CURTIS’S BOTANICAL MAGAZINE, 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. Oxon.,, LL.D., F.R.S.A. AND L,S., DIRECTOR OF THE ROYAL GARDENS OF KEW. PRADA ARARMAAAAAA AA : VOL. XI. @) OF THE THIRD SERIES; (Or Vol. LXXXI. of the Whole Work.) SRA nnn nnn ** Another Flora there, of bolder hues And richer sweets, beyond our garden pride, Plays o’er the fields, and showers with allen hand Exuberant spring. 2 _ Thomson. NAAR AAA AAA AAA AAAS LONDON: LOVELL REEVE, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 1855. JOHN: EDWARD TAYLOR, PRINTER, “UITTLE QUEEN STREET, LANCOLN’s INN | FIELDS. DR. THOMAS THOMSON SURG. H.E.L.C., SUPERINTENDENT OF THE HON. EAST INDIA COMPANY'S BOTANIC GARDEN OF CALCUTTA, ‘THE WORTHY SUCCESSOR OF * — ‘ROXBURGH A WALLICH, AND A FALCONER, A TRIBUTE OF AFFECTION AND Royat, GaRpENs, Kew, December, 1855. Plate. 4840 4871 4832 4864 4842 4.890 4841 4855 4852 4846 4883 4835 4839 4834 4854 4879 4845 4837 4880 4889 4888 4838 4844 4887 4886 4853 4828 4825 4861 4866 4856 4870 4827 INDEX, In which the Latin Names of the Plants contained in the Eleventh Volume of the Turrp Series (or Eighty-first Volume of the Work) are alphabetically arranged. Abutilon insigne. Achimenes heterophylla. Aichmea mucroniflora. Akebia quinata. Albuea? Gardeni. Amphicome Emodi. Begonia Natalensis. urophylla. Berberis Bealei. Billbergia rhodocyanea. Wetherelli. Brownea grandiceps. Burlingtonia decora. Canna Warszewiczii. Campanula primuleflora. Chameedorea elegans (mas). Clerodendron feetidum. Coelogyne speciosa. Cordia superba. Crawfurdia fasciculata. Cymbidium giganteum. Delphinium cardinale. Dendrobium MacCarthie. Dendrochilum glumaceum. Dipladenia acuminata. Harrisii. Diplothemium littorale. Drymonia villosa. Embothrium coccineum. Eremurus spectabilis. Escallonia pterocladon. ; var. planifolia. ~ Ernesti-Augusti (mas). Plate. 4848 4847 4860 4858 4831 4876 4873 4826 4872 4865 4878 4836 4829 4881 4869 4877 4863 4875 4859 4884 4874 4.843 4882 4885 4862 4850 4867 4833 4868 4851 4849 4857 4830 Eupomatia laurina. Garcinia Mangostana. Genetyllis macrostegia. tulipifera. Geonoma corallifera. Gilia dianthoides. Helianthemum Tuberaria. Hoya (Otostemma) lacunosa. Leptodactylon Californicum. Nicotiana fragrans. Odontoglossum maculatum. Paphinia cristata. Pentaraphia Cubensis. Phygelius Capensis. Physosiphon Loddigesii. Rheum acuminatum. Rhododendron Californicum. Keysii. retusum. Salvia asperata. earduacea. Sciodacalyx Warszewiczii. Sobralia fragrans. Stanhopea ecornuta. Streptocarpus Gardeni. — polyanthus. Stylophorum diphyllum. Talinum polyandrum. Thermopsis barbata. Thyrsacanthus Schomburgkianus Tradescantia Martensiana. Trichopilia coccinea. Warrea discolor. INDEX, In which the English Names of the Plants contained in the Eleventh Volume of the Tuirp Ssrizs (or Highty-first Volume of the Work) are alphabetically arranged. PPR nnnnnn Plate. 4840 Abutilon, handsome-flowered. 4871 Achimenes, various-leaved. 4832 Aichmea, spiny-petaled. 4864 Akebia, five-leaved. 4842 Albuea, Captain Garden’s. 4890 Amphicome Emodian. 4855 Begonia, caudate-leaved. 4841 Natal. 4979 Bell-flower, primrose-leaved. 4852 Berberry, Mr. Beale’s Chinese. 4846 ditto ; flat-leaved var. 4883 Billbergia, blue and red. 4835 Mr. Wetherell’s, 4839 Brownea, cluster-flowered. 4834 Burlingtonia, neat. 4854 Canna, Warszewicz’s. 4845 Chamedorea, elegant (male). 4837 Ernest- Augustus’s (male). 4880 Clerodendron, fetid. 4889 Coelogyne, showy. 4888 Cordia, large white-flowered, 4838 Crawfurdia, fascicle-flowered. 4844 Cymbidium, gigantic. 4886 Dendrobium, Mrs. MacCarthy’s. 4853 Dendrochilum, glumaccous. 4828 Dipladenia, acuminated. 4825 Lord Harris’s. 4861 Diplothemium, sea-shore. 4866 Drymonia, shaggy. 4856 Embothrium, scarlet. 4870 Eremurus, showy. 4827 Escallonia, winged-branched, 4848 Eupomatia, laurel-like. RRR Plate. 4860 Genetyllis, large-involucred. 4858 -—— tulip-bearing, 4831 Geonoma, coral-bearing. 4876 Gilia, pink-like. 4826 Hoya, furrowed. 4887 Larkspur, scarlet-flowered. 4872 Leptodactylon, Californian: 4847 Mangosteen, or Mangostan. - 4878 Odontoglossum, spotted. 4836 Paphinia, crested. 4829 Pentaraphia, Cuba. 4881 Phygelius, Cape. 4869 Physosiphon, Mr. Loddiges’. 4859 Rhododendron, blunt-leaved. 4863 -~ Californian. 4875 Mr. Key’s. 4877 Rhubarb, sharp-leaved Sikkim. 4873 Rockrose, truffle. 4884 Sage, rough-leaved. 4874 thistle-leaved. 4843 Sciodacalyx, Warszewicz’s. 4882 Sobralia, fragrant. 4849 Spiderwort, Marten’s. 4885 Stanhopea, hornless. 4862 Streptocarpus, Captain Garden’s. 4850 — many-flowered. 4867 Stylophorum, two-leaved. 4833 Talinum, many-stamened. 4868 Thermopsis, shaggy. 4851 Thyrsacanthus, Schomburgk’s. 4865 Tobacco, sweet-scented. 4857 Trichopilia, red-flowered. 4830 Warrea, discoloured. Tp. I 2 Brooks Vincent SS eee no es dh del. ot lith —_ ~--—-=—-eapenen mere e Tas. 4825. DIPLADENIA Harrisit. Lord Harris’s Dipladenia. ° a Nat, Ord. ApocyNE®.—PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4702.) DrPLaDENIA Harrisii ; scandens fruticosa glabra, foliis amplis oblongo-ovatis acuminatis, racemis axillaribus folio brevioribus, floribus ante expansionem nutantibus, lobis calycinis ovatis obtusissimis intus squamula laterali auctis, corolla tubo inferne constricto basi inflato, squamis hypogynis 5 subdigitatis basi in cupulam ovaria superantem unitis, staminibus ad constrictionem — tubi corolle insertis, antheris villosis. DipLapENIA Harrisii. Purdie, MS. An inhabitant of the banks of the Caroni, and to the eastward of Mount Tamana, Trinidad, where it was recently discovered by Mr. Purdie, the intelligent superintendent of the Botanic Garden of that island. Dried specimens and excellent drawings by Miss Fuller and Mr. Cazabon, and descriptions and living plants, Were at once sent to us by its discoverer, and from them we have profited, as well as from superb flowering specimens sent to us by Messrs. Veitch and Sons, who are the first to have flowered it in Europe, in September, 1854. Mr. Pardie well. observes of it :—'This fine plant is not surpassed by any one of its congeners, whether we consider the size and beauty and fra- grance of its flowers of metallic lustre, or its entire habit.” The very buds are handsome, large and drooping, with a blend- ing of red into a full and clear yellow, which colours however become more brilliant in the fully expanded corolla. The very blunt calycine segments, and the peculiar nature of the hypo- gynous glands, forming together a rather large lobed and ‘fim- briated cup, differs, as Mr. Purdie justly observes, from most of our known Dipladenia ; but we apprehend it as good a Dipla- ae JANUARY Ist, 1855. denia as many of the species referred to it. It is, we need hardly add, a stove plant, and a more highly ornamental one can scarcely be imagined; most appropriately named in honour of Lord Harris, the late able Governor of Trinidad, and a great friend to science. ‘The following is chiefly from Mr. Purdie’s accurate notes. _ Drscr. Fruticose, scandent, branched ; ranches glabrous, te- rete. Leaves opposite, the largest of them ten to fifteen inches long, four to five broad, oblong, approaching to ovate, tapering to a point, submembranaceous, pinnately veined, often purplish beneath. Petioles scarcely an inch long, stout. Racemes axil- lary and terminal. Pedice/s often an inch long, red, bracte- ated, curved downwards so as to be quite subsecund, while the flowers are in bud. Cualyz of five, deep, subimbricated, ovate, obtuse, slightly concave, green /obes or segments lying close to : the swollen base of the corolla: each has within, at the base, near the margin, an orbicular toothed scale; two of the lobes are smaller than the other three. Corolla large, handsome, fra- grant, full glossy yellow, the tube tinged externally with red, and internally streaked with the same colour, forming bifid rays on _ the limb, which latter is three and a half inches across: tvbe funnel-shaped, contracted below, the base itself swollen or in- flated and five-ribbed, Jodes of the Jimé large, spreading, subro- tund. Sfamens included, inserted at the constriction near the base of the tube ; fiZaments short, downy ; anthers sagittate, hairy at the back, each side below terminating in a spine. Ovaries two, glabrous, surrounded by five large fimbriated or almost digitated glands, united at the base into a cup. Styles united ; stigma clubbed, bifid at the apex, sheathed by the anther. Fig. 1. Section of the base of the corolla. glands. 38. Two of the calycine lobes. magnified. 2. Pistil and the hypogynous 4. Stamen seen from within :-— 4dS26 WI vt nN UE \ HAN wt \)) Ny Wyye ee RSE EEN ee eh Pap MT a Ee Te Tas. 4826. HOYA (OrostemMMA) LACUNOSA. Furrowed Hoya. Nat. Ord. AscLEP1IADE®.—PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4347.) Hoya (Otostemma) Jacunosa; scandens radicans, foliis mediocribus carnoso- coriaceis ellipticis basi apiceque acuminatis petiolatis obscure penninerviis nervis immersis, pedunculis solitariis interpeticlaribus, umbellis multifloris planis, laciniis calycinis ovatis marginibus carinaque denticulatis, corollz rotate carnose velutino-villose: lobis triangularibus demum reflexis, coronz staminee foliolis navicularibus concavis. Hoya lacunosa, Blume, Bijdr. p. 1063. Dene. in De Cand. Prodr. v. 8. p. 638. Blume, Rumphia, v. 4, t. 184. f. 2. OrosteMMA lacunosum. Blume, Rumphia, l. c. p. 30. Mus. Bot. Iugd. Bat. v. 1. p. 59. f. 11. Walp. Annat. Bot. Syst. v. 3. p. 65. A native of the trunks of trees, not only in Java, but in other islands of the Indian Archipelago, according to Blume. In habit and mode of growth this species reminds one of the Hoya Bella, figured at our Tab. 4402; but it is much less elegant and attractive, and wants the pink eye which gives such effect to that species. The Indian Archipelago abounds in species of the genus once ranked under Hoya, and even by Blume himself; but this genus is now, by that author, divided into several genera ; and to the present species he has, in the letterpress to his “Rumphia’ above quoted, but not on the plate, given the generic name of Otostemma.* “ Ab Hoya,” he says, “recedit dentibus * “Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla rotata, quinquefida, laciniis revolutis. Corona staminea pentaphylla, gynostegio elevato adnata; foliolis navicularibus, carnosis, divaricatis, supra concavis, angulo interiore in dentem antheram superantem pro- ducto, subtus appendice deorsum bidentata auctis. Anthere stigmati incum- bentes, apice simplices, acute. Podlinia basi affixa, erecta, approximata, line- aria, compressa. Stigmata obsolete apiculata. Folliculi leves. Semina plu- rima, ad umbilicum carnosa.—Herba Archipelagi Indici, in arboribus radicans ; foliis oppositis v. rarius verticillatis, carnosis, glabris ; umbellis longiuscule pedun- culatis ; floribus parvis, albidis.” Blume. JANUARY Ist, 1855. corone staminez super antheras protractis, cujus foliola subtus esulcata singula appendice bidentata sunt preedita, necnon an- theris simplicibus haud membrana terminatis;” and he adds, “Alias quoque stirpes sub Hoya militantes ad hoc genus re- ferendas esse probabile videtur ; qua de re diligens florum explo- ratio docebit.”-—Not being aware of the minute differences at the time our drawing was made (March, 1854), our artist’s attention was not directed to them; and perhaps science will not suffer by considering Otostemma a group or section of Hoya, at any rate till we are better acquainted with its affinities. The flowers are fragrant, which is a recommendation. We owe the possession of the plant at Kew to Mr. Lowe, of Clapton. Descr. A climbing shrub, with green branches, two to three feet in length; dranches terete, throwing out roots from various points, especially where the leaves are inserted. Leaves op- posite, elliptical, lanceolate, between coriaceous and fleshy, acu- minated, marked above with a depressed line or midrib, and with a few horizontal depressed veins (whence the name, we presume, of /acunosa). Petioles short, thick. Peduncles inter- petiolary, generally shorter than the leaf, solitary, bearing a flat- tened umbel of numerous flowers. Pedicels thickened upwards. Calyx of five, ovate or elliptical, rounded Jodes, denticulate on the margins and keel. Corolla rotate, greenish-yellow, the five fobes eventually reflexed, the inner surface clothed with a circle of velvety hairs. Staminal crown of five, spreading, lanceolate foliola, concave at the top and embossed in the centre. Fig. 1. Leaf. 2. Flower. 3. Calyx and pistils magnified. 4S RT YN \ wags? ve <is 4 O4 8 Tas. 4848. EUPOMATIA taurina. Laurel-like Eupomatia. Nat. Ord. ANONACE#.—POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. Gen. Char. Perigonium tubo turbinato, cum ovario connato, limbo supero, juxta basin operculo semielliptico caduco transversim dehiscens, Stamina plu- | rima, margini persistenti limbi perigonialis multiseriatim inserta, basibus con- nata, exteriora fertilia, patula vel reflexa, filamentis e basi lata subulatis, antheris bilocularibus, loculis linearibus adnatis connectivo in mucronem producto supe- ratis, longitudinaliter dehiscentibus, interiora sterilia, petaloidea, sensim minora, arcte imbricatim conniventia. Ovarium inferum, multiloculare, loculis sparsis, ad angulum centralem multiovulatis. Stigma sessile, planiusculum, areolis sub- rotundis loculorum numero notatum. Bacca turbinato-obovata, limbi perigo- nialis margine angusto coronata, apice truncato areolata, multilocularis. Semina in loculis solitaria vel gemina, angulata, impresso-punctata ; wmbilico basilari, rhaphe chordeeformi, ¢esta membranacea, endopleura tenuissima. Albumen car- nosum, teste processubus lobatum, ejusdem pro tione secundum rhaphem semibipartitum. 2mébryo in basi albuminis prope umbilicum minutus ; cofy/edo- nibus linearibus, foliaceis; radicula teretii—Frutex Nove-Hollandie Orientalis extra-tropice, erectus, ramosus ; trunco gracili, ramis teretibus, subporrectis ; foliis alternis, bifariis, petiolatis, exstipulatis, impunctatis, coriaceis, utringue nitidis, integerrimis ; pedunculis azillaribus, unifloris, folio brevioribus, ramuliformibus, foliis alternis, nanis bracteatis. Endl. (ex Br.). Evromatta Jaurina. Evpomatta laurina. Br. Bot. of Terra Austr. p. 65, Atlas, t. 2. This remarkable Australian plant, which the learned author of the genus says, “forms an unexpected addition to Azonacea, of which it will constitute a distinct section, remarkable in the manifestly perigynous insertion of its stamina’ and the cohesion of the tube of its calyx with the ovarium,” has been hitherto described by no botanist but Mr. Brown, who gives for its loca- lities woods and thickets in the colony of Port Jackson, especially in the mountainous districts, and on the banks of the principal rivers ; flowering in December and January. Yet, rich as our Herbarium is in Australian plants, we never had the good fortune to procure a specimen; and great as our botanical intercourse has been with Australia, our garden has never possessed the MAY ist, 1855. plant,* nor had we ever seen a specimen, till the Messrs. Hen- derson, of Pine Apple Place, were so good as to send us, in March of the present year, a plant, from which our present figure is taken. Through what channel the plant came into Messrs. Henderson’s possession, they are not aware. It was neglected, from having produced no flowers, for a long time, and the blossoming brought it to immediate notice; for these blos- soms are exceedingly curious in structure, and of great botanical interest. “A singular part of the structure of Hupomatia,” Mr. Brown goes on to state, “consists in its internal barren, petal- like stamens, which, from their number and disposition, com- pletely cut off all communication between the anthere and stig- mata. ‘This communication appears to be restored by certain minute insects eating the petal-like filaments, while the antheri- ferous stamina, which are either expanded or reflected, and ap- pear to be even slightly irritable, remain untouched.”’ There are some differences between our plant and the figures made by Mr. Bauer and description of Mr. Brown, but not suffi- cient to justify us in forming of it a distinct species. Most of Mr. Brown’s description is included in Endlicher’s Gen. Char. above given. Drscr. The plants we have seen from Mr. Henderson are young, and at present not more than a foot high, shrubby, branched. Leaves sempervirent, broad-lanceolate, acuminate, somewhat cuneate at the base ; petiole very short. Mowers soli- tary, terminal on short branches. We have not seen the bud. with its curious deciduous hemispherical operculum, which con- stitutes, Mr. Brown observes, the only floral covering. The jiower then, as seen in our figure, consists of a turbinate green receptacle, on the thickened edge of which the numerous stamens are arranged in many series, of which the outer are antherife- rous, consisting of a broad subulate ji/ament, with a linear ce// on each margin, opening longitudinally : all the inner stamens are abortive, large, petaloid, obovate, yellow, stained with orange or blood-colour at the base, especially the inner ones, and have exactly the appearance of a many-petaled corolla, of which the outer ones spread so as to cover and conceal the perfect stamens, while the inner ones are connivent, and almost conceal the ova- ries. The outer of these petaloid stamens have the disc beset with conspicuous, stipitate, globose glands, and the margin with stellated hairs, while the rest have, both on the disc and on the margin, the stipitate glands. (In Mr. Brown’s plant the peta- loid abortive stamens are small and all connnivent, much shorter * A shrub indeed, called by this name, and sent as such by Allan Cunning- ham, more than thirty years ago, to Kew Gardens, proves to be something quite different. The leaves have the fragrant smell of some Laurineous plant, but the plant has never produced blossoms. than the spreading fertile stamens, and destitute of the remark- able glands and stellated hairs.) The flattened disc of the re- ceptacle bears on its surface, what appears at first sight a many- celled depressed ovary, and so our figures make them appear ; but a careful dissection will show it to be composed of a number of ovaries, all on the same plane, and incorporated into a mass, each terminated by its slightly elevated but sessile penicillate or tufted stigma, one-celled, the cell contaming four or five hori- zontal ovaries attached to one side of the cell. The fruit is unknown to me, and I refer to Mr. Brown’s figure and descrip- tion for it. Fig. 1. Vertical section of a flower, from which the operculum had fallen. 2. Perfect stamen. 3. Outer abortive petaloid stamen. 4. Inner ditto. 5. Re- ceptacle from which the stamens (fertile and barren) are removed, and showing the disc bearing the united pistils. 6. Section of two of the coadunate ovaries ; but there should have been in this more magnified figure, a faint vertical line distinguishing the ovaries, and a transverse line below, as the separation from the receptacle :—all more or less magnified. 4849 Vincent Broaks Imp Witch del. et lth . wm JC, Men, Chasm, . 342- Tas. 4849. TRADESCANTIA Martenstana. Martens’ Spiderwort. Nat. Ord. ComMELYNEM.—HEXANDRIA MOoNOGYNIA. Gen. Char. Flores regulares. Sepaia 6, libera, patentia; tria exteriora navi- cularia, persistentia; tria interiora majora, petaloidea, breviter unguiculata, mar- cescendo persistentia. Semina 6, subhypogna, omnia fertilia. Filamenta \ibera, plerumque barbata. Anthere conformes, loculis reniformibus, connectivo varia forma distinctis, interdum tres sepalis exterioribus opposite robustiores, loculis replicatis, extrorsee, filamentisque brevioribus sustentee. Ovarium sessile, trilo- culare; ovula in loculis 2, superposita. Stylus 1. Stigma simplex, obtusum, infundibulare vel peltato-ampliatum. Capsula trilocularis, trivalvis ; valvis medio septiferis. Semina bina, superposita, angulata.