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BOTANICAL MAGAZINE,
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COMPRISING THE
Plants of the Ropal Gardens of Kew, AND OF OTHER BOTANICAL ESTABLISHMENTS IN GREAT BRITAIN; : WITH SUITABLE DESCRIPTIONS ;
BY
SIR WILLIAM JACKSON HOOKER, K.H., D.C.L. Oxoy.,
LL.D., F.R.S., and L.S., Vice-President of the Linnean Society, and Director of the Royal Gardens of Kew.
AND
OBSERVATIONS ON THE CULTURE OF EACH SPECIES; By Mr. JOHN SMITH, A.L.S.,
Curator of the Royal Gardens.
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VOL. V. © OF THE THIRD SERIES; (Or Vol. LXXV. of the Whole Work.)
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LONDON REEVE, BENHAM, AND KING WILLIAM STREET, STAND.
1849.
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Royal Gardens, Kew, "Dee. 1, 1849.
INDEX,
In which the Latin Names of the Plants contained in the Fifth Volume of the Tuirp Serius (or Seventy-fifth Volume of the Work) are alphabetically arranged. |
Plate. is 4427 Aerides crispum.
4452 Alloplectus capitatus. 4453 Ambherstia nobilis.
4467 Aristolochia macradenia. 4449 Asystasia scandens. 4483 Begonia cinnabarina. 4433 Bejaria coarctata.
4481 Brachysema aphyllum. 4474 Brassavola Digbyana. 4417 Cereus Leeanus.
44.43 reductus.
4422 Cirrhopetalum Macraei. 4418 ——-—————- nutans. 4485 Clerodendron Bethuneanum. 4440 Ccelogyne fuliginosa. 4470 Cupania Cunninghami. 4435 Curcuma cordata.
4479 Cychnoches barbatum. 4468 Cyrtanthera aurantiaca, 4444 ——_—_——— catalpzfolia. 4454 Cyrtochilum citrinum.
4450 Dendrobium Cambridgeanum.
4429 ——__——. Devonianum. 4477 tortile.
4458 Dielytra spectabilis. 4456 Epimedium pinnatum. 4437 Eriopsis rutidobulbon. 4439 Eriostemon intermedium. 4473 Escallonia macrantha. 4480 Espeletia argentea.
. 4423 Exacum Zeylanicum. 4461 Gaultheria bracteata. 4431 Gesneria picta.
4430 Gloxinia fimbriata. 4472 Gonolobus Martianus. 4475 Heliconia angustifolia.
Plate. 4421 Heterotrichum macrodon.
4482 Ixora laxiflora.
4459 Lacepedea insignis.
4447 Lapageria rosea.
4424 Lisianthus pulcher.
4428 Loasa picta.
4445 Lycaste Skinneri.
4426 Macleania punctata.
4434 Maxillaria leptosepala.
4471 Metrosideros florida.
4425 Miltonia spectabilis; var. pur- pureo-violacea.
4419 Mirbelia Meisneri.
4462 Mitraria coccinea.
4455 Mormodes lentiginosa.
4460 Nematanthus ionema.
4469 Nympheea ampla.
4436 Pachystigma pteleoides.
4464 Pentstemon cyananthus.
4442 Pesomeria tetragona.
4478 Rhododendron Clivianum.
4457 ——————— formosum.
4466 Roupellia grata.
4465 Sauromatium guttatum.
4476 Schomburgkia tibicinus; var. grandiflora.
4420 Scutellaria macrantha.
4463 Sida (Abutilon) venosa.
4446 Sobralia macrantha.
4448 Stemonacanthus macrophyllus.
4438 Stifftia chrysantha.
4484 Tabernemontana longiflora.
4441 Thyrsacanthus bracteolatus.
4432 Vanda tricolor.
4451 Zieria macrophylla.
INDEX,
In which the English Names of the Plants contained in the Fifth Volume of the Turrp Serres (or Seventy-fifth Volume of the Work) are alphabetically arranged.
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Plate.
4427 Air-Plant, Sir Richard Brooke’s.
4452 Alloplectus, capitate.
4453 Amherstia, splendid.
4449 Asystasia, climbing.
4483 Begonia, Cinnabar-flowered. 4433 Bejaria, close-flowered. 4467 Birthwort, large glanduled. 4481 Brachysema, leafless.
4474 Brassavola, Mr. Digby’s. 4443 Cereus, dingy.
4417 Mr. Lee’s.
4418 Cirrhopetalum, drooping-flow- ered.
44.22 Mr. M‘Rae’s.
4485 Clerodendron, Capt. Bethune’s. 4440 Coelogyne, dark-flowered.
4466 Cream-fruit.
4470 Cupania, Mr. Cunningham’s. 4435 Curcuma, heart-leaved.
4479 Cychnoches, bearded.
4444 Cyrtanthera, Catalpa-leaved. 4468 orange-flowered. 4454 Cyrtochilum, lemon-coloured. 4450 Dendrobium, Duke of Cam-—
bridge’s.
4429 Duke of Devon- shire’s.
4477 twisted-petaled.
4458 Dielytra, Moutan.
4456 Epimedium, pinnate-leaved. 4437 Eriopsis, rough-stalked.
4439 Eriostemon, intermediate. 4473 Hscallonia, large red-flowered. 4480. Espeletia, silvery.
4423 Exacum, Ceylon.
4461 Gaultheria, bracteated.
4431 Gesneria, painted.
4430 Gloxinia, fimbriated.
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Plate. ee 4473 Gonolobus, Dr. von Martius’.
4475 Heliconia, narrow-leaved.
4421 Heterotrichum, long-toothed.
4460 Ionema, dark blood-coloured.
4482 Ixora, lax-flowered.
4459 Lacepedea, fragrant.
4447 Lapageria, rose-coloured.
4424 Lisianthus, beautiful. -
4428 Loasa, painted-flowered.
4445 Lycaste, Mr. Skinner’s.
4426 Macleania, dotted-leaved.
4434 Maxillaria, narrow-sepaled.
4471 Metrosideros, copious-flowering.
4425 Miltonia, showy; purple-violet var.
4419 Mirbelia, Meisner’s.
4462 Mitraria, scarlet.
4455 Mormodes, freckled. .
4436 Pachystigma,. Ptelea-leaved.
4464 Pentstemon, azure-flowered.
4442 Pesomeria, square-stalked.
4457 Rhododendron, beautiful.
4478 Duchess of Nor-
thumberland’s. 4465 Sauromatium, spotted. 4476 Schomburgkia, trumpet; large- flowered var. 4463 Sida, veiny-petaled. 4420 Skull-cap, large-flowered. 4446 Sobralia, large-flowered. 4448 Stemonacanthus, large-flowered. 4438 Stifftia, golden-flowered. 4484 Tabernemontana, long-flowered. 4441 Thyrsacanthus, bracteolated. 4432 Vanda, three-coloured. 4469 Water-Lily, broad-leaved,
4451 Zieria, large-leaved.
Tas. 4417, CEREUS Lestanus.
Mr. Lee’s Cereus.
Nat. Ord. Cactr®.—IcosanDRIA Monoeynia.
Gen. Char. Sepala numerosissima imbricata, basi ovario adnata, in tubum elongatum concreta, exteriora breviora calycinalia, media longiora colorata, intima petaliformia. Stamina numerosissima cum tubo concreta. Stylus fili- formis, apice multifidus. Bacea areolata, sepalorum reliquiis squamata aut tuber- culosa. Cotyledones acuminates.—Frutices carnosi, subglobosi, v. elongati, strieti, articulati v. repentes, axi ligneo interne medullifero donati, angulis verticalibus, spinarum fasciculos gerentibus vel inermibus, regulariter sulcati. Anguli seu alee nunc plurime, nunc paucissine, rarius due tantum, et tune rami compresso- alati, inermes. Flores ampli, e spinarum fasciculis lateralibus trunci aué ramorum vetustiorum, aut crenis angulorum orti. Fructus oviformes, plerumque anno sequente maturescentes, edules. Pfeiff.
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CrrEus Leeanus ; erectus subpedalis conico-cylindraceus, subacute 12—14-cos- _tatus, areolis approximatis pulvinato-tomentosis sub-12-spinosis, spinis v. aculeis acicularibus valde ineequalibus strictis fuscis, exterioribus 2-3 lineas longis, centrali unciali, floribus subterminalibus speciosis lateritio-sanguineis, squamis calycinis apice viridibus setosis, petalis obovato-oblongis acutis,
Presented to the Royal Gardens by Mr. Lee of the Hammer- smith Nursery, who received it from France, ‘as an unknown Species, native of Mexico. If published, it would be no easy matter to recognise it from description alone. It is only by good figures, taken from perfect flowering specimens of the living plants that we can hope to make known the distinguishing feature of the individuals of this singular family. The present Species is among the most beautiful, a free bloomer, and its blossoms are large and showy.
. Descr. Our plant is nearly a foot in height, about four inches broad, tapering upwards, from a nearly cylindrical base, hence “Somewhat conical, the summit being the narrowest part: it is furrowed throughout its length rather deeply and acutely, forming elevated, rather sharp ridges or angles, which are. studded at short intervals by small, dense, cushion-like tufts of wool, bearing the cluster (about twelve in a cluster) of sharp needle-
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shaped aculei, straight, very irregular in length, the outer coitts being the sfortent, and gradually lengthening, till the central, longer and shorter than the rest, is about an inch long. At and near the summit, four or five large, handsome, brick-red (inclining to blood-coloured) flowers are produced. The tube (constituting the calyx) is green at the base, then yellowish orange, clothed with oblong fleshy scales (sepals), acute, tipped with green, and bearing at the point a tuft of aciculi or bristles. These scales pass rather suddenly into petals of an oblong- obovate-acute form, spreading and imbricated. Stamens nume- rous, rather longer than the tube. Style columnar. Stigma green, of many erect or connivent rays. W. J. H. :
Cur. The general practice with cultivators of Cacte@ is to grow them in poor soil, composed of light loam, mixed with siftings of lime-rubbish, and some sharp sand, giving them but little water, and keeping them in a moderately warm and dry atmosphere; during the winter, this treatment bemg in imitation of the natural climates of the plants, may be considered in a general view to be correct; but other elements peculiar to climate are wanting, before we can be said to place the Cacte@, or any other exotics, under the same influences by which they are supported in their native localities. It is quite true that we are able to produce an artificial climate, so far as temperature and the hygrometric state of the atmosphere are concerned ; but there are influences derived from the proximity of the sea, of certain geological formations, and of the greater or less elevation of extensive plains in connection with particular latitudes, which, with all our contrivance and appliances, we are unable to obtain to any extent. As Cactee inhabit many climates, growing in the hottest and most exposed arid places within the tropics, and ranging within 40 to 50 degrees of latitude on either side of the equator, it is impossible to lay down any other rule for their cultivation in our gardens than an approximate one.
The modifications of this rule relate principally to temperature. The Cereus Leeanus, being a native of the north of Mexico, needs only to be protected during the winter from severe frosts: it has been known to bear several degrees of frost without injury. As spring advances it should receive some artificial heat and moisture, in order to get it into early growth, by which to ensure its flowering. Towards autumn it will be benefited by full exposure to the sun with plenty of free air, gradually decreasing the supply of water as the winter approaches.
In respect to the soil, we have found, other circumstances being favourable, that Cactee are not very particular, provided it is a soil not retentive of moisture. J. 8.
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Tap 4418
CIRRHOPETALUM nutans.
Drooping-flowered Cirrhopetalum.
Nat. Ord. OrcHIDEm.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4237.)
CIRRHOPETALUM xetans; pseudo-bulbis ovato-subrotundis rugosis, foliis ovato- oblongis obtusis crassis, scapo erecto elongato, umbella multiflora nutante, sepalis lateralibus longissimis linearibus ligulatis acutis supremo abbreviato acuminato, petalis ovatis acutissimis inferne ciliatis, labello linguiformi recurvo (bicristato, Zindl.), columne angulis obsolete bidentatis.
CIRRHOPETALUM nutans. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1839, Miscell. n. 18.
We have already given figures of two species of this remark- able genus, C. Thouarsii (Tan. 4237) and C. fimbriatum, (Vas. 4391), and we have here the pleasure of exhibiting a third, possessing, however, more singularity than beauty. : The la- bellum being loosely articulated moves when the plant is shaken in the slightest degree, or with the action of the wind or the breath. The Royal Gardens of Kew owe the possession of it to Messrs. Loddiges, by whom, it was imported from Manilla, through the instrumentality of Mr.Cuming. It flowered in the stove with us in July, 1848. Dr. Lindley compares it to C.Wallichii from Nepal, a species with which we are not acquainted. .
Duscr. Caudex creeping, jointed, striated, rooting, about as thick as a raven’s quill. Pseudo-bulbs subglobose, sheathed with large, brown, striated scales. Leaf solitary, articulated on the pseudo-bulb, subpetiolate, broadly or ovato-lanceolate, obtuse, very thick and fleshy, subcoriaceous, dark green, paler beneath. Scapes generally: two, springing from the caudex at the base of each pseudo-bulb, long, slender, curved, articulated and partially sheathed with brown scales or bracteas. Umbel of several spread- ing, pale yellowish fowers. Sepals porrected, almost closed, upper one small, lanceolate, acuminate, lateral ones very long, linear or strap-shaped, acute, or mucronate, striated. Petals broadly
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ovate, mucronate, shorter than the upper sepal, ciliated in the lower half. Zip jointed unto the decurrent base of the short column, \mgulate, with thickened edges, recurved, bicristate according to Dr. Lindley, a character which escaped my notice, as did also the obsoletely bidentate angles of the column. Anther hemispherical, small. W. J. H. eo Curr. Being a native of a tropical climate and epiphytal ‘on trees, this orchidaceous plant requires to be kept ina hothouse in which a warm and moist atmosphere can be easily maintained ; a medium temperature of 75° in summer, and 65° in winter, will suit it. During the latter season the temperature may be allowed to fall during the night to 60°, or even a few degrees lower,
especially in severely cold weather. It is common with plants of |
this nature, to imitate their natural mode of growth by attaching them to blocks of wood suspended from the roof of the house ; but there are many reasons against the use of wood for this purpose; neatly cut sods of compressed sphagnum moss are preferable, and fixing the plant to the sod with small pegs, which are soon superseded by the roots of the plants attaching them-
selves to the moss: the sod should be suspended near the glass, — but great care must be taken not to allow the direct rays of the — sun to fall upon it during the summer months; some kind of | shade is therefore necessary. ‘The sod should be kept moderately — moist by syringing, but during the winter months water requires — to be sparingly used, for then the minimum degree of vapour — necessary to maintain a healthy atmosphere, will keep the sod —
sufficiently moist. J. 8.
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Column, lip, and one petal :—magnified.
Tas. 4419.
MIRBELIA Metsnert.
Meisner’s Mirbelia.
Nat. Ord. Leaguminos%.—Dercanpria Monoeynta.
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-fidus bilabiatus. Legumen dispermum, longitudinaliter biloculare, sutura utraque superiore presertim introflexa.—Suffrutices Austra- lasici, fructu ad Astragalum, staminibus et habitu ad Sophoreas accedentes. Folia ternatim verticillata. Flores purpurei. De Cand.
Mrrpeita Meisneri ; foliis (parvis) flabelliformibus in petiolum brevem angus- tatis apice inciso-multifidis segmentis spinosis. Mirsexta dilatata. Meisn. in Plant. Preiss. p.6. (not Br.)
From the collection of Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., who raised it from Swan River seeds sent by Mr. Drummond, and in whose collection it blossomed profusely in May, 1848. It is a very different species from J. dilatata, Br., being smaller in all its parts, more compact, bushy, with denser flowers and denser foliage, and the leaves are , broadly flabellate, multifid, with spinous segments. It is a most lovely greenhouse plant, and ought to be in every ornamental collection.
Descr. The plant, as hitherto seen with us, constitutes a low bushy shrub, much branched and copiously leafy. Branches many- angled. Leaves generally ternately whorled, scarcely an inch long, cuneately flabellate, harsh, rigid, dark green, much waved and, as it were, crisped, tapering below into a short petiole, the apex in reality three-cleft, and pretty regularly so, but from the undu- lation this is not at first apparent; the middle lobe is small and’ simple, the lateral ones multifid, every segment tipped with a spine, directed forwards or backwards according to the undulation. Flowers copious, in leafy racemes. Pedicels with two opposite, small dracteoles. Calyx campanulate, downy, two-lipped, upper lip trifid, lower bifid. Corolla red-purple, deeper in the lower half of each petal. Carina obcordate, with a yellow eye near the base. Keel obtuse, about as long as the blunt wings which
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conceal it. Stamens ten, free. Anthers oblong, yellow. Ovary stipitate, oblong, tapermg gradually into the subulate style. Stigma minute, capitate. W. J. H.
Curr. This belongs to a tribe of Australian plants, many of which are favourites with the amateur and cultivator on account of the lively appearance which they give to our greenhouses during the spring months. In their native country they present a rather harsh and scrubby appearance, but gay and enlivening the landscape when in flower, the colours being generally blue or yellow. These plants are found chiefly growing on poor soils, ~ but our cultivation would not be very successful if we imitated their native soils too closely ; at the same time it must be allowed that the earth which suits them best for pot cultivation, is but poor, though in its use many points of management have to be attended to. Rough peat or heath mould, containing a sharp gritty sand, is suitable for this plant, draining the pot well with sherds, so that no superabundant water remains for any length of time after the necessary waterings, which should be done in the evenings, or mornings in summer, before the sun gains power. Care must be taken to sce that at no time the mould becomes quite dry ; and during hot weather the pot should be so placed that the sun’s rays do not fall upon it. The roots being fibrous and of a dry nature, are very susceptible of any sudden or great changes of temperature. While young, this species should be kept in a cool pit or frame, and as it is naturally inclined togrow up slender and naked, it is requisite to shortern the forward or leading shoots, so as to induce it to throw out side-shoots, in order to forma bushy plant. After a time, however, this must be done sparingly, as the flowers are produced on and towards the extremities of the branches,
The plant is propagated by cuttings placed under a bell-glass, and kept in a cool place for a short time, and afterwards the pot should be plunged in a gentle bottom-heat, J. S.
Fig. 1. Flower, with the petals removed.
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Tas. 4420. SCUTELLARIA macranrua.
Large-flowered Skull-cap.
Nat. Ord. LaBiatz.—D1ipyNaMIA GYMNOSPERMIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4268.)
ScureLLARIA macrantha; caule basi procumbente adscendente glabriusculo, foliis sessilibus lanceolatis obtusis integerrimis basi rotundatis subglabris ciliatis, floralibus calyce longioribus, racemis simplicibus, floribus oppositis secundis, calycibus pilosis, corollis amplis extus pubescentibus, tubo superne dilatato. Benth.
ScureLLaRIA macrantha. Fisch. in Reichenb. Plant. Critic. 0.5. p.52. t.488. ‘Benth. Lab. p.436. Walp, Repert. Bot. v. 3. p. 156.
Scurenarta grandiflora. Adams. sec. Bunge (non Sims). ScurennaRia fc. Gmel, Fl, Sibir. v. 3. p. 228. 2. 50.
Native of Eastern Asia ; extending from Dahuria (Dr. Fischer, Bunge) probably all the way to the great wall of China, where it was detected by Sir George Staunton. Seeds were sent to us from the Petersburg Imperial Garden by Dr. von Fischer; and our plants, raised from them, blossomed in the open border during the summer of 1848, in the Royal Gardens of Kew. It isa truly handsome and perfectly hardy plant, and we would strongly recommend its cultivation en masse, on account of its highly ornamental character, and because it continues long in blossom.
Descr. Annual? Stems decumbent at the base, then erect, branched upwards; éranches four-angled, glabrous. Leaves spreading, opposite, lanceolate, a little inclining to ovate at the base, obtuse, glabrous, the margins a little downy or ciliated, the upper ones narrower and smaller, the upper floral ones shorter than the flowers, but much longer than the calyx. Flowers in large terminal spikes or racemes. Calye downy, as in the genus. Corolla large, rich purple, geniculated in the lower part of the tube, downy, “md two-lipped ; upper ip con- vex; three-lobed, lower ip broader, nearly plane. Stamens in-
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cluded. Ovary four-lobed, glabrous, substipitate and arising from a large gland. Style included, filiform, a little thickened upwards ; stigma acuminate. W./. H. i : Cunt. A neat growing, hardy, herbaceous plant, which will grow in any good garden soil It is well adapted for cultivation
amongst pot-collections of alpine plants, and is propagated by division of the root and by seeds. J. S.
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Tas. 4421. HETEROTRICHUM macropon.
Long-toothed Heterotrichum.
Nat. Ord. Menastomace®.—Decanpria Monoeynia. !
Gen. Char. Calyx tubus ovato-globosus, limbus 5—8-fidus lobis persistentibus basi late dilatatis apice subulatis elongatis. Petala 5-8 ovalia. Stamina 10-16 equalia, filamentis glabris, antheris oblongis basi vix gibbis apice 1-porosis. Ovarium glabrum apice umbilicatum. Stylus cylindraceus. Stigma punctum pruinosum. Capsula baccata 5-8-locularis globosa calyce coronata,—Frutices America tropice. Rami teretes petioli panicule ef calyces setis vel pilis hispidi et pube stellato-tomentosa inter setas intermixta velutini. Folia petiolata superne setosa subtus in nervis hispida, inter nervos velutina. Cyma terminalis trichotoma umbellata. Flores albi aut purpurei. De Cand.
Hereroreicuum macrodon ; octomerum, ramulis petiolis cymisque pilis longis fulvis copiose vestitis, foliis oppositis ineequalibus cordato-ovatis acuminatis serratis 7-nerviis, cymis plurifloris, staminibus 16, petalis obovato-cuneatis.
Hererotricuum macrodon. Planch. in Hook. Herb.
Octomerts macrodon. Naudin in Ann. des Sc. Nat. Ser. 8. p. 53.
A remarkable and very handsome Melastomaceous plant, the leaves beautiful from their velvety clothing, and the large white flowers in terminal corymbs, which are produced in succession for many weeks together. M. Funck’s original specimen from Caraccas is in my Herbarium, and Mr. William Lobb sent seeds of the same species from New Grenada to Messrs. Veitch and Sons of Exeter, to whom we are indebted for the possession of it at Kew. The genus Octomeris, established by Naudin, seems in no way different from Heterotrichum, DC. The species flowers in the autumn in the stove. ;
Descr. A shrub, seven to nine feet high, but flowering readily when scarcely one-fourth of that size. Branches terete ; younger ones herbaceous, everywhere, as well as the long petioles, peduncles, pedicels, and calyx, clothed with spreading, long, tawny, or rufous hairs. eaves opposite, ample, but very un- equal (one large and one small in each pair), cordato-ovate, acuminate, regularly dentato-serrated, seven-nerved, the veins united by transverse ones, and these again by transverse veinlcts ;
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above rich velvety green, below paler, with stellate down, and the veins prominent, villous. Cymes terminal, of ten to twelve flowers of the size and colouring of those of the Horse-Chestnut. Calyz-tube campanulate, pale green, tinged with deep red above, the limb expanding, membranaceous, eight-toothed ; teeth long, linear, hispid. Petals eight, obovate, imbricated, pure white, red at the base. Stamens sixteen. Ovary conical, ovate, the base adherent with the base of the calyx, eight-celled. Style thick, columnar, inclined, shorter than the stamens. Stigma orbicular, obscurely lobed. W. J. H.
Curr. Within our recollection it was customary to grow all Melastomacee in light peat soil, the same as was then used for Heaths; but as it is now ascertained that the family is very numerous and widely spread, the great mass of species inhabiting tropical America, having very various habits and places of growth, it could not be expected that cultivators would in all cases be successful by using only one kind of soil. As it is known that some species grow naturally in very hard clayey soil, this want of attention to the nature of the plants may in a measure account for the paucity of species at this time in our gardens. The present one thrives well in good light loam; it should receive plenty of pot-room ; the shoots require to be occasionally stopped in order to keep the plant from becoming naked below, but in houses where there is little space, it will be best not to encourage it too . much ; and as it is readily propagated by cuttings, it is advisable to have a succession of young plants ready to replace the old ones as they become naked, which they will do after a time. J. S’
Fig. 1. Calyx and pistil. 2. Section of ditto. 3. Transverse section of ovary. 4. Stamens :—magnijied.
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Tas. 4422. CIRRHOPETALUM Macraet.
Mr. M‘Rae’s Cirrhopetalum.
Nat. Ord. OrncHIDEZ.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4237.)
CrrrnorrtaLum Macraei; pseudo-bulbis ovatis levibus, foliis solitariis oblougis acutis in petiolum attenuatis, scapis folio longioribus, racemis Vix umbellatis laxifloris, sepalis lanceolatis acuminatis lateralibus longissimis supremo apice acuminatissimis incurvo, petalis ovatis acuminatis, columna utrinque alata apice longe bidentato, labello ovato-acuminato carnoso recurvo.
C1rRHOPETALUM Macraei. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 59.
Detected in Ceylon by Mr. M‘Rae, growing upon trees in woods, and since sent from the same country by our worthy friend Mr. Gardner, the able Director of the Botanic Garden of Peradenia, to the Royal Gardens of Kew. It flourishes on lumps of turf suspended from the roof of the Orchideous House, and blossoms in July. This is a much prettier species of the genus than the C. nutans, figured at Tas. 441 8, the flowers being of a deeper yellow, mixed with purplish-brown.
Descr. Pseudo-bulbs ovate, smooth, scarcely so large as nut- megs, the younger ones sheathed with brown fibrous scales : each is terminated by a solitary and rather large, oblong, fleshy, acute deaf, tapering into a rather long footstalk, which is articu- lated upon the bulb. Scape, a span long, slender, longer than the leaf, bracteated. Raceme (scarcely at all umbellate) of about six pedicellated flowers, whose ground-colour 1s yellow. Upper sepal small, broad-lanceolate, with a long, very narrow, almost setaceous, incurved. point, externally brown except at the margin ; lateral sepals very long, linear-lanceolate, gradually acuminated, streaked or dashed with red brown. Peta/s ovate, entire, acu- minate, purple brown. Column short, with two wings, and terminating upwards in two subfalcate segments or long teeth,
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slightly dentate at the margin; the base of the column is de- current, and bears, articulated upon it, a recurved, ovate, acumi- nate, thick, fleshy lip. Axther-case small, hemispherical. W.J_/.
Cutt. The habit and nature of this plant being in every respect analogous to the species of the same genus figured at Tas. 4418, the remarks there given in regard to its cultivation ere equally applicable to this species. J. S.
\ Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Column and lip :~-magnijied.
Tas. 4423 EXACUM Zryuantcum.
Ceylon Exacum.
Nat. Ord. GentIANE®.—PEnTANDRIA Monoeynta.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4340.)
Exacum Zeylanicum; caule tetragono subsimplici, foliis sessilibus elliptico- oblongis 3-nerviis margine levibus, calycis 5-partiti alis semicordato-ovatis, corollee ceerulez lobis obovatis obtusis, filamentis exsertis. Griseb.
Exacum Zeylanicum. Roxb. Fl. Ind. 1. p. 398. ed. Wall. 1. p. 414, Griseb. in De Cand. Prod. 9. p. 45.
Curronta trinervis. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 272. Listanruus Zeylanicus. Spreng. Syst. Veget. 1. p. 586.
Lf¥stmacuta folio sinuato acuminato trinervio, flore cxruleo, calyce carinato alato. Burm, Zeyl. p. 145.
A beautiful annual, raised from Ceylon seeds by Mr. Moore of the Glasnevin Botanic Garden, Dublin, where it flowered in September, 1848. It is really a striking plant, and by no means ill-figured in Burmann above quoted ; especially when we consider the period at which that plate was published (1737).
_ The species is now, for the first time, introduced into Europe, - we trust so desirable a plant will continue to be propagated y seeds, :
Dzscr. Annual. Stem erect, four-sided, glabrous, as is every part of the plant, corymbosely branched above and there only. Leaves opposite, sessile, (for they can scarcely be said to taper into a foot-stalk,) elliptical-oblong or lanceolate, acuminate, distinctly three-nerved, paler and with the nerves prominent beneath, the edge or margin smooth to the touch. Corymds terminal, leafy. Branches (or in other words peduncles and
pedicels) four-sided, rather slender; ultimate pedicels three
together. Calyx deeply five-cleft, membranaceous, green, the
lobes tapering into subulate points, their back, down to the
base of the calyx, having a broad membranaceous wing. Corolla
rotate, large, handsome, rich purplish-blue; the /ue short, c
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slightly fringed at the mouth, where the stamens are inserted ; the dimb large, spreading, five-lobed; odes oval or obovato- obtuse, pale on the underside. Stamens five, erect, much protruded. Filaments short, white; anthers erect, oblong, orange-coloured, two-celled, two-lobed at the base, tapering above and opening at the point by two pores. Ovary oval, glabrous. _ Style long, decurved, the apex curved upwards. Stigma trans- versely furrowed. W. J. H.
Cutt. This pretty Indian annual, like its British representa- tives (Chlora perfoliata, and Chironia Centarium, &c.,) is not very subservient to garden cultivation. The seeds should be sown early in the spring in pots filled with sandy peat soil, and as they are very small, they require no covering of earth, but merely that the mould should be geritly pressed down. The pot should be placed near the glass in a damp corner of the stove, or a pan of water should be set under them, as it is very necessary that the mould in the pot should be kept in a moist state without having occasion to sprinkle water over the surface, for if that is done the small germinating seeds are disturbed. When the young plants are sufficiently strong, they should be pricked out singly into the smallest sized pots; as they advance in growth, they require to be shifted into five-inch pots, or four or five plants may be put into a wide shallow pot or pan, which will give the plants a fuller appearance. Loose turfy soil should be used, the pot being well drained, so that water may be freely given without the risk of the mould becoming stagnant; for as the stem is soft and herbaceous, the plant is apt to drop off suddenly, if kept too long wet about the root. This species of Exacum is allied to Hxacum tetragonum figured at Tas. 4340; and, as we have observed the latter to flower readily, when allowed to grow as a weed on the damp mossy surfaces of pots in the Orchidaceous house, the same method may be adopted with the present species, by sowing the seeds on suitable surfaces near the glass, Unless seeds are obtained, it is very apt to be lost. In its natural habitat it appears to be truly annual, but in culti- vation this species, as also Z. tetragonum, may sometimes, after flowering, throw out short side branches close to the ground,
which with care may be preserved through the winter. ./. 8.
Fig. 1. Base of the corolla laid open, showing the fringe and the stamens.
2. Pistil :—magnified.
RE& RU Fitch del et Jitl
Tas. 4424
LISIANTHUS putcurr.
Beautiful Lisianthus.
Nat, Ord. GenTIANE®.—PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4324.)
Listanruus pulcher; elatus erectus caule ramisque obtuse tetragonis, foliis petiolatis elliptico-lanceolatis acuminatis, nervis lateralibus paribus duobus, panicula terminali trichotoma, floribus pendulis, calyce brevi ovato brevi- 5-lobo lobis obtusis, corolla (coccinese) infundibuliformis tubo basi angus- tato, limbo parum obliquo 5-lobo lobis ovatis obtusis patentibus, staminibus styloque exsertis, antheris apiculatis.
Beautiful as are all the species of the genus Lisianthus, as that genus is now restricted by the learned Grisebach, the present, together with another scarlet-flowered one, Z. splendens, Hook. (Lond. Journ. Bot. vol. iv. p. 264. tab. 8) are, perhaps, the most beautiful ; and both these new species are among the discoveries of Mr. Purdie, during his botanical expedition to New Grenada. — L. pulcher was found in the Monte del Moro in October, 1845. It has flowered in the stove at the Royal Gardens of Kew, and more perfectly in the collection of Messrs, Lucombe andPince, Exeter Nursery, from whose fine plant our drawing was made mm September, 1848.
Descr. A tall shrub, according to Mr. Purdie, five to seven feet high in its native country, with aap obtusely fou - angular dranches and leaves, which are also opposite, petiolate, ovato-lanceolate, four to five inches long, acuminate, obtuse at the base, penninerved ; nerves in two pairs from the costa, and Tunning almost parallel with the margin, the lowest pair springing from near the base of the costa, the other pair from below the middle; these nerves and costa are rominent and downy beneath, the rest glabrous. Panicle terminal, trichotomous,
Scarcely leafy, but bracteated with small scales at the setting on
of the pedicels, and there is also a small pair of bracts near the
middle ‘of the pedicels. Flowers gracefully drooping. Calyw
small, ovate, shortly 5-lohed, Joes small obtuse, erect. Corolla FEBRUARY lst, 1849. Cs
one inch and a half and more long, rich scarlet, funnel-sha ped ; the ¢ube a little curved upwards, narrow at the base, inflated above the middle; the /imd rather oblique, of five spreading, ovate, obtuse lobes, the mouth streaked with dark yellow. Stamens and style exserted. Authers short, apiculate. Ovary seated on a large fleshy disk. Stigma bifid. WV. J. H.
Cutt. Ever since Mr. Purdie sent us the seeds and description of this beautiful plant, we have been very desirous to see it brought into cultivation ; and in order to give it the chance of different modes of treatment, seeds were distributed ; but the raising of them has not been attended with the success we could have wished, only a few plants having been obtained. In its young state it appears to be rather delicate; but from our little experience we have yet to learn what kind of treatment it should receive. A knowledge of the nature of its primitive habitat may in some degree assist us: we learn from Mr. Purdie that it is a suffruticose shrub, forming a bush five to seven fect high and two to three feet in diameter, growing at an elevation of between 7000 to 8000 feet on shelly limestone rocks, which are covered with a thin stratum of peaty soil of a dry nature. The climate he states to be moist and temperate, the heat never being excessive, sometimes the thermometer falling to 40°, when ice is formed, the sensation of cold 18 very great, and the vapour in suspension in the atmosphere gives to the light of the sun a peculiar and rather unpleasant glare. Such being the circumstances under which it grows, we therefore infer that it should be kept in a close greenhouse, potting it in loose peat soil, well drained, and it may possibly derive benefit by mixing with the mould thin pieces of limestone, which may also be employed for drainage. The beauty of this plant, as described by Mr. Purdie, renders any experiment for its cultivation worthy of trial, but it must be borne in mind that one drawback will always attend our experi- ments :—we cannot place it in an atmosphere of the tenuity and lightness which it enjoys at an elevation of 7000 to 8000 feet, and in our opinion the difference of weight of the atmosphere at different heights is the cause of the ill success attending the cultivation of many mountain plants. J. 8,
Fig. 1. Pistil —magnified.
R. imp.
RB. &
Pitch, del. et Hth.
Tas. 4425. MILTONIA SPECTABILIS; var. PURPUREO-VIOLACEA.
Showy Miltonia ; purple-violet variety.
Nat. Ord. OrncutpEa.—GyYNAaNDRIA MoNANDRIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4204.)
| MILTONIA spectabilis ; pseudo-bulbis ovalibus ancipitibus levibus, foliis ligu- latis patentissimis, pedunculis unifloris squamis magnis fuscis_striatis | imbricatis carinatis dense imbricatis, sepalis ovalibus planis, petalis con- formibus revolutis, labello maximo cuneato-rotundato basi trilamellato, columne alis angustis acutissimis, Lindl.
7 Minronta spectabilis. Lind?. Bot. Reg.t.1992. Hook. Bot. Mag. t: 4204. 8. floribus unicoloribus purpureo-violaceis. (Tas. wostR. 4425.)
For the full description of this species, we must refer our readers to the plate above quoted; for, striking as this plant is from the intense purple-violet colour of the entire flower, yet in 3 shape and every essential particular, it is identical with J/i- fonva spectabilis. Those parts which are palest in the original : M. spectabilis (the petals and sepals for example, there, almost
pure white) are here of the deepest purple ; and the lip, which | in our T'as. 4204, is the most coloured, is here the least so, being of a paler purple than the sepals and petals. a os _ _Dr. Lindley having since the publication of his original species added others, some at the expence of the genus Cyriochilum, it Comes necessary to give a specific character to this, which we are glad to do from Dr. Lindley’s 31st volume of the Botanical Register. W.J. H. ._ __ Curr. The several species of Miltonia being natives of the 1 warm parts of Brazil, this plant requires to be kept in_ the Warmest division of the orchideous house. It is sometimes 8rown on a block of suspended wood, but we prefer shallow pots, well drained, and fixing it in rough peat’ soil, mixed with chopped Sphagnum, moss, and broken potsherds. During summer it must be shaded from the sun’s mid-day rays. It is observed that the Species of this genus have generally a yellow unhealthy appearance, Which to a certain degree seems natural to them. J. 8. FEBRUARY lst, 1849.
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Tas. 4426.
MACLEANIA punctatTa.
Dotted-leaved Macleania.
Nat. Ord. Vacctnrn#2.—Dercanpria Monoeynia.
Gen. Char. Calyx truncatus obsolete 5-dentatus inferne ovario adherens. Corolla cylindracea, limbo 5-fido. Stamina 10, basi corolle inserta, filamentis per totam longitudinem in urceolum connatis. Anthere basi affixe dorso mutice, apice in tubum simplicem attenuate et rimula singula introrsum dehiscentes. Ovarium 5-loculare, multiovulatum. . Fructus; Bacca?— Frutex habitu Thibaudiz vel Ceratostemmatis. Flores numerosi, axillares, secundt. Folia subsecunda, nunc punctata. Rami cortice deciduo. De Cand.
Mac.eanta punctata; foliis sessilibus cordatis obtusis punctatis coriaceis pen- ninerviis, pedunculis glomeratis axillaribus terminalibus, corollis conico- urceolatis 5-gonis, ore dilatato, lobis patentibus.
This is very distinct from the three species of this beautiful Vacciniaceous genus already described, from my original M. floribunda, (Hook. Ic. Pl. 2. tab. 109,) which has very acute or acuminated leaves and a differently shaped corolla, from M. angulata, (Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 83779,) which has petiolated leaves &c., calyx narrower than the corolla, with its mouth con- tracted, and from MW. longifiora, (Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1844, Tab. 25,) which has oval-oblong leaves, and a much longer, whole-coloured corolla, also contracted at the mouth; and it differs from all in its distinctly dotted foliage. It is sent from the Andes of El Equador by Mr. William Lobb, and it flowered in the greenhouse of Messrs. Veitch and Son of Exeter in Nov. 1848. It exists in Professor Jameson’s collection from the same country.
Duscr. A low shrué, with slightly angular branches. Leaves alternate, but inclined to be secund, sessile or with a most indis- tinct petiole, cordate, the upper ones approaching to oval, obtuse, entire, coriaceous, convex, the margin secund, glossy, dotted, delicately penninerved. V/owers pedunculate, crowded in the axils of the superior leaves, and in a terminal cluster, secund. Peduncles clavate, red. Calye articulated upon the peduncle, turbinate, shortly 5- toothed, with 5 wing-like angles, fleshy, deep
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red. Corolla full an inch long, between cylindrical and urceolate, swollen in the lower half, contracted below the spreading mouth, 6-angled, rose-red, except the upper part which is white tinged with yellow, lodes 5, acute, spreading. Stamens and style included. W. J. HH.
