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CRINUM Jouxsront.
Native of British Central Africa.
Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDEX —Tribe AMARYLLER.
Genus Crinum, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol, iii: p. 726.)
Crinum (Codonocrinum) Johnstoni; bulbo globoso magnitudine mediocri collo
haud producto, foliis circiter 20 viridibus apicem versus longe attenuatis,
exterioribus ensiformibus 5-6-pedalibus, interioribus linearibus, scapo
modice valido elongato, umbellis multifloris, pedicellis brevibus, spathee
valvis lanceolato-deltoideis, perianthii tubo leviter curvato 4 poll. longo,
limbo tubo breviori, segmentis ovatis vel oblongis acutis dorso leviter
rubro tinctis, genitalibus declinatis limbo vix brevioribus.
A number of bulbs of this new Orinum were sent from
Mount Zomba, forty miles north of Blantyre, in British
Central Africa, in January, 1899, to the Royal Gardens,
Kew, by Mr. McClonnie, chief of the forest department
in that Colony. It is now clear that Tropical Africa is
the head-quarters of the genus, as it has yielded nearly
forty species. We do not know from what height on
Mount Zomba the bulbs came, but the mountain reaches
an altitude of five thousand one hundred and thirty-five
feet. The present plant is intermediate between the
Tropical Asian (C, latifolium, which it resembles in the
flowers, and the Cape C. longifolium, Thunb., which it
resembles in its long narrow leaves attenuated very
gradually to the point. In (0. Johnstoni, however, the
leaves are bright green, whilst in C. longifolium they
are glaucous. It has flowered freely in the Succulent
House at Kew, but has not been tried in the open air.
The name it bears is commemorative of the great services
rendered to civilization in Tropical Africa by Sir Henry
Hamilton Johnston, €7B% late (1891-7) H.M. Com-
missioner and Consul-General for territories north of the
Zambesi, subsequently Administrator of the Uganda Pro-
tectorate. :
Descr.—Bulb globose, three or four inches in diameter,
without any produced neck. Leaves about twenty to a
bulb, bright green, narrowed gradually to a long point,
January Ist, 1902.
the outer ensiform, five or six feet long by two or two
and a half inches broad low down, the inner linear.
Peduncle moderately stout, about two feet long. Flowers
many in an umbel; pedicels about an inch long; spathe-
valves two, lanceolate-deltoid, two or three inches long.
Perianth-tube slightly curved, tinged with green, four
inches long; limb shorter than the tube, its segments
ovate or oblong, acute, slightly tinged with pink on the
back. Stamens declinate, nearly as long as the limb;
anthers linear, a third of an inch long, Style just over-
topping the anthers.—J. G. Baker.
Fig. 1, front view of anther; 2, back view of anther; 3, apex of style and
stigma :—all enlarged.
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ANGRAICUM HICHLERIANUM.
Native of Calabar.
_ Nat. Ord. Oncurpea.—Tribe Vanpea,
Genus Anerxcum, Thou. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 583.)
Anerecum (Euangrecum) Fichlerianum; scandens, caule elato robusto
compresso $ poll. lato ancipiti, radicibus longissimis, foliis sessilibus
distichis 4-5 poll. longis oblongis apice obtusis ineequaliter emarginatis
crasse coriaceis supra saturate viridibus subtus pallidis, vaginis 1-1}
poll. longis, pedunculis decurvis foliis suboppositis gracilibus viridibus
3-4 poll. longis 1-3-floris ima basi vaginis paucis brevibus arcte amplec-
tentibus instructis, bracteis parvis oblongis coriaceis pedicellos arcte
vaginantibus, pedicellis cum ovariis pollicaribus viridibos, floribus
amplis, sepalis fere 2 poll. longis anguste lineari-oblongis obtusis
strictis enerviis flavo-viridibus, petalis sepalis consimilibas eb concoloribus
sed brevioribus, labello amplo subreniformi-quadrato late euspidato albo
lateribus recurvis disco flavo-viridi basin versus bicarinato, ealcare
sepalis breviore saturate viridi ultra basin infundibularem constricto
gennflexo dein elongato angusto fusiforme subacuto.
A. Eichlerianum, Krénzl. in Berl. Gart. Zeit. vol. i. (1882) p. 484, fig. 102 ;
in Mitth, Deutsch. Schutz. Geb. vol. ii. (1889) 159, et in Reiehb. f. Xen.
Orchid. vol. iii. p. 128, t. 273, tig. 2. Rolfe in This. Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr.
vol. vii. p. 143,
The localities given for A. Hichlerianum in the “ Flora
of Tropical Africa”? are South Cameroons region, and
near Kapamba, in the gorge of the Loango River, both
in the Gulf of Guinea. The first of these localities is not
far distant from Old Calabar in Nigeria, whence the
specimen here figured was sent to the Royal Gardens in
1900 by Mr. J. H. Holland, Superintendent of the Botanic
Gardens at that town. It flowered in a tropical house
in June, and kept in flower till September. In the form
and colour of the flower it closely resembles A. Gyriame,
Rendle, but in habit, stature, foliage, and the form of
the spur, these species are very ualike.
Descr.—Stem elongate, stout, compressed, obtusely two-
edged, leafy, emitting roots a foot long. Leaves alternate,
sessile, distichous, four to five inches long, oblong, obtuse
or rounded, and emarginate at the tip, thickly coriaceous,
deep green above; sheaths an inch to an inch and a half
January Ist, 1902.
long. Peduneles leaf-opposed, slender, decurved, three to
four inches long, naked, except a few short, tubular,
truncate sheaths at the base, one- to three-flowered.
Bracts oblong, sheathing, one-half to three-fourths of an
inch long, coriaceous, green. edicel with ovary an inch
and a half long. Flowers three and a half inches broad
from the tip of the dorsal sepal to that of the lip. Sepals
linear, spreading, oblong, convex, pale green, dorsal two
inches long, lateral rather longer. Petals rather shorter
than the sepals, linear-lanceolate, acute, pale green. Lip
sub-reniformly quadrate, two inches in diameter when
spread out, abruptly narrowed at the tip into a broad
cusp, white, with a yellow green disk, and two short keels
near the base, margins strongly recurved on the basal half ;
spur shorter than the sepals, very dark green, campanu-
late at the base, then constricted, geniculate, and ending
in narrowly fusiform, acute dagger. Column very short,
its sides dilated into two parallel ovate-lanceolate auricles.
_—J. D. H.
Fig. 1, base of lip and column; 2, anther; 3 and 4, pollinia :—al/ enlarged.
Tas. 7814,
BAUHINIA yunnanensts,
"Native of China.
Nat. Ord. Leguminosa2.—Tribe Bavurniegr.
Genus Bavutntia, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 575.)
Bavninta (Phanera) yunnanensis; fratex scandens, cirrhifera, glaberrima,
glauca, ramis ramulisque gracilibus teretibus, cirrhis complanatis, foliis
parvis coriaceis bipartitis basi cordatis sinu angusto acuto, segmentis
oblique ellipticis 1} poll. longis basi et apice rotundatis 3-4 nerviis
pallide vividibns petiolo gracili, racemis oppositifoliis elongatis laxe
multifloris pendulis, pedicellis 2-3-pollicaribus, bracteis minutis eadacis,
calycis tubo 3-3 poll. longo cylindraceo, limbo tubo Spee gre
bipartito segmentis cymbiformibus, petalis spathulatis ad 3 poll. longis
pallide roseis apicibus lanuginosis 3 superioribus sanguineo-striatis,
staminibus 3 perfectis petalis paullo longioribus, filamentis arcuatis
kermesinis, antheris lineari-oLlongis ciliatis, imperfectis multo brevioribus
ovario glabro stipitato, legumine anguste lineari 6 poll. longo leviter
areuato polysperma, valvis planis rugulosis.
B. yunnanensis, Franch. Pl. Delav. 1890, p. 190.
The subject of this plate is a very graceful green-
house climber, a native of Western China, where it
was discovered by the Abbé Delavay on wooded hills
of Lokoshan, in the districts of Tapin-tze, in Yun-
nan; and on mountains south-west of Mengtze, in the
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MONTRICHARDIA acurgata,
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Nat. Ord. Arorpe#.—Tribe PHILODENDREA.
Genus Montricnarpia, Criig.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 982).
Monrricuarpia aculeata; caudice elongato robusto tereti annulato levi
v. hic illic spinuloso, foliis pedalibus ovato- v. deltoideo-oblongis
acuminatis fere ad medium sagittatis supra late viridibus costis nervisque
pallidis subtus flavo-viridibus nervulo marginali tenuissimo, lobis
posticis inwqualibus valide costatis obtuse acuminatis sinu lato v.
angusto antico paallo breviore late triangulari-ovato, petiolo lamina
breviore supra concavo dorso rotundato, vagina marginibus petioli longe
adnata dein libera elongata lanceolata, pedunculo brevi crasso 3 poll.
diam., spathe 8 poll. longw tubo bipollicari fere globoso 1 poll. diam.
flavo-viridi intus roseo, lamina explanata ovato-lanceolata acuminata
extus flavo-viridi intus pallide citrina, spadice 44 poll. longo crasso apice
rotundato, infl. g fere pollicem diam. colore spath, antheris sessilibns _
crassis subtrigonis truncatis rimis brevibus extus dehiscentibus, infl. ?
quam ¢ triplo breviore fusco-viridi, ovariis subprismaticis truncatis 1-locu-
laribus, stigmate sphinctriformi centro umbonato.
M. aculeata, Oriiy. in Bot. Zeit. vol. xii. (1854) p. 25. Schott, Syn. Aroid.
; p- 72; Prodr, Syst. Aroid. p. 217. :
M. arborescens, Schott, Arac, Betreff. (1854) p. 4; Syn. Arvid. p.71; Prodr.
Syst. p. 215. Engl. in Mart. Fl. Bras. vol. iii. pars LI. p. 127, t. 25; m
DC. Monogr. Phanerog. vol. ii. Arac. p. 288.
M. arborea, Schott, Syn. Aroid. p. 72; Prodr. p. 217.
M. arborescens e¢ aculeata, Griseb, Fl. Brit. W. Ind. p. 510.
Arum ar boreaceaas Plumier, Deser. Pl. Amér. t. 204. Vell. Fl. Flum. vol. ix.
t. 109.
Caladium arborescens, Vent. Jard. Cels. sub t. 30.
C. arborescens et C. aculeatum, G. F. W. Mey. Prim. Fl. Esseq. p. 274.
Philodendron arboreum, Kunth, Enum. Pl. vol. iii. p. 48.
A noble tropical Aroid, native of various localities
near the coast from the West Indies to the Amazons River.
The late Hermann Criiger, Superintendent of the Botanical
Gardens of Trinidad, who founded the genus, named it
after his friend, Count Montrichard, of that island, a
zealous promoter of science. He described it as forming
thickets in moist places near the sea.
The plant here figured was sent to the Royal Gardens,
Kew, by Mr. Jenman, F.L.S., Superintendent of the Botan-
ical Gardens, and Government Botanist, British Guana, in
Fesruary Ist, 1902,
1890, it is now eight feet high. It flowered in the
Tropical Aquatic House in June, 1900, and again in 1901.
Descr.—Stem tall, robust, terete, annulate, smooth
or here and there spinulose. Leaves a foot long, ovate
or deltoidly oblong, hastate to the middle, with a broad
or narrow sinus, bright green above with pale yellow
midrib and nerves; basal lobes unequal, stoutly costate,
dimidiately ovate-oblong, obtusely acuminate, terminal
broadly deltoid, cuspidate, intra-marginal nerve slender.
Petiole very stout, concave above; sheath adnate to the
margins of the petiole, with a long, free, narrow limb.
Peduncle short, very stout. Spathe eight inches long;
tube two inches long by one and three-quarters in
diameter, yellow-green externally, red within, base rounded ;
lamina six inches long, ovate-lanceolate, open and recurved,
acuminate, yellow-green externally, lemon-yellow within.
Spadix four and a half inches long, sub-sessile, cylindric,
nearly one inch in diameter, top rounded. Male w-
Jlorescence three inches long; anthers closely packed,
trigonous, truncate; cells linear, extrorse. Female i-
Jlorescence an inch long. Ovaries sub-prismatic, truncate,
one-celled, one-ovuled.—J. D. H.
} Fig. 1, section of tube of spathe with spadix; 2, anthers; 3, ovary; 4, por-
tion of truncate surface of ovary; 5, vertical section of ovary :—all en-
larged :—6, reduced view of whoie plant.
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PLECTRANTHUS Manonit,
Native of British Central Africa,
Nat. Ord. Lapiata2.—tTribe OctmoipEs.
Genus PLECTRANTHUS, LD’ Hér.; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p, 1175.)
PLEcTRANTHUS (Germanea) Mahonti; herba perennis, erecta, ramosa, ramulis
puberulis, foliis 3-5-poll. longis petiolatis ovatis obtusis grosse crenatis in-
ferioribus in petiolum angustatis superioribus basi cordatis supra glabris
lete viridibus subtus puberulis pallidis, racemis sessilibus 3-8-pollicaribus
simplicibus laxifloris puberulis, verticillastris 3-6-floris, pedicellis {4
pollicaribus, bracteis parvis ovatis viridibus, calyce } poll: longo cam-
panulato ad medium bilabiato, labio superiore late ovato erecto, inferiore
3-dentato dentibus delteideis, corolla declinata puberula violacea, tubo
calyce paullo longiore, fauce tumido, limbi } poll. longi labio postico
3-lobo, lobo superiore erecto bilobulato lateralibus rotundatis multo
majore, inferiore cymbiformi, filamentis liberis, antheris dorso glanda-
losis, disco crasso lobato.
P. Mahonii, N. E. Brown mss.
Coleus Mahonii, Baker in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vol. v. p. 434.
The genus Plectranthus, a very large one, confined to
the Old World, is represented in the “Flora of Tropical
Africa,” by seventy-eight species, a number rapidly
being added to as collections arrive from that botanically
little explored country. Owing to the difficulty of deter- .
mining in herbarium specimens the freedom or connation
of the filaments, the characters that separate Plectranthus
from Coleus (of which there are seventy-seven described
African species), P. Mahonii was first described under
the latter genus.
The specimen here figured was raised from seed sent to
the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1898, by Mr. John Mahon, of
the Botanical Department of British Central Africa, from
Zomba, a mountain upwards of five thousand feet high,
situated a little to the West of Lake Shirwa, in Jat. 153° S.
It flowered in a greenhouse in November, 1900, and
continued in flower throughout the winter.
Descr.—Stem three feet high, acutely four-angled, and
branches puberulous. Leaves three to four inches long,
the lower narrowed into the petiole, the upper cordate,
Fesruary Ist, 1902. oe ae
ovate, sub-acute, coarsely unequally crenate-serrate, bright
green and glabrous above, puberulous beneath. Racemes
three to eight inches long, simple, sessile, loosely many-
flowered; whorls three- to six-flowered; bracts minute;
pedicels slender, one-eighth to one-sixth of an inch long.
Calyz about as long as the pedicel, puberulous, campanu-
late, two-lipped, upper lip broadly ovate, lower with three
small ovate teeth. Corolla puberulous externally, violet-
blue, tube hardly longer than the calyx; lips widely
divaricate, upper lip broadly three-lobed, midlobe bilobu-
late, erect, lobules rounded, lateral lobes very short,
rounded ; lower lip cymbiform.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1, side view of flower; 2, section of calyx showing disk and ovary;
3, corolla seen in front; 4 and 5, anthers :—all enlarged.
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MINKELERSIA birtora.
Native of Mewico.
Nat, Ord. Leguminos2.—Tribe PHasEoLEs.
Genus MinxeersiA, Mart. & Gal.; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 539.)
MinkeEtersia, biflora ; herba gracilis, volubilis, radice tuberoso, caule
ubescenti-pilos, internodiis longiusculis, foliis pinnatim trifoliolatis,
ere glaberrimis, petiolo elongato, foliolis 1-14 nt 6 longis subequalibus
obtusis lateralibus oblique ovato-rotundatis, intermedio longius petiolu-
lato, ovato wquilatero, stipulis } poll. longis ovato-rotundatis obtusis,
stipellis subulatis, pedunculis axillaribus foliis longioribus erectis apice
bracteatis et bibracteolatis bifloris, bracteis stipulis consimilibus, floribus
sessilibus ad 13 poll. longis, calyce pubescente } poll. longa, tubo lobis
erectis inequalibus oblongis obtusis breviore, vexillospathulatoconcavo, alis
longe unguiculatis carinz leviter cohwrentibus lamina oblique rotundata
basi semicordata recurva purpurea, carina angusta apice cum styli apice
filamentisque spiraliter involutis, ovario angusto piloso ad 20-ovulato, stylo
gracili glabro apice torto piloso, stigmate parvo ovato, legumine lineari
_ pice pungente teretiusculo polyspermo, valvis subtoralosis.
M. biflora, Hemsl. Diagn. Pl. Nov. pars II. p. 48; Biol. Cent. Amer. vol. i.
p- 308, t. xvi. fig. 1-7.
Three species of Minkelersia are known, all Mexican ;
namely, M. galactioides, Mart. et Gal., a native of the
Cordillera of Oaxaca, at four thousand to six thousand
feet elevation ; that here figured, which was discovered by
Schaffner in the Valley of Mexico, and a third from the
Sierra Madre. The genus is considered by Bentham to
be little more than a section of Phaseolus, distinguished
by its longer calyx-lobes, and the elongate petals. It was
named in compliment to the Professor of Physics in the
University of Louvain, Dr. Minkelers.
Seeds of M. biflora were sent to the Royal Gardens,
Kew, in 1897, by Dr. J. N. Rose, Assistant Curator of the
National Herbarium of the United States of America, at
Washington, plants raised from which flowered in a cool
house in October, 1900.
Descr.—Root tuberous. Stem elongate, very slender,
twining, sparsely hairy. Leaves trifoliolate, petiole two
to three inches long; leaflets sub-equal, orbicular-ovate,
Fesrvuary Ist, 1902, 4
obtuse, lateral sub-sessile, unequal-sided, stipellate, ter-
minal shortly petiolulate, sub-cordate at the base,
obscurely stipellate on the petiolule; stipules one-fourth
of an inch long, nearly orbicular, persistent, deflexed,
glabrous ; stipelle very minute, subulate. Peduneles axil-
lary, longer than the petioles, erect, two-flowered. Bracts
like the stipules, but smaller. Flowers very shortly pedi-
celled, erect, one and a half inches long, pale red-purple.
Calyx half an inch long, oblong, hairy, cleft to below the
middle into five, unequal, erect, linear-oblong, obtuse lobes.
Standard spathulate, concave, slightly incurved. Wings
long-clawed, orbicular, as long as, but much broader than
the standard, spreading and recurved. Keel petals very
narrow, rather shorter than the standard, tips spirally in-
volute, with the tips of the filaments and of the style
which they enclose. Staminal tube long, narrow, filaments
very short, contorted ; anthers minute, oblong. Ovary very
hairy, produced into a filiform style, which is hairy, and
twisted at the tip. Pod linear, straight, sub-terete, tip
pungent; valves sub-torulose. Seeds very small, obtusely
sub-cubical.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1, bracts, calyx, and keel enclosing stamens and ovary; 2, stamens;
3, ovary; 4, bracts, calyx, and pod of nat. size; 5, seed :—all except 4 enlarged.
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CALATHEA CROCATA.
Native of Brazil.
Nat. Ord. SctraminEa.—Tribe MaRranTea,
Genus Caratuza, G. F. W. Mey; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. iii. p, 653.)
Catatura (Pseudophrynium) crocata; pumila, ccespitosa, glaberrima, rhizo-
mate hypogwo ramoso, fuliis suhdistichis erectis longiuscale petiolatis
6-10 poll. longis ovato- v. oblongo-lanceolatis subacatis v. acuminatis
supra saturate viridibus subtus roseo-purpureis basi obtusis vel rotundatis,
petiolo lamina breviore fere ad apicem anguste vaginante, vagina pallida
striata folii_ intimi interdum crocea, pedunculo foliis breviore valido
erecto luride viridi superne paullo incrassato, spica brevi ad 2} poll.
longa et lata erecta, bracteis 1-1} poll. longis quinquefariis ovato-lan-
ceolatis patenti-recurvis aurantiacis nitidis, spiculis 3-3 poll. longis,
2-3-floris, bracteolis lineari-oblongis flores aquantibus, sepalis 3 lineari-
lanceolatis roseis, cor: Ila aurantiace tubo brevi segmentis lineari-oblongis
acuminatis, staminodiis 3 tubo corolle adnatis bicallosis, callo majore
laterali triangulari, filamento petaloideo 2-partito, stylo crasso curvo
flavo, stigmate indusiato, ovario glovoso 3 lucvlare roseo.
