4 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., F.L.S., CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE OF FRANCE, AND DIRECTOR OF THE ROYAL GARDENS OF KEW, Annee VOL. XIV. OF THE THIRD SERIES; (Or Vol. LXXXIV. of the Whole Work.) SO nnn a RAR AAR ** Nature, enchanting Nature, in whose form And lineaments divine I trace a hand That errs not, and find raptures still renewed, Is free to all men,—universal prize.’’ a a aaa ta ata aaa naa An LONDON: LOVELL REEVE, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 1858. bho S0aS~5090 { JOHN EDWARD TAYLOR, PRINTER, LITTLE QUEEN STREET, LINCOLN’S INN FIELDS. : * | THE COUNTESS OF DONERAILE, DONERAILE, IRELAND, A GREAT ADMIRER AND SUCCESSFUL CULTIVATOR OF PLANTS, — <— INDEX, In which the Latin Names of the Plants contained in the Fourteenth Volume of the Tarp Sertrzs (or Highty-fourth Volume of the Work) are alphabetically arranged. Plate. 5031 Alschynanthus tricolor. 5077 Adsculus Californica. 5025 Ananas bracteatus. 5087 Apteranthes Gussoniana. 5064 Azalea ovata. 5047 Begonia Wageneriana. 5090 Billbergia Liboniana. 5050 Bolbophyllum Neilgherrense. 5042 Calanthe Dominii (hybrida). 5044 Camellia roszeflora. 5068 Campanula strigosa. 5039 Cattleya Aclandie. 5048 granulosa. 5032 luteola. 5051 Clianthus Dampieri. 5084 Ccelogyne pandurata. 5072 Schilleriana. 5033 Colletia cruciata. 5027 Cordia ipomeeeeflora. 5029 Cosmanthus grandiflorus. 5030 Dasylirium acrotrichum. 5041 —————- glaucophyllum. 5053 Dendrobium Chrysotoxum. 5058 Faleoneri ;_ sepalis petalisque obtusioribus. : pulchellum. Eugenia Luma. Fieldia australis. Fritillaria Greeca. Gaultheria discolor. Gesneria cinnabarina. - Donklarii. Grammatocarpus volubilis. Gustavia insignis. Hydrangea cyanema. Ilex cornuta. 5037 5040 5089 5052 5034 5036 5070 5028 5069 5038 5059 Plate. 5063 5075 5067 5073 5046 5088 5086 5080 5043 5083 5056 5078 5074 5085 5076 5045 5071 5035 5081 5057 5061 5049 5054 5065 5060 5066 5026 5082 5062 5079 5055 Indigofera decora. Inga macrophylla. Ismelia Broussonetii. Isotoma senecioides; var. sud- pinnatifida. Kefersteinia graminea. . Lobelia trigonocaulis. Monstera Adansonii. Nepenthes villosa. Nipheea albo-lineata; var. reti- culata. Negelia multiflora. Oberonia acaulis. (Enothera bistorta; var. Veitch- wana, - Orchis foliosa. Osbeckia aspera. Ouvirandra Bernieriana. Pentstemon Jaffrayanus. Philodendron erubescens. Pilumna fragrans. Plocostemma lasianthum. Polygala Hilairiana. Polygonatum punctatum. roseum. Rhododendron argenteum. Griffithianum, Wight ; var. Aucklandit. virgatum. Saxifraga purpurascens. Sonerila speciosa. Thunbergia Natalensis. Thyrsacanthus Indicus. Tradescantia discolor; var. va- riegata. Xiphidium floribundum. INDEX, In which the English Names of the Plants contained in the Fourteenth Volume of the Turrp Series (or Eighty -fourth Volume of the Work) are alphabetically arranged. errr er rere ew Plate. 5031 Aischynanthus, three-coloured. 5087 Apteranthes, Gussoni’s. 5064 Azalea, ovate-leaved Chinese. 5047 Begonia, Wagener’s. - 5068 Bell-flower, strigose. 5090 Billbergia, Libon’s. 5050 Bolbophyllum, Neilgherry. 5077 Buck-eye, Californian. 5042 Calanthe, hybrid. 5044 Camellia, rose-flowered. 5039 Cattleya, Lady Acland’s. 5032 — citron-coloured. 5048 rough-lipped. 5051 Clianthus, Dampier’s. 5084 Ccelogyne, pace 5072 5033 Colletia, gross aptied. 5027 Cordia, Ipomcea-flowered. 5029 Cosmanthus, large-flowered. 5030 Dasylirium, bearded-leaved. 5041 glaucous-leaved. 5058 Dendrobium, Dr. Falconer’s ; with sepals and petals more obtuse. 5053 golden-arched. 5037 showy. 5040 Eugenia, pointed-leaved. 5089 Fieldia, Australian. 5052 Fritillary, Greek. 5034 Gaultheria, two-coloured. 5036 Gesneria, Cinnabar-flowered. 5070 — Donklar’s. 5028 Grammatocarpus, twining. 5069 Gustavia, showy. 5059 Holly, horned-leaved. 5038 Hydrangea, blue-stamened. Plate. 5063 Indigo-plant, comely. 5075 Inga, large-leaved. 5067 Ismelia, Broussonet’s. 5073 Isotoma, Groundsel-leaved ; sub- pinnatifid var. 5046 Kefersteinia, grass-leaved. 5076 Lattice-leaf, Bernier’s. 5088 Lobelia, triangular-stemmed. 5057 Milkwort, St. Hilaire’s. 5086 Monstera; perforated. 5043 Nipheea, white-lined ; reticulated var. 5083 Negelia, white-flowered. 5056 Oberonia, stemless. 5078 Cnothera, twisted-fruited ; Mr. Veitch’s var. 5074 Orchis, leafy. 5085 Osbeckia, rough-leaved. 5045 Pentstemon, Mr. Jatfray’s. 5071 Philodendron, red-purple. 5035 Pilumna, fragrant. 5025 Pine-apple, scarlet. 5080 Pitcher-plant, villous. 5081 Plocostemma, woolly- flowered. 5065 Rhododendron, Lord Auckland’s. 5054 silver-leaved. 5060 twiggy. 5066 Saxifrage, purple Himalayan. 5049 Solomon’s-seal, rose-flowered. 5061 spotted-stalked. 5026 Sonerila, showy. 5079 Spider-wort, purple-leaved ; va- riegated var. 5082 Thunbergia, Natal. 5062 Thyrsacanthus, Indian. 5055 Xiphidium, copious-flowered. SCCT Tas. 5025, ANANAS BRACTEATUS. Scarlet Pine-apple. Nat. Ord. BromELIAcEH.—HeExanprta Monoeynta. Gen. Char. Perigonii superi sexpartiti Jacinia exteriores calycine erecte, in- teriores petaloidee erectie, ligulate, basi intus bisquamose, squamis tubulosis. Stamina 6, epigyna, perigonii laciniis interioribus opposita; filamentis inter ea- rundem squamas retentes, antheris linearibus erectis. Ovarium inferum, trilocu- lare. Ovula in placenta palmatifida, ex apice anguli centralis loculorum pro- tuberante pendula. Stylus filiformis ; stigmata 3, carnosula, erecta, fimbriata. Bacce inter se et cum bracteis in syncarpium conferruminate, loculis plerumque abortivis aspermis, rarissime bi-triloculares. Semina in loculis solitaria, ex apice loculorum pendula, ovoidea, compressiuscula, festa membranacea, fusca, striata, rhaphe fascieeformi alba umbilicum basilarem chalazz apicali tuberculiformis jun- gente. Hmbryo minimus, in basi albuminis farinacei rectus, extremitate radicu- lari umbilicum attingente, supera.—Herbee Americane (?) per tropicos totius orbis diffuse ; foliis linearibus integerrimis vel spinuloso-serratis ; florum spica densa, de- mum carnosa, connata, sepe coma foliorum terminata. Endl. ° Ananas éracteatus ; foliis spinoso-serratis, bracteis foliaceis coloratis. Lindl. Ananasa bracteatus. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1081. Ananas bracteatus. Rem. et Schult. Syst. Veget. v. 7. p. 1286. Nana,,sew Ananas. “Marcgraaf, Hist. 1. cap. 16 (eacl. ic.).” ** Scarlet-leaved Pine. Hortulan.” Highly ornamental a plant as this is to our stoves in the summer months, it is nevertheless doubtful to us if it should be considered in any other light than one of many varieties of the Common Pine-apple (Azanas sativus). That species is indeed characterized by the flowers “coma terminati.” Even in our plant there is an incipient “coma,” which in Dr. Lindley’s figure /. c. is more fully developed. Our plants have not yet produced eatable fruit ; but we are informed by Dr. Lindley that “ the great merit of this species (Ananas bracteatus) consists in the clear deep crimson bractez of the flowering spike, which retain their colour, although less brilliant in the ripe fruit; ‘he latter, however, 18 80 good, that no collection of Pines should be without the species.” JANUARY Ist, 1858. Great allowance must be made for the variation in plants that have been for centuries under cultivation, especially in the case of esculent and fruit-bearing ones, and the kinds bearing fruit so much an object of competition, that there seems to be no end of forms and colour. This species has nothing to do with Bro- melia bracteata, Sw. and of ‘ Hortus Kewensis.’ Seeing that, as far as our knowledge extends, there are no real differences between the two and Ananas sativus, already figured in this work, we abstain from any full description. Roemer and Schultes express a doubt whether this be distinct from Ananas Sagenaria (Bromelia Sagenaria, “ Arruda de Camara, Diss.,” etc., _p. 41), noticed too in Koster’s Travels, vol. ii. p. 458. Both — are considered natives of Brazil. With the latter we are totally unacquainted. Is there really more than one species of Ananas, — or true Pine-apple ?. se Fig. 1. Portion of a leaf and a flower spike, nat. size. 2. Flower within its — ; bractea and upon its fleshy receptacle. 3. Petal and stamen :—magnified. ie JO Lb. oks Le 5 re ineent Tas. 5026. SONERILA speciosa. Showy Sonerila. Nat. Ord. MELASTOMACEH.—TRIANDRIA MoNOGYNIA. Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4978.) SoNnERILA speciosa ; herbacea erecta, ramis obtuse tetragonis, foliis longiuscule petiolatis cordato-ovatis acutis argute serratis 5—7-nerviis serratis glabris, petiolis versus apicem villosis, pedunculis terminalibus solitariis dichotomis, ramis demum elongatis scorpioideis, floribus secundis, calyce urceolato glan- duloso-piloso, petalis subrotundo-ovatis mucronulatis carina dorso villosa, staminibus stylum aquantibus, antheris basi cordatis longiuscule acuminatis, dorso basi medio obtuse calcarato. SoNERILA speciosa. Zenker, Plant. Ind. Nilgh. p. 18. t.18. Ann. Se. Nat. o. 6. p.151. Wight, Ic. Plant. Ind. Or. t. 2952. From ‘the collection of the Messrs. Veitch, of the Exeter and Chelsea Nurseries, who introduced the plant from the Neilgher- ries, at the same time with the Sonerila elegans, figured from the same collection at our Tab. 4978. It is a species that was quite unknown to M. Naudin, when he published his elaborate ‘Melastomacearum que in Museo Parisiensi continentur Mono- graphice descriptionis et secundum affinitates distributionis Ten- tamen.’ It is a most lovely species, in richness of the colour of the flowers far exceeding the yet handsome S. elegans just alluded to. Zenker gives the locality of the plant about Otaca- mund; Dr. Wight, “ Kaitie Falls, on moist sides of ravines above the Avalanche Bungalow, very abundant, flowering in February :” Dr. Wight seems to be alluding to the Neilgherries on the oc- casion. | : Descr. Stems scarcely a foot high, moderately branched : branches herbaceous, obtusely quadrangular, glabrous. Leaves opposite, petiolate, cordato-ovate, acute, serrated, five- to seven- or even nine-nerved, glabrous. Pedioles rather shorter than the leaf, channelled on the upper side, villous towards the extremity. Peduncle terminal on the branches, solitary, very glandulosely JANUARY Is, 1858. _ hairy, terete, bearing a bifid oure flowers: the dranches are su ioid and the flowers secun Calyx urceolate and, as well as the pedicels, glanduloso-pilos _ 4imé of three, patent, subrotund but acute lobes. Stamens, as | the genus, three. Filaments flexuose. Anthers cordate at t base, attenuated at the apex: on the back, at the point of ir tion on the filament, is a short blunt spur. Style as long as _ stamens, declined. W. Fitch dd. ¢ ith. Vincent Brooks np a ¥ Tas. 5027. CORDIA rroma:mriora. Ipomea-flowered Cordia. a +7 Nat. Ord. BorRAGINEHM.—PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Gen. Char, Calyx tubulosus, obovatus campanulatusve, 4—5-dentatus, rarius 3- seu 6—8-dentatus. Corolla infundibuliformis vel hypocraterimorpha, limbo 4—8-partito, rarius 6-12-lobo. Stamina tot quot lobi, corolle tubo inserta. Stylus bis bifidus, seepius exsertus. Drupa ovata aut globosa, pulposa, calyce 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. Kolia alterna aut rarissime subopposita, petiolata, forma varia, integerrima aut dentata. Flores dispositione varii, interdum abortu polygami aut monoict. Corolle fere omnium albe. DC. ee ig Corpta (§ sebestenoides) ipomecflora ; arbo pedunculis calycibusque subtus minute scenti-scabriusculis, foliis peda- libus—sesquipedalibus late obovato-lanceolatis acutis vix acuminatis dimidio superiore grosse spinuloso-dentatis, panicula terminali ampla laxa pluries dichotoma, floribus sessilibus, calyce urceolato-cylindraceo apice 2-trifido | (siccitate substriato) ante anthesin apice conico-mucronato, corolla (albe) ample infundibuliformi-campanulate plicatule lobis rotundatis, staminibus 5, filamentis inferne hirsutis.. ramis teretibus, petiolis elongatis Similar as this fine Cordia unquestionably is to the C. superba — figured at our Tab. 4888 (supposed to be a Brazilian species) it — is nevertheless truly distinct. In our stove the plant is quite arborescent, having, though confined in a pot, attained a height of fourteen feet. ‘The leaves are opaque (never nitent), a foot and more in length, with petioles two to three inches long; their apex is acute, not suddenly and finely acuminated, and the mar-— gins of the upper half are coarsely though irregularly dentato- serrate with large pungent spinulose teeth. he flowers are laxly paniculated, and though of the same shape and colour as in C. superba, are more than one and a half as large again, and iS resemble at first sight those of some white Convolvulus or Ipo- meea, quite conspicuous at a considerable height from the ground. JANUARY lst, 1858. el. It is to be regretted that, as was the case with the plant we figured for C. superba, we know nothing of its native country or introduction ; and only that it is an old inhabitant of the warm stove in the Royal Gardens of Kew, with the blossoming of which, during the sunny season of the summer of 1857, we could not fail to be struck. The section of the extensive genus - Cordia (now that nearly all the Varroni@ are included in it) to which this species belongs, is undoubtedly § Sebestenoides (Cordie _Macranthe, Cham.), including twelve species, some inhabitants of the Old, some of the New World, none of them in characters according with the present species. Descr. A small ¢ree, as cultivated with us, twelve to fourteen feet high, probably, in its native country, like the C. macrophylla of Jamaica, forty to fifty feet; much branched, dranches terete, brownish from close-pressed minute villous down. Leaves much confined to the branchlets, on terete petioles two to three inches long, obovato-lanceolate, a foot to sixteen inches in length, five inches wide in the broadest part, acute or only shortly and gra- dually acuminate, opaque on the surface (not glossy), tapering below gradually into the petiole, the upper half has the margins very coarsely dentato-serrate, the teeth unequal in size, and spinu- lose or mucronulate ; glabrous above, petioles and younger leaves obscurely pubescent on the midrib and some of the principal : prominent veins beneath. Panicle large, terminal. Peduncle and pedicels as well as the calyx downy ; the latter sessile and _ subsecund on the branchlets, cylindrical or suburceolate, in bud conical and apiculate at the point; /imd of two or three unequal short spreading lobes. Corolla one and a half inch in diameter, in form between infundibuliform and campanulate, white or yellowish-white, wrinkled (plicate): the Zimé of five large rounded spreading lobes. Stamens five, inserted near the base of the corolla, shorter than the tube; filaments hairy at the base; anther oval, cordate at the base. “ Ovary subrotund, four-celled, _ (each cell with one ovule), tapering upwards into a bifid style, - vith a three-lobed stigma. Fig. 1. Base of a corolla laid open, with stamens and pistil. 2. Transverse — section of an ovary :—magnified. ee eee - a alr re OFS - cent. Bro Viti i. il h del. et Tas. 5028. GRAMMATOCARPUS vouusi is. Twining Grammatocarpus. ea Nat. Ord. Loasacr#.—POLYADELPHIA PoLYANDRIA. Gen. Char. Calyx tubo lineari cum ovario connato, limdi superi quinquepartiti laciniis equalibus. Corolle petala 10, sammo ecalycis tubo inserta, quinque ejusdem laciniis alterna, cucullata, basi subsaccata, majora, quinque iisdem op- posita multo minora, apice bicallosa, triaristata. Stamina plurima, cum petalis inserta, exteriora sterilia acuminata conica granulata, petalis minoribus per paria opposita, wteriora fertilia, in fasciculos 5, iisdem majoribus oppositos approxi- mata; filamenta filiformia; anthere biloculares, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ova- rium inferum, uniloculare, placentis parietalibus tribus, nerviformibus. Ovula plurima, pendula, anatropa. Sfylus simplex ; stigma acutum. Capsula linearis, torta, limbi calycini reliquiis coronata, unilocularis, juxta totam longitudinem tri- = __ valvis, valvis margine seminiferis. Semina plurima, subglobosa; testa fibrosa, reticulata. Hmbryo in axi albuminis carnosi orthotropus; radicula umbilico proxima.—Herba Chilensis, volubilis, pubescens ; foliis oppositis, pinnatisectis; flo- ribus azillaribus terminalibusque, solitariis, subsessilibus, flavis. Endl. / Grammarocanrus: volubilis. _ Grammartocarpus volubilis. Pres’, Symb. Bot. v. 1. p. 59. t. 38. Walp. Repert. Bot. Syst. v. 2. p. 255, et v. 5. p. 778. ScypHantuus elegans. Don, in Sweet Brit. Fl. Gard. v. 3. t. 238. Pazton, Mag. of Bot. v.10. p. 8, cum ic. Gay, Fl. Chil. 0. 1. p. 465. Loasa striata. Meyen, Reise um die Erde, v. 1. p. 310. Descr. Stems long, slender, climbing and twining, herbaceous, slender, soon becoming brown, but not woody, frequently branched _ in a somewhat dichotomous manner, rough with minute deflexed — and probably (like its congeners) stinging hairs. Leaves oe | site, also rough with the like hairs; the lower ones bipinna d; upper ones smaller and only pinnatifid, sometimes trifid; all the segments oblong, uninerved. Pedio/e’short, channelled. Flowers in reality sessile, but appearing peduncled from the narrow — elongated pedunculiform inferior ovary, terminal or axillary and often arising from a fork of the branch. Calya-tube very long, . slender, terete and furrowed, incorporated with the ovary ; limb of — JANUARY Ist, 1858. the base within :—magnified. 4 O29. it Vincent Brocks & a Tas. 5029. COSMANTHUS GRAnDIFLORUS. < Large-flowered Cosmanthus. Nat. Ord. HypRoPHYLLACE#.—PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Gen. Char. Calyx quinquepartitus, sinubus nudis. Coro//a late campanulata, caduca, 5-fida, tubo esquamato, lobis zstivatione quincunciali. Stamina 5, fila- mentis gracilibus, corollam subsquantibus. Pollen oblongum. Nectarium mi- nimum. Ovarium basi excepta pilosum, 5-loculare, placentis 2 parietalibus dorso liberis 2-8-ovulatis. Stylus bi-(tri-)fidus. Capsula valvis 2 medio septiferis de- hiscens. Semina 4-10, ovoideo-angulosa, lateraliter aut rarius extremitate ad- fixa, rugulosa. Hméryo (ex C. parviflora) minimus, radicula supera.—Herbee graciles, Boreali- Americana, annue ; foliis alternis ; racemis elongatis, ebracteatis, simplicibus ; floribus pedicellatis, parvis, albis vel pallide ceruleis.—Differt a Phacelia et Eutoca tubo corolle nudo; ab Emmenanthe preterea corolla caduca. Benth. Cosmantuvs grandiflorus ; adscendens, foliis lato-ovatis dentatis basi subcor- datis rugosis uti caules et calyces hispidis, racemis ad apicem pluribus circinatis, calycibus subsessilibus, placentis ultra 50-ovulatis. Benth. CosMaNTHUS grandiflorus. Benth. in De Cand. Prodr. v. 9. p. 291. Evroca grandiflora. Benth. in Trans. Linn, Soc. v. 17. p. 278. Evtoca speciosa. Nuttall, Plant. Gambel. p. 158. This plant has probably the largest flowers of all of the Order Hydrophyllacee. Although discovered by Mr. Douglas during his wanderings in California before 1834, it appears only lately to have been introduced to our gardens by Messrs. Veitch, through their collector Mr. William Lobb. We saw it for the first time flowering in the extensive, hardy herbaceous ground of Mr. Borrer, at Henfield, and thence obtained the specimens here figured. Mr. Nuttall detected the species at San Diego, California, and considering it to possess characters different fror those of Eutoca (Cosmanthus) grandiflorc , he described it under the name of Ewtoca speciosa. Only a solitary specimen was re- ceived by the Horticultural Society from Mr. Douglas ; but we possess fine native specimens in the herbarium from Mr. Nuttall JANUARY lst, 1858. and from Mr. William Lobb (n. 389), gathered on mountains of San Bernardino, South California. If the flowers poe the rich blue colour of Hutoca viscida, it would indeed be a splendid ornament to our flower-borders. Dzscr. A bold, free-growing, somewhat decumbent, herbace- ous, branching p/ant ; in its native country three to five feet high (W. Lobb), everywhere clothed with short simple hairs, inter- mixed with glandular and viscid ones, which Mr. Nuttall ob- serves emit (when rubbed) a heavy, resinous, rather disagree- able smell, not unlike that of Rue. Branches terete, ascending. Leaves large, rather coarse, on short petioles, ovate, somewhat cordate at the base, sometimes approaching to rhomboid or tri- _ angular, doubly dentate, sometimes almost lobed at the margin, penninerved, nerves very prominent beneath. Flowers terminal on young superior branches, which (the leaves becoming gra- dually smaller) constitute a sort of leafy panicle of flowers. Ra- cemes scorpioid. Pedicels very short, erect, so that the calyx 18S appressed to the rachis. Calyx cut into five, deep, linear, spreading, afterwards erect, segments, about as long as the tu- bular portion of the corolla. Corolla very large, almost two inches across, campanulato-rotate, purple (very pale externally), with a dark-purple ring and radiating lines at the faux. Lobes subrotundate, very obtuse ; ‘ube white. Stamens five, much ex- _ Sserted. Anthers oblong ; Jilaments subulate, hairy at the base. _ Ovary pyramidal, partially villous. Style short, trifid ; branches equal in length to the filaments of the stamens. Fig. 1. Stamen. 2, Pistil :—magnified. dd. ¢ Tith. W. Fitch ay. a. Tas. 5030. DASYLIRIUM acrorricuvum. Rearded-leaved Dasylirium. Nat. Ord. AsparaGINE#.—Diecta Hexanpria. Gen. Char. Flores dioici. Masc. Perigonium corollaceum, profunde 6-parti- tum ; foliolis oblongis, uninerviis, navicularibus, campanulato-conniventibus (pa- tentibus, Brongn.) ; exterioribus paulo longioribus vel brevioribus; prefloratio imbricata. Stamina sex, basi foliolorum inserta, plerumque iis breviora. ila- menta filiformia. _Anthere biloculares, oblong, utrinque bilobe, dorso medio affixee, introrsee. Pistillum rudimentarium. FL. Fem. Perigonium maris. Sta- mina antheris effetis; ovarium liberum, triquetrum, angulis membranaceis, uni- loculare ; ovula 6, per paria approximata, fundo ovarii affixa, erecta, anatropa. Columna stylina brevis, in stigma infundibulare margine undulato-plicatum irre- gulariter lobatum dilatata (stigma trilobum ; lobis brevibus, ovatis, divergenti- bus, Brongn.). Fructus nucumentaceus, abortu monospermus (akenium, Brongn.), ovato-trigonus, angulis in membranam latam expansis. Semen immaturum erec- tum, fusiforme, utrinque acutum. Caulis lignosus, abbreviatus, foliosus, vel elon- gatus, caudiciformis, apice foliosus, erectus.