a a CE ~~ an CURTIS'S BOTANICAL MAGAZINE, ILLUSTRATING AND DESCRIBING Plants of the Woval Gotanic Gardens of Kew, AND OF OTHER BOTANICAL ESTABLISHMENTS; EDITED BY SIR DAVID PRAIN, C.MG., CLE. LL.D., F.R.S., DIRECTOR, ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW. RO VOL: 2. OF THE FOURTH SERIES. (Or Vol. CXL. of the Whole Work.) a ae ee ** No flower in field that dainty odour throws And decks his branch with blossoms over all But there was planted or grew natural.” SPENSER. eee LONDON: L. REEVE & CO.,, LI, Publishers to the Home, Colonial, and Indian Governments, 6, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 1914. [All rights reserved.] eae LONDON : TED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, MFORD snot $.E., AND GREAT WINDMILL STREET, W. ‘To Prorrssorn HENRY HAROLD WELCH PEARSON, M.A., Se.D., F.L.S. HARRY BOLUS PROFESSOR OF BOTANY, CAPE TOWN - AND DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL BOTANIC GARDEN OF SOUTH AFRICA, AS SUCCESSFUL IN HIS LEADERSHIP OF BOTANICAL EXPEDITIONS AS HE HAS BEEN GENEROUS IN DISTRIBUTING THEIR FRUITS, THIS voreus OF THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE IS CORDIALLY DEDICATED. Kew, December 1, 1914. Fourth Series. g f : No. 109. ce Monthly, price 3s. 6d. Whibead: ! ee 6d. VOL. X.—JANUARY. Annual Exheereeen,. ae. on No. 1593 or me uvmite work. “CURTIS'S | Se OTANICAL. MAGAZI CONTAINING HAND-COLOURED FIGURES WITH ‘pedodaerions, STRUCTURAL AND. HIS OF NEW AND RARE af “ AND OTHER + some sia bs senines * n fie! a that dainty : And acces his branch with bloss«s over all But there was — or cnipaecavest ie has boon bao by A H. vans, and is now ready, 12 a wae 15s. £1 Is. Short N ren cereal vias oes 7 Glossary Tabl ete in Two. Vols, with 226 plaice, 10 in. a 6fin. Giving ay 8532 Lae ean tn tl timp T Lio Sor c u Vincent Brooks, Day & M.S.del. J.N Fitch lith {, Reeve &C° Landon. Tap. 8532; ERYTHRINA PoULCHERRIMA. South America? Lecuminosak. Tribe PHASEOLEAE. Eryturina, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 581. Erythrina pulcherrima, Tod. Nuovi Gen. e Sp. p. 70, et in Ann, Sc. Nat. sér. iv. vol. xx. p. 307, et in Hort. Bot. Panorm, t. xi.; ab E. Crista-galli, Linn., cui affinis, foliolis plus minusve ellipticis vel oblongis apice breviter obtuse acuminatis facile distinguenda. Arbor parva. Ramuli teretes, glabri, virides, interdum rubro-brunneo-lineolati, lenticellis parum conspicuis hic illic instructi, aculeis sparsis. Folia pinnatim trifoliolata, petiolo 5°5-11 em. longo hasi incrassato terete vel superne canaliculato viridi aculeis validiusculis hic illic instructo suffulta. Foliola lateralia oblongo-ovata vel oblongo-elliptica, parum inaequilatera, apice breviter obtuse acuminata, basi late cuneata vel cuneato-rotundata, 6-9°5 cm. longa, 3°4-5°5 em. lata, pagina utraque glabra, subtus pallidiora, costa subtus basin versus aculeo solitario saepe instructa, terminalia a lateralibus 2°7-3°5 em. distantia, ex elliptica ad fere obovata, apice breviter obtuse acuminata, basi rotundata vel late cuneato-rotundata, 7-11 em. longa, 4°5-7°3 cm, lata, pagina utraque glabra, inferiore aculeis 0-2 costa basin versus instructa; nervi laterales utrinsecus 7-8, supra conspicui, subtus prominuli, nervulis uti reticulatione conspicuis ; petioluli 0°5-1 em. longi, subglabri, supra leviter canaliculati; stipellae parvae, erectae. Inflorescentia axillaris, triflora; pedicelli 2°7 cm. longi, subglabri; bracteae bracteolaeque fugaces. Calycis carnosiusculi tubus 11 mm. diametro et longus, lobi breves, marcescentes. Corol/ae vexillum elliptico- obovatum, basi cuneatum, 5°2 cm. longum, 3°4 cm. latum; alae 2-1 em. longae, medio 2°5 mm. latae; carina 4°4 cm, longa, medio 8°5 mm. lata, Antherae circiter 2 mm. longae. Ovarium albo-arachnoideum, stipiti subaequilongum, circiter 2 cm. longum, stylo breviusculo.—W. G. Crars. This beautiful Erythrina, like several other similar species which have from time to time been introduced into Italian gardens, and have thence found their way into northern European collections, has an obscure history. Its original habitat was unknown to Professor Todaro when he first described it, nor has the doubt been yet cleared up, though it is probable that it is a native of Argentina and perhaps of the northern provinces of that state. The nearest ally of E. puleherrima is E. Cristi-galli, Linn., a native of Brazil, ficured at t. 2161 of this work, but our plant can be readily distinguished from the older species by the different shape of its leaflets. The material for our illustration has been JANUARY, 1914. provided by a plant which has long been under cultivation in the Palm House at Kew, where it flowered for the first time in 1910. The Kew plant, which was obtained, by ip ecm on the Continent, is about thirty feet in height, and judging from its behaviour here its cultural requirements are tropical. It does not flower at all freely at Kew, and in this respect it ig in accord with the other arborescent species of Lérythrina in the collection. Descriprion.— Tree up to 30 ft. high; branches terete, green, sometimes streaked with reddish-brown, here and there rather conspicuously lenticelled, sparingly prickly. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate, petiole 2}—-4}:in, long, thickened at the base and there cylindric, upwards channelled, green, sparingly beset with stoutish prickles; lateral leaflets oblong-ovate or oblong-elliptic, somewhat unequal-sided, shortly obtusely acuminate, base wide-cuneate or somewhat rounded, 2$-3% in. long, 11-24 in. wide, glabrous on both sides, rather paler beneath, the midrib underneath often with a single prickle near the base; terminal leaflet 1-—]1 in, remote from the lateral, elliptic to obovate, shortly obtusely acuminate, base rounded or subacute, 23-43 in. long, 13-2% in., glabrous on both sides, but with usually 1-2 prickles on the midrib beneath near the base; lateral nerves 7-8 on each side, conspicuous above, somewhat raised beneath, secondary venation and fine reticulation conspicuons ; petiolules }-} in. long, nearly glabrous, slightly channelled on the upper side ; stipels minute, erect, Injlores- cence axillary, 3-flowered ; pedicels over 1 in. long, nearly glabrous; bracts and bracteoles fugacious. Calyx some- what fleshy ; tube nearly $ in. long and almost as wide; lobes short, mareescent. Standard elli ptic-obovate, cuneate at the base, over 2 in. long, 14 in. wide. Wing-petals over t in. long, y'5 in. wide in the middle. Keel 1 in. long, ly in. long. 3. in. wide in the middle. Anrhers about Ovary white-arachnoid, with a large glabrous stipe, about 2 in. long; style rather short. Fig. 1, flower-bnd; 2, win -petal ; 3, kel- ‘ami ; anthers ; 6, pistil :—ul/ aleraad. en ‘ _—— 8533 Vincent Broola: Day & Son Jitimp eve & Oo London. + tah. hth z M.S. del. INE: LF Tas. 8533. GALTONIA princrps. South Africa. Liniackak. Tribe ScILLEAE. Gauronta, Decne; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 899. Galtonia princeps, Decne in Flore des Serres, vol. xxiii. (1880) p. 33; Baker in Dyer, Fil. Cap. vol, vi. p. 451; species G. candicanti, Decne, affinis, perianthii segmentis tubo brevioribus et staminibus prope basin tubi perianthii affixis differt. Herba. Bulbus globosus, tunicatus, Folia 4-6, anguste lanceolata, acuminata, _ basi vaginantia, 4 dm. longa, 4 cm. lata, marginibus minutissine puberulis exceptis glabra. Scapus foliis longior, teres, glaber ; icelli erecto- patentes, 3 cm. longi, fructiferi erecti, ad 7 cm. longi; bracteae ovatae, acuminatae, membranaceae, 3 cm. longae, 8 mm. latae; flores nutantes, distantes. Perianthit tubus oblongus, 12 mm. longus, 9 mm. diametro, extra viridis; lobi subpatentes, ovati, obtusi, 2 cm. longi, 1 cm. lati, candidi, Stamina paullo supra basin perianthii inserta; filamenta e basi dilatata subulata, 15 mm. longa; antherae oblongae, obtusae, basi profunde cordatae, 6 mm. longae. OUvarium oblongum, 7 mm. longum, viride; stylus cylindricus, 10 mm. longus; stigma minute trilobum.—Hyacinthus princeps, Baker in Saund. Ref. But. t. 175, et in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xi. p. 426.—C. H. Wricut. The genus Galtonia was established by Professor Decaisne in 1880 to accommodate two species which Mr. Baker had already described and referred to MHyacinthus, Linn., as H, candicans and H. princeps; it is the second of these which forms the subject of our illustration, Decaisne proposed his new genus because the two species in question have more numerous seeds than any true Hyacinthus, because these seeds are angular and not turgid, and because the stature of the scape in a Galtonia is much higher than in a Hyacinthus. The view expressed by Decaisne was fully accepted by Baker who subsequently described a third species which differs. from the others in having perianth- segments only half the length of the tube. That species, G. clavata, Baker, has been figured at t. 6885 of this work. The species now figured, G. princeps, has long been in cultivation at Kew, where it flowers every year under the cultural conditions which are suitable for the more popular and better known G. candicans. The home of G. princeps JANuARY, 1914, is the Eastern Region of South Africa, where on the Bazeia mountain and near Pietermaritzburg it attains altitudes of nearly 3,000 feet above sea-level. ‘The original description was based upon a plant which flowered at Kew in 1870; since then it has been met with in various localities between the Transkei and Zululand. The specimen which supplied the material for our figure is one which was collected in Tembuland by Canon G. E. Mason, Principal of St. Bede’s College at Umtata, and by his sister, Miss M. H. Mason, _ and was given by them to the Cambridge Botanic Garden, where it has flowered as freely as the species does at Kew. The most nearly allied species, the well-known G. candicans, occurs in Natal, the Orange River Colony and Aliwal North ; it is readily distinguished from our plant by the characters already enumerated, and by its larger racemes with more numerous flowers, Descriprion.—Herb; bulb globose, tunicate. Leaves 4-6, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, sheathing at the base, 1} ft. long, 14 in. wide, glabrous except for the very minutely puberulous margins, Scape longer than the leaves, cylindric, glabrous; pedicels somewhat spreading, 14 in. long, when in fruit erect, up to 3 in. long; bracts ovate, acuminate, membranous, 1} in. long, } in. wide; flowers nodding, rather remote. Perianth subcampanuliform ; tube oblong, $ in. long, over 1 in, wide, green outside; lobes somewhat spreading, ovate, obtuse, 2 in. long, } in. wide, whitish. Stamens inserted some way above the perianth- base ; filaments subulate from a dilated base, nearly 2 in, long ; anthers oblong, obtuse, deep-cordate at the base, 4 in, long. Ovary oblong, over + in. long, green; style cylindric, 2 in, long ; stigma minute, 3-lobed, Figs. 1 and 2, anthers; 3, stigma :—all enlarged, Vincent Brooks Day &Son LiGimp M.S. del.d.N Fitchiith. Tas. 8534. CARPINUS Japonica. Central and Southern Japan. CuprunirerRAE. Tribe CoRYLEAE. Carpincs, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. iii. p. 405. Carpinus (§ Distegocarpus) japonica, Blume in Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. vol. i. p- 803; Elwes & Henry in Trees of Gt. Brit. and Irel. p. 528; species C. cordatae, Blume, quam maxime affinis sed foliis minoribus loboque brac!eze basali duplo minore apte distinguenda, Arbor decidua, sylvestris 15-metralis, caudice 4 dm. diametro, coma patente, cortice squamoso suleatoyue; ramuli hornotini pubescentes. Folia ovato- lanceolata vel ovato-oblonga, acuta vel acuminata, basi inaequilateraliter cordata, margine serrata vel nonnunquam dentibus minoribus interjectis, 5-12 cm. longa, 2-4°5 cm. lata; nervi paralleli, utrinsecus 16-24, subtus elevati, supra impressi; supra viridia secus costam pubescentia ceterum glabra, subtus. pallidiora secus costam et in axillis nervorum pilosa; petiolus 6-12 mm. longus; stipulae paleaceae, lineares, 8-12 mm. longae, ciliatae. Flores monoici; masculi in amenta gracilia pendula pube- scentia 5 cm. longa, feminei in amenta breviora terminalia aggregati; bracteac maris anguste ovatae, pilosae, singulae stamina numerosa sub- tendentes, feminei valde imbricatae, ovatae, grosse dentatae, basi indupli- catae, accrescentes’ demum membranuceae, 2°5 cm. longae. Filamenta perbrevia; antherae purpurascentes, apice setulosae. Ovariwm oblongum ; styli 2, erecto-patentes. Nucwla lobulo bracteae involuta ; lobulus bracteae basi tantum adnatus, 4 mm. longus.—Distegocarpus Carpinus, Sieb. et Zuce. in Fl. Jap. Nat. Fam. vol. ii. p. 103. Curpinus Carpinus, Sargent in Gard. & For. vol. vi. p. 864; C. K. Schneider in Handb,. der Laubholz. vol. i. p- 187.—W. J. Bran. The handsome Hornbeam now figured is interesting as belonging to a well marked section of the genus Carpinus which some authors have separated under the name Distegocarpus. The distinctive characters that separate Disteyocarpus from Eu-carpinus, which includes all the true Hornbeams, are the more numerous parallel nerves, the closely imbricated fruiting bracts and the existence of a lobe’ or intolded base to each bract which completely covers the nutlet. The only other species in the section Distegocarpus is C. cordata, Blume, which is well distinguished by its larger and broader leaves with fifteen to twenty pairs of veins, and by the basal lobe of the bract being twice as large as in C. japonica, and being attached by its side as well as by its base. C. japonica appears to have first been introduced Januaky, 1914, to Great Britain by the late Mr. Charles Maries in 1879, but most, if not all the examples now in cultivation came in 1895. In that year Kew received plants from the Arnold Arboretum and from a nursery at Tokyo. It was from a tree of Professor Sargent’s sending, now 16 ft. high, that our figure was prepared, the fruit-clusters in June, 1912, the flowers in 1913. The tree is perfectly hardy, thriving well in stiff loam. In shape very graceful, for the spreading branches are pendulous at the ends, this is one of the most striking of Hornbeams in its many-ribbed leaves, and is an admirable tree for small gardens. Description.— Tyee, in Japan making a height of 50 ft., with a spreading head of branches and a trunk 5 ft. in girth; bark scaly and furrowed; branchlets hairy the first season. Leaves ovate-lanceolate to ovate-oblong, acute to acuminate, subcordate and unequal at the base, unequally often doubly serrate, 2-43 in. long, 3-13 in. wide; dark dull green and pubescent only on the midrib above, beneath rather paler, hairy on the midrib and in the nerve-axils; ribs parallel, in 16-24 pairs, very prominent beneath, impressed above; petiole 4-3} in. long; stipules chaffy, linear, 4-3 in. long, ciliate. Flowers monoecious. Male: Catkins slender, pendulous, pubescent, 2 in. long ;_ bracts narrowly ovate, hairy, subtending numerous stamens with short filaments; anthers purplish, hairy at the apex. Female: Catkins shorter than in male, terminal ; bracts much imbricated, enlarging and becoming membranous in the fruiting stage, ovate coarsely toothed, 1 in. long, the base infolding; ovary oblong; styles 2, suberect. Nutlet covered by a lobe of the bract, 1 in, long, which is attached to the bract by its base only. Fig. 1, male catkins; 2, male flowers; 2, an anther: 4, a female catkin: 5, female flowers; 6, vertical section of a female flower; 7, base of female bi act with its basal lobe; 8, basal lobe of female bract with nutlet :—all enlaryed. 8535 i Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Limp L.Reevs &C London MS. del. JN-Fitch tith. Tas. 8535. PRIMULA Pourpomi. West Kansu. PrimvLAcEAE. Tribe PRIMULEAE. Primcta, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 631. Primula Purdomii, Veitch ex Gard. Mag. vol. lvi. p. 201 (icon. sine descr.) ; Gard. Chron. 1918, vol. liii. p. 192 (anglice); ibid. 1913, vol. liii. p. 200 oot) species P. nivali, Pall., peraffinis. sed corollae lobis magis rotun- atis apice integris, stigmate grandi recedit. Herba subacaulis. /vlia oblanceolata, lanceolata vel oblongo-oblanceolata, basi in petiolum alatum attenuata vel interdum petiolo vix alato ad fere 3 cm. longo snffulta, apice obtusa vel acutiuscula, ad 11 em. longa et 2°2 em. lata. albo-furinosa, nervis vix conspicuis, margine revoluto subintegra vel . denticulata. Scapus 12 cm. longus, superne praecipue summo apice farinosus, umbellam circiter 8-floram gerens; bracteae involucrales vix lem. longae; pedicelli plerumque decurvi, ad 6 mm. longi, albo-farinosi. Calyx 1 cm. longus; lobi oblongo-lanceolati, acutiusculi, tubo subaequi- longi, 2-2°5 mm. lati. Corol/ae tubus calycem 3 mm. superans, 4°5 mm. diametro; limbus patens, 2°3 cm. diametro, lobis ellipticis vel obovato- ellipticis apice rotundatis 8 mm. latis supra pilis paucis brevibus glan- duloso-capitatis instructis. Antherae2 mm. longae, fere sessiles. Ovarium 3 mm. altum, 2:5 mm. diametro, stylo 5 mm. longo, stigmate 1 mm. longo. Capsula exserta, ambitu oblonga, circiter 1°5 cm. longa, straminea, pluri- suleata; semina parva, tuberculata.—W. G. Crate. The Primula which forms the subject of our illustration is one which was raised by Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons from seeds collected on their behalf by Mr. W. Purdom, at Tao- chow in Western Kansu, where it grows at an elevation of 10-11,000 feet above the level of the sea. In consequence of the not inconsiderable number of Primulas at present finding their way into cultivation for the first time, the task of the fcrmal descriptive botanist is not a very simple one. In that task he has of late been accorded the assistance of cultural authorities who now call for the use of a name for purposes of citation in connection with the issue of certain horticultural certificates. Instead of diminishing, this practice rather increases the difficulty of the descriptive botanist even when, as in the present instance, the naked- ness of a particular name is partially concealed by the reproduction of photographs and the provision of a brief vernacular descriptive account by horticultural journals. JaNraRy, 1914. That P. Purdomii, the plant in question, is a very pleasing addition to our garden Primulas is undoubted, but whether it is one which deserves recognition as a species apart from the rather variable North Temperate P. nivalis, Pall., figured at t. 1161 of this work, depends very largely upon the value as a distinctive character of the relatively much larger stigma met with in P. Purdomii. In any case there is no doubt that the latter is merely the geographical repre- sentative in Kansu of its Siberian and North American congener. Our plate has been prepared from a plant presented to the Kew collection by Messrs. Veitch which was grown in a cold frame and flowered freely, but failed to set seed, so that the fruit and seed shown in our illus- tration had to be added from material kindly supplied by that firm. Like most members of the “ Nivalis ” group of Primulas, P. Purdomii died after flowering. It is a plant of dese growth and robust habit which prefers a loamy soil, Descrietion.— Herb, acaulescent. Leaves oblanceolate, lanceolate or oblong-oblanceolate, narrowed at the base into a winged or wingless petiole over 1 in. long, obtuse or somewhat acute, up to 44 in. long, nearly 1 in. wide, white- mealy, nerves hardly visible, margin revolute, entire or - denticulate. Scape nearly 5 in. long, mealy towards the top, hearing an 8-flowered umbel; involucral bracts about % in. long; pedicels usually decurved, up to + in. long, white-mealy. Calyx 2 in. long; lobes oblong-lanceolate, somewhat acute, about as long as the tube, 4!,—y, in. wide. Corolla lavender, becoming at length rosy-lilac ; tube rather larger than the calyx, & in. wide; limb spreading, nearly 1 in, across, lobes elliptic or obovate-elliptic, rounded, 4 in. across, with a few short gland-tipped hairs above. Anthers rz in. long, subsessile. Ovary 4 in. long, ‘fy In. wide; style § in. long; stigma gy in. long. Capsule exserted, ee oblone, about 2 in, long, straw-coloured, grooved ; seeds small, tuberculate. Fig. 1, calyx and pistil; 2, corolla, cut verti isti i “ , , cally ; . : 6, seeds :—ull enlaryed except 4, which is of natural nas iy spaniels ne aaa S536 Oi SA K : Vp We Hl % 4 if ° n ze a & ° © q m 5 5 M.S. del, J.N. Fitch Eth, L Reeve & C°? London Tap. 8536. LONICERA DEFLEXICALYX. China and Tibet. CAPRIFOLIACEAE. Tribe LONIGEREAE. Lontcera, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Plant, vol. ii. p. 5; Rehder in Missouré Bot. Gard. Report, 1903, p. 27. Lonicera deflexicalyx, Batalin in Act. Hort. Petrop. vol. xii. p. 178 ; Wolf in: Gartenfl. vol. xlii. p. 8332; Rehder, 1.c. p. 142; affinis L. ovalis, Batalin, sed foliis lanceolatis acuminatis bracteolis ovariis brevioribus facile distin- guitur. Frutex; ramuli patentes, graciles, glanduloso-puberuli. Folia lanceolata vel oblongo-lanceolata, basi rotundata vel subcordata, apice acuminata, mu- cronata, 4-7 em. longa, 1°5-2°3 em. lata, integra, tenuiter chartacea, supra parce pilosa, infra praesertim ad nervos pilosa; nervi laterales utrinsecus 9-10, angulo 45° a costa abeuntes, leviter arcuati, supra immersi, infra prominentes ; petioli 2-5-4 mm. longi, pubescentes. Pedunculi axillares, — solitarii, biflori, flore 2-3-plo breviores, glanduloso-puberuli ; bracteae lineares, subobtusae, 2-8 mm. longae, fere glabrae; bracteolae ovario duplo breviores vel subaequilongae, basi_connatae, truncatae vel obscure dentatae, ciliatae. Receptacula inter se libera,2 mm. alta, glabra. Calyx fere ad basin fissus, segmentis membranaceis 2-3-dentatis parce pilosis. Corolla flava; tubus circiter 0°5 cm. longus, intra longe extra breyiter pilosus et inferne glandulosus ; labium inferum integrum, oblongum, apice rotundatum, tubo longius, superum 4-lobum, lobis ovatis apice rotundatis 3-4 mm. longis. Stamina exserta; filamenta circiter 0°5 cm. longa, basi pilosa; antherae 4-5 mm. longae, pallide virides. Stylus staminibus sub- aequilongus, pilosus, stigmate bilobo. Baccae (ex Batalin) luteo-auran- tiacae, globosae, polyspermae ; semina compressa, elliptica.—J. Hurcninsow. The Honeysuckle here figured belongs to a small group of species which is separated from the other members of Lonicera, subsection Ochranthae, Zabel, as amended by Rehder, chiefly by the form of the calyx which is usually more or less truncate. It is a species which occurs in Yunnan, Szechuan and Eastern Tibet, and is most nearly allied to L. ovalis, Batalin, which in turn is hardly by its description distinguishable from LZ. trichosantha, Bur. & Franch., a native of the same region. L. deflexicalyx, however, is readily distinguished by its narrower leaves. ‘The plant from which the material for our figure has been derived was purchased when quite small from Mr, Spath of Berlin in 1908, and is now a bush 7 ft. in height and 15 ft, JaNuARY, 1914. across, with gracefully arching branches, L. deflexicalyx is undoubtedly one of the most ornamental of the bush Honeysuckles in this country, where, owing to the prevalence of late spring frosts, many members of this group of shrubs are as a rule more or less injured ; sometimes their crop of flowers is entirely destroyed. Owing to its being later than the others of this group in breaking into growth, L. deflexicalyx usually escapes. The flowers, which are a rich yellow and are very plentiful, are all on the upperside of the twigs and show to great advantage. Like other species of the genus this one prefers a good loamy soil, abundant moisture and full sunshine. This species is easily increased by late summer cuttings. Description.— Shrub; twigs spreading, slender, glan- dular-puberulous. Leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, mucronate, rounded or subeordate at the base, 13-3 in. long, 3-1 in. wide, entire, thinly papery, sparingly bis above, pilose more particularly on the nerves beneath ; ateral nerves 9-10 on each side of the midrib with which they make angles of 45°, slightly arched, sunk above and raised beneath ; petiole 1-14 in. long, pubescent. Peduncles axillary, solitary, 2-flowered, much shorter than the flowers, glandular-puberulous ; bracts linear, somewhat obtuse, 75-4 in. long, nearly glabrous; bracteoles sometimes nearly as long as the ovary, usually considerably shorter, connate at the base, truncate or obscurely toothed, ciliate. Receptacles not united to each other, yy in. long, glabrous. Caly« divided nearly to the base, segments membranous, 2-3- toothed, sparingly psig Corolla yellow ; tube about } in. long, pilose with long hairs within, shortly pilose outside and glandular near the base; lower lip entire, oblong, rounded at the tip, longer than the tube; upper lip 4-lobed, lobes ovate, rounded at the tip, 4-1 in. long. Stamens exserted ; filaments about } in. long, hairy at the base ; anthers 4-1 in. long, pale green. Style nearly as long as the stamens, pilose ; stigma 2-lobed. 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"Two Vols. with 298 plates, 10 in, ty 6Ri in. Giving Deserip- _ ages Short Notes, Geographical Distribution, Glossary Table of Literature, Bed) and good index. oe oe ‘With “Coliiteelt Plates, £6 6s. With Uncoloured eases a 10s. Site Hang Ad. pak Vincent Brooks Day &Son ittiny M.5.deLJ.N. Fitch lith L Reeve &C9 Landon. Tap 8537; AMPELOPSIS MEGALOPHYLLA. China. AMPELIDACEAE, Amprtopsis, Michx; Planch. in DC. Monogr. vol. v. p. 453; Gilg in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. vol. iii. pars 5, p. 449. Ampelopsis megalophylla, Diels & Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. vol. xxix. p. 466; Gagnepatn in Sargent, P/. Wilson, vol. 1. p. 101; species A. leevidi, Planch., affinis sed f liis inferioribus bi-tripinnatis foliolis magis serratis nervis mayis conspicuis differt. Fruiex scandens, glaber, cirrhifer cirrhis oppositifoliis ramosis. Folia super ora simpliciter pinnata, inferiora bipinnata vel subtripinnata; petiolus rhachisque purpurei; foliola plus minusve _petiol \Jata, terminale longe petiolulatum, ovata vel lanceolata, usjue ad 13 em. longa, 7 cm. lata, a'i e acute acuminata, basi inaequilateralia margine inferiore rotundato, infima basi subcordata, gro-se serrata, supra viridia subtus glauca, axillis nervorum venularumque majorum minute pilosis. Cymae oppositifoliae, multiflorae; rhachis minute pilosa. Flores virides. C/yx amplus, membranacens, lobis rotundatis. /’etala patula, triangulari-ovata, acuta, marginibus papillosis. S‘amina oppositipetala ; antherae cordatae, apice leviter retusae. Discus intrastaminalis, e’evatus, quinquelobatus lobis staminibus altcrnantibus, Ovarivm biloculare; ovula pro loculo 2, erecta ; stylus consp cuus, apice truncatns, stigmate. terminali concavo. Baceue primum rubro-purpureae, demum nigrescentes, at 1 em..diametro.— Vitis megaphylla, Hort. ex Gard. Chron, 1908. vol. xxxiv. p. 150; J. H. Veitch in Journ. Roy. Hort. Soc. vol. xxviii. pp. 60, 395, ft. 16, 97.—T. A. SPRAGUE. The handsome Vine here figured was first cultivated in the garden of Mr. M. L. de Vilmorin at Les Barres, where it was raised from seed received by him from China in 1894, and where it flowered three years later. From Les Barres it was sent to Kew in 1907 under the name A. cantoniensis, Planch., a name which belongs, however, to another species which is not hardy in England. A. megalophylla is a native of Hupeh and Szechuan, and according to Dr. Schneider it also extends to Shensi. In 1901 it was introduced to European gardens a second time by Mr. E. H. Wilson on behalf of Messrs. Veitch & Sons. In some respects this is the most remarkable of all hardy vines, for though there are other species with pinnate and bipinnate leaves, recalling those of the genus Leea, there are none whose leaves are so Fesroary, 1914. large as in A, megalophylla. The leaves of greatest dimensions so far produced have approached three feet in length, and growths eight to ten feet long have been made during a single summer. In the south of England it succeeds well on a wall, but if grown in the open ground it needs a well-sheltered position in a sunny spot with a good loamy soil. The material for our figure we owe to the courtesy of Mr. L. Harcourt, in whose garden at Nuneham it thrives exceptionally well. Descriprioy.—Shrub, climbing by means of glabrous, leaf-opposed, branching tendrils. Leaves compound, the upper simply, the lower 2-3-pinnate; petiole and rhaehis purple; leaflets more or less petiolulate, the terminal eo elongated, ovate or lanceolate, acutely acuminate, ase unequal, the lower side rounded the upper cuneate, at point of union with the petiolules slightly subcordate, margin coarsely toothed, 5 in. long, 24-3 in. wide, green above, glaucous beneath, minutely hairy in the angles of the main-nerves and larger veins. Cymes leaf-opposed, many-flowered, the rhachis finely pilose. Flowers green. Calyx large, membranous, lobes rounded. Petals spreading, triangular-ovate, acute, their margins papillose, Stamens opposite the petals; anthers cordate, slightly retuse at the tip. Disk intrastaminal, raised, 5-lobed; lobes alter- nate with the stamens. Ovary 2-celled; ovules 2 to each cell, erect ; style conspicuous, truncate at the tip; stigma terminal, concave. Fruit at first red-purple, at length blackish, about 4 in. across, | _ Fig. 1, flower-bud ; 2, the same, petals and stamens . wae within; 4, stamens; 5 and 6, seibeceso a clare: reinovéd ; 3, petal, b538 MS.del. IN Fiteh ih “Vincent Brooks Day& Son Ltimp. Tap, 8538. ACTINIDIA cuHINENSIS. China. TERNSTROEMIACEAE. Tribe SAURAUJEAE. Aotinipia, Lindl.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 184. Actinidia chinensis, Planch. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot, vol. vi. p. 303; Oliver in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1593; Dunn in Journ. Livn. Soc., Bot, vol. xxxix. p. 408; foliis suborbicularibus vel late ovatis basi cordatis vel rotundatis subtus tomentosis distincta. Frutex scandens. Rami juniores hispi:li, seniores glabrescentes. Folia longi- petiolata, dimorpha; folia ramulorum sterilinm majuscula, late ovata vel elliptica, breviter acuminata vel cuspidata; folia ramulorum floriferoruam suborbicularia, apice breviter cuspidata rotundata vel retusa, basi plus minusve cordata, 6-12 cm. diametro, venulis productis denticulata, supra puberula nervis densius induta, subtus dense molliter pubescentia nervis prominentibus ; petioli 3-5-6 cm. loagi, dense hirsuti. Cymae in axillis foliornm delapsorum ortae, pauciflorae; pedicelli circiter 1-5 mm. longi, hirsuti. lores unisexuales, aurantiaci, 4-5 cm. diametro. Flores ¢ : Sepala ovato-oblonga, extra brunneo-tomentosa. Petala latissime obovata, breviter unguiculata. Stamina numerosa; filamenta filiformia; antherae sagittatae. Ovarii rudimentum dense lanatum, multiloculatum loculis 20-25 minutis; styli totidem, lineares. Flores Q (alabastra tantum cognita): Sfaminodia numerosa. Ovarium subglobosum, tomentosum, usque ad 30-loculatum ; styli in alabastro recurvati. Baccae ellipsoideae, tomentosae, circiter 4 cm. longae, calyce persistente reflexo. Semina oblongo-ellipsoidea, 2-2°5 mm. longa, reticulato-foveolata.—T. A. SPRAGUE. The genus Actinidia, to which the subject of our illustra- tion belongs, is one as to the position of which there has been some debate. .In the Genera Plantarum it was referred by Bentham and Hooker to the natural family -Ternstroemiaceae, but in the Natiirlichen Pflanzenfamilien it was transferred by Gilg to the Dilleniaceae. Dunn, who has recently monographed the genus Actinidia and re- investigated its affinities, has once more included it in the Ternstroemiaceae, relying largely in so doing upon its versatile anthers, numerous seeds unprovided with an aril, and moderately large embryo. The species of Actinidia are said to be polygamous or dioecious; according to Schneider A. chinensis is dioecious, and this statement is apparently correct, for the plant figured at t. 1593 of the Icones Plantarum bears young flowers which appear to be functionally female, whereas the plaut which has supplied Fesruary, 1914. the material for our plate bears functionally male flowers, This latter plant was obtained in 1905° from Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, and now grows as a climber in the Himalayan house, the stems being some twenty feet long. Under the conditions thus provided it thrives luxuriantly and makes strong yearly shoots some six feet in length. These shoots are cut back to spurs on which flowers subse- quently develop in May. There being but one plant in the collection it has not yet been possible to test its hardiness, The leaves: are larger and more decorative than in any other cultivated Actinidia. According to Wilson, by whom it was introduced on behalf of Messrs. Veitch, A. chinensis bears an edible fruit with green, subacid, palatable pulp, in flavour resembling the gooseberry. ‘The fruits vary both in size and in hairiness, Descripriox.—Shrub, climbing; young twigs hispid, adult twigs glabrescent. Leaves long-petioled, dimorphic ; those of the sterile twigs rather large, wide ovate or elliptic, shortly acuminate or cuspidate ; those of the floral twigs suborbicular, shortly cuspidate and rounded or retuse, more or less cordate at the base, 2}-5 in. long, margin finely toothed, each tooth with an excurrent veinlet ; pst above, especially on the nerves; softly pubescent neath with raised nerves; petiole 14-24 in. long, densely hirsute. Cymes springing from the axils of fallen leaves, tew-flowered ; pedicels about 2 in. long. hirsute. Flowers 1-sexual, orange-yellow, 13-2 in. wide. Male: Sepals ovate- oblong, brown-tomentose externally. Petals very wide obovate, shortly clawed. Stamens very numerous; fila- ments filiform; anthers sagittate. udimentary ovary densely woolly, many-celled, cells 20-25, minute, styles as many as the cells, linear. Fvmale (only seen in bud): Staminodes very numerous. Ovary subglobose, tomentose, up to 30-celled; styles reeurved in bud, . Fruit ellipsoid, tomentose, about 13 in, long, persistent calyx reflexed. Seeds oblong-ellipsoid, t'z-1'p in. long, foveolate-reticulate. _ Fig. 1, calyx and barren pistil; 2 and 3, anthers; 4, section of barren’ Ovary :—all enlaryed, 6539 Vincert Brooks Day & Seon Titdamp M.S, del, T-N-Pitch lth L.Reeve &0° London Tas. 8539. SMILACINA PanNIcuLATA. Guatemala and Southern Mexico. Lin1aceaz. Tribe PoLyGoNATEAE. Smiuacina, Des/.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 770. Smilacina paniculata, Mar‘. et Gal. in Bull. Acad, Brux. vol. ix. p.2; Kunth, Enum. Plant. vol. vy. p. 151; Hems/. in Biol. Centr.-Amer. vol. iii. p. 358 ; species 8. thyrsoideae, Hemsl., affinis, inflorescentiae ramis_ brevioribus, floribus paucioribus e pedicellis longioribus suberectis orientibus distin- guitur. Herba glabra. Caulis erectus, cylindricus, virescens. Folia ovato-lanceolata, longe acuminata, 13 ci. longa, prope basin 4 cm. lata, ima basi constricta ; nervi primarii 5-7, nervulis pluribus tenuibus counexi. Panicula termi- nalis, racemosim ramosa, 6 cm. longa lataque, omnino nivea; bracteolae minutae, deltvideae; pedicelli circiter 1 cm. longi; flores 1 cm. diametro. Perianthii segmenta elliptica, apice rotundata, patentia. Filamenta aequi- longa, quam perianthii segmenta paullo breviora. Ovariwm ovoideum ; stylus columnaris, staminibus aeqnilongus; stigma punctiforme.— Tovaria paniculata, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot., vol. xiv. p. 568.