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Cyrsripium rhodochilum ; herba, ut videtur, semper in arboribus excelsis supra : Platycerii madagascariensis candices crescense, pseudobulbis fasciculatis oblongo-conicis 3-5 poll. longis demum nigropurpureis, foliis 8-10 distichis loriformibus 2-3 ped. longis acutis flexilibus recurvis atroviridibus, scapis simplicibus solitariis infra pseudobulbos enatis erectis folia fere zequantibus multifloris (scapus solus visus 20-florus), bracteis lanceo- litis acutis deflexis quam pedicellis brevioribus, pedicellis cum ovario circiter 3-pollicaribns, floribus sanguineo-viridibus splendidis circiter 4 poll, diametro maximo, sepalis oblongo-lanceolatis pallide viridibus reflexis circiter bipollicaribus, petalis sepalis similibus erectis apiculatis maculis atroviridibus conspersis, labello trilobo lobis lateralibus margine sanguineo excepto petalis coneoloribus et 4-plo brevioribus, lobo intermedio obcordato circiter 2 poll. diametro sanguineo medio luteo viridi-maculato. C. rhodochilum, Rolfe, Orchid Review, vol. ix. (1901) p. 10; x. (1902) p. 184 (descriptio). Le Jardin, 1901, p. 276, fig. 183; 1902, p. 351. The Garden, 1902, vol. i. p. 383 cum habitus figura. + It will be generally admitted that Cymbidium rhodochilum is one of the most striking of recently introduced Orchids. Jt is still very rare in cultivation, and the plant figured was purchased for Kew from Mr. G. Warpur, the dis- coverer, in 1900. Mr. Warpur states (Orchid Review, vol, ix. p. 10) that it always grows on masses of Platy- cerium, on the branches of tall trees, mostly of Albizzia fastigiata, Oliver, along the rivers and on the higher forest-slopes, at elevations of 1,800 to 2,100 feet. He adds that it seems to prefer a moderate degree of heat and humidity, and much light. In its native country it flowers from October to December, but the Kew plant flowered in May. The Kew plant is still attached to, and growing on the Platycerium, as it was imported. . Only two other species of Cymbidium have been recorded from Madagascar, namely, C. jlabellatum, Sindl., and C. Humbloti, Rolfe; both very different from (. rhodo-- chilum. On the authority of Mr. Warpur, C. Humbloti, JANUARY Ist, 1904. which is also in cultivation, invariably grows in a wild state on a palm, Raphia madagascariensts. With regard to C. rhodochilum always growing on Platycerium, itself an epiphyte, it may be mentioned that . it is not at all unusual for one epiphyte to grow on another, but it is rare for the associated plants to be con- stantly the same. The same phenomenon is, however, not unknown among truce parasites. For example, so far as is known, all the species of Phacellaria, a small genus of shrubby parasites belonging to the Santalaceex, are para- sitic on different species of the equally parasitic genus Loranthus. Descr.—A_ tall, epiphytic herb. Psendobulbs clustered, oblong-conical, three to five inches long, at length purple- black. Leaves about eight to ten on a pseudobulb, dis- tichous, strap-shaped, two to three feet long, acute, flexible, recurved, dark green. Scapes simple, solitary, from below the pseudobulbs, nearly as long as the leaves, many-flowered. Practs lanceolate, acute, deflexed, shorter than the pedicels. Pedicels with the ovary about three inches long. Flowers crimson and green, very striking, about four inches in their greatest diameter. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, pale green, reflexed, about two inches long. Petals similar to the sepals, erect, apiculate, be- sprinkled with dark green spots on a light green ground. Labellum three-lobed; lateral lobes, except the crimson margin, of the same colour as the petals, and about a quarter as long; intermediate lobe obecurdate, about two inches in diameter, crimson, with a central, longitudinal, yellow band, spotted with green.—W. B. H. Tab. 7932. See Fig. 1, part of lip; 2, colamn; 3 and 4, pollen-masses :—all enlarged. Tab. 7933. Sketch of entire plant growing on Platycerium :—about one quarter natural Size. 7934 M.S.del.J.N Fitch hth Vineent Broois, Day & Son Lt4Imp L Reeve & C° London. ; Tar. 7934. PROSTANTHERA peEnticunata. Native of Hastern Australia. Nat. Ord. Lapiata.—Tribe PRostanTHERE x. Genus Prostantusna, Labill.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1217.) PrRostaNTHERA denticulata; frutex ramosus, paucipedalis, hispidulus, flori- bundus, caulibus ramisqnue oppositis gracilibus rectis, foliis brevissime petiolatis rigidis lineari-lanceolatis maximis vix pollicaribus vix acutis maryine rigide setosis nec vere denticulatis supra hispidis subtus fere levibus, floribus purpureis in ramulorum apicibus subracemosis in folioram aut bractearum axillis solitariis brevissime pedicellatis, bracteolis 2 fere filiformibus juxta calycem positis et quadruplo brevioribus, calyce hispi- dulo alte et fere equaliter bilabiato, labiis rotundatis superiore majore margine basi recuryo, corolla glabra valde ineequaliter bilabiata circiter 6 lin. diametro maximo, tubo brevi basi cylindrico subite inflato, labio superiore erecto breviter bilobato lobis obscure 3-lobulatis, labio inferiore recto ineequaliter 3-lobato lobis lateralibus ovato-rotundatis lobo inter- medio longiore obeordato, staminibus 4 inclusis, filamentis glabris, antheris 2-locularibus loculis basi in caudam brevissimam produactis connectivo etiam basi producto, stylo incluso, nuculis ovoideis punctatis. P. denticalata, R. Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. p. 509. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vol. xii. p. 561; F7. Austral. vol. v. p. 97. Moore, Handb. Fl. N.S. - Wales, p. 351. Prostanthera denticulata, R. Br., is a member of a tribe of the Labiatx, consisting of five genera, and about 100 species, mostly shrubby, restricted to Australia. Pros- tanthera itself comprises about forty species, spread all over Australia, except the extreme north, and P. denti- culata has a wide range on the eastern side of the country. Some of the species are described as tall shrubs, but they are mostly bushes, three to six feet high, The plant figured was raised from seed sent to Kew by Mr. J. H. Maiden, Director of the Botanic Gardens, Sydney, N.S. Wales, in 1900. It is in the Temperate House, and is now about three feet high, growing and flowering freely, beginning in April. Altogether some half-a-dozen species of Prostanthera have been in cultivation, mostly early in the last century, when ‘‘ hard wooded” plants were more in vogue. The species figured was originally introduced in 1824. Three haye previously been figured in the Magazine, January Isr, 1904. namely: P. lasianthos, Labill. (t. 2434); P. empetrifolia, Sieb. (t..3405), and P. nivea, A. Cunn. (t. 5658). Another species, P. violacea, R. Br., is figured in the ‘ Botanical Register,” t. 1072. Descr.—A much-branched, free-flowering, hispid shrub, a few feet high. Stems and the opposite branches slender, straight. Leaves very shortly petioled, stiff, linear-lan- ceolate, the largest scarcely an inch long, subacute, margin beset with short, rigid bristles, but not toothed, hispid above, naked below. Flowers purple, subracemose, soli- tary in the axils of the leaves or bracts. Pedicels very short, bearing two very short, filiform bracteoles close under the calyx. Calyx hispid, deeply two-lipped ; lips almost equal, rcunded, the upper slightly larger, with the margin recurved near the base. Corolla glabrous, very unequally two-lipped, about half an inch in its greatest diameter ; tube very short, cylindrical at the base, then suddenly inflated ; upper lip erect, shortly two-lobed, lobes obscurely 3-lobulate ; lower lip straight, unequally 3-lobed, lateral lobes ovate-rotundate, intermediate longer, obcor- . date. Stamens 4, included; filaments glabrous; anthers 2-celled, cells produced at the base in very short tails; connective also produced at the base. Style included, Nutlets ovoid, pitted.—W. B. H. Fig. 1, a leaf; 2, calyx and style; 3, corolla; 4 and 5, anthers; 6, fruit:— all enlarged, SEER Me CRATE eT ES 7935 MS. del JN Pitch hth LReeve & C® London. Tap. 7930. ARETHUSA stxensts. Native of Western China. Nat. Ord. OrncutpEa.—Tribe N sorties. Genus Argtuusa, Linn. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 614.) ARETHUSA sinensis; herba terrestris, tuberosa, scaposa, 4-9 poll. alta, glabra, _ tubere parvo subgloboso, foliis 3 vel 4 inferioribus vaginiformibus vel laminis parvis instructis 2 vel 3 superioribus lanceolatis acutis maximis in exemp'ariis cultis 6 poll. longis et 1} poll. latis in exemplariis sylves- tribus fere dimidio minoribus multinerviis tenuibus, scapis solitariis erectis 1-7-floris folia paullo excedentibus infra flores nudis, bracteis membranaceis lineari-lanceolatis 2-3 lin. longis acutis, pedicellis circiter 3-4 lin. longis, floribus albo-rubris 9-12 lin. longis nutantibus, sepalis petalisque lanceolatis acutis erecto-incurvis labello paullo brevioribus, labello erecto indiviso e basi angusta columne brevissime adnato sursum valde dilatato marginibus involuto fimbriato intus longitudinaliter trila- mellato lamellis fimbriatis, columna clavata labello dimidio breviore. A. sinensis, Rolfe in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxxvi. p. 46. Orchid Review, 1896, p. 211. The history of the introduction of this interesting little Orchid is obscure. It was first sent to Kew by the Editors of the ‘‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle” in May, 1896, and in June of the same year it was received from Sir Trevor Law- rence, without any indication of its origin. Sir Trevor sent it again in June, 1900, when he exhibited it at a meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society. Subsequently Mr. Rolfe identified these cultivated fragments with specimens collected by Dr. A. Henry near Mengtze, in the Province of Yunnan, Western China. The plant figured was presented to Kew by Mr. H. J. Klwes, F.R.S., and it flowered in a greenhouse in July of last year, under ordinary treatment. Arethusa, as now limited, comprises four other described Species; one is native of Japan, one of Mexico, one of Guatemala, and A, bulbosa, Linn. (Bot. Mag. t. 2204), the species on which the genus was founded, is a native of North America. Descr.—A. terrestrial, tuberous, scapose, glabrous herb, four to nine inches high. Tuber small, ovoid or globose. Leaves two or three, lanceolate, acute, the largest six JaNvuagy Ist, 1904. inches long and one and a half broad, thin, many-nerved, with three or four lower ones almost reduced to sheaths. Scapes solitary, erect, 1-7-flowered, scarcely taller than the Jeaves, naked below the flowers. Bracts membranous, linear-lanceolate, acute, two to three lines long. Pedicels about three lines long. Flowers white and red, nine to twelve lines long, nodding. Sepals and petals lanceolate, acute, erect, incurved, slightly shorter than the labellum. Labellum erect, undivided, narrow at the base, obscurely saccate, almost free from the column, much widened upward, with involute, fimbriate margins and three longi- tudinal, fringed crests on the upper surface. Column clavate, about half as long as the labellum.— W. B. H. Fig. 1, labellum and column; 2, labellam laid open; 3, column; 4, clinan- drium; 8, pollen :—adl enlarged. MS. del, JN. Fitch lith L Reeve & C 2° London nr Vincent Broola Day Shona \ Tas. 7936. PASSIFLORA VITIFOLIA. Native of Tropical America, Nat. Ord. Passtrroracea.—Tribe PassIFLORER. Genus Passrrtora, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 810.) Passtrtora (§Granadilla) vitifolia; species P. quadriglandulose, Rodsch. (Tacsonia sanguinea, DC., Bot. Mag. t. 4674) simillima, sed bracteolis amplis coloratis et florum colore intensiore sat distincta; caulibus graci- liusculis debilibus ope cirrhorum simplicium alte scandentibus, novellis plus minusve tomentosis in sic’o spe ferrugineis, foliis petiolatis (inter- dum longe) demum coriaceis glabrescentibus sepissime ultra medium trilobatis, interdum lobis 2 basilaribus pirvis additis, maximis\6-7 poll. diametro basi cordatis, lobis ovato-oblongis acutis grosse crenato-dentatis vel foliornm superiorum denticulatis, pedun:ulis quam foliis brevioribus, bricteolis coloratis venosis glanduloso-dentatis circiter pollicaribus in- volucrum prope calycis basin formantibus, floribus cum cirrhis in folio- rum axillis solitariis in exemplariis nonnuallis sylvestribus usque ad 6 poll. diametro sanguineo-coccineis, tubo circiter 5. lin. lato altoque extus 10-sulcato, sepalis petalis similibus oblongo-lance :latis dorso infra apicem cornutis, cornu viridi, corona exteriore (fauciali) tilamentosa triseriata erecta filis seriei prime liberis sanguineis quam petalis dimidio breviori- bus, filis seriei secunde etiam liberis quam exterioribus tertia parte brevioribus, filis seriei tertiz albis alte connatis quam intermediis paullo longioribus, corona intermedia (operculo) membranacea e floris tubo versus apicem emergente deflexa deinde ascendente tubum brevissimum apice fimbriatum formante, corona interiore (vel disco nectarifluo) squamis parvis denticnlatis consistente, gynandrophoro circiter 2 poll. alto viridi sanguineo-maculato, antheris viridibus, ovario viridi, stylis brevibus sanguineis, stigmatibus amplis disciformibus, fructu ignoto. P. vitifolia, H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. vol. ii. (1817) p. 138. Masters in Mart. Fl. Bras. vol. xiii. pars 1, p. 607, t. 121; Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xxvii. (1871), p. 637. Karst. Fl. Colomb. vol. i. p. 103, +. 51 (var. bracteosa). Hemsl, in Salv. et Godm. Biol. Centr.-Amer. Bot. vol. i. p. 481. P. sanguinea, Sm. in Rees’s Cyclop. vol, xxvi. (1819), n. 45, P. punicea, Ruiz et Pav. ex DC. Prod. vol. iii. p. 329. P. servitensis, Karst. in Linnea, vol. xxx. p. 163. Tacsonia Buchanani, Lem. in Illust. Hort. vol. xiv. (1867), t. 519. P. Buchanani, Planch. et Triana in Ann. Se, Nat. 5me série, vol, xvii. p. 144, Passiflora vitifolia, H. B. K., appears to have been first introduced into Europe from Panama in 1851; but it has never got into general cultivation, probably because it requires tropical treatment to produce its magnificent flowers. At Kew it is cultivated both in the Palm House and the old Lily House, where it flowered in June, 1903. It is certainly one of the most brilliantly coloured species im a genus abounding in gorgeous forms. It has a wide distribution in tropical America, ranging January Ist, 1904, from Nicaragua to Peru, Guiana and Brazil, and from sea-level in Nicaragua to 3,000 feet in Colombia, where Lehmann (n. 1268) observed stems forty feet long. In the Kew Herbarium there are dried specimens of flowers of this species from Panama (Fendler, 118) fully six inches across. Descy.—A tall shrubby climber similar to P. quadri- glandulosa, Rodsch. (Tacsonia sanguinea, DC., Bot. Mag. t. 4574), but differing in the less diversified foliage, large coloured bracts and the deeper colour of the flowers. Stems slender, tomentose, as well as the leaves, when young. Leaves petiolate, at length coria- ceous, glabrescent, usually deenly three-lobed, some- times with two additional small, basal lobes, cordate at the base, the largest six to seven inches in diameter ; lobes ovate-oblong, acute, coarsely crenate-dentate or only — ng, Flowers Tube about half an inch Sepals similar to the peta with a short, green, dorsal hc Outer corona filamentose, in three s¢ first series free, crimson, half as filaments of the second series also outer or first series; filaments of united in a tube to abo rT than the second or corona membranous, - flower-tube, deflexed, anc short tube, fringed at tl ) corona (or honey- secreting disk) consisting of small, dentate scales. Gynan- drophore (column bearing the stamens and ovary) about two inches long, green, spotted with crimson. Anthers green. Ovary glabrous, green; styles short, crimson; stigmas large, circular, compressed. Fruit unknown.— ep, ten-furrowed. petals ; an the forming a very W. 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Native of N.E. Asia and N.W. America, : Nat. Ord. Arnoipra%.—Tribe OrontTIE&. Genus Lysicuitum, Schott; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 994.) — Lysicnitum camtschatcense; herba paludosa, robusta, rbizomate repente, foliis amplis 1-3 ped. longis sessilibus v. crasse petiolatis oblongo-ovatis v. -lanceolatis acutis obtusisve crasse coriaceis lete viridilus petiolo lato concavo, nervis gracilibus arcuatis, pedunculo crassitie digiti minoris, eataphyllis paucis primum involutis albis, spatha 4-6 poll. longa cymbi- formi acuta membranacea flavida basi in pedunculum longe producta spadicem juniorem totum includente, demum stipitem ejus valde elongatum inferne involvente denique decidua, spadice longe stipitata 2-3 poll. longa $-? poll. diam. cylindracea apice rotundata densiflora sursum florente tloribus omnibus fertilibus densissimis, perianthii seg- mentis 4 inaéqualibus crassissimis truncatis oblongis trigonisve apice fornicatis ovarium velantibus, staminibus 4 inzqualibus, filamentis late complanatis, antheris minutis exsertis didymis, ovario conico-ovoideo viridi basi constricto apice attenuato, stigmate sessili capitellato flavo, loculis 2 basilaribus interdum confluentibus 1-2-ovulatis, baccis 2-locu- laribus dispermis, seminibus exalbuminosis, embryone macropodo.— _ J. D. Hi. L. camtschatcense, Schott in Cesterr. Bot. Wochenbl. vol. vii. (1857), p. 62; Mig. Ann. Mus. Ingd.-Bat. vol. i. p. 285, ii. p. 202. Engl.in DO. Monogr. Phaner, vol. ii. p. 210. Macoun, Cat. Canad. Pl. vol. ii. p,73. Franch. & Savat. Enum. Pl, Jap. vol. ii. p.9. Honzo Zufu, vol. xxiv. t.18. Somoku , Zusetsu, vol. xix. t. 10 (Japonice 13). ; LL. camtschaticum, Schott, Gen. Aroid. t. 91. LL. kamtechatcensis, 8S. Wats. Bot. Californ. vol. ii. pp. 187, 484. LL. japonicum, Schott e« Mig. Cat. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. p.96. Franch. & "Sav. Enum. Pl. Jap. vol. ii. p. 9. : Symplocarpus kamtschaticus, Bong.in Mém. Acad. Pétersb. sér. 6, vol. ii. (1838), p. 169; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. vol. iv. p. 12 (Simplocarpus). S. camtschaticus, Kunth, Hnum. Pl. iii. p 84. Arctiodracon japonicum, A. Gray in Mem, Amer. Acad, ser. 2, vol. vi. (1858-9), p. 408. Pothos camtschaticus, Spreng. Syst. Veg. vol iii. p. 767. Dracontium foliis lanceolatis, Linn. Amen. Acad. vol. ii. p. 362. Dracontiam camtschatcense, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 968. Lysichitum, or Lysichiton, which is better, and as Schott himself wrote it in a note in the place where he published the description, is a monotypic genus of remarkable dis- tribution. In Asia it inhabits Eastern Siberia, Kamt- schatka, Saghalien, and the Kurile Islands, southward to Central Japan; and in America it ranges from the Feprvuary Ist, 1904, Aleutian Islands and Alaska southward to California, to about 40° of latitude. he high Jatitudinal extension, or rather existence, of this plant, is accounted for, partly, at least, by its being an inhabitant of swamps. C. A. Geyer, who collected specimens on the Coeur d’Alene River, Idaho, states that it grew in deep, rich, vegetable mould, and that its scarlet fruit was a favourite food of the bear. Lysichitum camtschatcense, Schott, varies very much in size from different localities; the leaves being from a foot to nearly three feet in length, and the spathe, including peduncle, is sometimes as much as eighteen inches long. The fertile part of the spadix is from one inch and a half to nearly six inches long. The late Professor H. N. Moseley, who collected a specimen in Oregon, labelled it “skunk cabbage,” a name applied in Canada and the Eastern United States to the closely allied Symplocarpus fetidus, Salisb. The latter is figured in the Botanical Magazine, t. 836, under the name of Pothos fetidus, Ait., and also t. 3224. Symplocarpus, as well as Lysichitum, is a monotype, and it inhabits Japan as well as Hastern N. America. But, improbable as it seems, there are many more plants ‘common to Eastern Asia and Hastern N. America than there are common to Eastern Asia and Western N. America. The figure was prepared from a clump growing in a wet, shady corner of the Himalayan section of the Tem- perate House, Kew, and Mr. Watson notes that it had previously been unsuccessfully tried in the Bog Garden in the open air, In its present position it is flourishing, and perfectly at home. Kew is indebted to Mr. James R. Anderson, Deputy Minister of Agriculture, British Columbia, for tubers, sent in 1901. ‘The plant of previous cultivation, referred to by Mr. Watson, was apparently of Japanese origin, as there is a leaf in the Herbarium labelled: “ Lysichiton japonicus from North Japan, garden specimen, Aug. 5, 1886.” his leaf is about two feet six inches long, so that the plant was not wanting in vigour. The reason why it did not flower is not easily explained, because M. W. Gorman, who collected the plant in Alaska, notes on the label that — the spathes sometimes appear through the snow. Possibly the local conditions were unfavourable. The same col- lector states that it grows in moist places and on the banks of creeks.—W. B. 1. : Descr.—A stout, glabrous marsh-herb, with a creeping rootstock, giving off erect, sessile tufts of leaves and inflorescences, Leaves erect, one to two feet and a half long, subsessile or base narrowed into a very stout, concave petiole, oblong-ovate or -lanceolate, acute or obtuse, thickly coriaceous, costa very broad, nerves spread- . ing and arching. Peduncle shorter than the leaves, stout, - pale green, nearly white, obscurely transversely wrinkled. Spathe four to six inches long, erect, deeply boat-shaped, elliptic in outline, acuminate, membranous, pale yellow, base narrowed into and resembling the peduncle for some length, but fissured in front. Spadix stipitate, four to six inches long by one-half to three-quarters of an inch in diameter, top rounded, dense-flowered, green, at first enclosed in the spathe, flowering from the base upwards ; stipes inserted far down in the contracted, terete base of the spathe, terete, green, elongating after flowering of the spadix to six inches or more, and freeing itself and the latter from the spathe. lowers all fertile, very densely spicate. Perianth-segments four, very unequal, variously compressed, fleshy, truncate, tightly embracing the stamens and ovary. Stamens four; filaments very unequal, broad, flat; anthers minute, didymous. Ovary conic-ovoid, fleshy, base constricted, cells two, sometimes confluent, one- or two-ovuled ; stigma capitellate, yellow. Berries partially sunk in the rhachis of the spadix, 2-celled, 2-seeded. Seeds concave-convex, exalbuminous; embryo having a large radicle.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, three flowers detached from the spadix ; 2, two lobes of the perianth, two unequal stamens and pistil; 3, sectivn of 2-celled ovary showing the solitary ovules :—all enlarged ; 4, much reduced figure of entire plant. 7938 E oe: 3 8 na oo e A 3 hy ye 8 E a JN. Fitch ith . + « MS.del, L Reeve & C° London Tas. 7988. BULPOPHYLLUM AURICOMUM. Native of Burma. Nat. Ord. OrcnipEm.—Tribe DENDROBIEA, Genus Butsopnyiium, Thou.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 501.) BuLBoruyttumM (Eubulbophyllum) auricomum; rhizomate repente crassitie penne anserinze squamis brevibus arcte imbricatis brunneis vaginato, pseudobulbis #-1}-pollicaribus confertis anguste ovoideis oblongisve teretibus nudis fusco-viridibus aphyllis, foliis rhizoma terminantibus solitariis binisve 3-4 poll. longis sessilibus lineari-oblongis obtusis coriaceis basi vaginis brevibus viridibus cinctis supra lete viridibus subtus pallidis, scapis basi pseudobulborum insertis racemo incluso 4-10 poll. longis gracillimis, vaginis paucis angustis appressis auctis, racemo elongato decurvo multifloro, rhachi puberulo, bracteis minutis subulatis, floribus subsessilibus cernuis, ovario brevi, sepalis patulis ? poll. longis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis 38-nerviis membranaceis albis dorsali paullo breviore, petalis parvis oblongis obtusis 1-nerviis ciliatis, labello lingueformi recurvo supra papilloso apice rotundato aurantiaco, columna et truncata bidentata, anthera mitreformi apice obtusa puberula.— (oH. B. auricomum, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. n. 1985; Gen. & Sp. Orchid. p. 50. Parish in Mason’s Burma, ed. nov. 1883, vol. ii. Bot. p. 154. Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. v. p. 765. B, foenisecii, Par. ex Reichd. S. in Bot. Zeit. vol. xxiii. (1865) p. 99. Dendrobium tripetaloides, Roxb. Fl. Ind. vol. iii. p. 478, et icon. ined, in — Bibl. Kew., n. 2359. : Bulbophyllum auricomum was discovered by the Rev. F. Carey in the forests of Rangoon, whence living plants were sent by him, before 1832, to the Botanical Gardens of Calcutta, where it was cultivated under the name of Dendrobium tripetaloides, which was published by Dr. Rox- burgh in his “Flora Indica.” It has more recently been collected in Tenasserim by William Gomez, one of Wallich’s collectors, and by the Kev. C. Parish in Moulmein. The plant figured was obtained by Kew from Mr. J. O’Brien, Harrow-on-the-Hill, in 1894, and Mr. Watson observes that it flowers annually in a stove in June. But this ‘Season it is flowering freely at the end of December, and a very pretty and graceful little thing it is, and its agreeable fragrance adds to its attractiveness. ae Parish collected numerous specimens, which he presented to Kew in 1872, and in an accompanying note he states Feprvany Ist, 1904, : . that it was a great favourite with the Burmese girls to put in their hair, as it is pleasantly fragrant, like new- made hay. He adds that he had found a golden-coloured variety in the mountains. Parish does not take up the name B. fonisecii, credited to him by Reichenbach in the place cited above, and it has not been found in his manu- scripts at Kew; but there is no doubt of its identity with B. auricomum, Lind), Reichenbach drew up his description from a plant introduced and cultivated by Messrs. Low & Co. Since Miss Smith’s drawing was lithographed we have found another in the Kew Collection, made by W. H. Fitch in 1871, from a plant cultivated by Messrs. James Veitch & Sons. It is endorsed: * Buller, Stevens’s sale, — 1849.” Fitch’s drawing represents a more robust con- dition of the plant. B. suavissimum, Rolfe (Gard. Chron. 1889, vol. i. p. 297) is a closely allied species from Upper Burma, which Mr. Rolfe thinks may be the plant regarded by Parish as a yellow variety of B. auricomum. : Descr.—A rhizomatous, pseudobulbous herb, less than a foot high. Rhizomes creeping, short-jointed, about a quarter of an inch thick, clothed with short, brown, closely imbricated scales. Pseudobulbs clustered, three-quarters to one and a quarter inch long, narrow-ovoid or oblong, leafless when the flowers are produced. Leaves usually two in the formation of each succeeding pseudobulb, oblong, obtuse, about four inches long, deciduous. Scapes solitary from the base of the leafless pseudobulbs, very slender, four to ten inches long, recurved from above the middle, about two-thirds floriferous. Bracts minute, per- sistent. lowers very fragrant, numerous, nearly sessile, nodding, white, with an orange labellum. Sepals linear- Janceolate, acuminate, about three-quarters of an inch long, tbree-nerved. Petals small, ovate-oblong, obtuse, 1-nerved, ciliate. Lip tongue-shaped, somewhat longer than the petals, hinged at the base and motile, arched, papillose on the upper surface. Column short, truncate. Anther mitre-shaped, puberulous at the top.—W. B. H. Fig. 1,a flower from which the sepals have been retaoved ; 2, the same from which the petals have also been removed; 3, anther-cap; 4, pollen:— all enlarged. 7939 Vincent Brooks Day &SonLt#imp MS.del, JN-Fitch bth Ze icca AGN heated Tas. 7939. CORYDALIS Witsont. Native of Central China. Nat. Ord. Fumartacea.—Tribe Fumarrex. Genus Corypatis, DC.