Curr. When required to give instructions for the cultivation of any particular plant, it is to be presumed that the rules laid down are the results of experience; but if it be recollected that most of the plants figured in this work are only of recent intro- duction to this country, and that it is the wish of the first pos- sessor to get his new plants into flower as early as possible, a result often obtained under circumstances not natural to the true habit of the plant,our directions, in most cases, as to its cultivation, must be somewhat vague and uncertain, More time and expe- rience are required, and guided by our knowledge of the natural climate of the plant, we become acquainted with its habit, and may then be able to state what is the best mode of treatment it should receive. One or two species of Macleania have been known to us for several years ; they have thick fleshy roots, and with their stiff habit of growth do not appear to be well adapted for cultivation in a pot; but we are of opinion that if planted out in a warm greenhouse, they would form handsome plants. The soil should consist of loam and peat well mixed, but must not be deep, for it has been observed that the fibres keep near the surface. It should be well drained, so as to permit abundance of water to be given during their season of growth, without the risk of the soil becoming saturated. This may be
propagated freely by cuttings, placed under a bell-gl ith little bottom heat. Js. a aegis a
Fig. 1. Two of the anthers with a portion of staminal tube. 2, Calyx, pistil and stamens :—magnified.
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Tas. 4427.
AERIDES crispum.
Sir Richard Brooke's Air-Plant.
Nat. Ord. OncutprE%.—GyNANDRIA MONANDRIA,
Gen, Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4139.)
‘
AERIDES erispum ; foliis planis apice obtusis obliquis bilobis racemis multifloris nutantibus duplo brevioribus, sepalis petalisque subequalibus obtusis, labelli maximi lacinia intermedia multo majore ovata retusa serrulata basi bidentata lateralibus erectis acutis nanis, caleare cornuto incurvo. Lindl.
AERIDEs crispum. Lindl. in Wall. Cat.n. 7319. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 239. Bot. Reg. 1842. t. 55.
Arrives Brookei. Batem. in Bot. Reg. 1841.
A native of Courtallam, East Indies, whence I possess native Specimens from its discoverer, Dr. Wallich. Living plants were received at the Royal Gardens of Kew in 1845, but the plant had previously (in 1842) flowered in the collection of Sir Richard Brooke, Bart., of Norton Priory. It is one of the most lovely of the very favourite genus. Aerides, and still I believe one of the most rare. Our plant differs slightly from that represented by Dr. Lindley in the more diffused purple tinge on the lip, and its more deeply cut edge, rather fimbriated than serrated. It flowered with us in July.
Duscr. Stem flexuose, sending out large fleshy roots from below, leafy above. Zeaves articulated upon the sheath, ligulate, retuse or bifid and oblique at the apex, distichous, a span long, coriaceous, keeled at the back below. Racemes drooping on a long peduncle springing from the side of the stem below the leaves, many-flowered, large, very handsome. Sepals larger than the petals, otherwise like them in shape and colour, oval or obovate, white, tinged with rose. ip very large, 3-lobed, lateral lobes small, erect, ovato-obtuse ; middle one broadly ovate, fringed at the edge, 2-toothed at the base, there white, the rest deep rose- purple. Spur horn-like, slightly curved. _ Co/uma short, white. Pollen-masses two, on a long caudicle. W. J. H. ay
Curr. This plant being a native of the hot and moist climate
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of Southern India, requires to be kept in the warmest division of the orchideous house. Its natural habitat is on trees, to which it firmly attaches itself by its long naked roots. To imitate this, it is the general practice to fix the plant on blocks of wood which should be 3 to 4 feet long, set upright to allow space for the roots to descend; but as wood of any kind soon decays in the orchideous house and then becomes a nidus for fungi and insects, it is desirable that some other mode should be adopted. In some portions of the house the several species of Aerides may be freely suspended without any support; if near any upright surface (such as the walls of the house) it will be observed that the free aérial roots will in time direct their points of growth towards the wall, &., and on reaching it will become attached, evidently showing that some kind of a basis of attachment is natural to these plants. Many years ago we remember seeing Aerides odoratum in fine flower, its roots being attached to a moist brick wall, and as they adhere in like manner to the side of garden pots, we have procured several tall cylindrical pots (something like chimney pots) round the margin of which we temporarily fix the plants ; but they soon fasten themselves by their roots gradually creeping over the surfaces of the pot, both within and without, and by occasionally syringing the outside and a little water inside, the porous earthenware is kept sufficiently moist to be congenial to the roots. During the dry season this plant experiences very great heat, and therefore under our artificial cultivation it is advisable to lessen the supply of moisture after it has done flowering in summer. We have observed that the species of Aerides will bear with impunity a pretty free exposure to the sun; though much depends upon the position of the house and the nature of the roof. J. S.
Fig. 1. Column and lip :—magnified.
R.B.& R.imp.
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Tas. 4428.
LOASA picra.
Painted-flowered Loasa.
Nat. Ord. Loaspx®.—PoLyaDELPHIA POLYANDRIA.
Gen. Char. Calycis tubus ovario adherens, limbus persistens, 5-partitus, equalis. Petala 5, lobis cal. alterna, breviter unguiculata, concava. Sguame 5, petaloidex, petalis alterne, bi- aut trilobee, in conum conniventes et basi intus filamentis 2 sterilibus instructee. Stamina numerosa, exteriora 10 sterilia, ceetera in phalangis 15-17-andras petalis oppositas disposita ; axtheris erectis bilocularibus. Stylus apice trifidus. Capsula turbinato-oblonga, . 1-locularis, apice 3-valvis calyce Coronata, valvis margine placentiferis, placentis ideo cum vicina continuis. Semina ovalia creberrima reticulata. D.C.
Loasa picta; erecta debilis dichotoma parce pubescenti-pilosa, caule ramis petiolis pedunculisque pungenti-setosis, foliis rhombeo-ovatis lanceolatisve acuminatis acutis lobatis serratis, inferioribus petiolatis superioribus (brac-_ teisve) sessilibus, racemis terminalibus foliosis, pedicellis elongatis, ovario hispidissimo, petalis sterilibus ovatis acuminatis basi cucullatis apice bifidis, lobis calycinis petalisque reflexis.
An extremely pretty species of Zoasa, native of Chacapoyas in the Andes, and which, from the varied colour of the petals and nectaries (or petaloid scales), we have named picia. It was detected by Mr. William Lobb, and seeds were raised by Messrs. Veitch and Sons at their Nursery, Exeter, from whose plants the accompanying figure was taken in December, 1848 ; during which season, in a cool frame, the plants are covered with blossom from top to bottom. There is every reason to believe that it will prove a hardy annual, well suited for bedding. out in the summer, when its graceful and lively flowers, yellow and white, with a red eye, cannot fail to prove attractive. We possess specimens in the Herbarium of the same species, gathered precisely in the same locality by the late Mr. Mathews. Its hearest affinity is with Z. xanthizfolia, Juss., but that has more cordate leaves, very hairy on both sides, the flowers smaller, Wholly yellow, and the nectaries, as far as can be judged from the figure and from the dried specimens, are of a different form.
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Descr. Annual. Stems about a foot high, dichotomously branched, weak, but nearly erect, clothed as are the leaves, but chiefly on the nerves, with thin inconspicuous pubescence, mixed with many pungent sete. Leaves alternate, pale green, membranaceous, the lower ones two to three inches long, petiolate (petioles setose), rhombeo-ovate, acuminate, acutely lobed and serrated ; upper or floral leaves sessile, lanceolate, coarsely serrated, the uppermost (decidedly 4racteas) almost linear, subulate, entire. Racemes leafy. Pedicels elongated, drooping, setose. Flowers large (for the size of the plant), drooping. Ovary cylindrical, very hispid. Calyx-segments ovate, acuminate, ikea Petals reflexed, obovate, acute, cucullate, hispid at the back, their colour bright yellow in-the lower half, the rest white. Nectaries or petaloid scales ovato-acuminate, bifid at the point, the base cucullate, white, beautifully mottled with red. W. J. H.
Cut. Little ig i to be said respecting the cultivation of this plant, as it is, like the rest of the genus, a tender annual. It should be sown in April in a frame or pit, and by the end of May it will be safe to turn it out in the flower-borders. We know too little of it yet, to enable us to speak of its merits; but it will probably make a pretty bed in the flower garden. J. 8.
Fig. 1 and 2. Outer and inner view of a petaloid scale ;~—magniied.
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Tas. 4429. DENDROBIUM Devontanvum.
The Duke of Devonshire’s Dendrobium.
Nat. Ord. OrncurpEx.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4352.)
Denprosium Devonianum ; caulibus elongato-cylindraceis articulatis striatis pro-
liferis junioribus foliiferis, foliis lineari-lanceolatis distichis submembrana- ceis acuminatis, floribus (5-6) aggregatis, sepalis lanceolatis integerrimis, petalis ovatis acutis ciliatis apice purpureo-maculatis, labello cucullato amplo latissime cordato pulcherrime plumoso-fimbriato intus maculis 2 aurantiacis
apice emarginato purpureo, calcare brevissimo.
DenpRosium Devonianum. “ Paaton, Mag. Bot. v.17. p. 169.”
Assuredly one of the most delicate and most lovely of all Orchideous plants, and worthy to bear the name of that. distin- guished nobleman, the Duke of Devonshire, who has done so much to encourage Horticulture and Botany. It isa native of the Khoseea hills, East Indies, and bears this name in Mr. Paxton’s Magazine of Botany, vol. vii. I do not find it anywhere fully described. Our plant, from which the accompanying figure was made, is from the collection of the late Mr. Clowes. It flowered with us in September, 1847. The charm of this plant is confined wholly to its flowers: the stems and foliage possess no attractions. Except in the colour and markings and pubes- cence, the flowers have a considerable resemblance to those of D. fimbriatum. The leaves are widely different.
Duscr. Stems elongated, nearly cylindrical, jointed, pale whitish-brown, and, as it were, proliferous ; the young shoots leafy ; Jeaves few, distichous, wide apart, linear-lanceolate, sub- membranaceous, acuminate. Flowers forming @ rather dense raceme at the end of leafless shoots, large, handsome ; the ground colour is white. Seals broad-lanceolate, rather obtuse, entire, faintly tinged with purple, the two anterior ones uniting at the base and decurrent into a short obtuse or emarginate spur.
Petals larger than the sepals, very spreading, ovate, acute, D
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beautifully ciliated, the apex with a purple spot. Zip remarkably large, cucullate, very broadly cordate, deeply and most elegantly fringed, bearing two large orange spots on the pure white ground, and tipped with purple at the emarginate apex. Column concealed within the base of the labellum. VW. J. 7.
Cutt. This belongs to the caulescent section of Dendrobium, and, being of a weak and slender habit, its appearance does not offer much inducement to the cultivator; but what it wants in look as a plant, is amply compensated by its lovely flowers, which render it worthy of a place in every Orchideous collection. It requires to be kept in the warm Orchideous house ; and as the stems are weak and naturally pendulous, it should be suspended from the roof of the house, either attached to a block of mossy wood, or in an open wire basket containing loose turfy peat mixed with chopped sphagnum moss; or the block of wood or wire basket may be dispensed with, by fixing the plant on a sod of solid sphagnum, which remains firm and sound a long time, and keeps entirely free from insects and fungi. During its season of growth it must receive the usual stimulus of heat and Moisture, and shading from the mid-day sun in summer. After the stems have attained their growth, they will begin to lose
their leaves: water must then be gradually withheld, and the plant may be more freely exposed to the sun. The flowers are produced on the leafless stems during the dry season, a character common to many of the species in the section of Dendrobium to which the present one belongs. It increases by lateral shoots,
which emit roots and continue to grow while attached to the old stems. J. 8.
Note on Exacum Zeyuanicunm.
In our last Number, under Exacum Zeylanicum, Tax. 4423, it should have been
added, that the seed was sent to the Glasnevin Garden by Glanvi
. e Gla: ville Taylor, Esq. vag" oe fos after _ arrival in Ceylon, was sdreik with the Siinacty ta t e jungle, and having marked th i ities tha plac 19 g € place, returned to it when he
4430.
R.B.& R imp.
Tas. 4430.
~GLOXINIA Frimpriata.
Eimbriated Gloxinia.
Nat. Ord. GrsNERIACEZ.—DipyNaMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4213.)
GLOXINIA jimbriata; erecta simplex subtetragona, foliis brevi-petiolatis ovatis acutis serratis glabris, pedunculis axillaribus solitariis unifloris, calycis segmentis ovatis patentibus foliaceis, corollee tubo elongato infundibuliformi- — cylindraceo, ore obliquo, limbo amplo profunde 5-lobo lobis subeequalibus rotundatis margine undulatis tenuissime fimbriatis intus pilosulis.
GtioxintA fimbriata. Hortul. Paris.
A very pretty and delicate looking stove-plant, of which we regret to say that all we know of it is that we received it at the Kew Gardens from M. Ketelew of Paris, under the name here given, and that it flowered with us in September, 1848, and | continued some time in great beauty. It appears extremely different from any Gloxinia with which we are acquainted, and 1s a valuable addition to the hot-house department.
Descr. Roots elongated and scaly, as in the genus. Stems erect, herbaceous, simple, a foot or a foot and a half high, rather obscurely tetragonal, green, tinged with red: the angles often sending out short white filaments as if rooting. Leaves opposite, shortly petioled, ovate, acute, serrated, penninerved, glabrous,
| green, paler, and with prominent nerves beneath. Peduncles axillary, solitary, single-flowered, longer than the petioles, much shorter than the leaves. Calyw-tube turbinate, angled: segments spreading, ovate, large, leafy, three-nerved, wavy. Corolla declined, large, pale purplish-white. Ze between infundibuli- form and cylindrical, deep yellow inside and beautifully sprinkled with red dots: the /imé quite white, spreading, and large; the lobes rounded, nearly equal, lapping over each other, pilose on the inner or upper surface, the margin waved and most deli- cately fimbriated. Stamens and style quite included within the tube. W. J. H.
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Cur. This, like the rest. of the genus, is an herbaceous plant, the stem dying to the ground after having flowered and perfected its singular roots, or rather underground stems. These are composed of numerous closely-packed scales, surrounding an elongated axis, each scale when separated being capable of pro- ducing a distinct plant. In a natural state the roots lie dormant during the dry season, and start into vigorous growth on the return of the rains. ‘To imitate this, the roots (having been kept dry all the winter) require in the spring to be taken out of the last year’s mould and repotted in soil composed of light. loam and a portion of leaf-mould or sandy peat, so as to form a light open compost, not retentive of water. The roots may be either planted whole, or divided according to the number of plants required, planting them in wide shallow pots or pans ; and in order to start them, the pans should be placed in bottom-heat in a warm pit or frame. Little water must be given at first, but as they advance in growth they will require it pretty freely. Care must be taken not to allow them to remain too long in the bottom-heat, as they are apt to grow weak. As soon as they have attained sufficient strength, they should be removed to a more airy part of the stove, shading them from the sun in the middle part of the day. If many roots have been put in a pan they will require to be thinned, and those that are to remain should be carefully supported and trained to the best advantage — for displaying the flower. When the flower-stems begin to decay, heat and moisture must be gradually withdrawn, but even after the stems are quite withered, it is advisable to keep the mould moderately moist for several weeks longer ; as, if it is too quickly dried up, the roots are apt to shrivel and decay during their long season of repose. They may be kept under
the shelves in the stove, or ina shed, or other dry moderately warm place. J. 8.
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Tas. 4431. GESNERIA picra.
Painted Gesneria.
Nat. Ord. GeEsNERIACEH.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4217.)
GusNeERIA picta ; tota velutino-hirsutissima, caule erecto elongato, foliis ovatis acuminatis crenato-serratis oppositis ternisque discoloribus inferioribus longe petiolatis lamina basi hine decurrente, racemis elongatis foliosis, pedicellis aggregato-verticillatis foliis floralibus brevioribus unifloris, calycis tubo rotundato-hemisphzerico dentibus 5 parvis erectis, corolla cylindracea subtus parum ventricosa ore contracto limbo parvo 5-lobo zquali maculato, staminibus styloque inclusis, glandulis hypogynis 5 quorum 3 basi con- junctis.
8. minus hirsuta, foliis floralibus majoribus, corollis minoribus, foliis subtus pallidioribus.
Two Gesnerias have been brought to my notice lately from Columbia ; the one here represented, sent home to the Royal Gardens by Mr. Seemann, the other introduced by Messrs. Veitch and Son, through their collector, Mr. William Lobb. I cannot find that either of them will accord with any described _ species. I have little hesitation then in considering them new ; but although there are some discrepancies, as above in- © dicated, I think the two may, without much violence to nature, be considered the same species. Both are exceedingly beau- tiful, not only in the rich colour of the copious flowers, but in that of the underside of the leaves, and in the fine velvety texture of the upperside of the foliage. The blossoming continues through the summer and autumn, and till late in November. They require the heat of the stove.
Descr. Stem herbaceous, two to three and more feet in- height, densely clothed with purple-red down, mingled with long fine spreading hairs. Leaves opposite or ternate, ovate, very
airy, acuminate, crenately serrate, the lower ones on long petioles which are very hirsute, and which have one side of the lade decurrent on the petiole. Floral leaves on short petioles
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and small, all rich red-purple beneath. Raceme terminal, elongated, leafy. Pedicels axillary, in whorls, single-flowered, shorter than the floral leaves, very hairy. Calyx hemispherical, with five small erect teeth. Corolla inclined, but not drooping, scarlet, yellow beneath and at the mouth, very hairy and velvety, subcylindrical, rather ventricose below: the mouth small: the limb of five small, rounded, spotted /odes, and hairy, almost
os, hispid. Stamens and style included. Ovary and style hairy.
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Cuxr. This plant belongs to that section of Gesneria charac- terized by roots similar to those of Gloxinia, as described under Tab. 4430; and therefore the treatment recommended for
_ the cultivation of Glowinia fimbriata is applicable to this. It is
of a robust free-growing habit, and continues a long time in flower ; a succession of flowering plants may be kept up till late in the season by starting a few roots at intervals of about a month, beginning with the first early in February, and selecting the early-flowered roots of the previous year for the first potting. J. 9.
Fig. 1. Pistil and hypogynous glands :—magnified.
Tas. 4452. VANDA _ Trico.or.
Three-coloured Vanda.
Nat. Ord. Orcu1pEm.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4304.)
~ Vanna tricolor ; foliis distichis canaliculatis racemo pauci-(multi-)floro longiori- _ bus, sepalis coriaceis unguiculatis obovatis obtusis, labello eequilongo trilobo per axin 3-lineato, calcare brevi obtuso, laciniis lateralibus rotundatis inter- medio convexo cuneato emarginato latioribus. Lindl.
_ Vanna tricolor. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1847. p. 59, ad calcem.
One of the many very fine plants recently introduced by Messrs. Veitch and Son from Java, through Mr. Thomas Lobb. Dr. Lindley compares it with V. Hindsii, a New Guinea plant, with which we are unacquainted, and he distinguishes it from Vanda insignis of Dr. Blame (Rumphia, t. 192. f. 3), most justly. It is besides a far handsomer species, and indeed one of the most beautiful of this eminently beautiful genus. Our specimen was kindly communicated by Messrs. Veitch in December, 1848.
Dzscr. The stem is of moderate length, sending out large fleshy roots from the base, by which it is supported on trees, clothed with distichous linear-lorate, canaliculate, bright green leaves, a foot and more long. The raceme is drooping, of many large, handsome flowers, upon long clavate ovaries, striated and resembling thickened flower-stalks. The flowers are among the largest of the genus. Sepals obovate, attenuated at the base, Spreading, waved, rich full yellow, with numerous spots and streaks of a dark blood colour: petals similar in general shape and colour, but rather narrower. Lip as long as, or rather longer than, the perianth, thick and fleshy, oblong-cordiform, or it may almost be called lyrate, being three-lobed, the two lateral lobes rounded, the middle oblong, a little dilated at the apex, and there imperfectly two-lobed: the colour of the lip is generally purple, with elevated lines and streaks, the base and
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the margin of the lateral lobes colourless. Column short, thick, white. W. J. H.
Cur. This fine tropical epiphyte requires to be grown in the warm Orchideous house, fixed to a block of wood or some such surface, as mentioned at t. 4427, on which its aérial roots may attach themselves. During its season of growth the atmosphere of the house must be kept warm and moist, and gradually lessened when the plant indicates a cessation of growth, which may be known by the points of the roots ceasing to elongate. In our Orchideous houses it becomes difficult to regulate the temperature and moisture so as to give the numerous species, of various habits, which we have under cultivation, their proper season of growth and repose, some having by nature a tendency to grow at one particular season, and some at another. It is the understood rule to consider our summer months as analogous to the “rainy” and growing season of the tropics, and this, by the aid of the artificial means at our command, we can readily imitate ; but the “dry” season of the tropics presents a great difficulty, for as it coimcides with our winter months, when the atmosphere is charged with moisture accompanied with a low tempera- ture, but which in the tropics is characterized more by a want of rain than any diminution of heat, and as to maintain a dry — tropical climate in our hot-houses in winter would require a greater quantity of artificial heat than would be conducive to the health of the plants, it is the practice to lower the tempera- ture and reduce the amount of moisture to the minimum degree necessary for counteracting the bad effects of the necessary arti- ficial heat. But even under such treatment, we have observed that the several species of Vanda, Aérides, Saccolabium, &e., are always inclined to grow during the winter and spring months ; we have also observed that in summer, immediately after flowering, they cease to grow, and will then bear a considerable degree of exposure to dry heat without bemg injured (the heat and dryness at this season being natural). In the autumn months, when the sun begins to lose power, the atmosphere of the house will naturally become moist, which again stimulates the plant into growth. From these observations we consider that the period of rest for these plants, in our climate, under artificial cultivation, is the latter part of our summer, when they have done flowering ; and in order to give them their natural requirements in that respect, it is necessary to have separate compartments of the Orchideous house. J. 8.
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4433. BEJARIA coarctTaATa.
Close-flowered Bejaria.
Nat. Ord. Errcacr®.—Potyanpria Monoe@ynia.
Gen. Char. Calyx profunde et acute 7-fidus aut 7-dentatus. Petala 7 patula oblonga. Stamina petalorum duplo, a petalis libera, filamentis subulatis basi hirsutis, aw¢h. muticis oscillatoriis apice biporosis. Ovarium subrotundum 7-sulcatum. Stylus elongatus. Stigma depresso-capitatum q-sulcatum. Cap- sula depresso-globosa calyce persistente cincta stylo terminata 7-locul. 7-valvis, loculis polyspermis.—Frutices Americani. Folia sparsa sepius conferta integer- rima coriacea, Flores racemosi aut corymbosi, bracteati, sepissime purpurei. DC.
Besarta coarctata ; ramis junioribus pedicellis calycibus petiolis costaque subtus fuscescenti-lanosis, foliis elliptico-oblongis acutiusculis planis subtus glaucis, racemis densis, pedicellis florem styli stamina eequantibus.
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t length we have the pleasure of exhibiting what has been so long a desideratum in European Horticulture, a species of . Bejaria, which has, for the first time, blossomed in this country. With the exception of the North American B. racemosa, all the other species are natives of South America; and the genus seems to hold the same place in the Andes of Peru, Columbia, and Mexico, that its affinity, Rhododendron, does in the Himalaya of the Old World, and to be scarcely less ornamental. The species now represented is from the collection of Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., in whose Exeter Nursery it flowered in a cool green-house in Jannary, 1849, with no more care than is devoted to Indian Azaleas. Indeed, seeing that it is a native of very cold situations in Peru (“in regni Peruviani frigidissimis prope urbem Cascamarcan”’), according to Humboldt, at an elevation of from 9,000 to 10,000 feet, it seems more than probable it will bear the open border with us. A plant one foot high is :
_ covered with blossoms. Other species we know are in cultivation,
though they have not yet blossomed. : i The genus was named by Mutis in compliment to one Bear,
a Spanish Botanist, and erroneously written Befaria by Linneus.
Descr. A low shrub with more graceful ramification than most of the species of the genus, flowering copiously when less than a MARCH Ist, 1849.
foot high, leafy. Leaves evergreen, alternate, patent, elliptical- — oblong, subacute, entire, of a compact and brittle texture, plane, obscurely penninerved, glaucous beneath. Petioles very short, — and, as well as the costa beneath, woolly. Racemes terminal on — the branches, short, many-flowered, compact. Pedicels with — small, deciduous éracts, and about equal in length to the flower, _ woolly. Calye woolly, hemispherical, seven-lobed. Petals — seven, spreading, oblong-lanceolate or subspathulate, pale rose colour, with darker streaks. Stamens seven, erect, approximate, _ as long as the petals. Filaments subulate, dilated and downy _ at the base. Anther “obovato-oblong, two-celled, opening by a _ terminal pore in each cell. Ovary free, subrotund, seven-lobed, seven-celled. Style as long as the stamens. Stigma seven- lobed. W. J. H.
Cuxr. As very few examples of this beautiful plant are in this” country, we know too little of its nature to speak with any degree of certainty as to the best method of cultivation. We learn from Mr. Pince that with him it has thriven and flowered : well, placed close to the glass in a cool airy green-house, along with Chinese Azaleas, potted in a mixture of sandy peat, soil, and a small portion of half-decayed leaf-mould. It is increased by cuttings, and, as Mr. Pince’s plant is expected to ripen seeds we may expect ere long to see it in general cultivation. On account of its exceedingly neat habit and flowering in a dwarf state, it cannot fail to become a favourite with cultivators Being a native of the elevated regions of tropical America, in a climate where the cold is (to our feelings) severe, it is expected that it will prove tolerably hardy in our climate, and Mr. Pince — intends planting it in the open ground. It may possibly en- dure the mild winters of Devonshire, but we have our doubts — on that point ; for although it may sustain in its native elevated — region a certain number of degrees of cold below the freezing © point, yet we must bear in mind that, on account of elevation, — the air is lighter and water freezes at a higher temperature — than it does at our level above the sea. Any specific number — of degrees of frost at a high elevation are not, therefore, equi- — valent in intensity to the same number of degrees with us. — This circumstance, and our humid atmosphere in winter, are much against our success in the cultivation of plants from ele- vated regions. J. 8.
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Tas. 4434.
MAXILLARIA .LeprosEPata.
Narrow-sepaled Mazillaria.
Nat. Ord. Orncu1pE®.—GYNANDRIA MoNANDRIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4228.)
MAXILLARIA Jeptosepala; pseudo-bulbis ovato-rotundatis ancipiti-compressis unifoliatis, folio lato-lanceolato coriaceo obtuso inferne angustato, scapis radicalibus folio triplo brevioribus vaginatis, sepalis petalisque (brevioribus) _ patentissimis anguste lanceolatis acuminatis margine revolutis, labello obovato-oblongo 3-lobo, lobis lateralibus obtusis intermedio maximo revoluto - obtuso marginibus dentato-fimbriatis disco pulvinato hirsuto.
From New Grenada, whence it was sent by Mr. Purdie in 1846. It bore its large and really handsome flowers in the Stove of the Royal Gardens in July, 1849.
Drscr. Pseudo-bulbs clustered, about two inches long, ovato- rotundate, compressed, with acute edges, partially surrounded by membranous scales, and bearing, articulated upon the summit, a solitary /ea/, nearly a foot long, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, coriaceous, nerveless, tapering at the base into a kind of foot- stalk. Scapes two or three from the base of the bulb, much | ‘Shorter than the leaf, clothed, almost completely, with pale yellowish membranaceous sheathing Sracteas, the upper one the largest and sheathing the ovary. Flowers solitary, large. Sepals very spreading, two inches and a half long, yellowish-white, narrow-lanceolate, acuminate, the margins revolute ; petals resembling these both in form and colour, but rather smaller. Lip moderately sized, oblong-obovate, three-lobed, with a cushion-like swelling at the base of the disk: side lobes involute, white, beautifully veined with purple: middle lobe long, obtuse, waved, toothed and fringed and crisped at the margin, white ; the disk yellow, villous. Column rather short. Anther-case large, Crested. W.J.H. :
Cunt. This epiphyte, being a native of the temperate region
of New Grenada, should be kept in the cool division of the
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Orchideous house. With us it is attached to a block of wood suspended from the roof of the house, and shaded from the mid-day sun in summer. J. &. |
Fig. 1. Ovary and column. 2, Pollen-masses. 3. Lip :—magnified.
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‘Tas. 4435. CURCUMA corpata
Heart-leaved Curcuma.
Nat. Ord. ScrramInr®.—MonanpRIA Monoe@ynta.
Gen. Char. Cal. tubulosus, tridentatus. Corolle tubus sursum dilatatus, limbi lacinie exteriores interioribus lateralibus conformes; /abellum majus, patens. Filamentum petaloideo-dilatatum, carinatum, apice trilobum, lobo intermedio anthera bicalcarata terminato. Ovarium inferum triloculare. Ovula loculorum angulo centrali plurima, horizontalia, anatropa. Stylus filiformis ; stigma capi- tatum. Capsula trilocularis, loculicido-trivalvis. _Semina plurima, arillata.— Herbe: in India orientali tropica indigene, acaules ; radicibus palmato-tuberosis perennantes ; foliis herbaceis, petiolis vaginantibus, bifariis ; scapo simplici lateral v. centrali, spica simplici, erecta, comosa, inferne bracteis saccatis subimbricata, floribus flavescentibus intra quamvis bracteam ternis quinisve approwimatis, brac- teolatis. Endl. :
Curcuma cordata ; radice digitato-palmata, tuberibus plurimis globosis ex apice filorum subfusiformium pendulis, foliis ovato-cordatis acuminatis concolo- ribus utrinque sericeo-villosis petiolis longitudine eequantibus, spica centrali supra vaginas sessili oblongo-cylindrica, bracteis ovatis obtusissimis villosis 9 amplissimo patentibus, come lucidis violaceis apice purpureo-maculatis.
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Curcuma cordata. Wall. Pl. Asiat. Rar. v.1. p. 8. t. 10.
One of the most beautiful of a singularly handsome group of plants, too much neglected in our stoves, where, whether in flower or only in leaf, they add greatly to the ornament of the house. The present is among many discoveries of Dr. Wallich, who found it in thick Bamboo forests on the hills opposite Prome, and whose admirable figure and description above quoted have left nothing for future botanists to add. Plants were sent to Kew and to Syon House by Dr. Wallich, and from a flowering specimen at the latter place our figure was made in July, 1847. ee ee
Dzscr. A handsome herbaceous plant, with little that can be called a stem, and that little consisting of the sheathing bases of the leaf-stalks. Zeaves a foot long (and petiole rather more than that) bifarious, ovate, acuminate, retuse or cordate at the base, obliquely penninerved, of a uniform full green colour.
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The richly coloured spike arises from the centre of the base of — the upper petioles, it is cylindrico-oblong, erect. Bracteas ovate, 5-fariously arranged, very obtuse, green, the apex reflexed, much darker, the upper ones forming a coma (sterile), rich violet, with a deep purple or blood-coloured spot. The struc- ture of the flowers will be better understood by a reference to the figure. W. J. H.
Cur. A herbaceous tropical plant, having tuberous roots which lie dormant during the dry season, and start into growth on receiving the stimulus of moisture. It requires to be grown in a tropical house. In spring, the tubers, having been first deprived of the last year’s mould, should be repotted in a fresh mixture composed of light loam and leaf-mould or turfy peat, the pots being well drained, and placed in a warm pit or frame in bottom-heat. Water should be given very sparingly till after. the plant has made some growth ; and as the young roots are of a soft and succulent nature, we must not allow the mould to con- tinue long wet during the whole period of growth, for fear the roots should rot off. After flowering, the leaves soon show symp- toms of decay; water must then be gradually withdrawn, and ultimately the pots require to be placed beyond. the reach of - moisture, while care must be taken that the mould does not become dust-dry ; for if long kept in such a state, the tubers will gradually part with their moisture, and become shrivelled and decayed. The plant is increased by separating the tubers when repotted in the spring. J. &.
Fig. 1. Flower and bracteole. 2, Stamens and pistil. 3. Stigma :—magnijied.
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4436.
PACHYSTIGMA pTELEOIDES.
Ptelea-leaved Pachystigma.
Nat. Ord. Rutracr®.—PonLyanpRIA MoONOGYNIA.
_ Gen. Char, Calyx subtriphyllus, sepalis concavis inzequalibus, sestivatione imbricatis, interiore majore, petalis conformi. Petala 4, libera, subrotunda, con- cava, alba, impunctata; estivatione imbricativa. Stamina plurima, sub-30, Libera, gynophoro magno carnoso biseriatim inserta. Filamenta subulata. Anthere ovales, biloculares, antice longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ovariwm globosum, gyno- phoro impositum, 7-8-sulcatum, velutinum, 7-8-loculare, loculis biovulatis, stigmate magno carnoso 7-8-lobato deciduo coronatum. Capsula demum e cocculis 8 (quibusdam abortientibus), stellatim dispositis, basi coalitis, abortu pleramque monospermis : epicarpio sicco subrugoso, dorso carina lata instructo ; endocarpio cartilagineo, demum soluto. Semen oblique ovatum.: Podospermum majusculum, carnosum, album.—Frutex sew Arbor humilis Jamaicensis, valde rAMOsUs ; ramulis cortice Levi viridi-fusco tectis. Folia alterna, exstipulata, longe petiolata, trifoliolata ; foliolis ovatis, acutis, integerrimis seu obsolete serratis, copiose pellu- cido-punctatis, petiolulatis, in petiolum articulatis, penninerviis ; pedunculis awil- laribus, folio sublongioribus, parce subtrichotome ramosis, pedicellis basi bracteolatis, bracteolis deciduis. Flores majusculi, fragrantes, albi.
Pacuystiema pteleoides. Pacuystiema pteleoides. Hook. Ic. Plant. 7. Tab. 698-9.
A native of the mountains of Santa Cruz, Jamaica, where it was discovered by Mr. Purdie, in 1844, from whose dried specimens the figure was made for the Icones Plantarum above quoted. Seeds having been received at the same time, living plants were raised, which have attained a height of eight or nine feet in the Royal Gardens, and bore their cream-white very fra- grant blossoms in the stove, for the first time, in February, 1849.
Descr. The plant, in its native country, becomes a small tree, - of slender and rather graceful habit, with ternate, petiolate, evergreen Jeaves of a full dark-green colour, full of pellucid dots. Peduncles or panicles from the axil of the upper leaves. Flowers cream-colour. The five-leaved calya gradually passes mto the concave petals. Stamens shorter than the petals, springing In
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two series from a large fleshy orange-coloured ¢orus or gynobase. Stigma particularly large and deeply lobed. W. J. H. .
Curr. A tropical shrub or small tree, requiring the tempera- ture of the stove. It will grow in any kind of good garden-soil, if care be taken in watering, that the mould does not become stagnant. As itis of slender growth and apt to run up, it is advisable to shorten the branches so as to keep it bushy, and induce a greater number of flowering branches. It is readily propagated by cuttings, placed under a bell-glass and plunged in bottom heat. J. S.
Fig. 1. Pistil and gynobase. 2. Section of the ovary. 3. Stamen :—magnified.
Tas. 4437. ERIOPSIS rutTipoBULBon.
Rough-stalked Eriopsis.
Nat. Ord. OrncH1pEx.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.
Gen. Char. Caules succulenti (pseudo-bulbosi), apice tantum foliati. Racemus radicalis multiflorus. Bractee minime. Flores explanati, laciniis subeequalibus oblongis obtusis, mento brevi obtuso. Labellum anticum, concavum, trilobum, disco lamellatum e basi producta column articulatum. Columna semiteres, clavata, aptera. 4uthera oblonga, subunilocularis: pollinia 4 ineequalia, per paria filis 2 elasticis affixa ; glandula submembranacea, quadrata. Lindl.
Erropsis rutidobulbon ; caule (pseudo-bulbo) oblongo-ovato tereti rugoso, foliis 2 striatis, scapo radicali, racemo multifloro nutante, sepalis petalisque oblongis, labelli hirsutuli striati lobis lateralibus maximis intermedio minimo subintegro.
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From New Grenada, whence it was introduced by Mr. Purdie to the Royal Gardens of Kew, where it produced its fine raceme of flowers in August, 1848. _ It evidently belongs to the genus Friopsis, established by Dr. Lindley on a plant which flowered in the collection of J. J. Brady, Esq., the origin of , which is un- known. It cannot, however, be the same species, as will be seen at once on comparing the two figures.
Duscr. Pseudo-bulbs (rather than “ stems”) ovato-oblong, terete, of a dark purplish-black colour, singularly rough or wrinkled upon the surface, bearing two (rarely three) large, broadly lanceolate, striated, somewhat coriaceous Jeaves at the extremity ; one, however, a little below the other, so that a part of the pseudo-bulb is seen between. Scape a foot and a half long, radical, terete, dark purple, bearing a drooping raceme of many flowers. Sepals and petals alike, spreading, almost horizontally, oblong, obtuse, dull orange-yellow, red-purple at 1 the margin. Zip about as long as the sepals, obtusely spurred at the base behind, broadly ovate, three-lobed, the disk striated, lamellated, with a dull crest ; the lateral Jobes broad, involute, the terminal one small, orbicular, obscurely two-lobed, white, with dark purple spots; the rest of the lip is dull orange-red,
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dotted with dark purple. Column shorter than the lip, greenish, semiterete, a little enlarged upwards. Anther hemispherical. W. J. Hl.
Cuur. Found by Mr. Purdie growing on the smooth stem of a Palm tree, fully exposed to the sun, in the temperate region of Antioquia in New Grenada, at an elevation of between 4,000 and 5,000 feet, the thermometer falling in the morning to 65°, and rising during the day to 75°, which, on account of the less weight and consequent rarity of the atmosphere at that elevation, may be considered as equivalent to a temperature of 55° and 65° with us. We have, therefore, kept this plant in the cooler division of the Orchideous house, where it appears to thrive, potted in turfy peat, well drained, watering very sparingly in winter, and shading it from the mid-day sun in summer. ‘This treatment, it must be confessed, is very different from what we may presume it to have received when “growing on the smooth stem of a Palm tree, fully exposed to the sun;’ but we fear that on account of our very different climate and present adaptations for cultivation, and the rarity of plants like this, it will be some time before we venture to try the experiment of placing such plants where they will be fully exposed to our summer sun. This appears to be a very rare plant, for although Mr. Purdie was very diligent in searching, yet he never met with a second specimen. J. S.
Fig. 1: Lip. 2. Column and anther. 3. Pollen-masses :—magnified.
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STIFFTIA cuHrRYSANTHA. Golden-flowered Stifftia.
