyx and pistil. 4. Stamens detached. 5. 6. Ovary opened. 7. Capsule greatly enlarged. 8. Тһе same, divided transversely. 9. 10. Seeds. 11. 12. The same, divided horizontally and vertically. PONGAMIA ATROPURPUREA. Tab. 78. Forns 3—4-jugis ; pinnis oblongis, attenuato-obtusis, coriaceis, lzevibus ; floribus densissimé racemosis, paniculatis, terminalibus ; leguminibus ovato-lanceolatis, acutis, 1-spermis, levibus. Habitat in sylvis litoreis ргоушсие Магќарапіге ad Amherst, Moalmyne, alibique, florens mensibus Decembri—Fe- bruario, fructificans Martio. Nomen Burmanicum : Lathin et Chukkha. Annon vasta, umbrosa, trunco przealto, recto, cortice rimoso, sordidé fusco. Ramuri cylindrici, cinerei, calloso-punctati ; novelli, uti pedunculi cano-pubescentes. Forra patentia, alterna, petiolata, impari-pinnata, pedalia et ultrà. Ргххж paribus З vel 4 subopposite, preter terminalem imparem, oblongz, integerrime, attenuate, obtusiusculé acuminatze, basi oblique rotundatze, latere петрё inferiore an- gustiore et acuto, brevé petiolate, coriaceze, lzeves, atrovirides, suprà nitidze, subtüs nervis gracilibus, valdé obliqué excurrentibus, suboppo- sitis, costáque prominentibus, reticulato-venulosz ; 5-pollicares, deorsüm decrescentes, infimze sublatiores ; terminalis proximo pari minor. PerioLus communis cylindricus, exsuleus, 6—8-pollicaris, vix puberulus, basi valdé tumidus, infra jugum primum pinnarum 2- vel 3-pol- licaris, inter paria harum gracilis, 2-pollicaris, ad insertiones leviter dilatatus; partiales cylindrici, rugosuli, 3-lineares, basi articulati. SriPULX nulle nisi protuberantia parvula, obsoleta, utrinque ad.petiolorum insertionem. PaNicurA magna, terminalis, ovata, elongatione rami parüm elevata, constans racemis pluribus, erecto-patentibus, cylindricis, digitum longum, diametro pollicari, approximatis, subses- silibus, densifloris, simplicibus, nunc bifidis. Frores numerosissimi, speciosi, inodori, atropurpurei, intüs pallidiores, pedunculati, undique sparsi, valdé approximati. Racues cylindracec, subcarnose, сгаѕѕге, ad pedunculorum insertionem prominenter foveolatze, subangulatze, fusco-pubescentes. Реромсим carnosi, teretes, purpurascentes, apice infra calycem bracteolis 2 oppositis, lanceolatis, minutis, lineas 2 longi. Catyx cyathiformis, amplus, pedunculo dupld longior, extis atropurpureus, levis, nitidus, intüs roseus, pilosulus ; faux oblique subtruncata, obsoletissimé et obtuse 4-dentata, deorsüm porrectior. Соком calyce quadrupld major; бегі Шит lato-ovatum, obtusum, propter margines incurvos concaviusculum, unguiculare, adscendenti-recurvatum, disco macula oblongo-triangulari, e flavo viridescente ; ungue brevi curvo; ale cuneato-oblonge, obtuse, vexillo breviores, carinam zequantes illeeque parallele et adpresse, basi hinc dente curvo, illinc unguiculatze; carina descendens, obtusa, basi bifidà unguiculata, hincque bidentata. 8тамтмаА 10, Тема, carnosa, cariná inclusa, diadelpha ; apicibus liberis, incurvis. Ахтнквж ovate. Оулкигм pedicellatum, oblongum, adpresse puberulum, 3—4-sporum, basi circumdatum disco brevi, subcylindrico, carnoso, truncato, subtüs fisso. Srvrus brevissimus, subulatus, puberulus, adscendens. Ѕтісма acutum. LEGUMEN magnum, 3—4-pollicare, leve, fuscum, lucidum, ovato-lanceolatum, acutum, lateribus convexis, margine dorsali gibboso-convexo, lato, vix obsoleté pedicellatum, pedicello calycem immutatum, persistentem haud superante. Semen solitarium, magnum, ovatum, convexum, suturee superiori ope funiculi brevis insertum, brunneum, lucidum. "This very stately tree constitutes a large portion of the dense forests on the shores of Martaban and Tenasserim. I found it growing in great abundance at Amherst and Moalmyne, and on the sea-side, towards the river called Chappedong. Nothing can be imagined more beautiful than the crown of the tree, when thickly covered with its dense panicles of deep purple flowers. Тһе wood is much esteemed by the Burmese and Taleyn people, who employ it for beams and rafters in their houses. І was told that they eat the tender leaves. Plate LXXVIII. Fig. 1. 2. Flowers. 3. The same dissected. 4. Calyx. 5. Pod opened. Vishnupersaud plant. её flor. Printed by Engelmann, Graf. Сотае & (о M n M Gauci lA. J Lindley fruct. delin A 77 729 At И c ЖЫ Жа. tanit. 22 ыы 7 amia РОН eec 71 ВОМВАХ INSIGNE. Тар. 79. 80. INERME ; foliis 9-foliolatis, foliolis obovatis, brevé acuminatis, subtüs petiolisque glaucis ; corolla calyce bilobo qua- druplo, staminibus dupló longiore; petalis extus villosis ; stigmate 5-lobo, subulato ; capsulá longissimá. Crescit prope Yenangheun in regno Burmanico. Floret initio anni. Annon inermis, altitudinis pedum 20 ad 30. Truncus crassus, æqualis, cortice glabriusculo. Ramuri crassi, cylindrici, cinereo- glaucescentes, petiolorum delapsorum cicatricibus notati, glabri. Forra versus ramulorum extremitates sparsa, petiolata, peltatim о-оо; decidua, Forora obovata, brevé acuminata, integerrima, deorsüm attenuata, coriacea, 5-pollicaria, glaberrima, subtüs glauca, nervis suboppositis, approximatis, intra marginem arcuatis et anastomosantibus, cum costa gracili elevatis, venis reticulatis. PerroLus communis cylindricus, glaucus, suprà sulcatus, basi parüm intumescens, apice suborbiculatoplanus ; partiales 3-pollicares vel pollicares, basi articulati, suprà sulcati. Frores maximi et speciosissimi, ruberrimi, per ramulos nudos sparsi, solitarii, suffulti pedunculo valdé crasso, clavato, semipollicari, cum basi contracta calycis articulato. Сатух valdé crassus et coriaceus, urceolato-globosus, sesquipollicaris, corollà quadrupló brevior, extüs rufescens, glaber, intüs sericeo-lanuginosus, ore truncato inzqualiter et obtuse 2-lobo, demüm utrinque ad basin usque fisso. Perara 5, oblonga, obtusa, deorsüm рагит angustata, 5—6-pollicaria, recurvato-patentissima, crassa et coriacea, caduca, suprà ruberrima glabra, subtüs villis copiosis, sericeis obtecta, pallida. 8Зтлмтма plurima, glabra, petalis dimidid {его breviora, sursüm seriebus 4 vel 5 ordinata, erecto-divergentia ; filamenta carnosa, filiformia, basi inzequalitér connata in tubum amplum, 3-pollicarem, superne irregulariter multifidum ; antherce reniformes, Пауге, dorsi medio adfixae. Оулатом ovato-conicum, calyce pluries brevius. SrvLus cylindricus, erectus, glaber. Stigma supra stamina parüm elevatum, carnosum, 5-lobum, lobis subulatis, patulis, inequalibus. CarsuLæ valvule delapse planæ, lignose, oblongae, 10-unciales, ultra pollicem late, basi attenuate, apice incurvà acute, utrinque glabrae, extüs fuscæ. а The only place where I met with this magnificent tree was among ravines, on а very arid tract of country, at a distance of a few miles from the petroleum wells on the Irawaddi, near the town of Yenangheun, in the beginning of January 1827. І saw a number of individuals entirely destitute of leaves, but covered with a profusion of superb, vivid red flowers, the petals of which were successively dropping down among the withered leaves and fragments of the capsules, which lay scattered on the ground. In stature the tree is smaller than the common cotton-tree of India, (Bombax malabaricum, DeCand.), but the flowers are nearly twice as large. I found the last-mentioned species very plentifully along the banks of the Irawaddi, round villages and in forests, together with the majestic palm called Borassus flabelliformis, the Tamarind, and Ficus religiosa, all of them attaining a very great size. On the mountain Taong Dong I met with a variety of the cotton-tree with white instead of red flowers; and on the banks of the river Saluen in the province of Martaban I observed the common red sort growing in great abundance. Plate LXXIX. Fig. 1. Calyx opened. 2. Part of the stamens. А . WIGHTIA. Слух 4-dentatus. Сокол infundibuliformis ; limbi 4-60; laciniá superiore biloba. Sramına 4, didynama ; sterile discusque hypogynus nulla. SriGMA clavatum, indivisum. Сарот follicularis, 2-valvis. DisSEPIMENTUM parallelum, utrinque placentiferum, demum liberum. Земиха longitudinaliter imbricata, utrinque alata. RapıcuLa infera. Classis Linneana : Didynamia Angiospermia. Ordo naturalis: Bignoniacee, Brown. ; h Ud E 1 ds Frutex maximus, alté volubilis ; foliis oppositis, simplicibus, pedunculisque obtectis pube пиша, stellata, subsessili, solubili. Насемі axillares, maximi, pedunculis trichotomis. АР omnibus generibus bignoniaceis videtur abludere absentia completa disci hypogyni et staminis sterilis, capsulà folliculari, valyularum marginibus inflexis dissepimentum adfigentibus, seminibus erectis, гафеша infera. P B TEE b Genus appellatum in honorem amici admodüm æstumatı Richardi Wight, historia naturalis totis in peninsula Indix Orientalis cultoris devotissimi, botanici optimé meriti, peregrinatoris indefessi. WIGHTIA GIGANTEA. Та. 81. Сккзстт in montibus Харайе Sumbunath et Sheopur, florens Decembri et Januario, fructificans Majo. diametro pollices 6 usque ad 12 emetiens, superne? divisus in ramos multos volubiles, vel leves, fusci,*punctis callosis, cinereis, frequentibus scabri, ad foliorum insertionem parüm + г Truncus altissimè super arboribus volubilis, laxé subpendulos. Камош crassi, cylindrici, 79 complanati; tenelli cinereo-villosi. Fox1a opposita, subdecussatim patentia, ad ramulorum apicem parüm approximata, decidua, ovata, attenuato-acuminata, integerrima, basi rotundato-acuta, palmaria ad pedalia, coriacea, suprà glabra, saturaté viridia, subtüs obtecta pube соріовй, minutá, incaná, mollissimá, stellata, subsessili, solubili et decidua; ætate glabra, costa nervisque distantibus, obliquis, sub- oppositis, prominentibus, flavidis, venis transverse? reticulatis. Ретопоз pollicaris, teres, subgracilis, pubescens, suprà sulcatus. 