CURTIS’S BOTANICAL MAGAZINE, “Meneppreeiei. COMPRISING THE Plants of the Roval Gardens of Keiw, AND OF OTHER BOTANICAL ESTABLISHMENTS IN GREAT BRITAIN, WITH SUITABLE DESCRIPTIONS; BY SIR JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER, M.D., C.B., K.CS.I, P.R.S., F.L,8.,, ETO. D.C.L. OXON., LL.D. CANTAB., CORKESPONDENT OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE. VOL. XXXIII. OF THE THIRD SERIES. (Or Vol. CLIT. of the whole Work.) ‘* With such a liberal hand has Nature flung Their seeds abroad, blown them about in winds, Innumerous mix’d them with the nursing mould, The moistening current, and prolific rain,” Th , The Si Lonvon: l/ L. REEVE axp CO., 5, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 1877. [All rights reserved. ] Mo. Bot. Acow is Garden, on TO HENRY JOHN ELWES, ESQ, F.LS., F.ZS8., BTC. OF PRESTON HOUSE, CIRENCESTER. 4 Believe me to be, Very sincerely yours, — : JOSEPH D. HOOKER. ow pariah cht - . Tas. 6293, THAPSIA Garcanica, Native of the Mediterranean Region. Nat. Ord. Umbetiirer#.—Tribe Laserprtiex. Genus Tuapsta, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p..930). Twapsia garganica ; glaberrima v. foliis parce setoso-pilosis, caule robusto tereti, foliis crasse petiolatis ambitu late ovatis 2-3-pinnatisectis laciniis linearibus oblongisve decurrentibus obtusis subacutisve integerrimis y. 2-8-fidis mem- branaceis supra nitidis marginibus sepe revolutis, supremis siepius ad vaginas tumidas reductis, umbellis crasse pedunculatis amplis longe 6—15-radiatis, involucro involucellisque obsoletis, floribus flavis interioribus in quevis umbellula masculis, fructu 2-3? poll. longo basi et apice 2-lobo, nucleo anguste ellipsoideo 5-costato alis latis undulatis nitidis transverse striolatis. T. garganica Linn, Mant. p.57; DC. Prod. vol. ii. p. 202; Desf. Fl. Atlant., vol. i. p. 262; Boiss. Flor. Orient. vol. ii. p. 1067 ; Gouan, Til. et Obs. Bot. p. 18, t. 10; Sibth, Flor. Graee. t. 287 ; Ait. Hort. Kew, ed. 2, vol. i. p. 156. This plant, the aya of Dioscorides, has been celebrated for its healing powers from very early times, and has further been supposed, but on insufficient grounds, to be the Silphium of Cyrenaica, where it abounds. It inhabits the whole Mediterranean region, from the south of Spain and Morocco to Greece, Turkey, Rhodes, and Crete, growing in fields and in good soil. The root is used externally asa specific against pains of all kinds, and in the reduction of tumours by the Moors of N. Africa, where it is known under the name of Dreeas; but I am not aware that it has a place in the Pharmacopeeia of any civilized people. That it cannot be the famous Silphium of the ancients has been demonstrated by Oersted of Copenhagen, who shows that the plant represented on the coins of Cyrenaica as the Silphium has the remarkable character of growth of the true Asafcetida, and wholly differs from that of Zhapsia ; whence it follows, either that a plant like Asafetida was formerly native of Cyrenaica, but is no longer found there, or that the true Asafcetida was cultivated there, which seems to me not to be impossible. For the opportunity of figuring the Ziapsia I am indebted APRIL Ist, 1877. Vincent Brooks Day & Son imp Witch del et Lith Tas. 6294. DYCKIA rricrpa. Native of Brazil. Nat. Ord. Bromettacra:.—Tribe Povurretize. Genus Dyoxta, Schult. fil. (C. Koch in Append. iv. ad indic. Sem. Hort. Bot. Berol. ann. 1873). Dycxia frigida ; acaulis, robusta, foliis dense rosulatis patenti-recurvis e basi 13-2-pollicari_ ad apicem pungentem sensim acuminatis concavis supra viridibus lucidis subtus striolatis glaucis marginibus et subtus apicem versus spinis corneis remotis uncinatis onustis, scapo 2-pedali robusto bracteato, bracteis ovato-subulatis spinoso-acuminatis, panicula pedali robusta furfur- aceo-tomentosa griseo-brunnea ramis basin versus nudis, floribus subcon- fertis, bracteolis ovato-subulatis acuminatis flores equantibus, sepalis oblongis obtusis furfuraceis viridibus, petalis late unguiculatis lamina late ovata obtusa ochracea, filamentis crassis cum petalis basi in tubum connatis, antheris oblongis incurvis, ovario angusto, stigmatibus brevibus, capsule perianthio duplo longioris carpellis liberis loculicidis. Povrretta frigida, Hort. Lind. I advance this as a new species with much hesitation, having no better means of discriminating the species of this diffi- cult genus than is afforded by C. Koch’s Conspectus, quoted above, from which it would appear to be allied to the D. remotiflora, Ott. and Dietr., and D. altissima, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1841, Mise. p. 84, (erroneously cited as gigantea, by Le- maire), from both of which it differs by its almost free filaments (not attached to the length of the claw of the petal). From D. Princeps, Lemaire (Ill. Hort. t. 224-5), it appears to differ in the smaller flowers and longer sepals, but it is certainly very closely allied both to that plant and to those above mentioned. The species of Dyckia are mostly Brazilian, and some of them come from the colder southern provinces. This is probably the case with the accompanying plant, which flowered freely in the cool half of the succulent house, at Kew, in February of the present year, and is now maturing its capsules. It Was received from Messrs. Linden, under the name of Pourretia frigida. MAY Ist, 1877. Descr. A stemless aloe-like herb. eaves densely rosu- late, sixty to eighty together at the crown, one and a half to two feet long, one and a half to two inches broad at the base, gradually contracted from thence to the pungent’s point, spreading and recurved, smooth and concave above, glaucous striolate and rounded on the back, margins and middle-line at the back towards the apex armed with stout hooked yellow-brown spines one quarter of an inch long. Scape lateral, ascending, stout, and as well as the inflorescence clothed with pale furfuraceous down; covered densely below and more sparingly above with bracts, the lower of which are four to six inches long, erecto-patent and lanceolate, the upper much smaller and triangular-subulate. Panicle del- toid, a foot long, with few stout spreading branches which are flowerless at the base; bracts ovate-lanceolate, recurved. Flowers three-quarters of an inch long, on very short stout green pedicels that gradually pass into the swollen green base of the perianth. Sepals oblong, obtuse, green, furfur- aceous ; rather shorter than the broadly clawed petals, the blades of which are ochreous, broadly ovate, obtuse, spread- ing. laments united at the base with the petals into a rather membranous tube, broad, stout; anthers oblong. Ovary narrowly ovoid; stigmas very short. Capsules twice as longas the perianth, divided to the axis into three loculi- cidal carpels.