—Folia ¢ basi semiamplexicauli line- aria, superne subulato-angustata, apice marcido sepe (semper, Byongn.) in fila dis- solubilia, canaliculata, striata, rigida, margine nunc spinosa, inter spinas denticu- lato-spinulosa, nune scabra. Panicule terminales, solitaria, erecta, simplices vel ramose, bracteate. Flores parvi, albi, pedicellati, solitarii vel per 2-4 fascicu- lato-congesti, in ramulis spicati vel racemosi ; pedicellis basi bracteolatis, superne articulatis. Antheree flave. Dasy.irtum acrotrichum ; caulescens, trunco elongato, foliis longissimis e lata basi lineari-subulatis viridibus fasciculo fibrarum emarcidaruam terminatis planiusculis striatis rigide serrulatis spinosisque, spinis subulatis sursum curvatis, spica longissima cylindraceo-acuminata composita, spiculis (plant. fem.) seu racemis eylindricis copiosis dense compactis erectis multifloris, bracteis amplis subeequilongis ovatis acuminatissimis, floribus (foem.) dense imbricatis, : Dasyurrtvm acrotrichum. Zuccar. in Otto et Dietr. Aligem. Gartenz. 1838, n. 33. p. 259. Kunth, Enum. Pl.v.5.p.40. Yucca acrotricha. Schiede in Linnea, v. 4. p. 230, et ». 6. p. 52. Schultes, Syst. Plant. v. 7. p. 1716. Rovira acrotricha. Brongn. in Ann. des Se. Nat. v. 14. p. 320.— Dasy.irton gracile. Hort. Berol. 1847. _Of late ‘years the enhouses of botanic gardens have exhic bited noble scatitente of a very singular set of plants, with FEBRUARY 1st, 1858. ue: much of the habits of very narrow-leaved Yuccas, the foliage generally terminated with a pencil or brush of loose parallel rather rigid fibres, now and then sending up a solitary central stem of very small Asparagineous dicecious flowers, of which Zue- carini, in 1842, constituted a genus, to which he gave the not very appropriate name of Dasylirivm (thick or succulent Lily). Some well-grown species adorn the south end of the long succu- lent-house of the Royal Gardens; and, probably on account 0 the unusually warm and sunny summer, two of the species threw up their noble flower-stalks, the present one so tall, that the flowering portion soon came in contact with the loftiest part of this house, and it had to be removed into a taller one to perfect its flowering. The genus being (it is stated) always dicecious, we have in the present instance only the female plant. All the kinds (and six are described, though imperfectly so in most cases) are considered to be natives of Mexico, and in their native mountains must form, along with Cactuses, a remarkable feature in the scenery. Our plants of this were received from Mr. Rep- per, of Real del Monte, through the kindness of the Company bearing that name. Descr. Stem erect, or nearly so; in the individual under con- sideration about two feet high, and a foot at least or a foot and a half in girth, clothed with the broad, scale-like, withered bases of former years, and crowned by a graceful tuft of slender, plia- ble, but firm and coriaceous /eaves, from three to four feet in length, the older and lower ones spreading and recurved, the younger and upper ones erect; all, from a broad base, rather suddenly linear-subulate, terminated by a harsh tuft or pencil of coarse fibres, nearly plane, that is, only slightly channelled on the upper surface, of an ordinary rather yellowish-green colour, finely striated on both sides, of a firm coriaceous texture, but — with a graceful downward curvature of the old and lower leaves, — the younger and terminal ones erect ; the margins cartilaginous, — white, and pellucid, cut into very fine sharp serratures, the teeth _ sometimes double, and beset with strong subulate spines, at dis- tances of about half an inch, more or less, a line long, curved up- wards, and of a pale-brown colour, the younger ones colourless. Peduncle terminal, solitary, at first rismg up somewhat like a head of asparagus, but clothed with erect, imbricated, young leaves ; then rapidly increases in size, and attains a height, including the flowers, of fifteen and sixteen feet, the lower part partially clothed with small leaves, which gradually pass upwards into subulate _ bracteas, and among the spikelets they are large, broad, mem- ~ branaceous, ovate, sharply acuminated, brownish-green bracts, as long as or longer than the spikelets. Spike (female) three to four feet long, cylindrical, but slightly acuminated, loaded with the numerous, erect, bracteated spikelets, or more properly racemes. Pedicels short, jointed a little below the flower, and there deciduous. Perianth of six, erect, imbricated, concave, broad-ovate sepa/s, of a greenish colour, .streaked with red at the apex, each enclosing an abortive stamen, shorter than the sepal. Ovary (abortive) larger than the sepals, orbicular-oval, with three thick but wing-like angles, and crowned with a deeply _ three-parted style. Stigmas triangular. Cell solitary, with three 4 erect ovules. Fig. 1. Entire plant, much reduced in size. 2. Small portion of a female flower-spike, nat. size. 8. Apex of a leaf, nat. size. 4. Portion of a leaf, nat. size. 5. Female flower. 6. Sepal, including the abortive stamen. 7. Trans-' verse section of an ovary :—fig. 5 and 7 magnified. JOST. Vincent Brocks Imp. W. Fitch dele ith Tas. 5031. JESCHYNANTHUS rricotor. Three-coloured Aischynanthus. Nat. Ord. CyrtanpracE®.—DipyNaMIA ANGIOSFERMIA. *% Gen. Char. Calyx tubulosus, 5-dentatus, 3-fidus vel 5-partitus, subzequalis aut subbilabiatus. Corolla infundibuliformis, tubo subincurvo ad faucem am- pliato, limbo obtuse trilobo irregulari subbilabiato. Stamina 4-5, inclusa, 2-3 sterilia, minima, 2 fertilia; antheris crassis, loculis parallelis. Stigma obtusum aut emarginatum. Bacca oblonga aut ovata, corticata, bilocularis, septi lobis in margine revoluto seminiferis. Semina plurima, nuda, seepe foveata aut punctata.— Suffrutices aué herbe, caule erecto aut procumbente. Folia opposit nunc altero abortivo pseudo-alterna. Flores fasciculati aut capit axillares, bracteati. Corolle purpuree (coccinea), alba, rarius lutea. De Cand. Aiscuynantuvs éricolor; scandens radicans subpubescens, ramis herbaceis teretibus, foliis brevi-petiolatis oppositis ovatis acutiusculis carnosis aveniis, umbellis petiolatis paucifloris (2-3) ebracteatis, floribus villoso For the introduction of living plants of this most lovely Aischy- nanthus, and for the opportunity of figuring it, we are indebted to Mr. Low, of the Clapton Nursery, who imported the species from reo. We are so fortunate as to possess dried specimens from the same country, gathered by Mr. Thomas Lobb. Itisextremely y Fischynanthus, and is well suited different from any LEGSChY? ee Bes een to ornament basket-work suspended to the roof in a moist stove. he branches droop considerably, and the flower-stalks though the © con- FEBRUARY Ist, 1858. exactly ovate, slightly acuminated but not oa at the apex, a little downy, especially at the edge and beneath, quite entire. Umbels of few flowers, both axillary and terminal, solitary. Pe- duncle short, deflexed. Pedicels slender, and with an upward curvature, so that the flowers become erect. These are very beautiful and richly coloured. Calya short, cup-shaped rather than tubular, red, the edge cut into five, erect, nearly equal, rounded /odes, villous with slender hairs tipped with minute glands. Corolla an inch and a half to two inches long, scarlet, streaked with bright-yellow and black, glanduloso-hirsute ; tube rather short, curved, nearly thrice as long as the short calyx, gibbous on the anterior side; limb very oblique, about as long as the tube, bilabiate; upper lip of one, lower of three, ovate concave spreading segments. Stamens four, didyne ing at the apex of the upper lip of the corolla, where the anthers combine. Ovary linear, cylindrical, downy, arising from the sntre very large hemispherical, depressed gland. Stigma J0O32 Fitch dd eclith. W Tas. 5032. CATTLEYA tuTeEoua. Citron-coloured Cattleya. Nat. Ord. OrncuripE#.—-GyYNANDRIA MoNANDRIA. Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tan. 4700.) CaTTLEYa Juteola; parva, rhizomate repente ramoso, pseudobulbis fasciculat ovalibus oblongisve demum sulcatis, foliis solitariis oblongo-ellipticis car- noso-coriaceis crassis apice emarginatis, pedunculis vaginatis solitariis plu- rifloris, floribus parvis luteolis, ovario pedunculiformi rectiusculo, sepalis petalisque conformibus patentibus oblongo-lanceolatis subflexuosis obtusis, labello perianthii longitudine trilobo intus velutino, lobis lateralibus elon- gatis incurvis colamnam utrinque dentatam involventibus, intermedio rotundato crispato ciliato-denticulato. Carrieya luteola. Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1853, p. 774. Reichenb. fil. Xenia, p. 209. ¢. 88. Cattleya modesta, Meyer; C. Meyeri, Regel; and C. flavida, Klotzsch, accord- ing to Reichenbach fil. Received from the collection of Messrs. Rollison, Tooting Nursery, and I am indebted to Dr. Lindley for the above refer- ences and synonyms. As a species it is very unlike any with which I am acquainted. In colour it approaches the much more beautiful Cattleya citrina, but in scarcely any other character. It flowered with the Messrs. Rollison in November, 1857, and 1s known to be a native of Brazil. = Descr. Our plant has an annulated branched rhizome, about as thick as a duck’s quill, sending down from beneath a few thick fleshy fibres, and upwards, from the short branches, elliptical, quite smooth and compressed pseudobulbs, which bear one leaf, and while young are enveloped in a large, sheathed, membranous, striated, sheathing scale, these crease In age, and eventually become oblong, nearly terete and sulcated.— = about three inches long, thick, succulent, dark-green, elliptical, veinless, with a deep notch at the apex. From the base of - leaf, at the top of the pseudobulb, arises the peduncle, scarcely FEBRUARY lst, 1858. two inches long, enveloped entirely in a compressed membrat ceous sheath, slit open on one nf four- or five- or more flow ered. Flowers racemose, pale lemon-yellow, small for the guna Sepals and petals uniform, an inch and a half to two inches at the most long, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, a little waved, all spreading. zp about as long as the segments of the perianth, — lobed, velvety within, the side-lobes elongated, incurved, meeting over the column, and forming a kind of tube; the ter- minal lobe broad, almost orbicular, crisped and ciliato-dentate at the edge. Column much shorter than the lip, concealed within it, semiterete, with a wing or broad tooth at*each margin above. Anther-case sunk into the clinandrium. Follen-masses as in the genus, each pair with a short cauda. Fig. 1. Lip. 2. Column. 3. Pollen-masses :—magnified. N /: nV \, Vy Tas, 5033. COLLETIA cructiatTa. Cross-spined Colletia. Nat. Ord. RoHaAMNE#.—PENTANDRIA MoNoGYNIA. _ Gen. Char, Calyx membranaceus, campanulatus v. tubulosus, limbi quinque- 1d ciniis ovatis, suberectis ; disco annulari, supra fundum tubi adnato, margine involuto. Corolla nulla. Stamina 5, inter lacinias calycis summo tubo issius inserta ; filamenta filiformia, ad tubi fandum decurrentia. Anthere mes, loculis apice confluentibus, uniloculares, hippocrepice, rima arcuata, ivalves. Ovarium liberum, globosum, triloculare. OQvula in loculis solitaria, e basi erecta, anatropa. ‘Stylus filiformis, simplex, ealycis tubum eequans. Stigma obsolete trilobum. Fructus siccus, sphericus, calycis basi circumscissa libera vel in- ferne vix adheerente stipatus, trilocularis, tricoccus ; coccis crustaceis, secedentibus, bivalvibus, monospermis. Semina erecta, ovata ; testa crustacea, levissima ; raphe introrsum laterali. Hmbryo albuminis carnosi flavi strato tenui tectus, orthotropus ; cotyledonibus maximis, carnosis, planis; radicula brevissima infera.—Suffrutices Peruani et Chilenses, ramosissimi, subaphylli ; ramis decussatim oppositis, divaricatis ; ramulis spinescentibus, interdum foliaceo-dilatatis ; foliis nullis v. minutissims, oppositis, integerrimis ; floribus axillaribus, fasciculatis v. infra spinarum basin sitis, nutantibus, albidis v. albido-roseis. Endl. % vor! Couterta eruciata ; fruticosa, ramis viridibus cauleque spinis magnis ovato- triangularibus lateraliter compressis acutissimis horridis, foliis rarissimis minutis ellipticis deciduis, floribus lateralibus solitariis fasciculatisve. CoL.erta cruciata. Hook. et Arn. in Hook. Bot. Miscel. 1830, p. 152. Coterta Bictoniensis. Lindl. in Journ. Hort. Soc. v. 5. p. 31 (with woodcut, excellent). oy jie) Jae gi ee eee __ “This, one of the most singular among the many curious plants in Dr. Gillies’ rich collection from South America, was gathered during a hasty visit from his ship to the shores of the Banda Oriental, near Maldonado. It may be considered as a shrub whose stem and branches are constituted of a mass of opposite, decussated and decurrent, large, laterally compressed spines, of the same dull-green colour as the central portion that unites them, and equally woody; their tips are darker-coloured, sometimes brown, and very pungent. If the fascicle of flowers appbals a any point except that of the base of a spine, it 1s either at the FEBRUARY Ist, 1858. extremity or below some slight swelling, and is indicative of a — new spine which is about to appear. The leaves are so rare, that _ upon the dried specimens only one could be found, and that upon one of the youngest branches. The form and structure of — the flowers are very similar to those of Colletia feror.” Having thus published, twenty-eight years ago, my views of the general — structure of this remarkable plant from native specimens, and — alluded to no specific affinity with C. spinosa (also described in — the same Memoir), it can hardly be expected I should concur — in the extraordinary transformation represented to Dr. Lindley — as having occurred at Bicton Park, Sidmouth, by the intelligent — gardener to Lady Rolle, Mr. James Barnes, viz. in the rearing of C. cruciata from seed of C. spinosa. Let it be recollected, that “when Sir Philip Egerton first saw this plant at Bicton Garde and made inquiries of Mr. Barnes respecting it, the latter ha quite forgotten its origin; but he had since a perfect. recol- lection, and was reminded by the foreman of the Arboretum, that it was a seedling raised from C. spinosa.” It is noways dis- creditable to Mr. Barnes to infer that the latter view may be erroneous, and that it is a plant which, through some channel or other, was directly received from the eastern (and not the western) side of South America, where I believe C. spinosa never occurs. It would require experiments of the most confirmed and . Satisfactory kind to show that this and C. spinosa (equally faith- fully figured by Dr. Lindley, Journ. Hort. Soc. 1. c. p. 30, wood- cut) were one and the same species. We cultivate them both at Kew: one the Chilian species, C. spinosa, is perfectly hardy, and flowers without shelter; while our present plant will only succeed under the shelter of a wall, and never flowers. In De- vonshire it is different. We have received the most beautiful specimens reared by Mr. Veitch, in Devonshire, and from these our figure is taken. The flowers, at first sight, much resemble those of some Ericaceous Plant, and have quite a waxy appearance. — . Descr. A shrub three to four feet high, copiously branched, — the whole as it were made up of large, ovate-triangular, opposite and decussate, laterally compressed, green, yet woody, very pun- gent spines, singularly decurrent at the base. Here and there, chiefly on the younger branches or small,terminal spines, an op- posite pair of minute, elliptical, serrated leaves are to be seen; © but these soon fall away. From the base of the spines the flowers ata on short peduncles, solitary or fasciculate, two to four — m the same point, drooping, yellowish-white, tinged with — Pa n at the base. Perianth single (calyx), the tube cylindrical, — but a little swollen at the base, where there is a little difference in texture, which difference terminates where the curious annulus 1s situated, and which is characteristic of the genus Colletia ; this — forms a ring within, above the base of the perianth, is fleshy, and singularly involute; /imé of five, narrow ovate segments, _ hooked at the points. The,ovary is small, half sunk into the base of the perianth, three-celled, each cell with one ovule. Style terete, as long as the tube of the perianth. Stzgma three-lobed. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Flower laid open to show the interior, the annulus, style, and stamens. 3. Base of the flower cut through vertically. 4. Base of the disc. 5, 6. Leaf:—magnified.. S Vincent Brooks a 1 WBitch dal. et ith . Tas. 5034. GAULTHERIA piscotor. Two-coloured Gaultheria. Nat. Ord. Ertcem.—Dercanpria Monoeynta. Gen. Char. Calyx quinquelobus, demum ampliatus, plus minus baccatus et capsulam ambiens aut fovens. Corolla ovata, ore seepe contracta, 5-dentata. Stamina 10, inclusa ; filamentis seepe villosis; antheris 4-aristatis, nempe apice bifidis, loculis biaristatis rarissime muticis. Stylus filiformis. Stigma obtusum. Squame hypogyne 10, distincte aut concrete. Capsula depresso-globosa, 5-lo- cularis, 5-sulcatis, 5-valvis; valvis septiferis, loculicidis, dehiscentibus. Placentge axi adnate. Semina plurima, parva, testa subreticulata—Frutices aué rarius arbuscule, ex America, rarius ex India, ort. Folia alterna, sempervirentia, den- tata aut integerrima. Pedicelli nunc azillares, l-flori, nunc in racemum termi- nalem dispositi, bibracteolati. Corolle albe rosee aut coccinea. De Cand. é GavLrnerta discolor ; ramulis glabratis, foliis obovato-lanceolatis acuminatis subserratis subtus argenteis, nervis paucis margine subparallelis, racemis bre- vibus 6-8-floris, pedicellis ciliatis bracteolatis, bracteolis parvis oblongis acutis, sepalis ovatis acutis ciliolatis, corolle fauce barbata, lobis_roseis, filamentis setulosis, antheris apice bicuspidatis, ovario villoso, disco 10-den- tato. GAULTHERIA dinaior Nuttall, M88. A very elegant little species, discovered in the temperate regions of the Bhotan Himalaya by Mr. Booth, and raised by our inde- fatigable friend Mr. Nuttall, of Nutgrove, near Rainhill, Lan- cashire. Its nearest ally is the common Himalayan G. fragran- “ssima, from which, as from all its allies, the beautiful silvery under surface of the leaves at once distinguishes it. A small, almost glabrous, shrub. Branches rather slender, angled. Leaves about an inch long, shortly petioled, obovate- lanceolate, remotely and sharply but not deeply serrate, acuminate, — narrowed at the base, dark-green above, silvery-white beneath. Nerves few, springing from near the base of the midrib and run- ning nearly parallel to the margin of the leaf. Racemes short, axillary, few-flowered, much shorter than the leaves. Flowers small, crowded, shortly pedicelled, about one-third of an inch FEBRUARY Ist, 1858. long. Calyz, bracteoles and pedicels white. Corolla white, with — bright-pi lobes, hairy at the mouth and base of the lobes. Filaments ciliated with stiff sete. Anther-lobes muck on the tip. Ovary villous. 7 pk ae . Flower, pedicels, and bracts. 2. Stamen. 3. Pistil. 4. Immature — —all magnified. . Tas. 5035. PILUMNA FRAGRANS. Fragant Pilumna. Nat. Ord. OrcHIDE#Z.—GyYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Gen. Char. Ovarium tricostatum. Sepala et petala equalia, patula, oblique inserta. Zabellum basi columne adnatum, subintegrum, orbiculatum, convo- lutum, inappendiculatum. Columna clavata, teres. Clinandrium cucullo dentato membranaceo circumdatum; furcis duabus carnosis semiclausum. Stigma ver- ticale. Pollinia 2, postice fissa, caudicule brevi et glandule ovate adnata.— Herb: epiphyte; pseudobulbis vaginatis; foliis coriaceis; pedunculis radicalibus. —Genus Aspasie fp um, clinandrio cucullato, columna tereti, necnon stig- mate verticali nee versum. Lindl. OMNA fragrans; folio lato oblongo racemo 2-3-floro breviore, bracteis ~ lanceolatis erectis obtusis, sepalis petalisque oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis, labello oblongo apiculato subtrilobo levi. Lindl. Prnumna fragrans. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1844, Misc. p. 74. n. Tricnoprita albida. Wendl. fil. in Regel’s Gartenflora, 1854, p. 43. t. 78. arming and deliciously scented plant the Royal Gardens are indebted to Lady Dorothy Nevill, whose good taste and love of horticulture, combined with those of Mr. Nevill, have. Dangstein already the site of one of the best private gardens in England. The plant is said to be a native of Popayan, covered by Hartweg, though this has been considered (as indley says the P. /awa was stated to be, but he suspected sly) purchased at one of Mr. Skinner's sales of Guate- lala plants. It has borne in some gardens the name of Zricho- albida, and such a plant is indeed figured on a reduced y M. Regel in his ‘Gartenflora’ above quoted. Our not doubt, is the Pilumna fragrans. £Ne ‘ of this genus yet k is Fe Pa lava, Lindl. Bot. ~ Reg. 1846, t. 57, which has much smaller and differently co- _~ loured flowers, wanting the © e spot he labellum, and has a very differently formed pseudobult ™ great perfection in December, 1857. Descr. Pseudobulb oblong, four to six in FEBRUARY Ist, 1858. '¥ ‘ or slightly compressed, smooth, monophyllous, sheathed at the base with three or four large faintly striated membranaceous scales. Leaf oblong-lanceolate, six to eight inches long, acute, smooth, veinless, rather fleshy and opaque. Peduncle arising from the base of the pseudobulb, pendent, about a foot long, including the flowers: these are large, handsome, four or more in a bracteated raceme. Bracteas ovato-oblong, acute, wither- ing. Pedicels two inches long, but* gradually passing into the club-shaped, three-furrowed ovary. Sepals and petals nearly uniform, long (two and a half to three inches), very much spreading, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, slightly twisted. Lip very large, the lower part of the claw united to the column; the rest involute, so as to enclose the column: from the claw the limb suddenly expands so as to be very large, almost orbicular, obscurely three-lobed, pure white, with an orange spot at. its base on the disc. Column terete and club-shaped. Clinandrium with two rounded entire ears in front, at the back three-lobed and fimbriated. Anther-case operculiform. — Pollen-masses two, with a caudicle and linear gland. ay a i e- oe he Fig. 1. Column. 2. Pollen-masses :—magnified. ' Les tos | hel nk dda esw As 7 Tas. 5036. GESNERIA cInNABARINA. Cinnabar-flowered Gesneria. Nat. Ord. GusNERIACE®.—DipyNaMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4217.) Gesnerra (§ Negelia) cinnabarina; tota molliter glanduloso-pubescens, caule erecto, foliis cordato-rotundatis duplicato-crenatis purpureo-variegatis, panl- cula- terminali elongata multiflora, bracteis linearibus oblongisve integris lobatisve, pedicellis elongatis, calycis parvi lobis lato-subulatis patentibus, corolla rubra subtus albo-fasciata usque ad basin ventricosa, limbi lobis brevibus rotundatis, labio inferiore patente, ovario patente, disco annulari subintegro. Na&GELIa cinnabarina. Linden, Suppl. de Cat. des Pl. Exot. du Jard. de Brus. 1856 (figure only, unaccompanied by description.) - The Gesneriacee of the Royal Garden and Herbarium of Berlin alone, have furnished to Dr. Hansteen materials for a memoir on the family, which he divides into 2 tribes, 12 sub-tribes, and 68 genera: how far it might be desirable to consider many of these 68 sections as sub-genera rather than genera, Tam not in a position to say. The present plant, together with the well-known Gesneria zebrina, would fallinto his genus Vegelia of his tribe 1, Gesneree, and 3rd sub-tribe, Brachylomatee, and 1s distinguished by “Corolla oblique adnata, tubo ventre inflato, dorso recto, limbo inzequaliter quinquelobo, fauce late hiante. _Annulus perl- gynus quinquecrenatus. Stigma capitatum. Reliqua ut in Ges- neria.”” So very much does the present species resemble the _ well-known Gesneria zebrina (figured. by us at Tab. 3940), that it might easily be passed by as a variety of that plant, and in habit, size, pubescence (soft and velvety), shape of the leaves, and inflorescence, that our full description given under that Tab., may well enable us to dispense with a repetition here. The sole difference is the flowers: yet even these are liable to some varia- tion. The calyx here has acuminated almost subulate lobes, MARCH Ist, 1858. oo which spread horizontally (not short and erect). The corolla, though about the same size, is different in colour, being of a brick-red, paler beneath, and there banded with white; the ven- tricose character is extended to the very base of the corolla, want- ing the contraction at the base of the tube, so conspicuous in G. zebrina. The limb is less oblique, the lower lip less porrected, more patent. In the figure of Linden, the upper part of the tube exhibits more yellow than in our plant, and that is a nearer approach to the G. zebrina ; and the lobes are more acute. It is described as a native of the forests of Chiapas, a State of the Mexican Confederation which formerly belonged to Guatemala, where it was discovered by Ghiesbrecht. = Fig. 1. Pistil, magnified. Tas. 5037. DENDROBIUM puLcHELLUM. Showy Dendrobium. Nat. Ord. OrncHIDE®.—GyNnaNDrRIA MONANDRIA. Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4755.) DenpRoBIUM pulchellum; caulibus teretibus striatis pendulis, foliis oblongo- lanceolatis subplicatis, pedunculis unifloris (racemis lateralibus strictis mul- tifloris, Roxb.), bracteis brevibus ovatis obtusis, sepalis patentibus oblongis apiculatis, petalis patentibus sepalis triplo majoribus ovalibus obtusis stri- atis, labello basi obtuso breviter calearato unguiculato cochleariformi striato villoso pulcherrime fimbriato-ciliato, ungue lobis 2-involutis. Denprosrum pulchellum. Roxb. Fl. Indica, v. 3. p. 4862 Lindl. Gen. et. Sp. Orchid. p. 82? Hensl. in Maund’s Botanist, v. 1. t. 5. Loddiges, Bot. Cab. t. 1935. That this is the Dendrobium pulchellum of our gardens, and of — Maund and Loddiges, there can be no manner of doubt, but I am by no means clear about it being the D. pule burgh and Lindley. Dr. Lindley first published the plant, st would appear, from the ‘ Icones Pictee’ and MSS. of Dr. Rox- — burgh in the possession of the Honourable the India Company, but he describes the “ racemes lateral, strict, and many-flowered.- Roxburgh, in the last volume of the ‘ Flora Indica,’ does the same, as we understand his words: “ Raceme lateral,” in the specific character ; and in the description, “ Racemes lateral, from the old leafless stems or branches, diverging, flexuose, with one large pale pink flower at each of the six or eight curvatures. Now this is totally at variance with the inflorescence of our plant, and with the figures in Maund and in Loddiges : potwith- standing which the specific character and description, 1n Maund, make the flowers to be in “ many-flowered racemes.» Loddiges, more prudently, gives neither character nor description. Lind- ley again, probably deriving his information from Roxburgh s drawing, says: “ Sepala alba ; petala rosea ; labellum. lutescens, MARCH Ist, 1858. ~ hellum of Rox- macula basi rubro-aurantiaca ;” which hardly accords with the flowers of the Dendrobium before us. Our plant, therefore, we wish to be considered the D. pulchellum of the gardens ; doubt- fully of Roxburgh and Lindley. If the plant of these latter authors, it is a native of the rocks and trees in the forest of the Silhet hills,” according to Roxburgh. Descr. Our plants are small, epiphytal. Stems, or leafy pseudobulbs, growing several from one point, more or less pen- dent, striated, scarcely a span long, subterete, jointed, throwing out radicles from different points. Leaves alternate, scarcely two inches long, oblong, acute, fleshy, patent, sheathing the stem at the base. Flowers, in our specimen solitary from the joints - of the stem, generally from those portions where the leaves have fallen. Pedicels short, gradually passing into the clavate inferior ovary, with small appressed dracts at the base. Sepals spreading, equal, oblong, subacute, faintly striated, pale purple. Petals much larger than the sepals, oval, obtuse, striated, purple-lilac. Labellum \arge, orbicular, concave, villous, beautifully and finely fringed at the margin; clawed at the base, and the claw bears two incurved small lobes: colour of the lip purple at the edge ; the disc orange, white between the orange disc and the purple _ Margin. Fig. 1. Column. 2. Pollen-masses. 3. Labellum :—magnified. Tas. 5038 HYDRANGEA cYANemMa. Blue-stamened Hydrangea. Nat. Ord. SaxrrraGace®: Tribe HypRANGEH.—DECANDRIA TRIGYNIA. Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4253.) HyDRANGEA cyanema; ramulis corymbosis petiolisque pubescentibus, foliis late ovatis grosse serrato-dentatis utrinque pubescentibus margine ciliatis, fl. im- perfect. sepalis 3-5 albis cuneato-ovatis grosse sinuato-crenatis, stylis 3-5 liberis brevibus. HypRaNGEA cyanema. Nuét. MSS. One of the many interesting Himalayan plants introduced by Mr. Nuttall from Bhotan, where it was discovered by Mr. Booth. As a species it is exactly intermediate in characters between the _ H. robusta, H.f. and T., and /. stylosa, Hf. and T., both natives — of the adjoining province of Sikkim. It is indeed possible that cyanema may prove to be a variety of one of these, for the arbo- rescent species of Hydrangea (amongst which this no doubt will rank) are with difficulty recognized in a young state, and some of the most distinctive marks of the species reside in the capsules, which are in this plant not formed. Z. stylosa, with which H. cyanema accords perfectly in habit, foliage, and the sepals of the imperfect flowers, differs in having very slender subulate styles ; and H. robusta, with which Mr. Nuttall’s plant agrees in the colour of the peduncles, pedicels, calyx, stamens, etc., and in the form of the styles, is a very robust species, with broader, usually cordate leaves, deeply and closely toothed and fimbriated, and _ the petiole is generally winged, and the sepals of the imperfect flowers are acutely toothed. ee Descr. Stem apparently subscandent (as in young individuals of various species), pubescent, as are the leaves on both surfaces and inflorescence. Leaves shortly petioled, ovate, acute, coarsely serrato-dentate, ciliated ; petiole not winged. Corymd spreading, rather loose ; pedicels red. Imperfect flowers with three to five MARCH lst, 1858, broadly-ovate or obcuneate, sessile, white, sinuate, toothed sepals, faintly vemed with red-purple. Perfect flowers small, — scattered, glabrous. Petals and stamens blue. Ovary with three robust, recurved sty/es, which are free to the base. Fig. 1. Imperfect flower, from which the sepals have been cut away. 2. Per- fect flower. 3. Calyx and pistil :—magnijfied. IWBI, > Jith aL. OL W. Fitch del ii (rOOKS B t Vince Tas. 5039. CATTLEYA Actanp1i«. Lady Acland’s Cattleya. Nat. Ord. OrcHIDEZ.—GYNANDRIA MoONANDRIA. Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4700.) CATTLEYA Aclandia ; foliis ellipticis, floribus binis, sepalis petalisque herbaceis obovato-lanceolatis sequalibus undulatis purpureo-maculatis, labelli_plani calvi hypochilio dilatato paulo subrepando epichilio orbiculari reniformi emarginato. Lind. Cattieya Aclandiw. Lindl. Bot. Reg. v. 26. 4.48. Paxt. Mag. of Bot. v. 9. t. 1. Fl. des Serres, v. 7. t. 674. One of the handsomest of a very handsome genus, distinguished by Dr. Lindley with the name of the late lamented Lady Acland, of Killerton, Devon, by whom the plant was first introduced from Brazil, and from a drawing by her Ladyship the figure im the ‘Botanical Register’ was engraved. We have since received living plants from Bahia through our obliging friend J. Wetherall, now her B. M. Consul at Paraiba, Brazil. The flowers are charmingly varied in colour, and the structure of the labellum departs from the usual form, constituting (with Cattleya bicolor) a distinct section of the genus, distinguished by the base of the lip being too narrow and too spreading to cover the column. With us, April has been its flowering season in @ warm stove. Duscr. Pseudobulbs cauliform, terete, jointed, four to five. «= inches long, striated, branched at the base, and sheathed with — membranaceous spathes at the joints. Leaves two, terminal, — elliptical, obtuse, thick and fleshy. From the centre of this pair of leaves the peduncle appears, bearing two large very handsome flowers. Sepals and petals uniform, spreading, two to two and a : quarter inches long, obovato-lanceolate, firm, fleshy, yellow-green, strongly spotted and blotched with dark purple on the upper or anterior side, much less distinctly so at the back. Lip large, porrected, much larger than the petals or sepals, panduriform ; MARCH Ist, 1858. the base narrow and spreading, with two lateral lobes so small that they do not include the column, as is usual in this genus ; the lip is still more contracted near the middle, whence it ex- pands into the broad, kidney-shaped extremity, emarginate at the apex: the colour of the whole is pale purple, with darker veins, and a yellow line on the disc. Column parallel with the lip, and, as it were, applied to it, obovate, dark-purple, expanding into two wing-like margins. Azther-case sunk between two teeth or small lobes of the clinandrium. Pollen-masses as in the genus. Fig. 1. Column. 2. Pollen-masses. 3. Lip :—all more or less magnified. W. Fitch delet ith Vincent Brooks imp Tas. 5040. EUGENIA Luma. Pointed-leaved Eugenia. Nat. Ord. Myrrtace®.—lIcosanpRIA MonoGyYNIA. Gen. Char. Calycis tubus subglobosus, supra germen haud v. vix productus. Germen inferum, 2—-3-loculare, multiovulatum; ovula sporophoris centralibus affixa. Sepala 4, subrotunda, brevia, rarissime ovata v. acuta. Pefala 4, margini tubi calycis inserta. Stamina plurima, cum petalis inserta, perigyna, libera, in alabastro incurvata ; anthere biloculares, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Stylus soli- tarius ; stigma simplex. Fructus baccatus v. drupaceus, tune pyrenis cartilagineis donatus, disco plano calyceque coronatus, 1—4-spermus. Embryo exalbuminosus, carnosus ; cotyledonibus sepissime margine v. omnino conferruminatis ; radicula abbreviata. Berg, in Linnea, v. 21. Eveenra Luma ; ramulis foliisque novellis ad petiolum costam medium et mar- ginem pedunculisque puberulis, foliis petiolatis rigide coriaceis ovalibus v. ovali-oblongis cuspidato-acuminatis basi acutis adultis glabris vix punc- tatis supra aveniis subtus pallidioribus venosis limbinervus, pedunculis axillaribus folio longioribus 1-2-nis aut omnibus 3-5-floris aut altero uni- floro altero trifloro aut summis omnino unifloris, germine biloculari, sepalis subrotundis ciliolatis glabris. Berg. Eneenra Luma. Berg. in Linnea, v. 27. p. 251. Evcenta apiculata. De Cand. Prodr. v. 8. p. 273. Hook. et Arn. Bot. Mise. v. 3. p. 321. Cl. Gay, Fl. Chil. v. 2. p. 398. Myrtus Luma. Molina Chil. v. 2. p. 289. A charming shrub, from the open border of the nursery of Messrs. Veitch and Sons, who introduced the species from Chili, through Mr. Wm. Lobb. It is quite equal in beauty to our common Myrtle, and no more need be said to recommend it as It blossoms in an ornamental evergreen shrub for our gardens. : the summer months, when the branches are literally loaded with the white blossoms, almost concealing the copious foliage ; the leaves indeed are not much unlike those of the common Myrtle, piculated. It inhabits but broader and suddenly and sharply a the colder parts of Chili, fon Concepcion to the island of Chiloe, MARCH Ist, 1858. and Valdivia, and hence its hardiness may be accounted for. It is called “Arroyan” by the natives. * Descr. A shrub, varying, it is said, much in size in its native country, from three to several feet in height, copiously branched ; branchlets, petioles, and veins beneath ferruginously downy. Leaves copious, opposite, nearly sessile, about three-fourths of an inch long, broad, oval, approaching to orbicular, but acute at the base and sharply apiculate at the point; above, in the living state, distinctly pinnately veined, indistinctly so when dry; be- neath paler and more obovately veined and reticulated, obscurely dotted, and having a marginal vein. owers solitary, on rather short peduncles, or the peduncles are branched and bear from three to five moderately large white flowers. These also a good _* deal resemble the common Myrtle, but the petals are larger and more concave. There is a pair of dracts at the base of the ovary. Stamens numerous. Petals four. Ovary two-celled. Cells two- seeded. Fig. 1. Two flower-buds and expanded flower, from which the stamens and petals are removed. 2. Transverse section of ovary :—magnified. «tig = KS fe? Zz a Vincent Br oaks Sanp e os. Witch dd clith Tas. 5041. DASYLIRIUM Guavucopuyiivum. Glaucous-leaved Dasylirium. Nat. Ord. AsPARAGINE#.—Dria@cta HEXANDRIA. Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5030.) DasYLirtuM glaucophyllum ; caulescens, foliis longissimis e lata basi lineari- subulatis insigniter glaucis apicibus integris (fasciculo fibrarum emarcidarum non terminatis) planiusculis striatis marginatis rigide serrulatis spinosisque, spinis subulatis sursum curvatis, spica longissima composita, spiculis seu racemis cylindricis copiosis dense compactis multifloris, bracteis e lata basi subulatis, floribus dense imbricatis masculorum filamentis longe exsertis. Plants of this species of Dasyliriwm were received at the Royal Gardens of Kew ‘at the same time with the D. acrotrichum, and from the same source, namely, from Mr. Repper, of Real del Monte; and the same unusually warm summer which encouraged the blossoming of that species, no doubt had its influence on this, and it came to perfection at the same time. The flow- ering stem was about eleven feet high; probably, as the plants increase in size, the flower-stem will also be larger. I regret that I cannot find this anywhere described, yet it has well-marked characters in the very glaucous hue of the more strict and rigid (not gracefully drooping) leaves, and in the integrity of the apices of the leaves, which do not break out in the tufts or pencils of strong fibres as they do in D. acrotrichum. a _Duscr. The stem of our plant, though of an arborescent cha- racter, is not more than a foot high, thicker than a mans arm, scarred with the marks of fallen leaves, and crowned at the top” with a tuft of beautiful foliage. Zeaves three feet and more long, spreading in all directions, but not recurved, rigid, strict, from a broad base linear-subulate, tapering gradually into a fine entire point, that is, it does not break up at the apex into a pencil or — of rigid tough fibres; striated, margined with a narrow — cartilaginous edge, which is minutely serrated, and rather dis- — tantly beset with small, subulate, falcate, very sharp spoes. MARCH 1sT, 1858, From the centre of the stem arises the peduncle, which, includ- ing the long spike, rises ten to twelve feet: upon this peduncle, which is stout in proportion to its height, the leaves gradually pass into subulate dracts, which become as though one higher up in the compound spite. Mazz Puant: Spike yellow. Flowers very dense on the spikelets, small, each of six, obovate, retuse, erect sepa/s, greenish-white, streaked with red at the tip. Stamens six, large. Filaments much exserted. Anthers oblong, yellow, large. Adortive ovary three, small, conical bulbs on the disc.—A few of the flowers proved to be female: ovary obcor- date, three-lobed, abortive in our plant. Fig. 1. Plant, greatly reduced in size. 2. Apex of a leaf, nat. size. 8. Up- per portion of a male spike, nat. size. 4. Portion of a leaf. 5. Male flower. 6. Abortive pistil. 7. Ovary from a female flower :—magnified. Vincent Broalts W.Fitch del et lith . Tas. 5042. CALANTHE Domini (HyBRIDA). Hybrid Calanthe. Nat. Ord. Orcniprz.—GyNanprRia MoNANDRIA. Gen. Char. Perianthium explanatum, liberam v. sepalis lateralibus labello paululum adnatis, subeequale. Zadel/um cum columna connatum, lobatum v. integrum, calcaratum v. muticum, disco lamellatum v. tuberculatum. Columna brevis, rostello sepius rostrato. Pollinia 8, basi valde attenuata, quaternatim glandule bipartibili adherentia.—Terrestres, scapis erectis multifloris. Folia data, plicata. Flores albi aut lilacini, raro lutei. Lindl. CaLantuE Dominii; hybrid between C. furcata and C. Masuca. CatantuE Dominii. Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1858. p. 4. Calanthe Masuca, Lindl., a purple-flowered species, is figured at our Tab. 4541. Calanthe furcata is a species described by Mr. Bateman (Bot. Reg. 1838, Misc. 34), chiefly differing from C. veratrifolia (a white-flowered kind, see our figure, Tab. 2615) in the larger size of the lateral lobes of the lip. Of the plant now under consideration, which was reared in the Exotic Nursery of Mr. James Veitch, jun., King’s Road, Chelsea, and exhibited to Dr. Lindley, that gentleman remarks: “ One might have said that the flowers were just intermediate (between the two now mentioned) in all respects. He would have consi- dered it either as a purple-flowered C. furcata, or as a fork- spurred, small-flowered C. Masuca. Had hybrids been sus- pected to occur among Orchids, the plant would have been pro- nounced a cross,—and such it was.” It is on this account that We figure so interesting a plant here, and for the sake of intro- ducing Dr. Lindley’s further remarks upon it, and of securing to Mr. Dominy the right of priority in the difficult operation of rearmg hybrid Orchids. : “Tt appears that it had been raised in the Exeter Nursery by r. Dominy, Messrs, Veitch’s indefatigable and very intelligent APRIL Ist, 1858. foreman, between C. Masuca and C. furcata. The seed was ob- tained in 1854 by crossing those two species, was immediately sown, and in two years the seedlings were in flower. Norisit | the least remarkable circumstance connected with this produc- tion, that it grows and flowers freely, while C. Masuca is a shy plant. We therefore propose, with much pleasure, that the name of the hybrid be Calanthe Dominii, in order to put upon permanent record the name of the first man who succeeded in this operation. He is indeed especially entitled to this distine- tion, not only in consequence of having produced other Orchida- ceous mules, among which we understand our Cattleyas, but be- cause of his eminent success in raising such plants from seed, as a matter’ of horticultural business. “It is by no means our intention, in making the last remark, to claim for Mr. Dominy the merit of being the first gardener to raise seedling Orchids. On the contrary, about the year 1822, Prescotia plantaginea was raised abundantly in the garden of the Horticultural Society; and it has been rumoured for some time that seedling epiphytes are coming forward in certain Conti- nental nurseries. What we do claim for him is therefore the priority in raising Aydrid Orchids, a claim which will hardly be contested.”’—Lind]. in Gard. Chron. Fig. 1. Lip and portion of the spur. 2. Pollen-masses :—magnified. 2043, peedss prooks Vincent Tas. 5043. NIPH/EA ALso-LinEaTA; var. reticulata. White-lined Niphea ; reticulated var. Nat. Ord. GesNERIACEH.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Gen. Char. Calyx semisuperus, equalis, 5-partitus. Corolla rotata, subzequalis ; laciniis superioribus paulo minoribus et magis connatis. Stamina inclusa, libera, conniventia; 4 fertilia subzequalia, antheris glabris ovatis ;.quintum sterile, car- nosum, corolle dorso suo adnatum, deforme. Glandula_perigyne 0. Ovarium uniloculare, placentis didymis polyspermis. Stigma simplex.—Herbe Ramondize cujusdam caulescentis facie; foliis rugosis in verticillum approximatis; floribus az- ilaribus terminalibusque aggregatis, candidis. Lindl. Nirz#a albo-lineata; hirsuta, foliis oppositis lineis albis pictis, internodiis elongatis, segmentis calycinis rotundatis tuboque hispidis. coe albo-lineata. Hook: Bot. Mag.-t. 4282. Hanstein in Linnea, 4. es Var. reticulata; foliis remotis albo-reticulatis, pedunculis in axillis pluribus quasi verticillatis. (Tas. Nostr. 5043.) v. 27. p. cisaibaaiclaccionlh ‘ Se Senate ese are ae The original species of Niphea, as figured and descr: Dr. Lindley, le. had the 7 pairs of leaves so approximate to appear whorled in fours on the upper part of the stem, and the peduncles seemed to arise from the apex of the ,in.short, Were terntinal. In our WN. albo-lineata, given at fab. 4.282, the 2 pairs of leaves are rather remote, but the upper 0 crowded as still to appear to be all terminal; in-our present plant, which we take to be a variety of, but larger and hand- Somer than that species, the pairs of leaves are still more sy and the peduncles show themselves to be in whorls, or rat a Pseudo-whorls, from the axils of the distant pairs of leaves. This may be the effect of cultivation, but the character of the plant 1s thereby improved. The variegated foliage 1s as conspicuous here a in the origi i jines anastomose so as to € original albo-lineata, but the de a variety at least partially reticulated. Hanstein has mac of WV. Wie Mencia, hack he calls 8 reticulata, “ nervis a albo-reticulata :? and to this he refers the WV. argyroneura 0 APRIL Ist, 1858. described by : ae nes are so far Planchon and Linden, “Fl. des Serres, 8. 