8тірілі ж nulle. Насемі magni, axillares, solitarii, recti, adscendentes, multiflori, pedunculati, oblongi, pollices 3 crassi, 6 ad 12 longi, obtusi, propter folia pleraque delapsa paniculam formantes terminalem, maximam, ovato-oblongam, nutantem.. PepuncuLus communis 2--4-роШ- caris, rachisque crassi, lignosi, calloso-punctati, pubescentes; partiales suboppositi, sæpiùs incurvi et subadscendentes, 4-pollicares, 3-flori vel bis trichotomi, cylindrici, ferruginei, ad divisuras articulati. Frores rosei, inodori, pollicares, suffulti pedicello brevi, subcar- noso, ad medium bracteolà minimá, lineari, caducá munito. Слрүх campanulato-ovatus, pubescens, lineas 4 longus, persistens, fructüs immutatus, basi obtusus, 4-fidus ; Jacinie ovate, obtuse, гедиајев. Сокола infundibuliformis, calyce 4-pló longior, extüs pubescens. Tusus compressiusculus, sursüm sensim ampliatus, dorso gibbosus et subvillosus. Јимвиз patens, 4-fidus, tubo dimidio brevior; lacinia ovatze, obtuse, (еге гедиајев: superior vix major, adscendens, biloba, basi subcordata ; inferior descendens, concava ; laterales subreflexe ; faux hians, leviter compressa. Sramina 4, didynama, parallela, subadscendentia, glabra; filamenta carnosa, subulata, ad basin tubi corolle inserta, 2 parùm breviora; anther subsagittato-ovatze, majuscule, versatiles, 2-loculares, exsertze, loculis marginalibus, paral- lelis, ағала из. Sramen sterile nullum. Ovanruw ovatum, glabrum, obsoleté 6-striatum, 2-loculare, polysporum ; ovida placentæ septali, carnosæ dens? inserta, subadscendentia. Зтупов cylindricus, glaber, staminibus vix longior, apice parüm ineurvus. Sriema car- nosum, clavatum, obtusum, indivisum, nutans, roseum. Disci hypogyni nullum vestigium. | Capsura follicularis; levis, fusca, іп calyce brevi, immutato sessilis, oblonga, subcylindrica, medio convexa, utrinque attenuata, acuta, 2-pollicaris, 2-valvis; гаго (abortione loculi alterius) 1-locularis, 1-valvis, tuncque obliqua propter marginem suturalem gibbosum. Улус согіасеге, intüs ferrugineze et nitidee, scaphoideve, cuspidatee, marginibus latis, texturà tenuioribus, cum istis oppositze valvulze (vel alterius lateris dum unica tantim valvula adsit) contiguis, inflexis, dissepimentumque adfigentibus ; dehiscentià recurvate, demümque plano-expansze, ovato-lanceolatze. DrsskPr- MENTUM spongiosum, angustum, persistens, utrinque gerens placentam oblongam, сопуехаш, carnosam, foveolis longitudinalibus, numerosis, parallelis notatam, stipitatam processu lato, e dissepimenti latere. orto, spongioso, denique a basi ad medium solutam, semiliberam, serd cum ipso dissepimento valvisque seorsim decidentem. Ѕемтха valdé numerosa, parva, oblonga, tenuia, lineas 4 emetientia, longitudinaliter dense imbricata, marginata membraná tenuissimá, сіпегей, conflatá e cellulis copiosis, ex umbilico exteriore, infra basin seminis lateralitér sito, reticulatim ordinatis, utrinque in alam linearem, obtusam product. Іхтесомехтом tenuissimum. РЕВРЕВМОМ nullum. Емввуо cylindricus, albus, cotyledonibus obtusis, radiculd шега. . This arborescent climber constitutes a new genus, very distinct from all the others belonging to Bignoniacee, the character of which tribe, as hitherto established, it appears to infringe in some degree, although not essentially. It attains a very gigantic size, overtopping trees of considerable height, and nearly overwhelming them by the weight of its numerous branches. I have great pleasure in dedicating it to my much-esteemed friend Richard Wight, Esq. of the Honourable East India Company's medical service, and lately in charge of the botanical establishment at Madras. This indefatigable and excellent zoologist as well as botanist, during several journeys performed by him in the peninsula of India, has by his indefatigable zeal and exertion brought together very extensive collections of preserved ‘skins of animals, and dried specimens gf plants, which, both in regard to their richness and the beauty of their preservation, deserve to be ranked among the finest and most interesting that have ever been made. These collections were sent to the Museum at the India House about two years ago, and the numerous duplicates of the botanical portion are now in a course of distribution among the principal herbariums of Europe, public as well as private. A number of his valuable drawings and descriptions of rare Indian plants are on the eve of being published in the 2nd volume of Professor Hooker's admirable Botanical Miscellany. To my highly esteemed friend Professor Lindley I am indebted for the carpological part of the accompanying plate. Plate LXXXI. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx and pistil. 3. Corolla opened. 4. 5. Ovary opened. 6.7. Capsules. 8. The same, wanting one of its cells and valves. 9. Placenta and seeds. 10. Seeds. 11. The same, much enlarged. 12. А portion of the reticulated membrane which surrounds the seed, highly magnified. 13. А detached. cell of the membrane of the seed. 14. Embryo. BARLERIA POLYTRICHA. Tab. 82. Fruticosa, hirsuta; foliis oblongis vel subellipticis, acuminatis, brevé petiolatis; spicis axillaribus, brevibus, secundis; bracteis magnis, oblongis, undulatis. 4 Crescit in montibus Taong Dong et Prome, alibique secus ripam. fluminis Irawaddi, florens et fructigera Octobri— Decembri. Ad Tavoy ога Tenasserim legit Gulielmus Gomez, plantarum collector. Pianta fruticosa, 3-pedalis, erecta, рагеќ ramosa, omnibus partibus hirsuta pilis densis, longis, pallid’ ferrugineis. Сашлз cylindricus, беге simplex, calamum scriptorium crassus; rami pauci, simplices, erecto-patentes. Forra opposita, patentia, interstitiis sæpiùs longiora, cuneato-oblonga, acuminata, integerrima, а tertia exteriore parte deorsüm atfenuata, nunc elliptico-oblonga, utrinque attenuato-acumi- +, ника. 2 ог тест seo бија ^ Comdat #00 стайл, с: Printed by Eng Vishnupersaud del! le 7 үй M \ 1. Printed: by Engelmann, Сту Coindet & Co 1 А А УМ. Gauci 799, Vishnunersaud delt 73 nata, subsessilia, 5—8-pollicaria, pollices 2 ad 5 lata, membranacea, atro-viridia, glaucedine parcissima opaca, utrinque, presertim. ad paginam aversam, juxta costam nervosque obliquos hirsuta, reticulata. PETIOLUs brevissimus, vix }-uncialis. Fronzs magni, соегшет, secundi, digesti in spicas axillares, oppositas, erectas vel гесигуаќав, brevé pedunculatas, 2—3-pollicares, valdé hirsutas. Bracrex oblong, attenuato-acute, pollicares, subunguiculate, leviter undulatze, inferiorem spicæ partem occupantes, subdecussantes. Caryx 4-phyllus ; foliola 2 exteriora parùm inzequalia, lato-ovata, acuta, basi rotundatá adnata, multinervia, sesquipollicaria, intüs lævia et nitida, margine crenulato-ciliata ; horum interius paulld minus, apice nunc 2-dentatum ; inferiora 2 linearia, acuminata, cum exterioribus alter- nantia, iisdemque dimidid brevioria, 1-nervia, membranaceo-marginulata. Совомл infundibuliformis, calyce exteriore дир longior, соегшеа; tubus gracilis, pallidus; limbi bilabiati labiurn superius adscendens, subrevolutum, 4-lobum, lobis ovatis, obtusis, exterioribus parüm majoribus, labio inferiori, integro similibus. STAMINA 4 fertilia, didynama, filamentis puberulis, antheris bilocularibus ; 2 longiora exserta; 2 brevia; preterea quintum sterile, brevissimum, puberulum. Әтісма lineare, carnosum. Carsura sessilis, calycis foliolis exterioribus inclusa, clavata, compressa, acuta, fusca, nitida, 4-sperma. SEMINA magna, plana, orbiculata, adpressé sericeo-villosa, reti- naculis longissimis sustenta. This beautiful species approaches very nearly to Barleria strigosa Willd., which is, I believe, Barleria caerulea of Roxburgh's manuscript Flora Indica; but it seems to differ in being far more hairy on all its green parts, and in the leaves being narrower. The accompanying representation exhibits the plant, which was reared in the Botanic Garden at Caleutta, from seeds gathered at Meaong on the Irawaddi, below Prome, on low; shady ground. The Tavoy spe- cunens resemble this plant; but those I gathered at Prome and on Taong Dong, near Ava, have broader leaves, and ought perhaps to be referred to the species mentioned above. They are all very ornamental plants, on account of their large, lilac flowers, which are produced in great abundance during the cold season. 4 Plate LXXXII. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx opened. 3. Corolla opened. RUELLIA NEESIANA. Tab. 83. Surrruticosa; caule subsimplici; foliis oblongis, acuminatis, integerrimis, basi acutis, subtüs pubescentibus, su- premis ovato-cordatis, sessilibus, amplexicaulibus ; floribus terminalibus, paucis, racemoso-paniculatis, glanduloso- pubescentibus, tubo gracili, longissimo ; staminibus brevissimis, antherarum loculis ineequalibus ; сареша ungui- * culata. | | Hab. in montibus Sillet vicinis, florens mense Octobris, fructificans Decembri. In hortum Calcuttensem introducta anno 1825. Cavus suffruticosus, 3-pedalis, simplex, vel parc? ramosus, superné ramique obtusé quadrangulares, кон i sulcis duobus ср rM pilosis, czeterüm glabri. Foura pauca, opposita, patentia, inferiora petiolata, oblonga, acuminata, aper КЕН acuta, PRI Наги, superiora sessilia, ovato-cordata, subamplexicaulia ; suprà atroviridia, glabra, и - nervos a ie obliquos елгы subco- riacea, PETIOLUS 4-pollicaris, suprà plano-sulcatus. FronEs magni, T— , pauci, dilute rosei, digesti in калын oben учин, elongatione caulis plùs minisve elevatum, nunc basi compositum, кини; Рвринсиш teretes; calyceaque pilis copibsis, гүлдөн glandulosis vestiti, subviscosi. Реріскілд brevissimi, basi suffulti bracteola lineari, villosa, дака oblongus, lineas 3 өтеле paofand 5-partitus ; Jacinice lineares, erectae, obtusiuscule, гедиајев. CororLæ non оние, Бенет 1-роШсага, ранено Sam UE in faucem amplam, ovatam, intüs pallidam, punctatam, pubescentem ; limbus patens, bilabiatus, 5-fidus; lobi отав, obtusi, in fps 2 vix minores. SrAMrNA 4 brevissima, didynama, ad fundum faucis occulta. FrtAMENTA crassa, En: cvi р} беш, parum m: per tubum lineolis elevatis decurrentia. Ахтневж magne, violacez, Boso фин loculis vertice qe basi yin, теле e libus, altero nempe breviore. STYLUS capillaceus. Srema villosum, subinfundibuliforme, Capsuxa clavata, longè unguiculata, acuta, 4-sperma, ferè 14-pollicaris; semina orbiculata, retinaculis longis sustenta. ; f " I һауе seen а variety of this most charming species, also a native of the mountains bordering on Sillet, resembling it ш every respect, except in stature and in the size of its flowers, which are one-third smaller. , Plate LXXXIII. Fig. 1. Calyx opened. 