CURTIS'S BOTANICAL MAGAZINE, wee | COMPRISING THE Plants of the Ropal Gardens of Kev, ‘ AND OF OTHER BOTANICAL ESTABLISHMENTS IN GREAT BRITAIN; WITH SUITABLE DESCRIPTIONS; BY : SIR JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER, M.D., C.B., GC.Sa, PRS. BLB:, er0.; D.C.L. OXON., LL.D. CANTAB., CORRESPONDENT OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE, VOL. LIV. OF THE THIRD SERLES. (Or Vol. CXXIV. of the Whole Work.) ahh Ae Eee a @ MAE: |) LP” “The genuine life That serves the steadfast hours, Is in the grass beneath, that grows Unheeded, and the mute repose Of sweetly-breathing flowers.”’ LONDON: LOVELL REEVE & CO., LTD, Publishers to the Home, Colonial, and Indian Governments, 6, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 1898. [All rights reserved. ] ih eee a te TO WILLIAM BOTTING HEMSLEY, FRS., F.LS,, Principal Assistant, Herbarium, Royal Gardens, Kew. 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NICKLE MAGAZINE COMPRISING THE PLAN'S OF THE ROYAL GARDENS OF KEW, ~ AND OF OTHER BOTANICAL ESTABLISHMENTS IN GREAT BRITAIN, WIT: SUITABLE DESCRIPTIONS; et BY ‘Sin JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER, M.D., G.CS.1; CB. RES, F.L, Late Director of the Woval Botanic Gardens of Kew. PDIP LILI IPL PPS, . ee ’ Nature and Art to adorn the page combine, And flowers exotic grace our northern clime, LONDON: rE REEVE ano CO., 6, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN 1898. [All rights reserved. ] tn a ; . 7 ‘ PREPARING FOR IMMEDIATE PUBLICATION. THE. POTAMOGETONS | (POND WEEDS) OF THE BRITISH ISLES. | Wir DESCRIPTIONS OF ALL THE Spectres, Varieties, and Hyparrps. By ALFRED FRYER. Illustrated by ROBERT MORGAN, F.LS. the object of this work is to supply a long-needed set of good and reliable Ilus- tions of British Potamogetons. Both Descriptions and Illustrations will eel ee varying forms and states as well as the generally recognized species. — ynonymy, though not aiming at absolute completeness, will be ample fo ‘all. orking purposes. An attempt will be made ‘towards a natural arrangement of the species founded on the changes of form in their progressive stages of growth rather n on the comparatively limited distinctions ayaa ae by the fruit illustrations Gr i h will form a special feature. The work will be issued in 15 mialtay Bart ee Heute. pie ‘2s. 6d. IN SULAR FLORAS. ere a la’ a and handsome + votnse o eon and 400 pages, with Here os FW. vie oat eomrons Besmfully eo coloured ee ‘ 7572 N ND TT Se et a A tl na had fight ct Ne ee mn’ “al eee nig heh eee OR ae . ss t ad iP FF > eS Bad: Vincent Brooks,Day & Son Imp S. del J N-Fitch ith » d L Reeve & C® London. Tape Y572. CAMOENSTA Maxima. Native of Western Africa. Nat. Ord. Lucumrnos2.—Tribe Sornornz. Genus Camoensia, Welw.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 557.) as : Camonnsia maim frutex alte scandens, ramis pendulis, ramulis petiolis cas inflorescentia rufo-fusco lanatis, foliis digitatim 3-foliolatis, foliolis elliptico-v. obovato-oblongis acuminatis breviter petiolulatis glabris, petiolo gracili, stipulis conicis rigidis nunc evanidis, floribus maximis, in racemos multifloros pendulos breves axillares dispositis crasse pedicellatis, bracteis bracteolisque parvis deciduis, calyce elongato anguste campanu- lato breviter 2-labiato crasse coriaceo, labio superiore 2-fido inferiore 3-partito, petalis unguiculatis flabellatim multi-costatis lacteis marginibus crispatulis aureis, vexillo suborbiculato 3—4-poll. lato in unguem costa- tum angustato, ceteris multo minoribus angustioribusque, staminibus petalis brevioribus, filamentis conniventibus glaberrimis, ovario lineari stipitato rufo-lanato, stylo elongato, stigmate capitellato, legumine lato lineari rufo-lanato oligospermo. C. maxima, Welw. ex Benth. in Trans. Linn. Soe. vol. xxv. (1866), 301, t. 36. Monteiro, Angola and the River Congo, vol.i. p. 176, t. vi. Ancona, in Bull. Soc. Tose. Hortic. 1886, p. 201, t. 9. Pearing in Deutsch. Gart. Zeit. 1886, p. 453, fig. 99. Maury, Le Jardin, 1887, p. 199, fig. 89. Kew r >; Pp. 402" ~ Chron. 1895, vol. i. p. 44; 1896, vol. 11. p. 596, figs. 105, 106. Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afric. vol. ii. p. 252. GIGANTHEMUM scandens, Welw. Apont. p. 585. Hiern, Cat. Afr. Pl. Welwitsch, Dicot, Pars. I. p. 285. This. superb climber, though familiar to Botanists, chiefly through Dr. Welwitsch’s indefatigable labours, was discovered as early as 1816, by Christian Smith,* the lamented Botanist attached to the unfortunate expedition of Captain Tuckey to the Congo River, whose specimens of _it are preserved to the British Museum. Dr. Welwitsch _ says of it, ‘‘ Common in the dense forests of Golungo Alto, adorning the loftiest trees of the outskirts with its splendid bunches of milk-white flowers, tinged with gold on the * I am indebted for this fact to Mr. Rendle, of the British Museum, to whom I wrote respecting the statement by Bentham in the Linnean Tran- sactions, that specimens of Vamoensia maxima, collected by Afzelius, were in that Institution. Mr. Rendle informs me that this is an error, and that the name of Christian Smith should be substituted for that of Afzelius, who collected in a part of Africa (Sierra Leone) very far from the Congo region. JANUARY Ist, 1898, edges of the petals.” There are specimens in the Kew Herbarium from the forest region of West Africa, which extends from the. Congo at Stanley Pool, lat. about 4°S., to where Welwitsch found it in lat. 9° 8S. Monteiro, who saw it on the sides of hills at Quiballa, in lat. 7’ 40°S., describes it as appearing as soon as he left the gneiss formation, and entered that of mica slate, where the stout roots spread far in the hard clay of the decomposed rock, and shoot out into other plants. The name Camoensia was given by Dr. Welwitsch as a tribute to the memory of the illustrious Portuguese poet, Louis Camoens, author of the “ Lusiade,’ in which is introduced the voyage of discovery of Vasco di Gama, whom Camoens had in his youth accompanied as a soldier. He had previously, in his “ Apontamente,” imperfectly characterized it as Giganthemum scandens, referring it to Robiniacewz (presumably tribe Galegee of Leguminose). The name was suppressed, at his own request, and replaced by Camoensia). The genus consists of two species, C. mawima and OC. brevicalyx, Benth. The second species was discovered on the Muni River, in lat. 1° N. by G. Mann. Bentham says of the genus, “It stands alone in Leguminose, as combining the lofty climbing woody stems and habits of many Dalbergiex, with the digitately trifo- liolate leaves of Podalyriex and Genisteze, while the flowers place it amongst Sophorezx.” Seeds of Camoensia maxima were sent to Kew by M. _ Monteiro in 1873; these germinated freely, and young plants were largely distributed. The first to flower — (in 1882) was one sent to the Botanical Gardens of Trinidad ; the next (1894) was-in that of Ceylon, and in September of the same year a third flowered with Mrs. Ruddle of Mythe Castle, Tewksbury. A specimen in the Royal Botanic Gardens of Edinburgh bore in 1897 racemes of 16 to 18 flowers. Our drawing was taken from a plant that flowered in the Royal Gardens, Kew, in November, 1896. Descr.—A gigantic, woody climber, with pendulous flowering branches; young shoots, petioles, and in- florescence clothed with a scurfy brown deciduous tomen- | tum. Leaves digitately trifoliolate; petiole slender, three to six inches long; leaflets about as long as the petiole, subsessile, elliptic or obovate-oblong, acuminate, contracted to the obtuse base, thinly coriaceous, penninerved ; stipules conical, recurved, rigid, or 0; stipelle subulate. lowers in short axillary racemes, shortly, stoutly pedicelled, sweet-scented ; bracts and bracteoles small, linear-lanceo- late, acuminate, fugaceous, Calywz-tube five to seven inches long, very narrow, coriaceous, dilating upwards ; limb short, 2-lipped, upper lip 2-fid, lower spreading, 3-partite, segments imbricate, green within. Petals very large, milk-white, flabellately closely and stoutly veined or ribbed, narrowed into short, stout ribbed claws, margined with acrisped band of golden papillz ; standard nearly orbi- cular, three to four inches broad; wing and keel petals shorter and narrower. Stamens shorter than the petals ; filaments stout, glabrous ; anthers linear-oblong. Ovary rufously woolly; style longer than the stamens; stigma capitate. Legume six to eight inches long, broadly linear, valves tomentose, margins hardly thickened. Seeds few. —J. D. H. Fig. 1, Flowers with calyx and petals removed, of the nat. size; 2, section of staminal tube and ovary; 3 and 4, anthers :—AJ/ enlarged, Vincent Brooks,Day&Son. Imp M.S.del JN Fitch lith. L. Reeve & C° London. Tap. 7573. PAPHIOPEDILUM Victrorra-Mariz, Native of Sumatra. Nat. Ord. OncH1DER.—Tribe Cyrriveptex. Genus Parniorepitum, (Pitzer, Morphol. Stud. Orchid. p. 11.) Parniorepitum Victoria-Marie; foliis late lineari-oblongis apice rotundatis et emarginatis, supra saturate viridibus tessellatis subtus pallidis uni- coloribus, scapo valido rufo-brunneo superne inter flores hirsuto, racemo plurifloro diu persistente et florente, floribus seriatim evolutis, bracteis magnis cymbiformibus obtusis ciliatis herbaceis fusco-rnbro striatis, ovario breviter pedicellato 23 pollicari stricto piloso, floribus amplis, sepalo dorsali 14 poll. lato erecto orbiculari viridi marginibus late albis ciliolatis, disco sanguineo hic illic striato, lateralibus in laminam labello suppositam late ovatam obtusam viridem confluentibus, petalis sepalis longioribus divaricatis linearibus tortis et undulatis ciliatis viri- dibus fusco-purpureo fasciatis et marginatis, labello elongato sepalo dorsali longiore obtuso purpureo, ore dilatato, marginibus viridibus, lobis lateralibus rostratis, staminodio ovato acuto basi pilosulo. P, Mseietid een: Rolfe in Orchid. Rev. vol. ivy. (1896) p. 364 (Paphiope- um). _ Cypripedium Victoria-Mariz, Rolfe l.c. p. 110. The time has come, in the opinion of most orchidolo- gists, for separating generically the tropical from the temperate species of Cypripedium, and adopting for the former the name Paphiopedilum proposed by Dr. Pfitzer (** Morphol]. Stud. Orchid.,” p. 11, 1886). Besides the wide difference of geographical distribution, the true Cypripedia being all natives of the colder temperate regions, and the Paphiopedila of tropical Asia and Australia, the following characters distinguish them. In Cypripedium proper the _ leaves are cauline, thin, and plicate in vernation, the perianth marcescent, and sepals valvate in zstivation. In Paphio- pedilum the leaves are radical, coriaceous, and conduplicate in vernation, the perianth deciduous, and sepals imbricate in sestivation, the dorsal enfolding the lateral. Dr. Pfitzer has further included Reichenbach’s (American) genus Selenipe- dium (as Selenipedilum) in his Paphiopedilum ; and accepted Ascherson’s (“‘ Brandenb, Flora,” p. 77, 1864) conversion JanuaRy Ist, 1898, of Oypripedium into Cypripedilum, for etymological reasons. Mr. Rolfe, on the other hand, rightly (‘* Orchid. Rev.,” vol. iv. p. 864) retains Selenipedium on the grounds of its American habitat, unilocular ovary and globose seeds ; but unfortunately, for the sake of uniformity in nomen- clature, reduces Paphiopedilum to Paphiopedium. As regards the conversion of Cypripedium into Cypripe- dilum, it involves a departure from Linneus’ meaning of the generic term, which he derived from xvmpis, Venus, and mdd.or, a foot (* Phil. Bot.,” p. 186), and should have spelled Cypripodium. On the other hand, wediov, which would have given Cypripedium, is Greek for a plain, and méd.dov (giving Cypripedilum), for a slipper. The simplest process, if change is desirable, would be to end all in podiwm :— thus, Cypripodium, Selenipodium, Paphiopodium, the only objection being the zsthetic one that, considering the shape of the lip of Cypripodium, the compliment to the goddess’s foot is not a flattering one. Paphiopedilum Victoria-Mariz is a native of Sumatra, whence it was imported by Messrs. Sander of St. Albans, from whom the specimen here figured was procured. It flowered in the tropical Orchid-house of the Royal Gardens in March, 1897, and continued flowering for some months. Descr.—Very robust. Leaves a foot long by one and a half to two inches broad, coriaceous, tip rounded, emargi-— nate, with an apiculus in the sinus, upper surface bright green, mottled with darker green, under pale blueish green. _ Scape eighteen inches high, as thick as a goose-quill, dark purple-brown. facemes erect, with many flowers, produced, one or two at a time, from below upwards on the stout, dark, red-brown, hirsute rachis. Sracts an inch long or more, cymbiform, obtuse, herbaceous, ciliate, green, with red- brown streaks, Ovary with short pedicel two and a half inches long, strict, erect, green, hairy. Flowers three inches long from the tip of the dorsal sepal to that of lip. Dorsal sepal orbicular, ciliolate, green, streaked with red, and with a broad, nearly white margin ; lateral sepals united in an ovate, obtuse, green blade beneath the lip, about a third shorter than the latter. Petals two inches long, spreading horizontally, undulate and twisted, green, with broad, red purple margins and nerves. Lip two inches long, by three-fourths of an inch broad below the broad mouth, slightly compressed laterally, dull purple, green round the mouth; side lobes erect, produced into short green horns. Staminode ovate, acute, hairy on the back towards the base.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Staminode and stigma, seen laterally; 2, staminode seen from above :—Both enlarged. Cat % C s xo gt Vincent Brooks, Day &Son Imp p | MS.del JN-Fitch lith. L. Reeve & C°? London an, 7574, STROBILANTHES Dyerianus. Native of Burma. Nat. Ord. Acantoacea.—Tribe RUELLIEA. Genus Strozitantuss, Bi.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 1036.) SrropitantuEs (Bracteate) Dyerianus; frutex erectus, ramosus, hirtellus, _ foliis sessilibus ovatis ovato-lanceolatisve acuminatis supra basin constric- tum panduriformibus serrulatis utrinque sparse hirtellis supra viridibus plagis inter nervos albo-roseis variegatis, subtus junioribus prasertim roseo-purpureis, spicis axillaribus densifloris calycibusque glanduloso- pilosis, bracteis calycibus brevi>ribus spathulatis persistentibus, brac- teolis sepalisque linearibus glanduloso-pilosis, corolle# 11-pollicaris violacei lente curvi tubo e basi brevi angusto modice ventricoso, limbi- brevis lobis latioribus quam longis revolutis, staminibus 4, 2 longioribus perfectis 2 brevioribus antheris cassis, filamentis glaberrimis, ovario glaberrimo. 8. Dyerianus, Hort. Sander, ex Masters in Gard. Chron. 1893, vol. i. p. 442. Garden & Forest, vol. vi (1893) p. 194. Martinet in Le Jardin, 1893, p. 151, fig. 58. Pynaert in Journ. d’Hortic. Belg. 1894, p. 133. Journ. Hortic. Ser. 3, vol. xxvi. p. 359, fig. 66. Kew Bullet. 1894, App. ii. p- 51. ee The history of this beautiful plant, as recorded at Kew, is, that it was discovered in Burma by Boxall (Collector for Hugh Low & Co.), who presented plants to the Botanical Gardens of Singapore, whence it was introduced into the Royal Gardens, Kew, in October, 1892, with the name ‘ Strobilanthes, sp. nov., Boxall.’ Young plants were distributed from Kew, one of which was exhibited at the Ghent Horticultural Exhibition of 1893 by Messrs. Sander & Co., of St. Albans, under the name of 8. Dyeri- anus, Which attracted attention, owing to the beautiful rose-purple of the undersurface of the leaves when young. Its nearest ally is S. awriculatus, Nees, figured in Wallich’s ‘‘ Plante Asiaticee Rariores, vol. iii, t. 295, a native of Central India and Burma. The specimen figured is of two lateral inflorescences and a leaf, communicated by Mr. Lynch from the Botanical Gardens of Cambridge University, who flowered the plant in January, 1894. The figure gives no idea of the beauty JaNvaRY Isr, 1898. of the thyrsiform flowering summit of the stem, the size of which far exceeds the dimensions of even a quarto late. Descr.—A branching, soft-wooded shrub, rough with scattered short hairs on the branches and leaves, and with gland-tipped hairs on the inflorescence; branches quad- rangular, green. Leaves six to eight inches long, sessile, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, serrulate, panduriform in the lower fourth, with an orbicular, cordate base, bright green above, with pale rosy-white bands, of a lucid, satiny lustre between the nerves; rose-purple beneath, especially in a young state, with twelve to fifteen pairs of strong, arching nerves and cross-nervules. Inflorescence of erect spikes leafy at the base; flowers crowded, an inch and a half long; bracts one-eighth to one-fourth of an inch long, broadly ovate, acuminate, green, spreading, persistent. Calyx one-third of an inch long, unequally 5-lobed to the middle; lobes linear, obtuse. Corolla gently curved, one to one and a quarter inch long, gradually dilated and ventricose from a short narrow tube, pale violet-blue, with a white ventral keel ; limb three-fourths of an inch across the mouth; lobes five, very short, broader than long, revolute. Stamens included, two with perfect anthers ; two much shorter, with imperfect anthers; filaments aprons Ovary oblong; style filiform, glabrous.— Fig. 1, Calyx and bracteoles; 2, portion of base of corolla and stamens; 3 rae 4, perfect anthers ; 5, Ovary a enlarged. 7575 é ay&SonImp ooks D, ent Br ViTiC: ‘ r & g 3 fc +r 4a Tab. 7575. LATHYRUS sprenpeys. Native of Southern California. Nat. Ord. Lrgumrinosz.—Tribe Viciez, Genus Latuyrvs, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 526.) Latuyrvus splendens; _actagene scandens, glaber v. parce pubescens, caule gracili angulato, foliis cirrhiferis, foliolis 4-5-jugis 3-1 poll. longis aliis ellipticis obtusis subacutisve aliis anguste linearibus marginibus interdum convolutis, stipulis parvis 2-fidis integris v. laciniatis ciliatis, racemis elongatis basi bifloris superne 7-10-floris, floribus magnis, petalis saturate sanguineis carina pallidiore, calyce fere hemispherico teretiusculo breviter 5-dentato dentibus 2 posticis ceteris paullo longioribus, vexillo pollicare orbiculare marginibus revolutis, alis ovato-oblongis carina acnta brevi- oribus et angustioribus, ovario pubescente, legumine 3-pollicari compresso glabro 10-20-spermo. L. splendens, Kellog in Proc. Calif. Acad. vol. vii. (1876) p.90. Masters in Gard. Chron. 1893, vol. i. p. 258; 1897, vol. i. p. 315, fig. 106. The Garden, 1897, Aug. p. 122, cum Ie. This is certainly the most beautiful species of the large genus to which it belongs, consisting of about 150 species, of which ten are Western American. Its nearest ally is Li. vestitus, Nutt., of California, of which indeed S. Watson, in his “ Botany of California” (vol. ii. p. 442) suspected (judging from its description alone) that it was a variety. I. vestitus is, however, a much stouter plant, never so tall, with many more and larger leaflets, much larger stipules, and with smaller, pale rose-coloured or violet flowers not half the size. Lathyrus splendens is a native of the high desert region of Southern California, where it flowers throughout the winter, and is called the “ Pride of California.” It was discovered in 1882, in the San Bernardino Valley, by Mr. Pringle. There is also a specimen of it in the Kew Herbarium, collected in San Diego by Mr. Cleveland. Seeds of L. splendens were received at the Royal Gardens, Kew, from Professor Greene of the Catholic University, Washington, in 1894. A plant raised from them was planted in the border of a house devoted to Cape bulbs, where it formed a dense mass of stems ten feet January Ist, 1898. long, that flowered in March, 1897, and has ripened seeds. In the previous summer a plant of it had been tried in the open air, when it grew freely, but did not survive the winter. Descr.—Stem glabrous, or sparsely pubescent, six to twelve feet high and more, climbing, four-winged, sparingly branched. Leaves two to four inches long, petiole short, rachis slender, terminating in a forked tendril. Leaflets eight to ten, one to nearly two inches long, opposite and alternate, from elliptic to narrowly linear, obtuse, flat, or with the sides involute, nerves very slender, nervules finely reticulate above ; stipules one-tenth to one-eighth of an inch long, bifid, lobes diverging, acute, entire, or toothed. Raceme elongate, seven to ten-flowered, with a pair of flowers at the base; flowers shortly pedicelled, nearly two inches long; petals deep blood-red, the keel _ paler. Calye shortly tubular, five-toothed, green, upper teeth longest. Standard suborbicular when spread out, reflexed, tip emarginate, sides revolute, wings two-thirds of an inch long, obliquely oblong, obtuse, shorter and narrower than the pale, rose-colrd., acute keel, which is an inch long or more. Ovary pubescent. Pod three inches long, compressed. glabrous, ten-' to twenty-seeded.— . Fig. 1, Involute leaflet; 2, calyx and stamens 3 3, ovary :-—All enlarged. ae ee 40/6 Vincent Brooks,D ay & Son Imp JI. Macfarlane del,J-N Fitch lith. L. Reeve & C2 Londen. Tas. 7576. SIEVEKINGIA RercnenBacutiana; Native of Ecuador. Nat. Ord. OncuIpex.—Tribe VaNDEAz. Genus Stevexinets, Reich. f:; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iti. p. 477. Srevexineia Reichenbachiana; pseudobulbis ovoideis costatis monophyllis, foliis petiolatis elliptico-lanceolatis acuminatis plicatis subtus 5-costatis, pedunculo decurvo vaginato sub 6-flore, floribus pendulis corymbosis, bracteis cymbiformibus, sepalis patentibus ovatis subacutis concavis membranaceis pallide stramineis, petalis suberectis aureis, sepalis equi- longis linearibus labellique lobis axe longe subpectinatim ciliatis, labelli immobilis explanati aurei sanguineo maculati lobis lateralibus dimidiato- ovatis erectis, intermedio parvo lineari, disco crista erecta lacera aucto, columna aurea supra medium alata, anthera 2-loculari vertice rotun- be polliniis 2 ellipsoideis, stipite ope glandule apice subulato rostello affixo. Srevexine1s Reichenbachiana, Rolfe in Kew Bullet. 1898, ined. Goreoetossum Reichenbachianum, F. C. Lehm. mss. ex Gard. Chron. 1897, vol. i, p. 346. Sievekingia is a genus of the subtribe Oncidiex, estab- lished by Reichenbach f. (‘‘ Beitr. Syst. Pflanzenk.,” p. 3) for a Costa Rican Orchid, 8. suavis, Rehb. f. To this three species have since been added, namely, S. fimbriata, Rchb. f. (‘‘ Flora, 1886,” p. 449), also from Costa Rica, S. Jenmani, Rchb. f. (l.c. 450) from British Guiana, and the subject of the figure here given. : . S. Reichenbachiana was discovered in 1879 by Mr. F. C. Lehman on the Andes of Ecuador, at an elevation of 2000 to 3500 ft., when only a single specimen was met with. In 1890 its discoverer undertook to search for more, but found only five, on his estate at Cauca. Of these one came into the possession of Sir Trevor Lawrence, who obligingly sent the drawing here reproduced. Descr.