823. p. 201,” and also WV. anechtochilifolia of Warsz. MSS., under which name we received our plant from Berlin. Indeed, except the variegated leaves and smaller flowers, there is scarcely any tangible specific difference between the two. The humbler growth of the original species, giving it a good deal the appearance of Ramondia, as the author correctly observes, was due probably to imperfect cul- tivation. Fig. 1. Corolla laid open. 2. Pistil; the greater part of the ovary incor- porated with the very hispid calyx-tube :—magnijied. ae 4 4 . Vincent Brooks Imp. Tas. 5044. CAMELLIA ros#FLora. Rose-flowered Camellia. Nat. Ord. TERNSTREMIACE®.—MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. / Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 2745.) CaMELura roseflora; ramis patentibus glabris, foliis ovatis acuminatis argute serratis subcoriaceis glabris, floribus axillaribus solitariis declinatis, pedun- culis brevissimis bracteatis, petalis obcordato-emarginatis, ovario styloque glaberrimis, stigmatibus elongatis. . This really handsome Camellia has been long cultivated in the: Royal Gardens of Kew under the incorrect name of “ Camellia euryoides, Lindl.,” a very peculiar species, first figured and de- scribed by Dr. Lindley: the history of which is, that it was “a stock on which the Chinese graft their varieties of Camellia Ja- ponica. he grafted portion of a Camellia brought from China for the Horticultural Society by Potts, in 1822, having died, the stock sprang up and produced this plant. The same having again befallen a Camellia brought home for the Society 1n 1824, by Mr. J. D. Parks, this plant again shot forth.” Strange to say, nothing further is known of the original C. ewryoides, and no systematic botanist, that I am aware of, has ever further noticed it. Our present plant, of which I know not the history, is quite different from this, more robust in habit, glabrous even In the young shoots, much larger in the flowers, which are pink-coloured. In some respects this approaches the C. assimilis, Champ., m Hook. Kew Gard. Misc. v. 3. p. 310, and Seemann, Bot. of H.M.S. Herald; but there the flowers are solitary and terminal, the stigma is small and obscurely three-lobed, the pistil very hairy, as are all the free filaments of the stamens. Descr. Our plant is a shrub, three feet high, with a much more lax and straggling habit than that of the common Camellia Japonica. Branches rather twiggy, patent, clothed with a brown, quite smooth bark. Leaves ovate, acuminate, shortly petiolate, APRIL Ist, 1858. ' firm, subcoriaceous, dark glossy-green, strongly serrated at the margin, the base and acumen entire, rarely plane, slightly convex above, a little waved, the apex obtuse. Vowers axillary, soli- tary or rarely two together, opening in succession from the upper ones downwards, sessile or nearly so, appearing more decidedly sessile from the fact of the short peduncle being clothed with imbricated scales, white or a little silky at the back, small, at the base oval, gradually enlarging upwards till they pass into the imbricated lobes of the calyx. Flowers much larger than those of C. Sasangua, and much smaller than the ordinary size of C. Japonica. Petals generally six, of a clear, full pink or rose- colour, obcordate, but tapering so as to be cuneate at the base, and there slightly united in two series, imbricated, never fully patent, almost forming a tube below; the upper part more or less patent, the apex retuse or emarginate. Sfamens not very numerous (twenty-five to thirty) ; fidaments united in their lower half into a firm, fleshy tube. Anthers small, yellow. Ovary sub- globose, quite glabrous. Sty/e nearly as long as the stamens, stout, tripartite at the apex, with three long stigmata. Fig. 1. Pistil, magnified. Tas. 5045, PENTSTEMON Jarrrayanus. Mr. Jaffray’ s Pentstemon. Nat. Ord. ScRoPHULARINE#.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4818.) a PENTSTEMON Jaffrayanus ; perennis erectus glaber glaucus, foliis omnino inte- gerrimis, radicalibus spathulatis in petiolum brevem attenuatis, intermediis oblongo-ellipticis, supremis sensim minoribus sessilibus bracteisque cordato- ovatis, floribus pseudo-verticillatim paniculatis majusculis, calycis lobis late ovatis acutis, corolle pulcherrime czrulez basi fauceque rubree limbo bila- biato, filamento sterili elongato imberbi. My first knowledge of this lovely and hardy species of Pent- stemon was derived from Mr. Jaffray’s collections made at Clear Creek, North California, in 1853 (n. 1116 of his specimens). Seeds were at the same time sent home by him ; but I know not if they ever germinated. Messrs. Veitch and Sons, of Exeter, and King’s Road, Chelsea, have been more fortunate with Cali- fornian seeds of the same species they received from Mr. William Lobb ; and in August, 1857, I had the pleasure to receive living specimens here represented. The P. speciosus, Douglas. and Lindley (Bot. Reg. p. 1270), from the Strahan River, North- west America, is perhaps its nearest affinity, from which it is abundantly distinct, and is certainly more beautiful,—for there is that mixture in the corolla which is so unusual, viz. of bright blue and red, of which however we have an example in the Buglosses and some other Boragineous plants. This plant will assuredly form an interesting addition to our hardy herbaceous, and especially “bedding-out ” plants. It continues to produce a succession of flowers in the summer months. . _ Drscor. Root perennial. Stems erect, branching only below, about a foot high, young ones tinged with red, glabrous, as is every part of the plant. eaves all very glaucous, entire ; ower leaves spathulate, especially the root-leaves, and tapering below APRIL Ist, 1858. into a short petiole; intermediate ones oblong-elliptical, rather obtuse, not the least attenuated at the base, quite sessile, thence upwards they gradually become smaller and proportionally broader, ovato-cordate or cordate and quite sessile, acute. Bracts and éracteoles resembling these leaves, only still smaller. Panicle terminal. Peduacles opposite, two- or three- or more flowered ; flowers moderately large and spreading, and thus pseudo-verti- cillate. Calya short, of five deep, broad, ovate, acute, somewhat imbricated Jobes, the apices patent. Corolla an inch and a quarter long, rich blue, red at the base and at the faux. Limd bilabiate, upper of two, lower of three, rounded spreading lobes. Stamens four, perfect, didynamous; anthers deep red. Sterile filaments almost as long as the perfect ones, beardless. Ovary narrow ovate. Style as long as the stamens. Stigma obtuse. Fig. 1. Stamens. 2. Pistil :—magnified. ay YO. | ‘Vincent Brooks Ime. Tas. 5046. KEFERSTEINIA craminea. Grass-leaved Kefersteinia. Nat. Ord. Oncu1pE#.—GyYNANDRIA MoNnANDRIA. Gen. Char. KEFERSTEINIA, Reichb. fil. Perigonii subpatuli sepala ac petala (tepala, Reichb.) oblongo-lanceolata, acuta, submembranacea. Sepala retrorsum oblique inserta. Labellum cum gynostemii pede producto articulatum, flabellatum seu rhombeum, cucullatum, basi callosum; callo laminato, foveato. Gynostemium semiteres, apice clavatum, rectum, marginibus lateralibus alatum, angulatum. Androclinium perpendiculare, ellipticum, immarginatum, apice rotundatum, ros- tellt tridentati dente medio subulato majore. Stigma lineare, transversum. Crista longitudinalis a stigmatis labio inferiori ad medium gynostemium (certe stamino- dium ent.). Pollinia pyriformia, papyracea, excavatula, per paria incumbentia, valde inzqualia, in caudicula obtusa ligulata, superne angulata, glandula oblonga infra adnata subequilonga. Reichd. fil. KEFzRsTEINia graminea ; labello transverso rhombeo apice retuso dimidio ante- riori denticulato seu lacero fimbriato, callo rhombeo seu triangulo antice _ bilobo seu paucidentato a basi discum versus. Reich. fil. KEFERSTEINIA graminea. Reichd. fil. in “V. Mohl, u. v. Schlecht. Bot. Zeit. x. 634.” Xen. Orchid. p. 67. t. 25. ii. f. 2-11. ZYGOPETALUM gramineum. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1844, Misc. p. 15. This curious Orchid was not known in cultivation when Dr. Lindley named and described it as Zyyopetalum grameum. It 1s from Popayan, on the west side of the Andes, where it was dis- covered by Hartweg, and it has since been found in the Caraccas by Linden, Funcke, and Schlim. We derived our plant from the Imperial Gardens of St. Petersburg, and we learn that it exists in gardens under the name of “ Huntleya fimbriata.” Three Species of the genus are described by Reichenbach fil. Duscr. Pseudobulbs none. The eaves rise directly from the root, and are about a span long, erect or spreading in a fan- shaped manner, lanceolate, moderately acuminated, faintly stri- ated, carinated below, and jointed on to the compressed and conduplicate, equitant, sheathing bases. -Peduncles also radical, springing from below the leaves, three to five, in a clustered manner, slender, almost filiform, weak, two to three inches long, APRIL Ist, 1858, flexuose, single-flowered, bracteated at the base, with a solitary bract near the middle, and a pair of opposite 4racts beneath the single flower. Before expansion the peduncle almost rests on the ground, rising up (but never erect) as the flower expands. This flower is of a dirty-yellow colour, more or less copiously spotted with deep rich brown, the sepals and petals the palest, the large lip of the deepest colour; the whole reminds one very much of the colouring, and indeed somewhat of the shape, of a large Aranea diadema. Sepals and petals spreading horizontally, oblong-lanceolate, uniform, except that the petals are rather nar- rower. ip broad oval: it can scarcely be said to be three- lobed ; it is gibbous at the base beneath, concave in the centre above, the upper half suddenly bends downwards, and is emargi- nate at the apex, the edge crisped and minutely denticulate: at the base above is a large, four-lobed, fleshy gland (spotted like — the rest of the lip), and, in our specimen, shaped somewhat like a butterfly with the wings expanded. Column elongated, semi- terete, carinated in front, the sides and carina unidentate near the middle; the back is slightly downy. Anther in face of the column. Pollen-masses four, club-shaped, attached to a trian- gular gland. Fig. 1. Labellum. 2. Column and anther. 3. Pollen-masses :—magnified. yi My Tas. 5047. BEGONIA W AGENERIANA. Mr. Wagener’s Begonia. Nat. Ord. Beconrace®.—Monecra PoLyANDRIA. Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4172.) Breconta Wageneriana; caule tereti erecto ramoso glaberrimo, foliis valde obli- que ovatis acuminatis sinuatis hine serratis, petiolo foliis subdimidio bre- viore, stipulis magnis oblongis obtusis apice longe mucronatis, pedunculis axillaribus longissimis, panicula multiflora dichotome cymosa, floribus parvis albis, masculis tetrasepalis, foemineis pentasepalis, capsule alis duabus bre- vibus obtusis, tertia elongato-triangulari. Moscuxowrrzra Wageneriana. Klotzsch, Begon. p. 76. This may possess less beauty than many of the extensive genus Begonia, yet the deep yellow-green of the foliage, the rich colouring of the petioles and peduncles, and the very nume- rous, white, starry flowers, yellow in the centre, renders it a de- sirable inmate of the stove, and it continues blossoming for a long time in the early spring and summer. It is a native of © : Venezuela, and was introduced by Mr. Wagener to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Berlin, whence our plants have been derived. Descr. Plant wholly glabrous. Stem erect, two and a half to | three feet high, terete, somewhat Zigzag, pale greenish-brown. : Leaves five to six inches and more long, cordato-ovate, subfalcate, very unequally sided, subpeltate, acuminate, yellowish-green, paler beneath, one (the largest) side subangulato-sinuate at the margin, the other side and the acuminated apex serrated, veins prominent beneath. Petioles red, terete, erect, about half the length of the leaf. Stipules caducous, nearly an inch long, membranous, ob- long, with a rather long mucro at the point. Peduncles axillary, very long, red, terete, succulent, bearing a much di-trichoto- mously branched cymose panicle of numerous small white flowers, sterile and fertile on different cymes. Sterile flowers of four, spreading, rather obtuse, white sepals. Stamens numerous, very APRIL Ist, 1858. compact, linear, yellow, collected into a nearly sessile globose head or ball. Fertile flowers of five, white, ovate, acute sepals, rather smaller than the sterile ones. Capsule obconical, with three un- equal wings ; two short, obtuse, and slightly denticulate ; the third thrice as long, triangular, obtuse. Fig. 1. Capsule, not quite mature, magnified. 2. Portion of a cyme, with sterile flowers, nat. size. 3. Sterile flower, magnified. DOGS. Tas. 5048, CATTLEYA GRANULOSA. Lough-lipped Cattleya. Nat. Ord. OncHIpE#.—GyNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 2700.) CartLeya granulosa ; caulibus teretibus diphyllis, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis ob- tusis, petalis obovato-spathulatis undulatis obtusissimis, labello cucullato tripartito, laciniis lateralibus semiovatis intermedia sinu lato divulsa, ungue eequilatero levi lamina rotundata plicata granulosa denticulata. Lindl. Carrera granulosa. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1842, v. 28. ¢.1. B. Russelliana ; foliis ovatis, pedunculis trifloris, floribus multo majoribus, petalis magis lanceolatis, labello ungue angustiore. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1845, ». 31. t, 50. Even a quarto plate scarcely suffices to do justice to a well- grown specimen of this noble Cattleya. Hartweg was the first to bring the species into notice, having sent it from Guatemala about 1840. It was figured by Dr. Lindley, with a solitary flower, from the only plant then. known in Europe, in January, 1840. A three-flowered specimen then appeared in the same publication for 1845, as a variety, with somewhat broader leaves, as var. Russelliana. Our present specimen, with its noble clus- ter of flowers, was sent to us from the Botanic Garden, Liver- pool, in 1845, by the late Mr. Henry Shepherd. Well culti- vated as this specimen is, there are certainly few Orchideous plants that can surpass it in beauty. This flowered and was n perfection in August. Plants have also been sent from we temala by G. M. Skinner, Esq., who has contributed so largely to our collections in this family. - ot and more long, jointed Drscr. Stems or pseudobulbs a fo at distant intervals, compressed and furrowed, and _ partially clothed with membranaceous sheaths. Leaves two, ae ae (that is, there is a short portion of the stem, or pseudobul : e- tween them), oblong, patenti-reflexed, coriaceous, rather broad in MAY Ist, 1858. the middle, sheathing only at the very base, obtuse at the point, dark green. Peduncle terminal, stout, terete, bearing a spzke or raceme of six to eight large flowers at the extremity. Sepa/s and petals spreading, all of the same uniform olive yellowish-green colour, with a few, scattered, small, sanguineous spots ; the sepals oblong, obtuse, even ; the peta/s obovato-oblong, much waved at the margin. Jip white, fleshy, not so long as the sepals and petals, primarily three-lobed, the lateral lobes at the base rise — like two auricles, and almost over the top of the column, they are yellow within;.the middle lobe has a deep-orange spot at the base, is broad and oblong for a great part of the length, and spreading into a broad, somewhat reniform, waved, two-lobed extremity, and is covered with innumerable, deep rose-coloured granulations, from which circumstance the plant derives its spe- cific name. Fig. 1. Lip, slightly magnified. IGG, Imp 0KS Vincent Bre ene ie eeeen W. Fitch del et Lith . Tas. 5049. POLYGONATUM ROSEUM. Rose-flowered Solomon’ s-seal. Nat. Ord. Smmnactnea.—Hexanprra Monoeyntia. Gen. Char. Perigonium corollaceum, tubulosum, limbo breviter sexfidum et erectiusculum, deciduum. Stamina 6, medio tubo inserta, inclusa. Filamenta tereti-subulata. _Anthere biloculares, lineari-oblonge, emarginate, basi bifid, dorso medio affixee, introrsee. Ovarium liberum, sessile, triloculare; ovuda in locu- lis 3-6, biseriata, anatropa. Columna stylina terminalis, erecta, elongata, trigona, inclusa. Stigma terminale, obsolete trilobum, supra papillosum. Bacca globosa, trilocularis. Semina in loculis 1-2, subglobosa. Testa tenuissima, albumini cartilagineo-carnoso arctissime adnata. Embryo parvus, tereti-oblongus, rectus, axilis, in extremitate albuminis chalaza opposita inclusus.—Rhizoma horizontale, incrassatum. Caulis erectus, simplex, superne foliosus, inferne squamis vaginatus. Folia sessilia, sparsa, rarius opposita vel verticillata, striato-nervosa, nervis subti- liter reticulato-anastomosantibus, plerumque membranacea. Pedunculi agillares, solitarii, uni- vel racemoso-bi-pauciflori. Flores pedicellati, nutantes, albi, apice virides ; pedicellis basi ebracteolatis vel bracteola minuta subulata instructis, sub Jlore articulatis. Kunth. : PoLtyGonatum roseum ; caule teretiusculo subsulcato, foliis oblongo-linearibus v. lineari-lanceolatis acutiusculis apicibus rectis glabris, inferioribus subternis superioribus sparsis margine subtusque in nervis subtilissime scabriusculis, pedunculis axillaribus plerumque bifloris cernuis purpureo-roseis. PoLyconatum roseum. Kunth, Enum. Pl. v. 5. p. 141. Ledeb. Fl. Ross. v. 4. P. 123. Schultz, Syst. Veget. v. 7. p. 1669. ConvatLarta rosea. Ledeb. Fl. Altaic. v. 2. p. 41; Ie. Plant. Ross. t. 1. This very pretty Polygonatum, nearly allied to our Polygonatum verticillatum, was sent to the Royal Gardens by Professor Bunge, the friend. of Professor Ledebour at Dorpat, and. there is every Teason to believe it is good authority for the plant so called of — Ledebour in his ‘ Flora Rossica.’ We have also authentic Specl- mens in the herbarium from Professor Bunge. It Is a native of the Altaic Siberia, at the river Kurtsch, and of Chinese Songa- ria, at Lake Saisang-Nor (Herb. Acad. Petrop. in Herb. Nostr.). But it must be confessed that the species varies considerably — in the length and breadth of the leaves, and their being more or less verticillate, and if Ledebour’s figure be correct, above MAY Ist, 1858. ea quoted, in the size and colour of the flower. The species with which I would immediately compare it is the Polygonatum Sibi- ricum of Redouté’s ‘ Liliacées,’ figured there however from a dried and much shrivelled specimen. From this the Convallaria cirrhifolia of Wallich is not distinct. It is described as hav- ing the leaves almost uniformly verticillate, and with more or less cirrhose points. It is indeed extremely common in Himalaya, at elevations of from 7—11,000 feet (Hooker and Thomson) ; but specimens collected by Messrs. Strachey and Winterbottom, at Rinkim in Thibet, in our herbarium, gathered at an elevation of 13,500 feet above the sea, partake of the characters of the two species ; the lower leaves being quite straight at the points, as in P. roseum, the upper ones with uncinate or slightly cirrhose points, a character so common in P. Sibiricum ; so that unless the living plant were to exhibit some mark of distinction, It would be difficult to say to which of the two species this should be referred. The colour of the flowers seems to be the same in both. As neither one nor the other however has, as far as we know, been cultivated in our gardens, we gladly represent the rosea of Ledebour in our present Plate. : Descr. Root a horizontal, fleshy ‘user, sometimes running out to a great length, and forming a long, fleshy rhizome, throw- ing up annual, simple, herbaceous, erect stems, one to two feet high, terete ; but at the same time angular on the surface, pale whitish-green, sometimes tinged with red streaks. Leaves gene- rally subverticillate but rarely strictly so, and here and there quite alternate, especially at the summit and at the very base, where indeed they almost constitute scales; in form the leaves are linear or linear-lanceolate, the uppermost ones slightly acu- minated, striated, entire, the margins and keel under a high magnifier scaberulous. Peduncles axillary, solitary or two to- gether, generally forked and two-flowered, sometimes bearing four flowers, rarely one. Peduncle and pedicels prettily mottled _ with dark-purple. Perianth in our living specimens about three- quarters of an inch long ; the ground-colour is white, but slightly tinged with purple, mottled and streaked with pink, so that the general tint 1s rose-colour ; the ¢ube long; the dimé of six, ovate, spreading segments, white at the margin and somewhat serrated or crested at the very apex. Stamens and pistil included. An- thers oblong, yellow. Ovary obovate. Style shorter than the ovary. Stigma truncated. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil :—magnified. W Bitch del tlith . Vincent Brooks ip Tas. 5050. BOLBOPHYLLUM NEILGHERRENSE. Neilgherry Bolbophyllum. Nat. Ord. Orncu1pE®.—GyYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4088.) Bo.BoruytLum Neilgherrense ; rhizomate repente, pseudobulbis ovatis angu- latis subcorrugatis, folio solitario oblongo-elliptico obtusiusculo, scapo folio multo breviore, spica subcylindracea erecta, floribus laxiusculis erectis, — bracteis lanceolatis herbaceis, sepalis lateralibus ovato-lanceolatis dorsali quadruplo majoribus, petalis parvis e basi ovata acuminatis purpurascenti- bus, labello recurvato trilobo, lobis lateralibus parvis intermedio lingulato integro, disco sulcato, columna utrinque alata, alis apice cuspidato-acumi- natis. Bo.pornyiium Neilgherrense. Wight, Ic. Plant. Ind. Or. v. 5. ¢. 