2. Corolla opened. 3.4. Two pairs of stamens. 5. Capsule. 6. A detached valve. e > . 1, 74 APOSTASIA. Blume Bydrag. р. 423. * PEniaNTHIUM limbo seipartito, regulari. Sramrna antherifera 2, quorum Еилмемта foliolis lateralibus in- teriorum perianthii opposita, infra connata cum basi Этум suprà cylindracei, et vel nudi, vel hinc Еплмехто TERTIO castrato, altius adnato, foliolo antico exteriorum opposito, appendiculati. Anruer biloculares, longitudi- nalitér dehiscentes. Porren e granulis simplicibus, solutis. Өтісма obtusum, obsoleté bi-trilobum. — Carsura tri- loctlaris, polysperma. Semina ovata, testa nucleo conformi." — Brown MSS. Classis Глипеапа: Gynandria Diandria. Ordo naturalis: Orchidearum Trib. Apostasiee Br. Oss. ‘This very remarkable genus, founded on Apostasia odorata, was first published in 1825 by Dr. Blume in the work referred to; but in 182] a nearly related species was discovered in the valley of Noakote in Nipal, by the plant-collectors of Dr. Wallich, who, in his manuscripts, which I have had the advantage of consulting, named it Mesodactylis deflewa, and at the same time had the drawing made, which is here given. . “ I have followed these two distinguished botanists in regarding Apostasia as belonging to, or at least as most nearly related to, Orchidee. It exhibits, however, very few of those characters generally considered as essential to that family of plants. “ In its antherze, pollen, style, and stigma (all which parts are so remarkably modified in Orchide@) Apostasia does not materially differ either in form, structure, or economy, from the more regular-flowered families of Monocotyledones ; and in its trilocular ovarium it is distinguished from all other genera of the order to which it 15 here appended. “Оп the other hand it agrees with Orchidee in the structure, as far as I am able to ascertain, of its minute seeds ; in the reduced number of stamina, and probably, with some genera of the family, in the order of their reduction ; in the filaments being at base connate with the lower part of the style; and in a great degree in habit. In endeavouring to estimate the importance of the several points of resemblance and difference here enumerated, with a view to decide оп the degree of relationship Apostasia bears to Orchidee, it is necessary to consider the relative position of the parts of the flower in that order, and also іп Scitaminec, the family most nearly allied to it. “Тһе relation of stamina to the parts of the floral envelope in Apostasia is in the first place to be determined. Тһе two antheriferous filaments, which I have more particularly examined in the unexpanded flowers of Apostasia nuda, appear to be opposite to the two lateral segments of the inner series of the perianthium ; and the sterile filament in Apostasia Wallich, and no doubt also in A. odorata, 15 opposite to the anterior Segment of its outer series. ** Several years since I advanced the opinion, ‘That in a complete flower, whose parts are definite, the number of stamina and also of pistilla is equal to that of the calyx and corolla united in Dicotyledones, and of both series of the perianthium in Monocotyledones*? “ It may be further observed, that in cases of reduction of рїї Ша it is generally found, that the remaining carpella when more than one, but inferior in number to that of one series of the floral envelope, correspond in position with parts of both series, and with very few exceptions, whether distinct or confluent, are all equally developed. Stamina, on the other hand, in cases of equal reduction, generally belong to one of the series only, or, if corresponding with parts of both series, are usually in different states of developement, as they are here described to be in two species of Apostasia. “ This appearance of part of the inner series of stamina has not hitherto been expressly remarked in Orchidee. It is not improbable, however, that the same relation to perianthium exists in the lateral antheriferous stamina of Cypri- pediumt, as well as in the sterile petaloid processes similarly situated in other genera, as in Diuris. And the third stamen of the inner series, still more altered in form, may be considered as present in certain New Holland genera, especially Glossodia, where this supposed stamen is placed within the labellum, but entirely distinct from it; in Epiblema, Pterostylis, and Chiloglottis, іп which an analogous appendage similarly situated coheres in various degrees with that division of the perianthium ; and perhaps it may be considered as indicated in all cases where the labellum is furnished with a process, however minute, arising from its axis. “И the view here taken of the position of the lateral filaments in Cypripedium and Diuris be adopted, it may be remarked that indications or rudiments of the two stamina necessary to complete the number in Orchidee, of those, namely, corresponding with the lateral segments of the outer series of the perianthium, have not yet been observed in the regular structure of any plant of the order. They have however been occasionally met with in monstrous flowers of Habenaria bifolia, in more than one spike of which I have found the greater number of flowers triandrous, the three antherae being equidistant, and placed exactly opposite to the three divisions of the outer series of the perian- thium, the inner series of which remains in its ordinary state. * In 1826, in Appendix to Denham and Clapperton’s Travels, p. 237. T Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. 1. p. 309. 75 се «i bh * . : № mp Richard has given an account of an analogous monstrosity in Orchis latifolia. In this case of a triandrous Orchis, M. Richard, having adopted the opinion, which I believe I was the first to or nature of the auriculze of the anthera of many genera of Orchidee, considers the addition the perfect developement of these auricule. This advance t, of the origin al anther as formed by lia. in which | - view however cannot be taken of the monstrosity of Habenaria bifolia, in which not only the auricule of the anterior or ordinary stamen are distinctly present, but two other similar processes, one on the anterior side of each of the additional antherz, also exist; a fact which throws considerable doubt on the correctness of the view here referred to of the nature of these processes in Orchidee, unless the same hypothesis could likewise be extended to all cases of trifid filaments, as those of Allium and Deutzia, to which the auricule іп Orchidee may be said to be analogous. “Тп Scitaminee, the family most nearly akin to Orchidee, the complete number of stamina may be considered very generally present. Only one, however, is antheriferous ; and this perfect stamen, instead of corresponding, as in Orchidee, with the anterior segment of the outer series of the perianthium, is placed within the posterior segment of the inner series ; the two remaining barren stamina of the same series being the epigynous glands or filaments existing in all the genera of this order except Costus}; while the outer series of stamina, very differently modified, form the innermost or supplementary series of the perianthium. “ This view of the origin of that series was many years ago communicated to me in conversation by the celebrated Correa de Serra; but was first, I believe, published in 1826 by Professor Lestiboudois in a memoir& in which the correctness of the opinion held, namely, that Scitaminee and Cannee possess rudiments or modifications of six stamina, is remarkably contrasted with the erroneous views taken, or rather adopted, of the greater part of the structures ad- duced in support of it. : “АА more accurate account of the relative position of parts was given in 1828 by my ingenious friend Professor Von Martius. In confirmation of the opinion, I may remark that the cells of the ovarium, whose relation to the floral envelope appears to be very uniform in /Monocotyledones|, are in Scitaminee opposite to the supposed petaliform stamina, and to the divisions of the outermost series of perianthium. І have formerly pointed out the difference in position of the antheriferous stamen in Scitamineæ and that of Cannec or Мағатее, and have remarked that this difference is in some degree analogous to that existing between Cypripedium and the other genera of Orchidee. “ Арозаза in Из trilocular ovarium differs from all the genera of Orchidee; but an analogous difference occurs in Scitaminee, in which Софа is distinguished from every other genus in having its ovarium unilocular, with three parietal placentee. And in both these families it may be proved that the constituent parts of the compound ovarium, whether unilocular or trilocular, agree in position, or in their relation to the divisions of the perianthium. “ Lastly, Apostasia in the economy of impregnation, or the state of the pollen, and the manner of its application to the stigma, probably differs essentially from all Orchideæ, except perhaps Cypripedium and possibly Vanilla. Buta similar difference, and in a degree still more striking, exists between Apocinee, as | have formerly proposed to limit that order, and Asclepiadee, which can only be regarded as a subdivision of the same natural class,” —Brown MSS. APOSTASIA WALLICHH. Tab. 84. Ахтневавом lobis posticis inzequalibus, filamento tertio castrato.