TACSO'NIA PINNATISTI’PULA. FEATHER-STIPULED TACSONIA. EXOGEN, oR DICOTYLEDONE A. pero pian { this chee semdel. \ CALYCIFLORE, Artificial divisions MONADELPHIA, OF to which PENTANDRIA, DECANDOLLE. this Plant belongs, OF LINNEUS. No. 171. GENUS. Tacsonta. Jussrev. Catyx tubo elongato cylindrico, limbo quinquepartito, laciniis tn ttus coloratis. PrEtTaza quinque, ad faucem calycis serta, cum laciniis calycini s alterna, iis subconformia at magis colorata. VULA numeros Frotices scandentes. Fouta alterna, stipula Pepuncoti axillares, non- nulli cirriferi vel cirriformes cum pedunculis Rortfetinex eadem axilla floriferi, sub flore bracteati. SPECIES. Ta CSONIA PINNATISTIPULA, (Jusstev) Strectis subulato-multi- fidis, foliis trifidis rugosis subtus tomentoso-pubescentibus, bracteis ovatis foliaceis subincisis tne liberis, corona interiore dimidium petalorum _ zequante. CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, Tacsonta. CaLyx witha long cylin- drical tube, the limb five-cleft, the divisions coloured inside. PeTats five, inserted at the throat of the calyx, alterna rnating with its divisions, nearly similar to them but more coloured. Crown of the filaments inserted in the tube of the calyx within the corolla, consisting of two or more concentric rows, of which the outer is composed of free filaments, er innermost of conniyent, and most frequently connate ones. STa- ENS five, inserted on the torus and connected high up with the stalk as the ovary, free at the top, spreading, each bearing a versatile anther. Ovary borne on a stalk settee slightly above the sheath of the stamens, one-celled, with three many-ovulated parietal placente. Styzes three, each bearing a maphite stigma. Froit pul DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, TACSONIA PINNATISTIPULA. A tall N young, clothed with a short loose down. STipuLes noe Pras split into a number of fine thread-like lacinie. Leave borne on foot-stalks of about an inch in length, broadly neicvaliiel and three-nerved at the base, deeply cleft into three ovate-lanceolate 42 lg fala ip oft as Cb tCHOS oy TENDER AND HARDY Denamental “Plants Be: : witH é Silic BS cea bee nae Boles MeP ee ee. COPPA fom. Mle eta, les palate whet Dae, Kficale Lone ae ee BY as eg F.IL.S. s IsTE THE Rey? +. 8 WE NAEE, ee REGIUS PROFESSOR°OP Bo B i BE UD EVYERSITY oF Pegi 5 E is 4 PUBLISHED BY R.GROOMBRIDGE. PATERNOSTER RoW: | j We WEY TT. a a “= ee Ak" | Bet es oe ae. - BROTANEST “= ACCURATELY COLOURED FIGURES OF TENDER AND HARDY ORNAMENTAL PLANTS, WITH © oy ‘ - : DESCRIPTIONS, SCIENTIFIC AND POPUL LAR; I INTENDED To CONVEY BOTH MORAL AND INTELLECTUAL a ee pgs cescatee 8 B. MAUND, F.L.S. me THE REV. J.S. HENSLOW, M.A. F.L.S. _ &e. BOTANY IN THE UNIVERSITY or pias, ig el * ae, : “ The World seems to have discovered that — about which Infinite Wisdom v8 ok be Sra 7 aretha a us ae its creatures, how lofty Pp . eae ming Smits. - -. VOL. TIT. Mo. Bot. Garden, [3 ee 1896. | LONDON: : PUBLISHED BY R. GROOMBRIDGE PATERNOSTER ROW; W. WHITE AND CO., AND FRASER AND co. EDINBURGH; a ROBERTSON \UBLIN ; as es — HAUMANN AND CO iSSEIS; AND INDEX TO THE THIRD VOLUME THE BOTANIST. Systematic Name. English Name. No. Abutilon striatum, Striated Abutilon, 144— Acacia Riceana, ......., -++++Mr, Spring Rice’s Acacia,........135-—— Allamanda catharti _.. Willow-leaved Allamanda ..,...123—— K Yt: a Pee ae egrie oee a Rae . nee 137 ——— : : ‘3 we ? o od Anthocercis littorea, ......... Sea tA oven ee IOS SE ee Begonia incarnata, ..........Rose-coloured Bassin vteevive lle Pe tke. Bignonia venusta, .. ,ovely Bignonia, hi Caiophora lateritia, seeesere .. Brick- red Catsphors, eoereretre les amellia Japonica, .........,Donckeler’s Japan Camellia, .....145—— Peg c ap Chorozema Dicksonii, ieee eece Dickson’s Chorozema, . eee e106 + Wot ye Clematis cxrul Violet-coloured Clentitig.. were Cologania pulaiamn, Veet eee. —— Cologania, 10 Correa ferruginea,........ y Correa,...... wieeeware tee Dieffenbachia seguinum,...... Domb Cane, vos 1ZI—— Echites suberecta, Suberect Echites, 143-—~ Erica andromedefiora, ......Andromeda-flowered Heath...... oe tee Erica pseudo-vestita, ........Clothed hybrid Heath,.......... os 7¢ re Gloxinia speciosa, ..........Showy Gloxinia, ..... 105 ee a ee Gloxinia speciosa-caulescens,.. Showy caulescent Gloxinia,,.....149-—— Gongora atropurpurea, ......Dark purple Gongora, ..........108 TE Ke Helianthemum formosum, ....Beautiful Helianthemum, ......131—~ Heliconia bicolor,............ wo-coloured Heliconia,........101 TA e's : Hovea chorozemefolia, ......Chorozema-leaved Hovea, ......1 a art Rese Cero ae tie tleya, geen tie 1. led Ja, cquinia, weet Jatropha pandurefolia ‘ s+++Fiddle-leaved Jatropha, a Bena 7 TA fie Lalage ornata, “eli tana SO ae Systematic Name. English Name. — No. Lisianthus Russellianus, ...... Duke of ia s Eiscauthing,. —sS Maxillaria tenuifolia, ...... . Narrow-leaved Maxillaria, ooeves 140 — Oncidium reflexum,,......... Reflected Oncidium. Se eer ceesss LO Oxylobium — sep heae =e Osyiohiaias wena Oxyura chry les, “Oxyura,....128-—~ Passiflora kermesina, ........ videtbada AGE Passion-flower, 118 ——~ Pernettia mucronata, ........Pointed-leaved Pernettia, ......112—— Phalenopsis amabilis,........ Lovely Phalenopsis,...,........1337 Pimelea dec ecussata, -.....+.. . Diosma-leaved Pimelea, ........ 136 —~- Pimelea incana,........ -++.-. Hoary Pimele Scottia dentata, Men Ses leaved Scottia, eel — clones: Cao bicolor, ......Two-color pylus, 139 —— trophanthus divergens, ...... Chinese Stropanthus, Pee ees pee tubiflora, ........., Crimson Styphelia- re LA ——— a soverecsee & WSO aaa: vewbre ses S ) - genet Verbena dlidthiedsitella, ++e++- Veronica-leaved Verbena,........129-——~ Witsenia maura, ...... e000. — Mego reece eee Zichya coccinea, d Zich 1 Zygopetalum maxillare,,.... erage ejects ed 2g a THE DICTIONARY, A portion of which is given with each Number 5 — naar as published monthly, forms a separate V: THE GUIDE, A part of whieitl likewise —- to —_ Number, also forms a separate Those portions of the above works origin sta to the Numbers petnre in this Volume ois momen Sate mee eee Mevell ae. efesl Ped. - LAPECEEE® 2 Ge, Y, GESNE'RA RUPESTRIS. ROCKY GESNERA. pee oa ; OR DICOTYLEDONE. Nati pai — te this phe a} NATURAL ORDER, GESNERIACE. | serge: eae DIDYNAMIa, this booby ae : “OF LINNEUS. No. 91. CALYCIFLORZE, OF DECANDOLLE. GENUS. Gretunt! neil Catyx ovario leviter adnatus, limbo sub- inequaliter quinguepartito. Coroxta tubulosa, ima basi quinquegibbosa, lim- bo subbilabiato, a ee emarginato bilobo, inferiore trilobo. Stamina quatuor idynams; um quinti posticirudimento. ANTHER# primum in hemi- spherium Citic, Geamvona quingae — pauciores cires ovarium. Car- spermis. SEMIN scrotiformiz ja. Herne & ope tuberum solidoram perennantes molles. * Fora oppo vel verticillata crassiuscula. * Fiores in cymulas op- positas thyrsum terminalem constituentes dispositi, pulchre co¢cinei, miniati aut porpurscntes, rarius virides. Marrivs: Nova Genera et Species Planta- rum, v. 3, p. SPECIES. . | GESNERA RUPESTRIS. _Granam. _Rapice tuberosa saneaual . canli bus"p = ie one le tubo eo teen curvato, rect audio patente lacinia superiore latiore bifida, glandulis hypogynis posticis binis. CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, ee ie Caxyx slightly adhering to the ovary, the limb unequally fre-cleft.. Coroiza tubular, with five small protuberances at the base, the limb somewhat two-lipped the upper one emarginate or two-cleft, he lower one of three divisions. Stamens four didynamous, | with the rudiment of the fifth upper one. ANTHERS at first cohering in a hemisphere. Five or fewer glands. round the ovarium, CaPsuLE dry, one-celled, imperfectly two-valved, ; with two parietal many-seeded placente. SrEps ees —— OF THE Species, GESNERA RUPESTRIS. in “consisting of a large somewhat flattened tube, from ee proceed few short fibres. Stem apparently none, being in fact reduced toa. _very short prolongation of the tuber of the root, upon which are p the leaves and peduncles. Leaves usually two only, opposii site. Foor STALK about an inch long, downy; limb of the leaf, varying from. three or four to six or eight inches long and from three to six broad, — ovate, sore peltate, the footstalk: bein ng inserted | from aed to- ; é ely |, rather thick, bullate, ascatt glandular pubescence, much thicker on the midrib and veins. Perp- UNCLES numerous, erect, two to three inches long, simple or more fre- quently branched in the same manner as the cymes of other Gesneras, but in a vertical instead of a horizontal direction, each peduncle bear- ing occasionally as many as eight or ten flowers, linear bracts are placed at the base of each pedicel and the whole cyme is pubescent and glandular. Catyx pubescent, the divisions of the limb lanceolate, acuminate, equal in length to the tube. Coroxta in well-flowered specimens an inch and a half in length, slightly curved, glabrous, of a rich red. Lime of four broad rounded spreading divisions of which the upper one is broader dnd more or less deeply divided into two. STaMEns four, inserted in the base of the tube, filaments filiform of the length of the tube. ANTHERS yellow, cohering together. Fifth rudimentary stamen, very short and filiform. Two glands at the base of the ovary on the upper side. Ovary pubescent. Styx glabrous. Poputar anp GeocrapHicaL Notice. The genus Geésnera is diffused over the whole of the warmer portion of America and extends northward to the Tierra Caliente as far as Mexico, and southward to the southern extremity of Brazil, containing a large number of species, many of which are already in cultivation, bearing a conspicuous share in the ornament of our stoves. Amongst these, few are likely to be more sought after than the present one, whether for its singularity, or for its great beauty, when well-flowered so as to give it a rich colour - and large sized corolla. It is a native of the southern provinces of Brazil. G. B. InTRODUCTION ; WHERE GROWN; CuLTuRE. This plant was first raised some years since in the very rich and well-managed Botanical Garden at Berlin, amongst other plants received from one of their col- lectors in Brazil. It was transmitted from thence to the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, in 1834, under the name of Gesnera rupestris of Mar- tius and was still grown under that name when we were at Berlin, in 1836. We cannot however find any such species published by Mar- tius. It is certainly not the Gesnera rupicola, nor has it the leaves, nor precisely the flowers of Gesnera tuberosa, although it much resem- bles it. From the Edinburgh Botanic Garden it has been liberally dis-_ tributed, and the fine specimen here figured was grown in the nursery of Messrs. Rollisson of Tooting. It flowers very freely as a stove plant under the same treatment as the other Gesneras. Derivation or THE NAMEs. * GesneRa named by Linneus in honour of Conrad Gesner, a distinguished bot- . anist of the sixteenth century. Rupestris growing in rocks. a SyNonyMEs. Geswera nurestRis. Graham, in Edinburgh Philosophical Seareai, Dace Guonnna tusErosa. Hooker, Botanical Magazine, t. sss is in: ‘ SR eee ieee es Ok | fe oe die Withers, deal ‘ Ai vate < aapste re anercrtecrethuans Wevitt. me HELICHRYSUM MACRAN’THUN. oe HELICHRYSUM. EXOGENZ. DICOTYLEDONEZ. Natural division to which this Plant ct NATURAL — COMPOSITA, CALYCIFLORA, TA, F POLYGAMIa, OF LINNEUS, to whic this Plant belongs. Artificial divisions \ DECANDOLLE, No. 92. . "GENUS. HSLicemyYsuM. | VAILLANT. _CarituLum multifloram, nune homo- ce hetero ew ea qe: : ore Pec reer ee softs a 5 . : “ct ora ™ Godse imbricaty bus. Recepracu.um Sat me ee ss nune nudum aut areolatum, nu: nune ZNIA erostri Tia, sess roy areola, terminali. _Paprus uniseri- E ura alterna. Invorvucra alba, purpurea e t flava. Coro. lutex au puree. Decanpotze: Prodromus, v. 6, p. 169. ECIES. HeticurysuM mMacrantHuM. Bewruam. HeErsacevm, erec- um, caule subsimplici vel parce ramoso, ramis scabris apice monocephalis, fo- = 28 a saat oe cbsasis bers ae peraiae anqneteis et amplexicauli- a8 tati o albo — — san bted int lii li tis, ree ‘Svutie “hitwute mucronula pappo scabro. CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, HexicHrysum. Heap of flowers many-flowered, sometimes homogamous, with all. the florets tubular, hermaphrodite and five-toothed, sometimes heterogamous, the florets of the ray in one row, often but very few, slender and female. Invo- lucre imbricate, the scales scariose, the interior ones sometimes conni- vent, sometimes radiating. Recepracie flat without palex, either quite naked or with alveol or little hairs. Acnanium not beaked, sessile, with the point of attachment terminal. Hairs of the pappus in one row, rough but not feathered, sometimes free, sometimes con- nected equally at the base, or unequally joined or branched. Description oF THE Species HELICHRYSUM MACRANTHUM. Srem herbaceous, erect, or ascending and branched at the base, branches simple or trifid, rough but neither hairy nor cottony. LEavEs oblong-lanceolate, or the lower ones spathulate, obtuse, quite entire, contracted at the base into a short petiole which is dilated as it em- braces the stem, green and rough on both sides but not woolly. Hess of flowers large, being about two inches and a half in diameter includ- ing the scales. Scares of the involucre scariose, white, tinged with pink on the outside one, the outer ones short and nearly orbicular, the intermediate ovate, obtuse, with a short point spreading nearly an inch long, the inner ones shorter, narrower, and sharper. FLORETS very numerous. RECEPTACLE naked. Pappvs white, rough with minute teeth. : Popular aND GEocRapHicaL Notice. This is a handsome addi- tion to a genus well known for the beauty and duration of the flowers of most of its species, which on that account have received in many lan- guages the name of “Immortal” and are so much uged for the decoration of tombs and monuments, on anniversary occasions, ‘especially by Roman Catholics. The species are very numerous; De Candolle enumerates 212, beides 26 Heliptera, which are only separated by a purely artificial character. They are mostly inhabitants of the Cape of Good Hope colony, and of extra-tropical Australia. A few are natives of Madagascar and tropical Asia and Africa, and about twenty- five grow in the northern hemisphere of the old world, chiefly in the Mediterranean and Armenian regions. None have as yet been found in any part of América. G. B. InrrRopuCTION; WHERE Grown; CutturE. The Helichrysum macranthum was first introduced by Baron Charles von Higel, who brought with him to Vienna dried specimens, from a detailed examina- tion of which the above description was taken. He had also sent home seeds, which were raised in his garden at Hietzing; and from thence © plants were obtained by the Messrs. Rollisson of Tooting, in whose nursery our drawing wasmade. Weare sure that the admirers of beau- tiful plants will feel grateful to these spirited individuals for their atten- tion to the introduction amongst us of new and interesting plants, like that before us. The principal care demanded in its cultivation is the avoidance of over watering. It should be potted in = peat, well- drained, and kept in the greenhouse. DerivaTIOn oF THE NaMEs. HeEticurysvm, so named because it was — to se ~~ nines Helich- AT a ~ +1 7) oe bP the marshes) of Dioscorides; lly the very golden one, Helichrysum stechas, are universally found in dry saidty or aa places, which is strong evidence that Dioscorides had some other plant view. Macrantuum, large-flowered, from the size of the head of flowers. SyNonyMEs. HELICHRYSUM MACRANTHUM. Bentham,in a Enumeratio, p.65. Decan- dolle: Prodromus, vol. 6, p. 189. * 4 vs ho sarod. — . 4 ' LOBELIA RAMOSA. BRANCHING LOBELIA. EXOGEN.E, oR DICOTYLEDONEA. Na ee aa whic Bites this Plant sania NATURAL ORDER, LOBELIACES, CALYCIFLORE, Artificial division® i PENTANDRIA, oF to which : MONOGYNIA, DECANDOLLE. - this Plant belongs. OF LINNEUS. No. 93. GENUS. Lospenta. Lrwnevs. Catycis tubus obconicus, turbinatus, ob- longus; aut hemisphzricus, limbus quinquepartitus. Connex tubulosa, tubo cto dorso longitudinaliter fisso, limbo quinquepartito bilabiato subbilabiato aut demum unilabiato, labio inferiore trilobo is duabus superi- oribus erectis aut cum labio connive NTHER apice omnes aut m inf b Stiema bilobum, lobis demum exsertis divari u : orbiculatis subtus annulo pilorum collectorum cinctis. Capsuza calycis tubo conformis bilocularis apice loculicido-bivalvis, valvis ultra calycis tubum pro- uctis. Semrna creberrima, sear Presi: Prodromus Monographie Lo- beliacearum, p. 11, sub Rapun SPECIES. Losers ramosa. BenrHam. CAvLe ramoso subtereti te cente, foliis inferioribus pinnatisectis segmentis foliisque he linearibu lanceolatisve subdentatis, ramulis pedunculiformibus uniflori abe ane corollz labii inferioris lacinia intermedia latissima vix hescomernelt lateralibus dimidiatis, antheris omnibus barbatis, capsula obliqua hine demum gi CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, LoBELIA. TUBE OF THE CALYX ob- conical, turbinate, oblong or hemispherical, limb four-cleft. Coro1- LA tubular, the tube split longitudinally on the upper side, the limb five-cleft, the divisions more or less arranged in two lips, or at length spread out into one, the lower lip hanging with three divisions, the two upper divisions sometimes erect, sometimes joined to the lower. ANTHERS all or at least two of them bearded at the top. Stigma two- lobed, the divisions at length exserted, spreading, orbicular, and sur- rounded at the base by a ring of collected hairs. Capsute filling up the tube of the calyx and of the same shape, bilocular, opening in two valves at the apex across the dissepiment, the valves prominent - beyond the tube of the calyx. SrEps minute, very numerous. DESCRIPTION OF THE Species, LOBELIA RAMOSA. A much branch- ed perennial, growing to the heighth of two or three feet, with slender, erect, or spreading branches, cylindrical or slightly angular, more or ‘less covered with short patent or reflexed hairs. Lower LEAVES deep- _ ly divided into lanceolate or linear segments which have themselves often two or three deep teeth or lobes, upper Jeaves nearly entire or quite so, all of them green on both sides, with short scattered hairs, * FLOWERING BRANCHES resembling peduncles, but bearing two or three small leaves, placed in the upper axille, three to four or more inches long, and bearing one flower at their extremity, the upper ones shorter, less leafy, and forming a very loose raceme at the end of the branches. Catyx cylindrical and nearly straight at the time of flowering, but at the maturity of the seed it becomes almost as oblique as in Lobelia gibbosa, it is slightly downy, ten-nerved, the divisions of the limb about the length of the tube when in flower. Corotua of a rich blue, two-lipped, the middle division of the lower lip broader than long, usually slightly emarginate with a small point, lateral divisions very oblique, semi-ovate, the upper lip of two very small erect divisions. All the anthers bearded. Capsute obliquely turbinate. Poputak aND GeocrapHicaL Norice. This, by far the most elegant of the herbaceous Lobelias in cultivation, is said to have been found in various parts of Southern Australia, but the only wild specimens we have seen, were gathered by Baron Charles von Hiigel, in the neighbourhood of the Swan River. We had at first considered them as belonging to the Lobelia tenuior of Brown, not- withstanding that the latter was described from specimens from tro- pical Australia. An examination however, of more advanced speci- mens, shows some decided differences in the form of the capsules from that described by Brown, as well as the taller stature and more divided leaves. On the other hand, the Lobelia heterophylla of La- billardiére, to which this has been referred, is a very different species both in habit and foliage, and there appears little doubt that the pre- sent one is entirely new. It appears to be confined to South Western Australia, for the specimens received from Van Diemen’s Land, and figured in the Botanical Register, t. 2014 are probably the true Lo- belia heterophylla or some other allied species, of which there are several in various parts of Australia. - G. B. IntTRopUCTION; WHERE GRowN; Couture. Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticultural Society of London, where the specimens were raised from seeds received from Swan River by Cap- tain Mangles, and presented by him to the Society. It remains in flower in great beauty for several months, and grows very freely, either singly or in beds; requiring only winter protection from frost. It con- tinues to flower a long pi after being gathered and placed in a room. ERIVATION OF THE NAMEs. Loser, in honour of stills Lobel, Physician and Botanist to James I. and author of several Works. Ramosa, branched, from the habit of the plant, in tradistinction to'th iy tenis ok Ei oi - Miran dntrsecht stay * Obi oadiis Compe tcsialiigihs 4 AGP E, trary, det CHLORA’A LONGIBRACTEA‘TA, “ LONG-BRACTED CHLORAA. ENDOGENA, OR MONOCOTYLEDONEA: Natural division to which tes this plant belongs. \ j nd ado, vate ORDER, ORCHIDACEA., GYNANDROSE. a) \ tee divialons & GYNANDBIA rs to which pecs / MONANDRIA, LINDLEY. * = Plant belongs, = (}} OF maven Bi No. 94, GENUS. Cniorma NDLE Perigonii membranacei foliola srteniom subxqualia, lateralia abl supp, ees incrassata, er suprem curh interionbaw sasloca in galeam connivens. LaBer mt sessile e, nae latum, integrum vel hton: disco eicteiae sepius sonia . CotumNna elongata, semiteres, marginata. ANTHERA terminalis, loculis incomplete bilo- eis, culatis Vaginatis, f foliis _oblongis nervosis renee bare oci oy floribus spicatis magnis, perigonii fi ulato-venosis ven a ee colo- ratis, sepe nigricantibus, Endlicher: Petceta “tenet p. 2 SPECIES. Curorza troncrpracreata. Linptey. Forts ‘Pstial ob. tusis rosulatis, bracteis acuminatis floribus leietastbans sepalis inferioribus bis lateralibus planis cristaque depaupe ratis, medio sinuato pr: oe nudo pice carnoso, columna sick. iedley, in Brande’s Journal, v, 23. p. 48. CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, CHLORHA. PERIGONE membran- ous, the outer leaflets nearly equal, the lateral placed under the la- bellum, thickened at the top, deflected, the uppermost of the same form as the interior one, and brought together with them into. a galea. Lup sessile, hood-shaped, entire or three-cleft, crested on the disk and often thickened. Cotnmna long, semicylindrical, bordered. Anruers terminal, the cells incompletely divided into two, the stig- mate lying transversely on the top of the columna. POLLEN MASSES two, each divided into two parts, and cohering at the base. Descriprion OF THE SPECIES, CHLORHZA LONGIBRACTEATA. Stem about a foot high. Leaves oblong, obtuse, somewhat undu- lated, spreading, reticulately veined with longitudinal ribs. Stem covered with sheathing reticulate acuminate bracts. FLOWERS ina terminal spike, each one in the axilla of a bract, which in the original wild specimens is longer than the flower itself, but shorter in the one here figured. DivisiONs OF THE PERIGON all ascending, the upper outer one and the two lateral inner ones equal in size, oval-oblong, acuminate, undulate on the margins, nearly white, the lower ones greenish, likewise oval oblong at the base, but terminated in a long, linear, fleshy, obtuse, dark coloured appendage. LaBeLLum nearly parallel with the column, sessile, cordate at the base, of a rich orange colour ; lateral lobes short, rounded, middle lobe long, sinuated, fleshy at the end, and veiny along the axis. Crest consisting of a few bro- ken excrescences situated towards the base. ConumNna much shorter than the labellum, half-round. : . PopuLar AND GeEocrapuHicaL Notice. The genus Chlorea com- prehends about twenty-two species, all natives of the Chilian States, where they are found from the sea coast to the verge of perpetual snow on the Andes, Some few, like a portion of our British Orchises em- bellish the rich grassy meadows of the valleys, but the greatest num- ber prefer those dry rocky wastes which give to the mountainous dis- tricts of Chili so desolate an appearance in summer. Several spe- cies of them are known to the inhabitants, under the names of wild tulips, and lilies, and by their great abundance form a striking feature in the summer flora of the country. Although the flowers of the ori- ginal species are of a greenish colour, which occasioned the adoption of the name Chlorza for the genus, still several of those discovered by Dr. Poppig have large flowers of a pure White, or of a rich yellow, and are highly ornamental. G. B. INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTuRE. The subject of the present plate, the first of this most interesting genus which has ap- peared in our gardens, was imported from Valparaiso by Mr. Crook, in 1837; and flowered in the stove of W. J. Myers Esq. at Aighburgh, near ‘Liverpool, to whom, and to Mrs. E. Bury, the lady who has so kindly favoured us with the drawing from which our plate was en- graved, we are greatly indebted for this and other interesting novel- ties. As far as we at present know the requirements of this orchida- ceous novelty, it should be kept in the stove; this, however, is not in- dispensable to all Chilian plants, and on further acquaintance it may be found not to be so to the Chlorea longibracteata. It ail be pot- ted in a mixture of loam and peat. DERIVATION OF THE Names. Cutoraa, from yAwpoe CHLOROS, green, alluding to the greenish hue in the flowers of several species. Lonerpracteata, with long bracts, that organ being usually longer in these species than in those previously described. ‘ eo. . MO" Withers, / Rion uled « Seton feelers . ~ G5 saat lo eee SAL'VIA PA’TENS., wien ps SAGE. EXOGENS, DICOTYLEDONE &. Natural division to which this Plant belongs. NATURAL ORDER, LEGUMINOSAE, COROLLIFLORE, {ee — DIANDRIA, oF MONOGYNIA, DECANDOLLE, = Pei a | OF LINNEUS, Sanvia. Linnzvs. ee wibaey labio superiore integro vel GENUS. tridentato inferiore bifido. Cororza bilabiata, labio superiore erectu subinte- gro concavo, infe eriore pemsiente trilobo, Sramrma fertilia duo antica. ANTHE- , ant ice ascen dens, loculum fertilem adnatum ferens, postice deflexum vel ascendens loculum alterum minorem, vel difformem cassam ferens vel nudum. Sryxus apice brevi- ter bifidus, lobis sepius inequalibus. CaRPELLA sre aa cae levia. Hers fruticesve habitu variabiles. Fiorcm verticillastri in racemis termin- alibus dispositi. SPECIES. Sarvra parens. Cavani“ies. Cavre herbaceo erecto piloso, foliis petiolatis ovato-deltoideis — rhscip — vel supremis rotundatis utrinque hispidis, floralibus lanceolato calycibus campanulatis villosis, labio superiore brevissime tricuspidato, inferi- oris laciniis acuminatis, corolla ampla, fauce hiante,labio superiore erecto-fal- cato integro, inferiore dependente lobis lateralibus oblongis reflexis, intermedio latissimo emarginato. CHARACTER OF THE Genus, Satvia. Catyx two-lipped, the upper lip entire or minutely 3-toothed, the lower one two-cleft. CoroLia two-lipped, the upper lip erect, usually entire, more or less concave ; the lower one spreading, three-lobed. Stamens two only, fertile, inserted in the lower side of the tube of the corolla. ANTHERS with a linear connectivum, tranversely fixed on the filament, the outer end ascend- ing with a single adnate fertile cell, the inner end descending or rarely ascending, bearing either a smaller, or a deformed empty cell, or with- out any. Styxe shortly cleft at the top, the lobes usually unequal. CarPE.s egg-shaped, more or less triangular, dry, sm DESCRIPTION OF THE Species, SaLvia PATENS. Perennial, growing to the height of two or three feet, or rather more. STEM erect, branching, hairy. Leaves petiolate, large, ovate, or deltoid, broadly hastate or somewhat heart-shaped at the base, or the upper ones rounded, green and hairy. on both sides. FLowers disposed in terminal racemes, usually branching into three at the base; along this raceme they are placed in opposite pairs, each one at the axilla of a small, linear lanceolate, floral leaf or bract. FirowEr-STALKs short, hairy. Catyx half to three quarters of an inch long, hairy, green, 27 : ee } ££ LA, and deeply divided into two lips, the upper one entire, with three very minute points, the lower deeply two-cleft. Corowia of a rich blue, between two and three inches long, covered with short hairs on the outside, remarkable for its broad gaping mouth; the tube rather longer than the calyx; the upper lip, long, faleate, and erect, inclo- sing the stamens and pistil, the lower lip hanging with two lateral ob- long reflexed lobes, and the middle one large, very broad, and emar- ginate. Poputar aNd GroarapnicaL Notice. This beautiful species belongs to the same section of this numerous and widely diffused genus, as the greater proportion of American species, and to which on ac- count of the number of handsome ones it contains, the name of Calos- phace has been given. The section is characterised not only by the peculiar conformation of the anthers, but also by its Geographical sta- tion, the whole of the two hundred or more species being confined to southern or central America, or to the southern and western portions of North America. They there inhabit, chiefly, mountainous districts, and are most abundant along the great chain of the Andes, from the Rocky Mountains to the Chilian states, especially about the mining districts of Mexico, and in upper Peru. The subject of the present plate appears not to be uncommon about the mines of Guanaxuato, Real del Monte, Tlalpuxahua, &c. as it is transmitted from thence in most dried collections. G.B. INTRODUCTION; WHERE Grown; CuLture. Although the Sal- via patens is said so have been cultivated some years since in the Bot- anic Garden of Berlin, it certainly never appeared in this country until last summer, (1838) when it was simultaneously raised by Messrs. Lowe, of Clapton, where our drawing was made; Mr. Page of South- ampton, and Mr. Pontey of Plymouth; in all cases it would appear from seeds transmitted to this country by John Parkinson, Esq. her Majesty’s Consul, at Mexico. It is probably, like Salvia fulgens, half hardy in our southern counties, and requiring the same treatment, but with especial care not to weaken it, or to suffer the raceme to lengthen so as to increase the distance between the flowers. Derivation or THE Names. Senge OS ancient Renae» ame for the officinal sage, said to have been derived from salvare, to save,on account of the medi¢inal Byers of the plant. Pikans sgrenaes or gaping, in allusion to the flow SynonyMeEs. Sarva patens, Cayanilles Icones, v. oe 33,t.454. Bentham : Labiotaram _ ies, p. 295. Horticultural Tra ransactions, 2nd Series, v. 2, p. Shirt sPECTABILIS. Humboldtand Kunth: Nova Genera et Species, v. 2, p- MT Withers. cet Cologa peter _ fetal A; - v COLOGA’NIA PULCHEL'LA. ; / PRETTY COLOGANIA, — EXOGENE, OR DICOTYLE DONE &. Natural division } QW - te which 1 | this Plant at WY NATURAL ORDER, LEGUMINOSZ. e Artificial divisions 1 Se DIADELPHIA, to which DECANDRIA, | this Plant belongs. OF LINN EUS, No, 110. trtonl haci « ek eth Be qu et CALICIFLORZE, at? OF C a DECANDOLLE. GENUS. Cotocanta. Kunrr. C dentatus, dente supremo lato integro vel breviter bidentato, inferioribus: minori- bus, Corotta papilionacea. Vexittum late obovatum, exappendiculatom, in unguem complicatum petala inferiora subamplectentem angus LE longe unguiculate oa cia eae basi hine auriculata, vexillo bre- non geniculato, ceteris fere ad alee in vaginam connatis. ANTHERZ con- ee i incurvus, stigmate terminali obtuso sub-obliquo. Lreumen oblongo-li ; compressum, bivalve, intus isthmis cellulosis | subpluriloc weno Semina sub- orbiculata estrophiolata. Here volubiles xicane. Forta pinnatim trifoliolata rarius simplicia. Pepuncvtt Sesteelch PEDICELLI fasciculati, uniflori. Bracre# et bracteole parve. SPECIES. _aenante FOUCHELLS, pes UMBOLDYT ET Kunru. Volubilis, seis tribus ovatis 2g is basi rotundatis cordatisye utringue | til , calycibus hirtis, iauteores oF THE GENUS, CoLoGaNta, Catyx tubular, gib- bous at the base on the upper side, four-toothed, the upper tooth broad, entire, or minutely two-toothed, the lower ones smaller. Co- ROLLA papilionaceous. STanparp broadly obovate, not auricled at the base, but contracted into a long claw, somewhat folded over the claws of the other petals. Wines on long claws, obovate-oblong, falcate, auricled at the base on one side, shorter than the vexillum, adhering to the keel. Kesx of two petals adhering to the top, on long claws, oblong falcate, shorter than the wings. STameENs diadelphous, the upper one entirely free but not geniculate, the lower ones connected in a sheath nearly to the top. ANvTHERs all similar to each other. Ovary stalked, linear, with several ovules. Srvyie short, incurved at the top, with a terminal, obtuse, and somewhat oblique stigma. Pop oblong linear, compressed, two-valved, slightly divided trans- versely by a cellular tissue. SEEDS rounded, without any caruncle. DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, COLOGANIA PULCHELLA. A slen- der twiner with the habit of a Kennedya. Stems when young, clothed with appressed hairs, nearly smooth when old. Stipues. small, linear subulate. Leaves alternate FoorsTacxs from one and a half to two and a half inches long with appressed hairs. LeaFr.ets three, one terminal, and two opposite, from a quarter to half-an-inch below the terminal one, all of them borne on very short partial footstalks, oval oblong, mucronate, rounded or slightly heart-shaped at the base, an inch to an inch and half long, with scattered appressed hairs on both sides, especially on the under side, which is of-a pale glaucous hue. STIPELL# very minute. FLOowers axillary. PepuNncLes very short, apparently none during the flowering, but often attaining half an inch or more as the fruit ripens. Prpicexs very short, fascicled. Bracts and bracteole small, subulate. Catyx five or six lines long, green, hairy; the lateral teeth about half the size of the upper one, the lower ones rather longer, but smaller, than the upper one, each of them terminating in a point. Sranparp purple with a white spot at the base, about half an inch long and broad, besides the claw which is contained in the calyx. Wunes of the same colour as the standard, much narrower and shorter. Keex still smaller, of a pale colour. Pop an inch long or rather more, hairy. Poputar anp GeocrapuicaL Notice. The enormous extent to whieh recent discoveries have carried the order of Leguminose, renders their classification and distribution into tribes and genera a matter of no small difficuliy; no order contains, perhaps, a greater number of extensive genera, differing from each other by very slight characters; in none has it been found more essential not only to rely in a great measure on the fruit in the distinction of the genera, but even to call in the aid of the vegetative organs, the leaves, stigmas, and bracts, for the demarkation of the larger groups. Linnzus, indeed, considered the pod to be of little importance, and added, “ nec folia pro charac- teribus unquam assumi debet,” but in his days searcely six hundred Leguminose were known, whereas, if all those now published, or lying ready for publication in our large herbaria, were reckoned up, the number would be found not to fall far short of six thousand. When Decandolle, in the preparation of his Prodromus, arrived at . this beautiful order, he was induced to bestow special pains upon it, and with his master mind grasping and digesting all that had till then appeared on the subject, he gave, in his second volume, a distribution much superior to any that had been proposed; and collecting all the specimens he had access to, he enumerated above 3700 species. Inde- pendently of the old characters derived from the flowers, he invariably attached great importance to the pod and seed, whenever known, and made great use of the foliage in many instances. Having also ob- served the germination of a large number of cultivated species, he introduced into his general characters the differences he had observed in this respect, and even founded on them some of his primary divisions. There is, however, the great inconvenience that these characters can only be ascertained by cultivation; and though in some instances they appear to correspond with very natural groups, yet in others, marked exceptions have been found, and the consequence has been the frequent separation of genera otherwise closely allied. This is especially the case with tropical Leguminose, of which but a small proportion was known, even at the time Decandolle wrote, but in most other respects the numerous recent discoveries appear to have con- ‘firmed the views of that eminent botanist. One point, at least; is now fully established, the great importance of the pod and seed as compared with the flower and ovarium; and collectors, especially in tropical countries, cannot be too much impressed with the necessity of gathering the pods as nearly ripe as possible, and always accompany- ing them with branches and leaves, even when the season will not admit of obtaining the flowers also. The genus Cologania, which forms the subject of the present sith, contains five or six Mexican species, some of them common in that country and known to us for the last fourteen or fifteen years, and yet the pod had not, we believe, till now been observed. It has now been perfected and ripened in our greenhouses, and confirms what had already been presumed as to the affinities of the genus. It is most closely allied to the North American Amphicarpza, it appears even doubtful whether the Amphicarpza Pitcheri, recently published in Torrey and Gray’s Flora of North America, be not to that degree ‘intermediate between the two as to require the uniting them into one. It is not known whether any Cologania produces the apetalous flowers, so remarkable in Amphicarpexa, but this is a circumstance which happens occasionally in so many Phaseolee of different genera as to shew it to be of no importance. Dumasia, an East Indian species, (from which country there is also a true Amphicarpxa) differs but in very slight characters; Clitoria, their next ally, is rather farther re- moved, by the bracts, the style, and the general habit. Amphodus of the Botanical Register, which has also been supposed to be very near Cologania, appears to have been founded on a mistake; it is not a West Indian, but an Australian plant, and is, in fact, nothing more than Kenedya rubicunda. INTRODUCTION; WHERE GRowN; CuLtTurRE. The Cologania pul- chella was raised from Mexican seeds, by G. Barker, Esq. of Springfield, Birmingham, and by him presented to the London Horticultural Society, where our drawing was made, last autumn. It is a very pretty green- house climber, requiring the same treatment and training as the smaller Australian Kennediez, for it does not gee to be of very tall growth. VATION OF TH Conocanta, named by enti: after the cae of Cologan, in Teneriffe. PuLcHELLa, pretty. CoLoGaNiA PULCHELLA. Humboldt and Swsith: Nova Genera et Species, v. 6, p. 413. Decandolle: Prodromus, v. 2, p, 23 oft a aes PPECEL wre ee. ~ ‘ We ZYGOPET’ALUM MAXILLA‘RE. JAW-SHAPED ZYGOPETALUM. ENDOGEN2, OR MONOCOTYLEDONE- Een division “eo which { this pfs belongs. : NATURAL ORDER, ORCHIDACEZ. GYNANDROSA&, Artificial divisions GYNANDRIA, OF to which pe gabon LINDLEY. this Plant belonet No. 1 ll. _ GENUS. Safi inant Hooxzr.— PERtconit explanati foliola exteriora ndentia, ¢1 ce TTT iti N ti \ re ti sistas J i te, cris g tranversa carnosa, CoLuMna brevii s, arcuata, s emiteres. ANTHERA A incomplete bilocu- laris. Poxttrtn1a duo bipartibilia, in glandula transversa subsessilia, Americanez tropice epigee, subacaules. Fotra plicata patentia. Fiores magni, speciosi, labello discolore. Enpzicner: Genera + Pp: 201. SPECIES. Zycoretatum MaxituareE. Loppiees, Foxtts lanceolatis un- tis acuminatis racemo flexuoso igs sepalis petalisque ovato-oblon. ah ee ae obovato callo baseos maximo lunato margine crispa. Lr. and Species, p. 188 CHARACTER OF THE os ZYGOPETALUM. PERIGON spreading, the outer and inner divisions nearly equal and similar, ascending, con- nected at the base with each other and with the base of the column. LABELLUM not spurred, undivided, spreading, ascending at the base, with a large transverse fleshy crista. CoLumn short-arched, semicy- lindrical. ANTHER incompletely bilocular. POLLEN masses two, each divisible into two, nearly sessile on the transverse gland. DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, ZYGOPETALUM MAXILLARE. A ter- restrial plant witha creeping rhizoma, sending forth at intervals fasei- cles of leaves and very short stems, thickened at the base into an ovate pseudo-bulb. Leaves about a foot high, lanceolate, acuminate, wavy, and narrowed into a footstalk at the base. FLOWERING STEM usually about 9 inches high, flexuose, bearing 3 or’ 4 large flowers, form- ing a loose raceme, each flower in the axilla of a sheathing lanceolate membranaceous bractea. Sepas or outer divisions of the perigon, ovate, oblong, pointed, green with transverse. purple marks, and pur- plish at the base ; inner divisions or petals similar to them, but nar- rower, especially at the base. Lape tum large, rounded, very broad, convex, entire, but somewhat waved on the edge, blue with longitudi- nal streaks of purple, the base or footstalk short, thick, and ascending, with a large crescent-shaped thick crista of a deep purple, and toothed at the edge, so as to - it some appearance of a jaw. Coun thick, — fleshy, purple, hed over the hollow of the crista. ANTHER yellow. G. B. Popvurar AND GeoGrapuicaL Notice. This is asmall genus con- — fined to tropical America, and apparently to Brazil and Guiana, but closely allied to Eulophia, an extensive Asiatic and African genus, which is also terrestrial, but with the pseudo-bulbs and much of the habit of many epiphyte genera. INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTuRE. This species was first introduced by the Messrs. Loddiges of Hackney, who received it in 1829, from Mr. T. Warre of Rio Janeiro, and first flowered it in August, 1831. From their collection, where our drawing was made, it has since spread into others. It requires being planted in a light but roughly divided peat soil, mixed with small drainers. It may be occa- sionally increased by separating the roots, and whenever this is re- quired, it will be found advantageous to cut the pseudo-bulbs assunder a month before the roots are finally separated; and when re-potted, the crown of the roots should be kept higher than the rim of the pot. To flower well it requires, like most others of this interesting reir to be left in large tufts. DERIVATION OF THE NaMEs. ZyGoreTatum, from Zvyoc a yoke, and weradoy, a leaf or petal, in allusion to the connection of the divisons of the perigon. Maxixzare, like a jaw, in allu- sion to the SYNONYMES. ZyYcOPETALUM MAXILLARE. Loddiges: Botanical Cabinet, t. 1776. Lindley: Genera and Species, p. 188, r ‘ tor vrelll yer wrtcctoradta a - PERNET TIA MUCRONA’ TA. POINTED. LEAVED PERNETTIA. ‘ gXOGENR. DICOTYLEDONES. N ao division 0 which — WW this Plant —- - DECANDRIA, ; MONOGYNIA, OF LINNEUS. No. 112. GENUS, Peryertia. Gavpre ee Canyx 5-partitus siccus, Coroiia globosa, limbo 5-dentato. Stamina 10, hypogyna; filamentis basi dilatatis, an- theris muticis: lobis apice- angus sats bidentatis. Ovarium 5-loculare, poly- spermum; squamis s 10 hypogynis ambientibus. Capsuna aes polysperma. GavbicHavp in Annales des Seas Natitelied; Vol. V, p. 102. SPECIES. Pernetria MucronaTA. GavDICHAUD. Pedr ovatis serra tis mucronatis, pedunculis laxis brevioribus, squamis hypogynis integris. Cw: picHaupD: Ibid. NATURAL ORDER, ERICACE. . & )) (. Artificial divisions. NEY to which this Plant belongs. cAL shir oe ORE, wieeas patie. CHaRacTER OF THE Genus, PerneTTia. CaLyx 5-parted, dry. Corotta globose, limb 5-toothed. Stamens 10, hypogynous; fila- ments dilated at the base, anthers not pointed behind; lobes con- tracted, two-toothed at the apex. Ovary 5-celled, svany seeded: 10 hypogynous scales surrounding it. CapsuLe berried, many-seeded. DESCRIPTION OF THE Species, PERNETTIA MUCRONATA. A small shrub, dividing into branches, close to the root; branches spreading, few hairs, which are flexuose and subulate, at first white but speedily becoming yellow. Leaves about three quarters of an inch in length, scarcely petiolate, sparse, inclined towards the light, flat, shining, na- ked, dark green above, paler beneath, leathery; mid-ribs distinct; veins on young leaves obscure, more perceptible on the old, ovato- lanceolate, broadly serrrate, the point forming a stiff prolongation of the mid-rib. Fiowers axillary, eee nodding; peduncles about equal in length to the leaves, of a pale green colour, except where covered with a reddish somewhat glandular pubescence; near u bracts Catyx naked, white, 5-parted, segments bluntish. Cor- OLLA white, urceolate, Sesddind segments blunt, reflected. Sra- MENS ten, filaments clavate, rather rough, white ; anthers adnate to the tapering summit of the filament, erect, brown, ‘seuieiiad at the top, each lobe dehiscing by a pore at the apex, and crowned by two short erect bristles. PisTituum not protruding, but reaching the reflexed mouth of the corolla. Stiama formed of five erect points. STYLE an ce re of a faint yellowish green. _ Ovary as long as the tamens, globose, smooth, green. Rw. Poputar anp GeocrapHicaL Notice. This plant is a native - of the countries bordering on the Straits of Magellan, and also of Staten Island. We bring it before our readers less on account of its appearance, which, however, is sufficient to recommend it to notice, than from the circumstances under which our specimen grew. It was reared ir one of the plant cases of N. B. Ward, Esq. Wellclose-Square, London, and flowered in June, 1838. Many may have heard of the method of growing plants adopted by this gentleman, but as it is at once interesting as regards the physiology of plants, and important as regards their transmission from one part of the world to another, and their subsequent cultivation, we here introduce some account of it, partly from the letter of Mr. Ward, addressed to Sir W. J. Hooker, and published in the “Companion to the Botanical Magazine,” vol. i. p- 317, and partly from our own observation; having been furnished by Mr. Ward, not only with an opportunity of having the drawing made, but also most politely with every facility of judging of his plan in full operation. The structure of the cases varies slightly, according as they are intended for ornament in a house, or for the transmission of plants by sea. The glass, in those intended for voyages, must be covered with a wire grating to protect it, as any fracture would be destructive to the plants within; and it should be lashed to the poop of the vessel, exposed to the light, and not interfered with during the voyage. In this way Messrs. Loddiges have sent out, or received, not fewer than 200 cases, and generally with complete success. For ornamental purposes in houses, the cases should be constructed as follows. A frame or pedestal with casters is to be made, nearly the width of the window where it is intended to be placed, and so high that the portion of the case consisting of glass shall be on a level with the winddw, so as to ensure the free exposure of the plants to the light. A case formed of wood is then to be placed on the support or pedestal. This wooden case may be about a foot and a half deep, and of similar width. It must be coated internally with itch, or any cement which will keep the humid earth from being in’ contact with the wood. A hole is to be retained in the under side of the box, perforating both the pitch and the wood. This box is to receive the mould, which, after the plants are planted therein, is to be saturated with moisture, and the su- perfluous portion allowed to drain off by the hole just mentioned, which is afterwards to be closed with a wooden moveable peg. The wooden portion of th is tob ted, to the height off two or three feet, with a frame-work of b i the form of the upper part is to be similar to the roof of a ae the central beam of bronze having a number of hooks attached to it, by which succulent plants, such as cacti, may be suspended, with or without pots. There is a small door of glass on the side remote from the window, through which the plants are introduced, The closer this door fits, and the fewer times it is opened, the more successful will be the result. It neither i is, nor is intended to be, perfectly air-tight; the whole being glazed as a green- house. That glass answers best which is ited flatted crown glass. The plants which require much humidity are to be planted i in the soil of the box, those which need less may be suspended, in pots containing sand, from the roof of the case. Plants which vegetate in very warm climates, and exogenous plants generally, should be placed at a win- dow facing the south. ‘Ferns, and similar plants, do well enough before one with a northern exposure. The prime causes of the difficulty of growing plants in large cities are the excessive evaporation to which they are subjected in poe, and the deleterious effects which the products of combustion, disseminated in the atmosphere, produce upon them. But by this ingenious plan these obstacles are removed, and plants have grown in some of Mr. Ward's cases, flowered and ripened fruit, without receiving a fresh supply of water for several years. Its utility, in facilitating the trans- mission of plants from remote regions, has been abundantly proved, and its value becomes obvious when the difficulties formerly expe- rienced are considered. The beneficial results likely to follow a more extended adoption of this plan cannot be estimated at present, but even already the number of new plants thus introduced into our stoves testify its importance. Nor is it possible to estimate too highly the effects which it will have in increasing the pleasures and enjoy- ments of the inhabitants of towns, by enabling them to adorn their rooms with the most beautiful and tender plants. It is not necessary to build a fine or expensive case, such as that above described, to carry it into practice: a large wide-mouthed bottle, with a proper quantity of moist earth, closed with a portion of bladder or thin india- rubber, will answer well, and in such have we seen a beautiful speci- men of Chorozema cordatum growing, in Mr. Ward’ Thus the poorest as well as the wealthiest denizens of our cities may gratify their taste for flowers, and have their care repaid more thoroughly than it ever was before. Cowper, who ‘mid a faithless generation was found faithful to the love of nature, has observed that the relish for the beautiful works of the Creator ——_——Is a flame that dies not even there Where mmo a it: ogee r business, crowds, 2 Nor habits o es anceaae sine they smother of troe worth n bosoms; quench it or abate. eater in the stifling bosom of the town A garden, in which nothing bebe = charms That soothe the rich possessor; much onsoled, That here and there some sprigs of mournful mint, Though sickly samples of the tiie whole. What are the casements lined with oe herbs, The prouder sashes fronted with a r Of orange, myrtle, or the fragrant w The Frenchman's darling? Are ae nt ge proofs ~ That man, immured in cities, still retai ‘This inborn, inextinguishable thirst Of rural scenes, compensating his loss By supplemental shifts, the best he may? most unfurnished with the means of life, And they that never pass their brick-wall bonnds To range the fields, and treat their lungs with air, Sad witnesses how close-pent man regrets The country, with what ardour he contrives A peep at nature, when he can no more. Cowrer’s Task, Boox tv. Thanks to Mr. Ward, these sorry contrivances are quite superseded, and by his more elegant mode he may be truly said to have so far brought back the golden age, that he has succeeded in giving the year “eternal spring.’ A similar plan was adopted about ten years ago, by A. A, Maco- * nochie, Esq. Advocate, Edinburgh, and with the same happy results. He, however, merely showed it to his friends; and to Mr. Ward, therefore, is due the praise of rendering the benefit a public one. Seeing, as we do, the importance of this method of treating plants, and being desirous of extending the benefits and the gratifications deri- vable therefrom, some further account shall be given in the AUCTARIUM of the BoTanic elude; where descriptive cuts can appropriately be introduced. DerivaTION OF THE NAMEs. Pernettia,in compliment to Dom Pernetty, the author of the account of a voyage to the Falkland Islands, a work remarkable for its interest, as well as - for its uniform exactness. Mucronata, from Mucro, a point, the pointed character of the leaves. SyYNonYMEs. ArpuTus Mucronata, Linneus, fil. supp. 239. Forster: Comment. Goetli 9, - Lamarck: Dust. t. 366, f. 2. Willd: Sp, PL. v. 2, p. 610, Sprengel Syst. Veg. 2, p. 287. Botanical Magazine, 3093. PernetTia mucronata, Botanical Register, 1565. - A Pithers: etal. — Ln gnored PIO PEOES ler . é _ * BIGNO'’NIA VENUSTA. ~ LOVELY BIGNONIA. EXOGENE. DICOTYLEDONER. Natural division to which this Plant belongs. NATURAL ORDER, BIGNONIACES, a ae ¢ rr divisions to wh ich hinetacutialiaiins we Plant belongs. No. 113. DIDYNAMIA, ANGIOSPERMIA, OF LINNEUS- 1 3 + GENUS. ea LInnzvs. rarius integerrimus. . Corotza tubo brevi, fauce ecco me limbo quingue- lobo bilabiato. eis quatuor, didynama, cum rudimento quinti.. Stigma tum. Capsvra siliqueformis, bilocularis, kine: valvis pa- rallelo. Sema biseriata, imbricata, membranaceo-alata,transversa. ARBORES aut frutices szepissime scandentes et cirrhosi. Fortra opposita, simplicia aut composita. Frores axillares aut terminales, sepius paniculati SPECIES. Brienonta venusta. Ker. Scandens, ek S amis stri: atis, foliis inferioribus ternatis beaks superioribus conjugatis cirrhosis, foliolis ovatis papi an acuminatis, petiolis minute puberulis, corymbis terminalibus densis, calyce brevi campanulato truncato minute quinquedentato, corollis elongatis incurvis apice minute puberulis CHARACTER OF THE GeNus, Bignonta. Catyx bell-shaped, five- toothed, or rarely entire. CoroLxa with a short tube, the throat bell- shaped, the limb five-lobed, two lipped. StTAmMENs four, didynamous, with the rudiment of a fifth. Stiema bilamellate. Capsuxe siliqua- shaped, two-celled, the dissepiment parallel to the valves. SEEDs in two rows, imbricate, winged. DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, BIGNONIA VENUSTA, STEM clini. ing, tall, perfectly smooth, as well as every other part of the plant, excepting the slight down on the corolla. BrancHEs marked with six, or more usually eight strie. Leaves opposite, petiolate, compound, the lower ones bearing three leaflets, the upper ones two leaflets and a long tendril, either simple or two or three branched. LeaFLets borne on a partial footstalk, ovate or somewhat oblong, terminating in a blunt point, often slightly heart-shaped at the base, from two to four inches long, shining on the upper surface, and marked with a few scattered incurved glandular dots. FLoweErs at the end of the branches, or sometimes by the shortness of the branches apparently axillary, in thick bunches formed of a number of short, opposite, five to ee dichotomous cymes. — — stor =i loose, green, smooth, a quarter of an inch long, truncate, with the border slightly pubescent, and bearing five minute teeth. Corotta of a rich vermillion, full two and a half inches long, slightly incurved the tube considerably longer than the calyx, then gradually swell- ing into a broad oblong throat, the limb oblique, two-lipped, the upper lip shortly two-cleft, the lower divided to the base, all the lobes oblong, obtuse, rolled back, and slightly downy at the margins and on the back, the tube is also very hairy inside at the part where the stamens are inserted. STamens exserted, but shorter than the lobes of the corolla, smooth, the fifth sterile stamen: very small and rudimentary. Ovary very short, linear, terete, placed on a thick, glandular disk. CapsuLEe only known by the coarse figure in the Flora Fiuminensis, where it is represented as oblong linear, marked on each side with three ribs. Poputar anp GeoarapuicaL Notice. The Bignoniacee, like all eee — have — very lately been known to botanists to any , as respects their systematic arrange- ment, thea are in a nats of great Setvaion, which, it is to be hoped, will at length be cleared up by De Candolle in the Prodromus, and in the special Monograph he is preparing. In a short historic review, published in the Bibliothéque de Geneve, that distinguished botanist states the number of species, now more or less known, to be 357, of which Linneus was cognizant of eighteen only. Of the above number 300 are American, 21 African, 30 Asiatic, and 6 in the Archipelago, called by French geographers, Oceania. It is probable that these proportions would be slightly modified, were the vegetation of tropical. Africa better known ; but still America, and especially Brazil, will be found to produce by far the greatest number of species. It is also of that country that the species here figured is a native. _ This order is one of the strongest instances of the importance, for botanical purposes, of collecting the fruit as well as the flower. Of nearly one half of the known species the pod has not yet been observed, notwithstanding it is upon this organ that it is found necessary to lay the basis of the generic distribution, it being almost the only one capable of giving solid characters which harmonize with the general ‘habit of the plants. The very first division adopted by De Candolle, rests entirely on the dehiscence or indehiscence of the fruit; the seeds in the former case, being surrounded by a membranous wing, whilst in the latter they are without any. These winged seeds are usually con- sidered as the essential and exclusive character of Bignoniacee, but it is now ascertained, that whilst they are not uncommon in adjoining ~ orders, there are many true Bignoniacee with indehiscent fruit, and, as a natural consequence, wingless seeds; for this is adduced by De Candolle, as another instance of that admirable co-ordination and co-relation of organs, so much observed in the animal kingdom. Mem- branous wings destined to facilitate the dispersion of seeds through the air, would be totally useless in fruits which do not open of them- themselves, and whose seeds only come out by the soaking and rot- ting away of the pod, or germinate within it. Amongst the tall growing climbers of tropical America, few can compete in point of beauty with this numerous tribe of which the present species affords a fair specimen, and it is to be hoped now that so many of our more wealthy horticulturists are constructing hothouses on an ex- tensive scale, that they will not disdain to follow the example shown in some continental, especially German, gardens, in the great use there made of the larger climbers for the tasteful decoration of the interior of their houses. The new palm house at Potsdam, for in- stance, although but little pains has been bestowed on its external architectural decoration, is yet far beyond anything we possess in its internal arrangement; and this is not entirely owing to the size of the specimens of palms it contains, but, perhaps, yet more to the graceful manner in which the Passifloras and other climbers hang in festoons from the roof, whilst their unsightly stems, often the only part visible in our houses, are concealed by the foliage of the other plants. So also the beauty of the Palms themselves is very much increased by the ferns which are made to conceal the tubs in which they are planted, The same object has been attained at Paris by lowering the tubs intoa sort of pit, excavated for the purpose, below the level of the hothouse. In the hothouses of Scheenbrunn less use has, perhaps, been made of climbers, and their collection of palms is small, but they afford a solitary instance, we believe, of another kind of beauty; the plants are grouped, as far as circumstances would allow, according to their natural orders, and in addition to the scientific advantage of this arrangement, it is done with so much taste that the effect to the eye is very much enhanced. Thus, in one of the principal greenhouses, the centre is occupied by a group of Australian Acacias so disposed as to have the appearance of one or two specimens of very unusual size and beauty, and attracting, on that account, universal attention, whilst had they been as usual scattered about amongst a mass of hete- rogenous plants, scarcely one would have been thought worthy of a glance; and the same effect is invariably produced where the collec- tion contains a considerable number of species or individuals resem- bling each other. The most splendid, however, of the Schenbrunn houses is undoubtedly the Aroideous house, as it is called, containing an unique collection of Brazilian Aroidew, with other tropical Mono- cotyledone ; which, in the low hothouses we are often limited to, would give a much better idea of tropical vegetation, than the dwarf and stunted specimens of palms in our small collections. These Aroidex would also mix admirably with the Orchidacex, the cultivation of which is now so much the fashion. InTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTURE. The Bignonia venusta was first introduced about the year 1817, by Lady Liverpool, who received it from Rio Janeiro. It was then expected to prove nearly hardy, but not only was this expectation disappointed, but for many years it was found so very difficult to flower it, that its cultivation was generally abandoned. A few years since, however, the Misses Trevor of Tingrith, near Woburn, succeeded in flowering it in great beauty, and have done so every year since, from November till February. Specimens, exhibited at the Horticultural Society in November, 1835, were accompanied by a paper on the mode of treatment, which was published in the Horticultural Transactions, (2nd Ser. v. 2, p. 122.) Its leading points are these: a perforated board was placed at each of the back corners of the bark bed, to keep up a compdést of turfy loam, leaf mould, and peat. A plant being put into each corner the roots soon penetrated the bark bed, where they were encouraged in the growing season by the free use of manured water. When the bark was renewed, a considerable space about the roots of the plants was left undisturbed. Remaining thus eight years, the plants cover a surface of 500 feet, although after flowering they are annually cut back to a single stem of six feet. When young shoots are again produced these strike root very readily with a little bottom heat. In the Horti- cultural Society's garden, where our drawing was taken, it succeeds equally well under the same treatment Derivation OF THE NaME. Bicnonia, said to be named in ——- ts the Abbé Bignon, librarian to Louis XIV, of France. Venust ee Bicnonta vencsts, Botanical Register, t. 249. Botanical Magazine, t. 2050. Bienonta icnEA. Velloso; Flora Fluminensis, v, 6, t. 13. \ t ae : yy ! > an , eA i jee, 8084S Atitis. eet £ ae ile NEL IPD ACPA EP IA | a x 4 - OXYLO’BIUM SCAN’DENS., ™ CLIMBING OXYLOBIUM. this Plant belongs. Artificial divisions. DECANDRIA, to which bo tinaeen. this Plant af OF LINN CALYCIFLOR#, OF DECANDOLLE. No, 114. N OxyLosium. AnDREws. Caxyx semi. gamer dus, ae labio superiore bifido, inferiore tei pai Coroti« vexillum alis ius, rotundatum, breviter unguiculatum; ale ines,’ cddlins Vas aden sub- re ae obtusa, alas equans. Stamina libera, glabra. Ovarrum sub-sessile, se pluriovulatum. Sryivus filiformis, i incurvus. LeGuMEN ovatum, acutum, seitdiaget eoriaceum ve turgidum , uniloculare, valvulis intus levibus. Sema estrophiolata. FRotices suffruticesve Australasici. Fora verticillata aut sparsa, simplicia, integra,subtus seri cea. Sripuc# setacex vel nulle. InFLORESCENTIA racemosa, terminalis vel axillaris. Corott& lutee velcrocee. Ovarium villosissimum. Bentham: Annales des Wiener Museums v. 2;p. IES. OxyiopiumM scanpens, Benru. Cav te debili prostrato vel scandente, foliis oppositis Planis: coriacels viridibus subtus leviter sericeis, racemis cap Geen: OF THE GENUS, OxYLOBIUM. Sides cleft to the middle in five divisions, arranged in two lips, the upper one —— of two, the Botanical Register, t. 1633. Botanical Magazine, t. ¢ CAIOPHO’RA LATERITIA. ” BRICK-RED CAIOPHORA. EXOGENA, DICOTYLEDONE 2, : pene: division ‘o which ‘this Plast belongs. Artificial divisions ) , to which [fs this Plant belongs. No. 119, CALYCIFLORE, OF DECANDOLLE. POLYANDRIA, MONOGYNIA, OF LINNEUS. GENUS. Cartopnora. Prest. Ciixci s tubus ovario adherens, spirali- ter striatus; limbus quinquepartitus, laciniis pinnatifidis, Prtata quinque, breviter unguiculata, concava. Sqvam# quinque, RTE petalis alterne, concave, truncate vel emarginate, dorso tricarinate, subtriaristate, intus basi filamentis duobus vel quatuor instructe. Stamina numerosa, in phalanges quingue petalis Beans disposita. Sryxius obtusus, apice trigonus, rarius Oh. akg s, angulis apice longitudinaliter stigmatiferis. Capsuxa ovata vel onga, mone reflexo coromata, unilocalaris pes mga tres spirales dehiscens, ones LACENTA m libere. HeERsz habita Loase, ‘or eolabiles: Ports opposita. =a pang solitarii, uniflori. SPECIES. Carornora tareritia. Cave volubili hispido, foliis petiolatis sine ssiuuatihats, laciniis ovatis lanceolatisve, superioribus confluentibus hispidis, squamis corolle dorso brevissime aristatis, filamentis sterilibus stylo parum brevioribus, capsula subcylindrica. CHARACTER OF THE GENus, CalopHora. Catyx tube adhering to the ovarium, spirally striated, the limb divided into five pinnatifid obes. PETALS five, shortly clawed, concave. Seuam# five, cate m: three-keeled on the back, often three-pointed, having inside two or four sterile filaments. STAMENS numerous, placed opposite the petals in five bundles. STYLE obtuse, three-angled, the angles bearing the stigmas. CapsvLeE ovate or oblong, crowned with the reflected calyx, one-celled, opening at three spiral sutures, moe bapien PLACEN- T# along the margin of the valves, at length free ESCRIPTION OF THE SPEcIES, CAloPHORA LATERITIA. STEM | red id eee a climbing, armed, as well as the leaves, with sca each arising from a tubercle and mixed with a number of very short ones. Leaves opposite, petiolate, thin, and membranous, three to six inches long; in their general form ovate lanceolate, pinnately divided, the lower lobes quite to the midrib and even borne on partial foot- stalks, He upper ones confluent into a long sinuate terminal lobe, each lobe ovate or lanceolate, and toothed. PepuNcxes axillary, solitary, as long or longer than the leaves, often twisted, bearing each a single dower without any bracts. Ca yx with a cylindrical tube, somewhat ~ % turbinate, marked by ten longitudinal, spirally twisted ribs, densely hispid; limb consisting of five broadly linear foliaceous divisions, marked on each side with one or two teeth. PrTats five, inserted between the lobes of the calyx, of a brick-red colour, hood-shaped, hairy on the outside. Sauam# five, opposite the divisions of the calyx, about a third the length of the petals, green, concave, three- ribbed, truncate at the top, and each dorsal rib terminating in a short brown blunt point. STameEns arranged in five bundles, placed oppo- site, and almost inclosed within, the petals; each bundle consisting of about fifteen stamens, which are nearly as long as petals: within each Squama are also two filaments, thick and expanded at the base, pro- jecting far beyond the squamz, connivent round the stigma, tapering and slightly pubescent towards the extremity, which terminates in a minute orange point, usually hooked. Ovary included within the tube of the calyx, one-celled, terminating in a broad, flat, spreading disk, with five roundish green hairy lobes, alternating with the stamens and petals. Styxe thick, cylindrical. Stiamas three, occasionally four or five, linear, decurrent nearly half way down the style. Pta- CENT three, extending the whole length of the ovarium, linear, attached by the back, the margins free, each bearing a very great number of ovules; sometimes where there are four or five styles, there is also a fourth or fifth placenta, extending a short way down the arium. CapsuLs nearly cylindrical, slightly swollen in the middle, much twisted, two to three inches long. Srxps opening by longitu- dinal slits along the centre of each placenta, each half of which remains attached to the margin of the valve. SEEDS numerous, tuberculated. PopuLar AND GEoGRAPHICAL Novice. The Order of Loasacer, to which this genus belongs, is almost exclusively American, there be- ing only on2 or two species known in the old world from South West Africa, Three species only were known to Limneus, and it now consists of about twelve genera and nearly one hundred species, growing chiefly in the mountainous districts of both portions of the American conti- ent, from = sapien to — Chile, and from the Pacific eastward as _ great chainextend. They forma perfectly dis- tinet order among the rte Calyciflore, readily known amongst allied groups as well by their habit as by characters easily appreciated. Their first and most obvious affinity is with Cucurbitacez, with which the tendency to a climbing habit, the rigid hairs and as of their leaves and stem, as well as the inflorescence and Re Re of the flowers, give them a general similarity in appearance, confirmed by the adhering calyx, unilocular ovarium, parietal placente, and the quinary arrangement of the floral envelopes, usually combined with a iry fruit. On the other hand, whilst the structure of the seeds forms a constant and positive distinction between the Orders, the Loasacee may also be generally known by the “— of tendrils, hermaphrodite flowers, numerous stamens and dry fr The connection with Passifloracee and other ee allied to Cu- curbitacez can only be said to be through the latter, and therefore requires no further comment. The older opinion, however, that ecanagl are mig near Onagracee, put forth first, perhaps, by Jussieu, appears o have been ane shandey. although founded on a mere artificial ganas It seems, indeed, cult to trace any other resemblance than what is common to all ReMi calyciflorous Orders; for even the adherent ovarium, the only additional character the two Orders appear to have in common, is not quite constant in Loasacez, and is, moreover, of far less apreties than the regular binary arrangement of the floral and carpellary parts, and the central placentation which so widely remove the Onagracee, independently of the exalbuminous seeds, the very different habit, and other minor characters. The greater number of Loasacee are remarkable for a property which they have in common with the totally different Order of Urticezx, the stinging nature of the secretion from the hairs, the only drawback to their more general cultivation as ornaments to our flower borders and greenhouses. Yet, as many of them, especially the species now figured, may be trained to a considerable height, and produce a profusion of flowers, they are conspicuous enough to be placed at a distance from the paths, sufficient to avoid all inconvenience in this respect. Another circumstance, worthy of remark in this order, is the facility with which the transition from petals to stamens may be observed. As in Bartonia and Mentzelia the transition is direct, some species haying ten similar petals; others five petals and five petaloid stamina alternating with them; and others again, five petals, with the place of the five others occupied by stamina not in the least differing from the others; so in Loasa, Caiophora, &c. the transition is through the squame, which, with the filaments arising from their inner base, are evidently transformations of the petals and bundles of stamina with which they alternate. One of the most curious anomalies in this Order is the Gronovia scandens of Linneus, which, in its palmately-nerved leaves and definite stamina, affords a further approach to Cucurbitacex, whilst it has stinging hairs, hermaphrodite flowers and no tendrils, as in Loasacee, and is singular by its solitary pendulous ovarium, and the presence of a cupular disk or corona between the stamina and style. - A considerable approach to this structure is dedtstied by Kunth in othia Klaprot The subject of the present plate, known in our gardens as Loasa lateritia, cannot, unfortunately, retain that name; firstly, because another very different species was previously published under that de- nomination, by Gillies and Arnott, (see Hooker’s Botanical Miscellany, v. 3, p. 330,) and secondly, because the group to which it belongs proves, on examination, to be separated from the mass of Loase by characters of sufficient importance to adopt the genus Caiophora, first proposed for it by Pres] in the Reliquiz Henkeane, though originally indicated by Jussieu, in the fifth volume of the Annales de Museum. The chief point is the dehiscence of the capsule, which opens by spiral longitudinal slits, instead of soe the — terminal valves of Loasa. In this respect it to which some have suggested that it should be united; but in the latter, the nearly five- celled ovarium, and the perfectly fve-called fungose fruit, are anoma- lies in the Order which are certainly of generic importance, and are further confirmed by a peculiar habit, arising chiefly from the pal- mately-lobed leaves, bracteate peduncles, and white flowers. Many of these particulars are an approach to Cucurbitacex, but the flowers and seeds are undoubtedly those of Loasacez Besides this species, the genus Caiophora comprehends four or five South American plants, from the Cordilleras of South Peru and Chile, and South Western districts of Brazil. InrRopucTION; WHERE GROWN; CULTURE. Found by Mr. Tweedie of Buenos Ayres, in the mountains of Tucuman; it was by him transmitted to the Glasgow Botanical Garden in 1836. [t has since then become plentiful, as it is found to be almost hardy, flowers in great profusion nearly the whole year round, and ripens its seed in abundance. Specimens, growing in the open air against a wall in the Botanic Garden of Glasgow; and others without even that protection, trained on an open trellis work: in the garden of James Hunter, Esq. of Hafton, near Dunoon, were last October in the greatest possible beauty, the petals having acquired a much richer hue than is usually the case in our greenhouses. Our drawing was made from a plant which we put out against a wall in May, where it grew, in the course the summer, to = height of nearly twenty feet, and flowered most luxuriantly. DERIVATION OF THE etna CatorHora from caw to burn, and ¢gopog bearing, in allusion, probably, to the stinging nature of the faite which the’ plants hear. Larerttta brick- coloured. Syn si : Loasa LateRITIA. Hooker: Silane Mein t. 3632, not of Gillies. ZICH YA COCCIN’EA, MANY-FLOWERED ZICHYA. EXOGENE, oR DICOTYLEDONE &. Natural division to which this Plant belongs. NATURAL ORDER, LEGUMINOSAE. £, — — DIADELPHIA, SSS DECANDRIA. this i read OF LINNEUS. CALYCIFLOR &, OF DECANDOLLE. No 120. GENUS. Zic CHYA. Hu GE GC lat , bilabiatus, labi bidentato, inferiore tripar statis = Conosue vexillum mngiionletamn Is — orbicula- Pe eee ee eee ee alis longius. AL# oblonga, ultra medium ‘adher Carina incurya, obtusa, alis Speier vel sibeequilooge. STaMINa alathicts Aiadelpha, filamento vexillari basi recto inarticulato. ANTHER# uniformes. Vagina disci nulla. Ovarrum pluriovu- latum. Srytuvs brevis,adscendens,superne in stigma subcapitatum sexpius dila- ee ney pie Moines ee desinens. casaphinerta oblsage-inaeare; com. S oo Si MINA ‘ale ata. Frotices ee Australasici. Foxta pinnatim tri- foliolata, fall stipellatis. Prpuncuti axillares, apice subumbellatim multi- fl Ez et stipule parve. Wako cocciner pete ZIcHYA COCC Benrtuam. Fotrorts obovatis oblongisve pandis supremis ova Bo. Adsinmelaths acutis, subtus tomentosis, laciniis ely tubo subequilongis; carina alis parum breviore, stylo apice vix ilata fae OF THE Genus, Zicuya. Catyx bell-shaped, two- lipped, the upper lip two-toothed, the lower three cleft. STANDARD clawed, broadly orbicular, emarginate, reflexed, with two inflexed ap- pendages at the base longer than the wings. Wines oblong, adhering to the keel above the middle. Kreu incurved, obtuse, shorter than the wings, or about as long. Stamens distinctly diadelphous, the vexillary filament straight, and not articulate at the base. ANTHERS similar in form. Sweats at the base of the ovary none. Ovary with several ovules. STYLE short, ascending, ending in a subcapitate stigma. Pop oblong, linear, compressed, coriaceous, separated in- ternally into several cells by a cellular substance. SEEDS with a stro- phiola. DESCRIPTION OF THE Species, ZicHya coccinea. Like others of the Kennedia tribe, this is a slender climber. BraNcHes usually pubescent when young. Petiores short. Leariets from half an inch to an inch or more in length, broadly ovate or obovate, and blunt in the lower leaves, ovate, oblong, and sharp in the upper ones, with short appressed hairs on the upper surface, and a more or less dense down underneath. Pepuncues axillary, usually much longer than the leaves, and bearing at the top a head or umbell of from six to twelve nodding flowers Bracts very small. Pepiceis much shorter than the calyx. Catyx about three lines long, divided to near the middle into five lanceolate pointed teeth, of which the two upper ones are joined somewhat higher up. Pervats scarlet. STanparp marked with a yellowish spot at its base. KErEL nearly as long as the wings. Sry te scarcely dilated at the extremity. Poputar AND GrocrapuicaL Notice. This is another of the genera already referred to at No. 84, in the second volume of the Botanist, as separated from the old genus Kennedia. Independently of the more minute botanical character, it is at once known by the umbellate or capitate inflorescence. It may also be very readily dis- tinguished from the true Kennedias (No.83-of the Botanist) by the short broad petals, and especially the form of the keel, and from Hardenbergia (No. 84) by the red flowers. The fourth genus, Physolobium, has flowers much like those of Zichya, but the infl th different All the Zichyas appear to be natives of the south-western districts of Australia, the present species having long since been - gathered in the vicinity of King George’s Sound. G.B INTRODUCTION ; WHERE GROWN; CULTURE. This exceedingly showy climber was first introduced into the Garden of the Malmaison, near Paris, at the beginning of the present century, and has ever since appeared occasionally in our ae ace though it is by no means common. The reason is evident; it does not ares suitable shoots for cuttings, without peculiar inajeadbiiegh In the spring, a plant should be selected for the purpose, from which all the flower buds should be taken as they appear; and all the shoots should be stopped as they begin to grow, until young shoots are emitted from their joints. These must be taken with a heel of the old stem, be planted in sand, and placed in heat. When thus managed, cuttings will root quickly. The plants require frequent — and they never should be pla- ced out of doors in the summ DERIVATION OF THE Nam azic HYA s, by Baron Charles von Hugel, who cael seeds of several spe- ' e from South-west Australia, in honour of Countess Molly Zichy haaice great promoter and patron of horticulture in Austria. CocctNEA scarlet. SyNONYMEs. cee tan, coccINEA. Ventenat: Jardin de la egies t. 105. Botanical Sweet: Flora Australasica. ZIcHYA gectiias. Bentham: Annalen des Wiener Museums, v, 2,7 p- 123. ofS. Hipsters ind. #2 DIEFFENBACHIA SE GU INUM. DUMB CANE. ENDOGENZ. OR MONOCOTYLEDONES, Natural division to which sccm this Plant belongs, NATURAL ORDER, ARACE/, Wit cn SPADICOSA , Artificial divisions ] F: MONCECIA, OF to which & POLYANDRIA, this Plant belongs. § OF LINNEUS. LINDLEY No. 121, Dierrensacnta. Scuorr. Spatua convoluta. Spapix inferne perne s e faniculo brevi adscenns orth otropum. Stiema discoideum, sessile. Baccz oculares, monosperme. SEMEN subglobosum, = nape crassiuscuis, vb basilari itn. Emesryo in axi album an mbilico e diametro opposita, supera. Panceeits Genera plantarum, p. 338, SPECIES. D SEGUINUM, ] | , foliis oblongo ti inati di tha oblonga sub-breviore Mad ie 5 CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, DIEFFENBACHIA. SPATHE convolute: Spap1x covered on one side of the lower part with fertile flowers con- taining abortive stamens, and attached on the other side to the spathe, free in the upper part where it is completely invested by the male flowers, without any marked appendage above them. STAMENS nu- merous, with three or four oblong bilocular anthers, adnate and arranged vertically round a truncate connective, with their cells paral- lel to the axis, and bursting at the apex by a common pore. OvaRrEs numerous, free, unilocular, each surrounded by three clavate barren stamens which are united together close to the base. OvuLE solitary, attached by a short funicular chord to the paries near the base, ascend- ing, orthotropous. Stigma forming a sessile disk on the summit of oe To THE Dissecrrons. 1, The plant, diminished. 2, The inflorescence, of the natural size; = bat convelute portions ot the spathe forced ‘adh and ‘ore 3, Side vi iew of a stamen. 4,58 seen below. ae 6, A biforine. 7, A fertile sdiieae with its staminodia. 8, The ovarium erent cut heed below the (s), indicating the Sooo of the stigmatic tissue, marked by a Yellow spot. 9, w oreermeel te genaet teirme i gelati f th OAV of the ovarium: @) ants = nan te ‘ny, The ovale. 12, phen ize ata the ovary. Fruit composed of unilocular one-seeded berries. SEED somewhat globular, with a coriaceous, rather thick testa, and broad umbilical scar (or hilum) at the base. Empryo antitropous, in the axis of the albumen, with the radicular extremity uppermost, diametri- cally opposite to the umbilical scar. DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, eee SEGUINUM. STEM between five and six feet long, procum bent ported, but ascend- ing towards the extremity, succulent and dark resi varied with pale brown transverse rings, which are the scars of the fallen leaves. Leaves, about half a dozen crown the stem, with a limb of twelve and a petiole of four inches in length; ovate-oblong, waved, acuminate, with a thick midrib from which diverge parallel primary veins, somewhat coriaceous, dark green with a few paler blotches, but no perforations (as is the case in some specimens) ; petioles channelled, sheathing and terminating upwards in two lobes or auricles somewhat affecting the appearance of a ligule. The limb of the leaf at the base of some _ flower stalks is abortive, whilst the petiole is still complete. SpaTues three or four, axillary, six inches long, on short peduncles, pale green, convoluted in the lower portion, pinched in the middle, and open above. Spapix very little shorter than the spathe, to which it is united along one side throughout that portion of the lower half on which the fertile flowers are seated, but free in the upper portion which bears the barren flowers. MALE FLOWERS completely covering the upper half of the spadix, each composed normally of three two- celled anthers, these are agglutinated together, and by mutual pressure each becomes an hexagonal peltate stamen with six anther cells ranged vertically round a thick common connective. It is possible that the process of agglutination is still more complete in some cases, and the stamens of different flowers becoming united, the resulting stamen has occasionally four instead of three anthers; and also that the anthers (as stated in the generic character) may discharge their pollen through a common pore. But in the present example, each anther- cell bursts above by a separate and large triangular pore. Towards the middle of the spadix, a few male flowers are scattered in a de- tached manner, and have an evident tendency to develope their stamens free, and one of them, has even produced a pistil, thus form- ing a truly hermaphrodite flower, and affording a complete proof (if any were wanting) that each solitary stamen, and each solitary ovarium in other diclinous genera of Aracew are to be considered as separate flowers. ‘FEMALE FLOWERS scattered over that portion of the lower part of the spadix which does not adhere to the spathe; each composed of three, or (by abortion) of two or one, abortive white stamens (or staminodia) more or less united at their base, so as to surround with an annulus a green and nearly globular ovary, crowned by a bright yellow glutinous discoid stigma. The ovaries are one-celled, with a single ovule attached laterally to a parietal but nearly basilary placenta, with somewhat the char- acter of a gelatinous arillus half surrounding the ovule. OvuLe top-shaped with the apex inclining downwards, being attached about the middle by a short funicular chord. [N.B.—The ovary has been described as two-celled, with several ovules in each cell; apparently from mistaking the single ovule for a dissepiment, and the arillus-like lobes of the placenta for ovules. The ovule, also, is stated to be orthotropous, and with respect to its position in the ovule it is “ erect,” but with respect to its lateral attachment it would rather be “ hemi- tropous,” the axis lying transverse to the hilum.] The embryo was not yet formed, but a section of the ovule showed a nucleus in the axis, with two lobes at the upper end or near the base, which had a striking resemblance to a dicotyledonous embryo. J.S. Henstow. Porputar AND GeoGrRaPHicaL Norice. This plant is abundant in the West Indies, and in cool situations in various parts of tropical America. It has always appeared to us to possess a particular inte- rest, from its so clearly affording a link in the chain of evidence by which the true structure of the flowers of the genus Arum, and others of the same family, have been determined. It will also be seen by our description of the specimen here figured, how completely a slight monstrosity among one of the staminiferous flowers near the middle of the spadix exposes the true nature of the staminodia in the fertile flowers lower down. The Genus Dieffenbachia has been separated from Caladium both on account of its being furnished with these staminodia, and also from having the lower half of the spadix attached on one side to the spathe. The singularly curious microscopic organs — named “Biforines” by Mons. Turpin, their discoverer, have been — hitherto observed only in the leaves of various species of the old genus Caladium. One of these, from a leaf of the present plant, is repre- sented in our figure 6. Upon scraping a little of the parenchyma from a leaf, especially from its under surface, and placing it on glass,in a drop of water, the biforines are readily detected with a lens of one-tenth of an inch focal length. They are oblong or cylindrical membranous cells, pointed at each end. Their axis is dark coloured, and composed of a bundle of extremely fine spiculz, lying parallel to each other, and each of them is nearly as long as the cell. Upon watching these objects for a little while after they have been placed in water under the microscope, the spicule are seen to be ejected one by one, at ihe one or other, or both extremities of the cell. The reaction caused by their ejection moves the cell a little to one side, so that the- spicule are not all discharged in the same direction, and in conse- quence they ultimately lie in a confused heap near the point of exit. These organs are so very singular in their structure, and the phenome- non they present is so remarkable, that we are tempted to extend our notice of them, by condensing the detailed account of M. Turpin, in the sixth volume of the new series of the Ann. des Sciences They are there described as always lying between the vesicles of the cellular tissue which they exceed in size, being about j; of a millimetre (?) in length. They are composed of three separate parts. The first consists of an exterior perfectly transparent and colourless, though rather thick mem- brane, forming a vesicle, which is either fusiform, or a cylinder termi- nated by cones, and which, consequently, when seen under the micro- scope in profile, appears either like an oval, or a hexagon, with two of its opposite sides considerably elongated. Each extremity is perfora- ted by a small opening, with the edges a little thickened. The second part consists of an inner fusiform vesicle, composed of a transparent, and extremely thin membrane and lying in the axis of the outer ves- icle, and extending its whole length, but with the transverse diameter not occupying more than one third of that of the outer vesicle. Within this inner or intestinal vesicle, lies the bundle of numerous acicular chrystals, of nearly the same length as the two vesicles, and completely filling the inner one. A single spicula appears to be perfectly colour- less, but collectively they assume a yellowish or brownish tinge. The biforines are therefore composed of two organized coats, and these in- organic chrystals. In order that the spicule may be ejected, the bifo- rines must be immersed in water whose temperature is not less than 20° C. and then they are emitted at short intervals, from 1 to 6 at a time, the biforines recoiling at each discharge like a little cannon. When all the spicule are emitted, the intestinal vesicle collapses; and ultimately the exterior one also does the same, to a greater or less extent. To explain this action, Monsieur Turpin supposes that the space between the two vesicles is filled with a dense mucilaginous sap, of the same quality as that which occurs in the cellular texture of the plants in which they are found. When placed in water, which is of considera- bly less specific gravity than the sap, the ordinary effects of Endos- mose takes place. The water penetrates the coat of the outer vesicle, fills and distends the space between the two, until pressing strongly upon the inner vesicle, it forces a discharge of its contents. The biforines are not confined to the parenchyma of the leaf, but occur in other parts of the cellular tissue, and are even found intermixed with _ the pollen after it is discharged from the anthers. Our figure 5, repre- sents part of a mass of pollen collected on the surface of the spathe, after it had fallen from the anthers. It formed so pleasing an object for the microscope, that we thought a particular description of it might be acceptable. Ist. Spherical pollen grains, as at (a), of different sizes; their con- tained granules appearing as a dark central mass surrounded by a transparent coat. 2nd. Pollen grains, as at (6), of irregular shapes; resulting from modifications of the spherical form, by the peculiar action which pro- duces the pollenic-tubes. In some cases the grain was oblong; in others there were one, two, or more prominences upon the surface; and in others the tubes were more or less completely developed, with the granules either still contained in them or dispersed. 3rd. The Biforines, at (¢ c). In some cases the cell was more or less irregular. They occur either singly, or lying two or three together. 4th. Crystals, from minute specks up to the size of the grains of pollen. Some appeared like squares, as at (d), with dark angles; or with diagonal lines; others, like oblongs with a dark triangle on each end, as at (e). These appearances clearly indicate their form to be a square prism capped at each end with a tetrahedral pyramid; and in all probability they are composed of oxalate of lime, 5th. Raphides, or slender spicule, at (f), similar in appearance to, but larger than, those contained in the “biforines.” The Dumb Cane is further remarkable from the extremely acrid properties of its juice, the smallest portion of which when applied to the mouth is sufficient to cause acute pain. It has obtained its popular name from its swelling the tongue and mouth of any one who bites it, so as to prevent his speaking. An accident which happened to one of the men employed at Kew, who chanced to bite one of these plants, is recorded by Sir W. J. Hooker, where “the tongue swelled to such a degree that he could not move it; he became utterly incapable of speaking, and was confined to the house for some days in the most excruciating torments.” In those regions of the West where a barbarous tyranny, supported by unjust, and unchristian laws, ministers to the selfishness of man, by maintaining one unhappy race of our fellow creatures under the curse of a hopeless and de- grading bondage, a cruel master will sometimes punish his slave by rubbing the juice of the dumb cane over his mouth; thus inflicting on him a torment which probably could only be exceeded in violence, by flogging him with one of those dreadful species of nettle found in the East Indies, the effects of whose stinging is felt for months, and in some cases is said to produce death. An important use is, however, made of the juice of the Dumb Cane, it being extensively used in the process of refining sugar. InTropucTion; WHERE GRowN; CuLTuRE. This plant has been long in the country, having been cultivated in 1759, by Miller. The present specimen flowered in the stove of the Botanic Garden, at Cambridge, in January and February of the present year, 1839. It requires no particular treatment. DeErivaTION oF THE NaMEs. DIEFFENBACHIA, apparen tly in honour of Dieffenbach; but not having the Jacquin informs us this plant is known to the French in the West Indies. Syn S. Carapium Sxecuinum. Hooker's Exotic “Flora, Vol. 1, Pl. 1. Bot. Mag. Vol, 52, Pl. 2606. JAM Witter. clnd. ¢ ruchaptelen nities Wewitt. scale - TRICHOPILIA TORTILIS. ~ TWISTED TRICHOPILIA. es ENDOGENA OR * MONOCOTYLEDONE: Natural division te which ‘*: LAD cate this plant belongs, NATURAL ORDER, ORCHIDACES,. GYNANDROSA, Ss a / Artificial | $e or to which it ener LINDLEY. this Plant belongs. i eance No. 122. GENUS. ee LINDLEY. ab meuate seal flo aggotsia et interiora equalia, linearia, crispa. LasELLUM magnu colu nz parallelum, siiadiea lobo intermedio subbilobo siasstddenaibe ert laa: ilocularis, compr caudicule tenui Sensate adhzrentia, pasidela minima. Enpiicwer: Gene ntarum SPECIES. Paledrnes Tortitis. Linprey. Hersa terrestris, pseudo- bulbis camnosis, on maculatis aie ree foliis coriaceis planis vel leviter ribus axillaribus CuaRacTER OF THE GENUS, CieRerase PERIGON spreading, the outer and inner divisions equal, linear, crisped. LaBetivum large, convolute, parallel to the column, three-lobed, the intermediate division nearly two-cleft and flattish, naked inside. CoLuMn cylindrical, club- shaped, the receptacle of the anther hood-shaped, three-lobed, fringed with hairs. ANTHER one-celled, compressed, convex in front. Po1- LEN MASSES two, furrowed at the back, adhering to a slender wedge- shaped caudicula, with a very small gland. DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, TRICHOPILIA TORTILIS. PsEUDO- BULBs oblong, furrowed, compressed, covered with brown sheaths, marked with dark spots, and sometimes nearly as long as the leaves. Leaves solitary, oblong, coriaceous, sharp, flat or slightly folded. Fiowers large, axillary, solitary, and sessile. Ovurer and INNER DIVISIONS of the Pericon equal, linear lanceolate, very spreading, pirally twisted, crisped on the margin where they are of a dingy yellow, brick-coloured in the centre. LaBELtuM nearly as long as the divisions of the perigon, about two inches, white with unequal red spots inside, rolled round the column in the lower part, the limbs very unequally divided into three broad lobes, of which the middle one is very large and slightly cleft. CoLumn continuous with the ovarium, cylindrical, club-shaped, white, the receptacle of the anther extended above it in the shape of a hood, divided into three ascending falcate lobes, which are fringed on the edges. ANTHERS compressed, with a little point. PoLLEN Masses two, small, pear-shaped, furrowed at the back, inserted on a wedge-shaped caudicle, with a very small oval gland. PoruLaR AND GEOGRAPHICAL Notice. This genus consists but of this single Mexican’ species, of which the habits are as yet scarcely known. It appears, however, to be terrestrial, and to grow in that tierra caliente, which, with Demerara and tropical Brazil, is now supplying our stoves with innumerable novelties in the inexhaustible tribe of Orchidacez. To such a degree, indeed, has the zeal for col- lecting these interesting plants been carried, that notwithstanding the difficulties attending their cultivation, till lately considered as almost insurmountable, the number of species contained in the stoves of Messrs. Loddiges & Son, according to their last catalogue is 1024, being nearly three times the amount of the total number, including Euro- pean ones, contained in Persoon’s Synopsis, published in 1807, when there were not above two or three dozen in garden lists, and scarcely half a dozen in cultivation. INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CULTURE. First introduced from Mexico, in 1835, by George Barker, Esq. of Springfield, near Bir- mingham; this rare and curious plant has since spread into a few of our principal collections. Our drawing was made in winter, at the Messrs. Loddiges’, where it thrives under the same treatment as Max- illaria, its nearest allied genus. It cannot be too frequently noticed that in potting orchidaceous plants every available means should be employed to insure the most perfect drainage. We have not yet seen such as we conceive would be the best. pots for the purpose. They may be made without bottoms, with a simple rim projecting outwards at the bottom, as a flange, nearly corresponding with that usually worked round the top: This would give the required strength. A number of little basons, of differ- ent sizes, made of the same material as the pot, and perforated all over with holes, a quarter of an inch diameter, would form suitable bottoms. These should be put into the pots with their convex sides upwards ; and the conical shape of the pots would admit of these moveable bottoms lodging against their sides at a higher or lower point, according to the size of the bottom chosen, so as to suit the wishes of the cultivator. DERIVATION OF THE NAMEs. Tricnoptia from Opré, rpexoc hair, and idwoy a cap, in allusion to the fringed hood or cap that covers the anther. Torrinis, twisted, SyYNonyME. TricHopiiia TorTILIS. Lindley: Botanical Register, t. 1863, A> Withers: ded V9 Wa eceviela cuvtha rece pt Mowitt. seu ALLAMAN’DA CATHARTICA. WILLOW-LEAVED ALLAMANDA. Ogee { this Pant saiegs —w - NATURAL ORDER, APOCYNACEA. CORROLIFLORE, [Se {et seyret PENTANDRIA, OF a Eire MONOGYNIA, DECANDOLLE. ¥! Ee |= Plat a | OF LINNEUS- US. Arramanps. Linvzus. ei ALYX quinquepartitu Coroita in- fundibuliformis, tubo cylindrico, Sail squamis quinque ciliatis aucta, limbi quinquefidi campanulati ampli laciniis obtusis subinequalibus. Stamina quingque, coroll# fauci inserta, inclusa, antheris sagittatis subsessilibus conni- ventibus. Ovarrum uniloculare compressum. Ovvta in placenta margin ambiente plurima, e faniculis longiusculis pendula. Capsura Savino: elliptica, compressa, echinata, unilocularis, bivalvis. Srmina plurima, ala membrana- cea cincta. Frovtices vel sufiratices Amerie tropice; erect vel scandentes. Fi speciosi lutei. tas HER: Genera Plantarum, p. 579. ECIES. AttamManpa caTHartica. Linvevs. Foxtts subquaternis ob- longis acuminatis glaberrimis, CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, ALLAMANDA. CALyx five-cleft. Coroxia funnel-shaped, the tube cylindrical, the throat furnished inside with five hairy scales, the limb five-cleft, very large, bell-shaped, the divisions blunt and slightly unequal. Sramens five, included within the throat of the corolla where they are attached, the anthers dart-shaped, nearly sessile, and connivent. Ovary one-celled, com- pressed. Ovo ces several, attached to a marginal placenta, hanging from a long funiculus. CAapsuLrE coriaceous, elliptical, compressed, ‘prickly, one-celled, ee ae SeEDs several, surrounded with a membranous wing. il - DEscRIPTION OF THE Species, ALLAMANDA CATHARTICA. STEM climbing, smooth, nearly cylindrical. Leaves four in a whorl, ob- long, three to four inches long, usually broader above the middle, and ending in a broad blunt point, narrowed at the base into a short foot- stalk, leathery, smooth on both sides, shining on the upper surface. PEDUNCLES terminal or interpetiolar, one to three-flowered and short, or sometimes lengthened and bearing a greater number. Catyx with lanceolate green divisions, four or five lines long. COROLLA very large and yellow, the tube slender, about an inch long, the limb forming a broad irregular bell about two inches long. In the throat are inserted five lanceolate, pointed, somewhat dart-shaped ANTHERS, and immediately below them, five short double squame, covered with short hairs. Poputar AND GeograpHicaL Notice. This plant was early known to the naturalists who attended to West Indian Botany, on account of the strong medical properties it has always been supposed to possess. It was first brought from the southern West Indian Islands and Guiana, and various plants resembling the original one having been gathered from the South American Continent as far down as Rio Janeiro, it was supposed that they were all varieties of one species, till Pohl, in his Icones, distinguished them, figuring three which he considered as entirely new, and giving amended characters for the older ones. According to him, the West Indian plant, (which is here described from specimens gathered in St. Vincent's) with perfectly glabrous leaves and stems, is distinct from Aublet’s Cayenne Orelia, which has the young branches slightly hairy as ~~ as the under side of the leaves, a character to which the Cayenne ly warrant our attaching much importance. it is even matter of great doubt whether Allamanda Schottia of Pohl, should not also be joined, not- withstanding the erect stem attributed to it. The Allamanda cnothe- refolia and angustifolia, and a new species gathered in the mountains of Bahia by Mr. Blanchet, must, however, be adopted, and it is pro- bable that others may yet be discovered. None have been found beyond the limits of the above-mentioned countries. INTRODUCTION ; WHERE GROWN; CuLTuRE. The Allamanda ca- . thartica was introduced in 1785, by Baron Hake, from Guiana, and raised in the Royal Gardens at Kew, where it has continued to be grown, and where our drawing was made last summer. It requires the hothouse, to which, however, if badly grown, it may not be thought so splendid an ornament as some others, though if made to flower abundantly it proves very handsome. It should be potted in a rich light loam. DERIVATION OF THE "Vie ALLAMANDA, named in honour of Dr, F. Allama ifs a pf of Leyden, who wrote on its medicinal properties. ee purgative SyNnon ALLAMANDA CATHARTICA, Linnzus: ea p- 214. Botanical Magazine, t, 338. dtniicendibs Lrynzr. Pohl Icones, v. 1, p. 74 ANDA AUBLETSS? probably a variety, Pohl, p- 75. Senitt, coabp. ¢ , > * ene POVPMMGORG a a - * Where. shed ’ 7 CORREA FERRUGINEA. —_ RUSTY CORREA. . EXOGENR, OR agape Natural division to which { this Plant belongs. —W NATURAL ORDER, RUTACEA, gpa ngs 1 awit aa OCTANDRIA. | to whic MONOG ‘ Gecerséilod. this Plant vide OF pent ie a) No 124. NUS. Correa. Smira, Caryx cupuliformis, subinteger aut quadri- lobus. Prtara quatuor, valvatim in tubum approximata partimve coalita. 0 i us q opposita, simplicia, integra. Fores in ramulis axillaribus ah i oi. ig terminales. Ramutt, folia et flores, pube stellata dense congesta tomentosa SPECIES. CorrEa FERRUGINEA. cater Fotis ovato- Hebi pecs obtusissimis in petiolum angustatis integerrimis, supra viridibus glaherrimis levibus impresso-punctatis, agg stellato- hontnaliidn ferrugineis, floribus solitariis ad ternos ear s cylindraceis pendulis, dentibus ‘ealysinia acutis, : dtatadioe \ longe exs CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, CornrEA. Ca yx cup-shaped, nearly entire, or four-cleft. PeTats four, arranged in the manner of valves, either close together or joined in part into an apparently monopeta- lous corolla. StTaMENs eight, equal to the petals or longer, four of them opposite to the petals, being shorter than the others, the filaments smooth and filiform or dilated above the base, the anthers oblong. Ovaries four, placed on a short stalk which bears the stamens On its circumference, where it is as if eight-lobed, and covered with thick stellate hairs. StTyLes four, joined into a single one which terminates in a regular ot algae age. Fruit consisting of four capsules. DESCRIPTION OF THE Srncrie. CoRREA FERRUGINEA. SHRUB, with om young branches } Sich ly covered ital a - ale Fe down, hairs, tl ther. LEAVES opposite, from one to two or three ince long, ovate-Tanceolate, or oval-oblong, blunt, quite entire, but irregular on the margins, borne on short foot-stalks, the upper surface green and quite smooth, the = ale dhs { under side marked with a prominent midrib and covered with a rusty down, similar to that on the stems. FLowers solitary, drooping, borne on short stalks at the end of short axillary branches, bearing one or two leaves. Ca yx very short, in the form of a broad cup, with four very small somewhat sharpish teeth. Corowa about three quarters of an inch long, the petals joined to near the top into a tube rather broader towards the mouth, with four broad ovate lobes. STaMeENs projecting at least a quarter of an inch beyond the corolla. Poputar aNp GeocrapHicaL Notice. The genus Correa is strictly Australian, being found all along the southern portion of that continent, and in Van Diemen’s Land. It is singular as affording an instance of apparently monopetalous corollas, in a natural Order in which the flower is essentially polypetalous. The elegant manner in which these flowers hang, the good colouring and size of them in many species, attracted the notice of the first collectors in their native country, and some species have now been long in cultivation. The operation of hybridizing has even been practised on them with success, and new forms are frequently springing up in our collections. The present species, however, is a genuine native of Van Diemen’s Land, and was first described by Sir William Hooker, from wild specimens, as a remarkable and distinct species, under the name given to it by its discoverer, Major Gunn. Though notso brilliant in colouring as some others, its foliage is elegant, and it may be con- sidered as a yaluable acquisition. INTRODUCTION ; WHERE GROWN; CuLTuRE. We have no specific information, regarding the year in which this greenhouse novelty was introduced to Great Britain, but we believe it took place in 1836. Our drawing was made in the Autumn of 1838, from a plant in her Ma- jesty’s garden at Kew, where are many other subjects of peculiar inter- est, which, under the present management of that establishment, are meeting the careful attention which they deserve. Well-ripened cut- tings may be struck in sand, under a bell-glass, with bottom heat. When rooted, they should be planted in a mixture of peat and loam. One species—Correa alba, proves to be cee Derivation OF THE Nam Correa, named by the late Sir James Edward Sm re in honour of M. Correa de Serra, a Portugese Botanist. FERrucinzEa, rusty coloured. SYNONYMEs, Correa FERRUGINEA. Hooker: Companion to Bot. Mag. v. 1, p. 276 Navitt senip. faened e lhaewtian: He DES Withers: ded WITSE'NIA MAU’RA DOWNY-FLOWERED WITSENIA. ENDOGENA, MONOCOTYLEDONES- Natural division “a J to which { this plant ic | NATURAL ORDER, IRIDACEA, ¥PIGTNOSE Artificial divisions TRIANDRIA, to which MONOGYNIA, inner: this Plant belongs. ©F LINNEUS. No. 125. US. Wrrsenia. THunperc. Perriconivm corollinum su perwai vel semisuperum tubulosum, limbi sexfidi laciniis equalibus patentibus vel con- niventibus. Stamina tria, perigonii fauci oa: inclusa, filamenta filiformia brevissima, anthere-sagittate basifixe. Ovarium inferum vel semi-inferum, obsolete trigonum, triloculare. Ovuta sasha in loculorum angulo centrali biseriata. Srynuvs filiformis exsertus. Sticma tridentatum vel brevissime EMINA plurima angulata. Sorrrurices Capenses, ra 0sa, Fp oxeiam ga foliis rams: eg herbaceo, spathia diphyllis unifloris. LicHER: Genera Plantarum, p. | eee ES. Wrtsenia Maura. TuunsbeRG. SpatHis geminatis, perigonii - limbo connivente, laciniis ‘iba externis dorso hirsutis. CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, WITSENIA. PERIGON of the consistence of a corolla, superior or semi-superior, tubular, the limp six-cleft, the divisions equal, spreading or connivent. STAMENs three, inserted in the throat of the perigon; the filaments very short and filiform, the anthers dart-shaped, fixed by their base. Ovary inferior or semi- inferior, obsoletely three-angled, three-celled. OvuLes several, ar- ranged in double rows along the central angle. Styxe filiform, longer than the corolla. SricMma three-toothed or very shortly three-cleft. CapsuLe cartilaginous, three-angled, three-celled, three-valved. SEEps several, angled. DESCRIPTION OF THE Species, WITSENIA MAURA. SHRUB, from two to five feet high, the stem divided. Leaves clasping the stem, distichous, ensate, pointed, striate, glaucous, numerous on the upper part of the stem, six inches or more in length. SprKe terminal, shorter than the leaves. SpaTHE one-flowered, almost sessile in the axil of a lanceolate keeled bractea; each spathe consists of two valyes about an inch and a half long, bifid at the top and inclosed at the base in three or four spathiform imbricate bracts, of which the outer ones are very short and the inner ones about half the ae of the spathe. Coroxta from two to two and a half inches i in length, cylindrical, club-shaped; the tube green, smooth, slightly dilated towards the top, where it is darkly coloured; the limb yellow, conni- vent, the outer divisions lanceolate, blunt, thick, and downy outside, the inner ones rather shorter and smooth, and greenish, with the ex- ception of a short, round, yellow tuft at the top. Frvaments short; anthers included in the corolla, sagittate, rather longer than the fila- ments. Ovary adherent throughout the greater part of its length, free at the top. PopuLar AND GeocrapuicaL Notice. The Witsenias, remark- able among Cape Iridacee by their shrubby growth, attracted early the attention of botanical collectors in that rich and interesting country, and the three species hitherto known being found at no great distance from the capital, in the mountains to the eastward, they have long since found their way into our gardens, although the species here figured has always remained scarce, especially in flower. The peculiar foliage points out at once their analogy to the herbaceous Iridacez, with which they agree perfectly in the structure of the flower, thus showing that the very natural character of this extensive Order is not impaired by so great a difference in the texture and duration of the stem. G. B. INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTURE. This handsome plant was first introduced by Mr. Masson, in the year 1790, but appears not to have flowered until 1815, when Mr. Bellenden Ker gave a detailed description of it in the first volume of the Botanical Register. We are indebted to the kindness of the Messrs Rollisson, of Tooting, for the opportunity of figuring this interesting plant, in whose nursery it was wn in the month of April. Hitherto it has not frequently flowered, a circumstancce, perhaps, attributable to its being grown under too regular a stimulus. A season of rest, accompanied by the privation of moisture to a considerable degree, would probably induce a regular flowering. It grows freely in sandy peat, mixed with a little loam, and may be kept in a cool greenhouse, or even in a cold frame with =r protection from frost. VATION OF THE Nam — in — oF a Dutch ‘patron of Botany of the ‘name we wie , Mau ni ~ a esa Wirsenta Maura. Thiunberg’s Dis sertations Nova Genera, p, 34. Redoute Liliacées, t, 245. Botanical Register, vol. 1, t.5 IOP Withers: ste, CA ye. , $x OCPOOCEEES Pes be. baad... > 0 SP fin. - * é { f YW ; — eae Ww Werte. ve. CLEMATIS CARU'LEA. VIOLET-COLOURED CLEMATIS. EXOGENR, OR _ DICOTYLEDONE&. Natural division to which ES i ‘ this Plant belongs. a Artificial divisions POLYANDRIA. to which becaRooiEe this Plant belongs. POLYGYNIA, s. No. 126, OF LINNEU: GENUS. Ciematis. Linnzus. Invorvcrum nullum aut calyciforme sub ET a aut sepalis viora, SIDES pire: stipite proprio destitute, in caudam sx zpius barbato- plum osam produc Hers fruticesve us scandentes, foliis oppositis sepius ree dict axillaribus vel eeseaiatias, unifloris pluriflorisve. DEcANDoLLE: Systema, v. 1, p. 131. PECIE CLEMATIS CZRULEA, SreBoLD. CavLeE scandente, foliis ter- natim pinnatimve sects, segmentis pestis ovato- lanes, acu utis basi par tug cto anguste Torey isibei sett iis igh coularegts tants: fe OF THE GENUS, CLEMATIS. INVOLUCRE none, or calyx-like under the flower. Sepaxs four or eight, coloured, valvate, or folded inwards longitudinally in the bud. PrvTaxs none, or much shorter than the sepals. Fruit consisting of several caryopsides, without any partial stalks, and ending in a tail which is = feathered or bearded. DEscRIPTION OF THE Species, CLEMATIS CHRULEA. STEM slender, climbing, slightly hairy. Leaves opposite, with long foot- stalks, ternately or pinnately divided, with three to five opposite seg- ments, each segment borne on a long partial footstalk, ovate or ovate- lanceolate, pointed; entire but wavy on the margin, contracted or wedge-shaped at the base, of a bright green, very shining underneath, " with short hairs scattered on the under surface and arranged along the yeins on the upper side; the foot-stalks are also more or less hairy. PepuncLes long, one-flowered, without any bracts or inyolucre, spreading, green, with a few hairs, especially under the flower. FLoweR, in the variety here figured, near seven inches in diameter. SEPALS spreading, usually eight in 5 ares narrow manne somewhat keel-shaped, waved onthe margin der point, narrowed at the base, of a ditieats lilac eéloitr and perfectly smooth above, hairy and greenish on the under side along the centre, where are three somewhat prominent veins; where the number of sepals is * fewer than eight some of them are broader or sometimes bifid, showing that they are formed by the union of two. STaMENS very numerous, scarcely above one-fourth the length of the sepals, with purple linear anthers. StTyLes very numerous, the yellow stigmas slightly out- topping the stamens. — Poputar anp GeoerapHicaL Notice. Of all the novelties intro- duced from Japan, by Dr. Siebold, and already several times alluded to in the present work, the subject of this plate is perhaps one of the loveliest. A hardy, slender, free-growing climber is always valuable, and is rendered doubly so when it bears a number of flowers of a most delicate blue, and nearly seven inches in diameter. In respect to size it appears, however, to be variable; the dimensions here given were taken from a specimen exhibited at the Horticultural Society’s Rooms by the Messrs. Rollisson, whilst the one figured in the Botanical Register had flowers not much above half the size, and with only six sepals, amongst which, however, two being much broader, and split at the apex, showed their double nature. In all cases this species is, at any rate, the largest flowering in a very numerous genus. Some species of Clematis are to be met with in almost every climate and country without the arctic regions, and although they may generally be said to prefer temperate and moderately warm regions, yet there are several species even within the tropics. The North American and European ones are well known amongst our old established hardy climbers. The dried specimens of East Indian species show that there are among them many which would be preferable, but Dr. Siebold’s importation evidently proves that Japan is the country where they are in the greatest beauty. G - IntRopucTion; WHERE Grown; Cunrure. Introduced in the year 1836, from Holland, where this species had been raised by Dr. Siebold. The Clematis cxerulea has been so much in demand, that it is even now to be found in but few collections of nurserymen. Our drawing was made at Messrs. Rollisson’s of Tooting, who, it is believed, were among the first to import it, and have propagated it to as great an extent as they were enabled to do. It is perfectly hardy, having borne, without injury, in the open ground, the severe winter of 1837-8. It flowers in May and June. DERIVATION OF T M Criematis, a Greek name of Dioscorides. Steals “Gee Syn CLEMATIS CHRULEA. Botanical Resiittie% £1988, Distinguished in the gardens as the yariety of Grandiflora. f*F COLE PPAR OC tft a. Nevitt. scaly. - A Withears: diel JACQUINIA MACROCAR’ PA, LARGE CAPSULED JACQUINIA. EXOGEN &, DICOTYLEDONE A. z if Natural division to which \\e this Plant belongs. NATURAL ORDER, MYRSINACEA. COROLLIFLORA, SiO are divisions PENTANDRIA, OF (in) to which MONOGYNIA, DECANDOLLE. ee Plant a | OF LINNEUS, GENUS. Jacqutnia. Livnzus. Catyx gre beeen persistens, Coroita lis hypogyna, monopetala, sae wqualis. Stamina quinque, laciniis co- rollz opposita, supra basim tubi inserta, ee dieteadtas bas a oa loom sterilia orubsiia alterna, ad basim lacin niarum N- THERZ basifixe, biloculares, extrorsum (okeitiinalites dehineenes. ean uniloculare, ovulis numerosis peltatis placente centrali libere affixis. Sryxvs brevis. Sriema indivisum, capitatum. Bacca Osea polysperma. Semtna depresso-plani sechareg Lee bilo faciali. Empryo in albumine cor- neo hilo parallelus, rectus v vatus. ARBORES ‘a frutices Americe trepice. Forza alterna, itn coriacea. Fores in racemis terminalibus SPECIES. ee ce sata eeatatene. Fortis oblongo vel Hic anth 7 toh 1}. ahs anceolato CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, JAcquinia. Catyx fiye-cleft, per- sistent. CoroLia hypogynous, monopetalous, five-cleft, equal. StTa- MENS