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By ALFRED FRYER, A.L.S. lustrated by ROB ERT "MORGAN, F, LS Pe ca mare work will be issued in 5 quarterly sections of 3 i dt Sana pee Prospectus on application, BAe HANDBOOK OF THE BRITISH FLORA: A Description of the Flowering Plants and Ferns Indigenous to or Naturalised in the British Isles. Br GEORGE BENTHAM, FRS “Zth Edition, Revised by Sir FD. Hooxer,C cB: G.C.S.1. »F.RS., &e. Qs.net. ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BRITISH oe ~ A Series of Wood Engravings, with Dissections, of British Han 2 Drawn BY W.H. FITCH, F.L.S., anp W.G. SMITH, F.L.S.- Forming an Illustrated Companion to Bentham’s “* Handbook,” and other Sebecors hess t Sth pas , ap 1eis Need ee. 9s. net. 7872 Vincent Brooks,Day & Son Itt Imp M.S.del, INFich ith L.Reeve & C®° London. Tas, 7872. RUELLIA MACRANTHA, Native of Brazil. Nat. Ord, Acantuace#.—Tribe RUELLIEZ. Genus Rueiua, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1077). RUELLIA macrantha; caule 4-6-pedali erecto ramoso, ramulis teretibus glabris v. pubescentibus, foliis 3-5-poll. longis breviter petiolatis ovato- v. oblongo-lanceolatis utrinque angustatis acutis v. acuminatis integerrimis v. repando-dentatis supra sub-strigillosis subtus molliter hispidulis nervis utringue costza 7-12 subtus prominulis, floribns axillaribus v. apices versus ramorum confertis v. subspicatim dispositis amplis sessilibus v. brevissime pedicellatis, bracteis 1-1} poll. longis lineari-oblongis obtusis, sepalis subzequalibus bracteas subzequantibns lineari-lanceolatis acumi- natis glabris, corolla lete roseo-purpuresw tubo 3 poll. longo infra medium gracili curvo subtorto dein infundibulari-campanulato costato, limbi 3-4 poll. diam. lobis 5 subequalibus patenti-recurvis ciliatis apice emarginatis 3-nerviis, nervulis transversis remotis, filamentis gracilibus subzquilongis inclusis inferne per paria connatis, autheris lineari-oblongis, ovario pilo- sulo, capsula 1-13 poll. longa tereti, valvis lignosis, seminibus orbiculari- bus complanatis anguste alatis. R. macrantha, Mart. ex Nees in Mart. Fl. Bras. vol. ix. p. 37. R. a Schott ex Nees in Mart. l.c. et in DC. Prodr. vol. xi. p. 118 (non ari.). Dipteracanthus macranthus, Nees in Mart. l.c.; in DC. lc. 117. This magnificent plant appears to have a wide range in Brazil, from the province of Minas to that of St. Paul, growing amongst other shrubs in shady places, Of when and how it was introduced into Europe I can find no trace, nor does it appear in any of the continental garden catalogues that I have referred to. It has been in Cultivation in the Royal Gardens, Kew, for many years, where it flowers in midwinter, and is then a very striking object. ee | A variety of it described by Nees (DC. Prodr. vol. xi, p. 118) as B magnifica (Ruellia magnifica, Mart. herb.), differs in being smaller in all its parts, and more glabrous. Nees describes its leaves as being more densely strigose; but in all the specimens in the Kew Herbarium they are almost glabrous. Descr.—A branching, soft-wooded shrub, four to six feet high; branches rather stout, obtusely quadrangular ; January Ist, 1909, branchlets glabrous or hairy. Leaves alternate, three to five inches long, variable in shape, from ovate to oblong- or elliptic-lanceolate, or narrowed at both ends, to lanceo- late, acuminate, quite entire to repand-crenate, more or less strigillose on the dark green upper surface, pale and _ sub-hispidly pubescent on the under, strongly seven- to nine-nerved, base narrowed into the short, often hairy petiole. Flowers very large, solitary, sub-sessile in the uppermost leaf axils, or fascicled, or sub-spicate in an elongate branchlet. Bracts two, sessile, linear-oblong, obtuse, acute, or rounded at the tip, an inch to an inch and a half long, green. Calyx about as long as the bracts, glabrous ; segments erect, linear-lanceolate, finely acumi- nate, strongly nerved, green. Corolla bright rose-purple ; tube three inches long, slightly decurved, slender, somewhat twisted in the lower half, above this inflated, between funnel- and bell-shaped, strongly many-ribbed, dilated above into a five-lobed limb three to four inches in diameter; lobes nearly equal, orbicular, spreading, and recurved, emarginate at the tip, strongly three-nerved, cross-nervules distant. Stamens four, filaments sub- equal, very slender, connate in pairs in the lower third ; anthers included, small, linear-oblong. Ovary narrow, terete, pubescent, narrowed into a very long, slender, glabrous style unequally bifid at the tip.—J. D. H. _ Fig. 1, bracts, calyx, and style; 2, portion of corolla with stamens; 3 and 4, anthers; 5, ovary :—adl enlarged. 7873 A: Fe hot ie SARE FO Mg PROSE a oe Vincent, Brooks,Day Son Lt?mp M S.del.J.N.Fitch ith L. Reeve & C° London TAB. Vou: MUSCARI PARADOXUM,. Native of Persia. Nat. Ord. Littrackz#.—Tribe Scie. Genus Muscant, Mill.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 811.) Muscarti (Bellevalia) paradorum; bulbo majusculo ovoideo 2-4-foliato, foliis 1-14-pedalibus 1-1 poll. latis lineari-loriformibus obtusiusculis basi vix angustatis scapum vaginantibus coriaceo-carnosis valde concavis dorso rotundatis enerviis marginibus subtiliter erosis, scapo robusto foliis multo breviore, racemo oblongo-cylindraceo densifloro, pedicellis cernuis flores subequantibus, perianthio saturate violaceo oblongo-campanulato 3 poll. longo, lobis rotundatis tubo triplo brevioribus concavis dorso incrassatis apicibus demum recurvis intus marginibusque viridibus, staminibus supra medium tubi insertis filamentis brevissimis, antherarum loculis atro- coeruleis, ovario late ovoideo in stylum brevem attenuato, capsule 3 poll. late erecta subgloboso ovoidex lobis ovoideis venosis dorso rotundatis 2-3-spermis, seminibus ovoideo-oblongis. were M. paradoxum, 0. Koch in Linnea, vol. xxii. (1849) p. 253. Ledeb. Fl. Ross. vol. iv. p. 153. Baker in Journ. Bot. vol. xii. (1874) p. 6. M. pycnanthum, Boiss. et Buhse in Nouv. Mém. Soc. Nat. Mosc. xii. (1869) p. 213, er parte, fide Boissier. - Bellevalia paradoxa, Boiss. F1. Orient. vol. v. p. 308. B. pseudo-museari, Boiss. et Buhse, Diagn. Plant. Orient. Ser. If. vol. iv. p- 110. Hyacinthus paradoxus, Fisch. et Mey. Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop.; (1835) p. 30. Schlecht. in Linnea, vol. x. (1836) Litt. Ber. p. 92. E Botryanthus ? paradoxus, Kunth Eawm. Pl. vol. iv. p. 312. The species of the genus Muscari are very difficult of discrimination and of recognition from descriptions alone. That here figured is well known under cultivation, and it agrees fairly well with the characters of Bellevalia paradoxa given by Boissier, which is founded on the Muscart paradozum of Koch, but I have seen no native specimens wherewith to confirm the identification, and the definition of its author is quite insufficient for that purpose. Mr. Baker, in the Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. xi., p. 482 (not subsequently in the Journal of Botany), unites with it M. montanum, Koch (which Boissier refers to another section of Bellevalia), and gives ‘as habitats Svria and Palestine; but M. paradovum is not included in Post’s Flora of these countries. Muscari paradoeum was discovered by ©, Koch in January Ist, 1903. the Russian (transcaucasian) province of Hriwan, which borders Persia on the north, and the Caspian Sea on the east. Boissier adds the province of Asterabad (Buhse), which is in Persia, on the opposite, south-eastern shores of the Caspian. The specimen figured flowered in the open air, in a south border, in the Royal Gardens, Kew, May, 1898. The species is one of the most handsome in the genus. Descr.—Bulb ovoid. Leaves two to four, twelve to eighteen inches long, by one to one and a quarter inches broad, loriform, sub-acute, thickly coriaceous, concave, dorsally rounded, nerveless, bases sheathing the base of the scape, margins minutely erose. Scape stout, much shorter than the leaves, Raceme oblong, dense-flowered ; bracts deltoid. Pedicels about as long as the flowers, decurved. Pertanth about one-third of an inch long, very dark violet-blue, oblong-campanulate; lobes about one- third the length of the tube, orbicular, dorsally thickened, margins ,green, at length spreading. Stamens inserted above the middle of the tube, included; filaments very short; anther-cells oblong, blue-black. Ovary broadly ovoid, suddenly contracted into a short style. Capsule trigonously globose, lobes dorsally rounded.—J. D. I1. Fig. I, flower; 2, segment of corolla with stamen; 3, stamens; 4, ovary; 5, portion of rachis of raceme with capsules; 6, seed; all but 5, enlarged ; 7, reduced views of two plants. 7874 BATS eet Nhe PEERS RPRMREC Cele I Cane a Pee iano De eee Getto keh M.S.el, JN Rtchith Vincent Broks.Day&SonLithnp L.Reeve & C? London Sie a Tas. 7874. CHRYSANTHEMUM inpicum. Native of China and Japan. Nat. Ord. Comrosira.—Tribe ANTHEMIDE®. Genus CurysantHEMuM, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook, f. Gen, Plant. vol. ii. p. 425.) CunysantHEMuM (Pyrethrum) indicum; caule gracili foliisque glabris v. pilis albis furcatis laxe sparsis, foliis petiolatis 2-3-poll. longis flaccidis ovatis oblongisve acutis pinnatifido- v. bipinnatifido-lobatis plus minusve irregulariter dentatis dentibus acutis, capitulis 1-2 poll. latis in corymbos terminales oligo- v. polycephalos dispositis, flosculis disci et radii aureis, pedunculis pedicellisque glabris v. pube appressa alba tomentosis, in volucri glabri hemispherici bracteis appressis interioribus scariosis medio her- baceis oblongis orbicularibusve apicibus rotundatis exterioribus breviori- bus obtusis acutisve, receptaculo hemisphzrico, fosculis radii longitudine disco capituli brevioribus v. paullo longioribus. C. indicum, Linn. Sp. Pl. (1753) 889, exel. syn. Sabine in Trans. Hort. Soe. vol. iv. (1821) p. 326, t. xii. xiii.; in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xiv. (1823) p- 144. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1287. Roxb. Fl. Ind. vol. iii. p.436. Bretschn. Early Hist. Europ. Res. Fl. China (1881) p. 158 et Hist. Europ. Bot. Discov. in China (1898), pp. 39, 85 et 132. Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol, xxiii. (1888) 437; in Gard. Chron. 1889, vol. ii. pp. 521, 555, 585, 652. Masters in Gard. Chron. 1900, vol. ii. p 340, fig. 106. Melville in Proc. Manchest. Liter. & Phil. Soc. Dec, 16th, 1901, p. xix. Henry in Gard. Chron. 1902, vol. i. p. 301, fig. 94. C. maderaspatanum, &c., Pluk. Almag. Bot. 1696, p. 101, t. 160, f. 6. C. procumbens, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. p. 499, ex Maxim. C. tripartitum, Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard. vol. ii. (1827) t. 103. C. Sabini, Lind/. in Bot. Reg. sub t, 1287. Dendranthema indica, Des Moul. in Act. Soc. Linn. Bordeaum, vol. xx. (1855), p- 561. Matricaria japonica, flore minore, &c., Breyne, Prodr. Fasc. Pl. Rar. (1688) p- 66. M. madraspatana, Petiv. Mus. Petiv. (1695) Cent. viii. p. 76, saltem pro parte. M. Chusan, &c., Petiv. in Phil. Trans. xxiii. (1703) p. 1421, Bretschn. Lc. ,-p. 54 et 158. M. sinensis flore minore, &c., Pluk. Amalth. Bot. (1705) p. 142, t. 430, f. 3. M. sinensis, &., Vaillant, Act. (1720) p. 285, ea Linn. et Sabine. M. zeylanica hortensis, &c., Linn. Fl. Zeyl. (1747) p. 198. M. indica, Ramatuelle in Journ. d’ Hist. Nat. vol. ii. (1792) p. 240. Pyrethrum indicum, Cass, in Dict. Se. Nat. vol. xliv. (1826) p. 149, DC. Prodr, vol. vi. p. 62. Maaim. Mél. Biol. viii. (1872) p. 516, exel. B plenum? Franch. & Sav. Enum. Pl. Jap. vol. 1. p. 230. Franch. Pl. David. vol. i. p. 157, var. lavandulefolium. Honzo Zufu, vol. xiii. t. 7 (9). Somoku Zusetsu, vol. xvii, t. 22 (29). P. lavandulefolium, Fisch. ex Trautv.in Act. Hort. Petrop. vol. i. (1871-2) p. 181. Janvuany Ist, 1903. Tanacetum indicum, Schultz. Bip. Tanacet. p. 50. Tijetti-pu, Rheede Hort. Mal. vol. x. (1690) p. 87, t. 44. The vegetable kingdom offers few instances of floral disguises more complete than those under which the two plants known to horticulturalists as the Indian Chrysan- themum masquerade. Until comparatively recently the wild forms of these two plants were not even approximately identified, and now that we have large series of specimens supposed to represent both, from China and Japan, their delimitation appears to me, after some study of them, to baffle description, so variable are they in habit, foliage, inflorescence, and pubescence. In the cultivated forms, on the other hand, there is less variety in habit and foliage, with no limit to vagaries assumed by the flower-heads, due to the suppres- sion of the disk florets in a greater or less degree, and their assuming, with more or less variation of form and colour, the characters of ray florets. On the other hand, it is, in very many cases, impossible to say to which of the two species a given cultivated garden specimen is refer- able, which may-be due, in part, to hybridization. The two recognized species are C. indicum, Linn. (partim), of which a very widely spread wild Chinese form is here represented, and C. morifolium, Ram. (C. sinense, Sabine. ‘Their distinctive characters, as given by Mr. Henry (Gard. Chron. l.c.), who has collected the plants in various parts of China, and studied them at Kew, are :— C. indicum; leaves thin, flaccid, pinnatipartite, serratures acute or mucro- nate; outer invol. bracts scarious, except the narrow herbaceous nerve; ligules yellow, shorter than the diameter of the disk.—China and Japan. C. morifolium; leaves thick, coriaceous, entire or slightly incised; outer invol. bracts short, linear, acute, densely albo-tomentose ; ligules white, longer than the diameter of the disk.—N, China, Mongolia, J apan. In a letter, Mr. Henry informs me that he recognized in China two states of C. indicum. 1, A graceful, small, delicate plant, growing in coniferous forests, at eight thousand five hundred feet elevation; 2, a large straggling, weedy, very fragrant plant, common in ditches and fields, on the banks of the Yangtze Kiang at Ichang. “The Chrysanthemum ” is the subject of an essay by Mr. W. B. Hemsley, published in the Gardeners’ Chronicle in 1389 (cited above) which is a model for the treatment of such a subject. He gives the early and later history of the two plants under their botanical and horticultural aspects, differentiating them much as Mr. Henry has since done, but apparently restricting the wild C. morifolium to narrower geographical limits, though these include the Luchu Islands for a typical form. He also gives a very full synonymy and list of references to works in which the Species are described, figured, or noticed. This latter appears to me to be so judiciously compiled that I have not hesitated to copy it for C, indicum, adding to it a very few later and omitted references. It is much to be desired that a series of plates illus- trating the forms of these Chrysanthemums as contained in the Kew Herbarium should be published, for by no other means could they be recognized. It remains to add that the two figures entitled C. indicum on tabs. 327 and 2042 of this work are both referable to C. morifolium, Ram., and that C. indicum in a wild state is common from Canton and Hong Kong to Pekin, and in Manchuria. The specimen here figured is from a plant raised in a greenhouse of the Royal Gardens, Kew, from seed pre- sented by Col. Birch, of Rickmansworth. They were collected by Mr. Grant Birch in the Yangtze Valley above the rapids. They differ from the specimen of C. indicum figured in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, in having larger flower- heads, and in wanting the orbicular three-lobed stipules.— J DH, 2 Fig. 1, forked hairs from the stem; 2, ray-floret ; 3, disk-floret ; 4, stamens: —all enlarged, 7875 Vincent Brooks Day &San Ltt Imp L Reeve & C? London. Tas. 7875. ALLIUM Ezrism. Native of Khorasan. Nat. Ord. Litiace#.—Tribe ALLIER. Genus Auuium, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 802.) Axium (Melanocrommyon) Ellisit ; bulbo magno globoso, foliis 4-5 patenti- revolutis pedalibus 24 poll. latis linearibus lineari-oblongisve acutis pallide glauco-viridibus fere planis nervis obscuris, scapo dali crasso 3 poll. diam. viridi basi tantum folioso, spathz valvis deltoideo-ovatis acumi- natis membranaceis ad 14 poll. longis, floribus 13 poll. diam. in capitulum 5 poll. diam. oblato-sphericum dense congestis, pedicellis subequilongis flore subduplo longioribus, perianthii rosei basi intus albi segmentis ovato- lanceolatis acuminatis fructiferis rigidis erectis, filamentis crassiusculis rubro-purpureis perianthio triente brevioribus basi abrupte dilatatis subglo- boso, antheris majusculis oblongis fusco-cceruleis, ovario breviter stipitato globoso, loculis pluriovulatis, stylo filamentis subwquilongo, capsula parva depresso-globosa perianthii segmentis_bis-terve breviore, loculis dorso rotundatis 1-spermis, seminibus subreniformi-oblongis rotundatisve ad ;'5 poll. longis, testa atra rugosa. Allium Ellisti is a very handsome species, resembling, in some respects of foliage, stoutness of scape and dense- flowered, globose umbel A. Karataviense, Regel, of Tur- kestan, t. 6451, which is a normally two-leaved species, with much smaller, paler flowers, narrower, flaccid perianth-segments, which are spreading or reflexed in fruit, and a much larger capsule. My friend, Dr. Stapf, whose travels in Persia and knowledge of the Oriental flora are so well known, has carefully examined A. Hilisii, and informs me that it belongs to the same group as A. caspium, Bieb. t. 4598, A. brahuicum, Boiss., A. Schubert, Zuce., t. 7587-8, and A. Bodeanum, Regel, all oriental species, with the perianth-segments erect in fruit ; and that it is most nearly allied to the last of these. From the first three, the shorter pedicels and dense-fld. umbels at once distinguishes B. Hllisii, from which A. Bodeanum differs (according to the description in Boissier’s “ Flora Orientalis””) in the much narrower perianth-segments, which are white, with a slender pink midrib, and in the shorter stamens only half the length of the perianth, with ihe filaments sub-biauricled at the base. In the few capsules of A. Ellisii which I have examined, the cells are Januaky Ist, 1900. one-seeded. The black, rugose seeds closely resemble those of A. Karataviense. A, Ellisti flowered in July, 1900, and again in 1902 in the garden of the Hon. Charles Ellis, of Frensham Hall, Haslemere, who informs me that the bulb came from a collector sent out for him from Meshed, by the late Mr. Ney Hlias. Descr.—Bulb globose. Leaves four to five, basal, a foot long by two and a half inches broad, spreading and revo- lute, linear-oblong, acute, nearly flat, glaucous green. Scape a foot high, very stout, two-thirds of an inch in diameter, green, bearing a depressed-globose compact head of bright rose-coloured flowers five inches in diameter. Spathes an inch and a half long, deltoidly ovate, acuminate, membranous. Pedicels nearly equal in length, about an inch and a half long. Perianth-seqments. widely spreading, half an inch long or more, ovate-lanceo- late, acuminate, white towards the base, stiff and erect in fruit. Stamens one-third shorter than the perianth ; fila- ments red, swollen and sub-globose at the base; anthers linear-oblong, brownish blue. Capsule very small, not half the length of the perianth-segments; depressed- globose ; cells one-seeded. Sceds black, rugose.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, stamen and pistil; 2, pistil; 3, fruiting perianth; 4 and 5, seeds; all except 3 and 4, enlarged. 7876 Vincent Bro oks Day & Son Lt&imp L. Reeve C° London Tas. 7876. DIERVILLA Mippenporrriana. Native of Mongolia, Manchuria, and Japan. Nat. Ord. Caprirotiace#.—Tribe LonIcERE. Genus Drervitna, Tourn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 6.) Diervitna Middendorfiana ; frutex ramosus, glabes, ramulis robustis, cortice atro-fusco, foliis breviter petiolatis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis argute serratis basi rotundatis supra lete viridibus reticulatim rugosis subtus’ pallidis nervis utrinque costz 6-8 nervulisque subtus prominulis, cymis, breviter pedunculatis multifloris, floribus confertis subsessilibus, bracteis subulatis, calycis pollicaris tubo glaberrimo, limbi labiis ciliatis recurvis, superiore oblongo 3-fido lobis lanceolatis, inferiore bipartito segmentis linearibus cuspidatis, corolle primulinw tubo incurvo basi cylindraceo intus hirsuto, limbo campanulato lobis rotundatis antico fauceque punctis aurantiacis consperso, disci glandula rotundata pubescente, antheris cohaerentibus glanduloso-pilosis, capsula ad 1} poll. longa anguste oblonga, cylindracea, seminibus lanceolatis basi et apice longe alatis. D. Middendorfiana, Carr. in Rev. Hortic. Sér. TV. vol. ii. (1853) p. 806 ; vol. iii. (1854) p. 261, t. 14. Van Houtte, Fl. des Serres, vol. xi. (1856) t. 1137. Gard. Chron. 1890, vol. i. p. 581, fig. 94. .Wawim. in Mél. Biol. vol. xii. p. 482. 8S. Moore in Journ. Bot. vol. xvi. (1878) p. 129. (var. Maximoviczii). - Calyptrostigma Middendorfiianum, Jrautv. & Mey. in Middend. Reise Fi. Ochot. (1847) p. 46, tt. 25 a, b. . Regel § Tiling. Fl. Ajan. p. 100. Regel, Gartenfl. 1857, p. 3, t. 183. Maxim. Prim Fl. Amur. p. 135; in Mél. - Biol. vol. xii. p. 482. F. Schmidt, Reis. Amurl. (1868) p. 142. Wagneria Middendorfiana, Lemaire in Ill. Hortic. vol. iv. (1857) sub t. 115. Weigela Middendorfiana, Hort. ex Carr. in Rev. Hortic. Sér. LY. vol. ii. (1853) p. 306. Lemaire in Ill. Hortic. vol. iv. (1857) t. 115; vol. xiii. (1866) t. 495 (var. purpurata). Except in the curiously wrinkled leaves and colour of the corolla, Diervilla Middendorfiana resembles D. jlorida, Sieb. & Zucc. (Weigela rosea, Lindl. t. 4396), to which species Mr. Hemsley (Journ. Linn. Soc. xxiii. 368) rightly, I think, refers D. amabilis, Carr. (W. amabilis, Hort. t. 4893). D. Middendorffiana is the only Old World yellow- flowered species, in which respect it resembles its two New World congeners, D. trifida, Moench. (t. 1796, D. humilis, Pers.), and D. sessilifolia, Buckle, both natives of Eastern N. America. It is named after Alexander 'heodor von Middendorff, whose travels in Northern and Eastern Siberia, in 1843-4, were published in St. Peters- burgh in 1847-56. According to Carritre it was intro- duced into Hurope in 1850, and found to be difficult of January Ist, 1903. cultivation. More recently it has been found in the Amur district, and in the Island of Saghalien, by the late Mr. Maries in the central mountains of Nipon, at elevations of two thousand feet to seven thousand feet. 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Plant. vol. iii. p. 679.) = SANSEVIERIA grandis; acaulis, radicibus crassis, foliis amplis planis rosulatis ineequilongis sessilibus patulis, majoribus 3-4~pedalibus obovato-oblongis 6 poll. latis rigide coriaceis acutis v. apiculatis utringue luride viridibus fasciis saturatioribus transversis ornatis, marginibus anguste cartilagineis rubro-brunneis, scapo erecto 2-pedali robusto stricto viridi vaginis paucis lanceolatis coriaceis instructo, panicula spicwformi tripedali erecta stricta dense multiflora, rachi crassiti digiti minoris viridi, bracteis minutis - triangularibus acutis scariosis trifloris, floribus sessilibus v. breviter pedi- — cellatis fere 2 poll. longis albis, perianthii tubo limbo paullo breviore basi dilatato ovoidee, limbi segméntjs pollicaribus linearibus subacutis 1-nerviis, filamentis segmentis perianthii equilongis filiformibus, antheris lineari-oblongis loculis contiguis, ovario oblongo tereti, stylo staminibus - longiore, stigmate capitellato. : _ §. grandis, Hook. f. This very noble species of “ Bowstring hemp” was pre- sented to the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1896, by the Royal Botanic Society, Regent’s Park, who received it from Dr. Heath, F.L.S., of Ebury Street, London. Referring to that gentleman, he told me that roots of it were given to him by a Cuban merchant, who informed him that the > plants had been introduced into Cuba by a company formed to grow it for its fibre, and that the company had failed, owing to the cultivation of the plant not having been earried out in a practical manner. ‘The fibre, he adds, is _ fine, white, silky, and is of extraordinary strength, far exceeding any other, a few strands of it being sufficient’ ~ to hang a man. . Referring to the Kew Museum of Economic Botany, I was informed by Mr. Hillier that in the Cuban Catalogue of textile materials in the Paris Exhibition of 1900, there is the following brief allusion to what is, no doubt, 8. grandis, “Il y a d’autres plantes textiles, comme la Lengua de Vaca, Sansevieria sp.” The term, Cow’s tongue, appears to be appropriate to the form of the leaf of this species. Fepruaky Ist, 1903, Regarding the value of the fibre, a specimen of rope made from it, given me by Dr. Heath, was submitted by the Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew, to Messrs. Ide & Christie, Fibre Brokers, of 72, Mark Lane, E.C., who report that ‘it is a good class fibre, much liked; its value to-day (September, 1902) is 357. per ton; but that it is not a regular article of commerce, only odd sample bales having been received in this country. The plant thrives in Cuba, but money is wanted to develop the industry,” It remains to add that its native country, though un- known, may be presumed to be tropical Africa, whence ten species have been described, of which six, including the present, have been figured in this Magazine. : S. grandis forms a strong tuft in a bed in the Temperate House, where it flowered for the first time in July, 1901, and again in 1902, Descr.