—Pseudobulbs clustered, an inch long, ovoid or obpyriform, ridged, young green, old pale, with scattered blood-red blotches; sheaths pale, speckled with red. Leaves four to five inches long, petioled, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate at both ends, plicate, dark green on both sur- JANUARY Ist, 1898, faces, with five pale sunk nerves above, answering to as many strong pale ribs beneath ; petiole one to one and a quarter inch long, pale yellow, speckled with red. Flowers about six, in a: pendulous corymb, terminating a flexuous sheathed, pale green peduncle, about two inches long; sheaths and bracts a fourth of an inch long, cymbiform, subacute, pale green, speckled with red; pedicel with the ovary one to oneand a quarter inch long. Perianth an inch and a quarter in diameter across the lateral sepals. Sepals spreading, subequal, ovate, subacute, concave, membranous, pale straw-colrd. Petals as long as the sepals, suberect, linear, acute, golden-yellow, and as well as the lip pecti- nately margined with long, flexuous, spreading golden hairs. 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FW; FROWBAWK, be beatiful coloured hand, ‘HANDBOOK OF THE BRITISH FLORA: cA Description of the Flowering Plants and Ferns Indigenous we to or Naturalized in the British (sles, ee By GEORGE BENTHAM, PRS. 6th Baltion, Lalucsh cheitenas Hooxer, C.B., G.C.S.L, F.B.S., &e. 100. 64. : ILLUSTRATIONS. OF THE. BRITISH FLORA, Series of Wood Engravings, ‘with Dissections, of British Pl Drawn py W.H. FITCH, F.LS., axp W. G. SMITH, F. re se sta lorming an « Hispirgtos Companion to Bentham’ 8 “ Handbook,” and other British Floras. , bs, ath sere with 1315 — ol a ec 108. 64. a ve) rs + te] a PAB. OTF: RICHARDIA Butiomana, Native of South Africa. Nat. Ord. ArowEx,.—Tribe PHILODENDRE. Genus RicHarpia, Kunth ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p- 982.) Ricwarvia Elliottiana; elata, foliis amplis late ovato-rotundatis apiculatis basi profunde cordatis lobis approximatis v. incumbentibus albo-maculatis, costa crassa, spatha infundibulari-campanulata apice recurvo subulato tertia parte laxe convoluta tota aurea ore expansa intus laevi, marginibus recurvis, spadice subsessile, ovarii apice tumido, stigmate sessili, fructibus crassis, R. Elliottiana, Knight ea W. Wats.in Gard. Chron., 1892, vol. ii. p. 123. Eng. de Duren in Rev. Hort. Belg. vol. xxiii. (1897) p. 13. _ _&. Hiliottiana is much the largest species of the genus hitherto described. It is alluded to under Tab. 7397, also a golden-spathed species, as a then imperfectly known plant, which may be a variety of R. albo-maculata, Hook., a suggestion endorsed by M. de Duren when figuring it in the “Revue Hort. Belgique,” though on comparison of these two plants the differences between them are abun- dantly manifest. 2. albo-maculata (see Tab. 5740) belongs to the hastate-leaved section of the genus, and has a comparatively small white spathe, with a much longer, narrower, tapering limb, and the base of the spathe is purple within. From &. Pentlandii (Tab. 7397) the only other known golden-spathed species, R. Hiliottiana differs in its much larger size, broad spotted leaves, more deeply cordate at the base, the smooth surface of the limb of the Spathe within, and the absence of purple colouring at its base, also in the large ovaries and sessile stigma. The precise habitat of R. Pentlandii, which was not known when the species was first published, js the Mapoch district, Lydenburg, Transvaal. hk. Hiliottiana was raised from a batch of South African seeds by Mr. Knight, gardener to Captain Elliott, of Farn- boro’ Park, Hants, in 1896, and was exhibited in. London FEBruarY Ist, 1898. in 1892. The specimen figured flowered in the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1897, and formed its large berries in the following August. Descr.—Tall, very robust. Leaves nearly a foot long and seven inches broad, orbicular-ovate, deeply cordate, with an open sinus, or with overlapping basal lobes, apicu- late, green, with oblong, transparent blotches, margin waved, midrib beneath very stout; petiole dark green, as long as the blade, deeply channelled in front. Pedunele nearly a yard high, terete, dark green. Spathe six inches long, bright golden-yellow throughout (with no purple at the base within) ; tube between funnel-shaped and campanu- late; limb three inches long and broad, quite smooth within, tip caudate. Spadiw sessile, about three inches long. Amnthers obconic, minute, orange-yellow. Ovaries large, green, with a low crown and a small sessile coloured stigma. rut a cluster of many small, imperfect berries, and ten or a dozen large subglobose or misshapen large ones, one inch in diameter, with rounded tips, and a minute black scar in the position of the stigma.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Base of spathe cut open, and spadix, of the nat. size; 2, anther; 3, ovary :—both enlarged ; 4, ripe berry of the nat. size. 7078 s oS MS del INFitchlith. Vincent Brooks Day & Son imp L Reeve & C°? London. Tas: 7578. PAPHIOPEDILUM CuHAmMBERLAINIANUM. Native of Sumatra. Nat. Ord. Orcu1prEa#.—Tribe CypriPeDIEs. Genus Papnrorepitum, Pfitzer (Morphol. Stud. Orchid. p. 11.) ‘Parniorepitum Chamberlainianum ; elatum, robustum, foliis lineari-oblongis obtusis tessellatis, scapo robusto fusco-purpureo superne hirsutulo, racemo multifloro demum elongato diu florente, rachi robusto glauduloso- tomentoso, bracteis magnis herbaceis cymbiformibus apice rotundatis viridibus basi purpureis persistentibus, ovario gracile stricto breviter pedicellato tomentoso, floribus amplis, sepalis viridibus dorso hirsutis, dorsali orbiculari 3-poll. lato, apice convoluto, marginibus undulatis ciliatis intus basi et nervis 5-7 purpureis, lateralibus in laminam ellipticam labello multo breviorem connatis, petalis 25 poll. longis divaricatis linearibus viridibus subtortis marginibus crispato-undulatis purpureis ciliatis, disco lineis purpureis interruptis notato, labelli sacco inflato roseo-purpureo creberrime punctulato, ore colloque virescente, staminodio late ovato, basin versus setuloso. P. Chamberlainianum, O’Brien, ex Pfitzer in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. vol. xix. (1895) 41. Rolfe in Orchid. Review, vol. iv. (1896) p. 4 (Paphiopedium). Kerchof, Livre des Orchid. p. 454 (Paphiopedium). Cypripedium Chamberlainianum, O’Brien in Journ. Hortic. vol. xxiv. (1892) p. 104 et 204, fig. 49; in Gard. Chron. 1892, vol. i. p. 234, fig. 34. ucct in Bull. Soc. Tose. Ort. vol. vii. 1892, p 88, t. 3 (ic. Gard. Chet repet.). Pynaert in Rev. Hortic. Belg. vol. xviii. (1892) p. 101, fig. 10 ic. Gard. Chron. repet.). Duren, l.c. vol. xix. (1893) p. 141, cum ice. pict. Journ. Hortic. Ser. IIT. vol. xxx. p. 432. The anion, vol. xlv. (1893) p. 304, cum ic. Williams’ Orchid. Grower's Man. Ed. VII. p. 242. Kranzl. in Reichb. Xen. Orchid. vol. iii. p. 145, t. 284. The nearest ally of the magnificent Orchid here figured is P. Victoria-Marix, Rolfe (t. 7573) under which species I have given the reasons for adopting the unfamiliar generic name of Paphiopedilum. Both are natives of Sumatra, in both the raceme is, as it were, perennial, con- tinuing for a year or more to give off a succession of flowers, of which one, two, or rarely three, are open ata time. In this respect, and those of the mottled leaves, the stout, dark purple scape, large boat-shaped herbaceous bract, orbicular green upper sepal, twisted petals, and open mouth of the lip, the two species agree; but P. Chamberlainianum differs in the much broader, shorter leaves, much more inflated lip, the almost orbicular Fesruary Ist, 1898. staminode, and in the coloration of the flower. The sketch of the whole plant given in the Gardener’s Chronicle represents the sceptriform raceme, upwards of twenty inches long, with expanded flowers below, followed by a series of many empty bracts above, bearing apparently neither buds, flowers, nor fruit, quite unlike any other orchideous plant known to me. Mr. Rolfe informs me that Messrs. Sander showed him a native dried specimen with thirty-two bracts on the raceme. The fine figure in the Gardener’s Chronicle represents a plant with larger flowers than that here figured, much broader petals strongly twisted, and with margins neither undulate, ciliate, nor purple. P. Chamberlainianum was imported from Sumatra by Messrs. Sander & Co., and named by Mr. O’Brien in honour of the Right Honourable the Secretary for the Colonies, who is distinguished no less for his public services than for his devotion to horticulture. The specimen figured flowered in the Orchid House of the Royal Gardens, Kew, in March, 1897. | Desecr.—A very robust, tall, species. Leaves eight to ten inches long, by one and a quarter to nearly two inches broad, obtuse or subacute, coriaceous, bright green, tessellated with darker green above, pale beneath, with a stout midrib. Scape eight to twelve inches high, dark purple-brown, hairy upward. Laceme many-flowered, continuously flowering; rachis stout, glandular-tomentose with spreading hairs, dark red brown. Bracts one and a half inches long, boat-shaped, tips rounded, strongly nerved, green; dark purple at the base, ciliate. Ovary very shortly pedicelled, one and a half inches long, strict, densely glandular-tomentose. Sepals green, dorsally hir- sute; dorsal nearly orbicular, an inch and a half in diameter, margins undulate, ciliate with long hairs, seven- nerved, red-purple in front towards the base, and with ~ red-purple nerves; lateral sepals connate in an elliptic- oblong blade, smaller than the dorsal, and much shorter than the lip. Petals two and a half inches long by one-third of an inch broad, linear, more or less twisted obtuse, green, with strongly waved or crisped ciliate, dark purple margins, and with parallel lines of purple spots on the disk. Zip an inch and a half long, by nearly an inch in diameter, inflated, slightly contracted below the open mouth, rose-colrd., speckled with dark red, except around the green mouth and subacute posterior angles. Staminode rather small, ovate, apiculate, purplish. —J.D. H. Fig. 1, Upper and 2, side view of staminode and stigma :—Both enlarged. 7579 SQV Th Vincent Brooks Day & Son bap : j L Reeve & C9London. M.S.del, JN.Fitch ith Tap. 7579, DAPHNE Btagayana. Native of Styria and Carniola. - Nat. Ord. TarmeLmacex.—Tribe EutHyYMEL@EM. Genus Darunn, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 190.) DaruneE (Daphnanthes) Blagayana; fruticulus vage ramosus, foliis glabris apices versus ramorum confertis quasi verticillatis subsessilibus obovatis v. oblanceolatis obtusis basi angustatis tenuiter nervosis luride viridibus, capitulis sessilibus multifloris, bracteis obovato-oblongis imbricatis sericeis intimis angustioribus perianthii tubum subequantibus, perianthii pallide straminei tubo ? pollicari subsericeo, lobis ovatis obtusis tubo triente st binsatich ovario longe stipitato pubescente, stylo brevi, bacca carnosa alba. D. Blagayana, Frazer in Flora, vol. xxi. pars. [. (1838) p. 176. Reichenb. Ic. Fl. Germ, vol. xi. t. 555, fig. 1180. Meissn. in DO. Prodr. vol.. xiv. p. 534, Regel, Gartenfl. vol. xxix. (1880) p. 228, t. 1020-1. Flore des Serres, vol. xxii. (1877) p. 2313. The Garden, vol, xiv. (1878) p. 200, | c- t. 143. Gard. Chron. 1880, vol. i. p. 245, fig. 47; 1882, vol. i. p. 505, fig. 80. K. Koch, Dendrolog. vol. ii, p. 377. Though discovered in 1837 by Count Blagay, it is only comparatively lately that this most sweet-scented little Spurge-laurel has been introduced into cultivation in England, which was effected by Messrs. Veitch about twenty years ago. It belongs to the section Daphnanthes, C.A.M., characterized by the coriaceous persistent leaves, and terminal more or less capitate flowers, and is nearly allied to D. collina, Sm. (see Tab. 428) of the south of Europe, which is well distinguished by its villously silky branches, short bracts, and much shorter purple perianth. According to the analysis in Reichenbach’s figure, the ovary is nearly sessile, but it is narrowed into a long stipes both in the cultivated specimen here figured and in indigenous ones. D, Blagayana is a native of calcareous rocks, in company with Hrica carnea, in the Carinthian Alps of Carniola and Styria. It is now frequent in English gardens, flowering in March. ; Descr.—A small, laxly branched spreading shrub, a foot Fesruary ist, 1898. and a half high ; branches as thick as a crow-quill, reddish- brown, naked exceptatthesummit, where they are sparingly silky. Leaves one to one and a half inches long, crowded towards the tips of the branches, sessile, spreading, oblong-obovate or oblanceolate, obtuse or apiculate, cori- aceous, glabrous on both surfaces, dull dark green above, pale beneath ; nerves very obscure. Heads of flowers two inches across or more, terminal, sessile; bracts as long as the perianth-tube, sessile, obovate-oblong, apiculate, mem- branous, pale green, silky, inner narrow. Perianth sessile, very pale straw-colrd., almost white, tube three-quarters of an inch long, sparsely silky; lobes one-fourth of an inch long, ovate, obtuse, spreading. Stamens included, tips of the upper four on a level with the mouth of the perianth ; anthers linear-oblong. Disk membranous, about half as long as the stipes of the ovary. Ovary narrowed into a stipes as long as itself, oblong, silky, style very short, stigma capitate. Berry white.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Perianth laid open; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, pistil and disk:—Adl enlarged. 7580. o- 7 fa Arie 4 ee en ~ y oe Me SS e N E —S he : 53 , : iN a= Ss S ¥ & MS.ddl, JN Fitch hth Vincent Brooks Day &Sonimp L Reeve & C° London Tas. 7580. DASYSTACHYS Drrmropsis. Native of South-east Tropical Africa. Nat. Ord. Litiacra.—Tribe AsPHopELEm, Genus Dasystacuys, Baker; (Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 789.) DasystacHys Drimiopsis; fibris radicalibus cylindricis, foliis rudimentariis - dorso rubro-brunneo maculatis, foliis basalibus 5-6 linearibus viridibus recurvatis, pedunculo elongato simplici foliis floribus reductis predito, racemo denso subspicato oblongo, pedicellis brevissimis, bracteis brunneis e basi lata linearibus, perianthio campanulato alko segmentis ovatis supra basin patulis, staminibus exsertis, stylo elongato, fructu acute angulato profunde trilobato. D. Dri miopsis, Baker, ex Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 789. Anthericum Drimiopsis, Bakes in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. xv. p. 301. This genus is very different in habit from Chlorophytum, with which Engler has united it. All the species have small flowers arranged in dense subspicate racemes. Fifteen species are now known, all of which are confined to the mountainous regions of Tropical Africa. This is the first of them which has been introduced into cultiva- tion. The living plant was brought to Kew in 1892, along with many others, by the late Mr. John Buchanan, C.M.G., who did so much to increase our knowledge of the botany of British Central Africa. It flowered at Kew for the first time in October, 1896, having been cultivated ina warm greenhouse. It was first collected in 1859 by Sir John Kirk, in the Zambesi valley, between Shupanga and Tette. Descr.—Root-fibres many, cylindrical. Sheath-leaves spotted on the back with claret-brown. Produced leaves about six in a dense basal rosette, linear, bright green, moderately firm in texture, the longest above a foot long. Peduncle terete, erect, two or three feet long, bearing several reduced leaves. aceme very dense, subspicate, oblong, three or four inches long; pedicels very short, not articulated; bracts reddish-brown, linear from a dilated Fesruary Ist, 1898. base. Perianth campanulate, pure white, one-sixth of an inch long ; segments ovate, spreading from above the base. Stamens exserted ; anthers small, oblong. Capsule acutely angled, deeply three-lobed.—J. G. Baker. Fig. 1, A flower, with pedicel and bract; 2, front view of anther; 3, back view of anther; 4, pistil:—all enlarged; 5, the whole plant much reduced. FEO sebiotcs wo Vii Ty S. del. JN Fitch kth L Revee & C° London. Tas. 7581. ANEMONE Veenatis. Native of Mountains of Europe. Nat. Ord. RanuNcuLAcEs.—Tribe ANEMONES. Genus Anemone, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 4.) ANEMONE (Pulsatilla) vernalis ; acaulis, foliis ovatis pinnatisectis, segmentis paucis oppositis sessilibus cuneatis v. cuneato-oblanceolatis irregulariter 3-5-fidis glabris v. laxe pilosis, scapo robusto plus minusve villoso unifloro, involucri villosissimi bracteis sessilibus in segmenta linearia brunnea ad basin partitis, floribus amplis erectis, sepalis 6 elliptico-oblongis obtusis concavis dorso villosis pallide lilacinis, staminibus perplurimis extimis imperfectis, acheniis villosis in caudas sericeo-villosas graciles productis. A. vernalis, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 538. Ait. Hort. Kew. Ed. 2, vol. iii. p. 387. Cider, Fl. Dan. vol. i. tab. 29. Palmstr. Svensk. Bot. vol.-x. t. 337. DC. Syst. vol. i. p. 189; Prodr. vol. i. p.16. Sturm, Deutsch. Flor. vol. vi. t. 24. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. Ed. 2, p. 7. Gren. & Godr. Fl. Franc. vol. i. p.10. Bertol. Fl. Ital. vol. v. p. 461. Ledeb. Fl. Ross, vol.i. p. 20. Journ. Horticult. Ser. 3, vol. xxxii. p. 223. PuLsATILLA vernalis, Mill. Dict. Anem. No.3. Lessing in Linnga, vol. ix. (1834) p. 171. Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard. Ser. I. vol. iii. t. 205. Reichd. Ic. Fil. Germ. vol. iv. t. 59. The most curious fact in the history of this beautiful plant is that it is not a native of the British Islands, for it has a very wide range as an alpine and subalpine plant throughout Europe and in North Asia, ascending to eight thousand feet in the Alps. Its limits are in the West from Norway and Sweden to Central France and the Pyrenees; further East, from Saxony and Livonia to the Swiss, Austrian, and Italian Alps; and still further East ‘(according to Ledebour) from the Ural Mts. to Tobolsk in ‘Siberia. Thus extending through 20° of latitude and 75° of longitude. Its nearest ally is the British A. Pulsatilla. Anemone vernalis was introduced into England before 1752, at which period it was cultivated by Phillip Miller at Chelsea. According to Robinson’s “ Alpine Plants for English Gardens,” it is rare, and seldom seen in good con- dition in this country. The specimen figured here was of a pot plant grown in the Herbaceous Department of the FEBRUARY 1st, 1898. Royal Gardens, which flowered in the middle of March in the very early season of 1897. Deser.—A more or less hairy or villous perennial. Leaves radical, three to five inches long, long-petioled, ovate in outline, pinnatisect, pinnules two to three pairs with an odd one, opposite, cuneiform, three- to five-lobed ; terminal largest, three-cleft, lobes obtuse toothed. Peduncle stout, erect, one-fld., green ; involucres an inch long, bracts brown, shaggy, cleft to the base into narrow, erect, linear segments. lower erect, or slightly inclined. Sepals six, subequal, spreading and incurved, elliptic, obtuse, nearly white and glabrous within, dorsally violet- purple, with a broad white margin, villous with long hairs. 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Plant. vol. i. p- 536, CAMPTOSEMA pinnatum ; frutex 3-5-pedalis, parce ramosus, glaberrimus, foliis alternis petiolatis 16-18 poll. longis ; foliolis 3-jugis cum impari, 6-7 poll. longis, petiolulatis, ovatis, caudato-acuminatis, petiolo basi incrassato, racemo brevi densifloro, rhachi robusto, Hloribus breviter pedicellatis fascicu- latis nutantibus, calyce % poll. longo late tubuloso basi rotundato glabro, dentibus brevissimis latis obtusis, vexillo 2-pollicari oblongo obtuso complicato in unguem poll. longum angustato nec appendiculato nec basi calloso, alis vexillo fere wquilongis falcato-oblongis obtusis basi cuneatis longe unguiculatis, carine petalis vexillo equilongis sed angustioribus rectis, staminibus monadelphis vexillari a basi soluto, antheris linearibns, ovario longiuscule stipitato glabro 8-10-ovulato, stylo gracili_ recto, stigmate capitellato, legumine plano-compresso 7 poll. longo 2 poll. lato, seminibus pollicaribus reniformibus. ; C.? pinnatum, Benth. in Mart. Fl. Bras. vol. xv. pars. I. p. 325. Wawra, Bot. Ergebn. Mar. I. p. 6, t. 33. _Piscipra erythrina, Vell. Fl. Flum. vol. vii. t. 100, text. 304 (non Linn.). GoranA-timbo, Bras. : Camptosema is a genus of ten tropical South American species, belonging to the subtribe Galactice of Phaseolex, closely allied to Canavalia and Pueraria. One species has been figured in this work, tab. C. rubicundum, Hook. & Arn. (tab. 6808) a handsome climber, with small trifoliolate leaves, and with long racemes of ruby-red flowers, not half the size of those of C. pinnatum. C. pinnatum is a native of shady woods, banks of rivers, &c., in the Province of Minas Geraes, Brazil. The accompanying figure was made from a plant raised from seed sent in 1888 by Dr. Glaziou, Director of the Botanical Gardens of Rio de Janeiro, to the Royal Gardens, Kew, which flowered in the Palm House in July, 1897. Descr.—A woody shrub, three to five feet high, glabrous in all its parts. Leaves one to one and a half feet long, alternate, shortly petioled; leaflets three pairs and a ter- minal, shortly petiolulate, drooping, six to seven inches long Maxrcu Ist, 1898, by two to three inches broad, oblong or ovate-oblong, obtusely caudate-acuminate, base rounded, membranous, bright green, paler beneath, nerves six to eight pairs; petiole with a swollen cylindric base, and slender rhachis, grooved above. lowers two inches long, in a short, stout raceme, two to three inches long from the old wood; bracts small, deciduous ; pedicels short. Calyx one half to two- thirds of an inch Jong, cylindric, terete, very shortly five- toothed, greenish purple; base rounded. Petals pale, bright red-purple, of nearly equal length, straight, narrow, obtuse; standard oblong, narrowed into a slender claw, dorsally rounded, sides incurved, wings dimidiate-oblong, subfalcate, claw long, slender ; keel-petals like the wings, but straighter, as long-clawed. Stamens ten, nine united for two-thirds their length in a narrow tube, tenth very slender, free; anthers very small, linear-oblong. Ovary stipitate, very slender, narrowed into a filiform straight style, with a minute stigma, many-ovuled.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Calyx and stamens; 2, wing petal; 3, keel-petal; 4, ovary and disk :—All enlarged ; 5, reduced view of leafing branch. M. §.del,J.N Fitch lith L Reeve & C? London Tas. 7583. ERYTHRONIUM Hartweai. Native of California. Nat. Ord. Littacez.—Tribe TuLirea. Genus ErytHrontum, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol, iii ; p. 819.) Eryturonium Hartwegi; tubere parvo ovato-oblongo, foliis oblongo-lan- ceolatis oblanceolatisve supra saturate viridibus striis pallidioribus laxe reticulatim notatis, floribus 1-3 amplis, perianthii segmentis 1}-2- pollicaribus lanceolatis acuminatis patenti-recurvis albis basin versus bicarinatis aureis, filamentis quam antheras lineares stramineas multoties Hebi ovario parvo obovoideo-oblongo triquetro-stylo columnari reviore. KE. Hartwegi, S. Wats. in Proc. Amer, Acad. vol. xiv. (1879) p. 261; Bot. Calif. vol. ii. p. 170. Gard. Chron. 