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[All rights reserved.] INDEX To Vol. XLVIII. of the Txairp Srrins, or Vol. OXVIIL. of the whole Work. 2 7270 Aganisia ionoptera. 7269 Kniphofia pauciflora. 7271 Alloplectus discolor. 7234 Lilium Grayi. 7237 Altheea ficifolia. jaee. y Dewi. 7231 Beaufortia sparsa. : 7227 » primulinum, 7219 Begonia glaucophylla. 7257 ~~ ,,_~—s sulphureum, 7247 Bomarea frondea. 7226 Lysimachia paridiformis. _7264 Calochortus Kennedyi. 7245 Masdevallia leontoglossa. 7248 Capparis flexuosa. 7268 Microstylis Scottii. 7263 Carludovica microcephala. 7260 Monodora grandiflora. 7222 Cereus giganteus. 7262 Moorea irrorata. 7265 Chameedorea stolonifera. 7212 Morea Robinsoniana. 7261 Cheiranthera parviflora. 7221 Neobenthamia gracilis, 7213 Chirita depressa, 7252 Nicotiana tomentosa. 7225 Chrysanthemum rotundifo- | 7249 Pasithea cerulea, lium. 7235 Pitoearpus pennatifolius. 7259 Cirrhopetalum Makoyanum. | 7240 Porana paniculata. 7229 Pe ornatissimum, | 7258 Potentilla Salesoviana. 7214 € Thouarsii. 7246 Primula Forbesii. 7223 Dianthus callizonus. rhs y na imperialis, 7236 Didymocarpus lacunosa. 1210 Poissoni. 7256 Disa Cooperi. 7266 Ranunculus carpaticus. 7243 ,, incarnata. 7233 Restrepia striata. 7238 Eria marginata. | 7241 Rosa pomifera. 7267 Ferula tingitana. 7239 Senecio (Kleinia) Galpini. 7250 Furcrea pubescens, 7254 Stemona Curtisii. _ 7224 Gongora gratulabunda. 7230 Streptocarpus Galpini. 7244 Gynura sarmentosa, 7242 Synandrospadix vermitoxicus 7228 Habenaria longecalcarata. 7253 Tulipa Billietiana. -7218 Hydnophytum Forbesii. 7255 Vernonia podocoma. 7215 Iris Fosteriana. 7220 Vicia narbonensis. 7251 ~,; Lortetii. 48 vols., royal 8vo, with 3400 hand-coloured Plates, 42s. each. 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REEVE & Co., 5, ‘HENRIETTA ee COVENT aganopan On the 1st of every Month, ae ths Shilling and Taisen JOURNAL OF BOTANY, 2 BRITISH AND FOREIGN. _Epirep By JAMES BRITTEN, F LS. - Contains original articles by our Jeading British Botanists, Notices of Bock : 2 Proceedings of Societies, and Botanical News. Especial attention is no = to Britiah: pee ‘There: is 1 nag at least one plate, drawn ae a | well-k ee Vineet. Brooks Day &Son inp M.S.del J.N-Btdhlith. 2.°) a ~? London eeve & Rs L Tas. 7212. MORA‘A Rosinsontana. Native of Lord Howe’s Island. Nat. Ord. Intprx.—Tribe Moraeam. Genus Morama, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 688.) Mora Rodbinsoniana ; elata, densissime coespitosa, foliis radicalibus ensiformi- bus longe acuminatis, pedunculo valido basi folioso paniculatim ramoso, bracteis inferioribus elongatis foliaceis acuminatis, superioribus oblongis subacutis, supremis ovarium vaginantibus, floribus amplis breviter pedi- cellatis albis, perianthii segmentis patentibus breviter unguiculatis e basi liberis, 3 exterioribus late ovatis obtusis basi primulinis et macula auran- tiaca 2-loba notatis, 3 interioribus paullo minoribus oblongis obtusis con- coloribus, filamentis liberis anthera lineari brevioribus, connectivo in apiculum obtusum producto, styli ramis, late oblongis 2-lobis denticulatis, lobis rotundatis, crista brevi erosa, capsula clavata obscure hexagona. M. Robinsoniana, Moore & Muell. in F. Muell. Fragment. vol. vii. p. 153 Benth, Fl. Austral. vol. vi. p. 409. Iris Robinsoniana, F. Muell. lc.; G. Benn. in Gard. Chron. 1872, 393, | fig. 128, 124; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. (1878) 147; W. Watson in Gard. Chron. 1891, i. 457, 459, fig. 94, 95. Perhaps the most! curious point in the history of this magnificent plant is the difficulty hitherto experienced in flowering it in Europe. The first person who called atten- tion to its existence was the late Dr. Foulis, of Sydney, a gentleman who had resided in Lord Howe’s Island, and who informed Mr. Moore, of the Sydney Botanical Gardens, and Dr. G. Bennett, of that city, that he had discovered it, and had introduced it some years previously into his garden (at. Sydney) where it had died without flowering; he further added that it was known to settlers in Lord Howe’s Island as “‘ the Wedding flower.” Dr. Bennett’s account of it was communicated to the Gardener’s Chronicle (1872, p-. 393), together with a sketch of the whole plant, and of a flower, by Mr. E. Bennett. The first botanical account of it is that contained in Mr. Moore’s “ Report on the Vegetation of Lord Howe’s Island,’’ dated September, 1869, where it is described as an Iridaceous plant resembling a large species of Mora (but which would probably prove to be a new genus) with leaves six feet long by two or three Janvany Ist, 1892. | i inches in breadth; a candelabra-like flowering stem six feet high, and flowers four inches in diameter ; and where it is further stated that it would be published by Baron Mueller and dedicated to Sir Hercules Robinson, K.C.M.G., Governor of New South Wales. Mr. Moore introduced the plant into the Sydney Botanical Gardens, where it flowered in December, 1871. The next accounts of its flowering are respectively in the Botanical Garden of Hakgala, in Ceylon, in 1885, under the management of Mr. Nock; in Mr. Dorrien Smith’s garden in the Scilly Islands, in 1888, and in the Royal Gardens, Kew, in June, 1891. Morea Robinsoniana has, as will be seen by the citations under the description, been referred both to Moraa and to Iris, genera which differ but slightly in botanical cha- racters, but most markedly in geographical distribution. Fortunately our plant is a Morea, on both counts, for the perianth segments are sessile on the top of the ovary, and not united into a tube, as in vis, and whereas there are no species of Jris in the Southern hemisphere, Morea is almost confined to Africa and South of the Tropics, a few species only reaching Abyssinia. M. Robinsoniana is the only extra African species, and is one of the many proofs of affinity between the Australian and the Cape Floras. The native country of M. Robinsoniana igs an islet only six and a half miles long by three quarters of a mile in average width, lying between Australia and New Zealand, in Lat. 31° 8., Long. 158° E., about four hundred miles east of Port Macquarie. In its vege- tation the islet partakes of those of Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands, with a most remarkable predominance of endemic forms, especially of Palms, three species of which are peculiar to it. The plant figured was received at Kew from Mr. Chas. Moore, F.L.S., of the Sydney Botanical Gardens, in about 18738, and flowered for the first time on June 20th, 1891, continuing to bloom till the beginning of the following October, and having had in the interval four hundred and fifty-seven flowers, all borne by three branches of — the panicle, and which remained open only one d ivi out a delicious odour.—J. D. H. Z Peete ° Fig. 1 and 2, stamens; 3, arm of style :— enlarged. 7218. 3 sepsis ee \WSaEEEZ Vincent Brooks, Day &Son Imp. L.Reeve & C° London. Tas. 7213. CHIRITA pepressa. Native of China. Nat. Ord. Gusneracex. Tribe CrR?TANDREA, Genus Curnita, Ham. (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p, 1022.) Cuirita depressa ; humilis, surculifera, foliis rosulatis breviter late petiolatis, late ovatis obtusis obtuse serratis penninerviis utrinque sericeo puberulis subtus niveis nervis crassis, cymis paucifloris breviter pedunculatis, floribus 1} pollicaribus calycis pubescentis et glanduloso-pilosi laciniis 5 inequilongis linearibus erectis tubo corolle multo brevioribus, corolle violacew tubo subinflato lobis rotundatis triplo longiore, staminibus medio tubo insertis, filamentis incurvis glaberrimis, antheris parvis co- herentibus nudis oblongis parallelis, staminodiis 2 filiformibus incurvis glandulosis capitellatis, tertio minimo erecto demissius inserto, disco annulari sinuato glaberrimo, ovario styloque valido apice incurvo pubes- centibus et sparse glandulosis, The habit of this Chirita is quite unlike that of any other of the genus known tome. A very short stout rhizome bears a tuft of rosulate leaves, and sends out all round from below the insertion of the leaves stout green surculi, as thick as a swan’s quill, that root at the apex and form plants similar to the parent. The whole forming a dense mass of foliage that quickly fills a pan. The plant is very succulent, of a pale green colour, except the under sides of the leaves, which are clothed with an almost snow-white pubescence. The flowers, which are abundantly produced, are disposed in bibracteate cymes terminating very short, stout peduncles, so short that the flowers appear nestled amongst the leaves. Its nearest congener is U. eburnea, Hance (Journ. Bot. vol. v. 1883, p. 168), a: native of the same province in China, which has similarly thick almost fleshy leaves, with broad petioles and covered with the same very fine pubescence, but the leaves are quite entire, and instead of being many- and penni-nerved the nerves are very few and irregularly disposed and branched. The flowers of (. eburnea are similar to those of CU. depressa in form, but its cymes are on long ascending peduncles, the JanvakyY lst, 1892, corolla is ivory-white streaked with red, the bracts are very large and broad, the anthers are densely bearded at the back, and amongst the numerous specimens in the Her- barium at Kew none show any signs of having been in- creased by suckers from the rootstock. H. eburnea is a very handsome species, and it is to be hoped that Mr. Ford, who has sent dried specimens, will procure living plants of it. It must be observed that the drawing here given of C. depressa was taken from a very young specimen, the first that flowered, and it conveys no idea of the dimension which the plant attains; nor does it show the mode of increase by suckers, for this is in all states (as grown at Kew) concealed by the dense foliage. C. depressa is a native of a district on the North river of the Canton (Kwantung) Province of China, where it was procured by Mr. C. Ford, Superintendent of the Hong Kong Botanical Gardens, who sent living plants of it to Kew in 1889, which flowered in June, 1891.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Portion of leaf showing the pubescence of the surface; 2, calyx and style; 3, tube of corolla laid open; 4, top of pedicel, disk and ovary; 5, trans- verse section of ovary :—all enlarged, é Vaicert Brooks,Day & Son imp M.S.del, J N-Fitch hth. 7 Reeve & C° London Tas. 7214. CIRRHOPETALUM Trovarsi. Native of Mauritius and the Pacific Islands. Nat. Ord. OrcuipEm.—Tribe Errpenpreg. Genus Cirruoretatum, Lindl. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 505.) Crrruopetatum (Umbellate) Thowarsii; pseudobulbis ovoideis alte costatis demum nudis, foliis lineari-oblongis obtusis in petiolum brevem angus- tatis supra medio profunde sulcatis costa subtus valida, marginibus recurvis, scapo elongato gracili decurvo vaginis 2-3 brevibus appressis, umbella pluriflora unilaterali, bracteis subulatis pedicellis dimidio bre-. vioribus, floribus pallide flavis, sepalo dorsali hemispherico glanduloso- punctato in caudam longiorem filiformem apice subincrassatam repente constricto, lateralibus dorsali pluries longioribus cohxrentibus impunctatis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis enerviis supra convexis, petalis sepalo dorsali equilongis ovatis aristatis glanduloso-punctatis pilis elongatis ciliatis, labello aureo breviter stipitato recurvo linguzformi obtuso basi dilatato puberulo marginibus recurvis crenulatis, columne_ brachiis elongatis subulatis erectis, anthera antice erosa. C. Thouarsii, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. sub t. 832; Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 58, partim. (non Bot. Reg. 1838, t. 11, nec Bot. Mag. t. 4237); Rolfe in Gard. Chron. 1891, vol. ii. p. 69. C. umbellatum, Hook. et Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 71 (excl. cit. Reinw.). Bulbophyllum longiflorum, Thouars Orchid. Afr. t. 98; (non S. Moore in Baker Fl. Maurit. 346); Guillem. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 2, vii. (1839), p. 179; Seem. Fl. Viti, p. 301. Epidendrum umbellatum, Forst. Prodr. 