—Herbe Americane, erect@ vel diffuse, sepe repentes. Folia indivisa. Vagine integre. Pedunculi azillares et terminales, solitarii, gemini vel plures, apice umbellato-pauci-multiflori, sepe brevis- simi, subnulli folioque duplici involucrati. Kunth. TRaDEScANTIA Martensiana ; pubescenti-glandulosa, caule procumbente geni- culato radicante apice nudo, foliis oblongo-ovatis acuminatis sessilibus va- ginatis, vaginis villosis, panicula terminali elongata effusa ditrichotoma, pedunculis fasciculatis umbelliferis ex axilla bractez scariose vaginantis, pedicellis calycibusque pubescenti-glandulosis, floribus triandris, petalis albis, filamentis glabris, antheris oblongis, stylo perbrevi, stigmate trilobo lobis globosis hirsutis. TRADESCANTIA Martensiana. Kth. Enum. Pl. v. 4. p. 697; Commelina multi- flora, Mart. et Galeot. En. Synops. Pl. Mex, p. 3. It is not a little remarkable that a plant of Mexico, possessing so little beauty as the present, should come to us vid the East Indies: but certain it is that the Royal Gardens of Kew received the present Zradescantia from Mr. Manley, of Calcutta : and no sooner did our late lamented friend Dr. Wallich see it growing in our stove, than he assured us it was a plant with which he was familiar at the Calcutta Botanic Garden, where it was con- sidered an exotic, and it was endeared to him in consequence of © the powerful smell of violets emitted by the flowers. Our Her- barium shows the plant to be a native of Mexico (Xalapa, Linden, and Martens and Galeotti), and Guatemala (Mr. Skinner), and the 7 Martensiana, Kth. 1. c. Messrs. Martens and Galeotti MAY Ist, 1855. say of it, “Flores odorem Viole odorate spirant ;’ and Mr. Skinner observes upon his specimens, “sweeter than violets.” On this account it is worthy of cultivation in every stove, and it flourishes in damp earth among Zycopodia, and in situations suited to the growth of tropical Ferns. Descr. Whole plant more or less glandulose-pubescent. Stems branched from below, terete, striated, one foot to one and a half foot long, decumbent, the lower part closely, the upper more distinctly, clothed with the sheathing basis of the alternate leaves: these latter are sessile, oblongo-ovate, acuminate, striated, the base obtuse, almost cordate, suddenly contracted into the very hairy, striated, cylindrical, submembranaceous sheath, which surrounds the stem. ‘The stem becomes more slender upwards (with the leaves gradually smaller), and passes into the terminal panicle, a span or more long: the dranches di-trichotomous, slen- der, the ultimate ones bearing an umbel of small, white, but ex- cessively fragrant, flowers, having exactly the odour of sweet violets. Bracteas ovato-lanceolate, the lower ones sheathing at the base. Calyx of three, green, glanduloso-pilose spreading se- pals. Corolla of three, ovate, white, spreading, crenulate, obtuse petals. Stamens three (only), alternating with the petals; /i/a- ments naked ; anthers oblong, subsagittate. Ovary oblong, gla- brous. Style very short. Stigma of three, rather large, peni- cillate lobes. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Transverse section of ovary :—magnified. ee, ETO, ee Coen KS Tas. 4850. STREPTOCARPUS poLyANTHUS. Many-flowered Streptocarpus. Nat. Ord. CyrTANDRACE®.—DIANDRIA MonoeGyNIA. Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus, persistens, eequalis. Corolla tubuloso-infundibu- liformis, tubo calyeem duplo vel multoties superante, fauce ventricosa, limbo ob- liquo 5-lobo subaequali. Stamina 5, anteriora 2 fertilia, antheris glabris connatis, loculis divaricatis, superiora 3 sterilia, tubo omnino adnata, apice tuberculiformia. Ovarium teres, elongatum, rectum, 1-loculare, fere 4-loculare, placentis 2 didymis lamellis conniventibus dissepimentum spurium formantibus utrinque revolutis margine ovuliferis. Stylus linearis. Stigma bilabiatum, lobis reniformibus infe- riore vix majore. Capsula siliqueeformis, teres, apice depressa, spiraliter torta, loculicide dehiscens, ovarii structure: conformis, Semina plurima, minuta, ob- longa.—Herbee Austro-Africane, acaules, cespitose vel caulescentes. Folia op- posita, Scapi plurimi, 1- (2- vel pluri-\flori, juniores circinatim involuti. Corolle pallide ceruleo-purpurascentes, intus lineis purpureis notate. De Cand. * Srreprocareus polyanthus ; foliis omnibus yadicalibus humifusis amplis cor- dato-oblongis crenatis rugosis pubescentibus, scapo elongato bifido ramis paniculatis plurifloris, corollis hypocrateriformibus, tubo curvato, limbo valde obliquo profunde 5-lobo, lobis cuneatis dentatis. Among the roots of some living Ferns, kindly brought to us from Natal by Captain Garden, there appeared, in the summer of 1853, seedlings of a plant, whose leaves, few in number and pressed close to the soil, gradually developed themselves, till the larger ones, in the following season (December), became a foot long. From between the sinuses of these leaves and directly from the root there emerged one to three scapes, attaining al- together a foot in height, bearing good-sized panicles of pale- blue flowers, which proved to be those of an undescribed, if not wholly unknown, species, of the curious genus Sfreptocarpus, such as we have here represented; but it was quite impossible to include the entire foliage in an octavo page. A dried speci- men of the same plant, and from the same country, We Possess. in our Herbarium, from our friend Mr. Sanderson ; and it is, MAY Ist, 1855. all probability, the “‘ Didymocarpus ?” thus mentioned in Krauss’ ‘Natal Flora,’ p. 122, “ e summis montibus inter Mauritzburg et Natalbay, alt. 2000-3000.” It is as a species widely different from the only hitherto described South African species, S. Revit ; and equally, or more so, from the Madagascar species of Brown and De Candolle, all of which are caulescent, with axillary in- florescence. Drscr. Leaves few, about two pair lying close to the ground, and, as it were, pressed down upon the soil: these pairs are ex- tremely unequal in size; one is nearly a foot long in our living plant, the opposite one scarcely two inches; both are alike in shape, cordato-oblong, rugose, downy, reticulately veined, the margin somewhat undulated and closely crenated: beneath, the veins are prominent, and the surface more downy. From one to three scapes arise from the sinus of the large leaf, a foot and more high, bearing a panicle, often bifid in the primary rami- fication, and many short divaricating subfasciculated pedicels, rarely bracteated, downy. Calyx hairy, with a short ovate tube, and five erect linear teeth or lobes to the limb, of which one is nearly twice the length of the rest. Corolla an inch and a half long, and as broad in the limb, delicate pale-blue, veined. Zube much curved ; Zimb very oblique, of five, spreading, reticulated, cuneated, toothed /obes. Stamens inclined : Jertile ones two, in- serted near the middle of the tube: sferi/e ‘ones near the base. Filaments hairy. Ovary cylindrical, hairy, with a short cylin-« drical style and conical stigma. Fig. 1. Stamens. 2. Calyx and young fruit :—magnified. ft | | Vincent Brooks Top. Tas. 4851. THYRSACANTHUS ScuomBurGkKIANUs. Schomburgk’s Thyrsacanthus. Nat. Ord. ACANTHACEZ.—D1anpRIA Monoeynia. Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4378.) THYRSACANTHUS rutilans; fruticosa, ramis subtetragonis, foliis subsessilibus lato-lanceolatis acuminatis inferne attenuatis pilosulis margine subintegerri- mis, racemis axillaribus terminulibusque laxis longis pendulis plurifloris, bracteis floralibus subulatis, pedicellis brevibus, floribus oppositis, calycibus 5-partitis pilosis laciniis subeequalibus subulatis, corolle infundibuliformi- tubulosze coccinez limbo parvo 5-lobo lobis subzequalibus erecto-patentibus, staminibus inclusis sterilibus brevibus capitatis. Tuyrsacantuus Schomburgkianus. Nees in Benth. Pl. Schomb. Lond. Journ. of Bot. 1845, p. 636. ”. 71 e¢ 147, et in Herb. Nostr. De Cand. Prodr. v. 11. p. 325. Tuyrsacantuus rutilans. Planchon and Linden (coloured figure circulated). Paxton’s Fl. Gard. v. 3. p. 73 (with woodcut). * One of the most striking plants exhibited by the Horticultural Society during their interesting winter meetings in Regent-street (1854—5) was undoubtedly that of which the present is a figure of a small specimen. The shrub is a native of South America, and would appear to have a very extended range. Its discovery is due to C. 8. Parker, Esq., in British Guiana, where Sir Robert Schomburgk afterwards detected it; and it has lately been found by Mr. Schlim in New Granada, near Ocafia, at an eleva- tion of 4000 feet above the level of the sea, and has been dis- persed by the Belgian Gardens. It seems to flower in the stove nearly all the year round. Dr. Lindley remarks of it, when al- luding to the winter plants flowering in the Horticultural So- ciety’s Garden (Chron. March 3, 1855): “ One of the most or- namental of these is Thyrsacanthus rutilans, a stove-plant, as yet scarcely known; but which should be in every collection, as it really is one of the handsomest things that has been introduced MAY Ist, 1855. for years. It produces great quantities of brilliant, crimson, tu- bular flowers, attached near the ends of long, branched, droop- ing flower-stems, which, when tied out a little, so as to fully ex- pose the blossoms to view, render the plant very effective. ‘The flowers also keep a long time in perfection, a desirable property at all times, and especially at this season of the year.” This is no exaggerated statement, as the public had an opportunity of witnessing by the noble plants exhibited at the Society’s rooms the following Tuesday, when they attracted the attention of every visitor. Descr. Our plants are two to three feet high, branched, the branches subterete, glabrous, as is almost every part of the plant, and twiggy. eaves a good deal confined to the young and ten- der shoots, nearly sessile, broadly lanceolate, acuminate, penni- nerved. acemes axillary and terminal, one to two feet and more long; their dranches few, slender, and gracefully drooping, below bracteated with subulate, opposite drac¢s, the rest bearing good-sized flowers in opposite pairs, drooping. Pedicels short. Calyz slightly hairy, deeply cut into five, subulate, erecto-patent lobes. Corollas nearly two inches long, rich crimson, tubuloso- clavate ; the Zimd small, of five, erecto-patent, nearly equal, ob- tuse teeth. Sfamens included, two perfect, inserted a little below the middle of the tube. Anthers oblong; two abortive, small, capitate at the apex. Ovary oblong, seated on a conspicuous gland, Style a little exserted. Stigma minute, bifid. Fig. 1. Calyx and ovary. 2.. Pistil :—magnified. Tas. 4852. BERBERIS Beratet. Mr. Beale’s Chinese Berberry. Nat. Ord. BERBERIDEZ.—HEXANDRIA MonoGyYNIA. Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4308.) Berserts (Mahonia) Bealei ; foliis crasso-coriaceis rigidissimis, foliolis 4-5 -jugis ovatis sinuatis parce (5-6) spinoso-dentatis valde pungentibus infimis sub- rotundatis ad basin petioli stipuleformibus terminali petiolato, racemis fas- ciculatis, petalis apice bifidis. - BerBeris Bealei. Fort. in Gard. Chron. 1850, p. 212. Hook. Bot. Mag. Tab. 4845. Var. planifolia. BERBERIS Japonica. Lind. in Fl. Gard. v. 1. p. 11, with woodcut. Manonta Japonica? De Cand. : [Lex Japonica. Thunb. Jap. p. 79. Ic. t. 32. One remarkable state of this plant, as we believe it to be, has been figured by us at our Tab. 4846, under the name of B. Bealei, planifolia. Fortune discovered the one now figured, as related in the ‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle,’ above quoted, in China, about 150 miles north of China, in the distriet of Hwuy-Chow. “The shrub was about eight fect high, much branched, and far surpassing in beauty all the known species of Mahonia.” “ Sir William Hooker,” he continues, “informs me that this may be the plant which Thunberg calls Zea Japonica, figured and de- scribed by Thunberg” (which Mr. Brown had long ago properly referred to Berderis), and I think so still, and Dr. Lindley has expressed the same opinion very confidently ; while, on the other hand, Mr. Don, in his ‘ Flora of Nepaul,’ and Drs. Hooker and Thomson, in their printed, but yet unpublished, ‘ Flora Indica, have unhesitatingly, without having seen authentic specimens, referred Thunberg’s plant to B. Nepalensis, Wall.; a species with very long leaves, bearing numerous pairs of leaflets, of a narrower form, more membranaceous texture (I am comparing JUNE lst, 1855. ae ‘ our Chinese plant, for Thunberg’s figure is very unsatisfactory), narrower and less pungent leaves, strongly veined. On referring to Mr. Bentham’s Herbarium however, we find a Japan speci- men (leaf only), gathered by Siebold in Japan, and this is clearly identical with B. Nepalensis/ and we certainly do find in some of our Jndian specimens, bere and there, leaves which exhibit the varied forms of leaflets, the same rigid coriaceous texture, — and very pungent spines seen in all our states of J. Bealev. There is no reason whatever for retaining the name of Japonica, in this instance so long buried and lost as it were in the genus Ilex; and, though a further acquaintance with the Japan and Chinese Berberries may show our Bealei to be a distinct species, the probability is that it will be found to merge into the well- known B. Nepalensis. I may here observe, too, that Messrs. Standish and Noble have sent me, from their Bagshot Nursery, another sort of Berberis from China, akin to the present, having longer leaves, concave on their upper surface, and more ap- proaching B. Vepyalensis : im no way, I think, really distinct from &. Bealei,—all highly ornamental, and, horticulturally speaking, different from each other. But, handsome as these are, they fall far short in beauty of Dr. Lindley’s B. ¢rifurca, Lindl. in Pax- ton’s Fl. Garden, p. 57, n. 525, where the woodcut of a portion of the leaf will give a better idea of the plant than any descrip- tion can do. The form of the leaflets is nearly oblong, the up- per half scarcely spiny, except in the three terminal spines, which point forward and have the intermediate of the three bent back : the venation is strong, the margins always refracted, the ultimate leaflet always sessile, the petiole and rachis dark purple. It has not yet flowered; but in its foliage it is the Prince of Ber- berries. Descr. Our description of the variety of B. Bealei given at Tab. 4846, and our respective figures, will indicate the characters of the two better than any laboured description. ‘The leaflets are here more undulated, the margin between the spines reflexed, and the base more or less cuneate : in our present plant the flowers are much larger, and much less numerous on the racemes. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Petal and stamen. 3. Pistil :—magnified. 4OO3 Tas. | 4853. DENDROCHILUM ecxiumacevn. Glumaceous Dendrochilum. Nat. Ord. OncHIipE®.—GYNANDRIA MoNANDRIA. Gen. Char. Sepala et petala eequalia, libera, patentia. Labellum integerrimum, sepalis subconforme, basi concavum v. carinatum, nune cristatum. Columna brevis, semiteres, antice processubus duobus cornua referentibus, apice dentata V. rostrata. Pollinia 4, libera ($8), incumbentia.—Herbze supra arbores vigentes, foliis coriaceis in pseudobulbis sepius solitariis. Spice terminales aut laterales, Jiliformes, multiflore. Flores juniores bracteis bifariam imbricatis occulti. Lindl. (character ex Blume). DENDROCHILUM glumaceum ; pseudobulbis aggregatis fusiformi-ovatis, foliis so- litariis lato-lanceolatis striatis inferne in petiolum (squama ampla vaginatum) — longe attenuatis, spica elongata lineari-oblonga compressa alba, floribus dis- tichis, sepalis petalisque paullo minoribus acuminatis, labelli trilobi basi bilamellati lobis lateralibus abbreviatis inflexis subacutis intermedio orbi- culari, columna utringue unidentato dente spiniformi elongato, apice bifido laciniato, DrnpRocuiLum glumaceum. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1841. Mise. p. 23. n. 58. With small flowers, and those possessing no colour to recom- mend them, we yet consider this one of the most elegant and graceful of Orchideous plants, and most desirable for cultivation. It is easily increased, the small pseudobulbs growing in masses : the leaves are ample for the size of the plant, sheathed below with large coloured scales, and the many spikes of ivory-white, close- set, distichous flowers, drooping from the extremity of a slender, almost filiform, curved stalk, cannot fail to attract attention. It is a native of the Philippines, and was imported by Mr. Cuming. It is best cultivated in a wire-basket, and suspended from the rafters of a moist stove. The'flowers are very fragrant. Duscr. Pseudobulbs crowded, forming dense, spreading masses, small, the younger ones fusiform, the older ones more inclining to ovate. The former are clothed with two or more large, generally red, sheathing sca/es, within which is a much larger and longer (three to four inches long) sheathing, subcylin- JUNE Ist, 1855. drical, inflated scale, tawny, and tinged with red. Leaves soli- tary, broad-lanceolate, rather obtuse, striated, tapering into a long footstalk, which is enclosed by the sheathing scale. Pe- duncle arising from the top of the pseudobulb, curved down- wards, slender, filiform, sheathed below (as the petioles are), and bearing a graceful, pendent, elongated, linear-oblong spike of crowded, distichous, white, sessile flowers. In a young state these spikes almost resemble those of Pholidota. Bracteas lanceolate, convolute, white, at length tawny. Sepals and rather smaller petals uniform, spreading, oblong, acuminate. Lip small, projecting, and recurved ; three-lobed, lateral lobes acute, curved forward, middle lobe rotundate: the disc of the lip has two oblong lobes or thick lamelle. Colwmn short, compressed, having on each side, near the base, a long spiniform tooth: the apex winged, bifid, and laciniated. Anther-case conico-cucullate, placed just above the small stigma. Fig. 1. Front view of.a flower. 2. Column. 3. Labellum :—magnified. PTE cng oh Saar re Veta ey een erg nee em a ee Roe er ei To patien mae pace FY. ee Tas. 4854. CANNA Warszewiczii. Warszewicz's Canna. Nat. Ord. CANNACEZ.—MoNANDRIA MonoGynia. Gen. Char, Calyx triphyllus. Corolle limbus exterior trifidus, interior bila- biatus, labio superiore bi-tripartito v. abortu nullo, inferiore diviso. Filamentum petaloideum, anthera marginali. Ovariwm inferum, triloculare. Ovula in locu- lorum angulo centrali plurima, horizontalia, anatropa. Stylus petaloideus 3 stigma lineare, margini adnatum. Capsula membranacea, papilloso-muricata, trilocu- laris, loculicido-trivalvis. Semina plurima, subglobosa, testa coriacea, dura. Al- bumen corneum. Embryo orthotropus, axilis, cylindricus, albuminis longitudine, extremitate radiculari albumen. perforante, umbilicum attingente, cotyledonis : apice subinflexo.—Herbee Americana, ut plurimum tropice, pauce Asiatica, per. ennes, paludose, caule simplici, foliis longe petiolatis, late ovatis, spica a laxa, floribus bracteatis. Endl. ae . % Canna Warszewiczii; foliis ovatis margine coloratis, vaginis spathis bracteis— ealycibusque purpureis, corolla petalis omnibus intense coccineis inferiore emarginato, capsulis lato-pyriformibus dense papilloso-muricatis atro-san- guineis. : | ee : Canna Warszewiczii. Dietr. in Otto und Dietr. Allgem. Gartenz. Jahrg. XIX. p- 290. Canna sanguinea. Hort. Germ. This fine Canna was introduced into German gardens, in 1849, . by M. von Warszewicz, from Costa Rica ; it is now very generally — cultivated in England, and is well deserving of it,—the stem, but : especially the peduncles, ovaries, calyx, and bracts, having a fine = blood-red colour, and the flowers being of a bright scarlet. — Tt : belongs to that section of the genus characterized by a bifid upper lip of the corolla, including @. discolor, C. occidentalis, C.