1896, vol. ii. p. 361. E. grandiflorum, Benth. Plant. Hartweg. p. 339 (non Pursh.). Erythronium Hartwegi is very closely allied to H. grandi- florum, Pursh., of Washington Territory and Northern California, of which the leaves are not mottled, the perianth segments strongly recurved, yellow, or cream- coloured, and the filaments longer and more slender. It is a native of the Sierra Nevada, where it was discovered in Butte County by Hartweg, and in Plumas County, and other localities. The genus Hrythronium, of which there are seven generally recognized species, several doubtful, and many spurious, is greatly in need of a careful study and illustration by good drawings. This can only be effected through cultivation, for the characters, of the flower espe- cially, are more or less obliterated in herbarium speci- mens. There are various obscure forms in North- West America, which is no doubt the headquarters of the genus, and I would strongly recommend them to the attention of the Botanists, and especially the Botanic Gardens, of California. ‘'he handsome species here figured has for a long period been in cultivation at Kew, where it flowers in an open Marcu Ist, 1898. border in March. The individual specimen was from a pot plant, grown in a frame. Descr.—Whole plant four to six inches high. Tubers small, ovoid-oblong. Leaves sessile, inserted close to- gether, about four inches long, lanceolate, acuminate, undulate, narrowed to the sheathing base, dark green above, with paler green areolar reticulations, uniformly green beneath. Scapes one or two, slender, one-fid. Flowers about three inchesindiameter. Perianth-segments spreading and recurved, white, pale golden-yellow at the base. Stamens almost included in the connivent bases of the segments, filaments very short ; anthers linear, straw- coloured. Ovary small, obovoid-oblong, trigonous, shorter than the columnar style; stigmas three, shortly linear, revolute.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Base of perianth segment, seen from within; 2, stamen; 3, anther: —All enlarged. 7584 M.S.del JIN-Fitch lith Vincent Brooks Day & Son Inp L Reeve & C° London Tas. 7584. DRACAENA GobserriAna. .- Native of the Coast of Guinea. Nat. Ord. Lintaceat.—Tribe DRACAENER, ‘-enus DracaENna, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. iii. p. 779.) Dracasna (Surculoss) Godseffiana ; frutex diffusus ramosus, ramis gracilibus subverticillatis, foliis oppositis v. ternatim verticillatis submembranaceis ellipticis acuminatis basi acutis in petiolum brevissimum angustatis albo maculatis, racemo brevi breviter pedunculato e ramulo dependente ascen- dente, floribus pollicaribus ternatim fasciculatis breviter pedicellatis, bracteis lanceolatis membranaceis pedicellos squantibus, bracteolis 2 minutis, perianthii flavo-virescentis tubo gracili basi clavato, lobis tubo paullo brevioribus linearibus obtusis, filamentis lobis perianthii zequi- longis, antheris oblongis, stylo gracili exserto, baccis 1-3 poll. diam. globosis coccineis. D. Godseffiana, Hort. Sander, ex Baker in Gard. Chron. 1894, vol. ii. p. 212, * Southron in The Garden, 1896, p. 276, ie Xylog. There are in tropical Western Africa a considerable number of species of Dracaena, differmg in habit from their congeners, in having slender scandent, or at least rambling, branching stems. Of these the type is D. surculosa, Lindl., a spotted-leaved variety of which is figured at tab. 5662 of this work; and there are others described and undescribed, which will be published in the forthcoming volume of the ‘ Flora of Tropical Africa,” a work now far advanced by the staff of the Herbarium of Kew. Of these D. surculosa is that to which D. Godseffiana is most nearly allied, the great difference between them being in the almost capitate inflorescence of D. surculosa. Both vary considerably in the form and spotting of the leaves. D. Godseffiana was first sent to Kew in 1892, by Mr. Henry Millen, Curator of the Botanical Station at Lagos. It was subsequently imported by Messrs. Sander & Co. of St. Albans. It forms a very decorative’ stove shrub, flowering in March. Descr.—A slender, rambling, branched, subscandent shrub; stem flexuous, about as thick as a crow-quill, pale brown, annulate. Leaves three to nearly five inches long, opposite, or ternately whorled, very shortly petioled, elliptic Marcu Ist, 1898 or elliptic-oblong or -lanceolate, acuminate, base acute, membranous, many-nerved, with a distinct midrib, bright green above, with irregularly disposed orbicular large and small white spots, paler beneath. Racemes two to three inches long, ascending from the tips of the drooping branches, peduncle short, with lanceolate, membranous, erect bracts, rhachis green; flowers nearly an inch long, in rather distant clusters of three each; pedicels slender, a sixth to a fourth of an inch long, with one membranous, lanceolate white bract, and two minute ones at its base. Perianth pale green, tube very slender in the middle, gradually enlarged to the clavate base and infundi- bular limb, which latter is formed of six linear obtuse lobes as long as the tube. Stamens nearly as long as the perianth- lobes, anthers oblong. Ovary ovoid, style very slender, stigma minute. Berries globose, vermilion-red, one half to two-thirds of an inch in diameter.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Flower ; 2 and 3, anthers ; 4, pistil; 5, transverse section of ovary :-— All enlarged. 7585 MS. del. JN Fitch lith L.Reeve & C9 London Tas. 7585. HACQUETIA Eptpaoctis. Native of South Europe and Siberia. Nat. Ord. UMBELLIFER®.—Tribe SanicuLER. Genus Hacquetia, Neck, (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 879.) Hacquetia Epipactis; glaberrima, rhizomate premorso, collo squamoso, foliis radicalibus longe petiolatis palmatim 3-partitis segmentis cuneiformibus serrulatis, lateralibus triangularibus rotundatisve insequilateris sub- 5-lobis, intermedio angustiore cuneiforme 3-5-lobo, lobis omnibus triangulari-ovatis, scapis 2-5 petiolo subquilongis, capitulis parvis multifloris foliaceo-bracteatis, bracteis 5-10 oblongis stellatim patentibus grosse serratis, floribus aliis sessilibus hermaphroditis aliis pedicellatis masculis, calycis dentibus ovatis acuminatis, petalis erectis obovatis lacinula infracta elongata instructis, filamentis filiformibus petalis sequilongis, stylis (in fl. masc. imperfectis) elongatis, fructu ellipsoideo laevi bi-sulcato, carpophoro obscuro, pericarpio crassiusculo jugis inconspicuis, vittis intra juga 3-5. H. Epipactis, DC. Prodr. vol. iv. p. 85. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. Ed. I. p, 280. Bertol. Fl. Ital. vol. iii. p. 118. Parlat. Fl, Ital. vol. viii. p. 222. Reichb. Fl. Germ. Ic. vol. xxi. t. 1842. Bischoff in T. Nees, Gen. Fl. — fase. xxvi. t.3 (Haquetia). Ces. Pass. Gib. Comp. Fl. Ital. p. 575, t. 90, f. 4. Donvta Epipactis, Spreng. Umbell. Prodr. p. 21, t. 1. Lodd. Bot. Cab t. 1832. Gaud. Fl. Helvet. vol. ii. p. 302, t. 3. Donvista Epipactis, Reichb. in Moessl. Handb. Bad. II. vol. i. p. 493. AstranTIA Epipactis, Linn. fil. Suppl. p. 177. Scop. Fl. Carniol. Ed. II. vol. i. p. 185, t. 6. Jacg. Fl. Austriac. vol. v. p. 32, App. t. 11. : Hacquetia, Neck. Elem. vol. i. p. 182. Alpina Eleborine Saniculz et Ellebori nigri facie, Lobel, Stirp. Hist. (1756) 378, cwm ic. ; in Ic. Stirp. (1591) p. 164 iterata. A singular and rare little European Umbellifer, allied to Astrantia in habit, but differing in the terete fruit. It is a native of mountain regions in Northern Italy, and in Austria, from Silesia to Carinthia and Transylvania. [t was named Hacquetia by Necker, in commemo- ration of the botanist, Balthasar Hacquet, author of “* Plantae Alpines Carniolice ” (Vienna, 1782). The specific name of Hpipactis owes its origin to Lobel, who first figured the plant, having likened it to Helleborus niger, the Hleborine of early herbalists, and émumrdxris of Dioscorides. Marcu Ist, 1898, Hacquetia Epipactis has long been in cultivation in Kew, flowering in March, but of its introduction there is no record. Itis not included in Aiton’s ‘* Hortus Kewensis ” (1811), nor in more recent catalogues of garden plants. Descr.—A perennial-rooted, quite glabrous, scapigerous herb. Rootstock elongate, preemorse, cylindric, rugose, copiously rooting ; crown emitting leaves and scapes, the bases of which are clothed with short scales. Leaves on slender, often red petioles, three to six inches long, palmately tripartite, circular in outline, and two to four inches in diameter, bright green; segments shortly lobed and sharply serrulate, lateral orbicular, subflabellately triangular, unequally five- or more-lobed, formed of two | connate segment ; mid-segments much narrower, cunei- | form three to five-lobed. Scapes two or more, angular, about as long and slender as the petioles. Umbels one to two inches in diameter, of a small group of yellow flow surrounded by an involucre of five to ten stellately spr ing, oblong, strongly serrate, green, herbaceous bract Flowers minute, crowded on a small receptacle, pedicelled males and sessile hermaphrodite intermixed. Calyzx-teeth acuminate. Petals erect, oblong, inflected for two-thirds of their length. Stamens about as long as the petals. Fruit nearly terete, grooved at the commissure; carpels with five low ridges, each with a solitary canal. Styles long, slender, recurved.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Portion of umbel; 2, fower ; 3, petal; 4, fruit ; 5, mericarp seen from the ventral face ; 6, transverse section of mericarp :—All enlarged. - 7586 M.S.del. JN Fitch ith, L Reeve & C? London Tas. 7586. EPIDENDRUM xanruinum. Native of Brazil. Nat. Ord. OrcuipE#.—Tribe EPIDENDREA. Genus Eprpenprum, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 528.) EpipEnDRUM (Huepidendrum) wanthinuwm; caulibus cespitosis elongatis gracilibus polyphyllis, foliis distichis 3-4-pollicaribus lineari-oblongis obtusis v. apice obtuse 2-dentatis carnosis, pedunculo caule continuo et zequilongo gracili decurvo per totam longitudinem vaginato apice multi- floro, floribus xanthinis in racemum multiflorum congestis, bracteis subulatis persistentibus, sepalis petalisque consimilibus patentibus oblongo-lanceolatis acutis, labello usque ad apicem columnz adnato 3-lobo, lobis subeequalibus patentibus fere ad medium laceratis, lateralibus quadratis, terminale subflabelliforme 2-fido, disco basi callo lato depresso 4-lobo etalis 2 parvis carnosulis instructo, columna aurantiaca, clinandrio parvo marginibus serratis, anthera ovoidea rostrata. BE. xanthinum, Lindl, in Bot. Reg. 1844, Mise. p.18; Fol. Orchid. Epiden. ? No. 229. Walp. Ann. vol. vi. p. 395. Veitch. Man. Orchid. Pars. vi. p. 127, eum Ie. E. ellipticum, 8 flavum, Lindl. in Ann, Nat. Hist. vol. iv. (1840) p. 382. Epidendrum xanthinum was discovered by Von Martius on the Sierra del Frio, in the province of Minas Geraes. It was afterwards collected in the same province by Burchell, and more recently (in 1840) by Gardner, who had previously (1837) found it in the Organ Mountains, near Rio de Janeiro. According to Reichenbach in ‘ Walper’s Annales,” it was cultivated in Loddiges’ Nurseries, having been brought from Caraccas by Linden, but this is no doubt an error. It belongs to Lindley’s section Huepidendrum, characterized by long, leafy stems, without pseudobulbs or spathe. It has long been in cultivation in the Royal Gardens, Kew, where it forms a bamboo-like tuft, in the cool Orchid House, flowering freely in spring. Deser.—Stems tufted, one and a half to three feet high, as thick as a goose-quill, sub-erect, except when flowering, leafy throughout, greenish brown. 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ALLIUM Scuusertt, Native of Western Asia. Nat. Ord. Lit1acra.—tTribe ALLIEZ. Genus Atuium, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 802.) Attium (Molium) Schuberti; bulbo crasso ovoideo v. subgloboso, foliis radi- calibus pedalibus 2-poll. latis patentibus late lorato-lanceolatis planis plus minus undulatis marginibus scaberulis, scapo foliis breviore terite crasso nudo, spatha brevi 2—3-valvi, umbella amplissima globosa 50-200- flora saepius polygama, pedicellis rigidis flores multoties longioribus valde inzequalibus longioribus sterilibus 6-10-poll. longis, brevioribus 2—4- poll. longis omnibus apicem versus sensim incrassatis, floribus 3 poll. expansis roseis, segmentis ima basi connatis lanceolatis acutis stamina fere duplo superantibus patulis post anthesin suberectis, filamentis basi connatis subulatis rubris, antheris oblongis stramineis, ovario obovoideo 3-lobo, loculis 1—3-spermis, seminibus magnis trigonis atris opacis. A. Schuberti, Zuccarini in Abh. Bayer. Akad. vol, iii. (1843) p. 284, t. 3, f. 1. Kunth, Enum. Pl. vol. iv. p._689. Regel, Monog. Allium, p. 239; All, Sp As. Centr. pp. 21,117. Boiss, Fl. Orient, vol. v. p. 279. Wien. Ill, Gartenzeit. 1895, p. 283, f. 26. This very remarkable species of Alliwm has an ex- tended geographical distribution in Western Asia, from Syria and Palestine to Mesopotamia, North Persia, Soon- garia,and Western Turkestan. It belongs to a very small group of the genus, characterized by having more than two ovules in each cell of the ovary, to which the name of’ Melanocrommyum was given by its author (Webb et Berth. Phyt. Canar. iii. [1I. 347) from the fact of A. nigrum, L., being the species on which the section was founded. In the more generally adopted sectional grouping of Allium, A. Schuberti is referred to Molium, which includes those species of the huge genus in which the scape and base of the leaves are underground, the leaves approximately flat, the involucral bracts shorter than the pedicels, and the filaments usually simple. As a species A. Schuberti is unrivalled for the length of.the pedicels, which, together with the colour of the flowers, and broad, long leaves, render it a very striking horticultural object. A, Apri Ist, 1898, Schuberti was discovered in the Plain of Jezreel, near Nazareth, by the traveller whose name it bears. Bulbs of it were received by the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1896, from Messrs. Herb & Wulle, Nurserymen, Naples, which flowered in a sunny border in June, 1897. Descr.—Bulb as large as the fist, or larger, subterranean, sub-globose or ovoid. Leaves a foot long by two inches broad and upwards, widely spreading, broadly oblong- or lorate-lanceolate, acuminate, flat, pale, bright green, striated. Scape shorter than the leaves, half an inch in diameter, terete, hollow, green. Uméels very large, globose, very many-fid. (up to 200); involucre of two or three bracts much shorter than the shorter pedicels. Pedicels very unequal, strict, rigid, thickening gradually upwards, the longer up to ten inches long, with sterile flowers ; the shorter two to. four inches long, with perfect flowers. Perianth about two-thirds of an inch broad. segments shortly united at the base, lanceolate, spreading rigid and erect after flowering, rose-red. Stamens shorter than the perianth segments, filaments connate at the base, simple, subulate, red; anthers oblong, straw-coloured Ovary obovoid, 3-lobed, cells 3- or more-ovuled.—J. D. H. Tab. 7587, a quadrant of the umbel of A. Schubderti, and fig. 1 ripe fruit of nat. size Tab. 7588; fig. 1, leaf, of nat. size; 2, nedeced figure of whole plant; 3, flower; 4, pistil, both enlarged. 7589 § i S = ‘é oJ “” | Tas. 7589. : MYOSOTIS DISSITIFLORA, var. Dyzra. Native of Switzerland ? Nat. Ord. Boracinsm.—Tribe BoraGex. Genus Myosortis, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 858.) Myosoris (Strophiostoma) dissitiflora; tota pilis gracilibus erectis patulisve obsita, rhizomate repente, foliis inferioribus petiolatis ellipticis spathula- tisve acutis apiculatisve, caulinis sessilibus oblongis ovato-oblongisve, racemis elongatis laxifloris, pedicellis ascendentibus calyce multoties longioribus, calycis tubo pilis simplicibus erectis vestito, segmentis lanceolatis tubo triplo longioribus, corollae limbo patulo tubum longe excedente, ore piloso, antheris apiculatis, nuculis ovatis acutis dorso vix carinatis atris nitidis basi stipite albo crasso auctis. M. dissitiflora, Baker in Gard. Chron. 1868, vol. i. p. 599; 1882, vol. i. p. 307, f, 44. M. montana, Hort. (non Besser). Var. Dyerx, E. J. Lowe; elatior, floribus majoribus, corolle limbo } poll. expans. It isa singular fact, that nothing should be known of the history of the beautiful and popular Myosotis dissiti- flora, than that it was brought from Switzerland more than thirty years ago, by the late Mr. Atkins of Painswick, so well known as the successful cultivator of Cyclamens. Mr. Atkins was, as I am informed by his friend Mr. Baker (the author of the species), a very intelligent botanist, possessing an extensive collection of rare and interesting plants that were ticketed with scrupulous accuracy ; and it is much to be regretted that of the present plant in particular he could give no further account. What is to ‘me still more surprising is, that though thirty years have elapsed since the publication of the species, during which interval M. dissitiflora has become one of the most common of garden plants, I can find no other reference to it in botanical or illustrated horticultural works than that which I have cited. Though closely resembling in habit and general appear- ance the well-known WM. alpestris, Schm., and sylvatica, Hoffm., M. dissitiflora belongs to a very different section of the genus from these, characterized by the nutlets being provided with a stout white stipes at the base, Aprri Ist, 1898. derived from the receptacle. There are but few species of this section, all of which are Hastern European or Western Asiatic. Of this the only one that approaches M. dissiti- flora is M. amena, Rupr., a native of the Caucasus, which has similar rooting habit, foliage, indumentum and long pedicelled flowers, but these are very small, and in the absence of nutlets I am unable to say whether or not M. amena (published by Boissier, “Fl. Orient.,” iv. 241) ten years later than dissitiflora, may not be referable to this species. Should this prove to be the case, it would follow, that if brought from Switzerland, itmust have been from a garden. The effect of long cultivation of M. dissitiflora has resulted in a very great enlargement of the whole plant, and of the corolla in particular, from about a quarter of an inch in the specimens preserved in the Kew Herbarium at the date of the publication of the species, to that shown in our plate. The latter represents a very luxuriant form, received at the Royal Gardens from EH. J. Lowe, Hsq., F.R.S., of Shirenewton Hall, Chepstow, who desires that it should commemorate the interest in horticulture taken by Mrs. Thiselton-Dyer, who, during her visits to the Alps, has contributed many rare and interesting plants to the Royal Gardens. Descr.—A rather straggling branching biennial or perennial, sparsely clothed all over with soft, erect, or sub- erect hairs. Lower leaves petioled, one to two inches long, elliptic or spathulate, acute or apiculate, narrowed into a petiole an inch long or more; upper leaves sessile, — oblong, or ovate-oblong. Racemes elongate, slender, laxly many-fid.; pedicels one half to one inch long, sub-erect. Calyx one-sixth of an inch long, tube short, and lanceo- late segments clothed with erect straight hairs. Corolla- tube about as long as the calyx, mouth hairy within; limb — | one-fourth to upwards of half an inch broad, flat, lobes” rounded, sky-blue, yellow at the mouth. Anthers with the connective terminating in a blunt process. Nutlets ovate, acute, dorsally convex, obscurely keeled, black, = shining, provided at the base with a short; stout, white pedicel. J. D. H. Fig. 1, Calyx aah palaligock ; 2, corolla laid open; 3, anther ; 4, ovary ; 5, 6, and 7, nutlets ; S : MS.del. JN Fitch lith L Reeve & C2 London. Tap. 7590. CROCUS Maty1. Native of Dalmatia, Nat. Ord. In1ppa.—Tribe Morme x. Genus Crocus, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ifi. p, 693.) Crocus (Involucrati) Malyi; cormo brevi oblate pyriforme, tunics fibris filiformibus parallelis paulo infra apices reticulatis, vaginis spatha bre- vioribus, foliis glabris 3—2-poll. latis florentibus tabum corolle paullo superantibus maturis pedalibus, corolle tubo 3-pollicari albo, fauce flavida intus pilis aurantiacis barbata, limbi segmentis 14-poll. longis albis, staminibus aurantiacis, antheris quam filamenta duplo longioribus, stylo aurantiaco ultra apices filamentorum 3-fido, lobis fissis, capsula 3-poll. longa, seminibus rufo-brunneis. C. Malyi, Visiani, Fl. Dalmat. Suppl. p.181. Maw in Gard. Chron, 1881, vol. ii. p. 303; in Journ, Linn. Soc. vol. xix. (1882) pp. 364, 372; Mnog. Gen. Crocus, p. 127, t. 18. Baker, Handd. of Irid. p. 83. The Garden, vol. xxi. p. 67. A native of the Dalmatian mountains, Monte Vermay and Monte Orjen, above the Bocco de Cattaro, alt. 7260 ft., where it was discovered by Herr Maly more than half a century ago. It belongs, according to Maw’s classifica- tion, to the spring-flowering section of the involucrate group of the genus, and to the sub-division having the fibres of the tunics of the corm free, or reticulating only in the upper part. In Mr. Baker’s ‘‘ Handbook,” where the species are arranged under three sections, according as the style-arms are entire or more or less cleft, it is placed in the section Holostigma, in which these are entire ; but I think it should preferably be placed under Odontostigma, in which they are variously cleft, though not cut into the capillary lobes of sect. Schizostigma. The general aspect of the plant is that of C. vernus, from which it differs in the bright golden throat of the perianth, and the parallel fibres of the corm tunic. The Royal Gardens are indebted for corms of this species to Mr. Maw, who, when preparing his most beautiful Monograph of the genus (published in 1886) presented and planted with his own hand in the herbaceous grounds, a Apri. Ist, 1898, very complete collection of Croci, many of them collected by himself during his various expeditions in the South of Europe and North of Africa in search of bulbous plants. It flowers annually in an open border in the month of March. Deser.—Corms about three-fourths of an inch in diameter, broadly pear-shaped; fibres of coat filiform, parallel, reticulated below the summit. Sheaths below the leaves six or seven. Leaves four to five, about one-fifth of an inch broad, reaching to about the throat of the flower, fruiting fifteen inches long, keel about one-fourth the breadth of the blade, faces concave. Proper spathes one or two. Flowering scape about two inches long. Perianth-tube about three inches long, white or straw- coloured, throat yellow, with a fringe of golden hairs within at the base of the filaments; lobes one and a half inches long, white. Stamens orange-yellow, both filament and anthers, the latter more than twice as long as the anthers. Style orange-yellow, cleft from the tip down to the position of the tips of the anthers, into three irregularly toothed and cleft stigmas. Capsule three-fourths of an inch long. Seeds about one-sixth of an inch long, red- brown.