323. , Cymbidium umbellatum, Spreng. Syst. Veg. vol. iii. p. 723. A very interesting plant, as being that upon which the genius Cirrhopetalum was founded by Lindley in the Botanical Register in 1824. Subsequently, in the ‘‘ Genera and Species of Orchidesw”’ Lindley identified it with the Mauritian plant of Thouars, three others from very distant countries, namely the Zyloglossum wmbellatum, Reinw., of Java, the Epidendrum umbellatum, Forst., of the Society Islands, and a Philippine Island plant, afterwards figured in the Botanical Register (vol. xxiv. t. 11) and in this’ work (t. 4237) as C. Thouarsii. Referring to the vast distances between these localities, Lindley observes that in respect of its distribution C. Thouarsiit has no parallel amongst Orchideous plants. Such would no doubt be the JanvuaRy Ist, 1892. case if proved, but considering the difficulty of identifying orchids from herbarium specimens, and the very scanty materials at the great orchidologists’ disposal fifty years and more ago, it appeared to me that so remarkable a statement required confirmation, and I have therefore carefully investigated the subject with the aid of the more numerous and better specimens now accessible at, Kew, with the result, that if not wholly reliable, Lindley’s con- clusion was so in the main. Of the Mauritian CO. Thouarsii, Lindley had to depend solely on the plate in Thouars’ work, and for the supposed Javan plant he no doubt relied on a meagre description, for a copy by Lindley of a drawing by Reinwardt himself of his Zyloglossum wmbellatum, which I find in Lindley’s Herbarium (and which was no doubt obtained after he had referred the species to 0. Thouarsit), shows that it is a very different species, with a broadly elliptic leaf, obtuse lateral sepals, and no awn to the dorsal sepal, while the petals are quite glabrous ; further it ig a native of the Celebes, not of Java. With regard to the Philippine plant, which was afterwards published as C. Thouarsii in both this Magazine and in the Botanical Register, it differs from the Mauritian in the numerous flowers, the dorsal sepal is smaller and narrower, the petals are sharply serrate, not fringed with long hairs, and the arms of the column are much shorter. The Society Island plant remains. I have examined speci- mens of it from the Tahiti, the Fiji, and Society Islands and fail to find any difference between them and the Mauritian. Thus confirming Dr. Lindley’s statement in the main, though not in detail, I have only to add that the colour of the flower varies in both the Mauritius and Pacific Islands specimens from yellow to a reddish brown. C. Thouarsii was sent to the Royal Gardens by Mr. E. E. Bewsher, of the New Oriental Bank Corporation, Mauritius, a gentleman who has taken up the study of the Botany of the Island, and will no doubt by diligent exploration add much of interest to its flora; it flowered in the Royal Gardens in July, 1891,—J. D. H ee le ee ith all but the bases of the lat. er; 5, pollinia :—aJ] enlarged, Fig. 1, Flower, w ; -2, lip; 3, column; 4, anth eral sepals removed Pp Mp. uh saeintnscert Vincert.Brooks,Day &Sar M 8. del, JNFitch hth. Tas. 7215. TRIS Fosrertana. Native of Afghamstan. Nat. Ord. Intpra.—Tribe Mon aE. \ Genus Iris, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 686.) Inis (Xiphion) Fosteriana bulbo oblongo-cylindrico tunicis membranaceis brunneis, fibris radicalibus crassis, foliis 4-6 confertis rigidulis falcatis lanceolatis acuminatis pallide viridibus marginibus incrassatis, pedunculo . . brevi seepissime monocephalo, spathe valvis ventricosis subscariosis pal- lide viridibus, perianthii_ tubo producto segmentis exterioribus luteis obovatis in limbo ungui lato breviori, segmentis’ interioribus pendulis lilacinis obovato-unguiculatis, styli cristis magnis oblique ovatis. L. Fosteriana, Aitch. et Baker in Trans. Linn. Soe. Ser. 2 Bot. vol. iti. p. 114. This new species of bulbous Iris belongs to the same group as I. orchioides (Bot. Mag., tab. 7111), and I. sindjar- ensis (Bot. Mag., tab. 7145). From a horticultural point of view it differs from all its allies in the diversity in colour of the different parts of the flower. It was discovered in 1884 by Surgeon-Major Aitchison, F.R.S., whilst acting as naturalist to the Afghanistan Delimitation Commission, erowing plentifully at Badghis in dry soil on the low hills at an elevation of three thousand feet above sea-level. These spring-flowering bulbous Irises of Central Asia are- very difficult to cultivate in our comparatively damp sun- less climate, but here, as in so many other cases, Professor Foster, after whom the species was named, has surmounted the difficulty, and our drawing was made from specimens which he sent from Cambridge this present spring. Desor. Buld oblong-cylindrical, about an inch in diameter, with brown membranous outer tunics produced above its neck and many fleshy root fibres. Leaves four to six, con- temporary with the flowers, crowded, falcate, lanceolate- acuminate, firm in texture, pale green, channelled down the face, strongly ribbed and furnished with a pale thickened horny boarder. 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Prmvta Poissoni; elata, robusta, glaberrima, efarinosa, foliis rigide coriaceis glaucescentibus obovato-oblongis apice rotundatis argute dentatis, costa valida in petiolum latissimum vaginantem dilatata, nervis ascen- dentibus gracillimis, scapo valido foliis multoties longiore tereti, floribus perplurimis amplis in verticillos superpositos congestis, bracteis lanceo- latis erectis herbaceis pedicellos squantibus, calyce ¢ poll. longo tereti supra medium 5 fido basi rotundato lobis erectis ovato-lanceolatis sub- acutis, corollze tubo infundibulari calyce paullo longiore intus puberulo, limbo explanato roseo, lobis obcordatis crenulatis, ore annulo crenato aureo instructo, antheris parvis basin versus tubo corolle sessilibus, ovario globoso, stylo breve stigmato capitato, capsula obovoidea late umbonata calyce fere squilonga. P. Poissoni, Franchet in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. vol. xxxiti. (1886) p. 67; Paz Monogr. Prim. in Engl. Jahrb.: Forbes & Hemsl. in Journ, Linn. Soc. vol. xxvi. (1889) p. 41. — On Tab. 5916 is figured Primula japonica, which may be considered as the type of the Asiatic species with superposed whorls of flowers; and at Tab. 6732 another species with similar inflorescence, P. prolifera, Wall., under which I classed the Javanese P. imperialis, Jungh. (Cankrienia chrysantha, De Vriese), an error which I hasten to acknow- ledge, and shall shortly atone for by the publication of the true P. imperialis, which has flowered at Kew, and of which a drawing has been made for this work. Recent discoveries in the interior of China have added several other species — with the same inflorescence, including the subject of the present plate, which differs from both those first mentioned in the much more coriaceous pale subglaucous leaves, the funnel-shaped tube of the corolla, and especially in the capsule, which is not globose but shortly obovoid. Seedlings of P. 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PrRIMULA imperialis ; elata, robusta, sub-efarinosa, foliis elongato-obovatis spa- thulatisve anguste denticulatis apice rotundatis subcoriacceis, inter nervos depressos creberrime bullato-reticulatis, subtus pallidioribus dense lacu- nosis glandulis minimis globosis obsitis, costa ampla crassa, scapo valido, verticillis dense multi-floris, bracteis numerosis erectis lineari-subulatis basi confluentibus quam pedicellos suberectos brevioribus, calyce cupulari ad medium 5-fido basi rotundato, lobis triangularibus erectis obtusis. corolle ochraceze tubo calyce duplo longiore, fauce subinflato crenulatim annu- lato, lobis fere rotundatis 2-fidis, ovario globoso, stylo gracili, antheris parvis, capsula globosa calyci xquilonga late umbonata, seminibus minutis obtuse angulatis papillosis. P. imperialis, Jungh. in Tijdschrift. Nat. Gesch. vol. vii. p. 298; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. vol. ii. p. 1001; Watson in “The Garden,” xl. 266, cum Ie. Cankrienia chrysantha, De Vriese in Jaarb. der Maatch. van Tuinhow. 1850, p. 30 (cum Ic. in Flore des. Serres iterata) ; Plant. Jungh. vol. i. p. 80. : As I have elsewhere stated (under P. Poissoni, Plate 7216), I erred when figuring and describing the Himalayan P. prolifera (Plate 6732), in referring the Javan P. im- perialis to that species. Comparing the figures now accessible of the two plants, as hitherto grown in this country, their union would seem to be hardly excusable, but a reference to the wild Javanese specimens of of P. imperialis, preserved in the Herbarium, and a com- parison of these with those of P. prolifera, will modify that opinion, so different are some of the native specimens of the former from the gigantic robust plant that has flowered at Kew, and so large are some of those of P. prolifera which even rival its congener. Nor must it be overlooked, as bearing on the subject, that recent investigations have proved that many Javanese and other Malayan mountain plants, once supposed to be endemic, are absolutely identical with Himalayan. On this matter I have only further to say, that a most careful re-examination of the wild, forms of the two species elicits as the only apparent distinctions the more robust habit, the thicker texture, broader mid-rib, close reticulate nervation, and bullate surface of the foliage of the Javanese plant and’ its deeper coloured flowers. Fesruaky Ist, 1892. In size, form, and denticulation, and glandular under- surfaces the leaves are identical, though the toothing is usually smaller and more regular in imperialis (in both the leaves are sometimes quite entire), and both havea slender scape and far fewer flowers with more slender pedicels than in the cultivated P. imperialis. Both species have fruited at Kew, and I have closely examined their seeds, hoping therein to find distinctive characters ; but in vain, their differences are hardly appreciable. In both the seeds are papillose and obtusely angled, those of P. prolifera are slightly the larger, and their papillee somewhat shorter. a may here observe that P. Poissoni (Tab. 7216), the wild and cultivated forms of which are as widely different as are the analogous conditions of P. imperialis, has ripened its seeds at Kew, and these are very small, subcubical, acutely angular, most minutely pitted, but not papillose. To clear up the history of these “ Imperial ” Primroses, it will be necessary to cultivate plants of P. prolifera from Wallich’s original habitat of the Khasia Hills in Eastern Bengal, altitude four thousand to six thousand feet, where I collected it myself in 1849, and sent seeds to Kew, which (as in the case of so many trials of P. imperialis) did not germinate. The Khasian may prove distinct from the Himalayan plant, which grows only at elevations twelve thousand to sixteen thousand feet, and may prove to be the same as the Javan, or a third species. P. imperialis ig a native of the summits of the loftiest Javan mountains at eight thousand to nine thousand fect elevation, where it was discovered by the Dutch botanist of the Buitenzorg Gardens, upwards of half a century ago, and was more recently figured by De Vriese, with the name of Cankrienia chrysantha, under an erroneous view of the structure of the fruit. The Kew plants were raised from seeds sent by Dr. Traub from the Buitenzorg Gardens in 1839. Mr. Watson informs me that the seeds were soaked in hot water and sown in tropical heat, and the seedlings removed into a greenhouse as they germinated. Also that a plant was placed in the open border in mid- summer last, which is alive up to this date (January 15, 1892) and which, though damaged as to the foliage, looks as if it might survive the winter.—J. D. H Fig. 1, Calyx and style; 2, corolla laid open; 3 and 4, stamens; 5, ovary :— all enlarged. mp + | i Son € ooks,Day & nt. Bi 64 Vin | London. T 4 O- J, Reeve & C. m 4 rt ae] oe - i. a oa ’ / ‘ Fy se a a , e => ; ) . « . rae sieieiel M : : ee ; Z ————————_—_ a "| 4 oe 5 ———~ 4 rx - : S “ ." ‘ FAR. €2065. HYDNOPHYTUM Forsgsn. Native of New Guinea. Nat. Ord. Rusrace#.