—J. D. H. Pig. 1, Whole plant much reduced ; 2, leaf and, 3, panicle of the natural size; 4, flower ; 5, the same with 2 sepals and a petal removed :—all magnified. 6295 Vincent Brosks Day Som Limp W. Fitch el & Lith. Tas. 6295. TIGRIDIA turea. Native of Peru and Chili. Nat. Ord. Inmacrez.—Tribe Ticripie®. Genus Tienipia, Juss. (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. xvi. inedit.). Tieriia (Beatonta) lutea ; bulbo ovoideo, tunicis brunneis, foliis 3-4 superpo- sitis sessilibus linearibus acutis glabris profunde plicatis, caule gracili tereti monocephalo, spathe 2-4-flore valvis lanceolatis exterioribus viridibus, in- terioribus pallidis membranaceis, pedicellis floriferis spatha equilongis, ovario oblongo, perianthii lutei fugacis segmentis unguibus latis diu imbri- catis cupulam efformantibus fusco punctatis, laminis rotundis supra un- guem flore expanso patulis, interioribus minoribus ad unguis apicem crystal- lino-foveolatis, filamentis in tubum cylindricum prorsus connatis, antheris ligulatis erecto-patentibus, styli ramis profunde bifurcatis ramulis falcatis apice stigmatosis. T. lutea, Link, Klotzsch, and Otto, Icon. Plant. Rar. Hort Reg. Bot. Berol. p. 85, tab. 34; Baker in Journ, Linn, Soc. vol. xvi, inedit. Sisyrincuivum grandiflorum, Cav, Diss. tab. 192, fig. 2? Beatonia lutea, Klatt in Linnea, vol. xxxi. p. 567; vol. xxxiv. p. 733. This 7’gridia is much inferior in decorative effect to the well-known P. Pavonia, and, as in all the other species of the genus, the flowers are very fugitive. Probably it is the plant figured by Cavanilles, in 1790, under the name of Sisyrinchium grandiflorum, but if so the drawing is a very poor one. I have seen a dried specimen in the British Museum, collected about the time by Pavon, in Peru. It was named and well figured by Link, Klotzsch, and Otto, from a specimen sent to the Berlin Botanic Garden, from the island of Chiloe, by Professor Philippi, in 1840. It is the only species of Zigridia that comes from that part of the world, all the other five that are known being Mexican. The present drawing was made from a plant that flowered with Mr. H. J. Elwes, at Cirencester, in the autumn of 1876, MAY Ist, 1877, Descr. Bulb ovoid, with thick brown membranous tunics. Stem terete, about a foot long, bearing three or four distantly superposed leaves and a single terminal head of flowers. Leaves sessile, linear, acuminate, four to six inches long, a quarter to half an inch broad at the middle, moderately firm in texture, bright green, strongly plicate, glabrous. Spathe one and a half to two inches long, two- to four-flowered, the flowers opening in succession on different days; valves lanceolate, the two outer ones green, the inner ones pale and membranous. Pedicels as long as the spathe. Ovary oblong, one-quarter to one-third inch long. Perzanth yellow, very fugitive, measuring an inch and a half across when expanded, the broad claws of the segments forming a permanent cup and dotted with brown, those of the inner three suddenly narrowed just above the base and furnished with a transverse glittering crystalline band at the throat of the claw; blade of the segments spreading from the top of the cup when the flower is ex- panded, roundish, with a minute cusp, the three inner much smaller than the three outer. Filaments united to the top in a cylindrical column as long as the cup formed by the claws of the perianth-segments; anthers ligulate, erecto-patent. Style-arms cut down nearly to the base into two hooked forks, ee: are stigmatose in a cushion at the very tip.—J. G. aker. Fig. 1, One of the outer segments of the perianth; fig. 2, one of the inner segments ; fig. 3, pistil and stamens complete; fig. 4, column of stamens, with the anthers cut off so as to show the style-arms :—all magnified. us 14 W Fitch, del et Li Tas. 6296. CYPRIPEDIUM Haywnarpranum. Native of the Philippine Islands. Nat. Ord. Orcnipex.—Tribe Cyprivepie. Genus Cyprirepium, Linn, (Endl. Gen. Plant. p. 220). Cyprivepium Haynaldianum ; foliis distichis lineari-oblongis carinatis obtusis apice 2-dentatis coriaceis concoloribus, scapo plurifloro stricto. patentim villoso, bracteis oblongo-lanceolatis ellipticisve acutis villosis ovario subsessili villoso brevioribus, sepalo dorsali oblongo obtuso marginibus ciliolatis infra medium recurvis, dimidio inferiore virescente brunneo maculatis, superiore pallide roseo-albo, sepalis lateralibus in unum late ovatum labello suppositum et eo brevius connatis, petalis ligulatis patentissimis sepalo superiore duplo longioribus eoque concoloribus ultra medium dilatatis apicibus recurvis, labello virescente saccato ore biauriculato auriculis latis obtusis sinu triangulari, staminodio spathulato apice 2-lobo. C. Haynaldianum, Reichb. f. Xen. Orchid. vol. ii. p- 222, et in Gard. Chron. N.S. vol. vii. p. 272 (1877). A very near ally of (. Zowei, Lindl., also a native of the - Philippines ; so near indeed that Reichenbach observes that a casual observer might confuse the two, but after a careful examination of thirty-five flowers of that plant and five of this, he regards them as distinct, summing up the differences in C. Lowe as follows :—Upper sepal yellowish-green, with purplish lines and dots on the inner base; lower sepal (com- bined sepals) narrower and longer, yellow-green ; lip with less prominent auricles, and a toothed keel in the sinus; stigma round and bent. These distinctive characters are, it must be confessed, but slight, and would seem to indicate a difference of race rather than of what are usually held to constitute a species. It is named after his Excellency Dr. Ludwig Haynald, archbishop of Kaloesa, in Hungary, who Dr. Reichenbach justly commemorates as a zealous botanist, and an active promoter of science and art, and whose name will ever be most honourably connected with the development of Hungary. ; Tam indebted to Messrs. Veitch for the opportunity of figuring this plant, which flowered at Chelsea in February of the present year. MAY Ist, 1877, Descr. Leaves dictichous, six to ten inches long, linear- oblong, about one and a half inches broad, suberect, keeled, obtuse and 2-toothed at the tip, dark green, very coriaceous. Scape solitary, one to one and a half feet high, strict, two- or more-flowered, clothed with soft long spreading hairs, as are the bracts and ovary; bracts one to one and a quarter inch | long, elliptic or ovate-oblong, shorter than the ovary. Flower six to seven inches across the peta!s, greenish white, except the lower half of the ciliated upper sepal and petals, which are blotched with dark brown, and their upper halves are faintly rosy and white. Upper sepal suberect, oblong, obtuse, lower half with recurved margins, upper almost hooded. Lower sepal (of two combined) broadly ovate, obtuse, much shorter than the lip. Peéals almost twice as long as the upper sepal, linear, suddenly twisted beyond the middle with a recurved apex. Jip green, saccate, with a rounded base ; mouth with two broad obtuse elongated lips, and a broadly triangular sinus between them, at the base of which is a tooth. Staminode 2-lobed, green.