—C. H. Wricut. ~ The genus Smilacina, which includes some twenty species, extends from the north temperate and subarctic regions of Japan, Siberia and North America as far south as to Arabia in the Old World and Guatemala in the New. One of the species, S. bifulia, Desf., is a rare British plant. Three members of the genus have already been figured in this work, but all of them under different generic names. At t. 899 will be found S. Fourskaliana, Schultes f., a native of Arabia, under the name Convallaria racemosa, Forsk. ; this resembles the subject of our illustration, but differs in having very short pedicels. At t. 1043, under the name Conval- laria stellata, Linn., a figure was given of S. stellata, Desf., the Star-flowered Lily of the Valley, from North America, which was introduced into English gardens in 1633, At t. 6313, under the name Jovaria oleracea, Baker, is given a portrait of the Himalayan S. oleracea, Hook. f. & Thoms., a species with short hairy pedicels. The generic name which was used by Mr. Baker was proposed by Necker in 1790, and is older by seventeen years than the name Smilacina, now accepted, which was introduced by Desfuntaines in Fesruany, 1914. 1807, but it is in turn antedated by the name Vagnera, employed in 1763 by Adanson. The species now figured, S. paniculata, which is a native of Guatemala and the extreme south of Mexico, is most closely allied to the Mexican S, thyrsoidea, Hemsl., but is readily distinguished by the much shorter branches of the inflorescence and the comparatively fewer flowers borne on much longer pedicels. In S. thyrsoidea too the pedicels are subpatent, a circum- stance which imparts a distinctive facies to the plant. The specimen from which the material for our plate has been obtained is one introduced and grown by Messrs, Sander & Sons, St. Albans, with whom it flowered in March, 1913. From the snowy whiteness of all parts of the inflorescence, which affords a pleasant contrast to the green foliage, the species is likely to be a distinct acces- sion to collections under glass, but it cannot take a place alongside its more hardy congeners, like S. racemosa, S. stellata, S. trifolia and others which are grown at Kew in the open border along with the common Solomon’s Seal, Polygonatum multiflorum, All.,a member of a genus closely allied to Smilacina. | Derscription.—Herb, glabrous; stem erect, cylindric, greenish. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, long acuminate, 5-6 in. long, above the base 14 in. wide, at the very base much narrowed; main-nerves 5-7, with numerous slender in- tervening nervules. Panicle terminal, racemosely branched, 2} in. long, and as much across; all parts snowy white; bracteoles minute, deltoid ; pedicels about + in. long; flowers about 4 in. across, Perianth-segments elliptic, rounded at the tip, spreading. Filaments subequal, rather shorter than the perianth-segments. Ovary ovoid; style columnar, as long as the stamens; stigma minute. Fig. 1, a flower; 2 and 3, anthers; 4, pistil :—all enlarged, 8540 4 ‘ ee oe i “4 cs j hy e\ ' te = + ae, Vincent Brooks Day & Son Limp 1 “~ s > a _ M.S.del. JN Fiteh lith LL Reeve &C° London Tas. 8540. RONDELETIA corpatTa. Guatemala. RusiackagE. Tribe CONDAMINEEAE. Ronpgvetta, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 48. Rondeletia cordata, Benth. Pl. Hartweg. p. 85; Hemsl. Biolog. Centr.-Amer. vol. ii. p. 18; affinis 2. amoenae, Hemsl., foliis parce pilosis vel glabrescent- ibus, inflorescentiis minopere pubescentibus, calycis lobis minoribus differt. Frutex 1-2°5 m. altus; rami 2-3-fureati, juniores appresse setoso-pilosi. Fo/ia ovata vel elliptico-ovata, subacute acuminata, basi leviter cordata vel rotundata, 6-17 em. longa, 3-9 em, lata, integra, chartacea, juniora pras- sertim ad nervos parce pilosa, demum fere glabra, ciliata; nervii laterales utiinseeus circiter 8, arcuati, utrinque distincti, infra prominentes, marginem versus minime conspicui; petioli circiter 3 mm. longi, setnloso- pnberuli; stipnlae persistentes, mox reflexae, ovato-lanceolatae, obtuxae vel subacutae, 1°3-1°7 cm. longae, basi 0-7-1 cm. latae, coriaceae, ped pubescentes. Cymae terminales, corymbosae, multiflorae, usque ad 12 ecm, diametro; bracteae ovato-lanceolatae, obtusae vel subacutae, ad 1°2 cm. longae et 0°5 cm. latae, coriaceae, extra dense appresse pilosac; bracteolae parvae. Flvres tubis corollae purpureo-rubris limbis roseis. Receptuculum campanulatum, 1°5 mm. altum, albo-puberulum. Ca/yris dent«s ovati, obtusi, 0°5 mm. longi, extra puberuli. Coro//ae tubus cylindricus, circiter 1 em. longus, extra setuloso-puberulus, intus pilosus, farce flavo-villoso; limbns 1°3-1°5 em. expansus; lobi 5 vel 6, oblongi, apice rotundati, 2°5 mm. longi, 1°75 wm. lati. Antherve fauce vel medio tubi insertae, 2 mm. longae ; filamcnta 1°5 mm. longa, glabra. Discus annularis. glaber. Stylus quam tubus duplo brevior vel longior et _exsertus, bilobus, glaber. Capsula subglobosa, leviter biloba, 0°5 cm. diametro, setuloso-puberula. Semina minuta.—Jogie a cordat1, Planch. in Fl. des Serres, vol. v. sub, t. 442; Henfrey in Moore & Ayres Gard. Mag. Bot. 1851, p. 89, cum ic. R. thyrsiflora, Hort. ex Henfrey, l.c.—J. HuTcHINsON. The Rubiaceous genus Rondeletia includes some seventy species, confined to Tropical America and the West Indies, and most numerous in Central America and Colombia. The one now figured, a native of Guatemala, is an old garden plant, first introduced into cultivation in this country in 1844, and raised from a seedling which appeared in the soil adhering to some imported orchids grown by Mr. J. Anderson, of Holme, Regent’s Park. It was long known in collections as Rogiera cordata, the fact that it is really a Rondeletia being obscured because Bentham in his original account described the flowers as tetramerous. The mis- understanding was adjusted by Planchon. Actually both pentamerous and hexamerous flowers occur in the same Fepsrvary, 1914. inflorescence, and, as Hemsley has pointed out, they are dimorphic as regards the relative length of the style and the position of the stamens; all the flowers of one inflorescence have the style exserted and the stamens included in the tube; in another inflorescence these con- ditions are reversed. The plant from which the material for our figure has been obtained is one which has been grown ina border in a greenhouse at Kew. Here it thrives well and grows into a shapely bush some six feet high which flowers freely every spring. It bears pruning well and the shoots root readily if set in a propagating frame in autumn. Description.—Shrub 4-6 ft. high; branches 2—3-fureate, when young adpressed-setose. Leaves ovate or elliptic-ovate, sharply acuminate, base slightly cordate or rounded, 23-7 in. long, 14-34 in. wide, entire, papery, when young sparingly hairy especially on the nerves, soon nearly glabrous, ciliate ; lateral nerves about 8 on each side, arched, distinct above, more prominent beneath, towards the margin somewhat indistinct; petioles about 14 lin. long, setulose-puberulous ; stipules persistent, soon reflexed, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, 3-2 in. long, at the base 1-2 in. wide, coriaceous, adpressed-pubescent. Cymes terminal, corym- bose, many-flowered, up to 44 in. wide; bracts ovate- lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, up to 4 in. long and } in. wide, coriaceous, densely adpressed hairy outside; bracteoles small. lowers with reddish-purple corolla-tube and rose- coloured corolla-lobes. Receptacle campanulate, under a line deep, white-puberulous. Calyx with very short ovate- obtuse lobes puberulous outside. Corolla with a cylindric tube about } in. long, setulose-puberulous outside, pilose within; throat yellow-villous; limb 3-2 in. across, lobes 5-6, oblong with rounded tips, over 1 lin. jong, under 1 lin. wide. Anthers attached in the throat or about the middle of the corolla-tube, 1 lin. long; filaments under 1 lin. long, glabrous, Disk annular, glabrous. Style half as long as the tube in one state or longer than the tube and exserted in another, 2-lobed, glabrous. Capsule sub- globose, slightly 2-lobed, } in. across, setulose-puberulous. Seeds minute. Fig. 1, calyx and pistil ; 2, section of calyx, showing disk; 3, corolla laid open ; 4, hairs from inside of corolla; 5 and 6, stamens :—all enlarged, S54] M.S. del. J.N-Fitchlith. : Ltdom < Vineent Brooks Day & Soni c L Reeve & C9 London Tas. 8541, VIOLA GRACILIS. Asia Minor and Balkan Peninsula. Viotackak. Tribe VIOLEAE. Viowa, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 117, Viola gracilis, Sibth. et Sm. Fl. Graec. Prodr. vol. i. p. 146; Becker in Beth. Bot. Centralbl. vol. xviii. pars 2, p. 869; et lc. xxvi. pars 2, pp. 330; affinis V. calcaratae, Linn., a qua petalis Jateralibus prorsum: inelinatis statin distinguitur. Herba caulibus suberectis 2-4 cm. altis glabris. Folia. alterna, stipulata, longiuscule petiolata, supra leviter concava, inferiora elliptico-ovata, apice rotundata, 1 cm. longa, 5-8 mm. lata, crenata, superiora ovato- oblonga vel oblonga, apice obtusa vel vix apiculata, basi in petiolum cuneatim angustata, 1-5-2 cm. longa, 5-6 mm. lata; stipulae magnae, _ pinnatifido-laciniatae lobo terminali magno obtuso laciniis satis an- gustis acutis. Pedunculi solitarii, ex. axillis superioribus. orti, 7-9 cm. longi, superne bibracteolati bracteolis hyalinis inferne laceratis. Sepala basi in appendicem producta, in toto circiter 1 em. longa, duo anteriora lanceolata, acuta, trinervia appendice quadrato subtruncato 3mm. longo, duo lateralia conformia appendice dentato, posterius ovato-lanceolatum, appendice triangulari. Corolla violacea limbo circiter 3 cm. longo, 2°5 cm. lato; petala superiora suboblique inserta, leviter reversa, obovata, vix 2 em. Jonga,1°5 em. lata; petala intermedia oblique prorsum inclinata, limbo cymbiformi 1°3 em. longo, ungue 4 mm. longo crista fimbriata ; petalum inferius breviter unguiculatum, basi calcaratum, lute obdeltoideum, in basin cristatam cuneatum, 1°4 cm. longum, 1-7. em. latum, ungue circiter 8 mm. longo supra utrinque villoso, calcare gracile 1 em. longo. Antherae sessiles, conniventes, introrsae, connectivis superne in appendicem late ovatum rotundatum membranaceum aurantiacum productis, duo jnferiorum basi in appendicem filiformem 4 mm. longum intra productis. Ovarium ovvideum; stylus basi geniculatus, abhine ad apicem subglobosum sensim ampliatus; stigma cupulare labio antico valde papillato.—T. A. SPRAGUE. The Violet which forms the subject of our illustration is one which was originally discovered on Mount Olympus in Bithynia, but which, as Becker has shown, occurs also in Macedonia and, according to the same authority, may ibly also occur in Montenegro. It was for a long time believed by authorities so competent as Boissier and Halacsy to be a native also of Greece, but Becker has given good reasons for the treatment of the Greek specimens named V. gracilis by Boissier as the basis of a distinet variety of the somewhat different species V. heterophylla, Bertol. The species now figured, V. gracilis, is a hardy Fesrvary, 1914. perennial which may be grown in the ordinary herba- ceous border in light rich soil and can be increased by seeds, cuttings or divisions. It also proves a useful denizen of a half-shady patch in the Rock Garden, where it may be expected to flower freely during the months of spring and early summer. The material for our plate was obtained from a plant so grown which had been obtained for the Kew collection by purchase in 1907, Descriprion.—Herb, stems suberect, 3-11 in. high, glabrous. Leaves alternate, stipulate, rather ong-stalked, slightly concave above, the basal ones elliptic-ovate, rounded at the tip, in. long, 1-1 in. wide, crenate, the upper ovate-oblong or oblong, obtuse or barely apiculate at the tip, cuneately narrowed into the petiole, 2-3 in. long, 3-4 In. wide; stipules large, pinnatifid-laciniate, with a large blunt terminal lobe and rather narrow acute seg- ments. Peduneles solitary in the axils of the upper leaves, 3-33 in. long, 2-bracteolate above, bracteoles hyaline, lacerate below, Sepals produced at the base in a spur, in all about 2 in. long, the two anterior lanceolate, acute, 3-nerved, with a quadrate somewhat truncate appendage 1} lin. long, the two lateral similar but with a dentate appendage, the posterior oyate-lanceolate with a triangular appendage. Corolla violet, limb about 14 in. long, 1 in. wide; upper petals somewhat obliquely inserted, slightly reversed, obovate, under # in. long, 2 in, wide; intermediate petals obliquely inturned, limb cymbiform, over } in. long, claw 4 in, long with fimbriate crest; lower petal short- clawed, spurred at the base, broadly obdeltoid, cuneately narrowed into the crested base, over § in. long, nearly = In. wide, claw about x In. long, villous upwards on both faces, spur slender, 2 in. long. Anthers sessile, connivent, introrse, the connectives produced upwards as a wide, ovate- rounded, membranous, orange-yellow appendage, two of the lower being also produced within the spur as a filiform appendage } in, long, Ovary ovoid ; style geniculate at the base, thence gradually widened upwards to the subglobose tip; stigma cup-shaped, its anterior lobe strongly papillose. 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Pidinslats id wo Vots., with 298 fa D in. 3 68 in. wae Desdti pier Short Notes, Geographical Distributin, Glossary Table of Literature, and good Indx. “With Coloured Plats, £6 6s. | With Uncoloured Plies, £4 10s. pial INDICA. wo 3. _ ; 3.del,J.N Piten Lin 8542 \. = 24 | ea ve oe On Vincent Brooks,Day & Son Lt¢irmp L.Reeve & C*® London. Tap. 8542. ARISTOLOCHIA GIGANTEA, Brazil. ARISTOLOCHIACEAE- AntstoLocuta, Linn.; Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Plant: vol. iii. p. 123. Aristolochia gigantea, Mart., Nov. Gen. et Sp. vol. i, p. 75, t. 48; Duchartre in DC. Prodr, vol. xv. pars i. p 474; M. 7. Masters in Mart, Flor. Bras, vol. iv. pars ii. p. 89; Lngl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. vol. iii. pars i. p. 265, fig. 169; species A. cordiflorae, Mutis, affinis, foliis non acuminatis, perianthiique fauce omnino lutescente differt. Frutex scandens, Caulis volubilis, lignosus, leviter sulcatus, glaber. Folia late ovato-cordata, subacuta, membranacea, glabra, pedatim 3~7-nervia, 8-10 cm. longa, 4-9°5 cm. lata; petioli tenues, usque ad 7 em. longi; stipulae reniformes, 2 cm. latae, integrae, glabrae. Flores solitarii, magni, axillares. Perianthium basi inflatum, 6 em. longum, viride vel violaceo- tinctum; pars media constricta, curvata, 4 cm. vel ultra longa, fauce intus lutescens, velutiva; limbus ellipticus, profunde cordatus, patens, ecaudatus, 22 cm. longus, 16 cm. latus, brunneo-purpureus, pallide flavo- reticulatus. Colwmna 12 mm.longa. Stamina 6; antherae obtusae, lute- scentes, lobis basi discretis. Ovariwm tortum, costatum, glabrum; stigma 6-partitum, laciniis lineari-lanceolatis, ‘subobtusis.— Howardia gigantea, ie ge ss Monatsber. Acad. Berl. 1859, p. 610, ref. Bot. Mag. t. 4221 excl. —C. H. Wriext. The Aristolochia which forms the subject of our plate was first collected by von Martius in the course of his travels in the Brazilian provinces of Bahia and Minas Geraes between 1817 and 1820, and was described by its discoverer. The original description is accompanied by a figure by Zuccarini in which the cream-coloured reticulations on the perianth are not shown. ‘The species from Pernambuco which was figured at t. 4221 of this work as A. gigantea is quite distinct from the original A. gigantea, and was sub- sequently described as A. grandiflora, var. Hookeri, by Duchartre; it is readily distinguished from our present plant by the apex of the perianth limb being long-caudate and not obtuse. The plant from which the material for our illustration has been derived is one that was presented to the collection at Kew in 1910 by Sir Frank Crisp; at the time of its receipt it was believed to be A. clypeata, Linden & André, a closely allied species from New Grenada, Marcu, 1914, : ; figured at t. 7512 of this work. A. gigantea grows vigorously in the Palm House at Kew, where, trained against the roof, its annual shoots, which spread from a woody stem with corky bark, extend to a length of 15 feet or more. In Brazil the flowering season of this species is in March, but at Kew the flowers develop in August. The flowers are fragrant. This is the only species of Aristolochia in cultivation of which the same can be said; most of them have a disagreeable odour. : : Description.— Shrub; stem twining, woody, somewhat channelled, smooth. Leaves wide ovate-cordate, subacute, membranous, glabrous, pedately 3—7-nerved, 3-4 in. long, 13-33 in. wide; petioles slender, up to 23 in. long; stipules reniform, 2 in, wide, entire, glabrous. lowers solitary, large, axillary. Perianth inflated at the base, 2 in. long, green or tinged with violet, middle portion constricted, curved, 14 in. long, throat yellowish within, velvety ; limb elliptic, deeply cordate, spreading, without a tail, 9 in. long, 6-64 in. wide, brownish-purple with pale yellow reticula- tions. Column 4 in. long. Stamens 6; anthers obtuse, yellowish, lobes distinct below. Ovary contorted, ribbed, tas ga stigma 6-partite, lobes linear-lanceolate, somewhat unt. Fig. 1, stamens :—enlarged. TN a ae a M.S.del. JN. Fiteh th VAncent Bracke Day & Son Ltt imp Tap. 8543. RIBES LavuRIFOLiuM. West China. SAXIFRAGACEAE. ‘Tribe RIBESIEAE. Rises, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 654. un Ribes laurifolium, Janczewski in Bull. Acad. Cracovie, sér. B, 1910, p. 97, fic. 6; species R. Henryi, Franch., affinis, ramul's etiam junioribus oe foliis magis coriaceis distincte serrato-crenatis eciliatis subtus eglan ulosis, petiolo multo longiore, racemis fructigeris baceas ad 7 gerentibus, rbachi pedicellis fructuque tenuiter tomentellis distinguenda. Frutex sesquimetralis ramis crassiusculis inermibus etiam juvenilibus glabris, maturis cortice castaneo lucidulo tectis. Gemmae majusculae, ovoideae, 1 cm. longae; perulae scariosae, rotundato-ovatae, obtusae, minute apiculatae, praeter margines minutissime ciliolatos glabrae, brunneae. Folia breviter petiolata, secundum ramos disposita, lamina ovata vel ovato- oblonga, basi rotundata, apice acuta, raeter trientem vel quadrantem inferiorem serrato-crenata crenis glanduloso-apiculatis, 6-10 cm. longa, 3-5 cm. lata, coriacea, glaberrima, 3-5-plinervia nervis lateralibus superiori- bus paucis valde obliquis; petiolus crassus, 5-15 mm. longus, magis minusve setosus setis interdum glanduligeris. Hacemi mars penduli, graciles, 2°5-4 em. longi, ad 12-flori, pedunculo circiter 1 cm. longo suffulti, bracteati; pedicelli ad 7 mm. longi; bracteae submembranaceae, oblongae, acutae, virescentes, sparse glanduloso-ciliolatae, ad 12mm. longae. Flores virescentes, 10-12 mm. diametro, praeter receptaculum sub- patelliforme minute pubescens glabri. Sepala late oblonga vel subrotun- data, obtusa, 4 mm. longa. Petala_ spathulata, 2 mm. longa. Stamina petala subaequantia; filamenta 1°5 mm. longa, antherae rotundatae. Stylus apice 2-fidus. Racemi feminet primo erecti, sub fructu penduli, graciles, circiter 2 cm. longi, ad 12-flori, penduneulo sub anthesi brev! suffulti, indumento maris induti; pedicelli sub anthesi 3 mm. longi, sub fructu ad 7 mm. longi; bracteae maris, deciduae. Flores virescentes, 6-8 mm. diametro, praeter receptaculum lageniforme vel ambitu oblongum, basi attenuatum, griseo-tomentellum glabri. Q formia sed minora. Stamina ad corpuscula minuta rubra redacta. ¢ vix 2 mm. longus ; stigmata 2, brevia, subglobosa. Fructus late ellipsoideus, calyce paulo accrescente coronatus, 15 mm. et: tenuissime tomentellus, rubescens.—O. STAPF. The Ribes here figured is one which has been raised from seed collected in 1908 at an altitude of about 5,000 ft. at Wa-Shen in Western Szechuan by Mr. E. H. Wilson, and presented by Professor Sargent of the Arnold Arboretum to the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew and Glasnevin and to Mr. Vicary Gibbs; the material on which our illustration has been based has come in part from all three sources. At Marcu, 1914. Glasnevin some of the young plants were put out in the open, others were retained in pots, and in 1912 one of the latter, a female, flowered for the first time. In 1913 this plant flowered again; so did another female and, later on, a male in the open. Fertilisation was now possible, but from the female in the open the flowers dropped just as the ovary began to swell; on the pot plant fruit set readily. At Kew, where the only plants were in the open, the experience was as at Glasnevin, and it is probable that this Ribes will not bear regular crops of fruit in the average climate of the British Isles owing to the very early date, February, at which the flowers expand. It is, however, in this early flowering habit that one of the chief merits of this flowering currant will reside ; later in the season their greenish colour and modest charms would make a less potent appeal. Fortunately the flowers of both sexes are able to withstand rough cold weather. This species, 2. laurifolium, was first described from fruiting specimens and placed by Professor Janczewski in his section Davidia of the subgenus Berisia, apparently largely owing to the circumstance that Wilson’s original specimens had but a few terminal leaves. Though it is now found that in this regard R. laurifolium does not resemble R. Davidii, Franch. and R. Henryi, Franch.,.the other members of the section Davidia, it is clearly a com- ponent of the same natural group. A slow grower in all three gardens which have contributed to our plate, the largest plants being only a foot and a half high, it is quite _ hardy, thriving well in a good loamy soil, and is readily — propagated by cuttings. The colour of the fruit when ripe is not yet fully known. Sir F. Moore, to whom we are indebted for much information regarding the species, informs us that immediately after fertilisation the fruits of his greenhouse plant commenced to swell, the persistent calyx also increasing in size, so that in April it was fully half as long as the fruit. Thereafter the calyx ceased to enlarge and began to change colour. The fruits themselves continued to enlarge until the middle of June, remaining, however, green and unattractive, in shape like a long gooseberry, with the calyx now only one-fifth the length of the fruit. In July patches of dark purple appeared on the fruits, and as signs of shrivelling manifested themselves the specimen was cut and sent to us for incorporation in ¥ : our plate. The female flowers, drawn earlier, were from a Kew specimen; the male from one kindly supplied from his collection at Aldenham by Mr. Vicary Gibbs. Descriprion.—Shrub 5-6 ft. high, with rather stout unarmed branches, glabrous even when young, when mature clothed with chestnut-brown somewhat shining bark. Buds rather large, ovoid, } in. long, their scales scarious, rounded-ovate, obtuse, finely apiculate, brown and glabrous except along the finely ciliolate edges. Leaves short petioled, scattered, ovate or ovate-oblong, acute, base rounded, margin serrate-crenate with gland-tipped teeth except for the entire basal fourth to third, 24-4 in. long, 1_2 in. wide, coriaceous, quite glabrous, 3-5-nerved at the base with a few very oblique nerves leaving the midrib above the base ; petiole stout, 1-2 in. long, more or less beset with setae which are at times glandular. Male: Racemes pendulous, slender, 1-13 in. long, up to 12-flowered; peduncles bracteate, about 4 in. Jong; pedicels about 4 in. long ; bracts somewhat membranous, oblong, acute, greenish, sparingly glandular-ciliate, up to $ in. long. lowers greenish, 1} in. across, glabrous except for the minutely pubescent, somewhat cup-shaped receptacle. Sepals wide- oblong or rather rounded, obtuse, 4 in. long. Petals spathulate, 35 in. long. Stamens about as long as the petals; filaments under 1 lin. long; anthers rounded. Style 2-fid. Female: Racemes at first erect but in fruit pendulous, slender, about 3 in. long, up to 12-flowered, when in flower shortly peduncled; pedicels in flower 4 in. long, in fruit } in. long; bracts as in the male, deciduous. Flowers greenish, 1} in. across; glabrous except for the finely grey-tomentose flask-shaped or oblong receptacle. Sepals and petals as in the male flowers but smaller. Stamens reduced to small red staminodes. Style under jz in. long; stigmata 2, short, subglobose. Fruit wide- elliptic, tipped by the slightly enlarged calyx, about 3 in. long, over 1 in. wide, minutely tomentose, reddish. Fig. 1, male flower ; 2, female flower; 3, fruit in transverse section ; 4, seed :— all enlarged. 8544. MS.del, JIN-Piteh ith Vincent Brooks,Day&Son Lttimp SS Tete ee OT oe a Tab. 8544. SALVIA cLictinosa. Eastern South America. LABIATAE. Tribe MoNnARBDEAE. Satvi1A, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1194. Salvia uliginosa, Benth., Labiat. p. 251 et in DC. Prodr., vol. xii, p. 305; S. laevi, Benth., affinis sed caulibus conspicue sulcatis, foliis pagina inferiore glandu- losis, intlorescentiis compositis distinguitur. Herba; caules usque ad 2°5 m. alti, ramosi, obtuse tetragoni, sulcati, glandulosi, adpresse pubescentes. Folia oblongo-lanceolata, apice acuta, basi longe cuneata, superne gradatim minora, usque ad 9 cm. longa et 2 cm. lata, profunde serrata, viridia, membranacea, supra glabra, infra nervis adpresse pubescentia glandulisque nigris crebris punctata, nervis lateralibus utrinque circiter 7 cum costa pagina superiore leviter impressis, inferiore promi- nentibus, suprema sessilia, intermedia infimaque petiolo usque ad 2 cm. longo suffulta. Injflorescentia terminalis, composita; racgmi spiciformes, compacti, terminales usque ad 11 cm. longi, laterales usqué ad 6 cm, longi, longe pedunculati. Verticillastri 7-20-flori ; bracteae ovatae, longe acumi- -natae, cum acumine 2 longo 6 mm. longae, ciliatae, mox deciduae. Calyx campanulatus, pubeseens glandulosus, lobis ovato-triangularibus posteriore leviter bi- vel tri-dentato, lateralibus apice acuminatis. Corolla coerulea; tubus 7 mm. longus, basi 1*5 mm. diametro, fauce 4 mm. diametro, labio antico trilobo 8 mm. longo 7 mm. lato, postico leviter bilobo 5°5 mm. longo 3°5 mm. lato. Antherae 2 mm. longae; filamenta 2 mm. longa, connectivis postice deflexis 4 mm. longis sub insertione callosis infra medium longitudinaliter connatis. Ovarium 1°5 mm. altum, 1 mm. diametro; stylus (cum ramis) 11 mm. longus, glaber, bilabiatus labio postico recurvato 3 mm. longo, antico recto 1:25 mm. longo.—W. B. TURRILL. The Salvia here represented is a native of South America which is represented in the herbarium at Kew by a number of specimens collected in Brazil and Uruguay and by a single example from Buenos Ayres. The plant from which the material for our illustration has been derived is one which was presented to Kew in 1912 by Mr. P. L. de Vilmorin, Verritres. The conspicuously sulcate quadrangu- lar stem is a very marked feature of S. wliginosa. The toothing of the leaves is another, for although in other respects there is considerable variability, the type of serra- tion always remains the same. The leaves vary a good deal as regards the presence or absence of pubescence, but the glands on the lower surface remain a constant and dis- tinguishing feature. At Kew S. wliginosa has proved Mancz, 1914, hardy, and during the summer of 1913 formed a somewhat loose plant about 6 feet high with erect shoots and with inflorescences which are nearly always compound, many- flowered and compact, in full blossom from the opening of September to the middle of November. Judging from the experience at Kew, S. wliginosa is likely to be a serviceable plant for the herbaceous border. Derscriprion.—Herb; stems up to 8 ft. high, branched, bluntly 4-angled, sulcate, glandular, adpressed-pubescent. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acute, base long-cuneate, gradually diminishing in size upwards, up to 34 in. long, 3 in. wide, deep- serrate, green, membranous, glabrous above, adpressed pubes- cent on the nerves and dotted with numerous black glands beneath ; Jateral nerves about 7 on each side of the midrib, and like the latter slightly impressed above, raised beneath, the uppermost leaves sessile, those below with petioles up to ¢ in. long. Inflorescence terminal, compound ; racemes spiciform, compact, the terminal up to 4} in. long, lateral 24 in. long, long-peduncled, Verticillasters 7-20-flowered ; bracts ovate, long-acuminate, ciliate, soon deciduous, } in. Jong including the tip. Calye campanulate, pubescent, glandular; lobes ovate-triangular, the posterior slightly 2-3-toothed, lateral with acuminate tips. Corolla blue, tube under } in. long, very narrow at the base, anterior li 3-lobed, 4 in. long, nearly as wide, posterior lip 2-lobed, about } in. long, } in. wide. Anthers 1 lin. long, filaments as long with the connective bent backwards, 2 lin. long. Ovary under 1 lin. long; style, including the style-arms, nearly 3 in. long, glabrous, 2-lobed, the upper lobe recurved, in. long, twice as long as the straight anterior lobe, Fig. 1, section of stem; 2, portion of undersurface of leaf ; 3, calyx, laid open and showing pistil; 4, corolla-tube, laid open; 5, anther; 6, upper portion of style, with stigma :—all enlarged. 8545 em Vincent Brooles Day & Son Tttamp oS L Reeve & C? London. M.S. del <3. N Fitch Eth Tas, 8545. KNIPHOFIA carrata. : South Africa, : LILIAcEAE. Tribe HEMEROCALLEAE. ‘Kyrrnorta, Moench; Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 775; A. Berger in Lingl. Pflanzenreich, Lil.--Asphod.-Aloin. p. 81. + ileal Kniphofia carinata, C. H. Wright; species K. comosae, Hochst., affinis, fila- mentis luteis, perianthio vix duplo longioribus differt. Herba perennis. Folia 7+5 dm. longa, e basi 2°5 em. lata ad apicem acuminatum gradatim attenuata, supra profunde canaliculata, subtus acute carinata, tenuia, glabra, marginibus levibus anguste albo-cartilagineis instructa. Scapus cylindricus; bracteae lanceolatae, longe acuminatae, scariosae, 8 mm. longae, 2 mm. latae; racemus 15 cm. longus, densiflorus; pedicelli breves ; flores nutantes. Perianthiwm claro-luteum ; tubus anguste urceo- latus, supra ovarium leviter constrictus, 18 mm. longus, prope apicem 5 mm. diametro ; lobi erecto-patentes, obtusi, 8 mm. longi, 3-5 mm. lati, Filamenta circiter 30 mm. longa, perianthio concolora; antherae oblongae, 3mm. longae. Ovariwm ovoideum, 4 mm. longum, trilobum, leve ; stylus subulatus, staminibus paullo longior. Ovula plura.—C. H. Wriaat. The Kniphofia which we depict is a South African species for the introduction of which horticulture is indebted to Miss Ayliff of Rose Cottage, Grahamstown, South Africa, by whom seeds were presented to Kew in 1892. The plants raised from these seeds have been grown in ~ in a cool frame, where, however, they throve indifferent y until 1912, when they suddenly began to make vigorous growth and flowered for the first time in September of that year. They flowered again in September, 1913, when the oppor- tunity was taken of preparing the present illustration. During the twenty years that this species has been in cultivation without flowering at Kew it has also been tried in the open border with other species of Kniphojia, but has never in that situation proved a success owing to its being manifestly less hardy than the majority of the species under cultivation, The species when in flower was seen by Mr. Berger, who at once recognised it as one not enumerated in his recent scholarly monograph of the genus. It is apparently most closely allied to the Abyssinian A. comosa, Marcu, 1914, Hochst., figured at t. 6569 of this work, which has also a clear-yellow perianth similar in shape to that of K. carinata, but is readily distinguished by its much longer bright red filaments. Both species have leaves of thin texture which are acutely keeled upwards from a short distance above the base. The Transvaal species K. ensifolia, Baker, is easily _ recognised by its scabrous leaf-margins, while the Abyssinian species K. Leichtlini, Baker, figured at t. 6716 of this magazine, which is a member of the same section, differs in having a reddish perianth, stamens that are but slightly exserted, and a less pronounced more obtuse keel to the leaf. ee Descriprion.—Herb, perennial. Leaves 24 ft. long, 1 in. wide at the base, thence gradually tapering to an acuminate tip, deeply channelled above, sharply keeled beneath, thin, glabrous, margins smooth, narrowly hyaline. Scape cylindric; bracts lanceolate, long-acuminate, scarious, 3 in. long, 7'5 in. wide ; raceme 6 in. long, dense-flowered ; pedicels short; flowers nodding. Perianth clear-yellow ; tube narrow-urceolate, slightly constricted above the ovary, % in. long, } in. across near the tip; lobes erecto-patent, obtuse, } in. long, +in. wide. Filaments about 1} in. long, coloured like the perianth; anthers oblong, } in. long. Ovary ovoid, } in. long, 3-lobed, smooth; style subulate, rather longer than the stamens. Ovules numerous. Fig. 1, a flower; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, pistil:—all enlarged. 4G ee O07 a f Pay en: ——_— a \ / i ma op oy ; ‘ hd a tf ap sh Ly ee 1p tie POeD ~ BrooksDay&Sonléamp. Vincent del.J.N Fitch lith var ES or. teeve &C®? Lond, IR Tap, 8546, COTONEASTER rursinatra. China. RosacEAE. Tribe Pomear. CotonzastTeR, Medik. ex Lindl.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. i. p 627. Cotoneaster turbinata, Craib; a C. pannosa, Franch., eiusque affinioribns fructu turbinato facile distinguenda; a C. coriacea, Franch., foliis apice plerumque acutis nec emarginatis, fructu minore turbinato recedit. ' Frutex 2-metralis, _Ramuli juventute sericei, mox tomentosi, demum glabri vel hic illic puberuli, cortice brunneo vel fusco-brunneo subnitido striato vel reticulato-striato obtecti. Folia oblanceolata ad ovato-lanceolata, apice acuta, obtusa vel rarius rotundata, mucronulata, basi parum inaequilateralia, cuneata, 1°5-4°5 em. longa, 0-7-2 cm. lata, papyracea vel tenuiter coriacea, pagina superiore nisi costa pilis paucis albis instructa glabra, inferiore molliter sericeo-arachnoidea, costa supra immersa subtus tka nervis lateralibus utrinque circiter 8 supra leviter impressis vel conspicuis subtus prominulis, nervulis cum reticulatione gracili supra conspicuis vel fere subprominulis, petiolo ad 7 mm. longo supra canaliculato indumento ramulorum suffulto; stipulae lineares, acutae, ad 5 mm. longae, diutius persistentes. Inflorescentia compacta, multiflora, corymbiformis vel pyramidato-corymbiformis ; pedunculi partiales ad 1 cm. longi; pedicelli ad 3 mm. longi, indumento ut pedunculi ramulique; bracteae angustae, acutae, ad 2°75 mm. longae, dorso pilosae. got Meme 1-5 mm. altum. Sepala deltoidea, acuta, 1:5 mm. longa et lata, indumento extra ut pedicelli. Petala subrotundata, 2 mm. (ungui incluso) longa, 1°75 mm. lata. Fila- menta 2 mm. longa, glabra,antheris parvis. Carpel/a2 parva, pilosa, ovulis binis erectis, stylis 2 circiter 2mm. longis. Fructus turbinatus, circiter 4 mm. altus, tenuiter arachnoideus.