—Tribe PsycHoTrRiga. Genus Hyvvopnytum, Jack. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 132.) Hypnornytum Forbesii; rhizomate tuberoso lobato echinato, caulibus bre- vibus teretibus, foliis subsessilibus obovatis obtusis v. subacutis, floribus axillaribus brevissime pedicellatis, calycis tubo brevissimo ore truncato, corolla tubo elongato gracili cylindraceo lobis ovatis pluries longiore ‘extus lobisque glaberrimis, fauce exannulato tubique parte saperiore villosis, filamentis antheris brevioribus, stylo gracili, stigmatibus 2 in- clusis, drupa ellipsoidea umbonata, pyrenis 2 obovoideo-oblongis com- pressis apice 2-lobis inter lobos longe rostratis. T must refer to Plate 6883 (Myrmecodia Beccarit) for some general observations on the wonderful group of epithytic plants to which Signor Beccari has given the very appropriate name of ‘ Piante ospitratice,” from their tuberous rootstocks affording nests for certain species of ants. Of these there are two principal Asiatic genera, natives of the Malayan and Pacific Coasts and Islands, both belonging to the order Rubiacea, and closely allied to one another. These are Myrmecodia, with eighteen species, and Hydnophytum with thirty, most of the species of both of which were discovered by Signor Beccari him- self, and are admirably described in detail and figured by him in hig capital work “ Malesia,” a work now abandoned through lack of the requisite funds to carry it on ; and with respect of which abandonment it may truly be said that the glory of Italian Botany has for the present departed. I can nowhere find amongst the species hitherto — described, any with which H. Forbesi can be confounded ; it is the only one hitherto described with an echinate rhizome, that character being hitherto supposed to be confined to Myrmecodia. In its long slender corolla tube :t resembles the Pacific Island species alone, of which there are six or seven, all differing in other characters from H. Forbesii. Its foliage so closely resembles that of the Fersrvuary Ist, 1892. - H. formicarium (the only British Indian species as yet known) that in a dried state they are undistinguishable ; but the rhizome of H. formicarium is unarmed, the corolla tube is very short and glabrous within, the fruit is crowned with a cup-shaped calyx-limb,and the pyrenes have no horn. H. Forbesii was discovered in New Guinea by Mr. Forbes, author of a ‘ Naturalist’s Wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago,’ who, in 1886, sent the plant here figured to the Royal Gardens, Kew, where it flowered in J uly, 1889, and fruited in the following October, and again in 1891,— mw. Fig. 1, Portion of branch and flowers ; 2, flowers ; 3, portion of corolla laid open; 4, fruit; 5 and 6, side and front view of pyrene; 7,seed; 8, embryo :~ all but fig. 1 enlarged. 7219 Vincertt Brooks,Day & Son Imp J.N. Fitch hth. y MS.del L Reeve & C2? London. TAS, 7219. BEGONIA GLAavUcoPpHYLLA. Native country unknown. Nat. Ord. Begonracez. Genus Brconta, Linn. (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 841.) Brconta (Gaerdtia) glaucophylla; glaberrima, caulibus elongatis pendulis ramosis albo-maculatis, foliis petiolatis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis marginibus undulatis penninerviis, basi rotundatis v. cordatis, supra late subtus pallide viridibus, paniculis effusis pedunculatis amplis multifloris nutantibus pendulisve, bracteis amplis ovatis floribusque magnis ete roseis ; fl. masc. sepalis 2 late ovatis obtusis, petalis 2 sepalis multo minoribus lineari-oblongis obtusis incurvis, staminibus numerosis toro parvo insertis, filamentis brevissimis liberis quam antheras lineari-obovatas apice retusas multoties brevioribus; fl. fem. sepalis 4 late ovatis obtusis con- cavis, styli ramis 3 brevibus, fasciis papillarum bis tortis cinctis, ovarii placentis 2-fidis segmentis extus solum ovuliferis, capsula late 3-alata, alis rotundatis roseis sepala equantibus, ala una ceteris multo majore. It is with hesitation that I propose the establishment as _ a species, of a Begonia ot which neither the fatherland nor the history is known; and which moreover may possibly be a hybrid. It seems however that so fine a plant as that known at Kew and long cultivated and widely distributed as B. glaucophylla should be represented by a good figure, such being the only means of insuring the recognition of a member of this enormous and difficult genus. That it belongs to the American section of the genus Gaerdtia, A.DC. (genus of Klotzsch), is I think certain, though differing from the character given in the Prodromus and by Klotzsch, in having only four sepals in the female flower, all others hitherto described having five. Two species of the section Gaerdtia are figured in this work. The one B. undulata, Plate 2723, with leaves a good deal like those of B. glaucophylla, but very small white flowers and narrow wings to the fruit ; the other, B. Kunthiana, Plate 5284, is totally different in habit and foliage, and has few large white flowers with obovate male petals. The nearest described ally of B. glaucophylla is probably B. maculata, Raddi, better known as B. argyrostigma, Fesruary lst, 1892. Fisch., under which name it is figured in the Botanical Register (Plate 666); this differs in its deeply unequally cordate leaves purple beneath, with white ocellate spots above, and a stout cartilaginous margin; the flowers too are quite small, and very pale pink, with five male sepals about a quarter of an inch long, and narrow subequal wings of the fruit. The white spots i in the stem of glauco- phylla indicate to me the possibility of its being a hybrid between the B. maculata and some other species. B. glaucophylla, grown in a basket, is a magnificent plant, from its long pendent branches, bright shining leaves, and copious clusters of highly ornamental flowers; as stated above it has for years been in cultivation at Kew.— dD. i: Figs. 1 and 2, Front, and 2, back view of stamen; 3, style arms; 4, trans- verse section of ovary :—all enlarged. ipa sé: cant Brooks Day & Son imp MS.del JN Fitch ith. L Reeve & C2 London. Tas. 7220. VICIA NARBONENSIS. Native of Hastern Europe and Western Asia. Nat. Ord. Leguminose#.—Tribe Viciex. Genus Vicia, Linn.; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 524.) Vicia narbonensis ; annua, robusta, glabra v. sparsim pilosa, caulibus 4-gonis angulis incrassatis, stipulis auriculeeformibus dentatis pectinatisve, foliis inferioribus uni-superioribus 2~4-jugis, rachi valida apice ramoso-cirrhifera, foliolis oblongis v. ovato v. oblongo-obovatis crassiusculis integris v. den- tatis nervis impressis, floribus 2-5in racemum brevem dispositis, calycis lobis subulato-lanceolatis recurvis, corolla calyce triplo Jongiore sordide rubra v. violacea striita, stylo infra apicem barbato, legumine late lineari compresso apice incurvo breviter rostrato, margine utroque setifero setis basi bulbosis, seminibus globosis v. oblongis Jevibus v. rugulosis. V. narbonensis, Linn. Sp. Pl. 737; DC. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 364; Koch, Synops. Fl, Germ, 215. V. serratifolia, Jacq. Fl. Austr. App. t. 8; Sturm, Flora Deutschi. vol. viii. t. 32. V. narbonensis e¢ serratifolia, Boiss. Fl. Orient. vol. ii. pp. 577, 578. The chief interest attaching to Vicia narbonensis rests in its having been supposed to be the origin of the common Bean (Vicia Faba, Linn. ; Faba vulgaris, Moench.). For this supposition the two weightiest arguments are (1) that the two plants belong to, and are the only species of one and the same section of Vicia; and (2) that V. Faba is said to have been found wild within the same area as that covered by V. narbonensis, viz. the desert of Mungan, in Mazanderan on the southern shores of the Caspian Sea, where it was collected by Lerche, a Russian traveller, whose specimen is preserved in the Herbarium of the St. Petersburgh Botanical Gardens. With regard to the first argument, it is much invalidated by the fact of the differences in almost every organ of the two species, especially in the strongly nerved, usually serrated leaflets of V. narbonensis, with many very spreading nerves and strongly reticulate nervules, and its flattened pods, which are remarkable for the little bristles with bulbous bases along both sutures; and of which bristles I find no traces in the cultivated V. Faba. On the other hand, Frepruary Ist, 1892. V. narbonensis, which has an immense geographical range, in cultivated and virgin soil, from Southern France to the Caucasus, and from North Africa to Arabia, Persia, and North India, is a variable plant, the stipules being some- times almost entire, the number of leaflets varying from two to eight and from quite entire to acutely deeply toothed. _ Their nervation too varies, though I never find the few almost straight nerves of V. Faba, the leaflets of which are three-nerved from the base. Then again, though V. Faba was no doubt found apparently wild by Lerche, there is no evidence that it was indigenous; and Boissier, whose knowledge of the Oriental Flora was unrivalled, expressly says that he never saw it inanindigenous state. The only author who expressly claims to have seen V. Faba wild is Munby, who includes it in his “ Catalogus Plantarum in Algeria sponte nascentium,” as being found at Oran. His specimen is in the Kew Herbarium, and ticketed by him- self, ‘ Vicia Faba, L., spontanea in pascuis argillosis, Figuia, Oran, Maii, 1865,” but Cosson, whose knowledge of Algerian plants ranked with Boissier’s of Oriental, affirms that he has never seen a wild specimen from North Africa. For some of the above information J am indebted to M. De Candolle’s valuable “‘ Origine des Plantes Cultivées,”’ where all the very earliest authorities for the history of the cultivated bean are given, together with much interest- ing information. This author does not favour the hypothesis of Vicia narbonensis being the origin of the Bean; but rather appears to consider the two plants as generically distinct. On the contrary, Bentham, who made the Leguminose a life-long study, says in the ‘Genera Plantarum ” (vi. p. 525) that V. Faba only differs from narbonensis in the thicker subfleshy or coriaceous pericarp, and is perhaps a race of that species produced by cultivation. The specimen of V. narbonensis here figured was raised from seed by Messrs Sutton and Co., the eminent seeds- men, and sent by them to Kew for determination in June of last year.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Standard; 2, wing; 3, keel; 4, stamens; 5, portion of ovary and ovule :—all enlarged. 7227 et BEE 6. LE eer Ws th $.deL.JN Fitet Let LOD, sek “Vincent Brocks Day & Son, imp: Worden. ot 4 L.Reeve & C: TAR, 7221. NEOBENTHAMIA agractms. Native of Eastern Tropical Africa. Nat. Ord. OrcuipEx.—Tribe VanpEx. Genus Nropentuamia, Rolfe in Gard. Chron. 1891, vol. ii. p. 272. NEoBENTHAMIA gracilis; terrestris, caulibus elongatis ramosis flexuosis sar- mentosis foliosis, foliis lineari-elongatis acuminatis basi vaginantibus recurvis, floribus in racemum brevem strictum terminalem breviter pedun- culatum dispositis patentibus albis longe pedicellatis, bracteis parvis setaceis, perianthii campanulati sepalis petalisque latioribus oblongis obtusis apicibus recurvis, labello a basi patente sepalis paullo longiore sessili obovato-oblongo subtruncato marginibus crispatis, disco medio aureo et maculis rubris 2-seriatim dispositis ornato basi puberulo, columna breviuscula crassa mutica, clinandrio parvo, anthera subhemi- spherica“ umbonata, polliniis 2 globosis inequaliter 2-fidis (v. 4 hemi- sphericis uno cujusvis paris minore) glandula rotundata squameformi breviter stipitatis. N. gracilis, Rolfe, l.c. A very singular terrestrial orchid, differing much in habit from any hitherto described, though clearly I think belonging to the tribe Vandex, subtribe Cymbidex, as Mr. Rolfe has determined. The long tufted stems, which attain four feet, are branched sparingly and are clothed with leaves almost throughout with grassy flaccid leaves. They do not root but apparently rest for support on neighbouring bushes, for under cultivation they require to be tied to a stake. The leaves are subdistichous, and droop, much as in some narrow-leaved Cymbidia, and the raceme is terminal as in that genus, from which Neobenthamia differs conspicuously in the shorter hardly spreading perianth and the lip not being erect, nor embracing the column, but spreading from the base and slightly recurved beyond the middle. 