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Staminode and stigma, enlarged. 2 Vincent Brooks Day&Son imp Tas. 6297. XANTHORRHGA MINOR. Native of South-Western Australia and Tasmania. Nat. Ord. Juncea.—Tribe Xerotwex. Genus XanrHorrua@a, Smith ; (Endl. Gen. Plant. p- 152) XANTHORRH@A minor ; pumila, acaulis, dense cxspitosa, foliis suberectis e basi paullo dilatato filiformibus triquetris superne lente convexis v. concavis subtus acute carinatis marginibus tenuissime erosis, scapis cum spicis foliis brevioribus, spica brevi cylindracea, bracteis anguste cymbiformibus dorso subapice pubescentibus, sepalis chartaceis anguste obovato-oblongis sub- acutis dorso vix carinatis sub apice, puberulis, petalis paullo majoribus planiusculis membranaceis glabris. X. minor, Br. Prodr. 288 ; Kunth, Enum. Pl. vol. iv. p. 649; Hook. f. Fl. Tas- man. vol. ii. p. 59. F. Muell. Fragment. Phytog. vol. iv.p. 112. ‘Benth. Fl. Austral. vol. vii. ined. This is the second species of this remarkable genus that has flowered at Kew, where three or four others are in culti- vation. In the structure of the flower it closely resembles X. quadrangulata, figured at plate 6075, but differs wholly in habit, and in the leaves, which in that species are square on a transverse section. It is not an uncommon plant in the moist turfy and sandy moors of South Australia, Victoria, and Tasmania, where it covers extensive tracts of land. Tam not at all sure but that two dwarf species of Xanthor- rhea may be confounded under the one name of X. minor, and if so I am doubtful to which Brown’s name should be applied ; one, that here figured, has a nearly flat or concave upper surface to the very slender suberect leaves; the other, a much more robust plant, with longer stouter scapes, has larger and more spreading leaves, and more convex upper surfaces than those of the first. We have native specimens (gathered by myself in company with Mr. Gunn) on Grass Tree Hill, near Hobarton, and others from Victoria; whilst the much larger form abounds near York Town, Tasmania, where, according to Gunn, it covers hundreds of acres, to the exclusion of almost every other plant. In December, 1841, Mr. Gunn describes the country as being white with it, one plant pro- MAY 1st, 1877. ducing 36 flowering scapes, whereas in the following year he could get only 6 or 8 specimens in flower on the same spot. From this he assumes that the Xanthorrheas do not flower every year. The copiously flowering one may be that alluded to by Mueller (Fragmenta, iv. 112), as possibly distinguishable from X. minor, and if so to be called X. polystachya. X. minor was sent to Kew some years ago by Baron von Miiller from the rich collections of the Melbourne Botanic Gardens, of which he was the director, and it flowered in February of this year ; its flowering season in Australia being December and January. Descr. Stemless, densely tufted, glabrous. Leaves 8 to 10 inches long, suberect, very slender, filiform from a slightly dilated base, triangular, flat, slightly concave or convex above, acutely keeled beneath, margins minutely erose. Spzke very variable in length and robustness; in the Kew specimen always shorter than the leaves; scape slender ; bracts nar- rowly boat-shaped, equalling the perianth. Perianth green,’ with brown pubescent tips to the sepals, which are hard, linear, dilated upwards, obtuse, very concave. Petals longer, more membranous, flatter, with broader rather spreading tips. Stamens horizontally bent from beyond the middle. Ovary ovoid narrowed into the straight style—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Reduced view of tuft of plants; 2, leaf; 3, transverse section of ditto ; 4, scape and spike; 5, spike with expanded flowers; 6, bracts and flowers ; 7, ovary unexpanded; all but 2,4, and 5 much enlarged. W Fitch del et Lath ee" nnn meee Tap. 6298. GLOBBA ScHomsBurertt. Native of Siam. Nat. Ord. Zinciperacez.—Tribe Guopse. Genus Grosna, Linn. ; (Endl. Gen. Plant, p. 222). Giospa Schomburgkii ; glaberrima, foliis elliptico-lanceolatis caudato-acuminatis, panicula 2-4-unciali cernua, dimidio inferiori bracteis navicularibus obtusis imbricatis bulbilliferis tecta, superiore florifera bracteis consimilibus persist- entibus, ramulis paucis breviusculis v. elongatis 2-~ floris, floribus 14-pollica- ribus aureis labello basi aurantiaco, ovario globoso, calyce brevi campanulato 3-fido, corollz tubo puberulo, limbi laciniis exterioribus ovatis acuminatis interioribus duplo majoribus falcatis, labello apice truncato angulis divaricatis acutis, anthere alis bipartitis segmentis triangularibus acuminatis. Of the curious genus (lobba, which is a common native of damp woods in Tropical Asia and its islands, few species have been cultivated in this country, and not a few undescribed ones are contained in herbaria. One alone has been figured in this work, @. sessiliflora, Sims (t. 1428), whereas thirteen are described in Horaninov’s ‘ Prodromus Monographie Scitaminearum,’ published in 1862. All are very similar in general habit, and many are remarkable for bearing on the flowering panicle solid ovaries without perianths cells or ovules, which fall off and produce new plants. The structure of the flower is very singular, closely resembling that of Mantissa (tab. 1320), which differs from G/obba in the in- florescence being borne on a separate scape distinct from the leaves. G. Schomburgkii was discovered by the late Sir Robert Schomburgk when H.B.M.’s Consul at Siam, who sent roots to Kew in 1864, where it has flowered repeatedly in August. It has been distributed as G. bulbifera, Roxb., from which and from all others it differs in the curious panicles. Duscr. Quite glabrous. Stems tufted, six to twelve inches high, with three to five leaves. Leaves six