— Brown MSS. Apostasia Wallichit, Brown MSS. IY tf Habitat in valle Napalize minore, Noakote dicta, terrestris infra arbores, florens et fructigera mense Aprilis. Rapix constans fibris aliquot cylindricis, rigidis et sublignosis, valdé minutim striatulis, fuscis, indivisis, extremitate inferiore parùm AvLIS gracilis, cylindricus, indivisus, calamum scriptorium * PLANTA terrestris, omnino laevis, erecta, rigidiuscula, pedalis. | longis, 6—8- quin 10-pollicaribus, pennam columbinam crassis, glabris, : À fibrillosis, e basi caulis alternatìm rectè et ferè parallelè descendentibus. C cus on " crassus, indutus vaginis foliorum brevibus, striato-subnervosis, adpressis, ore obliquis, inferioribus demim nudis. Forra numerosa, ap- 2 proximata, undique sparsa et patentia, recurvato-nutantia, graminea, Tun plana; integerrima, piii каша, quee lanceolata, in acumen gracillimum attenuata, deorsum angustata et acuta, ipsa basi tamen dilatata, subamplexicaulia et in nate emt nentia, 6—10-pollicaria, medid semipollicem lata, supra atroviridia, nitida, striata, subtüs ps peri жанїшена, nervis gracillimis ad apicem usque excurrentibus. Racemi plures, axillares foliorum vare et ERU oblongi, ng средна rigidi, brevé pedunculati, foliis tripló breviores, 3-pollicares, fructiferi parum elongati, 5-pollicares, paniculam deflexo- patentem, termi- . + Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. 1. рр. 309 & 311. $ Mémoire sur le Canna indica et sur les familles des Balisiers et des Bananiers. 4 Gen. Remarks оп Bot. of Terra Austr. p. 43. X ж Mém. de la Soc. d Hist. Nat. de Paris, 1. p. 202. t Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. 1. p. 305. | Appendix to Denham and Clapperton’s Travels, p. 243. 76 nalem formantes: Реромсои leviter angulati, nudi. Frores parvi et inconspicui, flavi, admodiim fragrantes, pedicellati. | PEpicELLIS breves, suffulti bracted membranaced, lanceolata, plicatà, dorso subcarinatà, sub. fructu elongatà. PERIANTHIUM ovarii apici parüm obliquè impositum, infundibuliformi-patentiusculum, vix duas lineas longum, 6-partitum ; Ѓасілісе lineares, planiusculze, cuspidato-acutze, seriebus duabus alternatim dispositze, basi conniventes, apice parüm patentes; interiores З vix angustiores. LasELLUM nullum. Sramina 3, quorum 2 antherifera stylo supra basin lateralittr adfixa, eodem parallela, adscendentia. FiLAMENTA brevissima, subulata. ANTHERE егесі, oblonge, basi obliqué acutae, filamento fer& dupld longior, sulco medio notatæ, longitudinaliter dehiscentes, valvulis шох introrsüm volutis. Sramen sterile stylo antic’, inter fertilia insertum, parüm ulteriùs adnatum, planiusculum, obtusum, nudum. Ovarium oblongo-cylindricum, obsoletissimé 3-angulare, utrinque acutum, unguiculare, pedunculo pluriés longius, 3-loculare, po- lysporum ; ovu/a plurima, axi inserta. SryLus teres, rectus, staminibus parüm longior. Stigma convexiusculum, obsoletissimé 3-lobum. Caprsuna pollicaris, gracilis, fusca, nitida, 3-locularis, seminibus copiosis, minutis, globosis, atris. This curious plant has been found only at Noakote in Nipal, a small valley distant about one day’s journey from Katmandu, and much less elevated, and therefore much warmer, than the great valley. My people brought me fresh specimens in flower and with unripe capsules in April 1821, while Г was in that country. The flowers are very fra- grant, like those of Webera corymbosa of Willdenow. Mr. Brown, who has favoured me with the highly important observations given above, and to whom I beg to ex- press my warmest thanks, was disposed at first to consider my plant as identical with that discovered by the celebrated Professor Blume on Mount Salak in Java. Subsequent examinations have, however, satisfied him that they are distinct species; a circumstance, indeed, which was anticipated from the great difference of their geographical position. I must therefore request the reader to alter the name of Apostasia odorata of Plate 84 to 4. Wallichi, which Mr. Brown has done me the honour to give to the Nipal plant. The specific character of the Java plant, ex- tracted by permission from the manuscript of this illustrious botanist, I shall here subjoin : “ Apostasia odorata, antherarum lobis posticis aqualibus, filamento tertio castrato.”—Brown MSS. Apostasia odorata, Blume Bydr. p. 423. Plate LXXXIV. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. The same dissected. 3. Style and stamens. 4. A flower, with the perianthium expanded, in order to show the internal parts. 5. Nearly ripe capsule divided horizontally... 6. A detached stamen. 7. Pollen. 8. Style, with barren stamen reflected to show the indication of the two cells. 9. Seeds, one of which is divided longitudinally. APOSTASIA NUDA. Tab. 85. `АмтнЕВАВОМ lobis posticis eequalibus, filamento tertio nullo.— Brown MSS. Apostasia nuda, Brown MSS. Habitat in montibus insula Penang, florens Octobri. Georgius Porter. Hanrrus omnind Apostasie Wallichii, Brown, sed gracilior et statura elevatior. Omnes partes glaberrimz. Етввж RADICALES nume- rosiores quàm in illa specie, fibrillosae et subramulose. Caurs strictus, gracilis, pedalis, 14-pedalis, e basi sæpiùs foliosus, vaginis bre- vibus, nervosis indutus. Forra valdé numerosa et approximata, undiqué erecto-patentia, angusto-linearia, attenuato-acuminatissima, basi contracta iterumque paulld dilatata, plana, 5—6-pollicaria, 5-nervia, lineata, subtüs glauca, suprema breviora. Racemi terminales, pauci, brevé pedunculati, simplices, decurvato-patentes, fructiferi deflexi, folia suprema longitudine sequantes. Реромсотоз obsitus bracteolis valdé copiosis, subquadrifarié imbricatis, adpressis, lineari-lanceolatis, acuminatis, 3-nerviis, persistentibus. Етовез minimi flavi. OvARIUM et PERIANTHIUM ut in altera specie. STAMINA 2 prope basin styli inserta. Ахтнекж magnæ, ovato-subcordate, basi equales. STAMEN STERILE nullum. SrvLus gracilis, stamina longitudine æquans. Өтісма obsoleté 3-lobum. This species differs from the Nipal plant in the absence of the barren stamen, in the posterior lobes of the anthers being equal, and in the bracteated peduncles of the racemes. Its stature is taller and slenderer, the leaves shorter and much narrower. : | Plate LXXXV. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Stamen detached. ^ 3. Pollen. 4 & 5. Different views of the style, with corresponding plans, showing the relative position of the parts of the flower. > Serazhang, delt Puoi. Printed ди Engelmann, Graf Condet Фо Е 2 е M tanc UIR. / 2) А í | 7 к 5 | AN аг 54 . -Gorachand piant. # anal 7-3 С Curls 4-9 ай? Printed by Engelmann Graf, Condet КОА " M Gauci Е, C. Curls det? Printed, by Engelramm, Стар Ceindet K Co AK бана АА. E Ж д. 77 i IRIS DECORA. Tab. 86. Товевівия gracilibus, fasciculatis, pedunculatis y foliis ensiformi-linearibus, acuminatissimis, plicato-nervosis, lon- gissimis ; scapo gracili, paucifloro, levitér compresso, foliis longiore ; spathis remotis, angustis, acuminatis ; corolla tubo longo, gracili; petalis oblongis, retusis, exterioribus cristatis ; stigmatibus corollam subquantibus lanceolatis, acuminatis sublaciniato-serratis. Habitat in Napaliz monte Ekdanta et ad Bempedi, florens mense Maii. Pianta 3-pedalis, gracilis, levis, glaucescens. Raprx constans tuberibus pluribus carnosis, fasciculatis, gracilibus, oblongo-cylindricis, utrinqué attenuatis 2-pollicaribus, pedunculo gracili, 2-pollicari sustentis. Forra 2—3-pedalia, ensiformi-linearia, attenuato-acuminatis- sima, basi paràm contracta equitantia, vix ad medium lineas 10 lata, gracillimé 5-nervia, medio profunde canaliculata, lateribus replicatis, atro-viridia, subtüs glaucescentia. Scapus erectus gracilis, glaucus, levitér compressus, foliis parüm longior, superné subflexuosus, basi circumdatus fibris densis, brevibus, erectis, aridis. Әрлтнж lineari-falcate, acuminate, 2-valves, 3—4-pollicares, membranaceo- marginate. Frores pauci, solitarii vel geminati, altero sæpiùs emarcido, dilutissimé ccerulei, purpureo-reticulati, Теге inodori, laeves. Товов gracilis, obsolet® 3-angularis, 2-pollicaris, ovario oblongo, 3-angulari, lucido, esulcato, ad latera convexo duplo longior. PETALA oblonga, obtusa, retusa, lobis apicis rotundatis, plana, integerrima, recurvata, pollicaria, venis purpurascentibus, numerosis, dichotomis reticulata, desinentia in ungues latiusculos, marginatos, canaliculatos, infundibuliformi-conniventes, semipollicares ; exteriora crista luted, angustáà, fimbriato-denticulatà, e medio limbi ad basin unguis decurrente; inferiora parüm angustiora, nuda. 8ТісмаАТА erecto-conni- ventia, petalis interioribus parüm breviora, iisdem concolora, lanceolata, inzequalitér acuté serrata, sublaciniata, apice profundé biloba, jobis acuminatis, intüs integerrimis et parallelis, sinu angusto, lateribus parüm recurvatis super antheras lineares, filamento filiformi, ғалап insidentes. Сарвстл oblonga, 3-angularis, lateribus convexis, 13-pollicaris. This plant and Zris napalensis Botan. Reg. у. 10. n. 818. are the only two species of Iris, which I have found in Nipal. They belong exclusively to that country, and are quite distinct from the European species. Тһе plant de- scribed above is the rarest of the two, blossoming in the hot season; whereas the other kind, which is called by the natives Gulsojan and (ийа, produces its flowers in the cold weather, about February, and continues in flower ufitil the end of April. Plate LXXXVI. Fig. 1. Flower dissected. CORYLUS FEROX. Tab. 87. Forus oblongis, valdé acuminatis, stipulis lineari-lanceolatis nuce compressa, involucro villoso, bipartito, laciniato- spinosissimo duplo breviore. ра : MM | j | Crescit ad cacumen Sheopore montis in Napalia, florens Septembri, fructigera Decembri. Annon 20- is. Твомсоз pedem ad 2 circumferentià emetiens, cortice