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Small Edition, ales aah in 5 Vols. a with 2 v5 Structural _ sek Se Ome Renve * Co, wR Henietta a Strec, Covent Garden. ParveD 3 ‘BY oraeer asp RIVINGTON, LD., BY. BOEeH s ee EP LETONE R Sie Week Reel wi wy NS a, =e Serer ry chink oe any a Perrys mys Sere ey Pure, ~ ee EIS SII Ea ony, Seg, ae SB aOR PD eispeatenen,- SESS hoe. — id hen ee a PAT PTE), Deep at ie TE : aes , = oeEDeenOningnie eos ; ae See srrorrs oie PERS Siw eres * SU a CN AAS age I page ERR ASR : sl oe: a Z : s : ap sau iN dee et ise ees oo OE ARTA Se. A PAE Vincent Brooks Day & Son imp L Reeve & C® Londan MS del, J.N.Fitchiith. Tas. 7222. CEREUS Gicanrzvs. Native of Southern California. Nat. Ord. Cactra.—Tribe EcuinocactTe2, Genus Cereus, Haw. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 849.) CerEvus (Lepidocereus) giganteus; erectus, cylindricus, simplex y. parce ramosus et candelabriformis, basin et apicem versus attenuatus, ramis paucis erectis, vertice applanato tomentoso, costis infra sub 13 sursum 18-21 rectis acutatis, sinubus acutis, areolis prominulis ovato-orbiculatis junioribus albido-tomentosis, aculeis rectis basi bulbosis tenuiter sulcatis, radialibus 10-16, inferioribus brevioribus, summis 4—-5-ezteris mul- toties longioribus validis, floribus apicem versus caulis aggregatis, ovario ovoideo, sepalis oblongo-ovatis obtusis imbricatis nudis v. parce aculeatis tecto, calycis tubo mediocri, sepalis lineari-oblongis obtusis arcte imbri- catis inferioribus in axillis lanigeris,tintimis 10-15 apicibus undulatis spathulatis, petalis 25-35 obovato-spathulatis convexis recurvis albis, sta- minibus numerossisimis, antheris dense congestis, stylo incluso, stig- matibus 12-18 linearibus obtusis, bacca obovoidea v. pyriformi, pericarpio demum 38-4-valvi, pulpa coccinea, seminibus numerossisimis. oblique obovoideis lucidis exalbuminosis, cotyledonibus foliaceis tramatis. ~ C. giganteus. Engelm. Cact. of Emory Rep, p. 22 (1848); in Am. Journ. Se. & Arts, Ser. ii. vol. xiv. (1852) p. 835; Synops. of Cactez of U. States, in Proc, Am. Acad. Arts & Se. vol. iit. (1856) p, 287; in Rep. of Whipple's Railroad Surv, vol, iv. (1856) p. 36; im Rep. of Emory Mew. Boundary Survey, vol. ii. pt. i. (1859) p. 42, t. LXI., LXIL., et Tab. Front. Trelease & A. Gray, Bot. Works of G. Engelm. pp. 118, 122, 125, 140, 161, 202, t. LXI. LXII.; Bot. Zeit. 1854, p. 616. The flowering of this wonderful plant in England must be considered one of the triumphs of Horticulture. It has been long known to science, very imperfectly at first, from accounts brought by W. H. Emory of a gigantic Cactus which he saw in 1847 during his military reconnaisance from the Missouri River to San Diego in California, and who figured it in several plates that accompany his Report (pp. 72—79). From seeds brought by Mr. Emory to Dr. Engelman, of St. Louis, that botanist pronounced it to be probably a species of Cereus, but it was not till Dr. Parry accompanied a second expedition to the same regions, in 1852, that the plant was scientifically known. From Dr. Parry’s notes Dr. Engelman was enabled to describe the Marcu Ist, 1892. species botanically in the American Journal of Science and Arts (November, 1852), when he named it C. giganteus. In that account he observes that ‘‘ it is no doubt the same plant of which Humboldt makes mention in his work on _ New Spain (vol. ii. p. 225), where he says that the Spanish missionaries found at the foot of the Californian mountains nothing but sand or rocks, on which grew a cylindrical Cactus (Organos del Tunal) of extraordinary height.” In a subsequent account of the plant in the Report of Whipple’s Expedition on a route along the thirty-fifth parallel, at p. 37, doubts are expressed as to the probability of Engelman’s surmise being tenable, on the ground of Humboldt having given no other characters for his “Organos del Tunal” beyond its size and edible fruit; — but surely if it be granted, as it must be, that C. giganteus is the tallest of all Cacti, and bears an edible fruit, it is natural to suppose that it is that referred to by Hum- boldt’s informants, and that to this illustrious traveller - we owe the first allusion to its existence. C. giganteus inhabits the dreariest and most torrid deserts of the American continent, in Southern California and Arizona, from the William’s and Gila rivers to Honors, Lat. 85° t6 26% N.. There trons of ff nse described as “ giving the landscape a very peculiar ap- pearance. As far as the eye can reach, in the valleys or on the mountains, little else but rocky boulders, and the stately yet awfully sombre aspect of this Cereus can be seen.’ Individual plants are said to attain a height of sixty feet, with scarcely a branch, and nearly two in diameter, and as if to add to their uncomeliness the thick fleshy substance of the upper part frequently rots away, exposing a woody interior framework, which breaks up into a crown of brush-like fragments that wave about in the wind. Young plants are globose and very slow of growth, they are found only under the shade of the “ Green bark Acacia,” Cerridium floridanum, a starved bushy tree that is scattered over the desert. Dr. Engelman mentions having one such infant Cereus of this Species which he believed to be eight or ten years old, but which was only five or six inches in diameter. ? The flowers, which are produced when the plant attains a height of ten or twelve feet, appear from May to July, and are succeeded by pear-shaped fruits three inches long, which burst open by three or four valves, exposing a bright red pulpy edible core full of seeds ; this core falls to the ground, the valves being retained on the tree and reflexed, when they resemble the petals of a scarlet flower. The ulp is sweet, somewhat resembling a fig, and is greedily eaten by the Indians, both raw and made into a kind of molasses and conserve. The flesh of the plant itself is bitter, in this respect differing from that of most Cacti, of which the flesh is acidulous. The Indian name of the plant is Suwarrow or Saguara, and the Mexican Pitajaya. For the above information I am indebted to the notes and observations of Drs. Engelman and Parry, scattered through the various Reports and papers cited above. The stem of the Kew plant is fourteen feet high and four and a half in girth, at the thickest part ; on its arrival it weighed twelve hundred weight and had no roots. It was purchased from Messrs. A. Blane and Co., Nursery- men, of Philadelphia, who own a piece of land in Mexico where this species grow. On arrival in 1890 it was potted and placed in the south end of the Palm House, where it flowered in July, 1891.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Apex of lower sepal; 2, inner sepal; 3, stigmas :—all enlarged. M.S. del, J.N Fitch lith. Vincent Brooks Day & Son imp A oo Tas, 7228, DIANTHUS CALLIZONUS. Native of Transylvania. Nat. Ord. CarroruyLLEa.—Tribe SILENEz. Genus Diantuus, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 14-4.) Diantuvs (dentati) callizonus ; perennis, glaberrimus, multicaulis, caulibus ad apices fere foliosis, foliis patulis glaucis linearibus v. lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis v. obtusis carinatis uninerviis margine integerrimis levibus v. scaberulis, floribus amplis solitariis breviter pedunculatis roseis zona interiore rubella albo punctata, bracteis 2-4 ovato-lanceolatis obtusis v. acutis herbaceis erecto-patentibus calyce paullo brevioribus v. zqui- longis, calycis cylindracei rubro striati lobis brevibus ovatis cilio- latis v. glabris acutis v. subaristatis petalorum lamina calyce longiore late cuneata striata apice crenata basin versus pilis erectis longis laxe barbata, stylis brevibus inclusis. D. callizonus, Schott et Kotschy, ex Schott in Bot, Zeit. vol. ix. (1851) p. 192; Walp. Ann. vol. iv. p. 275. D. nitidus, Baweng. Enum. Storp. Transylv. vol. i. p. 390 (non Kit.) ex Nym Ansp. 101. This lovely pink is a native of the calcareous alps of Transylvania, called Piatra Krajuluj, at an elevation of six thousand to seven thousand five hundred feet above the sea, where it was first made known by the celebrated botanical collector Kotschy. According to Nyman, how- ever, it is the D. nitidus of Baumgarten’s Transylvanian Flora, published in 1816, who cites as the habitat of D. nitidus the very mountains and elevation which D. callizonus inhabits. The affinity of D. callizonus is with - D. alpinus (Plate 1205 of this work) which has similarly solitary flowers, bracts, calyx, crenate petals with long hairs on the surface, and a deep red zone of colour at their bases speckled with white; but D. callizonus is a very much finer and more robust plant, with larger flowers and more glaucous leaves, like those of D. cxsius ; the flowers, too, are of a paler colour, though Mr. Dewar informs me that they do occur of a brighter colour than they are repre- sented in the figure here given, which faithfully represents the plant as placed before the artist. Maxcu Isr, 1892. According to a note by the late Mr. Bail, in his Herbarium now at Kew, that able European botanist who had botanized in Transylvania, regarded D. callizonus as hardly different from D. nitidus, which is a much taller, more slender plant, with much smaller flowers. D. callizonus was purchased from F. Sundermann, of Bavaria, in 1889, and flowered in the Rockery of the Royal Gardens in June, 1891, where, as Mr. Dewar informs me, it flourishes in an Eastern exposure.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Bracts and calyx, of the natural size; 2, petal; 3, stamens and pistil; 4 and 5, anthers :—all enlarged. Vincertt Brooks Day & San imp MS del J. NEitch ith. LReeve & C® Landon. Tas. 7224. GONGORA GRATULABUNDA. Native of New Grenada. Nat. Ord. Orcuipex.—Tribe Vanpex. Genus Goneora, Ruiz. & Pav ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 549.) Goncora gratulabunda; pseudobulbis oblongis alte acute costatis, foliis oblanceolatis caudato-acuminatis 5-nerviis, racemo laxifloro, pedunculo rachi pedicellisque elongatis rufo-fuscis, bracteis parvulis, floribus pen- dulis flavidis fusco rubro creberrime maculatis, sepalorum marginibua revolutis, dorsali oblongo-lanceolato acuto erecto, lateralibus reflexis ovato-lanceolatis acutis, petalis cultriformibus acuminatis columna bre- vioribus, labelli hypochilo cuneiforme tumido biaristato basi ecornuto, epichilo hypochilo zquilongo et aquilato ovato tumido undulato basi dorso saccato. G. gratulabunda, Reichb. f. in Bot. Zeit. L. (1857) 157 ; Xen. Orchid. vol. ii. p. 169, t. 170, f. 3. Of the species of Gongora hitherto described and figured G. gratulabunda, appears to me to be most nearly related to G. bufonia, Lindl., Bot. Reg. v. xxvii. (1841) t. 2, and v. xxxiil. (1847) t. 17, differing in the much larger and very differently coloured flowers ; those of G. bufonia being more or less of a vinous red and unspotted. In the form of the lip, from which the chief specific characters in the genus are taken by both Lindley and Reichenbach, they entirely agree, except that the gibbosities at the base of the hypochile in (7. bufonia are entirely absent in G. gratula- bunda. In this respect the latter agrees with G. portentosa (Tab. 6284) a species with very broad sepals, and with the epichile of the lip reduced toa subulate process. Other very closely allied forms of the species are figured by Reichenbach in his Xenia Orchidacea, as G. retrorsa, steno- glossa, Seideliana aromatica and superflua, all natives of the Northern States of South America, and very difficult to distinguish. G. gratulabunda is, according to Reichenbach, a doubtful native of New Grenada. 