—W. G. Cras. The Cotoneaster which forms the subject of our illustration was received at Kew from the collection of Mr. M. L. de Vilmorin at Les Barres in 1910 under the two numbers 4484 and 4547. The seed from which the first of these was raised was received, Mr. de Vilmorin informs us, in June, 1897, from the Abbé Farges, who had collected them during the previous year to the north of Ichang in Eastern Szechuan. The original plant in Mr. de Vilmorin’s garden fruited in 1903. The seed from which the second was raised was received in November, 1905, from Mr. C. Sprenger of Naples, who informed Mr. de Vilmorin that it had come from Hupeh. This latter, Mr. de Vilmorin states, suffered trom frost during the winter of 1908-9, but soon recovered. The species has grown very well at Kew since its intro- duction, and by 1913 the tallest plant had reached six feet in height. It is evidently very hardy and vigorous and Marca, 1914, thrives in any soil of moderate quality. From the other species of Cotuneaster in cultivation C. turbinata is very readily distinguished by its flowering so late as in July, when the flowering season of trees and shrubs in general is decidedly on the wane. This habit of flowering six to eight weeks later than any other Cotoneaster imparts to our plant a special horticultural value, and assures it a warm welcome owing to the addition it makes at this particular season to the attractions of the garden. Its nearest botanical affinity appears to be with C’. coriacea, Franch., a species known at Kew from fruiting material only. In C. coriacea the leaves are usually obovate: and are uniformly rounded at the tip and then generally emarginate and apiculate; in C. turbinata the leaves are usually lanceolate with the apex acute. The fruit of C. turbinata matures in. October. The species is readily increased by cuttings of the shoots of the current season made in August. Descriprion.—Shrub, up to 6 ft. high; twigs silky when young, soon tomentose, then glabrous or casually puberulous ; bark brown or tawny, rather polished, striate or reticulate. Leaves oblanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute obtuse or rarely rounded, mucronulate, slightly unequal and cuneate at the base, 2-13 in. long, 1-3 in. wide, chartaceous or thinly coriaceous, glabrous above except for a few white hairs along the midrib, softly silky-arachnoid beneath, | midrib impressed above, raised beneath, lateral nerves about 8 along each side, slightly impressed above, raised beneath, fine reticulation rather distinct above; petiole nearly 3 in. long, channelled above, silky ; stipules linear, — acute, up to $ in. long, rather long persistent. Inflorescence compact, many-flowered, corymbose or somewhat pyramidal ; partial peduncles 4 in. long and pedicels 2 in. long, silky ; bracts narrow, acute, about } in. long, pilose on the back. Receptacle under 1 lin. high. Sepals deltoid, acute, stall, silky outside. Petals nearly round, 1 lin, long, nearly as wide. Filaments 1 lin. long, glabrous; anthers small. Carpels 2, small, pilose; ovules in pairs, erect ; styles 2, about 1 lin. long. Fruit turbinate, about 2 lin. high; thinly silky. , Fig: 1, petiole and stipules; 2, bud; 8, longitudinal section of a flower, the petals removed; 4 and 5, anthers ; 6, fruit:—adl enlarged. : * Fourth Series. No, 112. VOL, X.—APRIT, Monthly, price 3s. 6d. coloured, 2s. 6d. plain, Ae hae liaten . Annual Subscription, 42s, or No. 1596 or tHe entire work. CURTIS'S | - BOTANICAL ys CONTAINING pLanrieeaty omen ease: FIGURES WITH DESCRIPTIONS, STRUCTURAL AND HISTORICAL, © : OF NEW AND RARE _ PLANTS - FROM THE. ROYAL BOTANIC. GARDENS, S, KEW, | AND OTHER ‘BOTANIOAT ESTABLISHMENTS. . ae Maes =a ae gas EDITED BY. 2 SIR DAVID PRAIN, CMG, GLE, ILD, ERS, Weeibieci2 Ropai Botanic Sethe, ‘ew. No flower in field that dainty odour throws And detks his branch with blossoms over all . But there was planted or grew natural.” LONDON: » L. 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Giving Descrip- tions, Short iene Geographical Distribution, Glossary Table of Literature, si oi 0 end good Index, | With Coloured Plates, £6 6s, with i Unaaloured Plates, £4 10s. 8547" a Son Lt# imo. « sent Brooks, Day & MS del. JN Ritch ith. Li. Reeve & C? London. Tas. 8547. HIBISCUS Warmear. Hawaiian Islands. Matvacear. Tribe Hretscear. Hrstscus, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 207; Hochreutiner in Ann. Conserv. et Jard. Bot. Genéve, vol. iv. p. 23. Hibiscus Waimeae, A. A. Heller in Minnes. Bot. Studies, vol. i. p. 8513 Hochreutiner in Ann. Conserv. et Jard. Bot. Genéve, vol. iv. p. 182; affinis H. Kokio, Hillebr., a quo bracteis parvis reflexis, corolla alba, tubo staminali longissimo distinguitur. Arbor parva, usque ad 7°5 m. alta. Ramuli annotini circiter 4 mm. diametro, cortice saepius cinereo, cicatricibus folioram delapsorum prominentibus, - hornotini ut petioli pedicellique sordide purpurei, patule pilosi. Folia late elliptico-ovata vel suborbicularia, basi rotundata vel plus minusve cordata, apice obtusa vel subapiculata, 9-20 em. longa, 7-17 cm. lata, crenata vel crenato-serrata, supra glabriuscula, subtus puberula, nervis purpureis subtus prominentibus; petioli 4-10°5 em. longi; stipulae subulatae, caducae. Flores in axillis superioribus solitarii; pedicelli 3-5 cm. longi, superne in basin calycis incrassati. Bracteae involucri 6-8, reflexae, lineari-subulatae, circiter 1 cm. longae. Calyx tubulosus, sursum leviter ampliatus, ultra medium unilateraliter fissus, in toto 3-3°7 cm. longus, extra breviter pubescens; lobi triangulares, acuminati, circiter 1 cm. longi. Corolla alba, limbo patulo; segmenta 11-12 cm, longa. Tubus staminalis usque ad 16 cm. longus, superne ut filamentella papillatus, ruber; filamentella irregulariter verticillatim disposita, 2-2°5 em. longa. Ovariwm oblongum, breviter pubescens. Styli rami 5, leviter divergentes, stigmatibus capitatis—H. Arnottianus, H. Mann in Proc. Amer. Acad. vol. vii. p. 157; Sinclair, Fl. Hawaiian Isl. t. 8.— T. A. Spracug, The beautiful Hibiscus which forms the subject of our illustration is a native of the Hawaiian Archipelago, where it has been collected on the islands of Kauai, Oahu and Hawaii. It belongs to a small group of species which includes 4. Losa-sinensis, Linn. and its allies, for which Hochreutiner has proposed the sectional name Lilihiscus. All of these are shrubs or trees with large and showy flowers, and are natives of Africa, the -Mascarene Islands and Polynesia. The plant from which the material for our figure has been obtained was purchased as H. Arnottianus for the Kew collection from _ a Californian nursery company in 191]. In a sunny Apri, 1914, position in the Mexican section of the Temperate House it has grown into a strong bush 8 ft. in height, and flowered for the first time in September 1913. As regards soil and temperature its requirements appear to be those of the familiar H. Rosa-sinensis, the Juva or ‘ Shoe-flower’’ of Indian gardens. The name /. Arnottianus, under which our plant was received from California, is that by which the species is usually known in collections. But that name unfortunately has from time to time been applied to three distinct plants, and when an effort is made to restrict its incidence to one of the three we find that it is not to the present species, but to a nearly allied one with red flowers that it must be limited. The most satisfactory solution of the difficulty, as Mr. Sprague has elsewhere pointed out, would be to abandon altogether the employment of the name /7/. Arnottianus. Description.—7ree up to 25 ft. high; twigs of the preceding season about } in. thick, bark usually grey, marked with very pronounced leaf-scars; young twigs dull purple and hairy, as are the petioles and pedicels. Leaves wide elliptic-ovate or suborbicular, obtuse or apiculate, base rounded or somewhat cordate, margin crenate or crenate-serrate, 34-8 in. long, 3-7 in. wide, almost glabrous above, puberulous beneath, veins purplish, raised beneath; petiole 13-4 in. long; stipules subulate, caducous. lowers solitary in the upper axils; pedicels 14-2 in. long, slightly thickened upwards just under the calyx; involucral bracts 6-8, reflexed, linear-subulate, about 4 in. long. Calyx tubular, slightly enlarged upwards, split on one side above the middle, 14-14 in. long, shortly pubescent externally; lobes triangular, acuminate, about 4 in. long. Corolla white; limb spreading; segments about 44 in. long. Staminal tube over 6 in. long, papillate and towards the upper part red like the free filaments, which are irregularly whorled and are #-l in. in length. Ovary oblong, shortly pubescent. Style-arms 5, slightly diverging ; stigmas capitate. Fig. 1, calyx split open, showing ovary : 2, stellate hairs on pedicel ; 3, apex of staminal tube, with style-arms; 4, anther :—all enlarged. 8548 < Son Lit? imp. Vincent Brooks Day & c L. Reeve & C? London. Tas. 8548. GLADIOLUS Masonrorvum. Tembuland. Iripackak, Tribe Ixrear. Guaproxus, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 709. Gladiolus Masoniorum, C. H. Wright in Kew Bulletin, 1913, p. 305 ; species _ G. sulphureo, de Graaf, affinis, lobis perianthii brevioribus spathisque acuminatis differt. Herba. Folia 5:3 dm. longa, 1 cm. lata, basi-apiceque attenuata, utrinque hirsuta, costa crassa, nervis marginalibus validis instructa. Racemus 30 cm. longus, laxus, glaber ; spathae virides, herbaceae, glabrae; exterior lanceolata, acuminata, 3°5 cm. longa, 1°2 cm. lata, interior minor, 3 cm. longa. Perianthiwm cremeum, ad faucem pallide luteum, intra tubum viride; tubus 2 cm. longus, anguste infundibuliformis, curvatus; lobi 5 superiores subaequales, 3 cm. longi, 2 cm. lati, obtusi, undulati; lobus inferior 1°5 cm. latus. Antherae cremeae. Stigmatis lobi spatulati, 3 mm. longi, laciniati.—C. H. Wricur. The Gladiolus now figured was discovered in Tembu- land in December 1910 by Canon G. E. Mason of Umtata, and his sister Miss M. H. Mason, in compliment to both of whom it has been named. A year and a half later material was sent to the Cambridge Botanic Garden, where under the care of Mr. Lynch the plant came into flower not quite twelve months after the receipt of the corms, in the end of May 1913. From material sent by Mr. Lynch the present plate has been prepared. The perianth is of a soft creamy tint with green inside the lower part of the tube; the anthers are of much the same colour as the perianth. The section to which G. Masoniorum belongs is one whose species are difficult to discriminate. Its leading member is the widely spread G. Quartinianus, A. Rich., which includes many forms with variously coloured flowers, all of them with some- what hooded upper perianth-segments. The nearest ally within this section to G. Masoniorum is G. sulphureus, de Graaf, figured at t. 7791, which, however, is different from G. sulphureus, Jacq., now Babiana stricta, var. Aprit, 1914. sulphurea, Bak., and from G. sulphureus, Bak., for which - Wright now proposes the name G. deiodes. When first received at Cambridge in June 1912, the corms, Mr. Lynch informs us, were potted in good sandy loam with some leaf mould, and kept in a frame until they began to grow in early September. They were then transferred to the Intermediate House and kept until early April, when they went to the Succulent House, where they flowered in May. In spring 1913 a growing corm was planted out-of-doors on the west border of the Palm House, near the wall. This flowered in July last. The plant after having withstood eleven degrees of frost, its leaves remaining quite green, survived the winter of 1913-14; the position it occupies is, however, a very sheltered one. Treatment in a pot, comparatively dry, is likely to keep the corms dormant until early spring ; for although growth took place the first year early in September, in the second year the corms have remained dormant until spring. The retention of green leaves in the open indicates a tendency to prolong the natural time of growth. Descrrprion.—Herb. Leaves 13-13 ft. long, over } in. wide, narrowed towards tip and base, hirsute on both surfaces ; midrib stout, marginal nerves strong. Raceme 1 ft. long, lax, glabrous ; spathes green, herbaceous, glabrous, the outer one lanceolate, acuminate, about shaped, curved ; five upper lobes subequal, 1} in. long, long, laciniate. peers eke MC TY Figs. 1 and 2, anthers ; 8, stigmatic lobes :—all enlarged. M. S.del. J.NFitch ith. * Vaneent Brovks,Day &Son.Lttimp L, Reeve &C°% London. Tas. 8549. BERBERIS Prartrtt. Western China. BERBERIDACEAE. Tribe BERBERIDEAE. Berseris, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 43. Berberis Prattii, C. K. Schneider in Sargent, Plantae Wilsonianae, vol. i. p. 876; affinis B. polyanthae, Hemsl., et B. brevipaniculatae, C. K. Schneider ; ab illa rete venularum foliorum laxiore, paniculis angustioribus, ab hae foliis magis serratis subtus non glaucis differt. angustae, circiter 4-5 cm. longae, glabrae; bracteae ovatae, caudato- acuminatae, circiter 8 mm. longae; pedicelli 8-5 mm. longi, apice bibracteolati, bracteolis triangularibus obtusis rubris vix 2 mm. longis. Flores circiter 5 mm. diametro. Sepala 6, late elliptico-obovata, valde concava, trinervia nervis lateralibus demum furcatis, 8 exteriora circiter 3 mm. longa, 8 interiora circiter 4 mm. longa. Petala 6, sepalis o posita, obovata, 3-3-5 mm. longa, 2 mm. lata, emarginata, trinervia, glandulis duabis oblongis 1°38 mm. longis nervis lateralibus 0°7 mm. supra basin insidentibus. Stamina 6, petalis opposita, 2 mm. longa. Ovarium leviter stipitatum, ovoideum, stylo brevi; ovula 2, erecta. Baccae ellipsoideae, salmoneo-rubrae, 6-7 mm. longae, stylo 0°6 mm. longo. Semina 1-2, oblongo-obovoidea, 3°7 mm. longa, rubella.—B. polyantha, Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. vol. xxix. p. 302, partim.—T. A, Spracur, This Western Szechuan shrub was first collected by Mr. A. E. Pratt in the neighbourhood of Tachien-lu. It was subsequently met with there and at Mupine by Mr. E. H. Wilson, when collecting for Messrs. J. Veitch and Sons, Originally included by Hemsley in B. polyantha, this Ber- beris has been kept apart by Schneider on account of its less closely reticulated leaves and narrower inflorescences, But while perhaps most closely related to B. polyantha, Hemsl., B. Prattii most resembles B. brevipaniculata, C. K. Schneid., with which it has been confused in collections, though it is readily distinguished by the pale green but not glaucous lower surface of the leaves. Like B. brevi- paniculata our plant is a shrub of dense growth, forming ApriL, 1914. a mass of twiggy branches out of which are thrust each year a number of long whip-like shoots. More beautiful when in flower than most Chinese species of the genus, it is still more effective when laden in September with its branches of salmon-red fruits. The material for our figure was gathered from a_ plant in the Arboretum Nursery at Kew, which had been purchased from Messrs. Veitch in 1909. The shrub grows very freely and is apparently quite hardy; the freedom with which it fruits promises to make its pro- pagation easy. Like other species of Berberis this one enjoys a well-drained loamy soil. Description.—Sirub, 6-10 ft. high; young twigs finely pilose, tawny, grooved; internodes 2-1 in. long; old twigs ash-grey. Spines undivided or more often 3-partite, slender, 4-2 in. long, grooved underneath. Leaves in fascicles of 4-5 (according to Schneider a fascicle may include as many as 10) obovate-oblong or obovate, rounded or blunt and mucronulate at the tip, narrowed gradually below into a short or very short petiole, }-11 in. long, 1-2 in. wide, entire or more particularly on the lower part of the twigs spinulose serrate beyond the middle, green above, paler beneath, in drying very markedly reticulate on both surfaces. Panicles narrow, 13-2 in. long, glabrous; bracts ovate, caudate-acuminate, about 1 in. long; pedicels 1-1 in. long, bibracteolate at the tip, bracteoles triangular, obtuse, red, under +5 in. long. Flowers about + in. across. Sepals 6, wide elliptic-obovate, very concave, 3-nerved, lateral nerves at length divided; three outer about 4 in. long, three inner about 1 in. long. Petals 6, opposite the sepals, obovate, 1-1 in. long, 4 in. wide, emarginate, 3-nerved with two rather large oblong glands on the lateral nerves a little above the base. Stamens 6, opposite the petals, yin. long. Ovary shortly stipitate, ovoid; style short; ovules 2, erect. Berry ellipsoid, salmon- red, { in. long, crowned by the short persistent style. Seeds 1-2, oblong-obovoid, about 7 in. long, reddish. Fig. 1, flower-bud ; 2, flower; 3, petal; 4, stamen; 5, pistil :—all enlarged. VincentBrooks,Day &Son Lt inp ji —— nammemeatiteatttnsnensceeneae™ a CaTT ced M.S. del, JN Fitch lith. Tas. 8550. OLEARIA sEMIDENTATA. _ Chatham Islands. ComposiTagE. Tribe ASTEROIDEAR. OxeariA, Moench.; Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 276. Olearia semidentata, Dene ex Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. vol. i. 115; Hook. f. Handb. New Zeal. Fl. p. 124; Buch. in Trans. New Zeal. Inst. vol. vii. : , t. xiv.; Kirk, Students’ Fl. p. 264; Cheeseman, Man. New Zeal. Plora, p. 280; Dorrien Smith in Kew Bull. 1910, pp. 120-126, cum icon. ; affinis O. chathamicac, T. Kirk, foliis lineari-oblanceolatis latioribus Frutex parvus, parce ramosus, usque ad 1 m. altus; rami graciles, errabundi, pilis albidis appresse lanati. Folia numerosa, conferta, subpatula, lineari- oblanceolata, acuta, basi gradatim angustata, 4-7 cm. longa, 0°5-1 em. lata, superne serrulata, inferne integra vel subintegra, juniora supra glabra vel leviter lanata, subtus floccoso-lanata, nervis ascendentibus. Capitula pedunculata, terminalia, solitaria vel ramorum apices versus pauca, 5-6 cm. diametro ; pedunculus bracteis foliaceis parvis instructus, 3~5 em. longus. Involucri bracteae numerosae, lineares, subacutae, 1-1°2 cm. longae, dense lanato-tomentosae, apice glabrescentes. Flores radit usque ad 50, purpurei. Corollae tubus cylindricus, 4 mm. longus, minute puberulus; limbus lineari-oblanceolatus, apice tridentatus, ad 2 cm. longus, superne minute puberulus. Flores disci fusco-purpurei. Corollae tubus inferne cylindri- cus, puberulus, superne subcampanulatus, glaber, 4°5 mm. longus; lobi lanceolati, subacuti, 1:5 mm. longi. Antherae 2°5 mm. longae. Stylus glaber; rami subacuti. Achaenia linearia, 0°5 cm. longa, sulcata, minute glanduloso-pubescentia. Pappus setosus, 6 mm. longus, barbellatus.— Eurybia semidentata, F. Muell. Veg. Chath. Is. p. 21.—J. Hurcuinson. The material for the figure now given of Olearia semidentata, Dene, was supplied for the purpose from the gardens of Mr. T. A. Dorrien Smith at Tresco Abbey, Isles of Scilly, where a plant flowered in July 1913. The specimens were sent at the request of Captain A. A. Dorrien Smith, by whom it had been brought from the Chatham Islands to those of Scilly. The most nearly allied species is O. chathamica, T. Kirk, already figured at t. 8420 of this work. The two species grow in association in boggy places in the Chatham Islands. Captain _Dorrien Smith records the existence in its native habitat of two colour varieties of the present species, one with Aprin, 1914, pure white, the other with beautiful pink flowers. Dr. L, Cockayne, in an account of the plants of the Chatham Islands, has observed considerable variation in the size, the marginal indentation, and the degree of indumentum on the under surfaces of the leaves. The latter observer noted particularly three plants growing side by side, which so far as their general appearance was concerned might well pass for three distinct species. It is not impossible that, as they grow intermixed, hybridization may take place between this species and QO. chathamica. . The two species, besides being botanically very closely related, bear a considerable general resemblance to each other, and require the same cultural treatment. A specimen at Kew, presented by Captain Dorrien Smith some years ago, has not yet flowered. _ Description.—Shrub up to 3-4 ft. high, sparingly branched; branches slender, straggling, adpressed woolly. Leaves many, close set, somewhat spreading, linear- oblanceolate, acute, gradually narrowed to the base, 1}-27 in. long, }-3 in. wide, serrulate upwards, entire or nearly so towards the base, when young glabrous or sparingly woolly above, floccosely woolly beneath; nerves ascending. Heads peduncled, terminal, solitary, or very few towards the tips of the branches, 2-24 in. across ; peduncle beset with small leafy bracts, 14-2 in. long. Involueral bracts many, linear, rather acute, 4} in. long, densely woolly tomentose, glabrescent at the apex. fay-florets up to 50 in number, purple. Corolla with finely puberulous, cylindric tube, } in. long; limb linear- lanceolate, 3-toothed at the apex, finely puberulous | upwards, ¢ in. long. Disk-florets purple. Corolla with tube puberulous and cylindric below, somewhat campanu- late and glabrous upwards, 4 in. long; lobes lanceo- late, rather acute, very short. Anthers ya in. long. Style glabrous, its arms subacute. Achenes linear, very short, sulcate, finely glandular-pubescent. Pappus setose, t in. long, barbellate. Fig. 1, leaf-edge, showing leaf-teeth; 2, floret of the ray; 3, floret of the disk ; 4, a pappus-hair; 5, anthers; 6, style-arms :—all enlarged. Dy IGie) ; it PME M8.del EN Fitch Ath. Reeve & (1? Londen A. “Tas. 8551. EPIDENDRUM prRorvsvumM. Mexico. ORCHIDACEAE. Tribe EPIDENDREAE, Errenprum, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 528. Epidendrum (§ Encyclium) profusum, Rolfe; species ab EH. ambiguo, Lindl., panicula densiore, floribus minoribus, sepalis et petalis latioribus, et labelli lobis minute crenulatis nec crispulo-undulatis differt. Herba epiphytica. Pseudobulbi ovoidei, apice subattenuati, sulcati, 3-7 cm. ‘ Jongi, 2°5-4 em. lati, 2-3-phylli. Folia ligulata, subobtusa, coriacea, 18-35 cm. longa, 1°5-2°5 cm. lata, Scapi terminales, 4°5-5-5 cm. longi ; panicula subcompacta, multiflora, rami subflexuosi, 10-15 cm. longi. Bracteae ovatae, subobtusae, 2 mm. longae. Pedicelli graciles, circiter 2 cm. longi. Flores mediocres, speciosi, circiter 4°5 em, diametro, Sepala et petala patentia, pallide flavo-viridia, sepala oblongo-lanceolata, subobtusa, 2°3 cm. longa ; petala spathulato-lanceolata, subobtusa, 2°3 em. longa. Labellwm trilobum, 1°8 cm. longum, album, prope apicem purpureo- lineatum ; lobi laterales oblongi, obtusi, basi columnam involventes, apice subrecurvi, minute crenulati; lobus intermedius ellipticus vel suborbicu- laris, obtusus, minute crenulatus, circiter 1 cm. latus; venis radiatis minus elevatis et verruculosis. Colwmna oblonga, 8 mm. longa.— Epidendrum ambiguum, Rolfe in Orch. Rev. 1913, p. 215, nee Lindl.— R. A. Roure. The attractive Epidendrum here figured was obtained for the Kew Collection in 1911 by purchase from Messrs. Sander and Sons, St: Albans, In the house devoted to tropical orchids it has thriven well under the conditions suitable for other species of the same genus, and in June 1913 it flowered for the first time. It had been received under the name FE. Candollei, Lindl., a species figured at t. 3765 of this work under the name L. cepiforme, Hook., but on flowering it showed itself to be very distinct from that plant and to be more closely allied to E. aromaticum, Batem., and more especially to F. ambiguum, Lindl. At first, indeed, it occurred to Mr. Rolfe that it might actually be a form of the last-mentioned species, which is somewhat imperfectly known. Further study, how- ever, showed that our plant differs from E£. ambiguum in having a denser panicle, with shorter and broader sepals Aprin, 1914, and petals, and in being without a strongly crispate margin to the lip. The flowers are very fragrant. The purple veining on the lip is of a more decidedly magenta tint than it has been possible for the lithographer to reproduce. The locality Mexico is somewhat inferential, and is suggested owing to the circumstance that /. Candollei, Lindl., the plant for which this was mistaken when it was first introduced, is a Mexican species. Derscription.—llerb, epiphytic; pseudobulbs ovoid, somewhat narrowed upwards, channelled, 14-3 in. long, 1-14 in. wide, 2-3-phyllous. Leaves ligulate, rather blunt, coriaceous, 7-14 in. long, 2-1 in. wide. Scapes terminal, 14-13 ft. long; panicle rather compact, many- flowered, with rather flexuous branches 4—6 in. long; bracts ovate, rather blunt, y's in. long; pedicels slender, about 2 in. long. lowers medium-sized but showy, about 1% in. across. Sepals and petals spreading, pale yellowish-green; sepals oblong-lanceolate, rather blunt, nearly 1 in. long; petals spathulate-lanceolate, rather blunt, nearly 1 in. long. Lip 3-lobed, 2 in. long, white, streaked with purple near the tip; lateral lobes oblong, blunt, enclosing the base of the column, recurved at the __ tip, finely crenulate; mid-lobe elliptic or suborbicular, blunt, finely crenulate, about | in. wide, nerves radiating, slightly raised and finely verrucose. Columns oblong, 1 in. ong. Fig. 1, a portion of the lip; 2, column; 3, pollen-masses; 4, sketch of an entire plant :—all enlarged except 4, which is much reduced. _ Monthly, price 8s. 6d. coloured, 2s. 6d. Annual Subseription, 42s, 4 on No. 1527 oF tHe eytiRE work. Roe a CURTIS'S BOTANICAL __MAGAZIN RT Tsy I5s. A As. at | Se ad good Index. a Coloured Plates, £6 6s. With Uncoloured Plates, £4 IOs. S552 MS.del,JNFitch lith. Vincent Booch, Day Sout am L Reeve &C° Londan TAB. 8552. ABIES MAGNIFICA. North- Western United States. ConIFERAE. Tribe ABIETINEAE, AsiEs, Juss. (ex parte) ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 441.; Eichl. in Engl. ¢ Prantl, Natiirl. Pflanzenfam. vol. ii. pars i. p. 81. Abies magnifica, A. Murray in Proc. Roy. Hort. Soc. vol. iii, (1868) p. 318, figs. 25-383; Masters in Gard. Chron. 1885, vol. xxiv. p. 652, fig. 148; Sargent, Silv. N. Am. vol. xii. p. 187, tt. 618, 619; Elwes é Henry, Trees of Gr. Brit. ¢ Irel. vol. iv. p. 792; Clinton Baker, Ill. Conéf. vol. ii. p. 17, cum tt. 2; ab A. nobili, Lindl., affini differt foliis minus congestis tetragonis supra haud sulcatis apice obtusis acutisve haud emarginatis, carpellis ovatis vel obovato-ellipticis in ya typica quam squamulae ovuligerae brevioribus in cono maturo haud exsertis. Arbor ad 75 m. alta, coma apice rotundata, trunco ad 8 m. diametro ad medium fere ramis destituto, cortice arborum diu laevi argenteo-albido deinde profunde fisso 10-15 cm. crasso squamis nigro-rufescentibus; rami pro rata _breves, inferiores subpenduli, rigide remote ramulosi, superiores subadscendentes; ramuli robusti, primo anno virescentes, puberuli deinde brunnescentes et glabrati. Gemmae ovatae, acutae, 6-8 mm. longae, perulis castaneis exterioribus denticulatis apiculatis. Folia per decem annos persistentia, ramorum inferiorum lanceolato-linearia, subplana, obtusa, 1°8-3°8 cm. longa, 1°5 mm. lata, lateralia e basi subhorizontali adscendentia, facialia suberecta vel prorsus curvata; folia ramorum superiorum et ramulorum fertilium crassiora, linearia, sectione trans- versa subrhombica, apice calloso-acuta vel subacuta, 0°8-3 cm. longa, e basi breviter curvata erecta, dense congesta ; folia ramorum terminalium 1°8 cm. longa, acute acuminata, arcuata, apicibus ramo adpressis ; omnia glauca vel glauco-viridia, utrinque stomatorum ordinibus instructa. Strobili masculi oblongo-eylindrici, 1°2-1°8 cm. longi, rubro-purpurei. Strobilt feminet oblongi, circiter 8°75 em. longi, fere 2°5 cm. crassi. Carpella sub anthesi elliptica vel obovato-elliptica, denticulata, costa in apiculum vel mucronem producta. Squamae ovuliferae sub anthesi quam carpella multo breviores, late ovatae. Cont oblongo-cylindrici, apice truncati vel rotundati, 15-23 cm. longi, 6-8-5 cm. diametro, ex purpureo fuscescentes vel nigrescentes, squamae maturae late cuneatae quam carpella vix aucta majores eoque occultantes, circiter 8°5 cm. latae. Semina oblique oblonga, 1°5-1°8 em. longa, ala oblique obovata paulo longiora, pallide purpureo-fuscescentia vel subrosea.—A. nobilis, var. magnifica, Kellog, Trees of Calif. p. 29. Picea magnifica, Gord., Pin. ed. ii. p. 219. Pinus amabilis, Parl. in DC. Prod. vol. xvi. pars ii. p. 246 (ex parte). P. magnifica, M‘Nab in Proc. R. Irish Acad. ser. 2, vol. ii. p. 700, t. 49, figs. 830, 80a.—O. Starr. The Fir here figured is the principal tree in the forest belt of the Sierra Nevada between 6000 and 9000 feet above sea level, extending northwards into the Cascade May, 1914. Mountains in Oregon. At the southern limit of its distribution it reaches an altitude of 10,000 feet. It was discovered by Fremont in 1845, probably in the Sierra Nevada, and was first introduced into England by J. Jefirey in 1851. In this country, however, it has not proved so general a success in gardens as some other Western American species ; still, fine specimens are to be found, especially in Scotland. The material for our figure has been made from material kindly furnished by Mr. H. Clinton Baker from his fine pinetum at Bayford- bury. There the tree is over sixty feet in height with a trunk about six feet in girth. This species has been much confused with A. nobilis, Lindl., but is readily dis- tinguished, even in the absence of cones, by the leaf being keeled on both surfaces and thus quadrangular in transverse section, whereas the leaf of A. nobilis is grooved on the upper surface. As seen in Scotland and other places where it succeeds, A. magnifica is a tree of great beauty and distinction, well marked by its slender conical shape. Itenjoys a deep, moist, loamy soil and a generous rainfall. At Kew, where both these requirements are lacking, and where it has besides to contend against adverse atmospheric conditions, it is a failure. The light red-brown wood is comparatively durable; its main use, — however, is for fuel. There is a variety which occurs on = Mt. Shasta, and has been termed shastensis by Lemmon, which is characterised by its mature cones having bracts that are longer than the seed-bearing scales; they are golden-yellow and their exserted tips are more or less reflexed. Description.— Tree up to 250 ft. high, crown round- topped, trunk up to 10 ft. thick, almost devoid of branches to the middle ; bark of adult trees long remaining silvery white and smooth, but in time deeply cracking, 4-6 in. thick, with the segments blackish-red ; branches short for the height of the tree, the lower ones almost pen- dulous, stiff and distantly twiggy, the upper ones some- what ascending ; twigs stout, greenish and puberulous the first season, then becoming brownish and nearly glabrous. Leaf-buds ovate, acute, 1-1 in, long, the outer scales chestnut-brown, denticulate and apiculate. Leaves per- sisting for ten seasons; those of the lower branches lanceolate-linear, nearly flat, obtuse, 3-14 in. long, under as in. wide, the lateral ones ascending from a nearly horizontal base, the facial ones erect or curved through- out their length ; those of the upper branches and of the fertile twigs stouter, linear, somewhat rhomboid or tetragonal in cross-section, callous and acute or subacute at the tip, 1-1} in. long, at the base shortly curved, then erect, densely clustered ; those of the terminal branches 3 in. long, acutely acuminate, curved till their tips touch the branch; all glaucous or glaucous-green, beset with rows of stomata on both sides. Male cones oblong- cylindric, 3-$ in. long, reddish-purple. Female cones oblong, about 14 in. long, nearly 1 in. thick. Carpels when flowering elliptic or obovate-elliptic, denticulate, the midrib produced in a mucro; ovule-bearing scales wide ovate, in flower much shorter than the carpels. Mature cones oblong-cylindric, truncate or rounded at the apex, 6-9 in. long, 23-34 in. wide, from tawny-purple to blackish; ripe scales wide cuneate, larger than and hiding the very slightly altered carpels, about 1} in. wide. Seed obliquely oblong, 2-3 in. long, wing oblique-obovate, rather longer than the body of the seed, pale tawny- purple or almost rose-coloured. Fig. 1, a leaf; 2, transverse section of a leaf; 3, scale and bract; 4, scale; 5 and 6, seeds :—all enlarged except 8, which is of natural size, 8553 M.S.del.JN Fitch lith, YovimsPessiaie shen LReeve &C° London Tas. 8553. ZEPHYRANTHES carDINALIs. America. AMARYLLIDACEAE, Tribe AMARYLLEAE. ZEPHYRANTHES, Herb.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 728. Zephyranthes cardinalis, C. H. Wright; species Z. concolori, Benth. et Hook. f., affinis, pedicello breviore, spatha breviore anguste tubulari perianthioque cardinali differt. Herba. Folia ligulata, acuminata, 14 cm. longa, 7 mm. lata, supra nitide viridia, leviter canaliculata, subtus carinata. Scapus cylindricus, 11 cm. altus, 8 mm. diametro, inferne roseus, superne viridis; spatha rosea, tubus subinflatus, 15 mm. longus, apex 11 mm. longus, acutus; flos inclinatus; pedicellus 2 cm. longus. Perianthiwm cardinale; tubus infundibuliformis, 2°5 em. longus, infra viridi-tinctus; segmenta late oblongo-oblanceolata, subobtusa, apice incrassata, erecto-patentia. Stamina ad medium perianthii segmentorum attingentia; antherae oblongae, lilacinae. Ovariwm breviter ellipticum; stigma trilobum.— C. H. Wrieut. The handsome Amaryllid which is here described has all the facies of a species of Hippeastrum referable to the section Habranthus. Yet the nature of the spathe, which is monophyllous and tubular at the base, excludes it from LTippeastrum, a genus in which the spathe is bilobed to the very base, and shows that it is really a Zephyranthes. Within Zephyranthes it may best be placed in the section Zephyrites where the flower is inclined and the style is somewhat declinate. The plant from which our figure has been prepared is one which flowered at Kew in June, 1913. The bulb was presented by Mr. E. S. Miller of Wading River, New York, to his friend Mr. J. G. Baker in January, 1913, and by Mr. Baker was made over to Kew. Mr. Miller informs us that the plant has reached him from the Bahama Islands where it is grown in gardens, but that he has failed to learn of any locality in which the species is indigenous. At Kew the species thrives well under the cultural treatment suitable for Z. carinata, Herb. which is figured at t. 2594 of this work. Its leaves appear in October, but so far it has not produced seeds at Kew. May, 1914, Descrretion.— Herb. Leaves ligulate, acuminate, 54 in. long, }-1 in. wide, shining green and slightly channelled above, keeled beneath. Scape cylindric, 45 in. long, 1 in. thick, rose-pink near the base, green upwards ; spathejrose-pink, its tube somewhat inflated, 2 in. long, its tip acute, nearly } in. long; flower bent to one side, its pedicel 3 in. long. Perianth bright-red ; tube funnel- shaped, 1 in. long, greenish near the base; segments broadly oblong-oblanceolate, somewhat blunt, thickened at the tip, very slightly spreading. Stamens reaching the middle of the perianth-lobes; anthers oblong, lilac. Ovary shortly elliptic ; stigma 3-lobed. Figs. 1 and 2, anthers ; 3, stigma :—all enlarged, .§ del. J.NFitchlith, TAB. 8554. MAZUS 1 REPTANS. [imalaya. ScROPHULARIACEAE. ‘Tribe GRATIOLEAE. Mazus, Lour.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 947. Mazus reptans, N. LE. Brown; species nova affinis M. surculoso, Don, sed glabrior, internodiis brevioribus, foliis minoribus angustioribus et acutiori- bus oppositis nec rosulatis et corollae tubo calyce longiore differt. Herba perennis caespitosa, ad 3-5 cm. alta. Caules repentes radicantes, 1 mm. crassi internodiis 5-25 mm. longis, glabri. Folia opposita, cum petiolo 1-5-2°5 cm. longa, 4-9 mm. lata, lanceolata oblanceolata vel subelliptica, acuta, utrinque 2-3-dentata, infra medium in petiolum angustius alatum attenuata, glabra, subtus secus costam glandulis minutissimis conspersa. Racemi 2-5-flori, erecti, 4-5 cm. longi, e basi florentes. Pedicelli 0°8-2 em. longi, erecti, graciles, unifariam pubescentes, minute unibracteati. Calyx 5-6 mm. longus, ad medium vel infra 5-lobus, sparse glanduloso- puberulus; lobi patuli, lanceolati vel elongato-deltoideo-ovati, acuti. Corolla inaequaliter bilabiata, purpureo-coerulea, labio inferiore albo luteo et rubro-purpureo variegato; tubus 7-8 mm, longus, minutissime glandulosus ; labia porrecta; labium superius levissime recurvum, 8-10 mm. longum, basi 8°5 mm. latum, apice bifidum; labium inferius 1-1°3 em. longum, 1 em. latum, subplanum, 3-lobum, disco _bicalloso callis albo-pilosis; lobi anguste oblongi, obtusi. Stamina 4, didynama, 2 inferioribus breviter exsertis; filamenta glabra. Stylus filiformis, glaber, albus; stigma incrassatum, 2-lobum.