- compacta, C. carnea, etc.; but it differs from its allies in several essential points. x Duscr. The root is perennial. The stem (when the plant is well cultivated*) attains a height of three to three and a half : * In German gardens this Canna is planted during the summer in the open — borders, where it succeeds extremely well, as is also the case with other Cannas, JUNE Ist, 1855. feet, and is round, robust, dark blood-red, primrose, and (as is the whole plant) glabrous. The /eaves are about one foot long, and in the widest part about six inches across; they are ovate or ovate-oblong, gradually tapering, and terminating in an al- most threadlike apex; they are of a dark green, the midrib and veins below being more or less intensely red, as is also their margin. The inflorescence is more than half a foot long. The corolla is scarlet, externally occasionally with a bluish tinge. ‘The ovary is nearly globose, obscurely tricorned, and thickly co- vered with little warts; at first of dark blood-colour and prim- rose, but, after the flowers have faded, becoming lighter, and finally assuming a beautiful ruby colour, the warts being then transparent, and when held before the light showing a fine red. The sfamen is very narrow-linear, of a light brown, and of the same length as the style. The fruit is nearly globose or obovate- globose, as large as a good-sized cherry when perfectly ripe, quite black, and covered with dried-up warts. The seeds are globose, as large as peas, and jet black. Seemann. Marantas, Musas, Begonias, Bambusas, etc. In England this mode of culture has not yet been tried, probably from the prevailing notion that the difference of temperature of the two countries, from May to October, is too great to allow the experiment to succeed. There is no harm in tryipg it, especially as the case is not quite a hopeless one. The Germans formerly never dreamed that they should one day behold broad-leaved Banana trees and Cannas in their gardens flourishing with tropical luxuriance. Seem. Fig. 1. Flower from which the calyx is removed :—magnified. 2. Capsule. 3. Seed :—natural size. Witch del. t hit 4k Tas. 4855. BEGONIA vuropHy.ua. Caudate-leaved Begonia. a Nat. Ord. Brgontacrm.—Monecia PoLyanpRia. Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4172.) BrGontAa urophylia; acaulis ramosa, foliis amplis lato-cordatis inciso-dentatis apice caudato-acuminatis, venis flabellatis subtus setosulis, petiolis setosis setis mollibus deflexis, pedunculis radicalibus glabris, paniculis amplis valde ramosis repetitim di-trichotomis, floribus dipetalis, masculis petalis obovatis planis patentibus, foemineis petalis suborbicularibus valde concavis erecto- patentibus, fructu 3-alato, alis duabus brevibus, unica duplo majore rotun- dato-quadrangulari. Brconta urophylla. Hort. Belg. Under the above name we have received our present Begonia from the Belgian Gardens. It is certainly among the finest and handsomest of the genus; the leaves ample, and the flowers large and very numerous, in panicles, which are compoundly divided in a di- or trichotomous manner. We are scarcely in a condi- tion, with our limited knowledge of the numerous species (now unfortunately, too, hybridized by cultivators), to say what are its nearest allies. Indeed, it is extremely different from any we are acquainted with. The long caudex of the large leaf is very pecu- liar. There are few species better deserving @ place in a tropical stove. It flowers copiously in March. Descr. Our plant is stemless: the /eafstalks spring directly from the root, are succulent, terete, and sparsely beset with de- _ curved subulate soft bristles or setee. Leaves very large, a span and more long, broadly cordate, green, paler beneath, the margm inciso-dentate, the apex runs out into a long tail-like point. The : veins commencing from a conspicuous circular disc, at the base of the leaf, in the sinus, diverge in a flabellate manner, and are beneath beset with soft, white, pellucid, chaffy hairs on many of the nerves. Peduneles radical, terete, glabrous and smooth, green, tinged with red, bearing a large, spreading, yet lax, di- trichotomously divided panicle, with two sorts of flowers ;— JUNE Ist, 1855. male, large, and female smaller ones. Male flowers of two spreading, opposite, plane, obovate, faintly striated, white petals, tinged with bluish. Stamens numerous, club-shaped, yellow. Female flowers not much more than one-fourth the size of the males. Petals two, erecto-patent, suborbicular, very concave. Ovary or capsule triangular, with a wing at each angle: two short and narrow ; ove much larger, and dilated so as to have a subquadrate form. « Style short. Stigma twisted. Fig. 1. Female flower :—magnified. _ Tas. 4856. EMBOTHRIUM coccineEvum. Scarlet Embothrium. Nat. Ord. ProreacEm.—TETRANDRIA MoNnoGYNIA. Gen. Char. Perigonium irregulare, hinc longitudinaliter fissum, apice quadrifi- dum. Stamina 4, perigonii apicibus concavis immersa. Glandula hypogyna unica, semiannularis. Ovariwm pedicellatum, uniloculare, multiovulatum. Stylus fili- formis, persistens; stigma verticale, clavatum. Folliculus oblongus, unilocularis, polyspermus. Semina apice in alam arachnoideam producta, pellicula interposita distincta.—Frutices v. arbuscule glabre in America antarctica provenientes ; Ta~— mulis guandoque gemmarum sguamis persistentibus obsitis, foliis sparsis integerrimts, racemis terminalibus corymbosis, paribus pedicellorum unibracteatis, involucro com- muni xullo, floribus coccineis glaberrimis. Endl. EMBOTHRIUM coccineum ; foliis ovali-oblongis obtusis mucronulatis subtus dis- coloribus, ramulis squamatis. Br. Emporurrum coccineum. Forst. Gen. p. 16. tab. 8. litt. g.—m. Linn. Suppl. p. 128. Lam. Ili. t. 55. f. 2. Cavan. Icon. v. 1. t. 65. Roem. et Schult. v. 3.p.431. Br. in Linn. Trans. v. 10. p. 196. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 483. Hook. fil. Fl. Antarct. v. 2. p. 342. Abundant as are the Proteacee in the Southern Hemisphere, in Africa and Australia, they are comparatively of rare occurrence in the Indian Islands and in South America. The genus Hm- hothrium however, as limited by Mr. Brown, the great authority in this Natural Family, is confined to the latter country, and chiefly to the very high southern latitudes ; 2. Janceolatum of Ruiz and Pavon being not found north of Concepcion, while our present beautiful species is chiefly confined to the Straits of Magellan and Tierra del Fuego, not however reaching to Cape Horn. It might be expected then, as it proves, to be quite hardy in this country, to which it was introduced by Messrs. Veitch, through their collector, Mr. William Lobb. Our flowering specimen here represented was sent from the Exeter Nursery n May, 1853. It is a handsome evergreen shrub, with racemes of the richest scarlet flowers.* * Those who had the gratification of witnessing the Exhibition of Flowers at Gore House this day (May 16), cannot fail to have seen and admired, among the more powerful attractions of the place, the splendid Orchidee from the Messrs. Veitch’s Exotic Nurseries, Exeter and Chelsea, and the no less splendid Embothrium coccineum. JUNE Ist, 1855. Descr. Shrub apparently of moderate height, two feet in the present instance: dranches terete, brown, woody ; the younger ones said to be clothed with scales. Leaves shortly petiolate, ; oblong-oval, approaching to elliptical, firm, coriaceous, two and a half to near three inches long, entire, glabrous, dark green above, pale beneath, penniveined, very obtuse at the apex and mucronate, tapering below. Pefioles about half an inch long. ftacemes numerous, terminal, sessile, many-flowered. Rachis green. Pedicels red, half an inch to an inch long, erecto- patent. #V/owers bright scarlet ; in bud nearly two inches long, tubular, curved upwards, the closed segments of the perianth forming a globose head, eventually separating one-third of the way down from the apex into four, spathulate, reflexed, and often spirally twisted /odes, in the concave apices of which the sessile oblong anthers are imbedded. Ovary elongated, cylindrical, shortly stipitate, bearing a prominent gland on the upper side of the stipes, tapering gradually into the red exserted style: stigma oblong, yellow, tipped with green. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil :—magnified, SP af 5 £ ia Tas. 4857. TRICHOPILIA coccinea. Red-flowered Trichopilia. ~ Nat. Ord. OxncnHipEm.—GyNAanDRIA MONANDRIA. Gen. Char. Sepala et petala zqualia, patentia, angusta. Labellum magnum, petaloideum, convolutum, cum columna parallelum, trilobum, lobo intermedio subbilobo planiusculo, intus nudum. Colwmna teres, clavata. Clinandrium cu- cullatum, trilobum, villoso-fimbriatum. A4zthera unilocularis, compressa, antice convexa. Pollinia 2, postice sulcata, caudicule tenui cuneate adherentia: glan- dula minima.—Pseudobulbi carnosi, vaginis maculatis supertecti, monophylli, coriacei. Flores solitarii, axillares. Lindl. ® ‘ TricnoPii1a coccinea; pseudobulbis angustis oblongis compressis sulcatis monophyllis, foliis lanceolatis planis basi subcordatis acuminatis recurvis, pedunculis plurifloris, petalis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis semel tortis, la- bello quadrilobo lobis rotundatis convexis planis basi arcte convoluto, cu- culli trilobi laciniis fimbriatis subeequalibus. Lindl. TRicnopri1a coccinea. Lindl. in Pawton’s Fl. Gard. v. 2. t. 54. TRICHOPILIA marginata. “ Henfr. Gard. Mag. of Bot. July 1851, with a figure.” A native of Central America, where it was discovered by Mr. ,Warszewicz, who sent it to England in 1849, under the name of Trichopilia coccinea, a name properly adopted by Dr. Lindley, though not till after it had been published by Mr. Henfrey under the name of 7. marginata. The specimen here figured in April of the present year (1855) is from the collection of S. Rucker, Esq., Wandsworth, and we are informed by his skilful gardener, Mr. Junkermann, that it was presented to that gentleman by Mr. H. Gireoud, gardener to Charles Nauen, Esq., of Berlin ;— equally derived from Mr. Warszewicz. It is a very handsome Species, most so of any of the genus, and is described as some- times having the entire flower of a rich deep carmine colour, whereas in our plant the outside of the flower is white, or nearly so;—the upper or inner side red-purple; the sepals margined with white. In Dr. Lindley’s figure the upper side of the la- bellum has a clearly defined border of white, and the peduncles JUNE lst, 1855. or scapes are single-flowered. Its nearest affinity is with 7! for- “ilis ; from which the last-mentioned author observes it differs “ principally in its larger and rich carmine flowers, slightly twisted sepals and petals, and the equal size of the fringed lobes of the anther-hood.” , Descr. Pseudobulbs clustered, oblong, compressed, smooth, dark green. Leaves solitary, from the apex of the pseudobulb, broad-lanceolate, coriaceous, suddenly acuminate ; near the base often somewhat spreading, so as to be subauriculate. Peduncle from the base of the pseudobulb, about three-flowered. FYowers large, handsome, in our specimen white externally, reddish-purple within. Pefals and sepals spreading, linear-lanceolate ; sepals of the same shape, but slightly twisted, all margined with white above. Lip trumpet-shaped, the mouth oblong, large, spreading ; the four lobes broad, rounded, waved. Column included within the convolute claw of the lip, white, terete. Hood of the anther three-lobed ; /odes nearly equal in size, fringed. Fig. 1. Column. 2. Pollen-masses :—magnified. 4 S58 Tas. 4858. ‘GEN ETYLLIS ruuipirera. Tulip-bearing Genetyllis. Nat. Ord. Myrtacem.—Icosanpria Monocynta. Gen. Char. Calyx tubulosus, 5-costatus, dimidiatus, inferne ovario adnatus, basi carnosus, superius in faucem productus, limbo obtuse 5-dentato ; totus levis, v. inferiore parte ovarium corticante rugulosus, vel rugis transverse parallelis in marginem liberum cartilagineum productis pluriannulatus. Corolla scariosa vel membranacea, limbo calycis adnata; petala 5, concava vel naviculari-carinata, in acumen obtusum extenuata, conniventia. Andronitis ultra calycis limbum bre- vissimo, brevi, v. longiori spatio monadelpha, inferius inde confluens in laminam parieti faucis adnatam. S/aminodia 10, staminibus totidem rite alterna, varie configurationis dentiformia, subulata, liguliformia, petaloidea, preefloratione erecta. Filamenta staminodiis subeequalia v. longiora, filiformia, prafloratione introflexa, antheris duplice serie, altiori et demissiori, fauci applicatis. Anthere globose, connectivi simplicis fronti insertze, bilocellatee, locellis subconfluentibus, virgineis leviter constrictis, poro postico dehiscentibus. Ovarium calyci omnino immer- sum, vertice truncatum laminaque epigyna indutum. Ovula gemina paucave in placenta basifixa centrali erecta, anatropa. Stylus exsertus, infra stigma barba- . . .—Flores in apicibus ramulorum pauci vel numerost capitato-conges latati receptaculiformis areolis sessiles, v. pedicellati, bracteis stipati betatis, extimis vero sepe auctis coloratisque imvolucrum capituli exhib eolee bine, libere, juxta calycis basin opposite, sessiles, membranacee, , floris primordium amplectentes, dein divergentes, sub anthesi deci GENETYLLIS ¢ulipifera ; foliis plerisque oppositis subsessilibus patentibus punc- tatis oblongo-ellipticis obtusis membranaceo-marginatis serrulatis, capitulis nutantibus, involucris amplis campanuliformibus albis sanguineo pulcher- rime pictis, foliolis latissimis, calycis tubo inferno 10-suleato suleis transverse rugosis, staminodiis clavatis apice coloratis parvis. GENETYLLIs tulipifera, Hort. Hnparome tulipiferum. ‘Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1854, p. 323. During the distant excursions so frequently made by the vene- rable Drummond in Western Australia to the interior of the Swan River Settlement, he spoke with rapture of two species of Genetyllis, a8 among the most interesting of his discoveries ; and When his specimens were distributed to the European subseri- WLY Ist, 1855. bers, they were found to bear him out in his eulogies ; and these have both now happily been raised from seeds in our gardens ; so that in April of the present year we had the pleasure to re- ceive beautiful samples of the two, flowering in great perfection, from the nursery of Messrs. Garaway, Mayes, and Co., of the Bristol Nursery. The same were exhibited at the summer exhi- bitions of the present year, and have attracted much attention. Both are figured in the present number. That now before us, G. tulipifera, though only two feet ten inches high, had from 150 to 200 heads of flowers upon it. Each little branch is terminated with a drooping richly coloured involucre, resembling a gay tulip, and which many, unacquainted with the family to which the plant _ belongs, take for a large corolla: whereas they are but floral leaves, shelterimg and completely concealing from view the real flowers. It is a hardy greenhouse plant. Dzusor. Shrub between two and three feet high, firm, erect, much branched; branches nearly erect, angled, pale brown. Leaves mostly opposite, nearly sessile, perennial, patent, between elliptical and oblong, dark green above and punctated, pale be- neath, the margin cartilaginous or submembranaceous, pellucid, minutely serrulate. Heads of several flowers terminating the nu- merous branches, and with their large and highly coloured zavolucre drooping. The upper leaves are also gradually larger, broader, and more or less coloured ; those, constituting the involucre, with the interior or uppermost ones white, more or less streaked or blotched with deep rose or blood colour, and so arranged as to resemble a large bell-shaped, polypetalous corolla. Flowers small, few in number, collected into a head at the base of the involucre, each subtended by two concave and subcarinate drac- teoles. Calyx-tube subturbinate, below ten-furrowed, the furrows transversely wrinkled: /imé of five, small, obtuse teeth. Corolla of five, ovate, obtuse petals. Stamens arising from the edge of a — fleshy annulus or dise at the mouth of the calyx ; ten perfect, short, with globose anthers, and ten (outer series) are minute, clavate staminodia. Style thrice as long as the flower, thick, subulate, barbate below the acute stigma. Fig. 1. Leaf. 2. Flower. 8, 4. Bracteoles. 5. Vertical section of calyx. 6. Stamen and staminodium :—sagnijied. 4859 Se ieee et aa Tas. 4859. RHODODENDRON krerusvun. Blunt-leaved Rhododendron. Nat. Ord. Ertcacem.—DrcanpriA MonoGynta. Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4336.) RHODODENDRON retusum ; fructicosum, ramulis exasperatis, foliis obovato-ob- longis coriaceis obtusis retusisve subtus pallidis squamulosis marginibus recurvis, floribus umbellis pedunculisque hirsutis, calycibus parvis lobis 5 brevibus unico longiore pedunculisque hirsutis, corollis infundibuliformi- tubulosis coccineis basi ventricosis, staminibus subexsertis, ovario elliptico squamuloso. ‘ ta ig Oe RHODODENDRON retusum. Bennet in Fi. Jav. p. 88. t. 20. De Cand. Prodr. OF Fx a p. 124. ‘ a = VireYA retusa. Blum. Bijdr. p. 856. A native of high mountains of Western Java, where it was first found by Blume; and Dr. Horsfield detected it in the island of Sumatra, in 1818, on a journey from Padang to Me- nangcabo, in shaded situations about 3000 feet above the ocean. It may be considered then a greenhouse plant, and should be treated as such. Messrs. Rollisons, of Tooting Nursery, have raised it from seeds sent by their collector, Mr. Henschell, from Java, and we are indebted to them for the opportunity of figuring it. It is truly a lovely plant, of the group of BR. ferrugineum and 3 hirsutum among European species, and ZR. anthopogon, lepidotum, : etc., among Indian species; but in the size and colour of its flowers and foliage, handsomer than any of them. The flowers approach nearer to scarlet than any other species of the genus. It blossomed with Messrs. Rollisons in May. | Descr. A shrub a foot to two feet high ; branches woody, “ brown in age, rough with minute raised points; less so in the cultivated than in the wild state. Zeaves two to two and a half inches long, almost sessile, oblong or elliptical-obovate, evergreen, — coriaceous, spreading, glabrous, the margins recurved, the apex JULY Ist, 1855, wa S. ' very obtuse or often retuse, dark green above, the younger ones paler, the old ones a little inclined to ferrugmous be- neath, and there furfuraceous with numerous minute scales. Um- bels terminal, of six to eight or nine flowers. Peduncles about two-thirds of an inch long, red, hairy. /owers moderately drooping. Calyx minute, yellow-green, ciliated and squamulose, five-toothed ; teeth very short and acute, but one longer than the rest. Corolla an inch and a quarter or an inch and a half long, rather bright scarlet, tubuloso-infundibuliform, the base ventri- cose, the limb short and moderately spreading, of five rounded lobes. Stamens a little exserted, ten; filaments glabrous, and slightly thickened below; anthers tawny. Ovary oblong, five- angled, squamulose, inserted on a lobed glandular disc. Style filiform, rather shorter than the stamens, thickened below the stigma. Fig. 1, Stamen. 2. Calyx and pistil. 3. Section of ovary :—magnified. 4360 Vincent Brocks Imp. Tas. 4860. GENETYLLIS macrostzera. Large-involucred Genetyllis, Nat. Ord. Myrtacnm.—Icosanpria MOoNoGYNIA. Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4858.) GENETYLLIS macrostegia ; foliis plerisque oppositis erecto-patentibus subses- silibus lineari-subspathulatis anguste serrulato-cartilagineo-marginatis supra punctatis, capitulis nutantibus, involucris amplis subcylindraceo-campanu- liformibus unicoloribus rubris, foliolis ellipticis, calycis tubo inferne 5-sulcatis sulcis transverse rugosis, staminodiis parvis clavatis apice coloratis acutis. GENETYLLIS macrostegia. Turcz. in Bull. de la Soc. Imp. Sc. Nat. de Moscou, v. 22. Part I. p.17. Walpers, Ann. Bot. v. 2. p. 616. We have alluded to this Genetyllis, under our Tab. 4858, as one of the two beautiful species of the genus the discovery of which in West Australia had given such pleasure to Mr. Drum- mond, and as having been received by us from the Bristol Nur- sery, Messrs. Garaway, Mayes, and Co. _ It is scarcely less beau- tiful, and certainly not less curious, than the @. tulipifera, figured at the Tab. just mentioned. It is a smaller plant; the leaves are much narrower, more sparse; the coloured involucres are perhaps more numerous, but smaller, not so spreading at the — mouth, and the foliola are narrower, and all of a uniform brick- red colour. In writing on the G. tulipifera, Dr. Lindley says, — “that plant should be compared with the G. macrostegia of Turczaninoff.” We think, however, our friend has done right in not adducing the latter as a synonym to that species. The present one accords so much better with the short description of G. macrostegia, that I think there can be little doubt that this is the species that was in view, and that G. ¢ulipifera was quite unknown to him. It proves to be as hardy as the others ; and Messrs. Garaway and Mayes observe that it requires plenty of light and air, a compost of good peat and sand, with a little charcoal intermixed, and a moderate supply of water, especially in winter. It is the case with this and G. tulipifera, that the JuLY Ist, 1855. ~ more hardy its treatment the brighter the colour of the bracts. Both have the merit of continuing in flower three or four months at atime. Their involucres are of a dry, membranaceous cha- racter, and would probably retain their colour and form for a long time in a dried state, like the Xeranthemums and other so-called Hverlastings. Descr. The figure will show, almost better than words can do, how this plant differs from G@. tulipifera. It is smaller, slen- derer, and more twiggy. The /eaves rather longer, but much narrower, and subspathulate. The dracts or folioles of the invo- lucre are narrower and less convolute, and less retuse at the apex. The flowers are very similar in structure; but we observe only five furrows in the lower part of the tube. Fig. 1. Leaf. 2. Young flower. 