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There is usually at least one plate, drawn by a well-known © botanical artist, ce ee Subscription for the year 1892, payable in advance, Twetve Surunes - free. Terms for Advertisements may be had on application to the Publ London: Wesr, Newman, & Co., 54, Hatton. L.Reeve &C2London Vincent Brooks Day&Son imp, Tas. 7225. CHRYSANTHEMUM nrorvunpiroti0vm. Native of Hungary. Nat. Ord. Compositz. Tribe ANTHEMIDEX. Genus CurysantuEmom, Linn. (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 424.) CHRYSANTHEMUM (Pyrethrum) rotundifolium; perenne glabriusulum caule acute 5-6-gono, foliis radicalibus longe petiolatis ovato- v. cordato-sub- rotundis crenato-dentatis, caulinis ovatis serratis in petiolum latum angustatis supremis floralibusque sessilibus lanceolatis argute dentatis, - floribus corymbosis, pedicellis elongatis acutangulis, involucri bracteis oblongisate scariosis margine nigris denticulatis, floribus glaberrimis, ligulis albis pollicaribus linearibus apice 3-denticulatis, acheniis teretibus striatis cupula membranacea lacera coronatis. C. rotundifolium, Waldst. et Kitaib., ex Willd. Sp. Pl. vol. iii. p. 2144, et Pl. Rar. Hungary, vol. iti. p. 262, t. 236; Wahlenb. Fl. Carpath. 275, n. 889; Bawmgart. Enum. Strip. Transylv. vol. iii. p. 107. C. montanum, Geners. Fl. Scepus. Elench. n. 808 (non Linn.) Leucanthemum rotundifolium, DC. Prodr. vol. vi. p. 46. Matricaria rotundifolia, Poir. Dict. Supp/. vol. iii. p. 608. Pyrethrum ? Waldsteinii, Janka, Adat. Fiwme Floraz. Ismeret. 1874, 177, ex Nym. Consp. 372. | Tanacetum Waldsteinil, Schultz Bip. ew Nym. 1. c. Chrysanthemum rotundifolium is a very showy Hungarian Michaelmas Daisy, differing much from those in general cultivation by its strict rigid habit, acutely angled stem and branches, corymbose many-flowered inflorescence and broad leaves. In habit it belongs to the section Pyrethrwn (genus Pyrethrum of Geertner), which includes most of the perennial white-flowered species of Chrysanthemum, but it differs from that section as defined by modern authors, in the terete, not ribbed or angled achene, and in the cupular pappus, and it accords with no section as hitherto defined. C. rotundifolium is a native of the mountain valleys of Hungary, Transylvania, and Bucovina. It is rather a low- growing species, not exceeding two feet high in the Royal Marcu lst, 1892. Gardens, where it flourishes both in the Herbaceous ground and in the Rockery, flowering freely throughout the summer. The plant was procured from F. Sundermann, of Bavaria, in 1890.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Involucral bract; 2, ray-flower; 3, achene of the same; 4, disk- flower ; 5, stamens ; 6, style of disk-flower :—al/ enlarged. 7226 ba. -GSL, 4 Day &Son,imp. Vincent Brooks, ’ London. ° Reeve &C a a Tas, 7226. LYSIMACHIA PARIDIFORMIS. Native of China. Nat. Ord. PrimvuLaces. Tribe Lystmacuiza. Genus Lysmmacutia, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant., vol. ii. p. 635.) Lystmacuia (Tridynia) paridiformis ; erecta, sparse puberula, caule basi simplici nudo superne verticillatim ramoso, foliis verticillatis sessilibus ellipticis yv. obovato-lanceolatis acuminatis subtus glaucescentibus, floribus in capitula pedunculata mullibracteata congestis majusculis aureis, sepalis subulato-lanceolatis glandulis linearibus notatis, corolla campanulata 5-loba, tubo intus pulvereo lobis ovatis obtusis, filamentis inequilongis infra medium in tubum pulveream conflnentibus, antheris oblongis inclusis, ovariio fere globoso. L. paridiformis, Franch. in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris (1884) p. 433: Forbes & Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxvi. (1889) p. 55. The genus Lysimachia is more numerously represented in China than in any other country of the globe, no fewer than thirty-five species being enumerated in Forbes and Hemsley’s enumeration of the plants of that country, to which, no doubt, many more are to be added. Proceeding eastward or westward from China the number rapidly de- creases to nine in the whole continent of North America, fourteen in British India, six in the Oriental region of Boissier, and eight in Europe proper. L. paridiformis belongs to the section Tridynia as adopted by Asa Gray in his Botany of the Northern United States of America, and which is characterized by the opposite or whorled sessile gland-dotted leaves, yellow corolla marked as well as the calyx by glandular streaks, unequal filaments monadelphous below, without interposed staminodes, and few seeded five-valved capsules. 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Liium (Eulirion) primulinum ; bulbo magno globoso squamis lanceolatis, saule stricto erecto 3—4-pedali, foliis sparsis dissitis sessilibus lanceolatis, floribus paucis corymbosis vel umbellatis pedicellis longis cernuis, perianthio infundulari primulino-luteo immaculato 5-6-pollicari, seg- mentis oblanceolato-oblongis subconformibus dimidio superiori subrecurvis ‘staminibus perianthio paulo brevioribus, antheris linearibus brunneis, stylo stamina longe superante. L. neilgherrense, Collett et Hemsl. in Journ, Linn. Soc. vol. xxviii. p. 138, non Wight. : L. claptonense, Hort. Low. * This is another new Lily which has been imported by Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., from the Shan States, in Upper Burma. Its nearest allies are L. nepalense, Bot. Mag., tab. 7043, and ZL. neilgherrense, Bot. Mag., tab. 6332. From the latter it differs by its shorter and more open tube, brown anthers, and style as long as the perianth segments. It is mentioned in Collett and Hemsley’s paper in the Journal of the Linnean Society under the rame of netlgherrense, as having been collected at Boni, in the Shan States, by Mr. Boxall. It forms a connecting link between the two sections Hulirion and Martagon by having the perianth-segments subrecurved in the upper half. Our drawing was made from a specimen flowered by Messrs. Hugh Low & Co, in September, 1891. Desor. Bulb large, globose; scales lanceolate. Stem stiffly erect, glabrous, three or four feet long. Leaves scattered, lanceolate erecto-patent, sessile, glossy, bright green, three or four inches long. Flowers about three, arranged in a corymb or umbel, on long cernuous pedicels with a large lanceolate leaf at the middle. Perianth openly funnel-shaped, pale yellow, unspotted, tinted out- Aprit Ist, 1892. : side with green in an early state, five or six inches long; segments oblanceolate-oblong, the outer and the inner nearly uniform, above an inch broad at the middle, connivent in an open funnel in the lower half, subrecurved in the upper half. Stamens rather shorter than the perianth; anthers linear, brown. Style much overtopping the anthers and reaching to the very tip of the perianth-segments.—J. G. Baker. Fig. 1, An anther, front view ; 2,an anther, back view; 3, pistil complete :— all enlarged. N.S.del, JN Fitch, lith. L.Reeve & C9London. Tas. 7228. HABENARTA Lonencatcarata. Native of the Western Ghuts of India. Nat. Ord. Oncuiprx.—Tribe Orurypex. Genus Hasenania Willd.; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p- 624. Hapenaria longecalcarata; foliis radicalibus patulis oblongis acutis v acuminatis, scapo vaginato !—2-floro, floribus longe pedicellatis bracteis elongatis pedicellos vaginantibus eosque wquantibus v. superantibus ovario elongato curvo alte costato, sepalo dorsali oblongo obtuso concavo. viridi, Jateralibus longioribus reflexis falcatis obtusis pallide virescentibus petalis erectis sepalo dorsali aquilongis lineari-oblongis obtusis viridibus labello sepalis multoties longiore cuneato trilobo albo, lobis lateralibus cuneatis truncatis ‘erosis, marginibus recurvis, intermedio parvo paullo breviore lineari obtuso, calcare longissimo viridi labello 3-4 plo longiore ore constricto, anthers obtusa cruribus incurvis, rostello magno erecto obtuso, polliniis oblongis curvis stipite bialato, glandula minima, pro- cessubus stigmatosis porrectis decurvis. H. longecalcarata, A. Rich. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 2, vol. xv. p. 71,t.3; Wight Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 925; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. p. 268; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind, vol. vi. p. 141 in part, et p. 197. H. longicorniculata, Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. p. 202. This is one of three closely allied long-spurred Hale- narias confined to the Western Ghats of the Peninsula of Jndia, and characterized by their large flowers and the great length of their spurs, and which have been much con- founded in botanical works. They are (1) H. longicornu, Lindl. (H. montana, A. Rich. in Ann. Se. Nat. Ser. ii. vol. xy. #. 73), which has acuminate leaves, bracts shorter than . the long-beaked ovary, three to eight-flowered scapes, the lip not longer than the lateral sepals, and the spur about twice as long as the ovary; (2) H. decipiens, Wight Tc. Pl. Ind. Or. vol. v. Pt. i. p. 14 (H. montana, Wight l.c. t. 927, not of A. Rich.) with more numerous (six to ten) smaller flowers, very short pedicels, the lip rather longer than the sepals, and a spur four or five times as, long as the beaked ovary; and (3) the plant here figured. This latter I assume to be the same as H. longicorniculata of Graham in his “* Catalogue of Bombay Plants” (though his Aprit Ist, 1892. description might apply to any of the three species), because he gives as its habitat, Kandalla (a suburb of Poona), in the South Concan, where Dalzell had collected H. longe- calcarata. H. longecalcarata has been found along the whole range of the Ghats, from Poona to ‘Travancore, ascend- ing to about five thousand feet, growing in open places. The specimen here figured was communicated by the Rt. Hon. Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff, Bart., G.C.S.L., F.R.S., late Governor of Madras, who flowered it at his residence, York House, ['wickenham, in September, 1891. I may remind readers that the garden of this same York House was, when occupied by His Royal Highness the Comte de Paris, famous for its collection of terrestrial Orchidex, see Orphrys Speculum and O. lutea, Plates 5868 and 5941, and Serapias Lingua, Plate 5868, all of this work. H. longecalcarata has the merit of remaining long in flower. The specimen here figured was received in flower- ing state in September, 1891, and was still flowering in the cool orchid house of Kew in the following November.