_ C.erocata, H. Morr. et Joriss. in Belg. Hortic. vol. xxv. (1875), p. 141, t. 8,
Floral World, 1876, p. 161. Gard. Chron. 1900, vol. ii. p. 118, fig. 29.
The genus Calathea, of which only about sixty species
were known a quarter of a century ago, now numbers
nearly twice as many; all, except a few tropical African,
are American, and are very difficult of determination from
Herbarium specimens, he excellent figure of C. crocata
in the Belgique Horticole allows of no doubt as to the
name of the plant here under consideration, and the accom-
panying description given by the authors of its complicated
sexual organs is very complete. The species was intro-
duced from Brazil in 1874 by Messrs. Jacob Makoy of
Liége. The specimen here figured was purchased at an
auction sale for the Royal Gardens, Kew. It flowered in
May, 1901. |
Descr.—Whole plant ten to twelve inches high. Root- -
stock short, branching. Leaves sub-distichous ; petiole two
to three inches long, sheathing nearly throughout its
length, hardly auricled at the mouth of the sheath, pale
green or purplish, that of the uppermost leaf bright
orange; blade four to five inches long, erect, ovate-lan-
Fesrvary Ist, 1902. 3 f
ceolate, sub-acute or acuminate, rather undulate, dark
green above, bright rose-purple beneath. Peduncle shorter
than the leaves, slightly thickened upwards, dull green.
Spike short, erect, two to two and a half inches broad
and long; bracts quinquefariously spreading and recurved,
ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, bright orange-coloured ; spike-
lets about half as long as the bracts, two- to three-
flowered ; bracteoles linear-obloug, as long as the flowers,
orange-coloured. Sepals linear-lanceolate, rose-red. Co-
rolla orange-yellow, tube short, lobes linear-oblong,
acuminate. Staminodes adnate to the corolla-tube.
Stamen petaloid.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1, bracteoles and flowers; 2, staminodes, anther, style and stigma;
3, staminode;.4 style, anther and stigma :—all enlarged.
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SOLANUM Xanrr,
Native of California,
Nat. Ord. Sotanackz.—Tribe SoLaANEx.
Genus Sotanum, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p, 888.)
Soranum (Pachystemon) Xanti; suffrutex v. herba basi lignosa, inermis, tota,
corolla excepta, plus minusve pilis simplicibus glandulosisque pubescens,
ramis gracilibus, foliis polymorphis 4-4 poll. longis ovatis ovato-oblongis
v. lineari-oblongis obtusis subacutisve integris repandisve basi rotundatis
cordatis v. rarius auriculato-bilobis submembranaceis pallide flavo-viri-
dibus, nervis utrinsecus 6-8 arcuatis, petiolo j-3 poll. longo, cymis um-
belliformibus lateralibus v. terminalibus, ramulis infra pedicellos
tuberculo minuto cupuliforme instructis, pedicellis gracilibus 1-1} poll.
longis, floribus nutantibus, calycis campanulati lobis triangulari-ovatis
obtusis, corolla rotato-campanulata pentagona 1-1} poll. lata violacea
basi intus plagis 5 albis centro viridibus ornata, filamentis brevibus
pilosis, antheris lineari-oblongis obtusis rimis elongatis dehiscentibus,
ovario glabro, stylo gracili recto, bacca globosa purpurea calyce paullo
dilatato suffulta.
S. Xanti, A. Gray mm Proc. Amer. Acad. vol, xi. (1876) p. 90; in Bot. Calif.
vol. i. p. 539, ii. p. 471. |
A very beautiful plant, native of Southern California,
where it was first collected by Mr. L, J. Xantus de Vesey,
extending as far north as Sta. Barbara and eastward into
Nevada.
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PASSIFLORA AMBIGUA.
Native of Nicaragua.
Nat. Ord. Passrrtorea.—Tribe PassirLore®.
Genus Passirtora, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 810.)
Passirtora (Granadilla) ambigua; glaberrima, ramis ramulisque subteretibus,
foliis petiolatis oblongo- v. ovato-lanceolatis cuspidato-acuminatis superi-
oribus 3-5 inferioribus 8-10 poll. longis coriaceis basi rotundatis utrinque
6-10-nerviis, petiolo 4-1 poll. longo medio v. infra medium 2-glanduloso,
stipulis filiformibus caducis, cirrhis simplicibus, pedunculis solitariis v.
2-nis axillaribus 14-2 poll. longis, bracteolis 3 infra apicem pedunculi
sitis pollicaribus fere orbiculatis concavis erosis eglandulosis, floribus 5
poll. diam., perianthii carnosi tubo oblato basi intruso sub 10-lobo, sepalis
5 anguste lineari-oblongis dorso costatis et infra apicem obtusum
caudiculatis extus albis intus rubro-purpureo creberrime punctatis,
petalis sepalis angustioribus lineari-lanceolatis subacutis albis margines
_ versus roseo-punctatis, coronz exterioris segmentis 2-seriatis, extimis ad
4-pollicaribus gracilibus rubris albo variegatis intimis 2-2} poll. longis
erassioribus complanatis subacutis violaceis albo fasciatis, corons inter-
mediz fere basilaris pilis brevibus uniseriatis, corona intima annulari
recurva fimbriata. sae
P. ambigua, Hemsl. mss.
The above description of Passiflora ambigua is taken
almost wholly from one kindly lent me by Mr. Hemsley.
It was drawn up by him from a specimen which was raised
from seed received in 1896 from Mr. H. G. Sturridge,
Nurseryman, of Blewfields in Nicaragua, which flowered
in the Palm House of the Royal Gardens, Kew, in May,
1901. Mr. Hemsley regards its affinity so close with P.
lawrifolia, Linn. (Jacq. Hort. Vindb. ii. t. 162) and P. mali-
formis, Linn. (Bot. Reg. t. 94), as to suggest the possibility
of its being of hybrid origin. Premising that . ambigua
is a very much larger plant, with flowers more than
double the size, and with a differently coloured perianth,
it further differs from P. laurifolia in the petiole being
biglandular in the middle, not at the apex, in the bracteoles |
being eglandular, in the leaves not being cordate at the
base, and in the long filaments of the corona having obtuse
not subulate tips. From P. maliformis it differs in the
same characters of the leaf-base, size of flower and long
‘Mancu ist, 1902. |
filaments of the corona, and also in the stipules being
linear, not ovate with subulate tips. |
Descr.—A_ glabrous, stout, climbing shrub, with sub-
terete stem and branches. Leaves eight to ten inches
long, oblong- or ovate-lanceolate, cuspidately acuminate,
base cuneate or rounded ; petiole one half to one inch long,
biglandular about the middle. Stipules very slender, about
four-tenths of an inch long, deciduous. TYendrils un-
branched. Peduwneles solitary or binate, axillary, one and
a half to two inches long. Bracteoles inserted beneath the
apex of the peduncle, about an inch long, nearly orbicular,
concave, green, eglandular. Flowers five inches in diameter ;
perianth fleshy, tube oblate, deeply intruded, and almost
ten-lobed at the base. Sepals 5, narrowly linear-oblong,
obtuse, dorsally white and costate, with a short horn
below the apex, ventrally pale pink, closely punctulate
with rose-purple. Petals shorter and much narrower than
the sepals, linear-lanceolate, sub-acute, white, dotted with
rose-purple towards the margin. Corona nearly two
inches long ; outer filaments about one-third as long as the.
Inner, very slender, red, banded with white ; inner filaments
stout, fleshy, obtuse or sub-acute, violet, banded with
white ; innermost corona very short, basilar, recurved,
ciliate.—J. D. H.
\
b Fig. 1, young leaf and stipules of the natural size; 2, vertical section of
ged of perianth with pistil, stamens, and some of the coronal filaments ;
, portion of innermost corona; 4, dorsal view of anther and filaments :—uél
enlarged.
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JAS MINUM Marnaayt.
Native of Penang.
Nat. Ord. OLEAcEs#.—Tribe JAsMINE&.
Genus Jasminum, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii, p. 674).
Jasminum Maingayi; frutex scandens, gracilis, ramosus, ramulis superne
pedunculis pedicellis calycibasque puberulis, foliis superioribus
breviter inferioribus longius petiolatis ovato-oblongis-lanceolatisve
acutis acuminatisve 3-5 poll. longis 14-2 poll. latis basi acutis rotundatis
cuneatisve supra saturate viridibus nervis utrinque cost 6-8 obscuris,
subtus pallidis nervis prominulis, petiolis fusco-violaceis, cymis
terminalibus sessilibus, pedicellis brevibus erectis, bracteolis parvis
linearibus, calycis tubo subcampanulato 2 poll. longo segmentis
erectis lanceolatis tubo subduplo longioribus, corolla tubo poilicari,
limbi albi 1} poll. diam. segmentis 8-10 anguste oblongis acuminatis,
antheris lineari-oblongis apicnlatis, stylo gracili, stigmatis lobis lineari-
bus, carpellis maturis solitariis dimidiato-oblongis 4 poll. longis mono-
spermis,
J. Maingayi, 0. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. iii. p. 594.
Jasminum is exclusively an Old World genus of very
wide distribution, from the Azores and Canaries in the
West, across Africa and Asia, to the Islands of the
Pacific, chiefly in tropical latitudes. India (or perhaps
China) is the headquarters of the genus, forty-five
of the one hundred and thirty recorded species being
described in the “Flora of British India,” of which
four have been figured in this work; two with entire
leaves and white flowers, J. Sambac, L. t. 1785, and
J. pubescens, Willd. (hirsutum, Willd, t. 1991); and two
with pinnatisect leaves, the yellow flowered, J. humile,
Linn. (J. revolutum, Sims, t. 1731), and the common
white-flowered Jessamine of our. gardens, J. officinale,
Linn. (t. 31). With regard to the last named species,
it is a remarkable fact, that for upwards of two hundred
and fifty years after its first introduction into English
gardens (in 1548) its native country was unknown.
Sims, in this Magazine, in 1787, cites Miller’s “‘ Gardener’s
Dictionary” for its “ growing naturally in Malabar and
several parts of India;” Aiton, ‘Hortus Kewensis”
Marcu Ist, 1902.
*
(1810), gives no native country ; Alph. De Candolle (1844)
cites the Caucasus, Imiretia, Canton, and India? It is
only comparatively recent authors who have recognized it
as indigenous in the Himalaya, where it is found at
elevations of seven thousand feet to eight thousand feet in ~
Kumaon, and three thousand feet to nine thousand feet
in Kashmir, whence, no doubt, it has spread under
cultivation, or in a semi-wild state westward to the
Mediterranean, and eastward to China. It is worthy of
remark that there is hardly any variation from pure
white or yellow in this large and widely diffused genus.
J. Maingayi is a native of Penang, where it was found
by the late accomplished botanist, Dr. A. C. Maingay,
who was killed when quelling an outbreak of prisoners at
Rangoon in 1869. The figure is from a plant presented
_to the Royal Gardens, Kew, by Messrs. F. Sander & Co. —
ps Albans, which flowered in a tropical house in June,
Deser—A slender, scandent shrub, with pubescent
branchlets, cymes, and calyces. Leaves three to four
inches long, ovate-oblong or -lanceolate, acute or acumi-
nate, base acute, cuneate or rounded, dark green above,
pale beneath, nerves six to eight pairs ; petiole of upper
leaves short, of lower an inch long or more. Cymes
terminal, sessile, fascicled ; pedicels short, erect ; bracteoles
very small, linear. Calyx-tube about an eighth of an inch
long, sub-campanulate ; segments about twice as long,
lanceolate, erect. Corolla white; tube an inch long;
limb an inch and a half in diameter, segments eight to
ten, narrowly oblong, acuminate. Anthers linear-oblong,
apiculate. Style slender ; stigmatic lobes linear. Fruit of
one dimidiate- bl a, 3 : t
long D. cs : ong, one-seeded, dry carpel half an inch
Fig. 1, cal *, St ] * <
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MASDEVALLIA ELepnanticers.
Native of New Grenada,
Nat. Ord. Orcu1pEx.—Tribe Errpenprea.
Genus Maspevauiia, Ruiz & Pav.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii.
p- 492.)
Masprvatta (Coriceze) elephanticeps; foliis 6-10-pollicaribus lineari-oblongis
oblanceolatisve in petiolum crassum angustatis crasse coriaceis supra
luride viridibus, petiolo antice sulcato basi vaginis 1-2 tubulosis mem-
branaceis laxis pallide brunneis instructo, pedunculis petiolo subsqui-
longis subflexuosis deorsum attenuatis monocephalis internodiis 3-3 poll.
longis, vaginis bracteisque basi tubulosis dein campanulatis acuminatis
membranaceis, floribus subhorizontalibus 3-4 poll. longis crasse coriaceis,
perianthii tubo saccato basi rotundato flavo-viridi purpureo suffuso, sepalo
dorsali porrecto a basi late ovata in caudam validam bipollicarem flavi-
dam angustato, lateralibus intus rubro-purpureis ultra medium connatis
in caudas flavidas recurvas pollicares angustatis, petalis spathulatis
obtusis dorso crasse costatis, labello oblongo obtuso densissime papilloso
luride purpureo. : .
M. elephanticeps, Reichd. f. et Warsc. in Bonplandia, vol. ii. (1854) p. 116, et
Xen. Orchid. vol. i. p. 6. t. 3; Fl. des Serres, vol. x. t. 997 (lec. Xen.
ne it.). Veitch, Man. Orchid. Masdev. p. 40. Woolw. Masdev. p. 47,
M. rr Reiehb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1876, vol. ii. p. 516. Veitch, Le.
p. 43. :
This, one of the most remarkable species of a genus —
distinguished for the variety of the fantastic forms assumed
by its flowers, is very closely allied to M. Mooreana,
Reichb. f., figured at t. 7015 of this work. It was dis-
covered by the collector Warscewicz in 1850-1, on the
Eastern Cordillera of New Grenada, between Ocafia and
Pamplona, at elevations of six thousand five hundred feet
to ten thousand feet. It has been in cultivation in the
Royal Gardens, Kew, for about twenty years, flowering in
the winter, and is remarkable for the feetid odour of the
flowers. 3
Deser.—Leaves six to ten inches long, linear-oblong or
oblanceolate, obtuse, narrowed into a very stout petiole,
thickly coriaceous, bright dark green and shining above,
pale beneath ; petiole with one or two lax, scarious, tubular,
brown, striate, membranous sheaths. Pedwncles one or
Marcu Ist, 1902. ;
more, as long as the petiole, stout, sub-flexuous, rather
thickened upwards; internodes sheathed ; lower sheaths
short, tubular, upper, more campanulate, acute. lowers
inclined, three to four inches long. Perianth thickly
coriaceous ; tube two-thirds of an inch long, saccate, base
rounded, yellow green, suffused with purple. Dorsal
sepal sub-erect, narrowed from a broadly ovate base into
a stout pale yellow tail two inches long; lateral sub-
similar, but with larger limb, dark red purple within, and
a shorter recurved yellowish tail. Petals spathulate,
midrib dorsally very stout. Lip oblong, obtuse, densely
clothed with very dark purple, elongate papillae.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1, flower with the sepals removed; 2, column; 8, pollinia:—al/
enlarged.
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‘ ASTER Trapescanrt,
Nutive of astern N. America.
Nat. Ord. Comrosirm.—Tribe AsTEROIDER.
Genus Aster, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 271.)
Aster (Euaster) Tradescanti; herba glaberrima, 2-4-pedalis, ramossima,
ramis erectis v. ascendentibus foliosis, foliis 2-3 poll. longis sessilibus
linearibus v. lineari-lanceolatis obtusis v. subacutis integerrimis v. medio
pauci-serratis saturate viridibus costatis, nervis paucis obscuris, mar-
ginibus scaberulis, capitulis perplurimis ad 2-1 poll. diam, racemosim v.
corymbosim dispositis sessilibus v. breviter pedicellatis, involucri tur-
binati hirtelli ad 4 poll. longi bracteis pluriseriatis coriaceis appressis
lineari-lanceolatis.acutis inappendiculatis rigidis viridibus, radiis albis v.
rarius purpureo tinctis 3-} poll. longis, floribus disci aureis, achzniis
ad ;; poll. longis obovato-oblongis compressis leevibus puberulis.
A. Tradescanti, Linn. Hort. Cliff. p. 408; Sp. Pl. p. 876 (non herb. et excl.
Syn. Hort. Ups.) Ait. Hort. Kew. vol. iii. p. 204 var, floribus albis; ed. II.
vol. v. p. 61. Nees, Gen. & Sp. Ast. p. 103 (non Syn. Ast.) Torr. & Gray
Fl, N. Am. partim. A. Gray, in Proc. Am. Acad. vol. xvii. p. 166; Man.
Bot. N. Un. St. ed. V. (1880) p. 232; Synopt. Fl. Am., Gamopet. p. 187.
Chapm. Fl. 8S. Un. States, p. 203.
A. artemisifolius, Poir. Encycl. Suppl. vol. i. p. 500.
A. fragilis, Willd. Sp. Pl. vol. iii. p. 2051 (non Bot. Reg.).
A. leucanthemus, Desf. Cat. Hort. Par. p. 102; Poir. lc.
A. miser, Ait. Hort. Kew. ed, I. vol. iii. p. 205 (non Linn.) var. fl. albis.
A. parviflorus, Wees, Gen. Sp. Ast. p. 99.
A. tenuifolius, var. Torr. & Gr. lc. 132 (partim, non alior.).
A. virginianus parvis floribus albis Tradlescanti, Morison, Pl. Hist. Univ. Oxon,
vol. iii. (1699) p. 121, sect. 7, t. 21, f. 42.
The historic interest of the original Michaelmas Daisy,
together with the fact that (except by the rude cut in
Morison’s “ Historia”) it has not hitherto been figured,
under either its own name or that of any of its synonyms,
are sufficient reasons for paying it the tribute of a plate
in the Botanical Magazine. To these reasons may be
added the difficulty of recognizing it without a figure,
for, according to Asa Gray, it is one of three species
which are “seemingly confluent in a series.’ The
other members of this series are A. paniculatus, Lam., a
polymorphous species with acuminate, sharply toothed or
serrated leaves, looser, larger, paniculate bands and longer
Maken Ist, 1902.
ligules; and A. salicifolius, Ait. (Lam.?), which has shorter,
often scabrous leaves, reticulately veined, and longer,
usually purplish or violet ligules. The same author adds,
that some forms of A. Tradescanti, both wild and culti-
vated, show an affinity with A. dumosus, Linn., A. vimineus,
Lam., and A. diffusus, Ait., all of which may be distin-
guished by having more regularly and closely imbricating
non-coriaceous involucral bracts, and leaves mostly whitish
beneath. All of the above-named species of dster are
cultivated in the Herbaceous ground of the Royal Gardens,
Kew, where, about twenty years ago, they were critically
examined and named by Prof. Asa Gray, who had devoted
years to the Asters of his native country.
A, Tradescanti is the first of the many N. American
Asters cultivated in Europe, having been introduced prior
to 1633 by John Tradescant, Gardener to Charles I., into
his garden, Lambeth. It was, no doubt, brought over by
his son, who travelled in Virginia, and who, on his return
to England, brought many new plants with him. Itisa
native of open ground in the Eastern United States, from
Canada to Virginia, and westward to Ilinois and the
Saskatchewan river. Two varieties of it are described in
Aiton’s “* Hortus Kewensis ;”’ one with blue flowers, called
Tradescant’s dwarf Star-wort or Michaelmas Daisy, which
A. Gray refers to A. paniculatus; the other, with white
flowers, Tradeseant’s tall Star-wort, to which A. Gray
confines the name. The latter is frequent in Botanic
Gardens, varying a little in the size of the heads. The |
Specimen figured is from the Cambridge Botanical Garden, ©
where, as at Kew, it has been in cultivation probably
ever since these gardens were established. It flowers in
September and October.—J. D. H. |
Fig. 1, head with unexpanded flowers; 2, Faptiower ; 3, disk-Aower ; 4, hair
of pappus ; 5, stamens ; 6, style-arms of disk-flower :—all enlarged.
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IMPATIENS GranpriFLora.
Native of Madagascar.
Nat. Ord. GERANIACEa.—Tribe BALSAMINEA.
Genus Impatiens, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. wl. i. p. 277.)
Impatiens (Unifloree) grandiflora; herba 4-5-pedalis, ramosa, glaberrima,
ramis ramulisque crassiusculis teretibus, foliis alternis petiolatis 4-6 poll.
longis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis crenato-serratis inter nervos bullatis
marginibus basin versus petioloque glandulis paucis crasse stipitatis
instructis, floribus axillaribus solitariis maximis suberectis roseis, pedun-
enlis 2-24 poll. longis crassis erectis basi bracteola minuta triangulari
instructis, sepalis 2 herbaceis ovato-rotundatis 4-1 poll. longis obtusis
v. acutis apice mucronatis, vexillo erecto. orbiculari 1-14 poll. diam.,
dorso infra apicem corniculato, alis 14-2 poll. longis, lobis patulis basi
sanguineo pictis, basali rotundato retuso, terminali longiore 1-14 poll.
lato oblique obovato intus margine interiore sinuato lobulato, labello.
inflato 1-13 diam. albo roseo reticulato abrupte in calear album incurvum
=f poll. longum attenuato, filamentis brevibus, antheris oblongis, ovario
obtuso.