five, opposite the divisions of the corolla, inserted in the tube above its base; the filaments free but dilated at the base; five sterile petaloid filaments alternating with them and placed at the base of the divisions of the corolla. ANTuers fixed at their base, opening out- wards by longitudinal fissures. Ovary one-celled, with many peltate ovules affixed to a thick fleshy placenta. Sty.e short. Stigma un- divided, capitate. Berry almost leathery, several-seeded. SEEDS depressed and rather flat, obovate, with a large hilum on one face. Emepryo straight or a little curved, parallel to the hilum, in a horny albumen. DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, JACQUINIA MACROCARPA. SHRUB or little tree of eight or ten feet high, with a reddish bark. Leaves alternate or scattered, crowded at the tops of the branches, oblong or lanceolate, or somewhat wedge-shaped, two or three inches long, with a sharp pungent point, quite entire and thickened on the margins, narrowed at the base into a very short petiole, coriaceous, and ob- scurely marked with very minute pellucid dots. FLOowerrs in short racemes at the ends of the branches, each one borne on a pedicel rather longer than the calyx. Catyx very short, the divisions rounded and obliquely overlapping each other by their membranous margins. Coroita of a rich orange; the tube about twice the length of the calyx; the limb of five oval convex and reyolutely spreading divisions, between which are placed the sterile petaloid stamens, having the appearance of five inner and smaller divisions of the corolla. Sra- MENS slightly projecting from the tube; the anthers ovate, heart- shaped at the base; the connectivum projecting above the cells into a short blunt point. Ovary terminating gradually in a style rather shorter than itself. Stigma small, simple. Fruit a kind of berry, about nine or ten lines in diameter, with a thick leathery rind, which becomes almost woody in drying, of an orange colour, with a few dark brown seeds about three lines long, lying upon a large fleshy placenta. Poputar AND GeoarapuicaL Notice. This genus appears to be confined to tropical America, and especially to the West Indies and Spanish Main, for it is probably owing to a garden mistake that the present species has been said to have been also brought from the Sandwich Islands. It is curious that so remarkable a mistake should have been made by so many authors in describing the ovarium as one-ovulated, and the fruit as monospermous, which induced them to place it in Sapotaceve instead of Myrsinacez, although Brown, in his Prodromus, had long since indicated its true structure and affinities. There are but few species, the most remarkable of which, the Jac- quinia armillaris, is known in the French islands by the name of Bracelet wood, it being the custom of the inhabitants to string its shining brown and yellow seeds into bracelets. The flowers of some species have a very sweet smell. G B. INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CutTureE. A stove plant, long since introduced into continental collections, from whence it probably found its way into ours, although it is said to have been received into the Kew collection through Mr. Menzies, from the Sandwich Islands. Our drawing was made from the specimen at the Kew Garden. Cut- tings of this interesting shrub may be struck under glass, in clean white sand, with bottom heat. Soil, peat and loam. DERIVATION OF THE Nam Jacoutnia, named by Linneus after et celebrated palesas botanist, the elder Jacquin. Macrocarpa, large-frui ON JACQUINIA ig a Cayanilles, [cones Med v. 5, p. 55, t Jacquinia AvRANTIACA, Hortus Kewensis, 2nd Edit. y. 2, p. 6. etiioal Wig zine, t. 1639. Navitt. comip, OXYU’RA CHRYSANTHEMOLDES. ~ CHRYSANTHEMUM-LIKE OXYURA. _ EXOGENZR, DICOTYLEDONEA, gprs eatery this Pie tebsg. NATURAL ORDER, COMPOSITA, { Artificial divisions YW: semeeneeas to which - opti this Plant belongs. oF LIN No. GENUS. Oxvura. Decawpotte. ieee. se multiflorum radiatum, ligulis decem ad duodecim uniserialibus femineis, flosculis disci tubulosis quin mire dentatis hisexualibus, centralibus plurimis abortivis. Invorucri squame u seriales, basi rigide ciliate convolute et achenia radii omnino rovoleeheeat * superne in appendicem foliaceam producte. RecEpraccium totum serpin, CALYCIFLORA, OF * DECANDOLLE. disci rami in appendicem hispidam acutissimam producti. AcH#NIa omnia. obcompressa obovato-oblonga gerne calva, centralia ae ‘ dbortiva: Decaw- pote: Prodromus, v. 5, p. 6 SPECIES. Oxyura curysantHEeMorpEs. Decanpotte. HeErsa annua, caule tereti giabro, fo}ils alternis ciliatis pinnatihdis integrisve, capitulis hirsutos terminantibus, bracteis paucis ciliatis. ramulo Pp nu CHARACTER OF THE Genus, Oxyura. Heap of many flowers, radiate, the ligule from ten to twelve, female, and arranged in one row, the florets of the disk tubular, five-toothed, bisexual, several in the centre sterile. InvoLucre of a single | row of squame, stiff, ciliate, conyolute, and inclosing the achenia 6f the ray at the base, produced above into a foliaceous appendage. _ ReceprTacte entirely covered with membranous palez placed between the florets. FLORETS of the ray downy at the base, coarsely toothed at the end; those of the disk compressed, pubescent up to the teeth. Antuers becoming black. Branches of the Styte of the disk, terminated in a very sharp hispid appendage. ACH#NIA all ubcompressed, obovate-oblong, glabrous, without any pappus, the central ones often abortive. DeEscriPTION OF THE Species, OxyuRA CHRYSANTHEMOIDES. Srem annual, a foot to a foot and half high, decumbent at the base; smooth, branching, and ascending or erect, and slightly pubescent at the top. Leaves alternate, stem-clasping, lanceolate, some of them quite entire, others more or less deeply pinnatifid, usually ciliate on the margins, and slightly scabrous or pubescent on the upper surface. PrpuNcues terminating the branches, from two to three inches above the last leaf, pubescent. Heap OF FLOWERS solitary, about the size of the corn marigold. Ivvotvcre hemispherical, the ‘leaflets shorter than the ray, very hispid on the lower part which encircles the seed, and terminating in a lanceolate, rather blunt, foliaceous, and scabrous appendage. FLorRets of the ray yellow, . wedge-shaped, ending in three unequal lobes almost white; ose of the disk yellow, with black anthers. AcH#NIA obcom- roth of a shining black, without any trace of a pappus; those of the ray as well as the central ones sometimes, but not always, abortive. Poputar AND GeoGrapHicaL Notice. This, the only species of the genus, belongs to a small group of Composite, called Madiez, all natives of California, or the adjoining north-west coast, one species only being also found in Chili. Though widely differing in many particulars of importance, their genera are connected together by a certain resemblance in appearance, and by the circumstance that the outer achenia, always without a pappus, are enveloped in the leaflets of the involucrum. As no very high importance is usually attached to this character, Professor De Candolle observes, in a note to his Pro- dromus, that these genera ought strictly to be divided amongst other tribes of Senecionidex, and that Oxyura in particular, should, with - Madia, be referred to Heliopsidex, but that in natural as well as in civil ordinances the strictest justice is often the greatest wrong. The same remark may be, in the case of this and several other Senecioni- dex, applied to the style, the modifications of which are now con- sidered by many as absolute characters of the different great divisions of Composite; and yet we have here, as near as words can express it, exactly the style of Vernoniacex, with which no one would think of uniting Oxyura. G. B. INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTURE. This is one of the numerous hardy ornamental plants introduced by the Horticultural Society, through their Jate indefatigable collector, Mr. Douglas. It is an annual of early growth and pleasing appearance, when raised in masses, though certainly not more handsome than many of our own neglected annuals, which, however properly rejected from our corn- fields, would be great ornaments to our garden if carefully sown in large masses. Our drawing was made in the Horticultural Society’s Garden. It requires but the care demanded 2 annuals generally. DERIVATION oF THE Nam Oxyura, o£ve sharp, and ovpa a tail, in allusion to the sharp appendages, as they are called, to the branches of the style, although in fact these — constitute the whole of the branches, CarysantHEeMmorpes, chrysanthe like. YNONYMES OxyURA CHRYSANTHEMOIDES, De Candolle: Prodromus, v. 5, p. 693, Botani- cal ister, t. 1850. ; = VERBE'NA CHAMADRIFO'LIA. VERONICA-LEAVED VERBENA. EXOGEN&, DICOTYLEDONES. Natural division to which this Plant belongs. NATURAL ORDER, VERBENACEZ, COROLLIFLORA, > ee divisions } +e) DIDYNAMIA, OF to which ANGIOSPERMIA, DECANDOLLE. ie Plant belongs. OF LINNEUWs, GENUS. Versena. Lrnnzus. Caryx i quadri-quinque-dentatus. Corotta tubo cylindrico recto vel incurvo, limbo quinquefido patente inzequali. Sramina quatuor, tubo inclusa, didynama. Ovarivm quadriloculare, ovulis solitariis erectis basifixis. Fructus siccus, drupaceus, quadrilocularis, quadri- partibilis. Empryonts exalbuminosi pre — Hers suffruticesve, in variis regionibus diffusi. Fortra oppos axillares vel terminales. simplices'vel. paniculato-ramosz, forties, aie as bracteatis. PECIES, Versena coaMzprRironia. Jussieu. Procumbens vel adscen- dens, piloso-hispida, foliis breviter petiolatis hae. lanseolatis grosse serratis, corymbis pedunculatis multifloris, bracteis brevibus subulato-lanceolatis, ca- lycibus tubulosis hispidis, corolle tubo calyce duplo longiore, laciniis cuneatis emarginato-bifidis. CHARACTER OF THE Genus, VERBENA. Caryx tubular, with four or five short teeth. Corotxa with a cylindrical tube, straight or curved; the limb be oak unequally five-cleft. STamENs four, lee in the tube, didynamous. Ovary four-celled; the ovules solitary, erect, fixed by their base to the bottom of the ‘cell. Fruit a dry drupe, with four one-seeded cells, and separable into four parts. Emsryo without albumen, and with the radicle inferior. DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, VERBENA CHAMEDRIFOLIA. STEM procumbent, sometimes trailing along the ground and rooting at the joints, sometimes ascending but never upright, covered with short rough spreading or reflexed hairs, Leaves borne on very short stalks, ob- long-lanceolate, pointed, bordered with coarse irregular teeth, rounde or more frequently wedge-shaped at the base; one to two inches long, rough, somewhat hairy and green on both sides. FLOWER-SPIKE borne on a long hispid peduncle which is at first terminal but becomes late- ral by the elongation of the stem, contracted into a sort of corymb. Fiowenrs sessile in the axilla of a short pointed bractea; the lower ones often opposite, the upper ones alternate. CaLyx narrow, tubular, about five lines long, angular, hairy, terminating in five minute teeth, rather swollen at the base as the fruit ripens. Corowza with a yel- lowish green tube about twice the length of the calyx; the limb — of a rich scarlet in the ordinary yurety. a brilliant crimson show - in the present one, divided into five wedge-shaped emarginate lobes, of which the two upper are rather shorter PoputarR AND GeocrapHicaL Notice. The extensive genus Verbena, found in almost every temperate or warm region of th globe, is particularly abundant in America, from whence are derived also all those species which have any pretension to ornament. The Ver- veins in the old world are, indeed, only known as common, unsightly, roadside weeds, whilst their brethren from South America are now one of the greatest attractions of our flower gardens in summer and autumn. Amongst them the Chamedrifolia and Tweediana with their numerous varieties and hybrids are the most conspicuous, especially the crim- son variety here figured, to which the name ordiana has been given, on account of its having been raised at Elford, as stated below. Some growers appear to consider it as a distinct species, but a com- parison mh the numerous apeten ce ee ans Chamsdrifola shows tha but col a specific character. faa somewhat ate oe less trailing growth is to be met with in many individuals of the original Chameedrifolia, and, indeed, it is the gardener alone and not the botanist that can separate them as marked varieties. Even Tweediana, admitted as a species by botanists, comes so near, also, to eneaaeden in some of its numerous forms, that it is sometimes difficult to draw a positive line between them. This is, however, of little er to the gardener, whose main object is to produce variety in appearance, and in this point of view the subject of this article is a new and valuable acquisition. G. B. aca. WHERE GROWN; CuLTuRE. Both the varieties here figured, were raised in the garden of the Hon. Col. Howard, of exe: Staffordshire, from seeds brought from Monte Video by the Hon. Edward Upton, in 1837. We have been favoured with a plant of each by Mr. Buck, the intelligent gardener at Elford. That which we have called Elfordiana has the most brilliant crimson flowers we have met with; and Mr. Buck says is a more abundant flowerer than either of the lately introduced species. The colour of the flowers of the second seedling given in our plate, is clearer unmixed scarlet than the original chameedrifolia, and its foliage much brighter and more abundant. Both these beautiful varieties are possessed by the Messrs. Pope, of the Handsworth Nursery. They require but the usual treat- ment of the allied ue DeErIvaTIOn oF THE Nam Verena, from the wiyipenttion “Wnt our commo ey might be the Verbena or sacred plant of the ancients. CHam#prRIFOLtA, with leaves like those of the Veronica Chamedrys NONYMES. VERBENA CHAMEADRIFOLIA. Jussieu: Annales du Museum, v.7,p.73. British Flower Garden, 2nd Ser. t.9, Botanical Magazine, t. : VerBeNA Meinpres, Gillies: Botanical Register, t. 1184. Af Withers viet Shove chetozem wfelen y —_ ; Nevett, scalp. f10°VEA CHOROZEMAFO'LIA. fob lenten oc peo HOVEA. EXOGENZ. DICQOTYLEDONE&, Natural division to which this Plant belongs. NATURAL ORDER, LEGUMINO S&. CALYCIFLOR.E, { Artificial divisions MONADELPHIA. OF to which Ge acer DECANDOLLE. this Plant belongs, No. 130. GENUS. Hovea. R. Brown. bilal 1 lato ret vel semibifido inferiogs minore tripartito. Vexin.um explanatun. AL& 0 long vexillo breviores, carina obtusa longiores. Stamina omnia convexa vl decimo plus minusve libero, vagina antice vel utrinque fissa. ANTHER altern ovate medifixe, alterne oblonge adnate. Ovarium bi- vél tri- idebeal u u M fratceste A “Aadteiinated Fouta teeta ani licti Fiores axillares purpurei au SPEIES. Hovea cnorozemezroia. Decanpotiz. Forts ovatis oblon- gisve sinuato-spinosis mucronatis coriaceis glabris, stipulis acerosis, calycibus villosis, leguminibus subsessilibus glabri CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, Hovea. Catyx two-lipped, the upper lip broad, retuse, or semibifid; the lower much smaller and three-cleft.. STANDARD spreading. Wines oblong, shorter than the standard, longer than the blunt keel. Stamens all united, or the tenth more or less free; the tube split in front, or front and back. ANTHERS alternately oval and versatile, oblong and adnate. Ovary with two or three ovules. StTy.e ascending, filiform, smooth. Strema blunt, naked. Pop roundish, oblique, swollen. Sreps with a strophiola. DESCRIPTION OF THE Species, HOVEA CHOROZEMEFOLIA, STEM shrubby, erect or ascending, the younger branches hairy. Leaves alternate, nearly sessile, varying from oval to oblong, or even Janceo- late, stiff and leathery, with a thickened sinuate margin, more or less irregularly bordered with short prickles; occasionally, however, very nearly entire, smooth on both sides. FLowers borne on short axillary pedicels, sometimes two or three only in each axil, often as many as six or eight, forming a very short raceme, StT1puLes, Bracts, and BracTEOL# from one to two lines long, smooth and pungent. CaLyx hairy, incurved, the upper lip very broad and truncate, slightly emar- ginate, the outer corners projecting horizontally into a short point; lower divisions narrow, pointed, rather shorter than the upper lip. Coroita blue. STameENS usually completely diadelphous. Ovary perfectly smooth. Pop sessile, or nearly so; broader than it is long, and very oblique, perfectly smooth. Poputar anp Geocrapuicat Notice. The geographical range of the genus Hovea will shortly be stated under Hovea pungens. This species is one upon which Sweet, in the Flora Australasica, established a genus which he called Plagiolobium; distinguishing it from Hovea by the tenth stamen being entirely free from the others, as well as by the shorter and more oblique pod; but the former of these characters is very uncertain in several species of Hovea, and the obli- quity of the pod is more or less observable in all; and if this plant be compared with Hovea Celsi and some others, it will be readily acknow- ledged that there is nothing in the habit to distinguish it generically. Sweet added, in a note, a second species, which he called Ilicifolia, a name frequently given in our gardens to Hovea chorozemefolia, but we have never seen either cultivated or wild specimens having the hairy pod mentioned by Sweet, and we presume, therefore, that unless the pod and leaf seen by him were mismatched, this Plagiolobium ilicifolium is not frequent about King George’s Sound. The specimens named Hovea ilicifolia by Mr. Cunningham, are all referable to the present species. InTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTuRE. The Hovea choro- zemefolia was first raised from seeds, collected by Mr. Bagster at King George’s Sound, and flowered in 1827. It has since been trans- mitted by others, and is not uncommon in our collections. It is of great beauty when well flowered; indeed, the spiny-toothed glabrous foliage of this shrub makes it ornamental, independently of its blossoms. Our drawing was made in March, from a plant belonging to G. Glenney, Esq. of Worton Lodge. Although this plant succeeds best near the glass in an open part of the greenhouse, full exposure to summer showers does it injury. Its soil should be sandy peat and loam. Cuttings strike root slowly in sand; the best plants are raised from seeds : DERIVATION OF THE NAMES. Hovea, in honour of Anthony Pantaleone Hove, collector for the Kew Gardens, who introduced various Persian and Crimean plants. CuorozEM#rFronia, with leaves like those of the Chorozema ilicifolia. SyNoONYME Hovea ce emer et DE&CANDOLLE: ANE Oe 2, p. 116. Botanical Register, t. 1524. eben CHOROZEM4FOLIUM. Sweet: Flora Australasica, t. 2. 9 f J , Ae, i rf rave ae by lees ‘ Med tuendhasizecen serbpwasesse : Newitt, seatlp 7 - HELIAN’THEMUM FORMO’SUM. ~ BEAUTIFUL HELIANTHEMUM, EXOGENR, oR DICOTYLEDONE&. eee ae - Natural division ) to which /y ee ae LY this Plant belongs. NATURAL ORDER, CISTACEA, POLYANDRIA. THatamirior”, (3¥@) Artificial divisions OF [ED to which MONOGYNIA, DECANDOLLE. RE this Plant belongs. OF LINNEUS. No. 131. ‘ _ GENUS. aires eB SEpara beret fe tribus interioribus equalibus tria subqeua ETALA quinque, rarius pau- ea vel nulla, caducissima, estivati Stamina indefinita. Ovarium triquetrum, pluriovulat tum, oe parietalibus. wetigeee nune See nunc elongatus, rectus, obliquus, v: vel basi flexus. Sric apitatu PSULA trivalyis, unilocularis vel subtrilocularis,. Semina angus, slab albumine farinoso, embryone variis modis curvato, vel circumflex ECIE S. HELiANTHEMUM FoRMOsuM. Duwaz. CAvLE fruticoso, ramis tomentoso-villosis- chacicitbiattallte subpetiolatis obovato-lanceolatis tomen- toso-villosis, junioribus incanis, pedunculis eae villosis, calycibus ‘a! sepalis. Dunaz in De Candolle Prodromus, y CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, fe ieinatio. SEPALS five, the three interior equal, the two outer very small, or only three, equal. Pe- TALS five, rarely fewer or none, very deciduous, imbricate in wstivation. STAMENS indefinite. Ovary three-angled, with many ovules attached to parietal placente. SvyLe sometimes nearly none, sometimes elongated, straight, oblique or bent at the base. Sricma capitate. Carsute three-valved, one-celled or nearly three-celled. Srxrps an- gular, smooth, with a farinaceous albumen, and the embryo curled or rolled up in various modes. DESCRIPTION OF THE Species, HELIANTHEMUM FORMOSUM. Surus erect, much branched, the branches clothed with a whitish down, and long hairs intermixed, the older ones, especially in cultiva- tion, green and less downy. STIpuLEs none. FLowers in irregular cymose racemes at the end of the branches, forming together a kind of panicle.. PEDUNCLES one to two inches long, one, two, or three flowered, with the same kind of down as the rest of the plant, but with more of the long hairs, and bearing at each ramification a pair of small deciduous leaf-like bracts. Catyx of three ovate concave se- pals, membranous and smooth on the side where they are overlapped by the adjoining one, covered on the back with long soft white hairs, and short black stiff ones. CoROLLA nearly as large as in Cistus sal- vifolius, yellow, each petal broadly obcordate and marked near the se with a large purple spot. Stamens all fertile, very unequal in length. Stiema very large, globular, and nearly sessile. Ovary one-celled, containing many ovules attached to three parietal placen- tee which extend into the cavity of the ovary, so as nearly to divide it into three cells. Poputar anp GeocrapuicaL Notice. The beautiful group of Cistacez, is nearly confined to Europe and the neighbourhood of the Mediterranean, with a few North American species and one or two South American. The old genus Cistus, of Linneus, comprehended all the European and some of the American kinds, and was of itself so natural and distinct a one that it would have been hardly necessary to divide it at all; however, as the species increased, and as two differ- ent looking groups were observed, to which botanical characters were readily assigned, the small-flowered low-growing kinds were separated from the large gum Cistus under the name of Helianthemum, a genus now universally adopted. The-group was worked up with great care in the Prodromus of De Candolle, by a very accurate botanist who lived, as it were, in the midst of them; and by establishing subgenera or sections, all the purposes of scientific analysis were fully answered without interfering farther with the nomenclature. It is only to be regretted that the species were so much multiplied, and still more so in Sweet’s monograph, since published. But a much greater calamity has lately been inflicted on the genus by a modern French writer, who unable in this, as in other cases, further to extend the multiplication of species, has most unnecessarily multiplied the genera, and made so sweeping a junction of species as to reduce the 124 of the Prodromus to 27 only, a process which adds little to the scientific reputation of its author, and nothing but confusion to the synonymy of the group. INTRODUCTION; WHERE GRowN; CuLTuRE. Long since introdu- ced from Portugal; it is rather a tender species, requiring a warm rocky situation, well drained, and some slight protection in winter. With these precautions it will grow about four feet high, and become an object of great beauty. The figure was taken in July from a plant in the Birmingham Horticultural Society’s garden, where, as Mr. Cameron informs us, it bears full exposure in mild winters. hence OF THE 2 sla ,as ys ,sonamed from the flower expanding in the sun, Poaoene'G beautiful: SynonyMes. Cistus Formosus. Curtis: Botanical Magazin ne. t. 264. HELIANTHEMUM ForMOsuM. Dunal: in De Candolle, Prodromus, v. 1, p- 268, Sweet: Cistinew, t. 50. cof lores « Gite «a reel berton walla fe ERICA ANDROMEDAFLORA. ANDROMEDA-FLOWERED HEATH. EXOGENA;, DICOTYLEDONEA- mets f Natural division }\Vy- W to which this plant belongs. NATURAL ORDER, ERICACE, CALYCIFLORE f sor eae divisions OCTANDRIA, OF i o whic MONOGYNIA DECANDOLLE. this Plant belongs. No. 132. GENUS. Erica. Linnzus. Caryx equalis, profunde quadrifidus vel sepius quadripartitus. CoROLLA tubulosa, hypocrateriformis, urceolata, c ola ta. ie ise ves libe THE cela: ales eh 1: 43 £1 +3 ] sh Ad anhnl + vel mutice. Ovartum quadriloculare vel rarius veda, loculis plari. ovulatis, Stigma capitatum vel rarius dilatato-peltatum, integrum vel quadri- fidu Capsvta quadrilocularis, rarius sececeape ee loculicide dehiscens. Semrna in loculis plurima, placentis axilibus. Froetices Europei vel maxim parte Austro-Africani. Fora ve cs rarius sparsa. Prprcexu uniflori, axillares vel terminales, bi-tri-bracte SPECIES. Erica anDROMEDAFLORA. ANDREWS, Forts ternis subincur- vopatentibus eae acutissimis salon: puberulis, floribus ad apices ramulo- rum brevissimorum vel in axillis superioribus solitariis ad ternis, secus ramos subracemosis, bracteis remotis pa rvis, sepalis ovatis sublanceolatisve apice car- inatis coloratis, corolla ovato-urceolata rome longiore, limbo glabro subpa- tente, antheris cristatis, ovario sessili glabro CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, a Cayx deeply four-cleft, or more frequently divided into fou distinct sepals of equal size. Cor OLLA tubular, salver-shaped, pitcher-shaped, bell-shaped or étobited® with a short four-cleft limb, which is erect, recurved, rolled back or spreading. Stamens eight, rarely six or seven, inserted under a hy- pogynous disk, which is frequently glandular. FiLaments free or slightly monadelphous. ANTHERS terminal or lateral, with or with- out two subulate or crest-shaped appendages at the insertion of the filaments. Ovary four-celled, rarely eight-celled, each cell with many ovules. Sry te filiform. Stigma capitate or sometimes broad and peltate, entire or four-lobed. CapsuLe four-celled, rer eight- vei A ge through the middle of the cells into as many valves. SEE umerous in each cell, attached to central placente. DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, ERICA ANDROMEDEFLORA. STEM erect, branching, growing in its native country to the height of about three feet. Leaves three in a whorl, loosely erect or spreading, some- what incurved, linear, stiff and very sharp in general, but almost blunt in the variety here figured, flat above, convex, with a longitudinal fur- row underneath, smooth in the present specimen, but more frequently more or less hairy or downy. Ftowers solitary, in twos or in threes either at the end of the branches, or on extremely short abortive axil- lary branches, so as to appear lateral. PrepicELs about three lines long, bearing about the middle, or lower down, three small lanceolate coloured bracts; the lateral pedicels have also frequently at their base several smaller bracts or abortive leaves. SEpaxs or divisions of the calyx distinct from each other, broadly lanceolate or ovate, somewhat pointed, smooth, membranous or almost petaloid, coloured with a longitudinal rib, they are usually about two lines long. CoroLta from three to five lines long in the different varieties, half as long again as the calyx, oval pitcher-shaped, the tube inflated, the mouth slightly contracted, the divisions of the limb short, blunt, somewhat spreading or recurved. STAMENS and Pistit in the corolla. Fita- MENTS flattened. ANTHERS oblong, black, with two appendages at the base, usually broad and cristate, but in the present variety narrow and nearly entire. Ovary smooth. Popuntar aND GeocrRapHicaL Notice. The original Erica an- dromedzflora appears not to be uncommon in the mountains of Hot- tentots Holland; but the present variety, differing in its blunter and smoother leaves, and in the appendages of the anthers, is possibly the result of hybridization between Erica andromedeflora and another species; but as the former, even in a wild state, is very variable in the size and colour of the flowers, in the foliage, and even in the staminal appendages, it appears safer to class the present one as a mere variety. The species was referred by Mr. Don to his genus Eurystegia, and in the forthcoming volume of De Candolle’s Prodro- mus, is placed in a section for which that name is retained, though with different characters. Like the other species of the same section, it connects in some measure the heaths with a flat spreading limb which constitute the sub-genus Stellanthe, with the large group of small flowered heaths. It is also somewhat anomalous in its inflores- cence, having both terminal and lateral flowers. G. B. INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTuRE. The Erica andro- medeflora was sent home, long since, both by Mr. Masson and by Mr. Niven, and has ever since remained in our gardens, where it is better known in the shape of a pale flowered variety, under the name of Erica pomifera. The accompanying plate was taken from a seedling raised, amongst numerous others, by Mr. T. Williams, in the garden of John ox Esq. of Oldford, from Cape seeds. VATION OF THE Nam ene from a supposition ge the Erica of the aittoate was a Heath. AnpDRO- ED£FLoRA, Andromeda. flowered. ERIcA ANDROMEDFLQRA. Andrews’s Heather, t. 151. Botanical Magazine, t. 1250. Loddiges’ Botanical Cabinet, t. Erica moLosericEa. Salisbury: rnsactons of the Linnwan Society, v. 6, p- 352. Erica POMIFERA of our Garden: PHALANOPSIS AMAB'LIS. ~ PHALAZNOPSIS AMABILIS. ENDOGEN, oR Tay é Natural division to which { this Plant belongs. NATURAL ORDER, ORCHIDACE. i er Artificial divisions i $e to which enix? pce ak | this Plant belongs. No. 133. GENUS. Puarznopsis. Buiume. EFAIRONT explanati patentis foliola exteriora libera, equalia, interiora multo Lasettum colum pedi parum producto continuum, liberum, basi valle sum, vores lobis lateralibus recurvato-adscendentibus, intermedio angustiore bicirrhos CoLtuMNna t ' \ \ \ i\ GYNANDRIA, MONANDRIA, OF LINNEUS, tinta duo, subglobosa, caudicula plana spathulata, glandula maxima cor- data. Enpiicner: Genera ea ae p. 3 PECIES. Puaatz#nopsis aManitis. Bryume. Herpa moluccana epiphyta, caulibus simplicibus radicantibus, ‘site rigidis abana apice oblique retusis, floribus racemosis plnicelatls isve magnis a CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, PHALENOPSIS. PERIGON flatly ex- panded, the outer divisions free, equal to each other, the two inner ones much larger. - LABELLUM continuous with the slightly produced base of the column, free, with a protuberance at the base, three lobed, the lateral lobes curved upwards, the middle one narrower, with two awns. COLUMN reclining towards the ovarium, semi-cylindrical, with a sword-shaped rostellum. ANTHER two-celled. POLLEN MASSES two, nearly globular, the caudicula flat and spathulate, the gland very large and heart-shaped. DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, PHALENOPSIS AMABILIS. EPI- PHYTE, clinging to and turning round the stems of trees by means of numerous thick white intricate roots. Stem very short and simple. Leaves without pseudo-bulbs, but thick and stiff, half a foot to a foot and a half in length, broadly oblong lanceolate, usually obliquely truncate or retuse at the top, with a strong midrib underneath, and thickened at the base. FLOWER STALKS two or three feet long, some- what flexuose, with a few small bractee placed at considerable inter- vals, bearing at the end a large loose raceme of from eight to twelve flowers, which in the cultivated specimen is simple, but in a wild state is said to be frequently branched into a panicle. PEDICELS one to two inches long, bent upwards above the middle, each at the axilla of 33 a small bractea. FLowers full three inches in diameter, white, and of a thick, almost leathery consistence; the outer divisions tinged with a yellowish green, the inner ones very broad; the labellum veined and tinged with purple and yellow; the middle divisions ending in two curious long twisted awns, PorutarR AND GeoarapuicaL Notice. This splendid epiphyte is a native of the islands of the Indian Archipelago, where it was first found by Rumphius ascending the Mangos of the Island of Amboyna, and other short thick-stemmed mossy trees, thichly matting them with its numerous roots and tufted stems, from whence hung the long ample panicles. Osbeck, Blume, and Horsfield, afterwards gathered it on various points of the wooded coast of Java, and Cuming in the Phillipine Islands. It is, as far as is hitherto known, the only species of a genus placed by Lindley and other botanists in the tribe of Vander. It would appear, though, from Rumphius, that there is a second species or very marked variety with the flowers purple outside. It is known in the country, according to Rumphius, by the names of white or male Angrec; the Dutch settlers calling it the Flying Dove, not an unapt simile. INTRODUCTION; WHERE Grown; CuLturs. The specimen from which the accompanying drawing was taken, the only one which has hitherto flowered in this country, and perhaps the only one which we possess, was received from Mr. Cuming, from Manilla, by Messrs. Rol- linson of Tooting, and flowered for the first time in the spring of 1838. This year it produced two long racemes, and was exhibited at the May show of the Horticultural Society, where it was admired as one of the finest objects at the most remarkable exhibition the Society had yet had, and received the gold Knightian medal, the highest reward offered for that description of plants. It seems to require only the usual culture of orchidaceous plants, one principal attendant of which, it should be remembered, is a hot moist atmosphere. DERIVATION oF THE NAMEs. Puarznorsis from ¢aXawa, PHALAINA, a moth, and oyxuc, opsis, resemblance ; the flower having been compared to some curious lepidopterous insect, AmaBitts. lovely. SyNONYMES. — AMABILE, Linneus: spun Plantarum, p. 135 &£CUM ALBUM Masus. Rumphius: Herbarium Amboinense, v. 6, p. 99, t ine magnate. Blume: Bijdragen, p. 294, t. 44. Tisdiy, Botanica Registe: . 34. Bennett: in Horsfield’s Plante Javanicw Rariores Mev att, vowlp. / \q ix \ Js rae Pog Pyar Ke MP Withers. tei. - SCOT'TIA DENTATA. BROAD-LEAVED SCOTTIA. oe DICOTYLEDONE A. en foi Fe { this, wate ass ' NATURAL ORDER, LEGUMINOSA, spb Ea MONADELPHIA, aay this Plant Delonge OF LINN No, 134. ac bag ORK Oe Shadspoisk. GENUS. Scortia. Brown. Catyx tubuloso-campanulatus, late quinque dentatus, dentibus Sai parum ee Tibus. Vexittum orbiculatum, complicatum, emargi n stipitem angustatum, exappendiculatum; alis brevius. Artz oblonge. Cents oblonga, recta, alis aba _— — dorso convexis. Stamina monadelpha, tubo postice fisso. HE conformes oblonge. Ovarium glabrum, stipitatum, pluri- erilaien pa aa vaginato. Sryxuvs filiformis, stigmate parvo terminale. LeaumeEn stipitatum, compressum, polyspermum, margine utroque incrassato. Semuna strophiolata. SPECIES, Scorria pentata, Brown. Frvtex foliis oppositis simpli. cibus ovato-triangularibus eroso- denticulatis, floribus axillaribus solita breviter pedicellatis, bracteolis sub calyce duabus, inequalibus imbricato- inantibus : CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, ScoTTia. CaLyx tubular-bell-shaped, with five broad teeth, the upper ones rather larger. STANDARD orbicular, folded, emarginate, narrowed into a short claw, without appendages, shorter than the wings. Wines oblong. Keet oblong, straight, of the length of the wings; the petals joined together by the outer edge at the top. STAMENS monadelphous, the tube split on the upper side. ANnrTHERS oblong, all alike. Ovary smooth, stalked, with several ovules; the stalk enclosed at the base in a short sheath. Styte filiform, with a short terminal stigma. Pop stalked, com- pressed, thickened on both edges, with several strophiolate seeds. DESCRIPTION OF THE Species, Scottia DentraTa. A somewhat straggling shrub, of about two feet high, with slender branches, the younger ones somewhat rough with small glandular tubercles, in other respects the whole plant is smooth. Leaves borne on very short stalks, opposite, simple, ovate-triangular, blunt, bordered with short irregular glandular teeth, somewhat leathery, reticulate, the midrib strongly marked underneath. Sripuxes short, broad, pointed, per- ee oe Bert ann one-flowered, very short, downy. lyx, unequal, very broadly rounded, = _ imbricate, coriaceous, striated; the outer one, short and half embracing the pedicel; the inner one, twice as long, and folded round so as com- pletely to sheath the base of the calyx. Catyx three lines long, green. Coro.za red, the standard projecting two lines beyond the calyx, the other petals full three lines longer. Poputar anp GeocrapnicaL Notice. The Scottia dentata, the only species of the genus, is a native of the South Coast of Australia, where it was discovered by Mr. Brown, during Captain Flinder’s expedition. We are unacquainted with the exact locality, but it does not appear to have any extensive range, as it occurs but in few col- lections. It is a remarkable genus amongst Genistex, from the form of the corolla, and the sheath round the base of the ovary, in both which characters it bears a resemblance on the one hand to Brachy- sema, amongst Podalyriee, and on the other, to various Phaseolez. The stamina and foliage leave, however, no doubt that its nearest affinities are with Genisteew, and amongst these with the genera Platy- Jobium and Lalage; it has the sheathing bracteole and opposite simple leayes in common with both, differing from them chiefly in the form of the corolla and calyx. It is an ornamental plant, but perhaps less so than many other Australian papilionaceous plants, the flowers being too much concealed by the foliage. G INTRODUCTION; WHERE Grown; CoLTurE. This plant is said to have been first introduced to the garden of Kew by Mr. Peter Good, in the year 1803, but it has ever since been a scarce plant in our greenhouses. There is a fine specimen in the Horticultural Society’s collection, which flowers abundantly under the usual treat- ment of South Australian plants. Our drawing was made from a fine specimen in the nursery of the Messrs. Knight, of Chelsea. This is one of those Greenhouse plants which soon becomes sickly on being. placed out of doors during summer, therefore must be kept in the greenhouse all the year. It is most successfully increased by layers, but may be struck also from cuttings, in sand under a hand-glass. Soil—sandy peat and loam. DertvaTIoN oF THE NaMEs. Scorttia, in honour of Dr. Robert Scott circ Professor of Botany at Dublin. Dentata, toothed, in allusion to the le NYME. pageant DENTATA, a Hortus Kewensis, v. 4, p. 269, De Candolle: Pro- dromus, v, 2, p. é * t 3 - 3 \ i te ae , Nant scubp. y bo Ag MO Wittens. el. +. Foret Py Ame geek. = ‘ a ae ; | ; ACA’CIA RICEA'NA. MR. SPRING. RICE’S ACACIA. OR DICOTYLEDONEZ, Natural division to which this Plant a} NATURAL ORDER, _ Artificial divisions t ich | this rae: belongs. | a 2° cite No, 135, GENUS. Acacia. Necker. Fuores polygami. Catryx 4-5-dentatus. Perata 4-5 nunc libers. nune in corollam 4-5-fidam coalita.s Stamina numero varia 10-200. LecumeEn continuum exsuccum bivalve. Decanpoxtre: Prodr mus, Pars. 2, p. 448 SPECIES. Acacta riceana. Phyllodiis sparsis tereti-compressis lineari- bus mucronato-pungentibus, spicis axillaribus solitariis laxis cylindraceis, floribus 3-4 fidis, ovariis pubescentibus. CALYCIFLORE, OF DECANDOLLFE. CHARACTER OF THE Genus, Acacia. FLowers polygamous. Catyx 4-5-toothed. Prrats 4-5, sometimes free, sometimes united into a 4-5-cleft corolla. StTaMENS varying in number from 20 to LEGUMEN continuous (not lomentaceous) dry, two-valved. Description OF THE Species, Acacta Riceana. A sHRvs, from — three to four feet high, with somewhat of a furze-like aspect; the branches rather elongated, becoming very slightly deflexed. LEaves (phyllodia) alternate, horizontal, about one inch long, articulate, linear-subulate, slightly succulent, but compressed, rigid, and mucro- nato-pungent, of a dark green, with the surface covered with minute white dots, one-veined in the middle, but having also another vein on each edge, and occasionally a trace of one between the mid-vein and d The pungent apex of a dark brown. FLowenrs in axillary and solitary spikes, on short contracted branches, but as each of these latter bear from one to four spikes, these appear to be more or less crowded in the middle of a tuft of leaves, seated in the axils of those leaves where the contracted branches are developed. PrpUNCLES yellow, nearly one inch long, bearing from five to fifteen scattered or occasionally sub-verticillate flowers, with a small ferruginous bract at the base of each. The flowers are polygamous, of a pale citron colour. CaLyX monosepalous, campanulate, three- rarely four-lobed, the lobes obtuse, shortly ciliate. Coroxta tri-petalous, (rarely | quadri-petalous), the petals twice as long as the calyx, and alternate with its segments, ovate, revolute, one-nerved. STAMENS very nume- ~ rous, longer than the petals, scarcely perigynous, and nearly free. ANTHERS two-lobed, sub-globose. Ovary free, ellipsoidal, villous. Sty e glabrous, filiform, longer than the stamens, very little curved - 4 “Se at the apex. Sriema truncate. The young = is slender and villous. J. S. Hensiow. Porunar aNp Geograpuicat Notice. In so numerousa genus as Acacia, it is often very difficult to identify particular species. Mr, Bentham has kindly undertaken to compare the present plant with those in his own herbarium, and has infaii us that he pos- sesses dried specimens of it, collected by Mr. Gunn in Van Dieman’s Land, numbered but not named. It evidently belongs to De Can- dolle’s third Section, “Spicate; floribus nempe in spicis SHS dispositas. Stipule in oteatbul nulle aut minime t agrees in general habit and some particulars with A. verticillat, but differs considerably from that species in having its leaves scattered, and the parts of the perianth less numerous. The leaves are formed more like those of oxycedrus, but are probably more succulent. INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLtTure. The present specimen was raised in the Cambridge Botanic Garden, from seed sent from Van Dieman’s Land to the Right Hon. T. Spring Rice, the Chan- cellor of the Exchequer, after whom the species has been named, as a trifling mark of respect for the ready condescension with which, when Secretary to the Colonies, he professed himself anxious to further the interes of Botany in any way which his position in the t enable him by facilitating the transmission of seeds or living Ss from any of our Colonies. The scientific world are greatly indebted to him on several occasions, and among others, for his application to the Lords of the Treasury for a grant in aid of the publication of Mr. Darwin’s work, entitled the “Zoology of the Beagle’s Voyage,” and also of Dr. Smith’s work on the New Animals discovered by him in South Africa. These two works, in all probability, would never have appeared excepting for the liberal and timely assistance thus procured for them, and most certainly the public could not have purchased them at the reasonable prices at which they are now pub- en if they had been undertaken at the personal risk of their authors From the same packet of seeds from which this plant was raised other Acacias have been obtained, but have not yet flowered. They have all ae same general aspect, and their leaves are precisely similar, but they are labelled, respectively, “Willow-leaved Gum Mimosa,” wOséke r Mimosa,” “Broad-leaved Mimosa,” “ Willow- e leaved Whattle Mimosa.” The present plant may be considered equally ornamental with its congeners, and has the advantage over most of them in the earlier expansion of its lowers, which appear in March. It requires only the ordinary treatment of a sttoreneend plant. DERIVATION OF THE Nam Acacta, probably from axafw, axazo, to point or Benth: the stipules of many ing thorny. Riceana, after the Right Hon. T. Spring Rice, as mentioned Seal £. so apni diviedsaler Aili: S Mirren. old. ‘PIMELE’A DECUSSA’TA, DIOSMA.LEAVED PIMELEA. EXOGENZ. OR DICOTYLEDONE A, Natural division to which this Plant belongs Variety: diosmeefolia. MONOCH oe By Artificial divisions DIANDRIA, to which MONOGYNIA DEPeRDOLAE. this Plant belongs. \ ik OF LINNEUS. * s No. 136, : NUS. plone ac sala Perianthium re apd toon ee a fauce esquamata. Sra ere, fauci inserta, laciniis exterioribus Strrxuvs lateralis, Seti sa ae * UX corticata, raro senate mate Prodromus Flore Nove Hollandiz, p PECIES. Primerea pecussata. Invotucro tetraphyllo, foliis rameis dissimile, foliolis late ovatis, semicoloratis, utrinque glabris; capit r- minale; perianthii tubo hispido; foliis decussatis, ovalibus coriaceis. R. Brown. VARIET PIMELEA DECUSSATA DIOSM#FOLIA. Fottouis involucri ee acutis, lanato- cilintis; capitulum subzequantibus ; cptanii ta saturaté roseis. CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, PimELEA. PERIANTH Pai a is its limb 4-cleft, and throat without scales. STAMENs two, inserted in the throat, and opposite to the two outer lacinie, Srye lateral. Stiema capitate. NuvT generally leathery externally, rarely suc- culent. DESCRIPTION OF PIMELEA DECUSSATA, VARIETY, DIOSMEFOLIA, — Survs, erect, three feet high. Branches lax and spreading. LEAvEs oblong, coriaceous, opposite, decussating, reflexed, mucronulate, dark green above, glaucous below. CapiTuLuM crowded, terminal, rather small. Invoxucre of four ovate acute subcoloured leaves, which are glabrous on both sides, but ciliated on the edges; scarcely shorter than the capitulum. Pertanta bright rose-coloured, hispid on the outside, hairs very long on the lower half of the tube, and on the out- side the limb, shorter and sub-appressed on the upper half of the tube. STameENs inserted into the throat of the perianth, scarcely half the length of the limb. Styne much exserted, lateral. Stigma capitate. GERMEN oblong, glabrous, green. PopuLar aND GEoGrapnicaL Notice. This very pretty plant was received at the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, from Mr. Makoy, of Liege, under the name of Pimelea diosmeefolia, but I am convinced it is only a variety of Pimelea decussata, distinguished by its darker rose-coloured flowers, its more ciliated involucrum, and its dense, small, more crowded capitula: it is, however, enumerated as a species in the first additional supplement of Loudon’s admirable catalogue, and figured as such in the Botanical Cabinet. It very nearly resem- bles Pimelea Hendersonii, distinguishable chiefly by its smaller capi- tula, and its less acute foliage, and, I fear, is a link by which this will also be united to Pimelea decussata, which is known to be a variable species. The form now described is very handsome, very worthy of cultivation, and readily distinguishable. The genus Pimelea, as far as yet known, is confined almost exclusively to New Holland and Van Dieman’s Land, a few species only being natives of New Zea- land. The species are generally pretty, some very handsome, and have become such favourites in cultivation, that although in 1810, when the second edition of Hortus Kewensis was published, only one species was mentioned, there are now twenty-five species enumerated in Loudon’s Hortus Britannicus, exclusive of the Pimelea Hendersonii, and the form which has given rise to these remarks. I have no infor- mation as to the native country of this, but have no doubt of its being New Holland, and the species of which I consider it a variety was found by Mr. Brown on the southern coast. INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTURE. It was introduced to this country in the year 1837, from Liege, as above stated. The drawing was made from a plant which flowered in the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, in June last. It should be known to cultivators that the Pimeleas do not generally admit of being subjected to full expo- sure throughout the summer months, without injury. They flourish most completely during the warm season by being kept in a pit or frame, where the sashes can be put over them in rainy weather and hot sunshine. The present species may be increased by cuttings, planted in sand, under glass. It should be potted in rough sandy peat, in which it will flower most abundantly. Grau. a OF THE NaMEs. Pimexea from tyedn PIMELE, fat, on what account is not obvious, unless the fresh fruit of some species scala fatty matter. Decussata, from the Latin, signifying crosswise; used in allusion to the leaves, which are arranged in pairs, = t alternately cross each other. Diosma#rozia, haying leaves like a Dio ; SyNnonyMeE. PimELEA DIOsMZFoutA. Bot. Cab. 1708. get fal ie” : de tes Dentth wraady. Milde, shed . Wrlvarmered att “ye Ce a ; e = . a ALSTR@ME’ RIA ACUTIFO' LIA-AURE‘A. HYBRID ALSTR@MERIA. ENDOGEN#, OR MONOCOTYLEDONEA. . Natural division to which this Plant belongs. NATURAL ORDER, AMARYLLIDACEZ. EPIGYNOSH, e i Artificial divisions HEXANDRIA, OF to which MONOGYNIA, LINDLEY. | this Plant belongs. OF LINNEUS. No, 137. GENUS. Atstremerm. Livvzvs. Pertconium “eorollinda superum, sexpartitum, site cherie m, regulare Bs subbilabiatum, foliola interiora angustiora, duo bebaloa. ive A sex, imo perigonil Hiserta: fila- menta erecta ra declix nat , erecte. Ovartum inferu i- -loculare. Ovuza in loculis plurima, pA saihaba anatropa. Srvyvvs filifor- nis, directione per itee stigma trifidum, lobis replicatis. Capsuxa oblonga, vel globosa, tri-sexcostata, triloculares, loculicido-trivalvis vel rarius baccata indehiscens. Srmrna in loculis plura, subglobosa, horizontalia, testa membra- nacea, rugosa, rhaphe immersa umbilicum basilarem chalazz apicali tubereuli- formi jungente. Emsryo axilis, albumine carnoso dimidio brevier, extremitate iculari umbilicum attingente. Hersz in America tropica et Australi extratropica indigene; radicibns tuberoso- faspiesitatié, caule foliosa ese priciteedi vel volubili, floribus terminalibus umbellatis. Enpziicwzr: Gen Plantarum, p. 180. ID. ALSTR@MERIA ACUTIFOLIA-AUREA. Cav LE volubili, ramoso anguloso. Fo.t1s subsessilibus, resupinatis, glancescentibus, lanceolato.acutis. © FLorisus = inalibus, inflorescentiad umbellatis. PERicon1o subcampanu- lato, aurantiaco. acl OF THE GENUS, ALSTR@MERIA. PERIGON resem- bling a corolla, superior, sexpartite, subcampanulate, regular or slightly two-lipped. The interior folioles narrower, two of them sub- tubular at the base. Stamens six, inserted at the base of the peri- gon; filaments erect, or declining; anthers oval, erect. OVARY inferior, three-celled. Ovuxes in each cell numerous, horizontal, anatropous. Stye filiform, following the direction of the stamens; stigma trifid, lobes curved. CapsuLe oblong or globose, three- or six- ribbed, three-celled, becoming three-valved by a loculicidal dehis- cence, or very rarely berried and indehiscent. Seeps in the cells numerous, subglobose, horizontal, testa membranaceous, rough; the raphe sunk, joining by the tubercular point of the chalaza, the basilar umbilicus. Emsryo in the axis, shorter by a half than the fleshy albumen, reaching by its radical extremity to the umbilicus. REFERENCE TO THE Dissections. 1, View of the Pistillam. 2, Th surr — folioles of the interior otros oe the perigon. outer whorl. 3, One of the spathulate- 4, we se oa narrewer folioles of the = ee Sant ena ee ee eee Brey. DESCRIPTION OF THE Hyprip, ALSTRGMERIA ACUTIFOLIA-AUREA. STeM twining, smooth, branched, rather slender, but more robust than that of Alstreemeria acutifolia; less so than the erect stem of Alstree- meria aurea. LEAVES scattered, nearly sessile, resupinate, owing to a twist of the base, lanceolately-acute, slightly denticulate at the lower part, of a glaucous colour, nerves very perceptible on the upper (naturally the under) surface; less so on the under (upper) surface. INFLORESCENCE umbellate, umbel simple; several leaf-like bracts among the pedicels, which are: numerous and slightly pubescent. PERIGONE subcampanulate, of six folioles somewhat unequal, the three exterior shorter, of a reddish orange-colour externally, rounded, or only bluntly pointed at the apex; the three interior narrower at the base, but spreading out, and notched at the margin, acuminate from a strong central line being prolonged. Stamens six; filaments at first erect, afterwards slightly deflected. ANTHERS purple, two-celled, Ovary turbinate, pubescent, obscurely ribbed, three-celled. STyLE erect. Stiema three-parted, segments recurved. PopuLtar AnD GeocrapuicaL Notice. The genus Alstremeria contains species chiefly natives of tropical America, and of the southern extra tropical part of that continent; one of the parents of our hybrid, Alstreemeria aurea, being found as far south as the 44°— viz. in the island of Chiloe; the other, Acutifolia, being a native of Mexico. The characters approach most nearly to those of Alstroemeria aurea, from which the pollen was obtained. INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTuRE. This hybrid was raised by the Messrs. Pope of the Handsworth Nursery, near Bir- mingham, These intelligent cultivators are of opinion that it would flower freely, planted out against a south wall, Of this there can be little doubt, since Aurea grows with us in the open ground, in a sandy compost, as freely as the White Lily, and increases more abundantly. Acutifolia, too, we have seen growing and flowering luxuriantly out doors, but it is more slow of increase. Mr, Herbert observes, “ The greater part of these beautiful plants are natives of elevated situations and dislike a high temperament, and will endure the winter if planted pretty deep in a light soil, and covered over with leaves in the cold season.” DERIVATION oF THE NAMES. A after Alstroemer, dish t li t, I t de thi genus . PS i known to Linneus, ACUTIFOLIA-AUREA, @ term pounded of tk the two parents. es nt f Sacllewem: A tae a feterie. = 4 Nariel TRILLIUM RHOMBOI'DEUM. § RHOMBOIDAL TRILLIUM. 2 ENDOGEN&, oR MONOCOTYLEDONEA. Natural division to which this Plant belongs, NATURAL ORDER, SMILACE, RTA fi Aly fit HH ANI if Wa Wi ss AN HE SPADICOSE, Artificial divisions HEXANDRIA, OF to which TRYGINIA, LINDLEY, this Plant belongs. OF LINNEUS. No. 138. Tri ILLIUM. MILLER. Fores s hermaphroditi. PERIGONIUM hex- a majora petaloidea. Sramrna sex, perigonii foliolis basi inserta; gee te filiformia a connectivo ultra anthere Stlatak lineares margi acumen brev. e producto. Ovarium triloculare. vurta plurima, Sieorteth, adscendentia, anatropa. Styxi tres, eine vel rarissime basi connati, patentes, recurvi; stigmata obsoleta. cea trilocularis. Semrina plurim i ote retica é summis Indiz jugis rarissime; caule simplicissimo foliis icillatis, sessili- bus, ovatis, nervosis, flore terminali solitario, inter foli ia ae vel pedicillato, pedicello nudo. Ewpzicwer: Genera Plantarum, p. 153. PECIES. Tritttum RHOMBOIDEUM. Micuavx. Fortis late-rhomboideis; stags inclinato; perigonii laciniis ‘iene longitudine subaequ ee ectis; exterioribus ovali amaticiatin: interioribus plus minus ovalibus: caine nigrican CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, TRILLIUM. FLOWERS hermaphro- dite. Pericon of six leaves, spreading or reflexed, persistent; three of the leaflets external, resembling a calyx, three internal, larger and petaloid. STameEns six, inserted on the base of the leaves of the peri- gon; filaments filiform, free, the connectivum prolonged beyond the” linear marginal cells of the anthers, and terminating in a short point. Ovary three-celled. OvuLEs numerous, in two rows, ascending, anatropous. STYLES three, distinct or very rarely united at the base, spreading, recurved; stigmata obsolete. Brrry three-celled. Sreps numerous, obovately-subglobose, horizontal, testa coriaceous, brown- ish, umbilicus basilar, united by means of the filiform rhaphe with the chalaza at the summit. Emspryo very smal], inclosed in a very solid fleshy albumen near the umbilicus, the radicle centripetal. DESCRIPTION OF THE Species, TRILLIUM RHOMBOIDEUM. STEM perennial, tuberous, sending up annually an herbaceous, simple, smooth cylindrical stalk, having at the base a single ovate, acute scale, and at the summit three verticillate, broad-rhomboidal acumi-_ nate leaves, which have three strongly marked primary nerves, and some more faintly marked lateral ones; the upper surface light green. FLower solitary, pedicel smooth, cylindrical, slender, somewhat in- clined. PERiGoN of six nearly equal leaves, spreading; the three external, narrow, lanceolate, acute, bright green on the outer, of a dingy — — on the inner surface: the three internal, broader, lal, acuminate, ofa dark purple colour, with three strongly marked veins, and several fainter lateral ones. Sva- MENS six, filaments slender, anthers linear, yellow, connectivum api- culate. Sty ies three, distinct, recurved. Ovary three-celled, seeds numerous. Berry sub-globose, becoming blackish when ripe. PopuLtarR anpD GeocGRapHicaL Notice. This species, usually regarded only as a variety of the Trillium erectum of Linneus, is found on the high mountains of Carolina, North America. Our attention has been directed to it,in consequence of the uniform development of the various parts of which it is composed. It has three leaves, and a three- celled berry, six anthers, and a six-parted perigon, composed of three inner and three outer divisions—answering toa three-parted calyx and corolla. This has reminded us of certain investigations into the con- nexion between the number and arrangement of the stamens of the flower, and the number and arrangement of the bundles of wood which are observable in the stem, soon after it emerges from the germinating seed, and which would seem to determine the order of many of the exter- nal organs of the plant, even the number of the veins or divisions of the leaves, in some instances, and the position of the stamens, whether in =? single or a double row. It is to the latest discoveries in vegetable physiology that we are indebted for a knowledge of these beautiful arrangements in the structure of every plant that grows. However mean a place the weed of the road bank may occupy in the estimation of man, it partakes of the same wise laws of number, order, and harmony, which regulate alike the formation of all the works of creation. The Trillium erectum has been examined by Schultz, (Die Natur der lebendigen Pflanze, II, p. 24,) but we have been unable to see his observations. What has been ascertained respecting some other plants is embodied in a paper from which are borrowed the following passages. “At the base of the stem of the Vicia faba (common garden bean) when a transverse section is made and exam- ined with a microscope of moderate power, may be found ten bundles of what is termed woody fibre, surrounding some very delicate spiral vessels. When the flower is carefully examined, the calyx or cup is observed to consist of five leaves, partially united, the corolla also consists of five leaves, while the stamens amount to ten; but the pistil, which when ripe forms the pod, consists of only one leaf, by the sup- pression of the four requisite to complete the normal number. Such also is the case with the pea (Pisum sativum), and the lentil (Ervum lens). The primrose has five bundles near the base of the stem; in it the stamens are five, while the pistil, originating in five leaves, ultimately becomes a one-celled capsule. These are all exogenous plants, which conform to the rule predominating in that type of organization. The Tropzolum majus (Nasturtium, or Indian-cress) departs from it by having eight stamens, yet at the base of its stem eight bundles of woody fibre exist. So again, the Salvia sclarea (Herb-clary) has only two tae and the number of bundles near the base does not exceed tw The ne number of endogenous plants shew a like pape: dence; not that the figures absolutely agree, but that they have datitiite ratio, One of the most remarkable of endogenous plants in respect of the numerical relations of the flower, is the Paris quadri- folia (Herb Paris), which has eight stamens, four styles, and on the stem four leaves; the number of bundles of fibres is twelve, in two distinct rows, the inner of four, and the outer of eight. It would appear as if the outer circle constituted the rudiments of the eight stamens, while the inner one furnished the type of the four styles. Nor is this the only point worthy of notice, as the stem possesses a sort of quadran- gular form n the number of bundles of wood is based the mathematical prin- ciple which displays itself in the numerical proportion and relations of all parts of the plant, more particularly in the number of leaves on the stem, which constitutes a spire or helix, and also of the number of — parts which will be found to constitute the various whorls of the flower. Nothing is more interesting than, from the mere examination of the position of the leaves on the stem, and ascertaining (beginning with the lowest, and reckoning upwards in a spiral direction, till one leaf be found placed perpendicularly over the leaf where the notation com- menced,) the number of leaves embraced in this spiral ascent, to determine what will be the number of parts constituting the whorls of the calyx, corolla, and stamens of the flower, long before it makes its appearance, and unfolds these various organs. The converse of the proposition also holds, since it is as practicable, by inspecting any given flower, to determine what number of leaves formed a spire on each stem or branch of the plant which produced it; so exactly, in most cases, are they found to tally, Nor is this all; for where a num-. ber of flowers are crowded together, it can be proved that each flower consists of the extreme leaves, brought into close approximation, of the termination of a branch, and each branch so placed that the entire bunch of flowers is subject to the same laws of arrangement as if they had been remote from each other, arranged on an elongated, instead of a contracted axis. What is termed by botanists inflores- cence, is only the arrangement of the coloured leaves, called flowers, which do not deviate in their order, position, or succession, from those of the other branches or the common green leaves on the stem. This, when carefully looked for, may be clearly seen in the leaves of the horse-chesnut (Asculus hippocastanum), and in each little cluster of flowers, which form the whole bunch, which are always seven to each group; and the particular or individual flowers have seven stamens, all of which is shadowed forth in the seven divisions of the leaves of that tree. Again, if the tall and handsome spike of flowers of the Lupinus poly- phyllus be examined, a spiral of the most perfect kind will be discovered in which the sixth flower in the order of ascent will be found placed perpendicular above the first of the series; thus, five form the spiral. , Each of the numerous flowers will also be found to possess a calyx of five leaves, a corolla of like number, with ten stamens. The more closely it is investigated, the more fully will it be found to confirm the opinion ‘of Grew, that “the arithmetic of nature always accords with its geometry.’ ’ INTRODUCTION; WHERE Grown; Cutture. It appears to have been introduced to this country, from North America, about the year 1759. Our drawing was made from a plant belonging to the Messrs. Pope of Handsworth. It succeeds best in a bed of peat, in a moist shady situation; producing its flower in April or May, at the summit of the stem, which is about half a foot in height. Contrary to the treatment which is required by many exotics, it is desirable that this species of Trillium should continue undisturbed for several years, when it will form a large plant, and produce abundance of flowers DERIVATION OF THE NAME Tritium, from TpduZ, trix, from the ee aren calyx. RHOMBOIDEUM, from the rhomboidal shape of the leave Y¥ME TRILLIUM RHOMBOIDEUM. Micha — Boreali Americana, v. 1, p. 215. Sprengel: Species Plantaru Tr dare ERECTUM, Linneus: ieee Hee as Edit. 2nd, v. 1, p. 484. 5 i A s : A ve r2tgee, bs dake ” : ee Gpkramgey , SIPHOCAM’PYLUS BICO’LOR. TWO.COLOURED SIPHOCAMPYLUS. EXOGENE, OR DICOTYLEDONEX. Na wee ied "cata this moa a NATURAL ORDER, LOBELIACE. Artificial divisions PENTANDRIA to which MONOGYNTA, this Plant a OF LINNEUS. GENUS. Sresocampritus. Pont. Catyx tubo obconico seme = hemispherico, cum ovario connato,limbo libero quinquefido. Cor calycis tubo inserta tubulosa, tubo integro, limbi quinquefidi bilabiati. laciniis po, yel duabus ee parum longioribus Stamina quingue, filamenta et anther con Ovarium ret breviter exsertum biloculare. qu be : CALYCIFLORZ OF DECANDOLLE. Audemars SipHocampeyius Bicotor. Dov. Glaberrimus foliis lanceolatis serratis basi angustatis, floribus axillaribus nutantibus pedunculis medio spencer tie folio brevioribus CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, SIPHOCAMPYLUS. CaLYx with an obconical, top-shaped, or hemispherical tube adhering to the ovarium, the limb free and five-cleft. Corotta inserted into the top of the tube of the calyx, tubular, the tube entire, the limb five-cleft, two- lipped, the divisions nearly equal, or the two upper rather longer. STamMENS five, the filaments and anthers connate. Ovary slightly free at the top, bilocular. OvuLes many, attached to fleshy placenta, adhering lengthwise to.the dissepiment. Sryxe shorter than the stamens. Stigma rather exceeding them, with two orbicular divisions. CapsuLe two-celled, opening at the top, which is free, in two valves across the cells ESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, SIPHOCAMPYLUS BICOLOR. STEM somewhat shrubby at the base, two or three feet high, but little branched, resale aa and reddish. Leaves alternate, on short foot-stalks, narro oad lanceolate, two or three inches a ending in a long oat slightly toothed on the margin, perfectly smooth, often reddish underneath. Pepicexs solitary in the axille of the upper ae and about as long as them, quite smooth, and with two very all bracts. TusBE OF THE cALYx hemispherical, about two lines 5 and three and a half broad; the divisions of the limb, linear, lanceolate, and rather longer than the tube. Coro.za above an inch ~ long, red, with a yellowish tint at the top, the inside smooth, the tube entire at first, but afterwards often splitting longitudinally, the divisions of the limb oblong linear, rather shorter than the tube. STaMENs about the length of the corolla, closely connected into a tube, enclosing the style, with all the anthers bearded at the top. Poruar aNnp GeograruicaL Notice. The genus Siphocampylus was first separated from Lobelia by the late Dr. Pohl, of Vienna, who figured ten species in the elaborate work he commenced on the plants brought by him from Brazils. With the addition of a number of old Lobelias and several new ones since described, it is now said to con- sist of above sixty species, all readily distinguished from the other genera of the order, as well by the habit as by their botanical charac- ters. They are all natives of the warmer parts of America, from Mexico to South Brazil and Peru, and but few are found without the tropics. The subject of this article is a native of Mexico, and, accord- ing to Mr. Don, also of Georgia in the United States; and, coming from the northern limits of the range of the genus, will probably be found less tender than the others, but it certainly does not appear to approach in beauty to some of the Brazilian ones. The above description is taken from specimens cultivated in the Garden of the Horticultural Society, and also from wild specimens transmitted by Mr. Hartweg, the Society’s collector in Mexico. The figures quoted below differ slightly in their broader leaves and hairy peduncles. INTRODUCTION; WHERE GRowN; CuLtTuRE. Said to have been first raised by Messrs. Low & Co. in 1837, from seeds collected in Georgia, by Mr. Alexander Gordon, probably from the hottest parts of that state. Our drawing was made in the Birmingham Horticultural Society’s garden, in April. Mr. Cameron, the indefatigable curator of that establishment, informs us that it may be kept in flower during the whole year by being treated as a stove plant during winter and a greenhouse plant in summer. Soil—a sandy loam. DERIVATION OF THE Names. SipHocampytves, from cupwy sipHON, a tube, and kaprvdoc KAMPULOS, ate a mode of compounding contrary to the otdinary alan, according to which it should have been CampyLosipnon, RGR two-coloured Synony er ele BicoLtor. David Don, in sinive British Flower Garden, 2nd t. 389. Floral Cabinet, t. 69. 4 AA sy LR O'S ey /, aa pile Lever folic 4 # r MAXILLA’RIA TENUIFO'LIA, NARROW. LEAVED MAXILLARIA, ENDOGENZE. OR MONOCOTYLEDONE®, — { - Nat ce “aga } ( - whie’ é this Piast Sa NATURAL ORDER, ORCHIDACEA. GYNANDROSH, Artificial divisions YNANDRIA, OF to which pe DRIA, LINDLEY. this Plant belongs. OF LINNEUSs, No. 140. a Maxin Ruiz et Pavon. Pexrriconir patentis vel con- niventis foliola ical seteeidtinc cum basi producta columnz in saccum connata; interiora subconformia. LasBELtuM cum i oo age T articulatum, sessile, trilobum, cucullatum. CoLtumNna apte THERA Facomplete bilocularis, opercularis. Possini. jak; bipartibilia vel Sta. gr Hersz Americanetropice, epiphyte, pseudobulbose caulescentes, vel swpius acaules, foliis plicatis vel * coreaceis, Bane & radicalibus axillaribus vel terminalibus. EnpzicuEr: Genera Plantaru SPECIES. wae TENUIFOLIA. LinpLey. Caulescens, pseudo- bulbis ovato-oblongis compressis monophyllis scapis longioribus paca a acutis recurvis, pedunculis axillaribus solitariis basi squamatis, den dato are cernuis, sepalis ovato-lanceolatis margine rev CR as ee ualibus; contracto, callo disco oblongo integerrimo. CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, MaxiLLaria. PERIGON spreading or connivent, the outer lateral divisions connate with the produced base of the column into a kind of pouch, the inner ones nearly similar. LABELLUM articulate on the produced base of the column, sessile, three-lobed, hood-shaped. Co Lumn semicylindrical, without wings. ANTHER incompletely two-celled, in the form of a lid. POLLEN MASSES two, divisible into two or entire, fixed by short tails to the transverse gland. DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, MAaXILLARIA TENUIFOLIA. EpI- PHYTE producing leafy stems, and pseudo-bulbs of an oval-oblong compressed shape, each terminated in a single leaf. Leaves linear, pointed, keeled and folded at the base, often one to two feet long and three or four lines broad. PEpuNcLEs solitary, axillary or proceeding from the base of the pseudo-bulbs, less than an inch long, and)con- cealed by three or four brown membranous imbricate sheathing uame. Ovary two inches long, curved, slender, having the appearance of a peduncle, smooth. FLowers nodding. SEpats or outer divisions of the perigon broadly lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, nearly an inch long, almost pointed, the margins rolled back, striate, and yellowish outside, of a rich purple inside, marked, especially in the lower part, with yellow spots and blotches. Lareran Perazs or inner divisions similar to the sepals but smaller. Poucn or spur of the base of the flower very short and scarcely perceptible. LABELLUM attached to the base of the column by a moveable joint; rather longer than the sepals, oblong, broad, and channelled at the base, slightly contracted above the middle but not divided, the upper end bent back and blunt, nearly of the same colour as the sepals but with more yellow. CoLumMN shorter than the petals, arched, convex, and yellow on the back, flat and spotted in front. ANTHER-CASE purple. PopuLar aND GeoGcrapHicaL Notice. The genus Maxillaria is now become a very extensive one; the number of species enumerated by Dr. Lindley at the end of 1832 was forty, and has since been nearly doubled by the numerous collectors recently sent out in quest _ of epiphytes. The Maxillarias are all natives of the tropical parts of America, and most of them very showy and of easier growth than many other genera, so as to admit of their being brought into a drawing room, and being enjoyed without the oppressive atmosphere of an epiphyte house. InTRopucTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTURE. This species was one of the first gathered by Mr. Hartweg, collector to the Horticultural Society, after he had landed at Vera Cruz, and was one of many other quite new and showy plants he found in that neighbourhood, which one would have thought had been almost exhausted by the numerous botanists who had previously visited it, but such is the richness of that district that every fresh traveller finds something new to reward his - researches. The plant was propagated and distributed, as far as circumstances admitted, by the Society; and the individual from which our drawing was taken was in a flourishing condition in the stoves of Messrs. Rollisson of Tooting. It requires the usual treat- ment of Orchidaceous plants—a hot humid stove during its season of growth. DERIVATION OF THE NamMEs. Maxirarta, from the comparison of o moveable labellum to a jaw, in Latin > MAXILLA. TrEnvtro.ia, slender-leay Syn E. Maxrrraria TENvIFoutsA. Lindley: mikiidedl Register, in a Note to t, 1986, ert Withens. A SLalage orale. Pee és LA'LAGE ORNA'TA. CRIMSON LALAGE. EXOGENZ, DICOTYLEDONES: Natural division to which this plant belongs. NATURAL ORDER, LEGUMINOS/. Artificial divisions MONODELPHIA, to which DECANDRIA, this Plant belongs. OF LINNEUS. No. 141: CALYCIFLORE OF DECANDOLLE. NUS. Latace. Linpztey. Catyx quinquefidus, laciniis angustis sub- pie vel — altius connatis. Corou.z vexillum explanatum, orbi-— culatum, emargi m alis longius; ale oblonge, basi longe auriculate; carina © alis parum ane incurva es Stamina monadelpha, vagina postice fissa. ANTHER# omnes xquales ovales oblonge, medifixe. Vacrna disci nulla. Ovanium subsessile, greenhouse. DERIVATION LatacEe, named om: Dr. Lindley in festa oy a this celebrated by Horace. Ornata, adorned SyYNONYME. LatacE ornata. Lindley: Botanical Register, t. 1722, t Myfhelen faba lorer. STYPHE’LIA TUBIFLORA. ~ CRIMSON STYPHELIA, EXOGENZ, OR DICOTYLEDONER, Natural division to which Ser = this Plant belongs. NATURAL ORDER, EPACRIDACE, a ae era: J g PENTANDRIA, MONOGYNIA | this psi oe OF aan EUs. No. 142. GENUS. Srypuepia. Smwiry. Catyx = iimironsiiins. bracteolis quatuor vel pluribus. CoroLta hypogyne, elongato-tubulosa, tubo intus juxta basim villorum fasciculis quinque, cum limbi quinquefidi laciniis reyolutis barbatis alternantibus. Stamina quinque, medio corolle tubo inserta, longe exserta, fila- mentis filiformibus, antheris linearibus simplicibus incumbentibus. SquamuLa CALYCIFLORE oF DECANDOLLE. hypogyne quinque, distincte vel rarius co VARIUM quinqueloculare, loculis uniovulatis lo pendu Strtus simplex. Stigma obtusum, quin- quesulcatum subexsycca, putamine osseo solido quinquelocu ‘ ; ‘ ari. SE mina inyersa. Frutices Australasici, foliis approximato-alternis brevissime petiolatis mucronatis, floribus axillaribus speciosis, — unifloris rarius bi- tri- floris. Ewpiicner: Genera Plantarum, p. 746. SPECIES. ‘Srvrnera THB SFL.ORE: Smal _Founs lineari-obovatis mucro- natis supra Brown: Pro- dromus, p- 537. CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, STYPHELIA. CALYX five-cleft, with four or more bracteolz at the base. COROLLA hypogynous, tubular, the tube furnished inside towards the base with five bundles of hairs, which alternate with the five bearded revolute divisions of the limb. STaMENs five, inserted in the middle of the tube, projecting beyond it, the filaments filiform, the anthers linear, simple, incumbent. Hyro- GYNOUS SCALES five, distinct, or seldom connate. Ovary five-celled, with one pendulous ovule in each cell. Styie simple. Stigma obtuse, with five furrows. Drupe dry, of a solid bony consistence in the centre, five-celled. SEDs inverted. DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, STYPHELIA TUBIFLORA. SHRUB stiff, straggling, a good deal branched, the old stem smooth, the young branches often clothed with a short down. Leaves alter- nate, crowded, sessile, spreading, of a broad linear form tending to obovate, usually about half an inch long, stiff, entire, terminated by a rigid point or short spine, the margins turned downwards, the upper surface slightly rough, sometimes scarcely perceptibly so, the under marked with slight longitudinal veins. _ Flowers axillary, almost sessile, about an inch and quarter in length, turned downwards... BracTs six, the outer pair very minute, at the base of the very short peduncle; the next pair a little larger, placed at its apex; the inner pair about one third the length of the calyx, which they closely embrace. Catyx about four lines long, consisting of five distinct linear-lanceolate, concave, pointed, rigid sepals, of a yellowish green colour. Coro.ua crimson red, the tube about an inch long, slender at the base, broader towards the top, slightly curved, the divisions of the limb linear-lanceolate, pointed, rolled back, smooth outside, bearded inside; there are also a few hairs all down the inside of the tube as low as the bundle of hairs which are immediately above the ovary, below that the tube is smooth. Hypocynous scaLes half the length of the ovary, connate. Stamens projecting about four lines beyond the tube, though not so long as the flower before the divisions of the limb are rolled back. PopuLar anp GeoerapuicaL Notice. The Epacridacez, origi- nally classed in the same group with Heaths, of which they are the Australian representatives, were established as a distinct and very natural family by Brown. The same author arranged the numerous species into twenty-four genera with so much acumen, that notwith- standing the numerous additions made to the Order in the lapse of nearly thirty years, only two new forms have been found not referable to any of these genera. Of all these groups, the true Stypheliz and Epacrides are, perhaps, the only ones which can enter into competi- tion with the Cape Heaths as objects of cultivation, but of these two, many species have, of late years, contributed greatly to ornament our greenhouses in the winter months, and early in spring. The species now figured has been compared to the old Erica tubiflora, and when well grown is not inferior to it in beauty. Like the greater number of its congeners, it is a native of the South Eastern portion of Australia, dried specimens having been frequently transmitted from the neigh- bourhood of Port Jackson. INTRODUCTION; WHERE GRowNn; CuLTuRE. This plant has existed a good many years in our collections, although not very com- mon. As it is, however, of easy cultivation under the usual treatment of Epacridacee, it will probably become more frequent now that attention has been so generally called to that group. Drawn from 4 plant in the choice collection of G. Glenny, Esq. DERIVATION OF THE NAMES. StyPHe ct, from crugedoc, sturpHELOS, harsh, hard, or firm; expressive of the habit ofthe genus. Tupiriora, tube-shaped flowers.. NONY : StTyPHELIA TuBIFLORA, Smith: Botany of New Holland, p. 46, t. 14. Melos fe Oe ACE be ee cla ECHI'TES SUBERECTA. ~ SUBERECT ECHITES. EXOGENZR. OR DICOTYLEDONEZ, Natural division to which this Plant belongs, NATURAL ORDER, APOCINACEA, COROLLIFLORE } Artificial divisions PENTANDRIA, OF ; to which poe xg DECANDOLLE. ho Plant belongs, No. 143. ee LITES R. Brown. Catyx quinquepartitus. Cororra hypo- yna, hypocrate etrpied vel infundibuliformis, fauce tuboque esquamata, ligabi witea anes laciniis inequilateris. Stamina quinque corollz tubo vel fauci inserta, inclusa; anthere sagittate, medio stigmati cohzxrentes, appendi- cibus polling destitutis. Ovarta duo, ovulis ad suturam neutralem plurimis. s: ad umbilicum comosa, Frot ICES Bia Pe biles plerumque Jactescentes, in America et Asia tropica jureudbiibeds: foliis oppositis, ciliis in nonnullis sr cag Scag fae floribus ut plurimum speciosis, albis, luteis vel purpureis. Enpzicner: Gene aman 583. oblongis ate EL. SPECIES. Ecuires supEerecta. SPRE J4cau subtus pubescentibus, racemis multifloris, corolla extus ; hirsuta, CHARACTER OF THE GeENUs, EcuiTes. Calyx i aaa Corou1a hypogynous, salver- or funnel-shaped, the throat and tube devoid of scales, the segments of the five-parted limb inequilateral. STAMENS five, inserted either on the tube or throat of the corolla, in- which they are inclosed; anthers arrow-shaped, cohering to the middle of the stigma, the appendages devoid of pollen. numerous, attached to the ventral suture. StTyie one, filiform. Stigma five-cornered, conical at the apex. The fine hypogynous little scales free, or rarely connate. Fouiicies slender. SEEDS numerous, comose at the umbilicus. DESCRIPTION OF THE SpEciES, EcuiTes suBERECTA. A shrub, varying in height from three feet to ten; climbing, but scarcely twining; when tall, reclining or deflexed, if it meet with no supports. Stem smooth, round. Leaves opposite, articulate with the stem; petiole about half an inch in length, slightly twisted, lamina oblong, mucronate, generally smooth on both surfaces, occasionally pubescent below, dark green on the upper surface, lighter on the under. INFLO- OVARIES two, ovules — RESCENCE axillary. P&DUNCLES many-flowered, pedicels supported by a lanceolate bract. Catyx deciduous, five-parted segments lanceo- late. Coroia yellow, tube cylindrical, equal in length to the segments of the calyx; throat campanulate, ventricose; limb of “five segments, round, unequal, or oblique. GLaNps oblong, concave, as long as the ovary. Stamens five, filaments short, inserted into the tube or at the origin of the throat; anthers sagittate, with long fila- mentous appendages. STYLE one; stigma five-cornered; ovary ovate, many-seeded. Fo.utic ies slender, round, obtuse, when ripe brownish. SEEDS oblong, acuminate at both ends, comose at the hilum. PoputaR aNd GeocrapnicaL Notice. This plant grows in Jamaica, even close to the town of Kingston; but much more abun- dantly in the vast savannahs; and also on dry heaths exposed to the sea, in St. Domingo. It must likewise grow in South America, if the statement of Sells be correct, that it forms the basis of the celebrated poison called Woorari or Wooraly. It appears, however, from the researches of Schomburgk that the Strychnos toxifera is the chief ingredient of that compound. KEchites suberecta may nevertheless be also used, for it possesses very formidable qualities. The whole plant abounds with a white milky juice, of which two drachms killed a dog in eight minutes—nay, even some of the flowers which had fallen into a water-trough imparted such noxious properties to it, that several mules which drank of it were destroyed. Great care should, therefore, be taken not to allow any of the juice to touch a scratch or wound, or to approach the eyes. InTROpUCTION; WHERE Grown; Cutture. Known in Britain since 1759, but not extensively cultivated, which may be owing to its poisonous properties. The estivation of the flowers is particularly worthy of inspection. It requires the stove, and grows freely in a mixture of loam and peat. Cuttings strike root readily under a hand- glass, in sand. Drawn in August, in the stove of the Messrs. Pope, of Handsworth, Staffordshire. DERIVATION OF THE NaMEs. Ecurrtes, from Eyic, Ecuts, a viper or snake, the smooth twining shoots resem- bling the coils of such an animal. Swuserecta, from the sats upright character of the plant. SyYNONYMEs. Ecuires superecta. Jacquin: American 32, t. 26, and small sition De : Observ. 104. Willdenow: Specie Plant. I, p. 1238. Bot. Mag. 1064 Sprengel: Species Plantarum I, p. 633 Mite Tigrler ated e Whaekalois sleecalem. - = ABU'TILON STRIA’TUM. ; “STRIATED ABUTILON. oR _ -DICOTYLEDONE. Natural division to which this Plant belongs. ee NATURAL ORDER, MALVACE:, THALAMIFLORE, o> & (or divisions DECANDOLLE. this Plant ot No. 144, GENUS. Asvtiton. Diztenivs. Caryx quinquefidus ecalyculatus, per- sistens, Purana quinque, hypogyna, equalia patentia. TAMINA crebra, monadelpha; tubo stamineo unguibus petalorum adnato. ANTHERZ# renifor- mes, uniloculares. OvyaRrrum superum, 5 multiloculare; ovula tria, rarius pine x » integra. rarissime obsolete lobata. Sripun# petiolares gemine. PErpuNcuLtI x axilares solitarii, rarius gemini, uni- bi- aut multi- ee) interdum s spic Coro._# flave, albide aut purpur Kuyra: in Humboldt F iecnty Nova Genera et specie od Piawtatedh, Vol. VP 210. SPECIES. Axsvuriton striatum. Dickson. Fortis trilobis serratis glab- - riusculis basi subcordatis: lobis acuminatis ; pedunculis enna eee mis, floribus —— Site retusis, stylis octo. Lin : Mis. No, 53. CHARACTER OF THE Genus, ABuTILoN. Catyx five-cleft, desti- tute of an involucre (or external series of bracts resembling a lesser calyx;) persistent. Prtaus 5, hypogynous, equal, spreading. Sra- ‘MENS numerous, monadelphous; tube of the stamens adhering to the base of the petals. ANreeee kidney-shaped, one-celled. Ovary superior, 5- or many-celled. Ovuxes three, seldom more, in each cell, attached to the central axis, and generally ina single row. Sty.es corresponding in number with the cells. StieMmas capitulate. Cap- _SULE formed of 5 or more cocci; each coccus 3, seldom 4-6-seeded, ening into two valves. _-DEscRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, ABUTILON StriatumM. STEM pe four feet high, scarcely shrubby, smooth, glaucous, branched, a branches slender. Leaves alternate, stipulate, petiolate, smooth, about two inches long, subcordate at the base, lobed, lobes acute, a y toothed. Ftowers axillary, solitary, pedunculate, pedun- cles a. than the leaves, at first erect, afterwards deflexed, flowers consequently drooping. Caiyx somewhat angular, 5-cleft, segments lanceolate, acute. CorotLa campanulate, petals 5, blunter than the segments of the calyx, of an orange ground, marked with numerous crimson-branched veins, when fully blown curving backwards. Sta- MENS numerous, monadelphous: anthers red, apparently one-celled. Styes eight, projecting beyond the stamens, stigmas capitate. PopuLarR AND GeEOGRAPHICAL Notice. This very handsome plant is a native of the southern part {of Brazil, and appears to have rather an extensive range, as it has been met with both on the Organ Mountains, by Mr. Gardner, and the Rio Negro in the Banda Oriental, by Mr. Tweedie. It approximates in character to the Abutilon elegans of the Plantes Usuelles de Brasil. of Auguste St. Hilaire, but differs in habit from most other Abutilons. Our drawing having been made in very wet weather the flowers were imperfectly. expanded, as like most of its kindred it is very markedly influenced by the state of the atmosphere, particularly of the light. The genus Sida, from which Abutilon has been separated, comprises, if we include Bastardia, Gaya, and Abutilon (as is still done by Decandolle and others) about 200 species, many of which are accustomed to unfold their flowers at such stated hours that Bory de St. Vincent asserts, that from the single genus Sida, a Dial of Flowers (Horologium Flore) might be con- structed, so accurate, that between the tropics the hour of the day might be ascertained by means of it. The leaves of some of the spe- cies exhibit perceptible changes of position, those, for example, of the Sida Abutilon (Linneus) fall close to the stem, and seem to protect it against the night air. A similar action may be observed even during the day, in the large leaves of the Hedysarum (Desmodium) gyrans; for, should dark clouds suddenly overspread the sky, they will imme- diately fall down and cover the stem as with a mantle. INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTuRE. Introduced about two years ago into the Glasgow Botanic Garden, most likely by seeds from Mr. Tweedie. Our drawing was made in the month of March Jast, from a plant in the possession of Miss Trail, of Hayes Place, Kent, to whose extreme courtesy we are indebted for the opportunity of figuring it. It requires the greenhouse only, and is of the easiest culture, growing very freely, and being constantly covered with its elegant flowers during the greater part of the year. RIVATION OF THE NAMES Dr ge ABUTILON, foes = Arabic name of a malvaceous plant. Srrratom, striated, th 1 appearance of the flowers. oe SyNONYME. OSs Apuriion striatum. Lindley in Miscellaneous Notices of No. 53, Botanical Register. > Ce Ue; vs . Meritt scaly. MO" Withers. ded bamellia pupoonwa ; - cS ; , CAMEL'LIA JAPONICA. Variety: Donckeleri. DONCKELER’S ego a Sue 4 on _ DICOTYLEDONE &. { Natura division ~ 1 4 Q \ / if) this bey Lae: = ORDER, cnnsancea THALAMIFLORZ2, —"* divisions — MONADELPHIA, ee which POLYANDRIA, _ DOLLE. _ this vile belongs. OF LINNEUS, — ‘ : “No. 145, ae ; i GENUS. Bet: Einnzus. Catyx i snbricali, nempe bract Be- 5 valvis medio septiferis, axim trique- tibus, tabilis I, p. 529. SPEC IES, Cie JAPONICA. a; Forts Satis acuminatis ie bid. acute-serratis, floribus terminalibus su CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, Gaetis. CaLyx imbricated, that is, surrounded by some accessory bracts or sepals. STAMENs either poly- or mon- adelphous at the base. ANTHERS elliptical. Capsute having the valves with the septa in the middle, and leaving after the dehiscence | a free three-sided axis. - Description OF THE ‘Species, CAMELLIA JAPONICA, Vinee Doxexereni. A SHRUB of several] feet in height, branched, branches LEAvES alternate, petiolate, persistent, rigid, ovate, acute, setrated, dark green on both sides. FLowers axillary and terminal. Caxyx of several imbricated sepals, light green, marked externally with several veins converging towards the apex. Coro ta of nume- rous large petals, round, spreading, notched or slightly emarginate, of a rich red or crimson ground, blotched in a very remarkable manner with white irregular spots. STAMENS numerous, monadelphous; fila- ments and anthers yellow. STyYLe one. PoputaR aND GeocrapuicaL Notice. The genus Camellia is limited to Asia, and the least known species are natives of China and Japan. They have long been favourite subjects of cultivation in the former country, where they sometimes form trees, forty feet high, covered, from October to April, with flowers exhibiting the most perfect symmetry. Numerous varieties are produced in China, as well as by cultivators in our own country, and the one represented in our plate is considered an original Japan variety. It certainly is one / 38 Se TAMINA basi polyadelpha vel mona- — Capstl reli DECANDOLLE: _ mus kN oe of the most striking which has yet been seen, and possibly may have been produced by the pollen of one of the white-flowered varieties fertilizing the seed of a red-flowered one. A singular Dahlia has lately been produced, most likely by similar means, in which the petals are blotched after the same fashion as those of this Camellia. R.D INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTURE. This interesting variety was introduced by seeds brought from Japan by Siebold, and raised in the gardens of Belgium, whence it was imported into this country, first, we believe, by Mr. Knight of Chelsea, about 1834. The specimen from which our drawing was made grew in the magnifi- - cent collection of Mr. Chandler, of the Vauxhall Nursery, to whom we are indebted for the opportunity of figuring it. It requires the ordinary treatment of its kindred, which is commonly that of the conservatory. In the southern part of the island, it may be planted ont in bs open border against a north-west wall, or even as a standard. n young it will require matting for a few winters, but so soon as ave roots have taken a firm hold, it needs no protection, save just before going into flower. Most Camellias will be found to prosper more in the open ground or in the border of a conservatory than in pots, in which the roots are extremely apt to get matted. . Excessive heat in winter is very injurious to them. The first Camel- lias imported into this coun by Lord Petre, about 1739, were destroyed by being treated as stove plants, and fresh plants were again procured in 1742. We are too apt to fancy that every plant which comes from China or Japan, and still more from Brazil, must be kept in a high temperature, forgetting that a large portion of China is covered with snow for a considerable portion of the year, the rivers frozen for months, and that the mean annual temperature of Peking is 9° lower than that of Naples, chiefly owing to the extreme and prolonged cold of the dry or winter season. The chief obstacle ‘to having as handsome and perfect plants in our shrubberies as are met with in China, arises from the deficiency of heat and light in our summers to harden the wood of the new shoots, without which they never flower freely. Mr. Loudon gives a list of several varieties of the Camellia japonica, which have been planted out against a north-west wall in Chandler’s Vauxhall Nursery, in the order of their hardiness, accompanied with a plan for the formation of a Camellia garden. (See Loudon’s Arboretum Britannicum, p. 381-9 and 392. ATION OF THE CaMELLIA, i in compliment to Goons Joseph Camellus, or Kamelli, a Moravian Jesuit, and traveller in Asia, author of a History of the Plants of the Island of Luzon. Japonica, from —_* Doncxexni, after the head gardener of the Botanic Garden of Louvai rs NONYME. CaMELLIA Japonica, Variety Doncxetzni, Lindley: in Botanical Register, t. 1854, . £ / . AE* Withers. ata c If ee “pee rt eleag ted é ; é HUNTLEY'A MELEA’GRIS., CHEQUERED HUNTLEYA. : ENDOGEN&, MONOCOTYLEDONEA. iD Nataral division pas to which _ this plant belongs. NATURAL ORDER, ORCHIDACE. GYNAN ae ope See | He & GYNANDRIA, MONANDBIA, eerncite, this Past i” | } OF LINNEUS. No. 146. Hunt ¥A. Bateman. Pestanratum explanatum,subequale, iqui ata. RBE tropic, caulescentes, foliis ligulatis distichis, floribus axillaribus. Lin pxe: MELEAGRIS, (Linpwey. ) Sepalis petalisque o acuminatis tessallatis, labello subconformi unguiculato concavo cresta fimbriata, columnz cucullo crenato. LinDLeyY, CHARACTER OF THE Genus, HunTLeya. PERIANTH spreé nearly regular, the lateral outer divisions bent in at the base on the lower side and scarcely oblique. LaBeLtum flat, borne on a claw, rhom- boidal, spreading, with a long fringe across the base on the upper side, articulate with the free produced base of the column. — Cotumn club- — shaped, spreading at the top into a hood, winged on the edge. ANTHER two-celled, without appendages. POLLEN MASSES four. DESCRIPTION OF THE SpEciEs, ‘HontTieYa MELEAGRIS. STEM short, emitting a number of white roots at the base, without pseudo- ‘bulbs. Leaves densely arranged in two opposite rows, broadly lanceolate, above a foot in length, pointed, with a strong midrib under- neath, folded nearly in their whole length, especially at the base, PEDUNCLE erect from the lower axillz, rather shorter than the leaves, bearing one or two bracts near the middle. FLower solitary, at the top of the peduncle, three or four inches in diameter, the five divisions of the perigon nearly similar to each other, ovate lanceolate, pointed, somewhat undulate on the margin, of a claret colour on the upper side, especially towards the extremity, pale yellow towards the base, where they terminate in a broad short white claw; they are also marked with slight longitudinal furrows, and according to Dr. Lindley these lines are sometimes intersected by other transverse ones, so as to give _ the flower the appearance of a draught board; but in cultivation these chequers gradually disappear. The two lower divisions are rolled inwards on their lower margin towards the base. Lase ium half the size of the petals, nearly of the same form, white, tipped with claret and tinged with pink, with a narrow white claw, at the base of which is a crescent-shaped plate, fringed with long stiff yellowish hairs. Coivumn of a yellowish white, expanding into a hood nearly as broad as the labellum. PopuLar anD GeograpHicaL Notice. The genus Huntleya was first established by Mr. Bateman for one of Schomburgk’s Demerara Orchidacez, to which Dr. Lindley in adopting the genus, added the _ present Brazilian species. The affinity of these plants to the Zygo- péetala, from which they only differ by the expanded column, is con- _ sidered by Lindley as perhaps too close; yet as far as hitherto known _ there do not appear to be any connecting species, and we must there- fore await further discoveries to determine the point. The species, according to the same author, is found in damp gloomy woods on the banks of the Rio de Pirapatinga, in the district of Bananal, and on the high mountains separating the provinces of St. Paul’s and Minas Geraes in Brazil. InTRopucTION; WHERE Grown; CuLTuRE. This is one of the numerous importations of Messrs. Rollisson, who first flowered it in their epiphyte house at Tooting, in July, 1838. It is of vigorous growth, and valuable for its rarity and the singular colouring of its flowers, although less splendid than some others. It grows freely in the damp stove, where the temperature, in summer, ranges from 70 to 90 degrees of Fahrenheit; and in winter about 20 degrees lower. Shade in summer, with frequent syringing, will greatly encourage its luxuriant growth. IVATION OF THE Nam HUNTLEY, named > Me Batis re honour bes the Rey. J. T. Huntley, a t Meteacnis, — 3 mf of fs}. + x a on account of the SyNonyMEs. Huntieya meteacris. Lindley: Botanical Register, 1839, t. 14. — WS Withers. dol. 7, a wf rf * t4esrecdeer A2ecee ree. = ~ PIMELE’A INCA'NA. ™ HOARY PIMELEA. OR DICOTYLEDONEZ, Natural division to which this Plant belongs, NATURAL ORDER, THYMELACEA. MONOCHLAMYDE®, Ve Artificial a} DIANDRIA, OF x 9) i to which MoNoayNt4, DECANDOLLE. - this Plant Baas No. 147. GENUS. Prweres. Banxs et Sotanper. Ftores hermaphroditi vel dioici. PrRieon1om coloratum, infundibuliforme, limbo quadrifido, fauce esquam Sramsna duo fauci inserta, peregonii laciniis exterioribus oppe- sita, exserta. Squamuta# hypogyne nulle. ARIUM uniloculare. OvuLtumM unicum, pendulum, anatropum. Srtytus lateralis. Str capi Nox cotticatic ‘as accata. SEMEN cbs: ALBUMEN parcum, cavhiodeitl. Empryo orthotropus. Frutices Australasice. Fotta opposita vel rarissime alterna. Fores capitati, terminales ee. rarius spicati vel axillares. Enpuicuer: Genera Plantarum, p. 330, SPECIES. cima INCANA. (Brown.) Fouts ovatis orbiculatisve mar- gine recurvis subtus ramisque tomenioso-pobescentiba incanis, floralibus similibus faplindo mest brevioribus CHARACTER OF THE Genus, PimeLEs. FLowers hermaphrodite _ or diecious. PEricon coloured, funnel-shaped; the limb four-cleft; the throat without scales. STAMENs two, inserted in the throat oppo- site the outer divisions of the perigon, projecting beyond the tube. HypoGynous ScaLes none. Ovary one-celled. Ovutxe solitary, pendulous, anatropous. Sryxe lateral. Sricma capitate. Nur of a bushy consistence, or rarely a berry. Seep inverted. ALBUMEN scanty, fleshy, Emsryo orthotropous. DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, PIMELEA INCANA. A much branched shrub of several feet in height, the branches round and more or less covered with a whitish down which is thicker and longer on the young branches, and often forms a thick tuft at the origin of the leaves; in the longer and more rigorous branches it is much thinner and looser. LEAvEs opposite, almost sessile, varying from orbicular to ovate, and from three to six lines in length, very blunt, convex with the edges turned down, thick, quite smooth on the upper surface, covered underneath with a thick whitish down like that of the branches; the distance between the pairs of leaves about equal to their length, or longer; the floral leaves similar to those of the stem, and rather shorter than the flowers. Heaps OF FLOWERS compact, terminal, nearly globular, about three quarters of an inch or nearly an inch in diameter. FLOWERS numerous, sessile, on a receptacle clothed with long dense white hairs. Prrtcon of a pale pink or nearly white colour, very downy, the tube about five lines long, the lower persistent part a little swollen; the divisions of the limb oblong, blunt, about a line and a half long. Stamens about the length of the divisions of the perigon, perfectly smooth as well as the inside of the perigon. Poputar aND GeEocrapHicaL Notice. The numerous genus Pimelea appears to extend over the whole of the Australian continent and Van Dieman’s Land, soine species having been brought from almost every part hitherto discovered, and almost every collection transmitted to this country adds one or more new ones. It is also represented by some species in New Zealand. As a genus, the group is perfectly distinct, for although allied in habit and in the structure of the flower to some Daphnes, or others belonging to the same natural order, the constant reduction of the number of stamens to two is a sure and easy character, independently of the geographical station. The species here figured is a common Van Dieman’s Land plant, though scarce in our greenhouses; it is very near to the Pimelea nivea of Labillardiere, with which it has been sometimes confounded, too much reliance having been placed on the form of the leaf which varies in both.from ovate to orbicular. The true plant of Labillardiere appears to be of taller growth; the leaves are much more crowded, and the down of the branches and under side of the leaves is closer and thicker, not having at all the appearance of hairs without the assistance of a glass. It is not, however, at all improbable that the two supposed species may be mere varieties of each other, INTRODUCTION; WHERE GRowN; CuLTuRE. The Pimelea incana is said to have been first introduced into this country in 1824, but although seeds of it have frequently been imported of late years, it is as yet very scarce in our collections. The plant here figured was raised at Messrs. Lowe’s Nursery, at Clapton. Planted in sandy peat and loam, and kept in a light part of the greenhouse, it will flower abundantly. DeERIvATION OF THE Nam Pimetea, said to be derived from wriedy PIMELE, “fat, but the application is hoa. not very clear. Incana hoary. SynonyMEs. PimELeA tncana. Brown: Prodromus, p. 361. PIMELEA NIVEA, Knomiea: Floral Cabinet, t. 9, not of Labillardiere. LISIAN’THUS RUSSELLIA'NUS. “DUKE OF BEDFORD’S LISIANTHUS. EXOGENZ. : OR DICOTYLEDONEX Natural division to which — . this Plaut ef é NATURAL ORDER, GENTIANACEZ, a caer - Artificial divisions to which omesecas ath, coe this Plant ee OF LINNEUS. No. 148. GENUS. Listantuus. P. Browne. Catyx campanciatis, : ee laciniis erect, , margine m ape oe tenerioribus Cor ma 1 tri Mabini” STAMINA is 800 i ll= tuboi +: inclusa vel li cheas equantia; Po enta basi qualia, swpissime ‘inequi ilonga; anthere incumbentes, ple- rumque apice demum revolute te Tongadinaliter debiasented. ‘an valvu- larum marginibus introflexis “pia minus comp! biloculare. in pl s valvula argines oc¢cupantibus plu . is; stigma bilam PSULA Valy marginibus placentiferis introflexis bilocularis vel semibilocularis, bivalvis, Semina ‘ima. ERB Vel suffru- tices Americe tropice, erecti, aule tetr , Simplici vel supe glabri; n remono;foliis« si scree: decussatis, breve pétiolatis vel. cypare petiolis al §ei , flor simam eommissig in vaginam b axillaribus vel terminalibus, racemosis, racemis opie, cum flore date vel dichotomis aut = niculatis, corollis pu _ eis, oie ceruleis vel luteo- viridibus. Ewnpzicuer: Genera Plantarum, p. 603 SPECIES. Lisrantaus Russevuianus. (Hooxer) Fottis ovatis acu mis 3-5- oer rvis, flo ribus paniculatis, Salyoas profunde pertitis, 1 ser oroot Tone latis, sime I +t 08 obovatis patentibus. CHARACTER OF THE GeNus, LisiANTHUS. CaLyx campanulate, five-cleft, segments erect, thinner than the membranaceous margin. Coro.ta hypogynous, funnel-shaped, marcescent; tube unequal or ventricose; limb five-cleft. Stamens five, iret into the base of the tube of the corolla, and included in it, or equalling the limb in length. FImamMENTs equal at the base where they originate, but often enequal i in length. ANTHERS incumbent, generally becoming revolute at the apex, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary, owing to the margins plates. CapsuLe two- or nearly two-celled, owing to the placentiferous margins being bent inwards, becoming two-valved. SEEDS numerous DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, LisIANTHUS RUSSELLIANUS. An herbaceous plant, glaucous and smooth in every part. Stem two feet high, rounded, generally simple, or having a few opposite ‘ branches. LEavEs opposite, connate at the base, almost perfoliate, lower ones ovate and acute, upper ones linear-lanceolate and very acute, ultimately becoming subulate bracts at the bifurcation of the peduncles. INFLORESCENCE panicled. FLOowers very large, hand- some, spreading, of a lilac colour with a dark brown or deep purple eye in the centre. Prpicexs long, furnished with two bracts. CaLyx deeply five-parted, segments erect, long, narrow, awl-shaped. Corot- LA with a short funnel-shaped tube, and large expanded limb, seg- ments obovate, bluntly pointed. Stamens five, filaments as long as . the tube of the corolla, anthers large, yellow. Ovary oblong, equalling the style in length, somewhat club-shaped; stigma of two large spreading plates, clothed with a velvet pubescence. PopuLar AND GeocrapuHicaL Notice. This truly superb annual was found near San Felipe de Austin, in Texas, by Drummond, and was one of the last contributions to our gardens of that zealous col- lector, whose memorandum respecting it deserves to be recorded. He accompanied the seeds with the remark, “not excelled in beauty by any plant;” an opinion which when in full flower it amply justifies. It appears to have a considerable geographical range in the warmer parts of North America, as it has been found at Nouveau Leon, Monte- rey, Mexico, and on the great Salt River, Arkansas. The majority of the species of the genus Lisianthus are, however, natives of the tropical regions of America. Like most of the genera in this order they are very bitter, and may be useful when bitter remedies are needed. R. D. ”? INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTURE. To the condescen- sion of his Grace the Duke of Northumberland we are greatly indebted “for the favour of an opportunity of figuring this, and several plants of the first rarity, which have lately flowered at his Grace’s princely abode, Sion Hous. Seeds of the Lisianthus Russellianus were brought into this country in 1835. It requires the common treatment of half-hardy annuals, DERIVATION OF THE NAMEs. LIsIANTHUS, ALoooc LIssos, smooth, and av@oc antHos, a flower. Russe Liianvs, in honour of his Grace the Duke of Bedford, whose aid, imparted to Drum- mond at the time when his closing hours needed such succour, well entitles him to the honour of this particular plant being called after him, even if his many and valuable services to botany and horticulture did not point tu him as deserving the homage of bot tanis ists. “Manibus date lilia_ Purpureos soruean fe res an! — ohoseteg accumulem jar et fu tongar th inani Syn Listantaus RussELLIANUS. es: te Sotsniaal Magazine, t. 3626. , CASSALPI'NIA PULCHER'RIMA. ~ BARBADOES CESALPINIA. EXOGENZ, oR DICOTYLEDONE. ‘a t aoe ia division . which es \ i) U apn belongs. ) = QF NATURAL ORDER, LEGUMINOS#. CALYCIFLORE, etl: ; lems ins DECA OF Fors y ok min darian DECANDOLLE. ; this di pele OF LINNEUS, No. 151. US. ora Linwzvs. Carrs profunde 5- partitus tubo brevi turbinatov ela u quin nto infimo coneavo. carina o majore, estivatione imbricativa. ‘Coro oLLa petala quatuor parum in sehatids obovata vel spathulata , ri ter prmsr ‘ulata, Er — ies minus, si i te ee Rhea Stamina libera ia incu vill sing: "Ota M sessile val breviter_ stipitatum, pluriovulatum. Styxvs filiformis. Srrema obtusum, tenue. Lrcumen sessile vel breviter stipitatum, oblongum, plano- compressum, exalatum, sutura seminifera prope basim, inferiori prope apicem, CONYEXS. Sex INA oblonga ovata pes orbicularia, compressa, estrophiolata. A scandentes. Foxia abrupte bipinnata, pinnis foliisque oppositis. Fores racemosi. PEC TES. CxsaLpiniA PULCHERRIMA. (Swartz) Cavte fruticoso pinnis 5-10-jugis, foliolis 8-12-jugis obovato-oblongis retusis, petalis margine crispis, staminibus corolla plus duplo longioribus, ovario glabro. CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, C#SALPINIA. Caxryx deeply five- cleft, the te sho: pa der at the apex; four divisions ovate oblong te, and nearly equal to each other, the fifth lower one larger, concave, ‘and overlapping ‘the others. Prrats four, nearly equal, obovate or spathulate, with short claws, the fifth upper one _ much smaller, with a long claw. STamENs ten, free, curved, some- what unequal in length, all bearat anthers; filaments hairy at the base. Ovary sessile or borne on a short stalk, with many ovules. Sry te filiform.’ Stiama obtuse, thin. Legume sessile, or borne on a short stalk, oblong, flat, without wings, the upper edge convex near the base, the lower one néar the apex. SEEDs oblong, yp a or round, flattened, without any SLOpMtOIas” me DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, cathe og ere: Saace of about twelve feet high, with a smooth greyish bark, and ‘usually furnished with a short hooked spine at each ramification. ‘Leaves alternate, a foot to two feet long, consisting of from five to ten pairs of opposite pinne, each pinna composed of from eight to twelve pairs of opposite leaflets, each leaflet oblong or obovate, retuse, of a pale 37 green, perfectly smooth; at the base of each pinna is usually a small stipellary spine, and at the base of each leaflet a minute setaceous stipella, which is also occasionally slightly spinescent. FLoweErs in long loose terminal racemes. Pepicexts from one to three inches long, somewhat glaucous as well as the axis, and usually furnished at the base with a small spinescent bract, but bearing no bracteole. Catyx smooth, the divisions reddish and somewhat waved on the margin, about half the length of the petals. Prtats of a rich orange scarlet, the four larger ones three quarters of an inch long, broadly obovate, waved on the edges, and narrowed into a claw; fifth petal on a long stiff thick claw, with a very small, round, waved lamina. STAMENS more than twice the length of the corolla, crimson, thread- like, slightly dilated and hairy at the base. Ovary perfectly smooth, n a short stalk, linear, terminating in a long filiform style, Pop about three inches long, smooth, and flat, opening in two valves, and fitted between the seeds with a cellular substance dividing it into several cells. Porutar aNp Grocrapuica. Notice. This beautiful shrub, which appears to row wild in the tropical regions of both hemispheres, is at any rate common in all civilised parts of the tropics, in hedges and gardens, of which it is one of the greatest ornaments. In the West Indies, where it is most abundant, it is one of the most usual hedge shrubs, and is also used medicinally instead of Senna. Deserving, however, as this plant is of the specific name pulcherrima, there are many others of the same genus, or those lately separated from it, which it would be highly desirable to introduce into our conservatories, now that by the increased size and light given to these buildings there is a hope of seeing them flower. There are few species with the flowers so large as the present one, but judging from dried specimens this is fully made up, especially in some of the American ones, by their great profusion. Most of them require perhaps stove heat, but some, especially the Coulterias, are far from being so tender. At Barcelona, some years since, in a half abandoned botanic garden, was a beautiful tree of Coulteria tinctoria, thriving, in Spite of neglect, in the open air, together with Schinus molle, some Cassias, and many other trees of the class of those which require with us the protection of a wall in winter. There is a considerable difficulty in the present state of our know- ledge of the immediate allies of the Cesalpinia pulcherrima, in fixing precisely the genus in which it should be included. It has been usual, = gle after Linneus, to distinguish, under the name of Poinciana, those ee which differ from Cesalpinia by the great length of the stamens, and by the pod being filled with a cellular substance between the seeds; but amongst the number of species now known, there are so many different degrees of length in the stamens, that it is impossible to fix any precise dimensions for those of each genus, and the cellular sub- stance in the pod appears to exist in others besides the supposed Poincianas, and at any rate it is one of the characters of the least generic importance amongst those derived from the pod in Legumi- nose. Swartz, aware of the great affinity of Linneus’s Cesalpinia and Poinciana, united the latter genus to the former, first giving to the present species the name under which it is here figured. Since then - many other plants have been, by various authors, first referred to the one, then to the other group, the arrangement of which is at present in the greatest confusion. It is most probable that there are several distinct genera to be formed. Thus the Poinciana elata of Linneus, an East Indian plant, and the Arabian one, to which Forskahl gives the same name, although in fact a different species, form together a genus really characterized by the peculiar calyx, and other points, and these might retain the name of Poinciana. So the Cesalpinia Brasiliensis of Linneus, or Brasiletto of the West Indies (of which there appear to be two species) upon which De Candolle formed his section Brazilettia, has a pod too remarkable not to raise it to the rank of a genus, and perhaps the sections Nugaria and Libidibia of the same author might share the same fate. The remaining section Sapponia contains many plants very dissimilar from each other, but it would require a much more detailed examination of flower and fruit than we at this moment possess materials for, to settle finally the value of these differences. : INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTurRE. This elegant species is said to have been first introduced into our stoves towards the close of the seventeenth century, and well deserves a place in all good collections. For the loan of the plant from which our drawing was made we are greatly indebted to the polite attention of J. Jarrett, Esq. of Camerton Court, Somersetshire, whose liberality we have previously had occasion to acknowledge, and we do so under a deep sense of the obligation under which we are placed. The individual specimen with which we were so favoured was of extraordinary luxuriance, and reflects the highest credit on Mr. Robert Abbott, the gardener at Camerton Court, under whose skilful management it grew to such perfection. The Cesalpinia pulcherrima (Poinciana pulcherrima of Linneus) has been neglected hy some cultivators from its oftentimes failing to blossom in perfection. Some of our readers will be surprised when informed that the plant to which we have above alluded was upwards of eight feet high, with luxuriant racemes of flowers, and even then was but ten months old ae * For the benefit of our friends Mr. Abbott has obligingiy favoured’ us with the particulars of his management, and we may thank him in the name of the Flas for liberally making known the results of his experience. He says “ The plant which I sent you in November was raised from seed ficdival from Jamaica, only i in the month of J anuary preceding. The seed was sown in a moderate hot-bed, and the plant flowered in nine months. I mention this fact from a conviction that this splendid plant has been discarded from several collections because it did not flower. The soil I used was sandy loam, peat, and about a sixth part of bone dust; taking care to re-pot the plant as often as it was required. I have every reason to believe that it was solely owing to the bone dust that it thrived as it did; a proof of which is, that two other plants, taken out of the same seed-pot, and treated in the com- mon way, are not half so strong, and show no signs of flowering. The Poinciana will strike freely enough from cuttings, put into a pot of sand, and covered with a propagating glass. It will accelerate their striking if the pot be plunged in a tan-pit. I have tried bone dust with most of my stove plants, and you would be surprised to see the difference it has made to them. I have plants of the Ixora coccinea growing most luxuriantly, with the foliage nearly twice its natural size, of a fine dark healthy green, while those from the same cutting pot, without bone dust, are looking as Ixora pont generally do, but po so healthy, nor one half the size of the o m the experiments I have made, I am fally convinced of the - utility of bone-dust as a manure for stove and other potted plants. It has Jong been in use among our best cultivators of Geraniums and Calceolarias, and with singular success.’ from the West Indies. These vegetate freely, but to grow the young plants successfully they should be placed in a strong humid stove heat, and allowed plenty of room for their roots, with the addition, as will be gathered from the preceding ob ervations, of bone dust or some equally stimulating manure. DERIVATION OF THE Nam CasaLPinia, named after inet physician to Poe Clement the Eighth. PuLcHEeRRIMA very beaut SYNONYMEs. Magee PULCHERRIMA. Swartz: Observations, p. 1 Potnciana PuLCHERRIMA. Liimneus: Species Spesiiuins p- 554. - Botanical Magazine, t. 995. Werite.senip. b MOY Withers, dal. 2 orrets yh te hehe ella . ‘. — ‘OR DICOTYLEDONER Natural division to which this Plant belongs. " NATURAL ORDER, RUTACEZ. THALAMIFLOR2, Artificial divisions OCTANDRIA, OF to which MONOGYNIA, DECANDOLLE. _ A this Plant belongs. or LINNEUS. No. 152. GENUS. Correa. Smirn. Caryx peer te cut quadri- lobus. PrTALA quatuor, valvatim in tubum appro a partimve coalita. Stamina Geto, Petals Squats aut exserta, sate breviors fisdem opposita, latatis OvaRta quatuor, imposita gynophoro brevi in ambitu staminifero et quasi octolobo, dense stellatim pilosa. Styxr quatuor in unum coaliti, Joes. ge equali quadri- lobo a _Faverus quadri- capsularis. Fru CEs: Fo OLIA Oppo ats, popnnin d gut flores, pube stellata dense congesta tomentosa. Smiry: Exotic sities SPECIES. Correa purcHen (R. Brown.) Forts ovatis obtusis undulatis wena ‘ubescentibas, siiaiiie cylindricis ventricosis, calycibus abbreviatis trune CHARACTER OF THE GENUs, CorREA. CALYX cup-shaped, nearly entire, or four-cleft. PrTa.s four, arranged in the manner of valves, either close together or joined in part into an apparently monopetalous corolla. STamens eight, equal to the petals or longer, four of them opposite to the petals being shorter than the others; the filaments smooth’ and filiform, or dilated above the base; the anthers oblong. Ovaries four, placed on a short stalk which bears the stamens on its circumference, where it is as if eight lobed, and covered with thick stellate hairs, StTyLes four, joined into a single one, which terminates in a regular four-cleft stigma. FrRvuiT consisting of four capsules. DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, CORREA PULCHELLA. A SHRUB about six feet high, branched, branches round, of a rusty colour. LEAVES opposite, coriaceous, persistent, shortly petiolate, ovate, cor- date at the base, obtuse, undulatory at the margin, the upper ones slightly denticulate, when first unfolded clothed on both surfaces with a stellate pubescence, which is lost as they become older. FLOWERS solitary or twin, drooping, of a beautiful rose or salmon colour; pedun- cles longer than the petioles of the leaves. Catyx globose, truncate, or obscurely four-lobed. Coro..a several times longer, cylindrical, or slightly ventricose, petals overlapping and cohering at the margins, so as to present the appearance of a monopetalous campanulate corolla, free at the upper part, and slightly reflexed; throat ciliated. Stamens eight, alternately long and short, those opposite the petals being the shortest; filaments of the others as long as the tube, and anthers somewhat exserted. Ovary smooth; style one, longer than the corolla; stigma blunt. PopuLaR aND GeEoGRaApPHicAL Notice. This species of Correa is a native of Kangaroo Island, off the south coast of New Holland. The genus affords another proof of a peculiar type of organization being limited to a peculiar region of the globe, for though several species are found on the different coasts of Australia, and some of the adjacent islands, none have been discovered out of those latitudes. Growing as they do in the vicinity of the sea, their seeds must frequently fall into its dispersive waves, and be wafted to different shores, but their germinating property is either destroyed by the salt water, lost by time, or they are carried to regions unsuited to their constitution, so that every where except in the Australian territories, they “die and make no sign.” The plant now figured presents some slight points of difference from those hitherto represented; it is more slender, the flowers more remote, and longer, as well as more elegant, and the colour not so deep. These may either be permanent distinctions or owing to the situation of the plant in the greenhouse, by which it has been drawn up and rendered more delicate in its habit. They are insufficient to justify making a new name for it, as the multiplication of these, without cause, is very objectionable. INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTurRE. It was brought to Britain in 1824. For an opportunity of drawing this handsome specimen, we are indebted to George Glenny, Esq. of Worton Lodge, Isleworth. An equal mixture of loam and peat is most suitable to it. Cuttings with well-ripened wood will readily root, if planted thinly in a pot of sand, under a hand glass, without heat. ERIVATION OF THE NaMEs. Correa, after Joseph Correa de Serra, a Portugese botanist, many interesting letters from whom may be found in the Life and Corresponcence of Sir J. E. Smith. Puxicuextza, from pulcher, fair. YNONYMEsS, CoRREA PULCHELLA. Sweet's Flora Australasica, Lindley: Botanical Rexister ‘4 1224. rd ? re . Pa * Newitt wemap Milie, cel. Wyrerllea f* seegirernt ‘ " 4 € - - GREVIL’LEA FERRUGIN’EA. “RUSTY GREVILLEA. lees! division ( this wm 1 Qy- WY NATURAL ORDER, — MONOCHLAMYDE4, arse betty sage TETRANDRIA, oF MONOGYNtIa, DECANDOLLE. this Plant pet OF LINNEUs. No. 153, GENUS. Grevittea. Bro P i lare, foliolis laci ~ apicibus cavis enathinls’ ANTHERA imme rse. GLaNnpvuLA hypo- unica, dimidiata. Ovarrum dispermum. Stigma obliquam, Pri OLL ra subverticale conicum), Forzicurvs unilocularis, dispermus, loculo cen- t INA Marginata, vel apice brevissime alata. FRuricxs rari pilis dum adsint me s. indivisa vel pinnatifida. Se unc elongate race senOSe, | nunc ebbreviate cerymboas ve el fasticuliformes, ribose o 3: ? | vey i sk d. 5 par vel. coriacei ovati, oy toto coronati, seminibus ovalibu us, angustissime margi- natis et apice jal Mam ites vel lignei, (piers Be eb basi tantumm odo styli m SPECIES. GreEviInLEA FERRUGINEA (Sr TEBER); ie Skee. obtusis mucronatis, adultis super scabris subter cinereo- tomentosi S; racemis pauci- floris ; perianthiis rostratis, rostro laminam s CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, GREVILLEA. PERIANTHIUM irregu- lar, the leaflets or segments secund, the apices concaye stameniferous. ANTHERS immersed in the hollow. Hypocynous GLanp single, dimidiate. Ovarium two-ovuled. Stigma oblique, depressed, (rarely subvertical and conical). Fo.1icxe unilocular, two-seeded, the locu- lament central. Seeps bordered, or very shortly winged at the apex. DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, GREVILLEA FERRUGINEA. SHRUB erect; branches suberect, adpresso-pubescent. Leaves (14-33 inches long, 6-8 lines broad) scattered, linear-elliptical, mucronate, reflexed in the edges; above, dark green, minutely pubescent, veined, and slightly channelled in the middle; below, densely covered with s adpressed hairs, Penae slightly rusty on the old leaves. RacEmM erminal, cernuous. FLOWERS crowded, shortly pedicellate, the feed first developed. Pisin strongly four-ribbed, the interstices bei tumid; on its outside, as well as the pedicels and peduncle, covered with hos, erect, ferruginous, glandular pubescence; on the inside, limb with white tomentum, the upper part of the tube with long silky white hairs, and toward the base nearly glabrous. ANTHERS yellow. Pistit projected beyond the tube about as far as the length of this; stigma very oblique, red, and glabrous; style red, and covered with white suberect hairs; germen with long erect hairs. Disk pouting below, yellow, glabrous, nectariferous. Poprunar anp GeocrapHicat Notice. The species of Grevillea are generally low shrubs, but Grevillea robusta has, on the banks of the Brisbane River, a trunk nine feet in circumference, and from 80 to 100 feet in height. The following brief notices are from among the interesting observations made by Brown, on the geographical distribu- tion of the Proteacee. The order is almost entirely confined to the southern hemisphere, yet is there much extended in latitude, longi- tude, and elevation. In South America the species are comparatively few, little varied in structure, and have a greater affinity with those of New Holland than with those of Africa. They are met with in every known part of the shores of New Holland, but both there and in Africa species are comparatively few on the south coast, and much more numerous at the south-west extremity than at the eastern extremity of the principal parallel: yet the diminution towards the tropic is more rapid in passing from the south-western than from the eastern ex- tremity, and within the tropic on the east coast no genus has been observed which does not occur beyond it, but several genera which do not exist in the principal parallel, are found at the southern boundary of the order. There is no species of the order common to the east and west coast of New Holland, the latter approaching some- what more nearly to the Proteacee of Africa, the former to those of America. The genus Grevillea especially abounds on the east coast. In New Holland the range of species in the Order is very limited, with a very few exceptions, which are natives of the shores and mem- bers of large genera. Very few of the Proteacee are gregarious; almost all the species are scattered, growing for the most part in stony places, occasionally in loose sand; scarcely any require shelter, and none good soil; a few grow in be. or shallow pools of water. INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTURE. The seeds of this shrub were seceived at the Royal Botaiie eae Edinburgh, from the late Mr. Richard Cunningham, under the name given, in 1835. He did not say from what part of New Holland they had been obtain- ed, but we learn from Mr. Brown that it is a native of the neighbour- hood of Port Jackson. It flowered very freely for the first time, with the usual treatment in the greenhouse, when under four feet high, in November, 1837, and continued to do so during the whole winter. It flowered at the same season last year, and again now, October, 1839. ts BER OF THE NaMEs. The genus was named ¥ Mr. Brown in commemoration of the Right Hon. Charles Francis Greville, aides to the ws Earl of Warwick. GREVILLEA FERRUGINEA, Sieb. Herb. 1 Nov. Holland, No, 27. _— ti Veget, Cur. post. 46. Br, Prodr. Suppl. Primum, 19. Gra MO Withers, det Gerohie gen ser fee eee fOvrre tes es CEROPE'GIA STAPELIIFOR MIS. ~ STAPELIA-LIKE CEROPEGTA. EXOGEN2, oR DICOTYLEDONE 2. R ; wseie eam this ca cme NATURAL ORDER, ASCLEPIADACE., ae ere divisions Bee to which aie Saduneiotsn: this Plant belongs, OF LIN GENUS. Cerroprrecia. Brown, Corotza tubulosa, basi ventricosa; limbi laciniis ligularibus, conniventibus (?) estivatione valvata. Coxumna fructifica- 4 inclusa. Cone NA amines 10. fida ; Aacinie B: antheris distinctis opposite g ASS POLLINIS erect2. Heres Pus, sepius ‘olabils, is ‘tuberosa. UMBELLE interpetiolares nune pauciflore.. Brown, in Bot. Reg. fol. 626. SPECIES. Crroprgia staPEtitrormis; volubilis? aphylla, ramosa, ramis py selertrnd dentibus mollibus epiniformibus reget optsia emia floribus 1. 2 € ramis propriis wiebicvam my ot ech terioris brevil rgi tis, interioris elon gatis filiformibus. Hooxer. CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, CEROPEGIA. CoroLta tubular, inflated at the base, segments of the limb strap-shaped, connivent (?) with valvate zstivation. CoLumn of fructification included. STaminaL corona 10-cleft; five of the segments longer than the others, opposite to the stamens, and alternating with the other five which are entire or bifid. POLLEN MASSES erect. DeEscrRIPTION OF THE SpeEciES, CEROPEGIA STAPELIIFORMIS. Stem fleshy, branched, round, curved, with long joints, tubercled, and having below the joints minute, subulate, reflected leaves. UmBeE xs few- flowered, or flowers often solitary, arising at the tubercles. FLOWERS (2% inches long, 14 inch across from tip to tip, when fully expanded) erect, shortly pedicellate. Catyx green, five-partite; segments trans- versely wrinkled at the base, subulate. Corotta yellowish green, - spotted with red, especially on its base and at its limb; every where glabrous on the outside, on the inside very hairy at the limb and throat, ane in a smaller degree below a middle and at the base of shits peeked along their centre internally, curv outwards, Visited at the tips; tube funnel-shaped, tumid below. STAMINAL CROWN with the five longer segments erect, attenuated, approximated in the centre, and slightly incurved at the points; the other segments alternating with the base of these, are short and blunt. PoLten Masses small, yellow, kidney-shaped, opposite to the longer segments of the corona. Stiema nearly flat with five angles, surmounting the two-lobed, erect, glabrous, nearly white GeERMEN, which is shorter than the calyx. Popunar aNpD GeocrapHicaL Notice. The genus Ceropegia is almost entirely East Indian, one species only having been obtained from the Cape of Good Hope, They are very singular looking plants, with abundance of milky juice. The species, as Dr. Wight remarks, may be most easily distinguished by the modifications of the corona, but unfortunately while this affords the means of easy diagnoss, it combines the species, as he also remarked, into very unnatural groups. The flowers of several, though always very peculiar, are handsome— those of others are attractive only from their peculiarity. The diverg- ing form of the limb of the corolla in the present species, is, as far as I know, the only exception to the connivent segments considered by Brown part of the generic character, The species are eaten by the natives of India, either in curries or raw; and according to Dr. Roxburgh the tuber of Ceropegia bulbosa much resembles a turnip to the taste. IntropucTiON; WHERE Grown; Curtours. - All the species which have been introduced to our gardens are habitually cultivated in stove heat, though from the elevation at which some of them naturally grow, they might have been expected to thrive in a cooler temperature. They are readily propagated by cuttings at almost any season; and require a light sandy soil, with a limited supply of water. The present species was received at the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, from Kew, in 1833. DERIVATION OF THE NAME. Ceropecia, from xnpornytor, the form of the umbel in some degree resembling a Candelabra. SyNonyME, Crrorecia StapeLiirormis, Hooker: in Bot. Mag. 3567, GRA. = af ' * > te led. Cores cat fee COOL ~4 Sr 2 Nae . / co te Af” Witee — GLOXIN'IA SPECIO'SA-CAULES'CENS. SHEWY-CAULESCENT GLOXINIA. EXOGENZE. OR DICOTYLEDONEX { serie: division . which ;Q iy, — this Plant belongs. é _ +e, DIDYNAMIA, ANGIOSPERMIA, v OF LINNEUS, CALYCIFLOR#, .. divisions OF which DECANDOLLE. this Pa a No, 149. nriwanti? Grose P’Hsrrrier. C basiconnat quali CoRoLia perigyna, staliltatiiaiees. vel. competing “aie tubo basi postice gibbo, fauce ampliata, antice ven- tricosa, limbi bilabiati labio superiore breviore bilobo, iifetlocs trilobi lobo brevibus, anatropa. Sryxus simplex; stigma capitatum, subinfundibuliforme. Capsuta calyce c ‘eng tecta, apice bivalvis, valvis medio placentiferis. Semr- na plurima, oblongo-fusiformia. Empryo in axi albuminis carnosi orthotro- yor cotyledonibus obtaitie radiéula umbilicum spectante, centrifuga. Hers opie, tube re hypogeo gs. BC acaules “0 ontlesventes's foliis appeal petiolatis, crassis, crenatis vel serratis; floribus axillaribus, sol lifariis vel paucis aggregatis, eae nutantibus, poe tase albis vel viridi. lutescentibus, interdum punctis vel maculis obscurioribus variegatis. EnDLr- cHER: Genera Plantarum, p. ao HYBRID, Groxtini1a spectosa-caucescens. Fouts cano-hirsutis ovali- _ “witigei : He mi. iia VWintinis cht . FR rea natie: matinee tie Poco danlo te gioribus Bio eel iy 'D Wire A pm baat jd oO Se, = : ls ame : 7 nt be a: - as 5 ah eeoment CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, GLOXINIA. TUBE OF THE CALYX | round or five-winged, adhering to the base of the ovary; limb five- parted, equal. Corotza perigynous, funnel-shaped or campanulate and ringent; tube gibbous at the base, throat dilated, ventricose ante- riorly; limb two-lipped, the upper lip shorter, two-lobed, lower lip three-lobed, the central lobe largest. STaMENS inserted into the tube of the corolla, four in number, and didynamous, included in the tube of the corolla or only slightly protruding, a fifth in a rudimentary state. ANTHERS two-celled, cohering in the form of a disc. ~Ovary cohering to the base of the calyx, and supported by five glands, one- celled, with two fleshy parietal placentz, which are two-lobed. OvuLES numerous, with short stalks, and anatropous. STYLE simple; stigma capitate, somewhat funnel-shaped. CapsuLe covered by the fleshy calyx, splitting at the top into two valves; valves placentiferous in the 36, SUP, middle. SEDs namerous, oblong or pide shapail Emeryo ortho- tropous in the axis of a fleshy albumen; cotyledons obtuse, radicle pointing towards the umbilicus, centrifugal. DescripTION OF THE Hysrip, GLOXINIA SPECIOSA-CAULESCENS. Tuper thick. Srem thick, simple, about six inches or more in length, hairy. Leaves petiolate, elliptical or oblong, hairy or villose on both surfaces, lower one large and distinctly crenate, upper one contracted at the base, and obscurely crenate. FLowers large, numerous, supported on long peduncles, which are hairy and reddish. CaLyx somewhat angular, tube fleshy, limb five-parted, segments acute, spreading. Coro..a large, shewy, nodding or pendent, of a purplish white colour externally, deeper purple internally, contracted at the base, enlarging and becoming ventricose upwards; limb two- lipped; lobes unequal, reflexed. Stamens five, cohering to the tube of the corolla, didynamous, with the rodiaignt of a fifth. Ovary one- celled. STYLE one, stigma capitate. ° Popurar AND GeocrapHicaL Notice. Under the head of Glox- inia speciosa (Plate 105) it is stated that though cultivators generally admit two species, designated respectively Gloxinia speciosa and Gloxinia caulescens, these pass into each other by many connecting links in the various specimens, and must therefore be regarded as mere varieties: of one species. The length of the stem is the only prominent character, and so many circumstances influence this, that for a specific difference it is quite insufficient. Hybrids are readily produced among the different varieties, and that now figured originated by fertilizing the seeds of the variety Caulescens with the pollen from Gloxinia speciosa, variety alba. The flowers of this present an approximation in colour to the white parent, as it is almost invariably observed that the colour of the flowers is mostly determined by that of the parent which supplies the pollen, while the foliage and organs of vegetation generally resemble that of the parent which furnished the ovules. The more the hybrid resembles the latter the more likely will its seeds be fertile. en Re OF THE NAMEs. Groxixt A, in compliment to P. Gloxin, who described Martynia diandra, and Martynia proboscidea, a allied plants. - Spectosa-cavLEscEns, compounded of the names of the parents. te : ; Mire Mies. stat Ms ofthe nthe ge Se ee eee E Newitt. ccusip. isk b STROPHAN’THUS DIVER’ GENS, — ‘STROPHANTHUS, : 2 = EXOGEN 2, ie Sak; es a ais * “Natural het “iy 3 this adele eae NATURAL ORDER, APOCINACER, - Artificial divisions PENTANDRIA, SS, to which * MONOGYNIA ih i | this Plant belongs. i a OF LINNEUS. No, 150. COROLLIFLORE OF DECANDOLLE, ENUS. Srropuantaus. Decanpotte. Coroxta infundibuliformis, Faux coronata . s 10 indivisis. Limsr lacinie caudate. Stamina medio tubo rta. ANTHERE so aristate vel mucronate. — 2 Serie av pee sre paints Stigma subcylindraceum. Sevama 5, Fottic — CES sarmentosi (semper?) Pee: optaibe pogyn Brown: Trans. Went: Soc. 1 SPECIES. Srropr PHANTHUS DIVERGENS. sess Bieta: agen: rami ia, sae oppositis, patentissim ras verr’ ulatis; stipulis parvulis, acu aatbil pene terminalibus, ‘Maohouag segmentis calycinis bracteisque iia subulat CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, STROPHANTHUS. Corouta funnel- shaped; throat crowned with ten undivided scales; segments of the limb long and slender. Stamens inserted into the middle of the tube. ANTHERS sagitate, awned or mucronate. GERMENS two. Sryte one, filiform, dilated at the apex. Stigma subcylindrical. Sca.es five, hypogynous. FOLLIcLes unknown. _ DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, STROPHANTHUS DIVERGENS. SHRUB little more than two feet high, erect, and in no degree sarmentose or climbing. BrancHEes numerous, as well as all the subdivisions, spreading at right angles. Bark brown, and thickly sprinkled with light coloured warts. Leaves crowded on the extremities of the branches, suberect on short petioles, opposite, lanceolate-oblong, or sometimes inclining to ovate, dark green, shining, undulate, midrib prominent, veins strong, nearly transverse, united in arches near the edges of the leaf, mucronulate. STripuLes very small, pointed, rigid, connivent, one at each side of the axils of the leaves, and several on the outside of the bud within the axil. PEDUNCLEs terminal, once, twice, or rarely oftener guest: often three — gig “ the end of the peduncle, the centr t expands, an othe but not very frequently two at a time unless ‘the peduncle is frequcelly a divided. ‘Bracts subulate, one on the outside of each pedicel, and about half its length, deciduous, two similar but smaller bracts are placed opposite to each other about the middle of the pedicels, and from the axils of these other flowers push or prove abortive. CaLyx five-parted, segments green, subulate, erect, and very similar to the bracts. Coro.ta funnel-shaped, yellow, streaked and sprinkled with red on the inside of the throat and base of the lacinie; tube cylin- drical, and nearly twice as long as the calyx; faux campanulate, crowned with five bipartite blunt white teeth; limb cut into five linear segments (about two inches long) which in the bud form a long twisted beak, but afterwards spread wide... FrLaMENTs swollen below, adhering by their backs to the tube of the corolla, and, as well as the inside of the campanulate portion of this, hairy; anthers sagitate, adhering to each other and to the stigma, each terminated by along awn. GERMEN round, lobular, green. STYLE stout, cylindrical, white; stigma angular. PopuLaR aND GEOGRAPHICAL Notice. There are only a few species of this remarkable genus known, but these are scattered through China, Cochin-china, the coast of Coromandel, and the western part of Africa. We have had the present species in cultivation for many years, and it has never shown the smallest tendency to acquire a climbing stem, but as its roots have been confined it is not impossible that its habit, as occasionally happens to other plants in similar cir- cumstances, may be altered in this respect. INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTuRE. Seedling plants were -sent to the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, many years ago from Valley- field, the seat of the late Sir Robert Preston, but I never could learn their history. Specimens collected by Messrs. Bladh and Staunton, in the neighbourhood of Macao, and preserved in the Banksian Herbarium, seem to be identical. It is cultivated in common mould, kept in moderate stove heat, and flowers very freely every year in June. DertvaTIon OF THE Names. SrropHantuvs, from orpogoc and ayoc, in allusion to the strap-shaped seg- ments of the corolla. SynonyMes. SrRoPHANTHUs DIVERGENS. Graham: in Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, June, | Seivraierave DICHOTOMUS; 8. CHINENsIs. Bot. Reg. 469. Grau » Mo” Withers. ded zs inset. a Be P. Lhomae yy lalevistd. > : Merett. se. Ox * ere eo x CONSISTING onc Mery sa > ZL \ Neiheee Le OF TENDER AND HARDY ein —— Plants: i x oar y oe oe ee Vofteclar “4 oe: ee El oviaed sed! L ebierepale COPA, enter seed cad, Ze COR? ee cy te a soit bes ageme 78 Cc One Sali oe 2S. SLOW, sea F138 REY? o S$. REGIUS PROFESS SOROS BOTA IN THE UNIVERSITY OF reais “re ON. Do MBRIDGE, PATERNOSTER ROW THE BOTANIST CONTAINING ACCURATELY COLOURED FIGURES OF TENDER AND HARDY ORNAMENTAL PLANTS, DESCRIPTIONS, SCIENTIFIC AND POPULAR; INTENDED TO CONVEY BOTH MORAL AND INTELLECTUAL GRATIFICA CONDUCTED BY B. MAUND, F.L.S. SISTED BY THE REV. J.5. HENSLOW, M.A. F.L.S. &c. &e. REGLUS PROFESSOR OF BOTANY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE. ae «“ The World tk h Infinite Wisdom o sane to oor itself ot porns speaking, be unworthy on a of creatures, eng £ E. ge VOL. IV. Mo. Bot. Garden, 1896. te LONDON: PUBLISHED BY R. GROOMBRIDGE PATERNOSTER ROW ; W, WHITE AND CO., EDINBURGH; J. ROBERTSON DUBLIN; M. GALIGNANI, PARIS; HAUMANN AND CO, BRUSSELS; AND JACKSON, NEW YORK. INDEX TO THE FOURTH VOLUME THE BOTANIST. Systematic Name. ais Name. No. Acacia dentifera,............Toothed A es saci Acanthephippium bicolor,..., Two- ea svanitiag Miioeaka :200 —~ Alstroemeria acutifolia, ,..... i ge Alstroeemeria, ......174 —— sea 2? Pe ae oo. Fragra OlINbie TAs ss ISIS eves Sweet- ene Air-plant,. 0.0054 +180 féschynanthus itiatthei i cna ee kai cece ire , Cesalpinia pulcherrima, 1) do Le. Calochortus flavus, Yellow Calochartins2 170—— —— satus ie volves sve Antermediate Cattleya, .. vs... ..195+—_— 154 “F7C., EL Stapeli ia-_like ceropevia rYOo** ve eee ascanum — oe WeigeJeaved Chascanum. ....,.196—— Chas Coleus barbat marae Coleus, 62 cieasckeetee le Comparettia sock Crimson-fi d Comparettia, 186 -—~ ; Correa pulchella..........., Neat Correa, 152 Pot Ze Cycnoches maculata, Spotted Cycnoches,,...sesscevees 1567 Cypella Herberti, Herbert’s Cypella, cee Cyrtoceras floribundum, ....Abundant- sides cna Bre oh. pe lo scapigera, seis. sed Seape- eg! Dahlia,.. ssi 50018 endrobium aaa ...Necklace-like Dendrobium, ......194 ecuais rum Schomburgkii, .. Schomburgk’s Epidendrum, ......165 ——— . —— seeeeeeeese. bchium-flowered scarlet Heath, ..162 ~~~ ambert’s cg Heath, .... nse 0 ce a Lambertiana, ........Mr. is cylindracea, ........ Cylindrical Fuchsi Goldfussia glomerata, ......Clustered iesiitasta,. eeees eeeeie ae Grevillea ferruginea, ........Rusty Grevillea, .......c0ecceee- 153 Fit Hovrea pungent, 60.i<6.5 Solanum vestitum,.......s«.Clothed Solanum, ....+seevseoss¢lQ2e Stanhopea grandiflora, ......Great-flowered Stanhopea,...,....176-—— Statice puberula, ew 182—— Tacsonia pin yaa cathe i Thysanotus prolifer ‘ led Tacsonia, ......171<— . Bind -Pealienns "ivciolas, codes csp Zieria leyigata, .......+.--.Smooth-leayed Zieria. ..........185 ~~ THE DICTIONARY. A portion of which is f the aes ee as published iui ie a separate ne THE GUIDE. A part of which is likewise annexed to each Number, also forms a separate Volume. ™, 4}. 1. ¥ 3] in this Velume of the Boranist will | delivered Wevitt, sceip: GGp = : glomenale’. MS Wethers sfet. — . pS ee Site oi GOLDFUS' STA GLOMERA’ TAY ~ CLUSTERED ‘GOLDFUSSIA, EXOGENZ, ‘oR DICOTYLEDONER,. pie —— this Pleat Delong. WY NATURAL ORDER, ACANTHACE, A | went pibreanek, to Beste iA this Plant Bly 4, i ' 3 No. 155,,. GENUS. Gotprussia. Nezgs. Caryx quinquepartitus, priate Co- ROLLA infundibuliformis, limbo quinquefido obtuso equali. Stamina quatuor inclusa didynama, humiliora sepe brevissima reflexa. carradi nutantis locelli in connectivo uncinato glanduloso oblique ovati, membranacei. Ovarr pee regan Srrnus Bimiplex; stigma subulatum altero latere crenatum. ,loculis inferius dispermis, ee, discoidea, retinaculis subtensa. ly RUTICES foliis penninerviis. Eide ES pauci in capitulo elvan bracte’ , Tarius spicati SpecaND DOLLE. yi sas bracteas magis e a oe Nrgs~ vow Bspwnncr in Wallich’s Plante Asiatice Rariores, v. ¥ p.8 SPECIES. Goxprvssta GLOMERA TA. (NEEs.) Foilts’o -subrotundis cuspidatis basi pear a ineoqualiter grosse dentate. part multi- is ariis glo bos is brevissime e peduinen- latis hirsutis, bracteis lddevolatis i t capitul p tibus, caule fruticuloso hirsuto. Nzzs: Ibid. p. 88. CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, GOLDFUSSIA. CaLyx five-cleft, nearly equal. Coroxxa funnel-shaped, the limb cut into five nearly equal blunt divisions. Stamens four, didynamous, included in the corolla, the smaller ones often very short, and bent downwards. ANTHERS nodding, the cells oval, tht brencite, obliquely inserted on a hooked connectivum. Cetus of the ovary containing two ovules E each. branch linear, somewhat flattened, with a lateral stigma. Capsune six-angled, two-valved, the valves separable from the dissepiment, each cell having near the base two disk-shaped seeds attached under the retinacula. DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, Gouprussis GLOMERATA. STEM shrubby at the base, much branched. Branecues herbaceous, irregu- larly divaricate, knotty, bearing, especially in the upper part, many stiff spreading hairs. Leaves opposite, stalked, those of each pair very unequal in size, the larger ones three to six inches long, ovate, ending in a long point, irregularly toothed on the margin, more or less contracted at the base, rough with long stiff hairs on the upper side, pale and nearly smooth underneath, the opposite one of each pair usually less than half the size, and broader in proportion. Heaps eo , OF FLOWERS nearly sessile in the axils of the upper leaves, solitary, ovate or globose, few flowered, hairy, the upper heads forming a sort of glomerate broken spike at the extremity of the branches. Each head consists of a series of opposite bracts, of which the outer ones are short, ovate or lanceolate, and sterile, the inner ones from half an inch to an inch long, lanceolate, blunt, entire or toothed, each having a sessile flower in its axil. CaLyx consisting of five linear lanceolate unequal sepals, similar to the inner bract but smaller. Coro3ia nearly two inches long, of a rich blue, the tube narrow where included in the calyx, then spreading into a long and ample throat, the divisions _ of the limb short and broad, the whole corolla perfectly smooth rte and out, with the exception of a very few collecting hairs in the throat. FiLtamMents adhering to the corolla and to each aii half way up the throat, then free and flattened, the shorter ones scarcely d down. ANTHERS —— the cells parallel, mpening nearly | the whole length, ith phylla, from whence it appears the generic character is chiefly taken. Porutar anD GeocrapuicaL Notice. The genus Goldfussia is one of those separated by Nees von Esenbeck from the old hetero- morphous assemblage collected under the name of Ruellia. The species are all Indian, and appear to be chiefly, if not entirely, moun- tain plants. The present species from the mountains of Sylhet, may, perhaps, be a mere variety of the Goldfussia capitata of Nepal, and of the biceps of the Burmah country; if so, its range is extensive, but the solitary heads of flowers and the hairiness are the same in the culti- vated plant as in the wild specimens described by Nees. Another plant of the same genus, the Goldfussia anisophylla (which is the old Ruellia anisophylla of our gardens) has lately been the subject of some very interesting observations of Professor Morren, of Liege, who has detected a remarkable irritability in the upper part of the style, by which alone, when acted upon by insects or other external agents, the stigma is enabled, according to him, to come in contact with the pollen. G. B. InTRopUCTION; WHERE GRowN; CuLTurE, This species was first discovered in the mountains of Sylhet, by F. da Silva, one of the collectors employed by Dr. Wallich, and transmitted from Calcutta to his Grace the Duke of Northumberland, in whose stoves at Sion House, it first flowered in November, 1839. To his Grace’s conde- scension we are much indebted for the opportunity of figuring it. It should be planted in a eeatre of peat and loam. ATION OF THE s. a in honour of ft Goldfuss of Bonn, Secretary and Librarian o the Academy Nature spsilared oy "dag heaped, or in heads. GoLDFUSSIA GLOMERATA, — ‘ide Muitibck: in Wallich’s Plantz Asiatic Rariores, v. 3, p, 88 3 —< + rE . > * 7 Mitts, oh si asec re e, Nerait, somal. ‘ -_ _ CYCNO'CHES - MACULATA, ee RRS ES “SPOTTED CYCNOCHES. eae. ENDOGENE. : : OR "- MONOCOTYLEDON ER : Ath Wareral division { to which De mg this Plant at NATURAL ORDER, ORCHIDACEA, 6YNANDROSE, Artificial divisions GYNA avo OF to which MONANDRIA, LIN OLEY. this Plant belongs. OF LINNEUS. No. 156. GENUS. Cycnocurs. Livpiey. Perriconir explant foliola exteriora lanceolata, lateralia —_ labellum subcomnata, suprem —— NP at TaORRs faleata, decurva. lib caratum, integerrimum, ll lj MN Migis, are a, teres, apice “clavata, clinandrio u trinque faleato- Oe ae AntHeErA bilocularis. Poeun ta duo, postice suleata, er Arteaga aL lineari glandulz grosse affixa. Herbe epiphyte pseudobulbosa, s radi- calibus vel axillaribus, floribus racemosis. Enpxziczer. Genera Plentarem, 198. ; SPECIES. Promcnay atdeaiieet (LenDiY.) sy" Sacene longer floro, lab ulis utrinque quinque vel sex < teretibus elongatis genuflexis pinnatifide margi- nato, epichilio lanceolate membranaceo acuto margine incurvo. LinDLey: Bot. Reg. 1840, Miscellanies, n CHARACTER OF THE Guies; CycNocHEes. PERIGON spreading, the outer leaflets or sepals lanceolate, the lateral ones slightly connected below the Jabellum, the upper one narrower; inner leaflets or petals broader, faleate, and curved downwards. LaBELLUM continuous with the column, free, lanceolate, without a spur, entire, with a callosity on the claw, and occasionally with processes on the surface towards the middle. Cotumn elongated, curved, cylindrical, thickened towards the top, with an auricular appendage on each side of the receptacle of the anther. ANTHER two-celled. PoLLEN MASSES two, furrowed on’ the back, almost clawed, with a linear caudicle attached to a large gland. DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES CYCNOCHES MACULATA. Pseupo- BULBS elongated, compressed. FLOWERING STEMS terminated in a tuft of long linear lanceolate leaves, somewhat wavy on the margin, contracted towards the base above the sheaths by which they clasp the stem, strongly marked with three or five longitudinal nerves. RAcEME axillary, hanging downwards, nine to eighteen inches long, with a few squamz at the base, bearing flowers nearly from the bottom. Bracts membranous, lanceolate, pointed, about the length of the ‘i -_ foot-stalks. Ovary bent down at right angles to the foot-stalk. FLowers three inches in diameter, the five spreading divisions nearly alike in form and colour, being lanceolate, pointed, narrowed at the base, ofa pale colour but marked with claret spots, the lateral outer ones more attenuated, and joined together at the base, the upper outer one longer and narrower, the inner ones somewhat twisted at their extremity. LaBELLUM narrow, shorter than the other divisions, © the lower part or hypochilium linear with an oblong swelling at the base, the central portion or metachilium rather broader, and bearing on the upper surface a dozen protuberances pinnately arranged, blunt and hooked at the end; the labellum terminates in a narrow lanceo- late epichilium, the borders turned upwards, the whole more or less marked with claret spots. CoLumnN nearly the length of the divisions of the perigon, very much curved inwards and thickened at the extremity, almost entirely of a vinous colour, the clinandrium having on each side an ovate auricle. Porutar AND Geocgrapuicat Notice. The little genus Cycno- ches, remarkable for the graceful swan-like inflection of the column, now consists of four species, natives of that hotbed of Orchidacee, the damp tropical regions in the north-east of the South American conti- nent. The new species now figured is chiefly remarkable for the appendages of the labellum, called by some, glands, but the nature and use of which are as puzzling as that of many other of the singu- larities in the flowers of this extraordinary tribe. It appears also to be one of the finest of the genus, from the great length and number of flowers of the raceme. InTRopuCTION; WHERE GRowN; CuLTurRE. We are indebted to John Willmore, Esq, of Oldford, Staffordshire, for the specimen of this splendid new Cyenoches, from which our drawing was made. Our ~ readers will appreciate the progress of floriculture when they are told that the very plant now figured, which flowered in the above gentle- man’s Orchidaceous house, under the assiduous management of Mr. Williams, in December, 1839, was found luxuriating on its native hills of La Guyra, with Cattleya Mossei and numerous other species, {in the April preceding, by Mr. Charles M* Kenzie, and sent home to his spirited employers, the Messrs. Low, of Clapton Nursery, from whom it was obtained by Mr. Willmore. It requires but the usual treatment of its genus—rough peat and potsherds, and moist heat when growing. ERIVATION OF THE NAMES, Cycnocues, from rvxvog a swan, the column oo compared to a swan’s neck. Macunata spotted. c Vihewe PhO PEE FORE Connie athe beeevert PFE Se me ern ae : oblong, 5-10-celled, becoming either 5 or 10-valved by septicidal RHODODEN’DRON CAUCA'SICO-ARBO'REUM. SHEWY HYBRID RHODODENDRON. ie ‘ DICOTYLEDONES: - ‘Natural division to which this plant belongs. NATURAL ORDER, ERICACEZ. — divisions souiernn “og ep this oi nt me No. 157. GENUS. Ruopopenpron. Linnzvs. Catyx quinque-partitus. Corozta infundibuliformis vel subcampanulata, limbo quinquefido vel rarius. fido, equali vel subbilabiato. Stamina hypogyna vel ime corolle in- serta, ejusdem laciniis numero equalia (5), vel sepius dupla (10 vel 14); fila- menta filiformia, adscende ntia. pee ee mutice, lows alis api ee poro — a ulare, | es filiformi 8; stigma capitatum. " Carsuta Poke vel oblonga, quinque- pine 3 locularis, septicide quinque-decemvalvis, columna centrali placentifera libera. oan (IN a plurima, testa laxa, reticulata, scobiformia, Frurices vel arbores, pe et Asie m , : CALYCIFLORE, OF DECANDOLLE. #2 mediz alpi n sities oreali, in Indie terra con- | spontanei; es _alternis, win. heen me ie virentibus vel P el a. Ewnp- LICHER: Glen Pistarn, p. 759. HYBRID. RsopopenprRon Caucasico-aRBOREUM HYBRIDUM pulcherri- Fors ovatis obtusis vel oblongis supra nitidis, umbellis Ric ae tis. mum. corollis rota CHARACTER OF THE Suet RHODODENDRON. Catyx 6-parted. CoroLia hypogynous or subcampanulate, limb 5- rarely 7-cleft, equal or slightly two-lipped. Stamens hypogynous o or inserted into the bases of the corolla, equal in number with the segments of the corolla, and in that case 5, or more frequently double (and then 10 or 14); filaments filiform, ascending, anthers not pointed, the cells opening by an oblique pore at the summit. Ovary 5- or 10-celled, cells containing _ many ovules. Srtyvze filiform; stigma capitate. CapsuLE globose or 2 dehiscence, the column central, free, and placentiferous. SEEDS. numerous, testa loose, reticulated, 3 se as if sprinkled with particles of dust. DESCRIPTION OF THE Hysrip, called SHewy or Hanpsome RuHoDODENDRON. Sarvs a foot or two high, stem branched, branches spreading. Leaves alternate, shortly petiolate, coriaceous, persistent, ovate or oblong, neither woolly nor rusty on the under surface, dark green and shining on the upper. Groups OF FLOWERS terminal; pedicels short; calyx small, five-parted. . Coroixa oblique at the base; tube short; limb spreading, five-lobed, lobes obtuse or slightly emarginate, the inner side a most delicate pink, except where it is marked with deep red spots at the base, and reddish spots on the upper lobes. STAMENS ten, unequal in length. ANTHERS two-celled. Ovary five-celled. Sty.te one. Stiema capitate. Popotar AND Grograpuican Notice. The parents of this hybrid were the Rhododendron arboreum, a native of Nepal, on the moun- tains of Narainhetty; (the varieties Rhododendron arboreum roseum, and Rhododendron arboreum niveum, are found only on Sheopore, at the head of the valley of Nepal, occupying a station on that moun- tain 10,000 feet above the level of the sea); and the Rhododendron Caucasicum, which grows on the highest of the Caucasian range of mountains, bordering on the regions of perpetual snow. The pro- duction of hybrids has been objected to on the ground that they lead to confusion among species. They are, however, far from being useless, as they illustrate many points in physiology, particularly with © regard to the origin and permanency of certain varieties or races— both human, and in the domestic animals; and also modify the con- stitution of plants in a very remarkable degree. The magnificent Rhododendron arboreum, though growing at such an elevation in its native land, has been found too delicate to endure our climate in the open air, Various hybrids, produced by applying the pollen of it to some other species, have been found hardy enough, and as the flowers are little less splendid than those of the Tree Rhododendron itself, our woodlands and heaths are now adorned with most magnificent tufts of flowers in the early part of spring. Of this, Lord Carnarvon’s seat, at High-Clere, i in Hampshire, is a striking instance—the hybrids which flourish there, however, are produced by fertilizing Rhododendron e Catawbiense with Rhododendron arboreum. _ QOricin; WHere Grown; Cotrore. This mule originated with Mr. William Smith, of Norbiton Common Nursery, near Kingston, Surrey. The specimen from which our drawing was made, flowered with Messrs. Rollisson, Tooting. It requires the usual bog-earth soil. Derivation or THE NaMEs, RuopovenpRon, from podoy a rose, and devdpor, a tree. CAUCASICO-ARBOREUM, compounded of the names of the parents. SynonyMeE. RHODODENDRON VENUSTUM. Don: in panes Flower Garden, 2nd Series, t. 285, * Mi Withers. ded. LIL'IUM THUNBERGIA'NUM. ha THUNBERG’S LILY. ENDOGEN A, oR MONOCOTYLEDONEA. ph a mg tah rit ia this Plant 5, NATURAL ORDER, LILIACE A, HYPOGYNOsSE, . mira soit OF whie * LINDLEY, this Plant aon No. 158. ENUS. Litium. Linyzvs. Prriconium corollinum, deciduum, hexa- phyllum; foliola basi subeokurentia, infundibuliformi-campanulata, apice patentia vel: rey oluta, intus sulco nectarifero adherentia. Ovarium triloculare. v LA t sulea Bre scpetty loculicido-trivalvis. Semrna plurima, biseriata, horn, plano. spin testa Anteisndattes subspongiosa, imembranacen-marzinata, © phe hi ¢ per V jibiadidens, extrémiftate radiculari umbilico on a eos! in Europa et Asia media et septentrionali, in Japonia et i » hee non i erica boreali indigene, bulbose; foliis iniie vel sa sastictiint. Series magnis, speciosis, pioctis vel nutantibus. Enpzicwer. Genera Plantarum, p. 141. SPECIES. Lizroum Tuunsercianum,. (Romeret Scuutres.) Caule superne villoso, a ovato- uassslaa fitirlactbe s alternis superioribus verticillatis, floribus mines ives orcetigy perianthii laciniis ay ota ys tentibus apice revo- Lin lutis intus aaa 5 CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, aie PE resembling a corolla, deciduous, of six pieces or folioles, folioles slightly cohering at the base, funnel-shaped or campanulate, spreading at the apex, or curved back, having on the inner surface a nectariferous groove. Sramens six, slightly adhering to the base of the folioles of the perigon. Ovary three-celled. OvuLes numerous, in two rows, hori- zontal, anatropous. STYLE terminal, somewhat club-shaped, straight or only slightly curved; stigma somewhat three-lobed. CapsuLe three-cornered, six-furrowed, three-celled, becoming three-valved by a loculicidal dehiscence. SEEDS numerous, in two rows, horizontal, compressed into a flat form, testa yellowish, somewhat spongy, fur- nished with a membranaceous margin, along which the raphe runs. Empryo either straight or segmoid in the axis of a fleshy albumen, the radical extremity next the hilum. DESCRIPTION OF THE Species, Litium THUNBERGIANUM. PeER- MANENT STEM, consisting of a scaly bulb, which emits a shoot about three feet high, bearing the leaves and flowers,,smooth below, clothed with soft hairs towards the upper part. Leaves alternate and sparse at the lower part, verticillate in whorls of three or four near the top, sessile, broad at the base, ovate lanceolate, smooth, strong nerved, about an inch and half broad. FLowers terminal, erect, of a rich fawn or brick colour. Perricon of six spreading lanceolate segments, smooth, limb spotted towards the base, and nearly tubular, having a double nerve running to the tip. STAMENS six, shorter than the segments of the perigon; filaments of unequal length. ANTHERS two-celled, ver- satile; pollen dark brown. Ovary remarkably club-shaped, green; style one, springing from the centre of the ovary, brick-coloured, thickened towards the summit; stigma three-lobed. Poputar aND GEoGrapPHicaL Notice. One of the many magni- ficent Lilies which Kempfer stated as ornamenting Japan, whence Dr. Siebold contrived to bring it in a living state. Thunberg was the first to describe it, and he bestowed several names upon it, referring it to Lilium bulbiferum, to which it could not belong, having no bulbs i in the axils of the leaves; then to Lilium Philadelphicum. It does not possess the agreeable odour of the white lilies, indeed it is a circumstance worthy of notice, that orange or brown flowers rarely have a pleasant aroma, as may be remarked in the common orange lily, and yet more in the stapelias. INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTuRE. Introduced from Belgium to England. Our drawing was made from a plant at the Messrs. Rollisson’s, at Tooting. It is kept in a frame, but may pos- sibly prove hardy, flowering from July to September. “After flow- ering, the bulbs should be fresh potted or planted in a pit, well protected from wet, late in autumn or very early in the spring, in a mixture of sandy peat, loam, and a small portion of rotted manure or leaf mould. The soil in the pots or pit in which the fresh bulbs are planted should be kept dry until they begin to grow, when water should be given, but rather sparingly at first. The plant may be in- creased freely from every scale of which the old bulb is composed. These, if separated, potted in sand, and placed in a gentle heat, will soon make plants, but they will not flower for two or three years.” (Linp.ey.) IVATION OF THE NaME Litium, from the Celtic 1, white. Titvxeenerxuie, to signify that this was the plant of Thunberg. Synon Linium TounBercianum. Romer et Schultes, Systema eo VL. 415. —___+_—___—_——Lindley: Botanical a 38. SE Withers, clit. COLE’US BARBA’TUS. ~~” BEARDED COLEUS. EXOGENZE oR DICOTYLEDONEZ. Natural division 09 ate to which fthis Plant belongs. al Artificial divisions ys to which ! .this Plant belongs. COROLLIFLORA, DIDYNAMIA, OF eientern RMIA, DECANDOLLE, OF LINNEUS. GENU Ss. CoLEts. LovReEIR Catyx ovato 1 dente supremo ovato-membra eae inferioribus angustioribus, omnibus vel infimis acutis. Conor ie exserto defr acto, — wigpews superiore brevi tri- vel quadri-fido, ius cymbiformi, genitalia ineludente, STAMINA qnatnor, declinata. Finawe NTA edentula, basi i iin tubum stylum vaginantem conna reniformes, Styxuvs apice subulatus, bifidus, stigmatibus subterminali ibus. CarPELLa sub- rotundo- ——— levin. HER BE rarius sufrut tices. VERTICILLASTRI sexflori 1 multiflor i OLIA FLORALIA bractew- formia, per < tien sepius decidua. SPECIES. EUS BARBATUs (BENTHAM) caule Lk ——— adscendente tomentoso-hispido, —- seas widen crenati s basi angustatis molliter tomentosis, junioribus hispidis is lato-ovatis acuminatis in apice racemorum como i is per anthesin deciduis, racemis simplicibus, verticil- lastris sex ad ca dinaatibas calycibus fructiferis deflexis hispidis, fauce intus villosa, den eae = siete ejage inferioribus lanceolatis acutis ccbucuattbes. aie bio ximo cymbiformi CHARACTER OF THE ton + walling CaLyx ovate bell-shaped, with five teeth, of which the upper one is ovate membranous, the four lower narrower, all four, or at least the two lowest, pointed. Coronta with a tube projecting beyond the calyx, suddenly bent down; the limb two-lipped, the upper lip short and three- or four-cleft, the lower one entire, stalked, long, concave or boat-shaped. Stamens four, didynamous. FILAMENTS without teeth, joined together at the base in a tube inclosing the style; anthers ovate reniform; the cells con- fluent. Styze subulate, shortly bifid; the Same nearly terminal. CarPELs roundish, flattened, smooth. DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, COLEUS BARBATUS. STEM peren- nial or shrubby at the base, branched and straggling below the flower- ing branches, ascending or erect, two or three feet high, more or less covered with stiff spreading articulate hairs. Leaves opposite, stalked ovate, blunt, crenated, narrowed at the base, rather thick and rough, REFERENCE Tro THE DissEcTIons. 39 1, Stamina, showing their connectionin a sheath, 2, A detached flower. usually downy and more or less covered with stiff appressed hairs, of a light green when fresh, whitish when dry, two or three inches in length. Racemes terminal, simple, often attaining a foot in length. consisting of a series of false whorls or verticillasters of six to ten flowers each, and placed at intervals of from half an inch to an inch or more.» FLoRAL LEAVES resembling bracts, sessile, broadly ovate with a long point, entire, concave, membranous, smooth, of a light green, longer than the calyx, and forming a tuft at the top of the young spike, but always falling off before the flowers expand. TRUE BRACTS none. PEDICELS erect, about two lines long, simple, one- flowered. Catyx resembling those of the Basil, nodding, bell-shaped, more .or less violet coloured and covered with stiff hairs, the upper division broad, ovate, and pointed, the four lower ones lanceolate, pointed, and nearly equal to each other. Coro.za of a violet blue, often more or less mixed with white; the tube slightly gibbous on the under side at the base, bent downwards at a right angle where it leaves the calyx, and dilated into a short broad throat; the upper lip broad, short, bent back, emarginate or with four very short obtuse teeth, _ marked in front with an orange spot; the lower lip nearly horizontal, large, boat-shaped, pointed and entire. Styie shortly and equally bifid at the extremity. CARPELS very smooth. Popuxar anp Geocrapuicat Notice. This plant belongs to a very numerous group among the Labiate, natives of the hotter part of the old world, with a very few species scattered over tropical America, and ce as far as were known in the days of Linneus, were collected by tl t under the Hailie of Ocimum; but as the ten or eleven species ‘Hiwa to him have gradually increased to above a hundred and sixty, various divisions of the group have been proposed, and they now constitute twelve genera, which appear to be better characterized and more natural than many of our old European genera of Labiate. Indeed, were the slight modifications derived from the calyx and bracts, which have alone served as the basis of many of the Linnean characters, to be applied to the Asiatic and African Ocimoidez, the present number of their genera would be again doubled, at the least. Coleus, to which the present species belongs, contains above thirty species; some of them much resembling, it is true, in habit, the Plee- tranthi, with which they have been sometimes associated, but all of them distinguished by so remarkable a character amongst Labiate, the monadelphous stamens, that it appeared impossible not to give it a generic value. Indeed, under the Linnean arrangement, were the principles upon which the value of that system is supposed to depend, - its artificial preciseness, to be acted upon without regard to natural affinities, the Colei should be removed from the Class of Didynamia to be placed under Monadelphia. Modifications in the calyx and inflorescence furnish three distinct divisions or sections in the genus to which the names of Calceolus, Aromaria and Solenostemon have been given, and the latter has again been subdivided into three others on the same principle; the species here figured belongs to the section Calceolus, having the apparently verticillate inflorescence and reflexed calyx of Ocimum. The whole tribe of Ocimoidex, including, besides the above-men- tioned plants, the extensive American genus Hyptis, with some small groups allied to it, and the European Lavender, is, perhaps, the most marked amongst Labiate by the direction of the stamens, which are declinate, or bent downwards upon the lower lip of the corolla, instead of ascending against the upper lip, as in most other Labiate. It was this circumstance that induced Linneus and his immediate followers to suppose the flower to be resupinate, and that what appeared to be the lower lip was, in fact, the u per one; but, when once the ‘study of nature of the different organs of plants, the error was detected. It was long since pointed out by Poiteau, and fully explained by Brown, and yet there remain determined followers of Linneus, who, because he made great strides in the advancement of the science, think that no one could, after him, go still farther; and in this respect as in so man others, still persist in copying his characters, as the best that human ingenuity can invent. The Colei are spread over the tropical regions of the old world, not one of them having yet been found in America. One species, belong- ing to the section Solenostemon has been gathered in Western Africa, the remainder of that section are natives of the warmer parts of India, and of the islands of the Indian ocean, especially of the Indian archipelago, where there are probably numerous species yet unknown. Aromaria includes only one species, the Coleus aromaticus, a native of the Indian peninsula. The Calceoli are mountain plants from the Arabian and Indian peninsula, as well as from the Himalayas. Coleus bar- batus is not uncommon amongst rocks at a moderate elevation, in Nepal, Kamaon, Mysore, as well as the peninsula. The Coleus aromaticus, mentioned above, is much cultivated in India for the strong aromatic smell of its leaves, which they preserve in our stoves, where the plant is frequently to be met with, and deserves attention on that account, although its flowers are not showy. They are, however, interesting as being usually in a peculiar state of monstrosity, which shows what is the normal structural type of the Labiate. It has long been admitted that, as in the greater number of Monopetalz, the flower of Labiate is formed on a penta- merous type, that is to say, that if the irregular flower in this order were made regular, five would be the number of parts in each floral verticillum. In the calyx and corolla this number is evident in most species, and only rarely reduced to four. In the stamina four is the usual number, but the frequent accidental presence of the fifth, leaves no doubt as to their normal number and position; but with regard to the ovarium, some discussion has arisen as to the degree of reduction which has taken place. It is well known that the fruit consists of four parts, which were once called naked seeds, and are now designated as carpels, and many have supposed each of these parts to be really a ee carpel, in which the reduction here would be no greater than n the case of the stamina; and the fact of there being always four divisions to the style in Cleonia, without any addition to the number of carpels, seemed to confirm this view. Further consideration, how- ever, induced many botanists to contend that the supposed carpels were, in fact, but semi-carpels; and that the fruit really consisted of two bipartite carpels, corresponding to the two branches of the style. For in other orders where the style is divided, the divisions are usually equal to, or greater than, not less than the number of carpellary leaves ; and the close analogy between Labiate and Verbenacez, where there are certainly but two, would be destroyed, were the Labiatz supposed to have four carpels. This position receives a strong confirmation from the flowers of the Coleus aromaticus, in which the deficient parts of the ovary are often more or less developed; and where, in the most perfect cases, there are five divisions to the style, to each of which there corre- spond two lobes of the ovary, making, in the whole, ten of these semi-carpels. A similar monstrosity, though to a less degree, may sometimes be seen in cultivated specimens of Sideritis Canariensis. INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTuRE, This rare plant was received from India, in 1838, by his Grace the Duke of Northumber- land, to whose condescension we are indebted for the opportunity o figuring it. In a botanical point of view it is exceedingly interesting, and not unworthy of attention by the mere florist. Of the mode of culture adopted, we have no specific information. DeERivaTION oF THE NaMEs. Coteus from coXzog, a sheath, the staminal tube forming a sheath round the style. Barsatus, bearded. SyNoNnYMEs. PLECTRANTHUS BARBATUs, Andrews’s Botanist’s Demet t. 594. PLECTRANTHUs Comosus. Botanical Magazine, t. 23 Ocimum asPpERUM. Roth. Nove Plantarum Big >. 263. PLECTRANTHUS ASPER. Sprengel: Systema, v. 2, p. 690. Bentham: Labiatarum CoLeUS BARBATU ——— et Species, p. 49, omitting e Synonymes r. Forskol and Vahl. Va y a Mf** Withers. del €. 