Roe [ook al r à 1 7 Vans. SB 407 i le dl Iva L, EDWARDS'S Y. as BOTANICAL REGISTER. OR, ORNAMENTAL FLOWER-GARDEN AND SHRUBBERY: CONSISTING OF COLOURED FIGURES OF PLANTS AND SHRUBS, CULTIVATED IN BRITISH GARDENS; ACCOMPANIED BY THEIR History, Best Method of Treatment in Cultibation, Propagation, &c. CONTINUED By JOHN LINDLEY, Ph. D. F.R.S. LS. ann G.S. PROFESSOR OF BOTANY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, AND THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF GREAT BRITAIN, $e. &c. Ge. Deb Series, VOL. ix.) OR VOL. XXII, OF THE ENTIRE WORK. ——viret semper——nec fronde caducá Carpitur. TPR MISSOURI ROTA NTE TARLEN LONDON: JAMES RIDGWAY AND SONS, PICCADILLY. M.DCCC. XXXVI. ALPHABETICAL INDEX TO VOL. IX. OF THE NEW SERIES, Alstromeria aurantiaca e.s. ...... o Angræcum caudatum sa 220000000000 Antirrhinum glandulosum ...... ... Aptosimum depressum ,............ Ardisia odontophylla .............. Aspasia variegata ...0.0..1... eves ee Bartonia BUrea.. į 21 . 1764 Clematis chlorantha . $ 18 . 1234 Cleome speciosissima . 16. 1312 Clerodendron hastatum i 16 . 1507 Clianthus puniceus : 21 . 1775 Clintonia elegans $0305. 1441 ——— pulchella . . 22 . 1909 Clivia nobilis 9077714. 1189 Coburgia fulva EIN Coccoloba virens k 21 . 1816 Coleus aromaticus i d 18 . 1520 Colletia horrida 21 . 1776 Collinsia bicolor a . 30 . 1734 Collomia coccinea : : 19 . 1622 grandiflora 14 . 1174 —— — heterophylla 16 . 1347 — — — linearis . < 14 . 1166 Colutea nepalensis EEE Combretum comosum E 14, 1105 ———-— grandiflorum . 19. 1631 Conanthera campanulata 14 . 1193 Conocephalus naucleiflorus . 14 . 1203 Convolvulus farinosus 16 . 1325 Cooperia Drummondi . 22 . 1835 Cordia grandiflora 18 . 1491 Coreopsis Atkinsoniana . 16.1376 — —— —- aurea 3 15 . 1228 Correa pulchella . 15 . 1224 Coryanthes maculata 21 . 1793 ————- macrantha . 29 . 1841 Corydalis bracteata 19. 164 Cosmelia rubra È E 21. 1822 Costus pictus queo p^ hi Cotoneaster frigida 15 . 1229 —— laxiflora 15 . 1305 icrophylla, var. Uva Ursi x E ; 14 . 1187 Craspedia glauca doa ros, 1008 Crassula turrita é . 16 . 1344 Crategus Aronia E x 22 . 1897 cordata s È 14 . 1151 Crus Galli, var. ovali- folia . 5 É 3 22 . 1860 ——— Douglasii 2095721: $190 glandulosa, var. ma- cracantha . . 2 și 29 . 1912 — heterophylla — . 14. 1161 heterophylla . . 92.1947 --— —— microcarpa - 92. 1846 mexicana 9o :49- 3910 —.-.—— maroccana . $ 22 . 1855 ————— odoratissima 22 . 1885 — orientalis . 2 29 . 1852 ———— platyphylla. . 22 . 1874 Vol. Folium Crategus pyrifolia 22 . 1877 —— —— prunifolia 22 . 1868 ———— spathulata . : 22 . 1890 tanacetifolia. — . 22. 1884 Crinum latifolium 4 . 15 . 1297 Crocus vernus, var. leucorhynchus 17 . 1416 ——— vernus, var. pictus . 17 . 1440 Crotalaria verrucosa eee ga 1197 Crybe rosea certs > 7 1077 Cuphea Llavea 00711 *36-, 1856 Cyclobothra alba (onmino 1001 —— lutea : 22990751008 ——— — pulchella 20 . 1662 Cyenoches Loddigesii 21 . 1742 Cymbidium marginatum 18 . 1530 Cyrtanthus carneus `. 17 . 1462 Cyrtochilum flavescens 7249771087 Cyrtopodium Woodfordii — . 18 . 1508 Cypripedium macranthos - 18 . 1534 — — spectabile 22:90 1666 Cytisus multiflorus 14. 1191 &olicus . sc pg 1907 Daphne bybrida EO AO VITI Daubenya aurea a 4151819 Delphinium Menziesii a 14 . 1192 ——— speciosum . 18. 1503 Dendrobium aggregatum. 2. 1695 —-—— anceps . 15 . 1239 mus chrysanthum . 15. 1299 cupreum . 21.710783 — densiflorum . 21. 1828 longicornu . 16. 1315 — —— —— macrostachyum 29 . 1865 — ———— moniliforme . 16 . 1314 — — —— Pierardi 21 . 1756 —— secundum 25. AB 1281 speciosum “491610 Deutzia scabra v obo 1798 Dianthus Libanotis «18. . 1548 Digitalis laciniata 44. 1201 Dillwynia glycinifolia CAR TS Diospyrus Mabola 279934573199 Diplopappus incanus + 20 7 1693 Douglasia nivalis 29,077 72800 Dracena surculosa . : 14 . 1169 terminalis o 12 . 1749 Drimia villosa . ; 16 . 1346 Duvaua dependens . 19 . 1573 latifolia . 3 19 . 1580 ovata È . 19 . 1568 Dyckia rarifiora que e i a TE Echeveria gibbiflora yo £5 DT Echinocactus oxygonus S OH i vá va — — — —- Eyriesii ; 20 . 1707 Echites stellaris “ A 90 . 1664 Edwardsia chilensis 7 E + Lib Elaagnus angustifolia 14. rem 91 . 1814 Elichrysum bicolor GENERAL INDEX TO THE NEW SERIES, i Vol. Folium Vol. Folium Empetrum rubrum + 21.1783 | Gilia coronopifolia - 20. 1691 Epacris nivalis - + 18.1531 | — capitata sois 14 . 1170 i Epidendrum zmulum + 22.1898 | ——tenniflora . . E 29 . 1888 1 — armeni é 22 . 1867 | —— tricolor € : 20 . 1704 — — —— bifidum + 22.1819 | Gladiolus psittacinus . . — 17 . 144 2 ———-——- Clavatum . . 22, 1870 Glycine biloba ale ~rr gracile + 21. 1765 | Godetia vinosa eres 22 . 1880 odoratissimum 17 . 1415 lepida x 22 . 1849 — Oncidioides . 19, 1693 rubicunda e picta ID. LER — — Skinneri - 2%. 1881 | Gompholobium capitatum . 18 . 1563 Epimedium macranthum . 99 . 1906 | —— Knightianum 17 . 1468 Eranthemum’ fecundum + 17. 1494 ——— marginatum 18 . 1490 Erica codonodes » 20, 1698 tenue A 19 . 1615 Eriogonum compositum 1810 1774 tomenti 17 . 1474 Eriophyllum cespitosum . 14.1167 venul 19 . 1574 Erythrina carnea * + 16 . 1327 | Gongora maculata Pe 19 . 1616 poianthes * 15. 1246 | Govenia superba eee S IgA S poianthes, var. subiner- Grevillea concinna È 16 , 1383 mis PS LISA VT punicea O 1919 Erythronium grandiforum . 21 . 1786 | Grobya Amberstia - , 20,, 1740 Escallonia montevidensis , 17 » 1467 | Guettarda speciosa . . 17 . 1393 —— —— illinita * 22 . 1900 Eschscholtzia california . — 14 : 1168 | Habenaria procera eva de 1998: > = orocea + 20.1677 | Habranthus Andersoni + 140°. 1345 Eulophia ensata ‘ire all |. — Bagnoldi ss AT £996 Mackaiana +. 17 . 1433 | ———— Phycelloides . 17 . 1417 Eupatorium glandulosum . 20. 1723 | Hakea linearis , 18 . 1489 Euphoria Longan * + 20.1729 | Hamelia ventricosa >. 14. 1195 Eurybia corymbosa + 18 . 1552 | Haylockia pusilla 16 . 1371 Eurycles Cunninghamii — . 18. 1506 | Hedychium coccineum - 14.1209 Eutoca divaricata - 21, 1784 | Helianthus lenticularis È 15 . 1265 ——— multiflora + 14. 1180 - tubeformis : 18 . 1519 ——— viscida usos 91. 1808 HeGeonia pulverulenta - 19. 1648 F : erminium cordatum - 18 . 1499 mande ao gy 16° | emma 157 d Fuchsia bacillaris . . 38, 1480 | Heuchera micrantha +. 19, 1908 diksolor Ati iei apei Hibiscus Lindleii : 17 . 1395 globosa as othe | TIT palustris a É 17 . 1463 ——— microphylla. | E 15 . 1969 | —— —- Rosa sinensis 1 21 . 1826 — — thymifolia ; x 15. 1984 - splendens £ 19 . 1629 Nee Hosackia bicolor ea i 15 . 1257 Gaillardia aristata tico dd. 1106 osta cerulea +». 14. 1204 Ge el pauctua. * » (21.1818 | Hovea chorozemefolia + 18, 1524 cue f oratissima ti 10 1440 | —— lanceolata —. CO cj . 1427 Gardoquia Gilliesii + 21. 1812 | — purpurea c RA Hookeri i 21. 1747 | —- villosa A È 18 . 1512 Garrya elliptica * 20. 1686 | Hyacinthus spicatus + 22. 1869 Gastrolobium retusum $ 19 . 1647 : Gaultheria Shallon » 17 , 1411 | Indigofera atropurpurea . 21.1744 Genista procumbens * 14.1150 | Ionopsis tenera Sus 22, 1904 Poca AnDüdeperma . 90 1018 pomea Aitoni «ta 21. 1704 Geodorum fucatum + 20.1687 | Ipomopsis elegans 222908, TERE Gesnera allagophylia * 21. 1767 | Iris alata LSU. 89. 1876 faucialis +22. 4785 | — bicolor 3575... at 1404 pese rent + 14. 1909 | —- tenax AME CM AA nenn 14 1158 | Ismene Amancaes, var. sul, hu . 1665 rutila, var. atrosanguinea 15 . 1979 Isopogon formosus ii get . 1288 ~- Suttoni Sow; d N gre Sereno! var. grandiflorum 16 . 1348 Jasminum acuminatum * 15. 1296 chilleefolia . , 30, 1682 Wallichianum . — 17. 1409 GENERAL INDEX TO THE NEW SERIES. Vol. Folium Justicia carnea 5 2 17 . 1397 guttata 3 e 16 . 1334 picta . e 15 . 1227 quadrangularis ni AO + 1340 venusta È . 16 . 1580 Kempferia Roscoeana : 14 . 1212 Kageneckia crategifolia - 22.1836 Kennedya dilatata : 18 . 1526 ————- glabrata . . 22. 1838 —————- inophylla 3 17 . 1421 macrophylla + 22 . 1862 —— ——- Marryatte . 21 . 1790 -monophylla, var. cial racemosa : 16 . 1536 - nigricans . 20 , 1715 ———-- Stirlingi . 22. 1845 Kerria japonica . . . 22.1873 Lachenalia pallida =. +. 16.1550 Lelia anceps 5 = 91.3751 Lalage ornata UM Nil Lapeyrousia anceps . $ 22 , 1903 Lasthenia californica A 21, 1823 glabrata . . 21 . 1780 Lathyrus californicus . 14.1144 tingitanus x 16 . 1588 Ledocarpum pedunculare . 17 . 1392 Lepanthes tridentata vui: oe 52 Lepechinia spicata a 15.120 Leptosiphon and . 90 + 1710 = — densiflorus " 20 „ 1725 Leptotes bicolor 2 i 19 . 1625 Leucocoryne odorata A 15. 11295 Leucopogon parviflorus . 18. 1560 Liatris scariosa e $ 20 . 1654 Libertia formosa sc 19 . 1630 Puia i Donglipii =, LO i ldti x 19 . 1640 uM Toimik 3 20 . 1683 Linum mexicanum ; 16 . 1526 ——-- sibiricum, var. Lewisii 14 . 1165 Liparis elata Sees 14 . 1175 — —- guineensis È s 20 , 1671 Lissanthe sapida Loria 15. 1275 Lithospermum rosmarinifolium 20 . 1736 Loasa ambrosizfolia . 16 . 1390 —— Placei FI È s 19. 1599 Lobelia decurrens n 22 . 1842 —— longiflora È i 14 . 1200 Se purple e... AT... 1445 fee E E . 16 . 1325 . . 19.. 1612 Lonicera RA MALO Lophanthus anisatus . 15 . 1282 Lophospermum erubescens . 16 . 1381 Lotus arenarius > 3 18 . 1488 Lowea berberifolia 2 i 15 . 1261 Lupinus arbustus : x 15 . 1230 ———— albifrons è : 19 . 1642 Vol. Folium Lupinus aridus + rap 1848 - densiflorus . $ 20 . 1689 - elegans . « 48 , 1501 - latifolius : 10 8 1098 - laxiflorus = E 14 . 1140 - lepidus is TON leptophyllus . 20. 1670 ——- littoralis i . 44.1198 ———- micranthus |. . 15 . 1251 - mutabilis : ê 18 . 1539 ——-—- nanus . 4 20 , 1705 ornatus " . 14 . 1216 - plumosus . 15 . 1217 ———- pol siva var. albi- florus de e 16 . 1377 ———- rivularis i A 19 . 1595 - Sabinianus x 17 . 1435 Lychnis Bungeana ; x 22 . 1864 Macradenia triandra . 21 . 1815 Madia elegans 17 . 1458 Magnolia Yulan, var. Soulangiana 14 . 1164 Malva Munroana è 16 . 1306 purpurata e 116-1862 = umbellata * i 14 . 1608 Mammillaria pulcra . 16 , 1329 tenuis - 18 . 1523 Manettia cordifolia . 4 22 . 1866 Maxillaria aromatica . È 22 . 1871 ciliaris ? P 14 . 1206 cristata . 21 . 1811 ————— crocea a E 21 . 1799 decolor . è 18 . 1549 densa PER 21 . 1804 picta V * 21 . 1802 racemosa . » 19 . 1566 rufescens . s 29 . 1848 tetragona . 17, 1428 viridis è ‘ 18 . 1510 Maytenus chilensis. x 20 . 1702 Mesembryanthemum rubrocinctum 20 . 1732 Michauxia levigata 17 . 1451 Microstylis opbisglossides - » 16 «1800 Milla biflora K 18 . 1555 Mimulus luteus, var. variegatus 21 . 1796 - propinquus . 16 . 1330 roseus . . 19 . 1591 Smithii a . 20, 1674 Mirbelia Baxteri > 17 . 1434 Monachanthus «de. a 20 . 1755 — viridis A 21-. 1752 Mormodes atropurpurea | . 22. 1861 Moscharia pinnatifida A 18 . 1564 Myanthus | barbatus . 21 . 1778 "cernuus 5 . 20 . 1721 “deltuideus $ 22 . 1896 Nanodes discolor ARIA 18 . 1541 Nectaroscordum siculum a 22 4095 Nemophila aurita Eee GENERAL INDEX TO THE NEW SERIES. Vol. Folium Nemophila insignis . . 90. 1713 Nierembergia filicaulis - 19. 1649 Nicotiana persica 2 AO 1599 Ochranthe arguta A ‘ 21 . 1819 (Enothera anisoloba . È 18 . 1479 bifrons A É 17 . 1405 biennis, var, grandiflora 19 . 1604 decumbens . 2 15 . 1221 densiflora . |. 18 . 1593 humifusa . 22 . 1829 ——— — glauca . i 18 . 1511 pallida . 009144. 1149 S serotina E ç 29 , 1840 tenella, var. tenuifolia 19 , 1587 viminea . - 15 . 1290 Oncidium altissimum . y 22 . 1851 — altissimum Y 19 . 1651 — ampliatum - 20. 1699 ciliatum A « 20. 1660 —— —- citrinum 5 à 21. 1758 —— cornigerum È 18 . 1542 ——— Harrisonianum . + 19. 1569 iridifolium 3 22 . 1911 ——— Lanceanum a 22 . 1887 Lemonianum > 21 . 1789 pulchellum va 787 Russellianum , 22 . 1830 Ononis peduncularis 17.147 Ophrys aranifera, var. limbata 14 . 1197 Opuntia aurantiaca s 19 . 1606 ——-— monacantha ; 20 . 1796 Orchis foliosa . cU 20 . 1701 — papilionacea 014.1155 Ornithogalum chloroleucum . 29, 1858 Orobus atropurpureus . . 94. 1763 Osbeckia nepalensis, var. albiflora 17 . 1475 Oxalis Bowiei |. > s 19 . 1585 Cummingi — . . 48. 1545 divergens ` 19, 1620 ——— Piotto , į . 21 . 1817 tortuosa A à 15 . 1249 — —— variabilis x * 18. 1505 Oxyura chrysanthemoides 22 , 1850 Pachypodium tuberosum. 16 . 1321 Palavia rhombifolia — . a 16 . 1375 Peonia albiflora, var. Pottsii 17 . 1436 — hybrida + 14. 1908 ——- Moutan . ‘ 20 . 1678 —— —— Moutan lacera A 21. 1771 Semidouble tree , 17 . 1456 Pancratium pedale , ` 19 . 1641 Papaver Persicum s GR Os Ta Passiflora ligularis - "19. 1339 —— gossypiifolia 4 19 . 1634 kermesina n 19 . 1633 = phenicea * © 19. 1603 Pentstemon acuminatum ` 15 . 1285 ————— attenuatum + 15 . 1295 Vol. Pentstemon confertum . 59835 — deustum 4920 —— — —— diffusum : 14 gl aA : 15 ————— glaucum . 15 ————— heterophyllum . 22 ———— — pruinosum E 15 A pulehellum — 4, 2:48 —— — — Scouleri vds —— — —— speciosum N 15 staticifolias = 21 triphyllum : 15 ——— — — venustum ÃO Pereskia Bleo . ER Perilomia ocymoides th Pernettia mucronata . . 20 Persea gratissima Re eee) Petunia violacea : 19 Phacelia tanacetifolia : 20 Pharium fistulosum ar Platystemon Californicum . 20 Phlomis floccosa $ 15 Phlox iosa i ` 16 Pholidota imbricata . 14 ———— imbricata. P 21 Phycella Herbertiana 16 Physianthus albens ©- a Pimelea humilis È 15 ——— hispida 19 ——— intermedia 17 ——— ligustrina 21 ——— sylvestris 19 Pieurothallis Grobyi 21 ———— pita ., i 9$ ————— prolifera = o Plumeria Lambertiana 5 16 Podolobium trilobatum 16 Polemonium ceruleum, var. pili- forum >< 1s 15 ———— —— humile , > 15 Polygala oppositifolia, var. major 14 Polygonum injucundum + Portulaca Gilliesii à 20 Potentilla arguta È 16 glandulosa y 19 — Hopwoodiana . 16 ———— laciniosa , i 18 missourica . . 17 — —— Russells . , È 18 ————- viscosa È è 18 Pothos scandens SERIE M6 Pratia begoniflia . . 16 Prescottia colorans , , 99 Prunus candicans i 3 14 ——— dasycarpa vu cu AN ——— japonica ; A 21 Psoralea macrostach ya > 21 Pultenza flexilis È 20 ———— rosmarinifolia s 19 —— — subumbellata « 19 . Folium . 1260 . 1318 1138 . 1262 . 1286 . 1899 . 1280 . 1138 . 1277 . 1270 . 1770 + 1245 . 1309 1473 1394 1675 1258 1626 . 1696 . 1546 . 1679 1300 1351 1213 1777 1341 1759 1268 1578 1459 1527 . 1582 . 1797 . 1825 + 1298 . 1378 . 1333 1303 1304 1146 1250 1672 1379 1583 1387 1478 1412 . 1496 . 1492 1337 1373 1916 1135 1245 1801 1769 1694 . 1584 + 1632 SAO tt E a PPS Tu peas eas A Des S GENERAL INDEX TO THE NEW SERIES. Vol. Folium Parshia tridentata : 3 17 . 1446 Pyrolirion aureum BE Pyrus angustifolia A : 14 . 1207 ——- crenata . È 20 . 1655 ——- Bollwylleriana a 17 . 1437 grandifolia uu cd 10d ——- nivalis pi > : 17 . 1434 ——- salvifolia A 5 18 . 1482 ——- sinensis A ; 15 . 1248 spuria cc uiuo. di: 1190 Ranunculus creticus, var. macro- phyllus . ada 149% Raphiolepis rubra te 17 4400 Reevesia thyrsoidea > 15 . 1236 Renanthera coccinea i 14 . 1151 Rhodanthe Manglesii xs 20% 1708 Rhodochiton volubile ; 21. 1755 Rhododendron Alta-clerense 17 . 1414 - arb var. roseum . . s 15 . 1240 arboreum, var. album C " È 20 . 1684 Cartons s 17 . 1449 — pulcherrimum 21 . 1820 Ribes cereum . 5 Ä 15 . 1263 divaricatum : 2 16 . 1359 —— inebrians : a 17 . 1471 —— niveum = A 2 20 . 1692 —— punctatum . . 26 , 1658 —— sanguineum Xe 16 . 1349 —— setosum H > 15.1294 —— speciosum 5 > 18 . 1557 —— tenuiflorum ; - 19 . 1574 Rondeletia odorata . A 22. 1905 Rose Clare 17 . 1438 Rosa multiflora, var. platyphylla 16 . 1572 —— Ruga ila 16 . 1389 Rubus nutkanus 2 A 10606 roridus . x 19 . 1607 spectabilis ` 17 . 1424 Ruellia Sabiniana ; 15 . 1238 Russellia juncea . i 31. 1775 Saccolabium papillosum . 18 . 1552 Sagittaria angustifolia :15:44 „1141 Salpiglossis atropurpurea . 18 . 1518 Salvia angustifolia me AO 19094 — foliosa è . 17 . 1429 fulgens . ; > 16 . 1356 ——-- Grahami à t 16 . 1570 —-——- involucrata = + 14 . 1205 Sarcanthus guttatus «47 . 1443 Sarcochilus falcatus . A 22 . 1832 Sauroglossum elatum €. 19 . 1618 Scaphyglottis violacea . . 92.1901 Schizanthus pinnatus, var. humilis 18 . 1562 ————— retusus j 18 . 1544 Scilla plumbea E mea e 40 1990 —— Cupaniana n. 1078 Vol. Folium Scottia angustifolia ~. — . 15. 1266 dentata » . 15 . 1233 ——— levis a . ; 19 . 1652 Scutellaria alpina 5 18 . 1460 —— —— alpina, var. lupulina 18 . 1493 Sedum Cepza sti lO: 199% Selago Gillii 6 a B. «1008 Sempervivum villosum . 18. 1553 ——— urbicum +20. 1741 Senecio lilacinus . 16. 1342 ——— Tussilaginis . 18 . 1550 Serapias cordigera, var ongietala 14 . 1189 Silene laciniata , 17 1444 Sinningia villosa RR ASA Sisyrinchium grandiflorum 13 . 1364 ———t- graminifolium, var. pumilum 22 , 1915 ———— odoratiasimum - 15 . 1283 Solandra guttata M ids Solanum crispum een); — — — etuberosum a 4744 Sollya heterophylla 17 . 1466 Sophora velutina sii A eb 1185 Soulangia rubra kn Sparaxis pendula 16 1960 Spermadietyon azureum 15 . 1235 Sphacele campanulata 4 16 . 1382 Spherostema propinquum . 20. 1688 Sphenotoma capitatum 18 . 1515 Spiræa arizfolia en.) ——-- chamedrifolia 15 . 1222 Stachys albicaulis . 18 . 1558 germanica, var. pubescens 15 . 1289 inflata . 20 . 1697 ——— Salvia Ae AD 1936 Stackhousia monogyna 19. T Stanhopeaeburna — . . 18.1529 "T insignis . . 22 . 1837 —— oculata oe er She 1900 Stapelia Gussoneana . 20 . 1731 Statice puberula . 17 . 1450 Stemodia chilensis 20037. 1470 Stenactis speciosa O, 19 . 1577 Sterculia lanceolata . + 15. 1256 -— Tragacantha . 16. 1353 Stigmaphyllon aristatum . 20. 1659 Streptocarpus Rexii . 14. 1173 Stylidium fasciculatum . - 177, 1459 Syringa Josikea pa lia 80.1709 Tabernemontana densiflora 15 . 1273 Tacsonia pinnatistipula . 18, 1536 Talauma Candollii ... 20. 1709 Tellimagrandifora —. - 14 . 1178 Teucrium orchideum . 15, 1255 Thermopsis fabacea . O 4878 Thryallis brachystachys . 14. 1162 Tillandsia acaulis xis od ad AD rosea izada o 1957 stricta 2 0. O: 1988 GENERAL INDEX TO THE NEW SERIES. A Vol. Folium Vol. Folium i Trachymene corulea 15 . 1225 | Verbena multifida contracta 21 . 1766 j Tradescantia undata 17 . 1403 | ———- sulphurea 21 . 1748 | Trichopetalum gracile 18 . 1535 | Vernoniaaxillifora . 17 . 1464 ; Trichopilia tortilis 22 . 1863 | Viburnum cotinifolium 27° 197-1000 Trifolium fucatum + 22. 1883 | Villarsia reniformis 18 . 1533 — vesiculosum 17 . 1408 | Viola premorsa 15 . 1254 Tristania macrophylla + | 22°, 1839 Triteleia laxa - . . . 90.1685 Westringia longifolia . 18. 1481 | Tritoma Burchelli sido EMS | Tropeolum pentaphyllum 18 . 1547 | Xerophyllum setifolium + “191618 | Tulipa Oculus solis, var. persica 14 . 1143 . ——— Oculus solis, var. precor 17 . 1419 | Yucca Draconis. . “BR 4694 Tupistra nutans * + 15.1223 | ——— flaccida . |. . 22. 1895 Turrea pinnata o 037.1413 | ——— superba . . ^. 90.1690 Ulex genistoides ++ 17. 1452 | Zephyranthesmesochloa . 16 . 1361 S — — — — Spofforthiana 21. 1746 Vaccinium ovatum , . 16 . 1354 | Zinnia violacea, var. coccinea 15 . 1294 Vanda teres + +. + 21.1809 | Zygopetalum cochleari. . 92.1857 Verbena Melindres + 14, 1184 A é THE END. 4 LONDON : NORMAN AND SKEEN, PRINTERS, MAIDEN LANE, COVENT GARDEN, AA, Gi be E Ped ty eg Sioca ey JI PTFE CGI AC 1829 (ENOTHERA humifusa. Pencilled Evening Primrose. Nat. ord. OxAGRACEA, GNOTHERA.—Suprá, vol. 2. fol. 147. CE. humifusa ; tota villosa, caulibus prostratis, folis ex ovata basi angustis acu- minatis dentatis, spicis foliosis terminalibus, calycis tubo gracili ovario duplo longiore, petalis bilobis venosis staminibus longioribus, stigmatis lobis bre- vibus cruciatis, capsulis prismaticis. . CE. humifusa. Nutt. gen. amer. 245. CE. concinna. Don in. Brit, Fl. Gard. n. s. t. 183. Boisduvalia concinna, Spach in Ann. des sc. ser. 2. 4. 16]. Annua, cinerascens, undique pube brevi patente vestita, Caules pro- cumbentes, subsimpliciter ramosi, pallide virides. Folia sessilia, basi ovata, angusta, acuminata, paululum recurva, dentata ; superiora bractescentia in- tegriora. Tubus calycis sanguineus, gracilis, limbo ovarioque duplo longior ; limbus 4-partitus viridis. ‘ Petala obcordata, venosa; diurna, sub sole pallida, in umbra amené rosea. Stamina omnia fertilia, alterna breviora. Stylus filiformis staminibus longior, decolor ; stigma breviter quadrilobum. Semina oblonga, fusco-olivacea, glabra, subangulata ; testé levi tenui. A pretty little hardy annual, for a specimen of which I am indebted to the kindness of Mrs. Marryat, who origin- ally received the seeds from Mr. Lambert. In the Garden at Wimbledon it creeps close to the ground, forming a plant a foot in diameter, and shedding its seeds very freely. According to Professor Don this is a Chilian plant, in- troduced by Mr. Cuming. But I do not find any thing like it among the rich Chilian Herbaria collected by Cum- ing, Macrae, Mathews, Bridges, and others; Mr. Cruck- shanks, who is so well acquainted with the Chilian flora, is VOL. XXII. B equally a stranger to it; and I suspect some mistake on the part of Mr. Lambert's gardener. In fact, it appears to be the CE. humifusa of Nuttall, a species originally discovered on the sea-coast near Cumberland Island in Florida, by Dr. Baldwin. When exposed to much light its flowers are a very pale delicate flesh colour, but if they are made to expand in a cool shady place, such, for instance, as a sitting room with a northern aspect, they acquire the beautiful pink of the accompanying plate. The genus (Enothera has lately been the subject of what is called a revision, by one Mr. Spach, a E Botanist resident at Paris. This writer appears to pe to that school which takes for the fun- damental article of its faith, the belief that an occasional subversion of the established nomenclature of the best known parts of syste- matie Natural History, is the surest way—not to advance the science ut—to carve out a great reputation for themselves; who think it far more pleasant to see their own names attached to a plant, than the name of its discoverer; who have a happy knack of appropri- ating to themselves, by an ingenious sort of hocus pocus, the credit which in reality belongs to others, and who contrive, by what they are pleased to call remodelling a genus, to push themselves into what the uninitiated imagine to be the high places of science. One of the first gentlemen who took up this trade in Botany was, I think, a certain Mr. Schreber, who, by changing all the generic names of the plants collected in Cayenne by Fusée Aublet, succeeded for a time in getting to himself the credit of the unfortunate Frenchman's discoveries. So meritorious an example was not likely to want imitators, and accordingly, from that day to this, the world has been occasionally afflicted by the visitations of scientific putters-to- rights, who have bedizened and bedecked poor Botany after such a fashion, that her nearest friends cannot recognise her, and can hardly believe her to be the same science, whose acquaintance they have been cultivating all their lives. Mr. Spach is no unworthy dis- ciple of this `“ philoseautic” school, as I now proceed to shew. Most people who know any thing of Botany are acquainted with such plants as (Enothera macrocarpa of Pursh, (E, biennis of Linneus, mc d Jio Face ui Us (E. acaulis of Cavanilles, CE. rosea of Aiton, CE. fruticosa of Sims, ot (E. speciosa of Nuttall. But no such species are to be found in the book of Mr. Spach, who has been putting CEnothera to rights. Upon looking, however, more narrowly after our old acquaintances, we at last discover them figuring away under the names of Megapte- rium Nuttallianum of Spach, Onagra vulgaris of $ ach, Lavauxia mutica of Spach, Hartmannia gauroides of Spach, Kneiffia suffruti» cosa of Spach, and Xylopleurum Nuttallii of Spach ; and in like man- ner, our friends Fuchsia lycioides, thymifolia and microphylla have been spirited away, and their places taken by Kierschliegeria lycioides of Spach, Lyciopsis thymifolia of Spach, and Brebissonia micro- phylla of Spach. And upon what grounds, it will be asked, is all this improvement effected? Why upon this? Mr. S ach has made the parece discovery that in some species of (Enothera the seeds ave a thicker skin than in others, that their skin is even oc- casionally pitted ; he has further ascertained that the seed vessel is not always of the same shape, but that it is narrow in some an broad in others, tough in some and tender in others, now broadest at one end now at the other; and he has even found out that some (Enotheras have 8 ribs, others 12, and others only 4 in their capsules. Armed with this intelligence this clever gentleman snatches up his critical lance, jumps into the saddle, puts spurs t0 his Rosinante, and rides full tilt at CEnothera, whom he unseats at the first atteinte, and then cuts and hacks into a dozen pieces. No EC deny that this is brave work ; all honour to Mr. Spach for 1s feat. E But to be serious—can any thing be well imagined more per- fectly absurd or more pregnant with mischief than such doings as this. If there is any meaning in the word genus, and if it has any intelligible application, it must be the representation of some specia simple type of organization which differs from all other types: just as an order is the representation of some more compound type of or- ganization. Thus a Strawberry is a Rosaceous plant, in which a tendency to become excessively succulent and saccharine exists In the receptacle of the achenia; a Potentilla is a Rosaceous plant in which no kind of tendeney exists to such an enlargement of the receptacle, and the differences are constant; again a Rubus differs from both these genera in the tendency to enlargement and the for- mation of saccharine matter existing in the achenia, and not in the receptacle, and this is accompanied by the suppression of one series of the calycine segments. These are clear, plain, intelligible dif- ferences, each of which constitutes a separate type of structure. But is one seed being less pitted (serobiculate) than another, a different type of structure? Or having its seed coat a little thicker? Or are we to consider an obovate capsule a different type of structure B 2 from an ovate one? Or a thin-sided pericarp a different type of structure from a thicker-sided one? Mr. Spach says yes; and upon such differences is the larger part of his new genera (!!) proposed. To me, however, and 1 should hope to the greater number of Bota- nists who have any idea what general views are, such opinions appear contrary to common sense. If the example of writers like Mr. Spach were to be followed, systematic Botany would be resolved into its original elements: books would consist of mere masses of species; all power of analysis would be at an end, and the great objects of classification would be annihilated. A proneness to disturb existing nomenclature is very commonly alleged against modern Botanists in a mass, and is looked upon by the Public, who are much inconvenienced by it, as a besetting sin in modern Natural History. That there is a good deal of prejudice, much misconception, and no small degree of ignorance in this po- pular outery, 1 or any Botanist could easily prove; for it is impos- sible that, m a science of observation, the ideas of any man should remain fixed and immoveable, unless, indeed, in the case of those gentlemen whom Science every now and then leaves so far behind her, that, in the end, they are well nigh lost sight of altogether. As new objects are discovered the necessity of new systematic combi- nations becomes evident, and the ideas of Botanists change accord- ingly, the visible result of which is occasional changes in nomen- clature. Genera are thus materially affected from time to time, and new species as they are discovered render the creation of new genera necessary, into which some of the species of the old genera are very often transferred. But, on the other hand, it is most true, that there are too many Botanical writers who, without due consideration, or a sufficient power of forming good general views, or from, an incomplete and superficial acquaintance with their subject, are, like this Mr. Spach, in the habit of introducing inno- vations which science indeed repudiates, but which ‘produce the greater public inconvenience, because it has usually happened that the writings of such persons are intended for popular purposes, and are directed to subjects of common occurrence. In the case I have now brought forward, the genus (Enothera, one of the most natural and indivisible in the whole science, is cut up into 12 pieces, to which, what with synonyms and blunders, at least 16 generic names. belong, and the adoption of these renders necessary some- thing more than 100. new specific names, which for one. genus is pretty well. Surely, I shall not be thought too harsh and severe, when I pronounce the writings in which such enormities are perpe- trated to be scientific nuisances. To these general observations upon Mr. Spach's performance, I have one or two more to offer of a more special nature. There really is one grain of corn in the midst of his chaff. He states that certain supposed CEnotheras have their chalaza bordered by a fringed . margin. This is obviously an additional organ and a special type of structure : it is the beginning of the feathery appendage of the seed of Epilobium, but it is incapable of performing the office of buoying up the seed in the air so as to enable it to be dispersed from place to place. I find the structure to be as Mr. Spach states, and that the spe- cies collected by the character are CE. Romanzovii, purpurea, and the like, which will not intermix with the true Evening Primroses, and which have quite a peculiar habit. Among other things, their flowers have no tendency to become yellow. To these plants the name of Godetia may be assigned. But Mr. Spach refers to the same type of structure, CEnothera densiflora, and the species now before me, making them however into another genus, which he calls Boisduvalia. As I have the seeds of both at this moment under my microscope, I can safely affirm that neither of these species has any trace of a fringed border to the chalaza, and that conse- DI the most remarkable part of their supposed character has no real existence. Mr. Spach adds to these marks of distinction, that of the stamens which are opposite the petals being very short (brevissima) ; this is hardly true of CE. densiflora, and it is altogether untrue of CE. humifusa. Boisduvalia may, therefore, be consigned to the same fate as the rest of Mr. Spach's new genera. 