I. grandiflora, Hemsl. in Fook. Ic. Plant. t. 2655. Gard. Chron. 1901, vol. i.
p- 110, fig. 47.
7
This is by far the largest flowered Balsam hitherto dis-
covered, the flowers of native specimens being quite half as
large again as are those of the cultivated plant here figured ;
and very much larger than those of the Ceylon I: Hookeriana,
Arn, (tab. 4704), which has long been known as exceeding
all others in this respect. Though differing from I. Hooker-
wana in inflorescence and colour of flower, I. Hookeriana,
having sub-umbellate, nearly white flowers, these species
agree fairly closely in the form of the standard and
wings, the latter of which show red streaks at the base of
the terminal lobe. They differ in the sepals, which are
small and lanceolate in Hookeriana, and in the lip, which
is not inflated in that plant; the glands on the petiole in
Hookeriana are only two, and situated at the top of the
latter. In the absence of fruit of both these species, it is
impossible to speculate on their affinities.
Impatiens grandiflora was discovered by Mr. G. Warpur,
a botanical collector, in Madagascar, where it inhabits
Swampy places to the N.W. of Tamatave, at twelve
Marcu Ist, 1902.
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hundred feet elevation. As the stems are said to root at
the nodes when the plant is thrown down, there should be
no difficulty in propagating it. The plant from which the
figure is taken was presented to the Royal Gardens,
Kew, by Mr. Warpur, where it flowered in a greenhouse
in November, 1900, and continued flowering for some
months. .
Deser.—A_ glabrous, stout, branching, perennial herb.
Stem and branches terete. Leaves alternate, petioled,
three to six inches long, ovate-lanceolate, sinuate-crenate, —
bullate above between the nerves, with a few stoutly
stalked glands on the margins towards the base and on
the petioles. lowers axillary, solitary, two and a half
_to three inches broad, bright rose-red, with crimson stripes
towards the bases of the lobes of the wings. Pedunele
stout, erect. Sepals two. very variable in size, orbicular-
ovate, green. Standard orbicular, erect, shortly spurred
dorsally below the tip. Wings very large; basal lobe _
orbicular, terminal obliquely obovate, Lip one to one and
three-quarters of an inch long, turgid, white, reticulated
with purple, suddenly narrowed into a stout incurved
white spur an inch or more long.—.J. D. H.
Fig. 1, base of leat and petiole with glands:—enlarged.
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j ALOE PENDENS.
: Native of Arabia.
Nat. Ord. Lintackez.—Tribe Atornex,
Genus Axor, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii, p. 776.)
ALOE pendens; fruticosa, sobolifera, pendula, foliis subdistichis deflexis et
patenti-recurvatis anguste ensiformibus sensim acuminatis ima apice
_ subteretibus integris supra leviter turgidis subtus inferne valde convexis
lete viridibus, dentibus parvis remotis deltoideis, scapo adscendente
gracili 3-4-ramoso, racemis elongatis cylindraceis, pedicellis bracteis late
ovatis acuminatis striatis longioribus, perianthii cylindracei subtrigoni
luteo-rubri segmentis parvis ovatis tubo triplo longioribus.
A. pendens, Forsk. Flor. Aigypt. Arab. Descr. p. 74. Baker in Journ, Linn,
rere Xvill. p. 181. Hngler, Notizbl. Berl. Bot, Gart. vol. i. p. 9
1897).
Iam indebted to my old friend Sir Thomas Hanbury,
F.L.S., for specimens of the very interesting Aloe here
figured, together with a photograph, and excellent descrip-
tion drawn up from the living plant by his Curator, Mr.
Alwin Berger. It is a native of Southern Arabia, where -
it was discovered by Forskal growing on rocks at Hadjeh.
Tt has been collected by Schweinfurth on Djebel Bura, at
about three thousand feet elevation. The plant from
which the figure is taken was received by Sir T. Hanbury
from the Botanical Gardens of Berlin, and it flowered at
the Palazzo Orengo, Mortola, for the first time in March,
1902.
Mr. Berger remarks that in his opinion its nearest allies
are the Arabian A. inermis, Forsk., and two South African
species, A. microstigma and A. consobrina of Salm Dyck,
all related by their small, cylindric flowers in elongate
racemes, and narrow, ensiform, often spotted leaves.
He observes that Forskal describes the flowers as of a
yellow colour, and feels convinced that this is the case
only in plants growing in shady places, as may be seen
under such conditions, both in Naples with Mr. C.
Sprenger, and in the Botanic Garden at Palermo.
Deser.—Shrubby ; suckers many. Stem solitary, about =
sixteen inches long, and an inch and a quarter in
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diameter, pendent; bark scaly; internodes about
inch long. Leaves seventeen to eighteen inches long,
one and a half to two inches broad, and three-quarter
of an inch thick towards the base, patent, deflexec
and recurved, very fleshy, narrowly ensiform, acuminate,
slightly turgid above, convex beneath, margin very —
narrowly horny and reddish or yellow; teeth four to six- \
tenths of an inch apart, small, deltoid, about one-tenth of
an inch long, tip edentate for two and a half to three
inches, terete or semi-terete; leaves of young shoots
distichous, on older branches convex on both surfaces,
especially towards the base, sheath spotted and striped
with white. Inflorescence about thirty inches long; scape
ascending, slender, twice or thrice branched; scales few,
deltoid. Racemes erect, cylindric, many-flowered, about —
six to eight inches long and two broad, the terminal
longer; pedicels five to six-tenths of an inch long, erecto-
patent; bracts shorter, deltoid, ovate, acute, marcescent. |
Flowers drooping, nearly an inch long, cylindric, sub-
trigonous, not constricted, dull yellowish-red; segments
connate for one-third their length, yellow within, tips
slightly recurved, with paler margins, and three dark
central streaks. Stamens and style very shortly exserted.
A, Berger.
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EURYOPS SOCOTRANUS,
Native of Socotra,
Nat. Ord. Comrosir2.—Tribe SENECIONIDER.
Genus Evryors, Cass.; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p, 452.)
Evuryors socotranus; suffrutex 3-pedalis, glaberrimus, dichotome ramosus,
ramis robustis foliorum basibus persistentibus tessellatim cicatricatis,
ramulis herbaceis, foliis cum petiolis 2-2} poll. longis sparsis v. ad we fle
ramulorum confertis 3- rarius 4-partitis in petiolum ilem plano-
compressum angustatis, segmentis anguste linearibus obtusis l-nerviis ©
sinubus acutis lete viridibus, capitulis axillaribus solitariis vel in
corymbos foliosos terminales aggregatis, pedunculis folia squantibas
gracillimis nudis, involucri hemispherici basi nudi, bracteis 8-10 oblongis
erectis ad medium connatis apicibus rotundatis herbaceis, receptaculo
foveolatim dentato, fl. radii ad 12 tubo brevi ligula } poll. longa lineari-
oblonga revoluta aurea apice 3-crenata, fl. disci croceis brevibus tubo
superne late campanulato 5-fido, antheris exsertis, achwniis oblongis
compressis pubescentibus, pappi setis brevibus hirsutis.
E. socotranus, Balf. fil. in Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinb. vol. xi. (1882) p. 841; Bot.
Socotr. p. 141, t. xli. ;
The genus Huryops is a large one in South Africa, from
which country it extends northwards through tropical
Africa to Abyssinia and Arabia. One species alone has
hitherto appeared in this magazine, namely, EH. pectinatus,
Cap. (Othonna pectinata, Linn., tab. 306), a handsome
conservatory plant, with snow-white cottony foliage, intro-
duced in 1731, and still flourishing in the Cape House at
Kew. The genus is closely allied to Senecio, differing
chiefly in the pappus and connate involucral bracts.
H. socotranus was found in the higher regions of Mt.
Haghier, in Socotra, by Dr. I. B. Balfour, F.R.S., when —
on his memorable expedition to that island in 1880, the
botanical riches of which he was the first to describe.
It has also been collected by Dr. Schweinfurth on Wadi
Kischer. The specimen figured was raised in the Royal
Botanic Garden of Edinburgh, from seeds brought by Dr.
H. O. Forbes, now Curator of the Public Museum, Liver-
pool, who visited Socotra in 1898-9. It differs from the
native specimens in having rather distant, scattered, much
longer leaves and long branchlets, which do not show the
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curiously tessellated character of those of the native plan
so well illustrated in Dr. Balfour’s figure, in which alst ©
the leaves are crowded at the end of the branches. The™
_ flower-heads, too, are twice the size of those of native
‘specimens. These differences are the effects of the widel:
“yerse conditions of the plant on the arid scorched rock:
of its island home, and in the temperate warmth and
moisture of a house in Scotland.
Deser.—A glabrous, dichotomously branched undershrub,
about three feet high; bracts woody, closely tessellately
scarred. Leaves two to two and a half inches long,
narrowed below into a long, flattened petiole, three- rarely
four-partite ; segments narrowly linear, obtuse, one-nerved, _
bright green. Heads axillary, solitary, or in terminal mg
corymbs; peduncles slender, as long as the leaves. —
Involucre hemispheric, ecalyculate; bracts eight to ten,
oblong, erect, connate to the middle, tips rounded, her-
baceous. eceptacle minutely toothed. Lay-flowers about
twelve; tube short ; ligule half an inch long, linear-oblong,
recurved, golden-yellow. Disk-flowers orange-yellow, five-
lobed, tube broadly campanulate above the middle;
anthers exserted. Achene oblong, compressed, pubescent ;
pappus short, bristles hirsute-—J, D. H.
‘Fig. 1, ray-flower; 2, disk-flower ; 3, hairs of ; , : 5, style-
arms of disk: flower :—all enlarged. _ : he terete; & Namen
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ERANTHEMUM arropurpureum.
Native of the Solomon Islands.
Nat. Ord. AcantHace2,—Tribe Justiciex.
Genus ErantuEemoum, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1097).
ERANTHEMUM atropurpureum; suffrutex corollis exceptis glaberrimus, ramis
tetraquetris, foliis ovatis oblongisve obtuse acuminatis basi acutis supra
atropurpureis nitidis subtus pallide virescentibus purpureo tinctis, nervis
utrinque ad 8 supra impressis subtus costaque prominulis purpareis,
- petiolo brevi, floribus in paniculam spiciformem oblongam erectam 6-
pollicarem dispositis, ramulis panicule brevissimis oppositis multi-densi-
floris, pedicellis calyce brevioribus, bracteolis ‘si blneiae ealycis % poll.
longi segmentis lanceolatis, corolle tubo pollicari gracili fere recto albo
intus pubescente, limbi segmentis tubo paullo brevioribus albis basi roseis
lineari-oblongis obtusis ciliatis, 2 superioribus erectis 3 inferioribus
deflexis, antheris exsertis, loculis basi rotundatis ecalcaratis, disco tubu-
_- loso, ovario glaberrimo in stylum gracilem attenuato, stigmatibus
minutis.
E. atropurpureum, Hort, Bull. ex Gard. Chron. 1875, vol. i. p. 619.
The flowering of this well-known stove plant is a rare
occurrence, though it has been in cultivation for upwards
of a quarter of a century. It is one of the many new and
interesting novelties procured from the Pacific Islands by
Mr. Charles Moore, F.L.S., when Director of the Botanical
Gardens of Sydney, New South Wales, and which were
imported by and distributed from the Royal Gardens,
Kew. It is said to be a native of the Solomon Islands.
Two other species, probably allied to H. atropurpureum,
have been recorded from the Solomon Islands; but the
descriptions of them are so meagre, being founded chiefly
on the coloration of the leaves (their flowers being un-
known) that they have little claim to specific rank. One
is H. nigrum, Lind. Ill. Hortic, vol. xxvii. (1880), 165,
t. 404, with terete branches and nearly black foliage; the
_ other, H. Mooret, Hort Bull., having leaves with a mottled
green centre and a broad yellowish margin. Other allied
species are H. Whartonianum, Hemsl. in Kew Bullet. 1894,
p- 214, and H. pacificum, Engl. Jahrb. vii. p. 475, which is
perhaps #. nigrum.
The specimens of JZ. atropurpureum here figured
June Isr, 1902, :
«
flowered in a stove of the Royal Gardens, Kew, in July —
1400. _
Descr.—A glabrous, leafy shrub ; branches erect, acutely
four-angled. Leaves four to six inches long, ovate or |
oblong, obtusely acuminate, base acute, very dark red- ©
purple and shining above, pale green, tinged with purple
beneath ; nerves about eight on each side, purple beneath.;
petiole short. Panicles six inches long, erect, spiciform ;
branches very short, many- and dense-flowered ; pedicels
shorter than the calyx; bracts subulate. Calyx one-sixth
of an inch long, segments lanceolate. Corolla-tube an inch ©
long, straight, slender, white; lobes rather shorter than
the tube, linear-oblong, obtuse, white, rose-coloured at
the base, ciliate, two upper erect, three lower deflex
Anthers exserted, base rounded, ecalcarate. Disk short,
tubular. Ovary glabrous, narrowed into a slender style;
stigmas minute.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1, bracts, calyx, style and stigma; 2, bud laid open; 3, dorsal view of =
stamen; 4, disk and ovary :—all enlarged.
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ECHINOCACTUS utoRoarannee
Native of Argentina.
Nat. Ord. Cactex.—Tribe Ecuinocactex.
Genus Ecninocactus, Link & ees Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. i.
p, 848.) ae
Ecutnocactus microspermus ; caule hemispherico v. subgloboso 2-4 poll. diam.
ecostato viridi mamillato, mamillis spiraliter dispositis liberis depresso-
hemisphericis obscure hexagonis ad } poll. diam. levibus glabris, areolis
glabris, spinis externis radiantibus 10-14 inzquilongis 4-3. poll. longis
gracilibus albis, centrali 3-3 poll. longa gracillima sigmoideo decurva
@picem versus plus minusvye hamata fusco-rubra, floribus numerosis
fere 2 po)l. diam., calycis tubo pollicari piloso et aculeato, sepalis petalis-
que multiseriatis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis aureis” aurantiacisve,
Ovario squamoso et lanuginoso, stigmatis flavi lobis ad 15 linearibus,
seminibus numerossimis minutis.
E. microspermus, Weber in Bois, Dict. D’ Hort. p. 469. Schum. Monatsschr.
fiir Kakt, vol, vii. (1897), p.104, eum ic.; Gesamtbeschr. Kakt: p. 397, £. 68;
Bliihend. Kakt.t.1. ie
A very distinct and attractive species of the immense
genus Kehinocactus, well figured by Schumann, both in
his Monatsschr. by a woodcut, and in his Bluehender. Kakt.
by a beautiful coloured plate. It is a native of Catamarca,
a district in the province of Tucuman, in Northern Argen-
tina, to the south of the great mountain of Aconcagua,
whence it was sent by Mr. Schickendantz. The seeds,
which I have not seen, are described as beiug so small
as to resemble a powder. Bae
The plant figured was procured by purchase. It
flowered in a frame of the Royal Gardens, Kew, in
September, 1901. :
Deser.—Stem hemispheric or sub-globose, two to four
inches in diameter, dark green, ecostate, mamillate.
Mamillz spirally disposed, very regular, about one-third
of an inch in diameter, depressed hemispheric, very
obscurely hexagonal, smooth, quite glabrous. Outer spines
ten to fourteen, radiating, slender, very unequal in length,
a fifth to a third of an inch long, straight or flexuous,
white ; central one half to two-thirds of an inch long,
very slender, decurved, hooked towards the tip, red-brown,
JUNE Ist, 1902,
sometimes sigmoidly flexuous. Flowers many, crowdea
at the top of the stem, golden- or orange-yellow, nearly
two inches in diameter. Calya-twbe about an inch long,
hairy and sparsely aculeate. Sepals and petals very many,
in many series, linear-lanceolate, acuminate. Iilaments
short, reddish, anthers yellow. Ovary scaly and woolly
stigmatic lobes about fifteen, pale yellow. Seeds very
numerous and very minute.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1, spines of one areola ; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, stigmas :—all enlarged.
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PLECTRANTHUS saccatus.
Native of Natal.
Nat. Ord. Laprata.—Tribe OctmompEm,
Genus PuectRantuvs, L’ Hér.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1175.)
Prectrantuvs (Germanea) saccatus; caule suffraticoso, ramis patulis pedali- —
bus herbaceis tetragonis foliisque crassiusculis patentim pilosis, foliis
2-3 poll. longis late ovatis rhomboideisve grosse crenatis utrinque pilosis
basi cuneatis v. truncatis floralibus minutis, racemis laxifloris simplicibus,
verticillastris 2-4-floris, pedicellis 1-} poll. longis fusco-rubris, calycibus
minutis late campanulatis hirtellis, dentibus acutis, supremo ovato
lateralibus subulatis inferioribus ovatis acutis, corolla azurea tubo 3
poll. longo inflato compresso basi gibboso intus ciliato, ore angusto, labio
superiore maximo erecto semicirculari apice emarginato basi subhastatim
truncato lobis lateralibus brevibus rotundatis, labio inferiore parvo
oblongo obtuso concavo deflexo, filamentis liberis, antherarum loculis
ovoideis divaricatis.
P. saccatus, Benth. in FE. Mey. Comment. p. 227; in DO. Prodr. vol. xii. p. 62.
Wood, Cat. Plant. Natal. Bot. Gard. (1890) p. 59; Prelim. Cat. Indig.
Natal Pl. (1894) p. 28.
Plectranthus saccatus is much the largest-flowered species
of the genus known to me, which character and the lovely
azure blue of the corolla render it a very ornamental
plant. Mr. Lynch, to whom I am indebted for the
Specimen figured, describes it as remarkable for the
horizontally spreading branches, about a foot long, the
succulent stem and leaves, and for the manner in which
the leaf-blades are brought into the best position for the
incidence of light by the action of the petioles. It is anative
of Natal, where it was discovered by the Collector Drége Mo
1836, at Omsamwubo or St. John’s River, a place 1 do not
find inany map. There isa single specimen of it, numbered
4777 of Drége’s Catalogue, in the Kew Herbarium, but
none from any subsequent collector. A living plant of it
was received at the Botanical Gardens of the University
of Cambridge, from Mr. J. Medley Wood, A.L.S., Curator of
the Natal Botanical Gardens, in 1899, which flowered in
October, 1901. According to Wood’s Catalogue of the
Indigenous Plants of Natal, it affects elevations of from
June Ist, 1902. on es
one thousand to three thousand feet. The stem is erro
neously described as procumbent by Bentham.
Descr.—Suffruticose, sparsely hairy on the stem and
leaves, rather succulent; branches about a foot long,
‘horizontally spreading. Leaves two to three inches long,
broadly ovate or rhombic, coarsely creaate, laxly hairy on
both surfaces, base cuneate or truncate; floral small.
Ttacemes erect, simple, rhachis stout, obtusely four-angled ;
whorls two- to four-flowered ; pedicels a fourth toa third
of an inch long, red-brown. Calyx minute, broadly cam-
panulate, two-lipped, five-toothed ; upper tooth broadly
ovate, lateral and two lower very small, ovate, acute.
Corolla large, pale blue; tube two-thirds of an inch long.
inflated, compressed, gibbous at the base.; upper lip erec
more Bon half an inch broad, semicircular, with a
cate, sub-hastate base, notched at the top ; side lo
narrow ; lower lip small, oblong, obtuse, concave,
Filaments free, glabrous ; anthers small, with ovoid,
divaricate cells.—J. D. H. 3
Fig. 1, calyx and style; 2, interior of corolla-tube and stamens; 3 and
4, anthers ; 5, disk and ovaries: —— enlarged, —
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BEGONIA ANGULARIS.
Native of Brazil.
Nat. Ord. Becontacza.
Genus Brecon, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 841.)