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 55.) Corypauis Wilsoni; acaulis, glaberrima, foliis 3-5-pollicaribus patentibus flaccidis pinnatis petiolo breviusculo rhacheque gracilibus, pinnis utrinque 4-6 $-1-pollicaribus sessilibus petiolulatisve ovato-oblongis pinnatifido- lobatis lobis apice obtusis v. rotundatis enerviis glauco-viridibus, pedun- culo brevi robusto, racemo 4-5-pollicari laxe multifloro, bracteis lanceolatis pedicellis 3-4 poll. longis brevioribus, floribus pollicaribus aureis, sepalis 4 poll. longis ovatis caudato-acuminatis brunneis, petalis exterioribus acuminatis superiore kasi in calear 3 poll. longum incurvum apice rotundatum leviter compressum producto inferioris disco excavato marginibus recurvis, interioribus stipitatis obovato-spathulatis costa crassa exserta, ovario lineari stigmate 2-cruri cruribus incurvis apice 2-lobis, capsula lineari arcuata.—/. D. H. : C. Wilsoni, V.2. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1908, vol. ii. p. 123. Corydalis Wilsont was raised by Messrs. James Veitch & Sons from seed sent home by their very successful collector, Mr. E. H. Wilson, after whom it is named. They at first cultivated it in a greenhouse, where it flowered in March of last year, and one of the plants so raised is represented in our plate. The plant in question was presented to Kew, and in May it was turned out in the Rock Garden, where it has flourished and flowered throughout the summer and autumn, and in the middle of December, as Mr. Watson pointed out to us, it was still flowering under the shelter of an overhanging rock. ‘he dimensions of the plant were considerably beyond its condition when Miss Smith made the drawing. Although the plant was past flowering, the leaves were still green at the end of the first week in January. In reply to inquiries, Messrs. Veitch state that the habitat of Corydalis Wilsoni is given in Wilson’s. notes as: “dry rocks at 10,000 ft., Fang”; which is in the Province of Hupeh. Its hardiness, in so far as temperature is concerned, is therefore unquestionable. Whether it will bear our often mild, humid winters, time will prove. Frpruary Ist, 1904, There are many other new species from the same region deserving of a trial in our gardens.—W. B. H. Descr.—Stemless, perfectly glabrous. Leaves all radical, three to five inches long, spreading, flaccid, ovate-oblong in outline, glaucous green, pinnate; petiole short, and rhachis slender; pinne four to six on each side, three- fourths to one inch long, rather distant, sessile, on the lower part sometimes free and petiolulate, ovate-oblong, pinnatifidly lobed, lobes rounded, lobulate, lobules obtuse or rounded at the tip. Peduncles short, robust, with the raceme four to five inches long, bright green. LRaceme loosely many-flowered ; bracts lanceolate, shorter than the pedicels, which are one-quarter to half an inch long. Flowers about an inch long. Sepals ovate, caudately acuminate, pale brown. Petals golden-yellow. Outer petals linear-oblong, acuminate, tips recurved, upper pro- duced at the base into a very broad, incurved, slightly flattened spur rounded at the apex; lower with a deep groove on the disk bounded by a crenulate ridge, margins recurved, Petals narrow, stipitate, spathulately obovate, costa very thick, protruded beyond the rounded apex. Ovary very slender; stigma horse-shoe-shaped, with the tips of the incurved arms 2-lobed. Capsule very slender, arcuate.—J. D. H. LED hed 2,sepal; 3, anthers; 4, ovary :—all enlarged; 5, capsule of 7940 Vincent Brooks Day &Son].ttimp. M.S.del JNFitchiith L Reeve & C2 London Tas. 7940. SAUROMATUM brevires. Native of the Sikkim Himalaya. Nat. Ord. ARnoIDEZ.—Tribe ARINER. Genus Savromatum, Schott; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 966.) Saurnomatum brevipes; acaule, tubere parvo oblato tuberculis perplurimis coronato, foliis 1-3 longe petiolatis pedatim 5-9-partitis segmentis 4-6 poll. longis anguste lanceolatis caudato-acuminatis supra lete viridibus subtus pallidis costa utrinque rubra, petiolo 4-15 poll. longo erecto tereti roseo, spathis confertis breviter pedunculatis, pedunculo curvo hypogzo, spathe tubo 13 poll. longo ampulleformi basi inflato fere polli- cem viametro dein in collum breve cylindraceum apice fissum in laminam desinense constricto extus pallide flavo-virescente maculis pallide roseis ornato fauce basique limbi intas rubro-purpurea, limbo 4-5 poll. longo basi ad $ poll. lato arcuato anguste lineari-lanceolato acuminato convoluto torto extus pallide sordide roseo v. griseo, spadice sessili spathe equilonga gracili parte florifera 1-1} pollicariin ventre spathe inclusa in appendicem gracilem exsertam ascendentem cylindraceam apice obtusam infra medium roseam dein aurantiacam desinense, ovariis minimis in columnam oblongam viridem ad 3 poll, longam densissime confertis ovoideis 1-locularibus 2-ovulatis stigmate minuto sessili, ovulis 2 basi- laribus erectis, organis neutris paucis clavatis, antheris minutis 2-locularibus in columnam cylindraceam confertis infimis minimis deformatis papilleeformibus, loculis globosis. S. brevipes, VE. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1903, vol. ii. p. 93. Typhonium pedatum, Schott in Gisterr. Bot. Wochenbl. 1857, p. 262, partim. T. brevipes, Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. vi. p. 511. _ The genus Sauromatum consists of about five species of K. Indian and tropical African plants closely allied to Arum. Of these one has been previously figured in this — work, 8. guttatum, Schott, tab. 4465, a N.W. Indian Species, conspicuous for its large spathe spotted with dark purple. 8S. brevipes was first found by myself near Dar- jeeling, in the Sikkim Himalaya, in 1848, but in fruit only. It has since been collected in flower by Mr. C. B. Clarke, F.R.S., and Mr. G. A. Gammie, now Professor of Botany at Poona, in the same neighbourhood, at elevations of 7,000 to 7,500 feet. 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RS, fe. 98. net. oo "ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE R " ms FLORA, SS ; A Series of Wood Engravings, with Dissections, of British. Plants, _Drawn sy W.H, FITCH, F.L.S., axp W. G. SMITH, F.L.S- Porn aired an Illustrated Companion to Bentham’: ete Handbook, il and other British. Floras 4) : wh 5th Edition,-with 1315 Wood Engravings, 9a. net, ‘ OVELL REEVE & CO. Lrp., 6, ee, ie eae MS.del J.N-Fitch hith. I, Reeve & C? London 7941 “Vincent Brooks Day & San Lt4 Imp. Tas. 7947. ARUNDINARIA Fatoonzrt. Native of the Temperate Himalaya. Nat. Ord. Gramine®.—Tribe BaMBUsE®. Genus ArunpInaRIA, Mich.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 1207.) ARUNDINARIA Falconeri ; culmis perennibus gracilibus ad 30 ped. altis olivaceo- viridibus versus internodioram basin plerumque purpurascentibus. foliis imperfectis vaginis apice breviter attenuatis in marginibus convexis minute ciliolatis glabris vel primo pilosis intus supra medium venis transversis prominulis notatis purpurascentibus ligulis brevissimis trun- catis laminis parvis angustis, foliis perfectis vaginis angustis arctis ligulis brevibus rotundato-trancatis laminis lanceolatis acuminatis 23-3 poll. longis 3-4 poll. latis lete viridibus glaberrimis dense tenuiterque striatis venis transversis vix uillis, inflorescentiis in culmis foliis destitutis pani- culato-fasciculatis, spiculis in racemos basi bracteis saffultos secundum ramulos solitarios vel fasciculatos collectis unifloris 1 poll. longis, rhachilla in setam producta, glumis subsequalibus inferiore 1-3-nervi, superiore plerumque 5-nervi spicule dimidinm magis minusve equantibus, valva (gluma flurente) prominenter 7- vel sub-9-nervi superne ciliata, palea valvam zquante vel superante superne in carinis ciliata prominenter nervosa, antheris purpureis. A. Falconeri, Gamble in Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. vol. vii. p. 20. A. falcata, Riviere in Bull. Soc. d’Acclim, 3me sér. vol. v. (1878) p. 791-797, fig. 60-62, non Nees. . A. nobilis, Mitford, The Bamboo Garden, p. 178-180, Thamnocalamus Falconeri, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc, vol. xxvi. (1868) p. 34. This Bamboo has been in cultivation in Hurope ever since 1847, when Ed. Madden, then a Captain in the Bengal Artillery, and an enthusiastic explorer of the North- western Himalaya, forwarded a quantity of seed to Sir William Hooker. It was collected by him on the Upper Pindari River, North-west Kumaon, in September, 1846, and was supposed to be the seed of Arundinaria falcata, Nees. Under this name it was soon introduced, mainly throngh Van Houtte’s establishment at Ghent, into the parks and gardens of western Europe, the Riviera and Algeria, and into the greenhouses of the climatically less favoured parts of Europe. It first flowered in Europe in 1875-1877 ; 1876 being the year when its flowering was almost universal, and when it flowered at Kew. In the Himalaya it ranges from Kumaon to Sikkim at altitudes of 8000-10,000 feet, and it is perfectly hardy in the maritime parts of western Europe, the Riviera and Algeria, forming APRIL lst, 1904, tall clumps of great beauty. It seems to be monocarpic, dying after seeding. The specimen from which the drawing was made was communicated by J. C. Hawkshaw, Esq., of Hollycombe, Liphook, Hants, where five or six plants, all originally taken from one, flowered last spring. The sheath or ‘“‘imperfect leaf,” however, was added from a specimen at Kew, received as A. nobilis from Lord Redesdale. A more complete account of the introduction of this bamboo, and the characters distinguishing it from A. falcata, Nees, with which it has long been confused, will be published in the Gardeners’ Chronicle. Descv.—Perennial, monocarpic. Culms slender, tallest thirty feet high, olive green, with a tinge of purple, par- ticularly towards the base of the internodes, without any waxy bloom. Imperfect leaves of the young culms more or less purplish, shortly attenuated at the upper end with convex, minutely ciliolate margins, otherwise glabrous, or soon glabrescent; transverse nerves raised on the inner side ; ligules short, truncate ; limb small, subulate. Perfect leaves lanceolate, acuminate, bright green, glabrous, usually edged with purple, contracted at the base into a short purplish petiole ; ligule short, rounded or truncate, purplish, Inflorescences on leafless culms, forming large, loose, compound panicles, bearing solitary racemes or clusters of racemes of spikelets on slender branches, each raceme being supported by several bracts, and resembling a 5-7-flowered spikelet. Spikelets about one inch long, one-flowered, with a bristle-like production of the rhachilla, bearing a rudimentary floret. Glwmes about half the length of the spikelet, sub-equal, lower one- to three-, upper usually five-nerved ; valve (flowering glume) oblong- lanceolate, prominently seven- or nine-nerved, with ciliate margins near the tip; pale as long as or longer than the valve, with the keels ciliate near the tip, and a pair of prominent nerves on each side between the keel and margin. Anthers purple. Lodicules ciliate. Style filiform, longer than the three plumose stigmas.—Otto Stapf. Fig. 1, i : shonth ofthe laf reprovouted is hp Uninet 4, partial inflorescence, consisting of six spikelets ; 5, spikelet; 6, upper glume; 7, lower glume; 8, valve; 9, palea; 10 2: - ; ae erleged osenck Ge. © ; 9, palea; 10, anther; 11, lodicule ; aed pistil —all 7948 Seaaeat Vincent Brooks Day & SonLt# fup L Reeve &C London. nae : nN ~ cee eRa M.S. del. J.N.Fitch lith. Tas. 7948, ALOE Baum. . Native of South-west Africa, Nat. Ord. Lintacez.—Tribe ALOINE. Genus Ator, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 776.) Aor Baumii; acaulis (fere acaulis Engl. et Gilg) foliis circiter 15-20 dense rosulatis lanceolatis patentissimis 9-12 poll. longis basi 2-2 latis 5-6 lin. crassis apice in plantis cultis cito plus minusve marcescentibus supra planis maculis numerosis albidis oblongis longitudinalibus ornatis margine regulariter dentatis dentibus e basi lata rigidissimis corneis pungentibus fere rectis circiter 3 lin. longis inter se 4-6 lin. distantibus, scapo solitario erecto graciliusculo 3-5-pedali supra medium laxe simpliciterque ramoso ramis 3-10 erectis laxifloris, bracteis herbaceis albidis lanceolato-caudatis sursum gradatim minoribus supremis pedicellis paullo longioribus, pedi- cellis vix 3 lin. longis, floribus rubro-coccineis (flavido-rubescentibus Engl. et Gilg.) 1-1} poll. longis pendulis, perianthii tubo supra ovarium valde constricto lobis tubo brevioribus erectis (an semper ?) interioribus latioribus omnibus subobtusis, staminibus styloque brevissime exsertis. A. Baumii, Engler & Gilg, in Warburg (Baum’s) Kunene-Sambesi Exped. pp. 186, e¢ 191-2, fig. 90. We are indebted to Sir Thomas Hanbury for the oppor- tunity of figuring this handsome dwarf Aloe. Excellent specimens were sent to Kew by Mr. A. Berger, his enthusiastic gardener, together with notes, and a photo- graph of the plant, as growing in the beautiful gardens of La Mortola. This was in November of last year, and in the previous April specimens and a photograph of another plant were received from the same source under the name of A. hereroensis, Engl., of which also a drawing was made. At Kew we are unable to distinguish them specifically, but Mr. Berger maintains that they are different, and states, amongst other things, that the seeds are totally different. The seeds of A. hereroensis, he says, are among the smallest of the genus, and quite wingless, whereas those of 4A. Baumii are relatively large, and prominently winged. We have no seeds for comparison ; but Engler describes the perianth of his A. hereroensis as “ perianthio supra ovarium haud constricto,” and it is very decidedly constricted in the plant received under that name. In both of the cultivated plants the tips of the leaves are crippled and shrivelled; those of the plant APRIL Ist, 1904, named A. hereroensis, crippled much earlier, and the leaves consequently very short. There is no crippling of the leaves in the figures of the wild plants of either of the species in question. : Sir Thomas Hanbury obtained his plant from the Berlin Botanic Garden, whither it was sent by Mr. Baum, the discoverer, now Curator of the Botanic Garden at Rostock. In the narrative of Mr. Baum’s journey, as cited above, it is stated that this Aloe is extremely common, ranging from the Shella mountains eastward to beyond the Kuito River in Angola; that is between about 14° and 20° KH. long., and about 16° to 18°S. lat. The plant photographed in the book named was at Chirumba, on the Kubango River, growing in sandy, gravelly soil, at an elevation of nearly 4,000 ft. -The Kaffirs of Humbe, on the Kunene River, in the west, make cakes of the flowers of Aloe Baumii. They boil and press the flowers for this purpose ; but we are not told whether Europeans relish the said cakes. Descr.—Stemless or nearly so. Leaves from fifteen to twenty, densely rosulate, lanceolate, spreading, nine to twelve inches long, two to two and a half inches broad at the base, nearly half an inch thick, more or less shrivelled — at the tip in the cultivated plants, upper surface flat, beset with whitish, oblong spots, margin regularly toothed; — teeth almost straight from a broad base, very rigid, horny, sharp, about a quarter of an inch long, a quarter to half an inch apart. Scape solitary, erect, rather slender, three to five feet high, loosely, simply branched above the middle; branches three to ten, nearly erect; bracts her- baceous, dirty white, lanceolate, long-pointed, gradually smaller upwards, uppermost slightly exceeding the pedi- cels, about a quarter of aninch long. \ Flowers loosely race- mose, orange-red, one to one and a half inch long, pendulous. Perianth conspicuously constricted above the ovary ; lobes Shorter than the tube, erect, inner ones broader, all ee obtuse. Stamens and style very shortly exserted. Fig. 1 and 2, anthers; 3, gyneceum:—all enlarged: 4, whole plant, as cultivated in Sir Thomas Hanbury’s garden :—about sae catacat an 7949 Vincent Brooks Day & Son Le# hap : M_S.del J.NFitch ith Tas. 7949. CROSSOSOMA CALLFORNIOCUM. Native of Califorma. Nat. Ord. DILLENIACEZ. Genus Crossosoma, Meit.. ( Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. 1. p. 15.) Crossosoma californicum; frutex 3-4-pedalis, tortuoso-ramosus, fere undique glaber, pallide viridis, ramis graciliusculis, cortice amarissimo, internodiis brevibus, foliis alternis brevissime petiolatis exstipulatis demum subcoria- ceis oblongo-lanceolatis maximis 3} poll. longis 1 poll. latis integris basi cuneatis apice obtusis costa excurrente apiculatis venis immersis inconspi- cuis, floribus albis (antheris luteis) circiter 2 poll. diametro ramulis ter- winantibus solitariis, pedunculis brevibus, sepalis 5 basi connatis tubum hemisphzricum formantibus, limbi lobis orbicularibus concavis imbricatis petalis multo brevioribus, petalis 5 perigyniis orbicularibus undulatis breviter unguiculatis imbricatis, staminibus numerosis perigyniis 3-4-— serlatis quam petalis multo brevioribus, filamentis brevissimis, antheris Jongitudinaliter dehiscentibus, pistilli carpellis 3-6 basi in stipitem con- natis cetera inter se liberis biseriatim multiovulatis, stylis brevissimis stigmatibus capitatis, fructus folliculis 1-6 maturescentibus recurvis maximis pollicaribus ventre dehiscentibus, seminibus numerosis reni- formibus arillo longe fimbrillato-multifido vestitis, testa crustacea nigra nitida, embryone clavato parvo leviter curvato in albumine juxta hilum posito, radicula cotyledonibus paullo longiore. C. californicum, Nutt. in Journ. Acad. Philad. n.s. vol. i. (1847), p. 150, t. 22. Torr. U.S. Pacif. Railr. Rep. vol. iv. t. 1 (fig. 1 tantum). A. Gr. Synopt. Fl. N. Am. vol. i. p. 57. Rev. Hort. 1902, p. 103. M. 7. M. in Gard. Chron. 1908, vol. ii. p. 130, fig. 50. Lngler in Engl. & Prantl Natiirl. Pflanzenf. Nachtr. vol. i. p. 185 (Crossosomatacez). Crossosoma was founded by Nuttall on a specimen of the present species collected by Dr. W. Gambel in the Island of Santa Catalina, off the coast of California in about 33° N. lat. Much finer specimens were subsequently collected by Dr. E. Palmer and others in the far more isolated Guadalupe Island, off the coast of Lower California, in about 29° N. lat. A second species, CU. Biyelowit, S. Wats., was published in 1876, having previously been confused with C. californicum by Torrey, and figured as such. It inhabits the mountains of the mainland of Cali- fornia. A third species, CO. parviflora, Robins. & Fern., of more recent discovery, is a native of Sonora, North-west Mexico. The floral structure of Crossosoma is somewhat anoma- Arnit Ist, 1904. lous, and Nuttall compared it with Pwxonia, adding that it might be regarded as the type of a new group, which he called the Crossosomeze. The late Dr. Asa Gray, writing to Dr. (now Sir Joseph) Hooker in 1859, says: “I told Torrey long ago I thought the plant was Dilleniaceous; what do you say to it?” Bentham & Hooker placed it doubtingly at the end of the Dilleniaceze. Engler (op. sup. cit.) treats it as the type of a new natural order, which he places between the Platanacew and Rosacex, laying great stress on the perigynous position of the petals and stamens. For my own part I can find no better place for it than the Dilleniacez. In habit and flowers C. californicum is very much like some species of the Australian genus Hibbertia; the follicular fruit is very similar to that of Dillenia subsessilis, Gilg, as figured in Engler & Prantl’s * Natiirlichen Pflanzenfamilien,’’ vol. iii. 6, pi 107; 4256; and the fringed aril of the seed has an almost exact counter- part in Tetracera Assa, DC., figured in the same place. Again, the small embryo and relatively copious endo- sperm is a further bar to an alliance with the Rosacee. Exceptional perigyny occurs in so many natural orders that I attach less importance to it than the sum of the other characters. The specimen figured flowered in the garden of W. Gumbleton, Esq., at Belgrove, near Cork, in August of last year, and it is believed to be the first occasion of ~. this shrub flowering in Europe. What the future of this plant may be in European gardens it is impossible to predict, but it is likely to prove a difficult subject. It should be placed in the driest, warmest and most open situation possible out-of-doors, but it would probably succeed better in a warm, rather dry conservatory. Descr.—A dwarf, tortuously-branched shrub, three to four feet high, glabrous in nearly all parts; bark and leaves pale green. Branches slender; internodes short ; bark very bitter. Leaves alternate, very shortly stalked, exstipulate, at length coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, the largest three inches and a half long by one inch broad, entire, cuneate at the base, rounded at the tip with the midrib running out into a fine point, veins immersed, inconspicuous. flowers white (anthers yellow), about two inches in diameter, solitary at the ends of the branches ; peduncles short. Sepals five, connate at the base, forming a hemispherical tube ; lobes of the limb orbicular, concave, imbricate, very much shorter than the petals. Petals five, perigynous, orbicular, wavy, shortly clawed, imbricate. Stamens very numerous, perigynous, in three or four series, much shorter than the petals; filaments very short ; anthers dehiscing longitudinally. Pistil of three to six carpels, connate at the base on a common stalk, otherwise free ; styles very short ; stigmas capitate. rut follicular ; follicles one to six, recurved, the largest about one inch long, dehiscing by the inner or ventral suture. Seeds numerous, in two rows, reniform, enveloped in a fringed aril; testa crustaceous, black, shining. Hmbryo siall, clavate, slightly curved, immersed in the albumen near the hilum; radicle slightly longer than the cotyledons.— Wo, A Fig. 1, tricarpellary pistil with part of calyx-tube and base of stamens; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, fruit and persistent calyx ; 5, a seed enveloped in the aril; 6, the same divested of the aril :—all except 4 enlarged. M.S. del JN-Fitch ith L. Reeve & C° London Vincent Brocks,Day &Son Lit Imp iy Tas. 7950. CROTALARIA CAPENSIS. Native of South Africa. Nat. Ord. Lecuminosea#.—Tribe GENISTEs. Genus Crotararia, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 479.) CROTALARIA capensis; frutex ramosus, sempervirens, 3-6-pedalis, cito glabres- cens inter species africanas australes extratropicas stipularum obovata- ram amplitndine insignis, ramis gracilibus sericeo-puberulis, internodiis quam foliis multo brevioribus, foliis trifoliolatis graciliter longeque petiolatis in speciminibus cultis cum petiolo usque ad 6 poll. longis sed seepius precipue in speciminibus sylvestribus 14-2 poll. longis, foliolis breviter petiolulatis papyraceis obovatis oblanceolatisve majoribus 2 poll. longis basi cuneatis apice rotundatis simul apiculatis cito glabrescentibus, petiolo sericeo-pubescenti, stipulis foliaceis foliolis similibus sed minori- bus, racemis terminalibus folia superantibus circiter 7-15-floris, bracteis linearibus acutissimis pedicello dimidio brevioribus, pedicellis circiter semipollicaribus calyceque parce puberulis, floribus suaveolentibus luteis striis rubescentibus variegatis diametro maximo circiter sesquipollicaribus, calycis tubo amplo subgloboso (totoque mellis pleno, fide Jacquin), lobis fere aqualibus ovato-lanceolatis acutis patentibus 3-4 lin. longis, vexillo orbiculato apiculato reflexo circiter 1 poll. diametro, alis parvis oblique ovatis, carinw falcatee longe rostrate petalis inferne liberis superne connatis stamina et stylum includentibus, antheris omnibus basifixis, ovario stipitato puberulo multiovulato, stylo geniculato unilateraliter ciliato, legumine turgido pergameneo duro lwvi cum stipite circiter 24 poll. longo clavato supra medium crassiore apice breviter rostrato, seminibus circiter 20 oblique reniformibus compressis circiter 2 lin. latis nitidis longiascule funiculatis. ©. capensis, Jacq. Hort. Vindod. vol. iii. (1776-7), p. 36, t. 64. Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. vol. ii. p. 46. Melliss, St. Helena, p.258, Wood, Natal Pl. vol. i. 92 le . * C. arborescens, Lam. Encyel. vol..ii. p.199. DO. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 130. Nouv. Duham, vol. iv. t.49. Rev. Hort. 1868, p. 11. C. incanescens, Linn. f. Suppl. (1781) p. 328. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1, vol. iii. p. 20. _ According to Aiton, this ornamental, free-flowering shrub was introduced into Kew Gardens by Masson, in 1774; and N. J. Jacquin, who was the first to describe and figure it (1776) states that it was raised from seed sent from the Cape to Royen, without any information. Royen gave the seed to Jacquin several years (* plures annos”’) before the latter published his description, when it was already a branching shrub ten feet high, ‘‘. . . maximam partem anni floribus numerosis onustus.”’ Apri Ist, 1904, In spite of its attractions this shrub does not appear to have got into general cultivation in Europe; but it was early introduced into the island of St. Helena and eastern extra-tropical South America, where it has become naturalized. There is a specimen in the Kew Herbarium from the Montpellier Botanic Garden taken in 1821. Crotalaria capensis, Jacq., inhabits the south-eastern districts of Cape Colony, and extends northward to Natal. It is most nearly related to C. Natalitia, Meisn., which has distinctly angular branches and lanceolate stipules. The plant figured is growing in the Temperate House at Kew, where it flowers freely in the autumn. The pod figured is from a wild specimen, collected in Fish River Heights, Albany, in 1880, by H. Hutton. One of the seeds taken from the pod began to germinate after being a week in water. Deser.—A branching, evergreen shrub, five to ten feet high, but flowering when quite small, early glabrescent. Branches slender, at first clothed with a silky tomentum ; internodes usually much shorter than the leaves. Leaves alternate, petiolate, trifoliolate, in cultivated specimens sometimes as much as six inches long, usually smaller; leaflets shortly petiolulate, thin, obovate or oblanceolate, the largest two inches long, cuneate at the base, rounded at the tip, apiculate, soon glabrous. Stipules similar to the leaflets, but smaller. Racemes terminal, overtopping the leaves, seven- to fifteen-flowered ; bracts linear, very acute, about half as long as the pedicels; pedicels about half an inch long, slightly puberulous as well as the calyx. Plowers fragrant, yellow, striped with red-brown, about an inch and a half in their greatest diameter. Calya-tube almost globular (filled with honey, according to Jacquin) ; lobes nearly equal, ovate-lanceolate, acute, spreading, three to four lines long. Standard-petal orbicular, apicu- late, reflexed, about an inch in diameter; wing-petals relatively small, obliquely ovate; keel-petals strongly curved, beaked, free at the base, connate above, enclosing the stamens and style. Anthers all attached by the base, Ovary stalked, puberulous; ovules numerous; style sud- denly curved upwards, hairy along the upper edge. Pod inflated, thin, hard, tough, glabrous, club-shaped, thicker above the middle, shortly beaked at the tip, including the stalk about two and a quarter inches long. Seeds about twenty, distinctly stalked, obliquely kidney-shaped, about two lines broad, dark brown, shining.—W,. B. H. Fig. 1, portion of a branch; 2, calyx, stamens and pistil; 3, a wing-petal; 4, a keel-petal ; 5 and 6, anthers ; 7, pistil with the ovary laid open ; 8, a pod: —all except 8 enlarged. M. S. del JN-Fitch lith. Vincest. Brooks Day & Son Ltt imp Se oe LReeve & Co Landon. Tas. 7951. DIPODIUM picroum. Native of Malaya. Nat. Ord. Orncuipex.