1650. Our pseudobulbs of this plant were received from Mr. M‘Ivor, : who collected them in the Neilgherries in 1849; and Dr. Wight, the only author, as far as we know, who has noticed it, has given it as a native also of Malabar. That author alludes to its affinity with Bolbophyllum Careyanum, but considers it quite distinct, as" may be seen by our figure of that species at our Tab. 4166. It flowered with us in January, 1858, in the warm Orchideous House. _ Descr. Pseudobulbs oblongo-ovate, slightly compressed, par- tially clothed with a sheathing membrane, and arising from a creeping, jointed, sheathed rhizome, scarcely 80 thick as a goose-quill. _ Leaf solitary from the apex of the pseudobulb, four to six inches long, nearly erect, coriaceous, elliptical-oblong, rather obtuse, tapering below into a thickened, short petiole. Scape from the base of the pseudobulb, three to four inches long, terete, jointed, joints sheathed with a membrane. Spike scarcely three inches long, of several, erect, brownish-green, lax flowers; each flower subtended by a small, lanceolate, greenish bract. Sepals ovato-lanceolate ; dorsal one small ; lateral ones connivent at the base, so as to resemble the carina of a pa- MAY Ist, 1858. pilionaceous flower, four or five times as large as the dorsal one: colour brownish-green, spotted. Peta/s smaller even than the dorsal sepal, purplish, from a broad base, acuminate. Lip springing from the decurrent base of the column, and jointed upon it, recurved, three-lobed ; lateral lobes small; intermediate one tongue-shaped, entire, furrowed down the middle. Column short, winged on each side, which wings terminate above in an acuminated point on each side the anther-case. Fig. 1. Entire flower. 2. Flower from which the sepals and petals are re- moved, showing the column and the lip. 3. Pollen-masses magnified. Vincent Brooks Tp W-Fitch del.et kth . Tas. 5051, CLIANTHUS Damptert. Dampier’s Clianthus. Nat. Ord. Leguminos#.—D1apELPHIA DECANDRIA. Gen. Char. Calyx late campanulatus, subzequalis, 5-dentatus. Vewillum acu- minatum, reflexum, alis parallelis longius; carina scapiformis, vexillo alisque multo longior, omnino monopetala. Stamina manifeste perigyna, diadelpha, omnia fertilia. Stylus staminibus duplo longior, versus apicem hine leviter barba- tus, stigmate simplicissimo. Legumen pedicelfatum, coriaceum, acuminatum, ventricosum, polyspermum, intus lanulosum, sutura dorsali recta, ventrali con- vexa. Semina reniformia, funiculis longiusculis affixa.—Suffrutices herbeeve ; foliis impari-pinnatis, stipulatis ; floribus speciosissimis, racemosis. Lindl. CuiantHus Dampieri; herbaceus prostratus sericeo-villosissimus, foliolis oppo- sitis (rarissime alternis) oblongis passim lineari-oblongis obovatisve, pedun- culis erectis scapiformibus, floribus subumbellatis, calycibus 5-fidis sinubus acutis, ovariis (leguminibusque immaturis) sericeis. Br. Cutantnus Dampieri. 42. Cunn. in’Hort. Soc. Trans. ser. 2.0. 1. p. 521. Br. in App. to Sturt’s Exped. to Central Australia, p. 71. Cutantuus Oxleyi. 4. Cunn. in Hort. Soc. Trans. 1.c. p. 522. Donta speciosa. Don, Gard. Dict. v. 2. p. 468. Conurea Nove-Hollandie. “ Woodw..in Dantpier’s Voy. v. 3. p. 111. t. 4. eA 7? * ~ From the Greenhouse of Messrs. Veitch and Sons, Exeter, and King’s Road, Chelsea, where its splendid blossoms were pro- duced in the month of March of the present year 1858. In point of size the flowers are quite equal to those of the now well- known Clianthus puniceus, but in richness of colour far superior, for the uniform crimson of the petals is relieved by the velvety purple-black disc of the standard of the petals. Clianthus Mere is considered to be a native of New Zealand, though a decidedly wild locality has perhaps never yet been recorded.* This species * Sir Joseph Banks and Dr. Solander, who were the first to notice this plant, in 17 69, are said to have found it “on some part of the porn the Northern Island of New Zealand, or in Cook’s Strait. Mr. Sat SOT ham observes, that this plant does not occur in a collection form mt oot brother in New Zealand, and was not. seen by himself during his first visit to MAY Ist, 1858. now under consideration is a native of New Holland, and was discovered so long ago as 1699, by Dampier (and published and figured by Woodward, in Dampier’s Voyage, above quoted), in the dry sandy islands of Dampier’s Archipelago, North-west Aus- tralia, latitude 29° 19’ to 20° 30’, longitude 116° to 117° east. Allan Cunningham gathered it in the same locality in 1818. Specimens from near that group of islands, namely on the “north-west coast of Australia,” are in my herbarium, gathered by Mr. Bynoe in the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. Again, Mr. Allan Cunningham met with the same plant in the western _ interior of New South Wales, on the eastern shore of Regent's Lake on the river Lachlan. The same plant was observed on the Gawler Range, not far from the head of Spencer’s Gulf, in 1839, by Mr. Eyre, and more recently by Captain Sturt, on his “Barriere Range, near the Darling, about 500 feet above the river.” Mr. Brown has examined specimens from all these localities, and is satisfied that they belong to one and the same species. Mr. Brown, judging from the unripe pods in my herbarium, was of opinion that this would, when the perfect pods were known to us, prove to be sufficiently distinct from the original New Zealand species to form a distinct genus, but the pods and the seeds seem to exhibit no difference as far as can be judged from the immature state, save in the absence of the woolly sub- stance in the former. ‘The seeds are rather numerous, and are each on a long podosperm. On the first exhibition of this charming plant at the Horti- cultural Society, a silver medal was most justly awarded to Messrs. Veitch and Son. . Drscr. A procumbent or ascending, herbaceous plant, glau- cous, and hoary all over with long, whitish, silky hair. Stems slightly angular and tinged with red. Leaves alternate, pinnated, petiolated, oblong, with about sixteen rather closely placed sub- opposite, oblong or elliptical, frequently acute, sessile leaflets ; petiole one to three inches long, with a pair of large, herbaceous, bifid stipules at the base. Peduncle terminal, sometimes a spat long, bearing a racemose wmbel of four to six, very large, droop- ing flowers. Pedicels bibracteolate. Calya hairy, with the tube the Northern Island in 1826. It is probably a rare plant, and its peculiar localities are to the southward of the Bay of Islands, where Allan Cunningham subsequently gathered it; it also occurs on the shores of the River Thames, at Mereury Bay, where Cook afforded the naturalists who accompanied that voy- age the opportunity of landing, in 1769, and near which, namely at Tauranga, in the Bay of Plenty, are the Missionaries’ Home Stations, whence the first seeds were sent to Europe, and raised by W. Leveson Gower, Esq., of Titsey Place, Godstone. Dr. Hooker, in his ‘ Flora Nove Zelandizx,’ gives the locality of Banks and Solander, and says, ‘‘ more generally cultivated.” cup-shaped, obtuse at the base ; segments five, nearly equal, erecto- patent, lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla bright-red. Standard very large, ovato-lanceolate, suddenly from above the base curved up- wards, so that it presents its imner surface to the spectator in front, and this exhibits a double or two-lobed projection at the base of the disc, very prominent, and of a purplish velvety black colour, gradually melting into the red, and reflecting a strong light from the apex of its lobes. Wings small, lanceolato-subu- late, deflexed ; Aeel very large, deflexed, lanceolato-falcate, acu- ‘minate, longer than the standard. Stamens diadelphous, nine united and one free, very long. Anthers linear. Ovary pedicellate, hairy, linear, gradually tapering into the long, subulate s¢y/e. Fig. 1. Stamens and pistil. 2. Pistil removed from the receptacle :—magnified. MDL. Fitch del.et ith , Vincent Brooks Imp. a Tas. 5052. FRITILLARIA Graca. Greek Fri tillary. Nat. Ord. Littacem.—Hexanpria MoNnocGynta. Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 3280.) FRrivtnuarta Greca 3 glabra glauca, caule humili basi nudo dein 5-8-phyllo, foliis omnibus alternis, inferioribus approximatis od/ongis vel oblongo-lanceo- latis obtusis acutiusculisve, summis remotioribus anguste linearibus acutis, floribus mediocribus 1 rarins 2 terminalibus nutantibus ultimo foliosis breviori approximatis, perigonii breviter campanulati basi rotundati non gibbosi diametro suo eequilongi phyllis extus fascia viridi-lutescente longi- tudinali percursis, cxterum rubris obscure tessellatis ellipticis apice ro- tundato vel subattenuato obtuso vel subretuso pilosulis, nectario oblongo- lipeari, staminibus corolla dimidio brevioribus, filamentis glabris e basi di- latata attenuatis anthera breviter apiculata duplo longioribus, stylo glabro sogitadinis ovarii stamina paululum superante ad medium usque trifido. ois. Frivrenarta Greeca. Boiss. ef Sprunner in Boiss. Diagnos. Plant. Orient. Nov. — : n. 7. 1846, p. 104. FRrrriiania tulipifolia. Fl. Greca, non M. Bieb. (Boiss. in Herb. Nostr.) A native of Mount Hymettus, about the middle of the moun- — tain, and hardy in our gardens. Of this pretty Fritillary, like — the Rose-flowered Solomon’s-seal of this number, Tab. 5049, we have the advantage of possessing authentic living plants, derived — from M. Boissier’s garden at Geneva, and from which our figures have been taken. They flower readily in the open border, and in a frame in the month of March, when flowers oe ific character given by are always welcome. Long as is ae ee to the authors of the, Boissier and Sprunner, it is only j , ey Species to vie. their own wiedis for indeed so — pes | allied to F. talipifolia of Bieberstein, Centur. Plant. Ross. ta. 41, that I should have a difficulty im aes : me a ah except by the markings of the flowers;—m™ a pag BS tessellated, very much like 7. Meleagris; ™ ‘ie stare of ee tessellated, and having a green line down the o MAY Ist, 1858. sepal. In one of our native specimens, however, also “e monte Hymetto Attice,’ from Heldreich, marked as a var., the green line is quite obsolete, and the whole perianth is a chocolate- brown. The most essential distinguishing characters, we pre- sume, are given above in italics. It is only in a note upon specimens from Boissier himself, in our herbarium, that he has attached the remark that this plant is the /. tw/ipifolia of ‘Flora Greeca,’ not of M. Bieberstein: that synonym is not given in the ‘ Diagnoses.’ Descr. Root a small, subglobose 4u/é. Stem a span (more or less) high, slender, erect, terete. Root-/eaves from young bulbs four to five inches long, lanceolate, tapering into a petiole. Cauline /eaves, in our plants and specimens, four to six or seven in number, mostly five, elliptical or linear-lanceolate, nearly erect, striated, the upper ones gradually smaller, uppermost one arising from the base of the peduncle. //owers solitary, rarely two, smaller than those of F. Meleagris, and less campanulate. Sepals elliptical, slightly apart when fully open, tawny or ferruginous- brown, spotted but scarcely tessellated, with a dorsal green line continued to the projection which constitutes the nectary at the base ; the margin is also pale-green. Stamens shorter than the sepals, and rather shorter than the pistil. Ovary oblong. Style short, longer than the ovary, and nearly twice as long as the branches of the style. Fig. 1. Sepals, with nectary. 2. Pistil:—magnified. a), } r 2 Y od NIE WA : ee APE TE Magy Fy PY WL: , + Tan. 3033. DENDROBIUM curRyYSoTOXxUM. « Golden-arched Dendrobium. Nat. Ord. OncnipE®.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4755.) DENnpRosium (§ Dendrocoryne) chrysotocum ; pseudobulbis angustis multicos- tatis 2-4-foliis, foliis oblongis horizontalibus coriaceis, racemis lateralibus laxis gracilibus arcuatim decurvis pseudobulbos eequantibus, bractea basilari parva spathacea floralibus minimis herbaceis, sepalis petalisque explanatis oblongis obtusissimis 'planis bis duplo latioribus, labello indiviso cucullato rotundato pubescente margine minutissime pectinato et fimbriato. Lindl. 52 tage (§ Dendrocoryne) chrysotoxum. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1847, sub t. 9. ; The Dendrocoryne section of the fine East Indian genus Den- drobium forms, Dr. Lindley observes, “a peculiar group, best perhaps characterized by their having a fleshy, angular stem, _with two or more manifest articulations, one or more leaves at the upper end, and a lip not broken up into a tuft of hairs or fringes. They are, as it were, Bolbophylla passing into Dendro- bia. In the group thus limited are included D. densiflorum, Griffithii, aggregatum, tetragonum, Vettchianum, speciosum, and some others formerly placed in Desmotrichum, a species whose lip is broken up into a brush.” ; | Our plant here figured is certainly not among the least hand- | some in this lovely group, and was imported from India by Messrs. Henderson. It flowers with us in March, and is highly ornamental to the stove at that season. ag Drscr. Pseudobulbs long, clustered, clavate or rather spindle- shaped, jointed, with elongated joints, and clothed with a com- pact, whitish, membranaceous sheath, having about four, more or less spreading, oblong, acute, coriaceous, dark-green /eaves at the extremity. Peduncle \ateral, arising from the top of the pseudobulb, just below the leaves, rather short, bearing a shee fully drooping raceme of twelve or more, large, golden-yellow flowers ; almost a span long. There 1s @ deciduous, scariose, JUNE Ist, 1858. sheathing dract at the base of the peduncle, and a very small one at the base of each ovary. The flowers are two inches across. Sepals and petals spreading; the former rather small, oval or ob- long-oval; the latter broad-ovate, twice as large as the sepals, slightly twisted. Zip spreading, undivided, cucullate, the base contracted, having a prominent blunt spur behind, the lamina orbicular, pubescent on the upper surface, the margin most beautifully fringed and ciliated: the colour of the lip is of the same deep bright-yellow as the rest of the flower, but the disc above is orange-colour, leaving a pale margin, and an arch or semicircle of very deep orange is seen at the base of the lamina, which suggested the specific name of the plant. Co/wmn short, with a broad blunt tooth on each side the anther-case. ’ Fig. 1. Column and anther. 2. Portion of the fringe of the lip :—magnified. ae YAM, Y LON. y as 2 Y o~ “y y & = Tas. 5054. : RHODODENDRON aARGENTEUM. Silver-leaved Rhododendron. Nat. Ord. Errcr®.—Decanpria Monoeynia. Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4336.) ee ee or eee RHODODE * : a : ae DRON argenteum ; foliis amplis coriacels oblongo-obovatis acutis in laberrimis subtus argenteis, oie crassum attenuatis planis utrinque g Ke ott el Siete bracteis deciduis dense sericeis, floribus capita- seaeotes vit is ea crassis puberulis, calyce brevissimo obscure lobato, St eilchie a a a majuscule tubo campanulato, limbi lobis 8 breviuseu- ae ces aminibus 10-15, filamentis basin versus glanduloso-pubescen- , ovarii pubescentis loculis 10-16, stylo flexuoso crasso, stigmate . dilatato. R HODODENDRON argenteum. Hook. fil. Rhod. Sik. Himal. p. 10. t. 9. Bi es A feet in height, a native of | f Sinchul, Suradah, and — he level of the sea; an fine Rhododendron-dis- lant on é rless state it is a noble — feneth et of its foliage, the leaves being often a foot mm bie ia broad in proportion, always silvery beneath. Another et sting state is in the early spring, whe orming ; these are long, and clothed with coloured, imbri- — the Dr. Hooker remarks, like cone of some species of Pine ; the outer or lower scales broad a . nd coriaceous, glabrous, reddish-brown ; the innermost ones Still more interesting is the =agat , pink in bud, gradually whitening as they expand, and having at the base of the tube ot surrounding the stamens, quite conspicuous on a full front view of the flower. The oduced for the first time flow 8 “tabs as far as we know, now pr tivation, in a cool greenhouse of the Royal Gardens, m JUNE Ist, 1858. n the new leaf-buds a Descr. Our plants are from four to five feet high, erect. Leaves very much confined to the summits of the branches, oblongo-obovate, coriaceous, conspicuous, penninerved; the nerves sunk, dark full green above, beneath silvery-white. ower-buds imbricated with large, brown, very broad, obtuse scales. Howers capitate, compact. Peduncles very short, subumbellate, thick, curved downwards. Calyx literally none, unless about. six small dracteoles, reflexed bodies bent down upon the peduncle, can be so called; these have their origin at the very top of the peduncle (under the very base of the corolla), and are linear or oblong, white, somewhat fleshy, occasionally divided into two unequal segments. Corolla in bud fine rose-colour, obovate compressed, deeply eight-furrowed; as the corolla expands it gradually changes to white, and is then broad, tubular-campanu- late, two and a quarter inches long, laterally a little compressed ; tube slightly widening upwards, eight-furrowed, discoloured at the base in consequence of a large, black-purple, velvety, eight- rayed spot, at the bottom within, surrounding the stamens. Limb spreading, two and a quarter inches in diameter, eight- lobed; Jodbes rounded, imbricated, deeply emarginate, almost bifid, slightly lobed or waved. Stamens sixteen. Filaments com- pacted almost into a tube below, white, slender, as long as the tube of the corolla, slightly curved upwards from the base, and there hairy. Anther small, oblong, rich red-brown, open- ing by two pores at the apex. Pollen white. Ovary ovate- oblong, ten-furrowed, woolly. Style as long as the stamens, set abruptly on to the top of the ovary; the apex clubbed, and Gurving upwards. Stigma a large, fleshy-coloured, oval disc, with a depressed line in the centre. Fig. 1. Flower, nat. size, with the five bracteoles (?) at the base of the corolla. 2. Stamen. 8. Pistil, 4. Transverse section of the ovary, seated upon the fleshy disc, * Pe W. Bitch del et lith Vincent Brocks Imp. a Tas. 5055. XIPHIDIUM FLorispuNpDuM. Copious-flowered Xiphidium. Nat. Ord. WAcHENDORFIACEZ.—TRIANDRIA MonoGYNIA. Gen. Char. Perianthium corollinum, hexaphyllum ; foliolis patentibus, exteri- oribus dorso puberulis, interioribus paulo minoribus glabris. Stamina 3, hypo- gyna, perigonii foliolis interioribus opposita ; filamenta filiformia ; anthere basifixe. Ovarium liberum, trigonum, triloculare. Ovula in placentis e loculorum angulo centrali tumentibus, plurima, amphitropa. Stylus filiformis; stigma capitato- trilobum. Capsula subglobosa, carnoso-mollis, trilocularis. Semana plurima, subglobosa.—Herba perennis in America tropica cis Aiquatorem obvia ; radice fibrosa ; caule simplici, hirsutiusculo, basi folioso ; foliis ensiformibus, equitantibus, * geotees integerrimis v. subserrulatis ; floribus paniculatis, subsecundis, nutant- bus. Endl. XIPHIDIUM floribundum, Xipuipium floribundum. Sw. Prodr. p. 17; Fl. Ind. Occ. v. 1. p. 80. ¢. 2. Vahl, Enum. v. 2. p. 162. Reem. et Schult. Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 487. os a, albiflorum ; floribus albidis. Sw. (Tas. Nostr. 5055.) Xipurp10 albidum. Lam. Ill. v. 1.p.181. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v, 1. p. 170. — Xipuipium album, Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 1. p. 249. ne Ixta Xiphidium. Lofl. It. p. 179. ‘8. ceruleum ; floribus intus ceruleis. Sw. aS gers Xrpurprem ceruleum. Aubl. Guian. v. 1. p. 83. ¢. 11. Willd. Sp. Pi. [os p. 24. 6 | : Xipuipium giganteum. Lindl. Bot. Reg. v. 32, under t. 6g, and v. 33, ander ‘1. This is a little-known plant, peculiar to tropical America, — remarkable for its equitant leaves and Iris-like habit, with only three stamens, but having a regular floral envelope of six pieces, = and a superior ovary, as in Asphodelee. Its affinity is natural with Wachendorfia, and these two genera have generally been placed in Hemodoracee ; but Mr. Herbert has cine pe | them the Nat. Ord. Wachendorfiacee, which 18 gone: ns a Lindley, though the position of this Order-1s not very dleadly a determined. The species, too, have apparently been nee ges! 2 multiplied ; and it is generally acknowledged that the blue- an a JUNE Ist, 1858. | white-flowering kinds are mere varieties of each other; while Dr. Lindley’s Xzphidium, being identical with our plant, derived from the same source, Santa Martha (Mr. Purdie), is simply a larger specimen than usual, with leaves obsoletely serrated. Be- sides the localities for this species given by Aublet and Swartz, namely French Guiana, Vera Cruz, islands of Tobago and St. Christopher, I may add, from-my herbarium, Plain of Dapur, Santa Martha, Surinam, British Guiana, Antioquia, New Gra- nada (Holton), Mecapulco, Mexico, and Dominica, St. Vincent, and Jamaica of the West Indian Islands. Descr. Rhizome long, descending, jointed, thick as a swan’s quill, radicant and sending out offsets. Stems apparently annual, herbaceous, from a few inches to a foot or more long, erect, com- pressed, unbranched, but not unfrequently proliferous from buds in the axils of the leaves, glabrous, leafy. Leaves alternate equitant, sword-shaped, the flattened base forming a short sheath upon the stem (as in Jris), from eight or ten inches to a foot and a half long, one to two inches and more broad, distichous, | membranaceous, closely striated, more or less distinctly but finely spinuloso-serrate, especially towards the acuminated apex. Pe- duncle terminal, bracteated, bearing an oblong thyrsus or com- pound raceme of flowers, from four to six or eight inches long ; racemelets spreading, subscorpioid ; the flowers six to eight, all on the upper side, gradually opening from below, hairy or gla- brous.. Pedicles bracteolated, short. Pertanth of six, white, spreading, oblong-oval sepals, regular. Stamens as long as the pistil, three, erect, from the base of the inner sepals. laments short, glabrous. Anther oblong, orange-colour. Ovary quite su- perior, globose, obscurely three-lobed. Style twice as long as the ovary. Stigma obtuse. Both in our cultivated specimens and in all our numerous native ones in the herbarium, the ovary falls _ off without coming to maturity, the plant apparently increasing _ mainly by lateral buds from the stem. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil :—magnified. Vincent Brodks bap. ' Tas. 5056. OBERONIA acauvtis. Stemless Oberonia. Nat. Ord. OrncHr1pDEZ.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. ' Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4517.) OBERONIA acaiilis ; curvato-dependens, foliis ensiformibus e basi sensim Jonge acuminatis, racemo elongato multifloro, floribus compactis subverticillatis, sepalis petalisque subspiraliter patenti-reflexis, labello 4-lobo margine fim- o7 briato facie superiore pilis sparsis villosis, lobis obtusis duobus terminalibus a majoribus, disco canaliculato. OBERONIA acaulis. Griff. in Notule ad Plantas Asiat. pars 3. p. 215; Itin. Notes, p. 16; Ic. Plant. Asiat. t. 286. 0. 