—Stem 0. Leaves few, very large, rosulate, sessile, unequal-sized, the largest three to four feet long, by six inches or more broad, spreading, obovate-oblong, acute or mucronate, rigidly coriaceous, flat, dull green, crossed by broad bands of much darker green on both surfaces, margin with a very narrow, red-brown, cartilaginous border. Scape about two feet high, stout, green, bearing a few, distant, narrow, lanceolate sheaths. Panicle two to three feet high, erect, narrow, spiciform, dense-flowered. Bracts minute, ovate, acuminate, scarious, three-flowered. Flowers sessile, or very shortly pedicelled, erect, about two inches long, pure white. Perianth-tube cylindric, inflated at the base; segments about as long as the tube, linear, sub-acute, dorsally costate. Stamens as long as the perianth-segments. Anthers linear-oblong. Style slender, stigma minute, capitate.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, flower; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, ovary :—all enlarged. 7878 AAA DAC AVA pa Se: v eee sey Siew a Sey Be eS pg eth Vincent Brooks ,Day & Son LttImp MS.del JN Fitch lth Tap. 7878. IMPATIENS Barrourt. Nutive of the North Western Himalaya. Nat. Ord. GERaNIACE&.—Tribe BALSAMINER, Genus Impatiens, Linn.; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 277.) Impatiens Balfourit ; herbacea, glaberrima, caule ramoso ramis obtuse 4-gonis, foliis 3-5-pollicaribus breviter petiolatis ovato-lanceolatis longe acuminatis argute serrulatis dentibus recurvis minatis basin versus folii majoribus pallide viridibus, nervis utrinque cost# ad 8-10 nervulis transversis striolatis, petiolo eglanduloso, glandulis stipularibus pulvinatis, pedan- culis apices versus ramulorum subumbellatim laxe confertis gracilibus 3-4-pollicaribus roseis, racemis brevibus terminalibus simplicibus 6-8-floris, bracteis 2-} poll. longis ovato-lanceolatis caducis, pedicellis alternis gracillimis poll. longis, floribus majusculis pallide roseis, sepalis 2 orbiculari-ovatis mucronatis 3-3 in. diam., vexillo orbiculari 3-% in. diam. reflexo pallido, carina paullo incrassata rosea, alis patulis }-1} poll. longis lobo basilari oblongo pallide aureo, terminali multo majore late dolabri- formi apice rotundato lete roseo, labello 1-1j-pollicari1 campanulato in cornu lento incurvum apice obtusum sensim attenuato, capsulis erectis 1-14 poll. Jongis linearibus pentagonis viridibus angulis rubris oligospermis, seminibus oblongis 4-4 poll. longis, testa crassiuscula striolato-punctulata. I. Balfourii, Hook. 7. The beautiful Balsam here figured was raised from seed sent by Mr. Duthie, F.L.S., Director of the Botanical Department, Northern India, to the Royal Botanic Gardens of Edinburgh, with no precise habitat attached, but no doubt collected in the Western Himalaya, the forests of which swarm with its congeners. It is referable to Series B in the tentative arrangement of Indian Balsams adopted in the “ Flora of British India,” but does not fit into any of the five groups of that Series. As, however, these will all undergo great modifications in a further study of the genus upon which I am now engaged, it would be premature to do more than indicate the salient characters of J. Balfowrii. These are the alternate, never whorled or opposite leaves, their very minute, recurved marginal teeth, short, naked petioles, the large flowers in very short, terminal racemes, the very slender pedicels of which are never interruptedly placed, or clustered whorled or umbellate, and the erect capsules. Of the flower the most marked character is the large, horn-like curved spur of the lip. This would be regarded as a distinguishing Fesrvanry Ist, 1203, character, had it not been that with the specimen sent me by Dr. Balfour, there came raised from the same packet of seeds an altogether similar plant, except that the lip is suddenly produced into an incurved spur of a totally different character, and so slender that I at once named it (whether specifically or as a variety) leptokentron. Further materials are required before deciding which alternative should be adopted. J. Balfourii flowered in the Royal Gardens, Edinburgh, in September and October, 1901. | Descr.—A perfectly glabrous, branching herb, two to three feet high; branches obtusely angled. Leaves three to five inches long, shortly petioled, ovate-lanceolate, almost caudate-acuminate, minutely serrulate with recurved teeth, basal serratures longer and straighter, but eglandular, — base rounded or cuneate, pale green above, with eight to ten nerves on each side of the midrib, striolate by trans- verse close-set nervules; petiole eglandular; stipular — glands pulvinate. Peduwncles loosely crowded in the upper- most leaf-axils, forming a subumbelliform cluster, three to _ four inches long, very slender. Iacemes very short, at the end of the peduncles, simple, six to eight fld. Bracts about a fifth of an inch long, ovate-lanceolate. Pedicels very slender, one half to one inch long. Sepals 2, nearly orbicular, mucronate, about one-fifth of an inch broad. Standard orbicular, reflexed, white, suffused with rose; keel red, slightly thickened. Wings one to one and a quarter inch long, basal lobe oblong, pale yellow ; terminal much larger, broadly hatchet-shaped, bright rose, tip rounded. Lip an inch to an inch and a quarter long, campanulate, gradually narrowed into a horn-like, some- what incurved, obtuse horn, with a thickened tip. Cap- sules erect, linear, one to-one and a half inch long, five- angled, the angles red, few-seeded. Seeds oblong, testa thick, punctulate.—J. D. H. : Fig. 1, portion of stem and stipulary glands ; 2, serratures of leaf; 3, sepal; 4, lip; 5, wing; 6, seed :—al enlarged, -MS.del, INFitch itn Tas. 7879. ACIDANTHERA canpipa. Native of Fast Tropical Africa. Nat. Ord. In1ipEa.—Tribe xm. Genus ActwantuERA, Hochst.; (Benth § Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 706.) AcipantHera candida; herba gracilis, glaberrima, cormo globoso, caule sim- plici 2-8-foliato 2-4-floro basi vaginato, foliis linearibus acuminatis 1-14 pedahbus } poll. latis rigidis costa prominula nervis obscuris, spatha exteriore 24 poll. longa lanceolata herbacea, floribus albis odoriferis, perianthii tubo fere recto gracili 3}-pollicari, limbi 2 poll. diam. segmentis 12 poll. longis, ovato-rotundatis subacutis obtusisve, filamentis brevibus, antheris 3 poll. longis rectis, connectivo dorso ruguloso in appendicem validam puberulam conico-subulatam producto, stigmatis ramis magnis spathulatis fimbriatis patenti-recurvis. A. candida, Rendle in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. vol. xxx. (1895) p. 404. Acidanthera candida is described by Dr. Rendle, F.L.S., as a native of woodless, undulating grassy steppes at Lanjoro, in the Athi plains, Eastern tropical Africa, — where it was discovered in 1893 by Prof. J. W. Gregory, F.R.S., of the Geological Department of the British Museum (now of Melbourne University). Its nearest affinity is, he says, with A. lawiflora, Baker (‘* Handbook of Iridex,” p. 188) a native of the slopes of Kiliman- jaro, from which it differs in its more robust habit, firm, narrow, linear leaves, its more linear outer spathe-valve, and broad, pure White perianth-segments. The genus Acidanthera consists of about eighteen species, chiefly natives of the hilly regions of tropical Eastern Africa. It is almost too closely allied to Tritonia, - through A. capensis, Benth. Two species only have pre- - viously been figured in this work : A, xquinoctialis, Baker, of Abyssinia, t. 7393, and A. capensis, Benth., of the Cape Colony (Tritonia capensis, Ker), t. 618 and 1581. , ~ The Royal Gardens, Kew, are indebted to J. T. Bennett Poé, Esq., of Ashley Place, London, for the plant of © A. candida here figured, which flowered in the Cape House ~ in April, 1902. ~ Descr.—A slender, erect, glabrous, leafy herb. Corm globose. Stem a foot to a foot and a half high, slender, Frprvary lst, 1900. i green, two- to three-leaved, sheathed at the base, three- to four-flowered. Leaves sheathing at the base, a foot to a foot and a half long by half an inch broad, linear, acuminate, ‘rigid, bright green, midrib prominent on both surfaces, lateral nerves none or very obscure. Outer spathe two and a half inches long, lanceolate, acuminate, convolute, herba- ceous. flowers white, very sweet-scented. Perianth-tube three and a half inches long, slender, nearly straight ; segments of limb orbicular-ovate, obtuse or sub-acute. Filaments short; anthers half an inch long, linear, con- nective dorsally thickened, rugose, produced into an erect, stout, subulate, puberulous appendage. Stigmatie arms large, spathulate, fimbriate, spreading, and recurved,— . Figs. 1 and 2, stamens; 3, stigma :—both enlarged. 80 ) ’y di —S Son Tet Tap nt. Brooks Day & Reeve & C° london i a, Tap. 7880. ASTILBE Davipu. Native of China, &c. Nat. Ord. SaxirraGacE#.—Tribe SaXxIFRAGE. Genus AstTILBE, Buch.-Ham. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 634.) Asti1BE Davidii; herba elata, caule tereti levi paucifoliato, foliis radicali- bus rosulatis stipulatis, caulinis distantibus longe graciliterque petiolatis ternatim pinnatis, pinnis lateralibus oppositis longe petiolulatis 3-5- foliolatis, pinnulis lateralibus oppositis sessilibus papyraceis 1} poll. longis ovatis oblongisve acutis grosse sepe inzqualiter argute serratis dentibus cuspidatis sapra lete viridibus, terminali petiolulata duplo majore basi acuta v. rotundata simplici v. triloba, panicula terminali valde elongata angusta, rachi ramisque fusco-tomentosis, ramis simplici- bus 2-4 poll. longis erecto-patentibus spiciformibus fere a basi densi- floris, bracteis ad basin ramorum }-3 poll. longis lanceolatis membranaceis, floribus parvis lete roseis secus rachin ramorum in glomerulos parvos dispositis sessilibus bracteolis 2 subulatis, calycis puberuli turbinati lobis ovato-oblongis obtusis, petalis loriformibus obtusis calycis lobis 4-plo longioribus apicibus neutiquam dilatatis, staminibus 10 petalis brevioribns, filamentis violaceis, antheris subglobosis atro-violaceis, ovarii conici carpellis basi c»nnatis in stylos subulatos attenuatis. A. Davidii, Henry in Gard. Chron. 1902, vol. ii. p. 95, tig. 34. A. chinensis, var. Davidi, Franch. Pl. David. p, 121. Henry le. The Garden, vol. xii. p. 179, eum ite. This beautiful plant has been referred by that excellent botanist, the late Mr. Franchet, to a variety, Davidi, of Astilbe chinensis, Maximowicz, a species described as having a yellowish calyx, with acute lobes and white petals dilated at the apex, founding the variety on the vinous colour of the inflorescence, and uniformly linear petals. In so doing _ he has overlooked the very long, narrow panicle, with long, sub-erect branches regularly diminishing in ‘length up- wards, which is a marked character of this plant. Taken together, these differences induced Mr. Henry, when describing and figuring it in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, under the name given by Franchet, to adopt that of Davidii as the specific name. } A, Davidii appears to have a wide range in China, growing in shaded places and by water-courses. There are specimens in the Kew Herbarium collected in Manchuria by Wilford in Mongolia, by Pére David, near Peking, Fexpruary lst, 1903, by Bretschneider, in Kansu by Potanin, and a fine series in Hupeh, by Henry. The specimen figured, which was six feet in height, was communicated by Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons from their garden at Coombe Wood in August, 1902. It was raised from seed sent home by their collector, Mr. E. H. Wilson. : Desev.—Stem with inflorescence four to six feet high, stout, terete, smooth, glabrous. Leaves ternately pinnate or bipinnate, radical rosulate, petioles long, very slender, lower pinne opposite, petiolulate, bearing one or two rather distant pairs of pinnules, and a_ petiolulate simple or three-lobed terminal one; pinnules an inch to an inch and a half long, opposite, sessile, oblons or ovate, acute, coarsely unequally acutely serrate, papyraceous, bright green above, paler beneath, base — acute or rounded, terminal pinnule usually twice as large as the lateral, and more deeply toothed, base acute. Panicle two feet long, narrow, inclined; rachis brown, tomentose; branches very many, alternate, sub-erect, spiciform, lower four to five inches long, upper gradually shorter, clothed nearly to the base with crowded globose fascicles of minute, bright rose-pink, sessile flowers, rachis tomentose; bracts at the base of the branches membra- nous, lanceolate, acuminate, half an inch long; bracteoles — at the base of the flowers minute, subulate. Calyx one-— sixth of an inch long and broad, turbinate, puberulous, lobes oblong-ovate, obtuse. Petals four times as long as the calyx-lobes, exactly linear, very slender, one-nerved. Stamens shorter than the petals, minute, filaments violet- blue; anthers dark blue. Pistil of two conical, carpels connate at the base, each narrowed into an erect style.— —J, D. H. Fig. 1, Flower and bracteoles ; 2, stamen ; 3, pistil:—all enlurged. 881 “Vincent Brooks,Day & Son Ltt Lap M.S.del. J.NFitch lith. Ti Reeve & CC? Leadon Tas. 7881. RHODODENDRON BRACHYOARPUM. Native of Japan. Nat. Ord. Ericea.—RHODORER. Genus RuopopenpRon, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 592.) =. RuoDODENDRON (Eurhododendron) brachycarpum ; frutex 8-10-pedalis eglandu- losus, ramis ramulisque robustis glabris novellis pubescentibus, foliis 46 poll. longis coriaceis oblongis lineari-oblongisve obtusis apiculatisve basi cuneatis v. rotundatis supra glabris saturate viridibus subtus glabris v. tomento brunneo appresso laxe v. dense stellatim-pubescentibus, nervis 10-15 utrinque coste tenuibus, petiolo robusto brevi, corymbo terminali globoso sessili multi-densifloro, bracteis ovato-rotundatis acuminatis crasse coriaceis glabris, pedicellis 1-2-pollicaribus, calyce brevissimo cupulari puberulo obtuse 5-dentato, corolla infundibulari-campanulata 5-loba, tubo brevi, limbo ad 2 poll. lato, lobis orbicularibus patenti-recurvis apicibus retusis medio roseo-tinctis, 3 superioribus infra medium punctis majusculis fulvis conspersis, staminibus 10 filamentis basi pilosis, antheris fs is brevibus flavis, ovario 5-loculari pubescente, stylo staminibus reviore crassiusculo apice truncato cavo stigmatoso, capsula 3-2 poll. longa wre lignosa, seminibus ;; poll. longis testa utrinque inaqualiter pro- ucta. | RB. brachycarpum, D. Don, ex G. Don, Gen, Syst. Gard, vol. iii. p. 843. DC. Prodr. vol. vii. p. 723. A. Gray in Mem, Am. Acad. Arts & Se. Bost. vol. vi. (1859) p. 400. Franch. & Sav. Enum. Pl. Jap. vol. i. p. 288. Maxim. Rhod. As. Or. p. 22. Though apparently unknown to Kempfer and Thun- berg, Rhododendron brachycarpum is a widely distributed shrub in the mountain districts of Northern and Central Japan, covering, according to Franchet, vast tracts of Fusi- yama, above the forest region. It varies greatly in the amount of. brown tomentum on the under-surface of the leaves, which are sometimes perfectly glabrous. Probably the colour of the corolla also varies ; the bright rose-pink blush in the middle line of the lobes, becoming deeper towards the tip, may spread over the whole corolla, as it does in a Japanese figure of a plant that may be a variety of this. The name brachycarpum is an unfortunate one, as the figure (6) representing the normal size of the capsule shows; there are, however, specimens in the Kew Her- barium with the capsule less than half an inch in length. Seed of R. brachycarpum, sent by the Imperial Botanic Gardens of St. Petersburgh in 1895, to the Royal Gardens, Kew, produced plants which flowered in the Arboretum at Fesrvarky Ist, 1903. Kew in June, 1902, from which the accompanying plate was made. Descr—A large, very robust shrub, six to ten feet high; branches and branchlets glabrous, or pubescent when young. Leaves four to six inches long, shortly petioled, oblong or linear-oblong, obtuse or apiculate, base cuneate or rounded, dark green and glabrous above, with a stout midrib and ten to fifteen pairs of very slender, arched nerves, beneath glabrous, or clothed laxly or densely with a closely appressed brown tomentum of stellate hairs ; petiole very stout. 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A A Systematic Deseription of the ‘Planta ‘of f the Ca Ss Cole ony, Caffraria, Botany in the Now reeey, Part Ss i (from Java?), which differs only in the rather longer corolla tube. _ Deser—A sparingly branched shrub, about three feet high, with very stout, terete, glabrous, fistular stems, and white bark; internodes swollen, hollow. Leaves opposite and alternate, a foot long, linear-oblong, acute or obtuse, dark green polished, base acute, obtuse or cordate, costa stout, with about twelve pairs of nerves; petiole short, stout, fistular. Panicle terminal, shortly peduncled, a foot high, pyramidal, very many-flowered, pubescent ; rachis green, strict ; branches very many, many-flowered, slender, spreading, red-brown, as are the small, subu- late bracteoles, short pedicels, and lobes of the calyx. Calyx puberulous, about one-third of an inch long; tube short, green; lobes lanceolate, acuminate, erect. Corolla ochreous-red ; tube about one-third longer than the calyx; lobes half an inch long, obovate-oblong, tips rounded. Filaments an inch long, very slender, ascending, red ; anthers very smal]. Ovary globose; style as long as the stamens, red, arms slender. Berry globose, a quarter of an inch in diameter. black.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, section of calyx and ovary; 2 and 3, anthers; 4, arms of style :—all enlarged. = 7888 “Bneent Broole: Day & Son Lt@imp ‘Fitch lth ‘T \ Sel ID r \ Gee, Pees Sa enya nae Tas. 7888. EKUPHORBIA oprsa,. Native of South Africa, Nat. Ord. Eurpporsiacka#.—Tribe EvPHORBIER. Genus Evrnorsia, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Flant. vol. ii. p. 258.) Evrvorsia (Euphorbium) obesa; aphylla, caule simplici erecto 5 poll. alto oblongo-ovoideo 8-costato apice et basi rotundato pallide viridi striis transversis pallide purpnreis creberrime fasciato, sulcis verticalibus ad 1} poll. latis haud profundis sinibus acutis, costis acutis a basi creberrime tuberculatis, tuberculis uniseriatis rugulosis brunneis supremis solo florentibus, pedunculis vix ,, poll. longis simplicibus monocephalis bracteis 5-6 arcte imbricatis obtusis carnosis tectis infimis ovatis 3 supremis (foliis floralibus) longioribus involucri tubum squantibus ciliolatis, involucro sessili ad 5 poll. longo campanulato fundo glandulis numerosis minimis instructo, lobis 5 minutis brevibus latis incurvis hispi- dulis, glandulis interpositis lobis triplo majoribus orbicularibus carnosis integerrimis punctatis, filamentis anantheris hirsutis, ovario breviter stipitato, stylo breviusculo robusto, stigmatibus spathulatis revolutis. E. obesa, Hook. fil. The very remarkable plant here figured was sent to the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1897, by Professor MacOwan, D.Sc., F.L.S., Government Botanist, Cape Colony, under the name of Euphorbia meloformis, Ait., which is its nearest but very different ally. It flowered for the first time in July in the Succulent House in 1899, when the ac- companying figure was made, and the ovary was pollinated from E. meloformis. Subsequently this unique plant dis- appeared from the Kew Collection, and I am consequently unable to check the description given above, which was, _ for the most part, drawn up shortly after the drawing was finished. Possibly its illustration in this Magazine may lead to the discovery of its whereabouts. _ A reference to any of the six published figures of the well-known FH. meloformis, which was introduced in 1774, shows that it differs greatly in inflorescence from E. obesa, bearing its involucres on long, simple, or branched peduncles. Descr—Whole plant five inches high, obovoid-oblong, simple, erect, rounded at both ends, pale green, crossed with bands of innumerable pale purple striz, eight-ribbed ; Apri Ist, 1903. ribs vertical, straight, sub-acute, an inch and a half apart at about the middle of the stem, closely covered with minute, brown, rugulose tubercles in a single series; sinus between the ribs shallow, acute at the base. JInvolucres solitary on the tubercles at the crown of the plant, very shortly peduncled ; peduncle about one-tenth of an inch long, covered with obtuse, imbricating, fleshy, ciliolate bracts, the three upper longest. Involucre about as long as the peduncle, campanulate ; lobes five, minute, short, broad, incurved, hispid; interposed glands three times as large, orbicular, fleshy, quite entire, punctate. Filaments anantherous, hirsute. Ovary nearly sessile. Style rather short, stout ; stigmas large, revolute.—J. D. H Fig. J, inflorescence; 2, involucre laid open with the ovary removed; 3, filaments and glands from the base of the tube of the involucre; 4, filaments — and glands at the bottom of the involucre; 5, ovary :—all enlarged. 3 i @& Ey A i 5 : in Seer RT, SPE, FO . Semae eee SS Tas. 7889. IRIS Couerri. ; Native of Burma. Nat. Ord. In1pEz.—Tribe MoraEX. Genus Iris, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 686.) Iris (Evansia) Collettii; dense caspitosa, radicibus crassis vermiformibus _ annulatis, vaginis infimis fibrosis, foliis lineari-ensiformibus caule demum multo longioribus rigidis alte 5-costatis acuminatis saturate viridibus, caulibus 3-4-pollicaribus nudis 1-2-cephalis, spathis oP a anguste lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis unifloris viridibus, pedunculo spathis paullo longiore, perianthii tubo brevi, limbi ad 1} poll. lati segmentis omnibus recurvis obovato-spathulatis violaceis basin versus albo striatis apice retusis exterioribus paullo majoribus crista imberbi angusta ochro- leuca instructis, styli ramis erectis crista ampla fere orbiculari bipartita, segmentis dimidiato-ovatis acutis integerrimis. I. Collettii, Hook. f. . I. nepalensis, D. Don, forma depauperata, Collett § Hemsl. in Journ. Linn, Soe. vol. xxviii. (1890) p. 136. I. nepalensis, D. Don, var. Letha, Fost. in Gard. Chron. 1892, vol. ii. p. 458. Tris Collettii was discovered, at an elevation of four thousand feet, in the Southern Shan hills of Upper Burma, by the late Col. Sir Henry Collett, K.C.B., who, in 1888, sent herbarium specimens of it to Sir George King at the Calcutta Botanic Gardens, some of which were transmitted to Kew. From these it was first published in 1890, by Sir Henry Collett and Mr. Hemsley, in the Journal of the Linnean ~ Society, as a depauperate form of I. nepalensis. In 1891 Messrs. Barr received living plants of it from Lieut.-Col. Stone, collected near Fort White, also in the Shan hills, at an elevation of seven thousand feet. Of these latter Sir Michael Foster published a descrip- tion in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, where, unaware of the earlier - notice, he gave it the name of J. nepalensis, var. Letha, from that of the mountain on which it was found. With regard to the discrepancy between the elevations at which the plant is stated to have been collected, I think that the higher, seven thousand feet, is perhaps an error, for Sir Henry Collett, in his preface to the account of his plants — in the “ Linnean Journal” (p. 14) emphasizes the fact, that though the Shan hills are actually within the tropics, Aprit Ist, 1903, between 19° and 22° N. Lat., temperate types appear in abundance at four thousand feet. The resemblance of I. Collettii to I. nepalensis is so strong that I can well understand it being regarded as a variety of that plant. Its distinguishing characters are the dwarf habit (persistent under cultivation), earlier leafing, small flowers, very short perianth-tube, sub-equal segments all spreading and recurved, beardless crest, and comparatively large stigmatic crests, which are bipartite, with dimidiate-ovate, quite entire segments. The specimen figured was sent to the Royal Gardens, Kew, by Mr. Hildebrand, C.I.E., Superintendent of the Shan States in Burma, where it flowered in a greenhouse in April, 1902. The flowers were faintly fragrant. Plants of it were subsequently planted in a border in the open air, where they all died. Descr.—toots of very many, crowded, large, equal, vermiform, brown tubers several inches long, and a quarter of an inch in diameter. Leaves narrowly ensiform, strongly nerved, dark green, bases surrounded with rigid brown fibres. Flowering stems about six inches high, one- to two-flowered. Spathes one and a half to two inches — long, narrow, acuminate, herbaceous, green. Perianth- twbe short ; limb an inch and a half in diameter ; segments sub-equal, spreading, and revolute, violet-blue, strea with white towards the base; crest of outer brig orange-yellow, not bearded. Stigmatic crests large, erect, bipartite ; segments dimidiate-ovate, acute, quite entire.— mp Be: Figs. 1 and 2, anthers ; 3, stigmatic crest :—all enlarged. ses ee Vincent Brools,Day &SanLttimp MS. del, .J.N-Fitch lith Tas. 7890. AGAVE BakeERI, Native of Mexico ? Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDEZ.—Tribe AGAVE. Genus Acave, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 788.) Acave (Littea) Bakeri; trunco 4-pedali, basi nudo coma 6 ped. diam. e foliis perplurimis densissime confertis confecta, foliis 3 ped. longis undique patenti-revolutis medio 5 poll. latis loriformi-lanceolatis haud crassis basi angustatis supra planiusculis subtus leviter convexis spina pollicari terminatis, marginibus lavibus purpureis, peduncalo brevi crasso foliis junioribus brevibus erectis cincto, racemo 8-9-pedali stricto erecto cylindraceo, floribufs densissime confertis, bracteis floribus equilongis e basi ovata rubro striata anguste linearibus, bracteolis triangularibus mem-— branaceis rubro striatis pedicellos crassos $-pollicares zequantibus, ovarus pollicaribus lineari-oblongis teretibus, perianthii tubo ovario squilongo cbeonico 6-sulcate, lobis pollicaribus lineari-oblongis obtusis revolutis extus viridibus intus albo-viridibus fascia media saturatiore pictis, fila- mentis 2-pollicaribus albis, antheris pollicaribus anguste linearibus aureis, stylo filamentis breviore apice subclavellato 3-lobulato. A: aurea Hook. f., ec W. Watson in Garden, 1902, vol. i. p. 240, ewm ic. reduct. A very distinct species of Agave, purchased for the Royal Gardens, Kew, at the sale of the late Mr. Peacock’s noble collection of Cactuses, Aloes, and Agaves in 1889, with no indication of its native country or collector. It flowered in the Mexican division of the Temperate House in January to March, 1902. I have named it after my friend, J. G. Baker, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S., late Keeper of the Herbarium of the Royal Gardens, Kew, author of the Handbooks of the Amaryllidew, Iridew, Bromeliacew, and of other works that have been of signal service to Botanists and ‘Horticulturalists. _ Deser.