3, 4. Bracteoles. 5. Vertical section of a calyx. 6. Anther. 7. Stamen antl staminodium :—magnified. 4064 Tas. 4861. DIPLOTHEMIUM urrroraue. Sea-shore Diplothemium. : Nat. Ord. PatmMacr®.—Monecra POLYANDRIA. Gen. Char. Flores monoici in eodem spadice, quincunciatim dispositi, masculi in parte inferiore verrucis callosis hemisphericis (pedicellis, Mart.) super foe- mineos impositi, in superiore solitarii, sessiles, bracteis flores masculos geminos vel intermedio feemineo sociatos cingentibus, favoso-connatis, Spatha duplex : exterior brevior, apice aperta, membranacea vel coriacea; interior clavata vel cylindracea, mucronata, ventre demum fissa, dorso sulcata, lignosa. FL. Mase. subcarnoso-coriacei. Calyx uterque 3-sepalis ; sepalis exterioribus anguste ceolatis, carinatis, ima basi connatis, erectis; interioribus ovatis, subcai erectis vel conniventibus. Stamina 6-12 vel indefinita (14-20, 24 et 60). ‘0 basilari; filamenta subulata, inequilonga; anther@ sagittate vel sublineares, erectee. Ovarii rudimentum minutissimum vel nullum. FL. FreM. conacel, striati, ovato-globosi. Calyx uterque 3-sepalus; sepalis ovatis, carinatis; ex- terioribus imbricato-convolutis ; interioribus vix minc ribus, integerrimis vel re- pando-dentatis. Ovarium globoso-trigonum, loculis 2 rudimentariis 1-loculare. Stigmata 3, sessilia, triquetra, pyramidato-conniventia, demum subpatentia. Drupa ovata vel obovata, stigmatum residuis umbonata, 1-sperma, cortice fibroso ; puta- mine lapideo, basi 3-poroso. Aléumen cartilagineum, solidum. Embryo intra porum basilaris.—Palme in maritimis sabulosis vel in campis siccis herbidis sparse et gregarie crescentes, plerumque acaules, rarius caudicem craasiusculum inermem annulatum elevantes. Frondes pinnate, breviter petiolate, pinnis angustis, firmis, rigide patentibus vel crispis, interrupte aggregatis, subtus argenteis vel glauco-viridi- bus ; petiolorum basi vaginante, fibroso-panniformi, tandem lacera. Spadices sim- plices, antice dense florigeri. Spatha exterior intra frondium bases latens. Flores majusculi, ochroleuci. Drupee flavescentes ; carne jibrosa, eduli. Mart. DretotHEeMium Jittorale; acaule, frondibus spissis rectiusculis, pinnis rigidis subtus glaucescentibus, floribus masculis 10-1 2-andris, drupis obovatis sub- angulatis. Mart. Dretornemtvm littorale. Mart. Palm. 110. t. 76. f.5 only. Kth. Enum. Plant. v. 3. p. 290. . Cocos aRENARIUS. Gomez, Act. Olysip. 1812. p. 61. The Royal Gardens of Kew are indebted to the Jardin des Plantes of Paris for the possession of this small but graceful Palm. It threw up its spatha in the spring of 1855, which soon burst, and exposed to view the spike, or spadix, of dull yellow flowers. All the three described species of this genus are con- JULY Ist, 1855. sidered to be peculiar to Brazil. Of the present one a solitary habitat is given by Martius, namely, “the sandy, maritime shores of St. Sebastian.” Dezscr. Stemless. A short, horizontal caudex appears above ground, annulated or scarred transversely with the marks of for- mer fronds, rooting below. Fronds three to four feet long, erecto- patent, rigid. Pefiole more than half as long as the foliaceous portion, angular, below connected by transverse fibrous web. Pinne narrow, linear-lanceolate, solitary, or two to four proceed- ing from the same point, all very much acuminated. Peduncle shorter than the petioles, compressed. Spatha four to five inches long, boat-shaped, acuminate; interior sheathing the peduncle within. owers forming a close spike on the spadix, of a pale, rather dingy yellow colour. In our specimen they seemed to be all male flowers, each consisting of a monophyllous calyx, with three deep ovate acuminate lobes ; corolla of the same shape and colour. Sfamens twelve to fourteen or fifteen. Filaments subu- late, short. Anther oblong, yellow ; no trace of pistil. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Stamens :—magnified. Le Pe anaes eee TTS > : ~ A sh el, . ¥ . Os [ aaa 1312-4 eles Sa Se i H =, +X a Wott | Th Tas. 4862. STREPTOCARPUS Garpent. Captain Garden’s Streptocarpus. Nat. Ord. DipymocarPEm.—D1ANDRIA Monoeyn1a. Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4850.) Srreprocarrus Gardeni; foliis omnibus radicalibus humifusis oblongo-ovatis basi cordatis pubescenti-velutinis crispatis rugosis crenatis, scapis plurimis bifloris, floribus nutantibus, segmentis calycinis apice patentibus, corolle tubo elongato curvato, limbo bilabiato, labio inferiore porrecto, stigmate distincte umbilicato. We had the satisfaction, at our Tab. 4850, of figuring a new Streptocarpus, S. polyanthus, from Natal ; and we have now the opportunity of representing another new species of this handsome genus from the same country, and derived through the same gen- tleman as sent us that, viz. our obliging friend Captain Garden. The affinity of the present, it will be at once seen, is with the well-known S. Revit; but it is nevertheless quite distinct, both in foliage and in flowers. The leaves are longer and handsomer, more ovate in form, more rugose and more wrinkled, and cor- date at the base. The scapes are almost invariably two-flowered : the calyx has the segments patent at their apices. The corolla, though of nearly the same size, is different in form and incolour; uniform pale-blue in 8. Rewii, here the tube is green or greenish- white, and the limb lilac ; moreover the tube is much broader (not suddenly contracted in the lower half), slightly curved down- — wards; and the limb, instead of spreading mto five nearly a equally spreading lobes, is more decidedly two-lipped, the two lobes of the upper lip moderately patent, and the three com- posing the lower lip porrected or standing forward : the lines on the lower lip, instead of being blue and continuous, are sangul- neous, and interrupted in dots or short streaks: the stigma too os is different. The plant flowers copiously in a warm greenhouse - during the summer months. It is not a little remarkable that JULY Ist, 1855, both this and our 8. polyanthus came from seeds accidentally contained in the Natal earth brought with other plants. Duscr. Leaves all radical and pressed close to the earth, ovato-oblong, cordate at the base, on rather short petioles, cre- nated, downy, reticulate-rugose, crisped, especially at the mar- gin, paler and almost tomentose beneath. Scapes several from the same plant, erect, downy, purplish below, the rest green, bearing two flowers with a bractea at the forking of the pedicels. Calyx quinquepartite ; segments linear, below erect, the apices patent. Corolla two and a quarter inches long ; ¢wde moderately curved downwards, rather broad, gradually enlarging upwards, whitish or pale-green, decidedly green below, especially towards the throat ; Zim pale lilac, two-lipped; wpper lip of two oval lobes, moderately spreading back, lower of three such lobes standing forward, and streaked in the inside with broken lines or dots of a sanguineous colour. Stamens two perfect; three minute abortive ones are represented by capitate glands. Ovary long, cylindrical, downy, arising from an hypogynous cup, taper- ing into a short narrow style. Stigma of two very short fleshy lips, umbilicate in the centre. Fig. 1. Pistil :—magnified. 4063 ag EE Brooks 4 j P 4 3 Tas. 4863. RHODODENDRON Catutrornicum. Californian Rhododendron. Nat. Ord. Ertcack™.—Dercanpria MonoGyniA. Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4336.) RHODODENDRON Californicum ; foliis subobovato-ellipticis coriaceis acutis gla- bris brevi-petiolatis concoloribus subtus pallidis, umbella terminali multi- flora, calycis parvi subpilosi laciniis acutis unica longiore, corolla lato-cam- panulata roseo-variegata lobis undulatis intus (tribus superioribus) flavo- maculatis, staminibus 10 corolla brevioribus, filamentis basi pubescentibus, ovario elliptico appresse piloso-sericeo. RHODODENDRON Californicum. Hook. MS. in Herd. We have possessed this plant in our Herbarium from the mountains of California, and have recognized it as a new species ever since Mr. Lobb’s first mission to that region; and on a visit, this spring, to Mr. Veitch’s Exotic Nursery, King’s-road, Chelsea, we were much struck with the great beauty of living flowering plants of the same, exhibiting a richness of colour in the varied pale and very deep rose tints of the numerous — corollas, of which the large heads are beautifully nestled in an involucre, as it were, formed by the handsome green leaves con- stituting a dark background to the flowers. Some of these plants were exhibited, with many other rarities from the same Nursery, at the memorable Flower-show of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham of this year (June, 1855), and could not fail to at- tract attention, though surrounded by so many other floral beau- ties: they were noticed the following week in the ‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle,’ among the new plants* exhibited by Mr. Veitch, as a “delicate pink kind of Rhododendron, very different in appear- ance from those of the eastern mountains of America, or from any we have at present in cultivation.” It seems to be a most _* One of these novelties was another species of Rhododendron from Borneo, with large golden-coloured flowers, R. Brookeanum, which we trust soon to have the opportunity of figuring and describing. JULY Ist, 1855. ready flowerer, the plants, with three or four of these splendid — heads, being little more than a foot high. The species has stood the winter well at Exeter. Drscr. Apparently a small or moderately sized shruéd, with the habit of small plants of 2. maximum, or still more of &. Catawbiense, having stout branches, of which the younger ones are green and subherbaceous. Leaves on short petioles, three to four inches long, elliptical, obovate, acute, often almost mu- cronate at the point, tapering at the base, except in the upper leaves, glabrous and naked on both sides, paler coloured on the ‘underside. Beneath the flowers the leaves are generally more crowded, so as to form a sort of involucre to the large umbellate head. Calyx small, five-lobed ; the lobes form a broad base, al- most subulate, slightly hairy. Corolla, in bud rich carmine, when fully expanded broad campanulate ; tube short, suddenly spreading into five, broad, oval, crisped lobes; the ground co- lour is then pale pink, deeper towards the apex of the lobes, and streaked with darker rose; three upper lobes with small yellow spots within. Sfamens 10, unequal, shorter than the corolla; jilaments deep rose, thickened and downy below. Azthers deep pink. Ovary elliptical, with five longitudinal furrows, clothed with long, appressed, silky hairs, five-celled. Sty/e rather larger than the stamens, glabrous. Stigma with five very minute points. Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Calyx and pistil. 3. Transverse section of the ovary. er \ = | : q mee Ttenthinas -" ‘ ; ' . i \ m oo paneer ~\ . \ ‘. — rs, > \ a = ‘ \ = \B)\ “I , ay | CS ye. " { » ~ (O//AN i i ~ iS i " q i" “ x Mas , ge Bitch del ¢ hth S Vincent Breaks Imp Tas. 4864. AKEBIA aquinara. Five-leaved Akebia. Nat. Ord. LarpizaABALACEZ.—Mone@cia HEXANDRIA. Gen. Char. Masc. Calyx 3-phyllus, foliolis ovato-lanceolatis concavis sub- zequalibus, in eestivatione subvalvatis. Petala 0. Stamina 6, biserialia, sube- qualia, libera ; filamentis cylindraceis primo erectis dein incurvatis ; antheris mu- ticis. Ovariorum radimenta 6. Fam. Calyx foliolis subrotundis concavis. Stamina 6-9, nana, abortiva. Ovaria 3-9, tunc ordine ternario disposita, dis- tineta, oblongo-cylindracea, in stylum brevem stigmate peltato terminatum at- tenuata, ovulis parieti foveolato v. papilloso affixis, primo orthotropis serins anatropis ?—Frutices Japonici scandentes, foliis peltatim digitatis, 3-5 foliolatis, foliolis apiculatis integerrimis v. repando-dentatis, sublobatisve. Racemi aaillares, pedunculis axdrogynis, ima basi squamatis, paucifloris ; floribus femineis infertori- bus longius pedicellatis. Decaisne. AKEBIA guinata; foliolis ternis sepius quinis ovatis vel obovatis integris ob- tusis v. emarginatis mucronato-setaceis. Dene. AKEBIA quinata. Decaisne, Mém. sur les Lardizab. p. 195. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1847, ¢. 28. RasANIA quinata. Thunb. Jap. p. 148. Our only wild specimens of this plant were collected by For- tune in China, and are the A. 31 of his Herbarium: it appears however to be a native of Japan, and is well figured and de- scribed in the ‘ Flora Japonica’ of Siebold and Zuccarini. ‘The plants represented, and which flowered at Kew, were received from Mr. Lowe, of Clapton Nursery, and were originally intro- duced into Europe by Siebold. : Descr. A slender, scandent, evergreen shrub, with terete, flex- uose stems, everywhere quite glabrous. eaves alternate, on slender petioles, usually quinate ; leaflets articulate with the pe-— tiole, petiolulate, obovate, emarginate, or obcordate, quite entire, coriaceous, glaucous beneath. Racemes axillary and from re- duced lateral branches, peduncled, their branches with minute bractew at the axils, often corymbose. Fowers pedicelled, unl- sexual, slightly fragrant. The males smaller, terminal on the AUGUST Ist, 1855, raceme, their sepals oblong or elliptical, reflexed. Stamens six, in two series ; filaments very short; anthers oblong, blunt. Fe- male flowers two to five on each raceme, on longer pedicels than the males. Sepals three, broadly elliptical, concave, coriaceous, subacute. Ovaries three to five in our specimens, cylindrical, with blunt, sessile, discoid stigmata; imperfect stamina very minute, sessile. Fig. 1. Female, and 2. Male flowers :—doth magnified. Bias eee TT taht pa tatateabenenar i} :. q: “> i¢ spec scien Pie eine Tas. 4865. NICOTIANA FRAGRANS. Sweet-scented Tobacvo. Nat. Ord. SoLANACE#.—PENTANDRIA Monoeyn1a. Gen. Char. Calyx tubuloso-campanulatus, semiquinquefidus. Corolla infun- dibuliformis vel hypocraterimorpha, limbo plicato-quinquelobo, lobis per zstiva- tionem plicatis et conniventi-contortis, Stamina 5, corolle tubo inserta, inclusa, seepe subeequilonga, nonnunquam ineequalia ; anthere longitudinaliter dehiscentes, brevissime ovate: vel globose; pollen oblongum, longitudinaliter trisulcatum. Ovarium biloculare, placentis linea dorsali dissepimento adnatis, multiovulatis, nectario crasso annulari obsolete lobato basi circumdatum. Stylus simplex. Stigma capitatum, pa orme, intus glandulis 2 magnis instructum. Capsula calyce persistente tecta, bilocularis, apice septicido-bivalvis, vel quadri-multi- valvis, valvis demum bifidis, placentas discretas retinentibus. Semina plurima, minima, oblonga, subreniformia, rugosa. Hmbryo in axi albuminis carnosi, leviter arcuatus.—Herbe, interdum suffrutescentes, sepissime glutinoso-pilose, in America éropica copiose, partim in aliis terris (4) crescentes ; foliis alternis, integerrimis ; floribus ¢erminalibus, racemosis aut paniculatis, albidis, virescentibus, v. purpuras- centibus, pedicellis azillaribus, calyces subequantibus. De Cand. . Nicotiana fragrans ; subglutinosa, ubique pilis brevibus crispulis pubescente- sericea, foliis crassis subcarnosis inferioribus precipue radicalibus obovato- spathulatis, caulinis paucis lineari-spathulatis, panicula terminali ampla mul- tiflora, floribus in ramis subglomeratis nutantibus, calycibus inflatis laciniis inzequalibus, corolla (alba) tubo longissimo cylindraceo ore paululum dila- tato, limbo glabro 5—6-lobo lobis rotundatis patentibus dorso carinatis, sta- minibus 5-6, filamento unico breviore. A very fine species of Tobacco, discovered during Capt. Den- ham’s surveying voyage by Messrs. Macgillivray and Milne in rocks and waste places on the sea-shore in the Isle of Pines ; re- markable for the firm, thick, fleshy character of the foliage, and which becomes most beautifully satiny in the dried state, for the great size it attains in a state of cultivation, and for the delicious fragrance of the large white blossoms. It evidently belongs to the same section with WV. undulata, Vent. et Br. (WV. suaveolens, Lehm.); but cannot be the same, if Ventenat’s figure (Hort. Malmais. t. 10) be correct. It is a plant of easy cultivation in AvGusT Ist, 1855. a cool greenhouse, and deserves a place in every collection. It continues long in flower in the summer months. Descr. Herbaceous. In cultivation attaining a height of three to four feet. Root-/eaves large, broad-obovate, spathulate ; cau- line ones few, distant, linear-spathulate, all of them thick and fleshy, firm, and, as well as the entire plant, except the limb of the corolla, clothed with short close-set hairs, which in a dry state give them a silky or satiny appearance. Panicle large, terminal, the branches bearing glomerated racemes of large, ter- minal, pendent, very fragrant flowers. Bracteas small, appressed. Pedicels short, decurved. Calyz ovate, inflated, five- or six-lobed ; lobes erect, appressed, unequal; sublanceolate, obtuse. Corolla with the tube very long, cylindrical, pale-green, almost white, slightly enlarged at the mouth. Limé broad, spreading, of five or six broad, somewhat waved, rounded lobes, carinated at the back. Stamens five or six, adnate for nearly the whole length of the tube, and reaching to the mouth; one shorter than the rest and more free. Ovary ovate. Style as long as the corolline tube. Stigma a dark green disc, depressed in the centre. * Fig. 1. Pistil. 2. Transverse section of ovary :—magnified. Tas. 4866. DRYMONIA vittosa. Shaggy Drymonia. Nat. Ord. GesNERIACEZ.—D1pyNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Gen. Char. Calyz liber, obliquus, 5-phyllus, sepalis imbricatis. Corolla obli- que campanulato-subringens, basi postice gibba, fauce patula, labio superiore bi- lobo, inferiore trilobo. Stamina 4, didynama, antheris inter se liberis ; radimentum quinti nullum. Stigma bilobum. Annulus hypogynus et glandula postica. Cap- sula baccans, ovata, coriacea, 1-locularis, bivalvis, placentis 2 parietalibus bila- mellatis. Semina numerosa, fusiformia.—Frutices Australi-Americani scandentes, hine inde radicantes, aut humifusi. Caules teretiusculi, epidermide nitida. Folia opposita, petiolata, serrata, pubescentia, crassiuscula. Pedicelli avillares, solitarii, uniflori, breviusculi, petiolo subequales, ebracteati. Corolle ample, flavide aut alba, sepe picte. De Cand. DrymontiA villosa ; villosissimo-lanata, foliis ovatis reticulatim venosis rugosis acutis vel acuminatis serratis subtus venis valde elevatis, floribus axillaribus subternis brevi-pedicellatis pseudo-verticillatis, calycis superne gibbosi laci- niis acuminatissimis sursum inclinatis, corolla villose albze tubo curvato compresso intus purpureo-lineato limbo bilabiato 5-lobo lobis rotundatis obtusis, stylo staminibus multo breviore. Drymonta villosa. Hort. Received from Mr. Lowe, of the Clapton Nursery, under the name* we have here adopted, but where described, if described at all, we are ignorant ; it is reported to have been introduced by one of Mr. Van Houtte’s collectors from Surinam. It appears a very distinct and handsome species, remarkable for its densely villous and woolly clothing. It flourishes in a moist stove, and flowers in May and June. Duscr. Subherbaceous, a foot or a foot and a half high, much branched from below ; dranches erect, obtusely tetragonal, thickly hairy and woolly. Leaves opposite, petioled, ovate, acute or acuminate, coarsely serrated, villous with spreading hair, strongly * This name also appears in the catalogue of plants of the Royal Horticultural Society of Belgium. AuGuUST IsT, 1855, reticulated and rugose, the nerves prominent beneath and then tomentose. Petioles an inch or more long, thick, woolly, and villous. Vowers axillary, generally ternate and spreading, so as to form pseudo-verticils. Pedicels short, single-flowered. Calyx gibbose at the base, above deeply cut into five, large, much acu- minated segments, inclining upwards, about one-third as long as the tube of the corolla, very villous. Corolla villous externally ; the tube gibbous at the base above, curved, compressed, the mouth spreading, within on the lower side marked with purple lines ; 42m two-lipped, upper of two, lower of three, spreading, rounded lobes. Stamens included, four, didynamous. Anthers nearly globose, approximate in pairs. Ovary ovate, villous, with a large gland at the back. Sfy/e much shorter than the stamens. Stigma obtuse. a 1. Base of the tube of the corolla, with stamens and pistil. 