Nat. Ord. Compostrm—MotTIsIacE#.—SYNGENESIA PERDICIEA.
Gen. Char. Capitulum homogamum discoideum multi- et equaliflorum. Jn- volucrum arcte imbricatum, squamis coriaceis siccis multinerviis ovato-rotundis, int. linearibus. Receptaculum nudum alveolatum. Cor. subcoriacea, glabra, regularis, 5-fida, 10-nervia, lobis extus circinnato-revolutis. Filam. leevia. Anthere exserte longe caudate. Stylus cylindricus glaber bifidus, ramis brevi- bus wqualibus acutis. 4chenium glabrum elongatum brevissime rostratum. Pappus multiserialis paleaceus longus inequalis, paleis linearibus serratis— Arbores Brasilienses glabre. Rami teretes. Folia alterne petiolata oblonga acu- minata penninervia. Capitula terminalia, pedunculis squamigeris. De Cand.
Srirrrra chrysantha ; foliis late lanceolatis acuminatis, capitulis solitariis, flori- bus capituli indefinitis.
Srivrrra chrysantha. Mikan, Del. Fl. Bras. Fase. 1. cum Ie. De Cand. Prodr. v.17. p. 26, - ; .
Augusta grandiflora. Leand. Akad. Mink. Phil. v. 7. p. 235. t.14. non Pohl.
Prazta Brasiliensis, Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 503.
Few cultivators have seen native specimens or the fine figure given by Mikan of this beautiful shrub, without feeling desirous to possess it in our stoves. It has been longer in our collections than we were aware of. Many years ago, plants of it were pre- sented to Kew by Mr. Henderson of the Pine-Apple Nursery ; and plants have been also communicated to the Edinburgh Botanic Garden ; yet no one suspected that it was the celebrated
Stifftia till its flowers appeared, nearly at the same time, both in
Edmburgh and Kew. Our drawing was made from the Edin- burgh specimen, kindly sent in February, 1849, by Professor _ Balfour, with the following notes. V.J.H “This plant has been flowering for some time m the Edin- burgh Botanic Garden. It is a native of Brazil, and was derived, I believe, originally from Kew. It is cultivated im a warm stove. “Duscr. The plant is at present almost six feet high (ac- cording to Mikan it attains a height of eight to ten feet) and has six heads of very showy flowers. The woody stem is four inches and a half in circumference at the base, and the bark is rough. The primary dranches come off in a somewhat dichotomous manner. eaves lanceolate, acuminate, alternate, shortly petio-
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late, entire, smooth and shining, having a single mid-rib, which . Is slightly penninerved both on the under and on the upper surface ; venation reticulated, primary veins ending in curved veins within the margin. Pefiole slightly grooved on its upper surface, articulated with the stem. Capitula solitary, terminal on the young branches, homogamous, containing about twenty- five discoid flowers. Peduncles short, thickened upwards, having small scales. nvolucre somewhat turbinate, coriaceous, having thirty to forty imbricated scales arranged in several series, closely appressed in the young state, spreading after the corolla falls; scales green in the centre, paler towards the margins which are fringed with short hairs ; outer scales short, ovate, obtuse, often tipped with black, intermediate scales longer and less ovate, innermost oblong-linear, pale greenish, and about one inch in length. Receptacle having milky juice, nearly flat, marked with hexagonal spaces, in the centre of each of which there is a depression or pit for the flower. Corolla smooth, regular, tubular, about one inch and three-quarters long, of a pale orange colour below and becoming darker above, its limb divided into five narrow, revolute circinnate segments, which when unrolled are about half an inch long. Filaments smooth, coloured, inserted into the upper part of the corolline tube, alter- nating with the segments of the limb, arching over the orifice of the tube to join the anther below the middle; anthers two- lobed, much exserted, bifid at the apex, ending below in a bi- partite prolongation ; pollen elliptical, furrowed. Style cylindrical, exserted nearly one inch beyond the corolla and about a quarter of an inch beyond the antheric tube, undulated at its lower part, straight above. Stigma bifid, its segments equal, acute, hairy on the inner side of its lobes, which close on the application of the pollen. Ovary green, triangular, three-quarters of an inch long, with a short yellowish beak at the summit whence the pappus proceeds. Pappus reaching to near the upper part of the corolline tube, in several rows, its hairs unequal and beau- tifully serrated with projecting cellular processes, of a pale orange colour, spreading much after the corolla falls.” J. H. Balfour.
Corr. This is a shrub of a robust and bushy habit, requiring the heat of the tropical stove, and growing in any kind of garden loam not retentive of moisture. Although we have had it in cultivation for about eight years, it was only recently that it showed flower ; but we are of opinion that if young plants were vigorously grown, they would not be so dilatory in producing their curious inflorescence. It ig propagated readily by cuttings placed under a bell-glass in bottom-heat. J_§.
Fig. 1. Single flower :—magnified,
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Tas. 4439 ERIOSTEMON InTERMEDIUM.
Intermediate Eriostemon.
Nat. Ord. Rutacr®.—DrcanprRIA MonoGynta.
Gen. Char. Cal. 5-partitus. Petala 5. Stamina 10; filamentis hispidis ciliatis aut nudis, antheris terminalibus. Stylus 1, brevissimus. Carpella 5 basi coalita. Semina in loculis 2 aut abortu solitaria. Hmbryo subcurvatus, radicula longa. — Frutices Arboresve nunc Diosmis, nunc Croweis, nunc Phe- baliis affinis, foliis alternis simplicibus, floribus azillaribus. De Cand.
Ex1ostemon intermedium ; ramulis pubescentibus, foliis oblongo-obovatis glauces- centibus mucronatis subtus precipue glanduloso-punctatis, floribus pedun- culis axillaribus solitariis unifloris folio duplo brevioribus, calycibus petalis- que glabris, filamentis ciliatis.
ERiostemon intermedium. Hortul.
My first knowledge of this handsome plant was from Robert Barclay, Esq., of Knott’s Green, Leyton, who obligingly brought me specimens from the plant he had exhibited at, and for which a prize was awarded by, the Horticultural Society of London, in April, 1848; and from it our drawing was made. It bore the name of “Z. neriifolium:” but that is merely a name of Sieber’s specimens, which have compound flower-stalks, and are probably not different from /. myoporoides, DC. (Bot. Mag. t.3180). Since then, we find the plant is in cultivation under the garden-name of Z. intermedium, intending probably to imply that it holds a place between #. myoporoides and L. buxifolium, which is really the case ; or it may possibly be a hybrid of the two. Whichever is the case, it is eminently worthy of culti- vation in every greenhouse, loaded as the shrub is with its lively blossoms (white tinged with pink in bud) during the latter winter and early spring months, when such plants are peculiarly welcome.
Descr. Our plant in the Kew Gardens is between two and three feet high, much branched. Leaves copious, scattered, spreading, three-quarters of an inch to an inch or an inch and a half long, oblong-obovate, entire, one-nerved, the margins a
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little recurved, cuspidate, somewhat glaucous, especially beneath, and there having copious glandular reservoirs of oil, above sprinkled with very minute, pale dots, not visible to the naked eye. Peduncles on all the young branches, axillary, solitary, single-flowered, not half so long as the leaves, having a pair of minute éracteas near the base. Flowers rather large, starry. Calye small, glabrous, five-lobed. Petals lanceolate, white ; externally, especially in bud, tinged with rose-colour. Stamens ten, erect, alternately smaller, subulate, ciliated. Azthers ovate, mucronate. Ovary of five, ovate, acuminated lobes, seated on a large, flat, fleshy disk. Styles five, combined. Stigma five- lobed. W. J. H.
Curr. This handsome flowering shrub, being a native of New South Wales, must be kept in the green-house. It appears to thrive best in turfy peat-soil, in which is mixed a portion of sharp white sand. It is necessary to have the pots well drained with potsherds, and the drainage will be much assisted by mixing pieces of charcoal with the soil. In order to obtain a handsome specimen, the plant must be carefully tended, shifting it at the proper time into a larger pot, and carefully training it into a neat form. To make it become bushy, the principal leading shoots should occasionally be shortened. During summer, it will require attention in watering, and the pot should be so placed that the sun’s rays do not fall on the sides. It is propagated by cuttings placed under a bell-glass in bottom-heat, or by grafting it on stocks of Correa alba. J. 8.
Fig. 1. Portion of leaf, back view. 2. Flower from which the petals are removed. 3. Stamens. 4. Pistil and fleshy disk magnified.
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Tas. 4440. CQELOGYNE FuULIGINOSA.
Dark-flowered Calogyne.
Nat. Ord. Orcu1pE®.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA, —
Gen. Char. Sepala conniventia v. patentia, libera, eequalia, petaloidea. Petala nune sepalis conformia, nunc linearia. Zadel/um cucullatum, sepius trilobum, lineis disci elevatis v. cristatis, nunc integerrimum ecristatum. Columna erecta libera margine alata, apice dilatata, nunc cucullata, stigmate bilabiato. Anthera bilocularis, septo medio non partibili, infra apicem columne inserta. Podlinia 4, libera, incumbentia ; nunc basi materie granulosa coherentia.—Herbee supra arbores et saxa vigentes, foliorum basibus in pseudo-bulbis dilatatis, rhizomate nunc crasso squamoso nunc obsoleto. Folia coriacea sepius venis distinctis aqua- libus, nunc quibusdam crassioribus costata v. plicata. Racemi terminales v. radi- cales v. squamis (bracteis sterilibus) corneis erumpentes. Flores speciosi sape odorati. Lindl.
C@&LOGYNE Juliginosa ; caudice repente squamoso, pseudo-bulbis parvis oblongis compressis lmvibus, foliis binis lato-lanceolatis, racemo terminali bracteato 4—5-floro, sepalis ovato-oblongis, petalis ovalibus duplo minoribus, labelli spathulati disco bilamellato lamellis crispatis, lobis lateralibus brevibus convolutis, terminali orbiculato ciliato fimbriato.
CaLoeyne fuliginosa. Lodd. Cat.
From the stove of the Royal Gardens, derived from the collec-
ton of the Rev. Mr. Clowes. A native of India, and imported
in the year 1838: we have since received it direct from Calcutta. Descr. From an elongated, creeping, scaly caudex, about as thick as a swan’s quill, arise, at rather distant intervals, the oblong, somewhat compressed, smooth, green pseudo-bulbs, scaly at the base, bearing above two broadly lanceolate, waved, very acute, between membranaceous and coriaceous, faintly striated leaves. Raceme of from three to five rather large, handsome, secund flowers, each when young and in bud enclosed in a Sheathing, narrow, acuminated dractea. Perianth ochre-yellow ; sepals oval-oblong, rather acute, concave ; petals shorter than the sepals (and with the upper sepal almost connivent over the column). Lip large, oblong-spathulate, three-lobed, ochraceous, the disk dark purple-brown, and furnished with two elevated crisped lines or Jamelle, three-lobed; side lobes convolute, MAY Ist, 1849, F
middle lobe orbicular. Column long, winged on each side above. W.S. HH.
Cuxr. This, being a tropical epiphyte, requires to be kept in the warm division of the orchideous house. With us it is attached to a block of wood suspended from the roof, receiving the same treatment with regard to heat and moisture as Indian epiphytal Orchidaceze. The chief point to be observed is to keep it more or less moist according to its season of growth, shading it from the mid-day sun in summer. J. 8.
Fig. 1. Column. 2. Anther-case. 3 and 4. Front and back view of the pollen-masses. 5. Front view of the lip magnified.
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Tas. 4441, THYRSACANTHUS spracreouartus.
Bracteolated Thyrsacanthus.
Nat. Ord. AcANTHACEH.—DIANDRIA MoNnoGYNIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4878.)
THYRSACANTHUS bracteolatus ; suffruticosus glaber, caule tetragono, foliis lan- ceolatis acuminatis sessilibus, panicula terminali brevi thyrsoidea, ramis pseudo-verticillatis bracteatis, corolla elongato-subinfundibuliformi limbi oblique subregularis jprofwnde divisi, laciniis elongatis lineari-oblongis, staminibus exsertis sterilibus subulatis brevissimis.
THYRSACANTHUS bracteolatus. Nees, in De Cand. Prodr. v.11. p. 325.
Justrota bracteolata. Jacg. Coll. v.3. p.253. Ie. Rar. v.2. t.205. Vahl, Enum. v.1. p. 128.
OvonTonEeMA lucidum. Nees, in Linnea, v.16. p. 300. (excl. syn, Andr.)
A plant originally referred by Jacquin to Justicia, but evidently of the same genus of Acanthacee as that figured at Tab. 4378, resembling it in many respects. It differs in the much narrower and truly lanceolate leaves, and still more in the very different inflorescence, and in the deep and narrow divisions of the limb of the corolla. It inhabits New Grenada and the West Indian Islands, and is here figured from plants reared in the stove of the Royal Gardens from seeds sent by. Mr. Purdie from Jamaica.
Descr. Stem two to three feet high, four-angled, dark purple- brown. Leaves opposite, five or six inches long, nearly sessile, lanceolate, entire, slightly undulate, penninerved, acuminated. Panicle thyrsoid, terminal, obtuse. Branches pseudo-verticillate, slender, again divided and bearing several small, opposite, linear- oval bracteoles. Calyx small, naked, the five subulate segments equal. Corolla scarlet, in our specimens an inch and a half long; tube slender, narrow below, bent down as it were at an angle in the middle, and from that point funnel-shaped ; the limb unequal, two-lipped, deeply divided into five long, narrow, _ Spreading segments, sprinkled with glandular dots. Stamens slightly exserted, except the two sterile ones, which are quite MAY lst, 1849, F
included. Style also included. Ovary on a large fleshy disk. Stigma bifid. W. J. H. , Curr. An upright suffruticose shrub, requiring tropical heat, and growing freely in any kind of light soil not retentive of — water. Its flowers are produced at the apex of the branches ; and on account of its upright habit of growth, it does not readily form a bushy plant, even although the leading shoots
are stopped. It is propagated freely by cuttings placed under a bell-glass. J. 8.
Fig. 1. Corolla laid open. 2. Pistil. 3. Anther :—magnified.
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Tan. 4442, PESOMERIA tTetracona.
Square-stalked Pesomeria.
Nat. Ord. Orncurpacex®.—GYNANDRIA MonaNDRIA.
Gen. Char. Sepala subsequalia libera, sponte decidua. Petala conformia, basi column adnata, persistentia. Labellwm posticum, cum columna connatum, basi gibbosum, limbo indiviso convoluto. Columna clavata semiteres, clinandrio dentato. Pollinia 4 cuneata.—Herba terrestris; caule tetragono, foliis mem- branaceis plicatis, racemo laterali simplici, bracteis sponte secedentibus ; radicibus ~ crassis simplicibus fibrosis. Lindl. —
PEsoMERIA fetragona. Prsomerta tetragona. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. Misc. 1838, n. 6. EpIpENDRUM tetragonum. Thouars, Orchid. Afr. t. 33, 34.
A very remarkable Orchideous plant, native of the Isle of Bourbon, introduced to our stoves by the Messrs. Loddiges, but first detected and described, as an Zpidendrum, by M. Aubert du Petit Thouars. Dr. Lindley has rightly determined it to be a very distinct genus, to which he has given the name of Pesomeria, from currw, to fall off, and pepos, a part; in allusion to the sudden falling off of the convolute bracteas, of the sepals and petals also, leaving the labellum (which is decurrent with the base of the column), as shown in the two lower flowers in the spike of our figure. Dr. Lindley observes that the genus differs from Bletia in its four, not eight, pollen-masses; but in our plant each pollen-mass is two-lobed, as if of two combined.
Descr. Stem afoot or more high, erect, jointed, about as thick as the human finger, sharply four-angled and almost winged at the angles. Leaves inserted at the articulations, ovato-lanceolate, striated and somewhat plaited, membranous, - much acuminated. Peduacle arising from the inner base of a lateral leaf, a foot high, bracteated. Flowers rather large, eight to ten ina lax spike. Floral bracteas sheathing, deciduous. Sepals and petals uniform, spreading, oblong, acute, greenish _ externally, within red-brown, tinged with green. Lip applied close to the column, the base decurrent with it, the side lobes
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convolute around it, the middle lobe crisped and terminated by a large mucro, downy within: the colour yellow, with streaks of orange-red, and there are three lamella in the centre. Column winged above and dentate at the apex. Anther-case hairy, bifid. Pollen-masses four, unequal, all of them bifid. W. J. H.
Cu.t. Before we can cultivate certain plants with success, we require some knowledge of the climates in which they grow, so as to adapt the means we have in our power as far as possible to meet their several peculiarities. This plant is said to be a native of the Island of Bourbon, situated within the southern tropic, and distinguished by a moist climate, caused by the periodical rains, which fall twice a year; also by the daily land and sea breezes, the former wafting cold vapours from the high mountains of the interior, which are said to be covered with snow during several months of the year; and the latter bringing fogs from the ocean. Now, although we know this to be the general character of the climate, we are still unacquainted with the nature of the locality of this plant, which may be subjected to many local influences ; and our want of this precise knowledge may to a'certain extent be the cause of its slow growth with us. It has been kept in the warm division of the Orchideous house, potted in turfy peat— the usual precautions being taken to prevent the soil from be- coming stagnant. J. 8.
Fig. 1. Column and decurrent and gibbous base of the lip. 2. Anther-case. 3. Pollen-masses. 4. Lip :—magnified.
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Tas. 4443. CEREUS repvuctus.
Dingy Cereus.
Nat. Ord. Cactes.—IcosaANDRIA MoNoGYNIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas, 4417;)
Cerzvs reductus; erectus elongatus cylindraceus lurido-virens longitudinaliter plurisulcatus, sulcis profundis sub 14, costis tuberculatis, tubereulis seu mamillis ovalibus obscure hexahaedris convexis compressis conspicue areolatis, areolis lanatis, spinis sub 11 rectis acicularibus ineequalibus rectis fuscis apice rigidissimis basi interioribus junioribus fulvis sub-8 elongatis vali- dioribus reliquis quintuplo minoribus, floribus subaggregatis terminalibus, calycibus inermibus basi squamosis, petalis (albis roseo-tinctis) oblongo-spa- thulatis subserratis mucronatis.
Crrevs reductus. Link, Enum. v.2. p.21. Pfeiff. Cact. p. 15.
Cactus nobilis. Haw. Syn. p.174 (not Aiton, Hort. Kew).
An old inhabitant of the Cactus house of the Royal Gardens, originally received from Mexico. A very dingy looking species except when in flower, when the pure white corollas, with a slightly pink tinge, have a very pretty effect.
Desor. Stem sometimes attaining a height of three feet, erect, terete or cylindrical, four to five inches broad, dingy glau- cous-green, deeply furrowed longitudinally with about fourteen or fifteen furrows, the ridges tuberculate or mamillate ; ma- mille large, in a regular series, very convex, oval or obscurely six-sided, compressed, the centre having a conspicuous woolly areola from whence diverge about eleven sharp aciculated spines, of which the greater number are large, tawny in the young state, brown when old, always deeper at the base, three or four are much the smaller of the cluster. Flowers two or three or more together, from the summit of the plant. Calyx-tube dark green, glabrous, scaly with remote scales, which upwards gradually pass into oblong sepals with white margins, and those again into the spreading petals, white, partially tinged with rose, the apex slightly serrated and mucronate. Stamens numerous,
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very compact. Stigma of many erecto-patent, subulate, downy rays. W.J.H.
Curr. An old inhabitant of this garden, said to be a native of Mexico; but we have no knowledge of the particular locality, never having received it amongst the numerous collections im- ported of late years from different parts of South America. We have grown it in a mixture of loam and lime rubbish siftings, and kept it in a house the temperature of which averages 50° in winter. During that season we give it little or no water, but in summer allow it to receive the full power of the sun, and in’ hot dry weather frequently sprinkle it with water over-head, which should be always done in the morning, before the sun is powerful, or in the evening. Care must be taken not to allow the mould in the pot to become excessively wet; for if it continue in a wet state, the soft roots are apt to be destroyed. As this species rarely produces off-sets, it is still a rare plant in this country. /. 8.
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CYRTANTHERA caTALPA@FOLIA.
Catalpa-leaved Cyrtanthera.
Nat. Ord. AcANTHACEm.—D1IANnpDRIA MonoeynIa.
Gen, Char. Cal. 5-partitus quinquefidusve, mqualis, laciniis coloratis tenuibus lanceolatis. Corolla ringens, tubo longo, lobis profunde divisis equalibus, supe- riore complicato lineari-faleato, inferiore elongato-obconico apice trifido, laciniis brevibus conniventibus, media plerisque angustiora apice complicato-recurva. Stamina duo, basi tubi inserta eidemque ultra medium adnata, longitudine labii superioris, apice recurva. Anthera cernua, brevis, bilocularis, loculis antrorsum dehiscentibus margine membranaceis in connectivo plerisque semilunari apice recurvo carinato subsecundis, lateribus plerumque arcte contiguis muticis, altero paullo demissiore, subinde connectivo protracto omnino distantibus. Stigma obtuse unilabiatum. Fructus ....—Frutices caule valido, foliis amplis latis petiolatis, floribus Aphelandree magnis et angustis. Plerisque thyrsus terminalis © decompositus, densissimus, multiflorus, speciosus, ramis secundifloris, bracteis brac- teolisque calyce longioribus plerumque coloratis teneris, illis latioribus. Nees.
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CyrTANTHERA catalpafolia ; caule fruticoso erecto tetragono, foliis sublonge petiolatis late cordatis acuminatis integerrimis basi truncatis, floralibus ovatis basi in petiolum brevem attenuatis, thyrso amplo ovato compacto, bracteis sepalisque lineari-subulatis, floribus flavis.
CYCLANTHERA catalpefolia. Nees, in Herb. Hook.
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This is a truly handsome and new plant, equally striking for its me foliage and its fine thyrsi of full yellow flowers. It was obligingly sent to the Royal Gardens of Kew by Mrs. M‘Donnel (the Lady of the Governor) from Honduras, and it flowers in the stove in the summer months. It constitutes one of the same genus of Acanthacee with Justicia (Bot. Mag. tab. 3383).
Descr. Our plant is five to six feet high, erect, branched ; the dranches opposite, as well as the Jeaves, which are petiolate, large, cordate, acuminate, entire, penninerved, truncated at the base, beneath the inflorescence is a pair of what may be called foral-leaves, much smaller than the others and tapering below into a short footstalk. Panicle or thyrsus dense, compact. Peduncles short, compound. Bracteas ‘small, linear-subulate.
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Calyz-segments almost equally narrow, but shorter. Corolla large, yellow, tubular, cut almost half-way down into two gaping lips ; the wpyper erect, complicate, entire (in which the stamens are lodged) ; /ower lip reflexed, spathulate, channelled, three- toothed at the apex. Ovary oblong, smooth, sunk into a cup- shaped gland. Style very long, slender, filiform: stigma capi- tate. W.J. H.
Curr. This isa soft-wooded, shrubby, tropical plant, of a rather weedy, naked habit, producing its handsome head of flowers on the apex of upright shoots. It will grow freely in any light kind of soil; but in order to obtain a large head of flowers a young healthy plant must be selected and potted in a mixture of good loam and leaf-mould or turfy peat. It should then be placed in a warm part of the stove, and shifted into a larger pot as it becomes necessary. During the summer, when it is in rapid growth, it should be watered freely, observing that the mould does not become Stagnant, which will sometimes happen with soils composed of a portion of leaf-mould. Care should therefore be taken to have the pots properly drained. It is readily propagated by cuttings, placed under a bell-glass, or in a frame. J. 8.
Fig. 1. Calyx with bracteas and pistil. 2. Ovary with the glandular cup at the base :—imagnified. sa :
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Tas, 4445 LYCASTE Sxk1nnert.
Mr. Skinner's Lycaste.
Nat. Ord. Oxncu1ppa,—Gynanpria MoNANDRIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4193.)
\ iit ee LycastE Skinneri; bractea herbacea acuta cucullata ovario multo longiore, sepalis patentibus oblongo-lanceolatis acutis, petalis duplo brevioribus ovalibus erectis supra columnam convolutis apicibus reflexis, labelli 3-lobi lobis lateralibus erectis truncatis intermedio longiore ovato-rotundato de- flexo, appendice carnosa linguzeformi inter lacinias laterales locata, columma subtus pubescente. Lindl.
Lycaste Skinneri. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1848. Mise. p.15.
MaxiLnarta Skinneri. Bateman in Bot. Reg. 1843, Misc. n.13. Orchid. Mex. et Guat. tab.35 (not Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1840, Misc. n. 101).
Mr. Bateman, who has done great justice to this plant by his splendid figure above quoted, says with truth: “This is the facile princeps of all known Maxillarias ;” and with equal justice does he dedicate this fine species to its discoverer, J. Ure Skinner, Esq., to whom the Orchideous stoves of Europe are indebted for their most brilliant ornaments. ‘It is a native of Guatemala, and remarkable no less for the large size of the blossoms, than for their chaste colouring, white spotted and suffused with rich rose and crimson. It is a ready flowerer, and the flowers remain a long time in great beauty.
Descr. Pseudo-bulbs oblong-ovate, compressed, bearing at the top a pair of large, oblong-lanceolate, membranaceous, plaited leaves. Scape radical, single-flowered, shorter than the leaves, fur- nished with five or six sheathing bracteas, the upper one sheathing the ovary. Flower very large, of a thickish and almost waxy texture. Sepals (five or six inches across from tip to tip) patent, oval, acute, faintly striated, white tinged with blush. Petals smaller than the sepals, broadly ovate, very acute, concave, also faintly striated, white, more tinged with blush than the sepals, almost conniving so as to form a hood over the column, the
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apices recurved. Zip white, variously tinged and spotted with deep rose red, almost crimson blotches, three-lobed, the side lobes rounded, erect, the middle lobe broadly ovate, reflexed, the margin waved, the dist furnished with a large fleshy tongue- shaped callosity. Column semiterete, in front clothed with rather copious woolly hair. W. 7. H. |
Cur. This beautiful plant is of easy cultivation, and thrives in the cool division of the Orchideous house. We grow it in turfy peat or sphagnum, and instead of using common garden- pots, we prefer shallow pans full of holes ; for it is observed that plants with the habit of Lycaste require only a few inches of soil; consequently, if common garden-pots be employed, they will have to be filled nearly to the margin with potsherds or other open material, which becomes a harbour for insects. With the shallow pans this is avoided. In fixing the plants on the pans we keep them raised above the margin, and by so domg a greater surface is given to the roots which are often superficial. This also prevents any evils arising from over watering, which must be carefully avoided. It is propagated by divisions of the pseudo-bulbs. /. S. ‘i
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Tas. 4446. SOBRALIA MACRANTHA.
Large-flowered Sobraha.
- Nat. Ord. OrcH1DEH.—GYNANDRIA MonNANDRIA.
Gen. Char. Perianthium maximum, petaloideum, subzequale ; sepalis patentibus (petalis erectis, Lindl.). Labellum cucullatum columnam amplexans, basi angus- tatum, disco plicato-barbatum, apice bilobum. Columna elongata, marginata, clavata, apicis trifidi, lobo medio cucullato antherifero. Stigma rcinatum, basi gibbero gemino nectarifero. Anthera terminalis, stipitata, semiquadrilocu- laris. Pollinia farinacea 4, compressa, postice coherentia et contortuplicata, ecau- diculata.—Herbze Americe equinoctialis, terrestres, simplices, sepe triorgyales, foliosissime ; foliis plicatis ; floribus racemosis terminalibus vel axillaribus geminis niveis roscis, sanguineis, violaceisve. Lindl.
SoBRALIA macrantha ; elata, foliis patenti-recurvis lato-lanceolatis rigidis tenui- acuminatis floralibus triplo minoribus, racemo terminali folioso paucifloro, perianthio amplo’ patentissimo, sepalis oblongis, petalis latioribus margine | superne undulato-crispato, labelli apice latissimo rotundato-bilobo margine undulato.
SoBRALIA macrantha. Lindl. in Sertum Orchid. sub. t. 29. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p.431. Bot. Reg. 1842, Mise. n. 65.
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This belongs to a very fine genus of Orchideous plants, as Dr. Lindley observes, having reed-like stems and handsome flowers, natives of tropical America ; and the finest of all the species Is the one here figured for the first time, from plants growing in the Royal Gardens, collected by Mr. Skinner in Guatemala. Our figure is no exaggerated representation of the plant: no point of colour it falls far short of reality, for it 1s of that deep purplish-rose colour, which every botanical artist knows is so difficult to imitate upon paper. . Descr. Terrestrial; Sfems erect, aggregate, erect, terete, » glabrous, jointed. Leaves from every joint, patent-reflexed, broad, lanceolate, rigid, much and very narrowly acuminate, almost caudate, plaited, the base forming @ brown sheath around — the stem. Flowers very large, few on each stem, terminal; one — flower (on each stem) is open at a time, having at its base a large, — leafy bract, resembling the stem-leaf, but much smaller. Pert JUNE Ist, 1849. G Sa
anth patent-reflexed, of a rich, deep, purple-rose colour. Sepals oblong, the edges even; peta/s much broader, otherwise similar, but the edge in the upper half waved and crisped. yp very large, the lower half forming a laterally compressed tube around the column: the apex expanding into a broad rotundate, two- lobed, crisped /Jamella, with a pale, somewhat heart-shaped _ yellow spot at the base. Co/wmn elongate, clavate, with a lateral tooth on each side, the anther at the top. W. J. H.
Cur. The plant producing this splendid flower, belongs to a genus of terrestrial Orchids of a peculiar habit, having slender reed-like, leafy stems, varying from two to ten or more feet in height, which spring from a fascicle of thick fleshy roots. The species now figured is a native of Mexico, and is found to thrive best when kept in the cool division of the Orchideous house, the average winter temperature ranging between 55° and 60°. A light free soil suits it, which should be composed of a mixture of sandy peat and light loam, with the addition of a little leaf- mould. On account of its thick fleshy roots it is necessary to give it move pot-room than its slender habit would seem to require; and as the roots are not inclined to go deep, wide shallow pots or pans are to be preferred, taking care to have the pot properly drained so as to allow free watering and syringing during summer, without the chance of the mould becoming saturated. ‘T'ioo much water should not be given in winter, during which season it is apt to be attacked by ¢hrips. If these are not checked in time, the plant will soon assume a sickly appearance, owing to the cuticle of the under-side of the leaves having been destroyed by this minute but troublesome insect. Repeated fumigation with tobacco does much to keep them under, but it is advisable to remove the plant to a convenient place and apply the syringe to the under-side of the leaves, taking care that the water is at a proper temperature. It is increased by separating the roots, which requires to be done very carefully, so as not to break them; like many other monocotyledonous plants with thick fleshy roots, when broken they seldom or never make side-roots, the broken ones continuing to decay back to their origin. 7. 8.
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Tan. 4447, LAPAGERIA Roszka.
Rose-coloured Lapageria.
Nat. Ord. SmiLace®.—Hauxanpria MonoGynt. :
Gen. Char. Perianthium corollinam hexaphyllum campanulato-connivens : Joliola exteriora basi concavo-carinata, interiora latiora subunguiculata. Stamina 6, imis perianthii foliolis inserta, alterna paulo majora; jilamenta subulata, libera, anthere basi fixe. Ovarium uniloculare, placentis parietalibus tribus, ad suturas longitudinalibus. Ovu/a plurima, muco involuta, orthotropa. Stylus cylindricus: s¢igma clavatum. Bacca ovato-oblonga, unilocularis, polysperma. Semina obovata, truncata, cornea, luteo-fulvescentia, in pulpe nidulantia.— Suffrutex Chilensis, volubilis ; radice fasciculata, caule teretiusculo, foliis alternis, ovato-lanceolatis, cuspidatis, nervosis, reticulato-venosis, pedunculis axillaribus solitariis, unifloris, squamoso-bracteatis. Endl.
LAPAGERIA rosea. LapaGerta rosea. Ruiz. et Pav. Fl. Peruv. v.3. p. 65. t. 297. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 99.
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No European cultivator of plants could see the figure of Lapa- geria in Ruiz and Pavon, and read their deseription of the flowers “penduli, formosissimi: corolla rosea, aliquando roseo-punicea,
an earnest desire to possess living specimens ; but it was not till the year 1847 that the Royal Gardens of Kew were first favoured with one from Concepcion (Chili) through the kindness of Rd. Wheelwright, Esq., an American gentleman, who has been instrumental in establishing steam-navigation 1 the Pacific, and who thus en- joyed superior means for the transport to England. The
following year, Messrs. Veitch and Sons ome a gre in j rting it, t h their collector, Mr. Thomas Lob) ; — te Dalat, eo d now six feet high with
but though extremely flourishing and
Messrs. Veitch, it is to be regretted it has not yet blossomed :
and our flowers are taken from dried specimens, aided by coloured
figures made in the native locality. This colour 1s said, by to rose-crimson, as repre-
Ruiz and Pavon, to vary from rose sented in our figure. De. Lindley constituted of this and of the
nearly allied, and scarcely less beauti
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ful, Philesia, the Order
Philesiee ; but Dr. Hooker, in his Flora Antarctica, vol. ii. p. 355, considers that, along with Callivene, it naturally ranks with Smilacee: an opinion which is strengthened by the fact that, as related by Ruiz and Pavon, the roots are used by the Chilenos as a substitute for Sarsaparilla (Smilax Sarsaparilla). The large oblong, pulpy berry, which we have not seen, is prized as an esculent fruit, having a sweet and most agreeable flavour. The genus was named in compliment to Joséphine Lapagerie, wife of Napoleon Bonaparte, who rendered great services to Botany by the cultivation of exotic plants in the beautiful gardens of Malmaison, and by the encouragement she gave to works on Botany.
Descr. Stem many feet in length, climbing, terete, branched, naked below, here and there scaly. Leaves petiolate, ovato- lanceolate, coriaceous, glossy, acuminate, five-nerved and reti- culated. Peduncles axillary and solitary, longer than the pe- tioles, bearing a single, handsome, lily-like pendulous flower, of a deep red-rose-colour, internally especially spotted with white. * Outer sepals spathulate, with a gibbosity at the base, inner ones resembling them, but broader and more spotted. Stamen and style shorter than the perianth. W..J. H.
Curr. Our knowledge as regards the culture of this plant is very limited. It is now rather more than two years since we received it from Chili, but owing to the circumstance of the roots having been injured in removing the plant from its native locality, and also to their monocotyledonous nature, they have continued to die back, and the plant has not yet shown symptoms of making a new growth. But judging from analogy there can be no doubt that this singular and beautiful plant, when once established, will prove to be of easy cultivation. Its habit is that of some species of Smilax, or rather more like fiustrephus and Geitonoplesium, the species of which are well known to be robust climbing plants in the greenhouse. Lapa- geria being a native of Chili, it may be expected to prove tolerably hardy ; but it is safest to keep it in the greenhouse till its nature is better known, which can only be learned by experience. J.
Tas. 4448.
STEMONACANTHUS MacropuHyLuus.
Large-flowered Stemonacanthus.
Nat. Ord. ACANTHACE®.—D1pYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.
Gen. Char. Calyx supra basin 5-partitus, equalis. Corolla ex infundibuli- formi-hypocrateriformis, id est, faucibus elongatis obconicis, limbo patentissimo reflexove. Stamina 4 longe prominentia, tubi mediocris apici inserta, basi per- paria connata faucibusque longiore tractu adnata: anthere biloculares connectivo latiusculo demum sepe complicato et tum loculis arctissime contiguis secundis, dorso anther carinato, antheram unilocularem fingentibus, loculis margine mem- branaceis. Stigma bilabiatum labiis. planis acutis crassiusculis, superiore bre- viore. Capsula ad basin brevi spatio contracta et asperma, hince magis inflato- ovata vel oblonga et ad basin cavi tetra-octosperma. Semina retinaculis sub- tensa, plana. Retinacula apice tridentata.—Frutices Americani speciosi, foliis medii caulis sepe ternis. Tnflorescentia plus minus glandulosa-pilosa, raro glan- dulosa ; vel panicula terminalis, trichotoma, bifida, floribus scepe alternis brevi- — pedicellatis vel abbreviatis ramis inflorescentia thyrsoidea ; vel denique flores im axillis foliorum superioribus solitarti sessiles. Bractew parve, lineares, anguste obtuse, patentes vel reflece persistentes rariorive exemplo decidue. Bracteole nulle. Flores coccinei. DC. ve
STEMONACANTHUS macrophyllus ; caule fruticoso erecto, ramis foliisque ovatis ovatove oblongis apicem versus attenuatis basi acutis repando-crenatis petiolatis utrinque subtilissime puberulis, pedunculis v. folia eequantibus bifloris v. umbellatim quadrifidis multifloris folio’ longioribus, bracteis lanceolatis pedicellos zequantibus, calyvibus ad 4 5-fidis basi bibracteolatis glabriusculis, corolla tubulosa. Nees. :
SremMonacaNntuus macrophyllus. Nees in De Cand. Prodr. v. 11. p. 205.
Rveir1a macrophylla. Vahl, Symb. v. 2. p. 72. 4.39. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1846, 4.
A handsome-flowered plant, easily increased by cuttings, but more desirable in a young state (when it readily blooms) than when it has attained a large size, for then the foliagé predominates too much. It is an old species of Vahl, but only recently, so far as we know, introduced to our stoves, by one of the collectors for the Royal Gardens of Kew, Mr. Purdie, in 1844, from St. Martha, and apparently other places in New Grenada as well as
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in Mexico and in Jamaica. It flowers throughout the summer months.
Descr. Plant three to four feet high, shrubby below, the ‘rest herbaceous: dranches terete. Leaves opposite, petiolate, ovate, acuminate, penninerved, reticulated, the margin sinuated or indistinctly toothed, puberulous. Panicles long as or longer than the leaves spreading, di-trichotomous : peduncles and pedicels slender, bracteated, Jowers large, handsome, subsecund. Calyx oblong, tubular, with two bracteas at the base, half to three- quarters of an inch long, green, cut as far as the middle into five nearly equal, linear-lanceolate, obtuse, ciliated, erect seg- ments. Corolla between two and three inches long, bright scarlet: the tude curved, broader upwards, but laterally com- pressed, somewhat plaited, yellow within : /imé large, cut into five nearly equal, oblong, obtuse lobes, which soon become re- flexed, four above and one below. Stamens exserted : anther oblong, sagittate, two-celled. Ovary on a large fleshy gland. Style filiform, longer than the stamens : stigma of two linear, very unequal lobes. Capsule clavate, many-seeded. W. J. H.
Cuxr. An erect soft-wooded plant, requiring the heat of the stove, and growing freely in dry good garden-soil. Like many other allied Acanthacee, its habit is to grow up thin and naked. To induce lateral flowering branches, it is necessary to stop the leading shoots. It is readily increased by cuttings. J. 8.
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Tas, 4449
ASYSTASIA scanpeEns.