glabriusculo, cinereo. Кам: virgati, leeves, cyligdrici, fusci, calloso-punctati, tenelli sericei. Семмх conico-oblongze, extüs sericeo-villose. Еол. subbifarie potentis, alterna, oblonga, in acumen longum attenuata, duplicato-serrata, serraturis parvis, acuminatis, basi obtusa, р utringuè үдеген» pubeecentia, suprà atroviridia, obliquè rugosa, subtùs pallida, obliquè et parallelè multinervia, nervis costâque gracilibus, elevatis, villosis. Ретогов vix pollicaris, villosus. SmiPULE lineari-lanceolate, acute, caducissimee. ангу terminalia pent inus brevium, — axillarium vel ex vestigiis petiolorum delapsorum, subfasciculata, cylindracea, pL vera ке арен — Papers: вес, сй, деш flavicantia. Зфолмж undique imbricatze, adpresse, 3-partitze ; lobi obovati, cuspidulati, extüs valdé villóni, inti раев ннан reliquis latior. STAMINA 4, squamis breviora ; filamenta brevissima ; anthere magnis, oblongæ, fuscæ, loculis discrétis, apice pilis canis, brevibus barbatze. FLORES РЕМГУЕТ haud visi. INvoLucRUM nucis Фиќо, qyattüfordio ҮАгп цб) ргобшщдё 2-partitum, benp-rillosun; fundo glabrum, usque ad medium laciniato-multifidum, lobis ramoso-pinnatis, divaricato-patentibus, in spinas longus, gracillimas, apice fusċo-glabras desinentibus ; plura ad ramulorum apices coacervata in capitulumt 2— 3-роїНсаге, nutans. Мох ovate, Сошреера, lateribys convexa, obsoletè striata, involucro dimidid brevior, valdè crassa et dura, laevis, fusca, obtusa cum apicula e M prominente abrasa. RxcEPTACULUM filiforme, compressum, spongiosum, seminis marginem alterum percurrens, apice ovula 2 adfigens, verticem putaminis parüm intrans. Semen omnind ut in Corylo Avellana. The wood of this tree is light, compact, and of a pale colour. The nut is small, and precisely like the common hazel-nut in taste; the shell is exceedingly hard and thick. i seen from behind. 4. Stamen. 5. А bunch ig. 1. Male ament. 2. Scale with stamens. 3. The same, seen ta f рани green дои. 7. Тһе вате орепед. 8. Involucre. 9. Nut. 10. 11. The same divided transversely and о į * longitudinally. 12. 13. 14. Seed. E » 78 OXYSPORA_ PANICULATA. Тар. 88. Erecra; foliis subcordato-ovatis, acuminatis, crenulatis, subtüs ramis; petiolis pedunculisque tomentoso-villosis, villis pubescentibus; paniculá ovata, erecta ; connectivo antherarum longiorum obsoleté calcarato ; calyce capsulifero subenervio. . i Огузрога paniculata, DeCand. Prodr. vol. 3. p. 123. Ejusd. Melastom. p. 33. tab. iv. Arthrostemma paniculatum, Don Prodr. Flor. Nepal. p. 222. Habitat frequentèr in montibus vallis Napaliæ, florens sub pluviis, mensibus Julii—Septembris, fructigera Decembri. ' Frurex 2—3- quin 4-pedalis, erecta, trichotomè ramosa. Слои subcylindricus, brevis, corticè cinereo-obtectus. Ramı subquadran- gulares, cinerei, calloso-punctati, infernè et ætate glabriusculi, supernè uti ramuli petiolique obtecti et dum juniores quasi barbati tomento copiosissimo, longo, laxo, solubili, stellato, ex cinereo ferrugineo, villis longis, subspongiosis, pubescentibus intermixto. Forra opposita, ‘patentia, approximata, ovata, attenuato-acuminata, margine subrecurvo crenulato-denticulata, basi rotundatá leviter retusa, 5—7-polli- caria, aliquando 10-pollicaria, coriacea, suprà atro-viridia, nitida, juxtà nervorum venarumque tractus longitudinalitér et transverse rugosa, Геге glabra, subtüs grumoso-tomentosa, 7-nervia, nervis densiüs tomentosis, rufescentibus, intermediis crassis, totam paginze longi- tudinem percurrentibus, venis inter hos transversis, parallelis, approximatis, prominentibus, venulis interjectis anastomosantibus ; summa paria et floralia pauca, parva, lanceolata. Реттоіл crassi, teretes, 14-pollicares, densissimé tomentosi, subbarbati, suprà sulco exarati, basi utrinque tuberculo carnoso, conico muniti, ramum lined longiüs et densius tomentosà ambientes. PawicuLA terminalis magna, san- guinea, levitér farinoso-tomentosa, pedunculata, ovata, attenuato-acuta, basi et ad divisuras primarias infimas foliorum floralium paribus aliquot aucta, Ѓеге pedalis; rami oppositi, patentes, decussati. Рерохсои carnosi, obscuré 4-angulares, colorati, suffulti bracteis oppositis, parvis, lineari-subulatis, acutis, basi subtüs gibbosis. Frores ruberrimi, ternati, brevé pedicellati. Catyx oblongus, prismatico-4-gonus, parc? tomentosus, limbo subtüs levissime constricto, parvo, cyathiformi, patente, 4-lobo: lobis lato-ovatis, acutiusculis, dorso sub- carinatis, persistentibus. PETALA 4, levia, nitida, Теге unguicularia, calyce parüm longiora, ovata, obliqué acuta, basi latiusculá inter _ lobos сфусв inserta, zestivatione in conum cuspidatum convoluta. Sramina 8, quorum 4 longiora petala superantia, 4 iisdem {егё dimidid breviora. Fitamenta subulata, colorata, basi compressiuscula. Амтневж staminum longiorum, petalis altérnantium, polline vacue, violacez, lineari-cylindrieze, adscendenti-incurve, subnutantes, apice 2-рога, basi incurvá, levissime dilatatà bilobze, posticé crispatulze et ad inferiorem connectivi extremitatem obsoletissimé calcarate ; staminum breviorum polliniferze, Йауге, suberecte, istis Ѓеге dimidio breviores, apice poro communi dehiscentes, basi biloba, ровнеќ connectivo deorsüm elongato in calcar breve, descendens, filamento parallelum. Ovarium oblorigo-cylindricum, puberulum, 4-loculare, membranulis 4 angustissimis demüm evanidis lateribus inferioris dimidiz calycis partis accretum, ita ut formentur tubuli 4, angulis hujus correspondentes, antherasque longiores zestivatione deflexas recipientes. ӛтуі cylindricus, levissime clavatus, lateralitér decurvus, stamina breviora subzequans. 8тівма convexum, simplex. Car- SULA ovata, 4-sulcata, levissimé tomentosa, ѓегё libera, calyce parüm aucto, nutante, subquadrangulari, subenervio, pedicellum zequante, inclusa eodemque terti brevior, 4-locularis, apice dehiscens in valvulas 4 breves, erectas, apice parüm incurvas. ЅемІХА copiosissima, parva, diluté ferruginea, locula omnind replentia, horizontalia, nucleo cylindraceo, involuto testa Јаха, triangulari-obovatà, compressa, scabrida, venulosa, verticis truncate angulis oppositis porrectis, altero brevi, lato, altero longo, subulato; undique inserta placentis 4 jugiformibus, apice cuspidato-porrectis, ope membrane latiusculz axi capsule superne nude, demim liberae adfixis, substipitatis. This is one of the commonest as well as most elegant plants of the tribe of Melastomacee, inhabiting Nipal, where it grows on almost all the hills surrounding the great valley, delighting in shady and moist situations, and producing its numerous, large and red panicles during the rainy season. I am acquainted with another species of Ozyspora, which, although resembling our plant very closely, is quite distinct. It is a native of the hills about Chittagong and Sillet, and may be characterized in the following manner : Огузрога vagans : subscandens ; ramis nutantibus ; foliis subcordato-ovatis, acuminatis, crenulatis, ciliatis, subtus ramulis petiolisque levitér tomentoso-pilosis, pilis simplicibus, demüm feré glabris; paniculá elongata, nutante ; con- nectivo antherarum omnium deorsüm calcarato ; calyce capsulifero costato. Melastoma vagans, Roxb. MSS. Ej. Icon pict. in horto botanico Calcutta asservata. B cernua. “ Melastoma cernua, foliis ovato-lanceolatis, 5-nerviis, glabris; paniculá terminali, gracili, elongata, nutante, pedunculis 4-alatis."—AHo«5. MSS. Нар. ad Chittagong. Plate LXXXVIII. Fig. 1.2. Flower. 3. Flower-bud. 4. Ditto opened. 5. Flower opened. 6. Calyx opened. 7. Ova- rium divided horizontally. М бало thog Printed. ty Brgelmann Graf @indet Фо Tishnupersaud det ТЫЙ Ор) pu CITAS ms а E 4 . А Printed. by Engmann Graf, coindet 4 M. сама ith 4 anat г T (x Corylus fete Corachand Фей“ N к AAPA aka la 1 / Р? Mott 79 MYRISTICA SPHJEROCARPA. Та). 89. Foris oblongis, acuminatis, fructibusque lateralibus, fasciculatis, globosis, levibus; nuclei globosi arillo subcompleto Habitat in provincia Martabanize, ad vicum Martaban et ad Moalmyne, fructifera Aprili. Annon 15-pedalis et ultra. Ramı lineis 2 oppositis, elevatis notati, obsolet? ancipites, uti omnes partes glaberrimi. Forra alterna, sub- bifarié patentia, approximata, oblonga, attenuata, valde acuminata, integerrima, basi acuta, coriacea, subcarnosa, 5-pollicaria, suprà wd viridia, lucida, subtis glaucescentia, nervis alternis costáque prominentibus, subavenia. Реттопов brevis, suprà sulcatus. Frongs haud visi. Евостоз laterales, fasciculati, breviter pedunculati, globosi, magnitudinis nucis Juglandis, sordidé lutei, Ігеуев, dehiscentes in valvulas 2 coriaceas, hemisphzericas, divaricatas, intùs glaberrimas раШабапе purpurascentes. М№осікоѕ globosus, extis ruminatus, involutus arillo coccineo, tenui, carnoso, subcompleto, vertice tantim obsoletà lobuloso. Plate LXXXIX. Fig. 1. Fruit unopened. 2. The same, burst open. horizontally. 5. Nut divided vertically. glaucus, intüs ferrugineo- 3. Nut, with the arillus partly removed. 4. The same, cut MYRISTICA AMYGDALINA. Tab. 90. Fouis cuneato-oblongis, deorsùm attenuatis, fructibusque lateralibus, ovatis, fasciculatis, nutantibus, lævibus ; nuclei oblongi arillo apice laciniato-lacero. Habitat cum specie præcedente ; fructus maturi eodem tempore. Аввов. Ramı teretes, glabri. Forra alterna, approximata, patentia, cuneato-obovata, acuta, deorsùm attenuato-acuta, integerrima, 5-pollicaria, coriacea, lævia, suprà nitida, subtùs pallida, costa ргоши а, nervis teneribus, subreticulata. PErTr0LUS teres, unguicularis. Frores haud visi. Евостоз infra folia ramulorum laterales, fasciculati, nutantes, breve pedunculati, ovati, hinc sulco exsculpti, e viridi fuscescentes, glauci, magnitudine fructüs Amygdali, dehiscentes in valvulas 2 carnosas, crassiusculas. NucrEus oblongo-cylindraceus, 10 lineas longus, absque odore vel sapore, extis cinerascens, reticulatus, intüs valdé ruminatus, indutus arillo aurantiaco, tenui, carnoso, vertice lacerato, lobis inzequalibus, angustis, linearibus, imbricantibus. Both this and the preceding species were found in fruit only. Тһе fleshy covering of Myristica amygdalina has a strong acid and somewhat astringent taste, which is probably the case also with all the other species of the genus. Both the mace and the nut are almost entirely destitute of any aromatic flavour. Plate XC. Fig. 1. Fruit before bursting. 