Beconia (Pritzelia) angularis; elata, robusta, ramosa, glaberrima, foliis 6-8-
pollicaribus oblique ovato-lanceolatis subacutis basi bilobis lobo altero
maximo rotundato altero rotundato v. truncato marginibus undulatis
crenulatis basi 4-5-plinerviis dein penninerviis nervis crassinsculis, supra
saturate viridibus secus nervos pallidioribus, subtus pallide viridibus
roseisve, stipulis pollicaribus ellipticis acutis eaducis, bracteis ad basin
pedunculorum 1}-pollicaribus e basi cordata lanceolatis herbaceis persis-
tentibus, pedunculis foliis multo longioribus roseis apice pluries dichoto-
mis, bracteolis minutis, floribus 4-3 poll. latis capitellatis albis vel roseis,
fi. masc., sepalis 2 orbiculatis medio concavis, petalis triente minoribus
oblongis, staminibus toro parvo sessilibus, antheris filamentis longioribus
lineari-oblongis connectivo breviter excurrente obtuso, fh. foem., sepalis
4-5 orbiculatis, stigmatibus sessilibus late reniformibus undique papil-
losis, capsula 3 poll. longa 3-alata, ala dorsali oblique rotundata,
lateralibus multo minoribus, placentis integris undique ovuliferis. ;
B, angularis, Raddi in Mem. Moden. vol. xviii. Fis. (1820) p. 407. 4.DC. in
0. Prodr. vol. xv. pars I. p, 358; in Mart. Fl. Bras. vol. iv. pars I.
P-
B. crenulata, Schott in Hort. Vindob. ex A.DC. l.c.
B. zebrina, Hort. Angl. ex Lond. Encyc. Pl, Suppl. 2, p. 1506.
B. hastata, Vell. Fl. Flwm. vol. x. t. 54?
Pritzelia zebrina, Klotzsch, in Monatsh. Berl, Akad. (Maerz, 1854) p. 126;
et in Abhandl. Akad. Berl, (1855) p. 110, t. 103.
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Though differing a little from A. de Candolle’s excellent
description in the smaller size of the petals of the male
flower, and in the somewhat larger capsules, I cannot
doubt this being Raddi’s Begonia angularis, which is said
(A.DC. l.c.) to have been introduced into English gardens
in 1845 from San Gabriel, in the Sierra d’Estrella of
Brazil. There are specimens of it in the Kew Herbarium
from the Organ Mountains, collected by Burchell, and
from Rio (probably the Organ Mountains) by Glaziou.
Martius gives the Province of Rio de Janeiro and Minas
Geraes ; and A. de Candolle in the Prodomus cites Schott
as its discoverer in 1822, at San Joao Marques. :
B. angularis is a magnificent species, of shrubby habit.
The plant from which the figure is derived is eight feet
JvLy Ist, 1902. :
high. It is planted in a bed in the Mexican division of
the Temperate House of the Royal Gardens, where it
flowers freely throughout the year. It has been long in
cultivation at Kew.
Descr.—Stem eight feet high, copiously branched,
branches spreading or drooping, as thick as the little
finger, green. Leaves six to eight inches long, obliquely
ovate-lanceolate, unequally two-lobed at the base, very
dark green above, paler along the nerves, pale green
beneath, and sometimes suffused with red, margins undu-
late and crenulate; petiole rather short, stout; stipules
one to one and a half inches long, ovate-lanceolate, her-
baceous, green, persistent. Peduwncles long, rather slender.
Flowers in heads on the terminal branchlets of a very large
repeatedly dichotomously branched panicle, white, about —
two-thirds of an inch in diameter; male fl., sepals 2, —
orbicular, depressed in the middle; petals one-third as
large, oblong; stamens crowded in a small receptacle,
filaments very short, anthers linear-oblong, connective
obtuse; fem. jl., sepals 4-5, orbicular; stigmas sessile,
broadly reniform, papillose all over. Capsule three-winged,
an inch broad across the wings; dorsal wing obliquely
rounded, lateral much shorter.—J. D. H,
larged.
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MUSCARI tatironiom.
Native of Asia Minor,
Nat. Ord. Littace.x«.—Tribe Scrutem.
Genus Muscant, Mill.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. iii. p. 811.)
Moscar! (Botryanthus) latifolium; bulbo parvo ovoideo, foliis 1-2, 6-12 poll.
longis 1-2 poll. latis lineari- v. obovato-oblongis v. oblongo-lanceolatis
subacutis planis basi angustatis scapum vaginantibus, scapo robusto
foliis longiore viridi, racemo 3-4 poll. longo cylindraceo densifloro,
floribus pendulis } poll. longis saturate atro-violaceis supremis minoribus
pallidioribus clausis neutris, bracteis minutis, perianthio oblongo subur-
ceolato intus et extus glaucescente, lobis brevibus erectis concavis rotun-
datis dorso incrassatis demum recurvis, staminibus medio tubo insertis
uniseriatis, antheris inclusis cxruleis, ovario ovoideo in stylum 3-lobum
attenuato, capsula membranacea, seminibus compressis. ;
M. latifolium, J. Kirk in Jameson Edinb. New. Phil. Journ. vol. vi. (1858) _
p- 80; in Trans, Bot. Soc. Edinb. vol. vi. (1860) p. 30. Boiss. Flor.
Orie. vol. v. p. 294. Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc, Bot, vol. xi. (1371)
p. 415.
Bellevalia monophylla, J. Gay ew Boiss. Fl. Orient. v. p. 294.
B. muscaroides, Masters in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. vol. iii. (1859) p. 113.
Muscari latifolium was discovered and brought to
Europe from Mt. Ida in Asia Minor by Dr. (now Sir John)
Kirk, F.R.S., and Dr. Armitage, when employed in the
military hospital at Renkioi, during the Crimean War.
It has more recently been found in pine woods of the
Mouraddagh Mts. in Phrygia and in the Troad. The
specimen here figured differs greatly from the native ones,
and from the descriptions of Kirk, Masters, Boissier and
Baker, in its much larger size, the presence of two leaves,
the longer raceme, and much larger flowers, differences pro-
bably all due to cultivation. The Royal Gardens, Kew,
are indebted to those of Berlin for bulbs of this plant,
received in 1886. Like most other species of the genus,
it is an early flowerer, : s :
Descr.— Bulb small, ovoid. Leaves one or two, six to
twelve inches long, by one to two broad, linear- or obo-
vate oblong or oblong-lanceolate, sub-acute, flat, narr owed
to the sheathing base, bright green. Scape longer than the
leaves, stout. Raceme three to four inches long, cylindric,
Juty Ist, 1902, *
dense-flowered. lowers pendulous, about a quarter of an
inch long, very dark violet-blue, uppermost smaller, erect, |
pale blue, neuter. Perianth oblong-urceolate, glaucescent ;
lobes short, erect, orbicular, concave, dorsally much
thickened, at length recurved. Stamens inserted about ~
the middle of the tube, uniseriate ; anthers included, violet-
blue. Ovary ovoid, narrowed into the style; stigma
three-lobed. Capsule membranous. Seeds compressed.—
J.D. Hi.
Fig. 1, ower; 2, portion of perianth laid open ; 3, ovary :—all enlarged.
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IMPATIENS cusprpata,
var, ARTHRITICA.
Native of the Nilghiri Mts,
Nat. Ord. Geranrace®.—Tribe BatsaMInEez,
Genus Impatiens, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 277.)
Impatiens (Uniflore) cuspidata; fruticosa, fere glaberrima, ramis ramulis
petiolisque cylindraceis niveo-farinosis, foliis alternis superioribus rarius
oppositis longe petiolatis 3-5 poll. longis lanceelatis v. oblongo-lanceolatis
acuminatis serrulatis flaccidis lete viridibus basi acutis v. angustatis,
nervis valde obliquis subtus pilosulis, petiolis 14-2 poll. longis setis
sparsis glanduliferis auctis, glandulis stipularibus 0, pedunculis axillaribus
1-floris 8olitariis binisve petiolo longioribus ebracteolatis, sepalis 2 e basi
ovata longe subulatis, corolla pallide rosea 3 poll. diam., vexillo erecto
rotundato bifido dorso cornuto, alis vexillo paullo longioribus lobo basilari
oblongo obtuso quam terminale oblique oblongum apiculatum triente
breviore, labello cymbiforme acuto, calcare filiforme alis duplo longiore
recto v. paullo incurvo apice non v. vix incrassato, capsula 3 poll. longa
ovoidea utrinque attenuata glabra.
T. cuspidata, Wight et Arn. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. vol, i. (1835) p. 321.
Wight, Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 741; Cat. n. 2242. 5
I. latifolia, Linn. partim, Hook. f. § Th. in. Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. iv. (1860)
p. 124; Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. i. p. 450.
I. flaccida, Arn, partim, Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. i. p. 457.
Var. arthritica ; nodis inferioribus valde incrassatis.
Though not in all respects agreeing with the description
of I. cuspidata given by Wight & Arnott, or with Wight’s
tab. 741, I have no hesitation in referring to that species
the plant here figured. It differs from both figure and
description in the conspicuous snowy-white farina on the
stem and branches, which give it a very remarkable
appearance. There are several Peninsular, Indian and
Ceylon species, to which it is closely allied, and with
which it has been more or less confounded by Thwaites, in
his ‘Enum. Plant. Zeyl.” by myself in the “ Flora of
British India,” and by ‘Trimen in his ‘‘ Handbook of the
Ceylon Flora,” all distinguished by the alternate exstipu-
late leaves, axillary one-flowered peduncles with no trace
of bracts or bracteoles, cymbiform lip abruptly narrowe
into the spur, and ellipsoid capsule narrowed (in all ?) at
both ends. Such are [ latifolia, Bot. Mag. tab. 5625
JuLY lst, 1902. :
(an Linn.?), I. flaccida, tab. 5276 (an Arn. ?), I. bipartita,
-Arn., and J. lucida, Heyne, all requiring study with better
material than has hitherto been available, but I think all
distinct. From all these J. cuspidata differs in the
snow-white stem and branches, &c., a character which
escaped both White and Arnold.
Impatiens cuspidata is a native of Conoor in the Nilghiri
Hills, at about five thousand feet elevation, where it was
first found by Wight. It has been in cultivation in
England since 1877, when specimens were sent by Messrs.
Veitch to the Kew Herbarium. The plant here figured
represents a most remarkable state of it, drawn in July,
1891, by Miss Smith, in a conservatory of the Royal
Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, in which the base of the
stem was nearly an inch in diameter, the lower branches
nearly as thick at the base, the upper with the nodes
thickened and elongated into cylinders of a pale pinkish
white colour, contrasting remarkably with the white inter-
nodes, and the upper nodes quite normal. I have given it
the varietal name of arthritica, from its gouty appearance ;
but am disposed to regard it rather as a diseased condition,
well worthy of study by a vegetable anatomist.
Descr.—A shrub four to five feet high, with spreading
branches, covered with a snow-white farina, the lower
nodes elongate, and thickened into cylinders of a pale
reddish colour. Leaves alternate, or the uppermost oppo-
site, three to five inches long, lanceolate or oblong-
lanceolate, finely acuminate, serrulate, flaccid, bright green,
base acute; nerves oblique, more or less pilose beneath ;
petiole slender, with a few soft, scattered, gland-tipped
bristles. Peduneles solitary or binate, axillary, longer than
the petioles, ebracteolate, quite naked, one-flowered.
Flowers about an inch broad, very pale red. Sepals two, —
very small, ovate, narrowed into long, slender points,
green. Standard orbicular, two-lobed, erect, with a dorsal
horn. Wings two-lobed; terminal lobe obliquely oblong,
apiculate, much larger than the oblong, defiexed basal one.
Lip boat-shaped, acute, abruptly narrowed into a nearly
Straight, slender spur, about twice as long as the wings.
Capsule ovoid, narrowed at both ends,—J. D. H.
Fig. 1, bud, showing sepal; 2, lip and 3 aks od one
and 5, base of stem; both of nat. hy spur ; 3, petal :—all enlarged ; 4, >
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Tas. 7845.
CYNORCHIS vitrosa.
Native of Madagascar.
: ‘Nat. Ord. OncurpEa.—Tribe OpurypEx.
Genus Cyrxorcuts, Thouars ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p, 628.)
Crnorcuts villosa; herba erecta, inflorescentia glanduloso-villosa, radicibus —
crassis pilis atris comatis, caule brevi vaginis orbieularibus tecto, foliis
paucis sessilibus 4-8 poll. longis elliptico-oblongis oblongo-lanceolatisve
acutis acuminatis v. cuspidatis planis 7-00 -nerviis margine undulatis, scapo
8-10-pollicari erecto viridi glanduloso-villoso vaginis pancis 1-14 poll.
longis lanceolatis instructo, racemo spiceformi oblongo-cylindraceo 3-4
poll. longo obtuso densifloro, bracteis 3-4 poll. longis ovato-lanceolatis
ovarium strictum glanduloso-pubescentem wquantibus, pedicellis ad 3
poll. longis villosis, perianthio 3 poll. longo deflexo oblongo roseo, sepalis
petalisque conniventibus, sepalis ovato-oblongis apiculatis concavis
glanduloso-villosis, petalis minoribus auriculaformibus glabris, labello
sepalis breviore glabro oblongo-pandureformi apice trilobo lobis rotun-
datis, calcare labello equilongo obtuso inflato intus glanduloso, anthera-
rum tubulis ;'; poll. longis rectis parallelis.
C. villosa, Rolfe in Kew Bulletin, ined.
Of the genus Cynorchis, which in the “Genera Plan-
tarum,” that is in 1883, was credited with about twelve
Species, there are now at least thirty in the Kew Her-
barium, the majority of them from Madagascar, from
which country, as from tropical Eastern Africa, a rich
harvest of species is to be anticipated. Hitherto the
genus, which is found as far South as Natal, has not been
discovered in Western Africa. Only two have previously
been figured in this work : one under the name of C. pur-
purascens, tab. 7551, which, as has lately been shown, is
not the true plant, but should have borne the name C.
Lowiana, which Reichenbach gave it; the other is C. gran-
diflora, Ridley, tab. 7564. A figure of the true C. pur-
purascens, Thouars, will shortly appear in this work. _
Cynorchis villosa is one of the smallest flowered species
of the genus, it is a native of N.E. Madagascar, where it
was discovered by Mr. G. Warpur, in ravines at Tananbe.
Its nearest ally is, according to Mr. Rolfe, C. gibbosa,
Ridley (in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. (188!) 331), which has
JuLy lst, 1902.
solitary leaves, larger, glabrous flowers and a long spur,
The plant figured flowered in a stove of the Royal
Gardens, Kew, in September, 1901.
Deser.—Roots of fleshy fibres covered with black hairs,
Stem very short, clothed with orbicular sheaths. Leaves
few, spreading, four to eight inches long, elliptic- or
oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, flat, many-nerved,
margins undulate, Scape eight to ten inches long, erect,
green, glandular-villous; sheaths few, ovate-lanceolate.
ftaceme spiciform, three to four inches long, oblong,
cylindric, dense-fld.; bracts ovate-lanceolate, and ovary
glandular-villous; pedicels about half an inch long.
Perianth rose-purple, about half an inch long, deflexed ;
sepals and petals connivent. Sepals glandular-villous,
ovate-oblong, apiculate, concave. Petals rather shorter,
ear-shaped, glabrous. ip rather shorter than the sepals,
oblong-panduriform, glabrous, with three spreading,
rounded terminal lobes. Spur about as long as the lip,
inflated.— J. D. H.
Fig. 1, flower with the seps_ removed; 2 1; 3, lip and column;
4, pollinium :—all enlarged. ; 2, petal; 3, lip
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Tas. 7846, °~
BYBLIS cteantza. ©
Native of Western Australia,
——~
: Nat. Ord. P
Genus Bysuis, Salisb.; (Benth. & Hook, f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 664).
Byauis gigantea; herba erecta, pilis glanduliferis operta, viscida, canle simpli-
ciusculo basi lignoro, foliis 6-12 poll. longis anguste linearibus teretibus
v. supra canaliculatis vernatione involutis, pedunculis axillaribus uni-
floris, sepalis lanceolatis caudato-acuminatis 6~7 nerviis, petalis cuneato-
obovatis crenulatis disco tenui hypogyno insertis alabastro contortis,
flabellatim multinerviis ima basi primum coberentibus demum marces-
centibus, staminibus 5 hypogynis subdeclinatis, antheris filamentis cras-
siusculis longioribus inzqualibus basifixis lineari-oblongis, loculis demum
ab apice ad basin dehiscentibus, ovario 2-loculare, stylo simplici, stigmate
_capitellato, ovulis septo affixis, capsula subglobosa sepalis persistentibus
breviore loculicida polysperma, seminibus minutis ovoideis, testa cras-
siuscula rugulosa, embryone immerso, cotyledonibus brevibus.
B. gigantea, Lindl. in Swan River App. p.21. Lehm. in Plant Preiss. vol. i.
p. 257. Planch. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Sér. 8, vol. ix. p. 306. Benth. Fi.
Austral, vol. ii. p. 470. Harrcw in Gard. Chron, 1899, yol. ii. p. 409,
et Bi vol. ii. p. 351, fig. 109. Lang in Flora, vol. lxxxviii. (1901) p. 149,
t. 12.
B. Lindleyana, Planch, 1.c. p. 307.
The genus Byblis has been referred to the Order Dro-
seracex, from which it conspicuously differs in the simple —
style, two-celled ovary, and other characters. Bentham,
in the “ Flora Australiensis,” points out the resemblance in
the structure of its flowers to those of Cheiranthera, an
Australian genus of the Order Pittosporee, of very different
habit and foliage ; the likeness to which genus is evidenced
in the corolla, declinate stamens, anthers, two-celled ovary,
single style, and loculicidal capsule. oe
Very recently B. gigantea has been made the subject of dg
elaborate study by Mr. F. L. Lang, in a paper cited above,
who, after a close comparison of it with “Polypompholyx,
Lehm., an Australian water-plant of the Order Lentibu-
lariex, unhesitatingly refers it not only to the same Order,
but to “close proximity” with that genus. — The ges
upon which Mr. Lang most strongly dwells 1s, that ne
glandular hairs of B. gigantea are structurally different
JuLy Ist, 1902. t
from those of Droseracex proper, and closely agree with
the glands of Pinguicula. In support of this affinity, other,
often most minute, structural characters common to the
two genera are described, but the value of such characters
in a classificatory point of view has not been established,
and the presence of some may be fortuitous where they
occur, On the other hand, the differences between Byblis
and any genus of Lentibularieex are too glaring to need
mention. My own impression is, that until the other species
of Byblis (B. liniflora, Salisb.), and the allied Cape genus
Roridula, Linn., have been studied with the same care as
Mr. Lang has devoted to B. gigantea, a pronouncement on
the immediate affinities of the latter must be regarded as
premature. Nor would it surprise me to learn that
B. gigantea was generically distinct from the typical
B. limflora of tropical Australia, of which I have made only
_ @ Cursory examination. In one point my description of
B. gigantea differs from that of others, in which the
petals are described as united at the base; I find them in
B. gigantea to be obscurely coherent at the very base
in a very young state only, and perfectly free in their
mature condition. .
The plant of B. gigantea here figured was raised from
seeds sent in 1899 to the Royal Botanical Gardens, Edin-
burgh, by Mr. A. Morison, of the Agricultural Department, —
West Australia. It flowered first in 1900, since when
Dr. Balfour has sent plants to the Royal Gardens, Kew,
and has often kindly supplied me with flowers for
examination and description. 3
_Deser.—Whole plant, except the corolla, stamens and
otg poe with Hi pened gland-tipped hairs. Stem six
wenty-four inches high, si :
stout, bold: rootstock se a he rey ae
long, very narrowly linear, terete or channelled above,
Involute in vernation. Flowers solitary, on axillary
oo shorter than the leaves, very variable in size.
Oo gaginanped caudate-acuminate, usually much shorter
an the petals, but very variable in length. Petals
ee ovate, contorted in’ bud, inserted on a narrow,
Se eindss, cranks See ey, mento
petals, unequal site ee oe Se oe
? inate; anthers basifixed, linear-
woody. Leaves six to twelve inches —
oblong, much longer than the stout filaments, cells de-
hiscing from the tip eventually to the base. Ovary small,
globose, two-celled; style slender; stigma capitellate;
ovules many, axile on the septum. Capsule small, globose,
two-celled, crustaceous, loculicidally two-valved. Seeds
many, minute.—J. D. H. :
Fig. 1, stamens and pistil; 2,stamen; 3, pistil; 4, glandular hair; 5, trans-
verse section of ovary; 6, capsule and portion of calyx; 7, seed; 8, section of
seed :—all enlarged.
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KCHIUM Wioprreti.
Nutive of the Canary Islands,
*
- Nat. Ord. Boracinex.—Tribe Boracea.
Genus Ecutum, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 863.)
a
Ecutum Wildpretii; bienne, molliter pilosa, caule 2-3-pedali simplice stricto
erecto a basi paullo incrassato crebre foliogo, foliis 6-8-pollicaribus
patentibus sessilibus lingari-lanceolatis acuminagis utrinque pilis mollibus
subsericeis vestitis costa latiuscula nervis obscuris, cymis multifloris in
thyrsum terminalem elongatum foliosum dispositis, foliis floralibus
linearibus patenti-incurvis cymas pedunculatas longe superantibus,
floribus breviter pedicellatis, calycis + poll. longi segmentis equalibus
lanceolatis acuminatis pilosis, gorolla infandibulari-campanulata pallide
rubra tubo calyce paullo longiore basi intus annulo pilorum instructo,
lobis wqualibus late ovatis obtusis, filarfientis erectis corolla duplo
longioribus pallide sanguineis, antheris parvis oblongis, stylo piloso
_ apice bipartito.