Climbing Asystasia.
Nat. Ord. AcANTHACEH.—D1IpYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus, equalis. Corolla subinfundibuliformis, limbo 5-fido, subeequali, lacinia supera concaviuscula. Stamina 4 didynama, inclusa, per paria basi connata. Anthere biloculares loculis parallelis basi callosis vel appendiculatis. Stigma capitatum, bilobum vel bidentatum. Capsula basi compresso-attenuata, asperma, superius depresso-tetragona, bilocularis, tetra- sperma. Semina retinaculis sustensa, discoidea, basi angulo prominente.—Plante Indie orientalis, Asie et Africa calidioris et temperate, herbacee vel fruticulose, lave, diffuse, subsarmentose. Racemus: spiciformis, secundus, axillaris vel. termi- nalis. Bractea communis et proprie exigue equales. Flores cerulei vel luteo- ceruleoque varit, sat speciosi. D.C.
Asystasta scandens; scandens, foliis obovatis (ovatisve) acutis brevi-petiolatis glabris, racemis terminalibus compactis thyrsiformibus, pedicellis basi brae- teatis, calycis segmentis lineari-lanceolatis ciliatis, corolle tubo superne ampliato curvato, limbi lobis ovato-rotundatis marginibus crenato-crispatis, staminibus glandulosis.
Asysrasta scandens, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1847. t. 31. (under Henfreya).
Asystas1a quaterna, Nees, in De Cand. Prodr.v. 11. p. 166. et p. 724.
Henrreya scandens, Lindl. 1. c.
RUELLIA quaterna, Thonn. Schum. in Plant. Guin. Sech. v. 2. p. 58.
A remarkable African climbing Acanthaceous plant. Dr. Lindley had judged it to be nearly related to Thonning’s Ruellia quaterna, to which indeed Dr. Nees von Esenbeck has without doubt referred it, and this again to his genus Asystasia. In this we follow him, preferring, however, Dr. Lindley’s specific name, which is expressive, while that of Thonnmg can only tend to mislead, the number of the flowers being, in cultivation at least, anything but constant. This is one of the many fine plants introduced to our stove by Lord Derby, through the instrumentality of Mr. Whitfield. It flowers readily and remains
a long time in blossom, in the Royal Gardens.
Descr. A climbing shrub, with terete stems and branches,
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glabrous. Leaves opposite, on short thick petioles, generally obovate, sometimes ovate, acute, penninerved, entire, of a dark rather glossy green, thickish and somewhat fleshy. Racemes terminal, thyrsoid, of many large yellowish-white or cream- coloured flowers, having often a tinge of blush. Pedicels op- posite, subtended by a pair of subulate connate dracteas and a pair of smaller ones on the pedicel itself. Calyx naked, cut to the base in five-linear lanceolate ciliated equal segments. Corolla large, slightly hairy, the ¢w4e curved, the narrow cylindrical portion as long as the calyx, when it becomes suddenly enlarged and campanulate, spreading into a five-lobed nearly equal /imdé, the throat somewhat hairy, the lobes broadly ovate, obtuse, veined, the margin crenato-crisped. Stamens shorter than the tube, glandular. Anther dark-purple; cells aristate below. Ovary on a large gland. Style included. Stigma two-lobed. W.J.H.
Cur. Most of the Acanthacee cultivated in our hot houses consist of soft-wooded plants, soon becoming unsightly, and re- quiring to be frequently renewed by bringing forward young healthy plants. The present species is rather an exception; for although it is of a straggling somewhat scandent habit, yet it is worthy of notice not only on account of its pretty flowers but also for its full and fine dark-green foliage, not subject to insects. Being a native of Sierra-Leone it requires to be grown in a hot and moist atmosphere. A mixture of loam and peat with the addition of a little leaf-mould will suit it, the pot bemg placed in a position to receive bottom heat. On account of its scandent habit it requires to be supported, either by stakes or trained to a neat wire trellis fixed to the pot. Cuttings take root readily, when placed in pans under a bell-glass and plunged in bottom heat.
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Tas. 4450. DENDROBIUM CampripGEANuM.
Duke of Cambridge's Dendrobium.
Nat. Ord. OncHIDEM.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4352.)
Denprosium Cambridgeanum ; caulibus pendulis articulatis foliosis, foliis ovato- lanceolatis acutissimis carnosis striatis basi oblique sessilibus, pedunculis bifloris, sepalis (basi in cornu elongatis decurrentibus) petalisque conformi- bus oblongis acutis patentibus, labello cucullato unguiculato latissime sub- rotundato sinuato margine reflexo supra densissime villoso, anthera punctis elevatis rugosa.
~ Denprosium Cambridgeanum, Pazton, Mag. of Bot. t.265. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1841. Mise. n.171.
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Drawn from a plant which flowered in the Orchideous house of the Royal Gardens, April 1849, derived from the collection of the late Rev. J. Clowes. It is a plant of great beauty, brought from India to Chatsworth by Mr. Gibson, collector for His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, in 1837, and honoured by a specific name after that of His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge. Dr. Lindley alludes to its affinity with D. Paztont, but that 1s characterized by “ petalis serrulatis,” and “ labello ovato ...... margine multifido-fimbriato ;” and to D. chrysanthum, which is described “labello denticulato retuso obsolete trilobo, and no notice is taken of any villosity. The prolonged spur is remark- : able. I cannot therefore but record it as a distinct species.
Descr. An Zpiphyte, with jointed, pendulous stems, nearly as thick as the finger, the joints striated and clothed with sheaths of the leaves, streaked and spotted with red. Leaves broad, ovate-lanceolate, sharply acuminate, thick, fleshy, striated, the base very oblique and semicordate. From below the upper leaves the peduncle appears, very short, forked into two pedicels about two inches long and bearing two pendent, large, handsome
flowers of a rich golden-colour. Sepals and petals uniform, much
spreading, oblong, acute, faintly striated. Lip pendent, cucul-
late, from a convolute claw suddenly expanding into a broad, JUNE Ist, 1849.
rounded obscurely two-lobed /amina, whose upper surface is densely villous or tomentose, and the margin recurved, sinuated, or obscurely and irregularly lobed, but by no means multifid : the throat is distinguished by a large blood-coloured stain ; and the claw has an oblong callosity for nearly its whole length. Column exceedingly short. Anther rough, with small raised points. W. J. H.
Cutr. This beautiful epiphytal Orchid, being a native of India, requires to be grown in the tropical division of the Orchideous house. With us it is suspended from the roof growing on a sod of solid sphagnum peat, and receiving the same kind of treatment as mentioned at Tas. 4418 and 4432. -In order to prolong the duration of this beautiful flower it should be re- moved to a cooler and dryer house, care being taken not to wet the flowers when syringeing or watering the plants. 7. 8.
Fig. 1. Lip. 2. Pollen-masses. 3. Column and decurrent base forming the spur :—magnified.
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Tas. 4451.
ZIERIA MacrRopPHyLLa.
Large-leaved Zieria.
Nat. Ord. DiosmME®.—TETRANDRIA MonoGynia.
Gen. Char. Calyx 4-fidus. Petala 4 disco hypogyno inserta. Stamina 4, eal. lobis opposita; filamentis glabris basi intus uniglandulosis. Stylus 1. Stigma 4-lobum. Carpella 4, intus connexa in capitulum 4-lobum, 4-locul., lobis divaricatis. Semina in loculis solitariis compresso-ovata.—Frutices aué arbores. Folia opposita, petiolata, trifoliata, summa simplicia. Peduneculi axillares sepius trichotomi. Flores parvi, alli. De Cand.
ZIERIA macrophylla; frutescens, ramulis pubescentibus leevibus, foliolis lanceo- latis, paniculis trichotomis folia subzequantibus, petalis obovatis punctatis puberulis.
ZIERIA macrophylla. “ Bonpl. Nav. p. 64.” De Cand. Prodr. v.1. p.7123. De Less. Ic. v. 3. p. 28. t. 48.
ZIERIA arborescens. All. Cunn. MSS. in Herb. Hook. - Sims, in Bot. Mag. sub Tab.1395. De Cand. Prodr. v.1. p. 723. Hook. Journ. Bot. v. 1. p. 256.
This is a much handsomer species than the old Z. lanceolata, Br. (Z. Smithii, Andr. and Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1395). Mr. Allan Cunningham says it attains in its native country a height of from fourteen to sixteen feet: and the leaves and the flowers are the largest of the genus. The panicles are very compound, and they are generally equal to, or longer than, the leaves, but sometimes almost as short as the petioles. A still more impor- tant specific character is to be found in the smooth stems and branches never warted, which they strikingly are in the Z. /anceo- lata. Bonpland seems to consider Eastern Australia as the native country ; but in my own very rich herbarium I find no speci- mens but from Van Diemen’s Land, to which country I believe “it to be wholly confined. Mr. Gunn says it is common in shady ravines and mountain creeks, and that it is known in the colony by the name of Stink-wood. It flowers in a cool greenhouse in the spring months. :
Descr. An erect graceful growing shrub, with striated, smooth dranches, slightly pubescent. Leaves opposite, trifoliate ;
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leaflets \anceolate, more or less acuminate, entire, pellucido- punctate, paler and often slightly pubescent beneath. Panicles axillary, copious, generally about as long as the leaves, tricho- tomous, many-flowered. Pedicels and calyx stellato-pubescent. Sepals four, ovate. Stamens four. Filaments broad, crested at the top, with a large fleshy gland at its base within. Ovaries 4, combined. Style short, single. Stigma four-lobed. Petals twice as long as the calyx, punctate, puberulous. W. J. #. Curr. An early and neat-flowering greenhouse plant, growing freely in a mixture of light loam and peat in a well drained pot. In summer, care must be taken that it at no time suffers for want of water, which should be given early in the morning, or in the evening, and it is desirable to have it placed so that the direct rays of the sun do not strike the sides of the pot, for the roots, being fibrous, will suffer if long in contact with the heated material of the pot. The habit of this species is to grow up long and slender, and the branches being opposite, it is not much inclined to form a bushy plant, but which in a degree may be obtained by stopping the leading shoot. It is readily increased by cuttings in the usual way, or by seeds, which ripen with us. J. 8. ‘
Fig. 1: Pistil. 2. Stamen and gland. 3. Flower with the petals removed. 4. Flower. 5. Petal :—magnified. ,
Tas. 4452. ALLOPLECTUS capiratus.
Camitate Alloplectus.
Nat. Ord. GEsNERIACE. —DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4216.)
_ ALLopLectus capitatus ; elatus robustus, caule simplici obtuse tetragono, foliis amplis ovatis serratis dense ‘velutino-sericeis subtus petiolisque magis mi- nusve sanguineis, pedunculis axillaribus foliorum supremorum brevibus, floribus dense umbellato-capitatis, pedicellis simplicibus umbellatisque, calycis sanguinei sepalis amplis foliaceis cucullatis marginibus reflexis dentatis, corolla calycem vix duplo superantis sericee flavee tubo supra medium ventricoso.
“ALLOPLEcTUs speciosus. Hortul. not of Poeppig-
» Presented to the Royal Gardens of Kew by Messrs. Knight and Perry, of the King’s Road Nursery, Chelsea, who received it from the continent under the name of Al/oplecius speciosus ;— but it has assuredly nothing to do with the only species de- scribed under that name, that of Dr. Poeppig. It 1s m all probability a native of tropical America, but of what part we e not learned. It is a very beautiful plant, both in the age and the flowers :—the former is of a large size, each leaf - from ten inches to a foot in length, of the richest possible velvety, or between velvety and silky, hue, the upper side- deep green,
os verging to yellow, the under side purplish, while the stem and : petioles, peduncles and calyx are of a rich crimson blood-colour :— - the latter remarkable for its great size and the cucullate sepals
or segments ; and in the centre of this deep red calyx with the very convex segments is an eye of yellow, formed by the com- : paratively small corolla. It flowers in the stove in March | and April, and is really a very striking plant.
@ Desc. Stem in our specimen nearly three feet high, erect, simple, : stout, rather succulent than woody, bluntly four-angled, marked with the scars of the fallen leaves, above leafy, and there clothed oF with short dense blood-coloured velvety down. Leaves opposite, ae large, patent or drooping, ovate, serrated, acute, strongly veined,
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especially beneath, everywhere clothed with a beautiful velvety nap or short soft down, glossy and of a rich green above, less glossy and often tinged with purple beneath. Peduncles stout, blood-coloured with velvety down. Peduncles about two inches long, from the axils of the uppermost leaves, about as long as the petioles, erect, velvety, bearing a dense, globose, bracteated umbel of flowers ; pedicels simple or again umbellate, thickened — upwards. Calyx very large, rich blood-colour, of five broad closely downy segments or sepals, cucullate, the very recurved _ Margins denticulate. Corolla small compared with the calyx, yellow, silky with copious erect hairs: the tube ventricose above the middle, the mouth small, of five minute nearly equal seg- ments, margined with red. Stamens included. Ovary silky, — with a large gland on one side. Style included. Stigma bifid. W. J. HT.
Cuxr. The species of this genus inhabit the primeval forests
of tropical America, and may be considered as epiphytes, growing 5
on trees or decaying vegetable matter in humid places. They have soft fleshy stems, and are of a trailing subscandent habit, becoming loosely attached by their soft roots, which, in a moist atmosphere, are emitted from below the axils of the leaves. The present species differs in some respects from the others, being of an upright stiff habit, and as yet our plant has shown no symp- toms of producing roots from the stem. It has flowered with us in the warm, moist stove, potted in loose peat soil, taking care, during the winter, that it is not over-watered. J. S.
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Corolla. 3. Pistil and gland :—magnified.
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AMHERSTIA Nosi is.
Splendid Amherstia.
Nat. Ord. Leguminosa#. AmuERSTIE®, Benth —DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA.
Gen. Char. Sepala 4 basi connata in tubum persistentem apice staminiferum, suffultum bracteis duabus oppositis, maximis, sstivatione valvatis. Petala 5 inzequalia : duo inferiora minuta, subulato-hamosa ; lateralia cuneiformia, diva- ricata; supremum maximum patens, obcordatum, unguiculatum. Stamina 10 diadelpha ; filamentis 9 in tubum longum connatis, superne liberis, alternis nanis ; decimum liberum, basi pedicello ovarii accretum. _dnthere versatiles, omnes polliniferse, alternz breviores. Ovarium stipitatum, falcatum, 4—6-ovu- latum, stipite tubo calycino adnato ; stylus filiformis ; stigma convexum, parvum. Legumen pedicellatum, planum, oblongum, polyspermum.—Arbor (Martabanica), foliis amplis, pari-pinnatis, 6-8-jugis, floribus speciosis, digestis im racemos masi- mos, axillares, pedunculatos, flaccide pendulos. Wall.
AMHERSTIA nobilis. Amuerstta nobilis, Wall. Pl. Asiat. Rar. v.1. p.1. ¢. 152. Walp. Repert. Bot. v. 1. p. 844.
Ever since the publication of this plant in Dr. Wallich’s noble work, the Plant Asiatice Rariores, the greatest desire has been — felt by cultivators in Europe to possess it. Dr. Wallich was not — backward in procuring plants for the Calcutta Garden, or m forwarding others to England, for a long time unsuccessfully His Grace the Duke of Devonshire had the honour of im- porting the first living plant through the medium of his collector, Mr. Gibson, who was sent to the Pirman Empire for it; and this is become a noble and vigorously growing specimen in the princely stoves of Chatsworth ——but Mrs. Lawrence, by her skill
in horticulture, and the great care and attention she devoted to
a much younger plant in her rich collection, has the still greater 1849. This plant was
honour of bringing it to flower in April, ) presented by Lord Hardinge, then Governor General of the East Indies in 1847, and when only eleven feet high, produced its loasonis in the stove of Baling Park: The firet raceme Ws fitly sent to Her Most Gracious Majesty, Queen Victoria ; the second was liberally placed at our disposal, and an atlas-folio
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drawing has been made from it, a size which can alone do justice to such a subject. The pages of this magazine are of course quite inadequate to receive such a figure: and a flower- bud, and two expanded flowers, together with a small portion of a leaf, which was nearly three feet long, are all we shall attempt to portray. These flowers, of the natural size, do so well represent their nature and structure (the minute inferior petals, resembling two small curved scales, being the only part concealed from view), that we shall, rather than enter into a full description (faithfully given in the work above quoted), introduce an extract from Dr. Wallich’s history of the discovery of this Prince of Flowering-Trees : —“ The first notice I had of the existence of this magnificent tree,” says that enthusiastic botanist, “was at Rangoon, in August, 1826, when Mr. Craw- ford favoured me with some dried unopened flowers, and a leaf of it, with the information that he had gathered it in a garden, belonging to a monastery, around the hill at Kogun, on the Saluen river, in the province of Martaban, where they appeared too beautiful an object to be passed unobserved even by the uninitiated in botany. Handfulls of the flowers were found as offerings in the caves before the images of Buddha.”
In March, 1827, Dr. Wallich accompanied the British Envoy to Ava, and in his Official Report of a Journey on the River Saluen, in order to examine the site and capabilities of the Teak forests in that direction, he thus writes: “In about an hour I came to a decayed Kioum (a sort of monastery), close to the large hill of Kogun, distant about two miles from the right bank of the river, and twenty-seven from the town of Martaban. I had been prepared to find a tree growing here, of which an account had before been communicated to me by Mr. Crawfurd, and which I had been fortunate enough to meet with for the first time a week ago at Martaban; nor was I disappointed. There were two individuals of this tree here: the largest, about forty feet high, with a girth, at three feet above the base, of six feet, stood close to the cave: the other was smaller, and over- hung an old Square reservoir of water, lined with bricks and stones. They were profusely ornamented with pendulous racemes of large vermillion-coloured blossoms, forming superb objects, unequalled m the Flora of the East Indies, and, I presume, not surpassed in magnificence and elegance in any part of the world. The Birman name 18 Zoha. Neither the people here nor at Martaban could give me any distinct account of its native place of growth ; but there is little doubt that it belongs to the forests of this province. The ground was strewed, even at a distance, with its blossoms, which are carried daily as offerings to the mages in the adjoining caves. Round the spot were numerous
individuals of Jonesia Asoca in full blossom, inferior in beauty only to those trees ; and it is not a little remarkable, that the priests in these parts should have manifested so good a taste as to select two sorts of trees as ornaments to their objects of worship, belonging to a small but well-marked and extremely beautiful group in the extensive family of Leguminous plants.”
This tree, which “ when in full blossom is the most strikingly superb object that can possibly be imagined,” Dr. Wallich had the gratification of naming in compliment to the Right Honour- able Countess Amherst and her daughter, Lady Sarah Amherst, the zealous friends and constant promoters of Natural History, especially botany, in India. W.J. H.
Cunt. It is now about ten years since the first and then only living plant of this splendid flowering tree was brought from India to the garden at Chatsworth. It was believed it would have to attain a considerable size and age before its flowers would be produced ; and although every care and attention have been paid to it, yet up to this time it has not flowered, thus confirming.the opinion that age was needed. It was therefore with no little surprise that a few months ago we heard it an- nounced that a plant, not more than two years imported, was in flower at Ealing Park. This has been accomplished by growing the plant in a very moist atmosphere, with the tempera- ture ranging between 70° and 80°, and at the same time having the box in which it is planted surrounded by a bed of hot tan, with a temperature of 90°, and the whole plant enclosed by a canvass curtain, which serves as a shade, and assists in keeping the enclosed air in a state of greater moisture. From what we observed of the Ealing Park plant, and our knowledge of the rate of growth of a plant received at this Garden in March of last year, we consider it to be a fast-growing plant, when placed under treatment similar to the above; but care 1s required to keep it in a healthy and vigorous state. A mixture of good loam and peat soil suits it, and whether the plant is grown in a pot or box, or in a bed of earth, it is necessary to have the means of warming the earth, which is to be obtained by a hot-water tank, or tan, or by the two combined, as at Ealing Park. During the season of growth the highest degree of temperature and moisture must be maintained; but in the winter the thermometer need not be allowed to rise higher than 70°, with a corresponding diminution of moisture. Shading, in bright sunshine, must be carefully attended to, for the foliage being of a thin and dry texture, is very impatient of drought, Whether arising from a dry atmosphere, or from a want of supply of sap from the roots; and even with due care the margin and apex of the leaves are very apt to lose vitality, becoming brown,
which gives the plant an unhealthy appearance; but this is a circumstance common to several allied plants that have similar thin dry leaves, and we are informed that this also happens to plants growing in the Calcutta Garden. It is very necessary that the soil should be well drained and not of a retentive nature, for owing to the constant heat and moisture it is apt to become saturated and sodden, and this is more especially to be guarded against as regards soil in a large pot or box plunged in tan. In many respects Amherstia is like Jonesia, Brownea, &c., and like them can be increased _by cuttings planted under a bell-glass, and placed in bottom-heat. Dr. Wallich informs us that all the plants sent to Europe have been obtained in the Calcutta Garden by layering. /. 8.
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Tas. 4454. CYRTOCHILUM cirrinum.
Lemon-coloured Cyrtochilum.
Nat. Ord. OrcHIpEm.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.
Gen. Char. Perianthium explanatum. Sepala libera, lateralia unguiculata. Petala paulo minora. Ladellum ecalcaratum indivisum, ungue tuberculato cum basi column continuo. Columna brevis, alata. -Anthera bilocularis. Pollimia 2, caudicula filiformi, glandula minuta.—Herbee epiphyte, v. terrestres, pseudo- bulbose. Folia coriacea. Scapi radicales, paniculati. Flores speciosi. Lindl.
Cyrrocu1Lu citrinum ; pseudo-bulbis brevibus ovatis sulcatis apice diphyllis, foliis lineari-oblongis acutiusculis, scapo radicali foliis multo longioribus, racemo simplici 8-10-floro, bracteis parvis, sepalis ovato-lanceolatis acumi- natis labello subduplo brevioribus, petalis ovatis subundulatis sepala sub- zquantibus, labellum maximum rubrotundo-pandureeformi basi attenuato bilamellato, columna utrinque unidentata.
This has a good deal the habit of the Cyrtochilum filipes, Lindl. Bot. Reg., 1841, t. 59 (Oncedium Wraye, Hook. in Bot. Mag. t. 3854), but the scape is less slender, the flowers larger, of a uniform pale yellow or lemon-colour, with a different shaped lip, and a prominent and very conspicuous tooth on each side the short column. It is from Mrs. Lawrence’s rich collection, where it flowered in April 1849, and was imported from Central America.
Descr. Pseudo-bulés clustered, short, ovate, somewhat com- pressed, furrowed, terminated by a pair of /eaves four or five inches in length, linear-oblong, rather acute, subcoriaceous, nerveless. “Scape afoot or more long, from the base of the pseudo-bulbs, erect, rather stout, thrice as long as the leaves, jointed and bracteated, bearing a lax raceme of citron-coloured Be flowers at the apex. Bracteas at the base of the pedunculiform = ovary, small. Sepa/s spreading, uniform, much shorter than the oy lip, ovato-lanceolate, slightly tinged with green. Petals rather shorter than the sepals, ovate, acute, slightly waved. Lip very large, subrotund-panduriform, somewhat unguiculate at the base and there bilamellate. Column short, with a projecting, linear
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tooth on each side. 4uther-case hemispherical, with a central ridge. W. J. H.
Cutt. This pretty epiphyte will thrive in the cool division of the Orchideous house, placed in a basket suspended from the roof, or in a shallow pan filled with loose turfy peat mixed with sphagnum moss, shading it from bright sun in summer, and seeing that it does not receive too much water in winter. J. 8.
Fig. 1. Pollen-masses. 2. Column and lip :—magnified.
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MORMODES LENTIGINOSA.
Freckled Mormodes.
- Nat. Ord. OncHIDE®.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4214.)
Mormoptss lentiginosa ; pseudo-bulbis oblongis, foliis lanceolatis striatis, scapo radicali racemoso, floribus remotis pendulis punctis rufo-fuscis irroratis, sepalis arcte reflexis oblongis acutis marginibus revolutis, petalis conformi- bus, labelli obovati lateribus revolutis, columna oblique torta apice acu- minato.
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A new and very remarkable species of Mormodes, quite un- like any hitherto figured or described, and equally with the subject of our last plate (Cyrtochilum citrinum) from the collec- tion of Mrs. Lawrence, and obtained from the same country. It flowers in April.
Drscr. The young pseudo-bulbs are almost globose, leafy : the old ones are oblong, terete, and partially sheathed with the withered membranous bases of the old leayes. Leaves, in the plant before us, a span long, lanceolate, membranaceous, striated. Scape from the base of a pseudo-bulb, a foot or a foot and a half high, racemose, flexuose where the remote drooping flowers are inserted. Bracteas small, membranaceous, acuminated. The general colour of the flower is pale reddish-brown, every- where sprinkled with dark-coloured dots. Sepals and petals oblong, acute, with margins singularly recurved, the former (sepals) refracted, the petals having an opposite direction, the same as that of the column and lip. Lip rather large, fleshy, obovate, entire, the sides entirely curved back, revolute, almost like the flaps of a saddle. Column shorter than the lip, semi- terete, curved, and having a singularly oblique twist, acuminated.
Anthers taking the same shape as the apex of the column, and “hence much acuminated too: the colour is a deeper red than the rest of the flower. W. J. H. ve
Cur. This Orchid may be potted in loose turfy peat. During
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winter it remains in a state of rest, and must then be kept in a moderately warm and rather dry stove, giving it little or no water. In the spring, when it begins to show symptoms of growth, it should receive the usual temperature and moisture of the Orchideous house, placing it near the glass on the front
shelves, watering it carefully and shading it from the mid-day sun. J. 8.
Fig. 1. Column and lip :—magnified.
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4456. EPIMEDIUM pinnatum.
Pinnate-leaved Hpimedium.
Nat. Ord. BERBERIDEH.—TETRANDRIA MOoNoGYNIA.
Gen. Char. Sepala extus basi bibracteolata. Petala 4 intus appendice dis- colore aucta. Capsula siliculiformis, polysperma. Semina oblique transversim sita, unilateralia—Herbe perennes, foliis radicalibus petiolatis, foliolis serrato- aristatis. De Cand.
EpIMEDIUM pinnatum; hirsutum, foliis ternatis vel biternatis, foliolis longe petiolulatis adultis glabris cordato-ovatis ciliato-serratis, racemis radicalibus multifloris, petalis rotundatis, nectariis cucullatis calcaratis, margine erosis.
EPIMEDIUM pinnatum. Fisch. in De Cand. Syst. Veget. v.2. p.29. Prodr. v. 1. p.110. Repert. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v.1. p.441. Ledeb. Fl. Ross. v. 1. p. 81.
A most lovely little hardy plant, with flowers in form and size and colour resembling some Helianthemum, but, when they are inspected, the curious structure of an Hpimediwm may be detected. We owe our plants in the Royal Gardens, where they flowered in March, to Mr. Shepherd of the Liverpool Botanic Garden. It is a native of shady mountain woods in Gilan, a province of Persia, where it was first detected by Hablitz. It has since been found in the Caucasian region, on Mount Talusch, between Lenkoran and Suwant, at an elevation of 2,400 feet above the level of the sea.
Descr. From a short rhizoma, partially underground, and more or less clothed with the large stipular scales of the base of the leaf-stalk, arise several /eaves and flower-scapes, both one and the other clothed with patent hairs in the young state. Leaves a span or more long when fully formed, sometimes ternate, more generally twice ternate, or in other words pinnate with five leaflets, the two pairs very remote : the /eqflets are ovato- cordate, with a deep narrow sinus, acute, ciliato-serrate, glabrous, except on the nerves beneath. Seapes about as long as the fully developed leaves, but bearing the raceme of flowers while the leaves are still young. Pedicels short, with minute bracteas. Calye with two, small, deciduous bracts. Sepals four, ovate,
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pale green. Petals four, subrotund, yellow, vemmed. Nectaries. cucullate, yellow, the edge toothed ; terminating behind in an orange-coloured blunt spur. Stamens erect. Anthers as long as the filaments: valves as long as the anthers. Ovary oblong. Style shorter than the ovary : stigma depressed. W. J. H.
Cunt. Like the other well-known species of Hpimedium, this is a hardy herbaceous plant, and may be cultivated in the flower- border, or kept in a pot along with the collection of the smaller kinds of herbaceous plants, generally termed Alpines. It is increased by division of the root. J. S.
Fig. 1. Nectary. 2. Stamen. 3. Pistil :—magnified.
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Tas. 4457, RHODODENDRON rormosvuo.
Beautiful Rhododendron. Nat. Ord. Erxtcace®.—Drcanpria MonoGynta.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4336.)
RHoDODENDRON formosum ; fruticosa gracilis, foliis oblongo-obovatis in petio- lum brevem attenuatis vix coriaceis junioribus precipue villosis subtus pallidis, pedicellis unifloris brevibus basi bracteatis, calyce brevissimo obscure 5-lobo, corolle (albz roseo-tinctee) tubo infundibuliformi-campanulato 5- angulato, limbo amplissimo 5-lobo lobis rotundatis undulatis obtusissimis,
- filamentis (10) glanduloso-pilosis, ovario minute squamuloso.
RHopopENDRON formosum. Wall. Plant. Asiat. Rar. v.38. p.3. #,207. De Cand. Prodr. v. 7. p. 721.
RuopopENDRON Gibsoni. Hort.
Our drawing of this truly beautiful and rare Rhododendron was made from a plant which flowered in a greenhouse at Syon Garden, Her Grace the Duchess of Northumberland’s, April 1849: at the same time a plant which had been presented to the Royal Gardens by Mr. Low of Clapton, blossomed there also. Tn both cases the plants were sent as the Rhododendron Gibsom of Mr. Paxton. Nor is there any reason to doubt the correct- ness of this appellation. Be that as it may, the ‘species has been made known to the botanical world by an excellent figure in the Plants: Asiaticee Rariores of Dr. Wallich, ever since the year 1832. It was discovered by the late Mr. Smith so early as 1815, on the mountains bordering on Silhet in Eastern Himalaya. The flowers are very large and highly fragrant, and the habit of the plant is that of Rhododendron (or Azalea of most authors) ledifolium: but the leaves and the calyx are totally different. When brought by cultivation to the same degree of perfection _ as the plant just mentioned, it will be one of the most valuable shrubs for early forcing that can be conceived. Mr. Gibson, collector for His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, brought it from India some years ago, and it is probably one of the several species
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named but not described by Mr. Griffiths and detected by him in Kastern Himalaya. ‘The flowers are a delicate white, tinged with yellow and rose, and have five external stripes of red.
Descr. Our plant forms a small slender shrub, with deep- reddish-brown branches, the younger ones downy. Leaves ob- longo-obovate, obtuse, often with a small mucro, pale and glaucous beneath, tapering into a short foot-stalk, the younger ones hairy and of a very pale green. Peduncles short, m pairs, from the apex of the branches, soon over-topped with young shoots and then appearing lateral, bracteated at the base, dracteas ovate or obovate, brown. Calyx very small, obscurely five-lobed, often with long cilia. Stamens ten : filaments pilose. Anthers small, purple. Ovary ovate, five-lobed, five-celled, dotted with copious minute scales. Style scaly or hairy. Stigma capitate, obscurely five-lobed. W. J. H. :
Cuxr. This pretty species of Rhododendron is not sufficiently hardy to bear our winters without protection. It will be best treated as a greenhousé plant, placing it along with Chinese Azaleas, &e., potting it in light peat mixed with a small portion of turfy loam, care being taken to have the pot well drained. The plant is increased by seed, which should be sown in pans filled with turfy peat to within an inch of the top, the re- mainder being made up of finely sifted peat mixed with a fourth part of sharp white sand. As the seeds are very small, they require no covering, a gentle pressure on the surface of the mould being quite sufficient. The pans should be placed in a warm or moist frame in a shady corner of the stove, and germi- nation will be hastened by placing a bell-glass over the pan, having a less diameter than the pan. To avoid the risk of disturbing the seeds in watering, it is advisable not to take off the bell-glass ; but by allowing the water to fall between the margin of the pan and glass, the mould will gradually absorb the water which will become diffused throughout the mass, and secure a uniform degree of moisture for the seeds. Shading during the day must be attended to both previous to and after germination, gradually admitting air and light as the young plants obtain strength. No doubt this species will readily hybridize with its allies and produce varieties, which can be maintained and increased by graftings on some of the more common species of the genus. /. S.
Fig. 1 and 3. Varieties of the calyx, ovary, and style. 2. Stamen —magnified.
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Tas. 4458. DIELYTRA specTaABILIs. Moutan Dielytra.
Nat. Ord. FumMARIACEH.—D1IADELPHIA HEXANDRIA.
_ Gen. Char, Petala 4, 2 exteriora basi equaliter calearata aut gibbosa. Siliqua bivalvis polysperma.—Herbe perennes. Flores racemosi, albi aut purpurascentes.
Drexytra spectabilis ; caulescens, foliis subbipinnatis, pinnis petiolatis plerumque ternatis segmentis late ovato-cuneatis incisis, racemis elongatis bracteis subulatis deciduis, petalis ext. basi gibboso-rotundatis, int. oblongis cari- natis supra medium valde constrictis, filamentis diadelphis, ultra medium geniculatis liberis.
Dietyrra spectabilis. De Cand. Syst. Veget. v.2. p.110. Prodr. v.1. p. 126. Fortune, in Journ. Hort. Soc. Lond. v.2. p. 178. t. 3.
Evcapnos spectabilis. Sieb. et Zucc. Abhandl. der Munchen. Akid. (Physick. Math. Classe) v.8. p. 721. t.1. f. 2. ex Walp. Repert. v. 5. p. 23.
_Corypatis spectabilis. Pers. Syn. v. 2. p. 260.
Fumarta spectabilis. Linn. Ameen. Acad. v. 7. p. 437. t. 7.
Of this truly fine and hardy herbaceous plant, there seems no reason whatever for constituting a new genus, as Professors Martius and Zuccarini have done. Both in habit and structural character it is entirely a Dielytra, DC. The flowers are the largest of the genus, and the leaves and leaflets the broadest, and so much resemble those of the Paonia Moutan that, as Mr. Fortune assures us, the Chinese give the plant the name of the “ Red-and-white Moutan-flower.” We learn from the same n- telligent traveller, that it is one of the plants of which the Chinese Mandarins are so fond, and that they cultivate with so much pride in all their gardens. He first saw it in the artificial rocks in the Grotto-garden, Island of Chusan, growing along with the equally beautiful Weigelia rosea. It appears to have been known only in northern China or the borders of Tartary and China, and not to be a denizen of any part of the Russian Empire ; for it is not included in Ledebour’s Flora Rossica. Nor, indeed, have we any clear account of its being seen otherwise than in culti- vation. Linneus, who first published it, does, it Is true, give in the Species Plantarum, ‘‘ Siberia (Demidof)” as the habitat : but the late possessor of the Linnean Herbarium does not seem Satisfied on that point, for he says in Rees’ oo. that “it is a
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native of Siberia or 'Tartary as far as we can discover.* It is cultivated by the Chinese and sometimes seen among their drawings of ornamental plants, being extremely handsome. ‘The original specimen is in the Linnean Herbarium, the only one we have ever met with in any collection.” Gmelin includes it in his ‘ Flora Sibirica,’ but expressly says, “stupende pulchri- tudinis planta, quae e Sinis a chirurgo Henke adportata fuit.? Drsor. Habit of Dielytra formosa (Bot. Mag. t.1335) except that it is caulescent : a foot or a foot and a half high. Leaves :
pinnate, with three to five petiolate, pinnated pinnules, which are ternate or ternately and deeply cut, the segments broad, ovato-cuneate, incised. Stem, petioles, and peduncles red. Ra- ceme long. °Pedicels slender, with a subulato-deciduous bractea. Howers \arge, drooping, deep rose-red, inner petals nearly white. © Calyx of two small, narrow-ovate, concave, coloured scales. Outer petals very large, cucullate, gibbous rather than spurred = ™
at the base: the apex attenuated, reflexed, spathulate. Inner petals oblong, carinate at the back, remarkably constricted above the middle ; the upper portion with a broad wing at the back, the apices cohering. Stamens united in two bundles of three ange es above the middle, and the filaments are te - ree. Ovary narrow, cylindrical: style short: sti two-li ; wT ry y Ly t: stigma ppe Cunt. This handsome flowering herbaceous plant, has a fascicle of thick fleshy roots that lie dormant during winter, and push into growth early in the spring. We have not had it
long enough under cultivation to enable us to say whether it - ‘ will prove hardy in our climate; but as it is from the north of = China we anticipate it will, especially if covered over with @ = ©
layer of old tan, or some such loose material during: our severe frosts. Its early habit may probably render it liable to be hurt by late spring frosts, but as it makes a pretty appearance in a pot, it will prove a desirable plant for the greenhouse. It thrives In any good garden-soil, and when it has done flowering it should be placed out of doors. After the decay of the flowering stems it may be kept in a frame during winter, giving it only water sufficient to keep the mould moderately moist. It is pro- pagated by division of the root or by cuttings. J. 8.
* Alexander de Karamyschew, who appears to be the original authority for our knowledge of this fine plant in his ‘ Dissertatio’ entitled ‘ Necessitas Historie — Naturalis Rossie,’ (Ameen. Acad. vy. 7, p- 438) says, after alluding to Botanic gardens, “ Memini de czetero, me vidisse domi varias plantas omnium pulcher- nimas, utpote Hypecoum erectum, Fumariam spectabilem aliasque que dignissima essent, qué insererentur hortis magnatum summorum, ob illarum pulchritu-
dinem,
Fig. 1, 2, and 3. The different parts of the flower separated :—magnified.
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Tas. 4459. LACEPEDEA Insrenis.
Fragrant Lacepedea.
Nat. Ord. HrepocraTacE®.—PENTANDRIA TRIGYNIA.
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Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus (potius 5-sepalus) inaequalis. Petala 5 brevis- sime unguiculata (sessilia). Stamina 5, filamentis liberis, antheris bilocularibus longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. Ovarium 8-loculare, loculis 8-ovulatis. Stylus 3-suleatus, demum tripartibilis. Bacca stylis trieuspidata 6—9-sperma.—Arbor foliis serrulatis, paniculis terminalibus, floribus albis odoris. DC.
LacEPEDEA insignis.
Lacepepea insignis. .B.K. Nov. Gen. dm. v.5. p. 142. t. 444. De Cand. Prodr, v.1. p. 572.
Tricerata tinifolia. Willd. Herb.—Roem. et Sch. Syst. Veget. v. 4. p. 803. Triceros Xalapensis. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 947.