—tTribe Vanpea. Genus Drroptum, R. Br.; (Benth. e¢ Hook, f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 539.) DiropiuM pictum; herba perennis, caulescens, scandens, undiqnue glaberrima, “ad arborum truncos septem pedes altior” foliis subcoriaceis crebre distichis equitantibusque tricostatis cum nervis intermediis tenuioribus parte vagi- nante persistente lamina lineari-lanceolata 6-12 poll. longa acuta ab vagina truncatim disjuncta, inflorescentiis axillaribus folia superantibus simplici- bus vel pauciramosis multifloris, pedunculo bracteis vel squamis paucis parvis ovatis instructo, racemo (vel panicula) laxo, pedicellis cum ovario circiter pollicaribus, floribus sanguineo-purpureo maculatis circiter 2 poll. diametro, sepalis petalisque similibus oblongo-obovatis lan- ceolatisve obtusis 9-12 lin. longis, labello erecto ima basi columns adnato sepalis gquilongo trilobo, lobis lateralibus parvis dentiformibus, lobo intermedio amplo obovato apice rotundato bisin versus attenuato supra basi apiceque et secus medium pilis longis crassis~ densissime vestito, columna intus basi pilosa, polliniis 2 ovatis stileatis segregatim ope caudicularum glandule magne affixis, caudiculis pone pollinia obtuse breviterque productis. ae . D. pictum, Reichb. f. Xenia Orch. vol.ii. pp, 15 et 20,%. 107. Hook. f. Fl. Brit. _ Ind. vol, vi. p. 19. W. W. in Gard. Chron. 1903, vol. ii. p. 209, Wailesia picta, Lindl. in Journ. Hort. Soc. vol. iv. (1849), p.261. Pawt. Mag. Bot. vol. xvi. p. 321, ewm ic. col. ee Wailesia rosea, Pazxt. errore Reichb. f. Xenia Orch, vol. ii. p 20. Nichols. Dict. Gard. vol. iv. p. 191. ~ ES ees al 5: Leopardanthus scandens, Blume, Rumphia, vol. iv. (1848), p. 47; Mus. Bot. * Lugd.-Bat. vol. i. p. 47, fig. 15. ‘ ree 2 Grammatophyllum scandens, Griff. Notul. vol. iii. p. 845; Zc. Pl. Asiat. t. 324, Hydranthus: scandens, Kuhl et Van Hasselt, ex Reichb. f. Xenia Orch. vol. ii. p. 20 Hight years ago a figure of Dipodiwm paludosum, Reichb. f., appeared in the Magazine (tab. 7464), and the peculiarities of the genus were described, and its distribution given. There are leafless and leafy species, as the genus is defined in Bentham and Hooker’s ‘‘ Genera Plantarum ;” and the leafy species are remarkable amongst orchids having distichous, sessile leaves, for the disarticulation in the blade between two and three inches above their in- sertion. Herbarium specimens have the appearance of the leaves being clipped off, with the exception of a few of the upper ones. In living plants the position where disarticulation will take place is easily seen, as the leaf is of a darker green below than above the point. Records are not very precise, but from the incomplete Apri. Ist, 1904 notes of collectors, Dipodiwm pictum and D. paludosum start in the ground, and grow up against the trunks of trees; the former to a height of at least seven feet. Whether in very open woods, or otherwise, we have not been able to find out. D. pictum was cultivated at Chatsworth by Paxton forty-five years ago, and he states that it was attached toa block of wood with a little sphagnum, and was suspended in the Orchid House, where it grew rapidly, and flowered in September and October. At Kew it is grown attached to a stump, in a pot, and the plant from which the drawing was made is now nearly two feet high. - Brown does not explain why he chose the name Dipodiun, literally, two-footed; but there is little doubt it had re- ference to the two stalks of the pollinia, not to the two small lateral lobes of the lip, as explained by some writers, Descr—A_ perennial, herbaceous plant. Stems weak, attaching themselves to the trunks of trees, sometimes as much as seven feet long. 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SMITH, F.LS. | Forming an Illustrated Companion to Bentham’s ‘‘ Handbook,” and other British Floras. e 5th Edition, with 1315 Wats Kngravings, 9s. net. LOVELL. REEVE & CO. Irp., 6, HENRIETTA STREET, soe tee GARDEN, : al £ é o Ge ———— “ea aan saa C° Lander ‘Reeve & ~ La Tas. 7952. EPIPREMNUM aicanreum. Native of the Malayan Peninsula, , Nat, Ord, AromEa,—Tribe CaLLEex. Genus Erirremnum, Schott; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 993.) EvivrEmMNuM giganteum; fratex glaber, robustus, in arborum truncis alte scandens, caulibus pauciramosis crassis radices validas usque ad 100 ped. longas ad terram descendeutes emittentibus, foliis amplis crasse coriaceis durissimis cum petolis 6-8-ped. longis 1}-2-ped. latis crebre distichis cordato-oblongis acuminatis integris venis transversis numero- sissimis, petiolo alato crasso apice geniculato laminam fere wquante amplexicauli, spathis solitariis axillaribus subsessillibus crasse coriaceis in siccis fere lignosis circiter pedalibus spadicem excedentibus per anthesin medio tavtum apertis, spadice sessili cylindrico per totam longitudinem florifero, floribus hermaphroditis vel paucis inferioribus femineis creberrimis, perianthio nullo, staminibus 4 quam gynzveo brevioribus, ovario crasso carnoso apice truncato uniloculari biovulato stigmate sessili lineari canaliculato, ovulis basalibus, fructu ignoto. E. giganteum, Schott in Bonplandia, vol. v. 1857, p. 49; Prodr. Arvid. p. 389. Engl. in DC. Monogr. Phanerog. vol. ii. p. 249. Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. vi. p. 548. Pothos giganteus, Roxb. I'l. Ind. vol. i. p. 434. Scindapsus giganteus, Schott in Schott et Hndlicher, Meletem. vol. i. p. 21. Kunth Enum, Pl. vol. iii. p. 68. : Monstera gigantea, C, Koch, ee Ender Index Aroid. p. 74. Epipremnum giganteum, Schott, was discovered by William Roxburgh, Superintendent of the Calcutta Botanic Garden from 1793 to 1814, in Prince of Wales Island, Penang, and was introduced and cultivated by him in the Caleutta garden. He described it under the name of Pothos giganteus, and it was published in his posthumous “Flora Indica.” It has therefore been in cultivation, more or less, for about a century; but we believe its in- troduction into Europe is due to Mr. H. N. Ridley, Director of the Botanic Gardens, Singapore, who sent a plant of it to Kew in 1897. This plant is now a very striking object in the north-west angle of the Aroid House, where it flowered in June of last year. Roxburgh remarks that it was the stoutest of the May Ist, 1904. parasitic [sic] Aroideew that he had met with, and it is truly very robust and rigid. Its very thick, hard, un- divided leaves contrast unfavourably, from an ornamental standpoint, with the divided leaves of the allied Monstera deliciosa and Rhaphidophora decursiva in cultivation in’ the same house. The Asiatic and Polynesian genera Tthaphidophora and Epipremnum are exactly alike in vegetative characters, and the structural and morpholo- gical differences are not evident and constant. The former genus is described as having a two-celled ovary with several ovules attached to a central placenta, and the ripe berries as confluent ; whereas Epipremnum bas a one- celled ovary with two basal ovules, and the ripe berries are free from each other. But the species of each genus present certain modifications of these characters, and Sir Joseph Hooker (‘ FI. Brit. Ind.,” vol. vi. p-. 548) suggests that it would be better to unite them. The American genus Monstera differs from both in having exalbuminous seeds and a large embryo; otherwise it is very similar. M. Adansonii, Schott (B. M. t. 5086) is an example ; but it is somewhat surprising that no figure of the better known M. deliciosa, Liebm. has ever appeared in the Magazine. This is perhaps the only member of the natural order bearing an edible fruit. Descr.—A climbing, glabrous, robust shrub, which attaches itself to the trunks of trees, and ascends, as nearly as possible, in a straight line. Stems often a hundred feet long, three or four inches or perhaps more in thickness, bearing few branches, emitting thick, rope-like roots from every growth, the uppermost ones descending to the earth, and sometimes a hundred feet long. Leaves large, thick, coriaceous, very hard, including the long petiole six to eight feet long, one and a half to two feet broad, closely two-rowed when attached to the trunks of trees, cordate-oblong, acuminate, entire ; petiole winged, thick, kneed at the top with the blade, stem-clasping. Spathes solitary, axillary, subsessile, thick, coriaceous, almost woody when dry, about one foot long, exceeding the spadix. Spadiz sessile, cylindrical, floriferous through- out. Flowers crowded, hermaphrodite or a few of the lower ones female. Perianth none. Stamens four, shorter | than the pistil. Ovary thick, fleshy, truncate, one-celled ; ovules two, basal; stigma sessile, linear, channelled. Fruit unknown.— W. B. H, Fig. 1, a cluster of flowers from the spadix; 2, a flower, showing pistil and two stamens; 3 and 4, ventral and dorsal views of a stamen; 5, section of pistil, showing basal ovules; 6, an ovule; 7,sketch of the Kew plant, about ay Of natural size:—all other figures enlarged, Vincent Brooks,D ay & Son Ltt imp hth. M.S. del J.N-Fitch L. Reeve &C° Landon. Tas. 7953. MARSDEN TA IMTHURNII. Native of British Guiana. Nat. Ord, AscLeprapacea.— Tribe MARSDENIEX, Genns Marspenta, R. Br.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 772.) MarspEnia Jmthurnii; frutex alte volubilis, M. maculats, Hook. et M. Bur- chelii, Fourn., affinis, a priore foliis immaculatis, a posteriore foribus majoribus, pedicellis longioribus differt, caulibus teretibus primaom appresse pubescentibus florigeris circiter 3 lin. diametro, internodiis quam foliis brevioribus, foliis oppositis longe petiolatis crassiusculis primum mollibus cordatis interdum medio constrictis in ramis florigeris cum petiolo 6-9 poll. longis maximis 4 poll. latis abrupte acuminatis utrinque precipue subtus primum appresse pubescentibus bullatis venis crassius- culis subtus elevatis, floribus purpureis 5-6 lin. diametro pubescentibus densissime cymoso-umbellatis, cymis axillaribus brevissime pedunculatis subglobosis 14-2 poll. diametro, pedicellis pubescentibus 2-3 lin. longis, calycis lobis 5 oblongis obtusis corolle tubo saltem dimidio brevioribus, corolle extus pubescentis suburceolate tubo. lato limbi Jobis longiore, lobis ovato-oblongis rotundatis recurvis, corons squamis 5 erectis crassis carnosis ovatis obtuse acuminatis quam staminibus brevioribus, polliniis oblongis erectis stipitatis, ovario biloculari multiovulato, fructu ignoto. _ M. Imthurnii, Hemsl. | Like many other genera of the order Asclepiadacex, Marsdenia is not very well defined, but there is no doubt about the plant figured being a congener of M. maculata, Hook. (Bot. Mag. t. 4299), which was founded on a plant cultivated at Kew in 1847, received some years previously from Santa Martha, Colombia. It is also near the Brazilian M, Burchellii, Fourn., and M. mollissima, Fourn. As defined in Bentham and Hooker’s ‘ Genera Plantarum,” and in Engler and Prantl’s “ Die Natiirlichen Pflanzen-— familien,” the genus comprises about sixty species, very widely dispersed in tropical countries; and there is an outlier, M. erecta, R. Br., native of the eastern Mediter- ranean region. M. Inthurnit was raised from seed sent from British Guiana to Kew, in 1882, by E. F. im Thurn, C.B., C.M.G., now Lieut.-Governor of Ceylon, but formerly of the Civil Service in the country named. Mr. im Thurn was an ardent investigator of the Natural History of British Guiana, and Kew is indebted to him for many May Ist,’ 1904. seeds and collections of dried plants. M. Imthurnii is a vigorous climber, and covers a considerable space on the roof of the Palm House. It has long, hanging branches, which occasionally flower in autumn; the flowers re- sembling those of a Hoya. Deser.—A tall, twining shrub. Stems rather slender, terete; flowering branches about a quarter of an inch in diameter ; internodes shorter than the leaves, pubescent. Leaves opposite, on long petioles, rather thick, soft, cordate, sometimes constricted in the middle, those of the flowering-branches including petiole six to nine inches long, the largest four inches broad, abruptly acuminate, hairy on both sides, especially on the under surface, more or less bullate; veins thick, and raised on the under surface. lowers purple, about half-an-inch across, hairy, arranged in dense, globular, axillary, very shortly stalked, umbellate cymes, one and a half to two inches across; pedicels hairy, a quarter of an inch-or less in length. Calyz-lobes five, oblong, obtuse, about half as long as the corolla-tube. Corolla hairy outside; tube broad, slightly inflated, longer than the lobes of the limb; lobes ovate- oblong, rounded at the tip, recurved. Coronal-scales five, erect, thick, fleshy, ovate, suddenly and obtusely acumi- nate, shorter than the staminal column. Pollinia oblong, erect, on long stalks. Ovary two-celled ; ovules numerous. Fruit unknown.— W. B. Fig. 1, a flower; 2, corona and staminal column; 3, a pair of pollinia; 4, style and stigma :—all enlarged. M.S. del, JN Pitch lith. Vincent Brock, Day &SanIiimp L. Reeve & C2 London Tap. 7954, DICENTRA cuHrysantHa. Native of California, Nat. Ord. Fumariace, Genus Dicentra, Borkh, ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 59.) DicentRA chrysantha; herba perennis, basi interdum lignescens et per hiemem persistens, glabra, glauca, erecta, 2-4 ped. alta, caulibus rigidis pauciramosis, foliis amplis bi- vel tripinnatisectis segmentis lobisque ultimis linearibus vel cuneatis acutiusculis, paniculis multi- ramosis multifloris 1-2 ped. longis, floribus aureis 1-12 poll. diametro breviter pedicellatis suberectis, bracteis bracteolisque minutis squami- formibus, sepalis 2 parvis late ovatis caducis, petalis 4 dimorphis circiter pollicaribus 2 exterioribus basi saccatis rotundatis supra medium ovato-oblongis acutis patentibus 2 interioribus oblongis concavis dorso carinatis per totam longitudinem conniventibus stamina stylumque in- cludentibus, staminibus 6 in phalanges 2 petalis exterioribus oppositas connatis, filamentis glabris supra medium filiformibus, ovario unilocu- lari glabro stigmate capitato bilobato, placentis 2 parietalibus linearibus multiovulatis, capsula clavata cum stylo persistente 13-11 poll. longa levi polysperma, seminibus numerosis reniformibus compressis circiter # lin. longis leevibus. D. chrysantha, Walp. Rep. vol. i. p. 118. S. Wats. Bot. Calif. vol. i. p. 24. W. Irving in The Garden, vol. lxiv. (1903), p. 334. H.N.E. in op. cit. vol. lxv. p. 18. : Dielytra chrysantha, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 320, t. 73. Pat. Fl. Gard. vol. iii. (1852-3), p. 151, t. 103. Capnorchis chrysantha, Planch. in Flore des Serres, vol. viii. p. 193, t. 820. Bikukulla chrysantha, Coville in Contr, U.S. Nat, Herb, vol. iv. (1893), p. 60. Dicentra chrysantha, Walp., was originally discovered by David Douglas, and subsequently by William Lobb, who collected for Messrs. Veitch, of Exeter, where plants were raised from seed, and flowered for the first time in September, 1852. It inhabits dry hills of the Coast Range, Southern California, at elevations of 2,500 to 4,000 feet, and should therefore be given a sheltered situation and a southern exposure. At Kew it succeeds well under a south wall, and last year, in spite of the unfavourable weather, it flowered from July till nearly the end of October. Canon Ellacombe, writing in ‘“ The Garden,” sums up his experience of the plant in a few words, to the effect that it is hardy, short-lived, and never produces seed. May Ist, 1904. Anyone interested in the history of the generic appella- tions Dicentra, Dielytra and Diclytra, should turn to the ‘Botanische Zeitung,’ vol. xv. (1857), p. 641, and vol. xvii, (1859), p. 157. Descr.—A_ perennial, glabrous, glaucous, erect herb, two to four feet high, sometimes becoming woody at the base, and persistent through the winter. Stems stiff, with few branches. Leaves large, pinnately divided to the second or third degree; ultimate lobes small, linear or cuneate, somewhat acute. Panicles much-branched, many-flowered, one to two feet long. Flowers of a brilliant, golden yellow, one inch to one inch and a quarter in diameter, shortly stalked, nearly erect. Bracts and_bracteoles minute, scale-like. Sepals two, small, broadly ovate, fall- ing in the expansion of the flower. Petals four, of two shapes, about an inch long; two outer saccate and rounded at the base, ovate-oblong above the middle, acute, spreading ; two inner oblong, concave, keeled down the back, more or less cohering their whole length, and en- closing the stamens and pistil. Stamens six, in two bundles of three, opposite the outer petals; filaments glabrous, filiform above the middle. Ovary one-celled, glabrous; stigma capitate, two-lobed; placentas two, parietal, very narrow, bearing numerous ovules. Capsule. club-shaped, including the persistent style one inch and a quarter to one inch and a half long, naked, many-seeded. Seeds numerous, kidney-shaped, flattened, about three- quarters of a line long, smooth.—W. B. H. Fig. 1, a Hower; 2, an inner petal; 3, a bundle of stamens; 4, a pistil :— all enlarged, 7935 PP i og Cowrtaen ter Vincent Broke Day &SonL#bnp _ MS. del J -N-Fitch lith . Tin 7Oa5. CHLORAA orisPa. Native of Chile. Nat. Ord. OrcuiIpE.z.—Tribe Neorrigx. Genus Cxtorma, Lindl.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant vol. iii. p. 618.) Cuior&a crispa; herba terrestris 1 usque ad 3 ped. alta, radicibus carnosis elongatis, caule erecto glabro, foliis basalibus oblongis vel lanceolatis acutis usque ad 8 poll. longis et 1 poll. latis basi amplectentibus im- bricatisque, scapo squamis ovatis vel late lanceolatis acutis vel acuminatis distantibus 1-4 poll. longis instructo, racemis pauci- vel multifloris, bracteis lanceolatis acuminatis ovarium «#quantibus vel paullo excedenti- bus, non reticulatim venosis, pedicellis brevibus, ovario subclavato, floribus fere omnino albis, labello ad latera, petalis ad basin minute viridi-maculatis, columna ad basin aurantiaco-maculata, sepalo dorsali oblongo obtuso circa 1} poll. longo 7 lin. lato, lateralibus e basi lineari obovato-oblongis leviter undulatis apice cochleatis incrassatis 1} poll. longis 6 lin. latis, petalis ellipticis obtusis sepalo dorsali quarta parte brevioribus ad nervos longitudinales sparse verrucosis, labello basi con- tracto superne late oblongo vel fere orbiculari parte superiore crispato- dentato lamellis 7-9 fimbriatis basi confluentibus instructo facie inferiore prope margines papillis paucis predito, columna circa 1 poll. longa, ovario subclavato. C. crispa, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. p. 401. Gay, Flor. Chil. vol. v. p. 445. ered Review, 1903, p. 133. Krdnzl. Orch. Gen. et Sp. vol. ii. p. 129, t. Lda. Cymbidium luteum, Willd. Sp. Plant. vol. iv. p. 106. Epipactis amplo flore luteo, vualgo Gavilu, Fewillée, Journ. Observ. vol. ii. (1714), p. 729, tab. 20. _ Although this plant was first described by Feuillée nearly two hundred years ago, it appears to have been only recently brought into cultivation. Mr. H. J. Elwes, F.R.8., collected tubers in the sandy plain between Coronel and Concepcion, Chili, in December, 1901, which he presented to Kew, and from them the plant here figured was raised, and it flowered in April, 1903. Lindley, who first distinguished the genus Chlorea, knew this species in the dried state only. It inhabits the plains of Chili, where its long fleshy rootlets bury themselves deeply in the sand, and, pro- bably owing to different degrees of humidity, it varies much in size and the number of flowers produced. Feuillée states that the Indian women mix the juice of May Ist, 1904. this plant with their ‘bouillon’ to produce a more abundant flow of milk after child-birth. When figuring C. longibracteata, Lindl. (t. 7909) we gave some particulars of the genus. Since then Dr. F. Krianzlin has completed a monograph of the species (Orchidearun Genera et Species, vol. ii. pp. 143, tt. 14), of which he describes eighty-four. It is curious that the name Chlorea does not occur in the Dictionaries: of Gardening, although C. longibracteata was in cultivation in 1837, and C. virescens, Lindl. (Bot. Reg. vol. xxxi. t. 49) in 1845. : Descr.—A terrestrial herb, varying from one to three feet in height. Roots long, fleshy. Stem erect, glabrous. Leaves chiefly basal, oblong or lanceolate, acute, the largest eight inches long and one inch wide, sheathing and imbricate at the base. Scape furnished with distant, ovate or broadly lanceolate, acute or acuminate scales, one to four inches long. Racemes few- or many-flowered ; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, about as long as the shortly pedicellate ovary. lowers white, with numerous very minute, green dots near the sides of the lip and base of the petals, and a large orange and brown blotch at the base of the column. Dorsal sepal oblong, obtuse, about an inch and a half long and seven lines wide; lateral sepals obovate-oblong from a linear base, slightly undulate, cochleate, and thickened at the apex, about as long as the dorsal and slightly narrower. Petals elliptic, obtuse, three-quarters the length of the dorsal sepal, sparingly warted on the longitudinal nerves. Labellum contracted at the base, widely oblong or nearly orbicular above, entire below, crispate-dentate above, with seven or nine fimbriate lamelle confluent towards their base, and a few papilla on the under surface towards the margins. Column about one inch long.—W. B. H. | Fig. 1, column and anther; 2, pollinia :—both enlarged. 7956: em N.S.del JN Fitch lith Vincent Brooks Day & Son Ltt imp i: x g Re. es C ot @ Fi of 4 Tas. 7956. TRIS (Xresion) warneyensis. Native of Bokhara. Nat. Ord, IntpE#,.—Tribe Mormex. Genus Iris, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 686.) Iris (Xiphion) warleyensis; herba erecta, usque ad 1 ped. alta sed swpius brevior, caule tereti glabro, foliis caulinis lanceolatis acuminatis basi amplectentibus, floribus singulis vel binis ordinatis, spathis duabus viridi- bus lanceolatis acutis vel subobtusis 2 poll. longis, perianthii tubo 2 poll. longo infra cylindrico supra anguste infundibuliformi, perianthii segmentis exterioribus unguibus ligulatis 1} poll. longis dilute purpureis apice reflexis laminis ovalibus vel fere orbicularibus leviter emarginatis obscure purpureis medio aurantiacis marginibus albis crista crenata infra purpurea supra aurantiaca instructis, segmentis interioribus patentibus violaceis 8 lin. longis trilobis, lobis lateralibus breviter triangularibus, lobo terminali longe subulato, styli ramis violaceis maculo aurantiaco squama crenata instructis circa 13 poll. longis usque ad 6 lin. bifidis prope apicem obtuse irregulariterque paucidentatis, capsulis iis I. bucharice similibus. - I, (Xiphion) warleyensis, The Garden, vol. 1xi. (1902), p. 241; M. Foster in Gard. Chron. vol. xxxi. (1902), p. 386, fig. 134; Journ. Hort. ser. 3, vol. Ixiv. p. 339. In the genus Iris the section Xiphion, distinguished by its bulbous rootstock, includes several types around which cluster very closely related forms, which for garden pur- poses are more conveniently regarded as distinct species. The present plant is a member of such a group, which has for its type J. orchioides, Carr, and bears a considerable resemblance to var. cerulea, Hort., of that species. In structure it is similar to I. bucharica, M. Foster, figured in tab. 7914 of this work, which differs in having yellow flowers. This species was discovered in the neighbourhood of Bokhara, whence it was introduced into cultivation by Messrs. van Tubergen, of Haarlem. he plant from which our figure was made, flowered in the garden of the Hon. Charles Hillis in April, 1902. At Kew J. warleyensis has not succeeded so well as typical I. orchioides, Carr. 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Baker, me R.S., F.L.S- With 48 rene Coloured Plates, 80s. net. eR 5th Rdition, with 1815 we d En Bae | LOVELL REEVE & ee 6, ee rREET, ( 7957 _ —_ aap 7 ~ Day &SonLt* Vincent Brooks, Fitch bth 7 FT hy de Bx) ie} 4. L. Reeve & C? London J Tas. 7957. TUPISTRA C.rarkel. Native of Sikkim. Nat. Ord. Littacea.—Tribe AsprpistREs. Genus Tupistra, Ker-Gawl. ; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 772.) TuPISTRA blarkei ; herba robusta, rhizomate repente crasso, vaginis basalibus ovatis vel oblongis acuminatis membranaceis, foliis approximatis oblan- ceolatis acuminatis integerrimis glabris nitentibus 4 ped. longis usque ad . 44 poll. latis, nervis obliquis translucentibus, petiolis rigidis erectis, pedunculis teretibus 8 poll. longis, spicis nutantibus vel fere pendulis densifloris usque ad 3-4 poll. longis, bracteis quam floribus multo brevioribus, floribus cirea 1} poll. diam. intus sordide rubro-purpureis extus primum (perianthii loborum marginibus purpureis exceptis) viridi- bus demum subfuscis, perianthii tubo breviter campanulato vel fere cupulari intus sparse piloso, lobis 6 patentibus late triangularibus obtusis, filamentis brevissimis crassis supra medium perianthii tubi affixis, antheris oblongis introrsis, ovario parvo trilobo, stylo cylindrico exserto, stigmate peltato quam ovario multo latiore trilobo. T. Clarkei, Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. vol. vi. p. 325. “ The genus Tupistra was founded by Ker-Gawler in the Botanical Magazine, tab. 1655, upon a plant introduced by Loddiges from Amboyna, to which the name 7’. squalida was given. .Though closely resembling Aspidistra in vegetative characters, this genus is distinguished by having its 6-merous flowers arranged in usually dense cylindrical spikes. T. Clarkei was discovered by Sir J. D. Hooker in Sikkim at from 2,000 to 5,000 ft. altitude. A water- colour drawing of it by Cathcart is in the collection at Kew. It flowered at Kew in October, 1877, and again in the Aroid House in November, 1903. ‘The latter plant, from which our illustration was taken, was received from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, in the preceding year. It thrives at Kew in a stove, and, on account of its tall, shining green leaves, gracefully recurved towards the apex, is of considerable value for decorative effects. T. grandis, Rid). (tab. 7829) differs from this species in having erect spikes, while its peltate stigma has numerous radiating ribs on its upper surface, each rib JUNE Ist, 1904. ’ terminating in a small marginal lobe; the whole stigma much resembling the pileus of some of the smaller species of Mycena. ‘T’. macrostigma, Baker (tab. 6280) has fewer flowers in a drooping spike, and its large, red, imbricately lobed stigma is borne on a much shorter style, so as to almost close the mouth of the perianth-tube. Descrv.— A robust, glabrous herb. Rhizome creeping, thick; basal sheaths ovate or oblong, acuminate, mem- branous. Leaves approximate, oblanceolate, acuminate, quite entire, shining, four feet long, four inches and a half broad ; nerves obliquely joined to the midrib at varying heights, translucent; petioles rigid, erect. Peduneles terete, three inches long; spikes nodding or almost pendulous, three to four inches long, dense; bracts much shorter than the flowers. Flowers about an inch and a - quarter in diameter, dull reddish-purple inside, outside at first green with purple margins to the perianth-lobes, at length entirely buff. Perianth-tube shortly campanulate or alniost cupular, sparingly pilose inside; lobes six, patent, broadly triangular, obtuse. Filaments very short and thick, inserted just above the middle of the perianth- tube ; anthers oblong, introrse. Ovary small, three-lobed ; Style cylindrical, exserted; stigma peltate, three-lobed, much broader than the ovary.—W. B. H. ~ Fig. 1, part of perianth and stamens; 2 and 3, front and back views of _ an anther; 4 pistil :—al/ enlarged. 7958 rooks,Da & Son Limp B.S.del JN Ritchith Vincent Broo ay Pe eM LReeve & C% London — Tas. 7958. mo BULBOPHYLLUM Weppsrr. ‘Native of Brazil. Nat. Ord. Oncn1pacea.