E, Wildpretii, Pearson in Hort. Kew. (nomen).
The species of Hchium, of which more than eighty are
catalogued in the Kew ‘Index Plantarum,” are very difficult
of discrimination. This applies especially to the species of
Madeira and the Canary Islands, of which twenty have
been described, but of which not a few will probably be
reduced to synonyms or varieties when they shall be
collated and critically examined. Of the plant here figured
seeds were sent to the Royal Gardens, Kew, by Mr.
Wildpret, Curator of the Botanic Gardens of Orotava,
Teneriffe, under the name of JZ. candicans, Linn. f., a very
different plant, as may be seen by a reference to tab. 6868
of this work. The seeds germinated freely, and the young
plants ripened their seeds in 1897. From these a batch of
plants was raised, which flowered in May, 1899, and dying
after flowering, proved the species to be biennial. In the
first year the plant formed a dense rosette of long, narrow,
Silvery, silken leaves, and the stem elongates after about
sixteen months. The only other species known to me
with the habit, thyrsoid inflorescence, and floral leaves
much exceeding the cymes, is EH. callithyrswm, Webb (ex
Bolle in Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. 1867, App- 1. P- 6), a
Canary Island plant, of which there are specimens (if
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correctly named) in the Kew Herbarium, from the garden
of the late Rev. Henry Harper-Crewe, M.A., of Drayton
Beauchamp. This differs from H. Wildpretii in being a
much more robust, hispidly hairy plant, with strongly
neryed leaves, very unequal calyx-segments, and a shorter,
broader corolla-tube. It is further described as being a
small tree. _
Descr.—A tall, softly hairy biennial, with a simple,
erect, leafy stem, two to three feet high, terminated by a
dense-flowered thyrsus of innumerable shortly peduncled
cymes, which are very much shorter than the linear, up-
curved floral leaves. eaves six to eight inches long,
sessile, narrowly linear-lanceolate, acuminate, spreading,
softly hairy on both surfaces, costa stout beneath, nerves
faint ; lower floral leaves three to four inches long, linear.
Flowers sub-sessile. Calyx about one-fifth of an inch long;
segments equal, lanceolate, acuminate, hairy. Corolla
between funnel- and bell-shaped, pale red ; lobes rounded.
Filaments far exserted. Style hairy, tip bifid —J. D. H.
Fig. 1, flower; 2 and 3, anthers; 4, pistil:—all enlarged.
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DECAISNEA Farcrst.
Native of China.
Nat. Ord. Berperipex,—Tribe LARDIZABALER,
Genus Decatsnza, Hook. f.; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 42.)
Decaisnea Fargesii; fratex erectus, glaberrimus, polygamo-dioicus, caulibus
strictis erectis param divisis apieem versus foliosis, foliis pedalibus
patulis impari-pinnatis, petiolo gracili tereti, foliolis oppositis multijugis
petiolulatis ovatis oblongisve subcaudato-acuminatis, racemis axillaribus
elongatis decurvis, bracteis 4 poll. longis elongato-subulatis patulis
caducis, floribus pendulis viridibus, sepalis lanceolatis, longe acuminatis,
petalis 0, fl. masc. filamentis in tubum elongatum cylindraceum apice
antheriferum connatis, antheris tubo adnatis linearibus connectivo in
unguem erectum producto, fl. foem. staminodii tubo brevissimo antheris
longe cuspidatis, carpellis lineari-oblongis, fructus carpellis 3-4-polli-
caribus lineari-oblongis reetis syed poll. diam. levibus subtorulosis
ceruleis, seminibus oblongis ad 3 poll. longis atris. Pde
D. Fargesii, Franch. in Journ, de Bot. vol. vi. (1892) p. 233. D. Bois im
Journ. Soc. Nation. d@Hortic. France, Ser. IV. vol. 1. (1900) p. 190; e¢ m
Rev. Hortic. 1900, p. 270, figg. 122, 123, 124.
Decaisnea Fargesii, is a very interesting plant, a second
species of a very remarkable Hastern Himalayan genus,
thus affording a conspicuous example of the affinity of the
Himalayan and Chinese mountain Floras. The type species,
D, insignis, Hook. f., is figured at t. 6731 of this work,
where its position in the tribe Lardizabalex ot Berberidex
is indicated. The resemblance of D. Fargesi to Dz
insignis, in habit, foliage, inflorescence and flowers is very
close indeed, the principal differences in foliage and
flowers being, that the leaflets of D. Fargesw are of a
darker green, and have rather longer tips, the sepals s
longer, much narrower tips, and the bracts are es sg
more persistent, ‘The remarkable distinction between ti saa
species lies in the fruit, the carpels of which in D. INSU NIS
are three to four inches long, by an inch anda half in diame-
ter, strongly falcately incurved, golden-yellow, with rage
what mamillate surface, and the seeds are half an ach
long, and brown; in D. Fargesii the carpels are only ala
and a half to three inches long, by half an inch in sexisee a
are nearly straight, dull blue in colour, and an sal “as
resemble blue caterpillars, and the seeds are muc smalie
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and black. There are some differences in the length and
breadth of the produced connectives of the anthers, but
these appear to be inconstant, judging from the published
drawings and cultivated. specimens.
D. Fargesii ig a not uncommon plant in the mountain
forests of Western China, at elevations of nine thousand
feet to thirteen thousand feet. It was discovered in the
province of Szechuen, by Father R. P. Farges, Missionaire
Apostolique, by whom seeds were sent to Messrs. Vilmorin
& Co., who flowered it at Barres, Loiret. The plant here
figured was presented to the Royal Gardens, Kew, by Mr.
Maurice L. de Vilmorin in 1897 ; it flowered in April, 1901,
and again in 1902, in the Temperate House, where, planted
in a border, it forms a sturdy shrub, seven feet high. It
has never fruited. There are specimens in the Kew Her-
barium collected by Dr. Henry, F.L.S., and others, in the
mountains of the provinces of Szechuen, Hupeh, and
Yunnan, at elevations of nine thousand feet to thirteen
thousand feet, as far West as the borders of Tibet.
All collectors agree as to the fruit being eatable, but
details of its qualities are wanting. The main distinctions
between the present plant and D. insignis being in the
fruit, as indicated above, no further description is here
required.—J. D. H. :
Fig. 1, stamens of male fl.; 2, interior of base of do. showing the pistillodes;
3, portion of fem. infl.; 5, fruit; 6, seed :—figs. 1, 2, 4, enlar ged; 3, of neh,
size; 5 and 6, nat. size, from Rev. Horticole.
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HETEROTOMA tose.totpes,
Native of Mexico and Guatemala.
Nat. Ord. CampanuLacEa#.—Tribe LOBELIEA.
Genus Hereroroma, Zuce.; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 553.)
Herterotoma lobelioides ; herba erecta, ramosa, ramulis gracilibus cum petiolis
foliorum marginibus nervisque subtus pubescentibus, foliis 3-4 poll.
longis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis subremote dentatis basi rotundatis
cuneatisve pallide viridibus nervis utrinque 5-7, petiolo gracili 1-2 poll.
longo, supremis sessilibus minoribus lineari-lanceolatis, pedunculis axil-
laribus 2-pollicaribus gracilibus glaberrimis, floribus ad_2-poll.- longis
faleatim incurvis, calycis dentibus viridibus subulatis 3 ad basin corolle
ad 3 poll. longis divaricatis, 2 ad apicem calcaris coroll~ minoribus
inflexis erectis, corolla calcare tubiformi sanguineo limbo caleare paullo
breviore oblongo aureo trifido, lobis equilongis lateralibus linearibus
intermedio oblongo, columna staminea corolle limbo sequilonga.
H. lobelioides, Zucc. in Flora, vol. xv. (1832) pars II. Beibl. p. 101. DC-
Predr. vol. vii. p. 350. Endl. Iconogr. t. 53. Van Houtte in Flore des
Serres, Ser. II. vol. iv. (1861) p. 163, t. 1454. Caruel in Ann. Se, Nat.
Ser. LV. vol. xi. p. 270. Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Am. Bot. vol. ii. p. 270; iv.
p. 66. S. Wats. in Proc. Am. Acad. vol. xviii. (1883) p. 111. Benth. Pl.
Hartw. p. 89.
Myopsia mexicana, Pres!, Prodr. Monogr. Lobel. p. 8.
Lobelia calearata, Bertol. Fl. Guatemal. p. 9.
Heterotoma is a very singular genus, consisting of seven
Mexican and Central American species, of which H. lobe-
lioides is the type. Its distinctive character consists m
the base of the corolla being produced downwards into a
horn, to the back of which the narrow lower lip of
the calyx is adnate nearly to its tip. In H. lobelioides the
two lobes of the lower lip of the calyx are represented by
two green subulate spurs, contrasting curiously in colour
with the dark blood-red of the spur itself. The upper
lip of the calyx consists of three green, subulate, spreading
spurs at the base of the corolla. ‘
H. lobelioides is a mountain plant, discovered by Karwin-
ski in Southern Mexico, at eight thousand feet elevation,
on the Cumbre de St. Antonio. It has also been collected
in Costa Rica by Herbst ; in Guatemala, at cee warrie by
Hartweg ; and on the Volcan de Santa Maria by the late
Mr. O. Salvin, one of the authors of the magnificent
Aveust lst, 1902.
“ Biologia Centrali Americana.” For the plant figured I
am indebted to the Botanical Gardens of Cambridge, where,
as Mr. Lynch informs me, it was received from Mexico with
the name of the Bird-plant.
Deser.—An erect ramous herb, with pubescent stem,
branches, petioles, and leaf-margins. Leaves three to
four inches long, alternate, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate,
remotely toothed, petiole slender ; floral small, linear-lan-
ceolate, entire. Peduncles solitary, sub-erect, axillary,
two to three inches long, slender. Flower about two inches
long, falcately incurved. Calyz-teeth small, subulate,
green, three at the base of the corolla, spreading, two
smaller erect at the apex of the tube of the corolla. Corolla-
tube corniform, blood-red ; limb golden-yellow, three-lobed
beyond the middle, lobes equal in length, side ones narrow,
linear, middle one oblong. Staminal column as long as
the limb of the corolla, erect.—.J, D. H.
Fig. 1, flower with the limb of the corolla removed; 2, anthers; 3, top of
style and stigma :—all enlarged.
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FRITILLARIA asxapapensts.
Native of Central Asia.
Nat. Ord, LitiacEz.—tTribe TuLirez.
Genus Frititiaria, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 817.)
Frititiaria (Petilium) askabadensis; elata, robusta, foliosa, bulbo magno
globoso squamoso, caule superne coma foliorum floribusque coronato,
foliis late viridibus sessilibus inferioribus sparsis lineari-oblongis lan-
ceolatisve subacutis 4-5 poll. longis, superioribus 5-6 poll. longis sub-
verticillatis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis, supremis fasciculatis minoribus
angustioribus flexuosis, floribus 5-8 inter folia suprema subverticillatis
cernuis inodoris, pedicellis 3-3 poll. longis decurvis bracteis parvis lineari-
bus, perianthii campanulati pallide flavo-viridis segmentis pollicaribus
oblongis obtusis, basi dorso gibbis, nectario parvo depresso viridi, fila-
mentis brevibus, antheris lineari-oblongis erectis obtuse apiculatis aureis,
ovario trigono.
F. askabadensis, Micheli in Journ. Soc. Hort. Franee, vol. iii. (192) p. 145.
Baker in Gard. Chron. 1902, vol. i. p. 237, fig. 238. Journ. Hort. Ser. 3,
xliy. p. 293.
The Askabad Fritillary is a very interesting plant, from
being a member of the Section Petilium, hitherto repre-
sented by a solitary species, the well-known Crown-
Imperial, F. imperialis, Linn. (tab, 194 and 1215), from
which it differs notably in the smaller campanulate flowers
of a greenish yellow colour. It was discovered by Mr.
Sintenis near Askabad, in the Russian Transcaspian
region, not far from the north frontier of Persia, growing —
in a calcareous soil, at an elevation of about one thousand
two hundred and fifty feet above the sea level. Micheli
describes the flowers as proterandrous, and I suspect se
are dichogamous, for he describes the filaments as long, an
style elongate, with a tricuspid stigma, whereas the stamens
_are short in our specimen, and the style short, trigonous,
and papillose.
I i indebted to Miss Willmott, V.M.H., of whined
Place, Essex, for the specimen here figured, whic
flowered in her garden in March, 1902. Dee
Descr.—Bulb large, globose, scaly. Stem ae stout,
sparingly leafy below, crowned with a whorl o ae
spreading, bright green leaves. Lower leaves scattere :
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four to five inches long, linear-oblong or lanceolate, acumi-
hate; uppermost forming a whorl-like cluster, each five
to six inches long, linear-lanceolate. Flowers five to eight,
axillary, pendulous from amongst the uppermost leaves;
bracts small, linear, green ; pedicels one-fourth to half an
inch long, decurved. Perianth about an inch long, cam-
panulate, pale yellow-green; segments oblong, obtuse,
gibbous at the base. Nectary a small green depression.
Filaments short; anthers. linear-oblong, erect, obtusely
apiculate, yellow. Ovary trigonous; style rather stout,
sub-clavate, three-grooved.—J/. D. H.
Fig. 1, base of perianth segment and nectary ; 2 an 3, stamens; 4, pistil:-—
all enlarged.
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GELSEMIUM SEMPERVIRENS, Soe:
Native of the Southern United States,
Nat: Ord. Logantacea.—Tribe Getsemina. ie ae
Gents Getsemrom, Juss.; (Benth. & Hook, f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 789).
GELSEMIUM sempervirens ; frutex volubilis, alte scandens, gracilis, glaber
mus, fere sempervirens, ramulis pendulis fusco-rubris,. foliis 13-2
longis oppositis breviter petiolatis oblongis v. lanceolatis acuminatis
supra luride viridibus subtus pallidis rabro tinetis, stipulis obsoletis,
pedunculis axillaribus vix } poll. longis reg ea floribus —
erectis dichogamis, calycis 4 poll. Jongi lobis ovato-lanceolatis, ec
aures tubo pollicari infundibulari-campanulato lobis tubo oribu
patulis ovato-rotundatis obtusis, staminibus tubo corolle inser! As, antheris
lineari-oblongis, stylo elongato, stigmate brevi bilabiato labiis inequalibus
2-lobis, lobis linearibus, capsula ellipsoidea compressa cuspidata septicida,
valvis apice bifidis, seminibus alatis. Se ee
G. sempervirens, Ait. Hort. Kew. Bd. II. vol. ii. p. 64. Elliot, Sketch Bo:
Carol., &., vol.i. p. 811, Meech. Fl. U. St. t.3. Rep. U. St. Dep. Ag
1884, p. 134, t. 16. A. Gray Man. Bot. N. U. St. (Ed.
Synopt. Fl. N. Am. vol. ii. pars I. p. 107. Ohapm. Fl. 8.
elaun. Herd
Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Am. vol. ii. p.388. 0
G. lucidum, Poir. Encyel. Suppl. vol. ii. p. 714.
vol. iii. t. 169, is ae ees, |
G. nitidum, Miche, F/. Bor. Am. vol. i. (1803)
vol. i. p. 184, Bentl. & Trim. Med. Pl. vol
JEFFERSONIA 8
p. 555,
iis ovato-lanceo
*
minum, &¢., of Parkinson, the name being derived from
the Italian for Jessamine. In 1803 Michaux published
it as G. nitidum, and in 1786 Poiret as G. lucidum, and
Aiton in 1811 as G. sempervirens. The only other known
species is G. elegans, Benth., a native of Burma and China.
G. sempervirens is a common plant in the woods and
low grounds of “the Southern United States, from Virginia _
to Florida, and westward to Texas and Southern Mexico. ©
Bentley and Trimen include it in their “ Medicinal Plants,”
where the dried stems and roots prepared by the Shakers
-of New Lebanon are stated to be in common use in America —
asasedative. The drug in large doses poisons by asphyxia.
It is not recognized in the British Pharmacopeeia.
_ The plant figured flowers annually in the winter months
in a conservatory in the Royal Gardens, Kew. 2
Descr.—A_ slender, glabrous, nearly evergreen, tall,
twining climber; young branches pendulous, bark red-
brown. Leaves opposite, one and a half to two and a halt
inches long, oblong or lanceolate, acuminate, dark green
-above, pale and somewhat reddish beneath; petiole very
“short; stipules obsolete. lowers solitary, or two to
three on a very short, axillary, scaly, erect peduncle,
fragrant, dichogamous, with either short filaments and
long style, or vice versd. Calyx short, lobes ovate-lanceo-
late. Corolla golden-yellow in bud, paler when expanded; —
tube between funnel- and. bell-shaped, an inch long,
orbicular-ovate. Anthers linear-oblong. Style slender; —
stigma small, with four linear arms in opposite pairs of
unequal length, Capsule ellipsoid, cuspidate, compressed, —
septicidal, Seeds winged.—J. D. H, ae ti
, His. 1, calyx and style; 2, portion of cas a ith
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Tas. 7852.
CYNORCHIS pvrrurascens,
Native of the Mascarene Islands.
Nat. Ord. Oncu1pE#.—Tribe Orurypes.
Genus Crnorcuis, Thou.; (Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 628.)
CYNoRCHIS purpurascens; epiphytica, caule brevi, foliis solitariis y. nunc binis
et valde inequalibus majore 1-2-pedali sessili oblongo v. oblongo-
lanceolato acuminato supra lete viridi multinervi, nervis parallelis subtus
crassis, scapo pedali valido erecto vaginis 1-2 lanceolatis recurvis instracto,
floribus racemosis v. in capitulum 6-7 poll. diam. congestis cum paucis
inferioribus dissitis, bracteis pollicaribus lanceolatis erectis vaginantibus
pallide viridibus, ovario fere bipollicari gracili, perianthio 14 poll. lato roseo
labelli disco albido, sepalo dorsali brevi ovato obtuso galeato, lateralibus
multo majoribus orbiculari-ovatis patulis, petalis lineari-lanceolatis
ascendentibus sepalo dorsali zquilongis, labello amplo sessili subsequaliter
4-fido, lobis late cuneatis patulis apice crenulatis, caleare gracili ovario
subzequilongo leviter incurvo, columna brevissima ey anaes ‘
C. purpurascens, Thow. Orch. Iles Afric. t. 15 (Cynosorchis). Lindl. Sp.
Orehid. p. 331 (non tab. nostr. 7551). Baker, Fl. Maurit. p. 337. - fe
in Orchid. Rev. vol. ix. (1901) pp. 10, 20. W. Watson in port fier
1900, vol. ii. p. 335; Weathers lc. 1901, vol. i. p. 86, fig. 37. Garden,
1900, p. 375. - ie
C. calanthoides, Kreenzl. in Bremen Abhandl. Naturwiss. Verein. vol. vii. (1882)
p. 260. : : 4
Gymnadenia purpurascens, A. Rich. in Mém. Soc. Hist. Nat. Par. vol. iv.
(1828) p.27. Bojer, Hort. Maurit. p. 311.
The plant erroneously figured in this work as Cynorchis
purpurascens, tab. 7551, though agreeing with tet s
meagre description of that plant, proves, now tha B :
latter is known, to be an entirely different species, W 2
must retain the name that Reichenbach gave it 0!
OC. Lowiana. The true C. purpurascens, though varying
greatly in size, never appears to assume the very slen fc
character of C. Lowiana, from which it differs, in : s
fully developed state, in the leaf, which 1s perhaps wee
largest. of any Orchideous plant, in the a! = y
flowered inflorescence, much larger bracts, an ee :
broader flowers, with a slender spur. The osc ggorh tan
column is very much the same in both, but the a e ns
which ig decurved in C. Lowiana, is sub-erect in CU. eu ;
purascens, so far as can be judged from the specim
fizured.
SEPTEMBER Is1, 1902.
Cynorchis purpurascens isanative of the Mascarene Islands,
where it was first found by Mr. G. Warpur, who describes
it as growing at an elevation of one thousand to one thousand
two hundred feet, on branches of Pandanus Candelabrum,
sometimes in tufts of Asplenium Nidus, hanging over
streams, and often accompanied by Impatiens grandiflora,
Hemsl, (tab. 7826). It is, according to Bojer, also a
native of the Mauritius, in marshes of the Plaines-Wilhems
and Moka, and Dr. Balfour collected it in Bourbon, where
it was discovered by Thouars. In the Royal Gardens,
Kew, it grows and flowers freely in the same house by -
Odontoglossum crispum, and it continues flowering for
upwards of six weeks in winter and early spring.