A really handsome shrub, attaining a height of fourteen to eighteen feet, with ample ever-green foliage and panicles of hite, deliciously scented flowers ; each blossom the size of, and in shape not much unlike that of the Barberry. It is a native of Mexico, requires the heat of a stove when the flowers come to perfection in May. Introduced to our gardens through the medium of Mr. Henderson of Pine Apple Place, who kindly presented it to the Royal Gardens. Messrs. Humboldt _ Bonpland named this in honour of the distinguished naturalist Count de Lacepede. ‘The species is a solitary one of the genus. Descr. A small free, which, with us, has attained the height of ten feet, much branched. Leaves opposite, on long petioles, ovate or oblongo-ovate, subcoriaceous, penninerved and peo lated, obscurely serrated, dark green above and glossy, paler beneath, and with the nerves prominent. Petioles terete, en two, or three inches long. Panicles terminal. Flowers — , white, powerfully fragrant, ovato-globose. Pedicels ger without bractese. Calya of five, imbricated, oval, ciliate es : € sepals. Petals not much longer than the sepals, white, vato- oblong, erect, concave, obscurely crenate at the margin. scree | erect, longer than the sepals. Filaments rather thick, subulate,
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white. Anthers large, yellow, exserted just beyond the corolla. There is a large fleshy deeply-lobed and crenate disk surrounding the base of the ovary. Ovary ovate, three-lobed, hairy, or rather setose, tapering upwards into three eventually separated styles. me Stigmas dilated. W. J. H. :
Cutt. This is a shrub or small tree of free growth, requiring the temperature of the stove, not particular as to soil, but demanding the usual precautions as to watering and drainage. It is readily
increased by cuttings, placed in bottom-heat under a bell-glass. JS.
Fig.1. Petal. 2. Flower. 3. Pistil and hypogynous disk. 4. Section of 3 ovary, 5. Flower from which the calyx and petals are removed :—magnified. ‘1
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Tas. 4460. NEMATANTHUS tonema.
Dark Sibodiocbsired Tonema.
Nat. Ord. GesNERIACE®.—DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA.
Gen. Char. Calyx liber obliquus ultra medium 5-fidus seu 5-partitus, lobis lanceolato-linearibus subequalibus, summo paululum minore. Corolla infundi- buliformi-campanulato-obliqua basi postice gibba, fauce patula, limbo equaliter 5-lobo. Stamina 4 didynama cum quinto rudimentario aut nullo. <Anthere coherentes. .dnnulus hypogynus et glandula postica. © Capsula pyramidalis coriacea 1-locularis 2-valvis, placentis 2 parietalibus bilamellatis. Semina in- numerosa oblonga.—Frutices Brasilienses simplices aut pauce ramosi supra arbores scandentes sepe radicantes, epidermide nitida cinereo-testacea. Folia opposita (altero sepe minore) petiolata crassiuscula oblonga aut ovali-lanceolata utrinque acuminata subintegerrima, juniora ciliata. Gemmata nuda foliis complicatis. Pedicelli — axillares 1-flores solitarii ebracteati filiformes penduli. Corolle punicee ample. — DC.
2 NeMATANTHUS tonema; foliis lato-lanceolatis utrinque acuminatis, calycibus violascentibus incano-hirsutis, pedunculis 6- ad 12-uncialibus violaceo- alboque villosis. Mart. Nematantuvs ionema. Mart. Nov. Gen. Bras. v.3. p. 47. Nemaranruvs corticola. Schrad. in Gott. Gel. Anz. v.1. p.719. Max. Prinz. von New. Reise nach Bras. v. 2. p. 208. et p. 343.
NeMatTantuus Morrelliana. Hortul.
This is the most striking of all the species of Mematanthus,
known in cultivation, remarkable for the great length of the
flower-stalks, the deep blood-colour of the corollas, the rich purple of the calyx-tube, and the pubescence on these latter. De Candolle, as observed under our Tab. 4018, JV. longipes, seems inclined to refer it to that species: but we agree with Dr. von Martius that it is “ distinctissima.” According to this last- mentioned author, it grows in primeval woods of Brazil, between Theos and the town of San Pedro de Alcantara :—there flowering in September, with us in the spring months, requiring a moist stove for its successful cultivation. We owe the possession of it at Kew, to Mr. Henderson of Pine Apple Place, who sent it under the unpublished name of WV. Morrelliana. oe
Descr. A succulent scandent shrué, with terete branches
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sending out roots from near the insertion of the leaves. Leaves opposite, thick, fleshy, broadly lanceolate or slightly obovate, obscurely serrated, very dark green, acuminated, at the base at- tenuated into a thick footstalk about an inch long. Peduncles solitary or two together, from the axils of the leaves, slender, very long (six to twelve inches) and pendent, dark purple-red, villous, bearing a single large obliquely pendent flower. Calye large, woolly rather than villous: ¢wbe turbinate, very dark purple: /imé of five lanceolate, serrated, almost leafy, spreading segments. Corolla im shape resembling that of JV. longipes (Tab. 4018) or of WV. chloronema (Tab. 4080), but of a rich deep blood-colour and clothed with hoary purplish pubescence. Sta- mens and style as long as the tube. Ovary hairy with a large gland on one side. W. J. H.
Curt. A native of the forests of Brazil, and agreeing in every respect as regards habit with what is said of A//oplectus at Tab. 4452. It may be either grown in a pot in turfy peat soil, or in a basket suspended from the roof of the house, in the way that many Orchids are grown. J. 8.
Fig. 1. Pistil and hypogynous gland.
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GAULTHERIA sracTeata.
Bracteated Gaultheria.
Nat. Ord. Ertcacr®.—DercanpriA MonoGyni.
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t Gen. Char. Calyx 5-lobus demum amplians plus minus baccatus et capsulam ambiens aut fovens. Corolla ovata ore seepe contracta 5-dentata. Stamina 10 inclusa, filamentis seepe villosis, antheris 4-aristatis nempe apice bifidis, loculis & biaristatis rarissime muticis. Stylus filiformis. Stigma obtusum. Sguame ae hypogynz 10 distinctze aut concrete. Capsula depresso-globosa, 5-locularis, a 5-sulcata, 5-valvis, valvis ‘septiferis loculicido-dehiscentibus. Placenta axi ad- : — nata, Semina innumerosa parva, testa subreticulata—Frutices aut rarius arbus- ; cule ex America rarius ex India orti. Folia alterna sempervirentia, dentata | aut integerrima. Pedicelli nune awillares 1flori nunc in racemum terminalem _ dispositi, bibracteolati. Corolle alba rosee aut coccinee. DC.
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GavLTHERIA bracteata ; prostrata, ramis teretibus hispidis, foliis breviter petio- latis cordato-ovatis acutis ciliato-serratis acutis supra levibus subtus reti- culatis sparse piloso-hispidis, racemis terminalibus et axillaribus glanduloso- pilosis, bracteis ovatis coloratis flores xquantibus, calyee laxo lobis_tri- an i-acuminatis pilosis, corollis conico-ovatis, limbi lobis patentibus.
Gavuurnerta bracteata. Don, Gard. Dict. v. 3. p.840. De Cand. Prodr. v. 7. p. 595. i. ae
Anpromepa bracteata. Cav, Ie. v. 6, p.42. 2.562. f:1.
re. Gautruerra odorata. H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 0.3. p.285. De Cand. Prodr. v.7.p.595.
4 Gaunruerta erecta. Vent. Hort. Cels. t.5. De Cand. Prodr. v. 7. p. 596.
Gavruertra cordifolia. H.B.K. Nov. Gen, dm. v. 3. p. 285. t. 261.
Gauuruerta rigida. H.B.K. Nov. Gen. Am. v. 3. p. 287. t. 262.
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Among the most interesting of mountain plants in the tropics and in the southern hemisphere, especially of the New World, are the various species of the present genus Gaultheria. Forty- three are enumerated by De Candolle ; but many of these are assuredly varieties ; and it would require much time and a rich herbarium to elucidate the history of the genus. The present one, from the Andes of Columbia, sent to the Royal * Gardens and to Syon by Mr. Purdie, is the Andromeda brac- io teata figured and described by Cavanilles ; and we are glad to give a representation from the living plant of what we believe to
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be identical with the original plant. In addition to the syno- nymes above quoted we were almost disposed to add the G. Pichinchensis, Bentham, and G. rufescens, De Cand.; but the clothing of the young stems is different, though variable. The greater or lesser breadth of the leaves, and the permanent or fugacious hairs of the different parts of the plant, are exceedingly uncertain characters.
Dzxscr. A low bushy, rigid, handsome, greenhouse shrub with prostrate dranches as seen in the plants at Kew and at Syon Gardens (where our drawing was made), these branches more or less hispid, the setze generally mixed with glandular hairs in the younger portions of the plant. Zeaves alternate, ovate or oblong or cordate, with a glandular mucro at the point, minutely serrated, penniveined and reticulated (more conspicuously beneath), gene- rally glabrous above, the serratures ciliated or tipped with hairs which are often deciduous: beneath glabrous or hairy, with sete about the base and mid-rib. Racemes axillary and terminal, simple, solitary: the flowers secund, rose-colour, as are the calyx and large bracteas: all these, as well as the short bi- bracteolated pedicels, are more or less hairy and more or less glandular. Calyx lax, cut deeply into five rather patent, acu- minated, triangular lobes. Corolla thrice as long as the calyx: conical-ovate, with five rather small ovate spreading segments of the limb. Stamens: filaments subulate, hairy. Anther-cells with two short horns. Ovary depressed, downy, five-lobed. Style columnar : stigma obtuse. W. J. H.
Curr. From the elevated regions of New Grenada, and as it grows under the same influences as regards climate, and partakes of the nature of Bejaria coarctata (Tab. 4433), the remarks there given are applicable to this species. It should be grown in light peat soil, and kept in a cool airy pit or frame during winter, and in summer should not be exposed too freely to the sun in hot weather. As it is also found in the more elevated
region of Quito, it may probably prove more hardy than we at present anticipate. /. 8.
Fig. 1. Flower, bractea, and bracteoles. 2. Variety of the same. 3. Stamen. 4. Pistil :-—magnified.
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Tas. 4462 MITRARIA cocciNngEa.
Scarlet Mitraria.
Nat. Ord.GEsNERIACE4—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.
Gen. Char. Calyx inferus bractea biloba mitreeformi calyculatus, 5-partitus (inaequalis), lobis pallidis lanceolatis fere pergamaceis. Corolla tubulosa sub- ventricosa, limbo bilabiato, lobo superiore bifido, infero 3-fido. Stamina 4, didynama exserta, antheris liberis ; quinti postice radimentum elongato-filiforme. Ovarium disco hypogyno impositum. Stylus subulatus. Stigma _crasstusculum. Bacca 1-locularis. Semina numerosa oblonga.—Frutex Chiloensis. Folia oppo- sita. Pedicelli solitarii v. 2-3 awillares nutantes 1flori. Cor. coccinea.
MITRARIA coccinea. Mirrarta coccinea. Cav. Ic. v.6. p. 67. t.579. De Cand. Prodr. v.71. p. 537. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 845.
Among the most attractive features at the June Exhibition (1849) of the Chiswick Horticultural Society, was this rare and lovely plant, communicated by Messrs. Veitch of Exeter: being one of the many choice plants sent by Mr. William Lobb from Chiloe, the only known station for it. It is a plant that has long been among the desiderata of the Horticulturist. It is a greenhouse plant, and may be found capable of bearing the open air, were it not for the droughts of our country, so different from the perennial fogs of Chiloe.
Dzscr. A low and somewhat succulent shrub, with obscurely tetragonous branches. Leaves rather small, but approximate, of a singularly delicate green colour, opposite, rarely ternate, on short petioles, ovate, acute, coarsely crenato-serrate, nearly gla- brous, paler and somewhat glaucous beneath. Peduncles much longer than the leaves, generally solitary from the axils, droopmg, tubercled and slightly thickened towards the calyx, single- flowered. Bractee \arge, two-lobed, nerved, broadly ovate, downy, closely embracing one side of the calyx. Calyx of five, unequal, lanceolate sepals or lobes, pale-coloured, downy towards the point and edges, one large and four smaller. Corolla bright scarlet: ¢wbe ventricose, curved, constricted at the base, the
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mouth a little contracted: the limb obscurely two-lipped, with five, subequal, spreading, obtuse segments. Stamen and style slightly exserted. Barren filament subulate. Ovary ovate, placed on a large hypogynous fleshy disk. Cells with two parietal receptacles. Stigma obtuse. W. J. H.
Curr. This pretty and interesting plant belongs to the same group of Gesneriacee as Nematanthus (Tab. 4460) and Allo- plectus (Tab. 4452), partaking of the trailing subscandent habit of these and other allied tropical genera; but MWitraria, being a native of the group of islands of which Chiloe is the chief, it may therefore be viewed as a tolerably hardy plant, especially in situations near the sea on our south and west coasts, the climate of Chiloe being characterized as very cold, with great humidity, for a great part of the year, but with little or no frost. We learn from Mr. Veitch (who is at present the sole possessor of this species) that four plants stood the open air of last winter in his Nursery at Exeter; but in situations not so favoured as the mild climate of Devonshire, it will be safest to protect it during winter, either in the greenhouse or in a cold pit or frame. As it is of a neat habit and a free flowerer, and strikes readily from cuttings treated in the usual way, we anticipate that it will become a favourite plant for the greenhouse. /. 8.
Fig.1. Stamens. 2. Bractea, calyx, and pistil. 3. Calyx. 4. Ovary and hypogynous disk. 5. Transverse section of the ovary :—magnified.
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Tas. 4463 coma SIDA (AxBuTILON) VENosa.
Veiny-petaled Sida,
Nat. Ord. Matvace#®.—MoNnaADELPHIA POLYANDRIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4227.)
Supa (Abutilon) venosa; subarborea, ramis herbaceis glabris, foliis lon _ tiolatis cordatis 7-palmatis profunde 7-lobatis, lobis lanceolatis ac -grosse inciso-serratis, stipulis subulato-lanceolatis, pedunculis axillgribus solitariis unifloris longitudine foliorum sub apicem articulatis, calycis ampli campanulati tubo globoso 15-lamellato limbo 5-partito laciniis ovato-lan- ceolatis acuminatis, petalis latissime spathulatis concavis conniventibus venosis. ; is sa : % ABUTILON venosum, Hortal.
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it may almost be called a small
tree, the name of which we have only seen in print in a Catalogue of —
venosum, Hort. Zuric.” It appears to have come to England by way of Belgium, and we have no information of its native country; but if we judge from its affinity with Sida Bed- fordiana (Bot. Mag. t. 3892) and S. picta (t. 3540), we should in- fer that south Brazil is its native country. Of the two species just - mentioned, it is most nearly allied to S.picta, on account of its Imated leaves ; but the segments of the leaves, and the flowers, especially the structure of the calyx, are very different. It blooms in the spring and summer, and our earliest knowledge of it was from a fine specimen brought to us by Robert Barclay, Esq., who had flowered it at Nott’s Green, Leytonstone. | The blossoms are large and exceedingly handsome, from the rich colour and fine purple veining of their petals. os | Descr. A small free, with rather straggling branches, the young ones herbaceous, quite glabrous. Leaves frequently a span long, broadly cordate, palmately and deeply seven-lobed, the lobes lanceolate, much acuminated, and coarsely and incisely serrated : the young ones only with a few stellated hairs, chiefly
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the Plants of the Botanic Garden of Zurich, marked “Abutilon
on the nefves on the underside. Stipules subulato-lanceolate, entire. Peduncle axillary, solitary, about as long as the leaf, single-flowered, articulated and generally geniculated an inch or more below the calyx. lower very large, droopmg. Calywx large, bell-shaped, slightly downy, with rufous, stellated hairs ; the ¢ube inflated, subglobose, very obtuse at the base, marked longitudinally with fifteen elevated striz or lamella, which become obsolete in the five large ovato-lanceolate segments of the limb: these segments are clothed with whitish down within. Corolla twice as long as the calyx. Petals erecto-connivent, obovato-spathulate, very concave, golden orange colour, richly veined and reticulated with brown. Stamens numerous. Style as long as the column of stamens, with nine branches at the summit. WJ. H.
Cutr. A slender, upright, soft-wooded, shrubby plant of rapid growth, soon becoming tall and naked below, and there- fore better adapted for planting out in a greenhouse conserva- tory, than for cultivating in a pot. In either case it is desirable to shorten the leading shoots, so as to induce it to branch. It will thrive well in any good garden-loam, mixed with a little leaf-mould or sandy peat-soil. During summer it requires to be freely supplied with water, and may at that season be fully ex-
posed to the open air. It is readily increased by cuttings, treated in the usual way. J. 8.
Fig. 1, Pistil :—magnified.
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Tas. 4464. PENTSTEMON cyaNnanTHUs.
Azure-flowered Penstemon.
Nat. Ord. ScROPHULARINEA—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4319.)
PENTSTEMON cyananthus; elatus glaucescenti-viridis, foliis integerrimis inferioribus
oblongo-spathulatis petiolatis acuminatis, caulinis sessilibus cordato-ovatis
_ tenui-acuminatis floralibus inferioribus late cordatis acuminatissimis, pedun-
culis axillaribus pseudo-verticillatis multifloris spicam foliosam interruptam
spectabilem formantibus, sepalis angustis lanceolato-subulatis, corolla pul-
cherrime azureee (tubo purpureo) superne ampliato, limbi bilabiati lobis subsequalibus, antheris filamentoque sterili hirsutis.
A more beautiful Pentstemon even than that we have figured at Tab. 4319, having equally handsome flowers, and these much more numerous and more compact, forming a spike (as m a specimen now before us) more than a foot long, and with much finer foliage. It is, too, an inhabitant of the same country, the upper valleys of the Platte River in the Rocky Mountains, where seeds were collected by Mr. Burke. These seeds were reared by Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., in whose Exeter Nursery the plants flowered beautifully, in the open air, in May 1849. The species is doubtless quite hardy, and a great acqui- sition to our flower-borders. A bed filled with this species would have a splendid effect. It may rank near P. acuminatum, Dougl. (in Bot. Reg. t. 1285), but is quite different, and in- finitely more beautiful. ;
Descr. Perennial. Stems herbaceous, erect, terete, simple in our specimen. Leaves all entire, inclining to glaucous-green. Root-leaves petiolate, spathulate, acuminate. Stem-leaves the broadest and largest of the genus, cordato-ovate, or cordate, sessile, acuminate: those of the inferior pseudo-whorls broadly cordate and very acuminate : uppermost ones of all reduced to subulate bracteas. Peduncles opposite, axillary in all the upper floral and bracteal leaves, bearing cymes of many flowers, which form pseudo-whorls around the stem. Calyx of five subulate SEPTEMBER Ist, 1849. K 2
sepals. Corolla rather large, the tube ventricose upwards, purple: the /imé two-lipped, bright azure blue; the segments obtuse, nearly equal, those of the upper lip being rather the smallest. Stamens and pistil included. Filaments much curved. Anthers and sterile stamen hairy. W. J. H.
Cunt. This fine species of Pentstemon is, like the rest of the genus, a hardy perennial plant, and will, we think, prove an ornamental plant for the flower-border. Although the several species of this genus are considered herbaceous perennials, some even assuming an evergreen suffruticose habit, yet the present species belongs to a section of which, after flowering, the plants often become weakly, and do not flower so fine the fol- lowing year. It is, therefore, desirable to have a succession of young plants, which, in those species which do not readily produce seeds, may be obtained by cuttings, placed under a hand-glass: this operation should be done as early in the summer as cuttings can be got, so as to have the young plants sufficiently strong by the autumn. On account of their ever- green suffruticose habit, it is desirable to shelter them in a frame during winter; but taking due care that they do not suffer through damp. J. 8.
Fig. 1. Root-leaf:—natural size. 2. Stamens :—magnified.
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Tas. 4465, SAUROMATIUM curratum ‘
et 3 7 Spotted Sauromatium.
Nat, Ord. Arnorpem.—Monacta PoLyanpDrRia.
Gen. Char. Spatha basi tubulosa, limbo plano patente. Spadix inferne inter- rupte androgynus, genitalibus rudimentariis infra stamina sparsis apice sub- clavato nudus. Anthere distinct, loculis oppositis, rimula brevi subobliqua dehiscentibus. Ovaria plurima, libera, unilocularia. Ovuda 2, basilaria, e funi- culis brevibus erecta, orthotropa. Stigma terminale, sessile, depresso-hemi- sphericum. Bacce monosperme. Semen . . . .—Herbee Indice ; tubere radi- cali globoso, carnoso, maximo, scapo radicali brevissimo, subsolitaria, basi squamoso, spatha maculata, folio serotino, pedati-partito, multilobo. Endl.
Savromatium guttatum ; foliis pedati-multipartitis lobis oblongis acuminatis» spatha ad os tubi irregulariter subulato-repanda.
SAUROMATIUM guttatum. Schott., Meletem. v.1. p.17. Blume, Rumphia, v. 1. p. 126. Kth. Enum, Plant. v. 3. p. 28.
Arum guttatum. Wall, Pl. Asiat. Rar. v. 2. pl. 10. p. 115.
A very remarkable Aroideous plant, native of the East Indies, where it is probably not uncommon. Dr. Wallich detected it im Nepal, Blume in Java. Roots of our plant were sent to us by our friend Mr. Law, Tanna, Bombay, in 1848, and they flowered in the stove in the spring of the following year. The flower was succeeded by the leaf. The said flower has no very agreeable smell, but Dr. Wallich observes it is far less offensive than many of the other species. Before expansion, Dr. Wallich found the heat at the bottom of the spatha to be very considerable.
Descr. From the top of a large almost globose ¢wer, and surrounded by three or four membranaceous spotted scales or bracteas, arises the singularly shaped, and no less singularly marked, sessile spatha, from a foot and a half to two feet long, almost cylindrical below, but somewhat swollen at the very base ; at the height of three or four inches from the base the sheath opens, ‘as it were, and is dilated into a large, lanceolato-subulate, Beacitied, fleshy spatha, which is reflexed and waved below at the margin : the colowr, without livid or purplish-green, 1s within s SEPTEMBER Ist, 1849. -
greenish-yellow, palest below, and there marked with copious, small, red-purple spots, the rest with larger blotches, except at the apex, where it is rather streaked than spotted. Spadix erect below, and nearly cylindrical; at the base densely clothed with copious, obovate ovaries, above which are several spathu- Jate, abortive ovaries, then naked to the apex of the erect portion, which is equally encased in the numerous sessile, two- celled anthers; above this commences the almost cylindrical but slightly attenuated apex, nearly a foot long, and of a livid purple colour. On the decay of the flower the leaf developes itself on a spotted stalk, and is pedato-partite, with the segments oblong, attenuated, entire. WV. /. 7.
Curr. A tuberous-rooted herbaceous plant, native of Bombay and other parts of India. The tubers lie dormant during the dry season, coming quickly into flower and leaf on receiving the stimulus of moisture. With us the roots are dormant in winter. They should be placed in a dry part of the stove, beyond the reach of receiving much moisture.. Early in the spring the tubers should be examined, and (if necessary) re- potted; using a mixture composed of light loam and_ peat in about equal proportion, placing the pot in heat, and watering it sparingly, till the tubers begin to grow. The flower-stem comes first, and after a time is succeeded by the leaves, which remain green during summer. It produces offsets freely from the sides of the tuber, which’ show themselves above — ground. J. 8.
Fig. 1. Lower fertile portion of the spadix :—natural size. 2. Pistil. 3. An- ther :—magnified.
Tas. 4466. ROUPELLIA Grata.
Cream-fruit.
Nat. Ord. APocyNEZ.—PENTANDRIA MonoGynIA.
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus glandulis baseos (circa 12) in annulum dispositis. Corolle tubus infundibuliformis ; faux coronata ligulis 10 equidistantibus basi in annulum connatis; limbi lacinie 5, late, estivatione sinistrorsum convolute.
_ Stamina tubo inserta, inclusa, filamenta brevia, anthere sagittate longe acumi-
nate. Stylus filiformis, apice in massam 5-sulcatam antheris cohzrentem dila- — tatus, ultra dilatationem vix productus et obscure emarginatus. Nectarium 0. Ovaria ? Fructus (fide R. Br.) Voacange v. Urceole.—Gen. nov. e tribu Plu- mieriearum et subtribu Tabernemontanearum.—Frutex glaberrimus, habitu Taber- nemoihtanas Africartas referens. Folia opposita, breviter petiolata, semipedalia, oblongo-elliptica, breviter acuminata, basi aculeata, crassiuscula, venis primaris a costa media divergentibus haud crebris subtus prominulis, rete venularum parum conspicua ; petioli basi parum dilatati, linea transversali conjuncti et intus glan- dulis parvis acutis stipuleformibus aucti. Cymze terminales, sessiles, dense 6—8- Jlore, fere umbellaformes. Bracteze ovato-lanceolate acute acuminate dorso cari- nate, 14-2 lin. longe. Pedicelli bracteis longiores, calyce breviores. Calycis lobi obovati, 6-8 lin. longi, membranacei, apice colorati. Corolla alba pallide roseo- tincta, tubus sesguipollicaris, superne ampliatus, intus extusque glaber ; \acinie late obovate, margine crispe, pollice paullo longiores. Coronze ligule Janceolato- lineares, erecta, pulchre rosea, 4—5 lin. longa. Stamina ad originem partis am- pliate ubi inserta. Filamenta brevia, crassa, leviter papulosa. Antherarum acumen tubum corolle fere superans, auricule baseos breves recta, pars media tantum perry Ovarium disco crassiusculo haud vero in nectarium producto insidens.— entham.
RovrELLia grata. Rovpetta grata. Wallich et Hook. MSS.
Cream-rruit. Afzelius in “ Sierra Leone Report, 1794. p. 113. n. 7.” Brown, App. to Tuckey’s Narr. p. 449.
It is with no small degree of pleasure that we are enabled to give a representation of a very handsome and very fragrant plant of tropical Africa, noticed by Afzelius as the Cream-fruit, so called, we presume, from the use occasionally made of the cream-like juice of the fruit, but of which little seems to be known beyond the bare mention of it under that name by Afzelius and Mr. Brown. It is a native of Sierra Leone; (introduced to our stoves, we believe, by Mr. Whitfield,) and, in May 1849, we were favoured with beautiful flowering specimens by Mr. Pince of the
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Exeter Nursery, from the collection of Mrs. Halford of Newcourt, near Exeter; a lady ardently devoted to the cultivation of rare exotics. It was exhibited under the name of Strophanthus Stanleyanus, at the Devon and Exeter Horticultural Society’s Spring Exhibition, and gained a prize. The plant possesses additional interest, in our estimation, as being the one selected by Dr. Wallich and myself to bear the name of the family of Roupell, of whom not a few have served the cause of Botany : viz., Charles Roupell, Esq., of Charlestown, South Carolina, commemorated in many of the pages of Sir James HE. Smith’s ‘Correspondence of Linnus ;’ Dr. Roupell of Welbeck Street, London, his grandson ; together with another grandson, Thomas Boone Roupell, Esq., a gentleman now high in the Civil Service of the E. I. Company, on the Madras Establishment ; while the talented lady of the latter is the authoress of a beautiful work about to issue from the press, illustrated by her own pencil, on Plants of South Africa. Hence the name is appropriately com- _ memorated in an African genus of no small beauty and fragrance.
We are indebted to Mr. Bentham, who is now engaged in the preparation of the plants of the Niger Expedition, for the above generic character and description, which render any further botanical remarks on our part needless. If, as we trust, the plant comes into general cultivation, it cannot fail to be much prized ; if not for the application of the fruit (which may be better suited to an African than to an English palate), yet as- suredly for the size and beauty of colour of its flowers, no less than for their agreeable odour. W.J. H.
Cur. This handsome, climbing, shrubby plant, being a native of Sierra Leone, consequently requires to be grown in a warm and moist hot-house. It is of free growth, and, being a smooth clean-leaved plant, not subject to insects, is well adapted for a trellis, or to train up a pillar or rafter ; and it will also form a bushy plant grown in a pot, if supported with a wire trellis, or by neat stakes. Good fresh loam, with a little leaf- mould, will suit it. As it is a fast grower, it requires water freely during summer; but care must be taken that the soil does not become stagnant. It is propagated by cuttings, which strike root readily when placed under a bell-glass, and the pot plunged in bottom heat. — It appears to be a shy flowerer ; for, although we have known it in cultivation for several years, we have not heard of its producing flowers, except in the collection above-mentioned. J. 8. ,
Fig.1. Calyx and pistil. 9. Stamens. 3. Pistil and perigynous scales. 4. Stamen. 5. Section of the ovary :—magnified.
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Tas. 4467. ARISTOLOCHIA MacRADENIA.
Large glanduled Birthwort.
Nat. Ord. ARISTOLOCHIEE.—GYNANDRIA HEXANDRIA.
Gen, Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4361.)
ArtsToLocHta macradenia ; scandens glaberrima, foliis sublonge petiolatis cor- dato-hastatis, sinu profundo lato lobis rotundatis, pedunculo axillari soli- tario unifloro petiolo sublongiore, perianthii unilabiati tubo basi inflato striato, limbo ovato lateribus reflexis supra reticulatis glandulosis, glandulis magnis globosis stipitatis.
This curious plant flowered, im a warm greenhouse of the Royal Gardens of Kew, in the spring of 1849, and there our drawing was made. It had bloomed the year before with John Taylor, Esq., of Sheffield House, Kensington, to whom we are indebted for the possession of the plant. That gentleman imported it from Real del Monte. It is one of the most re- markable and distinct of the many species of the genus.
Dezscr. Cultivated in a pot, with a balloon trellis, this forms a suffruticose, climbing plant, with long, slender, terete stems. Leaves alternate, four to five inches long, petiolate, between cordate and hastate, tapering to an acute point, glabrous, with about seven principal nerves and several connecting nervelets, the sinus deep and broad, the lobes large, rotundate, spreading. _ Petiole about an inch and a half long. Peduncle longer than the petiole, axillary, solitary, single-flowered. Flower rather large, somewhat drooping, including the germen, almost as long as the leaves. Ovary slightly downy, inferior, club-shaped, furrowed. ude greenish, striated, the lower half much inflated, then contracted, at the summit again dilated and extending into a single declined, large, ovate Jip, the sides always revolute, the upper surface rich brown, with yellow reticulated veins, and beset with large stipitate, globose glands, looking almost like the fructification of some Calicium. The tube inside is slightly hairy, and there is a scale at the summit of the inflation. Co/wmn oval,
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with six linear anthers on the sides, and a six-cleft stigma at the top. W. J. H.
Cutt. In all cases of strong-growing creeping plants, where there are means for planting them out, we always do so, as few can be cultivated to advantage in pots. This being a weak and slender-growing species of Aristolochia, it may be grown in a moderate-sized pot. With us it has flowered freely, trained to wire trellis fixed to the pot, and kept in a stove, the temperature of which in winter may average about 50°. A mixture of light loam and sandy peat-soil suits it. Propagated by cuttings, treated in the usual way. J. S.
Fig. 1. Section of the base of the perianth :—magnified.
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Tas. 4468.
CYRTANTHERA avRAnTIACa.
— Orange-flowered Cyrtanthera.
Nat. Ord. ACANTHACEH.—DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TAB. 4444.)
CYRTANTHERA aurantiaca ; fruticosa erecta, caule acuto tetragono, foliis lato- seu elliptico-lanceolatis rigidiusculis in petiolum breviusculum crassum attenuatis, thyrso compacto ovato, floribus erectis flavo-aurantiacis, bracteis ellipticis, bracteolis sepalisque lanceolatis pubescentibus, corolla labio superiore recto, ’
CaLcosTyYLis aurantiaca. Makoy’s Cat.
The Acanthaceous plants contain many beautiful species known at present to us only in our Herbaria, but which are
- eminently worth cultivating, witness the many species of Strobi-
lanthes, Barleria, &c. of the East Indies, especially of Ceylon ; while the New World, in Dipteracanthus and the genus here represented of tropical South America, presents individuals of equal merit in regard to beauty. Already two species of Cyr- tanthera have appeared in our Magazine, the Justicia carnea (Tab. 3383), now called Cyrtanthera magnifica by Nees, and our C. catalpefolia (Tab. 4444). There can be no doubt of the present beg a congener of those. We received our plant, at the Royal Gardens, Kew, from our often-mentioned friend Mr. Henderson, of Pine-Apple Place; and it appears to have been sent to him from Belgium under a name we can nowhere find in print, save in Makoy’s Catalogue, but without any oat of its introduction to Europe, or any mention of native ocality.
Saks. A shrub with erect stem: dranches rather stout, herbaceous, acutely tetragonal. Leaves opposite, broadly ellip- tical, lanceolate, slightly acuminate, rather rigid, penninerved, tapering below into a rather short thick petiole. Flowers large, handsome, bright-coloured, copious, erect, forming a dense ter- minal, bracteated thyrsus. Bracteas (at least the lower ones)
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almost half as long as the flower, elliptical, approaching to ovate, appressed, leafy. Bracteoles lanceolate, downy, scarcely longer than the sepals of the calyx, which resemble them, but are smaller. Corolla full golden-yellow on first expansion ; after- wards the tube and lower lip become orange-red. Zimdé nearly as long as the tube, upper lip erect, acuminate, the point bifid : lower lip oblong, much reflexed, three-fid, the segments linear, approximate, straight. laments nearly as long as the corolla, ~ lodged in the channelled upper lip. Anther-cells separated by a connectivum, one higher up than the other, both with a short spur at the base, glandular at the margin. Ovary immersed in a large cup-shaped, irregular gland : style pubescent at the base, as long as the corolla: stigma a little thickened, bifid. W. J. H.
Cur. This species of Cyrtanthera has a much stiffer habit, and of less luxuriant growth than the species figured at Tab. 4444. The treatment there mentioned will suit it; but, on account of its weaker habit, care must be taken not to over-pot it. A succession of young plants should be kept, as it is apt to become naked and unsightly after flowering ;—a cir- cumstance common to most of the soft-wooded, suffruticose Acanthacee. J. 8.
Fig. 1. Anther. 2. Bracteoles, calyx, and pistil. 3. Ovary and cup-shaped nectary :—magnified.
4469.
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Tas. 4469. NYMPHAEA ampta.
Broad-leaved Water-Lily.
Nat. Ord. NympH®AacEa—PoLyaNnpRIA MonoGynia.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4257.)
Nympy#a ampla; foliis cordato-rotundatis peltatis grosse dentatis glaberrimis reticulatis maculatis superne minute tuberculatis subtus coloratis nervis prominentibus sinu profunde angustissimo, sepalis lineato-maculatis, pe- talis albis, antheris exappendiculatis exterioribus longissimis, stigmate con-
. cavo sub- 26-radiato.
Nympu@a ampla. De Cand. Syst. 0.2. p. 54. Prodr.v.1.p.115. M‘Fad. dn Jam. p.19.
CasTaxia ampla. Salisb. Ann. Bot. v. 2. p. 73.
Nympuma Rudgeana. Meyer, Fl. Prim. Esseq. p. 198.
Nympn#a Lotus. Lunan, Jam. p. 271.
Nympna Indica flore candido, &e. Sloane, Jam. v. 1. p. 252.
Nympua foliis amplioribus, &c. Browne, Jam. p. 243.
At p. 3. of the Companion to the Bot. Mag. vol. 74. 1s given an account of the re-discovery of the long lost Nelumbium Jamaicense. Together with tubers of that noble plant, those of the present little known but very handsome species of Water-Lily were sent to us by our valued friend Dr. M‘Fadyen. We shared them with Mr. Silvester, of North Hall, Chorley, Lan- cashire, a most successful cultivator of Nymphaacee, and he had the good fortune to flower the plant in May 1849. From the specimen sent by that gentleman our figure is taken. Its nearest ally is the W. versicolor (Bot. Mag. t. 1189), whose flowers vary to white; but the leaves in this are more deeply toothed, almost lobed, the colour on the underside is much deeper, the young leaves are wholly and deep red, there are copious linear dark spots on the foliage and sepals, and the tubers are very different.
Descr. Zubers about the size of a chestnut, rounded, but
* We are rejoiced to know that Dr. M‘Fadyen is engaged in continuing his ‘Flora of Jamaica,’
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flattened at the top, from which the leaves issue. Leaves large, ample, floating, nearly orbicular, peltate, glabrous, with a deep very narrow sinus, reaching nearly to the insertion of the petiole, deeply and irregularly toothed, or almost sinuato-lobate at the margin, lobes or teeth very irregular, those at the sinus the longest and sharpest; the colour is purplish-green above, dark purplish-red below, on both sides reticulated with nerves, the nerves prominent and pale beneath, and on both sides marked with numerous, linear, black dots or short lines, radiating from the centre, more copious and larger towards the apex of the lobes. The flowers rise above the water, and are white, larger than those of our own WV. alba. Sepals four, ovato-lanceolate, pale yellow-green, sprinkled with brown linear dots, outer petals subsepaloid, all of them lanceolate, obtuse, the interior a little smaller. Stamens numerous, yellow. Filaments short, awl- shaped; outer anthers very long, spreading ; inner ones forming a cone over the many-rayed stigma. W. J. H.
Curr. A tropical perennial aquatic, furnished with tuberous roots, that lie dormant in the muddy soil, during the dry season, and start into growth on being overflowed with water. In cul- tivating this plant the tubers should, early in the spring, be taken out of the last year’s soil, and repotted in fresh pure loam, immersing the pots in water to the depth of about an inch be- low the surface of the pot. Where there is not the advantage of a proper tropical aquarium to grow them in, large pans or shallow tubs may be used, placed in a temperature of 65° to 75°, fully exposed to the sun. As the leaves increase in size, sufficient room must be given to allow them to float freely on the surface of the water ; for if they become overcrowded the under ones soon decay, which affect the others. Care is also requisite to keep the leaves free from Conferva ; and to assist in doing so a portion of the water should be drawn off every day, and fresh water added. Towards the end of autumn the leaves begin to decay : the water should then be gradually withdrawn, allowing only sufficient. to keep the soil in a state of mud during winter ; at the same time lowering the temperature of the house, which, on an average, may be kept about 60°. J. S.
Fig. 1. Section of the ovary :—natural size.
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Tas. 4470. | CUPANIA CuNNINGHAMI.
Mr. Cunningham's Cupania.
Nat. Ord. SapinpacE#®.—Ocranpria MonoGynta.
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus equalis. Corolle petala 5, receptaculo inserta, calycis laciniis alterna, qualia, supra unguam squamula aucta, interdum nulla. Discus calycis fundum occupans regularis, integerrimus v. crenulatus. Stamina 8, v.10, disco intus inserta; filamenta filiformia, libera, anthere introrse, bi- loculares, dorso inserts, mobiles, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ovarium centrale, sessile, triloculare. Ovula in loculis solitaria, angulo centrali paullo supra basim inserta, adscendentia. Stylus simplex, apice trifidus, lobis intus stigmatosis. Capsula coriacea v. sublignosa, pyriformis, 2-3-gona, 2-3-locularis, loculicide 2—3-valvis, valvis medio septiferis. | Semina in loculis solitaria, subglobosa, erecta, arillo cupuleeformi carnoso inclusa, ¢esta crustacea. Hinbryonis exalbuminosi, plus minus curvati, cofyledones crassissime, incumbentes, radicula brevis, umbilico proxima, infera.—Arbores v. Frutices erecti, inter tropicos totius orbis crescentes ; foliis alternis petiolatis, exstipulatis, abrupte pinnatis, foliolis oppositis v. alternis integerrimis v. serratis, interdum pellucido-punctatis, floribus polygamis in racemos axillares dispositis. Endl.