2. Pistil and gland. 4867 < . | a a. ig Vincent Brooks Imp. Hitch del ith ; Tas. 4867. STYLOPHORUM opipeHyuuvmM. Two-leaved Stylophorum. Nat. Ord. PAPAVERACES.—POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Gen. Char. Calyx diphyllus, foliolis pilosis, sestivatione valvatis, caducis. Corolle petala 4, hypogyna, obovata, decidua. Stamina plurima, hypogyna ; filamenta filiformia; anthere terminales, extrorse, biloculares, loculis longitudi- naliter dehiscentibus. Ovarium oblongum, uniloculare. Ovu/a juxta placentas intervalvulares, 3-4, plurima, anatropa. Stylus terminalis, columnaris; stigma capitatum, tri-quadrilobum. Capsu/a elliptica, setosa, unilocularis, apice valvis 3-4 incompletis revolutis inter placentas filiformes persistentes dehiscens. Semina plurima, scrobiculato-punctata, strophiolo umbilicali cristeeformi.—Herbee Joreali- Americane, perennes, succo flavo replete, foliis paucis v. geminis, summis oppositis, pinnatifidis, floribus terminalibus, subcorymbosis, luteis. Endl. STYLOPHORUM diphyllum. SrynopHorum diphyllum, Nuttall, Gen. v.2.p.7. Gray, Gen. Plants US. t. 48. Botany of the Northern United States, p. 27. StYLopHorum petiolatum, Nuttall. StyLopHorum Ohioense. Spreng. Syst. v. 2. p. 570. Meconopsts diphylla. DC. Syst. v. 2. p. 88. Prodr.v. 1. p. 121. Torrey et Gray, Fl. N. Am. v. 1. p. 61. Meconopsis petiolata. DC. 1. c. CuEtipontum diphyllum. Miche. Fl. v. 1. p. 309. A native of woods in the Western United States, whence all our specimens are much larger than the cultivated ones, with pinnatisect or bipinnatifid leaves and axillary flowers, from what appear as involucral leaves in our specimen, becoming large and bearing leaf-buds with flowers in their axil. The plant figured was raised from seed sent by our esteemed friend Dr. Asa Gray, — Professor of Botany in Cambridge University. Drscr. Plants six inches to a foot high, of rather a pale green colour and succulent texture, resembling Meconopsis Cambrica, the petioles, stems, and peduncles loosely. covered with spreading sete. Radical leaves broadly oblong or ovate, blunt, pinnatifidly lobed, cordate at the base; the segments lobed and crenate, glaucous below. Cawline leaves generally two, opposite, and AUGUST 1st, 1855. : volucre, shortly petiolate with a side of the stem between the bases of the petioles, etimes pinnatisect. FYowers solitary, pale yellow, hairy. Stamens numerous. Axthers oblong. e, with a straight columnar style, and truncate, some- clavate, tigma. Capsule elliptical, splitting to. base into four valves, by which character the genus is best suished from Meconopses 1868 Tas. 4868. THERMOPSIS parsata. ed Shaggy Thermopsis. ‘ foliaceis, racemis terminalibus, floribus pedicellatis, geminis v. verticillatis, ebrac- teatis, flavis. Endl. d THERMOPsIS barbata ; sericeo-tomentosa, pilis longis hirta, foliis 1-3-foliolatis, foliolis oblongis stipulisque subsimilibus margine patentim pilosis utrinque glabris v. longe et parce pilosis, calycibus pilosis, legumine oblongo v. ovato vix falcato piloso demum leviter inflato. Benth. THERMopsIs barbata. Royle, Ilustr. Himal. Pl. p. 100. t.34.f.1. Walp. Re- pert. v. 1. p.562. Benth. in Hook. Lond. Jou p. 491. p. 431 ANAGYRIS? barbata. Graham, in Wall. Cat. + A fine species of Zhermopsis, with la flowers, raised by Mr. Moore at the Glasnevin from seeds sent from Himalaya by Majo Mad n, a in June of the present year in the open air. It is a native of elevations of 10,000 to 13,000 feet, chiefly in the drier valleys, and has been found from Sikkim westward to the Simla Hima- laya. . : Desor. Roof perennial, woody. Stems stout, erect, branching, six to eighteen inches high, villous with soft, spreading, white hairs, as are the bracts, pedicels, calyx, and petioles. Leaves whorled, sessile, lanceolate, acuminate or acute, glabrous OF Cl- liated or hairy, three to seven in a whorl. F/owers in short ax- illary racemes, together forming a thick, dense, elongated, com- pound raceme.. Caly2 campanulate, with spreading, lanceolate, AUGUST IsT, 1855. . nts. Petals large, of a peculiar dull violeb-colouk, ; 8 ir erect, orbicular, two-lobed. Ale rounded _shorter than the deflexed, oblong, blunt carina. Ovary villous. Pod broadly oblong, blunt, ed to a mucronate apex ; valves villous; seeds Tas. 4869. PHYSOSIPHON Loppiaestu. Mr, Loddiges' Physosiphon. Nat. Ord. OncHIDEH.—GyYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Gen. Char. Calyx tubulosus, basi ventricosus, apice trifidus. Pefala in fundo %: calycis, carnosa, nana. Labellum et columna Stelidis. Pollinia 2, spherica— Herb epiphyte Aaditu Pleurothallidis. Lindl. PuysostpHon Loddigesii ; folio oblongo obtuso racemo solitario multo breviore, calycis tubo triquetro, labelli lobo medio serrulato scabriusculo. PuysosteHon Loddigesii. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. sub tab. 1797. STELIs tubata. Lodd. Bot. Cad. t. 1601. Received at Kew from the Belgian cultivators under a very inaccurate name; and we are obliged to Dr. Lindley for the — correct one, and the reference to the figure in Loddiges’ Bot. — Cabinet. “Under the name of Sfelis tubata,” says Dr. Lindley, — l.c., ‘Messrs. Loddiges have published a very curious plant, with the habit of Pleurothallis, but with its sepals all united into a tube, which is inflated at the base and contracted at the mouth. Otherwise its fructification has the structure of Sfelis.” Besides the present species, Dr. Lindley includes in the genus Phys. emarginatus (Pleurothallis, Lindl.), and Phys. spiralis, Lindl. (in Herb. Hook., from St. Catherine, Brazil), Phys. cari- natus, Lindl. (a species very near the present), Phys. ochraceus, Rich. and Galeotti (probably not distinct from this) ; and he has | since expressed an opinion that Pceppig and Endlicher’s Speck- linia dichotoma is a fourth species. ‘The present one is a native of the mountains of Oaxaca, and flowers with us in July. Mr. Loddiges describes and figures his plant as having drooping ra- — cemes ; it is not so with us. Drscr. From apparently a slender, creeping rhizome, arise several, four to six or more, plants, each consisting of a petioled, oblong, subspathulate, coriaceous, obtuse, one-nerved /ea/, the SEPTEMBER IsT, 1855. petiole sheathed with two cylindrical brown scales, from within which the scape arises ; this is very slender, filiform, shorter than the leaf, bearing one or two small, sheathing, remote dracts, and - terminated by a long, slender, secund, erect, racemose spike of many, rather distant, solitary flowers, which spread horizontally. Pedicels a little longer than the sheathing, membranaceous bract, curved. Flowers yellow-green in the lower half, the rest deep red-orange, paler before full expansion. Three outer sepals (con- - stituting the whole external portion of the flower) long lan- - ceolate, but combined for more than half the length into the : nish, triangular ‘vée, spreading or ventricose at the base, contracted at the mouth; the dimd constituted by the three - equally spreading, oblong, obtuse, mucronated, orange-coloured apices. The rest of the flower is very small, and wholly included within the tube. Petals obovate, shorter than the column and lip. Zip articulated upon a short prolongation of the base of the column, erect and applied to the face of the column, oblong, -three-lobed ; intermediate lobe ovate, serrated ; within the lateral lobes on each side is a lamella. Column semiterete, three-lobed at the apex; /obes nearly equal, acute. Anther sunk im the cavity between the three lobes. _ Fig. 1. Portion of a rachis and flower. 2. Petals, labellum, and column removed from the flower, fig. 1. 8. Column. 4, Labellum :—magnijied. Tas. 4870. EREMURUS sperctaBiLIs. Showy Hremurus. Nat. Ord. AsPHODELEZ.—HExANDRIA MonoGynla. Gen. Char. Calyx 6-sepalus, corollaceus, regularis, deciduus(?); sepala dis- tincta, inferne tri- superne uninervia, subzequalia, patentia, mox involuta. Stamina 6, hypogyna, sepala duplo superantia. Filamenta filiformia, imberbia, in alabastro varie torta. Anthere biloculares, oblong, dorso supra basim bifidam pro re- ceptione filiformi foramine instructs, margine tumido, secundum longitudinem interne dehiscentes, interdum 1-2 castrate. Ovarium liberum, sessile, subglo- bosum, triloculare ; ovuda in loculis 2 vel 3, inversa, uno latere secundum longi- tudinem adnata (amphitropa, Hndl.); exostomio inferne spectante. Stylus filiformis, stamina sequans, post fecundationem deorsum pendens, demum iterum adscendens (Bieberst.). Stigma parvum, truncatum, simplex. Capsula mem- branacea (Endi.), subgloboso-elliptica, 6-sulcata, trilocularis, loculicido-trivalvis ; valvis medio septiferis. Semina in loculis 2-4, triquetra, arillo? tenuissime membranaceo fuscescente, ad angulos alato prominente obtecta; testa nigra, tenuis, coriacea. Hmbryo axilis, hilo parallelus, longitudine albuminis, extremitate radiculari infera—Herba perennis. Radix e jibris crassis fasciculata. Folia radicalia linearia, triquetro-carinata, striata ; caulis scapiformis, erectus, simplex, nudus, apice racemoso-multiflorus. Flores longe pedicellati, solitarii, cernui, pedi- cellis basi unibracteatis, sub apice articulatis. Sepala flavicantia, carina virente. Eremurus spectabilis. Eremurus spectabilis. Bieberst. Plant. Ross. t. 61. Fl. Taur. Cauc. v. 3. p. 269. Fl. Alt. v. 2. p. 25. Sw. Fl. Gard. t. 188. Kth. Syn, Pl. 4. p. 554. Spreng. Syst. Veget. p. 83. Eremourvs Altaicus. Stev. in Nouv. Mém. de la Soc.des Nat. Mosc. v. 3.9. p. 98. t. 8. Eremourvs Caucasicus. Stev. l.c. p. 96. ¢. 6. Eremurvs Tauricus. Séev. 1. c. p. 97. ¢. 7. AsPHODELUS Sibiricus. Sievers. ASPHODELUS Altaicus, Pall. A really handsome, hardy, Asphodelaceous plant, native of = Altaic Siberia, the Caucasus, Koordistan, Tauria, Scinde, eto. (Dr. Stocks). Variable indeed in its appearance (In a great | measure perhaps depending upon soil and elevation above the — level of the sea), and especially in the length and breadth of the — SEPTEMBER lst, 1855. leaves, so that the excellent Steven has been induced to constitute three species ; but neither do our authentic specimens, nor indeed the descriptions of Steven, show any tangible specific distinctions, and they are not adopted by succeeding botanists. Boissier has indeed referred the Asphodelus Persicus of Jaubert and Spach (Ill. Pl. Or. vol. 2. t. 102) to the genus Hremurus ; but the la- mented Dr. Stocks rightly observes, in his notes on specimens which he found in Scinde, “Hane plantam sub Hremuro potius quam Asphodelo militare non solum ex antherz, filamenti, stig- matisque characteribus (a cl. Bossiero enumeratis) patet,—sed etiam ex ovulis in ovarii loculis 4—6 seminibusque membrana laxa ad angulos alato-prominente testamque nigram tegente pre- ditis.” Walpers enumerates it twice over under Hremurus and — under Asphodelus. Boissier’s #. Aucheriana does not seem to _ be truly different from spectabilis. It produces its long racemes of sulphur-yellow flowers, with large bright orange-coloured an- thers, in the month of June. Descr. Root perennial, of several thick, fleshy, descending fasci- culated fibres. Leaves all radical, from six inches to a foot long, and from half an inch to two inches in width, linear-ligulate, -glaucous-green, moderately channelled and obscurely keeled, Sheathing at the base. Scapes three to four times as long as the leaves (including the raceme), erect, terete, striated, bracteated. Ltaceme elongated, subcylindrical, many-flowered. Flowers erect in bud, patent when fully expanded. Bracteas subulate, gene- rally shorter than the pedicels, which latter are about an inch long. Perianth divided to the very base, with six ovato-elliptical, spreading, sulphur-coloured sepals, slightly tinged with orange. Stamens six. Filamenis rather longer than the sepals, orange- coloured in their lower half. Anthers oblong, deep orange. Ovary globose. Style subulate. Stigma a mere point. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Stamen. 3. Pistil:—magnified. Tas. 4871. ACHIMENES HETEROPHYLLA. Various-leaved Achimenes. Nat. Ord. GESNERIACE®.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4312.) stylo staminibus longitudine corollz tubi. Nostr.) TREVIRANIA heterophylla. ] art. Nov. Gen. et Sp. v. 3. p. 65. t.45: according to Walp. Ann. Bot. v. 1. p. 473). 4077 of our ‘ Botanical. Magazine.’ Trevirania pulchella.” SEPTEMBER Ist, 1855. AcuiMENgs heterophylia; parce pilosa, caule simplici atro-purpureo, foliis oppositis petiolatis altero seepius minore ovatis acuminatis reticulato-venosis grosse serratis, pedunculo axillari solitario unifloro basin versus szepe bibracteolato, — ealycis lobis subulato-lanceolatis erectis eequalibus parce ciliatis, tubo ovario — adheerente, corolle coccineze tubo (intus flavo) infundibuliformi-cylindraceo — basi superne gibboso, limbi lobis zqualibus patentibus rotundatis crenatis, Acuimenss heterophylla. De Cand. Prodr. v. 7. 536 (excl. Syn. Mart. t.120. — : J. 2). Bentham, Plant. Hariw. p. 47. Hartw. Herb. Mewic. n. 352. (Herb. ACHIMENES Ghiesbrechtii. Henders. Cat. 1853 (name only; but quoting as syn. “A. ignescens,” Lemaire, MS. in Van Houtte Fl. der Gwehshsr. v. 3. From the stove of the Royal Gardens of Kew, where it flowers in July and August. Our plant was received from Mr. A. Hen-— derson, Pineapple-place, Edgware-road, under the name of 4. Ghiesbrechtii of Van Houtte ; and in Mr. Henderson’s catalogue — for 1858 this is given as identical with 4. ignescens of Lemaire. But it is unquestionably a species from Mexico, long ago described _ by Martius as Zrevirania heterophylla (Achimenes, DC), although — our artist has not distinctly represented the imequality of size in the opposite pairs of leaves which generally prevails. It is a handsome species, most like Achimenes pedunculata, Benth., Tab. — De Candolle has committed a little error in quoting Martius’ figure in the Nov. Gen. etc., t. 226, f. 2. The figure given there _ is thus referred to by Martius, under the species :—‘ Videas cha-— racterem fructificationis (meaning of the genus) in tab. 226, f 2, Drscr. Roof fibrous. Stem from a span to a foot high, dark purple, herbaceous, slightly hairy, erect, decumbent only at the very base. Leaves opposite, petioled, ovate, acuminate, one of each pair usually smaller than the opposite one, the margins coarsely serrated, the surface rugose with reticulated depressed veins. Peduncles solitary, axillary, single-flowered, generally having a minute pair of opposite minute bracteas near the base. Calyx superior, of five, deep, subulate-lanceolate, erect, slightly ciliated lobes. Corolla rich scarlet, glabrous (yellow within the tube) ; the tube between cylindrical and funnel-shaped, slightly curved, and slightly gibbous at the base above. Limdé of five, spreading, equal, rounded, waved and crenulated lobes. Sta- mens four, didynamous. Filaments inserted at the base of the tube of the corolla, and nearly equal to it in length, and a fifth abortive, subulate, very short filament. Ovary turbinate, united with the tube of the calyx. Sfy/e filiform, as long as the stamens; at its base is a five-lobed annular gland. Stigma two-lobed. Fig. 1. Corolla laid open. 2. Ovary and style and portion of the calyx :— SSS 4572 Vincent Brooks Imp — Tas. 4872. LEPTODACTYLON Catirornicum. Californian Leptodactylon. Nat. Ord. PoLEMONIACEH.—PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Gen. Char. Calyx tubuloso-campanulatus, subzequalis, semiquinquefidus, lobis subulatis spinescentibus, sinubus membranaceis. Corolla infundibuliformis, limbo patente, lobis obovatis obtusis. Stamina intra partem superiorem tubi inserta, equalia. Anther@ oblonge. Stylus cum stigmatibus tubo corolle duplo brevior. Capsula sublignosa, apice dehiscens ; loculis polyspermis, columna centrali cras- siuscula.—Frutices humiles, ramosissimi. Folia alterna, profunde palmatisecta, la- ciniis subulatis rigidis spinescentibus ; alia awillaria, integra, fasciculata. Flores terminales, speciosi, Phlocem simulantes. LepropactyLon Californicum ; superne pubescens, foliis patentibus, corolle tubo exserto. LEPTODACTYLON Californicum. Hook. e¢ Arn. Bot. of Beech. Voy. v. 1. p. 369. t. 89. Gira Californica. Benth. in De Cand. Prodr. v. 9. p. 316. This lovely and hardy plant was considered by Dr. Arnott and myself to constitute a distinct genus of Polemonacee, and we named it Leptodactylon, from the deeply-digitated leaves and their very narrow segments. Mr. Bentham however considers our genus rather to form a section of Gi/ia, to which he gives our name, Leptodactylon, and he adds to the two (L. Californicum. and LZ. Hookerii), which we had referred to it, a third, from the Rocky Mountains, namely, the Cantua pungens of Dr. Torrey (Ogochloa Torreyi of Don, in Gard. Dict. vol. 4. p. 246). The habit of our plant is more that of a Pi/or than ofa Gila. The present species is a native of California, as its name implies, and was first brought to notice by Douglas. Dr. Coulter also found it in the same country, and Mr. William Lobb sent seeds of it to Messrs. Veitch from San Bernardino, in South California, and has thus been the means of introducing it to our gardens, where, both in the Nursery at Exeter and at King’s-road, Chelsea, it forms a low shrub in the open border, remarkable for the slender segments of its copious foliage, and for the size and beauty of the corollas. Blossoms in July. SEPTEMBER Ist, 1855. Descr. A low procumbent shrub, much branehed, the branches slender, densely covered with fasciculated foliage. Leaves alter- nate, deeply cut in a digitated manner, almost to the very base, into from five to seven, subulate, but terete, rigid, hairy seg- ments mucronate at their apices. Flowers copious, large, from short lateral branches, often so crowded as entirely to conceal the leaves and branches, sessile from the axils of the leaves. Calyx with long, spreading hairs ; ¢vée cylindrical, with five ribs ; ¢eeth subulate, mucronate. Corol/a hypocrateriform, rose-coloured ; _ tube slender, longer than the calyx ; /imé of five, large, spreading, cuneate, sometimes erose lobes. Anthers five, almost sessile, in- serted just within the tube of the corolla, oblong. Ovary ovate, glabrous, arising from an annular disc. Style as long as the ovary. Stigmas three, erect, linear, as long as, or longer than the style. Fig. 1. Leaf with its axillary fascicle. 2. Calyx. 3. Corolla, the tube laid open, showing the stamens. 4. Pistil :—magnified. 4573 Be emt Tas. 4873. HELIANTHEMUM Tvuserarta. Truffle Rock-rose. Nat. Ord. Crstacrm.—PoLyaNnpRIA MonoGyntia. Gen. Char. Calyx triphyllus, bibracteolatus, bracteolis minutis, rarissime ca- lycis foliola eequantibus vel nullis. Corolle petala 5, hypogyna, eequalia. Sta- mina plurima, hypogyna, omnia fertilia ; filamenta filiformia, libera; anthere bi- loculares, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ovarium uniloculare vel incomplete tri- loculare, placentis nerviformibus, parietalibus vel semisepta marginantibus. Ovula pauca vel plurima, orthotropa, e funiculis plus minus longis adscendentia vel pendula. Stylus terminalis, cum ovario articulatus, filiformis vel subclavatus ; stigma capitato-trigonum. Capsula chartacea vel subcartilaginea, unilocularis vel incomplete trilocularis, loculicide trivalvis, valvaruam endocarpio membranaceo, medio placentas vel semisepta margine seminifera gerente. Semina plurima vel pauca, funiculo libero ad chalazam micropyli e diametro oppositam, inserta. Hm- éryo intra albumen antitropus, uncinatus vel sigmoideus, cotyledonibus radicule supere, chalazee e diametro opposite, interposito albuming accumbentibus vel in- cumbentibus.