—Trunk about four feet high, stout, erect, bearing an elongated crown six feet in diameter, of very numerous, spreading and recurved leaves, and a very shortly peduncled, dense-flowered cylindrical raceme of nearly nine feet high. Leaves three feet long by five inches broad at the middle, narrowed towards the base, terminated by a spine an inch long, glaucous-green, with a quite entire, narrow, purple margin, coriaceous, slightly concave above, and convex beneath; young leaves erect, crowded round, Aprgit Ist, 1903, and concealing the peduncle and base of the raceme. Jiaceme strict, columnar, golden-yellow from the number _ and size of the anthers. Dracts as long as the flowers, tapering from a broad, pale green, striate base to a very slender, almost filiform tip ; bracteoles half an inch long, triangular-ovate, about as long as the very stout pedicels, membranous, white, streaked with red. Ovary an inch long, narrowly oblong. Perianth-tube as long as the ovary, infundibular, six-grooved ; segments an inch long, linear- oblong, revolute, tip rounded, dorsally green, very pale, almost white within, with a median, darker green band down the middle. Filaments two inches long; anthers an inch long, very narrowly linear, bright yellow. Style oes than the filaments, tip obscurely three-lobed.— ne Eas: & Figs. 1 and 2, flowers of the natural size, with bracts and bracteoles; 3 and 4, anthers; 5, apex of style :—enlaryed, —— w es & g tn > oa Tas. 7891. LATHYRUS pusssosns. Native of Temperate S. America. Nat. Ord. Leguminosa.—Tribe Viera. Genus Latuynvs, Linn.; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 526.) Laturrvus pubescens; frutex molliter pilosus, 3-5-pedalis, diffuse ramosus, ramis ramulis pedunculisque alte 4-costatis, foliis bi- rarius 4-foliolatis, foliolis 1-24 pallisadibts ellipticis oblongis v. oblongo-lanceolatis acutis subtus 3-5-costatis, petiolo brevi v. elongato, stipulis latis foliaceis semi- sagittatis, cirrhis elongatis trifidis, pedunculo valido 4-6-poll. longo rigido, racemo multi-laxe- v. densifloro, foribus 1-1} poll. latis breviter pedicellatis, calycis } poll. longi tubo late campanulato, basi postice gibbo, dentibus 2 superioribus acutis 3 inferioribus longioribus longe acuminatis, vexillo orbiculari emarginato violaceo, lateribus recurvis, alis late oblique faleatis patulis fere albis, carine parve incurve petalis apices versus | _ rubris, stylo apice incrassato ad medium puberulo, legamine 2-2}-pollicari _ lineari } poll. lato acuto pubescente, seminibus parvis ellipsoideis ad } bol tong ines Lk L. pubescens, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 21, et in Hook. Bot. Misc. vol. iii. p. 198 (non tab. nostr. 3996). Hook. f. Fl. Antaret. vol. ii. p. 259 _(exel. cit. Bot. Mag). C. Gay, Fl. Uhil. vol.ii. p. 148. Benth. in Mart. Fl. Bras. vol. xv. pars I. p. 114. André in Rev. Hortic. vol. xvii. (1895) ike p. 40, cum ie. col. _ L. acutifolius, e¢ L. petiolaris, Vogel, in Linnea, vol. xiii. (1839) pp. 27, 29. L. macropus, Gillies, e« Hook. et Arn. in Hook. Bot. Mise. le. Orobus pubescens, Alef. in Bonplandia, vol. ix. (1861) p. 143. fi Lathyrus pubescens is very closely allied to L. tomentosus, -Lamk., a native of S. Brazil and Buenos Ayres, which | was figured under this name (pubescens) tab. 3996 of this work. According to Bentham, l.c., LZ. tomentosus differs from L. pubescens in being taller, and having broader leaflets and stipules, and fewer, rather smaller flowers; _ differences which are difficult of recognition in herbarium _ specimens. A far more marked distinction between these species, as shown by the two plates in this work, is the glaucous blue colouring of tab. 3996 (tomentosus), and the dark green of 7891 (pubescens). Both appear to be very _ variable plants in the size of the leaflets, and number and size of the flowers and stipules. It is further to be observed, that Mr. André describes his plant as having glaucescent foliage. Aprit Ist, 1903. « Lathyrus pubescens has rather a wide distribution in extra-tropical South America, from Valparaiso to Chiloe in Chili, and from Monte Video to Banda Oriental and Parana in the east. Mr. André, who was the first to cultivate it in Europe, in his garden at La Croix, in Touraine, from seeds sent by Mr. Cantana from Uruguay, describes it as forming festoons of glaucescent leaves and lilac flowers covering the branches of shrubs three to five feet high. C. Gay, in his ‘Flora of Chili,” described the corolla as yellow (aurea), but this must be an oversight. 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SMITH, F.LS. | n Illustrated Companion to Bentham’s “ Handbook,” and other British Flores, , ‘bth Edition, with 1815 Wood Sigesriigh Ye. net. REEVE & co. Tap. 6, “HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT | GARDEN D Ay 4 ‘ \ \ \, " ~~ ek 2 e 1 ie v7) ef e. ae ie és * 4 +r AD oy ah ier” M.S.del J.N.Fitch ith Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lt*Lup » LReeve & C® London Tap. 7892. RODGERSIA pinnata, Native of China. Nat. Ord. SaxirraGacE®.—Tribe SaxirrRaGen, Genus Roperrsia, A. Gray; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. i. p. 685.) RopceErsta pinnata; herba elata, 6-pedalis, rhizomate crassissimo brevi, caule ascendente simplici fistuloso, collo nodisque sericeo-pilosis, foliis digitatim impari-pinnatis radicalibus longe petiolatis, foliolis bi-tri~jugis is as 6-8-pollicaribus obovato-lanceolatis acuminatis inwqualiter argute den- tatis multinerviis basi‘angustatis foliis superioribus digitatim 3-5-folio- latis, foliolis basi angustioribus, inflorescenta terminali 1-2-pedali erecta cymoso-paniculata ramosissima, ramis ramulisque hirtellis roseis, floribus breviter pedicellatis 4 poll. diam. odoratis, calycis lobis ovatis subacutis extus roseis intus albis, staminibus 10 sepalis subzquilongis, antheris ovoideis purpureis connectivo breviter producto obtuso, ovarii carpellis conicis in stylos crassos attenuatis basi connatis. : R. pinnata, Franch, Pl. David. vol. ii. p- 214, in nota. Henry in Gard. Chron. 1902, vol. ii. p. 132, fig. 44. : AsTILBE pinnata, Franch. Pl. Delav. p. 231. The genus Rodgersia is very closely allied to Astilbe, differing chiefly, if not wholly, in the foliage, its leaves being digitately pinnate, those of Astilbe ternately bipinnate. One species has been already figured in this work, &. pedophylla, A. Gray, t. 6691, a native of Japan, upon | which the genus was founded; it has digitately five- foliolate leaves, very small, yellowish-white flowers, slender filaments, didymous anthers, and a depressed, orbicular ovary. In an excellent article upon Hodgersia, by Mr. Henry, in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, the genus is described as consisting of four species, It. podophylla, A. Gray, R. pinnata, Franch., BR. wsculifolia, Batal. in Act. Hort. Petrop. vol. xiii. p. 96, a native of China, and ft. Henrici, Franch. in Rey. Hortic. 1897, p. 174, a species brought by Prince Henry of Orleans from Western Yunnan, In thatarticle Mr. Henry describes the leaves of R. pinnata as quasi digitate, consisting of three leaflets ternately disposed, then two pairs of opposite leaflets, and a terminal solitary petiolulate leaflet ; when only six leaflets are present they are disposed in two ternate clusters. May lst, 1903, The upper leaves on the plant are simply ternate or digitately five-foliolate. fi. pinnata appears to be a common plant in the mountain region of Yunnan, at elevation of seven thousand to eight thousand feet, growing in shaded places by water courses, where it was first found by the Abbé Delavay in 1883. Seeds of it were sent to the Royal Gardens, Kew, by Mr. Henry, in 1898, from which plants were raised that flowered in the Rock Garden in July, 1902. The flowers have a delicate, angelica-like odour (Henry). Descr.—A tall, unbranched herb, with a large horizontal rootstock. Stem hollow, silkily hairy at the leaf axils. Leaves long-petioled, digitately pinnate; petiole stout; leaflets five to nine, towards the apex of the petiole, six to eight inches long, obovate or oblanceolate, acute, coarsely unequally toothed, narrowed to the base, very many- nerved ; lateral leaflets usually four to six in opposite pairs or threes, terminal usually three, digitate, leaf-like. Flowers in a large, sparsely hirsute, much-branched panicle ; rachis and branches rose-red, pedicels very short, Calyz puberulous, lobes ovate, sub-acute, externally red, white within. Petals 0. Stamens ten, about as long as the calyx-lobes; anthers ovoid, purple. —J. D. H. Fig. 1, fower; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, ovary :—all enlarged. 7893 MS. del,J.N-Fitch lith Tas. 7893. SEMPERVIVUM ocrstoum. Native of the Canary Islands, Nat. Ord. CrassuLacEz. [ Genus Semrervivum, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 660.) Semrervivom (onium) urdicum; fruticosum, caule erecto-1-3-pedali robusto eylindraceo inferne nudo, cortice cinereo, cicatricibus rhomboideis tessellato, foliis apicem versus caulis dense rosulatis 4-6 poll. longis 1-14 poll. latis anguste spathulatis cuspidatis crassis glabris ciliato-serrulatis sessilibus, v. basi in petiolum tetragonum angustatis pullide viridibus, subtus costa lata percursis, panicula magna pyramidali 2-3-ped. alta, ramis patenti-decurwis gracilibus basi foliaceo-bracteatis longe nudis apices versus ramulosis et foliis paucis parvis ovatis instructis viridibus multifloris, floribus 3 poll. diam. breviter pedicellatis pallide aurcis, ealyce cupulari breviter 8-10-dentato glaberrimo, petalis 8-10 oblongo- lanceolatis acutis, filamentis glabris filiformibus ima basi dilatatis, antheris oblongis apiculatis, disci glandulis quatratis, carpellis ad 10 erectis oblong's viridibus in stylos graciles ovario squilongis attenuatis. S. urbicum, Chr. Smith, er Hornem. Suppl. Hort. Hafn. p. 60 (non Lindl.) Haw. in Phil. Mag. 1827, p. 125. Buch, Phys. Beschr. Canar. Ins. p- 177. DC. Prodr. vol. iii. p. 411. AM nium urbicum, Webb & Berth. Phytogr. Canar, vol. i. p. 194, t. 29. The Atlantic Islands are remarkable for the number of indigenous species of Sempervivum which they contain, upwards of forty being enumerated in the ‘“ Index Kewensis”’ as natives of Madeira and the Canary Islands ; a singular fact when it is considered that only one species has hitherto been collected in the adjacent territory of Morocco, and that a very different plant from any Canarian. On the other hand, nine species of Sedum are recorded from Morocco, and only one, the Mediterranean S. rubens, DC., from the Canary Islands. aaa ce Sempervivum urbicum is described by Webb as inhabiting rocks, walls, and roofs in the sylvan region of 'l'eneriffe. The specimen here figured was presented to the Royal Gardens, Kew, by Mr. Van den Bosche, of Tirlemont, Belgium, in 1901. It flowered in the Succulent House in May, 1902. Descr.—Stem erect, three feet high, simple, stout, cylindric, covered with rhomboidal leaf-scars, Leaves May Ist, 1903, many, rosulate on the top of the stem, four to six inches long by one and a half broad, narrowly spathulate, cuspidate, very thick, fleshy, smooth, pale green, nerveless, margins erosely serrulate, sessile, or base contracted into a short, stout petiole. Panicle very large, pyramidal, three feet high, and nearly as broad; branches very many, close-set, spreading and decurved, with fleshy, oblong bracts at the base, naked below, bearing towards the terminal cymosely branched inflorescence a few small, ovate, sessile, fleshy leaves. Flowers shortly pedicelled, three-quarters of an inch broad, Calyz cupular, shortly eight- to many-toothed, glabrous, green. Petals lanceolate, acute, pale yellow. Filaments slender, dilated at the base; anthers small, oblong, apiculate. Disk-glands quadrate. Carpels ten; styles slender, erect, as long as the narrowly oblong ovary. —J. D. H. Fig. 1, flower with the petals removed ; 2, petals and stamens ; 3, carpel :-— all enlarged; 4, reduced view of whole plant. z MS.del, IN Fitch lith Vincent Brooks,Day &Son Litimp ae Tas. 7894. SPHEDAMNOCARPUS prorixns. Native of South Africa. Nat. Ord. ManricguiacrEa.—Tribe BANNISTERIER. Genus Sruepamnocarrus (Planch. ex Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 256). SPHEDAMNocCARPUs pruriens; frutex alte scandens, ramulis tomentellis, foliis oppositis 1-4 poll. longis breviter petiolatis ovato-oblongis supra glabris subtus marginibusque tomento sericeo argenteis apice rotundatis mucro- natis basi rotundatis cordatisve, petiolo supra medium biglanduloso, floribus subcorymbosis 1-13 poll. latis, pedunculis 1-14-pollicaribus sericeis supra medium articulatis et bibracteolatis, calycis segmentis ad 4 poll. longis oblongis apice rotundatis dorso sericeis fructu_ paulo auctis, petalis subequalibus ad 3 poll. longis breviter unguicnlatis orbicularibus aureis marginibus crispatis, filamentis calyce squilongis basi connatis, antheris majusculis connectivo rubente, ovario 3-lobo hirsuto, stylis elongatis divarieatis, samaris 2-3 sericeis facie interiore plana receptaculo applicata lateralibus inflatis, ala ad } poll. longa. _8. pruriens, Szyszyl. Polypet. Rehmann. Enum. (1888) p. 2. Acridocarpus pruriens, A. Juss. in Arch. Mus. Paris, vol. iii. (1843), p. 492. Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. vol. i. p. 232. Walp. Rep. vol. v. p. 289. It is remarkable that of the great Natural Order of Malpighiacez, which consists of about 50 genera and 600 species, many of them of great beauty, only eight, including that here figured, should have found their way into the Botanical Magazine. The others are Malpighia glabra, Linn, t. 813, Hirewa Simsiana, A. Juss. (M. volu- bilis, Sims, t. 809), Byrsonima lucida, DC. (M. lucida, Sw., t. 2462), Heteropteris chrysophylla, H. R. t. 3237, Acridocarpus natalitius, A. Juss. t. 5738, Stigmatophyllum heterophyllum, Hook. t. 4104, and 8. littorale, A Juss. t. 6632. The reason for their being seldom cultivated, and hence rarely figured from living plants, is that they are for the most part tropical, rambling, woody climbers, unsuitable for cultivation in an ordinary stove. The genus Sphedamnocarpus is a considerable one. There are as many as ten species of it in the Kew Her- barium, including several undescribed ones. With the exception of one Madagascar species, and S. pruriens, all are from tropical Africa. 8. pruriens is a native of Natal, Mary Ist, 1903. the Transvaal, Rhodesia, and Matabeleland, and of Uiten- hage, in the Cape Colony; seeds of it were sent from the latter district to the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1899, by Mr. Charles Howlett, now Curator of the Botanic Gardens of Graaf Reinet, formerly of the Royal Gardens, Kew, a plant raised from which flowered in the Temperate House in October, 1902, Descr.—A_ lofty, climbing shrub, with silkily tomentose branches, leaves beneath, peduncles, pedicels, and calyces. Leaves one to four inches long, opposite, shortly petioled, ovate-oblong, obtuse, tip mucronate, base rounded or cordate; petiole short, biglandular above the middle. Flowers sub-corymbosely clustered at the ends of the branches, an inch to an inch and a half broad, golden- yellow; peduncles an inch long or more, bibracteolate above the middle. Sepals oblong, tips rounded, enlarged in fruit. Petals sub-equal, shortly clawed, orbicular, margins crisped. Filaments as long as the sepals, connate at the base. Ovary hirsute, styles divaricate. Fruit of two or three dry, broadly winged, indehiscent carpels; wings about half an inch long, obliquely obovoid, coriaceous.—J. D, If. Fig. 1, peduncle, bracteoles, and bract; 2, lower with the pet: 3 and 4, anthers; 5, pistil; 6, vertical section of ovary; 7, f hh tomentum ; 8, fruit from herbarium specimen :—all but fig. 1 enlarged, M. S.del,J.NFatch lith Tas. 7895. HEBEN STRETIA comosa. Native of S. Africa. Nat. Ord. SeLacinea. Genus HepenstreEtIA, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1127.) HEBENSTRETIA (Huhebenstretia) comosa; perennis, erecta, fere glaberrima, ramosa, caule robusto tereti folioso, ramulis puberulis, foliis 4-2-pollicari- bus sessilibus lineari-oblongis-lanceolatisve subacutis acuminatisve grosse acute serratis, spicis elongatis 2-6 poll. longis densifloris, bracteis ovato- lanceolatis corolla tubum subsequantibus herbaceis glabris, calyce oblongo- ovoideo ad 3 poll. longo 2-nervi costam versus herbaceo, corolla } poll. longa, alba v. pallide flava, fauce rubro, lobis subsequilongis 2 interioribus angustioribus. H. comosa, Hochst. in Flora, vol. xxviii. pars I. (1845) p. 70; Beitr. Fl. Cap. und Natal, p. 134. Choisy in DC. Prodr. vol. xii. p. 5. Rolfe in Dyer Flor. Cap. vol. v. p. 99. H. comosa, var. serratifolia, Rolfe in Gard. Chron. 1892, vol. ii. pp. 34, 188. Hebenstretia is a large African genus, of which thirty species have been described in the Flora Capensis, and there are others in tropical Africa, some from as far north as Abyssinia. Two have been previously figured in this work. H, dentata, L., t. 483, and H. fruticosa, Thunb. t. 1970. H. comosa has an extended 8. African range, from Port Natal, where it is found on the plains near _ Durban, at the level of the sea, extending to Pilgrim’s vest, in the Transvaal, and Griqualand, at elevations of four thousand feet. __ The genus was named by Linnzus in honour of Pro- fessor John Ernst Hebenstreit, Professor of Botany in Leipzig, who in 1740 proposed a classification of plants according to their fruit. ee: & comosa was, according to astatement in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, by Messrs. Dammann, of San Giovanni, Teduccio, Italy, introduced by their firm into Europe in 1889, and is entered in their catalogue of plants for that year. It was flowered by Mr. Gumbleton at Belgrove, Queenstown, in 1892. The specimen here figured was communicated by Messrs. Sutton, of Reading, in September, 1902, May lst, 1903. when specimens were also flowering in the Royal Gardens, Kew. Descr.—An erect, branching, nearly glabrous herb, two to three feet high. Stem rather stout, angular, leafy ; branchlets puberulous. Leaves half an inch to two inches long, alternate, sessile, linear-oblong or -lanceolate, obtuse, acute or acuminate, coarsely serrate, rather thick in texture, midrib very stout beneath. Flowers small, in — erect, dense, cylindric spikes, two to six inches long, terminating the stem and branches, about one-third of an inch long; bracts as long as the corolla-tube, ovate-— lanceolate, acuminate, herbaceous, green, persistent. Calyx about one-sixth of an inch long, of two very unequal lobes, unilaterally connate, the larger boat-shaped, finely acuminate. Corolla-tube very slender, open for two- — thirds of its length; limb yellow, with a large, red, thickened area in the throat, four-lobed ; lobes oblong, tips rounded, the two inner the narrower. Anthers large, linear-oblong. Ovary oblong, with a small disk-gland at the base; style slender.—J. D. H. dee 1, calyx ; 2, corolla and stamens; 3 and 4, anthers; 5, ovary and disk- ae i ovary; 7, transverse, and 8, vertical section of the same:—all enlarg < a onoe : es 7896 Vincent Brocks Day &SanI.t#imp M.S. del, JN Fitch hth Tas. 7896. DISSOTIS Manonr. Native of Uganda. Nat. Ord. Metastomacea.—Tribe OsBEcKIEZ. Genus Dissotis, Benth. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 746.) Dissotis (Heterotis) Mahoni; tota hispido-pilosa, caule prostrato ramoso, foliis 1-1} poll. longis oppositis rotundatis ovato-rotundatisve obtusis, petiolis t-3 poll. longis, floribus ad apices ramulorum solitariis 2 poll. latis, pedicellis foliis brevioribus, calycis hemisphewrici non plumosi tubo setis rigidis simplicibus basi bulbosis instructo lobis 5 ovato-oblongis subacutis, ‘sinu inter lobos appendice filiformi apice bifurcato ramis divaricatis instructo, petalis oblique obovatis roseo-purpureis, staminorum majorum connectivo antice in appendicem elongatum bituberculatum antice con- cavum producto, minorum appendice simpliciter didymo, ovario hispido tubo calycis profunde immerso. ; D. Mahoni, Hook. f. The Dissotis here figured so closely resembles the widely distributed tropical African D. plumosa, Hook. f. (in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. vol. ii. 452), in habit, hairiness, foliage and flowers, that I long hesitated before giving it a new specific name. I find, however, in all the specimens of that plant which I have examined, whether from Hast, West, or Central Africa, that the bristles of the calyx-tube, and the arms of the processes between the calyx-lobes are plumose with stellate hairs (whence its specific name) of which there are no traces in D. Mahoni. _ The genus Dissotis is a large one, upwards of fifty Species having been described, all tropical African, except one, which is a native of Natal. Two have been previously figured in this Magazine, D. incana, Triana (Osbeckia eeeeeene Grah.), t. 3790, and D. Irvingiana, Hook. t. 149, : Ps : 7 Seeds of D. Mahoni were sent to the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1901, from Uganda, by Mr. John Mahon, plants raised from which flowered in a stove in September, 1902. I have the pleasure of naming it after its discoverer, formerly at Kew, now Curator of the Botanic Station at Uganda. Descr.—Whole plant, except the flowers, hispidly hairy. 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RanuncuLaces#.—Tribe CLEMATIDER, Genus Crematis, Linn.; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 3.) Ciematis (Flammula) Meyeniana; frutex alte scandens, sempervirens, glaber v. parce pubescens, cortice fusco-purpureo, foliis 3-foliolatis, foliolis petiolulatis 2-44 poll. longis coriaceis ellipticis ovatis oblongis lanceo- latisve integerrimis obtusis acutis acuminatisve 3-nerviis supra nitidis saturate viridibus subtus glabris puberulisve basi rotundatis v. cordatis, panicule effurze laxiflora ramulis trichotomis basi nudis v. bracteis 1-3 coriaceis integris lobatisve auctis, alabastris oblongis pallide flavis, floribus 14 poll. diam., sepalis lineari-oblongis apice bidentatis albis marginibus tomentellis, staminibus sepalis duplo brevioribus, antheris linearibus aureis tilamenta glabra subaquantibus, acheeniis } poll. longis obovoideis compressis villosis Havo-brunneis, cauda plumosa 1}-pollicari. C. Meyeniana, Walp. in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. Misc. vol. xix. Suppl. i. (1843) p. 297; Repert. Bot. vol. v.p.3. Benth.in Hook. Kew Gard. Misc. vol. iii. (1851) p. 256; Fl. Hongk. p. 6. Maaim. in Mel, Biol. vol. ix. p. 597. Hemst, in Journ, Linn. Soc. Bot. vol. xxiii. (1886) p.5. Seem, Bot. Voy. Herald, p. 361. C. Armandi, Franch. Pl. David. vol. ii. p. 2, t. 2. C. oreophila, Hance in Walp. Ann. vol. ii. p. 3. C. hedysarifolia, Bot. Reg. t. 599, non DC. . ; C. hedysarifolia, DC. var. a, 8, 8, Kuntze, Monogr, Gatt. Clem, p. 152. Clematis Meyeniana is a very variable plant, and it is not surprising that so excellent a Chinese botanist as Mr. - Hance should have described it under another name (C. oreophila), when, according to Walpers, the founder of the species, the panicles are said to be shorter than the leaves and few-flowered, and the sepals rufous externally. The figure in the Botanical Register, under the erroneous name of C. hedysarifolia, DC., an Indian species, is very good, but represents a form with flowers only an inch in diameter, with very pale anthers; it shows the bidentate tips of the sepals, which is overlooked by all other authors, who describe them as being acute. It appears to be a very common plant in 8.E. China, from the province of Chekiang to Kwantung, and is found also in Cochin China, Formosa, and the Luchu Islands. In Hongkong it occurs in great abundance in almost every ravine, flowering in June Ist, 1603, May, and occasionally again in autumn, even so late as December. (©. Armandi, Franch., from Moupine, is cer- tainly only a form of C. Meyeniana, with small flowers and large bracts at the bases of the lower branches of the anicle. : C. Meyeniana was cultivated in the Nursery of Messrs. Colvile, in the King’s Road, Chelsea, in 1822, whence procured was not then known. The specimen figured was from a plant received from Mr. C. Ford, Superin- tendent of the Hongkong Botanic Garden, in 1885. It flowers annually in the Temperate House. Descr.—A tall, evergreen, glabrous or sparsely puberu- lous climber, with a purplish-brown bark. Leaves trifoliolate ; leaflets two to three inches long, petiolulate, elliptic- or ovate-oblong or lanceolate, obtuse, acute or acuminate, quite entire, coriaceous, base rounded or cordate, three-nerved, dark green and glabrous above, pale and puberulous beneath. Panicles large, effuse, trichotomously branched, lax-flowered ; bracts at the bases of the branches minute, rarely enlarged, coriaceous, entire or lobed. Buds oblong, pale yellow. Flowers an inch to an inch and a half across. Sepals linear-oblong, spreading, white, margins tomentose, tips two-toothed. Stamens about half as long as the sepals; anthers as long as the filaments. Achenes one-fourth of an inch long, obovate, flat, villous; style an inch and a half long, feathery.—J. D. H. c Fig. 1, flower; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, pistil; 5, achene:—all enlarged; 6, achene of nat. size. , 7898 Latimp Vincent Brooks Day & Son Ep MS. del, T.N-Fitch hth Tas. 7898. LABURNUM CARAMANICUM, Native of Greece and Asia Minor, Nat. Ord. Lecuminosa.