— — he Ds Ft. Fig. 1, Petal ; 2, front view of column, showing its ascending arms tipped with the glands of the pollinia, the interposed rostellum, and the lip of the anther behind, also the two stigmatic appendages one on each side of the contracted mouth of the spur; 3, side view of the same; 4, the same with the rostellum removed; 5, a pollinium :—all enlarged. M.S.del 2a iwols.. itch dith. L.Reeve & ©? London. Vineent Brooks Day& sontmp Tas. 7229. CIRRHOPETALUM ornatisstmum. Native of Assam and the Eastern Himalaya. Nat. Ord. OxcHIpEs. Tribe ErrpenpREz. Genus CrrruoretaLum, Lindl, ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant., vol. iii. p. 504.) CIRRHOPETALUM ornatissimum ; rhizomate robusto, pseudobulbis ovoideis tetragonis, folio elliptico-lanceolato, scapo suberecto paucifloro, bracteis subulato-lanceolatis, floribus magnis pallide carneis rubro-striatis, sepalo dorsali ovato-lanceolato basi truncato pilis rubris longe ciliato, laterali- bus dorsali duplo longioribus attenuato-acuminatis, petalis ovatis fasciculo palearum sanguinearum terminatis, labello breviter stipitato oblongo obtuso incrassato recurvo, columna longiuscula apicem versus utrinque arista porrecta decurva instructa. C. ornatissimum, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1882, vol. ii. p. 424; Warner Orchid. Album, t. 369; Hook.f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. v. p. 773. The general resemblance of this remarkable plant to the still more remarkable C. Colletti figured in this work in October of last year (Plate 7198), is obvious, notwith- standing the marked difference in their pseudobulbs and mode of growth; the pseudobulbs in this organ being in ornatissimum ovate and four-sided, in Colletti subglobose and deeply four lobed; and the scape in this being erect and arising from the side of the pseudobulb as usual in the genus, but in Collettii it is pendulous and arises from the young growths before the new pseudobulbs are developed. Other differences are to be found in the longer leaves of C. ornatissimum, the truncate base of the dorsal sepal, which is not tipped with a bunch of palew; in the shorter lateral sepals, and especially in the much less highly developed palew of the petals, in the scabrid ridges of the lip, and in the bristle-like appendages at the tip of the column not being strongly decurved. C. ornatissimum was first described from specimens stated to have been received from Assam, the reputed native country of the specimen here figured; but as, ac- cording to a figure in the collection of drawings belonging to the Botanical Gardens of Calcutta, it is a native of Apri lst, 1892. Sikkim, its more exact locality is probably the outer ranges of the HimaJaya Mountains, from Sikkim east- wards. In the above-mentioned figure the sepals and petals are yellowish-green, and the red streaks are broken up into purple dots. In the plate given in Warner’s Orchid Album the leaves are broadly elliptic with rounded retuse tips, dark green with no yellow margin, the bracts are longer and the flowers much larger, of a dull purplish blue, the lateral sepals end in longer tails, and the petals have an almost black purple centre and greenish border ; it doubtless represents a variety. C. ornatissimum was received at Kew from the Royal Botanical Gardens of Calcutta in 1890 (under the erroneous name of Bulbophyllum Mannii), and flowered in the tropical orchid house of Kew, in September, 1891.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Dorsal sepal; 2, pales of the etals; 3, column and lip; 4, lip; 5, anther :— all enlarged. " ‘ ee f 7230. MS.deLJ.N-Fitch,lith. Vincent Brocks, Day & Son, imp. T. Reeve & O° London. e. TAB. 7200. STREPTOCARPUS Gatpini. Native of the Transvaal. Nat. Ord. Gesneracea.—Tribe CYRTANDREA. Genus Srreprocarrvs, Lindl.; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 1028.) Srrerrocarrts (Galpini; folio solitario radicali sessili ovato-oblongo obtuso integerrimo basi subcordato supra sericeo-villoso inter nervos profunde impressos tumidis, subtus carneo nervis validis rubris, scapis plurimis pedicellis calycibus ovariisque dense glanduloso-pubescentibus, floribus racemosis, pedicellis robustis elongatis erectis v. patulis, calycis 5-partiti segmentis linearibus obtusis tubo corolle multo brevioribus, corolle sub- campanulatz violacea tubo lente incurvo, lobis 5 wqualibus patenti- recurvis orbiculatis tubo «quilongis, filamentis pilosis, antheris reni- formibus, staminodiis filiformibus glabris, stylo brevi glanduloso stigmate simplici. S. Galpini, Hook. f. in Hogg Journ. of Horticulture, N.S. No. 593 (November 5, 1891, p. 388), fig. 76. The plant here figured is the eleventh species of Strepto- carpus that has appeared in this Magazine, and it differs from all previously described in the very short broad corolla tube, rendering the corolla almost campanulate, though with a curvature in the tube. In all other species the | corolla has a cylindric and more or less elongate or a funnel-shaped tube, usually much longer than its lobes. 8. Galpini is one of the species of which the solitary leaf is developed from one of the cotyledons of the embryo, as described under 8. Dunnii, Tab. 6903, and as 1s the case in 8. Sandersii, Tab. 5251, and 8. polyanthus, Tab. 4850 ; and like them is a native of the Hastern South Africa. It was discovered in the Transvaal by Mr. Ernest E. Galpin, of Barbertown, to whom the Royal Gardens are under great obligations for many new plants both living and dried. In a letter to Mr. Watson, Assistant-Curator of the Royal Gardens, Mr. Galpin describes this Streptocarpus as grow- ing in crevices of cliffs and under rocks only on the tops of the mountains, just below the brows of the highest peaks, as on the “ Bearded Man,” which forms one of the boundaries of Swazieland, thirty miles from Barberton. Aprit Ist, 1892. Mr. Galpin mentions a crimson-flowered species with leaves eighteen inches long by thirteen wide, and numerous flowers, as growing in profusion on the same mountain. Can this be S. Dunnii, mentioned above, which was found on the Spitzkop at three thousand six hundred to six thousand feet elevation? and the leaves of which attain, under cultivation at Kew, three feet in length and the flowers of which are bright rose-coloured. The seeds of S. Galpini were received from Mr. Galpi in May, 1890, and the plants raised from them flowered in October of the following year in the Succulent House of the Royal Gardens. Mr. Watson has planted a row of this species along the margin of the Aloe bed in the same house, which will no doubt have a brilliant effect in the coming season.—J. D, H. Fig. 1, Calyx and ovary; 2, base of corolla, stamens, and staminodes; 3, stamen; 4, ovary; 5, transverse section of ditto :—all enlarged. 72:37, Vincent Brooks Day & Son, imp: L. Reeve &C92Tondon. Tas. 7231. BEAUFORTIA sparsa. ‘Native of Western Australia. Nat. Ord. Myrracea.—Tribe LEprosPERME, Genus Braurorti, Br. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 705.) BrEAuFortia sparsa ; frutex, inflorescentia excepta glaberrima, foliis }—? polli- caribus sparsis patulis elliptico-ovatis v. -lanceolatis subacutis nervosis, spicis axi centrali ramorum enactis oblongis densifloris, rachi calycibusque glabris v. pubescentibus, calycis tubo } poll. longo, lobis tubo subzqui- longis rotundatis, petalis orbicularibus sepalis duplo longioribus, sta- minum fasciculis cujusvis floris ad 5 pollicaribus coccineis, ungue filiformi, antheris ad 7 longe stipitatis minutis globosis, connectivo crasso, valvis parvis orbicularibus, ovario 3-loculari vertice depresso villoso, stylo filiformi apice deflexo, loculis 1-ovulatis. ty B. sparsa, Br. in Ait. Hort, Kew, Ed. 2. vol. xiv. p. 419; DC. Prodr. vol. iii. p. 211; Schauer in Nov, Act. Nat. Cur, vol. xxi. p. 14 (errore 18), et in Lehm. Plant. Preiss. vol. i. p. 149; Benth. Fl. yf tral. vol. ii. p. 165; Illustr. Horticole. 1886, t. 594. B, splendens, Past. Brit. Fl. Gard. vol. xiii. p. 145, cum Ie. This brilliant shrub was discovered at the close of the last, century by Archibald Menzies, F.L.S., Surgeon and Naturalist to Vancouver’s Expedition, in King George’s Sound, South Western Australia, now the site of the town of Albany, a locality abounding in rare and beautiful plants, and especially noted as the single habitat for Cephalotus follicularis. The genus Beaufortia consists of twelve species, and is a member of the subtribe Beaufortix of Myrtacex, which is confined to Western Australia. The only other species that have been introduced into cultiva- tion is B. decussata, Br., also a native of King George’s Sound, and figured at t. 1733 of this work, and B. Dampieri, A. Cunn., t. 3272. The curious inflorescence of this and allied Aus- tralian genera, and which preseats the appearance of a spike the axis of which is produced beyond it into leafy branches, is the result of a consecutive series of closely contiguous leaves being reduced to bracts and bearing each a flower in its axil, the whole being hidden by the cataract Aprit Ist, 1892, of pendulous bundles of stamens. In the case of B, sparsa there are about five bundles of stamens in each flower, and each bundle consists of a thread about an inch long bearing about eight long-stalked diverging filaments, of which two are opposite and placed considerably below five that terminate the thread; the filaments each bear a minute globose anther with a thick clavate connective and two lateral orbicular valves. In B. Dampieri the bundle of stamens is flattened, dilated above, and cleft into nine to fifteen filaments. This last is a most interesting plant, as being one of the first brought from Australia to Hurope, in the little Herbarium formed by the great and accomplished navigator Dampier, at Shark’s Bay, in 1699. In B., decussata again the bundle of filaments branches at the extremity into seven or more, and the anthers have conical or almost horn-shaped valves. B. striata was introduced into England upwards of half _ a century ago, and is much less frequently cultivated than it deserves to be. It has long been a resident of the Temperate House at Kew. The plant from which the drawing is made is a compact shrub four feet high which flowered in September, 1891.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Leaf; 2, bract ; 3, flower; 4 and 5, anthers ; 6, pistils :—all enlarged. “BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. : _ CONTENTS OF No. 568, APRIL, 1892. “TAB. 7987.—_TALIUM PRIMULINUM, _y» 7228.—HABENARIA LONGECALCARATA. » %229.—CIRRHOPETALUM ORNATISST MUM, yy BO —STREPTOCARPUS GALPINI, 7231 —BEAUFORTIA SPARSA. L. 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Litivm (Eulirion) Lowi; bulbo magno globoso squamis lanceolatis, caule stricto erecto glabro 3-4-pedali, foliis perpluribus sparsis linearibus ses- silibus, floribus circiter 3 cernuis longe pedunculatis, perianthio late infun- dibulari 3-4-pollicari segmentis oblongo-lanceolatis supra medium recurvis extus albis intus dimidio superiori albis immaculatis dimidio inferiori flavo viridi tinctis punctis pluribus minutis rubro-purpureis decoratis, genitalibus perianthio paulo brevioribus, antheris brunneis, stigmate vix antheras eminente. L. nepalense, Collett et Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxviii. p. 138, t. 22, non D, Don. ; The exploration of Upper Burma has brought to light a new field for Lilies, and we are much indebted to Messrs. Hugh Low and Oo. (after whom the present species is named) for the pains they have taken to bring them into cultivation. The nearest allies of the present plant are L. nepalense and L. Bakerianum. The former has been figured lately in the Boranican MacGazinz (tab. 7043), so that the two plants may easily be compared. The latter differs by its erect flowers, shorter stamens, and inner segments of the perianth much broader than the outer. It is figured (tab. 22), and the country where these new lilies grow is fully described, in a paper by General Collett and my colleague, Mr. W. B. Hemsley, F.R.S., in the twenty-eighth volume of the Journal of the Linnean Society. The collection made in this region by General Collett in 1887-88 contained 725 species of flowering plants, representing 460 genera and 109 natural orders. it appears that no less than four of these Burmese lilies are new species. Our drawing was made from a specimen flowered by Messrs. Hugh Low and Co. in July, 1891. Descr. Bulb globose, two inches in diameter; scales May Ist, 1892. small, lanceolate. Stem glabrous, stiffly erect, three or four feet long. Leaves very numerous, scattered, sessile, linear, erecto-patent, two or three inches long. flowers about three, corymbose or umbellate, on long cernuous peduncles with a linear leafat the middle. Perianth openly funnel-shaped, three or four inches long; fully expanded limb three inches in diameter ; segments oblong-lanceolate, the inner and outer nearly uniform, an inch broad at the middle, white with a slight greenish tinge on the outside, white without any spots inside on the spreading upper, half, tinged with yellowish-green on the connivent lower half and covered except in the centre, with minute spots of claret-brown. Stamens about an inch shorter than the perianth; anthers large, jinear, brown. Stigma just overtopping the anthers.—J. G. Baker.. Fig. 1, An inner segment of the perianth, life-size; 2, stamens and pistil ; nen oe anther; 4, ovary, more or less enlarged; 5, whole plant, much 7233. 1 EY ae ny ay MS. del, JN Fitch, ith. L.Reeve & C2 London. Tas. 7238. RESTREPIA srerata. Native of New Grenada, Nat. Ord. OrncnipEs. Tribe ErrpenpRez. Genus Restreria, Humb.