—Tribe EPIDENDRE®. — Genus BuLBopHYLiuM, Thouars; (Benth.et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 501 ) Bu.poruyitium (§ Racemosee) Weddelii; herba epiphytica rhizomate crasso elongato, pseudobulbis sparsis 4-angulatis unifoliatis circiter 2 poll. longis 1-1} poll. latis, folio oblongo 3-4 poll. longo 1}-14 poll. lato utringue rotundato multinervi, scapis basilaribus solitariis, pedunculo tereti usque ad 2 ped. longo erecto bracteis paucis membranaceis vaginatis ochreiformibus apice obliquis instructo, racemo pendulo multifloro denso circiter semipedali, bracteis membranaceis branneis lanceolatis acutis 4-5 longis persistentibus, floribus subsessilibus circiter 2 poll. diametro nutantibus, sepalis Jineari-lanceolatis acutissimis 1-1} poll. longis intus albis extus viridibus, petalis linearibus acutis 2 lin. longis, labello albo- purpureo maculato mobili cum columne pede articulato basi subtus gibboso lobis lateralibus minutis lobo terminali linguiformi vel spathulato circiter 6 lin. longo, columne brachiis setiformibus utrinque infra brachia unidentatis. B. Weddelii, Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann. vol. vi. p. 251. _ Didactyle Weddelii, Lindl. Fol. Orch. vol. i. (Didactyle), p. 2. Bulbophyllum is one of the most diversified of the genera of orchids, and one of the few epiphytic genera common to America and the Old World. It is also very widely spread, ranging from Central America and the West Indies to Brazil in the West, and China to Australia and New Zealand in the Hast. A considerable number of species inhabit tropical Africa, the Mascarene Islands and India. Probably not less than one hundred species have been described, and they present greater variety in size, aspect, and structure than any other group of species of orchids generally recognized as congeneric. It is true that generic distinction has been given to various species and groups of species by different botanists, but they are not accepted by the leading writers on orchids, and the late Dr. Reichenbach even went so far as to unite Cirrho- petalum with Bolbophyllum. : | ; In illustration of this diversity we may refer to some of the species figured inthis Magazine. Take, for example, B. Dayanum, Reichb. f. (t. 6119); B. lemniscatum, Parish June lst, 1904, (t. 5961); B. comosum, Coll. & Hemsl. (t. 7283), and — B. Beccarii, Reichb. f. (t. 6567). And they by no means cover the range of variation. The last-named is one of the largest orchids known, being a tall climber, with thick rhizomes, leaves two feet long by a foot and a half broad, and large clusters of flowers. It isa native of Borneo, where also perhaps the very smallest orchid hitherto described is at home. This © is B. Odoardi, Reichb.f. Both of these remarkable orchids are named after our old friend, Dr. Beccari, who spent some years in the botanical exploration of Borneo. | Not much bigger is B. minutissimum, F. Muell., an Australian species (Fitzgerald’s “ Australian Orchids,” — under Dendrobium), which has leaves and flowers barely one-twelfth of an inch in diameter, B. Weddelii, Reichb. f., is a very graceful species, with a delicately mobile lip. : | ; Deser.—An epiphytic herb, with a thick, elongated — rhizome. Bulbs distant, angular, one-leaved, about two inches long. Leaf oblong, three to four inches long, many-nerved. Scapes solitary from the base of the bulbs; peduncle one to two feet long, erect; racemes many- flowered, pendulous, about six inches long. Flowers nearly sessile, about two inches in diameter, nodding. — Sepals linear-lanceolate, very acute, an inch or more long, — green outside, white within. Petals linear, minute. Lip — spotted purple and white, tongue-shaped, shorter than the ie Sone to the base of the column and mobile.— Fig. 1, column, lip, and one petal; 2, column and base of the lip seen from ~ the front and below ; 3, base of the lip seen from above; 4, anther-case; 5 and — | 6, pollen :—all enlarged. eu 4 7 ‘ ato Gal JN Richie, 1 .OS.del JN Fitehtith Vincent Brooks Dav && re inp L, Reeve & Co London. - a Tas. 7959. CHAM ADOREA PULCHELLA. Native of Tropical America. Nat. Ord. Pata —Tribe AnEces. | Genus CuamaporeEa, Willd.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 910.) Cuamaporea (Collinia) pudchella; palma gracilis, caule erecto nudo annulato, foliis in caulis apice confertis erecto-patentibus 4-pedalibus, petiolis sesquipedalibus levibus, supra concavis linea media elevata instructis, subtus convexis, foliolis utraque circa 30 lineari-lanceolatis ad 1 ped. longis et 9 lin. latis ad basin nervoram in facie superiore sparse squamatis, nervis 3 quam reliquis crassioribus, paniculis ¢ interfoliaceis laxe ramosis minute pulveralentis, ramulis ultimis 10 poll. longis, pedunculis circa 2 ped. longis, spathis basalibus 4-5, scariosis, calycis lobis late ovatis marginibus membranaceis purpureis, corollis stipitatis dilute luteis, globosis, lobis triangularibus quam tubo quarta parte brevioribus, staminum tubo quam parte libera longiore, antherarum loculis basi paulo divergentibus, ovarii radimento ovoideo quam staminibns longiore, stylo brevi crasso, stigmate trilobo, inflorescentia ? ignota. C. pulchella, L. Linden in Cat. Plant. Comp. Cont. Hort. 1885, p. 4. i Li This palm was distributed in 1885 by the Compagnie — Continentale d’Horticulture, from which a _ plant was obtained for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, where it flowered in 1891, and again in the autumn of 1903; the naked part of the stem having in the meanwhile increased from about nine inches to eight feet in height. The native - country of this species is not known, but most of its allies come from the Central American region. In habit and in the texture of the leaflets it resembles C. schiedeana,. Mart., from which it differs in having narrower and straighter leaflets. The globose, trifid corolla places it in the section Collinia. About seventy species have been described in the genus Chamedorea, some of which have been subsequently separated to found new genera, based chiefly upon the character of the corolla, which varies from deeply lobed and widely expanded to very shortly lobed and nearly globose, and from sessile to stipitate. These characters, however, are generally regarded as insufficient to maintain such genera. The species inhabit the western side of tropical America, from South Mexico to JUNE lst, 1904. Peru. Several have been figured in this work, amongst them C. tenella, Wendl. (Nunnezharia tenella, Hook. f., tab. 6584), which is one of the smallest palms known, and produces fruit when only seven inches high. Most of the plants have slender, solitary stems, but C. stolonifera, Wendl. (tab. 7265) sends out stolons from which young plants arise close to their parent. The flowers and also the spadix are sometimes of a bright orange-red, which contrasts well with the dark green of the leaves, which in C. Hrnesti-Augusti, Wendl. (tab. 4831), and a few other species are broad and simply two-lobed. Descr.—A slender palm. Stem erect, about eight feet high, naked, the annular scars of fallen leaves about one inch apart. Leaves forming a terminal crown, nearly erect, about four feet long; petiole about a foot and a half long, smooth, concave, with a_central ridge above, convex beneath, sheathing at the base; rhachis slightly elevated, with an obtuse ridge above, convex beneath; leaflets in about thirty pairs, linear-lanceolate, central ones one foot long, the larger nine lines wide, but usually much narrower, slightly scaly near the base of the main nerves on the upper side; nerves slender, about three more prominent than the rest. Male panicle from between the leaves, mach branched, loose, finely powdered; ultimate branches ten inches long; peduncle about two feet long ; basal sheaths four or five, scarious. Calyz tripartite ; lobes broadly ovate, with membranous, purple margins. Corolla stalked, pale yellow, globose ; lobes triangular, one-quarter the length of the tube. Filaments free less than half-way down; anther-cells slightly divergent at the base. Ovary rudimentary, ovoid, longer than the stamens ; style short, thick ; stigma three-lobed. Female inflorescence unknown. We DH. Fig. 1, part of ¢ inflorescence ; 2, corolla-lobes ; 3, sta ovary; 4, the same in Wogiendiaal section ; 5, anther; reduced) :—all except 1 and 6 enlarged. mens and rudimentary 6, whole plant (much 7960 MS. del, JIN-Fitch lith Vincent Brocks Day &Son Lt bap - Tas. 7960. IMPATIENS Otivert. Native of Tropical Africa. Nat, Ord. GeRANIACEZ.—Tribe BALsaMINE*. Genus Iupatiens, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. 1. p. 277.) Impatiens Oliveri; herba glaberrima usque ad 4 ped. alta, caulibus erectis dilute viridibus supra nodos spe incrassatis, foliis irregulariter verticillatis oblanceolatis acutis vel acuminatis setoso-ciliatis usque ad 8 poll. longis 23 poll. latis, pedunculis unifloris 24 poll. longis, pedicellis 1} poll. longis, bracteolis 2 altera 3 lin. longa lanceolato recurva altera 4 lin. longa, | floribus circa 2} poll, diam. dilute lilacinis vel roseis dorso pallidioribus, sepalis lateralibus ovatis acuminatis apiculatis quam petalis 2-3-plo brevioribus, labio ovato infundibuliformi abrupte reflexeque mucronato parte infundibuliformi $ poll. longa, caleare curvato tenui 12 poll. longo, vexillo e basi lata suborbiculari apice recurvato apiculato, alis profunde bilobis, lobo terminali obovato quam laterali subcordato paullo longiore, fructibus oblongis acuminatis, seminibus 1 lin, longis ovoideis verrucosis. I. Oliveri, C. H. Wright ea W. Watson in Gard. Chron. 1903, vol. ii. p. 178. I. Thomsoni, Oliw. in Journ, Linn Soc. Bot. vol. xxi. (1886) p. 398, now Hook. f. nec Bot. Mag. tab. 7795. This plant was discovered by the late Mr. Joseph Thomson, F.R.G.S., at Lykipia, Tropical Hast Africa, at elevations of 6,000 to 8,000 feet, with flowers scarcely more than an inch and a half across, which under cultiva- tion have greatly increased in size, and rival those of I. grandiflora, Hemsl. (tab. 7826). Our illustration was taken from a plant at Kew, raised from seeds presented by Sir John Kirk, K.C.M.G., which were obtained along the Uganda railway, about 300 miles inland, on volcanic rocks or tufa, at an elevation of 6,800 ft. The flowers of the wild plant are said to be white, but under cultivation they assume a pale lilac or occasionally rosy tint. ‘They were first produced at Kew in July, 1903, and fruit was developed in the following November. Flowers were also produced in September, and at the end of April of the present year plants were in full flower in the Begonia house, where they continue to thrive. Being of vigorous habit and a profuse bloomer, it is likely to get into general cultivation. Descr.—A perfectly glabrous herb, about four feet high. Stems erect, pale green, often thickened above the nodes. June Ist, 1904. Leaves. in irregular whorls of from four to eight, oblan- ceolate, acute or acuminate, the largest eight inches long and two inches and a quarter wide, setose-ciliate on the margin. Peduneles one-flowered, about two inches and a half long; pedicels one inch and a quarter long. Bracteoles two, one three lines long, lanceolate, curved outwards above, the other less than half as long. Flowers about two inches and a quarter across, pale lilac, or occasionally rosy above, almost white beneath. . Lateral sepals ovate, acuminate, apiculate, two or three times shorter than the ~ petals. Lip ovate, funnel-shaped, with an abrupt reflexed mucro, funnel-shaped part about half an inch long, abruptly narrowed into a slender, curved spur, about an inch and three-quarters long. Lip sub-orbicular from a_ broad base, recurved and apiculate at the apex. -Wings deeply two-lobed; terminal lobe obovate, lateral obcordate, shorter and wider than the terminal. Jruit oblong, acuminate. Seeds one line long, ovoid, verrucose.-—C. Wright. Fig. 1, stamens ; 2, fruit; 3, seed :—all except 2 enlarged. 7961 Vincent Brooks, Day & San Ltt Imp % 3 £ = - E a a Ba a f Tas. 7961. LYSIMACHIA Henry. ; | a4 Native of Western China. ka Nat, Ord. Prrwutacea.—Tribe LystmacniE&, _ Genus Lysimacuta, Linn, ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 635.) Lysimacuta Henryi; herba perennis, robusta, subcarnosa, repens, radicans, ' - plus minusve ferrugineo-pubescens, vel villosa, culta fere glabra vel cito labrescens, caulibus elongatis teretibus floriferis adscendentibus interno- diis nunc folia excedentibus nunc brevissimis, foliis plerumque oppositis petiolatis lanceolatis vel ovatis cum petiolo 1-4 poll. longis acutis basi cuneatis vel interdum rotundatis integris venis :mmersis inconspicuis, floribus luteis circiter 1} poll. diametro in axillis folioram superioruam confertorum solitariis vel interdum subumbellatis pedicellatis, pedicellis plerumque vix semipollicaribus sed interdum elongatis, calycis lobis fere liberis lineari-lanceolatis acutissimis 3-4 lin. longis, corolla rotate lobis obovato-oLlongis, staminibus coroll# lobis dimidio brevioribus omnibus inequilongis filamentis fere ad medium connatis papillosisqne supra medium filiformibus, ovario villoso stylo capitato stamina vix excedente. L. Henryi, Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. vol, xxvi, p. 52. W. Irving in _ The Garden, vol. |xiv. (1903), p. 269, cum habitus figura. W. W.in Gard. Chron. 1903, vol. ii. p. 187. : In the letterpress accompanying the figure of Lysi- machia crispidens, Hemsl. (tab. 7919) some particulars are given of the composition and distribution of the genus. L. Henryi bids fair to become as great a favourite as the “Creeping Jenny,” L. Nummularia, L., and it is an equally vigorous grower, of more robust habit, though probably not so hardy. The flowers,.too, are of a richer yellow. It was originally collected by Dr. A. Henry near Ichang, in the Province of Hupeh, in 1685, and two years later Kew received specimens from the Rev. H. Faber, collected in the Province of Szechuen. Dr. Henry found it at altitudes of 6,000 to 8,000 ft. More recently Mr. EK. H. - Wilson, collector for Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, sent seeds to that firm, in whose nurseries at Coombe Wood it was raised last year. A small piece sent to Kew for determination was divided and planted in the herbaceous ground and rock-garden, where it soon formed large patches, and flowered profusely and continuously during June Ist, 1904. ; the summer and autumn. Moist ground would probably suit it best, but last season it was moist everywhere, and it grew well in exposed, well drained soil. Descr.—A vigorous, trailing, somewhat fleshy, peren-. nial herb, more or less hairy in the wild state, but almost glabrous under cultivation. Stems terete, rooting at the joints, flowering-branches ascending; internodes some- times longer than the leaves, sometimes very short. Leaves mostly opposite, lanceolate or ovate, including the petiole one to four inches long, acute, cuneate, or sometimes rounded at the base, entire; veins immersed, inconspi- cuous. lowers full yellow, about an inch and a quarter in diameter, solitary in the axils of the upper, crowded leaves, _ or sometimes sub-umbellate, pedicellate. 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VELLOZIA tricuoprytna, Native of Eastern Tropical Africa. oe Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDACE&.—Tribe VELLOZIEA. Genus Vettozia, Vand. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 739.) Vetioz1a trichophylla; frutex caudice vel trunco brevi crassissimo demum saltem 1 ped. diametro, ramis primariis paucis crassis, innovationibus numerosis brevissimis, foliis numerosis gramineis vix rigidis 3-9 poll. longis (in speciminibus sylvestribus sape 1-2 ped. longis rigidioribusque) medio circiter 6 lin. latis acutis multinerviis distincte costatis utrinque moiliter pubescentibus vel fere lanatis in margine non setulosis, pedun- culis szpius ternis unifloris cum ovario tomentoso 24-4 poll. longis suberectis, floribus rubro-lilacinis fragrantibus 2}-3 poll. diametro, perianthii segmentis «qualibus lanceolatis acutis 1}-14 poll. longis patentibus, tubo nullo, staminibus 6 antheris subsessilibus 5-6 lin. longis, ovario inferiore triloculari multiovulato stylo clavato stamina equante, capsula ignota. V. trichophylla, Hemsi. V. equisetoides, var. trichophylla, Baker in Fl. Trop. Afr. vol. vii. p. 411. V. equisetoides, W. W. in Gard. Chron. 1903, vol. ii. p. 425, £. 167. Our figure was drawn from one of several fine plants sent to Kew in 19038, by Mr. J. McClounie, Head of the Scientific Department, Zomba, British Central Africa. As will be seen from the above references, Mr. J. G. Baker treated this plant as a variety of his V. equisetoides, but living plants and further wild specimens offer characters that fully justify, as Mr. Baker grants, their specific separation. ‘Typical V. equisetoides has much longer primary branches; the leaves are shorter and glabrous, except that they are minutely setulose on the margin and along the midrib on the under surface. The leaf-bases break up early, and present something like the appearance of the bristled sheath of an Hquisetum. ‘Specimens of a third species have been referred to V, equisetoides in the Kew Herbarium’:— V. Kirxu, Hemsl.; caule erecto cylindrico simplice vel furcato 3—1 poll. diametro elongato, foliis gramineis sub- erectis 6-9 poll. longis medio circiter 3 lin. latis acutis ecostatis glabris in margine primum paucisetulosis in siccis luteis rigidis, foliorum basibus persistentibus compactis JuLy Ist, 1904. rotundatis arcte imbricatis tarde rumpentibus, pedunculis cum ovario 3-4 poll. longis erectis crebré muricato-tuber- culatis, perianthii segmentis 2-24 poll. longis medio fere 1 poll. latis acutis 3 interioribus membranaceis 3 exterio- ribus medio incrassatis extus muricatis. __ V. trichophylla was first collected by Dr. (now Sir John) Kirk at Zomba, British Central Africa, in 1859, and since by Mr. G. F. Scott Elliot on Mount Ndurani, in 1893-4. Authors differ widely in their definition of the allied genera Vellozia and Barbacenia. Bentham and Hooker (Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 739) characterize the former as having a tubeless perianth, and six or sometimes numerous Stamens; the latter as having a more or less developed perianth-tube, and six, or in one species, eighteen stamens. Pax (Engler & Prantl, Natirl. Pflanzenf. vol. ii. 5, p. 127) includes the species having only six stamens in Barbacenia, and those having more than six stamens are referred to Vellozia, This is perhaps justified by Vandelli’s original descriptions and figures. Both in Africa and South America the members of the Velloziee are characteristic in the scanty vegetation of granitic rocky regions. Mr. John Mahon, who has spent Some years in British Central Africa and British Hast Africa, informs us that the various species grow in bleak, exposed situations, always preferring the almost bare granite rock. He never saw them where there was any- _ thing approaching good soil, or even associated with the short grass so common in certain situations. _In some places they almost clothed the cliffs; in other places they i Scattered; growing at altitudes of 6,000 to 7,500 eet. _Descr.—A shrub having a thick stock, a foot or more in diameter, and short, thick primary branches. Flowering- shoots numerous, very short. Leaves numerous, grass-like, | scarcely stiff in cultivated specimens, three to nine inches” long (often one to two feet long, and more rigid in wild Specimens), about half an inch broad in the middle, acute, many-nerved, midrib distinct, softly hairy on both surfaces, without bristles on the margins. Pedwncles usually in threes, one-flowered, two and a half to four inches long, sub erect, stiffly hairy as well as the ovary. Flowers reddish-lilac, very fragrant, two and a half to three inches across. Perianth-segments equal, lanceolate, acute, one inch and a quarter to one inch and a half long, spreading ; tube none. Stamens six; anthers almost sessile, about half an inch long. Style club-shaped, equalling the stamens.— Vie : Fig. 1, portion of a leaf; 2 and 8, back and front views of a stamen; 4, style:—all enlarged, ‘ so SS" i Vincent, Brooks Day & Son I timp M.S. del, JN Fitch lth Tas. 7963.. GEONOMA araciiis. Native of Tropical America, Nat. Ord. Patmat.—Tribe ARECER. Genus Gronoma, Willd.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 913.) Gronoma gracilis; palma gracilis, caule erecto 4 ped. alto 1} poll. diametro nudo annulato, foliis confertis arcuatis 24 ped. longis, petiolis 14 ped. longis supra concavis linea media elevata subtus convexis, rhachibus supra obtuse triangularibus subtus convexis, foliolis lineari-lanceolatis acumi- natis ad 1 ped. longis 3-6 lin. latis circa trinervibus facie superiore sparse squamatis, paniculis laxis, ramis tenuibus, floribus masculis: sepalis navicularibus scariosis 1 lin. longis apice leviter hirsutis, petalis quam sepalis paulo longioribus ovatis obtusis membranaceis hyalinis, stami- num tubo I$ lin. longo tubuloso-campanulato, filamentorum parte libera quam tubo dimidio breviore, antheris lineari-oblongis 4 lin. longis loculis basi tantum connatis Jate divergentibus, ovarii rudimento minuto, floribus femineis: sepalis oblongis obtusis scariosis 1 lin. longis petalis ovatis acutis submembranaceis, staminodiis cupnlatim connatis quam stylo (ramis exclusis) equilongis, ovario abortu 1-loculari, stylo basali, ovulo ascendente. ~ a G. gracilis, Linden & André in Tllustr. Hortie. vol. xxi. (1874) p. 73, t. 169. Hi. Wendl. ex Kerchove, Les Palmiers, pp. 245 et 323 (1878). G. Riedeliana, H. Wendl. ex Linden & André, loc. cit. This palm was first described in 1874 by Linden and André, who quote as a synonym the previously unpublished name of Geonoma Riedeliana, H. Wendl. In Kerchove’s “Les Palmiers,” it is reduced to G. Riedeliana, but a G. gracilis, H. Wendl., is retained, which is not described, but illustrated by a reproduction (on a reduced scale) of Linden and André’s figure of their G. gracilis. | | Although this palm has long been in cultivation, its. origin is still obscure. Wendland records it from Costa Rica; while Linden and André state that it was collected in Eastern Brazil by Riedel, and afterwards by Binot, who sent it to Europe. It is not mentioned in Martius’s “ Flora Brasiliensis,” nor by Tonduz in his “Flora de Costa Rica.” Its nearest ally is the Brazilian G. Schottiana, Mart., which much resembles it in habit, but differs in having sub-opposite, decussate flowers. It also approaches some of the forms of G. Spruceana, Traill. JuLy Ist, 1904. The plant here figured was shown at the Ghent Quin- quennial International Horticultural Exhibition in 1902, and was afterwards purchased for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, where it flowered in the Palm House in September and October, 1903. The spadices are monoecious, but at the time when the male flowers are fully expanded the female flowers are still immersed in the tissue of the spadix; thus showing a form of protandry. Deser—A slender palm. Stem erect, about four feet high and an inch and a half in diameter, naked, closely ringed. Leaves forming a terminal crown, arching, about two feet and a half long; petioles about a foot and a half long, concave, with a central ridge above, con- vex beneath; rhachis obtusely triangular above, convex beneath ; leaflets linear-lanceolate, acuminate, the larger about a foot long, three to six lines wide, three-nerved, sparingly scaly on the upper side. Panicles loose, with slender branches. Male flowers: Sepals boat-shaped, Scarious, one line long, slightly hairy at the apex. Petals a little longer than the sepals, ovate, obtuse, membranous, hyaline. Filaments united for two-thirds of their length Into a tubular-campanulate cup; anthers linear-oblong, — half a line long, attached by the base only, widely diver- gent. Ovary rudimentary, minute. Female fowers: Sepals oblong, obtuse, scarious, one line long. Petals ovate, acute, thin. Staminodes united into a cup reaching to the base of the style-branches, Ovary by abortion one- celled ; style basal, trifid; ovule ascending.—W,. B. H. Fig. 1, male flower; 2 sepal of the ‘dike: 3, petal » male , petals and anthers; 4, stamens seen from inside of the bud; 5, stamens and rudimentary ovary; 6, portion of spadix bearing female flowers ; 6*, portion of the same enlarged; 7, sepal of the same; 8, petals and istil; 9, pistil: / : ait casont Ont ts ee 3 ¥, pistil; 10, whole plant much reduced :— 7964 MS.deLINFitch lith MincentBrocks Day & Con Li L Reeve & C® Londen. Tas. 7964, SPATHOGLOTTIS Harpinctana. | Native of North Burma, Nat. Ord. Orcurpacta,—Tribe EripenpRem.. Genus Spatuoatortis, Blume ; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 511.) / Sratnociortis Hardingiana; inter species hucusque cognitas labello lineari lobis lateralibus destituto distincta; pseudobulbis late conico-ovoideis ob- scure multi-angulatis 6-8 lin. longis bi- vel trifoliatis squamis membranaceis duplo longioribus instructis, foliis lanceolatis acuminatis basi breviter petiolatis 5-7 poll. longis medio ad 1 poll. latis plicatis membranaceis circiter 5-7-nerviis nervis secundariis numerosis, scapis basilaribus soli- tariis vel binis erectis 3-1} ped. altis ut pedicellis pubescentibus, floribus numerosis roseo-purpureis vel interdum lilacinis, pedicellis gracilibus cum ovario 10-14 lin. longis, bracteis lanceolatis acuminatis 3-5 lin. longis, sepalis lanceolatis subacutis recurvis 6-7 lin. longis, petalis lineari- -lanceolatis acutis recurvis 6-7 lin. longis, labello oblongo-lineari sub- acuto 4-5 lin. longo basi auriculis parvis suberectis instructis, medio bicalloso, callis erectis cuneato-obovatis flavis brunneo-punctatis, columna gracili arcuata 5 lin. longa supra medium anguste alata. S. Hardingiana, Par. et Rehb. f. Otia Bot. Hamb. p. 45; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. v. p. 815. Ridl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxxii. pp. 217, 312. —Semper sphalmate Handingiana. Parish’s Drawings in bibl. Kew. vol. i.n. 79. Orch. Rev, vol. xi. (1903), p. 349. Spathoglottis Hardingiana is a remarkable species, described in 1878, and dedicated to Mr. Coles-Harding (misspelt Handing), a skilful cultivator of Orchids, who resided for some time in Moulmein. He obtained it from Bhamo. For a long period it was only known from the original specimens and drawing, but at length it was rediscovered in the Lankawi Islands, on the western side of the Malay Peninsula, by Mr. C. Curtis, Assistant Superintendent of Forests, Penang. It is recorded as growing on rocks. ‘The plant here figured is from a later importation, received from Mr. Curtis in 1902. It flowered the following autumn, in a tropical house, and again in November last. There were two varieties, one haying bright rose-purple flowers, and the other very pale lilac. Of the latter a single flower is shown, fig. 4. It is quite an anomalous species, differing from all others in having the side lobes of the lip reduced to a pair of very JuLy Ist, 1904. small suberect auricles. In other respects it conforms to the characters of Spathoglottis. These differences may be seen by reference to S. Petri, Reichb. f. (t. 6354) ; S. Vieillardii, Reichb. f. (t. 7013); S. dwioides, Lindl. (t. 7060) ; S. gracilis, Rolfe (t. 7366) ; and S. Kimballiana, Sander (t. 74:43), | It may be mentioned here that we forgot to state in the letterpress to tab. 7958 that we were indebted to Mr. | F. W. Moore, Keeper of the Glasnevin Botanic Garden, for the specimen of Bulbophyllum Weddelit there figured. Descr.—Very distinct from all other species in the lip being reduced to a long, linear body without side lobes, these being represented by a pair of very small auricles. Bulbs broadly conical-ovoid, obscurely many-angled, six to eight lines long, two- or three-leaved; basal, membranous | sheath about twice as long as the pseudobulb. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, five to seven inches long, and an inch broad in the middle, plicate, membranous ; primary nerves five to seven; secondary ones numerous. Scapes basal, solitary or sometimes two from the same bulb, erect, nine to fifteen inches high, loosely pubescent, flowering part five to eight inches long. Flowers numerous, rose-purple or sometimes pale lilac, about an inch across. Pedicels, including the ovary, ten to fourteen lines long, slender. Bracts lanceolate, acuminate, three to five lines long. Sepals lanceolate, subacute, recurved, six to seven lines long. Petals linear-lanceolate, acute, recurved, six to seven lines long. Jip linear, subacute, four to five lines long, with a pair of small, rounded, suberect auricles at the base, and a pair of cuneate-obovate, somewhat com- pressed, nearly erect tubercles about the middle, these’ | being bright yellow, dotted with brown. Column slender, curved, about five lines long, narrowly winged above the middle.