—Tribe GENISTEA. Genus LanurnuM, Griseb.; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 481.) Lasurnum (Podocytisus) caramanicum ; frutex inermis, ramosus, glaberrimus, glauco-virens, ramulis erectis virgatis, foliis digitatim 3-fuliolatis brevius- cule petiolatis, foliolis breviter petiolulatis obovatis apice rotundatis apiculatis saturate viridibus basi acutis lateralibus 4$-pollicaribus termi- nali fere duplo majore, racemis terminalibus elongatis erectis sepius pyramidatim paniculatis laxifloris, floribus nutantibus, pedicellis } poll. longis, bracteolis minutis subulatis, calyce pedicellis subequilongo cupulari breviter bilabiato fusco-rubro, labio superiore 2- inferiore 3-den- tato, petalis unguiculatis aureis subzequilongis, vexillo orbiculari ad + poll. diam. ima basi cordato, alis oblongis obtusis, carina petalis ineurvis acutis, filamentis omnibus connatis, legumine breviter stipitato lineari- oblongo plano papyraceo falcato apice rotundato 3-6-spermo subindehis- cente marginibus undulatis superiore alato, seminibus parvis reniformtibus estrophiolatis. L, caramanicum, Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. /.c. Cytisus caramanicus, Nym. Conspect. Fl. Hurop. p. 155. Lavall, Arboret. Segrez. p. 59. Popocysisus caramanicus, Boiss. & Heldr. Diagn. Pl. Or. Ser. I, pars ix. p. 7. Boiss. Fl, Orient. vol. ii. p. 35. The plant here figured was regarded by Boissier as generically distinct from the common Laburnum of our gardens and plantations, because of its erect branchlets and racemes, and membranous, sub-indehiscent, more broadly winged pods; to which might have been added the rounded apex of the latter and the very small seeds; but Mr. Bentham, the greatest authority on Leguminose, attached less value to these distinctions, and Boissier himself says of Podocytisus, “forsan non immerito a cl. Benth. & Hook., Laburno conjungitur, sed praeter legumen papyraceum subindehiscens facies et inflorescentia ab eo abhorrent.” S S> SS Vincent Brooks,Day & Son Léimp M.S.del.J.NFitchlith L.Reeve & C°London Tas. 7900. DENDROBIUM Maponna. Native of New Guinea. Nat. Ord. Orncnipea#.—Tribe DenDROBIER, Genus Denprosium, Ser.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 488.) Deyprosium (Stachyobium) Madonne ; pseudobulbis confertis 6-9 poll. longis inferne stipitiformibus, articulis inferioribus gracilibus vaginatis, basilari tuberoso, terminali elongato incrassato 2-4 poll. longo fusiformi sulcato 2-3-phyllo, foliis 14-2 poll. longis sessilibus oblongis subcoriaceis obtusis, pedunculis terminalibus 1-2 poll. longis trifloris, pedicellis cum ovario pollicaribus, bracteis parvis oblongis subacutis, floribus nutantibus 23 poll. latis albis, sepalis 1-1} poll. longis oblongis acuminatis, lateralibus subfalcatis basi latioribus, petalis sepalis multo majoribus ad 1} poll. longis 2 poll. latis obovato-spathulatis apiculatis, labello ? poll. longo, concavo explanato oblato obscure 3-lobo acuminato, lobis lateralibus juxta margines purpureo maculatis, disco basin versus virescente callo elongato bicarinato apice rotundato aucto. D. (Stachyobium) Madonne, Rolfe in Kew Bulletin, ined, The nearest ally, and it is a very near one, of D. Madonnx is, as Mr. Rolfe points out, D. Fairfavii, Rolfe (in Gard. Chron. 1889, i. 798) non F. Muell., a native of the New Hebrides, which differs in the narrower petals and lip. D. Madonnz, on the other hand, is a native of New Guinea, whence it was introduced by Messrs. Sanders & Co., who flowered it in their Nursery in December, 1899, and to whom the Royal Gardens are indebted for _ the plant here figured. Descr.—Pseudobulbs crowded, six to nine inches high, the lower internodes cylindric, slender, forming a stipes to the terminal, which is two to four inches long, fusi- form and grooved ; lowest internode tuberous, obpyriform, one half to three-quarters of an inch long, smooth. Leaves two to three at the apex of the pseudobulb, one and a half to two inches long, sessile, oblong, obtuse, coriaceous. Peduneles terminal, one to two inches long, slender, three- flowered ; pedicels with the ovary an inch long; bracts very small, acute. Flowers two and a half inches broad, nodding, white, with a few purple spots near the margins of the lateral lobes of the lip. Sepals one to one anda half inch long, oblong, acuminate; lateral broad at the JuNE Ist, 1903. base, sub-falcate. Petals much larger than the sepals, obovate-spathulate, tip apiculate. Zip shorter than the sepals, concave, when spread out oblate, obscurely three- lobed, the midlobe cuspidate; disk suffused with green, and bearing towards its base an elongate grooved callus ending in a nob.—J. D. H, Fig. 1, section of lip and column; 2, front view of column; 3, anther; — 4, pollinia :—all enlarged. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lettie M.S.del JN. Fitch lth J, Raewe & €30-T. an Tas. 7901. PRIMULA mecasEmrouia, Native of Asia Minor. Nat. Ord, PriwuLacez.—Tribe PRIMULER, Genus Primuta, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 631.) Primvuta (Aleuritia) megasezfolia; rhizomate crasso, foliis amplis 3-5 poll. longis 2-4 latis ovatis ovato-oblongis rotundatisve subcordatis obtusis integerrimis v. remote denticulatis convexis glaberrimis lmte viridibus, marginibus ‘nervisque subtus papilloso-hirtis, nervis nervulisque reticulatis supra impressis subtus elevatis, petiolis 2-3-pollicaribus scapisque 2-5- pollicaribus robustis hirtis, umbella multiflora 3 poll. diam., involucri foliis 3-3 poll. longis lanceolatis acuminatis pedicellisque 4-1} poll. longis glaberrimis, calyce } poll. longo paullo inflato teretiusculo 5-costato breviter acute 5-dentato, corolla roseo-purpures tubo calyce longiore ore nudo, limbi 3 poll. lati lobis obcordatis, capsula calyce paullo longiore, seminibus glabris angulatis minute tuberculatis. P. megasefolia, Boiss. e¢ Bal. in Bal. Pl. Pont. Hxs. 1866. Boiss, F7, Orient. vol, iv. p. 26. Gard. Chron, 1901, vol. i. p, 223, fig. 84. The very remarkable Primrose here figured has hitherto been found only near Rizeh (or Rhizé) in Lazistan, a town on the S.E. shore of the Black Sea, forty miles east of Trebizond, where it was discovered by the famous col- lector, Balansa, growing in gullies at about one thousand feet above the sea. It is referable to the large section Aleuritia, Duby, characterized by the sides of the leaves being revolute in vernation, and it is placed by Boissier, ** Flora Orientalis,” next to P. grandis, Trauty,, an imper- fectly known Transcaucasian species, described as having leaves four inches long and three broad, a scape nearly a foot high, a very large, many-flowered umbel and linear- - oblong corolla-lobes. he specific name megasexfolia refers to the resem- blance in the foliage to the species of Sawifraga (S. crassi- folia, L., 8. ligulata, Wall., &c.), to which Haworth gave the generic name of Megasea. The Royal Gardens, Kew, are indebted to Miss Willmott, of Warley Place, Great Warley, Essex, for the specimen figured, which flowered in a cool house in February of the present year, Descr.—Rootstock stout, oblique, fibrilliferous. Leaves June Ist, 1903. variable in form, ovate, ovate-oblong or orbicular, three to five inches long by four broad, glabrous, dark green above with deeply sunk nerves and nervules, pale beneath with strong papillose nerves, margin entire or remotely denticu- late, papillose, base cordate; petiole two to three inches long, and scapes two to five inches long, both very stout, hairy. Umbel (sometimes two superposed) very many- flowered, three inches in diameter. Bracts one-third of an inch long, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, green, glabrous. Pedicels one half to one inch and a quarter long, slender, glabrous. Calyx half an inch long, terete, somewhat inflated, strongly five-ribbed ; teeth short, acute. 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Plant. vol. ii. p. 446.) Senecio (Ligularia) clivorum; herba 4-5-pedalis, robusta, glabra v. inflores- centia plus minusve araneoso-tomentosa, foliis radicalibus longe petivlatis amplis 12-16 poll. latis reniformibus rotundato-cordatisve argute mucro- nulato-dentatis 3-5-plinerviis, nervis nervulisque supra impressis subtus validis, caulinis paucis parvis petiolo late vaginante inflato, panicula maxima 6-8 poll. lata subcorymbosa, rachi ramis pedunculisque robustis ebracteata v. ramis inferioribus foliaceo-bracteolatis, capitnlis 3-4 poll. latis, crasse pedunculatis, involucri ecalyculati basi rotundati subintrusi phyllis 8-10, 3 poll. longis roseis linearibus crassis acutis obtusisve mar- ginibus scariosis, receptaculo plano, ligulis 12-14 lineari-oblongis 1-1} poll. longis apice 2-3-dentatis aurantiacis, tubi fauce filamentis 5 anan- theris instructis, disci floribus 5-lobis aurantiacis lobis. revolutis, acheeniis linearibus compressis levibus glabris, pappi setis rigidis scaberulis rufo- purpureis. 8. clivorum, Maxim. in Bull. Acad. Pétersb. xv. (1871), p. 374, et Mél. Biol. vol. viii. p. 12. Franch. & Sav. Enum. Pl. Japon. vol. i. p. 247. Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. vol. xxiii. (1888) p. 451. Henry im Gard, Chron. 1902, vol. ii. p. 217 cum tabula sine numero. Ligularia clivorum, Maxim, Mél. Biol. vol. vii. p. 555. Senecio clivorum is certainly the handsomest of all the herbaceous species of the genus, and will no doubt become a very conspicuous feature in the hardy her- _ baceous garden. It is referable to the section or sub- _ genus Ligularia, and its nearest affinity is to the Japanese _ L. Hodgsoni, Hook. (Bot. Mag. t. 5417), which differs in having lobed, coarsely toothed leaves, and more numerous, pale yellow ray-florets. Both are remarkable for their very | rigid red-purple pappus, of a totally different character és from the soft, white pappus of typical Senecio. 3 Senecio clivorum varies much in the size of the flower- heads and ray-flowers, in the amount of pubescence on the inflorescence, and in the bracts of the involucre, which are obtuse, acute or acuminate. In the Chinese specimens, but not in the Japanese, I find the ray-corollas bearing five filaments (see fig. 1), represer.ting the stamens of the disk-flowers, a character which has been observed in other species of the section. The species was dis- JuLy lst, 1903. . covered in Japan by the late Prof. Maximovicz, growing in mountain meadows of Hakodate, at two thousand to seven thousand feet elevation, and has more recently been found in the Chinese provinces of Hupeh, Kansu and Szechuen. In 1900 plants of it were sent to Messrs. James Veitch & Sons from the mountains of Western Hupeh by their traveller, Mr. K. H. Wilson. In 1902 a plant of it was exhibited at the Royal Horticultural Society by Messrs. Veitch, who kindly supplied the specimen here figured. Descr.—A robust herb four to five feet high, glabrous or the inflorescence more or less clothed with a cobweb- like tomentum. Radical leaves on long, stout petioles ; blade reniform or orbicular-cordate, twelve to sixteen inches across, coarsely callous-toothed, three- or five- nerved from the base; nerves depressed in the upper surface, and raised on the lower. Stem-leaves few and relatively small; petiole with a large, inflated, stem- clasping sheath. Inflorescence loosely corymbose-panicu- late, six to eight inches across; branches and peduncles thick, bractless or the lower branches with leaty bracis at the base. Flower-heads erect, three to four inches across. Involucre rounded, and broader at the base ; bracts eight to ten, thick, red, linear, half an inch long, acute or obtuse, margin scarious. Receptacle flat. Ray-flowers twelve to fourteen, linear-lanceolate, one to one and a half inch long, minutely two- or three-toothed at the tip, orange-coloured. Disk-flowers orange, with exserted, dark brownanthers. Achenes linear, compressed, glabrous ; bristles of the pappus rigid, rough, purple-red.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, ray-flower with most of the ligule removed; 2, the same with the tube laid open showing the attachment of the barren stamens; 3, disk-flower ; 4, hair of pappus; 5, anthers ; 6, arms of style :—all enlarged. 7903 ] "i = E 3 8 2 = aq 3 a ; 2 LReevea & OO}. 35 M.S. del, IN Fitch lith. Tas. 7903. HELLEBORUS trvipus. Native of Majorca. Nat. Ord. RanuncuLacea.—Tribe HELLEBORER, Genus Hetezorus, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 7.) HELLEBORUS (caulescentes). lividus; erectus, robustus, caule foliisque subtus pallide rubescentibus, foliis radicalibus simplicibus cordatis, caulinis trifcliolatis, foliolis ad 6 poll. longis sessilibus crasse coriaceis ovato- oblongis vel oblongo-lanceolatis integris lateralibus basi oblique semi- coi datis, terminali basi cuneato petiolulato, supra lete viridibus nervis subtus reticulatis, petiolo crasso, panicula ramosa pauciflora, bracteis ovato-oblongis majusculis serratis, floribus cernuis ad 2 poll. latis, sepalis rotundatis concavis intus pallide griseo-viridibus, petalis tubulosis, ore obliquo, viridibus, filamentis viridibus, antheris aureis, carpellis 4-6 coriaceis. H. lividus, Ait. ex Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 72; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. I. vol. ii. p. 272, ed. IT. vol. iii. p. 361. Willk. & Lange, Prodr. Fl. Hisp. vol. iii. p. 974. Trattin, Archiv. tt. 205, 205a. Colm. Enum. Pl. Penins. Hisp. Lusit. vol. i, p. 69, excl. syn. H. argutifolius. Schiff. Monogr. Helleb. p. 63 (subspecies.) ; H. lividus, var. integrilobus, DC. Prodr. vol. i. p. 47. H. trifolius, Mill. Gard. Dict. ed. VIII. n. 4 (non Linn.). Helleborus lividus was first published and figured by Curtis in the Botanical Magazine in 1789, and he cites for it Aiton’s ‘‘ Hort. Kewensis,”’ ined., which work appeared inthe same year. That figure is so unsatisfactory, and indeed inaccurate, representing the sepals as acute, that 1 have deemed it right to introduce a better, together _ with the full synonymy of the species as here restricted. When first published its native country was unknown, and remained so till after the date of the second edition of the “Hortus Kewensis” (1811). The plant had, however, been in cultivation in England since 1710, according to Aiton, who cites for it the “ Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society,” n.325, p. 48, implying that it was one of a selection of plants sent annually to that Society from the gardens of the Apothecaries’ Company at Chelsea. Botanically H. lividus, Ait., is hardly separable from H. corsicus, Willd. (HH. argutifolius, Viv.), and it has been included under that species by many authors, including Lindley (Bot. Reg. xxiv. t. 54); but from a horticultural standpoint they are quite distinct, as may be proved by a JuLY Ist, 1903. comparison of our figure with Lindley’s. The sharply, coarsely, prickly-toothed leaflets and yellowish green flowers characterize typical H. corsicus. Schiffner, the most recent (1890) monographer of the genus, says of H. livi- dus, Ait., that it was only known to him, in a wild state, from Majorca, Balearic Islands, but that it might possibly occur in Corsica and Sardinia, though he believed the records for those islands referred to typical H. corsicus. The specimen figured is from a plant brought by Miss Fanny Geoghegan to Dublin from Majorca in 1900. It flowered in February, 1902, and again this year, in the Botanic Garden of Trinity College, and I am indebted to Mr. F. W. Burbidge, the Curator, for excellent specimens sent both seasons. Descr.—Under cultivation this is a robust plant, with thick, fleshy stems, more or less deeply tinged and mottled with red, as is also the under surface of the leaves. Radical leaves simple, cordate ; cauline trifoliolate ; leaflets thick, coriaceous, pale green above, ovate-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, about six inches long, entire or Sometimes obscurely toothed, lateral sessile and semi- cordate at the base, terminal shortly petiolulate and cuneate at the base. Fiowers about two and a half inches across, dull purple-grey, tinged with green, nodding, in panicles of about six to eight, overtopping the leaves, Sepals orbicular, concave, paler within. Petals tubular, with an oblique mouth, green. Anthers yellow. Carpels four to seven, coriaceous, tipped with the long, persistent style.—J. D. I. Figs. 1 and 2, petals; 3, an anther; 4, gynzeceum :—all enlarged. 7904 MS del J.NFitch lith. a Tas. 7904. IRIS upina. Native of Armenia. Nat. Ord. In1tpkEx%.—Tribe MorxeEz. Genus Iris, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 686.) Iris (Oncocyclus) /upina; rhizomate carnoso breviter repente, foliis 5-6 linearibus suberectis pallide viridibus, pedunculo monocephalo foliis breviore, spathz valvis magnis lanceolatis acuminatis, perianthii tubo elongato, segmentis exterioribus reflexis obovato-cnneatis sordide flavo- viridibas, venis copiosis lilacino-branneis percursis, in limbimedio macula pilosa fusca decoratis, segmentis interioribus majoribus, arcuatis obovato- unguiculatis, styli cristis latis magnis, fructu oblongo-trigono, semini- bus rubro-brunneis conspicue strophiolatis. I. lupina, Foster in Gard. Chron. 1887, p. 738. This very interesting new Iris was sent to Professor (Sir Michael) Foster about 1886, from the mountains a few miles south of Kharput, in Turkish Armenia, by Mrs. Barnum, of the American Mission, who also discovered the Iris, which has been named after her, as well as other novelties. It was also gathered by Sintenis, and distributed in his sets of herbarium specimens. It belongs to the section Oncocyclus, and is nearly allied to the old, well- known Iris susiana (Bot. Mag. t. 91). The Armenians call it the “ Wolf's Ear,” from the tawny tips of the outer segments as they emerge from the opening bud, and this suggested to Professor Foster its specific name. Our drawing was made from plants presented by him to the Royal Gardens, Kew, which flowered for the first time in June, 1887. Descr.—footstock fleshy, short, creeping. Leaves about six in a tuft, linear, weak, sub-erect, pale green, channelled down the face, six inches to a foot long at the flowering time. Peduncle erect, one-headed, shorter than the leaves. Spathe-valves two, lanceolate, acuminate, pale green, the outer three inches long. Perianth-tube about two inches long; outer segments obovate-cuneate, reflexing, three inches long, marked with copious, fine, lilac-brown, anasto- mosing veins on a dull, yellowish-brown ground-work, and in the centre with a large pilose spot of dark brown ; JuLy Ist, 1903. inner segments larger, ascending, obovate, unguiculate, without a dark spot in the centre of the blade. Styles above an inch long; crests large, broad. Capsule oblong- trigonous, dehiscing in the upper half. Seeds large, reddish-brown, with a wrinkled testa, and a conspicuous white strophiole.—J. G. Baker. Fig. 1, stamen ; 2, apex of style-branch with crest and stigma :—both enlarged. MS. del INFitchlith. Tani 7905. HUERNIA concrnna, Native of Somaliland, Nat. Ord. AScLEPIADACE#.—Tribe STaPeLiEs. Genus Huernia, R. Br.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 784.) Huerta concinna; canlibus 1-2} poll. longis cwspitosis 5-gonis, spinis ad 1 poll. longis subulatis, floribus solitariis binisve, pedicellis brevibus glabris, corolla late campanulata extus g'abra alba intus ubique pro- cessibus subulatis conspersa pallide sulphurea punctis rubro-purpureis maculata, lobis 3 poll. longis deltoideis acuminatis purpureo-marginatis, sinibus latis fundo apiculatis, coronsz exterioris breviter 5-lobs velutins purpureze lobis transverse oblongis emarginatis, coronz interioris lobis late ovatis conniventibus flavis purpureo punctatis et marginatis. H. concinna, V.H. Br. in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vol. iv. p. 497. H. macrocarpa, Taubert in Gartenfl. 1895, p. 353, t. 1416, non alior. The genus Huernia, estimated in the “Genera Planta- rum” in 1886 to contain eleven species, all South African, has been largely increased by recent discoveries in tropical Africa, whence eight additional species have been described by Mr. N. E. Brown in the very recently issued Flora of that region; and an Arabian congener, H. arabica, N. KH. Br., has added Asia to the geographical range of the genus. H. concinna was, together with another new species (H. Somalica, N. E. Br.) brought from Somaliland by Mrs. Lort Phillips, and presented to the Cambridge Botanic Garden, where it flowered in the midsummer of 1900, and was described by Mr. N. E. Brown, whose description I have followed above. The individual specimen is that here figured, which was forwarded by Mr. Lynch to the Royal Gardens, Kew, in June, 1900. Descr.—Stems clustered, one to two and a half inches long, five-angled, spiny; spines about a quarter of an inch long, subulate. Flowers solitary or in pairs, on short, glabrous pedicels. Sepals a quarter of an inch long, gradually tapering from a broad base to fine hair-like points, glabrous. Corolla broadly campanulate, about one inch across, glabrous outside, smooth, yellowish white, covered everywhere inside with bristle-like appendages, pale yellow, dotted with purple-brown; lobes about one- Juty Ist, 1903. third of an inch long, deltoid, acuminate, not fringed, alternating with as many teeth. Outer corona very shortly five-lobed ; lobes transversely oblong, emarginate, velvety, purple-brown. Inner coronal-lobes broadly ovate, conni- vent in a cone over the tips of the anthers, yellow, edged and speckled with purple-brown.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, portion of inner surface of corolla; 2, corona; 3, the same with the inner lobes removed; 4 and 5, pollinia:—all enlarged. f ) Y \ Y 4)! Nf jy M.S.4el, N-Fitch lith. Tas. -7 906. CALOTHAMNUS ruvpssinis. Native of Western Australia. Nat. Ord. Myrracea.—Tribe LeprospERME#. Genus Catotuamnts, Labill.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 706.) CaLoTHaMNUS rupestris; frutex sempervirens, robustus cortice brunneo ~ primum pubescente simul pilis paucis longis tenuissimis instructo, foliis confertis spiraliter dispositis pollicaribus acicularibus strictis v. incurvis rigidis teretibus primum pilis longis ut in ramis parce instructis cito glabrescentibus glaberrimis pungentibus, floribus in ramulis_ sessilibas fasciculatis v. breviter spicatis, calycis 4 poll. longi albo-villosi hemi- spherici crassi tubo brevi basi libero rotundato ramo non immerso, lobis 4 ovatis obtusis coriaceis, petalis 1-4, % poll. longis fere orbicularibus concavis subtrilobis, disco intus papilloso, staminum, phalangibus 13 polli- caribus filamentis perplurimis infra medium in laminam late linearum coccineam confluentibus, antheris lineari-oblongis aureis, capsula glabres- cente fere globosa vel elliproidea 3-} poll. longa lignosa haud immersa, calysis lobis 2 oppositis tantum auctis incurvis more psittaci rostram. C. rupestris, Schauer in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. vol. xxi. p. 26; Lehm. Plant. Preiss. yol. i. p. 152. Benth. Flor. Austral. vol. iii. p. 179. Of the genus Calothamnus, which consists of twenty- two species, all restricted to S. Western Australia, only one has been previously figured in this work, namely, C. quadrifidus, R. Be. (Bot. Mag. t. 1506), which appeared in 1812. One other species, C. villosus, R. Br., is known to have flowered in Kurope, and it is figured in the Botanical Register, t. 1099. Five are cultivated in the Royal Gardens, Kew, including rupestris and quadrifidus. Iam indebted to Mr. R. I. Lynch for the specimen of C. rupes- tris here figured, which flowered in the Cambridge Botanical Gardens in March of the present year. The plant from which it was taken was obtained from Berlin in 1896, and is about four feet high, and as broad across the branches. Its brilliantly coloured stamens are a con- spicuous feature, and Mr. Lynch informs me that they retain their beauty for nearly, if not quite, three weeks. James Drummond first discovered this, and several other species of the genus, in the Swan River district. It is very doubtful whether C. pinifolius, ¥. Muell., can be accepted as a distinct species, because the characters relied upon are inconstant. C. rupestris is generally described as JULY lst, 1903. having glabrous leaves, but on close examination they are found to be more or less furnished with long, exceedingly fine hairs, which sometimes persist a season or more, sometimes fall very soon. Descr.—A robust, evergreen shrub, sometimes attaining a height of seven or eight feet, but usually less. Branches thick, at first pubescent, and at the same time furnished with long, thin, deciduous hairs, and densely clothed with needle-like leaves, resembling those of a small Pinus. Leaves spirally arranged, one to one and a half inch long, rigid, straight or curved, sharp-pointed, at first more or less furnished with long, very thin, almost in- visible hairs, but soon quite glabrous. lowers crimson, one and a third to one and a half of an inch long, sessile, in small clusters on the previous year’s branches. Calyx densely woolly, four-lobed ; lobes ovate. Petals one to four, small and scale-like. Stamens forming the most conspicuous part of the flower, numerous ; filaments crimson, connate the greater part of their length in four flattened clusters; anthers yellow. Capsule sessile but not immersed in the branch, persistent long after the seeds have fallen out, becoming quite glabrous, nearly globose or elliptical, one half to three-quarters of an inch long, woody and very hard ; two opposite calyx-lobes grow out and are incurved, giving them the appearance of a parrot’s beak.—J. D. 