1. The genus Oderonia will prove a very extensive one In species, though comparatively few are as yet accurately described. Dr. Lindley has kindly referred us to the Oberoma acaulis, Grif, for the present species. It is rudely figured by Griffith, 1-c., and the dissections are still more rude; but the identity of the two is confirmed by an original specimen in Dr. Lindley’s her- barium. It is a native of Churra, in Khasya, Eastern Bengal, and is one of the many interesting Orchideous plants the intro- duction of which to our gardens we owe to Mr. Simons. It flowered with us in February of the present year. Be ‘Duscr. The habit of this plant is very peculiar. Cultivate on a small block of wood, and suspended from the roof of the Orchideous house, it takes a downward curvature, sO that the leaves and orange-coloured raceme are strongly curvato-pendent. Leaves stemless, few, the longest of them a foot long, eee falcately recurved, gradually tapering from the base into * ihe acumen, scarcely an inch broad in the widest part ; their ewe a equitant, in colour glaucous-green. Peduncle three to nee m7 i. long, rather stout, terminal. Raceme long, cylindrical, alt a : equal in length to the leaves, with very numerous same oor io (but not bright) fowers, compact, but much less so and by no — JUNE lst, 1858. means so small as in our O. tridifolia (Tab. 4517). Bracteas — oblong-acute, serrated at the apex. Sepals and petals uniform, _ 3 ovate, fimbriato-ciliate, singularly reflexed, so as to be on the | same plane with the labellum, with an exactly opposite direc- tion, and at the same time slightly spirally twisted. Zip sub-— quadrangular, obtusely four-lobed, or, in other words, three- lobed; middle lobe much the largest and broadest, and itself two-lobed ; all obtuse, and all fimbriato-ciliate; and the same soft hairs of the margin extend to the surface of the lip: the disc is channelled. Colwmn very short. Anther-case hemisphe- rical. Pollen-masses two. by = i 2 t Fig. 1. Bractea. 2, 3. Flowers. 4. Pollen-masses :—magnified. Tas. 5057. POLYGALA Hi.arriaNna. St. Hilaire’s Milkwort. Nat. Ord. PotyGaLacE®.—DIADELPHIA OcTANDRIA. Gen. Char. Calycis sepala persistentia, 2 interiora aleformia. Petala 3-5, tubo stamineo connexa, inferiore carinzeformi (forsan e duobus coalitis constante). + Capsula compressa, elliptica, obovata aut obcordata. Semina pubescentia, /ilo carunculata, coma destituta. De Cand. Potyeata (§ Ecristata) Hilairiana ; frutex, caule simplici superne folioso, foliis oblongo-ovatis acutiusculis coriaceis basi in petiolum attenuatis, spicis axil- laribus terminalibusque folio brevioribus, floribus (inter maximos) sessilibus basi minute bibracteatis, calyce clauso, sepalis duobus interioribus corolla paulo brevioribus suboblique ovatis paululum falcatis, corolla imberbi, peta- lis 2 linearibus intermedio apice cucullato trilobo, ovario subrotundo emar- ginato. Potyeata Hilairiana. Endl. in Linnea, v. 17. p- 357. folk : cated when old from the falling away of the former years oliage, New plants form by the side of the old bulbs, at first — exhibiting an appearance of pseudobulbs; these are fully 2 veloped as the plant perfects itself. Leaves two, lanceolate, se \ Scurely nerved, between coriaceous and son ie inepegeaie “2 ~ ing, acute, tapering and narrowed very much into a petiole a 3 e base, and there clothed with imbricated, herbaceous scales. Pe- duncle arising from between the two leaves and shorter than el erect, single-flowered (in our specimen). Hower large ree the size of the plant ; its ground colour tawny-yellow, expan : ; z perfection at the same time with the leaves. Sepa/s an inch an SEPTEMBER Ist, 1858. a half long, very patent, lanceolate, acute. Pefa/s much smaller and quite linear, pendent like the two lower sepals. Zabellum large, porrected, somewhat broad-lyre-shaped, three-lobed, Jateral lobes oblong, incurved upon the column, middle lobe very large, constricted at the base, nearly orbicular, waved and dentate at the margin, tubercled on the surface, bifid at the apex : the disc of the lip has three principal elevated lines extending from the «base, beyond the centre, and several transverse, orange-coloured, and the middle lobe blotched and spotted with orange. Column semiterete. Anther-case conical, obtuse. Fig. 1. Column and anther. 2. Front view of the labellum. 3. Pollen- masses :—magnified. _* —. d ng is ra b @ 7° "9 Bap ke W. ae : “Vincent Brooks imap: = Tas. 5073. ISOTOMA seneciorpss; var. subpinnatifida. Groundsel-leaved Isotoma ; subpinnatifid var. Nat. Ord. LOBELIACE®.—PENTANDRIA Monoa@yNia.’ Gen. Char. Calyx 5-lobus, tubo turbinato vel elongato. Corolla hypocrateri- morpha, ¢ubo integro, Jobis calycinis multo longiore, recto vel subincurvo, lobis patentibus sequalibus vel paulo ineequalibus. ilamenta staminum tubo corolle plus minusvé adnata. Anthere extra tubum corolla. inter se connate, 2 in- ferioribus apice setaceo-aristatis.—Herbe sepius annue, pedicellis awillaribus, floribus albis roseis vel ceruleis. De Cand. Se re re Isoroma senecioides ; subpubescens, caule erecto anguloso, foliis lineari-lanceo- latis subdecurrentibus irregulariter pinnatifidis lobis alternatim brevioribus, pedunculis axillaribus erectis gracilibus unifloris folio duplo triplove longio- ribus, calycis tubo obconico, lobis lineari-acuminatis patentibus tubo coro quadruplo brevioribus, laciniis corolle lanceolatis acutis duplo triplove bre- vioribus. Isoroma senecioides. De Cand. Prodr. v. 1. p- 412. LopELta senecioides.’ 412. Cunn. MSS. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2702. Isoroma axillaris. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 964. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1508. Gaudich. in Freyc. Bot. p. 455. t. 70. B; foliis subbipinnatifidis. (Tab. NostR. 5073.) Se A very pretty greenhouse plant, native of Bathurst, New South Wales, where it was found by Allan Cunningham, and it was afterwards gathered in the same locality by Mr. Fraser. Tsotoma is a name given to a section of Lobelia by the learned ti intended for his Lobelia hypocrateriforms, figured by us at *ad- 3075. This section has been adopted by Dr. Lindley as & genus, and to this he has added the Lobelia senecioides of All . Cunningham, of which the plant here figured is a variety, wit oe leaves more compound, so as 2 ee = is species has a different habit and a autete from the original [sotoma. And with these M. De Candolle has united the Caribean Lobelia longiflora of P (Hippobroma longiflora, G. Don). counter to such high authority; yet genus does not appear to our eyes sufficiently distinct from Lobelia. SEPTEMBER lst, 1858. The more usual form of the species having been fully described at our Tab. 2702, we shall refer our readers there, merely ob- serving that in the state here figured the lacinie of the leaves are longer than in the ordinary form of the plant, and not unfre- quently again pinnatifid. Fig. 1. Pistil and calyx. 2. Column of stamens :—magnified. Tas. 507A. ORCHIS FoLiosa. Leafy Orchis. Nat. Ord. OxncHIDEHZ.—GYNANDRIA MonoeGyYNIa. Gen. Char. Flores galeati. Sepala subsequalia; supremum cum petalis in for- nicis speciem connivens ; lateralia nunc convergentia nunc reflexa. Petala erecta, sepalo subeequalia. Ladellum anticum, calcaratum, integrum Vv. indivisum, cum basi column connatum. -Anthera erecta, loculis contiguis parallelis. Glandule polleniorum 2, distincte, cucullo communi (i.e. plicatura cucullata stigmatis &. rostelli) inclusee.—Herbee éerrestres, radicibus tuberculiferis, foliis plerisque radi- calibus tactu mollibus subsucculentis sepe maculatis. Lindl. a es ae Orcuts foliosa ; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis laxe vaginantibus, spica oblonga multiflora, sepalis ovatis acutis, labello latiore quam longo obsolete trilobo plano, laciniis lateralibus emarginatis intermedia acuta multo ma- joribus, calcare pendulo cornuto labello duplo breviore, bracteis herbaceis acuminatis flore spe longioribus, tuberculis palmatis. Lindl. Orcuts foliosa. Soland. MSS. in Herb. Banks. Lowe, Primit. Fl. Mader. p. 13. Lindley, Bot. Reg. t. 1101; Sert. Orchid. t. 44. De ES el ge This fine Orchis is a good deal allied, it must be confessed, to our Orchis latifolia, but nevertheless truly distinct ; differ- ing, as Dr. Lindley assures us, in being larger 1m all its parts, ; 2 having a distinctly three-lobed, flat lip, instead of a lozenge- shaped convex one, a shorter and more slender spur, and a taller stem. It is a species peculiar to the island of Madeira, and is found, according to the Rev. Mr. Lowe, from whom we possess specimens, in rocky banks of Ribeiro Frio, amongst grass and bushes of Spartium candicans, at an elevation upon the hills of 3000 feet. Our roots were sent to us by Mr. Fraser, of the Comely Bank Nursery, Edinburgh, in 1857, and the pre- sent individual flowered in a cool greenhouse 10 1858. Mr Lowe gathered one native specimen which measured two feet seven inches in height. 2 Duscr. Zuders palmated. Stem and foliage resembling greatly those of Orchis latifolia, spotless. Bracteas leafy among the flowers, but generally shorter than they. Spike ovate or oblong- SEPTEMBER Ist, 1858. ovate, three inches broad, bearing numerous purple flowers. Sepals erecto-patent, ovate, obtuse, nearly plane, palish-purple. Petals similar in form, but narrower and smaller, nearly erect, dark-purple. Zip pendent, very broad, rotundato-cuneate, three- lobed, middle lobe the smallest: the colour purple, with darker blotches of the same colour. Spur a good deal shorter than the lip, purple, with darker blotches. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Column, anther, and base of the lip, with the spur :— magnified. > eas Ss a \ \\ | | yi / Ug UV, ye £7 a i Y te — y F J ~ =~ Yb ‘ites ‘ 7 — : > aot | yt RN 4 an Tas. 5075. INGA MACROPHYLLA. Large-leaved Inga. Nat. Ord. Lecuminos£.—PoLYGAMIA Mona@cota. Gen. Char. Flores hermaphroditi vel rarius polygami. Calyx tubulosus vel campanulatus, 9-8-dentatus. Corolla tubulosa vel infundibuliformis. Stamina — indefinita, seepius numerosa, corolla duplo vel pluries longiora, basi in tubum coalita. Ovarium unicum. Legumen carnosum vel coriaceum, planum, tetragonum vel subteres, rectum vel subincurvum, vix dehiscens, marginibus inerassatis vel valde dilatatis et sulcatis. Semina pulpa dulci sepe nivea involuta.—Frutices vel arbores Americe calidioris, inermes. Folia simpluciter abrupte pinnata ; petiolus | inter juga foliorum sepe in alam expansus, alis semper ad nodos interruptis. Glan- dule inter omnia paria scutellata, turbinate, vel stipitate, in speciebus perpaucis ob- solete vel plane nulla. Foliola omnia opposita, paucyjuga, majuscula (1 nunc maxima), —rarissime pollice minora,—sape pedalia, ee oblongo- vel lanceolato-ovata. Flores — in umbellas, capitula, vel spicas oblongas vel rarius elongatas dispositi. Spice soli- tarie vel sepius fasciculatim pedunculate, avillares vel ad apices ramulorum foliis abortientibus paniculata. Flores sepissime albi. Benth. : Pr Ge Snr ar ae ck aaa ith a, aD Inga (§ Euinga) macrophylla ; ramulis tetragonis ferrugineo-villoso-tomentosis, foliis junioribus parce hirtellis demum glabratis supra nitidis, petiolo ra-_ chique lato-alatis, foliolis 2-3-jugis subcoriaceo-membranaceis ovatis obo- vato-lanceolatisve brevi-acuminatis villosis demum glabratis supra nitidis — subtus venis prominentibus basi ‘obtusis vix subcordatis, stipulis lato-lan- ceolatis, pedunculo axillari solitario monocephalo petiolo longiore, capitulo globoso, floribus flavis sericeis, calyce tubuloso, corolla infundibuliformi ealy- cem duplo excedente, staminibus longissimis. Inca macrophylla. H.B.K. Gen. et Sp. Am. 0: 4. P- 1015. Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. v. 5. p.410. Walp. Rep. Bot. v. 5. p. 638. we Inca calocephala. Popp. et Endl. Nov. Gen. et Sp. Pl. Peru. ete. 0. 3. BE (according to Bentham). Notwi h of the genus Inga and otwithstanding the able monograph ©. ae aru eo of the Mimosee generally of Mr. Bentham in th quoted, I find the greatest difficulty in identifying the present species. The living plant was received from Linden in 1849, under the name of Jnga macrocephala, to which plant, of H.B.K. at least, Mr. Bentham refers the I. calocephala of Poeppig and Endlicher ; yet I find the characters given of the two somewhat OCTOBER lst, 1858. , at variance, and that our plant agrees better with the latter than with the former. They are probably all three mere varie- ties of one species. Be that as it may, our species forms a hand- some stove-shrub, which bore in April, 1857, for the first time, its beautiful heads of yellow flowers, quite silky from the nume- rous long filaments of the stamens. Descr. Our plant of this forms a good-sized shrub, ten to twelve feet high. Stems terete, glabrous, much branched; the branches drooping, quadrangular, the younger ones clothed with dense, ferruginous, woolly hairs. Leaves consisting of two or three opposite pairs of /eaflets, which are sessile, varying in length from four to eight or ten inches, coriaceo-membranaceous, glossy, slightly villous, ovate or obovate, shortly acuminate, closely — penniveined, and the veins united by obliquely transversely parallel ones; paler beneath, where the veins are prominent. Petiole broadly winged, so as to have an obovate form; rachis too, between the two pairs, winged, giving a spathulate form, terminated between the superior pinne with a long spinule, and between the base of each pair of leaves is a large, scutellate, sessile gland. Stipules lanceolate, rather large. Peduncle soli- tary, axillary, villous, simple, twice the length of the petiole, bearing a globose sessile Lead of yellow flowers. Calye cylindri- cal, two-lipped, downy. Corolla infundibuliform, five-cleft, vil- lous. Stamens twice ‘as long as the corolla, numerous. Azthers very small, abortive? Ovary oblong. Style as long as the sta- mens. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil :—magnified. I076. Tas. 5076. OUVIRANDRA BERNIERIANA. Bernier’s Lattice-leaf. Nat. Ord. JuNCAGINE#.—HEXANDRIA Monoeynia. Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4894.) St gt ee ee Ovvrranpra Bernieriana ; foliis submersis anguste oblongo-ligulatis planis vel plerumque pertuso-fenestratis (parenchymate seriatiim porosis porls quad- ratis), scapo superne inflato, spicis 3-5 fasciculatis gracilibus, floribus laxis roseis. Ovviranpra Bernieriana. Decaisne in Delessert Icones, 0. 3. p. 62. é. 100. eS 5 Gratifying as it was to us to publish a figure, from a living from the lakes of Ma- plant, of the rare Ouvirandra Fenestralis dagascar, it is no less so that we now publish a second species of the genus, collected during a subsequent visit to the same — island, and by the same gentleman that introduced the former, on, of the Nursery, the Rev. Henry Ellis. Messrs. Jackson and S Kingston, have favoured us with the flowering plant here figured. We refer it with little hesitation to the 0. Berniervana 0 fessor Decaisne, notwithstanding he describes the leaves as mat up wholly of parenchyme (not fenestrate). We have shown, 1n our account of the former species, that the leaves, ape while young, are not pertuse, the sscees being a A be = : $01 t we have seen parenchyme : so in our present plant w ene had the openings entirely filled up; but our most pe the plant aawe the onrerclipiih to be rather copious, S° that the areoles formed by the longitudinal and transverse veins are Per forated as it were with small square oF four-angled opens e largest next the costa, those next the margin al! But this structure, so different from what is seen ID the perfect foliage of O. fenestralis, is not the only difference, the ee ae longer and much narrower in proportion, almost ligu x , i reticulation smaller, the scape 1s inflated upwards ; the spikes four or five in number, fascicled, slender, and the agi ri a and distant on the rachis, and pale rose-colour. Bot ; OCTOBER Ist, 1858. Mr. Ellis observes, in his letter to us, grow in the same waters, and he did not fail to note, on his last visit to Madagascar, that “one of the two had longer and narrower and less fenestrate _ leaves than the O. fenestralis,” though, not seeing this in flower, he did not at once recognize it as distinct. Descor. Leaves all radical, tufted, submerged, from one and a half to two feet long, including the petiole (from four to six inches), oblong-ligulate, very slightly tapering at the base, obtuse at the point, formed of longitudinal and transverse fibres, which constitute a beautiful network on each side the costa; the areoles sometimes closed with parenchyme, more generally partially closed, leaving four-angled openings in the centre, of which the larger are next the midrib, and square, becoming smaller and forming transverse lines only near the margin. ‘The colour is a brighter green than is exhibited by Ouvirandra fenestrals. - Petioles subtriangular, channelled. Peduncle, or rather, scape, radical, swollen above the middle, and contracted again just below the inflorescence. Spikes three to five, forming a kind of - umbel or fascicle of slender rachises, rather sparingly beset with flowers. Bracts two, sometimes three, oblong-spathulate, subtending each flower. Perianth proper, none. Stamens six ; filaments stout, subulate. Anthers subglobose, two-celled. Ova- ries three, apparently connected at the base, tapering into short, thick styles ; stigma a depressed point. _Fig. 1. Portion of a leaf in its usual-state. 2. Portion of a spike of flowers, with bracts. 3. Pistil :—magnified. J077. ent Brooks , Imp W Fitch del et ' on, d€L.et ith . V TLC Tas. 5077. “y AESCULUS Cauirornica. Californian Buck-eye. Nat. Ord. Hrppocastane®.—Hepranpria Monocynta. Gen. Char, Flores polygami. Cal. campanulatus vel tubulosus, quinquefidus vel 5-dentatus, plus minus ineequalis. Corolle petala 5, v. antici abortu 4, hy- pogyna, plus minus inzequalia et seepe dissimilia, unguibus erectis, Jaminis paten- tibus. Discus annularis, integerrimus v. lobatus, seepe unilateralis. Stamina 6- 8, seepissime 7, hypogyna, libera ; _filamenta filiformia, adscendentia ; anther bilo- culares, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ovarium sessile, triloculare. Ovula in locu- lis gemina, augula centrali superposite inserta, inferius adscendens, superius appen- sum. Stylus filiformis; stigma acutum. Capsuda coriacea, levis v. echinata, tri- locularis v. abortu bi-unilocularis, loculicide dehiscens, valvis medio septiferis. Semina in loculis abortu solitaria v. rarissime gemina; ¢esta coriacea, nitida ; wm- dilico basilari lato, deraso, exarillato. Limbryonis exalbuminosi curvati cotyledones mlaxime, carnosee, conferruminate ; radicula brevis, umbilico proxima ; plumula diphylla.—Arbores v. frutices, in India boreali et in America Boreali calidiore sponte crescentes ; foliis oppositis, petiolatis, exstipulatis, palmatim quingue-novem- Joliolatis; foliolis sessitibus vel petiolatis, penninerviis, serratis ; floribus in racemos vel paniculas terminales thyrsoideas dispositis. Dndl. /EscuLus (§ Pavia) Californica ; staminibus corolla longioribus, petalis 4, obo- o vatis brevi-unguiculatis sub:equalibus patentibus, calyce tubuloso bilabiato, thyrso multifloro compacto, foliolis 5 ovato-lanceolatis basi subangustatis rotundatis argute serratis glabris subtus pallidioribus. Ascurvs Californica. Nutt. M8. Torr. et Gray, Fl. of N. Am. v. 1. p. 251. Nutt. Sylva, v. 2. p. 69. t. 74. Newberry in Williamson's Route to Calif. and Oregon, 1855; Bot. p. 20.f. 1. ' Catoturrsus Californica. Spach in Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 2. p. 62. ‘The Californian Horse-Chestnut was probably first detected by Nuttall, at Monterey, and Drs. Torrey and Gray adopted his Manuscript name. Seeds have been sent to Messrs. Veitch, from the Exeter and Chelsea Nurseries, and their young trees pro- duced fine thyrsi of flowers in July, 1858. Mr. Newberry (from whom we have specimens by favour of Drs. Torrey and Gray) found it abundant in the Sacramento Valley ; Mr. Bridges sends it to us from the same country. It is described as a low, spread- OCTOBER Ist, 1858. ing tree; the tallest seen by Mr. Newberry not more than twenty feet high. It has the merit of blossoming at an early age, and is remarkable for the dense clusters of flowers, said to be rose-coloured in the native country, but which are assuredly white in our specimen. It seems to be considered hardy in England. From the beauty of the flowers, and the long time during which they continue to appear, it would be a highly va- luable acquisition to the cultivators of ornamental shrubs in the eastern States. The wood is soft, white, and brittle, like that of the other species of the genus. Descr. A small tree, with smaller leaves, if we may judge from our specimens, both cultivated and native, than those of our well-known sculus Hippocastanum, and of a firmer tex- ture. Leaflets five, petiolulate, glabrous, ovato-lanceolate, mode- rately acuminate, closely penniveined. /owers extremely nume- rous, in very dense terminal thyrsi, a span to a foot and more long. Calyr tubular, or between tubular and campanulate, green, tipped with red, at length two-lipped ; /iys unequal, erect or nearly so; upper one the largest, and three-toothed ; lower one two-toothed. Corolla of four, nearly equal, obovate, slightly undulate, shortly clawed, spreading petals, white in our speci- mens; the two inferior ones are rather the largest, and more apart than the two superior ones. Stamens five to seven, longer than the petals. Anthers orange-coloured, ovate, bluntly apiculate, prolonged at the base of each cell into a blunt spur. Ovdéry oblong, attenuated at the base, where it is surrounded by an oblique, fleshy, crenated, glandular cup; at the apex tapering into a thick, subulate, villous style. Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Calyx and pistil. 3. Pistil and hypogynous gland :— magnified. J I078 Vincent Brooks, limp. a ee a Tas. 5078, CGENOTHERA BISTORTA ; Var. Veitchiana. Luwisted-fruited Enothera; Mr. Veiteh’s var. Nat. Ord. ONAGRARIEE®.—OcTANDRIA MonoeGyYnia. Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 3764.) nein (ENorHERA (§ Spheerostigma) bistorta ; pubescens ramosa viridis, caulibus her- baceis erecto-decumbentibus, foliis ovato-lanceolatis acute dentatis inferiori- bus _petiolatis supremis ovato-acuminatis sessilibus, floribus in racemum foliosum (tune axillaribus) y. bracteatum terminalem dispositis, tubo ool infundibuliformis lobis breviore, petalis obovato-rotundatis staminibus op ) longioribus, stigmate magno globoso velutino, capsulis quadrangularibus emum insigniter tortis. (EnorueR« bistorta. Nutt. MS.. Torrey and Gray, Fl. of N. America, v. 1. p- - 508. @Noruena heterophylla, Nutt, MS., not of Spach (Torrey and Gray). Hotostiema Botte. Spach, Onagr. p. 16? Var. Veitchii, floribus majoribus speciosis. (TaB. Nostr. 