—Herbe, suffrutices, vel fruticuli, in Luropa media et regione Medi- terranea crescentes ; foliis alternis vel oppositis, stipulatis vel exstipulatis, tri- vel penniveniis ; floribus solitariis, umbellatis, racemosis, corymbosis vel paniculatis. Endl. HeELianturmum Tuberaria; perenne, caulibus adscendentibus subsimplicibus, - foliis radicalibus in petiolum desinentibus ovato-oblongis trinerviis tomen- toso-hirsutis canescentibus subtus nervosis supra sulcatis, caulinis sessilibus subglabris lanceolatis summis alternis, pedicellis basi bracteatis paucis sub- paniculatis, calycibus glabris nitidis. De Cand. Hetrantuemum Tuberaria. Mill. Dict. n.10. De Cand. Prodr. v. 1. p. 270. Cistus Tuberaria. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 741. Cav. Ic. v. 1. p. 65. t. 67. TUBERARIA nostras. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. p. 12. A really charming plant, the largest-flowered of all the species _ of Helianthemum, resembling in its blossoms a yellow rose, and well adapted for sunny rockwork in a garden. Flowers in July, and the blossoms continue long in succession. ‘The species in- habits the south of France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Sicily, and the north of Africa. It derives its specific name (Zwéerarta) from the fact that it is found frequently in ground where Truffles more or less abound. Hence it is the “ Zuéeraria nostras” and “ Tuberaria major” of Bauhin. SEPTEMBER Ist, 1855. ’ Descr. Root perennial. Leaves mostly radical, and these are spathulate, that 1s, ovate or oblong, rarely subovate, acute, en- tire, hairy and subtomentose (as is every part of the plant), _ three-nerved, tapering below into a long petiole. Flowering- stems (they may almost be called scapes) erect, panicled above, bearing a few small, sessile, ovate, acute /eaves, sometimes op- posite. Branches of the panicle bearing one-sided or secund racemes. Pedicels bracteated at the base. Mowers very droop- Ing in bud, erect when fully expanded in the sun. Calyz five- sepaled, glabrous. Sepals, two outer small, three mner large, broad-ovate, very acute, and very concave. Pedals five, bright _ yellow, large, obcordate, spreading, with a dark blood-coloured spot at the base. Stamens numerous; filaments rather short, purple; anthers subglobose, deep yellow, almost orange. Ovary _ globose. Stigma globose, sessile. Bam, we ieee 7 atta \ dm ee er ie a pci san : “i mews Vincent Brooks Lap Ss o a 8 @ re Tas. 4874. SALVIA CARDUACEA. Thistle-leaved Sage. Nat. Ord. LaBlat#.—D1anpria MONOGYNIA. Gen. Char. Calyx ovatus, tubulosus vel campanulatus, bilabiatus, labio supe- riore integro vel tridentato, inferiore bifido, fauce intus nuda. Corolla tubo in- cluso vel exserto, aquali, ventricoso vel ampliato, intus nunc piloso-annulato, nunc nudo vel ad basin in latere inferiore processubus vel dentibus 2 instructo ; limbo bilabiato, labio superiore erecto vel rarius patente, breviore vel longiore, lobis lateralibus oblongis vel rotundatis ; patentibus, reflexis vel contorto-erectis, medio plerumque latiore, integro vel emarginato. Staminum superiorum rudi- menta nulla, vel parva claviformia ; fertilia (inferiora) 2 prope faucem tubi in- serta; filamenta brevia, subhorizontalia vel rarius erecta, apice cum anthera arti- culata et supra articulationem plerumque breviter producta, rarissime subconti- nua. Anthere dimidiate. Connectiva elongata, linearia, transverse cum fila- mento articulata; postice sub labio superiore corolla adscendentia et apice locu- lum fertilem linearem adnatum vel versatilem ferentem, antice deflexa vel erecta, nunc loculum alterum subconformem minorem polliniferum vel difformem cassum gerentia, nune dilatata vel rarius brevissima, acuta, libera, vel seepius variis modis inter se connexa vel connata. Ovarii discus antice tumens in glandulam lobis subaequalem. Séylus adscendens, apice bifidus, lobis nunc subulatis zequa- libus vel superiore longiore, nunc inferiore vel utroque rotundato dilatato com- planato. Nucule ovoideo-triquetre, siccee, glabree, plerumque levissimee.—Genus vastum, fere in omnibus regionibus terre obvinm, habitu et inflorescentia magnopere — varium, semper antherarum structura agnoscendum. De Cand. Satvra (§ Echinosphace) carduacea; caule erecto herbaceo subsimplici albo- lanato, foliis petiolatis oblongis pinnatifidis subtus laxe lanatis, lobis ovatis sinuato-dentatis, dentibus spinoso-acuminatis, floralibus bracteisque imbri- catis spinosissimis, verticillastris remotis dense multifloris, calycibus inflatis lanatis, corolla: tubo subincluso, labii inferioris lobo medio fimbriato. Sazvra carduacea. Benth. Lab. p. 302. De Cand. Prodr. v.12. p. 349. One of the most remarkable and easily recognized of the 407 species of the genus Salvia published by Mr. Bentham in De Candolle’s Prodromus. That gentleman says of it, “ Species dis- tinctissima, habitu Morine Persice vel Cardui.” It 1s a native of California, discovered about the same time by Mr. Douglas and Dr. Coulter; and now first introduced to our gardens by — Messrs. Veitch, of the Exeter and Chelsea Nurseries, through a = SEPTEMBER Ist, 1855. their collector Mr. Lobb. It proves perfectly hardy, and is well worthy a place in every garden. The flowers are large, beau- tifully fringed, and of a delicate pale-purple colour, with deep orange-coloured anthers: these flowers subtended by bracts and floral leaves, quite resembling those of the Morina Persica. The plant blossoms in July in the Exeter Nursery, whence our plant here figured was derived. We have Coulterian and Douglasian specimens in our Herbarium from California Proper, and others from Los Angelos de Santa Barbara, from Mr. Nuttall, gathered by Mr. Gambell. Descr. Root fusiform, perennial. Stem one foot to one and a half foot high, erect, four-angled and striated, very woolly, branching at the base. eaves all radical, oblong-spathulate, petiolate, sinuate, the lobes acute, spinuloso-serrate, cobwebby, densely woolly beneath. Jowers terminal, in large, dense pseudo-whorls ; the lower pseudo-whorl generally distant from the rest. Bracts and floral-leaves verticillate, spreading, but imbricate at the broad sessile base, oblong, acute, sinuato-spi- — nulose, very woolly. Calye also with long lax wool, almost an inch long, two-lipped ; wpper lip tridentate, ower shorter, bifid ; all the teeth spinulose. Corol/a with the tube as long as the calyx, white; /imd pale bluish-purple, as long as the tube, bi- _ partite, gaping. Upper lip oblong, bifid and laciniated, plane or with the margins recurved ; lower trifid: lateral lobes small, lanceolate, slightly falcate, entire, intermediate one large, flabelli- form, deeply fimbriated ; halfway down within the tube of the co- rolla is a hairy ring. Stamens with sterile branch short, deflexed within the tube; fertile branch erect, exserted, as long as the lower lip. Fertile anther linear, curved, one-celled, hairy. Ovary four-lobed, on a gland or receptacle as large as itself. Style longer than the corolla. Stigma bifid. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Corolla laid open. 3. Fertile anthers. 4. Pistil:— all more or less magnified. Tas. 4875. RHODODENDRON Kevyst. Mr. Keys’ Rhododendron. Nat. Ord. Ertcacrk®.—Dercanpria MonoGynia. Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4336.) Subgen. Krysta, Nutt. Corolla tubuloso-cylindracea, limbi lobis erecto-conni- ventibus, racemis brevibus e ramis vetustis lateralibus. Nutt. Ruopopenpron (f Keysia) Keysii; ramis ferrugineis resinoso-punctatis, foliis petiolatis elliptico-lanceolatis acutissimis mucronatis glabris, subtus pallidis utrinque (subtus precipue) resinoso-punctatis, racemis aggregatis laterali- bus ad basin ramulorum novellorum, calyce minuto e dentibus 5 acutis eequalibus erectis, corolla tubulosa(!), limbi lobis 5 erectis ovatis obtusis, staminibus 10, filamentis corolla tubum equantibus inferne hirsutis, ovario ovato resinoso-punctato, stylo corolla breviore inferne hirsuto, stigmate vix dilatato minute 5-lobo. RHODODENDRON Keysii. Nutt. in Hook. Journ. of Bot. v. 5. p. 353. This very remarkable Rhododendron is one of several new species of the genus that rewarded the researches of Mr. Booth in the mountains of Bootan,* and has been communicated to us by his relative, Mr. Nuttall, from the garden at Mosley Hill, Aigburth, Liverpool, the residence of Adam Fairrie, Esq. (Mr. P. Williams, gardener), with the name, 2. Keysi. The remark- able form of the corolla in this species, so unlike that of any in - the genus, could not however escape the notice of so acute an observer as Mr. Nuttall; and he suggested that it should consti- tute a subgenus, under the name of Keysva, characterized by the cylindrical corolla having a nearly equal five-lobed connivent border. This name we have adopted. Mr. Nuttall further ob- serves, that it bears its flowers in short axillary racemes coming out of the old wood; and that in this respect, as in the shape of * At an clevation of 9,000 to 10,000 feet above the sea-level; on the summit and northern ridges of the Lablung, forming low thickets, among Gaultherias and stunted Yews, above the ranges of R. Hookeri and R. Falconeri, and amid snows two and three feet deep. OCTOBER Ist, 1855. the corolla, it resembles a Ziibaudia or Agapetes. It is indeed a very remarkable species. The plant is cultivated under a vine in a cool greenhouse, in consequence of which, Mr. Williams ob- serves, the flowers (produced in July) are paler than they would otherwise have been. The corollas too, let it be remarked, from the blossoming having been too far advanced, had mostly fallen off before the specimens reached the artist’s hands. In Mr. Nut- tall’s garden it proved quite hardy during 1851 and 1852. Duscr. Small shrvd, with ferruginous dranches, the young ones densely dotted with resinous, glossy, reddish scales. Leaves three to four inches long (on footstalks half to three-quarters of an inch long), between elliptical and lanceolate, moderately cori- aceous, glabrous, rather obtuse at the base, very acute and mu- cronated at the apex, the upper side full green, the under side paler ; both sides, but especially beneath, closely sprinkled with the same reddish resinous dots as the young branches; costa ferruginous. Veins not very conspicuous. Racemes clustered, lateral, in consequence of the terminal shoot of the season, which crowns the flowers: the bracts (if any) had fallen. Pedicels dotted. Calyx minute, of five erect, nearly equal, short, acute teeth. Corolla an inch long, forming a nearly cylindrical ¢uéde, only very slightly contracted below the Jims, of a pale brick-red colour (in the state in which we received them), yellowish at the mouth and on the under side. Zimé of five, erect or subconni- vent, ovate, obtuse lobes. Stamens and pistil included. Fila- ments hairy below. Anthers with two large pores. Ovary resi- noso-punctate, ovate, five-celled. Style hairy below. Stigma of five minute lobes or points. Fig. 1. Flower and pedicel. 2. Stamen. 3. Calyx and pistil. 4, Trans- verse section of ovary :—magnified. 4376 Broaks Imp. 7 tl ve Be or es at Soe Vincent => Tas. 4876. GILIA pDIANTHOIDEs. Pink-like Gilia. Nat. Ord. PoLEMONIACEZ.—PENTANDRIA MoNOGYNIA. Gen, Char. Calyx tubuloso- vel obconico-campanulatus, 5-fidus, laciniis acutis. Corolla infundibuliformis, nunc tubo longissimo fere hypocraterimorpha, nunc tubo brevissimo subrotata, limbo regulari. Stamina ad faucem vel paulo infra equaliter inserta, filamentis basi nudis vel piloso-appendiculatis. Discus cupuli- formis, rarius obscurus. Ovarium ovoideum. Ovuia in loculis seepius plurima (6-10) biseriata, interdum pauca, imo solitaria, nunc numerosissima 3—4 seriata. Styli lobi seepe papilloso-hispidi. Capsula oblonga vel obovoidea, obtusa. Se- mina ovoidea, angulata vel compressa, rarius angustissime alata.—Herbz annue vel perennes, glabra, vel superne pubescentes vel lanate. Folia alterna vel oppo- sita, subulata vel linearia, integra vel dissecta. Flores nune capitati, bracteis suf- Julti vel ebracteati, nune sepius dissiti ebracteati. Corolle elegantes, lilacine pur- purascentes albide vel rarius flavicantes. DC. Gra (§ Dianthoides) dianthoides ; pusilla, simplex vel ramosissima glabra vel hirsuta, ramis 1-paucifloris, foliis linearibus, floribus pedunculatis, corolle lobis acutis serratis. Gita dianthoides. End. Atakt. t. 29. Benth. in De Cand. Prodr. v. 9. p. 314. Frnz1ta dianthiflora. Benth. in Bot. Reg. (under Tab. 1622, Collomia coccinea). Hook. Ic. Plant. v. 2. p. 199. This lovely annual, so well suited for a bedding-out plant, is a native of California, where it was discovered by Douglas; but is only now introduced to our gardens by the Messrs. Veitch, of the Exeter and Chelsea Nurseries, through their collector, Mr. William Lobb. Pretty as the species is in its wild state, and as figured at Tab. 199 of our ‘Icones Plantarum,’ cultivation so much improves it that at first sight it would be hardly recog- nized as the same; for it becomes, from a little upright, scarcely branched plant, with two or three flowers, a closely ramified and spreading one, the filiform branches and small linear leaves com- pletely covered and concealed by the numerous blossoms, of the most delicate lilac colour, each having five dark blood-coloured OCTOBER lst, 1855. spots surrounding an orange-coloured eye in the centre. The species blooms during the summer months, continuing long in flower if sufficiently supplied with moisture. Derscr. Root annual, fibrous, slender. Stem two to five or six inches long, slender, filiform, glabrous, or with spreading hairs, erect and nearly simple, or spreading more or less, often very much and dichotomously branched; in the latter case many-flowered. eaves opposite, connate at the base, in dis- tant pairs, narrow, linear, hairy, and ciliate in the lower half. Peduncles short, erect, slender, hairy, terminal and axillary, so- _ litary, single-flowered. Flowers erect. Calyz of five linear seg- ments, which are unequal in length, hairy on the back: the tu- bular portion is membranous between the segments. Corolla rotate, large in proportion to the size of the plant; ¢wée short: limb of five, obovate, acute, spreading lobes, of a delicate lilac colour, sharply dentato-serrate at the margin: at the base of each segment is a dark, blood-coloured spot; and the mouth of the tube is orange-yellow. Stamens five, equal, inserted near the base of the tube: filaments slender, subulate. Anthers oval, orange-coloured. Ovary ovate. Style a little longer than the tube. Stigmas three, linear. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx and pistil. 3. Ovary. 4. The same cut through transversely. 5. Leaves :—magnified. Tas. 4877. RHEUM ACUMINATUM. Sharp-leaved Sikkim Rhubarb. Nat. Ord. Potyconem®.—ENNEANDRIA TRIGYNIA. _ Gen. Char. Perianthium 6-partitum, persistens. Stamina 9, perigonii foliolis exterioribus geminatim, interioribus singillatim opposita. Stigmata 2-3. Cary- opsis late alato-triquetra, basi perigonio emarcido stipata.—Herbe perennes Asia- tice, foliis amplis, floribus pantculatis v. spicato-racemosis. RHEUM acuminatum ; tripedale, ramosum, puberulum, foliis late cordatis acumi- natis, petiolis ramisque panicule sulcatis granulatis, panicula composita ramis strictis erectis, floribus (pro genere) majusculis, perianthii segmentis subzequalibus late oblongis. Rum acuminatum, Hook. Jil. et Thoms. MSS. — The subject of this Plate, which is the common Rhubarb of the Sikkim Himalaya, so closely resembles in most respects the well-known 2. Hmodi, Wall. (2. australe, Don, see our Tab. 3508) that we long hesitated about the propriety of describing it as a different species ; after however having seen both cultivated for six years in the Royal Gardens at Kew, we find no tendency in the present to assume either the stature or the better-marked bota- nical characters of R. Hmodi; and as the cultivated specimens further retain all the distinctive features of the wild ones, which were gathered in several distant localities, there can be little doubt but that the two are permanently distinct. The pro- minent characters of R. acuminatum are, its small stature and slender habit, never exceeding a yard in height; its relatively much broader leaves, which terminate in a long acuminate point ; its flowers being three or four times the size of those of 2. modi, and the segments of the perianth nearly equal, broader, and more rounded. It inhabits rocky places, often amongst brushwood in the subalpine and alpine regions of the Himalaya of Sikkim and East Nepal, at elevations of 9—13,000 feet ; the stems are pleasantly acid, and, though more dry and stringy than those of 2. Hmodi, may be used for tarts; the root is spongy, and but slightly, if at all, medicinal. YCTOBER Ist, 1855. With regard to the true R. Hmodi, Wall., which is the R. australe of Don, it appears hitherto to have been found by Dr. Wallich’s collectors only and in Nepal; and, as Royle has pointed out, Wallich’s specimens of it preserved in the Linnean Herba- rium are mixed with another species, 2. Webbianum, Royle. The latter has since been collected in Kumaon (and in the Tibetan province of Gugi, north of Kumaon) by Messrs. Strachey and Winterbottom, in whose herbarium it is distributed under the name of 2. modi. It is a specimen of this latter that Meisner has further described as R. Hmodi in Wallich’s < Plante Asiaticee Rariores’ (vol. iii. p. 65) ; and it was probably this also that Wallich intended should bear that name, as it yields a far better drug than the plant of which he sent home seeds, and which has ever since been cultivated as R. Hmodi, Wall., or R. australe, Don. Duscr. Root a slender tap, sometimes several feet long, bright orange within, spongy, and smelling slightly of medicinal Rhu- . barb. Stem two to three feet high, sparingly branched, more or less deeply red-purple or vinous, strongly grooved, covered, as well as the petioles, panicles, peduncles, and pedicels, with minute, granular, crystalline points. Stipules rather large, lanceolate, acuminate. Pefioles slender. eaves a span long, broadly cor- date, deeply bilobed at the base, with long, acuminate points, pubescent below, opaque above, covered with minute crystalline cells. Panicle sparingly branched ; dranches slender, rigid, bear- ing small ovate leaves at the axils of the main divisions. Pedicels _ very slender. Mowers upwards of a quarter of an inch across, — _ deep lurid red-purple, or brown-purple. Zodes of the perianth nearly equal in size, rounded. Fruit as in R. Emodi, Wall. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil. 3. Fruit :—magnified. iS SS SB Tas. 4878. ODONTOGLOSSUM macuLatTumM. Spotted Odontoglossum. Nat. Ord. OrncHIDACE®.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Gen. Char. Perianthium explanatum, sequale ; sepalis petalisque angustis acu- minatis liberis. Zabellum indivisum, ecalearatum, unguiculatum : ungue cum basi columns continuo; lamina patente basi cristata. Columna erecta, mem- branaceo-marginata, apice utrinque alata. Andthera bilocularis. Pollinia 2, solida, ‘caudicula lineari, glandula hamata—Herbe epiphyte, pseudobulbifere. Folia plicata. Scapus terminalis, vaginatus. Flores speciosi. Lindl. OponToctossuM maculatum; pseudobulbis oblongis compressis monophyllis, foliis oblongis nervosis acutiusculis, racemis pendulis multifloris brevioribus, bracteis navicularibus herbaceis ovario brevioribus, sepalis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis discoloribus, petalis oblongis undulatis acuminatis, labello cor- dato acuminato subcrenato, appendice unguis bivalvi concava cochleari apice producta emarginata per medium argute serrulata, columna pubescente. Lindl. OvonrocLossum maculatum. Lindl. Bot. Reg. v. 26 (1840). ¢. 