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Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1001.) Isotoma erianthum ; fruticulus 4-pedalis (Hartweg) sed forsan herba perennis rhizomatibus hypogwis squamosis, squamis confertis carnosis orbicularibus compressis sanguineis, caulibus erectis simplicibus crassis subcarnosis dense fulvo-lanatis, foliis oppositis crassis longe petiolatis ovato-lanceo- latis cum petiolo 4--6 poll. longis acutis basi cuneatis interdum leviter obliquis crenato-dentatis supra hispidulis subtus lanatis costa atque venis primariis crassiusculis subtus conspicuis, floribus 1$-2 poll. longis velutinis cinnabarinis in axillis foliorum superiorum fasciculatis pendulis, pedicellis ebracteatis flores equantibus vel longioribus, calycis parvi atro- rubri lobis ovatis acutis tubo vix longioribus, corolle tubo leviter curvato ventricoso apice leviter constricto, limbi lobis parvis rotundatis sub- zequalibus planis divaricatis 3 inferioribus maculatis, staminibus 4 didy- pamis inclusis ima basi corolle affixis filamentis filiformibus glabris antheris glabris per paria cohwrentibus vel conniventibus, staminodio minuto subulato, disci glandulis 5 reniformibus, ovario apice villosissimo, stylo pubescente apice leviter recurvo, stigmate parvo bilamellato. Isoloma erianthum, Decne, in Rev. Hort. 1848, p. 465 (nomen tantum). Gesneria eriantha, Benth, Pl. Hartw. (1846), p. 228. Brachyloma erianthum, Hanst. in Linnea, vol. xxix. p. 573. Kohleria eriantha, Hanst. in Linnea, vol. xxxiv. p. 442. The genera of the Gesneraceze have been so diversely defined and limited by different botanists at different periods that it is difficult to understand what really con- stitutes a genus in this natural order. Bentham first used the name Isoloma (Pl. Hartw. p. 229) to designate a section of Gesneria (sic), in which, however, he did not in- clude the species here figured. Decaisne (in loco supra citato) raised it to generic rank, and enumerated the species, previously referred to various genera, which he considered to belong to it. Bentham and Hooker adopted it, with some modifications in the “Genera Plantarum ” (vol. ii. p. 1001), and as there constituted it comprises between sixty and seventy species, all native of Central and South America, ranging from Mexico to Bolivia and Peru, and mostly growing at considerable elevations. Isoloma is technically distinguished from the neighbour- ing genera Diastema and Houttea by the open estivation of Aveust Ist, 1893. the small calyx and large anthers. J. erianthum, Decne., was first discovered by Hartweg between the villages of Villeta and Guaduas, in the Province of Bogota, and the species was described from dried specimens sent by him to the Royal Horticultural Society of London. There are also specimens in the Kew Herbarium collected by the late Dr. J. Triana in the same Province, at an elevation of two thousand four hundred metres, or nearly eight thousand feet. It is a handsome, free-growing plant, and the specimen from which the plate was prepared was cultivated and presented to Kew by Mr. R. I. Lynch, the Curator of the Cambridge Botanic Garden. It flowered in March of the present year. Deser.—A robust, erect, herbaceous plant, two to four feet high, with underground scaly rhizomes, and thick, more or less fleshy stems and leaves, more or less clothed with soft, fulvous hairs. Scales of the rhizomes crowded, fleshy, orbicular, compressed, crimson. Leaves opposite, on long petioles, ovate-lanceolate, including the petioles four to six inches long, acute, cuneate at the base, some- times slightly rough on the upper surface and woolly beneath; midrib and primary nerves thick and con- spicuous. Flowers one and a half to two inches long, velvety, orange-red or cinnabar, clustered at the axils of the upper leaves, pendulous on bractless pedicels of about the same length. Calye small, dark red, equally five- lobed; lobes ovate, acute. Corolla slightly curved and ventricose; limb almost equally five-lobed; lobes flat, rotundate, about a quarter of an inch across, the three lower spotted. Stamens four, didynamous, included in the corolla; filaments filiform, glabrous, attached near the base of the corolla; anthers glabrous, connivent in pairs. Staminode minute, subulate. Disk of five reniform glands. Ovary densely villous at the top ; style pubescent, slightly recurved at the tip; stigma small, bilamellate.—W. B. i Fig. 1, portion of calyx, disk and gyneceum: 2 ti showing insertion of stamens and Wherieoda: Bash cit egg Mpctarslis. r 3 pos : hair from the corolla :-—all enlarged. » dorsal-view of anthers; 4, a 7908 Vincent Brookes Day & Soni M.S. del,.JN Fitch lith Tas. 7908. SEDUM Sraauu. Native of Mexico. Nat, Ord, CRAssuLACES. Genus Sepum, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 659.) Sepum Stahlii; herba perennis, multicaulis, dense ramosa, caulibus vel ramis florigeris erectis vel adscendentibus graciliusculis foliisque primum minutissime puberulis 4-6 poll. longis, foliis oppositis vel suboppositis sessilibuscrassis carnosis oblongo-ovoideis ellipticisve }-3 poll. longis ambitu circiter 3 poll. rubescentibus vel rubiginosis, floribus pentameris luteis 7-9 lin. diametro in cymas terminales pauciramosas dispositis, cyms ramulis recurvis, pedicellis brevissimis, sepalis puberulis subcarnosis erectis lineari-oblongis obtusis petalis saltem dimidiv brevioribus, petalis lanceolatis dorso infra apicem corniculatis divaricatis, staminibus 10 erectis petalis brevioribus, disci squamis truncatis, carpellis 5 clavatis glabris. S. Stahlii, Solms; Rehnelt in Gartenwelt, 1902, p. 316, ex Wiener Illustrirte Gartenzeitung, 1902, p. 220. This Sedum was sent by Professor Count H. von Solms Laubach to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in May, 1900, for identification, with the information that it had been collected in Mexico by a Mr. Stahl, of Jena, and had been in cultivation several years without producing flowers. He was informed that it was different from anything at Kew, either in the herbarium or garden. Thereupon he sent a living plant to Kew, with the name S. Stahlit; yet he does not appear to have published a description of the plant. In an editorial paragraph in the Wiener Gartenzeitung, cited above, it is stated that a Mr. Rehnelt had described it in the Gartenwelt (1902, p. 316), a publication to which I have not access at the present time; therefore the description has been wholly drawn up from the plant that flowered at Kew. Count Solms states, in his original communication concerning this species, that the leaves readily fall off, when a bud is soon formed at the base and develops into an independent plant. I have not been able to ascertain whether the foundation of this bud is formed before the leaf falls, but I think it is quite probable that it is. 8S. Stahlii is a very rapid growing Species, speedily forming a carpet, planted out or in AuveGust Ist, 1903. shallow pans, and is suitable for a greenhouse. The — genus Sedum comprises about 150 species, spread all round the northern hemisphere, and about thirty are known to inhabit Mexico. They present great variety in habit and aspect, from the lowly 8S. cupressoides to S. dendroidewm, an erect, branching shrub. | Deser.—A trailing, much-branched, succulent, obscurely puberulous, perennial herb, with erect or ascending flowering-stems, four to six inches high. Leaves opposite, or sub-opposite, sessile, slightly flattened at the point of attachment, longer than the internodes, thick, fleshy, ovoid or ellipsoid in shape, a quarter of an inch to half an inch long, and about three-quarters of an inch in girth, becoming red-brown. Flowers yellow, pentamerous, seven to nine lines in diameter, arranged in few-branched, terminal cymes; branches of the cymes recurved ; pedicels very short. Sepals puberulous, somewhat fleshy, erect, linear-oblong, obtuse, scarcely half as long as the petals. Petals lanceolate, with a short, dorsal, horn-like appendage just below the apex, spreading horizontally from below the middle. Stamens ten, erect, shorter than the petals. Carpels clavate, glabrous.x—W. B. H. Fig. 1,a leaf; 2, a flower-bud; 8,an expanded fower; 4 and 5, stamens; 6, disk and gynaceum :—all enlarged. 7909 - Vincent Brooks Day &Son Lt? Lup M.S. del, J.N-Fitch lith Tas. 7909, ’ CHLORAA LONGIBRACTEATA, Native of Chili. Nat. Ord. OrcuipEa.—Tribe Neorrie. Genus Cutoraa, Lindl. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Flant. vol. iii. p. 618.) CutorZa longibracteata; herba terrestris, glaberrima, tuberosa, 12-18 poll. alta, tuberibus cylindricis elongatis }-1 poll. crassis usque ad 6-8 poll. longis, caule simplici crasso carnoso infra flores per totam longitudinem foliis spathaceis acutis arcte appressis vestito, foliis radicalibus subrosu- latis subcarnosis late obovato-rotundatis 3-5 poll. longis 2-24 poll. latis apice recurvis pluricostatis inter costas reticulato-venosis, floribus 3-13 poll. diametro albido-aurantiacis demum laxiuscule spicatis, spicis 4-8 poll. longis, bracteis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis floribus paulo — brevioribus vel in speciminibus agrestibus paulo longioribus, sepalis albis dissimilibus, 2 lateralibus majoribus longe cornutis cornu tereti carnoso viridi, terminali petalis simili, petalis oblique ovato-oblongis, labelli aurantiaci sessilis basi cordati supra cristati lobis lateralibus brevibus rotundatis lobo terminali sinuato apice incrassaio, columna labello dimidio breviore. Chlorsxa longibracteata, Lindl. in Brand Quart. Journ. Roy. Inst. n.s. vol. i, (1827) p. 48; Benth. in Maund Bot. vol. ii. t. 94. , Saar ia Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. p. 408; C0. Gay, Fl. Chil. vol. i. p. 468. Chlorea is the characteristic genus of ground orchids in extratropical South America, especially on the western side, Altogether about eighty species have been described ; but many of them are only very imperfectly known from _ dried specimens. Since the drawing of the present species was made several other species have flowered at Kew from tubers collected and presented by H. J. Elwes, Esq., and drawings having been made it is probable that some of them may appear in this publication. Chlorea differs from most of the allied genera in having no spur. Our drawing of C. longibracteata was made from a plant pre- sented to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, by Mr. F. W. Burbidge, the enthusiastic Curator of Trinity College Botanic Gardens, Dublin. It was presented to Trinity by Mr. Thornhill, whose father-in-law, Mr. J. W. Warburton, formerly H.M. Consul-General at Valparaiso, introduced it from Chili. Incidentally it may be mentioned that Kew was indebted to the latter gentleman for several interesting Aveust lst, 1903. plants during his tenure of office, amongst them the diminu- tive, leafless Viscum that grows parasitically on a columnar species of Cereus. At Mr. Burbidge’s request, Mr. Warbur- ton furnished the following particulars of the conditions under which Chlorxa longibracteata grows wild:—* Unless I confuse two kinds of orchids, it is the commonest I found. The ground rises very rapidly from the sea-shore, much broken into glens (quebrada) full of scrub, and very rocky. The rock is all granite or granitic, and the surface much decomposed. Here and there you come across little plateaux among the rough slopes and rising ground, with very little soil on them formed of disintegrated granite, clay and gravel. These plateaux usually have a very sparse vegetation, consisting of bulbous plants, orchids, a - little grass, &c. Near the tops and on the tops grew what my friends and I called the green orchis, in hundreds. It always seemed to us that they grew in what were about the driest places possible, where the ground was so hard that it was difficult to dig them up with a _ garden trowel.” Mr. Warburton goes on to say that this orchid, and other less abundant species, were usually of stunted, dwarf growth, owing to the great dryness of the soil, and the cultivated plants were much more vigorous. Evidently, then, this is one of the numerous instances in which plants are not found growing naturally where the conditions are most favourable to full development. Descr.—A terrestrial, glabrous, tuberous-rooted herb, twelve to eighteen inches high. Tubers cylindrical, a quarter of an inch to one inch thick, the longest six to eight inches long. Stem simple, thick, fleshy, clothed throughout below the flowers with spathaceous, acute, closely appressed leaves. Radical leaves somewhat rosu- late, rather fleshy, broadly obovate-rotundate, three to five inches long, two to two and a half inches broad, recurved at the tip, longitudinally ribbed, with reticulated venation between the ribs. Flowers one and a half to one and one-third of an inch in diameter, becoming loosely spicate; spikes four to eight inches long; bracts linear- lanceolate, acuminate, somewhat shorter than the flowers in cultivated specimens, somewhat longer in wild speci- mens. Sepals white, dissimilar, the two lateral larger, terminating in cylindrical, solid, fleshy, green, horn-like tips; terminal one similar to the petals. Petals obliquely ovate-oblong. Labellum orange-coloured, sessile, cordate at the base, crested above; lateral lobes short, rounded ; terminal one sinuate, thickened at the tip. Column half as long as the labellum.—W. B. H. Fig. 1, side view of labellum and column ; 2, front view of labellum ; 8, front view of column; 4, anther; 5, pollinia:—all enlarged. 7910 dilthdinndmniiccee e T siebo8s Vincent Brooks Day &Sen Lt@.ap M.S.del,JN Fitch hth L ‘Ten & C°London Tas. 7910. ARISASMA sapontcum, o. Native of China and Japan. Nat. Ord. ArnoipE#.—Tribe ARINEA. Genus Arisama, Mart.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p, 965.) ARISHMA japonicum; herba dioica, tuberosa, tubere globoso, glaberrima, 1-2-pedalis, caulibus swpissime bifoliatis inflorescentia terminatis, foliis pedatisectis longe petiolatis, petiolis ultra medium vaginatis, lamin tenuis segmentis 5-11 sessilibus vel intermedio interdum ansato oblongis vel lanceolatis 13-6 poll. longis sed plerumque 3-5 poll. longis acutis vel caudato-acuminatis basi cuneatis integris, spatha pedunculata folia sequante vel seepius superante, spathe 4-pollicaris viridis longitudinaliter albo-striats tubo cylindrico sursum leviter ampliato, fauce aperto, limbo recurvo, lamina ovata acuta vel acuminata fornicato-incurva, spadicis unisexualis g appendice stipitata (ie. paulo supra flores incrassata) clavata spathe tubum paulo superante, floribus masculis achlamydeis breviter stipitatis 2~4-andris. Arisema japonicum, Blume, Rumphia, vol. i. p. 106; Schott, Synops. p. 29, et Prodr, p. 40; Engler in DO. Monogr. Phaner. vol. ii. p. 549 ; Franch. et Savat. Enum. Pl. Jap. vol. ii. p. 5; Somoku Zusetsu, vol. xix. t. 16 (12); Honzo Zufu, vol, xxii. t. 19. Aram Dracunculus, Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 233, haud Linn. Arisema latisectum, Blwme, loc. cit. p. 110, fide Engler, loc. cit. The genus Arisema comprises between fifty and sixty described species, chiefly inhabiting temperate and sub- tropical Asia. One occurs in Abyssinia, and a few. are natives of North America, southward to Mexico. Some of the species are amongst the most graceful and elegant members of the order, presenting great variety in the foliage, and more especially in the form and shape of the spathe and spadix, and several have been figured in this work. In some species, A. concinnum (tab. 5914), for example, the spathe is prolonged into a long slender tail ; in A. curratum (tab. 5931) the spadix is elongated ; in A, fimbriatum (tab. 7150) it is plumose. A. costatum has both spathe and spadix elongated. A. Griffithii (tab. 6491) and A. speciosum (tab. 5964) may be mentioned as representatives of the more showy, ornamental species. A. japonicum is apparently very common in Japan, as it is represented in almost every collection of dried plants from that country. It also occurs in Formosa, and Dr. A. Aveust Isr, 1903. Henry collected it abundantly in the Chinese Provinces of Hupeh and Szechuen. This species represents a group in which neither the spathe nor the spadix is elongated. The plant figured was raised at Kew from seeds received in 1899 from the Botanic Garden, Imperial University, Tokyo, Japan. It flowered in the Alpine House in March, 1903. Descr.—A tuberous-rooted, perennial, dicecious, glabrous herb. Tuber globose. Stems one to two feet high, two- leaved, terminating in a single inflorescence. Leaves pedately compound, on long petioles; petioles sheathing to above the middle, thence free and terete; leaflets or leaf- segments five to eleven, thin, sessile or the intermediate sometimes stalked, oblong or lanceolate, one and a half to six, but usually three to five inches long, acute or caudate- acuminate, cuneate at the base, entire. Spathe pedun- culate, equalling or overtopping the leaves, green with longitudinal white stripes ; tube cylindrical, slightly widen-. ing upwards; limb ovate, acute or acuminate, incurved, margin recurved below the middle. Male spadix with a stalked, clavate appendage, longer than the tube of the spathe. Male flowers without a perianth; stamens two to four; filaments confluent.—W. B. H. Fig. 1, a male spadix; 2 and 3, male flowers :—all enlarged. _ ; M.S.del JN Fiteh: ith. L Reeve & C °London. Tas. 7911. CISTANCHE vioracra. Native of Marocco and Algeria. Nat. Ord. OROBANCHACEA, Genus CistancnE, Hoffmg. et Link; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. . p. 893.) ; CisTaNCHE violacea; herba crassa, carnosa, in radicibus Chenopodiacearum frutescentium, Gypsophile albe, Staticis monopetale, ets., parasitica, caule 6-15 poll. alto (forsan interdum altiore) simplici vel rarius ramoso carnoso seepius 1-2 poll. crasso “ sed interdum crassitie brachii,” squamis carnosis latis deltoideis vel rotundatis densissime imbricatis, superioribus interdum laxioribus longioribus tenuioribus ovatis lanceolatis lineari- busve fere foliaceis, omnibus demum exsiccatis marcidisque, floribus purpureis vel purpureo-violaceis circiter 1 poll. diametro 14 poll. longis panes densissime congestis, spicis demum elongatis interdum 6-8 poll. ongis, bracteis coloratis ovato-oblongis obtusis calycem squantibus, calycis scariosi pag et lobis fere zqualibus oblongis rotundatis, corolla arcuata, ore obliquo, limbi lobis fere squalibus rotundatis recurvis licis 2 longitudinalibus cristatis aureis inter lobos laterales et lobum inferiorem ornatis, staminibus vix exsertis, filamentis basi barbatis apice incurvis, antheris approximatis barbatis, ovario glabro, stylo staminibus paulo longiore apice recurvo, stigmate lato obscure bilobo, capsula ovoidea obtusa compressa, seminibus numerosissimis minutis. Phelipxa violacea, Desf. Flor. Atlant. vol. ii. p. 60, t. 145; Battand. et Trab, Flor. de Algérie, p. 656; Reut. in DC. Prodr. vol. xi. p. 12; Viviani, Flor, Lyb. Specim. p. 34. Orobanche Phelypwa, Willd. Sp. Pl. vol. iti. p, 352. The genus Cistanche, regarded by most authors as a section of Phelipxa, is retained in the ‘* Genera Plantarum,” because of the peculiar habit of the species, the sub-equal, obtuse lobes of the calyx, and the dense inflorescence. It consists of about a dozen species inhabiting the Mediter- ranean region and the Orient, from Portugal and Marocco eastward to the Punjab. C. violacea is a rather common plant in North Africa, from Marocco through Algeria to Tunis, growing both on the sea-shore and in the saline districts of the interior. The plant figured here was sent to Kew, in March of the present year, to be named by Mrs. R. W. Dent, of Flass, Crosby Ravensworth, Shap, Westmoreland, who received it from a friend staying at Biskra, Algeria, who found it “in the desert growing straight out of the sand, where it is brackish.” The plant reached Kew in fairly good condition, except that Aveust Ist, 1893, the flowers were partly decayed and discoloured in conse- quence of having been packed in wet moss. Otherwise it might have gone on growing, and attained complete development, as there was a great store of reserve food in the thickened caudex. The whole plant weighed ten ounces, and the fleshy caudex or stem was eight inches in its greatest circumference. From the speci- mens in the Kew Herbarium and Desfontaine’s de- scription in the work cited above, it would appear that Cistanche violacea sometimes flowers the first season, when the stem grows relatively tall, and only about an inch thick at the base; and sometimes it forms a very thick caudex the first season, and flowers the second, after the disappearance of the host-plant from which it derived its great store of food. The plants that flower the first season have altogether the habit and aspect of an ordinary broom- rape; and a very careful examination is necessary to establish the specific identity of the two conditions. ‘Mrs. Dent’s friend, who sent the specimen, states that the people of Biskra scrape the root, and take it as a remedy for colic. At the request of Kew, with a view to cultiva- tion, a second consignment was made, but unfortunately the specimens were cut off at the base of the inflorescence. It should be added that the colour of the flowers in the plate is perhaps not quite exact, in consequence of deterio- ration in transit. = : ee Descr.—A fleshy, leafless herb, destitute of chlorophyll, — and parasitic on the roots of various Chenopodiacee, Gypsophila alba, Statice monopetala, &c. Stem six to fifteen inches high, simple or rarely branched, usually about one inch thick, but sometimes as much as six to eight in girth, densely clothed with fleshy, imbricating scales, the lower deltoid or rounded, the upper gradually thinner, longer, narrower and less crowded, uppermost free and bract-like; at length all dry and shrivelled. Flowers purple or violet-purple, about an inch in diameter, and one and a half inch long, at first very densely crowded. Spikes elongating in development, and sometimes as much as S1x to eight inches long. Bracts ovate-oblong, obtuse, equal- ling the calyx. Calyx scarious, five-lobed; lobes nearly equal, oblong, rotundate. 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Senecio (Synotis) tanguticus; herba elata, superne ramosa, glabrescens, caule tereti robusto, foliis amplis 5-7-poll. longis, inferioribus longe petiolatis late ovatis deltoideisve subdigitatim pinnatifido-lobatis et laceris v. subbipina- tifidis pinnis lobisve argute profunde que serratis basi truncatis cordatis v. acutis, supra saturate viridibus subtus pallidis, petiolo lamina breviore dilatata semiamplexicauli, capitulis numerosissimis suberectis ig swprbea in paniculam amplam pyramidatam dispositis, pedicellis brevibus, bracteis arvis, involucri anguste tubulosi 3 poll. longi basi 3-4-bracteolati racteis 3-4 anguste linearibus obtusis herbaceis viridibus glabris fl. radii sepius 3-4 raro 0, corolle# tubo elongato, ligula } poll. longa anguste linearia apice 3-crenata, fl. disci ad 3 tubo elongato lobis 5 revolutis, antheris anguste linearibus breviter caudatis flavo-brunneis, pappo copioso molli albo, acheniis parvis oblongis glabris. S. tanguticus, Mawim. in Bull. Acad. Pétersb, xxvii. (1881) p. 486, et Mél, Biol. xi, 244, S. Henryi, Hemsl. in Journ. Linn, Soc. Bot. vol. xxiii. (1888) p. 452. It is difficult to find something to say that is specially applicable to a given species in a genus numbering upwards of a thousand species, but Senecio tanguticus belongs to a comparatively small section, characterized by having a very small number of flowers, rarely only one, in each head. Without close examination, the flower-heads of _ S. tanguticus might be taken for separate flowers, with three or four petals each. A dried specimen of S. tanguticus was first sent to Kew in 1886, by Dr. A. Henry, who collected it near Patung, in the Province of Hupeh; and he subsequently sent numerous specimens from various other localities in the same Province. In 1887, Kew received specimens of the same species, collected by the Rev. E. Faber, at an elevation of four thousand feet, on Mount Omei, in the Province of Szechuen. Mr. Hemsley, failing to identify these specimens, from the description of S. tanguti- cus of Maximowicz, described it under the name of S. Henryt. Since then Kew has received an authentic SEPTEMBER Ist, 1903. specimen of 8. tanguticus, and it was Dr. Henry himself, as I am informed by Mr. Hemsley, who first recognized the identity of the two. Mr. Wilson, collector for Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, subsequently sent home seed of this handsome herbaceous plant, and our plate was prepared from successfully cultivated examples raised at Coombe Wood in 1902. Judging from the vigorous plant, between six and seven feet high, sent to Kew by Messrs. Veitch, 8S. tanguticus 18 a very striking object, suitable both for mixed planting and grouping. It may be added that since the publication of Forbes’ and Hemsley’s Enumeration of the Chinese Composite (‘‘ Journal of the Linnean Society,” vol. xxiii.) in 1888, the number of known Chinese species of Senecio has been raised from sixty-three to nearly 150. Many of them are very pretty, and some of a highly ornamental character. Deser.—A tall, stout, glabrous or glabrescent, leafy herb, six to seven feet high, branching upwards. Stem as thick as the thumb below, terete, green; branches erect. Leaves five to seven inches broad and long, lower long-petioled, broadly ovate or deltoid, pinnatifidly lobed or sub-pinnatifid, lobes linear-lanceolate, acuminate, acutely, rather distantly coarsely irregularly serrate, dark green above, paler beneath, base truncate or broadly sub-cordate, sinus rounded; petiole of lower leaves very long, base dilated and semi-amplexicaul. leads in erect, very many-flowered, pyramidal panicles six to seven inches long, terminating the branches; bracts small, green, lanceolate; pedicels one-sixth of an inch long. Involucre narrow, cylindric, one-third of an inch long, calyculate with short, subulate bracts at the base; bracts three or four, linear, tips rounded. Ray- flowers three or four, rarely absent ; ligule half an inch long, linear, three-toothed, four- to five-nerved, golden- yellow. Disk-flowers three or four, lobes revolute. Anthers linear, exserted, pale brown ; style-arms revolute. Pappus copious, soft, white. Achene short, glabrous.