5078.) We have here an GQnothera of South California, be go by Messrs. Veitch, of the Exeter and Chelsea Nurseries, ; ee San Gabriel, through Mr. William Lobb. ‘That it is the Gnothera bistorta of Nuttall, of which we have authentic sare mens in our herbarium, there can be, we think, no ~~ fe is equally certain that, like other species of the genus, 1 th ae to vary-much in form and clothing of the foliage, and a c Mr and beauty of the flowers. Our native eee ae ‘5 Lobb (n. 416), of this very plant gives no idea of : Pp as a cultivation, which, we think, promises to be one : fv be any yellow-flowered plants for bedding out, the s a g : humble stature, the flowers large and copious wit hoa tala Succession on the racemes, and when fully mane t ; ia 7 exhibit a dark-orange or blood-coloured spot at the T ie each petal, as in some of the Cistus tribe. — Spee - “ed and Gray have already noticed one variety with the cap OCTOBER Ist, 1858, | completely coiled when mature; but on the same specimen we often find every form of coiling, reminding one very much of the appearance of a worm in various degrees of contortion. ‘The species seems peculiar to South California; Nuttall found it at San Diego ; yet the plant is perfectly suited to our summer cli- inate, where it ripens its seeds, or may be increased by cuttings. The curious stigma is characteristic of the section Spherostigma. Dzscr. Annual, pubescent, but not hoary. Svems simple or branched, subdecumbent, terete, green, tinged with red on one side. Leaves rather distant, lower ones shortly petiolate, lanceo- late, acuminate ; upper ones broader and sessile, gradually pass- ing into bracts, all of them dentate, the upper ones more deeply so, penniveined, /Yowers solitary in the axil of almost every leaf and bract, short-pedicellate (but the slender ovary has very much the appearance of a peduncle). Calya ; its long narrow four-angled tube adherent with the ovary, except the apex, which is infundi- buliform and free. Segments four, lanceolate, reflexed. Petals _ broadly cuneato-rotundate, spreading, full yellow, with small, deep blood-coloured spots at the base. Stamens cight, alternately shorter, and the tallest much shorter than the petals. Style as long as the stamens. Stigma very large, velvety, capitate, yellow. Fruit \inear, four-angled, one and a half to two inches long, four- angled, singularly contorted, and even twisted, as it advances to maturity. Fig. 1. Upper portion of the o ith cal t d stamens. 2. Single petal :—magnified. ied Sn semaine ae rena ———r u itn yaa Tas. 5079. TRADESCANTIA pisconor; var. variegata. Purple-leaved Spiderwort ; variegated var. Nat. Ord. Commetyne#.—Hexanpria Monoeynia. Gen. Char. Flores regulares. Sepaila 6, libera, patentia; tria exteriora navyi- cularia, persistentia ; tria interiora majora, petaloidea, breviter unguiculata, mar- cescendo-persistentia. Stamina 6, subhypogyna, omnia fertilia. Filamenta libera, pleramque barbata. Anthere conformes, loculis reniformibus, connexivo varia forma distinctis, interdum tres sepalis exterioribus opposite robustiores, loculis replicatis extrorse filamentisque brevioribus sustente. Ovarium sessile, trilocu- lare; ovula in loculis 2, superposita. Stylus 1. Stigma simplex, obtusum, in- fundibulare vel peltato-ampliatum. Capsula trilocularis, trivalvis; valvis medio septiferis. Semina bina, superposita, angulata.—Herbee Americane, erecte vel oo diffuse, sepe repentes. Folia indivisa. Vagine integra. Peduneuli axillares et terminales, solitarii, gemini v. plures, apice umbellato-pauci-multiflori, sepe brevis- — simi, subnulli, Solioque duplici involucrati. Kth. TRADESCANTIA discolor ; aloidea, caule brevi erecto, foliis lanceolatis acuminatis subtus violaceis, pedunculis axillaribus, bracteis insigniter equitantibus compressis flores omnino involucrantibus. S. .: , TRapuscantra discolor. L’Hérit. Sert. Angl. v. 8. t. 12. Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 5. fe p. 403. Smith, Ic. Pict. t.10. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 2. p. 18. Ker in Bot. — Mag. t.1192. Red. Liliae. t. 168. Kth. Enum. Pl. 0. 4. p. 85. TRapEscant1a spathacea. Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. v. 1. p. 607. Var. variegata ; foliis supra flavo-vittatis. (Tas. Nosrr. 5079.) TRADESCANTIA variegata, Hort. We cannot say much in praise of the figure of the ordinary State of this ee pesilit plant, published at Tab. 1192 - = work, by Mr. Ker, and we are glad of an yen a more justice to it, in representing a state of the oe t — lately been cultivated in gardens, imported, we believe, a Belgium, under the name of Zrad. variegata. It is aes ab for the rich colour of the under side of the leaves, Be : e a gated yellowish lines on the dark-green upper side. e spec inhabits Mexico, where it is considered to ee Se Fes it is cultivated in various of the islands in the ssi tore = and in the East as well as the West Indies. It is eas by cuttings, and this state of the plant especially is worthy of — OoToBER 1s7,1858. ‘ cultivating in every stove or warm greenhouse. It flowers during the summer months. Duscr. Var. variegata. The rhizome, rather than stem, is short and ascending. The /eaves are numerous from the sum- mit of the rhizome, somewhat aloid, lanceolate, firm, rather thick and fleshy, sheathing at the base, dark-green above, with pale-yellow streaks running longitudinally, as in the well-known “ Ribbon-grass,” but the lines are less distinct, the back of the leaves has a blunt keel, and the colour is a rich purple. Peduncles short, thick, axillary, not rising above the sheathing base of the leaf, bearing three large dracte@, which are complicate, compressed, the two upper ones opposite to each other, and completely equi- tant, so as to form a compressed cup or ¢zvolucre, resembling a bivalve-shell (some large Zéd/ina), of a purple colour, within which the flowers appear, and which are but slightly, if at all, protruded : these flowers are pure white. Calyx of three, ovate, spreading sepals. Corolla of three, nearly cordate, spreading petals, larger than the calyx. Stamens six. Filaments filiform, singular, tortuose, bearing a tuft of long, jointed hairs below the middle. Axthers all perfect, transversely oblong, subdidymous, yellow. Ovary globose. Style subulate. Capsule small, subbaccate, three-celled, red. Fig. 1. Flower-bud, _2. Flower expanded. 3. Stamen. 4. Pistil :—magni- fied, 5. Capsule, nat. size. 6. Transverse section of ditto, magnified. LLL ae fryef Pf 47 PS a bE ERR ented Ss SSAA Ragen — kt “f limp IOS ) Vineent Broaks 71Ae* ) | oer Era Bae at. rere linys : WAV Rey sa eon ah tas iit pene spt oo beh Merve? 45 wan REE aE AP 2 USS ALY ASSEISIROE Seer li Py as ee VA re AREER | la eo a LY ! PPPS 55. Malaga errr zi DP Iitrrc toy By ld = ' Tas. 5080. NEPENTHES vizuosa. , Villous Pitcher-plant. Nat. Ord. NEPENTHACE®.—Dra@cia MonopeEcpuHtia. Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4285.) NEPENTHES villosa ; Tufescenti-villosa, foliis petiolatis, ascidiis caulinis amplis- simis cylindraceis antice lamellis duabus longitudinalibus longe fimbriatis, oris insigniter elongati valde obliqui margine latissimo reflexo plicatim stri- ato, operculo ovato demum erecto facie interiore punctata punctis copiosis excavatis versus apicem majoribus basi medio carinato. Neventuss villosa. Hook. fil. in Icones Plant. Rar. v. 9. t. 888. Dried flowering specimens only, and unfortunately without the perfect ascidia or pitchers, of what we believe to be the same plant as that here figured, were sent by Hugh Low, Jun., Esq., gathered on Kina-Baloo, in Borneo, growing at an elevation of about 8000 feet above the level of the sea. Mr. Thomas Lobb was more fortunate in sending to Messrs. Veitch and Sons, ae and Chelsea N ursery, living plants from mountains near Sarawak, together with dried flowering specimens, from which our accom- panying figures are taken. It as much excels J. ee in the peculiarity of the ascidia, as that does all previously oar Species. They are more than a foot long, and the vei a margins to the sides of the elongated mouth resemble the gills a fish in structure and size, and almost in colour. Drscr. The figure of this curious plant will give a ren ee of its general structure than any words can do. The p sy vil. like it congeners, a climber, very hairy, and even ‘ding baie in lous in its young state, but in age the copious sp aed ren our specimens at least, are evidently more or ae acu Leaves alternate, on rather long, sheathing petioles, expanding d elongated d/ade, from into the oval or more or less oblong pine? crak a six inches to a foot long, spreading, an : : coriaceo-membranaceous, erin farnished with a strong ni og costa, nerveless ; this costa is continued for four : ak euehe more or less, beyond the blade or lamina, and p pA par spet pitcher (ascidium) at its extremity. The weight, 1t w a NOVEMBER Ist, 1858. of this pitcher, causes the prolonged costa and the upper half of the blade of the leaf to descend, taking a downward direction ; _ nevertheless, as the pitcher enlarges this has always an upward ten- dency, and becomes quite erect, from a span toa foot long; in an early stage closed by the lid, at which time the curious fringe at the mouth, while covered with the lid, is very small, as would appear from our young dried specimens ; but as our living speci- men possesses only a perfectly formed pitcher, we shall confine our present description to that. Its general form is cylindrical, nine inches in circumference, somewhat ventricose or unequal- sided, rather suddenly tapering below into the prolonged costa: it is furnished in front for its whole length with two longitudinal membranaceous wings, cut into long, simple, or bi- or tri-fid segments ; the uppermost segments the longest and the most divided. The su4stance of this pitcher is membranaceous, but firm, the colour a pale fulvous-green, blotched with purplish- _ brown, and the wings are of that colour: the surface is obscurely reticulately veined, and is more or less hairy. The mouth or opening is the most extraordinary portion of this pitcher ; it is very oblique, its margin formed of a substance distinct in tex- ture and colour from the rest of the pitcher, of considerable breadth (two inches in the widest portion), of a fleshy nature, recurved, orange-purple, beautifully plaited or radiated with ele- vated lamellated lines, extending upwards to its narrowest por- tion, where the lips of the margin meet, project in a keel-like form, closing over that part of the mouth. The apex is termi- nated by the /id. This, in its perfect state, stands nearly erect, Is ovato-cordate, apiculate, downy, with a keel or crest at the base beneath : its whole under side is impresso-punctate, with dots which are quite visible to the naked eye. The colour is green, margined and spotted with blood-colour. The lower part of the mouth is thus alone pervious, and that very much con- tracted. In the inside of the pitchers water is naturally col- lected, and, as in other species of the genus, no doubt, is a great provision of nature for decoying and for the destruction of insects. ‘The petioles of the leaves are deeply channelled above. Our dried flowering specimen affords a lateral pedunculated raceme of downy male flowers. Perianth of four spreading obovate sepals. Column of stamens bearing a few branched hairs. Anthers six, arranged in a capitate whorl. Our Plate Tepresents the young portion of a male plant with flowers (from ‘oe dried specimens), and a portion of Messrs. Veitch’s cultivated plant, with a fully formed pitcher, natural size. 2. Single male flower, magnified. Re oe Tas. 5081. PLOCOSTEMMA LASIANTHUM. Woolly-flowered Plocostemma. Nat. Ord. ASCLEPIADE®.—PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. Gen. Char. PuocostemMa, Bl. Calyx quinquepartitus. Corolla quinquefida, patens v. reflexa, intus ad basin stuposa. Corona staminea pentaphylla, gyno- stegio subsessili adnata ; foliolis carnosis, erectis, compressis, subtus condupli- catis, angulo interiore in dentem anther incumbentem producto. Anthere membrana stigmati incumbente terminate. Pollinia basi affixa, erecta, oblonga, compressa, hine marginata. Stigma apiculatum. Folliculi . . .—Frutices Archi- pelagi Indici, volubiles ; foliis oppositis, coriaceis, subvenosis, glabris ; umbellis pe- dunculatis, terminalibus v. interpetiolaribus, multifloris. Bl. PiocostemMa lasianthum ; foliis ovalibus breviter cuspidato-acuminatis venosis, umbellis longe pedunculatis pendentibus, corolla reflexa intus ad basin dense stuposa. ud PLocosremma lasianthum. Blume in Rumphia, v. 4. p- 30 ; Mus. Bot: Iugd.-Bat. v. 1. p. 60. f. 14. ee Hoya lasiantha. Herb. Korthals. (Blume). We are favoured with this remarkable Asclepiadeous plant by Mr. Low, of the Clapton Nursery, who imported it from Borneo. It proves to be a genus of the family allied to Hoya which Professor Blume has lately established in his ‘Rumphia, and figured in his valuable ‘Museum Botanicum Lugduno-Batavorum, differing from Hoya, but having the foliola of the staminal crown erect, compressed, conduplicate beneath, and the corolla at the base within densely woolly. The author characterizes two spe- cies, both natives of the Malay Islands ; the present one peculiar, as far as yet known, to Borneo. It flowers with us 1n July. Descr. A long-stemmed, climbing shrub, with quite the habit — of a Hoya ; the branches terete, dark-green, glabrous, as in every part of the plant, save the corolla. Leaves opposite, petiolate, a span long, oval, or rather ovate, subcordate at the base, apiculato- acuminate, thick, fleshy, dark-green, especially above, with occa- sionally a few pale blotches, veined ; principal veins very distinct in the recent leaf. Petiole about an inch long, terete. Peduncle NOVEMBER Ist, 1858. interpetiolary in our specimen, long, pendent, thickened and dilated at the apex, where it bears an wméel or rather a fascicle of a considerable number of flowers, all hanging downwards, of a tawny-orange colour. Calyx small, five-lobed. Corolla rotate, of five ovate segments, which segments are strongly reflexed upon the pedicel, and the margins are recurved ; the disc of the corolla cushioned, as it were, with a dense cottony mass, mixed with ei hairs. Staminal crown singularly large and as described above. Fig. 1. Staminal crown, magnified. . Vincent Brodks,imp- t Lith. € W Fitch, del Tar. 5082. THUNBERGIA NATALENSIS. Natal Thunbergia. Nat. Ord. AcantHacka®.—DIpYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Taz. 4119.) THuNBERGtA Natalensis ; erecta basi frutescens glabriuscula, foliis subapproxi- matis ovatis acutis sessilibus 3—5-nerviis margine sinuato-dentato, peduneulis axillaribus solitariis unifloris folio subbrevioribus, bracteis ovatis subacumi- natis 3-nerviis reticulatis, corolla tubo flavo bracteas superante, limbo czruleo, calycis dentibus 5 latis triangularibus obtusis incurvis, antheris_bicornibus, stylo superne dilatato glanduloso in stigmate concavo triangulari expanso. Native of Natal, whence the Messrs. Veitch, of the Exeter and Chelsea Nurseries, received seeds through Mr. Cuming, and reared plants which flowered in the greenhouse in July, 1858. Its nearest affinity is doubtless with Zhunbergia atriplicifolia of E. Meyer ; like that, having sessile and angulately-toothed leaves : but these leaves in our plant are almost quite glabrous and much larger and broader ; and there is a peculiar character in the five broad teeth or segments of the calyx, and very different from the humerous spine-like segments of that of £. atriplicifolia,—a native however of the same country, where it appears to be ex- tremely plentiful, for we have received specimens from various correspondents,—whereas our only acquaintance with the present Species is through Messrs. Veitch’s cultivated specimens. Pro- bably Mr. Bentham’s Meyenia erecta, from tropical W. Africa, figured at our Tab. 5013, may be safely referred to Thunbergia. [t has not a few points in common with the present plant, but the anthers (supposing them to be correct as represented by our artist) and the calyx are very different, as well as the stigma : and the corolla is very inferior in point of colour. Descr. Sfem erect, two feet or more high, somewhat shrubby below, above herbaceous, green, quadrangular, glabrous except NOVEMBER Ist, 1858. at the internodes. Leaves opposite, the pairs rather approxi- mate, sessile, ovate, acute or subacuminate, sinuato-serrate, with — three primary veins, glabrous above, hairy on the costa and veins beneath. Peduncles axillary, solitary, erect, single-flowered, much shorter than the leaves. Flowers horizontally drooping, large, handsome. Bracts ovate, nearly as long as the tube of the co- rolla, to which they are appressed, three-nerved ;. zerves strong, reticulated with lesser veins. Corol/a with the tube yellow, two inches long, curved upwards ; /imd large, cut into five broad, ob- cordate, nearly equal, horizontally spreading /odes. Calyx minute, of six, small, triangular, incurved, apiculate teeth. Stamens four, nearly equal in height. Anthers each two-horned. Ovary sur- rounded by a large, fleshy disc. Style slender at the base, gla- brous, gradually enlarged into a somewhat trumpet-shaped but triangular concave stigma, with numerous glandular /acrs below the stigma. Fig. 1. Stamens. 2. Calyx and pistil. 3. Stigma :—magnified. 4 All | \ 4 Vincent Brooks,imp. , mM ie “ft \ f a (Ul Lt4 rth uy i , aly Ap 3 a fe - a PEI e ies vf DOM aa , ; 04 tts ; abi 6: vit ; rt . 8 My) fawsey SRSA N LN Gag Lg DIOP Ltt!» GRO . / , Tas. 5083. NAZGELIA MuLTIFLORA. White-lowered Negela. Nat. Ord. GrsNERAcE®,—DIpYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA. Gen. Char. Corolla oblique adnata, tubo ventre inflato, limbo ineequaliter quinquelobo, fauce late hiante. -Annulus perigynus quinquecrenatus. Stigma eapitatum. Reliqua ut Gesnerie.—Herbe stolonibus perennantes ; foliis oppo- sitis ; floribus racemosis, ante anthesin revolutis. Regel. N#GELIA multiflora; caulescens molliter pubescens glanduloso-villosa, foliis (amplis) longe petiolatis cordatis crenatis, racemis elongatis multifloris, coroll (albee) tubo elongato superne angulato apice sursum curvato vix ventricoso limbi valde obliqui lobis patentibus subeequalibus, stylo glandu- loso-piloso. Guoxrnta? multiflora. Martens et Gal. En. Pl. Mex. Gesnera, p. 3. Herb. Gal. nm. 19138. Naeetia amabilis. Hort. . Acuimenns (Negelia) amabilis. Dene. in FU. des Serres, for 1857, p. 1192. — This plant is so closely allied to the well-known Gesnera zebrina (see our Tab. 3940), that at first sight I was disposed to consider a it a white-flowered state of that beautiful species. The nature | a of the clothing, however, is different ; the form of the flower (as _ well as the colour) is different, and approximates to that of ow Gloxinia tubifora (Tab. 3971). Dr. Regel, who has studied with — great attention the whole Gesneraceous family, and given excel- on lent figures of his genera, separates Gesnera zebrina from the ie true Gesnere, under the name of Negelia. Whether or not — the distinguishing marks are of sufficient importance to _ tute a valid genus, the present individual must rank ie - Living plants have been received, from the Belgian Gar pie at Kew, under the name of Negelia amabilis, but it appears 1den-— tical with Martens and Galeotti’s Gloxinia? multiflora, a native of the eastern Cordillera of Oaxaca, at an elevation of 2-3000 feet | above the level of the sea. It flowers with us in the stove - 3 ah autumnal months. ie c Escr. The general aspect of the Pp nae _ of the foliage, ate. bear a iat resemblance to Wagelia (Gesnera) s NOVEMBER Ist, 1858. lant, the shape and tee zebrina ; but here, besides the soft velvety clothing, there are copious patent hairs generally tipped with a gland. Raceme terminal, elongated. Pedice/s bracteolated at the base, erecto- patent. Mowers drooping, shorter than the pedicels, white or cream-colour. Calye almost hispid with glandular hairs. Co- rolla with the tube scarcely ventricose, elongated, curved up- _ wards, below the very oblique, rather large, spreading, five- lobed, equal limb. Glandular ring nearly entire, crowning the ovary ; from within, and from the apex of the ovary, arises a circle of bristles. Style glanduloso-pilose. Stigma capitate, umbili- cate. ; Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Pistil. 3. Transverse section of the ovary :—*magnified. (a 5 5 dith. N Pitch deLet W * Tas. 5084, CCELOGYNE panpurata. Pandurate Celogyne. Nat. Ord. OrcutpE.£.—GyNaNDRIA MoNnANDRIA. Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5001.) CELOGYNE (§ Flaccide)* pandurata; foliis maximis multinerviis, racemo longo pendulo, bracteis oblongis cucullatis distantibus persistentibus, petalis se- palisque lineari-oblongis, labello basi concavo cordato-oblongo retuso cis apicem crispo setaceo-acuminato (lateribus deflexis pandurato), lobis basilari- bus nanis acuminatis, disco levi tricarinato utrinque crista alta duplici verru- culosa aucto citra cristam copiose verrucoso. Ca@Locrne pandurata. Lindley in Gard. Chron. Dec. 10, 1853; Folia Orchi- dacea, part 5, Ceelogyne, p. 3. This very fine Orchideous plant is so very unlike the hitherto best-known species of Calogyne (generally showy and highly ornamental, white or rose-colour, more or less mottled with yel- low and dark-purple), that at first sight it would not he easily recognized as belonging to the genus: yet it possesses all the characters. Indeed it is rare for flowers of any genus to be so truly green as in the present plant. It is a native of Borneo, imported by Mr. Low, of the Clapton Nursery, and described by Dr. Lindley in the works above quoted, from a flowering plant in the possession of Messrs. Loddiges, Hackney Nursery, De- cember, 1853. Although a native specimen from Mr. Low, Jun., is in the Hookerian Herbarium, sent to us by Mr. Low, Jun., from Borneo, we have not ourselves had the advantage of seeing the living plant. The accompanying figure is from a = specimen in the Orchideous House of — Butler, Esq., Par Place, Woolwich. We therefore take advantage of Dr. Lindley’s bats follows. description in most of what follows her large, slightly com- Descr. Pseudobulbs oblong-ovate, rat Oy pressed. Leaves very large, broad-lanceolate, longitudinally striated and plaited. Raceme about as long as the leaves (eighteen * This section (Flaccida) is known by its long pendulous racemes. NOVEMBER Ist, 1858. or twenty inches). ‘ lowers about two inches apart, green, in a pendent raceme, furnished with brown (green when young), cu- cullate, deciduous éracts, as long as the peduncle, Each flower is about four inches across if fully expanded, with pale-green sepals and petals, and a singularly warted /ip, marked with deep broad black veins and stams upon a greenish-yellow ground. ‘The crests are two, deep, double-warted lines, on each side of a three- ribbed, central disc ; these crests converge towards the middle of the dp, where they lose themselves in a field of pallid, rugged, irregularly situated, often two-lobed warts. The column is green, slightly expanded into thin, rounded edges. The dip, although really oblong, yet, in consequence of the manner in which the sides are bent down, has much the form of a violin. A memorandum (of Mr. Low, Jun.) in the Hookerian Herba- rium states the flower to emit an agreeable perfume.” —Lindley. Fig. 1. The lip, mat. size. 2. Thecolumn. 