—M. rugosus, Gard. Chron. 1913, vol. liii. pp. 158, 190, 210 cum icon. ; nec Lour. Mazus sp., Colchester in Gard. Chron, l.c. p. 240.—N. E. Brown. ; The very interesting little Scropulariad here figured is one for whose introduction to English gardens we are indebted to Mr. B. Crisp, of the Wargrave Plant Farm, Limited, by whom it was shown at a meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society on March 4, 1913, where it was accepted by those responsible as Mazus rugosus, Lour. It is a member of the genus Mazus, but it is singu- larly unlike Jf rugosus, though, according to Mr. Crisp, like M. rugosus it is a native of the Himalaya. There is not, however, in any of the collections we have examined, a Himalayan specimen which in habit is at all like the species now figured, though a form with the same general facies but with different foliage occurs in the Khasia Hills to the east of the Himalaya. . For the May, 1914. plant from which the figure now given was prepared, Kew is indebted to the kindness of Mr. Crisp; usually in habit it is more compactly matted than the individual shown in our plate. MV. reptans is an extremely pleasing little plant, rather resembling in general appearance some of the smaller Lobelias. It grows freely and flowers almost continuously from early spring to late autumn in any sheltered nook in the rock garden or in a shallow pot in a cold frame. Description.—ferb, perennial, tufted, 1-2 in. high; stems prostrate, rooting at the nodes, very slender, internodes 1-1 in. long, glabrous. Leaves opposite, in- cluding the petiole 2-1 in. long, 1—1 in. wide, lanceolate, oblanceolate or almost elliptic, 2-3-toothed along each side, narrowed from the middle downwards in a rather narrow winged petiole, glabrous but very minutely glandular along the midrib beneath. Racemes 2-5- flowered, erect, 12-2 in. long, flowering from the very base; pedicels }-$ in. long, erect, slender, 1-fariously pubescent, minutely I-bracteate. Calyx 1-1 in. long, 5-lobed to the middle or deeper, sparingly glandular puberulous; lobes spreading, lanceolate, rather long deltoid-ovate, acute. Corolla unequally 2-lipped, pur- plish blue, the lower lip blotched with white, yellow and red-purple; tube 14-1 in. long, very finely glandular ; lips outspread, the upper slightly recurved, 4—? in. long, 1 in. wide at the base, 2-fid at the tip, the lower ?—} in. long, 2 in. wide, almost flat, with the disk 2-callose, the ridges white-pilose, the lobes narrow-oblong, obtuse. Stamens 4, didynamous, the lower pair shortly exserted ; filaments glabrous. Style filiform, glabrous, white; stigma large, 2-lobed. Fig. 1, calyx and pistil; 2, corolla laid open, showing stamens ; 3, hairs on the corolla; 4 and 5, anthers; 6, pistil, with portion of calyx:—all enlarged. 8555 ss Vincent Brooks,Day & Son Lidimp. M. S. del. JN Fitch lith - Baan @ 190: Te as T te Tas. 8555. LONICERA LepEpovrii. California. CAPRIFOLIACEAE. Tribe LoNICEREAE. Lonicera, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 5. Lonicera Ledebourii, Hschscholiz in Mém. Acad. Sci. St. Pétersb. vol. x. p- 284; DC. Prodr. vol. iv. p. 336; Hook. et Arnott Bot. Beechey Voy. p. 143; Newmann in Rev. Hort. ser. 2, vol. ii. p. 378, cum icon. ; Regel, Gartenfl. vol. ii. p. 289, t. 64; K. Koch. Dendr. vol. ii. p. 85; Dippel, Handb, Laubholzk. vol. i. p. 258, t. 171; Koehne, Deutsch, Dendr. p. 544 ; Rehder in Rep. Missourr Bot. Gard. vol. xiv. p. 100; Schneider, Ill. Handb, Laubholzk. vol. ii. p. 705, t. 448, figs. e-f; affinis L. involucratae, Banks, sed ramis longioribus foliis infra pubescentibus basi interdum rotundatis corollae tubo extra rubro-luteo, lobis patulis antheris vix exsertis differt. Frutex erectus ; rami elongati, interdum usque ad 5 m. longi; ramuli angulati, juniores parce puberuli. Folia lanceolata vel ovato-lanceolata, subacuta vel breviter mucronata, basi obtusa vel rotundata, 4-8 cm. longa, 1*5-2°5 cm. lata, integra, tenuiter chartacea, supra nervis puberula, infra molliter pubescentia, reticulata, nervis lateralibus utrinque 5-6 ascendentibus arcuatis; petioli 0°5 em. longi, parce puberuli. Flores geminati, intra involucrum longe pedunculatum e bracteis duabus sessiles; pedunculi 2-2°5 em. longi, glabri. Bracteae oppositae, distinctae, ovatae vel ovato- ellipticae, apice obtusae, sub anthesin circiter 1 cm. longae et 0°8 cm. latae, extra reticulatae, parce pilosae, intra et marginibus stipitato- glandulosae, primum rubro-virides, in fructu purpureae et accrescentes ; bracteolae parvae. Calyx obsoletus. Corolla infundibuliformis, basi saccata, extra rubro-lutea, intra lutea; tubus 1-1°5 cm. longus, circiter 0*5 cm. diametro, extra parce pilosus; limbus 5-lobus, lobis patulis late ovato-rotundatis 3 mm. latis. Stamina 5, supra medium tubi inserta; antherae vix exsertae, mucronatae. Ovariwm glabrum; stylus crassus ; stigma capitatum, breviter exsertum. Bacca nigra. — Chamaecerasus Ledebourii, Billiard, L’Hort. Frang. 1861, p. 256. Lonicera intermedia, Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. vol. i. p. 154, fig. 47. Caprifoliwm Ledebourtt, Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 274. Distegia Ledebourit, Greene, Man. Bot. San Francisco Bay, p. 164. Xylostewm Lebebourii, Howell, Fl. N.W. Am, vol. i. p. 282.—J. Hurcuinson. The Lonicera described above is a shrub of sturdy erect habit, ultimately attaining a height of six to nine feet and being as much across. Its deep orange-yellow flowers, tinged with red, appear in late May and June, and make the shrub very handsome then. It is very easily cultivated, thriving in a deep loamy soil and in a sunny position. Introduced in 1838 from California, it May, 1914, seems to be widely spread in gardens, if one may judge by the number of specimens submitted for identification in each succeeding year. It can be increased by cuttings in early autumn. The only species in gardens with which it is likely to be confused is the well-known L. involucrata, Banks, which has similarly striking involucres. The latter is, however, easily distinguished by its thinner, glabrous or nearly glabrous leaves, and its longer stamens, and it is as arule in herbaria not in gardens that any serious difficulty is experienced in separating the two. The material for our plate was supplied by a plant which has long been in cultivation at Kew. DESCRIPTION.—Shrub, erect; branches long, at times up to 15 ft. long, twigs angular, when young sparingly puberulous. Leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, rather acute or shortly mucronate, base rounded or truncate, 13-33 in. long, 3-1 in. wide, entire, thinly papery, puberulous on the nerves above, softly pubescent underneath, reticulately veined, the lateral nerves curved, ascending, 5-6 on each side; petioles 4 in. long, sparingly puberulous. Flowers geminate, sessile between two bracts in a long-peduncled involucre; peduncles #1 in. long, glabrous. Bracts opposite, distinct, ovate or ovate-elliptic, blunt-tipped, in flower about 2 in. long and } in. across, reticulate outside and sparingly pilose, beset with stalked glands within and on the margin, at first reddish-green, in fruit purple and _ accrescent; bracteoles small. Calyx obsolete. Corolla funnel- shaped, saccate at the base, reddish-yellow outside, yellow within; tube 4-2 in. long, about + in. wide, sparingly hairy outside; limb 5-lobed, lobes spreading, widely ovate-rounded, } in. across. Stamens 5, inserted above the middle of the tube; anthers hardly exserted, mucronate. Ovary glabrous; style stout; stigma capi- tate, shortly exserted. Berry black. Fig. 1, bract and two flowers; 2, ovaries ; 8, section of corolla; 4 and 5, anthers ; 6, style and stigma :—all enlarged. TAB. 8556. PITHECOCTENIUM cynancHorDEs. Brazil to the Argentine. BIGNONIACEAE. ‘Tribe BIGNONIEAE. PitHEcocTEenIuM, Mart.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1038. Pithecoctenium cynanchoides, DC. in DC. Prodr. vol. ix. p. 195; Bur. ¢ K. Schum. in Mart. Fl. Bras. vol. viii. pars 2, p. 166 ; foliis parvis caudato- acuminatis distinctum. Frutex scandens. Ramuli graciles, quadrangulares, 6-costati, novelli minute puberuli, mox glabrati. Folia opposita, petiolata, trifoliolata, foliolo terminali saepe in cirrhum apice trifurcatum commutato; petioli 2-3 cm. longi, pilosuli; petioluli similes, saepe longiores ; foliola late ovata, acute caudato-acuminata, basi late cordata, 4-5 cm. longa, 3°5-4°5 cm. lata, minute ciliolata, supra sparse minute subtus densius lepidota, lepidibus oculo armato tantum visis. Racemus terminalis, pauciflorus; pedicelli circiter 1:5 cm. longi, medio bibracteolati. Calyx cupularis, truncatus, nervis productis 5-dentatus, circiter 8 mm. longus dentibus exclusis, extra molliter pilosus, minute densiuscule lepidotus, superne circa mervos minute impresso-glandulosus. Corolla alba, intus lutea, tubulari-infundibularis, 4-5 cm. longa, prorsum curvata, limbo patulo. Stamina 4, didynama, anteriora longiora, ut staminodium posticum circiter 7 mm. supra basin corollae inserta; filamenta basi incrassata, pilis moniliformibus villosis- sima; antherae loculis discretis late divergentibus oblongis vix 3 mm. longis. Ovariwm compresso-ellipsoideum, breviter tomentellum, biloculare, disco magno pulvinari insidens; placentae pro loculo 2, multiovulatae, ovulis pluriseriatis; stylus supra ovarium valde contractus deinde incras- satus; stigmatis lobi plani, foliacei. Capsula oblonga utrinque angustata, 7-8 cm. longa, appendice septi capitato terminata, valvis more limae muriculatis. Semina transverse inserta, plana, hyalino-alata, corpore ambitu pyriformi.—P. clematidewm, Griseb. Symb. Fl. Argent. p. 257. Anemopaegma clematideum, Griseb. Pl. Lorentz. p. 174.—T. A. SPRAGUE. The Bignoniad here figured has been in cultivation at Kew since 1884, when its seeds were presented by Dr. Dormer, who collected them to the west of the Argentine Republic. It flowered for the first time in 1895, and has frequently flowered in summer since. The genus Pithecoctenium to which it belongs 1s one of the best characterised in the natural family Bignoniaceae ; 1t may be recognised at once by the capsule, which is variously muricate or tuberculate outside and is ter- minated by a capitate appendage of the septum; the young branches always have about six prominent ribs which are subsequently thrown off. Our species, May, 1914. P. cynanchoides, has a fairly wide distribution, for it is known from the neighbourhood of Rio in Brazil, from Paraguay, Uruguay and the north-west of the Argentine Republic. As in many other Bignoniads the terminal leaflet of the 3-foliolate leaves is replaced, in actively growing parts of the stem, by a 3-furcate tendril. The species thrives well in a temperate house under the con- ditions suitable for some of the species of Bignonia. Drscription.—Shrub, climbing; twigs slender, 4-angled and 6-ribbed; young shoots finely puberulous, soon glabrous. Leaves opposite, petioled, 3-foliolate, the end leaflet often replaced by a tendril with a 3-furcate tip ; petiole $-} in. long, finely pilose; petiolules similar and often longer; leaflets wide-ovate, acutely caudate- acuminate, base wide-cordate, 13-2 in. long, 14-13 in. wide, finely ciliolate, under a lens closely minutely lepidote beneath, very sparingly so above. Raceme terminal, few-flowered; pedicels about 2 in. long, 2-bracteolate in the middle. Calyx cupular, truncate, minutely 5-toothed owing to the nerves being produced, excluding the teeth about 1 in. long, softly hairy outside, minutely closely lepidote, in the upper part finely sunk- glandular about the nerves. Corolla white, yellow within, __ tubular funnel-shaped, 13-2 in. long, curved throughout. limb spreading. Stamens 4, didynamous, the anterior the longer, all inserted, as is the staminode, about 1 in. above the base of the corolla; filaments thickened at the base, quite villous with moniliform hairs; anther-cells discrete, wide diverging, oblong, hardly 1 in. long. Ovary com- pressed-ellipsoid, shortly tomentellous, 2-locular, resting on a large cushion-like disk ; placentae 2 to a cell, many- ovuled, ovules many-seriate; style much contracted above the ovary, then thickened higher up; stigmatic lobes flat, leafy. Capsule oblong, narrowed to both ends, about 4 in. long, crowned with a 7-headed appendix, valves muriculate resembling a file. Seeds inserted transversely, flat, with a hyaline wing; body of the seed pyriform in outline. Fig. 1, calyx; 2, stamens and their insertion ; 3, hair from base of filament 4, anther; 5, pistil and disk :—all enlarged, Fourth Series. = No 114° Monthly, price 3s. 6d. ices, 2s. 6d. plain Annual Sudseription, 426.00 or No. 1528 OF THE ENTIRE WORK. 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Hypericum Ascyron, Linn. Sp. Pl. vol. ii. p. 783; Masxim. in Mél. Biol. vol. xi. p. 162; Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. vol. xxiii. p. 72; J. M. Coulter in A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Am. vol. i. pars 1, p. 284; floribus maximis, petalis obliquis, stylis 5, stigmatibus capitatis distinctum. Planta erecta, circiter 1 m. alta, superne ramosa. Caulis quadrangularis, circiter 6 mm. crassus, angulis leviter alatis ; ramuli stricti, ascendentes, superiores apice flores solitarios vel cymas trifloras gerentes. Folia sessilia, patula, semiamplexicaulia, ovato-oblonga, acuta, 8°5-5°5 cm. longa, 1- 2°5 cm. lata, versus apicem leviter recurva, subcoriacea, glabra, nervis supra impressis subtus prominentibus. Pedunculi 1°5-3'5 cm. longi, superne bibracteati, rarius unibracteati. Sepala ovato-oblonga, 1*3-1°4 cm. longa, 7-9 mm. lata, acute apiculata, crispata. Petala leviter deflexa, oblique obovata, 4-5 cm. longa, 2°5-3 cm. lata. Stamvina numerosissima, inconspicue quinquephalangiata, 1:5-2°7 cm. longa; _antherae breviter oblongae, curvatae, versatiles, glandula apicali. Ovariwm ovoideum, 1°2 em. longum, quinquesulcatum, inferne quinqueloculare, superne unilo- culare, placentis valde intrusis bifidis multiovulatis; styli 5, liberi, 1°2cm. longi, stigmatibus capitatis. Capsula ovoideo-conica, circiter 2 cm. longa. Semina teretia, raphe leviter alata.—H. pyramidatum, Ait. Hort. Kew. vol. iii. p. 108. H. ascyroides, Willd. Sp. Pl. vol. iii. p. 1448. H. macro- carpum, Michx Fl. Bor.—Am. vol. ii. p. 82.—T. A. SPRAGUE. The very striking St. John’s Wort here described has two widely separated areas of distribution. It occurs in north-eastern North America, where it is met with on. the banks of rivers from Quebec and New Jersey in the east to Manitoba and Kansas in the west. It occurs again in Central and Eastern Asia, where, according to Komarov, it extends from the Altai region to Kamschatka, Manchuria, Korea, China, Japan and Formosa. The plant figured, which was presented to the Kew collection by Mr. M. L. de Vilmorin, was raised from seeds obtained in Korea, and represents a rather distinct form with unusually large flowers, which is from a cultural stand- point superior to the ordinary plant in which the flowers are from two to two and a half inches across. At Kew //. Ascyron, in all its forms, is only partially woody. Itsends June, 1914. up erect stems, three to four feet in height, each of which produces in July and August a very large and striking ~ terminal corymb of flowers. After the fading of its flowers the plant becomes somewhat unkempt and during the winter the stems die back to ground level; after a few years it is rather apt to die out entirely. It is, however, readily propagated by seeds. The plant thrives best in a loamy soil. Derscription.—flerb, half-woody, 3-4 ft. high. Stem erect, 4-angled, 1 in. thick, angles faintly winged; twigs strict, ascending, the upper bearing at the tips either solitary flowers or 3-flowered cymes. Leaves sessile, spreading, partially stem-clasping, ovate-oblong, acute, 14-2} in. long, 2-1 in. wide, slightly recurved near the tip, somewhat coriaceous, glabrous, the nerves sunk above and raised beneath. Peduncles 2-1} in. long, 2-bracteate above, rarely only 1-bracteate. Sepals ovate- oblong, over 4 in. long, about } in. wide, sharply apiculate, — crispate. Petals slightly deflexed, obliquely obovate, 13-2 in. long, 1-1} in. across. Stamens very many, indistinctly arranged in five groups, 2-1 in. long; anthers shortly oblong, curved, versatile, with a glandular tip. Ovary ovoid, 3} in. long, 5-grooved, in the lower part 5-chambered, in the upper portion only 1-chambered but with the many-ovuled 2-fid placentas deeply intruded ; styles 5, free, 4 in. long; stigmata capitate. Capsule ovoid-conic, about 3 in. long. Seeds terete; raphe slightly winged. Fig. 1, flower-bud; 2,8 and 4, anthers; 5, pistil; 6, transverse section of the ovary :—all enlarged. 6558 M.S. del.J.N.Fitch lith rT 5 Vincent:Brooks Day &SonLt- sic L. Reeve & C° London Tas. 8558. VITIS THUNBERGII. China and Japan. AMPELIDACEAE. Tribe VITOIDEAE. Vitis, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 387, partim ; Planch. in DC. Monogr, vol. v. pars 2, p. 821, emend. Vitis Thunbergii, Sich. & Zucc. Fl. Jap. Fam. Nat. sect. 1, p. 90; Planch. in DC. Monogr. vol. v. pars 2, p. 833; affinis V. Labruscae, Linn., a qua nodis tertiis cirrhis (vel inflorescentiis) carentibus, necnon fructibus minoribus recedit. Frutex scandens. Rami subangulati, exsiccando costati. Folia alterna, duo sequentia cirrho (vel inflorescentia) se opponentia, tertium ramulum axil- larem suffulciens, ultra medium palmatifida, 10-15 cm. diametro, supra glabra nervis et venulis impressis, subtus tomentosa vel pubescentia, nervis prominentibus lobis 3-5 basi angustatis grosse serratis, terminali rhomboideo-elliptico ; petioli 3-5 cm. longi. Thyrst oppositifolii, ramo infimo in cirrhum mutato. Flores in apicibus ramulorum rhachis subfasciculati, parvi, virides. Calyx breviter cupularis, repando-dentatus. Corolla in alabastro depresso-truncata; petala 5, valvata, in calyptram deciduam cohaerentia. Stamina 5, petalis opposita ; antherae introrsae. Glandulae interstaminales 5, parva, hypogyna. Ovarvwm subglobosum, biloculare ; stylus brevis, stigmate leviter bifido ; ovula pro loculo 2, erecta. Baccae ovoideae vel ellipsoideae, circiter 1 em. longae, purpure )-nigrae. Semina 1-8.—Vitis Labrusca, Franch. et Savat. Enum. Pl. Jap. vol. i. p. 83: Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. vol. xxiii. p. 184; non Linn.— T. A. Spracug. - The Vine which is the subject of our notice is a native of Eastern Asia, extending from Corea and China to Japan and Formosa. In this area it is the species which represents the North American Vitis Labrusca, Linn., to which it is very closely allied, and in which it has actually been included by a botanist so distinguished as the late Mr. Franchet. In the Asiatic V. Tiunbergu, however, the fruits are so much smaller that it can hardly be con- fused with its American congener, while the observant owing to the circumstance that in the American. Fox- Grape a tendril, or in the absence of a tendril, its homo- logue, an inflorescence, is to be met with opposite each leaf, whereas in the Japanese plant, while there 1s a tendril or an inflorescence opposite two successive leaves, none will be found opposite the third leaf. As a climber whose foliage dies off at the close of the season im rich JUNE, 1914. red shades, V. Thunbergii is particularly suitable for gardens in the western parts of the British Islands, and in that of Canon Ellacombe, at Bitton, near Bristol, to whose kindness we are indebted for the material for our plate, this species is a very pleasing object. At Kew it is hardy but is not of very vigorous growth, and never forms stems more than eight feet long. The present figure, it is hoped, may assist in the removal of an almost inexplicable confusion which has crept into English collections as regards the incidence of the name V. Thunhergii, which at present is rather persistently, but quite improperly, applied to a very fine form of V. Cvignetiae, Pulliat, originally introduced from the Kast into Mr. A. Waterer’s nursery. This latter plant, so often grown as V. Thunbergii, is remarkable for the size and the wonderfully rich autumnal colouring of its leaves. The true V. Thunbergii, now figured, is very distinct in its much smaller, deeply lobed leaves. It grows well in rich loam and can be increased by “eyes” in the manner usual for vines. DeEscription.—Shrub, climbing; branches somewhat angular, ribbed when dry. Leaves alternate, two in Succession opposite a tendril or an inflorescence, the third subtending an axillary branch, palmatifid to beyond the middle, 4-6 in. across, glabrous above with the nerves sunk, tomentose or pubescent with the nerves raised beneath; lobes 3-5, narrowed to the base, their margins coarsely toothed, the end-lobe rhomboid-elliptic ; petioles 1}-2 in. long. Inflorescences leaf-opposed, the lowest branch modified as a tendril. Flumers small, green, fascicled at the tips of the twigs of the rhachis. Calyx shortly cup-shaped, repand-toothed. = Corolla depressed-truncate in bud; petals 5, valvate, united in a deciduous calyptra. Stamens 5, opposite the petals; anthers introrse; interstaminal glands 5, small, hypo- gynous, Ovary subglobose, 2-celled ; style short; stigma slightly 2-fid; ovules 2 to each cell, erect. Berry ovoid or ellipsoid, over 1 in. long, purplish-black. Seeds 1-3. Fig. 1, flower-bud; 2, the same, corolla removed ; 3, pistil and interstaminal glands; 4 and 5, anthers i—all enlarged, 8559. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lamp Tas. 8559. DEUTZIA mottis. China. SAXIFRAGACEAE. Tribe HypRaNnGEAk. Devrzia, Thunb.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 642. Deutzia mollis, Duthie in Gard. Chron. 1906, vol. xl. p. 288; Rehder in Sargent, Pl. Wilson. vol. i. p. 18; C. Schneider, Laubholzk. vol ii. p- 930; inter species sectionis Mesodeutziae indumento molli in folioram pagina inferiore e pilis stellatis quorum radius centralis elongatus patulus con- stituto et filamentis edentatis distincta. Frutex ad 0°6-1°5 m. altus, ramis teretibus novellis pilosis citissime glabratis cortice tenui rubro-brunneo vel demum fuseo mox soluto tectis ; gemmae ovatae, acutae, perulis ovato-lanceolatis acutis numerosis castaneis diu ad innovationum bases persistentibus. Folia ovata vel late lanceolata, acuta, basi rotundata, glanduloso-serrata, 5*5-7°5 em. longa, 2°5-5°5 em. lata, supra pilis stellatis adpressis plerumque 4-5-radiatis conspersa, infra indumento molli é pilis stellatis constituto quorum radius centralis valde elongatus patet; petiolus hirsutus, 0°5-1 cm. longus. Inflorescentia multiflora, corymbosa, corymbo densiusculo vel denso convexo ad 12 cm. diametro, ramis ramulisque stellato-hirsutis, pedicellis 8-4 mm. longis pilis stellatis adpressis canescentibus. Receptaculum turbinatum, 2 mm. altum, indumento stellato adpresso incanum. Sepala late ovata, subacuta, superne glabrescentia, 1 mm. longa. Petala patentia, late elliptica, obtusa, 6 mm. longa, alba vel roseo-suffusa, extra stellato- pubescentia. Filamenta e basi latiore sensim filiformiter attenuata, edentata petalis paulo longiora. Discus pruinoso-papillosus, in centro pilis minutis stellatis obtectus. Styli 3, quam filamenta breviores. Capsula subglobosa, incano-pubescens, sepalis persistentibus coronata, 3°5 mm. diametro.—O. Srapr. The very distinct and striking Deutzia now described. is one of the additions to European collections for which horticulture is indebted to Messrs. J. Veitch and Sons, for whom it was discovered by Mr. E. H. Wilson, growing on cliffs near Paokang, in Hupeh, in Central China, in 1901. The material for our plate has been obtained from one of the plants in the nursery of Messrs. Veitch at Coombe Wood, raised from seed originally received from Mr. Wilson. Like most of the species of the genus which will grow at Kew, D. mollis is somewhat liable to injury by late frosts in May, but in other respects is quite hardy. It is remarkably distinct from any other species in cultivation in the soft felt-like covering, especially on Junz, 1914, the undersurface of the leaves. It thrives in a good loamy soil, and like its congeners is easily increased by cuttings taken in late summer. DrscripTion.—Shrub, 2-5 ft. high; branches terete ; young shoots hairy but soon becoming glabrous; bark thin, reddish-brown or at length tawny, soon flaking; buds ovate-acute, their scales ovate-lanceolate, acute, rather numerous, chestnut-brown, persisting for a con- siderable time at the bases of the shoots. Leaves ovate or wide lanceolate, acute, rounded at the base, the margin glandular-serrate, 21-3 in. long, 1-2} in. wide, sparingly adpressed hairy with usually 4—5-rayed stellate hairs above, densely clothed beneath with a soft felted tomentum of stellate hairs each of which has a very long central ray; petiole hirsute, }-1 in. long. Inflorescence many-flowered, corymbose, the corymb more or less dense, convex, 44 in. across, its main and secondary branches stellate-hairy ; pedicels 1—} in. long, hoary with adpressed stellate hairs. Receptacle turbinate, +z in. long, hoary with adpressed stellate hairs. Sepals wide obovate, somewhat acute, glabrescent above, very short. Petals spreading, wide elliptic, blunt, } in. long, white or flushed with pink, stellate-pubescent outside. J ilaments gradu- ally narrowed upwards from a rather broad base, not toothed ; in length somewhat exceeding the petals. Disk pruinosely papillose, covered in the middle with minute stellate hairs. Styles 3, shorter than the filaments. Capsule nearly globose, hoary-pubescent, crowned by the persisting sepals, } in. in diameter. Fig. 1, stellate hairs from upperside of leaf; 2, stellate hairs from under-side of leaf; 3, flower-bud; 4,an expanded flower; 5 and 6, stamens :—all enlarged. 8360 Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lt@ump. L. Reeve &C°londann TAB. 8560. TRICYRTIS stToLonrirera. Formosa. Lintiaceark. Tribe Uvunarrear. Tricyrt1s, Wall.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 831, Tricyrtis stolonifera, Matsumura in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, vol. xi. p. 78; species T. formosanae, Bak., proxima, caulibus longe stoloniferis differt. Herba 6 dm. alta, basi stolonifera. Caulis teres, basi rubro-purpureus, 6 mm. diametro, dimidio superiore viridis, 2 mm. diametro, primum pubescens, demum glaber. Folia elliptico-lanceolata, acuminata, basin vaginatam versus attenuata, 20 em. longa, 4°5 cm. lata, margine ciliata, supra glabra, nigro-maculata, nervis impressis; nervi laterales utrinque circiter 8, subtus prominentes, primum pubescentes. Injlorescentiae pedunculus 12 em. longus; rami tenues, primum pubescentes. Perianthiwm purpureum, maculis obscuris notatum, basi intus cremeum annulo luteo marginatum ; segmenta exteriora elliptica, acuta, 2°5 cm. longa, 1 cm. lata, extra pilosa, basi bilobatim saccata ; segmenta interiora lanceolata, obtusa, 2 cm. longa, 38 mm. lata, intus levia, costa extra atropurpurea, utrinque canaliculo pallido instructa. Stamina perianthio paullo breviora; filamenta rubro- brunnea, parte superiore maculis luteis notata. Ovarium _oblongum, glabrum ; styli brachia rubro-purpurea luteo-maculata, glandulis stipitatis instructa.—C. H. Wricut. The liliaceous genus Ticyrtis includes some ten species, and extends from Japan and Formosa to the Central and Eastern Himalaya. Three of these species have already been figured in this work :—T7. pilosa, Wall., at t. 4955; T. hirta, Hook., at t. 5355; and T. macropoda, Miq.,. at t. 6544. All three have wide cordate or stem-clasping leaf-bases, and thus differ very markedly from the subject of the present illustration, in which the leaves are narrowed gradually to the sheathing base. The Species now figured, 7. stolonifera, is more brightly coloured than any of the other species as yet introduced to gardens, though it is not certain that in this respect it differs at all markedly from its nearest ally, 7. formo- sana, Bak., described from specimens collected in Formosa by Mr. R. Oldham. Professor Matsumura, in describing 1. stolonifera, has distinguished between it and 7. formo- sana, by the stoloniferous habit and the spotted perianth of the former. In his field-note, however, Mr. Oldham States that the perianth of 7. formosana is crimson and JUNE, 1914, spotted, while the absence of stolons from his specimens does not necessarily justify the conclusion that the species to which these specimens belong never is stoloni- ferous. The material for our figure has been obtained from a plant raised at Kew from seeds collected in Formosa by Mr. H. J. Elwes and Mr. W. R. Price, and presented by Mr. Elwes. Mr. Price informs us that the plant grows at altitudes of 7000 feet above sea-level or rather lower, but always in forests. The maximum height of wild plants is about a foot, and the seeds were taken from quite dwarf plants at Karaping. The plants raised from them at Kew have been more luxuriant, reaching a height of two feet. Grown in pots in a cool house, they flowered in September, 1913, but do not promise to be hardy out of doors at Kew, though the species is. worthy of a trial in the open in the south- western parts of the United Kingdom. Dezscription.— Herb, 2 ft. high, with stoloniferous base. Stem cylindric, below reddish-purple and } in. thick, in the upper half greenish, ;', in. thick, at first hairy, at length glabrous. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, narrowed to the sheathing base, 8 in. long, 1? in. wide, their margin ciliate, above glabrous with dark blotches and sunk nerves; lateral nerves about three along each side, raised and at first pubescent beneath. Jn/lorescence lax; peduncle 5 in. long; branches slender, at first pubescent. Perianth purple, indistinctly blotched, base cream-coloured within, with a clear yellow marginal ring; outer segments elliptic, acute, 1 in. long, 2 in. wide, pilose outside and 2-lobately saccate at the base; inner segments lanceolate, obtuse, 3 in. long, 4 in. wide, smooth inside, the midrib dark purple outside, with a pale groove along each side. Stamens rather shorter than the perianth; filaments reddish-brown, marked with yellow spots in the upper portion. Ovary oblong, glabrous; style-arms red-purple blotched with yellow, and beset with stalked glands. Fig. 1, pistil showing portion of the base of the flower; 2, outer perianth segment, showing inside of the base; 8 and 4, anthers; 5, sketch of an entire plant :—all enlarged except 5, which is much reduced. 9 4 a mg 5 d 9 i] © > 5 a (ay 4] 6 A ri | r= oy Z * S rd wa DLO. Tas. 8561. STAPELIA LEENDERTZIAE. Transvaal. ASCLEPIADACEAE. ‘Tribe STAPELIEAE. Stape.ia, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 784. Stapelia Leendertziae, N. H. Br. in Ann. Transvaal Museum, vol. ii. p. 168; affinis S. nobilis, N.E., Br., sed floribus minoribus sordide purpureis corollae tubo multo longiore differt. Herba succulenta, aphylla. Caules erecti, basi decumbentes, 7*5-12 cm. longi, 1-1°3 cm. crassi, 4-angulares, velutino-puberuli, prope medium florentes, angulis subcompressis dentatis, dentibus erectis, Flores solitarii vel bini. Pedicelli 2-2°3 cm. longi, 4-4°5 mm. crassi, velutini. Sepala 8-9 mm. longa, ‘lanceolata vel ovato-lanceolata, acuta, velutina. Corolla magna, campanulata lobis leviter patentibus, extra puberula, intus profunde trans- versim rugosa et usque ad medium tubi pilis longis purpureis ornata, omnino sordide purpurea; tubus 5-6°5 cm. longus, 4°5-6 cm. diametro; lobi 4-5°5 cm. longi, basi 2°5-4 cm. lati, attenuato-deltoidei, acuti, pilis purpureis ciliati. Coronae lobi exteriores 4 mm. longi, suberecti, profunde bifidi, atropurpurei, segmentibus divergentibus subulatis acutis; lobi interiores 4 mm. longi inaequaliter bipartiti, atropurpurei, segmentis exterioribus aliformibus oblongis 6 mm, longis 4 mm. latis apice denti- culatis, segmentis interioribus subulatis. Folliculi 11-14 cm. longi, erecti, paralleli, fusiformi, velutino-puberuli, virides, fusco-purpureo striati.— N. E. Brown. . The Stapelia here figured is one of the most striking Species in the genus, and is also one of the most dis- tinct by reason of the great length of the tube of the corolla. In another species, S. nobilis, N. E. Br., which has been figured at t. 7771 of this work, there is also a distinct tube to the corolla, but although the flowers are larger in that species than in the ones here described, the tube is considerably shorter, while the lobes are more spreading and the coloration is different. Save in S. nobilis and in S. Leendertziae, the subject of our plate, the corolla in all the members of the genus is flat or saucer-shaped. This latter plant was first met with in 1909 by Miss R. Leendertz, now Mrs. R. Pott, of the Transvaal Museum, growing among rocks near Heidel- berg in the Transvaal. Here it occurs in sunny spots on rocks, where it forms large patches and flowers freely for a long period at the beginning of the year. The Junr, 1914, corollas are of a uniform dull, dark, fuscous-purple colour, and have a very disagreeable odour. The plant from which the figure now given was prepared is one sent, in 1910, by Mr. G. Thorncroft, of Barberton, Transvaal, to Mr. W. E. Ledger, of Wimbledon, in whose collection it flowered in August, 1912. Another plant sent by Miss Leendertz flowered subsequently at Kew. Mr. Ledger informs us that he has found the sunny upper shelf of a warm greenhouse the ideal situation for this Stapelia; a well-drained soil with an admixture of lime rubbish suits it excellently. . Description.—Herb, leafless, succulent. Stems erect, decumbent at the base, 3-5 in. long, 1-} in. thick, 4-angled, velvety-puberulous, bearing flowers about the middle; the angles slightly compressed, toothed, the teeth erect. Flowers solitary or in pairs, their pedicels 3-1 in. long, } in. thick, velvety. Sepals } in. long, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, velvety. Corolla large, cam- panulate, with the lobes only slightly spreading, puberu- lous outside, deeply transversely rugose, and beset as far as the middle of the tube with long purple hairs within, dull fuscous-purple throughout; tube 2-25 in. long, 13-24 in. across; lobes 14-2} in. long, 1-1} in. wide at the base, narrow deltoid, acute, ciliate with purple hairs. Corona with outer lobes 1 in. long, suberect, deeply 2-fid, dark purple, the segments diverging, subulate, acute; inner lobes 4 in. long, unevenly 2-partite, dark purple; the outer segments wing-like, oblong, } in. long, } in. wide, denticulate at the tip, the inner segments subulate. follicles 44-54 in. long, erect, parallel, fusiform, velvety puberulous, green, streaked with dark purple. Fig. ‘1, outer and inner corona; 2 lobe of the i ; ir of pollen masses :—all enlarged. : of the inner corona; 3, a pair Monthly, price ‘as. ‘6a. dabbuveds 2s. 6 “VOL. X.—JULY. at Sate dh. gop A2s, OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS FROM THE ine BOTANIC GARDENS, ey hes in field. that dainty odour throws, “branch. with Dicsson over Ba natural.” BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. eee WONa EE OF No. 115, JULY, 1914. Tas. 8562,_GONGORA GROSSA. -,, 8563—KOLKWITZIA AMABILIS. = » 8564.—PRIMULA VINCIFLORA. » - 8565.