1830 ONCIDIUM Russelliánum. The Duke of Bedford's Oncidium. Nat. ord. OrcHpacea, $ VANDER, ONCIDIUM — Supra, vol. 13. fol. 1050. B. Labellum integerrimum. O. Russellianum ; pseudobulbis ovatis costatis diphyllis, foliis ligulato-lanceo- latis patentibus, racemo paucifloro radicali, sepalis petalisque conformibus ovato-oblongis subundulatis, labello postico oblongo-cuneato retuso apiculato subsinuato, lamellis disci truncatis. Folia let? viridia. Caulis fusco-purpureus. Sepala et petala fusco- purpurea viridi marginata et costata. Labellum lilacinum lamellis disci purpureis albo-marginatis, quarum series tres geminate truncate sensim anteposite pares duas includunt angustissimas pariter truncatas. Columna ale semiovate erose acute lutee ; gynizus margine purpureo basi utrinque bidentato (fig. 1.) ; anthera et pollinia Oncidii. That this is a genuine species of “Oncidium I by no means aver ; on the contrary it differs from the general form of that genus in its undivided posterior lip, and in the two teeth which are placed below the gynizus on either side : its colour too, notwithstanding the example of O. Lanceanum, is different from what Rey p the principal part of the spe- cies of this very natural and extensive genus. Nevertheless I do not feel justified în forming a new genus out of the ma- terials I at present possess. The plant may possibly be a transition species; and it ranges well enough with the ver- bal character of Oncidium. I have named this species in compliment to his Grace the Duke of Bedford, one of the many liberal patrons of Botanical science of whom England now can boast, and in whose stove at Woburn it first appeared in Europe. It was obtained from the garden of Mrs. Moke at Tejuca near Rio Janeiro, by the Hon. Capt. J. Roos, R.N. who sent it to Woburn «o with many other valuable plants in 1835. Hey ray (0 PRI SU by . 1831 * BARTONIA aurea. Golden-flowered Bartonia. Nat. ord. LoAsacea' BARTONIA, Pursh. -Sepala 5. Petala 5-10, nunc 5 staminibus toti- dem alternantibus petaloideis. Stamina 00. Capsula subclavata, sessilis, apice 3-(-7 D C.) valvis. Placenta serie simplici polyspermee.——Herbe, caulibus teretibus, ramosis, pallidis, hispidis, fragilibus, erectis, nunquam scanden- tibus. ; B. aurea ; foliis ovato-lanceolatis simpliciter pinnatifidis laciniis inferiorum grosse serratis, bracteis ovatis pinnatidiis flores obvallantibus, petalis 5 obovatis cuspidatis, filamentis numerosissimis omnibus filiformibus. Herba annua, 2-3-pedalis, eretta, ramosa, undique pilis pungentibus haud prurientibus hispida; caulibus pallide cinereo-virentibus fragilibus. Folia atroviridia ; inferiora 3 p. longa, sessilia, subamplezicaulia ex ovatá basi lanceolata, acuminata, pinnatifida, lobis utrinque circiter 5 grosse ser- ratis ; superiora sensim breviora, demum in bracteas abeuntia pinnatifidas quoque, calyce paulo breviores eumque arcte obvallantes. Flores axillares, versus fastigia ramulorum. Calyx pilis incanis hispidus ; tubo ovario adnato, obovato ; limbo 5-partito, patente, equali, corollá breviore. Petala 5, aurea, lucida, sub sole tantum expansa, ferê unciam longa, subrotundo-obovata, cuspidata, estivatione convoluta. Stamina numerosissima, calyci inserta, filamentis omnibus filiformibus exterioribus longioribus. Ovarium 1-locu- lare placentis 3 parietalibus, linearibus, polyspermis ; semimaturum parie- tibus levigatis nitidissimis. Semina indefinita, pallidê fusca, testà subcoria- ced sub microscopio. minutissime tuberculata, Embryo in medio albuminis parci oleoso-carnosi ; cotyledonibus planis virescentibus, radiculà tereti albi. fe, A A very beautiful-half-hardy annual, discovered by Mr. Douglas in California, and raised in the garden of the Hor- ticultural Society, where it flowered in July last. It is only beneath bright sunshine that its splendid flowers unfold ; in the early morning the plant is a shabby bush, with pale greenish-grey branches and weedy leaves; but as the sun exercises his influence the petals gradually unrol as * Named in compliment to the late Dr. B. S. Barton of Philadelphia, if in acknowledgment of his power, till every branch is radiant with gold ; and so metallic is the lustre of the inside of the petals, that one would really think they must be com- posed of something more solid and enduring than the delicate and perishable tissue of a flower. It is probable that this is a species that will be apt to degenerate, and which, if neglected, or not supplied with sufficiently rich and moist soil, will have its beauty greatly impaired. The wild Californian specimens are by no means so handsome as those of the Garden. What I should recommend for it is, firstly, a sheltered situation, for the branches are very brittle and liable to be broken by wind ; secondly, a warm and sunshiny spot, for without sun Bartonia will not be brilliant; thirdly, a very rich soil, for she is a gourmande in her way, and if starved she will not gain half her natural size ; and, fourthly, a good deal of moisture, for she is a thirsty sort of personage, and would prefer the banks of a rivulet to the side of a hill. AE de A è Take. HW, PSA K y "Wann ie o, e: Gal: ty ud, Suagurag /6 G Siccadihbiy Sa} 1836 os w m4 pr é . E t e. 3 SO 32, es 1832 SARCOCHILUS falcatus. Falcate-leaved Sarcochilus. Nat. ord. ORCHIDACEE $ VANDER. SARCOCHILUS, R. Br. Perianthium patens. Sepala lateralia cum ungue labelli subtüs connata. Petala conformia. Labellum ecalcaratum, cum ungue columnz continuum, calceiforme ; lobo intermedio cárnoso solido, laterali- bus ascendentibus petaloideis. Columna brevissima, marginibus tenuibus inflexis. Anthera bilocularis, valvis antheree inferioribus deflexis erosis. Pollinia caudi- cula lineari affixa. glandulá deltoideà. Epiphyta acaulis, vel brevissimê cau- lescens. Folia disticha, lineari-lanceolata, subcoriacea. Racemi azillares, erecti, 3-6-flori, secundi. Bractew breves, late, ovate. Flores mediocres. S. falcatus. R. Br. Prodr. 332. Lindl. g. & sp. orch. 142. This rare plant has been sent me both by Mr. Bateman and Messrs. Loddiges. The drawing was made in the col- lection of the latter gentlemen in April last. It is a native of New Holland and near Hunters River ; but so rare that I have never yet received a single native specimen except an imperfect one for which I was some years since indebted to Dr. Brown, who however saw it only in an imperfect state. The flowering specimens, with which my garden friends have supplied me, while they have enabled me to complete my account of it, have also shown that this hitherto little known species is really an extremely pretty little plant, which, without any of the gaudy colours of many of its tribe, is so neat and simple in its appearance as to be sure to capti- vate the feelings of every lover of nature. It must be treated just like other Orchideous Epiphytes. 7799. o Lal deal; N a 1833 * BRUNÓNIA australis. Southern Brunonia. Nat. ord. BRUNONIACER. BRUNONIA, Smith. Capitulum involucratum. Calyx 5-fidus, 4- bracteatus. Corolla monopetala, infundibuliformis: limbo 5-partito, laciniis 2 superioribus altius divisis. Stamina 5, hypogyna. Anthere connate. Ova- rium monospermum. Stigmatis indusium bivalve. Utriculus inclusus tubo aucto indurato calycis superne patuli laciniis plumosis. Semen exalbuminosum. Br. Prodr. 589. B. australis ; foliis undique scapisque infernè villosis : pilis patulis, calycis laci- niis longitudinaliter plumosis : apice acutiusculo, R, Br. l. c. 590, A most interesting new perennial, introduced by Mr. James Backhouse in 1834. The drawing was made from specimens supplied by Mr. Lowe of Clapton, and I have also received it from the Messrs. Backhouses of York. In appearance it is very like our wild Scabiouses, but it is delightfully fragrant. “Jt no doubt requires the protection of a frame in winter, and would probably be more at home in such a place, or in a cool greenhouse even during the summer ; and the general neatness of its appearance renders it peculiarly well adapted for such a mode of cultivation. I presume it will be easily increased by partition of the crown of the root. = uf. / Neither the cultivated plant nor shy fine wild specimens from Mr. Gunn agree;exaetly with Dr. Brown’s defini- LA A Pr 7 13 ; * So named by Smith in compliment talilober Brown, Esq. D. C. L. &c. &c. the present. Keeper of the Banksian herbarium in the British Museum, whom I may designate with perfect truth as the most learned systematic Botanist of this or any previous age, A E E | tion of the species, for he states that the scapes are only villous at their base, with spreading hairs. I find them, on the contrary, equally downy at the top, but it is true that the hairs of that part are not spreading. This genus is the representative of the very small Natural Order Brunoniace®, allied to the Scabious tribe, to Globula- riacez, to the Campanula tribe, and to other Monopetalous orders. An account of it is given in the Introduction to the Natural System of Botany, whither the reader is referred for information concerning its place in the system, and the nature of its affinities. Mess A rare. del. JL Ly e Hidra /6 GE rotta lt Fet- Z MIE. ^ A MAIALI, IH 1834 > CELÓSIA coccinea. Scarlet Cockscomb. Nat. ord. AMARANTHACER. 4 CELOSIA, L. Bractea numero incerte, scarios®, acuminate, flore sup- posite. Calyx 5-phyllus, scariosus. Stamina breviter monadelpha filamentis basi latissimis. Stegma leviter trifidum. - Utriculus circumscissus, polyspermus. C. coccinea ; foliis angustè lanceolatis acanna caule suleato, spicis multipli- cibus compressis acuminatis pyramidalibus, staminibus calyce brevioribus. C. coccinea, Mill. dict. no. 4. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 1199. Rom. & Schult. 5. 465. One of the many forms in which the Cockscomb makes its appearance in Asia; but whether or not it is truly a distinct species I cannot judge. It differs from C. cristata chiefly in the crowded pyramidal arrangement of the inflo- rescence, the narrower leaves, and the short stamens. It is also a far more hardy plant, for while the common Cocks- comb can only be brought to produce its stiff and fantastical crests with much care and assiduity, this demands no other attention than is required by every tender annual, and goes on enlarging its glowing crimson tassels, in the open border, till winter destroys it. l The drawing was made from specimens communicated by the/Hon. W. F. Strangways from his garden in Dorset- shire, in the end of last October. TS 3^ * * Said to be derived from enAcoc, something burnt ; because the flowers look às if scorched and dried up by exposure to heat. a (035, 1835 COOPERIA Drummondi. Drummond's Cooperia. —— Nat. ord. AMARYLLIDACEZ, $ 2. Scapacr®, subordo SCHISTANDRE. W. Herbert, MS. COOPERIA. Tubus cylindricus, erectus ; limbus regularis patens ; fila- menta tubo consolidata ; anthere erecte in fauce tubi sessiles ; pollen (quod in Zephyranthe acutè ovale) difforme; scapus cavus; semina testà tenui nigrà, complanata, cumulata. Germen erectum. Tubus erectus cylindricus, ore am- pliato ; limbus sub sole stellatim patens. Filamenta decurtentia ; subeequalia, apice ad faucem tubi libera; anthere subulato-lineares (dein lineares), erecte, non versatiles, a tertiá parte inferiore dorso affixee ; stigma crassum 3-lobatum vix trifidum. Herbert MSS. C. Drummondi ; bulbo parvulo ovato, foliis gracilibus irune. lat, 12-13-uncia- libus canaliculatis tortilibus subacutis flaccidis glabris lete viridibus basi rubescentibus ; scapo unifloro 4j-unciali viridi unifloro, spatha univalvi in- ferne cylindricà ; germine sessili viridi, tubo gracili 43-unciali rubro filamentis decurrentibus striata; limbo stellatim patente 3-unciali albo laciniis dorso rubro-lineatis ; petalis obtusis, sepalis latioribus acutioribus ; antheris }-un- cialibus ; stylo antheris breviore ; stigmate obtuso trilobo. Herbert MSS. I am much indebted to the Hon. and Rev. William Herbert, who has for so many years been occupied in the examination of the difficult Natural order to which this plant belongs, and who is now preparing a com lete revision of it, for the drawing and all the information have to give respecting this species. “ This very singular little bulb was discovered in the pro- vince of Texas in North America by poor Drummond, whose early death is deplored by all who cel interested in bringing to light the unexplored riches of the vegetable creation. | It was sent by him to Scotland, together with other interesting bulbs, concerning the genera of which, if some be not entirely new, at present a conjecture can only be made, too vague to deserve public mention. “ This plant is at once distinguished from all the known genera of the order to which it belongs, by anthers sessile on the mouth of the tube, so that the filaments are con- solidated with it, and decurrent in its texture. The VOL. XXII. c flower from which the sketch was made flowered in the collection of Earl Fitzwilliam at Wentworth House, under the care of Mr. Cooper, who received it from the Botanic Garden at Glasgow. Mr. Cooper is one of the most zealous and successful cultivators of rare plants in this king- dom, and has with unremitting exertion brought together the fine collection of plants now at Wentworth, by a liberal system of exchanging his superfluities for those of other per- sons. He has now for above twenty years had the manage- ment of the Botanic Garden at Wentworth, and few culti- vators deserve better the compliment of having his name handed down to posterity, as engrafted in our botanical no- menclature. It seems that bulbs of this singular plant flow- ered about the same time at the Botanic Garden at Edin- burgh, and at Mr. Dickson's nursery, but Mr. Cooper was at least one of the first who brought it into flower, and, as the name Drummondia is preoccupied, the genus is named after Mr. Cooper. Itis possible that the plant may be found to endure our climate, as the frosts are severe in Texas, but as it pushes its leaves in the autumn, it probably grows ina. temperate situation and would be injured by our winters, and at present it must be considered as a greenhouse or frame plant. It is nearly allied to Zephyranthes. Two suc- cessive one-flowered scapes were produced, the first of which ripened seed that readily vegetated. The limb expanded quite flat. The pollen viewed in the microscope is difformed like that of Zephytanthes candida, and not of the usual more regular and oval form that prevails amongst the genera allied to it. It is doubtful whether Z. candida, ought not to be generically distinguished by tliat and some other features from Zephyranthes.” l. The back of a petal. 2, Ditto of a sepal. 3. Stigma, 4. Ripe seed: 5. Pollen magnified. 7. Inside of the mouth of the tube, shewing the sessile anthers. Mr. Herbert speaks of another species, nearly akin to this, which has flowered in the greenhouse at Spofforth, equally from Texas. This plant has at this time (beginning of January, 1836) three leaves nearly a foot and a half long, = may be distinguished by the following name and cha- racter, “ Cooperia chlorosolen ; foliis sesquipedalibus, | une. latis tortilibus acutis viri- ibus; ermine sessili; spathă 1}-unciali tubulosá apice fenestratà ; perianthii tubo 4; -unciali viridi, limbo iunc. albo sepalis viridi-apiculatis extus viridi-lineatis; stylo semuneiam vel ultra tubo breviore."—W, H. Y, PA > Dey ALL Drake. HEX, Sil by 4 Va auras, (09 anual, Hy Feb], 1030, 7530. B d é Mala Jc 1836 * KAGENECKIA crategifólia. Crategus-leaved Kageneckia. — Nat. ord. RosACE&, $ QuILLANE. KAGENECKIA. Flores unisexuales. Calyx 5-fidus, laciniis wstivatione imbricatis. Petala 5. Stamina marum 15, cestivatione deflexa, quorum series exterior prima erigitur, Discus ceraceus tubum calycis muniens. Carpella 5, petalis alterna, tomentosa, omnind sejuncta, ovulis plurimis horizontalibus; styli subnulli; stigmata simplicia emarginata, — Folliculi lignosi, dehiscentes; semi- nibus samaroideis. K. crategoides ; floribus corymbosis, foliis oblongis serratis acutis, sepalis mar- gine tomentosis subdenticulatis. K. crategoides. Don in Edinb. Ph. Journ. n. s. 10, 229. “Lydea Lyday. Molin. Hist:nat. chil. ed. 2. 300.” MÀ À very pretty and half-hardy evergreen shrub, native of Chili, and flowering in this country in June. I call it half-hardy because I have never yet seen it cul- tivated in the open air, except beneath the protection of walls, but I have no doubt that it will succeed perfectly in our South-western counties. The plant has never yet been increased except by seed, but it would doubtless multiply by layers, if not by cuttings. Our drawings were made in the garden of the Horticultural Society in June last. Professor Don refers this genus, Quillaia and Vauque- linia, to an order he separates from Rosacez, under the name of Quillajiz, for the following reasons, “ Quillaia and Kageneckia, (he says,) together with Vauquelinia, I consider, * Dedicated by the authors of the Flora Peruviana to M. de Kageneck, Am- bassador from the | iem of Germany to the King of Spain. as constituting a small family, differing essentially both from Rosacez and Spireace® in their erect ovules, and from the latter also in the valvular estivation of their calyx.” But I think there must be some inadvertence or typographical error in this paragraph, or possibly both combined ; for certainly Kageneckia has horizontal, not erect ovules, and an imbricated not valvular calyx. Isee no more difference between them and Rosacee than between Spiræa and Potentilla. The unisexuality of the flowers is certainly no mark of distinc- tion, for Fragaria is hardly otherwise ; and the convolute cotyledons of Kageneckia have their parallel in Chameemeles. ' a 783I). 1837 STANHOPEA insignis. Noble Stanhopea. ———-— —— Nat. ord. Orcmpacra, $ VANDER. STANHOPEA.—Supra, vol. 18. t. 1529. S. insignis; labello medio quam maximă constricto, hypochilii subrotundi late- ribuscornutis incurvis, epichilio ovato medio depresso comubusduobus baseos ineurvis. Gen. et Sp. Orch. 157. Epidendrum grandiflorum. Humb. § Bonpl. Pl. aquinoet. p. 94, t. 27. Anguloa grandiflora. H. B. K. nov. gen. $ sp. pl. 1.343. Kunth Synops. 1. 332, a Stanhopea insignis, Hooker in Bot. Mag. 2948-9. Lodd. Bot. Cat. t. 1985. Bractese membranacee, spathacee, subscariose, striate, ovarii longitu- dine, ut et ovarium ipsum leviter furfuracee. Ovarium obtuse triquetrum, obclavatum, angulis intermediis costatibus minoribus. Sepala 3 patentia, circiter 4 uncias inter suos apices, ovata, carnosa, concava, obtusa, flava, lucida, intus sanguineo-guttata; 2 lateralibus basibus connatis, Petala lanceolata, undulata, reflexa, magis lutea, sanguineo interrupt? fasciata. Labellum carnosum, cum basi columne non articulatum, a sepalis distinctum, basi ventricosum, albidum, atro-sanguineo confert? guttatum, limbo 3-lobo, lobo intermedio subcordato‘ovato carnoso sanguineo-guttato, lateralibus falcatis incurvis acuminatis cornuformibus. Columna maxima, 2 uncias longa, cum ovario continua, basi semiteres sursum alata, apice obtusè triloba, sanguineo densissimê guttata, Stigma clausum, rostello subulato acumina- tissimo incumbente. ‘Anthera apice membranacea, bilocularis. Pollinia 2, bovata, basi acuminatissima, extrorsum fissa. Glandula subrotunda, antici subulata, posticè magis membranacea, subbiloba ; caudicula brevis membra- nacea. The drawing of this plant was made from a specimen sent me in 1830 by the late Mr. Cattley; at that time it was a rarity, and the specimen was thought a fine one, but the cul- tivation of this genus has since become so much improved that still handsomer régie. de ri not mm i ape apology may perhaps be required for again figuring what has den ph Ebner in the Botanical Magazine and the VOL. XXII. D Botanical Cabinet; but upon comparing the accompanying plate with those of Dr. Hooker and Mr. Loddiges, I find enough to induce me not to suppress the drawing that was made for this work. Stanhopea insignis was originally found by Messrs. Hum- boldt and Bonpland on the trunks of old trees in shady woods near Cuenca in Quito; it has since been procured abundantly from various districts of the north-eastern part of South America. There it fixes its pseudo-bulbs upon branches, clinging to them with its numerous creeping roots, and sus- pending in the air its stout zig-zag spikes of fleshy wax-like flowers. The species grows freely in a mixture of coarse peat, sand, and broken tiles or potsherds, provided it is kept constantly growing; but it does not like to be periodi- cally dried up as many others do. In order to see its curious blossoms in perfection the young spikes should be watched for, and as soon as they appear they should be artificially led over the edge of the pot or basket; otherwise their tendency to turn downwards is so greatthat theyare apt to forcethemselves into the earth and so to become smothered. In the annexed plate, the dissections are taken from a speci- men, for which I am obliged to Lord Fitzwilliam, with much richer colours than usual; fig. 1. represents a lip seen from the upper side, and 2. the same part viewed from beneath; these figures show the cup-shaped base of this organ, the spotted tongue that terminates it, and the two long fleshy horns that project on each side of it.—Who shall imagine the use that such curious parts are intended for? 3. and 4. are the hardly less curious pollen-apparatus. A A (SIS. 1838 KENNÉDYA glabráta. Smooth-leaved Kennedya. — e Nat. ord. LEGUMINOSA. KENNEDY 4.—Supra, vol. 11." fol. 944. K. glabrata ; foliolis 3 cuneatis mucronatis glabris petiolis caulibusque pilosis, stipulis late ovatis acutis, bracteis deciduis, pedunculis foliorum longitudine subsexfloris. A specimen of this very pretty greenhouse climber was communicated to me by Mr. Knight of the King's Road, in May, 1835. It isa No Holland plant, probably from the South coast, and very distinct from all that have hitherto been figured. The slender wiry hairy stems, broad ovate sharp-pointed stipules, and smooth leaves, with wedge-shaped leaflets, which are shining and almost entirely destitute of hairiness, sufficiently mark the species. À hardy greenhouse shrub, propagated by cuttings. None of the Kennedyas which I have yet seen have so clear and bright a scarlet as this; and the effect of the colour, brilliant as it is, is much set off by the green spot bordered with deep brown, at the base of the standard. 1839 * TRISTANIA macrophylla. Large-leaved Tristania. Nat. ord. MyRTAcER. TRISTANIA, R.Br. Calyx 5-fidus, persistens, tubo turbinato, Pe- tala 5. Staminum phalanges 5 petalis opposite iisdem vix longiores. Anthere incumbentes, Capsula 3-locularis, polysperma, semierecta v. inclusa. Semina aptera,——— Frutices australasici. Folia lanceolata, Flores pedunculati subco- rymbosi. D. C. Prodr. 3. 210. T. macrophylla ; arborea, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis subverticillatis, ra- =, calycibusq. pubescentibus, phalangibus polyandris, capsulà omnino in T. macrophylla. All. Cunn. MSS. Arbor procerus, ramulis levissime pubescentibus citò calvis. Folia 5-6-p. longa, coriacea, ovato-lanceolata, acuta, petiolata, punctis pellucidis confer- tissimis, Flores ex axillis foliorum decessorum, ternati, breviter pedicellati in apice pedunculi pubescentis ancipitis ; nunc abortu lateralium solitarii. Calyx pubescens ; laciniis 5, brevibus, ovatis, acutis. Petala 5, unguiculata, concava, patenti. Phalanges staminum polyandre, lineares, petalorum lon- gitudine. Capsula omnino infera, semitrilocularis, virtice truncato dehiscens polyspermo. - Mo Drawn in August,1835, from specimens communicated by Richard Harrison, Esq. of Liverpool, who received it some years since under the name of Tr. laurina. The plant had been constantly kept in the Greenhouse, where it had gained the height of four feet, losing the exterior of its bark like Arbutus Andrachne. EE eee FE go *From rpeıc three, ‘and iorapa: or ¿orava to stand ; in allusion, as we pre- “sume, to the. te disposition of the flowers and their stalks; the three-forked inflorescence of ths doubtless very distinct genus being strikingly different from all to which itis nearly allied in the parts of fructification.—Smith. . lts flowers usually appear in threes; butin Mr. Harrison's specimens they were solitary; in other respects thev quite agreed with a wild specimen collected by Mr. Allan Cun- ningham and given me by Dr. Hooker. To Mr. Cunningham I am indebted for the following information respecting this species, and for specimens of it and the undermentioned, which were long sinee collected by him in his various expeditions of discovery in New Holland. “T. macrophylla is a tree 50-60 feet high, affording, by means of its ample foliage, a pleasant, agreeable shade, on the sandy southern shores of Moreton Bay, New South Wales (Lat. 27º. 30. s.) where it was first observed, bearing flowers and fruit, in Sept. 1824. It is nearly allied to T. conferta, R. Br. but the segments of the calyx are smaller.” T. suaveolens ; arborea, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis alternis glabris, petiolis calycibusque pubescentibus, laciniis calycis ovatis brevibus acutis, phalangibus polyandris. “ T. suaveolens Smith in Rees—Melaleuca suaveolens Gertn. ** A tree of irregular growth 15-20 feet high, frequent in damp rocky places, margins of gullies, &e.; Endeavour River, 1770, Sir Jos. Banks; J uly 1829, N. E. Coast, New South Wales, A. C." T. umbrosa, A. C.; arborea, foliis oblongis mucronatis oppositis gla- berrimis opacis, fruetibus globosis superis glaberrimis. “ Twenty-five to thirty feet high, in dark shady woods, on the shores of York Sound, N. W. Coast of Australia, 16th Sept. 1820; third Voyage of H. M. Cutter Mermaid, Capt. King. Rare.” T. depressa, A. C. (D. C. prodr. 3. 210); glaberrima, caule fru- ticoso, foliis subverticillatis angusto-oblongis, fructibus solitariis om- ninò inferis, “A low shrubby plant, on barren, stony hills; islands of Repulse Bay of Cook, New South Wales, tropie (Lat. 20°. 35. s.) June 8, 1829,” ini II É T. albens (D. C. prodr.3. 210); arborea, foliis oblongis subundu- latis ciliatis subtus pallidis oppositis, petiolis ramulisque tomentosis, fructibus capitatis coadunatis inferis pedunculisque tomentosis. “ Turpentine tree of the Colonists. A tree 60-80 feet high; in shady situations, New South Wales.” T. psidioides, A. C.; arborea, foliis obovato-oblongis obtusis muero- natis alternis subtus albo-tomentosis, ramulis pedunculis fructibusque superis albo-tomentosis. “ A tree of slender habit, forming brushes in ravines falling into the Regent's River, Brunswick Bay, N. W. Coast, Australia (Lat. 15°}. s. Long. 124°. 45, E.) 10th Oct. 1820; Mermaid's second Voyage.” T. salicina, A. C.; arbuscula, foliis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis subdentatis confertê verruculosis alternis ramulisque angulatis glabris, floribus laxè corymbosis, calycibus superis glabris. “A slender tree, 12-15 feet high, in shaded ravines, Spring- wood, Blue Mountains. Sept. 1822.” | h by S. S340. 24 ff is E DP td PO Dc I miron 1840 CENOTHÉRA serótina. Late-flowering Evening Primrose. Nat. Ord. ONAGRACER, CE NOTHERA.—Suprà, vol, 2. fol. 147. CE. serotina, caule ascendente, internodiis subsequalibus, foliis lineari-lanceolatis subdentatis pubescentibus, capsulis pedicellatis obovatis tetrapteris pube- scentibus. CE. serotina. ‘Sweet FI. G. 1. ser. 2. 184. According to Sweet this plant was sent under the present name by Mr. Nuttall to the Liverpool Garden; I do. not, however, find it noticed by the latter Botanist, nor is it men- tioned, as far as I can discover, by any writer on the plants of North America. It is probably considered, and perhaps with reason, a mere variety of 77 fruticosa, from which it differs more in habit than in any very precise characters. Its leaves are narrower and longer, its stem much less erect, and the leaves and inflorescence are not separated from each other by a considerable interval, as is usually the case in (E. fruticosa. The period. of flowering of Œ. serotina is later, extending into November. In size the flowers are variable. n WO they are as is here represented, seldom so large as in the figure in Sweet's Flower Garden. FA RA, It is a hardy perennial, growing best in a moist, but well drained American border ; butnot refusing cultivation even in common garden soil. “The late period to which its flowering is protracted renders it an acceptable species. NOTE UPON FOL. 1829. Mr. Lambert has satisfied me that the seeds from whieh his no of Œ. concinna were raised, were really obtained from Chilian specimens, collected by Mr. Cuming. The species must, however, be of very rare occurrence, for no notice is taken of it in Messrs. Hooker and Arnott's valuable catalogue of Chilian plants, nor do I see for what species those authors, who I presume must have had all Mr. Cuming's collection, could have mistaken it. The only new species they mention is (E. mendocinensis, which was not found by Mr. Cuming, and which seems from the description to be a very dif- ferent plant. It is no doubt improbable that the same species should be found in Chile and in Florida, but I am still at a loss to discover the difference between CE. concinna and (E. humifusa. With regard to the observations I felt called upon to make upon the absurdity and mischievousness of the endless changes of names introduced into Botany by some Botanical writers, | cannot but feel upon consideration that it was wrong in me to assign particular motives to Mr. er for his proceedings, however much I might be disposed to ridieule or condemn them. As it is not my nature to be either uncharitable or unjust, I do not scruple to take this opportunity of recalling that part of the remarks, in which I assigned Mr. Spach a place in the school of Schreber; but in stating this I by no means wish to be understood as withdrawing one word of the remainder of the criticism. On the contrary I regard such a case as that which elicited my animadversions to be one of those which there is no hope of curing without the application of the actual cautery, scape, on which two or three flowers 1841 CORYANTHES macräntha. Large-flowered Coryanthes. — ——— Nat. ord, OrcHIDACER, $ VANDER. CORYANTHES.