to nine inches long by one to one and a half broad, elliptic-ovate or lanceolate, with slender acuminate tips, contracted into May Ist, 1877. a short petiole above the vagina. Panicle two to four inches long, drooping, the lower half unbranched and clothed with ‘ imbricating bracts, each bearing in its axil a globose tuber- cled bulbil (which is an imperfect ovary without perianth) ; the remainder of the panicle is more or less branched, and bears perfect flowers; bracts one quarter to half an inch long, oblong, obtuse, very concave, green, persistent, imbricating, then spreading ; branches slender, sometimes short and two- flowered, at others two inches long, very slender, spreading, many-flowered. Flowers one and a half inch long, golden yellow with a bright orange-red base to the lip. Ovary globose, tubercled. Calyx campanulate, three-toothed. Corolla- fube puberulous; three outer segments ovate, acuminate, deflexed ; two inner twice as long, deflexed then spreading, falcate, acuminate. Lip narrowly wedge-shaped, with a broad retuse truncate end, the angles of which are acute and divergent. Anthers with a two-partite wing on each side, the segments triangular-subulate.—/J. D. H. Fig. 1, Flower; 2, anther :—both enlarged. SESE Aa Hi CL RRR ROT OS ON AES ie : ARTHRopopIUM neo-caledonicum ; foliis pluribus rosulatis linearibus graminoideis Viridibus glabris semipedalibus, caule nudo tereti, panicule laxissime ramis elongatis ascendentibus, floribus in racemos laxos secundos dispositis, pedi- cellis medio articulatis patulis vel cernuis inferioribus geminis, bracteis parvis lanceolatis, perianthii parvi albi segmentis exterioribus lanceolatis, interiori- bus oblongis, staminibus perianthio distincte brevioribus antheris minutis oblongis filamentis dimidio inferiori nudis dimidio superiori strumosis, ovario oblongo, stylo brevi, stigmate capitato. : ; * A. neo-caledonicum, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xv. p. 352. This is a native of New Caledonia, recently introduced into cultivation by Messrs. Veitch. It is interesting geographi- cally as extending to New Caledonia the range of another of the characteristic Australian and New Zealand genera. Its nearest ally is 4. candidum, Raoul, of New Zealand, and the other five or six species besides these two are all confined to Australia and New Zealand. Whether it will be hardy about London still remains to be proved. I described it last year from a single dried specimen gathered on Mount Kanala in New Caledonia by M. Deplanche, and it is No. 1695‘ of the Vieillard collection distributed by the late M. Lenormand. The plant from which our drawing was made flowered with Messrs. Veitch in May, 1877. -Descr. Root a tuft of cylindrical fleshy fibres. Leaves many in a radical rosette, linear, grass-like, bright green, glabrous, about half a foot long, three or four lines broad. Stem, including the inflorescence, a foot and a half long, slender, terete, without any leaves between the radical rosette and the branches. Panicle very long, with four or five slender ascending branches each about half a foot long, which _ OCTOBER Ist, 1877. bear the flowers in very lax secund racemes; lower flowers in pairs, the upper ones solitary; pedicels spreading or cernuous, reaching half an inch in length, articulated at the middle, the upper joint whitish and thickened. Perianth white, measuring half an inch in diameter when expanded; outer segments firmer, lanceolate, acute ; inner broader, more tender, oblong, obtuse. Stamens distinctly shorter than the perianth-segments ; anthers minute, oblong; filaments appen- diculate with an oblong-sagittate pilose struma in the upper half, naked and rather flattened in the lower half. Ovary Seba oblong; style short, erect; stigma capitate—J. G. aker. Se 1, an entire flower; fig. 2, a single stamen; fig. 3, the pistil:—all mag- nefled. 6327. bie , / Nis, cn ea (qh Hit Se SY yr easements Vincent Brooks Day & Son Imp | WRith del ot Lith, Tas. 6327. DRACZAENA REFLEXA, Native of Mauritius. Nat. Ord. Littackm.—Tribe Dracmnex. Genus Draczna, Vand. (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xiv. p. 523). Dracana reflexa ; frutex 6-20-pedalis, foliis lanceolatis acutis patulis laxe dis- positis 6-9 poll. longis, 6-12 lin. latis, costa preter apicem perspicua, paniculis deltoideis erectis breviter pedunculatis ramis patulis densifloris, pedicellis solitariis apice articulatis, bracteis superioribus deltoideis, inferioribus lanceolatis, perianthii albidi tubo campanulato, segmentis ligulatis tubo 5-6- plo longioribus, staminibus segmentis equilongis, stylo demum exserto. D. reflexa, Lamk. Encyclop., vol. iii. p. 324; Red. Lil. vol. ii. t. 92; Kunth, Enum. vol. v. p. 6; Regel, Revis. Drac. p. 40; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. xiv. p. 530. D. cernua, Jucg.; Roxb. Fl. Ind. vol. ii. p. 158. This is the typical form of the Bos de Chandelle of Mauritius. The plant is spread widely through Tropical Africa and runs into numerous varieties. It has long been known in cultivation, but the only figure which has been given is the old one above cited. It may be known from the other cultivated Draceenas with lanceolate sessile leaves by the looser disposition of its leaves upon the stem and by its solitary flowers, with a very short perianth-tube. D. cernua of Jacquin is a variety of the same plant, with a drooping panicle, longer pedicels and leaves edged with red. Our present drawing was made from a specimen that flowered some time ago in the Palm-house at Kew. Descr. An erect shrub, with slender branches, reaching a height of from six to twenty feet. Leaves laxly placed over the top half foot of each of the branches, lanceolate, acute, six to nine inches long, three-quarters of an inch to an inch broad at the middle, narrowed to a quarter of an inch above the deltoidly dilated clasping base, bright green, with the NOVEMBER Ist, 1877. midrib visible on the under side, except near the tip. Panicle deltoid, erect, shortly peduncled, usually about a foot long and broad, with several densely-flowered spreading branches, bracteated by lanceolate reduced leaves ; pedicels solitary, an eighth to a quarter of an inch long, articulated at the tip; bracts membranous, the upper ones deltoid, shorter than the pedicels, the lower ones lanceolate. Perianth whitish, half to three-quarters of an inch long, the tube very short. Stamens reaching to the tip of the perianth-segments; the filament five or six times as long as the pale yellow linear- oblong anther. Berry passing from orange to red, generally globose and one-seeded.