2. Тһе same, with the outer covering half removed. 3. The same after bursting, one of the valves removed. 4. Nut, with the arillus opened. 5. The same, divided horizontally. 6. Nut. 7. The same, divided perpendicularly. 8. Embryo. . PIPER RIBESIOIDES. Tab. 91. Fruticosum, scandens, leve ; foliis ovato-oblongis, cordatis, acuminatis, coriaceis; baccis longé pedunculatis, digestis in racemos oblongos, geminatos, axillares, folio breviores. Да : ; Habitat in sylva montis Chappedong oræ Tenasserim, et ad ripam fluminis Attran in Martabania; fructifera Februario. Евотех maximus super arborum truncis ramisque altissimè radicans. Ramı longi, radicantes, gründriei, pallidi, supergà фен, nutantes, graciles, compressiusculi, vix puberuli. Forra bifarié patentia, alterna, ovato-oblonga, attenuato-acuminata, integerrima, levitèr repanda, marginibus medid plùs minüsve curva, basi parüm contractâ profondè quedam, lobis magnis, тоқталды d WE valdé coriacea, firma, levia, glauca, lætè viridia, suprà bullata, subtüs e гита Бекен "— m 3 -— longè unitis, grosse reticulato- venosa; magnitudine in eodem ramo admodüm variabilia, inferiora романа pedalis, quin ultra, aM sensim — summa lanceolato-cordata, 3-pollicaria. Ретюшы crassi, teretes, suprà anguste sulcati, foliis multoties о, inferiores 2-pollirgnes, summi unguiculares. INFLORESCENTIA haud visa. RACEMI FRUCTIFERI пли, axillares. geminati, ghlgngo-crlindrgi, перла ма foliis breviores, 3—5-pollicares, brevè pedunculati. ^ PEpuNcuLus j-pollicaris, teres, оре! кафе carnosa, cylindrica, diee Bacca valdé numerose et approximate, undique sparse, patentissime, globoumni Арды vestigio, паи, 2 re 4 — Pu i flavze, plenà maturitate aurantiacc, diametro bacon Sum magne, pluribus n Баа дна M sate — pedicello longo, tereti-clavato, 3-unguiculari, basi rachi subimmerso suffultoque bracteold brevissima, ovata, o j » я Semen depresso-globosum, glabrum, venosum, basi planum. А 80 This is а very remarkable, gigantic species of Pepper. Тһе leaves are ovate-cordate and coriaceous, varying exceedingly in size, even on one and the same branch ; the lowermost being from eight to twelve and even fourteen inches long, while the uppermost scarcely measure three inches in length. Тһе berries are large, of a beautiful greenish-yellow colour, becoming deep orange when quite ripe, supported on long pedicels. ‘They possess a very pleasantly aromatic and pungent taste. Plate XCI. Fig. 1. Berry. 2. The same, divided transversely. 3.4. Seed. 5. One of the upper leaves. JUSTICIA PALATIFERA. Tab. 92. Fnumicosa ; foliis oblongis, acuminatis, integerrimis, glabris, brevé petiolatis, summis sublineari-oblongis ; racemis simplicibus, terminalibus, paniculatis, secundis, subrecurvatis, nudis ; floribus fasciculatis, bracteis subulatis calycisque laciniis linearibus, glanduloso-pubescentibus ; tubo corolla elongato, gracillimo, limbo bilabiato, labii inferioris laciniá intermediá дейеха, supra gibboso-sulcata ; loculis antherarum subaequalibus. Habitat in montibus prope Sillet, ubi detexit Francis De Silva, plantarum collector, indéque in Hortum Botanicum Calcuttee anno 1825 introduxit. Floret Martio et Aprili; fructus maturescunt Majo. Cavus fruticosus, erectus, gracilis, 2-pedalis, pubescens, simplex, vel parc? ramulosus, purpurascens. Forra opposita, patentia, interstitiis longiora, lanceolato-oblonga, acuminata, integerrima, vel obsolete crenulata, parüm undulata, basi acuta, 5-pollicaria, coriacea, suprà saturaté viridia, opaca, glaberrima, subtüs costa elevatà, pubescente, nervis suboppositis, arcuatis ; summa lineari-oblonga, 2—3- pollicaria, valdé approximata. Реттомв J-pollicaris, rufescens, suprà planus, subtüs convexus, pubescens. Калсемг terminales et ex axillis supremis oppositi, simplices, longiusculi, leviter recurvati, brevé pedunculati, secundi, 3—5-pollicares. Реромсим cylindrici, pedicelli, bracteze calycesque obsiti pubescentià copiosá, glanduloso-capitellatà. ^ FronEs magni, diluté rosei, erecti, subsessiles, 3— 5-dispositi in fasciculos subapproximatos, secundos, suffultos bracteolis aliquot lineari-subulatis, subcarnosis. Рертсемл brevissimi, carnosi, cylindrici, tumidi. Carvx oblongus, 3-linearis, profundé divisus іп lacinias 5 lineares, obtusas, ciliatas, parallelas. Соволж tubus gracillimus, subfiliformis, pubescens, 13- vel 2-pollicaris, apice parüm dilatatus ; limbus patens, bilabiatus, tubo Теге tertio brevior : labium superius 2-fidum, adscendens, lobis oblongis, obtusis, parallelis; inferius descendens, duplo feré latius, 3-fidum, lobi laterales istis labii superioris similes, intermedius major, subdeflexus, ovatus, purpureo-marginatus, versus basin suprà convexus et elevatus in palatum sulcato-retusum, flavum, nigro-punctatum, subtüs concavus; faux pervia. FrnLAMENTA brevia. Амтневж ехѕегіге, leviter divergentes, loculis fer? parallelis, subdistantibus. Зтушов filiformis. Srıema obsolet? 2-lobum. — Capsura clavata, 2-sperma, ungui- culata, pubescens, pollicaris, ungue calycem adpressum sequante. Plate ХСП. Fig. 1. 2. Calyx and corolla opened. 3. А detached stamen. JUSTICIA vENTRICOSA. Тар. 93. Fruticosa; foliis oblongis, obtusé acuminatis, lucidis, brevé petiolatis ; spicis axillaribus terminalibusque, solitariis, erectis, subsessilibus, oblongo-cylindricis, bracteis foliaceis, quadrifarié imbricantibus, ventricosis, orbiculatis, coloratis; limbo corollæ ringentis labio superiore oblongo, cucullato, inferiore ovato, 3-dentato, suprà bullato-convexo ; stami- nibus 2; antherz loculis subinzequalibus, ovatis, deorsum acutis et divergentibus. Justicia ventricosa, Wall. in Bot. Mag. vol. 54. n. 2766. Habitat in China. In Hortum Botanicum Calcuttze misit Dom. J. Reeves anno 1820. Floret mensibus Decembris— Februarii; fructus nondum producti sunt. In provincia Martabaniz ad ripas fluminis Saluen observavi florentem Aprili 1897. Frurex magnus, levis, dens? paniculato-ramosus, 3—5-pedalis. Rami cylindrici, crassi, tumido-articulati, suberecti. Forra valdé copiosa, patentia, approximata, breve petiolata, oblonga, vel acuminata, deorsim attenuata in basin auctam, obsolete crenulata, 5—8-pol- licaria, carnosa, subfragilia, suprà atroviridia, lucida, costå gracili nervisque suboppositis раг elevatis, subtüs pallida, subenervia, ad lucem visa lineolis minutissimis, cuneiformibus, pellucidis, vagis densissimé notata. PerroLus j-pollicaris, suprà planus. Spica ter- minales axillaresque, solitarize, oblongæ, brevé pedunculatz, erecto, obtuse, digitum medium crasse, pollices 4 longze, foliis breviores, obsoletissimé quadrangulares, quadrifarié imbricate bracteis magnis, oppositis, orbiculatis, cuspidato-acutis, ventricoso-concavis, dorso convexis, pollicaribus, reticulato-venosis, e viridi fuscescentibus, pubescenti-ciliatis, 3—4-floris, adjectis зар rudimentis florum aliquot. Ж Gauci GR Printed by Engelmann, Graf, Coindet 4709 Vishnupersaud del” € Л есе “еее а 7 inde Ё nag Engelmann рута. by / ЖУР “ ЯҒ СОЛЕНА , 4 - €. Fishnupersaud де" AA елей; б Printed by Engelmann, Graff. Сепае? с УУ» 02 FKshnunersaud. del’ Printed, ду Engelmann, Graf. Goindel Ё Со „И Gauci ith J^ 2 пе p г. e Justicia е да Printed by Engelmann, Graf, indet & СР Р M Gauci ША Gorachand del’ Ж- fie a телесен 81 Fores albi, purpureo-punctulati, majusculi, suffulti pedicellis brevissimis, crassis, basi bracteolis 2 oppositis, subulatis, puberulis. Слух brevis, pubescens, subcarnosus ; laciniæ lineari-acuminate. Совоша: extüs pubescentis tubus cylindricus, flavescens, bracteam exteriorem vix excedens ; limbus exsertus, 2-labiatus, ringens, tubum longitudine zequans ; labium superius rectum, oblongum, cucullato- concavum, apice acuta obsolete 2-denticulatum ; inferius recurvato-patens, ovatum, 3-dentatum, dentibus ovatis, obtusis, suprà convexum, lineolis purpureis, decussantibus reticulatum, sulcoque longitudinali medio notatum, subtüs concavum ; faux pervia. Sramrna 2 intra labium согоПге superius subrecondita, denique lateralitér subdeflexa ; filamenta pubescentia, filiformia ; antherc sagittato-ovate, loculis subinzequalibus, obtusis, deorsim acutis et divergentibus. This is a very large and handsome species, remarkable on account of the dark-green, tough and fleshy leaves, and the large, foliaceous, ventricose bracteas of the spikes. I am unable to discover any difference between the plants introduced into the Caleutta Garden from China, and those which I found in Martaban. Plate ХСІП. Fig. 1. A bractea with its fascicle of flowers. 2. Calyx. 3. Corolla. 