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, capitulum ; 2, ray-flower ; 3, pappus hair ; 4, disk-flower ; 5, stamens; 6, style-arms :—all enlarged ; 7, reduced view of upper part of plant. 7913 MS del, JN Fitchlith oe eee: |S ete Tas. 7913. DRABA GILLIESII. Native of Chili. Nat. Ord. Crucirernx.—Tribe ALYSSINE. Genus DraBa, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 74.) Drazpa (Leucodrabra) Gilliesii; perennis, molliter substellatim pubescens, caule pedali erecto basi ramoso folioso, foliis 1-1}-poll. longis sessilibus v. semiamplexicaulibus patulis ovatis oblongisve acatis undulatis remote dentatis infimis nunc breviter petiolatis lete viridibus, racemis elongatis laxe multifloris, floribus 3-3 poll. latis longe pedicellatis, petalis } poll. longis oblongis apice rotundatis, petalis sepalis multo majoribus albis, ovario laxe stellatim pubescente, stylo elongato filiformi, siliculis 4-3 poll. longis ellipsoideis planis acutis stylo persistente terminatis tortis, seminibus oblongis =; poll. longis compressis pallide castaneis. D. Gilliesii, Hook. et Arn. in Hook. Bot. Mise. vol. iii. (1833) p. 137. Walp. Rep, vol. i. p. 157. Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. vol. ii. p. 236. C. Gay, Fl. Chil. vol. i. p. 154. Reitche, Flora de Chile, vol. i. (1896) p. 112. D. araucana, Phil. in Anal. Univ. Chil. 1872, p. 672. D. Davila, Phil. le. D. rosulata, Phil. in Linnea, vol. xxviii. (1856) p. 669. D. stolonifera, Barn. ex C. Gay, l.c. p, 155. The foregoing synonymy is that of the “ Index Kew- ensis,’ but I have not succeeded in ascertaining on whose authority the reductions were made, and I have not been able to examine the specimens critically. 1 had hoped to _ get the views of Dr. H. Gilg, of Berlin, who is engaged on -@ monograph of the Andine species of Draba, on this point ; but as no reply has been received, he was probably from home when the application reached Berlin. In Reiche’s recent ‘ Flora de Chile” (vol. i. p. 112), however, D. stolonifera, Barn., D. rosulata, Phil., and D. colchaguen- sis, Phil., are reduced to D, Gilliesti. On the other hand, D. araucana, Phil., and D. Davilx, Phil., are treated as distinct species; the former described as differing from D, Gilliesit in having flat pods, and the latter in having numerous stems from the same root. D. Gilliesii, as re- presented in the accompanying plate, is an interesting example of cultivation, being nearly three times the size of the wild specimens, and a really attractive plant. SEPTEMBER Ist, 1903, Draba is one of the few genera amongst the higher orders of flowering plants that is well represented through nearly 140 degrees of latitude. This is, of course, in the New World. Throughout, excepting the low countries of Central America, Draba is frequent, at low elevations in the north temperate regions, at high elevations in the tropical and south temperate, the genus having its maximum number of species in the Andes. In the Old World, on the contrary, the genus Draba is confined to the north temperate zone, bounded on the south by the Mediter- ranean in Europe, and the Himalaya in Asia. Draba Gilliesit was discovered by Dr. Gillies in the Cordillera of Cumbre, at about eight thousand feet eleva- tion, and has been collected at various other localities, always at a great elevation, of the Chilian chain. It varies very much in habit, according to locality. The specimen figured was presented to the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1902, by A. K. Bulley, Esq., of Ness, Neston. It flowered in the Alpine House in March, 1903. Deser.—A perennial tufted, laxly stellately hairy herb, one to ten inches high, of various habit and leafage. Stem stout or slender, simple or branched, leafy. Leaves sessile, coarsely toothed, half an inch to one and a half inch long, lower or radical linear or ovate-oblong, cauline ovate- cordate, more irregularly toothed. Racemes short or long, few- or many-flowered, erect, pedicels three-quarters of an inch to one and a half inch long, slender, spreading. Flowers one half to three-fourths of an inch in diameter in large states of the plant, much smaller in others, white. Sepals oblong, obtuse, laxly stellately hairy. Petals obo- vate-spathulate. Hilaments glabrous ; anthers rather small, oblong. Capsules elliptic-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, with the persistent style, strongly compressed and twisted. Seeds very small.—J. D. H. ? Fig. 1, flower with petals removed; 2 and 3, anthers; disk :—all enlarged; 5, fruit, ar 1G and 3, anthers; 4, gynaceum and Note.—Since the foregoing was set up, a reply has been received from Dr. Gilg, who makes the synonymy the same as ours, with the addition of D. colehaguensis, Phil. 7914 aT ON - MS.del JN Fitch lith Tas. 7914. TRIS spucwarica. Native of Bokhara. Nat. Ord. IntipEa,—Tribe Mora#Ez. Genus Iris, Linn. (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 686.) Iris (Juno) bucharica; ex affinitate I. orchioidei (B. M. t. 7111) et forsan hujus species mere varietas, bulbo subgloboso, caule erecto 1-2 ped. alto internodiis distinctis, foliis 7-11 lanceolatis acute acuminatis usque ad 1 ped. longis sed spe brevioribus arcuatis nitidis, spathis in axillis foliorum solitariis 1-foris vix acutis haud inflatis, floribus breviter pedun- culatis albido-luteis circiter 24 poll. diametro, perianthii tubo elongato, limbi segmentis omnibus longe unguiculatis, exterioribus lamina oblonga apice rotundata recurva cristata crista aurantiaca, interioribus parvis arcte deflexis trilobulatis lobis lateralibus obtusis intermedio acutissimo, “i he yeatey oblique ovatis interdum in margine exteriore irregulariter -lobulatis. I. bucharica, Foster in Gard. Chron. 1902, vol. i. pp. 385-387, tig. 135; 1903, vol. i. p. 251. Journ. Hort. ser. 3, vol. xlv. p. 260-261. This pretty Iris is one of a series of four which Sir Michael Foster, one of the first authorities on the genus, says might well be regarded as varieties of one species, namely, orchioides, Carr. in Rev. Hortic. 1880, p. 387, fig. 68 (B. M. t. 7111). But he argues that as they present distinctive characters, which, from a gardener’s stand- point, constitute species, they may as well be accepted as such. This may be a convenient course so long as there are only the four to deal with; but, judging from very scanty material, there is considerable individual variation, and 1 am not quite certain that our plant is exactly his I. bucharica. He himself says that one of the four of this series, the one known as J. orchioides cerulea, was referred by Regel to J. caucasica, Hoffm., and 1 find that Regel (Gartenflora, t. 800) figures a plant exceedingly like ours, especially in the three-lobed deflexed inner petals or standards, as I. caucasica. The plant here figured was purchased from Messrs. Van Tubergen, Dutch N urserymen, and it flowered in the Alpine House at Kew in March of the present year. Sir Michael Foster obtained his from the same source, SEPTEMBER Ist, 1903, as well as the closely allied, though very differently coloured J. warleyensis, described and figured in the same place, and which will shortly be figured in this Magazine. He describes the standards of I. bucharica in the following words: ‘‘small, pure white, extended horizontally, with a canaliculate claw expanding into a broader, flat, distinctly: mucronate blade.’? On the other hand, the figure in the “ Journal of Horticulture” cited above, has distinctly lobed standards. ) Descr.—Closely allied to I. orchioides and I. caucasica, and having a nearly globose bulb. Stem erect, one to two feet high; internodes distinct. Leaves seven to eleven, lanceolate, acuminate, acute, lower ones nine to twelve inches long, shorter upwards, curved, shining. Spathes solitary in the axils of the leaves, one-flowered, scarcely acute, not inflated. lowers shortly peduncled, yellow and white, about two and a half inches across. Perianth- _ tube elongated. Petals all having long claws; the three outer (falls) with an oblong, rounded, pendulous, crested blade ; the three inner (standards) much smaller, protrud- ing between the outer, pendulous, three-lobed ; lateral lobes rounded, central one acuminate.—-W. Botting Hemsley. Figs. 1 and 2, anthers; 3, stigmatic surface :—enlarged; 4, entire plant, reduced, pete enn Vincent Brooks Day’& Son Lt*imp L. Reeve & 0° London Tas. 7915. ALOE Cameront. Native of Hastern Tropical Africa. Nat. Ord. Littacrex.—Tribe ALOINEA, Genus Axor, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 776.) Aor Cameroni ; frutex caulescens, erectus, omnino glaber (stirps depicta caule simplici circiter bipedali), foliis sparsis patenti-recurvis angustis lanceolatis 9-12 poll. longis infra medium circiter 1} poll. latis acutis concavo-convexis plano-convexisve circiter 3-4 lin. crassis viridibus margine remote breviterque spinoso-dentatis spinis basi latis apice incurvis, inflorescentia axillari simplici suberecta cum pedunculo elongato circiter pedali, bracteis scariosis basi latis acute acuminatis pedicellis brevioribus, pedicellis 13-2 lin. longis, floribus rubro-luteis ad apicem pedunculi confertis pendulis cum staminibus exsertis circiter bipollicaribus, perianthii tubo fere _eylindrico leviter curvato infra medium leviter constricto, limbi lobis shlongis apice tantum leviter recurvis obtusis vel rotundatis, ovario obscure verruculoso, stylo breviter exserto. Aloe Cameroni, Hemsl. A. macrosiphon, Kew Hand-list of Tender Monocotyledons (1897), p. 173, non Baker Fl. Trop. Afr. vol. vii. p. 459. It is not without some misgivings that I have described this Aloe as a new species, but being unable to identify it with any of the fifty species described by Mr. J. G. Baker in the “ Flora of Tropical Africa” (vol. vii. pp. 454-469), F must perforce give it a name. There is always a risk in dealing with a single species of a large and critical genus such as the present, especially as many, probably most, of the species are imperfectly known. The plant from which our drawing was made was sent to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in 1894, by Mr. K. J. Cameron, of the African Lakes Corporation, and was received in 1895, and flowered in February of the present year. Ina letter to the Director, Mr. Cameron says, “* At the request and with the assistance of Mr. Scott Elliot [whose travels in E. and W. tropical Africa and Madagascar are well known to botanists], I have selected the following plants from our garden at Mandala,” Then follows a list. In con- sequence, perhaps, of Mr. Scott Hlliot’s action in connec- tion with sending the plants in question, it was assumed before it flowered, that this Aloe was the same as one SEPTEMBER Ist, 1903. which he collected between Urundi and Karagwe, in German Hast Africa. This has been described by Mr. Baker (Fl. Trop. Afr., vol. vii. p. 459) under the name of A, macrosiphon. The specimen consists of a crumpled, imperfect leaf, the upper part of an inflorescence, and a few old flowers; and although the species is closely allied to A. Cameroni, Hemsl., the material is sufficient to prove that it is specifically different. The most pro- minent differences are the very much larger bracts and longer pedicels. Descr.—An erect shrub with an unbranched stem about two feet high when the drawing was made. Leaves separated by short but distinct internodes, spreading, re- curved, narrow-lanceolate or almost linear, nine to twelve inches long, about one and a half inch broad below the middle, acute, concavo-convex or plano-convex, one-third to a half inch thick, green, margin furnished with rather distant, spinous teeth having a broad base and an in- curved tip. Inflorescence axillary, unbranched, sub-erect, including the elongated peduncle about a foot long. Bracts small, scarious, broad at the base, sharply acumi- nate, shorter than the pedicels. Pedicels about one-sixth of aninchlong. Flowers almost cinnabar red, passing into yellow towards the top, including the exserted stamens two inches long, crowded at the top of the peduncle, pen- dulous. Perianth-tube nearly cylindrical, slightly curved, slightly constricted below the middle; lobes oblong, obtuse, recurved at the tip. Ovary obscurely warted ; style shortly exserted— W. Botting Hemsley. Fig. 1, a flower; 2 and 3, anthers; 4, gynseceum :—all slightly enlarged. 7916 Vincent Brooks,Day& Son Lt# Bmp M.S. del, JN-Fitch lith Tas. 7916. PSYCHOTRIA oaPensis. Native of South Africa. Nat. Ord. Rupracex.—Tribe PsycHoTriges, Genus Psycuorria, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 123.) Psycnorria (Mapouria) capensis; frutex compactus, paucipedalis, fere undi- que glaber, ramulis teretibus, internodiis foliis multo brevioribus, foliis magnitudine ac circumseriptione variabilibus coriaceis petiolatis oblongis lanceolatis oblanceolatis obovatis ellipticisve cum petiolo interdum elongato usque ad 6-7 poll. longis sed swpius 2-4 poll. longis obtusis vel rotundatis basi semper cuneatis margine integerrimis venis inconspicuis, stipulis amplis subcoriaceis ovato-rotundatis intus pubescentibus brun- neis cito deciduis, floribus fragrantibus luteis pentameris vix semipoll. diametro in cymas parvas densas terminales breviter pedunculatas dis- positis, pedicellis floribus brevioribus parce puberulis, calycis minuti limbo ad annulum fimbrillatum reducto, corolla infundibularis tubo sursum leviter dilatato vix 3 lin. longo fauce barbato, limbi lobis ovatis tubo fere dimidio brevioribus vix acutis leviter recurvis, staminibus breviter exsertis, fructu globoso circiter 2$ lin. diametro 2-spermo, _seminibus albumine insigniter ruminato. wgcreed capensis, Vatke in Gister. Bot. Zeitschr. vol. xxv. (1875) p- Grumilea capensis, Sond. in Harv. & Sond, FI. Cap. vol. iii. p. 21. Logania capensis, Eckl. in 8. Afr. Quart. Journ. vol. i. (1830), p. 371. Grumilea globosa, Hochst. in Flora, vol, xxvii. (1844), p. 554. As limited in Bentham and Hooker’s *‘ Genera Planta- rum,” the genus Psychotria numbers between five and six hundred species, spread over nearly all tropical and sub- tropical regions, including Polynesia; but other botanists have variously extended and restricted it. The late Dr. Baillon, for instance, reduced (Hist. Pl. vol. vil. p. 280) Palicourea, Cephelis, and several other genera, to it, bringing up the total number of species to upwards of eight hundred. For this unwieldly agglomeration he used the earlier Linnean name Uvagoga. Schumann, on the other hand (Engler & Prantl. Natwrl Pflanzenf. vol. iv. pp. 111-120) treats Psychotria, Uragoga, Mapouria, Grumilea, &c., as distinct genera. A middle course is, perhaps, the best. Grumilea, as a genus, stands upon the ruminated albumen, which is well developed in the species figured. But the disadvantages of being unable to deter- SrerTeMBER Ist, 1903. mine the genus in the absence of seeds are obvious, especially where the species are so numerous. Psychotria capensis is apparently a common shrub in South-eastern Africa, ranging from Somerset, Bathurst, and Albany northward to Durban and Inanda. The history of its introduction is unknown, but there is a specimen in the Herbarium which flowered at Kew in April, 1858. Mr. W. Watson, the Curator, to whom the freely in spring. Its com are its greatest attractio Descr.—A dwarf, compact shr nearly all parts. Branches terete, with internodes much shorter than the leaves. Leaves very variable in size and outline, coriaceous, petiolate, oblong, lanceolate, oblanceolate, obovate or elliptical, including the sometimes elon- gated petiole six to seven inches long, but usually — two to four, obtuse or rounded, always cuneate at the base, quite entire, veins inconspicuous; stipules large, thick, ova ound, hairy within, brown, very deci cented, yellow, pentamerous, abou d in dense, terminal, shortl than the flowers, slighth to a fringed rim. Corolla-tub od upwards, straight, scarcely three lines Ic ng, bearded at the top within; lobes ovate, about half as long as the tube, scarcely acute, slightly recurved. Stamens slightly pro- a truded. Style scarcely as long as the stamens. Fruit globose, about one-fifth of an inch in diameter, two-seeded; __ seeds having conspicuously ruminated albumen.—W. _ Botting Hemsley. rae Pee N esis 4and 5, anthers; except 6 enlarged. 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Now Ready. ; ATIC: OF THE BRITISH ISLES. F Frcs With 48 beautifully Coloured tFlpte, 30s. net. a, 4aNDBOOK OF THE BRITISH ee Description of the Flowering Plants and Ferns /ndigenou: to or Naturaliged In. the British Isles. By GEORGE BENTHAM. PRs ee Baiton, Revised by § Sir J.D. Hooke CB. GCS. i PF. R — Ae as \ J E 8 Mla ASN HEL e/ M. S.del J N-Bitchth, “Vincent Brooks,Day & Son Lt? Inup L. Reeve & C®? London : Taps. 7917. ARECA? Micuonirzit. Native of New Guinea. - Nat. Ord. Patma.—Tribe ARRCE. Genus Areca, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Flant. vol. iii. p. 883.) Areca? Micholitzii; palma parva, dum juvenis florens; stirps huc depicta inter 5 et 6 ped. alta (interdum usque ad 9 ped. alta, fide Micholitz), caudice gracili circiter 15 poll. diametro levi glabro annulato, internodiis 1-2- pollicaribus, basi valde attenuato supra terram omnino radicibas aereis sustentato, foliis glabris petiolatis pinnatisectis apice furcatis circiter 33 ped. longis, segmentis nunc 5 vel 7 duobus superivribus alte con- fluentibus exceptis alternis nunc 6 vel 8 oppositis pauci-vel pluriplicatis costatis que basi latis discretis inferioribus falcato-oblongis acuminatis integris ceteris quadrato-oblongis pluri- vel multifidis apicibus sub- acutis, petioli vagina elongata turgida inflorescentiam juvenilem vestiente, petiolo supra vaginam subtrigono, spathis evolutis in axillis folioruam delapsorum solitariis simplicibus cymbiformibus 8-9 — poll. longis levibus glabris nitidis flavo-viridibus intus argenteo- nitidis longitudinaliter multistriatis breviter valideque stipitatis apice rotundatis ante dehiscentiam ventre leviter concavis cito deciduis, spathis secundariis ad bracteas parvas vel minimas reductis, spadice monoico arrecto simpliciter ramoso circiter 1 ped. longo 9 poll. lato pallide viridi undique minute lepidoto ramis sepius circiter 8 distichis divaricatis crassis compressis flexuosis continnis sursum gradatim attenuatis (nec subito fere filiformibus ut in speciebus nonnullis Arece genuine), bracteis bracteolisque minutis vel obsoletis, floribus sessilibus subdistichis in ramorum dimidio inferiore ternis quorum 2 exterioribus J intermedio? in dimidio superiore geminatis utroque ¢, floribus ¢ glabris eburneis 3-4 lin. longis articulatis inferioribus juxta ? positis ante spathe dehiscentiam expansis cito deciduis, calyce minuto tridentato, petalis 3 valvatis crassis * _ oblongo-ovatis obtusis, staminibus 6 petalis paullo brevioribus, pistillodio oblongo trifurco, floribus 2 glabris viridibus, sepalis 3 crassis coriaceis late ovatis obtusis circiter 4 lin. longis arcte imbricatis, petalis 3 sepalis similibus tenuioribus arcte imbricatis, staminodiis 6 minutis e basi lata _ gubito acuminatis, ovario oblongo glabro uniloculari uniovulato, stigmate -____- sessili, ovulo basilari, fructuignoto. : _ A. Micholitzii, Sander, Uat. Pl. 1895, p. 46. Kew Bulletin, Additional Series, vol. iv. (1900), p. 40 (absque deseriptione). ; This palm was discovered in New Guinea by Mr. Micholitz, collector for Messrs. Sander & Co., of St. Albans, and it was advertised for sale in 1895, when a plant was acquired for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. It flowered in March of the present year, but it has produced no fruit. In reply to our inquiries, Messrs. Sander report that they received only a few seeds and the plants are all dispersed, OctToBER lst, 1903. and they could give no particulars beyond Mr. Micholitz’s note that it was very distinct and ornamental, and the tallest stems he had seen were about nine feet high. Until fruit and seed are known, the genus of this palm must remain doubtful; but it will probably prove gene- rically distinct from Areca. A detailed description is given above, from which it will be seen that it differs in several particulars from the typical species of Areca, such as A. Catechu, L. and A. triandia, Roxb., and it is still further removed from the section Balanocarpus. It is one of the comparatively few palms of which the stem or caudex is entirely supported by aerial roots from a very early stage of growth, if not actually from the first stage -after germination. : : _ Deser.—A small palm, glabrous in all parts, flowering when quite young. Stem slender, not known to exceed nine or ten feet in height, as figured here, between five and six feet high, and one and a half inch in diameter, tapering at the base, and entirely supported above ground by aerial roots, banded, unarmed; internodes one to two inches long. Leaves glabrous, petiolate, pinnatisect, forked at the apex, about three and a half feet long; seg- ments either five or seven and alternate, except the uppermost confluent pair, or six or eight and opposite, usually four- to eight-ribbed and folded, broad at the base, distinctly separated or contiguous, lower ones falcate- oblong, acuminate, entire, the rest quadrate-oblong, about four- to eight-fid, the tips acute ; petiole having an elongated,’ turgid sheath usually enclosing a young inflorescence, somewhat trigonous above the sheath. Syathes solitary in the axils of fallen leaves, shortly and stoutly stalked, simple, boat-shaped, eight to nine inches long, outside | smooth, shining, yellow-green, inside silvery, shining, | striated longitudinally, rounded at the tip, slightly con- cave on the upper side before opening, falling away almost directly after opening ; secondary spathes reduced to small or minute bracts. Spadiz moneecious, ascending, simply branched, about a foot long and nine inches across, pale green, studded with minute scales; branches usually — about eight, in two rows, spreading, thick, compressed, zigzag, gradually tapering upwards (not almost thread-like - ain some of the genuine species of Areca); bracts and bracteoles very small or obsolete. lowers glabrous, sessile, in two rows, clustered in threes in the lower part of the branches, the lateral male, the central female, in pairs in the upper part of the branches, both male. Male flowers ivory-white, one-quarter to one-third of an inch long, the lower ones opening before the spathe; calyx minute, three-toothed ; petals three, valvate, thick, oblong- ovate, obtuse ; stamens six, shorter than the petals ; pistil- lode oblong, trifurcate. Female flowers larger, green, or yellow-green; sepals three, thick, coriaceous, broadly ovate, obtuse, about one-third of an inch long, closely im- bricate; petals three, similar to the sepals but thinner, closely imbricate; staminodes six, minute, broad at the base, and abruptly acuminate; ovary oblong, glabrous, one-celled ; stigma sessile; ovule solitary, basal. Pruit unknown.— VW. B. H. : Fig. 1, a female flower and two lateral male flowers; 2, a male flower; 3, a section of the same, showing the pistillode and some of the stamens; 4, a . female flower in a more advanced stage attached to the branch; 5, section of a female flower showing three staminodes; 6, gyneceum, with a portion of the wall of the ovary removed, showing the solitary basal ovule:—all enlarged, ; WS 4 La ui | pore ie ~ Tas. 7918. COTYLEDON (EKcheveria) putvinata. Native of Mexico. Nat. Ord. CrassuLacea. Genus Corrtepon, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 659.) Cotrtepon (Echeveria) pulvinata; fruticulus pedalis, robustus, carnosus, pluricaulis v. a basi ramosus, caulibus ramisve divaricatis 3-$ poll. ms : crassis primum dense argenteo-velutinis demum ferrugineis, internodiis brevibus, foliis patulis 2-3 poll. longis sessilibus spathulato-obovatis oblongisve obtusis crasse carnosis utringue convexis densissime argenteo- velutinis pilis demum retrorsis pallide viridibus, floribus 3-pollicaribus in ramulos simplices elongatos foliosos ascendentes dispositis spicatim race- mosis velutinis, bracteis foliaceis inferioribus pollicaribus, pedicellis brevi- bus crassis, calycis segmentis ovato-lanceolatis acutis erectis viridibus, corolla ealyce duplo longiore urceolato-campanulato rubro-aurantiaco, tubo brevi, segmentis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis apicibus recurvis dorso obtuse carinatis marginibus pallidis, staminibus corolla triente brevioribus, antheris lineari-oblongis apiculatis, disci glandulis depressis lunatis, Ovarii carpellis oblongo-ovoideis teretibus in stylos breves inclusos attenuatis, stigmatibus capitellatis. C. pulvinata, Hook. f. Kcheveria pulvinata, Rose, ined. Cotyledon pulvinata differs from the majority of its con- geners in its branching habit, scattered leaves, spiciform raceme and clothing of velvety, silvery, white hairs, which turn brown on the branches, and are reflexed in age on the leaves. It has slight claims to be placed in the genus _ Kcheveria of De Candolle, which is reduced to Cotyledon in _the “ Genera Plantarum,” but this rests only on the costate corolla-lobes, for it has not the foliaceous sepals upon— which mainly the genus was established. But I under- stand that Dr. J. N. Rose and Dr. N. L. Britton are engaged on a revision of the whole of the North American Crassulacex, and that they propose considerable generic alterations by the creation of several new ones. There- fore I will not further discuss the question of generic limits here. The plant figured was received at Kew in 1900 from the United States National Museum, Washington, and it flowered in the Succulent House in March of the present year. Ocrozer Ist, 1903, Descr.