—-J. G. Baker. Fig. 1, A single flower; 2, a single stamen; 3, the pistil:—all magnified. 6328 Vineant Brooks Day & Son hip q 3 ct DE Pu ao Tas. 6328. VANDA ca#ruescens, var. BoxaLu. Native of Transgangetic India. Nat. Ord. Orcutpackm.—Tribe Vanpex. Genus Vanna, Lindl. (Bot. Reg. 1843 ; Mise. p. 14). Vanna caerulescens, Griff. (Bot. Mag. 5834), var. Bowallii ; sepalis petalisque lateralibus pallidioribus, labello violaceo"disco albo-lineato.—Reichenb. Jil. in Gard. Chron, 1877, pt. i. p. 749. This lovely form of Vanda caerulescens, a species already well represented in this Magazine (Tab. 5834) was figured from a specimen flowered by Messrs. Low, of Clapton, last June. It is merely a horticultural form of the type-species, presenting no tangible botanical difference entitling it to rank as a variety. Those specimens, in which the outer perianth becomes pure white, must be especially charming. In the flowers figured they are a very pale violet. _ Descr. Stem and leaves as in Vanda caerulescens, the latter numerous, rigidly distichous, with an obliquely toothed apex, four to six inches long, half to three-quarters of an inch broad, strongly keeled. Raceme many-flowered from the lower axils, in our specimen rather shortly pedunculate ; pedicel and ovary one inch to one and a quarter inch in length, subtended by very small ovate or lanceolate bracts. Flowers one inch to one and a quarter inch in diameter ; NOVEMBER Ist, 1877, sepals and petals nearly equal, obtuse or retuse, pale violet or nearly white. Lip rather shorter than the sepals, the disk with smooth longitudinal ridges, with dark blue or violet stripes alternating with white ones, passing into deep violet at the dilated extremity with its bilobate convexity.—D. Oliver. »e a Tas. 6329, ZECHMEA (Cunvartiera) Veitchii. Native of New Granada. Nat. Ord. Bromeniacem.—Tribe ANANASSER, Genus Aicumea, Ruiz & Pav. Fl. Peru. tab. 264. Ecumea (Chevalliera) Veitchii ; acaulis, stolonifera, foliis 12-15 loratis rigide co- riaceis pedalibus vel sesquipedalibus facie glabris viridibus dorso prorsus albo- lepidotis haud zonatis margine dentibus crebris minutis brunneis armatis, scapo pedali bracteis pluribus viridibus firmis lanceolatis adpressis dentatis predito, floribus in capitulum densum oblongum dispositis, bracteis squarrosis dentatis cartilagineis splendide rubris calyce paulo longioribus, ovario inquilateraliter globoso facie exteriori magis convexo, sepalis lanceolato-deltoideis acutis haud mucronatis ovario longioribus, petalis pallidis parvis lingulatis, genitalibus sepalis subequilongis, staminibus petalinis basi squamulis parvis preeditis. CuHEvALLIERA Veitchii, Morren in litt. This is a very fine new Bromeliad, discovered by Gustave Wallis in New Granada in 1874, and introduced this present year into cultivation by Messrs. Veitch. It is closely allied to the Costa-rican ichmea Marice-regine of Wendland, and belongs tothe section Chevalliera, which was proposed asa genus by Gaudichaud (Atlas, Voy. de la Bonite, tab. 61-62), and has been maintained as such by Grisebach and Morren. Chevalliera differs from Hohenbergia, under which most of the cultivated Aichmeas fall, by the heads being so tightly packed that the ovary and calyx have become unequal-sided by pressure, instead of remaining symmetrically globose, and both Chevalliera and Hohenbergia recede from the original species of Aichmea by their central inflorescence and shorter and less protruded petals and stamens. In addition to these, [ am _ disposed to look upon Hoplophytum, Pothuava, Pironneava, Canistrum and Ortgiesia as mere sections of Auchmea. NOVEMBER lst, 1877. f Descr. Acaulescent, stoloniferous. Produced /eaves twelve to fifteen, forming a dense basal rosette, lorate, horny in texture, reaching a length of twelve or fifteen inches, and a breadth of under two inches above the.middle, so deeply channelled that they are semicircular in horizontal section in the lower half, bright green, and quite naked all down the face, thinly white-lepidote all down the back without any transverse bands, deltoid-cuspidate at the point, the edge bordered all down with close small erecto-patent lanceolate brown teeth. Scape about a foot long, central, entirely hidden by the imbricated lanceolate adpressed green horny toothed bracts. Flowers in a dense oblong head, three or four inches long, and under a couple of inches in diameter, each subtended by a squarrose bright scarlet horny toothed _ bract; upper bracts without any flowers in their axils. Ovary globose, a quarter of an inch long, the side nearest the axis much less convex than the outer one. Sepals lanceolate- deltoid, connivent, under half an inch long, bright scarlet in the lower flowers of the head, white in the upper ones, acute, but not spine-tipped. Petals pale, lingulate, imperfectly developed in the specimen drawn. Stamens about as long as the calyx, those opposite the petals furnished with a pair of small scales at the base—J. G. Baker. Fig. 1, A single flower, and its clasping bract; 2, petaline stamen and its basal scales ; 3, pistil:—all magnified. 6330. W. Fitch del et Lith VArtcent Brooks Day Son imp Tas. 6330. CALCEOLARIA torata. Native of Peru and Bolivia. Nat. Ord. ScropHuLARIAcEE.—Tribe CALCEOLARIEA. Genus Catcrotarta, Linn. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. ii. p. 929). CaLLEoLARiA (Jovellana) lobata ; herbacea vel basi frutescens glanduloso-pilosula ramis erectis adscendentibusve, foliis longiuscule petiolatis rotundato-cor- datis 5-7-lobatis dentatis, cymis sepius corymbiformibus v. laxe paniculatis, calycis viscoso-pubescentis laciniis ovatis v. oblongo-ovatis obtusiusculis, corollz labio superiore brevissimo, inferiore elongato oblongo-obovato incurvo basi longe contracto ultra medium aperto. C. lobata, Cav. Je. et Deser. Plant. vol. p. 26, tab. 443, fig. 1; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vol. x. p. 206. : We are indebted to Messrs. Veitch for this very interesting addition to our cultivated species of Calceolaria. It is a dense-growing herb from seven or eight inches to a foot or ‘more in height, flowering profusely in the autumn. The corolla is pale yellow with deep brown-purple spots towards the base of the lower lip, which is remarkably long and folded back upon itself about the middle. Descr. An ascending or decumbent herb, freely branching from the base, more or less glandular-pubescent throughout. Leaves opposite, on rather long petioles or the upper ones shortly petiolate, from half-an-inch to 3 inches in diameter, roundish with a cordate base, and palmately 5- to 7-lobed, the lobes unequally toothed. Cymes terminal, but shortly pedun- culate ; pedicels half to one inch in length. lowers a clear NOVEMBER lst, 1877. rather pale yellow with warm red-purple spots on the lip. Calyzx-lobes herbaceous, glandular-hairy, ovate or ovate-oblong, rather obtuse. Corolla with a very short tumid rounded upper lip, lower lip elongate obovate-oblong rounded and entire at the extremity, sharply recurved a little beyond the middle.