—Supra, vol. 21, t. 1793, C. macrantha; folis angusto-lanceolatis, pseudo-bulbis ovato-conicis alte - suleatis, labello utrinque quater plicato: plicis deflexis. Gongora macrantha. Hooker Bot. Misc. 2. p. 151. t. 80. Coryanthes macrantha, Hooker in Bot. Mag. fol. 3102 in textu. Gen. & Sp. of Orchideous Pl. 159. Accustomed as we are now become to strange forms among Orchideous plants, I doubt whether any species has yet been seen more remarkable for its unusual characters than that now represented. + à | otanical Mis- om the Caraccas of Mr. Knight in the King's Road; and it proves to bi $ respects the same as the specimen sent to r. Hooker, The plant has the habit of a Stanhopea, or a Gongora ; and pushes forth from the base of its pseudo-bulbs a pendulous are developed. Each flower is placed at the end of a long stiff cylindrical furrowed ovary, and when expanded, measures ‘something more than 6 inches from the tip of one sepal to that of the opposite one. In colour the sepals are an ochrey yellow, spotted irregularly with dull purple; they have a most delicate texture; the upper sepal falls back from the tip of the ovary, is narrow and not above one half the length of the two lateral ones, which, instead of applying themselves to the lip as is usually the case, turn directly away from it, placing themselves at an acute angle with the upper sepal, and after a while collapsing at their sides till they look something like bats wings half at rest. The petals, which are narrowly lanceolate, very weak and much curved at the edge, have the same colour and texture as the sepals nearly, and are intermediate in length between the upper one and those at the side; they hang nearly parallel with the column, but are so placed as to conceal in no degree the lip; nature taking most especial care to exhibit this strange part in the most conspicuous manner. The lip is as fleshy and solid in its texture as the sepals and petals are de- licate; it is seated on a deep purple stalk, nearly an inch long, and forming an obtuse angle with ¿he column, and conse- quently an acute one with the ovary ; this stalk terminates in a hemispherical greenish-purple cup, or rather cap consi- dering its position, and the latter, contracting at its front edge, extends forward into a sort of second stalk of a very vivid blood colour, the sides of which are thinner than the centre, turned back, and marked with 4 or 5 very deep solid sharp- edged plaits. These plaited edges again expand and form a second cup, less lobed than the first, thinning away very much to the edges, of a broadly conical figure, with a diameter of at least two inches at the orifice ; this second cup is of an ochrey yellow, streaked and spotted with pale crimson, and seems intended to catch a watery secretion which drips into it from two succulent horns which take their origin in the base of the column, and hang over the centre of the cup. Of course this species will require the heat of a damp stove. 7) 3 PO E te Tl, F Sitit by i Pag: om i Yu ie 171995 Hidgway 109 Seceaat VA, March] I 0. }> 1842 LOBELIA decurtens. Winged-stemmed Lobelia. —.. Nat. ord. LoBELIACEA. LOBELIA.—Supra, vol. 1. fol. 60. L. decurrens; folis ovato-lanceolatis decurrentibus confertis duplicato-serratis glabris, floribus axillaribus breviter pedunculatis, calycis villosi laciniis lanceolatis inciso-serratis, corollse laciniis apice pilosis. Spreng. syst. 1. 712. Sweet. Brit. Fl, G. n. s. 1. 86. L. decurrens. Cav. ic. 6. 13. t. 521. Rom. & Schult. syst, 5. 42. Perennis. Caulis erectus, parum ramosus, densissimè foliosus, 2-pedalis, glaber, basibus foliorum decurrentibus alatus. Folia glabra, radicalia obovato-lanceolata, duplicato et inequaliter dentata; caulina sessilia, lanceolata, internodiis 3-plo longiora, duplicato-dentata, dentibus omnibus acuminatis. Flores ad fastigium caulis, axillares, breviter pedunculati ; calycibus pedunculisque villosis. Calyx superus, hemisphericus, laciniis Foliaceis lineari-lanceolatis pinnatifido-fimbriatis. Corolla pallide cerulea, rectiuscula, limbo erecto, 5-lobo extus pubescente, lobis anterioribus subcon- natis, dorso fissa. Tubus staminum filiformis, glaber, antheris omnino connatis glaberrimis. Stigma bilobum extus annulo obscuro pilorum cir- cumdatum. Introduced some years since from Chile, but not frequently seen in collections. Itis probably destroyed very often by our winters, which the plant, although perfectly hardy during the summer, is unable of bearing without protection. It is a handsome perennial growing vigorously in a moist partially shaded peat border, and increased without much difficulty by cuttings. It flowers in June, July, and August. Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horti- cultural Society. Like the rest of its genus, this has an exceedingly acrid milky juice, which renders it dangerous to those who handle it incautiously. 1843 r ALSTR(EMÉRIA aurantiaca: Orange-flowered Alstræmeria. Nat. ord. AMARYLLIDACER, $ l. CAULESCENTES. Subordo 1. Opercu- losæ, Hypoxideæ, (operculo ovarii prominente) Herbert, MS. ALSTR(EMERIA. Germen ovulis suberectis non imbricantibus, 6-cos- tatum, superne 12-angulare apiculo trilobo (lobis costas sepalinas respicientibus), Perianthium sexpartitum lacinìis quater disparibus apice reflexis petalis duobus erectis imo porrecto: filamenta recurvata, germini inserta, laciniarum basi vix adnata, petalina basi acutè ovali sepalina semicireulari capsulam signantia. Cap- sula acuminatè, operculata sexcostata valvulis crustaceis septigeris dissilientibus, axe ab imã parte trifariam disrupto, costarum- dimidio inseparabiliter pedunculo adherente; semina subrotunda testá tuberculatà difficulter separabili, hilo levi, chalazà eirculari, endopleurà ab albumine comeo inseparabili.—— Plante Occi- dentales caule (quoad novi) erecto folioso vel squammato, pedunculis brac- teatis, 1-5-(pluri?) floris. Herbert, MSS. ; A. aurantiaca ; erecta, foliis lanceolatis obtusis glabris obsolete denticulatis, perianthii foliolis integerrimis: interioribus lanceolatis acuminatis erectis. Don in Sweet Fl. Gard. 2 ser. 3. 205. t. 208. ? A. aurea. Graham in Jamieson's Journal, July. 1833. The- drawing of this plant was made in the Nursery of - Messrs. Low and Co. of Clapton, in June 1833. It is a very handsome species, and with alittle protection from wet during winter will live very well in the open ground, For the following observations upon it I am indebted to the Honourable and Rev. W. Herbert. ** Alstroemeria aurantiaca has the flower stem with smooth leaves, persistent, and green for months after the seed is ripe and shed, and even the long leaf-like bractes on the peduncles remain till winter. A. pulehella, Bot. Mag. (erroneously so named, and apparently hzmantha of Flor. Peruv.) has the leaves ciliated, the stems shorter, the bractes less, and the whole perishable almost before the seed is ripe; the tubers lying dormant more than half the year, and sprouting slowly in the spring. Aurantiaca never dies away entirely, unless perhaps if cut by severe frosts, but sends up fresh stems. The capsule of aurantiaca is much less acutely pointed and prolonged; its peduncles fewer flowered, less erect, and not so long. The peduncles of aurantiaca in the border at Spofforth are 4-inched and 3-flowered on a stem a yard high; those of the plant called pulchella, 9-inched and 5-flowered on a:stem 12 or 13 inches high. The seed of aurantiaca is very pale chesnut-coloured, the chalaza rather elevated and a little tuberculated ; those of the other plant of a much- deeper chesnut, the tubercles which cover them fewer and harsher, the chalaza flatter and smoother, the hilum shorter, more distinctly marked and whiter. “Bomarea, amongst other differences from Alstroemeria, has the ovules cumulate and a little imbricating, the capsule coriaceous, not opening from the base and dissilient, but widely dehiscent at the top, persistent and thrown back; the seeds not ejected by disruption of the capsule, but adhesive, covered with a soft pulpy coat. In all the known species the stem is twining, and so far as I can ascertain, the style tripartible. “ Spherine (mihi) has the capsule indehiscent, the seed- coat pulpy, but less so than Bomarea, the stem tapering, flexuous, but not twining. “ Collania (mihi) has the stem rigid, the umbel nodding, the leaves rigid, the flowers few, with a close tubular appear- ance, gibbous at the base, the germen smaller than the base of the flower, ribbed, turbinate, the fruit not known. “ That the lobes on the point of the capsule in Alstroemeria, which are the bases of the three consolidated styles, and cor- respond with the three angles or lobes of the stigma, are opposite the ribs of the sepals, belongs in truth to the obser- vations on the character of the order and not of the genus. An amended generic character of the order will be attempted in the revision of Amaryllidacez, preparing for the pues PU CEU e 1844 * ANGRACUM caudátum. Long-tailed Angrecum. Nat. ord. OrcHIDACER, $ VANDE& ANGRA CUM.— Suprà, vol. 18, fol. 1522. A. caudatum ; foliis loratis canaliculatis emarginatis, spicà radicali pendulà flexuosà 4-floră, labello obovato rostrato serrulato, calcare longissimo apice bilobo. Epiphyta radices crassas simplices nebulosas promens. Caulis simplex, brevis, foliis loratis canaliculatis apice fissis 6 poll. longis, distichê imbrica- tis. Spica pedalis, ex axilla imorum foliorum pendula ; pedunculo gracili, atroviridi, ad nodos tumido; rachi flexuosa, internodiis circiter 2 poll. longis. Ovarium sessile, fusco-maculatum, basi tortum. Sepala et explanata, lineari-lanceolata, acuminata, herbacea, equalia, basi fulva, ferê 2 poll. longa, Labellum ejusdem longitudinis, album, petaloideum, serrulatum, cuneatum angulis rotundatis v. potius obovatum, apice mu- crone longo viridi rostratum, imá basi involutum et denticulatum, in calcar productum 9 poll. longum, fulvum, subulatum apice (fig. 3.) obtusum et bilobum. Columna fulvo-viridis, brevis, erecta, basi (fig. 1.) crassior et angulata, sursum attenuata et marginata, gynizo plano fulvo, rostello subulato gynizo longiore. Pollinia 2, postice paulò sulcata, in cau- diculam longam cuneatam sessilia. A most remarkable new species of Angrecum, imported from Sierra Leone by the Messrs. Loddiges, in whose collec- tion the accompanying drawing was made in August last. At present it is exceedingly rare, and is likely to remain so ; for it seems to be one of the most difficult of the tribe to manage successfully. In the Nursery at Hackney it is attached to a piece, of wood suspended from the roof of the stove for epiphytes. : È '# See folio 1522. VOL. XXII. The most curious point of structure in this species is the unusual length of its spur, which measures nine inches from its base to its two-lobed apex. The only parallels to this among all the Orchideous plants I am acquainted with are those of Habenaria longicauda figured in the Botanical Maga- zine, t. 2957, and of Angrecum sesquipedale of Du Petit Thouars’s Mascaren Orchidez, t. 66 and 67. For what wise purpose these extraordinary appendages may have been destined by nature, we may well be unable to imagine. It would seem that they must be added to the vast list of objects which, to our confined apprehension, appear merely intended to exhibit the endless diversity of power of the Creator. mm Dido by Le Hidguray [6 Ju 4 CVs A eR N 1845 * KENNÉDYA Stirlingi. Sir James Stirling’s Kennedya. Nat. ord. LEGUMINOSA, or FABACER. KENNEDYA.—Supra, vol. 11. fol. 944. .K. Stirlingi; foliolis tribus subrotundo-ovatis mucronulatis glabriusculis, pe- tiolis caulibusque pilosis, stipulis latè ovatis acutis, bracteis fasciculatis, v. verticillatis nunc trilobis nunc in involucrum conniventibus, floribus gemi- nis, calycibus pedunculisque pilosis. A graceful greenhouse trailing plant, native of the Swan River. It was raised by Robert Mangles, Esq. of Whitmore Lodge, from seeds given to him by Sir James Stirling, the Governor of the Colony, in compliment to whom it has been named. Its thin broad pale green leaves, fringed with long weak hairs, and its twin scarlet flowers sufficiently characterise this species, which moreover is botanically remarkable for having its bracts collected into a whorl, or even grown together into a little involucre. Flowers in April, and no doubt easily propagated by cuttings. * See folio 1421, al 199 £ 2 HM 4 4° f il y GO LA nad Magury TED er’ Ad As F 795 I Dado. è NG vi. SAAGU LOGY Stccaditty IIl. IT Il. ee P v v e J / TUB aen 1846 * CRAT EGUS microcárpa. | Small-fruited Thorn. Nat. ord. Rosackz, $ PomEz. CRATZGUS.—Supra, vol. 13. fol. 1128. C. microcarpa ; subspinosa, foliis fasciculatis longê cuneatis 3-fidis lobatisque crenatis glabris nitidis, corymbis multifloris, calycibus glabris laciniis ovatis integerrimis, pomis ovato-subrotundis glabris 5-locularibus, putamine tenui. C. spathulata. Elliott Fl. S. Carol, 1. 552. Loudon's Arbor. Brit. t.31. k. non Mich. nec Pursh, Few hardy plants are more deserving of general admi- ration for the neatness of their foliage, the diversity of their manner of growing, the beauty of their flowers in the spring, or the gay appearance of their numerous richly coloured haws in the autumn, than the various species of the genus Crategus. And yet they are little known, except to the curious collector, they are not very frequently seen in gar- dens, if we except a E varieties of the common Hawthorn, and Botanists themselves have paid them but little attention. I, therefore, propose to avail myself of the circulation of this work for the purpose of bringing the subject into more notice, and of shewing how very well deserving the species of Crategus are of general cultivation ; but as they are very much alike in flower, and as their strongest claims to be con- sidered ornamental plants arise from the beauty of their leaves and fruit, it is in the latter state that they will generally be represented. * See folio 1161. C. microcarpa is, according to Elliott, a native of the upper districts of Georgia and Carolina; in Colombia county, Georgia, common, growing to a small tree, from twelve to fifteen feet high. It was also collected in an unusually spiny state by Mr. Drummond in the province of Texas, Elliott confounds it with Cr. spathulata, which, as de- scribed by Michaux and Pursh, must be a different species in the way of Cr. parvifolia, and allied to the C. virginiana of the English nurseries, In this country Cr. microcarpa is a small tree with slen- der, smooth, drooping branches, and something of the habit of the Whitethorn. Its leaves have a very handsome ap- pearance, and are remarkably shining and deep green; they usually grow in clusters, have a long stalk, tapering up- wards into a blade which is sometimes nearly entire, with only a tooth or two at the end, sometimes they are three- lobed with crenated segments, and occasionally they are deeply three-parted ; their form is always more or less spa- thulate. The stipules of the more vigorous branches are large and leafy. The flowers are white and appear in May, or the beginning of June, at the same time with those of Cr. cordata, and later than most others. The fruit is rather abundant, but small, and, although bright red, does not make much show upon the branches, The sides of the stones of the fruit are unusually thin for a Crategus. Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticul- tural Society. 1847 * CRATAIGUS heterophylla. Various-leaved Hawthorn. Nat. ord. Rosacem, $ PoME&. CRATEGUS.— Supra, vol. 13. fol. 1128. C. heterophylla ; foliis lucidis tardé deciduis lanceolatis cuneatis apice dentatis trifidis pinnatifidisque laciniis serratis, tubo calycis fusiformi, cymis multi- floris, floribus monogynis, fructibus ovatis monopyrenis putamine osseo, stipulis maximis pinnatifidis. C. heterophylla. Supra, vol. 14. fol. 1161. In the fourteenth volume of this work, at fol. 1161, this species is represented in its flowering state, and some ac- count is given of its synonyms and general structure. In that account, however, it is necessary to observe that the fruit is erroneously described as black. The accompanying plate will give an idea of its appear- ance when in fruit. The tree, whence the drawing was taken, in the Garden of the Horticultural Society, is one of the handsomest in that very extensive collection of hardy trees and shrubs. It forms a dense pyramidal head, leafs among the first of the genus, and is soon covered with a mantle of snow-white blossoms. After the latter have fallen away the leaves become fully developed, and from their shining surface, neat figure, and firmness of texture, render the tree still a beautiful object. Finally, the rich crimson of the numerous haws which adorn the branches in the last days of autumn, harmonizes beautifully with the fading verdure of the leaves. * See fol. 1161. 1848. j / ç E ILA e NH 4 83 4 Siw ty LS. HUAGIWAY 0d Feccadithy AS. / fé Fi TAL, A A A. VIA IEA 1848 * MAXILLARIA ruféscens. Brownish Maxillaria. Nat. ord. OrcHIpacea, $ VANDER. MAXILLARIA.—Supra, vol. 1. fol. 897. M. rufescens ; pseudobulbis ovatis subtetragonis monophyllis, foliis lanceolatis utrinque acuminatis, scapis unifloris (prostratis) vaginis distantibus, sepalis petalisque oblongis conformibus obtusis, labello A trilobo: etubercu- lato laciniis lateralibus minimis acutis intermediá elongatà emarginatà. Suprà, fol. 1802. in textu. A native of Trinidad, whence it was imported by Mr. Lowe of Clapton. It first flowered at His Grace the Duke of Devon- shire's at Chatsworth, in December 1834, whence I was favoured with a sketch; since that time it has appeared in many other collections.. _ It requires the usual management of a hot damp stove, in which it grows freely. By no means one of the prettiest of the genus, nevertheless its yellow labellum richly spotted with crimson, is a beautiful object when,closely examined. This species also occurs in gardens under the name of M. fucata. 449. 1849 * GODÉTIA lépida. Smart Godetia. Nat. ord. ONAGRACEA, GODETIA Spach. Omnia CEnothere salvis seminibus angulatis queis come rudimentum adest marginis dentate forma chalazam circumdantis. Omnes annue, floribus rubicundis v. purpurascentibus, nunguam zanthinis. G. lepida ; erecta, foliis ovato-lanceolatis integerrimis, petalis subrhombeis ob- tusis denticulatis, staminibus petalis triplo brevioribus alternis brevioribus, capsulis sessilibus ovato-oblongis villosis. Annua, pedalis et sesquipedalis, caule stricto ramoso pilis brevibus adpressis leviter pub te. Folia ovato-l lata, integerrima, subpilosa, floribus equalia v. pauld longiora. Sepala acuminata, reflexa, villosa, ovario parim breviora, tubo brevissimo. Petala subrotunda in rhomboideam formam abeuntia, apice denticulata, pallide purpurascentia, maculá vinoso- purpureá cuneatá in medio apicis. Stamina alterna breviora, antheris pur- pureis apice fulvis ; petalis triplò breviora. Capsula sessilis, ovato-oblonga, pilis sessilibus albidis villosa. Semina fusca, depressa, angulata, cunei- formia, chalazá marginatá denticulatá. A pretty new annual, found in California by Mr. Douglas. It was raised in the Garden of the Horticultural Society in July 1835. In some respects, especially in the spots on its petals, it resembles Godetia ((Enothera) quadrivulnera, but is more handsome than that species; in reality it is most nearly allied to Godetia (CEnothera) decumbens, already figured at t. 1221 of this work; but that species, indepen- * A name the meaning of which is unexplained by its author, M, Spach. dently of its glaucous leaves, decumbent habit, and whole- coloured flowers, has less shaggy and more linear fruit. My reasons for admitting the genus Godetia have been already given at fol. 1829, in the note. The relationship of Godetia and CEnothera to Fuchsia is admitted on all hands; and everything that appertains to the latter beautiful genus is so generally interesting that I gladly avail myself of the present opportunity of pub- lishing a memorandum, for which I am indebted to Mr. Allan Cunningham, concerning two apetalous species, one of which has already been figured in the Flora Peruviana, and the other lately discovered by Mr. Richard Cunning- ham in New Zealand. * Flores apetali. F. procumbens ; (Rich. Cunn. MSS.) caule procumbente adscendente, ramis gracilibus glabris, foliis sparsis alternis longè petiolatis lato-ellipticis subro- tundisve obtusis basi subinde cordatis remote denticulatis ciliatis, paginis glabris, pedicellis solitariis axillaribus flore ter brevioribus, perianthio infun- dibuliformi, lobis lanceolatis reflexis tubo brevioribus, stylo elongato fili- formi stamina exserta superante, stigmate dilatato lobato pilis patentibus tenuiter instructo. A.C. Totera ab incolis vulgó vocatur. Hab, in Nove Zelandie insula septentrionali: in arenosis propè littora, juxta pagum Matauri, adversum Insulas Cavallos, ubi in mense Martii floret.— 1834. . Rich. Cunningham. Fruticulus decumbens, virgatus. Rami patentes, graciles, teretes, juniores foliati. Folia subuncialia, venosa, basi cordiformia minutê denticulata utrinque glabra. Petioli unciales, complanato—filiformes, glabriusculi, suprà canali- culati. Flores axillares, solitarii, erecti, apetali. Perianthium tubulosum aurantio-luteum, limbus 4-partitus reflexus; laciniis sequalibus lanceolatis, acutis, viridibus, apicibus purpureo-luridis. Stam. 8 ; filamenta fauci inserta; “antheree ovate biloculares peltatee, Ovarium quadriloculare, loculis pluri- ovulatis, ovulis obovatis erectis. Stylus complanatus staminibus longior. Stigma clavatum, lobatum, Bacca—A. C. F.apetala; (Ruiz. meliüs scandens) caule villoso scandente radicante, foliis con- fertis alternis petiolatis ovatis acuminatis integerrimis, petiolis ramulis foliisque junioribus copiosê villosis, floribus extremitatem versus ramulorum subcorymbosis pedicello plus quater longioribus, perianthio elongato tubu- loso lobis ovatis acutiusculis erecto-patentibus tubo tripld brevioribus, stylo filiformi staminibus exsertis parum longiore, stigmate lobato glabro. A. C. Fuchsia apetala. De Cand. prodr. 3. p. 39. Ruiz et Pavon. fl. peruv. 3. p. 89. t. 322. f.b. (v. s. spont. in herb. Lambert.) Hab. in Peruvia: in nemoribus circà Huassi-huassi et Mufia. Maio floret. 1779, Ruiz, Pavon, Dombey. Frutex scandens, super arborum truncos radicans. Caulis parum ramosus, teres, cortice multiplici ferrugineo, radicibus stoloniformibus longissimis arbori- bus adherens. Folia venosa subtus purpurascentia, decidua. ^ Petioli densă villosi. Flores corymboso-umbellati, dependentes, magni, apetali, sesqui v. 5-pollicares ! Perianthii tubus ruber, limbus quadripartitus rectus, lobis parvis ovatis dilutê luteis. Stamina octo, Bacca oblonga tetragona, rubra quadripartita. A. C. di È f Î $ SLI. Ke Y Rilguray R27 49.1. v Y e Y f v. 1850 * OXYURA chrysanthemoides. Ox-eye-like Oxyura. Nat. ord. Composite. OXYURA. De Cand. in Lindl. Nat. Syst. of Bot. ed. 2. page 259, Involucrum simplici serie verticillatum, foliolis herbaceis patentibus basibus suis cucullatis piesa e: radii involventibus. Flosculi radii ferê neutri; pappo. O, stylo bilobo, corollá ligulatà trilobá. Flosculi disci hermaphroditi, bracteis basi membranaceis apice-herbaceis stipati; pappo O; corollá infundibulari, pube- scente, basi paulo gibbosâ ; antheris muticis ; styli ramis subulatis acutis dorso villosis. Receptaculum planum. Oxyura chrysanthemoides. D, C. in Herb. Hort. Soc. Lond. Annua, erecta, ramosa, leviter pubescens. Caulis purpurascens. Folia inferiora. pinnatifida, laciniis linearibus obtusis sublobatis ; superiora sen- sim magis integra, suprema integerrima, omnia margine scabriuscula. Capitula solitaria, pedunculo subclavato tomentoso. Involuerum planiuscu- lum, foliolis seriè simplici verticillatis, herbaceis, ligulatis, obtusis, basi ovaria flosculorum radialium involventibus ; angulis dorsalibus hispido-echi- natis. ' Ligulee lato-oblonge, involucro paulo longiores, trilobe, basi lutee, ‘apice pallide. Flosculi disci infundibulares, ovario compresso glabro calvo (incuria pictoris pessimê representatur hirsutum pappo irregulari setoso) ; tubus teres basi paululum gibbosus, pubescens, limbi erecti longitudine, Paleze receptaculi membranacee, pilose, apice herbacea, barbate, corol- larum ferê longitudine. A new genus of Composite, placed by M. De Candolle, in his catalogue of the genera of that order in the second edition ofmy Natural System of Botany, in the subdivision Madie®, of the division Galinsogex, of the subtribe Heleniew, of the tribe Senecionidese, of his first series Tubuliflore, which nearly answers to the Corymbifer of Jussieu. . * It is supposed that this word is formed from obvc, sharp, and ovpa, a tail, but its application is not obvious. | } With very much the aspect of Chrysanthemum corona- rium, except that it is not half so tall, it agrees very nearly in structure with the widely different genus Madia, especially in having the ovaries of the florets of the ray enwrapped in the bases of the leaflets of the involucre. This species is a hardy annual, introduced by the Horti- cultural Society from California, where it was found by Mr. Douglas. It flowers in the months of August and September, ripening seeds in abundanee. Of the dissections in the accompanying plate, fig. 4 repre- sents an anther; fig. 2 a floret of the ray with its base enwrapped in the scale of the involucre; and fig. 3 the top of the style with the two subulate hairy branches of the stigma ; but fig. 1. does not belong to the plant; it has been introduced by some negligence on the part of the artist. 1851 * ONCÍDIUM altissimum. Tallest Oncidium. stipsi 71 GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. ord. Orcutpacex, $ VANDER. ONCIDIUM.—Suprä, vol. 13, fol. 1050. O. altissimum ; pseudobulbis subrotundis compressis ancipitibus, foliis distichis ensiformibus carinatis acutis scapo decurvo multă brevioribus, racemo sim- plici, sepalis petalisque labelli longitudine lineari-lanceolatis undulatis, labello apice dilatato bilobo medio constricto basi auriculato, cristá ennea- dactylà, column alis rotundatis crenulatis. Epidendrum altissimum.. Jacq. stirp. amer. 229. t. 141. Planta elegans, parasitica arborum, Radices teretes, fibrose, cinerea, numerose. Folia acuta, ensiformi-oblonga, avenia, nitida, integerrima, crassiuscula, pollicem lata, sesqui-pollicem longa, basi carinata, ceterum plana : orta singula e nodo vel tubere ovato, compresso, glabro, ovi interdum anserini magnitudine ; qui ipse insidet basi folii alius radicalis, unius alte- riusve, et similis. Inter. hoc nodumque exsurgit scapus solitarius, teres, glaber, colore ferrugineo, tenuis, inclinatus, quadripedalis, superne race- mosus; qui ad pedunculos et nodos vestitur spathis membranaceis, lanceo- latis, cinereisque. Pedunculi biflori vel triflori plerumque, distich? alterni. Flores inodori, flavi cum maculis fuscis, numerosi. His sunt petala oblonga, distincta, utrinque acuta, undulata, subequalia. Nectarii labii inferioris lacinia media est subquadrata, flavaque tota sine maculis. — Reliqua in "wu obtinent, sicuti in Epidendro (Oncidio) carthayinensi. — Jacq. . €. 229. I long ago suspected that two distinet species were con- founded under the name of O. altissimum, and I even dis- tinguished, by the name of O. Baueri, what appeared to be a different species from the Epidendrum altissimum of Jacquin, which is the original authority for the former name. I was afterwards led to suppose that O. Baueri was a mere form of O. altissimum, and I accordingly reduced it to a simple * See folio 1542, VOL. XXH. F 1852 * CRAT/ÉGUS orientális. Oriental H. awthorn. — — ule ISOCANDRIA DI-PENTAGYNIA. Nat. ord. Rosacez, $ PoMACER, CRAT JEGUS.—Suprà, vol. 13. fol. 1128. C. orientalis; foliis subtrifidis inciso-serratis basi cuneatis tomentosis, fructibus 4-5-pyrenis glabris spheericis nudis, putamine crassissimo. .- Mespilus orientalis apii folio villoso, frnctu magno pentagono purpureo glabro. Tourn. It. vol. 2. p. 172. Folia tomentosa demum calva; stipulis magnis semicordatis serratis. Peduneüli tomentosi./ Fructus atropurpurei, glabri, subpentagoni, pyrenis "4-5 osseis, putamine crassissimo. i PRAN A very handsome tree, with large snow-white fragrant vernal flowers, and. rich purple autumnal leaves. When young it has a gray appearance because its leaves are downy ; at a more advanced age it becomes green m consequence of the leaves losing their hairiness. This 1 take it is the gentine Oriental Mespilus of Tour- nefort, with villous celery leaves, and a large purple 5- cornered smooth. fruit, and is undoubtedly distinct from C. odoratissima tó which some have referred it, as well as from C. tanacetifolia ; each of these last mentioned species will be figured hereafter. Be el | C. orientalis forms a, small close-headed tree, with the * See folio 1161. F 2 aspect of C. odoratissima. It is propagated by grafting or budding upon the common Hawthorn. The drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticultural Society last October. It is a native of the Crimea and the parts bordering on the Black Sea. 42722 SEI 7 > I Op / UA E GWS. de. A PAI. Hayt. ZA JO. way OG Siccadiby May » 1853 * ORNITHÓGALUM chloroleticum. Green and White Ornithogalum. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. LILIACE&. ORNITH OGALUM.—Supra, vol. 8. tab. 158. tudine, filamentis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis conformibus laciniis periant brevioribus, sepalis petalisque oblongis obtusis. Folia sepius racemi longitudine, aliquando breviora. Flores parvi, patentes. Ovarii loculamenta polysperma, ovulis imbricatis alatis ascen- dentibus. Stigma 3-fidum. O. chloroleucum ; foliis acuminatis canaliculatis strictis racemi corymbosi si c ü Found not uncommonly in the vicinity of Ms rur whence it has been brought by several collectors. It is the * « An ancient name, adopted by the Latins from the Greeks, evidently de- rived from opme, opvidoc, a bird, and yada, milk ; but its application has proved a stumbling block to most etymologists. Ambrosinus presumes the word may allude, either to the shining milky-white of the flowers, like that of a hen's egg; or to the white egg-shaped bulbs. Tournefort supposes the flowers, being green when closed, and white when expanded, may have been compared to the wings of several birds. Linnaeus first gave the true explanation, in suggesting (Mant. 364. Preclect. in Ord. Nat. 287.) that the O. umbellatum appears to be the “ dove's dung,” mentioned in the 2nd Book of Kings, chap. vi, 5. 