—J. D. H, Fig. 1, Section of leaf; 2, proper sheaths ; 3 and 4, portions of perianth- throat and stamens; 5, top of style and stigma 8; 6, stigma :—Al/ enlarged, 7591 A AY \ e MS.del, JNFitch ith Vincent Brooks,Day & Sonimp "= L Reeve & C° London Tas. 7591. RHEUM Riszs. Native of the mountains of Western Asia. Nat. Ord. PotyeonacEz.—Tribe Rumicea. Genus Rugvm, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 100.) _ Raezvum Rides; caule elato crasso inferne folioso superne aphyllo in paniculam ; amplam fastigiatim ramosam abeunte, foliis latis sub-breviter petiolatis amplis sub-cordato-orbiculatis reniformibusve sub-quinquenerviis supra laete viridibus inter nervos depressos tumidis, subtus pallidis inter nervos validos papilloso-scabros lacunosis, marginibus undulato-crispatis, petiolis lamingw sub-squilongis rubris, panicule rubre rachi ramisque erectis grosse papillosis, pedicellis filiformibus dense fasciculatis infra medium . articulatis decurvis, floribus } in. diam. pendulis, perianthii viridis segmentis oblongis obtusis, staminibus numerosis, antheris rubris, achenio fere pollicari ovato-cordato carnoso demum sanguineo, alis semine 2-3-plo angustioribus. R. Ribes, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 872 (1753). Gronov. Fl. Orient. p. 130. Lamk. Encycl. vol. vi. p. 195. Desf. in Ann. Mus. Par. vol. ii. (1803) p. 261, t. 49. Ait. Hort. Kew, ed. 1, vol. ii. p. 42. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. vol. xiv. p. 35. Jaub. & Spach, Til. Pl. Orient. vol. v. t. 470. Boiss, Fl. Orient. vol. iv. p. 1003. Lapathum orientale, &c., Dillen. Hort. Eltham. 191, t. 158, f. 192 (1782), rig Fl, Orient. 189, t. 84. Breyne Ephem. Acad. Nat. Our. Cent. Vii. p. 7. Ribes arabum, Rauww. in Aig. Beschr. Raiss., p. 266, 282 (1583). Bauh. Pinaz, p. 455 (1623). The plant here figured is a very old inhabitant of European Botanical Gardens, and, according to Dillenius, was cultivated by Sherard, presumably at Eltham, in 1724. It was discovered by Rauwolf, during his travels in the East in 1573-5, whose coilections, now at Leyden, were published by Gronovius, under the title of “ Flora Orientalis,” in 1755, p. 49. Rauwolf published an Itinerary of his journey (which was translated into English b Staphorst in 1693), also a work on medicinal plants in 1583. He was a native of Augsburg, and died Physician of the Austrian Army in 1606. Rheum Ribes is a native of the lofty mountains of Armenia, Kurdistan, Syria (the Lebanon), and Persia. Boissier adds Beluchistan, but that is an error, R. spici- forme, Royle, having been mistaken for it. ‘ Rivas” is Aprit Ist, 1898, the name given to it by the Arabs and Persians, by whom the petioles are eaten ; or “ Ribes,”’ according to Rauwolf, whence Linnzus’ specific name. It has long been in cul- tivation in the Royal Gardens, Kew, flowering in May, and fruiting in July and August. Descr.—Rootstock stout, branched. Stem three to five ft., erect. Leaves all from the lower part of the stem, ten to twelve inches broad, orbicular-cordate or reniform, five- nerved, bullate between the deeply sunk nerves and nervules above, dark green, glabrous, margins crisped and undulate, beneath pale green, lacunose between the very strong papillose nerves and nervules ; petiole one to two feet long, stout, bright red. 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AMOMUM HEMISPHARICUM. Native of Java. Nat. Ord. Scrraminea.—Tribe ZINGIBERE SR, Genus Amomum, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 644.) Amomum (Nicolaia) hemisphericum; caulibus cespitosis, foliiferis elatis, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis glabris supra vaginam breviter petiolatis apice cuspidatis basi inzequaliter rotundatis facie viridibus dorso rubro-brunneis, ligula magna quadrata, pedunculo foliis rudimentariis oblongis adpressis viridibus vaginato, floribus in capitulum densum aggregatis, bracteis exterioribus magnis vacuis ovatis obtusis rubro-brunneo tinctis, interiori- bus linearibus viridibus flore zequilongis, calycis et corolle lobis lanceolatis viridibus, labello lingulato emarginato petalis paulo longiore medio rubro-brunneo margine luteo, anther ecristatz loculis discretis ciliatis, stigmate magno capitato. : Elettaria hemispheerica, Blume Enum. Pl. Jav. p. 51; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. vol. iii, p. 600. ‘ Nicolaia hemispherica, Horan, Prodr, Monog. Scit. p. 32. Alpinia hemispherica, D, Dietr. Syn. Pl. vol. i. p. 13. This plant is entirely new to cultivation in this country. Nicolaia was constituted as a genus, and named in honour . of the late Emperor Nicholas of Russia, by Horaninow, ie who wrote a monograph of the Scitaminee at St. Peters- burgh in 1862. The only other species known in cultivation is the Mauritian A. imperialis, Horan., which is figured in the Botanical Magazine, under the name of Alpinia? magnifica on plate 3192. This is the finest of all the _ Scitaminex, for the floral effect of the present plant is - not nearly so decorative. Roots of A. hemispherica were received at the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1898, from Mr. H. N. Ridley, M.A., Director of the Botanic Garden and Forest Department of the Straits Settlements, and flowered for the first time in the Tropical Water-lly House in June, 1897. As we possess no wild specimens in the Kew Herbarium, and the plant has not been figured before, we rely upon Mr. Ridley for the correctness of the name. Descr.—Stems densely tufted. Leafy stem erect, ten or May Ist, 1898, twelve ft. high. Leaves distichous, shortly petioled above the sheathing base, oblong-lanceolate, a foot and a half long, three inches broad, cuspidate, unequally rounded at the base, glabrous, green on the upper surface, claret-brown beneath. Peduncle arising from the rootstock separately from the leafy stem, hidden by the adpressed oblong, pale green, obtuse sheath-leaves. Flowers very numerous, aggregated in a globose head ; outer empty bracts large, ovate, obtuse, tinged with red-brown ; inner linear, nearly as long as the flowers. Lobes of the calyx and corolla lanceolate, green. Lip lingulate, emarginate, a little protruded from the corolla, red-brown in the middle, bright yellow at the edge. Anther not distinctly crested; cells ciliated, not touching each other. Ovary 3-celled, with many ovules in each cell. Style reaching to the top of the anther ; stigma large, capitate —J. G. Baker. Figs. 1 and 2, flowers; 3, anther and style; 4, back view of the same; 5, apex of style, with stigma: all more or less enlaryed; 6, whole plant, much reduced, 7593 ry | <6: Boy Come Ce SS See Vincent Brooks,Day & Soninp MS.del. JN Fitch hth, L Reeve & C2 London. Tas. 7593, STEPHANANDRA Tanaka. ~ _ Native of Japan. Nat. Ord. Rosacem.—Tribe SrirmEx. Genus Srepuananpra, Sieb. & Zucc.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 612.) STEPHANANDRA Toanake ; suffrutex 3-pedalis, gracilis, cortice brunneo, foliis breve petiolatis triangulari-ovatis 3-lobis, lobis late ovatis acuminatis lobu- latis serratisque lateralibus parvis, supra glaberrimis subtus secus nervos utrinque 7-9-rectos puberulis, stipulis ovatis acutis calloso-dentatis viri- dibus deciduis, floribus in paniculas terminales pendulas dispositis, bracteis ovatis acuminatis, bracteolis pedicellos equantibus persistentibus, floribus parvis, calycis flavi lobis ovatis acutis pubescentibus, petalis calyci equilongis ovato-oblongis albis, disco puberulo, staminibus 15-20, filamentis brevibus, ovario oblongo pubescente, stylo breviusculo, stigmate capitato, capsula tomentella crustacea disperma calyce fere immutato . inclusa, seminibus ellipsoideis politis. S. Tanakw, Franch. & Sav. Enum. Pl. Jap. vol. ii. p. 332. Maximov. Adnot. Y . 114. Gartenfl. 1896, t. 1431 (folia.). Neu Tanake, Franch. & Sav. l.c. vol. i. p. 121. The genus Stephanandra consists of four species, three Japanese and a Chinese, and is very closely allied to the Himalayan and North American genus WNeillia, Don., differing in the monocarpellary ovary, with two pendulous ovules, and a capsule which ruptures at the base, and con- tains only two seeds. Maximovicz describes the style as at length lateral, but it is terminal in S. Tanake. Stephaunandra Tanake is a native of the Hakone Mts., in the Sagami Province of Japan, and was first collected in the flanks of Fudzi-yama, where it forms a graceful bush. Seeds of it were sent to the Royal Gardens, Kew, by the Botanical Garden of the Imperial University of Tokio in 1898. The accompanying figure was made from a plant which flowered in June, 1897, in the Arboretum. ‘Deser.—A slender, nearly glabrous branching under- shrub, about three feet high; bark of branches brown. Leaves two inches long and broad, alternate, triangular- ovate, 3-lobed, membranous, bright green, colouring golden-yellow in autumn ; lobes broadly ovate, acuminate, May ist, 1898. lobulate and serrate, seven to nine-nerved, the lateral smaller than the median, quite glabrous above, puberulous on the nerves beneath ; petiole short; stipules as long as the petiole, ovate, acute, green, deciduous, more or less toothed, the teeth callus-pointed. Flowers very small, about one-sixth of an inch broad, in terminal, pendulous panicles three to four inches long, with very slender rhachis and branches ; bracts ovate, acuminate, bracteoles as long as the pedicels, persistent. Calyx yellow, lobes ovate, acute, pubescent. Petals as long as the calyx-lobes, ovate-oblong, spreading, white, puberulous. Stamens 15-20, inserted in the margin of the puberulous disk, — filaments short. Ovary oblong, pubescent, style short, terminal, stigma capitate. Capsule enclosed in the dried, unchanged calyx, oblong, crustaceous, dehiscing at the base irregularly, 2-seeded. Seeds sub-reniformly rounded, compressed, shining, testa crustaceous.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Portion of panicle; 2, flower laid open; 8, fruit; 4, seed:—Adl enlarged. 7594. MS. del, J. N Fitch hth. L. Reeve & C° London Tas. 7594. SYMPHYANDRA Wawnneri. Native of Transylvania. Nat. Ord. CampanuLace%.—Tribe CAMPANULE. Genus Sympnyanpra, A.DO.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 563.) SympnyanpRa (Anotocalyx) Wanneri; radice premorsa, caule simplici v. superne ramoso erecto 2-3-pedali folioso pubescente-piloso, foliis radicalibus et inferioribus caulinis oblanceolatis acutis acute inzequaliter dentatis utrinque pilosulis basi in petiolum latum angustatis, caulinis angustioribus sessilibus, floribus axillaribus et in racemum terminalem foliosum dispositis longe pedicellatis cernuis, pedicellis 1-3-pollicaribus ascendentibus apice decurvis, sepalis pollicaribus ovato-lanceolatis acumi- natis integerrimis v. dentatis nervosis, corolla calyce 3-2-plo longiore © pilosula violacea, lobis brevibus latioribus quam longis, filamentis basi ciliatis, antheris anguste linearibus, stylis brevibus, stigmatibus revolu- tis. S. Wanneri, Heuff. in Flora, vol. xxxvii. (1854) p. 292. Campanula Wanneri, Rochel, Pl. Banat. Rar p. Al, t. 5, f. 12. C. heterophylla, Baumg. En. Stirp. Transylv. vol. iii. Suppl. p. 342. The genus Symphyandra is distinguished from Campanula by the sole character of the anthers cohering in a tube. Like Campanula, it is divisible into two sections, according to whether the sinus between the calyx-lobes is naked, or furnished with a reflexed appendage. It may hence well be doubted whether it should not merge into the greater .genus. Seven species are described, all oriental, inhabiting the mountain regions which extend from Transylvania to the Caucasus, with one a native of Crete. Of these S. Hof- manni alone has been figured in this magazine (t. 7298). S. Wanneri has been in cultivation in the Royal Gardens, as a biennial, for a good many years, but the record of its introduction is lost. It flowers in June, in the open border. It was named by Rochel in honour of Herr Wanner, Conservator of the Imperial forests of the Banat, in which region the plant was discovered, The corolla in native specimens varies greatly in length, being sometimes very little longer than the calyx-segments. Deser.—An erect biennial, two to three feet high, sparsely hairy all over. Stem stout, pale reddish brown. Lower May Ist, 1898, leaves three to four inches long, crowded, spreading, oblanceolate, narrowed into a margined petiole, acute, coarsely serrate, pale green, upper sessile, shorter and narrower, midrib red-brown. Inflorescence a leafy, many- fid. terminal raceme ; peduncles axillary, two inches long, ascending, slender, one- to two-flowered, and bearing one or two small, erect, narrow leaves. lowers pendulous, one and a half to two inches long. Calywz-tube hemispheric, segments nearly an inch long, lanceolate, acuminate, entire or serrate, green and brown. Corolla campanulate, an inch broad at the mouth, violet-blue, pale towards the base; lobes much broader than long, broadly triangular, slightly recurved. Filaments with broadly dilated ciliate bases ; anthers narrowly linear. Ovary cylindric, glabrous ; _ Style short, three-cleft, stigmas short, revolute.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Stamens; 3, pistil :—Both enlarged. 7595 MS.del. IN Fitch ith Vincent Brooks,Day & Son 4 LReeve & C° London. Tas. 7595. KALANCHOE rramuna. Native of Somaliland, Nat. Ord. CrassuLacez. Genus Katancnoz, Adans, (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 659.) _Katancnor flammea; perennis, pedalis, ramosa, foliosa, glaberrima, foliis obovato-oblongis obovatisve in petiolum crassum angustatis crasse carnosis apice rotundatis integerrimis v. obscure repando-crenatis pallide viridibus vix glaucis, cymis corymbosis densifloris 4~5-poll. longis et latis, pedunculo 4-5-pollicari, ramis primariis 2-pollicaribus, pedicellis {—-} pollicaribus, bracteis parvis linearibus obtusiusculis caducis, culycis 4-partiti segmentis } poll. longis lineari-lanceolatis subacutis basi liberis, corollas tubo calyce duplo longiore 4-gono flavido, limbi } poll. lati lobis late ovatis acutis rubro-aurantiacis, glandulis disci linearibus 7, poll. longis, carpellis }-poll. longis, stylis brevibus. K. flammea, Stapf in Kew Bulletin, 1897, p. 266. _ The genus Kalanchoe numbers about fifty known species, chiefly African, with a few Indian, and will probably be largely increased, now that the collection of plants in tropical Africa is being zealously prosecuted. Only three species have been hitherto figured in this work, namely, K. crenata, DC. (Cotyledon crenata, tab. 1436) ; K. marmo- rata, t. 7338, and K. grandiflora, t. 5460, none of which can compare with K. flammea, whether in the colour of the flower, or in the length of time that the plant continues in flower (two months), on which account it proves to be a notable addition to the Succulent House flora. Seeds of K. flammea, collected in Somaliland by Mrs. Lort Phillips and Miss Edith Cole, were presented to the ‘Royal Gardens, Kew, in May, 1895, the plants raised from which flowered in a sunny green-house in July, - 1897, and ripened their seeds. Deser.— Whole plant a foot high, stout, erect, branching, pale green, but hardly glaucous. Leaves two to three and a half inches long, including the stout petiole, obovate, or obovate-oblong, thickly fleshy, quite entire, or obscurely erenulate. Oyme corymbiform, four to five inches long and broad ; peduncle four to five inches long, strict, erect, May Ist, 1898. primary branches one to two inches long, many-fld. ; bracts small, linear, obtuse, caducous ; pedicel one-sixth to one- fourth of an inch long. Calyw one-sixth of an inch long, segments linear, sub-acute. Corolla-tube two to three times as long as the calyx, sub-tetragonous, pale yellow ; limb three-fourths of an inch broad, lobes broadly triangular ovate, sub-acute, bright orange-red; glands of the dis Sore erect. Stamens very small, biseriate. Styles short. — J. . . FE. a ele Calyx, Giskeginnds; and ovary ; 2, ae laid open; 3, stamen :—A 7596. ‘Tas. 7996. ARMERIA casprtosa. ~ Native of Spain. Nat. Ord. PLumBaGineE#.—Tribe Sraticea. Genus ARMERIA, Willd. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 626.) RMERIA cespitosa ; radice multicipite, caulibus brevissimis in pulvinos den- sissimes confertis, foliis brevibus patenti-recurvis inter se conformibus, fere acicularibus basi dilatatis albo-mucronatis supra planis subtus obscure carinatis rigidis lete viridibus, marginibus scaberulis, scapo brevi glabro v. puberulo, involucri bracteis floribus brevioribus scariosis brunneis, extimis oblongis obtusis concavis mucronatis 1-nerviis, interioribus angustioribus acuminatis, bracteis floralibus late obovatis obovato-oblongisve membranaceis hyalinis calyce longioribus multoties- que latioribus, floribus breviter pedicellatis, calycis tubo valide costato, costis intervallis angustioribus villosis in aristas scabridas bracteolas excedentes productis, foveolis basi calycis 0 nisi rimis angustis inter baseos costarum, calycis limbo hyalino truncato undulato, petalis obcordatis pallide roseis, stylis infra medium pilosis. _ A. ceespitosa, Boiss. in DC. Prodr. vol. xii. p. 679. A. juniperifolia, Willd. ex Hoffm. & Link, Fl. Portug. p. 442. humilis, Link in Schrad. Journ. p. 61. tatice ceespitosa, Ortega in Quer, Fl. span. vol. vi. p. 334, t. 15, f.1. Cav. Ic. vol. i. p. 38 (non Poiret). 'S. juniperifolia, Vahl, Symb. fase. i. p. 25. Armeria cespitosa is a native of the lofty mountains of Central Spain, the Sierra de Guadarrama, and of the Sierra de Hstrella in Portugal. It was first described in 1762 by Ortega, in the “ Flora Espanola,” of Martinez Quer, a remarkable work for its day. _ The plant here figured was raised from seeds received t the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1893, from the Botanic Gardens of Madrid. It flowered in the end of April, 1897. Descr.—A densely tufted, dwarf perennial, with many _yery short branches from the root, clothed with spreading and recurved leaves, and bearing almost sessile heads of pale rose-coloured flowers. Leaves one half to two-thirds of an inch long, acicular from a dilated membranous base, bright green, ending in a pungent white tip, upper surface convex, under obtusely keeled, margins scabrid. Flowers sub-sessile, in shortly peduncled involucres, forming heads May Ist, 1898. an inch in diameter; peduncle slender. Invol. bracts much shorter than the flowers, brown, scarious, outer oblong, concave, l1-nerved, nerve ending in a mucro, inner narrower, acuminate ; floral bracts (or bracteoles) much larger than the involucral, broadly obovate-oblong, membranous, hyaline, with a thick midrib from the base to the middle, or higher. Perianth half an inch broad. Calyx cam- panulate, about one-quarter of an inch long, scarious, glabrous, except five narrow pubescent ribs ending in short scabrid awns, mouth truncate, undulate. Petals obovate- spathulate, 2-lobed, pale rose-coloured. Stamens with erect, subulate, glabrous filaments, and oblong, pale anthers. 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FROWHAWE, beantifully coloured by eee sid ; HANDEOOK OF THE BRITISH FLORA: A Description of the Flowering Plants and Ferns Indigenous to or Naturaliged in the British Isles. By GEORGE BENTHAM, F.RS. 6th Edition, Revised by Sir J. D. Hooxer, C.B.. G.C.S.L., F.R.S., &e. 10s. 6d. ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BRITISH FLORA. A Beries of Wood Engravings, with Dissections, of British Plants. . ‘ Drawn By W.H, FITCH, F.L.S., anp W. G. SMITH, PLS. Forming an Illustrated Companion to Bentham’s “ Handbook,” and other British Floras. : . 4th Edition, with 1315 Wood Engravings, 10s. 6d. __ L, REEVE & CO., 6, tuecoeti STREET, covanr GARDEN. L. Reeve & C2 Landon. Tas. 7597. CRINUM Wooprow1. Native of Central India. Nat. Ord. AMaRYLLIDEZ.—Tribe AMARYLLE. Genus Crinum, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 726.) Crinum (Platyaster) Woodrowi; bulbo globoso magno collo haud producto, tunicis exterioribus brunneis, foliis paucis lingulatis obtusis viridibus glabris, pedunculo compresso foliis squilongo, umbellis 6-7-floris, pedi- cellis productis, spath valvis 2 ovatis, perianthii tubo cylindrico viridulo limbi segmentis albis lanceolatis patulis tubo squilongis, filamentis rubellis perianthii segmentis duplo brevioribus, stylo stamina superante. Several bulbs of this fine new Crinum were sent to the Royal Gardens, Kew, in January, 1897, by Mr. G. M. Woodrow, formerly of Kew, now lecturer on botany in the College of Science at Poona. They were supposed to belong to C. brachynema, Herb. (Bot. Mag. t. 5937) a very rare endemic Central Indian species, which differs from all the other members of the genus by its very short stamens, but when they flowered in July they proved to be totally different. The present plant belongs to the section Platyaster, and is nearly allied to the Socotran C. Balfourii, Baker (Bot. Mag. t. 6570), and the Bornean C. Northianum, Baker, and of the Indian species to C. amenum, Roxb., and C. pratense, Herb. At Kew it has flowered freely under ordinary stove treatment. - _Descr.—Bulb globose, four inches in diameter, without any produced neck; outer tunics brown, membranous. Leaves few, contemporary with the flowers, lingulate, obtuse, glabrous, bright green, a foot long, three or four inches broad, not ciliated onthe margin. Peduncle arising from the bulb outside the tuft of the leaves, stout, com- pressed, a foot long. Umbel six- or seven-flowered ; pedicels about an inch long ; spathe-valves two, opposite, ovate. Perianth-tube cylindrical, three inches or three inches and a half long; segments of the limb lanceolate, JunE Ist, 1898. white, spreading equally, as long as the tube. Filaments bright red, half as long as the perianth-segments ; anthers linear, a third of an inch long. Style much over- topping the anthers.—J. G. Baker. Fig. 1, Front view of anther; 2, back view of anther; 3, apex of style: all enlarged ; 4, whole plant, much reduced. ASE REE ea Qin ta EP MR IRE a ie an oh Meare a ee eee banca RM a Be aati 7598 Vincent Brooks Day &SonInp a z é < _. LReeve & C2 London. Tap. 7598. MORISIA HYPOGMA. Native of Corsica and Sardinia, Nat. Ord. CruciFer#.—Tribe CakILInEs. Genus Morista, J. Gay; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p, 100.) crassa, foliis sessilibus rosulatis lineari-oblongis pinnatifidis, lobis oblongis obtusis integerrimis, scapis foliis brevioribus gracilibus unifloris, sepalis lineari-oblongis erectis obtusis basi sequaliter sub-saccatis, petalis obovato-spathulatis aureis, filamentis edentulis, glandulis hypogynis 2y. 4, siliqua terra abscondita 2-articulata, artieulis secus longitudinem 2-locularibus, inferiore majore oblongo v turgido bivalvi valvis hemi- sphericis tarde deciduis, seminibus 2-seriatis, superiore minore indebis- cente rostrato, loculis 1-spermis v. aspermis, stylo breviusculo tereti, stigmate capitato, seminibus late oblongis, cotyledonibus concavis v. fere conduplicatis. M. hypogera, J. Gay in Colla Hort. Rip. App. vol.iv. p. 50. Moris, Fl, Sard. yol.i. p. 105, t. 7. Gard. Chron. 