7) hiolonalove ROVE + Wevitt, scalp. “> . RHODODEN’DRON IN’DICUM. | BRICK-COLOURED INDIAN RHODODENDRON, OR AZALEA., im OR DICOTYLEDONE&. Natural division te which } poi this plant belongs. NATURAL ORDER, ERICACEA. Artificial divisions PENTANDRIA, to which MONOGYNIA, this Plant belongs. OF LINNEUS. No, 160. GENUS. Ruopopenpron. Linyavs. Catyx quinque-partitus. Corotia hypogyna, vel infundibuliformis vel subcampanulata, limbo quinquefido vel rarius septemfido, wquali, vel sub-bilabiato, Stamina hypogyna vel ima corollx inserta, ejusdem laciniis numero xqualia (5), vel sepius duplo (10) vel (14); flamenta filiformia, adscendentia ; anthers mation, loculis apice _poro obliquo dehiscentibus. Stryuvs filiformis. Sriema capitatum. CaPsuLa globosa’ vel oblonga, quinque- decemlocularis, —* quinque-decemvalvis, columna centrali placenti libera. Semrna plurima, testa laxa, re reticulata, scobiformia. Frurices vel arbores, i in ae et Asixw mediz alpibus, in ae boreali, in Indiz terra conti ntanei; foliis alternis: i tegerrimis, semper virentibus CALYCIFLORE rruons, @Sa ey DECANDOLLE, vel decid floribus ee a Sioa roseis purpareig, ze) albis. ' Enpiicuer: Genera Plantaru 59. SPECIES. RuopopEenpRON enn (Linn2US) VARIETAS, LATERITIUM. (Azavea Inpica, var. LATERITIA). Foutis Le nee obtusis, floribus pentan- dris lete ¢ lntebitiis, corollis tubuloeso-campanul CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, Leas ee Catyx five-parted. Coroita hypogynous or subcampanulate, limb five- rarely seven- cleft, equal or slightly two-lipped. Stamens hypogynous or inserted into the base of the corolla, equal in number with the segments of the corolla, and in that case five, or more frequently double, and then ten, or fourteen; filaments filiform, ascending, anthers not pointed, the cells opening by an oblique pore at the summit. Ovary five- or ten- celled, cells containing many ovules. Sryxe filiform; stigma capitate. CapsuLe globose or oblong, five- or ten-celled, becoming either five- or ten-valved, by a septicidal dehiscence; the column central, free, and placentiferous. SzEDs numerous; testa loose, reticulated, appear- ing as if sprinkled with particles of dust. DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, RHODODENDRON INpICUM, VARIETY BRICK-COLOURED. A SHRUB, two or three feet high, branched, branches numerous, giving a very bushy appearance to the plant. LEavEs alter- nate, almost sessile, oblong or spathulate, alternate at the base, dark green, very hairy, thin. Lowers terminal, solitary, or rarely twin. CaLyx small, five-toothed. Coroxiua large, shewy, of a brick-red colour towards the base, but lighter towards the margin; tube short; limb spreading, five-lobed, lobes blunt, or slightly emarginate. STa- MENS five, of nearly equal length; filaments slender; anthers two- celled. Ovary globose; style one, slender, longer than the stamens; stigma capitate. PoruLar AND GEocrapHicaL Notice. The genus Azalea has been merged by Professor Don in that of Rhododendron, and every one who studies the subject must acquiesce in the propriety of this step. No difference of sufficient value to constitute a generic dis- tinction existed between them, for the mere circumstance of the sta- mens being five in the one (Azalea) and ten in the other (Rhodo- dendron), is inadequate to justify their separation. The species for- merly referred to Azalea have deciduous leaves, while the Rhododen- drons have evergreen ones; but these characters are only useful for sectional distinctions. As at present constituted, the genus contains all those species which belong to the sections Anthodendron (Reichen- bach), Rhodora (Linneus), Eurhododendron, Booram, and Hymenan- thes (Blume), which last has fourteen stamens, The numerous species occur in the Alpine regions of Europe and central Asia, in North America, and on the continent and islands of India. Our pre- sent species is a native of China, and is regarded by Mr. Reeves as a mere sport from the Rhododendron (Azalea) Indicum variegatum, an opinion which the appearance of the foliage strongly confirms. It most probably grows in the southern and warmer parts of China, as it flourishes best when kept warm. The lofty site of several varieties of Rhododendron is mentioned in the preceding article, and their beauty in such places must excite the admiration of the traveller. InrropucTION; WHERE Grown; Cuntore. Introduced in 1823, by Mr. M* Killigan. The plant from which the drawing was taken flowered in the collection of Messrs. Rollisson of Tooting. It requires bog earth, and to be kept in the conservatory, but some time previous to flowering it may be advantageously ace into a bark stove. ERIVATION OF THE yee eer n the preceding plant. eines is from ’AZaXeoc, —o alludin, the soil where it grew. Inpicum, Indian; taTERitium fr LATER, @ brick, in reference to the colour. AZALEA INDICA, VAR. LATERITIA, Lindley: “pruaed Register, t. 1700. Navitt, scanty. | : r Mitte, sel Has Choe sectfaegeoic i — & DAH'LIA SCAPIG ERA. SCAPE-BEARING DAHLTA. EXOGENER, oe DICOTYLEDONE. Natural division to which this Plant a | gs ) Artificial divisions f°, p to which Bed this Plant belongs, No. 161. GENUS. Danuta. CavaniLLEs. CaPpituLu ligulati inei neutrisve, disci tubulosis quinquedentatis. cir : CALYCIFLORE, OF DECANDOLLE, leads ror sited ANTHER~ ecaudate, appendiculate. Aca#nium oblongo- b RBZ i vel oligocephali. CaritruLa sie chroma, nempe disco Eien ae purpureo, roseo albo aut flavescente. Dzcanbor~e. Prodromus, v. 5 p. 4! SPECIES. mines er Link er Orro. Cavite hisili basi ra- sonpifarnible Reed unifloris vel, subtrifloris foliis pinnatipartitis, ligulis foemineis fertitibus CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, DanLiaA. FLOWERHEAD radiate, the florets of the ray ligulate, female or neuter, those of the disk hermaph- rodite, tubular, usually 5-toothed. | INvoLucrE double, the external consisting of about five spreading or recurved leaflets, the internal of sre m eight to sixteen erect long ya et seta wert 3 in —_ membranous at the top, thick Ranaretats flat, with abions entire membranous scales. BRANCHE ES of the style erect or slightly curved, thick, and bearing hairs outside. ANTHERS without tails, but with appendages at the top. AcH®NIUM oblong, ovate, compressed at the top, without a pappus but obscurely two-horned at the top. DESCRIPTION OF THE Species, Danuta Scapicera. Roors fasci- culate, some of them cylindrical and fibrous, others swelling into oblong tubers. Stem short, procumbent or even trailing at the base, dividing out immediately into a number of nearly erect branches, nearly smooth as well as the whole plant, some of them one or two feet high, bearing a single pair of leayes, and two or three flowers, others reduced to a one-flowered peduncle. LEAVES opposite, pinnately divided, the com- REFERENCE me — thane rae 1, Style of a floret of the disk. 48 Pope eut oa it the stamina. 4, a floret e disk. 2 A gio ar the ra mon stalk four to eight inches long, furrowed on the upper side, and slightly dilated at the base so as to clasp the stem. LEaFLeETs five or seven, rarely more, oval, blunt, irregularly and coarsely toothed, the lateral ones opposite to each other, usually very unequally contracted at the base and the pairs remote from each other, the terminal one rather larger, equal at the base and gradually contracted, and gener- ally very near to the last pair. PepuNctzs six or eight inches, or even more in length, smooth, naked or bearing a single linear leaflet. FLOWER HEADS nodding as in the rest of the genus, about two inches and a half in diameter. INvoLucRE smooth, the external leaflets oval - lanceolate, blunt, stiff, slightly spreading, five in number ; inner leaflets always eight in the flowers hitherto seen, twice as long as the external ones, oval-oblong, membranous and blunt, thickened and connected together at the base. FLorets of the ray, as many as the inner leaflets of the involucre, white, oval oblong, with two to five minute teeth, female and fertile. Pate of the receptacle oval, oblong, mem- branous, half the length of the involucre. FLorets of the disk, yel- low. STYLE projecting beyond the floret, the branches straight, diverging, thick, broad, and conspicuously hairy. Porutar AND GeoGrapHicaL Notice. As the Dahlia excelsa, figured in the second volume of the Botanist, No. 88, is the giant of the genus, so may the present species be considered as the dwarf, but far from being despicable on that account, it is likely that it may prove to be a much more useful acquisition than its gigantic unwieldy congener. Reduction in the stature has, indeed, been one of the great desiderata amongst Dahlia growers, where the object is to embellish a flower garden, rather than to decorate a drawing room, or to display in an exhibition tent; and as the Dahlia scapigera seems already to show a disposition to sport, it is probable that from its great affinity to the common Dahlia variabilis it may be made to cross with that spe- cies, and produce a number of valuable dwarf hybrid races. The Dahlia scapigera, like the rest of the genus, isu native of Mexico, although the precise locality does not appear to have been recorded. G. B. InrropucTion; WHERE Grown; CuLTurE. This new species was received into the Birmingham Horticultural Society’s Garden, from the Berlin Royal Garden, in 1838. It is a very distinct species, not exceeding two feet in height, and comes into flower earlier than the common species—a quality which is desirable. It requires exactly the same treatment as our well-known Dahlia. Derivation or THE Names. ee in honour of Professor Dahl, of Copenhagen. Scapicera, scape- aring. SynonyMeEs. Dau ia scaPiceRa. Link et Otto. Knowles Floral Cabinet, t. 118. a - fe cocertveda, = . ERUCA COCCIN’EA. Var, echiiflora. ECHIUM-FLOWERED SCARLET HEATH. EXOGEN, oR DICOTYLEDONE@&. Natural division to which Y oy Ses this Plant belongs. cud NATURAL ORDER, ERICACE, (Gy * Artificial divisions Spe wid OCTANDRIA, to which oo tcmease } this Plant belongs, ve LINNEUS. No. 162. GENUS. Erica. Linnezvs. Catyx equalis profunde quadrifidus vel sepius quadripartitus. Cororra tubulosa hypocrateriformis urceolata cam- panulata vel globosa, limbo brevi quadrifido erecto recurvo revoluto vel stellato atente. Stamina octo rarius sex vel septem sub disco Ey piase sepe gland- uloso inserta. FiramMe NTA libera vel rarissime submonadel pha. ANTHERS ter: erent ses laterales a isv vel mutice. Ovarrum stead HEATH. diay: EXOGENS, oR Soortaneits. Natural division to which this Plant a NATURAL ORDER, ERICACE, Artificial vn) OCTANDRIA, to which MONOGYNIA, this Plant betes | OF LINNEUS. No. 163: GENUS. Erica. Linwzvs. Catyx equalis profunde quadrifidus vel se- pius quadripartitus. Coroxza tubulosa, hypocrat teriformis urceolata campan- ulata vel globosa, limbo brevi quadrifido erecto recurvo, revoluto vel stellato- Rerent® : Stamina octo rarius sex vel septem, : sub disco p hyenas seepe gland- uloso inserta. Fria A libera vel rarissime submonadelpha. ANTHERZ terminales vel ‘aterales dd: insertionem filamenti calcaribus duobus subulatis vel mutice. Ovantom quadrilocalare ' vel tarias cctéloculare loculis plarioraatis Sriema daw ey ae CALYCIFLORZ®, ayy OF Se cs DECANDOLLE. oe | 1 2 32° 3 ae — in foealis plurima, placentis axilibus. Fruticrs Europe vel maxima parte Austro-Africane. Fortra a rarius sparsa. PEDIcELLI uniflori axil- lares vel terminales bi-tribracte HYBRIDA. Er AMB ANA. (AnprEWs.) Fottts 3-4-nis subreflexo- patentibus 1ineasibGs ‘sb eils rigidis glabris, floribus irregulariter axillaribus ae ea pedicellatis, neectne uncer ihe remotis, sepalis lato- ak ae CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, Fieca: Cayx deeply eanaelt, or more frequently divided into four distinct sepals of equal size. Cor- OLLA tubular, salvershaped, pitcher-shaped, bell-shaped, or globular, with a short four-cleft limb, which is erect, recurved, rolled back, or spreading. STAMENS eight, rarely six +" seven, inserted under a hypogynous disk which is a? glandu FitaMENTs free or slightly monadelphous. ANTHERS terminal or lateral, with or with- out two subulate or crest-shaped appendages at the insertion of the filaments. Ovary four-celled, rarely eight-celled, each cell with many ovules. STyzeE filiform. Stiema capitate, or sometimes broad or peltate, entire or four-lobed. CapsuLe fear, or rarely eight-celled, splitting through the middle of the cells into as many valves, SEEps numerous in each cell, attached to central placente. DescrieTion oF Mr. Lampert’s nysrip Heatu. Stem erect, two or three feet high, stiff and branching. Leaves three, or some- times four in a whorl, spreading or reflexed, oblong, lin -, blunt, thick, flat above, marked underneath with a broad furrow, sinsbthe; the 40 margin occasionally somewhat cartilaginous and minutely toothed. PepuncLE£s solitary, or two or three together at the end of short lat- eral branches, so as frequently to appear axillary, three to six lines long, with three coloured bracts at some distance from the calyx. SeE- PALS broad, lanceolate, obtuse, coloured, slightly keeled at the top, clammy, about one third the length of the corolla. CoroLra about four lines long, thick and clammy, varying from pale red to nearly white, the tube nearly globular, the limb short, erect, with four round- ish very blunt divisions. Stamens and PisTIL included in the flower. FinaMENTs flattened. ANTHERS oblong, with two appendages, lance- olate, and toothed or hairy at the base, ending in a fine point. Ovary smooth Poputar AND GeocrapHicaL Notice. Our great Heath collec- tors, Mr. Niven and Mr. T. Masson, appear to have been the first to dedicate a species to Mr. Lambert, then already known as a great pat- ron of botany, and an intimate friend of Mr. Hibbert, on whose account Mr. Niven’s expedition was undertaken. The original herbaria, how- ever, of these collectors, show that they applied this name to several species which have been published under other names and more espe- cially to the Erica vernix and physodes, and the name of Lambertiana has been transferred by gardeners to a set of hybrids raised from phy- sodes and some allied species; and although the plant, here figured, differs slightly in the colour of the flower, and in the breadth of the appendages to the anthers, from the ordinary Lambertiana, yet as the origin is evidently the same, and as these slight differences always occur between any two individual hybrids raised from the same parents, it would be useless to coina new name. Like a great proportion of hybrid heaths it is more ornamental, bearing a larger number of flow- ers than its parent, though probably requiring rather more care in cultivation. Like our last subject, this was raised at Oldford, in 1835, under the attentive management of Mr. T. Williams. G IVATION OF THE NAMES Erica, from the supposition that the Erica of the a ients was a Heath. ne Ss Lamsertiana, in honour of A. B. Lambert, Esq. Vice President of the Lin- nean Society. SYNONYMEs. Erica Lampertiana. Loddiges’ Botanical Cabinet, t. 3. n ™ eC ia HO’'VEA PUN’GENS. PUNGENT HOVEA. EXOGENEX, ; ok DICOTYLEDONEA. Ne { tops eee this me tek NATURAL ORDER, LEGUMINOSA. Artificial divisions Mowsnniemts, to which DECAN this Plant belongs. OF Lachabe. No. 164, CALYCIFLORE, OF DECANDOLLE, 4 es lek: » ’ GENUS. Hovea. R. Brown. so vel semibifido, inferiore minore tripartito. Vexttium explanatu um, ALz& oblong vexillo breviores, carind obtusa longiores. Stamina omnia connexa vel decimo plus minusve libero, vagina antice vel utrinque ‘fissa. ANTHERE alterne ovate medifixa, ei] tofraiat oblong adnate. Ovariem bi- vel tri-ovula- tum. Sryxvus adscendens filiformis glaber. Srtiema obtusum, nudum. Lxc- UMEN subrotundum obliquum, ventricosum. Srmrna strophiolata. Surrey: ticks fruticesve Australasici. Foxta alterna ee Fores axillares pur- purei aut violacei. SP ES. Hovea PunceNs. View THAM.) Foutts linearibus margine é revolutis reticulate Jae ver bees ol rigidis apice D cwitibvaeavealee CHARACTER OF THE tena: Heviil Cini tid tip pa: the upper lip broad, retuse, or semibifid, the lower much smaller and three-cleft. STANDARD spreading. Wines oblong, shorter than the standard, longer than the blunt keel. STAMENS all united, or the tenth more or less free, the tube split in front, or both front and back. ANTHERS alternately oval and versatile, and oblong and adnate. Ovary with two or three ovules. STYLE ascending, filiform, smooth. Stiema, blunt, naked. Pod roundish, oblique, swollen. SrEps with a strophiola. DESCRIPTION OF THE Species, HOVEA PUNGENS. STEM erect, shrubby, stiff, the young branches downy. Leaves alternate, simple, sessile, half to. three quarters of an inch Jong, spreading, linear, stiff, ending ina sharp pungent point, the margin revolute, transversely r reticulate, smooth or slightly hairy. Strputes stiff, one or two lines Jong, subulate. Prpiceis ustally solitary, short, one-flowered, cur- yed downwards, bearing at the top two small bracts, similar to the sti- pules and close to the calyx, and about half its length. Catyx covered with soft appressed hairs, curved, the upper lip very large and trun- cate, slightly emarginate, the divisions of the lower lip, narrow, and about half the length of the upper one. Coro.ta of a deep violet ‘ purple. SraMens monadelphous, the sheath split in front. Ovary smooth, stipitate, with two or three ovules. Porvtar aND GrocrapnicaL Notice. The genus Hovea, rich in ornamental species, extends along the South Eastern portion of Australia, from Moreton Bay on the East Coast, to King George’s Sound, on the south coast, some species being also found in Van Die- men’s Land. It is a very natural and distinct group, all the species having considerable affinity to each other, and being readily distin- guished from other genera by characters necessarily minute in an order . so vast as that of the Leguminose, but constant. The flowers are always more or less blue or purple, and the calyx is unlike that of any other genus, except Platylobium and Bossiza, which have yellow flow- ers. The leaves in most of them are variable in form, being much broader in the lower part of the plant. The species, which is the sub- ject of the present article, is a native of King George’s Sound, and is easily known by its narrow pungent leaves. It is one of the most bril- liant in colour, and, when well grown, becomes nearly as full of flower as the Hovea chorozemefolia. G. B. INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTuRE. The seeds of Hovea pungens were first gathered at King George’s Sound, by Charles Baron Hugel, and raised, amongst a great variety of Australian plants, collected by him, at his establishment at Hietzing, near Vienna, where it first flowered, in the spring of 1837, and was figured in the second number of a publication, commenced at Vienna, in imitation of the Botanical Register, but which does not appear to have been as yet continued. From Baron Hugel Messrs. Rollisson obtained this species, and it was at their nursery, at Tooting, that our drawing was made. Itis as easy of cultivation as other New Holland Papilionacez. DERIVATION OF THE NaMEs. Hovea, named by R. Brown in honour of cava Pantaleon Hove, a traveller who introduced many eer and Crimean plants to the Kew Gardens. Hovea puncens. Bentham, in ates ‘Ereeesvtlss p. 36, Botanisches Archiv, ix t. 7. ; . € g a G eelore at eeetee te “ee bd e on fe st rd Newspt. «eekly EPIDEN'DRUM SCHOMBURG@‘KII. ~ SCHOMBURGK’S EPIDENDRUM. ENDOGEN:, OR MONOCOTYLEDONES. Natural division to which this plant belongs. GrnaNnmoam, acs divisions GYNANDRIA, to which MONANDRIA, LIN sake this Plant belongs. OF LINNEUS. No. 165. NUS. EpipEnprum. Linnzvus. Pericontt pie exteriora patentts, subequalia, interiora equalia vel angustiora aut rarius latiora. LasEeLLuM ungue cum marginibus columne omnino vel p atti concreto, limbo integro vel partito, disco sepius calloso, costato Pi tuberculato, interdum in calcar . Por tuor totidem replicatis. Hersa Americane tropice ae ayon | caule pseudobulboso vel elongato, foliis sepius carnosis. iT oe ee es Ce eee, 1? SPECIES. Epmenprvm S obtusis ‘carnosis, caule sim mplici on aphyll 0 paces gr ese _petalisque ineari-lanceolatis acutis wqualibus patentissimis, ¢ clavata elongata, labelli trilobi basi bicalloso linea perm elevata, ‘obis larolibee lat rotun- datis laceris, intermedio cuneato apice triangulari crispo medio et utrinque acuminato. CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, EpIDENDRUM. PERIGON spreading, the outer divisions nearly equal, the inner ones equal to them, or narrower, seldom broader. LasBeELLom with the claw connate with the column, either along its whole length or in part; the limb entire or divided; the disk usually callous, ribbed, or tuberculate, sometimes extending into a spur adhering to the ovary. Coxiumn elongated; the receptacle of the anther bordered, usually fringed. ANTHER fleshy, two or four-celled. POLLEN masses four, with as many bent back caudicles. DESCRIPTION OF THE Species, EpIDENDRUM SCHOMBURGKII. EPpIpHyTE growing to the height of two or three feet, without pseudo- bulbs. Stem leafy in its lower half, having in the upper part none but closely appressed sheathing squamz. Leaves sheathing at the base, distichous, spreading, oblong, blunt, thick and fleshy, spotted with dark pink in a wild state, according to Schomburgk, generally two or three inches long. FLOWERS in a terminal raceme, which from the closeness of the pedicels to each other, takes the form of a loose head. Pepicexs simple, one-flowered, each at the axil of ee een a small bract. Ovary long, curved. SEPALS and PerTats all similar and equal, spreading, lanceolate, pointed, narrowed at the base, above half an inch, or nearly three-quarters in length, of a rich scarlet. LaBELLuUM borne on a claw which is connate with the column, into a club-shaped scarlet tube with a yellow orifice, rather shorter than the petals; the limb broadly orbicular, more or less deeply divided into three broad obovate, cuneate lobes, irregularly fringed on the margin; at the base are two projecting calli, and between them a projecting longitudinal line. PoputaR AND GeocrapHicaL Notice, The genus Epidendrum which, in the days of Linneus and his immediate successors, was the common receptacle for nearly all tropical Orchidaceous Epiphytes known at that time, was first reduced to its natural limits by Brown, and, as adopted by Lindley, it remains at once a well-defined and a very numerous genus; probably the most numerous in America, to which hemisphere it is strictly confined. Every collection from the hotter parts of that country furnishes some new species, and the seventy-one enumerated by Lindley, in 1831, are, perhaps, now nearly doubled. The one here figured, one of the finest of the genus, chiefly from the richness of its colour, was discovered at the foot of the mountain Attarypon, near the Rupunoony, in British Guiana, by M. Schomburgk, who in a letter to Dr. Lindley, quoted in the Botani- cal Register, states that he found it growing, in company with Coryan- thes on a tree on the banks of the river, exposed to full light. The description made in the same work, taken from dried specimens and from a drawing of M. Schomburgk’s, and the anticipations as to its beauty, have been fully confirmed now that the plant has flowered in our stoves, G. B.- INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTuRE. This was drawn from plants sent over to this country to the Messrs. Loddiges, in whose epiphyte house it flowered in great perfection last spring. Its culture would be the same as mentioned under No. 116. DERIVATION OF THE NaMES Eprpenprom, from ez: EPI, upon, and devdpoy DENDRON, a tree, in allusion to the mode of growth of this sort of plants. Scsomsurextt, in honour of M. Schomburgk. SyNoNYME. EpmpenDRuM Scnompurcxit. Lindley: Botanical Register. 1838, p. 15, t, 53. _ Py : Stole cy dood — E ¥ an ine | in length, the lamina smooth, spreading, entire, roundish, or PRO'TEA CYNAROIDES. ARTICHOKE-LIKE FLOWERED PROTEA. EXOGENZ OR DICOTYLEDONER, } ae Ba ose EY, this Plant ve} ; NATURAL ORDER, PROTEACA, MONOCHLAMYDA, AYA 9 eye: divisions OF . SNe which DECANDOLLE. —¥ this Plast belongs. i No, 166. > GE NUS. PROTEA: is nzus. Invotucrum imbricatum pol 2, N persistens, receptaculum multiflorum, paleis abbreviatis persisten tentibus- owns sum cingesn. Penicons0a bipartibile, inequale, labii latioris laminis tribus s. TETRANDRIA, " MONOGYNIA, OF LINNEUS, heer ren MIN qu a SquaMuLz quatuo 2 aie “Ovarium ese uniovulatum. Srrics subulatus; stigma augustius cylindraceum. Nux mo: mee undiq bata, stylo persistente caudata. ee 6 Samet etiam in inia ‘ modo subacaules ; foliis integer itulis t termsinalibus vel rariu sla teralibus, rept Janiusculo ve conyexo, sepius glabro, nesbunanen paleis mnatis alveelato; invoh ( colorato, turbinato vel h ae sont Pp Enpuicuer: Genera Plantarum, p- 337. - $PECI ES. Protea CYNAROIDES Liwn. £US. Korps subrotandi petolt ned. SPRENG GEL. ‘ : es CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, Protea. saavonsens indica many-leaved, persistent, surrounding th ceptacle, w h is 3 flowered, and beset with aati Sonaied p aleze. ts =! ible into two portions, unequal, the three segments of the broader TAMEN : OVARY one-celled, : subulate ; stigma narrower, cylindrical. Not one-seeded, clothed dhGaghdert with beard-like hairs, and termi- nated by the persistent style, resembling a tail. DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, ‘Protea CYNAROIDES. A low shrub, ane stem being rarely two feet, erect, simple, wrinkled. Leaves ., te, petiolate, petioles roundish, wrinkled, devoid of hairs, about — obscurely mucronate, shining. FLOweEr a terminal capitula, very large, of an ovate form, the numerous scales of the involucre progressively be- coming larger from the base to the summit, oblong, acute, all of them covered witha silky down, those near the base brownish, the upper ones - of a delicate pink, deeper on the inner side especially at the margins. ReEcEpPTACLE flattish. PeR1coN with a long tube, separable at the top into two lips, unequal, entirely clothed with a white down. STAMENS four, inserted into the concave tips of the perigone, filaments short, anthers linear, or tapering, yellow. Ovary oblong, hairy, style one, awl-shaped, stigma slender, projecting beyond the perigon, of a bright red colour. NuT hairy, crowned by the persistent style. Popu.ar anp GeocrapuicaL Notice. This most magnificent spe- cies, even of the superb genus Protea, is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, growing on the sides and summits of mountains. It is, indeed, a wonderful thing to see a flower of its size, nearly as large as a child’s head, borne on so diminutive a stem, for it is sometimes scarcely one foot in height. Protea grandiflora which comes nearest this in the size of the flower, hasa tall branched stem. Protea pulchra and Pro- tea speciosa, have likewise large heads of flowers, yet far inferior to the present subject, the dimensions of which cannot be estimated from ‘the plate, as the figure is reduced to at least half the natural size. A question may be asked, what purpose does this extraordinary magnifi- cence in the flower serve? It is at present impossible to answer, as no direct use is made of any part of the numerous species of Protea, except for firewood; yet the flower of Protea rubens and Protea mellifera contain much sweet juice, which would be acceptable to the bees if they grew in the open air, Common as Proteaceous plants are in Austra- lia, not one species of the genus Protea has been found there; indeed, they are strictly confined to the Cape of Good Hope, save one, Protea abyssinica, mentioned in Bruce’s Travels, quarto edition, vol. V, appen- dix, p. 52, with a plate. INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTuRE. This plant was intro- duced into Britain, in 1792, by Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammer- smith nursery. It is a hardy greenhouse plant. “The best soil ‘is light turfy loam, mixed with rather more than one third of fine sand; the pots must be well-drained with broken potsherds. Care must be taken not to let them droop for want of water, as the young roots are of a very fleshy substance, and soon suffer by two much drought, as ~ well as by too much wet, so that they seldom recover, if suffered to flag too much. They also like to be placed where they may have a free circulation of air, as they cannot bear to be crowded, like some more rigid-growing plants. Ripened cuttings, taken off at a joint, and pared quite smooth, will strike root, if planted thinly in pots of sand, placed under a eae Hat not plunged: the glasses must be often taken off, to give them a phere OF +EE iste Pe OTEA, from Proteus, fish Cynaromes, from cynara, the ear and vides, resemblance. NONYMES. PROTEA CYNAROIDES. Tia ioe, Prodromus Flore Capensis, 28, sertation, 59. Linneus, abstinent 180, Andrews’s Botanist’s Repository, IV. pl. 288 tanical Magazine, Pes at, MOS Withers chet a7 ae asteca, Meriter. sonips ASCHYNAN’THUS PARASITICA, ~ PARASITIC ASCHYNANTHUS. oR DICOTYLEDONE A. Natural division . ma to which si \\ OY, aN Sai, this Plant belongs. pints sacs mute OF LINNEUS. CALYCIFLORE, FY — egg OF a (Gy DECANDOLLE. iss this els ings: No. 167: GENUS. Aiscuynantuus. Jack. Catyx quinquedivisus, tubaloru vel us. Corotta bilabiata. Sramrina anthistiisee quatuor, antherarum locu- partit lis parallelis. Stroma indivisum, dilatatum, subinfun dibulif orme. pryeeee elongata, valvis strictis. Semina pendula, apice nuclei affixa, utrinque pilifera, pilo inferiore unico, superiore unico duplici pluribusve. Surrrurices i rum cortice a foliis oppositis zqualibus sas Ppeaie coriaceis, venis obsoletis. Brown: in Plante Javanice Rariores, 15. SPECIES. AscHyNANTHUS PARASITICA. ES Forts lanceolatis, er anguste campanulato semiquinquefido glabro, | laciniis vee acutis, cor- olla filamentisque hirtis, seminibus extremitate CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, ASSCHYNANTHUS. CaLyx five-cleft, either tubular with five teeth, or divided nearly to the base. CoRoLLa two-lipped. Stamens four, fertile, the cells of the anthers parallel. Stiema undivided, dilated, somewhat funnel-shaped. Capsute elon- gated with straight valves. Sreps pendulous, fixed by a nucleus at the top, bearing threads at both ends, one only at the lower end; one, two, or more at the upper end. DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, ASSCHYNANTHUS PARASITICA. A climbing shrub, which in its native country spreads over the stems of trees, sending forth roots which penetrate into the outer bark of the trees, and give the plant the appearance of a parasite, although i in fact it is rather an epiphyte, in the manner of the generality of tropical orchidaceez. BraNncHes smooth and somewhat fleshy, though more slender than in other species; the flowering branches pendulous in the wild state. Leaves opposite, on short footstalks, lanceolate, three to six inches long, ending in a long but not sharp point, perfectly entire, contracted at the base, smooth, thick, and fleshy, usually a little folded upwards along the mid-rib and waved on the margin, without any lat- eral yeins. FLOWERS in terminal sessile umbels, of about six flowers, each flower on a pedicel of from a quarter to half an inch in length. 41 In the wild state in which the flowering branches hang, each pedicel is recurved so that the flowers, though reflexed with relation to the stem, are, in fact, ascending 3 in our stoves where the stems have been hith- erto unnaturally trained upwards, the pedicels do not lengthen so much, and are straight, so that the flowers are erect or nearly so, and in a clo- ser head. CAtyx bell-shaped, but not spreading, smooth, green, half an inch long, divided to about the middle into five narrow ovate pointed lobes. Corowa tubular, from an inch and a half to near two inches long, swelling above the middle ‘and more or less incurved, coy- ered with short hairs, of a rich vermilion colour in the specimens which have flowered in this country, but described as varying to orange or brick red; the limb cleft into five erect divisions, nearly equal to each other and obscurely arranged in two lips, the two upper divisions being less deeply cleft, and the lowest rather longer and narrower than the rest. STAMENS exserted, the filaments hairy, the anthers oblong, joined two and two together by their apex. Styie exserted, smooth, with a large oblique peltate or somewhat funnel-shaped stigma. Cap- SULE eight or ten inches long, very narrow. Se£EDS very numerous and minute, with two white hairs at the upper end and one at the lower, each hair very slender and about half an inch long, that is to say, full twelve times the length of the seed. - Poputar anD GeocrapuicaL Notice. Although the Orchi- dacee form by far the greatest proportion of the epiphytes, which adorn the stems of trees in damp tropical climates, yet they are far from being the only ones. Several Gesneriacex of other genera, besides Melastomacee, Rubiacex, Asclepiadacee, &c. have long since “received, on this account, the specific name of parasite, and are often objects of great beauty. Hitherto, indeed, they have been but little known, partly from the difficulty of preserving specimens of thick fleshy plants as they usually are, and partly from the art of cultivating them being a creation, as it were, but of yesterday. But now that attention is so much turned to this branch of erties it is to be hoped that we peel Pee may soon see our Ltich as our other stoves; and surely none can etter deserve a place in them than the splendid st nus of which the plant here figured is the first, and hitherto the only, representative which has found its way to this country. Itis a native of Sylhet, a province of Bengal and has long been cultivated in the Cal- cutta Botanic Garden, having been, till of late years, almost the only spe- ~ cies known, bab é the labours of Jack, Horsfield, Wallich, he Griffith, have now increased the number totwelve, t val- uable aceount of Cyrtandrez, just published, by Robert Brown, and itis probable that the number yet to be discovered in the Indian archi- pelago is very large. The memoir just referred to, drawn up by Mr. Brown on the occa- sion of describing one of the Cyrtandrez, figured in Horsfield’s Plante Javanice Rariores, besides several important observations on some obscure points of structural botany, contains a most valuable review of the limits and affinities of the group, and an enumeration of genera with accurate and concise characters. He clearly shews that those botanists who have endeavoured to establish the American Gesneriacez and the Asiatic Cyrtandracee as two distinct natural orders, have relied upon characters which in some cases have proved vague or falla- cious, in others not. to agree with the geographical distinctions which they had served to establish. Indeed, in one instance, a Mexican plant, supposed to be a distinct genus of American Gesneriacee, (the Klugia of Schlechtendal,) turns out upon examination to be but a species of the East Indian Cyrtandreous genus Glossanthus. He, therefore, unites the whole into one natural order under the name of Gesne- ‘riacee, divided into three tribes; the Gesneriee with an adherent ovarium and albuminous seeds; the Besleriex, with a free ovarium and the seeds of Gesneriee; and Cyrtandrex, also with a free ovarium, but little or no albumen to the seeds. The order, thus formed, it must be admitted,: is a very natural one, differing botanically from the extensive order of Scrophulariacez by the ovary always consisting of a single cell instead of two. In appearance they are usually much handsomer, having seldom that weedy look peculiar to a large number of Scrophulariacez, and the flowers being very frequently scarlet, or a rich purple, or blue, colours very uncommon in Scrophulariacez, and even where they are pale or whitish, their large size often compensates for their want of colour. They are therefore, in general, most desirable acquisitions, for though they mostly require stove heat, they are either herbs or low shrubs, or at any rate will produce their flowers before they attain any great height, and few good collections are now without some species of Gesnera, Gloxinia, Trevirana, or Streptocarpus, although by far the greater number, and many of the most conspicuous, are © only known as ai by dried specimens, INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTuRE. Weowe the introduc- tion of this valuable addition to our stove collections, to Dr. Wallich, the zealous superintendant of the Calcutta Botanic Gardens, who trans- mitted plants, some years since, to his Grace, the Duke of Northum- berland, from one of which, by his Grace’s obliging permission, our drawing was taken in January last. Other persons in this country received it also, probably from the same source, as a fine flowering specimen appeared last year, amongst Mrs, Lawrence’s collection, at one of the exhibitions of the Horticultural Society. In both instances the plant has been grown and trained in the manner of terrestrial stove plants in which it will thrive well, but the flowers are placed in the unnatural position above mentioned; it is, therefore, to be expected that if treated like the more creeping kinds of orchidaceous epiphytes and allowed old bark to cling to and to hang from, not only would the gen- eral appearance be more natural and graceful, but the size and beauty of the heads of flowers would be much increased. When cultivated as a terrestrial plant its soil should be a vegetable compost, light, and well drained. The sort of pot in which this and similar plants are kept, is a matter of more moment than is usually believed; they should be soft and pervious to moisture, not made retentive of water by hard burning. DERIVATION OF THE Names. Zescnynantuvs from awxvyvn modesty, and ayfog a flower. Panrasitica, pa- rasite. SyNonyYMEs. INCARVILLEA PARASITICA. ee Coromandel Plants, v. 3, t. 291. AESCHYNANTHUS GRANDIFLOR . Don: General System, v. 4, p. 656. AESCHYNANTHUS PARASITICA. ‘Wallich : List, n.796. Brown: Piaiits candied Rariores, p. 115. BY Withers, det. Vhysales Schradeteamne . Seti eveip oe x PHYSA’LIS SCHRADERIANA. SCHRADER’S PHYSALIS. EXOGENEX, OR DICOTYLEDONEA. } { sige Ang : “Cth Piast cn} W NATURAL ORDER, SOLANACEAS, COROLLIFLORE, SB < Artificial divisions tone Or ey ih 3 to which d MONOGYNIA DECANDOLLE, vt i this Plant belongs. OF LINKER. No. 168, GENUS. Puysauis. Linnazvs. Catyx quinquefidus, post anthesin in- crescens, fructifer plus minusve apertus v. sepius clausus. Coroxta plicata, in as i en pralr rotata, limbo quinquelobo. Sramina quinque, sub- qu ANTHER# utrinque fotifititdinaliter dehiscentes. Bacca calyce pen di taka rent canara subglobosa, plus minusve succulenta, cortice tenaci. SEMINA numerosa, compressa, C ieentinrmia. Bervuarpt,in Linnea, ECIES. Puysaris Scurapertana (BERNHARD!) suffruticosa, erecta, viscoso-pubescens, foliis binatis inequalibus oblique cordato-ovatis integerri- mis vel repando-dentatis, calyce post anthesin clauso, fructifero aperto, ultra medium quinquefido, staminibus exsertis. CHaRACTER OF THE GENUS, Puysatis. CaLyx five-cleft, in- creasing in size after the flowering is over; more or less open when ‘ the fruit is ripe, or more frequently closed, Corovta folded in the bud, rotate or somewhat bell-shaped; the limb of five divisions. StTaMeEns five, nearly equal. ANTHERS opening. by two longitudinal slits. Berry inclosed or surrounded by the calyx, nearly globular, more or less fleshy, with a tough skin. SEEDS numerous, compreaes) nearly reniform. DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, PHYSALIS SCHRADERIANA. Sind perennial, somewhat shrubby at the base, erect, a foot or rather more : in height. Brancnes spreading, clothed, as well as the leaves, the peduncles, and calyxes, with clammy glandular hairs. Leaves growing generally two together, but of very unequal sizes, the larger ones often — four or five inches long, borne on a stalk of an inch to an inch and a half, ovate, ending in a blunt point, entire, waved, or coarsely toothed on the margin, obliquely heart-shaped at the base. PEDUNCLES one- flowered, collected three to five together, in irregular umbels in the axils of the leaves, of unequal lengths. FLowers drooping. CaLyx large and foliaceous, deeply five-cleft, five-angled, closing over the young fruit after the corolla has fallen off, but opening again as the fruit ripens. CoroLza rotate, with an exceedingly short tube, of a pale yellowish white, an inch and half in diameter, deeply five-cleft, é the divisions ovate and marked on the base with spots of an olive : green; throat bearded, STaMens exserted, at first slightly so, with the anthers close together, but lengthening after the flowers are open and spreading. Fruit a red globular berry. PopuLarR AND GeocrapuicaL Notice. Ina paper on this plant, lately published in the Linnea, by Professor Bernhardi, it is clearly shown that it is much nearer to the more usual forms of Physalis or Winter Cherry, than to Ruiz and Pavon’s Saracha, and indeed he pro- poses, not, perhaps, without reason, to join both genera into one, which would consist of five sections, distinguished from each other chiefly by the calyx, which during the flowering is the same in all, excepting in as much as it is more or less deeply cleft. In the common Winter Cherry, to which he gives the sectional name Alkekengi, the calyx is not cleft to the middle, and encloses the fruit at its maturity, in Physalis somnifera, which is Meench’s Physaloides and Don’s Hypnotica, the calyx is the same but the fruit not so succulent; in Physalis atriplici- folia, Bernhardi’s section Megistocarpus, the calyx is not cleft to the middle, it surrounds the fruit, but is open after the corolla has fallen off; in our plant, for which he makes the section Cycolis, the calyx closes over the young fruit, but is quite open when it is ripe, and is cleft below the middle; finally, in the true Saracha, the calyx, cleft nearly to the middle, never closes at all, nor surrounds the fruit. The genus Physalis thus extended, is chiefly American, but with a ‘few African and East Indian species. There appears to be some uncertainty as to the precise country where the species figured came from. We have not access to the garden catalogue, in which Schrader originally published it, nor do we possess wild specimens. It is pro- bably, however, a native of Mexico. G. B. INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTurRE. It was first raised in Germany; and seeds of it were transmitted thence to this country some yearsago. Our drawing was made from a plant growing in her Majesty’s garden at Kew, where it has greenhouse protection, but will grow with little care. During summer it may be turned into an open border of light —— where it will flower, and Fa te its berries. ERIVATION OF THE NAME Puysaris from Sesakic, a name derived from gvon a ‘bladder, given by Diosco- rides to a plant which Linneus supposed to be our winter cherry. ScHra- DERIANA, ae Professor Schrader of Munich, who first published this plant as a Sarac NONYMES. SaRACHA Neg: Schrader: in a ea Catalogue. Don: in Sweet's Flower Garden, t z Puysarts ScHRADERIANA. Bernhardi: in the Linnea, v. 13, p. 361. Sevitt scalp ete lines fiteneceted. ~ MIM’ULUS PUNICE'US, SCARLET 1 LU: Ss. EXOGENE et aie = Bi Bs - prcorrieposee, Natural division soko 2 towhich . re te, this Plant belongs. F NATURAL ORDER, SCROPHULARINACEA, COROLLIFLORE, val pores “a oF o which AWN mpncteirincnne DECANDOLLE. *( this Plant a, OF LINNEUS. No. 169. GENUS. Mruvtus. Linvezvs. Caryx tubulosus, quinque angulat us, quin- quedentatus. Corotia bilabiata, quinquefida, lobis subequalib STamMIna ulis di 22 m natis. Sricma bilamellatum. Capsvra bilocularis, loculicide ee valvis integris, medio septiferis, dissepimento demum apice fisso vel ntegro, rarius a valvulis toa SEMINA numerosa, minima, utrinque subu- atk: Hers suffruticesy ‘OLIA opposita dentata vel rarius integerrima. Pepuncuti axillares, iis solitarii, uniflori, bracteati; superiores sepe racemosi. PECIES Mimotus PUNICEUS. FRuticosvs, viscosus, glaber, foliis lanceo- latis acutiusculis subserratis penninerviis, pedicelli saxillaribus folio breviori- bus, calycibus elongatis plicatis, dentibus lineari-lanceolatis val deinequalibus. CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, Mimvutus. Catyx tubular, five- angled, five-toothed. Coroxza two-lipped, divided into five nearly equal lobes. Stamens four, didynamous, included in the tube of the corolla. ANTHERS with two diverging or divaricate cells, often con- fluent. Ovary two-celled, the placente adhering to the dissepiment. Sriama of two plates. Capsvxe two-celled, splitting across the cells into two valves, which adhere by their centre to the ‘dissepiment, or rarely separate from it. SrEeps numerous, minute, slender, and pointed at both ends. Description OF THE Species, MimuLus PuNiceus. A SHRUB or under-shrub of fwo or three feet high, smooth, but very glutinous, BraNcuEs erect, green, and herbaceous, acquiring sometimes a purplish hue, nearly cylindrical. Leaves of a dark green, very glutinous, lanceolate, rather more pointed than in Mimulus glutinosus, slightly toothed, contracted at the base where they embrace the stem; and those of the same pair are slightly connate. Pernice s solitary, axillary, from half an inch to an inch long, without bracts, bearing a sn te "sees a an sa cee slender, with five prominent near teeth, of which the upper one is much the longest. Coroiza altoypethe nearly as long again ue a a. as the calyx, of a rich scarlet colour; the tube straight and projecting from the calyx; the limb spreading, divided into five nearly equal, bluntly emarginate lobes, arranged in two lips. Capsuxe oblong, the dissepiment adhering to the valves and splitting, together with the placente, from the apex to below the middle. Poputar aND GeEoGrRapHicaL Notice. This species scarcely differs from the old Mimulus glutinosus, excepting in the colour of the flower; and, perhaps, in its larger stature and more pointed leaves; but in both these respects the Mimulus glutinosus appears to vary very much. The two species, together with two or three others, like them, natives of North California, have been considered by M. Nuttall a distinct genus, to which he has given the name of Diplacus, derived from the only character which separates it from Mimulus, the splitting of the dissepiment into two portions at the maturity of the capsule. Jt may be observed, however, that in several Mimuli (as for instance Mimulus cardinalis) there is a partial splitting, or an inter- mediate state between the deeply split dissepiment of Nuttall’s Diplaci and the entire one of other Mimuli, that in almost all cases the valves adhere to the dissepiment, and when they appear to be free, it is only because they are so thin and fragile, that they are, as it were, torn from it. This character has not, therefore, that constancy which is necessary to constitute a good artificial genus, and it is admitted by all, that in habit and general appearance the Diplaci do not form a good natural genus as distinguished from Mimulus, which it appears much more convenient to retain in its original integrity. The genus thus extended has a wide geographical range, being an inhabitant of North America, Chili, Australia, East India, and the South-eastern portion of Africa. No species are ever found in North Africa, Europe, or North-western Asia. G. B. InTRODUCTION; WHERE GRowN; CuLTuReE. This plant was in- troduced in 1837, by the Messrs. Low of Clapton, who received it from _ the nursery of Mr. Buist of Philadelphia. Our drawing was made in _ garden of the Birmingham Horticultural Society, in July, from a plant then three feet high. It requires the protection of a greenhouse or well-protected frame, during winter; but in summer, will not only grow freely in the open ground, but will flower there till prevented by frosty weather. Cuttings strike root sie in a gentle heat. Deri VATION OF THE MES. Mimvxus, from the Greek pupw Mimo, a hart Punicevs, scarlet, SyNONYME. Diptacus punicevs. Nuttall: in the Botanical Magazine, t. 3655. CALOCHOR'TUS FLA'VUS. YELLOW CALOCHORTUS. — - ENDOGENA;, OR MONOCOTYLEDONEA. A MH i ft Natural division ete eee NW te which med iN ANY 4 7 i this plant belongs. NATURAL ORDER, TULIPACE. HYPOGYNOSE, iY Artificial divisions HEXANDRIA, Ai to which MONANDRIA, LINDLEY, ee this Plant belongs. OF LINNEUS. No. 170. GE , Catocuortts. Purse. Periconium corollinum, deciduum, hexa- phyllum ; foliola sessilia vel subunguiculata, interiora supra basim fovea necta- ar Zz talia, anatropa. Sriemata tria, subsessilia, libera vel basi coalita, a canaliculata, Carsuxta oblonga vel subglobosa, trigona, trilocularis, septicido trivalvis, valvis demum bi fidis. Ss. Semina i in loculis plurima, uni-vel at ervinte: horizontalia, compressiuscula, laxiuscula hine rhaphe 3 MBRyYo rectus, teres. Herspa Americx borealis occidental is, bul- bose. Foxia ensiformia, —— Fores speciosi, umbellati, racemosi vel subsolitarii. Enpzic : Genera Plantarum, p. SPECIES. Carocuortvs raves (Sc#uxrTes) caule subsimplici subbifloro, foliis caulinis bracteisque lineari-lanceolatis subulato-acuminatis, floribus pen- dulis, perigonii patentis foliolis i oat ovatis obtusé “fae 66 infra arbatis, interioribus obovato-rhomboideo medio barbat CHARACTER OF THE Genus, CaLocuortTus. PERIGON of the nature of a corolla, deciduous, six-leaved; leaves sessile or shortly stalked, the inner ones marked above the base on the inside with a nectariferous pit, and bearded on the inside; the outer ones smaller, with the pit or without it, bearded inside or not. STAMENS six, adhering to the base of the leaves of the perigon. Ovary three-celled. OvuLES in each cell several, in two rows, horizontal, anatropous. STiemas three, nearly sessile, free or joined at the base, reflexed, canaliculate. Capsute oblong, three-angled, three-celled, splitting into three valves along the dissepiments, the valves at length bifid. pene ae in each cell, usually in one or two rows, horizontal, t testa brown, membranaceous, rather loose, with the raphis fl along it on one side. Emsryo straight, cylindrical. DESCRIPTION OF THE Species, CALOCHORTUS FLAVUS. BULB tunicated, the tunic composed of woody fibres. Stem erect, flexuose, simple or slightly branched, perfectly smooth, as well as the rest of the plant, about a foot and a half high, nearly simple or slightly branched. ae but scarcely sheathing at the base, “* apis lanceolate, ending in a fine convolute point; the upper ones shorter and broader at the base. PrpuNCcLEs axillary, one-flowered, erect or slightly flexuose, without bracts. FLoweErs nodding from the summit of the peduncle, yellow, spreading, from an inch and a quarter to an inch and a half in diameter. OuTER LEAFLETS of the perigon narrow, ovate, ending in a blunt point, somewhat concave, of the same petaloid consistence as the inner ones, with a few hairs in the centre but with- out any nectariferous pit. INNER LEAFLETS scarcely longer than the outer ones, but much broader and nearly rhomboidal, slightly fringed on the margin, much covered with hairs on the inner surface, and with a slightly marked nectariferous pit. FILAMENTS slightly dilated at the base. CapsuLe three quarters of an inch long, sharp, three- angled. PopuLar AND GeocrapuicaL Notice. We have already stated (No. 98 of the Botanist) the connection between the Cyclobothre of Don with the true Calochorti, and a slight inspection of the present figure will show at once how very near it is to some of the original North American species. It appears not to be an uncommon Mexican _ plant, growing abundantly in the dry mountainous pastures in the mining districts to the north and west of the town of Mexico. G. B. INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTuRE. This is one of a very large collection of bulbs imported by the Horticultural Society from Mexico, by means of their zealous and active collector M. Theodor Hartweg. Unfortunately, the French blockade of Tampico, in 1838, occasioned so much delay in the transmission of the collections of that year, that a great number had perished before they arrived; and the want of the ardent solar heat necessary for ripening bulbs of this’ description, are great obstacles to their multiplication in this country: attention, therefore, to this part of the culture of Mexican, Chilian, and Cape bulbs, usually much neglected, is of the greatest importance. Calochortus flavus is usually kept in the greenhouse, but it may be flowered successfully in a warm dry border, in the open garden. Fresh loamy earth, with a free admixture of leaf-mould and sand, will be very suitable for it; and the bulbs should be planted in April, and taken up again in the autumn, after vegetation has ceased. “toes lage . THE NaMEs. Catocnortvs, from dog ¢ grass. Fiavus yellow. FRITILLARIA BARBATA. Humboldt cad Keith, ‘Weve Genera et Species, v. 3, p- 288, t. 677. Catocuortvs Frayvs, Schultes: Systema Vegetabiiliim, v.7, p- 1535, ACY Withers, det. Sacsonss fe Pepe me a toda. Wevett, senipe« ~ or oblong lobes, sharp at the extremity, ssscagularts and_ sharply toothed on the margin, somewhat rugose, with a very minute pubes- cence, or perfectly smooth on the upper side, clothed underneath with a short soft down. Cirr# and flowering PEDUNCLES issuing together from the axils of the leaves; the peduncles nearly as leaves, bearing, a little below the flower, three ovate foliaceous bracts, about half an inch long, and sharply toothed or cut towards the apex. OF THE CALYX about two inches long and half an inch diameter, perfectly straight and cylindrical, but with a slight swelling at the base, downy outside. Divisions oF THE LIMB rather more than an inch and a half long, narrow, oblong, blunt, the dorsal nerve produced in a point a little below the apex, downy outside, smooth and coloured inside. PrETALs scarcely smaller, but more intensely coloured. Fina- MENTS of the outer row of the crown threadlike, nearly half as long as the petals, of a bluish purple, those of the inner row connate into a a membrane which lines the tube of the calyx down to the swollen part, where it is turned up into a kind of sheath round the staminal tube. Berry round, somewhat egg-shaped, yellow, downy. PorunarR aND Grograpuican Notice. On comparing the above generic character with that of Passiflora, as given in Vol. 3, No. 118, of the Botanist, it will be readily seen how very near the two genera approach each other in botanical character as well as in habit, The sole difference lies in the length of the tube of the calyx, but if, as it is believed is the case, every intermediate degree may be observed in some species or another, this character unaccompanied by any other is of little value. The Tacsoniz are al] American, and they there occupy the same range and similar stations to those of Passiflora. G. B. INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTuRE. First raised in this country by Mrs. Marryatt in her beautiful grounds at Wimbleton, this splendid ornament of a large conservatory has spread from thence into many collections. Our drawing was made in that of Thomas Harris, Esq. of Kingsbury. It will not bear, as some anticipated, our climate unprotected, but in a conservatory it grows readily. IVATION OF THE AME Tacsonia, from Tacso, the shad name of some aus ad the genus. Pinnatt- STIPULA, with pinnately cut stipules. SSIFLORA PINNATISTIPULA. tage ana a 5, t. 428. tuna PINNATISTIPULA. Jussieu u Museum, v. 6, p.393, Botani- cal Register, t, 1536. British ak Garden, 2nd Series, t. a6: fnrenifltion. Haiti a Sets LISSOCHI'LUS PARVIFLO'RUS. SMALL-FLOWERED LISSOCHILUS. ENDOGENEX, MONOCOTYLEDONE&, Natura] division to which this Plant an i * & NATURAL tee. ORCHIDACEA, G rakaEROee Se (~.. divisions bat to which — eacanhdusike this Plant belo : a: NUS. Lissocuitus. Brown. , explanati foliola: e. partons, libera, parva, reflexa, vel uti interiora maxima, aleformia, pat tium liberum, vel cum columne basi connatum, saccatum, conca’ prvestn um vel trilobum. CoLumna brevis, erecta, semiteres. bilocularis, cristata. Poxxrnta duo, fpostice biloba, caudicula brevi lin glandula triangular. Huxe# Africane, terrestres, acaules, pseudobulbose, striatis vel plicatis, racemis radicalibus multifloris. Enpzicuer. Genera m, p. SPECIES, Lied ARVIFLORUS, - igh Fouts plicatis, pe radicali sexocto-floro, sep = supremo ovato concavo unguiculato - $s pat culatis, labello sublibero basi auriculato, epichilio oblongo obtuso tricarinato, gibbo porrecto obtuso antice sulcato. Linprey; Genera and Species of Orchidaceous Plants, p. 191. CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, LissocHitus. PERIGON spreading, the outer leaflets free, herbaceous, and either small and t ed back, or, like the inner ones, broad, spreading, and wing-shaped. Lapen- LuM free, or connate with the base of the column, bag-s ma 2 con- cave, nearly entire, or three-lobed. CoLumwn short, erect, ic drical.. ANTHER two-celled, crest-shaped. POLLEN MASSES two, — J divided into two lobes at the back, with a short linear caudicle and a ; triangular gland. : : 7) Description or THE SpEctEs, Pissiicihiied PARVIFLORUS. Peataeg yi short, nearly globular. Leaves three te ) six, broad, , folded lengthwise. FLOWER-STEM radical, ect, a of the leaves or rather longer, smooth, striate, bea Se a few membranous sheathing pointed scalés or bracts, and towards the top a raceme of six or eight flowers. ‘PEDIcELs short, one-flowered, each at the axil of a short bract. Ovary cylindri- cal. Fiowers smaller than several of the genus, being barely an inch in diameter. Sepats or outer divisions of the perigon green, with longitudinal streaks 6f a dull purple, the upper one oval oblong, rather longer than the petals and somewhat reflexed, ‘the two lateral ones spreading like the petals, and nearly as broad. PeTats or inner divisions streaked with red and yellow, broadly ovate or nearly orbicular, very blunt. LaBeLium free from the column, longer than the petals, three-lobed, the terminal lobe as long as the lower part, yellow, nearly orbicular, convex, marked with longitudinal plaits or streaks, of which the three central ones are more prominent; lateral lobes broad, short, turned upwards, streaked with purple inside, yel- lowish outside. Co.umn thick, greenish, rather shorter than the petals. Poputar anp GeocrapHicaL Notice. This is a small African genus which was originally separated from Eulophia on account of — the great disproportion between the size of the petals and that of the sepals, which gives a very distinct appearance to the Lissochilus speciosus. If, however, the present species, and Lissochilus xqualis, are to be retained in the genus, that character disappears altogether, and it might be thought expedient to reunite Lissochilus with Eulophia, were it not for the great authority of Lindley in these matters, who in his latest works retains them as distinct. Among seven or eight species hitherto described, the greater number are found in the hills of the south-eastern districts of the Cape Colony, from Uitenhage east- ward; one has been gathered at Boney in tropical Africa, and the Lissochilus Arabicus was found by Forskol in the mountains of Hadie, on the Arabian side of the Red Sea. This, the Orchis flava of Forskol, is said by him to be known under the name of Djissib by the Arabs, who assert that the juice, applied to the prick of a thorn, will expel it from the wound; probably one of the imaginary properties so fre- quently attributed to plants by country people. It was gathered by Forskol on Mount Barah, near the town of Mokaja; the latter name being probably on Forskol’s label with the Arabian name of the plant, has occasioned a rather ludicrous mistake, in supposing that he meant the mosque of Djygab as the station where he found it. INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTURE. The Liewchilas parviflorus was received from the province of Uitenhage, near Algoa Bay, by Messrs. Loddiges, and first flowered in their stovesin Decem- _. ber, 1837. Our drawing was made there in the following winter. It. requires the usual treatment of this class of ae ERIVATION OF THE NaM D Lissocnitus, from dsooog smooth, and xéidog a 1p ParvIFLoRnvs, small- flowered. SYNONYME. LissOcHILUS PARVIFLORUS, Lindley: cong —_ Species of Orchidaceous Plants, p. 191. * On lhouphen pane Ceehwttd . - ORTHOSI'PHON INCUR’VUS. CURVED ORTHOSIPHON. oR DICOTYLEDONEX. Snot pits 1 Y- { this bask eta NATURAL ORDER, LABIATE, meager divisions YNAMIA, 0 which ormxonrenaia this Plant belongs. F LINNEU: No. 173. : OrtHosIPHon. es fit ot Caryx S spimeninagee aise | quiayeue- dentatus, dentis post anthesin deflexus. Coroxta tubo exserto recto vel incurvo nec gi ibboso nec defracto, limbi labio superiore tri- vel quadrifido, inferiore integerrimo i dentula. An spent aes picéroonik: Hersz ral heir ee ea a jeplues fiche em Meese eg xflori. Fora rioraia bractezformia, ovata, acuminata, reflexa, pedicelli sepius breviora. SPECIES. OrrnosipHon raat ee Caule basi hi ean e, ascendente, foliis tee oblongis ¢ utrinque angustatis tenuissime pubescentibus, verticillastris iibetetulili, pants villosis incurvis ayes triplo longioribus, hee subequali, staminibus corollam subequantibus. CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, ORTHOSIPHON. CALYX ovate-tubu- lar, five-toothed, winged by the decurrent margins of the broad mem- branous upper tooth, turned downwards after flowering. CoroLta with a tube larger than the calyx, straight or curved, but neither gibbous nor abruptly bent down, upper lip of the limb three or four toothed, lower lip entire, concave. StTaMeENs four, declinate. Fita- MENTS free, without teeth. ANTHERS ovately reniform, the cells con- fluent. STYLE terminating in a club-shaped head, entire or slightly emarginate; the stigmas confluent, terminal. DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, ORTHOSIPHON INCURVUS.” A loose straggling perennial or under-shrub. Stems branched, and often trailing at the base, ascending or sometimes erect, but usually weak and flexuose, four-angled, rough, with a short stiff down. Leaves borne on long foot-stalks, opposite, two to three inches long, oval- oblong or even oval-lanceolate, narrowed at both extremities, termi- nating in a blunt point, crenate on the margins, rather thick and rugose, rather rough on both sides, with minute tubercles, but without any hairs. Racemes from six inches to a foot long, terminal, simple, wavy, consisting of a number of false whorls placed at intervals of from half an inch to an inch, consisting of six flowers, all turning more or less to one side. FLORAL LEAVES or false bracts sessile, persistent, bent downwards, ovate, lanceolate, pointed, entire, scarcely longer than the pedicels, smooth. REaL BRACTS none. PEDICELS two to three lines long, erect or spreading, simple, and one-flowered. FLow- ERS nodding, pink. Catyx tubular, about four lines long, nearly smooth, coloured; the upper lip ovate, pointed, rolled back on the edge, and the margins slightly decurrent nearly to the base of the calyx; the lower teeth subulate, the lateral ones half as long as the two lowest. Corowa an inch long, the tube more than twice the length of the calyx, straight at the base, swelling in the upper part and more or less curved upwards; the lips spreading, about equal in length, the upper one consisting of three blunt ovate lobes, of which the middle one is broader and emarginate, the lower lip ovate, blunt, entire, slightly concave. STAMENS and pistils of the length of the tube of the corolla. Popu.arR AND GEocrapuicaL Notice. Under the article Coleus barbatus, allusion has already been made to the different genera sepa- rated from the old Ocima; Orthosiphon is another of them, and per- haps one of the most natural. With the inflorescence and something .of the appearance of the true Ocima, it is at once distinguished by the lengthened tube of the corolla and the peculiar capitate stigma. There are many of them handsome species, and two are remarkable for the very great length of their stamens. They are chiefly East Indian, extending also to tropical Africa, and to the Indian Archi- pelago; and one very distinct species, though not separable from the genus, was gathered by Tafalla near Guayaquil in South America. G. B. INTRODUCTION; WHERE GRowN; CuLTurE. The Orthosiphon incurvus was first introduced, from the hills of Sylhet, to the Botanical Garden of Calcutta by the collectors employed by Dr. Wallich, and plants were sent by him in 1828, to his Grace the Duke of Northum- berland, by whose permission our drawing was made in the gardens of Sion House, Of the treatment of this plant we have no information excepting that it has been kept in the stove. Sohn aretha OF THE Names oO , from oipwy a tube, in fi allubion to the corolla. _ Incurves ented, the corollas whee fading often curling upwards in a re- markable mann sivionc tet OrTHOSIPHON INcuRvUS. Bentham: Labiatarum Genera et Species, p. 28. ALSTREME'RIA ACU'TIFOLIA. SHARP-LEAVED ALSTR@MERIA. ENDOGEN&, OR MONOCOTYLEDONEA, Natural division to which this plant belongs. NATURAL ORDER, AMARYLLIDACEZ. REEPOR, oo divisions baerp iat to which MONANDRIA, A, this Plant at OF LINN 4 No. 174. GENUS. Atstremeria, Linnzvs. Pertcontvum corollinum superum, sex- artitum, subcampanulatum, regulare vel sub-bilabiatum, foliola intesfork erecta vel declinata, anthere ovales, erecte. Ovarium infe t e. Ovvta in loculis plurima, horizon alia, ana atropa. Srrvus filiformis, directione staminum; stigma trifidum lobis replica Carsuta oblonga, vel globosa, tri- sexcostata, trilocularis, ide vel rarius baccata indehiscens. in loculis plura, subglobosa, horizontalia, testa mem rugosa, rhaphe immersa umbilicum basilarem chalaze apicali tu ser saomge jungente. Emepryo axilis, albumine carnoso dimidio brevior, extremitate radiculari, Hers& in Aperics tnpics et Austral extyasropics asciculatis, bili, ‘floribus terminalibus umbellatis, Enpurcuer: Genera Plantarum, p. 180. SPECIES. Atstr@emertia acutirorta (Linx) Caule subvolubili, foliis petiolatis lanceolatis angusto-acuminatis subtus pubescentibus, umbella sim- plici, pedunculis pubescentibus, petalis longitudine — us, tribus exteriori- bus oblongis subacutis, tribus interioribus spathul CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, asia PERIGON resembling a corolla, superior, six-partite, subcampanulate, regular, or slightly two-lipped; the interior folioles narrower, two af: them sub-tubular at ¢ Popa six, inserted at the base of the perigon; filament erect or declining; anthers oval, erect. Ovary inferior, three-celled. OvuLEs in each cell, numerous, horizontal, anatropous. Sty e fili- form, following the direction of the stamens; stigma trifid; lobes ‘ubilicgm, attinge en - § joining by the tubercular point of the chalaza the basilar umbilicus. REFERENCE To THE Dissections. 