25, as having fetched so high a price during the siege of Samaria. It is recorded by the sacred writer, that a quarter of a cab of dove's dung then sold for five pieces of silver; and the rabbinical commentators, taking the words literally, have asserted, absurdly enough, that it was used as fuel. As the plant grows copiously in Palestine, whence the English name, Star of Bethlehem, and the roots are still in common use for food in that country, the name is explained by the resem- blance in the colours of the flower to the dung of birds, the white or milky parts of which, their urine, is contrasted with dull green, exactly as in the petals of this original species of the genus before us, and which appears to be the very one described by Dioscorides.”— Smith. number 692 of Cumings collection, 343 of Bridges, and 270 of Matthews. It is a frame bulb, fowering in July. The specimen from which the drawing was taken was furnished by Robert Mangles, Esq. ; There is no previously described species that can be confounded with .it. aa 1854 * CAMELLIA japónica, Donckelaeri. Donckelaer's Japan Camellia. MONADELPHIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. TERNSTROMIACEZ. CAMELLIA.—Suprà, vol. 1. fol. 22. Camellia japonica, vide supra, l c. GARDEN VARIETY. A remarkably beautiful variety, for the opportunity of figuring which we are obliged to Mr. Lowe of Clapton. It is said to be a genuine Japanese kind, and to have been brought to Holland by Dr. Siebold. The blotching of the petals and the general appearance of the specimen have been very happily expressed by Miss Drake in the accompanying figure. * See folio 1267. > \ Y 1855 * CRATZEGUS maroccána. Morocco Hawthorn. ICOSANDRIA DI-PENTAGYNIA. Nat. ord. Rosacea, $ PoMACE A. CRATZGUS.—Supra, vol. 13, fol. 1128. C. maroccana ; foliis cuneatis glabris 3-5-fidis 3-lobisque lobis integris sub- faleatis, calycibus glabris, fructibus subrotundis glabris dipyrenis, putamine crassissimo. i ` C. maroccana. DC. prodr. 2. 628. ì . C. aronia. Decaisne in Ann. Sc. n. ser. 3. 264 ; not of others. Folia glabra, longipetiolata, integra, triloba, 3-fida, 5-fida, imo 3-5- partita, lobis sepius integerrimis acutis nunc subfalcatis. Poma pallide lateritia, subrotunda, dipyrena, putamine-crassissimo. Said, 1 know not on what authority, to be a native of Barbary; but it is not mentioned by Desfontaines, nor have I seen any Certain specimen from that country. i It however undoubtedly occurs in Palestine, having been collected on Mounts Sinai and St. Catharine by M. Bové, in June 1832; its Arabian name is Sarrour. C. Aronia, to which M. Decaisne referred M. Bové's specimens, is essentially dif- ferent, as I shall hereafter shew. It is not improbable that C. maroccana is a mere variety of C. heterophylla, t. 1847; to which it approaches very nearly in some respects. Independently however of the form and colour of the fruit, and of the shape of the leaves, by X | ONES '* See folio 1161. which these species are sufficiently distinguishable, the sti- pules of C. maroccana are smaller, the growth less vigo- rous, and the fruit has usually two stones instead of one. The drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticul- tural Society. SS IO. , eu. og > e^ * TL A ss" . / 7 po M do nr Dente: dal. Fado ty I eatur 169 Siccadilly May 1696. «Pa à 1856 * GODÉTIA rubicünda. Ruddy Godetia. OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. ONAGRACEA. GODETIA.—Suprà, vol. 22. fol. 1849. G. rubicunda ; erecta, foliis lineari-lanceolatis subdentatis viridibus, petalis sub- rotundo-cuneatis undulatis immaculatis, staminibus alternis minoribus, an- theris igneis apice luteis cassis, stigmatibus pallidis, capsulis linearibus ses- silibus truncatis, seminibus elongatis cuneatis. Caulis erectus, 2-pedalis, ramosus, leviter pubescens. Folia viridia, lineari-lanceolata subdentata. Flores magni, rubicundi. Calyx tubo brevi obconico. Petala unicolora, basi exceptá igneá, subrotundo-cuneata, undu- lata, sepalis dupló staminibus ferê triplò longiora. Stamina alterna bre- viora, antheris igneis subrostratis apice recurvantibus luteis cassis. Stig- mata pallida linearia reflexa. Capsula leviter pubescens, subsessilis, linea- ` ris, truncata, tetragona; Semina elongata, rhombea, cinereo fuscoque nebulosa. A handsome species found in California by Mr. Douglas, and raised in the garden of the Horticultural Society. It forms an agreeable contrast with G. Lindleyana, in conse- quence of the want of spots, and the peculiar ruddy appear- ance of its petals. Flowers in July and August. In many respects it approaches G. lepida, already figured in this vod (fol. 1220); but it is abundantly distinguished by the following circumstances. The leaves are green and not glaucous, the flowers are twice as large and a bright flame colour at the base of the petals, while the purple blotch near the apex of those of G. lepida is wanting. In G. rubicunda the anthers are alternately shorter, of a rich flame colour, * See fol. 1849. except at the tips, where they are yellow, and rolled back- ward; in G. lepida they are all equal, of one uniform pale yellowish hue, and not turned back at the point. In G. ru- bicunda, the stigma is a very pale lilac, almost white, in G. lepida it isa rich dark purple; the seeds too of the former are far more slender than those of the latter species. A hardy annual. 1857 * ZYGOPÉTALUM cochleáre. Spoon-lipped Zygopetalum. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. ord. OrcHIpace®, $ VANDEA. ZYGOPETALUM,Hooker. Perianthium explanatum, sepalis petalisque ascendentibus subzequalibus, cum ungue producto columnse connatis. Labellum muticum, indivisum, patens, ungue ascendente : cristã magnà transversà carnosà. Columna brevis, arcuata, semiteres. Anthera subbilocularis. Pollinia 2, bipartibilia, in glandulam transversam subsessilia. Herbe terrestres, sub- acaules, foliis plicatis patentibus. Flóres speciosi, labello ceruleo. Gen. et Sp. Orch. 187. Z. cochleare ; folis plicatis pedunculis unifloris radicalibus solitariis duplo longioribus, sepalis petalisque ovato-lanceolatis conniventibus inferioribus majoribus, labello cochleato bilobo cristã transversà crenatá. Pseudobulbi nulli.» Folia pallidè viridia obovata vel oblonga, plicata, pedem longa, infima abbreviata petiolaria. Pedunculi ex ‘axillis foliorum infimorum, basi vaginati, uniflori, erecti, apice sub ovario bracteá cucullatá oblongá. ^ Oyarium albidum,- incurvum. Perianthium semi-explanatum. Sepala ovata, subundulata, acuta, albo-viridia, lateralia majora. Petala sepalo supremo conformia et equalia. Labellum cum columna basi paululum elongata articulatum, concavum, unciam latum, 1} unc. longum, indivisum, emarginatum, extús albidum, intus venis creberrimis atroceruleis velutinis pictum ; breve unguiculatum, supra unguem callo lato rotundato convexo pluriés plicato et cristato instructum. Columna feres clavata, dorso viridi-alba, fronte purpureo-striata, basi paululum producta. Anthera bilocularis valvis bilabiatis. Pollinia 4, per paria incumbentia. Beautiful as all the species of Zea are, without exception, thisis perhaps upon the whole the most attractive, not only on account of the delicate waxy surface of the petals and sepals, and the peculiarly rich veining of the Lapis lazuli blue of its lip, but because of its delicious fragrance. If Lilies * So named by Sir William Hooker from Levyvéo, to join ; in allusion to the adhesion of the segments of the perianth by their bases, in the original species. of the Valley were growing intermingled with the plants, the air could not be more perfumed with their pure and delight- ful odour than it is after the curious flowers have unfolded. Like all the other species of the genus, this is easily cul- tivated in earth in a damp stove. It isa native of Trinidad. The drawing was made from a specimen supplied by Mr. Knight, in August last. 1. represents a front view of the column, with the bases of the petals and lips adhering to it; 2.is a view of the fleshy ridge of the lip; and 3. shews the pollen masses and their glands. / IG 7 » / - A UI by d. Ardgiuny 700 Iiccodilly Ac ve, / TEPC 1858 € HABENARIA procéra. Tall Habenaria. tf GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA, Nat. ord. ORCHIDACER, $ OpuRYDEZ. HABENARIA, Willd. -Perianthium Orchidis. Calcar elongatum. Columna libera reclinata. Anthera basibus loculorum solutis divergentibus ca~ nalibus stigmaticis adharentibus. Glandule nude. Rostellum planum, an- there adnatum. Processus carnosi 2 stigmatici, ultra antheram projicientes, - forma varii.—Habitus Orchidis. Gen. € Sp. Orch,p. 306. de A. Erostres; ovariis pedunculatis subcylindraceis aut fusiformibus, nunquam rostratis. ue 2. Petala indivisa. a. Labellum trifidum, laciniis filiformibus indivisis. H. procera ; caule folioso, foliis oblongis basi cucullatis ee sensim in bracteis decrescentibus, racemo multifloro, bracteis herbaceis inferioribus foliaceis ovarii longitudine superioribus parvis ovatis, labelli tripartiti laciniis lateralibus linearibus intermedià latiore paulò brevioribus, calcare pendulo clavato ovario duplo longiore. Orchis procera. Swartz in Pers. syn. 2. 508. Habenaria procera. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. 318. Caulis bipedalis, folis circiter 5 equidistantibus dimidiam inferiorem vestientibus. Racemus lagus, multiflorus, 8 poll. longus. Ovaria 23-poll. Sepala ovata, alba apice viridia, lateralia latiora patentissima, supremum concavum cum petalis ovatis erectis albis dorso viridulis galeam referentibus. Labellum fer? pollicem longum; album, laciniis apice luteo-viridibus. Calcar 33-poll. longum, basi album, ceterüm viride. Columna parva, alba, carnosa, reclinata, auriculis (staminibus ster.) rotundatis. Anthera ochracea, loculis distantibus basibus elongatis, paululum incurvis, a canalibus. stigmaticis facile separabilibus, caudiculam longam filiformem in gremio suo foventibus cui glandula parva pallida adnascitur. Canalia stigmatica linearia alba, truncata, crassitiei equabilis. Rostellum planum anthere adnatum. Pro- cessus carnosi herbacei, ultra os calcaris arcuatim projicientes, et canalibus stigmaticis paulô longiores. * From Aabena a rein or thong, in allusion to the long strap-shaped spur. VOL. XXI. ; G This rare species is a native of Sierra Leone, where it was found by Afzelius many years since. It was afterwards introduced with a brief character into Persoon's Synopsis, and from that time remained unknown, until it was im- ported last year by Messrs. Loddiges, in whose stove it flowered in August. It offers an excellent illustration of the characters of the curious genus Habenaria, as limited in the genera and species of Orchideous plants, and will shew the student in a distinct manner what the points are in which it differs from the genus Platanthera, whither I refer our British Butterfly Orchis, to which this bears a striking resemblance. In order to make this clear, attention should be paid to the magnified figure of a column extracted from the flower, and placed at the right hand corner of the accompanying plate. In this the lower white portion to the left is the column, vwith an auricle or sterile stamen at its upper corner to the right. Immediately proceeding from this in a curved direction upwards are the white stigmatic canals, in whose hollow the lengthened bases of the anther are placed when in their natural position. The upper yellow body which divides downwards into two legs is the anther; the legs are its lobes, which lengthen at their lower end and fit into the stigmatic canals, enclosing the pollen masses in their upper portion, and in their lower keeping the caudicle of the pollen in such a position that it must inevitably come in contact with the gland which once formed the tip of the stigmatic canal, but which eventually separates from the latter, adhering to the caudicle, as is seen in the thread-shaped processes, which in the figure rise up from the anther-bases, All these parts equally exist in the genus Platanthera. But in Habenaria we find an addition of two greenish horns, which spring from the lower edge of the stigma, skirting the orifice of the spur, and finally project beyond the latter, as is seen in the figure. These horns, whack are considered to be processes of the stigma, do not occur in Platanthera, unless in a very rudimentary state, while in Habenaria they are always so fully and obviously developed as to form conspicuous objects, even when the flowers are dried. ar “pr d It may appear to some Botanists that this is but a slight distinction upon which to found a genus. Butit is to be remembered, firstly, that it is a decided organic difference, inasmuch as it is the developement of a new organ in the apparatus for reproduction; secondly, that it is a constant and obvious character which in many cases is far more remarkable than even in the species before us; and more- over, that after being limited within the comparatively narrow bounds that I have assigned it, and after striking off the genera Donatea, Peristylus, Platanthera, Aopla, and another or two, the genus Habenaria still comprehends no fewer than eighty-five well ascertained species, to which many more will doubtless have to be added. This plant must have the heat of a damp stove, when in a growing state, but will doubtless partake of the habits of its kindred species in requiring a long period of coolness and dryness, while its roots are at rest, after the leaves have perished. to G 1859 * CATTLEYA labiáta. Crimson-lipped Cattleya. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. ord. ORCHIDACER, $ EPIDENDREE. CATTLEYA.— Supra, vol. 14. fol. 1172. C. labiata ; sepalis lineari-lanceolatis, petalis membranaceis lato-lanceolatis acutis subundulatis, labello obovato undulato obtuso indiviso, pseudobulbis oblongis angulatis, spathà maximà foliaceà. Gen. & Sp. Orch. pl. p. 116. C. labiata. Lindl. Collect. Bot. t. 33. Hooker Exot. fl. 157. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1856. A native of Brazil, whence it was introduced about 18 years ago by Mr. William Swainson. It has since that time “been represented in most of our Botanical periodicals, so that I fear I shall hardly stand excused for reproducing it here. Nevertheless, all the plates above quoted are deficient in the richness of colour that is so peculiarly characteristic of the species, and that constitutes its chiefest ornament; and the knowledge of the existence of so truly beautiful species can- not be too widely diffused, the more especially as this, like the rest of its genus, requires the excessive heat and damp- ness of an Orchideous house in a less degree than many other kinds. It is one of those plants which flourish so remarkably in the hothouse at Wentworth, with no greater dampness and heat than can be endured by human beings without incon- venience. * See folio 1406. The specimen selected for representation in this place is a small one, with its colours remarkably rich and well deve- loped; it is figured in the Botanical Cabinet with. four flowers in a cluster, and I have seen it with six. In such a state, and with several stems, each laden with flowers in a similar manner, there is certainly no plant of which I have any knowledge that can be said to stand forth with an equal radiance of splendour and beauty. For it is not merely the large size of the flowers, and the deep rich crimson of one petal contrasted with the delicate lilac of the others that con- stitute the loveliness of this plant, it owes its beauty in almost an equal degree to the transparency of its texture, and the exquisite clearness of its colours, and the graceful manner in which its broad flag-like petals wave and inter- mingle when they are stirred by the air, or hang half droop- ing half erect when at rest and motionless. The drawing was made in the garden of the Horticultural Society in October last. ps m ZI OL 1860 3 CRAT/EGUS Crus Galli, var. ovalifolia. Oval-leaved Cockspur Thorn. ICOSANDRIA DI-PENTAGYNIA. Nat. ord. RosacE&, $ PomacER. CRATZGUS.—Supra, vol. 13. fol. 1128. C. crus-galli; folis obovato-cuneiformibus nitidis glabris tardé deciduis, spinis longissimis validis, pedicellis glabris, fructibus pyriformibus 3-pyrenis. C. crus-galli. Linn. Sp. pl. 632. DC. prodr. 2. 626. Mespilus Crus Galli. Poir. dict. 4. 441. : C. lucida. Wangenh. am. t. 17. f. 42. Mespilus lucida. Ehrh. Dum. Cours. Bot. cult. ed. 2. v. 5. p. 448. ? M. nana. Dum. Cours. Suppl. 386. M. linearis. Desf. arb. 2. 156. = s var. ovalifolia, foliis latioribus, minus cuneatis, longiüs petiolatis, minüs Jucidis. C. crus-galli ovalifolia. Loud. Arbor. Britt. t. XXXI. C. €. C. ovalifolia. Hornem. hort. hafn. suppl. 52. DC. prodr. 2. 627. The Cockspur Thorn is a hardy small tree, found wild in North America, in woods and hedges and on the banks of rivers, from Canada to Carolina. Its name às derived from thé length of its powerful curved spines. Two varieties are common in our gardens, the broad- leaved and the Pyracantha leaved, both which have remark- ably smooth shining leaves, and rather a dense mode of branching. This, which is less known to the Nurserymen, has more oval and less shining leaves, and a more open head. It has been described as a distinct species, but I think Mr. Loudon right in looking upon it as a mere variety of C. crus- * See folio 1161. galli. Sometimes it passes in the nurseries under the name of C. pennsylvanica. A particularly handsome tree, in even this handsome | genus. No trace of the variety has been remarked in a wild state, and it is not improbable that it is altogether of a garden origin. wf —, = Va 1861 * MORMÓDES atropurpúrea. Dark-purple Mormodes. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. ord. ORCHIDACEA, $ VANDEA. MORMODES. Lindl. Sepalum superius subfornicatum, angustum; lateralia conformia reflexa. Petala latiora, conformia, erecta. Labellum sel- Izeforme, ascendens, trilobatum, subcuneatum, apiculatum, cum columna articula- tum. Columna semiteres, mutica; gynizus longus angustus; clinandrium postice acuminatum. Pollinia 4, per paria connata, caudicule crasse affixa, glandule carnose crassee adherenti.— Habitus Cataseti. Lindl. Nat. Syst. of Botany, ed. 2. p. 446. Mormodes atropurpurea. Pseudobulbi caulescentes, Cataseti facie, polyphylli, oblongi, basibus foliorum distantibus vaginantibus imbricati. Folia plicata (Cataseti), 3-5- costati, erecti, apice recurvi. Racemus lateralis, densus, oblongus, pedun- culatus, pseudobulbo altior. Flores atropurpurei. Sepala lineari-oblonga equalia, reflexa, basibus lateralium paulo obliquis et ungui labelli adnatis. Petala ovata, erecta, supra columnam conniventia. Labellum replicatum, retrorsum arcuatum, circumscriptione cuneatum, leviter unguiculatum, trilo- bum, lateribus deflexis venosis, lobo intermedio magis carnoso, cuspidato, sub- trilobo. Columna compressa, rostrato-acuminata, cum labello continua, erecta, mutica, antherà postice rostratá, gynizo oblongo. Pollinia 4, per paria connata, caudicule subcucullate adnata, glandulá concavá crassá. Sent to me in December last from the garden of John Willmore, Esq. of Oldford near Birmingham, with whom it then flowered for the first time. It had been imported from the Spanish Main in 1834. It is a new genus, differing from Catasetum and Myanthus in the want of cirrhi upon the column, and from Monachanthus in its lip (fig. 1. being membranous and curved upwards, with the sides turned down- * From poppò a frightful-looking object, a goblin, in allusion to the strange appearance of the flowers. wards, like the sides of a saddle, instead of being fleshy and helmet-shaped. The leaves are pale green ; the flowers one uniform rich purple. A tender stove plant, requiring the same treatment as Catasetum, Cycnoches, &c. With reference to Orchideous plants, with this habit, it may in general be observed, that they require to be kept cool and dry when not in a growing state, to be forced gently into growth, and when in the full vigour of their vegetation to have a copious supply of mois- ture. They will at that season even introduce their roots into water, if they are allowed, and flourish the more under such treatment. A oe "OZ 1862 * KENNÉDYA ? macrophylla. | Large-leaved Kennedya. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Nat. ord. LEGUMINOSA or FABACER. KENNEDYA.—Supra, vol. 11. fol. 944. $ 2. Foliis 3-foliolatis, carind vezillo et alis breviore. K. macrophylla; foliolis 3 ovato-oblongis tetusis mucronulatis petioli longitu- evi n m setaceis petiolulis sequalibus, E multifloris foliorum lon- gitudine, 4 è a i f A beautiful greenhouse twining shrub, introducéd by Sir James Stirling from Swan River in New Holland. It was raised in the garden of Robert Mangles, Esq. at Sunning Hill, from whence specimens were received in the course of last summer. It is in many respects so much like A. Comptoniana as to render it doubtful whether it is more than a variety of that species. It appeared, however, to differ in — altogether a more vigorous plant; its leaf-stalks were as long as the leaflets and not shorter ; the reticulations of its leaves were more coarse ; and I did not remark any tendency to produce those linear leaflets which always accompany the original K. Comptoniana. This will be usually trained to the rafter or column of a greenhouse ; but a pretty mode of managing such plants is that, practised in the garden of Mrs. Lawrence, of twining the * See folio 1421. stems round and round to stakes fixed into the sides of the pot, so that the plant is compelled to grow round itself. The result of this is the collection into the compass of a bush of hundreds of clusters of flowers, which would otherwise be scattered over the roof of a greenhouse, and too far removed from the eye to enable the beautiful form and colour to be distinctly seen, 1863 TRICHOPÎLIA tortilis. Twisted-petalled Trichopilia. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. ord, ORCHIDACER, S VANDEA. TRICHOPILIA. Lind. Sepala et petala «qualia, patentia, angusta. Labellum magnum, petaloideum, convolutum, c. columna parallelum, trilobum, lobo intermedio sub-bilobo planiusculo ; intus nudum. Columna teres, clavata. Clinandrium cucullatum, 3-lobum, villoso-fimbriatum. Anthera ]-locularis, compressa, antice convexa. Pollinia 2, postice sulcata, caudicule tenui cuneate adhzerentia; glandulà minimá.—Pseudobulbi carnosi, vaginis maculatis super- tecti, monophylli, coriacei; Flores solitarii axillares. Lindl. Natural System of Botany, ed. 2. p. 446. Trichopilia tortilis. — ; Pseudobulbi oblongi, sulcati, compressi, vaginis fusco-maculatis arcte vestiti, aliguandò folii fere longitudine. Folia solitaria, oblonga, coriacea, acuta, plana, v. leviter complicata. Flores solitaria, axillares, horizontales, sessiles. Sepala et petala equalia, lineari-lanceolata, patentissima, spira- liter torta, margine crispatula, fusco-lutea, disco latentia. Labellum 2-poll. longum, circa columnam convolutum, album, maculis pluribus magnis in- equalibus ad interius; limbo 3-lobo intermedio subbilobo. Columna cum ovario continua, teres, clavata, alba; clinandrio cucullato trilobo; lobis ascendentibus, falcatis, ciliato-laceris. Anthera compressa, apiculata. Pol- linia 2, parva, pyriformia, posticè sulcata, caudiculd cuneatd inserta, glan- dul minimá ovali. Gynizus excavatus, paululum oblique retrorsum versus. A beautiful and highly curious plant, introduced from Mexico in 1835, and communicated in jn, co last by George Barker, Esq. of Springfield near Birmingham. In many respects the genus approaches Maxillaria, but differs in the column not being reclinate upon the ovary and sub- tended by the partially united lateral sepals, in the regular * From Opi, 7pexăe hair, and wifoy a cap; the anther of this genus is con- cealed below a cap surmounted with three tuft I hair. a expansion of both sepals and petals, and especially in the singular column, (fig. 1.) terminated by three little plume- like lobes which unite at their bases into a sort of hoód, that covers over a remarkably compressed anther (fig. 2.). The white of the lip, which is very clear and pure, forms a brilliant contrast with the rich blotches of deep crimson that ornament the interior of the little funnel formed by the rolling of the lip round the column. , From the habit of this plant it may be conjectured that it will thrive in the stove, under the same treatment as Maxil- larias. | (964. 1864 Y LYCHNIS Bungeána. Bunge's Lychnis. DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. Nat. ord. SILENACER (CARYOPHYLLER). LYCHNIS —Supra, vol. 6. fol. 478. L. Bungeana ; calycibus clavatis pedicello bracteisque longioribus, petalis incisis, foliis ovatis lanceolatisque pubescentibus, floribus solitariis. Lychnis Bungeana. Fischer MSS. Agrostemma Bungeana. Don in Sweet's Fl. Garden, t. 317. A very beautiful species, sent to England last year by Dr. Fischer of St. Petersburgh. Tt is not quite hardy, suf- fering both from the dryness and the coldness of the open air, but thriving well in a cool greenhouse or frame, if fully exposed to light. If the latter point is not attended to the specimens become weak, and the brilliancy of the flowers is impaired. | It strikes freely from cuttings, and will soon become com- mon enough. The accompanying drawing was made in the garden of the Horticultural Society in August last. The species is very like a one-flowered state of L. fulgens. * Avyvoc a lamp, is said to have given its name to this genus, because the cottony leaves of some species were employed as wicks for lamps. as AS Ó. T 1865 * DENDRÓBIUM macrostáchyum. Long-spiked Dendrobium. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. ord. ORCHIDACEZ, $ MALAXIDEA. DENDROBIUM.— Supra, vol. 7. fol. 548. D. macrostachyum ; caulibus teretibus pendulis flagelliformibus, foliis ovato- lanceolatis submembranaceis, floribus ternatis racemum spurium formantibus, sepalis ovatis acutis, petalis lanceolatis sepalo supremo subzequalibus, labello cucullato venoso: limbo ovato obtuso ciliato intus pubescente. Gen. $ Sp. Orch. 78. A native of Ceylon, where it was discovered by the late Mr. James Macrae, who some years ago sent me dried specimens and a drawing of it. Upon the former I found a minute blanched portion that seemed still alive; this was fastened by a nail and shred to a damp shady wall in a stove in the garden of the Horticultural Society, where it gradually recovered its green colour and began to grow. By tending it carefully, and not feeding it until it had recovered the effects of its long fast while buried between two sheets of brown paper in a dry chest, it gradually recovered and grew into a plant, the offspring of which has been distributed. From one of them, which flowered in the garden of Mr. Tesina the accompanying drawing was prepared in June ast. ' The species approaches to D. Pierardi, cucullatum, and pulchellum, than all of which it is less beautiful, and it requires precisely the same treatment as those species. * See folio 1249. VOL. XXII. H Uu /09 d eec 7 Aid Pu J PP" 1866 * MANETTIA cordifolia. Heart-leaved Manettia. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. CincHONACcEXR. MANETTIA, Mutis. Calycis tubus turbinatus, limbus partitus in lobos tot quot corollini aut dupli, lobulis in sinubus saepe interpositis. Corolla infun- dibuliformis, tubo tereti, fauce piloso-hirsutä, lobis 4, rarissime 5. Anthere in fauce sessiles. Capsula ovata, compressa, calycinis lobis coronata, ab apice ad basin septicidò dehiscens, mericarplis cymbi ormibus. Placente è septo subexserte. Semina imbricata subsessilia peltata, margine membranaceo see pits dentato undiquè alata. Embryo erectus in albumine. carnoso; cotyledonibus foliaceis lanceolatis.—Herbe perennes, suffruticesve. Caules et rami volubiles, graciles. Folia ovato-oblonga, aut subcordata. Stipulee late, breves, acute, sepius cum petiolorum basi subeoncrete. Pedunculi azillares uni aut mul- tiflori. DC. prodr. 4. 362. M. cordifolia ; caule herbaceo volubili tereti scabriusculo, foliis ovatis basi cor- datis apice acutis utrinque subtiliter pubescentibus, pedunculis axillaribus l-floris, DC. l. e, M. cordifolia. Mart. spec. mat. med. bras. p. 19. t. 7. A beautiful hothouse climber, running to the length of four or five feet, and clothed with a profusion of scarlet trumpet-shaped flowers in the month of June. It strikes freely from cuttings. It has already been so well described by Dr. von Martius that I have nothing to add, except that I do not find the corolla hairy on the inside; the ovules are arranged in an unusual manner, upon cylindrical placente, which spring from near the base of the dissepiment, (fig. 1 and 2). * So called after Xavier Manetti, a Professor of Botany at Florence, who published a work on Italian Fruit Trees in 1751* à H À native of hedges and copses, and the skirts of forests in Brazil, near Villarica and elsewhere in the Province of the Mines, where it is accounted a potent medicine in cases of dropsy and dysentery. The bark of its root is powdered, and administered in doses from 1 to 11 drachm; it acts as an emetic. 24/7 . asa Walls. AC 1867 y EPIDÉNDRUM armeniácum. Apricot-coloured Epidendrum. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. ord. ORCHIDACER, $ EPIDENDREZ. EPIDENDRUM.