1890, vol. ii. p. 503, fig. M.acaulis, Gay in Gazette de Turin, 1829, p. 24 (fid. mss. J. Gay) et ef. Colla, _ in Antologia, vol. xxxiv. (Apr., 1829) p. 158, ex Bull, Ferussac. vol. xxi. (1829) p. 459. Erxvcaria hypogea, Viv. Fl. Cors. Prodr. p. 11, App. p. 3, eumic. Moris, Stirp. Sard. Elench. fase. i. p. 4. : Rapistrum hypogeum, Duby, Bot. Gall. vol. i. p. 54. Sisymbrium acaule, Sieb. Herb. Cors, (1822). S. monanthos, Viv. Fl. Lyb. Spee. p. 68. Monanthemum acaule, Scheele in Flora, vol. i. (1843) p. 314. Morisea, seu Morisina, DC. Prodr. vol. vi. p. 90, in nota, Morista hypogzea; herba depressa, scapigera, hispidula v. glabrata, radice Morisia hypogea is a singular little monotypic Crucifer, the position of which in the family is rather obscure. I _ placed it in the Tribe Cakilinez in the “‘ Genera Plantarum,” which brings it near to Hrucaria, a genus in which it was placed by Viviani, and by Moris, the latter of which ‘authors accepted subsequently J. Gay’s constituting of it a distinct genus, bearing the name of the excellent author of the “ Flora Sardoa.” It differs in the singular habit of decurving the scape after flowering, and burying the ripening fruit in the soil, recalling the two other crucifers Cardamine chenopodifolia, Pers., of Brasil, and Geococcus Ist, 1898. pusillus, Drumm., of W. Australia; as also of the two Leguminous plants, Arachis hypogea, L., and Voandzeva subterranea, Thou. The rocks and sandy shores of Sardinia and Corsica are the only known habitats for Morisia. At the Royal Gardens, Kew, it flowers annually in the Rockery in March, and earlier in the Alpine House. Descr.— A procumbent, sparsely hispid, depressed, perennial-rooted herb, stemless, or with one or two short stems springing from the crown, but not otherwise inter- fering with the habit of the plant. Leaves very many, spreading horizontally from the root, two to three inches long by about one half inch broad, linear, pinnatifid or pinnatisect, bright green; segments ovate or oblong, obtuse or apiculate, quite entire, sinus rounded. Flowers very numerous, solitary, or slender, scapes shorter than the leaves, about three-fourths of an inch broad, golden- — yellow. Sepals subequal, linear-oblong, obtuse, scarcely saccate at the base. Petals spathulate. Filaments slender, with two long glands at the base of the shorter pair, and sometimes two smaller between the longer pairs. Ovary terete, constricted above the middle, of two joints, each two-celled, lower joints with the cells many-ovuled, upper with the cells empty, or 1l-ovuled; style short, stigma capitate. Fruit half an inch long or more, ripening underground. Seeds broadly oblong, cotyledons concave, radicle incumbent.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Portion of leaf; 2, flower with the petals removed; 3, stamens, se and pistil; 4, vertical, and 5, transverse section of ovary; 6 and 7, ruit; 8, seed, from lower joint of fruit; 9, transverse section of embryo of do. 5 10, portion of upper joint with 2 seeds; 11, transverse section of embryo from do. :—All enlarged, except 6, which is of nat. size. N-Fitch lith. + WV MS. del Vincent Brooks Day & Son imp LReeve & C°London. Tas. 7599. CELASTRUS arrrovtatus. Native of Hastern Asia. ; Nat. Ord. CELASTRINE®.—Tribe CELASTRE. Genus Crtastrus, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i p. 364.) CeLastrvs articulatus ; frutex 10-15-pedalis, ramosus, glaberrimus, caule volubili, cortice pallido verruculoso, ramulis rectis v. scandentibus, foliis petiolatis 3-5-poll. longis oblongis ovatis orbicularibusve obtuse acutatis crenato-serratis viridibus subtus pallidis, stipulis filamentosis, floribus in cymas axillares subsessiles paucifloras dispositis breviter pedicellatis, calycis campanulati tubo brevi, lobis brevibus subrotundis, petalis lineari- oblongis obtusis recurvis viridibus, filamentis subulatis erectis disco 5-lobo insertis. ovario ovoideo in stylum columnarem producto, stigmate 3-lobo, lobis majusculis recurvis, capsulis globosis, valvis intus flavidis demum reflexis semina arillo coccineo induta nudantibus. C. articulatus, Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 97. DC. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 7. Franch, et Sav. Bn. Pl. Jap. vol. i. p. 80; Pl. David. p. 70. Bunge En. Pl. Chin. bor. p. 97. Miguel, Prolus, Fl. Jap. p.17. Mazim. Mel. Biol. pars. xi. p. 200. Forbes & Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxiii. p. 122. Sargent, . Gard. & Forest, 1890, p. 551, et te. p. 550. Gard. Chron. 1898, vol. i. pp. 28, £11. Phonyo Zouphon, vol. xxx. fol. 2, recto. C. auriculatus, Vitm. Summa, vol. ii. p. 31. C. orbiculatus, Lam. Fil. n. 2700. ©. punctatus, Thunb, Fl. Jap. p. 97. DC. 1,¢. p, 6. _A strong, rapid-growing, rambling and twining, deci- -duous shrub, well fitted according to Professor Sargent, or clothing ruins, walls ten to fifteen feet high, and waste stony places, having the further advantage of thriving close to the sea, where it is uninjured by the salt spray. It is a plant of very wide distribution in far Hastern Asia, from the Island of Saghalin, Manchuria, Corea, and Japan, to the Loo-choo Islands and Formosa ; and in China proper, in hilly districts of the interior, from the North of Peking, to. Ichang on the Yang-tse-Kiang, and to Amoy on the coast. oc Seeds of C. articulatus were received by the Royal _ Gardens,, Kew, from Professor Sargent, Arnold Arboretum, in 1894, plants raised from which grew vigorously, ove Isr, 1898, flowered in June, 1897, and fruited in the following November. Professor Sargent received the seeds from which his plants were raised from Mr. 8. H. Parsons of Flushing (New York). He had previously obtained some from Dr. Bretschneider, collected in the vicinity of Peking. Descr.—A rambling shrub, attaining fifteen feet in height, copiously branched, quite glabrous all over; bark brown, warted; branches straight or twining; branchlets green. Leaves petioled, three to five inches long, oblong, oval, obovate or suborbicular, acute, tip obtuse, crenate- serrate, base cuneate, nerves six to eight pairs; petiole a quarter to half an inch long; stipules a tuft of a few filaments. Flowers in short, shortly peduncled, axillary, few-fld. cymes, about one-sixth of an inch broad, green, with yellow anthers. Calyx small, campanulate, lobes five, short, rounded, Petals much longer than the calyx lobes, linear-oblong, obtuse, recurved. Stamens 5, fila- ments subulate, seated in the margin of a five-lobed disk, — anthers short. Ovary ovoid, glabrous, narrowed into a — columnar style, with three broad, recurved stigmatic — lobes. Capsule pisiform, brown, tipped by the persistent — style, three-valved, valves golden-yellow within, at length reflexed, exposing the seeds enveloped in a shining, scarlet — aril.—J. D. H. | Fig. 1, Portion of branch with stipule, petiole, and base of peduncle of cyme; 2, flowers ; 3, section of base of calyx, showing ovary, disk and stamens; 4, stamen ; 5, contents of a capsule, after the fall of the valves, and the dryin up of the fleshy aril :—AUI enlarged. as 7600 ye) ~~ MS.del, JN Fitch lith. L Reeve & C°London. Tas. 7600. .- PHTLADELPHUS mexicanus. Native of Mexico and Guatemala. : Nat. Ord. Saxrrracex.—Tribe Hyprancea. Genus Puinapetruvs, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 642.) PHILADELPHUS mevicanus; fratex gracilis, ramulis foliis subtus calycibusque plus minusve hirtellis, foliis 1}—-2-pollicaribus ovatis acuminatis 3-nerviis remote dentatis, floribus ad apices ramulorum solitariis breviter pedicellatis amplis 1—13-poll. latis pallide sulphureis suaveolentibus, calycis segmentis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis remote dentatis tubo multo longioribus, stylo columnari ad medium 4-fido, stigmatibus oblongis obtusis. P. mexicanus, Schlecht. in Linnea, vol. xiii. (1839) p. 418. Walp. Rep. vol. ii. p. 151. Lindl. Bot. Reg. vol. xxviii. t. 38*,. Decaisne in Rev. Hortic. Ser. ITI. vol. i. (1852) p. 381, fig. 20. Wittmack in Berl. Gartenz. 1883, p. 528, fig. 91. Gard. Chron. 1883, vol.i, p. 753. Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Amer, vol. i. p. 384. Except by the scented flowers I fail to find a character whereby P. mexicanus is distinguishable from solitary- _ flowered specimens of the common P. grandiflorus, Willd. (Bot. Reg. t. 570), a native of the Eastern United States, from Virginia southwards. It was introduced from Mexico by Hartweg, into the gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society about the year 1835, From the plants there raised Lindley (in 1842) figured it, but his figure is from a plant only two feet high, with much smaller leaves and flowers than those of Hartweg’s dried native specimen, or than our plant. shows. It appears to be common from north to south in its native untry, growing wild in hedges at elevations of 6-8000 ft., in Oaxaca, and about the city of Mexico. There are specimens in Herb. Kew, collected in Guatemala, dep. Quiché, alt. 6000 ft., by J. Donnel Smith, Esq., and others. Schlechtendal considered it to be the Acuiloth, or climbing aquatic of Hernandez, who figured it, and speaks of it as an inhabitant of wet places, creeping on the ground, or scrambling up trees. Hernandez (Nov. Plant. Mex., &c., lib. iv. cap. x. p. 107) compares the habits of the plant with the musk-rose, and says that a sweet and agreeable essence is distilled from its flowers. Schlechtendal is no JuNE Ist, 1898. doubt right in this identification, but Hernandez’s com- parison of the habits of the plant to the musk-rose is inexplicable. At the Royal Gardens, Kew, P. mexicanus is trained on the south wall of the Orchid House, where it flowers freely annually in June, but it is not hardy, Descr.—A more or less sparsely, hispidulous, or nearly glabrous shrub, with spreading or drooping branches, covered with pale, red-brown bark. eaves one to two and a half inches long, shortly petioled, ovate, acuminate, 3-nerved, sparingly serrate or toothed, bright green above, pale beneath; petiole one-tenth to one-sixth of an inch long. Flowers solitary, subsessile on the ends of the branchlets, nearly two inches in diameter, strongly sweet- smelling, pedicel very stout. Calya-tube hairy, turbinate, segments broadly ovate, acuminate, one half to two-thirds of an inch long, entire, or sparingly toothed. Petals orbicular, white, suffused with yellow. Stamens very numerous, filaments glabrous. Style columnar, quadrifid, © stigmas oblong, obtuse.—J. D. H. Fig. 1 and 2, stamens ; 3, section through ovary :—All enlarged. 7607 Vincent Brocks,Day& SonImp SS ae pal TG ee a = te Te Seer os ogame MS. del, INFitch lith. Tas. 7601. ORCHIS monornytta. | Native of the Shan hills of Burma. Nat. Ord. Orcnuipem.—Tribe OparypEm. Genus Orcuis, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 620.) Orcuis monophylia ; caule infra folia brevi robusto, foliis 1 v. 2 sub-radicalibus oblongis ovato-oblongisve subacutis basi vaginantibus carnosulis luride viridibus maculis rubro-purpureis creberrime aspersis, pedunculo vaginis bracteisque viridibus punctis purpureis elongatis striatis, vaginis paucis lanceolatis erectis, racemo 24-pollicari laxe-multifloro puberulo, bracteis lanceolatis ovario «quilongis brevioribusve, sepalis conniventibus parvis viridibus, dorsali 3 poll. longo oblongo obtuso, lateralibus majoribus late ovatis obtusis, petalis obovato-oblongis incurvis convolutis roseis, labello latiore quam longo sepalis duplo longiore 3-lobo pallide roseo lobis sub- zequilongis lateralibus patulis truncatis crenulatis immaculatis, inter- medio quadrato discoque labelli pustulis roseis asperso, calcare ovario breviore obtuso incurvo, staminodiis magnis, polliniorum glandulis sacculis distinctis absconditis. Hasenaria monophylla, Collett & Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxviii. (1890), p. 134. Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. vi. p. 143. - In the coloration of: foliage Orchis monophylla is a : very striking object, and resembles no other Orchis known to me, though recalling in some degree Hemipilia calophylla, Par. & Reichb. f., figured at t. 6920 of this work. In the latter plant, however, the spotting is dark brown. | Orchis monophylla was first described from a single, very — ¢ poor specimen brought by Col. Sir H. Collett, K.C.B., F.L.S., from the Shan hills in Upper Burma, at an elevation of 4000 ft. Needless to say, it showed no other coloration _ than the uniform brown of a herbarium specimen. It was . referred by its authors to Habenaria, in which genus I re- tained it in the “ Flora of British India,” pointing out its affinity with H. Orchidis. An examination of living __ specimens has enabled Mr. Rolfe to detect two membranous pouches covering the glands of the pollinia, as in typical -Orchis ; and Messrs. King and Pantling in their invaluable Orchids of Sikkim (‘‘ Ann. Bot. Gard.,”’ Calcutt., vol. viii. _p. 302) have transferred Habenaria Orchidis also to Orchis (as O. habenarioides). In the above view of O. monophylla I entirely concur, as also in the remark of the latter authors, that the pink or purple colouring of the flower, _ June Ist, 1898. as distinguishing Orchis from Habenaria, is a character of considerable importance. With regard to O. habenariotdes, on the other hand, I am not altogether satisfied ; its pollinia differ from those of O. monophylla and the other Indian species of Orchis, in their glands being very large and oblong, and, according both to my own observations and the figure and description in the “Annals,” are not enclosed in pouches. This consideration, together with the colour and sweet scent of the flowers, goes far towards favouring Lindley’s original view, who, when first de- scribing the H. Orchidis placed it in Gymnadenia (G. cylin- drostachya, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid., p. 278). Tubers of O. monophylla were received by the Royal Gardens, Kew, in March, 1896, from Mr. H. H. Hilde- brand, C.8.1., Superintendent, 8. Shan States. They flowered in May, 1897, in a greenhouse. Deser.—Tubers oblong. Stem very short and stout below the leaves, clothed with annular sheaths. eaves one or two, three to four inches long, oblong, or ovate- oblong, subacute, narrowed into a broadly sheathing base, coriaceous, uniformly lurid green on both surfaces, and covered closely with large, red-purple spots. Peduncle six to eight inches long, rather stout, green, speckled with short streaks of purple, as are the few lanceolate, erect sheaths and bracts. Raceme two and a half inches long, many- and lax-fid., pubescent. Bracts lanceolate, shorter than the ovary. Flowers about one-third of an inch broad across the lip, white, with a faint blush of pink; petals rose-coloured. 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Lrp., 6, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDE 7602. Tas. 7602. COELOGYNE Swanrana. Native of the Philippine Islands. Nat. Ord. Oncuipe#.—Tribe DENDROBIER. Genus Cortoerye, Lindl.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. iii. p. 518.) Coznocrne Swaniana; pseudobulbis 2-4-pollicaribus fusiformibus 4-6-gonis nudis diphyllis, foliis 6-8-pollicaribus petiolatis elliptico-lanceolatis acumi- natis marginibus undulatis basi in petiolum angustatis, racemo e basi pseudobulbi enato pedali pendulo laxe multifloro, pedunculo rhachique gracilibus viridibus purpureo punctulatis, bracteis 3 poll. longis cymbi- formibus acutis pallide brunneis pedicellos equantibus, sepalis pollicaribus lineari-oblongis subacutis carinatis, petalis lhnearibus acutis albis, labello 3-lobo pallide brunneo lobis lateralibus incurvis apice rotundatis, termi- nali recurvo orbiculari-ovato obtuso, disco 5-cristato, cristis apicem non attingentibus 2 lateralibus brevioribus intermediis ad basin labelli pro- ductis et ibidem in laminas laciniatas etectas productis, columna apice dilatata truncata denticulata. C. Swaniana, Rolfe in Kew Bullet. 1894, p. 144; in Orchid. Rev. vol. ii. p. 198 ; in Sander, Reichenbachia, Ser. 2, vol. ii, t. 92. Coelogyne Swaniana is compared by its author with the Bornean OC. Dayanna, Reichb. f. (Williams, Orch. Alb. vi. t. 947, and Veitch Man. Orch. Part vi. p. 36 and 43, with fig.). The resemblance between these species is indeed very close, in pseudobulbs, leaves and flowers, but C. Dayannais a larger plant, the sepals and petals have reflexed margins, as have the tips of the side-lobes of the lip, and there are no lamellae at the base of the crests of the lip. These crests appear to vary a good deal in relative length. This fine species was discovered in the Philippine Islds., by Mr. W. Micholitz, who sent specimens to Messrs. F. Sander & Co. of St. Alban’s, according to whose wish it was named after J. M. Swan, Esq., A.R.A., a highly esteemed Artist. The specimen figured was obtained by the Royal Gardens, Kew, from Messrs. Sander in 1892. It flowered in May and June. Descr.—Pseudobulbs three and a half to four inches long, fusiform, obtusely four to six-angled, green, naked, the brown remains of the sheaths alone persisting on the Juty Ist, 1898, mature pseudobulb. Leaves two, six to eight inches long, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, narrowed into a petiole two to three inches long, bright green, strongly nerved beneath, margins more or less waved. Peduncle from the base of the pseudobulb, slender, with the rhachis of the raceme pale green, minutely dotted with dark purple. Raceme a foot long, pendulous, loosely many-flowered. Bracts three- quarters of an inch long, cymbiform, acute, pale brown, caducous. Flowers two inches broad, pedicel as long as the bract; ovary short, green, its six ribs crenulate, and dotted with dark purple. Sepals an inch long, linear- oblong, obtuse or sub-acute, white, Petals as long, but much narrower, white. ip pale brown, darker round the margins and tips of the lobes; side-lobes short, rounded, mid-lobe orbicular-ovate, obtuse, disk with fine crested ridges, extending from the base to about the middle of the mid-lobe, three of them furnished at the base with a short, erect fimbriate lamella. Column yellow, pened te at the top into a truncate crenulate hood. Fig. 1, Lip; 2, column; 3, anther; 4, pollinia :—AJI/ enlarged. 7603 PLE Pcie is, _ Vincent Brooks, Day & Son imp Tas. 7603. CALLIANTHEMUM rorarouium, var. ANEMONOIDES. Native of the European and Asiatic Alps. Nat. Ord. Ranuncutacez.—Tribe ANEMONER, Genus CaturantuEmum, C. A. Mey.; asaag & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 5. CaLLIANTHEMUM rutefoliwm; herba glaberrima, sub-acaulis, rhizomate crassiusculo elongato pramorso, foliis radicalibus petiolatis ambitu triangularibus decompositis, pedunculo unifloro nudo v. unifoliato, sepalis 5 rotundatis imbricatis deciduis, petalis 5-15, latis v. angustis. C. rutefolium, C. A. Mey. in Ledeb. Fl. Alt. vol. ii. p. 836; 1. Ross. vol. i. pp. s 734. Schott, Cistr. Ranunc, t. 6. Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. vol. iii. t. 25. C. coriandrifolium, Reichb. Fl. Germ. Excurs, p. 727; Ic. Fl. Germ. 1. c. C. cachemirianum, Camb. in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. p. 5, t. 3. Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind, vol. i. p. 15. C. bipinnatum, Dulac, Fl. Hautes Pyren. p. 216. C. pimpinelloides, Hook. f. & Thoms. Fl. Ind. vol. i. p. 26. C. acaule, Cambess. mss. in Herb, Jacquem. Ranunculus rutefolius, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 552. All. Fl. Pedem. vol. iii. p. xi. t. 27,f.1. Jacg. Collectan, vol. i. p. 136, t. 6,7. Ait. Hort. Kew. Ha. 2, vol. iii. p. 355. Poll. Fl. Veron. vol. ii. p. 233. DO. Syst. vol. i. - 238 ; Prodr. vol. i. p. 30. Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. vol. iii. t. 25. Koch, Syn. Deutsch. Fl. 1892, p. 355. R. isopyroides, DO. Syst. 1. e. 288; Prodr, 1, e. R. pimpinelloides, Don in Royle Ill. Pl. Himal. p. 53. R. rutaceofolio, &c., Bauh. Pina, p. 181. Moris. Hist, vol. ii. p. 448, f. 4, t. 31, f. 54. . R. pracox rutzfolio, Clusius Hist. vol. i. p. 232. R. alp. coriandrifolio, Pona, Pl. Bald. Mont. Ed. 2. p. 87 (1617). Var. anemonoides; petalis plurimis lineari-oblongis. C. anemonoides, Endl. ex Heynh. Nom. vol. ii. p. 106. Schott, l.c. Ranunculus anemonoides, Zahlb. in Flora, vol. vi. (1823), p. 220. Reichb. Ic. Crit. vol. viii. p. 31, t. 779. After careful examination, in the Kew Herbarium, of upwards of a hundred specimens of the five published species of Callianthemum, from nearly fifty localities, pro- cured by various collectors, between the Pyrenees and W. China, I have come to the conclusion that all may be regarded as forms of one. Of these forms the most distinct are, the large flowered, broad leaved OC. anemo- noides, with narrow petals on the one hand, and on the other the C. coriandrifolium, with small flowers, finely JuLy Ist, 1898, divided leaves, and broad, almost rounded petals. No doubt these and other intermediate forms may prove to retain their characters under cultivation for an indefinite period, due to their long isolation in their individual native localities, and as such will be well worthy of cultivation. That here figured represents an alpine European form, | specimens of which from Styria have triangular leaves, five inches in diameter, leaflets one and half in. long | and broad, with three to five linear lobes, and narrow petals up to one in. long. Others from Lake Baikal have the peduncle twelve to sixteen inches long. The Himalayan C. cachemirianum is not distinguishable from the typical rutefolium, it has leaves with short, broad leaflets, peduncles shorter than the leaves, and flowers one inch to one and half inch in diameter, with cuneately oblong petals ; it inhabits the whole Himalayan range at elevations of nine thousand to seventeen thousand feet, as also Tibet. In the Kurrum Valley, Panjab, Dr. Aitchison describes it as reaching the snow line, that is the highest elevation of any flowering plant. In Europe it extends from the Pyrenees to the Eastern Austrian Alps, at eight thousand to ten thousand feet elevation, Its extreme Eastern and Southern limit is the mountains of Yunnan in China, where it was collected by the Abbé Delavay. The specimen here figured of var. anemonoides, a native of Styria, flowered in the Royal Gardens in March, 1897. Deser—A_ glabrous, subglaucous herb, six to twelve inches high, with a stout rootstock, numerous radical leaves, and single-flowered peduncles. Leaves long- petioled; limb triangular in outline, bipinnatifid, with linear or broader lobes varying greatly in size. Peduncle naked, or bearing a small sessile leaf. Flowers one to one and a half inches broad. Sepals five, orbicular, im- bricate, deciduous. Petals ten to fifteen, linear-oblong, white, or pale rose-coloured. Stamens very many, Inserted on a hemispheric receptacle; anthers short. Carpels many, oblong, 1-celled, 1-ovuled, stigma small, Sessile; ovule solitary, pendulous from near the top of the cell. Achenes coriaceous, oblong, obtuse. Seed pen- dulous.—J. D, H. | * Fig. 1, Petal; 2 and 3, stamens; 4 and 5, carpels :— All enlarged. 7604 = Sei tometer Vincent Brooks Day & Son bap M.S. del, IN Fitch ith LReeve & C° Londan Tas. 7604. IRIS Grant-Durri. Native of Palestine. Nat. Ord. Inmpem.