—R. A. Rolfe. Fig. 1, lip and column; 2, the column; 3, the pollinia, showing the attach- ment to the viscous gland; 4, a flower of the lilac-coloured variety :—all — except 4 enlaryed. : o 796 Vineent-Brocks Day #5" ; L Reeve & C? London. M.S. del J.N-Fitchhth Tas. 7965. - CHRYSANTHEMUM ornarum. Native of Japan, Nat. Ord. Composira.—Tribe ANTHEMIDER. Genus Curysantuemum, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant vol. ii, p. 424.) CHRYSANTHEMUM ornatum; herba perennis, ramosa, 2-3 ped. alta, caulibus ramisque gracilibus angulatis albo-pubescentibus, foliis exstipulatis graci- liter petiolatis papyraceis crassis discoloribus subtus albis circumscriptione ovatis in ramis floriferis 14-3 poll. longis subpalmatim pinnatifidis segmentis obtusis vel rotundatis subtus margineque albo-tomentosis supra atroviridibus sparse pubescentibus, capitulis laxe corymbosis distincte pedunculatis 14-2 poll. diametro, involucri bracteis circiter 3-seriatis omnibus similibus ovato-oblongis obtusis medio albo-tomentosis margine brunneo-purpureis, acheeniis glabris obliquis. C. ornatum, Hemsi. - ; C. marginatum, Rafill in Gard. Chron. 1904, vol. i. p. 51, fig. 22, non Pyrethrum marginatum, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. vol. ii. p. 86=C. marginatum, N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1888, p. 99. a The late C. J. Maximowicz, who was a very critical Botanist, and whose knowledge of the plants of Eastern ~ Asia was based on observations in the country itself, enlarges (Mélanges Biologiques, vol. viii. p. 519) on the difficulties of dealing with the forms of Chrysanthemum, or, as he preferred calling it, Pyrethrum sinense, DC., and» CO. indicum, L., although the strictly wild specimens left no doubt of there being two distinct species concerned in the varieties resulting from over a thousand years’ cultivation in China and Japan. We were in doubt as to the best way of naming the plant figured, but arrived at the conclusion that the least unsatisfactory way was to give it a single name, without attempting to decide whether it should be regarded as a variety of C. sinense. 3 By some mischance, but probably on account of the strong resemblance in the foliage, it has appeared in some of the gardening papers under the designation of Chrysan- themum marginatum (Pyrethrum marginatum, Miq. Fi. Ind. Bat. vol. ii. p. 86), a species having very numerous quite small flower-heads usually destitute of ray-flowers. | JuLy Ist, 1904, We have carefully examined the literature of the subject, and the nearest approach that we have found to our plant is figured in the Japanese ‘‘ Somoku Zusetsu,” under the name of Pyrethrum Decaisneanum, Maxim. But the plant there figured does not at all agree with Maximowicz’s original description. C. ornatum was raised at Kew from seeds obtained in 1895 from the University Botanic Garden, Tokyo. It was first tried in the open ground, where it made vigorous bushes three feet high, but failed to flower before it was - cut down by frost. Last year it was tried as a pot-plant, and the result was so satisfactory that itis confidently anticipated that it will come into favour in the greenhouse, where it succeeds admirably, flowering about Christmas time. It is so distinct from any of the varieties of the Florists’ Chrysanthemums as not to be brought into comparison with them; yet its parentage or descent is uncertain. Descr.—A branching herb forming dense bushes three or four feet high, and as much through. Stems and branches slender, angular, clothed with a white pubescence changing green. Leaves without stipules, slenderly stalked, papery, rather thick, clothed with a white felt underneath and on the margin, ovate in outline, one inch and a half to.two inches long on the flowering branches, somewhat -palmately pinnatifid; primary segments usually five, . obtuse or rounded, usually two- or four-toothed; teeth obtuse. Flower-heads loosely corymbose, distinctly stalked, an inch and three-quarters to two inches across. Bracts of the involucre in about three series, all similar, ovate- oblong, obtuse, tomentose, white in the centre, purple- brown on the margin. Achenes small, oblique, glabrous.— W. B.E. Fig. 1, an involucral bract ; 2, a ray-flower ; 3 and 4, disk-flowers ; 5, anthers ; 6, style-arms :—all enlarged. 7966 4 t ¢ { MS.del JNFitch ith Vincent Brooks Day & San itSfimp L.Reeve &C° London Tas. 7966. PITCAIRN TA sPpATHACEA. Native of Argentina. Nat. Ord. Brometiaceax.—Tribe Picatrniex. Genus Pitcarrnia, L’Hérit.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 665.) Pircarrnia spathacea ; acaulis, foliis patentibus vel recurvis lineari-acuminatis usque ad 16 poll. longis 1 poll. latis supra primum furfuraceis demum glabris subtus perpetuo albo-squamatis, spinis sursum curvatis mar- ginatis, pedunculis 1 ped. altis, paniculis fere 2 ped. altis, bracteis navicularibus acuminatis dilute roseis, sepalis ovatis valde acuminatis pedice!lo multo Jongioribus dilute roseis apice viridibus 1 poll. longis, petalis obovatis obtusis convolutis basi nudis obscure ceruleis 1} poll. _longis, ovario ovoideo, stvlo auam ovario triplo longiore, stigmate brevi spiraliter contorto. P. spathacea, Griseb. in Goett. Abh. vol. xxiv. (1879) p. 329; Baker, Handb. Bromel. p. 102. Puya spathacea, Mez in DC. Monogr. Phan. vol. ix. p. 481. This is one of the few species of Pitcairnia having petals destitute of a basal scale inside. It was discovered by Lorentz on the banks of the Rio Primero, Argentina. The date of its introduction into cultivation is not known, but the plant from which our figure was taken in February last was raised from seeds received from the Breslau Botanic Garden in 1896, and has been grown with other hard-leaved Bromeliacew in the Succulent House at Kew, where they grow better than in a more humid atmosphere. The genera Pitcairnia and Puya are very closely allied, differing chiefly in the capsule of the former being septi- cidal in dehiscence, and more or less adnate to the calyx, while in the latter it is loculicidal and quite free. It was probably on account of the very slight degree of union of ovary and calyx that the present species was transferred to Puya by Mez. About 130 species of Pitcairnia are known, of which about twenty have been figured in the Magazine, some of them under the name of Puya._ P. atrorubens, Baker (Puya Warscewiczii, Wendl.—B. M. t. 5225), is a striking plant with a dense spike of pale yellow flowers subtended by large purplish-brown imbricate bracts, which again flowered at Kew last year. In other species the inflorescence is more lax, varying from a simple JuLy lst, 1904, ; oe raceme in P. Andreana, Linden (B. M. t. 6480), to a panicle in P. alta, Hassk. (t. 6606); the latter species differing from P. spathacea in having unarmed leaves and scarlet flowers. Descr.—A stemless plant. Leaves patent or the lower recurved, linear, acuminate, the largest sixteen inches long and one inch broad, at first furfuraceous on the upper surface, at length glabrous, with persistent, white scales on the lower surface ; marginal spines curved upwards, and almost parallel with the leaf-margin. Panicle simply branched, nearly two feet high, on a peduncle one foot | high; bracts boat-shaped, acuminate, pale rose. Sepals — ovate, very acuminate, much longer than the pedicels, pale rose, green at the apex, one inch long. Petals obovate, obtuse, convolute, without a basal scale, dull blue, an inch © and a quarter long. Ovary ovoid; style three times as long as the ovary; stigma short, spirally twisted.—C. H. Wright. : Fig. 1, leaf-margin; 2, scale from the under surface of leaf; 3, petal; 4, stamen ; 9, pistil; 6, sketch of entire plant :—1 to 5 enlarged, 6 reduced, BRITISH, COLONIAL, AND FOREIGN FLORA. 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"HANDBOOK OF THE BRITISH FLORA: bi A Description of the Flowering Plants and Ferns Indigenous to or Naturaliged in the British Isles. . By GEORGE. BENTHAM, F.R.S. 7th Edition, Revised by Sir J, D, Hooker, C.B.. GCS, i PRS. de. 9, net. ~ ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BRITISH FLORA, - A Series of Wood E ngravings, with Dissections, of British Plants Drawn BY W. H. FITCH, F.L.S.. , AND W. G. SMITH, FL. 8. Hockdad an Illustrated Companion to Bentham’ 8 a Handbook, a and other British Flo 5th Edition, with 1315 Wood Engravings, 9s. net. = LOVELL REEVE & CO, Lrp., 6, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARD 7967 M S.del. JN.Ritch lith Vincent. Brodks Day & Son Ltt mp L Reeve & C° London. TAs. 7967. ZINGIBER spectasi.e. Native of the Malay Peninsula. Nat. Ord. Sciraminea#,—Tribe ZInGIBERE. Genus ZineipEr, Adans. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 646.) ZINGIBER spectabile; herba elata, rhizomate repente, caulibus erectis vel inclinatis glabris viridibus usque ad 8 ped. altis, foliis fere distichis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis supra glabris subtus sparse pilosis vel glabrescentibus 1 ped. longis 3 poll. latis breviter petiolatis, ligula rotundata integra margine membranacea, scapo radicali, spica oblongo- cylindrica 6 poll. longa, pedunculo 1} ped. longo, bracteis rotundatis 1} poll. latis unifloris pallide viridibus, marginibus aurantiacis involutis, calyce spathaceo 1 poll. longo, coroll~ tubo 13 poll. longo subcylindrico, lobis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis superiore cucullato dilute luteis, labello _ rubro-brunneo luteo- vel albo-maculato, lobo terminali emarginato quam lateralibus rotundatis paullo majore, staminodiis lateralibas nullis, basalibus anguste lanceolatis, filamento alato apice utrinque unidentato, stylo filiformi apice truncato et ciliis marginato. Z. spectabile, Griff. Notul. vol. iii. p. 413. Baker in Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. vol. vi. p. 247. Maingay mas. vol. v. p. 48. This plant, which flowered in the Aroid House at Kew in July of last year, bears the most showy inflorescence of any species of the genus, the reddish-brown lip spotted with yellow forming a conspicuous contrast to the back- ground of yellow-edged bracts. The bracts in Z. Parishii, Hook. f. (B. M. t. 6019) are also edged with yellow. 7 The species was discovered at Veruppe, in Malacca, by Griffith, who published a description, without details, of the structure of the flower. Subsequently Dr. A. C. Maingay collected it in the same region, and drew up an excellent description (loc. sup. cit.), which agrees with the present plant, except that the bracts are described as reddish-pink, He designates it as “a most elegant species,” an opinion confirmed by Mr. H. N. Ridley, M.A., F.L.S., Director of the Botanic Gardens, Singapore, by whom the plant here figured was sent to Kew. Speci- mens have also been collected in Perak by Mr. L. Wray, Jun., and by Sir George King’s collector, while apparently the same species was found by Kurz in the South Andaman Island. Avéust Ist, 1904, The nearest ally of this species is Z. inflecum, Blume (Bnum. Pl. Jave, p. 48), a very rare Javan species, which differs in having the bracts almost keeled in the upper part and the lip blackish purple. Descr.—A tall herb. Rhizome creeping. Stems erect or inclined, glabrous, green, eight feet high. Leaves almost distichous, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous above, sparingly pilose or glabrescent beneath, one foot long, three inches wide, shortly petiolate; ligule short, rounded, entire, membranous at the margin. Scape springing from the rhizome ; flower-spike oblong-cylindric, six inches long; peduncle one foot and a half long ; bracts rotundate, one inch and a quarter wide, one-flowered, pale green, margins orange-yellow, involute. Calyx spathaceous, one inch long. Corolla-tube subcylindrical, an inch and a half long; lobes oblong-lanceolate, acute, the uppermost hooded, pale yellow. Lip reddish-brown, spotted with yellow; terminal lobe emarginate, a little larger than the roundish basal ones. Lateral staminodes none, basal narrowly lanceolate. Filament winged, with a lateral tooth on either side near the insertion of the anther. Style filiform, trancate and surrounded by a ring of hairs at the apex.—C. H. Wright. Fig. 1, a flower ; 2, vertical section of basal part of flower; 3, anther and style; 4, stigma :—all enlarged ; 5, reduced view of the whole plant. _ 7968 my oo ne t}mp Vincent Brocks,Day & L. Reeve & C°Landon. M.S. del, JN Fitch lith Tas. 7968. VANDA pumILa. Native of Stkkim. Nat. Ord. Onchipex.—Tribe Vannes. Genus Vanna, BR. Br.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 578.) Vanpa pumila; herba epiphytica caulibus brevibus, foliis distichis confertis recurvis linearibus canaliculatis 4-8 poll. longis 6-9 lin. latis apice oblique 3-dentatis, racemis axillaribus erectis spe 3-floris folia vix ex- cedentibus, floribus suaveolentibus eburneis, labello sanguineo striatis, circiter 2-poll. diametro, sepalis petalisque similibus oblongo-spathulatis, petalis angustioribus, labelli obconico-calcarati lobis lateralibus brevibus triangularibus acutis intermedio vittato ovato-oblongo apice obtuse breviterque acuminato, capsula clavata alata circiter bipollicari. V. pumila, Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. vi. p. 53. King & Pantling in Ann, Calc. Bot. Gard. vol. v. p. 45, t. 68, et vol. viii. p. 216, t, 288, V. cristata, var., Lindl. Fol. Oreh., Vanda, p. 10. Lindley, who treated this species as a variety of his V. cristata (B. M. t. 4304), only knew it from Cathcart’s. drawing in the Kew Herbarium; but it differs from that and the allied V. alpina, Lindl., in the longer spur-sac of the lip, and the absence of horns on the tip of the lip. It was first described as a distinct species by Sir Joseph Hooker in the place cited above, and subsequently figured by Sir George King and Mr. Pantling twice over; the first figure being a very poor one. Although V. pumila and its allies cannot compare for beauty with V. tricolor, V. insignis and other congeners, it is a very pretty, free-growing orchid, having deliciously fragrant flowers. It inhabits hot valleys of the Sikkim Himalaya, at about 2,000 feet above sea-level, and there- fore requires tropical treatment. In its native haunts it flowers, or begins to flower, in May. ___ The specimen figured was sent to us in June, 1903, by — Mr. F. W. Moore, the Keeper of the Glasnevin Botanic Gardens ; the only place in the United Kingdom, so far as we know, where it is in cultivation. | Descr.—An epiphytical herb. Stems short. Leaves densely distichous, recurved, narrow, channelled, four to eight inches long, six to nine lines broad, obliquely three- August lst, 1904, toothed at the tip. Racemes axillary, erect, usually three- flowered, scarcely exceeding the leaves. lowers very fragrant, ivory-white, lip striped with crimson, from two inches to two inches and a half in diameter. Sepals and petals similar, the latter somewhat smaller, oblong-spathu- late, sometimes tipped with crimson. Lip with a pro- minent, obconical spur; lateral lobes short, triangular, acute, erect; intermediate lobe or main part of the lip ovate-oblong, shortly and somewhat obtusely acuminate, striped with crimson. Capsule club-shaped, winged, about two inches long.—W. B. H. ‘Fig. 1, side view of lip and column; 2, front view of column; 3 and 4, pollen-masses :—all enlarged. 7969 ' Vincent Brooks,Day & San. M.S.del J.N Pitch lith Tape: F9OGs ce THUNBERGIA primvnina. | Native of Eastern Tropical Africa, Nat. Ord. ACANTHACEZ.—Tribe THUNBERGIEZ. Genus TuunBeERrGia, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1072.) TuuNBERGIA (§ Euthunbergia) primulina; species nova, fere undique villosa, ex aflfinitate 7’. sericex, a qua differt floribus majoribus Inteis distincte pedunculatis; 7. atriplicifolize etiamque similis, sed pedunculis multo brevioribus floribus minoribus; candice nano lignoso incrassato, caulibus numerosis annuis debilibus sericeo-villosis, foliis breviter sed distincte petiolatis crassiusculis rhomboideo-ovatis 14-2} poll. longis utrinque unilobulatis basi rotundatis vel truncatis apice obtusis vel rotundatis primum sericeo-villosis demum glabrescentibus, floribus axillaribus soli- tariis luteis 14-13 poll. diametro, pedunculis circiter semipollicaribus, bracteis ovato-oblongis vix acutis corolle tubum fere 6, Papa calyce brevi multifido glanduloso segmentis linearibus, corolle tubo sursum leviter dilatato curvato, limbi lobis patentibus obcordatis tubo intus pilorum lineis duabus instructo, staminibus brevibus paullo supra tubi basin insertis, antheris mucronatis loculis basi barbulatis calcaratisque. T. primulina, Hemsl. Thunbergia, including Hezacentris (B. M., t. 4786), and Meyenia (B. M. t. 5013), presents great variety in habit and in the shape, size and colour of the flowers. About ninety species have been described; out of which upwards _ of fifty-five are peculiar to tropical Africa. The present species is only known from the cultivated plant raised from seed presented to Kew last year by Sir John Kirk, who collected it on the main escarpment of the Uganda Railway, at an elevation of 8,000 feet. ee : The plant figured flowered in a greenhouse in August of last year, and promises to develop into a very orna- mental subject for a cool house; but its value can hardly be estimated from a young specimen flowering for the first time. Apart from the tube of the corolla, the flowers are singularly like those of the common primrose, both in colour and shape. In general appearance it closely resembles the extratropical South African T. atriplicifolia, Mey., and it was provisionally given that name. 5 Among other ornamental species previously figured in the Magazine, we may note the old favourite 7’. alata (t. 2591 and 8512); 7. grandiflora (t. 2366) ; T. laurifolia Aveusr Ist, 1901. } (t. 4985); T. natalensis (t. 5082); TZ. coccinea (t. 5124), and 7’, affinis (t. 6975). ~ 3 Descr.—Perennial, at first silky-hairy in nearly all parts. Rootstock thickened, woody. Stems numerous, weak, annual. Leaves shortly stalked, rather thick, rhomboid-ovate, one inch and a half to two inches and a half long, with one small lobe on each side, rounded or truncate at the base, abtuse or rounded at the tip, becoming almost glabrous. Flowers axillary, solitary, primrose-yellow, with an orange ring around the mouth of the tube, about an inch and a half across; stalks about half an inch long; bracts ovate-oblong, nearly as long as the tube of the corolla. Calyx very short, glandular, — multifid; segments unequal, linear. Covrolla-tube nearly _ cylindrical, slightly curved ; lobes of the limb spreading, obcordate; tube furnished inside with two longitudinal lines of hairs. Stamens very short, inserted a little above the base of the tube; anthers mucronate, with the cells bearded and spurred at the base. Stigma nearly equally two-lipped, included.—W. B. H. | _Fig. 1, bracts laid open, showing calyx and pistil; 2, calyx laid open and pistil; 3, corolla-tube laid open, showing the stamens; 4 and 5, front and back views of anther:—all enlarged. - — . 7970 VincentBrodks Day & Son LAB MS. del, J.N-Fitch ith L Reeve & C° Londan Tas. 7970, TECOMA surrensts. Native of Tropical Africa. Nat. Ord. Bigxontacea.—Tribe TECOMER. Genus Txcoma, Juss; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p, 1044.) _ Txcoma (§ Tecomaria) shirensis; frutex erectus, 4-10 ped. altus, ramis sub- teretibus minute pubescentibus, foliis oppositis vel rarius ternatis longipetiolatis 4-9 poll. longis imparipinnatis 4~6-jugis, foliolis ovatis acute acuminatis, plus minus serratis supra glabris subtus in venarum axillis pilosis ceterum glabrescentibus, racemis terminalibus simplicibus vel szpius cymas trifloras gerentibus, pedunculo folia squante vel superante, rhachi pedicellisque pubescentibus, bracteis lineari-subulatis caducis, calyce tubuloso-campanulato 5-7 lin. longo leviter pubescente glanduloso, lobis deltoideo-ovatis acuminatis tubi dimidium soquantibus, corolla anguste infundibuliformi antice curvata valde bilabiata, labio postico erecto, antico deflexo, lobis late ovatis obtusis, staminibus exsertis, antherarum lobis supra connatis, disco cupulari, ovario minute lepidoto, ovulis in loculis 4-seriatis, capsula 4} poll. longa rostrata. T. shirensis, Baker in Kew Bull, 1894, p. 30. T. Whytei, C. H. Wright in Kew Bull, 1897, p. 275. T. nyikensis, Baker in Kew Bull. 1898, p. 159. Tecomaria shirensis, K. Schum. in Engl. Pflanzenw. Ost-Afr., C. (1895), p. 363. The genus Tecoma as founded by Jussieu (Gen. Pl. p. 139) was a heterogeneous assemblage of species. The plant from which the name of the genus was derived, Tecomazo- chitl of Hernandez (Nov. Pl. Hist. p. 408) is almost certainly not a member of the Bignoniacew at all; but it has not yet been satisfactorily identified, though Dunal (DC. Prodr. vol. xiii. pars i. p. 586), refers it to Solandra guttata, with the remark that the figure is extremely bad. The other Species included in Tecoma by Jussieu were Bignonta stans and B. radicans, both having pinnate leaves and a regular calyx, and B. pentaphylla, which has digitate leaves and an irregularly split calyx. As it was apparent that the pinnate- and digitate-leaved species could not be retained in the same genus, Bentham and Hooker (Gen, Plant. Vol. ii. p. 1044) restricted the name Tecoma to the former. Unfortunately, however, Bureau, followed by other con- tinental botanists, referred the digitate-leaved species to Tecoma, so that much confusion now prevails in the nomenclature of the genus. This is accentuated by the Aveusr Ist, 1904, fact that the pinnate-leayed set has been split up into no fewer than seven genera, based on very slender characters. Some idea of these genera may be gathered by comparing figures which have appeared in this Magazine, such as those of 7. stans, Juss. (t. 3191), a native of tropical America, T. jasminoides, Lindl. (t. 4004), Australia, and T’. fulva, G. Don (t. 4896), Chili, with 7. capensis, Lindl. (Bot. Reg. t. 1117), and T. undulata, G. Don (Smith, Exot. Bot. t. 19). All of these are retained in Tecoma by Bentham and Hooker, and have in common pinnate leaves, a loculicidal capsule and a regular calyx. Tecoma shirensis is a shrub of vigorous growth, with _ flowers very similar to those of 7. capensis, but much finer. In company with its nearest ally 7. Nyassex, Oliv. (Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1351), which differs chiefly in the shape of the leaflets, it grows on the high plateau of Nyassaland, where it flowers from May to September, at altitudes of between 2000 and 7000 feet above the sea. The plant from which the present figure was prepared was raised from seed sent to Kew in December, 1902, by Mr. J. McClounie, Head of the Scientific Department, Zomba. It flowered in March of the present year. Descr.—An erect shrub, four to ten feet high; branches nearly round, minutely pubescent. Leaves opposite or three at a node, four to nine inches long, unequally pin- nate; leaflets in four to six pairs, ovate, serrate, tapered to a sharp point and glabrous, except on the lower surface, where there are tufts of hairs in the axils of the veins. Inflorescence terminal, bearing a number of usually three-flowered, shortly-stalked cymes ; rhachis and pedicels pubescent; bracts linear-subulate. Calyx tubular-cam- panulate, five to seven lines long, pubescent and glandular ; lobes triangular-ovate, tapering, acute. Corolla funnel- shaped, curved forwards; upper lip erect; lower lip deflexed. Stamens exserted; anther-lobes connate above. Ovary scaly; ovules in four rows in each cell. Capsule four and a half inches long, beaked.—T. A. Sprague. Fig. 1, half of calyx cut away to show pistil; 2, base of corolla with stamens and staminode ; 3 and 4, anthers; 5,apex of style; 6, dehiscing fruit ; 7,a seed :—all except 6 enlarged. MS. del, JN Fitch lith Vincent Brooks Day aSonlitinp : : L Reeve & CSOT anda TABE 48a be EUPHORBIA virrrina. Native of South Africa. Nat. Ord. Eupnorspiacez.—Tribe EurHORBIEs. Genus Evurnorsia, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 258 ) Kurnorsia (§ Euphorbium) ciperina; species ex affinitate FE. Caput-Medusxe et H. parvimamme a quibus foliis~minutis sqnamiformibus differt; etiam E. tridentate (E. anacanthe, B. M., t. 2520) affinis, ab ea glandule lobis linearibus recedit; frutex carnosus, erectus, inermis caule nunc brevi obconice incrassato apice plus minusve stellatim ramoso nunc elongato cylindrico podariis carnosis elongato-hexagonis tecto, foliis ovatis vix 1 lin. longis acutigs cito deciduis, pednnculis brevissimis monocephalis, involucri campanulati lobis albis hirtis fimbriatisque, glandalis carnosis lacerato-bilobis, staminibus filamentis plumosis inter- mixtis, ovario hirsuto stylo glabro stigmate late trilobato lobis crenulatis, fructu ignoto, : “E viperina, A. Berg. in Monatsschr. fiir Kakteenk. vol. xii. (1902), p. 39. ‘The genus Huphorbia is one of the largest in the vegetable kingdom, numbering five to six hundred species, which exhibit the greatest variety in size, habit, duration - and foliage. .They are spread all over the world, except — the colder regions. The section to which HE. viperina — eae belongs is confined to the Old World, and mainly to Africa ; and the species are still very imperfectly known. ~The growth of H. viperina and allied species is very irregular under. different conditions. When propagated from seed the primary stem develops as an obconical body, which bears numerous branches spreading in a stellate manner from near the top. The further develop- ment we have not ‘observed. When propagated from cuttings the branching is one-sided, and the main stem elongates considerably—two to three feet. This species comes very near the one figured in the Magazine (t. 2520), as EZ. anacantha, Ait., especially in the minute, scale-like leaves; but the involucral glands are very different. H. globosa, Sims (B. M. t. 2624) is another species of the same section. LH. meloformis, Ait., is very much like some of the unarmed species of Melocactus. 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Rosa (§ Indices) gigantea ; species ex affinitate R. indice, Linn., a qua ramulis seepissime ebracteatis unifloris floribus fractibusque majoribus differt; frutex robustissimus, alte scandens vel vagans, caulibus basi 3-4 poll. diametro aculeis fere rectis circiter 8-4 lin. longis armatis, ramulis floriferis inermibus vel aculeis paucis recurvis armatis, foliis in ramis floriferis 3-7-foliolatis 8-9 poll. longis, petiolis aculeolatis setoso- . glandulosis, foliolis breviter petiolulatis lanceolatis 1-3 poll. longis acuminatis margine calloso-serrulatis glabris, stipulis integris fere ad apicem adnatis parte libera lineari minute glandulosa, pedunculis sepius unifloris interdum trifloris seepius elongatis nudis, floribus albis vel lutescentibus (petalis in alabastris extus fere aureis) 4—6 poll. diametro, sepalis anguste lanceolatis longe acuminatis usque ad 1 poll. longis preecipue intus albo-pubescentibus margine minute glandulosis, petalis obovato-rotundatis 13-2} poll. diametro abrupte obtuseque acuminata, carpellis pilosis, fructu globoso circiter 14 poll. diametro inermi glabro. R. gigantea, Collett, ex Orépin in Comptes-Rendus des Séances de la Soc. Bot. © Belg. vol. xxvii. (1888), pp. 150-154, et vol. xxviii. (1889), pp. 11-14. Gard. Chron, 1889, vol. ii. p. 12, fig. 4. Coll. et Hems!. in Journ, Linn. Soc. Bot. vol. xxviii. (1890), p. 55, %. 9. W. C. Leach in Gard. Chron. 