Cupanta Canninghami ; ramis petiolis foliisque subtus paniculis calycibus fruc- tusque pubescenti-ferrugineis, foliis pari-pinnatis foliolis 8-10 oblongis bre- vissime petiolulatis, petalis 4 rotundatis unguiculatis pilosulis intus bi- squamosis, squamis hirtis spathulatis dorso glanduloso-cristatis.
STADTMANNIA australis. 4J/. Cunn. MSS.
The attention of most visitors to the great stove of the Royal Gardens is attracted to a lofty growing shrub or tree among the Palms, exceeding many of them in height, with large pinnated leaves, with the young branches especially clothed with fer- ruginous down, and labelled Stadfmannia australis of Allan Cunningham: it flowers in the spring, and is succeeded by large clusters of orange-coloured downy fruit, which split open while yet attached to the plant, and exhibit the bright orange pulpy arillus containing the seed. This is the plant of which we here represent as much as our ordinary-sized plate will allow. Tt is a native of New Holland, on the north-east coast near the tropics, and was discovered by Allan Cunningham, who speaks of it in his notes before me as “a tree 30-40 feet high, found in dark woods at Five Islands district, and on the banks of Hastings River, at Port Macquarrie and Brisbane in Moreton _ Bay.” I have specimens likewise, gathered at West Macquarrie by Mr. James Backhouse. Stad¢mannia of Lamarck has now merged into Cupania ; and other species being found in Australia I have named the species after its lamented discoverer. _ It is a noble plant with handsome foliage and fruit, but rather insigni- | ficant flowers, and of too lofty growth for ordinary cultivation. —
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and all the younger parts, the petioles, leaves beneath, panicles, calyx, and fruit clothed with rusty down. Leaves one to two feet long, pinnated with four or five pairs of opposite, elliptical leaftets, smooth and glossy above, penninerved, the nerves very pro- minent and conspicuous beneath. Panicles terminal, often very compound, furnished with small deciduous red bracteas. Calyx obtuse or truncated at the base, cup-shaped, cut into five equal, hairy, ferruginous, ovato-triangular, erect segments. Pefa/s four, white, suborbiculate, erose, slightly hairy, erect or a little in- curved, shorter than the calyx, clawed : within are two, large, spa- thulate, inflexed, hairy scales or appendages, the back near the apex of each bearing a glandular yellow stipitate crest. Stamens eight, erect, longer than the calyx and corolla, equal. i/aments subulate. Anthers oblong, two-celled, erect, pale yellow. Ovary subrotund, three-lobed, seated on one side of and upon a large bright orange-coloured fleshy g/and or disk, densely clothed with ferruginous down and hairs: sfy/e longer than the stamens, with spreading sete: stigma minute, three-fid. /rwit a three-lobed, depressed capsule, each lobe opening in the centre by a vertical fissure, and containing a solitary brown seed, enveloped by a pulpy arillus. Embryo green. W.J. H.
Cunt. A large tree of robust growth, in its native forests conspicuous above the other trees, the bark having an iron-like appearance. It is a native of the east coast of New Holland, about 31° south latitude, and therefore not adapted for out-door cultivation in this country. The plant from which the drawing was made was introduced in 1825, and for a number of years was kept in the green-house, and shifted as it increased m size into a larger pot, and ultimately into a plant-tub, in which it out-grew our green-house accommodation ; this caused it to be removed into the tropical Palm-house, where the stimulus of a warmer atmosphere induced it to flower for the first time during the present summer, and having perfected its seeds it has enabled us to obtain a stock of young plants; for on account of its little tendency to throw out lateral branches we have not had the opportunity of increasing it by cuttings. It has therefore been considered a rare plant in this country, and being best adapted for growing in lofty houses, it can only be valued by a few; but as it is of remarkable and striking habit, and on that account worthy of being admired, it may be kept in a small state for a number of years; like a second plant in this garden of the same age, which is not half the size of the first. J. 8.
Fig.1. Flower. 2. Petal with its appendages. 38. Stamen. 4. Pistil and hypogynous gland :—magnified, 5. Capsule. 6. Pulpy arillus, containing the ane 7. Arillus laid open, showing the seed. 8, Seed. 9. Embryo :-—
ural size. .
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Tas. 4471. METROSIDEROS ruoripa.
| Copious-flowering Metrosideros.
Nat. Ord. Myrtace®.—IcosaNDRIA MONOGYNIA.
Gen. Char. Calycis tubus ovario adherens non angulatus, limbus 5-fidus. Stam. 20-30 longissima exserta. Stylus filiformis. Stigma simplex. Capsula 2- seepius 3-locularis, loculis polyspermis. Semina aptera.—Arbores aut frutices. Folia opposita aut alterna. Flores pedicellati nec ullo modo ut in Melaleuca et Callistemone ramo adnati.
_ Merrosrperos florida ; foliis oppositis oblongo-ovatis glabris parallelim dis- tincte venosis subcoriaceis glabris, corymbo composito terminali, calycibus - turbinatis, petalis staminibusque coccineis, fructibus urceolatis 5-costatis. Merrostperos florida. Sm. in Linn. Trans. v. 3. p. 268. De Cand. Prodr. v. 3. p.224, Ach. Rich. Fl. Nov. Zeal. p.333. All. Cunn. Bot. N. Zeal. in Ann. Nat. Hist. v. 3. p. 113.
Metaevca florida. Forst. Prodr. n. 114. LeprospEeRMuM scandens. Forst. Gen. ¢. 36. n. 1.
A native of dense forests in New Zealand, introduced to our green-houses by Mr. Allen Cunningham, but although long admired for the beauty of its foliage, it blossomed for the first time in May 1849, when the bright red corymbs of flowers added in no small degree to the charm of the shrub.
Duscr. A shrub with us, about five feet high, everywhere glabrous, forming indeed a compact mass, but every now and then sending out spreading branches, which indicate that under favourable circumstances the plant would be scandent. Branches rounded, or but indistinctly angular, reddish-brown. Leaves opposite, an inch or an inch and a half long, subcoriaceous, on short petioles, elliptical-ovate, even, slightly glossy, distinctly and closely nerved on both sides, the nerves uniting with an extra marginal nerve; dark green above, pale beneath, where also the dotting is more distinct than on the upper side, but not visible to the naked eye. Corymbs terminal, almost: sessile. Peduncle red, compound. Calyx turbinate, attenuated’ below ;
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the /imb five-lobed ; lobes rounded, green. Petals orbicular, concave, red, deciduous, longer than the calycine lobes. Stamens numerous, at first involute, then spreading, four times as long as the petals ; filaments and anthers red. Style about as long as the filaments. Stigma a little dilated. W. J. H.
Curr. This is a fine glossy-leaved evergreen shrub, forming under our cultivation a handsome bush, having much resemblance to the Myrtle. Although a native of New Zealand, the climate of which is said to be similar to that of Great Britain, yet we find it not sufficiently hardy to bear the open air in this country, during the low temperature of some of our winters, especially such as are sometimes experienced in the eastern and midland districts ; but we have every reason to believe that the climate of the coasts of Devon and Cornwall, and the south and west of Ireland, would be suitable for growing the plant in the open air, and that it would there flourish unprotected, and prove a highly ornamental shrub. Its habit shows it to love moisture, and although with us it grows freely, treated as a green-house plant in a pot or tub in loam, yet in its own country it assumes a very different habit, being epiphytal, climbing up and extending itself on trees to a great height, becoming fixed by its its aerial roots and branches, which interlace with the trees on which it grows, forming dense leafy masses similar to Ivy in this country, but of a much gayer appearance when in flower. We find it disposed to throw out roots on the main branches: it therefore readily increases by cuttings treated in the usual way. JS.
Fig. 1. Flower :—magnified.
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Tas. 4472.
GONOLOBUS Martianus.
Dr. von Martius’ Gonolobus.
Nat. Ord. AscLEPIADE#.—PENTANDRIA D1GYNIA.
Gen. Char. Calya 5-partitus, sepalis patulis. Corolla subrotata, 5-partita, estivatione contorta, laciniis sepissime patulis sed interdum patenti-reflexis v. erectiusculis. Corone stamina carnosula, parva, ad faucem corolle apposita, annuliformis, undulato-lobata, lobis integris prominentibus. Gynostegium breve. Anthere transversim dehiscentes, membrana terminate. Masse pollinis extre- mitate exteriori, loculi respectu, affixe, apice hine pellucide, stigmate tecte. Stigma planiusculo-depressum, pentagonum, sepe margine angusto cinctum. Foiliculi ventricosi, subcostati, spinis imocuis plus minusve echinati. Semina comosa.—Frutices Americani volubiles. Folia opposita cordata, ad limbi ortum glandulifera, sepissime hirta, pedunculi interpetiolares, racemi v. corymbiformes ; flores virentes, fusci v. atropurpurei, haud raro reticulato-venosi v. submarmorati. DC.
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GonoLosus Martianus: ramis petiolis pedunculisque pilis longis (siccitate ferrugineis) patentibus hirsutis, foliis pubescenti hirtis oblongo-ovatis cuspi- dato-acuminatis basi cordatis sinu clauso, pedunculis demum folio longiori- bus, umbellis plurifloris, sepalis (rubris) lanceolato-acuminatis patenti-re-. flexis hirtis corollam (albam basi viridem) sequantibus, corollse lobis ovato- rotundatis medio sulcato-plicatis, coronze stamines lobis rotundatis carnosis.
FIscHERIA martiana. Desne., in De Cand. Prodr. v. 8. p. 601.
An Asclepiadeous plant, very closely indeed allied to Gonolobus velutinus, Schltdl. from Mexico (differing chiefly in the longer leaves and longer peduncles and approximate lobes to the base of the leaves),—and of which Decaisne says, “ Habitu necnon inflores- centia Fischeria :” and on referring to Fischeria it will be seen to accord admirably with F. Vartiana, described as a native of the island of St. Sebastian, Brazil : the spot where our fine dried speci- mens were gathered by the late Mr. Fox, when he was our Minister at the Court of Brazil. If, as I believe, I am correct in this re- ference, the plant is surely not distinct from Gonolobus, of which another nearly allied but not distinct species 1s the Gonolobus setosus, Benth. (Pl. Hartweg, n. 1193.) In the stove of the Botanic Garden of Kew the plant proves to be a large climber,
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loaded with pretty clusters of flowers in May and June, and covering to a great extent the gallery of the Palm House.
Dezscr. Scandent, much branched; dranches densely clothed with patent hairs, which become reddish in drying. Leaves on shortish hairy foot-stalks, oblong-ovate, hairy on both sides, almost velutinous, mucronato-acuminate at the point, cordate at the base, with a deep but closed sinus. Peduncles axillary, solitary, at first flowering shorter than the leaves, afterwards elongated, hairy, bearing a many-flowered umbel with hairy pedicels. Calyx red, hairy : sepals narrow, lanceolate-acuminate, as long as the corolla. Corolla white, with a deep green radiating ring at the base: /odes spreading, ovato-rotundate, obtuse, longitudinally plaited in the middle. odes of the staminal crown rounded, fleshy. W. J. H.
Curr. A tropical soft-wooded twining plant, of rapid and extensive growth, well adapted to cover trellis-work, pillars, &c., and recommending itself by its numerous bunches of flowers, and in not being subject to insects. Where it is required to cover a great space it should be planted in a mixture of loam and peat, about eighteen inches in depth, and well drained. It may also be grown in a pot, and trained up the rafters of the house, or on a wire trellis fixed to the pot; and by occasionally stopping the leading shoots it may be made to flower abundantly. It-1s readily increased by cuttings, placed in bottom heat under a bell glass. J. 8. :
Fig. 1. Staminal crown :—magnified.
44.73.
Tas. 4473. " ESCALLONIA macranrTua.
Large red-flowered Escallonia.
Nat. Ord. SAXIFRAGEZ.—PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4274.)
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Escattonra (Sect. Stereorylon, Presl) macrantha; ramulis glanduloso-pubes- centibus, foliis obovato-ellipticis obtusiusculis reticulatis serratis basi cunea-
tis glabris subtus resinoso-punctatis, egg terminali, bracteolis deciduis, calycis glanduloso-pilosi laciniis subulatis.
EscaLLONIa macrantha. Hook. et Arn. in Bot. Mise. v. 3. p. 341.
Our first knowledge of this fine Hscallonia was from Mr. Cuming, who collected specimens in Chiloe (n. 26 of his Her- barium) ; but it was Messrs. Veitch who imported living plants to Exeter, from the same country, through their collector Mr. W. Lobb. As might be expected from its native locality, it proves hardy, and is assuredly the handsomest of all the species of Hscallonia known to us. It flowers in June, and continues in blossom for a long period. :
Descr. A handsome shrub, two to three feet or more high, branched. Branches terete, the younger ones clothed with glandular pubescence. eaves alternate, obovato-elliptical, rather _ obtuse, cuneate at the base, strongly and doubly serrated at the margin, reticulated on the surface, glabrous, dark and shining above, beneath paler and dotted with resinous points. Panicle terminal : pedicels bracteolated, the bracteoles deciduous. Flowers large, red. Calye turbinate, clothed with stipitate viscid glands ; the lower portion of the tube adherent with the ovary, the upper half free, campanulate, cut half-way down into five, erect or slightly spreading, subulate ¢eeth. Corolla of five, spathulate petals, the claws erect and forming a tube, the /amine spreading horizontally. Stamens as long as the tube. Ovary two-celled. Style columnar, surrounded at the base by a large, furrowed Gland. Stigma thick, dilated, obscurely two-lobed. Fruit tur- binato-cylindrical, surmounted by the spreading persistent limb of the calyx and the style. W. J. H.
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Cutt. We have not had sufficient experience in culti- vating this new species of Hscallonia to know what degree of cold it will bear; coming from South Chili we expect it will prove as hardy as the several species of the genus already known in this country. Although none of them will bear the very low temperature to which this climate is occasionally sub- ject, yet, if placed against a wall, in a warm sheltered place, with the precaution to protect them with a mat, and a layer of dry leaves or fern over the roots during frost, they may be preserved through our ordinary winters ; but to be safe against loss, it is recommended to keep a duplicate plant in the green- house. The present species is a free-growing shrub, and _pro- pagates readily from cuttings, placed under a hand-glass in a frame. J. 8. |
Fig. 1. Calyx and pistil. 2. Pistil. 3. Section of the ovary :—magnified. 4. Fruit :—wnatural size.
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Tas. 4474. BRASSAVOLA Diaesyana.
Mr. Digby's Brassavola.
Nat. Ord. OncHIDEZ.—GYNANDRIA MoNnaNDBIA.
Gen. Char. Sepala et petala subzequalia, libera, acuminata. Labellum cuculla- tum, integrum, columnam involvens. Columna marginata, clavata, stigmate infundibuliformi, clinandrio postice tridentato. Pollinia 8, subsequalia, quibus- dam aliis parvis interjectis. Anthera 4-locularis, septis marginatis, loculis semi- bipartitis—Herbee caulescentes, epiphyte, apice folium unicum alterumve semi- cylindraceum, (raro planum) carnosum, supra sulcatum apice subulatum gerentes.
Flores terminales, magni, speciosi. Lindl.
BrassavoLa Digbyana; foliis ellipticis carnosis planis carinatis glaucis, flore solitario, labello sessili cucullato-cordato marginibus longe fimbriato-erinitis, clinandrio dente postico subulato incumbente.
Brassavota Digbyana. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1846, ¢. 53.
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The most remarkable of all the Brassavolas (of which genus Dr. Lindley enumerates fifteen described species), and among the most singular of Orchideous plants, a native of Honduras, whence it was introduced by Mrs. M‘Donnell, the lady of the late Governor. It flowered in the Orchideous house of the Royal
Gardens in June, and is deliciously fragrant. - Duscr. Pseudo-bulbs elongated, stem-like, compressed, jointed, the joint sheathed, terminated by a solitary elliptical, glaucous,
thick, fleshy, but flattened though carinated Jeaf. From the base
of the leaf arises the peduncle, compressed and sheathed, termi- nated by a solitary, very large, fragrant flower. Sepals and petals nearly similar, oblong, spreading, pale-purplish_ green,
faintly striated, the petals paler and rather broader. Lip very large, cucullate, cordate, white or cream-coloured, surrounding
entirely the column, faintly striated or nerved, the margin nearly all round cut into a broad hair-like fringe; the disk furnished
with a large green tubercle. Column semiterete, winged. Stigma with three furrows. From the back of the clinandrium mses &
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Tas. 4475. HELICONIA ancustiFro.tia.
Narrow-leaved Heliconia.
Nat. Ord. Musacem.—PrEntTANDRIA MoNoGYNIA.
Gen. Char. Perigonii epigyni foliola exteriora equalia, basi inter se coneres- centia, interiora lateralia subconformia, approximata, genitalia amplectentia, posticum nanum. Stamina 5, sexto postico abortiente, basi perigonii adnata. Ovarium inferum, triloculare. Ovuda in loculis solitaria, e basi axeos adscendentia, anatropa. Stylus filiformis ; stigma depressiusculum, obsolete sexlobum. Cap- sula subdrupacea, tricocea ; coccis osseis, indehiscentibus. Semina in coccis soli- taria, obovato-subglobosa, basifixa, testa ab endocarpio vix solubili. Embryo orthotropus, linearis, in axi albuminis farinaceo-carnosi, extremitate radiculari umbilicum attingente, infera——Herbee Americane tropice ; foliis longe petiolatis, petiolis basi vaginantibus, scapum radicalem sepe velantibus, spathis pluribus dis- lichis, in axilla floriferis. Endl.
HEticonta angustifolia; foliis lingulato-oblongis angustis utrinque acuminatis, costa subtus vaginis petiolisque valde elongatis pulverulento-pubescentibus, rachi flexuosa, spathis (6-7) multifloris ‘lanceolatis acuminatis complicatis, spathellis lanceolatis, sepalis (albis) lineari-oblongis acutis erectis, sepalo nano trulliformi.
A very handsome and rather dwarf species of Heliconia, in- troduced by Mr. Henry Shepherd, to the Liverpool Botanical Gardens, from Brazil. It flowered in January 1846, when its beautiful bright red spathas, deep orange-coloured ovaries and white sepals tipped with green had a very handsome effect. No described species corresponds with it, and, thanks to Dr. Walpers, all the recently published ones are included in his “ Annales Botanices Systematice.”’
Descr. I have not seen the entire growing plant. The gga stem sent to me was sheathed by the bases of the long petioles, an the principal /eaf was a foot and a half long and about ae inches wide, ligulato-oblong, with a stout costa and se oblique zerves, acuminated at both ends, glabrous, except t ns the costa beneath, as well as the very long, terete eiage ie cylindrical sheaths (at least in their upper part), were “ e with a scattered pulverulent or scurfy down. pot eaf is
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rather small, above a span long, the petiole reduced to a spatha- ceous sheath, red at the base: from within this sheath the flexuose rachis appears, a span and more long, deep red, bearing, at. distances of an inch or more, each arising from a nodus, six or seven lanceolate, acuminate, bright red, conduplicate spathas, the lowest one six inches long, the rest gradually shorter and less acuminated. Flowers eight to ten in the axil of the sheath, mixed with a few yellow-white, small, lanceolate spathelle. Pe- dicels about an inch long, orange-colour. Ovary inferior, tur- binate, subtriangular, a little wrinkled, deep orange. Sepals white, tipped with yellow-green, three inches long, linear-oblong, acute, erect: three outer the longest, the sixth (upper one) very dwarf, a trowel-shaped scale. Stamens five, unequal. Anthers linear. Style a little shorter than the stamens. WV. J. H. Cun. This belongs to a genus of tropical plants inhabiting moist places, conspicuous by their fine broad leaves and showy flowers, which are borne on a kind of stem formed by the sheathing petioles, in some species attaining the height of eight to ten feet, and, slowly dying after having flowered; forming, with Thalia and other allied genera, dense thickets in their native localities. The present may be considered a dwarf species of the genus, as it does not attain more than between three and four feet in height. It requires to be kept in the stove, and grown in a large pot, planting it in light loam and supplying it freely with water durmg summer. Its creeping rhizoma-like roots soon fill the pot and produce a crowd of leafy stems; but in order to obtain a vigorous growth, it is necessary occasionally to divide - the roots, repotting them in fresh soil, which operation should be done in the autumn or early in the spring. J. 8.
Fig. 1, Flowers with five larger sepals removed.
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Tas. 4476. SCHOMBURGKIA tTistcinis; var. GRANDIFLORA.
Trumpet Schomburghia ; large-flowered vay.
Nat. Ord. OrcutpE#.—GyYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.
Gen. Char. Sepala et petala conformia, patentia, omnino libera, basi equalia. Labellum difforme, membranaceum, trilobum, semicucullatum, basi cum margine columne connatum, supra basin tumidum (intrusum): venis lamellatis. Colwmna alata. Pollinia octo.—Rhizoma: repens, nudum, annulatum, pseudo-bulbigerum. Pseudo-bulbi magni, elongati, 2-3-phylli. Folia coriacea. Scapi terminales vagi- nati. Bracte magne, sicce, spathacee. Flores speciosi, racemosi, congestt. Lindl.
ScHomBurGKIa tidicinis ; pseudo-bulbis conicis corniformibus annulatis sulcatis 3-phyllis, foliis oblongis coriaceis patentibus, scapo longissimo tereti dis- tanter squamato apice paniculato, panicula pyramidali laxiflora, sepalis petalisque undulatis crispis, labello oblongo cucullato venis per medium 5 elevatis approximatis, laciniis lateralibus apice rotundatis intermedia sub- rhombea emarginata, anthera emarginata. Lind.
ScuompBurckKIa tibicinis. Batem. Orchid. Mex. et Guat. t. 30.
Var. 8. grandiflora ; floribus duplo majoribus labello extus pallido intus lobo medio luteo albo v. violaceo-limbato. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1845. ¢.30. (Lan. Nosrr.)
~ Dr. Lindley considers this a variety of the S. tibicinis of Mr. Bateman’s splendid work on the “ Orchideae of Mexico and Guatemala:” but it would perhaps be more correct to consider it the perfect state of the plant, such as it assumes in its native woods (Honduras) and such as good cultivated specimens exhibit in our stoves. The natives use the hollow stems or pseudo-bulbs as a horn or trumpet. These stems harbour insects, too, in great numbers. Mr. Bateman tells us that “Mr. Skinner, its original discoverer, was not permitted to ob- tain quiet possession of the first flowering specimens he saw ; for swarms of fiery ants issued forth in thousands from their snug retreat, to repel the spoiler, and inflicted pangs which none but the most ardent naturalist would have braved.” It blossoms with us at Kew in June. Drscr. Our flowering plant is a noble specimen, which we NOVEMBER Ist, 1849. : M 2
received from Mrs. Macdonnell, in 1843. The pseudo-bulbs grow in dense clusters a foot and a half long, swollen and annu- lated, terete, tapering upwards, terminated by two, rarely three, oblong, spreading, coriaceous Jeaves. Peduncle terminal, very long, bearing a panicle (of which our figure represents but a branch) of large showy bright-coloured flowers. Sepals and petals equal, spreading, oblong, waved, obtuse; palish purple without, deeper and redder purple within, streaked with darker lines, tipped with green. vp large: two side-lobes much the largest, pale without, streaked towards the edge with purple; within orange (except a pale line down the centre), streaked and reticulated with dark purple: middle lobe white stained with yellow, having a broad purple border. Column thick, about half the length of the lip. Azther-case notched. W. J. H.
Curr. This is a rather slow-growing epiphyte, requiring the temperature of the warm Orchideous house. It may be either grown on a block of wood suspended from the roof, or in a shallow pot or basket, filled with a thin layer of turfy peat mixed with potsherds in sufficient quantity to keep the peat open and from becoming retentive of moisture. Shading during summer requires to be attended to; and in winter, care must be taken that the plant does not suffer from any excess of atmospheric moisture. J. 8.
Fig. 1. Column. 2. Pollen-masses :—imagnified.
44-77.
Tas. 4477. DENDROBIUM Tortie.
Twisted-petaled Dendrobium.
Nat. Ord. OncHIDEm.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4352.)
Denprosivm fortile; caulibus clavatis articulatis sulcatis vaginatis, foliis lineari- bus retusis subcoriaceis, pedunculo bifloro, sepalis oblongis acutiusculis un- dulatis tortilibus (petalis conformibus) 2 lateralibus in calcar retusum decur- rentibus, labello magno pubescenti-villoso obovato-cochleariformi basi intus ~ pulvinato.
DEnprostum tortile. Lindl. in Gardener's Chron.* 1847. p. 197. cum. Ic, not All. Cunn.
A native of Moulmain, imported by Messrs. Veitch through their collector Mr. Thomas Lobb, exhibited at the Horticultural Society’s rooms in May 1847, and presented to the Royal Gardens of Kew in April 1849. It produced its handsome and long-lived flowers in May. We adopt the name by which we have received it, for it is an expressive one, and the D. tortile of Allan Cunningham mentioned by Dr. Lindley in Bot. Reg. 1839, Suppl. n. 31, is considered by the latter to be probably a Polystachya, and is, as far as I know, nowhere described.
Descr. Our present plant exhibits no beauty in its stems or foliage. The former (on psewdo-bulbs) are about a span long, and club-shaped, jointed, sulcated, and for the greater part sheathed with pale brown, striated scales. The eaves are wholly confined to the yet unformed pseudo-bulbs, two or three in number, linear, channelled, retuse, subcoriaceous, obscurely striated. From near the apex of the old leafless pseudo-bulbs the peduncle appears, short, two-flowered. Ovary long, pedicelliform, purple. Flowers large, handsome. Sepals and petals uniform, oblong, spreading,
* It is only since this page was in type that Mr. Veitch has referred me to the ‘Gardener’s Chronicle’ for the name and figure; from which it will be seen that our representation is a very unfavourable one, for that six flowers are produced at one time on the pseudo-bulb.
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white, delicately tinged with purplish rose, waved and spirally twisted (whence the name): the two lateral ones decurrent into a distinct emarginate blunt spur. The ip is large, projecting forward, ‘conchiform, or rhomboido-obovate, concave, membra- nous, slightly unguiculate, pubescent, faintly veined above and below, the margin entire, the sides near the base obscurely lobed: the co/owr lemon-yellow, with a slight tinge of purple: the base streaked with dark purple. The c/aw is occupied by a downy ¢wbercle or callus. Column very short, green, decurrent to the base of the lip and forming the spur. Anther-case purple. W.J. Z.
Curr. This fine species of Dendrobium belongs to a group of the genus characterized by short, somewhat tumid pseudo- bulbs. Judging from our plant it appears to be of a rather weakly habit; but its beautiful flowers render it interesting in every collection of Orchids. Like the greater number of the genus it is epiphytal on trees, and, being a native of the hot and moist climate of Java, it requires to be grown in the warm Orchideous house. An average temperature of 75° in summer and 65° in winter will be congenial to it; taking care, during the winter months, that it does not suffer from moisture, and shading, or placing it in such a position that it does not receive the direct rays of the mid-day sun, in summer. ‘'o imitate its epiphytal manner of growth, it should be attached to a block of wood sus- pended in a nearly horizontal position, or on a sod of compressed sphagnum moss. The latter we prefer, on account of its being free from the evils arising from the use of wood: the hot and moist atmosphere of the Orchideous house soon brings the wood into a state of decay, forming a harbour for insects and con- genial to the development of Fungi; the mycelium of some _ Species of the latter overrunning the surface of the block, bringing it into a state ungenial to the roots of the Orchid. Pro- bably the best preventative to the growth of fungi is to pre- viously char the blocks of wood ; but in time the charring loses its virtue ; and another objection to the use of charred blocks is their unpleasant appearance to the eye. J. &.
Fig. 1. Column. 2. Lip. 3. Pollen-masses :—magnified.
4478.
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Tas. 4478.
RHODODENDRON Curvianuom.
Duchess of Northumberland’s Rhododendron.
This is one of a very remarkable set of hybrid Rhododendrons produced by the care and skill of Mr. Iveson, head gardener at Syon, and it was named by Dr. Lindley at the exhibition-rooms of the Horticultural Society, in compliment to Her Grace the Dowager Duchess *f Northumberland, who feels equal pride with her late noble and lamented husband in the floral treasures of Syon Gardens, and especially in the rare exotic fruits which have there been reared with such eminent success.
We figure this as an example of what we are disposed to ~ consider the most delicate and beautiful kind of Rhododendron yet in cultivation.
Cuxr. This fine plant is a hybrid, believed to be produced between Rhododendron Catawbiense and the white variety of Rhododendron arboreum. It is a strong growing variety, well
adapted for forming standards. It is perfectly hardy, but unfor-
tunately, like the other known hybrids from _ Rhododendron arboreum, it flowers too early for this climate, being apt to have its flowers destroyed by late spring frosts ; but, as it makes a fine appearance, it is well worthy of protection while in flower. So long as the plants are of a moderate size, they may be taken up before coming into flower and planted in suitable sized pots, placing them in the green-house, where they will make a fine appearance ; again planting them out after having done flowering. J. 8.
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4479.
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CYCHNOCHES parsatum.
Bearded Cychnoches.
Nat. Ord. OrcHIDE#.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4215.)
Cycunocuss darbatum ; pseudo-bulbo ovato compresso demum nudo apice fo- lioso, folio solitario elliptico-oblongo utrinque attenuato plicato, racemo radicali longe pedunculato, pedunculo ovariisque pilosis, sepalis petalisque conformibus lanceolatis patentissimis, labelli facie superiore barbato, hypo- chilio alte alato, epichilio cordato-ovato obscure trilobo subreflexo.
CycunocieEs barbatum. Lindl. MSS.
From Mrs. Lawrence’s rich collection at Ealing Park, recently imported from Costa Rica.—A singular and handsome plant, referred to Cychnoches by Dr. Lindley, but which appears to me almost to connect Gongora with that very sportive genus :— indeed, but for the free column (not bearing the upper sepal), I should have had little hesitation in referring it to the latter genus. _Duscr. A young plant scarcely exhibits a pseudo-bulb at all, only several, imbricating, leafy scales, terminated by an oblong- oval, acuminated, plaited Zeaf. When the leaf is fully developed the almost naked pseudo-bulb appears, ovate, compressed, green, - smooth, with the withered scales at the base. Scape from the _ sase of the pseudo-bulb, a foot long, dark purple, pubescent or aairy, jointed, sheathed with scales at the Joints: this is a5 nated by a drooping many-flowered raceme, a foot long, of : lic the rachis and pedicel-like ovaries are dark-purple and is _ Flowers moderately large, at first sight a good deal eee ing those of Gongora maculata, but larger. Sepals and petals : e, _ very spreading, almost reflexed in the opposite pee or _ the column, narrow-lanceolate, acute, dull y ellow, spoyed wi purple. Zip pendent (almost at right angles with the —- formed into two portions as it were, and very ge ar 7 on the upper surface, white, tinged with yellow, an : gan ly spotted with deep blood-colour: the lower or hypochilium 1s
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unguiculate, with two large wings at the upper extremity, and, if seen beneath, a small tooth between the wings is observed ; and here on the upper surface the epichilium is jomted upon the Aypochilium: the former is cordato-ovate, obscurely three- lobed, a little reflexed. Column very long, slender, arched, semi- terete, enlarged upwards and cucullate just below the helmet- shaped anther-case. Pollen-masses two, club-shaped, with a long spathulate caudicle. W. J. H.
Curr. Our knowledge of this singular plant is yet too limited to enable us to state the best mode of cultivating it, but judging of it by its affinity with Gongora, Mormodes, &c., it may be grown in turfy peat in pots well drained and kept in the cool division of the Orchideous house, especially during winter when the plant is in a state of rest; at which time it should receive little or no water, but when it begins to show symptoms of com- mencing to grow it should then receive the stimulus of heat and
moisture, placing it near the glass and shading it from the mid- day sun in summer. J. 8.
Fig. 1. Flower deprived of the sepals and petals.
2. Column, front view. 3. Pollen-masses :—magnified,
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ESPELETIA arcenteEa.
Silvery Espeletia.
Nat. Ord. Compositm.—SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA.
Gen. Char. Capitulum multifloram monoicum, fl. radii numerosissimis, disci tubulosis 5-dentatis bisexualibus, abortu masculis. Znvol. campanulatum im- bricatum polyphyllum. Recepé. planiusculum paleaceum, paleis membranaceis obtusis. Anthere exserte. Stylus radii bifidus gracilis, disci simplex. Ache- mia obovata subangulata calva, disci verosim. abortiva——Herbe cguinoct. Americane dense lanato-tomentose resinose perennes. Folia opposita integra. Capitula ramos terminantia corymbosa lutea. De Cand.
Esprietta argentea; dense pulcherrime sericeo-tomentosa, caule brevi crasso foliaceo demum florifero elongato nudiusculo paniculato corymboso bracteato, foliis elongato-lanceolatis nervis obliquis, capituli radiis vix involucrum su- perantibus.
EspEterta argentea, Humb. et Bonpl. Pl. Aiquinoct. v. 2. p.15.t. 71. De Cand. Prodr. v. 5. p. 516.
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Cultivated in the greenhouses both of the Royal Gardens of Kew, and at Syon, at which latter place it flowered in the summer of 1848. ‘The seeds were sent in 1845 from the Para- mo of Siejo, New Granada, by Mr. Purdie, who says it 1s there called “ Frailejon.’ ‘the whole plant has a peculiar and cer- tainly somewhat terebinthine odour, and yields, like the genus Silphium (to which Espeletia is allied mm essential characters) a copious gum-resin, used in the preparation of ink and for tee purposes. M. Bonpland seems to have omitted the rays of the capitula in his figure, though he expressly says in the description “ fleurs radiées.” In other respects the figure and description
. : 4 Me ee ae oe ul and remarkable plant, and
Duscr. 'Lhis is really a beautiful ? a stately one when i Bower, attaining then the height of five or six féet. Before flowering, however, the appearance is very
unk six or different. A plant of three or four years old has a trun eight inches high and as thick as one’s wrist, _ bare below,
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but the rest forming a crown of dense spreading /eaves a foot and more long, spreading all round like those of an Aloe. Zeaves narrow-lanceolate, densely silky and strigose on both sides. At the flowering season the apex of the trunk lengthens out into an upright densely silky, nearly leafless, corymboso-paniculate stem. There are a few leaves at the base, but these gradually pass into linear dracteas, and those again seem insensibly to merge into the involucral leaves. Capitula moderately large, yellow, the disk mclining to brown. Morets all subtended by a ligulate membranaceous scale : those of the ray ligulate, very numerous, compact, three-toothed, rather short in proportion to the disk. Ovary oblong, triangular, naked (no pappus). Séy/e thrice as long as the tubular portion of the corolla, branches linear-subu- late. Florets of the disk male (in all as far as I could see) five. toothed. Stamens a little protruded beyond the mouth of the corolla. W. J. H.
Curr. This singular-looking plant is a native of the mountains of New Granada, and was observed by Mr. Purdie to ascend nearly to the limit of perpetual snow, at an altitude where, on - account of the diminished weight of the atmosphere, he found the cold very piercing, much more intense to the feelings than was Indicated by the thermometer. He describes the old specimens as bearing a resemblance to posts about three feet high, covered with wool, and having a tuft of leaves on the top. Growing under such circumstances, the plant may be expected to prove tolerably hardy in this climate, but on account of its soft woolly nature it is lable to suffer from wet and damp. We therefore consider it best to keep it in a dry and airy part of the greenhouse, and, durmg damp weather in winter, to give it just sufficient water to keep the soil in a moderately moist. state, wetting the woolly leaves as little as possible. ‘A light sandy peat soil suits it; the pot being well-drained in the usual way, and in summer being placed in a position so that the sun’s rays do not fall on the side of the pot. It will continue to be a scarce plant, as the only specimen that has flowered in this country has not ripened seeds, and the plant does not readily produce side-shoots. /.S.
Fig. 1. Floret of the ray with its scale. 2. Floret of the disk and scale :— magnified,
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Tan. 4481. BRACHYSEMA apuHuytuuvum.
Leaftess Brachysema.
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Nat. Ord. LegumInos®.—DrEcaNnpDRIA MonoGyNIA.
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-fidus inequalis tubo ventricoso. Cor, vexillo_petalis ceteris breviore, alis carinee compress equalibus. Ovarium pedicello basi - vaginulo fisso. Stylus filiformis elongatus. Legumen ventricosum polysper- ¥ mum. De Cand.
Bracnysema aphyllum; ramis ancipiti-compressis alte alatis aphyllis, loco foliorum bracteis ovato-subulatis coloratis, floribus solitariis brevi-peduncu- latis, calyce profunde subsequaliter 5-lobo, lobis linearibus carinam 3 eequan-
tibus.,
We depart here from our ordinary course, in representing a plant not yet actually in cultivation, and figured from dried specimens aided by a coloured drawing made from the recent plant at the Swan River settlement, in the imterior of which colony it is a native ; and whence seeds as well as dried speci- mens have been sent by Mr. Drummond. We do not under- stand that any have yet germinated: but we are desirous to make known so interesting a plant, which we cannot doubt will ere long adorn our greenhouses with its beautiful winter or early spring flowers. We were, at first, disposed to consider it a new genus, but we adopt Mr. Bentham’s views of its forming a group of Brachysema, of which another species, B. premor- sum, Meisn., from the same country, has an exactly similar calyx and corolla. Cryplosema of Meisner (Jansonia, Kippist) is a nearly allied plant, but with the two superior lobes of the calyx
_ extremely short. :
_ Drscr. Apparently a small shrub, quite destitute of leaves, with the dranches singularly compressed and winged with broad wings margined with red on the two opposite sides, dark green, the wings here and there with alternate teeth, upon which is a stipule, but no leaf: or this stipule becomes a bractea, when from the same point within a short single-flowered peduncle
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appears. Flower (always) reversed. Calya large, obscurely two-lipped, with five nearly equal, linear, erect segments. Corolla at first orange sprinkled with red, afterwards deep red or blood- coloured. Vewillum very small, ovate, reflexed : wings shorter than the carina; the latter being very large and (as seen in- verted) covering nearly the whole length of the stamens. Sfa- mens ten: filaments long, free, equal: anthers oblong. Ovary linear-oblong, downy, gradually tapering into a long style. Fruit oblong, acuminate, downy, two-valved: in our specimens the seeds have fallen out. W. J. H.