—Tribe Morzxexz. Genus Iris, Linn. (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 686.) Iris (Apogon) Grant-Dufii; rhizomate breviter repente, vaginis brunneis scariosis, foliis 5-6 linearibus firmis glaucis erectis, pedunculo mono- cephalo foliis multo breviore, spathe valvis linearibus firmis viridibus, pedicello producto, ovario cylindrico rostrato, perianthii pallide lutei tubo brevi, segmentis exterioribus oblanceolato-oblongis supra medium | patulis deorsum lineis transversalibus purpureis decoratis, segmentis interioribus brevioribus erectis concoloribus oblanceolatis unguiculatis, styli appendicibus pallide luteis lanceolatis. I. Grant-Dufiii, Baker Handb. Irid. p. 7. This very distinct new Iris was first collected, so far as our records show, fin 1864, by Mr. B. T. Lowne on the banks of the river Kishon. Several years later it was found by Sir M. EH. Grant Duff in the plain of Esdraelon, recognized as a distinct species, and introduced into culti- vation. It comes nearest to two of the North American species, [. tenaxz, Doug. (Bot. Mag. tab. 3343), and I. Dou- glasiana, Herb. (Bot. Mag. t. 6083). Our drawing was made from a plant flowered by Mr. W. HE. Gumbleton at _ Queenstown in February, 1897. Descr.— Rhizome short, creeping. Base of the stem rather swollen, surrounded by a truncate scariose brown sheath. Leaves about six to a stem, linear, firm, erect, rather glaucous, a foot and a half or two feet long at the flowering season, flat, with a narrow, scariose, white margin. Stem much shorter than the leaves, simple, bearing one or two erect reduced leaves. Spathe-valves linear, firm, green, three or four inches long. VPedicel an inch long. Ovary cylindrical, rostrate, as long as the pedicel. Perianth pale ellow; tube very short; outer segments oblanceolate- oblong, three inches long, spreading from the middle, furnished with an orange keel, and veined below the middle Jury Ist, 1898. with lilac-brown; inner segments rather shorter, erect, concolorous, pale yellow, oblanceolate-unguiculate. Crests of the style-branches lanceolate, pale yellow.—J. G. Baker. Figs. I and 2, stamens; 3, style-branch with stigma and appendages :— All much magnified, 7605 ‘Vincent Brocks,Day & Son Imp S.dely I. NFitch uth, Tas. 7605. ERTA LATIBRACTEATA. Native of Borneo. Nat. Ord. Orncu1pEa#.—Tribe EPIDENDREZ, Genus Err, Lindl.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 509.) Eira (Hymeneria) latibracteata ; rhizomate brevi, pseudobulbis confertis 1-33- pollicaribus 2-3-phyllis obovoideis v. fusiformibus suleatis, foliis 2-4- poll. longis sessilibus ovato-oblongis -lanceolatisve acutis recurvis, pedun- culo brevi valido bracteis paucis amplis vacuis instructo, racemo dependente puberulo 6-10-floro, pedunculo rhachique valido ovariisque viridibus rubro punctulatis, bracteis 3-poll. longis late cymbiformibus apiculatis patulis flavo-viridibus, floribus 4-poll. longis, sepalis pallide flavidis, dorsali galeato, lateralibus late ovatis obtusis in mentum rotun- datum productis, petalis oblongis subacutis, labello sepalis paullo longiore trilobo, lobis lateralibus roseis apice rotundatis disco inter lobos cristis 2 carnosis apice rugosis aucto, terminale aureo transverse oblongo, disco late incrassato carnoso rugoso, columna apice crenata. C. latibracteata, Rolfe mss. The genus EHria is one of the largest of Orchids in tropical Asia ; nearly 100 species (of which upwards of twenty were previously undescribed) are recorded in the ** Flora of British India,” and a considerable number have, since the publication of that work, been discovered within “the geographical limits of its flora. The total number of known species cannot be under 250. LH. latibracteata © belongs to the largest section of the genus, founded more _ on habit than on any definite characters. Its nearest ally Hi. bractescens, Lindl. (Bot. Reg. 1841, Misc. No. 46 and (1844, t. 29), a Burmese and Malayan plant, to be dis- _ tinguished by the 2-lobed tips of the leaves, much smaller, narrower bracts and flowers, longer and more slender pedicels and narrower sepals. _ __E. latibracteata was imported from Borneo by Messrs. _ Sander & Co., of St. Albans, who sent specimens to the Herbarium at Kew to be named in July, 1895; and _ from whom the specimen here figured was received ; it flowered in the Royal Gardens in July, 1897. ___~-Deser.—Pseudobulbs fascicled on a short rootstock, one _ to three and a half inches long, ovoid to fusiform, terete, JuLy Ist, 1898. sulcate, dark green, formed of two to four internodes. Leaves two to three, two to four inches long, sessile, oblong- lanceolate, acute, spreading and recurved. Racemes from the base of the pseudobulb, with the short peduncle four inches long, drooping; peduncle and rhachis stout, green, and as well as the pedicels and ovary speckled with red. Flowers six to ten, loosely racemed ; pedicels with ovary half an inch long, curved. Bracts about half an inch long, broadly oblong, cymbiform, apiculate, spreading, yellow- green. lowers half an inch long; sepals and petals con- nivent, very pale, dull yellowish. Dorsal sepal galeate ; lateral much larger, their gibbous bases together forming © a large rounded mentum. Petals oblong, sub-acute. Lip hardly longer than the sepals, 3-lobed, side-lobes dark rose-red, apex rounded, disk between the side-lobes with two fleshy ridges ending abruptly in tubercled alli, mid-lobe transversely oblong, golden-yellow, with a very broad fleshy caruncled disk, tip 3-lobulate-—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Lip ; 2, column; 8, anther 3; 4and 5, pollinia :—All enlarged, 7606 Vincent Brooks Day &Son Imp © M.S. del. NFitch hth. L Reeve & C° London eS : Yas. 7606. CALOCHORTUS CLAVATUS. Native of California. ae Nat. Ord. Litrace#.—Tribe TuLirex. Genus Carocnontus, Pursh.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 220.) Catocnortus (Mariposa) clavatus; buibo ovoideo parvo tunicis exterioribus pallidis, caule erecto gracili simplici vel furcato, foliis linearibus vel subu- latis, sepalis ovatis acuminatis dorso viridibus facie luteis obscure macu- latis, petalis latis cuneatis aurautiacis supra medium nudis, ungue lato pilis copiosis luteis apice clavatis vestito supra basin foveolé orbiculari predito, antheris linearibus obtusis purpureis filamentis zequilongis, ovario cylindrico-trigono. C. clavatus, S. Wats. in Proc. Amer. Acad. vol. xiv, p. 265; Bot. Oaltf. vol. ii. p. 176. : This species, for garden purposes, is one of the finest of all the Calochorti. It belongs to the section Mariposa, ich is marked by its large, erect, butterfly-like flowers, which are white, lilac, or yellow, and often beautifully variegated towards the base with spots or bands. Its nearest allies are C. luteus, Dougl. (Bot. Reg. t. 1567), and C. Weedii, Wood (C. citrinus, Baker in Bot. Mag. t. 6200), from which it is best distinguished by the club-shaped tips of the hairs that cover the claw, to which the name refers, t was first collected in 1878, by Mr. J. G. Lemmon, near ‘an Luis Obispono, and soon afterwards by Mrs. Elwood ooper at Santa Barbara. It has only lately been intro- uced into cultivation by Mr. Carl Purdy, of Ukiah, who makes a specialty of Hrythronia and Calochorti, and it has ‘not been previously figured. Our drawing was made from a plant that flowered in an open border on the south side of the Orchid House at Kew, in June, 1897. _ Deser.—Bulb small, ovoid ; outer tunics membranous, pale. Stem erect, slender, a foot or a foot and a half long, ‘simple or forked, distantly leafy. Leaves linear or subu- late, reaching a length of three or four inches. Flowers solitary, erect. Sepals ovate, acute, about an inch long, _ green on the outside, yellow, and obscurely spotted near ____ the base on the inside. Petals cuneate, bright yellow, an Jury Isr, 1898. 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Hooxer, C.B.. G.C.S.L, F.R.S., &e, 9s. net. ~ 4 TE GEEZ NAA VN “MSA INFtalith, Vincent Brooks, Day & Sanbihup , Tan. 7607. CORTADERIA susats, Stapf. Native of the Andes. Nat. Ord. Graminrx.—Tribe ARUNDINEA, Genus Corraperia; (Stapf in Gard. Chron. 1897, vol. ii. p. 396.) CortapErIa jubata; gramen perenne, culmis validis dense ccspitosis biannuis, internodiis supremis ultra pedalibus, foliis basin versus culmum congestis j-poll. latis tenuissime caudato-acuminatis, ligula e pilis sericeis, panicula plumosa 1-2-pedali laxiuscula sub-erecta v. nutante, ramis inferioribus 1-1}-pedalibus gracillimis flexuosis, spiculis unisexua- libus nitidis purpureo subtiliter tinctis, glumis vacuis sub-zqualibus anguste lineari-lanceolatis apicibus acutis v. bidenticulatis 1-nerviis nervo infra apicem evanido, glumis floriferis vacuis sub-similibus 3-nerviis, masculis glabris, fem. copiose et longe pilosis, pilis 4% poll. longis, palea brevi hyalina 2-nervi, lodiculis ciliatis, staminodiis fl. fem. gracilibus apicibus antheriferis v. clavellatis, ovario glabro, caryopside anguste oblonga hilo lineari. G. jubatum, Lemoine ex Carr. in Rev. Hort. vol. xlix. p. 419. G. roseum Rendatleri, The Garden, vol. viii. p. 165 (nomen).. 3 PG. argenteum carminatum Rendatleri, Flore des Serres, t. 2075. Chron. 1874, p. 419. To those who know Gynerium saccharoides, Humb. & Bonpl. (Tab. Nostr. 7352) it will be no surprise to learn that the Pampas Grass of our gardens has been removed from that genus. This has been done by Dr. Stapf, in the Gardener’s Chronicle cited above, where the name Corta- _. deria is given to the Pampas Grass and its congeners, _ from their being known as “ Cortadora” by the Spanish- _ speaking people of America. The species of Cortaderia are confined to the Andes from Ecuador to Chili, together with New Zealand, if the Arundo conspicua, Forst. f. be included. Other species are C. argentea, Stapf (the Pampas Grass, which is, however, not a native of the Pampas, but of the Cordillera), C. chiloensis, Stapf ; oO. - Stapf (G. speciosum, Nees), and O. Quila, Stapf. __ Cortadenia jubata is a native of the Andes of Ecuador, _ Bolivia, and Peru. It was first collected about 1830, by os the late Col. Hall, the energetic explorer of Ecuador, in ravines near Quila, alt. 10,000 ft. It was introduced into Aveust Ist, 1898. cultivation in Europe by M. Lemoine, who received seeds from Chimborazo. There are, besides Hall’s specimen in the Kew Herbarium, others ‘collected by Pentland at Cuzco, alt. 11,380 ft., and in wet places near Sorata in Bolivia, alt. 9-12,000 ft., by Mandon. According to Dr. Stapf it differs from O. argentea in the rather laxer, more graceful panicle, with longer, more flexuous, nodding branches, somewhat smaller spikelets, more delicate glumes, and in the longer, very slender staminodes of the fem. fl. The colouring of the glumes is neither constant in, nor confined to C. jubata. The specimen of the latter here figured was sent to me by Mr. Gumbleton, from his famous garden at Belgrove, County Cork, in October, 1895, with the information that it was a far more beautiful grass than C. argentea. The panicle, he tells me, more resembles that of Arundo conspicua, but is much larger, and of a lovely pale lavender colour. Unfortunately the plant did not prove hardy, having been killed by 29° of frost in the following winter. Descr.—A densely tufted, glabrous, perennial grass, with — biennial culms, and the leaves crowded round their bases; upper internodes more than a foot long. Leaves long, slender, drooping on all sides, ending in filiform points, © margins scabrid, ligule a ridge of silky hairs. Panicle one to two feet long, inclined cr nodding, laxly plumose, pale straw-coloured, suffused with purple, branches fili- form, flexuous, lower a foot and upwards long, nodding. Spikelets half an inch long, three to five-flowered, male nearly glabrous, fem. silky, with very long hairs. Glumes hyaline, lower two empty, subequal, narrowly linear-lan- ceolate, finely acuminate, glabrous, 1-nerved, tip acute or © 2-toothed ; flowering glumes narrowly lanceolate, acumi- — nate, 3-nerved, male glabrous, fem. bearded with very — long, silky hairs. Stamens reduced to filiform staminodes — in the fem. spikelets. Ovary glabrous. Grain narrowly — oblong, hilum linear.—J. D. H. : Fig. 1, Portion of leaf; 2, male spikelet ; 3, base of male flowering glume; 4, palea; 5, anther; 6, fem. spikelet; 7, base of fem. flowering giume; 8, lodicules and ovary :—A// enlarged. » wl Vong w Vincent Brooks Day 3. Son Le Tmg L Reeve & ©? London. MS.del JN Fitch hth. Tas. 7608. TCHIHATCHEWIA isavipea, Boiss. Native of Armenia, Nat. Ord. Crucirer2.—Tribe Isaties. ’ Genus Tcutnatcnewia, Boiss. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol, i. p. 93.) TcuIHATCHEWIA isatidea ; herba perennis, tota pilis elongatis patulis simplici- bus brevioribusque furcatis hispido-strigosa, radice elongata, caule erecto humili robusto dense folioso superne ramoso ramis corymbosis flori- bundis, foliis sessilibus v. breviter petiolatis lineari-oblongis obtusis patenti-recurvis integerrimis v. remote dentatis, costa lata, floribus in racemos breves densifloros ramulos terminantes erectis breviter pedicellatis, sepalis linearibus obtusis lateralibus basi saccatis, petalis longe unguiculatis, lamina ungue dimidio breviore rosea, filamentis edentulis, ovario breviter stipitato oblongo stellatim tomentello 2-locu- lare loculis uniovulatis, stigmate sessile bilobo, siliqaa majuscula pendula ovata obovata v. obcordata obtusa v. apice emarginata late alata alis coriaceig, nucleo valde compresso 2-loculari indehiscente, loculo uno tantum reminifero, semine a funiculo brevi pendulo orbiculari valde compresso, testa coriacea brunnea, cotyledonibus latis planis radicula magna aceum- bente. ‘ ; a - T. isatidea, Boiss. in T'chihatch. As. Min. Bot. vol. i, p. 292; Fl. Orient, vol. i. p. 310, x é A no less singular than beautiful Crucifer, discovered by the late Count Paul de Tchihatchef during his travels in Asia Minor, at an elevation of 5000 to 6000 ft. on the mountains near the town of Erzinhan, in the Pachalik of Erzeroum ; that is at the sources of the Euphrates. There is an error in Boissier’s description of the genus, where the pod is ~ described as one-celled and two-seeded, there being in fact two cells, separated by amembranous septum, one of them containing a perfect seed, the other an arrested (? always) ovule. The genus is closely allied to Peltaria, L., differing in the 2-celled ovary. Count de Tchihatchef was a famous traveller and writer, who, besides his opus magnum in seven volumes, on ‘the geography, climate, zoology, botany and geology of Asia Minor, was the author of works on the Bosphorus, Travels in the Eastern Altai, Spain, and Algeria. He was a Cor- respondent of the Institute of France, and was well known and highly esteemed in scientific and literary society in England and throughout the Continent. Aveaust Isr, 1898, Seeds of Tchihatchewia were received at the Royal Gardens, Kew, from the Imperial Botanical Gardens of St. Petersburgh, in 1896, plants raised from which flowered in the open air in May, 1898. : Descr.—A stout, perennial rooted, densely leafy herb, his- pid, with long simple, and short stellate hairs. Stem six to ten inches high, very stout, copiously corymbosely branched above, the branches all flowering. Leaves one and a half to two and a half inches long, spreading and recurved, the upper gradually larger, sessile, linear, sub-acute, hispidly hairy on both surfaces, midrib very stout. Flowering branches short, densely crowded, many-fid., together forming a hemispheric corymb, four inches in diameter. Pedicels shorter than the calyx. Sepals erect, linear, obtuse, sparsely stellately hairy, lateral gibbous at the base. Petals with the oblong, recurved, rose-red limb about half as long as the claw. Filaments simple. Ovary oblong, stellately tomentose, 2-celled, stigma sessile, 2-lobed, anthers oblong. Siligua an inch long, pendulous, obcor- date or ovate, tip notched or 2-lobed, nucleus narrow, 2- celled, wings broad, septum membranous, one cell empty, the other l-seeded. Seed orbicular, compressed, cotyle- dons acumbent.—J. D. H. = Fig. 1, Flower; 2, stamens and ovary ; 3, ovary ; 4, hairs from do.; 5, portion of fruiting raceme; 6, transverse section of siliqua ; 7, seed; 8, embryo :—All bat fig. 5 enlarged, 7609 MS.del, JN-Pitchlith Vineent Brooks,Day &Son LE bap L Reeve & C° London. Tas. 7609. BUDDLEIA vanriasitis, Hemsl. Native of China. Nat. Ord. Loganracez.—Tribe EvLoGanIex. Genus Buppunia, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 793.) Buppr#1a variabilis; frutex polymorpha, ramulis floriferis suab-teretibus tetragonis v. tetraquetris foliisque subtus primum plus minus fulvo- tomentosis, foliis sessilibus v. sub-sessilibus oppositis paribus basi linea elevata auriculave conjunctis anguste oblongo- v. ovato-lanceolatis acutis obtusis v. caudato-acuminatis integerrimis crenato-dentatis grosse serra- tisve discoloribus, floribus in thyrsos elongatos terminales capitulaque axillaria densiflora dispositis brevissime pedicellatis bibracteolatis, calycis brevis glabri v. pubescentis lobis oblongis obtusis, corolle tubo § poll. longo gracili recto cylindraceo intus pilosulo, lobis rotundatis sub-crenatis lilacinis ore aurantiaco, antheris medio tubo sessilibus, ovario glabro, stylo brevi, capsula anguste oblongo-clavata glabra, seminibus compressis anguste alatis basi et apice in caudas productis. B. variabilis, Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxvi. (1889) p. 120. A native of the mountains of the provinces of Hupeh, Ichang Palung, Nanto, and Mts. to the northward, where it was discovered by Dr. Henry. Also found in Mount Omei, in Szechuen, at an elevation of 6000 ft. by Faber, and by Potani, in the Tibetan province of Kam. Mr. Hemsley, from whose description that given above is mainly taken, says of ‘it that its extreme forms, here treated as one species, are very different in foliage, but connected by every intermediate gradation. From a careful examination of a large number of specimens I can unhesitatingly adopt Mr. Hemsley’s view. The leaves especially are extraordi- narily variable, from a few inches long, broadly oblong- lanceolate and obtuse, to upwards of a foot long, narrowly lanceolate and caudate-acuminate. In a decorative point _of view it is a very handsome plant, with rather dark green leaves. ‘The flowers, which have been described ag rose-coloured, are in the Kew individual of a clear lilac colour, with the mouth of the corolla orange-yellow. The figure here given of Buddleia variuabilis is taken from a plant received at the Royal Gardens, Kew, from the Avevst lst, 1898, Jardin des Plantes in 1895, which flowered against a S.E. wall in the open air in July, 1897. In the Jardin des Plantes it forms a large ornamental shrub eight feet high, flowering freely in July and August. Descr.—A tall shrub, very variable in foliage and hairy- ness, with leaves and branchlets more or less tomentose in a young state, glabrous, or nearly so when old; flowering __ branchlets terete or tetragonous. Leaves opposite, the petioles of each pair joined at the base by a raised line on — the branchlets, or by a small broad, green, recurved — stipular auricle, four inches to a foot long, from oblong- lanceolate and obtuse to linear-lanceolate and caudate = acuminate, entire, crenate-toothed, or coarsely serrate, dark green above, paler beneath; petiole terete. Flowers densely crowded in large, globose heads, which are peduncled in the axils of the upper leaves, or collected in erect, caudiform thyrsi, four to six inches long, very shortly pedicelled ; bracts subulate, about as long as the calyx, and appressed to it. Culys about one-tenth of an inch long, slender, oblong, cleft into four narrow obtuse lobes, — Corolla-tube half an inch long, slender, terete, sparsely — hairy within ; limb about one-sixth of an inch in Ciameter, — lobes orbicular, sub-crenate. Anthers sessile above: the — middle of the tube, very small, oblong. Ovary oblong, — terete, glabrous. Style short, stigma oblong, two-lobed. Capsule one-quarter of an inch long, clavate.—J. D. H. | 5 ui 1, Flower and bracts; 2, corolla laid open; 3, ovary; 4, ripe fruit ‘i » SLE i—All but fig. 4 enlarged. 7610 tc Sy PAIS ANS MS. del. JNFitchiith. L. Reeve & C° London. Tas. 7610. LEDUM GLanpuLosum, Nutt. Native of California and British Columbia. ae oe = Nat. Ord. Ericex.—Tribe RuoporEex. Genns Lepun, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p, 699.) Levum glandulosum; frutex robustus, 2-3-pedalis, cortice fusco, ramulis foliisque glaberrimis, foliis petiolatis oblongis ellipticisve obtusis v. sub-acutis 1-2-poll. longis basi acutis supra luride viridibus, subtns pallidi- oribus punctis resinosis creberrimis fere. argenteis, racemis corymbosis, bracteis cymbiformibus, floribus longe gracile pedicellatis fere }-polL latis, sepalis 5 parvis ciliatis, petalis 5 oblongis apices versus ciliatis, staminibus 10, filamentis basin versus pilosis, capsulis late oblongis retusis puberulis et glanduloso-punctatis, seminibus angustis late alatis, L. (Ledadendron) glandulosum, Nutt. in Trans. Am. Phil. Soe. n. ser. vel. viii, (1843), p. 270. A. Gray in Bot. Calif. vol. i. p. 459; Synopt. Fl. N. Am. vol. ii. Part I. p. 43. Coulter, Man. Bot. Rocky Mts. p. 229. Macoun, Cat. Canad. Pl. (1890), p. 289. 3 C. californicum, Kellog in Proc. Calf. Acad. vol. ii. (1863), p. 14. Ledum glandulosum has an extensive range in the Sierra Nevada and Rocky Mountains of Western North America, from Tulare County, California, lat. 36° N., where it attains an elevation of 8-90U0 ft. to 51” N. in the Rocky Mts., where it was found by M. Macoun at 6000 ft. eleva- tion. How much further north it extends is not known, but it advances southwards along that range to Colorado. I collected it in fruit, in company with Dr. Gray, in the Silver Mt. Pass of the Sierra Nevada (California) in 1877. Though first made known by Nuttall, who found it in the Rocky Mts., it was discovered in about 1826 by Douglas, from whom there is a (flowerless) specimen in the Kew Herbarium, collected ‘ at the confluence of the Columbia River, towards Puget’s Sound.” The plant at the Royal Gardens, Kew, from which the accompanying figure was made, was raised from seeds received in 1894 from Professor Sargent (the Arnold Arboretum), which flowered in the Arboretum of Kew in — May, 1697. Descr.—An evergreen, erect shrub, two to six feet high, Aveust Ist, 1898. branches covered with dark brown bark. Leaves one to two inches long, oblong or elliptic, acute or sub-acute, base cuneate, dark green above, beneath more or less silvery, with minute, white, waxy glands, which extend to the pedicels of the flowers calyx and capsule; petiole about a sixth of an inch long. lowers about half an inch in diameter, white, in corymbose clusters of simple racemes, one-half to one inch long. Bracts one-tenth to one-fourth of an inch long, boat-shaped, red-brown, deci- duous; pedicels one-half to nearly one inch long, very slender. Sepals 5, small, oblong, obtuse, ciliate. Petals spathulately oblong, concave, ciliate above the middle, punctulate with glands. Stamens longer than the petals, filaments slender, hairy towards the base, anthers oblong. Ovary conical, densely clothed with white glands; style elongate, glabrous. Capsule one-fourth of an inch long, oblong, retuse, puberulous and glandular. Seeds some- what sickle-shaped, nucleus linear, surrounded by a membranous wing.