—Supra, vol. 1. tab. 17. / E. armeniacum ; caulibus teretibus, foliis lanceolatis coriaceis acutis subplicatis, racemis pedunculatis cylindraceis nutantibus, sepalis patulis ovatis acutis, petalis setaceis, labelli subcucullati laciniis lateralibus rotundatis intermediá ovatá acuminatá : callo magno oblongo in disco. Caules erecti, compressi, semipedales, foliis 3-4ve distantibus in spa- tham abeuntibus vestiti. Racemus 3-4 poll, Flores minuti armeniaci coloris. Bracteze setacee ovario triplă breviores. A native of Brazil, where it was found in company with Grobya Amhersti®, figured at fol. 1740 of this work. It was first seen in England in flower in the year 1835, at one of those splendid exhibitions in the Garden of the Horticul- tural Society, which attest more strongly than even the country residences of our nobility and gentry, the skill and perseverance of English gardeners. There, in the midst of the dazzling scarlet or pink of various kinds of Cacti, and surrounded by the brilliant plumes of Chinese Azalea flowers, that weighed down their graceful branches, which really seemed as if they were proud of their lovely burthen, from a basket of humble moss, a little tuft of stems of this species was seen to rear its modest head, as if in hopelessness of attracting notice in so gay acompany. The neatness however of its tiny flowers, the pleasing tint of its apricot-coloured petals, the ele- gant form of their slightly nodding or even drooping clusters, and the novelty of their form in so well known a genus as * See folio 1415. ^ Epidendrum, arrested the curious observer, who soon found the symmetry and simple elegance of the little blossoms of Epidendrum armeniacum compensate for the absence of those more obvious beauties that adorned its gaudier rivals. Itis a stove plant, increasing readily by division of its tufted stems, like E. elongatum, and the kindred of that common species. It was imported by Messrs. Rollissons of Tooting, to whom I was indebted for a specimen in the month of June. Fig. 1, isa profile view of the lip, with its column; Fig. 2, is the lip cut from the column, and viewed from above, with the great callus that occupies its middle; Fig. 3, represents the pollen masses, with their powdery reflexed caudicle. T ——Á— 1868 * CRATAGUS prunifólia. Plum-leaved Thorn: ISOCANDRIA DI-PENTAGYNIA. Nat. ord. Rosacea, $ POMES. CRATJE G US.—Suprà, vol. 13. fol. 1128. C. prunifolia ; foliis oblongis insequaliter serratis glabriusculis, spinis medio- cribus rectis, pedunculis villosis, fructibus oblongis dipyrenis. C. prunifolia. Bosc. in DC. prodr. 2. 627. Mespilus prunifolia. Poir. Dict. 4. 443. Apparently a distinct species of Thorn in the way of C. crus-galli ovalifolia, from which it is readily known by its shaggy flower-stalks, and its less pear-shaped fruits, eac of which contains 2 instead.of 3 stones. Its mode of growth is very much that of the broad-leaved Crategus Crus Galli, but it is a taller tree, with a richer green in the summer, and a deeper tint of crimson in its autumnal leaves. It does not lose its leaves till late. Said to be a native of North America. * See fol. 1161. Jb 6t) 1869 _* HYACINTHUS spicatus. Spike-flowered Hyacinth. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. LILIACE&. HYACINTHUS.—Suprà, vol. 5. fol. 398. H, spicatus; corollis campanulatis semisexfidis spicatis, staminibus membra- naceis, Smith prodr. fl. Gr. 1. 237. Folia linearia, debilia, humifusa, 6 poll. circiter longa, letê viridia. Scapus erectus, nudus, 2 poll. longus, spicam gerens brevem densam subova- tam8-9-floram. Bractee membranacee, diaphane, cuique flori due,inequales, opposite, semisagittate, subdentate. -Perianthium campanulatum, semisex- Jidum, laciniis. patentibus, apice revolutis, lacteis, per axin ceruleis. Fila- menta membranacea, 3-dentata, dente medio antherifero, inter se et cum tubo perianthii connata. Anthere atrocerulee sessiles in fauce tubi. Ova- rium subrotundum, ovulis aliquot teretibus a placenta centrali radiantibus. Ripe seeds of this plant were gathered in April, 1826, in the island of Zante, by H. F. Talbot, Esq. and were raised in his garden at Lacock Abbey, Wilts, whence a vum and specimen were communicated to me in February ast. * "YaxiwSoc, a name adopted from the ancient Greeks, who applied it to the flower supposed to have sprung from the blood of Hyacinthus, the favourite of Apollo, when accidentally slain, Great differences have arisen amongst commen- tators concerning the plant of the ancients, which we cannot presume to settle, but there seems no paramount authority for the present application. of the name in question. — Smith. Linnzus supposes it to have been the wild Larkspur, Sprengel the common Gladiolus or Cornflag, Martyn and Fée the Martagon Lily, while others have endeavoured to shew that the Hyacinths of the Greeks were the same as the Vaccinia nigra of Virgil, or the bilberrie s of the English, the Vaccinium Myrtillus of Botanists. Mr. Talbot considers it to be the rare and little known H. spicatus of Smith, which Dr. Sibthorp also gathered in the island of Zante, where it is said to be called Borboi. As a species it is well marked by its crowned sessile half erect flowers, and the double membranous bracts that subtend it. These are unequal, attached as it were by one edge, and slightly toothed; they are correctly represented at fig. 2. Fig. 1, shews the structure of the perianth when cut open. » YI 4 e / : h ^ ^d AÑO 4 7436 A Halka. do j ty 2. Tadguray 109 Siccaddly W Suma 183 j * EPIDÉNDRUM clavatum. Club-stemmed Epidendrum. ——9——— Ip "Dp MONANDRIA. Nat. ord. OnGRipACEX, $ EPIDENDRER. EPIDENDRUM.—Supra, vol. 1. fol. 17. E. clavatum ; caule clavato in.pseudobulbum ovale desinente diphyllo, foliis lanceolatis patulis, racemo simplici subequali, bracteis ovatis canaliculatis acutis ovariis inferioribus duplò brevioribus, sepalis petalisque lanceolato- linearibus sequaliter patentibus, columnà clavatà, labelli tripartiti basi bical- losi laciniis lateralibus ovatis subfalcatis margine posteriore denticulato : intermedià unguiculatà laminà ovatà acuminatà. Caules vetusti duri, clavati, subarticulati, erecti, in pseudobulbum ovale desinentes, vestigiis foliorum vaginantium vestiti, diphylli, foliis lanceolatis, patulis, coriaceis. Pedicelli florum inferiorum elongati sed non corymbosi. Ovaria filiformia. Sepala et petala viridia ferê unciam longa, angusta. Columna virens. Labelli lamina nivea. Found in August, 1834, near Cumana. Communicated to this work in July, 1835, by the late Lord Grey of Groby. It is not a pretty species, but it is very distinct from any previously described, and. is remarkable for its stems being dilated at the upper end, like some of the species of Den- drobium. The station of the plant will be near Epidendrum concolor. It was procured by Mr. John Henchman for Messrs. Lowe and Co. of Clapton, by whom it was introduced along with Trichopilia tortilis and Mormodes atropurpurea. — * See fol. 1415. 1871 + MAXILLARIA aromática. Aromatic Maxillaria. M rr GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. ord. ÖRCHIDACER, $ VANDEA. MA XILLARIA.—Supra, vol. 11. fol. 897. M. aromatica ; pseudobulbis ovatis compressis, foliis pluribus oblongo-lanceo- latis plicatis scapis unifloris erectis longioribus, sepalis ovato-oblongis petalisque conformibus acutis, labelli semicylindracei laciniis lateralibus por- rectis subulatis; intermedia bilabiatà! labio superiore truncato nano infe- riore spathulato apice recurvo serrulato. Gen. $ Sp. Orch. pl. p. 146. M. aromatica. Graham in Hooker's Exot. fl. 219. Colax aromaticus. Spreng. cur. post. 307. A fragrant stove plant, breathing cinnamon and sweet spices, found in Mexico, whence it wassent by Lord Napier to the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, previous to the year 1826. The species is now not uncommon in good collections, flowering abundantly in the month of May. The callosity of the disk of the lip of Orchideous plants, which sometimes appears in the form of lamella, following the course of the veins, and sometimes is a thick tubercle, in the present species is a truncated plate, occupying the base of the middle segment of the lip, and looking like the half of a petal laid over the truelip. What is the real nature of this truncated plate ? * See folio 1428. Mesa Drake. dedo iy Dy £35 z proa a Tobby RA Pit arms 169 Piccadilly fume 3.1630. — n _ 1872 * CRYBE rösea. Pink-flowered Crybe. TD GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. ord. ORCHIDACER, $ ARETHUSER. CRYBE, Lindl. Sepala et petala similia, lanceolata, conniventia ; late- ralibus basi obliquis. Labellum multo majus, membranaceum, cucullatum, nun- quam expansum, cum columna clavata marginata semi-connatum. Lindl. Nat. Syst. of Botany, ed. 2. p. 446. Crybe rosea. Pseudobulbi subrotundi, virides, leviter angulati. Folia ex apice erum- pentia, lanceolata, plicata, subterna, letê viridia, pedalia. Spica 3-4-flora, scapo laterali, basi purpureo, squamis circiter 3 distantibus vaginati. Flores penduli, ovario brevi, arcuato, bracteá subulato-ovatá 3-plò longiore. Flores fere 2 pollices longi, clavati, nunquam expandentes. Sepala equalia, obovato- lanceolata, basi adherentia, pallidè viridia, apice purpureo-maculata. Petala subequalia, subalba, purpureo tincta, membranacea. Labellum longius, ob- ovatum, acutum, atropurpureum, marginibus plicato-crispis inflexis, basi cum columna semiadnatum. Columna clavata, basi teres, ultra insertionem la- belli marginata, paulo supra labellum bidentata, apice paululum cucullata. Anthera terminalis, opercularis, polline granulari. A native of Mexico, whence it was imported by Messrs. Loddiges, in whose stove it blossomed in June last. This plant is remarkable for never expanding its singular club-shaped flowers, which always remain as much closed as is represented in the accompanying figure, the edges of the lip turning inwards, and forming a sort of dish at the end of the flower. The genus is nearly allied to the North American Are- thusas, from which the adhesion of its labellum to the base of * From «púrrw to conceal, whence xpufeie concealed, in allusion to the manner in which the column is hidden by the floral envelopes. the column sufficiently distinguishes it, independently of the remarkably property of always keeping its flowers closed. A stove plant, requiring the same management as the common Bletia verecunda, and the like. WU GELA um; 1873 * KÉRRIA japónica. Japan Kerria. ICOSANDRIA DI-PENTAGYNIA. Nat. ord. Rosacea, § Spin. KERRIA, DC. Calyx 5-fidus, lobis ovatis, 3 obtusis, 2 apice calloso- mucronatis, sestivatione imbricatis. . Petala 5, orbiculata, Stamina circiter 20, cum petalis e calyce exserta: Carpella 5-8 libera, glabra, stylo filiformi superata, globosa, ovulo 1 lateraliter adhzerente focta.—Suffrutex, cortice levi vires- cente, ramis virgatis, foliis ovato-lanceolatis grossè et inequaliter serratis penninerviis conduplicatis, stipulis lineari-subulatis, floribus flavis facile plenis. | Prodr. 2, 541. d Kerria Japoniea. DC. Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 12. 156. Corchorus Japonicus. Thunb. fl. jap.227. Bot. Rep. t. 587. Bot. Mag. t. 1296. with double flowers. - ; This plant, in the state when it bears double flowers, is one of the commonest shrubs in our gardens. It was supposed to be a species of Corchorus until Professor De Candolle investigated its affinities, and decided that it was to Rubus and Spiræa that the plant was really allied, and not to any Tiliaceous genus. The correctness of this opinion has been fully proved by the single-flowered plant, now represented, for which the country is indebted to John Reeves, Esq. It was imported by him two or three years- back, and now exists in several collections. "The accompanying figure was made last Sep- tember in the garden of the Hortieultural Society. * Named in compliment to Mr. William Ker, a botanical collector sent from Kew to China. . VOL. XXII. I r P - It did not produce any fruit, but the carpels remained „a long while upon the flower-stalk before they fell off. It is ns Re that its nearest affinity will be found to be with - a Me fat = . 1874 * CRATÁGUS platyphylla. i Broad-leaved Thorn. É É ICOSANDRIA DI-PENTAGYNIA. Nat. ord. Rosace, $ Pour. CRATEGUS—-Suprà, vol. 13. fol. 1128. # i C. platyphylla ; foliis pinnatifidis basi truncatis cuneatisque laciniis apice serratis subtus ramulisque pubescentibus, stipulis semicordatis dentatis integrisque, cymis villosis, pomis oblongis nigris pubescentibus tripyrenis, laciniis calycis erectis integris. T5 23 €. platyphylla. Supra, fol. 1128. in textu. = 3 C. fissa, Hort. nec Boscii. i $. A =, A A Peg ld Certainly-in-foliage and elegance of general appearance this is the handsomest of the European Hawthorns. It grows like an exceedingly vigoroús Oxyacantha, spreading its grace- fully bending arms-on all sides; its leaves are a deep rich green, it is loaded with large masses of snow-white blossoms long after the common A Ata pi flowerless, and it retains its vigour till late in the autumn, so thât the rich colour of its blackish purple fruit is not impaired in effect by the fading tints of the foliage. E: That this. is. some P or North-Asiatic plant, can- not well be doubted, and yet if is not to be traced in books, unless it is the Cr. S of Bieberstein; but that $ * See folio 1161. EL. - Plant, which is a native of the Crimea, is described as having trifid leaves, reflexed calycine segments, and five stones in each haw. 1 therefore presume that it must be different from this which has only three stones. - The drawing was made last October in the garden of | the Horticultural Society. y 1875 * BIFRENARIA aurantiáca. Orange-coloured Bifrenaria. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. ord. OrcHIDACER, $ VANDER. BIFRENARIA, Lindl. Sepala patula, libera, subeequalia ; lateralia cum basi productà columns connata vix basi obliqua. Petala sepalis duplò minora. Labellum cum pede mucronato columne articulatum, cucullatum, tri- lobum, medio callosum. Columna brevis, semiteres, mutica, Anthera mutica, subcristata. Pollinia 4, per paria incumbentia, caudiculis duabus distinctis materiei viscidee rostelli adheeréntibus, glandulá (oblongá). Epiphyta pseudo- bulbosa, Mazillarie (Colacis) habitu. Gen. et Sp. Orch. 152. B. aurantiaca ; pseudobulbis subrotundis compressis di hyllis, foliis oblongis plicatis racemi erecti longitudine, petalis erectis, labelli lobis lateralibus semi- cordatis intermedio transverso ovali subundulato basi bicalloso, columnà pubescente. Perianthium bilabiatum. Petala obovata, rotundata, crenata, erecta, cum sepalo supremo oblongo acuto labium supremum formantia. Sepala lateralia ovata, obtusa, supra pubescentia, patentia, basi obliqua, supremo duplò latiora. Labellum cum columne pede producto articulatum, unguicu- latum ; unguis cuneatus, carnosissimus, limbi longitudine, callo transverso truncato ad apicem ubi in limbum abit ; limbus tripartitus lacinid intermedid transversá apiculatá indivisá subundulatá, lateralibus erectis semicordatis, obtusis utráque flexurá elevatá baseos callum mentiente. Columna semiteres, pubescens, clinandrii dorso acuminato. Anthera triangularis : angulis pilosis, - lateralibus productioribus. Pollinia 2, biloba, caudiculis totidem glandule communi adherentibus. A pretty epiphyte, native of Demerara. For the oppor- tunity of publishing it Fam indebted to his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, in whose hot-housé at Chiswick it flowered & in October, 1835. o [S10 P | T CEA E pail F The colours of the flowers being deep orange-yellow, mottled with deep brown spots, the aspect of this species is rather handsome. Fig. 1. represents the appearance of the lip separated from the column, and especially of the double callus at the base of its middle lobe. Fig. 2. shews the face of the column with the bases of the sepals and petals. Fig. 3. is a view of the double strap, connecting the pollen masses to the gland. Fig. 4, shews the anther removed from the column, and viewed in front. 1876 * IRIS aláta. Small-winged Iris. ' TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. IriDACEA. IRIS.—Supra, vol. 3. fol. 246. I. alata ; imberbis, acaulis, foliis ensiformibus, corollze tubo longissimo laciniis interioribus minimis, styli laciniis obtusis undulatis lacinias exteriores equan- tibus. Dietr. Sp. pl. 2. 436. I. alata. Poir. iter.2. 86. Bivona pl. sic. cent. 1. p. 44. I. scorpioides. Desf. fl. atl. 1. p. 40. t. 6.- I. microptera. Vahl. enum. 2. 142. I. transtagana. Brot. ft. lusit. p. 52. Juno scorpioides. Trattin. tabul. no. 652. Iris bulbosa latifolia 1. Clus. hist. plant. rar. p. 210. Folia planiuscula, carinata, lorata, acuminata, nullo modo equitantia, pedem et ultra longa, paginá superiore lucidà tactu molli, inferiore opacá, margine minutissimè cartilagineo-serrulata. Flos e sinu foliorum solitarius, üsque multò brevior, e spathis duabus magnis membranaceis subherbaceis erumpens; ovario hypogeo, basibus foliorum, Croci modo, tecto. Tubus Joris 6-poll. longus, et ultra, apice letissime purpureus ; laciniee calycine oblongo-spatulate, margine crenato-undulate, ascendentes, recurve, glaber- rime, lined elevatd disci intense luted, ceterum amene purpureo-violacee maculate ; lacini® corolline spathulata, basi valde angustate, limbo coch- leato crispato, calycinis triplò breviores, recte, divaricate. Stamina calycinis opposita. Stigmata apice biloba, laciniis dimidiatis, acuminatis, laceris. Odor florum gratus inter hyacinthinum et sambucinum.. Found by Desfontaines in moist faces near Algiers, flowering in the winter. According to Bivona, a native of. sterile meadows and rocks in Sa Clusius speaks of it as i a common plant in Portugal and Spain “at the foot of hills, A e k^ AM 7, a i E, ~a See folio 1404. especially about Antequera and Cordova, flowering in January and February. It produces its blossoms in this country a little later; my specimens were obligingly communicated by the Honour- able W. F. Strangways, from the garden of the Dowager Countess of Ilchester, at Abbotsbury in Dorsetshire, where the plant was growing in a terrace border, with no more pro- tection than a mat-screen would afford. Its flowers have a pleasant smell, between that of the Hyacinth and the Elder. 15 7 * 14) GUNA | Mi Sady. A. Te 4 / UH É U Sa "cuti 1877 * CRAT/ÉGUS pyrifolia. Pear-leaved Thorn: ICOSANDRIA DI-PENTAGYNIA. Nat. ord. RosacEz, S PoMEE. CRATZGUS.—Supra, vol. 13. fol. 1128. C. pyrifolia; foliis. ovato elliptic inciso-serratis plicatis pedunculis junio sa ramulisque hirsutis, calycibus hirsutis laciniis glanduloso-serratis, fructibus glabris pendulis pyriformibus 3-pyrenis laciniis calycinis reflexis. C. pyrifolia. Hort. Kew. 2.168. De Cand. Prodr. 2.627. Loudon's arbor. britann. t. xxxi. B. b. 3 = 28 E d MT E > * See folio P 1478 1878 * SCILLA Cupaniána. Cupani's Squill. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. LILIACER, $ SCILLEA. SCILLA —Suprà, vol. 16. fol. 1355. S. Cupaniana ; foliis lanceolatis planis brevissime densissimeque ciliatis, corymbo paucifloro, capsulis rostratis. Römer et Schult. Sp. pl. 7. 559. S. Cupaniana. Gusson. prodr. fl. Sic. 1. 416. S. fistulosa. Rafinesque. Ornithogalum ceruleum. Rafinesg. Caratt. 85. Hyacinthus stellatus coeruleus umbellatus latifolius. Cupani pamph. sic. vol. 1. t. 20. Communicated by Henry Fox Talbot, Esq. from the garden at Lacock Abbey. The bulbs were sent by the Hon. William Strangways from Sicily, where they are found wild near Villafrata, Ogliastro, and Cool A hardy bulb, of great rarity in this country, flowering in June. lts bright blue pistil contrasts in a remarkable manner with the dull purple of the remainder of the flower. Itis very near the Scilla, erroneously called peruviana, which is also a Sicilian plant, but is altogether much smaller. 1 find the leaves edged with a broken cartilaginous margin, rather than ciliated as Gussone is represented to describe them. ` # See folio 1355. 7879. ep LS 7 / oy von FR E ITS E, Fumar MCE, AU Gibby I. hadgwvay PO icona Ly My « | SEFC. 1879 * EPIDÉNDRUM bífidum. Hare-lipped Epidendrum. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. ord. OrcHIDACEZ, $ EPIDENDRER, EPIDENDRUM.—Suprà, vol. 1. fol. 17. E. difidum ; foliis in pseudobulbos subternis lanceolatis, scapo ramoso foliis multô longiore, sepalis oblongis acutis petalisque lanceolatis patentibus, la- belli cuneati lobis lateralibus ovatis : intermedio maximo apice dilatato sub- reniformi sulcato basi in disco biappendiculato (a columna ferè libero). Gen. et Sp. Orch. pl. 100. Helleborine flore papilionaceo. Plum, sp. 9. ic. 186. fl. Epidendrum bifidum. Aubl. guian. p. 824. Swartz Fl. Ind. Occ. 3. 1489. Willd. Sp. pl. no. 3. Redout. Liliac. 84. E. papilionaceum. West. St. Cruc. p. 230. sec. Willd. In this state E. bifidum appeared when, in July, 1835, a specimen was communicated to me by Messrs. Loddiges. It was then very pretty, on account of the beautiful veining of its lip; but it cannot have been any thing like so handsome as Swartz describes it to be, with all the divisions of the flower bright purple, and a flowering stem three feet high and branching. It is a very remarkable and distinct species, with a pecu- liar slit lip, by which it is readily known from all, zen E. auropurpureum, a kind that appears to be very nearly related to it. It is described as found upon branches of trees in the West India islands, especially St. Christophers, St. Bartho- lomews, and Santa Cruz. The Messrs. Loddiges had it from Tortola; Aublet found it in Cayenne. * See folio 1415, < 1880 * GODÉTIA vinósa. Wine-stained Godetia. OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. ONAGRACEE. GODETIA.—Supra, vol. 22. fol. 1849. G. vinosa ; erecta, foliis lineari-oblongis subdentatis glabris, petalis subrotundo- cuneatis undulatis immaculatis, staminibus alternis minoribus, antheris phoe- niceis apice luteis cassis, stigmatibus pallidis, calycis tubo laciniis triplo breviore, seminibus atrofuscis unicoloribus. Annua, G. rubicunde valdê affinis; sequentibus tamen motis diversa videtur. Petala pallida sunt, et paululum minora, colore vinoso levissime suffusa. Tubus calycis viz: partem tertiam limbi equat, in G. rubicunda dimidiam. Apex cassus antherarum brevior est quam in G. rubicunda. Semina atrofusca sunt et minora, nec cinereo fuscoque nebulosa. Demum planta tota habitu graciliori gaudet. { The last of the new Californian Godetias introduced by the Horticultural Society. It is in technical characters much like G. rubicunda, but is a very different looking plant. They may be distinguished thus: G. rubicunda. Calyx with its tube half as long as the limb, or more. Petals a uniform purple, with an orange-red eye. Anthers orange-red, the em end bright yellow. ad Seeds clouded with ash coloured and brown. G. vinosa. Calyx with its tube not more than one-third thelength of the limb. Petals nearly white, with a slight dash of purple. Anthers deep crimson, the empty end nearly white. Seeds a uniform dark “brown, and much smaller. It is a hardy annual, flowering in July and August. * See folio 1849. NOTE. Mr. Spach has published, in the Nouvelles Annales du Museum, Vol, 4. what he no doubt considers an answer to some of the criticisms that his perform- ances. among Onagracem have called forth. As a specimen of his style of con- ducting an argument let the reader take the following. He complains that his genus Boisduvalia is stated by me not to have a fringed chalaza, as if he had said that it had one, and he denies that he ever did state this, (Boisduvaliarum semina fimbriata esse nullibi diximus.) Now it is true that in thé character of Boisduvalia this is not mentioned, but on the other hand the main character of the subsection Dermosperme, in which that genus is stationed, depends upon * semina ad chalazam margine membranaceo aucta." I was not before aware that Mr, Spach did not consider it necessary for his genera (!) to agree in cha- racter with the sections under-which they aré stationed. 2 . Pr, / A , á > 4 . ma” / / j OA y Mis Prak 5; dol PISA Y UE, dash /57 Dr tf}, Fr} PS SI t HALT mal AICE, AAL, SUSY SD, SUASA | CU Ducatu AUG L AC U. 1881 * EPIDENDRUM Skinnéri. Mr. Skinner’s Epidendrum. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. ord. OrcHIDACER, $ EPIDENDRER. EPIDENDRUM.—Suprà, vol. 1. fol. 17. E. Skinneri ; foliis distichis lanceolatis acuminatis, caule apice longê aphyllo squamoso, racemo cylindraceo multifloro, floribus cernuis, sepalis lineari- lanceolatis, petalis ovalibus acutis, labello ovato acuminato integerrimo basi callo sulcato cristato. E. Skinneri. Bateman's MSS. 3 Caulis erectus, teres, distichè foliosus, apicê aphyllus vaginatus. Folia 5 poll. longa. Bractex lineari-lanceolate, pedicellis capillaribus paulo bre- vioribus. Flores pallidè purpurei, 13 poll. lati. Labellum cum columná semiconnatum, concavum, basi luteum, cuniculatum. For this beautiful species of Epidendrum I am obliged to James Bateman, Esq. jun. in whose hot-house at Kny- persley it flowered last January. He states, “that it was sent to him in the summer of 1835, from the neighbourhood of Guatemala, by his most excellent friend G. U. Skinner, Esq., to whose enthusiasm in the cause of science he is already indebted for many new and interesting plants. Ep. Skinneri is among the most free-flowering of its tribe; every one of its shoots, both great and~small, having been invariably succeeded by a spike of flowers.” The perfect state of the specimens, so short a time after the importation of the species, attests the skill of Mr. P. N. -—7* Seg fol. 1415. | VOL. XXII. UK Don, Mr. Bateman's gardener, in the management of these curious plants. The species is in the way of E. elongatum, and I presume : requires the same management as that plant. I have also received it from Messrs. Loddiges. WER uenia e 10 ig I. 1882. * APTÓSIMUM depréssum. Depressed A ptosinium. DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Nat. ord. SCROPILULARIACEE. APTOSIMUM, Burchell.—Calyx campanulatus, semi 5-fidus, basi bibracteatus. Corolla tubo basi contracto, extra calycem amplo, limbo 5-fido, subbilabiato, laciniis rotundatis planis subequalibus. Stamina didynama, declinata. Anther® extus villose, subbiloculares, loculis confluentibus, rimá unică transversali dehiscentibus, staminum superiorum minoribus, sepe cassis. Stylus simplex, stigmate | brevissime bilobo. Capsula brevis, basi subglobasa, apice compressa, obcordata, dissepimento contrario, apice breviter loculicidé et septicidé dehiscens.—Suffrutices rigidi seepius prostrati, vel densissime cespitosi. Flores axillares sessiles. Bentham MSS. A. depressum (Burch. Trav. 1. 260.) ramis glabris vel breviter lanuginosis, foliis. confertissimis petiolatis obovatis glabris corolla multo brevioribus, calycibus extus glabriusculis intüs lanatis capsulas emarginatas vix superan- tibus. Bentham MSS. Ruellia depressa. Thunb.? Ohlendorffia procumbens. Lehm. Index Sem. pl. Eckl. Caulis fruticosus, terre appressus, in supina parte densissime ramu- losus, ac foliis spathulatis, petiolatis, maxime confertis tectus, Folia 3-4 lineas longa, haud opposita sed spirata, crassiuscula, obtusissima, brevi-mu- cronata, glabra. Calyces în inferiori parte ramulorum, brevi-pedicellati, axillares, longitudine foliorum, chartacei, pallidi, ad | bifidi, extus leves, glabri, nitidi, laciniis acuminatis patentibus intus dense albo tomentosis. Bracteole due, breves, lineares, pubescentes ad basin calycis. Corolla 8 lineas longa, extus. pubescens, cerulea, tubo brevi angusto, limbo infundi- buliformi brevi spatio quinquefido, laciniis equalibus patentibus brevibus. Stamina inclusa; filamenta glabra; anthere ante dehiscentiam cordata, * From a privative; and rrovipos deciduous, because of the capsules which remain on the stem long after the seeds have fallen a K subrotunde, dein transverse, subrotundo-ovales, transversim pauloque infe- rius dehiscentes, labio superiori recto verticali, inferiori undulato quadrilobo ciliato. Vertex lanugine alba cinctus. Staminum breviorum anthere con- formes et dimidio duplove minores. Stylus longitudine staminum, glaber, apice incurvus. Stigma verticaliter bilobum. Capsula calyce tunc com- presso rigiduloque transversa, apice truncata et subretusa, longitudinaliter rugoso-venosa, inferius crassior rigidiorque, nigrescens. Semina inferiori parte receptaculi conferta, subtrigona, obtusa, punctato-aspera migra. Funiculus in strophiolam brevem cyathiformam trilobam abit. Albumen tenue, carnosum. Embryo axilis, rectus ; radicula subcylindrica ; cotyle- donibus ovatis.—Vix dubium est, quin Thunbergius sub Ruellie depressa nomine hanc speciem intellexerit, scil. calycibus solis nec corollis repertis nee multum, uti sepe illi accidit, inquirens, flores minutos dixit in descrip- tione. Linnaus corolle non meminit.—Lehm. in litt. A native of the Cape of Good Hope, whence its seeds were brought to Europe by Mr. Ecklon, the celebrated bota- nical collector, and communicated to Dr. Lehmann of Ham- burgh, under whose care it was raised. To that gentleman I am indebted for the accompanying drawing and descrip- tion. It is altogether contrary to my practice to publish accounts of plants that have hitherto only been in foreign gardens; but the beauty of this species, the evident fidelity of the drawing, the specimen that accompanied it, and - the vicinity of Hamburgh to our own shores, have induced me to deviate from the rule; without however intending that this should be at all drawn into a precedent. The species is a greenhouse undershrub; it was found by Ecklon in the Karroo, near Hermanskraal, on the Great Fish River, flowering from October to December: Burchell met with it on the Roggeveld; and Drége on the Sneeuw and Rhinoster mountains and Zwartruggers. To Mr. Bentham Lam indebted for the following observations upon the genus and some of its affinities, The genus Aptosimum was considered by Mr. Burchell as allied to Capraria, that is, to the Cape species now form- ing the genus Freylinia ; but the declinate stamina and the conformation of the anthers are very different from that of par ON SEA AE STR, any Gratiolee, and as well as the form of the corolla, appear to me to assimilate the plant much more to some of the Salpiglossidez, and especially to the Salpiglossis prostrata, Hook. et Arn. and some other species from the West Coast of America, which probably form a new genus. Like other Salpiglossidez it comes near the capsular Solanez, and the corolla is very nearly that of Fabiana. The following are the characters of the. species I am acquainted with of Aptosimum, and of another genus.also from the Cape, which is closely allied to it and belongs likewise to the tribe of Salpiglossideze. APTOSIMUM. * Folia petiolata, detrita non spinosa. Culycis lacinie intus tomentose. A. eriocephalum (E. Meyer.) ramis prostratis longe lanatis, foliis longe petiolatis ovatis glabris, calycibus lanatis laciniis intus pubescentibus, capsulis vix emarginatis. On the Gariep, Drege. 2. A. depressum (Burch. supra). 