4. Stamen. DESMODIUM PENDULUM. ‘Tab. 94. Евестом, fruticosum, virgatum, ramulis villosis ; foliis 3-foliolatis, foliolis cuneato-oblongis, obtusis, cuspidulatis, subtüs multinervosis, villosis ; stipulis bracteisque magnis, aridis, membranaceis, aristato-acuminatis ; racemis solitariis, terminalibus, pendulis, attenuatis ; floribus geminatis; leguminibus compressis, hinc moniliformibus, 4-spermis ; articulis _ gibboso-reniformibus, infimo stipitato. Habitat in montibus valli Napaliæ confinibus, florens sub pluviis, fructiferum Octobri ; inde in Hortum Calcuttensem introductum. Іп montibus Sillet confinibus legit F. De Silva. Екотех erectus, ramosus, 3—4-pedalis, patens. Rami virgati, teretes, induti cortice brunneo, glabro ; juniores gracillimi, pilis copi- osis, canis, longis obtecti. Еол alterna, patentia, breve petiolata, trifoliolata. PrTroLus communis vix pollicaris, gracilis, pilosulus, suprà planus; partiales brevissimi, cylindrici, villosi. — ForrorA oblongo-lanceolata, marginibus parallelis, пипс cuneato-lanceolata, obtusa cum cuspidula minuta, lateralia pollicaria vel sesquipollicaria, intermedium duplo majus, marginibus seepiüs curvis; suprà saturat® viridia, nitida, glabra, subtüs villis copiosis, adpressis cana, nervis plurimis, obliquis, costáque gracillimis, venis transversis, capillaceis, approximatissimis, parallelis. — SrrPULE axillares, opposite, егесіге, membranacez, aride, lanceolate, acuminatissime, lineatz, fuscze, ciliatze, glabrze, unguiculares, dimidium petioli eequantes: stipelle tenerrimze, lineari-filiformes, petiolulis sublongiores. Racemus terminalis ramorum ramulorumque, gracilis, cylindricus, attenuatus, nutans, demüm pendulus, 5—7-pollicaris, basi pollicem transversum emetiens, breve pedunculatus, constans floribus geminatis, patentibus, violaceis; ante expansionem cylindraceo-imbricatus. PEDUNCULUS communis brevis rachisque gracilis cano-villosi ; partiales capillares, lineas 4 longi, villosi, apice articulati, suffulti bracted magná, unguiculari, lanceolata, caudato-acuminatá, concaviusculà, cano-barbata, deciduà. Catyx urceolatus, 4-fidus, membranaceus, pilosulus ; /acinie lato-lanceolatee, acute, suprema reliquis major. Corot vexillum subrotundum, retusum, basi suprà maculis 2 parvis, oblongis, parallelis, viridescentibus; ale oblong carinaque obtusa brevi-unguiculate. Leeumen gracile, pedicellatum, pilosulum, роШсаге, compressum, hinc moniliformi-articulatum, 3—4-spermum ; articulis reniformibus, utrinque acutis, margine altero gibboso- convexo, altero semilunari. емма reniformia, fusca, parva. Plate XCIV. Fig. 1. Calyx, with the articulated pedicel detached. 2. Flower dissected. 3. Alc and carina. BIGNONIA MULTIJUGA. Tab. 95, 96. Енкста, arborea ; foliis impari-pinnatis, multijugis, pinnis dimidiató ovato-cordatis, acuminatis, integerrimis ; flo- ribus paniculatis ; capsulis planis, lanceolatis, membranaceo-marginatis. Ju Habitat in montibus Sillet vicinis, florens Novembri—Januario, fructifera mensibus Martii et Aprilis ; inde in Hortum Calcuttensem introduxit M. В. Smith anno 1818. Etiam in insula Penang? b. Gul. Jack. Annon magna, umbrosa. Влмом valde crassi, calloso-punctati. Комл maxima, patentia, opposita, impari-pinnata, 6—12-jugn, 2—3-pedalia, glaberrima, breve petiolata. Pinna opposite, ovato-oblongse, acuminate, integerrimee, repande, basi valdé inzequali, hinc angusté cuneata, illinc latá et rotundatá subsemicordatee, breve petiolate, coriacee, suprà nitidze, levitér rugosee, subtüs Dervoso-venose, reticulatæ ; infimae fer’ pedales, exteriores sensim minores, terminalis impar proximis parüm major, basi æquali acuta, 5-pollicaris. 89 PETIOLUS communis crassissimus, subcylindricus, basi valdé tumidus, 6-pollicaris, abiens in rachin crassam, subtetragonam, suprà margine elevato carinatam ; partiales vix l-unguiculares, sulcati. PANICULA terminalis, maxima, ovata, attenuata, erecta, 4-pedalis, ramifica- tionibus appositis, decussanti-patentissimis, bis térve trichotomis, carnosis et crassis, cylindricis, calloso-punctatis. BmacrEx infra divisuris, oppositze, patentes, lineari-lanceolate, acuminate. Frores maximi, fer’ 3-pollicares, ternati, brevé pedicellati, sordid? flavi, intüs purpurei, odorem saponaceum, fortem spargentes. Canyx oblongo-prismaticus, 5-gonus, flavicans, 14-pollicaris, coriaceus, leevis, basi obtusus, ore diviso in dentes 5, lato-ovatos, acutos, cuspidatos, rectos. Cororta campanulata, coriacea, extüs dense obsita villis longis, mollissimis, patulis, hyalinis ; £ubws basi lato-cylindricá calyce brevior, mox dilatato-campanulatus, dorso latissimo, planiusculo, densiüs villoso ; limbus patentissimus, demüm recurvus, tubo dimidio brevior, fer æqualitèr 5-lobus ; Jobi subrotundi, crenulati, obtusi, basi parüm contractà subdistantes, suprà sulcati, ferè pollicares ; superiores раш! majores; faux magna, hians. Sramia 4, didynama, distantia, glabra; filamenta crassa, cylindrica ; ал/Леға in fauce distantes, loculis divaricatis. Sramen quintum sterile, fertilibus parüm brevius, filamento filiformi, antherà nulla. Ovaniuw oblongo-cylindraceum, leve, disco insidens carnoso, convexo, integro, albo. SryLus crassus, teres. Srirama clavatum, bilobum, obtusum. Capsuxa plana, lanceolata, fusca, glabra, 12—14-pollicaris, acumine brevi terminata, extrorsüm digitos 3 vel 4 lata, indé attenuata in basin acutam, circumdatam calyce emarcido, immutato, sepiüs soluto et annulari, medio longitudinaliter prominens et convexa, pollicem Теге crassa, sulcoque lato, obsoleto utrinque notata, circumdata margine mem- branaceo, arido, compresso, latissimo, subrepando, deorsüm sensim angustiore adque ipsam basin obliterata; 2-locularis, 2-valvis. VarvuLE plane, subalate, medio extüs longitudinalitér convexe, intüs concave pallidéque ferrugineze. DissEPIMENTUM contrarium, semipollicem latum, oblongum, rostrato-acuminatum, maturitate omnino solutum et liberum, marginibus dilatato-incrassatis, rectis, j parallelis, crustaceum, intüs atrum, fracturà compacta et lucida. Sema perquàm numerosa, plana, lateribus dissepimenti pa- rallela, alternatim seriebus 2 stratisque circiter 12 ordinata, suborbiculato-reniformia, unguicularia, salva basi alata, pollicaria; ala tenuissima, membranacea, utrinque producta, obtusa, sericeo-nitens. Емвкуо magnus, cotyledonibus reniformi-obcordatis, radiculá gracili, elongata, centrifuga. Plate XLV. A flowering branch on a reduced scale. Plate XCVI. Fig. 1. A pair of leaflets. 2. A flower before expansion of the corolla. 3. Calyx opened. 4. Corolla opened. 5. Capsule. 6. А transverse section of the same. 7. Seed. 8. Seed, cut longitudinally. 9. Seed, with one of the sides removed, showing the position of the embryo. 10. Embryo. All the parts of their natural size. BEGONIA PEDUNCULOSA. Tab. 97. Herea carnosa, villosula, erecta ; radice tuberosa ; foliis falcato-oblongis, semicordatis, grossé duplicato-dentatis ; paniculá terminali, dichotoma; floribus longissime pedunculatis, stylis 3, stigmatibus semilunari-reniformibus ; cap- sulze alis lateralibus angustis, acutangulis, tertià oblonga, porrecto-elongata. Habitat in montibus prope Sillet, supra saxa, florens sub pluviis, mensibus Junii—Septembris, fructifera Septembri et Octobri. In Hortum Botanicum Calcutte anno 1817 introduxit М. В. Smith. PrANTA erecta, debilis, gracilis, carnosa, pedalis, rufo-colorata, ramulosa, conspersa, pilis copiosis, hyalinis, articulatis, brevibus. Raprx constans tuberibus aliquot carnosis, pallidis, globosis, ineequalibus, magnitudine nucis ауеПалге vel infra, іпійв mucilaginosis; fibrillis brevibus, capillaribus, densis. Слов teres, flexuosus, rufo-sanguineus, supern? emittens ramulos paucos, simplices, tenerrimos, flexuosos. Forra bifari& alterna, petiolata, patentia, approximata, falcato-oblonga, attenuato-acuta, inzequalitér duplicato-dentata, dentibus setosis ; valdé obliqua, basi dimidiato-cordata, lobo altero rotundato, obtuso, altero angusto, subobliterato, tenuia et submem- branacea, 2—3-pollicaria, suprà rugosa, villosula, ad discum раза oblonga, sinuata, sanguinea notata, subtüs glabriora, nervoso-venosa, juxta nervos tantüm villosa ; floralia omninó sanguinea, parva, linearia, dentata, subsessilia. Ретюм graciles, teretes, internodia zequantes, pollicares. SrrPuLA рагуге, opposite, triangulari-lanceolatze, acutae, membranaceee, suberectze, ciliate, persistentes. PANICULA terminalis caulis ramorumque, magna, rotundato-ovata, patens, multiflora, bis térve dichotoma. Реромсіла teretes, semi-pollicares, villosuli, colorati. Bracrem ad divisuras et ad basin pedicellorum opposite, ovate, acutae, villosulee, patentiuscule, stipulis parüm majores, persistentes. Frores ratione plantze magni, rubri, geminati, glabri, suffulti pedicellis longis, filiformibus, pallidis, glabris, pedun- culis duplo longioribus, 14-pollicaribus. Mascurt: Ретага 4, stellatim patentia, obtusa, lineas 4 longa ; exteriora ovata, interiora angus- tiora, oblonga. FrnAMENTA carnosa, salvo apice brevi, capillaceo connata in conum parvum. ANTHER# ovate, complanatee, егесіге, utrin- que longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Fæmıner: Ретльл 5, patentia, istis masculi floris parùm minora, cuneato-oblonga. туш 3, carnosi, lutei, intüs plani, parüm divergentes, petalis tripló breviores. $тїбмАтА semilunato-arcuata, papillosa. Capsuxa (feré matura) levis, unguicularis, fusca, petalis emarcidis coronata, oblongo-triangularis, parüm ventricosa, 3-alata; alis reticulatis, lateralibus angustis, subacutangulis ; tertià oblongo-lanceolatà, obtusá, valdé elongata, recté divergente, apice vix supra verticem capsule porrecto. Plate ХСУП. Fig. 1. 2. Male flower. 3. 