30. From the Orchideous house at Kew, where it bears its long pendent spike of lovely flowers in August. It is a native of Mexico, imported thence by Count Karwinski, who has the credit of its discovery. Dr. Lindley notices its affinity with the Odon- toglossum Cervantesii of La Llave, and O. cordatum of the ‘Floral Cabinet,’ but pronounces it to be truly distinct. oo ie Descr. The specific character above given suffices for its dis- tinction from other species. The psewdodulbs are rather small, clustered, oblong, compressed, green, and subtended by herba- | ceous scales. Leaf solitary, terminal on the bulb, oblong, lan- ee ceolate, one-nerved, acute, subcoriaceous. Scape elongated, from the base of the pseudo-bulbs, bracteated. Spike pendent, six- to eight-flowered. Flowers large, very handsome. Calyx of three lanceolate, spreading, much acuminated sepals, deep yellow, blotched with rich brown, uppermost sepal the largest and ; OCTOBER Ist, 1855. < Petals spreading, of the same shape, but broader and er, more regularly spotted. ip large, spreading, white, reddish blotches. Column downy. Tan. 4879. CAMPANULA primuLa@FLoRa. Primrose-leaved Bell-flower. Nat. Ord. CAMPANULACEE®.—PENTANDRIA MonoGynIA. Gen. Char. Calyx 5-fidus. Corolla apiece 5-loba vel 5-fida, seepius campanu- lata. Stamina 5, libera ; filamentis basi latis et membranaceis, Stylus in preeflora- tione pilis collectoribus (excepta ima basi) tectus. Stigmata 8 vel 5, filiformia. Capsula 3—-5-locularis, valvis 83-5 lateraliter dehiscens. Semina ovata, compla- nata vel ovoidea.—Herbee sepius perennes, nunc huimiles et humifuse, nunc 2-3- pedales, erecte, multiflora, foliis radicalibus sepius forma diversis, floribus termi- — nalibus vel awillaribus. Omnes in hemispherio boreali. DC. CaMPANvLA (§ Eucodon) primuleflora; caule hispido simplici erecto, foliis pi- losis ineequaliter duplicato-crenatis, radicalibus oblongo-lanceolatis obtusius- culis petiolo marginato, caulinis ovato-oblongis acutis, floribus spicato- racemosis axillaribus ternis vel singulis, tubo calycis obconico piloso, lobis _ acuminatis basi latis denticulatis corolla campanulata rotata duplo breviori- _ CaMPaNvLa primulefolia. Bot. Fi. Lusit. p. 288. Phytogr.v. 1. t. 20. De Cand. Prod. v. 7. p. 478. e CamPaNuLa peregrina. Hofim. et Link, Fl. Port. v. 2. p. 15. t. 83 (not Linn.). The volume of De Candolle’s ‘ Prodromus,’ published in 1839, contains 182 species of Campanula, and fifty-five species are added since that period, and are included in Walpers’ ‘ Reper- torium’ and ‘ Annales.’ Many of them are probably of doubtful specific value. Happily the present one is well marked, and has been both well defined and well figured in two continental pub- — lications, though mistaken for another species in that of Link and Hoffmannsegg: and it is one that deserves to be better — known in this country than it is, for it is eminently handsome ~ and quite hardy, and may be made a great ornament to our — flower-borders. It is a native of Portugal,* growing in moist — rocks and shady places of the Algarves and Beira, and near Coimbra, above Punhete and about Monchica : probably a rare * The native country of this is, by some accident, omitted in De Candolle’s _ * Prodromus.’ OCTOBER Ist, 1855. species. It flowers with us in July and August. Its nearest affinity is with C. peregrina (Bot. Mag. t. 1257), from which it differs essentially in its perennial root, angular, hispid stem, in the different form and hairiness of the leaves, and in the absence _ of the dark, almost black ring in the inner base of the corolla. Dzscr. Root perennial. Stem annual, erect, two to three feet high, branching only at the base (hence the plant takes a pyra- midal figure), angular, succulent, the angles winged and hispid. Leaves oblong or broad, lanceolate, alternate, spreading, reticu- lately veined, unequally crenato-serrated and hairy, or hispid, chiefly on the veins beneath, sessile, on the radical ones only tapering into a winged, short petiole. F/owers solitary, or three or four from the axils of leaves, which gradually become smaller and bracteiform upwards. Peduncles short, single-flowered, his- pid. Calyx-tube hemispherical, angled, hispid: md of five _ spreading, lanceolate-subulate, sometimes serrated, ciliated seg- ‘ments, shorter than the tube of the corolla. Corolla large, handsome, glabrous, purple-blue, pale at the base within: tube short, broad, campanulate, spreadmg at the mouth: /imé of five broad-ovate, rather acute, spreading lobes. Filaments with a very broad, dilated base, completely covermg the top of the ovary: anthers linear. Style short: stigmas three, large, linear- oblong, spreading. — Fig. 1. Pistil and stamens :—magnified. 5830) Tas. 4880. CLERODENDRON FOTIDUM. Fetid Clerodendron. Nat. Ord. VERBENACER.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Gen. Char. Calye campanulatus, rarius tubulosus, interdum pentagonus et subinflatus, 5-fidus vel 5-dentatus, rarissime truncatus. Corolla infundibuliformis — vel subhypocraterimorpha, tubo sepissime calycem conspicue excedente interdum» longissimo, limbo 5-partito laciniis superioribus paulo magis approximatis sub- — ineequali vel laciniis inferioribus magis minusve adscendentibus obliquo immo subsecundo. Stamina 4, corolle tubo inserta, longe exserta, subdidynama ; anthere supra basin inserte, basi fisse, biloculares, loculis parallelis rima longi- — tudinali dehiscentibus. Ovarinm 4-loculare, loculis uniovulatis, ovulo in spermo- phoro angulo centrali adnato pendulo. Stylus filiformis, exsertus, stigmate bifido acuto. Drupa calyci ampliato insidens vel inclusa, baccata vel carnosa, quadri- — vel sepius abortu mono-di-tripyrena, sepius 2—4-loba, pyrenis maturitate dis- tinctis unilocularibus, putamine lignoso levi. Semen solitarium, erectum. Coty- ledones oleose, applicite, radicula brevis infera—Frutices vel arbores inter tropicos veteris orbis, imprimis vero Asie, copiose, in America vero parce crescentes. Folia opposita vel terna, simplicia, integra vel rarius lobata, phyllopodio interdum prominenti persistenti insidentia. Cymee trichotome vel axillares vel in paniculam terminalem collecte. DC. é CLERODENDRON fetidum ; foliis late cordatis pubescenti-pilosis grosse_ ct dentatis subtus ad nervorum axillis glandulosis, corymbis dense terminalibus, tubo corolle longissimo calycem quintuplo excedente, 4—5-partito. ‘ Bost CLERODENDRON feetidum. Bunge, Mém. des Savans trang. de St. Pétersb. v. 2. p. 126. Walp. Repert. Bot. v. 2. p. 126. aN : CLERODENDRON Bungei. Steud. Nomencl. Bot. ed. 2. p. 382. - A charming species of Clerodendron of northern China, first detected and described by Bunge, and more recently introduced — to cultivation in our gardens by Mr. Fortune. We owe the pos- session of our plant to Messrs. Standish and Noble, and we have - hitherto treated it as a greenhouse plant; but Messrs. Masters — and Sons, of the Exotic Nursery, Canterbury, announce, in the ‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle’ (1854), that it stood out unharmed in the open air for six winters, till the winter of 1853-1854, but that in May of that year a sucker was protruded a foot from the ground, which attained a height of between three and four feet OCTOBER lst, 1855. before the autumn. It flowers in August, and the flowers were rather fragrant than fetid. Descr. Our plant forms a small handsome bushy s/rué, with upright downy éranches, the younger ones, especially, beset with _ short rigid aculei, partially concealed in the tomentum. Leaves _ (on slender petioles, two to three inches long, channelled above), opposite, large in proportion to the size of the plant, five to seven inches long, broad, cordate, veined and reticulated, much acu- _ minated, downy on both sides, the margin (except at the acu- _ Inination) coarsely dentato-serrate. Corymds large, terminal, compound, hemispherical, their dranches and pedicels downy. _ Flowers very numerous, compact. Calyzx-tube oval-cylindrical, downy ; Zimé of five erect or slightly incurved acute teeth. Co- _ rolla wifundibuliform, with the tube very long and slender, twice as long as the limb is broad, and three or four times longer than the calyx including the limb : corolline limb spreading horizon- tally, deep bright lilac, cut nearly to the base with five obovate lobes. Stamens four, much exserted : filaments slender, filiform, _ two alittle shorter than the other two: azthers dark purple, ob- long, versatile. Ovary globose : style slender, filiform, glabrous, _ longer than the corolline tube, but shorter than the filaments : _ stigma slightly clavate, bifid. Fig 1. Flower. 2. Pistil. 481 Brooks imp Vincent del. et hth. Pitch. i seinen ta aiiitiibaresioy seh 6 Tas. 4881. PHYGELIUS Capensts. Cape Phygelius. Nat. Ord. Scropnunarracem.—DIpyNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA. Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus. Corolle tubus elongatus, incurvus, limbi valde ~ obliqui laciniis rotundatis. Stamina declinata, exserta, quinti rudimentum ad basin corolle minimum. Antherarum loculi paralleli, apice vix confluentes. Cap- sula valde obliqua, loculo postico multo majore, apice tardius septicide dehiscens, valvulis integris ? vel irregulariter disruptis? Semina ovoidea, subangulata ; testa crassiuscula, spongiosa.—Genus Austro-Africanum, foliis Scrophularie, inflores- - centia e¢ floribus Pentstemoni affine. Benth. PHYGELIUS Capensis, PuyGeius Capensis.. Z. Mey. MSS. Benth. in Comp. to Bot. Mag. v.2. p. 53. Fielding, Sert. Plant. t. 66, 67. Benth. in De Cand. Prodr. v. 10. p. 300. This beautiful plant, only recently discovered in Caffreland, at Witbergen, on the sides of streams, by Drege, has very little the habit of a plant of those regions, but reminds.one singularly of the Pentstemons of North America. It was named Phygelius by Ernest Meyer, probably from duyn, flight, shunning, or eschewing ; in consequence of its having so long escaped the résearches of botanists. Our noble flowering specimen was sent by Messrs. Veitch, of the Exeter and Chelsea Nurseries, where it came to great perfection in the open border in the summer months, and promises to ripen seed : if it does, the plant will prove a great acquisition to our gardens. It will, too, in all probability, in- crease by cuttings, for the lower part of the plant at least is perennial and shrubby: but it may require a greenhouse to pro- tect it in the winter. The Witbergen is, we believe, however, a very elevated mountain ; though we know not the height of the locality of this plant above the level of the sea,—probably suffi- ciently to justify an opinion of its being perfectly hardy. Descr. Plant two to three feet high, including its panicle, erect, below shrubby, above herbaceous, branched, everywhere glabrous ; branches four-sided, angles winged. Leaves opposite, the lower ones moderately large, four to five inches long (ex- NOVEMBER Ist, 1855. clusive of the petiole, which is two or two and a half inches long, deeply channelled above, and auricled at the base on each side), ovate, scarcely acuminate, serrated, penniveined, and reticulated with transverse veins. The leaves gradually become smaller up- wards. Panicle pyramidal ; rachis four-angled, winged ; branches corymboso-racemose ; pedicels curved downwards, with all the flowers secund and drooping. Calye with the tube short, cup- ‘shaped, obtuse at the setting on of the pedicel : /émé of five, spreading, ovato-acuminate, spreading segments. Corolla tubu- lar, funnel-shaped: the ¢u4e very long, curved, the base dilated and inflated: /imd very oblique, of five, spreading, ovate seg- ments: the colour is fine deep red, yellow at the base of the limb. S¢amens four, exserted, didynamous : filaments inserted a little below the mouth of the corolla, but their base is decurrent within the tube: anthers oval, erect, free. Ovary ovate. Style longer than corolla and stamens. S¢igma obtuse. Figs. 1, 2. Portion of stem and leaves :—nat. size. %. Corolla laid open. 4, Anther. 5. Pistil. 6. Transverse section of ovary :—magnified. 4882 s Imp Vincent. Brook Tas. 4882. SOBRALIA rracrans. Fragrant Sobralia. Nat. Ord. OrcHTDACER.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Gen. Ohar. (Vide supra, Tas. 4632.) Sopraxta fragrans ; humilis, glaberrima, caule pedunculoque ancipitibus, spatha biflora carinata diphylla herbacea nunc foliacea, floribus parvis parum apertis, labelli lobo medio cuneato bilobo lacero lateralibus obsoletis integerrimis venis 9 lacero-cristatis. Lindl. Sopraia fragrans. Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1853. p. 598. no. 5. Fol. Orchid. Part 5. n. 12. A very pretty, fragrant, small Sobralia, native of New Granada, in the province of Ocafia, where it appears to have been disco- vered by Schlim, and is probably introduced to our English stoves by way of Belgium, Dr. Lindley describes it from spect- mens sent by Linden, and from the living plant m the collection of R. Hanbury, Esq. We are indebted for the individuals here figured to Messrs. Henderson, of St. John’s Wood. They differ a little from Dr. Lindley’s description, in having the sepals and petals of the same uniform pale sulphur-colour (not the sepals dull purplish-green), and in the flowers not bemg 1m pairs, but solitary, perhaps from want of vigour in our plant. Descr. Terrestrial. The sfems are about a foot high, clustered, several from one root, compressed, the lower half sheathed with the base of the lower leaf, and with several scales near the root. Leaves one to two, oblong-lanceolate, four to five inches long, rather fleshy, glabrous (as is every part of the plant), longitudi- nally nerved, the nerves prominent beneath. Peduncle terminal, long, compressed or ancipitate, bearing at the end two or three lanceolate, more or less leafy, carinate, green bracteas, the outer two to three inches long: from within these the flower emerges, small for the genus, two inches long, fragrant, pale sulphur- yellow, a little inclining to green. The flower 1s moderately ex- panded. Sepals spreading, oblong-lanceolate : petals of the same NOVEMBER lst, 1855. _ shape, but closing over the column. Zp moderately large, ob- ovate or cuneate, the side lobes obsoletely, confined to the invo- lute lower margin; middle lobe large, spreading, beautifully erisped and fimbriated; the disc has a deep tinge of yellow. ‘Throughout the whole length of the lip run nine elevated lines or lamellz, which are delicately fringed towards the apex of the | lip. Column semiterete, club-shaped: the anther sunk into a cavity (clinandrium) at the extremity. Fig. 1. Lip. 2. Column. 3. Pollen-masses :—magnified. ‘ Tas. 4883. BILLBERGIA ruHopocyanea. blue and red Billbergia. Nat. Ord. BromeLiaceE®.—HEXxaNpDRIA MoNnoGyNIA. Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4756.) BILuBERGIA rhodocyanea ; foliis erecto-patulis exterioribus recurvatis omnibus rigidis lingulatis basi dilatato-amplexantibus canaliculatis spinis nigris mar- ginatis minute striolatis glauco-viridibus transversim albo-fasciatis apice spinoso-apiculatis, seapo foliis breviore, thyrsoque capitato multibracteatis, bracteis lanceolato-acuminatis spinoso-serratis omnibus roseis subfurfura- ceis, alabastris roseis, floribus albis apice purpureo-ceruleis. BILLBereta rhodocyanea. Lemaire in Van Houtte, Flor. der Gewchshsr. v. 3. p. 207. Walp. Ann. Bot. v. 1. p. 838. Received at the Royal Gardens of Kew from Belgium under the above objectionable name—a compound of Greek and Latin. We find no locality given. South America abounds in beautiful plants of this and of allied genera, which are eminently worthy a place in our stoves, and which are neglected by the herbalist because they are so troublesome to dry. ‘The present species has its dark-green leaves elegantly banded with interrupted lines of white; the bracts rose-colour, the rather large corollas white tipped with blue. Desor. Plants tufted. Leaves radical, outer a foot or a foot and a half long, reflexed, inner gradually shorter and more up- right, all ligulate, obtuse, with an acuminated mucro, the sides incurved, so that the leaf is channelled and almost semicylindrical, the colour externally dark green, occasionally tinged with dull purple, banded transversely with slightly wavy interrupted white lines, the apex is free from these bands, upper or inside of the leaves uniform yellow-green ; the margin is beset with very sharp, slightly curved, black spinules or prickles, all pointing upwards. Scape shorter than the leaves, and almost entirely concealed by NOVEMBER lst, 1855. them, bracteated, dracteas lanceolate, very much acuminated, rose-coloured, farinose, spinuloso-serrated at the margin. Flowers arranged in a capitate ¢yrsus, clothed with numerous imbricating rose-coloured bracteas, resembling those of the scape, concealing the flowers till they are nearly expanded. Calyw-tube oval, in- corporated with the ovary, yellowish, downy ; /imdé of three, rose- coloured, erect, ovate, downy, blunt segments. Corolla of three, linear-oblong or spathulate, erect, slightly convolute, very obtuse ; petals vose-colour in bud, when perfect white, gradually passing into blue at the tips, the margin here and there with a subulate slender tooth. Sca/es at the base of the petals oblong, fringed at the apex. Stamens shorter than the petals. Anthers linear, acute. Style a little shorter than the stamens: stigma trifid, seg- ments cuneate. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Petal, stamens, and scales. 3. Pistil :—magnified. 4034 Tas. 4884. SALVIA aspERATA. Rough-leaved Sage. Nat. Ord. Laprat#.—D1anpr1a MonoeyNia. Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4874.) Satvra asperata ; caule herbaceo-glanduloso pubescente et piloso, foliis petiolatis late subcordato-ovatis breviter acuminatis eroso-crenatis ramosissimis villo- sis subtus vix canescentibus floralibus latis acuminatis herbaceis plerisque calyces superantibus, racemis subramosis, verticillastris distantibus 6-10- floris, calycis campanulati hispido-ciliati labio superiore subtridentato dente supremo minimo ceeteris rectis vel subincurvis spinuloso-acuminatis, corolla tubo calycem sequante galea falcata compressa. SaLvia asperata. Falconer, MSS. Benth. in De Cand. Prodr. v. 12. p. 282. Drawn from a plant that flowered in the open border of the Royal Gardens of Kew in the summer of 1855. The seeds were sent from Cashmere to Isaac Anderson,* Esq., of Maryfield, Edinburgh, to whom we are indebted for the specimen here figured. We know it to be identical with the 8. asperata of Falconer, in De Cand. Prodr. 1. ¢.; but we are almost disposed to consider it a variety of S. Sclarea, to which S. Simsiana, Ker, Bot. Reg. t. 1003, and S. bracteata, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 2320, should be referred. Mr. Bentham further notices the affinity of this species with 8. Zingitana and S. Palestina, “ sed imprimis foliorum forma differt.” Dzscr. Our plant grows to the height of about two feet, and is more or less branched from near the root. Stem erect and (as well as the four-sided branches) hairy, the hairs mixed with glan- * We have committed an unintentional error in saying at our Tab. 4874 that the Californian Salvia carduacea blossomed in and was derived from the Exeter and Chelsea Nurseries. It was indeed communicated to us by Messrs. Veitch, and along with other Californian plants from thence; but it was accidentally omitted to be stated that it was introduced to this country by the gentleman above mentioned, Isaac Anderson, Esq., of Maryfield, Edinburgh, and by that gentleman obligingly communicated to us through Messrs. Veitch, as they now inform us. We are very glad to have the opportunity of correcting this error. NOVEMBER Ist, 1855. dular pubescence. Zeaves (the lower ones on long petioles), the upper ones sessile, ovate or ovato-oblong, cordate at the base, subacute, coarsely and duplicately dentato-serrate, villous, the surface wrinkled and asperate, with raised arcole of the reticu- lated veins, paler, and somewhat downy beneath. Floral spikes very long. /Vhorls of from six to eight nearly sessile flowers; each whorl subtended by a pair of opposite, sessile, large, broad- ovate, sharply acuminated, spreading or reflexed, striated, sub- membranaceous drac?s, pale-green, with streaks of greenish-white. Calye campanulate, nearly as long as the tube of the corolla, hispid, two-lipped : upper lip of three, sharp, spinulose teeth, of which the intermediate one is the shortest ; lower one two- toothed. Corolla greenish-white : ube curved, cylindrical, one- third the length of the limb: Zimé two-lipped: upper lip longer than the lower one, oblong, falcate, compressed, pubescent, and hispid; lower lip three-lobed, intermediate lobe sarcate, hairy large fleshy disc. Style very long, but included with the com- pressed, upper lip: stigma of two, unequal, subulate segments, a little exserted. Fig. 1. Corolla. 