—TROLLIUS -CHINENSIS. ie ase on 8566, —ROSA CORYMBULOSA. ATICE 0 OF THE BRITISH ISLES. ; S256 os BR IW Ae ‘PEARSON. plabe-i in ‘Two Vols, with 228 plates, 10 in. by 62 in. Giving Descrip- tions, Short a. Geographical Distribution, Glossary Table of aera -and good Index, — ee With. Coloured Plates, £6 6s. “ x h Uncoloured Fiat, £4 4 1s. 8562 a Vincent Brooks,Day &Son Lt imp M.5.del. JNFit chiith. L Reeve & C? London. Tas. 8562. GONGORA arossa. Ecuador. ORCHIDACEAE. Tribe VANDEAE. Gonaora, Ruiz et Pav.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p, 549. Gongora grossa, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1877, vol. vii. p. 781; affinis G. atropurpureae, Hook., sed floribus maculatis et labelli cornubus obtusioribus differt. Herba epiphytica. Pseudobulbi aggregati, ovoidei, acute 8-angulati, 5-7 em. longi, basi vaginis ovatis membranaceis 2-3 cm. longis obtecti, apice diphylli. Folia elliptica vel obovato-elliptica, breviter acuminata, plicata, 20-30 cm. longa, 6°5-9 cm. lata. Scapi arcuati et penduli, 45-60 cm. longi, basi vaginis paucis lanceolatis obtecti; racemi laxi, multiflori. Sepalum posticum oblongo-lanceolatum, acutum, basi columnae adnatum, apice recurvum, circiter 2°5 cm. longum, marginibus revolutis; sepala lateralia reflexa, oblongo-lanceolata, acuta, 2 cm. longa, marginibus revolutis. Petala falcato-incurva, ad margines columnae adnata, circiter 1 cm. longa, apice aristato-acuminata etrecurva. Labellwm unguiculatum ; imbus angustus, carnosus, compressus, 5-lobus; lobus intermedius tri- angularis, breviter acuminatus, conduplicato-concavus, 6 mm. longus; lobi laterales longe subulato-aristati, 8 mm. longi; lobi inferi falcato- incurvi, lineari-oblongi, obtusi, 4 mm. longi; discus facie obtuse tricallosi. Colwmna incurva, 1°5 cm. longa, basi angusta, apice clavata, alis falcato- a Pollinia 2, clavato-oblonga; stipes linearis; glandula parvula. —R. A. Roxre, The remarkable Gongora which we here figure was originally described by the late Professor Reichenbach from a plant, which had been received from Ecuador, that flowered in the collection of the late Sir Charles Strickland, at Hildenley, Malton, nearly forty years ago. That plant appears to have been lost shortly afterwards, and there is no subsequent record of any other example having reached Europe, or of the species as existing in any collection, until in May 1913 a plant flowered at Kew. This plant, which has supplied the material for our plate, is one that was presented to the Kew collection by Mr. Walter Fox, late of Singapore, an old and tried friend of this institution. The plant had been met with by Mr. Fox growing on a Cocoa tree at Tenqual in Ecuador, when he was on a visit to that country in 1911. According to Reichenbach G. grossa is the only near ally Juny, 1914. of G. atropurpurea, Hook., a Guiana species figured at t. 3220 of this work, which has uniformly purple flowers, — and shows certain marked structural differences in the — lip. At Kew G. grossa has thriven well, and has flowered — in a teak basket suspended from the roof of the tropical — orchid-house. The long elegant racemes are most attrac- — tive, and the plant is striking on account of the large — size of its leaves and pseudobulbs. : Description.—Herb; epiphytic; pseudobulbs clustered, ovoid, acutely 8-angled, 2-23 in. long, their bases clothed with ovate, membranous sheaths, with 2 apical leaves. Leaves elliptic or obovate-elliptic, shortly acuminate, plicate, 8-12 in. long, 24-34 in. wide. Scapes curved and pendent, 14-2 ft. long, clothed at the base with a few lanceolate sheaths; racemes open, many-flowered. Sepals: posterior oblong-lanceolate, acute, adnate to the base of — the column, recurved at the tip and with revolute margins, about 1 in. long; lateral reflexed, oblong-lanceolate, — acute, 2 in. long, margins revolute. Petals falcately | incurved, adnate to the edges of the column, about 4 in. long, aristate-acuminate at the tip and recurved. Lip — clawed; limb narrow, fleshy, compressed, 5-lobed ; inter- mediate lobe triangular, shortly acuminate, conduplicate- concave, } in. long; lateral lobes long subulate-aristate, 1 in. long; lower lobes falcate-incurved, linear-oblong, blunt, 4 in. long; disk bluntly 3-callose on the face. Column incurved, } in. long, base narrowed, tip clavate, wings faleate-subulate. Pollinia 2, clavate-oblong ; stipe linear; gland small. F Fig. 1, column and lip; 2, column, front view; 8, anther-cap; 4, pollinarium; , Sketch of an entire plant :—all enlarged except 5, which is much reduced. ‘S.del, J. Fitch ith Vincent Brooks,Day& SonLttimp L. Reeve &C°® London Tas, 8563. : KOLKWITZIA AMABILis. China. CAPRIFOLIACEAE. Tribe CAPRIFOLIFAE. Korxwitzia, Graebn. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. vol. xxix. p. 593; Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. vol. iv. pars 4, Nachér. iii. pp. 330, 331. Kolkwitzia amabilis, Gracbn. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb, vol. xxix. p. 593; Hemsl. in Gard. Chron. 1903, vol. xxxiii. p. 81; Stapf in Hook, Ic. Plant. t. 2987 ; species unica. Frutex copiose ramosus, ramis hornotinis molliter hirsutis, annotinis glabratis, cortice brunneo. Folia ovata, basi rotundata, apice acuta vel acuminata, laxe dentata vel subintegra, 3 em. longa, 1-3 cm. lata, superne sparse, inferne ad nervos et ad margines densius hirto-pilosa vel fere villosa, nervis utrinque plerumque 3-5 tenuibus prorsus curvatis; petiolus 1-2 mm. longus. Flores geminati, paribus 3-9 in apice ramulorum brevium folia- torum quasi in corymbum dispositi; pedunculi filiformes, pilosi, ad 10 mm. longi; bracteae lineares vel subulatae, ad 3 mm. longae. Receptacula uniuscuiusque paris opposita vel unum altero altius ortum quasi ei lateraliter insertum, dense strigilloso-pilosa, superne in stipitem brevem fere solidum contracta, 83-4 mm. longa. epala linearia, acuta, saepe flexuosa, 5 mm. longa, hirta. Corolla oblique tubuloso-campanulata, alba roseo tincta, extra puberula, 1-1°3 cm. longa, tubo basi antice subgibboso intus antice villosulo, lobo antico quam lateralia paulo longiore. Stamina 4, antica ad tertiam partem, postica ad medium tubi inserta ; antherae late oblongae, 1 mm. longae. Stylus filiformis, scaberulus, 8-9 mm. longus; stigma minute trilobum. Ovarii loculi 8, inaequales, unus saepe cassus; ovula 2-seriata. Fructus per paria connatl, nucu- mentacei, monospermi, calyce coronati, crasse costati, costis superne saepe in cornu productis, dense strigosi, inaequales, alter minor vel subpressus. Semen oblongum, circiter 2 mm. longum.—O. Starr. The specimens on which the Caprifoliaceous genus Kolkwitzia, Graebn., was originally based were fruiting ones collected by the Rev. Pére Giraldi near Gniu-yu, in the province of Shensi, North China. Its introduction to English gardens is due to Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, who about 1901 received from Mr. E. H. Wilson a supply of the seeds of the solitary species, K. amabilis. The shrub was not seen by Mr. Wilson when in flower; his seeds were gathered near Fang, in the province of Hupeh, Central China. A plant raised from this supply flowered in the nursery of Messrs. Veitch at Coombe Wood for the first time in June 1910; another, from which the material JuLy, 1914, for our plate has been obtained, blossomed there in June 1913. The genus is closely allied to Abelia, R. Br., but differs in having paired and usually united flowers, so that one receptacle seems to arise from the base of the other. Specimens of K. amabilis which have not yet flowered thrive well in loamy soil in the Kew collection, and are about four feet in height. The species appears to be quite hardy, and is found easy to propagate from cuttings made of late summer wood. Dxscription.—Shrub, freely branching ; twigs of the first season softly hirsute, glabrous in their second season ; bark brown. Leaves ovate, base rounded, apex acute or acuminate, margin toothed or nearly entire, 14-1} in. long, 3-1} in. wide, sparingly hairy above, more densely hairy beneath, especially on the nerves and the margin; nerves usually 3-5 on each side the midrib, slender and curving upwards; petiole very short. Flowers paired; arranged in a corymbiform thyrse composed of 3-9 pairs at the apex of short leafy twigs; peduncle filiform, pilose, } in. long; bracts linear or subulate, 1 in. long. feceptacles of each pair of flowers opposite, or one of a pair situated somewhat above and in appearance lateral to the other, densely harshly pilose, contracted above into a short almost solid stipes, 1-1 in. long. Sepals linear, acute, often flexuous, } in. long, hairy. Corolla obliquely tubular-campanulate, white flushed’ with rose- pink, puberulous outside, about } in. long, tube some- what gibbous at the base in front, the anterior lobe of the limb rather larger than the lateral ones. Stamens 4, the anterior pair adnate one-third up the tube, the posterior at the middle of the tube ; anthers wide-oblong. Style. filiform, scaberulous, 1 in. long ; stigma minutely 3-lobed. Ovary 3-celled; cells unequal, one usually empty; ovules 2-seriate.- Fruits connate in pairs, nutlike, 1-seeded, tipped by the calyx, stoutly ribbed, the ribs often produced above as a horn, densely strigose, unequal, one smaller or occasionally one quite suppressed. Seed oblong, about 5}, in. long. . Fig. 1, a pair of flowers; 2, corolla, laid open, showing staminal insertion ; , transverse section of ovary; 4, style and stigma :—all enlarged. 3 ay ; Vincent Brocks,Day & Son — M.S. del. J.N-Fitch lith. L-Reeve & ©? London. Tas. 8564, PRIMULA VINCIFLORA. South-western China. > PRIMULACEAE, Tribe PRIMULEAE, - Primuza, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 631. Primula vinciflora, Franch. in Gard. Chron. 1887, vol. i. p. 575, fig. 108; Paz in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. vol. x. p. 210; Forbes et Hemsl. in Journ, Linn. Soc. vol. xxvi. p. 43; Pax et Knuth in Engl. Pflanzenr. Prim. p. 108; Gard. Chron. 1906, vol. xl. p. 230, 1909, vol. xlvi. p. 344, et 1913, vol. liv. p- 198; Forrest in Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh, vol. iv. t. 80; ab affini P. Elwesiana, King, corollae lobis emarginatis haud denticulatis recedit, Herba perennis, rhizoma abbreviatum, Folia plerumque oblonga, obtusa, usque ad 9 cm. longa et 8 cm. lata, pagina superiore pilis brevibus erectis albidis minute glanduloso-capitatis sparse tecta praetereaque aureo- glandulosa, inferiore pallidiora pilis eis superioris simillimis sed paucioribus instructa, nervis lateralibus utrinque circiter 6 obliquis intra marginem anastomosantibus supra conspicuis, margine integra vel interdum obscurius crenulata. Scapus uniflorus, sub anthesin in speciminibus cultis circiter 8 cm. longus, viridis nisi apice purpurascens, pilis divaricatis albis rubro- glanduloso-capitatis vel superne pilis etiam rubris tectus. Calyx viridis, profunde 6-lobus, segmentis lineari-oblongis obtusis 6 mm. longis et fere 2 mm. latis pilis glanduloso-capitatis dorso margineque instructis. _ Corolla violacea ; tubus fere 2°5 cm. longus, extra pilis glanduloso-capitatis tectus ; limbus 4°4 em. diametro, fauce intensius violaceus, 6- obatus, lobis angustius obcordatis ad 1°8 cm. longis et 174 cm. latis dorso sparse glandulosis. Stamina 6, glabra, apicem versus tubi inserta, tria superiora erecta, tria inferiora retrorsum directa, antheris omnibus conum post styli tergum efficientibus. Pistillwm glabrum, stigmate parvo pallido. oe (fide Franchet) compressa, alata.—Omphalogramma vinciflora, Franch. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. vol. xlv. p. 180.—W. G. Crats. The Primula here figured is a species which was first discovered in the province of Yunnan in South-western China by the Abbé Delavay, from whose specimens it was described by Mr. Franchet. It is one of a natural group of species which includes the Himalayan P, Elwesi- ana, King, and three other Chinese species, P. Delavayi, Franch., P. Franchetii, Pax, and P. Englert, Knuth. This group differs from the rest of the genus in being charac- terised by large solitary flowers borne on robust scapes rising from a sheath of later developing leaves; by having the calyx divided to the ‘base into 5-8 segments, Juty, 1914, and by possessing flat seeds with a wing aril. These distinctive features Jed Mr. Franchet to regard the group as a distinct genus for which, having regard to the seed, he proposed the name Omphalogramma. In P. vinciflora there is yet another distinguishing feature which has not been looked for so far in its consociates. This is to be found in the disposition of the stamens whereof, as Professor Bayley Balfour has pointed out, only those on the posterior side are erect, the anterior ones being bent across the corolla tube, so that all the anthers are brought together in a cone at the back of the flower. For the introduction of this species to cultivation horti- culture is indebted to Messrs. Bees, Limited, for whom Mr. G. Forrest obtained its seeds in South-western China in 1908. The plant figured is one which was presented to Kew, when in flower, by Professor Balfour, with whom it blossomed in the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in October 1913. Being doubtfully hardy it has been grown at Kew in a cool frame in which it has failed to ripen seeds, but where it is still alive and flourishing. At Edinburgh the plant flowered for the first time after five years; Professor Balfour has found it to thrive best when kept well flooded with water under ample drainage conditions. The rootstock in this species is very short, and appears to be held in the ground only by its large Toot fibres. In the wild plant the flowers precede the leaves; under cultivation flowers and leaves appear almost at the same time. Description.—Herb, perennial; rootstock abbreviated. Leaves usually oblong, obtuse, up to 34 in. long by 1} in. wide, upper surface sparingly clothed with short, erect, whitish, minutely gland-tipped hairs intermixed with golden yellow glands ; the lower surface paler, with hairs like those of the upper surface but less plentiful; lateral nerves oblique, about 6 on each side the midrib, anasto- mosing near the margin, visible above ; margin entire or sometimes obscurely crenulate. Scape 1-flowered, when in blossom usually about 3 in. long, sometimes longer, green with a purplish upper end, clothed with spreading hairs ; whitish below, reddish above, all hairs tipped with red glands. Calyx green, deeply 6-lobed, segments linear- oblong, obtuse, } in. long, almost ,, in. wide, outside and along the margins clothed with gland-tipped hairs. Corolla violet; tube nearly 1 in. long, clothed outside with gland- tipped hairs; limb 1} in. across, the throat deep violet, 6-lobed, lobes narrow-obcordate, } in. long, % in. wide, sparingly glandular behind. Stamens 6, glabrous, inserted almost at the apex of the tube, the upper 3 erect, the lower 3 bent backwards so that the whole of the anthers come together in a cone behind behind the style. Pistil glabrous ; stigma small, pale. Seeds compressed, winged. Fig. 1, section of calyx, showing ovary ; 2, corolla-tube laid open, showing disposition of stamens; 3 and 4, stamens; 5 pistil :—all enlarged. ig Ny tH 5 % 5 YW) BS a} cl ie] & fa A eC . 5 \ Wer al ae naeshadaeee ; L. Reeve &C° London. M.S.deL JN. Fitch kth, Tas. 8565. TROLLIUS cuHINEnsIs. North China. RANUNCULACEAE. Tribe HELLEBOREAR. Trottivus, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 7. Trollius chinensis, Bunge in Mém. Sav. Htr. Pétersb. vol. ii. p. 77; species a Tt oe Reichb., cui maxime affinis, sepalis numerosioribus distin- guenda,: Herba perennis. Caulis validus, striatus, glaber, internodiis inferioribus 17 em. longis. Folia radicalia deficientia, caulina inferiora ambitu reniformia, superiora orbiculari-reniformia, usque ad 12 cm. longa et 16°5 cm. lata, palmatim 5-partita, segmentis ambitu late oblanceolatis apice acutis basi cuneatis usque ad 8 cm. longis et 5 cm. latis lobatis parte inferiore excepta acute serratis, nervis primariis et secundariis pagina superiore conspicuis inferiore prominentibus, membranaceo-chartacea, glabra, subtus pallidiora, petiolo lato ad 1 cm. longo suffulta. Pedwneuli modo caulis striati, : usque ad 28 cm. longi, paulo supra medium bracteolis duabus alternis foliosis tripartitis ornati. Sepala 12-13, exteriora late ovata, usque ad 2 cm. longa et 1°6 cm. lata, interiora exterioribus longiora et saepissime paulo angustiora, omnia apice rotundata, plus minusve conspicue venosa. Petala 20, linearia, utrinque angustata, apice acuta vel acutiuscula, 2°7 cm. longa, 2°25 mm. lata. Stamina glabra, filamentis usque ad 8 mm. longis, antheris apiculatis ad 3°5 mm. longis. Carpella glabra, stylo quam ovarium saltem dimidio breviore, ovulis biseriatis circiter 10. —W. G. Crars. Among the plants from the northern provinces of China which have recently been introduced or re-introduced to European gardens by Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons through their collector, Mr. W. Purdom, one of the most interesting is the subject of our plate, to which, although it has been in cultivation for many years at Kew and elsewhere, this fresh introduction has directed more critieal attention. In English gardens this species, which is a perennial that thrives vigorously and seeds freely in cultivation when grown in the bog garden or beside water under the same conditions as the Globe Flower, Trollius europaeus, Linn., has for many years been treated as merely a form of J. asiaticus, Linn., a species figured long ago at t. 235 of this work. While, however, this has been the custom in most collections, there has been a feeling among the more observant of our cultivators that this treatment was not justifiable, and Suny, 1914, that the two ought perhaps to be considered sufficiently distinct, on cultural grounds, to be recognised as separ- able varieties. This position, as a matter of fact, was conceded to 7. chinensis by the late Dr. Regel when he published the short synopsis of the genus 7rollius in which he reduced Bunge’s species to 7: asiaticus. But it should be realised that Regel’s treatment, though it has been generally accepted and even extended by English botanists—since they have merged 7. chinensis uncon- ditionally in 7. asiaticus—has not been uniformly adopted. On the contrary, Mr. Komarov, who is entitled from his field experience to speak with an authority as great as that of Regel or of Bunge himself, takes a very different view. Regel’s primary subdivision of the genus 7rollius is based upon the number of sepals in the flower. Under this system he is able to treat 7. chinensis as a variety of T. asiaticus, while another very similar Globe Flower, T. Ledebourii, Reichb., falls within another group of species. Komarov, however, while agreeing with Regel that T. asiaticus and 7. Ledebourii are distinct, reduces T. chinensis to the latter, not the former species. Finally, in the recent revision of the Eastern Asiatic species of Trollius by Messrs. Finet and Gagnepain, these careful and distinguished authors, while they reduce 7. Ledebouriz to Tf. patulus, Salisb., accord specific rank both to YT. asiaticus and T. chinensis. Such diversity of opinion, on the part of authorities so competent as those now quoted, affords intrinsic evidence as to the difficulty there is in finding within this genus characters that may be relied upon as crucial in the delimitation of its species, and, without rendering it necessary to accept the opinion of Finet and Gagnepain as regards the position of 7. Lede- hourti, suggests the desirability of adopting their matured judgment as regards 7. chinensis, a judgment which is in accord with the instinct of the cultivator. The original description of 7. chinensis which Bunge has provided is, it may be remarked in passing, quite insufficient to help us in so critical a question as the position of his plant with relation to its nearest allies. Fortunately, however, it is sufficient to enable us to decide that the plant now figured is the one he had in view. It was described by him from dried flowers collected in ‘ Schan-ssi,’ where these are used medicinally by the inhabitants. For the material for our figure, taken from Mr. Purdom’s plant, we are indebted to Messrs. Veitch. Derscription.—fHerb, perennial; stem stout, striate, glabrous, the lower internodes up to 7 in. long. Leaves: radical obsolete ; lower cauline reniform, upper orbicular- reniform in outline, up to 5 in. long and 7 in. across, palmately 5-partite, the segments wide-oblanceolate, acute with cuneate base, up to 3 in. long, 2 in. across, lobed and except in the lower portion sharply serrate, main and secondary nerves visible and raised beneath, thinly papery, glabrous, rather paler beneath; petiole broad and short, about } in. long. Peduncles striate like the stem, glabrous, up to a foot in height, with two alternate, tripartite, leafy bracteoles above the middle. Sepals 12-13, the outer wide-ovate, up to ?in. long and 3 in. wide, the inner rather longer and usually rather narrower than the outer, all rounded at the tip, and more or less distinctly veined. Petals 20, linear, narrowed to both extremities, more or less acute, over 1 in. long, about iin. wide. Stamens glabrous; filaments up to 3 in. long; anthers apiculate, + in. long. Carpels glabrous; style half as long as the ovary or shorter; ovules about 10, 2-seriate. Fig. 1, a nectary; 2 and 3, anthers; 4, carpels; 5, a carpel, in vertical section, showing ovules :—all enlarged. 8566 WN Fitch lith £S.del.J Son LtGump. Vincent Brooks,Day &Son Ltt m LL Reeve & ©? London. Tas. 8566. ROSA CORYMBULOSA. China. RosacgaE. Tribe Roser. Rosa, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 625. Rosa (§Cinnamomeae) corymbulosa, Rolfe; species distincta, inter affines ramulis inermibus vel parce armatis, floribus parvis numerosis et corymbulosim dispositis distinguenda. Fruter erectus vel scandens, parce ramosus, 1-2-metralis ; ramuli laeves, inermes vel interdum parce aculeati, aculeis geminatis rectis patentibus gracilibus 5-6 mm. longis basi latis, demum brunnei. Folia conferta, 4-9 em. longa, 38-5-foliolata; rhachis puberula et sparse glandulosa, aculeis gracilibus paucis instructa ; foliola subsessilia, ovato-oblonga, subacuta, crebre duplicato-serrata, subtus glauca vel cinereo-puberula, 15 cm. longa, 0°4-2 cm. lata; stipulae adnatae, anguste oblongae, acutae, 8-10 mm. longae, marginibus erebre glandulosis. Flores corymbulosi, numerosi, versus apices ramorum dispositi, 2-2°5 cm. diametro; pedunculi circiter 2 cm. longi, glanduloso-setulosi. grt ae culum ovoideo-oblongum, glanduloso-setulosum, 4 mm. longum. Calycis lobi ovato-oblongi, caudato-acuminati, puberuli vel subtomentosi, circiter 8 mm. longi, patentes vel reflexi. Petala late obcordata. Filamenta glabra, 2-8 mm. longa, antheris aureis. Fructus globosus, glandulosus, circiter 8 mm. longus, sepalis persistentibus coronatus. Achaenia dorso villosa, 2 mm. longa; styli villosi, in columnam 4 mm. longam cohaerentes.—R. A. RouFe. The distinct and striking Rose here described is perhaps most nearly allied to £&. macrophylla, Lindl., but differs in being almost spineless when mature, and in having many small flowers which are borne in corymbs towards the ends of the branches. It was raised at Kew from seeds presented by Professor Sargent of the Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, in the spring of 1908. These seeds had been collected in Western China in autumn 1907, under the field-number 630a, by Mr. E. H. Wilson. The plant from which the material for our plate has been obtained flowered at Kew for the first time in July 1913. At present this plant is a bush about six feet in height, and promises to be a fairly vigorous grower, thriving well in the rather strong loam that roses as a whole delight in. R. corym- bulosa had previously been met with in China, for there Juny, 1914. are specimens in the herbarium at Kew collected by Mr. A. Henry near Wushan in the province of Szechuan and at Hsingshen in the province of Hupeh. DESCRIPTION.—Shrub, erect or scandent, sparingly branched, 3-6 ft. high; twigs smooth, when old brown, unarmed or at times sparingly prickly, prickles geminate, straight, spreading, slender, 1-1 in. long. Leaves rather close-set, 15-34 in. long, 3-5-foliolate ; rachis puberulous and sparingly glandular, with a few slender prickles; leaflets subsessile, ovate-oblong, subacute, closely dupli- — cate-serrate, beneath glaucous or grey-puberulous, 2 in. long, 1-2 in. wide ; stipules adnate, narrow-oblong, acute, about } in. long, their margin closely glandular. Flowers numerous, in small corymbs towards the ends of the branches, 3-1 in. in diameter ; peduncles about ? in. long, glandular-setulose. Receptacle ovoid-oblong, glandular- setulose, } in. long. Calyz-lobes ovate-oblong, caudate- acuminate, puberulous or almost tomentose, about 4 in. long, spreading or reflexed. Petals wide-obcordate. Filaments glabrous, ;';—1 in. long, with anthers golden- yellow. Fruit globose, glandular, about 1 in. long, tipped - by the persistent sepals. Achenes villous on the back, He in. long; styles villous, conjoined in a column} in. ong. Fig. 1, stipules and a proximal leaflet ; 2, a flower in vertical section, the removed; 3 and 4, anthers; 5, an achene :—all enlarged. Fourth ect N O,- 116. noe eo oe <4. Pouthly: pithe se, Gd. eeloered: 2s, 6d, ‘phan X.—AUGUST. ; - Annual Subseription, mee, ; on No. [453() or rue ENTIRE WORK. CURTIS'S BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. CPENTENTS OF No. 116, AUGUST, 1914. Tan, 8567—CYRTOSPERMA JOHNSTONI. , 8568—MECONOPSIS RUDIS. 4; 8569.—ROSA SETIPODA. » $570.—ZINGIBER MIOGA. » 8571.—COTONEASTER FRANCHETII. L, Rezve & Co., Lid., 6; Henrietta’ Street, Covent Garden, W.C. - HEPATIC OF THE BRITISH ISLES. By W, H, PEARSON. “ Oumaie in ‘awe, Vols., with 298 plates, 10 ins by 62 in. Giving Desorip- és bese Short Notes, s, Geographical Distribution, Ghdaency Table of Literature, - . -- =< BS SPP ese § 1cent Brooks, Day & Son Lttimp. vit TAB. 8569. ROSA SETIPODA. China. RosacEaE. Tribe RosEaLz, Rosa, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 625. 2 Rosa (§ Cinnamomeae) setipoda, Hemsl. et H. H. Wils. in Kew Bulletin, 1906, p- 158; species inter affines inflorescentia permagna laxa, bracteis foliaceis et pedicellis setis longis patentissimis capitato-glandulosis instructis distincta. Frutec 2-8 m. altus; ramuli subglabri, aculeis geminatis rectis basi late dilatatis 5-8 mm. longis armati. Folia 6-18 cm. longa, 7-9-foliolata, rhachis breviter glandulosa et aculeolata, foliola subsessilia, late elliptica, obtusa vel subacuta, serrata vel duplicato-serrata, supra atroviridia, subtus glauca, venis prominentibus et puberulis, 8-6 cm. longa, 1-3 cm. lata; stipulae adnatae, 1:5-2°5 cm. longae, anguste oblongae, acutae, marginibus crebre ciliato-glandulosis. Flores speciosi, circiter 5 cm. diametro, in cymas terminales corymbiformes laxas dispositi; pedicelli 3-5 cm. longi, glanduloso-setulosi. Receptaculwm anguste oblongo-ovoideum, 8-10 mm. longum, copiose setuloso-glandulosum. Calycis lobi ovato-lanceolati, caudato-acuminati, intus pubescentes, apice foliacei et acute serrati, 9-2°5 cm. longi, patentes vel reflexi. Petala late obcordata, circiter 2°5 em. lata, pallide rosea, basi albidula. Filamenta glabra, 3-4 mm. longa; antheris aureis. Carpella copiose villosa; styli 6 mm. longi, © villosi. Fructus ovoideus, apice attenuatus, saturate ruber, circiter 2°5 cm. longus, sepalis persistentibus erectis coronatus.—R. A. Roure. The striking Rose here figured was met with by Mr. E. H. Wilson in the Fang district in North-western Hupeh, Central China, at from 7000 to 9000 feet above sea-level, when collecting on behalf of Messrs. James Veitch & Sons. It was raised by that firm in 1904, and flowered for the first time in their nursery at Coombe Wood in 1909. In the interval the species was described as R. setipoda from herbarium material collected by Mr. Wilson, and at a still earlier date by its original discoverer, Mr. A. Henry. According to both collectors the species is not uncommon in shrubberies in Hupeh. Mr. Wilson describes it as a remarkable rose, recalling by its general facies &. macrophylla, Lindl, with large corymbs of handsome flowers to which a singular appear- ance is imparted by reason of the long pedicels clothed with spreading gland-tipped bristles, and beset with Avuaust, 1914. numerous foliaceous bracts. £. setipoda, which appears to be quite hardy, grows vigorously in the rather stiff loam that roses as a whole enjoy. It can be propagated by cuttings made of ripened wood in autumn. The material from our plate was obtained from a bush in the Coombe Wood Nursery of Messrs. Veitch which flowered there in June and July 1913. Description.—Shrub, 6-10 ft. high; twigs almost glabrous, armed with straight wide-based geminate prickles {-} in. long. Leaves 2}-7 in. long, 7-9-foliolate ; rachis shortly glandular and prickly ; leaflets subsessile, wide elliptic, obtuse or subacute, serrate or duplicate- serrate, dark-green above, glaucous beneath, nerves prominent and puberulous, 11-2} in. long, }—1} in. wide; stipules adnate, 2-1 in. long, narrowly oblong, acute, margins closely glandular-ciliate. lowers showy, about 2 in. across, arranged in loose terminal corymb-like cymes ; pedicels 11-2 in. long, glandular-setulose. Receptacle narrowly ovoid-oblong, about | in. long or rather longer, copiously glandular-setulose. Calyz-lobes ovate-lanceo- late, caudate-acuminate, pubescent within, leafy and sharply serrate at the tip, 3-1 in. long, spreading or reflexed. Petals wide obcordate, about 1 in. across, pale rose with whitish base. Stamens with glabrous filaments about 4 in. long; anthers golden. Carpels rather densely villous ; styles + in. long, villous. /ruit ovoid, narrowed to the apex, deep red, about 1 in. long, tipped by the erect persistent calyx-lobes. Fig. 1, vertical section of a flower, the petals removed ; : 4, carpel and style :—all enlarged. oi ved; 2 and 3, anthers ; 8570 Lt4amp ks, Day & Son. nS,1 wit Broo Vince SLS.del JN Fitch lith L. Reeve & CO Lan don TaB. 8570. ZINGIBER Mroga. Japan, ScrramineaE, Tribe ZINGIBEREAE, ZINGIBER, Adans.; Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 646. Zingiber Mioga, Roscoe in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. viii. (1807) p. 848; Franch. et Savat. Enwm. Pl. Japon. vol. ii. (1879) p. 20; Schumann in Engl. Pflanzenr, vol. iv. 46, p. 188 (1904); Ito, Ic. Pl. Jap. vol. i. No. 1, t. 4; species Z. atro-rubente, Gagnepain, affinis, sed spica breviore, calyce longiore, labello obovato distinguitur. ; Herba perennis. Rhizoma horizontale, circiter 6 mm. diametro. Culmi erecti, usque ad 8 dm. alti, glabri, foliorum vaginis longitudinaliter striatis glabris obtecti. Folia lineari-lanceolata, apice attenuato-acuminata, basi attenuata, usque ad 2°6 dm. longa et 4 em. lata, nervis laterali- bus plurimis parallelis cum costa pagina utraque subprominentibus, glabra vel pagina inferiore basin versus sparse pilosa, membranacea, cum petiolo 1°5 mm. longo instructa; ligula 4-7 mm. longa, 4-6 mm. lata, conspicue biloba, lobis apice subacutis vel obtusis, glabra, membranacea. Spica ellipsoidea, circiter 6 cm. longa, 8°5 cm. lata; pedunculus circiter 2 cm. longus, squamis ovato-oblongis vel oblongis acutis obtectus ; bracteae exteriores ovato-ellipticae, subacutae, 2°5 cm. longae, 1°8 cm. latae, glabrae. . Calyx tubulosus, spathaceo-fissus, fere truncatus, usque ad 2°8 cm. longus, membranaceus. Corolla flava, tubo anguste infundibuliformi fere 4 cm. longo basi 2 mm. apice 1 em. diametro, lobis acuminatis, 2 anticis oblongo-lanceolatis 3 cm. longis 0:9 cm. latis, postico ovato-lanceo- lato 8°2 cm. longo 1°3 em. lato. Labellwm obovatum, integrum, 3 cm. longum, 2°1 cm. latum, basi lobis binis brevibus instructum, flavum. Staminodia interiora filiformia, 5*5 mm. longa. © Anthera, appendicula incurva 1 cm. longa exclusa,1°5 cm. longa. Ovarvwm pubescens, breviter cylindricum, 6 mm. altum, 2°5 mm. diametro.—Amomum Mioga, Thunb. Fl. Jap. (1784) p. 14; Banks, Icon. Kaempf. t. 1.—W. B. TURRILL. The pleasing Gingerwort which forms the subject of our illustration is one which has been known to European botanists almost as long as the West has had intercourse with Japan, and has been grown at intervals in European conservatories for more than a century. It is said to occur in a wild state in woods and bamboo-groves in the warmer parts of Hondo, Shikoku and Kyishi as well as in the islands of Tsu-shima in Japan. It is, however, more frequently met with as a cultivated plant in Japanese gardens. The plant from which the material for our plate was obtained is one imported from Japan by Mr. H. J. Elwes and presented by him to the Kew Auausr, 1914, | collection in 1912. Grown in a warm house under the conditions suited to various species of Zingiher and Amomum, Z. Mioga has thriven well; it flowered freely in September 1913. The specific name ‘Mioga’ is adapted from the Japanese vernacular name for the plant, which in its native country is much esteemed for its aromatic qualities. The young inflorescences, also the young leafy shoots, are used for flavouring soups and pickles, and also as a spice. Description.—Herb, perennial; rootstock horizontal, about { in. thick; leafy stems erect up to 24 ft. in height, glabrous, covered with longitudinally striate leaf-sheaths. Leaves linear-lanceolate, narrowly acu- minate at the tip, narrowed to the base, up to 10 in. long, about 14 in. wide, with many parallel lateral nerves which are distinct on both faces as is the midrib, membranous, glabrous on both sides or with the under surface sparingly hairy near the base ; petiole very short ; ligule 4-4 in. long, nearly as wide, distinctly 2-lobed, lobes subacute or rounded, membranous, glabrous. Spike ellipsoid, about 2! in. long, 1} in. across; peduncle about $ in. long, clothed with ovate-oblong or oblong acute scales; outer bracts ovate-elliptic, subacute, 1 in. long, 3 in. wide, glabrous. Calyz tubular, spatha- ceously split, almost truncate, over 1 in. long, mem- branous. Corolla yellow, tube narrowly funnel-shaped, about 1} in. long, +, in. wide at the base, } in. wide at the top, lobes acuminate, the two anterior oblong-lanceo- late, 1} in. long, } in. wide, the posterior ovate-lanceolate, Fin long, } in. wide. Lip obovate, entire, 1} in. long, = In. wide, with two short basal lobes, yellow. Staminodes filiform, under } in. long. Anther nearly 2 in. long, with a long incurved appendage over 4 in. long. Ovary pubescent, shortly cylindric, ¢ in. long, +1, in. wide. ee and ovary; 2, the same, calyx laid open ; 8, anther and style :— Vincent Brooks, Day a: SonLt* imap MS.del JN Fitch hth. Baa OO Pee an: Tas. 8571. COTONEASTER FRANCHETII. Western China. RosaceazE. Tribe Pomear. CoTonEASTER,-Medik; Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 627. Cotoneaster Franchetii, Bois in Rev. Hort. 1902, p. 879, figs. 159, 160, 161, 164; 1907, ,p. 256 cum icon. fig. 1 et p. 257, fig. 90; Vilmorin et Bois, Frut. Vilmorin. p.117 cum icon.; Rehder et Wils. in Sargent, Pl. Wilson. p. 165; species C. pannosae, Franch., affinis foliis paulo majoribus petalis erectis roseo-tinctis fructibus oblongis aurantiaco-rubris differt. Frutex 1-3-metralis, ramis albo-pannosis, deinde glabrescentibus cortice atro- fusco tectis. Folia ovata vel ovato-elliptica, basi acuta vel subacuta, apice acuta vel breviter acuminata, mucronulata, 2-3 cm. longa, 1-1°6 cm. lata, supra saturate viridia pilisque tenuissimis longis conspersa, subtus albo-pannosa, nervis lateralibus obliquis utrinque circiter 4 supra impressis infra prominentibus; petiolus 8 mm. longus, tomentosus; stipulae subu- latae, ad 8 mm. longae, rubescentes, pilosae. Injflorescentiae corymbosae, ramulos foliatos 15-4 cm. longos interdum ramulo subcorymbo orto pro- longatos terminantes, 15-25-florae, 1°5-2 cm. latae, densiusculae, griseo- tomentosae; bracteae filiformes; pedicelli brevissimi vel ad 8 mm. longi. Receptaculum sub anthesi turbinatum, laxe griseo-tomentosum, 2°5 mm. diametro. Calycis dentes triangulari-ovati, apiculati, eodem indumento ac receptaculum induti. Petala rotundata, 83 mm. diametro, amoene roseo-tincta, sub anthesi erecta. Stamina circiter 20. Styli 2-3; carpella 2-8 in vertice villosa. Fructus aurantiaco-rubri, oblongo-ellipsoidei vel turbinato-oblongi, circiter 1 cm. longi, 6-7 mm. diametro.