—A small, very stout, fleshy shrub, seven to eight inches high (in the specimen figured), branching below and upwards, sometimes from the root; covered densely. with a silvery, velvety tomentum, which becomes rusty on the stems, and retrorse on the foliage. Leaves two to three inches long, sessile, sub-rosulate towards the tips of the spreading branches, spathulately obovate or oblong, obtuse, thickly fleshy, convex on both surfaces, nerveless, pale green. lowers three-fourths of an inch long, erect or inclined, disposed in a spiciform raceme terminating an elongate, ascending, stout, leafy branch, orange-red. Bracts leaf-like, the lower an inch long, the upper gradually smaller. Pedicels very short and stout. Oalyz about half as long as the corolla, green; segments ovate-lanceolate, acute, erect. Corolla urceolately campanulate, tube short; Segments oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, dorsally’ velvety — and obtusely keeled, margins nearly glabrous, pale, tips spreading or recurved. Stamens about one-third shorter than the corolla-segments ; anthers linear-oblong, apicu- late. Disk-glands lunate. Carpels narrowly ovoid, terete, narrowed into short, subulate styles ; stigmas capitellate.— J.D: HA, es _ Fig. 1, flower; 2, segment of corolla and stamens; 3, glands of disk and pistil :—all enlarged; 4, reduced view of whole plant. 719 M.S. del. J.N-Fitch lith Vancent Brooks Day &Son Lt#imap IL. Reewe & C? Londen. TABS T1929, LYSIMACHIA crisprpens, ” Native of Central China. Nat. Ord. PrarmuLacez.—Tribe LystmacniEm. Genus LysrmacutA, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 635.) Lysimacata crispidens; herba perennis, nunc subscaposa, scapis numerosis gracilibus, nunc, ut in figura, caule ramoso vere foliato, undique glaber- rima, 5-10 poll. alta, foliis crassiusculis subcarnosis margine crispato- dentatis undulatis rubro tinctis radicalibus rosulatis obovato-spathulatis vel interdum fere orbicularibus 1-3 poll. longis deorsum attenuatis vel interdum subpetiolatis caulinis interdum nonnullis radicalibus similibus sepius omnibus multo minoribus bracteiformibus alternis ovatis vel lanceolatis sessilibus semiamplexicaulibus sursum gradatim minoribus, floribus numerosissimis in axillis bractearum solitariis longe graciliterque pedicellatis nutantibus roseis 6-9 lin. diametro, pedicellis bracteis longiori- bus post anthesin arcuatim recurvis, calycis segmentis fere liberis ovato- lanceolatis corolla tubum excedentibus acutis paucidenticulatis, corollgs tubo brevi cylindrico lobis obovatis rotundatis denticulatis, stamivibus inclusis filamentis medio connatis, antheris pilis paucis instructis, gynzeceo glabro, stylo stamina vix wquante stigmate parvo capitato, capsula globosa glabra 5-valvi valvis calycis segmentis oppositis brevioribus, seminibus parvis circiter 20-25 angulatis minute punctatis. Lysimachia crispidens, Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. vol. xxvi. (1889) 2p, BO pl ts Stimpsonia crispidens, Hance in Journ. Bot. vol. xviii. (1880), p. 234. Lysimachia, Chrysosplenium, and several other genera represented in the British Flora by two or three species, have attained their maximum development in China, where the species are numerous and highly diversified. Of Lysi- = — machia alone thirty-five Chinese species are enumerated in the work cited above, including thirteen previously un- described, and since then twenty-five additional new species have been recorded from the same country, making a total of sixty species! They present a great variety in habit, foliage, and flowers. Specially remarkable are: L. pavidi- formis, Franch. (Bot. Mag. t. 7226); Z. insignis, Hemsl. (Hook, Ic. Pl. t. 2634); L. pterantha, Hemsl. (Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxvi. p. 56, t. 2); LZ. involucrata, Hemsl. (Journ. Linn, Soe. vol. xxix. t. 81), and LD. alpestris, Champ., the last having rosulate leaves, resembling those of a Drosera. The genus Lysimachia numbers upwards of one hundred Species, and it has a wide range in the northern hemisphere, Octoper Ist, 1903. and it is also represented in South America, South Africa, Australia, and the Pacific Islands, including six species in the Hawaian group. Some of the last are shrubs five to eight feet high, L. erispidens, Hemsl., was first collected by Mr. T. Watters, near Ichang, Hupeh, and described by Dr. Hance, who erroneously referred it to the genus Stimp- sonia. It has since been collected in the same Province by Dr. A. Henry and Mr. E. H. Wilson, Collector for Messrs. James Veitch & Sons. The plant figured was raised from seed sent home by Mr. Wilson. It is a very pretty and highly floriferous plant, which has not yet, so. far as I am aware, reached its best under cultivation. Judging rather from the wild specimens than those cultivated, it ought to have a future in European gardens. _Deser.—A perennial herb, sometimes sub-scapose with numerous slender scapes, sometimes with a branched stem (as in the plant figured) bearing true leaves, glabrous throughout, five to six inches high. Leaves rather thick, and somewhat fleshy, margin crisply toothed, undulate, tinged with red; radical ones rogulate, obovate, spathulate, or sometimes nearly orbicular, one to three inches long, tapering downwards or sub-petiolate; cauline some- times hke the radical in the lower part of the stem, but usually all smaller and bract-like, alternate, ovate, or lan- ceolate, sessile, more or less stem-clasping, and gradually smaller upwards. Flowers numerous, solitary in the axils” of the bracts, on long, slender pedicels, rose-pink, half to | three-quarters of an inch in diameter. Pedicels longer than the bracts, strongly recurved in fruit. Calyz- segments ovate-lanceolate, longer than the corolla-tube, | acute, few-toothed. Corolla-tube short, cylindrical; lobes obovate-oblong, minutely toothed. Stamens included in the corolla; filaments connate to the middle; anthers having a few hairs near the tips. Ovary glabrous; style scarcely equalling the stamens; stigma small, capitate. Capsule small, globose, five-valved, valves opposite to and shorter than the calyx-lobes. Seeds about twenty to twenty-five, very small, angular, minutely punctate.—W. B. H. Fig. 1, gynaeceum and part of calyx ; 2, part of corolla and three stamens; 3, andreecium; 4a stamen showing inner face of anther :—all enlarged. 7920 2 Pe pe ote ey Ny at ag 2 Pe, na Aiticsovinrcnnintet yeast Vincent Brooks Day &SonLttimp | MS del, J NFitchlith. LReeve & O° London T.R. 7920. TULIPA prastans, — Native of Bokhara, N at. Ord, Lintacez.—Tribe TuLipex. Genus Tuxipa, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 818.) TouLipa prestans; species ex affinitate T. Kaufmanniane, Regel, a qua differt foliis puberulis petalis basi immaculatis ovario staminibus longiore. T. preestans ? Mast. in Gard. Chron. 1903, vol. i. p. 824, f. 126. T. prestans, Hoog, loc. cit. p. 364. Journ. Hort. 3rd Series, vol. xxxiv.-p.335. The genus Tulipa is now illustrated in the Magazine by thirty plates, mostly of distinct species. In 1805 a figure (t. 839) was given of 7. suaveolens, Roth, then and now generally recognized as the Duc van Thol tulip of the Dutch, the origin of which was unknown. The late Dr. HE. Regel, who was a specialist in tulips, first recorded T’. suaveolens (Acta Horts Petropolitani, vol. 11. (1873), p- 495) as a native of the South of Europe; but he sub- sequently received specimens from his son Albert of the plant here figured, from Bokhara, and at once came to the conclusion that it was the wild state of 7. suaveolens, Roth, Among the specimens sent he distinguished three varieties (Act. Hort. Petrop. vol. viii. (1884), p. 650), but the cultivation of bulbs from the same source caused him _ to modify his views, and he combined the varieties under the name of Tulipa suaveolens var. sylvestris. Following the appearance in the Gardener’s Chronicle of an uncoloured figure, cited above, of 7. prestans, Mr. John | Hoog oonfeibited a concise history of the plant and its affinities. He agrees with other writers in identifying T’. suaveolens, Roth, with the Due Van Thol tulip, having himself examined Roth’s herbarium specimens still pre- served in the State Museum of Oldenburg. But he regards T. prestans as specifically distinct from that species; a view ultimately shared, it seems, by the late Dr. H. Regel, who was prevented by bad health from publishing it as a new species. Mr. Hoog gives the following description Octoner Ist, 1903. of 7. prestans, which he considers neither complete nor final :— * Bulb rounded, about one inch in diameter, with a particularly thick, leathery skin, the latter being almost glabrous inside. Peduncle varying in height from a few inches to one and a half feet, covered, as well as the leaves, with minute, closely set, white hairs, and bearing from one to many flowers. Flower-segments all uniform in shape, pointed, and of a peculiar light, scarlet-vermilion colour.” Botanically, he says, it is perhaps nearest 7’. Kaufmanniana, Regel. This is figured in the Magazine (tab. 6837), and is very variable in colour, but not including scarlet and vermilion shades. I must confess that I cannot follow the late Dr. E. Regel and Mr. Hoog in regarding 1. prestans as a tulip specifically distinct from 7. suaveolens, and “ more deserv- ing of a specific name than any other;” but then I am not an expert in tulips. Still it doubtless ranks high among the early-flowering kinds, The plant here figured was purchased by Kew from Messrs. Van Tubergen (J. Hoog), and it flowered in the _ Alpine House in March of the present year. It may be useful to give the corrections here of two errors in the names of tulips figured in the Magazine, due, in part, it may be added, to conflicting views at different periods. Tab. 6635, to which the name iif Borszezowi is given, is T. Kolpakowskiana, Regel; and that — figured under the latter name (t. 6710) is T. Ostrowskiana, Regel, as explained by him (Gartenflora, vol. xxxiii. p. 355). T’. Borszczowi, or, as Regel himself afterwards wrote it, Borsczowi, is a very distinct species, of which no figure has yet appeared in the Magazine.—W. B. H. Fig. 1, portion of leaf showing the hairs; 2, androecium and gyneceum; 3, front view of a stamen; 4, back view of the same; 5, gyneceum :—all enlarsed. 7921 Vincent Brooks,Day & Son Lt Imp M.8.del.J.N-Fitch hth LReeve & C °London ‘Tap. 7921. LISSOCHILUS purroratus. Native of Tropical Africa. . Nat. Ord. Orcuipr#.—T'ribe VanpDrEm. Genus Lissocuitus, R. Br.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 586.) Lissocui.us, purpuratus ; herba terrestris, tuberosa, glabra, foliis hysteranthiis, tuberibus reniformibus iis Solani tuberosi similibus in catenas fere tripe- dales dispositis (Barter), foliis lanceolatis 1-2-ped. longis medio usque ad 2 poll. latis acutis plicatis circiter 7-nervis, nervis secundariis numero- sissimis, scapis plantaram vetustarum numerosis erectis 2-4} ped altis, parte florente 9-15 poll. longa, basi dense vaginatis vaginis sursum gradatim remotioribus minoribusque supremis bracteiformibns acutis, floribus roseo-purpureis circiter 1} poll. diametro, pedicello com ovario 9-18 lin. longo, bracteis membranaceis linearibus acutis pedicello brevioribus marcescentibus, sepalis petalisque similibus concoloribus roseis anguste oblongis vix acutis nndulatis, labello trilobato lobis lateralibus brevioribus rotundatis pallidis intermedio purpureo ovato-oblongo supra 3-carinato carinis cristato-undulatis atropurpureis, calcare brevi obtuso. L. purpuratns, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. vi. (1862), p. 133. Reichb. f.in Flora, 1865, p. 188; Otia Bot. Hamb. vol. ii. pp. 75,114. Rolfe in FI. Trop. Afr. vol. vii. p. 79. Limodorum cristatum, Sw. in Schrad. Neues Journ. vol. i. p. 86; Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. p. 185. Limodorum articulatum, Schum. & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. Pl. p. 399. Enlophia articulata, Lind/, Gen. & Sp. Orch, p. 181 ede Galeandra longibracteata, Lindl. in Journ, Linn. Soe. vol. vi. p. 133. Eulophia longibracteata, Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fil. Afr. vol. v. p. 22. - Lissochilus and Eulophia, established by R. Brown, mainly on characters of the lip, the one smooth the oe crested, now number between them about one hundred and fifty tropical African species, and, altogether, nearly three hundred species, very difficult to allocate between the two proposed genera. Mr. Rolfe (fl. Trop. Afr. vol. vii. p. 70), notes that Dissochilus “ approaches Hulophia very closely, but the majority of the species are very easily separated — by the small spreading or reflexed petals [sepals], and the broad, often differently coloured petals.” And he retains purpuratus in Lissochilus, though it is not one of those easily separated from Hulophia, as it has similar sepals and petals and a crested lip. However, as Tissochilus is the older genus there is no question of a transfer here. OcropeR Ist, 1903. i L, purpuratus, Lindl., appears to be very common in Upper Guinea, W. tropical Africa, and it has also been — collected by De Schweinfurth in British. East Africa, and. in the Congo Free State by J. Dybowski. The plant figured was sent from Abyssinia to Kew by A. B. Wylde, Esq., author of ** Modern Abyssinia,” with a note that it ‘erows anywhere above seven thousand feet.” But con- sidering that this plant inhabits the lowlands of western tropical Africa, it is very probable that this note was intended for some other plant sent at the same time. L. purpuratus, Lindl., should not be confused with L. Krebsii, var. purpurata, H. N. Ridley (Gard. Chron. 1885, vol. ii. p. 102; Warner's Orchid Album, vol. vi. ple 259), a native of South Africa 49% See ee Descr.—A terrestrial, tuberous, glabrous ek ‘ fronds large clumps” (Dr. Rowland). Tubers * similar to those i of a kidney potato, produced in chains nearly a yard long” (Barter). Leaves ianceolate, one to two feet long, and | as much as two inches broad in the middle, acute, plicate, about seven-nerved, with numerous secondary nerves. 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VELL seek & 00, ‘ae ae u 7922 Vincent Brocks,Day & Son LS. del, JN Fitehiith TaB. 7922, CLERODENDRON oceprHatantuum. Native of Zanzibar Island, Nat. Ord. VERBENACE. Genus CLEropENDRON, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1155.) CLERopENDRON cephalanthum ; frutex ope petiolorum alte scandens, undique glaber vel cito glabrescens, petiolis nonnullis incrassatis induratis spini- formibus recurvis armatus; planta in horto Kewensi culta caulibus pluribus fere 20 ped. longis usque ad 3 poll. diametro cavis, foliis oppositis vel interdum alternis distincte petiolatis tenuibus demum coriaceis ovato-lanceolatis vel oblongo-lanceolatis usque ad 10 poll. longis - sed sepius minoribus acuminatis subobtusis basi cuneatis vel rotundatis, venis primariis lateralibus utrinque 3 vel 4 subtus elevatis, petiolis nonnullis medio abscissis auctis persistentibus, floribus dense cymoso- capitatis albo-roseis cam staminibus exsertis 4-5 poll. longis brevissime pedicellatis, inflorescentiis swpius terminalibus interdum 9-10 poll. diametro, additis nonnullis lateralibus minoribus, bracteis bracteolisque parvis lanceolatis ovatisve, calycis roseo-purpurei lobis oblongo-lanceolatis apiculatis tubo longioribus 4-5 lin. longis, corolle albe tubo gracillimo apicem versus curvato 3-33 poll. longo, limbi lobis oblongis leviter recurvis inequalibus 6-9 lin. longis, staminibus lenge exsertis, filamentis filiformibus rubris, stylo stamina equante. C. a gamma Oliver in Hook. Ie. Pl. t. 1559. Gard. Chron. 1888, vol. i. . 652. C. capitatum ver. cephalanthum, Baker in Dyer Fl. Trop. Afr. vol. v. p. 305. This handsome climbing shrub was brought to Kew by | Sir John Kirk from the Island of Zanzibar, in 1886, and it grows vigorously and flowers freely in the Palm House. There are flowering specimens in the Herbarium from this source bearing the dates, May 9th, 1888, and June 19th, 1889 ; and the inflorescence here figured was produced in March of the present year. It is of only medium dimen- sions, as our space is insufficient to show the largest ones. Though not so brilliantly coloured as some of its con- geners, Clerodendron cephalanthum is a very showy object where it has space todevelop. Mr. J. G. Baker, in the place cited above, treats it as a variety of C. capitatum, Schum. & Thonn. (Bot. Mag. t. 4355), and it has very slender claims to specific rank; but from a horticultural stand- point it is quite distinct from typical capitatum. It climbs, in part at least, by means of the modified petioles of some of the leaves. During development, the lower Novemzer Isr, 1903, half of the petiole thickens, and the upper part at length disarticulates, carrying the blade with it. The hardened lower part persists in the form of a rigid, woody, recurved spine. Stop Africa is the centre of the greatest concen- tration of the genus Clerodendron, no less than seventy species being already on record therefrom. Noteworthy among the African species in cultivation are C. Thomsone, Balf., and C. macrosiphon, Hook. f. (Bot. Mag. t. 6695); the latter is another of Sir John Kirk’s numerous intro- ductions. Descr.—A tall shrub, climbing by means of modified petioles, glabrous or nearly so, some of the branches © armed with the spine-like, persistent petioles. Stems as much as twenty feet long, and half an inch thick, hollow between the nodes. Leaves distinctly stalked, thin, at length somewhat coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate or oblong- lanceolate, as much as ten inches long, but usually smaller, acuminate, somewhat obtuse, cuneate or rounded at the base; primary lateral veins three or four on each side. Flowers densely cymose-capitate ; cymes terminal, some- — times with lateral, smaller ones. Bracts and bracteoles small and inconspicuous. Calyx showy, about nine lines long, red, with oblong-lanceolate lobes. Corolla white ; tube very slender, three to three and a half inches long, curved near the top; lobes of the limb oblong, unequal, slightly recurved, six to ninelineslong. Stamensexserted; filaments filiform, red.—W. B. H. Fig. 1, a young corolla laid open, showing the position of the stamens in the bud ; 2, ovary ; 3 upper part of style and stigma :—all enlarged. 7923 Vincent Brocks Day &Son lit inp MS.del JN Fitch hth TReeve &C® Landon. Th. 7920. IMPATIENS FALCIFER. Native of the Sikkim Himalaya. Nat. Ord. Geranracex%.—Tribe BatsaMInE x. Genus Impatiens, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 277.) Imratiens falcifer; herba annua, 1-2 pedalis, glaberrima, caule decumhente ramoso terete folioso, foliis 1-4 poll. longis alternis sessilibus et petiolatis ovatis ovato-oblongisve acutis acuminatisve serratis basi acutis, margini- bus minute ciliolatis eglandulosis, nervis 6-8-jugi:, petiolo {-1 poll. longo, glandulis stipularibus minutis pulvinatis, pedunculis axillaribus 4-} poll. longis solitariis l-rarissime 2-floris medio bracteolatis basi ebracteatis fructu deflexis, bracteolis setaceis v. lanceolatis viridibus, floribus ringentibus 1-1} poll. longis aureis vexillo loboque falciformi alarum sanguineo maculatis, sepalis 2 }-} poll. longis ovatis ovato- rotundatisve apiculatis viridibus, vexillo erecto galewformi costa dorso incrassato apice mucronato, alaram lobo basilari parvo rotundato integro v. lobulato, distali multo majore bilobulato lobulis divaricatis laterale lineari-oblongo recurvo falcato terminali amplo oblongo apice rotundato, auricula dorsali 0, labelli parvi limbo infundibulari in calcar 3~1 poll. longum rectum v.incurvum attenuato, filamentis linearibus, antheris minutis, capsulis 1-1} poll. longis pendulis, linearibus cylindraceis, seminibus ;/,-3 poll. longis oblongis rugulosis funiculo carnosulo. I. falcifer, Hook. f. I. serrata, Benth. partim, Hook. f. & Thoms. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. iv. (1860) p. 136. Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. i. p. 473. Herb. Ind. Or. Hook. f. & Thoms. n. 88. Impatiens falcifer belongs to a group of the genus with axillary, simple or forked, one to three-flowered peduncles, _ which are bracteate usually in the middle, or when forked _ on one of the pedicels, and pendulous, very slender, elon- gate capsules. Of this group there are several North Indian species, including £ scabrida, DC. (I. tricornu, Lind].; Bot. Mag. t. 4051). Its nearest ally is I. serrata, Benth. in Wall. Cat. n. 4771, also a Sikkim plant, growing at similar elevations, which is so similar in habit, foliage, inflorescence, and capsule that it is impossible to dis- tinguish them without the flower. The description of the latter in the ‘‘ Flora of British India” includes both. The chief differences between them are, that in J. serrata the flowers are white, the sepals lanceolate and acuminate, and the distal lobe of the wings quite entire. The condition of the flowers of Wallich’s specimens of I. serrata in the -Novemuser Ist, 1903. Linnean Herbarium is so bad, that it was with great difficulty that I determined their structure. The Sikkim specimens were distributed under No, 89, those of I. falcifer are numbered 88. I, falcifer is a rather common species in pastures and shaded places of the Sikkim Himalaya, at elevations of eight to ten thousand feet. The figure here given is from plants raised at Kew from seeds received by the writer in 1902 from Major Prain, Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, which flowered in a frame in May of the present year, but failed to ripen seed. Descr,—A weak, glabrous, usually decumbent, branched annual, one to two feet high or long. Leaves one to four inches long, alternate, sessile, or petioled, ovate, or ovate- lanceolate, serrate, acuminate, base acute, or narrowed into a petiole an inch long or shorter; margins minutely ciliolate, eglandular; stipular glands minute, pulvinate. Peduneles solitary, simple, one-flowered, and bracteolate in the middle, never at the base, very rarely forked and two- flowered, with a bracteole on one or more of the pedicels, defiexed in fruit. lowers ringent, one to one and a half inches long, golden-yellow, spotted with blood-red on the standard, and on the faleate lobule of the distal lobe of the hip. Sepals two, one-seventh to one-fourth of an inch long, broadly ovate, or sub-orbicular, cuspidate, green. Standard erect, galeate, trapezoid when spread out, mucro- nate. Wing-petal with a small basal lobe, and a large, — spreading distal of two divaricate lobules; a lower lobule | linear-oblong, faleately recurved, and a much larger, oblong terminal one, rounded at the tip. Lip with a small, funnel-shaped limb, narrowed into a straight, slender, incurved or straight spur, one half to one inch long. Capsule one to one and three-quarters of an inch long, Slender, strict, terete, pendulous. Seeds small, testa rugose.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, portion of stem and petiole with stipulary gland; 2, portion of leaf- margin ; 3, sepal; 4, wing-petal ; 5, young capsule :—all enlarged, 7924 * Vincent Brocks Day&SonLttimp o od if a 4 M.S.del, J NPitch lth Tas. 7924, FENDLERA ropicota. Nutive of South-western North America, Nat. Ord. SaxirraGacex.—Tribe HypRAnGes. Genus Fenpizra, Engelm. & A. Gr.; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 643.) Fenprera rupicola; frutex erectus, dense ramosus, 8-6 ped. altus, ramis rigidissimis cortice striato, foliisin ramulis lateralibus confertis oppositis subsessilibns rigide coriaceis deciduis lineari-lanceolatis majoribus circiter pollicaribus acutis trinerviis supra scaberulis subtas sericeis floribus albis 1]~13 poll. diametro solitariis vel tenuis ramulis brevibus lateralibus terminantibus, pedicellis brevibus puberulis ebracteolatis, calycis pubes- centis 4-fidi segmentis ovatis subobtusis valvatis, petalis 4 perigynis imbricatis extus puberulis ciliolatis ovato-spathulatis unguiculatis venosis circiter 9 lin. longis deciduis, staminibus 8 uniseriatis cum petalis in- sertis erectis, filamentis petaloideis apice bicruribus lobis linearibus acutis erectis ultra antheram productis antheris introrsis, ovario semi- supero glabro 4-loculari, loculis multiovulatis, stylo pubescenti, capsula fere omnino supera crustacea vel fere lignosa oblongo-ovoidea 5-7 lin. longa septicide 4-valvi, valvis mucronatis, loculis oligospermis, seminibus in loculis paucis pendulis imbricatis oblongis 25-3} lin. longis, testa crassa laxa dorso basique alato, embryone parvo recto angustissimo 1-1} lin. longo } lin. lato in albuminis axe posito, cotyledonibus radicula supera longioribus. F. rupicola, Engelm. § A. Gray in Smithson, Contrib, vol, iii. (Pl. Wright, vol. i.) p. 77, t. 5, e¢ vol. v. (Pl. Wright. vol. ii.) p. 64. Coulter, Man. Bot. Rocky Mts. p.95. Greene in Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, vol. viii. (1881), p. 25. Rev. Hort. 1891, p. 42, £. 12, et 1899, p. 129, f. 44. Garden § forest, vol. ii. (1889), p. 112, f. 98. Fendlera is a genus of two known species, the second being I’. utahensis, Greene (Whipplea utahensis, S. Wats.) in the publication cited above. Both, as Prof. Greene _ states, grow on the dry, sunburnt rocks of the interior desert region of the south-west—that is of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utab. ‘his information gives some clue to the treatment they should receive under cultivation. All writers who are familiar with F. rupicola in a wild condition, describe it as a very attractive, highly floriferous shrub, and Prof. Greene says of it: “ A beautiful shrub of the mountains of ‘Texas and New Mexico putting forth in May a profusion of large white or rose-coloured flowers, which give it the aspect of a small peach-tree.” According to Prof. C. §. Sargent (Garden & Forest, vol. il. (1889), p. 112, f. 98) it had already, at that date, been some years in cultivation in the Arnold Arboretum, where it was quite hardy, flowered profusely, and ripened November Ist, 1903. seed. He describes the petals as bluish white, associated with conspicuous, yellow stamens. With regard to its introduction into European gardens, the date usually given is 1888; but there is a specimen in the Kew Herbarium, from the garden of Mr. Max Leichtlin, of Baden Baden, received through Mr. Gum- bleton, of Cork,in 18$2. As will be seen, all our references to horticultural publications are of a later date. Mr. Ed. André, writing in 1899, says ‘‘ that it succeeds well at Lacroix, in Touraine, where it was covered with flowers every spring.” It has been in cultivation at Kew for some years, and it flowered last May, when the drawing was made. The plant is growing against the south wall of the Orchid House, and is bearing a few more flowers now in mid-October. There is also a second plant in the Arboretum, four to five feet high and three feet through; but it has, I believe, never flowered, and has much deteriorated during the two last wet seasons. Descr.