—.J/. D. H, ag Fig. 1, Portion of upper surface of leaf ; 2, flower; 3. petal; 4and 5, stamens; 6, pistil; 7, portion of fruiting raceme; 8, ripe capsule; 9, seed :—All enlarged, — except fig. 7, which is of zat. size. 7611. ‘ aa { ais ie wae" M.S.deLJ.NFitch hth. Vineent BrooksDay&Son 1d bop ; LReeve &C° Landon. Tas. 7611. RIBES vittosum, C. ‘Gay. Native of Chili. Nat. Ord. SaxirraGe#2.—Tribe Rrpesiex. Genus Rizzs, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 654.) Rizzs (Ribesia) villoswm ; frutex erectus, ubique tomentosus, ramulis robustis _ teretibus, cortice atro-fusco, foliis orbiculari-ovatis sub-integris v. breviter 8-lobis basi rotundatis cordatisve supra convexis 3-5-nerviis, lobis brevibus latis crenulato-dentatis, petiolo }-$ poll. longo, racemis spiciformibus florentibus foliis brevioribus breviter pedunculatis cylindraceis densifloris nutantibus, fructiferis elongatis folia superantibus, bracteis oblongis calyce brevioribus, calycis aurei tubo campanulato, lobis brevibus late ovatis recurvis, petalis anguste ovatis lanceolatisve calycis lobis brevioribus erectis, antheris sub-sessilibus, baccis villosis atro-purpureis. R. villosum, C. Gay, Fl. Chil. vol. iii. p. 33. Walp. Aan, vol, i. p. 975, R. Bridgesii & R. Lavallei, Hort. eer - The genus Ribes, which is nowhere found to the south- ward of lat. 28° N. in the Old World, in the New extends from the N. Polar regions to Tierra del Fuego. Scarcely a dozen species are found in Europe and Asia; in Europe itself eight; in the Oriental region seven (all but one also Western European) ; in the Himalaya, where the genus reaches its Southern limits in the Old World (in _ Sikkim), eight (three of them European, and one Oriental) ; China, according to Hemsley’s list, eight (three of 1 European, and one Oriental) ; in Japan three, one of them European, another American, In the New World, on the other hand, twenty-three species are enumerated in ~ the United States, and thirty-two in the Andes of §. America. Twenty-eight species are cultivated in the _ Arboretum of the Royal Gardens, Kew. _R. villosum is a native of the Chilian Cordillera, in the _ Campatias of Quillota and Santiago, at 8000 ft. elevation, ___ where the fruit is, according to C. Gay, its author, much liked. It has been in cultivation in the Kew Arboretum ___ for probably half a century, for I find a flowering specimen inthe Herbarium, marked as having been collected there in 1858. Of its originthere is no record. It flowers annually — Aveusr Ist, 1898. in June, is perfectly hardy, and retains its foliage through ordinary winters. Its nearest ally is R. punctatum, DC. of Chili (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. (1834) t. 1658), of which it may be only a variety, but which differs in the deeply lobed leaves, ciliate petioles, and small, glabrous berries. : Deser.—An erect shrub, branchlets, foliage, and in- florescence, uniformly sub-glandular-tomentose ; branches — stout, terete, covered with a black-brown bark. Leaves petioled, orbicular-ovate, one to one and a half inches diam., sub-entire, or broadly shortly 3-lobed beyond the middle, crenulately toothed, convex above, 3-5-nerved from the rounded or cordate base, lurid green on both surfaces, paler and strongly nerved beneath; petiole one- half to two-thirds of an inch long; stipules oblong, fuga- cious, tips rounded. Racemes spiciform, flowering sub- erect or drooping, shortly peduncled, shorter than the leaves, cylindric, dense-fld.; fruiting elongate, pendulous. Bracts shorter than the calyx-tube, ovate-oblong. Flowers sub-sessile, about one-sixth of an inch long, and as broad across the mouth, golden-yellow. Calyx tube campanulate, — lobes small, broadly ovate, recurved. Petals minute, lan- ceolate, obtuse, erect, shorter than the calyx-lobes. — Anthers nearly sessile in the throat of the calyx. Styles short, recurved. 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EvLornietta Peetersiana; gigantea, rhizomate elongato 1-2-poll. crasso cylindraceo repente radicante pseudobulbos foliiferos scaposque emit- tente, internodiis brevibus vestigiis squamarum vestitis, radicibus crassis vermiformibus, foliis fasciculatis 3-5-pedalibus erectis lanceolatis sub- acutis multinerviis, scapo 3-pedali e basi ascendente erecto robusto viridi squamoso, squamis brevibus obtusis vaginantibus inferioribus basin versus scapi imbricatis superioribus remotis, racemo pedali multi- floro erecto, rhachi stricta robusta viridi, bracteis pollicaribus late oblongis cymbiformibus apice rotundatis griseis, floribus confertis 33-4 poll. latis, pedicellis cum ovariis 3-pollicaribus roseis, sepalis petalisque subzequalibus orbiculari-obovatis concavis lete roseo-purpureis basi albis, his paullo minoribus, labello petalis breviore, lobis lateralibus late oblongis incurvis albis roseo-purpureo marginatis, terminale transverse late oblongo 2-lobulato roseo-purpureo basi albo, disco albo basi 3-lamel- lato, inter lobos laterales carinis 5 aureis percurso, carinis 3 interioribus ad basin lobi terminalis in dentes 3 erectos aureos productis, columna lobis lateralibus labelli breviore, anthera mitriforme papillosa, polliniis hemisphericis excavatis in glandulam orbicularem sessilibus. E. Peetersiana, Kranz. in Gard. Chron. 1897, vol. i. p. 182. Masters l.e. 1898, vol. i. p. 200, fig. 76, cum Ic. Suppl. Rolfe in Orchid. Rev. vol. v. (1897), pp. 67, 101, 206. Journ. Hortic. Ser. III. vol. xxxvi. (1898), p. 343, fig. 66. The superb plant here figured is a native of Madagascar, and appears, according to Dr. Kriinzlin, to have been dis- covered by Johannes Braun, who died at Antananarivo, and who sent to that botanist leaves of it which measured two feet in length. Living plants were subsequently sent by Mr. Mocoris to Mr. Peeters of St. Giles, near Brussels, who flowered the specimen from which Dr. Kriinzlin drew up his description. According to the latter the plant bears sub-compressed pseudobulbs eleven inches long, covered with decaying leaves. ‘These pseudobulbs are pro- bably not yet developed in the magnificent specimen here figured (which is another of the many triumphs of Sir Treyor Lawrence’s successful Orchid culture). The only other known species of Hulophiella is EL. Elizabethx, Rolfe, figured at t. 7387 of this work, also a native of Mada- SEPTEMBER 1st, 1898. gascar, in which pseudobulbs such as are described by Dr. Krinzlin, as occurring in H. Peetersiana, are well de- veloped. The flowering specimen of ZH. Peetersiana was kindly sent for figuring in this Magazine, from Burford Lodge, in the middle of April of the present year. The reduced view of the whole plant, t. 7613, is adapted from the Gardener’s Chronicle, and a coloured sketch by Mr. W. H. White. Descr.—Rootstock cylindric, creeping over rocks, one to two inches in diameter, emitting at the nodes stout vermi- form roots, and bearing stout pseudobulbs nearly a foot long, clothed with leaf-remains ; internodes of rootstock very short, clothed with withered scales. Leaves tufted, three to five feet long, lanceolate, sub-acute, erect, many-. nerved. Scape erect from an ascending base, three feet high, as thick as the little finger, green, bearing many short, appressed, obtuse, sheathing scales, that are im- — bricating below and distant higher up. Raceme abouta foot long, erect, of many rather crowded flowers; rhachis _ stout, terete, green. Bracts about an inch long, oblong, boat-shaped, tips rounded, grey. Pedicels with the ovaries three inches long, rose-red. Flowers three and a half to — four inches in diameter. Sepals and petals subequal, orbicular-oblong, concave, bright rose-purple with white bases, petals rather smaller than the sepals. ip shorter than the petals; side lobes broad, obtuse, erect and in- curved, white, broadly edged with rose-purple ; mid-lobe broadly transversely oblong, bilobulate, rose-purple, except — at the base, where it passes into the white of the disk of © the lip; the latter has between the side lobes three broad, erect, obtuse lamella, then five slender golden ribs, which extend to the base of the mid-lobe, where they end as rather large, triangular, laterally com ressed, golden iain. ger : Tab. 7612. Upper portion of leaf and raceme of E. Peetersiana, of the natural size, Tab. 7613. Reduced view of whole plant: Fie. 1, lip; 2, column and anther; 3 and 4, pollinia :—A/] palebcar es : 914. or é a ae 3. Vincent Brovks,Day & Son Le hep M.S.del, J.N.Fitch hth. L Reeve &C° London. | Tas. 7614. RHODODENDRON yunnanenss, Franch. - Native of Yunnan. 2 sou ee Genus Ruopopennroy, Linn.;{ Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol, ii, p. 599.) Nat. Ord. Erice2.—Tribe Ruoporez. RuopopEnpRon (Eurhododendron) yunnanense ; frutex erectus, ramis robustis, ramulis cortice fusco tectis, foliis breviter petiolatis 25-3 poll. longis elliptico-lanceolatis acutis acuminatisve coriaceis basi angustatis supra luride viridibus marginibusque setulosis, costa pallida, subtus palli- dioribus glaberrimis sparse lepidotis, nervis utringue cost ad 9 gracillimis, petiolo crassiusculo 3-} poll. longo, floribus erecto-patentibus in corymbos terminales laxuos dispositis, rhachi glaberrima robusta _pollicari, bracteis filiformibus, pedicellis 3_]-poll. longis, calyce minuto cupulari lepidoto margine undulato, corolla 2 poll. expans. late infundibu- lari alba fauce basin versus loborum posticorum maculis sanguineis -aspersa, lobis tubo alte 5-costato intus pubescente multo longioribus oblongis obtusis patenti-recurvis, 2 anticis majoribus, staminibus 10 lobis corolla longioribus patentim declinatis, filamentis exsertis gracilibus infra medium barbatis, antheris parvis oblongis flavo-brunneis, ovario oblongo 5-loculari dense lepidoto, stylo gracili glaberrimo, stigmate capitellato. : * R. yunnanense, Franch, in Bull, Soe. Bot. France, vol. xxxiii. (1886), p. 233. Forbes & Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. xxvi. (1889), p. 32. The rapidly increasing number of new species of Rhododendron coming from Western China, renders their entification by published descriptions proportionally cult, and it hence becomes the duty of the Botanical gazine to figure as many of these as it can consistently h the claims of other interesting plants. A specimen of the species here figured was sent to Mr. Franchet (by hom a host of Chinese species have been for the first me described), and he has identified it with his R. yun- mense, one of the Abbé Delavay’s many discoveries, a tive of Houang-li-pin in Yunnan. The specimen figured is from a plant received at the Royal Gardens, Kew, from Messrs. Veitch in 1894, and which flowered in April, 1897. + differs a little from Franchet’s description, in having no scales on the upper surface of the leaf, and in the calyx not being ciliolate. It is perfectly hardy at Kew. - Deser.—An erect shrub; branches stout, terete, clothed i Sepremper Ist, 1898. with black-brown bark, branchlets woody, setulose; leaf- buds about half an inch long, lanceolate, scales small, glabrous." Leaves two and a half to three inches long, shortly petioled, elliptic-lanceolate, sub-acute, coriaceous, above dark green, opaque, with a pale midrib, covered, as are the margins, with short, scattered, stiff sub-erect hairs, base acute, narrowed into a rather stout petiole one- sixth to one-fourth of an inch long; beneath pale green, quite glabrous, sparsely lepidote, nerves about nine on each side of the stout midrib, very slender, spreading. Flowers few, sub-racemosely corymbose on a very stout, terminal, erect, annulate rhachis, sub-erect or spreading, white, with blood-red oblong spots towards the bases of the upper corolla-lobes. Pedicels three-fourths to one inch long. Calye minute, cupular, lepidote, margin undulate. Corolla two inches across the limb, tube shortly funnel- shaped, pubescent within, strongly 5-ribbed; lobes longer than the tube, spreading and recurved, oblong, obtuse, the three upper rather shorter than the two lower. Stamens ten, exserted, nearly as long as the corolla-lobes, filaments declinate, spreading, bearded below the middle; anthers very small, pale brown. Ovary conically oblong, terete, 5-celled, densely lepidote ; style slender, glabrous; stigma capitellate.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Portion of upper, and 2, of under surface of leaf; 3, lepidote scale ; 4, calyx and ovary; 5, stamen: —A/l enlarged. M.S. del J.N Fitch lith tS) 2 3 : Tas. 7615. LOBELIA tnrertexta, Baker. Native of Central Africa. oS Nat. Ord. CampanuLace®z.—Tribe LopEetina. Genus Lozetia, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p- 551.) Losetia (Hemipogon) interterta ; herba tenella, laxe coespitosa, e basi diffuse ramosa, ramis erectis angulatis pilosulis, foliis parvulis sparsis orbiculatis late ovatis obtusis crenatis in petiolum lamina breviorem angustatis utrinque glaberrimis marginibus ciliatis, supra late viridibus subtus purpurascentibus, supremis linearibus, floribus 3-poll. diam. apices versus ramulorum laxe racemosis longe graciliter pedicellutis, bracteis ad basin pedicellorum linearibus crenatis, calycis tubo parvo obconico, lobis ubulatis patentibus corolle tubo brevioribus ciliatis, corolla tubo -eylindraceo + poll. longo intus piloso, limbi labio superiore profande trilobo lobis late ovatis sub-acutis patentibus, inferiore multo minore _ bipartito segmentis lanceolatis deflexis, filamentis basi liberis pilosis, antheris inclusis parvis 3 apicibus. barbatis, ovario brevi turbinato, stylo glaberrimo basi late conico, stigmate hemispherico bifido annulo pilorum cincto, capsula obconica. L. intertexta, Baker in Kew Bulletin, No. 139 (1898), p. 157. we The little Lobelia here figured resembles very closely the common DL. Hrinus, Linn., of our gardens (tab. 901), a native of South Africa, and is nearer still to the variety bicolor of that plant (tab. 514, DL. bicolor), which has similarly y stems. It is in fact one of a puzzling group of can congeners, extending from Abyssinia to the Cape slony, which includes L. Hrinus, L. wmbrosa, Hochst., . acutidens, Hk. f., L. trullifolia, Hemsl., and others, of which require good figures for their accurate tification. . intertexta is a native of the Nyika plateau in British tral Africa, at an elevation of 6000 to 7000 ft., where ; was discovered by A. C. Whyte, Esq., F.L.S., Superin- endent of the Forest Department (under Sir H. Johnston, K.C.B.), who has further transmitted to Kew an Her- barium of 1500 species from the same region. _ The plant figured was raised from seed received in 1897, yhich yielded plants that flowered in a stove in December SEPTEMBER lst, 1898. of the same year. It is a very elegant pot-plant, of grace- _ ful habit, flowering profusely. ; Deser.—A very slender, diffusely branched annual, de-— cumbent below, with ascending, loosely leafy branches _ four to six inches long, sparsely covered with spreading hairs. Leaves alternate, rather distant, uniform, one-third to half an inch long, broadly ovate, obtuse, coarsely irre- gularly crenate, glabrous on both surfaces, but ciliate on the margins, pale green above, reddish purple beneath, base narrowed into a ciliate petiole shorter than the blade. Flowers from the upper leaf axils, and loosely racemed at the ends of the branches ; pedicels very slender, lower up to an inch and a half long, bracteate at the base. Bracts much shorter than the pedicels, linear or lanceolate, crenate, green, the lower broader and foliaceous. Oalyzx-tube minute, obconic, lobes a fifth of an inch long, subulate, ciliate, spreading. Corolla-tube longer than the calyx- lobes, cylindric, hairy within; limb 2-lipped, lower lip half an inch broad, deeply three-lobed, lobes sub-equal, broadly ovate, acute, spreading, white below the middle, with a violet spot at each sinus, wholly violet beyond the middle ; upper lip of two small, oblanceolate, acute, parallel, spreading or deflexed violet segments. Filaments free, hairy below; anthers small, oblong, three with bearded tips. Ovary turbinate, very short, style glabrous, base conical, stigma small, hemispheric, bifid, girt with a ring of hairs.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Flower; 2, ovary, calyx, and stamens ; 3, ovary :—AIl enlarged, 7616 i Cathal : (notte LEAL A LEE LLL Yonge wag elt ———SS nN MS del JN Fitch hth Vincent Brooks,D ay & Sonkt LReeve & C° London. Tas. 7616. CALLISTEPHUS norrensis, Cass. Native of Western China. : Nat. Ord. Composita.—Tribe AsTEROIDER. Genus Catuistepuus, Cass.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 270.) CatuistEPHus hortensis; herba annua, erecta, robusta, ramosa, hirtella, foliis alternis ovatis grosse inequaliter et obtuse dentatis lobulatisve basi cuneatis in petiolum latum angustatis, capitulis ad apices ramorum solitariis sessilibus amplis heterogamis radiatis, floribus omnibus fertilibus, radii femineis 1—pluri-seriatis disci hermaphroditis, involucri hemisphzerici bracteis multiseriatis exterioribus subfoliaceis squarroso-recurvis interiori- bus scariosis erectis appressis oblongis obtusis, receptaculo planiusculo alveolato, fl. radii ligulis patentibus obtusis, fl. disci tubulosis, tubo infra medium abrupte angustato, ore breviter obtuse 5-lobo, antheris basi obtusis, styli ramis brevibus complanatis obtusis, acheniis compressis - apice annulo minutissimo setuloso coronatis, pappi setis tenuibus barbellatis caducis. ©. hortensis, Cass. in Dict. Sc. Nat. xxvii. (1825), p. 491. Forbes & Hemsl. in | Journ, Linn, Soc. vol, xxvi. 407. ©, chinensis, Nees, Aster. p. 222. DC? Prodr. vol. v. p. 274. Clarke, Comp. Ind, p. 41. Bretschneid. Early Europ. Res. Fl. China, p. 101. (CALLISTEMMA hortensis, Cass. in Bull. Philom. 1817, p. 32; Opusc. t.7; et in Dict. Se. Nat. vol. vi. Suppl. p. 45; Ie. Bot. Dicot. t. 90. Diplopappus chinensis, Less. Syn. Comp. p. 165. Aster chinensis, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 877. Mill. Gard. Dict. Ed. 8, No. 30. Ait. Hort. Kew. Ed. 1, vol. iii. 20. Aster Chenopodii folio &c., Dil’. Hort. Eltham. p. 38, t. 34 (1732). Aster 3, Trew, Hort. nitidiss. t. 121, 122 (1786). Though the ‘“ China Aster ’’ has been repeatedly figured its garden forms, I know of only two really good ‘epresentations of it as found in a wild state, one in the ‘ Hortus Elthamensis ” of Dillenius, published in 1732, the her in ‘T'rew’s “ Hortus nitidissimus”’ (1786). There isa air one in the “ Dictionaire des Sciences Naturelles,” but t is too much reduced to give a satisfactory idea of 1e plant, which is now rarely seen except in a condition ‘ith the disk flowers ligulate. Asa genus Callistephus is distinguished from Aster by 1e inner scarious involucral bracts, to which most authors dd the crown of minute bristles forming what has been onsidered an outer pappus, but this is sometimes an all t imperceptible character. It has no congeners, and its “SEPTEMBER Ist, 1898. generally adopted name is posterior to that of Callistemma, also of Cassini, which that author himself suppressed, in consequence of its being so near to Callistemon of Brown. The indigenous form of the China Aster appears to be common in the rocky hills of Northern China, from the neighbourhood of Peking to the Yang-tse-Kiang. There are also specimens in the Kew Herbarium from Kastern Turkestan, Western Tibet and Afghanistan, but in the more western of these localities it is no doubt only known as a cultivated plant, as it isin Japan. According to Aiton it was introduced into England by Ph. Miller in 1731: and Dillenius, who received seeds froth En wep iS Y AifiTO UDG TF. WP J SW ise WY Vic 7) J Z2 \ NG MS. del.J.N Fitch lith Vincent Brooks,Day &SonttImp. LReeve & C° London. Tas. 7622, ASTRAGALUS ponricus. Native of Asia Minor. Nat. Ord. Lecuminos#.—Tribe GaLeces. Genus Astracatus, Linn.;{ Benth. & Hook. f..Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 506.) AstTRAGALUs (Alopecias) ponticus; herba erecta, 2-3-pedalis, perennis, caule robusto simplici tereti glabro v. villoso, foliis alternis pedalibus patenti- decurvis brevissime petiolatis, rhachi gracile glabra v. pubescente, foliolis 15-25-jugis pollicaribus sub-sessilibus ovato-oblongis obtusis supra glabris subtus pilosis pubescentibusve, stipulis liberis triangulari-lanceolatis pollicaribus’ fuscis, capitulis magnis axillaribus sub-sessilibus v. breviter pedunculatis, oblongo-globosis multi-densifloris, floribus pollicaribus breviter pedicellatis primulinis, bracteis lanceolatis calycis tubo oblongo brevioribus, calycis hirsuti dentibus triangulari-ovatis lanceolatisve tubo _ triplo v. quadruplo brevioribus, vexillo oblongo retuso alis longe unguicu- latis paullo longiore, legumine parvo calyce incluso ovato compresso ‘ hirto 2-loculari oligospermo, seminibus parvis subreniformibus. A. ponticus, Pallas, Sp. Astrag. Descrip. p. 14, t. xi. DC. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 295. Ledeb. Fl. Ross. ok i. p. 635. Boiss. Fl. Orient. vol. ii. p. 408. Bunge, Gen. Astrag. Geront. p. 95. as A. polycephalus, Tenore, Hort. Neap. er Bunge l. ec. The genus Astragalus is one of the very largest in the Vegetable Kingdom, upwards of fifty genera have been carved out of it, to be subsequently merged in it. Accord- ing to the ‘“ Index Kewensis” it contains upwards of 1600 species, a number which will no doubt be considerably ‘augmented when the Floras of China and Tibet are better known. Of all these species scarcely a dozen have been figured in any work devoted to garden plants, and of those _ that have been, almost all are confined to the plates of _ this Magazine. - Now that rock-gardening is being pursued, no doubt many will be brought into cultivation, for not a few are remarkable for beauty of foliage and flowers. _ A. ponticus belongs to a section of the genus which inhabits South Europe and Western and Central Asia. It is found over a wide tract of country in Kurope and _W. Asia, its western limits. being Bulgaria and Podolia, and Bessarabia in Southern Russia. In Asia Minor it extends from Armenia to Kurdistan and thence to Mt. Elwend in Western Persia. One of its nearest allies is A. narbonnensis, _ November Ist, 1898. Gouan (figured at tab. 8198 as A. alopecuroides, L.), a native of the South of Europe. The plant figured, which was raised from seed sent by Mr. H. Whittall, of Smyrna, in 1895, flowered in the herbaceous grounds of the Royal Gardens in June of the present year. Descr.—A perennial herb, with erect simple stems as thick as a swan’s quill, glabrous throughout, or villous towards the upper part. Leaves alternate, rather distant, six inches to a foot long, spreading and recurved; rhachis slender, glabrous or pubescent, bearing leaflets nearly to the base; leaflets fifteen to twenty-five pairs, about an inch long, opposite and alternate, sessile or very shortly petiolulate, ovate-oblong, rounded at the base and tip, glabrous on both surfaces, or above only, and more or less softly hirsute beneath, rather thick, glaucous green, midrib slender, nerves very obscure; stipules up to an inch long, subulate-lanceolate. Flowers in dense globose or shortly ovoid axillary heads, one and a half to two inches in diameter, an inch long, very shortly pedicelled; bracts minute, subulate. Calyx-twbe about one-third of an inch long, oblong, softly hirsute, green, teeth very short, ovate. Corolla primrose-yellow ; standard oblong, recurved, shortly two-lobed ; wing-petals rather shorter than the standard, claw nearly as long as the ovate-oblong obtuse limb, base with an incurved auricle; keel petals like the wings, but shorter and broader. Ovary hirsute. Pod very small, included in the calyx-tube, ovoid-oblong, beaked, hirsute, 2-celled; cells 1-2-seeded. Seeds sub-reniform, com- pressed.