& Bonpl.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant., vol. lii. p. 491.) Restrerta striata; ceespitosa, caulibus vaginis cymbiformibus pallidis striatis tectis, folio sessile late ovato subacuto v. apiculato v. 2-denticulato crasse coriaceo pallide viridi marginibus subrecurvis pallidioribus, floribus 1-4 gracile pedicellatis, bractea parva ovario wquilonga, sepalo dorsali pollicari lanceolato in filum apice clavellatum angustato albo rubro fasciato, lateralibus in laminam lineari-oblongam apice bidentatam auream creberrime sanguineo striatam coherentibus, petalis sepalo dorsali consimilibus sed triente brevioribus, labello lineari apice 2-lobo basi auriculis incurvis apicibus sabulatis falcatis instructo grosse papilloso rubro-brunneo striato, columna gracili basi bigibbosa. R. striata, Rolfe in Gard. Chron. 1891, vol. i. p. 187; Hogg in Journ, Hortic. 1892, p. 275, fig. 45. Mr. Rolfe remarks of this little species, that, unlike the majority of the genus, the lateral sepals instead of being spotted are striped with seven sharply defined maroon lines on a yellow ground. The former is the case with the three species previously figured in this work, namely, the type of the genus R. antennifera, Humb. and Bonpl. (Plate 6288, long the only known species, and considered one of the most singular of plants), R. elegans, Karst. (Plate 5966), and R. Lansbergii (Plate 5257), which should bear the name of R. xanthopthalma, Reichb. f. (in Hamb. Gartenz. xxi. (1865) 300), a native of Guatemala, the true R. Lansbergii (Reichb. f. and Wagen. in Bonpland. ii. 23) being a native of Caraccas in Venezuela. R. striata was first known from the drawing of a flower in Kew Herbarium bearing the ticket, Schlim No. 68, and no doubt made from a new Grenadan specimen, from the Cauca range in which country Messrs. H. Low, of Clapton, sent specimens to Kew in 1892; but not till after the plant from which the accompanying drawing was made, May 1st, 1892. which was sent in February, 1889, by Mr. Moore from the Glasnevin Gardens (still, as heretofore, in his father’s time), so justly celebrated for its Orchid collection.— Fig. 1, Pedicel and flower; 2, column and lip; 3, lip; 4,column; 5, anther ; 6, pollinia :—all enlarged. y 7234 b4iiul a AB: og ae. LILIUM Gavi. Native of the Mountains of Virginia and Carolina. Nat. Ord. Lintacrz.—Tribe TuLirra. Genus Litium, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 816.) Litrum (Martagon) Grayi; rhizomate late repente bulbos parvos annuos globosos squamis parvis crassis ferente, caule gracili erecto, foliis pleris- que verticillatis sessilibus oblongo-lanceolatis acutis viridibus glabris, floribus 1-3 longe pedunculatis horizontalibus vel subcernuis, perianthio infundibulari rubro vel luteo tincto, segmentis oblongo-spathulatis cus- pidatis intus maculis rubro-brunneis decoratis flore expanso leviter recur- vatis, staminibus perianthio distincte brevioribus, stylo clavato apice stigmatoso leviter trilobato ovario equilongo. L. Grayi, S. Wats. in Proc. Amer. Acad. vol. xiv. pp. 256 and 302; Garden & Forest, vol. i. (1888) pp. 19, 56, and 256, fig. 4; Man. Bot. Jorth Unit. States, edit. vi. p. 529. The present plant is nearly allied to Lilium cana- dense (Bot. Mag., tabs. 800 and 858), but was considered to be a distinct species by the late Dr. Sereno Watson and other American botanists who have watched it carefully under cultivation. It was first gathered by Dr. Asa Gray, in 1840, near the summit of Roan Mountain, one of the Alleghanies of North Carolina, and was refound at the same place in June, 1879, by Dr. Gray and Professor Sergeant. It has been found by Mr. A. H. Curtiss on the Peaks of Otter, in Virginia, and by Mr. A. H. Kelsey on the bunks of the Linville river, at the foot of Grandfather Mountain, in North Carolina. As. compared with L. canadense, the flowers are smaller, less pendulous, and more open at the base, and the segments recurve very little, and are narrowed more suddenly at the apex. In the plant from which our drawing was made, which flowered at Kew for the first time in an open border in the summer of 1891, the flowers were entirely red ; but they are said to be often tinged with yellow, especially on the inside towards the base. The plant, as grown in the Harvard botanic garden, has proved to be perfectly hardy, May Isr, 1892. : and as amenable to cultivation as LD. canadense and superbum. : Dzscr. Bulbs small, globose, annual, arising from a wide-creeping perennial rootstock; scales small, thick, ovate. Stem slender, erect, glabrous, two or three feet long. Leaves typically, in about four whorls each of four to eight leaves, which are sessile, oblong-lanceolate, bright green, glabrous, two or three inches long and spread horizontally. Flowers, one, two or three, long- stalked, horizontal or rather drooping, red or tinged with yellow towards the base, especially inside. Perianth, openly funnel-shaped, two or three inches long; segments oblong-spathulate, spotted more or less copiously with claret-red inside, narrowed suddenly at the apex to a small cusp, spreading very little when fully expanded. Stamens half an inch shorter than the perianth ; filaments flattened ; anthers oblong. Ovary oblong ; green, half an inch long ; style as long as the ovary, thickened gradually upwards ; stigmatose apex faintly three-lobed.—J. G. Baker. Fig. 1, Back view of an ther ; 2, i 5 er ee less enlarged, r front view of anther; 3, pistil :—all more or Fo Vincent Brooks Day &Son inp. Le \. Fateh thi To: M.S del. J ge ay 28 tt ae TF nn TAB. 7235. PILOCARPUS pernnatirotivs. Native of Brazil. Nat. Ord. Rutracrm.—tTribe ZANTHOXYLER, Genus Pinocarrus, Vahl. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 299.) Pinocarrus pennatifolius ; arbuscula, ramulis paniculisque glabris v. rufo- puberulis, foliis alternis impari-pinnatis 1-1} pedalibus, foliolis 2-3- jugis 3-9-pollicaribus oblongis apice rotundatis v. emarginatis basi in petiolulum brevem angustatis coriaceis glabris v. subtus puberulis pel- lucido-punctatis lete viridibus, floribus in racemum spiciformem pedalem longe pedunculatum multiflorum rachi valida dispositis, pedicellis hori- zontalibus validis viridibus minute 2-bracteolatis, bracteolis dentiformibus ~ alternis a basi longe distantibus, calyce minuto 5-dentato, corolla rotata 2 poll. diam. rufo-brunnea, petalis ovatis acutis apicibus valvatis fila- mentis brevibus, antheris aureis, ovario 5-carpellari, stylis 5 brevibus coherentibus. carpellis maturis 3-5 subcompressis dorso rotundato carinatis, seminibus solitariis reniformibus altis nitidis. P. pennatifolius, Lemaire Jard. Fleur. vol. iii. t. 263; Engler in Mart,: FT. Bras. vol. xii. part ii. p. 187; Walp. Ann. vol. iv. p. 411; Bentley & Trimen, Med. Pl. vol. i. t. 48: Van Hall in Siebold Flore des Jardins, vol. iii. 1860, p. 113, ewm Te. pict. P. trijugatus, Lem. (olim.) ex Walp, 1. c. : P P. Selloanus, Hagler, in Mart. l. c. p. 136, t. xxx. Pilocarpus pennatifolius is the source of one and that now regarded as the typical Jaborandi, a drug used, as are many others bearing the same vernacular name, in Brazil as a sialogogue and diaphoretic, but not introduced into the pharmacopeeas of Britain, India, or the United States. According to the excellent account of the plant given by Bentley and Trimen, its determination as the source of the ordinary Jaborandi of commerce was made early in 1875 by Professor Baillon of Paris, who, from an examination of the leaves alone, was able to refer it to the genus Pilocarpus, and with less certainty to P..pennati- folius. In the same year Mr. Holmes, F.L.8., of the Pharmaceutical Society, from an examination of the fruit, confirmed its generic position, but in the absence of good flowering specimens was unable with certainty to refer it to pennatifolius. May 1st, 1892. Messrs. Bentley and Trimen go on to say that in Engler’s revision of the genus for Martius’ Flora Brasil- iensis, a plant from Southern Brazil described as P. Sel- loanus, agrees still more closely with Jaborandi, but its fruit also is unknown. It differs in the longer, thinner, and less horizontal pedicels, and is collected near Assomp- tion (in Paraguay) for export to Europe. Mr. Baillon concludes that both plants, whether species or varieties, yield the drug ; and Dr. Trimen places P. Selloanus as a doubtful synonym of pennatifolius. - Other plants called Jaborandi, and having the same medicinal properties, are yielded in Brazil by, amongst others, six species of Piperacee, an Aubletia, Rich. (Mon- mera, Linn.), and a Xanthozylon. As a drug the P. pennatifolius was introduced into European practice by Dr. Coutinho, of Pernambuco, who gave specimens of it to Professor Gubler, of Paris, who tested it and found it to be an energetic sialogogue and diaphoretic. The parts used are the dried leaves, which leave in the mouth a somewhat aromatic very slightly ‘bitter and warm taste. They contain an oil and alkaloid, both volatile, the latter termed pilocarpine. P. pennatifolins was introduced into Europe by M. Libon, as an ornamental plant, found by him in the forests of the province of St. Paul in 1847, and was figured and described as such in 1852 in the Jardin Fleuriste. It was again in 1860 figured in the Flore de Jardins, still in ignorance of its being one of the Jaborandis of commerce. It is a widely spread plant in Brazil, being found both in the southern province of St. Paul, and in the northern provinces of Ceara and Piauhy, and especially in the neighbourhood of Pernambuco ; and, as above stated, is also a native of Paraguay. In Kew Herbarium there is a specimen sent by M. Gibert from Assompcion in Paraguay, in 1858, who ~ described it as a tree of considerable height. The figure here given is from a plant that flowered in the Economic House at Kew in N ovember, 1891, where it has long been cultivated.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Bud and pedicel ; 2, vertical section of flower; 3 and 4, stamens; 5, ovary; 6, transverse section of do.; 7, ripe fruit :—all of the natural size. 7236. AS Sl rs. Creme SP etep ety: Atma d er he tere aa iy) eee ae es i ved — < / =e { + Pork ~ { ie \ op ( —__ = Sa MC ai th MS. del. JN Fitch li: Vincent Brooks Day & Son, imp. T Bose 2 0O Tos Tas. 7236. DIDYMOCARPUS tacunosa. Native of Penang. Nat. Ord. Gesnzracem.—Tribe CrrTanpDRER. Genus Diprmocarrus, Wall; (Benth. et Hook. Sf. Gen. Pl. vol. iii, p. 1021.) Dipymocarrus (Heteroboea) lacunosa ; subacaulis, tomentosus, foliis confertis petiolatis oblongis v. ovato-cordatis crenulatis lacunosis, pedunculis elongatis 2-pluri-floris, bracteis lanceolatis pedicellis decurvis brevioribus, floribus secundis nutantibus, calyce 5-partito v. -fido segmentis lanceolatis corollz saturate violacee tubo pollicari postice medio gibboso-inflato, lobis brevibus late rotundatis recurvis integris, filamentis antherisque glaberrimis, ovario lineari pubescente in stylum mediocrum angustato, stigmate bifido. A lovely little plant, with intensely violet-blue nodding flowers, introduced by Messrs. Veitch from Penang, and of which Herbarium specimens were sent to the Royal Gardens in 1888 by Mr. Charles Curtis from damp rocks — near the coast, in the Island Langkawi, on the west side of the Malayan Peninsula, north of Penang. It is probable indeed that Messrs. Veitch’s plants were procured by Mr. Curtis at the latter locality, though shipped from Penang. The tribe Heteroboea of Clarke consists of eight (now nine) known species, all Malayan, and that to which D. lacunosa is perhaps most nearly allied is D. crinita, Jack, (Clarke in Fl. Brit. Ind., vol. iv. p. 351), figured at Plate 4554 of this work, which is a native of Penang, Singapore, and the adjacent islands of Borneo and Sumatra ; it differs in being caulescent with a hirsute stem, longer leaves, and pale yellowish flowers with a much longer narrower tube. The native specimens of D. lacwnosa have a short very stout rootstock and longer petioles and leaves than the cultivated, and the old leaves and petioles and nerves beneath are more shaggy with rusty brown hairs; the flowers are identical. I am indebted to Messrs. Veitch for the loan of the specimen here figured, which was sent to Kew to be named in July of last year.