3. A. indivisum (Burch. Trav. 1. 219.) ramis brevissimis, foliis dense cespitosis oblongo-spathulatis glabris corollas sequantibus, calycis laciniis intus lanatis.—Carroo desert, Drege. Cape Flats, Ecklon. Ohlendorffia rosulata. Nees ab Esenbcek. ** Folia subsessilia nervo medio valido persistente apice demum spine" scente. Calycis lacinie intus glabre. 4. A. viscosum herbaceum? foliis late oblongo-spathulatis viscoso-pube- scentibus nervo medio infra apicem spinescente flores ter superantibus. Kocks near the Gariep, Drege. ; 5. A. tragacanthoides (E. Meyer) suffruticosum, foliis anguste oblongis spathulatis glabris flores vix superantibus nervo medio infra apicem spinescente. Rocks on the Kunkunnuroab, Drége. 6. A. abietinum (Burch. Trav. 1. 308.) suffruticosum, foliis linearibus glabris flore brevioribus nervo medio excurrente spinoso. On the Sunday River and in the vallies of the Kooper hills, Drege. 3. elongata on the Gariep. PELIOSTOMUM. Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla et genitalia Aptosimi. Capsula. ovato-oblong; acuta apice AS ese ressa sulcata a na loculicide E sa septicide bifidis bipartitisve. Semina numerosa minuta. — Herbæ suffruticesve rigide stepe viscose. Folia omnia alterna integerrima. Flores axillares vel racemosi breviter pedicellati vel sessiles pedicellis sæpe bracteatis. Corolle forma fere Fabiane. 1. P. scoparium (E. Mey.) herbaceum rigidum ramosissimum viscosum, foliis parvis paucis oblongo-linearibus, laciniis calycinis oblongis viscoso-villosis capsulam equantibus, corolla tubi parte attenuata calyce breviore. Rocks on the Gariep, Drêge. 2. P. leucorrhizum (E. Mey.) herbaceum rigidum ramosissimum glabrum, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis linearibusve, laciniis calycinis apice subulatis capsula brevioribus, corollee tubi parte attenuata calyce subduplo longiore. On the Gariep, Drêge. 3. P. viscosum (E. Mey.) herbaceum rigidum divaricato-ramosum vis- coso-pubescens, foliis obovatis oblongisve, laciniis calycinis linearibus obtusis capsula dimidio brevioribus, corollee tubi parte attenuata calyce subduplo longiore. Rocks on the Gariep, Drêge. 4. P. virgatum (E. Mey.) suffruticosum ramis rigidis virgatis viscosis, foliis inferioribus obovatis superioribus sessilibus parvis subrotundis omnibus subcarnosis leviter viscosis, laciniis calycinis obovatis oblongisve capsula dimi- dio brevioribus, corolle tubi parte attenuata calyce parum longiore. Namaqua country. Ecklon, Drege. +. 5. P. origanoides (E. Mey.) suffruticosum glabrum, ramis brevibus tor- tuoso-prostratis, foliis ovatis obovatisve, calycis laciniis linearibus acutiusculis capsula obtusa vix brevioribus, corolla tubi parte attenuata vix exserta. Nieuwe- weld and Sneeuwbergen, Drége. VS 33, / tA Par / Misa Drake. del 1883 * TRIFOLIUM fucátum. Farded Clover. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Nat. ord. LEGUMINOSA or FABACER. TRIFOLIUM.—Supra, vol. 13. fol. 1070. T. fucatum ; foliolis subrotundis spinoso-d ticulatis crassiuseulis, stipulis maxi- mis membranaceis integerrimis cuspidatis, pedunculis foliis eequalibus longi- oribusque, capitulis hemisphericis involucratis, foliolis involucri basi connatis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis margine membranaceis floribus brevioribus. Radix annua. . Caules suberecti, parum, ramosi, rubescentes, internodiis sept in spontaneo stipulis tantum equalibus. | Petioli stipulis nunc dupl quadruplò longiores. "Stipule magne, membranacee, sepe rotundate et cuspidate, nunc acuminate. Capitula 1-2 uncias lata, depressa. Involucri foliola herbacea, margine pallidiora, cyathum formantia floribus breviorem. Flores disci ochroleuci, radii rubescentes. Calyx minimus, membranaceus, campanulatus, dentibus quinque aristatis. Vexillum circa carinam et alas convolutum, emarginatum, demum inflatum. Ovarium stipitatum, 7-8-sper- mum. A pretty annual clover, the seeds of which were collected for the Horticultural Society in California, by Mr. Douglas. It flowered for the first time in June, 1835, but ripened no seeds, and was afterwards lost. From the wild specimens in my herbarium, if appears to grow in a black peaty soil, pro- bably the damp vegetable matter found in woods. This new speciés belongs to the curious set of clovers whose bracts collect into an involucre like those of an um- belliferous plant; among them it is by far the most showy, with its cream-coloured flowers just blushing where the sun strikes them. = T € — ; îm See folio 1408. Li 1884 * CRAT/ÉGUS tanacetifólia. x j cet” Fi X > Tansy-leaved Hawthorn. ` * -i ICOSANDRIA DI-PENTAGYNIA. Nat. ord. Rosacea, S Pomez: CRATEGUS.—Supră, vol. 13. fol. 1128. C. tanacetifolia; foliis pinnatifidis glanduloso-serratis pubescentibus basi cu- neatis laciniis linearibus, bracteis foliaceis glandulosis pectinatis sub fructu persistentibus, fructibus solitariis: sessilibus depresso-spheericis pubescenti- . bus, putamine crassissimo. 3» ER: C. tanacetifolia. Pers. synops. 2. 38. De Cand. Prodr. 2. 629. Loudon Arbor. Britann. t. 117, b. i VU Es 6 Mespilus tanacetifolia. Smith Exot. Bot. t. 85. . ` a M. orientalis, tanaceti folio villoso, magno fructu pentagono e viridi flavescente. Tourn. coroll. 44. Voyage v.2. 171. t..172. Folia pubescentia, virescentia, parum canescentia, dentibus argutis apice glanduligeris, nunquam calva ; stipulis semi-sagittatis serratis. Flores corymbosi subsessiles. Fructus solitarii, sessiles, lutei, depressi, sub-penta- goni, bracteis quibusdam foliaceis glanduloso-pectinatis persistentibus suf- fulti, pyrenis-5 osseis, putamine crassissimo. —— This is obviously known from Cr. talis both by its yellow solitary sessile fruit, to which a small number of leafy braets adhere irregul 1 Ay Dar Neo by its regularly pinnatifid leaves, the fine toot o which are all tipped with a gland. Like: ose species this is hardy and very handsome ; it is multiplied by grafting on the common hedge Hawthorn. e | Sir James Smith has the following observations upon 1t in Rees's Cyclopedia. ‘ Native of all the higher mountains of Greece. A very desirable shrub for plantations, on ac- 5 *fSee fol. 1161. a — “E # $ count of its highly-scented corymbose flowers, and yellow fruit, which resembles a small apple, and has the scent of one. By culture and grafting, it promises to become an acquisition to our tables. From the description in Diosco- rides of his peomAov, ‘a spinous tree, with leaves like hawthorn, fruit like a little apple, sweet, with three hard seeds,” this should seem, as the number of seeds varies, to be the very plant; while his geomihov Erepov, from Italy, ‘a tree like an apple tree, but with smaller leaves, and a round eatable fruit, with a broad depression, slightly astrin- gent, and long in ripening,’ can only be our common garden Mespilus germanica. Tournefort did not observe the thorns of the Cr. tanacetifolia, but he describes the eagerness with which his Armenian companions collected and ate the fruit, and he mentions the trees as of the size of oaks.” i LARA, 1885 + CRATA:GUS odoratissima. Sweetest-scented Hawthorn. ICOSANDRIA DI-PENTAGYNIA. Nat. ord. Rosacex, $ Powrx. CRATAGUS.—Supra, vol. 13. fol. 1128. C. odoratissima ; foliis tifdi pinnatifidisque ‘inciso-serratis basi cuneatis in- cano-tomentosis, fructibus 5-pyrenis sphericis pubescentibus, putamine tenui. | | a * C. orientalis. Bieberst. Fl. Taur. cauc. 1. 387. C. odoratissima, Bot. Repos. t. 590. Louden Arboret. Brit. t. 117 a. C. tanacetifolia 9 taurica. De Cand. Prodr. 2. 629. Folia incano-tomentosa, demum viridiora, nunquam calva; stipulis fal- catis integris. Pedunculi” tomentosi. Fructus lateritii, pubescentes, subpen- tagoni, pyrenis 5 osseis, putamine crassitudine solitá. Y. A common bush on the hills adjoining the Black Sea, and elsewhere in the Crimea. - It is described by Bieberstein as growing to the size of the common Hawthorn. | In this country it is always grafted upon that species, and acquires a dense round-headed habit, which diminishes its beauty in some degree; this is, however, abundantly com- pensated by its multitude of deliciously perfumed. flowers, and the rich clusters of red fruit. with which it is loaded in the autumn. It differs from C. orientalis not alone in the colour of its fruit; but in its leaves never becoming smooth, in its stipules being-small and undivided, and in the stones that enclose the seeds not being particularly thick-sided. o E E. uris p 3 w" F Y + seit nais - * ISSO. Am 7 DB: La JA: uil a ARI ly /. tapuai 764 Tica deite Mig. Á Z tle: 1886 Us -* DOUGLÁSIA nivalis. Snow Douglasia. ——__ — PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. PRIMULACEA. DOUGLASIA, Lindl.— Calyx. obeonicus, angulatus, 5-dentatus. Co- rolla infundibularis, tubo ventricoso, limbo plano 5-partito. fauce callo lineari sub utroque sinu. Ovarium uniloculare, placentà centrali liberà pedicellatà fun- gilliformi, margine 5-dentatá ; ovula 5, dentibus placenta opposita. Capsula vestita, unilocularis; 5-valvis. Semina. 2, concava, serobiculata. - Cespites suffruticulosi (America borealis), foliis indivisis, floribus subumbellatis, soli- tariisque. AG © És - € D. nivalis (Lindl. in Brande's Journal, Jan. 1828, p. 383.) foliis linearibus pube rigidă ramosá incanis subverticillatis, floribus longè pedunculatis sub- umbellatis. i gs ENG | * Upon his’ journey across the rocky mountains in April, 1827, in latitude 52° N., longitude 118° W., at an estimated elevation of 12,000 feet above the level of the sea, the attention'of Mr. Douglas was attracted by a brilliant purple patch amidst the surroünding-snow: On pes ing it, he was surprized to find that the colour which had arrested his eye was caused by the blossoms of a-little plant, from which the superineum- bent snow had not yet melted away. The well-known Saxifraga oppositi- folia immediately occurred to his recollection, and he at first imagined he had either discovered that species, or.one nearly allied to it; but upon a closer inspection, he perceived that it was no Saxifraga, but a genus apparently new. Specimens having béen submitted to me for examination since Mr. Douglas's return, the following description has been drawn up:—The plant forms a-thick “tuft, consisting of numerous perennial branched stems, the lower of which are covered with the persistent de- cayed leaves and fruit of previous summers. The stems are round, bright purplish brown, covered with scattered, rigid, branched short hairs, and densely clothed with opposite E eaves. The leaves are a dull glaucous green, semi-amplexicaul, linear, obtuse, about five lines long and * Named by me some years ago in compliment to Mr. Douglas, whose zeal in the collection of seeds zu dried specimens of plants, and whose untimely end, have richly earned for him a niche in the long gallery of departed science. three-quarters of a line broad, so closely covered with hairs, like those of” the stem, that the whole epidermis is hidden. Their veins are concealed - by the hairs; but if the latter are removed, they appear to consist of a thickened midrib, and a few nearly simple spreading vene primarie. The flowers proceed from the axils of the upper leaves, from three to six on each little branch; at first they are sessile, but their footstalks subsequently lengthen by degrees until the fruit is ripe, when they are from three-quarters of an inch to one inch in length, and covered with the same sort of hairs as the leaves and stem. The calyx is hairy in like manner, obconical, angular, with five equal erect narrowly triangular teeth, about the length of the tube. The corolla is of a vivid purple colour, infundibuliform, wholly destitute of pubescence. The tube is a little ventricose, and rather longer than the calyx, its whole length being about three lines. The limb is spreading, five-parted with cuneate, oblong, obtuse segments ; the orifice is guarded by five transversely linear calli, placed under each sinus, and corresponding to the same number of ex- ternal depressions of the neck of the tube. The anthers are linear oblong, nearly sessile, opposite the segments of the corolla, and a little inclosed within the tube. The ovarium is superior, of an obovate figure, one- celled, with a central free fungilliform placenta, the lower edge of which has five teeth corresponding to an equal number of peltate ovules. The style is filiform, as long as the tube of the corolla, and continuous with the ovarium ; stigma, a minute depressed cup. The capsule is of a carti- laginous texture, surrounded by the persistent calyx, one-celled, with five recurving valves; the seeds are two, peltate, oblong, convex on the out- side, concave in the inside, dark brown, covered closely with minute dots or depressions ; four only having been found, their internal organization has not been determined. * Hence it appears that, with the exception of the interior. of the seed, the whole structure of the plant is determinable: it is also obvious that it is referable to Primulace®, of which it possesses all the characters. In faet it is closely akin both to Primula and Androsace. From both these genera, however its ovarium which exhibits the greatest instance of reduction of ovules yet known in the order, and its dispermous capsule, with oblong concave seeds, readily and essentially distinguish it." „The foregoing statement is extracted from the notice of this genus which I published some years ago in the Journal of the Royal Institution. Since that time the plant has been raised in the garden of the Horticul- tural Society, where it flowered in J uly, 1835, and subsequently in April, 1836, having been raised from seeds collected in California by Mr. Douglas. It proves to be a branched herbaceous plant, growing pretty freely in peat and sand, and ripening its seed in small quantity. Hitherto it has been kept in the greenhouse, there having been only two plants raised in the first instance ; it is however probable that it will thrive better under the treatment suited to alpine plants. Sir William Hooker es a second species (Douglasia arctica, Hooker) collected by Dr. coroada on the shores of the par sea. w N INN N / B | / A r1 AN S N e Mai A \/ / ji d N AN x y Di I vi A dI Y, 4 N No A uw y ET ul Uu 1887 * ONCÍDIUM Lanceánum. | Mr. Lance's Oneidium:) wo 47 GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. / d» f Fra DEE bee lly Set’. 7. Idi. Mias Drake. del. Fil by SL. Sudg way 7 OG S eet Shi ECA: Mass Lante. dei 4 te Co 1888 * GÍLIA tenuiflora. Slender-flowered Gilia. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. POLEMONIACEE. » GILIA — Suprà, vol. 19. fol. 1622. G. tenuiflora; caule erecto elato supernè viscoso subnudo paniculato, foliis bipinnatisectis glabris, floribus subsolitariis, corymbis laxis longè peduncu- latis, corollis calyce 4-pld longioribus. Bentham supra, vol. 19. 1622. în textu. Caulis 2-pedalis, totus paululum viscidus, ramis filiformibus sed rigidis subdichotomis, glandulis viridibus fungilliformibus in caule raris sub calyce creberrimis. Flores rosei, nec cerulei. Calyx laciniis mucronatis, dorso herbaceis purpureisve, margine membranaceis. Corolla infundibularis, se- munciam longus, extüs roseas, sanguineo acupunctatus, intús unicolor et vio- laceus. Anthere plumbee. Capsula ovato-oblonga, testacea, papyracea, semi-trivalvis loculicidò dehiscens; valvulis a placenta 3-angulari demum liberá secedentibus. Semina testacea, oblongo-reniformia, longitudinaliter corrugata, ceteràm glabra. 2 Y A hardy annual raised from Californian seeds in the Garden of the Horticultural Society, where it flowered for the first time in August, 1834. A single plant only was at that time raised, but it seeded plentifully, and is now not uncommon. Mr. Douglas sent it home under the name of Gila splendens, a somewhat singular appellation, seeing that it is one of the least showy of the genus. In fact it is not worth cultivating for the sake of the flower garden; but it is very pretty in nosegays as an ornament to rooms. Its flowers change in drying from rose colour to blue, which gave rise to the supposition that they are naturally of ¿See fol. 1170. VOL. XXII. the latter colour. The corolla is in reality of a rich clear uniform violetin the inside, and on the outside of a pale rose, but this colour is much affected by the presence of innumer- able short deep red lines, which are as delicate as if they were drawn with the point of a needle. TP n — A TY O 1889 + CIRRH/EA tristis. Sad-coloured Cirrhea. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA, Nat. ord. OrcHIDACEZ, $ VANDEA. CIRRHZ A.—Supra, vol. 18. fol. 1538. C. tristis ; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis basi parum angustatis, petalis lineari-spa- thulatis, labelli sagittati lobo intermedio lineari abruptă acuto lateralibus acuminatis parallelis breviore. Pseudobulbi ovati, sulcati, angulis rotundatis. Folia solitaria, subpli- cata, coriacea, oblongo-lanceolata vel oblonga, basi in petiolum brevem con- volutum angustata. Racemi penduli, foliis pauld longiores, radicales, dense multiflori. Flores odoratissimi tristà purpurei, sanguineo suffusi, apicibus herbaceis. Sepala linearia, patentissima, obtusa, postremo sigmoideo, reflexo. Petala lineari-spatulata sepalis paulà breviora et duplò angustiora. Labellum atropurpureum; ungue arcum continuum cum columná resupinatá efficiente; limbo sagittato, laciniis lateralibus acuminatis subparallelis carnosis inter- mediá ferè duplò longioribus. Columna arcuata, clavata, truncata, antherá posticá, stigmate obliquo, verticali, cirrhifero, ut in genere. f A deliciously scented species, native of Mexico, whence it was obtained by Messrs. diges, in whose hot-house the drawing was made in June, 1835. The form of its lip is quite different from that of any of the other three species now known. | Like its other botanical allies it grows upon the branches of trees, and apparently in a pendulous manner. * See folio 1538. L2 “useful work, upon the hardy Trees and S 1890 * CRAT/ÉGUS spathulata. Spathula-leaved Thorn. ICOSANDRIA MONO-PENTAGYNIA. Nat. ord. RosacEz, $ PoMEz. CRATEGUS.—Supra, vol. 13. fol. 1128. C. spathulata ; ramulis spinescentibus fasciculatim foliosis, foliis obovatis basi ~ angustatis subtrilobis stipulisque semihastatis foliaceis glanduloso-serratis, floribus subsessilibus, corymbis paucifloris, sepalis incisis. C. spathulata ; ramulis spinescentibus fasciculatim foliosis, foliis parvis longis- simè deorsum angustatis subspatulatis trifidis, corymbis paucifloris, pedicellis brevibus, calycibus tomentosis. Mich. Fl. Amer. Bor. 1. 288. Pursh Fl. Am. sept. 1. 336. Non Elliotti. C. virginica. Loddiges. Loudom Arboret. & Fruticet. Britann. p. 842. t. 560. C. vindis. Hort. There can be no doubt that this plant, the Crategus virginica of the Nurseries, is the real C. spathulata of Michaux, about which so little is known that it is altogether omitted from the Floras of Torrey, Hooker, and Beck, is introduced by name into Elliott's work on South Carolina without that author's being acquainted with the plant, was missed by Willdenow, and was unknown to De Candolle. Pursh merely repeats Michaux's character, but he adds that it occurs in dry woods near rivers in Virginia and Carolina, flowering in May and June, and having very large crooked thorns with small leaves. Mr. Loudon in his Arboretum Bri- tannicumf keeps the garden name virginica, considering * See folio 1161. | Tu di I gl i f the present opportunity of calling attention is + I gladly avail myself of the p anm Las et Dess, în which, as is usual in the writings of the indefatigable author, there is a most valuable mass of information, partly compiled, but also to a great extent original. C. microcarpa figured at folio 1846 of this work, as the true C. spathulata. A hardy bush, growing four or five feet high, and retaining its leaves late in the autumn. This species has very much the appearance of Cr. parvi- folia, from which it is essentially distinguished by its leaves being edged with strong dark glands, and by its large leafy stipules. The fruit is always green, even when ripe, is a little downy, and contains from five to six stones. Sub ly e. Ha AGI ‘ay SOG v ARA Ud) Dest EE? Era x y Ld e e ve Y y 1891 * LUPÍNUS latifolius. Broad-leaved Lupine. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Nat. ord. FABACE or LEGUMINOSA, § PAPILIONACER. LUPINUS.—Supra, vol. 13. fol. 1096. L. latifolius ; elatus, caule levissimo glabetrimo nitente, foliolis 5-7 (5-9) obovatis basi angustatis supra glaberrimis subtus sparsissimê piliferis, stipulis setaceis, bracteis corollam superantibus, floribus racemi valdè elongati longè pedunculati sparsis (et verticillatis) calycis ebracteolati sericei labiis subin- tegris, carina glabra. J. G. Agardh, Synops. gen. Lupint, p. 18. Caulis subprocumbens ramosus. Foliola sublucida, mucrone molli cus- pidata, Flores purpureo-violacei. Legumina brevia, vir unciam longa, obligue constricta, intăs isthmis nullis sed lanugine sparsd parcáque obducta. Semina nebulosa. , This Lupine has been described by Dr. J. G. Agardh, in the valuable little work above quoted, from a wild specimen communicated by me, and which had been collected in California, by Mr. Douglas. It is apparently distinct from both L. rivularis and L. littoralis, to which however it approaches | more nearly than to L. polyphyllus. It isa hardy perennial, flowering-in July and the two following months. In the work above referred to Dr. Agardh has described 76 certain species.of this pretty genus, besides adverting to 7 others of which little is known. Of the former 34 are in Mr. Douglas' collections. 4 a. | ì a | * See folio "T i 1 1892 * ARDÍSIA odontophylla. Tooth-leaved Ardisia. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. MYRSINACEZA. ARDISIA.—Suprà, vol. 7. fol. 533. A. odontophylla (Wallich Cat. no. 2279); foliis lanceolato-oblongis utrinque acutis longê petiolatis argutè dentatis puberulis, racemis axillaribus foliis multò brevioribus, pedicellis brevibus alternis ut pedicelli velutinis, lobis calycinis ovato-acutis ciliatis et puberulis, corolle profundè partite lobis ovato-acutis. Alph. De Cand. in Linn. Trans. vol. 17. p. 125. t. 6. A stove shrub, native of Bengal towards the Sylhet borders and about Gualpara, where it was found by Dr. Buchanan, and by Dr. Wallich's collectors. It was first introduced by Thomas Carey Palmer, Esq. of Bromley, by whom it was communicated -to Mr. Knight- of the King's Road, in whose hot-house the accompanying figure was made in July, 1834. Independently of its being, like all the Ardisias, à hand- some evergreen, this species is remarkable for its delicious fragrance. Its flowers are pale salmon colour, slightly streaked with red. * From ápdwc, the point of a weapon, in allusion to the sharp-pointed segments of the corolla. ul Ed / “ty 7 Rix adit 7 t t Uray VA, 7 4 CGU i Y AA E ; 1893 * ANTIRRHÍNUM glandulósum. Glandular Snapdragon. DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Nat. ord. SCROPHULARIACEE. ANTIRRHINUM L. Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla personata, tubo crasso vel elongato, basi saccato. Capsula 3 poris valvulatis, v. rarius 2 foraminibus irregularibus sub apice dehiscens. Chavannes Monogr. 74. A. glandulosum ; undique pilis capitatis subviscidis conspersum ; foliis alternis petiolatis angustè ovato-lanceolatis, racemo denso folioso, calycis lobis lineari-lanceolatis in&qualibus. Caulis bipedalis, erectus, ramosus, lete viridis, glandulis pilorum den- sissimorum rufescens. Folia subsucculenta, superne lucida, in spontaneá parva et ferê linearia. Racemus cylindraceus, terminalis, densissimus, brac- teis foliaceis longe ultra flores inferiores projicientibus. Flores solitarii brevi-pedunculati. Sepala lineari-lanceolata, tubo corolle duplo breviora, inequalia ; dorsali lateralibus longiore. Corolla tubo cylindraceo labioque superiore roseis, labio inferiore ochroleuco, basi unticè gibboso ; labii infe- rioris laciniis equalibus rotundatis. Stamina tubo equalia, filamentis basi oblique tortis et dilatatis inferiorum basi barbatis, superiorum pubescentibus ; antheris glaberrimis. Capsula immatura subrotundo-ovata, papyracea, pilosa ; maturam non vidi. This, if not a very pretty plant, is something of a geogra- phical curiosity, it being the first species of the genus Antirrhinum which has yet been found certainly wild in the New World; the specimens of A. orontium that have been met with in the United States, are believed to have been introduced from Europe. * The ávreppivoy of Theophrastus and Dioscorides was probably Antirrhinum Orontium. The name, which may be literally rendered Snoutwort, has obviously been derived from the appearance of the corolla, which resembles the snout of some animal. . Seeds of it were sent to the Horticultural Society from California by Mr. Douglas. The flowers were first produced in 1815; they appear in August and September, and conti- - hue to open in succession till the frosts come. The species is a quite hardy annual, and will grow in any soil; it ripens its seeds freely enough, Ya SS LD 7 Y d 1 a fo V Sol 7 e Ke y 7 v ibd, LE, 2, by LA Sidguray /O J A 1894 * YUCCA Draconis: Dragon-tree-leaved Adams Needle. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. LILIACEA. = YUCCA. —Suprà, vol. 20. fol. 1690. 1 Y. Draconis; arborescens, foliis laxê capitatis subreflexis ensiformibus acumi- natis marginé scabris, paniculis ramosis, perianthiis patentissimis. Y. Draconis. Haworth, Suppl. p. 33. 4 Romer $ Schult. Syst. veg. 7. 716. Elliott Fl. South Carol, 1. 401. 1 w What may be species and what varieties in this noble genus, it is in the present stat “of botanical information im- possible to say ; there is however but little doubt that the two plants which form the subject of this and the succeeding plate are really distinct. “This, which I presume is the Y. Draconis of Haworth and Elliott, at least, whatever it may be of others, is one of the most stately of the genus ; it grows along the sea-shore of Carolina, frequently intermixed with Yucca gloriosa, and flowers from May to August; it sometimes grows as much as 9-or 10 dhigh. “The great peculiarity by which it appearsto bè distinguished is the spreading | flowers, whose segments, instead. o! remáining closed in a globose manner as în most others, expand till they diverge from the flower- stalk at nearly a right angle. The drawing was made in the garden of the Horticul- tural Society, in July, 1835; and about the same time I received it from the Núrsery of the Messrs. Backhouse of York, with whom it had been growing in the open groùnd È 7 i Fá * See folio 1690. for some years. Mr. William Wood, who has the charge of the plant department in this extensive establishment, informs me that the main stem, clear of the leaves, was two feet long, and terminated in three clusters of leaves, from the centre of each of which rose a flower stem three feet high. The foliage, notwithstanding its stiffness, does not offend the eye, for the leaves gradually turn back as they grow old, till at last they form the graceful arrangement shewn in the accompanying figure. Nothing can be better adapted than these plants for orna- menting either artificial or natural masses of rock-work, precipitous banks, or other situations where the singular stems can be so much above the eye, as to form a bold and prominent object standing out in strong relief against the sky. They are hardy, perennial, and easily procured in the Nurseries. The Messrs. Backhouse find this, Y. rufo- cincta, recurvifolia, glaucescens, filamentosa, and others, quite capable of bearing the winter, even so far north as York. In the Garden of the Horticultural Society no weather seems to harm them. Mos Da 3 Misa D vate. Zu 7 LA PA y'a 7, Sub Du 4. CAPUA, 64 GR né ASL +. 1995 Ya Y vm » ay d LG AAA Uy Apto. d. ATE » Hals (x07 1895 * YUCCA flaccida. Weak-leaved Adam’s Needle. : HEXANDRIA MONOGY NIA. Nat. ord. LILIACEA. YUCCA,—Supra, vol. 20. fol. 1690. Y. flaccida ; folis omnibus valdé flaccidis tenuibus infra medium debiliter recurvo-dependentibus loratim longo-lanceolatis planis apice concavis mucronulatis undique asperiusculis, filis marginalibus validissimis fulvicanti- bus. Haworth, Suppl. p. 35. Römer et Schultes Syst. Veg. 7. 719. ., Acaulis, cespitosa, folis flaccidè recurvis, striatis, striarum jugis interrupte elevatis et hinc superficiem scabram reddentibus. Paniculee mul- tiflore, patentes, glaberrime. Flores ochroleuci rubore vix ullo nisi ipsis apicibus sepalorum, subglobosi. Petala sepalis duplô latiora. Filamenta pruinoso-pubescentia, stylo breviora. Of this the native country is unknown. It was first noticed in the Garden of Mr. Vere, of Kensington Gore, Where it had probably been raised from North American seed. It is a pretty and apparently distinct species, well marked by its thread-edged scabrous leaves, pallid flowers, and stemless habit. The drawing was made in July, 1835, in the Garden of the Horticultural Society, where the plant isa hardy ever- green perennial ; its flowers are over by the middle of August. It is readily multiplied by offsets, and like the rest of the genus thrives most in sandy soil, resembling that of the sea-shore, along which so many of the species are found wild in North America. These Yuccas would surely be “excellent plants for gar- dens on the sea-coast, and yet one never sees them there. —— * See fol. 1690. € 7586 pu 1896 * MYANTHUS deltoídeus. Triangular lipped Flywort. A GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA, Nat. ord. ORcHIDACE®;*$ VANDER. . MYANTHUS.