Deser,—Stem very short. Leaves solitary or two, when
one is very small, the other attaining two feet in length
and eight inches in breadth, sessile, oblong, acuminate,
bright green above, nerves eight or more, parallel, very
stout on the pale undersurface of the leaf. Peduncle a
foot high, stout, strict, erect, bearing two large lanceolate
acuminate sheaths, two inches long. Flowers very many,
in a short, spiciform raceme or globose head, which is
sometimes seven inches in diameter, with a few flowers
lower down in the peduncle. Bracts an inch long, lan-
ceolate, acuminate, very pale green, convolute, much
shorter than the very slender strict ovaries, which are two
inches long. Perianth an inch and a half broad, rose-
coloured, with the disk of the tip white. Dorsal sepal
small, oblong, galeate, lateral much larger, orbicular-
ovate, spreading. Petals very small, linear-lanceolate,
ascending along the margins of the dorsal sepals. Lip
large, an inch broad and long, sub-equally four-lobed,
lobes cuneiform, with crenulate anterior margins; spur —
about as long as the ovary, slender, slightly incurved.
Column very short ; rostellum sub-erect.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1, petal; 2, side, and 3, front view of column and anther; 4, pollinium:
—all enlarged, ; ;
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Tap. 7858:
DISCHIDIA nirsovrta.
Native of Malaya.
Nat. Ord. AscLerrapeEz.—Tribe MARSDENIEA.
Genus Discuipia, Br. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 777.)
Discurpta hirsuta ; scandens, tota floribus exceptis papillosa caulibus tenuibus
flexuosis fusco-purpureis nodis radicantibus, internodiis foliis longioribns,
foliis pollicaribus brevissime petiolatis orbiculari-ovatis mucronatis plus
minusve papillosis et hispido-pilosis, subtus inter nervos lacunosis fusco-
viridibus, nervis utrinque ad 4, racemis intra-petiolaribus paucifloris
brevissime pedunculatis, floribus breviter pedicellatis, calycis lobis
minutis ovatis obtusis, corolla glabra } poll. longa carnosa urceolata, tubo
inferne globoso atro-sanguineo superne constricto roseo apice 5-fido lobis
ovatis erectis, intus annulis 2 piloram uno fauci altero sito instructo,
coronz exterioris squamis erectis malleiformibus.
D. hirsuta, Deene. in DQ. Prodr. vol. viii. p. 632. Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol.
iv. p. 50. W. Watson in Gard Chron. 1896, vol. ii. p. 182. :
D. Brunoniana, Griff, Notul. Pl. Asiat, pars IV. p. 44, Ie, Pl. Asiat. vol. iv.
t. 410 A fig. 1. (polliniis et squamis erroneis).
D. fasciculata, Decne. l.c.
Leptostemma hirsutum & fasciculatum, Blume, Bijdr. P- 1058.
Dischidia is a tropical Asiatic and Australian genus, of
about twenty-five species, of which that here figured is the
first known to me as having flowered in Europe. —
Species, D. Raflesiana, is remarkable for the conversion 0
its leaves into water-holding ascidia, into which the roots
at the nodes descend. It is a widely distributed sity
from E. Bengal to Australia, and is grown at Kew, w nae
however, it has never flowered, but forms oan o
leaf-pitchers. D. hirsuta is one of the smallest leave . ’
the genus; it inhabits the southernmost peel s
Burma, Tenasserim, the Malayan Peninsula, an dass .
Plants of it were sent to the Royal Gardens, ai ae
Singapore, by Mr. Ridley. The stem clings, like ivy, &
the wall of the Nepenthes house in the Royal Gardens.
It flowers in spring and summer. :
Deter Bis Ee slender, scandent, pene ag :
papilla ; internodes longer than the leaves ; no sit
Leaves about an inch long, very shortly petioled, © Sceee
ovate, acute, base rounded, lacunose between the
SertemBer Ist, 19C2.
beneath, dull green, papillose and more or less scabrid on
the upper surface; nerves about five pairs, spreading,
prominent beneath. aceme very short, intra-axillary,
very shortly peduncled, two or three-flowered. Sepals four,
minute, ovate, obtuse. Corolla about one-third of an inch
long, pitcher-shaped, globose below the middle, narrowing
upwards into a quinquefid tube, glabrous or very sparsely
papillose, the globose portion very dark blood-red, the
tubular and ovate teeth rose-coloured ; within the corolla
are two rings of hairs, one at the mouth of the corolla,
the other at about the middle of the globose portion.
Outer scales of the corona hammer-shaped ; inner linear-—
oblong, bifid.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1, flower; 2, vertical section of the same; 3 and 4, outer scales of the
corona; 5, column of anthers; 6 and 7, inner scales of the corona:—all
enlarged.
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TaB, 7854,
PODOCARPUS pectinata,
Native of New Caledonia,
Nat. Ord. Con1rErEm.—Tribe PopocaRPEs,
Genus Popocareus, L’ Hér.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 433.)
Popocarpus (Dacrycarpus) pectinata; arbor 50-60-pedalis, trunco robusto,
ramulis crassiusculis viridibus flexuosis, foliis biformibus, aliis sparsis
parvis squamiformibus,,-} poll. longis ramis ramulisque appressis ovatis
acuminatis, aliisin ramulos breves terminales sessilibus bifariis confertis
ascendentibus linearibus acutis v. obtusis crassiusculis saturate viridibus
fascia alba utrinque coste ornatis marginibus recurvis, spicis masculis
1-3 terminalibus decurvis 1-14 poll. longis cylindraceis 4 poll. diam.,
antheris dense imbricatis late deltoideis angulis rotundatis ad 3% poll.
latis, loculis ad basin connectivi membranacei divaricatis, pedunculis
femineis 2-3 terminalibus incurvato-reflexis ? poll. longis unifloris inferne
gracilibus bracteis membranaceis imbricatis ovato-triangularibus decur-
rentibus stipatis, superne incrassatis bracteis 5-6 distantibus basi decur-
rente carnosis mamillosis, bractearam limbo abbreviato triangulari,
ultima sola latiore seminifera, semine immaturo ovoideo extus carnoso
sulcis plexisque undique excavato, hilo basilari lato, micropyle infra
apicem sito 2-labiato labio anteriore producto. —
P. pectinata, Panch. mss. ex. Brongn. & Gris in Bull. Bot. Soe, France, vol.
xvi. (1869) 5 330. Benth. § Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. iii. e 433,
Masters in Gard. Chron. 1892, vol. i. p. 113. Kew Bulletin, April, 1892,
p. 105.
Dacrypivum Pancheri, Brongn. & Gris 1.c.
The position of the plant here figured, whether under
- Dacrydium or Podocarpus, is as yet unsettled, from the
absence of female flowers and ripe fruit. Brongniart and
Gris describe the micropyle of the unripe seed as sub-
terminal, which would indicate Dacrydium as its genus;
but its discoverer, Mr. Pancher, referred it to Podocarpus,
of which it has the habit, but in which the micropyle 18
basal. In the “Genera Plantarum” it is placed with
another New Caledonian species (Dacrydium taxoides,
Brongn. & Gris) in the sections Dacrycarpus, of Podocarpus,
of which that work says, “‘ nobis tam fructu quam habitu
ad Podocarpum referenda videntur”; and this view 18
adopted by Dr. Masters. It may form a genus, Dacry-
carpus, distinct from both, for its authors point out as ee
remarkable particularities, the seed being drupaceous, an
wanting the cupula of Dacrydium.
SEPTEMBER Ist, 1902.
P. pectinata is a native of rocky places in New Cale-
donia, The Royal Gardens, Kew, received the plant from
which the figure here given was taken from Mr. Moore,
Director of the Botanic Garden, Sydney, in 1891; it
flowered in a greenhouse in January, 1902.
The descriptions of the female inflorescence and fruit
are taken from the Bulletin of the Botanical Society of
France, cited above.
Descr.—A tree fifty to sixty feet high; trunk attaining ©
sixteen inches in diameter; branches spreading; branch-—
lets rather stout, bifarious, flexuous, green. Leaves of
two forms ; (1) minute, scale-like, appressed to the branches
and branchlets, one-tenth to one-fourth of an inch long,
ovate, acuminate, green; (2) sessile on to the ultimate
branchlets, bifarious, crowded, linear, half an inch long,
obtuse or acute, straight or sub-faleate, dark green
with a broad white stripe on each side of the midrib.
Male injlorescences spiciform, one to three on the tips of
the branchlets, an inch to an inch and a half long, one-
sixth of an inch in diameter, recurved, densely covered with
imbricating, triangular, ovate anthers, each about one-
tenth of an inch broad ; cells diverging at the base of the
broad, thin connective. Fem. inflorescence of two to three
terminal, incurved, bracteate peduncles three-fourths of an
inch long, each bearing a single ovule in the terminal
bract. Immature seed ovoid, with a fleshy coat, broad
ae cases and two-lipped micropyle below the apex.—
Fig. 1, leaves; 2, male inflorescence; 3, dorsal, and 4, front view of anther:
—all enlarged.
Tas.: 7855,
EPIDENDRUM Enpnrestr.
Native of Oosta Rica.
Nat. Ord. Oxncu1pE#.—Tribe Errpenprez.
Genus Eripenprum, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p- 528.)
Eripenprum (Cirstedella) Endresii; caulibus cwspitosis strictis rigidis
suberectis crassitie penne columbinw vaginis folioram verrucosis
undique tectis, veruccis rubro-brunnéis, foliis bifariis sessilibus 1 poll.
longis patenti-recurvis oblongis apice rotundatis vy. 2-lobis coriaceis basi
semi-amplexicaulibus supra saturate viridibus subconvexis nitidis, costa
impressa, subtus pallidis, racemo terminali breviter pedunculato erecto
laxifloro, bracteis lineari-lanceolatis pedicellis pollicaribus dimidio
brevioribus, sepalis ad 3 poll. longis oblongis obtusis albis, petalis sepalis
zquilongis obovato-oblongis apiculatis albis, labello sepalis longiore
3-lobo, lobis lateralibus oblongis unolatere albis altero pallide roseis, ter-
minali obcordato sinu lato, disco macula sanguinea notato, columna
apice truncata 4-fida, anthera mitriformi.
E. Endresii, Rchb.f. in Gard, Chron, 1883, vol. i. p. 432. O’Brien, 1c. 1885,
vol. i. p. 504, fig. 91.
EL. Endresti is a peculiar-looking little species, with
box-like leaves, of one of the largest American genera of
Orchids. It is a native of Costa Rica, where it was
discovered by Endres, and whence it was imported by
Mr, Lehman in 1878. The plant figured flowers annually
in an intermediate Orchid house of the Royal Gardens,
Kew, in the winter months, and has the odour of a freshly
sliced cucumber.
Descr.—Stems tufted, about a foot high, slender, about
as thick as a pigeon’s quill, stiff, sub-erect, clothed
with green leaf-sheaths, which are thickly studded with
minute red-brown warts; internodes a quarter to half an
inch long. Leaves about an inch long, bifarious, sessile,
spreading and recurved, coriaceous, broadly oblong, tip
rounded or emarginate, deeply channelled along the
middle, sides convex, very dark green and shining metas
pale green beneath. Raceme terminal, very short y
peduncled, erect, three to five inches long, pet htghie 5
bracts narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, green ; pedicel vie
ovary about an inch long, slender. Perianth an Fatt
broad. Sepals oblong, obtuse, white. Petals as long,
SrerremBer Ist, 1902.
obovate-oblong, white. Lip three-lobed, lateral lobes
oblong, spreading, half white and half pale pink; midlobe
broadly obcordate, with a very open sinus, white suffused
with pink, and with a bright red blotch at the base of the
midlobe. Column truncate, four-cleft at the top. Anther
: mitriform.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1, column and lip; 2, side, and 3, front view of column; 4, auther ;
5 and 6, pollinia :—al/ enlarged.
Vincent Brooks Day & San
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Tap. 7856,
- BRYOPHYLLUM crenarom.
_ Native of Central Madagascar.
: Nat. Ord. Crassutacea,
Genus BRYOPHYLLUM, Salisb.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 658),
BRYOPHYLLUM crenatum; glaberrimum, caule 3-5-pedale erecto v. basi decum-
bente basi simpliciusculo terete apice trichotome ramoso, internodiis
longiusculis, foliis oppositis crassis oblongis v. late ovato-oblongis basi
cordatis v. biauriculatis auriculis incurvis sinuato-crenatis supra late
viridibus subtus pallidis, costa subtus valida, nervis utringue 3-5,
floralibus minoribus linearibus, petiolis validis 1-2 poll. longis teretibus,
cymis terminalibus corymbiformibus laxifloris, floribus nutantibus rubro-
aurantiacis, pedicellis gracilibus decurvis }-$ poll. longis, calyce inflato
3 poll. diam. globoso 4-dentato dentibus deltoideis basi rotundato v.
Antruso, corolle tubo 3 poll. longo subcylindraceo medio paullo constricto,
lobis 4 brevibus late oblongis apice rotundatis uniseriated staminibus
8-medio tubo insertis, antheris inclusis minutis oblongis, disci glandulis
minutis, ovarii carpellis in stylos loculis subwquilongis graciles attenuatis.
B. crenatum, Baker, in Journ. Linn, Soe. vol. xx. (1884) p.189
yophyllum, Salisb., only fi
Of B
all, no ¢ t, indigenous in Peis ils
. crenatum is an
two anda half to three inches long, oblong or ovate-oblong,
sinuate-crenate, tip rounded, base cordate, biauriculed
by the usually incurved basal lobes, bright green, with
three to five nerves on each side of the midrib which is ~
very stout beneath ; floral leaves small, linear; petiole one |
to two inches long, stout, terete. Cymes .corymbiform,
lax-flowered ; pedicels slender, decurved. J’lowers nod-
ding, orange-red, about two-thirds of an inch long. Calyz
inflated, globose, four-toothed, teeth deltoid. Corolla-tube
twice as long as the calyx, or more, lobes four, oblong, —
tips rounded. Stamens unisereate; anthers included.
Disk-glands minute. Styles slender, about as long as the
cells of the carpels—J.D.H. s
Fig! 1, corolla laid open 2 and 3, anthers; 4, pistil :—alZ enlarged, Sea
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STREPTOCARPUS Manont,
Native of British Central Africa.
Nat. Ord. GesNERACER.—Tribe CYRTANDREA,
Genus Srrertocarrvs, Lindl.; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1023.)
Srrerrocarrus Mahoni; acaulis, monophyllas, folio amplo pedali terre —
appresso ovato-oblongo crenulato basi subcordato apice rotundato glabro
v. parce piloso multinervi inter nervos rugoso supra lete viridi subtus
pallidiore, scapis secus basin cost seriatim evolutis confertis 4-6-polli-
caribus robustis dense pilosis, cymis compositis multifloris, ramis
ramulisque decurvis v. pendulis calycibusque pilosis, sepalis 3 poll. longis
linearibus, coroll~ violaceze tubo 3 poll. longo pubescente decurvo supra
medium inflato, limbilobis rotundatis, lobis labii superioris paullo minori-
bus, filamentis brevibus curvis uno latere sparsim glanduloso-pilosis,
antherarum loculis ovoideis divaricatis, ovario pubescente, stigmate
2-lobo, capsulis 23-pollicaribus gracilibus pendalis pubescentibus.
Ss. Mahoni, Hook. f.
Streptocarpus Mahoni is allied to 8. Saundersii, Hook.,
of Natal, figured at tab. 5251 of this work, in habit and
inflorescence, but does not appear to attain the dimensions
of that majestic species, nor has it the dark, rose-red
undersurface of the leaves. It further differs from S.
Saundersti in the much more compound and pendulous
cymes, and in the violet-blue colour of the flowers, the
more slender tube and broader lobes of the corolla, and in
the almost sessile stigma. .Twenty-three species of Strepto-
carpus are enumerated in the ‘* Index Kewensis,” and twelve
have been figured in the Botanical Magazine, all South
African, except S. Mahoni and two others from tro cal
East Africa; while two others (S. caulescens, Vatke,
t. 6814, and S. Kirkii, Hook. f. t. 6782) differ remarkably
from the rest in having erect stems with solitary axillary
cymes. The ten South African species are S. Revit, Lindl.
(Didymocarpus Rezxii, t. 3005; S. polyanthus, Hook.
t. 4850 ; 8. Gardenii, Hook. t. 4862; S. Sawndersit, Hook.
t. 5251; 8. Dunnit,, Hook. t. 6903; S. lutea, Clarke?
(S. parviflora, t. 6636, non Meyer); S. parviflora, Mey.
t. 7036; §. Galpini, Hook. f., t. 7230; S. Wendlandti,
Hort. Damm. t. 7447 , and the subject of this plate.
OctozER Isr, 1902,
There are eight Madagascar species described, but the
genus is otherwise Continental African.
S. Mahoni was raised from seed sent to the Royal
Gardens, Kew, by Mr. John Mahon, Assistant Curator of
the Botanic Station, Uganda. It flowered in the Succulent
House in June, 1900, and died after flowering, as
do all the monophyllous species of the genus so far as
is known.
Descv.—Stemless. Leaf solitary, a foot or more long,
appressed to the ground, sessile, ovate-oblong, crenulate,
tip rounded, base cordate, many-nerved, bullate between
the nervules, pale green beneath. Scapes many, crowded
in one series on the base of the costa of the leaf, stout,
erect, densely pilose. Cymes much-branched, effuse;
branches and branchlets and pedicels decurved and pen-
dulous, densely pilose, as is the calyx. Flowers long-
pedicelled, Calya-segments one-third of an inch long,
decurved, pubescent, inflated below the mouth; limb an
inch broad; lobes violet-blue, orbicular. Vilaments very
short, glandular-hairy on the convex side; anther-cells
divaricate. Ovary pubescent; style very short. . Capsule
two and a half inches long, very slender, pendulous,
pubescent.—.J, D. H.
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ANEMONE czrnva.
Native of Manchuria and Japan.
Nat. Ord. RanuncuLacE#.—Tribe ANEMONES,
Genus Anemone, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Flant. vol. i. p. 4.)
AvEMONE (Pulsatilla) cernua; herba 6-10-pollicaris sericeo-pilosa v. villosa,
rhizomate lignoso erecto, foliis vadioaliitie _longe gracile petiolatis late
ovatis pinuatisectis, segmentis 2-3-jugis oppositis pollicaribus late ovatis
oblongisve inciso-lobatis basi cuneatis, involucri foliolis sessilibus trisectis,
laciniis demum patulis linearibus subacutis obtusisve apicibus sape
trifidis v. trilobis lobis inzequalibus, pedunculo laxe sericeo-tomentoso,
flore cernuo late campanulato 13-2 poll. lato sepalis ovato-oblongis
obtusis intus pallide v. saturate brunneo-rubris dorso pallidis dense sericeis,
staminibus numerosissimis, stylis azureis, carpellis maturis 1}-2 poll.
longis longe sericeo pilosis.
A. cernua, Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 238. DC. Prodr. vol. i. p. 16. Miquel, Ann.
Mus. Bot. Iugd. Bat vol. iii. (1867) p.2. Franch. & Sav. En. Pl. Jap.
vol. i. p.4. Baker & Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xvii. (1879) p. 376.
Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxiii. (1883) p. 10. Somoku Zusetzu,
vol. x. fol. 36. Honzo Zufu, vol. vi. fol. 23.
The genus Anemone presents flowers of many colours, in
both the xanthia and cyanic series, from red to blue, but
no other species known to me shows the remarkable dis-
position of colour seen in the variety of A. cernua, here
figured, in which the inner surface of the sepals is red-
brown, the anthers yellow, and the styles blue. The
genus (including Pulsatilla and Hepatica) appears to be
exceptionally large in Japan, twenty-three species being
enumerated by Franchet and Savatier as natives of that
Archipelago, which is rather more than inhabit Europe.
Ledebour enumerates twenty-six as natives of the Russian
a ; fifteen are described in the “ Flora of British
ndia.” ,
A. cernua is a native of the Island of Nipon, Japan,
in open sunny situations, as also of the Island of Saghalin,
of Corea, and is found all over Manchuria. It varies
greatly in size, in the greater or less abundance of the
beautiful soft, white, silky hairs that clothe it, and in the
darker or lighter colour of the sepals. The specimen
= figured was procured from Mr, Max Leichtlin in 1900;
OctopzER Ist, 1902.
it flowered in the Alpine House of the Royal Gardens,
Kew, in April, 1902. |
Descv.—Whole plant clothed with soft, white, spreading
hairs. Rvotstock erect, woody, sometimes as thick as the
middle finger. tadical leaves with the slender petiole a
few inches to a span long, broadly ovate, pinnatisect ;
segments two or three pairs, opposite, about an inch long,
broadly ovate or oblong, sessile or shortly petiolulate,
inciso-lobate and coarsely toothed, base cuneate; invo-
lucral leaves sessile, pinnatifid ; segments linear, sub-acute
or obtuse, trifid to multifid. Peduncles long, one-flowered.