—O. Starr. The striking Cotoneaster which is here figured first became known in European collections through plants raised by Mr. M. L. de Vilmorin in his garden at Les Barres from seeds communicated to him by his corre- spondent the Abbé Souli¢é. Where the Abbé collected these seeds is not exactly known, but the plant has since been met with by Mr. E. H. Wilson in various localities in Western Szechuan at altitudes of from 6500-9500 feet above sea-level. According to Mr. Bois the species also extends into Yunnan in which province 1t was collected by the Abbé Delavay at Hee-chan-men at an altitude of 8500 feet. C. Franchetii is a very graceful shrub which reaches a height of eight to ten feet, its branches arching and elegant. The plant from which the material for our plate has been obtained is one which was presented to Kew by Mr. M. L. de Vilmorin in 1901. It bears fruit August, 1914. freely every year, and is very handsome in autumn, but its flowers, which appear in June, are. too fugacious to add much to the attractiveness of the species. It is very hardy, grows freely in soil of even moderate quality, and is easily increased by cuttings made of firm twigs about the end of July. DescrrPrion.—Shrub, 3-10 ft. high, branches white felted at length glabrescent, bark dark brown. Leaves ovate or ovate-elliptic, base acute or subacute, apex acute or shortly acuminate, mucronulate, 3-11 in. long, 1_2 in, wide, dark green and sparingly beset with long slender hairs above, white felted beneath, lateral nerves oblique, about 4 on each side of the midrib, sunk above, raised beneath; petiole 4 in. long, tomentose ; stipules subulate, reddish, pilose, up to } in. long. njlorescences corymbose, terminal on leafy twigs 2-1; in. long which are at times continued by a twig springing from below the inflorescence; corymbs 15-25-flowered, 3— in. across, rather compact, grey-tomentose ; bracts filiform ; pedicels very short, or occasionally up to % in. long. Receptacle turbinate when in flower, loosely grey-tomentose, 1'5_ in. across. Calyz-teeth triangular-ovate, apiculate, clothed with the same tomentum as the receptacle. Petals rounded, } in. across, tinged with rose, in flower erect. Stamens about 20. Styles 2-3, the carpels villous at the top. Fruit orange-red, oblong-ellipsoid or turbinate oblong, over } in. long, about 4 in. across. Fig. 1, apical portion of a leaf; 2,a flower; 3, vertical section of a flower, the petals removed; 4 and 5, anthers; 6, a pyrene :—all enlarged. Monthly, price 3s. 6d. coloured, 2s, 6d. nos Annual Subscription, ee; 153] oF tae extie ‘work. CURTIS’S ANICAL AND OTHER BOTANICAL ESTABLISHMENTS. Res * EDITED BY oe ae ey SIR DAVID PRAIN, OMG, OLE, ‘LLD, DBirectrar, Repai Baranic Grarnens, Rew. 2 BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. CONTENTS OF No. 117, SEPTEMBER, 1914. Tas. 8572.—ECHINOPAX HORRIDUS, » 8573.—HAMAMELIS VERNALIS. , 8574—PIMELEA FERRUGINEA. » 8575—ACONITUM ROTUNDIFOLIUM. ,» 8576—TILLANDSIA. BENTHAMIANA. L. Reuve & Co,, Ltd., 6; Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, W.C. " HEPATICE oF THE BRITISH ISLES. By W. H. PEARSON. e Complete in Two Vols., with 228 plates, 10 in. by 62 in. 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Pflanaenfam. vol, iii. pars 8, p. 34. Echinopanax horridus, Dene et Planch. ea Macown Cat. Canad. Pl. vol. i. p. 189; Harms in Engl. é Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. vol. iii. pars 8, p. 34; Nakai in Journ, Coll. Sci. Tokyo, vol. xxvi. p. 276; species unica. Frutex 1-8-metralis. Caulis aculeis plurimis armatus, basi repens, apice foliatus. Folia petiolata, palmatifido-palmata, 5-9-loba, 15-25 cm. diametro, lobulis pinnatifidis et irregulariter dentatis, venis aculeatis ; petioli 8-20 cm. longi, aculeati. Flores umbellati; umbellae globosae, in racemos vel paniculas compactas dispositae, rhachi aculeata et dense villosa; bracteae suborbiculares, fimbriatae, deciduae. Flores breviter pedicellati, pallide virides. Calycis lobi 2 spinescentibus exceptis. brevissimi. Petala 5-6, valvata, ovata vel ovato-oblonga, 3 mm. longa, apice acuta et incurva. Filamenta glabra, 3-4 mm. longa; antherae longae, 1°5 mm. longae. Styli 2, distincti, 1°5 mm. longi, apice divergentes. Fructus obovoideus, sulcatus, subcompressus, 5-6 mao. longus, coccineus, stylis persistentibus coronatus ; pedicelli 7-8 mm. longii—Echinopanax sp., Dene et Planch. in Rev. Hort. 1854, p. 105. Pana horrida, Smith in Rees Cyclop. vol. xxvi. n. 10; DC. Prodr. vol. iv. p. 252; Hook. Fl. Bor. Amer. vol. i. p. 273, t. 985 Bongard Veg. Sitka, p. 25; Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Amer. vol. i, p, 648. Aralia erinacea, Hook. in Edinb. Journ. Sci. vol. vi. p. 64; DC. Prodr. vol. iv. p. 259. Oplopanax horridus, Miq. Ann. Mus, Lugd.-Bat. vol. i. p. 16; Franch, et Sav. Enum. Pl. Jap. vol. i. p. 194. Fatsia sp., Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 989. F. horrida, 8. Watson, Bot. Calif. vol. i. p. 273; Macoun Cat. Canad. Pl. vol. i, p. 189; Coult. Man. Bot. Rocky Mt. Reg. p. 122.— - R. A. Rone. The striking Araliad which is here figured is a plant as to whose classification there has been no little difference of opinion. Originally described by Smith as Panax horrida, it was soon afterwards described again by the elder Hooker as Aralia erinacea. In their Flora Torrey and Grey recognised the identity of Hooker’s species with that of Smith, whom they followed in treating it as a Panax, but as the type within that genus of a distinct section Oplopanax, which Miquel subsequently treated as a distinct genus. In this conclusion, however, Miquel had been anticipated by Decaisne and Planchon, who proposed for the genus the name Eehinepanax. The Sepremper, 1914. elder Hooker included in the genus Aralia the Rice- paper Plant of Japan, figured at t. 4897 of this work as A. papyrifera, Hook., and in the Genera Plantarum Bentham and Hooker have followed the elder Hooker in treating these two as congenecric, admitting, however, that they cannot be treated as species of Ara/ia. In 1859, however, C. Koch had come to the conclusion that Avalia papyrifera is also entitled to be considered a distinct genus to which he gave the name Tetrapanar. The genus to which Bentham and Hooker have referred the species whereon the genera Lehinopanar and Tetrapanax -were based is Futsia. But, in his careful revision of the Araliaceae, Dr. Harms has advanced reasons for con- sidering that both Tetrapanar and Echinopanax are quite distinct from J uatsia, a conclusion with which, after further study of the group, Mr. Rolfe finds himself in accord. Lehinopanax horri'us is a native of the coast and islands of North-west America, from Sitka and the Charlotte Sound to the Oregon, the borders of California and the Rocky Mountains. The species occurs again in Japan, where it is known as Ari Bouki. A figure is given in the thirtieth volume of the standard Japanese work, Phonzo Zoufou, at folio 12, recto. Nakai has recently announced the existence of an Echinopanax in Corea, which he has described as £. elatus, and as differing from £. horridus in having umbellate in place of racemose umbellules. Although Z. horridus is very hardy, in so far as being capable of enduring severe cold is concerned, it has never been a success in the open ground at Kew owing to its habit of starting early into growth in spring under the stimulus of what, to it, is unseasonable warmth. This early growth is almost always destroyed by subsequent frost. The plant from which our plate was prepared was purchased from the nursery of the Messrs. Lemoine in 1909. Since then it has been planted in the open ground, but covered by @ glass frame through the early spring months. Under. this treatment, which affords sufficient protection to its young leaves, it has made a healthy plant, striking for its fine foliage and formidable armature. In the coast forests of North-west America the entangled prickly stems are described as a serious impediment to. travel In the hemlock spruce forests of Japan it has been found by Professor Sargent growing freely in dense shade, a circumstance which suggests that the species might make a pleasing feature in damp shady spots in localities where the difficulty in regard to spring frosts need not be dreaded. Description.—Shrub, 3-10 ft. high. Stem closely armed with prickles, creeping below, leafy at the top. Leaves petioled, palmately 5—9-lobed, 6-10 in. across, lobules pinnatifid and irregularly toothed, nerves prickly ; petiole 3-8 in. long, prickly. lowers umbellate ; umbels globose, arranged in dense racemes or panicles; rachis prickly and densely hairy ; bracts suborbicular, fimbriate, de- ciduous. Flowers shortly pedicelled, pale green. Calyx small, 2 lobes spinescent, the others very short. Petals 5-6, valvate, ovate or ovate-oblong, 4 in. long, acute and - ineurved at the tip. Filaments glabrous, 4—} in. long ; anthers oblong, 7; in. long. Styles 2, free, diverging, js in. long. Fruit obovoid, sulcate, somewhat com- pressed, }—} in. long, pink, tipped by the persisting styles ; fruiting pedicels } in. long. Fig. 1, a bract; 2, portion of a bract; 8, flowers; 4, calyx; 5 and 6, stamens ; 7, sketch of an entire plant :—all enlarged except 7, which is much reduced. 8573 : a “Encent Brookes Day &JonL mp MSdel. JN Fitch ith L Reeve &C? London. Taps. 8573. HAMAMELIS veErnaA tis. South-eastern United States. HAMAMELIDACEAE. Hamametis, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 667, Hamamelis vernalis, Sargent in Trees & Shrubs, vol. ii. p. 137, t. 156; species H. virginianae, Linn., proxima sed praecox et stolonifera. Frutex deciduus, 1°5-2-metralis, stolonifer; ramuli brunnei primum indu- mento stellato induti, demum glabrati. Folia obovata vel elliptica, irregulariter grosse crenata, apice obtusa vel acuta, basi cuneata vel oblique truncata, supra glabra vel secus nervos stellato-tomentosa, subtus saepissime subglaucescentia et densius secus nervos tomentosa ; 5-10 cm. longa, 2°5-7°5 cm. lata; petiolus stellato-pilosus, 1-1°5 cm. longus. Flores in glomerulos axillares aggregati; glomeruli 3~4-flori, pedunculis 6 mm. longis fusco-tomentosis suffulti, Calyx 4-lobus ; lobi 3 mm, longi, rotundato-ovati, ciliati, intus rubri, extra pubescentes. Petala 4, lutea, 1-2 cm. longa, margine sinuata. Capsula 2-valvis, 1-2 cm. longa; valvae lignosae. Semina fusca vel fere atra.—W. J. Bran. The Witch-hazel here described and figured is of great interest in that, although it is a native of North America, it resembles the Japanese species, Hamamelis japonica, Sieb. & Zucc., in flowering from midwinter to spring. Its nearest ally is, however, the North American J/. virginiana, Linn., which differs in coming into flower in autumn whilst still in full leaf. There are several other points which distinguish /. vernalis, now figured, from H. virginiana; H. vernalis has the calyx-lobes red on the inner face, has a more abundant and more persistent pubescence on the foliage and twigs, and has dull in place of glossy leaves, which are rather glaucous beneath. A still more striking difference is the habit of spreading by stolons, which causes a single plant of H. vernalis to become in time the centre of a thicket. H. vernilis was introduced to Kew from the Arnold Arboretum in 1909, two years before its claim to be considered a distinct species was established by Professor Sargent. It was, however, first discovered by Engelmann, on the banks of the Upper Maramea River in Missouri in 1845, and has since then been met with in Arkansas and Louisiana, SEPTEMBER, 1914, It has perhaps been scarcely long enough in cultivation for its full value as a garden shrub to be shown, but as yet it has hardly established a claim to equal in beauty the Japanese and Chinese species which form so charming a feature during the opening months of the year, for it has not flowered so abundantly as they habitually do, nor are the petals in the American plant of so bright a yellow. It thrives vigorously in loamy soil, and up to the present has been propagated by grafting on BP virginiana. DescripTion.—Shrub, up to 6 ft. high, deciduous, spreading by means of stolons; twigs brown, clothed at first with a brown stellate pubescence which partially persists over the winter. Leaves obovate to elliptic, irregularly coarsely crenate, apex blunt or acute, base cuneate to obliquely truncate; glabrous above or with stellate hairs on the nerves; beneath usually slightly glaucous, the nerves more closely stellate hairy, especially when young; 2-4 in, long, 1-3 in. wide; petiole stellate- hairy, &-¢ in. long. Flowers in axillary clusters of 3-4, opening during December and January, on stout curved peduncles 1 in. long, which are clothed with a reddish- brown pubescence. Calyx 4-lobed; lobes roundish or . ovate, } in. long, dark-red within, margin ciliate, outside pubescent. Petals 4, yellow, } in. long, bent and wavy. Fruit a woody, 2-valved capsule, } in. long. Seeds dark- brown or almost black. Fig. 1, a leaf-bud; 2, a flower; 3, the same ; i, 3 2, : 8, petals removed ; 4 and 5, anthers ; 6, staminodes ; 7, vertical section of an ovary :—all enlarged. S574. MS.del INFitch ith Vincent Brookes, Day & Son Lt? imp L-Reeve &C° London Tas. 8574, PIMELEA FerRvuernea. West Australia. THYMELAEFACEAE, Tribe EuTHYMELAERAE. Pimevea, Banks; Benth. et Hook. Ff. Gen, Plant. vol, iii. p, 189. Pimelea ferruginea, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. vol. i. p. 10, t. 5; Benth. Fl. Austral. vol. vi. p. 10; species P. roseae, RB. Br., affinis sed foliis latioribus brevioribus apice subobtusis vel leviter mucronatis recedit. Frutex erectus, ramosus, usque ad 4-6 dm. altus, ramis glabris. Folia opposita et decussata, obovato- vel elliptico-oblonga vel oblongo-oblanceolata, apice subobtusa vel leviter mucronata, basi leviter angustata, circiter 1:1 cm. longa et 4 mm. lata, sessilia, margine plus minusve recurva, costa pagina superiore obscura inferiore subprominente, nervis lateralibus pagina utraque obscuris. Capitula terminalia, globularia, multiflora; involucri bracteae 4, suborbiculares, apice acutae, 1 cm. longae, 7 mm. latae, membranaceae, coloratae, glabrae. Perianthii tubus cylindricus, 1-1 cm. longus, 1°25 mm. diametro, superne leviter dilatatus, extra pilis numerosis inferne longis patentibus superne brevioribus adpressis obtectus, intus glaber; lobi 4, oblongi, apice rotundati, 3°5 mm. longi, 2°25 mm. lati, extra longe et adpresse pubescentes, intus glabri. Stamina 2, filamentis 4 mm. longis, antheris 1 mm. longis. Diseus hypogynus, e lobis 4 minutissimis per paria connatis vel approximatis paribus perianthii lobis duobus interioribus Oppositis constitutus. Ovariwm oblongo-cylindricum, apice rotundatum, 1°5 mm. altum, 0°75 mm. diametro, glabrum; stylus lateralis, 1*2 cm. longus, glaber.—P. decussata, R. Br. Prod. p- 360; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. vol. i. p. 602, vol. ii. p. 270, et in DC. Prod. vol. xiv. p. 502; Sweet, Fl. Austral. t. 8; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1283; Maund, Botanist, f. 186. P. diosmi- folia, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t.1708. Heterolaena decussata, C. A. Mey. in Bull. Acad. Petrop. vol. iv. p. 73.—W. B. Turrit. The Pimelea which forms the subject of our plate is an old garden plant more familiar in coliections in the days When cultivators were emulous in the successful treatment of hard-wooded species than it appears to be now. It is @ native of West Australia, in the southern parts of which colony it is widely distributed. Like many other widely Spread species, /?. ferruginea varies somewhat in the colour of its flowers. In the plant which was the basis of (our figure these are bright pink, but from the various _ Coloured figures of the species which have been published we learn that the flowers may vary from a pale pink to a fairly deep red. The bracts subtending the heads of flowers are of a greenish-pink hue. The spreading white September, 1914. hairs on the lower part of the perianth-tube impart. a very distinctive appearance to the inflorescence. In the flowers of the genus Pimelea it has been said that there are no hypogynous scales such as occur in other Thyme- laeaceous genera like Daphne and Lasiadenia. This statement does not, however, hold universally, for in the species now described the scales, though very small, are nevertheless present in connate or approximate pairs at the base of the ovary and opposite the inner perianth segments. The cultural conditions most suitable for P. ferruginea are those required by Cape Heaths. At Kew it thrives well in a cool sunny greenhouse, where it flowers freely in spring. Descriprion.—Siru); stems erect, branched, 13-2 ft. | high; branches glabrous. Leaves opposite, decussate, obovate-oblong or elliptic-oblong, or oblong-oblanceolate, somewhat blunt at the tip or slightly mucronate, rather narrowed towards the base, under } in. long, about } in. wide, sessile, margin more or less recurved, midrib hardly visible above, somewhat raised beneath, lateral nerves hardly visible on either face. leads terminal, globose, many-flowered ; involucral bracts 4, suborbicular, acute, 4 in. long, x in. wide, membranous, glabrous, greenish- pink. Perianth hypocrateriform; tube cylindric, under z in. long, 54 in. wide, slightly dilated upwards, densely clothed outside with white hairs long and spreading below, shorter and adpressed above, glabrous within; lobes 4, oblong, rounded at the tip, + in. long, ,, in. wide, ad- pressed pubescent outside, glabrous within. Stamens 23 filaments } in. long; anthers very short. Disk hypo- gynous, composed of 4 minute lobes, connate or approxi- mate in pairs, opposite the two inner perianth lobes. Ovary oblong-cylindric, rounded at the tip, glabrous ; style lateral, + in. long, glabrous. Fig. 1, a flower; 2 and 8, anthers ; 4, pistil :—all enlarged. 8515 ede a p\ yy _ MS.del. J N.Fitch kith, L Reeve & C° London Tas. 8575. ACONITUM RotTuNDIFOLIUM. Western Central Asia. RanuncuLacEAE. Tribe HELLEBOREAE. Aconitum, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. iii. p. 9. Aconitum rotundifolium, Kar. et Kir. in Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mose, vol. xv. _ (1842), p. 139; Led. Fl. Ross. vol. i. p. 740. Regel in Pl. Radd. vol. i. p. 115, t. iii. fig. w, et in Gartenflora, vol. xxx. (1881), p. 357, t. 1063, fig. 2; Stapf in Ann, Roy. Bot. Gard. Calcutta, vol. x. pars ii. p. 149, t. 99 ; inter species sectionis Napelli tuberum cambio discontinuo in cylindra tenuia plerumque 4 sparsa dissoluto distinctum, colore florum mire variegato et nectarii cuculla antice admodum decurva insigne. Herba 15-40 cm. alta. Tubera geminata; annotinum obeonicum vel subcylin- dricum, 1-2°5 cm. longum, 6-8 mm. diametro, fibris longis munitum, in sectione transversa niveum, cortice tenui albido-fusca, cambio in cylindra tenuia 4-5 sparsa dissoluto; hornotinum nigrescens. Caulis erectus vel ascendens, teres, crispo-pubescens vel pilis subpatulis superne villosulus, inferne glabrescens. Folia nonnulla basalia in rosellam disposita, longius- cule petiolata, in speciminibus spontaneis cum floribus coetanea, in cultis a me visis sub anthesi emarcida, nonnulla in caule aequaliter sparsa, petiolis sursum cito decrescentibus; lamina ambitu orbiculari-cordata vel sub- reniformis, sinu angusto, e sinu ad apicem 1-3°5 cm, alta, 2-6 cm. lata, ad # 5-T-palmati-partita, divisionibus late obovato-cuneatis, 3- vel exterioribus 2-lobis, lobis parce crenatis vel inciso-crenatis, crenis sub- obtusis vel interdum breviter acutis, foliorum superiorum minus divisa, lobis crenisque angustioribus, omnium glabra vel saepius magis minusve crispule pubescens. Injlorescentia ubique pubescens vel villosula e racemis in soit pe, angustam collectis composita vel saepius racemum solitarium referens, racemi pauciflori; bracteae inferiores 5-3-partitae, segmentis angustis, superiores indivisae ; bracteolae 2, lineari-lanceolatae vel lineares vel obsoletae; pedicelli ad 2 cm. longi, suberecti. Sepala ex albido et viridi variegata, violaceo-venosa et saepe hinc inde purpureo- vel violaceo- suffusa, summum naviculare, magis minusve rostratum apice subacutum, circiter 18 mm. altum, pubescens; lateralia late oblique obovata vel rotundata, cireiter 15 mm. longa; inferiora late oblonga, obtusa, 6-8 mm. longa, Nectaria ungue glabro vel raro inferne piloso 15-16 mm. longo, cuculla antice admodum decurva vel horizontali apice inflata, labio bifido cucullam aequante vel paulo longiore. Filamenta basi latiuscula, superne tenuiter attenuata, dentata vel edentata, glabra, raro pilosa. Carpelia 5, sub anthesi arcte conniventia, oblonga, abrupte in stylum contracta, albo- pilosa, plerumque pilis patulis niveis conspicuis, raro subglabra, Folliculi oblongi, truncati, contigui, 9-13 mm. longi, plerumque pilosi. Semina obpyramidata, 3-angularia, 2 5-3 mm. longa, angulis inaequaliter alatis.— A. thianschanicum, Rupr. Sert. Thiansch. p. 38. A, oliganthemum, A, Kern. in Ber. Naturw. Ver. Innsbruck, vol. i, (1870), p. 119. A. Napellus var. rotundifolium, Hook. f. et Thoms. in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. i. p. 29.—O. Srapr, The Aconite which is here figured is one of the most characteristic of those met with in Western Central Asia, SEPTEMBER, 1914, whence it extends into Northern Afghanistan, Baltistan and Northern Bashahr. The tubers are very small as compared with most of its congeners and are of indifferent taste; they produce none of the tingling sensation which distinguishes the poisonous Aconites. It has a consider- able altitudinal range, and on the Pensi-la it has been met with growing at 17,000 feet above sea-level; at these high altitudes, however, it becomes much dwarfed. The plant from which the material for this plate of Aconitiin rotundifolium has been obtained was purchased in 1912 from Messrs. Regel & Kesselring of St. Petersburg, by whom it was issued as A. albo-violucewm, which is, however, a member of the section Lycoctonum. Grown in an open border at Kew the plant flowered in July under the conditions most suited for other members of the genus ; it did not, however, survive the winter. The specimen figured was not quite typical, the ultimate leaf-segments being more acute than usual, the filaments and claws of the nectaries being slightly hairy and the ovaries being nearly glabrous. Similar variations, however, may occasionally be observed in herbarium collections. Description.— Herb, 6-16 in. high; tubers geminai‘e ; that of the new season obconic or subcylindric, }—1 in. long, {~-} in. across, beset with long fibrils, in cross- section white, cortex thin pale tawny, the cambium broken up into 4-5 thin scattered cylinders ; old tuber blackish ; stems erect or ascending, terete, crisply hairy or villous upwards with somewhat spreading hairs, glabrescent below. Leuvex, some basal arranged in a rosette, with rather long petioles, in wild specimens appearing with the flowers, in cultivated plants already withering before the flowers open, others regularly dis- _ posed along the stem, the petioles rapidly shortening _ upwards ; lamina in outline orbicular-cordate or somewhat reniform with a narrow sinus, }~1} in. long from sinus to tip, 7-2} in. wide, palmately 5-7 -partite to 4#ths the Jength of leaf-blade, the segments wide obovate-cuneate, 3-lobed, or the outermost 2-lobed, lobes sparingly crenate or incised-crenate, the crenations rather blunt or some- times shortly acute; segments of the upper leaves less divided, with narrower lobes and crenations, all glabrous or often more or less crispately pubescent. n/lorescence pubescent or somewhat villous throughout, made up of a few racemes aggregated in a narrow panicle or often reduced to a single raceme ; racemes few-flowered ; lower bracts 3-5-partite with narrow segments, upper bracts undivided; bracteoles 2, linear-lanceolate or linear or obsolete ; pedicels up to # in. long, suberect. Sepals greenish-white with violet veins and somewhat flushed with purple or violet, the uppermost hooded, more or less beaked, somewhat acute-tipped, about .? in. long, pubes- cent ; lateral widely obliquely obovate or rounded, about 2 in. long; the lower wide-oblong, blunt, }-} in. long. Nectaries with a claw about 1 in. long, glabrous or occasion- ally pilose below, hood somewhat decurved in front or horizontal and inflated at the tip, lip 2-fid as long as or rather longer than the hood. Filaments rather wide- based, becoming much narrowed upwards, toothed or not, glabrous or occasionally hairy. Carpels 5, closely connivent in flower, oblong, suddenly narrowed into the style, white pilose, usually the white spreading hairs conspicuous, occasionally very few. Follicles oblong, truncate, closely set, 1} in. long, usually pilose. Seeds obpyramidal, 3-angled, ;';—} in. long, the angles unequally winged. Fig. 1, a flower with two sepals removed; 2, nectary; 8, stamen; 4, pistil :-— all enlarged. 8576. Vincent BrocksDay &Son tame - DReeve & C9 London. MS. del INFtauith Tas. 8576. TILLANDSIA BENTHAMIANA, var. ANDRIEUXII. Central America. BromMEniackak. Tribe TILLANDSIEAE. Trntanpsta, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 669; Baker,’ Handb. Bromel. p. 157; Mez in DC. Monogr. Phan. vol. ix. p, 633. Tillandsia Benthamiana, Klotzsch ex Beer, Bromel, p. 263, ex Baker, Journ, Bot. 1888, p. 15 et Handb. Bromel. p. 199, et ex Mez in DC. Monogr. Phan. vol. ix. p. 735: var. Andrieuxii, Mez l.c. p. 736; varietas a T. Benthamiana typica floribus minoribus, petalis purpureis, scapi vagina breviter acuta, bracteisque superioribus apice rotundatis apte distinguenda. Herba succulenta, subacaulis, epiphytica. Folia dense subrosulata, numerosa, e basi ovato-lanceolata sensim attenuata superne ensiformi-acuminata, 15 cm. longa, basi 1°2 cm., supra basin 6 mm. lata, crassiora, subrigida, margine subincurva, superiora erecta vel adscendentia, inferiora recurva, utrinque papillis patentibus vesiculosis dense vestita. Scapus 7-15 cm. longus, foliis saepius brevior, raro folia subaequans; bracteae foliaceae congestae. Injlorescentia spicata; spica oblonga, 7 em. longa, 3°75 em. lata; bracteae florales ovatae, apice rotundatae, roseae, albo-lepidotae, 2 cm. longae. Sepala ovata, acuta, 1 cm. longa. Petala oblanceolata, 8 cm. longa, intense violacea, apice breviter recurva. Stamina minopere exserta; filamenta filiformia; antherae 3 mm. longae, luteae. Ovariwm conicum, glabrum; stylus staminibus aequilongus; stigmata brevia, laxe contorta.—C. H. Wricut. The Tillandsia here depicted was received at Kew in 1912 from Mr. C. H. Lankester, Cachi, Costa Rica, along with a number of orchids collected in that country. It has been cultivated in a tropical] house, where it flowered in June, 1913, and admitted of the preparation of our plate. It thrives well under the treatment given to other small epiphytic species of the genus. The species of which our plant is a marked variety appears to be rather widely spread in Mexico and is described as having white sepals and greenish petals. The variety now figured was first met with by Mr: G. Andrieux at Chalco in Mexico, where it was epiphytic on a Quercus. T. Ben- thamiana is most nearly allied to 7. dianthoidea, Rossi, a species which is not uncommon in stove collections ; one form of the species has been figured at t. 5246 of this work as 7. recurvifolia, Hook. The two varieties of 7. SzeprempBer, 1914. Benthamiana are, however, easily distinguished from the various forms of 7. dianthoidea by the much longer corolla and the character of the indumentum on the leaves. In T. Benthamiana the adpressed scales met with on the leaves of many Bromeliads are replaced by thick vesicular hairs, and it is to the presence of these that the typical plant and the variety here described owe their shaggy _ aspect. j Derscription.—Herb, succulent, almost stemless, epi- phytic. Leaves densely clustered, numerous, gradually ensiform-acuminate upwards from an ovate-lanceolate base, 6 in. long, 3 in. wide at the base, 1 in. wide above, rather thick and firm, margin slightly incurved, the uppermost leaves erect or ascending, the lowest recurved, all densely clothed on both faces with spreading vesicular papillae. Scape 3-6 in. long, usually shorter than the leaves; leafy bracts congested. Jnjlorescence spicate, oblong, 3 in. long, 14 in. across ; flowering bracts ovate with rounded tips, rosy pink, white-lepidote, 2 in. long. Sepals ovate, acute, } in. long. Petals oblanceolate, 1+ in. long, deep violet, slightly recurved at the tip. Stamens little exserted ; filaments filiform ; anthers } in. long, yellow. Ovary conic, glabrous; style as long as the stamens ; stigmas short, loosely twisted. Fig. 1, portion of a leaf; 2, vesicular hairs, or modified scales, from leaf; 3, calyx; 4, corolla; 5 and 6, anthers; 7, pistil :—all enlarged. No, LI8. so Monthly, price 3s. 6d. co: sured, 2s. 6d. plain. VOL, X.—OCTOBER, Aanunt Subscription, 42s, bs * or No. 1539 oF THE ENTIRE WORK. 2OURELSS BOTANICAL MAGA ZIN _ CONTAINING HAND-COLOURED FIGURES WITH DESCRIPTIONS, STRUCTURAL AND. HISTORICAL, ; OF NEW. AND. RARE PLANTS FROM THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW. AND OTHER BOTANICAL ESTABLISHMENTS, EDITED BY . < SIR DAVID PRAIN, CMG., CLE, LLD., PRS, Director, Ropal Botanic Garvens, Kew. i : Corti cata vee STS eS PSORE NIRS ESA NES, = “Ko flower fn field that dainty odour throws And deeks his branch, with blossoms over all — ; planted or grew petal we oe ARI, aime _HONDON: es PUBLISHERS To THE HOME, coLoN ib ism INDIAN. GOVERNMENTS, 6, ‘HENRIETTA STREET, C COVENT GARDEN. Pee eae ree nas PRA rights reserved.) Entered at the New York Post Cpe as second-class matter). B87 a. _—TRICHOCAULON PICTUM. 8580. —IN DIGOFERA KIRILOWII, n Two Vols., with 228 pitted: 103 in. by 63 i in. Giving Tasorips Ne eas Sagi oe fees Table of Literature, ee S.del. JN. Fiteh hth ada pire Vireent Brooks Day L. Reeve & @°2London. Tap. 8577. IXORA UMBELLATA. Java. Rusiaceak. Tribe [xoreag. Ixora, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p, 118. Ixora umbellata, Valet. ex Koord. ¢ Valet. in Meded.’s Lands Plantent. vol. lix. (1902), p. 162; Valet. in Ic. Bogor. vol. ii. t. clxxxiii.; affinis I. congestae, Roxb., sed foliis latioribus floribus albis calycis lobis multo majoribus imbricatis differt. Frutex ramosus; rami teretes, circiter 5 mm. crassi, glabri. Folia elliptica vel oblongo-elliptica, apice breviter et obtuse acuminata, basi rotundata, 15-25 cm. longa, 7-11 cm. lata, integra, membranaceo-chartacea, glabra ; costa media supra plana, infra prominens, ad apicem laminae gradatim attenuata; nervi laterales utrinsecus 15-17, arcuati, graciles, intra marginem valde ramosi, utrinque distincti, infra prominuli; venae laxissimae; petioli 1-1°5 cm. longi; stipulae in tubum 0°5 cm. longum connatae, intra glandis linearibus 1:5 mm. longis instructae. Flores albi, in corymbos terminales circiter 15 cm. expansos dispositi; bracteolae obovato-oblongae, obtusae, circiter 2°5 mm. longae, breviter ciliatae. Receptaculwm obconicum, 1 -25 mm. altum, glabrum. Calyx alte lobatus ; lobi valde imbricati, late ovati, 1:75 mm. longi, ciliati. Corollae tubus gracilis, ad apicem paullulum latior, 3 cm. longus, extra glaber, fauce tenuiter villosus; limbus 2 cm. expansus, demum reflexus; lobi 4, ob- lanceolato-oblongi, apice rotundati, 7-8 mm. longi, 4 mm. lati, glabri. Antherae exsertae, 4 mm. longae, acute acuminatae. Discus lobatus. Stylus exsertus, glaber, ramis 1°75 mm. longis.—J. HuTCHINSON. The Zrora here figured has been in cultivation at Kew since 1889, in which year it was presented to the collec- tion by the late Dr. Treub, the distinguished Director of the Botanic Garden at Buitenzorg in Java, of which island it is a native, though it appears now to be very rare there in a wild state. The most recent record of its occurrence as a wild species is one by Dr. Hallier, by whom it was met with in a wood near Dépok, south of Batavia. Its nearest ally in the genus appears to be TI. congesta, Roxb., a native of Burma and Malaya, figured at t. 4325 of this work as J. Grifithii, Hook., which, however, differs from /. umbellata in having red flowers. In a tropical house at Kew J. umbellata forms a large branching shrub which flowers freely in May and June. OcToBER, 1914. DEscRIPTION.—Shrub, much branched; twigs terete about } in. thick, glabrous. Leaves elliptic or oblong- elliptic, apex shortly and bluntly acuminate, base rounded, margin entire, thinly papery, glabrous, 6-10 in. long, 3-44 in. wide; midrib smooth above, raised beneath, gradually narrowed to the tip of the leaf; lateral nerves 15-17 on each side the midrib, curved, slender, much branched within the margin, visible on both sides and raised on the underside; veins very lax; petiole 1-2 in. long; stipules connate in a tube } in. long, beset within with long linear glands. lowers white, arranged in terminal corymbs about 6 in. across; bracteoles obovate-oblong, obtuse, about +); in. long, shortly ciliate. Receptacle obconic, short, glabrous. Calyx deeply lobed; lobes much imbricate, wide-ovate, ciliate. Corolla tube slender, slightly widened at the mouth, 1} in. long, glabrous outside, throat slightly villous; limb 3? in. wide, at length reflexed ; lobes 4, oblanceolate-oblong, rounded at the tip, } in. long, ¢ in. wide, glabrous. Anthers exserted, } in. long, acutely acuminate. Disk lobed. Style exserted, glabrous, branches under 4}, in. long. Fig. 1, flowers; 2, longitudinal section of calyx and ovary; 8, section of upper portion of corolla; 4, stigma :—all enlarged. 8578 Vincent Brooks Day & Son Letamp ‘ L.Reeve & C® London. Tas. 8578. | -CYTISUS PALLIDUS. Canary Islands. LecuminosaE. Tribe GENISTEAE. Cytisus, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 484, Cytisus pallidus, Poir. Encycl. Meth. Suppl. vol. ii. p. 442; species a C; linifolio, Linn., cui valde affinis, foliolis latioribus facile distinguenda. Frutex 1-2-metralis. Ramuli juventute sericei, mox laxius adpresse argenteo- pubescentes, cortice viridi obtecti, luri-suleati. Folia trifoliolata, petiolo 1-3 mm. longo simul ac ramulis pu nte suffulta; stipulae plus minusve persistentes, angustae, usque ad 5 mm. longae, sericeae ; foliola oblanceolata, | vel angustius oblanceolata, apice breviter acute acuminata, basi in petio- lulum breve attenuata, 1-8—4°5 cm. longa, 3-7 mm. lata, chartacea, pagina superiore laxius adpresse pubescentia, viridia, inferiore sericea, costa supra leviter immersa subtus prominula, nervis lateralibus haud conspicuis, margine saepe parum recurvo. Flores in racemum terminalem laxe capituliformem plerumque circiter 10-florum dispositi; bracteae deciduae ; edicelli vix 5 mm. longi, sericei; bracteolae angustae, circiter 8 mm. ongae. Calycis extra sericei tubus 2 mm. longus; lobi duo supremi 55 mm. longi, 2 mm. lati, tres infimi in unum tridentatum connati. Vewillum elliptico-ovatum, apice emarginatum, 14°5 mm. longum, 10 mm. latum, extra ad nervos adpresse albo-pubescens, ungui 2°5 mm. longo ; alae vix 12 mm. longae, 4°5 mm. latae, ungui 2°5 mm. longo; carina 11°5 mm. longa, 8°5 mm. lata, extra sericea, ungui 2°5 mm. longo, auricula 1°25 mm. longa. Antherae difformes, longiores 1°5 mm., breviores 1 mm. longae. Ovariwm 4 mm. altum, sericeum, stylo superne glabro stigmate minuto.