3. Pollen-masses :—magnified. W Fitch delet lith. _ Vincent Broeks, imp. Tas. 5085. OSBECKIA aspErRa. Rough-leaved Osbeckia. Nat. Ord. MELASTOMACE#.—OCTANDRIA MonoeyNIa. Gen. Char. Calycis tubus ovatus, seepius setis stellatis aut pube stellata vesti- tus; obi 4-5, persistentes aut decidui; appendices inter lobos extus orte, forma et magnitudine varie. Petala 4-5; stamina 8-10, filamentis glabris, antheris subsequalibus brevi-rostratis, connectivo basi breve biauriculato. Ovarium apice setosum. Capsula 4—5-locularis. Semina cochleata—Herbee aut sapius suffru- tices Americana, Africane, et Asiatice. Folia integerrima, 3-5-nervia. Flores terminali. DC. OsBeckta aspera; fruticosa, rami junioribus subquadrangularibus strigosis, fo- subtus rigide pu- liis petiolatis ovalibus acutis 3-5-nerviis superne strigosis sul i bescentibus ad nervos hispidis, racemis terminalibus paucifloris, calycis tubo. hemispheerico setoso superne squamuloso, squamulis longe rigide stellatim setosis, staminibus 10, antheris uniformibus apice rostratis basi bitubercu- latis, ovario longe setoso. OspecKia aspera. Wight et Arn. Prodr. Fi. Penins. Ind. Or. p. 323. Wight, Te. Plant Ind. Orn. 311. ¢. 311. Walp. Repert. v. 2. p. 581. Naudin, Melast. p. 74. MeLastoma asperum. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 560. De Cand. Prodr. v. 3. p 145. AsTEROSTOMA asperum. Blume, Mus. Bot. Iugd.-Batav. v. 1. p. 50. ars cultivated in the stoves of the Royal Gardens of Kew, where, during the summer and autumnal months, it makes a very handsome appearance, with its strongly three-nerved leaves and its copious, large, rich purple-coloured la of India, and blossoms. It is a native of Ceylon and the peninsu is well figured in Dr. Wight's * Icones Plantarum Indie Orien- talis.” We are disposed to think that Wight and Arnott were correct in referring hither the Osheckia glauca, Benth. in Wall. Cat. n. 4073 (and in our herbarium), from Travancore and Trin- comalee,—a plant, too, of Dr. Wight’s own gathering, but that the accurate Naudin pronounces the two distinct, and describes them as such accordingly; at least, he does so with Osheckia glauca”’ of Wall. MSS., meaning probably thereby of his Cata- DECEMBER Ist, 1858. This has been for many ye logue. References for this plant to Rheed. Hort. Malab. v. 4. t. 43, and Rumph. Amboyn. v. 4. t. 71, are justly considered doubtful. Desor. A small shrud, one to two feet and more high; the young éranches subquadrangular, strigose. Leaves opposite, oval or approaching to ovate, acute, petiolate (petiole scarcely half an inch long, generally red), strongly three- to five-nerved, firm, subcoriaceous, entire; above, strigose with close-pressed rigid short hairs or bristles ; beneath, coarsely downy and hispid upon the prominent nerves. #/owers subracemose and terminat- ing short branches, only one on each branch opening at a time: these are very handsome. The calyzx-tube is between hemispherical and bell-shaped, clothed with coarse bristles ; towards the upper part and on the outside of the calyx-lobes are small scales, ter- minated by long stellate bristles; Zimb of five lobes, spreading, deciduous. Pedals five, large, obcordate, rich purple, spreading horizontally, slightly waved. Stamens ten; filaments moderately long, and nearly equal ; azthers uniform, linear, slightly spirally twisted, beaked at the apex and opening by a pore, and at the base having a small annulus, with a small two-lobed process in front. Ovary crowned at the summit with copious long bristles, which project beyond the mouth of the calyx ; style bent down in a direction opposite to that of the stamens ; stigma obtuse. Fig. 1. Calyx and pistil. 2. Stamen :—magnified. 5086. gee et tin Ty+ Tas. 5086. MONSTERA Apansonlit. Perforated Monstera. Nat. Ord. ArnorpE#: Trib. Cattacrm.—HeptTanpria Monoeynia. Gen. Char. Spatha hians, tandem decidua. Spadia sessilis, basi famineus. Ovaria bilocularia, loculis biovulatis, ovudis infimee axeos parti affixis erectis. Stylus brevis, manifestus. Stigma capitatum. Fructus: bacce connate, epi- carpia tandem abjicientes—Americe tropice inxcole, caule scandente, foliis ovato- oblongis integris v. perforatis, petiolis vagina latiuscula dilatatis, spatha ex albido » flava, ovariis raphidophoris. Schott. . Monstera Adansonii ; scandens, foliis oblongo-ovatis cordatis pertusis, spathis cymbiformibus. Monsrera Adansonii. Schott, Meletem. Bot. p. 21. Kunth, Enum. Plant. v. 3. p. 60. Dracontrum pertusum. Linn. Sp. Pl. 1372. Jacq. Hort. Schinbr. v. 2. p. 29. #.184-185. Flora Flumin. v. 9. t. 117. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 2. p. 289. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 2. p. 336. - Carta Dracontium. Mey. Esseq. p. 197. Caza pertusa. Kunth, Syn. v. 1. p. 129. Dracontium, foliis pertusis, caule scandente. Miller, Gard. Dict. v. 1; Ie. t. 296. Arum hederaceum, amplis foliis perforatis. Plum. dmer. v. 40. ¢. 56-57. The genus Monstera was established by Adanson upon this plant, the Dracontium pertusum of Linnzeus, and adopted by the distinguished writer on droidee, Dr. Schott, whose generic cha- racter we have adopted, and who, in his ‘ Meletemata Botanica, united with it the Arum ligulatum, Auct., and Pothos cannefolia, Rudge. Afterwards, in his ‘ Synopsis Aroidearum, he separated the two latter genera, and referred them to Philodeniron. Pceppig and Endlicher, however, and Miquel and Gardner and Liebmann, have each given a new species to Monstera : how far all of them may correspond with Schott’s views of the genus, I have no means of knowing. The plant is a native of tropical America and the West Indian Islands, and has been intro- duced into English gardens more than a century ago, namely, in 1752, by Mr. Philip Miller. Dzscr. It is a scandent plant, several feet in length, running DECEMBER IsT, 1858. up the trunks of trees, and attaching itself to their bark by thick fleshy fibres. The main sfem or trunk is one or two inches thick, but variable in size in different parts of the same stem, ringed, as it were, with the scars formed by fallen leaves, more or less branched; the éranches are narrowed at the base, leafy. Leaves distichous, long-petioled, from a span to a foot long, oblique at the base, acuminulate at the apex, somewhat waved at the margin, dark-green, glossy, with stout costa, penni- veined, entire or in the disc and between the veins more or less perforated with large linear or oblong openings, one between each pair of veins, at various and very uncertain distances from the costa, lying parallel with the veins. Petioles grooved, with a membranous and sheathing margin, auricled above. Bractee elongated, boat-shaped, green, terminal from between the most superior pair of leaves: from this bract the peduncle emerges, thick, terete. Spatha cream-colour, deep cymbiform, ovate, acute: in the inside the surface appears as if impressed with the flowers of the spadix. Peduncle not much exserted beyond the bractea. Spadix included, much shorter than the spatha, cylindrical, thick, obtuse, clothed with white pistils for its whole length, which are closely compacted ; those towards the base without stamens, the rest surrounded by seven s/amens, which are close-pressed. Filaments broad, plane, tipped with two-celled anthers. Ovary turbinate, tapering upwards into a short style, two-celled, four-seeded. Stigma minute, four-lobed. Fig. 1. Single stamen. 2. Pistil from the upper part of the spadix, sur- rounded by its stamens. 8. Vertical section of the pistil. 4. Transverse sec- tion :—magnified. 087. << Py] Tas. 5087. APTERANTHES Gussoniana. Gussoni’s Apteranthes. Nat. Ord. ASCLEPIADEZ.—PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. Gen. Char. Calyx quinquepartitus. Corolla rotata, quinquefida ; Jacintis late ovatis, apice pilosis. Gynosteginm faucem subeequans. Corona staminea simplex, quinqueloba ; Jodis subtriangularibus, obtusis, stigmate incumbentibus, carnosulis, basi et a latere globulis obtusis flavis stipatis. Anthere apice simplices ; masse pollinis rotundatee, margine hine pellucidee. Stigma muticum. Follicult . «i Herbee Stapelize habitu, in regione Mediterranea occidentali, ramis tetragonis denta- tis, floribus umbellatis parvis rufo-fuscis transverse rugosis, ad faucem pilis raris inspersis inodoris. De Cand. APTERANTHES Gussoniana.: Aprerantuzs Gussoniana. Mikan, Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. v. 17. p. 594. #. 41. Gussoni, Notiz. 1832, n. 87, cum ic? De Cand. Prodr. v. 8. p. 649. Cosson et Dur. Fl. Alger. t. 62. f. 1 (sine descript.). Srapetra Gussoniana. Jacg. in Bot. Reg. t. 1731. Srapenia Europwa. Guss. Act. Soc. Bord. v. 4. p. 81, et Suppl. p. 65. Flor. Sicule, v. 1. p. 288. er Brrcnerosta Munbyana, “ Decaisne in litt.” (ad cl. Mnnby), Menby, Fi. d Alger, — p. 25. Formerly, Asclepiadeous plants, with the habit of the well- known genus S/apelia, were supposed to be peculiar to the deserts of southern Africa; but we have now, of this group, the genus Caralluma, of which two species ate peculiar to the Hast Indies, one to Arabia ; Boucerosia, whose nine species are found in the East Indies, Arabia, Senegambia; and Apteranthes, the plant now under consideration, the most interesting of all in a geographical point of view, inasmuch as it is the only represen- tative of the group which extends to Europe. It was first, —— 1832, detected by Professor Gussonl, on the Sicilian island o Lampedusa ; has since been found about Oran, in Algeria, by an English botanist resident there, Mr. Munby ; and more re- cently in saline places at Cape Gata, and at Almeria, in Spain, by Mr. Webb. A solitary species only 1s known of the genus, DECEMBER, Ist, 1858. for “ Apteranthes Numidica, Durieu, Explor. Alger. t. 62,” of Pritzel’s valuable ‘Iconum Botanicarum Index locupletissimus,’ should have been Campanula Numidica, which is the name written and the plant referred to on the plate quoted. Our greenhouse owes the possession of this rarity to Mr. Munby, | believe its discoverer in North Africa, unless the Stapelia hirsuta of Desfontaines, FI. Atlantica, vol. i. p. 213 ;—surely it cannot be the South African Sf. hirsuta, Linn., although Des- fontaines considered it as such. It flowers with us in Sep- tember. Descr. The entire aspect of the plant is that of a small- flowered Stapelia ; the stems and more or less pendent branches are quite leafless, about as thick as one’s finger, with from four to six angles, more or less deeply channelled between the angles, and these dentate, at intervals of nearly half an inch from each other, with short, sharp, triangular ¢eetZ, which are convex below, plane above. Flowers small, in wmée/s springing from the apex of a branch, or from a little below the apex, five to seven or eight in an umbel. Pedicels very short. Calyx quinquepartite ; segments lanceolate, acute, spreading ; within, at each sinus, are five small ovato-acute scales, only seen on removing the corolla. Corolla scarcely three-quarters of an inch broad, rotate, fleshy, pale- yellow, mottled and banded with dingy-purple, the five ovate segments soon recurved, villous at the faux and at the margins. Gynostegium sunk in the short tube of the corolla, . five-lobed at the margin ; the lobes dark-purple, triangular, its apex two- lobed, yellow: and there are two bright-yellow globose glands at the base. These lobes are close-pressed upon the stigma. Anthers simple at the apex. Stigma a depressed, obscurely five- angled, large, peltate disc. Vig. 1. Teeth, from the angles of the stem. 2, Flower. 3. Portion of calyx and pistil. 4. Gynostegium :—magnified. JOSE. W Fitch, delt, et lith, Vincent Brooks, imp. Tas. 5088, LOBELIA rrigonocauuis. Triangular-stemmed Lobelia. Nat. Ord. Lopeniacea’.—Prentanprra Monoeynia. . Gen. Char. Calyx tubo obconico, turbinato v. hemispherico, cum ovario con nato ; limbo supero, quinquefido. Corolla summo calycis tubo inserta, tubulosa, tubo hine apice fisso; Jimbi quinquefidi uni-bilabiati Jaciniis tribus inferioribus pendulis, duabus superioribus pendulis v. cum inferioribus couniventibus. Séa- mina 3, cum corolla inserta ; filamenta et anthere, omnes v. saltim due inferiores barbate, in tubum connate. Ovarium inferum, vertice brevissime exsertum, bi- triloculare. Ovuda in placentis carnosulis, dissepimento utrinque adnatis v. e lo- culorum angulo centrali porrectis, plyrima, anatropa. Stylus inclusus; stigma demum exsertum, bilobum; Jodis divaricatis, orbiculatis, subtus pilorum annulo cinctis. Capsula bi-trilocularis, ultra verticem exsertum, loculicido-bi-trivalvis, Semina plurima, minima, scrobiculata. Embryo in axi albuminis carnosi ortho~ tropus; cotyledonibus brevissimis, obtusis; radicula umbilica proxima, centripeta. —Herbee perennes, v. rarius annua, in regionibus tropicis subtropicisque totius or- bis observate, in America e@quinoctiali imprimis copiose, in Europa media raris- sime, habitu et inflorescentia admodum varie. Endl. Losetia trigonocaulis ; glabra decumbens, caule ramoso trigono sulcato, foliis ovatis nune subcordatis ineequaliter dentato-laciniatis subpinnatifidis in pe- tiolum alatum aquilongum attenuatis supremis angustis, racemis terminali- bus foliosis remotifloris, floribus declinatis, pedicellis filiformibus bracteatis, calycis laciniis linearibus ovario longioribus, ‘capsulis maturis subglobosis (‘‘ semiovatis’’) nutantibus. Losetra trigonocaulis. F. Mueller, Fragm. Phytogr. Austral. v. 1. p. 19. The genus Lodelia, though much diminished in number of species by the separation of new genera from it, 18 eee still very numerous in individuals. Of these Australia has its fair proportion. The present is an addition to those already ve and seems peculiar to North-east Australia. Dr. F. ree = gives Brisbane river as the locality, on the authority of Mr. Hi and himself. Messrs. Hugh Low and Son, of the Clapton _ oe sery, possess living plants reared from seeds sent by a i from Mount Lindsay, Moreton Bay, and these (from whic ' our figure is taken) show it to be a very ornamental plant, an he well calculated for “ bedding out” im open borders, where ue flowers are such a desideratum. The brightness of the colour DECEMBER Ist, 1858. is here much enhanced by the large white spot on the lower lip and the red tinge on the tube. Drscr. A rather small, decumbent, herbaceous, glabrous plant, with a perennial root (according to Dr. Mueller), and tri- angular and furrowed stems and branches. Leaves rather dis- tant, an inch to an inch and a half long, ovate, deeply toothed and laciniated (sometimes almost cordate), tapering into a winged petiole about equal in length with the blade; upper ones gradu- ally smaller and narrower, and almost entire. Racemes terminal, leafy ; pedicels distant, erect, filiform, bearing one or two linear bracts. Flower declined, not inaptly resembling a Violet. Calyz- segments linear, as long as the broad ovate ovary. Corolla blue, variegated with white, and a red tinge upon the cleft tube above. Capsule semiglobose, drooping. Fig. 1. Front view of a flower. 2. Side view of ditto :—magnified. | | \| — 1 W-Fitch, delt et lith. Vincent Brooks, imp. Tas. 5089. FIELDIA avstRALIs. Australian Fieldia. Nat. Ord. CyrtaNDRACEZ.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus, persistens, Jobis lanceolato-linearibus, bractea spathacea ovata acuta bifida lateraliter stipatus. Corolla tubuloso-ventricosa; limbo quinquefido, zquali, subbilabiato. Stamina 4, fertilia, vix didynama, cum quinto sterili dimidio breviore. Anthere globoso-didyname, biloculares, loculis parallelis. Stigma bilamellatum. Bacea spongiosa, subcarnosa, ovata, 1-locularis,. loculis parallelis. Placente dus, carnose, in laminas recurvas lateraliter productee. Semina plurima, parva, nidulantia, ovato-oblonga, aptera.—Suffrutex radicans, pseudo-parasiticus, ramosus, yamulis ferrugineo-velutinis. Folia opposita, valde cujusque jugi inequalia, remota, breviter petiolata, basi cuneata, superne cuneato- serrata. Pedicelli awillares, uniflori. Flores nutantes, ex albo subvirescentes. De Cand. Frevpra australis. Freipta australis. 402. Cunn. in Field’s Mem. of N. 8. Wales, p. 364 (with a. figure). Hook. Exot. Flora, p. 232. t. 232. De Cand. Prod. v. 9. p. 286. , Basyinoruyta Frederici-Augusti. F. Muell. 1st Rep. on the Bot. of Victoria, p- 16. This little-known and singular plant is a native of the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, where it was first detected by Mr. Caley, in 1804, and afterwards by Mr. Allan Cunningham, who dedicated it to his excellent friend the late Barron Field, Esq., Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. It was_ to the same gentleman that Gaudichaud afterwards, namely in 1826, dedicated another plant, one of the Orchidee.* Our plant has also been gathered at Gipps’s Land_ by Dr. F. Mueller, at — Shoal Haven, New South Wales, by Mr. Backhouse, and at Fives’ Island, by Mr. Bynoe. We were so fortunate, n 1857, as to receive living plants from Mr. Moore of the Sydney Botanical Garden, which flowered copiously 10 the greenhouse in September, 1858. Its habit is peculiar for a cba it i" plant, and it has perhaps as strong @ claim to rank with the * Vandalissochiloides, Lindl. DECEMBER Ist, 1858. Bignoniacee as with the Crytandracea, in which latter the species are usually herbaceous. Dzscr. This has a straggling, woody stem and branches, some- what climbing, and rooting on the rough bark or among moss, villous with short fulvous hairs, or more or less downy. Leaves opposite, remote, unequal in size, a small one frequently being opposed to the larger one, ovate or ovato-lanceolate, downy, acuminate, shortly petiolate, coarsely serrated, entire at the base, paler and more villous beneath. Veins pinnated, rather ob- scure. Peduncles axillary, solitary, nearly an inch long, bearing a solitary pendulous flower ; the apex, beneath the calyx, swollen, and having a spathzeform dract on one side, deeply cut into two equal lanceolate segments. Calyx deeply cut into five linear- lanceolate, erect, downy segments. Corolla an inch and a half or nearly two inches long, tubuloso-cylindrical, downy, pale yellow- ish-green, the limb short, equal, cut into five, rounded, spreading segments. Stamens four, arising from the very base of the tube. Filaments as long as the tube of the corolla. Anthers subglo- bose. There is a fifth small abortive stamen. Ovary ovate, arising from a glandular anxnulus, two-celled, many-seeded. Style as long as the corolla. Stigma small, unequally two-cleft. Fig. 1. Corolla laid open, showing the stamens. 2. Stamen. 3. Pistil. 4, Transverse section of ovary :—magnified. Tas. 5090. BILLBERGIA Lrsonrana. Libon’s Billbergia. Nat. Ord. BroMELIACE®.—HEXANDRIA Monoeynia. Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4756.) BrutBercra Liboniana ; surculosa, foliis radicalibus ligulatis acutis mucronatis margine serrulatis supra lete yiridibus subtus obscure albido-furfuraceis, bracteis subulatis appressis, spica laxa 6-10-floro, scapo erecto bracteato, floribus erectis, sepalis erectis rubris, petalis calyce duplo longioribus erectis Ibidis intus laminis duabus lineari-oblongis intense purpureo-ceeruleis basi a elongatis apice dentatis instructis et ad basin squamis duabus obovatis longe fimbriatis. Bitiperera Liboniana. De Jonghe, icone. Lem. Jard. Fleur. v. 3. p. 197. p. 195, cum tc. Journ. d’Hort. Prat. Mars, 1851, cum Planch. Flore des Serres, v. 10. Belgian gardens, where it is stated to have been introduced from the vicinity of Rio de Ja- neiro, by “le voyageur naturaliste Libon,” after whom 1t has received its specific name. It is a plant of some beauty, and is another plant added to those Bromeliacee which are highly de- serving of cultivation in our hothouses. Where the collection of these (in amount of species, we mean) 1S considerable, some or other is in flower at all seasons of the year, and not a few in the depth of winter. The drawing was taken from a plant in Kew Gardens, which flowered in August, 1858. Duscr. The species is small in stature, compared to many of the Bromeliacee, scarcely more than a foot in height, indepen- dent of the scape. The plant is sarmentose, and these runners, by which the species is easily increased, are nearly half an inch thick, terete, scaly with small, rigid, broad, subulate, spinescent, abortive leaves. From these runners tufts of foliage arise, with no visible stem: the lowest ones are squamiform, like those of DECEMBER Ist, 1858. Received at Kew from the the runners; the inner become gradually larger, a foot long, li- - gulate, the sides convolute, mucronately acuminate at the apex, the margin spinescently serrated, the upper or inner side of the leaf is dark-green, the outer paler from a whitish furfuraceous substance with which it is more or less invested. Scape arising from the centre of the foliage, and scarcely exceeding it in length, erect or nearly so, rather slender, bracteated with long, subulate, erect, rigid bracts, becoming shorter in the inflorescence. Spike lax, of from five to twelve erecto-patent flowers. Seyals ob- long, erect, appressed, imbricate, acute, red, with a paler streak. Petals twice as long as the calyx, white below, the rest deep purple-blue, linear-oblong, obtuse, erect, straight, the sides con- volute, with two linear lamin within, almost as long as the petals, toothed at the apex; and two small scales at the base, long-fringed. Filaments inserted just above the laminze, two on each petal. Ovary terete, inferior. Style shorter than the petals. Stigma three-lobed. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Petal, with two stamens, lamin, and scales. 3. Pistil: —magnified. s