Flower nodding, very variable in size, one to two
inches in diameter. Sepals ovate, obtuse, spreading, pale
purplish externally, and there clothed with long, silky
hairs, glabrous and dark red-brown within. Stamens
crowded, anthers yellow. Styles dark violet-blue. Fruit
of many achenes, the ovary and long slender styles clothed
with long, silky hairs.—.J/. D.H.
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MASDEVALLIA Scura@pertana.
Native of Peru ?
Nat. Ord. Orcuipe*%.—Tribe EripENDRES.
Genus MasprEvauuia, Ruiz & Pav.; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii.
: p. 429.
Masprvauuia (Coriacese) Schroederiana; folio 5-6-pollicari crasse coriaceo
oblongo-lanceolato apice 3-denticulato dorso carinato basi in petiolum
vaginatum angustato saturate viridi, vaginis }-I-poll. longis mem-
branaceis, pedunculo foliis paullo longiore basi vagina folii inclusa,
gracili erecto viridi 1-floro, bractea # poll. longa tubulosa appressa
pallide viridi, foribus subdecurvis, perianthii tubo }-pollicari aurantiaco
purpureo tincto, sepalis sanguineo-purpureis obtuse 3-carinatis in candas
24 poll. longas filiformes recurvas aureas abrupte constrictis, dorsali
porrecto 3 poll. longo triangulari-ovato, lateralibus recurvis dorsali 2-3-
plo longioribus ovatis dimidiato albis et sanguineis, petalis } poll. longis
carnosis spathulato-oblongis obtusis pallide roseis punctatis, labe lo
petalis paullo longiore oblongo basi hastato medio paullo constricto, disco
medio obtuse bicarinato apice recurvo roseo-punctato.
M. Schrosderiana, Hort. Sander, ex Gard. Chron. 1890, vol. ii. p. 51. Woolw.
Masdevall. p. 148, t. 56. Journ. Hortic. 1890, p. 557, fig. 74. Cogn.
Dict. Ic. Orchid. t. 16.
M. fulvescens, Rolfe in Gard. Chron, 1890, vol. ii. p. 825, fig. 65, Woolw. Le.
p. 135, t. 52, forma colore florum pallidiore.
Of Masdevallia upwards of thirty species have been
figured in this Magazine ; of which, M. Wageneriana, Lindl.,
in 1856 (t. 4921) was the first of the many now intro-
duced into Europe in a living state, for M. fenestrata,
Lindl, t. 4164 (Cryptophoranthus atropurpureus, Rolfe) is
not acongener. No fewer than 175 species are enumerated
in the “ Index Kewensis” as known up to the year 1885,
and to that may probably be added as many described
since, which would bring the total up to 200. About
ninety species are figured by Miss Woolward in the Marquis
of Lothian’s sumptuous work, “ The Genus Masdevallia ” ;
the cessation of which is greatly to be regretted, for without
such plates, accompanied by analyses, it is impossible to
study the genus satisfactorily. ee
M. Schrederiana differs much from any species previously
described ; it was imported by Messrs. Sander & Co. of St.
Albans, who inform me that it was sent by their collector,
Mr, Hubsch, probably in 1884, and, as far as they can
OctoseR Ist, 1902.
recollect, from Peru. On the other hand, according to
Miss Woolward, M. fulvescens was imported from New
Grenada in 1890 by Messrs. Horsman & Co. of Colchester,
and has become very popular. The specimen figured was
presented to the Royal Gardens, Kew, by Mr. F. W. Moore,
A.L.S., Keeper of the Royal Gardens, Glasnevin, in 1898.
It flowers annually in a cool house. The flowers vary a
good deal in colour.
Descr.— Stems tufted. Leaf five to six inches long,
thickly coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, minutely three-
toothed at the tip, base narrowed into a short petiole ;
scape rather longer than the leaf, emerging from the
short, cylindric, membranous sheath at the base of the
leaf, slender, terete, one-flowered. Flowers nodding.
Perianth tube about half an inch long. Sepals abruptly
contracted into a slender, recurved, bright yellow tail;
dorsal half an inch long, oblong, arched ; lateral twice as
long, ovate, connate, strongly recurved, thickly three-
nerved, dimidiately white and red, bullate, and with a white
streak on the red portion. Petals oblong-spathulate,
fleshy, obtuse, rather longer than the column. Lip
oblong, rather longer than the petals, base hastate.—
J.D. Hl. 7
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GLADIOLUS Macxinperi.
Native of British Fast Africa,
Nat. Ord. IntpEa.—Tribe Ixtez.
Genus Giapious, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 709.)
GrapioLus (Homoglossum) Mackinderi; caule gracili bipedali laxe folioso,
foliis anguste linearibus inferioribus pedalibus 3-} poll. latis acuminatis
rigidis subglauco-viridibus, costa concolore valida, spica 6-pollicari
5-6-flora, spathis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis herbaceis convolutis infima
1}-pollicari, floribus secundis, perianthii tubo 1-1}-pollicari aureo,
segmentis consimilibus, sessilibus late ovato-orbicularibus apicibus rotun-
datis concavis coccineis exterioribus ppullo majoribus, staminibus seg-
mentis triente brevioribus flavis, antheris ad } poll. longis basi et apice
breviter bilobis.
~The genus Gladiolus is a characteristic feature of the
hilly and mountainous country of Eastern tropical Africa,
whence about thirty-five species have been obtained,
all but two of these endemic; the two exceptions being
found also on the Western side of the continent, whence
ten species have been described. From the data given by
Mr. Baker in the “ Flora of Tropical Africa,” the elevation
the genus affects in tropical Africa is two thousand to eleven
thousand feet. The species most closely allied to G.
Mackinderi is G. Watsonioides, Baker, t. 6919; a much
taller and longer-leaved plant, with flowers two inches
broad, ovate, flat, sub-acute perianth-segments and sagit-
tate anthers. It was found on Kilimanjaro, at elevations of
eight thousand five hundred feet to eleven thousand feet by
Mr. Thomson and Sir Harry Johnston, who sent seeds of
it to Kew, from which plants were raised that flowered in
1886. According to Mr. Baker, G. Watsoniotides is also a
native of alpine pastures on Kenia, at ten thousand to
eleven thousand feet elevation, whence I have not seen
specimens. :
Mr. Baker, in the Fl. Trop. Afr. vii. 374, refers his G.
Watsonioides to the section Homoglossum of Antholyza,
characterized by the equal or sub-equal segments of the
perianth. But section Homoglossum appears to me to be
referable to Gladiolus (in which it is placed in his ** Hand-
OctoBeR Ist, 1902,
- book of Irides,”’ p. 226, as a sub-genus), of which it has
the large bracts, and funnel-shaped perianth not suddenly
contracted into a slender stipes as in the typical species of
Antholyza, of which examples are figured, under Gladiolus,
namely, A. xthiopica, L., t. 561, A. quadrangularis, Gawl. t.
567, and A. xthiopica, L., var. vittigera, Salisb. t. 1172.
Seeds of G. Mackinderi were procured at an elevation of
ten thousand feet on Mt. Kenia by Professor Mackinder,
of Christ Church, Oxford, during his ascent, in 1900, of
that remarkable mountain; plants raised from which
flowered in a greenhouse in August, 1901.
Deser.—Stem about two feet high, slender, laxly leafy.
Leaves narrowly linear, the lower about a foot long, and
one-sixth to one-fourth of an inch broad, rigid, rather
glaucous green, midrib ‘stout. Spike six inches long,
secund, five- to six-flowered. Bracts oblong-lanceolate,
acute, the lower an inch and a half long. Perianth-tube
longer than the bracts, narrowly infundibular, yellow;
limb an inch and a half broad, scarlet; segments broadly
orbicular-ovate, concave, all nearly equal, the three inner
rather shorter than the outer. Stamens about one-third
shorter than the perianth-segments, yellow ; anthers one-
sixth of an inch long, base and apex shortly bifid.—J. D. H.
Figs. 1 and 2, anthers; 3, stigma :—all enlarge‘.
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IRIS Letonrirn1,
Native of Bokhara.
Nat. Ord. In1pzpa.—Tribe Morez.
Genus Iris, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 686).
t
Ins (Regelia) Leichtlini; rhizomate valido repente, caule 1-1} poll. alto
_valido monocephalo basi folioso, foliis 1-1} ped. longis ad 3 poll. latis
ensiformibus obtusis sat. firmis pallide viridibus plus minusve glauces-
centibus marginibus hyalinis, spathe valvis 2-3 poll. longis oblengo-
lanceolatis herbaceis apicibus scariosis 2-3-floris, floribus breviter
pedicellatis, perianthii tubo ovario longiore ad 1} poll. longo tereti a
basi ad apicem sensim ampliato, limbi segmentis subaqualibus cuneato-
obovatis apice rotundatis undulatis marginibus crispatis a basi ad
medium flavo-barbatis medio violaceis venis saturatioribus pictis, lateribus
late brunneis, exterioribus a medio recurvis, interioribus erectis, styli
ramis oblongis perianthii lobis dimidio brevioribus cristis brunneis apice
bifidis, antheris valde elongatis anguste linearibus filamentis pluries
longioribus.: :
I. Leichtlini, Regel in Act. Hort. Petropol. vol. viii. (1884) p. 680; Deser. vol. ix.
p. 40. Baker, Handb. of Iridex, p. 20.
I. vaga, Fost. ex Regel, Gartenft. p. 201, 672, t. 1244, f. 7.
Iris Leichtlint is very closely allied to I. Hulefeldi,
Regel (tab. 6902), a species referred to by Baker as a
variety of I. scariosa, Willd. (‘‘ Handb. of Iridez,” p. 32),
which differs notably in the plane margins of the perianth-
segments and bipartite crests of the style-arms. J. Korol-
kovi, Regel. (tab. nostr. 7025), is another nearly allied
plant, but it differs from L. Leichtlini by the same
characters of perianth-segments and style-arms as does
I. Eulefeldi. All three are natives of Russian Turkestan,
and are variable in colour, but J. Leichtlini is the most.
beautifully variegated of the three, and is the only one of
them (as far as yet figured) with brown and violet perianth-
segments. :
- Central Asia is probably the head-quarters of the genus
Iris, about thirty species are enumerated by Baker as
inhabiting this region, whence, and especially from Tibet
and the regions bordering China, many novelties may
be expected; about forty species are European, sixteen
Himalayan.
OctosEr Isr, 1902.
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Plants of I. Leichtlint were purchased for the Royal
Gardens, Kew, in 1893, from Messrs. Herb and Wulle, of
Naples, which flowered in an open border in May. It was
introduced into cultivation by Dr. Regel, of the Imperial
Botanic Gardens of St. Petersburgh, who received it from
Bokhara, where it was found by Korolkov.
Deser.—Whole plant twelve to eighteen inches high. |
Rootstock stout, creeping. Stem leafy at the base, simple, _
bearing one head of two to three flowers. Leaves about
- as long as the stem, half an inch broad, ensiform, obtuse,
pale green, more or less glaucous. Valves of spathe two to
three inches long, herbaceous, with scarious tips. Flowers —
very shortly pedicelled. Perianth-tube an inch and a half
long, terete, gradually dilated from base to tip; segments
of limb sub-equal, three inches long, cuneate-obovate, all
with a narrow beard of yellow hairs from the claw to
about the middle; margins undulate and crisped, tips
rounded, violet-blue in the middle, with broadly, copper-
coloured margins and darker veins, outer segments
recurved from the middle, inner erect. Anthers very long
and slender. Style-arms half as long as the perianth-
segments, erect, ovate, tip bifid—J. D. H.
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CRINUM natans, 7 as
Native of Guinea.
Nat. Ord. AMaryLuipea.—Tribe AMARYLLES.
Genus Crinum, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 726.)
Crinum (Platyaster) natans; herba aquatica, bulbo parvo anguste ovoideo
estolonifero, collo elongato, foliis submersis loratis 4-5-pedalibus 14 poll.
latis apice angustatis subacutis undulatis supra saturate subtus pallide
viridibus, costa crassa utrinque prominula, scapo robusto pedali erecto
compresso, spathz valvis 23-pollicaribus ovato-lanceolatis membranaceis
coloratis, floribus umbellatis erectis, ovario 3-pollicari oblongo, corollz
tubo 6-pollicari cylindraceo pallide viridi, segmentis tubo dimidio
brevioribus patenti-reflexis avguste lineari-lanceolatis falcatis subacutis
albis, filamentis filiformibus segmentis corolle fere #quilongis, antheris
3 poll. longis anguste linearibus aureis, styli parte exserto tilamentis
paullo longiore ascendente sigmoideo, stigmate fimbriato.
C. natans, Baker in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vol. vii. p. 396.
Crinum natans, the only hitherto described species with
submerged leaves, is very closely allied to C. purpurascens,
Baker, t. 6525, a native of the same region of Africa,
and described as amphibious. CO. purpurascens differs in
being a much smaller plant, with narrower, less undulate
leaves, having an undefined costa, a much more slender
scape and perianth-tube, which latter is purplish below
the middle and yellow above it, shorter perianth-segments,
rose-purple filaments, and green anthers. It is apparently
a more local plant, being confined to the Bight of Biafra,
whereas CO. natans has been found in Fernando Po, where
it was discovered by G. Mann in 1862, in the Niger Delta,
Gold Coast, and Sierra Leone, always in gently flowing
fresh-water streams. Sir John Kirk, who collected it in
the Niger waters in 1895, and sent bulbs and seeds to
the Royal Gardens, Kew, describes it as affecting the
margins of rivers with an average temperature of 80°—
82° Fahr. The bulbs which he sent in that year flowered
in a tropical tank in September, 1900.
Descr.—Bulb about three or more inches long, narrowly
ovoid, tapering into a long neck, not stoloniferous. Leaves
very numerous, submerged, four to five feet long by one
NovemBERr Ist, 1902.
and a half to two inches broad, sessile, strap-shaped,
strongly waved on both sides of the stout, broad, well-
defined midrib, which is prominent on both surfaces, deep
green above, pale beneath, tip narrowed to a sub-acute —
point. Scape a foot high, stout, compressed, three-quarters
of an inch broad. Spathe-valves two and a half inches
long, ovate-lanceolate, pale brown. Flowers umbellate,
erect, sessile. Ovary half to three-quarters of an inch
long, narrowly oblong. Perianth-tube six inches long,
cylindric, pale green; segments half as long as the tube,
spreading and recurved, narrowly linear-lanceolate, falcate.
Filaments spreading, rather shorter than the perianth-
segments, slender, white; anthers narrow, yellow. Style
very slender, declinate, then upcurved, rather longer than
the filaments.—J. D. H.
Figs. 1 and 2, anthers; 3, upper part of style and stigma:—all enlarged;
4, reduced view of whole plant.
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CYMBIDIUM Srmonsianvum.
Native of Sikkim and Assam.
Nat. Ord. OxcuipE2.—Tribe VANDEX.
Genus Crmpipium, Sw.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p- 536.)
Cymuipium (Eucymbidium) Simonsianum; epiphyticum, foliis 2-3-pedalibus
sessilibus anguste linearibus ad 3 poll. latis acutis v. acuminatis basi _
non dilatatis, pedunculo breviusculo decurvo basi vaginis striatis dis-
tichis imbricatis 1-2-pollicaribus instructo, racemo pendulo laxe 10-12-
floro, bracteis subulatis appressis 3 in. longis, pedicellis cum ovariis
1-1} poll. longis, floribus odoratis, sepalis patulis lineari-oblongis subgriseo-
albis fascia media sanguinea ornatis, petalis sepalis consimilibus et con-
coloribus sed paullo minoribus, labello sepalis dimidio breviore lobis
sanguineo ornatis lateralibus brevibus columpe equilongis obtusis, inter-
medio revoluto ovato apiculato, disco inter lobos laterales 2-carinato,
carinis glanduloso-pilosis, columna atro-purpurea, polliniis obtuse
deltoideis sessilibus glandula brevi lata.
C. Simonsianum, King & Pantl. in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. lxiv. pars II. (1895)
p. 338, et Ann. Bot. Gard. Calcutta, vol. viii. (1898) p. 188, tab. 250.
According to King and Pantling in the works cited
above, Cymbidium Simonsianum was discovered in Assam
by the late Dr. J. ©. Simons, who sent very large
collections both to the Botanical Gardens of Calcutta and
to Sir W. Hooker in 1830-40, It has since been found ~
at the foot of the Sikkim Himalaya, in the Teesta Valley,
by Mr. Pantling, flowering in August. It is well described
in the Annals of the Royal Botanic Gardens of Calcutta,
except that the pollinia are described as falcately ovoid,
with a narrow gland (rather strap), whereas in the draw-
ing, figs. 6 and 7, they precisely resemble those represented
in our plate, figs. 3 and 4. Its nearest ally is C. longi-
folium, Don, a native of the sub-tropical Himalaya from
Kumaon eastward, and of the Khasia Mts., which has a
broader midlobe of the tip spotted with red. The plant
here figured was purchased as C. Dayanum for the Royal
Gardens, Kew, from Messrs. Barr & Sons, Covent Garden,
in 1900, with other Orchids, said to have come from Japan.
It flowered in a cool house in October, 1901, and was
sweet-scented. ; e :
Descr.—Leaves sessile, very narrowly linear, two to
November Ist, 1902.
three feet long, by about half an inch broad, narrowed
into a sub-acute point, base not dilated. Peduncle short,
decurved, clothed with imbricating, distichous, oblong,
acute, cymbiform sheaths, one to two inches long. taceme
pendulous, loosely ten- to twenty-flowered. Bracts small,
subulate. Pedicels with the ovary one to one and a half
inch long. Flowers two inches broad. Sepals and petals
spreading and recurved, linear-oblong, acute, similar in
form and colour, but the petals smaller, greyish white,
with a blood-red, central streak. Lip about half as loug
as the sepals; side-lobes short, rounded, as long as the
column, white, streaked with blood-red; terminal ovate,
revolute, white with a yellow blotch, disk with two
glandular-hairy ridges between the side-lobes.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1, lip with one side-
lobe removed; 2, column; 3 and 4, pollinia :—all
enlarged,
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CATASETUM QUADRIDENS, o,
Native country ?
Nat. Ord, OrcuipEx.—Tribe VanpEA.
Genus Catasetum, Rich. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 551.)
CatasetuM quadridens; pseudobulbis ovoideis annulatis 3-5-phyllis, foliis
6-12-pollicaribus oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis 3-nerviis basi angustatis
lete viridibus, infl. mase. scapo robusto pauci-vaginato cum racemo
multifloro decurvo pedali, rhachi robusta, floribus secundis ascendentibus,
bracteis lanceolatis 4 poll. longis pedicellis robustis duplo longiorjbus
-appressis, sepalis petalis conformibus pollicaribus oblongis acuminatis
viridibus maculis magnis atro-purpureis ornatis, sepalo dorsali erecto,
lateralibus deflexis, petalis erectis sepalo dorsali oppositis, labello sepalis
paullo brevivre breviter unguiculato lamina inflexa aurea purpureo
punctata ovata infra apicem obtusum angustata, marginibus infra
medium fimbriato-dentatis, disco supra basin umbonato infra medium
depresso, columna clavata 2 poll. longa rostrata, clinandrio antice
2-dentato, rostelli antennis subulatis incarvis, anthera rostrata, polliniis
ellipsoideis, stipite lineari marginibus incurvis, glandula quadrata.
C. quadridens, Rolfe in Kew Bulletin, 1901, p. 149; app. III. 1902, p. 80. _
Of this remarkably beautiful Orchid, the male plant only
is known. It was first described in 1898 by Mr. Rolfe,
from a plant purchased by the Royal Gardens, Kew,
at the sale of the Hon. Walter Rothschild’s collection,
and it flowered in December of that year. The said
plant appears to have been a very poor one, for the
leaves were only about six inches long, and the sub-erect
scape bore four flowers. That here figured was bought
for the Royal Gardens at an auction in 1900. It flowered
in the Tropical Orchid House in February of this year.
Its native country is unknown. Mr. Rolfe regards it as
nearest in affinity to C. cornutum, Lindl., Bot. Reg. vol.
xxvi. (1840) Mise. p. 77, and xxvii. t. 5, fig..2 (flower)—a
native of Demarara. According to Lindley’s description
and figure of the flower of C. cornutum the two species are
very closely allied indeed, the chief difference being, that
Lindley describes the lip as green, with the whole margin
broken up into slender processes, and bearing a strict
inflexed spur at the base, and that he does not describe
any teeth on the clinandrium,
NovemsBer Ist, 1902.