—C. linifolius, Lamk., var. pallidus, Briquet Cytises Alpes Marit., p. 140. Teline linifolia, Webb et Berth., var. latifolia, Webb et Berth. Phyt. Canar. vol. ii. p. 42. Genista splendens, Webb et Berth. l.c. p. 42, t. 43.—W. G. Crats. The shrub here figured is one that has been raised from seed presented to Kew in 1912 by Dr. G. V. Perez of Puerto Orotava, Teneriffe, under the name Genista splendens, which is that given to it by Messrs. Webb and Berthelot on the plate on which it is depicted in their work on the Canaries. In the text of their work, how- ever, it is referred by these authors to the genus Teline and treated as a variety of what is now once more regarded as Cytisus linifolius, Lamk. More recently Professor Briquet has returned to the same view and there is no question that C. linifolius is the nearest ally of C. pallidus, while there is little doubt that Mr. Craib is OctosER, 1914. fully justified in treating the latter as a distinct species. In the Temperate House at Kew C. pallidus has formed a freely branching shrub four feet high, pleasing on account of the silvery pubescence of its leaves and for its terminal clusters of slightly fragrant yellow flowers, which appear in April. Under suitable conditions it is likely to reach twice to thrice the height mentioned, so that it can only be conveniently grown in a large greenhouse. DEscrIPtion.—Shrub 4-10 ft. high; twigs silky when young, soon loosely adpressed silvery-pubescent; bark green, striate. aves 3-foliolate; petiole 1—1} in. long, pubescent like the twigs; stipules more or less persistent, narrow, ; in. long, silky; leaflets oblanceolate or narrow- oblanceolate, shortly sharply acuminate, narrowed at the base into a short petiolule, 2-14 in. long, 1-1 in. wide, papery, rather loosely adpressed-pubescent on the upper surface, green silky on the under surface, midrib slightly impressed above and raised beneath, lateral nerves not prominent, margin often slightly recurved. Flowers arranged in loosely clustered terminal 10-flowered racemes ; bracts deciduous; pedicels about 1 in. long, silky like the calyx; bracteoles narrow, about } in. long. Calyez somewhat 2-labiate; tube ys in. long; the two upper lobes 4 in. long, j!; in. wide, the three lower connate in a 3-toothed lip. Standard elliptic-ovate, emarginate at the tip, over 3 in. long, over 4 in. wide, outside white-pubescent with adpressed hairs along the nerves; claw y'5 in. long. Wéings under } in. long, + in. wide ; claw y'5 in. long. Keel distinctly auriculate, under 2 in. long, + in. wide, silky outside; claw '; in. long. Anthers long and short. Ovary 1 in, long, silky; style : ot 2 y3 M4 glabrous upwards ; stigma minute. Fig. 1, portion of a leaflet ; 2, flower, the petals removed, showing the three bracteoles; 8, wing-petal: 4. kee]. ; arr ny as : f the ovary :—all ate od. 3 4, keel-petals; 5, pistil; 6, longitudinal section © 8579 L..Reeve &C?London. _ ae Vincent Brookes: Day &Son Lit imp Tas. 8579. TRICHOCAULON prcrum. Luttle Namaqualand. ASCLEPIADACEAE. ‘Tribe STAPELIEAE, Tricuocauton, N, E. Br. in Journ. Linn, Soc. vol. xvii. p. 164, Trichocaulon pictum, N. EH. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1909, p. 807; affinis T. cactiformi, N. E. Br., sed corona in tubum distinctum haud inclusa et coronae interioris lobis supra antheras productis differt. Herba ; caulis subglobosus vel cylindrico-oblongus, obtusissimus, simplex vel _ basi tantum parce ramosus, 4~7 cm. longus, 4-5 em. crassus, irregulariter tessellato-tuberculatus, glaber, tuberculis 6-10 mm. diametro obtusissimis primum minute apiculatis. Flores fasciculati, erecti, fasciculis 2—4-floris. Pediceili 2 mm. longi, glabri. Sepala 1-1-5 mm. longa, late ovata, acuta, glabra. Corolla 9 mm. diametro, extra levis, intra minute rugulosa, glabra, albida punctis et lineis brevibus numerosis purpureis notata; tubus late atelliformis vel subplanus; lobi patentissimi, 2°5 mm. longi, 8 mm. lati, Tate deltoideo-ovati, acuti. Corona exterior 5-loba; lobi 1°5 mm. longi, trifidi vel bifidi cum denticulo intermedio interjecti, fere ad sinum corollae attingentes, pallide lutescentes, purpureo-maculati. Coronae interioris lobi 1-5 mm. longi, lineares, acuti, antheras excedentes apicibus conni- venti-erectis, lutescentes, purpureo-marginati.—N. E. Brown. The remarkable plant which is here depicted is one of a small group of species of Trichocaulon which, as regards their stems, resemble one another so closely that when out of flower they might pardonably be mistaken for forms of the same species. Yet they are so distinct as regards the colour and the structure of their flowers that they cannot with propriety be treated as conspecific. The extent of the difference between one such form and another may be best realised if the figure now given of T. pictum be compared with that of 7: cactiforme, N. E. Br., figured, as Stapelia cactiformis, at t. 4127 of this magazine. T. pictum was originally discovered in Little Namaqua- land by Dr. R. Marloth. It was met with again by Professor H. H. W. Pearson in the same country, during the course of the Percy Sladen expedition, on the north- western slopes of quartzite hills south-west of Chubiessis, and the plant from which our drawing has been made is one of those included in a magnificent. collection of OcrosER, 1914. succulent plants received from Professor Pearson as part of the fruits of his journey. It has thriven well in the Tropical Succulent House at Kew and flowered here for the first time in June, 1912. Description.—ferb; stem subglobose or cylindric- oblong, very blunt, simple or sparingly branched at the very base, 13-3 in. long, 1}-2 in. thick, irregularly tessellately tubercled, glabrous ; tubercles 1-1 in. wide, very blunt, at first minutely apiculate. //vwers fascicled, erect ; fascicles 2-4-flowered. Pedicels 5 in. long, glab- rous. Sepals small, wide-ovate, acute, glabrous. Corolla 4 in. across, smooth externally, minutely rugulose within, glabrous, whitish but marked with many close-set purple dots and short streaks; tube wide-patelliform or almost flat ; lobes spreading, '; in. long, over +}, in. wide, broadly deltoid-ovate, acute. Outer corona 5-lobed ; lobes short, trifid or bifid with a short intermediate tooth, almost reaching the sinuses between the corolla lobes, pale yellowish blotched with purple. Inner corona with short, linear, acute lobes rather larger than the anthers, their tips erect-connivent, yellowish with purple margins. Fig. 1, calyx from which the corolla has fallen; 2, a flower; 3, corona; 4, pollen-masses :—all enlarged, 8580, MS 4elJN Fitchlith a Vincent Brooke Day &Sanl L. Reeve & Co London Tas. 8580. INDIGOFERA Kietown. N. China. LeGuminosak. Tribe GALEGRAE, InpicorErA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 494. Indigofera Kirilowii, Maxim. ex Palibin in Act. Hort. Petrop. vol. xvii. p- 62, t, 4 (speciebus nonnullis citatis exclusis); Craib in Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edin. n. xxxvi. p. 66; ab affini I. elliptica, Roxb., pedunculo communi petiolo longiore facile distinguenda. Frutex; ramulis juventute pilis perpaucis albis brevibus medifixis instructi, cito omnino glabri, parum angulati, cortice mox tenuiter striato obtecti. Folia 7-9-foliolata, ad 12 cm. (petiolo excluso) longa, petiolo 1°2-8°2 em. longo simul ac rhachi supra canaliculato et nisi juventute glabro suffulta ; stipulae circiter 7 mm. longae, angustae, acutae, diutius persistentes ; foliola saepissime opposita, elliptica vel rotundato-elliptica, apice obtusa vel rotundata, mucronata, basi cuneata ad rotundato-cuneata, usque ad 8 cm. longa et 2°5 em. lata, chartacea vel tenuiter chartacea, pagina utraque pilis albis medifixis adpressis sparse instructa, nervis lateralibus utrinsecus circiter 6 pagina utraque conspicuis, nervis transversis praesertim subtus uti reticulatione conspicuis, petiolulo 2-3°5 mm. longo suffulta; stipellae petiolulo dimidio breviores. Racemi ex axillis bene infra apicem ramulorum orti, folia superantes, pedunculo communi tiolo circiter duplo longiore suffulti; bracteae deciduae ; pedicelli 3-4 mm. ongi, ut rhachi glabri; corolla in alabastro nisi summo apice et ad vexilli margines glabra. Calyx glaber; tubus 2 mm. longus, lobo longissimo aequilongus. Vewillwm oblongo-ellipticum, 1-7 cm. longum, 1 cm. latum, ciliatum; alae 2°75 mm. latae, vexillo parum breviores, ciliatae; carina acuminata, vexillo aequialta, ciliata. Antherae insigniter apiculata, apice basique ciliis paucis instructae. Ovariwm compressum, glabrum, circiter 8-ovulatum, stylo glabro stigmate capitato.—I. macrostachga, Bunge, Enum. Pl. Chin. Bor. p. 16; Franch. Pl. David. p. 82; Foubes et Hemsl. in Journ. Linn, Soc. vol. xxiii. p. 157 partim ; vix Vent.—W. G. Crar. The Indigofera here figured is a species represented in the Kew collection by examples received from two distinct sources. In one case the collection owes the plant to the kindness of Mr. M. L. de Vilmorin, who has con- tributed it from his garden at Les Barres. In the other it is indebted for the plant to the kindness of Professor Sargent of the Arnold Arboretum. The material for our illustration has been taken from the latter plant. The native habit of J. Kirilowii includes Chihli, Shenking and Shantung in Northern China; it also extends into Korea. Bunge, who first had to deal with this plant, referred it doubtfully to 7. macrostachya, Vent., which has, however, more numerous leaflets, much smaller flowers and a short common peduncle. The fact that /. Kirilowii OcroBEeR, 1914. differs from J. macrostachya was first observed by Maximo- wicz, though this observation was not published until after Maximowicz’ death. ‘The species is very attrac- tive on account of its delicately coloured flowers which continue to develop in succession from the leaf-axils during June and July as the shoots lengthen. These shoots die back almost to the ground-level during the winter, but the plant can be propagated by making cuttings of them in thelate summer. /. Kirilowii prefers a warm loamy soil and a sunny position. DesoripTion.—Shrub ; twigs usually dying back, when young bearing a few short white hairs attached by their centres, soon quite glabrous, slightly angular, bark soon striate. Leaves 7-9-foliolate, up to 5 in. long not including the leaf-stalk which is 3-1} in. long, is channelled above like the rhachis, and is glabrous save when young; stipules about } in. long, narrow, acute, rather long-persisting ; leaflets usually opposite, elliptic or rounded-elliptic, obtuse or rounded at the tip, mu- cronate, cuneate or rounded-cuneate at the base, up to 1{ in. long and 1 in. wide, papery or thinly papery, both surfaces sparingly beset with short white centrally attached hairs, lateral nerves about 6 on each side the midrib, visible both above and below, tranverse nerves visible like the reticulation especially beneath ; petiolules 2-7 in. long; stipels a half shorter than the petiolules. facemes in the axils of leaves well down the twigs, larger than the leaves, with a common peduncle about twice as long as the petiole; bracts deciduous; pedicels }-} in. Jong, glabrous like the rhachis; corolla glabrous in bud except at the very tip and on the margin of the standard. Calyx glabrous; tube +}, in. long, as long as the longest tooth. Standard oblong-elliptic, 2 in. long, 3 in. wide, ciliate; wings 4, in. wide, rather shorter than the standard, ciliate; keel acuminate, as long as the standard, ciliate. Anthers very apiculate, with a few ciliae at the apex and at the base. Ovary compressed, oe about 8-ovuled ; style glabrous; stigma capi- e. Fig. 1, flower with petals removed: 2. standard: 8, wings: 4, keel; 5 and 6 anthers :—all mitiegek. Epplerd we 3 9, WIDgS; 4, , 8581. Rammeeme a 0 i fi + ti yo 43. an ~ Day & Sons Vores ales i Bro Loans * Mar ondon. Cet, Re 5 Rs | Li Reeve ¢ Tas. 8581. AGAVE BRACTEOSA. Northern Mexico. AMABYLLIDACEAE. Tribe AGAVEAE. Aaave, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 738; Baker, Handb, Amaryll. p. 163. Agave bracteosa, S. Wats. ex Engelm. in Gard, Chron., 1882, vol. xviii. p. 776, fig. 158-189; S. Wats. in Proc. Amer, Aead. vol. xviii. p. 162 (1883); Baked. Handb. Amaryll. p. 192; Hemsl. im Biol. Centr.-Amer. vol. iii. p. 340; species A. pruinosae, Lemaire, affinis, sed planta acaul- escente foliisque e basi dilatata ad apicem gradatim attenuatis differt. Frutex ; acaulescens. Folia circiter 50 rosulatim disposita, e basi 6 em. lata et 1:5 cm. crassa ad apicem longe acuminatum gradatim attenuata, 60 cm. longa, supra basin 3°5 cm. lata, primum sursum curvata, demum valide decurva, plano-convexa, marginibus tenuibus minute denseque albo-dentatis, subscabrida. Pedunculus 12 dm. altus; bracteae plures, subulatae, recurvatae, ad 15 em. longae; spica 60 cm. longa, densiflora. Perianthium viride, segmentis albo-marginatis; tubus brevissimus; segmenta ovato-oblonga, obtusa, patentia, 12 mm. longa, 7 mm. lata. Filamenta filiformia, alba, 6 em. longa; antherae oblongae, luteae, 8 mm. longae. Ovarium fusiforme, viride, 15 mm. longae, 5 mm. diametro ; stylus albus, stamina demum paulo superans; stigma punctiforme. Capsula oblonga, obtusa, 2 cm. longa.—C. H. Wricur. The Agave which forms the subject of our illustration is a very distinct species belong to the section Littaea, which differs from A. pruinosa, Lemaire, where the leaves are also finely dentate, in having the leaves gradually tapered upwards from a short thickened base, whereas in A. pruinosa the leaves are oblong-oblanceolate, and are four inches broad or broader above the middle, but contract to two and a half inches or less just above the base. When first described A. bracteosa was believed to have about fifteen leaves in its rosette, but under culti- vation the plants have developed many more. A. bracteosa was discovered by Dr. E. Palmer about fifteen miles from Monterey in the province of Nuevo Leon in Northern Mexico, and was introduced by him to the Harvard Botanic Garden, where it flowered for the first time in 1881. It was met with again by Mr. Pringle in the same district in June 1889, growing on ‘dry calcareous moun- tain walls.’ The plant from which the material for our OctoseEr, 1914. figure has been obtained was received at Kew in 1888 from the Botanic Garden at Washington. It flowered here for the first time in the Succulent House in July 1910, and a second plant of the same batch has flowered in the same month in 1914. Before perishing the 1910 ' plant matured seeds from which a supply of seedlings have been raised. The facies of this species renders it very distinct among the Agaves; the younger leaves show a strong sigmoid upward curve; afterwards they become strongly decurved. Another Agave with a some- what similar appearance is A. yuccaefolia, DC., figured at t. 5213 of this work. This species differs, however, from A. bracteosa in having a short stem, Its yellow filaments, flushed with red, are much shorter in proportion to the size of the perianth than is the case in A. bracteosa, DeEscription.—Shruh; almost stemless. Leaves about 50 in a basal rosette, 24 in. wide and 2 in. thick at the base, just above the base abruptly narrowed to 1} in., thence gradually tapering to a long acuminate tip, at first curved upwards, at length strongly decurved, plano-con- vex, the thin margins closely and finely white-denticulate, rather scabrid. Pole 6 it. high, the peduncle 4 ft., the spike 2 ft. long; bracts numerous, subulate, up to 6 in. long, recurved ; spike dense-flowered. Perianth green, segments white-margined, ovate-oblong, obtuse, spread- ing, $ in. long, } in. wide; tube very short. /ilaments filiform, white, 24 in. long; anthers oblong, yellow, + in. long. Ovary fusiform, green, % in. long, } in wide; style white, ultimately rather longer than the stamens; stigma minute. Capsule oblong, obtuse, 3 in. long. x Fig. 1, portion of leaf-edge; 2 and 3, anthers: 4, stigma ;- 6, sketch of an entire plant :—all enlarged except 5, which is much reduced. Sue ‘3 os as - Monthly, ahead: 6d. ‘ebleuved VOL, X.—NOVEMBER, : M aS op ret Selene’ OR No. 1533 OF THE : ENTIRE WORK, ~ CURTIS’ se _AND OTHER BORANTOAL ESTABLISHMENTS. EDITED BY Bower in. field that dainty odour throws é : oe decks his grtenniey with blossoms. over all SS — “TAN rights reserved.) | (Entered at the New York Post Office as second-elass ‘uation. » 8585. _LONICERA FRAGR. ANTISSI AS 8586. —PRIMULA VITTATA. aphical Distribution, Ceasar Table of Literature, s and BA Index. — MS.del.J.N Pitch hth. L emwe & C°London Tas. 8582, COELOGYNE BRACHYPTERA. Burma. ORCHIDACEAE, Tribe EPIDENDREAE.: | CorLocynz, Lindl.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 518. Coelogyne brachyptera, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1881, vol. xvi. p. 6; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. v. p. 842; Pfitz. in Engl. Pflanzenr.—Orch..- Coelog. p. 78; species C. Parishit, Hook. f. quam maxime affinis, sed labelli disco aurantiaco nee dense papilloso differt. Herba epiphytica, Pseudobulbi elongati, subtetragoni, basi paullo incrassati, 9-15 cm. longi, basi vaginis ovato-spathaceis tecti, apice diphylli. Folia elliptico-lanceolata, subacuta, plicata, 12-15 cm. longa. Scapi terminales, erecti, basi vaginis lanceolatis imbricatis obtecti, 15-18 cm. longi; racemi circiter 7-flori. Bracteae lanceolatae, acutae, concavae, 2°5-3 cm. longae, Pedicelli 2-2°5 cm. longi, persistentes. Flores speciosi, flavo-virides, labelli disco aurantiaco. Sepala patentia; posticum ovato-lanceolatum, subacutum, 3-3°5 cm. longum; lateralia oblongo-lanceolata, acuta, 3-3-5 em. longa. Petala oblongo-lanceolata, acuta, 2°5-3 cm. longa. Labellum — trilobum, circiter 2°5 cm. longum ; lobi laterales suborbiculares, undulati ; lobus intermedius orbicularis, undulatus, 1°5 cm. latus; discus graciliter tricarinatus, carinis flexuosis et prope apicem paullo verrucosis. Colwmna clavata, incurva, alata, 1°5 cm. longa.—C. Parishit var. brachyptera, Pfitz. in Engl. Pflanzenr.—Orch.-Coelog. p. 78.—R. A. Ronre, The orchid here figured has long been a source of perplexity to students of its natural’family. It was described as long ago as 1881 from material sent to the late Professor Reichenbach by Messrs. Hugh Low and Company, taken from a plant which the firm had imported from Burma. The author of the species C. brachyptera expressed the opinion that it was allied to C’. lentiginosa, Lindl., to which he might have referred it but for the elongated, tetragonal pseudobulbs. From 1881 onwards the species was lost sight of. It was enumerated by Sir J. D. Hooker among the orchids of India, but only as a doubtful species, with the remark that it might possibly be the same thing as C. Parishii, Hook. ; perhaps this suggestion may have been based on the very distinctive habit of these two plants. Professor Pfitzer has also found some difficulty in dealing with the _ species which he has enumerated in one place as a dis- NovVEMBER, 1914. tinct one, in another as only a variety of C. Parishi. In 1910 a small collection of orchids from Tenasserim was presented to Kew by Mr. H. Tilly, of Moulmein. One of these was the Coelogyne which forms the subject of our illustration. _ It was, when it arrived, rather a small plant, but it has grown well in the Tropical Orchid House under the treatment suitable for C. lentiginosa, Lindl., for which C. brachyptera was taken until it flowered, which it did for the first time in May, 1914. Although no type specimen of C. brachyptera is available for com- parison, the orange disk of the lip and the absence of the numerous elongated processes justify at once the separation of this plant from C. Parishii and its reference to the long lost species. _ Dezscriprion.—Jlerb, epiphytic ; pseudobulbs elon- gated, somewhat 4-angled, slightly thickened at the base, — 33-6 in. long, clothed at the base with ovate spathaceous sheaths, 2-foliate at the apex. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, subacute, plicate, 5-6 in. long. Scapes terminal, erect, clothed at the base with lanceolate, imbricate sheaths 6-74 in. long ; racemes about 7-flowered ; pedicels 3—1 in. long, persistent. Flowers showy, greenish-yellow, lip with an orange-coloured disk. Sepals spreading; posterior ovate-lanceolate, subacute, 1}-1} in. long; lateral oblong- lanceolate, acute, 11-1} in. long. Petals oblong-lanceo- late, acute, 1-1} in. long. Lip 3-lobed, about 1 in. long; ~ lateral lobes suborbicular, undulate; mid-lobe orbicular, undulate, 2 in. wide; disk with three slender ridges which are flexuous and slightly verrucose near the tip. Column clavate, incurved, winged, 2 in. long. Fig. 1, column ; 2, lip; 3, anther-cap ; 4, pollen-masses :—all enlarged. 5583 Rs Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Lt¢imp Tas. 8583. ECHINOCACTUS MINUSCULUS. Argentina. CactacEAE. Tribe ECHINOCACTEAE, Ecurocactus, Link et Otto; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 848. Echinocactus minusculus, Weber in Bois, Dict. d’Horticulture, vol. i. p. 471; K. Schum., Gesamtb. Kakt. p. 396, et in Bliih, Kakt. vol. i. t. 31; La Tribune Hort. 1909, t. 140; affinis H. Fiebrigii, Guerke, sed tuberculis minoribus, spinis brevioribus et ovario glabro differt. Herba succulenta, globosa, vertice dépressa, simplex vel prolifera, 2°5-6 cm. diametro; tubercula convexa, spiaglited disposita, 1-2 mm. alta, laete viridia, Aculet 25-30, centralibus et radialibus similibus, 2-3°5 mm. longi. Flores e basi plantae enati, erecti, elongato-infundibuliformes, 2-5-8 em. longi et diametro, glabri; tubus gracilis, basi curvatus, pulchre kermesinus cum squamis ovatis acuminatis fusco-rubris conspersus ; petala circiter 12, ad 1°5 cm. longa, 4 mm. lata, lineari-oblonga, acuta, apice minute denticulata, pulchre cinnabarina. Stamina 15-30, albida. “Stigma 4-5-lobum, albidum.—Rebutia minuscula, K, Schum. in Monatschr. fiir Kakt. vol. v. p. 102, cum icon. Echinopsis minuscula, Weber in Bois, Dict. d’Horticulture, vol. i. p. 471.—N. E. Brown. The Echinocactus now figured is a native of the province + of Tucuman in Argentina, which was first introduced to European collections of succulent plants in 1894 or 1895 by Mr. Felder of Lichterfelde, who had received it from Mr. Rebat of Chazay d’Azergues, in Argentina. It is one of the most pleasing and at the same time one of as. the easiest to grow of the small Cactaceae, thriving well in an open mixture of turfy loam, sand and mortar- rubbish in an airy sunny greenhouse. Under these conditions it is extremely floriferous and produces seeds in abundance. Each flower, however, lasts only for a day or two. Propagation is readily effected by seeds, and seedlings reach the flowering stage when three to four years old. The plant from which the material for our plate has been obtained was purchased for the Kew olléction in 1913 from Messrs. Cragg, Harrison and ‘Cragg, Nurserymen, Heston. £. minusculus and L. Fie- brigit, Guerke, agree with each other, and are remarkable in the genus Lehinocactus for producing their flowers from the base instead of the upper part of the plant, a November, 1914. feature which readily distinguishes them from the other species. Description.—/erb, succulent, globose with a de- pressed apex, simple or proliferous, 1-2} in. across; tubercles convex, spirally arranged, under 1 lin. high, bright green; spines in tufts of 25-30, the central and radial similar, 1-1} lin. Jong. Flowers rising from the base of the plant, erect, long-infundibuliform, 1—1} in. long and as much across, glabrous; tube slender, curved at the base, bright crimson, dotted with ovate, acuminate, reddish tawny scales; petals about 12, up to 2 in. long, + in. wide, linear-oblong, acute, minutely denticulate at the tip, bright vermilion. Stamens 15-30, whitish. Stigma 4-5-lobed, whitish. Fig. 1, a tuft of spines; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, style and stigmas :—all enlarged. 8554, M.S. del. IN-Fitch lith. a. “Vancent Brooks,Day &Son ioe L.Reeve &C° London. TAB. 8584. : NOTHOFAGUS CUNNINGHAMIL. Australia, Tasmania. ' Fagacear. Tribe FaGEag. Nornoracus, Bl. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. vol. i. p. 307; Engl. € Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam, vol. iii. pars i. p. 52.—Fagus § Nothofagus, Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 410. Nothofagus Cunninghamii, Oerst. in Vidensk. Selsk. Skr., ser. 5, vol. ix. (1873), p. 355; Henry in Elwes ¢ Henry, Trees of Gt. Brit. and Irel., vol. iii. p. 550; species N. Menziesti, Oerst., proxima, sed foliis grossius crenatis, staminibus multo magis numerosis, involucri valvis latioribus, perianthii lobis multo magis inaequalibus diversa. _ Arbor in Tasmania ad 60 m. alta et trunco ad 12 m. ambitu metiente, vel in alpinis frutex compactus, humilis, ramulis diu pubescentibus, ramis cortice fusco vel griseo-fusco tectis. _Gemmae conico-ovoideae, 3-4 mm. longae, glabrae, perulis ovatis vel ovato-oblongis acutis vel subacutis brunneis nitidis. Folia sempervirentia, magis minusve deltoideo-ovata vel rhomboidea, acuta, basi late rotundata vel perlate cuneata, crenata, plerumque 1-2 cm. longa et 7-10 mm. lata, sed interdum multo minora vel majora, coriacea, glabra, nervis tenuibus saepe inconspicuis, utrinque 4-5 ; stipulae lineares, 3 mm. longae, caducae; petioli ad 2 mm. longi, minutis- sime puberuli. Flores maris axillares, solitarii, subsessiles vel pedicello ad 2 mm. longo suffulti. Perianthiwm subcampanulatum, 3 mm. longum, glabrum, lobis 6 ovatis acutis. Stamina circiter8. Flores foeminet terni, laterales 8-meri, centralis 2-mierus involucro communi cincti, ex axillis superioribus orti. Involucrum breviter pedunculatum, 4-valvatum, valvis in dorso glandulosa-apiculatis maturis lineari-oblongis circiter 5 mm. longis appendicibus magis minusve recurvis squarrosis demum deciduis. Receptaculum 8-gonum vel centrale anceps angulis alatis. Perianthiwm 6-4-lobum, lobis interangularibus minoribus. Ovariwm stigmatibus brevibus 8 vel 2 divergentibus. Fructus 3- vel 2-alati, 3-3°5 mm. longi, alis ad 1 mm. latii—Fagus Cunninghamii, Hook. f. in Journ. Bot, vol. ii. _p. 152, t, 7; Benth. Fl. Austral. vol. vi. p. 210.—O. Srapr. The Southern Beech which forms the subject of our illustration is that which in Tasmania is spoken of as the “‘ Myrtle-tree.”” In Tasmania it forms much of the evergreen forest, and occurs on the mountains up to an elevation of 4,000 feet, but towards their summits becomes much dwarfed. It is also met with in various localities in south-eastern Australia. Though not hardy at Kew, and though rarely cultivated at ali, N. Cunninghamiu makes an elegant small tree in the milder parts of the British Isles. There are fine specimens in Ireland at Fota, Novemser, 1914, near Queenstown, and at Kilmacurragh, while there is a well-known example in the Royal demesne at Osborne, Isle of Wight. It has also lived out of doors in parts of Surrey and Sussex. The date of its first introduction to Europe is uncertain, but the tree at Fota, which is now nearly fifty feet in height, is believed to have been planted half-a-century ago. The figure now given has been prepared from a small tree in cultivation in the Temperate House at Kew, which forms part of. the munificent bequest made to the Royal Gardens by the late Mr. George Joad of Wimbledon in 1881. The relationship of Nothofagus to Faugus—of the Southern to the Northern Beech—has already been discussed in this work at t. 8314. Among the Southern Beeches the present one is clearly closely allied to NV. Menziesii, Oerst., from New Zealand. Among the South American species the ones which come nearest to the Australian, if the structure of the female inflorescenee be taken as our guide, are those which differ from the rest in having deciduous leaves. Like most Southern Beeches this one may be propagated by layering when seeds are not available. Description.— Tee, on the lower mountain slopes in Tasmania sometimes attaining a height of 200 ft. and a girth of 40 ft., but towards the mountain-tops forming a dense dwarf shrub; branches clothed with a tawny or pale-tawny bark; twigs long pubescent. Buds ovoid- conical, }—j in. long, glabrous ; their scales ovate or ovate- oblong, acute or subacute, brown, polished. Leaves ever- green, more or less deltoid-ovate or rhomboid, acute, the base wide-rounded or very wide-cuneate, crenate, usually 3-4 in. long and about 1 in. wide, but sometimes much smaller or much larger, coriaceous, glabrous; nerves slender and often hardly visible, 4-5 along each side; stipules linear, } in. long, caducous ; petioles ;, in. long or less, very finely puberulous. Male flowers axillary, solitary, subsessile or with pedicels ;'; in. long or less. Perianth subcampanulate, 4 in, long, glabrous; lobes 6, ovate, acute. Stamens about 8. Female flowers in threes — Surrounded by a common involucre, the lateral flowers of each cluster 3-merous, the central one 2-merous, the clusters situated in the uppermost leaf-axils. Jnvolucre shortly peduncled, 4-valved ; the valves glandular-apicu- late on the back, when ripe linear-oblong, about + in. long, the appendices more or less recurved, squarrose, ultimately deciduous. Receptacle 3-gonous or (the central) 2-gonous, the angles winged. Perianth 6—4-lobed, the lobes between the angles smaller than the others. Ovary with 3 or 2 short divergent stigmas. /ruit 3—-2-winged, +++ in. long, wings very narrow.. Fig. 1, end of a twig, with male flowers; 2, twig with a male flower, also with fruit; 3, a male flower; 4 and.5, anthers; 6, a lateral female flower; 7, a central female flower :—all enlarged. S585 M.S.del. INFitsh ith Vincent Brocks,Day &5o a L Reeve & C°London Tas. 8585. : LONICERA FRAGRANTISSIMA. China. CAPRIFOLIACEAE, Tribe LoNICEREAE. Lonicera, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 5; Rehder in Missouri Bot. Gard. Rep., 1903, pp. 27-232. Lonicera (§ Isika) fragrantissima, Lindl. et Paxt. in Part. Fl. Gard. vol. iii, p. 75, fig. 268 (1852); Carriére in Fl. des Serr, sér. ii. vol. iii, (1858), p. 63, et Rev. Hort. 1873, p. 169, fig. 17; K. Koch, Dendr, vol. ii. (1872), p. 21; Maxim. Bull. Acad. Sci, St. Pétersb. vol. xxiv. (1877), p. 42; Gard, Chron. 1878, vol. ix. p. 107, fig. 19; Dippel, Gartenjl. vol. xxxv. (1886), p. 680, fig. 87, e6 Handb. der Laubhoizk. vol. i. (1889), p. 226, fig. 144; Rehder in Missouri Bot. Gard. Rep. 1903, p. 82; Schneider, Til. Handb, Laubholzk. vol. ii. (1911), p. 698, fig. 444 f; affinis ZL. Standishiz, Carr., sed ramis glabris, foliis ellipticis vel obovato-ellipticis, corollis extra glabris differt. Frutex ramosus, ramuli elongati, leviter sulcati vel angulati, glabri; internodii usque ad 6 cm. longi. Folia elliptica vel obovato-elliptica, basi inaequaliter rotundata, apice acute et abrupte mucronata, 4°5-7 cm. longa, 3~4 em. lata, integra, chartacea, margine parce setaceo-ciliata, utrinque glabra, -subtus glauco-viridia, nervis lateralibus utrinque 5-6 adscendentibus promi- nentibus marginem versus ramosis ; petioli 3-5 mm. longi, primum parce setoso-pilosi, demum glabri. Flores albi, axillares, geminati, pedunculati ; pedunculi 1-1°5 cm. longi, acute angulati vel subalati, glabri; bracteae geminatae, oppositae, anguste lanceolatae, acutae, 0°5-1 cm, longae, foliaceae, glabrae. Receptacula basi breviter connata, ellipsoideo-globosa, 1 mm. longa. Calyx cupularis, integer vel margine leviter undulatus, 0°5 mm. altus, viridis. Corolla bilabiata ; tubus vix 0°5 cm. longus, basi - gaccatus, extra costatus, glaber, intra pilosus ; labium superum 4-lobum, lobis rotundatis 0°5 cm. latis striatis margine minute crenulatis; labium inferum integrum, oblongo-ellipticum, apice rotundatum, 1 am. longum, 0°5 cm. latum, striatum. Stamina exserta; filamenta inaequalia ; antherae 8 mm. longae. Stylus exsertus, glaber, apice incrassatus, bilobulatus.—L. caprifolioides, K. Koch, Ind. Sem. Berol. 1871, app. 3; et Dendr, vol. ii. p. 19. L. Niaguarilli, Hort., ex Koch, lc. L. odoratis- sima et L. Magnevillae, Hort. ex Dippel Handb. der Laubholzk. vol. i. (1889), p. 226. Caprifolium fragrantissimum, Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. vol. i. (1891), p. 274. L. Volgarensis et Chamaecerasus Niaguariili, Hort., ex Hand-list Arb. Kew, 1896, p. 15.—J. Hurcuinson. The Honeysuckle here figured is a plant which has been in cultivation in England since 1845, when it was introduced from China by the late Mr, Fortune on behalf of the Royal Horticultural Society. It was met with by Fortune in Chinese gardens only, and so far it has never yet been discovered in a wild state. L. fragrantissima and the well-known L. Standishii, Carr., figured at t. 5709 of this work, for which this species is sometimes mistaken, Novemsper, 1914. are favourite sweet-scented winter-blooming species. L. Standishii may, however, be readily distinguished from the present plant by its more precocious habit of flower- ing, its hairy branches and leaves—the latter being narrower and more pointed—and by its externally pilose corolla-tube. JL. fragrantissima is easily cultivated and is perfectly hardy, thriving well in rich loamy soil, and being readily propagated by cuttings placed in gentle heat, or even in a close unheated frame, during August. With the object of inducing its fragrant flowers to open sooner, and in order to preserve these from inclement weather, this shrub is sometimes grown against a wall. The plant from which the material for our figure has been prepared is an old denizen of the collection at Kew. It is a rounded bush about six feet high and over six feet in width which flowers every year from December to March. Descriprion.—Shru), with many branches ; twigs long, slightly grooved or angled, glabrous; internodes up to 25 in. long. Leaves elliptic or obovate-elliptic, unequally rounded at the base, apex sharply and abruptly mucro- nate, 13-3 in. long, 14-1} in. wide, entire, chartaceous, the margin sparingly setaceous-ciliate, glabrous on both surfaces, glaucous-green underneath, lateral nerves 5-6 along each side, ascending, raised, branching towards the margin; petiole 1—} in. long, at first sparingly setose- hairy, ultimately glabrous. lowers white, axillary, geminate, peduncled; peduncles 1-2 in. long, acutely angled or almost winged, glabrous; bracts geminate, opposite, narrow lanceolate, acute, 1—! in. long, leaty, glabrous. Receptacles shortly connate at the base, ellip- soid-globose, very short. Calyx cupular, entire or with slightly undulate margin, very short, green. Corolla 2-labiate; tube about + in. long, saccate at the base, ribbed and glabrous outside, hairy within; upper lip — 4-lobed, the lobes rounded, } in. wide, striate and with — finely crenulate margin; lower lip entire, oblong-elliptic, rounded at the tip, # in. long, } in. wide, striate. Stamens exserted ; filaments unequal; anthers 1 in. long. Style exserted, glabrous, thickened at the tip, 2-lobulate. Fig. 1, flowers; 2, the same with corollas removed; 8 and 4, anthers:— 3 all enlarged. ae M.S.del,J.N-Bitch ith, Son Lttimp ‘VEncent Brooks,Day & L Reeve & C° London TAB. 8586. PRIMULA vITTATA. Szechuan. PRIMULACEAE. Tribe PRIMULEAE. Priuvta, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 681. Primula vittata, Bur. et Franch. in Journ. de Bot. vol. v. p.96; Pax et Knuth in Engl. Pflanzenr.