1908, vol. i. pp. 188 ef 211. S. W. F. in daar. cit. p. 278. R. macrocarpa, Watt, ex Orépin in Oomptes Rendus des Séances de la Soc. Bot. Belg. vol. xxviii. (1889), p. 13. : This remarkable Rose was, we believe, first discovered by Dr. (now Sir George) Watt in Manipur, in 1882, at an altitude of 7000 ft., and there are excellent speci- — mens in the Kew and other herbaria collected by him. _ He regarded it as an undescribed species, and named it Jt. macrocarpa, but he never published a description. The name, however, has appeared in print in the place cited above. : In 1888 the late Col. Sir Henry Collett discovered the — Same species in the Shan Hills, Upper Burma, some five degrees south of the original locality, and he sent dried specimens and seeds of it to Calcutta and Kew. More recently it has been collected in Mengtze, Yunnan, South-western China, by Mr. W. Hancock and Dr, A, Henry. The former describes the flowers as white, and — ae sometimes fifteen inches in circumference. _ SErremper Ist, 1904, ae ) Sir Henry Collett was greatly interested in his Rose, which impressed him as one of the most striking objects _ in the forests of the Shan Hills, and he was desirous of its being published. Accordingly the Calcutta specimens — were sent to Prof. F. Crépin, who described them under — Collett’s proposed name. . The seed sent to Kew germinated, and the plants grew apace. Some were given to other gardens; some were tried at Kew under various conditions, but none flowered. — One was planted out in the Succulent House, where it — remained, for years, and must have made hundreds of — yards of stems and branches, but it never flowered. At the present time there is a plant in the Temperate House with shoots some fifty feet long, showing no signs of © flowering. : — Albury Park, Guildford, one of the seats of the Duk of Northumberland, is the only place, except under gle with Mr. Cant, the Nurseryman, we believe, where it has_ flowered in England, and we are indebted to Her Grace the Duchess for the opportunity of giving a coloured figure of it. Mr. Leach, the Head Gardener at Albury, writes that two flowers only were produced in 1908, “ the first of which was just on six inches across.” In Feb-_ ruary of the present year, the same plant bore about a _ dozen flowers, the largest being a little more than five inches and a half across. 2 _ Every possible method of propagation has been tried — — ineffectually in order to obtain flowers more freely in this country; yet it flowers profusely on the Riviera. 2 _ The drawing of the fruit was made from a dried specimen, soaked out. Sir George Watt tells us that it is as large as a small apple, bright yellow, edible, and it is sold in the bazaars of Manipur State. ss ‘ _ Fortune’s “ Double Yellow,” which is very closely allied — to R. gigantea, is also usually a very shy bloomer, though © it sometimes flowers freely when worked as a standard. _ _ Descr.—A very vigorous, climbing or rambling shrub. Stems as much as three or four inches in diameter at the base, more or less armed with nearly straight prickles about a quarter of an inch long. Flowering-branches usually unarmed, sometimes furnished with a few curved prickles. Leaves usually of five or seven leaflets, upper- most often of three leaflets, three to nine inches long; petioles furnished with small prickles and glandular bristles. Leaflets lanceolate, one to three inches long, glabrous, serrulate., Stipules entire, minutely glandular, adnate to the petiole almost to the top, free part linear. Peduncles often elongated, naked, one- or rarely three- flowered. Flowers white or more or less tinged with yellow, almost golden in bud, four to six inches across. Sepals linear-lanceolate, acuminate, about an inch long, pubescent and white on the inner surface, minutely glandular along the margin. Petals orbicular-oboyate, largest two inches and a half across, abruptly acuminate. Carpels hairy. Fruit globose, about an inch and a half in diameter, quite smooth.—W. B. H, Fig. 1, free part of stipule; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, pistil; 5, fruit ; 6, a ripe carpel :—all except 5 enlarged, Z Tap. 7973. -— (UA pollen 4 DYSCHORISTE Hirprpranpri, Native of Hast Tropical Africa, \ ‘i Nat. Ord. ACANTHACE%.—Tribe RuELLIER. Genus Dyscuoriste, Nees; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1077.) 3 Dyscnoriste Hildebrandtii; frutex ramosissimus, tripedalis, caulibus quad- rangularibus juvenilibus viridibus glandaulosis vetustioribus glabris — pallide brunneis, foliis ovato-lanceolatis obtusis basi breviter attenuatis utrinque pubescentibus absque petiolo usque ad 14 poll. longis 9 lin. latis, petiolis 4 lin. longis, cymis axi!laribus breviter pedunculatis paucifloris seepius trifloris, calyce 6 lin. longo extus glanduloso intus pilis simplici- bus appressis vestito, segmentis 5 quam tubo sauilongis lineari- lanceolatis longe acuminatis, corolla lilacina fauce loboque antico violaceo-striato bilabiata, labio postico 2-lobo lobis oblongis obtusis 3 lin. longis 1} lin. latis, labio antico 3-lobo oblongo-spathulatis obtusis lobis 5 lin. longis 2 lin. latis, filamentis inferioribus quam superioribus paullo longioribus et cum iis breviter connatis, antheris oblongis obtusis 1 lin. longis prope basin dorsifixis, ovario oblongo 1} lin. longo glabro, stylo filiformi. hae Dyschoriste Hildebrandtii, Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Natiirl. Pflanzenfam. vol. iv. 3 B. p. 302; Engl. Pl. Ost. Afr. C. p. 367; C. B. Clarke in Dyer, Ft. Trop. Afr. vol. v. p. 76. Calophanes Hildebrandtii, S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1880, p. 8. . Dyschoriste consists of about sixty species, twenty-two of which are found in Tropical Africa, while a few occur in South Africa, Madagascar and India, and the remainder in America, from Texas to Peru. Most are small shrubs of scrubby habit, and but few have found their way into cultivation. Some have been cultivated under Calo- phanes, a name published by D. Don in Sweet’s ‘ British Flower Garden,” ser. 2, tab. 181 (1833), which must be superseded by Dyschoriste, Nees, published in the pre- ceding year, ‘ Dyschoriste is allied to the well-known genus Tiuellia, from which it differs in having only two ovules in each cell, while the latter has three or more. os D. Hildebrandtii was discovered by Hildebrandt at Kitui, in British East Africa, and it was afterwards collected in Usambara by Holst. The plant here figured flowered in the Water Lily House at Kew in October, 1903, and it was still in full bloom in June of the present year. SEPTEMBER Ist, 1904. Deser.—A much-branched shrub, about three feet high. Stems quadrangular, green and glandular when young, pale brown and glabrous in age. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, shortly attenuate at the base, pubescent on both surfaces, an inch and a half long, nine lines wide; petioles two to four lines long. Cymes axillary, shortly pedunculate, few-flowered. Calyx six lines long, five-lobed half-way down, glandular outside, clothed with simple adpressed hairs inside; segments linear-lanceolate, long-acuminate. Corolla lilac with violet streaks in the throat and on the lower lip; upper lip with two oblong, obtuse lobes three lines long and a line and a half wide; lower lip with three oblong-spathulate, obtuse lobes five lines long and two lines wide. Lower filaments a little longer than the upper, and united to them for a little distance above their in- sertion; anthers oblong, obtuse, one line long, dorsifixed near the base. Ovary oblong, a line and a quarter long, _ — : glabrous ; style filiform.—C. H. Wright. __ Fig. 1, calyx and pistil; 2, corolla laid open; 3 and 4, anthers; 5, longi- tudinal section of ovary; 6, stigma:—all enlarged. 7973 Sara aka! Sekt ee i MS. delJ.N Pitch th e | ne Tap. 7974... = Clot f oll 4 DENDROBIUM Wu.tamsonr. Native of North-eastern India. Nat. Ord. OrncHIpAcEa.—Tribe EpIpENDRE. Genus Drenproxium, Swartz; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 498.) Denprosium (§ Formose—Nigro-hirsute) Williamsoni; caulibus erectis crassiusculis 6-12 poll. altis polyphyllis foliisque primum nigro-hirsutis, _ foliis oblongo-lanceolatis 3-4 poll. longis apice oblique bidentatis flores excedentibus, pedunculis subterminalibus sepius bifloris, floribus 2}-3 poll. diametro eburneis labelli lobis lateralibus splendide aurantiacis, sepalis petalisque similibus lanceolatis acutis, labelli barbellati lobis rotundatis ciliatis lateralibus minoribus erecto-incurvis terminali recurvo, anthera basi antica puberula, columne pede plano. : D. Williamsoni, Day & Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1869, p. 78. Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. v. p. 721. King & Pantling in Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. vol. v. p. 6, t.9. Day Drawings in Bibl. Kew., vol. xiii. n. 77. _ Dendrobium Williamsoni has an interesting history. It was discovered in Assam by Mr. W. J. Williamson, a nephew of the late Mr. W. Day, to whom he sent a living plant in 1868. It flowered in the latter gentleman’s notable collection in 1869, and it was described by the late Dr. Reichenbach in the place cited above. We are unable to trace its course of distribution under cultivation, but it is on record that it flowered in the Calcutta Botanic Garden in 1879. In March, 1887, an unnamed plant flowered at Kew, and Mr. R. A. Rolfe identified it with Dendrobium Williamsoni from Reichenbach’s description ; but the type being locked up at Vienna, absolute certainty Was unattainable. In 1902, Mrs. Wolstenholme, sister of the late ‘W. Day, presented that gentleman’s most valuable collection of some thousands of drawings of cultivated orchids, and Mr. Rolfe’s identification of the plant was confirmed by a drawing of the original D. Williamson. It may be added here that Day’s drawings include a considerable number of the types of Reichenbach’s species founded on cultivated specimens, sO that the senseless provisions of his will are, to some extent, nullified. D. Williamsoni flowered again at Kew in. 1890, and _ Sepremper 1st, 1904, : flowers are preserved of this and previous dates in the Herbarium. In March of the present year, Mr. F. W. Burbidge sent flowers of this species to Kew for identifica- tion, and as it was flowering at Kew at the same time, the accompanying figure was made from the materials offered by the two establishments. - ee, Nearly six hundred proposed species of Dendrobium have been described, and it is estimated that about five hundred of them may be valid. They range from North- west India to Ceylon, China, Japan, the Malayan Archi- pelago, New Guinea, Australia, New Caledonia, New Zealand and Polynesia, eastward to Tahiti. The full merits of D. Wialliamsoni have probably not yet been brought out, and we can only add that it is very attrac- tive. ak Reichenbach compares the present species with his D. Draconis (Bot. Zeit. 1862, p. 914; B.M. t. 5459, under the name eburnewm). Other species of the same affinity ~ are: D. Lowii, Lindl. (B.M. t. 5303); D. infundibulum, Lindl. (B. M. t. 5446), and D. Wattii, Reichb. f(b. M. t. 6715). Descr.—A caulescent species. Stems erect, rather thick, six to twelve inches high, many-leaved, more or less clothed, as well as the leaves, with black hairs. Leaves _oblong-lanceolate, three to four inches long, obliquely two-toothed at the tip, slightly overtopping the flowers. — eS Peduncles from the upper joints, usually two-flowered. Flowers two inches and a half to three inches across, ivory-white, or with a more decided tinge of yellow, and a zone of bright orange-red on the lateral lobes of the lip. — Sepals and petals similar, lanceolate, acute. Lip bearded; — lobes rounded, fringed, lateral smaller, erect, involute, terminal recurved. Anther hairy in front at the base. Column not hollowed in front.—W. B. H. Fig. 1, lip; 2, column and spur; 3, anther; 4 and 5, pollinia :—all enlarged. 7974 é 4 4 #, : M.S.del JN Fitch ith Vincent Brocks Day &Son Lt imp M.5S.del JIN-Fitch lith L.Reeve & C°Landom > Pans 7975; PYRUS NIEDZWETZKYANA, Native of Central Asia. Nat. Ord. Rosacra,—Tribe Pourz. Genus Pyrus, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 626.) Prrus Niedzwetzkyana; arbor parva (specimen in horto Kewensi cultum jam 12-14 ped. altum), ramulis floriferis rigidis rectis crassiusculis cortice glabro atro-purpureo, foliis longe graciliterque petiolatis in ramis fructiferis subcoriaceis rigidis glabrescentibus demum_ rubescentibus lanceolatis oblanceolatis vel oblongis absque petiolo 3-5 poll. longis crenato-serrulatis sepius breviter acuminatis subtus pallidioribus secus costam sepe etiam puberulis, petiolo usque ad 2 poll. longo venisque nitido-roseis puberulis, floribus roseo-purpureis 13-12 poll. diametro numerosissimis in ramis lateralibus brevissimis fasciculatis, pedunculis gracilibus 6-9 lin. longis, calycis albo-lanati lobis lanceolatis acutis demum recurvis 23-3 lin. longis, petalis obovatis circiter 9 lin. longis, staminibus stylos glabros excedentibus, fructu pendulo conoideo 132-2 poll. longo extus sanguineo-purpureo intus per totam carnem roseo- purpureo, Pyrus Niedzwetzkyana, Hemsl. Malus Medwietzkyana, Dieck. Neuheiten Offerte des Nat. Arb. Zischen, 1891, p- 16. Gard. Chron. 1891, vol. i. p. 461. Wiener Illustr. Gartenz, 1891, p. 164. stipe Malus Niedzwetzkyana, Dieck, diar. cit. 1892, p. 18. Koehne, Dendrologie, 1893, p. 259. : Pyrus malus, Durand & Jackson, Index Kewensis Suppl. i. p. 262. This remarkably distinct apple is an instance in which it seems better, for practical purposes, to avoid the theoretical species, and publish it under the single name it goes by in cultivation. It might be argued that it is only a variety of Pyrus Malus, Linn., but we do not propose discussing that. question here. It certainly is a most striking object, whether in flower or in fruit. As to the spelling of the distinctive name, we have adopted the one used by the author in his second account of the plant, where, however, he gives no explanation of the deviation from the first. In each case he states that he names it after his patron, who collected it wild in the Ili District, South-west Siberia. Mr. Dieck further states that this apple is widely spread in Western and Central Asia, both in a wild state and cultivated, and he believes it.is the'same as a common wild apple of the SrerremMBer Ist, 1904. Caucasus, which is highly prized for its fruit by the Swabian _golonists. He received it from Kashgar and the Plateau of Talgar, and the European stock appears to have been raised from seed of cultivated trees in the former locality, where it is called ‘ Kisil alma,” or red apple. With the exception of the leaves all parts of this apple are red— bark, wood, flowers and fruit, and the leaves turn red -inautumn. Even the flesh of the nice-tasting fruit is of a deep, rosy red. Pyrus Niedzwetzkyana is hardy at Kew, where it flowered profusely last spring, and is just ripening fruit at the time of writing this. The fruit actually represented in the plate is from adrawing made by Mr. George Massee, of a very fine fruiting specimen sent to Kew from Bitton, in August, 1901, by Canon Ellacombe. eee 3 Descr.—A small, free-growing tree. Flowering-branches long, straight, stiff, rather thick; bark smooth, very dark — purple. Leaves on long, slender petioles, on the fruiting ae branches rather thick, stiff, nearly glabrous, tinged red, — lanceolate, oblanceolate or oblong, three to five inches long without the petiole, finely crenately-toothed, shortly acuminate, slightly hairy along the midrib ; petiole one to two inches long, bright red as well as the midrib, slightly hairy. Flowers deep rose-purple, an inch and a half to an inch and three-quarters across, very numerous, clustered at the ends of very short, lateral branchlets; stalks slender, six to nine lines,long. Calyx woolly, white; lobes lanceolate, acute, about a quarter of an inch long, Petals obovate. Stamens longer than the smooth styles. _ Fruit pendulous, conical, one inch and_ three-quarters to two inches long, skin crimson-purple, flesh rose-purple throughout.— W. B. H. Fig. 1, section of a flower; 2 and 3, stamens :—al/ enlaryed; 4, fruit:— natural size. : Se ete RTP Te L Reeve & C? Landon. MS. del. J.N. Fitch hth Tas. 7976. : MORASA THomsont, | Native of Hastern Tropical Africa. Nat. Ord. Intpacra.—Tribe Morzea. Genus Mora, Linn, ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 688.) Morza Thomsoni; herba rigida Junci habitu, caule erecto usque ad 1 ped. alto, foliis teretibus glabris 6-sulcatis 4-7 poll. longis superioribus gradatim reductis, fasciculis florum spicatim dispositis, spathis 2 ovato- lanceolatis acuminatis rubro-brunneis 2-floris 1-1} poll. longis, floribus 13-2 poll. diam., perianthii segmentis pallide lilacinis intus basi luteis brunneo-maculatis costis intus violaceis extus rubro-brunneis notatis exterioribus ovatis acuminatis e basi angusta lanceolatis acuminatis interioribus quam exterioribus minoribus, antheris oblongis basi sagittatis connectivo apice breviter producto, styli ramis triangularibus obtusis emarginatis undulatis, ovario oblongo, capsulis circiter 4 lin. longis castaneis. Morza Thomsoni, Baker, Handb. TIridesx, p. 57, et in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vol. vii. p. 341. . This plant, which flowered in the Cape House at Kew in July, 1908, was raised from seeds sent by Mr. J. 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CarriroLtiace®.—Tribe LonicEREa. — Genus Lonicera, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 5.) Lonicura etrusca; frutex alte scandens, ramosissimus, caulibus glabris primum purpureis teretibus, foliis obovatis vel supremis fere orbiculari- bus 2 poll. longis 2 poll. latis integris supra et ad nervos subtus sparse pulbescentibus superioribus basi connatis, capitulis floram sepins ternis terminalibas circa 12-foris, floribus biais involucro quadrilubo cinctis, calyce viridi 1 lin. longi lobis deltoideis acutis, corolla primum straminea demum aurantiaca, tubo 1 poll. longo tubuloso-infundibulifor.ni, labio postice 5 lin. longo 4 lin. lato ad quartam partem in lobos 4 ovatos im- bricatoe diviso, labio antico oblongo 7 lin. longo 1} lin. lato, staminibus longe exsertis, stylo filifurmi, baccis rubris. ; L. etrusca, Santi, Viagg. al Montiam. vol. i. p. 113, tab. 1 (1795); Savi. Fl. Pis. vol. i. (1798) p. 236; DC. Prodr. vol. iv. p. 331; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. vol. xvii. tab. 1172; Willk. & Lange, Prodr. Fl. Hisp. vol. ii. p. 332; Boiss. Fl. Orient. vol. iti. p. 5; Nym. Consp. Fl. Hur. ed. 2, p. 321; _ W. Watson in Gard. Chron, 1998, vol. ii. p. 231; Rehder in Rep. Missouri _ Bot. Gard. vol. xiv. (1903), p. 194. ee Bs L. hetrusea, Host, Fi. Austr. vol. i. p. 298; Bub. Fl. Pyren. vol. ii. p. 335. L. gigantea, Hort. ex Carritre in Rev. Hort. 1882, p. 558; var. superba, Hort. ee W. Wutson, in Gard. Chron. 1903, vol. ii. p. 281. L. Charlotti, Hort. ex Watson, lc. — ae < Caprifolium Periclymenum, Gouan, Hort. Monsp. p. 101 (1768), non Linn, C. etruscum, Roem. & Schult., Syst. Veg. vol. v. p. 261. C, dimorphum, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen, Pl. vol. i. p. 274. Amongst about a dozen species of Lonicera figured in this work, the present one most nearly resembles the North American Z. flava, Sims (t. 1818), which differs in having solitary flower-heads and a shorter, less slender, corolla-tube. Rehder’s monograph (loc. sup. cit.) contains about 150 well-marked species belonging to this genus, grouped in two subgenera, viz. :—Chamecerasus, having two-flowered, axillary cymes and leaves never united at the base, and Periclymenum, having terminal, usually three-flowered cymes collected into whorls or spikes and at least the upper leaves connate by their bases. | L. etrusca, which belongs to the latter of these sub- genera, was mentioned by Gouan (under the name of October Ist, 1904, Caprifolium Periclymenum) as growing in the garden at Montpellier in 1762. In 1795 Santi described it as a distinct species from specimens he saw when on a tour in Tuscany. Since then it has been observed at various stations on all sides of the Mediterranean and extending westwards to Madeira and eastwards to Kurdistan. “Ex-_ tending over so wide a range, it naturally presents _ varieties, eight such, founded chiefly on the size of the leaves and the nature or absence of their indumentum, ~ being enumerated by Rehder. 3 The specimen here figured flowered in the Himalayan section of the Temperate House at Kew in August, 1903. The plant was purchased from a continental nurseryman about ten years previously. The conditions in this situation are eminently favourable for it, and its stem has attained a diameter of two inches, and its shoots grow from six to ten feet in length in a season. These shoots bear, for a distance of several feet from the apex, numerous short lateral branches terminated by the clusters of flowers, and, hanging down from the rafters, present the appearance of a graceful cloud of colour. In the open air the plant also thrives, but does not flower so freely as indoors. It is easily propagated from cuttings. Deser.—A lofty, much-branched climber. Stem terete, glabrous; branches purple plum-colour when young. Leaves obovate or the upper almost orbicular, at least the upper pair joined at the base, sparingly pubescent above and on the chief nerves beneath, pale green, about two inches and a half long arid two inches wide. flowers in usually ternate heads terminal on the branches, each head about twelve-flowered, borne on a peduncle about one inch long, each pair of flowers surrounded by a four-lobed involucre, shorter than the calyx. Calye green, one line long; teeth deltoid, acute. Corolla at first creamy-yellow, finally almost orange ; tube one inch long, tubular funnel- shaped; upper lip five lines long, four lines wide, divided “about a quarter of the way down into four ovate imbricate — : lobes; lower lip oblong, seven lines long, a line and a half wide. Stamens much exserted. Style filiform. Berries red, not united.—O. H. Wright. Fig. 1, lower; 2 and 8, anthers; 4, stigma :—all enlarged. gS Lt , aot aks, Day &S on ent Bro Vince rol O 4 g ® A, 4 j j «Tas. 7978. MUCUN A SEMPERVIRENS. Native of China. Nat, Ord. Leeuminosx.—Subord. PAPILIONACER. Genus Mucuna, Adans.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 533.) Mucuna sempervirens; frutex alte scandens vel vagans, caule primario basi interdum 1 ped. diametro (planta in horto kewensi culta fere 100-pedalis) ramulis ultimis volubilibus, foliis trifoliolatis longe petiolatis cum petiolo gracili 9-12 poll. longis floribusque primum pilis urentibus vestitis cito glabrescentibus, foliolis petiolatis coriaceis nitidis atroviridibus ovato- oblongis lateralibus obliquis, omnibus acuminatissimis integerrimis 3-5 poll. longis, floribus atropurpureis crassis carnosis circiter 2} poll. longis racemosis, racemis densis szpius in ramis vetustiotibus fascicu- latis interdum in ramis junioribus productis, pedicellis quam floribus multo brevioribus, calycis subhemisphezrici tubo lato dorso gibboso limbo bilabiato labio superiore brevissime bidentato labio inferiore trilobato lobis deltoideis acuminatis, petalis fere coriaceis, vexillo erecto cordi- formi concavo basi dorso inflexo apice recarvo, alis horizontalibus oblique oblongo-spathulatis intus concavis marginibus superioribus divergentibus, carina alas excedente genitalia includente rostrata spinuloso-acuminata, - staminibus glabris vexillari libero divergente, antheris biformibus alternis versatilibus barbatis cito deciduis, ovario styloque pubescentibus, stylo stamina paullo superante, ovulis numerosis, legumine lignoso circiter pedali 13 poll. lato inter semina szpe constricto puberulo suturis in- crassatis, seminibus compressis oblongo-rotundatis vel reniformibus 9-15 lin. longis hilo velutino ad § circumdatis. M. sempervirens, Hems/. in Journ. Linn, Soc. Bot. vol. xxiii. p. 190; peo Garden & Forest, vol. ii. (1889), p. 266; Rafill in Gard. Chron. 1904, — vol, i. p. 282. , pakie ata Mucuna is the Brazilian name of M. pruriens, DC., and perhaps of other species, the pods and other parts of which are clothed with stinging-hairs, which are used, under the name of cowhage or cow-itch, as a mechanical anthelmintic. It is almost impossible to handle either fresh or herbarium specimens without suffering from the stings of these extremely insinuating hairs. Those of M. sempervirens are mostly shed at an early stage of the development of the parts. a : The plant figured in the Magazine (t. 4945) as M. prurita, Hook. (M. pruriens, DC.), is not the true plant, but M. imbricata, DC.,a native of India. M. pruriens ig figured, though not well, in the “ Botanical Register,’ vol. -OcToBER Ist, 1904. hy xxiv. t. 18, and in Bentley and Trimen’s “ Medicinal Plants,” t. 78. M. sempervirens was originally described from a dried ‘specimen sent to Kew, from Ichang, by Dr. A. Henry, in 1886. The material consisted of foliage, ripe pods and quite young flower-buds. The same year Dr. Henry sent seed direct to the Gardens, and one of the plants raised — was set in a bed in the Temperate House, where it has _ grown to the dimensions given in the description. It flowered for the first time in August, 1903. ‘'wo large clusters of flowers were produced on one of the old stems, about forty feet from the ground, and one smaller one on a thin branch about two years old. This year none has appeared, but the foliage is ornamental and effective. The — plant is growing at the south end of the central building _ of the Temperate House. ; . In 1895, Mr. E. Ludlow, of “The Firs,’ Wimbledon, Sent seeds of M. sempervirens to Kew. He was Com- missioner of Imperial Customs at Ichang in 1892-3, and had actually seen the large specimen from which Dr. Henry obtained his specimens, and in his notes accom- panying the specimen he states that it is traditionally an _ introduced plant there. This may be so, but we have the authority of Dr. Henry that this species is wild in many parts of the surrounding mountains. Supplementary to my original description of M. semper- virens, I mentioned that Kew possessed flowers of a Mucuna from Ningpo, which I Supposed might be the Same species, and it now proves to be the same. It was collected by Mr. C. W. Everard, of the British: Consular Service, and presented to Kew, with many other plants, by the Rev. T. A. Preston. The Rev. E. Faber also collected Wt in the Province of, Kweichau, about the year 1887. — Descr.— A very tall, climbing or rambling, evergreen shrub, the young parts more or less clothed with stinging hairs. Stem sometimes a foot in diameter at the base ; ultimate branchlets slender and twining. Leaves trifolio- late, including the slender petiole nine to twelve inches long. Leaflets petiolulate, coriaceous, shining above, ovate-oblong, lateral oblique, all tapering to a fine point, three to five inches long. Flowers dark purple outside, lighter within, and Shading off to white at the base of the petals,* thick, fleshy, about two inches and a half long. Iacemes dense, six to nine inches long, mostly — produced from the old stems. Pedicels shorter than the flowers. Calyx broadly campanulate, somewhat two- lipped; tube gibbous above; upper lip very shortly bidentate; lower distinctly tridentate. Standard erect, cordate, shorter than the other petals ; wings horizontal, oblong-spathulate; keel narrow, exceeding the wings, beaked, closed over the stamens and pistil. Stamens glabrous, the upper one free; alternate anthers versatile, bearded, caducous. Pod woody, about a foot long and an inch and a half broad, often constricted between the seeds. Seeds purple-brown, flattened, reniform, three-quarters. to an inch long.—W. B. H. Fig. 1, calyx and pistil :—enlarged. * Dr. Henry describes the flowers of the wild plant as flesh-coloured, and states that they are much visited by bees and other insects. 7979 M.S. del, JN. Fitch hth. ee eee coun Day &Son Lt? ap L.Reeve & C° Landon Tas, 7979. ; LOROPETALUM cutnensz, Native of India and China. Nat. Ord. HaAMAMELIDACER. : Genus Lonoretatum, R. Br.