—Supra, vol. 18. fol. 1538. M. deltoideus ; labello imberbi sagittato triangulari, angulis posticis rotundatis dentatis apice dilatato calloso margine recurvo basi tuberculato. Planta omninò facie M. cernui; foliis quodammodò latioribus. Rachis purpurascens, angulata. Bractez . Ld ie membranacee, acuminulate. Petala et Sepala subequalia, lineari-lanteolata, virescentia, purpureo-macu- lata et interruptè fasciata» Labellum sepalis duplò brevius, versus basin saccatum, planum, carnosum, atro-purpureum, disco virescente, tuberculo unico oblongo pone basin, et callo virescente ad apicem. Cetera M. cernui. This makes the fourth species..of the present curious genus, and in all probability many more will be added. It is a native of trees in the neighbourhood of the great waterfall of the Demerara river, where it was found by Mr. Joseph Hubbard, who sent it to his friend Mr. Booker of Liverpool, by whom it was presented to Richard Harrison, Esq. of Aighburgh. ..To the latter gentleman I am indebted for the fine specimen from which the accompanying drawing was made in October, 1835. Its distinction from the other species resides in its lip, which has none of the fringe-like hairs of M. barbatus and cristatus, but is flat, of a thick fleshy consistence, and of a rich purple colour with a dash of green on its centre; its figure is arrow-headed, with the barbs rounded off and ser- rated, and the point a little dilated with the edges reflexed. * See folio 1721. VOL. XXIT. ee UM i When the third part of the Genera and Species of Orchi- deous Plants was published in 1833, I was only acquainted with Myanthus cernuus, and cristatus, the latter of which I considered a Catasetum, and the former as the only genuine species of the genus; to a certain degree mistaking the real generic character of Myanthus, in consequence of the imperfect materials of which only I was then in possession. Now however that four species are known in a living state, it has become necessary to alter the original character” of the genus so as to include Catasetum cristatum. This I think is more advisable than to combine Myanthus with Catasetum, as my learned friend Sir William Hooker has recommended (Bot. Mag. fol. 3514). If the latter measure were to be adopted it would be equally necessary to suppress the genera Monachanthus, Mormodes, Cyenoches, &c. the effect of which would be to form a heterogeneous collection of species, the principal combining character of which would reside in the peculiar succulent stems. As the genera now stand they have each a clear distinction, and each already possesses as many species as are usually assembled under newly discovered types of structure; Myanthus has already 4, Cycnoches 2, Monachanthus 2, Catasetum 5; and Mormodes is the only one that comprehends only a solitary species. Like the rest of its allies a tender stove plant. 1897 * CRATAGUS Arónia. The Aronia Thorn. ICOSANDRIA MONO-PENTAGYNIA. Nat. ord. RosacEz, Subord. POMES. CRATZGUS.—Supra, vol. 13. fol, 1128. C. Aronia; subinermis ramulis tomentosis, foliis cuneatis pinnatifidis trifidisque laciniis latis linearibus apice sub-incisis supra lucidis subtus glabriusculis glaucescentibus, corymbis subsessilibus, fructibus (armeniacis) subangulatis dipyrenis, putamine crassissimo, ae | i Mespilus Aronia. Willd. enum. Suppl. Cr. Aronia. Dec. Prodr. 2. 629.. Loudon Arb. Britann. p. 827. fig. 593. Mespilus orientalis apii folio subtus hirsuto Pocock. Travels in the East, '189. t. 85. fide Willd. Arbor mediocris, comà conicá subapertá, ramis rigidis, nullo modo flexuosis. Folia formå variant ut in omnibus ferê speciebus mos est ; semper tamen circumscriptionem habent cuneatam ; tridentata sunt, trifida, pin- natifidaque, laciniis integerrimis emarginatis incisisque ; facie superiore . sepius glabrescunt, subtus pube quádam pagina obducitur. Flores alb speciosi. Said to be a native of the Levant, I presume upon the authority of Pococke's Travels, which I have not at hand to consult. Specimens from Grammont near Montpellier are before me, and they are considered wild by Professor Delile, who gathered them. This I suspect is the species which yields the fruit called at Montpellier Pommettes à deux closes, and not C. Azarolus. , 4 It is very near C. Azarolus, of which indeed it might be considered a mere variety, if it were not so much more hardy, nearly destitute of pubescence, and constantly furnished with t * See folio 1161. M2 two stones in its fruit; in the true Azarole there are five, according to Scopoli. i The tree of C. Aronia is, next to C. maroccana and hete- rophylla, the largest and most like timber of all the thorns. It grows very fast, makes a handsome head, and on account of the great quantity of apricot-coloured fruit with which it is loaded, is a suitable ornament for lawns and grass in pleasure grounds. This plant furnishes a whimsical illustration of the blun- ders sometimes made by careless compilers. It is supposed to be the plant described and figured in Dr. Pococke’s Tra- vels in the East; these are quoted by Willdenow thus, Pock. orient. ; De Candolle copying this author prints Pocock. er., the c in cr being substituted for o by a typographical error ; a modern writer copying De Candolle, and knowing nothing about Dr. Pococke, quotes him thus, Pococke Crategi; thus making that learned Orientalist the author of a monograph on the genus Crategus ! SLUT a 7595. | Piccadilly Debe. V. AT. Y 1898 * EPIDENDRUM emulum. Emulous Epidendrum. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. ord. OrcHIDAcEX, $ EPIDENDREE. EPIDENDRUM.—Supra, vol. 1. fol. 17. § 1. Foliis in pseudobulbos insidentibus. E. emulum ; rhizomate repente, pseudobulbis ovalibus compressis, foliis soli- tariis oblongo-lanceolatis coriaceis, sepalis petalisque lineari-lanceolatis zequalibus patentibus, labello subrotundo mucronato cochleato lineato inte- gerrimo, racemo paucifloro. ; Rhizoma pennam anserinam crassum, repens, apice squamis membra- naceis deciduis vestitum. Pseudobulbi 2 poll. longi, glabri, rugosi, oblongi, compressi. Racemus 3-4-florus, folii longitudine. Flores E. fragranti simillimi, sed-3-plò minores ; petala non sepalis latiora, et labellum mu- cronatum nec cuspidatum. A very rare little plant, closely allied to the variable . E. fragrans, from which it is distinguished by its pseudo- bulbs being very exactly oval, and not tapered to each end, by its more leathery less acuminate leaves, and very much smaller flowers, the petals of which are the same width as the sepals. A native of Para, whence it was sent by Mr. Hesketh, the English Consul, to Richard Harrison, Esq. who favoured me with a specimen in February, 1834. A tender stove species. * See folio 1415. 1899 * PENTSTÉMON heterophyllum. Various-leaved Pentstemon. DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Nat. ord. ScROPHULARIACEZ. PENTSTEMON.—Suprà, vol. 13. fol. 1131. P. heterophyllum ; foliis glaucescentibus integerrimis inferioribus lineari-lanceo- latis superioribus linearibus, racemo virgato, sepalis ovatis acuminatis,’ corollis ventricosis imberbibus, stamine sterili glabro, antheris sagittatis apice fimbriatis. 4 Caulis 14-2-pedalis, virgatus, glaucescens, basi purpureus. Folia ¡sub- coriacea, obtusa, vir unquam serrulata. Corolle late purpuree, glaber- rime, fere 13 unciam longe; ventricose, laciniis labii superioris oblique rotundatis, inferioris intermediá lateralibus paulo angustiore. Pedicelli. supra medium bibracteati. | Filamentum sterile album, glaberrimum, sub- emarginatum. E A native of California, where the seeds were collected by Mr. Douglas. It is a hardy herbaceous plant, pro agated by cuttings as well as seeds, and flowering from June to October. The stems are rather woody, and if not supported artificially fall upon the ground, and throw out a number of lateral shoots. The upper part of the plant is somet leaves so narrów as to be almost linear; the lower has x of an oblong lanceolate form; so that a person er the circumstance would be apt to mistake portions of the same individual for different species” ^ Drawn in the garden of the Horticultural Society, where the plant grows in common garden.soil. imes furnished with _ * See fol. 1245. 7900 1900 ^ ESCALLONIA illinita. Varnished Escallonia. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. ESCALLONIACER, ESCALLONIA. L. Calycis tubus hemisphericus, ovario adnatus, ” limbus epigynus quinquedentatus. Petala 5, annulo epigyno inserta. Stamina 5, cum petalis inserta, iisdem alterna. Capsula bilocularis, a basi versus apicem septicidê dehiscens. ~ Semina plurima, placentis in utroque loculo geminis, e columella centrali filiformi ortis affixa, scrobiculata. Albumen carnosum, copiosum. Embryo orthotropus, axilis. Poppig et Endlicher Nov. gen. et sp. 1. 8. Po ti: Cm, Fig” è É k di LA pe EP ARTE PP EE, enr uet sto E. illinita; folis oblongo-lanceolatis serrulatis viscosis vernicosis, corymbis subtrifloris racemosis, disco epigyno hemisphzerico. E. illinita. Presl. Relig. Henk. vol. 2. p. 49. t. 59. Hooker et Arnott in Bot. Miscell. 3.843. > EP Frutex sempervirens, dumosus, undique vernice obductus, odorem gravem Meliloti aut Fani Greci spirans. Rami vernicis acervulis papillosi. Folia pallide viridia, nunc tantăm lucida, nunc vernicem nitidissimam ex punctis numerosissimis exsudantia. Racemi terminales, corymbis constantes pluribus alternis trifloris bractea parva foliacea 'suffultis. Flores albidi, subvires- centes. Calyx limbo campanulato truncato, dentibus 5, subulatis. Petala 5, distincta. Stamina 5, petalis alterna et pauld breviora. Discus epigynus flavus, hemisphericus, areolis 10 «PI subdepressis circa verticem. Ovarium biloculare, polyspermum = FT. i qe T Să Es FT Er This is by far the most hardy of the many species of Escallonia at present in our gardens, and is not unlikely to become a common evergreen. If this should prove so, the pale green of the leaves, their vam shed appearance, and the peculiar habit of the plant, wi render it a valuable ornamental species, notwithstanding | its greenish white flowers. PX b A * See folio 1467. ho It is a native of the mountains of Chili; the late Dr. Gillies met with it at El Arroyo de los Lunes, and Valle del Rio Tinguirica; and a supposed variety at La Siente Vieja and La Cuesta de Chacabuco; Bridges found the latter at La Laguna, near Valparaiso. Flowers in August and September; and readily enough multiplied by cuttings. The figure was made in the garden of the Horticultural Society. The whole plant emits a powerful odour, which to some persons is highly disagreeable, appearing to them to resemble the smell of swine; to me it seems less unpleasant, and much more like the odour of Melilot or Fenugreek. The most showy plant of this kind is the Escallonia Mon- tevidensi3, which is also nearly hardy. That species is usually covered with hundreds of hemispherical heads of clear white flowers, over which countless insects keep up a busy hum, as they spring from blossom to blossom in search of the rich store of honey concealed within the recesses of the calyx-cup. As one looks at these creatures enlivened by the warmth of a bright sunny day, one cannot but admire the exquisite beauty of the ball room that nature thus pro- vides for an insect festival. $ . The disk of this species does not surround the base of the style in the form of a cup, but adheres to it in the form of a solid yellow cone. I do not know whether such a dis- tinction is of more than specific value. 1907. = SS N Au (MA v fff TAM A x 2 A x 74 % Y ow. LH A v e É 1901 * SCAPHYGLÓTTIS violácea. Violet Boatlip. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. ord. ORcHIDACEA, $ VANDER. SCAPHYGLOTTIS. Pöppig et Endlicher Nova Genera et Species Plantarum, 1. 58. Sepala conniventia, lateralia basi paulo producta cum pede column connata labello supposita, supremum lineare convexum. Petala con- formia sed paulo breviora. Labellum oblongum canaliculatum cum pede paulu- lum producto columnz continuum eique in parallelum, margine leviter repandum. Columna marginata. Pollinia 4. teretia, glandulam cuneatam sessilia.—— Herbz epiphyte, caulescentes, nunc pseudobulbose in axillis. Folia coriacea, angusta. Flores parvi, axillares, pedunculis dense vaginatis. S. violacea; pseudobulbis nullis, foliis linearibus apice emarginatis, floribus subgeminis, labello lineari apiculato leviter repando. Cladobium violaceum. Lindl. Nat. syst. of Botany, p. 446. Caules teretes, striati, articulati, verosimiliter penduli, ad nodos proli- feri. Folia 2-3 poll. longa, linearia v. lineari-lanceolata, emarginata, fortê im pseudobulbos insidentia dum planta vegetior pullulat. Flores minuti, violacei, pedunculis dense vaginatis brevissimis, geminati. Sepala lateralia basi producta et obliqua, supremo lineari duplo latiora. Petala supremo conformia, sed paulo breviora et minis colorata. Labellum album, cum basi leviter producto columne, continuum, carnosum, canaliculatum, lineare, apiculatum, apice purpurascens, margine leviter repandum ideoque subtrilo- bum. Columna semiteres, alba, apice utrinque unidentata. Pollinia 4, dis- tincta, teretia, in glandulam triangularem sessilia. . A native of Demerara, whence it was imported by Messrs. Loddiges. It is not a species of any beauty, but it is a great Botanical rarity, flowering in the Orchideous stove in February. * Exapos a boat, and yAwrra a tongue, in allusion to the usual form of the labellum. - It- constitutes, along with some other South American plants with a similar habit, a genus representing among Vandeze Isochilus in the Epidendreous section ; and distinctly characterized by its flowers having the calyx and corolla of Specklinia, combined with pollen masses of a very unusual structure. When four pollen masses are combined in pairs, they are usually pressed so close together that the one is flattened against the other, and they seem as if in reality each pair were produced by the slitting of one; in this genus, on the contrary, each mass is rounded and separate from its neighbours. When I published this plant in the work above quoted, under the name of Cladobium violaceum, I had not seen the late parts of Póppig and Endlicher's Nova genera, which ap- peared in the end of 1835; and consequently I was unaware of the genus having been already named Scaphyglottis in that work. Perhaps as the name Cladobium was in circu- lation, from me, so long since as February, 1835, I might on that ground set up a claim to priority, and preserve it; but as Mr. Pöppig has described several species, -1 think the interests of science will be best consulted by cancelling Cladobium and adopting Scaphyglottis. Of the dissections, 1. is an entire flower seen in profile and magnified ; 2. is a side view of the column and lip; 3. a view of the lip from above; 4. a set of pollen masses with their gland. | | 190% i eme = VARI, A e rale del. WAT 1902 * CYTISUS eólicus. ZEolian Cytisus. " DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Nat. ord. FABACEZ or LEGUMINOSA; S PAPILIONACER. CYTISUS.—Supra, vol. 2. fol. 121. Sect. 2. LamunNuM. Calyx campanulatus. Legumina polysperma ad suturam superiorem mon dilatata.— Flores flavi. Rami inermes foliosi. DC. C. eolicus; ramis teretibus foliisque incanis, foliolis ovalibus tomento marginatis, floribus ternis subebracteatis racemosis, calycibus membranaceis campanu- _ latis pubescentibus 3, leguminibus glabris. C. &olicus. Gussone ined. Frutex elatus. Rami pilis mollibus patentibus hirsuti. Folia ternata, incana; foliolis anguste ovalibus, subsessilibus, petiolo longioribus, tomento marginatis. Racemi terminales, breves, flexuosi, rachi tomentosd. Flores lutei, geminati ternatique, pedicellis calyce longioribus, pubescentibus. Calyx campanulatus membranaceus, pubescens, bilabiatus : labio superiore 2-dentato inferiore ovato integerrimo. Vexillum oblongum, obtusum, alis longius marginibus reflexis. Carina basi pubescens, unguibus linearibus an- gustissimis. Stamina monadelpha, antheris alternis minoribus. Legumina Juniora glabra. « From the seed of a plant marked Cytisus eolicus in the garden of Professor Tenore, at Naples, and said to be a new species discovered in Stromboli by Professor Gussone, this plant was raised by the Honourable W. F. Strangways, in his curious garden at Abbotsbury 1n. Dorsetshire. It flowered there this year for the first time in England, and specimens were given me in May of the present year; it 18 expected that the blossoms will become handsomer and more copious as it grows older. * See fol. 1191. The climate of Stromboli does not hold out much pros- pect of this plant being hardy enough to bear English winters, without some kind of protection ; -I do not however anticipate any difficulty in preserving it against a wall on a well drained border. In foliage it bears a striking resemblance to C. proli- ferus, but its flowers are altogether different. Its real affinity seems to be with C. triflorus, from which it differs in being a much larger and more woody plant, with terminal racemes of flowers, in its larger, deeper and more distinctly campa- nulate calyx, and smooth, not hairy pods. It seems as if - it were an intermediate species between C. Laburnum and C. triflorus. 1908. apt Ay © a vi 3 V dva, “4, Qmm N è dl 7 raf e 189 Broadly At. 1 1836 LS. Ridgway (0G Ficcaditty VAL TIO. : P v v v 1903 * LAPEYRÓUSIA ánceps. Two-edged Lapeyrousia. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. IRIDACEA. LAPEYROUSIA. Pourr.—Perianthium hypocrateriforme ; tubo lon- gissimo gracili; limbo sexpartito subregulari. Stamina 3, tubo superné in- serta. Stylus filiformis ; stigmata 3, gracilia, bifida, patentia. Capsula mem- branacea, triangularis. Semina numerosa, triquetra (spheerica). Dietrich. L. anceps; caule folioso ancipiti angulis dentatis, foliis ensiformibus rectis, bracteis cucullatis subcrispis foliosis, laciniis limbi subspathulatis. Gladiolus anceps. Thunb. dissert. no. 17. t. 2. f. 3. Gladiolus denticulatus. Lamark illustr. 1. 118. Ixia Fabricii. De la Roche dissert. p. 18. no. 5. Ixia Lapeyrousia. Gmelin syst. veg. 108. Ixia pyramidalis. Lamark Enc. Meth. 2. 334. IMustr. 1. 109. Lapeyrousia compressa. Pourr. act. tolos. 3. t. 6. Lapeyrousia anceps. Ker. Ann. Bot. 1. 238. Ovieda anceps. Spreng. syst. 1. 147. Meristostigma anceps. . Dietr. Sp. plant. vol. 2. 596. Flores albi, odoratissimi. Ovarium triloculare, polyspermum, ovulis serie duplici affixis, horizontalibus. Stylus filiformis; stigmata 3, bipartita, - Jiliformia, equalia. Capsula membranacea, obcordata, triquetra, corrugata, pisi marimi magnitudine; semina spherica, minutissime papillosa, testà papyraced, raphe tenui simplici, chalazà carnosá depressd. Embryo teres, albus, in axi albuminis cornei. x An uncommon, though long known, Cape plant, having nothing to boast of in point of rich colouring or fantastical structure, but with a pretty modest aspect and a delicate delightful perfume. It is usually cultivated in a greenhouse, but will thrive perfectly in a cold frame, well drained in winter, and ex- * Named in compliment to Mons. Picot de la Peyrouse, author of figures of Pyrenean Plants, and a short history of the Pyrenean Flora. posed to the warm and bright south in summer. It then flowers in June and July, and ripens its seeds about October. The figure was taken from a plant in the possession of John Rogers, Esq. jun. of Streatham. Fig. 1. is a view of the vertical section of the ovary; 2. is a transverse section of the same; 3. shews the stigmas and point of the styles. 7004.. A Walls. rt. El PARAS să A N S (RR N t ey ta CN È > x t Ow SS A SS te. EN) N u N I CAS Ex R N da X c» us > s | 1904 * IONOPSIS ténera. Delicate Ionopsis. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. ' Nat. ord. OrcHIDAcEA, $ VANDEA. IONOPSIS, Kunth. — Perianthium clausum. Sepala lateralia basi approximata, (v. connata) cum basi labelli connata. Petala ur conformia. Labellum sepalis multò majus, basi saccatum, ungue bicalloso columná parallelo, laminà explanatà patente bilobà. Columna erecta, aptera, semiteres, rostello rostrato. Anthera 1-locularis rostrata. Pollinia 2, posticè sulcata, caudiculá lineari inclusá, glandulá obovatã.— — Herbee epiphyte, acaules. Folia coriacea. | o paniculati, vaginati. Flores parvi, pallidi. Lindl. Gen. € Sp. rch, 193. I. tenera ; foliis carinatis acuminatis, scapo subsimplici, sepalis acutis lateralibus liberis labello cuneato obliqué truncato bilobo crenulato duplò brevioribus. The species of this genus are but little known. It is seldom that they appear in gardens, in consequence of the difficulty attending their preser- vation on shipboard, and when imported they are difficult to manage and soon are lost. In their native woods they grow upon the smaller branches oftrees, or upon dead sticks, which their white slender delicate roots quickly overspread. When cultivated they require all the aid ofa hot and damp stove. Materials to illustrate this genus are so uncommon, that there is much difficulty in ascertaining what species it contains. I think, however, four may be safely characterized, exclusively of I. pulchella and testiculata. The first of these is figured in the Collectanea Botanica, under the name of I. utricularioides ; it is a smaller plant in all respects than the other three, has a panicled scape; and its labellum is not much lon er than the sepals, which are acute; a second is Sir William Hooker's Tantha palli- diflora, which has a large lip with a little Fs at its margin, and extremely obtuse er? and petals. The third is that now repre- sented, which differs from I. pallidiflora in its sepals being acute, and its pera * Literally Violet-faced ; «o» a violet and ope look ; why so named 1 do not ow. rd VOL. XXII. e] N leaves sharp-pointed and carinate, without any intermediate tooth between the lobes of the lip. The fourth is a very remarkable species, with which I am acquainted through an extensive unpublished collection of excellent water-colour drawings, by Mons. Descourtilz, of Brazilian Orchideous plants, obligingly lent me by Baron Delessert. This species has purple panicled scapes a foot and half long, bending gracefully beneath the weight of the delicate snow-white flowers. It was found in the ancient forests of Brazil, in the province of St. Paul. M. Descourtilz mentions a variety of it with flowers of a delicate and pure rose colour. ‘Son inflores- cence,” he says, “a lieu dans les mois de Septembre et d’ Octobre, et se prolonge jusqu'en Mars sans que les fleurs se fanent ; elles sont inodores.” The systematic characters of these species are given below. For the following note, and the drawing of the accompanying plate, I have to thank Mr. Booth, the very intelligent gardener of Sir Charles Lemon, Bart. _“ This elegant little plant flowered in May last, in Sir Charles Lemon's collection at Carclew, to which it was presented by Captain Sutton, of Flushing, near Falmouth, who brought it from Havannah in March, 1835.” “ Pseudo-bulbs, very small and nearly hidden by the leaves, oval, deep green. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, of a brownish green colour, striated, sheathing at the base, thick and fleshy, from 2 to 4 inches long, and about half an inch broad, slightly carinate, and tapering to a narrow point. Scape produced from the bottom of the small pseudo-bulb, and rising from 8 to 10 inches high; jointed, round and slender, nearly erect, of a pale brownish green, bearing a number of delicately marked flowers arranged alternately in a loose sort of panicle. Sepals very small and thin, closely laid over the petals which they resemble in colour, but are rather shorter and more acuminate. Petals oblong, rounded at the edge, concealing the column. Labellum large, and spreading, two-lobed, almost obcordate, with a spur at the base, of a pale pinkish colour, beautifully marked with bright violet-coloured veins, darkest towards the claw, which has two, raised, fleshy, yellow appendages, parallel to, and about twice the length of, the column: the latter is pale green and roundish oblong.” I. utricularioides (Collect. Bot. t. 39. A.) foliis carinatis acuminatis, scapo ramoso, sepalis acutis lateralibus liberis, labello cuneato oblique truncato bilobo integerrimo. Labellum sepalis dimidio tantum longius. Flores minimi in genere. Ins. Trinitatis. I. pallidiflora (Iantha pallidiflora, Hooker Exot. Fl. t. 113.) foliis linearibus obtusis planiusculis, scapo subsimplici, sepalis obtusissimis lateralibus liberis labello cuneato obliqué truncato bilobo cuspidulato crenulato duplo brevioribus. Ins. Trinitatis. a 1. paniculata (Epidendre paniculé, Descourtilz Epidendr. Bras. ined. in bibl. Delessert t. 54.) foliis lineari-lanceolatis carinatis, scapo ramosissimo, Se acutis lateralibus ultra medium connatis labello obcordato apiculato plano integerrimo duplò brevioribus. Flores majores quam in I. tenera, albi. Labellum medio purpureo lineatum, basi flavum. Variat floribus roseis. —— In sylvis primeevis Brasilie, prov. Si. Pauli, | / G £^. mo! | — À * 1905 * RONDELETIA odoráta. 7 Sweet-scented Rondeletia. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. CINCHONACEE. RONDELETIA, Plum.—Calycis tubus subglobosus, limbus 4-5-parti- tus, lobis oblongis linearibusve acutis persistentibus. Cor. tubo cylindrico vix apice subventricoso, limbo patente 4-5-lobo, lobis subrotundis ; anthere 4-5, in apice tubi incluse, sessiles. Stigma bifidum. Capsula globosa, calyce coro- nata, bilocularis, ex apice dehiscens in valvulas 2, seepids apice fissas, undê seepé 4-valvis videtur, nunc loculicido-rariăs septicido-dehiscens. Placente centrales. Semina plurima, minima, ovato-angulata, seepé 2 tantüm in loculo maturescentia. — Arbusculs aut frutices omnes ex Americd. Folia plùs minis petiolata aut subsessilia. Stipule deltoideg aut lanceolato-lineares, utrinque solitarie, indivise, interdüm intüs hirsute. Pedunculi azillares, sepiüs trichotomi, interdùm in paniculam corymbosam terminalem dispositi, raris tri- imo unt- flori. DC. prodr. 4. 406. R. odorata ; foliis vix petiolatis ovatis aut subcordatis acutiusculis, suprà sparsè scabris, subtus pallidioribus in nervis tantum scabris, corymbis terminalibus. D, €, 1. c R. odorata. Jacq. Amer. t. 42. p. 59. Linn. Sp. 1671. R. coccinea. Quorundam. R. speciosa. Hort. | Obs. Os corolla cyatho brevi integro munitum, characterem dat aucto- ribus recentioribus pretervisum. The accompanying drawing was made in the hothouse of Messrs. Loddiges, in December, 1834. The plant more usually flowers three months earlier ; it requires to be kept in a stove, and by no means-exposed to cold even in the ERREI. s N | * « So named by Plumier after Guillaume Rondelet, à physician and m ralist, bom in 1507, died in 1566. He is principally known for his works în Alge and Fishes. Rabelais ridiculed him under the name of Rondibilis. He is accused of having given a horrible proof of his love for anatomy, in dissecting his own son.” — De Theis. N 2 Jacquin, who found it in the Havanna, on bush-covered rocks near the sea, and sometimes growing upon the naked rock itself, describes it as an inelegant straggling shrub about six feet high. He says the bright vermilion coloured flowers are as sweet-scented as violets; a property however which exists in only a slight degree in the cultivated plant. It is usually known in gardens by the erroneous name of Rondeletia speciosa. /900. i yi} way Her’, 3 6 y A hrs) E Y/ 78 7 71094 a y SAP G5 in ds Cca till, Mar. [OJO DU A. STOP UU (VU FACCIA AIG. Ov + i > pa e TÁ 1906 * EPIMEDIUM macránthum. Large-flowered Epimedium. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. BERBERACE £. EPIMEDIUM, L.—Sepala 4, discolora, petalis opposita. Petala 8, colorata; exteriora simplicia ; interiora calcarata. Stamina 4, petalis interioribus opposita. Capsula siliculeeformis, polysperma. Herbe perennes, folüs radicalibus compositis, foliolis serrato-aristatis. po die É e T .. E. macranthum ; foliis triternatis, foliolis cordatis ovatis, petiolis pilosis, racemis multifloris, sepalis linearibus obtusis, petalis ovato-lanceolatis exterioribus quam interiorum calcaria duplò brevioribus. si ; E. macranthum. Morren $ Decaisne Ann. des Sc. ser. II. 2.352. t. 13. A very pretty sweet-scented species, remarkable for the large size of its pale violet flowers. It has been amply de- scribed by Messrs. Morren and Decaisne, from plants that flowered in the garden of the University of Ghent; where it forms one out of one hundred and sixty species of Japanese plants brought to Europe alive by Dr. von Siebold. This is by far the most considerable importation from Japan that has yet been made, and its results have been so satisfactory as to lead us to hope that the Dutch may be the means of bringing us acquainted with a larger portion of the beautiful plants of that most singular country. The drawing of this species was made in April last, from a plant in the possession of Mr. Osborne/of the Fulham Nur- sery. It is no doubt quite hardy, and is well worth the . * An old name, supposed to be derived from Média, where the plant to which it belonged was reported to grow; that plant does not however appear to have had any resemblance to the Epimedium of modern writers. notice of all lovers of pretty and curious plants. Two more species of the same genus, E. violaceum and Musschianum, are in the garden of Ghent. The Epimedium alpinum is common in Botanical gardens, but its dusky brown flowers are so small as to escape notice ; it is reputed to be a wild British plant, but Messrs. Morren and Decaisne are of opinion that it is merely an outcast from gardens, and that it is not really wild north of the Maritime Alps in 44° y. lat. The dissections at the bottom of the plate represent, fig. 1. one of the innermost petals, or nectaries as they are usually called, with a stamen growing just in the mouth of its cavity ; 2. a stamen with the valves of its anthers turning backwards; 3. a pistil; 4. a section of its ovary, shewing how the ovules grow in two rows to an elevated placenta ; I do not find them in three rows as described and figured by the learned Bota- nists above quoted. D AAA AA uc 190] Fa Gigi E D 1907 * ASPASIA variegata. ~ ~ Variegated Aspasia. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. ord. ORcHIDACER, $ VANDER. = ASPASIA. Lindl. — Perianthium patens, quale. | Sepala lateralia ” libera; supremum cum petalis basi et dorso columns connatum. Labellum ob- longum, concavum, ecalcaratum; obsoletè 4-lobum, cum “columna semi-connatum. Columna labello parallela, semiteres, marginata. Anthera bilocularis. ;, Pol- linia 2, pyriformia, posticè sulcata, caudieulä plana cuneatà, glandulà parva. Herbe epiphyte, caulescentes, pseudobulbose. Folia subcoriacea. Spice _ radicales, breves | .