-Prim. p. 118; Gard. Chron. 1905, vol. xxxvii. p. 390, fig. 165 et 1906, vol. xl. p. 209, fig. 87; Jardin, 1908, p. 184, fig. 100; Balf. f. in Journ. Roy. Hort. Soc, vol. xxxix. p. 159, fig. 63: species P. secundi- jflorae, Franch., peraffinis, foliis angustioribus longioribus distinguenda. Herba perennis. Folia oblanceolata vel latius oblanceolata. basi in petiolum attenuata, apice acuta vel obtusiuscula, usque ad 15 cm. longa et 3 cm. lata, pagina utraque glabra, farinae sulphureae granulis inferiore sparse superiore parcissime instructa, utrinque viridia, nervis lateralibus utrinsecus ‘circiter 12 supra conspicuis subtus prominentibus, margine irregulariter argutius dentata, petiolo valido usque ad 4°5 cm. longo supra plano vel late canaliculato saepius rubro-suffuso suffulta. Scapus validus, 18-21 cm. altus, ad 5 mm. diametro, superne albo-farinosus, umbellam 6-16-floram gerens; involucri bracteae ad 7 mm. longae, anguste lanceolatae, virides nisi inferne purpureo-suffusae; pedicelli sub anthesin cernui, ad 3 cm. longi, sparse albo-farinosi. Calyx 7-8 mm. longus, tubo 4 mm. longo, -Jobis lanceolatis vel late lanceolatis acutiusculis, longitudinaliter 10-vittatus, vittis 5 glabris fusco-purpureis in medios lobos productis, 5 albo-farinosis apice bifurcis et cum loborum marginibus anguste farinosis continuis, intus praesertim in lobis albo-farinosus. Corollae purpureae tubus 12 mm. longus, apice 8 mm. diametro, limbus campanulatus, 5-lobus, lobis saepe inter se parum inaequalibus, obovato-oblongis apice rotundatis vel non- nonquam retusiusculis ad 5°5 mm. longis et 6 mm. latis. Filamenta 0-25 mm. longa, antheris circiter 1:5 mm. longis. Ovarium subglobosum, 2mm. altum; stigma grande, capitatum, viride.—W. G. Crar. The Chinese Primula here figured was first met with by Prince Henry of Orleans and Mr. Bonvalot during their Chino-Tibetan journey, and was described from specimens collected in Szechuan. It is a hardy perennial, agreeing in habit with the well-known Himalayan P. sikkimensis, Hook. £., figured at t. 4597 of this work, which is the best known member of a section or group of seven species, all of which are yellow-flowered except the present species, P. vittata, and another very closely allied one, P. secundiflora, Franch., in which the flowers are purple. According to Professor Bayley Balfour, who has made a close study of this group of species, P. vittata a and P. secundiflora are so like each other that they may easily be confused. As a rule they admit of ready separation because in P. vittata the leaves are erect and elongated, whereas in P. secundiflora they are horizontal Novemser, 1914. ; and are oblong-elliptic. The first introduction of P. vitiata to this country took place in 1905 when it was raised by Messrs. J. Veitch and Sons from seed obtained on behalf of the firm by Mr. E. H. Wilson. It has since then been found again by Mr. G. Forrest on the Likiang range. Plants raised from seeds sent by Mr. Forrest to Messrs. Bees, Limited, were exhibited at Chelsea in May, 1914; from one of these, purchased for the Royal Gardens, Kew, the material for our plate has been derived. Like most other Chinese Primulas, P. vittata prefers moist, shady conditions, It can be propagated by seeds which ripen early and germinate freely in and after August. Description.—Herb, perennial. Leaves oblanceolate or broadly oblanceolate, narrowed at the base into the petiole, apex acute or rather blunt, up to 6 in. long, 1; in. wide, glabrous on both sides, distinctly beset below but very sparingly beset above with granules of a yellow powder, green on both surfaces, lateral nerves about 12 along each side, conspicuous above and raised beneath, margin irregularly rather sharply toothed ; petiole stout, 13 in. long, flat or wide-channelled above, often flushed with red. Scape stout, 7-8 in. high, + in. thick, white-floury above, supporting a 6—16-flowered umbel; bracts of the involucre over } in. long, narrow lanceolate, green and flushed with purple except at the base ; pedicels nodding in flower, over 1 in. long, sparingly white-floury. Calyx about 1 in. long, tube « mm. long, lobes lanceolate or wide-lanceolate, some- what acute, longitudinally 10-vittate; five of the vittae glabrous, tawny-purple, continued into the centre of the lobes, the other five white-floury 2-furcate at the tip and continued along the margins of the lobes, within white-floury, especially on the lobes. Corolla purple ; tube } in. long, | in. wide at the top; limb campanulate, 5-lobed, lobes often slightly unequal, obovate-oblong with rounded or occasionally slightly retuse tips, about + in. wide and nearly as long. Filaments very short ; anthers short. Ovary subglobose, yz in. high; stigma large, capitate, green. Baty flower with corolla removed; 2, section of corolla; 3, pistil :—all Monthly, price 3s. 6d. jemee ed, Annual Si gs seh ceed or No. 1534 OF THE ENTIRE ; WORK. | oe PTIS’S MAGEE AND OTHER BOTANICAL HSTABLISHMENTS. . EDITED BY SIR. DAVID PRAIN, OMG, OLE, oo, eet: Sous Botanic Garpens, priat NICAL MAGAZINE. CONTENTS OF No. 120, DECEMBER, 1914. 587.—CLEMATIS ARMANDI. -8588.—PLEIONE POGONIOIDES. _8589—CRATAEGUS PUBESCENS, FoRMA STIPULACEA. -8590.—SALVIA LONGISTYLA. -$591.—CERATOSTIGMA WILLMOTTIANUM. | PATICE. or tue BRITISH ISLES. By W. H. PEARSON. plete in ‘Two Vols., with 228 plates, 10 in. by 62 in. Giving Desetine —— sagrceh Ere Geographical Distribution, Glossary Table of Literature, and good Index, With Coloured Plates, £6 6s. _ With Uncoloured Plates, £4 IOs. af : : cn 835 ‘Caieatea Plates, showing over 5. 000 figures, es os Mi in. by Shi in. : 858 Vineent Brooks Day & Son Lamp lath A. 5. del J. Nitch iv + l. Reeve & C° London Tas. 8587. CLEMATIS ARrMANDI. China. RANUNCULACEAE. Tribe CLEMATIDEAE. Cuematis, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 3. Clematis Armandi, Franch. in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, sér. 2, vol. viii. p. 184, t. 2; Finet & Gagnep. Contrib. Fl. As. Or. vol. i. p. 11; J. H. Veitch in Journ. Roy. Hort. Soc. vol. xxviii. p. 58, fig. 14; Gard. Chron. 1905, vol. xxxviii. p. 30; Rehder & Wilson in Sargent, Pl. Wilson. vol. i. p. 826; affinis C. Meyenianae, Walp., a qua inflorescentiis basi perulatis distinguitur. Frutex alte scandens. Rami teretes, costulati, glabri. Folia trifoliolata, petiolata; petioli 6-8 cm. longi; petioluli laterales 1°5-2 cm. longi, terminale circiter 8 em. longum; foliola ovato-lanceolata, basi leviter cordata vel rotundata, apice subacuta, plerumque breviter acuminata, 9-11 cm. longa, 3°5-4°5 em. lata, integra, 5-nervia, nervis intermediis censpicuis ad apicem currentibus, exterioribus inconspicuis cum nervis transversis anastomosantibus, reticulata, glabra. Cymae axillares, bracteatae, pluriflorae, basi perulatae, e basi ramosae, puberulae; perulae magnae, ovatae; bracteae inferiores perulis similes, superiores oblongae, saepe trifidae ; pedicelli floribus longiores. Flores albi, odorati. Sepala 5-7, obovato-oblonga, 2-2°5 cm. longa, patentia. Filamenta applanata, glabra, exteriora antheris longiora, interiora antheris breviora; antherae anguste oblongae, 3-3°5 mm. longae. Styli parte superiore excepta sericeo-plumosi. Achaenia elliptica, compressa, hirsuta, stylo patenter plumoso.—C. hedysarifolia, var. Armandi, Kuntze in Verh. Bot. Ver. Brandenburg, vol. xxvi. p. 152.—T. A. SPRAGUE. The fine Clematis which forms the subject of our illus- tration is a very distinct and beautiful addition to that scarce group in our gardens, the hardy evergreen climbers. It is equal in beauty to C. indivisa, Willd., a form of which was figured at t. 4398 of this work, and has the advantage of being rather hardier than that New Zea- land. plant, which can only be grown out of doors in the south-west of England and Ireland. C. Armandi is a tall climber which occurs in thickets and on trees and bushes at various altitudes up to 5,500 feet above sea- level, from Hupeh in Central China to Szechuan and Yunnan. It was introduced to European cultivation by Mr. E. H. Wilson and is one of the finest species of Clematis obtained by that traveller. It is met with in gardens in two forms; one with sepals only half the DrcEMBER, 1914, width of those here figured, the other the much finer form now depicted, for material of which we are indebted to the kindness of Sir W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, on the walls of whose residence, The Ferns, Witcombe, it made a very beautiful display in April, 1914. The species appears to call for wall treatment in this country, and should not be pruned too severely, but allowed to form a rather loose tangle, the leading and supporting shoots alone being nailed. It requires a good loamy soil, and can be increased by cuttings in late summer. C. Armandi bears a considerable resemblance to C. Meyeniana, Walp., but may at once be distinguished from that species by the inflorescences, which are perulate at the base. Description.—Shrub, far-climbing; branches terete, slightly ribbed, glabrous. Leaves trifoliolate, petioled ; petiole 24-31 in. long; lateral petiolules 2-} in. long, end petiolule 14 in. long; leaflets ovate-lanceolate, base slightly cordate or rounded, subacute at the apex and usually shortly acuminate, 33-44 in. long, 11-1} in. wide, entire, 5-nerved, intermediate nerves running to the tip, the outermost indistinct with transverse anastomosing nerves, reticulate, glabrous. Cymes axillary, bracted, several-flowered, perulate at the base, branching from the base, puberulous ; perulae large, ovate ; lower bracts like the scales, upper bracts oblong, often trifid; pedicels longer than the flowers. Flowers white, scented. Sepals 5-7, obovate-oblong, 3—1 in. long, spreading. Filaments flattened, glabrous, the outer longer the inner shorter than the anthers; anthers narrow-oblong, under 2 lin. long. Styles silky-plumose except in the upper portion. Achenes elliptic, compressed, hairy; style plumose with spreading hairs. Fig. 1, an inner stamen; 2, an outer stamen; 38, a carpel :—all enlarged. 8588 OE DRNS Rte tA aga eg ne cis ae MS del. IN Fitehiith Vincent Brooks,Day &SonLet imp. L Reeve & C°Londen * Tab. 8588. PLEIONE PpoGonrIoIpEs. China. ORCHIDACEAE. Tribe EPIDENDREAE. PLEIONE, D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. p. 36; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 518, swb Coelogyne. Pleione pogonioides, Rolfe in Orch. Rev. 1903, p. 291; 1914, p. 108; affinis P. bulbocodioidet, Rolfe, sed sepalis petalisque subaequalibus et labelli carinis valde crenatis differt. Herba terrestris, 10-18 em. alta; pseudobulbi ovoidei, apice attenuati, 1°2-1°5 em. longi, monophylli. Folia elliptico-lanceolata, subobtusa, plicata, 5-17 cm. longa, 2-3°5 cm. lata. Flos terminalis, speciosus, roseus, labelli disco albidulo, pedunculo basi vaginis membranaceis obtecto. Bractea lanceolata, acuta, concava, 1°5-3 em. longa. Sepala et petala subconniventia, oblongo-lanceolata, acuta vel apiculata, subaequalia, 3°5-4 em. longa. Labellum circa columnam convolutum, amplum, 3°5-4 em. longum, apice fimbriatum ? late ellipticum vel suborbiculare, discus 4—5-lamellatus, lamellis valde et irregulariter crenatis. Colwmna clavata, ineurva, circiter 3 em. longa, alis triangularibus es membranaceis. Capsula ellipsoideo-oblonga, 2°5-3 cm. longa.—Pogonia sp., Hance in Journ. Bot. 1885, p. 247. Coelogyne. (Pleione) pogonioides, Rolfe in Kew Bulletin, 1896, p. 196, et in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxxvi. p. 23.—C. (Pleione) Henryz, Rolfe in Kew Bulletin, 1896, p. 195, et in Journ. Linn, Soe. vol. xxxvi. p. 22.—R. A. RonF... Though there are several Chinese species of Pleione, only one of these has until now become established in cultivation; that species, P. yunnanensis, Rolfe, was figured at t. 8106 of this work. The one now figured, P. pogonioides, Rolfe, though it has been known longer than P. yunnanensis, for it was originally discovered in 1881, is the second to be introduced from China to orchid collections. Bulbs were received from there in 1912 by Messrs. Charlesworth and Company, in whose houses at Haywards Heath it flowered for the first time in February, 1914, and our figure has been prepared from material supplied by Messrs. Charlesworth for identification. The original specimens were gathered by Mr. T. Bullock on wet rocks at Wu Hu in the province of Am Hwei, at an elevation of 3,000 feet above sea- level, and were referred by the late Dr. Hance to the genus Pogonia. It was met with again by Mr. A. Henry DECEMBER, 1914. on mountains near Patung, and from his material was described by Mr. Rolfe as Coelogyne pogonioides, in accordance with the idea long entertained, but now abandoned, that Pleione is no more than a section of Coelogyne. It was subsequently collected in various localities by Mr. Henry and by Mr. E. H. Wilson, who supplied living plants to Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, which, however, do not appear to have flowered. Mr. - Rolfe finds that the plant described at the same time as C. Henryi is only an unusually well-developed form of P. pogonioides. The cultural requirements for P. pogoni- oides are the same as for 2. praccox and the other species usually met with in collections. Drscription.—/Her)h, terrestrial, 3-4 in. high; pseudo- bulbs ovoid, narrowed to the tip, }—2 in. long, 1-foliate. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, rather blunt, plicate, 2-6} in. long, 3-1} in. wide. Flower terminal, showy, rosy red with a whitish disk; ‘peduncle clothed below with membranous sheaths. ract lanceolate, acute, concave, 3—1; in. long. Sepals and petals somewhat connivent, oblong-lanceolate, acute or apiculate, subequal, 11-1} in. long. Lip convolute around the column, large, 11—1} in. long, fimbriate at the apex, wide-elliptic or suborbicular, disk with 4-5 lamellae which are strongly but irregu- larly crenate. Column clavate, incurved, about 1} in. long; wings triangular, membranous. Capsule ellipsoid- oblong, 1-1} in. long. Fig. 1, portion of labellum; 2, column; 3, anther-cap :—all enlarged. Vincent Brooks Day & SonLttimp ith. MS.del. JN. Fitch L Reeve & C2? Landon. TaB. 8589. CRATAEGUS puBEscEeNs, forma STIPULACEA. Mexico. Rosaceak. Tribe PoMEAE. Cratarcus, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 626. Crataegus pubescens, Steud., forma stipulacea, Stapf; a C. pubescente, H. B. K. ut primo descripto et depicto differt foliis majoribus pro rata latioribus (praesertim in parte superiore), stipulis magis foliaceis et diutius persistentibus, indumento parciore. Arbor parva, ad 10 m. alta, interdum spinis angulo recto patentibus ad 4 cm. longis armata, novellis albo-villosis mox glabrescentibus, ramulis adultis cortice fusco vel brunneo- vel griseo-fusco tectis, gemmis subglobosis obtusis glabris. Folia laxiuscule disposita, rarius in ramulis abbreviatis aggregata; laminae e subelliptico vel obovato ad oblanceolatum vergentes, plerumque acutae, basin versus cuneatim attenuatae, simpliciter vel subduplo serrato-crenatae, e medio basin versus integrae, interdum (praesertim in turionibus) grosse dentatae vel sublobatae, rarius trilobae, 4-8 cm. longae, 2-4 cm. latae, virides, demum subcoriaceae, autumno rubescentes vel aurantiacae, supra primo pilosulae, mox calvescentes, infra praeter nervos villosos laxe vel perlaxe villosulae, nervis lateralibus utrinque 5-7 obliquis leviter curvatis in crenas vel dentes excurrentibus supra impressis subtus prominulis; petioli 0°5-1:5 cm. longi, longiores saepe ob laminam decurrentem anguste alati, indumento laminae; stipulae plerumque foliaceae, saepe falcato-lineares vel lanceolatae et diutius persistentes, interdum lineares tenuiores caducae, integrae vel subintegrae, ad margines glandulosae vel eglandulosae ad plus quam 1 cm. longae. Corymbi 6-15-flori, magis minusve albo- vel incano-villosi, rarius fere calvescentes; bracteae stipulis conformes; pedicelli ad 2 cm. longi. Receptaculum turbinatum, villosulum, 3-4 mm, altum, disco rubicundo ad 4 mm. diametro. Sepala lineari-lanceolata vel linearia, integra vel apice paucidentata, plerumque eglandulosa, pilosa, 5-6 mm. longa, persistentia, in fructu plerumque suberecta. Petala alba, obovato- rotundata, circiter 8 mm. longa. Stamina 15-20; antherae demum pubescentes. Styli plerumque .2 vel 3, interdum 4 vel 5, basi pilis cincti. Fructus breviter pyriformis vel globosus, ad 25 cm. diametro, flavidus vel viridi-flavidus vel ad rufo-aurantiacum vergentes, lenticellis parce aspersi, calyce basi indurato coronati. Pyrenae plerumque 2, ambitu rotundato-ellipticae, facie superiore styli basi indurata conspicua, 7-8 mm. diametro, in dorso late carinatae, pariete crassissima,—C. stipulacea, Lodd. Cat. 1826, p. 40 (nomen tantum); Loudon, Gard. Mag. vol. ix. (1833), p. 630. C. mexicana, D. Don in Sweet, Fl. Gard. Qnd ser. t. 8300; Lindley in Bot. Reg. t. 1910; Loudon, Arb. Brit. p. 843; non DC. C. Lam- bertiana, Hort. ex Steud. Nom. ed. 2, p. 432. C. hypolasia, Koch in Vers. d. Ver. z. Beférd. Gartenb. vol. i. p. 229. OC. pubescens, Eggleston in Bull. Torr. Bot. Club. vol. xxxv. (1999) . 505; non H.B.K. DecemBrr, 1914. Mespilus Loddigesiana, Spach, Hist. Nat. Veg. vol. ii. (1834), p. o4. M. stipulacea, Desf. ex Spach lc. M. mexicana, Koch, Dendrol. vol. i. (1869) p. 182, ex parte.—O. Srapr. The Thorn here figured is one of the forms of the Mexican Hawthorn or Tejocote, the earliest account of which we owe to Hernandez, who was resident in Mexico between 1571 and 1577, and has described it as the Texocotl or Rock Apple. The Tejocote is one of the few members of the genus Crataegus which inhabit the Mexican tableland, where it is appreciated, more especially by the Indian inhabitants, on account of its fruits, which are used as the basis.of a national conserve. From a drawing of the Tejocote made in the field by the travellers Sessé and Mociiio about the end of the XVIIIth Century, the species was described by De Can- dolle in 1825 as Crataegus mexicana. In the meantime, however, the travellers Humboldt and Bonpland, who had also met with the Tejocote near the mines of Moran in what is now the State of Hidalgo, in the beginning of the XIXth Century, had published a description in 1823 under the name Mespilus pubescens. From the synonyms cited by Dr. Stapf it will be seen that the generic position postulated for this tree by these distinguished travellers has not found general favour, and there is no room for doubt that the view of De Candolle is the pre- ferable one. An almost more serious difficulty has arisen, however, as to its specific limitation. This has been caused by the excessive degree of variation dis- played not merely in different individual trees but even, at times, in the same individual. It is to this circum- stance that the number of trivial epithets used as specific names, which are enumerated in the synonymy, must be attributed. The whole question has recently been very fully dealt with by Dr. Stapf in the Kew Bulletin for the present year, and here it is sufficient to repeat that the plant from which the material for our plate has been derived is only a form, though a rather distinct and striking one, of the Tejocote. The Species appears to have been introduced to cultivation in England by the eighth Lord Napier, through his friend Mr. A. B. Lambert, about 1824. The example at Kew, which is a small tree about fifteen feet high, and is perfectly hardy, was received from the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, in 1891. It is one of the handsomest of Thorns both in its flowers and in its yellow fruits, which are valuable from the cultural standpoint for the length of time that they remain upon the branches; often they do not fall until February. | DrscripTion.—7ree, 15-35 ft. high, sometimes armed with spines up to 13 in. long spreading at right angles from the twigs; young shoots white-villous, soon be- coming glabrous; old shoots tawny or brown- or grey- tawny; buds subglobose, obtuse, glabrous. Leaves rather scattered, rarely close together on abbreviated shoots ; from subelliptic or obovate to oblanceolate, usually acute, cuneately narrowed to the base, once to twice serrate- crenate, at least beyond the middle, sometimes from the middle to the base entire, occasionally—and more particularly on suckers—the leaves coarsely toothed or almost lobed, very rarely distinctly 3-lobed, 1}—3} in. long, 3-1} in. wide, green, when adult subcoriaceous, becoming red or orange-coloured in autumn, at first finely pilose above, soon becoming smooth, beneath villous on the nerves, elsewhere loosely or very loosely pubescent, lateral nerves 5-7 on each side the midrib, oblique, slightly curved, running out into the teeth, sunk above and raised beneath; petioles {—% in. long, often slightly winged by the decurrent leaf-blade, pubescence as on the leaf; stipules usually foliaceous, often falcate-linear or lanceolate and rather distinctly persistent, sometimes linear and thinner and caducous, entire or nearly so, the margins glandular or not. Corymbs 6-15-flowered, more or less white- or hoary- villous, rarely almost glabrous; bracts like the stipules ; pedicels up to ? in. long. Receptacle turbinate, some- what villous, }-% in. deep, disk reddish, } in. across. Sepals linear-lanceolate or linear, entire or sparingly toothed at the tip, usually eglandular, pilose, }—} in. long, persistent, in fruit usually suberect. Petals white, obovate-rounded, about } in. long. Stamens 15-20; anthers pubescent. Styles usually 2 or 3, sometimes 4 or 5, pilose at the base. uit short-pyriform or globose, up to 1 in. across, yellow or greenish-yellow shading into reddish-orange, sparsely lenticelled, tipped with the calyx which is hardened at the base. Pyrenes usually 2, rounded-elliptic in outline, with the con- spicuous hardened base of the style on the upperside, 1 in. across, wide-keeled on the back. Fig. 1, flower-bud ; Q, vertical section of flower; 8 and 4, anthers; 5, a pyrene; 6, the same in section :—all enlarged. ~ IC OD. Vincent Brooks Day& Son Lt? imp Tt Hance & C70 T 2... Tas. 8590. SALVIA LonaIsty3a. Mexico. Lapiatar. Tribe MonarDEAg. Satvia, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1194. Salvia longistyla, Benth. Lab. p. 295; affinis S. coccineae, Linn., sed foliis floribusque majoribus et calyce bilobo lobis longe acuminatis distinguenda. Herba elata, ad 4-4°5 m. alta. Caulis tetragonus, patule glanduloso-pubescens. Foliorum petioli 4-9 cm. longi, patule glanduloso-pubescentes; laminae 7~14 cm. longae, 5°5~11 cm. latae, cordato-ovatae, acutae, serrato-dentatae, supra glabrae, subtus ad nervos pubescentes. Racemi saepe 3°5 dm., nonnunguam 6 dm. longi, glanduloso-pubescentes; verticillastri 2°5- 4°5 cm, distantes, 8-16-flori. Pedicelli 8-15 mm. longi. Calyzx in- aequaliter bilabiatus, compressus, 9-nervis, fusco-viridis ; tubus 1-1°3 cm. longus; labia 7-11 mm. longa, subulato-acuminata vel aristata, labium inferus apice breviter bifidum. Corolla e calyce longe exserta, rubro- coccinea, pubescens; tubus 1°8 cm. longus, apice 4 mm. diametro, levissime curvatus, compressus; labium superus 7-8 mm. longum, rectum vel apice recurvum, anguste oblongum, apice emarginatum} labium inferus parvum, breviter 3-lobum, lobo medio 2°5 mm. longo, 3°5 mm. lato, transverse elliptico obtuso incurvo-erecto. Stamina exserta, quam corolla 7 mm. longiora, recta, rubra. Stylus staminibus multo longior, inaequaliter bifidus lobo inferiore minimo, ruber.—S, recti- flora, Vis. Sem. Hort. Patav. 1889, in Linnaea, vol. xiv. Litt.-Ber. p. 188. 8S. aristulata, Mart. & Gal. in Bull. Acad. Brux. vol. xi. pars 2, p. 67 (1844).—N. E. Brown. The Mexican Salvia here figured was first discovered near Zinepecuaro in 1830 by Mr. G. J. Graham, and three years later was described by the late Mr. Bentham. It seems probable that seeds were sent to Europe by Graham, because the plant appeared in cultivation almost simultaneously with its original description. Whether its redescription by Professor Visiani indicates a second introduction is on the whole doubtful; more probably it only indicates the first appearance of the plant in the Padua Botanic Garden. Its description a third time at Brussels, however, suggests independent introduction from Mexico. In its foliage and its far- exserted stamens and style the species bears some resemblance to S. coccinea, Linn., but in its calyx it is remarkably distinct from that and all the other allied species; the tube and lobes are longer, while the latter terminate in fine awn-like points; the two lobes of the lower lip are, besides, united for the greater part of their length, and their distinction is only indicated by the. DECEMBER, 1914. awn being shortly divided at its tip. The material for our plate has been derived from a plant raised at Kew from a cutting presented in 1912 by Dr. Robertson- Proschowsky, Nice. The plant is easy of culture and rapid in growth, reaching in from nine to ten months a height of fourteen or fifteen feet, with a freely branching crown. The branches end in long loose panicles of rosy- red flowers, some of the panicles being a couple of feet in length. It has at Kew been grown in a sunny position in a slightly heated greenhouse and liberally manured. The exceptional height and vigour of growth precludes its use save under exceptional circumstances as a green- house plant in the British Islands, but in countries where there is little or no risk from frost, as in the Mediterra- nean region, S. longistyla ought to form a striking and desirable denizen in an open-air border. The flowers are produced during the winter months. Descrietion.—//erb, up to 15 ft. in height. Stem 4-angled, glandular-pubescent with spreading hairs. _ Leaves petioled, cordate-ovate, acute, serrate-dentate, glabrous above, pubescent on the nerves beneath, 3-53 in. long, 2-45 in. wide; petiole 15-33 in. long, glandular- pubescent with spreading hairs. /tacemes often 15 in., occasionally up to 25 in. long, glandular-pubescent ; verticillasters 8-16-flowered, 1-13 in. apart; pedicels 4-3 in. long. Caly« unequally 2-lipped, compressed, 9-nerved, tawny-green; tube }~—} in. long; lips rather shorter than the tube, subulate-acuminate or aristate, the arista of the lower lip slightly 2-fid at the tip. Corolla far-exserted, red-pink, pubescent; tube 2 in. long, } in. across at the mouth, slightly curved, com- pressed ; upper lip about 4 in. long, narrow-oblong, straight or recurved at the emarginate tip; lower lip small, shortly 3-lobed, mid-lobe +!5 in. long, } in. wide, transversely elliptic, obtuse, incurved-erect. Stamens exserted nearly 4 in. beyond the top of the corolla, straight, red. Style much longer than the stamens, unequally 2-fid, with the anterior lobe very small, red. Fig. 1, calyx, laid open, showing ovary and style; 2, corolla, laid open, showing stamens and staminodes; 3, an anther; 4, ovary, surrounded by glands :—all enlarged, 859] VincentBrooks Day &SonLttimp, M. 8. deLt.N Fitch ith. L-Reeve & C9 London. Tas. 8591. CERATOSTIGMA WiLLmorrranum, China. 7 PLUMBAGINACEAE, ‘Tribe PLUMBAGEAE. CERATOSTIGMA, Bunge; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 628; Prain in Journ, Bot. vol. xliv. (1906), p. 4. i Ceratostigma Willmottianum, Stapf; species nova C. plumbaginoidi, Bunge et C. asperrimo, Stapf ex Prain, similis, a priore imprimis foliis minoribus utrinque pilosis, corolla pallidiore, antherarum apicalibus tantum brevissime e tubo exsertis, stigmatibus antheras longe superantibus et habitu, ab altero forma textura et indumento tenuiore foliorum, ab ambobus perulis coriaceis lanceolatis distinctum. Frutex multiramosa, 1-1°5 m. alta, caulibus angulatis strigilloso-hirtulis saepe purpurascentibus. Innovationes basi perulis lanceolatis vel lanceo!ato- subulatis indutae. Folia sessilia, oblanceolata vel elliptico-oblanceolata, acuta vel subacuta, setoso-mucronata, basin versus cuneatim attenuata, 3-5 em. longa, 1°3-2 cm. lata, viridia, supra sparse, infra copiosius et asperius hirtella, in margine rigide ciliata, sparse et minutissime glandu- loso-furfuracea. Capitula terminalia, saepe minoribus nonnullis ex foliorum summorum axillis ortis additis; bracteae lanceolatae, acuminatae, carinatae, mucronatae, rigide ciliatae, exteriores 14-10 mm. longae. Calyx tubulosus, 5-dentatus, tubo circiter 11 mm. longo viridi albo-5- striato, dentibus subulatis purpurascentibus 3 mm. longis. Corollae tubo roseo circiter 18 mm. longo, limbo amoene coeruleo, lobis truncato- obovatis mucronulatis 8 mm. longis superne 7 mm. latis. Antherac purpurascentes, vix 2 mm. longae, apicibus e tubo brevissime exsertis. Styli albidi, 2 mm. longi, toti exserti.—O. Srapr. The singular distribution of the species of the Plumba- ginaceous genus Ceratostigma has been the subject of comment for more than sixty years. The genus was based originally on a species from Northern China de- scribed by Bunge in 1834 which has long been a favourite plant in English conservatories and, with some litile proteciion during severe weather in winter, also in col- lections out of doors. An excellent figure of that species, C. plumbaginoides, Bunge, which is often known in gardens by the name Plumbayo Larpentae, Lindl., bestowed on the plant in 1847 when it was first introduced to England, has been provided at t. 4487 of this work. The only other species of the genus which was known when that figure was published is an Abyssinian one, treated by DecemBeER, 1914. Hochstetter in 1840 as the type of his genus Valoradia. Hochstetter’s plant had, however, been collected by Salt a generation earlier, and had been treated in 1814 by R. Brown as a Plumbago, P. eglandulosa. The first observer to recognize the identity of Ceratostigma and Valoradia was Boissier, who, for reasons no longer con- sidered adequate, in 1848 employed Hochstetter’s name in preference to the older one used by Bunge. The discovery, since Boissier wrote, of a number of other species of Ceratostigma in Central and South-western China, in Indo-China, in Tibet and in Bhutan, has reduced considerably the extent of the gap between the localities occupied by the genus on which stress has so often been laid. The eight species now known include two, from Abyssinia and Somaliland, that are best dis- tinguished from their six Asiatic congeners by their sessile stigmatic glands. The six Asiatic species include two that are best distinguished from the other four because their leaf-buds and shoot-bases are not perulate. The familiar C. plumbaginoides, already alluded to, is one of the species with naked buds; it forms as a cultivated plant large tufts, rarely more than a foot in height, with striking dark-green leaves that take on a handsome brownish-red autumnal tint, and make an admirable and effective contrast with the gentian-blue flowers. Except for its larger size and looser habit the species now figured, C. Willmottianum, Stapf, as grown at Kew, resembles C. plumbaginoides so closely that it might pardonably be taken for a form of that species with rather smaller leaves of a paler green which do not display the autumnal bronzing. Closer attention to the plant now figured, for the material of which we are indebted to Miss E. A. Willmott, in whose garden at Warley Place two plants were raised from seed received by her from the Arnold Arboretum, and obtained by Mr. E. H. Wilson during his last journey in Western China, shows, how- ever, other marked differences. The flowers are of a rather paler blue than in C. plumbaginoides ; the anthers are hardly exserted; the leaves are hispidly hairy on both surfaces, as well as hispidly ciliate on the margin, whereas in C. plumbaginoides only the margin is hispid ; finally, the buds are protected by coriaceous scales, so that, in spite of its close general resemblance to C. plumbaginoides, the affinity of C. Willmottianum is really with C. minus, Stapf, and C. Griffithu, C. B. Clarke, which are shrubs. Miss Willmott informs us that of the two plants raised by her one has been grown at Warley in Essex, the other at Spetchley in Worcestershire, and that both are now shrubs five feet high. In both places, as at Kew, the treatment most suitable for C. plumbagi- noides is that best adapted for C. Willmottianum, which has proved equally hardy and equally easy to propagate. The two flower at the same time and in equal profusion, during the months of July to December. Description.—Shrub, freely branching; stems angular, — strigillose, often purplish; young shoots perulate, the scales firm, lanceolate or subulate-lanceolate. Leaves sessile, oblanceolate or elliptic-oblanceolate, acute or subacute, setose-mucronate, cuneately narrowed to the base, 14-2 in. long, }-# in. wide, green, sparingly harshly hairy above, more plentifully beneath, stiffly ciliate on the margin, sparingly and finely glandular-scurfy. //eads terminal, with often a few smaller in the uppermost axils; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, keeled, mucronate, rigidly ciliate, the outer 4} in. long. Calyx tubular, 5-toothed, tube under 3} in. long, green with 5 white bands, teeth subulate, purplish. Corolla hypocrateri- form; tube rosy-red, ? in. long; limb bright-blue ; lobes truncate-obovate, mucronulate, + in. long, over 4 in. wide. Anthers purplish, under +/; in. long, tips shortly exserted. Styles whitish, ;!; in. long, quite exserted. Fig. 1, leaf and leaf-bud; 2, bud-seales; 3, flowers and bracts; 4 and 5, anthers ; 6, pistil :—all enlarged. INDEX To: Vol. X. of the Fourrn Series, or Vol. CXL. of the whole Work. 8552 Abies magnifica. 8575 Aconitum rotundifolium. 8538 Actinidia chinensis. 8581 Agave bracteosa. 8537 Ampelopsis megalophylla. 8542 Aristolochia gigantea. 8549 Berberis Prattii. 8534 Carpinus japonica. 8591 Ceratostigma Willmotti- anum. 8587 Clematis Armandii. 8582 Coelogyne brachyptera 8571 Cotoneaster Franchetii. 8546 _ turbinata. 8589 Crataegus pubescens, forma stipulacea. 8567 Cyrtosperma Johnstoni. 8578 Cytisus pallidus. _ 8559 Deutzia mollis. 8583 Echinocactus minusculus. 8572 Echinopanax horridus. 8551 Epidendrum profusum. 8532 Erythrina pulcherrima. 8533 Galtonia princeps. 8548 Gladiolus Masoniorum, 8562 Gongora grossa. 8573 Hamamelis vernalis, 8547 Hibiscus Waimeae. 8557 Hypericum Ascyron. 8580 Indigofera Kirilowii. 8577 Ixora umbellata. 8545 Kniphofia carinata. » 4 8563 Kolkwitzia amabilis. 8536 Lonicera deflexicalyx. 8585 a fragrantissima. 8555 = Ledebourii. 8554 Mazus reptans. 8568 Meconopsis rudis. 8584 Nothofagus Cunninghamii. 8550 Olearia semidentata, 8574 Pimelea ferruginea. 8556 Pithecoctenium cynan- choides. 8588 Pleione pogonioides. 8535 Primula Purdomii. 8564 » vinciflora. 8586 » Vittata. 8543 Ribes laurifolium, © 8540 Rondeletia cordata. 8566 Rosa corymbulosa. 8569 ,, setipoda. 8590 Salvia longistyla. 8544 ~=,,_—sulliginosa. 8539 Smilacina paniculata. 8561 Stapelia Leendertziae. 8576 Tillandsia Benthamiana, var. Andrieuxii. 8579 Trichocaulon pictum. 8560 Trieyrtis stolonifera. 8565 Trollius chinensis. 8541 Viola gracilis. 8558 Vitis Thunbergii. 8553 Zephyranthes cardinalis. 8570 Zingiber Mioga. A COMPLETE INDEX TO THE BOTANICAL, MAGAZINE. : VOLS, I OPES: Comprising the Ist, 2nd, and 3rd Series. To which is Sa ood a er of the Magazine by W. Borrine poses Prick 21s. BOTANICAL PLA TES From the BOTANICAL MAGAZINE, Beautifully-coloured Fi igures of new and rare Plants. 6d. and is. : each. _ Lists of over 3000, Post ars Sci ae on FLORA OF F TROPICAL se By D. OLIVER, F.R.S. Continued by Sir W. T. THISELTON. DYER, F. R. S : Vols. I. to HL, 20s. each. Vol: 3VG Sect, 1, 308.3 Sect. If., 27s. Vol.