Cutt. As this plant is not yet known to us in a living state in this country, we can only infer from its relationship the kind of treatment that may be suitable for its successful cultivation. Being a native of the Swan River Colony in Western Australia, it will require the protection of the greenhouse in winter. It belongs to a tribe of Leguminose, which in that country gene- rally inhabit poor dry soils ; and on account of their appearance in the aggregate they compose a great part of what is termed bush or scrub, but which, nevertheless, comprehends many of our most beautiful greenhouse plants. This species may be expected to thrive if grown in rough peat soil, mixed with a portion of sharp sand, the pot being well drained so as to prevent the chance of the soil becoming stagnant ; care being taken during hot weather in summer that it is placed in a shady place, espe- cially in such a manner as not to allow the sun to heat the sides of the pot, since direct heat from the sun transmitted through the substance of the pot proves injurious to the fine fibrous roots in immediate contact with it. It is to be observed that these precautions are only necessary to plants cultivated in pots ; for New Holland plants, when planted in the open ground, thrive during our summer without shade; and if the season is so far favourable as not to have early frosts, they will continue to flourish till Christmas, or later, provided (as in some seasons) the thermometer does not fall any night more than two or three degrees below the freezing point; for we have observed that many New Holland plants (extra-tropical) do not suffer from cold so long as there is no actual frost. They appear to luxuriate during the cool and most autumnal months of this climate, many becoming handsome bushes, much to be regretted when at last destroyed by frost. J. 8.
_ Fig. 1. Vexillum. 2. One of the wings. 3. Carina, 4, Stamens and pistil. 5. Pistil :—magnified, .
R.B.& R.imp- Fitch del.et lith . 3
Tas. 4482. IXORA LAXIFLORA.
Laz-flowered Tzora.
Nat. Ord. RuspracEm.—TETRANDRIA MoNoGYNIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4325.)
Txora laviflora ; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis basi in petiolum perbrevem attenuatis, stipulis ovatis acuminatis ramo angustioribus, panicula corym- bosa ampla laxissima foliis longiore, ovario globoso (rubro), calycis limbo 4- dentato erecto appresso, corolle tubo gracillimo lobis convexis obovatis patentibus in disco barbatis triplo brevioribus, antheris linearibus patentis- simis corolle lobos eequantibus, stylo exserto, stigmate bifido.
Txora longiflora. Sim. in Rees Cycl. v.19.n.8. De Cand. Prodr. v. 4. p. 489.
Benth. in Niger Flora, p. 414. Txora brachyloba. De Cand. Prodr.v. 4. p.488.? Benth. .c. p. 413 ?
A native of Sierra Leone, first described by Sir Jas. E. Smith, recently introduced by Mr. Whitfield to our stoves. Our speci- men of this delicate and very sweet-scented plant was commu- nicated by Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., of the Exeter. Nursery, and it is well worthy of general cultivation, for it has handsome foliage and flowers, while small, which are great recommendations as well as the fragrance.
Duscr. Shrub three to four feet high. Leaves, the largest, a Span in length, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, penninerved, at- tenuated at the base into a very short petiole. Stipules ovate, acuminate, appressed, narrower than the branch which bears them. Panicle terminal, large, and singularly trichotomous, subcorymbose. Flowers very fragrant. Calye deep red ; the tube (or ovary) globose, red: the free portion or limb is very small, and cleft into four erect, appressed teeth. Corolla white tinged with pink: the ¢wde an inch and a half long, slender : the limb cut to the base into four spreading obovate segments, hairy in the disk. Filaments very short : Anthers quite exserted, - linear, as long as the lobes of the corolla and equally spreading With them. S/yle exserted. Stigma clavate, bifid. W.S. HL. Curr. A native of the hot and moist climate of Java, there-
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fore requiring to be grown in a warm hothouse. A mixture of light loam and leaf-mould will suit it, and in order to induce it to grow freely it should be placed in bottom heat, and in a moist atmosphere. As it is a slender upright-growing species, it is advisable to stop the leading shoot, in order to encourage the plant to produce a greater number of lateral flowering branches. It strikes readily from cuttings planted under a bell- glass, and placed so as to receive bottom heat. J. 8.
Fig. 1. Flower :—magnijfied.
BR.B. & Ramp
Tas. 4483. BEGONIA cINNABARINA.
Cinnabar-flowered Elephant’s Ear.
Nat. Ord. BeGontace®,—Mone@cta PoLyanpRria.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4172.)
BEGoNIA cinnabarina ; puberula, caule elongato tereti folioso, foliis breviusculo- et crasso-petiolatis amplis oblique ovatis sinuato-lobatis duplicato-serratis, pedunculis elongatis rubris, floribus inter majores totis pedicellisque cinna- — barinis, masc. 4- foem. 5-sepalis obovatis, capsulis subgloboso-triquetris, alis 2 subobsoletis tertia longiuscule producta.
For this extremely handsome species of Begonia we are in- debted to Messrs. Henderson of Pine Apple Place, who raised it from seeds sent by Mr. Bridges from Bolivia. The contrast between the green stem and darker green leaves, with the deep bright red of the long and stout peduncles and stipules, together with the red or rather deep large cinnabar-coloured flowers, is very striking, and renders this, I think I may say, the most desirable of all the species for cultivation : add to which, it blooms very freely in an ordinary stove (I suspect it would do so in a greenhouse) and continues long in flower. :
Descr. Stem erect, but zigzag, stout, terete, succulent, pale green, slightly downy, as are the leaves and petioles. Leaves on rather short, stout, terete, green petioles, from four to six or seven inches long, obliquely ovate, subplicate (the young ones very plicate and edged with red) sinuate or lobed at the margin and doubly serrated, the minute teeth red. Stipules ovate, ‘membranaceous, acuminate, red. Peduncles a span and more long, rather stout, terete, deep and bright red, bearing a panicle (in our specimen) of six large handsome flowers, which, as well as the ovaries and pedicels and ovate racts, are rather pale-red or deep cinnamon colour. The ultimate pedice/s are ternate, — drooping, of which the central flower is male, the lateral ones female. MJale fl. Petals four, broadly obovate, spreading. Séa-
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mens very numerous, dense, orange-coloured. Female fl. Petals five, rather smaller than those of the male. Ovary and capsule subglobose, with three longitudinal angles, two of the angles with small wings, the third with a somewhat triangular pro- jecting wing: wings red. WV. J. H.
Cur. The genus Begonia contains upwards of 140 described species, natives chiefly of the tropical regions of Asia and America, none, it is said, being found in Africa. They are characterized by a succulent texture, and many of them are of an epiphytal nature. Some have upright or climbing suffru- ticose stems ; others have creeping stems analogous to a rhizoma ; a few have tuberous roots, and a few are annuals. Many of them bear handsome flowers, which, with their peculiar and various-shaped foliage, and the ease with which the plants are cultivated, have caused them to become favourites in our hot- houses. The present very beautiful species belongs to the divi- sion with tuberous ‘roots ; and as these lie in a dormant state during winter, they require to be placed so as not to receive more moisture than will keep the mould from becoming abso- lutely dry. For spring they should be repotted, using a mixture of light loam and sandy peat soil, and set in a warm pit or hothouse, placing the pot near the glass, and care being taken _ hot to give much water till the plant has made some progress in growth. J. 8.
Fig. 1. Ovary or young fruit :—imagnijied.
' ,
Fitch del. et lith..
Tas. 4484. TABERNAEMONTANA LonGIFLora.
Long-flowered Tabernemontana.
Nat. Ord. Apocynra#.—PENTANDRIA MoNoGyYNIA.
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus (in 7. coronaria 5-fidus) ; lobis eestivatione quin- cunciali, 2 exterioribus, glandulis linearibus, 4-7, basi cujusque lobi vel paulo supra basim adfixis, verticillatis. Corolla hypocraterimorpha, ¢ubo inferne, medio vel superne inflato seepius medio angustiore, exappendiculato, fauce nuda, raro glandulosi; lodis obtusis, wstivatione marginibus dextrorsum conyolutis apiceque replicatis. Stamina parte inflata tubi corolle inserta; filamentis bre- vissimis aut nullis, antheris seepius sagittatis longe acuminatis, rarius linearibus, plerumque inclusis, Nectarium nullum. Ovaria 2, adpressa, glabra. Stylus unicus, basi interdum prope ovaria duplex, glaber. Stigma antheris proximum, basi plerumque annulatum, medio cylindraceum vel tuberculis auctum, apice bilobum (an raro simplex?) Fructus 2, vel abortu solitarii, lineari-oblongi, ob- longi vel subglobosi, plus minus carnosi, pulposi, divaricati, nervis longitudinali- bus paucis. Ovula «©, amphitropa. Semixa pauca vel plurima, intra pulpam cellulosam nidulantia, quasi arillo colorato tecta?, obovoidea, pressione mutua angulata; ilo depresso sulcato longitudinali; ¢esfa longitudinaliter striata ; albumine carnoso ; cotyledonibus foliaceis apice curvatis, radiculam rectam eequan- tibus, hilo parallelis, radicula supera, cylindrica.—Arbores ve? frutices intertro- picales: ramis sepius dichotomis; foliis oppositis, altero sepe minore, integris, plerumque glabris, petiolis brevibus in stipulas falsas intrapetiolares basi expansis vel connatis, glandulis preterea axillaribus et nunc lateralibus; cymis axillaribus, plerumque geminis apice ramulorum ; floribus albis vel luteis. Alph. DC.
Tawernamontana longiflora; glabra, foliis oblongo-ellipticis abrupte acuminatis basi acutis, petiolis basi dilatatis, pedunculis laxe, subtrifloris, calycis lobis ovali-oblongis, corollee tubo longissimo paullo infra medium ventricoso con- torto et staminifero. Benth.
TaBeRN&MONTANA longiflora. Benth. in Niger Flora, p. 447.
A new and valuable acquisition to our stoves, recently im- ported by Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., Exeter Nursery, from Sierra Leone, through Mr. Whitfield. The shrub has close-placed, ample, dark green foliage, | and remarkably large white or pale cream-coloured flowers, diffusing a delicious aromatic fragrance, resembling that of cloves. Dr. Vogel, who also found the plant at Sierra Leone (as did Heudelot at Senegambia), speaks of this shrub as very handsome, with the aspect of a
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Sd
Citrus, and yielding a milky juice. Mr. Bentham observes that it will, along with his 7. crassa (Niger Fl.), 7. Africana, Hook., and 7 ventricosa, Hochst., constitute a natural group of the genus, nearly allied to Voacanga, P. Th.
Descr. An erect branching shrv/: the young dranches green, terete. Leaves elliptical, large, with a short acumen, and a short but dilated petiole; the nerves diverging almost horizon- tally from the midrib. Peduncles erect, stout, each bearing about three large white flowers. Calyzx-lobes broadly oval, obtuse: at their base is a circle of minute glandular scales. Corolla with the tube twisted, four inches in length, swollen below the middle: /imé of five waved or reflexed ligulate lobes. Stamens and style as in the genus and included. WV. J. H.
Cut. A tropical shrub, requiring a warm stove. It will thrive in a mixture of loam and peat soil, if placed so as to have the benefit of bottom heat, and watered and syringed freely during the summer ; but care should be taken that at no time (especially during its season of rest) the mould becomes satu- rated ; for the soft and slightly succulent roots are apt to suffer if kept in too wet a state while the plant indicates a cessation of growth; and during that periodit should be re- moved to a drier atmosphere. It will strike from cuttings placed under a bell-glass, and treated in the usual way for the propa- gation of tropical woody plants. J. 8.
Fig. 1. Pistil. 2. Calyx-lobe with-scales at the base. 3. Stamen. 4. Por- tion of the tube of the corolla, laid open to show the stamens, style, and stigma:
—magnified.
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Tas. 4485.
CLERODENDRON Beruuneanum. Captain Bethune’s Clerodendron.
Nat. Onp. Verspenace®.—D1pDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tan. 4255.)
CLERODENDRON Bethuneanum; elatum fruticosum, ramis 4-sulcatis, foliis am- plissimis cordatis acuminulatis obscure serratis glabris basi profunde bilobis subtus sparse lepidotis, paniculis terminalibus maximis thyrsoideo-pyrami- datis bracteatis, bracteis lineari-spathulatis coloratis, calycibus magnis conicis acute 5-angulatis, limbo erecto 5-lobo, cordlle (coccinere) tubo calycem vix superante, limbo 5-lobo ineequali obliquo lobis oblongis obtusis reflexis superiore longiore basi albo, staminibus longissimis.
CLERODENDRON Bethuneanum. Lowe in Hist. of Borneo, and in Hook. Bot. Mag. - Comp, (1848) v. 74. p. 30. .
Whoever had the gratification of seeing the superb panicle of flowers of this Clerodendron in the stove of Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., of Exeter Nursery, in the month of September of this year, with the equally large and striking foliage, could form some idea of the treasures yet to be expected from the researches of Mr. Lowe, jun., m Borneo. Nor is the charm of this plant confined to the general aspect alone. ach flower is exceedingly beautiful in itself: peduncles, pedicels, bracts, calyx, corolla, the very long and graceful stamens, all are of the deepest crimson, while the two side-lobes of the corolla have a purple spot near the base (not easily represented in the figure) and the upper lobe has a much larger white spot. “ Four species of Clerodendron,” Mr. Lowe, jun., says, in the work above quoted, “ adorn the banks of the Sarawak river: two of them, which are fragrant, bear white flowers, another is scarlet, and another crimson. ‘The latter is the handsomest: it forms a shrub ten feet high, each branch terminated by a large lax panicle three feet long, of rich crimson blossoms, forming, with the equally crimson bracts and branches, a magnificent pyramid of bloom, every flower relieved by its white centre and protruding stamens ; the foliage is likewise ornamental, being large, dense, and heart- shaped.” “This Clerodendron,” Mr. Lowe continues, “ which now grows well in England, has been named after Capt. Bethune, R.N., who brought it and several other fine plants from Borneo.* When its flowering season is past, the C. Bethuneanum does not lose all its charms; for the crimson bracts and calyces persist,
. Amongst them the noble Nepenthes Rafflesiana, figured in our Bot. Mag. 4285. DECEMBER Ist, 1849.
and the latter contain, each, a four-seeded berry of the richest blue colour.”’ = We are indebted to Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., for the splendid specimen, of which but a very small portion can be introduced into our plate. : Descr. Although in its native country attaiming a height of ten feet, it is one of those plants that flower readily when but of small size and confined in a pot. The whole is glabrous. The branches green, streaked with purple, marked with four furrows, hence four-angular, with the angles very obtuse. Leaves, the lower ones, on long petioles, very large, twelve to fourteen inches each way (in length and breadth), exactly cordate, acuminulate, with a deep sinus at the base, the margin obscurely toothed or serrated, the texture rather soft, the underside studded with minute scattered scale-like dots (lepidota). The upper leaves become gradually smaller and pass into dracts. Panicles large, _ lax, terminal, forming a pyramidal thyrsis two to three feet long ; peduncles and pedicels, as well as the entire ground-work of the flowers, crimson ; bracts \anceolato-spathulate, crimson (the lower ones broader). Calya large, inflated, conical, with sharp angles, almost winged at the angles ; the /imé of five, sharp, erect teeth. Tube of the corolla but little longer than the calyx : Himd oblique, of five spreading, soon recurved, oblong Jodes, of which the © lateral ones have an intense purple spot at the-base, and the upper and rather longer and larger lobe a pure white spot occu- _ pying the lower half of the lobe, and partially divided by a red line. Ovary four-lobed : style long, filiform: stigma bifid. Fila- ments of the stamens nearly four inches long, inclined down, but ' slightly curving upwards: anthers small, dark greenish-grey. Cunt. Clerodendron is an extensive genus of soft-wooded tropical plants of various habits, a few of the species recom- mending themselves to our notice on account of their hand- some flowers; the species figured is one of these. In order to produce a handsome head of flowers it is advisable to select a young healthy plant early in the season, and encourage it to rapid growth by giving it the usual stimulants of heat and mois- ture, and growing it in a tolerably rich soil. ‘This may consist. of light loam, mixed with a portion of leaf-mould or other vege- table manure; the pot being well drained, so as to allow of _ Watering freely without the risk of the soil becoming saturated, _ which a rich soil is apt to do if carelessly watered, especially after shifting the plant into a larger pot, before the roots penetrate into the fresh soil. Shading in summer for a few hours in the middle of the day will be necessary, especially if the roof of the house has a south aspect and is of a light construction. It may be propagated by cuttings planted under a bell-glass, and placed in any warm part of the stove. J. 8. -
LATIN GENERAL INDEX,
TO
THE PLANTS CONTAINED IN THE LAST SEVEN VOLUMES OF THE NEW SERIES,
(Or from Vol. LXIV. to LXX. inclusive, of the whole Work, )
OF THE
BOTANICAL MAGAZINE.
Vol| No. Vol, No. 69 | 4032 | Acacta dentifera. 66 | 3769 | Aristolochia caudata. 68'| 3939 | —— diptera; 8. erioptera. 66 | 3756 ciliata. 68 | 3933 platyptera. 70 | 4120 ornithocephala. 69 | 4041 rotundifolia. 65 | 3640 | —— saccata. 69 | 4012 | Achimenes grandiflora. 70 | 4128 | Armeria cephalotes. 69 | 3980 longiflora. 65 | 3678 | Arthrostemma versicolor. 69} 3993 | —— multiflora. 70 | 4106 | Asclepias vestita. 4077 pedunculata. 68 | 3962 | Aspasia epidendroides. | 4126 icta. 65 | 3679 variegata. 8852 | Aconitum Chinense. 70 | 4094 | Barkeria spectabilis. 3994 | Acronychia Cunninghami. 70 | 4118 | Barleria flava.
66 | 3788 | Barnardia scilloides. 67 | 3831 | Barringtonia racemosa. 65 | 3649 | Bartonia aurea.
67 | 8818 | Batemannia Colleyi. 3741 | Bauhinia forficata.
3563 | Acropera Loddigesii.
4050 | Acrophyllum verticillatum. 4049 | Aerides affine.
3848 | Aeschynanthus grandiflorus.
3654 | Agave Americana, var. foliis || 66 69 | 4025 | Begonia acuminata.
variegatis. c 3958 | Alstroemeria nemorosa. 69 | 3990 | —— coccinea. 3944 psittacina; v. Erembouldti || 69 | 3968 | —— hydrocotylifolia. (hybrid). 69 | 4046 | —— nitida. 4008 | Amicia Zygomeris. 70 | 4100 | —— Meyeri. 3858 | Anchusa petiolata. 64 | 3564 | —— monoptera. 4005 | Androsace lanuginosa. 64 | 3559 octopetala. 3848 | Angelonia cornigera. 66 | 3720 | —— parvifolia. 3754 | —— Gardneri. 64 | 3591 | —— platanifolia.
70 | 4131 | —— rubricaulis. 66 | 3731 | —— sinuata. 68 | 3949 | Berberis nervosa.
3875 | Anigozanthus Manglesii. 4123 | Ancectochilus setaceus. 3610 | Anthericum glaucum. ¢ J : 3608 | Aporum anceps. 64 | 3597 | Bifrenaria aurantiaca. 3919 | Aquilegia Skinneri. 68 | 3888 | Bignonia speciosa. 3904 | Arctostaphylos nitida. 66 | 3736 | Bletia Parkinsoni. — 3927 | —— pungens. 64 | 3599 | Blumenbachia multifida.
a
Bolbophyllum Calamaria.
Bomarea acutifolia; var. punc- tata.
simplex.
+ Boronia Fraseri.
Bossizea virgata.
Bouvardia splendens.
Boussingaultia baselloides.
Brachycome iberidifolia.
Boronia crenulata.
Bossizea tenuicaulis.
Brassavola cordata.
cuspidata.
glauca.
—— Perrinii.
venosa.
Brassia Lanceana.
—— Lanceana; var. viridiflora.
—— Wraye.
Bromheadia palustris.
Brownea coccinea.
Burrielia gracilis.
Caladium petiolatum.
Calectasia cyanea.
Callichroa platyglossa.
Calliprora lutea.
Callithauma viridiflorum, et an- gustifolium. -
Callistachys linearis.
Callistemon pinifolium.
Caltha sagittata. —
Canavalia ensiformis.
Carica citriformis.
Cattleya citrina.
—— crispa.
—— guttata, 8B. Russelliana.
intermedia, var. angusti- folia.
—— intermedia; variegata.
— labiata. re
—— Mossie.
—— pumila.
superba.
Catasetum abruptum.
— globiflorum.
integerrimum.
luridum.
—— Russellianum.
— viridi-flayum.
Wailesii.
Centaurea depressa.
Cephaelis Ipecacuanha
Cereus Ackermanni.
—— ceruleséens.
Cereus extensus.
latifrons.
Martianus.
multiplex.
pentalophus, 8. subarticu-
latus.
Pitajaya.
speciosissimus, hybridus.
Ceropegia oculata.
serpentinus.
stapeliiformis.
vinceefolia.
Cestum viridiflorum.
Chabreea runcinata.
Chenopodium Quinoa.
Chorizema Henchmanni.
—— spectabile.
Chrysocoma squamata.
Chrysostemma tripteris.
Chysis aurea. ©
Cirrhzea fusco-lutea.
Clarkia elegans. ok.
Clematis cerulea; f. grandi- flora. 2
montana ; var. grandiflora.
Clethra tomentosa.
Clianthus puniceus.
Cobzea macrostema.
Coburgia coccinea.
trichroma.
Ceelogyne ocellata.
Colletia horrida.
Collinsia heterophylla.
Colocasia odorata.
Columnea Schiedeana.
Convolvulus ocellatus.
Cooperia pedunculata.
Coreopsis longipes.
Correea pulchella.
Coryanthes maculata, var. Par- Ker, ;
Crocus anhulatus, Adamicus.
—— lagenzflorus; var. lacteus lutescens. ;
—— speciosus.
suaveolens,
Cycnoches ventricosum; var. Egertonianum. ; pig fF ; var. leucochi-
lum. Cymbidium triste. Cyrtochilum maculatum. ——maculatum; va7.ecornutum. Cystanthe sprengelioides.
.| No. 3878 3593 3643 4013 3970 8837 3553 3838 8925 4067 3988 3655 4059 4091 4073 3622 3619 3624 3716 4035 4102 4089 8570 3974 4115 3906 3561 3558 4124 3569 3963 3627 3997 3976 3735 3835 3873 3658 3775 3898 3765 3557 3595 3543 3791 3565 3637 3885 3631 3778 | 3800 3951 3638 3751
Dahlia glabrata. Delphinum viminewn. Dendrobium aggregatum. —— crumenatum. macranthum. moschatum. Desmodium Canadense. Deutzia seabra. Digitalis lutea, 8. fucata. Dinema polybulbon. Diospyros, Sapota. Diplacus puniceus. Diplolena Dampier. Disa cornuta.
——- grandiflora.
Dodecatheon integrifolium. ©
Dombeya cannabina. Dracophyllum capitatum. Dracopis amplexicaulis. Dryandra arctotidis. —— formosa. Drymonia punctata. Echeveria racemosa. Echinocactus centeterius. concinnus. —— corynodes. — Mackizanus. —— mammillaroides. —— Pentlandi. —-— sessiliflorus. tenuispinus. tubiflorus. Echites hirsuta. splendens. Edwardsia Macnabiana. Eleeodendron Capense. Elisena longipetala. Epacris microphylla. obtusifolia. Epidendrum calocheilum. cepiforme. leroleucum. coriaceum. crassifolium. —— densiflorum. —— diffusum. — floribundum. —— 8 . nna osum. —— Hick taodeiancl patens. —— Skinneri. —— tessellatum. —— violaceum.
—— viridi-purpureum. —— vitellinum. Epimedium Musschianum. Epiphyllum Russellianum. Eranthemum montanum. Eria stellata.
Erica florida, var. campanulata.
Irbyana. jasminiflora. Shannoniana. Eriostemon buxifolium. Erysimum Perofskianum. Eucalyptus splachnicarpon. Eucharidium concinnum. Euphorbia Jacquiniflora. Eutoca divaricata.
Euterpe montana. Meuziesii.
Eutoca viscosa.
Fuchsia alpestris.
—— corymbiflora.
Sieboldiana. Franciscea latifolia. Francoa ramosa. Funckia albo-marginata. splendens.
Gaillardia bicolor, var. Drum-
mondii integerrima. Galactodendron utile. Ibid. Gardenia Sherbournie. Gardoquia betonicoides. —— multiflora. Gastrochilus longiflora. pulcherrima. Gastrolobium acutum. Gelasine azurea. Geranium cristatum. Gesneria bulbosa. — cochlearis.
— Douglasii, 8. verticillata.
—— elongata, var. fascialis. —— Gardneri. —— Lindleyi. — Marchii. mollis.
/—— polyantha.
Sceptrum, y. ignea. — stricta.
—— tuberosa.
—— zebrina.
Ps
3842 4037 4118 3652 3905 3552
3957
INDEX Vol. Gladiolus Mortonius. 67 Gloxinia speciosa; var. macro-| 67 phylla, variegata. 67 speciosa; var. Menziesii. | 70 —— tubiflora. © 70 Goldfussia glomerata. 68 Gomphrena pulchella. Gongora maculata. 70 Gonolobus hispidus. 66 Govenia Gardneri. 68 Grabowskia duplicata. 69 Greenovia aurea, 69 Grevillea dubia. 69 Grindelia inuloides. 65 Habranthus Andersoni; var. e.| 70 Texanus. 66 pratensis ; va. quadriflora.| 66 Heemanthus tenuiflorus; var.) 64 Mozambicensis. 66 Hakea dactyloides. Helianthus mollis. 65 Helichrysum niveum. 67 Herbertia pulchella, et ceerulea. || 66 Heterotropa asaroides. Hoteia barbata. 64 Hibiscus Cameroni. 64 Hippeastrum ambiguum, var. 1.) 69 Jongiflora. 66 breviflorum. 65 —— solandriflorum. 65 Hologymne glabrata. 70 Houlletia Brocklehurstiana. 65 Hymenoxys Californica. 64 Hypocalyptus obcordatus. 64. Hypocyrta strigillosa. 66 Hypoxys stellipilis. 64 Tlex platyphylla. 69 Paraguayensis. Illicium religiosum. 64 Impatiens glanduligera. 69 scapigora. 70 tricornis. 65 Ipomeea Bonariensis. 68 crassipes. 70 Platensis. 64 Tweediei. 69 Ismene Macleana. 67 Tsomeris arborea. 64 Isopogon scaber. 65 Juanulloa parasitica. 67 Kennedya nigricans. 67 Kreysigia multiflora, 65 Lachenalia glaucina. 65 Lelia albida. 65
Lelia anceps.
autumnalis.
furfuracea.
peduncularis.
superbiens.
Lantana Selloviana; 8. lanceo- lata.
Laplacea semiserrata.
Lasiandra petiolata.
Lasiopetalum macrophyllum.
Lathyrus nervosus.
pubescens.
Leianthus nigrescens.
Leonotis nepetzefolia.
Lepanthes sanguinea.
Lepismium commune.
Myosurus.
Leptosiphon densiflorus.
Leptotes bicolor, var. glauco- phylla.
Leycesteria formosa.
Liatris propinqua. :
Lilium speciosum, var. albiflo-
Tum, — Limnanthes Douglasii. Linum monogynum. Liparia parva.
Liparis Walkerie. Lisianthus Russellianus. Loasa lateritia. Pentlandii. Lobelia Bridgesii. Cavanillesii. erinoides. heterophylla. polyphylla. splendens, . var, B. ati0- sanguinea.
syphilitica, hybrida. Lomatia ilicifolia. tinctoria. Lophospermum scandens. Luculia gratissima. Luxemburgia ciliosa. Lychnis Bungeana. Macleania angulata. Macropodium nivale. Madia elegans.
Malva Creeana.
lateritia.
4018 3774 4096 3955 4104 3764
INDEX. Fol. Mammillaria pyenacantha. 64 tenuis. tetracantha. 64 —— turbinata. 66 Mandevilla suaveolens. 65 Marianthus ceruleo-punctatus. |) 67 Marica gracilis. 64 humilis ; var. 2, lutea. 67 Marshallia ceespitosa. 68 Maxillaria acutipetala. 68 aureo-fulva. 67 ciliata. 66 cucullata. 68 decolor. 64 Henchmanni. 66 —— pumila. 70 stapelioides. 67 Steelii. 68 Megaclinium maximum. 68 Melocactus depressus. 68 Merendera Caucasica. 67 Microstylis histionantha. 66 Miltonia candida; var. flaves-|| 69 cens. 69 Clowesii. 69 Mimulus Cardinalis. 68 roseus; (hybridus) var. || 66 Maclainianus. 68 Monacanthus discolor, 8. viridi-|| 68 florus. 68 Monachanthus Bushnani. 64 fimbriatus. 69 longifolius. 65 roseo-albus. 66 Monolopia major. 65 Morina longifolia. 67 Mormodes pardina. 65 Mormodes pardina; var. uni-|| 64 color. 65 Musa superba. 70 Ibid. 68 Myanthus deltoideus. 65 spinosus. 65 Myosotis Azorica. 65 Nelumbium luteum. 67 speciosum. 68 Tbid. 70 Nematanthus chloronema. 64 longipes. 65 Nemophila atomaria. 69 Nephelium Longan. 70 Odontoglossum grande. 68 —— pulchellum. o
(Enothera bifrons.
3931 3847 3790 4026
3921 3748 3896 3932
3697 3773 3635
3636 3580 3692 4086
3889 4053
3703
3991 4078
3928
(Enothera fruticosa, var. am- bigua.
Oncidium Cebolleta.
? concolor.
Forbesii.
Huntianum.
— luridum.
—— macrantherum.
monoceras,
ornithorhynchum.
pachyphyllum.
Papilio, var, limbatum.
—— pubes; var, flavescens.
—— pumilum.
—— raniferum, var. major.
—_—.. tricolor.
Wraye.
Opuntia decumbens.
monacantha.
Oreodaphne bullata.
Orthosiphon incurvus.
Osbeckia canescens.
Chinensis.
Othonna frutescens.
tuberosa.
Otochilus fusca.
Oxalis Barreliert.
lasiandra.
lasiopetala.
Martiana.
Papaver Gariepinum.
Passiflora Actinia.
—— incarnata.
—— Mooreana.
—— nigelliflora.
onychina.
Tucamanensis.
Pavetta Caffra.
Pavonia Schrankii.
Pentas carnea.
Pentstemon campanulatus.
diffusus.
— glandulosus.
—— gentianoides.
—— heterophyllus.
Pernettia angustifolia.
Petalidium barlerioides.
Petunia violacea, hybrida.
Phacelia tenacetifolia.
Phajus albus.
bicolor.
—— maculatus. Phalocallis plumbea. Pharbitis Learii.
INDEX Fol. Pharbitis Tyrianthina. 67 Phaseolus lobatus. 69 Philibertia grandiflora. 69 Philodendron erassinervium. 70 Phlogacanthus curviflorus. 64 Physianthus auricomus. 68 Pimelea Hendersoni. 65 nana. 67 — spectabilis. 65 Platystemon Californicum. 65 leiocarpum. 65 Platysaigma linearis. 65 Pleroma Benthamianum. 67 Pleurothallis Grobyi. 70 picta. 66 Plumieria acuminata. 65 Podotheca gnaphalioides. 70 Poinciana Gilliesii. 70 Polygala myrtifolia, var. grandi-| 69 flora. 64 Polystachia grandiflora. 64 Polyspora axillaris. 67 Potentilla glabra. 70 Prepusa Hookeriana, 66 Primula denticulata. 67 Pterodiscus speciosus. 69 Pyrus arbutifolia. 68 Rehmannia Chinensis. 68 Rhipsalis brachiata. 68 Rhododendron albiflorum. 67 anthopogon. 68 —— arboreum ; Cinnamomeum,| 68 floribus roseis. 67 campanulatum. 69 —— Caucasicum ; hybridum. || 70 —— nudiflorum; var. scintil-|| 64 lans (hybridum). 70 Rondeletia longiflora. 70 —— odorata. 68 Rosa Brunonii. 67 Ruellia ciliatiflora. 64 Rytidophyllum auriculatum, 69 Saceolabium guttatum. 65 Salvia confertiflora ; var. B. 69 patens. 67 Sarcanthus teretifolius, 70 Saurauja spectabilis, 67 Seaphyglottis violacea. 69 Schomburgkia marginata; var,| 64 petalis sepali ueimmarginatis,|| 64 Senecio calamifolius, 68 Heritieri ; var. cyanoph- || 65 thalmus. ee 70 Sida (Abutilon) Bedfordiana. 70
3840
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3954 3672 3795 3684 3677 3709 3681 3872 4127 3776 3701 4125 4055 3975 3606 3615 3803 4058 3792 3856 4014 3902 3918 3883 3816 3913 4062 3830 4004 4070 3611 4111 4119 3901 3859 3546 3969 3702 3985 3851 4097 3844 4042 3547 3555 3887 3630 4098 4114
ee 2 yeas
Sida picta. Siphocampylos betulzfolius. longepedunculatus.: lantanifolius. Sisyrinchium speciosum. | Solanum Balbisii; var. bipinnata. sq campanulatum. 2 crispum. fragrans. Sophronitis cernua. o grandiflora. ee Spathodea pentandra. a Sprekelia Cybister. ” Stapelia cactiformis. 4 Statice arborea. @ puberula. | macrophylla. a rhytidophylla. | Stelis atropurpurea. = Stenactis speciosa. | Stenomesson croceum. = latifolium. Stephanotis floribunda. Stevia breviaristata. trachelioides. Stigmaphyllum heterophyllum. Strobilanthes sessilis. Stuartia pentagyna. Stilidium ciliatum. fasciculatum. recurvum. Tacsonia pinnatistipula. Tagetes corymbosa. Tecoma jasminoides, Tetranema Mexicanum. Thermopsis fabracea. Thomasia stipulacea. Thunbergia chrysops. Tithonia ovata. Tofieldia pubens. Tradescantia caricifolia. Trichocentrum fuscum. Trifolium hybridum. Tropzolum azureum. brachyceras. Lobbianum. Moritzianum. —— polyphyllum. Tulbaghia Ludwigiana. violacea. Tulipa tricolor. Tweedia versicolor. Umbilicus malacophyllus. Vanda teres.
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3799 | Verbascum Tauricum. 64 | 3582 | Xanthozia rotundifolia. Verbena incisa. 68 | 3956 | Zichya glabrata. teucrioides. 67 | 3812 | Zygopetalum Africanum. Veronica prostrata ; y. satureiae-|| 64 | 3585 | —— cochleare. folia. 65 | 3686 | Zygopetalon maxillare. speciosa. | 65 | 3674 | —— Murrayanum. Viscaria oculata.
THE PLANTS CONTAINED IN THE LAST SEVEN VOLUMES OF THE
ENGLISH "GENERAL INDEX,
TO
o
‘NEW SERIES,
(Or from Vol. LXIV. to LXX. inclusive, of the whole Work, ) el
OF THE
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Acacta, broad-winged.
round-leaved.
—— two-winged ; downy var.
tooth-bearing.
Achimenes, large-flowered.
long-stalked.
— long-flowered.
many-flowered.
pointed.
Acronychia, Mr. Allen Cunning- ham’s,
Acropera, Mr. Loddiges’.
Acrophyllum, whorl-leaved.
Aerides, rose-coloured ; or Air-
plant. Aeschinanthus, large-flowered. African Ragwort; or tuberous Othonna. Alkanet, petiolated-leaved. Aloe, great American, with varie- gated leaves. Alstremeria, Mr. Erembouldt’s hybrid, var. — woodland. Amancaes, Mr. M‘Lean’s. Amicia, yoke-leaved. Androsace, shaggy-leaved. Angelonia, Mr. Gardner’s. horn-bearing. Anigozanthus, Mr. Mangle’s. Aniseed, Tree, sacred.
Ancectochilus, fringed.
Antheridum, glaucous-leaved.
Aporum, two-edged. :
Arctostaphylos, sharp-pointed ; or Bear Berry.
—— shining.
Aristolochia, fringe-flowered. _
Aroma, Arbutus-leaved.
Arthrostemma, changeable-flow- ered.
Asclepias, hairy-stemmed.
Aspasia, Epidendrum-like.
variegated.
Asphodel, American downy-— stalked.
Balsam, glandular; or Touch me-not.
stemless.
three-horned.
Barberry, strong-nerved.
Barkeria, showy.
Barleria, yellow.
Barnardia, Chinese.
Barren-wort, purple.
—— white-flowered.
Barringtonia, raceme-flowered.
Bartonia, golden.
Batemannia, Mr. Colley’s.
Bauhinia, forcipated.
Bean of India, sacred; deep rose-coloured, var.
INDEX Vol, Bean of India. 64 Begonia, eight-petaled. 68 Mr. Meyer’s; or Elephant’s 69 ear. 67 Penny-wort leaved. plane-leaved. 64 point-leaved; or Elephant’s|| 68 ear. 67 red-scaped ; or Elephant’s|| 68 ear. 64 scarlet-flowered ; or Ele-|| 68 . phant’s ear. 66 shining-flowered ; or Ele-|| 69 phant’s ear. 69 small-leaved; or Elephant’s| 68 ear. ¢ 65 single-leaved. 70 sinnated; or Elephant’s ee 65 Bifrenaria, orange-coloured, 66 Bignonia, showy-flowered. Bind-weed, purple-eyed. 65 Birth-wort, Bird’s head. —— livid-flowered. 70 pouch-flowered. 66 Blumenbachia, multifid-leaved. || 65 Bletia, Mr. Parkinson’s. 64 Boat-lip, violet. 68 Bolbophyllum, quill-stemmed. || 67 Bomarea, simple. 65 sharp-leaved ; speckled, var. 70 Boronia, crenulated. My. Fraser’s. 86 Bossisea, slender-stemmed. 64 twiggy. 67 Boussingaultia, Basella-like. 70 Bouvardia, splendid. 66 Brachycome, Candytuft-leaved. || 70 Brassavola, glaucous. 66 heart-lipped. 64 Perrin’s. 69 spear-lipped. 70 vein-lipped. 64 Brassia, Mr, Lance’s green-flow-| 68 ered, var. 64 Mr. Lance’s. 64 —— Mrs. Wray’s. 66 Bromheadia, Marsh. 64 Brownea, scarlet-flowered. 66 Burrielia, slender. 65 Caladium, long-stalked. Calectasia, bright blue. 66 Callichroa, golden. 67
No. 3588 3882 3989 3866
3594 3929 3823 3942 3590 3937 38777 4017 3998 3910 3656 4085
3669 3711
3693
4083 3742 3662 3598 3922 3813 3651
4066
3789 3566 3822 4084 3768 4093 3740 3567 4022 4116 3607 3903 3583 3617 3726 3592 3743 3702
3780 3865
Calliprora, yellow.