2. Pistil :—magnified. externally. Stamens included. Ovary four-lobed, seated on a . 4555 meeeneant tb ATER RA RR EN “& yA senmntessncaa tet parecemnnseaes sti A dl : ae ~ : mS Tas. 4885. STANHOPEA gEcornutTa. Hornless Stanhopea. Nat. Ord. OrncHIDACEm.—GYNANDRIA MoNANDRIA. Gen. Char. Perianthium membranaceum, patentissimum vel reflexum, Sepala libera, subundulata, mole sua ruentia. Petala conformia, angustiora. Labellum liberum anticum; dimidio superiore (epichilio) convexo, inferiore (hypochilio) excavato. Columna longissima, petaloideo-marginata. Anthera bilocularis. Pollinia 2, elongata, fissa, caudicula quam glandula biloba stipitata breviore.— Epiphyta pseudobulbosa. Folia plicata. Scapi radicales, vaginati, pauciflori. Flores mawximi, magis minusve maculati. Lindl. STANHOPEA ecornuta; scapo brevi pendulo, bracteis ovario brevioribus, sepalis petalisque minoribus ovatis obtusis carnosis concavis, labello calceiformi ob- tusissimo ecornuto margine antico tuberculato, columna brevissima carnosa sinuato-lobata. Lindl. SraNnHOPEA ecorunta. Lemaire, in Flore des ‘Serres, p. 181, Dec. 1846. Pazton, Flow. Gard. Gleanings, no. 54. ic. 20. Reich. fil. Bot. Zeit. X. 1852, p. 836. Lindl. Fol. Orchid. Part 1. p. 8. STANHOPEASTRUM ecornutum. Reich. fil. in Mohl et Schlecht. Bot. Zeit. X. 1852, p.927. Xenia Orchid. tab. 43. From the collection of Mr. Loddiges, at Hackney, who received it from Central America. I am indebted to Dr. Lindley for the following remarks, which are of more value than the most ela- borate description, on this curious Orchid :— Em “This plant was first published by Professor Lemaire in the ‘Flore des Serres,’ of December, 1846; and from that work it was taken up in my ‘ Folia Orchidacea’ (October, 1852), with the suggestion that it might be ‘a monster of some kind ; for in- stance, of S. dricornis.’ Immediately afterwards Professor Reich- _ enbach, jun., announced (B. Zeit. Dec. 24, 1852) that he had ex- _ amined it, and ascertained that it was no monster, but a new genus, Stanhopeastrum, ‘ uniting Peristeriacee and Stanhopeacee.’ This opinion my learned friend still entertains. When I ven- tured to suggest the possibility of the plant being a monster, I had not seen it. Now that a living specimen has been under NOVEMBER Ist, 1855. my observation, I entertain much the same opinion as before. It is true that the separation of epichil, mesochil, and hypochil, so remarkable in Stanhopea, does not occur in this plant; that there is an elevated table in the middle of the hollow of the lip ; and the column, instead of being long and winged, is short, fleshy, and wingless. But, on the other hand, the habit of the plant is so exactly that of Stanhopea, that Mr. Loddiges, from whom the specimen which furnished the drawing was received, always supposed it to be &. grandiflora. Nor does its mode of flowering present any the smallest difference from Stanhopea cirrhata, a plant from nearly the same country. That same species has also a wingless, short, fleshy column ; its epichil is equally undivided, the mesochil is scarcely distinguishable, and the hypochil has a pair of fleshy horns, which answer to the la- teral tumours in the lip of the species before us. With regard to the elevated table in the middle of the lip, upon which the _ Claim of Stanhopeastrum to be a genus must chiefly rest, I would point to the great tabular mesochil of 8. grandiflora and qua- dricornis as indicating a tendency towards the same structure. Upon the whole, after weighing all the evidence that is attain- able with regard to this question, that which I originally ha- zarded as a conjecture has become a conviction, and I entertain no doubt that we shall eventually discover proof that Stanhopea ecornuta 1s a mere form of some such plant as S. cirrhata.” Lindl. _ It is only justice to the learned Professor Reichenbach, jun., _ to say that, since the above was communicated to us, he aban- _ dons the views he held on the subject of the generic distinction of this plant, and entirely agrees with those of Dr. Lindley. _ Fig. 1. Column and lip. 2. Front view of the lip. 3. Front view of the column. 4. Pollen-masses :—all more or less magnified, 40056 Tas. 4886. DENDROBIUM MacCarruta. Mrs. MacCarthy’s Dendrobium. Nat. Ord. OrcHIDE®.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4755.) Denprosium MacCarthie; caulibus pendulis flagelliformibus teretibus striatis versus apicem foliosis, nodis parce tumidis, racemis axillaribus 4—-5-floris, floribus magnis dilute purpureis, sepalis lanceolatis acutis petala multo latiora ovato-lanceolata longitudine fere equantibus, labello subtrilobato vel sub- trapeziformi apice rotundato retuso, foliis lanceolatis. This beautiful species of Dendrobium, which appears hitherto to have escaped the observation of botanists in Ceylon, occurs sparingly, pendent from the trunks of large trees, in the forests about Ratuapoora and towards Galle, where it seemed to be pretty generally known to the natives under the name of “ is-_ sak-mal,’ the meaning of which is “ Rainy-month flower,” or “ May-flower.”’ With this charming plant, which is certainly the most beau- tiful of the Ceylon Orchidacea, 1 wish to be associated the name of my excellent friend Mrs. MacCarthy, the accomplished lady of the Honourable C. J. MacCarthy, Esq., Colonial Secretary of: the island, to whose kindness and regard for science I have been indebted for many facilities in pursuing my investigations. Duscr. Stems simple, one and a half to two feet long, of about the thickness of a goose-quill, striated, slightly swollen at the joints; internodes one to one and a half inch long. Leaves few at the upper part of the stem, lanceolate, two and a half to three inches long and from three-quarters to one inch wide. Ra- cemes one to three, each one in the axil of a leaf, four- or five- flowered ; peduncles with several sheathing bracts at the base ; pedicels whitish, about one and a quarter inch long. Howers hand- some, nearly three inches long and three and a half inches wide, flattened vertically, pale purple. equalling in length the mach wider oblong-lanceolate petals ; DECEMBER Ist, 1855. Sepals narrow-lanceolate, nearly : iy of the same length as the petals, somewhat trapeziform, rounded at the apex, retuse, scarcely three-lobed, somewhat cari- nated above, white, with numerous small purple spots on the throat, a large dark purple blotch on the disc, and the apex ~ broadly margined with paler purple, with about seven dark — ; purple longitudinal streaks. Column white, slightly tinged with — urple, subquadrate, with two truncated erect or slightly reflexed — rns, between which is situated the helmet-shaped, purplish — ther-cell ; the four narrow yellow pollen-masses cohere into an Tas. 4887. DELPHINIUM carpIna.e. Scarlet-flowered Larkspur. Nat. Ord. RANUNCULACEH.—POLYANDRIA TRIGYNIA. Gen. Char. Calyx deciduus, petaloideus, irregularis, sepalo nempe superiore in calear deorsum producto. -Petala 4; 2 superiora basi in appendicibus intra calear contentis producta. De Cand. DELPHINIUM cardinale ; glabra elata, foliis (ratione plante) amplis longe petio- latis digitato-quinquepartitis laciniis cuneato-lanceolatis simplicibus vel 3-5- fidis, segmentis longe-acuminatis, caulinis paucis sensim minoribus simpli- cioribus, panicula elongata, floribus intense coccineis, sepalis late ovatis obtusis, petali inferioris limbo bifido duobusque interioribus versus apicem pilosis, calcare rectiusculo floris longitudine, ovariis glabris. Blue or purple or white Zarkspurs are familiar to us in our — gardens. We have now the pleasure of making known a species of Delphinium equalling if not surpassing any other in the size and symmetry of the plant, and excelling in the brilliancy of co- Jour of the flower, and that as rich a scarlet as can well be looked upon. It is one of the many novelties detected by Mr. Wn. Lobb in California, and introduced to our gardens by Messrs. Veitch and Sons, of the Exeter and Chelsea Exotic Nurseries. Treated as a hardy annual, it cannot fail to be a great favourite with all lovers of handsome flowers. The United States Ex- ploring Expeditions have likewise met with this rarity on their overland journeys to California, and specimens we know are in Dr. Torrey’s possession, but the plant has not been published. Our plants were in great perfection in August. pe - Dzscr. Cultivated specimens are from two to three feet high, a good deal taller than our native dried specimens. The /eaves are for the most part radical, and these on very long, stout, terete petioles or stalks, glabrous, as is almost every part of the plant, more than a span across, digitately divided, almost to the base, into five primary spreading cuneate-lanceolate segments, strongly nerved : the circumference represents a cordate outline: the seg- ments are either simple and much acuminated and narrow, or DECEMBER Ist, 1855. they are broader and more or less deéply divided in two to five lesser segments or lobes, which are also much acuminated ; the cauline leaves are few, gradually smaller upwards, with shorter petioles, fewer segments, at length gradually passing into the simple, sessile, lanceolate dracts of the terminal panicle. This panicle (a compound raceme) is elongated, bearing many large exceedingly showy flowers, on long erect pedicels, which have a pair of opposite subulate dracts, and are pubescent. Sowers slightly drooping, nearly two inches long, including the spur, of a rich scarlet colour, except the petals, which are partially deep yellow. Sepals five, broad-ovate, very obtuse; spur as long as the flower, gradually tapering and slightly ascending, scarlet to. the tip. Inner petals with appendages or spurs of the same shape, running down into the spur of the calyx; the /imdé, as well as that of the lesser petals, pilose. Stamens numerous ; anthers oblong, bright yellow. Ovaries three, erect, glabrous, tapering into short subulate s¢y/es. Fig. 1. Flower, from which the calyx is removed. 2. Ovaria :—magnijfied. tf Et. Tas. 4888. CORDIA supErRsBa. Large White-Flowered Cordia. Nat. Ord. Borracine# (Cordiee).—PENTANDRIA MonoGyNIa. Gen. Char. Calyx tubulosus, obovatus campanulatusve, 4—5-dentatus, rarius 3- seu 6-8-dentatus. Corolla infundibuliformis vel hypocraterimorpha, limbo 4—5-partito, rarius 6-12-lobo. Stamina tot quot lobi, corolle tubo inserta. Stylus bis bifidus, seepius exsertus. Drupa ovata aut globosa, pulposa, ealyce persistente seepius cincta, nunc in ovario 4-locul. post anthesin abortu ad loculos 1-3 seepe reducta, loculis 1-spermis.—Arbores aut frutices regionum orbis cali- darum incole. Folia alterna aut rarissime subopposita, petiolata, formd varia, in- tegerrima aut dentata. Flores dispositione vari, interdum abortu polygami aut monoici. Corolle fere omnium alba. De Cand. Corp1a (Sebestenioides) superba; arbuscula, ramis teretibus, petiolis peduncu- lisque vix scabridis, foliis petiolatis cuneato-oblongis subito acuminatis, venis primariis subtus valde prominulis, cyma terminali dichotomo-corymbosa, _ floribus sessilibus, calyce cylindrico submembranaceo apice irregulariter rupto ae ante anthesin subclavato mucrone umbonato, corolle (albz) fauce longe in- fundibuliformi, limbi lobis amplis rotundatis plicatis, staminibus 5, fila- mentis inferne hirsutis. Corpta superba. Cham. in Linnea, 1829, p. 474. De Cand. Prodr. 9. p. 476. Corpta Sebestena. Vell. Fl. Flum. v. 2. p. 251. This large-flowered Cordia was sent to us by M. Chantin, nur- seryman in Paris, without any specific name, or any indication of its origin. We refer it, with little hesitation, to the C. superba of Chamisso in the ‘ Linnea’ above quoted, with his description of which it sufficiently accords, though he says nothing of the co- lour of the flowers. That author notices two varicties (if they are worthy to be so considered), viz. a. cuneata and B. ellyptica, and | De Candolle refers to the C. Sedestena of Vellozi, Flora Flumin. — ii. p. 151, which indeed is a very fair representation of our plant. If we are correct in our views, the species is a native of tropical Brazil. It is treated as a stove-plant, and flowers in September. Unless the term superba is significant of unusual size of flower — and foliage, this species of Cordia scarcely deserves that appella- tion. ae DECEMBER Ist, 1855. Duscr. At present our plant forms a shrub from two to three feet high. The dranches are stout, terete, smooth. Leaves a good deal confined to the ends of the branches, large, six to eight inches long, elliptical-cuneate, somewhat waved, entire, dark-green, acuminate; the principal nerves impressed above, ‘prominent beneath. Peduncle terminal, as long as the leaf, bein ing a dichotomously divided cyme of very large white blos- soms tinged with dull yellow, each sessile on a somewhat scor- poid branch. Calyx grecnish-white, cylindrical-clavate, burst- Ing at the top irregularly. Corolla very large, plaited, infundi- buliformi-campanulate ; the lobes broad and rounded, spreading. Stamens five, inserted on the narrow part of the tube, included : Jilaments hairy at the base: anthers oblong arrow-shaped, ex- trorse. Ovary subglobose. Style rather exceeding the stamens in length: stigma twice bifid, segments clavate. _ Fig. 1. Portion of the corolla with the stamens laid open. 2. Pistil. 3. Transverse section of ovary :—magnified. ASS : 4 Nae BS és Ailes se Tas. 4889. COLOGYNE spectosa. Showy Celogyne. Nat. Ord. OrncH1ppm.—GyYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4440.) CaLocyne speciosa ; pseudobulbis ovato-oblongis costatis monophyllis, foliis ob- longo-lanceolatis 5—7-nerviis, pedunculis 1—2-floris pseudobulbis parum lon- gioribus, petalis linearibus reflexis, labelli trilobi laciniis lateralibus antice denticulatis intermedia biloba rotundata cristis duabus muricatis crassis sub apice ipso labelli confluentibus tertia brevi tenui basilari interjecta. Ca@toeyne speciosa. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 39. Bot. Reg. 1847. t. 23. _ CHELONANTHERA speciosa. Blume, Bijd. 384. ¢. 51. This very fine species of Calogyne was first imported by the Messrs. Veitch, of the Exeter and Chelsea Exotic Nurseries, Ae : - through their collector, Mr. Thomas Lobb, from Java. It. pro- duced its blossoms with them in 1846 ; and it has proved, as the Messrs. Veitch stated it would do, a “ free-growing and a free- flowering plant.” Messrs. Rollison favoured us with a fine plant from their nursery, which they received direct from their collector in Java in 1847. The lip of the flower is a beautiful object, both in the colour and marking, and in the exquisite fringe of the crests and margin. : Descr. Pseudobulbs clustered, between ovate and oblong, compressed and marked with elevated ribs, bearmg a single elliptical-lanceolate, acuminate, membranaceous, striated, and = a plaited Zeaf on the summit. From within a young channelled or grooved Jeaf (the scarcely formed pseudobulb being sheathed with imbricated scales) arises a flower-stalk, much shorter than the © leaf, bearing one or two drooping flowers of a very large size, but possessing no brilliancy of colour. Sepals broad lanceo- late, the lateral ones the longest and narrowest, the intermediate one broader and less acuminated, carinated, all of a pale olive- green. Petals very long, linear, of the same colour as the sepals, DECEMBER Ist, 1855. deflexed. Zip very large, the principal ground-colour yellow, va- riously tinged and blotched and veined with rich blood-red or _ pitch colour ; the apex white. The form is oblong; it is three- _ lobed, the lateral Zodes small, resembling ears, the latter and the margin of the broad two-lobed middle /ode or segment fringed. Two long crests run nearly the whole length of the Zip; these are copiously fringed with pedunculated (peduncles often bifid), stellated hairs, and are beautiful objects for the microscope. Column large, semiterete, winged, crested at the top, below which summit is sunk the anther-case, enclosing the four pollen-masses, — united by a large gland. __ Fig. 1. Column and anther. 2. Pollen-masses. 3. Lip, front view. 4. Fringe _ of the crests of the lip :—magnified. wr WeBitdh del ot Jith Vincent Brooks ‘Tp. Tas. 4890. AMPHICOME Emop1. Emodian Amphicome. Nat. Ord. BIGNONIACEZ.—D1IpYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA. Gen. Char. Calyx oblongo-campanulatus, 5-dentatus aut sub-5-fidus, lobis acu- minatisve, sinubus nudis. Corolla longe infundibuliformis, limbo 5-lobo, sub- bilabiato, lobis subsequalibus rotundatis. Stamina 4, didynama, fertilia, quinto sterili subulato. _Anthere per paria stylo arcte adpresse, lobis pilosis calcarato- aristatis, connectivo appendiculato. Discus hypogynus, cyathiformis. Ovariwm lineare. Stylus filiformis. Stigma bilamellatum. Capsu/a siliqueeformis, sutura altera dehiscens, septo libero. Semina plurima, appensa, utrinque pilis distinctis comosa.—Herbe Himalayenses, erecta, glabra. Caules teretes, perennantes aut annui, basi radicantes. Folia alterna, petiolata, pinnatisecta ; segmentis 2-3-jugis cum impari ovato-lanceolatis, dentato-serratis. Racemi terminales, lai, paucifiori. Corolle rosea. DC. a Ampnicome Emodi; foliolis cordato-ovatis petiolulatis obtusis crenato-lobatis, — floribus erectis subcorymbosis (demum racemosis), calycis lobis abbreviatis ‘obtusis granulosis, corolle tubo infundibuliformi-campanulato limbi sequalis lobis amplis rotundatis emarginatis patentibus, ovario oblongo, annulo hy- pogyno ab ejus basi remoto. ee Ampuicome Emodi. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1838, sub Tab. 19. De Cand. Prodr. v. 9. p. 237. INCARVILLEA Emodi. Wall. Cat. n. 487. This, a discovery,of Dr. Wallich, is the original or first species — of Amphicome (Incarvillea, Wall.) ; a genus of Northern ndia, consisting of two species, which Dr. Royle judiciously, we think, © proposed to separate from Incarvillea, but which, at the sugges- tion of Mr. Brown, he referred to a section of the last-named genus. ‘The A. arguta, however, a species very different from this, was that first known in cultivation, and it has been -well - figured by Dr. Royle in his ‘ Himalayan Flora,’ and by Dr. Lindley in the Bot. Register (1838, Tab. 19), from garden spe- cimens. The last-mentioned author speaks of this “as the much finer species, with much larger and more numerous flowers, a more robust foliage, and much more considerable stature ;” but which “ still remains to be introduced.” | In 1852 we had the pleasure to receive native seeds from — DECEMBER Ist, 1855. Major Vicary, and our plant, here figured, blossomed at Kew under a cool frame in October, 1855. It is indeed a remarkably handsome plant; native of the mountains of Emodi, near Srina- ghur, and on the Suen range of hills. Dxscr. foot perennial. Stem annual, and, as is the whole plant, glabrous, one to one and a half foot high, slightly branched. Leaves a span and more long, especially the radical ones, impari- _ pinnate, with about five to seven pairs of opposite, cordato-ovate, obtuse, shortly (but evidently) petiolulate /eafle/s, their margins crenato-lobate. Peduncles terminal, leafless, or only with two or three cuneate bracts. Vowers large, handsome, at first corymbose ; as the fruit ripens racemose. Pedice/s short, bracteated. Calyz- tube turbinate, thick, fleshy: /imé of five, short, obtuse, thick, granulated teeth. Corollu, with the fuse between infundibuli- form and campanulate, orange. Zimé very large, of five, spread- ing, rounded, emarginate, rose-coloured dobes. Stamens included, inserted on the contracted portion of the tube of the corolla, didynamous : filaments curved, so that the anthers meet in two pairs: their ce//s diverging, and bearing each a long tuft of hair and a spine at the back. Ovary oblong, shortly stipitate, sur- rounded by an hypogynous ring. Style filiform. Stigma of two, large, spreading lamine. Fig. 1. Calyx and pistil. 2. Lower part of the corolla (laid open), with sta- mens. 3. Anthers. 4. Ovary and hypogynous ring :—magnified. et ee ee