—J. D. 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Pl. vol. i. p. 200.) Auruza (Pterocarpe) ficifolia ; caule erecto simplici setis simplicibus stella- tisque saepius reflexis hispido in racemum laxiflorum abeunte, foliis ambitu orbicularibus profunde cordatis palmatim lobatis v. partitis viridibus supra pilosis subtus stellatim hispidulis, lobis 5-7 ovatis v. oblongis crenato-dentatis apicibus rotundatis, pedunculis calyce subeequilongis, involucri calyce fere duplo brevioris lobis triangularibus, calycis lobis triangularibus acutis, corolla ampla pallide flava, carpellis dorso cana- liculatis rugosis marginatis v. auguste alatis hirsutis, facie glabris v. hirtis. A. ficifolia, Cav. Diss. vol. ii. p. 92, t. 28, f. 2; DC. Prodr. vol. i. p. 437; M. Bieb. Fl. Taur. Cauc. vol. ii. p. 142; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. vol. iii. p. 286; Fl. Ross. vol. i. p. 433. A. rugosa, Alef. in Oestr. Bot. Wochen. 1862, p. 254. A. Froloviana, Fisch. ew Ledeb. Fl. Ross. vol. i. p. 433. Aucea ficifolia, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 687; Schkuhr Handb. t. 191; Lamk. Illustr. ¢.191; Boiss. Fl. Orient. vol. i. p. 833 ; Besser Enwm, p. 28. A very handsome Hollyhock, long known in cultivation, if, as is supposed, it is the Malva arborea of the Herbarium Blackwellianum, vol. i. t. 54, which, though agreeing in foliage and calyx, &c., has bright rose-coloured flowers. Boissier, in the Flora Orientalis, cites Linnzeus’s Hortus Cliffortianus, p. 348, as the authority for Alcea ficifolia, on the authority of Linnzus himself in the first edition of the Species Plantarum (p. 687); but it appears to me to be impossible to say what the Alcea foliis palmatis of Hort. Cliff. is, for Linneus cites as a synonym Malva rosea foliis ficus of Bauhin’s Pinax, p. 313, and adds that it is hardly distinct from A. rosea, the common Hollyhock of our rdens. The only difference between Althaea rosea and A. ficifolia is, the usually narrow lobing of the leaves of the latter, and this is so variable a character that though I have seen no specimens of the rose-flowered Hollyhock with the June Ist, 1892. leaves of ficifolia, the latter has sometimes the leaves as broad and little lobed as those of A. rosea. Dr. Stapf, who knows | both in the East, informs me that the Oriental Althwas have been too much multiplied, and that considering that — A. ficifolia, like rosea, is very much a plant of cultivation, occurring in corn-fields, &c., it may well be a derivative form of such a plant as A. rosea, or vice versa. Asa weed of cultivation A. ficifolia extends from Persia to Siberia, South Russia, Syria, and Egypt. Dr. Stapf thinks its origin is most probably North-West Persia. It varies greatly in habit and size, from a few inches to five feet high, and in colour of flower from pale yellow to purple. The var. glabrata of Boissier is a dwarf form, to which the names flavo-virens and tabrisiana have been given by Boiss. and Hohenacker. The specimen drawn is from the Herbaceous ground of the Royal Gardens, Kew, where it flowered last in July, 1891, and fruited in the following September.—J. D. H. Figs. 1 and 2, Stamens; 3, ovary of the nat. size; 4, fruit of the nat. size; 5, carpel :—enlarged. 7238. M.S.del, J.N-Fiteh, ith. . Vincent Brooks Day & Son, imp. L. Reeve & C° London. Tas. 7238. ERIA MaArGINATA. Native of Burma. Nat. Ord. Oncuipes. Tribe EprpENDREA. Genus Erta, Lindl.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant., vol. iii. p. 509.) if Erta (Hymeneria) marginata; caulibus coespitosis e basi tenui clavati i- bus striatis, foliis 3-5 subterminalibus Tueati-coleags indsenlalieve asa natis emarginatisve, pedunculis brevibus 2-floris albo-tomentosis, bracteis magnis ovato- v. oblongo-cordatis flavis patenti-recurvis, sepalis lateralibus lanceolatis falcatis acutis 5-nerviis petalisque lineari-oblongis obtusis 7-nerviis albis, mento rotundato, labelli recurvi pubescentis flavi rubro- marginati lobis lateralibus rotundatis, terminale longiore rotundato, disco tomentoso costa crassa ad basin lobi medii tumida percurso, et callis 2 inter lobos lateralis instructo. R. marginata, Rolfe in Gard. Chron. 1889, vol. i. p. 200; Hook, f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. v. p. 800. A little known plant, described originally from a solitary specimen, believed to have been introduced from Burma. Ag in almost every case of a species of Orchid, founded on a single individual, subsequently procured specimens are sure to present differences in character from what the original ossessed. In the present case the petals are not flushed with pink; the stem is fully eight inches high, instead of three ; the leaves lanceolate and not linear-oblong, acumi- nate and not obtuse, the lateral sepals are not oblong or triangular-lanceolate, but simply lanceolate, nor are the lateral lobes of the lip uncinate, though a little incurved. In other respects the plant here figured agrees well with Mr. Rolfe’s characters. E. marginata belongs to a small group of the section Hymenolena, with a cylindric or clavate stem, few sub- terminal leaves, short peduncles, and large coloured bracts. It is perhaps most nearly allied to the Khasian H. clavi- caulis, Wall., which has a small rounded midlobe of the lip, margined with purple ; and to the Ceylon LH. Lindley, of which the lateral lobes of the lip reach almost the same length as the terminal. JuNE lst, 1892. The specimen figured was sent by Mr. O’Brien, of Harrow-on-the-Hill, an ardent cultivator of Orchids, in November, 1891. It was delicately sweet scented.— J.D. i. Fig. 1, Column and lip; 2, lip; 3, column; 4, anther; 5 and 6, pollinia :— all enlarged. 72939. i a MS. del. JN-Fitch lith. Vincent Brooks Day & Son, Imp. T.. Reeve 2 C® London. Tas. 7239, SENECIO (Kternta) cGaxprnt. Nat. Ord. Composira.—Tribe SzNECIONIDER. Genus Senecio, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 446.) Senecio (Kleinia) Galpini; subfrutex erectus, carnosus, glaucus, caule ramisque teretibus, foliis oblanceolatis acutis integerrimis basi angus- tata semiamplexicauli, capitulis magnis homogamis basi foliis linearibus lanceolatisve dissitis involucro brevioribus cinctis, involucri teretiusculi bracteis ad 10apicibus liberisacutis erectis, floribuslate saturate aurantiacis longe exsertis hemisphzrium involucro duplo latiorem efficientibus, corolle tubo lobis linearibus obtusis dorso sub apice gibbis duplo longiore, styli ramis elongatis appendicula oblonga terminatis, acheniis striatis, S. Galpini, Hook. f. in Journ. of Horticulture, 1892, p. 3. In a horticultural point of view the suppression of the genus Kleinia of Haworth may be regrettable, but in a botanical it has no claims upon recognition other than that of afar from well defined section of the vast horde of plants included under Senecio. Bentham indeed says (Gen. Plant. 11. 450) that the Kleinias with a short broad appendage to the style arms, show a transition to Notonia, DC. a genus only distinguished from Senecio by this character and the homogamous discoid head. Under this definition S. Galpini is clearly a Notonia, where I should probably be compelled to place it had I under review a critical investigation of Senecionidex, and been obliged to retain that genus. There is this, however, to be considered, that the Notonias are Indian, and not succulent, and the Kleinias all succulent and African. Bentham indeed says, under Notonia, that it is hardly separable from the section Kleinia of Senecio, and should perhaps either form a section of that genus with those Kleinias that have similar style arms, or a genus apart, but closely allied. He adds, however, as a further distinction, that the corollas of Notonia are yellow, but of most species of Kleinia white, which again places 8S. Galpini in Notonia together with S. fulgens. JuNE Ist, 1892. The species of Kleinia hitherto figured in this work are S. (Kleima) Anteuphorbium (Tab. 6099) supposed at the date of publication to be 8. African, but now known to be a native of Cape Juby in N.-W. Africa, it has pale yellow flowers ; S. (Kleinia) pteronewra (Tab. 5945) from Morocco, with many white flowers, and S.( Kleinia) fulgens (Tab. 5590) of Natal, the most beautiful of all known species, from the vivid red of its flower heads. It is to the latter that S. Galpini is most nearly allied, differing in the entire narrower leaves, involucrate, much larger heads and colour of the flowers. | S. (Kleinia) Galpini was raised at the Royal Gardens from seeds sent by E. E. Galpin, Esq., of Barbertown in the Transvaal Republic, in May, 1890, and which were collected on a cliff at the summit of Saddleback Mountain, altitude five thousand feet. The plant raised flowered — in the Succulent House in October, 1891, and the stems died with the flowers.—J. D. H . Fig. 1, Flower; 2, hair of pappus; 3, stamens :—all enlarged. MS. del INFitchhth Tas. 7240. PORANA PpaNicuLaTa. Native of the Hast Indies. Nat. Ord. Convotvutacez.—Tribe ConvoLvuLEe. Genus Porana, Burm.; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 876.) Porana paniculata; ramulis foliis subtus inflorescentiaque pubescenti- tomentosis, foliis ovato-cordatis acuminatis basi 7-nerviis, cymis paniculatis multifloris subebracteatis, floribus parvis, corolla infundibalari, stylo abbreviato, stigmate 2-lobo, calycis fructiferi segmentis 3 valde auctis ceteris immutatis. P. paniculata, Roxb. Cor. Pl. vol. iii. p. 31, t. 285; F%. Ind. vol. i. p. 464; Ed. Carey & Wailich, vol. ii. p. 39; Don Prodr. Fl. Nep. p. 99; Walt. Cat. un. 1325; Chois. Convolv. n. 107; in DC. Prodr. vol. ix. 436 ; Brand, For. Fl. p. 342; Kurz. in Trimen Journ. Bot. 2878, 137; For. Flor, Brit. Burm, vol. ii. p. 220; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol, iii. p. 222. Dinetus paniculatus, Sweet. Hort. Brit. Ed. 2, p. 373. This species of Porana, of which there are eight in India, are amongst the most beautiful hedge-plants of that country. Two of them are specially abundant, the present, which may be met with anywhere from the base of the Himalaya throughout its length, to Ceylon and Burma, reappearing in Java; and P. racemosa, the “Snow Creeper” of Anglo-Indians, which is more confined to the Himalayan slopes, where its masses of dazziing white flowers have been well likened by Mr. Clarke to snow patches in the jungle. The latter is the only species which had hitherto been figured in Europe from cultivated plants, being the Dinetus racemosus of Sweet. Brit. Fl. Gard. t. 127. Another very beautiful species well worth cultivation is P. grandiflora, Wall., which ascends to eight thousand feet in the Sikkim Himalaya, and has mauve flowers an inch long. P. paniculata is a very tropical species, never ascending above three thousand feet in the Himalayan hot valleys, where it climbs trees to a height of upwards of forty feet, sending down showers of pendulous flowering branches from above, and it is equally abundant in low jungles and June Ist, 1892. on the walls of the ruinous towns of Bengal. It is one of the smallest flowered species, and differs from its congeners in the short style and solid stigma, which latter though usually stated to be entire or nearly so, is strongly 2-lobed, as described by Roxburgh. The plant from which the specimen here figured was taken, was raised in the Cambridge University Botanical Gardens by Mr. Lynch, A.L.S., from seeds given by Dr. Bonavia, then of Etahwah in the North-West Provinces of India, in 1885. The plant flowered in October, 1892, ina stove.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Flower; 2, calyx laid o howi : laid Ope an hiciaie & pen, showing the ovary; 3, tube of corolla 4, stam: ; 5 i $ _ ° ovary :—all enlarged, en; o, ovary and disk ; 6, vertical section of 7241. TTT s l Pes AG Ss ~~ \ | } . = \ / ~\ ~— " \ mie * ‘ Pe aN Ke “~~ > ot} = 7 C >t ° S i ‘ re Pe a SSSR i al Jax 4 2 \ 5 /~ = = SA ee so iy HV ig A ae == = es) y he ‘