1. Pistil, showing the d g and the three-cleft Stigma. | 2, The six belt and afte: r, “Tt is very mabe ble , that the. stig 0 perfection till ata the decay of its anthers. The stamens advance s' sceesively, ike ee of Mertna undulata, Aver also of Tropzolum jus or Garden Nasturtium) and, like them, nod befo ore they rise, - ine fila- taki lead, but the two upper not ” simultaneously with the lower. It re: ft on ee ments that the stigma must either be fertilized by the pollen of another flower, or that its — scattered fficient after it seems to be dried up and lost; in either case pro- bability of the intrusion of the pollen of another individual, than when the migma and anthers are mature at the same time,'’ HERBERT: Am i , p. 102, / Emsryo in the axis, shorter by a half than the fleshy albumen, reaching by its radical extremity to the umbilicus. DESCRIPTION OF THE Species, ALSTRG@MERIA ACUTIFOLIA. STEM four feet or upwards, slightly twining, round, smooth. LEAvVEs remote, resupinate, lanceolate, prolonged to an acute point, striated, dark involucre of numerous slender lanceolate leaves. PEDICELS round, flexuose, pubescent, with subulate bracts. Per1coNn subcampanulate, the folioles erect but spreading near the extremity, of nearly equal length, the ae ones (sepals) of a deep red colour, acute, the inner ones (petals) m wanda and broadly spathulate, orange-coloured, furnished with a eer ve spot near the top, and two of them marked with red streaks. Stamens included in the perigon; filaments of a pale reddish purple; anthers. oblong, of a bluish purple. Ovary, inferior, turbinate, three-cornered, downy. Sty e slender, except at the base, triangular, and terminating in a three-cleft stigma. CapsuLE depressed, turbinate, splitting by a loculicidal dehiscence into three valves, each containing four bright scarlet coloured seeds. Poputar anp GeocrapuicaL Notice. This handsome species of Alstreemeria is a native of Mexico. We are glad to present it to our readers, that they may compare it with the hybrid, Alstreemeria acutifolia-aurea, (fig. 137,) and perceive how far the characters have been modified in the mule plant. According to Mirbel this plant is a Bomarea, a genus which he attempted to separate from Alstreemeria, and in which-he has been followed by Mr. Herbert. InTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTuRE. Sent from Berlin in 1829. It is commonly kept in the stove or greenhouse, neither of which is necessary; for at Spofforth, in Yorkshire, Mr. Herbert found it to live well at the foot of a south wall, or against the front of a greenhouse, sawdust being heaped over the roots in winter, “ But it does not,” he observes, “go to rest like hirtella for six months or more, and therefore is much more liable to injury, and requires more protection, but it is impatient of heat under glass in the summer. Its root is less tuberous and substantial, but it will succeed in an open border if set deeper 2 covered with leaves to protect it from frost. RIVATION OF THE NaMEs. go after pinata a Sweedish naturalist. Acutrrozra, from , Sharp, and folium, a leaf, the ee form of the leaf. ALSTR@MERIA ACUTIFOLIA. Link ae Otis: te t. 27. Botanic BomaREA Acutironia. Herbert: Awaryiladanet: a be @ plat 17 P | pees 2 C) A WOU Aste cecil ngs mute plano convexo antics truncato bidentato ; scapo pendulo bi- ‘vel t ri-) fl CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, STANHOPEA. PERIANTH membra- pons, spreading wide or reflexed. Srpats free, subundulate, falling , their weight. PrrTats similar, narrower. Laspevtum free, pro- ' jecting forward, without spur, fleshy, toothed on each side; upper half convex, lower concave. COLUMN very long, with a petal-like border. Antuer bilocular. POLLEN MASSES two, elongated, cleft, caudicula shorter than the bilobular stipitate gland. DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, STANHOPEA GRANDIFLORA. PsEv- DO-BULBS ovate, furrowed, dark green, monophyllous, encased when young with several lanceolate, elongated, equitant, subherbaceous, marcescent scales, which inclose the young leaf. Lear broadly ellip- tico-lanceolate, dark green, coriaceous, glabrous and shining, attenu- ated into a channelled petiole, and having 5-7 principal nerves, which are rigid, prominent behind, channelled in front; petiole articulated mn the apex of the pseudo-bulb. Scape arising from below the pseudo-bulb, pendulous, flexuose, with large elliptical sheathing bracts, generally two-flowered, but we have repeatedly had three flowers on the same scape. FLowers five inches across, with a strong perfume much resembling that of Philadelphus coronarius, white excepting some purple marks on the upper side of the lip, which vary in extent in different specimens, and also excepting the column, which is. pale glaucous-green. LaTERAL SEPALS very large, ovate, cucullate at the base, where, also, they cohere for a little way; CENTRAL SEPAL lanceo- lato-elliptical, narrower but as long as the lateral ones, reflexed. Perats ovato-lanceolate, rather shorter and much more narrow than the sepals, spreading, reflexed in their sides. Lip about as long as the petals, slipper-shaped, cartilaginous, very thick in the middle of its length, this tumid portion (metachilium) being abruptly truncated in its upper surface both behind and before, anterior to which the lip is continued to form a large, nearly flat, triangular point (epichilium) which is slightly waved, and equalling about one-third of the whole length of the lip, flanked at its base on each side by a vertical rounded lobe, the projecting side of the metachilum; posterior to the metachi- lium the lip is formed into a deep cup (hypochilium) projecting for- wards under the surface of the metachilium for nearly one half of the length of this, pretty closely lined with yellow pubescence, and having from the edge projecting forwards, on each side, a subulate tooth which differs considerably in length in different varieties, and is more or less curved. CoLuMn as long as the lip (three inches) and forming a flat arch above it, rounded above, flattened below, and having near its apex two colourless, diaphonous, broad wings, and a blunt tooth on each side of the clinandrium. ANTHER CAsE rhomboid. PoLien MASSES two, obovate, grooved behind towards their outer edge, shortly stipitate, and rising from the sinus of a cordate, thin, and colourless gland, which projects over the horizontal narrow stigmatic cavity, a slender subulate prolongation from the middle of the edge of the clinandrium, passing along its under surface, and two much shorter having the same origin, being placed at its sides. GERMEN longer than the perianth, bent a little forward at the apex, and as much back at the base, very little twisted, divided longitudinally into three distinct = by three double lines. : - PopuLar anp Grocrapnicat Notice. The genus Stanhopea is confined jo tropical America, extending over this from Brazil to Mexi it thought that bee range e each’ species is small. and Trinidad. Professor Lindley doubted this, and considered the fact of Stanhopea grandiflora having been obtained from Trinidad, and Stanhopea eburnea from Brazil, as giving importance to other charac- ters pointed out by him. Not one of these characters, however, dis- tinguish all plants of the two sections from each other, but they never- theless are not identical in all respects. In the Trinidad plant, the pseudo-bulbs are broader, much less attenuated at the apex, and per- haps rather larger than those of our Brazil plant; the petals are spathulato-linear, but attenuated and slightly curved downwards at the apex, revolute, and then turned in behind the lateral sepals, but not reftexed in their sides. The anther gland is more cordate than in the Brazil plants. We have, however, enough of variation among the Brazil plants themselves to satisfy one that these are mutable cireum- stances, and certainly make no approach to a specific distinction, though the appearance of the pseudo-bulbs did make me believe, before the Trinidad plants came into flower, that it would prove to be specifically distinct from Stanhopea eburnea. I cannot do otherwise than believe now, that Stanhopea eburnea and Stanhopea grandiflora are variable forms of the same species, especially as Professor Lindley doubted whether he would have attached much importance to the dis- tinctions he pointed out, had not the plants been from distinct localities. I more than partake of these doubts, and for these reasons have ventured to give the name of Stanhopea grandiflora to our Brazil plant, and to quote Stanhopea eburnea as a synonyme belonging to it. The specific name grandiflora being the older, is necessarily preferred. My previous belief that there is no specific distinction between these plants has been strengthened since writing the above, by having seen a specimen in flower in the garden of the Caledonian Horticultural Society, with flowers much smaller than any specimen either of Stan- hopea grandiflora or Stanhopea eburnea which I have ever seen. The petals, too, are much narrower, proportionally, and are twisted upon their axis, but not revolute at the extremity. It has the attenuated pseudo-bulbs of Stanhopea eburnea, but was received from Mr. Cooper under the name Stanhopea grandiflora, and is very vigorous. Its scape is less elongated than any of my specimens, but certainly not erect. I have to-day measured a pendulous scape on my Trinidad plant, and find it very nearly nine inches long. The variations among the plants in the Botanic Garden then, and in that of the Horticultural a Society, extinguish every character except that taken from the form of the pseudo-bulbs, and render it probable that further acquaintance with varieties from Trinidad will show that this also is unsteady. Partly owing to the giant bulk of these flowers, partly owing to their fantastic forms, and especially to the perfectly modelled slipper represented by the lip of this species, and to the extraordinary man- ner in which it pushes its hanging flower stalks through the bottom or sides of the suspended pots in which they are cultivated, there are scarcely any of the wondrous Orchidacee which excite so much admi- ration as the genus Stanhopea. It is a pity that their blossoms are of short duration. INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTuRE. Stanhopea grandi- flora, or that form called by Professor Lindley Stanhopea eburnea, was originally imported from Rio de Janeiro by Messrs. Loddiges. The plant figured has flowered at intervals during the summer in the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, having been planted in peat soil, and kept in a warm damp stove. Some of the pots are suspended, others stand upon the tables, and the plants flower very freely, and alike in all positions. The Stanhopeas, from their sending their scapes down- wards, should, in planting, be elevated, nine inches at the least, above the rims of the pots. Or they may be planted in wire baskets which will permit the flowers to protrude through the meshes. It should be remembered that they produce their singularly curious flowers the most luxuriantly when the plants are not allowed to become over large. Rough lumps of peat, and broken pots, form the mixture in which Stanhopea grandiflora should be planted. It may be increased by division, and should be a in the moist stove. DERIVATION OF THE NAME. STanHopea, in compliment + the Earl Stanhope. SyNONYME. STANHOPEA GRANDIFLORA. Lindley: Genera et Species of Orch. Plants, 158. STaANHOPEA EBURNEA. Lindley: in Bot. Reg. 1529: Ibid. Genera and Species of Orchid. Plants, 158. Bot. 3359. CERATOCHILUS GRANDIFLORUS. Loddiges’ Bot. Cab. 1414. GRaAH. Thantlics ce etl rates « ? RUEL'LIA AUSTRA'LIS. NEW HOLLAND RUELLIA. EXOGENA, OR DICOTYLEDONES. Natural division to which this plant belongs. é NATURAL ORDER, ACANTHACER. COROLLIFLORE, {is divisions OF to which ire aiaeenaela. DECANDOLLE, this Plant ot OF LINNEUS. No. 175. NUS. Ruetwta. Linnzvs. Catyx quinquepartitus, laciniis equalibus vel subequalibus. Cororta Scternibewigd or. ae oe equalis laci- niis patentibus obtusis. Stamina 4,inclusa,d , loculis ralellis, muticis vel basi mucronulatis. Ovarrum biloculare, loculis tri- quadviovalatis, eh a. ca infra stipe dente eT STieMA Cc Le Mp ies madsy satiny ma retinal suffulta. Heese caulescentes pilo oppositis rminalibusque solitariis vel paucis reas, widen parvis vel nullis. ECIES. Rvetwia Avstrauis. (Cavanitzes.) Cave erecto v. subdiffuso pubescenti- ies foliis elislasta ovatis lanceolatisve integerimis vel grosse serratis, floribus axillaribus solitariis ternisve subsessilibus, calycibus ciliatis, CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, RuELLIA. Catyx five-cleft, almost or quite to the bottom, the divisions equal or not very unequal. Cor- OLLA funnel-shaped, the limb spreading, of five nearly equal round blunt divisions. Stamens four, included in the tube, didynamous; anthers oblong, the cells parallel with or without a point at the base. Ovary two-celled, each cell containing three or four ovules. STYLE simple, with a small tooth on the upper side below the subulate stig- mate. Capsules oblong, two-celled, six-or eight-seeded, splitting across the cells into two valves each bearing a portion of the dissepiment along the centre. SrEps supported on retinacula. DESCRIPTION OF THE Species, Ruettia AustRais. STEM erect or somewhat spreading, much branched, growing to near a foot in height, clothed with soft shite Suhcating hairs. Leaves stalked, vary- ing ies oval to lanceolate, entire or with a few coarse teeth, blunt or scarcely sharp, contracted at the base, hairy on both sides, the upper tesa nienaiied into bracts. FLowers axillary, sometimes soli- tary in the axils of the stem leaves, more frequently by the conver- sion of the leaves into bracts and their being crowded together, forming a short Jeafy spike at the ends of the branches, or placed three together in the axils, accompanied by a pair of bracts. These Bracts only differ from the other leaves by being smaller and much narrower. CaLyx nearly sessile, of five linear or subulate divisions, sometimes most equal to each other, but more frequently one or two are dis- tnetly larger. Corozia with a tube, about as long again as the calyx, slightly curved and inflated above the middle, throat scarcely spreading, limb spreading and nearly flat, the divisions very broad and slightly emarginate, of a bright blue, with a slight whitish spot at the base of each fissure and reddish towards the throat. STaMENS inserted at about the middle of the tube, filaments short, the upper ones rather the longest and hairy, the lower ones smooth. CapsuLe- oblong, much contracted at the base, rather pointed, usually six- seeded, sometimes only four-seeded. Popuxtar AND GEoGrapHicaL Notice. The genus Ruellia, long a receptacle for a geod aay mass of didynamone Acanthacez was first reduced to natural limits by Brown, whose ideas on its extent, have been pretty nearly followed by Nees von Esenbeck in his elabo- rate dissertation on East Indian Acanthaceez. The present species, although not to be found in that dissertation, would, we have little doubt, be still considered by him, as it was by Brown, as belonging to the true Ruelliz. It has not, however, been so fortunate as tosits specific name. Having appeared at different times, in different gar- dens from different sources, it has already been three times published as new; and is, occasionally to be met with under names different from all three. That given above is, as far as we can learn, the oldest, cially to Asia, the Asiatic Archipelago, and the adjoining warmer portions of Australia. The Ruellia Australis, extends as far as Port Jackson, and from thence, as it would appear, to our East Indian pos- sessions, from whence it is, in the Botanical Magazine, stated io have been received. It does not, however, appear in what pariicular part of that extended reigon it was found, nor can it be a common plant iti as we do not aad it among Dr. Wallich’s collections. G. B. INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTURE. Frequently cultivated amongst stove annuals in continental gardens, it has lately appeared in our own collections ; said, as above stated, to have been received from East India. In the garden of the Horticultural Society, where our drawing was made, it flowers abundantly, and when once full of flowers, has a very pretty effect, though apt to look weedy, if grown too much to le DERIVATION oF THE Nam RveE xi, named after Jean Rueile, a French retaias ‘of the sixteenth century. AvsTRALIs, southern, in . to its —— station Roe AvstTrats. ae x ag y. 6, p. 62, t. 586. Brown’s Prodro- RUELLIAACHYRANTHIFOLIA. Desfontaihe Catalogus Horti Parisiensis, 3rd edit. p. 391. Rvetiia Evecans. Hooker: Botanical Magazine, t. 3389, RvELiia PARvirtora of French gardens. boy Moecehads es otelte aratlce PPL. om ‘ PENTANDRIA, _ DIGYNIA, OF LINNEUS. - « No. 178. NUS. Cyrro celnk Benner Coroxza rotata, quinquefi fida, r 4 Tos Bus staminens longe exsertus; corona pentaphylla, foliolis carnosis lanceo- latis erectis, basi in cornu recurvatum productis. ANTHER£ membrana minate; maa pollinis basi aflixz, conniventes, compresse. StTiemat S| depressus, papilla acutiuscula, Sryxr elongati. Frutex. Forts oppo membranacea MBELL& interpetiolares vel terminales, >dun 2, mult ag flora. Faas maaingoolly ale corolla = fans bato. Hi ELD: Plante J Sarr: ‘ Bert TE ee - SPECIES. Crnrocenss PLORIBUNDUM. (Bensarr) Fouts ubver rae a vel a ro ae a 5 1G Vallala. CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, CShaicttlite Corotta rotate, five- cleft, reflexed. Tune bearing the stamens greatly protruding ; crown © composed of five folioles, which are fleshy, lanceolate, erect, and pro- — longed at the base into a curved horn. ANTHE! RS terminated by ie membrane. Po.ien Masses attached at the base, pressed. Disk of the stigma depressed, ‘the pa Sty.es elongated. — DESCRIPTION OF See arden; CYRTOCERAS FLORIBUNDU UNDER-SHRUB, having the stem round and smooth. LEAVES nie smooth, of a somewhat leathery or membranous consistence, oval, acute, veined, deep green on the upper, light green on the under — "surface. INFLORESCENCE oa adhd or terminal, stalked, pendulous; — ; pedicels smooth; the ‘umbels surrounded by an ‘involucre of small, scale-like, downy bracts. FLowers whitish ; corolla rotate, reflexed, pubescent on the inner surface, tomentose at the base; segments linear, acuminate, yellowish towards the tips. The corona bearing the stamens, very smooth; the folioles acuminated at § “both ends. Antuers oblong, obtuse, terminated by a short two- brane. Potten MASSES erect; the gland simple, all not furrowed. Disk of the stigma depressed. PopuLaR AND GEOGRAPHICAL Notice. This very interesting plant would appear to be native of several of the islands of the Indian Archipelago, having been found in Java, in the eastern part of which it was found by Dr. Horsfield, at no great distance from the sea-shore, (where it bears the name of Kappal) and also in the island of Lucon, where it was discovered by Father Camel, and since by Mr. Cuming. It has been made the basis of a new genus by Mr. Bennett, who deemed it preferable to take this step to erecting an additional section in the genus Hoya, to which it is akin. Independently of the points of structure in the flower, by which it differs from that genus, it presents certain peculiarities of habit which serve further to distinguish it. It does not send out roots from its stem, as the species of Hoya do, nor is the flower possessed of that property of secreting a saccharine juice, forming a limpid coating to the stigma, as may be observed in the Hoya carnosa and others. INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTure. Sent by Mr. Cum- ing from Manilla, in 1837, to Messrs. Loddiges, in whose stove it flowered for the first time in 1838, and again last year, when our drawing was made. Dr. Lindley says, “ It seems to be nearly parasiti- cal in its habits. Messrs. Loddiges grow it in the Orchidaceous house, _on the block of wood upon which it was imported : this is placed in a pot, and surrounded by earth. It will grow in any light soil, the chief thing in its cultivation being a warm and moist atmosphere.” No means have yet succeeded in multiplying it. horn ion Or THE Nam Cyrroceras from evprog KuRTOS, curved, and eps ene a horn, from the curved state of the horn of the Paste ents of the er Syn E. CyRTOcERAS REFLEXUM. Bennett, et Horsfield’s Plante Javanice rariores, p. 90, t. 21 : Hoya cortacgea. Lindley: in Botanical Register, 1839, t. 18. a mistake, cor- cted in Miscell, 1840, p. 7. tidak Le ACACIA DENTIFERA. . ' ~ TOOTHED ACACIA. Natural division { to which \ this Plant belongs. CALYCIFLORE, cae divisions POLYGAMIA, OF which MONCCIA, DECANDOLLE, this Plant belongs. OF LINNEUS. No. 179. GENUS: Acacia. Wirtprenow. Fores hermaphroditi vel abortu sepius y' Catyx quadri-vel quinque-fidus. “Cororza petalis quatuor vel quinque liberis vel plus minusve coalitis, gativations valvyata. Sramina indefi- nita, numerosa, libera. ANnTHER# biloculares, polline granuloso. Ovarium oblongum, membranaceum coriaceum vel gees m, pulpo destitutum, bivalya- tim dehiscens. Arsores fruticesve. Fortra bipinnata vel petiolo seared simplicia. Fores in icv eae vel até Spa, sessilia, szepissim SPECIES. Acacta pENTIF Ramis teretiusculis vel su aa striatis glabils; -stipalis junioribus ‘setaceis “demam indurato. persistentibus acutis mucrone recto eglandulosis in po ciliatis adultis glabris, florum eapitulis globosis, pedunculis axillaribus monocephalis solitariis binisve vel in racemis axillaribus aphyllis dispositis, aie 5-partito laciniis.subulatis apicem versus subdilatatis, corolla 5-fida. CuaracTer oF THE Genus, Acacia. Fiowers hermaphrodite, or more frequently polygamous. Catyx four or five cleft. Prraxs four or five, either entirely free or more or less combined into a mono- petalous corolla, valvate in the bud. StamMENs numerous, indefinite, free. ANTHERS two-celled, the pollen consisting of a number of small grains, Ovary with several ovules. Sryte filiform, with a terminal stigma. Pop linear or oblong, membranous, leathery, or woody, without any pulp, opening in two valves. DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, ACACIA DENTIFERA. STEM erect, shrubby. BrancueEs smooth, nearly cylindrical, or angled by the decurrent stipules. Svipunes, when young, fine and thread-like, nearly two lines long, as they break off their base remains, thickening and hardening in the form of a double tooth at the base of the leaves. Leaves phyllodineous, that is, reduced to phyllodia or leaf-like ex- panded petioles, vertical, ascending, three to five inches long, linear, about two lines in their greatest breadth, ending in a straight point, somewhat curved in their length and slightly narrowed at the base, with one prominent longitudinal nerve, no lateral glands, the lateral 44 ie ve veins scarcely perceptible, slightly ciliated when young, at length perfectly smooth. Heaps or rLowers globose, borne on peduncles » about half an inch long, which are sometimes solitary, or two together in each axil, sometimes arranged in loose axillary racemes, shorter than the leaves, each head about three lines in diameter, bearing nearly thirty yellow flowers. Bracts at the base of the peduncles very small, bracteola under the flowers none. Catyx divided almost to the- base into five awn-shaped white divisions, slightly dilated, and yellowish at the top. Perats five, cohering to the middle, in a narrow bell-shaped corolla, white at the base, yellow at the top. STAMENS very numerous (above sixty) more than twice the length of the petals; the filaments flexuose, smooth. POLLEN GRAINS nume- rous, very small, the surface, as in most Acacias, beautifully divided - into ten compartments. Ovary oblong, nearly smooth, with a long flexuose style, laterally attached near the apex of the ovary. OvuLEs about six. Pop unknown. PopuLar AND GeoerapuicaL Notice. Of the numerous groups of plants now called Mimosex, Linneus knew scarcely more than fifty species, which, with the exception of Prosopis spicigera and Adenanthera pavonina, he considered as forming but one genus, under the name of Mimosa; and his example continued to be followed until Willdenow came to this part of his Species Plantarum, when finding the number of species inconveniently large, already above two hun- dred, he, in 1807, limited the genus Mimosa, as Tournefort had done, to the species with articulated pods; adopted Inga, of Plumier, for those which have monadelphous stamens and a pulpy pod; established two new small genera, Desmanthus and Schranckia; and collected all the rest under Tournefort’s name of Acacia. Eighteen years later Decandolle published the second volume of his Prodromius; the num- ber of Mimosezx he described was very nearly five hundred, which he distributed amongst Willdenow’s genera, adding only four small ones, Entada, Gagnebina, Darlingtonia, and Lagonychium. At this mo- ment, after another lapse of fifteen years, the number of Mimosez of which specimens exist in herbaria, amounts, probably, to nearly three times the number known to Decandolle in 1825. The several small genera of Willdenow, Decandolle, and others, have partaken but little of this increase; the true Mimosas, with articulate pods, (as in the — Sensitive plant) are now very numerous, it is true, but the genus is well defined, and will probably remain undivided. Inga, however, which was founded on two characters, which by no means correspond to each other in extent, and especially Acacia, which is made to include every Mimoseous plant which will not go into the other genera, are become numerous, unwieldly, ill-defined, and compara- tively unnatural assemblages of plants, which it is essential to, divide, in order to extricate them from the chaos in which they are involved. This has been partially accomplished by the separation of several new genera proposed by Brown, Arnott, Guillemin, and Martius; and the latter botanist has indicated what should be considered as the true genus Inga, but no one appears to have attempted to assign any definite characters to Acacia, which remains a confused mass of species which cannot be, or have not been, referred to any of the other known _Mimosex. Having myself had occasion very lately to describe those collected by M. Schomburgk, in British Guiana, I found it necessary to make an attempt at reducing the whole tribe of Mimosez to some kind of arrangement, and I there proposed three subtribes to. contain the twenty-eight genera now published; and, notwithstanding this _ great multiplication of genera, the average number of species in each will probably not fall far short of the total number contained in Linneus’s Mimosa, one of the most numerous in species known to him, and about five times his usual average. In defining the true genus Acacia another difficulty, however, presents itself—For which group should that name be retained? In following strictly the rules of nomenclature, the right might be claimed by that set of species which would include the gum Acacias of Africa; but on the other hand, these trees, most, if not all of them, are congeners to the Acacia Farnesiana which had already been sepa- — rated and well defined by Arnott, under the name of Vachellia, and since then by Gasparini, under that of Farnesia; and the more nume- rous set—that which includes all the Australian species, and many others both from the new and old continents, corresponds better with | Willdenow’s generic character, and has, as yet, received no other name. In retaining, therefore, the name of Acacia to this set in preference to the other, above two hundred fewer names are changed, and the rules of nomenclature cannot be said to be absolutely violated. - Amongst the numerous Australian species of Acacia, as thus limited and characterized at the head of this article, a considerable proportion have their leaves reduced to that state which are now usually called phyllodia. The first year from seed, indeed, more or less of the Jeaves are bipinnate, as in other Mimosee, but in the subsequent ones the folioles are never developed, but the petiole or main stalk is * expanded vertically in the form of a simple rigid leaf, with the margins more or less thickened, and upon the upper edge may often be seen a gland, corresponding to that which is so frequent on the petiole of other Mimosez. This peculiar phyllodineous form of the leaf is almost confined to Australia, but has also been observed on many of the leaves of Acacia heterophylla from the Mauritius, and . also on a new species of Mimosa gathered by Dr. Pohl in the interior . of Brazil. The group of Acacias collected together by this character do not present, as far as hitherto observed, any peculiar modification in the flowers or fruit, and do not therefore constitute a good botanical sec- tion ; yet this conformation is so remarkable, and so easily observed, that it forms the most convenient primary division of the genus. The next subdivision has been derived from the inflorescence, the heads of flowers being sometimes elongated in the form of a spike, sometimes nearly globose; and the globe-flowered species have again been dis- tributed into two groups, according as the peduncles bear but one head, or a raceme of several heads. This latter character is not, however, so certain; many species, and amongst others the one now figured, have some of the peduncles simple, others bearing a raceme of several heads. When the pod is better known, it is probable that much more natural subdivisions may be framed from the modifications of that organ, in conjunction with those of the flower, the stipules, and perhaps the glands of the leaves. The new species now figured is a native of Swan River. It is nearly allied to the Acacia saligna of Labillardiere, but the leaves are much narrower, and the form of the calyx is very peculiar. The cultivated specimens are hitherto rather poor of flower, but, judging from the wild ones, they are likely to become as ornamental as the generality of the Australian species. G. B. INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTuRE. First found in the colony of Swan River, by Mr. James Drummond; it was raised in the garden of Messrs. Rollisson of Tooting, from seeds transmitted by ‘that collector. Our drawing was made from a specimen which flowered in that establishment for the first time this spring, 1840. It has been treated as other New Holland species. Derivation or tHE NaMeEs. Acacia, so named in the belief that the Acacia of the ancients is a species of this genus. Derren mot bene, in allusion to she tooth-like remains of the stipules. ae c. Vedcclen BE a Lee wre. * ~ ARIDES ODORA'TUM. SWEET-SCENTED AIR-PLANT. EN. ieee oR MONOCOTYLEDONE.. Natura] division to which this Plant belongs, NATURAL co ER, ORCHIDACER, G ot Artificial divisions OYNANDRIA, to which ar ee Sackaseaez. this Plant belongs. No. 180. GENUS. Arives, Lovretro. EERIARTSIOM patens vel claustan. Sebica lateralia, basi szepius obliqua cum ungue p ABE M cum ungue columne articulatum, saccatum vel calcaratum, tate bum; lobis lateralibus nanis; limbo cucullato, aut subulato, aut abbreviato. tumido, aut subfornicato. Conomna in ovarium recumbens, brevis, aptera,. ANTHERA bilocularis. Poxiinia 2, postice suleata; caudicula lata vel filiformi, glan- dula peltata men stinogr da. Hers epiphyte caulescentes. CavuLes subsim- lices, radicantes. Foxra disticha, coriacea, aut subcarnosa. FLorE Bs racemosi; spicati SPECIES. Airives ODORATUM (Lovrerro) foliis ingeslieg undul: medio recurvis, apice obtusis obliquis; racemis nutantibus, multifloris, labelli eucullati infundibularis lactis lteralibus erectis cuneatis rotundatis, inter- . media lineare inflexa, calcare conico i 0 CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, AERIDES. PERIANTH spreading or closed. LaTERAL SEPALS generally, by their oblique base, connate with the elongated unguis of the column. LaBe.tum articulated with this part, saccate or spurred, three-lobed, the lateral lobes being small, limb cucullate, subulate, short and tumid, or somewhat arched. Cot- UMN reclining upon the ovarium, short, without wings. ANTHER bilocular. PoLLeN Masses two, furrowed behind, caudicle broad or filiform, gland peltate, subrotund. DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, HRIDES ODORATUM. STEM Lantbt ed, (simple in the specimen described, which is only four inches high to the base of the upper leaf) compressed, leafy, sending forth many strong, rigid, cylindrical, branched, glabrous roots. LEaves 9 inches long, nearly 14 broad, linear, distichous, coriaceous, pendulous in their upper half, slightly reflected in their edges, obliquely truncated, middle rib strong and sharply prominent behind, lateral ribs incon- spicuous. SPIKES axillary, cernuous, many-flowered. Bracrs ovate, rigid, persisting. FLOwers extremely handsome, agreeably perfumed, white, tipped with pale reddish-lilac, spreading all round the rachis. SeEpaLs spreading wide, the two lowest the largest, ovate, reflexed in their sides, the upper obovate, scarcely reflected in the sides. PeTaLs equal in length to the sepals, spreading upon the same plain with the sepals, and intermediate in form and situation between them. LaBet- Lum larger than the perianth, funnel-shaped; the spur pale greenish- brown, curved forwards and upwards; lateral lobes large, compressed laterally, erect, rounded at the apex, wedge-shaped downwards, closed upon the lateral sepals and column; central lobe winged at its base, "linear in its upper portion, and there inflated so as completely to fill the space between the lateral lobes, and coming into contact with the anther to hide the whole of the interior of the flower. CoLuMN in its free portion very short, and rounded behind, but much elongated at its base, where it is broadly channelled in front, connate with the petals and sepals, and articulated with the lip. ANTHER-caseE blunt at the apex and slightly emarginate, attenuated at its base. PoLiEen- MASSES two, waxy, rounded, each bifid; the posterior lobe the smaller, attached to a thin transparent and colourless sub-rhomboid gland, by a linear stalk of the same appearance as the gland, and twice as long as it. CLINANDRIUM attenuated into a beak, dependent in the centre of the flower, and placed in front of the rounded excavation, in which is the stigmatic surface. PopuLar AND GroerapPuHicaL Notice. This genus, of whichthere . are many species, is entirely oriental, being diffused over the archi- pelago and the continent of India, and China. The present species has a particularly wide range, being found in China, Cochin-China, Martaban, and Bengal. INTRODUCTION; WHERE GRowN; CuLTuRE. - We received this plant at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in the end of the year 1838, from Mr. Cooper. It seems to flower very freely, if we may judge by the little plant which has flowered so beautifully with us in July; having upon it three withered flower-stalks, the product of for- mer years, and another flower-stalk is now forming in the axil of the leaf immediately above that from which the present spike hangs. There are, no doubt, more fantastic forms among the Orchidacee, than the Balsam-like flowers of this plant possess, but I am not’ sure that there are any where the harmony of colouring, the perfume, and the symmetry of form, which produce a more pleasing impression. : It has been kept with us in a oe pit, and grows in lumps of unprepared peat. GRAH. SyNnonyMEs. Eres OporaTA. Loureiro: Fl. Cochin, 642. _ Willdenow: Spec. Pl. 4, 131. Persoon, Synops. 2, 522. Hort. Kew. 5, 212. Sprengel : Syst. Veget. 3, 719. dley: Gen, et. Spec. Orchid. 239. AiRzives cornutum. Lindley: Bot. Res: 1485. Roxburgh: FI. Indie, 3, 472. yreclegua fragrerd. om © é Nevitt.scuty .* AQUILE'GIA FRA'GRANS., ~ FRAGRANT COLUMBINE. EXOGEN, oR _ DICOTYLEDONEA. Natural division to which . this plant belongs. ee (ne divisions POLYANDRIA, to which PENTAGYNIA, estinetiak. ce Plant belongs. OF LINNEUS. No. 181. GENUS. Aautrecia. Linwazvs. Caryx quinquesepalus, deciduus, colo. a PETALA quinque, superne hiantia, bilabiata, labio exteriore 0, de apice heen, inter sepala exserta. Ovaria plura,sepius peer ie CapsuLa totidem, erectz, polysperme, stylis acuminate. HERBz perennes, erectz. Fouta radicalia aut inferiora longe petiolata, petiolo trifido biternatim secta, bean s trifidis dentatis, superiora in lineares partita. FLores termi- es sepius cernui. SPECIES. Aeviireta FRAGRANS. Caule folios plurifloro sary eave foliis ‘ioribus ovariis-que pubescentibus subglandulosis, foliorum inferiorum egmentis ultra medium os sont amie vix wi isting sepals orato- lanceolatis acutis, petaloru brevioribus, staminibus lamina parum Prcihinen CHARACTER OF THE Genvs, Aquitecia. Catyx of five sepals, deciduous, coloured, and petal-like. PrTa.s five, open at the top, two-lipped, the outer lip large and flat, the inner very small, pro- . duced downwards into as many hollow spurs, protruding between the sepals and terminating in a straight or curved callous end. Ovaries several, usually five. CapsuLes as many, erect, many-seeded, pointed by the remains of the styles. DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, AQUILEGIA FRAGRANS. es erect, a foot or a foot and a half high, leafy, smooth or nearly so below, covered in the upper part with short hairs, ne er and somewhat glandular under the flowers, branched at pM eives of the lower part of the stem borne upon a long ota bind sheath- ing at the base, and twice divided above the middle into three branches, each of which bears three segments; segments sessile or slightly connate, divided to the middle, or deeper, into three obovate or wedge-shaped lobes, which are deeply cut into two or three entire blunt rounded teeth or crene; the general form of each segment is broadly obovate or rounded, they are of a glaucous green underneath and smooth or bearing a few short scattered hairs on the underside ; the upper leaves have shorter stalks, are less divided, and more hairy; and the uppermost of all are reduced to three linear lanceolate sessile lobes. FLowers few, each terminating a branch, sweet-scented, and perhaps the largest in the genus, being rather larger than those of Aquilegia Alpina and Sternbergi. Sepats broadly lanceolate, of a yellowish white, tinged with a slight shade of blue on the margin and with green at the points, longer than the petals. PrTALs ofa yellow- ish white, the lamina very broad and truncate, the spur not half the length of the lamina, thick, very much curved or hooked, of a slight bluish tint, having a few hairs on the ouside. STAMENS very nume- rous, rather shorter than the petals, the inner sterile membranous ones rather shorter than the styles. Ovaries four, five, or six, mae and glandular. : 2 PopuLar AND GeEocRaruicaL Notice. This is a most valuable addition to a well known ornamental European genus, furnished by the mountainous chains of the North of India, a country analagous in many of its vegetable productions to the alpine districts of the south of Europe. With all the singularity of form and elegant growth of our own Columbines, this species presents a colour of flower very unusual in the genus, and exhales a fragrance so much a disideratum in those hitherto cultivated. In its botanical affinities the plant comes nearest to Aquilegia pubiflora of Wallich, but the flower is twice as large, and the spurs of the petals very much more hooked, besides which pubiflora appears to have the flowers of a rusty purple. G. B. InrropucTion; WHERE Grown; CuLture. The Aquilegia fra- grans is one of a number of North Indian plants raised by the Hor- ticultural Society of London, from seeds presented by the Honourable East India Company. It has only flowered this spring (1840) for the first time, and has been hitherto kept in a conservatory or under a frame, but there is every reason to hope that it will prove as hardy as its congeners already in cultivation. DERIVATION OF THE Name. eli cee to be derived from aquila an eagle, on account of the gen- appearance to a bird, presented by its two contiguous wae The name Galvani: from Columba, a dove, is given from the same c Fraarans, fragrant. 'f NY iy 1) 4 4% we _ | i a \ | BS x ie Wes p « Me no fir Habis: teas STAT’ ICE PUBER’ULA. DOWNY STATICE. f owe | QD os NATURAL ORDER, PLUMBAGINACE, MONOCHLAMYDER, Artificial divisions me OF to which snwnaeewlie, DECANDOLLE, {Ss Plant oan OF LINNEUS. No. 182. GENUS. Srarice. Linvavs. Flores distincti. ep infundibuliformis, limbo q margine scari Corotta pentapetala vel quinque- partita. “STAMINA quinque, imis wets unguibus inserta. OvarivM uniloculare. OvuLum unicum, e placenta filiformi libera pendulum. Srrxi terminales, quinque, apice intus ‘itigmatofisi. U TRICULUS Membranaceus, monospermus, calyce inclusus, demum a basi multifido-solutus, calyptreformis. MEN inversum. EmsBryroorthotropus, ALBUMEN parvum. ERBzZ suffru: dis, STATICE PUBERULA, (Wess) Foliis petiolatis obovatis oblon- gisve in tegeeriinie p ubescentibus, scapo angulato — iculato pubescente, bracteis obtusis ciliatis convolutis calycis tu bl limbo membranaceo colorato patente orfiteulato subcrenato tubo zquilongo. CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, STATICE. FLoweErs distinct, not united in globose heads. Caryx funnel-shaped; the limb five- toothed, with five folds, scariose at the edge. Coroxnua deeply five-cleft, or of five petals, STamens five, inserted in the claws of the petals at their base. Ovary one-celled. Ovuxe single, hanging from a free filiform placenta. Styves five, terminal, bearing stigmas at their apex, inside. Frurr a membranous utricle, one-seeded, enclosed in the calyx, at length detaching itself. and splitting at the base. SEED inverted. Emsryo orthotropous, in a small quantity of albumen. ; DESCRIPTION OF THE Species, STATICE PUBERULA. RooT pe- rennial. Leaves all radical, spreading or somewhat erect, stalked, ovate, obovate, or oblong, blunt or terminating in’a small point, nar- rowed at the base, one to two inches long, green, quite entire, bearing on both sides, and especially on the edge, a number of short hairs. Scape angular, almost winged, bearing a very short down, erect, about six inches high, and dichotomously divided into a many- flowered panicle, having almost the form of a corymb. At each ramification are two small brown, broadly ovate, pointed bracts or seales. Bracrts. enclosing the flowers, oblong, blunt, brown, pubes- cent, membranous at the edges, and rather longer than the tube of the calyx. F.Lowers sessile, two or three together at the extremities of the branches of the panicle. Caryx funnel-shaped; the tube oblong, two lines long, angular, pubescent, reddish or brown; the limb scariose, of a rich purple, folded at first, afterwards spreading, orbicular, slightly crenate, smooth, about two lines in diameter. Coro.ta divided nearly to the base into five linear-oblong, retuse, white petals, of the length of the flowering calyx. Poputar aNp GeoGRapHicaL Notice. Linneus comprehended under the name of Statice the Thrifts which have the flowers in close heads, as well as others which, like the present species, have the flowers distinct and spicate, or paniculate. Necker, followed by Brown, proposed to separate them, reserving the name of Statice to the ifts,and giving tothe remainder that of Taxanthemum; but Wildenow’s nomenclature is more generally adopted, the Thrifts being designated by the old name Armeria, and Linneus’s name of Statice adopted for Necker’s Taxanthema. This is the most numerous of the two, and a very handsome genus, chiefly confined to mari- time stations in almost every part of the world; but the greater number of species are from the south of Europe and the north of ‘Africa. The present one, with many others of the handsomest among them, is a native of the Canary Islands. eB. INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CULTURE. The Statice pube- rula was introduced some years since, by means of seeds collected by P. B. Webb, Esgq., and cultivated in his garden at Milford House, near Godslining. Our drawing was made in June, from a plant which was obligingly communicated from the Birmingham Horticultural Society's garden. It requires protection in a greenhouse or frame, during winter, but flowers in the greatest perfection when planted out, during the _ summer, in the open borders; where it becomes very showy, from the bright purple of its calyx. It may be propagated by division, cut- tings, or seeds. A plant is sometimes met with in the nurseries under the name Statice foliosa, which seems to be identical with the present species. DERIVATION OF THE NaMES ae rhe a the Greek carin, a herb so called from its astringency, and to botanists have referred our Statice. Puservta, slightly wry. SynonyMe. Statice puBervuta, P. B. Webb: Botanical Register, t. 1450. a. FILL ra AI PHYSOLOBIUM CARINA'TUM, ‘LARGE-KEELED PHYSOLOBD i EXOGEN&, oR bttorriepowe. ( Natural division ‘ ae j to which A —— | Ay - this Plaut belongs. . Ne les ips eo gu this Meee aie No. 183. eile aa DIADELPHIA, RIA, ae Se GENUS. Paysorostum. Benroam. Caryx campanulatus, bilabiatim te ie atus. ConroLim vx late arbicdintom,; patens, basi subcallo- xappendiculatum, alis longi ALE adherentes; ee incurva, obtusa, alis bation vel subequal Sramina distincte dia- delpha, filamento vexillari recto inarticalato. ANTHER#& uniformes. VaGiIna disci nulla. Ovarium pluriovulatum. avis brevis, adscendens. Sricma Lt axil- estoy laxe paucifiori, subdichotomi. sacri et stipule late. Const coc- ci SPECIES. PuysoropruM cARINATUM. (Beyrnam,) Foliolis obovatis orbi- culatisve eink mucronulatis margine subun dulatis subtus ramulisque pubes. centibus, ee bracteisque lato-ovatis acuminatis ‘acme carina apice geniculata obtusissima. CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, PaysoLopium. Catyx bell-shaped, two-lipped, five-toothed. Corot.a: sTaNDARD broadly orbicular, spreading, without appendages at the base, longer than the wings; Wines adhering to the keel beyond the middle; Keet curved, blunt, shorter than, or nearly equal to, the wings. Stamens distinctly dia- delphous, the upper free, filament straight and without any joint. ANTHERS all alike. No sheath on the disk. Ovary with several ovules. StyzeE short, ascending. Stiema capitate. Pop oblong, swollen, imperfectly divided into several cells by a cellular substance, which at length disappears. Sexps strophiolate. DESCRIPTION OF THE ora cleo beg CARINATUM. STEM slender, climbing, but 1 to any great length, bearing as _— spreading hairs. Loar-sTanks slender, two = three inches long. -Learters three, with sh artia! ovate, or somewhat rh al, ibe e lateral ones Pa Opposite, inserted at some distance from the terminal one, nearly Jar, all of them very 45 er blunt, and bearing a minute point at the end of the mid-rib, green on both sides, smooth on the upper side, about half an inch diameter. Stiputes broadly ovate, or cordate, pointed, often slightly connate, of the same consistence and hairiness as the leaflets. PEDUNCLES ax- illary, few-flowered, the common stalk very short and dichotomously divided into two, three, or four long slender pedicels. Bracts at the ramifications of the peduncle, and in the middle of the pedicels, oppo- site, leafy like the stipules, but smaller. Catyx hairy, deeply divided into four lobes, of which the upper one is broad and two-cleft, the lower ones narrow, pointed, and entire.. Coroxta about the size of that of Zichya coccinea, smooth. StTaNnparp of arich crimson, with a yellow spot in the centre, at the base of which are two slightly prominent cal- losities. Wines and Krrt somewhat lighter coloured, the keel full as long as the wings, very broad, and suddenly curved at the top, very blunt at the end. Pop from half an inch to three quarters long, much _ swollen, hairy. Porutar aNnD GeoeraruicaL Notice. The genera Hardenbergia and Zichya, lately separated from Kennedya, and the latter genus, as now limited, have already been illustrated in this work, (see Botanist, v. 2, No. 84.) The plant, now figured is one of a fourth genus allied _ to them, but readily distinguished by habit as well as by botanical char- acter. The colour and form of its flower are those of a Zichya, but the peduncles are few-flowered and loosely dichotomous, not umbellate, and the pod is inflated, as in Crotalaria or Baptisia. The inflorescence is that of a true Kennedya, but the form of the flower, as well as the pod, are very different. There are three or four species known, all from the south-west coast of Australia. G. B. InTRopUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CunTuRE. This species was first gathered by Baron Charles von Hugel, on the coast of King George’s Sound, and it is believed, was raised by him, at his establishment, at Hietzing, near Vienna, from seeds he had brought home. It was again received from Port Augusta by the Horticultural Society, and flowered this spring for the first time. It appears to grow freely under the usual treatment of Australian Papilionacez, and sets its seeds more abundantly than most species of the Kennedya tribe. Our wy ted was made at the Society’s garden. pa or THE | NAMES. from ¢uoaw, to a pod, in reft to the infla- ted pod, Carinatum from the tee keel of the species. SYNONYME. | Puysotopium cARINATUM. Bentham: in Hiigel’s Enumeratio, p. 39. pD * PHARBITIS LEA‘RI. ~ LEAR’S PHARBITIS. EXOGENE oR DICOTYLEDONES, Natural division to which this Plant belongs. NATURAL ORDER, CONVOLVULACEA, . esi aay atim tri-quinque foliolatis, pedunvatis axillaribus unifloris vel racem _ SPECIES. weer me STIPULARIS. (Lawx.) Sorrrvricosa decumbens, scen ; vatis foliaceis “petiolum “equantibus, racemis Jonge pedunculatis mul. 4 tii, petalingla abris, leguminibus teretis rectis pendulis glabri Cua ACTER OF THE GENus, INDicorERA. CaLyx bell-shaped, five-toothed or five-cleft. Coroua papilionaceous, the standar obovate or ad 1, blunt; the wings spreading horizontally, and _ concealing the ich is shorter than the wings, straight or slightly curved, 1 ot iat furnished on each side with a prominent spur. Stamens diadelphous, the upper filament free from the base, and all filiform at the top. ANTHERS all alike, ovate, surmounted by a smal] point. Ovary with two or many ovules. Sty e filiform. STIEMA blunt or capitate. Pop linear or oblong, straight or curved, eylindrical or compressed, divided between the seeds by a cellular tissue, opening i in two valves. _ DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, INDIGOFERA STIPULARIS. STEM Escuabenk shrubby at the base. Brancues clothed with rough hairs. Leaves composed of a common stalk, four or five lines long, and three leaflets palmately arranged, obovate, blunt, with a small projecting point narrowed at the base, green on both sides, and thickly covered with stiff appressed hairs, most of them attached by the centre. Sr1- putes large and leaf-like, ovate, pointed, about the length of the leaf- 47. * stalks, FLowers ina dense raceme, at the end of a penduncle, of about three inches long, the raceme itself one or two inches long. BracTs about as long as the calyx, but falling off early. PEpicreLs very short. Catyx slightly hairy, the teeth lanceolate at the base, then ernie: the Jongest = longer than the tube. PerTats all smoo' eslong. Pop pendulous, straight, ate cylindrical, smooth. Poputar anpD GeocrapHicaL Notice. The genus Indigo, some - species of which furnish the well known blue dye of that name, is a very numerous‘one in the warmer parts of both hemispheres, especially in Asia and Africa; and in the latter continent it extends to the southern extremity. Indeed, a great proportion of the species, of those especi- ally, which like the one before us, have digitate leaves, are natives of the Cape colony. The Indigofera stipularis is found in elevated rocky situations on the borders of Cafferland, at the eastern limits of the colony, about the Winterberg, the Katberg, &c Independently of the commercial importance of some species, the genus Indigofera is also botanically remarkable as an extensive well-characterised genus, and yet offering great variation in the ar- rangement of the leaflets, a character so constant through the greater part of the order as to be used in distinguishing tribes. There are few cases indeed where digitate, and alternately pinnate, leaves occur in the same tribe, and scarcely any besides Indigofera where the two forms are met with in the same genus. On the other hand the inflorescence and flowers, as well as the general habit of the species of Indigofera, with both forms of leaves, are very much alike; all have the character- istic tooth-like process on each side of the keel, on which the expanded wings rest, and most, if not all, have more or less of a peculiar kind of stiff appressed hairs attached by the centre, which give a greyish hoary appearance to the dried specimens. G. B. InTRoDUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CcuLTurRE. Introduced into European botanical gardens about the year 1816; it has seldom, if ever, been transferred to ornamental collections, although like many other Cape species it certainly deserves a place in our greenhouses. It is easy of cultivation, not requiring so great a degree of summer heat as the plants from the neighbourhood of Cape Town. Our drawing was made at the Royal Gardens, at Kew, in May last (1840). Derivation or THE NaMEs. Ixpicorera, Indigo-bearing. Stieviartis, with large stipules. SynonyMEs. InpicoreRa strpvzarts, Link: Enumeratio Horti Berolinensis, v. 2, p. 250. De Candolle. mus, Vv. 2. p. 232. Me? Bithers. : i € “J * ¢ eden senewre weslelet Pee. Nevitt.scxip. SOLA’NUM VESTITUM. CLOTHED SOLANUM. EXOGENA, OR DICOTYLEDONES. iS Natural division to which this plant belongs. PR ORDER, SOLANACEA. COROLLIFLONR, ° ER { ape: geen: -& aK PENTANDRIA, pohgsiptris meng pacaxnonts: this * tong inulin OF LINNE No. 192. GENUS, Sotanum. Lrnwevs. Catryx quinque- vel decemfidus. Cororza rotata vel rarius campanulata, tubo brevi, limbo plicato quinque- vel decemfido, rarius quadri- vel sexfido, Sramina quinque, rarius quatuor vel sex, corolla fauci inserta, exserta; filamenta nba anther conniventes apice poris geminis dehiscentes, Oy vaRium bi-rarius tri- vel quadriloculare, ccatiggg a sepimentis adnatis multi-ovulatis. Sryzus oo Stiema o ca bi- rarius tri- vel quadrilocularis. Semrna reniformia. ayiicee ide ricus albumen carnosum includens. SPECIES. Soranum vestrrom. Caule fruticoso, foliis amplis ovatis angulato-lobatis utrinque ramisque aculeis sparsis rectis armatis et pilis apice psy 2 hirsutissimis; pedunculis lateralibus breviter racemosis, calycis campanulati hirsutissimi laciniis brevibus ovatis apice subcoloratis, corollis amplis saulek 6-7 -fidis extus villosis CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, SoLANUM. CaLyx five or ten cleft. Corotta rotate, or rarely bell-shaped, the tube short, the limb pli- cate, five or ten cleft, rarely four or six cleft. Stamens five, rarely four or six, inserted in the throat of the corolla, and projecting be- yond it; the filaments very short, the anthers connivent, opening at the top by means of two pores. Ovary two-celled, rarely three or four celled; the placente adhering to the dissepiment, and bearing many ovules. Sryzte simple. Sriema blunt. Berry two-celled, rarely three or four celled. SerEps reniform. Emsryo placed in the circumference, and surrounding a fleshy albumen. DESCRIPTION OF THE Species, SOLANUM VESTITUM. A tall Survs, forming almost a small tree. Brancues thick, armed with scattered prickles, which are straight, or nearly so, and scarcely re- flexed, and thickly covered with stiff brown hairs, branching at the top in the form of stars. Leaves stalked, single, or two together, from five to ten inches long, broadly ovate, grossly and irregularly marked on each edge with three or four broad, acute lobes, covered on both sides with hairs like those of the branches, and bearing a few prickles along the principal veins on both sides. PepuNctes lateral, thick, about an inch long, bearing a short raceme almost reduced to an umbel of four to eight large lilac flowers; pedicels thick, about half an inch long. Catyx half an inch long, cupshaped, thickly clothed as well as the peduncles with the same hairs as the branches, intermixed with a few prickles, divided at the top into six or seven broad, short lobes, which are often slightly petaloid and coloured. Corowa two inches and a half in diameter, divided below the mid- dle into six or seven oval lobes, of a bluish lilac colour, with a pale, somewhat yellowish line at the base of each lobe, hairy outside. AN- THERS six or seven, all equal, large, thick and yellow. Styte pro- jecting beyond the anthers, with a green two-lobed stigma. PopuLar AND GeocrapuicaL Notice. Thisis one of the largest flowered of this extensive genus, and would be one of the most orna- mental were it not for the shortness of the flower-stalks, and the large size of the rough-looking leaves, which conceal the flowers in a great measure from view. It is said to be a native of the tropical part of Mexico, and has received in our gardens the name of Solanum stra- moniifolium, which is a very different species, perhaps the same as S.torvum. Our plant has some affinity with Solanum Hernandesii, and some other Mexican ones, but easily distinguished from all other _ prickly species known to us, by the calyx and corolla. The stipitate stellate hairs are also remarkably conspicuous in our Solanum vesti- tum, and by an attentive examination of those which cover the leaves a gradual passage may be observed from these hairs to the strong sim- ple prickles, there being many of intermediate thickness, bearing at the top one, two, or three stellate branches, instead of five or six as observable on the brown hairs of the stem. G. B. INTRODUCTION ; WHERE GROWN ; CuLTuRE. Raised in the Royal Gardens, at Kew, from seeds transmitted from Mexico by the late Dr. Schiede. It flourishes well in the stove, but on account of the room it takes and the large size of its foliage it can scarcely be re- commended, excepting for an extensive collection. Our drawing was made at Kew in December. pesrrian OF THE Nae um, from f the species. Vaatreen, aaa in ata to oe Shoo covering of big E ri ¢ Wevelt, scudp. Seiedla affia ‘ dies 3 Tefiaworesd she a PAVET'TA CAFFRA. SOUTH AFRICAN PAVETTA. EXOGENZ OR DICOTYLEDONEZ, Natural division to which this Plant belongs. CALYCIFLORE, (Gi s Aosta fone TETRANDRIA, OF | ae 4 ich MONOGYNIA, DECANDOLLE. AS this voi ttins. OF LINNEUS, No. 193. ° GENUS. Paver. Lrwwavs. Carve tubus nines limbus parvus — 4-dentatus. Corowa i bis longiore,limbo ‘pane meet ANTHERS 4 ad fancem subsessiles, mieten: longé extra tu- loborum api ee clavatus,s ubinteger — stigmatis eruribus adglutinatis oot = ac ne fs re Moret Bacca Pyren# chartacee intus or aut concave dorso Al tactdepecae. ALBUMEN cartilaginewm. radicula Fav TICES s asiatien aut africane. Foura 0 opposita. StipuLe basi late ae acute aut in aristam setaceam desinentes. Corymbi terminales. Flores albi Prod. iv- pp. 485, 490. SPECIES. PavetTra CAFFRA. eee FIL.); — foliis obovatis, ramisque glabris; stipulis subulatis, basi herbaceo-membranaceis, connatis ; 3 eymis fasti- iatis, calycibus 4-fidis, segmentis mbsaiie corollz lobis obovato-oblongis mu- cronulatis tubo brevioribus, CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, PaveTTa. Catyx, tube ovate, limb four-toothed, small. Coro.ta salver-shaped; tube slender, round, longer than the lobes; limb four-parted, spreading. ANrTHers four, subsessile in the throat. STye protruded far beyond the tube of the corolla, = the length of the lobes, clavate at the apex, subentire, or the segments of the stigma agglutinated, scarcely or not at all divided. es drupaceous, crowned by the persisting calyx, subglo- sig bilocular, Pyren® papery within, plane or concave, gib n the back, monospermous. ALBUMEN cartilaginous. Empryo dorsal, erect, incurved ; cotyledons leafy, radicle long. ESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, Paverra Carrra. Sarvs erect, ranches ascending: Whole plant glabrous, except the stigma and the inside of the tube of the corolla. EAVES 23 inches long, 1} inch broad, obovate, petiolate. Srrputes small, herbaceous, persisting, dilated connate and membranaceous at the base, subulate at the apex. FiLowers in dense terminal cymes, perfumed: PeDICcELs with two opposite filamentous bracts in the middle. Caryx four-cleft, herba- ceous, segments subulate. Corotta white, hypocrateriform; tube (74 lines long) slender, cylindrical, greenish towards its base, hai within, especially in its upper part, hairs somewhat reflected: limb (three quarters of an inch across) four-parted, flat, in the bud imbri- cated and slightly convolute ; segments obovato-oblong, with a small mucro in the centre, from which a dark green streak passes for a little way along the back. SvTameEns in the throat of the corolla, alternate with the lobes, and becoming reflected between these. ANTHERS lin- ear, cleft at the base, pointed at the apex; filament short, attached to the back of the anther at the top of the notch; pollen granules mi- nute, rounded, white. PistrL more than twice as long as the tube of the corolla; stigma clavate, green, pubescent, the hairs being arranged in many vertical lines; style white, erect, filiform. GERMEN inferior, crowned with a small depressed disk, which is superior. _ Poputar anD GeEocGRaPHIcAL Notice. The genus Pavetta is very nearly allied to Ixora, and, in fact, its character differs from that of Ixora only by its much longer ose = agglutinated, not diverging, segments of the stigma, and according to Gertner in the structure of the fruit and the seed. By Lamarck git? Roxburgh, therefore, these genera have been united, and by other writers the species have been confused. The geographical distribution is nearly the same. We do not know whether either possess any of the valuable properties which belong to some of the natural order Cinchonacee. Roxburgh says the Indian species are used only for fuel. The present species isa native of Southern Africa. INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CULTURE. The genus Pavetia has not the rich colouring of any species of [xora, but Pavetta Caffra, notwithstanding, is well deserving of cultivation, forming a very pretty compact shrub, and flowering annually in great profusion. Itisa species described by the younger Linneus, but introduced into culti- vation in Britain only a few years ago. We received it at the Bo- tanic Garden, Edinburgh, from Kew, in 1835, and have kept it in stove heat. It may be a recommendation to many to know that it flowers abundantly even when under a foot high, and never acquires, under proper management, the straggling growth which dis- figures some of the other species DerivaTIOn OF THE Names. Pavetta, the Malabar name for _ — of the genus. Carrra, from € country in which this species is n. SyNonyMEs, PavETTA erent Lin. € Suppl. fot, Thunb. Prodro. 