Callistachys, red-flowered.
Callistemon, fine-leaved.
Callithauma, green-flowered, and narrow-leaved.
Campion, Dr. Bunge’s scarlet.
Catasetum, blunt-lipped.
entire-lipped.
globe-flowered.
lurid.
—— Mr. Wailes’.
—— the Duke of Bedford’s.
yellow-green.
Cattleya, crimson-lipped.
crisp-flowered.
—— dwarf.
intermediate, variegated- lipped.
— Mrs. Moss’s superb.
—— narrow-leaved, intermedi- ate.
spotted, Lord Edward Rus-
sell’s, var.
superb.
yellow-flowered.
Centaury, prostrate.
Cereus, Ackermann’s Mexican,
blue-stemmed.
broad-stemmed.
five-winged, somewhat- jointed, var.
—— long-stemmed, or Torch Thistle.
proliferous.
—— serpent-like.
splendid ; hybrid, var.
—— variable; or Pitajaya.
Von Martius.
Ceropegia, ocellated.
periwinkle-leaved.
Stapelia-like.
Cestrum, green-flowered.
Chabreea, changeable-flowered,
Chorizema, Mr. Henchmann’s.
showy.
Chrysostemma, three-leaved.
Chysis, golden-flowered.
Cirrhea, yellow-brown.
Clarkia, Californian.
Clethra, downy,
Clover, Mule white Trefoil, or tall Dutch.
Cobeea, long-stemmed.
Coburgia, scarlet.
| No.
3867 3767 3644 3695 3919 4045 3727 3586 4029 3747
3622 3959 3723 3732 3868
3869 3861 3864 4054
3648 3880 3836 3826 3878 3988 3643 3970 3837 4013
3553 3838 4067 3655 4059 4091 4073 3619 3624 3716 4035 4102 4089 3570 3906 3561 3558 4115 4124
3569
INDEX Vol Coburgia, three-coloured. 68 Celogyne, eyeletted. 69 Colletia, bristling. 69 Collinsia, variable-leaved. 69 Columbine, Mr. Skinner’s. 66 Columnea, Mr. Schiede’s. 67 Cooperia, pedunculated. 67 Coreopsis, long-stalked. 66 Correea, pretty. 65 Coryanthes, spotted-lipped, Mr.|| 68 Parker’s, var. 65 Cowslip, American entire-leaved.|| 66 purple Nepal. 64 Cow Tree, or Palo de Vaca. 68 Crane’s bill, crested-seeded. 64 Crocus annulatus, Mons. Adam’s|| 65 var. 66 —— pale yellow, gourd-shaped.|| 68 showy. 66 sweet-scented. 1 66 Cycnoches, ventricose-lipped ; or!) 64 Swan-neck, Sir Francis Eger-| 67 ton’s, var. 64 Cymbidium, lurid-flowered. 64 Cyrtochilum, spotted. 70 —— spotted; hornless, var. || 66 Cystanthe, Sprengelia-like. Dahlia, smooth, dwarf. 69 Date-plum, Sapota. 64 Dendrobium, close-flowered. 70 large-flowered. 69 —— musk-smelling. sweet-smelling, clubbed-|| 64 stemmed. 65 Desmodium, Canadian. Deutzia, rough-leaved. 67 Dinema, many-bulbed. 65 Diplacus, scarlet-flowered. 66 Diplolena, Dampier’s. 64 Disa, horned-flowered. 66 large-flowered. 64 Dombeya, Hemp. 70 Dracophyllum, round-headed. || 64 Dracopis, stem-clasping leaved.| 67 Dryandra, Arctotis-like, 68 splendid. 68 Drymonia, spotted-flowered. Echeveria, racemed. 68 Echinocactus, many-flowered. || 67 —— Mr. Mackie’s. 69 —— Mammillaria-like. 68 —— neat. 69 red-flowered. 70 —— sessile-flowered. 67
| Wo
3963 3974 3997 3976 3735 3835 3873 3775 3658 3898 3638 3791 3595 3885 355% 3634 3778 3951 3765 3666 3565 3800
3543
3631 4107 3717
4031 3605 4101 4036
3589 3673
3874 3706 3762 3572 3764 3545 4056 3574 3802 3923 3925
3907 3824 4000 3948 3999 4082 3801
Kchinocactus, slender-spined. variegated-flowered. Echites, hairy-flowered. splendid-flowered. Edwardsia, Mr. Macnab’s. Elzodendron, Cape.
Elisena, long-limbed.
Epacris, blunt-leaved. small-leaved. Epidendrum, beautiful-lipped. chequer-flowered. cluster-flowered. coriaceous-leaved.
Dr. Graham’s.
—— green and white-flowered. —— many-flowered.
—— Mr. Parkinson’s,
—— Skinner’s.
—— onion-rooted.
‘—— purplish-green.
spreading.
spreading-flowered.
thick-leaved.
—— warty-fruited.
yolk-of-egg.
Epiphyllum, the Duke of Bed- ford’s.
Eranthemum, Mountain.
Eria, star-flowered.
Eriostemon, box-leaved.
Eucalyptus, or Gum Tree, Splach- num-fruited.
Eucharidium, pretty. ig
Euphorbia, or Spurge, Jacquinia- flowered.
Euterpe, mountain.
Eutoca, clammy.
straggling.
Mr. Menzies.
Evening Primrose, heart-leaved.
shrubby, var.
Fig Marigold, arrow-leaved.
Flax, monogynous.
Fly-wort, spine-bearing.
-—— triangular-lipped.
Fox-glove, small, yellow; pur- ple-flowered, var.
Franciscea, broad-leaved.
Francoa, white-flowered.
Fuchsia, cluster-flowered.
entire-leaved.
Mountain.
—— splendid.
—— the glowing.
INDEX Fol, Funckia, Dr. Siebold’s. 66 variegated. 65 Gaillardia two-coloured, Drum- mond’s entire-leaved var. 70 Gardenia, Mrs. Sherbourne’s. 70 Gardoquia, Betony-like, 69 many-flowered. 67 Gastrochilus, handsome-flowered.| 67 long-flowered. 66 Gastrolobium, shagp-leaved. 68 Gaybine, Mr. Lear’s. 66 Tyrian purple. Gelasine, azure. 70 Gesneria, bulbous-rooted.’ 66 elongated var. 69 —— gaping-flowered. Dr. Lindley’s. 67 —— many-flowered. 70 mottled-leaved 67 —— Mr. Douglas’s whorled var.|| 68 —— Mr. Gardner’s 69 —— Mr. March’s. 65 sceptre-flowered, pale-flow-|| 69 ered var. 66 soft-leaved. 67 spoon-leaved. 69 -—— tuberous-rooted. 67 upright. 70 Gladiolus, Mr. Morton’s. 65 Globe Amaranth, large-flowered.|| 69 Glory Pea, crimson 65 Gloxinia, rough; large varie-|| 70 gated-leaved var. rough-leaved; Mr. Menzie’s) 69 var. 67 tube-flowered, 70 Goldfussia, clustered. 68 Goldylocks, scaly-stalked. 65 Gongora, spotted. 70 Gonolobus, hispid. 64 Govenia, Mr. Gardner’s Brazil- || _ ian. 64 Grabowskia, toothed. 68 Greenovia, golden. 64 Grevillea, dubious. 67 Grindelia, flea-bane-like. 67 Groundsel, Heritier’s ; blue-eyed! 68 eyed var. 70 quill-leaved, Cape. 70 Habranthus, Anderson’s Texas || 67 var. 68 meadow ; four-flowered var. Heemanthus, narrow-flowered, || 66 Mozambiec var. 64
| No.
3760 3639
4074 4069 4016 3857 3862 3746 3936 3771
4079 3730 4027
3821 4072 3828 3894 4047 3696 3985 3714 3844 4042 3851 4063 3665 3978 3685 4068
4037 3842 4118 3935 3652 4076 3542
3549 3905 3552 3817 3804 3957 4090 4099 3810 3941
4129 3593
a
Hakea, finger-leaved.
Heath, drooping, round-headed, bell-flowered var.
flask-flowered.
Lady Shannon’s.
Mr. Irby’s.
Helichrysum, snowy-flowered.
Herbertia, pretty and blue.
Heterotropa, Asarabacea-like.
Hibiscus, Mr. Cameron’s.
Hippeastrum, Solandra-flow- ered.
Holly, Canarian broad-leaved.
Hologymne, glabrous.
Horsebean, Jamaica; or Over- look.
Hoteia, bearded.
Houlletia, Mr. Brocklehurst’s.
Hymenoxys, Californian.
Hypocalyptus, obcordate.
Hypocyrta, rough-leaved.
Hypoxis, starry-haired.
Indian Cress, blue-flowered.
large-rooted.
—— Mr. Moritz’s.
—— many-leaved.
short-spurred.
Tpecacuanha. —
Ipomea, Buenos Ayres.
Mr. Tweedie’s.
the Plata.
thick flower-stalked or Bindweed.
Isopogon, rough-leaved.
Isomeris, tree-like.
Juannulloa, parasitic.
Kale, Indian, fragrant.
Kennedya, dingy-flowered.
Kidney Bean, lobe-leaved.
Knight’s Star Lily, ambiguous, var. 1 long-flowered.
short-flowered.
Kreysigia, many-flowered.
Lachenalia, glaucous-flowered.
Leelia, autumnal.
—— two-edged.
——- white-flowered.
an POTZOOUS.
—— pedunculated.
-stalked.
Lantana, Mr. Sellow’s; long- leaved var.
Laplacea, semiserrated-leaved.
Larkspur, slender, upright.
ee
»| No. 3766
3908 3987
3996
4043 3700 4112 3763 3755 3734
3578 3699 3829 3785
3554 4034 3770 3622 4095 3632 3604
3600 3609 3550 3671 4002
3784 4110 4023 4096 3650 3946 4048 3979 3805 3548 3846 3814 3698
3647
3642
3972
4060
3634 3646 3984 3797
3893
INDEX Fol. Lasiandra, petiolated. 67 Lasiopetalum, large-leaved. 66 Lathyrus, nerve-leaved; or || 65 Everlasting Pea. 67 South American downy ;| 69 or Everlasting Pea. 64 Leianthus, black-flowered. 70 Leonotis, Cat-mint leaved. 65 Lepanthes, blood-coloured. 68 Lepismium, common. 64 mouse-tail. 64 Leptotes, two-coloured; glau-|| 69 cous-leaved var. 69 Leptosiphon, thickly-flowering. | 67 Leycesteria, handsome. 69 Liatris, sharp-seale spiked. 65 Lily, crimson Japan ; white-| 65 | flowered var. 65 Limnanthes, Mr. Douglas’. 70 Liparia, small. 64 Mr. Col. Malker’s. Lisianthus, Duke of Bedford’s. || 70 Loasa, Mr. Pentland’s. 66 red-flowered. 64 Lobelia, hybrid var. of the blue American. 65 Cavanille’s. 67 —— Erinus-like. 67 —— many-leaved. 67 Mr. Bridges’, 64 ——-shining; dark purple- | 68 leaved var. various-leaved., 67 Lomatia, dyeing. 67 Holly-leaved. 70 pe 67 op. rmum, climbing, Lenidie Apa = 68 Luxembergia, fringe-leaved. 68 Macleania, angle-flowered. 70 Macropodium, Siberian. Madia, elegant. 67 Mallow, pale red-flowered. 70 purple. showy red-flowered. 66 Mammillaria, copious-flowering. || 69 —— dark green. —— densely-spined. - 70 —— four-spined. 66 —— Lehmann’s. 68 iin TROT: top-shaped. 65 Mandevitla, eanbicilis 70 Marianthus, blue-spotted. 68
Marica, humble ; yellow var. slender-stemmed. Marshallia, tufted. Marygold, corymb-flowered. Mate, or Paraguay Tea. Maxillaria, dwarf. fringe-lipped. —— golden-tufted. hooded. ~e— Mr. Henchmann’s. Mr. Steele’s. — pale yellow. sharp-petaled. Stapelia-like. Megaclinium, largest. Melindres, cut-leaved. Melocactus, depressed. Merendera, Caucasian. Microstylis, sail-flowered. Milk-wort, Myrtle-leaved, large- flowered var. Miltonia, Mr. Clowes’. white-lipped yellow var.
-| Monk-flower, dingy, green-
flowered var.
fimbriated.
—— Mr. Bushman’s.
long-leaved.
white and rose-coloured.
Monkey-flower, Cardinal.
Mr. Maclain’s hybrid var. of the rose-coloured.
Monk’s hood, Chinese.
Monolopia, larger.
Morina, long-leaved.
Mormodes, Leopard-spotted ; white-coloured var.
Leopard-spotted.
Mountain Laurel, blistered.
Mouse-ear Azorean ; or Forget- me-not.
Mullein, Taurican, —
Nasturtium; or Mr. Lobb’s Indian Cress.
Nelumbium, yellow.
Nematanthus, long flower- stalked.
shorter flower-stalked.
Nemophila, spotted-flowered.
Nightshade, Balbi’s ; bipinnate- leaved var.
fragrant South American.
Odontoglossum, elegant.
great.
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3911 3847 4026 3790 3967 4038
3921 4027 3723
3724 3633 3636 3820 3773 3635 4009
3697
3580 3692 4086 3884 3688 3661 3645 3853 3889 4053 3556 3703 3960 4078 3991 3710
INDEX Pol Oncidium, bird’s beak. 64 butterfly ; broad-bordered|| 65 ar. 66 dingy-flowered. 68 downy columned ; yellow-|| 67 flowered var. 66 frog ; larger var. 68 large-anthered. 67 Mr. Forbes’. 67 =~ Mr, Herbert’s, dwarf. 64 —— Mr. Hunt’s. 66 —— Mrs. Wray’s. 64 one-coloured. 69 one-horned. 68 —— rounded-leaved. 65 thick-leaved. 68 three-coloured. 68 Opuntia, decumbent ; or Prickly} 69 Fig. 69 ——one-spined; or Prickly Fig. | 65 Orthosiphon, incurved. 64 Osbeckia, Chinese. 65 hoary-leaved. 68 Othonna, shrubby. tuberous-rooted ; or Afri-|| 70 can Ragwort. 65 Otochilus, brownish-flowered. 65 Overlook; or Jamaica Horse bean.|| 69 Palo de Vaca; or Cow Tree of] 68 the Caraccas. 66 Palo de Vaca. 67 Papaw, small citron-fruited. 65 Passion-flower, large-stipuled. || 67 Lieut. Sulivan’s. —— Mr. Moore’s. 65 —— Nigella-flowered. 69 Sea Anemone. 68 yellow-fruited Virginian. } 69 Pavetta, South African. 66 Pavonia, Schrank’s. 64 Pentas, flesh-coloured. _ 70 Penstemon, bell-flowered. 67 - Gentian-like. 68 glandular. 69 spreading. 64 various-leaved. 69 Pernettia, narrow-leaved. 66 Petalidium, Barleria-like. 70 Petunia, purple, hybrid, var. 63 Phacelia, Tansy-leaved. 67 Phajus, spotted-leaved. 69 two-coloured. 70 —— white. 79 Phalocallis, lead-coloured. 64
.| No
3618 3621 3783 389] 3833 3721 3950 3849 3850 3579 3750 3575 4007 3897 3682 3952 3920 4006 4019 3707 3623 3676 3909
4117 3641 3653 4039 3947 3759 3811 3667 3825
3670 3977 3953 4030 3718 3562 4108 3808 3899 3988 3571 3982 3729 4055 3892 3840 3973 4105 4015 3544
13
Philibertia, large-flowered. Philodendron, thick-ribbed. Phlogacanthus, curved-flowered. Physianthus, golden-haired. Pimelia, dwarf. Mr. Henderson’s, showy. Plantain tree, superb. Ibid. Platystemon, Californian. smooth-fruited. Platystigma, linear-leaved. Pleroma, Mr. Bentham’s. Pleurothallis, painted. the Groby. Plumieria, sharp-leaved. Podotheca, cudweed. Poinciana, Dr. Gillies’. Polyspora, axillary. Polystachia, large-flowered. Poppy, South African. Potentilla, glabrous. Prepusa, scarlet and white-flow- ered.
Pterodiscus, showy. Quinoa, useful. Rehmannia, Chinese. Rhipsalis, opposite-branched. Rhododendron, bearded. —— bell-flowered. —— Caucasian hybrid, var.
——— sparkling. : —— tree, Cinnamon-leaved var.
with rose-coloured flowers.
white-flowered. Rondeletia, blue-flowered. sweet-scented. Rose, Mr. Brown’s. Ruellia, fringe-flowered. Rytidophyllum, auriculated. Saccolabium, spotted. Sage, spreading. thick-flowered. Sapota, or Date-plum. Sarcanthus, round-leaved. Saurauja, showy. Schomburgkia, margined, var. Sea Lavender, rasp-leaved. Sida, Duke of Bedford’s. painted-flowered. Siphocampylos, Birch-leaved. —— Lantana-leaved. long flower-stalked. Sisyrinchium, showy.
ee
INDEX Fol. Solanum, bell-flowered. 65 wavy. 66 Sophronitis, drooping-flowered. || 70 large-flowered. 70 Spathodea, five-stemmed. 68 Speedwell, prostrate, Savory-|| 66 leaved, var. 66 showy-flowered. 69 Spider-wort, sedge-leaved. Spine Cactus, tube-flowered. 66 Sprekelia, the Tumbler. Stapelia, Cactus-like. 65 Statice, large-leaved ; or Thrift. Stelis, dark-flowered. 69 Stenactis, showy. 66 Stenomesson, orange-flowered. || 64 wide-leaved. 64 Stephanotis, copious- wering. || 68 Stevia, short-awned. 65 trachelium-leaved. 70 Stigmaphyllum, various-leaved. || 65 Strobilanthes, sessile-flowered. || 70 Stuartia, five-styled. Stylidium, ciliated-leaved. 70 —— fascicled-leaved. 66 —— recurved. 67 Sun-flower, soft-leaved. 68 Swanwort, Mr. Loddiges’; white-|| 68 lipped var. 70 Tacsonia, Mrs. Marryatt’s ; or] 64 Passion flower. 68 Tecoma, Jasmine-leaved. 65 Tetranema, Mexican. 65 Thermopsis, bean-leaved. 67. Thomasia, large-stipuled. 64
3983 3757 3702
3969 3739 3547 3555 3887 3630 4114 3694 4061
4075 3748 3896 3938 3932 4098 3582 3956 3674 3686 3812 3585
Thrift, downy-leaved Canary. —— gigantic Canary. large-headed
Thunbergia, purple, golden-eyed.
Tithonia, ovate-leaved.
Torenia, heart-leaved.
Tourretia, burr-fruited. —
Traveller’s Joy, Violet-blue ; large-flowered var.
Treacle Mustard, deep orange- flowered.
Trefcil, Mule white ; Dutch Clover.
Trichocentrum, brown-flowered.
Trichopilia, twisted-petaled.
Tulbaghia, Ludwig’s.
Violet-flowered.
Tulip, three-coloured.
Tweedia, changeable-flowered.
Vanda, quill-leaved.
Verbain, Germander-leaved.
Virgin’s Bower; mountain large-flowered var.
Viscaria, dark-eyed.
Wood-Sorrel, Barrelier’s shrubb.
downy-stamened.
Dr. Martius’.
hairy-petaled.
Umbilicus, soft-leaved.
Xanthozia, round-leaved.
Zichya, smooth-leaved.
Zygopetalon, Mr. Murray’s.
Tree Fern.
Zygopetalum, African.
—— shell-lipped.
or tall
a”
EATIN GENERAL INDEX,
TO
THE PLANTS CONTAINED IN THE FOUR VOLUMES OF THE THIRD SERIES,
(Or from Vol. LXXI. to LXXIP. inclusive, of the whole Work, )
OF THE
BOTANICAL MAGAZINE.
Abelia floribunda. Acacia argyrophylla. celastrifolia. leptoneura. oncinophylla. Achimenes argyrostigma. cupreata.
— hirsuta.
ocellata. Adenocalymna comosum. Aerides odoratum. /®chmea discolor. Mgiphila grandiflora. JEschinanthus Lobbianus. pulcher. purpurascens.
Aischynanthus longiflorus.
— speciosus. Allamanda Aubletii. Schottii. Alloplectus concolor. dichrous.
repens. Anastatica hierochuntica. Anemone Japonica. Angrecum apiculatum. caudatum. distichum.
—— funale.
Anguloa Clowesii, var. Anigozanthos fuligimosa. pulcherrimus.
Anona palustris. Anopterus glandulosus. Anthocercis ilicifolia. Aotus gracillima. Aphelandra aurantiaca. Aquilegia leptoceras. Ariopsis peltata.
Ariseema Murrayi. Aristolochia anguicida.
— gigantea. grandiflora.
Arnebia echioides. Asclepias Douglasii. Asystasia Coromandeliana. Backhousia myrtifolia. Barbacenia squamata. Barnadesia rosea.
Begonia albo-coccinea. fuchsoides.
Berberis ilicifolia. : Bolbophyllum Careyanum. umbellatum. Bouvardia longiflora. Browallia speciosa.
Brunfelsia nitida; §? Jamai-
censis. Burtonia pulchella. villosa. Calceolaria amplexicaulis. —— alba. — floribunda. Calliandra Harrisii.
INDEX Vol Calliandra Tweediei. 72 Cantua pyrifolia. 72 Castasetum callosum ; var. gran- || 73 diflorum. 71 Cattleya Skinneri. 73 .Ceropegia Cumingiana. 73 Cheenestes lanceolata. 71 Chirita Moonii. 72 Sinensis. 71 —— Walkerie. 72 Zeylanica. 72 Cirrhopetalum fimbriatum. 72 Thouarsii. 71 Clematis indivisa; var. lobata. || 74 smilacifolia. 72 ‘tubulosa. 72 Clerodendron capitatum. 73 scandens. 73 sinuatum. 73 Collania Andinamarcana. 71 Columnea aureo-nitens. 71 crassifolia. 72 Cordyline Rumphii. 72 Corynocarpus levigata. 72 Gry paleo <tifioen, 74 Cuphea cordata. 74 silenoides. 71 Cycnoches Loddigesii. 73 Cymbidium ochroleucum. 71 Cypripedium barbatum. 74 Datura cornigera. 74 Daviesia physodes. 71 Dendrobium fimbriatum; var. || 72 oculatum. 71 —— moniliforme. —— secundum. 71 Diastema ochroleuca, 71 Dipladenia urophylla. 71 Disemma aurantia. 71 Dryandra carduacea; var. an-| 72 gustifolia. 14 Kchinocactus chlorophthalmus. || 73 cinnabarinus. 71 hexeedrophorus. 74 —— Leeanus. 74 —— multiflorus. 74 —— myriostigma. 72 —— oxygonus. . —— pectiniferus. 74 —— Williamsii. 13 Epidendrum longicolle. 74 Episcia bicolor. ‘ 14 Eranthemum albiflorum. 73 Eria Dillwynii.- 73
.| No
4274 4266 4333 4202 4340 4280 4186 4205 4189 4209 4246 4233 4174 4375 4261 4218 4322 4307 43.43 4185 4195 4240 4242 4217 4380 4348 4152 4342 4213 4395 4363 4171 4258 4179
4151 4201 4183 4192 4207 4401 4329 4135 44.02 4347 4397 4253
4346 4310 44.08 44.04 4301 4305
Escallonia Organensis.
Eucalyptus Preissiana.
macrocarpa.
Evolvulus purpuro-cceruleus.
Exacum tetragonum ; £. bicolor.
Exogonium Purga.
Exostemma longiflorum.
Fagrzea obovata.
Franciscea acuminata.
hydrangezformis.
Friesia peduncularis.
Fuchsia macrantha.
serratifolia.
spectabilis.
Fugosia hakezefolia.
heterophylla.
Gardenia longistyla.
— malleifera.
—— nitida.
Stanleyana.
Genista (Teline) Spachiana.
Gesneria bulbosa; var. lateritia.
elliptica ; var. lutea.
Hondensis.
—— Libanensis.
pardina.
Schiedeana.
triflora.
Gloxinia pallidiflora.
Gmelina Rheedii.
Goldfussia isophylla.
Gompholobium barbigerum.
venustum.’ +
versicolor ; var. caulibus purpureis.
Govenia utriculata,
Habrothamnus corymbosus.
fasciculatus.
Hebecladus biflorus.
Heinsia jasminiflora.
Hibiscus ferox.
—— grossularifolius.
Hindsia violacea.
Hoya bella.
cinnamomifolia.
—— imperialis.
Hydrangea Japonica; var. caeru- lea.
Hypocyrta glabra. leucostoma, Jambosa Malaccensis. © Impatiens repens, Tpomzea muricata.
—— pulchella.
INDEX. Fol [pomea simplex. 71 Isopogon attenuatus. 71 spheerocephalus. 71 Ixora Griffithii. 74 lanceolaria. 73 odorata. 71 Jatropha podagrica. 73 Kopsia fruticosa. 74 Leelia cinnabarina. 71 Leianthus longifolius. 71 umbellatus. 73 Leschenaultia arcuata. 71 - splendens. 73 Leuchtenbergia Principis. 71 Leucothoe pulchra. 73 Liebigia speciosa. 712 Lisianthus acutangulus. 12 Lithospermum canescens. 74 Lobelia thapsoidea. 71 Lopimia malacophylla. 72 Luculia Pinciana. 71 Lycaste fulvescens. 72 Lycium fuchsioides. 71 Lyonia Jamaicensis. 73 Malachadenia clavata. 74 | Mamillaria clava. 73 Marsdenia maculata. 71 Martynia i 74 Masdevallia fenestrata, 73 Maxillaria acicularis. 74 —— macrobulbon. 71 Warreana. 74 | Medinilla speciosa. 72 Miltonia spectabilis. 71 Mormodes Cartoni. 72 Napoleona imperialis. 71 Nepenthes Rafflesiana. 71 Niphza albo-lineata. 74 Nymphea dentata. 74 Odontoglossum hastilabium. 71 Oncidium bicallosum. 72 Orothamnus Zeyheri. 74 Oxypetalum solanoides. 72 Passiflora amabilis. 73 Pentstemon Gordoni. Peristeria Barkeri. 18 Humboldtii ; var. fulva. || 74 Phaleenopsis amabilis. 73 Pharbitis cathartica. 72 Phyllarthron Bojerianum. 72 Pinguicula orchidioides. 73 Piteairnia undulatifolia. 72 Pleroma elegans. 74 Pleroma Kunthianum. 73
Pleurothallis bicarinata. Polystachya bracteosa. Porphyrocoma lanceolata. Primula Stuartii.
Puya Altensteinii ; var. gigantea. Reevesia thyrsoidea. Rhododendron Javanicum. Nilagiricum. Rhynchoglossum Zeylanicum. Ruellia lilacina.
Purdieana. Salpixantha coccinea.
Salvia leueantha.
Sceevola attenuata. Scutellaria cordifolia. incarnata.
Ventenatii.
Sida (Abutilon) integerrima. —— peonieflora.
— vitifolia.
—— graveolens.
| Sinningia velutina. | Siphocampylos coccineus.
glandulosa.
—— manattizflorus. —— microstoma. Smeathmannia levigata. —— pubescens. Smithia purpurea. Solandra levis. Solanum macranthum Sonerila stricta. Stachytarpheta aristata. Stanhopea tigrina. Stenocarpus Cunninghami.
Strelitzia augusta.
Strobilanthes lactatus. Swainsona Greyana. Tacsonia mollissima. Talauma Candollii. Tetrazygia eleeagnoides. Theophrastus Jussizi. Thibaudia Pinchinchensis, 8. glabra. —— pulcherrima, Thyrsacanthus strictus. Tillandsia bulbosa ; var. picta.
| Torenia Asiatica.
edentula.
Tritonia aurea. Tropzolum crenatiflorum. Smithii.
—— speciosum,
ENGLISH GENERAL INDEX,
TO
THE PLANTS CONTAINED IN THE FIRST FOUR VOLUMES OF THE THIRD SERIES,
(Or from Vol. LXXI. to LXXIV. inclusive, of the whole Work,)
OF THE
BOTANICAL MAGAZINE.
Abelia, copious-flowering. Acacia, Celastrus-leaved. hook-leaved. silver-leaved. slender-leaved. Achimenes, copper-leaved.
airy.
silvery-spotted.
Achimenia, eyeletted.
AXchmea, two-coloured, or Crab’s Eye.
Adenocalymna, Hop-flowered.
Agiphila, large yellow-flowered.
AXschinanthus, beautiful.
long-flowered.
—— Mr. Lobb’s.
—— purplish-green.
showy.
Air-plant, fragrant.
Allamanda Aublet’s.
—— large-flowered, erect.
Alligator Apple-tree, or Water.
Alloplectus, creeping.
two coloured.
whole-coloured.
Anemone, Japan.
Angreecum, apiculated,
—— cord-like.
—— two rowed.
long-tailed.
Anguloa, Mr. Clowes’ var.
Anigozanthus, beautiful yellow. sooty. Anopterus, glandular-leaved. Anthocercis, holly-leaved. Aotus, slender. Aphelandra, orange. Ariopsis, peltate. Ariseema, Dr. Murray’s. Aristolochia, snake. Arnebia, Echium-like. Asclepias, Douglas’s. Asyotasia, Coromandel. Backhousia, Myrtle-leaved. Balsam, creeping. Barbacenia, scaly-stalked. Barnadesia, rose-coloured. Begonia, or Elephant’s Ear, searlet and white-flowered. Fuchsia-like, or Elephant’s Ear. Berberry, holly-leaved. Birthwort. —— gigantic-flowered. Bolbophyllum, Dr. Careif’s. umbelled. : Bouvardia, long-flowered. Browallia, showy-flowered. Brunfelsia, shining leaved ; Jamaica var. Burtonia, beautiful. —— villous.
No. 4297 4231 4300
4157 4238 4188 4386 4219
4270 4349 4182 4284 44.05 4327 4338 4391 4237 4269 4259
4398
4355 4354 4255 4247 4407
| 4294
4330 4279 4379 4362 4208 4143 4141 4252 4244 4160
4153 4352 4254 4414 4140 4203 4156 4317
4326 4373 4311
INDEX Fol Butterfly-plant, Indian. 71 Butterwort, Orchis-like. 71 Calceolaria, or Slipper-wort, 71 clasping-leaved. 73 white-flowered. 71 Calliandria, Mr. Harris’s. 71 Mr. Tweedie’s. 71 Cantua, pear-leaved. Catasetum, tumour-lipped, large-|| 73 flowered var. 71 Cattleya, Mr. Skinner’s. 74 Ceropegia, Mr. Cuming’s 72 Chirita, Ceylon. 71 —— Chinese. 72 Mr. Moon’s, 72 Mrs. Walker’s. 73 Cheenestes, lanceolate-leaved. va} Cirrhopetalum, fimbriated. 73 — Thouars’. Clematis, tubular-flowered. Fi or Virgin’s Bower, smilax-|| 72 leaved. 71 undivided-leaved ; lobed || 72 variety. 72 Clerodendron, capitate. 72 imbing. : sinuate-leaved. 71 Collania, Andinamarcana. 74 Columbine, slender-spurred. 72 Columnea, golden. 72 thick-leaved, 73 Cordyline, Rumphius. 73 Corynocarpus, smooth-leaved. | 73 Cuphea, catch-fly. 71 large red-flowered. 71 Cryptadenia, solitary-flowered. || 72 Cymbidium, pale yellow. Datura, horn-bearing. 72 Daviesia, hatchet-leaved., 74 Dendrobium, fringe-lipped, var. || 74 with sanguincous eye. 71 necklace-stemmed. 73 one-sided, 72 Diastema, pale yellow. Dipladenia, taper-pointed. 72 Disemma, New Caledonia. 74 Dove-flower, or Peristeria; Mr. 74 Barker’s, 71 Humboldt’s; tawny-fl. var. Dryandra, Thistle-like ; narrow-|| 71 leaved var. 72 Echinocactus, cinnabar-flowered.|| 71 green-eyed, 74 —— hexeedron. 73
| Gromwell, hoary.
Echinocactus, many-flowered. many-spotted. —— Mr. Lee’s. —— Mr. William’s. pectinated. sharp-angled. Elephant’s Ear, or Begonia ; scarlet and white flowered. Fuchsia-like. Epidendrum, long-necked. Episcia, two-coloured. Eranthemum, white-flowered. Eria, Dilwyn Llewelyn’s. Eseallonia, Organ-Mountain’s. Eucalyptus, Dr. Preiss’s. large-fruited, or Gum tree. Evolvulus, purple-blue flowered. Exacum, square-stalked ; two- coloured var. Exostemma, long-flowered. Fagreea, obovate-leaved. Franciscea, acuminated. Hydrangea-like. Friesia, jointed-pedicelled. Fuchsia, large-flowered, apeta lous. serrated-leaved. showy. Fugosia, Hakea-leaved. various-leaved. Gardenia, clapper-bearing. glossy-leaved. -—— long-styled. Lord Derby’s. Genista, Mr. Spach’s. Gesneria, elliptic-leaved ; yellow var.
Honda. —— leopard-spotted. —— many-flowered. Schiede’s. three-flowered. tuberous rooted ;_brick- coloured var. Gloxinia, pale-flowered. Gmelina, Rheede’s Goldfussia, equal-leaved. Gompholobium, changeable purple stemmed var. —— fringe-keeled. ceful
graceful. Govenia, bladdery. Gum-Tree, large-fruited.
| No
4183 4201 4192 4207 4329 4401 4135 4368 44.02 4347 4397 4253
| 4346
4310 4245 4323 4337 4301 4305 4206 4372 4332 4191 4399 4325 4376 44.00 4220 4234 4302 4169 4243 4393 4314 4265 4256 4315 4324 4150
| 4257
4132 4193 4149 4273 4334 4365 4358 4408 4299 4292 4164 4228 4235
INDEX. {Pol Habrothamnus, cluster-flowered.|| 74 corymb-flowered. 73 Hebecladius, twin-flowered. 72 Heinsia, Jessamine-flowered. 72 Hibiscus, Gooseberry-leaved. 74 stinging. 74 Hindsia, large-flowered. 71 Hogmeat, poison. 73 Hoya, beautiful. 71 cinnamon-leaved. 72 —— imperial. 74 Hydrangea. Japan; blue flow-|| 74 ered var. 74 Hypocyrta, shining-leaved. 74 white-mouthed. 73 Indian Cress, notch-petaled. 71 showy. —— umbellate. 73 Tpomeea, fine-leaved. 71 —— handsome. 72 simple-stalked. 74 Isopogon, attenuated-leaved. 71 round-headed. 72 Ixora, fragrant. 73 lance-leaved. —— Mrs. Griffiths’. 71 Jatropha, gouty-stalked. 71 Jericho, rose of. 74 Kopsia, shrubby. 73 Lady’s Slipper, bearded. 73 Leelia, cinnabar-coloured. 71 Leianthus, long-leaved. 73 umbellate. 74 Leuchtenbergia, noble. 71 Leucothoe, elegant. 74 Leschenaultia, drooping. 71 splendid scarlet flowered. || 73 Liebigia, showy. 73 Lisianthus, sharp-angled. 71 Lobelia, Mullein-like. 74 Lotus, tooth-leaved. 71 Luculia, Mr. Pince’s. 71 Lycaste, tawny-flowered, 72 Lycium, Fuchsia-flowered. 72 Lyonia, Jamaica. 14 Malachadenia, club-stalked. Malacophylla, soft-leaved. 72 Mamillaria, club-shaped. 71 Maple-Apple. 73 Marsdenia, spotted-leaved. 72 Martynia, fragrant. 73 Masdevallia, windowed. 72 Maxillaria, large splendid. aL Mr. Warre’s. 74
Maxillaria, needle-leaved. Medinilla, showy. Miltonia, showy. Mormodes, Carton’s. Napoleona, imperial. Nasturtium, Sir James Smith’s. Nightshade, large-flowered. Niphea, white-lined. Oncidium, two-warted. Odontoglossum, halberd-leaved. Orothamnus, Mr. Zeyher’s. Oxypetalum, Solanum-like. Passion-flower, white-crowned. Pelican-flower. Peristemon, Mr. Gordon’s. Peristeria, or Dove-flower ; Hum- boldt’s ; tawny-flowered var. Pharbitis, purging. Phyllarthron, Mr. Bojer’s. Pleroma, elegant.
| —— Prof. Kunth’s.
Pleurothallis, double-keeled.
Pitcairnia, broad-waved-leaved.
Pitcher Plant, Sir Stamford Raffles’.
Polystachya, bracteated. -
Porphyrocoma, lance-leaved.
Primrose, Stuart’s.
Purga, or True Jalap.
Puya, Attenstein’s gigantic var.
Reevesia; thyrse-flowered.
Rhododendron, Javanese.
—— Neelgherry.
Rhynchoglossum, Ceylon.
Rose of Jericho.
Ruellia, lilac-flowered.
Mr. Purdie’s.
Sage, white-flowered.
Sceevola, attenuated-leaved.
Sida, entire-leaved.
heavy-scented.
—— Peony-flowered.
vine-leaved.
Sinningia, velvety.
Siphocampylos, manettia- flowered.
—— glandular.
showy scarlet-flowered.
small-mouthed.
Skull-Cap, flesh-coloured.
—— heart-leaved.
—— Ventenat’s.
Slipper-wort, copious-flowering.
Smeathmannia, downy.
.| No
4194 4283 4345 4394 4197 4263 4167 4168 4366 4416 4215
4187:
4251 4383
4239 |
4303 4344
INDEX
Fol.| No. Smeathmannia, smooth-stalked. || 74 | 4378 Smithia, purple-flowered. 73 | 4288 Solandra, smooth-leaved. 72 | 4249 Sonerila, upright. 72 | 4229 Stanhopea, tiger-spotted. 73 | 4335 Stenocarpus, Mr. Cunningham’s.| 71 | 4158 es ; 71 | 4137 | strelitzia, great white, felons Strobilanthes, milky-leaved. 72 | 4211 Swainsona, Grey’s. 72 | 4269 Swanwort, Mr. Loddige’s. Tacsonia, downy-leaved. 74 | 4415 Talauma, De Candolle’s. 74 | 4882 Tetrazygia, Eleeagnus-like. 73 | 4275 Theophrasta, Jussieu’s. 73 | 4278 Thibaudia, beautiful. 74 | 4396
TL | 4155
—— Pichincha; glabrous var.
Thyrse-flower, upright.
Tillandsia, bulbous; coloured var. Torenia, large-flowered. purple-blotched. Tritonia, golden. Trumpet-Flower, scarlet. ° Turnera, Elm-leaved. Vanda, crested. Vervain, Bastard, aristate. Virgin’s Bower, or Clematis, tubular-flowered. Vriesia, glaucous-leaved.
showy. } Water-Lily, great Victoria.
Weigela, rose-coloured. Whitfieldia, brick-coloured.