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Section of calyx with ovary ; 2, wing-petal ; 3, keel-petal ; 4, stamens and ovary ; 5, fruiting calyx; 6, seed :—All enlarged. 7625 i. JN. Fitch lth M.S, L. Reeve & C°London. Tap. 7623, KNIPHOFIA tonatconrs. Native of Natal. Nat, Ord. Litiacka.—Tribe HEMEROCALLER. * Genus Knipnoria, Meench, (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 775.) Kyrrnorta longicollis; foliis multis linearibus acuminatis firmulis viridibus margine scabris dorso acute carinatis, pedunculo stricto erecto foliis breviore, racemo densissimo oblongo, pedicellis brevissimis cernuis, _ bracteis ovatis scariosis pedicellis longioribus, perianthio luteo elongato _ subcylindrico infra medium leviter constricto, lobis parvis ovatis, staminibus styloque demum distincto exsertis. K. longicollis, Hort. Leichtlin, ex Baker in Gard. Chron, 1893, vol. xiii. p. 682, et in Fl. Cap. vol. vi. p. 284. - his new Kniphofia is nearly allied to the old well- known K. aloides, Moench (K. Uvaria, Hook. in Bot. Mag. tab. 4816), but is dwarfer in habit, with firmer, bright green leaves, and bright yellow flowers, without any tinge of red. It was imported from Natal by Herrn Max Leichtlin, and first flowered at Baden Baden in the summer of 1893. Our drawing was made from a plant flowered by E. Gumbleton, Esq., at Queenstown, County Cork, in February, 1897. We have not yet received any dried specimen, and do not know at what height above sea-level -_ it grows in its native country. If it prove to be as hardy as K. aloides, it will be a valuable acquisition to our gardens. Descr.—Leaves many in a tuft, linear, bright green, two r three feet long, tapering gradually to a long point, firm texture, scabrous on the margin, acutely keeled on the back. Pedunele stiffly erect, shorter than the leaves. Raceme oblong, very dense, half a foot long; pedicels very short, cernuous, all the flowers bright, light yellow, tinged - occasionally with orange, without any tinge of red; bracts _ oyate, scariose, longer thin the pedicels. Perianth sub- -- November 1st, 1898, cylindrical, an inch and a quarter long, slightly constricted below the middle; lobes small, ovate. Stamens and style finally distinctly exserted; anthers small, oblong, light yellow.—J. G. Baker. 1, Margin of leaf; 2, flower; 3, front view of stamen; 4, back view of stamen; 5, style, all more or less enlarged, | fi i MAbs M'S.del, JN Fitch lith LReeve & C° London Tas. 7624, ALOE LEPTOPHYLLA. Native of Cape Colony. Nat. Ord. Littacrz.—Tribe ALOINEs. Genus Atoz, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 776.) Aor leptophylla ; caudice simplici, foliis dense rosulatis recurvatis lanceolatis acuminatis pro genere tenuibus viridibus punctis et lineis albidis copiosis decoratis dentibus marginalibus crebris magnis deltoideis, pedunculo simplici stricto erecto foliis longiore, racemo congesto capitato, pedicellis longis, bracteis parvis lanceolato-deltoideis, perianthio aurantiaco tubo subeylindrico supra ovarium constricto, lobis linearibus tubo brevioribus apice viridibus, staminibus styloque breviter exsertis. A. leptophylla, N. E. Brown, ex Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xviii. p. 165 ; Journ. Bot. 1889, p. 44; Fl. Cap. vol. vi. p. 313. ‘This fine Aloe was collected by Mr. Thomas Cooper in his travels in South Africa, about the year 1860, in the province of Worcester, not far from the town of Worcester, which is about eight hundred feet above sea-level. It is nearly allied to A. latifolia, Haworth, but the leaves are thinner in texture than in any other species of the group Maculatz, which is conspicuous for its copiously spotted leaves. The Kew plant, from which our drawing was made, was purchased from Mr. Cooper in 1897, and flowered in the Succulent House in April, 1898. Descr.—Stem reaching a length of half a foot, and a diameter of two inches below the rosette of leaves. Leaves twelve to twenty in a rosette, recurved, lanceolate, acumi- nate, nine to twelve inches long, three or four inches broad, green, or tinged with purple, copiously spotted and striped with white, thinner in texture than in any of its allies; marginal teeth large, close, deltoid. 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Vincent Brooks Day &SonLt*imp : M.S deL JN Fitch ith. ~ L Reeve &C¢Landon. , i Tap. 7627. MUSA Baxert. - Native of Cochin-China ? Nat. Ord. Scrrammex.—Tribe Musa. Genus Musa, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p, 655.) Musa (Eumusa) Bakeri; caule 10 pedali cylindrico basi stolonifero, foliis dis- tincte petiolatis elongato-oblongis facie viridibus dorso pallidis basi _ inaqualibus leviter rotundatis vel subcuneatis, spicis brevibus cernuis, «= bracteis omnibus persistentibus vacuis lanceolatis floriferis inferioribus oblongis dorso rubro-brunneis intense glaucis intus sanguineis, floribus masculis unaqueque bractea 9~12, biseriatis, calycis dentibus brevibus obtusis apice cucullatis 2 exterioribus dorso cornutis cornu erecto 3 intermediis umbonatis centrali ceteris majore, petalo calyce dimidio breviore oblongo albo apice 3-lobo, lobo intermedio cuspidato, filamentis flavis rubro striatis recurvis staminodiis in fl. fem. cuspidatis, fructu immaturo acute trigono stigmateigloboso. M. Bakeri, Hook. f. in Hort. Kew. The present plant flowered for the first time in the palm- stove of the Royal Gardens, Kew, in October, 1895. It was received from the Jardin des Plantes at Paris in 1890. There is some doubt as to its native country, which M. Cornu believes to be Cochin-China. It belongs to the group of M. sapientum, from which it differs mainly by its short spike and brightly coloured bracts, which resemble those of M. rosacea, Jacqg., which forms a link ‘of connec- tion between the seetions Humusa and Rhodochlamys. M. rosacea is a much smaller, more slender plant, with narrower bracts, few flowers in a cluster, and a linear petal as long as the united sepals. Deser.—Stem ten feet high, and eight to ten inches in diameter at the base, cylindrical, green, stoloniferous. Leaves distinctly petioled, elongate-oblong, seven feet long by two feet broad, bright green on the upper surface, pale green beneath, unequal, rounded or sub-cuneate at the base; petiole two feet long. Spike short, drooping ; sterile bracts lanceolate; lower floriferous bracts oblong, half a foot long, reddish-brown, and intensely glaucous on the outside, bright crimson side. Male flowers nine to twelve in a cluster, distinctly biseriate ; sepals united DecemBER Ist, 1898. except at the tip, an inch and a half long, teeth short, all cucullate at the tip, the two outer with an erect horn as long as the tooth, intermediate umbonate at the apex ; petal whitish, oblong, three-lobed, cuspidate at the apex, half as long as the calyx. Stamens a little longer than the sepals. Unripe fruit oblong, acutely trigonous, green, narrowed gradually to the base, not distinctly stalked (in an early stage).—J. G. Baker. Fig. 1, Lower floriferous bract, life size ; 2, male flower, life size; 3, apex of united sepals, enlarged; 4, petal, enlarged; 5, stamen, enlarged; 6, female flower, life size ; 7, unripe fruit, life size; 8, whole plant, much reduced. DavasonLt oY = OS Vincent Bro ; o & £ - 4 eal on a a Tas. 7628, CARDAMINE tarirotta. Native of the Pyrenees and &. Italy. Nat. Ord. Cructrerz,—Tribe ARABIDEX. Genus Carpamine, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 70.) CaRDAMINE latifolia; elata, robusta, glaberrima, rhizomate ramoso nodoso, foliis 6-10 poll. longis lyrato-pinnatisectis, segmentis deorsum accres- centibus repando-subcrenatis crassiusculis glaberrimis v. ciliatis, lateralibus paucis distantibus orbiculatis, terminali multo majore rotundato-reniform, superioribus trifoliolatis, inflorescentia erecta paniculata multiflora floribus $ poll. diam. ad apices ramorum subcorymbosis, pedicellis. polli- caribus, sepalis oblongis glaberrimis, petalis roseo-lilacinis raro albis, _ antheris oblongis flavis, siliquis 14 pollicaribus erectis strictis 1 poll. latis stylo brevi terminatis, stigmate obtuso, valvis enerviis, seminibus numerosis late oblongis fuscis, radicula obliqua accumbente. C. latifolia, Vahl, Symb. vol. ii. B 77. DC. Fl. Franc. Ed. 3, vol. iv. p. 683. Loisel. Fl. Gall. vol. ii. p. 84. Duby, Bot. Gall. p. 82. Lapeyr. Hist. Abrégé Pl. Pyren. p. 683. Benth. Cat. Pl. Pyren. p.66. Gren §& Godr. Fl. Franc. vol. i. p. 108. Wilik. § Lange, Prodr. Fl. Hisp. vol. iii. p. 824. Amo, Fl. Fanerog. Esp. et Port. vol. vi. p. 551. Groenl. in Rev. Hortic. 1860, p. 460, figs. 93, 94. C. Chelidonii, Zam. Dict. vol. ii. p. 183. C. raphanifolia, Pourr. in Mem. Acad. Toul. vol. iii. (1788) p. 310, C. pratensis, Tenore, Viagg. in Abruz. 1830, p. 77 (ex Gay ia Hb. Kew). C. pratensis, 8. calabrica, Tenore, Syll. Fl. Neap. p. 319. Cardamine latifolia resembles a gigantic form of the common Lady’s Smock (C. pratensis). It is a native of the alpine valleys of the Pyrenees, growing by streams, and delighting in the spray of cataracts, as on the Prats de Mollo, Pas de Roland, Vallée de Viella, and the Republic of Andorre. It also occurs in a very remote locality from _ these, namely the mountains of Calabria in the South of Italy. It is well distinguished from C. pratensis by its great size, and the absence of pinnatifid upper leaves with narrow segments. The specimen here ‘figured grows in the Rock Garden of the Royal Gardens, where it flowers annually in May. Descr.—footstock branching, nodose. Stem twelve to eighteen inches high, stout, green, striate, paniculately branched above. Leaves rather fleshy, bright green, lower DrceMBER Ist, 1898, six to ten inches long, lyrate-pinnatisect, petiole and rhachis stout, terminal segment orbicular, attaining three inches in diameter, obscurely crenate, lateral segments few, much smaller, alternate, distant, sessile, orbicular, lowest very small; upper leaves trifoliolate, all petiolulate, seg- ments entire, or more or less unequally crenately lobulate, terminal largest. Flowers many, in erect, short racemes terminating the stem and branches, three-quarters of an inch in diameter, pedicels one half to one inch long, sub- erect. Sepals oblong, obtuse, glabrous. Petals with a short, broad, toothed claw, and an orbicular, rosy lilac, rarely white, orbicular limb one-third of an inch in diameter. Pod half an inch long, one-fifth of an inch broad, many-seeded; style short, stigma obtuse. Seeds pale brown—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Claw of petal; 2, hypogynous glands, stamens and ovary ; 3, ovary and glands; 4, pods; 5, seed ; 6, embryo; 7, transverse section of seed :—A// enlarged, except 4, which is of nat. size. ay ee a 5 on Oe Simp Sncent Brooks Day & Song Tas. 7629. PAPHTOPEDILUM Mastersianum. Native of Java. Nat. Ord. Orncuipes.—Tribe CyPpripEDIER, Genus Paruiorepitum (Pfizer, Morphol. Stud. Orchid. p. 11.) Papniorepitum Mastersianum; robustum, foliis late lineari-oblongis obtusis supra tessellatis subtus pallidis, scapo valido rufo-brunneo pilis patentibus purpureis hirsuto 1-2-floro, floribus magnis 4 poll. latis, perianthio crassiusculo, bracteis 1} poll. longis cymbiformibus herbaceis, ovario fere tripollicari angulis hirsutis, sepalo dorsali erecto 2 poll. lato orbiculari ciliolato intus stramineo viridi striato nervis dorso hirsutis, lateralibus in laminam minorem viridem late ovatam obtusam labello breviorem con- fluentibus, petalis sepalis longioribus divaricatis lineari-oblongis apice _rotundatis fusco-purpureis ciliatis basin versus verrucis purpureis ornatis, labello sacciformi fusco-purpureo versus orem subdilatatum amplum flavido, marginibus inflexis punctatis, staminodio parvo viridi ambitu orbiculari hippocrepiformi cuspidibus acutis. C. Mastersianum, Pitz, in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. vol. xix. (1895) p. 40, Cypripedium Mastersianum, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1879, vol. ii. p. 102, Masters, 1. c. 1894, vol. i. p. 593, t. 74. Veitch, Man. Orchid. part. iv. p.39. Lindenia, vol. iv. t. 159. Rolfe in Orchid. Rev. vol.-ii. p. 17, fig. 4. A very robust and large-flowered species of the ex- tensive genus Paphiopedilum, first described by Reichen- bach in 1879, from a plant the native country of which was then doubtful, but which country Mr. Rolfe has ascertained to be Java, from a communication with Messrs. Low, who recently imported it from that island. My reasons for adopting Pfitzer’s generic name of Paphiopedilum are given under Tab. 7573. I think they are botanically unassailable, nevertheless I do not object to the substitution of Cypripedium for it,in common par- lance, just as I do of Aster chinensis for the ‘‘ China Aster,” though that plant differs by important characters from all the species of that vast genus, and is known to botanists as Callistephus hortensis. The plant of P. Mas- tersianum here figured, which flowered in the Tropical Orchid House of the Royal Gardens, Kew, in March, 1898, was obtained from Messrs. F. Sander & Co. It isa noble species, named in compliment to Dr. Masters, F.R.S., through whose exertions, following those of his DecEMBER Ist, 1898. predecessor, Dr. Lindley, the Gardener’s Chronicle has done more to extend a knowledge of the Orchidex than any other periodical. Deser.—Tall, very robust. Leaves six to nine inches long, by one and a half broad, linear-oblong, obtuse, tessellate above with dark and very pale green, very pale beneath. Scape stout, a foot to a foot and a half high, very dark red purple, hirsute with dark, spreading hairs, one to two-fld. Bracts an inch and a half long, cymbiform, herbaceous, erect, dark green, dorsally hirsute on the keel and towards the base. lower three inches across the petals, segments of perianth of a very thick texture. Dorsal sepal erect, orbicular, two inches broad, pale yellowish within, streaked with green from the base to three-fourths of its breadth, dorsally with hairy ribs. Petals spreading, linear-oblong, three-quarters of an inch broad, tip rounded, dull purplish brown, green, and marked with minute purple warts towards the base. Lip a large, inflated sac, of a dull red-purple colour, yellowish towards the somewhat dilated truncate mouth, inflected margins dotted. Staminode small, greenish, orbicular in outline, horse-shoe-shaped, with the incurved cusps acute, upper margin bifid. Ovary nearly three inches long, narrow, erect, ribs hispid with purple hairs.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Staminal column :—LEnlarged. ators cione sa ysnmatae amampentonese iLO LENO renee ieee ano acai ee | LReeve &C07 Lc | MS.del IN-Bitdith Tas. 76380. -‘CALADENTA carnza. VAR. alba, Native of E. Australia and Tasmania. Nat. Ord. Orcu1pEz.—Tribe Neorriea. Genus Canapenta, R. Br.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 612.) CataDEniA (Hucaladenia) carnea; gracilis, sparse pilosa, tuberibus globosis, folio elongato anguste lineari, floribus 1-3, sepalis petalisque lateralibus consimilibus pollicaribus lanceolatis subacutis, sepalo dorsali erecto lineari-oblonge lateralibus deflexis paullo breviore, petalis deflexis, labello parvo sepalis vix dimidio breviore, lobis lateralibus latis apice rotundatis glabris, terminali parvo ovato obtuso recurvo callis clavellatis marginato, disco inter lobos laterales callis globosis sessilibus v. stipitatis bi-multi- seriatis ornato, columna alata, anthera rostrata, polliniis late obcordatis bilamellosis. C. carnea, R. Br. Prodr. p. 324. Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. p. 417. Endl. Iconogr. t.57. Hook. f. Fl. Tasman. vol. ii. p. 29, t. 124 A. Reichb. .s Beitr. Orch p. 28. Benth. Fl. Austral. vol. vi. p. 886. Fitzgerald, Austral. Orchid. vol. i. Synops, p.1. Ic. Caladen. t. 4. C. alata, R. Br, l.c. Lindl. l.c. 418. Hook. f. l.c. p. 80, t.125 A. Reichb. a 1. ec. 29. C. angustata, Hook. f. l. c. t. 125 B. PArethusa catenata, Sm. Exot. Bot. vol. ii. p. 29, t. 104. Yar. alba; sepalo dorsali columnaque virescentibus, sepalis lateralibus petalisque albis roseo viridique irroratis. C. alba, Br. l.c. p. 328. Fitz- gerald, l. c. Caladenia carnea is a widely distributed species in Australia from Rockhampton, under the tropic of Capri- corn, to the southern shores of Tasmania, and westward to St. Vincent Gulf in South Australia, varying a great deal in hairiness, and in the size and colour of the flowers, in the number of the calli on the disk of the lip, and in the breadth of the wings of the column. Bentham recognized three varieties; a typical one with pink sepals _ and petals, transverse bars of rose colour on the lip and column, and two rows of calli on the lip; a var. alba, with white flowers, and a var. quadriseriata, with pink flowers, and four rows of calli on the lip. In Tasmania, where I collected it in 1841, I recognized three forms, regarded by myself and by Mr. Archer, whose beautiful drawings are reproduced in the “Flora of Tasmania,” as species, DeEcEMBER Ist, 1898, which Bentham, rightly, I think, has reduced to O. carnea. These are (. carnea, R. Br., with pink sepals and petals, an erect dorsal sepal, and several rows of golden glands on the lip; OC. alata, R. Br., taller, more robust, with nearly white sepals and petals, erect dorsal sepal, and four rows of pink calli on the lip; C. angustata, with rose-coloured flowers, an arched dorsal sepal, broader lateral sepals and petals, and four rows of callion the lip. All these have transverse bars of pink at the base of the side-lobes of the lip, and on the column. The side-lobes are hardly pro- duced into lobes in alata and angustata. I have cited © Smith’s Arethusa catenata as a doubtful synonym, because the lip is figured as blue. OC. carnea is described by Mr. Fitzgerald as self-fertilizing. The Royal Gardens are ~ indebted to Mr. J. O’Brien, of Harrow-on-the-Hill, for tubers of the white-flowered variety here figured, which flowered in a stove in February of the present year. The figure of the pink-flowered var. is taken from the “ Flora Tasmanie.”’ Descr.—Stem six to twelve inches high, from nearly glabrous to more or less hairy and glandular. Leaves linear, variable in length. Flowers one to four, an inch to an inch and a half broad. Sepals and petals similar, white, pink, or greenish clouded with red, linear-lanceolate, sub-acute, all but the dorsal sepal more or less deflexed. Lip about half as long as the dorsal sepal, recurved beyond the middle, lateral lobes broad, obtuse, streaked with red, terminal small, ovate, with glandular margins, disk with two or more rows of stipitate capitate glands. Column winged.—J. D. H. Fig. A, White-flowered var.; A 1, lip; A 2, column; A 3, pollinia :—All enlarged; B, pink-flowered var. (from “ Flora Tasmanie,” t. 124); B 1, roots, of nat. size.; B 2, lip, enlarged. Laat adda arent viee Vincent Brooks,Day &Sonittimp ith Fiteh MS.aeLJN LReeve & C?Londcn Tas. 7631. FRITILLARIA PLURIFLORA, Native of Northern California. Nat. Ord. Lin1acraz.—Tribe TuLiPea. Genus Fritittarta, Linn. (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 817.) Faritinuarta (Theresia) pluriflora; bulbo magno squamis multis crassis oblongis, caule erecto elongato, foliis pluribus confertis ascendentibus lanceolatis vel linearibus inferioribus verticillatis vel oppositis superioribus alternis, racemo multifloro, pedicellis elongatis apice cernuis, bracteis magnis linearibus foliaceis, perianthio late aperto pallide rubro haud tessellato, segmentis oblongis obtusis foveola viridi carinata obscura predi- tis, staminibus perianthio distincte brevioribus, filamentis glabris, stylo apice tantum stigmatoso tricuspidato, capsule valvis dorso rotundatis. F. pluriflora, Torrey in Frem. Pl. Calif. Exsicc. No.213. Benth. Pl. Hartweg. p- 338 (name only). Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xiv. p. 270. S. Wats. in Proc. Amer. Acad, vol. xiv. p. 259; Bot. Calif. vol. ii. p. 169. This rare and little-known Californian Fritillary is very different from the ordinary European and Oriental species in its large bulb, widely-opened, untessellated, pale red flowers, numerous crowded leaves and style, three-cleft only at the very tip. Its nearest alliance is with J’. per- sica, Linn. (Bot. Mag. t. 1537), but that has comparatively dull, bell-shaped flowers. It was first gathered by Fremont in 1846, on the banks of the Feather river, an affluent of the Sacramento, in the Sierra Nevada, Northern California ; and two years later by Hartweg in the same locality. It has only lately been introduced into cultiva-_ tion in England. Our drawing was made from plants that flowered at Kew in a cold frame last March and April, the bulbs of which were presented to the Royal Gardens in 1895 by Mr. Carl Purdy of Ukiah, California, who has made a speciality of the cultivation of Californian bulbs. Descr.—Bulb large for the genus, globose, with many thick, oblong scales, an inch long. Stem terete, moderately stout, stiffly erect, a foot or more long. Leaves eight to fifteen, crowded, lanceolate or linear, ascending, the lower verticillate or opposite, the upper alternate. lowers four to twelve in a lax raceme, pedicels long, cernuous at the DeceMBER Ist, 1898. apex; bracts large, linear, foliaceous. Perianth about an inch long, pale red, opening widely when fully expanded ; segments oblong, obtuse, with an obscure green, linear, nectary. Stamens shorter than the perianth; filaments glabrous, longer than the anthers. Style long, tricus- pidate only at the tip. Capsule oblong, obtuse, deeply trisulcate ; valves rounded on the back.—J. G. Baker. Fig. 1, Front view of anther; 2, back view of anther; 3, pistil:—A// enlarged. INDEX To Vol. LIV. of the Turrp Serizs, or Vol. CXXIYV. of 3 the whole Work. 7587 Allium Schuberti, 7588 ‘s a 7624 Aloe leptophylla. 7619 Amelanchier canadensis, var. oblongifolia, 7592 Amomum hemisphericum. 7581 Anemone vernalis. 7596 Armeria ceespitosa. 7622 Astragalus ponticus. 7609 Buddleia variabilis. 7630 Caladenia carnea, 7626 Calliandra fulgens. 7603 Callianthemum rutefolium, var. anemonoides. 7616 Callistephus hortensis. 7606 Calochortus clavatus, 7572 Camoensia maxima. _ 7582 Camptosema pinnatum. 7628 Cardamine latifolia. 7599 Celastrus articulatus. 7602 Coelogyne Swaniana. 7607 Cortaderia jubata. 7597 Crinum Woodrowi. 7590 Crocus Malyi. 7617 Cyrtosperma senegalense. 7618 Cytisus purgans. 7579 Daphne Blagayana. 7580 Dasystachys Drimiopsis. 7584 Dracaena Godseffiana. 7586 Epidendrum xanthinum. 7605 Eria latibracteata. 7583 Erythronium Hartwegi. 7612 Eulophiella Peetersiana. 7613 i a 7620 Feijoa Sellowiana. 7631 Fritillaria pluriflora. 7585 Haequetia Epipactis. 7604 Iris Grant-Duffi. 7595 Kalanchoe flammea. 7623 Kniphofia longicollis. 7575 Lathyrus splendens, 7610 Ledum glandulosum. 7615 Lobelia intertexta. 7598 Morisia hypogea. 7627 Musa Bakeri. 7589 Myosotis dissitiflora, var. 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