—D, Oliver. Figs. 1 and 2, Side and front view of flower :—a little enlarged. 6337. ie. - ‘ ving ad Vincent Brooks, Day &Son.tmp. = » o 3 a é ia = * Tan. 6331. BOLLEA LALINDEI. Native of New Granada. Nat. Ord. Orcu1paceEm.—Tribe VanpER. Genus Bouxea (Reichenb. fil. in Mohl & Schlecht. Bot. Zeit. vol. 1852, p. 667.) : Botrea Lalindei ; aff. Bolles violacee, Reichenb. fil. ; foliis anguste cuneato- ligulatis acutis, floribus solitariis, sepalis latis oblongo-ovatis petalis lateralibus late oblongis subplanis, labello a basi hastato triangulo antice utrinque implicito, hinc quasi grosse tridentato, sinubus inter dentes obtusan- gulis, callo in disco multisulcato columna angustiori utrinque angulato, sulcis rugosis, angulo deorsum verso.—Achb, B. Lalindei, Reichenb. fil. in Gard. Chron. 1874, part ii. p. 33. For the discovery of this beautiful species we are indebted to Mr. Lalinde, of Medellin. A fresh flower was furnished to Dr. Reichenbach, by Messrs. Veitch, in 1874, apropos of which the notice in ‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle,’ cited above, was drawn up. Our figure is from a specimen flowered by Messrs. Williams, of Holloway, last August, which differs materially in colour from the plant described by Reichenbach. In the latter the flower is of a beautiful bright violet with the tip of the upper sepal green, the lower half of the lower sepals brownish-putple; the lip deep orange and the column deep purplish. Notwithstanding these great differences in color- ation, there is no doubt as to the agreement of the speci- men here figured with Reichenbach’s specific description in the diagnostic characters taken from the peculiar form of the lip, and the great breadth of the column which completely arches over the plaited palate. I have already in this Magazine under Tab. 6214 and 6240, given it as my opinion that Bod/ea should, with Pescatorsa and other genera there enumerated, be regarded as sections of NOVEMBER lst, 1877. Zygopetalum, and a consideration of B. Lalindei tends to confirm me in this opinion. | Descr. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, gradually nar- rowed below into the petiole, one foot long more or less, about one and a half inches broad, strongly five-nerved. Flowers two and a half to three inches broad on peduncles about 3 inches long, one-flowered with two or three sheathing bracts. Sepals spreading and recurved at the lips, broadly ovate-oblong, ob- tuse, rose-coloured with straw-coloured tips, the lower margin of the lateral ones also straw-coloured. Petals spreading, undulate, oblong, obtuse, rose-coloured with white margins. _ Lip ovate hastate, margins and tip recurved, the latter ob- tusely pointed, golden yellow; disk with raised close-pressed, blunt, smooth lamelle. Column broader than the raised disk of the lip, arched, rose-coloured.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Column; 2, lip: —both enlarged. 6332. WES, eo W Fitch, del ethith Vincent Brooks, Day &Son, Imp. itch, del et ht Tas. 6332, LILIUM wNEILGHERRENSE. Native of the Mountains of Peninsular India. Nat. Ord. Liniackm.—Tribe Turnrren. Genus Litium, Linn, (Baker in Journ. Linn, Soe. vol. xiv. p. 225). Lito neilgherrense; bulbo magno globoso rhizomatoso squamis ovato-lanceolatis albis, caulibus strictis validis erectis 1-3-floris 1-2-pedalibus, foliis 30-40 lan- ceolatis sessilibus 5-nervatis firmis viridibus utrinque glabris, perianthii infun- dibularis albi suaveolentis 6-10-pollaris tubo segmentis falcatis oblongis sesquilongioribus, staminibus parallelis perianthio distincte brevioribus, antheris magnis polline luteo, pistillo staminibus equilongo, L. neilgherrense, Wight, Icones, tab. 2031-2082 ; Baker in Journ. Linn, Soc, vol. xiv. p. 230; Floral Magazine, new series, tab. 237. L. tubiflorum, Wight, Icones, tab. 2033-2034; Duchartre Obs. sur le Genre Lis, p. 71. LL. Wallichianum, Wight, Zeones, tab. 2035 ; non Schultes fil. L. Metzii, Steudel in Hohenack. Plant Ind. Or. Exsice. No. 954. L. neilgherricum, Hort. Veitch.; Lemaire Jil. Hort. vol, x. tab. 353; Planch. in Flore des Serres, tab, 2266-2267. This is the only Lily of the mountains of Southern India. It inhabits the Neilgherries and Pulnies, at an elevation of about eight thousand feet above sea-level. It is closely allied to L. Waillichianum of the Himalayas, L. philippinense of the Philippine islands, and LZ. longiflorum, japonicum, and Browni of China and Japan. It was introduced by Mr. Thomas Lobb in 1862, but failed to become established, and has lately been imported again in considerable quantity by Messrs. Veitch and others. The present plate was taken from a specimen that flowered with Messrs. Veitch in 1876. I have no hesitation in regarding as slight forms of one species the three plants figured by Dr. Wight, and cannot follow the view lately expressed by Dr. Planchon in the ‘Flore DECEMBER Ist, 1877. des Serres’ in separating Lemaire’s L. neilgherricum, which I cannot see is distinguishable even as a variety. Descr. Bulb globose, two to three inches in diameter, developed upon a rhizome which reaches a length of half a foot ; scales thick, white, ovate-lanceolate. Stem one to two feet high, green, glabrous, stiffly erect, half an inch thick in the lower part. Leaves moderately crowded, all scattered, thirty or forty to a stem, sessile, lanceolate, three or four inches long, half or three-quarters of an inch broad at the middle, firm in texture, bright green, strongly five-nerved, glabrous even on the ribs beneath. Flowers one, two, or three, horizontal or nearly so, pure white except the outside of the tube which is greenish, fragrant, narrowly funnel- . shaped, varying in length from six to ten inches, the per- manently connivent claws of the segments half as long again as their faleate oblong limb, which in the three inner ones is usually half as broad again as in the three outer. Stamens about three-quarters as long as the perianth; anthers some- _ times an inch long; pollen bright yellow. Ovary cylindrical, above an inch long; style thickened gradually above the middle, reaching to the top of the Stamens; stigma capitate, deeply three-lobed.