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. i. p. 668.) LoropetaLum chinense; frutex usque ad 8-10 ped. altus, dam juvenis copiose florens, dense ramosus, ramis gracilibus foliisque primum stellato- ubescentibus, foliis alternis breviter petiolatis subcoriaceis persistenti- te ovato-lanceolatis 1-2 poll. longis (in speciminibas silvestribus sepius multo minoribus circumscriptione variabilibus) basi leviter obliquis apiculato-acutis ciliolatis, stipulis parvis cito deciduis, floribus candidis viridi-albis vel pallide luteis circiter 1 poll. diametro in ramulis brevibus fasciculatis subsessilibus, calycis dense pubescentis lobis 4 brevibus ovatis obtusis, petalis 4 linearibus 9-12 lin. longis, staminibus 4 cum glandulis totidem alternantibus filamentis brevissimis connectivo apice rostrato, ovario 2-loculari lo¢ulis uniovulatis stylis brevissimis, capsula lignosa dense pubescente semisupera subglobosa loculicide bivalva, seminibus oblongis circiter 2 lin. longis albis levibus. L. chinense, R. Br. in Abel’s Narrative of a Journey in China (1818), p. 375, in nota. D. Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soe. vol. xxiii. p. 459. Hemsl. in | Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. vol. xxiii. p. 290. WN. FE. Brown in Gard. Chron. 1880, vol. ii. p. 620; 1883, vol. i. p. 152, f. 23; 1894, vol. i. p. 342, f. 42. - -The Garden, vol. lxv. p. 255, cum figura. Journ. of Hortic., series 3, vol. xviii. p. 235, £.39. De Wildem. Ic. Hort. Then. vol. ii. t. 58. Hamamelis chinensis, 2. Br. loc. sup. cit., cum icone nigra, Robert Brown published this shrub as a species of Hamamelis, but at the same time he pointed out in a note ‘some essential differences, and suggested that it might be raised to generic rank, under the name of Loropetalwm. This was adopted by Prof. D. Oliver in the place cited above, and he subsequently (1883) reduced (Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1417) Bentham’s Tetrathyrium subcordatum, published — in 1861, to the same genus. _ Both are natives of China, and Loropetalum chinense is common, ranging from Formosa, Chekiang and Kwang- tung to Hupeh and Yunnan, and extending to the Khasia Hills in Hastern India. It was introduced into this country, in 1880, by the late Mr. Maries for Messrs. James Veitch & Sons. In 1894 this firm was awarded a First Class Certificate for it; yet its merits were not at once OctToBER Ist, 1904, recognized. It is quite hardy, and autumn is the flower-_ ing-time usually given, but we believe, that like the species of Hamamelis, and some other members of the order, its natural time is late winter or early spring, when its flowers are liable to be destroyed by frost. But it is very attrac- tive when it escapes the cold, and it bears mild forcing quite well, flowering freely as a small. plant in pots. It was very ornamental in this state, in the Temperate House at Kew last February, when our drawing was made, and it certainly deserves to become more widely known. The Hamamelidacew are a comparatively small family, but they are pretty fully illustrated in this Magazine, the present subject being the twelfth. The N. American Fothergilla. alnifolia, Linn, (t. 1342) is the first, and perhaps the least attractive. Rhodoleia Championi, Hook. (t. 4509) is the second, and it is the most showy member of the order. ae The others figured are:—Corylopsis spicata, Sieb. & Zuce. (t. 5458); C. himalayana, Griff. (t. 6779); C. pauciflora, Sieb. & Zuce. (t. 7736); Hamamelis japonica, Sieb, & Zuce. (t. 6659); H. virginiana, Linn. (t. 6684); HI. mollis, Oliv. (t. 7884); Parrotia persica, C. A. Mey : (t. 6744); P. Jacquemontiana, Decne (t. 7501), and Tricho- _cladus grandiflorus, Oliver (t. 7418). The last is a native of South Africa, and the only one of them from the — southern hemisphere, and it has a very strong family — likeness to our plant. Some members of this order are more valuable for the — brilliant tints of their foliage in autumn than they are for their flowers, Liquidambar styraciflua and Parrotia — persica being especially noteworthy in this respect. The former closely resembles a small-leaved maple, but it may be recognized by its alternate leaves. . Descr.—A densely branched shrub, reaching eight to ten feet_in height, but flowering profusely while still quite small. Branches slender, more or less clothed, as well as the leaves, with a stellate pubescence. Leaves alternate, shortly stalked, somewhat leathery, persistent, ovate- lanceolate, one to two inches long, slightly oblique at the base, tapering to a fine point, minutely fringed on the margin; stipules small, falling early. Flowers pure white, greenish-white or very pale yellow, about one inch in diameter, in clusters of about four at the ends of short branchlets. Calyx small, densely hairy, shortly four-lobed. Petals four, very narrow, nine to twelve lines long. Stamens four, alternating with as many glands; filaments © very short ; anthers beaked. Capsule nearly globose, very hairy, two-celled, with a solitary seed in each cell.— WB. A, Fig. 1, a leaf-node and stipules; 2, portion of under surface of leaf; 3,a flower beginning to unfold; 4, the same from which calyx-lobes and petals have been removed; 5, a longitudinal section of the ovary; 6,a cluster of fruits; 7, a seed :—all enlarged. ; 7980 nlitinp “Vincent Brooks Day & Soni M.S.del JW Fitch ith ———— L.Reeve & C® Landon. : Tas. 7980, — x. ZYGOCOLAX verrentt. Native of Brazil. Nat. Ord. Orncuipace®.—Tribe VANDE. Zreocoiax, Rolfe, genus inter Zygopetalum ? et Colacem ¢ hybridum, Gard. Chron. 1887, vol. i. p. 765.) Zyeocorax Veitchii; pseudobulbis ovoideis ‘compressis, foliis 2 vel 3 floribus coetaneis anguste lanceolatis circiter pedalibus acutis 7-costatis recurvis inferioribus brevioribus latioribus, scapis basilaribus erectis quam foliis brevioribus 3-5-floris, bracteis amplis ovarium involventibus, floribus 2}- 3 poll. diametro, sepalis petalisque similibus spathulatis concoloribus intus viridi-luteis brunned-purpureo-maculatis, labello suborbiculari albido longitudinaliter rubro-violaceo-striato, polliniis 4 stipitatis ovoideis per paria in loculis segregatis. Zygocolax Veitchii, Rolfe in Gard. Chron. 1887, vol. i. p. 765; Journ. Linn, Soc. Bot. vol. xxiv. p. 170, t. 4; Orch. Rev. vol. xii. 1904, p. 93. Veiteh, Manual Orch. Pl. vol. ix. pp. 66, 67, ewm icone ex Journ. Linn, Soc. iterata ; vol. x. p. 94. Zygopetalum Veitchii, Gard. Chron. 1887, vol. i. p. 426. Zygocolax Veitchii, var. Kromeri, Gard. Chron. 1900, vol. ii. p. 346. Orch. — Rev, vol. viii. p. 371. oe Zygolax Veitchii, Hansen, The Orchid Hybrids, p. 244. Hybrid orchids of reputed bigeneric origin are now not uncommon. The first raised artificially, according to Veitch’s valuable work, cited above, was Phaiocalanthe irrorata, Rolfe, a cross effected by Dominy, the celebrated orchid-grower of the firm named, between Phajus grandifolius, Lour. (Bletia Tankervilia, R. Br.—B. M. t. 1924) and Calanthe vestita, Lindl. (B. M. t. 4671). It was originally described by Reichenbach (Gard. Chron. 1867, p- 264, with a figure) under the name of Phaius trroratus, and a coloured figure of it appeared in the * Floral Maga- zine,” vol. viii. (1869), t. 426. This was a highly interest- ing achievement, both of the parents having long been in cultivation, and the former was one of the earliest of exotic orchids successfully cultivated in England. A fine coloured figure of it appeared in Aiton’s “‘ Hortus Kew- ensis”’ (ed. 1, 1789, vol. iii. p. 302, t. 12) under the name of Limodorum Tankervilliz, Dryander. For many reasons, Zygocolax Veitchit, Rolfe, deserves our attention and admiration. Messrs. Veitch (Man. Orch. Pl. Octosgr Ist, 1904, ee : vol. ix. p. 67) say: * This hybrid, whether in its botanical or horticultural aspect, is one of the most interesting we have yet raised.” It was the result of a cross effected by Seden, the — worthy successor of Dominy, between Colar jugosus, Lindl. (B. M. t. 5661) and Zygopetalum crinitum, Lodd. (B. M. t. 3402), respectively the male and female parents of the hybrid. The seed was sown in September, 1882, and the first flowers were produced in March, 1887. Truly the gardener has to wait for the flowers of his labour ! Zygocolae Vettchii is also noteworthy as having been the principal subject of Mr. R. A. Rolfe’s excellent articles on a uniform plan of naming bigeneric hybrid orchids, to which references are given above. He followed Dr. M. T. Masters * in combining elements of the names of the two genera concerned, and this has now become almost universal in practice. Another point of special interest and importance in the plant figured, is that it is of natural origin, having been imported direct from Brazil by Mr. Kromer, Roraima Nursery, Croydon, as we are informed by Mr. Young, gardener to Sir Frederick Wigan, Bart., in whose garden at Hast Sheen the plant in question flowered in February of the present year. But, as Mr. Rolfe has pointed out, — it does not differ from the original Z. Veitchii, and therefore deserves no distinctive name. Comparing the flowers of the reputed parents, as repre- sented in our illustration, with those of Zygocolax Veitchti, one might be sceptical of the hybrid origin, for it seems to be nearly all Zygopetalum; but we refer readers desirous of fuller details to the publications cited above. Descr.—An epiphytal herb. Bulbs ovoid, flattened. Leaves two or three on each bulb, appearing at the same — : _ time as the flowers, lanceolate, about a foot long, seven- ribbed, recurved, sharp-pointed, lower ones shorter and broader than the others, Scapes solitary from below the bulbs, erect, shorter than the leaves, three- to five-flowered. Bracts large, enfolding the flower-stalk, Flowers two inches and a half to three inches. across. Sepals and ae hilageria, a hybrid between J, L ilesia,i “ | » Chroniéle,” 1 872, p. 358, figa, 119, eo Philesia, in the “ Gardeners petals similar in shape and colour, greenish-yellow, on the upper surface blotched with a rich purple brown. Lip nearly circular, ground yellowish-white, longitudinally striped with red-violet.—W. B. H. Fig. 1, column of Zygocolaw Veitchii; 2 and 3, front and back views of the pollinia of the same; 4, a flower of Zygopetalum crinitum, female parent, from Warner and Williams’s “Orchid Album,” vol. ix. t. 410; 5, a flower of Colax jugosus, male parent, from B. M. t. 5661 :—jigures 1-3 enlarged. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES. Tab. 7972. Rosa gigantea:—We are told that the record in the “‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle” of this rose having flowered in Mr. F. Cant’s nursery was based on a mistake, so that the first flowering in this country was at Albury Park, as set forth in the Magazine for September. ’ Messrs. F. Cant & Co., of Colchester, were written to on this point, but no reply has been received. The first flowering in Europe, we believe, was at Cannes. Sir Thomas Hanbury, writing to Sir William Thiselton-Dyer, says: ‘I send you herewith a dried specimen of Kosa - gigantea, picked in the garden of the Villa Eléonore, at Cannes, where it grows against the house of Lord Brougham and Vaux, the owner. He has it in a box measuring, perhaps, 24 by 14 by 14 feet.” This com- munication is dated May 11th, 1898. In a previous letter he had mentioned that it was in full flower; but we went too far, perhaps, in saying that it flowers profusely on the Riviera. There is also a cultivated flowering specimen in the Kew Herbarium (received through Mr. G. Nicholson in - December, 1899), from Mr. R. Armstrong, Claremont, Cape Town. | Tab. 7973. Dyschoriste Hildebrandtii :—This plant was raised at Kew, in 1900, from seed collected in South Rhodesia by Mr. John Mahon, then Government Botanist, Scientific Department, Zomba, British Central Africa, and now of the Imperial Institute, South Kensington. Tab. 7974. Dendrobium Williamsoni :—Mr. W. Day is a misprint for Mr. John Day. W. Bi wt, 7981 Vincent Brooks,Day& SonLiinp: LReeve &C° London MS.del,J.N Bitch kth. Tas. 7981. JASMINUM primutinum. ” Native of Western China. Nat. Ord. OLEacEa.—Tribe JasMINER, Genus Jasminum, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p, 674. _JAsMINUM primulinum; frutex alte vagans, omnino fere glaber, ramis elon- gatis angulatis viridibus, foliis trifoliolatis graciliter petiolatis, foliolis subseasilibus oblongo-lanceolatis 1-2 poll. longis integris subcoriaceis _ supra atroviridibus nitidis apiculatis, floribus in foliorum axillis solitariis vel in ramulis -brevibus lateralibus terminalibus luteis 13-2 poll. diametro, pedunculis vel ramulis bracteis foliaceis integris instructis, calycis lobis lanceolatis acutis puberulis, corolla lobis swpius 6 obovato- spathulatis rotundatis interdum duplicatis, staminibus inclusis, stylo in floribus simplicibus exserto, fructu ignoto. ere J.primulinum, Hemsl. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, p. 109. Oliv. in Hook. Ic. Pl. ~ t. 2384. Journ. Roy. Hort. Soc. vol. xxviii. p. liii. Journ. of Hort. series 3 vol. xlvi. p. 295, cum figura nigra. Gard. Chron. 1903, vol. i. p. 197, f ; : Veitch, Catalogue of Novelties, 1903, p. 5. Rev. Hort. 1904, pp. 182- ? ¥ 2, to; . When I described this species nine years ago from a dried specimen, presented to Kew by Mr. W. Hancock, F.L.S., F.R.G.S., of the Chinese Imperial Customs, I used the following phrase :— J. nudifloro valde affinis et hujus_ Speciei forsan varietas speciosissima,” and Dr. A. Henry, who subsequently collected it in the same locality, is of the opinion that it is a race of J. nudiflorum, Lindl. (B. M. t. 4649). He supplies the following note :—“ I found the plant both at Szemao and Mengtze, in the Province of Yunnan; but I am of opinion that it occurs always, in the districts where it has hitherto been found growing, culti- vated or as an escape from cultivation. The shrubs were Seen in gardens, or more frequently in hedges or amidst other shrubs, in the vicinity of villages, and never were met with in woods or forests. It apparently never set any fruit, as I searched for it. assiduously in vain; but propagated itself freely by suckers. Semi-double flowers were often seen, and varied very much in size. Several - _ other species of Jasminum were plentiful in the woods and _ forests of South Yunnan, and these produced fruit freely and never showed any variation in the size of the flowers OctoBEr Isr, 1904, nor any tendency to doubling. There is no reference to J. primulinum in the ‘Chi-wu-ming,’ which is rich in details concerning Yunnan plants.” Dr. Henry is led by the foregoing facts. to the conclusion that 7. nudiflorum was long ago introduced into the district from the north, and has become evergreen and larger-flowered under the different climatic conditions. : Whatever its descent, J. primulinum is a great acquisi-— tion, and should it prove as hardy as the old J. nudiflorum, it will doubtless be widely planted. It has withstood sixteen degrees of frost against a north wall in Messrs. James Veitch & Sons’ nursery. It also does well as a pot-piant. With regard to its not bearing fruit, the same may be ~ said of J. nudiflorum, so far as our knowledge goes. Not — one of the numerous wild and cultivated Specimers in the ~ Kew Herbarium bears a single fruit. J. primulinum was one of the first plants introduced _ from China by Mr. E. H. Wilson, for Messrs. Veitch, who received a First Class Certificate for it last April. It has flowered freely at Kew, both indoors and out. ae Descr.—A rambling, evergreen, glabrous shrub. Stems and branches quadrangular, slender, green. Leaves tri- foliolate, on slender stalks; leaflets almost sessile, rather thick, oblong-lanceolate, one to two inches long, entire, dark green and shining above, paler beneath, apiculate. Flowers solitary on axillary peduncles or branchlets furnished with scale-like or leaf-like, simple bracts, prim- rose-yellow, with a darker eye, one inch and a half to two inches across. Calyz-lobes lanceolate, acute, slightly hairy. Corolla-lobes usually _ six, obovate-spathulate rounded, sometimes duplicated and the inner ones shorter. Stamens included. Style exserted in the single flowers Fruit unknown.—W,. B. 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Autium (Molium) albopilosum ; herba robusta, bulbo globoso, foliis ligulatis vel lanceolatis acuminatis vel acutis supra glabris subtus albopilosis ad 18 poll. longis et 1} poll. latis, seapo 1 ped. alto 5 lin, diam. glabro tereti circa 80-floro, spathis 3 latis acuminatis membranaceis, pedicellis 2 poll. longis teretibus glabris, perianthii segmentis linearibus acuminatis obscure lilacinis 10 lin. longis 1 lin. latis post anthesin rigidibus, staminibus uniformibus quam perianthii segmentis dimidio brevioribus, filamentis subulatis basi dilatatis atropurpureis, antheris oblongis, pollinis granis cesio-viridibus, ovario trilobo minute verrucoso viridi, stylo subulato 3 lin. longo. S. albopilosum, CO. H. Wright in Gard. Chron, 1903, vol. ii. p. 34, cum fig. ; Gardening World, Aug. 29, 1903, cum fig. * The genus Alliwm now contains nearly 300 described species, and is remarkable for being one of the few genera in which three primary colours are represented in the flowers. Those of A. kansuense, Regel (Bot. Mag. t. 7290) and A. cerulewm, Pall., are blue; those of A. flavum, Linn. (t. 1330), and A. Moly, Linn. (t. 499) are yellow, while various shades of red are exhibited by A. acuminatum, Hook., A. narcissiflorum, Vill. (t. 6182), and other species. Further, not a few are white-flowered. : A. albopilosum is the largest flowered species of the genus, being approached only by the closely allied A. Christophi, Trautv. (Incr. Fl. Phen. Ross, p. 782) in which the filaments are of a different shape. This species was collected for Mr. Van 'l'ubergen, Junr., of Haarlem, in 1901, by Mr. Sintenis “in the mountain range which divides Transcaspia from Persia.” It flowered in June, 1902, in the garden of the Hon. Charles Ellis, Frensham Hall, Shottermill, and he presented plants to Kew, which flowered in a border in the herba- ceous ground in June of last year, and subsequently ripened seeds. NovemBer Ist, 1904, Our drawing was made from a plant that flowered at Kew. The delicate, metallic or silky sheen on the flowers is difficult of reproduction. Descr.—A robust herb. Bulb globose. Leaves strap- shaped or lanceolate, acuminate or acute, the largest eighteen inches long and an inch and three quarters broad, glabrous above, marked with longitudinal lines of white hairs beneath. Scape one foot high, about five lines in diameter, terete, glabrous, about eighty-flowered ; spathes three, wide, acuminate, membranous; pedicels two inches long, terete, glabrous. Perianth-segments linear, acumi- nate, deep lilac with a metallic sheen, ten lines long, one line wide, rigid after flowering. Stamens all alike, about half as long as the perianth-segments ; filaments subulate, dilated at the base; anthers oblong; pollen greyish-green. Ovary three-lobed, minutely verrucose, green; style subulate, three lines long.—C. H. Wright. — ' Fig. 1, flower; 2 and 8, anthers; 4, ovary :—all enlarged. 7983 Vincent Brocks,Day& Sa. Limp M.S.del, JN-Fitch lith. Tap. 7983. HELIPTERUM SPLENDIDUM. Native of Western Australia. Nat. Ord. Comrosit2.—Tribe INuLOIDE. Genus Heuipreaum, DO. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 308.) HeELipteRvM splendidum; herba annua, glabra, erecta, 9-18 poll. alta, caulibus gracilibus simplicibus superne aphyllis monocephalis, foliis glaucis sessilibus linearibus maximis sesquipollicaribus obtusis integerrimis, capitulis erectis usque ad 3} poll. diametro, involucri bracteis scariosis glabris multiseriatis seriebus 4 vel 5 exterioribus multo minoribus ovatis obtusis brunneis extimis minimis ceteris albis lineari-lanceolatis 1-12 poll. longis vix acutis breviter unguiculatis ungue leviter incrassato, paucis interioribus supra prope basin auguste purpureo-zonatis, floribus numerosissimis aureis, corollis omnibus tubulosis lobis erectis, pappi setis circiter 10 longe plumosis corollam equantibus vel superantibus, acheeniis ciliato-bialatis maturis non visis. H. splendidum, Hemsl, n. sp. Kew is indebted to Mr. G, F. Berthoud, of Waroona, near Drakesbrook, W. Australia, for dried specimens and seeds of this handsome plant, which he labelled :— ** Native of North-western Districts.” There are also herbarium specimens collected in open plains at Menzies, about a hundred miles north of Coolgardie, in about 29° 30’ S. lat. and 121° E. long., by Cecil Andrews. His specimens are named Helichrysum Davenportii, F. Muell. There is no authenticated specimen of this at Kew, but Bentham (Fl. Austral. vol. iii. p. 616) places it as a variety of Helichrysum Lawrencella, F. Muell. (syn. Lawrencella rosea, Lind).), remarking that he was disposed to rank it as a distinct species. Mueller (Fragm. Phytogr. Austral, vol. ii. p. 32) refers it to what he denominates section Acroclinium of Helichrysum, from which it would appear that, at that date, he contemplated uniting Helip- terum with Helichrysum. As a matter of fact our plant is most nearly related to Helipterum voseum, Benth. (syn. Acroclinium roseum, Hook., Bot. Mag. t. 4801), from which Mueller’s descrip- tion differs in essential particulars. H. splendidum is indeed a very showy member of the Novemser Ist, 1904, Australian “ Everlastings,” and if its cultivation in pots should prove as easy as that of Helipterum Manglesii, F. Muell. (syn. Rhodanthe Manglesit, Lindl., ‘* Botanical Register,”’ t. 1703) there is a big future before it. Several varieties of the latter are represented in this Magazine. The typical form (t. 3483) is perhaps the prettiest, and tt. 5283 and 5290 are-colour variations of an ornamental character. Unfortunately the plants raised at Kew flowered in April, and under unfavourable conditions, as to sunlight, produced no seed. . Descr.—An annual, glabrous, erect herb, nine to eighteen inches high. Stems slender, simple, leafless in the upper part bearing one head of flowers. Leaves alternate, sessile, glaucous, linear, the largest an inch and a half long, obtuse, entire. Flower-heads erect, the largest three inches and a half across. Bracts of the involucre glabrous, scarious, in very many series, those of the four or five outer series much smaller than the inner, ovate, obtuse, brown, outermost very small, the rest white, linear-lanceolate, one inch to one and a half long, scarcely acute, shortly clawed, claw thickened, a few of the innermost having a narrow, purple band on the upper surface near the base. flowers very numerous, all tubular, yellow. Corolla-lobes erect. Pappus of about ten very feathery bristles, equalling or slightly exceeding the corolla. Achenes 2-winged ; wings fringed.— W. B. H. Fig. 1, a flower; 2, anthers; 3, upper part of style and stigmas:—ad/ enlarged, 7984 oks,Day & Son L## Lmp. Vincent Bro {.S.del. JN. Fitch lith * L.. Reeve & C2 London Tas. 7984, CRYPTOSTEGIA MapaGascaRiENsIs. : Native of Madagascar. Nat. Ord. AscLEPIADACE#.—Tribe PERIPLOCE. Genus CryprosteciA, R.Br. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 742.) CryptosTgcia, madagascariensis ; species a C. grandiflora petiolis brevioribus viridibus floribus minoribus intus sanguineo-purpurels corone# squamis indivisis diversa ; frutex scandens, glaber, ramis se#pius verrucosis, foliis breviter petiolatis coriaceis lanceolatis ovatis ellipticis vel interdum fere orbicularibus 2-4 poll. longis obtuse acuminatis basi rotundatis subtus pallidioribus venis ultimis minute reticulatis, floribus in cymas terminales dispositis distincte pedicellatis 24-3 poll. diametro, bracteis squamiformi- bus cito deciduis, calycis lobis ovatis acutis, corolla lobis tubo ampliato longioribus ovato-lanceolatis acutis recurvis, corone squamis 5 subulatis infra tubi medium insertis occultis (unde nomen genericum), pollinis massis in utroque loculo geminis appendicibas spathulatis applicitis, folliculis lignosis cymbiformibus circiter tripollicaribus divaricatis acutis, seminibus numerosissimis longe copioseque plumosis. C. madagascariensis, Bojer, Cat. Hort. Maurit. (1837), p. 212, nomen nudum. Decne. in DC. Prodr. vol. viii. p. 492. Mig. Choir de Plantes Rares, t. 9. Jumelle, Les Plantes & Caoutchouc, p. 264, ff. 28,29; Rev. Gén. de Bot. 1901, p. 394. The genus Oryptostegia was founded by R. Brown in the ‘ Botanical Register,” vol. v. (1820) t. 485, on a cultivated plant, previously published, but not described, by Roxburgh, under the name of Nerium grandiflorum. Roxburgh records his plant as a native of India, discovered by Dr. B. Heyne in 1804; but most subsequent writers declare that it exists in India only under cultivation or as a colonist. Other writers record it as wild and common in certain districts in the Madras Peninsula. There are no undoubtedly wild specimens of C. grandiflora, R. Br., in the Kew Herbarium ; but there are cultivated specimens from Mauritius, Natal, Khartoum, Jamaica, and from the most distant parts of India. It is also in cultivation at the present time at Kew. ; | CO. madagascariensis, Bojer, is the only other species known, and, until comparatively recently, only from culti- vated specimens ; but now Kew possesses dried specimens from various parts of Madagascar, besides cultivated ones November 1st, 1904. from this country, Hong Kong, and Cape Town. The two are very much alike in general characters, and the names are sometimes interchanged in gardens. This is partly due to the fact that the differences have been mis- understood. When in flower there is no difficulty, the flowers of C. grandiflora, although somewhat larger, are of a lilac-purple, and the staminodes or lobes of the corona are very deeply divided into two filiform segments. The date of introduction of CO. madagascariensis into England is given as 1826, but it has always been rare. Our plate was drawn from a plant that flowered at Kew in May and June of the present year. It is avery beautiful thing, and if it should prove free-flowering, it would well deserve a place in a hot-house, as it flowers when quite small. Deser.—A climbing, glabrous shrub; branches often beset with small, warty excrescences. Leaves shortly stalked, leathery, varied in outline from lanceolate to almost orbicular, two to four inches long, obtusely acumi- nate, rounded at the base, paler beneath ; ultimate veinlets very finely reticulated. lowers in terminal cymes, dis- tinctly stalked, two inches and a half to three inches across. Practs scale-like, falling away early. Calyz-lobes ovate, acute. Corolla-lobes longer than the funnel-shaped tube, ovate-lanceolate, acute, recurved. Corona-lobes five, subulate, attached below the middle of the corolla-tube and invisible from the outside. Pollen-masses in pairs in each cell, each pair attached to a spathulate appendage. rwit composed of two divergent, boat-shaped carpels containing numerous small seeds furnished with a cluster of long, soft hairs at one end.—W. B. H. Fig. 1, section of the lower part of a flower showing the insertion of the corona-lobes; 2, longitudinal section of the androecium; 3, a pair of pollinia attached to the scale; 4, anterior view of the same; 5, one of the two carpels of which the fruit is composed; 6, a seed :—all except 5 enlarged. 7985 mp \Ancent Brooks.Dar&Son Ltt. ~ hints, Ez - k « i ondon. es 4 2 & mM ¥; rp ; ¥ & ) i j / } é M.S ,del JN Fitch lith 4, Tas. 7985. DENDROBIUM BELLATULUM. Native of China. Nat. Ord. OncHipacra.—Tribe ErrpENDREA. Genus Denprosium, Swartz ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 498,) ’ Denprozium (§ Formosaw—Nigro-hirsute) bellatulum; planta nana, ceespi- tosa, pseudobulbis florentibus }-2 poll. altis, fusiformibus longitudi- naliter rugoso-costatis 2-4-phyllis 1-3-floris foliisque primum plus minusve nigro-hirsutis, foliis oblongis vel ovato-oblongis 3-2 poll. longis apice oblique obtuseque bidentatis, floribus axillaribus cum pedi- cello quam foliis brevioribus 13-2 poll, diametro, sepalis petalisque albis, labello miniato, sepalis lateralibus elongato-triangularibus acutis, sepalo postico lanceolato, petalis spathulatis apice rotundatis apiculatis, labello- pandurato-trilobo lobis lateralibus rotundatis lobo intermedio latissime obcordato-bilobo disco medio obtuse 5-costato costis tuberculoso-verrucosis, mento saccato obtuso. D. bellatulum, Rolfe in Journ, Linn. Soc. Bot. vol. xxxvi. (1903), p. 10; Oreh. Rev. vol. xi. (1903), p. 103; vol. xii. (1904), p. 185; Gard. Chron. 