4. Female flowers with almost ripe capsules. M Gaua Ш, Printed by Engel nn, Graf. Coinder & Co Gorachand. del* M Gaua uth A МА ; Engelmann, Graf Conder & 00, Vishnupersaud del? Printed by Eng е № пота тариа : ue Фу a Printed by детали, Gray Conde Ж (2 97 Printed, by Engelmann, Graj, Coindet & c AM Gauci Bth Vishnupersaud del” б енен | 4 89 CLEMATIS GRATA. Tab. 98. Евотех scandens, ramosissimus, cano-villosus ; foliis subbiternatis, foliolis ovato-cordatis, acuminatis, inciso-serratis, . . ` ` . . . . . . . . . . . . . trilobis, subtus dense villosis; floribus axillaribus, paniculatis, nudis, pedunculis trichotomis ; sepalis oblongis, obtusis, valvatis, pericarpiorum caudis longissimis, barbato-plumosis. Habitat іп Sirmore, G. Govan, M.D. In montibus Kamaunensibus legit Robertus Blinkworth. Та Horto Calcut- tensi floret Septembri et Octobri, fructificatque Decembri et Januario. Екотех ramosissimus, lat? scandens, superne villis brevibus, copiosis cano-mollissimus. Сло ramique graciles, 6-sulcati, obtuséque 6-angulares ; ramuli subfiliformes. Forra opposita, patentia, petiolata, subbiternata, Теге palmaria; foliola ovato-cordata, acuminata, grosse subinciso-serrata, serraturis ovatis, cuspidato-acutis, suprà adpressé pilosula, rugosa, subtüs cano-villosa, 5-nervia, reticulata ; inferiora Теге 3-pollicaria, 3-partita, lobis ovatis; reliqua subsessilia, pollicaria vel infra, plùs minisve 3-loba. Ретюм graciles, villosi, valdé torti, cirrhiformes, suprà plano-sulcati ; communis 3-pollicaris, basi vix dilatatus ; partiales pollicares vel infra. Реромсим axillares terminalesque, bis térve trichotomi, subpaniculati, folia subzequantes, cano-villosi, foliis floralibus aliquot stipati parvis, 3-foliolatis. — Bnacrr infra divisuras parve, opposite, patentes, lanceolate, acutze, inferiores вгерё trilobae. Frores parvi, odorati, pallide flavicantes, ternati, вай pedicello unguiculari, basi vel medio bibracteolati. —IwvonucmuM et PETALA nulla. SEPALA 4, oblonga, obtusa, semiunguicularia, extis densé villosa, intüs pubescentia, гевПуайопе in alabastrum ovatum valvata. Sramına plura, sepalis рагит breviora ; filamenta glabra, clavata ; anthere oblongze, loculis extrorsiim dehiscentibus. Ризтила valdé numerosa, stami- nibus рагу breviora; ovaria minuta, glabriuscula; styli pilis longis, sericeis barbati; stigmata clavata, recurva, vix puberula. PerIcARPIA numerosa, parva, capitata, ovata, compressa, pubescentia, fusca, utrinque acuta, desinentia in caudam longam, barbato- plumosam, varié tortam, apice clavato nudam. This plant was found on the mountains of Sirmore by Dr. Govan, and in Kamaon by Robert Blinkworth, one of the plant-collectors of the Honourable Company's Botanic Garden at Calcutta, where it was introduced by him and is now thriving luxuriantly. It is a very pretty shrub, producing a profusion of sweetly scented flowers. Plate ХСУШ. Fig. 1. Flower partly expanded. 2. Fascicle of flowers. 3. A detached flower. 4. The same dissected. 5. Stamens. 6. Pistil. * THOMSONIA.* Sparua monophylla, cucullato-subconvoluta, oblonga. $рАрїх cylindraceo-clavatus, omninó obtectus, basi foemineus, medio masculus, apice tuberculato-verrucosus. SquAw nulle. Оуант monospora. SrYLus longiusculus. STIGMA valvatim 3-lobum. Ахтнквж sessiles, fasciculata, 4-loculares ; loculis tubulosis, vertice ad latera glandule сопуеха utrinque poris 2 dehiscentibus. | Classis Глипаапа* Молеса Polyandria. Ordo naturalis : го ее, Juss. Genus novum, Cz/adio et Aro proximum, ab ambobus discrepans spadice omninó obtecto, basi pistillifero, medio antherifero, apice verrucoso ; antherarum loculis tubiformibus, apice ad latera glandulæ verticis dehiscentibus ; stylis manifestis, stigmate 3-lobo, subvalvato. кү | : Dixi in honorem viri colendissimi Antonii Todd Thomson, M.D. in Universitate Londinensi Professoris Materiz Medice, botanices cultoris atque fautoris indefessi, scriptisque egregiis, praecipue pharmacologicis preeclari, THOMSONIA NAPALENSIS. Tab. 99. Habitat rariüs in sylvis montanis Napalize, florens mense Junii. PLANTA erecta, carnosa, omnind levis. Тгвев magnum, carnosum, placentéforme, depresso-orbienlatum, 6те рорео, рне 2—3 crassum, epidermide glabriusculo, nigricante obtectum, intüs album, hrs pompom fibris pluribus, teretibus, олмес}, villosulis, pallidis. Ебллом magnum, radicale, solitarium, petiolatum, flaberrium, 8-partito-decompositum, circumscriptione ора ferè 2-pedale; lobi oblongi, profundissimè pinnatifidi, intermedius supra эз bindas; pee integerrimge, lanceolate, d d m angustate, 2—3-pollicares, exteriores sensim majores, extimæ nunc рудари, atrovirides, eubtis "italiane re pu " PrTIOLUs crassus, erectus, cylindricus, scapo similis, sed minor; рана profundè sulcati, a pinnis први и marginulati. Scarus cylindricus, pedalis vel 2-pedalis, lævis, basi diametrum pollicarem emetiens, sursùm attenuatus, NS = 2 crassus, pallide viridis, maculis magnis, purpureis variegatus, inferné laxé involutus squamis 2 erectis, membranaceis, j lineatis, oblongis, obtusis, interiore 8-pollicari, exteriore citius emarcescente, brevissimá, 2-pollicari. SParHA terminalis, solitaria, erecta, 5 2 ж This genus must not Бе confounded with Thompsonia belonging to the family of Passifloree, which Mr. Brown has kindly pointed out to me as having been d by him in the Linn Trans. v. 13. р. 221. in honour of John Vaughan Thompson, Esq., and which Prof. DeCandolle has referred to Deidamia name : ‚о (2. Thompsoniana) іп his Prodr. vol. 9. p. 837. t 84 levissimé incurva, 6-pollicaris, coriacea et crassa, ovato-cymbiformis, laxé convoluta, apice obtusa, subcucullata, marginibus rectis, subundulatis, extüs atroviridis, opaca, intüs e viridi-flavicans, minutim reticulata. Spaprx erectus, cylindricus, longitudine spathze, digitum medium crassus, omnino obtectus, basi semipollicari foemineus, indé usque ad medium, per spatium 3-pollicare masculus exteriore, denique parte 3-pollicari crassiore, clavato-oblongá, obtusáà, dens? obsità fuberculis verruciformibus, oblongis, obtusis, flavis, com- pressis, spongiosis, parallelis, inzequalibus, haud тшт prominentibus, pluribus nunc confluentibus in cristulas parallelas, inzequales. Ovanr numerosa, majuscula, ovata, lzevia, foveolee basis spadicis subimmersa, seriebus 15 spiralitér digesta, 1-locularia, 1-sperma ; ovulum ovatum, erectum, indusio molli carnoso obtectum. Зтупоз cylindricus, parüm incurvus, ovario vix longior. STIGMA carnosum, subnutans, 3-lobum ; /obi triangulares, acuti, margine tumidi, subvalvatim conniventes, zequales : 2 laterales, 1, superior. Актневж sessiles, densissimé aggregate et conferte, 4 vel 5 stellatim fasciculatze, сагпова, oblongze, levit&r compresse, pallidé flavicantes, vertice sub- truncato, obtuso munite glandulà oblongá, transversali, parüm elevata, levittr convex, minut? punctulatàá, adque latera hujus poris utrinque duobus, oppositis, tumido-marginatis; intüs 4-loculares, loculis angustissimis, tubulosis, geminatis, per paria oppositis, apice dehiscentibus. Porten compositum e granulis magnis, ovatis. Евостоз haud visus. Plate XCIX. Fig. 1. Inflorescence in a very young state. 2. Spadix, with spatha detached. 3. 4. 5. Fascicles of anthers, (fig. 3. divided horizontally.) 6. Pistil. 7. Тһе same enlarged. 8. Ovarium divided lengthways. 9. 'The same divided horizontally. ене HC POLYGALA ARILLATA. Tab. 100. Fruticosa; foliis oblongis, acuminatis, subtus puberulis; racemis solitariis, terminalibus oppositifoliisque ; calyce 3-sepalo; corolla 3-petalá, petalo intermedio difformi, 3-lobo, lobo medio cucullato, appendiculato ; capsulá reni- formi ; arillo magno. Polygala arillata, Hamilt. apud Don. Prodr. Nepal. p. 199. Habitat in montibus Napaliz, florens mensibus Maji, Junii, fructus proferens Julio. In montibus Sillet vicinis, De Silva. Nilghiry, Dom. Noton et В. Wight. Екотех magnus, ramosus. TRUNCUS crassitie brachii, ligno albo, levi, cortice cinereo, spongioso. Ramus longi, cylindrici, pubescentes, subscandentes. Forra alterna, patentia, membranacea, oblonga, acuminata, integerrima, basi acuta, 3—5- usque ad 8-pollicaria, ciliata, suprà glabra, opaca, subtüs pallida, costa gracili, elevata, nervisque alternis, intra marginem arcuato-anastomosantibus, puberulis, reticulato-venosa ; tenella villosa. Реттоплов teres, pubescens, 3-pollicaris, suprà profundé sulcatus. Өтіріле nulle. Racemi terminales vel oppositifolii, lateralesve, solitarii, recurvati, brevè pedunculati, cylindrico-oblongi, attenuati, 5-pollicares, folia seepiüs sequantes. PrEpuwcuLUs brevis, subcarnosus, teres, pubescens ; rachis irregulariter subflexuosa, parüm complanata, ad insertionem pedicellorum tuberculata. Frores magni, flavi, alterni, subsecundi, inodori, insidentes pedicellis brevibus, teretibus, subclavatis, carnosis, suffultis bracteolis 2 lanceolatis, ciliatis, acutis, caducis. Carvx parvus, ovatus, 3-phyllus ; sepala obtusa, ciliata; inferiora torsione pedicelli demüm superiora, ovata ; superius (in flore expanso inferius) istis dupló majus, cucullato-concavum, attenuato-acutum, basi gibbosum. Совоша 3-petala, calyce multd major, i-pollicaris; petala 2 lateralia (sepala interiora petaloidea) obovata, obtusa, basi attenuata, Теге pollicaria, patentiuscula; tertium (е tribus coalitis conflatum) difforme, oblongo-ovatum, apice 3-lobum, lobis lateralibus oVatis, obtusis, intermedio carinato, cucullato, dorso cristà сагпова, lobulosà aucto. Sramina 8, cucullo petali intermedii basi inserta eoque recondita; fila- menta subulata, basi in phalanges duas connata; anfhere ovate, apice obliqué 2-pore. Ovarium ovatum, leviter compressum, leve, 2-loculare, 2-sporum ; ovulis pendulis. Ѕтүшоѕ clavatus, apice incurvo compressus. Эттемл subinfundibuliforme, carnosum, deorsüm in pro- cessum oblongum, brevé productum. Capsuxa reniformis, compressa, utrinque retusa, lateribus gibboso-convexa, feré pollicaris, purpurea, coriacea, venis elevatis, notata, 2-locularis, utrinque 2-valvis. Semen solitarium, globosum, atrum, pilis brevibus obsitum, magnitudine grani piperis nigri, apice dissepimenti adfixum, pendulum, basi munitum arillo magno, carnoso, rugoso, crasso, aurantiaco. Емвкуо minutus in basi perispermi magni, carnosi. . The figure of Rumphius's Rev Amaroris (Herb. Amb. vol. 2. tab. 41.) which is Lamarck’s Soulamea amara, bears a considerable affinity to this plant, although it belongs undoubtedly to a distinct genus. І am not quite sure whether the plants from Sillet and the Nilghiry are identically the same with that from Nipal; perhaps they may prove three distinct species, although they are certainly very like each other. Plate C. Fig. 1. Flower dissected. 2. [nterior petal. 3. 4. Ovarium divided vertically and horizontally. 5. A small raceme of capsules. 6. A capsule detached. 7. Seed. 8. Arillus detached. 9. Seed removed from its arillus. 10. Тһе same divided vertically. p END OF VOL. I. PRINTED BY RICHARD TAYLOR, RED LION COURT, FLEET STREET. 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