- x i sê A. variegata ; pseudobulbis oblongis ancipitibus, sepalis lineari-oblongis petalis- que subrhomboideis acutis, labelli lobis lateralibus recurvis intermedioque carnosis serratis. i di Bracte® ovate, cucullate, herbacee, coriacee. Sepala coriacea; herbacea, sanguineo fasciata. Petala herbacea luteo-marginata, sanguineo interruptè striata, cum basi sepali supremi connata ideoque obliquè inserta. La ellum carnosum, serratum, album, violaceo-maculatum, basi limbi bicallosum. Pollinia pyriformia, posticè sulcata caudiculá simpliei inserta. . A native of the tropical part of South America. I re- ceived specimens, of it for the first time from Mr. Joseph Knight of the King's Road, in February, 1836, and subse- quently from Mr. Bateman. The flowers are deliciously sweet in the morning. It will probably prove a plant of easy cultivation, and if so it will deserve to be in every collection. A^ ‘ke A. epidendroides, for which, In most respects it is very like À. epice I had mistaken before I carefully examine it for publication, . * From aoralopal I embrace, in allusion to the manner in which the column is embraced by the labellum. ~~ *. S > it. There are however some essential differences between them, especially in the form of the labellum, and in the far greater degree of obliquity in the insertion of the back sepal in A. epidendroides ; it is moreover probable from the dried specimens of the latter that its flowers are whole coloured ; I have subjoined a character by which it may be distin- guished. In the same collection of unpublished drawings, belong- ing to Baron Delessert, to which I have already referred (fol. 1904), there is a figure of a third species of this genus. It has oblong smooth not two-edged pseudo-bulbs, solitary much larger scentless flowers, of which the sepals and petals are yellowish green blotched with crimson, and the lip and colimn pure white, with a faint purplish crescent-shaped stain in the middle of the lip. M. Descourtilz found it on the Cedrela in Brazil, in the district of Bananal. A variety of it is mentioned by him with a pale lilac lip, the stain on which is deep violet. He also represents the pollen masses as each furnished with a separate caudicula ; if this is correct it will be an additional reason for doubting how far that character is of importance in distinguishing Cons. Of the dissections in the accompanying plate that in the centre represents a magnified view of the column and the base of the labellum ; the other the pollen masses with their caudicle and gland seen from behind. A. epidendroides (Gen. & Sp. Orch. p. 139); pseudobulbis oblongis ancipi- tibus, sepalis lineari-oblongis acutis, petalis obtusis concavis, labelli lobis lateralibus rotundatis integerrimis, intermedio crenulato emarginato. Pa- nama and Columbia occidentalis. A. lunata ; pseudobulbis oblongis compressis levibus, sepalis petalisque linea- ribus obtusis patentissimis, labelli lobis lateralibus nanis intermedio plano sub- quadrato undulato, floribus solitariis. Brazilia. Sepala et petala luteo- viridia, sanguineo-maculata. Labellum album maculà lunatà in medio. Flores inodori. IE. 1908 * CRASPÉDIA glauca. Glaucous Craspedia. SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA ZQUALIS. Nat. ord. ComposiTta CoRYMBIFERE, or ÁSTERACER. CRASPEDIA, Forst.— Capitulum circiter 5-florum. Rachis bracteo- lata. Pappus uniserialis, plumosus. Herba glabrata, Australasica, erecta, simplicissima, monocephala, foliis oblongo-obovatis, foliolis integris scariosis. Lessing Gen. Compos. 271. j Craspedia glauca. Spreng; syst. 3. 441. [V MT Richea glauca. Labillard. Fl. Nov. Holl. de: y Herba perennis, glaucescens, pilis quibusdam sparsis, teláque rará araneosá vestita. Folia lineari-lanceolata, acuminata, subdecurrentia. Caulis in planta culta foliosus, in spontanea subaphyllus ; semper monoce- phalus. Capitulum compositum, sphericum, foliolis ovatis acutis involucra- tum ; partialia 5-9-flora, pariter involucrata, sed foliolis interioribus invo- lucelli membranaceis scariosis. Receptaculum planiusculum, squamis ser- ratis membranaceis corollis brevioribus munitum. Pappus basi annularis, in setis sedecim plumosis divisus corolle longitudine. Corolla infundibularis, lutea. Antheree caudata./ Stylus basi bulbosus, brachiis truncatis canali- culatis, apice pulvinatim dilatatis. y Lx Å o À curios, hetbaceot plan found in. Van Diemen’s Land, whence it was sent by r. James Backhouse: to his brother, in whose Nursery at y / Lain in April last. It will no doubt be liardy in the warmer parts of Great- Britain, but had better be kept in a frame in other places. The ample dissections in the accompanying plate give a correct idea of its- structure. | Each of the round yellow heads is composed ‘of sev smaller heads; and the invo- lucre consists principally external leaflets of the small 2i tT T $ i - T t i f * Said to be do cali a from xpaotedov chines, in allusion, | presume, to the feathery pappus./ heads. Each smaller head (fig. 1.) consists of from 5 to 9 florets, surrounded by ovate rather serrated leaflets, all of which, except the most exterior one, are white and mem- branous. The florets (fig. 2.) arise from the axil of each leaflet, and have a feathery pappus (fig. 4.) cup-shaped at its base, and then divided into 16 rays. The corolla (fig. 5.) has rather a funnel-shaped figure; the anthers have each two bristles at the base (fig. 3.); and the style, which is bulbous at the base is divided at the apex into two linear furrowed arms, each of which is terminated by a cushion-shaped dilatation. ER N 7909. A é D 7 $ Es y £^ Qe, / 3 "s RET JONES VBA GR sy r " 927 CUAL. FE. LUAS! Ly ¿Es liag AY (VA Sian Alu À QUA | TELE. Y E ps T / y 1909 * CLINTÓNIA pulchélla. Pretty Clintonia. SYNGENESIA MONOGAMIA, Nat. ord. LOBELIACER. CLINTONIA.—Supra, vol. 15. fol. 1241. C. pulchella ; foliis sepalisque obtusis, corolla laciniis superioribus ovatis acutis divaricatis labelli laciniá intermedia productiore; LE: I figure this little plant more for the sake of recording its existence, than from any expectation that it will ever become an object of horticultural interest; for since C. elegans, a far hardier and more cultivable plant, has disappeared, there can be little hope that this, beautiful as it is, will be preserved. It only exists at present inthe Garden of the Horticultural Society, where it was sent from California by Mr. Douglas. It is there treated as a tender annual, and every year a small number. of tiny-plants, not at all bigger than those now represented, have been raised from the very few seeds ripened the previous year. It has been usually grown in a flower- pot. 2 The wild Californian specimens shew this to be a much smaller plant, even wild, than C. elegans ; from which it differs in its leaves being more obtuse, and its flowers, which are twice as large, having the upper segments diverging not parallel, the middle lobe of the lower lip longer than the others, and the broad lobed white spot in its middle richly stained with yellow at the base. Seeds are the only means which this plant has of propa- gating itself. * See fol. 1241. DAI Lf Af qu AMARA AS 4 107 v 1910 * CRAT/EGUS mexicâna. Mexican Hawthorn. ICOSANDRIA MONO-PENTAGYNIA. Nat. ord. Rosacem, S Poux. CRAT/EGUS,— Suprà, vol. 13. fol. 1128. F > C. mexicana ; foliis ovalibus acutis serratis aut A subtús tomentosis, | floribus corymbosis, calycinis lobis acutis tomentosis, bracteis filiformibus ramentaceis, pomis spheroideis 3-5-pyrenis. ^ ; C. mexicana. D. C. Prodr. 2. 629. eet’s Flower Garden, 2 ser. t. 300. Loudon, Arb. Brit. p. 843. and fig. 617.7. 867. C Arbor, in locis temperatis sempervirens, foliis duris sublucidis, aliguando in ramis vegetioribus trilobis. Stipulae lineari-lanceolate, ramentacee, mar- | gine glandulose, petiolis longiores... Fructus lutei, sapidi. A native of the Tierra fria of Mexico, whence I have wild specimens gathered by Mr. Graham. It is a small tree, which in mild climates is quite evergreen, with lanceolate.sharply serrated rather shining deep green leaves. The flowers are almost as large as those of some kinds of Pear, and, appear- ing as they do in abundance from the rich green bosom of the leaves, produce a striking effect. The fruit is in some estimation among the Mexicans, but it has not much merit. Mr. Loudon states that, if budded upon the common Hawthorn, this plant-will/produce shoots from 5 to 7 feet long the first season. It may be easily propagated by this rocess; and will therefore soon be common. It is quite ardy, but succeeds best if allowed to grow in front of a wall, or in some equally sheltered place. | dio «oiii aii "m A Ei : m t * See fol. 1161. i E 1917. xè N N Y » Sb c» i y > A AS (AMA Gib’ 1911 * ONCÍDIUM iridifólium. Pigmy Oncidium. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. ord. ORCHIDACER, S VANDER, ONCIDIUM.—Supra, vol. 13. fol. 1050. C. iridifolium ; foliis ensiformibus brevibus. equitantibus, scapo simplici sub- unifloro, sepalo supremo obtuso : lateralibus acutis collateralibus (herbaceis), petalis obtusis undulatis majoribus, labelli lobis lateralibus parvis subrotundis unguiculatis: intermedio multó nam subrotundo bilobo utrinque versus apicem emarginato, cristã (depressà 5-lobà apice truncatà), columns alà crenulatá circumdante. Gen. $ Sp. Orch. 203. Folia nunc equitantia, nunc explanata, semper acuta. Crista labelli apice truncata crenulata, basi disciformis, lobulis duobus in vertice disci. MES um This curious little species of Oncidium seems to be com- mon in many of the hotter parts of Ámerica ; for it has been found from Mexico, New Grenada, and Surinam, as far south as Brazil. M. Descourtilz, in his manuscript account of Brazilian Orchidez, observed it in the neighbourhood of the town of Bom Jesus de Bananal in the province of St. Paul's, growing exclusively upon the branches of Orange and Lemon trees; it was very abundant there, and constantly preferred dry places exposed to the sun. E The specimen from which the accompanying drawing was taken was sent me by Lord Fitzwilliam's desire, from the rich collection at Wentworth, in August, 1835. The outline figure at the bottom of the plate represents the column, with its two serrated wings, and the lower part ofthelip, with the tuberculated disk, by which the species of Oncidium are remarkably well distinguished. * See folio 1542, EINE 47 Z / jo / ry , T / VA uff Ad 27 f A / / y C. F C ) CX Y 7, i p / H j a ud SUAR el Ark ly E. T 169. lesa illy Den. f JOSE d P coU, ah 1912 * CRAT/ÉGUS glandulosa B.macratantha. “Long-spined glandular A cm e ICOSANDRIA MONO-PENTAGYNIA. Nat. ord: Rosacez, $ PomBx. CRATZGUS.—Supra, vol. 13. fol. 1128. eu PA i TIP t ~ A AN C. glandulosa ; foliis subrotundis oblongisve inciso-serratis basi cuneatis long? petiolatis, calycis laciniis pinnatifidis glandulosis, spinis»axillaribus arcuatis petiolis longioribus, pomis sphericis corymbosis d. das putamine crassis- simo osseo. wA Le A. 3 Y P Y UN C. glandulosa; De Cand. Prodr. 2. 627. &c; — Loudon Arb. Brit. p. 817. Jig. 567. vj der ß. macracantha ; Spinis foliis equalibus y. longioribus, pomis subminoribus. C. macracantha; Lodd. cat. Loudon Arb. Brit. p. 819. ig. 572. et 573. y Gal e | “A fine handsome vigorous American thorn, forming a tree with a spreading head, and haying firm dark green leaves, amongst which are intermixed stout, curved spines of unusual length. I have seen them as much as four inches and a half long. It flowers in May, and produces an abun- dance of its deep vermilion-red haws in the autumn. No writer upon the wild trees of North America notices this remarkable plant; it is therefore in all probability of garden origin; indeed I entertain no doubt of its being, a mere variety of C. glandulosa, possibly of hybrid extraction, between that species and C. erus-galli. " X È * T “ \ 8 See fal, 1161. ee, \ * i Sá agate te pee ai VOL. XXII. 1913 * NECTAROSCÓRDUM siculum. Sicihan Honey-garlic. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Nat. ord. LiLiacEz, $ SciLLEZ. NECTAROSCORDUM. Flores umbellati. Sepala et petala diversi- formia, semi-herbacea, valdé imbricata, persistentia, demüm cartilaginea et supra Aa rigidă eonniventia. Stamina 6, perigyna; filamentis liberis subulatis. 'arium in apice pedicelli clavati semi-immersum, depressum, poris tribus melli- fluis in vertice dissepimentorum crassissimorum ; polyspermum, ovulis e fundo loculorum. Capsula sepalis petalisque persistentibus supertecta, ovata, loculicidò trivalvis, pori melliflui vestigio in dorso: Semina compressa, atra.——-Herba bulbosa, allium fortissime olens. Pedicelli florum cernui, capsularum rigidi erecti. : | 4 N. siculum. | Allium siculum. Ucria pl. ad Linn. op. addend. n. 7. Guss. prodr. fl. sic. 1.398. Don in Sweet Fl. Gard. ser. 2. t. 349. Sepala à "petala Lasi valdé imbricata, diversiformia, nempe; sepala ovato-oblonga, obtusc , herbacea, leviter purpurascentia ; petala unguiculata, subcordato-ovata, mucronulata, medio purpurascentia, ungue calloso et sulcato. Stamina libera, basi nullo modo connata, omnia conformia. Ova- rium loculis petalis alternis, in toro crasso semi-immersis, poro depresso mellifluo in vertice dissepimentorum crassissimorum. Ovula in basi loculo- rum aggregata, quatuor per paria pone axin, quatuor pone ambitum serie simplici. Capsula receptaculo crassissimo inserta, sepalis petalisq. induratis obtecta, hemispherico-t , levis; dorso loculorum elevato, poro melli- fluo depresso. A bulbous plant found wild in shady woods on the moun- tains of Polizzi, Madonie, Ficuzza, S. Maria del Bosco, in Sicily, lowering in May and J une. It has been hitherto referred most unaccountably to the genus Allium, with which it agrees indeed in having an its flowers. 1 = ; * From vexrap honey, and es garlic, imallusion to the honey pores in umbellate inflorescence, and. a powerful garlic-like odour, but in hardly any other respect more than Ornithogalum, and the other genera of the Liliaceous order. The charac- ters assigned to it are amply sufficient to fix it as a most distinct and remarkable genus. Gussone inquires whether A. Dioscoridis may not be the same species; a question that I believe there is no present means of answering. It is a hardy species, my drawing of which was made from a plant in the Garden of the Society of Apothecaries at Chelsea, in June last. It produces seeds, by which the cura- tor, Mr. Anderson, will, I presume, be able to increase it. In the accompanying dissections, 1. represents an ovary surrounded by stamens, the calyx and corolla having been cut away; 2. is a section of the ovary indicating the position of the ovules ; 3. is a ripe fruit invested by the permanent calyx and corolla; 4. is a capsule with its valves opening ; 5. is a seed. MW Sass g Irak de A E., UEC. On Ra Maza «AO, 1914 * BRASAVÓLA cordáta. Heart-lipped Brasavola. o WB" x 12 = tip si "AGYNANDRIA MONANDRIA —— Nat. ord. ORCHIDACER, $ EPIDENDRER. BRASAVOLA.— Supra, vol. 17. fol. 1465. À lg ES 4 4 ^ B. cordata; labello cordato acuminato integerrimo. ungue m longiore, sepalis petalisque linearibus acuminatis, clinandrio integerfimo posticè in dentem subulatum producto. i) x Ey j / à q (SI; A species of Orchidaceous plant, closely allied to B. no- dosa, already figured, at fol. 1465 of this work, from which it differs in its flowers being only half the size, with a cordate labellum, and a very different clinandrium. It was imported from Brazil by Messrs. Loddiges, who obligingly furnished me with/ the specimen from which the drawing was made in Janda 1836. There will be né certai do the cultivation of epiphytal Orchidacee till we become more precisely acquainted with the habits of the differentfspecies than we now are. At present it is usual to consider them all natives of trees in damp shady woods. “It is however quite certain that such is the habit of only some of them. The whole genus Brasavola, for example, grows upon stones and rocks, never upon trees, in open forest glades, fully exposed to the sun. | remarkable that no species of this genus. should occur in the extensive series of drawings of Brazilian Orchidace by M. Descourtilz, with which Baron Delessert f £ È * See fol. 1465. has favoured me. Neither indeed do more than two species exist in Dr. Von Martius's extensive Brazilian Herbarium, one of which is Br. tuberculata, and the other the following new species. B. Martiana ; labello ovali acuminato ciliato-dentato sessili, petalis sepalisque lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis longioribus, clinandrio cucullato inciso. Brazil, on the banks of the Rio Negro, Martius.—Leaves subulate, chan- nelled, 13 foot long. Flowers white. — Next B. cucullata. /9/5 f/f A Valls é 195 VAL D" SISYRÍNCHIUM graminifólium, g. pumilum. X „Dwarf Grass-leaved Sisyrinchium. |” la x Ñ S 3 j 7 X 4 N MONADELPHIA TRIANDRIA. “Nat; ord. InmacER. SISYRINCHIUM.—Supra, vol. 13. fol. 1067. 1/7 Re è SS de, di : x t — q x i ” Y a iostachyo foliis breviore, pilis ovarii longissimis, a iav A beautiful little perennial, found on mountains near Valparaiso and Conception, where it flowers in October. I have wild specimens both from Mr. Macrae and Mr. Bridges. It is a much more attraetive plant than. the other variety figured at fol. 1067 bf this work, because of the deep purple spots at the base of £he divisions of its flower, and might be almost considered a different perene do not appear to be any characters to dis ish it with certainty. For the specimens from which the figur S. graminifolium. > B. pumilum; scap floribus oculatis, > was taken I am indebted to Robert Mangles, Esq. with, whom the plant flowered in May last. It will probably be treated as a greenhouse plant, but it is undoubtedly one of those species which would succged better in a situation protected from inter, but without any artificial, heat. Considering how very large a nu Ait beautiful plants we i ty native beauty under such circumstances, it is not a little remarkable that none of the many wealthy culfiyators of flo should yet have thought i | ass-houses, that should be only | í TABS ii Greek fame for the Iris Sisyrinchium. H erected during winter, and totally removed after the end of the frosts in spring. A thousand pounds so expended would produce a far greater result than three thousand applied in the common manner ; and the annual cost of keeping such houses in order would be nothing as compared with the ex- pense of greenhouses and stoves. This is one of those perennials with succulent, fingered roots which multiply sparingly. It is chiefly to its seeds that we must look for the means of propagating it. Alt Phe Wei Dr y Wi, ; Go GO a q ; pos 2 Y oli dc Fl. ty I dura 16 9g Precactolly Wer / fd SÓ 198-191 b * PRESCÓTTIA colórans. Purplish Prescottia. * „U /GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. ord. ORCHIDACEA, $ NEOTTIER. PRESCOTTIA. Lindl. Sepala reflexa, basi paululum connata. Pe- tala minora, reflexa aut erecta. Labellum erectum, posticum, cucullatum, car- nosum, integerrimum. Columna nana, teres, aptera, libera, clavata. Anthera opercularis, rotundata, loculis completis divaricatis, connectivo carnoso. Stigma obtusum. Pollinia 4, Se \ D S P. colorans ; folio săliarib ovato- oblongo: acuminato basi ¢ucullato petioli longi- tudine, spicá derisä cylindraceá, petalis subulatis ascendentibus. Scapus bipedalis, CU 2 die —- A native of Brazil, A it was imported by Messrs. Loddiges. The drawing was made in January 1834. plant, growing readily in sandy It is a stove herbaceou on, ‘and then dying down for the peat, flowering in its remainder of the year. Little is asget known «bot t the species of this genus; the following certainly belong to it, besides P. plantaginea. L P. stachyodes. ==Cranichis stachyodes. ' Pr Prodr. 3. 1437. i E ps petiölo brevioribus, ue revolutis. Peru m P. plantaginea by 2. P. petiolaris ; foliis latis ovato-lanc spicà densissimà elongatà mi Mathews (No. 1875). its vl different eet: > Name 4 in a I to Ey Esq. of St. SAS a ay learned and inde le ist, inments it is to be that the public should not as wel as his personal friends. 3. P. micrantha; foliis ovatis subsessilibus rosulatis, scapo erecto filiformi subaphyllo, spicà nutante pauciflorá, bracteis subulatis ovario multò bre- vioribus, sepalis petalisque patulis. Brazil, Sierra d'Estrella, Dr. Gries- bach. Scapus palmaris. Flores minuti, 4. P. leptostachya; folio oblongo acuto petiolo longiore, scapo subaphyllo, spicà gracili rariflorà, bracteis brevissimis subulatis, petalis sepalisque revolutis. Bahia, in fruticetis sabulosis, Salzmann. a 1977 td ASU 722 1917 * STACKHOUSIA monógyna. 0 Pink-tpped‘ Stackhousia. A e 1 $ Nast; é” "| PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nats ord. Srackmouslacka. 4 P * STACKHOUSIA. Smi h. Genus solum adhue notum în ordine. i I5 fà S. monogyna ; foliis linelri-Madfolatis lanceolatisque, spicis qr elon- gatis apice acută conicis, corolla laciniis acutatis, staminibus inequalibus, coccis oblongis to-aredlatis, bracteis brevissimis membranaceis. S. monogyna. Lab, Nov. Holl. 154. 104. ¡A „Planta herbacea, perennis, pedalis ‚et ultra; ole folioso, ramoso, sub- olia lineari-lanceolata, et lanceolata, decumbente, glaberrimo, striato; - | nullo modo carnosa, basi acuminata. Spice dense, semper apice roseo conico acuto, nunc per luxuriem foliis quibusdam intermixte, post anthesin valdè elongate. Bracte®@ acuminate, membranacee, calyce breviores. Calyx 5-fidus, campanulatus, corolla multoties brevior ; tubo carnoso, discum ad- herentem gerente, laciniis acuminatis. Corolla pseudo-monopetala, petalis ¡in tubum cylindraceum coneretis basi liberis, limbo plano acutato. Stamina 5, inequilonga, tubo breviora, in fauce calycis inserta. extra discum. Ova- . rium £rilobum, monostylum, stigmatibus-tribus linearibus erectis, tubo corolla multà brevioribus vix calycem longitudine superantibus. È A. i 3 U Eni er "T "T repre m — t A pretty neat herbaceoús pl int, native of Van Diemen's “Land, whence its seeds were.sent by Mr. Ps ii Backhouse to his brothers at York, where the first time flowered for in April of the present year. Ihave wild specimens of it collected in/the same island by Mr. Gunn (gps others. e7 of A very small It is interesting as forming the ‘ty | ting which the natural order bearing its own name, CU. a # So‘hained in honour of the late John Stéikljouse, Esq. F.L.S; of Pen- darvis in Cornwall, author of a splendid work on submarine plants, entitled “ Nereis Britannica,” and of some botanical illustrations of Theophrastus.— Smith. é reader is referred to the Natural System of Botany, page 118. ed. 2. It will be a half-hardy perennial, and may no doubt be propagated by cuttings of the woody base of its stem, if it should not produce seeds. The pink tips to the spikes of white flowers are striking enough before the flowering is too much advanced. Hitherto only two species of Stackhousia have been men- tioned ; namely, S. viminea of Smith, and that now de- scribed. Characters of three others in my herbarium are given below. | Fig. 1. in the dissections of this plate represents the 5 petals adhering in a tube, except just at the base where they separate ; fig. 2. is the calyx split open, with the fleshy dis lining its tube, and the 5 stamens, of which 2 are alternately shorter than the others; fig. 3. is the ovary, with the style and 3 stigmas. 3. S. obtusa ; foliis lineari-lanceolatis mucronatis, spicis cylindraceis (brevibus?) et corolle laciniis obtusis, staminibus inequalibus, coccis . . . .. , bracteis acuminatis calyci squalibus.—— Van Diemen’s Land (Gunn, 462.)-— Very near S. monogyna. 4. S. muricata; folis linearibus carnosis obtusis, racemis gracilibus aphyllis, pedunculis ternis, corolle laciniis linearibus obtusis, staminibus . . . ++ ; coccis truncatis muricatis inzequalibus, bracteis obsoletis. Port Jackson. Flowers very small. 5. S. nuda ; aphylla? ramis filiformibus apice racemum pauciflorum gerentibus, pedunculis 3-4-nisve, corolla laciniis acuminatis, staminibus equalibus, coccis. ..., , bracteis obsoletis. New Holland. Flowers not half the size of the last. Whole plant apparently leafless. — 1918. a 2 VA — TUM, Hel ^g mom | ZA GP S'S] MD 4 dg ek be Sul buy dJ. Siaguwa Y /6 G Fuccadilly Leo, / 78. ID o a w v wv e hg ETT Y : 1918 x GENÎSTA monospérma. Single-seedéd Genista. DIADELPHIA (MONADELPHIA), DECANDRIA. | Nat. ord. FABACE or LEGUMINOSA, $ PAPILIONACES, f GENISTA.—Supra, vol. 14, t. 1150. A | què angustè linearibus simplicibus fericeis, racemis lat ralibus, (floribus albis), leguminibus ovalibus monospermis glaberrimis subinflatis. Gussone A. sic. 2. 363. f} / Spartium monospermum. Linn. sp. pli995. Bot. Mag. t. 683. Genista monosperma. DC. prodr. p. 150. $ | f T x Í A j G. monosperma ; ramis virgatis teretibus f floriferis nudis junioribus foliis- One of the most deliciously fragrant shrubs in the world. It is difficult to imagine any thing more; delicate and grate- tul than the sweet odour that its tender Snow-white blossoms diffuse in the conservatory, in the months of May and June. It is described as being, when wild, a good deal taller than a man, having a trunk an inch thick, and waving its green gray leafless thread-like branches in the wind in the most graceful manner. All along the basin of the Mediter- ranean, as high as the latitude of Sicily, it is abundant; but it cannot bear the cold of the French shore. At Gibral- tar, in a sandy barren soil, and close upon the sea-beaten rocks, it is loaded with blossoms in February; along the Barbary coast; in Sieily from Alicata to Spaccaforno, and in Greece it occurs in similar situations; and finally it gains its eastern limits in the desert of Moung Sinai, where the Arabs call it Retam. No N È + * Of doubtful meaning. It is said to be derived from gem the knee, be- cause the branches are flexible like the knee-joint. The Geniste lente of Virgil are generally referred to Spartium junceum EN 5 È It bears no little resemblance to the Retama of Teneriffe, Cytisus nubigenus, and will doubtless be one day associated in the same genus with that species, whenever Botanists shall discover the true mode ‘of grouping the European genera of Papilionaceous plants. The accompanying figure was taken from a specimen that flowered with Messrs. Young of Epsom, in May 1835. It is multiplied by seeds and cuttings, and must be treated as a greenhouse plant in winter. It is another of those plants which might be successfully managed in a moveable temporary glass-house. pt 1919 * CÁTTLEYA intermédia; var. pallida. Pale-flowered intermediate Cattleya. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. ord. OrcHIDACER, $ EPIDENDRES, CATTLE Y A.—Supra, vol. 11. fol. 953. C. intermedia ; folis oblongis emarginatis cauli aqualibus, sepalis petalisque lineari-oblongis subsqualibus subundulatis obtusiusculis, labello trilobo lamellis pluribus in medio carnosis cristato : laciniis lateralibus ovatis ob- tusis planiusculis intermedio crispo rotundato denticulato. a. floribus roseis. C. intermedia. Graham in Bot. Mag. t. 2851. Gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 117. B. floribus subalbis rubescentibus, disco labelli sanguineo. — This very pretty Cattleya was imported from the Brazils some years since by the Hortigulinral Society, in whose Garden the drawing was made so long: since as June 1834. The mixture of white and crimson in its flowers gives it a beautiful appearance, and renders it much more interesting than the original variety, which is too like C. Loddigesii. The only wild specimens I am acquainted with are in Sir Wm. Hooker's basin collected near Buenos Ayres by Mr. Tweedie, and sent home with the following note :— “This is by far the handsomest of. the tribe in this country, and grows equally well on the sea-beaten rock, and the moss-covered tree in the heart of the forest. It is to be found in bloom at all seasons. There are many varieties of it; their colour pink and crimson.” I suspect, however, “that Mr. Tweedie confounds different things, and that several species of Cattleya are to be found in the neighbour- hood of Buenos Ayres. “One at least I-am able to describe * See folio 1172. below, and I avail myself of the same opportunity to charac- terise two or three others with which 1 am acquainted. Beautiful as are C. labiata, crispa, and Loddigesii, C. coc- cinea and bicolor described below, are not at all inferior to them, and moreover there is in the possession of Messrs, Loddiges a very distinct crimson-Aowered fragrant species, found in British Guiana by Mr. Schomburgh, with which I have not sufficient acquaintance to define it. C. ovata ; foliis binis ovatis obtusis caule cylindraceo longioribus (?) sepalis petalisque lanceolatis acuminatis, labello nudo trilobo laciniis lateralibus apice intermediáque oblongà obtusà denticulatis undulato-crispis. St. Catharine's, Brazil (Mr. Hindes). A very fine species in the way of C. labiata. C. bicolor; foliis oblongo-loratis caule tereti elato tripló brevioribus, sepalis lanceolatis falcatis acutis, petalis parum latioribus subundulatis obtusis, labello indiviso plano apice dilatato rotundato crenato convexo. Brazil, Descourtilz in Bibl. Deless. t. 49. Stems 2-3 feet long. Sepals and petals tawny ; labellum bright purple, with a lanceolate streak in the centre, white slightly spotted with purple. The flowers are slightly fragrant. C. maritima ; foliis binis ovalibus obtusis spatha parum longioribus, caule sub- clavato, sepalis oblongis acutis, petalis lanceolatis falcatis obtusis, labello trilobo (nudo?) ; laciniis lateralibus erectis rotundatis intermedia dilatatà denticulatà emarginatà. Sea-beaten rocks, Buenos Ayres, (Tweedie, in herb. Hooker.) Flowers fine, rose-coloured, usually in threes ; many varie- ties. Its small leaves sufficiently mark this, of which I have only seen one specimen. C. coccinea ; foliis solitariis oblongis acutis caulibus ovalibus teretibus longiori- bus, floribus solitariis, spathâ nulla, sepalis lineari-oblongis obtusis rectis, petalis triplò latioribus, labello ovato basi cucullato indiviso apice plano sepalis breviore. Brazil, Descourtilz in bibl. Deless. t. 10. tems 2 or 3 inches high. Flowers bright scarlet, 3 inches across. A most remarkable and beautiful species. C. Harrisoniana (Bateman in litt.) ; foliis angustè lanceolatis,’racemo 1-4- floro, sepalis petalisque patentibus his subrotundo-ovalibus, labello subtrilobo verrucoso, Bateman.—— Brazil, Mr. Harrison.—— Very near C. Lod- digesii, A VI Vy COMO MESSIS