1904, vol. i. p. 258; 1904, vol. ii. p. 114, f. 47. . This charming little Dendrobium is closely. related to the recently figured D. Williamsoni, Reichb. f. (B. M. t. 7974) in structural and vegetative characters, but it is very different in its dwarf habit. The species was based upon copious dried specimens, collected by Dr. A. Henry, in 1898, at Mengtze, in the Province of Yunnan, at an eleva- tion of 5,000 ft. It was found in the forest to the south- east of Mengtze, growing on trees. In 1900, previous to the publication of the description of the species, Messrs. James Veitch & Sons presented living plants to Kew, sent home by their collector, Mr. Wilson. It was subse- quently discovered by Mr. W. Micholitz, collector for Messrs. Sander & Sons, of St. Albans, at Lang Bian, Anam, at an elevation of 4,500 to 5,000 ft. The plant presented by Messrs. Veitch flowered some time ago, but not freely, and the plate was prepared from a more robust tuft presented by Messrs. Sander. It flowered in April, and although very pretty, it was evidently not at its best, nor equal to Dr. Henry’s wild specimens, in which the unexpanded flowers are an inch and a half long, and those flattened out are two inches and a half from the tip of the NovemMBeER Ist, 1904, lip to the tips of the petals. Judging from the altitude at which it flourishes, it requires cool treatment. Descr.—A densely tufted plant, two to four inches high. Bulbs fusiform, longitudinally ribbed, ribs rounded and uneven, two- to four-leaved, one- to three-flowered. Leaves leathery, at first more or less beset with black hairs, ovate- oblong, one and a half to two inches long, obliquely and obtusely two-toothed at the tip. Flowers axillary, slightly overtopped by the leaves, one inch and a half to two inches in diameter, white with a vermilion lip. Sepals acute, lateral elongate-triangular, dorsal lanceolate. Petals spathulate, rounded at the tip. Lip three lobed ; lateral lobes short, rounded ; intermediate lobe broadly obcordate, recurved ; disc traversed by five warty ribs; sac obtuse.— We. Be Fig. 1, portion of upper surface of a leaf; 2, column; 38, anther-cap ; 4, pollen :—all enlarged. 7986 yee! i tit se MS. del = - Tae o LJ NPY IN Fitch hth. mn ro ncent Br: lay oan 3 aks D S Lathrop Tas. 7986. TRIS BISMARCKIANA. _ Native of Palestine. Nat. Ord. Intpacraz.—Tribe MorazE. Genus Iris, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 686.) Iris (Oncocyclus) bismarckiana ; herba circa 18 poll. alta, rhizomate brevi, foliis ensiformibus ad 9 poll. longis et 1 poll. latis glaucis, scapo unifloro, spathis lanceolatis viridibus 3 poll. longis, perianthii segmentis exteriori- bus late ovatis acutis 23 poll. longis fere 2 poll. latis luteis dense pbrunneo-purpureo maculatis medio macula purpureo-fusca 7 lin. diam. notatis, segmentis interioribus orbicularibus 23 poll. diam. unguiculatis dilute ceruleis venis maculisque lilacinis, stigmatibus oblongis cristis 8 lin. longis colore perianthii segmentis exterioribus similibus. I. bismarckiana, Dammann ex Wien. Ill. Gartenzeit. 1890, p. 352, fig. 72; Dammann, Catal. 1892, p. 25, fig. 26; Baker, Handb. Iridee, p. 18. I. bismarkiana, Sprenger in Gard. Chron. 1904, vol. ii. p. 222. - The Oncocyclus section of Iris, which is characterized by the outer perianth-segments being diffusely hairy on the claw and lower part of the blade, contains the most con- spicuous species of the genus. On this account many, which have been brought into cultivation, have had specific names given to them on very slight differential characters. The most widely cultivated species of this section, as well as the largest-flowered one of the genus, is I susiana, Linn. (B. M. t. 91), while closely allied is L Gatesii, Foster (t. 7867), which differs from the present plant in the absence of a distinct blotch or “sional” on the outer perianth-segments. I. Sari, var. lurida, Boiss. (t. 6960) is a dwarf plant with smaller flowers than I. bismarckiana, and has the anther-cells adnate to the filament, instead of being inserted in a small pit on the back of the anther near its base. J. Lortetit, Barbey (t. 7251) much resembles this species, but it has short, truncate, dentate style-arms. TL. bismarekiana was introduced from Lebanon in 1888 by Messrs. Dammann & Co., of Naples, but, like most _ species of the section Oncocyclus from Palestine, is some- what difficult to cultivate. The plant here figured was — NovemBeER Isr, 1904. purchased from Mr. Georg Egger of Jaffa, and flowered in the Alpine House at Kew in May, 1904. Descr.—A perennial herb about eighteen inches high. fthizome short. Leaves ensiform, glaucous, the largest nine inches long and one inch wide. Scape one-flowered ; spathes lanceolate, green, three inches long. Perianth- segments : outer broadly ovate, acute, two inches and a half long, nearly two inches wide, yellowish, densely spotted with purple-brown and marked in the centre with a similarly-coloured spot (signal) seven lines in diameter ; inner orbicular, clawed, two inches and a half in diameter, pale blue, with numerous lilac veins which bear spots — towards the margin of the blade. Stigmas oblong; crests triangular, eight lines long, similar in colour to the outer perianth-segments.—C, H. Wright. 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Br GEORGE BENTHAM, F.R.S, ' 8th —— Revised by Sir J, D, Hooxer,C.B., GCS, i ,F.R.S., &e. 9a. net. ILLUSTRATIONS. OF THE BRITISH FLORA. A Series of Wood Engravings, with Dissections, of British Plants, i Drawn By W.H, FITCH, F.L.S., anp W. G. SMITH, F.1L.S. : Forming an T Uustrated Companion to Bentham’s « Handbook,” - Sth Edition, with 1316 Wood E and other British Flom ngravings, 9s. net. & c _LOVELL ‘REEVE & CO. iap., 6, HENRIBTTA STREEL, “COVENT GAR 7987 ANON ig aac Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lt*Imp MS. del 5.N-Fitchhth LReeve &C° London. Tas. 7987. KALANCHOE Dyent. Native of Nyasaland. Nat, Ord. CrassuLaces. Genus Katancnog, Adans.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 659.) Katanchor Dyeri; herba succulenta, 2-24 ped. alta, glabra, plus minusve glauca, foliis oppositis petiolatis ellipticis obtusis basi rotundatis vel cuneatis margine grosse crenato-dentatis petiolo 14-8 poll. longo alte canaliculato lamina 4-73 poll. longa 23-5 poll. lata, foliis superioribus bracteisque multo minoribus spathulato-obovatis vel lanceolatis obtusis vel subacutis integris, floribus tetrameris pedicellatis in cymas corym- | -bosas terminales dispositis, sepalis 33-6 lin. longis deltoideo-lanceolatis obtusis, corolle tubo 13~2 poll. longo basi 4-angulato pallide viridi, limbi lobis ?-1 poll. longis lanceolatis acutis albis, staminibus 8 biseriatis filamentis brevissimis antheris parvis luteis superioribus breviter exsertis, glandulis hypogynis filiformibus apice plus minusve bifidis albis, car- pellis lineari-lanceolatis in stylos longos filiformes attenuatis glabris stigmatibus capitatis. _K. Dyeri, N.E. Brown in Gard. Chron. 1904, vol. i. p. 354. —_ This species of Kalanchoe is one of the finest that has yet been introduced into cultivation. It is allied to K. marmorata, Baker (B. M. t. 7333), K. somaliensis, Baker (t. 7881), and K. longiflora, A. Rich. These four handsome species are all natives of tropical Africa, and form a distinct group, characterized by their large, long- tubed, white flowers. K. Dyeri was raised at Kew from seeds sent in 1902, from Nyasaland, by Mr. J. McClounie, Director of the Scientific Department of British Central Africa. The plants first flowered in April, 1904, and have ripened seeds, from which young plants have been raised. Descr.—Plant two feet to two feet and a half high, with a stout stem about three-quarters of an inch thick at the base, glabrous in all parts and more or less glaucous on the green parts. Leaves opposite, very spreading, petiolate ; petiole one and a half to three inches long, four and a half to six lines broad and nearly as thick, sub-terete, slightly flattened above, dilated at the base, green, slightly tinted with purple and speckled with white; blade four to seven and a half inches long, December 1s7, 1904, two and a half to five inches broad, elliptic, obtuse, rounded or cuneate at the base, with irregular, obtuse teeth, two to three lines long, four to six lines broad, flat or with the sides more or less incurved, green, with a purplish tint on the midrib and principal veins above; leaves and bracts on the inflorescence half to two inches long, spathulate-obovate to lanceolate, sub-acute or obtuse, entire. Inflorescence a terminal, corymbose cyme nine to twelve inches long, six to nine inches across, with three or four pairs of three- to ten-flowered, sub-erect branches. Pedicels eight to nine lines long, three-quarters to one line thick. Sepals three and a half to six lines long, half to two lines broad at the base, thence tapering to an obtuse point. Corolla-tube one and three-quarters of an inch long, three and a half to four lines square at the base, pale green ; lobes very spreading, one inch long, four and a half to five lines broad, lanceolate, acute, pure white. Stamens eight, inserted near the top of the tube, the four lower included, the four upper just exserted from the mouth of the tube; filaments ._ three-quarters to one line long; anthers small, half to three-quarters of a line long. Hypogynous glands five lines long, filiform, more or less bifid at the apex, white. Carpels with a linear-lanceolate ovary three-quarters of an inch long, sub-quadrate in transverse section, tapering into a filiform style eleven lines long, all twisted together at the base, green; stigmas capitate, white—N. LH. Brown. Fig. 1, calyx, hypogynous glands and carpels; 2, part of the top of an unopened corolla and stamens; 3 and 4, stamens :—all enlarged. Tas. 7988. CYDONTA stvensts. Native of China. Nat. Ord. Rosacka#,—Tribe Pomacea. Genus Cyponta, Tourn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Flant. vol. i. p, 626, sub. Pyro). CypDONIA stnensis; arbor parva, tortuoso-ramosa, foliis petiolatis adultis crassiusculis ovatis vel obovatis cum petiolo usque ad 4 poll. longis (in ramis florigeris seepius minoribus lanceolatisque) acutis basi cuneatis petiolo marginibusque glanduloso-serrulatis glabrescentibus, stipulis pedatis cito deciduis oblongo-lanceolatixs 3-4 lin. longis margine glandn- losis basi utrinque lobis binis parvis deflexis instructis lobis exterioribus minutis, pedunculis brevibus unifloris basi bracteis numerosis ovato- oblongis circiter semipollicaribus margine glandulosis ornatis, floribus circiter 14 poll. diametro, calycis segmentis ovato-lanceolatis 3-4 lin, longis acutis recurvis margine glandulosis precipue intus albo-lanatis, petalis ohovato-oblongis 7-8 lin. longis apice rotundatis roseis basi albis et rubro-zonatis, staminibus uniseriatis quam petalis dimidio brevioribus stylos excedentibus, ovario 5-loculari, stylis glabris medio connatis, stigmatibus capitatis, fructu oblongo-ovoideo circiter 6 poll. longo aureo, seminibus -numerosissimis subtriangularibus. uno angulo rotundato compressis 3-4} lin. longis brunneis opacis Jeevibus. C. sinensis, Thouin in Ann. du Mus. d’ Hist. Nat. de Par. vol. xix. (1812), pp. 144-153. tt. 8 e¢ 9. Desf. Cat. Hort. Par. 1815, p. 200. DC. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 638. Duhamel, Traité des Arbres et Arbustes, vol. vi. t. 75, Herbier Général de Vv Amateur, vol. ii. t. 75. Rev. Hort, 1889, p. 228, cum ic. color. W.B. H. in Kew Bulletin, 1899, p. 224. Wien. Illustr. Gart. Zeit. vol. xxvi. (1901), p. 207, t. 2. Hemsl. in Hook, Ic. Pl. sub tt. 2657-8. C. chinensis, Lind. Bot. Reg. vol. xi. (1825), t. 905. Pyrus sinensis, Poir. in Lam. Encycl. Suppl. vol. iv. p. 452, non Lindl. nee Auctor, alior. plurim. P. cathayensis, Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. vol. xxiii. (1887), p. 256, pro parte. P, chinensis, Spreng. Syst. vol. ii. p. 510. P. chinensis, Roxb. Fl, Ind. vol. ii. p. 511. Cheenomeles chinensis, Kehne, Dendrol. p. 262, This quince was originally described and figured in black and white, by Thouin, from a tree in the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, and he states that it was introduced into England and Holland during the last decade of the eighteenth century. We find no confirmation of this statement, and Lindley seems to have been the first to DeceMBER Ist, 1904, publish an account of it in this country—see the reference above. Subsequently another species was introduced from China, and it was for many years cultivated at Kew under the same name, the genuine plant having apparently disappeared from our gardens. The confusion of the two Species extended to the literature of the subject, including the Enumeration of Chinese plants (Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. vol. xxiii. p. 256), under Pyrus cathayensis, Hemsl., where, however, it is mentioned that the plant cultivated at Kew had much narrower, less hairy leaves than that originally described and cultivated in Europe. In 1899 the Director of Kew brought a ripe quince, of the species here figured, from the garden of Sir Thomas Hanbury, at La Mortola, near Ventimiglia, which led to further investigations, and the publication in Hooker’s “Icones Plantarum” (tt. 2657 and 2658) of Cydonia cathayensis, Hemsl., as distinguished from C. sinensis, Thouin. In April of the present year a young plant of the latter flowered at Kew, and thus gave us an opportunity of completing the description and illustration of the two species, CU. sinensis is a very pretty plant for the conservatory in spring; but, as Mr. Ed. André observes, it requires such a climate as the Mediterranean to reach perfection. There it is extensively grown, as it is ornamental, whether in flower or fruit. Like all other quinces, it is not a dessert fruit, but associated with other fruit, in tarts or as a marmalade, it is very palatable, though perhaps not to those who cannot relish a new thing in flavours. In the south the foliage assumes beautiful autumnal tints. _ C. cathayensis, Hemsl., differs from (. sinensis, Thouin, in having lanceolate, eelandular leaves; large, foliaceous eee > erect, rounded calyx-lobes, and a much smaller ruit, There is such a confusion of names under Pyrus and Cydonia that it may be useful to mention that Pyrus stmensis, Lindl. (Bot. Iteg. t. 1248, chinensis in letterpress) 18a true pear, and that P. sinica, Royle, is the same_ Species. Pyrus chinensis, Roxb. (Fl. Ind. vol. ii. p. 511), is another Synonym of that species. Pyrus sinensis, Dum. (Cours, ed. 2, vol. v. p. 429), is, on the authority of Decaisne (Nouv. Arch. du Mus. vol. x. p. 154) the same as Pyrus spectabilis, Ait. There are no wild specimens of C. sinensis in the Kew Herbarium, and the only Chinese specimen was presented by Dr. Shearer in 1875. His label runs thus: ‘‘ Mul Kwa=woeden cucumber, from its solidity and shape, now fruiting, June, 1872. The large, fragrant fruit is said to be used for scenting tea and flavouring wine. The bark is olive-green, with bald patches, and the trunk thick and contorted. Growing in tubs, it is indeed a very handsome shrub.” The only other species of Cydonia figured in this Magazine is the well-known, rich-coloured C. japonica, Pers. (t. 692). Descr.—A shrub or small, tortuously-branched tree. Leaves petiolate, becoming leathery and glabrous, lan- ceolate on the flowering branches, obovate and larger on - the barren branches, three to four inches long, glandular- toothed as well as the petioles; stipules falling early, pedate, glandular on the margin; basal lobes very small. Peduneles short, one-flowered, furnished at the base with numerous, oblong bracts. lowers about one inch and a half in diameter. Calyx-lobes ovate-lanceolate, three to four lires long, acute, recurved, glandular on the margin, woolly on the upper surface. Petals obovate-oblong, rounded, seven to eight lines long, pink, white at base, with a zone of a deeper red. Stamens half as long as the petals, and slightly longer than the styles. Ovary five-celled ; styles glabrous, consolidated to the middle; stigmas capitate. Iruit oblong-ovoid, about six inches long, deep yellow. Seeds very numerous, nearly triangular, with one obtuse angle, flattened, three inches to four inches and a half long, dull brown.— W. P. H. Fig. 1, section of a flower from which the petals have been removed, showing the numerous ovules:—enlarged. — M.S. deLJ-NFitchiith Tas. 7989. LONICERA SYRINGANTHA, Native of North-West China. Nat. Ord. Caprirotiacea.—Tribe LoNICERER. Genus Lontcera, Linn. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 5.) Lonicrra (Isoxylosteum) syringantha ; frutex ramosissimus, circa 4 ped. altus, ramis tenuibus quadrangularibus glabris, foliis ovalibus vel ovatis obtusis rarius subacutis basi rotundatis vel subcordatis usque ad 9 lin. ‘longis et 4 lin. latis glabris, petiolis 2 lin. longis gracilivus, floribus geminatis, pedunculis 4-6 lin. longis, bracteis lanceolatis breviter petiolatis quam calycibus paullo longioribus, Lracteolis in cupulam con- natis margine crenulatis, calycibus 3 lin. longis, segmentis lanceolatis quam tubo paullo brevioribus, corollis hypocrateriformibus pallide roseis intus pilosis, tubo 4 lin. longo, lobis ovalibus obtusis 3 lin. longis, antheris subsessilibus apiculatis tubi medium vix superantibus, baccis liberis ovoideis 4 lin. longis coccineis. L. syringantha, Mazim. in Bull. Acad. Pétersb. vol. xxiv. (1878) p. 49; Mél. Biol. vol. x. (1877) p. 77. Hemsl. in Journ, Linn. Soc. vol. xxiii. p. 367. Wolfe in Gartenfl. vol. xli. (1892) p. 564, figs. 115-116. Rehder in Rep. Missouri Bot. Gard, 1903, p. 46. : Lonicera rupicola, var. syringantha, Zabel in Beissn. Schelle & Zabel, Handb. Laubholz- Benen. p. 462 (1903). Caprifolium syringanthum, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Plant. vol. i. (1891) p. 274. Rehder, in his monograph of Lonicera (l.c.), classifies the 154 species known to him in two sub-genera, viz. :— Chamecerasus, in which the 2-flowered, usually peduncled cymes are borne in the axils of the leaves, which are never connate; and Perielymenwm, in which the 3- flowered, sessile cymes are arranged in spikes or whorls at the ends of the branches and the bases of the upper leaves are usually connate. Of the 131 species of Chamecerasus, eight constitute a well-marked section, which Rehder has named Jsoxylostewm, to which L. syrin- gantha belongs. Unlike most species of Lonicera, those belonging to this section have the corolla perfectly regular, with a comparatively short, straight tube. ‘Two such species have already been figured in this work, namely: L. tomentella, Hook. f. & Thoms. (t- 6486), and L. ‘Alberti, Regel (t. 7394) ; the latter Rehder regards as a variety of L. spinosa, Jacquem. Both of them differ from DeceMBER Ist, 1904. the present plant in the shortness of their calyx-lobes, while the former has the lower part of the corolla-tube pilose outside, and the latter has linear, obtuse leaves, about an inch long. The plant here figured was received at Kew in 1894 from the St. Petersburg Botanic Gardens. It forms a compact bush, which has proved quite hardy, flowering freely in May, and ripening its fruit in July. Descr,—A much-branched shrub, about four feet high. Branches slender, quadrangular, glabrous. Leaves oval or ovate, obtuse, more rarely sub-acute, rounded or slichtly cordate at the base, largest nine lines long and four lines wide, glabrous; petioles slender, two lines long. lowers im pairs; peduncles four to six lines long; bracts lan- ceolate, shortly stalked, a little longer than the calyx ; bracteoles connate into a crenulate cup. Calyx three lines long; segments lanceolate, a little shorter than the tube. Corolla hypocrateriform, pale rose-coloured, pilose inside; tube four lines long; lobes oval, obtuse, three lines long. Anthers sub-sessile, apiculate, inserted just above the middle of the corolla-tube. Berries free, ovoid, four lines long, red.—C. H. W. right. Fig. 1, pair of flowers with corollas removed; 2, corolla laid open; 3 and 4, mes oan ®, transverse section of ovary; 6, branch with fruit :—all except 6 1S. .del,JN Firch ith 7990 Vincent Brooks Day&Son Limp Tas. 7990. xX. ODONTIODA VUYLSTEKER. Of Garden Origin. Nat. Ord. OrcurpacEx.—Tribe VANDEX. Opontiopa, genus inter Odontoglossum et Cochliodam hybridum. . Opontiopa Vuylstekee; psendobulbis ovoideis, foliis circiter 3 floribus co- eetaneis anguste lanceolatis acutis 6-9 poil. longis recurvis, scapo foliis breviore suberecto 6-floro, floribus circiter 2} poll. diametro, sepalis petalis similibus ovato-lanceolatis vix acutis leviter undulatis basi sanguineis supra medium albidis rubro-maculatis margine roseis, labello panduriformi petalis dimidio breviore basi aureo lobis lateralibus rotun- datis sanguineis lobo intermedio latiore rotundato sinuato albo sanguineo-maculato, polliniis non visis. Odontioda Vuylstekex, Gard. Chron. 1904, vol. i. p. 360, f.159. Orch. Rev. vol. xii. (1904), pp. 189, 209, f.34. Gard. Mag. 1904, p. 376, cum fig. Journ. Hort. 1904, vol. i. p. 487, cum fig. The Garden, vol. Ixy. (1904), p. 433, cum fig. Under tab. 7980 we gave some particulars of bigeneric orchids with references to the literature of the subject. Odontioda is recorded as the result of a cross between Odontoglossum nobile, Reichb. f., in “ Linnea,” vol, xxi. (1849), p. 850 (syn. OU. Pescatorei, Linden, ex Lindl. in Lindley & Paxton’s ‘‘ Flower Garden,” vol. ii. p. 83, t. 90), and Cochlioda Noetzliana, Rolfe (B. M. t. 7474), but it is not stated which was the seed parent. Judging from other crosses of a similar kind, we venture to suggest that it was the Odontoglosswm, the bulbs and leaves being very similar, and the flowers also, in shape. Indeed the only obvious feature derivable from the Cochlioda is the colour, But a writer in the ‘‘ Orchid Review” says: ‘ Beside the brilliant colour and partially adnate lip, there is a trace of connexity about all the segments which also shows the influence of the Cochlioda parent.” Odontioda was raised by Mr. Ch. Vuylsteke, of Loo- christi, Ghent, and he exhibited the spike of flowers at the ‘'emple Show, last May. It caused great excitement, and was the centre of attraction, and the judges marked their appreciation by awarding it a First-class Certificate and a silver-gilt Lindley medal. Miss Smith made a sketch of DecEMBER Ist, 1904. the ‘spike on the spot, and Mr. Vuylsteke gave us a flower, which has preserved its colour to a remarkable extent, and he subsequently furnished a photograph of the plant, so that we are able to give its habit. Judging from this it is a free-growing subject. We understood that a very high price was asked for it, and one gentleman told us that he had offered £200; but it did not change hands. Descr.—Plant about a foot high. Bulbs ovoid, bearing about three leaves at the same time as the flowers. Leaves narrow, lanceolate, acute, six to nine inches long, recurved. Tlower-spike shorter than the leaves, nearly erect, six-flowered. lowers about two inches and a half across. Sepals and petals similar, ovate-lanceolate, slightly undulate, crimson at the base, white above the middle, and spotted with red, pink around the margin. Lip fiddle-shaped, half the length of the petals, yellow at the base; lateral lobes rounded, crimson ; front lobe broader, rounded, waved, white, spotted with crimson.—W. B. H. Fig. 1, reduced representation of the plant of Odontioda Vuylstekex ; 2, a flower of Odontoglossum nobile; 3, a flower of Cochlioda Noetzliana :—both natural size, from plants exhibited with the hybrid. 7991 Cee poke Vincent Brooks Day& Son Lt* imp JN Fitch lith MS. Tas. 799%, TULIPA Baraxint. Native of Turkestan. | Nat. Ord. Lir1ace%.—Tribe TULIPEs. Genus Tuuira, Linn. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 818.) Turrrpa Batalini; herba glabra, bulbo globoso tunica papyracea apice intus fusco-lanata, caule 3-4 poll. alto, foliis caulinis circa 7 lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis usque ad 7 poll. longis et 6 lin. latis superioribus sensim minoribus, pedunculo unifloro 2-4} poll. longo, glabro, floribus pallide flavis, perianthii segmentis 1} poll. longis exterioribus oblongo-ovatis acutis interioribus late obovatis quam exterioribus minus acutis, fila- mentis 8 lin. longis glabris, antheris luteis, stigmate quam ovario paullo latiore. T. Batalini, Regel in Gartenfl. 1889, p. 506, t. 1307, fig. 2. Gard. Chron. 1889, vol. ii. p. 469 ; 1896, vol. i. p. 759, fig. 181. In 1876 Regel (Fl. Turkest. vol. i. p. 182) enumerated eleven species of Tulipa as native of Turkestan. Since then various collectors, stimulated by the desire of obtaining new hardy plants, have visited that region, and succeeded in adding several new species to Regel’s list, — amongst them the plant under consideration, which was discovered by the late Dr. Batalin, formerly Director of the Botanic Gardens, St. Petersburg. Bulbs were first received from St. Petersburg in 1888, and have flowered annually in April or May in the herbaceous ground at Kew, our figure having been made in May last. Tulipa is a very natural genus, and the species there- fore difficult of discrimination. This difficulty has been increased, both by the variation of the species under cultivation, and by the slight grounds on which specific names have been given for commercial purposes. The flowers here depicted are larger than those in Regel’s figures, and have anthers longer in proportion to the size of the filaments; but, considering the length of time the plant has been in cultivation, and that it is derived from material authentically named, we hesitate to apply to it a new name. It bears a certain amount of resemblance to 7. sylvestris, Linn. (B. M. t. 1202), which differs in having DEcEMBER Ist, 1904, the perianth greenish outside, and the filaments pilose towards the base. _ Deser.—A glabrous herb. Bulh globose; tunic thin, beset with brown hairs inside at the apex. Stem three to four inches high. Leaves cauline, about seven, linear- lanceolate, acuminate, the longest seven inches long and six lines wide, the upper gradually smaller. Peduncle one- flowered, two to four inches and a half long, glabrous. Flowers ‘pale yellow. Perianth-segments slightly unequal ; outer oblong-ovate, acute, an inch and a half long; inner broadly obovate, as long as, but less acute than the outer. Filaments three lines “long, glabrous; anthers -yellow. Stigma slightly wider than the ovary. =O. Hi Wright. Figs. 1 and 2, anthers; 3, pistil:—al/ enlarged. INDEX To Vol. LX. of the Turep Series, or Vol. CXXX. of the whole Work. 7982 Allium albopilosum. 7948 Aloe Baumii. 7935 Arethusa sinensis. 7947 Arundinaria Faleoneri. 7938 Bulbophyllum auricomum. 7958 ‘ Weddelii. 7959 Chamacdorea pulchella. 7955 Chlorea crispa. 7965 Chrysanthemum ornatum. 7939 Corydalis Wilsoni. 7949 Crossos ma californicum. 7950 Crotalaria capensis, 7984 Cryptostegia madagascarensis. 7988 Cydonia sinensis. 7932 Cymbidium rhodochilum, 7985 Dendrobium bellatulum. 7974 ae Williamsoni. 7954 Dicentra chrysantha. 7951 Dipodium pictum. 7973 Dyschoriste Hildebrandtii. 7952 Epipremnum giganteum. 7971 Euphorbia viperina. 7963 Geonoma gracilis. 7983 Helipterum splendidum. 7960 Impatiens Oliveri. 7986 Iris bismarckiana. 7956 ,, warleyensis. 7981 Jasminum primulinum, 7987 Kalanchoe Dyeri. i 7944 Kirengeschoma palmata. — 7977 Lonicera etrusca var. superba. 7989 e syringantha, 7979 Loropetalum chinense. 7937 Lysichitum camtschatcense. 7961 Lysimachia Henryi. 7953 Marsdenia Imthurnii. 7946 Megaclinium platyrhachis. 7941 Melaleuca uncinata. 7976 Morea Thomsoni. 7978 Mucuna sempervirens. 7990 Odontioda Vuylstekem. 7942 Oldenburgia arbuscula, 7936 Puassiflora vitifolia, 7966 Pitcairnia spathacea. 7934 Prostanthera denticulata. 7975 Pyrus Niedzwetzkyana. 7972 Rosa gigantea, 7940 Sauromatum brevipes. 7945 Solanum glaucophyllum. 7964 Spathaglottis Hardingiana. 7943 Tanakeea radicans. 7970 Teeoma shirensis. 7969 Thunbergia primulina. 7991 Tulipa Batalini, 7957 Tupistra Ciarkei. 7968 Vanda pumila 7962 Vellozia trichopbylla, 7967 Zingiber spectabile. 7980 Zygocolax Veitchii, NOTICE. 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