Since the foregoing was set up I have learnt that the
same plant has produced a female inflorescence, but the
flowers are not quite fully developed. They are green, and
apparently present similar differences from the male as
those of C. Randii, Rolfe, plate 7470.
Descr.—Pseudobulbs ovoid, annulate, three to five-leaved.
Leaves six to twelve inches long, oblong-lanceolate, acumi-
nate, with three principal nerves, base narrowed into a
short, concave petiole. Peduwncle stout, decurved, together
with the secund raceme about a foot long; rhachis of
raceme very stout. Bracts half an inch long, lanceolate.
Pedicels twice as long as the bracts. Flowers two inches
long across the sepals, which are sub-equal, oblong, acute,
the dorsal erect, the lateral deflexed, all pale green, with
large, dark, red-purple blotches. Petals erect, placed
opposite to the dorsal sepal, and of the same size, shape,
and colour. Lip shorter than the sepals, shortly clawed,
broadly ovate, decurved, golden-yellow, speckled with
dark purple, margins fimbriate-dentate-; disk saccate at
the base, depressed about the middle. Column an inch
long, very stout, with a long, incurved beak; antenne
subulate, deflexed, incurved. Anther with a long obtuse
beak.—J. D. H,
Fig. 1, column; 2, anther; 3 and 4, pollinia ;—all enlaryed ; 5, reduced view
of whole plant.
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LAVATERA acertrouta.
Native of the Canary Islands.
Nat. Ord. Matvacez.—Tribe MaLvea.
Genus Lavatera, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 200.)
Lavatera (Olbia) acerifolia; frutex multicaulis 4-8-pedalis foliis longe
petiolatis rotundatis 2-3 poll. latis 5- v. sub 7-lobis basi profunde cordatis
sinu angusto lobis late ovatis obtusis v. subacutis erenato-dentatis
supra glabrescentibus subtus stellato-tomentellis, stipulis setaceis,
petiolo 3-2 poll. longo, floribus axillaribus solitariis v. rarius binis,
pedicellis 1-14 poll. longis gracilibus basi minute bibracteolatis infra
florem articulatis, floribus 2-3 poll. diam., involucelli 5-lobi tomentelli |
lobis late ovatis. acutis calyce brevioribus, calycis tomentelli lobis
late ovatis acutis, petalis late spathulatim obovatis orbicularibusve
retusis pallide lilacinis v. roseis basi sanguineis, staminum tubo pubes-
cente, ovarii carpellis 12-15 orbicularibus stylo gracili stigmatibus fili-
formibus, capsula orbiculari complanata, coccis 12-16 orbiculari-oblongis
4 poll. longis margine acutis glabris chartaceis, columella in conum
_ profunde sulcatum expansa.
L. acerifolia, Cav. in Anal. Ciene. Nat. vol. vi. (1803) p. 339; Hleneh. Hort.
Madrit. p. 20. Brouss. Elench. Hort. Monsp. p. 84. Lois. Herb. Amat.
vol. v. t. 322. DC. Prodr. vol. i. p. 438; Cat. Hort. Monsp. p. 121
(Ic, 56 ined.).
L. phoenicea, Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. Suppl. p. 49 (non Vent.).
Saviniona acerifolia, Wedd et Berth. Phytogr. Canar. vol. i. p. 31, t. 2 B.
Lavatera acerifolia is a native of moist places in the
sylvan region of the Canary Islands, where it was first
collected by Broussonet. There are specimens in the
Kew Herbarium from the Grand Canary, Teneriffe, and
Gomera. It was raised to generic rank by: Webb and
Berthelot, on quite insufficient grounds, under the name
of Saviniona, in honour of Dr. Savinion, a physician of
eminence in the Archipelago. The specimen figured was
from a plant introduced from the Canaries into the
Botanical Gardens of Cambridge by Walter Gardiner, Esq.,
F.R.S., Fellow and Bursar of Clare College, communicated
by Mr, Lynch, A.L.S., in July of the present year.
Descr.—A shrub four to eight feet high, branching from
the base; branches, leaves beneath, involucel and calyx
stellately tomentose. Leaves orbicular, two or three inches
in diameter, five- or almost seven-lobed, deeply cordate,
NovEmMBER Ist, 1902.
with a narrow sinus, palmately five-nerved, minutely
pubescent above; lobes variable in length, crenate-toothed,
obtuse or sub-acute; stipules small, narrow, tomentose,
caducous; petiole half an inch to twoinches long. Flowers
axillary, solitary or rarely binate, three inches in diameter ;
pedicel one and a half to two inches long, slender. In-
volucel three-lobed or -partite, segments ovate, acute,
shorter than the five-lobed calyx. Petals broadly spathu-
lately obovate, tips rounded, retuse, variable in colour, pale
violet or rose-coloured, with crimson base and claw.
Ovary twelve- to sixteen-celled ; styles slender, stigmas
filiform. Capsule orbicular, depressed, of twelve to sixteen
thin coriaceous cocci, surrounding a central axis which is
dilated at the top into a free, broad, deeply furrowed,
peltate cone.—J. D. IZ.
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BAUHINIA acuminata.
Native of tropical Asia.
Nat. Ord. Le¢uMinos#.—BavuHinieg. :
Genus Bavuninia, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 575).
Bavuinta (Pauletia) acuminata; frutex v. arbor parva, 8-10-pedalis, ramis
patentibus, foliis bifariis 3-5 poll. longis ellipticis supra medium bifidis
lobis obtusis acutisve 7-ll-nerviis nervo medio apice excurrente basi
rotundatis v. cordatis supra late viridibus glaberrimis subtus primum
pubescentibus, petiolo 3-4 poll. longo apice incrassato, stipulis anguste
semisagittatis, racemis breviter pedunculatis extra-axillaribus terminali-
busve paucifloris, pedicellis }—? poll. longis bibracteatis et bibracteolatis,
floribus inodoris calyce pollicari spathaceo viridi longe rostrato, rostro
pubescente apice penicillato, petalis calyci squilongis oblongis albis,
staminibus 10, filamentis alternis brevioribus, antheris #qualibus, ovario
angusto piloso longe stipitato, stylo } poll. longo incurvo, legumine
stipitato 4-5 poll. longo lineari-oblongo plano margine 3-carinato 8-12-
spermo, seminibus turgide ellipsoideis brunneis nitidis,
B. acuminata, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 375. Rowb. Fl. Ind. vol. ii. p. 324. Wight
et Arn. Predr. Fl, Penins. Ind. Or. p. 295. DC. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 513.
Baker in Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. ii. p. 276. Kurz, For. Fl. Brit. Burm. vol. i.
p- 396. Brandis, For. Flor. N.W. & Oentr. Ind. p. 159. Miquel, #1. Ned.
Ind, vol. i. Pars I. p. 74. Hemsl. in Journ, Linn. Soc. vol. xxiii. (1386)
p- 212.
‘B. candida, Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1, vol. ii. p. 49; ed. 2, vol. iii. p. 23 (non
Willd.). Velutta mandaru, Rheede Hort. Malab. vol. i. p. 61, t. 34,
Ham, in Trans. Linn, Soc. vol. xiii. p. 497.
As is the case with many fine exotic plants cultivated
more than a century ago in our tropical houses, and
flowering there, Bauhinia acuminata has never been
figured in any work since the publication of Rheede’s
“Hortus Malabaricus,” that is since 1678. According to
Aiton’s *“* Hortus Kewensis ” (1789), it was introduced from
India into England by Dr. Francis Russell, F.R.S., and
flowered at Kew in the months of May and June. In
recent times it has been an occupant for many years of
the Palm House in the Royal Gardens, but was never
known to flower till October of last year. It is a
plant of wide Asiatic distribution, being common in India
from the lower Himalaya southward, and found in the
Malay Peninsula, Burma, and China. It is not, however,
November Ist, 1902.
indigenous in Ceylon. Trimen, in his “ Flora of Ceylon,”
(1. p. 116) says of it, ‘only known here in gardens, where
it is an old introduction ; there are specimens in Hermann’s
Herb., and he gives (Mus. 8) the native name of
‘ Mayilla’ for them, which rightly belongs to B. racemosa,
Lam.” Roxburgh remarks that the pistil is-often minute
and abortive.
Descr.—A shrub or small tree, eight to ten feet high, with
a short truck, spreading branches, and grey-brown bark.
Leaves bifarious, three to five inches long, elliptic, bifid
nearly to the middle, lobes acute or obtuse, seven- to eleven-
nerved, median nerve produced intoa sharp point, glabrous
and shining above, more or less downy beneath; petiole
three to four inches long, swollen at the top, stipules semi-
sagittate. Flowers solitary, or few in a short-raceme, two
and a half inches broad, pure white, shortly pedicelled ;
bracts and bracteoles minute. Calyx an inch and a half
long, spathaceous, narrowed into a hairy beak, lacerate at
the tip. Fetals oblong, tips rounded. Disk-glands five,
globose. Stamens ten; filaments alternately long and
short; anthers equal. Pistil geniculate, ovary linear,
hairy, narrowed into a slender stipes and beak. Pod
Stipitate, four to five inches long, linear-oblong, flat,
smooth, glabrous, eight- to twelve-seeded, margins three-
aes Seeds turgidly ellipsoid, brown, shining.—
Fig. 1, calyx, disk, and pistil; 2, and 3, anthers; 4, pod; 5, seed; all but
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IRIS Garestr.
Native of Kurdistan.
Nat. Ord. In1ippz.—Tribe Morwez.
Genus Iris, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 686.)
Iris (Oncocyclus) Gatesii; rhizomate crasso, foliis radicalibus 4-5, 1-1}
pedalibus 3-3 poll. latis linearibus acuminatis planiusculis pallide glanco-
viridibus, canle 2-3-pedali robueto monocephalo, spathis 4-5-pollicaribus
pallide viridibus, flore maximo, pedicello brevi, perianthii tubo brevi,
segmentis exterioribus reflexis 3 poll. latis orbiculari-obovatis creberrime
striolatis pallide roseo-lilacinis medio flavo suffusis striis punctis
minutis discum versus majoribus conspersis, basi ef ungue pilis —
erectis fusco-purpureis ornatis, segmentis interioribus longioribus
erectis incurvis late obovatis disco albo-flavido margines versus pallide
azureis azureo-punctatis et a basi ultra medium costis 3 purpurascentibus
percurris, stylo 2-poll. lato bipartito segmentis quadratis divaricatis
dentatis sinu acuto, capsula 5-pollicari. : :
I. Gatesii, Fost. in Lecture on Iris, May 14th, 1889, ex Journ. Fort. Soc. Lond.
xi. (1890), p. 144, nomen ; in Gard. Chron. 1890, vol. ii. p. 18, £.3; in Garden,
vol. xliii. (1893), p. 132 cum ie. color., et te. xylog. reduct. Micheli, in
Bull. R. Soc. Tose. Ort. Ser. II. vol. vii. (1892), p. 296, t. 10; in Rev.
_Hortic. vol. \xiv. (1892), p. 302. Baker, Handb. Irid. p. 18..
In point of size of flowers, J. Gatesti is, as far as is at
present known, the monarch of the Irises. It belongs to
a section (Oncocyclus) of the genus conspicuous in this
respect, of which five have been figured in this magazine,
namely, I. susiana, Linn. t. 91; L Lortetii, Barb. t. 7251;
I. Sari, Schott. var. lurida, Boiss. t. 6960; I. iberica,
Hoffm. t. 58:7, and I. paradowa, Stev. t. 7081. All of
the section are Oriental, ranging from Asia Minor and
Syria to Persia. Zee : ‘
I. Gatesti was introduced into cultivation by Mr. Max
Leichtlin, who obtained it from Mr. Sintenis, its dis-
coverer in the mountains of Kurdistan, in Mesopo-
tamia, near the town of Mardin, about sixty miles south of
Diarbekir. It is named by*Sir Michael Foster after his
friend, the Rev. F. S. Gates, of the American Mission at
_that town. Mardin is described as situated on a lofty
limestone hill, overlooking a large fertile plain, and is
distinguished for the salubrity of its climate, and for con-
taining substantially built Chaldean, Syrian, Catholic,
Decemper Ist, 1902. :
Armenian, and Jacobite churches. Tt is not in Armenia
(the hitherto reputed habitat of J. Gatesii) which lies to the
northward of it.
Plants of I. Gatesii were obtained in 1901 by the Royal
Gardens, Kew, from Messrs. Wulle of Naples; they
flowered in an open border near a south wall in June,
1902. The colour of the flowers is difficult of description
and probably variable,
Descr.—footstuck very stout, short, creeping. Stems
two to three feet high, stout, one-flowered. Leaves four
to five, radical, a foot to a foot and a half long, by one
half to two-thirds of an inch broad, linear, acuminate,
nearly flat, pale, glaucous-green, nerves faint. Spathes
four to five inches long, pale green. Flower shortly
pedicelled, five to seven inches broad. Perianth-tube short ;
outer segments orbicular, recurved, three inches broad,
very pale rose-lilac suffused with yellow towards the
disk, covered with innumerable close-set darker veins, and
sprinkled with minute purplish spots, that are larger
towards the base of the disk, which is furnished with long,
erect, purple-brown hairs; inner segments longer and
more spathulate than the outer, erect and incurved, with
recurved margins, similarly striate and speckled, but of a
bluer colour, and with three stout purple ribs from the
base to beyond the middle of the disk. Style nearly two
inches broad, bipartite, segments divaricate, quadrate,
closely striate, with the perianth-segments acutely toothed.
Capsule described as five inches long.—J. D. H.
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ARISTOTELIA racemosa,
Native of New Zealand.
Nat. Ord. Tin1acka.—Tribe ELmovarren.
Genus Anistorets, L’Hér.; (Benth. § Hook.f Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 239.)
ARISTOTELIA racemosa; frutex v. arbuscula dioica, ramulis petiolis foliis imma-
turis paniculisque pubescentibus, foliis longe petiolatis oppositis sub-
oppositisve ovatis acuminatis argute serratis basi rotundatis subcordatisve
membranaceis, paniculis axillaribus oppositis et ramulos breves termi-
nantibus breviter pedunculatis confertifloris, floribus breviter pedicellatis
4-4 poll. latis, sepalis 4 oblongis, petalis late cuneatis apice obtuse 3-4-
lobis roseis rarius integris, disci glandulis globosis, filamentis antheris
oblongis brevioribus puberulis, ovario 3~4-loculari, stylis basi connatis,
supra medium liberis gracilibus decurvis sigmoideis, baccis pisiformibus
3-4-locularibus 3-4-spermis rubris demum nigris, seminibus sub trigono-
globosis, testa dura extus carnosula. i
A. racemosa, Hook. f. Fl. N. Zel. vol. i. p. 83; Handb. N. Zeal. Fl. p. 33.
T. Kirk, For, Fl. N. Zeal. p. 223, t. 113; Student's Fl. N. Zeal. p. 75, ined.
Friesia racemosa, A. Cunn. in Ann. Nat. Hist. vol. iv. (1840), p. 24. Hook. f.
in Hook Ic. Pl, t. 601.
Triphalia rubicunda, Banks & Sol. mss. eum ic.
Makomako incolarum. Wineberry, Colonorum.
Aristotelia is a small genus, common to Australia, New
Zealand, the New Hebrides, and temperate S. America.
It was founded in 1784 upon the Chilian species,
A, Macqui, L’Hérit. (Stirp. Nov. p. 31, t. 16).
A. racemosa is one of the commonest shrubs or small
trees in New Zealand, from the northern districts to
Stewart’s Island, chiefly in lowland districts, but ascending
to two thousand feet, flowering in October and November.
The late Mr. Kirk, in his admirable ‘‘ Forest Flora of
New Zealand,” describes it as being “the first shrub to
make its appearance after the forests have been cleared,
especially in the southern parts of the islands,” adding
that, ‘in many parts of the colony its straight stems may
be found growing by road-sides or in abandoned —
in a way that at once calls to mind the hazel oe
Europe.” The wood is light, often figured, and used for
cabinet work, as also in the manufacture of gunpowder.
It has long been in cultivation at Kew, where it flowers
annually in the Temperate House in May. The figure
Decemper Ist, 1902.
here given is of a plant growing in the open air in
the Isle of Wight, kindly sent by Mr. Charles Dew of
Ventnor.
Deser.—A dicecious shrub or a small tree, reaching
thirty feet in height, with pubescent branchlets, young
leaves and panicles. Leaves two inches long, opposite or
sub-opposite, ovate, acuminate, sharply serrate, mem-
branous, pale green, base rounded or sub-cordate ; petiole
slender. Panicles three to five inches long, axillary and
opposite, or terminating short lateral branchlets, shortly
peduneled, erect, very many-flowered. lowers shortly
pedicelled, about a quarter of an inch in diameter.
Sepals oblong, obtuse, green. Petals broadly cuneate,
shortly and obtusely three- to five-lobed at the broad end,
rose-red. Disk-glands globose. Anthers linear-oblong,
longer than the hairy filaments. Ovary oblong, three- to
four-celled, narrowed into a three- to four-grooved style,
which divides above into as many decurved, slender, sig-
moid branches. Berry globose, pisiform, three- to four-
celled and seeded. Seeds globosely trigonous; testa -
crustaceous, with a fleshy coating.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1, male flower; 2, stamens and disk gland; 3, female flower (from
herbarium specimen); 5, ripe fruit; 6, seed :—all but fig. 5 enlarged.
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CIRRHOPETALUM Hooker. >
Native of the Western Himalaya.
Nat. Ord. OrcuipExz.—Tribe EprpENDREA.
Genus CrrriorEtaLum, Lindl. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. iii. p, 504.)
Crrrnoretatum, Hookeri; psendobulbis confertis pollicaribus ovoideis obtusis
sulcatis griseo-viridibus 1-foliatis, folio bipollicari elliptico-oblongis
lanceolatove apice bidentato in petiolum brevem angustato coriaceo supra
saturate viridi costa impressa, pedunculo folio longiore gracillimo vaginis
paucis lanceolatis instructo, umbella 6-10-flora, bracteis verticillatis }
poll. longis subulatis, pedicellis cum ovariis bracteis longioribus, floribus
pollicaribus ochroleucis, sepalo dorsali }-poll. longo oblongo obtuso infra
medium purpureo striato, lateralibus lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis con-
vexis basi auriculatis, petalis sepalo dorsali brevioribus ovatis apice
rotundatis, labello decurvo marginibus incrassatis incurvis carnosis
crenatis, columna apice bicuspidata.
C. Hovkeri, Duthie in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol. lxxi. pars II. (1902) p. 38; iz
Ann. Bot. Gard. Calcutt. vol. x. ined.
Cirrhopetalum Hookeri is a very recent discovery, of
interest as occurring in the province of Garwhal, which is
further to the west in the Himalaya than the genus was
supposed to reach. ‘Two species had long been known to
be natives of Kumaon, the adjoining province to the east
of Garwhal, namely, C. maculosum, Lindl., and C. refrac-
twm, Zoll., and many species are found in the Eastern
Himalaya. Its nearest ally is, as Mr. Duthie has pointed
out, C. cespitosum, Wall., a native of the Sikkim-Himalaya
and the Khasia Hills, in Eastern Bengal, which differs in
being of a much smaller size, and having proportionately
much larger, erose, dorsal sepal and petals ; the flowers
are yellow in both, but much paler in C. cxspitosum, and
showing no purple markings. This latter is, however, a
variable character in C. Hookeri, the cultivated specimen
here figured wanting the bright red veins on the lateral —
sepals described by Mr. Duthie in the native specimens,
and figured in an unpublished plate prepared for a forth-
coming volume of the “ Annals of the Royal Botanic
Garden of Calcutta.” ©. Hookert was discovered by
Mr. Mackinnon’s collector, growing epiphytically on
Rhododendron arboreum, at elevations of five thousand feet
DercemBer Ist, 1902.
to six thousand feet. Specimens sent early in 1902 to the
Royal Gardens, Kew, by Mr. Duthie, flowered in July of
the same year.
_ Deser.— Pseudobulbs tufted, an inch long, ovoid, obtuse,
grooved, greyish green. Leaf two inches long, elliptic-
oblong or -lanceolate, tip bidentate, coriaceous, dark
green above, with an impressed costa; base narrowed into
a very short petiole. Peduncle very slender, longer than
the leaf. Umbel six- to ten-flowered. Bracts whorled, a
quarter of an inch long, subulate. Pedicels with the ovary
longer than the bracts. Flowers an inch long, ochro-
leucous. Dorsal sepal a quarter of an inch long, obtuse,
streaked with purple; lateral linear-lanceolate, acuminate,
convex, auricled at the base. Petals shorter than the
dorsal sepal, ovate, tip rounded. Lip decurved ; margins
thickened, fleshy, crenate. Column bicuspidate.—J. D. H.
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