— J. G. Baker. > 3 ed 4 - "3 #3 a Tas. 6333. ALLOPLECTUS PELTATUS. Native of Costa Rica. Nat. Ord. GrsneRaceEm.—Subtribe CoLUMNEEM. Genus Attor.ectus, Martius (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 1008). Attor.ectus peltatus ; fruticosus erectus glaber, foliis oppositis petiolatis carno- - sulo-coriaceis altero ovali-oblongo apiculato basi rotundato peltato altero multoties minore, floribus axillaribus sepius 2-3-fasciculatis pedicellatis, calyce 5-partito rubro-purpureo lobo postico minore cxteris lanceolatis obliquis, corolle tubo calyce longiore limbo bilabiato, labio superiore bifido inferiore tripartito, segmentis obovato-rotundatis denticulato-fimbriatis, glandula disci carnosa ovata ovario breviore postica. Introduced by Messrs. Veitch from Costa Rica, where it was collected by the late M. Endres, and flowering from July to the present month (November) in our stoves. This is another of those Gesneriads remarkable in having one leaf of each pair permanently rudimentary, as, for example, in Columnea aureo-nitens (Bot. Mag. 4294), with farther and, so far as I know, unique peculiarity in this genus of a distinctly peltate leaf-blade, the insertion of the stout petiole being a quarter to one third of an inch within the rounded base of the blade. Dusor. Shrubby, one and a half to two feet high, wholly glabrous excepting the young leaves which are ciliate at first as are also the segments of the calyx. Branches stout, sub-terete, marked with leaf-scars, the internodes smooth. Leaves opposite, but one of each pair fully developed, on a stout terete petiole one to two inches in length, blade oval- oblong rather coriaceous and somewhat fleshy, acute or apiculate, base rounded and peltate, six to nine inches long, one and three-quarters to two and a half inches broad, at DECEMBER lst, 1877. first ciliolate, early glabrous. Flowers in sessile few-flowered fascicles, more rarely solitary, from the axils of the present or of fallen leaves, on pedicels a half to three-quarters of an inch long ; bracts lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, shorter than the pedicels. Calye 5-partite, red-purple, segments lanceolate subacute one inch long, excepting the posterior segment which is much shorter, lateral segments oblique. Corolla pale yellow, throat and base of lobes passing into orange-brown; tube curved, constricted below, and again dilated around the ovary ; limb bilabiate, upper. lip deeply bifid, lower lip tripartite, segments like those of the upper lip obovate-rotundate, the median lobe larger and rotundate, all more or less fimbriate-dentate. Stamens included, four, inserted near base of corolla-tube; the glabrous filaments cohering below in pairs; anthers slightly coherent, two-celled, obtuse and rounded above, sagittate below, cells. contiguous. Ovary superior, ovoid, narrowed into the style, minutely papillose, one-celled with four mutiovulate placentas ; stigma slightly compressed and laterally dilated, undivided, strongly papillose. Gland of disk posterior, ovate, about half the length of the ovary —D. Oliver. Figs. 1, Corolla laid open; 2, pistil and disk. 6334, Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Imp. pcan SORA ON A I amB ye, W.H Fitch, Del et Lith. Tas. 6334, STENOSPERMATIUM Wattistr. Native of Columbia. Nat. Ord. ArorpE&.—Tribe CALLER. Genus StenosperMaAtiuM, Schott (Prodr. Syst. Aroid. p. 346). SrenosrermMatium Wallisii; caudice assurgente ad nodos radices emittente, foliis approximatis longiuscule petiolatis basi vaginantibus lamina oblongo- vel ovato-lanceolatis acutis basi oblique rotundatis, pedunculis folio breviori- bus v. subequilongis erectis apice recurvis, spadice cylindraceo obtuso pedunculato nutante spatha albida rotundata concava v. late cymbiforme breviore. S. Wallisii, @. 7. Masters in Gard, Chron. 1875, I. p. 558 (cum ic. xylog.). One of Mr, Wallis’ important discoveries in Tropical America, introduced to cultivation by Messrs. Veitch ; ex- hibited two years ago in flower, and described, together with an excellent woodcut and detailed analysis, by Dr. Masters in the ‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle’ about the same time. The pure ivory-white nodding spathes, freely developed amongst the clustered dark shining green leaves, render this plant one of the most valuable of our stove Aroids for orna- mental culture. It belongs to asmall genus consisting altogether of but four or five species, peculiar to Columbia, Peru, and Northern Brazil. Duscr. Stem erect or ascending two to three feet high, terete, glabrous, about as thick as the thumb, giving off copious wrial roots from the lower nodes. Leaves rather numerous, dark-green and shining above, paler beneath, lamina obliquely-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, acute or acumin- ate, base unequally rounded; midrib depressed above, pro- minent beneath, venation rather obscure ; about’six to seven inches long, two to three inches broad ; petiole closely am- plexicaul, laterally compressed and slightly channelled DECEMBER Ist, 1877. above, about one inch in length; the sheath three to four inches long. Pedunele slender, erect, recurved at the ex- tremity, equalling or shorter than the leaves. Spathe ivory- white, roundish, deeply concave, apiculate, at length deciduous. Spadix distinctly pedunculate, shorter than the spathe, about two inches long, cylindrical, obtuse, densely covered with hermaphrodite flowers. Perianth wanting. Stamens 4, filaments flattened, dilated below ; anthers 2- celled, cells broadly divergent at base, at apex ultimately confluent. Ovary turbinate, truncate, 4-6-sided, 2-celled (not 1-celled, as figured), with 4-6 erect ovules in each cell ; upper portion of the ovary solid; stigma sessile, centrical.— D. Oliver. Fig. 1, Ovary and stamens; 2, detached stamen; 3, transverse section of ovary, the dissepiment not shown; 4 and 5, longitudinal sections of ovary —all magnified. 6335. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son,Imp WH Fitch, Del et Lith. Tas. 6335. GLADIOLUS Ecxtonr. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Nat. Ord. Inmpackm—Tribe GrapDIoLER®. Genus Giapio.us, Tourn. (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe, vol. xvi. p. 170). Grapiotus Hekloni ; bulbo magno globoso, collo setoso, tunicis brunneis in fibras parallelas dissolutis, foliis productis circiter 4 ensiformibus acutis subpedalibus glabris rigide coriaceis venis et marginibus incrassatis, caule subpedali folioso, spica densa 6-12-flora semipedali, spathe valvis magnis lanceolatis, perianthii tubo curvato 9-12 lin. longo, limbi crebre minute purpureo-rubro punctati segmentis tubo squilongis, tribus- superioribus ovatis vel oblongis obtusiusculis, tribus inferioribus minoribus unguiculatis, staminibus limbo duplo brevioribus, filamentis brevissimis, stigmatibus cuneatis antheras superantibus. G. Eckloni, Lehm.; Klatt in Linnea, vol. xxxii. p. 712; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. xvi. p. 175. Nevsert longifolia, Ecklon, Topog. Verz. p. 87 (nomen solum). G. carneus, Klatt in Linnea, vol. xxxii. p. 722, non Delaroche. This is a most distinct and beautiful species of Gladiolus, marked by its comparatively dwarf habit, ensiform leaves, and as compared with the best-known Cape species small flowers with innumerable minute spots of bright red purple on a pale groundwork. It is widely spread in South Africa extending from Uitenhage northward through Kaffraria to Natal, and inland to Basuta-land and the Transvaal, As it ascends to a height of three thousand or four thousand feet on the Katberg, we may fairly expect it to be as hardy in England as any of the Cape species. For the specimen figured we are indebted to Mr. Elwes, who flowered it at Cirencester in October. He procured it from Mr. Wilson Saunders, who had it from Mr. Thomas Cooper from the Drakensberg. We confidently expect it will prove a pular favourite. DECEMBER Ist, 1877. Descr. Bulb globose, an inch and a half in diameter, the neck crowned with long bristles and the brown tunics splitting up more or less into parallel fibres. Produced distichous roof-leaves usually four to a stem, ensiform, acute, rigidly coriaceous, glabrous, attaining a breadth of an inch or more at the middle, about a foot long, with the margins and main nerves much thickened. Stem about a foot long below the spike, sheathed with three or four reduced leaves. Spike dense, six to twelve-flowered, reaching a length of half a foot. Spathe-valves green and moderately firm in texture at the flowering time, lanceolate, the outer one much the largest, two or three inches long. Ovary small, oblong; perianth-tube curved, an inch or rather less long; limb about as long as the tube, the three upper segments ovate or oblong, subobtuse, the three lower smaller and unguiculate. Stamens inserted at the throat of the tube not more than half as long as the segments; filaments very short, the cuneate stigmas just overtopping the anthers.—J. G. Baker. Fig. 1, Stigmas and summit of the style; 2, a single stamen :—both magnified. n, imp. Day & So Tas. 6336. ERANTHEMUM LAXIFLORUM. Native of Polynesia. Nat. Ord. AcantHackm—Tribe ErantHEME, Genus Erantuemum, Linn. (Benth. et Hook. fil. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1097). Eranturmum laviflorum; fruiticosum glaberrimum, foliis ovalibus vel ovato- oblongis obtusiuscule acuminatis basi angustatis, pedunculis axillaribus folio brevioribus sepius bifcliiferis cymosim pauci- vel multifloris, pedicellis spe calyce longioribus, laciniis calycinis subulatis, corolla purpurea hypo- craterimorpha lobis subsequalibus subellipticis obtusis. E. laxiflorum, 4. Gray in Proce. Am. Acad. vol. v. p. 349; Seemann, £1. Vitiensis, p. 185, tab. 42. - For this very desirable addition to our autumn-flowering Acanthads we are indebted to Messrs. Veitch, for whom it was introduced from the New Hebrides. Specimens are also in the Kew Herbarium from the Fiji Islands, collected by the late Dr. Seemann, where he states (I. ¢.) that it is frequently cultivated by the European settlers as an orna- mental plant. Descr. Shrub or half-shrub attaining from two to four feet in height, wholly glabrous; stem smooth subterete or obscurely tetragonous. Leaves petiolate, oval or lanceolate- or ovate-oblong, narrowed to each end, apex scarcely acute, of the flowering branches usually two to three and a half inches long; two-thirds to one and a quarter of an inch broad, the lower ones, according to Dr. Seemann sometimes eight to nine inches long and four to five inches broad ; petioles of upper leaves one-sixth to one-half of an inch long. Cymes few- or many-flowered, axillary, pedunculate, usually with a pair of foliaceous bracts; pedicels equalling or exceeding the calyx. Calyx divided to nearly the base into five erect subulate subequal segments, several times shorter than the corolla-tube. Corolla purple, hypocrateriform ; tube cylindrical, exceeding the five-partite spreading limb, DECEMBER lst, 1877. ‘the ‘segments of which are approximately equal, ovate- elliptical, rather obtuse. Stamens two, a little exserted, anthers recurved at length, each with two contiguous equal unappendaged cells. Ovary oblong, conical, glabrous.— — Dz. Oliver. : Fig. 1, Corolla laid open; 2, calyx and pistil; 3, ovary’:—enlarged. INDEX To Vol. XXXIII of the Turrp Serres, or Vol. CIIT. of the Work. — JEchmea (Chevalliera) | 6282 Veitchii. | 6306 Agave (littcea) Sartorii. 6382 Allium unifolium. 6274 Alloplectus peltatus. 6303 Aloe chinensis. _ 6273 Aloe tricolor. 6312 Arthropodium neo-cale- donicum. — 6299 Bauhinia petiolata. | Bollea Lalindei. | 6325 Boronia elatior. | 6311 Buddleia asiatica. | 6317 Calceolaria lobata. Calliphruria subedenta. Camassia esculenta, var. Leichtlinii. Carissa grandiflora. Ceropegia barkleyi. Cordia decandra. Cypripedium Haynaldianum. Dendrobium erystallinum. Dracena reflexa. ~ Dracocephalum speciosum. -Drimiopsis Kirkii. Dyckia frigida. Epidendrum Sophronitis. Eranthemum laxiflorum. Fritillaria acmopetala. Fritillaria dasyphylla. Gladiolus Eckloni. Gladiolus ochroleucus. Globba Schomburgkii. Gongora portentosa. Haplopappus spinulosus. Houlletia picta. 6278 6322 — 6286 6318 6288 6300 6283 6334 6272 6293 — 6295 — 6309 ann enn Hypolytrum latifolium, Tris speculatrix. Lilium neilgherrense. Livistona australis. Lycaste Linguella. Masdevallia attenuata. Mesembryanthemum Cooperi. Mesembryanthemum Sutherlandii. Microstylis Josephiana. Notylia albida. Odontoglossum cirrhosum. Oncidium cheirophorum. Oncidium Euxanthinum. Pectis angustifolia. Pitcairnia flavescens. Restrepia antennifera. Rondeletia Backhousii. Salvia Schimperi. Solanum acanthodes. Stenospermatium Wallisii. Telfairia occidentalis. Thapsia garganica. Tigridia lutea. Tillandsia usneoides. Tovaria oleracea. Tulipa Orphanidea. Tulipa pulchella. Tulipa undulatifolia. Tupistra macrostigma. Vanda cerulescens, var. Boxallii. Xanthisma texanum. Xanthorrheea minor. Yucea orchioides, var. major.