29. Willd. Sp. pl. 1, ies rs. Synops. 1, 131. mn and Schult. 3, 175. Spren. Sp. 1, BE is Candle, Pro Prodro. 4,491. Ecklon and Zeyher. Plant. Afric. Austral. 364. Bot M Txora CAFFRA. Puree in Ecyclop, Method. Suppl, 3, 209, DENDRO'BIUM MONILIFOR ME. ~ NECKLACE-LIKE DENDROBIUM. ENDOGENZ, OR MONOCOTYLEDONE 2. Natural division to which Nanna this Plant belongs, eon ps Ted stir ez n t i N ¥ i 3 NATURAL ORDER, ORCHIDACEA, GYNANDROSE, agentes aes GYNANDRIA, OF MONANDRIA, LINDLEY. this tetite get OF LINNEUS. No, 194. GENUS. Dewnprosium. Swartz. Separa membranacea, erecta vel pa- ae a issin jet majoribus oliiaeis cum basi producté column connatis. Pet epalo supremo sepius majora, nunc minora, semper membranacea. A cum pede colnumne articulatum vel connatum, semper sessile, indi- visum vel trilobum, sepius membranaceum, nunc appendi NA semiteres, basi ree yet AnTHERA bilocularis. Poxtrnia 4, per p _ collateralia. Linp Ss ES. Secs MONILIFORME. (Swarrz.) Caulibus erectis ra- mosis, internodiis tumidis, foliis oblongis oblique emarginatis obtusis, floribus geminatis foliis longioribus, sepalis petalisque oblongis acutis venosis, labello Hat t formi. LInprey. CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, DENDROBIUM. SEPALS membranous, erect or spreading, the lateral ones largest, oblique, adhering to the elongated base of the column. PETALS generally larger, but some- times smaller than the upper sepal, always membranaceous. Lip articulated or united with the base of the column, always sessile, undi- vided or three-lobed, generally membranaceous, sometimes furnished with an appendix. CoLumN semi-cylindrical, greatly prolonged at the base. ANTHER two-celled. POLLEN masses four, placed side by side in pairs. DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, DENDROBIUM MONILIFORME. Stem erect, about two feet high, smooth, increasing in thickness to- wards the top, thence resembling a club, branched, furnished with joints or nodi, from each of which proceeds a leaf; the internodes, or spaces between the leaves, swollen, of a pale green. Leaves oblong, obliquely two-lobed at the apex, the base short, membranous, embrac- ing the stem. FLoweERs twin or geminate, borne on a common pedun- ‘cle or foot-stalk longer than the leaves, which springs from the upper part of the stem ; the pedicels furnished with bracts, which are oblong, obtuse, membranous, slightly hairy. FLower of a delicate rose colour, marked with red veins. Sepats and Peraxs oblong, lip . cucullate, acute, repay: the other parts, marked in the throat with two yellow spots. PoruLar AND GeoGrapHicaL Notice. This ace occurs only in Japan, in 37° or 38° North Lat., and as this is in the same parallel as Lisbon, it is doubtless subject, periodically, to a very low tempera- ture. Dr. Lindley states, however, that it is also a native of China. In its natural situation it delights to locate itself among the moss of rocks and trees. The inhabitants of Japan, Keempfer says, from some singular superstition, suspend it in a basket before their doors, where it vegetates and flowers, like many of its congeners, without any communication with the earth ; it is therefore called an air-plant, or aérophyte, a tribe of ornamental plants, of which the Chinese are extremely fond. It is probable that the Japanese suspend it before their doors on account of its fragrance, which Bontius says rivals that of the orange flower, and affirms that he never in his life experienced so grateful an aroma. InTRopucTION ; WHERE GROWN; CuLTuRE. This species was introduced by the Horticultural Society about 1820. Our drawing was made from a plant which flowered in October in the superb col- lection of Messrs. Loddiges, Hackney. It grows in,a pot, the surface of which is covered with moss on a stand in the stove, the heat of which these intelligent cultivators do not consider too great for it; though it might be expected to bear with impunity one very much lower, considering the latitude whence it is brought, and the tolerance of cold which the Peonia moutan exhibits. It might, therefore, perhaps, be preserved in a cold frame, except when about to flower, when it should be placed in a warm, humid atmosphere. Derivation oF THE NAMEs. Denprosium, from Arvdpoy a tree, and Buog life, from living upon trees. MonittrorME, from monile, a necklace, referring to the necklace-like cha- racter of the stem SyNoNYMEs. Fu ine. Kempfer: Amcenitates Esotiew t. 865. EprmpENDRUM MoNILIFORME. Linneus: Species sienna, 1352, SS MONILIFORME. sine : Acta Holm. 1300, p. 264. Willden antarum, No. sh Hindley: Species and Genera of Grotto "Pinata, Bot. Register: 13 H I if | ae ee a «nieioredsa bed € Wevete, sexeip. # CATTLE’ YA INTERME’ DIA, ~ INTE EDIATE CATTLEYA. ENDOGENZ, OR MONOCOTYLEDONE &. Natural division to which this Plant I NATURAL ORDER ORCHIDACE, ammo. wee mm Ni ity bit Su GYNANDROSE, Artificial divisions GYNANDRIA, OF pe TE MONANDRIA LINDLEY. this Plant belongs. OF LINNE No, 195. GENUS. Cartteya. Linp P foliola e a b vel carnosa, patentia, equalia; teins ora sepius majora, LaBEerLumM cum co- lumna articulatum, cucullatum, integrum vel trilobum, columnam involve Cotumna clavata, elongata, semiteres, marginata. Awriene quadriloculares, carnose, septorum marginibus membranaceis. Po1iinia quatuor, caudicu totidem replicatis. Hers Americanz, epiphyte, pseudobulbiferz, foliis coriaceis, floribus terminalibus magnis coags igs e —_ a magna erum- pentibus. Ewpxzicner: Genera Plantar 1 SPECIES. CarrLeya INTERMEDIA; (GRAHAM) FOLIIS oblongis emargi- me natis cauli equalibus, perigonii foliolis ibanjenlabes lineari-oblongis obtusius- culis subundulatis, labello trilobo lamellis pluribus in medio carnosis cristato, laciniis lateralibus ovatis obtusis planiusculis intermedio crispo rotundato den- ticulat CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, CaTTLEYA. PerERIGON with the outer leaflets or sepals membranous or fleshy, spreading, equal ; the inner ones or petals generally larger. — ‘Laseitum articulate, with the co- lumn hood-shaped, entire, or three-lobed, enclosing the ‘column. z Coxiumn club-shaped, long, semi-cylindrical, bordered. A four-celled, fleshy, the borders of the partition membranous. _ = masses four, with as many bent back caudicles. DESCRIPTION OF THE SpEciES, CATTLEYA INTERMEDIA. STEMS elongated, scarcely thickening into pseudo-bulbs. Leaves two or three at the top of the stem, oblong, four or five inches long, spread- ing, nearly flat, blunt or emarginate at the apex, thick and veinless. PEDUNCLE proceeding from a convolute sheathing blunt spatha, some- times scarcely longer, sometimes twice as long as the spatha, bearing one or two flowers, each one having at its base a small broad, pointed bract. PERIGON consisting of five leaflets, very nearly equal to each other, linear, oblong, more or less undulate, about two inches long, of a lilac colour, with a few longitudinal somewhat greenish lines Ps sions the middle, and a short greenish point at the apex. LaBELLUM of the same length as the perigon, of a pale colour in the convolute part, terminated by a three-lobed nearly flat broad lamina of a — bright crimson on the upper side, bearing in the centre a crest com- posed of fleshy scales, the lobes much waved and fringed on the edge. Cotumn enclosed in the convolute part of the labellum, and shorter than it is. Poputar aND GreoerapuicaL Notice. The Cattleyas which are common on trees and rocks in the Brazils and Guiana are now fre- quently sent over, and are becoming abundant in our collections, being amongst the most ornamental and the easiest cultivated of epiphytes. They appear to vary much, and some of the species are difficult to define. The present one appears to connect Cattleya Forbesii with several others, and to have an extensive range, having been received both from Rio Janeiro and from Buenos Ayres. INTRODUCTION ; WHERE GROWN; CuLTurRE. Cattleya intermedia is a much-admired plant. Its thick fleshy full green leaves have al- ways a pleasing freshness, and its flowers are handsome. It was sent from Rio Janeiro, in 1524, by Mr. Harris, to, we believe, the Royal Botanic Garden of Edinburgh, where it first flowered in this country. Our drawing was made in April, at the establishment of the Messrs. Loddiges, of Hackney. It should be grown in a mixture of rough peat mixed with potsherds, and a large quantity of drainers should occupy the bottom of the pot. It requires to be kept in a warm humid stove during the growing season, but more dry and cool whilst at rest. When increase by division is required, the pseudo-bulb should be cut asunder several weeks before the young plant is intended to he removed to another pot. Derivation oF THE NaME Catrieya named by Lindley, in honour of William Cate, Esq. of Barnet, a great patron of hitahy and horticulture. Int DIA interm ee the species being intermediate between Cattleya Forbesii, and labia SynonyMEs. CaTTLEYA INTERMEDIA. Graham: in the Botanical Magazine, t. 2851. Lind- ley: Botanical Register, t. 1919, RES Witthiowee, od. : a 6 he * CLDOCLDAALIPFID CRACELSOCLAL IIE. Meriter, sexed, = » CHASCA‘NUM CUNEIFO'LIUM. | ~ WEDGE-LEAVED CHASCANUM. * EXOGENZ OR _ DICOTYLEDONES, Natural Aisinion * o wh this Plant “arity jew divisions DIDYNAMIA, ANGIOSPERMIA, LINNEUS. COROLLIFLORZE, OF DECANDOLLE, ae to which e ok Plant belongs. No. 196. GENUS. Me Baivc artic. ERnstT sri Catyx tubulosus, ee tus, demum latere longitudinaliter fissus. Coroti« tubus cylindraceus, elon- gatus, ce thoepe ir saiidlebiatns, Sramina quatuor, didynama, M quadri wipe loculis uniovulatis. Stryzus termin- Sticm: lbh ties, linguifo Drop A exsicca, abortu bilocularis, di- erne adherens. SEMINA in Teal ebay ria. SUFFRUTICES Capenses. Fe LIA ci dentata vel incisa. Fores spicati. oS ECIES. Cu NUM CUNEIFOLIUM; (ERNST asd foliis late cu- heatis apice | Di winteste: ies 7-9-dentatis, sBicik terminalibus elongatis. CHARACTER ‘OF THE GENUS, CHAsScANUM. CatLyx tubular, five- toothed, splitting at length longitudinally on one side. Tusr oF THE Coro ita long, cylindrical ; limb spreading, five-cleft, somewhat two- lipped. Sramens four, didynamous, included in the tube of the co- rolla. Ovary four-celled, each cell with one ovule. STyxe terminal. Sriema oblique, tongue-shaped. Fruir a dry drupe, two-celled by abortion, affixed laterally by the base to the scale-like remains of the other half. SreEps solitary in each cell. DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, CHASCANUM CUNEIFOLIUM. STEM shrubby and branching at the base, smooth, or with a very minute almost imperceptible down. LeEaves opposite, bro uC or fan-shaped, about half an inch long and fully as broad, rounded or rarely truncate at the top, and bordered by about seve i teeth, entire at the base and narrowed into a a shor folded in their length, thick, smooth, and gre FLOWER-SPIKES slender, from three to six inches ong, terminating the stem and branches. FLowERs nearly sessile in the axilla of a small ovate-pointed bract, the lower ones of ten opposite, the upper ones alternate, placed at distances of one to six lines from each other. PepiceELs usually shorter than the bracts, often almost none. CALyx %, about three lines long, tubular, with five very prominent ribs, termina- ting in very short ae COROLLA “ _— a tube twice as long as the calyx, d d llen towards the top, limb about half an inch dinmetell the divisions early equal, oblong, or wedge-shaped, blunt or emarginate, wavy on the margins. Drupe about half the length of the calyx, which opens 7 4 as the fruit ripens. Poputar AND GeEocrapHicaL Notice. The genus Chascanum contains five or six species spread over the Cape Colony, and some of them not uncommon there. The present species and two of the others have long been known to botanists, but have been, on ac- count of some yague resemblance in the corolla, till lately placed in Buchnera, which belongs to a different natural order. The true Buch- nere have always the many-seeded two-celled capsule of the Scrophu- Jariacez, whilst Chascanum has only one seed in each cell, and has not only all the essential characters of Verbenacee but comes very near to the true Verbenas, from which it chiefly differs in the constant abortion of half the ovary, and in the singular manner in which the calyx opens at the base as the seed ripens. Like the Verbene, the Chascana are chiefly found in warm dry situations, and delight in rocky hills. G. B. _ Intropuction; WuerE crown; Cutrure. Our present species was introduced to the Royal Gardens at Kew, in 1821; but has re- mained a scarce plant, and been little known to cultivators in general. A specimen was obligingly supplied to our artist from the Kew Gar- dens, in the spring of 1840, from which the original of the annexed plate was drawn. It requires greenhouse protection during winter, and should be potted in sandy loam, mixed with a little peat. It requires to be very well cane ‘Derivation or THE Names. Cuascanum from yaoxavoy, a word derived from yatyw to gape, already occur- ing in Dioscorides as a synonyme of Xanthium and applied to the present ge- _ us by Ernst Meyer as expressive of i chief character, the gaping calyx. pogrom, with wedge-shaded leave SynonyMEs, Cuascanum conEerrortum. E. Meyer’s Commentationes, p. 276. BUCHNERA CUNEIFOLIA. Thunberg: Flora Capensis edit. ee P 466. PHRYMA DEHISCENS. -Linneus the younger, Supplementum, page 27 Me™ Hiker: se » fn egecern contin frerdaanthe Z © iia: JACQUEMONTIA PENTAN’THA, ™ FIVE-FLOWERED JACQUEMONTIA. EXOGEN®, oR DICOTYLEDONES. Natural division to which this plant belongs. COROLLIFLORE, ee prvsciemes eset pucawporee, i = Ve Plant Soh >: No. 197. GENUS. Jacevemontia. Cyorsy. Caryx quinquesepalus. Corozt campanulata, limbo quinqueplicato. Szramina quinque, basi corolla inmates inclusa, filamentis basi dilatatis.. Ovarrum biloculare, loculis biovulatis ; sep- tula inter ovula collateralia nulla. Sryxus si ries Stigmata duo, ovato-com- planata. Capsuta bilocularis. Hers aut suffratices Americane, suberecte vel volubiles, foliis cake pedunculis axillasi bik mninttifioris spe paniculatis, floribus sepissime cerulei IES. Heiawoisi PENTANTHA; CAULE glabriusculo, foliis cor- dato-acuminatis nunc glabris nunc pubeseentibus — ORIPREGEE, - pedunca- lis folium s#pius superantibus multiflori CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, Sicadewbaits: CaLyx divided into five sepals. Corowa bell-shaped, the limb with five folds. Sta- MENS five, inserted in the base of the corolla, and shorter than it, the filaments dilated at the base. Ovary two-celled, each cell witht wo ovules, without any partition between them. StTyLe simple. Stiemas two, ovate-flattened. CapsuLe two-celled. DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, J PENTANTHA. STEM shrubby at the base, twining, growing to the height of six feet or more. BRANCHES cylindrical, smooth, or more or less covered when young with short appressed hairs. Leaves alternate, varying in shape from TANDRIA, MONOGYNIA, OF LINNEUS. oO or less heart-shaped at the base, from one and a half to two inches long, nearly smooth or more or less covered with short appressed hairs, borne on a footstalk, about half an inch in length. PrpuNcLEs axil- lary, varying very much in length, being sometimes shorter than the leaves, sometimes twice or thrice as long, usually more or less hairy towards the top. FLowers several on each peduncle, sometimes three to five with the pedicels so ai as to form a sort of umbel, sometimes ten or twelve or even more, arranged in an irregular lea‘y raceme. Bracts leaf-like, = coe pint, the upper ones much smaller and nearly linear. PEDICEL m two to three lines to nearly an inch long. SEPALS wild faiselade: leaf-like, pointed, the two outer ones larger and broader, the third of the same length but narrower, the two inner ones ooniahitty smaller. Corotta of a rich blue, an inch and a quarter in diameter, sharply five-angled, the folds of a paler colour on the outside. Stamens considerably shorter than the corolla, dilated and almost monadelphous at the base, where they are slightly ciliated, filiform in the greater part of their length. ' Popu.ar anp GeocrapuicaL Notice. There are few numerous and natural tribes of plants in which there has been more confusion than among those of Convolvulacez, which were comprised in the old genera Ipomea and Convolvulus. The few species known to Linneus (scarcely half a hundred) seemed at that time, indeed, to be not un- aptly distributed into these two groups, but now that ten times that number are known, the attempt to reduce the whole to these two gen- era has so completely destroyed the value of their Linnzan character that several modern botanists have proposed to consider the whole but as one vast genus. This course is, however, practically inconvenient, and would become more and more so as considerable additions are daily made to the species, and therefore Choisy, a careful Genevese botanist, in a revision of the whole order, has divided them into about twenty genera, founded on distinctions derived chiefly from the ovary and the stigma, in most cases easily examined, especially in a fresh state, and generally tolerably natural. Among them Ipomeea and Con- volvulus, as limited by him, still retain a great proportion of the species, and are only distinguished by the stigmas, which are globose in Ipo- meea, linear in Convolvulus. Jacquemontia, to which the present plant belongs, has the same ovary as these two, but the form of the stigmas is intermediate, and the eleven species of which now it is composed are all natives of tropical America, with a peculiar habit and rich blue or rarely white flowers. Vahl, indeed, gave the name of violacea to the variety of our species which he first described, but as he appears only to have known it from dried specimens, there is reason to believe he was mistaken in the colour, on which account we have preferred Jac- quin’s specific name, although of later date It has Jong been an inmate of our gardens, and deserves to be much more encouraged, its lively-coloured flowers being particularly ornamental to the stove in spring. The Messrs. Lee, of Hammersmith, Panengly supplied the plant for figuring. _ It flourishes in peat and | G.B. VATION OF THE AMES. Jacevemontta i in honor oft the late Victor Jacquemont, well known for his let- * ters, published by his family after his lamented death in India, when on his Pentantua five-flowered, that being the usual number of flowers on each peduncle in the variety described. by Jacquin SYNONY MES. eueecanae VIOLACEUS. Vahl. Symbols, v.3, p. 29. wage pe CANESCENS. Humboldt and Kunth: Nova Genera et Species, Pp Canvourna ye PENTANTHA. Jacquin: poones, prions, *, 2,t. 316. Botanical Magazine,t.2151. Bo atten Register, Siebesainess vioLacEa. Choisy: sot eked ene p. 139. septate 9 Se SP! NER Nevite, scutp. ¢ “yprocaly flies ae aS = HYPOCALYP'TUS. OBCORDA’ TUS, ~OBCORDATE- LEAVED HYPOCALYPTUS. EXOGEN A, ee DICOTYLEDONE A. Ps i ? “ ihe ES ce 4 CALYCIFLORE, F MONADELPHIa OF x DECANDRIA, 4 DECANDOLLE. a OF LINNEUS, i . ~ GENU Hy basi ent brey. UNBERG) frutex, foliis pal- e floribus Tacemosis terminali- PECIES. matim trifoliolatis, et bracteis bracteo. lis ue subul ot : LYPTUS. Catyx loosely bell- shaped, at length projecting ‘inwards at the base, with five short teeth arranged in two lips. CoroLia papilionaceous, the petals on very short claws; the standard rounded, ‘Spreading; the wings obliquely obovate-oblong, sare ek to the standard i in n length, free from aked, shale than the wings, its two petals joined ye TAMENS ‘connected high up into an entire ube. ANTHERS ge Be th and‘ oblong. Ovary with many ovules, ear sessile. StyLe filiform. Svrigma oblique, small, capi- p linear, flat, | coriaceous; the upper suture a little thickened, a one-celled, many-seeded. S£EpDs reniform, with a small strophiola. DESCRIPTION OF THE Species, HypocaLypTuS OBCORDATUS. Sueus six or eight feet high, erect, much branched. Brancnes thickly covered with leaves, striate, smooth or slightly hairy is young. STIPuLEs small, setaceous, deciduous. Leaves of th leaflets, palmately arranged at the top of a stiff petiole from one 53 five lines long, and often hairy when young. Lear.ers from half an inch to an inch long, and often nearly as. broad, obcordate or obovate, the midrib ending in a small point, entire, narrowed at the base into. a very short partial stalk, rather rigid, veined, usually more or less folded along the midrib, smooth when full grown, but often hairy when young. FLowers numerous, crowded into a short simple raceme at REFERENCE TO THE DissEcTions. 1, Calyx and Stamens. 2, Stan: ings. 4,Keel, 5, Ovary. * the ends of the branches. Prpice.s at first from a quarter to half an inch long; often nearly an inch long when the pod is ripe, smooth, or more frequently slightly hairy. Bracts at the base of the pedicels, and bracteol about half way up, subulate, very deciduous, leaving a small toothlike scar. Canyx about two lines long, more or. less co- loured, smooth or slightly hairy; the two upper teeth very broad with a sharp angle on the interior side, lateral teeth broadly ovate, lower one narrower, pointed, all of them less than half a line long. ' STan- DARD more than twice as long as the calyx, of a rich purplish red, with a thickened white spot at the base, the very short claw bent inwards. Wines of the colour of the standard, with a fine subulate tooth at the base on the inner side. Kerert rather deeper coloured, each petal with a tooth at the base like the wing. Ovary smooth, nearly sessile, with- out any sheaf round the base, with about ten ovules. Pop about two inches Jong and three lines broad, narrowed at the base, termi- nated by the subulate style, perfectly smooth. Poputar aND GeoGcrapuicaL Notice. This and some other a distinct genus, adopted by all botanists under Thunberg’s name, unfortunately inapplicable to it, if any importance be attached to its etymology. It would have been better, therefore, if Thunberg’s name had been retained as a mere sectional designation for the Podalyrie with calyptriform bracts, and a new name given to the present plant, but it does not now appear worth while to make the change, and thus add to the synonymes. From wild specimens it would appear that there isa larger variety of this plant with obovate leaves, larger flowers, and said to become a tree, but some specimens again are intermediate. The species has an extensive range, having been found in rocky situa- tions, from the chain of the C — to the hills of the province of Swellendam. G. B. InTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTure. Hypocalyptus obcor- datus was tutrodticed to this country in 1823 as Crotalaria cordifolia. drawing was made in the Birmingham Horticultural Society’s Garden, where the plant has greenhouse protection, is potted in sandy joam and peat, and increased by cuttings of the half-ripened wood. RIVATION OF TH Hypocaryprvs from jo since: and danieves ‘aie or hid, in allusion to the s of a supposed species,as above mentioned. Oxcorparus, obversely heart-shaped. NONYMES, ‘ near Leesan: Linneus: Mantissa, p. 266. Loddiges’ Botanical Cc Hypocatyrrvs oscorpatvs. “'Thanberg : Flora Capensis ed. Schultes, p. 570, De Candolle Prodromus, v. 2, p. 537. CO ee coher a YP, COFFEVIEOWN = ee: asa OBELISCA’RIA DRUMMON'DII, DRUMMON vie Pet: COMPOSITA, (%, 4 { Artificial divisions e anti SEB h STRANEA, y this pate af My pricy No. 201. _ Operiscarta. Cass. Cariterum multiflorum heterogamum, fl. radii Pere 1- serialibus neutris, disci hermaph. tubulosis 5-dentatis. In- vouvcr. |- seriale pa tulis. ReceErt. elongatum spici- icati tis acl Sryir forme CALYCIFLORE ~ oF ; DECANDOLLE. barbellat ducti Acnsnra radii trigona is ~ _s 7 ida aborti di sci bilateralit an ovale ealva suba- lata aut t epee unidentata. Msg Bor. i wish aoe abraess speciose g e glabrius- For pina petiolo aa ‘lobis 4 9 ~ 9) nune indivisis, nunc pisasipest- t Rami apice longe aphylli l-cepbali. Licut# flave aut crocee. Discu A cae floribus parvis fuscis innumeris. SPECIES. Opexiscarra tah gimctalanen (Grana mu) ig pubescens ; foliis ly yrato pinnatifi dis undatis, pen ndulis, foieicign. OF THE a aes Cane many- flowered, heterogamous, flowers of the ray in one row ligulate neu- ter, of the disk hermaphrodite tubular five-toothed. InvoLucre one- rowed, of few linear spreading leaflets. _RecEPTACLE elongated spike-like, the chaffs folded hirsute at the apex and half including the achenia. Brancues of the style short, extended into a lanceolate appendage sparingly bearded. Acuenta of the ray three-angled, his- pid, abortive ; those of the disk compressed on the sides, oval without pappus, somewhat winged on the anterior edge, or with one tooth on P DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, OBELISCARIA DRUMMONDIJ. STEMS many, sub-simple, rising from the crown of the root, very long, wiry flaccid, angled and furrowed, green, rough with short harsh adpressed hairs. Leaves deeply lyrato-pinnatifid, 3-7-lobed, scabrous from short harsh subadpressed hairs which point forwards; lobes linear- Pepunctes (above 13 foot) long, terminal, angled, and scabrous like the stem, single-flowered. INvoLucRreE of five unequal subulato-linear spreading leaflets. Fuorers of the ray five, neuter, with a very large suborbicular limb (13 inch across) waved, somewhat plicate, pendu- lous, more than the lower half being stained on its anterior surface of a deep brown, the remainder, both in front and behind, being a bright yellow, except where the colour is stained behind by the brown in some degree appearing through it from the front; tube very short. Disk ovate; florets green, tube shining, barrel-chaped, limb short and yerolate: segments ovate, much darker than the tube, warted ; stamens rising near the base of the tube; anthers dark brown, half- exserted; pollen yellow, granules orbicular; style below the cleft scarcely longer than the stamens, the segments linear, furrowed along the centre in the inside ; the stigmatic surface brown, warted, and near the apex bearded ; achenia compressed, glabrous, colourless, bordered along the outer edge; pappus of two short unequal teeth. REcEP- TACLE chaffy ; chaffs clavato-naviculate, embracing the achenia than which they are scarcely longer, cucullate herbaceous and villous at the top, flat membranous and wedge-shaped on the sides, each of which has a large oblong black mark in the middle. Popurar aND GeocrapnicaL Notice. This genus is one of those which has been removed from the heterogeneous assemblage of plants, which were formerly included under the name of Rudbeckia, and the character by which it may be distinguished seems perfectly good. The involucre seems to me to be certainly of one row, and the suspi- cion expressed by De Candolle that what has been called the scales of an inner row, are probable the outer chaffs of the receptacle, is ob- viously correct. De Candolle reckons only four species, and expresses doubts about one of these. The present plant is altogether different from any of them, but perfectly agrees in generic relationship. The are all natives of North America, but the exact locality of this one I do not know. INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLture. The plant figured was received from Mr. Rollison, and flowered in the greenhouse of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in August, 1840. There is every reason to believe it will bear cultivation without any particular care in the open ground. The flowers remain in perfection for weeks, and there is an abundant oo on the plants ATION OF THE NaMEs. OBELIScaRIA probaly fe toKog setiret capa in allusion to the elevation of the disk of the flower. DrumMonpi from the late Mr, Drummond, to whom we awe its tote aie into Britai Sidivel: RvDBECKIA DRUMMOND. Paxton’s Magazine of Botany, 1839,51. Gran. ell Comparellia COCEtL peace 4 ~ Nevitt scalp. PODALY’RIA BUXIFO'LIA, ~ BOX-LEAVED PODALYRIA. EXOGENA. oR DICOTYLEDONES. “NATURAL ORDER, LEGUMINOS&, CALYCIFLORE, DECANDRIA, OF MONOGYNIA, OF LINNEUS. to whic DECANDOLLE. this Plant belongs. Artificial divisions } No. 204, GENUS. Popatyria. Lamarck. Catyx laxe campanulatus, demum basi intrusus, pac ea Corotta papilionacea, petalis breviter unguiculatis ; vexillum amplum, orbiculatum, emarginatum, patens, ale obovate, oblique ; carina alis brevior, ovata vel late obovata incurva obtusa. Stamina decem, basi brevessime connata, ceterum libera, glabra, Ovanium sessile, villosum, pluri UMEN ovale vel o pa * gum, coriaceum, turgidum, villosum. Frurices capenses, foliis are re alternis; peduncelia quilistibos solitariis, unifpris vel ras mirtnt bracte SPECIES. Poparynia BURIFORA 5 (Eamance) FOLIIs ovatis rarius oblongis supra i arius bifloris, bracteis parvis cuneatis, calycis hirsuti laciniis ‘lanceolatis carina brevioribus, superioribus binis semi connatis, supra subgibbosis. CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, PopALyriA. Catyx loose, bell- shaped, at length projecting inwards at the base. CoroLta papilio- naceous, the petals on very short claws; the standard large, orbicular emarginate, spreading; the wings obovate, oblique ; the keel shorter than the wings, ovate or broadly obovate, curyed, blunt. STAMENs ten, slightly connate at the base, free from thence, smooth. Ovary sessile, hairy, with many ovules. Sty e filiform. Stigma small. Pop oval or oblong, swollen, thick, and hairy. DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, PODALYRIA BUXIFOLIA. STEM shrubby, erect, much branched, young branches clothed with a soft down, older ones often smooth. Strreu.es small, linear lanceolate, deciduous. Leaves simple, nearly sessile, broadly or narrowly ovate, sometimes nearly orbicular, rarely oblong, usually blunt, with a very small projecting point, from half an inch to three quarters in length, perfectly smooth on the upper side, clothed with thick silky. hairs underneath, the margins recurved. PepuUNCLEs axillary, sometimes one-flowered, and very short, at others nearly two inches long and bearing two pedicellate flowers. Bracrts at the base of the pedicels, or in the middle of the one-flowered peduncle, small, oblong or cuneate, falling off early. Catyx thick and hairy, divided to about the middle, the divisions broadly lanceolate, shorter than the keel, all of the same length, but the two upper ones connected together above the middle, and curved forward at the top. Perats of a rich rose colour, the standard nearly an inch and a half broad, the wings not half so broad, but nearly as long, and closed over the keel, which is shorter, much curved, the petals joined at the back. Pop about an inch long, very hairy. : Porutar anp Gerocrapuicat Notice. Podalyria is a genus of about twenty species, all shrubs, mostly ornamental, and confined, as far as hitherto known, within the _ of the Cape Colony. The genus itself is well limited ; it ay t to Cyclopia, and to Priestleia, both likewise Cape gesers; but the former is at once known by its flat pod and tri-foliolate leaves, and the latter by the stamens more perfectly connate. The distinction of the species offer however more difficulty than perhaps any other group of the same extent, and the synonymy is in the greatest confusion. This is owing in the first place to the very different aspect of the Jeaves and inflorescence on the main branches of the plants as they usually grow among bushes, to that which they assume on young vigorous shoots in rich shady situ- ations; but the confusion arises still more from the very imper- fect specimens preserved in herbaria, and the number of loose and imperfect descriptions published. The plant now figured is certainly the buxifolia of some authors, it is the short peduncled one-flowered state of the plant figured under that name by Lamarck, it is also the glauca of De Candolle and Ecklon, it is one of those considered by Willdenow as buxifolia, but it does not appear to be the buxifolia of Ecklon, nor yet that of Drege. It were much to be wished that some botanist resident at the Cape, and having opportunities of observing the species in their fresh state, would take up the genus. InrRopuCTION ; WHERE GROWN; CuLTurE. Podalyria buxifolia is not of recent introduction to England, but is still scarce and posses- sed of much beauty. Our drawing was made at the establishment of Messrs. Low of Clapton. It should be potted ina mixture of peat and loam, and might be renewed by cuttings; but seeds produce the best plants. It requires pei ap: protection. G. B. TION OF THE NAMES Poparyrtra, said by some a hats been named after Po dalirius,ason of Ascul- apius, but this is not probable, as the spelling is different. The apparent Greek etymology, re¢ zodoc, a foot or stalk, and Avpror, a little lyre, is not more satisfactory, and we find no record of Lamarck’s own views in forming the word. Buxrroxta, box-leaved. SynonyMe: Poparyrta Buxtroisa. Lamarck: ne 3. Bot. Res: t. 869. Poparyria cravuca: De Candulle, Prodromus, yv. 2, p. 102. Hypocatypres Giaucus: Thunberg, Flora Capensis, p. 569. } Cpl Meaberte rd CYPEL’LA HERBERTI. “MR. HERBERT'S CYPELLA. ENDOGENZ OR MONOCOTYLEDONEZ. — division o which this B va belongs. . iba so divisions o which this pheck belongs, No, 199. GENUS, Cyr LEA: Hersert. PeRIcontom corollinum superum, hexa- ee apesrcahe ci s basi concavis, Dries ita patentibus ; in- rioribus m ec ae s, apice reflexis. Sramuina tria, perigonii laciniis Se tiortbk ts inserta, — ere coalita subulata; anthere ob- longa, basifixe, | Ovarium faloean oblon- go-prismaticum, triloculare. Ovuna plurima, in loculorum augulo Geiitrall biseriata. TyLus brevis, filiformis; stizma dilatatum, trilobum, lobis erectis, trifidis, basi transverse appendiculatis. CapsuLta membranacea, ite Se dass matica, trilocularis, soee gene taser yee seats plarims, sn che aTeaas perennes,in America t bu 8 so-tuberoso caule, ena: folioso, apice famoso, foliis late lined eari-lanceolatis, plicato-nervosis, floribus laxe posers is, magnis, speciosis, spathis diphyllis, . 166. ; EPIGYNOSE, 7, MONADELPHIA, OP y TRIANDRIA, LINDLEY. OF LINNEUS. unifloris. ENDLICH HER ; Gen kee SPECIES, Cyrsu te 3 (HERBERT) — linearibus plicatis ramoso multifiori aap ae inflata flore multo 0 brevioribus, capo Tnciniis. perigonii exterioribus tortis apice caudatis, foterionibte exiguis ab- rupte-incurvo-revolutis purpureo.penicellatis. SPRENGEL CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, CYPELLA. Peiidos resembling a corolla, superior, formed of six Mee ee concave at the exterior larger, spreading ; the interior ones small, convolute, reflexed at the point. SrTamens three, siete at the base of the exterior foli- oles, filaments very slightly united, subulate ; anthers sas , attached um. O . at the base; the cells forming a margin to ‘the connecti inferior, oblongo- prismatical, chee celled OvuLes numer ar- ranged in a double series in the tral angle of the cells, Styze short, filiform; stigma dilated, Pie Re lobes ee three-cleft, transversely furnished with an appendix at the base. CAPSULE mem- branaceous, oblongo-prismatical, three-celled, splitting by a loculici- dal dehiscence into three valves. EEDS numerous, angular. DESCRIPTION OF THE Species, CypeLtta HERBERTI. Permanent stem a solid bulb, about an inch in length, and acutely-ovate ; sending up annually leaves and a flower stem. Rapicat Leaves, broadly- linear-lanceolate, plaited. FLower stem about two feet high, flexuose, subglaucous, regularly dichotomous, and furnished with two unequally- sized bracts at the point of bifurcation. FLOweErs in a loose panicle, the peduncles from three to six in number, each about four inches Jong, exceeding the spathes in length, and bearing a single orange-coloured flower. Perricone of six folioles, having a singularly cup-shaped 48 , SUP, depression at the base where they are minutely marked with purple. The three exterior large, spreading, rather narrow at the middle, dila- ted above, somewhat undulating at the margin, traversed from the point of dilatation to the apex by a dark purple line, which terminates in an acute mucro or tip: the three interior very much smaller, forming a double curve, so as to be very much recurvate at the apex, orange- coloured at the sides and margined internally by two pencilled lines, bordering a light greenish yellow stripe, which passes from the cup to the apex. Sramens three, inserted by very short filaments into the base of the three exterior folioles. ANTHERS erect, the cells forming ll t gin to th ti 3 pollen greenish, ovary inferior, oblongo-prismatical. STy.Le = short. ——— dark purple, two- lobed, each lobe three-cleft, th ter and obtuse, the inner acuminate and horned, the third curved downwards outwardly. Cap- SULE three-celled, many-seeded ; seeds small, brownish Popuar aND GeoGrapHicaL Notice. This interesting plant is the produce of both tropical and subtropical regions of South America, being found in Brazil in the former, and near Buenos Ayres in the latter. The succession of flowers which clothes its delicate stems is not the only circumstance which should recommend it to our at- tention. The singular structure of its stigmas arrest our observation, from connecting in one series the Tigridias and Moreas with the Iris, in which last the stigmas are distinctly petaloid. The great diversity of form and character which this small organ exhibits in these plants shews how infinite is the’ power of the Original Designer, to whom every fresh example of his exquisite contrivances should conduct our thoughts. “It is of peculiar importance to our reasoned comforts ” observes Sharon Turner, “ to that happiness which we derive from our intellectual convictions—that we possess, in the beauties and blessings of the vegetable creation, such universal and exuberant rita to us, of the benignity and philanthrophy of the Divine Crea INTRODUCTION ; WHERE GROWN ; CULTURE. aaa in 1823, by seeds from Hadhics Ayres. For the flower from which our drawing was made, we are inbebted to the Rev. H. T. Ellacombe of Bitton, near Bristol ; a gentlemen whose obliging attentions we have had frequent occasion to acknowledge. It should be planted in a light soil, containing a mixture of peat; and need not be taken up for many years, provided the bulbs be pro- perly protected in the winter. It flowersin June and July, and ripens abundance of seeds. DerivaTIon or THE Nam CyYPELLA — Kv hte ah dageideoe, hate a kind of sane “alladt ng to the cup-like depression in the centre of th ou ERTI in compliment to the Hionoureeis and Renaud George Herbe YNONY TicRIDIA HERBERTI. W.H. Bot. Mag. t. 2699. Mora#a uERBERTI. Lindley; Bot. Reg. PELLA HERBERTI. Sweet: British Flower Garden, II, t. 33. ACANTHEPHIP’ PIUM BY’ a ~ TWO.COLOURED ACANTHEPHIPPIUM. ENDOGENZ, OR MONOCOTYL EDONE “ge nie division which this Plant ae NATURAL ORDER, ‘ORCHIDACER., 4 GYNANDRIA, . 2 MONANDRIA, OF LINNEUS. No. 200. : ae GENUS. ACANTHEPHIPRIUMy: Biome,” Penrooxt ventricosi foliola exte- riora conglutinata, , supremum cum interi oribus spathulatis fornicatum. Lasetium cum pede columne long ge producto wie: ee limbo trilobo, ee cas ape disco lamellato. Cot- ANTHERA . carn rnosa, bi iloct LINIA octo, in a tie tee itor, GYNANDROSE, OF LINDLEY. Artificial divisions ich this Pant belonint s IES. THEP at UM BICOLOR; (Lino vy) ee Soins. lanceolatis sbatideethis, labelli lobis lateralibus rotundatis, perianthio ovato. _ CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, ACANTHEPHIPPIUM. folioles of the ventricose perigone agglutinated, the lateral ones adnate to the claw of the column, the upper one arched with the interior spatula-shaped, Lrp elastically articulated with the foot of the col- umn, which is very greatly prolonged, unguiculate, limb three-lobed, folded, disk lamellate. Conumn roundish. ANTHER fleshy, two-celled. POLLEN MASSES eight, unequal, sessile. DESCRIPTION OF THE Species, A BICOLOR. The plant growing on the earth. Psrupo-suiss oblongo-ovate, corruga- ted, dark-green, contracted a little towards the neck, clothed with the remains of the former leaves. LEAVES rarely more than two or three, oblongo-lanceolate, plaited, erect, narrowed at the base, but without any petiole. Prpuncie radical, clothed with large ovate concave, brown scales bearing about four or five flowers. PERIGONE fleshy, an inch and a half long, ovate, or subconical, yellowish, except where it spreads out at the apex where it is of a deep purple. Serpats all conglutinated, oblong, obtuse, the lateral ones oblique at the base, and inserted into the base of the prolonged column. Perats of equal length, less marked at the apex, linear, oblong, acute. Lip articulated with the long foot forming the claw of the column, inflexed, folded, three-lobed ; the lateral lobes rounded, the intermediate one of a more yellow colour, fleshy and roughish, plates of the disk two only, con- cave, and separated by a raised line. CoLuMN roundish, acute; stigma margined ; clinandrium devoid of a margin, sloping. PoLLEN MASSES eight, arranged in pairs, and sessile on the gland, which is emarginate anteriorly. Poputar anp GeoeraApuicaL Notice. This species, of a genus of orchidaceous plants found as yet only in the east, is a native of Cey- lon. Of the other species, one Acanthephippium Javanicum is from Java, the second from the woods of Sylhet, Acanthephippium Sylhet- ense. All three are terrestrial in their place of growth, and not epi- phytes. It is often difficult to find objects to which to liken the vari- ous plants in this tribe, which are so singularly diversified in form ; but clustered as the flowers are in this species, they resemble a num- ber of gaudy plumaged young birds crowded in their nest, the unex- panded flowers being like those which have the beak closed, while the others seem like the nestlings gaping for food. InTRODUCTION ; WHERE GROWN; CuLTuRE. Sent in 1833, by Mr. Watson, superintendant of the Government Garden, at Peradenia, Ceylon, to the Horticultural Society. Our drawing was made in the now. greatly enlarged orchidaceous house of the Messrs. Loddiges, where it flowered in June, 1839. _It grows in a mixture of peat and _ sand, having a bottom of pot-shreds, to insure a free drainage. . It: exhibits the characteristics of tropical vegetation, in requiring a great deal of heat and moisture while growing, and a change to a cool and dry atmosphere, each year during the season of repose. DERIVATION OF THE ACANTHEPHIPPIUM, from Axay@oc, AcantHos, a thorn or spine, and EgiTrmov EPHrpPion, a saddle, but what connection this has with Blume’s species seems incom preliensible. Bicotor two-coloured, from the party-coloured flower. ONYME, ACANTHEPHIPriuM Bicotor. Lindley: Botanical Register, t. 1730. etic et ect Co _ 2 yree Jndes $ € Vesa, sede. WITSE’NIA CORYMBOSA. “™- CORYMBOSE WITSENIA. oR MONOCO Ve Natural division rie : to which this Plant belongs. NATURAL ORDER, IRIDACEZ, » same < pRe divisions TRIANDRIA, eo which MONOGYDIA, LINDLEY. this paiaek cn | OF LINNEUS. No. 202. Sas i) ah HY Wl UN = aoa GENUS. Witsenra. Txunsere. Corona regularis, tubulosa, limbo six- partito, vel tota hexapetalo-partita. Sramina erecta, laciniarum basi adnata. Stiemata tria. _ Carsuxa 3- es a, ipolyeperpe. Semina augilato prema SUFFRUTICES. igne ay sy seed adpresc ramosum ; inferas articulatim pete er er hee perennia, ur- sum tendentia, flabellatim disticha, basin versus pone equitantia, sea nsiformia, conduplicanter fissilia, superiora lon SPECIES. Whrsenta <—e Gs floribus corymbosis, Cor- olla hypocrateriformii, glab CHARACTER OF THE fae Wirtsenta. Coro.ta regular, tubu- lar, with a six-partite limb, or cut nearly to the base into six petals. STaMeEns erect, inserted into the base of the segments. Stiemas three, (4-6.) CapsuLe three-celled, many-seeded. Seeps angular from mutual impression. DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, WITSENIA CORYMBOSA. SUFFRU- _ TicosE (the specimen described forming a round bush, 23 feet high.) Stem at first flat and two-edged, but becoming round, and having a rough brown cracked surface, much branched, the branches erect, soon becoming naked below, and towards the apex giving origin to many leaves which are distichous, equitant, flat, glaucous, and in their upper half linear-lanceolate. PEpUNCLE terminal, flat, and two-edged, less glaucous than the leaves, corymbose, the branches trigonous, spring- ing from the axils of sharply keeled and gradually diminishing bracts. At the base of each branch there is generally a fascicle of pedicellate flowers, each pedicel having at its base a small brown scale, and at its apex three, the two outer of which are equitant and herbaceous, the © inner larger, membranous, bifid at the apex, involute, inclosing the germen and lower part of the tube of the corolla. PrrianrH single, of fine azure blue, salver-shaped, the tube cylindrical, twice as long as the inner scale; limb six-partite, imbricated in bud, as long as the tube, segments elliptical, glabrous, excepting where there are a few very minute, almost microscopic, inverted hairs in the throat. Sra- MENS opposite to the three outer segments and inserted at their base; filaments very short, anthers adnate, yellow, bilocular, bursting along the edges. Pisti projecting from the centre of the flower, nearly as long as the segments of the perianth; style colourless, glabrous, cleft at the apex into 4-6 segments, each crowned with a fimbriated stig- ma; germen inferior, but with six minute lobes projecting from its apex above the origin of the corolla, ovate, three-celled, ovules sev- eral in each cell, placentz central. Poputar AND GeoGrapHicaL Notice. The genus Witsenia was established by Thunberg in his Nova Genera, and a single species named. The character was revised by Mr. Gawler, in the Annals of Botany, 1, 236, but the present plant was first described and figured by the latter botanist in the Botanical Magazine, in 1805. Few things can be more unlike in the flower than the species of Witsenia are to each other, and they are scarcely held together without reversing the Linnean rule for the establishment of Generic character. He drew these only from the parts of the flower and fruit, and too absolutely considered habit an insufficient ground. Here the identity of habit seems the great bond of union, the flower, and in some respects the fruit, being disregarded. There has been a difference of opinion among botanists as to the species which belong to this genus, but probably it should be so restricted as to contain only those of the Cape of good Hope. M. Ventenat separated the present species under the generic name Nivenia, but he has not been generally followed. INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTuRE. Witsenia corymbosa was introduced into cultivation from the Cape of Good Hope by Mr. Hibbert at Clapham, about 1803, and is deservedly a great favourite in cultivation, on account of the profusion of extremely brilliant flowers which it produces in long succession during a great part of the season. © With us, in the Edinburgh Royal Botanic Garden, it is cultivated in a cool stove, and there thrives extremely. The rage for a ue. oui ——— os by many splendid novelties, but ntl the neglect of greater beauties of longer istias bes ft pas able to expel it from our collections. Derivation oF THE NAME, Witsenia, named after Mr. Witsen, a Dutch botanist. SyNnonyMEs. Witsena corymposa, Gawler: in Bot. Mag. 895. Hort. Kew. 1}, 110. Spreng. Syst, Veget. 1, 147. Gran. ah bas} . i BOY Moher, det Mae Attimmodix flr ye ivan ’ Wastes, scudp. STEPHAN O'TIS FLORIBUN’DA. ™ MANY-FLOWERED STEPHANOTIS. ‘OR DICOTYLEDONEA. ere. ee ter this inter mete ck, : r COROLLIFLORE, = € Artiiinl Siviniens PENTANDBIA, 0 to which DIGYNIA, DECANDOLLE this Plant belongs, OF LINNEUS. ay No. 203. | S. Stepsanotis. Du Pz urs. CAaLyx - ae corolla — LA hypocra i ORON s hacia obliquis . tin icibu i s s membranaceis erectis in N mem ‘superates; masse pollinis pminey Secin basifix Stiema co: seme deute Four duo, hori assi, minat, cu seminibus Tees Frorices mada; ses volubiles; foliis oppositis coriaceis issimis, » Mloribas ternatis vePhidhbellatla, qpedimculo a uni in- corpegllad. ApotpHe Broenrart Annales ae aoa. © Na’ tarelles, 2nd series, vy. 7, p. 30 t in. : agrant flowers. Bracts very small ase at each edict . PEDICELS —- an inch long, thick and Ss smooth. Sepaus ovate, blunt, ofa pale green, about three lines long, smooth. Coro.za of a pure white, the tube about an inch long, rather swelled at the base, and gradually contracted to a little below the throat, which is egein somewhat expanded ; a Sprenoy — an inch di- ameter, the di 1 blunt, the whole corolla, with the exception of the inside of the tube, which is clothed with reflexed hairs. Stamens and Pistit combined into a conical body, in the bottom of the tube of the corolla, about four lines long. Fitaments thick and fleshy, forming a tube completely enclosing the ovary. STAMINAL CRowN formed of five oblong lanceolate membran- ous plates, blunt at the extremity, and shorter than the white broadly ovate membranes of the anthers. POLLEN-MAsSEs (within these mem- branes) erect, attached by their base. Ovartss two, enclosed within the stamina] tube, but not adhering to it, and distinct from each other, contracted into two very short styles, which support the large cone stigma to which the anthers adhere PoPuLAR AND GEOGRAPHICAL Noniek: Stephanotis i is a Mada- ae gascar genus, of which three species only are hitherto known, all pro- aly possessing the same fragrant white flowers as the species now figured, the only one as yet in European stoves. The size of the flowers gives — eeck of the general appearance of an Echites, places them amongs Betisciepicacens: where they are alliedto Pergularia, with some resemblance in the flower, but less i in essential nde of to the Brasilian Schubertia. “Intropuction; ; WHere Grown; Curture. A plant of this species raised in the Botanic Garden, in the Isle of Bourbon, from Madagas- ear seeds, was brought to Paris, by Mr. Belanger, several years since, and presented by him to the Jardin du Roi. It flowered there, for the first time, in May, 1834, and it is from thence, probably, that it has found its way into our collections. It makes a handsome appearance in the stove when properly trained to a pillar, trellis, or the rafter of . the house, its dark bright foliage contrasting finely with its large mbels of white flowers. It should be potted in peat and Joam. Srermaxomis, from oregavoc, a crown, and @ Greg, deriv ed from gc, an ear, in to the auricles of the staminal crown, a meaning however which, if the rules of composition had been followed, ought to have been been rendered by Oto- wered. stephanos, FLorrecnpa, many-flo TEPHANOTIS Besa . niar: Annales des Sciences Na- turelles, 2nd Séri