—An erect, densely branched shrub, three to six feet high, with very rigid branches and striated bark. Leaves usually clustered on short, lateral branchlets, opposite, nearly sessile, rigidly coriaceous, linear-lanceolate, the Jargest about an inch long, acute, three-nerved, scabrid above, silky beneath. Flowers white, with yellow anthers, one and a quarter to one and a half inches in diameter, soli- tary, or in threes, on the lateral branchlets ; pedicels very - short, slightly hairy, bractless. Caly pubescent, deeply four- lobed ; segments ovate, somewhat obtuse, valvate. Petals four, perigynous, imbricate, slightly hairy on the outside and ciliolate, ovate-spathulate, distinctly clawed, veined, about nine lines long, deciduous. Stamens eight, erect ; filaments petaloid, with two narrow, acute, apical lobes overtopping the anther. Ovary glabrous at the top, four- celled; cells containing many ovules; style hairy. Cap- | sule almost wholly, superior, crustaceous, or almost woody, oblong-ovoid or conical, five to seven lines long, septici- dally four-valved ; valves mucronate ; cells several-seeded. Seeds oblong, with a loose-celled, thick testa, winged dorsally and at the base; embryo small, straight, in the centre of the albumen.— lV. B. H. Fig. 1, flower from which the petals have been removed; 2, ventral view of a stamen ; 3, dorsal view of the same; 4, pistil :—all enlurged. 7925 Salt inp M.S.delJN.Fitch ith. Vincent Brooks,Day & L. Reeve & C9? London. : ————————— é Tas. 7925, SPH HROCODON ostvsirori0m. Native of Tropical Africa. Nat. Ord. AscLEpIapAcE2%,—Tribe MarspENIEA. Genus Spuxrocopon, Linn. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 772.) Spu#rocopoy, obtusifolium ; planta lignosa candice nano incrassato perenni, caulibus annuis (vel interdum perennis?) nune (hospitorum absentia P) suberectis vel vagantibus nunc volubilibus subsimplicibus florentibus 1-3 ped. longis pubescentibus, internodiis foliis sapius brevioribus (fere semper in exemplariis agrestibus), foliis distincte petiolatis molliter chartaceis circumscriptione variabilibus ellipticis ovato-oblongis ovatis vel obovato-oblongis szpius 13-3 poll. longis plus minusve acuminatis vel utrinque rotundatis praecipue subtus secus venas paucas primarias pubescentibus, cymis umbelliformibus ad nodos solitariis breviter pedun- culatis 5-15 floris pubescentibus, bracteis minutis, floribus rubro-purpureis 6-8 lin. diametro pendulis, pedicellis gracilibus 4-8 lin. longis, calycis pubescentis segmentis lineari-lanceolatis acutis circiter 2 lin. longis, corolle campanulate puberule lobis deltoideis acutis tubo paullo breviori- bus demum recurvis, coronf@ squamis 5 parvis glanduliformibus tubo stamineo supra basin adnatis, staminibus basi corolla affixis flamentis in tubum connatis, antheris erectis, polliniis in quoque loculo solitariis caudiculis gracillimis, fructu ignoto. S. obtusifolium, Benth. in Hook. Ic. Pl. vol. xii. p. 78, t. 1190. N. E. Brown in Fl. Trop. Afr. vol. iv. p. 412. Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl, Welw. vol. i. p. 692. K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost. Afr. C. p. 326, et in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenf. vol. iv. pars 2, p. 283, fig. 85. S. natalense, Benth. in Hook. Ic. Pl. vol. xii. p. 79. S. caffram, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1895, p. 339. Tylophora caffra, Meisn.in Hook, Lond. Journ. Bot. vol. ii. (1843), p. 542— errore, 442, ‘ Gongronema Welwitschii, K. Schum. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. vol. xvii. p. 145. Spherocodon is a somewhat obscure African genus, of which the fruit is unknown. A second species, S. melan- anthus, N. KH. Brown, is recorded from W. tropical Africa. S. obtusifolium, Benth., inhabits both western and eastern regions, ranging in the east from Nile Land to Natal. The plant figured was raised from seed sent to Kew from Namasi, Nyasa Land, in 1897, by Mr. Kenneth J. Cameron, who also sent a dried specimen at the same time. The cultivated plant is so much more vigorous than the wild, and the flowers so much larger, that they might be taken for different species. All the wild specimens are NovemBer Ist, 1903. dwarf in stature, and sub-erect in habit; but the cultivated plant shows a tendency to twining, insomuch as some of the branches twine around each other. It is possible that it has lost the twining habit so common in the Asclepia- dacee through changes in environment in some of the districts where it has been collected. Descr.—A perennial, woody plant, with a dwarf, thick stock, which produces annual (sometimes perennial ?) flowering stems of sub-erect or twining habit. Stems one to three feet long, pubescent; internodes usually shorter than the leaves, at least in the wild specimens. Leaves petiolate, soft and papery in texture, very variable in out- line, from oval to oblong or ovate, mostly from one and a half to three inches long, acuminate, or rounded at both ends, more or less hairy, especially along the veins on the under surface. Cymes or false umbels solitary at the joints, shortly stalked, five- to fifteen-flowered, pubescent; bracts very small. Flowers purple-red, six to eight lines in diameter, pendulous on slender pedi- cels. Calyx pubescent ; segments linear-lanceolate, acute, about two lines long. Corolla campanulate, puberulous ; lobes deltoid, acute, somewhat shorter than the tube, at length recurved. Coronal scales five, small, gland-like, adnate to the middle of the staminal-tube. Stamens attached to the base of the corolla; filaments connate in a tube. Anthers erect; pollen-masses solitary in each cell, with slender caudicles, Fruit unknown. —W. BH. Fig.1,an unexpanded flower; 2, corona and gyneceum; 3, pollinia :—all enlaryed. M. S.dél. INPitch hth. Tas. 7926. IRIS GRAcILIPES. oe Native of Japan. Nat. Ord. In1pacea#.—Tribe Morzex. Genus Iris, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii, p. 686.) Iris (Evansea) gracilipes; cespitosa, subscaposa, gracilis, 6-12 poll. alta, rhizomate gracili ramoso, caulibus sterilibus brevissimis, foliis, absque paucis inferioribus minoribus, membranaceis 3-5 tenuibus linearibus inter- dum latiusculis 6-12 poll. longis acutissimis circiter 6-nerviis cum inter- mediis tenuioribus, caulibus floriferis folia caulorum sterilium vix excedenti- bus 2-vel 3-foliatis 2-vel 3-floris, foliis 2-3 poll. longis, pedunculis gracillimis, floribus in spathis brevibus tenuissimis solitariis sessilibus erectis pur- pureis vel lilacinis circiter 2 poll. diametro, perianthii tubo brevissimo, limbi segmentis exterioribus oblongis apice emarginatis recurvis medio albis purpureo-striatis luteo-cristatis, interioribus minoribus concoloribus, styli cristis concoloribus fimbriato-dentatis. I. gracilipes, A. Gray Bot. Jap. in Mem. Amer. Acad. n.s. vol. vi. p. 412. Franch. et Savat. Enum. Pl. Jap. pars ii. p. 41. Honzo Zufu, vol. xxiii. p- 11, fig. dertr. Baker, Handb. Ivrid. p. 22. I. sibirica, Somoku Zusetsu, vol. ii. p. 10 (11 Jap.), non Linn. This elegant little [vis belongs to the small section or sub-genus Hvansea, distinguished among the rhizomatous series by having a distinct crest on the lower part of the blade and claw of the outer segments of the perianth. Mr. Baker, in his ‘‘ Handbook of the Iridex,” enumerates eight species, all of which, except the North American I. lacustris, Nutt., are, or have been, in cultivation. They are:—JI. nepalensis, D. Don. (Sweet’s British Flower Garden, series 2, t. 11); I. speculatriz, Hance (Bot. Mag. t. 6306); I. cristata, Ait. (Bot. Mag. t. 412); I. Milesit, Foster (Bot. Mag. t. 6889) ; I. tectorum, Maxim. (Bot. Mag. t. 6118), and I. japonica, Thunb., syn. I. chinensis, Curt. (Bot. Mag. t. 373). With the exception of I. cristata, a native of the Eastern States of North America, all the species named inhabit Asia, ranging from the North-west Himalaya to China and Japan. I. gracilipes is in cultivation both at Kew and Cam- bridge. Kew procured it from Mr. Max Leichtlin in September, 1902, and it flowered in pots in a cold frame, and also in an open bed during last spring. Mr. R. I. NovemsBer Ist, 1903. Lynch sent flowering specimens from Cambridge in April, without any information of their origin. It is one of the most graceful species of the genus, ‘and merits attention where the larger, more showy ones would be out of place. There are several Japanese, not specially localized speci- mens in the Kew Herbarium, including one of Gray’s type ; but there is a note that the species grows in humid situations. Descr.—A tufted, slender herb, six to twelve inches high, with a slender, branching rootainck. 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Meryta Denhami; arbor parva, dioica, trunco gracili s#pius simplici interdum forcato vel pauci ramoso (specimen in horto kewensi cultum @ circiter 17 ped. altum, trunco supra medium furcato basi 3 poll. diametro, foliis maximis 34 ped. longis), foliis alternis coriaceis glabris dimorphis vel heteromorphis, iis plantarum omnino juvenilium linearibus 6-12 poll. longis 4-6 lin. latis, iis plantarum adultarum distincte petiolatis ligulatis lanceolatis vel oblanceolatis 13-4 ped. longis 2-9 poll. latis grosse undu- lato-crenatis apice acutis, vel rutundatis deorsum attenuatis, costa crassa, venis primariis lateralibus prominentibus in crenas excurrentibus, petiolo compresso-tereti, inflorescentiis ? capitato-paniculatis folia fere zquantibus in axillis folioram superiorum subsessilibus, ramis crassis — carnosis, capitulis multifloris subglobosis 13-1} poll. diametro pedun- eS culatis, pedunculis crassis 1-2 poll. longis basi bractea ampla acuminata sce membranacea cito decidua instructis, floribus ? sessilibus vel arcte con- fertis ima basi connatis flavo-virentibus, calycis limbo obsoleto, petalis : circiter 10 (7-12) ligulatis recurvis quam stylis vix longioribus, staminibus imperfectis 10; ovario 10—(7-12-) loculari, stylis late stigmatosis sulcatis : undulatis recurvis, ovulis in loculis solitariis ab apice loculorum pendulis, fructu ignoto. y M. Denhami, Seem. Bonplandia, vol. x. 1862, p. 295. J Aralia reticulata, Hort. z There are specimens of Meryta Denhami in the Kew Herbarium, from a plant which flowered in the Palm House in 1860, accompanied by drawings and a brief escription of the floral structure by A. A. Black, then, for too brief a period thereafter, Curator. He found the parts of the flower varying from five to nine, and we have found them from seven to twelve in the same in- _ florescence. It was introduced to Kew by William Grant _ Milne, a gardener who was on Captain Denham’s Expedi- tion to the South Sea. He collected it in the Isle of ‘Pines, New Caledonia, in 1853, and what appears to be the same species has since been collected by Archdeacon Comins in the island of Santa Maria, Banks’s Group, Northern New Hebrides, where it attains a height of hirty feet or more, with leaves one to two feet long. _ Apparently all the plants in cultivation were raised from DECEMBER Ist, 1903. J } x Milne’s introduction, and only the female is known. According to Seemann, in the publication cited above, it flowered at Kew again in 1862, and it has often flowered since in the Palm House, and more recently in the warm end of the Temperate House. There are also flowering specimens in the Herbarium, and a photograph of the plant from the Botanic Garden, Cork, sent by Professor Hartog in 1890. Mr. Watson notes that it is propagated from eyes, and that it is used as a stock on which Aralia Veitchii and several other stove species are grafted. Descr.—A small, dicecious tree. Trunk slender, usually simple, sometimes forked or sparingly branched; the female specimen here figured, cultivated at Kew, about seventeen feet high, with a trunk three inches in diameter at the base, and leaves as much as three feet and a half long. Leaves alternate, coriaceous, glabrous, very variable in size and shape; of quite young plants linear, six to twelve inches long, and a third to half an inch wide; of flowering plants strap-shaped, lanceolate or oblanceolate, one and a half to four feet long, two to nine inches broad, coarsely undulate-crenate, acute or rounded at the tip, tapering to the base; midrib thick ; ‘primary lateral veins running out at the crenatures; petiole stout, compressed. | Female flowers capitate, in panicles two or three feet long, springing from the axils of the upper leaves. Branches of the panicles and the peduncles thick and fleshy. Flowers sessile, densely crowded, connate at the very base only, yellow-green, Calyz-limb obsolete. Petals usually about ten, ligulate or oblong, recurved, persistent, scarcely longer than the styles. Stamens ten, imperfect. Ovary usually ten-celled ; ovules solitary, pendulous. Fruit unknown.— WBE; Fig. 1, a female flower containing imperfect stamens; 2 and 3, stamens from the same; 4, another view of a female flower; 5, cross section of an ovary; 6, tangential section of the same; 7, reduced sketch of plant :—all exlarged, except 7, which is about one-fortieth of the natural size. 7H28 MS. del JN Fitch ith Vincent Brooks Day &Sonlt* Imp T: Reeve C10 T antan ee os se ee wee ee i ick a fw tke! 5, em aia canal Tas. 7928. . AGAPETES Moors. Native of Sikkim. Nat. Ord. Vaccintacea&.—Tribe THIBAUDIEZ. Genus Acapetes, G. Don; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 571.) Acarrtes Moorei; species fruticosa adspectu A. setigere et A. verticillate simillima, sed calycis tubo supra ovarium producto et staminum structura distinctissima; planta depicta caudice incrassato terete 4- poll. diametro, caulibus 3 erectis rigidis 2} ped. altis pauciramosis, ramus brevibus graciliusculis, foliis nunc subverticillatis nunc sparsis sepe quinatis (verticillis in apicibus innovationum singulis), brevissime petio- latis crassis coriaceis glabris vel cito glabrescentibus oblongo-lanceolatis 2-34 poll. longis apicnlatis basi rotundatis vel subcordatis, costa valida, venis inconspicuis, floribus coccineis vel rubro-aurantiacis circiter sesqui- pollicaribus pendulis 6-9 in racemos axillares subterminales et laterales dispositis, racemis quam foliis brevioribus, pedanculis pedicellis calyci- busque molliter breviterque pubescentibus, pedicellis 3-4 lin. longis bracteis parvis acutis cito deciduis basi suffultis, calycis 5-6 lin. longi tubo supra ovarium manifeste producto, lobis deltoideis vix acutis, corolla subcylindrica circiter 1} poll. longa fere ad medium 5-loba, lobis angustis acutis recurvis vel revolutis intus flavis extus minute puberulis, staminibus 10 exsertis a corolla liberis, filamentis liberis planis prope basin insigniter geniculatis quam antheris longioribus parte antheris adnata apicem versus attenuata parce puberula, antheris dorsifixis adglutinatis basi facie 1-calearatis parte superiore tubifera libera, ovario 5-loculari vel spurie 10-loculari, loculis multiovulatis, stylo glabro basi geniculato disco parvo annulato cincto stamina paullo superante apice vix incrassato, capsula ignota. A. Moorei, Hemsl. ‘This handsome shrub was sent to Kew last March by Mr. F. W. Moore, Keeper of the Glasnevin Botanic Garden, to be named, with the information that it was imported with Cirrhopetalum Rothschildianum, O’Brien. But the habitat of the latter is somewhat obscure, being described (Gard. Chron. 1895, vol. ii. p. 608) as “ some- where beyond Darjeeling.” However, there is little doubt that it is a native of Sikkim. We have much pleasure in giving the name of that eminent horticulturist to one of the numerous gems of his successful cultivation. In foliage it strongly resembles Agapetes setigera, D. Don, a species introduced in 1837, but in floral structure it 1s more closely related to A. buwifolia, Nutt. (Bot. Mag. t. 5012). At least two other very showy species of this genus had previously been figured in the Magazine, namely, DeEceMBER Ist, 1903. A. macrantha, Benth, & Hook. f. (t. 4566), and A. pulcher- rima, Benth. & Hook. f. = A. variegata, D. Don (t. 4303) ; both under Thibaudia., Mr. Moore obtained his plant of A. Moorei in 1900, and he cultivates it in a cool orchid house. Deser.—A handsome shrub, closely resembling the old A. setigera, but very different in the structure of the flowers. Caudex of the plant figured four inches in diameter, and bearing three slender, stiff stems two and a half feet high. Branches slender and stiff, glabrous or soon glabrescent. Leaves alternately sub-verticillate, and scattered, usually in fives at the tips of the annual growths, shortly petiolate, thick, coriaceous, glabrous or nearly so, oblong-lanceolate, two to three and a half inches long, apiculate, rounded or somewhat cordate at the base ; midrib thick ; veins inconspicuous. Flowers scarlet or orange-red, about one and a half inch long, in short, | axillary or sub-terminal racemes. Racemes six- to nine- flowered, shorter than the leaves ; peduncles, pedicels and calyx softly pubescent. Pedicels three to four lines long, furnished at the base with small, acute bracts, which fall away early. Calyz five to six lines long; tube distinctly produced above the ovary; lobes deltoid, sub-acute. Corolla nearly cylindrical, about one and a quarter inch long, five-lobed almost to the middle ; lobes narrow, acute, revolute, yellow within, obscurely puberulous on the out- side. Stamens ten, exserted, free from the corolla ; filaments free, flat, with a remarkable knee-like bend near the base, longer than the anthers, slightly puberulous on | the back of the part attached to the anthers ; anthers dorsifixed, slightly connate, and produced below the attachment in the form of a spur; the upper slender, tubular part free. Ovary spuriously ten-celled ; cells con- taining many ovules; style glabrous, bent near the base _ Similarly to the stamens, slightly exceeding the latter, and surrounded at the base by a small, ring-like disk. Capsule unknown.—W. B. H. Fig. 1, longitudinal section of an ovary with a portion of the calyx and base of style; 2, three stamens, showing the geniculate, glabrous filaments; 3, two anthers, showing the basal spurs and the oblique, apical pores; 4, apex of style; 5, cross section of an ovary, showing that it is spuriously ten-celled : —all enlarged. ° i) y 4 Vincent Brooks Day &SanIttimp ne M.S del. JN Fitch kth Tas. 7929. ECHIDNOPSIS SOMALENSIS. Native of Somaliland. Nat. Ord. ASCLEPIADACER.— Tribe STAPELIE. Genus Ecuxorsis, Hook, f.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 781.) Ecurpnorsis somalensis ; frutex nanus (planta depicta semipedalis) carnosus aphyllus, cereiformis, glaber, caulibus ramisque viridibus cylindricis 4-1 poll. diametro 6-8-sulcatis tessellatis inermibus, floribus subsessilibus svli- tariis vel 2 vel 3 aggregatis 4-5 lin. diametro atropurpureis luteo- punctatis puberulis vel papillosis, calycis lobis ovatis acutis circiter 4 lin. longis, corolle hemispherico-rotate lobis ovatis incurvis vel demum patentibus acutis, coronz exterioris lobis angustis curvatis apice breviter recurvis intus canaliculatis glabris, corone interioris lobis deltoideis obtusis antheris incumbentibus. E, somalensis, V. LZ. Brown in Fl. Trop. Afr. vol. iv. p. 477. id The genus Hchidnopsis was founded on a cultivated plant of EF. cereiformis, Hook. f. (Bot. Mag. t. 5930), which is very similar to the present species in habit, but it has bright yellow flowers. The stems, too, are longer, but that may be due to age, and more flexible. LH. cereiformis was originally recorded as a native of South Africa, but it is now known to inhabit Eritrea, Abyssinia and Somali- land; possibly Socotra also. H. Bentii, N. E. Brown (Bot. Mag. t. 7760), a native of tropical Arabia, has some- what larger, crimson flowers. About half-a-dozen species are now known from Eastern Tropical Africa, and the genus is also represented in Arabia and the island of Socotra. The plant figured was cultivated by Mr. R. I. Lynch, Curator of the Cambridge Botanic Garden. It was also among the plants collected and presented to Kew by Mrs. Lort Philips and Miss Edith Cole ; and Cambridge obtained it from the same source. Descr.—A dwarf, fleshy, leafless shrub, resembling a small, columnar Cereus, glabrous, except the flowers; the _ plant figured, about six inches high. Stems and branches green, cylindrical, half to one inch in diameter, six- to eight-furrowed, tessellated, unarmed. Flowers nearly sessile, solitary, or two or three in a cluster, four to five DecemBER Ist, 1903, lines in diameter, dark purple spotted with yellow, minutely papillose or puberulous. Calyz-lobes ovate, acute, about half a line long. Corolla almost rotate when fully expanded ; lobes ovate, at first incurved, afterwards spread- ing, acute. Lobes of the outer corona narrow, sub-erect, incurved, tips shortly recurved. Lobes of the inner corona deltoid, obtuse, incumbent on the anthers.—W. B. H. Fig. 1,a portion of a branch; 2, a flower-bud; 3, a partially expanded flower ; 4, coronas and genitalia; 5, pollen :—all enlarged. 793 (6) Vincent Brooks Day &SonL@e MS.del. JN. Fitch lth. 7 oe eh, Oe te Tas. 7930. RESTREPIA ANTENNIFERA. Native of Colombia. Nat. Ord. Orcuipra.—Tribe EripENDREA. Genus Restreris, H, B. K.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 491.) ReEstTrEPIA antennifera; species ex affinitate A. striate, Rolfe (Bot. Mag. t. 7233) sed robustior floribus folia vix excedentibus, caulibus czspitosis 6-8 poll. altis vaginis amplis membranaceis albidis inconspicue striatis vestitis, foliis crasse coriaceis oblongo-ovalibus 2-3 poll. longis, floribus 1-3 tenuiter pedicellatis circiter 2} poll. longis purpureo-striatis, sepalo dorsali e basi latiuscula in filum apice leviter incrassatum producto incurvo, lateralibus laminam oblongo-lanceolatam apice emarginatam labello duplo majorem formantibus, petalis sepalo dorsali similibus sed fere dimidio minuribus, labello oblongo apice emarginato lobis lateralibus ad aristas parvas basilares recurvatas redactis, columna clavata incurva. R. antennifera, H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Sp. vol. i. p. 367, t. 94. Por. in Lam. Encycl. Meth. Suppl. vol. iv. p. 672, t. 991. Indl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 14. Reichb. f. in Bonplandia, 1855, p. 70. Rolfe Orch. Rev, 1894, p- 237. Non Bot. Mag. t. 6288, que eadem ac R. maculata, Lindl. The genus Restrepia was founded in 1815, on the present species, which was the only one known for many years. - Now nearly forty species have been described. For a long time 22. maculata, Lindl., was cultivated and figured in various publications, including this Magazine (t. 6288), under the name of 22. antennifera. Mr. Rolfe detected the error, and rectified it in the publication cited above. &. maculata, Lindl., with which it has been confused, has spotted, not striped flowers. R. antennifera was discovered by Humboldt’s expedition near Pasto, at an elevation of upwards of nine thousand feet, and it has since been collected in the Province of Ocafia (Schlim, 738) at about the same elevation. All three of the species mentioned in this connection are at the present time in cultivation at Kew. Deser.—Similar to Rf. striata, Rolfe (Bot. Mag. t. 7233), but a more robust plant with flowers scarcely, if at all, overtopping the leaves. Stems clustered, six to eight inches high, clothed with membranous, dirty-white sheaths. Leaves thick, coriaceous, oblong-oval, two to three inches long. Flowers one to three on each stem, slenderly DecEeMBER Ist, 1903, stalked, about two and a half inches across, striped with dark purple on a whitish ground. Dorsal sepal almost filiform from a broad base, thickened at the tip, incurved. Lateral sepals conjoined in an oblong blade, notched at the tip, and twice as large as the labellum. Petals similar to the dorsal sepal, but only about half the size. Labellum oblong, notched at the tip; lateral lobes reduced to small, ne recurved awns. Column club-shaped, incurved.— She os Fig. 1, column and labellum; 2, column; 3, anther-cap; 4 and 5, pollen: —all enlarged. 7931 ~ MS. del, JN Fitch th Tans 7981: COTYLEDON UNDULATA, : Native of South Africa. Nat. Ord. CrRassuLACER. Genus CotyLEpon, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 659.) Corytepon (§ Paniculate) wndulata; species adhuc imperfecte cognita, C. orbiculate, Linn. (Bot. Mag. t. 321) affinis, a qua differt foliis obovato- spathulatis apice rotundatis vel fere truncatis grosse undulato-crenatis cuspidatisque ; frutex erectus, carnosus, albo-farinosus, caule subsimplici cum inflorescentia circiter 3-pedali, foliis oppositis, internodiis brevibus vel brevissimis, crassis carnosis 33-5 poll. longis maximis supra medium 2} poll. latis margine in parte superiore interdum rubrescente, pedunculis 12- 18 poll. longis nudis vel foliis paucis parvis ovatis subacutis infra medium instructis, floribus subdichotomo-cymosis longe pedicellatis pendulis circiter 14 poll. longis luteo-rubris, calycis segmentis parvis deltoideis subacutis, corolle tubo cylindrico lobis duplo longioribus, lobis acutis recurvis, staminibus vix exsertis, carpellis 5 glabris, stylis stamina vix zequantibus. C, undulata, Haw. Suppl. Pl. Succ. 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